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Pakistan energy gap reaches 40 percent
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Children sit around a woman who cooks lunch in the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. AP photo
The chronic energy crisis that Pakistan has been facing for years is deepening, with two of the country's large hydroelectric power plants having come to a halt due to a fall in the water level.
Pakistan's energy gap has risen to 40 percent, as the plant has stopped producing energy.
Federal Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar has said the situation is being closely followed and that the ministry will try to decrease the energy gap by employing all energy resources. Some plans to increase energy efficiency will be put in place, he added.
Ministry officials said the energy gap on Sunday had reached 8,100 megawatts and that the figure is estimated to surpass 13,000 megawatts as the temperature rises.
Pakistani people have started protesting electricity cuts, which can last as long as 8 to 10 hours in big cities and 16 to 20 hours in rural areas. Protests were made in all the large cities of Pakistan, blocking the main roads, burning tires and clashing with the police. Police fired guns into the air and used tear gas bombs to disperse demonstrators.
The Pakistani government has signed energy deals with Iran, China, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan to tackle the power shortages in the medium term.
Similar power shortages that arose in 2006 inflicted a significant blow on the south Asian country's industrial and agricultural production.
Gaza strip hit by power crisis
GAZA CITY – Agence France-Presse
The Gaza Strip's sole power station shuddered to a halt March 25, leaving residents without current for long periods and endangering the lives of hospital patients, officials said.
Just 48 hours after some 450,000 liters of fuel were delivered to the coastal strip from Israel on March 23, the Gaza Power Authority said its tanks had run dry. Consumers were being rationed to eight hours of power supply a day, local residents said.
"The generating station in Gaza City was stopped completely this morning after two days of working," the authority said in a statement, calling on "all parties to take immediate measures to solve the fuel crisis completely and permanently."
Bassem Naim, health minister in Gaza's Hamas-run government, said the fuel shortage was placing lives in jeopardy.
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Chinese Online Education Firm Yuanfudao Raises $1 Billion in New Round Led by Tencent and Hillhouse Capital
Stephen Soulunii Published Apr 1, 2020
China's online education platform Yuanfudao has raised $1 billion in a new funding round led by its existing investor Tencent Holdings and private equity firm Hillhouse Capital Group.
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The Series G round also saw participation from Hong Kong-based private equity firm Boyu Capital and IDG Capital. According to a company statement, the funding has raised its valuation to $7.8 billion.
Founded in 2012, Yuanfudao focuses on K-12 learning offering a suite of services, including artificial intelligence-enabled virtual classes, live tutoring, a database of exam problems and a popular homework help app. The homework support app scans homework problems and solves them instantly with the snap of a camera. The startup also operates a research institute for artificial intelligence, which could train its homework app to be smarter.
Yuanfudao has over 400 million users on its platform, and as of March, the startup has 11 teaching and curriculum development centres across the country. It ranked first in China in-app purchases in the education category between January and mid-March, according to mobile app performance tracker App Annie.
Meanwhile, the latest investment comes as students across the world are turning to online learning with schools shutting down amid the deadly coronavirus outbreak, which has developed into a full-blown global pandemic. Yuanfudao's focus on online learning puts it in one of the few sectors that have seen a surge in investor interest as the coronavirus and school closures force students across China to attend classes or learn via the internet.
Yuanfudao was valued at $3 billion in the previous round of financing in 2018 when the company raised $300 million led by its existing investor China's internet giant Tencent Holdings. Prior to that, the company raised $120 million in 2017, which puts it among the list of unicorns valued at more than $1 billion in the country.
The Beijing-based online education company counts Warburg Pincus, Matrix Partners China, New Horizon Capital, CMC Capital Group and Tencent Holdings among its early investors.
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AC Meetup: Being Left of Labour is Easier than Ever… so what's the problem? by NY Brit Expat
By Anti-Capitalist Meetup in Politics
"Our starting point for 2015/16 will be that we cannot reverse any cut in day to day, current spending unless it is fully funded from cuts elsewhere or extra revenue – not from more borrowing.
So when George Osborne stands up next week and announces his cuts in day to day spending, we won't be able to promise now to reverse them because we can only do so when we can be absolutely crystal clear about where the money is coming from (Ed Miliband, June 22, 2013 (http://www.channel4.com/news/miliband-labour-will-not-borrow-more-to-reverse-cuts)."
It has become rather obvious that the tactic of shifting the Labour party to the left is futile, even in situations where government cuts are unpopular and they can pick up votes they refuse to reverse direction (e.g., bedroom tax and changes to child care benefit). Instead of saying we won't be borrowing to reverse changes, the idea of taxes on wealth, the introduction of a general financial transactions tax, or introducing more bands on income tax to make it more progressive or closing tax loopholes to fund these changes is not discussed.
Adoption of neoliberalism as the basis for economic policy decisions is a political decision! It is not as though there is a dearth of other choices for economic policy that do not rely on lowering wages to maintain profitability and privatisation of public services. As such, choices in the electoral arena are essentially mainstream political parties upholding a neoliberal position. There is essentially no political party that represents the interests of the majority in the context of a grotesque attack on the social welfare state, divide and rule ideology, and privatisation of what remains of the state sector including parts of the NHS.
h/t to Elise Hendricks for the title of this piece!
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By Robyn in Media
[I've been asked to repost this here. I hope you enjoy it.]
Awkward. That's about the only way I can explain the New York Times article by Emmarie Huetteman and Brian Stelter, After Sentencing, Manning Says, "I am Female".
It's almost like the writers didn't even read Chelsea Manning's statement. which is somewhat odd since the last paragraph indicated that they were aware of the issue.
And what was the issue? Chelsea Manning had asked that people refer to her by using feminine pronouns. The Times writers managed to write about that while referring to her only with male pronouns.
I want to thank everybody who has supported me over the last three years. Throughout this long ordeal, your letters of support and encouragement have helped keep me strong. I am forever indebted to those who wrote to me, made a donation to defense fund, or came to watch a portion of the trial. I would especially like to thank Courage to Resist and the Bradley Manning Support Network for their tireless efforts in raising awareness for my case and providing for my legal representation.
As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition. I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility). I look forward to receiving letters from supporters and having the opportunity to write back.
–Chelsea E. Manning
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By terryhallinan in War
The now venerable cruise missile is quite different from the Predator drones. It relies on inboard programmed intelligence instead of remote piloting. Sensors of the missile scan the heavens for route correction while other sensors feed ground data to stored cartographic data.
Reporters at a hotel in one war torn capital noted that the slow-moving cruise missiles seemed to be headed for a direct strike at their hotel and then seemed to veer off as if they were reading the street signs.
There was a blow up in relations between Clinton's White House and China when cruise missiles struck the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. The Chinese screamed they had painted "Chinese Embassy" on the roof. It made me think of the challenge of realtime optical character recognition (OCR} combined with interpretation of the characters to abort the mission even as it descended on the target.
It would be an uncertain challenge indeed but perhaps no greater than the efforts needed for realtime path correction.
It appears now it is just a matter of time before we see some cruising in and near Damascus. The slow-moving, low-flying cruise missiles are vulnerable to ground fire but resist radar that would much more easily take out drones.
On this day in 1768, James Cook began his first voyage to travel to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the transit of Venus across the Sun. This would be the first of three voyages that would be hailed as heroic by the scientific community.
The routes of Captain James Cook's voyages. The first voyage is shown in red, second voyage in green, and third voyage in blue. The route of Cook's crew following his death is shown as a dashed blue line.
In 1766, the Royal Society hired (James) Cook to travel to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the transit of Venus across the Sun. Cook was promoted to Lieutenant and named as commander of the expedition. The expedition sailed from England in 1768, rounded Cape Horn and continued westward across the Pacific to arrive at Tahiti on 13 April 1769, where the observations were to be made. However, the result of the observations was not as conclusive or accurate as had been hoped. Cook later mapped the complete New Zealand coastline, making only some minor errors. He then sailed west, reaching the south-eastern coast of the Australian continent on 19 April 1770, and in doing so his expedition became the first recorded Europeans to have encountered its eastern coastline.
On 23 April he made his first recorded direct observation of indigenous Australians at Brush Island near Bawley Point, noting in his journal: "…and were so near the Shore as to distinguish several people upon the Sea beach they appear'd to be of a very dark or black Colour but whether this was the real colour of their skins or the C[l]othes they might have on I know not." On 29 April Cook and crew made their first landfall on the mainland of the continent at a place now known as the Kurnell Peninsula, which he named Botany Bay after the unique specimens retrieved by the botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. It is here that James Cook made first contact with an Aboriginal tribe known as the Gweagal.
After his departure from Botany Bay he continued northwards, and a mishap occurred when Endeavour ran aground on a shoal of the Great Barrier Reef, on 11 June, and "nursed into a river mouth on 18 June 1770." The ship was badly damaged and his voyage was delayed almost seven weeks while repairs were carried out on the beach (near the docks of modern Cooktown, at the mouth of the Endeavour River). Once repairs were complete the voyage continued, sailing through Torres Strait and on 22 August he landed on Possession Island, where he claimed the entire coastline he had just explored as British territory. He returned to England via Batavia (modern Jakarta, Indonesia), the Cape of Good Hope and the island of Saint Helena, arriving on 12 July 1771.
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On Sunday
Syria: Cameron and Obama threaten 'serious response'
25 August 2013 Last updated at 08:01 GMT
The UK and the US have threatened a "serious response" if it emerges Syria used chemical weapons last week.
Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama spoke on the telephone for 40 minutes on Saturday.
Both were "gravely concerned" by the "increasing signs that this was a significant chemical weapons attack carried out by the Syrian regime", Mr Cameron's office said in a statement.
The Syrian government has denied involvement and blamed rebel fighters.
State television reported on Saturday that soldiers had found chemical agents in tunnels used by the rebels to the east of Damascus.
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Save our skins: The new boom in illegal trading driving the world's rarest species to extinction
Saudi rulers fear Egypt's fate
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Three Things On The Internet
By TMC in Meta
Each night during his evening show "All In" host Chris Hayes highlights three things from the internet that his viewers have tweeted to him. These were his choices for Friday's "Click 3"
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford takes down Hulk Hogan
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford defied the odds to beat wrestling icon Hulk Hogan in an arm-wrestling match at Toronto's Fan Expo this morning.
"I own this town, man!" Ford yelled as he beat the 14-time pro wrestling champ.
The Hulk was scheduled to hold an "uncensored" presser after the match. I'll let you know if I find the video for that.
11 Untranslatable Words From Other Cultures
The relationship between words and their meaning is a fascinating one, and linguists have spent countless years deconstructing it, taking it apart letter by letter, and trying to figure out why there are so many feelings and ideas that we cannot even put words to, and that our languages cannot identify.
#BATFLECK BACKLASH: On the Web, does Batman's studio hear you scream?
Indeed, and one most passionately forged by the actor Richard Dreyfuss. Looking closer, we can see his engraving reads: "You read for a part, you feel good about it, you feel confident, then they cast Ben Affleck."
Zing. By the ghost of "Gigli," that stings.
Warner Bros. announced shortly before 9:30 p.m. Thursday that Ben Affleck is our new big-screen Batman. Within minutes, Dreyfuss – true to his own trained and brash and passionate style as an Oscar-winning actor – tweeted his artful thrust-and-parry, drawing first blood as the Internet responded to the casting fury that rapidly went by the handy hashtag #Batfleck.
One shakes ones head.
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Today's March on Washington: It's About Jobs and Freedom
Cross posted from yesterday at The Stars Hollow Gazette
50 Years Later, the Untold History of the March on Washington & MLK's Most Famous Speech
One week out from the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom – and just days away from a major march this Saturday commemorating the event – we spend the hour looking at much of its forgotten history. More than a quarter-million people came to the nation's capital on August 28, 1963, to protest discrimination, joblessness and economic inequality faced by African Americans. Many now consider the march to be a key turning point in the civil rights movement.
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Saturday Night Movie
The Failure of State Monopolism
Private Gain to a Few Trumps Public Good for the Many
A society – any society — is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.
Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers, and are available to all. If the tax system is progressive, those who are better off (and who, presumably, have benefitted from many of these same public institutions) help pay for everyone else.
"Privatize" means "Pay for it yourself." The practical consequence of this in an economy whose wealth and income are now more concentrated than at any time in the past 90 years is to make high-quality public goods available to fewer and fewer.
In fact, much of what's called "public" is increasingly a private good paid for by users – ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.
Much of the rest of what's considered "public" has become so shoddy that those who can afford to do so find private alternatives. As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.
The great expansion of public institutions in America began in the early years of 20th century, when progressive reformers championed the idea that we all benefit from public goods. Excellent schools, roads, parks, playgrounds and transit systems would knit the new industrial society together, create better citizens and generate widespread prosperity.
Education, for example, was less a personal investment than a public good – improving the entire community and ultimately the nation.
In subsequent decades – through the Great Depression, World War II and the Cold War – this logic was expanded upon. Strong public institutions were seen as bulwarks against, in turn, mass poverty, fascism and then Soviet communism.
The public good was palpable: We were very much a society bound together by mutual needs and common threats. It was no coincidence that the greatest extensions of higher education after World War II were the GI Bill and the National Defense Education Act, or that the largest public works project in history was called the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act.
But in a post-Cold War America distended by global capital, distorted by concentrated income and wealth, undermined by unlimited campaign donations, and rocked by a wave of new immigrants easily cast by demagogues as "them," the notion of the public good has faded.
Not even Democrats still use the phrase "the public good." Public goods are now, at best, "public investments." Public institutions have morphed into "public-private partnerships" or, for Republicans, simply "vouchers."
America has, though, created a whopping entitlement for the biggest Wall Street banks and their top executives – who, unlike most of the rest of us, are no longer allowed to fail. They can also borrow from the Fed at almost no cost, then lend out the money at 3 percent to 6 percent.
All told, Wall Street's entitlement is the biggest offered by the federal government, even though it doesn't show up in the budget. And it's not even a public good. It's just private gain.
We're losing public goods available to all, supported by the tax payments of all and especially the better-off. In its place we have private goods available to the very rich, supported by the rest of us.
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Q: How to make a trigger that fires after update only for tables that begin with a "Table_" I am trying to make a trigger that fires under certain conditions conditions
AFTER a UPDATE , on tables that start with a specific string like "A_" for example.
CREATE TABLE `Table_TEST` (
    `id` INT(11) NULL DEFAULT NULL,
    `A` INT(11) NULL DEFAULT NULL,
    `B` INT(11) NULL DEFAULT NULL,
    `C` INT(11) NULL DEFAULT NULL
)
COLLATE='utf8_unicode_ci'
ENGINE=InnoDB
;

The trigger should make the SUM (column "A") minus SUM(column "B") up to the index of the row that was updated and write this SUM into column "C" in this row.
CREATE DEFINER=`root`@`localhost`
TRIGGER `Table_TEST_before_insert` BEFORE UPDATE ON `Table_TEST` FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
SET new.C = (SUM(new.A)-SUM(new.B));
END

This Trigger does not work and brings this failure
UPDATE `Testdb`.`Table_TEST` SET `b`='4' WHERE  `id`=1 LIMIT 1;
/* SQL Fehler (1111): Invalid use of group function */

After this it should update all other values in column "C" that come after that index according the given formula up to that respective index.
Right now I written a function in php that I append after each update in the database in my php script. But its in fact not wat I want.
I want this as a Routine/Trigger.
What I tried looks like this, but be aware that its not working
CREATE DEFINER=`root`@`localhost`
TRIGGER `TABLE_1_before_update` BEFORE UPDATE ON `TABLE_1` FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
SET new.C = (SUM(new.A)-SUM(new.B)) WHERE id=NEW.id;
END

The Failure I get is :
    SQL Fehler (1064): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE id=NEW.id;
    END' at line 2
Can you please help me?

A: Well, I think you can select the tables and then you do your trigger.
SELECT `TABLE_NAME`
  FROM information_schema.tables
 WHERE table_schema='<your-database-name>'
   AND `TABLE_NAME` LIKE 'a%'

EDIT:
Not tested, but this could also work (if not, just select the table names with the previous query and then create each triggers as I said before).
CREATE
DEFINER=`user`@`localhost`
TRIGGER `trigger_name` AFTER UPDATE
ON (
    SELECT `TABLE_NAME`
      FROM information_schema.tables
    WHERE table_schema='<your-database-name>'
      AND `TABLE_NAME` LIKE 'a%'
)  FOR EACH ROW

BEGIN
    SET new.C = (SUM(new.A)-SUM(new.B)) WHERE id=NEW.id;
END

Note: Make sure to replace <your-database-name> for your database name.

A: A trigger belongs to a specific table.
You need to manually add a trigger to each table you want monitored (in your case, each table whose name starts with 'A').
Documentation: CREATE TRIGGER Syntax
Your requirements seem weird to me. It's quite unusual to update data only for tables whose name matches a filter. Are you sure you can't reorganize your database structure and have the data for all "A*" tables merged into a single table?

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An ACH plant was being built and this required pumps to be controlled, as well as Oxygen content. If the oxygen content in the gas exceeded certain parameters then Nitrogen would be added to the reaction immediately. As Hydrogen is a byproduct of the reaction extreme care has to be taken considering the possibility of an explosion due to static electricity. Many earthing probes are installed in the gas lines with a continuous earth strap Connected to stainless steel electrodes which penetrate the gas lines. Temperature profiles and control are also critical while the reaction is in progress. All equipment is rated for use in the hazardous area. An earth matt is installed as Well as a extended rod for conducting lightning to earth.
A mezzanine level was being built at the plant which contained the batching tanks. This allowed for all products to be gravity fed into the reactor. The control room was situated quite a distance away and there were many valves on the tanks to control. A decision was made to fit Profibus PA instruments onto all of the tanks to control levels. The inputs and outputs were connected to ISRPI which is Pepperl and Fuchs intrinsically safe I/O. The inputs and outputs were connected directly into the ISRPI which is mounted in the hazardous area. The panel is rated IP65 and modules can be exchanged or tested while the system is in operation. The ISRPI connects to the control system via Profibus PA and offers analogue modules with 15bit resolution. We have to carefully control the reaction as it is extremely exothermic. Viscosity is also a very important criteria for quality of the end product. Many safety interlocks are programmed into the system to avoid product damage as Well as for safety reasons. All data is logged and can be viewed via trend pages.


This Salmon Salad Niçoise has everything in it (hence the name). It's for those of us who like a few too many ingredients in our salads. It's delicious, hearty, and an incredibly inviting lunch for a group of 2 to 4 people.
Lest anyone take issue with this, this is definitely not a traditional Salad Niçoise. A traditional version would have tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, olives, and anchovies. Newer versions of the Salad Niçoise often contain green beans and potatoes. I know that anchovies really bring the umami flavor, but I don't typically cook with them at home because whenever I buy them I never end up using the whole can.
This salad is composed, so it looks beautiful when you serve it, but you need to mix it up when you eat it so you get the rich flavor of all the ingredients. I just serve it on a platter and let people take what they want though because I like how it's so beautifully arranged.
I've been adding edible flowers to a lot of salads recently. I know they might seem like a finicky, unnecessary addition, but people light up when you put an edible flower in front of them. I've been reading Edible Flowers: A Global History and the authors write, "Flowers are not typically found in everyday meals, so their deliberate inclusion in a dish makes that dish something special, a treat for the receiver. They send a message of freshness and caring". I think flowers are such a beautiful way to enliven a dish. Before eating flowers though, be sure to check out my handy guide on which ones are edible!
I hope you enjoy this delicious salad recipe!
This Salmon Salad Niçoise has everything in it (hence the name). It's for those of us who like a few too many ingredients in our salads.
Heat oven to 450 degrees F (232 C).
Add potatoes and carrots to a cookie sheet or roasting pan. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Bake for 20 to 30 minutes or until fork tender.
Heat a grill pan over medium high heat. Drizzle salmon fillets with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
When the pan is hot, place the salmon (skin side up) in the pan and cook for 4 to 5 minutes, or until the golden brown on one side.
Flip the salmon over and cook for another 3 minutes, or until the skin is crispy. The salmon should be 145 degrees F in the center, with an instant read thermometer.
Combine all the dressing ingredients and whisk briskly to combine.
Combine all the ingredients from the eggs to the arugula on a large platter and top with the salmon, carrots, and potatoes.
Top the salad with the dressing and edible flowers (if desired).
*Here's a recipe for hard boiled eggs, or you can just buy them pre-hard boiled (like me!) at Trader Joes.


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Cross-Country Skiing Competition schedule, Venue and Hotel
The National Cross-Country Skiing Centre
The National Cross-Country Ski Center is located in the valley on the southeast side of the Putrajaya area. From west to east, it is the stadium operation complex, the athletes complex, the stadium technical building, the stadium media center, and the broadcast complex. Among them, the total length of the track is 9.7 kilometers, which is divided into a race track in the east valley and a training track in the south valley; the technical building area of the venue is 4890 square meters, with a basement level and 4 floors above the ground.
The basement level is for excitement. For the testing station, the first floor mainly meets the competition management function, the second floor is the platform, the third floor is the Olympic family area, and the fourth floor is the room for competition technology such as arbitration, scoring and timing.
The first gold medal of the Winter Game will come from woman's skiathlon at 4:45 pm on February 5.
Cross-Country Skiing Competition Schedules
The National Cross-Country Skiing Centre, Zhangjiakou
Feb. 5: W 7.5km + 7.5km Skiathlon 15:45-16:45 (The first gold medal of Winter Games.)
Feb. 6: M 15km + 15km Skiathlon 15:00-16:45
Feb. 8: M/W Individual Sprint Free Qual. 16:00-17:35, Final 18:30-20:30
Feb. 10: W 10km Classic 19:00-19:50
Feb. 11: M 15km Classic 15:00-16:40
Feb. 12: W 4x5km Relay Classic/Free15:30-16:45
Feb. 13: M 4x10km Relay Classic/Free15:00-16:55
Feb. 16: W/M Team Sprint Classic Qual. 17:00-18:30, Final 19:00-20:20
Feb. 19: M 50km Mass Start Free 14:00-16:55
Feb. 20: W 30km Mass Start Free 14:30-16:40
*For a complete and official schedule published by the Olympics Committee, please contact us.
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Iran's Velayati Lauds Kurds for Standing against US, Israeli Meddling in Syria
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Ali Akbar Velayati, an international adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, said the Kurdish people of Syria proved that they would never allow the US and Israel to gain a foothold in the war-hit country.
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"Fortunately, in Syria, different tribes, including Arabs and Kurds, and followers of various religions are fighting against foreign aggression alongside each other and they have been victorious so far," Velayati said in a meeting with a delegation of Syrian Kurdish leaders in Tehran on Tuesday evening.
"Undoubtedly, the key to the victory of the dignified nation of Syria is the national unity that exists among the tribes and religions of the country," he said, adding that even Christians in Syria have sided with other people in the fight against terrorists.
"Our Kurdish brothers in Syria have demonstrated that they would never allow the United States and the Zionist regime to enter this important country in the West Asia," Velayati further stated.
The representative of Syria's Kurdish leaders, for his part, expressed his gratitude to Iran for supporting the Syrian people and said the good bilateral relations between Tehran and Damascus date back to the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
In recent years, the Middle East has been plagued with Takfiri terrorist groups like Daesh (ISIL or ISIS), which are believed to have been created and supported by the West and some regional Arab countries.
The terrorist groups, which claim to be Islamic but whose actions are anything but, have been committing heinous crimes not only against non-Muslims but mostly against Muslims in the region.
Iraq and Syria have been among the countries gripped by terrorism.
Iran, a close ally of the two countries, has supported their legitimate governments in their campaign against foreign-backed militancy and terrorism.
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Evangelist Andrew Palau shared the Gospel with a receptive crowd in the Argentina city of Jose C. Paz during a November 16-17 music festival that unified 140 churches, trained 2,000 believers in personal evangelism, and reached more than 19,000 people in person.
In addition to those reached in person, 31,000 people from around the world watched the festival online, reported Palau's organization, the Luis Palau Association. By the end of the weekend, more than 1,400 people reportedly had made public confessions of faith in Jesus.
"The harvest continues in Latin America," reported Palau in a video message.
Organized by the local evangelical community and supported by 140 local church congregations, the festival in Argentina was built on decades of committed ministry in Latin America from the Palau Association. While association founder Luis Palau faced consistent opposition when he first started preaching the Gospel on the streets of his hometown in Argentina six decades ago, the Palau Association reported a dramatic change in the receptivity of the Gospel and the growth of the Church in recent years.
A highlight of this festival was a service project earlier in the week in partnership with Samaritan's Feet. Focusing on the children of the community, the Palau team hosted a gathering on the Thursday before the festival where disadvantaged and underprivileged children could get their feet washed and receive a new pair of shoes. As the volunteers washed the children's feet, they shared the Gospel with them and invited them into a relationship with Jesus Christ. As a result of that outreach alone, 76 children accepted Christ.
The next festival with Palau will take place in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, February 16-18, 2019. Palau will also travel throughout the United States and to Europe, Latin America, and China to lead outreaches in several additional cities at the beginning of the New Year.
To view the association's upcoming events, visit www.palau.org/news/upcoming-events.


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The Lahore Gymkhana boasts two wooden floored, glass wall air-conditioned courts along with spacious seating capacity and adequate lighting. These courts have been venues for several national and international tournaments including the World Open Squash Championships. Another set of two equally good solid wall courts, with wooden flooring and air conditioned environment are also available for members and their families. Each of the two sets of the squash court has ancillary facilities of showers, changing rooms and lockers.
Courts have been designated as:
Court No. 3 Court No. 4
Use Of Courts
Courts No. 1 & 2
These are primarily for Permanent / Regular / Non – Earning Members. Members Children can use these courts in case they are vacant. Non – Earning Members cannot book these courts.
These courts are primarily for Members Children. Permanent / Regular members can also use these courts. However, Court No. 4 will have priority for Women players.
Use Of Foot wear
Players are requested to change their shoes prior to entering the squash court to play. Only squash playing / non-marking shoes for indoor sports can be used in the courts. Shoes used for other sports or black soled shoes would not be allowed.
Booking of Courts
The booking will be for 45 minutes. Members are requested to book their name – slot in advance with the Marker. Bookings will be made either by phone / personally by 15:00 hours on the same day, or by entering in the booking register a day before. If a member does not show up in ten minutes of the booking time, his / her booking shall stand cancelled and other members will be given a chance to use the court but only for the remaining 35 minutes. A member can book a court not more than three (03) times in a week.
Members are not allowed to play for more than 45 minutes in case of a queue.
Members wishing to play on daily payment basis would be charged @ Rs.200/- per day.
Member's guests can only play after paying necessary dues @ Rs.300/- per day.
Foreign guests of Members shall be charged @ Rs.500/- per day.
Rs. 200/- would be charged for playing with the Marker / Coach. Minimum charges of Rs. 100/- would be levied if the play is less than 30 minutes.
All games are to be watched quietly as the players are likely to lose concentration in an event of disturbance / noise.
When requested please produce / show membership card(s) to the Marker. It should not be taken as an insult / offence as this exercise is to prevent non – members using the courts.
No Card No Service rule applies for using bar items or eateries.
For any suggestion / complaints please contact the Captain or Secretary Squash.
Provision For Women
Court No. 4 is allocated to women players.
Racket + Balls shall be provided.
Only ASB approved paint will be used for the front walls of Court No. 1 & 2.
Courts will be cleaned both in the morning and evening.
Floors will be cleaned with towels soaked in hot water and vinegar mixture after properly rinsing the towel.
No polish / oil etc. will be used on the floors.
Members are requested to maintain discipline, exhibit sportsman spirit and comply with the rules prescribed above. Marker is authorized to prevent a member from playing in case of any violation of the above-mentioned rules / instructions.
Timings (All Year)
Monday-Saturday 06:00-08:00 14:00-20:45
Sunday As Per Club Managements Policy
Squash Council:
Ali Ghuman Secretary 0300 8496240
Salman Warraich Captain 0300 9489978
Abdul Waheed Ahmad Coach 0322 4971098
Abdul Rasheed Coach 0300 4744660
Rules for playing seeding matches
(Permanent / Regular / Non – Earning Members)
A seeding of the Top 15 Players will be maintained on the seeding board.
Any Permanent / Regular / Non – Earning member wanting to enter the seeding car has to challenge the # 15lh ranked player and win.
Every player on the board can challenge another player a step or two steps higher.
A player can challenge only one player at a time.
For this a player has to inform the marker of the challenge and enter their name on the challenge sheet mentioning who they have challenged. It is the duty of the challenger to inform the marker as well as the challenged player. The challenged player has to agree to a date and play the match within 10 days from the date of challenge.
If a player who is challenged is already challenged by another player, then the challenger has to wait till the first match is played. Challenge Sheet shall be considered to determine limitation.
If a match is not played within the stipulated time period, the challenger needs to claim a walk over after lapse of 10 days and within 15 days from the date of challenge otherwise the challenge would be considered null and void.
If a player who wins and ascends in seeding, he / she has to wait 2 days before further challenging any top ranked player to provide time for a lower ranked player to challenge him / her.
The losing player of the challenge match can re-challenge the same player after gap of 15 days from the previous match.
If for any reason the challenged player is unable to play within 10 days due to some reasons, both players with mutual consent can in that case provide an extra time of 2 days, not exceeding 12 days in total from the date of the challenge.
All seeding matches shall be played in presence of a referee which can be appointed with mutual consent of the players. Otherwise the marker shall be the referee. Decisions taken by the referee during the match will be final and players will be advised to accept these without any arguments.
All seeding matches shall be played as a set of Best of Five (5) games.
All seeding matches shall be played in a 11 points game, in case both players mutually agree they can play a 15 points game or a 9 points game.
All seeding matches shall be played with a Double Dot Yellow ball, in case both players mutually agree they can play it with a Single Dot Yellow ball.
Only Marker has the prerogative to change the seeding plates when necessary.
All seeding matches shall remain suspended during the Month of Ramadan and Tournaments.
In case of any dispute, the matter shall be referred either to the Captain Squash oi Secretary Squash.


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Club Kuru are a British five-piece psych-rock band, fronted by Laurie Erskine. In 2016 he formed a new band with fresh ideas. Guitarist Laurence Hammerton's positivity and upbeat nature allowed a new sound to emerge; one with more joy and groove. With the addition of with Fergus Ireland, together building their own studio in south east London. They even use and have studied recording techniques from a bygone era, solely using analogue synthesisers. Ultimately, the sound is unique – it is the product of the band's bare hands, put together in the space they worked tirelessly to perfect. Using only those mics, those instruments, those particular players; it is entirely their own.
As they prepare to visit the south coast at The Heartbreakers on October 23rd, I was given some time to find out more about the band from Laurie.
Could you tell me about how you initially got involved with music and who influenced you most?
My father was an actor in his younger years and could play guitar and piano a bit. He always liked to sing whilst he did the washing up. He taught me the blues and from that, I got into jazz. Laurence's dad is a musician and was in a 60's psych rock band, 'Sands' who were managed by Brian Epstein. He taught Laurence guitar. So we both owe our musical beginnings to our fathers. My mum was hugely encouraging too and sent me to piano lessons when I was seven.
Could you tell me about how the band came to be formed?
After studying piano at Trinity College of Music, (which is where I met bass player Fergus Ireland), I felt a bit let down by the London jazz scene's lack of excitement for what I was up to, so I started writing songs and singing. My older brother is a successful producer and he showed me how to do some stuff on the computer which led to me making some demos which got picked up. I had a short career making electronic pop but it didn't feel quite right and I started to move towards a more psychedelic and less modern sound. Needing bandmates, I put out feelers, and that's how I met Laurence. We got on straight away. Laurence and I now work together on everything related to Club Kuru.
Can you describe how you felt whilst after you'd released your first single?
In the past I'd always been a bit confused with what I was trying to do, but when I released 'Not For Me', my first single, I felt excited and proud. It was the first single we released as a band, not just me on my own. It came out in early 2017 and was followed by our first EP, 'Waiting at the Corner', which was very well received. Laurence and I knew absolutely that this was what we wanted to do right then.
For those who are new to your music which three tracks would you encourage them to check out first and why?
Check out 'The Memory Junkie,' 'Ribbons' and our latest single, '49 Years.'. I hope those three show you some differing styles to Club Kuru's sound.
In the past I'd always been a bit confused with what I was trying to do, but when I released 'Not For Me', my first single, I felt excited and proud.
Over the years has your approach to performing live changed and if so how?
I think our shows used to be about getting the songs sounding as close to the record as possible and giving a good performance. In fact, no, it was less than that, because at first it was a case of; how are we going to get to the gig with all our instruments? And how will we organise a full band of people who know the tunes…? Now we have refined our set and it's more comfortable, so we're able to take tunes in new directions each night. Coming from a jazz background has really helped that side of performing, I can just cue stuff and the band knows the kind of things to do. Sometimes we go somewhere totally different to the original song and it becomes more free and improvised which I have always loved. That's the great thing about playing heavily-produced and intricately arranged songs; it means we can go more abstract in the performance.
How do you feel when you share your music for the first time? Do you prefer to share new music live where you can see the crowd's reaction first hand or online perhaps?
We are nearly always playing catch-up because we aren't organised enough to do it any other way. Seeing as we run our own label, we have to do a lot of the preparation and planning ourselves so we rarely have tunes sorted for live before they come out online. Sometimes if we're lucky its nice when we release something and some people send us nice messages. We will have finished the song a little while ago and moved onto working on something else so it feels refreshed when it is finally released.
What bands and artists are you currently listening to and how are they inspiring you to explore and implement new ideas with your music?
I'm really into the American artist 'Weyes Blood'. Her songs are my favourite contemporary pieces out there at the moment. She just moves me! I try and tap into that feeling and not lose hope when there's a lot of bad noise out there.
What can those fortunate enough to have tickets expect from your live show?
Expect a fun show! It's quite laid back but there are some big lively moments too. This is our first proper headline run so we are excited to play a longer set with songs off the album and new ones no one will have heard.
What does the rest of the year have in store for you?
We've got the UK tour in October/November, and our new single '49 Years' came out this week. Then it's back to the studio to try and finish our second album before Christmas, ready for the New Year.
Website: clubkuru.com
Facebook: facebook.com/clubkuru
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During the National Day holidays in 2018, China recorded a total of 726 million domestic tourist trips, of which more than 90 percent involved cultural activities.
Homestays as a new type of tourist accommodation have been booming in China, with the number of host families quadrupling to 200,000 by the end of 2017, according to figures from the China Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Tourist homestay services are mainly grouped in east China's Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, in Sichuan and Yunnan in the southwest, and Guangdong and Guangxi in the south, the ministry noted at a press conference.
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Ramen Song now open in Redlands
Business, Dining by Off the 10 August 28, 2019 November 3, 2019
Redlanders looking to have their ramen fix now have a place to go — and it's open late.
Ramen Song opened in early August, at 22 E. Vine St. Specializing in Japanese cuisine and using locally-grown ingredients, Ramen Song offers ramen made with pork and vegan broth, with their spicy miso ramen a signature dish.
Other menu items include pork fried rice, bibimbap, chicken and beef yakitori, and gyoza. Beer, sake, and shochu cocktails are available.
Ramen Song is open from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday; 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday; 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Friday; and noon to 11:30 p.m. Saturday. The restaurant is closed on Sundays. —Catherine
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How old was Adam Sandler in the movie The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)?
Adam Sandler was 50 in The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) when he played the character 'Danny Meyerowitz'.
Today he is 56, and has starred in 97 movies in total, 15 of those since The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) was released.
In The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), I think Adam Sandler looks:
Director Noah Baumbach has worked with Adam Sandler just once in his career.
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) scores 6.46 out of 10 on TMDB.
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US praises FQM On $1.3bn investment
US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose Fernandez has applauded First Quantum Minerals for its 1.35 billion dollar investment in Zambia.
This is according to a statement released to the media; the Department of State representative has also praised the company for its safe and efficient operations.
He said this during a visit to FQM's Trident operations at Kalumbila in North-Western Province.
The US delegation Under Secretary and US Embassy Zambia Chargé d'Affaires Martin Dale toured the mine in Kalumbila accompanied by FQM's Government Affairs Specialist, Godwin Beene and the mine's Acting General Manager Junior Keyser.
FQM Zambia was recently ranked as the 6th largest copper producer in the world, and the diplomats were keen to see for themselves the investment that has gone into the Trident operations and the environmental and safety measures the mine has put in place to make Trident a world class operation.
Mr Fernandez said Zambia needs more foreign investment, and that the country has a government that has made it priority to attract foreign investment.
After the tour, Mr Fernandez said he was impressed with the mining operations at Sentinel, which achieved copper production of 233,000 tons in 2021.
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Transportation Services regularly experiences a high call volume, which has sometimes made it difficult for parents to contact the department if their child has not arrived at their destination as scheduled. As such, Parkland School Division has established a hotline solely for parents and guardians to use in these scenarios, which will remain open on school days from our scheduled first pick up in the morning to our scheduled final drop off in the afternoon between the hours of 6:30am-5:30pm.
To ensure the hotline is used only for its intended purpose, we ask all parents and guardians to consider the following before calling the hotline to check on the status of their bus students.
Have you checked the Bus Status page to see if the bus is running late or has been cancelled?
If you've checked on all the above possibilities and none of them serve as an explanation for your situation, please contact Transportation Services via the hotline.
For all other general transportation-related inquiries, please contact Transportation Services at 780-963-8452 or Transportation@psd70.ab.ca.


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WASHINGTON - The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced in a press release that it has submitted reports for two intellectual property law studies required by the America Invents Act (AIA) to Congress. The first report was prepared under Section 3 of the AIA and addresses the scope of prior user rights defense in industrialized countries. The second report was prepared under Section 31 of the AIA and concerns international patent protection for small businesses. Both reports can be accessed from the USPTO's website at http://www.uspto.gov/americainventsact.
The Prior User Rights Defense Report includes a comparison of prior user rights in industrialized countries; the impact of prior user rights on innovation, start-up enterprises, small businesses, individual inventors, and universities; an analysis of the legal and constitutional issues with placing trade secret law in patent law; and an analysis of whether a first-to-file system creates a need for prior user rights. The Prior User Rights Defense Study was conducted in consultation with the Department of State, Department of Justice, and United States Trade Representative. The Prior User Rights Defense Report offers ten specific fact findings and makes five recommendations regarding the defense.
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Having a total of 113 apartments ; 95 one bedroom and 18 two bedrooms all have a large terrace offering Mediterranean or mountain views, air-conditioner , living room with a sofa bed and satellite TV, modern kitchen, and a private bathroom with a hairdryer.
At SunClub's garden you can find a large swimming pool with Jacuzzi, one children´s swimming pool with water games, two playgrounds, a football pitch, table tennis and a gymnasium. At the top roof there's a solarium where you can enjoy the most amazing views of Costa Dorada while you sunbath, only for adults.
The complex offers an à la carte restaurant, or a delicious breakfast English style buffet ,takeaway service, At high season you can also joy a variable entertainment program .The bar area have kids games room, pool table and a TV room where you can watch your favourite match.
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July 2021 by Jim Hutchinson, Jr.
Earlier this year New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law into effect which will create a master set of rules and regulations for the state's pending marijuana industry. While it's still not yet legal to purchase marijuana in the Garden State, residents voted overwhelmingly last November to legalize its recreational use. So while the retail aspect remains a little hazy as state legislators wrangle over specifics, at this point possession of a small amount of cannabis has effectively been decriminalized in New Jersey.
Before you decide to roll one up on your next trip to the fishing grounds, there are a few important things to consider. First of all, boating under the influence can cost you big time; not just the fines or the grave nature of operating a motorized vessel while impaired, but what you do at the helm could cost you significant time behind the wheel as well with forfeiture of driving privileges. Not preaching here folks, just a factual reminder.
The other part of the recreational drug use equation you may not have considered – and I don't think legislators have thought this through either – is how your personal marijuana use impacts someone else's rights and responsibilities under federal jurisdictions. Take for example a licensed captain in the state of New Jersey; whether that professional has a six-pack ticket (referred as OUPV which stands for Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessel) or a Master 100-ton certificate held by party boat captains operating those larger vessels inspected by the United States Coast Guard (USCG), these endorsements that allow captains to take passengers for-hire are managed by the federal government.
And that's the gray area for your personal consideration! You see, while New Jersey, New York and more recently Connecticut have taken the necessary steps to legalize marijuana in their respective states, at the federal level it remains classified as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 making use and possession of cannabis illegal under federal law. And our USCG-licensed captains are governed by federal law, meaning you're fishing under their rules and regulations!
I contacted a couple of legislators and left several messages with the USCG for an "on record" response to the cannabis conundrum with no response. I then turned to Jim Emmons, executive director of the Water Sports Foundation who has some experience navigating bureaucratic waters, and he was able to get a limited response from one of his USCG contacts.
"Even though many states have legalized it, marijuana is still considered contraband according to the federal government," Emmons said, adding that his source said there is some indication that a violation of marijuana possession and/or use would be at the discretion of the responding federal or state boarding officers. "However, this is separate from an indication that the operator may be Boating Under the Influence (BUI)," Emmons added, explaining how a boat operator can still be subject to BUI laws regardless of whether it's marijuana, or alcohol or anything else.
The key takeaway here is the word "discretion." In other words, it is up to the "discretion" of federal authorities in federal waters to decide whether or not that substance – for all intents and purposes legal within 3 miles of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey – is still illegal contraband outside the 3-mile limit. So while your bag of stash may be perfectly acceptable at the Shrewsbury Rocks, once you head out to the Rattlesnake you're at the "discretion" of federal authorities.
As for charter and headboat captains who are issued a USCG license and must adhere to federal guidelines, it's their boat, their rules, and their butt in a sling if you should decide to partake upon the high seas.
As Capt. Quint said, "yeah it's your charter, it's your party, but it's my vessel."
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Anti-Choice Group Working To 'Unleash A Whole Army Of David Daleidens'
By Miranda Blue | December 18, 2015 5:35 pm
The anti-choice activist in Texas who inspired David Daleiden's sham "baby parts" investigation of Planned Parenthood is launching a project to "unleash a whole army of David Daleidens" to spy on abortion providers "in every part of the country."
Mark Crutcher, the president of Life Dynamics, announced in a local radio interview with Cleveland Right to Life's Molly Smith earlier this month that he is in the process of building a facility and developing a curriculum to conduct "professional training to help pro-lifers understand how to go inside the very cloistered and very closed abortion industry and bring out their dirty little secrets."
Daleiden's futile effort to catch Planned Parenthood breaking federal laws on handing fetal tissue was modeled on a similar project Crutcher conducted in 2000. When he was initially planning his anti-Planned Parenthood project, Daleiden took his "6-foot, 30-pound black-throated monitor lizard" on a cross-country road trip to meet with Crutcher and with Operation Rescue's Troy Newman, who eventually became one of three board members of his Center for Medical Progress.
Crutcher, who pioneered the strategy of recruiting what he called "spies for life" to find information about abortion providers in order to harass them out of business, told Smith that the fight over abortion rights "is a war, and one aspect of war is intelligence gathering and undercover work — spying, if you will."
"We're going to try to create an army of people who are trained in every part of the country, they will be operating any place there's an abortion clinic, to go into the abortion industry and bring out their dirty little secrets," he said. "And I think that this is going to change the pro-life movement permanently, and I think it's going to change it in a pretty dramatic way."
Crutcher reminded listeners that as well as inspiring Daleiden, he trained Live Action's Lila Rose, who worked with Daleiden on another fruitless "sting" operation against Planned Parenthood in 2011, which was also modeled on Crutcher's work at Life Dynamics.
"Now what we want to do is unleash a whole army of David Daleidens and Lila Roses and James O'Keefes and people like that around the country," Crutcher said.
Crutcher also discussed his new book, "Siege: A Pro-Life Field Manual," in which he argues that the anti-choice movement needs to "start applying basic military strategy" to its efforts.
"The book is called 'Siege,' which, of course, is a military term, because I look at this as a war," he told Smith. "There is a war being waged right now and people need to understand, the war is not between the pro-life side and the pro-abortion side or the pro-choice side, whatever you want to call it. The war is between the abortion lobby and the unborn child. We are simply, basically a volunteer army that signed up to defend those who can't defend themselves, in other words the unborn child. But that's where the war is. It's not between us and our enemies, it's between our enemies and the babies."
He said that part of the military mindset that the anti-abortion movement must adopt is to "be aware that there are dangers out there that we haven't thought about."
As an example, he presented his theory that Planned Parenthood is secretly "positioning itself to become an agency of the U.S. government."
"I think that we could very easily look up here one day in the not-too-distant future," he said, "and see a press conference being called with Barack Obama and beside him would be Cecile Richards from Planned Parenthood and them announcing that a new agency has been formed under the Department of Health and Human Services, it would probably be called something like the U.S. Department of Women and Reproductive Health or something like that, and that the name 'Planned Parenthood' is going away and that Planned Parenthood is now an agency of the government."
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Q: Pólya's Enumeration formula and isomers
The hydrocarbon benzene has six carbon atoms arranged at the vertices
  of a regular hexagon, and six hydrogen atoms, with one bonded to each
  carbon atom.

I know that two molecules are said to be isomers if they are composed
of the same number and types of atoms, but have different structure.
How many isomers may be obtained by replacing two of the hydrogen
atoms with chlorine atoms, and two others with bromine atoms?
Show that exactly three isomers (ortho-dichlorobenzene, meta-di-chlorobenzene, and para-dichlorobenzene) may be constructed by replacing two of the hydrogen atoms of benzene with chlorine atoms.
So far I've ended up nowhere, I would appreciate the help.

A: For the dichlorbenzene, observe that the two chlorine atoms may be adjacent or diagonally opposite or at distance 2.
The possible distributions of chlorine and bromine are (up to rotation and reflection)

*

*Cl Cl Br Br H H

*Cl Cl Br H Br H

*Cl Cl Br H H Br

*Cl Cl H Br Br H

*Cl Br Cl Br H H

*Cl Br Cl H Br H

*Cl H Cl Br Br H

*Cl H Cl Br H Br

*Cl Br Br Cl H H

*Cl Br H Cl Br H

*Cl Br H Cl H Br

A: This is just like what we did here. Draw the basic benzene hexagon and for now do not fill in the slots where the hydrogen atoms are attached. Now study the automorphisms of the benzene hexagon. You might think that for example a rotation that maps a carbon atom to its clockwise neighbor is an automorphism, but that would be wrong, because it does not take single and double bonds into account. Double bonds must be mapped to double bonds, and this simplifies things considerably.
It follows that the automorphism group $G$ of this compound is generated by a rotation by 120 degrees and three flips about the axes passing through the centers of opposite single-double bonds. It is not difficult to see that a series of rotations in fact simplifies to a single rotation, that two flips cancel each other, and that two flips with rotations between them yield a rotation. This means we have covered all of $G$.
Now the three flips have cycle structure $a_2^3$ and the two rotations, $a_3^2$, giving the cycle index
$$ Z(G) = \frac{1}{6} \left( a_1^6 + 3 a_2^3 + 2 a_3^2 \right).$$
The base generating function for the first question is $H + Cl + Br,$ which we substitute into the cycle index, getting
$$1/6\, \left( H+{\it Cl}+{\it Br} \right) ^{6}+1/2\, \left( {H}^{2}+{{
\it Cl}}^{2}+{{\it Br}}^{2} \right) ^{3}+1/3\, \left( {H}^{3}+{{\it Cl
}}^{3}+{{\it Br}}^{3} \right) ^{2}$$
It follows that the number of isomers with two hydrogen atoms, two chlorine atoms and two bromide atoms is 18 (extract the coefficient of $H^2 Cl^2 Br^2$).
I get four different isomers of dichlorobenzene (again extracting coefficients, this time for $H^4 Cl^2$). These are: 1, two chlorine atoms bonded to two carbon atoms with a double bond between them, 2, same, but with a single bond between the carbon atoms, 3, with one carbon atom between them and 4, with two carbon atoms between them (in number 3, the angle between the two chlorine atoms is 120 degrees and in number 4, 180 degrees). I am not a chemist and I looked this up. It turns out that 1-2 dichlorobenzene does not exist as the isomer with a single bond between the carbon atoms to which the chlorine atoms are attached. Why that is I don't know.

A: For the problem of counting the number of distinct benzene rings with $2~$hydrogen, $2~$chlorine and $2~$bromine atoms attached, under the dihedral symmetry group and using Pólya's method (which is no great improvement on brute counting here), one can reason as follows. The $12$-element dihedral group has as conjugacy classes: the singleton identity, two rotations of order$~6$, two of order$~3$, a single rotation of order$~2$ (minus the identity), and two classes of $3~$reflections each.
We need to sum over all these symmetries the number of configurations (not of classes of configurations) invariant under the symmetry (so having at least that symmetry). For the identity just count all configurations, which are $\binom6{2,2,2}=90$ in number. All symmetries of order$~2$ happen to have at least $2$ orbits of length$~2$, for each of which the same atom has to be attached on their elements, and the remaining $2$ elements also necessarily have the same two (remaining) atoms attached. The gives $3!=6$ configurations for each one of those$~7$ symmetries, and $42$ in all. The other symmetries have some orbit longer than$~2$, which makes it impossible to have one of our configurations fixed by them. So adding up and dividing by the order of the group one obtains $\frac{90+42}{12}=11$ as answer. This agrees with the enumeration of Hagen von Eitzen.


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Why is Haiti the poorest country in the Western hemisphere? Comparison with Haiti's neighbour, the Dominican Republic, suggests that the causes go back to the closing of the Haitian economy to foreigners after independence in 1804, and soil exhaustion on small family farms created by land redistribution. These encouraged political instability, which deterred tourism and investment (3,020 words)
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The English word "giraffe" comes from the Arabic zarāfah, meaning "fast walker", which derives in turn from the ancient Persian zurnāpā, a portmanteau of "flute" and "leg". Until the late 16th century the giraffe was known in England as the "camelopard", echoing its ancient Greek name, kamēlopárdalis, and the middle-Persian equivalent, šotorgâvpalang, or "camel-ox-leopard" (2,066 words)
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Physical Activity Policies (Education Code, §28.004(k() (District Wellness Policy)
The legislation adds an emphasis on proper nutrition and exercise to health curriculum required for kindergarten through grade 12. A school district shall publish in the student handbook and post on the district's Internet website, a statement of the policies adopted to ensure that elementary school, middle school and junior high school students engage in a least 30 minutes per school day or 135 minutes per school week of physical activity; and a statement of the number of times during the preceding year the district's school health advisory council has met; whether the district has adopted and enforces policies to ensure that district campuses comply with agency vending machine and food service guidelines for restricting student access to vending machines; and whether the district has adopted and enforces policies and procedures that describe penalties for the use of tobacco products by students and others on school campuses or at school-sponsored or school related events.
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Q: Ocultar pasta do URL Galera estou com dificuldade de adapta esse codigo, o meu site esta em uma pasta chama site quero ocultar essa pasta e deixa tudo se tivesse na raiz, ate ai funciona, o problema esta quando vou acessar a pasta 'admin' quando me logo da erro 404, será que alguem pode me ajudar
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RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(?!site/)(.*)$ site/$1?url_rewrite [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(.*)\/(.*)\/(.*)\.html$ index.php?module=$1&page=$2&section=$3&ss=$4&url_rewrite [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(.*)\/(.*)\.html$ index.php?module=$1&page=$2&section=$3&url_rewrite [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(.*)\.html$ index.php?module=$1&page=$2&url_rewrite [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)?(\/)$ index.php?module=$1&url_rewrite [QSA,L]

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php_value post_max_size 32M

A: Método A
Se queres evitar que o 'esqueleto' da pasta site seja exibido ao acessar a pasta diretamente pelo URL (meusite.com/site), como neste exemplo abaixo:

/site
    • imagens
    • js
    • css
       • meusEstilos.css

basta adicionares dentro dessa pasta um ficheiro index.html ou um ficheiro index.php e adicionar um conteúdo dummy nesse ficheiro. Por exemplo:
index.html

Nothing to see here

Método B
Se quiseres optar por usar htaccess em vez disso para redirecionar o tráfego destinado à pasta site para uma página 404 por exemplo, podes fazê-lo assim:
RedirectMatch 404 ^/site/.*$

ou então
RedirectMatch 301 ^/site/ http://www.meusite.com/?

se quiseres redirecionar o tráfego para a homepage ou para uma página especifica.


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Print and Play Review: "Evolution," North Star Games
September 24, 2017 Thomas Vose GameRT, International Games Week, Resources
Evolution (the print and play version is available here) is a card-based game about, well, evolution – specifically evolving species to protect themselves from predators and get a leg up on the competition for food.
A game takes about an hour. Play consists of using the cards dealt each round to create new species, add "traits" such as a hard shell, symbiosis or a carnivorous nature to critters, or to develop their growth or population. Players then duke it out for the limited food resources available that round to see which species survive to evolve again. The player with the most points (as reflected by the number and complexity of species, as well as the food stockpile) when the deck runs out wins.
The multifunction nature of the cards as food, upgrades and boosts all in one is a clever mechanic that makes for a streamlined game, and the "traits" species can adopt can lead to some interesting standoffs – for instance, between carnivores who desperately need to eat each other to survive, but with one hiding in trees and another camouflaged, can't the food they need. Evolve or die!
The artwork for the print and play version is significantly stripped down from the quite lovely illustrations found on the full version, but functional. While no food tokens are provided, different colored beans work well as counters. Additionally, the instructions for the print and play version are somewhat confusingly worded, especially when describing the food mechanic, but visiting the forums on BoardGameGeek is a great way to clear up any ambiguity.
This print and play version of Evolution is a great way to start a collection if you don't have a tabletop game budget. Thank you very much to North Star Games for supporting International Games Week 2017!
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I feel like North Star Games missed a trick with their last tie-breaker. In keeping with the theme of the game, I feel like the winner should be whomever eats the most of the pizza, and in case of a tie there a second game should be played.
My mother introduced me to board games / card games and she is a lover of nature and loves not too complex yet visually and mentally stimulating. So not medieval RPG's or empire building or intense and long strategy like Scotland Yard.
This will be just perfect!
It is beautiful to look at with smartly designed boards and interesting yet to the point gameplay!
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An emergency communications network is designed to provide reliable communications during an emergency.

The term may refer to a military network, such as:
 Ground Wave Emergency Network
 Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network

Emergency communication networks may also be used for notifying the public of emergencies requiring action.
 NOAA Weather Radio
 Emergency Alert System
 Emergency Public Warning System
 National Severe Weather Warning Service

It also may refer to a network established by civil authorities, with or without volunteer help:
 Emergency communications center
 Amateur radio emergency communications
 Emergency communication system

Frequently, a previously established Emergency communications center provides dispatching of Emergency services and Emergency operations center capabilities during a severe disaster.  In the United States, dialing 911 is the most frequent method of contacting the dispatch personnel.

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Possible Details About Bill Cosby's Future Prison Sentence Revealed
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Following Bill Cosby's conviction, the actor and comedian will probably end up in jail, but there will be some differences between Cosby's tenure in jail and the average person's. As more information about the comedian's prison time has come to light, it has been revealed that Cosby will likely receive special treatment while locked behind bars for his "health and safety," due not only to his high profile and his elderly age, but also to his blindness. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections provides a variety of services for inmates with special needs, including those who need wheelchairs or, like Cosby, are blind. These services are provided to any inmate with such needs, and they would reportedly apply to Bill Cosby too if he's imprisoned.
According to law enforcement officers close to the area, Bill Cosby is allegedly expected to receive assistance while serving his sentence in prison. That could include a fellow inmate escorting Cosby around in prison for his daily routine, or even a special cell -- if it is needed, based on his deteriorating health. If official, items would be brought in to the actor when needed, meaning he wouldn't need to move around the prison as much. And due to Bill Cosby's age and the fact that if he is sentenced to prison he would be a first-time prisoner, TMZ says he will likely receive a "trained peer support specialist". They would serve as guides to Cosby's expected transition to prison.
Additionally, due to his high profile celebrity status, Bill Cosby might also be eligible to warrant additional security measures. It will depend on the status of Bill Cosby's prison sentence. Officials are currently evaluating what will need to happen if Cosby is set to prison, and it's a story that will continue to develop in the weeks and months -- maybe even years -- to come.
Last week, Bill Cosby was found guilty on all three counts of aggravated indecent assault. The 80-year-old comedian faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for each charge, and it's possible that he will live out the rest of his limited time on Earth inside a prison cell. Cosby reportedly lashed out at the prosecutors after it was asked that he be taken into custody immediately since he has a private jet and could flee, raising his voice and using profanity, which further removed the comedian away from the family-friendly image he built for himself throughout the last five decades. As it is being reported today, one juror said Cosby's own 2005 disposition is what led him to believe he was guilty. By Cosby's own admission, Harrison Synder told Good Morning America that Cosby suggested that he had sexual affairs with these women and that he acquired drugs.
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Solicitors in West Lothian question court safety measures amid new Covid variant
By Kapil SummanPublished 8 January 2021
Solicitors in West Lothian will move to adjourn future trial diets as concern over the safety of courts in Scotland grows.
The Faculty of West Lothian Solicitors has endorsed the response of the Glasgow Bar Association to the Lord President, Lord Carloway, who this week said failure to comply with court safety rules may constitute contempt of court.
In a letter to Livingston Sheriff Court, Greg Douglas, dean of Faculty of West Lothian Solicitors, said that Lord Carloway seemed to be suggesting "that criminal court business should simply continue as before, with no further safeguards or mitigations" despite the fact the UK is at the epicentre of a new variant of Covid-19 which is thought to be up to 70 per cent more transmissible than the earlier form of the virus.
He said: "Respectfully, our members strongly disagree with that position. Indeed, we understand that criminal court practitioners across Scotland strongly disagree with that position."
Mr Douglas raised a number of points casting doubt on the safety of courts in the current lockdown. He questioned why courts could be kept open if schools could not; whether the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) had undertaken a fresh risk assessment and also cited various situations in which client consultations on court premises were unavoidable.
He said it was not clear "why the type of protections understandably provided to court staff have not been extended to court practitioners, for example, by way of the provision of perspex screens in interview rooms and at the front of the court dock and witness box".
Nor was he confident about safety measures during criminal trials.
Mr Douglas said: "Our view is that in such cases, it can no longer be considered safe for what may be as many as 8 people to be within an enclosed, unventilated room, for what will often be an extended period of several hours.
"In those circumstances, our members are of the view that for the health and safety of all concerned, they will have no option but to move to adjourn future trial diets until the various concerns arising from the worsening public health situation have been resolved."
An SCTS spokesperson told Scottish Legal News: "The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service follow very clear guidance from Public Health Scotland on the measures that are required to minimise the potential transmission of the virus and on how the courts can continue to operate safely under the current restrictions.
"Court buildings and courtrooms adhere strictly to that guidance. While there is an increased risk of transmission from the new variant of Covid, the current clinical advice is that provided the FACTS guidance is followed, the working environment will be as safe as possible."
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I Deux () sono stati un duo hip hop sudcoreano formatosi nel 1993 e scioltosi nel 1995, tra i primi ad importare il genere di musica afroamericano nella penisola asiatica.

Storia
Il duo era formato dai due colleghi e amici Lee Hyun-do e Kim Sung-jae, conosciutisi facendo da ballerini di back-up a Hyun Jin-young. Pubblicarono il loro album di debutto eponimo, contenente la hit Turn Around and Look at Me, nel 1993, dando alle stampe altri tre album in studio prima di sciogliersi nel 1995 per intraprendere strade soliste. Nel gruppo, Lee gestiva la composizione musicale, mentre Kim si occupava dello stile e delle coreografie.

Kim venne trovato morto per un'apparente overdose il 20 novembre 1995, all'indomani del suo debutto solista; le circostanze esatte del suo decesso sono rimaste sconosciute. In seguito alla sparizione del collega, Lee pubblicò un album di greatest hits, Deux Forever.

Lascito
Oltre che per il contributo dato all'introduzione dell'hip hop e del new jack swing in Corea del Sud, i Deux sono ricordati anche per aver reso popolari le coreografie e la moda influenzate dalla cultura hip hop.

Le canzoni We Are, Come Back To Me e Out of the Ring sono state inserite nel videogioco Pump It Up.

Formazione
 Lee Hyun-do – voce (1993-1995)
 Kim Sung-jae – voce (1993-1995)

Discografia

Album in studio
 1993 – Deux
 1993 – Deuxism
 1994 – Rhythm Light Beat Black
 1995 – Force Deux

Album dal vivo
 1995 – Live 199507121617

Raccolte
 1996 – Deux Forever

Note

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