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The Afghanistan women's cricket team have been in hiding abroad since the Taliban regained control of the country in August 2021Image: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images
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ICC under increasing pressure to suspend Afghanistan
Kalika Mehta
The ICC is under increasing pressure to suspend Afghanistan as a full member nation due to the Taliban's continued ban on women and girls participating in sport, as well as restrictions on education.
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The inexorable rise of the Afghanistan men's cricket team since 2000 has been lauded as a heartwarming story of triumph amid war, occupation, poverty, repression and regime change.
However, following the Taliban's return to power in August 2021 and the subsequent ban on female participation in sport or exercise, as well as the loss of many other basic rights, the International Cricket Council (ICC) is under increasing pressure to suspend Afghanistan from cricketing activity for violating its membership criteria.
According to ICC Membership Criteria 2.2 (a)(i) countries must: "Have the appropriate status, structure, recognition, membership and competence to be recognized by the ICC as the primary governing body responsible for the administration, management and development of cricket (men's and women's) in its country" — criteria which Afghanistan no longer fulfills.
"Taliban forces have closed training centers and threatened female athletes with violence, athletes have reported," said Minky Worden, director of global initiatives at Human Rights Watch.
"As a result, some Afghan women and girl athletes have gone into hiding and sought to destroy evidence of their ties to sport, including medals and sport kits. Many athletes remain in Afghanistan, unable to safely train and play their sports."
Bu, a decision to strip Afghanistan of its membership would see the men's national team, who are preparing to play in their third 50-over World Cup in India in October, feel the brunt of the punishment.
While the men's side have spent two decades building a successful and thriving team from a war-torn country, the ICC have a challenge to find the right balance between protecting the rights of their male and female athletes.
Australian stance on Afghanistan shames ICC
Afghanistan, which achieved full ICC member status in 2018, making them just one of 12 teams to be a Test playing nation, remain the only full member nation without a women's team, and are the only full member without a side at the inaugural Women's U19 T20 World Cup that began in South Africa on January 14.
The repeated refusal by the Taliban to allow women and girls to train or play sport has been a point of contention. The ICC's continued stance has been to attempt to work with the regime in order to come to a favorable resolution, rather than strip the country of its full member status and therefore stop the men's team from competing.
Now, Cricket Australia's (CA) decision to forfeit their One Day International (ODI) series against Afghanistan, scheduled for March, has added further pressure on the ICC to stick to their own criteria.
"CA is committed to supporting growing the game for women and men around the world, including in Afghanistan," a statement from the Australian cricket federation read. "We will continue to engage with the Afghanistan Cricket Board in anticipation of improved conditions for women and girls in the country."
Pat Cummins' team set a precedent for taking a tough line on the Taliban's treatment of women, postponing hosting Afghanistan's maiden Test against the Baggy Greens in November 2021.
CA committed in 2021 to continue discussions with the Taliban about the reintroduction of the women's team, who have now been in hiding in an unknown foreign country for over a year.
In November 2020 the Afghanistan Cricket Board awarded 25 central contracts for the women's teamImage: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images
But when the Taliban announced further restrictions on women's and girls' education and employment, CA consulted their stakeholders, including the Australian government, before making their decision to forego the ODI series.
ICC ready to take decisive next steps
After 17 months of discussions with the Afghanistan Cricket Board which have led to no change, ICC head Geoff Allardice confirmed the issue would be raised at its next general meeting.
"Our board has been monitoring progress since the change of regime," he said. "It is a concern that progress is not being made in Afghanistan and it's something our board will consider at its next meeting in March. As far as we are aware, there isn't activity at the moment."
The ICC have set a precedent for countries failing to implement their criteria, suspending Russia in July 2021 for noncompliance of ICC Membership Criteria 2.2 (a)(i) following the country's invasion of Ukraine, before terminating their membership in July 2022.
The impact on suspending Afghanistan from ICC membership would be immediate, with Afghanistan in contention to qualify for its third consecutive 50-over World Cup which will be held in India this October.
IOC called on to hold Taliban accountable
While the men's cricket team remains a source of pride for Afghanistan and in turn the Taliban, former Olympian Friba Rezayee believes the continued plight of women and girls in the country requires the International Olympic Committee to also step in.
"The IOC states a goal of 50-50 gender ratio and equal male to female participation in all sports," Rezayee told DW. "Yet the Afghan National Olympic Committee is fully controlled by the Taliban's government in Kabul and is a government ministry.
"Therefore, the IOC should suspend the Taliban and their male-only athletic federations until women and girls can train and compete again. It is clear that any IOC money or funds given to the Afghan NOC is giving money to the Taliban."
In December, the IOC called into question the participation of the Afghan NOC team at the Paris Olympics in 2024 if it failed to make progress "in relation to the fundamental issue of safe access to sport for women and young girls in the country."
But with no deadline set on when such access was required to be met, the various international governing bodies tasked with protecting womens' and girls' rights to play sport across the world are failing to adequately do so for those in Afghanistan.
Edited by: Matt Ford
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Case Study of a Multi-Location and Chain
For over 30 years, Elephants Delicatessen has been Portland's favorite specialty foods & catering company. They are a trusted and integral part of the community fabric. Their taste creations have been reviewed in publications from Portland Monthly to the New York Times. Elephants Deli takes great pride in ensuring that the pleasure of eating is an all-encompassing sensory experience.
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Growing from one to eleven locations, it was tough staying on top of everything.
"I knew that we were spending way too much time processing paper and that there had to be a better way," Elephants Deli's Controller Becca Peters recalls.
On average, Elephants Deli processes approximately 2,000 invoices a month for the entire business. "We're not a super large operation," Becca says, "so we need every aspect of our a/p process to be as resourceful as possible."
Prior to Sourcery, most invoices were picked up by delivery drivers and brought to headquarters. Some vendors mailed or emailed their invoices to the corporate office, and Becca would print out and categorize them by hand. There were tons of loose papers and straggler invoices every week. While some payments were automatic, others required a time-consuming manual review process.
After tracking down invoices, reviewing them and finally approving, Becca then wrote over 700 checks per month, stuffed and stamped envelopes, and even mailed some checks.
"I was spending a huge amount of my time processing paper checks," she recalls. "It was quite the undertaking…then on top of it, I was taking calls from vendors and managing relationships as well."
These chores took her personally more than eight hours each week and took away from the other urgent priorities of her growing business.
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Becca knew there had to be a way to automate the payment process, but wasn't sure there was an a/p solution built specifically for the food service industry. Down two accounts payable managers, she was in a tough spot and needed answers fast.
So she took a call from Dain Laverty with Sourcery.
"It was important to me to find a partner that was open to understanding our unique needs and a technology solution that was nimble enough to grow with us," she says.
Sourcery was built to empower people in the food and hospitality industry. Their goal is to provide more accurate ways of invoice and modern accounts payable experiences. Clients have real-time insights into their operational costs so they can be financially viable, and allowing the business tofocus on doing what they love - creating incredible food and providing a great service.
Elephants Deli selected Sourcery to bring new efficiency to their payment process.
"I knew we needed to do something and Sourcery was just the right fit," she recalls. The Sourcery implementation team worked hard with Becca to create a customized onboarding plan that met her needs from initial setup to training.
"It was very easy to pick up – and the learning curve was not steep".
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Elephants Deli was fully up and running on the Sourcery platform within two short weeks.
With the Sourcery platform, Elephants Deli gains a complete end-to-end AP and Payment Automation solution. And it's one that brings new efficiency to every stage, from invoice intake to approvals to payment execution
A better process means a more efficient business
"We've more than cut our time in half," she says.
The Sourcery A/P solution is a natural fit with Elephants Deli. Now Becca and her team can use Sourcery to make her process a new model of efficiency at her organization.
"Our store-level people are now having to look at and think about what they're purchasing as they go through the categorization process in Sourcery."
Alexa is unbelievable…so smart, capable. She is genuinely engaged and interested in my business. She's what makes Sourcery special.
Becca also sees the process as more mobile and flexible now. "If I happen to be out of the office, it doesn't put the business on hold," she says. Sourcery's anytime, anywhere approval process lets Becca and her team review and approve invoices and payments online, quickly and easily. "In the past, I was the gatekeeper," she says. "Now if I travel, I can still get the payables out."
They key Sourcery capabilities that help Elephants Deli are invoice categorization according to Elephant's chart of accounts; the payment controls interface that allows Becca's team to float, hold or dispute invoices; and vendor and setup as well as ongoing vendor relations.
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Why Sourcery?
Sourcery is a/p automation technology built for restaurant groups, chains and accounting teams. Our goal is to save you time and money by making the back of the house paperless while still giving you full control over the invoice-approval-to-pay process.
For owners and executives of multi-unit restaurant organizations, Sourcery provides a scalable solution to help them create productive AP processes and, ultimately, grow their business while impacting their bottom line.
One final crucial benefit: the Sourcery dedicated account manager. The account manager knows and cares about Elephants Deli's business as much as Becca does. They look after her operations and keep her posted on any changes that they notice "Alexa is unbelievable. (She is) so smart, (so) capable. She is genuinely engaged and interested in my business. She's what makes Sourcery special"
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V/A - Even More Songs From Route 66: From Here To There (SOB010 - 2012)
David Sanger knows the road. He's traveled about 3 million miles of it since joining Asleep At the Wheel as their drummer 26 years ago. But in all those years of pounding the pavement there is one road he keeps coming back to: Route 66.
Even More Songs Of Route 66: From Here To There is the 3rd volume in his collection of Route 66 songs. His first two collections (The Songs Of Route 66: Music From The All-American Highway (1995) and More Songs Of Route 66: Roadside Attractions (2001)) have established the six-time Grammy winner as the foremost musical spokesman for America's main street. His Route 66 CDs and their music have appeared in T.V. and movie soundtracks, DVD text books, bank and beer promotions, NPR features, national periodicals and newpapers and along the way have sold over 40,000 copies in gift shops and record stores along the historic highway.
In this new volume the theme is travel (the other two CD's themes were songs about the road and places along the road, respectively) and Sanger chose some great Austin musicians to bring to life some of his favorite traveling songs. Emily Gimble (granddaughter of the legendary fiddler Johnny Gimble) leads the way with the William Devaughn classic "Just Be Thankful For What You Got" and sets the tone for the upcoming set of material. Some blusier material is delivered by Seth Walker and Carolyn Wonderland (who does a searing rendition of the Canned Heat version of "On The Road Again") and the country side is represented by Americana darlings The Band Of Heathens (doing Little Feat's "Willin'") Jason Roberts (Asleep At The Wheel, The Wandering Eyes) and the inimitable Dale Watson, who delivers Merle Haggard's "White Line Fever" like he owns it. On the pop and rock side you've got Austin Chronicle Music Poll Winner Elizabeth McQueen (Asleep At The Wheel) slipping back to her pub rock roots to sing NRBQ's "Little Floater," Bruce Hughes (Jason Mraz, Bob Schneider) to rock on a Doobie classic and newcomer Claire Small with a haunting "99 Miles From L.A."
"All these songs are the soundtrack to my life," opines producer Sanger. "To get these great singers and players to perform them just makes them all the more special to me." These compilations are produced one track at-a-time which allows Sanger to cherry pick each song, singer and player. "The result," he says "is a collection that is totally varied yet fits my vision of how each song should be. So it takes me five years to finish them. If it sounds right, who cares?"
So get in the Corvette, slip on the shades and head down Route 66, cause it is the coolest ride you can take. And don't forget the music!
"Be Thankful For What You Got" – Emily Gimble, "Travelin' Mood" – Seth Walker, "Rockin' Down The Highway" – Bruce Hughes, "White Line Fever" – Dale Watson, "Little Floater" – Elizabeth McQueen, "99 Miles From L.A." – Claire Small, "On The Road Again" – Carolyn Wonderland, "Pickin' California" – Slaid Cleaves, "Hit The Road Jack" – Tim Curry, "Truckin' Man" – Jason Roberts, "Willin'" – Band Of Heathens, "Route 66" – Matt The Electrician


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Home » Articles » The New IWC Portugieser Comes in Panda Blue and White Dials
The New IWC Portugieser Comes in Panda Blue and White Dials
This summer, the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer presents two of its most iconic Portugieser models in a unified design code with contrasting white and blue dials. The white dials boast a polished lacquer finish, while the deep blue sub dials feature an "azurage" finish.
Such nautical colours not only lend these classic models a fresh and contemporary look, they are also a reminder of the origins of the Portugieser, whose iconic design was initially inspired by marine deck observation watches.
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The Portugieser Automatic (Ref. IW500715) features a stainless steel case with a diameter of 42.3 millimetres, a white and blue dial, and blued feuille hands. The balanced dial layout places the small seconds at 9 o'clock and the power reserve display at 3 o'clock. This timepiece is powered by the IWC-manufactured 52010 calibre.
Its automatic Pellaton winding system has been reinforced with components made of virtually wear-free ceramic. It uses even the slightest movements of the rotor in both directions to build up a power reserve of 7 days in two barrels. The movement can be admired through the sapphire glass case back. This timeless and elegant Portugieser is fitted with a blue alligator leather strap with a folding clasp.
The Portugieser Chronograph (Ref. IW371620) features a 41-millimetre case made of stainless steel, a white and blue dial, and blued feuille hands. The chronograph minutes counter is located at 12 o'clock, the small seconds at 6 o'clock.
The IWC-manufactured 69355 calibre with automatic winding and a power reserve of 46 hours is at work inside the case. The chronograph movement in a classic column-wheel design is visible through the sapphire glass case back. In addition, this elegant sports watch is fitted with a durable and flexible blue rubber strap, providing excellent wearing comfort during the summer.
The Portugieser Automatic and Portugieser Chronograph are available immediately through IWC boutiques, authorised retail partners or online at IWC.com. Both models are eligible for registration under the My IWC care program, benefitting from a 6-year extension to the standard 2-year International Limited Warranty.
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South Weymouth, Mass., – South Shore Health System, Brigham Health/Partners HealthCare, and FoxRock Properties announced today their intention to bring community-based healthcare to the City of Quincy.
FoxRock Properties will develop the site of the former Ross parking garage in Quincy Center which will include a 200,000 square foot building, the future location of the South Shore Health System & Brigham Health/Partners HealthCare initiative. Additionally, South Shore Health System plans to open a primary care practice at 1495 Hancock Street in the summer of 2019.
"As the leading community healthcare provider on the South Shore we must meet our patients and families where they need us the most – in their community and close to home. And that's exactly what we're committed to doing in Quincy, building a world class healthcare facility and expanding on our already strong relationship with the people who live and work there," said Gene E. Green, MD, MBA, President & CEO, South Shore Health System.
"This collaboration builds on our longstanding clinical partnership with South Shore Health System to ensure that the expert specialty care we provide in oncology, neurology, surgery and women's health is accessible in the community," said Betsy Nabel, MD, President, Brigham Health.
The announcement comes as welcome news to Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch.
FoxRock Properties, which is also leading the redevelopment of the former Quincy Hospital site, sees this as a chance to continue its investment in the city where it is based.
Partners HealthCare is an integrated health system founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to its two academic medical centers, the Partners system includes community and specialty hospitals, community health centers, a physician network, a managed care organization, home health and long-term care services and other health-related entities. Partners is one of the nation's leading biomedical research organizations and a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization.


We recently unveiled a new Safe Places to Play mini-pitch as part of the Newark Soccer Initiative with our partners New York Red Bulls, Newark Public Schools, and Wells Fargo. Our national partner, Musco Lighting, unveiled an innovative mini-pitch system, which features lighting that extends playing time for children.
Our latest annual report is now live on our website. The report provides insight into our partnerships, initiatives, grants, and events from the 2018 fiscal year.
If you had the opportunity to lead a workshop for fellow community leaders in the sports-based youth development field, what would you share? Submit your proposal to present at the 2019 Urban Soccer Symposium by 11:59 p.m. EST on November 27, 2018.
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Our Soccer for Success partners at Chester Upland Youth Soccer, the JT Dorsey Foundation, and Philadelphia Freedom Valley YMCA recently collaborated to bring their Soccer for Success communities together for a community-wide soccer day.


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Why an economist picked Kamloops over Vancouver. Hint: it has to do with the commute
Jimmy Thomson
TICKET TO RIDE | By moving to Kamloops, Joel Wood traded a 75-minute commute for a 15-minute bike ride
How communities such as Kamloops are attracting a new generation of worker: with economic opportunities minus the commuting chaos
An average morning for Joel Wood used to begin with a 20-minute drive from his Langley home. He would arrive at a park-and-ride in South Surrey, board a bus to a Canada Line station, then take a train into Vancouver. From there, it was just one more bus ride to his job as assistant director of the Centre for Environmental Studies at the Fraser Institute in Kitsilano. At the end of the day, he would do it all again in reverse—a total commute time of 75 minutes each way, or about two and a half hours per day. He would spend 50 hours each month in his car, buses and trains—the equivalent of working more than three extra months per year. "It was pretty taxing," says the 34-year-old father of one (soon to be two). "You're away from family, away from small children, away from your partner."
After three years of slogging from Langley to Kitsilano and back, Wood started to look for work in smaller cities; his wife is from a small town and they both pined for a slower pace of living. In April 2014, he accepted a new job in Kamloops, teaching economics at Thompson Rivers University's School of Business and Economics. Thinking back to the last days of his long daily trip, Wood can only recall the exhaustion he felt—and the anticipation of his new lifestyle. "I was ecstatic at the opportunity to live closer to work," he says.
The average Canadian takes 25 minutes to get to work each morning, according to Statistics Canada—but for those living in Canada's largest cities, it's often two or three times as much. Commuting time has become a serious consideration for young professionals deciding where to put down roots. Some companies—especially in traffic-plagued Silicon Valley—now offer cash incentives for employees to live close to work, while others are relocating from suburban industrial parks to the urban centres where their workers reside. In Vancouver, Microsoft has recently expanded its downtown location, adding 400 new jobs in the city core—a departure for a company whose employees make up half the population of Redmond, the Seattle suburb where it's headquartered.
Beyond corporate efforts, governments and transit authorities are also attempting to reduce commute times through planning and infrastructure initiatives. The City of Vancouver has had perhaps the most success to date, reducing the number of car trips within the city by 10 per cent since 1994; now half the trips made in Vancouver are by bike, walking or transit. By encouraging condo developments to include less parking, supporting car-share services and building more bike lanes, the city aims to cut car trips down to one in three by 2040. Similar efforts are underway in Burnaby, Surrey and Richmond, but in the wake of the Lower Mainland's failed transit plebiscite, progress on commute times is far from certain.
Even outside the big cities, congestion and commute times have become an issue. In Wood's new hometown, Kamloops city planners have seen some success with their TravelSmart program, which has pushed city growth in areas that would be better served by transit, made cycling easier with more bike routes and bike racks on buses, and encouraged employers to help their workers carpool or work outside of the nine-to-five workday. Indeed, Kamloops traffic and transportation engineer Elnaz Ansari says that it still only takes 20 minutes to get from one end of town to the other even after a decade of growth.
As for Wood, 18 months into his new life, he seems to have found a perfect balance in the city of 85,000. "We really wanted to move to a smaller, closer-knit community," he says when reached at 4 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, playing with his young daughter at a local park. "There are tons of family-oriented events and activities here."
At his new job, the pay is about the same, but each morning he gets to feel the wind on his face during a 15-minute bike ride to work. The commute is a fraction of what he endured while living in the Lower Mainland—hours a week that Wood really values. "It's time that I get to be home with my family."


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Can you help me to understand how to get an output like this Message Received! from that message.

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Bon Scott may be gone but he's hardly been forgotten. Fans of the late AC/DC vocalist have raised money to have a statue of him erected in his Scottish hometown of Kirriemuir.
According to Billboard the local youth music community called DD8 Music has raised roughly 75 thousand dollars to put up the statue, surpassing the goal they set in their Crowdfunder U.K. campaign.
Any leftover money will go towards a memorial garden. The statue itself will depict Scott carrying a set of bagpipes, it's expected to be in place before DD8 Music's Bonfest 2016 event next April.
Scott died in February of 1980 after a night of hard drinking and was replaced by fellow Scotsman Brian Johnson. AC/DC's first studio album after Scott's death, Back in Black, was their most popular to date and would make them worldwide stars.


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Denial Games
I can't say whether the short introductory note topping an email sent my way this week was fueled by exuberance, defiance or relief. Does it really matter? So let's just call enthusiastic cougar-researcher Ray Weber triumphant indeed, and leave it at that. OK?
"Well," he wrote in a delayed, victorious response to a five-month-old email challenge I had issued after viewing inconclusive photos of a backyard cougar he'd sent me, "now we have it!"
Have what? Easy: My Oct. 3 demand for slam-dunk photos before I'd display them on the public square. I guess I've gotten fussy over many years of chronicling cougar sightings, especially local ones. Plus, I've formed a personal, informed opinion, seen it confirmed on the most unlikely of highways, and have now moved on to bigger and better.
Attached to Weber's message, which included what now seems like an ancient early-October string of emails between us, were three Winchester Police Department photos in vivid, living color. The snapshots display a crisp, clear animal track in the snow — an imprint believed by everyone who studied it to be that of a cougar, mountain lion, puma, panther or whatever you choose to call the fabled, tawny, mysterious North American predator with a long, black-tipped tail and a spookiest of snarls. Well, that is everyone except the bureaucratic spin doctors of wildlife science, those card-carrying, gilt-plaque experts of their field who are paid by Massachusetts taxpayers to serve as final arbiters for such weighty matters. Their ruling was quite predictable and, even among public servants employed on the police force, annoying … if not outright insulting. Yes, the official MassWildlife assessment was that the tracks had been left by "a member of the Canidae family," which, in laymen's terms, means dog or coyote; not what eye witnesses want to hear.
Count Weber among the dismayed for what he perceived to be bold, intentional misinformation at best, and maybe even straight-out institutional dishonesty. He just couldn't contain his disgust, personally inquiring of the official who made the ruling, "And what type of dog, may I ask, would leave such a track?"
The wildlife biologist, a big MassWildlife cheese, pensively paused before responding and said, "A sheep dog, maybe?"
This mandated denial of any cougar possibility came on the heels of a quite different conclusion from no less than seven nationwide cougar experts who viewed the photos and agreed with on-site police and game wardens alike that the tracks were consistent with those of mountain lions. Oh well, what else is new in the world of New England cougar sightings? Not much, I guess.
Truthfully, it was long ago apparent to me, having followed these sightings for decades, that wildlife officials will never admit any cougar sighting was real unless a dead one they can't wiggle free from is found on the side of the road. To refresh your memory, that is precisely what, to their shrieking, gasping horror, occurred in the spring of 2011 on the Wilbur Cross Parkway in Milford, Conn., a southern Connecticut hamlet within a faint and fetid whiff of the Big Apple, where Pinstripes and corruption reign supreme. Even more disturbing to "the fellas" back then was the fact that this road-kill — not an escaped pet but a wild South Dakota "disperser" from the Black Hills — had met its fate within a month or so of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's well-publicized reclassification of Eastern Cougars from endangered to "extinct." Of course, the messenger knew then that only the most astute observers of the nightly newscasts or even news editors themselves would understand a tidy little inconsistency with their announced reclassification. You see, the fact remains that all North American cougars living north, south, east and west belong to the same species, one that was long ago extirpated from the East but has for decades been finding its way back home from the Wild West. Already, there are viable reproductive populations established in Great Lakes country, if in fact they ever left that wet and wild region.
Now let's think about this for a second or two. The trip from the Great Lakes to here through the Adirondack and Green Mountain ranges is by no means a difficult journey for a noble and elusive cougar, no matter what the biologists try to tell you. It's funny. The Indians knew cougars were here, held them sacred, wore their teeth and claws as jewelry, and even took them to their graves, a sign of agility, power, forest prowess and ferocity. Now the pro-growth Chamber of Commerce types among us would have you believe both are extinct.
I must confess that I knew better than to immediately jump on this Middlesex County cougar tale, choosing instead to sit back and watch it "develop." I learned of the story I suspected was due for radical institutional revision the day it made headlines following a credible Feb. 27 sighting in Winchester, located just northwest of Boston, bordered by Lexington west, Melrose east and Woburn north. My informant was a retired state cop who emailed me a link to the town police report with a quick introductory note that read, "Check out the police website. There is an article, dated today, about a sighting. The EPO's responded and said the tracks 'strongly resembled that of a mountain lion.'"
According to Weber, a Cougars of the Valley researcher who's been tracking sightings in the Pioneer Valley, its hills and beyond for four hectic years — and who has spoken at length with police, game wardens and eye witnesses familiar with the case — perplexed Winchester Police Chief Ken Albertelli claims his department had handled some 30 cougar reports in a month before the spit hit the fan. The case finally blossomed when an elderly woman called the dispatcher to report a backyard confrontation between her and the big cat. According to Weber, the woman walked outside to catch the cat descending a backyard tree, tail-first, to the ground, where it turned, looked her square in the face from 50 feet away and ran off into the woods. In awe of what she had seen with her own eyes, the woman went immediately inside to phone police, panting, "Do lions live in Massachusetts?"
Police responded quickly to the scene and had no trouble following the cat's fresh tracks in the snow, which they photographed for evidence. Many other tracks made by dogs and deer were scattered about the area, making it easy to differentiate between them and what they and game wardens strongly suspected to be cat tracks left by our continent's largest wild feline.
"It was a big animal," marveled Weber, who also traveled to the scene and estimated the weight at 120 pounds. "The cops' boot prints hardly left a mark on the snow, and the cops were big men."
Weber described the tracks as nearly four inches long, way too big for bobcat tracks, which rarely reach two inches in length.
Thus, Weber said, "Police are not buying the MassWildlife evaluation;" and, secretly, neither are the investigating game wardens who, rather than challenge their colleagues, have hit the mute button like all good public servants should.
Not surprisingly, since the day of the close encounter with the stunned lady, the previously ubiquitous Winchester cat has vanished like a woodland ghost, likely soon to reappear in a woodlot, pasture or thorny swamp near you. And when it finally does resurface someplace, unless it's a bloody roadside mess, the fellas will surely deny its existence.
Weber called the tracks, "definitely the best thus far discovered in Massachusetts." But what does that mean when the official press-release finding states "not good enough," by now a transparent denial that has become irrelevant, a coffee-shop joke.
I really do believe that even the spokespeople issuing official denials these days know they're — ummm? — not true. Don't hold your breath waiting for them to admit it.
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Barbara Ehrenreich - Bait and Switch
Bait & Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich
A review by Thom Hartmann
Walking through a park on a sunny summer day in Portland, Oregon last week, I got a glimpse of the world Barbara Ehrenreich so brilliantly chronicles in her new book "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream."
Thirty or more people were sitting on lawn chairs and blankets under a big oak tree, in a semicircle around a middle-aged woman with a flip chart, an executive-business-style suit, and the air of a teacher. Those in the circle mostly wore casual clothes, and the average age seemed mid-forties, although there were a few as young as mid-twenties and a few who looked to be in their sixties. Two men in the group -- both in their fifties, from their appearance -- had gone to the trouble of dressing in business suits, although they looked painfully uncomfortable sitting on their lawn chairs in the open park.
As I walked by and caught wisps of the lecture, the woman was extolling the virtues of "cheerfulness" and rhetorically asking her students, "Would you want to hire you?"
Welcome to the world of those who have fallen out of America's white-collar middle class, and are tapping into their IRAs, 401-Ks, and overextended credit cards to pay for seminars and workshops to learn how to get a replacement job.
Multimillionaires like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John Snow, and Alan Greenspan are exulting in their massive tax breaks over the past four years, saying the economy is just fine. George W's last tax break even reduced the maximum income tax to 15 percent on people who "earn" their livings by sitting around the swimming pool waiting for the dividend check to arrive in the mail
But for those who need a paycheck every month and are willing to work for it, the reality of finding and keeping employment in America is growing increasingly desperate. Out of this reality has grown an entire new industry -- perhaps one source of those mysterious new jobs the Bushies keep telling us are being "created" -- of selling hope to the white-collar unemployed.
In "Nickel and Dimed," Barbara Ehrenreich chronicled why and how America's blue-collar working class would feel despair when conservative trade and economic policies such as those espoused by Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush reign. In "Bait and Switch" she expands her view to America's under-siege middle-class white-collar workers.
As with "Nickel," Ehrenreich's new book is a compelling and vivid first-person chronicle of her own undercover adventures in the "new" American workplace. But, while she had been able to obtain work in "Bait," she is unable to find a single real job in her newest efforts.
It's not, though, for lack of trying. From middle-aged lechers, to evangelists who want to sell her salvation on a CD (to help her pray to get a job, of course), to self-help courses that wrap pseudo-physics around pseudo-psychology, Ehrenreich discovers an amazing underbelly to the white-collar job-seeking world. And while exhaustion and by-your-fingernails survival was the theme of "Nickel," in this sequel she finds terror and despair.
All of this grew out of the abandonment of traditional "FDR liberal" economics and trade policies by Margaret Thatcher in 1979, followed on by Ronald Reagan in 1981. Bill Clinton continued many of these policies by pushing through NAFTA and GATT/WTO. These seemingly academic policies, and sloganeering like Clinton's "the end of welfare as we know it," have had a real impact on real people.
For example, in 2002, the BBC reported that in both Australia and the United Kingdom, "the suicide rate increases under conservative governments."
The BBC added:
"Conversely, the lowest rates occurred when state and federal governments were both [run by the liberal] Labour [Party]. "Middle aged and older people were most at risk. "When the Conservatives ruled both state and federal governments, men were 17% more likely to commit suicide than when Labour was in power. Women were 40% more likely to kill themselves."
While the researchers confined themselves to those two countries, they did quantify their data:
"Overall, they say, the figures suggest that 35,000 people would not have died [in the UK] had the Conservatives not been in power, equivalent to one suicide for every day of the 20th century or two for every day that the Conservatives ruled.
While Barbara Ehrenreich stays away from the "cause of the problem" through most of the book (other than frequent, and often humorous, aside comments), she brings to life in a chilling, vivid, and deeply felt way the reality of white collar unemployment and underemployment.
Ehrenreich's book is both compelling "good reading" and powerfully insightful.
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Another murdering cop has been indicted for murder by a Grand Jury. Officer Ray Tensing has been indicted in the shooting death of Sam Dubose, an unarmed man, during an off-campus traffic stop.
University of Cincinnati Police officer, Ray Tinsing, observed Dubose driving near the Campus around 6:30 pm. After following him for a few blocks, Tinsing initiated a traffic stop for failure to display a front plate, and approached the vehicle. Officer Tinsing had told 911 dispatchers that he fired one shot, fatally striking Dubose in the head, because he was "almost run over" during the traffic stop. Tensing said in the incident report that he was "dragged" by the vehicle.
The video released today contradicts Officer Tensing's prior statements. As seen in the video, Dubose was asked to unbuckle his seat belt and step out of the vehicle. Dubose apparently moved his foot off the brake, which caused the car to move. Without hesitation, the officer drew his weapon and fired, striking Dubose in the head. He was not being dragged by the vehicle, nor was his life in danger.
Previous statement by officer below are clearly lies.
He was not dragged by the vehicle, it was impossible for him to "get run over," and he had no reason to shoot. Cold-blooded murder.
When Tensing asks DuBose to take off his seat belt, DuBose says "I didn't even do nothing" and turns his ignition key, starting the car. Tensing then reaches into the car with one hand and, with the other, fires a single shot into DuBose's head.
Earlier in the week, the family demanded video of the traffic stop shooting (CNN) The Cincinnati Police Department said Wednesday it has finished investigating the fatal shooting of an apparently unarmed black man by a University of Cincinnati police officer.
Local activists were complaining the killing is similar to police slayings of black men or youth in other cities, like Tamir Rice in Cleveland and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Dubose was black and Tensing is white.
Cincinnati police, who are handling the investigation, said Tensing saw Dubose driving without a front license plate around 6:30 p.m. Sunday and tried to pull him over. Dubose continued for about a mile from the campus before stopping the car, police said.
Tensing was wearing a body camera, police said. They also said they have received surveillance video from nearby buildings but have yet to view it. No dashboard camera video is available, police said.
WKRC reported Dubose's family rallied outside of the university's police department Tuesday night demanding to see the video captured on Tensing's body camera.
"Why can't I see it? Why can't I see it?" said 9-year-old Samuel, according to the affiliate.
Video of the incident will not be released until the investigation is over, according to Cincinnati City Manager Harry Black.
CNN filed a request to review the body camera video but was turned down Wednesday by Hamilton County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Julie K. Wilson. She said release of the video could jeopardize a fair trial in the future.
So the campus security guy stops someone for a violation, but instead of issuing a ticket, he shoots him in the head. The campus security/officer gets a paid vacation and the victim's family is not allowed to see the video of what happened.
While making the family suffer, the department tells whatever lies seem useful and controls all of the evidence. The character assassination has already begun and it will get worse before it gets better.


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Royalty during the War : Between the Allies and the Nazis
We were relatively safe in Morocco, owing to its Spanish dependency and the neutral position of Franco. The same could not be said for the members of our family who were scattered throughout Europe.
Like everyone, royalty suffered during the war. The real drama for most of these dynasties was having family members and loved ones on both sides. Take for example my mother's sister, Anne of France, French through and through. She married an Italian royal duke, and consequently found herself in the enemy camp of her country of origin. The same goes for my cousin Irene of Greece, Greek to the bottom of her soul. She married another Italian prince, the Duke of Spoletta, and passed the war on the side of the country that invaded her homeland.
There are countless examples stemming from the High Middle Ages, the era when princes and princesses began marrying foreigners for political and diplomatic reasons. Early on, the issue of allegiance wasn't a problem. These princesses were trained to marry not only the prince, but his country as well. It was their duty to be faithful to their new home and never to betray it for the profit of their native land. They were also trained to deal with their personal suffering.
I was shocked to discover that during the war many means of communication existed that allowed parents to stay in contact with their children spread throughout the continent. The postal service was still active and the airlines still operated. This was how my grandmother, in the middle of the war, was able to fly to Italy to visit her daughter and sister, the dowager of Aosta. Of course, if these official means weren't available, there were always the monarchies that remained neutral, like Sweden, who could deliver and transmit messages and news.
Royalty was ill prepared for the unforeseen. One day, the King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, had Mussolini arrested and fled to Rome. He cut the alliance of Italy with Germany and threw himself and his country into the arms of the Allies. Unfortunately, Victor Emmanuel III didn't tell anyone what he was planning on doing, which meant that a number of his relatives now found themselves living in enemy territory. Such was the case with my aforementioned aunts and cousins Anne and Irene, and their children, who were placed in detention in Germany. According to them, they were threatened with execution everyday.
Finally, the war cost the Italian monarchy its throne. This after being forced to accept Mussolini and the German alliance. Most of the members of the Italin royal family were anti-fascist and anti-German, but a referendum, most likely rigged, expelled them from the throne.
In the allied camp, the English crown gained a prestige it had never known following the war. The courage of the king and queen, their dignified attitude, their patriotism and fortitude made them immensely popular, more than their predecessors had ever been.
Many sovereigns decided to stay put and make do after being invaded by the Germans. In Denmark, Christian X strolled daily through Copenhagen, famously wearing the yellow star that the Jews were forced to wear. He was unanimously respected and admired.
The same cannot be said of Leopold III of Belgium, who also stayed behind to try to make the best of the situation. He was ultimately placed under house arrest in his palace, and soon found love in the figure of his children's governess, Liliane Baels. Widowed, he remarried in the middle of the war. The Belgians never forgave him for putting his passion ahead of his country. A crisis followed at the end of the war, and while the monarchy didn't fall, Leopold III was replaced in favor of his son, Baudouin.
Other rulers emigrated, carrying with them the flame of their native land. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland was welcomed with open arms in the United States. She was a guest of Roosevelt and stayed at the White House, where she found herself nose to nose with the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. The Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg found refuge in Canada as her children fought alongside the Allies.
King Haakon of Norway resisted as much as he could. His son Olaf fought in the Norwegian resistance. They finally left, but their courage kept them extremely popular.
Almost all the monarchies were anti-Nazi and fought alongside the Allies, but the question of allegiance was a delicate one for German princes. Germany was their homeland, and the Wehrmacht was their army, in which they fought for their county. Hitler, for propaganda reasons, was very respectful of the old imperial dynasty of Hohenzollern. He had an honor guard stationed at the Holland Chateau while Kaiser Wilhelm II was aging in exile. He himself was rather reticent of Nazism, as opposed to one of his sons.
The Catholic princes were all against the Nazis. The crown prince Rupert of Bavaria fought in the resistance, his family was thrown into a concentration camp. The Württemberg's were set to be executed by the Nazis, fortunately the order from Berlin arrived after the Allies. Certain protestant princes, however, welcomed the Nazi cause. They received important posts within the Reich; one was even named as director of a concentration camp. When the winds turned against Hitler, he expelled all of the princes from the army. He planned on eliminating them, only he didn't have the time.
Photographs by Justin Creedy Smith.
6 comments on "Royalty during the War : Between the Allies and the Nazis"
Stig Nielsen
January 29th, 2016 - 7:12pm
I am afraid you retail a myth. Christian X of Denmark did not "stroll daily through Copenhagen, famously wearing the yellow star":
http://forward.com/opinion/184231/king-christian-and-the-yellow-star/
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008043
Michel De Grèce
February 1st, 2016 - 9:48am
I know it is a myth, but such a beautiful story to tell! Thank you for sharing these really interesting links.
Charles Ruas
February 5th, 2016 - 3:24am
This is such a unique perspective on historical events, so intimate yet with wide ranging implications. Please continue in great detail!
Greg Westen
April 14th, 2016 - 1:01am
I still look at your wonderful photo album.
Paul R. Penman
February 20th, 2016 - 3:09pm
I think Prince Bernhart of the Netherland came out of WWII very well and added to the prestige of the Dutch monarchy. A very interesting blog.
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/*
@page jquery.model.encapsulate Service Encapsulation
@parent jQuery.Model

Service / Ajax Encapsulation

Models encapsulate your application's raw data.

The majority of the time, the raw data comes from
services your server provides.  For example,
if you make a request to:

GET /contacts.json

The server might return something like:

[{
  'id': 1,
  'name' : 'Justin Meyer',
  'birthday': '1982-10-20'
},
{
  'id': 2,
  'name' : 'Brian Moschel',
  'birthday': '1983-11-10'
}]

In most jQuery code, you'll see something like the following to retrieve contacts
data:

@codestart
$.get('/contacts.json',
      {type: 'tasty'},
      successCallback,
      'json')

@codeend

Instead, model encapsulates (wraps) this request so you call it like:

@codestart
Contact.findAll({type: 'old'}, successCallback);
@codeend

And instead of raw data, findAll returns contact instances that let you do things like:

@codestart
// destroy the contact
contact.destroy()

// update the contact
contact.update({name: "Jeremy"})

// create a contact
new Contact({name: "Alex"}).save();
@codeend

## Encapsulation Demo

The Grid demo shows using two different models with the same widget.

@demo jquery/model/demo-encapsulate.html

## How to Encapsulate

Think of models as a contract for creating, reading, updating, and deleting data.
By filling out a model, you can pass that model to a widget and the widget will use
the model as a proxy for your data.

The following chart shows the methods most models provide:

        Create
Contact.create(attrs, success, error

        Read
Contact.findAll(params,success,error)
Contact.findOne(params, success, error)

        Update
Contact.update(id, attrs, success, error)

        Delete
Contact.destroy(id, success, error)

By filling out these methods, you get the benefits of encapsulation,
AND all the other magic Model provides.  Lets see how we might fill out the
Contact.findAll function:

@codestart
$.Model.extend('Contact',
{
  findAll : function(params, success, error){

    // do the ajax request
    $.get('/contacts.json',
      params,
      function( json ){

        // on success, create new Contact
        // instances for each contact
        var wrapped = [];

        for(var i =0; i< json.length;i++){
          wrapped.push( new Contact(json[i] ) );
        }

        //call success with the contacts
        success( wrapped );

      },
      'json');
  }
},
{
  // Prototype properties of Contact.
  // We'll learn about this soon!
});
@codeend

Well, that would be annoying to write out every time.  Fortunately, models have
the wrapMany method which will make it easier:

@codestart
findAll : function(params, success, error){
    $.get('/contacts.json',
      params,
      function( json ){
        success(Contact.wrapMany(json));
      },
      'json');
  }
@codeend

Model is based off JavaScriptMVC's jQuery.Class. It's callback allows us to pipe
wrapMany into the success handler and make our code even shorter:

@codestart
findAll : function(params, success, error){
    $.get('/contacts.json',
    params,
    this.callback(['wrapMany', success]),
    'json')
  }
@codeend

If we wanted to make a list of contacts, we could do it like:

@codestart
Contact.findAll({},function(contacts){
  var html = [];
  for(var i =0; i < contacts.length; i++){
    html.push('<li>'+contacts[i].name + '</li>')
  }
  $('#contacts').html( html.join('') );
});
@codeend

 */
//s


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Restrictive Diets Vs. Disciplined Eating a New Approach for 2018! - Real Food. Real Fitness.
Restrictive Diets Vs. Disciplined Eating a New Approach for 2018!
2018 is going to be healthiest year , Right?!!!
Warning..Watch out for all the new diet plans (fails) being advertised out there!
There is a huge difference between restrictive vs. disciplined eating. The biggest being restrictive almost always end in failure where disciplined becomes a lifelong strategy for better health. Most of today's "diets" are restrictive and overall not very healthy. They have you eating a certain way, certain time, certain amount, and if you follow that exact certain plan MAYBE you MIGHT shed a few pounds. But what happens when you stop following that certain plan? You know it! You are back where you started.
This New Year just don't do it, don't set yourself up to fail.
Forget about restrictive diet resolutions and LEARN about REAL FOOD! Read labels and if you don't understand what they say then don't buy it! Many of my blogs can help you learn how to make healthy food choices step by step! The goal is to eat clean and know where your food comes from! Don't go on a diet. Instead, make a lifestyle change to adapt to a disciplined way of eating for long term health and longevity!
The first step is to find your WHY or your purpose. This may take some soul searching. Write this down and put it up where you can see it everyday. Then decide what will work for YOU longterm (NOT what your friend is doing). It might mean you need to first address food addictions, emotional eating, and detox from sugar. Be honest with yourself. You know what you need to do! This takes time, patience, and HARD WORK WITHIN!
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Q: Constant term of noncommutative $(X+Y+(XY)^{-1})^n$ As the title reads I am trying to find a formula for the constant term of the above noncommutative polynomal expression,

$$[1](X+Y+(XY)^{-1})^{3n}\quad \bigg(\in \mathbb{C}\langle X^{\pm 1},Y^{\pm 1} \rangle \bigg)$$

The $3n$ is due to the fact than only these terms are worth looking at because the others are zero anyway. So far I've only been able to extrapolate the first 5 terms via CAS:
$$
\begin{array}{|c|c|}
\hline
n & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5  \\
\hline
\# & 3 & 21 & 183 & 1773 & 18303\\
\hline
\end{array}
$$
And to give some geometric interpretations to the problem in terms of directed triangles, but this hasn't led me anywhere, yet here is the idea for the $n=1$ case:
$$1=XY(XY)^{-1}=Y(XY)^{-1}X=(XY)^{-1}XY$$

Does someone have an idea on what to try?

A: Answer summary: The generating function $r(u) = 1 + 3 u + 21 u^2 + 183 u^3 + 1773 u^4 \cdots$ is the unique solution to
$$ 4 - 3 r(u)^2 - r(u)^3 + 27 r(u)^3 u=0 \qquad (\ast) $$
 with $r(0)=1$. We can use this formula to generate many terms quickly, and to determine the asymptotic behavior of the sequence. To a first approximation, the sequence grows like $n^{-3/2} (27/2)^n$. That this function would be algebraic, and that the sequence would grow like $n^{-3/2} R^n$ follows from very general results of Lalley; our proofs are basically Lalley's techniques, but with a number of ad hoc tricks added in.
ADDED We can also use Lagrange inversion to get the following formulas, which are rapidly computable. You can decide whether or not to call them closed forms. The number you want is
$$\frac{1}{n} [q^{n-1}] \left( \frac{27 (1+q)^3}{(3+q)^2} \right)^n$$
and can also be written as
$$\sum_{m=0}^{n-1} \frac{(-1)^m 3^{n-m}}{n} \binom{3n}{n-1-m} \binom{2n+m-1}{m}$$
Problem set up: This is really a problem about random walks on groups. We start by cleaning up our notation. Let $\Gamma$ be the free group on generators $X$ and $Y$ and let $Z = (XY)^{-1}$, so $XYZ=ZXY=YZX=1$. For $\gamma_0$ and $\gamma_N$ in $\Gamma$, define a length $N$ path from $\gamma_0$ to $\gamma_N$ to be a sequence $(\gamma_0, \gamma_1, \ldots, \gamma_N)$ such that $\gamma_{i+1} = \gamma_i \cdot ( X, \ Y\ \mbox{or} \ Z)$. So we want to count the number of paths of length $3n$ from $1$ to $1$. We will define a first strike path $\gamma_0 \to \gamma_N$ to be a path for which $\gamma_N \not \in \{ \gamma_0, \gamma_1, \ldots, \gamma_{N-1} \}$.
More generally, for any $\gamma \in \Gamma$, let $G_{\gamma}(t) = \sum_{N=0}^{\infty} \# (\mbox{length $N$ paths}\ 1 \to \gamma ) t^N$. So $r(t^3) = G_1(t)$. We introduce the shorthand $R(t)$ for $G_1(t)$. Let $F_{\gamma}(t)$ be the similar generating function for first strike paths $1 \to \gamma$. For example, $F_X$ starts $t + 2 t^4 + \cdots$, corresponding to the words $X$, $YZXX$ and $ZXYX$. The word $XYZX$, for example, does not contribute to $F_X$, since the corresponding path $(1, X, XY, 1, X)$ strikes $X$ in the second position as well as the final one.
Observe that $G_{\gamma} = F_{\gamma} R$, since any path $1 \to \gamma$ strikes $\gamma$ some first time, and then travels in a closed cycle after that. (cf. Lalley eqn 2.1) By symmetry, $F_X=F_Y=F_Z$. We introduce the shorthand $F_X=S$.
We will say that a word in the alphabet $\{ X, Y, Z \}$ is in reduced form if it contains no substring of the form $XYZ$, $YZX$ or $ZXY$. It is clear that any element of $\Gamma$ can be represented by a reduced word, and I claim that it can be represented by a unique reduced word. (proof omitted). We will need the following lemma:
Lemma: Let $A_1 A_2 \cdots A_N$ be a reduced word with product $\gamma$, so each $A_i$ is one of $(X,Y,Z)$. Then $F_{\gamma} = S^N$ and $G_{\gamma} = S^N R$.
Proof Sketch: We prove the equation for $F_{\gamma}$, the case of $G_{\gamma}$ follows (and can also be proved similarly). We will actually show $F_{\gamma} = F_{A_1} F_{A_2} \cdots F_{A_{N-1}} F_{A_N}$. (cf. Lalley eqn 2.6) This says that every first strike path from $1$ to $\gamma$ is uniquely the concatenation of first strike paths $1 \to A_1$, $A_1 \to A_1 A_2$, $A_1 A_2 \to A_1 A_2 A_3$, etcetera. There is clearly at most one such decomposition: We must take any first strike path $1 \to A_1 A_2 \cdots A_N$ and cut it at the first time each of $A_1$, $A_1 A_2$, \dots appears.
We must prove that there is one such decomposition. In other words, we must show that each of the partial products does occur along the path. To this end, let $(1=w_0, w_1, w_2, \ldots, \gamma=w_N)$ be any path, and look at how the reduced word for $w_j$ changes. At each step, it either grows by one letter or loses its last two letters. In particular, in order to be $A_1 A_2 \cdots A_N$ when we get to the end, we must have seen all prefixes of  $A_1 A_2 \cdots A_N$ at some earlier point in the word. $\square$
Generating function manipulations: We first note the following equations:
$$ R = 1 + t(G_{YZ} + G_{ZX} + G_{XY}) \qquad F_X = t + t F_{ZXX} + t F_{XYX} . $$
The first equation says that any path $1 \to 1$ is either the zero path, or else is an $X$ followed by a path from $X$ to $XYZ=1$, or is a $Y$ followed by a path from $Y$ to $YXZ=1$, or is a $Z$ followed by a path from $Z$ to $ZXY=1$. The second equation says that any first strike path $1 \to X$ is either the simple path $(1, X)$, or else is a $Y$ followed by a path from $Y$ to $YZXX=X$, or is a $Z$ followed by a path from $Z$ to $ZXYX=X$.
But, by the Lemma, $G_{YZ} = G_{ZX} = G_{XY} = S^2 R$ and $F_{ZXX} = F_{XYX} = S^3$. So we deduce that:
$$ R = 1 + 3 t S^2 R \qquad S = t + 2t S^3 .$$
Subtracting $2S$ times the first equation from $3R$ times the second equation, we get $RS = -2 S + 3 R t$ so $S = (3 R t)/(2+R)$. Plugging this into the first equation and clearing denominators gives $-4 + 3 R(t)^2 + R(t)^3 - 27 R(t)^3 t^3$. Note that $R(t)$ is a power series in $t^3$. Putting $u=t^3$, and $R(t) = r(u)$, we get the claimed cubic relation $(\ast)$.
Lagrange Inversion It is convenient to discard the constant term from $r$, so set $r=1+q$. Then we can rewrite $(\ast)$ as
$$u=q \frac{(3 + q)^2}{27 (1 + q)^3}.$$
By Lagrange inversion,
$$[u^n] q = \frac{1}{n} [q^{n-1}] \left( \frac{27 (1+q)^3}{(3+q)^2} \right)^n$$
as claimed.
We can rewrite this as
$$\frac{1}{n} [q^{n-1}] \left( 3^n (1+q)^{3n} (1+q/3)^{-2n} \right)=$$
$$\frac{3^n}{n} [q^{n-1}] \left( \sum_{\ell=0}^{3n} \binom{3n}{\ell} q^{\ell} \right) \left( \sum_{m=0}^{\infty} (-1/3)^m \binom{2n+m-1}{m} q^m \right).$$
We get $q^{n-1}$ terms when $\ell+m = n-1$, which gives the other formula.
With this formula, we can generate more terms almost instantly. Here are the first $20$:
1, 3, 21, 183, 1773, 18303, 197157, 2189799, 24891741, 288132303,
3384415701, 40235584887, 483199396749, 5852988119007, 71424479888517,
877240882428423, 10835610051239613, 134514649560186351,
1677383174910429237, 21001123809291738519, 263894650125393993453

Asymptotics: The cubic equation $(\ast)$ is plotted below. I have drawn vertical lines at $u=1/27$ and $2/27$.

We are following the upper branch through $(u,r) = (0,1)$. The first singularity comes at $(u,r) = (2/27, 2)$, where we collide with a second branch . (This is when we become tangent to the second vertical line.) Therefore, the radius of convergence of $r(u)$ is $2/27$, so the rate of growth of the coefficients of $r(u)$ is roughly $(27/2)^n$. Since there are $27^n$ words of length $3n$, this is saying that the probably that the product is $1$ is roughly $2^{-n}$. More precisely, we have a singularity of square root type. Singularities of type $(x-R)^{\alpha}$ lead to growth of the form $R^{-n} n^{-\alpha-1}$ (for $\alpha$ not a positive integer). So we get the claimed $(27/2)^n n^{-3/2}$ growth rate.
It is fun to think about plugging in $t=1/3$, so $u=1/27$, corresponding to choosing a random walk. When $u=1/27$, equation $(\ast)$ becomes $4=3r(1/27)^2$, so $r(1/27) = \sqrt{4/3} \approx 1.1547$. (This is where we cross the first vertical line). So the expected number of returns to the origin is $1.1547$, including the fact that we start there. From the equation $S = F_X = (3 R t)/(2+R)$, we obtain $F_X(1/3) = R(1/3)/(2+R(1/3)) = \sqrt{4/3}/(2+\sqrt{4/3}) \approx 0.366025$. So the expected number of first strike paths to $X$ is $0.366025$. Since we can only hit $X$ at most once, we obtain that the probability that our random walk hits $X$ is $0.366025$, or slightly more than $1/3$.


Raksha Bandhan or Rakhi is not one of those Hindu festivals that have been newly embraced by people. Its existence, albeit, has been since time immemorial. There have been numerous instances in the past when great people, have also respected this humble thread that is tied by the sister on the brother's wrist. By tying the sacred string on the brother's hand, the sister declares her love for her brother and prays for his prosperity and health. While the brother makes a vow that he would protect her sister for life.
Rakhi knows no boundaries. The moving story of Emperor Humayun and Rani Karnawati is still fresh in the chapters of history when the queen sent across a humble Rakhi to seek protection from the Muslim invader Humayun. Touched by this gesture, he accepted the queen as his sister and offered his full protection to her.
Who can forget the epic Mahabharata when during Dyutsabha, Draupadi's modesty was being violated; it was Lord Krishna who rescued her. This was because Lord Krishna had promised Draupadi his protection when she had tied him a symbolic rakhi during his war with Sishupal.
The Rakhi festival is called Baleva owing to the devotion of Raja Bali to Lord Vishnu. The story of Raksha Bandhan that emerged goes like this. Pleased with Raja Bali and his 'tapasya', Lord Vishnu left his abode and went to Bali's kingdom which saddened his consort, Lakshmi. She dressed like a Brahmin woman took the opportunity of Rakhi Poornima and tied a rakhi on Bali's wrist. When she revealed her status and her plea of having the Lord back in Vaikuntham, Bali had no other choice but to award his sister her wish.
The festival of Rakhi is celebrated in the Shrawan months during Rakhi Poornima. Not much has changed about the festival. Sisters are invited by brothers who come dressed appropriately with an 'Aarti Thal'. In the presence of family members and loving friends, a tika is placed on the brothers' forehead, aarti is done and rakhi is tied on his wrist. Various treats also follow the ritual where sisters love to pamper their brothers. The brothers gift their sisters with the ultimate promise to protect her in times of need and also pamper them with Rakhi Gifts.
With changing times, lots have changed. Some traditions are forgotten, some let go off, but the festival of Raksha Bandhan has gone from strength to strength. In anticipation of the festival, there is a huge production of Rakhi which infiltrates through suppliers and vendors to Indian households. Popular exhibitions are set up prior to the festival where choicest rakhis get displayed for sale and girls make a beeline to buy the best for their brothers. Such a relation and its expression are purer and continue to fill the hearts of brothers and sisters with feelings of great affection.


It has been widely estimated that the Alibaba IPO will be one of the largest IPOs of all-time – possibly even the largest IPO in U.S. history.
By raising $26 billion, Alibaba would smash the record for largest IPO currently held by the Agricultural Bank of China, which raised $22.1 billion in 2010. The largest ever U.S. IPO took place in 2008 when Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) raised $19.65 billion.
The first reason Morningstar seems so bullish is Alibaba's diversity as a company.
"We believe Alibaba's IPO should be on the radar screens for investors seeking exposure to China's emerging middle-class consumers as well as its e-commerce, technology, and logistics industries," the report said.
Alibaba has acquired numerous companies throughout the last year in various industries including traditional retail, media, gaming, web portals, logistics, and even professional soccer.
The company, and founder Jack Ma, are determined to move into various industries, even if it's an industry Alibaba doesn't have much experience in.
Many questioned Ma's $192 million purchase of the Chinese soccer team Guangzhou Evergrande Football Club, but according to Ma, those types of acquisitions fit the company's business model. For instance, Ma had no experience with e-commerce before entering the industry.
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PCMag Australia | Reviews | Software | Security | Password Managers | Review
By Neil J. Rubenking Oct 04, 2018
Editor Rating: Good (3.0)
Syncs passwords across all your Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS devices. Two-factor authentication. Free.
Doesn't fill web forms. Lacks secure sharing, digital inheritance. Security status details require upgrade to paid edition.
Avira Password Manager performs the basics of password management on all your devices, but it doesn't offer form-filling, secure sharing, and other advanced features in the best competitors.
Face it, if you're not using a password manager your passwords are a disaster waiting to happen. Memorizing one strong password and using it everywhere is no good; one breach exposes all your accounts. And no non-mutant human can remember a long, random, unique password for every website. But adding a password manager to your arsenal need not cut into your budget. You can use Avira Password Manager at no charge, and you can even sync it across all your devices. It doesn't offer much in the way advanced features like password sharing and digital inheritance, however, nor can it fill in web forms, but it does offer free basic password management.
Like LastPass, LogMeOnce, and 1U Password Manager, Avira works on Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. Since it installs as a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera, in theory you could use it on any operating system that supports one of those browsers.
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Some password managers offer a free edition with a big limitation. You can use Sticky Password or Dashlane for free, but only on a single device, for example. Others put a limit on the number of passwords you can store, typically 10 or 15. Avira has no such limitations. Avira does offer a Pro edition, but the main thing you get with Pro is added security such as breach reporting and security analysis of your password data.
To get started, you visit the Avira website and register for an account, at no cost. This immediately opens your (empty) password collection in the browser. If you're running Chrome, Firefox, or Opera, you get a prompt to install the browser extension. That's important, as Avira needs that extension to capture and replay passwords. Do you use more than one browser? Make sure to install the extension on all those you use. Note that Avira doesn't support Internet Explorer on Windows or Safari on the Mac.
Switching to Avira from another password manager is fairly easy. EnPass can import passwords exported by 25 competing products, and KeePass supports 39 competitors. Rather than support CSV (comma-separated values) files exported by specific competitors (and risk failure if the competitor changes the format), Avira imports from any CSV file that includes columns for the website, username, and password (plus optional name) for each entry. Once you load the file, Avira displays its data and invites you to select the identity of each column. After that, it shows the data ready for import, flagging any problem lines.
I had a little trouble with importing data exported by Dashlane, but I've seen this happen before, because Dashlane's CSV format isn't entirely consistent. Bringing in data from Keeper Password Manager & Digital Vault went without a hitch, on the other hand.
Avira does not support importing passwords stored insecurely in your browsers. LastPass, LogMeOnce, MyKi, and KeePass are among the products that can import browser passwords. LastPass and 1U will even delete those passwords from your browser once they're safe in encrypted storage.
Password Capture and Replay
Consumers don't enjoy managing passwords; they do it out of necessity. Hence, the process needs to be as simple and seamless as possible. Avira handles that task, capturing credentials as you log into websites and replaying them when you revisit the site. Like Keeper, Avira fills credentials only after you click in the entry field. This avoids chicanery that fools some products into filling precious passwords into hidden forms. If you've saved multiple sets of credentials for the site, Avira offers a small menu.
LastPass and LogMeOnce let you apply a friendly name at capture time, and put the new entry in a folder. Avira doesn't support organizing entries into folders, and you need to edit the captured data to apply a friendly name. From the editor, you can identify the entry with one or more searchable tags.
Replay proved reliable in testing; capture, less so. For some sites, Avira offered to capture credentials before I entered them; for others it didn't offer at all. At first, I thought it couldn't handle two-page logins, because it didn't capture Gmail or EventBrite, but then it correctly captured Amazon's two-page login. Most sites did come through OK, and you can always add a site manually if necessary.
Some login pages are just weird, eschewing the normal conventions. LastPass is one of the few free password managers with the ability to simply capture all fields on demand. Keeper, Sticky Password Premium, and RoboForm are among the commercial products that exhibit this ability. It's not a feature in Avira.
Clicking Avira's browser toolbar button gets you a list of all your logins, with a handy search box that narrows the last as you type. You can launch any of your saved sites, but for security (as noted) you need to click in the data entry box before Avira fills in your data.
When you're signing up for a new secure account, Avira offers two password generation options. You can choose Generate Password, which uses current settings, or Generate and Customize Password. The latter option lets you set password length from 4 (not recommended) to 30 characters, and choose whether to include numbers and punctuation. Avira's passwords always include uppercase and lowercase letters.
By default, Avira creates 12-character passwords. Since you don't have to remember them, do yourself a favor and crank that up to at least 16, for added security. Avira's own password-rating system says that change raises the time to crack your password from 3,000 years to 32 million years. Myki Password Manager & Authenticator defaults to 30-character passwords, longer than the other free password managers and longer than almost all of the commercial crowd. According to Avira's password rating system, anything from 20 characters on up would take longer than the age of the universe to crack.
The problem with a master password is that anybody who knows it can use it. It's a single point of failure. Two-factor authentication vastly improves your security. That hacker thousands of miles away can no longer access your account using the master, because he doesn't also have your smartphone, or other second factor.
Smartphone authentication is the authentication method Avira offers. When you enable two-factor authentication, you give it your phone number. Thereafter, login requires both your master password and a six-digit code texted to that number.
LastPass offers several choices for two-factor authentication, as do a few other free password managers. LogMeOnce offers text-based authentication, but you pay a tiny amount for each use. oneID relies entirely on factors other than a master password. MyKi itself can serve as an authenticator for websites that use Google Authenticator for two-factor login.
Limited Security Status Report
Clicking the Security Status item in the left-rail menu brings up a page with an overall security percentage. Looking at the page, you can see headings for all accounts, accounts that need improvement, breached accounts, unsafe websites, weak passwords, and duplicate passwords.
However, if you try to view any of those lists, you'll find they're not available. Even the list of all accounts is mostly blurred out. If you want the full security status analysis, you'll have to spring for the Pro edition.
LastPass and LogMeOnce Password Management Suite Premium offer fully detailed security reports even in their free editions, and they go beyond merely reporting. For a selected set of popular sites, these products can automate the process of updating to a new password.
Mobile and macOS Support
Because it installs as a browser extension, Avira on the Mac behaves precisely as it does under Windows. For Android and iOS, though, it uses a mobile app. Both apps let you log in using your fingerprint, which is convenient. On Android, Avira needs Accessibility and Usage Data access, as is common. On iOS, you must enable auto-fill and the keyboard extension.
The mobile edition looks a lot like the desktop editions, minus the left-side menu. You can't add, edit, or search for tags in mobile. And there's a subtle difference in how it displays saved sites. On all platforms, it uses the site's own icon, when available. Sites without their own icon just get a globe icon in Android. On Windows and macOS, Avira uses the first initial of the name on a gray background. And iOS punches things up by using multiple colors for the background. It's only because the product is so similar across platforms that such a tiny difference is noticeable.
With Avira running under Windows, macOS, or iOS, you can get a list of all devices associated with your account. If you've lost or traded in one of the devices, you can remove it from the list. Strangely, the Android edition lacks this capability.
What's Not Here
As noted earlier, Avira's Security Status report is reserved as a perk for the Pro edition. Other advanced features don't appear in either edition.
Symantec Norton Identity Safe can use saved personal data to fill web forms, as can LastPass and LogMeOnce. While Avira can store and sync secure notes, it doesn't include the ability fill web forms.
Enpass Password Manager, LastPass, LogMeOnce, MyKi, and 1U all include some provision for securely sharing login credentials with other users. Most of them let you share a login so that the recipient can use it but can't see the password.
LastPass and LogMeOnce take the concept further. They let you define a digital heir for your account, so that your accounts aren't tied up in the event of your death. A waiting period between a request for access and granting that access gives you a chance to head off a too-eager heir's untimely request.
A Decent Utility
Avira Password Manager is a solid cross-platform password management utility, and it does a very good job of keeping the experience consistent across platforms. It does offer two-factor authentication, but lacks most of the advanced features found in high-end competitors, even some of the free ones. And if you want help filling web forms, you won't get it from Avira. It's a good product, but not a great one.
In the realm of free password managers, LastPass is our Editors' Choice. It packs in advanced features found generally in the top commercial products, it supports multiple types of two-factor authentication, and it can even handle some password change tasks automatically. You have nothing to lose by trying Avira; after all, it's free! But try LastPass, too, before you make a final choice.
Bottom Line: Avira Password Manager performs the basics of password management on all your devices, but it doesn't offer form-filling, secure sharing, and other advanced features in the best competitors.
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A TEENAGE mugger, who targeted schoolchildren in Blackrock, Dublin, for their dinner money so he could buy drugs, is to be sentenced in September.
The 17-year-old boy, who is on bail, has pleaded guilty to robbery charges at the Dublin Children's Court and Judge Michael Coghlan heard that a pre-sentence probation report on the boy was negative.
The teenager, who lives in Dublin with his father, had been ordered to co-operate with a probation officer which is assessing his likelihood of re-offending.
But Judge Coghlan said the report showed a "decreased motivation to engage".
Defence solicitor Gareth Noble said a previous report on the teenager had been more favourable; and at one point the teenager had left the city to live with another relative, but has now returned.
Mr Noble also said the boy and his father had recently moved house and had not notified the Probation Service of their new address.
A social worker's report also outlined his background and issues have also been raised in relation to the boy's schooling, the court was told.
Adjourning sentencing, Judge Coghlan said it needed to be impressed on the boy that "no further excuses are acceptable". He must turn up for his appointments with his probation officer and carry out directions given to him.
Garda Brian McCabe had told the court earlier that on September 27, 2010, a schoolboy had been making his way through Blackrock Park when the accused allegedly asked him for his money saying: "I need to buy weed."
The boy told the youth he needed his money for dinner.
The teen was then joined by four other youths and told the boy "give it now or this lad will knock you out".
The boy's wallet containing ¤9 was then taken.
The court heard that on the same date the youth and his accomplices approached three other children from Blackrock College. One was asked to hand over his mobile phone and the other victims were "ordered to empty their pockets".
A threat was made to one boy "that his jaw would be broken", the court had heard at an earlier stage.


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Q: How to use ajax to connect to all_book and print out database information on the web page I'm trying to connect to databases and export information to webpages, but writing Ajax always triggers errors instead of success
This is an exercise I did to learn microservices.
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Juozas Imbrasas (born 8 January 1941 in Algirdai, Ukmergė district municipality) is the former mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania. He is a member of the political party Order and Justice.

Controversy
In 2007 Imbrasas came to international attention for banning a gay rights rally on the basis of 'safety concerns' due to building works. No alternative site for the rally was proposed leading to accusations of discrimination.

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1941 births
Living people
People from Ukmergė District Municipality
Mayors of Vilnius
Order and Justice politicians
Order and Justice MEPs
MEPs for Lithuania 2009–2014
Members of the Seimas

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You are here: Home › BNP Paribas Investment Partners acquires 35 MW Wind Power Portfolio
February 10, 2012 - CSR
BNP Paribas Investment Partners acquires 35 MW Wind Power Portfolio
The fund managed by BNP Paribas Investment Partners' Clean Energy Partners GP Ltd. has acquired three wind farm assets in France, bringing its total wind asset base to over 100 mega watts (MW).
The portfolio consists of one asset under construction, "Mazeray" and two assets already in operation: "Coudrays" and "Bois Ballay". All three assets were developed by a leading wind turbine manufacturer, Nordex. Nordex also provides turbines to many markets globally, including Germany, France, Italy, the UK, Scandinavia, China and the US.
Joost Bergsma, CEO of the fund said: "This acquisition complements our previous wind farm acquisitions in Ireland, the UK and France, and maintains our momentum towards establishing a significant presence in the French wind energy sector."
The transaction was the first of its kind between BNP Paribas Clean Energy Partners and Nordex. Nordex will maintain an operational management role, ensuring the portfolio's ongoing success.
The portfolio acquisition was project financed with support from HSH Nordbank.
To date, the Fund has completed 10 acquisitions across wind power, solar photovoltaics and biomass, with assets in Italy, France, the UK and Ireland.