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11 epic roads to ride before you die
Inspire MeRoutes
· 18th November 2016
Author: Harriet Jordan
The world is filled with awesome roads, and sometimes this makes it difficult to narrow down your choices when compiling a bucket list. Here at ABR, we're always scouring the web for adventure biking inspiration, and so we've teamed up with Reactive Parts to put together an epic compilation of roads to ride before you die. Whether you're after breathtaking views, a hidden British treasure, or an ultimate test of endurance, we've got it covered with a tasty mix of on and off-road routes.
Below is our list of roads that you will just want to keep riding, and riding, and riding.
Dalton Highway, Alaska
Photo: Terry Feuerborn
Embarking on a journey down the Dalton Highway will result in one of the most gruelling and, yet, exhilarating road trips of your life. The Dalton Highway, or 'Haul Road' as it's known by the truckers who most frequently use it, begins at the Elliot Highway, north of Fairbanks, and ends at the Deadhorse near the Arctic Ocean. It is the longest stretch of un-serviced road on the North American continent. Once you cross through the Atigun Pass, what was once a paved road becomes dirt and gravel and all signs of life disappear. The highway's uncanny, post-apocalyptic landscape of snowcapped mountains delivers some incredible views.
Carretera Austral, Chile
Photo: Mariano Mantel
Located in Chile's remote and rugged Patagonia region, The Carretera Austral goes from the coastal town of Puerto Montt to Villa O'Higgins through rural Patagonia. Everything is super-sized on this journey, from the masses of land to imposing mountains and sprawling vegetation. The Carretera Austral crisscrosses through barren plains into a contrasting lush, grassy landscape. Opt to camp out during the trip and witness a clear night sky full of stars.
Ruta 40, South America
Photo: Oenvoyage
Covering 3,100-miles, Ruta 40 spans from Punta Loyola in the south of Argentina to La Quiaca in the north, running parallel to the Andes mountains. Ruta 40 guides bikers through red sandstone desert, the wine regions of Mendoza, and the Patagonia adventure hub of Bariloche. Past this point are the magnificent granite peaks at Los Glaciares National Park and, eventually, Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city. Ruta 40 is a fantastic road for long distance riders who wish to escape into the great outdoors.
The Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia
Photo: Dawolf
Hailed as one of the top coastal roads on the planet, The Great Ocean Road is 174-miles along the south-eastern coast of Australia, starting and finishing at the Victorian cities of Torquay and Allansford. You have to be cautious riding this route, as the scenery will often pull your eyes away from the road! The Great Ocean Road sweeps the coastline, past the other-worldly 12 Apostles rock formations and snakes through the eucalyptus-scented countryside. As it is such a popular road, it is often jammed with tourists so go in the winter months to fully enjoy this showstopper of a road.
Transfagarasan Highway, Romania
It's not often we agree with Jeremy Clarkson, but when he described the Transfagarasan Highway to be "like every great corner from every great race track in the world has been knitted together to create one unbroken great ribbon of automotive perfection", he was right on the money. The road's rise in elevation from 497 metres at Cartisoara, to almost 2,042 metres at Balea Lac, provides a thrilling ascent into the Carpathian Mountains. Satisfying twists and turns together with scenes of unspoilt nature make Transfagarasan an extraordinary ride.
Arthur's Pass, New Zealand
Photo: Vasek Vinklat
Nestled in the mountains of the Southern Alps of New Zealand is a true feat of engineering, Arthur's Pass. It climbs more than 900 metres, making it the highest and most spectacular pass across the Southern Alps. As enjoyable as the twists and turns are on this route, what's really incredible is the scenery. You'll occasionally have to turn the engine off and admire the swathes of beech forest, towering mountains and glacier fed riverbeds, immersed in sweet silence. Be careful when you do, though, as New Zealand's inquisitive alpine parrot, the kea, will be rooting through your panniers in no time.
Guoliang Tunnel Road, China
Photo: FANG Chen
Feel like testing your nerves? One of the steepest roads in the world is the white-knuckle Guoliang Tunnel Road. The 5 metres tall and 4 metres wide roadway was carved by the hands of 13 men, none of which were engineers. It took them a total of fifteen years! There are 30-metre-long "windows" in the tunnel that offer views of the precipice and the tumbling abyss hundreds of metres below. A ride along this tunnel includes unpredictable twists, dips and turns and demands ultimate concentration.
Forcella Lavardet, Dolomites, Italy
Located in a high, picturesque mountain pass in the Dolomites, Forcella Lavardet is a part tarmacked, part gravel track. This road is closed to vehicles due to heavy rainstorms and landslides destroying most of the road, but it is still passable by bike. The star of this epic ride is the 14 switchbacks that zigzag back and forth and will have you grinning from ear to ear.
Sani Pass, Lesotho, South Africa
Photo: Vaiz Ha
The Sani Pass has been described as the best 'gravel travel' riding in the world. Nicknamed 'the roof of Africa', Sani Pass peaks at 2,873 metres above sea level and is an intense roller-coaster ride as you snake your way up the escarpment of the Drakensberg mountains, or 'Mountains of the Dragons'. Travelling the Sani Pass is synonymous with adventure because of its isolated surroundings and crazy ride to the top. Be aware that at the summit of Sani Pass there is an international border post and your passport will be required.
Eastern BAM
Photo: Mark Kemp
There's a danger with this route that once you've conquered it, no other road will compare. The Eastern BAM is 2,485-mile of tough off-roading through Siberia that tests not only motorcycling skill but physical and mental endurance too. BAM, which stands for the Baikal-Amur Mainline, is a railway line traversing Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East. The road runs from Taishet, proceeds past Severobaikalsk, and finally reaches the Pacific Ocean at Sovetskaya Gavan. If it's a challenge you're after, BAM will leave you with the greatest adrenaline rush and an immense sense of achievement.
The Devil's Staircase, Wales
The Devil's Staircase is a hidden gem located in Mid Wales. Although, you don't need a treasure map to uncover it, just plug in the postcode LD5 4TR into your SatNav. It starts off innocently enough, following up the Irfon river into a secluded and empty valley. Continuing on the single track road you'll bend and then be treated to a view of the zigzagging staircase you're about to do battle with. The Devil's Staircase is a great road for mountain twisties along with some breathtaking views of the remote valleys in Mid Wales.
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Q: Draw Square with OpenGL ES for iOS I am trying to draw a rectangle using the GLPaint example project provided by apple. I have tried modifying the vertices but cannot get a rectangle to appear on the screen. The finger painting works perfectly. Am I missing something in my renderRect method?
- (void)renderRect {

    [EAGLContext setCurrentContext:context];
    glBindFramebufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, viewFramebuffer);

    // Replace the implementation of this method to do your own custom drawing.
    static const GLfloat squareVertices[] = {
        -0.5f, -0.33f,
        0.5f, -0.33f,
        -0.5f,  0.33f,
        0.5f,  0.33f,
    };

    static float transY = 0.0f;

    glTranslatef(0.0f, (GLfloat)(sinf(transY)/2.0f), 0.0f);

    // Render the vertex array
    glVertexPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, 0, squareVertices);
    glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4);

    // Display the buffer
    glBindRenderbufferOES(GL_RENDERBUFFER_OES, viewRenderbuffer);
    [context presentRenderbuffer:GL_RENDERBUFFER_OES];
}

The rest of the project is set up stock to allow drawing on the screen but just for reference these are the gl settings that are set.
// Set the view's scale factor
self.contentScaleFactor = 1.0;

// Setup OpenGL states
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
CGRect frame = self.bounds;
CGFloat scale = self.contentScaleFactor;
// Setup the view port in Pixels
glOrthof(0, frame.size.width * scale, 0, frame.size.height * scale, -1, 1);
glViewport(0, 0, frame.size.width * scale, frame.size.height * scale);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);

glDisable(GL_DITHER);
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);

glEnable(GL_BLEND);
// Set a blending function appropriate for premultiplied alpha pixel data
glBlendFunc(GL_ONE, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);

glEnable(GL_POINT_SPRITE_OES);
glTexEnvf(GL_POINT_SPRITE_OES, GL_COORD_REPLACE_OES, GL_TRUE);
glPointSize(width / brushScale);

A: static const GLfloat squareVertices[] = {
        30.0f,  300.0f,//-0.5f, -0.33f,
        280.0f, 300.0f,//0.5f, -0.33f,
        30.0f,  170.0f,//-0.5f,  0.33f,
        280.0f, 170.0f,//0.5f,  0.33f,
    };

That's definitely too much. OpenGL has normalized screen coords in range [-1..1]. So you have to convert device coords to normalized ones.

A: Issues are:
(1) the following code:
    glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
    CGRect frame = self.bounds;
    CGFloat scale = self.contentScaleFactor;
    // Setup the view port in Pixels
    glOrthof(0, frame.size.width * scale, 0, frame.size.height * scale, -1, 1);
    glViewport(0, 0, frame.size.width * scale, frame.size.height * scale);

Establishes that the on-screen coordinates range from (0, 0) in the lower left to frame.size in the upper right. In other words, one OpenGL unit is one iPhone point. So your array of:
static const GLfloat squareVertices[] = {
    -0.5f, -0.33f,
    0.5f, -0.33f,
    -0.5f,  0.33f,
    0.5f,  0.33f,
};

Is less than 1 pixel in size.
(2) you have the following in the setup:
    brushImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"Particle.png"].CGImage;

    /* ...brushImage eventually becomes the current texture... */

    glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);

You subsequently fail to supply texture coordinates for your quad. Probably you want to disable GL_TEXTURE_2D.
So the following:
static const GLfloat squareVertices[] = {
    0.0f, 0.0f,
    0.0,  10.0f,
    90.0,  0.0f,
    90.0f, 10.0f,
};

glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glColor4f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);

// Render the vertex array
glVertexPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, 0, squareVertices);
glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4);

Will produce a white quad 90 points wide and 10 points tlal in the lower left of the screen.

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Pleioblastus ist eine Gattung aus der Tribus Arundinarieae, der verholzenden Bambusarten aus der gemäßigten Klimazone.

Beschreibung
Die Arten der Gattung sind mehrjährig, eher klein und wachsen strauch- oder baumartig. Die Rhizome sind leptomorph, also lang und mehr oder weniger unverzweigt (monopodial). Die Halme wachsen mehr oder weniger aufrecht bis hängend in mehreren Büscheln. Sie erreichen eine Höhe von 0,5 bis 8 Metern und Durchmesser von 0,1 bis 4 Zentimetern. Die Knoten sind verdickt. Die Internodien sind unbehaart, glatt oder rau, über dem Knoten leicht gefurcht und unter den Knoten bereift. Die Astknospen sind groß, die zugehörigen Vorblätter zweifach gekielt. Je Knospe werden abhängig von der Art ein, zwei, drei oder bis zu neun lange Äste gebildet, wobei einer dominant oder alle etwa gleich dick sein können. Die Halmscheiden sind bleibend und beinahe ledrig. Die Halmblattspreite ist häufig zurückgebogen und fällt früh ab. Die Laubblätter sind bleibend, die Laubblattspreiten sind klein bis mittelgroß. Sie können querverlaufende Blattadern zeigen. Die Blattränder überstehen den Winter meist ohne dass Teile absterben.

Die Blütenstände sind offen und trauben- bis rispenförmig. Die Seitenäste zeigen an der Basis kleine Tragblätter oder Haare. Die Ährchen wachsen auf langen, dünnen Stielen, sind 1 bis 4 Zentimeter lang und haben vier bis acht Blütchen. Die ein oder zwei selten bis fünf Hüllspelzen sind dünn, lose, stehen an der Basis rudimentärer Knospen und sind deutlich kürzer als die erste Deckspelze. Die Vorspelze erreicht eine Länge von bis zu 1 Zentimeter. Je Blüte werden drei kahle oder bewimperte Schwellkörper und drei Staubblätter gebildet. Der Fruchtknoten ist unbehaart und trägt und drei Narben. Die Früchte sind Karyopsen.

Verbreitung und Ökologie
Das Verbreitungsgebiet der Arten liegt in Asien (beispielsweise in China, Japan und Vietnam), in Australasien und auf pazifischen Inseln, wo sie im gemäßigten Klima zu finden sind.

Systematik und Forschungsgeschichte
Pleioblastus gehört zu der Tribus Arundinarieae. Sie wurde 1925 von Takenoshin Nakai im Journal of the Arnold Arboretum aufgestellt. Synonyme der Gattung sind Nipponocalamus  und Polyanthus

Der Gattung werden folgende Arten zugerechnet:
 Pleioblastus altiligulatus : Fujian, Hunan, Zhejiang.
 Pleioblastus amarus : Südliches China.
 Pleioblastus argenteostriatus : Südlich-zentrales und südliches Japan.
 Pleioblastus distichus : Japan.
 Pleioblastus fortunei : Zentrales und südliches Japan.
 Pleioblastus glabrinodus : Die 2012 erstbeschriebene Art kommt in Anhui vor.
 Pleioblastus gramineus : Sie kommt auf den Nansei-Inseln vor.
 Pleioblastus guilongshanensis : Fujian.
 Pleioblastus hattorianus : Honshu.
 Pleioblastus hsienchuensis : Zhejiang.
 Pleioblastus incarnatus : Fujian.
 Pleioblastus kodzumae : Kyushu.
 Pleioblastus linearis : Nansei-Inseln.
 Pleioblastus maculatus : Zentrales und südliches China.
 Pleioblastus matsunoi : Honshu.
 Pleioblastus nagashima : Honshu und Kyushu.
 Pleioblastus pseudosasaoides : Zentrales Honshu.
 Pleioblastus rugatus : Zhejiang.
 Pleioblastus sanmingensis : Fujian.
 Pleioblastus simonii : Zentrales und südliches Japan.
 Pleioblastus solidus : Jiangsu, Zhejiang.
 Pleioblastus truncatus : Zhejiang.
 Pleioblastus viridistriatus  (Syn.: Pleioblastus kongosanensis ): Zentrales und südliches Japan.
 Pleioblastus wuyishanensis : Fujian.
 Pleioblastus yixingensis : Jiangsu.

Literatur

 Andreas Roloff, Andreas Bärtels: Flora der Gehölze. Bestimmung, Eigenschaften und Verwendung. Mit einem Winterschlüssel von Bernd Schulz. 3., korrigierte Auflage. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6, S. 698.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

Bambus
Bambusoideae

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The overture was a medley of just about all the well known Gershwin goodies bookended by snatches of Rhapsody in Blue. This indicated to me that we weren't going to be dealt a selection of done to death songs but some lesser known ones and, in the main, we were.
Treat me Rough from Girl Crazy brought Matthew Ford and Louise Dearman to the fore. They were in good voice. It's a great song. Mike Lovell blew trumpet and Harold McGill alto.
Louise hung around for a wistful But Not for Me. Including, as did most of the songs, the verse. Let's face it, why write a verse then have just about every other singer ignore it?
The duo then introduced us to another rarely heard piece of Gershwin - Could You Use Me?
He's the type for me.
Yes George's music was great but Ira's lyrics weren't bad either!
Slap That Bass; They Can't Take That Away From me; I Was Doin' Alright (by Louise) led us to the interval and New York Rhapsody.
Interval time. A quick hello to 3 of the guys (l-r) Colin (alto), Andy and Russell (trumpets).
Back in our seats, Matthew and Louise, now in a stunning figure-hugging dress that dispelled speculation that she may be preggers, Struck up the Band then Louise displayed her spot on pitching with an emotional How Long Has This Been Going on? Matthew sang Let's Kiss and Make up - the latter two from the Astaire/Hepburn movie Funny Face then another big one from Louise - The Man I Love. Mark Crooks came down front and blew Lady be Good - the Artie Shaw arrangement. Matthew 'did Gene Kelly' with S'wonderful, Both singers made love moves in For You, For Me, Forever More then the show drew to a close with Shall We Dance/They All Laughed.
Of course it's never over until the fat lady sings except this afternoon it was the very slim, svelte, sophisticated Louise who sang Someone to Watch Over Me. Unaccompanied verse and first 16 bars before taking us out with as good a version as you'll hear in a lot of listening.
Oh yes, John Wilson! A Geordie Lad made good. His control of the 68 piece band a joy to watch and his announcements both humourous and informative. Carve his name alongside Alan Shearer, Sting and Eric Burdon.
PS: Liz, up from York, and myself, up from Hebburn, enjoyed an after show chat with Ann Havis who just happened to be ex J.G.Windows... small world.
a wonderful afternoon, up to the usual John Wilson standard, I do like him , he has a very succinct way of addressing the audience, not over much, just enough to keep us in the loop without overdoing it. Lance said it all performance-wise...same time next year?
Just got back from the evening gig. First class as usual.


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author:     Christoph Broschinski
title:      Bielefeld University updates its 2016 APC expenditures
date:       2017-02-16 07:00:00
summary:
categories: [general, openAPC]
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[Bielefeld University](https://www.uni-bielefeld.de) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2016 period.

[Bielefeld University Library](http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/english/) is in charge of [Bielefeld University's Open Access Publishing Fund](http://oa.uni-bielefeld.de/en/publikationsfonds.html), which is supported by the DFG under its [Open-Access Publishing Programme](http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/infrastructure/lis/funding_opportunities/open_access/).

Contact person is [Dirk Pieper](<mailto:oa.ub@uni-bielefeld.de>).

## Cost data

Bielefeld's APC expenditures for 2016 include 86 articles, amounting to 115 085€ and an average fee of 1 338€.

The following table shows the payments Bielefeld University Library has made to publishers in 2016:

|                                                            | Articles| Fees paid in EURO| Mean Fee paid|
|:-----------------------------------------------------------|--------:|-----------------:|-------------:|
|Springer Nature                                             |       33|             44748|          1356|
|Frontiers Media SA                                          |       19|             27223|          1433|
|Public Library of Science (PLoS)                            |       12|             16021|          1335|
|American Society for Microbiology                           |        6|              3611|           602|
|MDPI AG                                                     |        6|              8556|          1426|
|Dove Medical Press Ltd.                                     |        2|              3800|          1900|
|Wiley-Blackwell                                             |        2|              3277|          1639|
|Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) |        1|              1992|          1992|
|innsbruck university press                                  |        1|               238|           238|
|OMICS Publishing Group                                      |        1|              1309|          1309|
|PeerJ                                                       |        1|               638|           638|
|Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,                        |        1|              1291|          1291|
|The Company of Biologists                                   |        1|              2380|          2380|

## Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for Bielefeld University now looks as follows:

### Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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###  Average costs per year (in EURO)

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###  Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Civil Appeal No. 3415 of 2007. Case: Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. Vs Western Geco international Ltd.. Supreme Court (India)
Judgment Cited in Precedent Map Related
Case Number Civil Appeal No. 3415 of 2007
Judges T.S. Thakur, C. Nagappan and A.K. Goel, JJ.
Issue Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 - Sections 34, 34(2), 34(3), 75, 81; Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 - Sections 191, 191(4); Income tax Act; Constitution of India - Article 226
Judgement Date September 04, 2014
Court Supreme Court (India)
Judgment:
T.S. Thakur, J.
This appeal arises out of an order dated 10th February, 2006 passed by a Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay whereby OSA No. 24 of 2006 filed by the Appellant-Corporation has been partly allowed and the order passed by a single bench of the High Court in Arbitration Petition No. 203 of 2005 affirmed with the modification that award of pendente lite and future interest by the Arbitral Tribunal shall stand deleted.
The Appellant-Corporation is engaged in the business of drilling and exploration of oil and natural gases. In November, 1999, the Appellant invited offers for technical upgradation of Seismic Survey Vessel, M.V. Sagar Sandhani (hereinafter referred to as the "Vessel") with a view to modernising the same. According to the tender conditions, one of the main items of equipment required for upgradation of the Vessel was "Streamers" fitted with hydrophones. The specifications, however, did not stipulate the national origin of such hydrophones.
In response to the tender notice Respondent-M/s. Western Geco International Ltd., submitted a bid offering to supply Nessie 4 streamers equipped with "Geopoint" Hydrophones of U.S. origin. The Appellant's case is that the term relating to supply of such Geopoint Hydrophones formed a material part of the offer made by the Respondent-company in whose favour the Appellant-Corporation eventually awarded a contract in terms of its letter dated 10th October, 2000 duly accepted by the Respondent on 25th October, 2000. The Vessel was resultantly handed over to the Respondent on 10th April, 2001 for carrying on the proposed modernisation and upgradation work. A formal contract was in due course executed between the parties on 18th June, 2001.
It is common ground that "Geopoint" Hydrophones of U.S. origin were in terms of the contract fitted in the vessel and test trials of the same conducted. Even so the vessel could not be delivered back to the Appellant on 9th July, 2001, the due date for that purpose, because of some problem which the Respondent encountered in obtaining licence from the U.S. authorities for sale of such hydrophones. The Appellant-Corporation asserts that the Respondent had for the first time made an application to the U.S. authorities for issuance of a licence as late as on 1st August, 2001 i.e. nearly a month after the due date for delivery of the vessel back to the Corporation. No formal rejection of the request for a license was according to the Corporation communicated to it as the matter appeared to be under some kind of negotiations between the Respondent and the authorities in U.S.
The Respondent's case per contra is that it continued its efforts to obtain a licence only to be informed by its sources in the US that the latter was likely to impose certain onerous conditions one of which could be that US made hydrophones can be used only on loan basis that too for a short duration of 24 months only. Respondent's further case is that its source in US had informed it that the US authorities were not likely to grant a licence to sell hydrophones to India. Be that as it may while the matter was pending with the Defence Department, a massive terrorist attack on 11th September, 2001 shook America. The Respondent's hope of getting a licence for sale of US made hydrophones receded further with this unexpected development. The Respondent accordingly informed the Appellant-Corporation about the new development and pleading force majeure the Respondent informed the Appellant-Corporation of the former's inability to equip the vessel with U.S. made hydrophones. The Appellant-Corporation refuted the invocation of force Majeure by its letter dated 20th September, 2001 and informed the Respondent that since the field season was starting shortly any further delay in the delivery of the vessel would adversely affect its operation. The Respondent on its part started looking for and offering alternatives to the U.S. made hydrophones and argued with the Appellant-Corporation that since origin of the hydrophones was not indicated in the bid documents it was testing replacement by M-2 US Geo Spectrum Hydrophones made in Canada at its Norway facilities to check their suitability which exercise the Respondent hoped to complete by 27th September, 2001. The Respondent informed the Appellant-Corporation that if the Corporation accepted the replacement, those hydrophones could be substituted for the US hydrophones within a short time.
The Appellant-Corporation was, however, in no mood to accept a substitute for the contracted hydrophones. It was on the contrary keen to have US made hydrophones fitted on the vessel. The Corporation, therefore, required the Respondent to continue its efforts to secure a licence from the US Government in which direction the Appellant-Corporation on its own moved the concerned Ministry in Government of India to secure a licence. Further information and details in respect of the proposed Canadian hydrophones was all the same called for by the Corporation from the Respondent. Since, however, the efforts to secure a licence from US Government were making no progress, the Respondent sought approval of the Appellant-Corporation to remove the US hydrophones from the vessel and transfer them to their repair facility in Singapore to facilitate replacement by the Canadian made hydrophones. The Respondent also wrote a detailed letter dated 10th October, 2001 to the Appellant-Corporation informing the latter that the US government was not likely to grant a licence and that it had withdrawn the application made for that purpose to prevent a denial. What is important is that by letter dated 16th October, 2001 the Respondent clearly stated that it was not in a position to deliver the vessel with streamers containing the Geopoint Hydrophones of US make. This letter was followed by letter dated 21st October, 2001 addressed to the Appellant-Corporation with a request to permit removal of US hydrophones and replacement of Canadian hydrophones which had been extensively tested 1999 in connection with supply of Seismic Survey Vessel delivered to NOIC for the Iran project. Further information required by the Appellant-Corporation was also supplied by the Respondent by its letter dated 24th October, 2001 with a request to the Corporation to approve the proposed replacement. The Respondent also agreed to give additional warranty of one year for the replaced hydrophones. By another letter dated 13th November, 2001 the Respondent assured the Appellant-Corporation that if the latter agreed to the replacement proposal there would be no financial implications and the additional cost involved in fixing the Canadian hydrophones would also be borne by the Respondent.
It was only on 23rd March, 2002 that the Respondent conditionally agreed to the proposed replacement of the US made hydrophones by those made in Canada. One of the conditions imposed for the replacement by the Appellant-Corporation was the right to recover liquidated damages as per Clause 16 and for excess engagement of vessel as per Clause 14 of the subject contract. The replacement accordingly took place and the Vessel eventually delivered back to the Corporation with Canadian hydrophones on 6th May, 2002. On 24th May, 2002, a formal amendment to the contract was also effected to record the substitution of the US hydrophones by those made in Canada.
With the upgradation and modernisation work completed as per the amended contract, the Respondent raised invoices for payment due to it but realised that the Appellant-Corporation had deducted from its dues a sum of US $ 5,114,300.98 towards excess engagement charges in terms of Clause 14 of the contract. By another letter dated 20th August, 2002, the Appellant-Corporation further deducted a sum of US $ 410,641.20 based on a change in tax law applicable at 4.8% followed by a deduction of a sum of US $ 80,530.10 based on correction for price charges inclusive of income tax at 4.8%. These deductions gave rise to disputes which were referred for adjudication to an arbitral tribunal comprising three former Chief Justices of India before whom the Respondent claimed a sum of US $ 7,327,610.68 towards principal dues plus US $1,205,564.13...

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Q: UWP change NavigationViewItem height
On the image above, you can see my app (left) and Groove Player (right). I want to make NavigationViewItem height big like Groove Player, but I don't know how. I tried playing with Padding and MinHeight but it doesn't look the same.
I want to do the same for the AutoSuggestBox and the Settings button, that are part of NavigationView.
    <NavigationView x:Name="navView" IsSettingsVisible="True">
        <NavigationView.AutoSuggestBox>
            <AutoSuggestBox QueryIcon="Find" PlaceholderText="Search"></AutoSuggestBox>
        </NavigationView.AutoSuggestBox>

        <NavigationView.MenuItems>
            <NavigationViewItem x:Name="button1" Icon="Favorite" Content="Button 1" Tapped="Button1_Tapped"/>
            <NavigationViewItem x:Name="button2" Icon="Save" Content="Button 2" Tapped="Button2_Tapped"/>
        </NavigationView.MenuItems>
    </NavigationView>

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UWP change NavigationViewItem height

For your requirement, you could edit NavigationViewItem template. Right click NavigationViewItem in the xaml designer -> Edit Template -> Edit a copy.

If you want to  change NavigationViewItem height, you could modify LayoutRoot height. And then modify SelectionIndicator height correspondingly.
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" Height="50" Control.IsTemplateFocusTarget="True">
 ......
<Rectangle x:Name="SelectionIndicator" Fill="{ThemeResource NavigationViewSelectionIndicatorForeground}" Height="40" Opacity="0.0" Width="6"/>


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Home SEC Filings Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:THLD) Files An 8-K
Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:THLD) Files An 8-K
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The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:THLD) approved the promotion of Ms. Kristen Quigley, the Company's previous Executive Director of Clinical Operations to Vice President of Clinical Operations who in such capacity will perform the role of the Company's principal officer with regard to clinical trial operations effective October 14, 2016. Ms. Quigley, age 45, served as the Company's Executive Director of Clinical Operations from January 2016 until her promotion to Vice President of Clinical Operations on October 14, 2016. Prior to January 2016, Ms. Quigley served as the Company's Senior Director of Clinical Operations since June 2014. Ms. Quigley served in positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as Project Management Senior Director of Icon PLC from August 2001 to June 2014. Ms. Quigley received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis. In addition, the Committee approved the entering into of a change of control severance agreement with Ms. Quigley and stock options were granted to Ms. Quigley as described under "Executive Compensation Arrangements—Stock Option Grants" below. Other than with respect to the foregoing compensatory arrangements, there were no new compensatory or other material arrangements entered into, or modifications to existing compensatory arrangements entered into, nor were there any other grants or awards made to, Ms. Quigley in connection with her appointment as the Company's Vice President of Clinical Operations.
Executive Compensation Arrangements
Change of Control Severance Agreement. On October 13, 2016, the Committee approved the entering into of a change of control severance agreement (the "Severance Agreement") with Ms. Kristen Quigley in connection with her promotion to Vice President. Ms. Quigley previously served as and continues to serve as the Company's principal officer with regard to clinical trial operations. The Severance Agreement with the Company will provide, among other things, that if her employment is involuntarily terminated (which generally means her resignation following a material reduction in her duties, position or responsibilities, a material reduction in base salary, a relocation of work location, any termination other than for cause or for which there lacks valid grounds or failure by any successor to the Company to assume the terms of the Severance Agreement), then Ms. Quigley will be entitled to a lump sum cash severance payment equivalent to 6 months base salary as in effect as of the date of termination. In addition, if Ms. Quigley is involuntarily terminated within 18 months following a change of control of the Company, then she will be entitled to the following severance benefits: a lump sum payment equivalent to 12 months' base salary and any applicable allowances in effect as of the date of termination or, if greater, as in effect in the year in which the change of control occurs; payment of the full amount of her target bonus for the calendar year of termination plus a pro rata portion (based on the number of full weeks during such year) of the amount of such bonus or, if no target bonus has been established, an amount equal to her bonus in the prior year plus a pro rata portion (based on the number of full weeks during such year) of the amount of such bonus; immediate acceleration and vesting of all equity awards granted by the Company to Ms. Quigley prior to the change of control; extension of the exercise period for stock options granted prior to the change of control to up to two years following the date of termination; and up to 12 months of health benefits. All of the benefits provided above are expressly contingent on Ms. Quigley's delivery to the Company of a satisfactory release of claims. The Company expects to enter into the Severance Agreement with Ms. Quigley in due course. The foregoing is only a brief description of the material terms of the Severance Agreement, does not purport to be complete, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Severance Agreement that will be filed as an exhibit to the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ending December 31, 2016.
Stock Option Grants. On October 13, 2016, the Committee granted a stock option to Ms. Kristen Quigley, the Company's Vice President of Clinical Operations, under the Company's 2014 Equity Incentive Plan (the "Plan") and pursuant to the standard form of Stock Option Grant Notice and Option Agreement under the Plan (the "Plan Agreement"). The stock option is exercisable for 75,000 shares of the Company's common stock ("Common Stock"). The stock option will vest in equal monthly installments over the four year period from the grant date of October 17, 2016, subject to continued service, and carry an exercise price equal to the fair market value of the Common Stock on the grant date. These stock options were granted in connection with the Committee's determination, upon the recommendation of management, that there be some retention incentives for the Company's executive officers in 2016, that would not impact the Company's cash flow requirements.
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Mariia Biletska, sometimes Maria Biletska (1864 – 30 December 1937) was a Ukrainian teacher. She ran a house in Lviv, where students could stay. She was a leader of the women's movement.

Life
Biletska was born in 1864 in Ternopil.

In 1899, she and Hermina Shukhevych ran the Institute of St. Olga. The institute provided a place for girls to live while they attended education in Lviv. About half of these girls came from peasant families.

In 1912 she attended a meeting organised by Konstantyna Malytska for the "Women's Committee" in Lviv to prepare for war. Others at the meeting were Olena Zalizniak (1886-1969), Olena Stepaniv and Olha Basarab. The money raised from the "National Combat Fund", they recommended, was used to fund the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. Stepaniv would serve in that group as a rifleman.

She became the Chair of the Ukrainian Women's Union in 1921 for a year. The following year, she left the St Olga Institute. From 1925 to 1926 she was caring for people with disabilities.

Biletska died in Lviv in 1938.

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Cute Puppy or Red Herring?
Maryland Republican Michael Steele misleads, equating legal campaign contributions with lobbyist gifts.
By Emi Kolawole
In an ad featuring a Boston terrier at his side, GOP candidate Michael Steele accuses Democratic Rep. Ben Cardin of taking "money from special interests" and then voting against importing cheaper prescription drugs from Canada. Steele says he wants to "ban gifts from special interests." The ad misleads viewers by conflating campaign contributions (Cardin's "money from special interests") with lobbyists' gifts ("gifts from special interests") that Steele says he wants to ban. The ad makes it appear as if Steele has not received contributions from special interest groups when, in fact, he has.
The spot also accuses Cardin of voting against bills that would have allowed cheaper medicines to be imported from Canada. It's true Cardin has voted against such measures in the past, although one of the bills the Steele campaign accuses Cardin of voting against would only have allowed cheaper imports if the Secretary of Health and Human Services gave his approval, which he had already refused to do.
Steele also fails to mention his party affiliation in any of his ads. A DSCC ad attacking Steele, which we find to be accurate, leaves no doubt that he is a Republican.
Steele's ad appeared on Maryland airwaves on September 27, in response to a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ad that claimed Steele "loves George W. Bush." While we take no issue with the factual content of the DSCC ad, we find the Republican candidate's most recent ad to be misleading.
Lobbyist Gift or Campaign Contribution?
Michael Steele Ad:
"Real Differences"
Steele: You knew they were coming – nasty ads from the Washington crowd.
(On Screen: Puppy growls.)
Steele: We don't think much of that. I think you deserve straight talk about some real differences. I support cheaper medicine from Canada. Congressman Cardin took money from drug companies and voted against cheaper medicine. Ben Cardin's taken money from special interests for twenty years. I want to ban gifts from special interests. Want more of the same? I'm not your candidate. But if you're ready for change then I'm your man. I'm Michael Steele and this is my message.
Continuing with the theme from a previous ad that he "likes puppies," Steele stands next to a growling Boston terrier and says Cardin, has "taken money from special interests for twenty years." Then Steele says he wants to "ban gifts from special interests." If you listen carefully Steele doesn't accuse Cardin of taking gifts, instead he says Cardin has taken money from special interests. "Money" equals legal campaign contributions."Gifts," in the context of Capitol Hill, are things like trips and lavish meals. Steele doesn't explicitly say that "money from special interests" is the same as "gifts from special interests," but the implication is clear. According to his Web site, Steele wants to "eliminate any meals, drinks or gifts (including sporting event tickets or tickets of any amount) from lobbyists to members of Congress and Congressional staff." But the sourcing provided by the Steele campaign for this ad fails to list any gifts to Cardin's campaign from special interests, instead it lists only campaign contributions. A look at both campaigns' FEC filings show that both Steele and Cardin have received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from pharmaceutical PACs among other interest groups.
Drugs from Canada
Steele says he supports "cheaper medicines from Canada" and accuses Cardin of voting against importing such medications. He implies Cardin's vote was influenced by campaign contributions from special interests even though, as we noted earlier, both Steele and Cardin have received money from pharmaceutical PACs.
To support his claim, Steele's campaign cites three votes. One of them is Cardin's vote against the 2003 Medicare overhaul legislation. However, according to a 2003 CQ report, the Medicare bill, which Steele has said he supports, effectively prevented the importation of cheaper drugs from abroad. The bill placed the responsibility of approving cheaper drug imports in the hands of the Secretary of Health and Human Services rather than with Congress, even though Tommy Thompson, the Secretary at the time, had already established he would not allow it:
CQ Weekly: The Medicare bill technically allows drugs to be imported from Canada, provided the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) certifies that the practice is safe. HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has said such a guarantee is not possible.
The Secretary's refusal to approve drug imports was not news at the time. In 2001 HHS issued a press release outlining the Department's position on drug re-importation – the importation of U.S.-manufactured drugs from select foreign countries. In a letter to Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont, Thompson wrote:
HHS: I believe very strongly that seniors should have access to affordable prescription drugs…However, I do not believe we should sacrifice public safety for uncertain and speculative cost savings…Opening our borders as required under this [2001 drug reimportation] program would increase the likelihood that the shelves of pharmacies in towns and communities across the nation would include counterfeit drugs, cheap foreign copies of FDA-approved drugs, expired drugs, contaminated drugs, and drugs stored under inappropriate and unsafe conditions.
Cardin did vote against two measures that clearly would have allowed for the importation of drugs from Canada. In 2003 Cardin joined 34 Democrats and 142 Republicans in voting against a Democrat-sponsored motion to include language in the fiscal 2004 omnibus appropriations bill allowing for the reimportation of prescription drugs from Canada. The motion passed 237-176, but the language was eventually replaced by the regulation included in the Medicare overhaul. Cardin also voted against a bill introduced by Republican Gil Gutknecht of Minnesota that would have called on the Food and Drug Administration to create a program that would allow FDA-approved drugs from FDA-approved sites in select countries to be imported to the United States. The bill passed in the House with 141 Republicans and 45 Democrats voting against, but died in the Senate.
Where Does Steele Stand?
DSCC Ad:
(On Screen: Inset footage of Steele holding puppy.)
Announcer: It's nice that Michael Steele likes puppies. But he's running for the United States Senate, and it's important to know where he stands on the issues.
(On Screen: A picture of Michael Steele standing next to George W. Bush.)
Announcer: Michael Steele is a long-time supporter of George Bush. He supports the War in Iraq. Supported Bush's veto of embryonic stem cell research. And he's against a woman's right to choose. Michael Steele: he likes puppies, but he loves George Bush. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.
Steele's advertisement is the latest in a volley of ads between the candidate and the DSCC. Steele does not mention that he is a Republican in any of his ads; the majority of Maryland voters are Democrats.
Steele has said in his ads, that he is against last-minute pork-barrel spending amendments, against gifts from lobbyists and for importing drugs from Canada. But lest he be mistaken for a Democrat, the DSCC highlighted his more Republican positions in a Sept. 27 ad, citing sources that showed Steele supports keeping troops in Iraq without a timetable for departure, and noting that in 2004 he said he supported the President's Medicare prescription drug plan – a bill most Democrats didn't back. Also, Steele has said he is against "any effort that would result in the destruction of a human embryo," meaning he is against current embryonic stem cell research. Steele is in favor of using adult stem cells and umbilical cord blood cells only. In 2002, The Baltimore Sun reported that "Steele says he is staunchly opposed to abortion," and in 2006 the National Right to Life identified Steele as "pro-life." Steele's party affiliation, while not clear in his ads, will be clear on the ballot.
Watch DSCC Ad: "Dogs"
Watch Michael Steele Ad: "Real Differences"
Kady, Martin II. "Agriculture: Country-of-Origin Food Labeling Law Would Be Put on Hold Through Fiscal '06," Congressional Quarterly Weekly. 25 November 2003.
Wagner, John and Matthew Mosk. "Stem Cell Issue Draws Hopefuls; Candidates Compete to Show Off Their Support for Technology," The Washington Post. 21 July 2006.
Nitkin, David and Howard Libit. "Ehrlich declares 'opportunity ticket' with party chief; Michael Steele in bid for lieutenant governor, never held elected office; emphasizes modest roots; Election 2002," The Baltimore Sun. 2 July 2002.
"Pro-life Victories; National Right to Life," National Right to Life News. 1 Aug 2006.
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Former Peabody schoolteacher Helen Stucky Hansen, 98, died Sunday in Gretna, Neb.
She was born in Peabody and lived there 79 years.
She was preceded in death by husbands Jess Stucky, who died in 1988, and Carl Hansen, who died in 2003, and a daughter, Mary Stucky Olsen.
She is survived by a son, Jon Stucky of Apex, N.C., and five grandchildren.
A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home, Emporia. Burial will be in Prairie Lawn Cemetery, Peabody.
A memorial fund has been established with Peabody Township Library, 214 N Walnut St, Peabody KS 66866.


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Stop in for a coffee in Friday Flash Fics, by Jeff Baker, (October 12, 2018.)
In The Night, In The Rain
"I don't like funerals. I don't like 'em in the rain and I certainly don't like 'em at night," Jayce said, sipping his coffee.
"Would you, could you with a bagel? Would you, could you reading Nagel?" Cassie said grinning and holding up her blueberry slathered bagel. The two of them laughed sitting there in the mid-afternoon sun of the coffee shop. Jayce sipped his coffee and went on.
"I mean, honestly, I barely knew Uncle Karl. He was my Mom's great-uncle and I only saw him once when we drove across state to that town in the mountains where he lived for a family wedding when I was, like, fifteen? Remember, I told you when I was going through my David Bowie phase? My hair was all, you know and I was in one of those suits that make you look skinnier? And that tie that looked like blue tinfoil?"
"Mmmmm-Hmmmmm," Cassie said sipping her coffee.
"It helped with the look that I was pretty pale," Jayce said. "Well, I met Uncle Karl then. We drove all day and they had the wedding at about eight in the evening. He introduced himself at the reception and said he liked the look, especially the dark glasses. Oooooo! Girl, where did you get that eye shadow?"
"I was wondering when you'd notice," Cassie said. One of the nice things about this relationship was they could trade makeup tips. Jayce went on.
"Anyway, Uncle Karl said he had to wear dark glasses too because his eyes were pretty sensitive to daylight, but he wasn't wearing them then. Honestly, Girl, he looked pretty healthy and way too young to be a great uncle." He took a big slurp of his coffee and Cassie grimaced. "Anyway, I asked Uncle Karl if the punch was spiked and he said 'I never drink…punch.' And then laughed like he'd made this big joke. And then I got asked to dance by this tall girl I didn't know who she was but what the hey. And Mom and I stayed at the motel and went back home the next day."
"So, why'd you go up for the funeral anyway?" Cassie asked. "I mean, you hardly knew the guy."
"Ooooooo, that's what I was wanting to tell you!" Jayce looked around the coffee shop and lowered his voice. "I had to go to the reading of the will. Uncle Karl left me, well Donnie and me," he took a deep breath "twenty-thousand dollars!"
"Girl, you're not serious!" Cassie said, almost dropping her cup and squealing.
"I'm serious!" Jayce said. "Donnie squealed when I called him up and told him! He wished he could have gotten off work, but we're taking that vacation to Hawaii now! Anyway, my cousin Brian got the real haul. A bundle of money but it came with having to live in that creepy old house of Uncle Karl's that my Mom didn't want to set foot in." He picked up a bagel and started to munch on it. "He also inherited Uncle Karl's business," (munch-munch) "but I didn't want any" (munch-munch) "part of that. Too dangerous. That's what killed him."
"What happened?" Cassie asked.
"I didn't tell you?" Jayce said. "Oooo Girl, he was inspecting this warehouse he owned a few nights ago and this wooden pallet shattered and part of it impaled him right through the chest."
"Grosss!" Cassie said. "I'm eating."
"Me too," Jayce said. "Oooooo! Remember my telling you about that cute little coffee shop we went into when Donnie had that conference in Toronto and we bummed around for a few days? This little town called Fuscha or something? They had the most…ooooo! Did you see the latest Will and Grace?"
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Fuscha or something. nice. 🙂
Couldn't resist! 😀


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Daewoo K3 — ручной пулемёт производства южнокорейской компании S&T Daewoo. Образцом для создания послужили бельгийский ручной пулемёт FN Minimi и американский М249. Был первым образцом ручных (единых) пулемётов, самостоятельно разработанным в Республике Корея.

Пулемёт был разработан под стандартный 5,56×45 мм натовский патрон. Его главным преимуществом является относительно малый вес и возможность использования как магазинов на 30 патронов от ранее разработанных штурмовых винтовок Daewoo K1 и K2 (и совместимые с ними магазины винтовки M-16), так и лентой на 200 патронов. Daewoo K3 используется с сошками (в качестве мобильного средства огневой поддержки) или на треножном лафете.

Daewoo K3 построен по схеме с газоотводной автоматикой и запиранием поворотом затвора. Ствол воздушного охлаждения быстросменный.

Эксплуатанты
 : 400 K3 были приобретены в 2006;
 : 110 K3 были приобретены в 2006;
 ;
 : 5,883 единиц были приобетены в 2008.

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are investigating a student-athlete's racist video found online. Published reports say the unnamed student plays football and lacrosse at the school, and also is seen making sexist remarks about women, as well as uttering a racist slur. The student also makes references to Pres. Trump. Students at Jordan high are demanding that he not be allowed to play for the school's teams. Principal Susan Taylor assured those concerned that she is working to address the matter, and that intolerance is not something that will be allowed at Jordan High.
[RALEIGH] First Republican-legislative leaders called a surprise special session last week to two ensure that a Democrat-led commission was not allowed to alter any of the language of the six proposed constitutional amendments that they passed during the. Regular session that ended in June. Now, the sole Republican member of that panel, Paul Coble, the General Assembly's Legislative Services Director, sent a letter to Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, chair of the three-member Constitutional Amendment Publication Commission, telling her that he would not attend any meetings with her or state Attorney General Josh Stein until after state lawmakers override Gov. Cooper's veto of their measure, which is apparently expected to take place on Saturday. A livid Sec. Marshall now accuses Coble of "politicizing" the situation, saying that he's now deliberately holding up their work.
[RALEIGH]His most famous work of art, "The Sugar Shack" became famous when featured on the 1970's black sitcom, "Good Times," and a Marvin Gaye album cover. His name was Ernie Barnes, a Durham native who played NFL football for five seasons before retiring to pursue his first love – art. A collection of Barnes' work, artifacts and memorabilia are now on display at the NC Museum of History from now until March 3rd, 2019. Barnes died in 2009 at the age of 70, but many who grew up admiring his artistry agree that his legacy, through art, lives on.
He may not be president of the NCNAACP anymore, but that doesn't mean Rev. Dr. William Barber II is far from the bedrock, grassroots freedom - fighting that has become his trademark.
Having completed his national 40-day "Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for moral Revival" – where his new organization, Repairers of the Breach, picked up the mantle from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s original 1968 Poor People's Campaign highlighting the battle against poverty, racism, and militarism, Dr. Barber has made it clear that all efforts now must be directed toward empowering people, especially the poor, to be heard at the ballot box come Nov. 6th for the midterm elections.
But above all, the nation's rampant poverty must be addressed, Dr. Barber continued, noting that the states with the highest poverty rates and working poor in the nation are in the South.
Dr. Barber's leadership continues to be recognized not just across the country, but around the world.
Last year, he was invited to Vatican City, with other global social activists, to meet the Pope.
In June of this year, Dr. Barber addressed 2000 trade union delegates from 130 nations at the UNI World Congress in Liverpool, England. During that visit, he was honored with a place on the International Slavery Museum's Black Achievers Wall.
Dr. Barber's portrait was placed alongside previous honorees actor Paul Robeson and author James Baldwin.
Barber accepted the high honor on behalf of the social justice movement.
Make no mistake, political observers say, North Carolina Republican legislative leaders have no intention of allowing another Democrat on the state Supreme Court again, without doing everything within their power to stop it.
The GOP is still kicking itself for the 2016 debacle that led to the election of Associate Justice Michael Morgan to the state's High Court in 2016, leading to 4-3 Democrat majority on the seven-member court when justice Morgan replaced a Republican justice.
Now Republican Associate Justice Barbara Jackson is running for re-election in November against Democrat challenger Anita Earls, a renowned civil rights attorney.
Fearing a much anticipated "blue wave" of Democrat votes November 6th, the Republican-led legislature passed a law which mandated that the Republican candidate's name appears first on voter's ballots, apparently believing that most voters don't know who the judicial candidates are, and will automatically choose the first name listed that they see.
This, in concert with ending the long-held practice of making judicial races nonpartisan several years ago, so that "R" and "D" appear right after the candidates' respective names, gave the Republicans, they apparently felt, an advantage on Election Day.
Atty. Earls was not impressed.
But about those "R's" and "D's" behind candidates names – GOP lawmakers became alarmed when a former Democrat switched political parties to run for the state Supreme Court as a Republican, thus possibly splitting the GOP vote, and allowing Democrat Earls to win.
Determined that that could not be allowed, during the special session held just last week, the Republican majority passed a measure disallowing the second Republican candidate from being identified as a Republican on the ballot, saying that he changed party affiliation less than ninety days prior to the registration deadline.
Justice Jackson denied knowing anything, or having anything to do with the Republican effort to help her win reelection, but atty. Earls blasted yet another GOP attempt to thwart her candidacy.
But there is one more card that Republican legislative leaders are rumored to plotting to play.
The NC Constitution allows the legislature to expand the state Supreme Court from seven to nine seats, all serving eight-year terms. Democrats currently hold four of those seats on the seven=member court, but if Justice Jackson should win her re-election over Democrat Earls, the GOP-led legislature, which has scheduled itself to return on November 27thafter the November 6thelection, could very easily add those two High Court seats. And if the public approves the constitutional amendment allowing lawmakers to take over the governor's judicial appointment powers, they could appoint two Republicans to the state Supreme Court, observers say, automatically giving the GOP a 5-4 majority, and assuring a friendlier High Court when controversial partisan cases come before it.
Gov. Cooper can't veto this or any other the five other constitutional amendments on the fall ballot, but he did veto the law disallowing Chris Anglin's party affiliation on the ballot.
At press time, legislative Republicans were prepared to override that veto when they reconvene in First Extra Special Session Thursday morning.


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In a first, China knocks U.S. from top spot in global patent race
By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA (Reuters) - China was the biggest source of applications for international patents in the world last year, pushing the United States out of the top spot it has held since the global system was set up more than 40 years ago, the U.N. patent agency said on Tuesday.
FILE PHOTO: The Huawei logo is pictured at the IFA consumer tech fair in Berlin, Germany, September 6, 2019. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
The World Intellectual Property Organization, which oversees a system for countries to share recognition of patents, said 58,990 applications were filed from China last year, beating out the United States which filed 57,840.
China's figure was a 200-fold increase in just 20 years, it said. The United States had filed the most applications in the world every year since the Patent Cooperation Treaty system was set up in 1978.
More than half of patent applications - 52.4 % - now come from Asia, with Japan ranking third, followed by Germany and South Korea.
Ownership of patents is widely seen as an important sign of a country's economic strength and industrial know-how.
WIPO's head, Francis Gurry, told a news conference China's success was "down to a very deliberate strategy on the part of Chinese leadership to advance innovation and to make the country a country whose economy operates at a higher level of value.
"It is working, and intellectual property is certainly part of that strategy. I would put it down to that broad movement towards becoming a higher-value economy," he said.
According to the WIPO data, China's Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL], the world's biggest maker of telecoms equipment, was the top corporate patent filer for the third consecutive year.
The United States has called on countries to ban Huawei equipment from new mobile phone networks, arguing that its technology could be used by China for spying. Huawei denies that its technology poses a security risk.
Asked to what extent China's lead was due to state subsidies, Gurry said: "It's a model which does use state subsidies to a greater extent perhaps than Western economies might typically use state subsidies. So yes it certainly plays role.
"But I think it is very interesting to compare the United States of America as one example of the high performing economy, that has been top of innovation for a long time, a completely different model than what is happening in China.
"The jury is still out...perhaps both are successful."
Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Peter Graff


The JVA World Challenge last weekend in Louisville was a massive club volleyball tournament inside the Kentucky Exposition Center.
There were 864 teams playing on 111 courts, which by itself was something special. And there were more than 25,000 people descending on the Kentucky city as a result.
But it was so much more than just a volleyball tournament, from a charades-like game called like called Head's Up! (the JVA version) involving the teams, social media contests tied into T-shirt giveaways, charity service for the teams, public-address announcers for the finals, and even men's pro matches.
And as if that wasn't enough, for fans of the college game, Michigan State, Ohio State, Kentucky, Illinois, Lipscomb, Murray State, Indiana, Northern Kentucky, Dayton, Tennessee, Xavier, Wright State, Western Kentucky, and Louisville scrimmaged this past Saturday at the KIVA facility.
"Our philosophy is anyone can slap down some courts, bring in some officials, collect a lot of money and run a tournament and go home," said JVA executive director Jenny Hahn. "And the competition is great. The kids need it, they want it and it gives opportunities to get recruited.
So annually she turns loose what she calls "a really young and energetic staff," to make memories.
This was the 10th JVA World Challenge for an organization borne from clubs wanting more options than USA Volleyball was offering.
Ron Kordes talks to his Asics KIVA 14 Red team — which won the tournament — after a match during the JVA World Challenge.
A driving force at the time was KIVA director Ron Kordes, whose Louisville club is one of the biggest and best in the nation.
In all seriousness, though, he's super pleased with what this tournament has become.
He admitted that when the JVA got going, he never envisioned this kind of growth.
"No," Kordes said. "We were talking the other day, and this goes back well before JVA, about when you'd play and then have to go to another gym for the playoffs and that kind of thing.
Another component of the JVA World Challenge is educating parents.
"We started bringing in someone to talk about recruiting and how they can help their kids," Hahn said. "The last couple of years we brought in Greg Dale (professor of sport psychology and sport ethics at Duke University) who talked about how to let your kids fail and solve problems on their own.
One beneficiary from having such a tournament in her city is Louisville coach Dani Busboom Kelly, although things are a bit different than in the past. That's because new NCAA recruiting rules mean the school can't entertain just anyone. Before this, anyone could make a visit and home-team school would be crazy not to show them around.
"The night before JVA was somewhat of a madhouse but it's still an advantage just to have kids come through and see your campus and meet your coaches," Kelly said.
Having the tournament at home was not lost on Anna DeBeer, who plays high school for Ron Kordes at Assumption, for Asics KIVA 17 Red –which won 17s open — coached by Anne Kordes, Ron's daughter, and is a Louisville commit.
Steve Bailey is the director of events for the JVA.
"It's a well-oiled machine once it gets going," Bailey said.
He said real preparation begins about seven months out and then things really crank up in the weeks before.
"It's keeping us busy," he quipped.
The staff took Monday and Tuesday off, but planned a debrief before the week ended.
"Figure out what went well and what we can improve on and then start planning for next year," Bailey said.
Hahn was ecstatic as the tournament wound down.
As it turned out, little did. They even finished up a bit early on Sunday, always a welcome surprise to a tournament director.
Click here for complete 2019 JVA World Challenge results.


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Michelle Stephenson (* 3. Januar 1977 in Abingdon, Oxfordshire) ist eine britische Sängerin, Songwriterin und Fernsehmoderatorin, die als Gründungsmitglied der britischen Girlgroup Touch (später Spice Girls) bekannt wurde.

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Stephenson war lediglich für kurze Zeit in der Band Touch, ehe sie diese wegen ihrer an Krebs erkrankten Mutter verließ und durch Emma Bunton ersetzt wurde. Danach arbeitete sie als Fernsehmoderatorin, Background-Sängerin (u. a. für Ricky Martin und Julio Iglesias) und als Songwriterin.

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 Michelle Stephenson bei purevolume.com

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