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#include <string>

namespace
{

namespace HLSL
{

const std::string ShadingRatePallete{R"hlsl(
float4 ShadingRateToColor(uint ShadingRate)
{
    float  h   = saturate(ShadingRate * 0.1) / 1.35;
    float3 col = float3(abs(h * 6.0 - 3.0) - 1.0, 2.0 - abs(h * 6.0 - 2.0), 2.0 - abs(h * 6.0 - 4.0));
    return float4(clamp(col, float3(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), float3(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)), 1.0);
}
)hlsl"};

const std::string PerDrawShadingRate_VS{R"hlsl(
struct PSInput
{
                    float4 Pos  : SV_POSITION;
    nointerpolation uint   Rate : SV_ShadingRate;
};

void main(in  uint    vid : SV_VertexID,
          out PSInput PSIn)
{
    PSIn.Pos  = float4(float2(vid >> 1, vid & 1) * 4.0 - 1.0, 0.0, 1.0);
    PSIn.Rate = 0; // ignored if combiner is PASSTHROUGH
}
)hlsl"};

const std::string PerDrawShadingRate_PS = ShadingRatePallete + R"hlsl(
struct PSInput
{
                    float4 Pos  : SV_POSITION;
    nointerpolation uint   Rate : SV_ShadingRate;
};

float4 main(in PSInput PSIn) : SV_Target
{
    // Rate was overridden by per-draw rate from SetShadingRate()
    return ShadingRateToColor(PSIn.Rate);
}
)hlsl";

const std::string PerPrimitiveShadingRate_VS{R"hlsl(
struct VSInput
{
    float2 Pos  : ATTRIB0;
    uint   Rate : ATTRIB1;
};

struct PSInput
{
                    float4 Pos  : SV_POSITION;
    nointerpolation uint   Rate : SV_ShadingRate;
};

void main(in VSInput  VSIn,
          out PSInput PSIn)
{
    PSIn.Pos  = float4(VSIn.Pos, 0.0, 1.0);
    PSIn.Rate = VSIn.Rate;
}
)hlsl"};

const std::string PerPrimitiveShadingRate_PS = ShadingRatePallete + R"hlsl(
struct PSInput
{
                    float4 Pos  : SV_POSITION;
    nointerpolation uint   Rate : SV_ShadingRate;
};

float4 main(in PSInput PSIn) : SV_Target
{
    return ShadingRateToColor(PSIn.Rate);
}
)hlsl";

const std::string TextureBasedShadingRate_VS{R"hlsl(
struct PSInput
{
                    float4 Pos  : SV_POSITION;
    nointerpolation uint   Rate : SV_ShadingRate;
};

void main(in  uint    vid : SV_VertexID,
          out PSInput PSIn)
{
    PSIn.Pos  = float4(float2(vid >> 1, vid & 1) * 4.0 - 1.0, 0.0, 1.0);
    PSIn.Rate = 0; // ignored if combiner is PASSTHROUGH
}
)hlsl"};

const std::string TextureBasedShadingRate_PS = ShadingRatePallete + R"hlsl(
struct PSInput
{
                    float4 Pos  : SV_POSITION;
    nointerpolation uint   Rate : SV_ShadingRate;
};

float4 main(in PSInput PSIn) : SV_Target
{
    // Rate was overridden by shading rate texture
    return ShadingRateToColor(PSIn.Rate);
}
)hlsl";

const std::string TextureBasedShadingRateWithTextureArray_VS{R"hlsl(
struct GSInput
{
    float4 Pos : SV_POSITION;
};

void main(in  uint    vid : SV_VertexID,
          out GSInput GSIn)
{
    GSIn.Pos  = float4(float2(vid >> 1, vid & 1) * 4.0 - 1.0, 0.0, 1.0);
}
)hlsl"};

const std::string TextureBasedShadingRateWithTextureArray_GS{R"hlsl(
struct GSInput
{
    float4 Pos : SV_POSITION;
};

struct PSInput
{
    float4 Pos   : SV_POSITION;
	uint   Layer : SV_RenderTargetArrayIndex;

    nointerpolation uint Rate : SV_ShadingRate;
};

[maxvertexcount(3)]
[instance(2)]
void main(          uint                    InstanceID : SV_GSInstanceID,
          triangle  GSInput                 GSIn[3],
          inout     TriangleStream<PSInput> triStream)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
    {
        PSInput PSIn;
        PSIn.Pos   = GSIn[i].Pos;
        PSIn.Layer = InstanceID;
        PSIn.Rate  = 0; // ignored if combiner is PASSTHROUGH
        triStream.Append(PSIn);
    }
}
)hlsl"};

const std::string TextureBasedShadingRateWithTextureArray_PS = ShadingRatePallete + R"hlsl(
struct PSInput
{
    float4 Pos   : SV_POSITION;
	uint   Layer : SV_RenderTargetArrayIndex;

    nointerpolation uint Rate : SV_ShadingRate;
};

float4 main(in PSInput PSIn) : SV_Target
{
    // Rate was overridden by shading rate texture
    return ShadingRateToColor(PSIn.Rate);
}
)hlsl";

} // namespace HLSL

} // namespace


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In 1990, Yellow Pages Ink was contracted with GTA to publish the GTA Phone Book™. This relationship continued until 1993 when Yellow Pages Ink launched out to become Guam's first privately owned phone directory, with the debut of the 1993 Guam Phone Book™.
In 1998 Yellow Pages Ink added a Saipan "business" section. It was only two pages long. That year Yellow Pages Ink officially went digital; from computer direct to film. Final digital files were saved on CDs and sent to the printer. The new process increased efficiency and accuracy and we began to improve our design and format.
January of 2002, saw the launch of the online web directory, www.guamphonebook.com. Yellow Pages Ink contracted with our web hosting company to develop the idea of the online directory that looked like the printed version. Every year since its inception guamphonebook.com has increased in page views. To date www.guamphonebook.com has had over 2.5 Million page views per year and is one of the most visited directory sites in the world! We continue to improve our site every year and in 2007 launched www.cnmiphonebook.com, offering the same great utility and ease of use for the Northern Marianas that our Guam customers have come to enjoy.
In 2003 die-cut tabs were added to make the Guam Phone Book™ more user-friendly. This new feature gave the book a unique look, unmatched in the islands.
In 2007, after years of including a CNMI section, Yellow Pages Ink published its first edition of the CNMI Phone Book™, a full phone book complete with residential and business listings from Rota, Tinian and Saipan. Also in 2007, Yellow Pages Ink was bought by PTI Pacifica, the local telephone company that serviced the Northern Marianas. The following year PTI Pacifica acquired IT&E to create the regions largest telecom company.
2009 marked the 20th anniversary of Yellow Pages Ink's service to Guam and the Northern Marianas. To celebrate Yellow Pages Ink unveiled the new miniBusiness Directory for Guam and the CNMI which included government listings, maps, and business white and yellow pages. Measuring only 5.5 inches by 7 inches the new miniBusiness Directory fits easily into the glove compartment of bag and offered easy access to phone numbers while you were out on the go.
In 2012, the cover for the Guam Phone Book™ was revamped and given a new design style. The Guam Phone Book™ logo was also given a make over as well, to reflect the unity of all the companies underneath the PTI Pacifica umbrella.


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Midwest Conference Women's Tennis
Intercollegiate Tennis Association
Francour gets career win No. 500 as Vikings top Cornell
MOUNT VERNON, Iowa -- Lawrence University women's tennis coach Steve Francour picked up victory No. 500 as the Vikings downed Cornell College 6-3 in a Midwest Conference match on Saturday.
Francour, in his seventh season at Lawrence and his 30th season overall, now has 199 wins in women's coaching career to go along with 301 victories coaching the men.
"If you're around for a long time and you do what you're supposed to do, you're going to experience some success," Francour said. "I'm proud of the accomplishment, but it's really about the kids and trying to make them better."
Lawrence jumped out to an early lead after the doubles as the No. 1 team of Margot Connor and Emma Koppa won 8-6, and the No. 3 team of Lauren Aturaliya and Amelia Watson were also 8-6 winners.
The Vikings then picked up straight-sets wins as Koppa won 6-1, 6-1 at No. 3 singles, Watson won 6-2, 6-1 at No. 5 and Jacki Healy won 6-3, 6-2 at No. 6. Aturaliya then rallied for a 0-6, 6-5, 7-5 victory at No. 2 to complete the victory for the Vikings.
With the victory, Lawrence improved to 1-1 in Midwest Conference play, and Cornell fell to 0-2.
Lawrence University 6, Cornell College 3
Singles competition
1. Abbey Nelson (CC) def. Margot Connor (LU) 6-4, 2-6, 6-1
2. Lauren Aturaliya (LU) def. Emmaline Fievet (CC) 0-6, 6-4, 7-5
3. Emma Koppa (LU) def. Regina BermudezSmith (CC) 6-1, 6-1
4. Megan Pope (CC) def. Morgan Fisher (LU) 6-0, 6-2
5. Amelia Watson (LU) def. Amanda Dragon (CC) 6-2, 6-1
6. Jacki Healy (LU) def. Natalie Brandt (CC) 6-3, 6-2
1. Margot Connor/Emma Koppa (LU) def. Abbey Nelson/Emmaline Fievet (CC) 8-6
2. Megan Pope/Regina BermudezSmith (CC) def. Morgan Fisher/Jacki Healy (LU) 8-3
3. Lauren Aturaliya/Amelia Watson (LU) def. Amanda Dragon/Natalie Brandt (CC) 8-6

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Markup of Committee Resolution 115-20 : markup before the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, second session, July 25, 2018.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration, (author.).
Subject: United States. Congress. House > Rules and practice.
United States. Congress. House > Constituent communication.


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Monument historique dans le 6e arrondissement de Budapest
Palais à Budapest

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We found 23 Stories and 26 experts related to: urban planning
Tales of neglect
The aged care royal commission's interim report paints a picture of a system in deep crisis. Its recommendations for action have some merit, but won't address what are underlying systemic problems.
Joseph Ibrahim Head, Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine
Build it and they will (hopefully) come
Can Indonesia solve the problems of overcrowded Jakarta by building a new capital on the island of Borneo?
Maud Cassaignau Lecturer, Architecture and Urban Design
The right size matters
There are sneaky, under-the-radar home renovation remedies that could help solve our cities' housing crises.
Alysia Bennett Lecturer, Department of Architecture
From fields of green to a '20-minute city'
With Melbourne's population continuing to boom, urban planners and academics have a vision for the city to become a network of connected communities where people will be able to walk or cycle to amenities.
Carl Grodach Professor, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
Why Melbourne is Australia's coolest city
Progressive music policies and innovative branding have made Melbourne the true leader of Australia's music scene.
Andrea Baker Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Undergraduate Journalism in the School of Media, Film and Journalism
Safe in a city of light?
Very bright and overlit city spaces do not always translate to young women feeling safe in urban spaces, new research shows.
Nicole Kalms Associate Professor, Department of Architecture and Director of the XYX Lab
Stomping ground
Footpaths are a valuable space for everyday social activity and urban life, but their role is often overlooked in planning urban and public spaces.
Yvonne Meng PhD Candidate, Department of Architecture
The hunger pains
Putting food on the table is increasingly becoming a middle-class problem for many families.
Sue Kleve Lecturer, Nutrition Dietetics & Food
Learning from London
As Melbourne's population continues to grow, building more roads isn't the answer to its transport woes.
Graham Currie Professor, Transport Engineering
Nicole Kalms
Crowd-mapping gender inequality in the city
Uncovering real experiences of gender in public places, from sports facilities to public transport, community services and infrastructure, to simply walking down the street.
Although Melbourne and Singapore are very different cities, they have much in common.
Sustainable Development Agenda: Monash University Leading The Way
Monash drives sustainable development initiatives
From energy storage solutions and smart urban planning, to ensuring a steady food supply in a world of climate change, Monash researchers and industry experts offer insights.
The case for the makers
Creative manufacturing is surviving in urban areas, but the redevelopment of inner-city industrial zones threatens its existence.
For the greater good?
Sometimes, improving public health can mean infringing on people's rights and compromising their interests.
Michael Selgelid Professor, Monash Bioethics Centre
How to make our cities safer for women
Australia has guidelines for designing safe parks, but the stories of many women show these are not enough. We must involve women in co-designing these shared public spaces.
Where to now for Melbourne City Council?
Melbourne's defective city democracy is on show again with an election for lord mayor following the forced resignation of Robert Doyle.
David Dunstan Senior Research Fellow, School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Revived? Tullamarine airport and Monash rail links
The long-touted links to Tullamarine and Monash have again been revived, but questions remain over the plans.
The pounding heart of a music city
The rich history of Melbourne pop music is being documented – along with the cultural conditions that gave rise to it.
Seamus O'Hanlon Associate Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Moving forward by going back to the swamp
The proposed redevelopment of the Arden-Macaulay site as part of Melbourne Metro presents an opportunity to return to the area's watery origins.
Nigel Bertram Professor, Department of Architecture, MADA
The human connection
Professor Maude E. Phipps' work in human genetics at Monash Malaysia extends to her advocacy of bioethics education and research programs in Asia, and gender equity in STEMM.
Maude Phipps Professor of Human Genetics, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Malaysia
Episode 2: Is our future sustainable?
What does research tell us we need to do to preserve our way of life? In this 10 min documentary, leading academics and industry thought-leaders provide their insight.
Cordelia Selomulya Professor of Chemical Engineering
RISE: Changing lives among the urban poor
A five-year, Monash-led project RISE aims to bring clean water and sanitation to impoverished urban communities.
Rebekah Brown Director of Monash Sustainable Development Institute
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David Dunstan
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Liton Kamruzzaman
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Michael Selgelid
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Shane Homan
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Sue Kleve
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Yvonne Meng
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Joseph Ibrahim
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Maud Cassaignau
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Carl Grodach
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Graham Currie
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Rebekah Brown
Director of Monash Sustainable Development Institute
Diego Ramirez-Lovering
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Read caption A voter casting his ballot in Sarajevo during the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 12 October 2014. (Photo: OSCE/Thomas Rymer)
Bosnia elections: the significance of NORDEM election observers
Rhon Franz Salmon|Published 05. Oct 2018
Bosnia & Herzegovina Expert deployment NORCAP NORDEM Election observation
Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina will go to the polls to choose three presidents and members of the country's lower legislative body on October 7th. With the very survival of the country and regional stability teetering at the brink, the presence of election observers such as NORDEM, has psychological and social importance, according to three experts on the Balkans and elections.
While it is cliched to describe every election as the most important one, for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and its 3 million citizens, this one feels different. The international community has also recognised the urgency of this election and what the results could imply.
NORCAP's expertise on democracy and human rights, NORDEM, aims to do its part, deploying two election observers in advance of the general election. This year's election marks the 8th in Bosnia's post-war history and NORDEM has deployed election observers to most of them.
Past observers have reported good overall election conditions, with isolated accounts of technical, procedural and administrative incidents. Nevertheless, given the tension and events leading up to the election, the presence of election observers from NORDEM could never be timelier.
Dayton accord limitations
The war, which began in 1992 following the collapse of the mixed Republic of Yugoslavia, ended three years later with the signing of the Dayton Accords in 1995. Bosnia and Herzegovina was born out of this agreement and since then, has continued to hold the country together—at least politically. Bosnia and Herzegovina's internationally recognised border consists of the Bosnian Serbs' Republika Srpska (49% of the territory) and the Bosniak/Croat Federation, which holds 51% of the territory.
The provisions set forth in the Dayton Accord, outlines how delicate of a balance it was to create the multi-ethnic nation. The upper house, known as House of Peoples, has 15 seats divided into thirds for each of the three ethnic groups. The same was done for the lower house, House of Representatives, which divided all 42 (now 58) seats into thirds.
Lastly is the presidency: one from each ethnic group. Despite the success of the Dayton Accord in ending a war that left an estimated 100,000 dead, it has limitations that strike at the heart of individual rights.
"Election observers show Bosnians that their progress with building democratic institutions is something that the international community cares about and will try to help with."
Dr. Gentian Zyberi, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights
Constituent identity and individual rights
Jasna Jozelic is an adviser at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, and published author with an expertise in the politics of religion, nationalism and identity. She believes the provision of rights set forth in the Dayton Accords play a significant role in issue of identity in this year's election.
"In Bosnia, the international community made some kind of experiment by using the concept of constituent peoples to solve the ethnical barrier," she explained. Constituent peoples denote citizens of Bosnia by ethnicity and religion. The concept of constituent peoples was at the core of ending a bloody conflict, yet still, it has recently exposed contradictions related to individual rights.
Bosnia's Constitution Court ruled partially in favour of a case brought by a Croat politician living in a majority-Bosniak region, based on the argument of equal representation. The court also struck down parts of the election law and lawmakers have ignored instructions to pass election reform laws.
The court later struck down a similar case brought by a Serb presidential candidate who lived in a region not dominated by fellow Bosnian Serbs. Inconsistent high court rulings and politicians ignoring the rule of law, have left many Bosnians, sceptical of politics, open to the lure of nationalism and deception.
Nationalism and deception
Bosnian Serb leader, President Milorad Dodik, in a recent interview confirmed his wishes to take Republika Srpska out of Bosnia's current entity. Dodik, after describing the benefits of further integration into Europe as "naïve", sees Brexit as a model for Republika Srpska's own departure.
"The main issue is the increased level of nationalism," said Jozelic with a look of concern. "If people vote for nationalism, it means that people will be voting to split Bosnia by ethnical lines."
Jozelic remembers first-hand what a divided Bosnia looked like. She fled the war and arrived in Norway as a refugee at age 23, but remains up-to-date with developments in the country. She also highlighted issues that NORDEM's election observers may learn during the upcoming election.
The Central Election Commission has issued a warning with regards to voter registration fraud, and it is plausible that Bosnians might question the legitimacy of the election results.
"I think that NORDEM election observers should be mindful of this," cautioned Jozelic.
Considering challenges posed to the instruments of governance and the tone of cynicism taking root in advance of October 7th, Bosnians need a reason to believe that their voices are being heard and that they, too, have a say in their country's progress.
Election observation in Bosnia is about more than identifying and reporting irregularities. Dr. Gentian Zyberi, a Professor and Head of Department for the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, describes the benefit of election observers as one that includes a psychological and social perspective.
"Election observers show Bosnians that their progress with building democratic institutions is something that the international community cares about and will try to help with," he said.
Annie-Lise Mjaatvedt, one of the election observers deployed to Bosnia, also agrees with Dr. Zyberi's view of the psychological and social impact of election observers on the ground.
"Many Bosnians are already disappointed and disillusioned when it comes to politics. If the elections are seen not to be fair or legitimate I am afraid Bosnians will lose hope that things can improve," she said.
This election puts identity, nationalism, truth, the rule of law and how Bosnians perceive those serving in institutions meant to serve their interests on a collision course. Though election observation is a small piece of the puzzle, observers will, no doubt, play a vital part in shaping not only perception, but also reality.
Bosnia & Herzegovina	| 14. Jul 2015
20 years since the Srebrenica massacre
20 years has passed since 8,000 Bosnian Muslims (nobody knows the exact number) were murdered in and around the city of Srebrenica. The Srebrenica massacre has been designated as the largest genocide in European postwar history.


AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 1, 2013-- Interxion Holding N.V. ("Interxion", "we, "us", or the "Company") (NYSE:INXN) today announced the final results of its offer to purchase for cash (the "Tender Offer") any and all of its €260 million outstanding euro-denominated 9.50% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 (the "Notes") and solicitation of consents to proposed amendments to the indenture governing the Notes (the "Consent Solicitation," and together with the Tender Offer, the "Offer") pursuant to an Offer to Purchase dated June 3, 2013 (the "Offer to Purchase"). The Tender Offer expired at 11:59 p.m., New York City time on June 28, 2013 (the "Expiration Time").


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Incentive Quotes
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.
— Ignatius of Loyola
Impressive Incentive quotations
Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.
— Carlos Slim
There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.
— Elinor Ostrom
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
— Orison Swett Marden
Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they have lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.
The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy.
— Witness Lee
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
— Arthur C. Brooks
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
— William Pollard
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
— Robert Cecil DayLewis
— C. S. Lewis
It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.
— Malcolm X
What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.
— Linus Torvalds
If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. [...] But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.
— Daniel H. Pink
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When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.
— Samuel Johnson
The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.
— Stephanie Tubbs Jones
We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.
— Rick Renzi
Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.
— Vin Scully
Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached
— David Bryant
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?
— Bryan Caplan
Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.
— Henry Hazlitt
When we face our problems, they disappear.
So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.
You can't mandate [cultural change], can't engineer it.
What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can define the marketplace realities and goals. But then you have to trust. In fact, in the end, management doesn't change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.
— Lou Gerstner
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
— Colson Whitehead
To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.
— Mary Church Terrell
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
— Nikita Khrushchev
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
— Steven Johnson
The left's inability to understand the most basic economic fact - that people need an incentive to produce - has caused the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions of people - mostly poor - in the last 75 years. But thanks to a politically corrupted media and educational system, their pigheaded pursuit of socialist fantasies goes on.
— David Horowitz
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning;
they are an incentive to keep you going all day.
Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside.
Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.
— Naomi Wolf
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on.
— Ramez Naam
There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application.
Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.
— Dave Ulrich
You must have the confidence to override people with more credentials than you whose cognition is impaired by incentive-caused bias or some similar psychological force that is obviously present. But there are also cases where you have to recognize that you have no wisdom to add - and that your best course is to trust some expert.
— Charlie Munger
I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them.
— David Blunkett
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Michelle Jarick, Mike Dixon, Emily Maxwell, Daniel Smilek; Time-space associations in synaesthesia: When input modality matters. Journal of Vision 2008;8(6):525. doi: 10.1167/8.6.525.
Synaesthesia is a fascinating condition whereby individuals report extraordinary experiences when presented with ordinary stimuli. Here we examined an individual (EM) who experiences time units (i.e., months of the year and hours of the day) as occupying specific spatial locations (January is 30° to the left of midline). This time-space synaesthesia has been recently investigated by Smilek, Callejas, Dixon, and Merikle (2007) who demonstrated that the time-space associations are highly consistent, occur regardless of intention, and can direct spatial attention. We extended this work by showing that for EM, her time-space associations change depending on whether the time units are seen or heard. For example, when EM sees the word JANUARY, she reports experiencing January on her left side, however when she hears the word "January" then this month is synaesthetically experienced on her right side. EM's subjective reports were supported using a spatial cueing paradigm. The names of months were centrally presented followed by targets on the left or right. EM was faster at detecting targets in validly cued relative to invalidly cued locations both for visually presented cues (January orients attention to the left) and for aurally presented cues (January orients attention to the right). We replicated these different visual and aural cueing effects using hours of day. Our findings support previous research showing that time-space synaesthesia can bias visual spatial attention, and further suggest that for some synaesthetes, time-space associations can differ depending on whether they are visually or aurally induced.
This research was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) with a grant to M.D. and a graduate scholarship to M.J.


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Hard times at AOL right now.
Ted checks in on what people are calling the "data Valdez." It so nice having Ted blogging, sometimes I feel like I'm alone on the front lines. I wish other senior executives would start blogging at AOL (hint, hint)–or at least commenting (you guys know you can post a comment to Ted's blog or my blog right?).
I have to be honest with y'all: it's hard times at AOL right now, that's for sure.
Every couple of steps we take going forward (Netscape, TMZ, Live8, moving to the free model, AIM Pro, AIM Pages, free five gigs of backup, 40% growth of advertising for Q2–beating Yahoo, MapQuests API, AOL Uncut Video), we seem to get hit back by something horrible like "the call" or "the data Valdez." The truth is the company is moving forward, but these things create a horrible perception problem, and it has a real world impact in that it de-motivates my teams and it makes it so much harder to get new people into the company. Smart folks ask me about stuff like "the call" when I try to recruit them for AOL, and I have to assure them it isn't gonna happen again. It's not easy, and I wish I could tell you I always win that fight–but I don't.
I was so angry today that I had to get off my computer and do a three-mile run. I'm back at my desk but I'm still seething–how could this happen?! Everyone is working so hard to get AOL on the right track, and it all gets forgotten when this kind of thing happens.
I think I'm gonna take the rest of the week off from blogging as a "cool down"period. I don't want to say something I regret, and I don't want to become the spokesperson for the entire company–that's not my job and it's not my desire. I just want to build cool stuff with cool people I respect.
To my team (and everyone at AOL), keep fighting the good fight. Put your anger into your game and stay focused. The darkest hour is the one before the dawn. We're gonna get through this.
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Come check out Sean at Ronnie B's this Saturday evening. Playing 2 sets of jazz, blues, rags and rhythm and blues, Sean will keep you entertained while you feast on the delicious eats with all the southern comforts. Sokhna-Dior will also be comin 'round to do a few numbers. Come join us!


Spending time canoeing within the famous Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) is an experience of a lifetime and on the "bucket list" of many people. River Point offers both day and overnight canoe trips.
Take a deep breath; this day is a day to be savored. One of our experienced in-house guides will take you into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area for a fabulous full day of fishing. If you are not sure of your canoeing skills, join our instructional canoeing group class, or we will arrange a "one on one" canoeing class just for you prior to the trip. Walleye, northern pike, crappies, smallmouth… catch and release, or catch them and the guide will "cook em' up." Whether you are a beginner fisher-person or a seasoned veteran you will savor this day. If you love canoeing and fishing, this is the trip for you!
Includes: canoe, life jackets, bait, transport to entry point, fresh shore lunch cooked over a campfire, and expert fishing guide.
The intricate and mystery of Native American rock paintings, known as pictographs, still cast a spell of wonder on today's traveler in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness. Hegman Lake is probably one of the finest examples of original Native American Pictographs to be found. The pictograph site at Hegman shows a clearly drawn moose flanked by a dog or wolf, a maymayguayshi figure (man-like) and several canoes. Unlike most other drawings these were probably done by someone sitting on a rock ledge, perhaps accounting for their sophisticated craftsmanship. Take time to appreciate this display of a culture we know so little about that were painted within the last 500 to 1000 years. Plan to join your River Point experienced guide on a wonderful day trip to Hegman. Your northern Minnesota vacation can be enhanced by a day adventure like this one.
Small van gas surcharge, MN fishing license, tax, 6% resort fee, guide gratuity additional.
BWCA rules are USFS rules: maximum group size with guide is 9 persons and 4 canoes. No cans or glass bottles allowed.
We have everything you'll need for a guaranteed outdoor canoeing adventure, from canoes, paddles, and life jackets to tasty food and BWCA entry point transport. Plus we'll make sure you have the confidence to do it! Your day BWCA canoe trip need not be fishing or pictograph focused. The focus may be to paddle, take pictures, and simply for the enjoyment of the incredible scenery. Ask about planning a custom trip just for you!
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area, with island-studded lakes and pine-covered forests, is best suited to canoeing. You may sample this vast area even more extensively by camping for several nights within it, and also enjoy the comfort of lodging at River Point Resort for a few nights. Complete BWCA outfitting includes the canoe and all other lightweight camping equipment, quality food, and routing.
The most popular completely outfitted trip package is the Comfort Plus™Package complete with the lightest kevlar canoes (42 lbs), canoe/camp backrest chairs, and weight distribution packsacks, along with other creature comforts.
River Point's in-house guides are congenial, woods-wise, and will take care of all the details to make for a memorable several night, guided excursion into the wilderness.
Kick off your Boundary Waters canoeing adventure with a few nights lodging at River Point Resort–perhaps selecting a villa with double whirlpool, or a chalet accommodation. Think about lodging after the canoe trip, too–time to relax at the resort site, time to drive the short distance to enjoy the quaint downtown of Ely, maybe treating yourself to one of the many dining options.
Note: Early reservations are encouraged for the best BWCA permit availability for the canoe trip portion. US permit fee of $10 for a group of up to 9 persons and the US User Fees of $16 per adult and $8 per youth, age 17 & under, are additional. These fees are payable to the US Forest Service. River Point charges an $8 permit handling fee.


Below, in italics, are the CW guidelines for "Bone Density Testing: When You Need It and When You Don't," followed by our comments and interpretations.
For a woman, it can be worthwhile to get an initial bone density test, but NOT before age 65.
Here's why: For decades, many physicians ordered bone density (BD) tests for women in their 40s on the premise of getting a BD "baseline" before menopause. (Some uninformed doctors probably still do this!) This test is worthless! There is essentially no correlation between a pre-menopausal woman's BD and her actual risk of hip or other osteoporotic fractures in her 70s and 80s. These too-early "baseline" screening tests led to legions of young women being diagnosed with "osteopenia," which is a just a number and not an actual bone disease. To treat osteopenia, physicians prescribed bisphosphonate drugs (primarily alendronate, aka Fosamax) and hormone replacement therapy to help "prevent" osteoporosis. This practice exposed millions of women to the harms of medication — including blood clots, strokes, and serious infections — without any clear benefit.
Wait until you are 65 to get a BD test; at this point, the test can track bone loss at a time when it is most likely to be a threat to women's health.
The BD test usually isn't necessary in younger people without risk factors for weak bones.
As noted, most young women don't need a BD test. For women at higher risk of decreased bone density, however, BD tests can provide useful information. These women include those who have taken high-dose steroids (like prednisone) to treat severe arthritis or asthma; who have taken drugs (like omeprazole) to treat acid reflux disease; and who have had an eating disorder, especially in their teens and 20s, when BD should be increasing most rapidly. Other women at higher risk include smokers and heavy alcohol users. Individuals with these risk factors need to discuss, with their health care provider, the possible benefit of BD testing before age 65.
A DEXA scan can pose risks and be a waste of money.
First, a word on what a DEXA scan's results mean. The results are usually given as a "T-score," which compares your bone density to that of normal women in their early 30s. ("Z-scores" compare your bone density to women in your age group.) T-scores are usually in the negative (or minus) range: the lower your T-score, the lower your bone density.
CW connects the dots in the way that makes sense: The DEXA scan is not expensive, as medical tests go (about $132, per the CW website), and the radiation exposure is much, much lower than a CT scan. (See "Watch out for CT Scans," WHA, September 2012.) But, with a DEXA scan, it's the medications prescribed to treat low BD that can be harmful.
Alendronate and other drugs in this class have serious risks of side effects and put women at risk for unusual and severe fractures because they halt the bodies' natural, continuous process of bone remodeling. Even though research clearly shows that someone who has taken alendronate for 10 years receives no more benefit than when the drug is taken for 5 years, patients may be prescribed these medications for decades!
Bonus Comment: CW does not address how often to have a BD test after your first one (which preferably occurs at age 65 or older). If your BD score is "very low" (T-score -2 to -2.49), possibly get tested every 2 years. If you are 65 or older and your initial test shows a "borderline low" BD (T-score -1.5 to -1.99), and you have no reason for accelerated bone loss, wait 3-5 years before having another BD test. If you have "normal" BD (T-score -1.01 to -1.49), you are off the BD testing track for 10 to 15 years! Remember, "normal" means you have the same bone density as women in their 30s.
Reduce your risk of falling by improving home safety: using brighter lights, eliminating clutter, and using rubber mats in the bathroom. Have your vision checked and consider activities that improve strength and balance (Tai Chi, yoga, Pilates).
Charlea T. Massion, MD, is a NWHN Board member, family physician, hospitalist, and specialist in hospice and palliative care medicine. She is the Chief Medical Director of Hospice of Santa Cruz County and also teaches physicians about work-life balance and career development. Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD, is an associate professor in the Georgetown University Medical Center, a former chair of the NWHN, and director of PharmedOut, which educates prescribers about pharmaceutical marketing techniques.
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Muscles Canada membership Sharron Lyons, Sandy Bosma, Martha McDonald, Gerrie McDonald, Clair Archer, Duncan Carruthers, Jackie Carruthers, Justin Lyons, Margaret McBride.
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The official launch of Muscles for Charity – Canada took place in Vancouver, British Columbia on Saturday 30th September 2006. A total of sixteen volunteers from as far away as Belgium, the UK, the USA joined their 'Canuck' friends to complete a total make over of a large outside area to the front side and rear of a detached house in the Vancouver suburb of Delta.The overall effect and the fun and friendship demonstrated by the team was enthusiastically welcomed by the recipient, Margaret.
The benefiting charity provides medical and holistic care for local cancer patients. The unique occasion included Canadians, Sharron, Sandy, Gerrie, Clare, Duncan, Jackie, Sheryl, Margaret. Americans, Sheri, Fred, Amy and Steve Brits – Glenna and John Belgium – Johan.
Members of the Canadian team regularly support their (Muscles) neighbours in Washington State, USA, and have also brought their brand of mischief, fun and energy to UK and Belgium teams.


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Concept and conclusion of employment contract in Turkey
Concept of employment contract in Turkey
Article 8 of the Labour Law No. 4857 defines the employment contract as a contract consisting of one party (employee) undertaking to perform work dependently and the other party (employer) undertaking to pay wages.
According to this definition, an employment contract in Turkey has three elements: performance of work, payment of wages and dependency.
The performance of work means that the worker performs the work that the worker undertakes to perform with the employment contract in Turkey, and the payment of wages means that the worker is economically dependent on the employer in terms of providing work equipment and legally dependent on the employer in terms of complying with the employer's instructions.
The employee is required to perform the work himself, with due diligence and by keeping the employer's secrets within the agreed or deemed agreed rules, and the employer is required to provide the necessary materials and environment for the worker to perform the work in an employment relationship established by an employment contract in Turkey, to pay wages in return for the work performed, to protect the worker against various dangers that may occur and to take the necessary precautions, and to treat equally among the workers.
Conclusion of the employment contract in Turkey
Article 8 of the Labour Law stipulates that employment contracts are not subject to a special form unless otherwise specified in the law, and that employment contracts with a duration of one year or more must be made in writing.
Although the law does not specify what matters should be included in the employment contracts, it is beneficial to include the names and surnames of the parties (titles in legal entities and the name and surname of the employer's representative), the workplace address, the date of the contract, the start and end dates, if any, the work to be done, the amount of the wage to be paid, the time of payment of the wage, the signatures of the parties and special issues concerning the parties.
A number of types of employment contracts are defined in the Turkish Labour Law, but as a general provision, Article 9 sets out the principle that the parties can arrange the employment contract in the appropriate type according to their needs, without prejudice to the limitations imposed by the provisions of the law.


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Rory McIlroy has many words for Phil Mickelson after controversial comments
A tumultuous week that began with Phil Mickelson's bombshell comments about the Super Golf League ended Sunday with Rory McIlroy declaring that the rival tour was "dead in the water."
Mickelson received plenty of blowback earlier this week when he said that he was willing to overlook the Saudi Arabian government's myriad human-rights violations in order to gain leverage on the PGA Tour.
The interview – which took place in November, with golf writer and author Alan Shipnuck – seemed to spur many of the top players to voice their support for the PGA Tour, with Bryson DeChambeau and Dustin Johnson ending months of speculation by announcing Sunday that they wouldn't sign up with a rival league.
McIlroy, who in spring 2019 was the first superstar to spurn the Saudis, was asked after his round Sunday what he made of Mickelson's controversial comments.
"I don't want to kick someone while he's down, obviously," he said, "but I thought they were naïve, selfish, egotistical, ignorant.
"It was just very surprising and disappointing. Sad. I'm sure he's sitting at home sort of rethinking his position and where he goes from here."
Mickelson has not made any public statements since the Fire Pit Collective published the story, and it was unclear when he would next compete on the PGA Tour.
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Q: solution for generating a running sequence number by using stored procedure in sql server 2008 how to generate a running sequence number from 0001 to 9999 by through using a function in sql server, if u call that function in sql server, it should to be provide a running sequence number when ever if it reach 9999 again it should to be reset 0001
can any help on this please  to perform this above task

A: There are plenty of good articles about that. Try Google.
For instance see here and there

A: A function can't update, insert or delete, so you can't store the variable and check it's value next time you call the function. So there is no way of doing this using a function.

A: You can simply get the sequence number using following procedure:
CREATE PROCEDURE proc_GetSeqNumber
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @idt INT
SET @idt = 0
WHILE (@idt < 9999)
BEGIN
    SELECT @idt = @idt + 1
    PRINT @idt
    END
END

A: The only way a database can remember a value is if it is stored in a table (in Oracle, you could use a sequence, but SQL Server doesn't use those.)  So I would create a single table with a single value and the function would read the value, increment it, and if need be reset it.

A: if @ItemsCount=0
begin
                set @generatedSeNumber=1
end
else
   begin

SET @sql= 'insert into Senumber  values(('+@SeNumber+'))'
Exec (@sql)

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De Verenigde Democratische Krachten (Engels: Unified Democratic Forces, UDF-Inkingi; Inkingi is het Kinyarwanda woord voor "pijler", Frans: Les Forces Démocratiques Unifiées, FDU-Inkingi) is een Rwandese oppositiepartij opgezet door Rwandezen in ballingschap. Sinds de oprichting in 2006 profileert de UDF-Inkingi zich als een oppositiepartij waarvan het voornaamste doel is verandering te brengen in het regime van het Rwandees Patriottische Front (RPF), dat aan de macht is sinds de genocide tegen de Tutsi's in juli 1994. Talloze pogingen daartoe ten spijt, is het de UDF-Inkingi sindsdien niet gelukt de bevoegdheid te krijgen om te opereren als partij in Rwanda. Volgens internationale mensenrechtenorganisaties, zoals Human Rights Watch en Amnesty International, worden in Rwanda wonende leden van de UDF-Inkingi regelmatig blootgesteld aan vervolging en zelfs moord (veelal onopgelost).

Geschiedenis
De UDF-Inkingi werd in 2006 opgericht in Brussel, België, na het samengaan van drie politieke partijen, namelijk de FRD (Democratische Oppositionele Krachten), de ADR-Isangano (Rwandese Democratische Alliantie) en de RDR (de Republikeinse Verzameling voor Democratie in Rwanda, voorheen bekend als de Verzameling voor Democratie en de Terugkeer van Vluchtelingen naar Rwanda), samen met onafhankelijke personen. Sindsdien beschuldigde de regering van Rwanda, die gedomineerd is door de RPF, herhaaldelijk leden van de UDF-Inkingi ervan Hutu-extremisten te zijn en banden te hebben met Hutu-rebellen die zich ophouden in de oostelijke Democratische Republiek Congo. De UDF-Inkingi ontkent deze beschuldigingen en beweert slechts vreedzame en legitieme middelen te gebruiken om een regering te realiseren die gebaseerd is op democratische principes, met rechtvaardigheid voor iedereen en etnische harmonie in Rwanda.

In 2008 besloot de UDF-Inkingi een stap verder te gaan en zijn politieke activiteiten in Rwanda te initiëren. Met dit doel eindigde Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, toenmalige UDF-Inkingi voorzitster, haar ballingschap in Nederland en reisde in 2010 terug naar Rwanda. Daar lukte het haar niet om haar partij te registreren, noch om zich kandidaat te stellen als president tijdens de verkiezingen van 2010. In plaats daarvan werd ze gearresteerd door de Rwandese autoriteiten die haar beschuldigden van genocide-negationisme en collaboratie met terroristische organisaties.

Het vertrek van Umuhoza naar Rwanda leidde in 2010 tot een breuk onder de leden van de UDF-Inkingi die nog in Europa in ballingschap waren. De meerderheid, die loyaal was aan de leiding van Umuhoza, zelfs vanachter de tralies, behield de naam UDF-Inkingi. De minderheid, die een nieuw leiderschap vanuit Europa voorstond, ging verder onder de naam UDF-Nationaal Inkubiri Beweging.

Terwijl de RPF in 2011 onder zijn hoogste militaire officiers en politici overlopers ontdekte die voorheen nauw contact onderhielden met president Paul Kagame, vormde de UDF-Inkingi een alliantie met RPF-dissidenten die hun eigen partij hadden opgezet, namelijk het Rwanda Nationaal Congres (RNC). Deze werd aangevoerd door het voormalig hoofd van de Generale Staf van de legerkorpsen, Faustin Nyamwasa, en presidentieel kabinetschef Theogene Rusasingwa. Later werd de alliantie uitgebreid tot in totaal vijf partijen.

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza was voorzitster van de UDF-Inkingi vanaf haar oprichting in 2006 tot en met 2019. In 2019 startte ze, slechts een paar maanden nadat ze na een presidentieel pardon uit de gevangenis was vrijgelaten, een nieuwe partij, de Ontwikkeling en Vrijheid voor Allen (DALFA-Umurinzi).

Gedurende 13 jaar was ze het gezicht en de stem van de UDF-Inkingi, ook tijdens de acht jaar die ze in de gevangenis doorbracht (2010–2018). Haar proces kreeg veel internationale media-aandacht. Opmerkelijk waren onder andere het moment dat sommige getuigen à charge zichzelf tegenspraken in de rechtszaal, of de politie beschuldigden van mishandeling in een poging om valse getuigenissen te verkrijgen. Ook de Nederlandse autoriteiten werden gelast het huis van Umuhoza te doorzoeken om bewijs te vinden voor de Rwandese rechtszaal.

In November 2019 nam Umuhoza ontslag van de UDF-Inkingi. De partij koos Justin Bahunga, een voormalig diplomaat, als voorzitter voor een periode van twee jaar. Tijdens de officiële lancering van haar nieuwe partij, zei Umuhoza tegen leden van haar partij en journalisten, dat het verschil tussen de DALFA-Umurinzi en de UDF-Inkingi was dat de eerste, anders dan de tweede, gevormd was in overeenstemming met de wetten van Rwanda. Haar tegenstanders in de regeringsgetrouwe pers stelden echter dat de twee organisaties dezelfde idealen en ideologie hadden, en dat het vormen van de partij niets nieuws bracht, behalve een nieuwe naam.

Vervolgingen
Volgens een aantal mensenrechtenorganisaties en diplomatische missies in Rwanda, waren leden van de UDF regelmatig slachtoffers van intimidatie, niet-opgeloste verdwijningen en zelfs moord. Amnesty International citeerde een aantal gevallen, w.o. dat van de sinds 2016 vermiste Illuminée Iragema, Jean Damascène Habarugira en Syldio Dusabumuremyi die vermoord werden in respectievelijk 2017 en 2018, en het geval van Boniface Twagirimana, UDF-Inkingi vice-voorzitter, wiens zogenaamde ontsnapping uit de zwaar beveiligde Mpanga-gevangenis menigeen deed vermoeden dat dit in feite ging om een ontvoering door geheime diensten.

Rwandese politieke partij


There are many kinds of car jumper starter sizes to pick from. The Clore Automotive JNC660 1700 is 5.10 inches high, 16.30 inches long and 14.10 inches wide. Other starters are not as big and measure only 11.3 x 11.1 x 3.1 inches.
Also known as booster systems, they are utilized to jump start a vehicle in case the battery dies. Designs vary. Some models can reside in the glove compartment. This charges the battery to the point it can start the car. More powerful systems have the ability to inflate the tires. These systems can also generate a work light.
The many car jumper starter sizes allow the vehicle to work as if you used jumper cables. If looking for one, make certain the unit has sufficient power to rev up the car engine. The power specs vary.
A small car will require the same system as a large car or truck. That being said, it is always better to get a unit with as much power as possible. A small car will not use it all up, but having plenty to spare is nice.
These boosters function like a charger for a drill. It powers the battery so it will start the vehicle. The smaller systems are those that can be placed in the glove compartment.
You can turn them on by plugging into a power socket or cigarette lighter. These boosters require some time to start a vehicle. But the main advantage is you do not have to work under the hood.
Most of these starters have additional functionality built in. Some models possess a powerful light so work is easier to do. This is especially important during the evening. Several boosters also have tire inflators.
There are also some with power inverters for 110 volt currents. The 12 volt power port is now commonplace. Not all systems have these features, though.
Starters use the same kind of clamps and cables as those of jumper cables. The thicker the cable, the simpler it will be to move power. This translates to a faster vehicle start. Longer cables make it possible to place the unit on the ground for starting.
The car jumper starter sizes are important, but not as much as the power the unit carries. If you are going to buy one, read the product specs carefully. They must meet the minimum requirements of your vehicle.


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Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Directed by: David Yates
Written by: Steve Kloves
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane
Rating: [4/5]
With so much anticipation and build-up from years of experiences, turmoil, excitement, and pain, having a finale land with a dud would be heartbreaking. This has occurred on many occasions with shows, but fear not Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 does not disappoint in capping the epic story of the boy who lived. Emotionally resonant, thrilling in its battle sequences, and just an entertaining ride, this feature gets the job done.
A few Horcrxues remain for Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends to find and destroy in order to finally rid the world of Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). As the final battle mounts, Potter makes his way back to Hogwarts to prepare for the fight of their lifetimes, with plenty of obstacles still in their path.
It's incredibly heartening to have a finale like this feature just sticks the landing on this story. Years of anticipation and hours of film consumption all came with the promise of the showdown between Harry and Voldemort. The boy who lived versus the dark lord and it all comes together seeing as all of the explaining and exposition ceased. All of the info has been laid out, it simply just comes down to execution and this film does it very well.
With the final battle on the horizon, it becomes a battle against time with Voldemort about to launch his final assault and Harry needing to weaken him to the point where the dark lord can be killed. This involves finding more Horcruxes for Harry seeing as Voldemort has found the Elder Wand, possesses it, and now has it aimed squarely at the titular character and allies. This sense of finality feels evident in these moments, as others try to stall as much time as possible. Each mission in destroying another Horcrux comes with the knowledge of failure not being an option thus creating a relentless sense of tension to each interaction.
Everything culminates with the return to Hogwarts for Harry and all of the other characters we have come to learn and love throughout the years and the epic battle does not disappoint. The biggest focus remains when Harry and Voldemort face off but plenty of individual battles demonstrate how personal this entire endeavor is for everyone. Bad blood exists here and runs deep, which invigorates the scenes not occupied by Harry and Voldemort. Little victories as well as some heartbreaking losses, everything comes to a head here to such an effective degree.
As the smaller battles played out, the generosity of spreading the wealth to several characters added to the feeling of culmination in this film. Even individuals like Luna Lovegood (Evanna Lynch) and Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis) receive their moments to contribute to the overall goal of taking out Voldemort. It became quite surreal seeing several of these actors who we have seen grow up going all the way back to 2001 and The Sorcerer's Stone and now these characters are holding their own against Death Eaters. They receive their due and in style.
No new characters of note are introduced but this feature becomes a truly wondrous showcase for Alan Rickman as Severus Snape. Prickly and harsh for most of the series, all of the context regarding this character gets revealed in this film to finally answer the question of whether or not he's actually a good guy. In the small moments Snape actually has compared to the impact in the story, Rickman makes each and every second count to remind us of the brilliance the man displayed as an actor. One of the performances that have been building up from the very first film and then comes together in the perfect way.
Having not talked about their acting much throughout my other reviews for this series of films, it would be apt to speak on the incredible consistency brought on by the core of actors from day one. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson were never the best actors when paired opposite the wonderful slate of cast members they've had throughout the years but they always put in a shift and created a bond with millions of people with the portrayal of these characters. Radcliffe made this role his own and rightfully has the association of this character for the rest of his life. Then you have Maggie Smith playing the always sympathetic Professor Minerva McGonagall. Even when all gets lost in Hogwarts, she remains the beating heart of it through compassion. A level of consistency of quality really sums up a series of films that certainly had high and low points, but never an outright bad entry. It speaks to the power of the universe created and the meticulous care of the filmmakers to bring it to life even with plenty they needed to cut out to not have each entry be three hours long.
To have the level of success this feature has accrued over a stretch of eight films is incredibly impressive with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 being the exclamation point it deserves. All of the final preparation leads to the final showdown between Harry and Voldemort and it certainly does not disappoint in displaying what makes the two inextricably linked and what will need to occur for one of them to die. An overall well-made feature, which went for it all and received dividends as such.
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Are you held hostage by your food cravings? For people who struggle with eating a healthy diet or losing weight, fighting food cravings can be a real battle.
Kick your cravings for good with these tips.
Know your triggers. Pinpointing the cause of your food cravings make help you kick them, but it can be difficult to know just what's behind your cravings. Some of the possible causes of food cravings include: blood sugar imbalance, emotional factors/mood, stress, hormones and/or hypoglycemia.
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Plus.ai launches safety testing program for self-driving trucks
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Plus.ai announced during a press conference at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, a safety testing program whereby the company will expand the testing of its self-driving trucks to cover all permissible continental states in the U.S. by the end of 2020. The testing will include closed course testing as well as public road testing, with a safety driver and operations specialist on board to assume manual control if needed. The company is exploring new testing facilities and pilot runs that will broaden the complex driving scenarios that its autonomous system is capable of handling.
"We want to build a technology solution that is applicable across different weather, terrains, and driving scenarios. Testing our trucks' readiness means we need to put them through stringent safety tests, on every highway in the country. That is why we are committing to expand our testing to all states that allow autonomous vehicle testing by the end of this year," said Shawn Kerrigan, COO and co-founder, Plus.ai.
Plus.ai has already conducted testing of its autonomous trucks in 17 states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming. It was the first autonomous trucking company to test in many of these states.
"We look forward to having Plus.ai test their autonomous trucks in Minnesota this winter. Safety innovation is a win for everyone in the transportation system," said Kristin White, Executive Director of MnDOT's Office of Connected and Automated Vehicles.
"The smart mobility ecosystem we've established in Ohio is a premier testing ground for autonomous vehicles. Ohio is excited to welcome leading autonomous trucking companies like Plus.ai to test at our state-of-the-art facilities and infrastructure," said Patrick Smith, interim executive director of DriveOhio.
Plus.ai expects that the new testing sites and states will be selected by the end of first quarter in 2020, and implementation will take place through the rest of the year. Solving autonomous driving requires exposure to all kinds of long tail phenomena. The year-long effort will accelerate that process. Through this testing program, Plus.ai is also developing new metrics that can measure the readiness of its autonomous driving system for commercial deployment.
Magna International unveils latest high tech autonomous driving platform
UPS to equip trucks with collision mitigation technology
Transport safety rules weakened under Trump
Fewer inspections keep unsafe commercial vehicles on Ontario's roads: auditor
Sustainability in the fashion industry faces an uphill climb
Air freight demand declines in November: IATA
Amazon Air in Europe definitely a possibility: report


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Superfluous Tragedy In Fate/Zero
Introduction: Strengths of Fate Zero
Fate Zero is a stunning anime in several ways. The art, animation, and character designs come together for a rich visual feast. The music is memorable and the opening and closing songs are generally pretty awesome. The characters are interesting, well written, and well developed. A vast and complex world lore and magic systems can be found in this anime, although those details are not always explained well enough. Clearly, Fate Zero has a lot to offer. I couldn't argue otherwise even if I wanted to. For today's post, I don't have a specific, overall point to argue at all. However, I wish to share my thoughts on this anime, and some criticism will definitely be present.
Narrative Power: Influencing The Audience
The narrative style of Fate Zero has extraordinary power. But in my opinion, that entrancing power is something to be wary of. Fans should distance themselves from the story to some degree, particularly if their thoughts and emotions are easy to influence. I'll try explain. The world in Fate Zero is profoundly "grim-dark" and littered with characters (Mages, mostly) who eschew good ethics and consider a normal conscience to be a sign of an idiot. Violence is treated as run-of-the-hill. Nihilism is a prominent theme. The storytelling is powerful because it is so immersive– but it's immersing you in a deep swamp you might not be ready for.
People–including myself– are generally easier to pull along than we realize or care to admit. It's because the writing is so good that many Fate Zero fans are captivated and begin to think more like the characters in this world while they watch. There's nothing wrong with this, unless you're a bit of a contrarian like me, who doesn't like to be forced into the flow of things.
Let me provide an example. When I first watched Fate Zero, it was on a free streaming website, and I made the mistake of reading the comment sections. It was shocking how many people eased right into this fictional world and its bleak, heartless nature. Toxic people can be found in any fan-base, but that's not what I mean. I'm referring to people in civil discussions who argue their points without realizing how much the atmosphere of the show informs their perspectives. Again, this shows amazing narrative prowess and character building. Getting people genuinely interested in the minds of horrendous villains like Kotomine is no easy feat.
Also consider Tokiomi Tohsaka, the father of Rin and the master of Gilgamesh. He is far from a morally admirable character (although he's treated with utmost respect by fellow Mages). The narrative makes it rather easy to slide into this character and argue things from his side. But in any other show, fans would almost certainly react to him as a cruel, manipulative man. Tokiomi gave away one of his daughters, condemning her to a dreadful fate with another Mage family. The other daughter would be the heir to his magic; this is her only purpose and value in life. There are in-world reasons behind all this, but those coldly practical reasons are not moral justifications for deplorable behavior. Fate/Zero makes it hard to tell the difference.
(Tokiomi Tohsaka)
Story Weakness: Excessive Promotion of Themes
What rubs me the wrong way about Fate Zero is its pushiness. Its themes and messages are rather roughly shoved into the audience's metaphorical face. Tragedy is bound to befall good, earnest people. Everyone is selfish. Honor has no value. Nihilism is reasonable. Hedonism is freeing and worth considering. Arrogance and dominant personalities are all-important traits for success. These are the ideas Fate Zero presents. I am not saying stories must always promote social ethics and sound morality. If I thought that, then I would probably hate Fate Zero, as well as other "dark" anime that I enjoy and respect. My point here is that these grim-dark themes should have been presented with more subtlety and less aggression.
The best kind of stories are those with at least some sense of atmospheric balance. The lack of this is a weakness in Fate Zero. To be frank, it's unrealistic and imbalanced to showcase such an over-abundance of darkness and tragedy. Positive elements are completely overlooked. For example, cruel character deaths are common; even the devoted, loving Irisviel is strangled to death on screen. Kiritsugu's life is overflowing with countless deaths, and in the end, he can't save anyone. Kotomine finds his life's joy in treachery and killing. The reason the masters and servants banded together to fight Caster was to stop him from making magic known to ordinary humans– not to stop him murdering dozens of children.
(Caster and his master, partners in serial killing)
Fate Zero is supposed to be a show with a dark tone, and there's nothing wrong with stories like that. But if you pile on the clouds heavily, at the expense of any other type of content or narrative choices, the story quality drops. Just as shows that are too bubbly and happy make me feel disgusted, shows that have nothing but bleakness feel tasteless and desperate. Now, Fate Zero isn't a total loss. There two or three relatively positive highlights. We'll discuss that in a bit. First, I'll provide one more example of this anime's overly dismal content.
The Epitome of Tragedy: Kariya Matou
By far the best example is the case of Kariya Matou. This character sought freedom from the cruel world of Mages, so he refused to inherit the Matou family magic. His father decided to pass the magic on to his adopted granddaughter, Sakura. She was only a small child, rejected by her biological parents, and now forced to become a Mage. The Matou tradition made powerful mages using unspeakably horrific means. Sakura was being tortured. This is where Kariya comes into the picture.
Like anyone with a conscience, Kariya couldn't tolerate the traumatic torment of a little girl. He also felt a sense of duty to save her, since this wouldn't have happened if he hadn't abandoned the Mages. So Kariya underwent Mage training in Sakura's place. Here we have a very relatable character with sound morals who is looking out for the wellbeing of a child. But this is Fate Zero. So naturally, Kariya's fate is one of the worst tragedies of all.
(Kariya post-mage-training)
In order to become a powerful Mage within one year, Kariya endured the process that would normally stretch over one's entire childhood. He successfully inherited the strong magic of the Matou family, but it broke his mind, and snipped his lifespan down to nearly nothing. Kariya couldn't beat the other mages due to mental trauma and constant pain as his body rotted. His mind was so far gone that he murdered Sakura's mother. In the end, he dies in a delusional state, finished off by Sakura herself.
Now then, I mentioned there are a few positive elements in Fate Zero. Let's look at those next. The main optimistic features are the characters of Rin and Waver, as well as the ending to Kiritsugu's story. I also think it's great that Saber is around to provide a more heroic, honorable perspective; I may discuss this point in a separate post. For now, we'll focus on the other features I mentioned.
Redemptive Elements: Waver and Rin
Episode (?) of Fate Zero is a side-story about young Rin Tohsaka. She grows up to become a main character and good mage in Fate/Stay Night. The episode focuses on how Rin was able to save several children from being murdered by Caster and Ryunosuke. It may seem relatively insignificant, but I consider it a positive highlight of the anime. It foreshadows the adventures of the next generation, who become better people and strive for greater goals than their predecessors.
In addition, this episode shows Rin's mental fortitude and courage even at such a young age. She has always been among my favorite characters in the Fate series due to her determination, practicality, and bravery. In the midst of the dark world of Mages, Rin makes her own path and forms her own thoughts and opinions, unshaken by the loss of her parents and other hardships. Rin's main story is in Fate/Stay Night, but even in Fate/Zero, she is a hero.
(Young Rin)
Waver Velvet's character arc was my personal favorite of the masters in Fate/Zero. His family was not one of the main Mage bloodlines, knowing only some basic magic. The world of Mages is strict, hierarchical, and prejudiced against "commoner" Mages. So Waver had to work hard every step of the way, enduring the censure of the Mage world, to even begin his mage-craft training. This boy is uppity, a complainer, and not particularly courageous. Nevertheless, he's been amazing from the start with his drive to pursue his dream and prove the naysayers wrong.
In Fate/Zero, Waver is recognized as a master and can enter the Holy Grail War. He summons the Heroic Spirit Iskandar (Alexander The Great), a step that changed his life forever. Through his interactions with Iskandar, Waver becomes braver, stronger, gracious, and more inspired. He was emotionally attached to Iskandar, and moved on a deep level by the warlord's unending dreams, nobility, and confidence. After Iskandar was defeated by Gilgamesh, Waver was heartbroken, but at the same time, he now had even more reason to keep striving for success. He considered it his solemn duty to become more like Iskandar and to tell the conqueror's stories to keep inspiring people to battle for their dreams.
Waver survives the war in Fate/Zero and is thus the only character whom the narrative doesn't torture or kill for having dreams and ideals. This makes him a symbol of hope and a bold light in the darkness of Fate Zero's world. Most of the characters have tragic arcs, ending in some kind of major disappointment, pain, or death. But Waver's story is not a tragedy. It's the start of his success. He goes on to become a respected Mage who teaches magic to others without prejudice. It's a story that's a bit sad but overall very uplifting. That's why the character of Waver is so important in Fate Zero.
(Waver and Iskandar)
Redemptive Elements: Shiro and Realistic Hope
Kiritsugu is arguably the real main character in Fate Zero. As expected, he has a tragic story ending in failure to save anyone he cared about. If you've seen the anime, you already know this, but it's worth recounting the event to emphasize its importance in redeeming the overall story. Due to Kiritsugu's interactions with the will of the Grail, disaster unfolds. A flood of fire and lava is unleashed on the city, destroying much of it and killing hundreds. As Kiritsugu stumbles around in the ruin and flames, he finds a lone boy close to death. That boy is Shiro, and he is the only person Kiritsugu successfully rescues.
After what happened, there wasn't any hope left in Kiritsugu at all. The despair was too great. He failed to make the Grail grant his wish to save everyone. He lost his wife and his sense of purpose. Drowning in guilt and regret, seeing so much death and destruction, Kiritsugu was a broken man. But he saved Shiro. He went on to raise the boy as his son. It was amazing to see a child still alive in all that chaos. Shiro was the light in the dark. Kiritsugu found redemption and inner peace thanks to the child. By saving Shiro, he also saved himself.
Sometimes it seems like Fate Zero's only message is to give up on your dreams and ideals. You might as well just give into animal nature and complete selfishness. And yet, there is another much subtler theme hidden in the story. Those who obsess over perfection, those who stubbornly cling to their ideals without adapting, and those who have dreams too vast and unrealistic– they will most likely fail. But those who can grow, accept their weaknesses, and strive toward reachable goals have a much better chance.
Think about it. Waver's dream was to become a Mage in spite of the unfair system. A more extreme version of Waver would probably have wanted to completely destroy the prejudiced, hierarchal system of Mages. Also, rather than try to be exactly like Iskandar, Waver only wants to move a little closer, using the lessons and spirit of Iskandar in his life. This is the difference between blind idealism and progressive realism. Similarly, Kiritsugu never needed to sacrifice so much, with some grandiose goal of eventually saving everyone. He only needed to save one person, and in so doing, save himself as well.
Conclusion: Value of Story Diversity
While there are certainly positive elements in Fate Zero, these are like tiny gold nuggets among the mud and grime of the show's dominant darkness. My earlier point about Fate Zero being unbalanced still stands. If not for this anime's audio-visual beauty and vast world lore, it would be easier to see that the story is bitter, edgy and over-the-top. Just as with too much fanservice or too much gore, an over-abundance of negativity for its own sake is tasteless. It deals a major blow to overall quality.
(Hedonistic antagonist Kotomine Kirei)
This definitely doesn't mean the anime is without value. Fate Zero is essentially a tragedy tale where the ones who try the hardest suffer the most. Evil prevails, and the antagonists' selfish, skewed mindsets are almost glorified. That's actually really rare to find: a story where the villains completely win. I value diversity in storytelling. I value the talent required to write such an extremely bleak narrative from start to finish. So in my view, the unusual and dismal nature of Fate Zero is a major reason it should be held in high respect.
For the most part, I watch anime to deconstruct the heavier or more technical aspects of it, including story quality. I will sometimes be critical. But it's not as if I expect or want a narrative to be flawless or perfectly balanced. It would be abysmally boring if all stories were like that. Each and every story provides unique elements and perspectives. Streamlining them would be unthinkable. For those reasons, Fate Zero is a truly great anime despite its blemishes.
Thanks for reading my work here at Anime Rants. It means a lot to me to have people looking at and thinking about what I wrote. Take care of yourselves, and I'll see you next time.
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4 thoughts on "Superfluous Tragedy In Fate/Zero"
d3vy3n says:
Really liked the points you brought up about how "Fate Zero" is rather grim and how that is not something we normally criticize. But I don't think there's much wrong with writing a dark and edgy story with morally questionable characters. One description I see get thrown around a lot about "Fate Zero" is that it's kind of like a Greek Tragedy. Nearly every character is a bit shitty in some way and the ending isn't always good. But that's why I liked "Fate Zero" when I watched it. I do think that it managed to balance out the negativity pretty well though it tends to lean gritty. Then again, I haven't watched "Fate Zero" in years and my initial introduction was through AMVs and clips so I suspect I'd harbor your feelings if I watched it thoroughly now that I think on it.
I also want to bring up that I think that because "Fate Zero" is the prequel to "Fate Stay Night" it does get some room to be dark since some of the emotional payoffs can be found in the upcoming story. "Fate Stay Night" is lighter in nature and several routes provide a hopeful or positive payoff that "Fate Zero" lacks. "Fate Zero" was supposed to be a story to set up the tragic parts of "Fate Stay Night" which are used and solved in that story as well through the fights with Gilgamesh. I do think that at least softens the blow a bit knowing what comes after.
That's just my opinion on the subject, I don't mean to contradict you or anything. Then again, I think it's influenced by the fact that I prefer anime/manga with a darker theme like "Made in Abyss" and "Madoka Magica" as opposed to lighter ones so "Fate Zero" is something that fits with my tastes.
-Sky
7mononoke says:
Thanks for the well-thought-out comment! i think you have a point that Fate Zero can afford more darkness since Fate Stay Night redeems much of it.
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Buffalo Bills wide receiver Jordan Matthews will undergo thumb surgery and is expected to miss a month, WGR's Sal Capaccio reported this morning.
Nothing official from the Bills, we will hear from head coach Sean McDermott later today for his Monday press conference.
Matthews has 10 catches for 162 yards and a touchdown this season.


A group of University of Eldoret (UoE) student on Friday went to court with the aim of blocking the school's fourth graduation ceremony.
Mwong'eri Omwonga and hundreds of other student's attempt with the aim of protesting for themselves not being enlisted among the graduation list led them to court in a case where Justice George Kimondo termed as 'urgent' because the group had met all the requirements needed to deserve graduation. For no apparent reason, it was unfortunate that they were not listed in the final list.
However, while ruling the case, Justice Kimondo said that for the interest of fairness in administration and justice, the court could not interfere with the institutions activities because it could look like it is being micro-managed. He further noted that the case was brought to court late.
The Justice went on to add that, stopping the graduation would interfere with other students who had no grievances with the institution.
An inter-parte hearing is set be proceed on 13th of December before the same court.


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Jorge Alberto Sebastián Dávalos Bachelet (Leipzig, 1 de junio de 1978) es un cientista político chileno, primogénito de la expresidenta de Chile Michelle Bachelet. Fue director del Área Sociocultural de la Presidencia del segundo gobierno de su madre, entre marzo de 2014 y febrero de 2015, fecha en que renunció por estar involucrado en el caso Caval.

Biografía

Familia y estudios
Nació en Leipzig, República Democrática Alemana en 1978, hijo de los chilenos exiliados en ese país, Jorge Dávalos y Michelle Bachelet. En agosto del año siguiente, la familia Dávalos-Bachelet regresó a Chile. En 1984 nació la hermana de Sebastián, Francisca. Al año siguiente sus padres se separaron.

Estudió en el Colegio Rubén Darío de La Reina. Luego, en el año 2000, ingresó a estudiar ciencias políticas en la Universidad Central, donde participó en la federación de estudiantes y fue militante de la Juventud Socialista.

Posteriormente realizó un magíster en gobierno y gerencia pública en la Universidad de Chile, egresando en 2011.

Vida personal
En 2002 conoció a Natalia Compagnon Soto (n. 1983), quien era su compañera de carrera universitaria, con quien inició una relación amorosa, y se casaron diez años más tarde. La pareja tuvo dos hijos. En abril de 2022 Dávalos reveló que estaba separado de Compagnon desde 2017 y que se encontraba en la fase inicial de los trámites de divorcio.

Es masón —al igual que su abuelo Alberto Bachelet— desde mediados de la década de 2000, y actualmente pertenece a la Logia Cóndor 9. En 2009 realizó el curso para de oficiales de reserva de la Fuerza Aérea de Chile.

Carrera profesional y pública

Entre 2005 y 2012, se desempeñó como asistente en la Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales (Direcon), primero en el Departamento de Asia, donde destacó su participación en el Tratado de Libre Comercio firmado con Japón, y posteriormente en el Departamento de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC), hasta el 1 de julio de 2012.

Él al igual que su madre, fue militante del Partido Socialista de Chile (PS), hasta su renuncia en 2015.

En marzo de 2014 fue nombrado como director del Área Sociocultural de la Presidencia ad honorem, dado que Bachelet es soltera y no existe la figura del «primer caballero» que suele asumir dicha función. Renunció el 15 de febrero de 2015 a su puesto en el gobierno, y el 1 de marzo a su militancia en el PS.

Controversias
Ha generado controversia por sus negocios, basados en varias sociedades comerciales, varias de ellas donde es copropietario con su cónyuge. Varias de estas sociedades fueron creadas tras su salida de Direcon, y con éstas asesoraron comercialmente a empresas asiáticas y a la chilena Agrosuper.

Caso Caval

En febrero de 2015, la revista Qué pasa publicó un reportaje donde se expuso que la sociedad Exportadora y de Gestión Caval Limitada, propiedad de Natalia Compagnon, su cónyuge, había recibido un crédito por parte del Banco de Chile por más de US$ 10 millones, el que fue aprobado por la entidad financiera el 16 de diciembre de 2013, un día después del triunfo de Michelle Bachelet en la segunda vuelta de la elección presidencial. Dicho préstamo fue utilizado en la compra de un terreno en Machalí, con el objeto de revenderlo para desarrollos inmobiliarios.

Posteriormente se conoció que el crédito había sido tratado en una reunión entre Compagnon, acompañada su esposo, con Andrónico Luksic Craig, vicepresidente del banco. El escándalo fue bautizado por la prensa local como «caso Nueragate» y «caso Caval». El 11 de febrero de 2015, Dávalos publicó una declaración patrimonial para intentar disminuir las críticas. Sin embargo, la presión de la oposición y de parte del oficialismo provocaron su renuncia a la Dirección Sociocultural dos días más tarde.

A inicios de septiembre de 2015, el departamento de investigaciones policiales O.S. 9 de Carabineros de Chile, informó que logró recuperar archivos el disco duro del computador que Dávalos había utilizado en el Palacio de La Moneda, el cual había sido formateado por personal técnico bajo las órdenes expresas de Dávalos. Sin embargo, el organismo estimó que la información encontrada, a pesar de contener nombres ligados al caso Caval, no era «de relevancia investigativa y otras no están asociadas a la investigación».

Dávalos fue sobreseído por el delito de cohecho en la arista principal del caso Caval. Sin embargo, tanto su cónyuge, Natalia Compagnon, como Dávalos, fueron formalizados por los presuntos delitos de estafa al empresario Gonzalo Vial Concha e infracción a la ley de propiedad intelectual, conocida por la prensa como «arista Vial Concha».

Acciones judiciales
En enero de 2013, el periodista Tomás Mosciatti realizó un comentario político respecto a sus negocios, por lo cual este último se querelló contra el locutor radial por injurias graves. Éste respondió denunciando a Dávalos ante el Servicio de Impuestos Internos (SII), tras lo cual este último retiró la querella en su contra.

En 2018 interpuso una demanda civil por daño moral contra Canal 13, por las rutinas del personaje Yerko Puchento (interpretado por Daniel Alcaíno) en Vértigo, exigiendo una indemnización de $3360 millones. En diciembre de 2019, llamadas ambas partes a conciliación por el tribunal, no lograron acuerdo, por lo que el juicio continúa. En noviembre de ese mismo año presentó una querella por supuestas calumnias contra el entonces ministro del Trabajo y Previsión Social Nicolás Monckeberg.

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Alumnado de la Universidad Central de Chile
Emigrantes alemanes hacia Chile
Politólogos de Chile
Chilenos nacidos en el exterior
Socialistas de Chile
Masones de Chile
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Acusados de corrupción en Chile
Nacidos en Leipzig
Primeros caballeros
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