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Screaming fans Greet Jackson with Hugs in London – MiniBullet#33
By mjeol_writer March 20, 2007 MJEOL BULLET
Media greets him with disgusting contempt and disrespect
MARCH 21 2007 – Despite certain news outlets' attempts to convince the public that Michael Jackson is irrelevant and has no fans, events all over the world continue to illustrate how purposely misleading their reports appear to be.
Reading and watching all of the online news coverage — mostly from the Associated Press — both from Japan and {tag London} sparked by Jackson's visits this month, it's difficult to come away thinking that Jackson is on his way down as far as popularity is concerned or that the media's credibility is on it's way up as far as respect is concerned.
Did the recent news stop the {tag Daily Mail} and DailyIndia.com from lacing recent reports with dubious information about the reason for Jackson's recent visit to London? Hell no!
Neither source is particularly known to be a bastion of accurate Michael Jackson news. Both agencies preferred to refer to him as 'Jacko', which has become equivalent to a hackneyed expletive, at least among some in the fan community.
Since both entities appear to have long since jettisoned their manners and decency when the names "Michael" and "Jackson" are mentioned in sequence in the same report, excuse me if I feel that I am under no obligation to extend any courtesy when referencing the hacks who wrote the article(s).
As with many things found in the press which are Jackson-related, it often takes someone who doesn't hold him in total contempt to actually give a factual account of current events involving him. When this collective "they", called 'the media', witness evidence contrary to their preconceived notions, they appear baffled and fall into doing one of two things: (1) Downplay the importance of these public appearances by lacing reports with asinine insults; or (2) Move on to other 'news' with unsubstantiated claims and make fun of him for a day or two with smart-assed comments, of course.
A perfect example of the second point is new tabloid reports about Jackson's recent stay at a London hotel where he's allegedly "demanding" candy. Oooo! That DIVA! (see article)
I'm almost positive he'd send a bodyguard or somebody to get a Snicker's bar from a vending machine before calling down to room service in an expensive-ass, £3,000-a-night hotel, and demanding sweets; sweets they'd probably greatly overcharge him for anyway. If it was me paying £3,000 a night, and I asked for some damn candy, you had better bring me some damn candy! That's all I'm saying.
What exactly is the going rate for a 60 cent Snicker's bar in an expensive hotel anyway? Like $50 a bar? I'm kidding……It may only be about $25. But I'm seriously digressing here.
Right now, however, this MiniBullet will use a few recent reports to focus on the insidious way in which 'the media' tries to convince an otherwise ill-informed public that Jackson will never be as important or as loved as his 25 year old self from 1983.
Check out this statement from the Daily Mail report: "Despite his fading popularity, singer Michael Jackson, 48, was mobbed by a diehard collection of fans at his London hotel" (see article).
Obvious assumptions are in that statement. First, it assumes that the 'diehard collection' of fans – instead of just regular fans – were the one's doing the 'mobbing'. Second, it assumes that Jackson has 'fading popularity' and despite that, the fans are mobbing him.
How asinine does one have to be NOT to notice that his popularity apparently can't be as 'faded' as claimed considering the fact that there were people MOBBING him in the first place! Hello?
I don't think people regularly go out mobbing kinda-popular, sorta-used-to-be popular, or absolutely-unpopular folk.
The DailyIndia.com report goes a step further with the insults, calling him the "former King of Pop".
As if somebody else has the talent—or the testicular fortitude to deal with being the 'King of Pop'—to have taken the title away from him. Both "uncannily" similar reports carried the unsubstantiated allegation that Jackson was in London to meet with {tag Paul McCartney} about selling part of the Beatle's catalog. Both reports also regurgitated rumors about Jackson's finances.
According to the articles, not only did his trip to London have something to do with trying to "stave off bankruptcy", but he was also "frail looking" too! Poor Mike! Poor Mike! Cue the violins!
My analytical thinking skills immediately forces me to ask: Since when could people allegedly on the verge of bankruptcy afford a £3,000 a night hotel room in the first place?
At some point, they're really going to have to take the 'bankruptcy' report out of the 'news' category and let it fall into the 'wish' category.
As for 'frail looking'……well Jackson's never looked like a 6'2'', 250 pound bodybuilder. So that means he's been 'frail looking' since at least 1978.
But I suppose getting a break from the melodramatics of such reporting is too much to hope for from some entity other than the A.P. S
o how does this collective body known as 'the media' try to explain why Jackson still has hundreds sometimes thousands of people chasing him and screaming in delight even though he's not on stage, hasn't song a word and isn't moonwalking down the street?
I guess we're just supposed to believe that the people chasing his van down the streets of London in that video above all had a voodoo spell placed on them and were showing him adoration against their will?
Hey! Maybe he threatened to kidnap them and send them to Brazil in a hot air balloon if they didn't greet him with hug and kisses? Geez.
Let me stop before that becomes the next headline in some hack reporter's bull$hit article.
-MJEOL
Tagged : fans greet jackson london screaming
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The redevelopment of existing sites in urban areas calls for compact equipment that can be used in tight spaces; and as infrastructure spills out into new areas, ever-bigger projects demand more precise foundations on a larger scale.
One such large-scale urban development project currently underway is the £8 billion ($10.8 billion) renovation of the Battersea Power Station in London, UK, where Bauer has been executing specialist foundation engineering works.
Renovation of the site began in 2013, to create a complex of residential areas, retail outlets, workplaces, galleries, markets, restaurants and pedestrian streets. Bauer was awarded the phase 2 foundations contract at the start of 2016.
The English subsidiary of Bauer Spezialtiefbau is carrying out the foundation work from within the existing structure of the former power station, which was said to present some major challenges in terms of access to the construction site, working space and headroom.
Before the main works began, Bauer carried out various preliminary works, including the construction of test piles and the removal of old foundations and redundant piles. The redundant piles ranged from 300 to 900mm in diameter, with a variety of depths from 12 to over 30m, and were removed by inserting a casing tube into the ground around each pile and then breaking up the pile within the casing by means of a drill.
The resulting borehole was then filled with low-strength concrete, so that Bauer could install a new foundation pile in that location during the next phase.
The main works followed, including the installation of two very large secant pile walls inside what were originally the Turbine Halls.
Doyle said, "Installation of these walls was far from easy, as access – including headroom – was severely restricted." Over 500 secant piles – 1,000mm in diameter and up to 26m deep – were installed in the two basement excavations.
Two new Bauer BG 39 drilling rigs, a BG 40 and three duty cycle cranes were delivered to the site. Due to space restrictions, the masts for the BG rigs were delivered on separate low loaders, together with the drilling tools and the Kelly bar, and were re-assembled within the building.
The scope of the piling includes 480 supporting piles ranging from 750 to 2,100mm in diameter, drilled down to a depth of up to 63m, and 500 secant piles. Drilling work is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
JCB has also been involved in the Battersea Power Station development, providing a new fleet of crawler excavators that shifted more than 50,000m3 of earth on the site, as part of the foundation works.
The concrete frame specialists MPB Structures purchased three JS220LC and two JS130LC models specifically for the contract.
The machines carried out bulk excavation duties, as well as creating a service trench and loading the removed spoil into dumpers to be taken off site by road.
Following the complex excavation process, which involved digging to a depth of 8.5m and installing temporary props to retain earth, MPB Structures will insert pile walls to create the basement area for the new development.
Another large project has been taking place on the other side of the globe, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A new Liebherr LB 44-510 – the manufacturer's biggest rotary drilling rig – is part of a fleet of foundations equipment that is being deployed by Malaysian foundations and geotechnical specialist Aneka Jaringan on the city's Sentral Suites project. It is working alongside a new Liebherr LB 36 rig, which is the second largest machine in the company's range.
This landmark development in Kuala Lumpur's new-generation central business district will include three towers, the tallest of which will be 45 storeys. Aneka Jaringan started on the site in January 2017 and is working to an 18-month schedule.
The two rigs are boring to depths of up to 35m, with a maximum pile diameter of 1.8m, and were delivered with an extensive training package for the contractor's operators and service personnel.
In Egypt's capital, Cairo, equipment manufacturer Soilmec has provided a number of rigs for a project that is aimed at addressing the city's traffic congestion problem.
To better cope with the 3.3 million cars that use Cairo's roads every day, the Rod El Farag project will connect the existing ring road around the city with the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Highway, providing an alternative route to the heavily congested roads.
The Rod El Farag Highway will be approximately 35km long, with eight lanes – four in each direction – and a service lane on each side. The project also includes the construction of two bridges across the River Nile, one 260m wide and the other 180m wide.
The job site is mostly flat and stands between 1.5 and 2m above sea level, on average. The stratigraphy consists primarily of two formations: silty clay that is relatively soft in consistency, and dense silty sand. There are also some layers of very compact, hard silty clay.
Among the rigs supplied by Soilmec are the SR-45 and SR-60, which were said to be flexible and with fast operating capacities. They are driving piles with a diameter of 1,000mm to a maximum depth of 31m. The excavation work is being performed using bentonite mud and bucket tools, and it is expected that 3,000 piles will be required in total.
Inaccuracies and inefficiencies in foundation works become all the more costly the larger a project is, and new technology can offer a solution.
The Federation of Piling Specialists (FPS) has called for greater main contractor awareness of how BIM (building information modelling) can be used to benefit below-ground construction – specifically piling and substructure work.
The move follows feedback from a recent survey it undertook to look at the impact of BIM on the piling and substructure industry, in which more than 80% of respondents confirmed its beneficial impact, yet also found little call from clients for its application.
The FPS, as part of its BIM activity, is raising awareness at all client levels of the technology's potential benefits to its members' services and activities.
Over the coming months, the FPS will be looking at ways to engage further with clients to ensure the benefits of BIM to piling and foundation works are more widely recognised and taken advantage of.
In particular, the FPS is working with the AGS Data Management Committee to investigate the possibility of using the AGS format for piling information. This would provide a platform for the transfer of piling design and construction information in a digital format.


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City Of A Million Stories
New York is famously described as a city with a million stories.
Of course, like so many folks, the books I'd read about New York, ( El Doctorow's Ragtime, Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's and Patti Smith's Just Kids for example), had created a literary map New York in my imagination. When I was living and working in NYC I used that map had me exploring the cobblestone alley's, down into the subways and out onto the grand avenues as I wrote the material that would become "New York Stories". The influence of literature is obvious with each song acting like a chapter like a book of interweaving short stories designed to take the listener on a romantic journey describing a love story amongst the swirl of life in Manhattan.
A literary approach comes very naturally to me as a songwriter given that I was raised in a house filled with books and music in Toronto's Annex which, much like the West Village, was an area of town filled with Professors, Activists, Artists and Independent thinkers such as our mom author Lilly Barnes, who raised us in three story victorian home filled floor to ceiling with books. So, as I was discovering the music of Billie Holiday, Tom Waits, Laura Nyro and Tony Bennett I was absorbing the short stories of Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro and a literary tradition that asks the author to describe an entire universe in only a few pages. Perfect for a budding songwriter looking to create a new musical universe of his own!
Of course the two romances at the heart of "New York Stories" are very real, both the romance of the lovers and the romance with New York City itself. New York becomes a character in of itself, a bustling metropolis so crowded that one never feels lonely or alone, but welcomed by the city to re create one's own story at every corner of the city of a million st
Two collections of short stories set in NYC that I can heartily recommend are "Wonderful Town", a collection of New Yorker stories edited by David Remnick and the Every Man Pocket Classics "New York Stories" both of which I discovered after the release of the disc but happily reread from time to time..
in literature, new york city,
amir london

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My daily life in Japan♪ I love cats, coffee, reading books and doing Tai Chi!
Election Campaign Car
Posted on April 22, 2007 by moshimoshimo
Japan has a unified local election every four years. It is divided into two and the first half was on April 8. And the latter one is today on 22. That's why many people had suffered from those noises recently until yesterday.
Anyone who has been here in Japan during an election campaign must know what I mean. I don't know how election campaigns are held in other countries, but basically Japanese way is very simple. Electioneerers just shout their own candidate's name repeatedly with the loudspeaker, waving their hands in white colored gloves to passers-by from their campaign car. No policy, sometimes no candidate! If the candidate is somebody, he or she is too busy to do own campaign.
Those campaign cars are really noisy! When and who started that bad way? I don't know the answer to the question, but it's certain that all candidates in Japan continue the practice.
Here's a survey about it: Do you think it's effective in getting votes that election campaign cars call the name of candidate repeatedly? It'd been conducted by Yahoo! Japan from April 16 to 21. The number of the total votes is 20979. 73% of the voters replied "No. It has, rather, the contrary effect." to the question and only 8% replied "Yes."
Most voters seem to have the same opinion: "Those election campaign cars are just noisy!" and "I will never vote the candidate whose campaign car just shouts his or her name!"
People regard the candidates who or whose electioneerers just call their names as of selfish and stupid because those campaign cars sometimes shout near even hospitals or schools, and it has no policies there. In the terrible case, electioneerers just beg for the electorate' votes with the loudspeaker, shouting "Help us!" I've heard that some electioneerers shouting "Write ○○○(the candidate's name) on your voting paper! That's all!" Are we electorates so stupid? Awful!
Don't candidates know that most people hate the way of election campaign depends on campaign cars at all? Yes, at least their electioneerers do. But they won't stop the way because they think that they should do while their opponents keep using those campaign cars…
There're some reasons why the evil campaign cars exist still now, I think. Many electorates, especially young people, feel not much in politics. Recently most candidates have introduced handing their manifestos out to people, but it's insufficient in quantity. With thinking of that, many candidates and their supporters may do nothing but calling their names to make people write them on the voting paper.
In brief, it's we electorates' fault to suffer from the campaign cars. If we really want to let candidates and their electioneerers stop shouting with campaign cars, we should have more interests in politics and know people who reform conditions are we ourselves.
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A New Class
There are many universities in my neighborhood. Many of them have extension courses, and adult who are not undergraduates can also study there. That's why I can receive the benefit. I have joined in a university's open courses for some years, and a class where I belong to started yesterday.
Basically, the academic year starts in April at most of universities in Japan. So you can see many freshmen who look nervous look around restlessly with a map on campus. Yesterday I saw many youths looking for their classrooms saying, "Where is room XXXX?!"
I visited a cafeteria before heading for my classroom, but students filled there for lunch because my class is the third period and starts at 1:30. And many people were recruiting freshmen into their clubs or group activities outside. This time, the campus is really lively. I feel younger in the atmosphere.
The class I take this year is for speaking of TOEIC and TOEFL tests. I'm not planning to take those tests for the present, but I applied for the class because I like the teacher and the schedule is convenient for me.
It seems that students practice reading aloud mainly in the class. The teacher will give us many tips on how to speak English. I mean students are supposed to learn about the speed, volume, intonation, accent and so on.
There were about a dozen undergraduates and about 7 adult in the classroom yesterday. I don't know how many students take the class exactly until the end of the registration time. Each language class needs at least 5 undergraduates to be held. If the class has less than 5, it'll be cancelled. It means I cannot study English at the university.
I made a new friend in the class yesterday. According to her, she just moved around the town recently. She was so excited to study at the university. She, another friend of mine and I explored a new cafeteria and a library after class. All of us have high expectation of our campus life this year. So…
May many undergraduates enroll the class!
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A Volunteer Guide Training Course
I am now joining in one of courses of NHK Cultural Center in Oasis 21, Sakae named "Kantan Eigo de Nagoya Gaido" in Japanese, or "Guide round Nagoya with easy English" in English. It is a kind of volunteer guide training program hosted by Aichi Goodwill Guides Network (AGGN) http://nagoya.cool.ne.jp/aggn/ . It's held twice a month, and participants are supposed to guide people from overseas at Nagoya Castle this autumn practically.
In this month, we had already the two classes; one was for introduction, and in another one last Tuesday, we had three guests and listened to their experiences in Japan. All three are women, and the two of them are from France and another one, U.S.A.
To my delight as Japanese, all in all it seems that they have had a good time here in Japan. They might not be able to speak out surrounded by many Japanese people, though. Wonderfully, all of the three have made yukata, which is a cotton kimono for the summer season. I've never done it before!
The American woman has finished her yukata and now making a new one for her husband. She seems to be very interested in Japanese culture, and she even has own many apparatuses for Japanese tea ceremony. She brought some of them with her to the meeting and showed them to participants, but it was first time to see some of them in person for me in spite that I'm Japanese.
"Really?!" She was very surprised at my admission. A lady who was hearing our conversation said as laughing, "Which is Japanese?"
Yeah, I thought the same thing! I've never made yukata and worn kimono! I've never joined in a tea ceremony! I was wondering why I was sitting at one of seats for guides, no, I should have sit at a guest seat.
I don't like admit it, but I'm quite ignorant. I was going to study English through the course first when I applied for it, but my idea changed. It seems that I can discover the goodness of Japanese culture and learn it in the course. I'd like to learn many things on Japanese culture and to give the goodness to people from overseas someday.
Oh! For that, I have to study not only Japanese cultural things but also English hard!
★photos: Oasis 21 in Sakae
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Yang Ming-Shih Style 24 Simplified Form of Tai Chi Chuan
Last Sunday I went to Gaishi Plaza, which used to be called Rainbow Hall, with a friend of mine to attend a big meeting of Yang Ming-Shih Style 24 simplified form of tai chi chuan. I started learning it last fall, and the friend has learned for 4 years. The meeting was held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the affiliate in Aichi prefecture.
There were more than 2000 people of all ages and both sexes in the hall. Those 2000 people were about to do tai chi chuan together when I arrived there. That was spectacular. I didn't doing together with them at that time because I've just begun learning and cannot do it well, but I would like to join them next time when it'll be held 5 years later.
It seems that there are many styles of tai chi chuan all over the world, and martial arts are the beginning of it. Some of them are competitive and some use arms. Yang Ming-Shih Style 24 simplified form of tai chi chuan was born and has been raised here in Japan. Mr. Yang Ming-Shih, the patriarch, was born at a good family of martial arts in China and came first to Japan as an exchange student in 1940s. But he couldn't come back home because of the Communism Revolution at the same time. That's why he decided to remain, and contrived and tried to popularize his own style tai chi chuan here in Japan
With the origin of it, Yang Ming-Shih Style tai chi chuan is no longer in Chinese martial arts or exercise. It is a Japanese exercise for building up your health. It differs widely in that others are sometimes competitive. Yang Style one, rather, avoids competition. It looks like a dance and it is often compared to the action of cranes.
In the meeting, there were many performances by learners. I was impressed by elderly people's one. All of them were over 77 years old. The oldest was 90. More than 100 people of them did tai chi together. They looked very energetic and beautiful. Late medical treatment tends to life extension, but it is missing living happily and healthy. And the missing point is an aim for doing Yang Style tai chi chuan. It is said that it improves circulation and strengthens inner muscles. And if you are fit as a fiddle, you must be happy!
By the way, age of 77 means happy in Japan. The abbreviation of the Chinese character for happiness looks like the number 77. And 7 is also considered a lucky number.
Anyway, I hope live long happily and healthily!
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The Final Intensive Course
Posted on April 9, 2007 by moshimoshimo
I usually take some English intensive courses during the spring vacation. In fact, I took four courses this spring. I put down about the three of them here so far, and today I'll write about the final one, which just finished last Friday.
That was in the end of February. An English teacher, who teaches at some universities, emailed me and offered a private course. I've taken some of his classes and he is my first English teacher at universities. As I know many people who are eager to study English, I volunteered to advertise his private course and gathered about 10 students. They were divided into two courses; in March and April because of the applicants' convenience and the number of 10 which was quite big. I belonged the April one.
Each course had 4 days and each day had a 2-hour lessons. The topics were "Reality TV" , "Internet blogging", "Recycling" and "The aging society". In the topic of Reality TV, we discussed about the change in TV shows". In the 60s and 70s, basically TV programs were shot in the studio, and viewers just watched them at home. But since the 80's, programs so-called reality TV has been popular, and viewers not only watch them at home but also take part in the programs, and recently TV producers and audiences have interacted and created programs together.
The second topic was blogging. Yes, this page is also a blog. You know, blogs are quite easy to set up, you don't need any special computer skills. That's why many people all over the world like me have own blogs and express many things freely every day. As for me, this page is very useful to improve my English skills. For Japanese English learners, it's difficult to exhale what they have learned. I'd like to exchange views with others in my blog someday, not only using it as a workbook, though.
We discussed about recycling on the third day. In Japan, the way of the disposal of wastes depends on each municipality, but in general, people have to separate wastes into many categories. For example, in Nagoya where I live, wastes are separated over 10 kinds: kitchen wastes, spray cans, cans, glass bottles and jars, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, plastic containers, paper containers, milk cartons, newspapers, old clothes, unburnable wastes and so on. According to the article that we used in the class, the recycling system in Japan is going to be destroyed by exporting PET bottles against the Basal Convention. We need to reduce the amount of waste produced and rebuild the recycling system.
The final topic was the aging society. As you know, Japanese are long-lived. The average life span is now for men close to 80 and for women to 90. Japan is one of the richest countries and is brimming over with different foods imported from the world. We haven't experienced any wars domestically for over 60 years since the end of World War II, and have made dramatic progress in medical treatment and medicine. According to the article we used in the class, it'll be not so pessimistic about the aging society. If we raise the age of elderly people from 65 to 70, the ratio of the young to the old goes down, and we'll have much population of workers. (Yesterday I saw many senior citizens, some of whom were over 90 years old, and they were really energetic…)
The final course was well-organized and well-balanced. I mean students can learn proper English grammatically, phonetically and practically, and have many opportunities to speak English. We had it at one of the participants' house, and we enjoyed in relax ambience. Anyway, I was able to think and learn many things through the English courses. I'm going to join in some this summer again because I can not only improve my English skills but also expand my knowledge through them.
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My final intensive course starts tomorrow, but I'm going to write about my third one today. The course's theme was Canadian life. The teacher was of course a gentle Canadian. The students researched about famous Canadians and some provinces and territories, and made presentations in turn in the course. One of my topics was about Mr. David Suzuki, an environmental activist, and another one was about Nunavut, one of Canada's territories.
I'm going to introduce Nunavut Territory.
Nunavut is the largest and the newest of the territories of Canada, and located near Greenland. It was separated officially from Northwest Territory in 1999. The 84 % of the population is Inuit. That is, Nunavut is, as it were, an area of Inuit. For more than 30 years, Inuit people had tried to be independent from other areas. Their long-cherished wish came true then.
The meaning of Nunavut is "our land" in Inuktitut, the language of Inuit. By the way, the official language are Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, English and French.
The capital is Iqaluit, which is located on Baffin Island. Nunavut is divided into three areas by the differences of culture and geography: Baffin, Kivallq, and Kitikmeot.
Nunavut is the least populated and the largest of the provinces and territories of Canada. It has a population of only 30.850 spread over an area the size of Western Europe. If Nunavut was a country, it would be the least densely populated in the world. For example, Greenland has almost the same sized area but the population is twice. The density of the population in Canada is about 3 people / k㎡, in Japan is about 330 people / k㎡, and in Nunavut is only 0.015! There are about 28 communities in Nunavut, and the smallest one has only about 30 people.
The climate is the cold latitude, and there are the tundra and the taigas in Nunavut. In Iqaluit, the capital, the average temperature in January is -29.7 degrees and in July 11.4 degrees! How cold!
In Nunavut, the assembly is only one. It's unicameral. There are no parties and the members of the assembly are elected individually, and the premier, the head of government is elected by and from them. The present premier, Mr. Paul Okalik's basic policy is fusion of Inuit culture and traditional knowledge and the political and government decisions.
They have some problems. For example, about 56 % of the population is under age of 25 (2003). Because of the age, they are short of numbers of workers and they need education, they cannot make money. If they had enough labor, they wouldn't have many jobs, anyway. Moreover, prices are very expensive, and it's double to three times as in the South. So now they are investing money to education and trying to improve the income level by 5 year planning.
For another problem, they have many alcoholic people. They don't have anything to do. Some say one of the reasons is night under the midnight sun. For a measure of alcohol abuse, you may not able to buy alcohol in most areas.
Nunavut has some problems, but it has also many resources, wilderness, own culture and history, and future.
How about visiting Nunavut someday?
Last Wednesday morning, I got up at 5:30 in the morning. How early! It was because that a friend of mine came to Nagoya from Tokyo that morning. It was the third time to see him for me. I met him first in the cyber world. I mean, he and I started knowing each other through the Internet, so-called SNS (Social Network Service) last year, and I hadn't met him in person until last August. Anyway, another friend of mine, who lives in my neighborhood and also has known him through the same SNS, and I went to see him together.
All of us met at Nagoya Station around 7:30, and headed to Yanagibashi, where there are wholesales markets, especially of fish. Many fishmongers were coming and going there. We walked and saw around the market area, being careful to get in the way of them. And then we went to an eating place there because that time was about to go calm down and we expected that they would serve fresh fish for meal. Yeah, I was able to have some fresh cockles there.
After breakfast, we went to a coffee stand and had some coffee there, and then went to Handa City by train. Because another friend of mine, who lives near Handa, was supposed to show us around Tokoname area, we went to see her there. The place arranged to meet her was at Red Brick Building in Handa.
This building was built as a beer factory in 1898, and was used as a storehouse of Nakajima Aircraft Industries Ltd., the precursor of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., during World War II, when it was attacked by North American P-51 Mustangs, the fighter planes, flew from Iwo Jima, which became well-known by the two movies produced by Clint Eastwood last year. The building was registered as a cultural heritage three years ago. I wrote about the building last year, if you are interested in it, please take a look at the page, too: http://moshimoshimo.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1D0F2197A6F55843!344.entry.
After all of us gathered, we strolled around an old street nearby named Konya-Kaido, where there is an old rice cracker store and we dropped by.
Then we headed for Tokoname, which is famous for potteries, especially teapots. And it has some sightseeing spots, for example Yakimono-Sampomichi (Pottery path), ceramic museums, or Centrair, the airport. We went to Yakimono-Sampomichi, which has many interesting places, for example old ceramic factories, pottery shops, and cafes and so on. Most of the shops and the cafes use old ceramic factories' buildings. http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/?wb_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftoko.or.jp%2Ftokoname%2Dkankou%2F&wb_lp=JAEN&wb_dis=2
We had lunch at an Italian restaurant in Tokoname, and went back to Nagoya. We went to Iwasaki Castle and Goshiki-En, a temple, and it is really curious! I am going to write about the castle and the temple later on.
We went to a café for a break, a restaurant for a dinner, and a karaoke for burning energy. And I came back home around 1:00 in the morning! Ahhhh, I had a really wonderful day together with my friends!
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Q: Fixing MyISAM database without losing data My old server was crashed but I was able to recover the databases from MySQL through testdrive.
I'm trying to dump a database using mysqldump but it gives error for certain tables are crashed and should repaired.
I tried myisamchk --safe-recover /var/lib/mysql/database/table.MYI
And also myisamchk -r -q /var/lib/mysql/database/table.MYI
The tables fix themselves but unfortunately they delete that data from MYD files.
Is there a way to fix the tables without losing data from MYD or is it possible to convert the MYD into human readable format like a txt file?

A: First of all, if your data is worth anything, don't store it in MyISAM.
I don't think you can reconstruct a table from corrupted MYD file. Records in MyISAM have different format that depends on values stored in each record. There are about 20 block types! To make it more fun the records in MyISAM can be fragmented. So, if you absolutely need the data from MyISAM table the only way I'm aware of is a C program with wildcard masks.
You can partially recover the table if you select from it ranges of the primary key. Corrupt PK ranges will be lost, but at least if the range is good you can get it back.
Here's a script that I wrote a while ago to read as many records is possible from a corrupted table. Try it out, I hope it'll help:
#!/bin/bash

# Adjust your values here
host=localhost
user=root
db=test
table=test
PK=id
newtable=newtest2
# end of user defined values

read -p "Password: " -s password
echo ""
if [ "xxx$password" = "xxx" ]
then
        pass_cmd=""
else
        pass_cmd="-p$password"
fi
mysql -h $host -u $user $pass_cmd -e "show databases" $db
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
        echo "Credentials are ok!"
else
        echo "Can't run query SHOW DATABASES"
        echo "Check what's wrong"
        exit
fi
minPK=`mysql -sN -h $host -u $user $pass_cmd -e "SELECT MIN($PK) FROM $table" $db`
maxPK=`mysql -sN -h $host -u $user $pass_cmd -e "SELECT MAX($PK) FROM $table" $db`
a=$minPK
b=$maxPK
let chunk=$b-$a

function insert_range {
q="INSERT IGNORE INTO \`$newtable\` SELECT * FROM \`$table\` WHERE \`$PK\` >= $1 and \`$PK\` <= $2"
mysql -h $host -u $user $pass_cmd -e "$q" $db 2>/dev/null
}
successful_tries=0
echo "Primary key ($PK) range: $minPK .. $maxPK"
while true
do
        insert_range $a $b
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]
        then
                echo "Good, primary key range: $a .. $b"
                let a=$b+1
                let b=$b+$chunk
                let successful_tries=$successful_tries+1
        else
                echo "Bad luck, primary key range: $a .. $b"
                let chunk=$chunk/2
                let b=$a+$chunk
                mysqladmin -h $host -u $user $pass_cmd ping > /dev/null 2>&1
                while [ $? -ne 0 ]
                do
                        mysqladmin -h $host -u $user $pass_cmd ping > /dev/null 2>&1
                done
                successful_tries=0
        fi
        if [ $a -gt $maxPK ]
        then
                exit
        fi
        if [ $chunk -eq 0 ]
        then
                let a=$a+1
                let b=$a+1
                let chunk=1
        fi
        # If things are going well, increase pace
        if [ $successful_tries -gt 5 ]
        then
                let chunk=$chunk*2
        fi
done

A: Have you tried CHECK TABLE and REPAIR TABLE
REPAIR TABLE is the equivalent of myisamchk --recover (-r). If you want to rebuild the MYI file then the correct use of REPAIR TABLE is:
REPAIR TABLE tablename USE_FRM;

It is best to make a backup of a table before performing a table repair operation; under some circumstances the operation might cause data loss

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The Vamps were an Australian all-female pop rock band formed in April 1965 by founding mainstay Margaret Britt on guitar. Between 1965 and 1969 they toured extensively in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia and the Pacific Islands, including six months performing at military bases in South Vietnam during 1967–1968. In 1969 they relocated to the United States, and performed there through to early 1975, before returning to Australia. In 1977 the Vamps were renamed Peaches and played in Australasia and the Pacific until they disbanded in 1980. As from 2014 Britt performs with Skyz the Limit.

History

Early career

In April 1965 Margaret Britt, following two years performing in New Zealand, decided to form an all-female pop rock group. In the previous year, recordings by the first all-female band of the pop era, Goldie and the Gingerbreads, had appeared, followed by the Pleasure Seekers, including a young Suzi Quatro. Britt initially put together a four-piece band with herself on guitar, joined by Kaye Gazzard, Judy Owen and Wendy Walton. They performed instrumentals, contemporary pop, and rock and roll songs. Their first gig was at Stomp City, AMOCO Centre, Orange in June 1965, where they drew a record crowd of 2030. Following this a fifth member – Janice Glading (stage name "Babs King") – was added on vocals.

The Vamps played the Millers Hotel circuit in Sydney and other venues through to the end of 1965. They appeared on Tonight with Don Lane, performing "Twist and Shout". In late 1965 Richard Neville of OZ magazine considered managing the band, instead he left for London early in 1966. In February of that year Britt assembled a new line-up, with Lisa-Kay James, Jan Little, Elaine Neilsen and Merlene Ryder. They toured eastern Australia, including the show ground circuit in Queensland. During September 1966 they were joined by Denise Cooper on vocals, following the departure of Neilsen. Whilst performing in Brisbane the Vamps appeared twice on the IN television show on BTQ7, performing "House of the Rising Sun" and "Hanky Panky".

Vietnam

The Vamps were offered to tour South Vietnam, consequently Britt organised a new line-up in May 1967 with Melbourne musicians Linda Cable, Marilyn Ockwell and Terri Scott. This line-up played a few gigs in Melbourne and Sydney before Britt replaced them in July with Denise Cooper, Val Falloon, Julie Hibberd and Carol Middlemiss. Falloon had recently arrived from England where she had written and produced a single, "The Time Is Over" (February 1966) for Mike Hamilton, via Decca Records. The Vamps toured South Vietnam between October 1967 and March 1968, performing at Australian, US, Korean and South Vietnamese military bases. They often drove themselves to gigs in an unescorted kombi van.

Venues included front line bases, Landing Zone (LZ) Ross, Da Nang, where in November 1967, during a performance on an open-air stage, they were subject to a mortar attack by the Viet Cong who were 200 yards away. The band cut short their set and were led into bunkers by the soldiers. They remained until they could be evacuated to safety. Whilst in Saigon, Britt was subjected to a sniper attack and in January 1968 the band were awarded a plaque by US forces for their courage and performance on the front line. During Viet Cong's Tet Offensive in late January 1968 there was concern in Australia over the safety of the band members, newspapers reported consular authorities locating the Vamps and their well-being. Band members Cooper, Hibberd and Middlemiss, feature in Mara Wallis' 2003 documentary Entertaining Vietnam, which deals with some of the lesser known touring bands, including the Vamps. Middlemiss described her experience, "The audiences were fabulous... We'd finish with the anthem that everyone was playing – 'We Gotta Get out of This Place'."

South East Asia and the Pacific

Whilst en route to Vietnam, in September 1967 the Vamps performed in Nouméa, French New Caledonia. Upon completion of their tour of military bases, in April 1968 they returned home to Australia via Singapore.  Falloon left and was replaced by Joy Carroll. The band performed at east coast venues until September 1968. They undertook a six-month tour of Pacific islands and South East Asia which included gigs at Tahiti, Nouméa, Taiwan, Subic Bay Philippines, Bangkok in Thailand and Singapore. They returned to Australia in February 1969.

United States

The Vamps played in Sydney and Melbourne before leaving for the United States in May 1969 and stayed for six years. The four-piece initially consisted of Britt, Carroll, Hibberd and Middlemiss. Middlemiss departed in September and was replaced by American, Mary Kay Kuenzli. At the end of 1970 both Carroll and Kuenzli left and were replaced by the Petrak sisters, Cheryl and Micky. They performed at Tehachapi State Prison, California in February 1971. Shortly thereafter the Petraks left and Britt's husband Jon Kirk joined. They were renamed, Jon and the Australian Vamps, with the line-up of Britt, Kirk, Hibberd and American, Diane Smith. This four-piece worked until late 1971. Smith left and the group were joined by drummer, Nancy Kuminkovski. Smith rejoined and, following a brief visit to Australia in April 1972, both Hibberd and Smith left when they returned to the US. Britt and Kirk put together an eight-piece band. They were based in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and had gigs in Las Vegas, Birmingham, Nashville, St. Petersburg, Lake Tahoe and Hawaii. They performed in 38 States between 1969 and 1975 including at the Kentucky Derby and the Indianapolis 500.

Recordings

In September 1971 Jon and the Australian Vamps recorded two 7" singles at Reflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, North Carolina for Jollie Ollie Productions, Kansas. The first single, "Bobby McGee" had Britt on vocals and "Are You Ready" had Kirk. The second single, "It's Too Late" had Hibberd on lead vocals and "Feeling Alright" had Kirk. Both were released in stereo by the Snyder Album Company and were intended for use by the US military forces.

Peaches

In 1975 Britt and Kirk returned to Australia and performed throughout eastern Australia, including a gig in outback Birdsville. During 1977 Britt put together an all-female line-up of the Vamps. However, upon the recommendation of Gene Pierson of Laser Records, the Vamps were renamed, Peaches. They had a hit single with their cover version of the Righteous Brothers' "Substitute" (1978). The group were disbanded in 1980. As from 2014 Britt performs with Skyz the Limit.

Members

 Margaret Britt – guitar
 Kaye Gazzard
 Judy Owen
 Wendy Walton
 Janice Glading ("Babs King") – vocals
 Lisa-Kay James
 Jan Little
 Elaine Nielsen – vocals
 Merlene Ryder
 Denise Cooper – vocals
 Linda Cable
 Marilyn Ockwell
 Terri Scott
 Julie Hibberd
 Carol Middlemiss
 Val Falloon
 Joy Carroll
 Jon Kirk
 Mary Kay Kuenzli
 Diane Smith
 Cheryl Petrak
 Micky Petrak
 Nancy Kuminkovski – drums
 Kelly Woodhouse
 Anita Azzopardi

References

Australian rock music groups
Musical groups established in 1965
Musical groups established in 1977
Australian girl groups

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The Life, Times and Work of Jokubas Robinzonas – Jacob Robinson
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Historical Presidential Palais of the Republic of Lithuania
Vytautas Magnus University of Kaunas Institute for East-European Studies at the Free University of Berlin Lithuanian Emigration Insitute in Kaunas with the the support of the Federal Fund "Remembrance and Future" in Berlin and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Vilnius
http://www.vdu.lt/conf/robinson/
Bendikaite, Egle
On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the decease, on October 24, 1977, of the well-renowned international lawyer, historian and politician Dr. Jacob Robinson, Vytautas Magnus University of Kaunas and the Free University of Berlin, with the support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to Vilnius and the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility, and Future" in Berlin, organize the international symposium on "The life, Times, and Work of Jokūbas Robinzonas – Jacob Robinson."
Jokubas Robinzonas, later better known as Jacob Robinson, was born in 1889 in the small town of Seirijai (then Russian Empire, now Lithuania). He died in New York City on October 24, 1977. The aim of the Symposium is to portray the life and work of this remarkable personality and to bring back to public awareness the significance and achievements of Jacob Robinson. The Symposium is held in Kaunas, the provisional capital of the Republic of Lithuania in the interwar period, where Robinzonas started both his legal career and his political engagement. After a successful and committed career as pedagogue and principal in the educational system of the Jewish minority, he was admitted to the Kaunas bar and established his law firm in this city. In due time upon his election to the Seimas, the Lithuanian parliament, he assumed the duties of the chairman of the Jewish faction and the Minorities Bloc. In the logotype of the Symposium, the first photography in the second line displays him as young member of the parliament. In the 1930s, Robinzonas officiated as legal adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, pleading Lithuania's cases in the Permanent Court of International Justice as well as in international arbitration.
Jokubas Robinzonas is, in a unique manner, also linked to the United States, Israel, and Germany. In December 1940, Robinzonas immigrated to the United States; the logotype photography in the first line was taken immediately before his emigration. In 1946, he became a United States citizen. At this time, he had already played an important role as special adviser on Jewish affairs to Justice Robert M. Jackson, the United States Chief Counsel at the International Military Court in Nuremberg (1945), and to the latter's successor Telford Taylor (1946). In the subsequent years, he would reach notable achievements being involved in the establishment of the United Nations Human Rights Commission (1946–1947) and the United Nations delegation of the Jewish Agency for Palestine as well as serving at the Permanent Mission of the State of Israel to the United Nations in New York (1947–1957). Upon his retirement from diplomatic service and until his death, Robinson worked the Research Institute of Yad Vashem.
Under the leadership of Israel's Attorney General Gideon Hausner and along with Deputy Attorney General Gabriel Bach and District Attorney for Tel Aviv Yaakov Bar-Or, Jacob Robinson, in 1960 and 1961, served as Assistant Attorney in the Eichmann Trial Prosecution Team. Shortly before this trial, he had given a widely noticed course at the famous Hague Academy of International Law on the metamorphosis of the United Nations, which he assessed not only critically, but also with a remarkable farsightedness, not least with respect to the future role of Germany in international politics. In the logotype of the Symposium, the second photography in the second line was taken on this occasion. Most certainly, the contribution he made to the reconciliation between Germany and Israel is of pivotal importance in the long row of outstanding achievements in the work of Jacob Robinson and bears witness to the fact that this issue was of utmost concern to him. He was instrumental in the development of the solution settling Jewish claims against Germany, which became seminal for all subsequent compensation schemes.
The Symposium focusses, in the broadest sense, on the significance of Jacob Robinson as international lawyer, as politician and diplomat, and as public man, and brings together speakers from Israel, the United States, Canada, Lithuania, and Germany. Amongst them are Gabriel Bach, who – along with Jacob Robinson – represented the Office of the General Attorney in the Eichmann Trial, Dr. Daniel A. Greenberg (U.S.A.), first-cousin-once-removed to Jacob Robinson, and Professor Michael R. Marrus of the University of Toronto.
09.00	Registration of participants
Opening of the International Symposium
09.30	Welcome greeting by the Rector of Vytautas Magnus University, Professor Dr. Habil. Zigmas Lydeka
09.35	Address by H.E. Mr. Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania (to be confirmed)
09.55	Welcome note by Professor Dr. Gertrud Pickhan, Institute for East-European Studies, Free University of Berlin
10.00	Welcome greeting by the Lord Mayor of the City of Kaunas, Mr. Andrius Kupcinskas
10.10	Coffee break
Morning Session I
Moderator: Professor Dr. Habil. Egidijus Aleksandravicius
10.30	Omry Kaplan-Feuereisen, M.A., Ph.D. Student, Institute for East-European Studies, Free University of Berlin:
Biographical Introduction to Jokubas Robinzonas – Jacob Robinson
10.40	Associate Professor Dr. Pranas Janauskas, Head of the History Department, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas:
Jacob Robinson's Actvities in Lithuanian Parliaments
11.00	Dr. Egle Bendikaite, Research Fellow, Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius:
Politician Without Political Party. A Zionist Appraisal of Jacob Robinson's Activities in the Public Life of Lithuania
Morning Session II
Moderator: Professor. Dr. Gertrud Pickhan
11.40	Professor Dr. Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto:
Jacob Robinson and the Holocaust at the Nuremberg Trials
12.10	Gabriel Bach, Judge (ret'd) at the Supreme Court of the State of Israel, Jerusalem:
The Eichmann Trial and the Role of Jacob Robinson as Member of the Prosecution Team
12.40	Jur. lic. Dirk Roland Haupt, Permanent Deputy of the Ambassador, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Vilnius:
Jacob Robinson as Writer and Practitioner in International Law
13.00	Lunch break
15.00	Birute Garbarviciene, Director of the Historical Presidential Palais of the Republic of Lithuania, Kaunas:
Guided tour around the Historical Presidential Palais of the Republic of Lithuania
Afternoon Session I
Moderator: Jur. lic. Dirk Roland Haupt
15.20	Philipp Graf, M.A., Ph.D. Student, Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig:
The Bernheim Petition 1933. Jacob Robinson's Contribution to Jewish Minority Diplomacy in the Interwar Years
15.40	Asta Petraityte, M.A., Ph.D. Student, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas:
Jacob Robinson and the Lithuanian Emigrants Organizations
Jacob Robinson and Germany
16.20	Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Session II
16.40	Professor Dr. Daniel A. Greenberg, Sudbury Valley School, Sudbury MA, U.S.A. (first-cousin-once-removed to Jacob Robinson):
An Appreciation of Jacob Robinson as a Person: The Human Side of One of the Great Figures of the 20th Century
17.10	Professor Dr. Habil. Egidijus Aleksandravicius, Director of the Lithuanian Emigration Institute, Kaunas:
Conclusions and Closing of the International Symposium
18.30	Reception in Hotel Kaunas, Laisves aleja 79, 44297 Kaunas, hosted by the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Vilnius
Dr. Egle Bendikaite
Lithuanian Institute of History, Kraziu g. 5, 01108 Vilnius
egle_bendich@yahoo.de
The Life, Times and Work of Jokubas Robinzonas – Jacob Robinson, 22.10.2007 Kaunas, in: H-Soz-Kult, 11.10.2007, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-8048>.
Ines Koeltzsch
Internationale Beziehungen, Jüdische Geschichte, Rechtsgeschichte und -wissenschaften, Verfassungsgeschichte


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Q: Create an RGB image from a grayscale image and custom color map I have a grayscale matlab image that I would like to convert to an RGB image with a custom color map. I have no problems displaying the image with the colors I want, but when I use imwrite, the figure doesn't save as an RGB image. Instead of 300x1000x3 data structure, it is simply 300x1000. What can I do to fix this?
m=255;
map = ones(m,3);
strongsignal = [3, 7, 41]./ 255;
DRAQ = [100, 85, 105]./255;

R = linspace(DRAQ(1),strongsignal(1),254);
G = linspace(DRAQ(2),strongsignal(2),254);
B = linspace(DRAQ(3),strongsignal(3),254);

Sample = [R', G', B'];

i = imread('sliceXY045_660.png');
limits = graythresh(i);
i_adjust = im2bw(i,limits);
map(2:255,:)= Sample;

imagesc(i_adjust)
colormap(map)
imwrite(i_adjust,map,'colormap45.png')

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Matthew Kocher, 15, was pulled from the choppy lake by lifeguards off New Buffalo City Beach Saturday in southwest Michigan.
It was supposed to be a fun day at the beach for Kocher. He was on a day trip to New Buffalo with his summer camp when around 3:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon, the Coast Guard says he got caught in a rip current while swimming in Lake Michigan.
The conditions Saturday were far from ideal. There was quite a bit of wind and waves. Red flags signaled that swimmers should stay out of the water.
"It's a very violent wave. Unlike the ocean, where you have a rolling, constant wave. Here they come from every angle," said Lucas Zingler of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Kocher's family describes the teen as an easygoing, good-natured kid who enjoyed volunteer work.
He was also a good athlete. As a freshman at Tinley Park's Andrew High School, he played volleyball, basketball and football. Officials say lifeguards saw him struggling and went into the water to get him. Kocher was taken to a local hospital and then airlifted to the University of Chicago Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
"Teenage boys have the ability to overestimate our abilities and be susceptible to peer pressure," said Dave Benjamin of Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project. "Teenage boys usually lead the statistics in drownings."
Kocher was one of two people two drown in Lake Michigan Saturday. The second one was a 37-year-old from Lafayette, Indiana, who was at Beverly Shores when he got caught in a rip current.
"What we advise is flip, float and follow. Flip to get on your back, float to stay above water. Float to conserve energy," said Benjamin, talking about what to do if caught in a rip current. "While you're floating you're already following the current. Assess what way it's pulling you and swim perpendicular to the flow."
If you are a weak swimmer and tired from swimming, Benjamin says the most important thing you can do is continue to float and not struggle. If you struggle you are actively drowning and will usually go down within 15 to 45 seconds.
This weekend's deaths bring to 17 the number of people who have drowned in Lake Michigan since June 6.


The Edge Foundation conducts and funds new research focused on helping to ensure that education prepares people for life and work in the Twenty-First Century – in schools, colleges, Higher Education and through lifelong learning. Edge publishes all of its work online through specific research reports and wider policy reports that bring together the latest analysis on a particular sector. The organisation's research is primarily funded through its endowment, with some external funding for specific pieces of work. You can contact Olly Newton, Edge's Director of Policy and Research, for more information – onewton@edge.co.uk.


San Antonio-headquartered Sirius Computer Solutions Inc. announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Forsythe Technology Inc. for an undisclosed amount.
San Antonio-headquartered Sirius Computer Solutions Inc. will get Forsythe Technology Inc. for an undisclosed amount, Sirius announced this past week.
Together both companies would employ more than 3,000 people in more than 70 offices nationwide, and also may have generated more than $3 billion in earnings in the past twelve months, as stated by the announcement. Is subject to regulatory acceptance, according to the announcement.
Sirius provides technology solutions to corporate customers and more than 5,000 corporate, according to the announcement.
Forsythe has more than 1,000 employees in 40 locations, according to more than $ 1 billion in gross revenues, and also the announcement.
A spokeswoman for Sirius said the business would not be able to provide additional details.


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Explosions and Blast Injuries: A Primer for Clinicians
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Blast Injury Basics: A Primer for the Medical Speech-Language Pathologist
Understanding the Effects of Concussion, Blast, and Brain Injuries: A Guide for Families, Veterans, and Caregivers
Beyond the Invisible: Living with Brain Injury
Battlemind: Traumatic Brain Injury & PTSD
Who's Helping Our Wounded Vets?
As the risk of terrorist attacks increases in the US, disaster response personnel must understand the unique pathophysiology of injuries associated with explosions and must be prepared to assess and treat the people injured by them.
Bombs and explosions can cause unique patterns of injury seldom seen outside combat.
The predominant post explosion injuries among survivors involve standard penetrating and blunt trauma. Blast lung is the most common fatal injury among initial survivors.
Explosions in confined spaces (mines, buildings, or large vehicles) and/or structural collapse are associated with greater morbidity and mortality.
Half of all initial casualties will seek medical care over a one-hour period. This can be useful to predict demand for care and resource needs.
Expect an "upside-down" triage — the most severely injured arrive after the less injured, who bypass EMS triage and go directly to the closest hospitals.
Explosions can produce unique patterns of injury seldom seen outside combat. When they do occur, they have the potential to inflict multi-system life-threatening injuries on many persons simultaneously. The injury patterns following such events are a product of the composition and amount of the materials involved, the surrounding environment, delivery method (if a bomb), the distance between the victim and the blast, and any intervening protective barriers or environmental hazards. Because explosions are relatively infrequent, blast-related injuries can present unique triage, diagnostic, and management challenges to providers of emergency care.
Few U.S. health professionals have experience with explosive-related injuries. Vietnam-era physicians are retiring, other armed conflicts have been short-lived, and until this past decade, the U.S. was largely spared of the scourge of mega-terrorist attacks. This primer introduces information relevant to the care of casualties from explosives and blast injuries.
Classification of Explosives
Explosives are categorized as high-order explosives (HE) or low-order explosives (LE). HE produce a defining supersonic over-pressurization shock wave. Examples of HE include TNT, C-4, Semtex, nitroglycerin, dynamite, and ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO). LE create a subsonic explosion and lack HE's over-pressurization wave. Examples of LE include pipe bombs, gunpowder, and most pure petroleum-based bombs such as Molotov cocktails or aircraft improvised as guided missiles. HE and LE cause different injury patterns.
Explosive and incendiary (fire) bombs are further characterized based on their source. "Manufactured" implies standard military-issued, mass produced, and quality-tested weapons. "Improvised" describes weapons produced in small quantities, or use of a device outside its intended purpose, such as converting a commercial aircraft into a guided missile. Manufactured (military) explosive weapons are exclusively HE-based. Terrorists will use whatever is available – illegally obtained manufactured weapons or improvised explosive devices (also known as "IEDs") that may be composed of HE, LE, or both. Manufactured and improvised bombs cause markedly different injuries.
Blast Injuries
The four basic mechanisms of blast injury are termed as primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary (Table 1). "Blast Wave" (primary) refers to the intense over-pressurization impulse created by a detonated HE. Blast injuries are characterized by anatomical and physiological changes from the direct or reflective over-pressurization force impacting the body's surface. The HE "blast wave" (over-pressure component) should be distinguished from "blast wind" (forced super-heated air flow). The latter may be encountered with both HE and LE.
Table 1: Mechanisms of Blast Injury
Body Part Affected
Primary Unique to HE, results from the impact of the over-pressurization wave with body surfaces. Gas filled structures are most susceptible - lungs, GI tract, and middle ear.
Blast lung (pulmonary barotrauma)
TM rupture and middle ear damage
Abdominal hemorrhage and perforation - Globe (eye) rupture- Concussion (TBI without physical signs of head injury)
Secondary Results from flying debris and bomb fragments. Any body part may be affected.
Penetrating ballistic (fragmentation) or blunt injuries
Eye penetration (can be occult)
Tertiary Results from individuals being thrown by the blast wind. Any body part may be affected.
Fracture and traumatic amputation
Closed and open brain injury
All explosion-related injuries, illnesses, or diseases not due to primary, secondary, or tertiary mechanisms.
Includes exacerbation or complications of existing conditions.
Any body part may be affected.
Burns (flash, partial, and full thickness)
Crush injuries
Asthma, COPD, or other breathing problems from dust, smoke, or toxic fumes
Hyperglycemia, hypertension
LE are classified differently because they lack the self-defining HE over-pressurization wave. LE's mechanisms of injuries are characterized as due from ballistics (fragmentation), blast wind (not blast wave), and thermal. There is some overlap between LE descriptive mechanisms and HE's Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary mechanisms.
Table 2: Overview of Explosive Related Injuries
Injury or Condition
Auditory TM rupture, ossicular disruption, cochlear damage, foreign body
Eye, Orbit, Face Perforated globe, foreign body, air embolism, fractures
Respiratory Blast lung, hemothorax, pneumothorax, pulmonary contusion and hemorrhage, A-V fistulas (source of air embolism), airway epithelial damage, aspiration pneumonitis, sepsis
Digestive Bowel perforation, hemorrhage, ruptured liver or spleen, sepsis, mesenteric ischemia from air embolism
Cirulatory Cardiac contusion, myocardial infarction from air embolism, shock, vasovagal hypotension, peripheral vascular injury, air embolism-induced injury
CNS Injury Concussion, closed and open brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, air embolism-induced injury
Renal Injury Renal contusion, laceration, acute renal failure due to rhabdomyolysis, hypotension, and hypovolemia
Circulatory Traumatic amputation, fractures, crush injuries, compartment syndrome, burns, cuts, lacerations, acute arterial occlusion, air embolism-induced injury
Note: Up to 10% of all blast survivors have significant eye injuries. These injuries involve perforations from high-velocity projectiles, can occur with minimal initial discomfort, and present for care days, weeks, or months after the event. Symptoms include eye pain or irritation, foreign body sensation, altered vision, periorbital swelling or contusions. Findings can include decreased visual acuity, hyphema, globe perforation, subconjunctival hemorrhage, foreign body, or lid lacerations. Liberal referral for ophthalmologic screening is encouraged.
Selected Blast Injuries
Lung Injury: "Blast lung" is a direct consequence of the HE over-pressurization wave. It is the most common fatal primary blast injury among initial survivors. Signs of blast lung are usually present at the time of initial evaluation, but they have been reported as late as 48 hours after the explosion. Blast lung is characterized by the clinical triad of apnea, bradycardia, and hypotension. Pulmonary injuries vary from scattered petechae to confluent hemorrhages. Blast lung should be suspected for anyone with dyspnea, cough, hemoptysis, or chest pain following blast exposure. Blast lung produces a characteristic "butterfly" pattern on chest X-ray. A chest X-ray is recommended for all exposed persons and a prophylactic chest tube (thoracostomy) is recommended before general anesthesia or air transport is indicated if blast lung is suspected.
Ear Injury: Primary blast injuries of the auditory system cause significant morbidity, but are easily overlooked. Injury is dependent on the orientation of the ear to the blast. TM perforation is the most common injury to the middle ear. Signs of ear injury are usually present at time of initial evaluation and should be suspected for anyone presenting with hearing loss, tinnitus, otalgia, vertigo, bleeding from the external canal, TM rupture, or mucopurulent otorhea. All patients exposed to blast should have an otologic assessment and audiometry.
Abdominal Injury: Gas-containing sections of the GI tract are most vulnerable to primary blast effect. This can cause immediate bowel perforation, hemorrhage (ranging from small petechiae to large hematomas), mesenteric shear injuries, solid organ lacerations, and testicular rupture. Blast abdominal injury should be suspected in anyone exposed to an explosion with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, hematemesis, rectal pain, tenesmus, testicular pain, unexplained hypovolemia, or any findings suggestive of an acute abdomen. Clinical findings may be absent until the onset of complications.
Brain Injury: Primary blast waves can cause concussions or mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) without a direct blow to the head. Consider the proximity of the victim to the blast particularly when given complaints of headache, fatigue, poor concentration, lethargy, depression, anxiety, insomnia, or other constitutional symptoms. The symptoms of concussion and post traumatic stress disorder can be similar.
Emergency Management Options
Follow your hospital's and regional disaster system's plan.
Expect an "upside-down" triage - the most severely injured arrive after the less injured, who by-pass EMS triage and go directly to the closest hospitals.
Double the first hour's casualties for a rough prediction of total "first wave" of casualties. (See Mass Casualties Predictor.)
Obtain and record details about the nature of the explosion, potential toxic exposures and environmental hazards, and casualty location from police, fire, EMS, ICS Commander, regional EMA, health department, and reliable news sources.
If structural collapse occurs, expect increased severity and delayed arrival of casualties.
Medical Management Options
Blast injuries are not confined to the battlefield. They should be considered for any victim exposed to an explosive force.
Clinical signs of blast-related abdominal injuries can be initially silent until signs of acute abdomen or sepsis are advanced.
Standard penetrating and blunt trauma to any body surface is the most common injury seen among survivors. Primary blast lung and blast abdomen are associated with a high mortality rate. "Blast Lung" is the most common fatal injury among initial survivors.
Blast lung presents soon after exposure. It can be confirmed by finding a "butterfly" pattern on chest X-ray. Prophylactic chest tubes (thoracostomy) are recommended prior to general anesthesia and/or air transport.
Auditory system injuries and concussions are easily overlooked. The symptoms of mild TBI and post traumatic stress disorder can be identical.
Isolated TM rupture is not a marker of morbidity; however, traumatic amputation of any limb is a marker for multi-system injuries.
Air embolism is common, and can present as stroke, MI, acute abdomen, blindness, deafness, spinal cord injury, or claudication. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy may be effective in some cases.
Compartment syndrome, rhabdomyolysis, and acute renal failure are associated with structural collapse, prolonged extrication, severe burns, and some poisonings.
Consider the possibility of exposure to inhaled toxins and poisonings (e.g., CO, CN, MetHgb) in both industrial and criminal explosions.
Wounds can be grossly contaminated. Consider delayed primary closure and assess tetanus status. Ensure close follow-up of wounds, head injuries, eye, ear, and stress-related complaints.
Communications and instructions may need to be written because of tinnitus and sudden temporary or permanent deafness.
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Posted on BrainLine April 14, 2010. Reviewed July 25, 2018.
This Explosives Primer was developed from published and unpublished sources. If quoted, please cite date and time as changes will be made as new information becomes available or is cleared for public distribution. From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006.
My Captain and I were under our 8 inch Howitzer in Graffenvohr Germany in 1971, got off on the wrong trail, weapon discharged, we were both knocked out, medics said they brought me around after 3 Ammonia capsules, don't remember that, the said they asked me if I knew where I was, they said, I said New Jersey, said they also asked "what is your rank" they said I responded: Rank? I came to in a tent, holding a cold cup of coffee about 4 hours after the said they brought me from the jeep; My personality changed, was outgoing and gregarious, after that I was very different, Sweated under the arms very profusely even through a field jacket into my trousers; This is a very true statement, hope it helps someone in the future


The idea of devops is to better streamline the work of developers and operation professionals.
Devops could be the latest and greatest buzzword, but it could also mean big and important changes - for the better- at many organizations in how applications are built and deployed.
The idea of devops is to better streamline the work of developers and operation professionals. This integrated approach, in theory, will allow developers to build applications faster and operators to launch them quicker and with fewer errors. It's juxtaposed to an idea of a separate development and operations organizations; when these groups act in silos, problems are more likely to arise (developers build an app one way and ops folks need to deploy it another way). "It's really a philosophy, an approach," says Andi Mann, VP of products, strategy and marketing at CA Technologies, who is a leading thinker on the devops movement. "The core of devops is about development and operations working together well."
It can be tough for an individual developer or operations pro to institute organizational change. So, it's imperative to get buy-in from the higher ups. There has to be a willingness by someone to implement a change within an organization, and according to research by CA (take that with a grain of salt, since it's a vendor-sponsored survey), only 13% of IT leaders and managers were undecided or against a devops strategy; the rest were at least open to the idea, or already pursuing it. For developers and operators to both be swayed into making changes, they need to see that this is an initiative supported by the organization as a whole.
But how do IT staff actually get buy-in? "Understand your management's goals," Mann says. What are your company's goals and what are your CIOs goals? Find ways to align your strategy with those. Look for MBO (management by objectives) and KPI (key performance indicators) that your boss looks at and develop a strategy that accomplishes those. Perhaps a goal is cost savings, maybe it is faster development cycles, or maybe it's developing for mobile.
"Don't try to bite it off all at once," Mann says. Let's say you do get the buy-in from higher-ups, great, but that doesn't mean the work is done. One common way IT projects fail is that they start off too big. Start small, that way your chances of actually getting something done are higher. Identify small areas where developers and operators can work more closely together.
So how do you start down this path? It could be tough - the reason devops can be such a big change is that developers and operators typically work separately. Devops is about bringing them together, but there is a reason there have been silos: These experts are pros in their respective areas. The key to a devops approach, says Perficient IT consultant JP Morgenthal, is to get these two groups focusing on a common goal, such as improving agility. "The trick is not to come in and create a cultural revolution and try to get everyone in the organization to sing Kumbaya," he says. "It doesn't work that way across a 2,000 or 3,000 person IT shop." But, he says groups can rally around a focal point that everyone can contribute to, such as eliminating inefficiency and improving speed. Find specific problems that are preventing the change from happening and fix those. Perhaps devops could be used for new, cutting-edge initiatives within the organization, not as a replacement for the core development efforts. Identify two or three big-picture, overarching goals that everyone can aim for, then there's a more likely chance to show tangible results. Start small and grow.
Change is hard, especially in a large organization. So, understand what your company's tolerance for change and risk is, and keep that in perspective when developing a strategy, Mann suggests. If security is of utmost concern, then address that head on in the beginning.
Perhaps security could be that focal point for uniting developers and operators too. Some have even argued that devops could be security's savior. A devops strategy could be a perfect opportunity to ensure that security best practices are implemented at the onset of the application development process.
How is security actually implemented in a devops approach? Colin McNamara, director of cloud practice and chief cloud architect at IT consultancy Nexus, says the traditional application development process involves security teams acting as a glorified quality assurance group, testing the app after it's been built and before it is deployed in production. He argues that's too late. Devops installs a process of rapid development, testing, and deployment. Parts of that testing can now include security. "It's brings QA from the end of the process to the beginning of the process," McNamara says.
In a more traditional silo-based application development approach, security can be overlooked. If developers don't write it into the code and operators don't take account for it when launching the app, security never gets addressed. Devops is a fresh start for application development, and an opportunity to address security concerns from the beginning of the process. And that's important because if you don't address the risk and mitigate for it, Mann says "you're setting yourself up to fail."


How Is Artificial Intelligence Molding E-Commerce?
Artificial intelligence is a procedure to making the mechanism advanced. ECommerce is tremendously aggressive and gaining an advantage over the rivalry lake the fast-dealing out of magnificent numbers of information.
Nowadays, AI is walking confidently across the corridors of any industry, any company, as well as any business-type. Besides although artificial, the expertise has added an individual touch to the way you trade and shop. Artificial Intelligence in e-commerce is improving the complete buy-sell experience for together sellers and buyers.
The key for you is not only how rapidly these machines grips the tasks, nevertheless, how much extra efficient they do them also. With the influence, the analytical, as well as exponential growth is the major factor that creates the human task relaxed.
The exponential development along with automation of AI is for the promoting purposes, also there lays the key.
AI is seen forming the retail online shopping business. Wondering, how? The quick calculation and acceptance in payment option have created AI and robotics field to be castoff more and more.
Bottomless learning, statistical programming as well as predictive analysis of huge data sets are probable with AI algorithms. Concerns use these approaches to capture their clients' behavior.
The common show on House of Cards, Netflix, was a consequence of such Artificial Intelligence shape learning systems applied to datasets of the maximum-watched sort of TV shows by a majority of the watchers.
Predictive sales as well as help in organizing along with managing the inventory of the warehouses, confirming that the concern is well stocked, specifically with the products which have a great demand.
Gone are the days of getting the Yellow Pages along with cold-calling customers, otherwise twisting up on their step unpublished through products they do not want or else required.
Sales methods have admiringly lifted on outside such time-consuming procedure. Buyer's lives are today formed by so lots of media, as of social media to TV broadcast.
Deprived of ambiguity, AI is dynamic the aspect of sales for the greater by increasing the sales mechanism intelligently, therefore, the client will no lengthier be offered solutions which are neither tailored nor related.
It is making forceful variations to the way companies' transaction with their customers, getting prompt access to information and uses their employees' aptitude for better use.
The expertise of the chatbots has been very common among the millennials. The significance and the prime factor have created it be used in the leading tech updates.
Increasing of the smartphones as well as choices of open statistical have allowable the brand's E-commerce is a very viable landscape. The brands which will prosper in 2017 will be those which will harness the control of new technology to create an additional personal experience for clients.
In the coming times, brands will prosper in with the control of new technology to make a more personal experience for clients, more concerned with the trending e-commerce requirements.
For maximum e-commerce dealers, managing inventory is frightening. Running out of stock can seriously affect merchants' incomes, while overstocking needs extra capital to happen inventory cost, rentals, also the fear of a product losing value if it is not traded in time.
By such an extremely saturated and quickly changing market, the outdated methods of predicting inventory requirements just do not cut it.
The difficulty with traditional approaches is that it castoffs the hindsight perspective, also with both demands as well as competition changing normally, this is seldom as accurate as it requires to be. With the aim of reach operational efficiency, sellers need to be capable to accurately foresee demand consuming predictive analytics.
People are more related to their choices, also if those choices derive in the form of visual investigation and touch, it is more than collaborative.
This type of search has been about for an extended time, nonetheless, with the developments in artificial intelligence as well the rise of mobile trade, it is at the present time, gaining acceptance by the sellers.
The internet feeling among the different nations has made persons more and more closely through the technology developments.
Smart technology in the method of the social influence lets shoppers to digitally liken outfits by taking a 360-degree view of themselves in clothing and letting them deliver those images to friends through social media and email.
Recommendation engines are working by a lot of retail businesses, like Amazon, to classify the target audience for their items. Based on the current searches made by a probable customer, Artificial Intelligence algorithms in search engines record perilous details on the product being investigated.
Based on the consequences of the algorithm, the search engine produces appropriate recommendations aimed at the browser also lists them on their individual dashboard to help them get the product swiftly.
Some years back the shopping knowledge of the client was in the back flash by the longer bills as well as non-hassle expertise.
What used to be gathering copious numbers of data to be tackled by somebody when they finally had sufficient time to conquer the scheme for drawing conclusions along with making future predictions is nowadays streamlined and far more effective.
With the assistance of AI, the days of hostile re-marketing and concentrating on the amount of ad revelation will be long gone.
The innovative marketing era will be capable to focus on quality as well as directing more relevant marketing to the exact visitors at the exact time. It has made the person interact with the verging expertise.
Artificial Intelligence is changing the game. Through its ability to categorize, interpret, and recognize images, AI is creating it easier to search what you did not even know the term of the image also the other unshakable variations.
With the use of the expertise, one can improve the innovative way of the shopping also try to wend along with the new devices besides technology alterations. The technology has shown to be basics in the life of all!
At the present time, artificial intelligence has a greater role to play in altering eCommerce. AI has to go beyond client segmentation, as well as automatic triggers in the method of emails/messages/popups to help sellers achieve their purposes.
AI can not only aid you to get more clients at a lower cost nevertheless, also increase client satisfaction by sending what they want.


These simple action steps can make 2017 a great year for salespeople.
At the start of the New Year, it's common, even traditional, for sales professionals to start focusing on setting revenue goals. That's natural and important. However, this year you might benefit by stopping in early January and asking yourself: What can I do to make this year's goals more meaningful, and perhaps more attainable, than last year's?
The answer lies in the idea of focusing not just on our numerical targets and results, but on the habits and behaviors that support them. After all, it's what we do consistently that will determine what kind of year 2017 is for us, not the sales numbers we aim for. Here are some thoughts on how you can build habits and behaviors that support sales growth in 2017.
● Accounts we want to KEEP.
● Accounts we don't have, but want to ATTAIN.
● Former clients/customers we want to RECAPTURE.
● Accounts we are selling into now where our aim is to EXPAND our wallet share.
These are four very different targets, each requiring distinct behavior sets. So your first step is to categorize your entire universe of buyers by assigning each of them to one of these categories.
Next, you will want to set up a yearlong behavioral plan that accommodates each of the KARE groups in a balanced way. In an account you want to Expand, for instance, conducting Quarterly Business Reviews with key decision makers is going to be an important behavioral goal. But you don't want to devote the entirety of January to these meetings! That would take you out of balance when it comes to the prospecting and referral generation behaviors that connect to the accounts you want to Attain.
For more on the KARE tool, see my new book THE SANDLER RULES FOR SALES LEADERS.
Create and follow a cookbook that supports your behavioral plan. A cookbook is an action plan that breaks down the specific daily, weekly, and monthly behaviors that support your sales goal. Just as a reliable recipe for a chocolate cake will always yield a chocolate cake if you follow the directions in order and use the right ingredients, your sales cookbook, when properly designed and executed, will always deliver the income you aim to generate. Creating, testing, and refining the right cookbook is a critical skill. This, too, is covered in THE SANDLER RULES FOR SALES LEADERS.
Whether it's buying a wedding ring, getting an extra week of vacation in the South of France, or attaining any other worthy aim that stokes your fires, you must constantly remind yourself of exactly what that personalized positive outcome is. Keep it at the forefront of your mind as you execute your behavioral plan. Remember that your personal goals may be very different from your assigned sales quota! The two are not necessarily identical. It's your job to connect the dots.
No one else can uncover your critical personal goals for you -- though a good coach can help you accelerate the process of figuring out what you most want from your working day. Once you know what your big "WHY" goal is, use it to drive your daily and weekly behaviors. Do that not just in January, but all year long … or until you attain the prize and set a new goal!


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One of the most famous hotels in the West of England.
Stay at St Mawes or Pendennis Castle.
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Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan: Hillary Clinton
* US taxes everything, and 'that's not what we see in Pakistan'
* Pakistan must start planning for challenges posed by population growth
* US secretary of state meets COAS
LAHORE: The leadership of Al Qaeda is in Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday.
"I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to," she added.
"Maybe that's the case; maybe they're not gettable. I don't know... As far as we know, they are in Pakistan," Clinton told senior Pakistani newspaper editors in Lahore, AFP reported. "The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world... We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn't move, and that's not what we see in Pakistan," she said.
Hillary leaves State Department, Joins Pakistani Bureau of Immigration.


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Marco Antonio Solis to play Infinite Energy Arena September 2
MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS "EL BUKI" 40 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS JESSE & JOY
AT INFINITE ENERGY ARENA SEPTEMBER 2ND
TICKETS ON SALE THURSDAY, JUNE 8TH AT 10AM
Miami, FL (May 22, 2017) - "Marco Antonio Solis" has plenty to celebrate this year. The iconic Mexican singer is not only celebrating 40 years in the music industry, but in his highly-anticipated 2017 US TOUR he will be joined in Atlanta by Multi Grammy winning duo "Jesse & Joy". The show comes to Infinite Energy Arena on Saturday, September 2nd and tickets go on sale Thursday, June 8th at 10AM. To purchase tickets, visit www.InfiniteEnergyCenter.com, the arena box office or by calling 770-626-2464.
The concert is set to commemorate four decades of musical hits from 'El Poeta del Siglo,' who throughout his career has garnered five Latin GRAMMYs and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Considered one of the greatest musical living legends in Latin America, Marco Antonio Solis was awarded last year with Billboard's Lifetime Achievement Award. But that's not the first time he's been recognized by the glossy magazine. In 2010, he was named Billboard's Latin Artist of the Decade for his immense chart achievements, which include 30 record breaking songs that have hit the top 10 of Hot Latin Songs. Other notable accolades include 2014's Pop Male Artist of the Year by Premio Lo Nuestro and numerous awards by international festival Viña Del Mar, to name a few.
With 18 studio albums, over 40 million album copies sold and over 300 songs to his name, "El Buki" will continue to be considered one of the most influential artists in Latin music. He's also the only Latin artist, to have 12 albums reach the No. 1 spot in Billboard's Top Albums chart.
Jesse & Joy, with 4 studio albums, winners of 7 Latin Grammys, multiple Diamond and Platinum Certifications will delight their fans with their hit songs, "Espacio Sideral" "Llegaste Tu", "La de la Mala Suerte" "Corre," and "Llorar" among many others, in what promises to be an unforgettable evening.


DTP Training on Promoting and Protecting Human Rights of Migrant Workers From Nepal and South Asia.
Civil Society Group submitting concern letter to The President of Nepal under SAVE AMAR CAMPAIGN.
After completing the 3 days workshop program.
PNCC Board Members and Staffs.
Every child if educated well with family love and parental care can become capable citizen in future.
Foreign employment has become an unavoidable compulsion for more than 2/3 labor force (out of 0.5 million in average) that enters into the Nepalese labour market every year.


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Papilaroskopija predstavlja metod kriminalističke registracije i identifikacije koji se zasniva na proučavanju i upoređivanju papilarnih linija na koži prstiju, dlanova i tabana čoveka. Papilarne linije predstavljaju ispupčenja na koži u obliku brazdi koja su nastala povezivanjem velikog broja kvržica – papila, u čijem se središtu nalaze otvori kanala znojnih žlezda - pore.

Bitna svojstva papilarnih linija:
 Nepromenljivost
 Individualnost
 Grupisanje (po osnovnim grupama - po Vučetićevom sistemu to su četiri grupe - lučni uzorci, leve petlje, desne petlje, kružni uzorci)
 Prenosivost (mogućnost ostavljanja tragova papilarnih linija na predmetima koji se dodiruju)

Podela papilaroskopije
 Daktiloskopija (identifikacija na osnovu papilarnih linija na prstima ruku)
 Heiroskopija (identifikacija na osnovu papilarnih linija dlanova)
 Pedoskopija (identifikacija na osnovu papilarnih linija tabana, odnosno stopala)

Od svih gore navedenih metoda, najpouzdaniji je metod daktiloskopije.

Da bi se mogla izvršiti identifikacija lica na osnovu papilarnih linija, neophodno je postojanje daktiloskopske zbirke koja sadrži prethodno uzete otiske prstiju određenih kategorija lica.

Dve vrste daktiloskopskih zbirki:
 Dekadaktiloskopska   (otisci papilarnih linija svih deset prstiju na istom kartonu)
 Monodaktiloskopska   (svaki otisak na posebnom kartonu – fišu)

Postupak uzimanja otisaka prstiju započinje sa palcem desne ruke i završava sa malim prstom leve ruke.

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Q: phpDesigner 8 - Show elements tree Since i installed phpDesigner i am trying to find how to set up to show element tree.
I know that many people will suggest to change editor but i tried all of them for last 2 weeks. I am moving from notepad++ only due syntax check.
Good thing with phpDesigner what is better then NetBeans and phpStorm is that there is code highlighting, it's lighter, and the most important FTP remote without bugs. Program itself have some bugs but for now i really cant live without element tree and i am sure that many people need that.

A: I guess you mean the Structure View: