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The pupils of Sainte Croix des Neiges come from France and some twenty other countries around the world: Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Cameroon and Mexico, etc. This international representation benefits all our youngsters who are enriched by the differences each individual brings.
Newcomers from abroad are made to feel welcome and quickly adapt, through life as boarders, integration in the classroom and extra French classes (FLE, French as a Foreign Language). They can study in France for one or more years and learn about French culture.
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Our French students also benefit from this international diversity and recognise the opportunity to develop a network beyond our national borders.
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"I think the game is pretty near up." George Washington at the Precipice
Posted on August 31, 2021 by Mark Maloy
In another installment of #TrentonTuesday, we look at the desperate situation George Washington found himself at in December of 1776. With the Delaware River serving as a barrier between his army and the British and Hessians, Washington was hoping to stave off the entire dissolution of the army. He had already seen his army melt away from over 23,000 to just about 5,000 soldiers due to battle casualties, disease, and desertion. By January 1, 1777, the enlistments of many of those remaining soldiers would be up, and he would lose the basic core of his army. Washington wrote on December 18 to his brother John Washington about how his army had "less than 3,000 men fit for duty owing to the dissolution of our force by short enlistments—the enemies numbers by the best accounts exceeding ten, and by others 12,000 men." He added that "between you and me I think our affairs are in a very bad way."
Washington deep in thought by a fireplace. (NYPL)
He needed to recruit more soldiers. In the same letter to his brother, Washington wrote that "In a word my dear Sir, if every nerve is not strained to recruit the new army with all possible expedition I think the game is pretty near up." Here was the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army writing that war was nearly lost.
Washington even feared for his personal safety and that of his home Mount Vernon in Virginia. In a letter to his cousin and caretaker at Mount Vernon, Lund Washington, he wrote directions to begin evacuating things at his home. Washington wrote on December 17: "I would look forward to unfavorable events, and prepare accordingly in such a manner however as to give no alarm or suspicion to any one; as one step towards it, have my papers in such a situation as to remove at a short notice in case an enemy's fleet should come up the River—When they are removed let them go immediately to my brother's in Berkeley [present day West Virginia]."
Washington was far from the only one to have such a dismal view of the American situation. Congress itself seemed to think the cause of independence a lost one. The Continental Congress fled the city of Philadelphia to Baltimore, and Philadelphia was placed under martial law. As Congress packed its bags on December 12, it gave Washington "full power to order and direct all things relative to the department and the operations of war." Later that month it gave him power to recruit an entirely new army as well.
Washington's letter to his brother with the words "I think the game is pretty near up" highlighted. (Library of Congress)
Washington now had an unprecedented amount of power—too much power in the minds of many patriots, who believed the very reason they were fighting the war was to liberate themselves from the tyranny of an authoritarian monarch. Washington, though, understanding this, was careful wielding this heavy power. Washington could have used this power to recruit an army loyal to Washington himself and could have used it to his own ends. Instead, he acted with the nation and its liberties in mind. Washington, intently aware of the dangers of this power, informed Congress "instead of thinking myself free from all civil obligations by this mark of their confidence, I shall constantly bear in mind that as the sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established." The future of the nation, though, was now inexorably linked to Washington and his actions for better or for worse.
Despite his anxiety, Washington still saw hope for the country, supported by his belief in the cause. He wrote his brother: "You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation. No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties and less means to extricate himself from them. However under a full persuasion of the justice of our Cause I cannot entertain an idea that it will finally sink though it may remain for some time under a cloud."
This November, join Emerging Revolutionary War for our bus tour as we go to see the spots where Washington felt this immense pressure and where he ultimately made some of the boldest moves of the war that changed the course of American history.
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A Grim Border Drowning Underlines The Peril Facing Many Migrants
By Peter Orsi & Amy Guthrie & The Associated Press • Jun 26, 2019
The Rio Grande River as seen from Brownsville, Texas as it passes under the Gateway International Bridge between the border cities of Brownsville and Matamoros, Mexico.
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The man and his 23-month-old daughter lay face down in shallow water along the bank of the Rio Grande, his black shirt hiked up to his chest with the girl tucked inside. Her arm was draped around his neck suggesting she clung to him in her final moments.
The searing photograph of the sad discovery of their bodies on Monday, captured by journalist Julia Le Duc and published by Mexican newspaper La Jornada, highlights the perils faced by mostly Central American migrants fleeing violence and poverty and hoping for asylum in the United States.
According to Le Duc's reporting for La Jornada, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, frustrated because the family from El Salvador was unable to present themselves to U.S. authorities and request asylum, swam across the river on Sunday with his daughter, Valeria.
He set her on the U.S. bank of the river and started back for his wife, Tania Vanessa Ávalos, but seeing him move away the girl threw herself into the waters. Martínez returned and was able to grab Valeria, but the current swept them both away.
The account was based on remarks by Ávalos to police at the scene — "amid tears" and "screams" — Le Duc told The Associated Press.
Details of the incident were confirmed Tuesday by a Tamaulipas state government official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, and by Martínez's mother back in El Salvador, Rosa Ramírez, who spoke with her daughter-in-law by phone afterward.
"When the girl jumped in is when he tried to reach her, but when he tried to grab the girl, he went in further ... and he couldn't get out," Ramírez told the AP. "He put her in his shirt, and I imagine he told himself, 'I've come this far' and decided to go with her."
From the scorching Sonoran Desert to the fast-moving Rio Grande, the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border has long been an at times deadly crossing between ports of entry. A total of 283 migrant deaths were recorded last year; the toll so far this year has not been released.
In recent weeks alone, two babies, a toddler and a woman were found dead in the sweltering heat. Three children and an adult from Honduras died in April after their raft capsized on the Rio Grande, and a 6-year-old from India was found dead earlier this month in Arizona, where temperatures routinely soar well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
The search for Martínez and his daughter was suspended Sunday due to darkness, and their bodies were discovered the next morning near Matamoros, Mexico, across from Brownsville, Texas, several hundred yards from where they had tried to cross and just a half-mile from an international bridge.
Tamaulipas immigration and civil defense officials have toured shelters beginning weeks ago to warn against attempting to cross the river, said to be swollen with water released from dams for irrigation. On the surface, the Rio Grande appears placid, but strong currents run beneath.
Ramírez said her son and his family left El Salvador on April 3 and spent about two months at a shelter in Tapachula, near Mexico's border with Guatemala.
"I begged them not to go, but he wanted to scrape together money to build a home," Ramírez said. "They hoped to be there a few years and save up for the house."
El Salvador's foreign ministry said it was working to assist the family, including Ávalos, who was at a border migrant shelter following the drownings. The bodies were expected to be flown to El Salvador on Thursday.
The photo recalls the 2015 image of a 3-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Mediterranean near Turkey, though it remains to be seen whether it may have the same impact in focusing international attention on migration to the U.S.
"Very regrettable that this would happen," Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Tuesday in response to a question about the photograph. "We have always denounced that as there is more rejection in the United States, there are people who lose their lives in the desert or crossing" the river.
There was no immediate comment from the White House.
U.S. "metering" policy has dramatically reduced the number of migrants who are allowed to request asylum, down from dozens per day previously to sometimes just a handful at some ports of entry.
The Tamaulipas government official said the family arrived in Matamoros early Sunday and went to the U.S. Consulate to try to get a date to request asylum. The mother is 21 years old and the father was 25, he added.
But waits are long there as elsewhere along the border. Last week, a shelter director said only about 40 to 45 asylum interviews were being conducted in Matamoros each week, while somewhere in the neighborhood of 800-1,700 names were on a waiting list.
It's not clear what happened to the family at the U.S. Consulate, but later in the day they made the decision to cross. The Tamaulipas official said the father and daughter set off from a small park that abuts the river. Civil defense officials arrived at the scene at 7 p.m. Sunday and later took the wife to the shelter.
"I was drawn to the girl's arm on her father," Le Duc said as she described arriving at the scene. "It was something that moved me in the extreme because it reflects that until her last breath, she was joined to him not only by the shirt but also in that embrace in which they passed together into death."
"It's a horrifying image," Maureen Meyer, a specialist on immigration at the Washington Office on Latin America, which advocates for human rights in the region, said of the photograph. "And I think it speaks so clearly to the real risks of these U.S. programs that are either returning people back to Mexico seeking asylum or in this case limiting how many people can enter the U.S. every day."
The United States has also been expanding its program under which asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their claims are processed in U.S. courts, a wait that could last many months or even years.
This week Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas, the same state where Matamoros is located, said it will become the latest city to receive returnees as soon as Friday.
Many migrant shelters are overflowing on the Mexican side, and cartels hold sway over much of Tamaulipas and have been known to kidnap and kill migrants.
Meanwhile, Mexico is stepping up its own crackdown on immigration in response to U.S. pressure, with much of the focus on slowing the flow in the country's south.
"With greater crackdowns and restrictions," said Cris Ramón, senior immigration policy analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank in Washington, "we could see more desperate measures by people trying to enter Mexico or the U.S."
Associated Press writers Marcos Alemán in San Salvador, El Salvador, and Alfredo Peña in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, contributed to this report.
House Passes $4.5B Border Aid Bill Amid Mounting Concern For Detained Migrant Children
By Adam Willis • Jun 25, 2019
WASHINGTON — As reports of migrant children being held in squalid conditions at federal facilities near the border continue to draw outrage, Democrats successfully pushed a $4.5 billion humanitarian aid package through the U.S. House late Tuesday evening with a vote of 230 to 195.
U.S. Government Moves Migrant Children After Poor Conditions Are Exposed
By Martha Mendoza and Garance Burke & The Associated Press • Jun 24, 2019
The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.
U.S. Border Patrol Finds 4 Bodies, Including 3 Children, Near Rio Grande In Texas
By Reynaldo Leaños Jr., Texas Public Radio • Jun 24, 2019
U.S. Border Patrol agents have located four bodies by the Rio Grande in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, near the U.S. border with Mexico. Three of the deceased were children — one toddler and two infants — and the other was a 20-year-old woman.
"It's an incredibly heartbreaking situation, which seems to happen far too often," said Special Agent in Charge Michelle Lee of the San Antonio FBI office.
Trump Delays Immigration Raids, Giving Democrats 'Two Weeks' To Change Asylum Laws
By Franco Ordoñez & Bobby Allyn • Jun 22, 2019
Updated at 7:25 p.m. ET
President Trump is delaying immigration raids that were set to begin this weekend, saying he will give Congress two weeks to make changes to asylum law before dispatching Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents around the country to deport undocumented immigrants.
Immigration rights advocates had been preparing for the planned sweep of recently arrived migrants, which, according to sources familiar with the planned raids, were set to begin as soon as Sunday in 10 cities around the country.
Texas Will Deploy 1,000 National Guard Troops To The Border During Migrant Surge
By Cassandra Pollock, The Texas Tribune • Jun 21, 2019
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Gov. Greg Abbott announced Friday that the state will deploy 1,000 troops from the Texas National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to aid the federal government with border security efforts.


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SEOUL : South Korea's Hyundai Motor said on Tuesday it has signed a preliminary deal to build a new factory in Indonesia, which would be its first car plant in Southeast Asia and a crack at Japanese rivals that dominate the market.
The deal comes as Hyundai and affiliate Kia Motors struggle with a prolonged sales downturn in China, where they suspended two factories this year.
Hyundai Motor said it will invest about $1.55 billion in the Indonesia auto manufacturing plant from now until 2030, including product development and operation costs.
The facility, to be built in the city of Bekasi, east of Jakarta, will start production in late 2021, with an annual capacity of 150,000 vehicles and a plan to grow that to 250,000 vehicles a year, Hyundai said.
Hyundai plans to make small sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and multi-purpose vehicles (MPVs), while electric vehicles (EVs) tailored to Southeast Asian market are under consideration.
Hyundai said it is building the production facilities to avoid import tariffs ranging from 5% to 80% in the ASEAN region. The plant will cater to Indonesia, the region's largest automobile market, and other countries belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), it said.
The plant will allow the automaker to secure future growth to help it "combat slowing demand in the global automotive market", Hyundai said in its statement.
The deal was signed at an event attended by Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Hyundai Motor Executive Vice Chairman Euisun Chung. Widodo is in South Korea for a meeting of ASEAN leaders hosted by South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
Moon has been pushing a "New Southern Policy" aiming to deepen ties with Southeast Asia as Seoul seeks to curb its reliance on traditional trading partners like China and the United States.
Hyundai is far behind Japanese rivals in Southeast Asia, with its sales reaching 122,883 vehicles versus Toyota's 854,032 from January to September this year, according to research firm LMC Automotive.
LMC Automotive forecast a 4% year-on-year decline in total vehicle sales in the ASEAN region in the fourth quarter, partly because the slowdowns in the Thai and Indonesian economies show no signs of abating.
Hyundai said key ASEAN countries including Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore are expected to see combined vehicle sales grow to 4.49 million units in 2026, from 3.16 million in 2017.
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If you've ever had a dog with an ear infection, you know what they look like: dogs with ear infections shake their heads and flinch or cry when you try to touch their ears; they generally become red, inflamed, and emit a very unpleasant smell. It's not difficult to imagine how uncomfortable a dog finds an infected ear — and he can't tell you about it. However, you can prevent these common infections.
Part of keeping your dog healthy is keeping his or her ears clean. We don't think about it, but we should be monitoring and maintaining the ears throughout the dog's life, which not only prevents ear infections, but also a variety of ailments that can affect a dog's ear.
Dog anatomy is a bit different from our own, and it's very easy for a dog to get an ear infection. If your dog has allergies she may be particularly vulnerable to ear infections. If your dog is a cocker spaniel, a setter, a golden retriever, or any other dog with ears that flop down (see below-left), she's also more prone. Dogs with upright, or prick, ears (see below-right) are far less prone to ear infections. This is because many ear infections are caused by water, dirt, and earwax becoming trapped within the ear; dogs with drop ears have little, if any, air circulation to help keep the ear dry and clean.
Fortunately, you can stop ear infections with regular ear checks that are part of a regular grooming routine. Check your dog's ears at least once a week. If you become familiar with how healthy ears look then you will be able to quickly notice an infection or irritation. At the very least, you can clean the inner ear with a cotton ball dampened with mineral oil, hydrogen peroxide, or one of the ear cleaners you can buy in a pet store. You must be careful not to put anything else into the dog's ear canal, like a Q-Tip, no matter how tempting that may be. It could cause the dog real problems.
floppy ear. But too much care is just as dangerous as too little, and plucking ear hair where it is not needed, or plucking too often, can also cause infection or irritation to the ear.
Water dogs who like to swim a lot can get ear infections from simply getting their ears wet too often. If you let your dog swim, be sure to dry her ears and give them a good cleaning after he finishes. If you have a retriever or any other dog that gets a lot of ear infections (and many do), there are also ear drying solutions that help dry out any water that may have been trapped in the ear canals.
ears, we have a spa package that includes ear cleaning and if your dog is here for daycare, feel free to request an ear cleaning during their next play day with us.


In May 2018, Continental updated its Debt Issuance Programme (DIP). This framework programme enables Continental to flexibly place medium term and long term bonds on the capital market.
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Using opioids to treat chronic pain doesn't work — and it can make the pain worse. Dr. Bill Rawls explains why, plus shares safer, natural solutions for easing chronic pain such as CBD (cannabidiol from hemp).
Hello everyone. This is Dr. Bill Rawls with an opinion on the opioid crisis. I think everybody's aware that we've got an opioid problem going on in the United States, Europe, and really worldwide.
Opioids are the same as narcotics. On the street, that's heroin. In the hospital, it's morphine injections. In doctors' offices, it's drugs like Percocet, an orally stable form of the narcotic that's typically mixed with Tylenol or aspirin.
These drugs are really excellent for acute pain, for acute trauma, for use in the operating room and post-operative pain — in these cases they're really essential. But opioids are really terrible for chronic pain, and that's what they're being used very widely for. Percocet prescriptions are very widespread across the country in primary care offices. They have been for 30 years. They just don't work for chronic pain.
The problem is in the way that these drugs work. Any time you have a drug that has an effect like pain relief or anxiety relief, it's typically hitting the receptors of some other chemical messenger in the body. In this case, it's endorphins.
We all hear about endorphins. That's what you get with a runner's high. It's what our body produces to keep us from being a bundle of pain all the time. If we didn't have endorphins, we wouldn't be able to get up out of the chair. We would hurt so badly. Endorphins just keep down that normal level of pain with movement.
Narcotics, morphine, heroin, all of these drugs basically act the same way as endorphins in our body. If you take it acutely for several days to a week, it's okay. If you take opioids chronically, you start suppressing endorphins more, and more, and more, and more. You lower the person's pain threshold until any amount of pain is excruciating.
They really end up working against you if you use them chronically, because you suppress the endorphins so much. That's why they're habituating: If you suppress endorphins, and then you take the narcotic away, people go through withdrawal symptoms and have terrible pain. It can be really disruptive to someone's entire system.
There's good evidence that for chronic pain, for conditions like fibromyalgia, opioids in the long run make people's pain worse. That really makes sense, because if you use them on a regular chronic basis and suppress natural endorphins in the body, you need more, and more, and more of these drugs to work. Of course, you can only take so much. When somebody becomes habituated to these things, it's a real problem. They not only have chronic pain, but then they also have this habituation with the drug to deal with, and if they don't get the drug, they're in really bad shape.
It's really widespread. We see it all across the country. And once people get going, once they are habituated, they look for higher and higher doses, so they go to stronger and stronger drugs. There's a higher and higher risk of overdose. These drugs can suppress respiration.
When you start looking for solutions, you have to ask the question, why do people want these drugs in the first place, especially in such a high demand? It has to do with the fact that we have, in addition to an opioid epidemic, we've got an inflammation epidemic in our country, and worldwide for that matter. People are in inflamed. They hurt. The foods they're eating, the way they go about life, chronic stress, and all the daily things that come with modern living, cause us to have more pain than average.
We don't like to hurt so we seek out solutions, and the easiest solution is a narcotic. All it takes is one prescription for Percocet to last a month, and somebody will be habituated for a lifetime. It's really, really hard to get off these drugs. It has become a monumental problem.
When we come back around to addressing the problem, the solution isn't just taking drugs away from people and keeping doctors from prescribing these drugs. The solution is recognizing that people are in pain because of chronic inflammation. We have to change their diet; we have to address stress and other factors that drive inflammation.
Herbal therapy is really wonderful for that. And as far as looking for alternatives to narcotics, CBD (cannabidiol from hemp) and possibly different forms of medical marijuana are a much better solution because they're much less addicting. In fact, CBD has no habituating tendencies at all. It doesn't cause respiratory depressions, so you can't die from it. It will not kill you.
When we look towards solutions to this really bad epidemic problem, we've got to do more than just talk to doctors about not prescribing the drugs. We've got to, as a society, look at the problem and say, "Yes, we have a bigger problem here that people are inflamed." They're in pain and we have to reduce the inflammation and look for better solutions to the problem, rather than just the knee-jerk response of writing prescriptions for narcotics.


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The oil spill will be threatens the whole sea area; It is doubtful whether it can be towed – Navy
The Marine Environmental Protection Authority (MEPA) says that the ship that was wrecked in front of the Colombo harbour has begun to sink.
The sinking was caused by a water leak in the back of the ship. They suspect that this could cause the oil in the ship to seep into the sea and if so, a large oil slick could spread from Dickowita to Negombo.
The Navy has commenced operations to tow the wreckage to the deep sea.
However, the military spokesman said that it was very difficult to tow the ship as it was sinking in the sea.
Therefore, it is not possible to comment on whether the tow operation will be successful, he added.
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Sneaker Invaders is an homage to one of the greatest culture waves of the past century. Worldwide people go to the furthest limits (sometimes too far, guys calm down) in order to put their hands on the latest kicks. Brands contend for the hype and in most cases this is thanks to a piece of rubber, synthetic leather & credibility.
As creatives and aficionados we wanted to animate this literal invasion into the youth culture through an experience, an experience that not only celebrated the hype but also some of the greatest pieces of design ever made.
Our vision was that a great design can be recreated and recognized through 20 pixels.
Sneaker invaders is the creation of The PPW, a multi disciplinary design studio with over 10 years experience in the footwear & fashion industry working with various international brands in both product design & production; and Jacopo Pozzati, designer & retailer, creative and street culture aficionado having owned and managed some of the most influential sneaker stores in Italy like Backdoor Bottega, SOFT, La Ferramenta and current collaborations as a creative consultant with brands such as Kappa, Superga and Woolrich.
Together with the collaboration of some of the best game designer in the industry they set out to create more than a game but a literal virtual experience of the sneaker culture.


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Unfortunately, due to staff shortages, we have had to take the difficult decision to temporarily close our kitchen. While we remain fully open to serve drinks, we are working hard to address the situation, and the kitchen will reopen as soon as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Navigate through our pub, just as you would in Google Street View. Click and drag the image to look around.
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Manager: Hayley Godber Tel: 020 8578 1384 Email: [email protected]
Unfortunately, due to staff shortages, we have had to take the difficult decision to temporarily close our kitchen. While we remain fully open to serve drinks, we are working hard to address the situation, and the kitchen will reopen as soon as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.<br />


Does your home need an upgrade, but you just don't know where to start? Though roofing is our bread and butter, we at Duran's Roofing & Remodeling pride ourselves on a diversified team of craftsmen. We delight in putting our creativity together to come up with a unique solution for your unique home. Check out a the remodeling makeover we did on a local home to inspire a few ideas for your space and determine whether our team would be a good fit for your needs.
We began with the flooring. Once we pulled up the old vinyl floor, we found the floor deck in shambles. We had to replace both the old floor deck and vinyl floor with a new deck made of sturdier materials and to top it off, we added a new beautiful charcoal tile.
We also used industrial-style stainless steel counters, backsplash, and a pantry door to aid in easy upkeep and durability. Drawer pulls and cabinet knobs were matched to the look, and for contrast, a bright white porcelain double sink was added.
We were able to retain all the original cabinetry and woodwork, and we simply repainted them with a crisp white, along with the surrounding trim and baseboards. For the upper half of the walls we went with a pale grey to coordinate with the grey theme.
As you can see, we are committed to quality, creativity and functionality. We seek to achieve all of these with punctuality and courtesy. So whether you have a new kitchen design already in mind, or just want a creative team to plan the whole thing, Duran's Roofing and Remodeling will collaborate with you from start to finish with this commitment to integrity. Give us a call at 281-342-4436 or fill out our online request form for more information.


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Q: Need some clarification on how the code works (drag and drop file) I have just starting java programming for work so bear with me if this question has been answered before.
I have just got a drag and drop code to work. But i like to know some logic behind some coding:
public synchronized void drop(DropTargetDropEvent evt) {
                    try {
                        evt.acceptDrop(DnDConstants.ACTION_COPY);
                        List<File> droppedFiles = (List<File>)
                        evt.getTransferable().getTransferData(DataFlavor.javaFileListFlavor);
                        for (File file : droppedFiles) {
                            bulk.setText("Request ID File: " + file.getName());
                            //massRequestID.load(file);
                            bulkfile = file;
                        }
                    } catch (Exception ex) {
                        ex.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }

Obviously the 'evt' code lines are the portion that handles the drag and rop part. My question is, how is the "List droppedFiles" got the "drop files" from the 'evt'? there is nowhere in my code that link these 2 together.
Any explanation is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! I just don't want to 'cut and paste' blindly. :)

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Taronis Technologies Inc.
Taronis Technologies Inc. Securities Litigation
Case Status: ONGOING
On or around 10/14/2019 (Date of last review)
According to the Complaint, Taronis purportedly operates as an energy company that offers technology solutions to create, process, and produce hydrogen-based fuel through the gasification of carb-rich liquids. Taronis formerly operated under the name of MagneGas Applied Technology Solutions, Inc.
The Complaint alleges that during the Class Period, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company did not have a contract with the City of San Diego; (2) the Company or its management had engaged in a scheme to defraud; and (3) that, as a result of the foregoing, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On June 21, 2019, the case was transferred to the District of Arizona under Docket 19-CV-04529.
On July 10, the Court issued an Order appointing Lead Plaintiff and Counsel. Lead Plaintiff filed an amended Complaint on August 30.
Defendant: Taronis Technologies Inc.
Sector: Energy
Industry: Alternative Energy
Ticker Symbol: TRNX
Company Market: NASDAQ
Chad Hatten, et al. v. Taronis Technologies Inc, et al.
COURT: M.D. Florida
JUDGE: Hon. Charlene Edwards Honeywell
Tomchin & Odom, PA
Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP (New York)
1 Class Action Complaint for Violation of the Federal Securities Laws 04/15/2019
Kui Zhu, et al. v. Taronis Technologies Inc., et al.
COURT: D. Arizona
Johnson Fistel, LLP (Marietta)
40 Powder Springs Street, Johnson Fistel, LLP (Marietta), GA 30064
770.200.3104 770.200.3104 ·
270 Madison Avenue, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP (New York), NY 10016
212.545.4600 212.686.0114 · newyork@whafh.com
Reference Complaint (REF) Filings:
1 Order 07/10/2019
2 First Amended Class Action Complaint for Violations of the Federal Securities Laws 08/30/2019


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Wall-E and Eva are going to Mars, too
Deborah Byrd
NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, will be among the most avid watchers of the launch of the Insight Mars mission on Saturday, May 5. That's because InSight's rocket will also carry the world's first pair of deep-space CubeSats. As the video above explains, the CubeSats – whose mission is called Mars Cube One, or MarCO – are briefcase-sized mini-satellites. If all goes well, the NASA engineers who developed them hope they'll provide a demonstration of a new miniaturized deep-space communications technology that should be much faster than existing technologies. The engineers said this new technology could:
… change the way deep-space spacecraft phone home.
The MarCos even have nicknames. NASA engineers call them Wall-E and Eva, for Pixar characters. The MarCOs won't produce any science of their own. They're not needed to make InSight a success; the lander will rely on NASA's Mars orbiters to send back its data.
But the CubeSats – first developed to teach university students about satellites – are exciting stuff. Andy Klesh, MarCO's chief engineer at JPL, explained MarCO's purpose on the InSight mission this way:
These are our scouts. CubeSats haven't had to survive the intense radiation of a trip to deep space before, or use propulsion to point their way towards Mars. We hope to blaze that trail.
Currently, deep-space communications between Earth and another planet requires the spacecraft, and the planets, to be positioned just so. During InSight's entry, descent and landing on Mars, the lander will transmit information in the UHF radio band to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flying overhead. The orbiter will forward information to Earth using a radio frequency in the X band, but it cannot simultaneously receive information over one band while transmitting on another. That's why, for example, confirmation of a successful landing by InSight could be received by the orbiter more than an hour before it's relayed to Earth.
The MarCO's softball-sized radio provides both UHF (receive only) and X-band (receive and transmit) functions capable of immediately relaying information received over UHF. This technology will allow information to pass between Mars and Earth much faster, NASA said.
NASA said the MarCOs are intended to journey with InSight on its cruise through space; if they survive the trip, each is equipped with a folding high-gain antenna to relay data about InSight as it enters the Martian atmosphere and lands. NASA explained:
Survival is far from guaranteed. As the saying goes: space is hard. The first challenge will be switching on. The MarCO batteries were last checked in March by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems of Irvine, California, which inserted each CubeSat into a special dispenser that will propel it into space. Those batteries will be used to deploy each CubeSat's solar arrays, with the hope that enough power will be left over to turn on their radios. If power is too low, the MarCO team may hear silence until each spacecraft is more fully charged.
If both MarCOs make the journey, they'll test a method of communications relay that could act as a "black box" for future Mars landings, helping engineers understand the difficult process of getting spacecraft to safely touch down on the red planet.
That's important because, as you know if you follow space history, Mars landings are notoriously difficult.
True color image of Mars taken as ESA's Rosetta spacecraft swept past in February 2007. Image via ESA.
NASA appears to be all in for the CubeSat idea. It explained:
NASA scientists are eager to explore the solar system using CubeSats. JPL even has its own CubeSat clean room, where several flight projects have been built, including the MarCOs. For young engineers, the thrill is building something that could potentially reach Mars in just a matter of years rather than a decade.
Meet a Cube One (MarCO). NASA engineer Joel Steinkraus was using sunlight to test its solar arrays at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The twin MarCOs will go up with the Mars InSight mission. Launch window opens early May 2018. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Klesh added:
We're a small team, so everyone gets experience working on multiple parts of the spacecraft. You learn everything about building, testing and flying along the way. We're inventing every day at this point.
Artist's concept of one of the twin Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft in deep space. The 2 MarCOs will be the first CubeSats attempting to fly to another planet. If they survive the journey, they'll test a relay of data about InSight's entry, descent and landing back to Earth. Though InSight's mission will not depend on the success of the MarCOs, they will be a test of how CubeSats can be used in deep space. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Bottom line: The 2 briefcase-sized CubeSats – collectively known as MarCO, and nicknamed Wall-E and Eva – are designed to demonstrate much-faster communications between Earth and Mars. If they survive the trip, and work as expected, the communications could happen in nearly real-time (allowing some minutes for light travel time).
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Deborah Byrd created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and founded EarthSky.org in 1994. Today, she serves as Editor-in-Chief of this website. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named 3505 Byrd in her honor. A science communicator and educator since 1976, Byrd believes in science as a force for good in the world and a vital tool for the 21st century. "Being an EarthSky editor is like hosting a big global party for cool nature-lovers," she says.
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You could make a case for the Group 4 era, the era just before Group B, as being the greatest in rallying's history. Well, you could make a case for a lot of different eras being the best, but I'm thinking of writing up a history of Group 4.
It's probably easiest to just do retrospectives on individual events, but I can't seem to find any good overarching histories of the period. Might be fun to try and put one together.
If anybody's got any good links to share, or videos they adore, hit me up.


A minimal and simple timer for coffee enthusiasts to keep track of their brewing times more easily. Add events partway through the brew time, calculate water:grounds ratios, and save custom brew timers to use again later. Stark black/white contrast w/ large numbers, clear alert sounds and a green progress indicator make it easy to keep your attention on your coffee.
A super high design scheduling app using intricate pie charts to represent your daily activities. You can enter in and break each day down into its own pie chart to understand how you are spending your time. Its almost too much for me, but, had to post as the interactions and pie chart graphics are intense.
The illustrious Mr Porter now has an app to browse its entire collection online and of course shop! Simple modern and refined design presents the product and does not get in the way.
A very simple alarm-meets-calendar countdown app that enables you to enter in various important things that have deadlines or due dates. If it included 'smart' recurring events (once expired it would reset for the next interval) it would be almost perfect.
A boldly styled live infographic of the entire day's weather forecast. Detailed and well visualized hourly outlook powered by 16 different weather data sources, statistically aggregated & weighted, so you'll get the most accurate results for your specific location.
A super minimal, beautiful contact management app that combines your address book, facebook and twitter contacts into one simplified presentation view. Identifies which of your contacts are on what networks.
Its like zipcar but for revitalizing yourself while on the go in the city. For those who don't want to sit in a coffee shop, head home to take a nap, book a conference room at a coworking space. The super modern and comfortable private spaces across NYC and Montreal are easy access via the apps reservation system. An excellent modern and minimal representation of the aesthetic in the spaces themselves.
An app that helps you track, measure, and visualize any of your personal or professional activities. Super simple interaction via swipe gestures and a nice pastel color palette.
This app started in Israel and now has migrated to NYC. It connects you with independent cafes and enables you to purchase prepaid plans which give you discounted drinks at some of the city's best coffee shops. By viewing the coffee map when you first download the app you get a free cup of coffee as a reward.


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Q: Dovecot won't stop running I installed dovecot and postfix on my laptop a while back for hands-on experience.  I decided though, that one of my backup PCs would be a better testing grounds.  I removed postfix, but am unable to remove dovecot, or stop it from running.
When I try to kill the running processes associated with dovecot, they simply restart with new PIDs.  When I try to remove dovecot (which netstat shows me is behind these processes), I get a "is not installed" message from apt.
I don't know what's going on, hopefully someone can shed some light.
Thanks in advance.
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ii  dovecot-core                                1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1                                  amd64        secure POP3/IMAP server - core files
ii  dovecot-gssapi                              1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1                                  amd64        secure POP3/IMAP server - GSSAPI support
ii  dovecot-imapd                               1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1                                  amd64        secure POP3/IMAP server - IMAP daemon
ii  dovecot-ldap                                1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1                                  amd64        secure POP3/IMAP server - LDAP support
ii  dovecot-lmtpd                               1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1                                  amd64        secure POP3/IMAP server - LMTP server
ii  dovecot-managesieved                        1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1                                  amd64        secure POP3/IMAP server - ManageSieve server
ii  dovecot-mysql                               1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1                                  amd64        secure POP3/IMAP server - MySQL support
ii  dovecot-pgsql                               1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1                                  amd64        secure POP3/IMAP server - PostgreSQL support
ii  dovecot-pop3d                               1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1                                  amd64        secure POP3/IMAP server - POP3 daemon
ii  dovecot-sieve                               1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1                                  amd64        secure POP3/IMAP server - Sieve filters support
ii  dovecot-solr                                1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1                                  amd64        secure POP3/IMAP server - Solr support
ii  dovecot-sqlite                              1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1                                  amd64        secure POP3/IMAP server - SQLite support

A: To stop and disable the dovecot service run
sudo systemctl stop dovecot
sudo systemctl disable dovecot

There is no need to remove the scripts manually.
To remove dovecot
sudo apt-get purge dovecot-core
sudo apt-get autoremove dovecot-core

A: I know that there is already an accepted answer to this question, but that answer didn't fix the problem for me unfortunately. My output was:
stan@vps:~# systemctl stop dovecot
stan@vps:~# netstat -tulpn

tcp  0  0 0.0.0.0:993   0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN   7339/dovecot

The fix I found was using the command killall dovecot. This killed the process and allowed me to reinstall and reconfigure the mail server.


So agreed with you on A Heart Bet Out of Shape! Girlchild was actually one of the unsolicited novels but it has piqued my interest too, hope I can slot it in.
Can we gush over A Heart Bent Out Of Shape? I mean wow what a book! Definitely a favourite of mine! And I agree with you A Single Breath was brilliant, I finished it this week and it was fantastic!
Yes, let's gush!! It's a beautiful novel isn't it? I didn't know of Lausanne before reading this book but it's gone straight to the top 10 of places I want to visit. Same with A Single Breath actually. I've been to Tasmania before, but now I want to go back!
It is difficult having more books than you can read - I've got piles in front of my bookcase. Sometimes just giving the book a shoutout on Twitter can help?
Enjoy those you do get to read!
If I ever get a book I'm not really keen on and I didn't request it, I pass it on to another blogger to review - I try and find someone who'll likely like it.
I read Holly Martin's The Guestbook yesterday, it was so so funny.
Thanks for the tip! Most bloggers I know sadly are super busy with review copies themselves as well, but will keep this in mind for sure. Have heard nothing but great things about The Guestbook, I look forward to reading it in the not too distant future myself.
I don't usually get unsolicited books in my mail. Thank goodness. I'd give them exposure on my weekly stacking the shelves post and maybe a post on their release day too. I wouldn't feel any obligation to read them, especially if they aren't something you would have chosen. Come see my hauls at Inside of a Dog and Ms. Martin Teaches Media. Happy reading!
Oooh! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed A Heart Bent Out of Shape. It sounds really good.
What cute reads most of these look like:) Regarding unsolicited books? I don't get many...but I try to promote books I'm not reviewing by posting pics on instagram, twitter facebook etc when they come in the mail and then feature them on my haul post. Other than that...I'll sometimes try to pass them along to another reviewer.
I haven't gotten any unexpected books but that would be tough!
It is, it's a luxury problem though!
I nearly purchased 'A Heart Bent Out of Shape' today. Great haul - Happy Reading!
Nice haul! These are all new to me but they all look really great and so many pretty covers. I hope you enjoy your books :) My STS.
I wouldn't worry to much about the unsolicited copies. Because you didn't request them you aren't really bound to review them. I know it's hard, but like you said, there's other books you want/need to get to.
I love travel books! I'll have to check out the ones you got.
True true, I can't help feeling a bit guilty though, like they "wasted" a book if I don't review it.
Nice haul. I usually get unsolicited books from a publisher who's books I tend to enjoy. However, I just recently got a book that made me wonder how they got my mailing address. It's nothing that I'd normally read. I was thinking of taking a photo of it and posting it on FB and Twitter, adding it into my sunday wrap-up post next week and then maybe try to read it or see if someone else is interested in reading it. :\ I feel bad but at the same time, I didn't ask for it and it's not really my cup of tea.
It's good when they send you stuff you definitely like, but even then it sometimes can get too much (I schedule my reviews months in advance, unexpected book post messes with my spreadsheet, haha).
That's exactly how I feel about unsolicited review books - I used to love getting them at first but when you don't have much time and you have quite a big review pile as it is, then it only makes you feel guilty.
I have a slideshow widget and add all my review books to that for a few months. You can't feel under pressure to review all the books you get sent and publicists understand. I've spoken to a few who really appreciate any sort of mention, like these kind of posts, talking about them on social media and instagramming them.
Ohh I love the idea of a slideshow widget! My blog is already a big busy/crowded but I'm sure I'll be able to find something that doesn't look to busy. Thanks for the idea :) And from the other comments I've also taken away I should Tweet photos, so I'll try to do that too from now on.


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Surasena o Sourasena (devanagari: शूरसेन, IAST: Śūrasena) fu un antico regno dell'India, corrispondente all'attuale regione di Braj, nello stato dell'Uttar Pradesh. La capitale era la città di Mathura. Secondo il testo buddista Anguttara Nikaya, Surasena era uno dei sedici Mahajanapada (grandi regni) nel VI secolo a.C. Il regno è menzionato nei principali poemi epici indù, Ramayana e Mahabharata. Gli antichi scrittori greci (tra cui Megastene) si riferiscono al popolo dei Sourasenoi e alle loro città, Methora e Cleisobra.

Storia
Il Mahabharata e i Purana indicano che i governanti del regno appartenevano al clan Yadava (discendenti di Yadu) della cosiddetta dinastia lunare, ed erano divisi in un certo numero di sette, tra cui i Vrishni. I testi buddisti si riferiscono ad Avantiputta, il re di Surasena al tempo di Kātyāyana, uno dei principali discepoli di Gautama Buddha, che diffuse il buddismo nella regione.

La sua capitale, Mathura, era situata sulla riva del fiume Yamuna, ancora oggi luogo sacro per gli indù, in quanto ritenuta tradizionalmente la città natale del dio Krishna.

Gli scavi archeologici a Mathura mostrano la graduale crescita da un piccolo villaggio a una città importante. Il primo periodo della storia della città appartiene alla cultura della ceramica grigia dipinta (1100-500 a.C.), seguita dalla cultura della ceramica nera lucidata settentrionale (700-200 a.C.). Mathura ha derivato la sua importanza come centro commerciale grazie alla sua posizione in cui la rotta commerciale settentrionale della pianura del Gange si incontrava con le rotte verso Malwa (India centrale) e la costa occidentale.

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A forward who was the all-time leading goalscorer in women's international soccer, and starred for the U.S. women's national team in four World Cups and two Olympic Games.
Wambach played 255 full internationals for the United States between 2001 and 2015. In those games, she scored 184 goals, putting her 26 ahead of the previous international and U.S. national team scoring leader, Mia Hamm. Possibly her two most famous goals both came in overtime against Brazil, the game-winner in the 2004 Olympic final, and the stoppage-time equalizer in a 2011 World Cup quarterfinal that the United States eventually won. She also scored goals in the semifinals and final of the 2011 Women's World Cup.
Wambach played in four Women's World Cups, 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015, winning that title on her final try. She won gold medals in both Olympics in which she played, 2004 and 2012 (she missed the 2008 Olympics due to injury). She played 19 games in those four World Cups, scoring 14 goals, and 11 games in her two Olympics, scoring nine goals. Although she was no longer an automatic starter in 2015, she did play in all seven of the United States' games in that World Cup, starting three of them and scoring one goal.
At 5-foot-11, Wambach was very often a target forward. Both of her most famous goals came on headers, after a corner kick by Kristine Lilly in 2004 and after a 40-yard diagonal cross from Megan Rapinoe in 2011.
Wambach's off-the-field honors included being named the USSF Women's Athlete of the Year six times, in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2012, and the FIFA World Women's Player of the Year in 2012. In 2013, she was named to the U.S. women's national team all-time Best XI chosen by the USSF. She was chosen to the post-tournament all-star team at the 2011 Women's World Cup.
Wambach was the first major international star developed by the Women's United Soccer Association, in which she played in 2002 and 2003, both seasons for Washington Freedom. She later played in all three seasons of WPS, for Washington and magicJack, and the first two seasons of the NWSL, for Western New York Flash. She was named those leagues' post-season all-star teams three times, in the WUSA in 2003, in WPS in 2010 and in the NWSL in 2013, and won the 2003 WUSA title with Washington.


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2011-01-14 Wall Street Journal: Treasury cannot sanction WikiLeaks or Julian Assange
In response to Rep. Peter King, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, who had demanded that WikiLeaks and Julian Assange be placed on a blacklist maintained by the US Treasury Department, a department representative said today, "We do not have evidence at this time as to Julian Assange or Wikileaks meeting criteria under which [Treasury] may designate persons and place them on the [sanctions list]."
2011-01-07 Rallies in Support of Assange
Rallies for Julian Assange and Wikileaks are again gaining momentum in the lead up to the next scheduled hearing January 11. The details of Sweden's extradition request and the EU arrest warrant should be heard at that time.
London supporters will gather from 11am to 7pm outside the court, apparently now Belmarsh in souitheast London. Along with many events in Spain scheduled for January 8, Free Wikileaks and others are organizing global protests on January 11, 12 and 15. The Pirate Party of Canada is holding rallies on January 15, from 2pm to 5pm. Australia also has rallies scheduled for January 15.
WikiLeaks and the CIA: Beyond the Paradigm of Power
Submitted by Beyondborders on Fri, 12/24/2010 - 22:28
Michael Chossudovsky
According to a Los Angeles Times article on Dec 22, the CIA launched the new task force to study the WikiLeaks revelations, called WTF or the WikiLeaks Task Force. This comes at a time when rumors have begun recirculating in some circles speculating that WikiLeaks is a CIA front or at least an unwitting tool of US interests.
Beyondborders's blog
2010-12-23 The Age: Media union waives Assange's fees
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 20:29
The Age reports that the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance in Australia have waived Julian Assnge's fees for a year.
Australia's media union has waived Julian Assange's fees for a year after MasterCard cancelled his credit card. ...
Louise Connor, the union's Victorian secretary, said Assange had been a union member since 1997. She said Assange had not breached the journalists' code of ethics and that he continued to protect his sources and publish in the public interest.
2010-12-23 Julian Assange interviewed on the Dylan Ratigan Show
The Dylan Ratigan Show interviewed Julian Assange on December 21.
The newest interview in the U.S. of Julian Assange on the Wikileaks Thing. Discussion about the 1917 Espionage Act and our political leaders including V.P. Biden, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee. Assange making his case in a short 15+ minute interview with Cenk Uyger on MSNBC's "The Dylan Ratigan Show" Dec. 21, 2010.
2010-12-23 Julian Assange interviewed by David Frost
Frost over the World aired an interview on Tuesday where Assange talked of the goals of Wikileaks, his personal situation, and the Swedish legal case against him.
2010-12-23 Julian Assange is Person of the Year for Le Monde and Crikey
Agence France-Presse announced that Le Monde will name Assange "Man of the Year" in a weekly supplement on Friday.
Visitors to the newspaper's website voted in favor of Assange with 56 percent backing him for the honor, compared to 22 percent for jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and 6.9 percent for American Facebook President Mark Zuckerberg.
Crikey readers have also chosen Assange for Person of the Year with a 56.4% vote, 38.6% more than the second-placed Bob Brown, whose Greens party also had a big 2010.
Noam Chomsky, Julian Assange and Michael Moore: Brothers in Arms
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
- Noam Chomsky
Turning the Cables on Fate


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The Owosso High School is opening its production of Cinderella on Thursday, November 19, but its lovely Cinderella transformation dress was just stolen!
Are there any fellow theater folks out there with a Cinderella transformation dress Director Jessica McClung could borrow for the show? Women's size medium is preferred, but we'll make whatever we can get work! The students have worked so hard on this show and we appreciate and help and support we can get from the local theater community. If you've got a costume that might work, please call Jessica at 989-494-9679. Thank you!


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InVisible AFAC / Dubai
Vikram Divecha, "Boulder Plot" (2015).
If, as media pundit Marshall McLuhan proclaimed, we become what we behold, then most Dubai residents are likely to be some form of outdoor advertising. The public space, choked by strident billboards and neon sloganeering, is fundamentally inhospitable to public art: two gigantic Farhad Moshiri canvases gracing the Dubai International Financial Center's mighty lobby are as close as it gets. So when the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) unveiled the five public artworks it had commissioned under the title InVisible, eyebrows were arched in hopeful disbelief. Beirut-based curator Amanda Abi Khalil has skillfully handpicked regional artists whose verve for conceptual thinking is only outshined by their fascination with material. InVisible purports to disentangle what is both concealed and revealed in Dubai's cultural, historical and architectural context.
Unsurprisingly when fathoming a city boasting the world's tallest building, monumentality crops up. For Changing Clouds of Gas and Dust, Lebanese artist Vartan Avakian sampled water from the Burj Khalifa site, boiling it down to extract minute crystallized components — the unseen residue of the towering Burj's monumentality. Displayed atop a glass-covered plinth, the jewel-like micro-sculptures are organic manifestations of memory on matter. In Dubai-based artist Vikram Divecha's Boulder Plot, hoarding conceals a regiment of monolithic stones covering a plot the size of the artist's apartment building. Each jagged boulder bears a neat, man-made hole, the residual mark of the quarrying process in which stones are blasted from the mountain mass. The resulting chunks generally constitute the urban underbelly — used as bedrock for artificial islands — yet are drafted here into a haunting site, potent with a silent, primeval force. Kuwaiti artist Mounira al-Qadiri, of artist collective GCC fame, translates the cog-laden structure of the stealthy oil drill into a flower-like monument in Alien Technology. Shimmering in oil-slicked pearly hues, the sculpture embraces, in one chromatic masterstroke, the historical extremes of the Gulf economic spectrum — pearls and petrol.
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Poster The Tiger Lillies
The Tiger Lillies – is a cult British band, a crazy Brechtian cabaret boasting of an amazing legacy: 27 albums. They are a living legend and perform about 300 concerts a year all over the world. The Tiger Lillies manage somehow magically to make even the most grave topic colourful painting it with the their music. Certainly we could not miss their concer in our country and interviewed the flamboyant trio.
You are using the most unusual objects at your performances: from toys to a saw. Your drum kit looks like an eclectic collection: two toy chickens, a cow's bell and lots of other unindentified objects. How do all those things apper? Does your "transformer" drum kit somehow changes during your gigs?
Adrian Huge: Of course, it changes. I constantly get different presents . Actually, everything that is left from the originsl kit is just the small drum and the foot-beater. Some parts of the kit come from Prague, some - from Canada. Some pieces of the drum kit were stolen in Greece, so we needed to buy some new ones. Actually, when we visit a new town I alway pop into a toy shop or a music shop and find some quirky things there that can make strange noises. My drum kit is a collection of my memories. I can't take everything on a plane, but at home I've got a huge collection...
Frank Zappa once played on a bicycle. Have you ever played music on something that seemed to be totally out of the musical universe?
Adrian Huge: When we were performing in Prague it turned out that the drum kit has magically disappeared. But especially for me a drum kit of saucepans and kitchen utensils was made. The same thing happened when we came to Prague for the second time. Of all musical instruments I had a plastic bucket only, and we put a microphone inside of it (laughing). It was real fun and the audience totally loved it.
The Los Angeles Times called you "Queen Victoria's worst nightmare". And whose fondest and sweetest dream could you be?
Martyn Jacques: (laughing) I think, we could be a fondest dream of the genius/lunatic Marquis de Sade. And I am sure Salvador Dali would love us.
Martyn Jacques - vocals, accordian, piano, guitar, harmonica, ukulele and banjoele
Adrian Huge (born Adrian Hughes) - drums, percussion and backing vocals
Adrian Stout - double bass, musical saw, theremin and backing vocals.
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And all that 'justice' for only thirteen pence.


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Everything must go! Doomed Vegas casino has liquidation sale
Published: 15:49 EDT, 14 May 2015 | Updated: 15:53 EDT, 14 May 2015
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Whether it's a brass letter "R," a baby grand piano or a hotel ice machine you desire, it's all there inside the Riviera — for a price.
The Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino that once hosted Frank Sinatra, Liberace, Dolly Parton and other big-name performers closed May 4, and a liquidation sale opened to the public there Thursday.
The Riviera Hotel and Casino's new owners — the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority — plan to demolish the 60-year-old building by year's end and replace it with an expanded convention center.
People wait in line to enter a liquidation sale at the closed Riviera Hotel and Casino, Thursday, May 14, 2015, in Las Vegas. The Riviera Hotel and Casino closed May 4, but everything inside the 2,075-room hotel-casino must go. National Content Liquidators has started selling it all at a public sale that started 9 a.m. Thursday. (AP Photo/John Locher)
That means everything in its 2,075 rooms has a price tag, and easily more than 1 million items are for sale, National Content Liquidators President Don Hayes said. Here's a look inside:
For history buffs, employees and fans, the sale is a chance to own a piece of a Las Vegas fixture and explore "The Riv" and all its recesses, including a final peek at the suite Sinatra filled while he performed there.
Though the sale officially started Thursday, two groups got first dibs a day early: former Riviera workers and current employees of the convention and visitors authority. They snagged flat-screen TVs, vacuum cleaners, mini fridges, chairs, beds and more.
For everyone else, admission is $10 per person during the first four days, which likely will be the busiest. After that, it's free.
The sale continues through mid-June, or until everything is sold.
The Riviera is nothing if not a haven for brass accents, including the large three-tiered hexagonal chandelier affixed to the ceiling. The three price tags hanging from it add up to $4,300.
Hayes said his company would shut off electricity to the light fixture, but it would be up to any would-be buyer to get it loose from the ceiling and take it home.
Otherwise, "it'll be there when the building goes down," he said.
The company acted quickly to remove the brass "R'' logos from the exterior doors the second the hotel closed. Hayes said they knew the letters would be popular buys when "everyone started trying to steal them."
The letters — about 1 foot tall and 3 feet across — cost $350 each. Other items for sale include a baby grand piano for $6,200 and a hotel ice machine for $625.
SECRET SECTIONS
Sean Caudill, 21, wanted one of the letters but decided they were too expensive.
Instead, he hunted for a glossy black-and-white photo of Joan Rivers in the Riviera's comedy club, still lit by pink neon and with the baby grand on stage.
Caudill found treasures in one of The Riv's "secret rooms," an area that was the check-in counter until it was sealed off behind a temporary wall. There, neon squiggles still danced on the walls like ghosts where no one could see them.
The native Las Vegan said he would return to the sale with his 35-millimeter polaroid in tow to capture the casino-hotel's last moments. Its last night open, he stayed and did cannonballs into the pool.
SINATRA'S ROOM
"This is Frank's," said Donna Henry, a former Riviera showroom usher, before she walked into the two-bedroom suite once-inhabited by Sinatra.
In her 30 years working at the casino-hotel, she had never seen the suite. On Wednesday, she and fellow ushers Kyle Lihilihi and Daniel Rabena climbed into the empty Jacuzzi tub for a group photo to mark the occasion.
Rabena, arms outstretched, took it in.
"Frank Sinatra stood in this room," he said.
For Henry, the last glimpse of the place she called home during many milestones was a sad one but also a chance to see some of her former co-workers one last time.
It also allowed her to claim the sign for the comedy club she was a part of from the time it opened in 1985 to when it closed this month.
A woman who declined to give her name, sits at a table in the casino during a liquidation sale at the closed Riviera Hotel and Casino Thursday, May 14, 2015, in Las Vegas. The Riviera Hotel and Casino closed May 4, but everything inside the 2,075-room hotel-casino must go. National Content Liquidators has started selling it all at a public sale that started 9 a.m. Thursday. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Ciro Cantu takes down a picture that was sold during a liquidation sale at the closed Riviera hotel and casino Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Las Vegas. The sale will be open to the general public on Thursday. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A man looks at his phone among rows of chairs during a liquidation sale at the closed Riviera hotel and casino Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Las Vegas. The sale will be open to the general public on Thursday. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Alma Smith holds lamps she intends to buy during a liquidation sale at the closed Riviera hotel and casino Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Las Vegas. The sale will be open to the general public on Thursday. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Vacuum cleaners sit on display during a liquidation sale at the closed Riviera hotel and casino Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Las Vegas. The sale will be open to the general public on Thursday. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Stephen Anongthep plays a piano during a liquidation sale at the closed Riviera hotel and casino Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Las Vegas. The sale will be open to the general public on Thursday. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A man looks through a penthouse room during a liquidation sale at the closed Riviera hotel and casino Thursday, May 14, 2015, in Las Vegas. The Riviera Hotel and Casino closed May 4, but everything inside the 2,075-room hotel-casino must go. National Content Liquidators has started selling it all at a public sale that started 9 a.m. Thursday. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A room full of televisions are on display during a liquidation sale at the closed Riviera hotel and casino Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Las Vegas. The sale will be open to the general public on Thursday. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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H3D's executive committee (EXCO) is responsible for the formulation and oversight of H3D strategy, business plans and financial decisions.
Prof Kelly Chibale
Director of H3D
Kelly Chibale is the Founder and Director of H3D.
He is also the founding Director of the South African Medical Research Council Drug Discovery and Development Research Unit at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He is a full Professor of Organic Chemistry at UCT, a Tier 1 South Africa Research Chair in Drug Discovery and a Full Member of the UCT Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine. Kelly is a Fellow of UCT, the Royal Society of South Africa and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Kelly obtained his PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from the University of Cambridge in the UK with Stuart Warren (1989-1992). This was followed by postdoctoral stints at the University of Liverpool in the UK as a British Ramsay Research Fellow with Nick Greeves (1992-94) and at The Scripps Research Institute in the USA as a Wellcome Trust International Prize Research Fellow with K.C. Nicolaou (1994-96). He was a Sandler Sabbatical Fellow at the University of California San Francisco in the USA (2002), a US Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in the USA (2008) and a Visiting Professor at Pfizer in the UK (2008).
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Dr Greg Basarab
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Greg Basarab has an appointment as a Principal Research Officer and Associate Director at UCT and the affiliated H3D where he heads efforts directed towards the eradication of resistant infectious diseases.
Previously, Dr. Basarab led multi-disciplinary drug discovery teams at AstraZeneca working on the design of novel mode-of-action antibacterials, efforts that led to three drug candidates entering human clinical trials including two currently in Phase 3. Previous to that, he worked at DuPont where he led projects in three departments: Central Research & Development, Biochemicals and Agricultural Products working in the antifungal arena and in automated chemical synthesis. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Head of Research Operations and Business Development
Dr Susan Winks is currently employed as the Head of Research Operations and Business Development at H3D and manages the team of professional staff that support the interdisciplinary drug discovery work at H3D.
Susan Winks obtained her BSc and BSc (Hons) degrees, both with distinction, at the University of Cape Town. She came top of her class for honours, winning herself the James Mohr Medal and was subsequently awarded the Andrew Mellon Scholarship to complete her PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand under the supervision of Prof. Jo Michael. During this time, she also worked as a Teaching Assistant, lecturing and tutoring chemistry to undergraduate students.
In 2010 Susan was appointed as a Research Scientist at iThemba Pharmaceuticals Ptd Ltd, a start-up biotech focused on drug discovery for neglected diseases. In 2011 she was promoted to Principal Scientist and became the team leader for various infectious disease drug discovery projects. During this time, Susan decided to pursue a part-time MBA through the Management College of South Africa, which she was subsequently awarded in 2014.
In August 2013, Susan was appointed as a Research Officer at H3D Drug Discovery and Development Centre, working as a lead chemist for a tuberculosis drug discovery project. The centre was at the start of its growth phase and Susan took the opportunity to get involved in establishing operations and project management systems to support the science. This included facilitating an organisational restructure to a Matrix-based structure to support interdisciplinary teamwork, design and implementation of a new strategic Human Resource system for the centre and improving data management systems, lab management systems and project management practices.
In 2019, Susan took up the position of Head of Research Operations and Business Development at H3D. Her role includes ensuring operational continuity and sustainable growth by long-term strategic planning, management of partnerships and stakeholders, fundraising and renewal of funding agreements, management of internal governance structures and portfolio oversight.
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Ayesha Banderker manages and enables the financial, systems, policy and administrative framework within which H3D is able to function optimally.
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There is perhaps no cultural difference that people relate to more than the stewardship of time. Learn how researchers account for these variations, and see how a culture's tendency to be "polychronic," or have a long-term orientation, correlates with punctuality being a low priority. Conclude with practical suggestions for dealing with people who may not share your view of time.
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I have harbored this curiosity for quite awhile and now, I finally have some insight and knowledge on the culture of time perception. I definitely fall into the Event/Polychronic/Collective/RelationshipFirst spectrum.