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China leads peers in 5G investments
By CHENG YU | China Daily | Updated: 2020-08-12 07:38
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A visitor tries out a game supported by 5G and virtual reality technologies during an exhibition in Nantong, Jiangsu province, in July. ZHAI HUIYONG/FOR CHINA DAILY
Telecom companies bank on cost-effective infrastructure to speed up the use of superfast tech in more industries
China has taken the lead in global 5G development, with nearly half of worldwide investment by the country this year, according to the latest reports.
A newly-launched report by market consultancy Gartner Inc said the country leads the world in 5G development and is expected to contribute 49.4 percent of 5G investment globally this year.
"Cost-effective infrastructure manufactured in China is paving the way for major communications service providers in the country to quickly build 5G coverage," said Kosei Takiishi, senior research director at Gartner.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, investment growth rates in 5G will be slightly lower worldwide this year but will rebound modestly next year, the report said.
" (The rebound next year comes) as communications service providers seek to capitalize on changed behaviors that are sparked by populations' elevated reliance on communication networks," it added.
The comments echo a recent survey by Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson which said that China's 5G development is speeding up this year, which was a contrast to the slowdown of 5G rollout and growing subscription rates in many markets.
Nearly 89 percent of Chinese consumers surveyed believe that 5G is set to play an increasingly bigger role in the future, while 59 percent showed willingness to buy 5G-related products and services, the survey said.
Currently, the country's three major telecommunications carriers-China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom-are spending big and plan to invest more this year in 5G construction.
The total expenditure budget of the three major operators this year is 334.8 billion yuan ($48.1 billion). Of that amount, the 5G-related capital expenditure budget hit 180.3 billion yuan. The 5G expenditure accounted for 53.9 percent of the total budget and will be a 337.6 percent increase year-on-year.
"China has actively promoted 5G construction and local consumers are also holding an open mind to embrace the technology, which laid a relatively solid foundation for 5G development in the country," said Zhang Jin, a researcher from the China Center for International Economic Exchanges.
A Haier employee checks products using a 5G-enabled system at a company facility in Tianjin in June. LI RAN/XINHUA
While China remains the world's largest 5G market, Zhang pointed out that the country's efforts in driving 5G-related industrial funds and industrial chain development have also boosted the nation's competitiveness in the sector.
A report by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology pointed out that China's efforts in 5G commercialization will directly drive an investment of 900 billion yuan this year.
While total 5G investment will reach 1.5 trillion yuan over the next five years, it will help create more than 3.5 million jobs by then. By 2030, the superfast 5G will help create a total economic output of 6.3 trillion yuan, the report said.
To gear up new growth engines, China also called for new infrastructure construction including 5G, artificial intelligence and the industrial internet. Such efforts are in line with the nation's drive to ensure stability in domestic and foreign investment.
"New infrastructure comes with huge opportunities," said Kaifu Lee, a prominent AI expert who is chairman and CEO of venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures.
"During the process, AI, together with other core areas of new infrastructure such as 5G, big data and the industrial internet, will integrate much more closely with each other. This will take the digitalization of the nation's traditional industries to a new level," he said.
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L'Oréal Mission Statement & Vision Statement 2023
Loreal is a French multinational company that specializes in the research, development, manufacturing and sale of beauty products. The company was founded by Eugene Schueller in 1909. Today, the company has revenue of over €29 billion worldwide with its headquarters located in Clichy-la-Garenne just outside Paris. L'Oreal employs more than 100,000 people internationally and holds an annual turnover of €6 billion.
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Oscar©-winning sound editor Norman Wanstall (left), Oscar-winning sound designer Ben Burtt (center) and Oscar-nominated producer Gary Kurtz at the reception preceding "The Sound Behind the Image," presented by the Academy's Science and Technology Council, which explored sound in action-adventure films from its beginning through the current digital age, at the BFI Southbank on Friday, April 10, 2009.
Oscar©-winning cinematography Billy Williams (left) and Oscar-winning sound designer Ben Burtt at the reception preceding "The Sound Behind the Image," presented by the Academy's Science and Technology Council, which explored sound in action-adventure films from its beginning through the current digital age, at the BFI Southbank on Friday, April 10, 2009.
Sound editor Paul Apted and Oscar©-nominated film editor Henry Richardson at the reception preceding "The Sound Behind the Image," presented by the Academy's Science and Technology Council, which explored sound in action-adventure films from its beginning through the current digital age, at the BFI Southbank on Friday, April 10, 2009.
Oscar©-nominated producer Gary Kurtz during "The Sound Behind the Image," presented by the Academy's Science and Technology Council, which explored sound in action-adventure films from its beginning through the current digital age, at the BFI Southbank on Friday, April 10, 2009.
Oscar©-winning sound designer Ben Burtt during "The Sound Behind the Image," presented by the Academy's Science and Technology Council, which explored sound in action-adventure films from its beginning through the current digital age, at the BFI Southbank on Friday, April 10, 2009.
Oscar©-winning sound editor Norman Wanstall during "The Sound Behind the Image," presented by the Academy's Science and Technology Council, which explored sound in action-adventure films from its beginning through the current digital age, at the BFI Southbank on Friday, April 10, 2009.


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Синьни́н () — уезд городского округа Шаоян провинции Хунань (КНР).

История
Уезд был выделен из уезда Шаоян во времена империи Сун, в 1155 году.

После образования КНР в 1949 году был создан Специальный район Шаоян (邵阳专区), и уезд вошёл в его состав.

В 1970 году Специальный район Шаоян был переименован в Округ Шаоян (邵阳地区).

Постановлением Госсовета КНР от 8 февраля 1983 года был расформирован округ Шаоян и образован городской округ Шаоян, однако уже 13 июля это решение было отменено. Постановлением Госсовета КНР от 27 января 1986 года округ Шаоян вновь был преобразован в городской округ.

Административное деление
Уезд делится на 8 посёлков, 6 волостей и 2 национальные волости.

Ссылки

Уезды Шаояна

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DESCRIPTION This family of functions shall generate pseudo-random numbers using a linear congruential algorithm and 48-bit integer arithmetic.
The drand48() and erand48() functions shall return non-negative, dou- ble-precision, floating-point values, uniformly distributed over the interval [0.0,1.0).
The lrand48() and nrand48() functions shall return non-negative, long integers, uniformly distributed over the interval [0,2**31).
The mrand48() and jrand48() functions shall return signed long integers uniformly distributed over the interval [-2**31,2**31).
The srand48(), seed48(), and lcong48() functions are initialization entry points, one of which should be invoked before either drand48(), lrand48(), or mrand48() is called. (Although it is not recommended practice, constant default initializer values shall be supplied auto- matically if drand48(), lrand48(), or mrand48() is called without a prior call to an initialization entry point.) The erand48(), nrand48(), and jrand48() functions do not require an initialization entry point to be called first.
The value returned by any of the drand48(), erand48(), jrand48(), lrand48(), mrand48(), or nrand48() functions is computed by first gen- erating the next 48-bit X_i in the sequence. Then the appropriate num- ber of bits, according to the type of data item to be returned, are copied from the high-order (leftmost) bits of X_i and transformed into the returned value.
The drand48(), lrand48(), and mrand48() functions store the last 48-bit X_i generated in an internal buffer; that is why the application shall ensure that these are initialized prior to being invoked. The erand48(), nrand48(), and jrand48() functions require the calling pro- gram to provide storage for the successive X_i values in the array specified as an argument when the functions are invoked. That is why these routines do not have to be initialized; the calling program merely has to place the desired initial value of X_i into the array and pass it as an argument. By using different arguments, erand48(), nrand48(), and jrand48() allow separate modules of a large program to generate several independent streams of pseudo-random numbers; that is, the sequence of numbers in each stream shall not depend upon how many times the routines are called to generate numbers for the other streams.
The initializer function srand48() sets the high-order 32 bits of X_i to the low-order 32 bits contained in its argument. The low-order 16 bits of X_i are set to the arbitrary value 330E_16.
The initializer function seed48() sets the value of X_i to the 48-bit value specified in the argument array. The low-order 16 bits of X_i are set to the low-order 16 bits of seed16v. The mid-order 16 bits of X_i are set to the low-order 16 bits of seed16v. The high-order 16 bits of X_i are set to the low-order 16 bits of seed16v. In addi- tion, the previous value of X_i is copied into a 48-bit internal buffer, used only by seed48(), and a pointer to this buffer is the value returned by seed48(). This returned pointer, which can just be ignored if not needed, is useful if a program is to be restarted from a given point at some future time-use the pointer to get at and store the last X_i value, and then use this value to reinitialize via seed48() when the program is restarted.
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RETURN VALUE As described in the DESCRIPTION above.


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Shwe-Dagon is the most important pagoda and pilgrimage site in Myanmar. The structure dates from about 600 AD. In this near view, the main zedi (pagoda) is covered in a scaffolding of bamboo. The structure was put up to enable the regilding of the zedi with gold leaf, an operation that routinely happens to this day. The trees in the foreground are today replaced with a wide forecourt dotted with smaller zedi and shrines.
Linneaus Tripe created one of earliest photographic records of Burma (Myanmar). His reputation as a photographer developed in India where he was employed in the East India Company army. Appointed to accompany the first British diplomatic mission to Burma in 1855, he was instructed to record information about the country. Tripe took over 100 images, demonstrating his skill in observation and composition. He used calotypes or paper negatives, which gave the prints a 'soft-focus' look.
This image shows one large zedi (pagoda) with several smaller ones nearby. The main zedi is covered in a scaffolding of bamboo. There are trees surrounding the structures.
This photograph was one of a series from 'Burma Views' which was presented to the V&A in July 1909 by Lady Ida Low, wife of Malcolm Low, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service and daughter-in-law of General Sri John Low. As a member of the Council of India in 1857, Sir John Low received the Burma Views (1857) set on 15th April 1857.
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See Dewan p.255 for listings of other copies of the same photograph elsewhere.
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I've been to Nice and the isle of Greece
where I sipped champagne on yacht, I moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed 'em what I've got. I've been undressed by kings and I've seen some things that a woman ain't s'posed to see, I've been to paradise…Charlene (1977)
FOR me, Christmas is a time to reflect. It's when I briefly stop travelling, slow down and glance back on the year. It would be so easy in my job as a travel writer to stumble from destination to destination and chase the rush of the next story and adventure, discarding the last place I've visited as simply a fuzzy memory. Recently, while filing a piece to camera for my colleagues over at TravelThereNext, I was asked what I "collect" on my travels. And it's pretty simple. I collect characters. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things in every corner of the planet. I try to capture them in my stories and in the quiet corners of my mind. Store them up for those rainy days when I need reminding that the world is truly a remarkable place. And so I present to you some of the great characters I've met of 2014.
First World White Girls, who performed at the Judith Wright Centre, reminded me of how fortunate I am.
I began my travelling year in Bali in January where I met Cekorda, 85, a respected medicine man. "How old are you?" he asks as I sit with my back against his knees, his wiry fingers probing my skull.
"43," I respond.
"Not so young," he mutters to himself, much to my amusement. He then asks me my problems.
"I have a broken heart," I reply.
I lay down on a mat and he presses between my toes with a stick. My third toe on my left foot hurts and I yelp.
"Your broken heart is healed. It is your mind. You have self doubt."
Cekorda then stands above me and traces his magical stick over my body to clear my aura, before announcing that I no longer have a problem.
He turns to an Western bystander who speaks Indonesian.
"Women are very complex," the bystander translates for Cekorda. I laugh all the way from Bali back to Brisbane.
Bali medicine man Cekorda
In February, I'm up in Thailand, where I return to the River Kwai and meet up with my young friend Sam Season, a traditional Mon Man who works on the River Kwai Jungle Rafts. Sam has two big dreams: to gain an apprenticeship as a mechanic in Australia and to marry the love of his life, Jaytarmon who lives in a neighbouring village. I ask him whether this mysterious girl with the long black hair is still beautiful. He doesn't hesitate. "Oh, awesome. I want to listen to her voice." He pulls out his iPhone until he finds a photo of her, laying dreamily on a bed with her hands in her chin. "I look at her photo every night before I go to bed. I have to make her believe in myself and trust in myself. When I finish my education I will be ready. I have to show her 'can you wait for me?' One day, when I have an education we will have a good life and then we will marry."
Sam Season
March finds me back in Brisbane, struck by the sadness of the drought which is consuming my country. My journey takes me a few suburbs away where I catch up with Tom Conley, 3, who was born just before the 2011 Brisbane floods and ironically now bakes for drought relief with his mum, Sally Gardner. "Tom gets involved in all the cooking adventures in our home. He especially loves baking and as soon as I get the utensils out he rushes over, climbs up and wants to measure ingredients, crack the eggs and lick the bowl, We talk about who we are helping or who we are baking for, he enjoys drawing pictures for the drought-affected families."
Tom Conley
In April I return to Bali, to spend Easter alone at a yoga retreat and to recover from yet another disappointing relationship. Purely by chance I select OneWorld Retreats Escape The World program in Ubud where, along with twice-daily yoga sessions, I am challenged to sit with myself for one glorious day of silence. Claude Chouinard, who runs the retreat with his partner Iyan Yaspriyana, reminds us that despite everyone around us seemingly being able to travel, we are only a small percentage of the world who is wealthy enough to do so. He encourages us to embrace our 24 hours of silence and see it for the gift that it is.
"For just one day you can consider this silence a form of torture or one of the greatest gifts you'll ever give yourself. What we know as time is in fact an illusion. For human beings, time is limited to the moment we are born, to the moment we leave this planet, a very short journey considering the age of the universe. Live every day by the minute and enjoy as much as you possibly can…the illusion goes by quickly."
Iyan Yaspriyana
May is chaotic and colourful as I spend nearly a month in Europe chasing a range of stories. And I meet a range of those fabulous characters I so treasure….A sultry Slovenian who compliments me on my "good English" when I reveal I'm Australian; Skanky from Mumbai who eats one gigantic meal a day as he doesn't wish to "get sick on German food"; Suzie, the Filipino Canadian whose love of Schnitzel knows no bounds; Calamity Jane from Chicago who wanders the streets of Berlin pointing at every single wall and asking our tour guide whether it is a piece of the Berlin Wall; and a jolly gay guy from Wales.
A bold Berliner
June is spent in Christchurch, which was devastated in February 2011 by an earthquake in which 187 people were killed and 1000 buildings destroyed. At the C1 Espresso café I speak with owner Sam Crofskey, 37, who not only lost his original café across the road in the quake, but his house as well. Sam was working in his high street café when the earthquake hit.
"I was a little bit confused. The coffee grinders fell off and landed on my legs and the power went off and then I could hardly stand. We needed to get rid of the customers, the staff and then ourselves. We had more than 100 people in the café at the time. Out on the street everyone was distraught and I thought everyone was over-reacting. I thought we'd come back tomorrow and clean everything up. It took a lot more for me to understand the city was actually gone. When you are here with no power or phone you have no idea what's going on. I was like, my business if fucked, my house is fucked…that's annoying."
Sam Crofskey
The mercury had plunged to minus 2 degrees out in Southern Queensland Country in July when I ventured to the Dalby Cattle Sales in search of myths and men. I spend two hours chasing cattle and cowboys around the cattle yards before I decide to leave. On the way back to the car, I hear a voice behind me. "So, have you got your story?" a cowboy says, following me quickly out of the cattle yards. "Yep. I don't have all morning to be chasing you boys around," I say defiantly. "Where are you staying tonight?" he directs this question at my breasts. "Chinchilla," I say. He stands and considers this for a moment, calculating whether I'm worth the hour drive to the next town. And just as I'm about to turn to leave he says: "Well, I guess I'll see you around then." The interaction keeps me entertained for several days and hundreds of kilometres later.
Dalby cowboys
I spend the most perfect August day with a close mate where we escape to the Sunshine Coast and the Eumundi Markets and Noosa. We stroll and laugh. Steal languid pauses to smell the roses, or in this case, the pungent soap on sale. Chat to a stallholder about his carnivorous plants. Try on eclectic outfits. Resist the seduction of sparkly jewellery. Wander through aisles of books. Observe the colourful characters. Pat a camel. We stumble across a "Willy Washer" and spend some time discussing its purpose. There's a male fairy guarding some jewellery that resembles the young man selling the silver, fashioned from old knives, forks and spoons. An ancient typewriter has been dismantled, somewhat to our dismay, and crafted into trinkets. Colourful hand-woven handbags remind us of our travels around the globe. We discover Noosa Reds – plump, juicy tomatoes bursting with the distinct flavours of this fertile region – deliciously packed in crunchy brown paper bags. A giant gecko mural hugs a pole. There's glass-blowing and some beaut ukes. And all the while, we keep winding through the marketplace, unravelling our lives.
A Eumundi Fairy
On a stunning September afternoon I find myself staring at boobs and Broadbeach on the Gold Coast, at a High Tea to launch Kim McCosker's cookbook Cook 4 a Cure to raise funds for the National Breast Cancer Foundation, and to celebrate the opening of Australia's newest resort brand ULTIQA Resorts. Guest speaker Mark Wood volunteers his time to speak about breast cancer after losing his wife Annie to the disease seven years ago, and says one in eight Australian women will be told they have breast cancer at some stage.
"Today, 37 women will be told they have breast cancer. To think that's happening to 37 people today and the day after is far too many. And seven people would have lost that battle today. My wife got a death sentence but my daughter, who was 12 at the time that Annie died, got a life sentence losing her mother so young. Twenty years ago, 37 per cent of women diagnosed with the disease died, but that's now been halved through awareness and education."
All of a sudden I feel tired and emotional, but as I furtively glance around the room, I find I am not alone. There's not a dry eye in the house.
Kim McCosker
October was spent in Fiji at the Australian Society of Travel Writers Awards where I won Best Food Travel Story for a piece I wrote about a group of six hardcore Wellington prisoners who were being rehabilitated through a cooking program "From Prison Gate to Plate". Talk about collecting characters. And the words of celebrity chef Martin Bosley, who runs the program, still ring in my head. "I didn't realise what a loss of freedom truly meant before I went in there. As a community we need to change our perceptions and be prepared that one day these men are getting out and we need to pick up where prisons leave off and reduce re-offending."
Fiji School Kids
I returned to Hawaii for the first time in 22 years in November, where there were characters galore including the mythical menehune. Sheraton Kona Cultural Tour Officer Lily Dudoit explains these little red men. "Everywhere in Hawaii we are known for our myths and legends. We have the little people who only come out at night to do their work. We call them Menehune and they are said to have reddish skin colour. There was a couple who had their wedding photo by this tree and when they had the photo developed there was a Menehune peeking out from behind the tree. They like to make trouble. Sometimes things go missing or they move something. You don't find them. They find you." I spend the rest of my time in this land of rainbows searching for possibly the most intriguing men I will meet all year.
Hawaiian Kids
Which brings me to December. While many leave Brisbane and Australia, this is the time of year where I sit on my back deck with a cold beer and warm memories. There's movies and coffees and catch ups with friends and family, the all-important support cast of characters in my life. Thank you to everyone I have met out there in the big wide world this year, to those who have come on the journey with me, and to those who continue to love and support me back at home. Sending you love and light this season and may we all experience peace on earth.


Here is a very simple recipe for how to make maple snow a true Canadian tradition of drizzling hot maple candy on snow to harden it. It's really fun for the kidlets.
Pat a layer of snow onto a baking sheet and leave it in the fridge or outside to keep it from melting.
Place 1 cup maple syrup in a pot on the stove, and bring to a boil.
Using a candy thermometer, continue to boil until syrup reaches the soft ball stage (235º -240ºF), or if you don't have a candy thermometer you can drop a little of the candy into a bowl of ice water, remove it and see if it makes a 'soft ball'.
Remove from heat when it's in soft ball stage and pour syrup over snowy baking sheet. You can write your name or draw a picture to make it even more crazy fun. Or press a popsicle stick into syrup and roll it up into a candy pop.
Once it's cool it's ready to eat!


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Lemon Garlic Tuna Cakes Recipe – the best and easy patties made with canned tuna, lemon juice and zest, garlic, onion, breadcrumbs, eggs, mayo and shredded Parmesan. Quick and delicious tuna cakes for lunch or light dinner!
I am all about easy lunches and light dinners but only if they have lots of flavor. The garlic lemon combo is definitely one of my favorites to use. My Creamy Lemon Garlic Chicken is so delicious, I wanted to make another dish with this flavor pair. I know it works great with vegetables, like my Lemon Garlic Roasted Potatoes. This time, I added it to my best easy tuna cakes. They were a huge hit! Best tuna cakes I've ever made!
These Lemon Garlic Tuna Cakes can be made ahead of time or even frozen after frying. They are a great option for a delicious lunch or a light dinner. Serve with tartar sauce, simple aioli or in a sandwich. The combination of garlic and lemon gives these tuna cakes plenty of flavor. Coating lightly in breading before frying makes them moist inside and crispy on the outside.


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Hens guard Holden, seeking higher level, to transfer
Delaware's best basketball player, sophomore guard Kory Holden, has decided to transfer.
Hens guard Holden, seeking higher level, to transfer Delaware's best basketball player, sophomore guard Kory Holden, has decided to transfer. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://delonline.us/1pjQpVi
Kevin Tresolini, The News Journal Published 4:01 p.m. ET March 14, 2016 | Updated 10:40 a.m. ET March 15, 2016
Losing had also soured Holden on staying at Delaware.
Delaware guard Kory Holden(Photo: WILLIAM BRETZGER/THE NEWS JOURNAL)Buy Photo
NEWARK - The University of Delaware, coming off back-to-back 20-loss seasons, now will lose its best basketball player.
Explaining that "I genuinely wasn't happy here," Kory Holden said on Monday that he will transfer.
The 6-foot-2 combo guard from Salisbury, Maryland, and James M. Bennett High was a second-team All-Colonial Athletic Association pick as a sophomore in 2015-16 after making the All-Rookie team as a freshman.
Holden's 892 career points were more than any other Delaware player scored in his first two years except Jawan Carter and Devon Saddler, who each surpassed 1,000.
Blue Hens coach Monte Ross said Holden's motivation was rooted in a desire to play at a higher level, and few would doubt he is capable.
Delaware guard Kory Holden (Photo: DANIEL SATO/THE NEWS JOURNAL)
Holden scored 30 points in Delaware's season-ending 67-63 loss to Charleston in the CAA Tournament March 4 in Baltimore. It was his third highest output of the season, topped by a career-high 35 at Boston College.
Ross would not comment further, other than saying he believes the Blue Hens will be fine moving forward with what they have and through recruiting additional players.
"I believe coach Ross is a great coach and a great recruiter and Delaware has good guys who'll do what it takes to get back to winning a championship," said Holden. "The pieces are definitely there."
But Holden was the most important piece, and he said Delaware's struggles the last two years "definitely had a role" in his decision.
Delaware went 7-23, including just 2-16 in the CAA, during the just-concluded season, when its roster was depleted by injuries. The Hens were 10-20 overall but an encouraging 9-9 in the CAA the year before.
Delaware guard Kory Holden (Photo: WILLIAM BRETZGER/THE NEWS JOURNAL)
Marcus Helton, editor of the Washington, D.C.-area basketball website DMVElite.com, first reported Holden's departure.
This season, Holden finished third in the CAA in scoring (17.7 ppg), fourth in 3-point shooting (38.8 percent), fourth in assists (4.2 per game) and eighth in free-throw shooting (79.5 percent).
He also set a school record by making all 15 free-throw attempts in Delaware's 101-97 overtime loss at Towson Jan. 30.
Holden said Monday that "my phone has been blowing up" and he didn't have time to check all his messages. He doesn't have an ideal school or league as a potential landing spot yet. There was speculation last year that representatives from major-conference schools had reached out to Holden when it appeared Ross may not be retained as coach.
Former Drexel standout Damion Lee found success after using his final season of eligibility this year at Louisville, which he led in scoring. But the CAA also had an NBA draft pick last year when William & Mary guard Marcus Thornton went 45th overall to the Boston Celtics.
"I just want to explore different opportunities and felt this was the best thing for me and my family," Holden said. "I'm grateful for the relationships and opportunities I had. I've grown up a lot the past two years.
"I just want to go to a better situation. Obviously, I have a lot of work to do and need to continue to get a lot better."
Contact Kevin Tresolini at ktresolini@delawareonline.com. Follow on Twitter @kevintresolini.
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1. Today for breakfast I ate a strawberry scone, I got the recipe from www.skinnytaste.com.
2. My go to/never fail recipe according to my husband...peanut butter balls. We eat totally different and he hates my health food. I always love my veggie soup or turkey sausage spaghetti .
3. Something I eat that other people think is weird is cucumbers with vinegar, soy sauce, splenda, salt, and cayenne pepper doesn't go ever well with Jeremy .
4. My worst cooking disaster ever was a Rachel Ray recipe for some asian soup. It was so nasty that I took two bites and threw the whole pot of soup out .
5. If I could only eat one flavor of ice cream the rest of my life it would be Cookies n' Cream. But if the question was frozen yogart I would say Menchies Vanilla .
6. One food I hate and avoid at all costs is country fried anything, collard greens, I run from anything country .
7. What is your favorite meal? Breakfast, lunch, or dinner? Breakfast if Nanny or Pop are cooking. I loved staying with them and waking up to Pop cooking breakfast. It has to be a really unhealthy one though. If I am going healthy, as usual, I'd say lunch .


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"The musical numbers are full of drama and at times great sadness"
A YOUNGER THEATRE
Darren is a New Zealand born composer and lyricist working in the theatre in the UK. Since beginning his professional career in 2012, he has been commissioned to write music and lyrics for several national touring shows and his work has been heard in productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company, in London's West End, Off West End, Off-Broadway and the Royal National Theatre amongst many others.
Following his days as an Otago University student in NZ performing in countless musicals and plays, Darren left NZ for the UK to pursue a career as a songwriter in London town. Following several years on the singer/songwriter circuit and with his band Columbus Giant, Darren began to write music & lyrics for the theatre.
He is the inaugural recipient of the Music Theatre International Stiles & Drewe Mentorship Award and his songs have appeared as finalist in the Stiles & Drewe Best New Song Competition on three separate occasions, winning runner-up in 2015. He has been a finalist in the Iris Theatre XMas Factor Awards for the past three years, winning the Iris Theatre Panel Award in 2014, The Audience Runner Up Prize in 2015 and The Audience Award in 2016. His musicals have been licensed in the USA and Australia, his work was selected for the national BEAM Showcase in London. His most recent musical The Wicker Husband has been selected to be presented at the most prestigious musical theatre festival in the world, NAMT in New York. His work is regularly performed by Olivier Award winners and nominees in London's cabaret circuit.
Darren is a member of the BML Advanced Songwriting Workshop, a weekly development workshop. He is also a member of the MMD Advanced Composer & Lyricist Lab where he continues to learn his craft.
As a teacher and workshop leader Darren has taught at some of the world's leading drama schools including The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, The Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance.
He is a founding member of Paper Balloon Theatre Company, dedicated to making original theatre for, with and by young audiences. Paper Balloon have now created several shows including Night Light at the Camden Fringe, a UK tour of The Grumpiest Boy in the World by Finegan Kruckemeyer, the utterly bonkers Christmas show Once Upon a Snowflake with the Moscow Puppet Theatre and most recently the original shanty story The Boy and the Mermaid.
Darren is passionate about being part of an ethnically and culturally diverse theatrical future and aims to reflect this in the making of all his theatrical projects.


The platyrrhine primates, or New World monkeys, are immigrant mammals whose fossil record comes from Tertiary and Quaternary sediments of South America and the Caribbean Greater Antilles. The time and place of platyrrhine origins are some of the most controversial issues in primate palaeontology, although an African Palaeogene ancestry has been presumed by most primatologist. Until now, the oldest fossil records of New World monkeys have come from Salla, Bolivia, and date to approximately 26 million years ago, or the Late Oligocene epoch. Here we report the discovery of new primates from the ?Late Eocene epoch of Amazonian Peru, which extends the fossil record of primates in South America back approximately 10 million years. The new specimens are important for understanding the origin and early evolution of modern platyrrhine primates because they bear little resemblance to any extinct or living South American primate, but they do bear striking resemblances to Eocene African anthropoids, and our phylogenetic analysis suggests a relationship with African taxa. The discovery of these new primates brings the first appearance datum of caviomorph rodents and primates in South America back into close correspondence, but raises new questions about the timing and means of arrival of these two mammalian groups.
South America's oldest known monkey, Perupithecus ucayaliensis; it was about the size of a squirrel, but with a longer tail, and probably weighed less than 250 grams.


Today is the day of rejoice, today I will shout to the Lord, shout where ever I have to, for my Lord asked me to do something and have faith in him, I thought I was trying to break a rock with my work for it is impossible but I forgot that my Lord has created that rock. And I forgot that for it is impossible for me, but with faith is Jesus Christ it is possible, and my dear friends it has been made possible.
I would also want to thank all of you who prayed for me, my friends out here, my readers followers, my parish priest, others priests who have helped me, that unknown boy who's smile gave me peace, and I also want to thank Kenneth Copeland Ministries I saw two of his videos today, as God directed me.
And showed me the mission which God has given me, again, which calmed my fear and made me believe that my God is greater than my fear, my God is greater than anything on heaven and earth.
Greater than all suffering, and of course greater than the one who troubles me!
So I would tell you now what happened, yesterday, we had a family argument, my mom and dad was fighting all over, and I heard this message I don't know how it came in my mind, that "Stand up for the weak" and I thought its a great opportunity to protect my dad, and say something to my mom to shut her up, and I closed my self to God and all I wanted to do was to go back to my old self, and do the women hating talk. And bang, that matter got so escalated that my mom was so angry that she left the house some time later, and I did not know where she went. Later I came to know that she went to our other house, and stayed there for the night.
However I went to the Church, I was just devastated, thinking that I won't ever return to my house. Many priests where there and God helped me through them, and made me go home, I also had the privilege to take part in an Eucharistic Banquet.
However as the time came nearer of my mom's return I was afraid, and was going more and more afraid, so I thought that KCM helped me before to make me understand that Catholics and all those who proclaim that Jesus Christ is the Lord, irrespective of the definition are my brothers and sisters. So I believed in God's words, and as he was guiding me I watched THIS VIDEO , which literally my life changed, it paused my heart, it made me feel that the power of God that raised Christ from death, is in me. And all the sins and hurts that are done against me, well their punishment has been paid by Jesus on that cross, and the love which I never received is also given to me by Jesus Christ on that cross, so there is no way that I can say a person has hurt me, or will hurt me, and I will hurt him back, because for his or her sins against me, Christ died, and for my sins against him or her Christ died, and has loved both of us, equally.
Dear friends, I learned a few things from this video which I'm listing below for which I give God the entire credit, and I give Kenneth and his Ministry too the share of His Glory, for sharing with me His Story.
If you consider yourself to be faithful, or religious then ask yourselves these and comment below this post.
Do you have faith in God on what he did for you on the cross more than what Adam did for you? If you have faith is God, you will have peace, otherwise you will live in fear.
Do you say what God says to you, or you add to it? If you do that then you will never get the results which God has desired.
Do you know that FEAR is an acronym which stands for False Evidence Appearing Real? Well I came to know now!
Do you know the when we speak out of FEAR we activate the evil forces to have control in our lives, and when we speak in FAITH we activate the blessings and God's grace to have control in our lives. I came to know this new thing too!
Do you know that with man there is limitation, but God is unlimited. Yes but sometimes I fail to believe in this amazing grace.
Do you know how to hate the Satan? One can do that by not listening to his words.
Lastly do you know what is Grace? Grace is that that you are not dead yet, that you are reading this post, that I saw this video in my need. That is grace.
Come now let us Give thanks to the Lord.
My Lord My God, you know the future, you know everything, let your joy come in us, let you be in us, and let your spirit move us, let you lead us, for there is none great leader than you, my Lord. Amen.
May the Kingdom of God come on earth.
Wonderful to read that, and to hear how He led you through yesterday. He is ever faithful 🙂 May you have an especially blessed day, dear brother.


나무는 땅으로 뿌리를 내리고 사람은 가슴으로 꿈을 키운다! 생각의 시작 국제고등학교!
팝업 스크롤이 작동하지 않을 수 있습니다.
[04/08] 소프라노 최정원 초청 콘서..
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the LORD Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father t..


I don't usually have much to say when celebrities die. I think it's sociologically interesting how pop culture celebrates their "martyrs," these actors, comedians, and musicians who we allow to enter our lives without ever knowing who they really are (let alone they knowing who we are).
I know nothing about any depression or addiction or darkness that plagued Chester at the time of his death, so I can't and won't comment there. I know that in his early life he did consume a plethora of drugs and was haunted by sexual abuse from his childhood. His lyrics often echoed the spirit of a man who had "been there, done that;" his angst came from somewhere deep.
Now I wasn't necessarily a depressed, emo teenager. But my melancholic temperament and artistic side relished in the lyrics and instrumentation that Linkin Park brought to an overly poppy decade of music. Thankfully my mom wasn't too concerned with me blasting their screamo music, and they're still on my gym playlist today.
Fast forward to my first year of the seminary when my uncle committed suicide on the eve of Palm Sunday. My uncle—a musician himself and always the life of the party—hid a very crippling depression and abuse of alcohol from us all. I will never forget that night when my parents found him and my vocation director, who had just returned from a European flight, came over immediately despite his exhaustion. He was the priestly presence of Christ in the midst of that agony we all experienced. Family gatherings like Thanksgiving have never been the same.
Suicide has rippling effects that impact people far beyond the person making the decision. The national conversation continues thanks to programs like 13 Reasons Why on Netflix of the film Me Before You. The problem is that a culture that simultaneously tries to combat suicide but celebrates euthanasia can't coherently give us a reason why life is actually worth living. Devoid of a meaningful discussion of our higher purpose or an intentionality to the universe or a personal Creator, we are all just random cells in a universe of chaos; why stay here any longer? Why suffer if you don't need to? Why do you stay?
Thankfully God is bigger than our darkness and doubt. His artistic brushstrokes are in every inch of nature and the cosmos, and, scandalously, this Artist decided to enter his canvas in such a unique and personal way through Jesus Christ that the entire recorded history changed around him. Death itself had no final power over this living God. It's our task now to spread this "good news" for each new generation. Looking back one generation, we can learn much from one particular great communicator for the Lord: the Venerable Fulton Sheen.
Fulton Sheen was a teacher, a parish priest, bishop, and a masterful evangelizer of the American airwaves. He had a radio show for over twenty years and then a successful television program, (nationally aired on ABC), called "Life is Worth Living." Sheen covered a host of cultural, moral, and religious topics on what is believed to be the most widely watched religious series in the history of television. His writings, books, recordings, and videos still inspire myself and countless others today. His fundamental message was simple: God is real and he loves you.
I think one of the fundamental messages our youth (and truly, everyone today) needs to hear and interiorize is simply the name of Sheen's series: your life is worth living. How easy it is to float from day to day, purchase to purchase, commute to commute, never stopping to wonder and awe in your creation. How quickly we forget the amazing moments of experiencing God's love on a retreat or mission trip, falling back into our own self-absorption and sloth. To lose sight of the divine footprints is a constant struggle on this side of heaven, but not an impossible one. To lose sight of God completely will result in being consumed by materialism, secularism, and eventually nihilism. We must keep the presence of God ever before us.
The darknesses of both our world and within our very selves can distort our comprehension of our self-worth and cloud our decision-making. We don't know the limits of God's mercy, especially upon those oppressed by addiction or depression. Christ walked into death itself to drill it into us that God himself will not abandon us, no matter the cost.
If you are a believing Christian, you can't leave evangelization to "professionals" like Fulton Sheen or Bishop Robert Barron. You have a network and a reach that God has particularly given YOU and only you; who in your circle needs a kind smile, a listening ear, and the words that God loves them?
If you are suffering, reach out. Talk to family, friend, a counselor, a priest, anyone. Pray earnestly for God's light to break through what you are experiencing.
If life is worth living, then you need to be here.
If you think you or a friend is struggling with suicidal thoughts, ask for help from someone you can trust and/or call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (available 24 hours every day).
Great reflection, Bobby. I had a very similar "relationship" and reaction to the recent death of Bennington's friend, Chris Cornell. Certain artists resonate with us. I posted my thoughts at the time (more personal than theological: https://archangelstomp.com/2017/05/18/lost-howls-of-youth/) and a friend shared this reflection, on Cornell's apparent conversion to the Orthodox faith and on the need for God's mercy in the face of suicide: https://progarchy.com/2017/05/20/seasons-jimi-hendrix-and-the-virgin-jammin-in-the-kingdom-with-chris-cornell/. We've had suicides in our family, as well, and I certainly pray for God's mercy and peace for those who take their own lives and for their loved ones.
Thank you Bobby for your reflection. I too share the same feelings toward Linkin Park's music and Chester. The death definitely shook me for a bit and I have been praying for his soul and his family also. The saddest part for me is that listening to their music in my teen years provided me with so much comfort and I felt that the amazing voice of Chester someone understood my feelings. I thought that he had overcome these things but listening back to the songs he was still suffering. Thinking about that breaks my heart and makes me want to cry. I also feel that Chester wants us to have more of a conversation about mental health and for his music to live on. Linkin Park's music is timeless. I'm glad its still a part of your life. I also enjoyed "life is worth living" part of your post because as hard as it may be the Lord is with you to help you conquer through the trials.


The estuary has become part of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway network of wetland areas along the route of migrating water bird.
Every September, tens-of thousands of godwits make the trip from Alaska to Christchurch for the non-breeding season.
There are more than 100 other wetlands from 20 countries that make up the flyway network, which started in 2006.
Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage said the estuary had a vital role in supporting migratory waders and shorebirds.
"Its new status emphasises the need to protect this habitat as a safe haven for bar-tailed godwits, lesser knots/huahou, and other shorebirds such as the endemic South Island pied oystercatcher/torea," she said.
The recognition came at an important time for the godwit population, Ms Sage said.
Habitat loss in the Yellow Sea Region meant bar-tailed godwits were declining at a rate of 2 percent a year, she said.
"They need these special estuarine habitats to feed and sustain themselves ...open ocean is no good to them - they can't feed there," she added.
The Avon-Heathcote Ihutai Estuary is the third in the country to join the flyway network.
The other New Zealand areas in the network are the Firth of Thames in the North Island and Awarua Bay Estuary down South.


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Slough Estates USA (subsidiary of Slough Estates plc)
Health Care Property Investors
Provided oversight of the process and an informal second opinion to the senior management of Slough Estates plc
Ladbrokes Plc
Acted as Joint Financial Adviser to Ladbrokes plc, a leading UK based betting and gaming company, on its rights issue
Minerva plc
KiFin Limited
Advised Minerva plc, a UK real estate development company, on its successful defence following an unsolicited offer from KiFin Limited, a company that makes investments for the benefit of Mr Nathan Kirsh
Camelot Group plc
Ontario Teachers' Pensions Plan
Advised the shareholders of Camelot – Cadbury, De La Rue, Fujitsu, Royal Mail and Thales – on the sale of their shareholdings in Camelot, the operator of the UK National Lottery, to Ontario Teachers' Pensions Plan
Centrebet International Limited
Sportingbet plc
Advised Centrebet International, a leading International online wagering and gaming operator on the recommended cash offer by Sportingbet plc
Jupiter Properties (owned by AREA Property Partners and Delancey Real Estate Asset Mgmt)
Advised Minerva plc, a property investment and development company, on a recommended offer from a consortium consisting of AREA Property Partners and Delancey Real Estate Asset Management
Advised The Miller Group, the UK's largest private homebuilder, on the recapitalization of its balance sheet comprising a substantial new equity capital raising and a significant debt for equity swap
Residential property portfolio of Grainger plc
Clifden Holdings Limited
Advised Grainger plc on the sale of a portfolio of 1,203 residential home reversion properties located across the UK to Clifden Holdings Limited
Gala Coral Limited
Advised Ladbrokes plc, a leading UK betting and gaming company, on the recommended all-share merger with certain businesses of Gala Coral Limited, including Coral Retail, Eurobet Retail and Gala Coral Online
Ladbrokes Coral Group PLC
GVC Holdings PLC
Advised Ladbrokes Coral Group PLC, a leading multi-channel sports betting and gaming company, on a recommended offer from GVC Holdings PLC, a multi-national online sports betting and gaming company


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namespace Examples\Pages\Model\Page;
use PDO;
use SBGallery\Model\Gallery;
use SBGallery\Model\GalleryPermissionChecker;
use SBGallery\Model\Page\GalleryPage;
use Examples\Pages\Model\MyGallery;
use Examples\Pages\Model\MyGalleryPermissionChecker;

class MyGalleryPage extends GalleryPage
{
	private $dbh;

	public function __construct(PDO $dbh)
	{
		parent::__construct("Gallery", array(), "Pages", "gallery.php", "contents", array("gallery.css"));
		$this->dbh = $dbh;
	}

	public function constructGallery(): Gallery
	{
		return new MyGallery($this->dbh);
	}

	public function constructGalleryPermissionChecker(): GalleryPermissionChecker
	{
		return new MyGalleryPermissionChecker();
	}
}
?>

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