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Imagine the scene: you wake up, go for a swim. Eat a super healthy breakfast, then bask in the sunshine on the beach before heading off for a 1 to 1 Pilates class. You grab some lunch, then go to your massage appointment, then grab dinner with friends under the stars. It's not even a holiday I'm talking about here; it's your home. How is it possible without winning the lottery, you ask? Well, through the magic of timeshares at top wellness resorts.
New studies indicate that wellness resorts are in high demand. Features such as health spas and relaxation treatments have always been desirable for many travellers, but now people are demanding more experiences, such as yoga classes in beautiful settings, meditation sessions, psychotherapy and alternative medical services. Many resorts have picked up on this trend, and are offering those dedicated to being the best they can be the choice of extending their wellness retreats beyond a week or two once a year, thanks to time sharing options.
We've assembled a list of five of the best wellness resorts with timeshare ownership options that could literally change your life for the best.
1. Vilalara Longevity Resort, Portugal
When it comes to being thorough about checking your health, nobody does it better than Vilalara. This resort/spa/residence caters mainly to elites from the Gulf, Russia and Europe and offers services such as physiotherapy, osteopathy, nutrition and full body checks. In addition, you'll find thalassotherapy services, tennis courts, various swimming pools and a fully equipped spa and gym, all set in a stunning cove on the Algarve coast.
2. Le Blanc Spa Resort
This five-star resort offers a wellness experience in their award-winning BlancSpa that both deeply relaxes and revives. Their super intense Day of Spa experience lasts nearly three hours and includes a full top-to-toe body service that involves hydrotherapy tubs, massages and wraps. All of this takes place on the stunning Mayan Riviera, which is not only lush with tropical forests and white, sandy beaches, but is also rich in Mayan history.
3. Ritz-Carlton Club, St. Thomas
As any luxury lover knows, the Ritz-Carlton is a brand that's famous for sophisticated luxury and discretion. In addition to elegant accommodation, this Caribbean property offers an array of services and activities that encourage optimal wellness and relaxation. Listen to the sound of the ocean as you're massaged and decompressed by expert hands; get into the best shape of your life in the state-of-the-art fitness center under the guidance of personal trainers who offer innovative fitness classes that range from yoga to HIIT.
4. Grand Mayan Riviera Maya
Want to look gorgeous all the time? The Brio Spa & Salon will groom you to perfection at this residential resort on the Riviera Maya. Timeshare owners can also enjoy the solitude of private casitas, where local plant life, the sound of the sea and fresh air immerse the senses into the joys of nature. There's a hydrotherapy annex as well, which somewhat resembles ancient Roman bath houses, incorporating traditional Old World remedies that have been in use for thousands of years. Challenge your nerves with cold plunge tubs and open your breathing passages up in unique salt therapy cabins, the first of their kind in Mexico.
5. Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta
Sometimes, the best path to wellness is making a contribution towards something bigger than yourself. And Mexico's luxurious Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta resort offers the opportunity to volunteer to contribute towards improving the gorgeous natural environment that surrounds it. Here, you can participate in educational experiences at the local schools, or help with a new reforestation initiative which aims to help to replace trees and other plant life lost to excessive logging and farming.
If you're after a vacation that can help improve your mental wellness and peace of mind, consider the many timeshare resorts that offer those kinds of services. Whether you seek incredible yoga by the beach or a more meaningful meditation or volunteer experience, you can find it when you buy a timeshare.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Members of the Centerstage Dance Academy in Tyngsboro became stars of their own Disney World show recently when they entertained resort guests at the Waterside Stage in Downtown Disney.
The group traveled more than 1,200 miles to take part in the Disney Performing Arts program. The dance academy, under the direction of Katherine Coughlin, Melanie Coughlin and Allyson Coughlin, drew a large crowd of Downtown Disney guests with their impressive dance technique and crowd-pleasing numbers.
This was the group's second visit to the resort with the Disney Performing Arts program. In addition to their performance, the group participated in the Disney Performing Arts "Disney Dancin' Workshop," learning from a professional Disney dancer techniques to help maximize their rehearsal time and deliver a focused performance.
TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. --The recital curtains closed at the end of May but the dancers of Centerstage Dance Academy are still dancing about with joy after a whirlwind of excitement has kept the studio on its toes since the beginning of 2008.
In March, the award-winning studio was contacted by MTV to participate in their hit TV show, "Made." The show that depicts high school students struggling to achieve their dreams chose Centerstage's dancing director, Kathy Coughlin, to help "coach" a young lady from Chelmsford to become a model. "It was a team effort," says Kathy. "The Centerstage Dancers offered support and friendship as the "Made" student attended ballet classes to work on balance and confidence for her debut on the catwalk!"
"Ballet instructor Justyn Thoren said the reasons for Coughlin's success are threefold; staying current in the field by attending seminars regularly, getting involved in her students' lives even beyond the studio's walls and now, having a beautiful facility."
"I believe she's so successful because she listens to people," Thoren added, calling the new facilities "a morale booster" for dancers."
"She (Coughlin) said it is important to her that students be good role models and successful in life, not just dance, after they leave her studio."
"Graduates of the studio's program have gone on to dance with the Fordham-Alvin Ailey Project and the Brenda Buffalino Tap Dance School in New York City."
"...Steven and Bridget L'Ecuyer of Tyngsborough wait for their class to begin, inspired by the TV show, "Dancing With the Stars," the middle-aged couple has been taking ballroom dance classes from Coughlin for three weeks and they are impressed with her easygoing teaching style. "The dancers all have different skill levels, and she (Kathy Coughlin) has patience, no matter how good or bad you are," said Bridget." "She makes you want to dance."
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ITP: UAEU develops new search engine for life sciences. "Researchers at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) have developed a new search engine which should make it easier to search for scientific data. The 'Biocarian' search engine has been developed to provide an efficient and user-friendly way to search through life science databases." The site's address is not mentioned in the article; you can reach it at http://www.biocarian.com . You can also get a deep technical overview of the search engine in this BMC Bioimformatics article: BioCarian: search engine for exploratory searches in heterogeneous biological databases .
Donegal Now: Gaeilge Minister launches website with Gaelic texts from the 1607 Flight of the Earls. "DONEGAL TD and Minister for Gaeilge, Joe McHugh, has launched a new online archive of gaelic texts spanning three centuries and including reports of the Flight of the Earls from Donegal in 1607. Staff of the Royal Irish Academy based in Teelin in Co Donegal were part of a team which put together 19 million words from various texts from across Europe into the incredible online resource."
WordPress 4.9 Beta 4 is now available.
Niemanlab: Are you a low-quality web page? (Are you sure?) Facebook sheds a little light on its algorithm . "Facebook … went ahead on Tuesday and, at an event at CUNY in New York, released a set of 'News Feed Publisher Guidelines' that aim to decipher the News Feed algorithm a bit and help publishers better understand 'content guidelines, quality guidelines, and community standards to aid your efforts to find and engage your audience on News Feed.' (In other words, do this or we'll bump your stuff to the secondary feed. Haha! Just kidding.) The panel included a discussion between Facebook News Feed VP Adam Mosseri and CUNY professor Jeff Jarvis."
The American Library Association (ALA) is offering a Webcast about fake news on November 1. "In our role as gatekeepers of information, librarians have always been responsible for establishing the authority of information. But with social media ensuring that news articles—whether real or not—spread like wildfire, how can help our users filter the real from the fake? How can we maintain our professional obligation to ensure equal access to information in a politically charged time where it seems like not all information is created equal? In our next episode of American Libraries Live, you'll have a chance to discuss these questions with our expert panel. We'll discuss this and how we can move forward as a profession."
Small Business: An RSS App is the Best Way to Keep Up With The News You Need or Want . "It was via an RSS feed from Gizmodo that I was reminded how dependent I am on RSS to keep up with the various types of news and information important to my work (and play). I agree with Gizmodo: 'RSS is far better for following the flow of news than any alternative source, including and especially social media…It is faster, more efficient, and you won't have to worry as much about accidentally leaking your news reading habits to all your Facebook friends.'" RSS, Google Alerts, Nuzzel, and, more and more, VisualPing.
ChuckEgg: Cheap Digital Signage using Google Slides & Raspberry Pi ($40 per display) . I know this seems kind of weird for me to include but I would have paid a good stack more than $40 to know about this a few years ago. If you don't have deep pockets, setting up decent digital displays in a small business is very tough. Librarians, you might want to check this out.
Dawn (Pakistan): Govt to monitor social media, says interior minister. "Amid growing concerns over the alleged disappearance of a number of social media activists linked to the ruling party, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday announced plans to formulate a framework to monitor social media in order to prevent it from being used as a tool to malign national institutions and spread anarchy or extremism in the country."
Times of India: Cops to use Google Maps to decongest roads. "Google will come to the aid of road managers in Delhi, with traffic police all set to use Google Maps to monitor traffic situations on arterial roads. The cops will employ the traffic maps, which give real-time vehicular situations, determine the congestion on roads. If any stretch is seen to be badly affected, a screenshot of the map will be sent on a Whatsapp group to the traffic inspector, ACP and DCP concerned for corrective actions."
TechCrunch: Another AI chatbot shown spouting offensive views. "Yandex, Russia's homegrown Google rival — which offers a suite of similar products in its target non-U.S. markets, from search to webmail to maps — outed another equivalent offering earlier this month: An AI assistant."
Lifehacker: How Apps Use Your Photos to Track Your Location . "If you're worried about apps tracking your location, it's not enough to limit your location sharing. You need to limit camera-roll sharing too. If you've ever given an app access to your camera roll—to take photos, or store screenshots, or any given reason—you've also let it see where all those photos were taken. Felix Krause, an iOS developer and security writer, built an app to demonstrate this back door…"
Wired: Burning Memories. "On Sunday night, October 8, my parents' house in Napa burned to the ground in the wildfire. For my mom and dad, now in their eighties, the place had been a retirement escape from the hurlyburly of New York. My wife and I were married there 23 years ago, in the hillside living room looking out over a vine-carpeted valley. The fire turned this refuge into a heap of tile and ash. It also torched our family history: a mountain of scrapbooks, photo prints, and travel diaries that we will never mine again." Good morning, Internet…
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According to the sources, he has severe pain in his left arm. Recently, the team of jail doctors visited and examined him and they advised the government to shift Nawaz Sharif to the hospital for the treatment. The Government has shortlisted four hospitals in this context. One hospital from Rawalpindi and three hospitals from Lahore were included in the list. Finally, the government decided to shift him to the Services hospital. The reason behind this decision is that the Punjab Institute of Cardiology is located beside the Services Hospital. So, in case of an emergency, he could be taken to the PIC immediately. The Government has tightened the security in the services hospital.


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Thank you, everybody, thank you very much. It's great to be with you this afternoon and today we begin a conversation on how to make America safe again. In the twentieth century, the United States has defeated fascism, Nazism and communism. Now, a different threat faces our world: radical Islamic terrorism.
This summer, there's been an ISIS attack launched outside the warzones of the Middle East--hard to believe--every eighty-four hours. Here in America, we have seen one brutal attack after another: thirteen were murdered and thirty-eight wounded in the assault on Fort Hood. The Boston Marathon bombing wounded and maimed sixty-four people, and ultimately left five dead, including two of our great police officers . In Chattanooga, Tennessee, five unarmed Marines--unbelievable people, by the way--were shot and killed at a military recruiting center.
Last September, fourteen innocent Americans were gunned down at an office party in San Bernardino; another twenty-two were very gravely injured. In June, forty-nine Americans were executed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando . Another fifty-three were badly injured. It was the worst mass shooting in our history, and the attack, by far, the worst on the LGBTQ community, and I'll tell you what: we can never, ever allow this to happen again. [applause]
In Europe--thank you--in Europe we have seen the same carnage and bloodshed afflicted upon our closest allies. In January of 2015, a French satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, was attacked for publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. Twelve were killed, including two police officers, and 11 were wounded. Two days later, four were murdered in a Jewish delicatessen. In November of 2015 terrorist went on a shooting rampage in Paris that slaughtered 130 people, and wounded another 368 people, some in very, very, very bad shape today.
France is suffering gravely. And the tourism industry is being massively affected in the most negative way. In March of this year terrorists detonated a bomb in Brussels airport killing 32 and injuring 340 people. This July in the South of France an Islamic terrorist turned his truck into an instrument of mass murder, plowing down and killing 85 men, women and children and wounding 308 people.
Terrible. Among the dead were two Americans, a Texas father and his 11-year-old son. A few weeks ago in Germany a refugee armed with an axe wounded 5 people in a gruesome train attack. Only days ago an ISIS killer invaded a Christian Church in Normandy, France forced an 85- year-old priest to his knees. A priest who was beloved, who was beloved; before cutting his throat and just unthinkable other things.
Overseas ISIS has carried out an absolute atrocity and one after another. Children slaughtered, girls sold into slavery, men and women burned alive, crucifixions, beheadings, and drownings, ethnic minorities targeted for mass execution. Holy sites desecrated. Christians driven from their homes and hunted for extermination. ISIS rounding up what it calls 'Nation of the Cross', 'Nation of the Cross' in a campaign of absolute and total genocide.
We cannot let this evil continue. [applause] Thank you. Thank you.
Nor can we let the hateful ideology of radical Islam, it's oppression of women, gays, children and non-believers be allowed to reside or spread within our own countries. [applause] We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism just as we have defeated every threat we've faced at every age and before. But we will not, we will not, remember this, defeat it with closed eyes or silenced voices. We have a president that doesn't want to say the words.
Anyone who cannot name our enemy is not fit to lead our country. [applause] Anyone who cannot condemn the hatred, oppression and violence of radical Islam lacks the moral clarity to serve as our president. [applause] The rise of ISIS is the direct result of policy decisions made by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton. Let's look back at the Middle East at the very beginning of 2009 before the Obama-Clinton administration took over.
Libya was stable. Syria was under control. Egypt was ruled by a secular president and an ally of the United States.
Iraq was experiencing a reduction in violence. The group that would become what we now call ISIS was close to being extinguished. Iran was being choked off by economic sanctions.
Fast forward to today. What we have--and think of this--and the decisions made by the Obama/Clinton group have been absolutely disastrous.
Libya is in ruins. Our ambassador and three other really brave Americans are dead. And ISIS has gained a new base of operations.
Syria is in the midst of a disastrous civil war. ISIS controls large portions of territory. A refugee crisis now threatens Europe and the United States.
In Egypt, terrorists have gained a foothold in the Sinai desert near the Suez Canal, one of the most essential waterways of the world. Iraq is in chaos. And ISIS is on the loose. ISIS has spread across the Middle East and into the West.
In 2014, ISIS was operating in seven nations. They were in seven nations. Terrible, but that's what it was.
Today they're fully operational in 18 countries with aspiring branches in six more for a total of 24. And many believe that number is actually 28 to 30 countries. They don't even know.
The situation is likely worse than the public has any idea. A new congressional report reveals that the Administration has downplayed the growth of ISIS with 40 percent of analysts saying they had experience efforts to manipulate their findings in trying to make it look much better than it is. It's bad.
At the same time, ISIS is trying to infiltrate refugee flows into Europe and to the United States. Iran, the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, is not flush with $150 billion in cash released by the United States. Plus if you remember from two weeks ago, another $400 million in actual cash that was obviously used for ransom.
Worst of all, the nuclear deal puts Iran, the number one state sponsor of radical Islamic terrorism, on a path to nuclear weapons. In short, the Obama/Clinton foreign policy has unleashed ISIS, destabilized the Middle East, and put the nation of Iran, which chants, "death to America", in a dominant position of regional power and in fact aspiring a dominant world power.
It all began in 2009 with what has become known as President Obama's global apology tour. We all remember. We all remember. [Booing] In a series of speeches, President Obama described America as arrogant, dismissive, derisive, and a colonial power. He was describing us.
He informed other countries that he would be speaking up about America's past errors. He pledged that we would no longer be a senior partner that sought to dictate our terms. He lectured CIA officers of the need to acknowledge their mistakes, and described Guantanamo Bay as a rallying cry for our enemies.
Perhaps no speech was more misguided than President Obama's speech to the Muslim world, delivered in Cairo, Egypt, 2009. I remember it well.
In winning the Cold War, President Ronald Reagan repeatedly touted the superiority of freedom over communism and called the USSR the Evil Empire. Yet when President Obama delivered his address in Cairo, no such moral courage could be found or would be found. Instead of condemning the oppression of women and gays in many Muslim nations, and the systematic violations of human rights, or the financing of global terrorism, President Obama tried to draw an equivalency between our human rights record--and remember this, our human rights--and theirs.
The records are unbelievable and unmistakable.
His naive words were followed by even more naive actions. The failure to establish a new status of forces agreement in Iraq and the election-driven timetable for withdrawal surrendered our gains in that country and led directly to the rise of ISIS without question. [applause]
The failures in Iraq were compounded by Hillary Clinton's disaster, total disaster, in Libya. President Obama has since said that he regrets, and really regrets, Libya and the mistake he made. He considers it his worst mistake. According to then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the invasion of Libya was nearly a split decision, but Hillary Clinton's forceful advocacy for the intervention was the deciding factor. That's why we went in.
With one episode of bad judgment after another, Hillary Clinton's policies launched ISIS onto the world stage. Yet, as she threw the Middle East into violent turmoil, things turned out really to be not so hot for our world and our country. The Middle East in particular.
The Clintons made almost $60,000 in gross income while she was secretary of state. It is unbelievable. Incident after incident proves again and again Hillary Clinton lacks the judgment--as said by Bernie Sanders--stability and temperament and the moral character to lead our nation. [applause]
Importantly, she also lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS and all of the many adversaries we face. Not only in terrorism, but in trade and every other challenge we must confront to turn our great country around. [applause]
It is now time for a new approach. Our current strategy of nation- building and regime-change is a proven, absolute failure. We have created the vacuums that allow terrorism to grow and thrive. I was an opponent of the Iraq War from the beginning. A major difference between me and my opponent. Though I was a private citizen whose personal opinions on such matters were really not sought, I nonetheless publicly expressed my private doubts about the invasion. I was against, believe me.
Three months before the invasion I said in an interview with Neil Cavuto to whom I offer my best wishes for a speedy recovery, that "perhaps we shouldn't be doing it yet. And that the economy is a much bigger problem."
In August of 2004, very early, right after the conflict, I made a detailed statement to Esquire Magazine in an interview. Here's the quote in full. "Look at the war in Iraq and the mess we're in. I would never have handled it that way." This was right after the invasion. "Does anybody really believe that Iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to go and step up and lead the country? C'mon."
I then continued, "Two minutes after we leave there's going to be a revolution and the meanest, toughest, smartest most viscous guy, in this case, guy, will take over. And he'll have weapons of mass destruction which Saddam Hussein did not have.
"What was the purpose of this whole thing? Hundreds and hundreds of young people killed. And what about the people coming back with no arms and no legs? Not to mention, in all fairness, the other side. The tremendous damage done. All those Iraqi kids who've been blown to pieces. And it turns out that all of the reasons for the war were blatantly wrong. All of this death and destruction for nothing."
So I've been clear for a long time that we should not have gone in. But I have been just as clear in saying what a catastrophic mistake Hillary Clinton and President Obama made with the reckless way in which they pulled out.
After we had made those hard fought sacrifices and gains we should have never made such a sudden withdrawal on a timetable advertised to our enemies. They said, we're moving out, here's our time, here's our date. Who would do this but an incompetent president?
Al Qaeda in Iraq had been decimated. And Obama and Clinton gave it new life and allowed it to spread all across the world. By that same token President Obama and Hillary Clinton should have never attempted to build a democracy in Libya, to push for immediate regime change in Syria or to support the overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt.
One more point on this. I have long said that we should have kept the oil in Iraq. [applause] I said it over and over and over again. Another area where my judgment has been proven correct. I just said it so many times, virtually every time I was interviewed, keep the oil, keep the oil.
According to CNN, ISIS made as much as $500,000 in oil sales in 2014 alone. That's before they really got started. Fueling and funding its reign of terror. If we had controlled the oil like I said we should, we could have prevented the rise of ISIS in Iraq, both by cutting off a major source of funding and through the presence of U.S. forces necessary to safeguard the oil and vital infrastructure products necessary for us to have the oil.
I was saying this constantly and consistently to whomever would listen. I said, "Keep the oil. Keep the oil. Keep the oil. Don't let somebody else get it." [applause] If they had listened to me then we would have had the economic benefits of the oil which I wanted to use to help take care of the wounded soldiers and families of those who died in the war. [applause] In addition to which thousands of lives would have been saved. This proposal by its very nature would have left soldiers in place of our assets. We would have had soldiers there guarding this valuable supply of oil. In the old days, when we won a war, to the victor belonged the spoils. [applause] Instead, all we got from Iraq and our ventures in the Middle East, was death, destruction and tremendous financial loss. But it's time to put the mistakes of the past behind us and chart a new course. [applause]
If I become president, the era of nation-building will be brought to a very swift and decisive end. [applause] Thank you. Our new approach--which must be shared by both parties in America, by our allies overseas and by our friends in the Middle East--must be to halt the spread of radical Islam. All actions should be oriented around this goal and any country which shares this goal will be our ally. Very important. Some don't share this goal. We cannot always choose our friends but we can never fail to recognize our enemies. [applause]
As president, I will call for an international conference focused on this goal. We will work side by side with our friends in the Middle East, including our greatest ally Israel. [applause] We will partner with King Abdullah of Jordan and the president of Egypt, President Sisi, and all others who recognize this ideology of death that must be extinguished. [applause]
We will also work very closely with NATO on this new mission. I had previously said that NATO was obsolete because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism. Since my comments, they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats. Very good. Very, very good.
I also believe that we could find common ground with Russia in a fight against ISIS. Wouldn't that be a good thing? Wouldn't that be a good thing? [applause] They, too, have much at stake in the outcome in Syria, and have had their own battles with Islamic terrorism just as bad as ours. They have a big, big problem in Russia with ISIS.
My administration will aggressively pursue joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy ISIS. International cooperation to cut off their funding. Expanded intelligence sharing, and cyber warfare to disrupt and disable their propaganda and recruiting. Their recruiting is taking place right now, and they're setting records. It's got to be stopped. [applause]
We cannot allow the internet to be used as a recruiting tool and for other purposes by our enemy. We must shut down their access to this form of communication, and we must do it immediately--immediately. [applause]
Unlike Hilary Clinton, who has risked so many lives with her careless of handling of sensitive information, my administration will not telegram exactly military plans and what they are. [applause] And by the way, what's happened with her 33,000 e-mails is an absolute disgrace to the United States of America. [applause]
I've often said that the great General Douglas MacArthur and the great General George Patton would be in a state of shock if they were alive today to see the way President Obama and Hillary Clinton tried to recklessly announce their every move before it happens. Like they did in Iraq, so that the enemy can prepare and adapt. Their enemy says, "Thank you."
The fight will not be limited to ISIS. We will decimate Al- Qaeda. And we will seek to starve funding for Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah. [applause] So important. We can use existing U.N. Security Council resolutions to apply new and even stronger sanctions. Military, cyber and financial warfare will all be necessary to dismantle Islamic terrorism.
But we must use ideological warfare as well. Very important. And they use it on us, better than we have ever even thought of using it on them. But that will change.
Just as we won, just as we won the Cold War in part by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so too must we take on the ideology of radical Islam. While my opponent accepted millions of dollars in foundation donations from countries where being gay is an offense punishable by prison or death, my administration will speak out against the oppression of women, gays and people of different beliefs. [applause]
Our administration would be a friend to all moderate Muslim reformers in the Middle East and will amplify their voices. This includes speaking out against the horrible practice of honor killings, where women are murdered by their relatives for dressing, marrying or acting in a way that violates fundamentalist teachings. Over 1,000 Pakistani girls are estimated to be the victims of honor killings by their relatives each year.
Recently a prominent Pakistani social media star was strangled to death by her brother on the charge of dishonoring the family. In his confession, the brother took pride in the murder and said, "Girls are born to stay home and follow traditions." Shockingly, this is a tradition that has reached our own shores. One such case, and many, many cases have happened--where one involves an Iraqi immigrant who was sentenced to 34 years in jail for running over his own daughter, claiming she had been "too Westernized."
To defeat Islamic terrorism we must also speak our forcefully against a hateful ideology that provides the breeding ground for violence and terrorism to grow. It's a breeding ground. It's a terrible, terrible breeding ground.
A new immigration policy is needed immediately and as well. [applause] The common thread linking the major Islamic terror attacks that have recently occurred on our soil--9/11, the Fort Hood shooting, the Boston bombing, the San Bernardino attack, the Orlando attack--is that they have involved immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Clearly, new screening procedures are needed. A review by the U.S. Senate Immigration Subcommittee has identified 380 foreign-born individuals charged with terrorism or terrorism-related offenses between 9/11 and 2014, and many more since then, and this year is a record for identification. It's gotten worse, far worse.
We also know that ISIS recruits refugees after their entrance into the country, as we have seen with the Somali refugee population in Minnesota.
Beyond terrorism, as we have also seen in France, foreign populations have brought their anti-Semitic attitudes with them. In Cologne, Germany on New Years, we have seen the reports of sexual violence and assault far greater than anybody knows.
Pew polling shows that in many of the countries from which we draw large number of immigrants--extreme views about religion such death penalty--and for those who are involved--the death penalty is very, very common if you don't have the faith that they demand you have.
A Trump administration will establish a clear principle that will govern all decisions pertaining to immigration, and we will be tough, and we will be even extreme. [applause] We should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people. In the Cold War, we had an ideological screening test. The time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today. I call it extreme vetting. I call it extreme--extreme vetting.
Our country has enough problems. We don't need more, and these are problems like we've never had before. [applause]] In addition to screening out all members of the sympathizers we must also screen out any with hostile attitudes toward our country or its principles, or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law. [applause] Those who do not believe in our Constitution or who support bigotry or hatred will not be admitted for immigration into our country. [applause] Only those who we expect to flourish in our country, and to embrace a tolerant American society should be issued visas. [applause] To put these new procedures in place, we will have to temporarily suspend immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world, that have a history of exporting terrorism, nor for us! Not for us. [applause]
Thank you. Thank you. As soon as I take office, I will ask the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to identify a list of regions where adequate screening cannot take place, there are many such regions. We will stop processing visas from those areas until such time as it is deemed safe to resume, based on new circumstances or new procedures. The size of current immigration flows are simply too large to perform adequate screening. [applause] We admit about 100,000 permanent immigrants from the Middle East every year . Beyond that, we admit hundreds of thousands of temporary workers and visitors from the same regions--hundreds of thousands . If we don't control the numbers, we can't perform adequate screening. There's no way it can take place. [applause]
By contrast, my opponent wants to increase--which is unbelievable, no matter who you are, where you come from--wants to increase the flow of Syrian refugees by 550% over what they are now. [Boos] The United States Senate Subcommittee on Immigration estimates that Hillary's plan would mean roughly 620,000 refugees from all current refugee-sending nations in her first term , assuming no cuts to other refugee programs--so it could get worse! This would be additional to all other non-refugee immigration. Unbelievable numbers. Unbelievable numbers. The Subcommittee estimates her plan would impose a lifetime cost of roughly $400 billion when you include the cost of healthcare, welfare, housing, schooling and other entitlement benefits that are excluded from the State Department's placement figures. Think of this: $400 billion. In short, Hillary Clinton wants to be America's Angela Merkel. [Boos] And you know what a disaster this massive immigration has been to Germany and the people of Germany. Crime has risen to levels that no one thought they would ever, ever see. It is a catastrophe. We have enough problems in our country. We don't need more.
Lastly, we will need to restore common sense to our security procedures. Another common feature of the past attacks that have occurred on our soil is that warning signs were totally ignored. The 9/11 hijackers had fraud all over their visa applications. Almost every one of them. It said practically in big bold letters "fraud". And nobody saw it. The Russians warned us about the Boston bombers, here on political asylum, and the attackers were even twice interviewed by the FBI. Very sad.
The female San Bernardino shooter, on her--on her statements, and everything that she said: she was here on a fiancée visa, which most people have not even heard of, from Saudi Arabia, and she wanted to support very openly jihad online. These are the people we're taking in.
A neighbor saw suspicious behavior--bombs on the floor, and other things--but didn't warn authorities because they said they didn't want to be accused of racial profiling. Now, many are dead and many more are gravely wounded.
The shooter in Orlando reportedly celebrated in his classroom after 9/11 . He, too, was interviewed by the FBI. His father, a native of Afghanistan, supported the oppressive Taliban regime, and expressed anti-American views very strongly , and by the way, was just seen sitting behind Hillary Clinton with a big fat smile on his face, all the way through her speech. [Boos] He obviously liked what she had to say. It's called: weakness, weakness. It's called stupidity, and we've had it. [applause]
The Fort Hood shooter delivered a presentation to a room full of mental health experts before the attacks in which he threw out one red flag after another. He even proclaimed that we "love death more then you love life". Not good. These warning signs were ignored because political correctness has replaced common sense in our society. [applause] Thank you. Thank you.
That is why one of my first acts as president will be to establish a commission on radical Islam, which will include reformers voices in the Muslim community, who will hopefully work with us. We want to build bridges and erase divisions. The goal of the commission will be to identify and explain to the American public the core convictions and beliefs of radical Islam, to identify the warning signs of radicalization, and to expose the networks in our society that support radicalization. This commission will be used to develop new protocols for local police officers, federal investigators and immigration screeners. And while I'm at it, we should give a hand to our great police officers and law enforcement officials. [applause] Thank you. Thank you.
We will also keep open Guantanamo Bay and place a renewed emphasis on human intelligence. Drone strikes will remain part of our strategy, but we will also seek to capture high-value targets to gain needed information to dismantle their organizations. [applause] Foreign combatants will be tried in military commissions. [applause]
Finally, we will pursue aggressive criminal or immigration charges against anyone who lends materiel support to terrorism. There will be consequences for those people. There will be very serious consequences. [applause] Similar to the effort to take down the mafia, this will be the understood mission of every federal investigator and prosecutor in the country. [applause] To accomplish a goal, you must state a mission. The support networks for radical Islam in this country will be stripped out and removed, one-by-one, viciously if necessary--viciously if necessary. Immigration offices will also have their powers restored. Those have been taken away. Those who are guests in our country that are preaching hate will be asked to return home immediately and if they don't immediately, we will return them home.
To make America safe again, we must work together again. Our victory in the Cold War relied on a bipartisan and international consensus. That is what we must have to defeat radical Islamic terrorism. [applause]
But just like we couldn't defeat communism without acknowledging that communism exists, or explaining its horrible evils, we can't defeat radical Islamic terrorism unless we do the exact same thing. We have to explain that it exists, and explain the difficulties. We have to have a leader that can do that, and we do not have that now.
But this also means that we have to promote the exceptional virtues of our own way of life. We have an exceptional country, an exceptional way of life. But it's being tread on by sick, sick people. And expecting that as newcomers come into our society, they will likewise have respect and do the same. Pride in our institutions, our history and our values should be taught by parents and teachers and impressed upon all of those that come into our society and want to join our society. [applause]
Assimilation is not an act of hostility, but an expression of compassion. Our system of government and our American culture is the best in the world, and we'll produce the best outcomes for all who adopt it. [applause] Thank you. Thank you.
This approach will not only make us safer, but bring us closer together as a country. Renewing the spirit of Americanism will help heal the divisions in our country, of which there are so many. We have a divider as president. We call him the Great Divider. It's the thing he best. [applause] It will do so by emphasizing what we have in common, not what pulls us apart.
This is my pledge to the American People: as your president, I will be your single greatest champion. I will fight to ensure that every American is treated equally, protected equally and honored equally. [applause] We will reject bigotry and hatred, and oppression, in all of its ugly forms, and seek a new future built on our common culture and values as one American People. Only this way will we make America great again, and safe again--for everyone. Thank you very much, God bless you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [applause]
NOTE: This speech was titled "Understanding the Threat: Radical Islam and the Age of Terror".
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Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Medias. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Medias and, of course, Medias synonyms and on the right images related to the word Medias.
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Mobile harbour cranes LHM 280 & LHM 400
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The LHM 800, Liebherr's flagship model in the mobile harbour crane sector has a maximum load capacity of 308 tonnes. Two cranes of this model can lift twice the load with the aid of the Sycratronic system, i.e. exactly 616 tonnes.
However, identical crane types of the series are not a prerequisite to use the system. Sycratronic works independently of the crane type and is reverse compatible, which means that equipment from an older generation can also be retrofitted.
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With the aid of the Sycratronic system, one single crane operator controls two Liebherr cranes that joined together work as one unit. Increased safety, easier operation as well as faster crane movements are the result.
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Synchronised movement of both cranes means the highest level of safety. The collision alert system, developed inhouse by Liebherr, prevents the jibs coming into contact with each as well as colliding with ship components. Establishing other areas to avoid on land and onboard is also possible. Risk of inclined lifting and overload are also eliminated by the system.
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International safety standards (ISO 12480-1) require that manual tandem lifts be restricted to max. 75% of the load bearing capacity. With Sycratronic, the crane operator has the full amount at his disposal.
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Most campers prefer sleeping outside in Sportz minivan tents rather than just staying inside the cabins. For them, this is more exciting and fun compared to sleeping behind locked doors. For car owners, this is more practical since they are able to keep watch of their automobile and belongings. Therefore, more campers now prefer car tents rather than a usual camp tent. Sportz minivan tents are designed in a two-in-one package. It not only gives the same kind of comfort that usual tents can provide, but also campers do not have to come out of it anymore just to get something from their automobile.
With the number of car brands and units around, many car tent designs have also come out. Campers can choose among these styles to find which one can meet their needs and fashion taste. To help them select which one is the best for their car, here are some of latest Sportz automobile tents:Napier Sportz SUV & Minivan TentsWith Napier, campers can experience nature in ways they could never imagine. It has a spacious room that perfectly fits to the car's cargo area. Among its features are its fiberglass tent poles that are supported with carbon-fiber to ensure durability. This tent is also made from durable rip-stop nylon for strength. In addition, it is not only waterproofed on the covering walls, but its floors are made of double-coated polyethylene to ensure water-resistance. Sportz minivan tents can be converted into a stand-alone tents by taking off the detachable sleeve.Sportz SUV Blue/Grey Tent with Screen RoomThis SUV tent can wrap around the vehicle's cargo area and it also allows campers to have complete access for storing items and sleeping spaces. What makes this tent cool is the removable screen room that provides bug proof comfort and can be removed when not used. With its GoBe Dry rain protection system and baththub-style floor secures the campers from getting wet. Sportz minivan tents are also supported with fiberglass and steel pole structures to provide durability and strength.
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Most Wanted è stato un programma televisivo italiano, trasmesso dall'emittente MTV Italia condotto da Alessandro Cattelan.

Fu trasmesso per la prima volta dal 4 ottobre 2004, in diretta dagli studi di Mtv a Milano dalle 16.00 alle 17.00; andò in onda fino al 31 dicembre 2004, per poi prendersi una pausa nella prima settimana di gennaio, e ricominciare il 10 gennaio 2005 sempre in diretta ma dalle 18.00 alle 19.00.

Insieme ad Alessandro Cattelan figuravano diversi opinionisti fissi, tra cui Nadia Baiardi, una cosplayer conosciuta come NadiaSK.

Il programma offriva ampio spazio a quei giovani che avevano voglia di dire qualcosa, tramite e-mail, telefono o direttamente dal pubblico presente in studio.

Il 21 marzo 2005, in occasione dei Blooming Days della rete, fu trasmessa una puntata speciale in diretta dalle 18.00 alle 20.00 con tutti i volti della rete.

L'ultima puntata è andata in onda il 13 maggio 2005.

Non vi furono altre stagioni dello show; la fine di Most Wanted ha posto del tutto fine alla serie di programmi televisivi pomeridiani che avevano un filo diretto con i telespettatori, iniziato 7 anni prima con Select. Nel 2007 tuttavia, alla stessa ora, ha preso vita Our Noise, che poi è diventato l'anno dopo Your Noise, che però non riscuote lo stesso successo dei suoi predecessori di quella fascia oraria.

Programmi televisivi degli anni 2000

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Jon Lourie is an attorney providing legal services covering Securities & Corporate Finance and Intellectual Property and International.
Jon Lourie, who practices law in Boston, Massachusetts, was selected to Super Lawyers for 2004 - 2006, 2011 - 2018. This peer designation is awarded only to a select number of accomplished attorneys in each state. The Super Lawyers selection process takes into account peer recognition, professional achievement in legal practice, and other cogent factors.
Prior to becoming an attorney, he studied at Syracuse University College of Law. He graduated in 1986.


Goose fighting competitions become a popular diversion in rural Russia.
Nikolai Kalinichev, 62, is chairman of the goose breeders. He lives in the village of Malyavino in the Yaroslavl Region. There is a tractor parked under the window of his house. The chairman of the goose breeders has been breeding geese for as long as he can remember.
Goose breeders are constantly rattling off bits of information about the theory of the purity of blood as it relates to their goslings. To some extent everything that happens in this community resembles Nazism.
On a recent weekday, Kalinichev climbed the stairs to the second floor of the local community center. It is a week before the fights, and all the goose breeders must agree on a specific date. All the goose breeders are about the same age with the exception of Anton, who is 17.
"In short, I will tell all goose breeders and enthusiasts," Kalinichev said, opening the meeting, "we have completed a tour of Russia. There were goose fights in Podolsk, Moscow and Rylsk. We brought along the trophy. The fight lasted 22 minutes. And the opponent fled from the wing!"
In order to understand this statement, it is necessary to know the rules of goose fighting. First, there is the "taking." A classic fight looks like this: two geese bite each other in the wings. When this happens, according to the goose breeders, the birds experience incredible pain. At some point, one loses patience and takes the other by the head, and this is called the "taking." Being taken by the head should be avoided because a goose can lose its eyes. Three takings during the course of a fight and the opponent is considered defeated.
A faster way to lose is to have your goose's leg bitten. If a goose catches the other goose's leg, he immediately loses. "The goose's leg, just like with a horse, is a sore spot" said a man named Vyacheslav, the referee of the Pavlovo fights. "People decided on this rule about 300-400 years ago; we didn't come up with it. It has always been this way. The first taking by the leg is immediately considered a loss."
"To flee from the wing" means that the opponent cannot stand the pain in his wing and flees; it is a clear victory. This is valued more than anything.
No one specially trains a goose. According to goose breeders, "a goose is either born to be a fighter, or he is fit for soup."
The most difficult part of organizing the fights is determining how to match up the fighters. They are divided into age groups. First are the two-year-old geese. This age is considered transitional; then come the three-year-olds, and after them the four-year-olds. Geese that are more than five years old fight in the most prestigious category: the old ones. In each category, goose breeders are divided into pairs, and at this point the question of who fights with whom must be decided.
Goose fights are held in the spring, during mating season. When the goose breeders say that fights are a natural process, they are almost right. "They are fighting, after all, for their loved one" Kalinichev said.
But from the point of view of nature it does not matter how a gander secures victory when fighting for a female: by taking the wing, leg or head. All means are justified when it comes to love.
By the house of the chairman of the goose breeders, there is a large enclosure with geese. There are several more enclosures nearby. The birds live in families, each in their own quarters. Nearby there is a gas burner so that the carcasses can be more easily incinerated. One of the geese avoids this fate. The fighter at the same time will try to ensure a long and happy life for his loved one, because without her he will not fight.
"This is Demon! This goose is a leader," Kalinichev said, pointing to a goose. "This one will fight for its female down to the last."
Vyacheslav Borisovich, the referee of the geese fights, 60, has been refereeing fights for more than 20 years. Goose breeders live quite well. All have houses and farms. It is difficult to determine what their income is in terms of city living, but at least no one looks poor.
"Right now we do not wager bets on fights. There was a time when proposals were put forward to fight for money," Vyacheslav said. "I am against money. When money gets involved, then you immediately see doping." Yes, there is doping for geese.
"Earlier there were fights for drinks," Vyacheslav continued. "The loser would provide the drinks and together with the winner would celebrate the end of the fight. That was a hunt for love. And now people from beyond the Volga propose the following to us: Each party fights against each other, and the loser gives up the gander and all his geese. But all this is pure hostility!"
From conversations with the goose breeders it became obvious that they do not make money on the geese. On one hand, goose is the most profitable meat for a family. It is not necessary to feed geese in the summer; they only need to be driven to pasture. But the problem is that geese are cheap only until October. After that time farmers have to invest in feed. Within the goose breeding community, there is a code of mutual assistance; goose breeders do not sell geese to each other: they only present them as gifts, and later they collect the goslings. Perhaps they are not rich, but goose breeders are not threatened by starvation.
The article is abridged and first published in the Russky Reporter weekly magazine.


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It is quite clear that the United States wants to give an impetus to modernization to confront China, its main competitor. Joe Biden has surprised him with his steep rise in taxes on capital gains, but much more with his outspoken support for human rights and unions. Wall Street did not build this country. The middle class built the country. The unions built the middle class. That is why I am asking, I am asking Congress to pass the law to protect the right to form unions, as the Democratic President specified.
In the United States, social affiliation has decreased significantly in recent decades, from 20% in 1983 to 10.3% today. In Europe, unions have also declined, but the situation is uneven: Northern Denmark and Sweden have more than 65% membership, compared to 8% in France and 14% in Spain, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO).
Biden was baffled because recognition of the union's contribution appears more in academic papers than in political speeches. A study by researchers F. Jaumotte and CO Buitron, of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), indicates that "income inequality is increasing as the influence of unions decreases."
In Europe, the social issue was the subject of the recent summit in Porto, which culminated in global commitments for 2030. The employment rate should reach 78% of the population, compared to 73% today; Basic digital skills should be increased to 80% of adults from 44% attending; The goal is to reduce the rate of youth who are neither studying, working nor training, from 12.6% in 2019 to 9% at the end of the decade. It also pledges to lift 15 million people out of poverty out of 91 million who were at risk of poverty or exclusion prior to the outbreak. But progress has not been made on long-awaited matters such as European unemployment reinsurance, a minimum wage or a working day.
From a global perspective, perhaps the most significant shift in Biden's policy is his commitment to human rights. America will not abandon our commitments to human rights, fundamental freedoms, and our alliances. He reiterated the foundations of his constitution (1787): "America is an idea, the most unique idea in history. We are all created equal." It also announced laws against discrimination against women and LGTBIQ groups.
Human and social rights are at the center of the debate. A study by researchers David Bundia, Carlos Castilla and John Oringa of the Human Drets Institute in Catalonia, and Elisenda Escuda and Oscar Rocca of the Catalan Anti-Fraud Office concluded that all acts of corruption "involve violations of human rights." The important thing is that they return to the political agenda and to play sports.
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BOTTLE CREEK
A large, multi-mound site located in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta near Stockton. At some time between the 12th and 13th centuries this site became the nucleus of Pensacola culture along coastal Alabama and points west, a position it would maintain until the early 16th century. The site has approximately 15 mounts, the largest about 40 feet high, and is the largest of its type in the county and the second largest in the state. Second only to Moundville, AL. The mounds are identified as being from the MIssissippian period from AD 1200-1600. Most local residents refer to this site as "the mounds" or "mound isle."
BARTRAM'S TRAIL
The Bartram Trail follows the approximate route of eighteenth-century naturalist William Bartram's southern journey from March, 1773 to January, 1777. Bartram explored much of the territory which is now the states of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee. The Bartram Trail Conference, Inc., was founded in 1976 to identify and mark the route of Bartram's southern explorations and to promote interest in developing recreational trails and botanical gardens along the route.
KENNEDY MILL c. 1811
Site of one of Alabama's first sawmills. In 1811, Joshua Kennedy engaged Jesse Ember to build two water-powered sawmills. They were operated by Kennedy through the 1820s. The mill dam and site were later used by Byrne Bros., and then by Hastie and Silver, Co., until 1906 when they were abandoned.
STOCKTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, ORGANIZED 1847
The First Church on Record in the Tensaw Settlement was built in 1845 in Stockton, Alabama. Called the "Union Church". Here, both the Presbyterians and Methodists met together in a common desire to clean up the immorality that existed. A stairway in the building led to a balcony, where until the Civil War, blacks worshiped together with the whites.
The church was started by Benjamin Metcalf who left $500 in his will for the erection of a church and the marking of his families graves. The old "Union Church" was built near Gallagher's Spring, on the south side of Highway 225 about a quarter of a mile from the junction of 225 and Highway 59, almost directly across from the spring, located on the north side of Highway 225, at the top of the hill, right before the intersection to 225 and 59. A "man made"lake now occupies the site. Serving as the first Clerk was Gerald Byrne.


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William J. Brodsky is an American businessman working as a director of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, executive chairman of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and chairman of the World Federation of Exchanges.

Education
Brodsky earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Syracuse University and a Juris Doctor from the Syracuse University College of Law.  He was a member of the Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity. Brodsky was advised and influenced by Syracuse law school professor Michael O. Sawyer. He later established the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics at Syracuse's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

While at Syracuse Law School, Brodsky defeated future President Joe Biden for class president by a single vote. To date, Brodsky is the only person to ever beat Biden in a non-primary election.

Career
Brodsky joined Model, Roland & Co. in 1968. Brodsky began career as a securities lawyer at the American Stock Exchange in 1974, and in 1976 became its head of options trading. He formally held the positions of the executive vice president at the American Stock Exchange from 1979 until 1982.

In 1982, he joined Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in as executive vice president and chief operating officer. He was the president and CEO of the CME from 1985 until 1997. He is a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation and previously served as chairman of the International Options Markets Association (2006–2008).

From 1997 to 2013, he was the chairman and CEO of the Chicago Board Options Exchange.

In July 2019, Brodsky was named chairman of Navy Pier Inc., a non-profit corporation that oversees the Navy Pier.

In January 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Brodsky to serve as a director of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. After confirmation by the United States Senate, Brodsky started in this position on May 31, 2022.

Personal life
He is married to Joan (Née: Breier), whom he met while they were students at Syracuse. Two of their sons worked for Biden as interns on Capitol Hill and the families remain close.

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Living people
Syracuse University College of Law alumni
American chief executives of financial services companies


A large pedestrian-worn pathway that has been a popular cross country course for many years will host its first major event on a recently enhanced course. The inaugural Indiana Urban Wilderness Run will be held Saturday, June 13, on the downtown trail with other events throughout the weekend.
The Indiana Urban Wilderness Run will be part of a busy weekend of running events on the urban trail. The Indiana Invaders will host a pair of events as part of their American Milers Club High Performance Series, which attracts some of the nation's elite middle-distance and distance runners. The two events are on Friday, June 12, and Sunday, June 14, at Michael A. Carroll Stadium at the south end of the river trail corridor on the IUPUI campus. Both days will include youth clinics for cross country and track runners. The June 12 event will also include Indiana Urban Wilderness Run packet pickup.
The race will be a quarter marathon (10.55K) and will award $6,000 in prizes to the top five male and female college students. Eskenazi Health, Indy Parks, White River State Park, Central Indiana Community Foundation and Reconnecting to Our Waterways are founding sponsors for the event. Other supporters include the American Millers Club, Indiana Invaders, Kopetsky TriAx, Blue Marble and People for Urban Progress.
Last year, Eskenazi Health, through Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, received a grant totaling $31,575 from the Environmental Solutions for Communities grant program from Wells Fargo and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. The funds were used to give the trail a major facelift, which included adding nearly 6,000 linear feet of locally sourced crushed limestone placed along the pathway.
Proceeds from participant fees will be directed to annual improvements of gateway spaces to the Urban Wilderness Trail in Graham Martin Park (Indy Parks) and the White River State Park.
To register for the Indiana Urban Wilderness Run, please visit http://activeindytours.com/events/indianaurbanwildernesstrailrun.
To register for the Collegiate Running Association's Trail Race National Championship, please visit http://www.collegiaterunning.org/#!2015-trail-race/cohs.
For information on the American Milers Club's races on June 12 and 14, please visit http://www.runnerspace.com/AmericanMilersClub.


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Patent Law: Concepts And Insights (Foundation Press 2008) (with C. Nard).
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Polk Wagner focuses his research and teaching in intellectual property law and policy, with a special interest in patent law. He has written over 20 articles (see them here) on topics ranging from an empirical analysis of judicial decision-making in the patent law to the First Amendment status of software programs. His work has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, among several others. He is the author (with Professor Craig Nard) of Patent Law: Concepts and Insights (Foundation Press 2008). He is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property topics worldwide.
Prior to joining the Penn Law faculty in 2000, Wagner served as a clerk to Judge Raymond C. Clevenger III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He holds degrees from Stanford Law School, the University of Michigan, the College of Charleston, and was the 1994-95 Roger M. Jones Fellow at the London School of Economics.
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BRUCE, J W; TARI, Farid. Extrema of principal curvature and symmetry. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical[S.l.], v. 39, p. 397-402, 1996. DOI: 10.1017/s0013091500023129.
Bruce JW, Tari F. Extrema of principal curvature and symmetry. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical. 1996 ;39 397-402.


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Парельяс ()  —  муниципалитет в Бразилии, входит в штат Риу-Гранди-ду-Норти. Составная часть мезорегиона Центр штата Риу-Гранди-ду-Норти. Входит в экономико-статистический  микрорегион Серидо-Ориентал. Население составляет 20 608 человек на 2006 год. Занимает площадь 513,052 км². Плотность населения — 40,2 чел./км².

История
Город основан в 1927 году.

Статистика
 Валовой внутренний продукт на 2003 составляет 47.844.469,00 реалов (данные: Бразильский институт географии и статистики).
 Валовой внутренний продукт на душу населения на 2003 составляет 2.390,19 реалов (данные: Бразильский институт географии и статистики).
 Индекс развития человеческого потенциала на 2000 составляет 0,704 (данные: Программа развития ООН).

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Lennox Lewis is reportedly planning to make a sensational return to the ring to face Vitali Klitschko.
The 52-year-old – the last undisputed heavyweight world champion – is eyeing an exhibition bout with his old Ukrainian rival later this year.
The duo fought in 2003 and Lewis was given one of the most testing nights of his career before the fight was stopped in the sixth due to a severe cut to Klitschko's left eye.
It proved to be the final fight of Lewis' career, but the Briton may now lace up his gloves once more, according to World Boxing News.
Klitschko is the mayor of Kiev, which will host the WBC convention between September 30 and October 5, and is reported to have held talks with Lewis about an exhibition bout.
"Lennox Lewis after the fight promised me to give me rematch and I very appreciated I had a chance to fight the great champion, great fighter that's in Lennox Lewis," he told Sirius XM Boxing Radio.


Bill Metz Elementary appreciates all of the parents who attended our Parent-Teacher Conferences last month and completed the survey to help us in our efforts to provide the best educational experiences for your students that we can. Here are the results of the survey. Thanks again!
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Before winter break, STEAM Club learned about series and parallel circuits. Then, using only a few basic materials, the students were given the challenge of building their own series circuit that would light a single bulb from a string of Christmas lights. It was very exciting to make the bulb light up!


In God's Word, there is always more to follow, always more to know. If only we could be like children in taking in the mind of God, what wonderful things would happen. Do you apply the whole Bible to your life? It is grand. Never mind those who take only a part. You take it all. When we get such a thirst that nothing can satisfy us but God, we will have a royal time.
No man can have the Trinity abiding in him and be the same as he was before!


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Sometimes, risk assessment requirements are more technical, and there may be nobody in-house with the know how – or the kit. We regularly carry out fire, noise, vibration, computer workstation, machinery and hazardous substance assessments, reporting fully and helping to implement the risk assessment findings.
We encourage clients to own and be fully involved in their risk assessments, and see our job as supporting the process. Training alone won't work, but training combined with individual mentoring of managers until they are confident, with clear reporting on standards reached, has always worked so far.


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The Dallas Cowboys Explained Why They Inked Andy Dalton to a $3 Million Contract
by Joe Kozlowski twitter on May 7, 2020
For better or worse, the Dallas Cowboys can't avoid the spotlight. When you're America's Team and are owned by Jerry Jones, every transaction and decision becomes a headline. That's exactly what happened in early May when the club inked Andy Dalton to a one-year contract.
Since Dak Prescott remains unsigned, speculation started swirling. Was Dalton simply a high-quality backup? Was the front office trying to gain leverage at the bargaining table? On Wednesday, executive vice president Stephen Jones came forward to clarify the team's thought process.
Andy Dalton joins the Dallas Cowboys
Andy Dalton is signing a one-year deal with the Cowboys worth up to $7M ($3M guaranteed), per @AdamSchefter pic.twitter.com/mOzlGgiEni
— B/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) May 3, 2020
In the NFL, there's only room for one starting quarterback on the roster on a given time. Andy Dalton experienced that harsh reality this offseason.
The Cincinnati Bengals, of course, selected Joe Burrow with the first overall pick of the 2020 NFL draft. While some teams prefer to let their quarterback prospects spend a season on the bench, the club wasn't interesting in taking that route; on April 30, they cut Dalton after nine seasons of service.
The veteran didn't remain unemployed for long, though. On May 2, he signed a one-year deal with the Dallas Cowboys. Given the reality of the situation, it seemed like a good fit; Dalton hails from Texas and, even if he doesn't achieve his incentives, will still take home a comfortable salary. With the Dallas Cowboys, however, nothing is ever straight forward.
Since Dak Prescott still hasn't signed his franchise tag or agreed to a longterm contract, speculation started swirling. Could there be ulterior motives for the Cowboys' move?
Stephen Jones explains why the Cowboys signed a quarterback
"I don't like Stephen Jones invoking the name of Nick Foles when it comes to Andy Dalton. There's never been another Foles. He did things in the postseason we've never, ever seen done in the history of professional football in America. It was impossibly great." — @RealSkipBayless pic.twitter.com/rTIKafAymX
— UNDISPUTED (@undisputed) May 7, 2020
After a few days of fan theorizing, Stephen Jones took to the radio to explain the Dallas Cowboys' decision to sign Andy Dalton. Rather than looking to replace Dak Prescott, the team had simply learned a lesson from one of their division rivals.
"To have a guy like Andy Dalton come in here—not unlike what Philly had with Nick Foles when Carson Wentz went down—to be able to take control and win games, win huge games for you if that's what you need is really important," Jones explained on local radio via ESPN. Foles, of course, stepped in to help the Eagles claim their first Super Bowl title in February 2018. While Dak Prescott didn't miss any time last season, he did struggle through a shoulder issue at the end of the year.
"Certainly," Jones concluded, "you can lay your head on the pillow better at night knowing you have someone like Andy Dalton."
If Andy Dalton is just an insurance policy, the Dallas Cowboys have to prove it with their actions
On the surface, Stephen Jones' explanation sounds perfectly logical. As the Kansas City Chiefs learned last season, even star quarterbacks aren't immune to injury; while it's tempting to cut corners, having a good backup can save a season from flying off the rails.
At the same time, however, it would be naive for anyone in the front office to say otherwise. Like it or not, the Dallas Cowboys are still trying to negotiate with Dak Prescott; it wouldn't do them any good to broadcast their potential frustrations with the incumbent.
In all likelihood, though, Stephen Jones is telling the truth, and Andy Dalton is nothing but an expensive insurance policy. The Dallas Cowboys, however, haven't exactly earned the benefit of the doubt with their personnel decisions over the years. At this point, it's simply best to judge them on their actions rather than their statements; Week 1's starting quarterback and, in turn, the team's record matter more than anything else.
Signing Andy Dalton could have been a smart move, or it could be the beginning of a painful chain reaction. Only time will tell which one, though.
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