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Facebook launched a community leadership programme on Friday that will award $10 million in total to more than 100 people who have successfully built groups on the social network as part of its push to create "meaningful" interactions. The initiative, announced at a Facebook Communities Summit in London, will give five people with a track record in creating groups up to $1 million to fund a project, Facebook's Jennifer Dulski said.
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Another 100 leaders from around the world will receive up to $50,000 each, she said in an interview. "We are looking for communities that provide meaning to the people that are in them, we are looking for initiatives that drive positive impact, and we are looking for communities that have both online and offline components," said Dulski, Facebook's head of groups and community.
Facebook's Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said last June that the company's new mission was "to bring the world closer together", and he set a goal of helping one billion people join "meaningful communities" built around hobbies, neighbours, churches, pets and the like. The focus on groups came after the social network, which has 1.4 billion daily active users, had been criticised for its role in the distribution of so-called fake news.
Facebook and other internet groups such as Google's YouTube and Twitter have also faced pressure from the European Union and European governments to do more to stem the proliferation of extremist content on their platforms. The company's top European executive Nicola Mendelsohn said in December that the number of people working on safety on the platform would double to 20,000 by the end of 2018, including more engineers in London.
The contest is open to Facebook community leaders worldwide, with the winners chosen by a panel of independent experts and Facebook employees, Dulski said.
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Q: Last hour doesn't appear on FullCalendar I have a problem with my FullCalendar, the last our doesn't appear and instead, a strange div without anything appears.
The following images will explain better
This link shows the table, and as you can see, after 22, there is a strange div there, suposed to be 23 like in this image where the limit is 23.
I would also like change the left numbers (06,07,08,...) to hours (07:00,08:00,...).

A: The documentation at https://fullcalendar.io/docs/agenda/maxTime/ says

"Determines the end time (exclusively) that will be displayed".

(my bold)
This means that if you set maxTime: 23:00 then the last time displayable will be 22:59. What you are seeing is the correct and documented behaviour of the calendar.

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New International Panel To Advise S'pore on Sustainable Infrastructure
Singapore has set up an international panel of experts to advise on the latest trends and best practices in sustainable infrastructure, as well as identify investment opportunities for the private sector. Lei Zhang, CEO of Envision Group was invited to be a member of the panel.
How Technology Can Bridge the Gap Between Climate Talk and Action
Artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) solutions are integral to tackling some of the challenges associated with carbon management. There are three main areas of focus to make carbon management more efficient, transparent and effective.
Envision Digital and ST Engineering to Co-develop Net Zero Carbon Digital Building Innovations, Contributing to Singapore Green Plan 2030
Envision Digital and ST Engineering have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly build an end-to-end net zero carbon urban infrastructure solution for the public and commercial sectors.
Envision Digital Continues its Mission Towards Net Zero with the Port of Antwerp to Pioneer a Green Port
Envision Digital today announced a collaboration with the Port of Antwerp by its local European entities in Netherlands and France, to develop green port solutions to reduce amongst others, greenhouse gases (GHG) in ports.
4 Technologies That Are Accelerating the Green Hydrogen Revolution
Green hydrogen, which is produced using renewable energy, currently accounts for just 0.1% of global hydrogen production. Scaling up green hydrogen does present challenges, but modern digital technology could provide some of the answers.
'World first': Construction Begins on CISL's Ultra-low Carbon HQ in Cambridge
Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership said its new HQ will set 'world first' for sustainable refurbishment of an older office building. A telephone exchange building built in the 1930s will be retrofitted into a ultra low carbon building.

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The following is a simple case report detailing a useful treatment.
Spring Chiron 2011 Jenny White
Treatment of Canine Epitheliotropic Lymphoma with Safflower Oil A seven year old male desexed Labrador, "Bruno" presented on 21/1/11with what looked like "rain scald" on his trunk i.e. superficial thick crusts that left areas of alopecia when lifted off. I also noted a subcutaneous nodule in the right axilla which cytologically appeared to be lymphatic tissue.
"Bruno" has a history of occasional malassezia otitis, recurrent diarrhoea when under stress and also one bout of pancreatitis. He had been doing well on Hills i/d which the attending vet prescribed when he had pancreatitis while on holiday in April 2010. His owners are "conventional" clients so he was given a 14 day course of Cephalexin 600mg bid. By 22/2/11 the crusts had underlying nodules and there was a mild peripheral lymphadenopathy and mild pruritus. A punch biopsy of a nodule was taken under local anaesthesia and the diagnosis was epitheliotropic lymphoma (mycosis fungoides). It was suggested that serum calcium, CBC and serum globulins might be of interest but these were within normal limits. I phoned a specialist oncologist and they said that Lomustine was the treatment of choice but then added that most dogs respond poorly and are dead within a year.
The owner didn't want chemotherapy but did want palliation so I googled "canine mycosis fungoides" and found references to remissions being achieved using safflower oil at 3ml/kg on 3 consecutive days a week. The owners were more than happy to try such a simple treatment and "Bruno" in typical Labrador fashion happily guzzled 96 mls of safflower on his meal of z/d. I told the client that high protein, low carbohydrate diets were beneficial in cancer so they decreased the amount of z/d and added a 400gm can of tuna daily. From their experience this was a food least likely to bring on diarrhoea and it was also his favourite. I also coaxed them to add some vegetables but this is largely carrot and cucumber. His owners figured that if he's on borrowed time he might as well enjoy it! I don't know what brand of oil they buy, but I told them to get it from a health food shop and to get one high in linoleic acid. The cases that were documented at UCLA in the 90's were given oil that was 87% safflower.
He was washed in a proprietary chlorhexidine shampoo .
By 13/5/11, less than 4 months, all that remained was a few 5 cent sized areas of alopecia and all lymph nodes were palpably normal. He has not gained weight and the dreaded pancreatitis has not recurred. His skin and coat are perfect and his owners have reduced the dose of safflower to 30mls daily on 3 consecutive days a week. In his favour, perhaps, was the early intervention and the fact that these lymphoid cells had a low mitotic index. Some of these cases can start out looking seborrheic and fairly innocuous and may go undiagnosed for many months.
http://www.pawspice.com/Mycosis%20Fungoides.html
1.Ogilvie GK, Fettman MJ, Mallinckrodt CH, Walton JA, Hansen RA, Davenport DJ,
Gross KL, Richardson KL, Rogers Q, Hand MS
Cancer Lett 1992 May 30;64(1):17‐22 Linoleate produces remission in canine mycosis fungoides.
Iwamoto KS, Bennett LR, Norman A, Villalobos AE, Hutson CA
Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.
2. The Use of Safflower Oil for the Treatment of Mycosis Fungoides in Two Dogs.
Peterson, A., Wood, S., and Rosser, E. Dept of Small Animal Clinical Sciences,
D208 Veterinary Medical Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
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Le barrage de Chapetón est un projet de construction en Argentine d'un gigantesque barrage sur le Río Paraná, sur son cours moyen, à une cinquantaine de kilomètres au nord de la grande ville de
Santa Fe. Le barrage serait destiné à produire quelque 15 à 20 milliards de kilowattheures d'énergie électrique (puissance prévue : 3 millions de kilowatts), mais aussi à améliorer considérablement la navigabilité du fleuve, qui pourrait accueillir des bateaux de mer de  tonnes; également à donner de l'eau pour l'irrigation et fournir de nouvelles terres à l'exploitation.

La ville de Santa Fe se situe au kilomètre 580 du fleuve (à compter de Buenos Aires) et le barrage est prévu au kilomètre 630 ou 635.

Description

C'est incontestablement un projet pharaonique, puisque le lac de retenue formé à l'arrière du barrage contiendrait non moins de 60,6 milliards de m³ d'eau (quelque 50 fois le volume de la retenue de Serre-Ponçon en France), et atteindrait ainsi une superficie de plusieurs milliers de km².

Le barrage prévu ne sera pas très haut, mais son volume calculé de 296,2 millions de m³ en fera le plus volumineux de la terre. La gigantesque digue, dont la construction est prévue pour contenir le lac, aura non moins de 224 km de long, ceci aussi constituant un record mondial.
En fait le barrage proprement dit n'aurait que 8,5 kilomètres de long, mais sera prolongé par des digues latérales de plus ou moins 215 kilomètres de long et 15 mètres de haut, courant de Santa Fe à la ville de Goya en province de Corrientes.

Pour sa contenance 60,6 milliards de mètres cubes, le barrage ne serait qu'à la treizième place mondiale.

Le lac de barrage s'étendra sur quelque 300 km de long. Et précisément à cet endroit un autre barrage tout aussi gigantesque est prévu, dont le lac de retenue atteindrait les frontières du Paraguay, qui pourrait ainsi voir des bateaux de mer accoster.

Caractéristiques principales prévues

En 1996, l'estimation du coût de la construction du barrage de Chapetón, était d'environ
 millions de dollars US, dont  millions rien que pour les installations de génération. La même année, l'entreprise américaine Energy Developers International a proposé sa construction moyennant une concession pour la vente de l'énergie à produire.

Hauteur maximale du barrage : 29 m.
Hauteur utile maximale : 18,30 m.
Hauteur utile minimale : 9,47 m.
Hauteur utile moyenne : 15,38 m.
Puissance installée :  mégawatts.
Production moyenne annuelle d'énergie : 18,6 milliards de kilowattheures.
Nombre d'heures annuelles d'utilisation : .

Écluse de Chapetón
Il est prévu de construire une très grande écluse destinée à faire passer des bateaux de  tonnes. En voici les principales caractéristiques :
 dénivellation : 14,5 m
 longueur du bassin : de 340 à 400 m
 largeur du bassin : 39 m
 profondeur : 6,40 m
 nombre de bassins : 1

À titre de comparaison, l'écluse du barrage de Yacyretá, destinée à rattraper une dénivellation de 24 m, a un bassin de 270 x 27 mètres et une profondeur de 3,65 mètres.

Liens externes

Pour localiser les endroits indiqués : Carte détaillée de la province de Santa Fe
Solution proposée à la crise énergétique argentine - 2004 (en espagnol)

Chapetón
Chapetón

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Littles Theme - Thank you God for everything!
Littles - Since our "Littles" in attendance this week were not with us last week, we repeated last week's lesson on thankfulness. We watched a couple of short videos about giving God thanks for all that we have and also learned the popular childhood prayer of grace, "Thank You for the World so Sweet." We talked about all of the things in our life and world that we are thankful for. Time permitting, we listened to some other Thanksgiving sing-a-long songs with actions.
Craft/Activity - They made booklets of the prayer we learned and also made a cornucopia craft.
Middles and Youth Theme - Because of all that God has done for us, we should respond with an attitude of gratitude.
God has done much for us. He loves us, provides for us, protects us, and guides us. We should respond with an attitude of gratitude. This means that we need to live in a way that shows thankfulness to God. We discussed ways that we can do this.
We also began planning for our presentation during the Christmas Eve service.


If you are looking for the Medical Museum Glasgow then you must be looking for "The Hunterian". This fabulous collection has been recognised as a 'Collection of National Significance'. The Hunterian medical museum was founded back in 1807 and has amassed one of the largest collections outside of national museums. The Hunterian has a mission to be the central resource, allowing students, scholars and tourists access to some of the most important cultural resources in Scotland.
The Hunterian is part of Glasgow University and actually consists of 8 different locations and is not just the Medical Museum Glasgow.
This museum houses William Hunters original collection and much more besides. With stunning displays of archaeology, palaeontology, geology, zoology, entomology, ethnography and numismatics. Alongside a highly acclaimed permanent galleries dedicated to Roman material from the Antonine Wall, the history of medicine in the west of Scotland and Lord Kelvin's scientific instruments. The Museum is Open Tuesday – Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm, Sunday 11.00am – 4.00pm, Closed Mondays and has free admission.
This modern day looking house is actually a copy of the house that the Mackintoshes lived in between 1906 to 1914. Open from Tuesday – Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm, Sunday 11.00am – 4.00pm, Closed Mondays, this is attached to the Art Gallery and there is a charge for entry to help maintain the property.
Located in the Graham Kerr building, the Hunterian Zoology Museum has a collection like no other. From 'cuddly' koala to the worms that live in the gut of a horse. The astonishing diversity of the animal kingdom is fantastically displayed. There are even some live animals too! Open Monday – Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm and free admission.
This museum shows William Hunter's amazing collection of specimens. Cleverly combined to show all aspects of human form and function. The Museum allows visitors to reflect over Dr Hunters lifelong successful career as a pioneering anatomist and obstetrician. The Medical Museum Glasgow is part of the medical School of Glasgow and generally not open to the public. However you can make an appointment.
Located in the Wolfson Medical Building of the Glasgow Medical School. This museum tells the story of James Bouglas, a country Doctor for nearly sixty years working in Carluke. Dr Bouglas was responsible for tending to the sick and carrying out surgery. Open Monday to Friday 9am-5pm with free admission.
Home of 'The Hunterian Collection Study Centre'. This amazing location offers innovative object-based research, teaching and training for a wide educational audience. Open Monday – Friday 6.30am – 10.00pm, Saturday 8.00am – 5.00pm, Sunday 8.00am – 8.00pm and free admission.
Actually in the University Dumfries Campus. This Museum showcases some of the amazing research exhibits rotated from the other museums. Entry is free and it is open Monday – friday with reduced hours on saturday.


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Amsterdam: The sinister world of gangland coffee shop wars
PUBLISHED: 15:19 21 December 2016 | UPDATED: 16:26 21 December 2016
Daniel Pembrey
(ALEXANDER KLEIN/AFP/Getty Images)
2012 AFP
Amsterdam's coffee shops seem the perfect embodiment of The Netherlands laid back, liberal outlook. But that belies a more sinister reality
Last month, Amsterdam's mayor, Eberhard van der Laan, announced the suspension of the city's long-standing policy of closing down cannabis cafes involved in gun crime. This policy reversal followed a spate of ten shootings in little over a year. During the month of October, there was a sharp increase in shootings at coffee shops, as cannabis cafes are known. One incident involved Coffeeshop Vondel, near the city's popular Vondelpark. Remarks an employee, "It was doubly unfair to be shot at and then put out of business by the mayor's office".
The mayor apparently agreed. In a move that caught many off guard, the prior policy of immediate closure was replaced by a series of other measures designed to improve security, such as the installation of police-approved CCTV systems. The development offers a fascinating window into the high wire balancing act required of Dutch policy makers in this high profile arena.
Amsterdam now claims 175 coffee shops. According to laws passed by national parliament, the sale, production and possession of cannabis in the Netherlands are illegal, yet under the localised policy of 'gedogen' – which loosely translates as tolerance – coffee shops are permitted to exist. In this legal grey area, small-scale consumption is effectively tolerated to prevent the trade moving into a shadowy world of street dealers – also, possibly, to generate tax revenue. But coffee shops owners are still considered to be acting illegally when buying in bulk to supply their customers, and this is where the real risks start to surface.
As with many items, where supply is restricted, profit potential surges. And on the demand side, while Amsterdam's population is just 835,000, more than seventeen million tourists visited the Dutch capital last year. According to surveys undertaken by city hall, a quarter of tourists in Amsterdam intend to visit a coffee shop at least once. Big money is at stake, attracting criminal as well as government interest.
Earlier this year, a severed head appeared in front of the Fayrouz cafe on Amstelveenseweg, a busy street bordering not only the aforementioned Vondelpark but also the salubrious Willemspark district. The head was positioned so as to look into the cafe, as police noted upon arriving at the scene, while requesting that passersby delete photos taken from their camera phones.
Police knew it to be a grudge sign among drugs gangs – something I'd written into my own Amsterdam detective novel, yet not quite to this macabre, medieval level. The police had already found the decapitated corpse of known gang member Nabil Amzieb in a burned-out Volkswagen van on a south east Amsterdam housing estate, identified from his fingerprints. The Fayrouz cafe was a long-time gangland hangout – on the edge of a neighbourhood to which embassies and old money are mostly resident.
Researching my novel, I came to learn about an adage in law enforcement circles that six hundred known criminals account for sixty per cent of the crime committed in the capital. I inferred a certain tolerance of organised crime – precisely because of its organisation. The port cities of the Low Countries are among the biggest in Europe (Rotterdam is the largest); the amount of goods and people passing through them ensures an outsized slice of criminality here. Toppling one criminal element inevitably runs the risk of power vacuums, reprisals and worse.
The drugs war thought to lie behind Nabil Amzieb's severed head has claimed at least a dozen lives across Holland, Belgium and other countries. It is believed to stem from a £14 million consignment of cocaine that went missing in Antwerp in 2012 and that was probably destined for the UK market. Customs in the Belgian port seized the consignment, but did not make their find public until later.
It transpired that this seizure was only part of a larger shipment, the rest of which was stolen by a Dutch drugs gang. The rival gang behind the original shipment suspected the Dutch gang of stealing everything. In the feud that followed, there was at least one other case of mistaken identity – a married father of one, gunned down outside his Amsterdam home having had the misfortune of driving the same make and model of car as the intended gang member target.
Civilian casualties were not something I had to wrestle with in a climatic scene I wrote for my novel that saw my detective character engineer a confrontation between a coffee shop-owning gangster and a Ukrainian pimp muscling in on his territory. There, in a fictionalised Amsterdam harbour, the two crews wipe each other out very effectively.
While the real world rarely brings such resolutions, I couldn't help wonder whether there was a tacit tendency to let gangs rein in one another here too. In the bloody feud following the Antwerp cocaine seizure, investigators were open about the technology and sophistication of the gangs and the upper hand it gave them.
The policy of 'gedogen' - of not enforcing certain laws – was intended to divide soft drugs from hard; limited personal consumption for adults from other uses; a safe and customer friendly environment from something far more sinister. But for as long as bulk supply to coffee shops is criminalised, criminals will make it their own.
Understandably, city hall won't comment on whether the shootings at Amsterdam coffee shops over recent months are related to the feud that followed the 2012 Antwerp seizure, nor will they confirm the widely held belief that rogue coffee shop owners were shooting at rivals' premises with the intent of getting competitor outlets closed down and enjoying a larger slice of this lucrative market. Police investigations are ongoing. However, city hall did comment on the ability of coffee shop owners to source cannabis in bulk legally.
"The mayor is an advocate of making it possible to grow and distribute cannabis for coffee shop use," said Jasper Karman, a spokesperson. "But this is still not allowed, as national government isn't for it."
The high wire act continues
Daniel Pembrey is the author of Amsterdam detective novel The Harbour Master, now out with No Exit Press. @DPemb


In starting a new business I don't belief its good rushing out and buying a domain name. Been there done it, but its better to first do multiple searches across 3 registers and lots of Google searches as well as Adsearch.
A good domain name needs to be search result friendly. Function and brand matter. It could include your business category and business name, such as PetersMotors or AndyHandyman. This includes trademark / brand name as well. How about making your domain name a compound of your name + a classification term, such as MarioAutoMechanics or CaseySuperClinic. Unique Trademarked Brands are a step up from here. Example: SpeedoSwimware, Cre8tiveDesigns, ApexStudio.
I always start with a few google searches first. In addition Keyword analysis would be highly beneficial as well. Then we need to look at the 3 registers that influence and limit your choice.
Domain names, brands and business names are best selected simultaneously, because three different registers need to be searched and the outcome has an effect on search engine results and choice of final name. It is best to complete the research and planning process and before registering anywhere. In addition a Google search term analysis should be completed as well.
It is important to check the availability of names in all these registers to come up with a harmonized name structure. Whether you want all three names to be the same is your choice. Generally speaking a brand or trademark should always be a bit "made up" rather than generic English. Example Cre8tive. A domain name that is not a big brand id often preferably chosen in descriptive searchable English, such as "Arts Supplies". A good business name and Domain name could be a combo, such as such as "Cre8tive arts supplies". "Andymans Lawn mowing" is another good example.
Handy hints for small business owners on a tight budget.
Create a copyright notice with your business name and and place it in the footer of your website.
Use the letters TM behind your brand name and logo and use (exercise) your trademark.
If your business becomes big, you can later choose to register the trademark. It costs usually more tham $2000.- if you use an attorney and about $500.- if you register yourself (Australia).
Please note - this is an Intellectual Property Managers perspective and should not be construed to be professional legal legal, financial or commercial advise.
For the small business owner (sole trader) one of the most common mistakes is lack of diligence in database searching and financial overcommitment. Another common mistake is premature publishing of the patentable idea and its application (embodiment). In many countries it is not possible to get a patent once an invention has been made know to the public. Say you had a great idea for a new iphone application and have decided to market it online straight away. You may have just burned a lot of money. So what needs to be done ? You need to keep the idea secret, search the most important patent office data bases and check out if your idea is new. If it is new, not obvious and sufficiently different from what you have seen before (inventive step) then you may have a good chance to get a patent. The first data base to check should always be the USPTO data base. This is the globally most significant patent office where almost all patents of significant value get filed. Other important patent offices are the European patent office and Japan (and more recently China as well).
Protecting your invention for less than $100 with your self draft provisional patent application or a deposit in an invention data base is a good move when you are on a tight budget and are not sure if the greatness of your idea and its success in the market deserves spending ten thousands of dollars. A prov patent application gives you a certain level of protection before you test the market and look for money.
However the level of protection you gain depends on your technical and legal drafting skills and hence the professional advise given is always to use a patent attorney. Allow for $ 5000 to start with. So in the end it is up to you to determine your budget size and risk appetite.
Very different from patents. It is all about names and the motto is "use it or loose it". Choose a name that is easy to trademark and then publish it with the initial TM behind and start using it immediately. Publish it, trade, sell. If your business grows well you can later register your trademark and pay your trademark attorney if necessary. Filing a trademark yourself is also much less complicated than filing a patent. Once the trademark is granted you can place and (R) for registered behind your brand name. Important to remember the main reason for having a registered trademark is that it is easier to defend in court. But you still have a trademark without registering it, just the same as copyright.
You don't need to register your copyright, it's inherently yours, but you should be diligent in documenting your creativity and claim."Creativity and dates" is the motto here. You have it by virtue of being an author. However it does make good sense to display your copyright where ever you can, because that makes it easier to stake your claim and defend it in court.


Maltose, or malt sugar, is a disaccharide formed from two units of glucose joined with an α(1→4) linkage. It is the second member of an important biochemical series of glucose chains. The addition of another glucose unit yields maltotriose; further additions will produce dextrins (also called maltodextrins) and eventually starch.
Maltose can be broken down into two glucose molecules by hydrolysis. In living organisms, the enzyme maltase can achieve this very rapidly. In the laboratory, heating with a strong acid for several minutes will produce the same result.
The production of maltose from germinating cereals, such as barley, is an important part of the brewing process. When barley is malted, it is brought into a condition in which the concentration of maltose-producing amylases has been maximized. Mashing is the process by which these amylases convert the cereal's starches into maltose. Metabolism of maltose by yeast during fermentation then leads to the production of ethanol and carbon dioxide.
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The Stagnant Pool Of Atavism
'You can tear down Nazism because it looks and sounds evil. But a smiley face that advocates happiness and progress is a totally different beast, one that the 21st century is very familiar with.' ~ EON
Humans believe that stress is synonymous to life. Everything comes with a heavy dose of the jitters, plus backbreaking effort, plus uncertainty and ambivalence, pain, discomfort, friction, anxiety, stress. Stress. Lots and lots of stress.
Life is like that, people say. The way the world works, the manner in which the universe is set up. A stressful, testing arrangement, living through which is a constant challenge.
While there may be some truth to this outlook — stress is down and out prevalent in the cosmos at large — not all stresses are hardwired in the system. Some are direct products of human choices, arising from conscious and deliberate action. From collective agency and society's norms. From collective ignorance and toxic inertia, or toxic momentum, or both. Choices that lead to outcomes that poison and destroy their surroundings.
The huge patch of garbage floating in the seas, for example. It's real, getting larger, filthier, nastier, and it's all human-made. Getting stickier and deadlier by the year.
And the toxins people swallow every time they go for a dip, a nasty cocktail of disease care of a battery of industries that dump their refuse in the water supply.
And the 1%-driven economy, which everyone keeps griping about, and the economic woes they keep getting into, time and time again. The recurring economic problems that keep getting recycled into the system, manifesting themselves as socioeconomic crises; the populist politics that stem from these crises, leading to fear, suspicion, paranoia, persecution and hatred. The wrong kind of politics and economics. The wrong kind of culture, out of which rises conflict and death, all in the name of peace and love and benevolent deities.
Like the wars that rock people's lives and the shady deals they incite and the grief that accompanies them no matter what. The things that drive humanity crazy, they are by and large products of everyone's consciousness, or unconsciousness, depending how you see things. Turn a blind eye to the self-inflicted plagues of humanity, bury your head in the sand of routine — wish the problems away, believe extra hard in the sanctity of human life and all that it entails — and they might just disappear, humanity's problems, pouf, like magic, or so the silver-tongued and beguiling promise to the gullible masses.
They solve nothing. If anything, they perpetuate the problem.
They consolidate it.
Humanity's number one threat, my friends: its own civilization — mea culpa ad infinitum, ad nauseam, especially when it's on the 'right' track, thinking it's fighting the good fight.
A tragicomic irony of cosmic proportions, civilization is.
A comedy of errors in a whirlwind of terrors in the stagnant pool of atavism.
My name is EON, son of Time, and I'm here on a mission, and what a delightfully amusing mission it's turning out to be. I wouldn't miss it for anything. I gripe about it sometimes, it's filthy and parochial here, but it's all worth it in the end. The self-defeating hysterias of a toxic paradigm playing role model is a rarity, in fact, it's priceless.
Intrigued? Watch this space for more — and happy Valentine's Day! Love conquers all, as you can see.
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The Quebec Outfitters Federation (QOF) has announced the winners of its "Quebec Ultimate Destination Giveaway." The contest, which launched in early 2015, offered outdoorsmen and women the opportunity to win a dream hunting or fishing trip with some of the province's most well regarded outfitters.
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Adds wine - or beer - in tankard drinking animations' animobjects and tankard clutter objects. Stop pretending to drink from empty mugs - pick and install your favorite booze!
Have you watched these poor bastards stare at the bottom of their parched tankards in silent melancholy?.. Have you ever tried to get a drink yourself and found yourself stupidly staring into nothingness?
Is this another unacceptable Thalmor Prohibition? Or is it just the ultimate affront to role-playing?!..
Put an end to that curse right now! Let wine and beer flow freely in each and every tankard in Skyrim, let the taverns' audience finally raise their glasses in joy and face the mountains weather with fire in their veins!
Ahem... this is only a small replacer for the game's tankard animobjects and clutter.
It comes in two different versions. Wine. Or Beer.
PLEASE NOTE: The tankard's meshes and textures I used are Brumbek's from his Skyrim Meshes Improvement Mod (with his permission of course). Please endose his awesome work!..
Many thanks to Brodual and Nozi for making these videos. You're great, guys :)!
Use your Mod Manager - or do it manually if you'd rather mix with another clutter version.
No .esp to enable of course.
I strongly recommend that you install only one version (Beer or Wine) of the animobjects. There are actually 3 tankard animobjects in the Vanilla BSA. I have seen my animations change with only the animobjectDrinkingTankard in game while Fore only saw the animobjectTankard beig used in the Behavior files. Since we can't be entirely sure the game does not actually need all 3 of them at some point, I modified them all.
As for the clutter version, it doesn't matter which one you pick as replacer. You can use Beer for animation and Wine for clutter or the other way around - it won't break anything. The clutter version is the basictankard01.nif in your 'meshes\clutter\dining set' folder. If you want to mix, install one main file with NMM for the animobjects, then unzip the other version, replace manually the basictankard01 in your data files and do not forget to add the corresponding textures folder.
EDIT October 25th: for those of you who do not want to replace the clutter version of the tankard and prefer to keep empty tankards in shelves or scattered on the ground, I have just added 2 'animobjects only' versions. This will only modify the animated drinking and nothing else. If you have already installed a complete version, uninstall the old one first and then install this new one. Do not overwrite, as it will not remove the clutter version.
- and the "Hoamaii Wine" and/or "Hoamaii Beer" folder(s) from the textures directory.
This will obviously conflict with - and replace - any other tankard retexture you may have installed.
As for adding drinks in tankards, I don't think anybody else has done it yet.
None that I'm aware of. The Wine and Beer transparency may appear lighter or darker in your game depending on your settings, your lighting mod or your ENB. But that's all I can think of.
- Fore, for kindly sharing his animation expertise.
- Nightasy, as always, for teaching me all I know (and more) about modelling and texturing.
- Bethesda, for Skyrim and the CK.
- and all the Nexus people for making this such a great gaming community.


In most respects they are highly similar. There are commonly greater differences between two interpretations of the same sub-style than there are between different sub-styles. The three styles all have the same roots but have evolved through individual teacher preferences combined with geographical separateness. All three have the same curriculum. A first form (yilu) to train understanding movement and a second form (erlu) to train releasing, with supplementary weapons training and push-hands.
The labelling of these methods is a little arbitrary. A hundred years ago what is now called 'Old frame' was then called 'New frame'.) There were also historical separations between stylists such as Big Fame and Small Frame. Laojia yilu can be argued to have evolved from this Big Frame. These sub-styles labels are partly to allow discussion about different teaching methods. The close proximity of these before more widespread travel in the twentieth century means that there was most likely a high degree of cross fertilization of ideas and teaching methods between proponents and their students. For example the four most prominent exponents of Chen Style from Chen vilage in the last generation (Chen Xiao Wang, Chen Zheng Lei, Wang Xian and Zhu Tian Cai) predominently studied with Chen Zhao Pei (see Laojia below) but alos studied albeit briefly with Chen Zhao Kui (see Xinjia below) after Chen Zhao Pei's death.
There are significantly less differences between the different styles within Chen style than there are say between Chen Style and Yang Style, although Yang Style was Chen Style 200 years ago as Yang Lu Chan the founder of Yang Style learned his taijiquan in Chen Village.
The method taught by Chen Zhao Pei (17th generation) and his generation in the mid twentieth century inChen village. This is the method used by the four Chen Tigers, Chen Xiao Wang, Chen Zhenglei, Wang Xian and Zhu Tian Cai. It is the method used predominantly in Chen village.
The method created by Chen Fake (16th generation) and taught by his son Chen Zhao Kui (17thgeneration) in Beijing in the second half of the twentieth century. In the last 20 years one of Chen Fake's students (Feng Zhi Qiang) has developed and promoted another sub-style of Chen Style known as Hun Yuan Chen Style in Beijing which is sometimes referred to as Feng Style.
The method, sometimes called 'small circle' was most famously taught by Chen You Ben (14th generation) in Peipinggao village (4km east of Chen village) in the mid-nineteenth century. A disciple of Chen You Ben, named Chen Qing Ping, taught a variation of this in Zhaobao village a little distance away. Today this is also sometimes referred to as Zhaobao Style.
Nick Gudge teaches Chen style tai chi classes (chen shi taijiquan) in Limerick.


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FILM: THE UNBELIEVERS ATTACKS RELIGION!
Atheists Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss Team Up
Movie poster.
On Monday, April 29th, the documentary The Unbelievers premiered in Toronto, Canada, with sold-out shows. Prof. Richard Dawkins (evolutionary biologist) and Prof. Lawrence Krauss (theoretical physicist) have worked the debating circuit together for years to defend the forces of reason and truth against the forces of ignorance and superstition, but this film will perhaps reach beyond their usual hunting ground of the university lecture halls. As far as Frogbook.com can gather, their main message (among other ideas) is a bold and controversial one: religion is nonsense and it should be eradicated.
~ Dawkins & Krauss promote film in Toronto. "Nothing is sacred."
We at the Frog Blog have vigorously (and sometimes viciously) attacked those religious firebrands who promote erroneous ideas in the name of religion (like Creationism and the Apocalypse). But their ignorant actions are by no means a reflection of all religions in general; many credible religious authorities around the world also believe in scientific ideas such as Evolution, the Big Bang Theory, and other truths.
~ The Vatican supports Evolution.
Hardly a voice of moderation, Pat Robertson of the 700 Club once suggested that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez should be assassinated; and even he thinks that the Earth cannot possibly be only 6,000 years old! Once religion crosses a line to enter the realm of delusion and then goes on to challenge long established scientific wisdom, then that's when society starts to break down as truth, knowledge, logic, and justice go out the window. What you end up with is blind theocracy.
~ Pat Robertson denounces Young Earth Creationism.
FrogBook.com has said before that religious stories, such as the myths and fables in the Bible, are useful tools to relay certain allegorical messages and morals to the people. And many religious authorities know this. It is however a big mistake for some renegades to teach Bible fantasy as literal truth. That's just wrong. Have you ever noticed that after the advent of the tape-recorder, the camera, and the video, ALL supernatural phenomena such as the rising of the dead and floating angels have suddenly disappeared off the face of our planet?
If religion wants to survive, it must purge those idiots who pursue the literal interpretations of the scriptures (they are fooling no one but simpletons) and start to make their ideas more sophisticated and relevant. Then they should integrate these concepts into a modern, complex, and scientific world. As Prof. Krauss has said, religion is already in its death throes in the West. By stubbornly clinging on to rubbish (such as the idea that all the different species of dinosaurs that had ever lived were once inside Noah's ark) religion as a whole will only die in the long run all over the world.
~ Arguing for the destruction of religion.
While FrogBook does not attack religion but only those imbeciles who insult people's intelligence in the name of religion, we however are not criticizing Dawkins' and Krauss' attempt to attack religion as a whole head on. As Dr. Krauss has said, it is not wrong to question or to ridicule ideas. In fact, scholars and scientists have done just that to one another's ideas for hundreds of years. This is how we create this wonderful thing called SCIENCE!
~ Offical trailer of "The Unbelievers" (2013).
Visit the official movie website: www.UnbelieversMovie.com
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The Arab Spring turns out to be a big nothing, with religious fanatics taking over formerly secular states (like Egypt). If the gov't falls in Syria, the religious morons (and Al-Qaeda) will be based there for decades. The U.S. should just stay out and let the God-nuts kill themselves. Religion = Stupidity = Death. Religion is a plague on mankind. Atheist China will take over the world.


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Scott Riley Named WCCO-TV Local Sales Manager
Filed Under:Press Releases, WCCO-TV
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Scott Riley has been named Local Sales Manager for WCCO-TV, it was announced today by Tom Bourassa, WCCO-TV Director of Sales. Riley has been the National Sales Manager for the station for the past year and a half. In his new position, he will oversee the day-to-day operations of the WCCO-TV local sales team. The promotion is effective immediately.
"Scott has demonstrated his ability to be an effective and passionate leader," said Bourassa. "He is well-connected in the local business community and I am confident his leadership will take us to new heights."
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Prior to WCCO-TV, Riley was an account executive at several media companies in the Twin Cities and Chicago. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas, with an emphasis on broadcast promotion and sales.
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Riley is a native of Edina, Minnesota. He and his wife Elizabeth have two children and live in Minnetonka.
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But instead XEXP(x,0) is printed, which causes the ICE.
which is at position 1, in this case.
Boot-strapped and regression-tested on x86_64-linux-gnu.
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County up to 3 COVID-19 deaths
County still has one of SC's lowest infection rates
COLUMBIA — The deaths of two more Pickens County residents were attributed to COVID-19-related issues last week, bumping the county's death toll from the virus up to three.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control reported Thursday that a middle-aged county resident had died of virus-related issues, and DHEC reported the death of an elderly resident on Friday.
Although officials have released no other details about any of the three local residents who have died of the virus, a DHEC spreadsheet with virus cases in county nursing home facilities over the past 30 days lists the death of one resident at Foothills Presbyterian Community in Easley. The facility has had five confirmed virus cases among residents and two among staff members, according to DHEC. Another county nursing home, Easley Place, has had three residents and two staff members test positive for the virus over the past 30 days as well.
Pickens County had had 93 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of DHEC's daily news release Monday afternoon. Officials also provide numbers giving estimated cases based on available data, as well as total possible cases. For Pickens County, DHEC estimated 571 cases and said there were 664 total possible cases, according to figures available Monday afternoon.
The county's infection rate of 73.3 confirmed virus cases per 100,000 residents was fifth-lowest among the state's 46 counties as of Monday afternoon.
Across the state, 8,942 residents had tested positive for the virus as of Monday afternoon, and 391 people had died of virus-related issues.
DHEC reported Thursday that an estimated 84 percent of COVID-19 patients across the state had recovered from the virus.
DHEC is working with community partners to enhance COVID-19 testing across the state as part of the agency's statewide testing strategy. DHEC's goal is to test 2 percent of the population, or 110,000 South Carolinians, per month. Officials said they are currently on track to meet the target by the end of the month. As of Monday, more than 60,000 tests had been conducted for the month of May.
Officials also said Monday that as South Carolina increases testing, there will likely be more laboratory-confirmed cases. The total number of tests performed on Sunday statewide was 4,187, and the percent positive was 3 percent. When the percent positive is low, it may indicate that more widespread testing is being performed and the percent positive may more accurately reflect how much disease is present in the community, officials said.


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Baseball and basketball top pools
Averey Kolomvotos, reporter|March 9, 2014
After asking 25 students if they like sports, only 12 students said that they play on a team. Three of the 25 students that were interviewed said that they did not like sports.
There was an interesting quote from a senior basketball player, Eddie Nelson said. "life is a sport make it all count"
Of the 12 people who said that they play a sport five of them said baseball was the most popular. Basketball was second, getting three votes of the 12 students.
what is your favorite sport to play?
Basketball (100%, 4 Votes)
Baseball (0%, 0 Votes)
Football (0%, 0 Votes)
Wrestling (0%, 0 Votes)
Golf (0%, 0 Votes)
other (0%, 0 Votes)
Soccer, football, wrestling and other each getting getting vote, each coming in at 8 percent.
From doing this pool we have noticed that we asked more baseball players than any other sport. If we were to continue this survey we would say football and basketball would end up getting votes and the percentages would be different.
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It turns out that some of these derivative films X-Men such as that of Channing Tatum ] Gambit can still be manufactured. For those who have not heard about it for one reason or another, the Disney / Fox deal has finally been signed recently, which means the franchises X-Men and Fantastic Four which includes ] Deadpool are now under the control of Disney, which means that Marvel Studios will control the future of these properties and that they should be integrated into the world of Marvel Cinematic alongside other characters already used wisely. It was largely expected that Disney would give the ax to (almost) everything Fox had developed, but not so fast on that one.
Producer Simon Kinberg played a leading role in the X-Men franchise. a long time and he knows. Recently, he was interviewed at the premiere of The Twilight Zone . Asked about the status of films like Gambit Kinberg revealed that Disney was evaluating each of these projects as we speak. Here is what he had to say about it.
"All of Fox's films are being evaluated I like the idea of playing Channing Gambit .I think we Scenario is perfect and I think it's a role for which he was born.This is a character that I have grown in love with and I know that fans love it. Hope this will happen, there will be a lot of mixing and merging now and I am very much in favor and enthusiastic to see. "
Gambit en particular, was particularly troubled, but Channing Tatum desperately wants to get it done. He would have even considered running it himself before the merger of Disney just to make sure that would happen. Other projects that should be abandoned include James Franco's Man Kitty Pryde's solo film known only as 143 and the film X-23 who was born in Logan . On a lighter note, Simon Kinberg was asked which character of MCU he would like to see next to X-Men and had this to say.
"I would probably say it's somebody from Wakanda or Iron Man, I mean, I love Robert, I worked with him." I like that. that he does with this character.I have the impression that he created the tone model for the MCU with the first Iron Man movie.And the Iron Man concept appears in X. -Men or Iron Man, interacting with Deadpool is rather exciting. "
As to whether Disney will actually save one or the other of these projects? We had previously heard that Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige had interviewed Noah Hawley about his film Doctor Doom which was encouraging. So we can answer that, for the moment, with a resounding sound. Ultimately, the question is whether any of these projects can fit into Feige's global vision for the MCU beyond . Avengers: Endgame . This news was reported for the first time by Variety.
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Mon ami Joe ou Le Puissant Joe Young au Québec (Mighty Joe Young), est un film américain de Walt Disney Pictures, réalisé par Ron Underwood et sorti en 1999. C'est un remake d'un film de 1949, Monsieur Joe.

Synopsis
Jill Young (Charlize Theron), enfant, a été témoin de la mort de la mère de Joe, un bébé singe, des mains du braconnier Andrei Strasser (Rade Šerbedžija). Ce dernier y perd deux doigts par la faute de Joe. La même nuit, la propre mère de Jill est tuée par Strasser lui-même, ce qui laissera Jill orpheline, n'ayant pas de père connu dans le film. Douze années plus tard, Jill élève Joe parce que les autres gorilles ne l'acceptent pas, étant donné sa taille exceptionnellement grande. Les deux amis d'enfance vivent en parfaite harmonie jusqu'à ce que Gregg O'Hara (Bill Paxton), directeur d'un refuge animalier, ne convainque Jill qu'ils seraient davantage protégés des braconniers s'ils venaient aux États-Unis.

Jill, réticente mais pensant au bien-être de son ami, ainsi que Joe partent donc à Hollywood, en Californie où ils gagnent le cœur du personnel du refuge. Jill est contactée par Strasser, ayant vu un article sur Joe. Ce dernier souhaite se venger du dommage causé à son pouce 12 ans plus tôt. Jill ne fait pas de suite le rapprochement avec le braconnier qui a tué sa mère ainsi que celle de Joe. Strasser tente alors de convaincre Jill que Joe serait mieux dans un refuge niché aux profondeurs de l'Afrique. En parallèle, Jill et Gregg commencent à tisser des liens amoureux, mais Jill demeure distante malgré ses sentiments. Plus tard, lors d'un gala, l'un des acolyte de Strasser effraie volontairement Joe afin de le pousser à la frénésie. Joe, terrifié et furieux, ravage le gala et reconnaît alors Strasser : il tente de l'attaquer frontalement, mais est maîtrisé avant de commettre une bêtise. Joe est alors mis sous tranquillisants, et placé dans un abri en béton. Lorsque Jill apprend que Joe pourrait être euthanasié à cause des évènements survenus au gala, elle accepte l'offre de Strasser.

Aidée du personnel du refuge, la jeune femme fait discrètement sortir Joe dans un camion, conduit par Strasser et son acolyte. En route vers l'aéroport, elle remarque alors les doigts manquants de Strasser. Ce dernier fait alors une remarque qui fait réaliser à Jill qu'il est le braconnier qui a tué sa mère. Bouleversée un instant, elle saute du camion provoquant plusieurs accidents de voiture. Joe la voit et provoque un accident au camion qui quitte la route et se couche avec fracas sur le sol. Le gorille géant s'extirpe de la carcasse du camion, et découvrant la civilisation, prend peur et s'enfuit vers une fête foraine, croyant que Jill s'y trouverait. Gregg a pendant ce temps lui aussi réalisé l'identité de Strasser, bien que ce dernier avait de réelles méfiances envers le braconnier depuis leur première rencontre, et part à leur rescousse. Il trouve Jill, qui cherchait Joe, paniquée. Ces derniers remontent la piste du gorille jusqu'au centre-ville ou Jill aperçoit les lumières de la fête foraine balayant le ciel au loin, et se rappelle qu'elle utilisait la même technique pour appeler Joe. Au moment où ils arrivent sur place, c'est le chaos dans la fête foraine : un gorille géant vient de faire irruption parmi les manèges. Tout en cherchant Joe, Jill et Gregg ne se rendent pas compte de suite que Strasser a suivi leurs traces. Le braconnier tente alors de tirer sur Jill. Une fusillade démarre et cause le décrochage de la Grande roue. Joe arrive en accourant, attrape Strasser et le balance avec force dans un amas de fils électrifiés. Dans une scène finale poignante, en tentant de sauver un enfant de l'effondrement de la grande roue, Joe fait une chute vertigineuse et se retrouve grièvement blessé, sans beaucoup de chances de survie. Mais avec la présence de Jill à ses côtés, le gorille rouvre les yeux et tient bon. Une fois remis sur pied, Joe et Jill décident de repartir en Afrique pour permettre à Joe de s'épanouir dans l'environnement qu'il a toujours connu, et libre, dans un refuge fondé par les donations de ses fans et dirigé par Jill et Gregg, finalement ensemble.

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 Titre : Mon ami Joe
 Titre original : Mighty Joe Young
 Réalisation : Ron Underwood
 Scénario : Ruth Rose, Mark Rosenthal et Lawrence Konner
 Production : Ted Hartley et Tom Jacobson
 Musique : James Horner
 Photographie : Donald Peterman et Oliver Wood
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 Genre : aventure
 Durée : 114 minutes
 Budget : 90 millions de $ (estimé)
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 Bill Paxton (VF : Bruno Choël et VQ : Daniel Picard) : Greg O'Hara
 Charlize Theron (VF : Barbara Kelsch et VQ : Élise Bertrand) : Jill Young
 Peter Firth (VF : Philippe Bellay et VQ : Denis Mercier) : Garth
 David Paymer (VF : Gilbert Lévy et VQ : Luis de Cespedes) : Harry Ruben
 Regina King (VF : Magaly Berdy et VQ : Hélène Mondoux) : Cecily Banks
 Rade Šerbedžija (VF : Vincent Grass et VQ : Jean-Marie Moncelet) : Andrei Strasser
 Naveen Andrews (VF : Luc Boulad et VQ : Gilbert Lachance) : Pindi
 Robert Wisdom (VF : Jean-Michel Martial et VQ : François L'Écuyer) : Kweli
 Christian Clemenson (VF : Jean-François Vlérick et VQ : Pierre Auger) : Jack
 Geoffrey Blake (VF : Stephane Ronchewski VQ : Éric Gaudry) : Vern
 Lawrence Pressman (VF : Bernard Demory et VQ : Hubert Gagnon) : Dr. Elliot Baker
 Linda Purl (VF : Brigitte Berges et VQ : Aline Pinsonneault) : Dr. Ruth Young
 Verne Troyer : Joe, jeune
 Mika Boorem (VF : Émilie Rault et VQ : Claudia-Laurie Corbeil) : Jill Young, jeune
 Richard Riehle (VF : Gérard Rinaldi et VQ : Yves Massicotte) : Gorman
 Ray Harryhausen : le gentleman à la soirée
 Terry Moore : la femme élégante à la soirée
 Marguerite Moreau : la fille au cabriolet
 Tracey Walter : le gardien
 Dina Merrill : la femme de l'entreprise
 Judson Mills : L'homme dans la voiture (caméo)

Accueil

Box office

Accueil critique
Mon ami Joe reçoit un accueil critique mitigé. Sur Rotten Tomatoes, il recueille un  taux d'approbation de 56% pour 52 critiques. Le site Metacritic lui attribue un score de 51⁄100, pour 20 critiques.

Distinctions

Récompenses
 Genesis Awards 1999 : Meilleur long métrage

Nominations
 Oscars 1999 : Meilleurs effets spéciaux pour Rick Baker, Hoyt Yeatman, Allen Hall, Jim Mitchell.
 International Film Music Critics Association 1999 pour James Horner
 Saturn Awards 1999 :
 Meilleure actrice dans un second rôle pour Charlize Theron.
 Meilleurs effets spéciaux pour Rick Baker, Hoyt Yeatman, Allen Hall et Jim Mitchell.

Liens externes

Film américain sorti en 1998
Film d'aventure américain
Film fantastique américain
Remake américain de film américain
Film de Walt Disney Pictures
Film tourné à Hawaï
Film mettant en scène un singe
Film réalisé par Ron Underwood
Film en anglais américain
Film avec une musique composée par James Horner


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The Road from Makkah
By MyUmmah Editor | on December 7, 2008 | 0 Comment
From Albalagh
Hajj is obligatory once in a lifetime on those who can afford it, but it benefits the entire Ummah. Islam's acts of worship have multiple dimensions and they are organized at multiple layers. Daily Salat, for example, provides occasion for gathering in the neighborhood Masjid five times a day. The Friday Salat provides a larger weekly gathering and also includes a Khutbah to give this gathering a direction and purpose. The twice-a-year Eid Salats provide a gathering for the entire city. Hajj is the last in this sequence; an annual world wide gathering of the entire Ummah at the most sacred of all places.
Its role is that of the heart and liver in the human body. The heart sucks in the tired blood, which is then filtered and rejuvenated by the liver, and sent again to all parts of the body by the heart. Similarly, Hajj brings in members of this Ummah, rejuvenates their faith, spiritual energy, and commitment, and sends them back to their communities to spread the blessings far and wide.
Its most powerful message is about Tauheed (monotheism) and Akhirat (the hereafter), two of the pillars of faith. If Hajj is a form of Jihad, as some ahadith mention, its battle cry is "Labbaik Allahumma Labaik" "I am here Oh Allah, I am here. There is no partner unto You. All praise and blessings and sovereignty belong to you. There is no partner unto You." From the moment the pilgrim dons his Ihram, he profusely makes this pronouncement during all waking hours until he has stoned the Shaytan on the 10th of Zul-Hijjah.
As for the Hereafter, Hajj is itself a replay of our death and resurrection. The Ihram, the two unstitched pieces of white cloth that replace dress for men, reminds us of the burial shroud. The gathering on the plain of Arafat reminds us of the time when everyone will be resurrected in the Hereafter to stand before Allah and give account of their deeds.
Built on these twin foundations of faith is the example of Sayyidna Ibrahim, alayhis-salam, that is reflected in many of the rites of Hajj. That example can be summarized in two words: love and obedience. Unwavering love for Allah; unfailing obedience to Him. This also is the message of Hajj.
Hajj is at once an intensely personal and a superbly collective act of worship. Today its role in our collective life has been severely watered down by the rulers over the land of Hajj and by an Ummah that has lost touch with its mission. Today, upon arrival the pilgrims are sorted out on the basis of their passports and are reminded at every turn that they are members of a nation-state and not the one Ummah. Today, every expression that aims at mobilizing this Ummah to stand up collectively to the challenges it faces is brutally suppressed during Hajj. Today the landscape of Makkah and Madinah has also been changed beyond recognition, through obscene attempts at emulating Europe, thereby producing a historic disconnect for the holy land. Today pilgrims have been separated from each other as well as from their glorious history.
So it may be helpful to remind ourselves that Hajj is associated with major turning points and milestones in Islamic History. In fact the history of the Islamic state begins with Hajj. It was here in the 11th year of Prophethood (July 620 C.E) that the first pledge of Aqaba took place, followed two years later by the second pledge that was the basis for Hijrah and the establishment of the Islamic state in Madinah. Just a decade later, it was here that the mission of the Prophet reached its peak when 124,000 companions performed Hajj with the Prophet in 10 AH.
The Khutbah of the Prophet delivered during the Last Hajj is the most important historical document for the entire humanity. It proclaimed: "There is no superiority for an Arab over a non-Arab, nor for the white over the black nor for the black over the white except through Taqwa (Allah Consciousness)."
It declared the sanctity of life, honor, and property: "Oh people! Verily your blood, your property and your honor are sacred and inviolable until you appear before your Lord, just as the sacred inviolability of this day of yours, this month of yours and this town of yours."
It set down a fundamental principle of justice: "Beware! No one is responsible for a crime but the person who committed it. Neither the child is responsible for the crime of the father, nor is the father responsible for the crime of his child."
Other celebrated declarations like the Magna-Carta and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights pale in comparison to this proclamation made fourteen centuries ago. For a world submerged in total darkness, this new proclamation would have to be spread through the Ummah that was produced out of the Jahilya society through twenty three years of hard work, sacrifice, and perseverance by the Prophet, Salla-Allahu alayhi wa sallam. To them it reminded: "Every Muslim is the brother of another Muslim and all the Muslims form one brotherhood… Take heed not to go astray after me and strike one another's necks." And for the generations to come it also pointed out the way to safeguard this greatest of all revolutions: "I am leaving two things with you such that if you hold on fast to them you will not go astray: the Book of Allah and my Sunnah."
Those standing that day at the plain of Arafat were the best of humanity. They took the torch and spread the light in four corners of the world, ushering in a new era of peace and justice. They liberated mankind from servitude to false gods and turned it to only the service to the Creator.
With the passage of time, their followers gradually became weak in their faith and corrupt in their practices. Darkness returned to the world. Today the world is such a dark place where Zionism and racism flourish and the strong devour the weak because "Might is right".
The road from Makkah is full of returning pilgrims who bring back Zamzam, dates, and many souvenirs. These are all great. But what we need the most is the message that was proclaimed there by the Prophet Muhammad 1414 years ago.
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Q: how to duplicatea char variable using a for loop So I was wondering how to duplicate the letter c using a for loop. I have done this with the * sign, but can't seem to make it work with the letter c. I used the IBIO to get input. I need to know how to duplicate the c in the same way as the *. When I run the code, the c is only printed one time. Why is this? Please help me fix it.
 public class Methods
 {
     public static void main (String args[])
    {
        new Methods ();
    }

    public quadMethods ()
    {
        printNStars (5);
        printNChars (6, 'q');

    }

    public void printNStars (int n)
    { //prints 'n' stars on the screen in a row
    n = IBIO.inputInt ("Enter a number for 'n': ");
    for (int i = 0; i <= n; i++)
     System.out.print ("*");
    System.out.println ("");
    }

    public void printNChars (int n, char c)
    { //prints 'n' of character c on the screen in a row
    for (int i = 0; i <= n; i++);
    {
     System.out.print ("c");
    }
    System.out.println ("");
    }
}

A: You have several issues. One is the number of iterations for both loops:
public void printNStars (int n)
{
    n = IBIO.inputInt ("Enter a number for 'n': ");
    for (int i = 0; i <= n; i++)
        System.out.print ("*");
    System.out.println ("");
}

This will input a number and print n+1 stars. You probably mean to do this:
public void printNStars (int n)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
        System.out.print ("*");
    System.out.println ("");
}

Second problem is the semicolon in you other loop:
for (int i = 0; i <= n; i++);

This creates a loop that does nothing. Also the output statement outputs cs, not the passed in character!
Second function should probably be:
public void printNChars (int n, char c)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        System.out.print (c);
    }
    System.out.println ("");
}


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Oppo has unveiled its first true flagship device since the launch of its interesting Find X in the form of the previously leaked Oppo Reno.
It's pretty much common knowledge that, to some extent, Oppo's smartphones are the "blueprint" for what comes from OnePlus. Year by year, things have been more and more their own, but sometimes, it's a deal that works out. Now, the Oppo R17 is official, and I wouldn't mind one bit if the OnePlus 6T looked just like it.


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Many investors who sought the benefits of diversification by having some international equity exposure have been disappointed over the past several years. Over the last decade, for example, developed world stocks, as measured by the MSCI EAFE Index, returned just 1.7% on an annualized basis, lagging the S&P 500 Index, which returned 7.5% from August 31, 2006, to August 31, 2016. On a cumulative basis, that differential summed up to nearly 90% over 10 years. This return represented one of the worst 10-year periods for the MSCI EAFE Index in the past 30 years. The chart below shows 10-year rolling returns for the MSCI EAFE Index for all the 10-year periods going back to the one that ended in March 1996. The average 10-year return for EAFE over that period (denoted by the orange bar) was 5.5%. The 1.7% return over the last decade ranked it in the bottom decile of EAFE's 10-year returns—meaning 90% of the other observations generated higher returns. If you believe in reversion to the mean, investing after a period of historic underperformance may actually represent an opportune entry point for developed world investors. 10-Year Rolling Returns of the MSCI EAFE Index, March 1996–August 2016 Given the MSCI EAFE's paltry returns during this period, it might seems as though it must have been easy for most actively managed international funds to beat EAFE over this period. But the truth is, of the 717 Foreign Value, Foreign Blend and Foreign Growth funds that Morningstar tracks, the MSCI EAFE Index actually outperformed 51% of them. So even during a period when EAFE generated low-single-digit returns that ranked in its lower decile, roughly one in two foreign funds still did not outperform the benchmark. This is one of the reasons many investors are increasingly looking to international exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as an alternative to actively managed mutual funds. One ETF that did beat EAFE over the last decade was WisdomTree's core product in this category: the WisdomTree International Equity Fund (DWM). DWM tracks an unhedged WisdomTree Index that includes virtually all the investable dividend-paying stocks in the developed world, outside the U.S. and Canada. There are typically more than 2,000 such dividend-paying stocks. Each June, WisdomTree weights each company in this Index based on the dollar value of the cash dividends it pays. After fees and expenses, DWM outperformed the MSCI EAFE Index by 45 basis points (bps) per year, beating 92% of its peers in the Foreign Large Value category tracked by Morningstar over that 10-year period. If we expand the universe to the group of 717 Large-Cap Value, Blend and Growth funds, DWM beat 63% of them in the 10 years ending June 2016, with its underlying WisdomTree Index beating two-thirds of the competition over the last decade. WisdomTree's dividend-weighted approach was able to achieve these results despite the fact that the MSCI EAFE Growth Index outperformed the MSCI EAFE Value Index by 266 bps per year over this period. (For standardized returns of DWM, click here.) Conclusion Returns for the EAFE Index over the past decade were low in absolute terms and low relative to its own history. That 10-year underperformance relative to the S&P 500 Index may actually be signaling that this is a good time to take a fresh look at international stocks. For investors interested in a dividend-weighted ETF that has a history of generating both more dividend income and greater total returns than the EAFE Index, click for more information on DWM, the WisdomTree International Equity Fund. Unless otherwise noted, data source is Bloomberg, as of 8/31/2016.
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