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15 Music Festivals in Croatia To Experience Before You Die (2023)
Looking for some of the best music festivals in Croatia in 2023 to keep you dancing until the early hours of the morning? Then look no further as I've put together this incredible guide to the biggest Croatian festivals you can't miss this summer!
Croatia has an abundance of diverse music festivals ranging from EDM, House, Rock, Indie, Techno, Drum & Bass, and even Hip Hop. It has quickly worked its way up to being one of the top festival destinations in Europe, with thousands of people flocking to the country every summer!
Croatian music festivals are spread throughout the country, but whether you choose to party in Zagreb or along the gorgeous Istrian Coast, you're guaranteed to be in for a good time. Let's take a look at some of the best upcoming summer music festivals Croatia has to offer!
Top 15 Croatia Festivals in 2023
1) Sonus Festival 2023
The Ultimate Techno Croatia Music Festival | Credit: Antonio Hant Corallo
When: August 20-24, 2023
Where: Novalja, Croatia
https://www.sonus-festival.com
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5 DAYS & NIGHTS OF OPEN AIR PARTY AT THE CROATIAN SEA.
Held at the renowned Zrće Beach along the Dalmatian Coast, Sonus has quickly become one of the top festivals in Croatia. Sonus is one of the best Techno festivals and has celebrated techno trailblazers and underground artists for years.
Zrće is home to some of the most popular beach clubs in Croatia, such as Kalypso, Aquarius and Papaya, which provide the perfect stages for this jam-packed festival.
This five-day-long celebration boasts some of the best electronic music artists in the industry. The 2022 lineup includes Jamie Jones, Chris Liebing and Monika Kruse, and SO MANY MORE. I've personally attended Sonus Festival (although this was 8 years ago now), and it's still one of my favorite festivals I've ever attended!
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2) Ultra Europe 2023
Croatia's Premier Destination Music Festival
When: July 7-9, 2023
Where: Park Mladeži, Split, Croatia
https://ultraeurope.com/
Ultra is a festival that needs very little introduction. After a two-year absence, this major electronic festival held across Europe returns to the Croatian city of Split.
Ultra is one of the largest Split music festivals, held each year in the summer. The main festival takes place in the Mladeži Park and features impressive firework displays, smoke cannons and much more.
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Recall how you could not reenter the ACB animus if you completed sequence 8? I missed some achievements because of that.
Does ACR have such an issue?
Nope, after the story is done you will be able to go to animus island and back to Ezio anytime you need to.


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U.S. Diamond Sawblades Industry Applauds ITC Decision in Antidumping Investigation
The Diamond Sawblades Manufacturers' Coalition, an ad hoc trade association of U.S. producers of diamond sawblades, praised yesterday's U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) determination that imports of diamond sawblades from Korea and the People's Republic of China threaten material injury to U.S. sawblades producers. The U.S. Department of Commerce has determined that imports from both countries are sold at "dumped" prices in the U.S. market.
Daniel B. Pickard, a partner in Wiley Rein's International Trade Group and Counsel to the Coalition, stated, "We are very pleased by the ITC's decision which will provide this important domestic industry and its workers with relief from unfairly traded imports. The Commission determined that these trade practices threaten material injury to the American manufacturers."
The Department of Commerce completed its investigations and calculated final antidumping duty margins for these products. The final dumping margins range as high as 164.9 percent for China and 26.55 percent for Korea.
The ITC's decision was made pursuant to a remand order from the Court of International Trade. Parties to the litigation will have an opportunity to comment to the Court on the ITC's determination. If the Court approves the ITC's remand determination, the Department of Commerce will issue an antidumping duty order covering the affected products.
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Astonishingly the Telegraph informs us that Jerusalem is the favourite hymn of Gordon Brown.


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When I was three years old, in April of 1919, my family consisting of mother, father, my older sister and myself, moved to 1754 W. Bryn Mawr from Pittsburgh, PA (I was born in Cincinnati, OH). My dad was a civil engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad and supervised track elevation in various cities. In 1919, he was loaned to the Union Station Company to work on the building of that Chicago station as number two engineer.
Housing was extremely tight after World War I. My dad came alone to Chicago and bought the Bryn Mawr house practically unseen for $4,800. The house was a five room, two bedroom frame bungalow. It was built about 1915, just before the City Building Code was changed to outlaw the building of all frame houses inside the city limits. There was a solid row of similar houses on the north side of Bryn Mawr from Ravenswood to Hermitage and also on both sides of Olive Street.
Across the street was a large empty lot, about a city block in length, lined with very old huge willows. There were practically no buildings between Paulina and Ravenswood and Bryn Mawr and Gregory.
On our first day in the house, my mother went up to the attic and looked over the railroad tracks and beyond and was delighted to see what she thought was a beautiful park. She was very disappointed to learn that it was actually Rosehill Cemetery.
Almost every house had a couple of youngsters, except for the Samuelson house. Mr. Samuelson was a jeweler who owned the shop at the "L" station on Bryn Mawr. The store in later years was taken over by Gunther Marx.
We kids had a great time playing in the big empty field across from our house. There, in the summer, giant ragweed grew six feet tall, which made a great hiding place for us and provided material for fashioning wonderful spears.
We also dug six-foot holes and covered them over with timber to use for hiding places and imaginative play. Sometimes the Olive Street gang or the gang on Bryn Mawr east of Hermitage would destroy our efforts. The word "gang" did not have the modem negative connotation in those days; it was more like referring to the "Spanky and Our Gang" type kids of television comedy.
One of the biggest days of the year for us was Decoration Day (Memorial Day). A steady stream of people (sans cars back then) headed for the cemetery to decorate the graves. Merchants would provide candy, Cracker Jack, gum and flags on consignment to the kids who set up the stands along Ravenswood. Some of us sold homemade lemonade to the thirsty crowd.
In those days, the Catholic churches were very ethnic. St. Gregory was German and St. Ita was Irish. Woe to the kids who attended school out of the parish (Clark Street was the dividing line)! Father Clausen of St. Greg's and Father Crowe of St. Ita would give them holy heck if they encountered them on the street.
A great building boom began after World War I and many two-flats, three-flats and six-flats went up in the vacant field across from our house. It was great fun to play on the buildings under construction. They were built of brick (face brick in front and common Chicago brick on the sides and rear - which my mother thought was being very cheap). They used a good deal of stone for sills, arches and decoration.
On the southwest corner of Bryn Mawr and Lincoln Street (now Wolcott) was a large sheet steel structure which housed Scoglund Stone Cutting Company. They made deliveries up the street using horse-drawn, low-bed wagons. The builders did not have mechanical equipment, so they used large iron scoops drawn by two horses to plow out the foundations.
Often on Saturdays we would walk north to the beautiful stone railroad station at Rosehill that was built to match the cemetery entrance buildings. (It should never have been torn down, landmark that it was!) In the days before autos, many funeral processions came by rail (there is evidence to this day of the stone elevator on the west side of the tracks). I never saw it, but I understand the Chicago Surface Lines had a black street car for funerals. This is the same line that we boarded to go shopping downtown. From the Madison St. station we took a horse-drawn bus to State Street.
In those days, most wakes were held in the living room of the home of the deceased. A big bouquet of calla lilies would be displayed on the front door. The hearses were beautifully sculptured vehicles in three colors - white for children, grey for adults and black for the elderly.
The street car (Ravenswood-Rosehill) did not turn east as the bus now does, but ran straight north to Rosehill Drive, the terminus. The route turned west at Balmoral to Robey Street (now Damen), then south to Lincoln Avenue at Irving Park, then southeast to Center Street (now Armitage) and crossed under the river on LaSalle via a tunnel. The cars were the old faithful 1909 Pullmans, not quite as large as the Pullmans on Clark Street.
The street north of Rosehill Drive was not paved and very poor people lived there; as I recall, they kept pigs.
The freight traffic was very heavy on the railroad and every night at eight o'clock a full trainload of harvesters would come by. My mother called it "The Harvester" and used the train schedule as my schedule to come in from play.
There were two greenhouses with retail stores on Ravenswood - Schleifs and Quasthoff's. There were also two theaters on Clark Street - the Calo and the Temple. Features were changed three times a week. Another fond remembrance is the horse-drawn waffle wagon which provided wonderful treats in the form of sugar-encrusted waffles.
When my mother heard that the Halsey Chemical Company was to build a large factory across the street, she said: "Let's get out of here!"… And so we sold the house in April of 1928 for $8,000 and moved to 5544 N. Wayne. We bought the new house for $14,500.
And that's what it was like growing up from 1919 to 1928 at Ravenswood and Bryn Mawr Avenues, when empty lots grew wonderful willows and giant ragweeds.


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Lessons in Lego
KGS Staff – 11/02/2019
Kingston Grammar School Deputy Head, Mr Will Cooper, discusses the benefits of playing with Lego.
With The Lego Movie 2 about to hit the big screen, I'm reminded of that classic parent-child exchange from the original blockbuster:
The Man Upstairs: You know the rules, this isn't a toy!
Finn: Um… it kind of is.
The Man Upstairs: No, actually it's a highly sophisticated inter-locking brick system.
With a growing number of Lego sets seemingly targeted at AFOLs (Adult Fans of Lego) in recent years, it's easy to find yourself agreeing with 'The Man Upstairs'. The sophistication and ingenuity of design is surely wasted on children as a mere play thing! At the same time, it is so much more than an 'inter-locking brick system'; it is, in fact, a philosophy of education. Allow me to explain.
Stage 1: For most people, the very first experience of Lego is invariably with a simple construction kit. We carefully and unwaveringly follow the instructions, simultaneously beginning to understand first principles as the model takes on both shape and strength as each piece interlocks with the next.
In the same way, our broader educational experience begins with neatly colouring inside the lines before moving on to learn and replicate the 'rules' of multiplying fractions, conjugating verbs or balancing chemical equations. Following established principles in this way provides essential foundations for all our future learning. Yet it is only the start of our learning journey.
Stage 2: The Lego builder takes their model kit, admires their achievement for a moment but then wonders, "What if …?" Then comes more weapons, bigger wheels, more moving parts or even the addition of a motor. The KIT builder has evolved into a MODer: they have taken the underlying principles outlined in the instructions, but have then gone on to modify and even improve upon them. So too must students be given the opportunity to try and solve problems in a slightly different way; to innovate and not to replicate.
Now comes the greatest challenge of all for the Lego enthusiast; a large pile of bricks and absolutely no instructions. It is time for a MOC (My Own Creation). In the same way, all students must ultimately reach the pinnacle of Bloom's Learning Taxonomy and construct, create, formulate or write their own original composition. From first principles to ground-breaking discoveries, Lego has it covered. Yet is this really what founder Ole Kirk Christiansen had in mind?
For him the idea was as simple as the name itself: 'Leg Godt' (Danish) = Play Well. At Kingston Grammar School we have been trying to stay true to that principle whilst also fulfilling the School's motto, 'Work Well & Be Happy'. Faced with a pile of bricks and no instructions, our Year 7 students have been given the opportunity to do nothing more than play.
The notion of 'playing' can, in fact, serve as an antidote to so many of the pressures and demands that young people face. Whether it's a social and collaborative experience as in the case of our 'Be Happy' PSHE programme or something you choose to do on your own, 'play' promotes creativity, and provides relaxation and stimulation in equal measure. In an age of diminishing attention spans, it is also a rare thing to see groups of students so completely engaged for the 45 minutes or so of build time.
I know that not everyone will share my passion for the humble plastic brick, but I hope that all of our students will take another of Lego's ideals and 'imagine the possibilities' in all that they encounter.
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From his first week on the job as superintendent of suburban Houston's Spring Branch ISD, Dr. Scott Muri revealed himself to be a strong, collaborative partner whose creativity and avid belief in technology as a tool to engage and reach stakeholders created excitement among the Community Relations team that communication was going to be a true priority. He immediately launched a #VisionLock Twitter campaign to introduce himself to the community and leverage the district's core values as connection points and a foundation frame for his leadership, shared focus and reason for joining Spring Branch ISD. Tweeting in both English and Spanish, his near-daily tweets (@ScottMuri) reach 9,000+ followers.
Since he took the reins of the 35,000 student district in July 2015, Dr. Muri has served as the district's lead learner and inspirer, sustaining its history of meaningful two-way engagement and communications, while trying new technology tools as part of the district's own Learner's Journey strategic plan to communicate and connect with families, colleagues, students, community, partners, elected officials and others with a stake in the success of Spring Branch ISD schools.
With Dr. Muri's leadership and encouragement, nearly 100% of school campuses and administrators are now strong Twitter users. This focus has led to a marked increase in the strategic nature of messaging from school and district leaders and has included Twitter Meet Ups on a variety of topics, use of Periscope to live-stream activities and YouTube for live instructional training, and the launch of Soundcloud for podcasts from the superintendent. Along with adding a popular text-messaging component for parent notifications, the district also launched a new mobile app with multi-language translation capabilities.
The Customized Support strand of the district's strategic plan calls for heightened education, engagement and empowerment of parents, students, and staff, new information platforms and expanded access to technology, and better access to information and communications.
Dr. Muri also challenged the Board of Trustees to begin the process of becoming a Texas District of Innovation (DOI). The process and plans developed have led to a model website used as a resource by other districts seeking DOI status, as well as a rubric of public input pathways that guide the Board's work on all policies, including those related to DOI.
NSPRA and Blackboard are truly proud to recognize Dr. Scott Muri with the 2017 Communication Technology Award for Superintendents.


Gabrielle Kimm is the author of three historical novels. The first His Last Duchess (Sphere, 2010) is set in 16th-century Italy and was inspired by Robert Browning's dramatic monologue 'My Last Duchess'; it explores the ill-fated marriage of the fifth duke of Ferrara. A secondary character from that story (originally the duke's mistress, now a troubled courtesan in Naples) takes centre-stage in Kimm's second novel The Courtesan's Lover (Sphere, 2011). In her third book The Girl with the Painted Face (Sphere, 2013) an anarchic troupe of travelling commedia dell'arte actors are unjustly accused of murder.
Gabrielle Kimm is a graduate of the MA course in creative writing at the University of Chichester, a course on which she now occasionally works as an associate lecturer. Her magic-realist short story, 'Kite', written on the MA, won the City of Derby short-story competition in 2009. Gabrielle Kimm still works regularly with a writing group made up of fellow MA graduates. She has also been a secondary-school teacher of English and drama for more than 20 years. She currently teaches part-time at a small performing-arts school in Chichester.
Gabrielle Kimm lives in rural west Sussex with her two teenage daughters and an elderly Lakeland terrier. For her next project, she is researching a particularly scandalous decade in the reign of Louis XIV of France.


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Los Angeles Rams 2017-2018 Season Preview
08/16/2017 Gentlemen's Guide Staff 0 Football, Lifestyle, Sports,
With a new head coach in place, 31-year-old Sean McVay and defensive coordinator Wade Phillips, the Rams are looking to making major improvements on an abysmal season last year. One of the leagues youngest rosters now reps the youngest head coach in the league history but this may be just what the Rams need to get in gear.
Give the Ball to Gurley
The good thing about hitting rock bottom is that you can only go up from there. The Rams' offense a year ago was the worst in the NFL by a staggering margin. Not only that, but they were last in offensive yards per game (262.7), moved the chains a league worst 24.62 percent of the time, which was significantly worse than their league-worst ranking in first down percentage from 2015 and if it seemed like there was never a time that you saw a Rams' quarterback and he wasn't on his back… You were right. Jared Goff was sacked a horrendous 11.3 percent of the time and over the course of the season the Rams gave up the second most sacks in the league with 49. Now that that's out of the way, let's focus on the keys to a productive 2017 offensive season. Their offensive-minded head coach should bring some hope to what seemed like a hopeless squad a year ago. After trading up for the number one overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, it appears that Jared Goff has finally been officially named as the number one quarterback in Los Angeles and we can only hope that he is ready for that responsibility. Goff finished last season as Pro Football Focus' second worst ranked quarterback in the league after losing all seven of his starts and throwing seven interceptions to accompany his five touchdowns and less than 55 percent completion percentage. The Rams recently signed veteran quarterback, Dan Orlovsky, to back up Goff, which is good because it was beginning to feel a bit too familiar with Sean Mannion, a quarterback who has never seen a start in the NFL, backing up Goff.
Todd Gurley. At one point one of the most feared running backs in the league as a rookie two years ago fell off in a major way last season. This can most likely be blamed on a move from St. Louis to Los Angeles and the Rams toting one of the worst offensive lines in football. Despite his numbers dropping from 1,106 yards and 10 touchdowns as a rookie to 885 yards and six touchdowns as a sophomore, Gurley did put in the work to improve his pass catching ability from his rookie to his second year in the league after catching only 21 passes in 2015 and doubling that to catch 43 in 2016. The scary thing about the running back situation in Los Angeles is that even with the free agency signing of Lance Dunbar, Gurley has no true backup as of right now so we can only hope that he can stay healthy behind a questionable o-line.
The receiving corp. Lost some big names in Kenny Britt and Brian Quick in free agency but replaced them with some medium-with-potential-to-be-big names in Robert Woods and rookie, Cooper Kupp. Despite being almost the same age, Woods is going into his fifth NFL season but has never seen the targets that he deserves after being a part of a run-heavy offense in Buffalo. Kupp was named one of the most NFL ready receivers in this past draft after raking in 6,500 career-receiving yards, 73 touchdowns and setting every major FCS receiving record there is. The Rams' main receiver will remain Tavon Austin who will be the third highest paid wide receiver in the league in 2017 despite his 106 target-58 reception-509 yard line a year ago. Let's hope that this offensive unit can finally offer a break to a defense that seems to have been carrying this team for the three years since Aaron Donald joined the league.
Aaron Donald: Defensive Machine
I like to imagine the Rams' coaching staff as the cast of the original Lethal Weapon where Sean McVay is Mel Gibson and Wade Phillips is Danny Glover. The hiring of legendary defensive coordinator Wade Phillips was easily the Rams' biggest and best move this offseason and should improve an already bright spot of the team. Phillips track record speaks for itself after building the Denver Broncos' defense into a top-five unit three years in a row and creating the leading force behind their Super Bowl 50 victory. Phillips will trade out Jeff Fisher's 4-3 defense and implement his 3-4 scheme, which will result in some movement up front.
No matter the scheme, all you need to know about Los Angeles' defense is two words: Aaron. Donald. This guy can play. The 14th overall pick in the 2014 draft is arguably the best player in the league and rightfully so. He's finished #1 among defensive tackles on Pro Football Focus in all three seasons that he's been in the league and was the highest rated defensive player regardless of position last season, even with the Rams turning in one of their worst season in the past decade. The 3-4 defense will force the natural defensive tackle to defensive end, which will only result in Donald obliterating his career-high of 11 sacks. Alongside Donald will be Michael Brockers who will remain as the base package nose tackle and Dominique Easley who will start at the other defensive end position opposite of Donald. All three of these defensive linemen were first round draft picks and have proven why in recent years. Mark Barron and Alec Ogletree are strong candidates at linebacker but need to use this season as an opportunity to live up to their potential.
The defensive backfield is absolutely the biggest question mark for the Rams this year. After losing Rodney McLeod and Janoris Jenkins in the 2015 offseason, they lost TJ McDonald this year and have not done much to fill the void that they left. LaMarcus Joyner, who is coming off his best season and into the final year of his rookie contract, will move from slot cornerback to safety. Aside from Joyney, EJ Gaines, Kayvon Webster and Nickell Robey-Coleman will likely fill out the rest of the Los Angeles secondary.
Final Thoughts For the Rams
It unfortunately looks like another rebuilding year for the Rams who in their new home of Los Angeles are facing extremely high expectations. Most analysts, experts and polls have the Rams winning no more then four games this season, which would match their mark a year ago. That doesn't mean that they have nothing to hang their hat on though. Goff has the size and potential to be a decent quarterback in this league with Sean McVay aiding in his progression. Gurley is a pro bowl-caliber back that will get his stride back if offered the chance to do so. Donald is a powerhouse that if he stays healthy will continue to dominate this league.
And let's not forget about ol' Johnny Hekker. The Rams' punter was debatably their most dangerous offensive weapon last year after setting the NFL record for most punts inside the 20-yard line. So they have that going for them… Which is nice to have.
By Jerry Shumway
Tags: 2017 NFL, Dan Orlovsky, Football, Rams, Sean McVay, Todd Gurley, Wade Phillips
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Hello {{name}}, I am {{virtual_assistant_name}}, virtual assistant of {{company_name}}.

How can I extract this strings inside {{}} and put int into an array?

A: This produces the output required, using a split device I devised when writing a JSON parser.
$s='Hello {{name}}, I am {{virtual_assistant_name}}, virtual assistant of {{company_name}}.';

$a=[];
foreach(explode('}}',$s) as $v) {
    $t=explode('{{',$v);
    if (isset($t[1])) $a[]=$t[1];
}

print_r($a);

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => name
    [1] => virtual_assistant_name
    [2] => company_name
)

Teh playground
It assumes the string is well-formed (i.e. equal number of {{ to }}, and never more of the latter), and doesn't have nesting.
Then explode by }}, and then explode each sub-part by {{. If there are 2 parts, the value exists, and so add it to the array.


Named Best of Culture by the Los Angeles Times, BODYTRAFFIC has been instrumental in establishing Los Angeles as a center for contemporary dance. Their growing repertory is vibrant, inspiring, accessible and challenging to both new audiences and experienced dance enthusiasts. Virtuosic, stylized, confident and with a diverse repertoire of some of the world's most sought-after choreographers, this company has taken its place on the international touring scene, wowing audiences across the world. The stand-out, 10-member ensemble is praised for its confident, hard-hitting execution of a wide range of styles.
Prepare to be enveloped by this company's mastery of their art form and superb technique! With their versatile repertoire, BODYTRAFFIC is internationally recognized as bridging both new audiences and experienced dance enthusiasts with works by today's most distinctive choreographic voices such as Kyle Abraham, Hofesh Shechter, Barak Marshall, Richard Siegal, and Victor Quijada.


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Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline bill
The U.S. President Barack Obama vetoed the Keystone XL pipeline bill Tuesday, reiterating that the decision to build the project belongs to the government.
"Through this bill, the United States Congress attempts to circumvent longstanding and proven processes for determining whether or not building and operating a cross-border pipeline serves the national interest," said Obama in his veto message.
"This act of Congress conflicts with established executive branch procedures and cuts short through consideration of issues that could bear on our national interest, including our security, safety and environment, it has earned my veto," said Obama.
In a statement, U.S. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said: "It's extremely disappointing that President Obama vetoed a bipartisan bill that would support thousands of good jobs and pump billions of dollars into the economy."
The Senate will soon vote on an override no later than March 3, said McConnell.
However, right now the Republicans didn't get a veto-proof majority both in the Senate and the House.
The Keystone XL oil pipeline which is designed to go from Canada through the U.S. State of Montana and South Dakota to Nebraska has been delayed by the U.S. government for several years as the government failed to finish its environmental impact evaluation.
Xinhua - china.org.cn
US President Barack Obama has vetoed a bill that would have approved construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline...
US Senate Likely to Vote on Keystone XL Next Week
US House approves Keystone XL pipeline (266 votes to 153)
US Senate Energy Committee Passes Keystone XL Bill...
The White House says U.S. President Barack Obama would veto legislation approving construction of the long-stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline...
US Senate fails to approve Keystone XL pipeline. (just one vote short of the 60 needed)
US says no significant impact on environment from Keystone pipeline
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UAE must learn from UK's COP26 when it takes climate leadership
With hindsight it seems incredible that, until now, ever since COP1 in 1995 the words "coal" and "fossil fuel" have failed to make the cut in the final reports of any of the Conferences of the Parties to the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change.
That would be like a report by the World Health Organization on the global response to Covid-19 failing to mention the SARS-CoV-2 virus – unthinkable.
As every schoolchild in the world surely knows, the climate-change catastrophe looming over the planet has been generated by the unfettered burning of fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas – since the dawn of the coal-powered Industrial Revolution in the 18th century.
The annual failure of COP delegates to acknowledge the fossilized elephant in the room has, of course, been the product not of ignorance, but of the myriad social and economic pressures, experienced by multiple countries at different stages of development.
Forget elephants, the animal present at every COP for the past quarter of a century has been a giant ostrich, with its head buried deep in the ground. At Glasgow, the ostrich was finally allowed to raise its head, albeit only for a brief peak at reality. Even then, attempts to overthrow King Coal were watered down by last-minute interventions from its loyal subjects, China and India.
What the world needs now, more than anything else, is compelling leadership.
One announcement to come out of Glasgow was that COP28 in 2023 would be staged in the United Arab Emirates, home to the UN-created International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). This isn't the first time the COP roadshow has traveled to the Middle East – in 2012 COP18 was held in Doha – but a decade on the climate-change landscape has changed utterly.
Doha was not insignificant. It was one of a series of dull but necessary COPs that paved the way toward the Paris Agreement in 2015, and it was the first time that developing countries signed up to a legal obligation to reduce their emissions.
The Paris Agreement was to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. To achieve that, the world needs to cut global greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 26 billion metric tons every year between now and 2030. To say that the total emission-reduction pledges scraped together in Glasgow of just over 6 billion tons fell short is to understate the huge gap between ambition and commitment.
It highlights the monumental scale of the challenge for the country presiding over these conferences. That the UK's COP26 president Alok Sharma was almost in tears as he announced the watered-down deal goes some way to illustrate the personal and institutional commitments required by the host.
The kind of leadership needed to rally the world's nations and their disparate interests to commit to an agreement often appears beyond possibility. Then there is the task of making sure the outcomes and expectations of any COP event are stuck to.
The UK had to draw deep on its resources and global leadership experience just to make Glasgow happen. With more than 25,000 delegates descending on the city, the policing bill alone was estimated at the equivalent of more than US$300 million.
The pandemic brought big challenges to hosting the event, but it also gave Sharma's team an extra year to prepare after COP26 was pushed back from 2020. The UK won the bid to host the event in September 2019, but Sharma was only appointed president in January 2020 after Prime Minister Boris Johnson fired his predecessor Claire Perry O'Neill.
The jostling showed the escalating importance placed on the herculean task of cajoling global powers into alignment on saving the planet.
While many have called the COP26 outcomes a failure, Sharma won praise for his balanced leadership that involved building relations with small island states most at risk from rising sea levels while handling tricky meetings with Chinese officials in Beijing.
It is some of these skillsets that the UAE will have to draw upon as it prepares to take the reins in 2023. The Emirates has been entrusted to host the event based on its existing commitments toward the environment and renewable energy, including investing heavily in the new sciences of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), and nuclear energy.
Yet the UAE has more to lose than many countries from the inevitable transition to sustainable fuels, but much more to gain than most in shaping the elements of tomorrow's energy market – and, thanks to its oil and gas revenues, it has the necessary funds to invest in the future today.
But forging its own path is very different to consensus-building between nations with conflicting interests. What lessons can be learned from previous COP hosts and how the UAE can build on their efforts yet bring its own style of leadership is yet to be seen.
Doubtless many voices will be raised protesting that handing control of COP28 to the UAE is akin to asking a fox to beef up the security of a chicken coop. Fingers will also be pointed at comments this week from the group chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) that "the oil and gas industry will have to invest over $600 billion every year … until 2030 … just to keep up with expected demand."
But to express alarm at this is to misunderstand the nature of a global energy system undergoing dramatic change.
None of the world's countries can "simply unplug" abruptly from fossil fuels. The world is recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic and demand for oil and gas is rocketing – in the process creating the essential wealth in the Persian Gulf region necessary to fund and drive the transition to renewables.
For the UAE and countries such as Saudi Arabia, much of the profit being drawn out of the earth now is being plowed directly into the type of research and development that ultimately will save the planet.
The UAE is working hard to curb its own domestic consumption of fossil fuels. Last month, it announced it was aiming for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 – an ambitious target on a par with those of the UK, the US and the European Union.
How? Well, it turns out that oil was not the only economic blessing bestowed on the fossil-fuel-producing countries of the Middle East.
Sunlight is the resource that gives on giving and, in the Gulf, is available for the greatest part of the year. The UAE is already leading the way with domestic solar power plants and investing in solar technology.
COP28 in 2023 will put one of the world's biggest producers of fossil fuels in charge of negotiations to wean the world from its addiction to fossil fuels. It will put the UAE under a global spotlight that will require an exemplary level of leadership and diplomacy if the climate negotiations will continue to move forward.
And as the outcome of the UK meeting demonstrated, progress is incremental.
This article was provided by Syndication Bureau, which holds copyright.
Jonathan Gornall is a British journalist, formerly with The Times, who has lived and worked in the Middle East and is now based in the UK.
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AL Azhᾱr is a research journal of Islamic studies, arts and also covers Arabic literature. Publication policy for the publication in the journal is as given below.
1.	Articles must be original and unpublished in order to be published in the journal.
2.	Articles must be related to Islamic studies and arts in order to be published in Al Azhᾱr.
3.	Articles would be reviewed by two approved reviewers (national and international) and rules and regulations of HEC would be followed in this regard.
4.	Decision of editorial board would be final regarding publication of an article.
5.	Al Azhᾱr reserves the right to do necessary editing, addition and delition.
6.	Received articles would be considered right of Al Azhᾱr. therefore, articles would not be returned either published or not published.
1.	Writer must mention his/ her name, designation, address, contact number and email address etc.
2.	Soft copy of the article must be emailed.
3.	Abstract of 150 to 200 words must be given in English.
4.	References must be given in continuous serial at the end of the article according to the following sample.
• Urdu article should be in Jameel Noori ,Arabic article Traditional Arabic font and English article MS Word format, in English Time New Roman.
• Title article (Urdu and Arabic) 16 font sizes in the middle and English should be 12 font Time New Roman.
• Author (s) full name, university or research center designation etc. 12, font size and be in the middle.
• Maximum number of authors per article is two. Furthermore, an article should consist of 15 to 20 pages.
The Agriculture University of Peshawar.


o Decido Cómo Recibo is an initiative to help consumers to exercise their right to choose the format in which they receive bills and bank statements and to defend the rights of a category of society at risk of exclusion.
to check your accounts and bills.
In recent years, utility companies, banks and government departments have been on a mission to replace paper bills and notices with electronic communication, sometimes imposing a unilateral change of format without taking consumers' habits, preferences and customs into consideration.
Consumer organisations and other bodies and social actors are concerned about this state of affairs and believe that across-the-board imposition of digital communication is an infringement of consumers' rights.
The Yo Decido Cómo Recibo is the result of open dialogue between civil society organisations and the private sectors which are willing to join forces to uphold consumers' rights to choose the way they receive bills and statements that best suits their individual needs and circumstances.
Spanish Act 3/2014, of 27 March 2014, modifying the Consolidated Text of the General Act for the Protection of Consumers and Users and other complementary regulations gave consumers the right to receive paper bills at no additional cost, making electronic billing conditional on obtaining the consumer's consent (Section 63).
Given the current widespread ignorance of this situation, Yo Decido Cómo Recibo intends to publicise these rights and to offer advice to both consumers and companies and organisations interested in fostering transparency and upholding consumers' right to transparent communication.
THE RIGHT TO A FREE CHOICE of how consumers receive bills and bank statements Only you know which format best suits your needs. Only you should be able to take the decision without being penalised.
Only you know which format best suits your needs.
• This was labelled an "abusive" practice by the Instituto Nacional de Consumo (currently AECOSAN) in a decision published in 2013.
• Companies and banks are encouraging consumers to switch to digital billing arrangements on environmental grounds when, in most cases, the benefits are not justified by scientific studies.
• Many consumers disagree with these billing practices, which they see as an underhand way of saving and cost-cutting, given that the consumer often ends up having to print the bill at home.
• According to the Bank of Spain, direct debit is the most common method payment used ahead of credit cards, bank transfers and personal cheques.
• The ability to check accounts and bills is particularly crucial in a country where most bills are paid automatically.


Here we highlight selected innovation related articles from around the world on a daily basis. These articles related to innovation and funding for innovative companies, and best practices for innovation based economic development.
Fred Wilson blogged this morning about the bad policy in Senator Dodd's financial system regulatory reform bill that would make it harder for startups to raise seed financing from angels. Fred put it in the context of public policy concerns generally that impact startups, including immigration reform, software patents, net neutrality and open spectrum.
I'll [William Carleton] just speak here to Dodd's bill. As currently drafted, Dodd's bill would hurt seed financing for startups in two ways: (1) it would require the SEC to raise the net worth and income level thresholds needed to meet the "accredited investor" definition, and (2) it would end federal preemption of "all accredited" offerings, so that every state in the country would be permitted to regulate such offerings, even though they already met the federal requirements. See this post on Seattle 2.0 for a good overview of the current law and how federal preemption of state law in this area makes sense. Suffice it to say here that Dodd's bill, as written, could knock many angels out of the startup ecosystem, and would certainly greatly increase legal fees and costs for financings (perhaps even make modest seed financings not do-able at all where investors may be from different states).
Bendis agrees with William Carleton"s Position that raising the SEC "Accredited Investor" definition would reduce the number of angel investors in America, and reduce the number of early stage financing's for promising high risk, high growth entrepreneurs that are already dealing with a significant funding "Valley of Death and are dependent on angels to fill the Venture Capital void. Bendis recommends that NASVF, ACA, NASBIC and NVCA all work together on educating members of Congress, regarding the financing challenges in the U.S. and unless the Federal Government intends to address the Valley of Death, everyone needs to do more to encourage accredited angel investors to continue thier investing in entrepreneurial small businesses, which are critical to creating jobs and helping America recover from this economic recession.
With unemployment north of 10 percent, there is renewed interest in a job creation agenda. But many of the proposals put forth to date overlook two key sources of job growth going forward: exports and innovation. An increase in sales from exports creates twice as many jobs as a dollar in sales from domestic demand, and jobs in technology firms can spur greater multipliers, creating even more jobs. Moreover, exporting firms pay 9 percent more than jobs in firms that export less while jobs in technology industries pay 90 percent more than other jobs. This ITIF WebMemo proposes nine ideas that can drive not only job growth in the short run, but competitiveness and innovation in the long run.
Expand funding for trade enforcement at USTR.
Temporarily expand funding for federal and state export assistance programs.
Provide incentives for companies bringing back work from offshore to high unemployment areas.
Provide a bonus R&D tax credit for 2010 and 2011.
Allow IT investments to be expensed in 2010.
Provide $500 million to universities that invest in needed research infrastructure in 2010.
Allocate $1 billion for grants to support private sector researchers to take 18 month sabbaticals in universities or federal laboratories.
Provide funding of $2 billion to state economic development agencies to help high-growth businesses start and grow.
Dr. Karl Ulrich spoke to me after his Wharton Talk at Supernova on the subject of Innovation Tournaments (which is also the title of his most recent book.) He describes innovation tournaments, and how companies are already using this format to help find more ideas that can be funneled and used to drive new products and services. The key is generating as many ideas as possible at the top of the funnel. Interestingly enough, Innovation Tournaments and American Idol have common elements, leading to a discussion of Kelly Clarkson versus Sanjaya.
This report shows how three metropolitan areas—Portland (OR), Kansas City, and Boise—became centers of high technology industry without the presence of a major university. For each metropolitan area it describes the history of high-tech development, current status of high-tech industry clusters, and the roles that public policy and higher education played in spurring the growth of high-tech industry. In the three metropolitan areas high-tech industry is very specialized, anchor firms and new business startups helped it develop, high-tech industry predated supportive public policies, and local universities that were not major research institutions helped support high-tech growth after high-tech industry was already established. The evidence on high-tech development in the three metropolitan areas offers important information for policymakers and practitioners interested in technology-based economic development outside of large, well-established high tech centers.
As California's second most famous open innovation scholar — a distant second — I sometimes get emails from people asking about open innovation topics. This week a couple of visitors came from Japan to pick my brain, and we got talking about various open innovation topics, including markets for IP and innovation.
One question I'd heard before was "how is open innovation practiced in Silicon Valley?" It's been my impression that the various Chesbrough books on open innovation had less of an impact on Silicon Valley than almost anywhere else. Yes, HP created an "Open Innovation Office," but that's just a new name (and broader responsibilities) for the existing university relations staff.
A top official at the European Commission has signalled an important change in the EU's attitude towards innovation that will highlight the role of creativity and design. The new approach could see a shift away from support for high-tech companies and towards new 'creative clusters' of design firms, business support services and progressive regions.
It may also form the nucleus of a European Innovation Act, pledged by commission President José Manuel Barroso by the spring of next year. Some clues to the commission's thinking have now been revealed in a speech by Jean-Noël Durvy, Director of Innovation Policy at the Brussels enterprise department, as reported by the Brussels-based news service Euractiv.
While the politicians fiddle in Copenhagen, many believe the only way to solve the global warming problem is to take radical, creative new steps, deploying new technologies to tweak the temperature.
Over the past few years scientists have offered up some extreme measures — from carbon-capturing rocks to space nets — that could solve the crisis. Some focus on reducing or capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which trap the heat on Earth, while other solutions are aimed at cooling the planet by preventing some of the sun's rays from hitting its surface.
International plans to combat global warming by switching to low-carbon energy technology have been handicapped by the world financial crisis, according to new figures seen by The Sunday Times.
The data will be worrying for world leaders who tomorrow begin nearly two weeks of talks in Copenhagen to hammer out a new global agreement to cut carbon emissions.
According to New Energy Finance (NEF), the research firm, funding for clean energy schemes this year will fall to $125 billion (£75 billion), down nearly a fifth from last year. The drop ends seven years of growth in which global low-carbon funding soared from $22 billion in 2002 to $155 billion last year. The decrease would have been even greater had the world's governments not stepped in to support the sector with billions in economic stimulus cash.
There's a lot of action taking place in Barbados - all with the goals of boosting economic development and reducing business failures.
With these objectives as targets, the Barbados Entrepreneurs' Venture Capital Fund started late last month to encourage the island's investments market and entrepreneurs.
And Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson immediately encouraged the economic bandwagon by announcing that his government will guarantee for the principal amount invested in the fund.
When should companies try to come up with new ideas themselves—and when should they give the job to outside experts?
It's a question many companies are facing these days. As budgets tighten, businesses are outsourcing research and development and the creation of new products as a way to slash costs, speed development time and tap into top talent outside the company.
In the bicoastal battle for biotechnology executive talent, score three for the Bay State.
The region has picked up at least three new biotech CEOs from the San Francisco Bay Area in the past few months. All are the first full-time CEOs for their startups, and all said they were looking for companies with game-changing new technologies.


On the day-break of US mid-term election results, another key cabinet member has gotten the shock of his life in the two-year and few- months-old President Donald Trump administration.
President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday after a yearlong public shaming campaign that raised questions about whether the president improperly interfered with the Justice Department's inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Trump, who requested Sessions' resignation, named Matthew Whitaker to serve as interim attorney general. Whitaker was Sessions' chief of staff and had been considered for a variety of jobs in the Trump administration, including the No. 2 post at Justice or as White House counsel.
In September, Trump took his criticism to a new level when he appeared to completely disassociate Sessions with the administration, including Sessions' border enforcement efforts. "I don't have an attorney general. It's very sad," Trump said then.
The departure of Sessions has been expected for weeks, yet the move immediately exposed new divisions between the president and many Republican lawmakers who regard Sessions as a champion of the conservative movement.
Laser-focused on Sessions' decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, Trump has savaged him in interviews, tweets, and press conferences as "beleaguered" and often expressing "disappointment" in his attorney general.
In his new role, Whitaker also will oversee special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, prompting fears among Democratic lawmakers that Trump was seeking to derail the inquiry as it nears an end.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who had been overseeing Mueller's investigation until Whitaker's appointment, was at the White House on Wednesday afternoon for a meeting, though he remained in his job. He was among those in an entourage of Justice leaders who accompanied Sessions as he exited the department for the last time Wednesday night.
An emotional Sessions clasped hands with Rosenstein and Whitaker, waved at a hastily gathered crowd in the department's courtyard, then climbed in the backseat of a black SUV with his security detail for the ride home.
Sessions joined Rex Tillerson, Secretary to State; Anthony Scaramucci, White House Director of Communications; Michael Flynn- Chief Security Officer; Kelly Sadler- Special Assistant to the President (Office of Communications); Steve Bannon- White House Chief Strategist and Reince Priebus- White House Chief of Staff.
Others who tasted the bitter pill were John F. Kelly- secretary of Homeland security and Mike Pompeo, director of Central Intelligence Agency who resigned their plum positions, among others.
Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Interior, Department of Justice, Department of Treasury, Department of Veteran Affairs and Central Intelligence Agency and Independent agencies have had their share of travail in the web of resignations or sacks.


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import demistomock as demisto  # noqa: F401
from CommonServerPython import *  # noqa: F401

import dateutil.relativedelta

THRESHOLDS = {
    'numberofincidentswithmorethan500entries': 300,
    'numberofincidentsbiggerthan1mb': 300,
}
DESCRIPTION = [
    'Too many incidents with high number of war room entries were found, consider to use quite mode in task settings',
    'Large incidents were found, consider to use quite mode in task settings and delete unneeded Context'
]
RESOLUTION = [
    'Playbook Settings: https://xsoar.pan.dev/docs/playbooks/playbook-settings',
    'Extending Context and Ignore Outputs: https://xsoar.pan.dev/docs/playbooks/playbooks-extend-context'
]

def format_dict_keys(entry: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict:
    new_entry = {}
    for key, value in entry.items():
        if key == 'Size(MB)':
            new_entry['size'] = f'{value} MB'
        elif key == 'AmountOfEntries':
            new_entry['info'] = f'{value} Entries'
        else:
            new_entry[key.lower()] = value
    new_entry.pop('size(mb)', None)
    return new_entry

def formatToEntriesGrid(table):
    for entry in table:
        entry['amountofentries'] = entry['info']

def main(args):
    thresholds = args.get('Thresholds', THRESHOLDS)
    append = args.get('Append', 'False')
    prev_month = datetime.today() + dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(months=-1)
    current_month = datetime.today()
    res = execute_command('GetLargestInvestigations', {
        'from': prev_month.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'),
        'to': current_month.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'),
        'table_result': 'true',
        'ignore_deprecated': 'true'
    })

    incidentsbiggerthan1mb = []
    incidentswithmorethan500entries = []

    for incident in res['data']:
        formatted_incident = format_dict_keys(incident)
        if incident['AmountOfEntries'] >= 500:
            incidentswithmorethan500entries.append(formatted_incident)
            continue
        incidentsbiggerthan1mb.append(formatted_incident)

    numberofincidentsbiggerthan1mb = len(incidentsbiggerthan1mb)
    numberofincidentswithmorethan500entries = len(incidentswithmorethan500entries)
    if incidentswithmorethan500entries:
        formatToEntriesGrid(incidentswithmorethan500entries)

    analyzeFields = {
        'healthchecklargeinvestigations': incidentsbiggerthan1mb,
        'healthchecknumberofinvestigationsbiggerthan1mb': numberofincidentsbiggerthan1mb,
        'healthcheckincidentslargenumberofentries': incidentswithmorethan500entries
    }

    if append == 'False':
        demisto.executeCommand('setIncident', analyzeFields)
    else:
        incident = demisto.incidents()
        prevData = incident[0].get('CustomFields', {}).get('healthchecklargeinvestigations')
        prevData.extend(analyzeFields.get("healthchecklargeinvestigations", []))
        demisto.executeCommand('setIncident', analyzeFields)

    action_items = []
    if numberofincidentswithmorethan500entries > int(thresholds['numberofincidentswithmorethan500entries']):
        action_items.append({
            'category': 'DB Analysis',
            'severity': 'High',
            'description': DESCRIPTION[0],
            'resolution': '{}'.format(RESOLUTION[0]),
        })

    if numberofincidentsbiggerthan1mb > thresholds['numberofincidentsbiggerthan1mb']:
        action_items.append({
            'category': 'DB Analysis',
            'severity': 'High',
            'description': DESCRIPTION[1],
            'resolution': '{}\n{}'.format(RESOLUTION[0], RESOLUTION[1]),
        })

    results = CommandResults(
        outputs_prefix='dbstatactionableitems',
        outputs=action_items)

    return results

if __name__ in ('__main__', '__builtin__', 'builtins'):  # pragma: no cover
    return_results(main(demisto.args()))

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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41st President of the United States: 1989 ‐ 1993
Remarks at a White House Tree-Planting Ceremony
Thank you, Secretary Yeutter, Bill Reilly, and Chairman Deland, to Senators Lugar and Leahy and Congressman Kika de la Garza, the chairman also in the House Ag Committee, and distinguished Members of Congress here. I want to single out two other special friends, pioneers in this greening effort, tree planting: Trammell Crow and Margaret [Crow] from Dallas, Texas. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen -- Irv, I haven't forgotten you. Irv Williams, who was introduced by Clayt, really does so much to just keep the White House grounds beautiful. And we're indebted to him every single day that we have custodianship of this lovely house. Welcome to all of you to an event which celebrates how trees can preserve and protect our great outdoors.
I want to talk just a little about the precious inheritance of trees passed from one generation to another. We see it in the great ebonies of India or the sequoias in California, the lush rainforests of South America and the evergreens of the Alps. Their very presence demands that we renew and restore the natural beauty of our land. Trees do enhance our atmosphere, providing oxygen and absorbing carbon dioxide. A tree planted today can enrich the lives of generations yet unborn.
Just think, on these grounds stands a tree planted by John Quincy Adams in 1826. Nearby is the spot where Woodrow Wilson's family so loved bay trees that they often ate lunch in a makeshift grove. And not far from here is the little-leaf linden planted in 1937 by Franklin Roosevelt for Britain's King George VI. Next to the Oval Office -- there you'll find an oak tree planted by President Eisenhower. There's a swing on it. You can almost see it, over past that Suburban over there. Often our grandchild swings on it, and I expect in the future many other grandchildren of Presidents will do the same.
Trees are truly an inheritance that links generations of America. Last summer a terrible windstorm swept through Washington. I remember thinking of these trees around us and the link they provide. Truth is that Barbara and I were a little worried about them -- Grover Cleveland's Japanese spiderleaf, for instance, or Herbert Hoover's oak. They're old trees, and maybe I'm beginning to feel an affinity for them with my birthday coming up, but nevertheless, they're special. For instance, the magnolia over there was planted by Andrew Jackson -- the one next to the South Portico.
Thankfully, the trees here weren't damaged in that storm. Elsewhere in Washington, it was a different story: a lot of people out the next morning surveying the damage, mourning the loss of a favorite oak or an elm, regarding it with concern and affection, just as you would view a friend.
Trees can be fragile, they can be sturdy, but they are always precious. So, in the budget I submitted to Congress, I asked for $175 million to plant 1 billion trees a year. Today I'm asking Congress to approve another step to protect the environment. We call it the National Tree Trust Act of 1990. It will foster the partnership between public and private sectors to plant trees all across America.
Under our plan, we will designate a private nonprofit foundation to receive a one-time Federal grant to promote community tree planting and cultivation projects -- a foundation to solicit contributions from private sources, forging cooperation between individuals, businesses, governments, and community organizations. It will sound a nationwide call for each American to become a volunteer for the environment and, most of all, plant the trees that clean our air, prevent erosion, consume carbon dioxide, and purify our water. This act can preserve the heritage of trees -- their beauty that is breathtaking and their bounty that is breathgiving.
As you can imagine, the foundation's funding won't simply come out of the woodwork. In addition to the $35 million in Federal money we're proposing, the foundation will begin to raise millions of dollars more to help reforest America. The Tree Trust Act will work by using State forestry agencies and private tree-planting organizations -- volunteers helping thousands of new volunteers to learn not only how and where to plant trees but how to care for them, why we need them, and how they help the environment. Our foundation will be one of a Thousand Points of Light, creating 10 billion trees of life. By planting trees in all 50 States, we'll knock Johnny Appleseed out of the Guinness Book of Records.
The National Tree Trust Act of 1990 is a key part of our national tree-planting and forest improvement initiative to be administered by the Ag Department. This two-part program involves both rural areas as well as local tree-planting programs in the cities. And it, in turn, is crucial to my America the Beautiful program, which I announced in the State of the Union.
I am proud of America the Beautiful. It will help maintain and expand our parks, wildlife refuges, forests, and public lands. I do love the outdoors, and I love exploring it with those who are the trustees of our future.
What we're doing today is planting the seeds of environmental stewardship, and that means not only planting trees but other steps just as vital -- clean air, for example. Our clean air proposal promises relief from the smog, acid rain, and toxic pollution that harms trees and people. Once again, I call on the Congress to pass the bill. We're also working hard on energy efficiency and pollution prevention, clean oceans, global cooperation. Just as a tree grows, with roots and branches spreading, our efforts on all these issues will reach into the future.
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, perhaps America's greatest conservationist, Teddy Roosevelt, put it best when he called our lands and wildlife the property of unborn generations and when he said this about America's sequoias and redwoods: they "should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral."
Today ours is the chance to keep that cathedral great and beautiful by planting not only sequoias and redwoods but poplars and maples and cypress and sassafras. And I can't think of a better time to begin than this spring, the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. Teddy Roosevelt would have loved that one.
Four weeks from now we'll celebrate it, but I thought we'd get a head start this morning. And so, I'm pleased to be able to join Barbara as she plants this eastern redbud blossoming tree in a few minutes. By comparison to other trees, it seems small today. But so, years ago, did the special tree beside me. My kids were the age of some of you when it, too, was planted by President Eisenhower. And when you're my age, Barbara's tree can be just as strong, embody just as much history, do just as much to ensure the splendor of America.
Trees are an inheritance precious to our cathedral of the outdoors. So, just look around us, and in that context, let me thank again Irv Williams -- thank you, sir -- and all the people of the White House grounds staff for the tender loving care they gave to our trees and flowers.
So, let us plant the trees and nurture them so that America will remain America the Beautiful for generations to come.
I am very pleased that all of you came today. And now, with no further ado, let's get on with the tree planting.
Note: The President spoke at 11 a.m. on the South Grounds of the White House. In his opening remarks, he referred to William K. Reilly, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; Michael R. Deland, Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality; and Irvin Williams, Superintendent of Grounds at the White House.
George Bush, Remarks at a White House Tree-Planting Ceremony Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/264902


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Bob Dole: Former Republican US Senate leader and war veteran dies aged 98 | US News
Bob Dole, who overcame severe combat wounds to become a senior figure in US politics, has died at the age of 98.
The long-time Republican senator from Kansas, who was his party's unsuccessful 1996 presidential nominee, was known for a wit that ranged from self-deprecating to caustic.
Mr Dole announced in February that he had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer and would begin treatment.
"It is with heavy hearts we announce that Senator Robert Joseph Dole died early this morning," the Elizabeth Dole Foundation said in a statement on Twitter.
"He had served the United States of America faithfully for 79 years."
Mr Dole during his bid to become president in 1996
He sought the presidency three times and was the Republican Party's nominee in 1996, but lost to Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton.
Mr Dole was his party's vice presidential nominee in 1976 on a ticket headed by incumbent President Gerald Ford, but they lost to Democrat Jimmy Carter and his running mate Walter Mondale.
Known for referring to himself in the third person, he lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s and the World War Two battlefields to the corridors of power.
He represented Kansas in Congress for 35 years: 1961 to 1969 in the House of Representatives, and 1969 to 1996 in the Senate.
Mr Dole helped shepherd Republican President Ronald Reagan's legislative agenda as Senate majority leader in the 1980s, and spearheaded important legislation of his own.
He helped shape tax and foreign policy, while accessible government offices, national parks, pavement ramps, and the sign-language interpreters at official local events are just some of the more visible hallmarks of his legacy.
Donald Trump says new social media company has raised $1bn | Science & Tech News


Feeling down from time to time is perfectly normal and most of us recognise when a drop in our mood can signal when things are getting difficult at home, at work or in our relationships. Trying to stay positive and optimistic has some obvious benefits but we can't always feel better just by thinking positive thoughts. That's why looking after your mental health and well-being is every bit as important as staying physically fit. Being aware of the signs can help you to avoid spiralling down into depression. Even if you have become depressed recovery can be always be helped with professional support and guidance.
The feelings associated with severe depression are much more serious than the general ups and downs we encounter everyday. Depression is a real and debilitating illness that can undermine our ability to function normally. It has a corrosive affect that eats away at our confidence and self-worth darkening our view of the world around us. It undermines all of the things we would normally gain pleasure from.
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Depression puts a negative slant on the way we see ourselves in the present and the predictions we make for our future. Left unchecked it can cause our mood to sink further and further downward allowing negative thoughts to build on each other making it even harder to get back to a more balanced sense of well-being. Without help we can begin to feel that things will never get better. But the thing we really can't see when we're depressed is that the feelings are likely to be temporary. Even if feels like you've had depression for a long time it's unlikely that you will always feel this way. There is usually something keeping depression in place and preventing it from being resolved. Finding out what is maintaining our low mood can be hard to do on our own.
For some the feelings that come with depression can be so bad that they cannot easily be put into words. Instead sufferers may use images like "being in a black hole" or feeling "like being under a huge weight" or "in a "pit of despair" to try to convey the extent of their pain and anguish. If you're experiencing depression it may be that images like these dominate your thoughts and feelings or maybe you just feel anxious and disconnected or just "numb". You may have tried talking to friends and family but are worried that you might end up burdening them with your difficulties or risk upsetting them by hearing how bad things are for you. Depression can make it seem like no one will ever truly understand what we're going through. If this happens we might resort to "bottling it up" and withdrawing from the people around us and we can find ourselves staying indoors or in bed for long periods of time. In the short term this may be a way of coping but in time cutting yourself off will simply add to the feelings of isolation and hopelessness. Trying to struggle on alone with depression is never a good idea. If any of this sounds familiar you really shouldn't go on suffering alone - now is the time for you to get some professional help.
When we feel depressed talking things over in counselling is one of the most helpful things we can do for ourselves. Having someone to turn to who genuinely wants to help can be a tremendous relief. People who have had counselling often say how much it helped them to get over their problems and feel much happier and positive. Good counselling is never about telling you what you should think or do. Instead it has much more to do with the connection and understanding that is created between yourself and your counsellor. Being heard and understood is a really important part of counselling. For me it's about trying to truly imagine what it must be like for you feeling depressed or anxious and just how lonely that must be. Knowing that there is someone you can turn to who cares about your experiences can help you to feel less alone and give you the care and support you need to recover.
Being able to recognise the early signs of depression is the first step towards overcoming it. But because we're all different and the symptoms of depression can vary from person to person it may not be so easy to spot the signs for ourselves. Generally though, if you're feeling persistently sad or have feelings of hopelessness you may begin to recognise that something is wrong for you. If you see yourself losing interest in the things that you usually enjoy or are spending large amounts of your time on your own with only negative thoughts for company this can be a strong indicator that you are suffering from depression.
If you experience some of the symptoms below for most of the day, every day for more than two weeks, it may be that you are suffering from depression. If you have concerns about your health and well-being you should always consider seeking help from your GP.
Depression can come on gradually, so it can be difficult to notice something is wrong. Many people continue to try to cope with their symptoms without realising they are ill.
A combination of GP prescribed medication and talking therapies can help you to overcome the debilitating affects of depression. One of the most successful approaches is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy which helps by encouraging us to recognize unhelpful thoughts and behaviours.
If you are feeling depressed there is no need to suffer alone. Please feel free to contact me to discuss how I can help you to get your life back on track.


An independent charity that supports blind and partially sighted people in the district of Eden (including Penrith, Appleby and Alston).
They are stockist of specialist products to buy or loan to help you in your daily life. They also hold special exhibitions of equipment and support people with home visits and help with grants as well as having a library of talking books available.
They also host up to six social events each year, including a subsidised Christmas lunch.


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Q: Kaniko failing to build docker image extracting tar from stdin I am attempting to build a docker image through kaniko in our jenkins pipeline using the following command:
/kaniko/executor -f `pwd`/Dockerfile \
                        -c `pwd` \
                        --insecure=true \
                        --insecure-registry=docker-registry.default:5000 \
                        --cache=true \
                        --cache-repo=docker-registry.default:5000/${REPOSITORY} \
                        --destination ${REPOSITORY}:${VERSION}

when running the following step
RUN apk add --update --no-cache ca-certificates tar openssh && \
    curl -L --output - https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-helm/helm-v2.13.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz | tar xvz && \
    mv linux-amd64/helm /usr/bin/helm && \
    chmod +x /usr/bin/helm && \
    rm -rf linux-amd64 && \
    rm -f /var/cache/apk/*

I get the following error
gzip: invalid magic
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
error building image: error building stage: failed to execute command: waiting for process to exit: exit status 2

This used to work a while ago, but it no longer works now.


It's no tip that McDonald's has been struggling. At a time when specialization is increasingly critical in a food business, a code has opted for breadth, charity all underneath a moon: hamburgers, salads, yogurt parfaits and imagination duck wraps. And it hasn't worked. In fact, that's putting it mildly.
Each time McDonald's has announced how many income it's making, a organisation has been forced to share an annoying truth: Americans are eating reduction and reduction of a hamburgers, duck nuggets and French fries. The slight became so consistently joyless that McDonald's motionless to quit pity monthly opening information altogether in March.
But all of that seems to be changing: For a initial time in a prolonged time, McDonald's is thrilled to tell everybody how it's doing.
On Monday, McDonald's said that same-store sales (those open for during slightest 13 months) increased by 5.7 percent in a final 3 months of 2015, some-more than twice what analysts had expected. The large burst is the largest a company has reported in roughly 4 years.
The news comes on a heels of a vital benefaction by a fast-food chain, that is no coincidence. For years, adoring fans pleaded with McDonald's to extend a breakfast menu over a stream 10:30 a.m. cutoff. For nearly as long, a fast-food behemoth shrugged off a ask, observant it doesn't have a ability to make breakfast and all else during a same time. But this October, McDonald's finally gave in, similar to offer Egg McMuffins and other breakfast transport from open to close. And the greeting has been overwhelmingly positive.
In some ways, a evident success of all-day breakfast is a reminder of one of McDonald's biggest follies: a inability to see itself what for what it is. Rather than embrace what a fans venerate it for many — a place that serves hamburgers, French fries, duck nuggets, and yes, an awfully renouned breakfast menu — McDonald's attempted to turn something other than itself, expanding a menu, mostly with salads, wraps and other healthier though also some-more costly fare, to impersonate new competitors.
The Chipotles and Shake Shacks of a fast-food universe have managed to sell pricier food, during slightest in part, since of their organisation with suggestive trends in a food universe that prioritize good food over inexpensive food. But it's a many harder pitch at cheap burger chains, that people revisit for a remit from their (hopefully) healthier dietary regimen, rather than a pointer that they could be eating something better. It's no fluke that fast-food chain Sonic has flourished by accepting what it is, while McDonald's has struggled by doing usually a opposite.
The chain's re-energized business can also be seen as a covenant to the enduring recognition of a Egg McMuffin, arguably a many iconic breakfast sandwich in a world. The affordable egg sandwich, that was initial served in a early 1970s, caught on so fast that it helped popularize a whole breakfast sandwich category. But it hasn't been replaced. Today, direct for it is such that the chain buys more than 2 billion eggs per year in a United States alone, or roughly 5 percent of all eggs constructed in a country.
Since Easterbook became McDonald's CEO final March, he has shown that he's willing to not usually listen to though also mind requests from a fast-food chain's customers. The introduction of all-day breakfast is maybe a best example, though during his brief stint, he has already also condensed a McDonald's menu and announced skeleton to switch to cage-free eggs and antibiotic-free duck in a United States, among other things.
Tristano reminds that it's too early to tell either a many enlivening gain in years is a pointer of things to come. The genuine exam will be what happens in a rest of 2016, and beyond. The fad around all-day breakfast, and Egg McMuffins specifically, competence not last, that even Easterbrook certified to investors this morning. But a pierce has set an critical precedent.
When markets non-stop Monday, McDonald's shares were adult 3 percent on a news, though finished a day adult reduction than 1 percent. Despite a company's new struggles, its stock is during a nearby all-time high.


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Doyle and Vita of Haynes Management, Inc. handle 16,288 s/f in six leases
February 12, 2015 - Front Section
40 Grove Street - Wellesley, MA
Vida Doyle, Haynes Management, Inc.
The Haynes Management, Inc. brokerage team of Vida Doyle and Michael Hoban recently represented two landlords in six transactions totaling 16,288 s/f in Wellesley. Two of the new leases were at 40 Grove St., bringing the building to full occupancy. The four other deals were at 65 Walnut St. and bring the total occupancy to 92%.
Two of the new tenant's include:
* Miyares and Harrington LLP leased space at 40 Grove St., Suite 190 - Formed in 1988, Miyares and Harrington is dedicated to the practice of law in the public interest and concentrates its professional work in municipal, land use, litigation and related areas of law for over 25 years.
* Wellesley Pediatric Speech Therapy and Wellesley Pediatric Occupational Therapy leased space at 65 Walnut St. The practice provides evaluations and treatment for children ages 9 months to 18 years with a variety of developmental and medical diagnoses.
Haynes Management is a real estate management, leasing and development company that specializes in commercial office properties in the western suburbs of Boston, and in southern New Hampshire. Haynes manages 48 office properties and 3 retail properties that total over one million s/f of commercial space. Most of their properties have been designed to accommodate tenants that require 1,000 s/f to 10,000 s/f.


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Hunt your baroque past. 60x 100 cm.
About the necessity of books.
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The 'early birds' are the first ones to attend, the early wakers. We present two exclusive premieres for Hofesh Shechter and Peter Brook's new creations. Both shows are available online, and for sale till Sunday, March 18th with a special price, dedicated to all those are 'already awakening'.
The promotion is valid for online purchase only. You can buy a maximum of two tickets until March 18th or availability.
«A wild waltz for the end of time», as defined by The Guardian, Grand Finale is the 'grand' Hofesh Shechter's comeback at Romaeuropa Festival. Ten musicians and six dancers involved into an apocalyptic piece.
PANORAMA, the Motus' Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò latest production, questions people's motion and migration together with research on post-nationalistic identity.


Hi, I love your Thesauruses.
Here's a little bit about sculptors. Most don't do it for a living.
I was very good at sculpting in college, however, I didn't carry it because… What do you do with the items you make? Where do you store them? They take up a lot of room. You can't sell them all unless you're The Hot Artist of The Year, and that can take years of hard work/hard sell. I went on to do well with watercolor, easier to store the unsold items.
Another side of sculpting: I worked as a dental lab technician for 12 years. Lab techs make the crowns (caps) and bridges the dentist orders for a patient. I was very good at sculpting porcelain teeth due to my talent in sculpting. I have good spacial discernment. I made a good steady income with benefits.
Christy, this is great information to have. Anyone interested in sculpting could definitely use this info :).
Wow, I've always wondered how to discern between those terms. I felt there was a differenct–sort of like between a ship and a boat–but could never find a definitive separation between them. Thank you!
Another interesting addition to our writer's arsenal, thanks to you.
In my forthcoming novel, The Parody, I have a weird character who sculpts. I was interested in your choice of sculptors possible personality traits. Thick-skinned? I am not sure how you came to this idea? It may be useful to note that, when cast in plaster, any carving of the figure (often detail demands it) is a risk to health. Plaster dust is carginogenic.
By thick-skinned, I mean that they have to be able to take criticism :). I think that a successful sculptor, or anyone in the arts, really, needs to be thick-skinned in order to endure all the criticism that comes with sharing one's work with the public.
Interesting about the male hermits! I know several female sculptures and they are all gregarious, but maybe they have to be in the modern world.
Well, this is my perception only based on what I've seen portrayed in books and movies. The stereotypes may not be true (and they often aren;t). The reason we chose to list these tropes is to remind writers how these types are typically portrayed, so we can break out of the stereotype and come up with characters who are unique and original :).
Yes! Thank you! My MC is a retired sculptor, and I needed the extra information on it.