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A Pictorial History of the Movies: 2000 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The choice was easy. Figuring out what to say about it was not.
This was a top 12 grosser in the US in 2000. It made $128 million. That, at the time, was unprecedented. Foreign films never made that kind of money in the US.
And you look at the other top grossers of 2000 — Cast Away you can make an argument for, the whole volleyball thing. But it felt like a weak choice. Gladiator — you could, but that's lazy. Nothing else that made money feels particularly inspired as a choice.
But this movie does. Because this movie was a really big deal in 2000. This movie almost won Best Picture. People might not remember that. But this movie was this close to winning Best Picture.
And I think that deserves a lot of respect. Since for me, the cultural landmark film of 2000 was The Patriot. (more…)
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Bruins Win Presidents' Trophy; Pastrnak First Bruin To Win Rocket Richard (UPDATED)
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman's announced Tuesday that the NHL Return To Play Committee's 24-team playoff proposal was approved and in the process, officially confirmed that the Boston Bruins are the new Presidents' Trophy Champions. With the league going straight to the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs in its Return To Play Plan, the 2019-20 NHL regular season is officially over and the Bruins (44-14-12, 100 points) finished with the best record in the NHL. The Bruins also won the Atlantic Division for the second time in team history.
With a career-high 48 goals, David Pastrnak tied Alexander Ovechkin for the league lead in goals and won his and the Bruins' first Rocket Richard Trophy.
Thanks to the Bruins allowing the least amount of goals (167) they will also be awarded the William M. Jennings Trophy for the best goaltending tandem of Tuukka Rask and Jaro Halak.
"On behalf of the entire Boston Bruins organization, I would like to express how proud we are of our players, coaches, trainers, and hockey operations staff for winning the Presidents' Trophy," Bruins President Cam Neely said in a press release Thursday. "From the start of the regular season, until the pause, our group was focused and determined every day when they came to work. Although the regular season did not end the way anyone hoped, we are honored to win this award for the second time in seven years.
I would also like to congratulate David Pastrnak for winning the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy and Tuukka Rask and Jaroslav Halak for winning the William M. Jennings Trophy. David, Tuukka, and Jaro each had incredible seasons, and while these awards are given to individuals, I know they would be quick to acknowledge the entire team and coaching staff for their accomplishments."
Reaching the century mark in points for a third straight season could go to waste in terms of seeding for the first round of the playoffs. The NHL decided to let the top four teams battle for seeding in a round-robin before the first round while the fifth through 12th seeded teams battle in the qualifying round. The Bruins could actually end up being the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference if they don't fare well with the Washington Capitals, Tampa Bay Lightning and Philadelphia Flyers but they will officially go down as the best team in the Coronavirus-shortened regular season.
Boston beat out the defending Stanley Cup champions, the St. Louis Blues (42-19-10, 94 points) by six points after they lost to them in seven games in the 2019 Stanley Cup Final. This is the second time in seven seasons that the Bruins have won the Presidents' trophy as they finished atop the standings in for the 2013-14 regular season when they finished 54-19-9 for 117 points and beat out the Anaheim Ducks (54-20-8, 116 points) by a point. The Bruins suffered the Presidents' Trophy jinx (only eight winners have won the Stanley Cup) when they lost in a seven-game heartbreaker in the second round of the 2014 Stanley Cup playoffs. The B's were also hit by the jinx in 1990 when after finishing with the best record (46-25-9, 101 points) they fell to the Edmonton Oilers in five games in the 1990 Stanley Cup Final.
Now the Bruins will look to emerge from the NHL Coronavirus Pause that began back on March 12 and become the first Presidents' Trophy winners since the 2008 Detroit Red Wings and only the second in the salary cap era that began in 2005-06.
Bettman didn't say whether or not there will be a virtual 2020 NHL Awards Show but said later in a Zoom Call with the media that the league is working to honor the award winners. Given the current Coronavirus climate, Bettman indicated that as of now they would do so virtually.
"If we had to plan it today, it would certainly be virtual," the NHL Commissioner told reporters early Tuesday evening. "It is something that our events people are thinking about because the recognition that has been earned should be given. But I think as we look at it today and the timing, I think it's more likely than not that it would be virtual. But I never rule anything in or out until I have to."
When those award winners are recognized, the Bruins will definitely be bringing home more than just the Presidents' Trophy.
Pastrnak First Bruins Player To Win Rocket Richard
Ovechkin, an eight-time Rocket Richard winner, will add to his all-time record and win his ninth Rocket Richard Trophy this season with a league-leading 48 goals but he will have to share the honor this time as Pastrnak also lit the lamp for 48 times in 70 games. This is the first time since the league started awarding this trophy in 1999 that a Bruins player has won it.
After scoring 38 goals last season but having his Richard Trophy bid shortchanged by a hand injury that forced him to miss 16 games, Pastrnak was actually short-changed again on a chance to surpass one the NHL's greatest goal-scorers this season thanks to the Bruins' season getting capped at 71 games.
Pastrnak had 47 assists to finish the season with 98 points and place fourth in the race for the Art Ross Trophy behind Edmonton Oilers forwards Leon Draisaitl (110 points) and Connor McDavid (97 points) as well as New York Rangers forward Artemi Panarin who racked up 95 points in his first season on Broadway.
Rask And Halak Win Jennings; Another Vezina For Rask?
The Bruins will also be the 2019-20 William Jennings Trophy winners. Bruins goalies Tuukka Rask and Jaro Halak combined to only let a league-low 167 biscuits slip by them.
Rask was 26-8-6 with a league-leading 2.12 GAA and was second in save percentage at .929. However, Rask's former teammate and Dallas Stars backup goalie Anton Khudobin who was first at .930, played 12 fewer games (16-8-4) than the Bruins starter. Halak – who signed a one-year extension earlier this month – was 18-6-6 with a 2.39 GAA and .919 save percentage.
Rask will almost certainly be a Vezina Trophy candidate again as he goes for a second Vezina in seven seasons after winning it for the 2013-14 regular season when he went 36-15-6 with a 2.04 GAA and .930 save percentage.
Bruins head coach Bruce Cassidy could be up for the Jack Adams Award as best head coach and Patrice Bergeron will seek a league-record fifth Selke Trophy as the league's best defensive forward.
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Centre de Suivi Ecologique, National Implementing Entity for Senegal: The Adaptation Fund's Contribution, Value and Continuing Role in the Global Climate Finance Landscape
Centre de Suivi Ecologique, CSE: The Adaptation Fund's Contribution, Value and Continuing Role in the Global Climate Finance Landscape
By Dr. Assize Toure, General Manager, Centre de Suivi Ecologique, Senegal
Dr. Assize Toure, CSE
The arrival of the Adaptation Fund in the landscape of climate finance in 2007 (after being established in earlier decisions stemming from the UN Conference of Parties) has been a major development for developing countries. For the first time, a funding mechanism was put in place and dedicated to financing adaptation, which is a high priority for developing countries. Furthermore, the Adaptation Fund has introduced a key innovation: the 'Direct Access' modality which allows developing countries greater ownership of climate finance access and implementation.
Through the Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), Senegal is proud of being a pioneer of this direct access modality. Indeed, in addition to having the first national institution accredited as an implementing entity of the Adaptation Fund under Direct Access, Senegal also received the first grant funding from the Adaptation Fund for a project dealing with major climate hazards — coastal erosion. The project helped protect thousands of lives, infrastructures and goods while raising awareness of climate change in three cities along Senegal's vulnerable coast.
It also developed the climate resilience of fishing- and tourism-related activities and built the institutional capacities and operations of institutions involved in the implementation of this project. Involvement of local communities was strongly leveraged in the project, and included the work of two local NGOs as executing entities, Green Senegal and Dynamique-Femme, an association of women and youth. This led to the project earning recognition as a Lighthouse Activity under the prestigious UN Momentum for Change award in 2012 for its achievements in adaptation to costal erosion in vulnerable areas.
Rice-growing areas were restored in Joal, Senegal, and benefited women growers, thanks to installation of anti-salt barriers. Photo: CSE
Fish processing area of Saly, which was almost completely destroyed by coastal erosion and storm surges and rehabilitated by the project. Photo: CSE
The Adaptation Fund has become a catalytic funding source as several other initiatives are scaling up the achievements of this project with significant resources.
CSE itself has developed and enhanced its procedures and is now playing a key role in the Adaptation Fund's Readiness Program, namely the South-South Cooperation Program. Thanks to one of the 10 South-South grants provided by the Fund to date, CSE has been able to share its experience and provide technical assistance to the Banque Agricole du Niger (BAGRI) — which recently achieved accreditation as a National Implementation Entity of the Adaptation Fund that now has the capacity to design and develop adaptation projects to communities in Niger that are highly vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change. Through its involvement in the Readiness Program, CSE has become an institution that is widely known and respected.
CSE wishes the Adaptation Fund a wonderful anniversary and a long life. This is essential. May it keep playing a key role in climate finance for several more decades to come.
Anti-salt barriers strengthened protection of inland areas against salinization, including agricultural lands endangered from sea rise and flooding in vulnerable Senegal communities. Photo: CSE
The project also included coastal protection facilities in Rufisque and Saly that protected lives, livelihoods, canals and fishing ports. Photo: CSE
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Samsung Galaxy S Sales Soar to Nearly 10 Million Units
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Samsung made a bold (and evidently wise) move when it decided to launch its Galaxy S smartphone on every major carrier. The goal, Samsung said, was to ship 10 million units by the end of the year, and the company's nearly done it, InformationWeek reports.
To date, Samsung says it's sold 9.3 million Galaxy S devices, an impressive number in its own right. But get this. The company's also sold more than 2 million Galaxy S phones in its home country of Korea, the first phone ever to record those numbers over there and eclipsing the iPhone 4, which has sold 1.8 million units.
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Home Technology Sololearn App Review | How It Works Effectively ?
Sololearn is the best way to learn basic coding. It is a highly interactive app that will help to learn basic coding and expand your skills in other programming languages. All this could be done right away from this application.
The course in this app has great structure so that the candidate can learn any programming easily. The topics that you learn is short and the question-answer session will make it easy for you to learn. At the end of the chapter, it will take a final test that will help you to memorize the whole thing.
The Shortcut link helps you take a test of yourself so that you can judge your progress in the lesson. If flying colors is shown on your display then you could move to the next level with good passing marks.
One of the things with this app is that it will provide you with a gaming experience while learning the particular language. The challenges, the XP points are way too much fun to learn anything.
The app contains 5 tabs such as Play, Learn, Discuss and code. All the programming languages you want to learn can be done with the learn tab.
To calculate the coding skill you have to go to the Play tab. If you win on the play tab then it will earn you bonus points. That can be used for hints or get a bypass course certificate.
The social features in this app are in the form of Discuss and Code tab where one can read and share what other people have written. You can also get some tips for using this app for your benefit. Through this, you can clear your doubts and get some good advice in the field of computer programming.
Sololearn app is very impressive according to me, due to its course structure. It will strengthen your skill by providing basic knowledge of the programming language. The question and answer session and the funny games will give you more interest in the programming language. After learning each course Sololearn will provide the candidate with Sololearn certificate. So the overall review of this app is very positive and according to me, it is one of the best programmings language learning application.
Here I have discussed the course structure, tabs and other features of this app. Which I have found to be very overwhelming. So if you want to learn to programming then without thinking just download this app and put a step forward into the world of programming. And if you have anything more to know regarding this app then let us know by commenting below.


Is Trump the EU's only problem?
The United States' decision to move its Israel embassy to Jerusalem was met with resentment across European capitals. The American decision to withdraw from the nuclear agreement with Iran was met with outrage in European capitals.
Has Trump gone completely mad, or is there method to this madness?
The problem of Iran's power expansionism in the Middle Eastern region is nothing new. What is new is the degree of that expansionism, made possible by the weakening of Iraq and a 'favourable' constellation in Syria.
These circumstances enabled Iran to move dangerously close to the country that, by its very existence, apparently poses a major challenge for Iran: to Israel.
In the Middle East, anything is possible. With one exception: that Israel would give up on itself. Or that the United States would give up on Israel.
For years, Washington has become accustomed to practical isolation in its protection of Israel.
As for the EU, it occasionally makes itself heard and provides financial assistance to Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, but its clout in the region is minimal.
We should therefore not be very surprised, or even annoyed at the new US administration's decision to put "pressure" on Iran. Barring a military intervention against Iran, the US has no other option than reinstating sanctions.
What we in the EU should do is to show some empathy for the concerns of our ally.
We should try to minimise economic losses entailed by the new American stance on Iran and on the nuclear treaty.
We should also try to understand the issue of military burden sharing. Americans have a point saying most European Nato members should live up to their words on defence spending, and also change their attitude when it comes to the use of military force.
We should also bear in mind that successive US administrations have been frustrated with the meagre defence spending of European Nato members - they just didn't express their frustration as openly as the current US president.
While war is never the solution to a conflict, often the threat or use of military power is an indispensable element in finding a resolution. We should be vigilant in preventing a crack from developing in the relations between us as transatlantic allies.
And if this crack is already there, it is imperative we do not allow it to deepen. The fact is it has been a long time since the West has needed unity to the extent we do today.
The unity of the West must be stem from a base of empathy, both in relation to the US and inside the EU.
The foul play of some British politicians aside, it was lack of empathy that led to Brexit.
Lack of empathy also caused the internal division of the EU into its central-eastern and western parts.
This division has not happened by chance or abruptly: the line was being stretched gradually.
For example, the line was also stretched in the case of Nordstream 2 as the Slovaks, the Poles, the Czechs and the Balts did not understand the need for building new capacities in a situation where the existing connection between Russia and Western Europe was sufficient.
Another frustrating moment for the new member states came when, in the wake of the global financial crisis, we were all required to equally share the burden of its consequences – especially for Greece.
This applied to those of us who played no catalytic role – and who weren't any better off in terms of per capita income than the Greeks. The handling of the massive migration crisis in 2015 was the ultimate manifestation of a European mutual lack of sensitivity.
By setting the refugee redistribution quotas in an undiscerning manner and without proper consultations, Brussels officials were 'shooting from the hip'.
However, it was very sad to see how the V4 countries did not seem to attach any importance to the efforts made by the citizens of the target countries for most of the migrants such as Italy, Greece but also Germany and Sweden.
The EU needs to re-establish its internal solidity to defend the unity of the transatlantic alliance.
This is especially important now when it is and will continue facing increasing political pressure from the east (Russia and especially China) as well as migratory pressure from the south (Africa).
We must learn to think as Europeans and prioritise this view. It does not mean that we will renounce our national identity or interests.
It means that when outlining these interests – before they are actually enforced – we carefully consider the consequences that their enforcement would have for the other EU members. We have to learn that a problem for Germany, is also a problem for Slovakia.
And we should strive to diminish the mental distance between Paris and Zagreb, between Amsterdam and Budapest.
The Western alliance is a great thing. We are compatible because we share a common set of values. Our alliance must be protected and developed.
It was great that EU member states and officials stood firmly behind the UK government in the case of the Skripal poisoning. And it would be immeasurably greater, if we successfully manage the revitalisation of our relations with the Americans.
Richard Grenell, the US ambassador to Germany, said he wants to empower other conservatives in Europe, sparking calls for his resignation.
A looming trade war threatens to de-stabilise the Eurozone. Europe urgently needs to push its own agenda. Here are three suggestions.
The former PM of Slovakia sets out why he has changed his mind on a federal Europe. "This would mean the central, federal level would manage all competences related to foreign and security policy, the single market and single currency."


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For over a decade, Jabina G. Coleman has been empowering women of color to trust their bodies through the processes of giving birth and nursing infants, by providing families with guidance and support along their journey in motherhood. Jabina founded LIFE HOUSE Lactation & Perinatal Services, LLC in 2016 to provide individualized clinical support, based in knowledge and passion, into the homes and lives of families during one of life's greatest transitions — parenting. Supporting, promoting, and protecting breastfeeding is Jabina's life work in more ways than one. She is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant with degrees in both Social Work and Biobehavioral Health, specializing in perinatal mood disorders. Jabina has a decade of experience as a lactation professional, a Licensed Social Worker, a community volunteer, and a program co-founder. She is also a mother of two and has breastfed her youngest for three years. She has spearheaded and developed new initiatives to promote breastfeeding and perinatal mental health awareness focusing on eradicating barriers to health equity, specifically for women of color. Jabina has spent part of her career as a Social Worker and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Helen O. Dickens Center, an OB/GYN clinic that serves a diverse demographic of Philadelphia moms. She facilitated the opening of the clinic's first breastfeeding room. Jabina facilitates breastfeeding classes, support groups and parenting social-emotional wellness groups. Her work has been published in Clinical Lactation, the official journal of the United States Lactation Consultant Association. Jabina has been featured in the Huffington Post in recognition of Black Breastfeeding Week. Jabina is also the co-founder of the Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for Women of Color.
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Dragon Facts
32 Amazing Dragon Facts
A dragon, the ultimate evil foil for a "good" knight, derives its fire-breathing mouth from medieval depictions of the mouth of hell. The entrance to hell was often depicted as a monster's literal mouth.[3]
One researcher notes that dragon legends appear in nearly all cultures because humans are universally afraid of snake-like creatures.[2]
During the Middle Ages, dragons developed a liking for young women.[2]
In China, dragons symbolize wealth, power, and leadership.[5]
In China, emperors were believed to be descendants of dragons.[5]
In the twelve-animal Chinese zodiac, the fifth year is the year of the dragon. Couples often try to plan their pregnancies to coincide with the Year of the Dragon.[5]
"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world"
(Revelation 12:9)
The Bible mentions a dragon in the Book of Revelation, chapters 12–14, where he is seen as the Devil. The King James translation of the Bible actually mentions dragons at least 35 times.[5]
A little dragon is called a "dragonet." However, in mythology, smaller dragons were often more fierce and deadly than larger ones.[5]
Of all the dragon slayers in literature and mythology, St. George, the patron saint of Catalonia and England, is the most well-known.[5]
In European lore, the best weapon for killing a dragon was the lance. The proper way to kill a dragon was to throw the lance into the dragon's mouth because scales protected the rest of the dragon's body.[5]
One of the most iconic dragons in literature is Smaug, from J.R.R. Tolkien's classic novel The Hobbit.[5]
Historians believe dragon mythologies evolved independently in Europe and China.[5]
In many stories, dragon blood often has magical properties. For example, dragon blood allows Siegfried in Richard Wagner's "The Ring" to understand the language of the Forest Bird.[5]
Dragons often appear in medieval fantasy literature rather than in the more technology-oriented sci-fi world.[3]
In the Harry Potter universe, the heart string of a dragon can be used as the core of a wand.[2]
But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
In mythology, a female dragon is called a drakaina, which is the feminine form of the ancient Greek word for dragon, drakon.[5]
In early dragon literature, before flying became popular, dragons would drop out of trees onto people's heads.[5]
In medieval folklore, St. Margaret of Antioch was imprisoned for her Christian beliefs. In prison, a dragon swallowed her, but according to legend, God helped her burst out of the dragon's stomach, killing it. She later became the patron saint of childbirth.[5]
The word "dragon" comes from the ancient Greek word draconata, meaning "to watch" or "to see." The root may refer to a dragon's reputation for guarding treasure, either real or metaphorical.[1]
In Greek mythology, the gods created dragons to watch treasures.
China is home to the most places named after dragons.[5]
In the Harry Potter world, a wizard or witch who trades and sells dragon eggs is called a dragon dealer. The practice is illegal.[5]
Ancient discoveries of dinosaur bones may have led people to believe in dragons.[4]
Since the 600s AD, the red dragon has been a symbol of Wales. Historically, the greatest Welsh warriors were dubbed "pendragon," meaning "dragon head" or "leader."[4]
Dragons from Eastern cultures are more often depicted as kind, wise, and benevolent. Dragons from Western cultures typically are fire-breathing, evil, and symbolic of the battle between good and evil.[3]
Eastern dragons are usually more benevolent than Western dragons
In Game of Thrones, dragons never stop growing as long as they live. However, caging a dragon stunts its growth and may even make it shrink.[5]
Some Viking longships had carvings of dragon heads on their prows (fronts). The Vikings called these ships "drakkar," or "dragon ships."[4]
Red-colored stones are sometimes called "dragon stones" because they were believed to be hardened lumps of dragon blood.[4]
The tail of the snake is a phallic symbol, and the mouth is a womb-like symbol.
The Uroboros, or tail-biting dragon, symbolizes the eternal circle of life. It is also an important symbol for medieval alchemists.[5]
Similar to Chinese and Japanese dragons, those of India are usually pictured as giant, wingless serpents. The most famous Indian dragon is Critra, meaning "enclosure." It has three heads, and its body is wrapped around the world.[2]
Scholars trace the dragon myth to ancient Babylon, 4,000 years ago. According to a Babylonian creation myth, Tiamat, a giant sea dragon, was murdered and his body cut in two, creating the sky and earth. From the dragon's blood sprang the first human.[3]
People who study dragons are called dragonologist.[4]
The name "Smaug" is from low Germanic, meaning "to squeeze through a hole."[4]
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1"Dragon." Online Etymology. Accessed: June 28, 2020.
2Jones, David E. An Instinct for Dragons. New York: Routledge, 2000.
3Legg, Gerald. Dragons. Brighton, BN: The Salariya Book Company, LTD. 2006.
4Malam, John. Dragons: Mythology. Irvine, CA: QEB, 2009.
5Rose, Carol. Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001.


4 Feb -I knew what I was getting into!
"If only I'd known what I was getting into". It's a comment we often hear, and may have even said ourselves. Or perhaps we say or think that about those close to us; our partner, friends, and work colleagues. If they'd known what they were getting into when they married us or became friends, or hired us, perhaps they wouldn't have chosen us. Maybe they would have run the other way. Especially if they'd known our weaknesses, sin, brokenness, our crazy families, hidden secrets, and our not so great habits and behaviors.
But there is someone who has not, and never will run the other way. He knows it all; our past, future and everything in between. He knows all about the hidden places of our heart, our fears, hurts, anger, sin, and the things we never tell anyone else for fear of them rejecting us.
His name is Jesus, and He doesn't really give a hoot about all the things that other people may say, or the thinking "if only I'd known…"He knew what He was getting into, and He still chose us. He still calls, and keeps calling our name. He is not shocked by our deepest darkest secret, or our desire for other things rather than Him. He still loves and accepts us. He knows us better than anyone else, and He still says there is hope and a future for us. He sees it all, and knows it isn't just about the beginning of our life's journey, but the ending, and all the things He's planned for us in between.
Today, know that He knows what He is getting into when it comes to each one of us. He is not interested in our performance, but our hearts. He says it's going to be all right, and to just keep walking, and don't quit on yourself, or on Him being part of your life.
Prayer: Lord thank you that you know all about me, and you still want me. You even call me by name. Help me to listen to your voice, and the love you have for me above everyone else's today. In Jesus Name Amen.


The brain of a Star Child is a multi – track device. Star children grow up doing their math homework and watching TV while listening to their IPod at the same time. The phone rings and a free hand is instantly peeling off one side of the headphones to add another bit of input to a busy brain. Can a child survive this for long? Not only do they survive, the multitasking Star thrives on it!
Star Children are also very emphatic, when something bubbles and festers on the inner planes of consciousness, something adults refuse to look at; these kids have the ability to take those issues, so that which was hidden can be brought to the light. That condition is called A.D.H.D ( Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder). The symptoms of kids with A.D.H.D are that they are merely corresponding themselves to the energies of their parents, their immediate social environment, or their primary caretakers. They are mirror reflections of the shadow side (repressed inner issues) of those who have to deal with them, or of society as a whole.
The entire nervous system of our next generation is being held in check during this time. They have been trained, cajoled, threatened, blind-sided, and even legally drugged to keep them from intimidating their parents too much during these final stages of Planetary Transformation. A society which contains children that act on everything that comes into their minds is an establishment that is "failing to act" on key issues that scream within their own minds. That, in fact, is the real attention deficit. To merely medicate the children nullifies an important lesson.
The Star Children who are growing up right under our noses are intellectually gifted and cunning beyond belief. What many of them lack in the self-esteem and the sense of personal authority that would activate that bundle of frozen potential in today's World. Our modern society is not constructed to give them breathing room to unfold, or support for the changes and solutions they can bring to what humanity must soon face. This frustrates and depresses them considerably. This then requires construction of internal walls of protection (Miasm) in order to shield their sensitive Star Child Consciousness. They often become what psychologist call "Behaviorally Disordered".
Many of the basic premises and techniques used by traditional therapist and doctors are built from an extremely masculine (heavy logical) paradigm that holds a core belief that order equates order with happiness. Star Children are anything but normal, and they will readily declare that order is not their highest priority in life. Anyone who takes a look at a Star Child room or apartment will verify that.
Besides, most doctors treat them like they are "broken". They are not. Mostly they seek the invocation of passion; through the term itself may not have meaning to them. To the adult mind, passion is equal to lust or pointless intensify. But to a younger mind, the primary life force becomes whatever unique blend of mind and emotion that can be compacted and distilled into a tall cup of liquid NOW.
Star Children can benefit from Cranial Sacral Therapy and Miasm Release Therapy.


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La course en ligne féminine aux championnats du monde de cyclisme sur route 1991 a lieu le  à Stuttgart en Allemagne. Cette édition est remportée par la Néerlandaise Leontien van Moorsel.

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Script to hide (or minimise) all video tracks
David Johns wrote on 8/16/2019, 10:21 AM
Does anyone know of a script which would hide all video tracks on the timeline, leaving only the audio ones visible (failing hiding then at least minimising all the video tracks); and then another to restore them to their prior visibility?
When mixing the audio on videos, I'd find that a very handy tool for decluttering the screen as I work.
I'd write one myself but javascript and C baffle me, I used to write in 8031 assembly code and that was 25+ years ago.
While we're at it, a script to do the same with the video tracks could be handy too.
Magix Vegas Pro Edit 17.387 with Boris BCC_2019.5 and Magic Bullet Looks 4. Running on an HP Omen 15 Windows 10 laptop with 16GB RAM, GTX1060 6GB graphics (Studio driver v441.66) and Intel 8750H six-core CPU.
zdogg wrote on 8/20/2019, 7:59 PM
I believe you could group those tracks, and then simply hide that group.
Thank you. Unfortunately you can only group adjacent tracks and my audio tracks aren't all necessarily adjacent to each other; as you know Vegas defaults to dropping Video and Audio tracks next to each other so you end up with Video - Audio - Video - Audio etc.
Yes, I could rearrange them first but that moves my audio tracks away from the video tracks they represent so it's not a solution that would work for me. Ta though.
Dot wrote on 8/21/2019, 12:40 PM
You can group any tracks by holding ctrl down, select them and group.
wwaag wrote on 8/21/2019, 1:20 PM
@David Johns
AFAIK, you're completely out-of-luck for a script since access to such controls is not available in the Scripting API.
David Johns wrote on 8/23/2019, 5:23 AM
Damn. Thanks.
Nope, unadjacent audio tracks cannot be grouped, the option is greyed out.


The Ethics of Banking; Conclusions from the Financial Crisis (2011) | Moral Markets?
The Ethics of Banking analyzes the systemic and the ethical mistakes that have led to the financial crisis of 2008. It explores the middle ground between the argument that financial managers cannot be expected to take responsibility for a systemic crisis and the argument that moral failure is the one and only origin of the crisis. The book investigates the role of speculation in the formation of the crisis. It distinguishes between productive speculation for hedging and for securing market liquidity on the one hand, and unproductive and even detrimental hyper-speculation, on the other. The book argues that hyper-speculation goes far beyond the degree of speculation that is necessary for the liquidity of financial markets in a developed economy, and has thus increased the risks of the financial system and will continue to do so. This book offers an ethics of banking and an ethical economy of the financial markets to counterbalance the financial industry's purely economic approach.
Peter Koslowski (2 October 1952 – 15 May 2012) was a Professor of Philosophy, especially Philosophy of Management and Organisation and History of Modern Philosophy, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU University Amsterdam).
Ethical Economy, Economic Ethics, Business Ethics: Foundations of Finance Ethics - Where there is a great measure of influence and power, there must also be a great measure of conscientiousness and moral awareness, because power itself is a moral or ethical phenomenon. Every powerful action must be morally responsible and defensible. An ethical code of conduct for banking and stock trading would therefore seem to be an obvious requirement. If we consider the current discourse in the discipline of economics, however, the literature yields up precious few titles that engage with the ethics of banking or financial ethics.
The Ethical Economy of the Credit Market - Banks are suppliers of payment-processing and lending services, and operate in the market for these services, where they as suppliers meet the individuals as well as firms which are the demanders and consumers of credit. Banking should be described in terms of the market for credit and payment-processing services, and not in terms of a quasi-state, official "credit-granting" function. Once upon a time, the banking sector and the supply of loans were referred to in terms of quasi-state administration and the granting of loans to applicants. During the recent decades of credit expansion and easy money, credit – especially consumer credit and lending for share purchases – has come to be seen as a type of consumer good that requires no deeper ethical norm-setting than any other consumer good.
The Ethical Economy of the Capital Market - The need for capital and thus financial resources to finance firms and projects creates its own market in which capital, in its most abstract form, is bought and sold as a securitized, exchange-tradable share of a firm. This established market begets norms of practice and trade in this market, norms of exchange and norms of advice on trading, which arise in the interplay between the capital market's factual development and the normative rules of ethics and of legislation.
Insider Knowledge and Insider Trading as Central Problems of Finance Ethics - The stock exchange is the central institution charged with mediating supply and demand in the market for capital. The question of what conduct is appropriate to the matter of the capital market is a matter of intense debate, particularly with reference to insider trading. Indeed, insider trading is a central problem in the economic ethics of the capital market and the stock exchange. In Germany it has been prohibited since 1 August 1994, when the Second Financial Market Promotion Act was adopted. Yet within the various schools of economics and jurisprudence, the debate has not arrived at any consensus on the question of whether or not insider trading is harmful, and hence, whether or not it should actually be illegal.
The Ethical Economy of the Market for Corporate Control and Corporate Know-How - Buying up qualified percentages or majority holdings of the total shares of a firm is a somewhat peculiar kind of transaction, which makes it justifiable to differentiate between trading in shares to gain control over a corporation and normal trading in company shares. Although trading that has the purpose of gaining corporate control is conducted in the same market as normal trading, namely on the stock exchange, it is obvious that this type of trading conforms to a different pattern.
The Ethical Economy of the Market for Derivatives: Trading with Values Derived from Other Values for Hedging, Speculation, and Arbitrage - It is useful to differentiate between the market for derivatives and the markets for credit and capital, despite the existence of some structured products which blend elements of credit-market and capital-market products – collateralized debt obligations, for instance. Share options are the classic example of capital-market derivatives, and interest-rate swaps the classic example of credit-market derivatives. Given the more complex nature of the market for derivative products, it seems appropriate to treat this market separately as a market in its own right, even if there are also credit-market derivatives, capital-market derivatives, and hybrid derivative products that can be seen as hybrids consisting of credit-market products and capital-market products, although they are not hybrid securities in the narrower sense, as convertible bonds are.
Interdependences Between the Financial Markets for Credit, Capital, and Derivatives, and the Challenges the Financial Markets Pose for Ethics - Universal banks intermediate between savings and investments within their own organizations, whereas in the capital market, investors find their own investment opportunities in the market for corporate shares.
The 'Banking Secret', the Right to Privacy and the Banks' Duty to Confidentiality - Banks are obliged to maintain confidentiality about their business relationships with customers and about their customers' accounts. They must preserve banking secrecy or the "banking secret" (Bankgeheimnis) as it is called in German. First and foremost, the "banking secret" is just a subtype of the non-disclosure of facts communicated under confidentiality, and of the general class of professional and business secrets that are equally familiar from the medical profession, for instance, or from brokerage activities in the case of insider knowledge discussed earlier. Banking secrecy is the banking industry's own brand of professional confidentiality and trade secrecy. Any knowledge the bank comes by in the course of the business relationship must not be used for insider gain, a principle that follows from the fiduciary duty; nor must it be passed to others or publicly disclosed.
Financial Wagers, Hyper-Speculation and Shareholder Primacy - During the period that culminated in the financial crisis, the financial wager had risen to a previously unknown prevalence. The wager's rise to dominance was evident in all financial markets. It was evident in the capital market, in which speculation on the capital gains of shares had risen dramatically. It was equally evident in the credit market, in which the policy of easy money had driven lending volumes to staggering heights, while the relaxation of requirements for loan collaterals had led to a higher tolerance of speculative uncertainty about debtors, and bad credit collaterals were purchased from the banks by speculative investors in the form of structured products. Finally, it was evident in the market for derivatives, in which something like an explosion of wagers on futures and options had taken place.
Financial Overstretch: The Epochal Disturbance of the Invisible Hand of the Market by the Financial Industry - The overstraining of the shareholder-value principle, and the inversion of means and ends from the shareholder-value orientation as the means of controlling the firm's performance to the delivery of shareholder-value as the firm's sole purpose, resulted in overextension of the speculative side of the management remit in the lead-up to the financial crisis. Management was presented with the essentially unrealizable task of maximizing share-price growth.


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La Prometazina, scoperta prima del 1940, è un derivato fenotiazinico, dotato di una spiccata attività deprimente del SNC nonché antagonista dei recettori H1 (attività antistaminica) e dei recettori muscarinici (attività anticolinergica). Inoltre, possiede alcune proprietà di antagonista della serotonina.

Indicazioni

 Trattamento sintomatico degli stati allergici a carico dell'apparato respiratorio, delle mucosa e della cute
 Reazioni allergiche da farmaci e da trasfusioni di sangue o emoderivati
 Pruriti diffusi
 Reazioni anafilattiche e punture d'insetti
 Come sedativo ipnotico e per le turbe emotive di lieve entità
 Premedicazione anestetica
 Preparazione di cocktail litici.
Trattamento della nausea e del vomito nella cinetosi, nel vomito da farmaci, in nausea e vomito post-operatori (o PONV, secondo l'acronimo inglese); nonché nel trattamento sintomatico della nausea e delle vertigini, nella Sindrome di Menière e altri disturbi vestibolari.

Inoltre la prometazina è un comune ingrediente di preparati per il trattamento sintomatico della tosse e il raffreddore comune.

Controindicazioni
Controindicata ai bambini con meno di 2 anni e alle donne in gravidanza.

Effetti Indesiderati
Fra gli effetti indesiderati si riscontrano: Sedazione e sonnolenza, astenia, facile affaticabilità, difficoltà nella coordinazione motoria, visione indistinta, diplopia, vertigini, ronzii auricolari o acufeni. Possibili segni d'eccitazione centrale, specialmente nei bambini, con la comparsa di euforia, nervosismo, tremori e insonnia e, ad altre dosi, convulsioni.
Per l'attività anticolinergica: secchezza della bocca o xerostomia, della  gola e del naso, stipsi, difficoltà nella minzione e ritenzione urinaria, riduzione della secrezione bronchiale, oppressione toracica e respiro difficoltoso.
Inoltre: disturbi epigastrici, anoressia, nausea, vomito e diarrea.

Vie di somministrazione
È disponibile nelle formulazioni per OS, per via parenterale e per uso topico, la prometazina per via rettale non è in commercio in Italia.

Note

Bibliografia
 Riassunto delle Caratteristiche del Prodotto - Data di (Parziale) Revisione del Testo: aprile 2006.
 (2007) Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference

Voci correlate
 Anestesia
 Psichiatria
 Dermatologia
 Cinetosi
 Vomito
 Antiemetico
 Prurito
 Sedazione

Altri progetti

Fenotiazine


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Q: How to link .html file from Jekyl markdown post? I've got a GitHub pages website and I am trying to link to an .html file that is in a folder in the repository from one of my posts. The html files are in a folder called html, and I've added the following to my _config.yml file:
    include:
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I've tried:
[Link](/html/html_file.html)

but that sends me to a 404 page when I click the link. I tried:
[Link]({% link /html/html_file.html %})

but I get an email from GitHub that says the page build failed. The following gives me the same error.
{{ site.baseurl }}({% link /html/html_file.html %})

Any ideas how I can link to this .html file?
I've exhausted the following resource
https://jekyllrb.com/docs/liquid/tags/#linking-to-posts

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LPR-1 Soviet Copy of Simrad LP7 Military Rangefinder Star Wars Electrobinoculars
The rangefinder is in good cosmetic order. Its optics, providing 7x magnification, is bright and clean with no evidences of fungus, scratches of any other defects. When the rangefinder turns on, two dots red and green briefly flashing on its indicator and then the indicator goes dark. When one of the measuring button pressed, the rangefinder power consumption goes up. The rangefinder requires 12V battery that is not included in the sale. There is a mounting bracket on the bottom of the device. Its original protective hard case with a diaphragm and shoulder strap included. Taking into account the above defect with switching on, the rangefinder listed as for parts or not working, but I think, that it should not be a problem for someone with technical knowledge to return this device to its previous glory. LPR-1 laser reconnaissance device contributed to the war in Afghanistan. The device was originally developed for intelligence units. Quite quickly their supply was established in mass quantities to artillery units for spotters. The gunners quite clearly defined and appreciated its overall dimensions in comparison with the rangefinders that were in service. Field of view 6.7 degrees. Range measurement error +10 meters on distance 20000m. Range of measured distances 145 - 20000 meters. Supply voltage 11-14 or 22-29 V. Current consumption no more than 0.8 A. Weight rangefinder not more than 2.5 kg. Appliance use (extract from its manual). Turn the switch to the ON position. Aim the range finder at the target. Press the button Measurement 1 and after the ready indicator lights up, release it. Take the range count and the elevation angle of the target, i. If the red indicator lights up - replace the battery. If there are several targets in the gap of the goniometric grid during measurement, the decimal point in the low-order digit of the range indicator lights up.
By pressing the button Measurement 1 and Measurement 2, you can measure the distance to the first and second targets. If there is a measurement, for example, through the bushes, it is necessary to set with the handle the limits of the minimum range than the distance slightly larger than the distance to the bushes and measure. In this case, the beam reflected from the bushes will not be fixed, that is, we will get the distance to the target. When working at night, switch the "Backlight" switch to the ON position.
LPR-1 is very similar copy of Simrad Optronics LP7 military rangefinder. The LP7 rangefinder was dressed up and distressed to be disguised and used as a prop Star Wars Electrobinoculars in the film Star Wars Episode V: the Empire Strikes Back. It was used by Han Solo on the planet Hoth to find the Imperial Probe Droid at the beginning of the film. Item can be collected from SL4 area.
Please check my other auctions! The item "LPR-1 Soviet Copy of Simrad LP7 Military Rangefinder Star Wars Electrobinoculars" is in sale since Friday, April 16, 2021. This item is in the category "Collectables\Militaria\Surplus/ Equipment\Field Gear". The seller is "harry19646" and is located in Windsor. This item can be shipped to all countries in Europe, Australia, United States, Bahrain, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, China, Israel, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Bolivia, Barbados, Brunei darussalam, Cayman islands, Egypt, Guadeloupe, French guiana, Jordan, Cambodia, Sri lanka, Macao, Maldives, Martinique, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Saudi arabia, South africa, United arab emirates, Bahamas, Colombia, Jamaica, Kuwait, Panama, Qatar, Uruguay.


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In April 2002, the Council of Australian Governments commissioned the Steering Committee to produce a regular report against key indicators of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disadvantage. The Steering Committee is advised by a working group made up of representatives from all Australian governments, the Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peak Organisations, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
The Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report measures the wellbeing of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The report provides information about outcomes across a range of strategic areas such as early child development, education and training, healthy lives, economic participation, home environment, and safe and supportive communities. The report examines whether policies and programs are achieving positive outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The latest edition of the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report was released on Thursday 3 December 2020.
Please note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this website may contain names, images and voices of deceased people. It may also link to other websites which contain names, images and voices of deceased people.
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2020
This report measures the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It provides comprehensive data across a range of outcome areas, along with supporting material on the strengths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and the structural and systemic barriers that need to be addressed if outcomes are to further improve.
This comprehensive report card measures where things have improved (or not) against 52 indicators across a range of areas including governance, leadership and culture, early childhood, education, health, home and safe and supportive communities, and includes case studies on things that work to improve outcomes.
This report measures the wellbeing of Australia's Indigenous peoples. The report provides information about outcomes across a range of strategic areas such as early child development, education and training, healthy lives, economic participation, home environment, and safe and supportive communities.
This fifth edition, nine years after this series was commissioned, shows there is still a considerable way to go if we are to fulfil COAG's commitment to close the gap in Indigenous disadvantage.
The fourth report in the series indicates while the gaps are narrowing in some areas, in too many cases outcomes are not improving, or are even deteriorating. We still have a long way to go to fulfil COAG's commitment to close the gap in Indigenous disadvantage.
This third Report in the series reveals that many Indigenous people have shared in Australia's recent economic prosperity, recording improved employment outcomes and higher incomes. There have also been welcome improvements in some educational and health outcomes for Indigenous children.
A Steering Committee report on the key indicators of indigenous disadvantage, undertaken at the request of the Council of Australian Governments.
Be kept informed about the progress of this work.
Consultations are wide-ranging, including Indigenous leaders, organisations and communities across the country, as well as governments and academic researchers.
2012 Review of Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage


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Glüsing is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. On 1 April 1934, the municipality was formed due to the disbandment of the Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde Tellingstedt which at the time, had around 85 inhabitants.

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Municipalities in Schleswig-Holstein
Dithmarschen


Magnetic button top and zipper top.
Soft/Textured faux leather with suede lining on outer bag.
Inside lining with zipper/open pockets.
22-inch buckled strap handles plus optional and adjustable shoulder strap.


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Policy Violation on the basis of Race – occurs when differences in employment/academic decisions are based upon the employee's/student's race. Conduct prohibited by this policy includes, but is not limited to, the use of racial slurs, graffiti, or ethnic jokes that create a hostile or abusive working environment.
Typically, a hostile environment is created only when the discrimination or harassment is severe and alters the conditions of the victim's employment/academic environment. The occasional improper comment and/or joke, generally, will not create such a hostile environment and/or be indicative of racial discrimination unless such conduct is severe, pervasive, and/or occurs on a frequent basis.
Examples of age related discrimination includes, but is not limited to, characterizations, stereotypes, jokes, or insults regarding the employee's/student's age, poor health, and/or medical conditions, forced retirement, and the use of any derogatory terms regarding age.
Policy Violation on the basis of Sexual Orientation – occurs when employment/academic decisions are based upon or biased because the employee's/student's sexual orientation is or is perceived to be heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. Examples of conduct prohibited by this policy includes, but is not limited to, offensive language, mockery, verbal threats, damage to personal property, and physical violence or harassment.
Policy Violation on the basis of Sexual Harassment – occurs when sexual behavior or requests for sexual favors: … Have the express purpose or effect of substantially interfering with an individual's work/academic performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive working academic environment.
* Sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the recipient's employment or education.
Examples of sexual harassment in employment or education include, but are not limited to, uninvited sexual comments or innuendo, oral, written, or electronic communications that are sexually explicit in nature or sexually explicit questions, jokes, or anecdotes about gender-specific traits.


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Announcing GAMMA Reykjavik 2018
10/31/2017 – The organisers of the annual Reykjavik Open have recently announced information on the March, 2018 edition, which will be extra special, as it will commemorate Bobby Fischer himself. Fischer would have turned 75 years old during the event, if not for his untimely death in 2008. They have sent us the key details.
new: Mega Database 2019
The "Mega" is the database every serious chessplayer needs. The database contains 7.6 million games from 1500 to 2018, in highest quality standard, full of top level analyses and completely classified.
Master Class Vol.1: Bobby Fischer
No other World Champion was more infamous both inside and outside the chess world than Bobby Fischer. On this DVD, a team of experts shows you the winning techniques and strategies employed by the 11th World Champion.
Grandmaster Dorian Rogozenco delves into Fischer's openings, and retraces the development of his repertoire. What variations did Fischer play, and what sources did he use to arm himself against the best Soviet players? Mihail Marin explains Fischer's particular style and his special strategic talent in annotated games against Spassky, Taimanov and other greats. Karsten Müller is not just a leading international endgame expert, but also a true Fischer connoisseur.
Bobby Fischer Memorial March 6th-14th 2018
The GAMMA Reykjavík Open 2018 will be a very special event. This time the tournament will be dedicated to the chess king Bobby Fischer.
Match of the Century: Boris Spassky vs Bobby Fischer, Reykjavik 1972
An Icelandic citizen in his last years, Robert James Fischer was born on March 9th 1943. That means he would have turned 75 years old during GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2018. His contributions to chess history will be celebrated during the tournament.
Instead of the normal ten rounds there will be nine rounds this year and a "free day" on March 9th. Then a special event will be organized — a Fischer Random championship with excellent prizes. The organisers expect that all the strongest players in the field will participate and every player in GAMMA Reykjavik Open is invited!
The tournament will dedicate other events to Fischer´s chess life in many different ways. There will be lectures, exhibitions and you will get the opportunity to visit the playing hall from 1972, his grave, his favorite restaurant and of course the original chess board, which is usually kept in the Icelandic National Museum!
The tournament will be held in Harpa, the 28.000 sqm. concert hall and conference center. A truly unique tournament hall – probably the best in the world! | Photo: Alina l'Ami
Reykjavik Open has always a very strong field and there will no difference in 2018 | Photo: Alina l'Ami
Anish Giri, above with wife IM Sopiko Guramishvili, was the winner of the 2017 edition. The field included for example Alexei Shirov, Gata Kamsky and Baadur Jobava. | Photo: Alina l'Ami
In recent years you can find names like Magnus Carlsen, Hou Yifan, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagreave, Wesley So, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Levon Aronian, Ding Liren and Judit Polgar in the list of players. And of course the organisers promise a strong field in this Bobby Fischer Memorial!
Why not join? If you register and pay the fee before 1st January you will get a special discount of the entrance fee.
March 5th Monday 16-20 Registration
March 6th Tuesday 11-12 15:00 Registration 1st round
March 7th Wednesday 09:00 17:00 2nd round 3rd round
March 8th Thursday 17:00 4th round
March 9th Friday Free day – Fischer random tournament
March 10th Saturday 15:00 5th round
March 11th Sunday 15:00 6th round
March 12th Monday 15:00 7th round
March 13th Tuesday 15:00 8th round
March 14th Wednesday 11:00 17:30 9th round Closing ceremony
March 15th Thursday Departure of participants
The organizer reserves the right to make minor changes to the schedule, if deemed necessary by the Organizing Committee. Dates will not be changed.
Side events calendar
Reykjavík Open 2018 news
Reykjavík Open 2018 official web site
ChessBase reports on the Match of the Century
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ChessBase in French
5/7/2019 – ChessBase is now available in French! You can find the site at fr.chessbase.com and follow the daily coverage of the Grand Chess Tour kickoff event: the 2019 Cote d'Ivoire Rapid & Blitz with daily live commentary by GM Edouard Romain & GM Laurent Fressinet.
Chess in the midnight sun
12/12/2018 – Most chess players who have visited Iceland have stayed and played in Reykjavik. Northern Iceland is another story, quite different from the capital area. This spring there is a chance to visit an exotic part of the country to play in an international tournament – in beautiful surroundings and excellent conditions. The Icelandic Open 2019 will take place from May 25th to June 1st in Akureyri, just 60 km south of the Arctic Circle. Plan it in.
The Beasty Botvinnik Variation in the Semi-Slav!
On this DVD you will be taken on a journey through what is arguably the sharpest opening line known to men.


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Home News Full boil: foreign language entry wins 2018 Diagram Prize
Full boil: foreign language entry wins 2018 Diagram Prize
Published November 23, 2018 by Horace Bent
For the first time in the 40-year life of the world's most prestigious literary gong, a foreign-language tome, Joy of Waterboiling, has won the Diagram...
The United Kingdom may be teetering on the Brexit abyss but you, Diagram Prize voters, have plumped for European unity in the only referendum that really matters.
I am delighted to announce that, for the first time in the 40-year life of the world's most prestigious literary gong, a foreign-language tome, Joy of Waterboiling, has won the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. A point of order to forestall any rants from foaming-at-the-mouth Brexiteers about bloody foreigners, coming over here, stealing our book prizes (or perhaps from Mark "Make America Go Home Again" Richards at John Murray, a renowned objector to certain awards criteria): though JOW is a German-language text, it is eligible for Diagram consideration as only a book's title need be in English.
And JOW is a title that has absolutely romped to victory, garnering an astonishing 56% of votes cast—the biggest winning share since Cooking with Poo grabbed the (porcelain?) crown in 2014.
Fair dues to JOW's Vienna-based publisher Asche Verlag: these guys wanted this prize. As an aside, it amuses me that the publisher's name sounds to English ears as if it would make a group of puerile adolescents giggle. Asche is a hybrid digital/art/publishing venture that, according to its rather pretentious and, goodness gracious me, very lengthy mission statement, "promotes the development and expansion of a European network that questions conventional structures and shapes the future book market". Hm, yeah... it's made a cookbook with recipes centring on throwing water, potatoes and asparagus into a glorified kettle, and so might not be completely reinventing the wheel here.
Still, Asche must have a jolly side. And really, if Austrians are noted for anything besides psychoanalysis and beardy, cross-dressing Eurovision winners, it is their Lebensfreude (that's the German phrase for joie de vivre; rather underused for some reason). Once shortlisted, Asche launched an impressive Instagram and Facebook drive, urging its many followers to vote for "your fav waterboiling bible" illustrated by—and this may be some kind of Mitteleuropa in-joke I'm missing—pictures of a T-Rex and an elephant. A co-ordinated drive that actually achieves its stated target? I'm thinking the Asche Diagram is a shoo-in for the Marketing Campaign of the Year Nibbie.
Hard-core Diagramistas know that a passable bottle of claret is traditionally given to the person who nominates the winning entry. Alas, this year's shortlistees came from in-house sources, so rather than contribute to the further delinquency of The Bookseller staffers, we decided to award the claret to someone who voted for the winner, picked at random. That lucky person is... Penny Liechti, rights manager at Random House. Enjoy responsibly, Penny!
As one Diagram closes, our eyes are already turning to 2019. Send your suggestions my way, bitte. Quercus boss Jon Butler is in early doors with From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen by none other than Snoop Dogg. (I think we all know what the Dee-Oh-Double-Gee's secret ingredient is.) Will Snoop make it to next year's shortlist? Stay tuned...
See the rest of this year's Diagram Prize shortlist here.
Horace will be criss-crossing the nation in his Austin Allegro to spread word of this year's Diagram Prize far and wide. To propose contenders for next year's award, email bent@thebookseller.com.
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A copy of the death certificate is attached. I did did not have possession of the ward's will. On , 20 , I delivered the ward's will to the court for safekeeping, as required by AS 13.26.285(e), and informed the executor or a beneficiary named in the will that the will had been so delivered. Name of person notified: , has been appointed.
If the ward is deceased or if the guardianship has been terminated because the ward regained capacity, you need not fill out paragraphs 1-9. Skip to paragraphs 10-17. You must fill out paragraphs 10 - 17 if you were a full guardian with authority to manage the ward's finances. If you did not have financial management authority, skip to the signature section on the last page.
What is the ward's opinion of the ward's current living arrangements?
Contacts With Ward. a. If the ward did not live with you, how often did you visit the ward in the period since the last report to the court?
Decision Making. Have there been any changes in the ward's ability to make decisions about matters affecting the ward's health and safety?
You only have to fill out paragraphs 10 � 17 if you were a full guardian with authority to manage the ward's finances. If you did not have financial management authority, skip to the signature section on the last page.
Total Expenses Since the Last Annual Report: 12. Money Controlled by Ward.
Ward's Assets as of a.
Explain any changes since last report: g. Life Insurance Policies (policies the ward owns). Name of Company Beneficiary of Life Insurance Face Value of Life Insurance Cash Value of Life Ins.
representative of deceased ward's estate, special administrator, temporary property custodian or heir.


Between 1962 and 1986 a large number of Late Bronze Age metal objects were recovered in the parish of Snettisham. These included whole pieces and fragments of over twenty individual pieces including axeheads and a very interesting 'continental antenna-hilted sword'. It is thought that the presence of ingot and metal cake fragments, in both copper alloy and lead, indicates that this is the hoard of a metal-worker. It is thought that this hoard may be related to earlier finds in 1779 (NHER 1504), the 1930s (NHER 1670) and 1948 (NHER 1671).
Part of Late Bronze Age founders hoard.
1. Socketed axe, cutting edge, (S1).
3. Part of hilt of European antenna-hilted sword, (S3).
4. Ingot fragment, (S2). In KLM .
Before 1971 surface finds, variously over several years.
6-15. Ten fragments of socketed axes, including mouth of octagonal faceted axe with fragment of another jammed in it, (S4, S5, S6, S7 and S8).
16-18. Three ingot fragments, (S9), some of these in KLM.
11 March 1976; search with a metal-detector produced thirteen pieces from the topsoil. No evidence of any further material remaining in situ.
Cake ingot fragments.(22, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 34), see (S10).
Axe fragments. (23, 28), see (S11).
Complete axe (25), see (S11).
Casting jet (32), see (S11).
Sword blade fragments (31, 33), see (S11).
Small socketed chisel, fragments of socketed axes, and cake from site.
Sword handle and blade, awl, bronze cake and lead ingot.
Full details and drawings in file.
J. J. Wymer (NAU), 25 November 1986.
--- Archive: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Snettisham .
<S1> Illustration: Clough, T.. 1971. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe blade fragment and a Late Bronze Age socketed axe socked fragment.. Card. 1:1.
<S2> Illustration: Clough, T.. 1971. Drawings of Late Bronze Age socketed axe blade fragment and an ingot.. Card. 1:1.
<S3> Illustration: Clough, T.. 1971. Drawing of a Bronze Age antenna-hilted sword.. Card. 1:1.
<S4> Illustration: Lawson, A. Unknown. Drawing of 2 Late Bronze Age socketed axe cutting edge fragments and a gouge fragment.. Paper. Unknown.
<S5> Illustration: Lawson, A. Unknown. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age sword blade fragment and a Late Bronze Age cake fragment.. Paper. Unknown.
<S6> Illustration: Clough, T.. 1971. Drawing of three Late Bronze Age socketed axe cutting edge fragments.. Card. 1:1.
<S7> Illustration: Clough, T.. 1971. Drawing of four Late Bronze Age socketed axe cutting edge fragments.. Card. 1:1.
<S8> Illustration: Clough, T.. 1971. Drawing of three Late Bronze Age socketed axehead fragments.. Card. 1:1.
<S9> Illustration: Clough, T.. 1971. Drawing of three Late Bronze Age ingot fragments.. Card. 1:1.
<S10> Illustration: Lawson, A. Unknown. Drawing of Late Bronze Age cake fragments found in the Snettisham IV hoard.. Paper. Unknown.
<S11> Illustration: Lawson, A. Unknown. Drawing of two Late Bronze Age socketed axe fragments, a complete socketed axe, casting jet and two sword blade fragments.. Paper. Unknown.
<S11> Illustration: Unknown. Unknown. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age socketed chisel, two socketed axehead fragments and 2 socketed axehead blade fragments.. Paper. Unknown.
<S11> Illustration: Unknown. Unknown. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age sword handle and blade fragments, awl, cake and an ingot.. Paper. Unknown.


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Smithsonian Channel(TM) Survives Winter's Extremes with "Panama's Animal Highway" and "America's Badlands"
Look for said specials on Wednesday, December 13 and December 20 at 8:00/7:00c, respectively.
[via press release from Smithsonian Channel]
SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL(TM) SURVIVES WINTER'S EXTREMES WITH
PANAMA'S ANIMAL HIGHWAY
PREMIERES WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13 AT 8 PM ET/PT
AMERICA'S BADLANDS
NEW YORK - November 21, 2017 - Smithsonian Channel's Wild Wednesday lineup takes viewers on a journey of extremes, from the rugged beauty of South Dakota's Badlands to the tropical jungles of Panama, to meet some of the amazing animals that call these locations home. While an extraordinary assortment of creatures migrate thousands of miles to escape to warmer weather, others must stick it out through the brutal winter. All of these animals have one thing in common: the struggle to survive. Get a closer look at the challenges these animals face on Smithsonian Channel with the premiere of PANAMA'S ANIMAL HIGHWAY on Wednesday, December 13 at 8 p.m. ET/PT and AMERICA'S BADLANDS on Wednesday, December 20 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
The Isthmus of Panama is the only place like it on Earth - a bridge between two worlds. It's a critical throughway and vital rest stop for millions of birds, mammals and reptiles migrating between North and South America. The narrow corridor in PANAMA'S ANIMAL HIGHWAY provides a passageway for turkey vultures, leatherback turtles, jaguars, coyotes and countless shorebirds and songbirds, among many others. All rely on this exceptional 30-mile wide strip of land, which is now under threat from disappearing forests, rising sea levels and an ever-developing Panamanian infrastructure. In this film, scientists use state-of-the-art technology to track animal movements and explore the threats to conservation along this crowded and diverse thoroughfare.
AMERICA'S BADLANDS is set in the heart of the American Midwest where lush grasslands seem torn open by towering multicolored pinnacles of rock. It's a place where summers of blistering heat follow winters of bitter cold, and where an assortment of charismatic animals - the American bison, the black-tailed prairie dog and the burrowing owl - all live. The story follows life in a prairie-dog town through the seasons as badgers, golden eagles and coyotes threaten a new generation of pups. Exposed on the plains, these creatures must be on constant guard from myriad threats, both predatory and environmental, that lurk in the grasslands of America's great wilderness.
PANAMA'S ANIMAL HIGHWAY is produced by Simon Boyce of Lucky 8 TV. Executive producers for Smithsonian Channel are Tria Thalman and David Royle.
AMERICA'S BADLANDS is a Terra Mater Factual Studios GMBH and Smithsonian Networks production, produced by Mike Birkhead. Executive producers for Smithsonian Channel are Tria Thalman and David Royle.
Smithsonian Channel(TM), owned by Smithsonian Networks(TM), a joint venture between Showtime Networks Inc. and the Smithsonian Institution, is where curiosity lives, inspiration strikes and wonders never cease. This is the place for awe-inspiring stories, powerful documentaries and amazing entertainment across multiple platforms. Smithsonian Channel combines the storytelling prowess of SHOWTIME(R) with the unmatched resources and rich traditions of the Smithsonian, to create award-winning programming that shines new light on popular genres such as air and space, history, science, nature, and pop culture. Among the network's offerings are series including Aerial America, America in Color, First Ladies Revealed, Polar Bear Town, The Lost Tapes, Amazing Monkeys, America's Secret Space Heroes, Mighty Ships, Mighty Planes and Air Disasters, as well as critically-acclaimed specials that include Titanic's Fatal Fire, The Obama Years: The Power of Words, Nightmare on Everest, Diana and the Paparazzi, Diana: The Day We Said Goodbye and Flying High with Phil Keoghan. Smithsonian Networks also operates Smithsonian Earth(TM), through SN Digital LLC., a new subscription video streaming service delivering spectacular original nature and wildlife content. To learn more, go to www.smithsonianchannel.com, or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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