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April 26, 2011 / 3:51 PM
Airplane parts firm a scam, investors say
MIAMI, April 26 (UPI) -- Investors are crying foul in Florida over a used airplane parts company several now say was really a scam.
Leo Greenfield of Hollywood, Fla., said he lost $500,000 to the alleged schemers, who claimed Military Air Parts International was buying used airplane parts and reselling them in the United States and abroad.
"I found out it's all B.S. They just had a fraud going," he told The Miami Herald.
Another investor from Florida, Carlos Tarafa, said he lost about $400,000 and that the company, "Was window dressing. It was all a facade."
The company folded in 2007 and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is now investigating company officers Roger Green and Victor Brown on a variety of potential charges, including grand theft and racketeering, the newspaper said.
A search warrant says the pair told investors they would see returns of 15 percent to 30 percent within six months.
Instead, the search warrant says, investors lost at least $4 million.
Brown's attorney Thomas Sclafani said his client, "Knows the market inside and outside and that's what he does." However, Sclafani said Brown, "Does not know anything about the conduct of business," adding, "He's as much a victim as anybody else."
But Tarafa, described as a long-time friend of Green's, said, "Roger flat out told me that Victor robbed the money. And Victor flat out told me that Roger stole the money. They blamed each other."
Defense News // 2 months ago
Austin visits Ukraine, voices U.S. support against Russian aggression
Oct. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Ukraine continues to have U.S. support against Russian aggression and is free to decide its own foreign policy during a visit to Kyiv Tuesday.
Citing Russian occupation, U.S. signs new defense pact with Georgia
Oct. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signed a new security agreement with Georgia Monday, seeking to buttress relations with the Black Sea nation as it continues to face Russian troops in two of its regions.
Pentagon orders all civilian employees to be fully vaccinated by Nov. 22
Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The Pentagon on Monday ordered all Department of Defense civilian employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by no later than Nov. 22.
Army investigating suspected suicides of three Fort Drum soldiers
Sept. 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army is investigating the suspected suicides of three soldiers based at New York's Fort Drum.
Four Marines remain hospitalized month after suicide bombing at Afghan airport
Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Four U.S. Marines remain hospitalized after an attack near Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, last month as service members were evacuating foreign nationals and refugees.
South Korean firm to supply rapid COVID-19 test kits to U.S. military
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- South Korean biopharmaceutical firm Celltrion has agreed to supply its DiaTrust rapid COVID-19 test kit to the U.S. military.
Army tests MK-22 Precision Sniper Rifle at Fort Bragg ahead of fielding
Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The Army has successfully tested the MK-22 Precision Sniper Rifle to clear it for fielding.
U.S. Navy, Bahrain partner to ramp up unmanned systems use
Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Bahraini leaders committed Thursday to partnering with a new U.S. Navy task force to ramp up new unmanned system efforts.
U.S. F-16 fighter jets intercept Cessna during U.N. General Assembly
Sept. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. fighter jets escorted a small plane flown by a U.S. Army soldier out of restricted air space over New York City during the United Nations General Assembly.
U.S. Space Force to take over SATCOM operations from Army, Navy
Sept. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Space Force will take over satellite communications billets, funding and mission responsibility from the U.S. Army and Navy, the Department of Defense announced Wednesday.


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/*
 * User: anna
 * Date: 12-Nov-2007
 */
package com.intellij.ide.navigationToolbar;

import com.intellij.ide.navigationToolbar.ui.NavBarUIManager;
import com.intellij.ide.ui.UISettings;
import com.intellij.ide.ui.UISettingsListener;
import com.intellij.ide.ui.customization.CustomActionsSchema;
import com.intellij.ide.ui.customization.CustomisedActionGroup;
import com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.*;
import com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.ex.ComboBoxAction;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.Disposer;
import com.intellij.openapi.wm.IdeRootPaneNorthExtension;
import com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.IdeFrameImpl;
import com.intellij.ui.ScrollPaneFactory;
import com.intellij.util.ui.JBSwingUtilities;
import com.intellij.util.ui.JBUI;
import com.intellij.util.ui.UIUtil;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NonNls;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

/**
 * @author Konstantin Bulenkov
 */
public class NavBarRootPaneExtension extends IdeRootPaneNorthExtension {
  private JComponent myWrapperPanel;
  @NonNls public static final String NAV_BAR = "NavBar";
  private Project myProject;
  private NavBarPanel myNavigationBar;
  private JPanel myRunPanel;
  private final boolean myNavToolbarGroupExist;
  private JScrollPane myScrollPane;

  public NavBarRootPaneExtension(Project project) {
    myProject = project;

    myProject.getMessageBus().connect().subscribe(UISettingsListener.TOPIC, new UISettingsListener() {
      @Override
      public void uiSettingsChanged(UISettings uiSettings) {
        toggleRunPanel(!uiSettings.SHOW_MAIN_TOOLBAR && uiSettings.SHOW_NAVIGATION_BAR && !uiSettings.PRESENTATION_MODE);
      }
    });

    myNavToolbarGroupExist = runToolbarExists();

    Disposer.register(myProject, this);
  }

  @Override
  public void revalidate() {
    final UISettings settings = UISettings.getInstance();
    if (!settings.SHOW_MAIN_TOOLBAR && settings.SHOW_NAVIGATION_BAR && !UISettings.getInstance().PRESENTATION_MODE) {
      toggleRunPanel(false);
      toggleRunPanel(true);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public IdeRootPaneNorthExtension copy() {
    return new NavBarRootPaneExtension(myProject);
  }

  public boolean isMainToolbarVisible() {
    return !UISettings.getInstance().PRESENTATION_MODE && (UISettings.getInstance().SHOW_MAIN_TOOLBAR || !myNavToolbarGroupExist);
  }

  public static boolean runToolbarExists() {
    final AnAction correctedAction = CustomActionsSchema.getInstance().getCorrectedAction("NavBarToolBar");
    return correctedAction instanceof DefaultActionGroup && ((DefaultActionGroup)correctedAction).getChildrenCount() > 0 ||
           correctedAction instanceof CustomisedActionGroup && ((CustomisedActionGroup)correctedAction).getFirstAction() != null;
  }

  @Override
  public JComponent getComponent() {
    if (myWrapperPanel == null) {
      myWrapperPanel = new NavBarWrapperPanel(new BorderLayout()) {
        @Override
        protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
          super.paintComponent(g);
          NavBarUIManager.getUI().doPaintWrapperPanel((Graphics2D)g, getBounds(), isMainToolbarVisible());
        }

        @Override
        public Insets getInsets() {
          return NavBarUIManager.getUI().getWrapperPanelInsets(super.getInsets());
        }
      };
      myWrapperPanel.add(buildNavBarPanel(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
      toggleRunPanel(!UISettings.getInstance().SHOW_MAIN_TOOLBAR && !UISettings.getInstance().PRESENTATION_MODE);
    }

    return myWrapperPanel;
  }

  public static class NavBarWrapperPanel extends JPanel {
    public NavBarWrapperPanel(LayoutManager layout) {
      super(layout);
      setName("navbar");
    }

    @Override
    protected Graphics getComponentGraphics(Graphics graphics) {
      return JBSwingUtilities.runGlobalCGTransform(this, super.getComponentGraphics(graphics));
    }
  }

  private static void alignVertically(Container container) {
    if (container.getComponentCount() == 1) {
      Component c = container.getComponent(0);
      Insets insets = container.getInsets();
      Dimension d = c.getPreferredSize();
      Rectangle r = container.getBounds();
      c.setBounds(insets.left, (r.height - d.height) / 2, r.width - insets.left - insets.right, d.height);
    }
  }

  private void toggleRunPanel(final boolean show) {
    if (show && myRunPanel == null && runToolbarExists()) {
      final ActionManager manager = ActionManager.getInstance();
      AnAction toolbarRunGroup = CustomActionsSchema.getInstance().getCorrectedAction("NavBarToolBar");
      if (toolbarRunGroup instanceof ActionGroup) {
        final boolean needGap = isNeedGap(toolbarRunGroup);
        final ActionToolbar actionToolbar = manager.createActionToolbar(ActionPlaces.NAVIGATION_BAR_TOOLBAR, (ActionGroup)toolbarRunGroup, true);
        final JComponent component = actionToolbar.getComponent();
        myRunPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout()) {
          @Override
          public void doLayout() {
            alignVertically(this);
          }
        };
        myRunPanel.setOpaque(false);
        myRunPanel.add(component, BorderLayout.CENTER);

        myRunPanel.setBorder(JBUI.Borders.empty(0, needGap ? 5 : 1, 1, 0));
        myWrapperPanel.add(myRunPanel, BorderLayout.EAST);
      }
    }
    else if (!show && myRunPanel != null) {
      myWrapperPanel.remove(myRunPanel);
      myRunPanel = null;
    }
  }

  private boolean isUndocked() {
    final Window ancestor = SwingUtilities.getWindowAncestor(myWrapperPanel);
    return (ancestor != null && !(ancestor instanceof IdeFrameImpl))
           || !UISettings.getInstance().SHOW_MAIN_TOOLBAR
           || !UISettings.getInstance().PRESENTATION_MODE;
  }

  private static boolean isNeedGap(final AnAction group) {
    final AnAction firstAction = getFirstAction(group);
    return firstAction instanceof ComboBoxAction;
  }

  @Nullable
  private static AnAction getFirstAction(final AnAction group) {
    if (group instanceof DefaultActionGroup) {
      AnAction firstAction = null;
      for (final AnAction action : ((DefaultActionGroup)group).getChildActionsOrStubs()) {
        if (action instanceof DefaultActionGroup) {
          firstAction = getFirstAction(action);
        }
        else if (action instanceof Separator || action instanceof ActionGroup) {
          continue;
        }
        else {
          firstAction = action;
          break;
        }

        if (firstAction != null) break;
      }

      return firstAction;
    }
    if (group instanceof CustomisedActionGroup) {
      return ((CustomisedActionGroup)group).getFirstAction();
    }
    return null;
  }

  private JComponent buildNavBarPanel() {
    myNavigationBar = new NavBarPanel(myProject, true);
    myWrapperPanel.putClientProperty("NavBarPanel", myNavigationBar);
    myNavigationBar.getModel().setFixedComponent(true);
    myScrollPane = ScrollPaneFactory.createScrollPane(myNavigationBar);

    JPanel panel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout()) {

      @Override
      protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        super.paintComponent(g);
        final Component navBar = myScrollPane;
        Insets insets = getInsets();
        Rectangle r = navBar.getBounds();

        Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g.create();
        g2d.translate(r.x, r.y);

        Rectangle rectangle = new Rectangle(0, 0, r.width + insets.left + insets.right, r.height + insets.top + insets.bottom);
        NavBarUIManager.getUI().doPaintNavBarPanel(g2d, rectangle, isMainToolbarVisible(), isUndocked());
        if (UIUtil.isUnderAquaLookAndFeel() && isUndocked()) {
          Rectangle bounds = getParent().getBounds();
          NavBarUIManager.getUI().doPaintWrapperPanel(g2d, bounds, false);
        }

        g2d.dispose();
      }

      @Override
      public void doLayout() {
        // align vertically
        final Rectangle r = getBounds();
        final Insets insets = getInsets();
        int x = insets.left;
        if (myScrollPane == null) return;
        final Component navBar = myScrollPane;

        final Dimension preferredSize = navBar.getPreferredSize();

        navBar.setBounds(x, (r.height - preferredSize.height) / 2,
                         r.width - insets.left - insets.right, preferredSize.height);
      }

      @Override
      public void updateUI() {
        super.updateUI();
        setOpaque(true);
        if (myScrollPane == null || myNavigationBar == null) return;

        myScrollPane.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(ScrollPaneConstants.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
        myScrollPane.setHorizontalScrollBar(null);
        myScrollPane.setBorder(new NavBarBorder());
        myScrollPane.setOpaque(false);
        myScrollPane.getViewport().setOpaque(false);
        myScrollPane.setViewportBorder(null);
        myNavigationBar.setBorder(null);
      }
    };

    panel.add(myScrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    panel.updateUI();
    return panel;
  }

  @Override
  public void uiSettingsChanged(final UISettings settings) {
    if (myNavigationBar != null) {
      myNavigationBar.updateState(settings.SHOW_NAVIGATION_BAR);
      myWrapperPanel.setVisible(settings.SHOW_NAVIGATION_BAR && !UISettings.getInstance().PRESENTATION_MODE);

      myWrapperPanel.revalidate();
      myNavigationBar.revalidate();
      myWrapperPanel.repaint();

      if (myWrapperPanel.getComponentCount() > 0) {
        final Component c = myWrapperPanel.getComponent(0);
        if (c instanceof JComponent) ((JComponent)c).setOpaque(false);
      }
    }
  }

  @Override
  @NonNls
  public String getKey() {
    return NAV_BAR;
  }

  @Override
  public void dispose() {
    myWrapperPanel.setVisible(false);
    myWrapperPanel = null;
    myRunPanel = null;
    myNavigationBar = null;
    myScrollPane = null;
    myProject = null;
  }
}

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Bourke Street's 'Hero Trolley Man' was charged with a number of offences on Saturday morning.
Michael Rogers, 46, is understood to have handed himself into police on Friday evening.
Victoria Police confirmed to 10 daily a 46-year-old man with no fixed address had been charged with two counts of burglary, two counts of theft and committing an indictable offence while on bail.
He was remanded in custody overnight and will front Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Saturday.
Rogers was hailed a 'hero' after he rammed Hassan Khalif Shire Ali with a trolley during the Bourke Street attack last Friday.
The GoFundMe Campaign was set up by the National Homeless Collective.
A GoFundMe page was set up, called 'Not All Heroes Wear Capes', and has raised more than $144,000.


The National Bee Health Roundtable (BHRT) recently held its third workshop in Ottawa. The roundtable, a coalition of stakeholders with a direct interest in the health of bees, reports making clear progress over the last year evidenced by the release of the National Bee Health Action Plan.
The National Bee Health Action Plan identifies priority issues, fosters collaborative and innovative activities that help maintain a healthy honeybee population in Canada, and supports a competitive Canadian apicultural industry. The BHRT heard about achievements in three priority areas: reduction of Varroa Mites; the development of Best Management Practices (BMPs); and pesticide risk mitigation.
BHRT initiatives have worked towards securing two more options within beekeepers tool boxes to support their fight against two deadly pests; Varroa mites and American foulbrood. The BHRT in cooperation with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Health Canada have successfully ensured that bee health products HopGuard and Lincomycin are considered a departmental priority for purposes of the Minor Use Program and piloting under the Minor Use Minor Species for veterinary drugs. Both products provide beekeepers with additional Integrated Pest Management (IPM) tools and play a large role in the BHRT's long-term efforts in addressing the broader issue of honey bee health.
Reducing pesticide exposure has been identified as a potential factor that could affect bee health. A dedicated working group has designed a work plan that will examine the existing tools and approaches available to reduce potential exposures of bees to all pesticides, including those used by beekeepers to control in-hive pests. The working group will then identify any gaps and develop solutions in order to ensure that beekeepers and growers have access to the most effective tools and knowledge necessary to reduce pesticide exposure.
Funding has been procured and work is underway to review all Beekeeper Best Management Practices (BMP) Canada-wide. The goal will be to create a new national set of BMPs. These BMPs will be national in scope but take into account regional differences in weather, habitat and whether the bees are kept for pollination services, honey production or both.
For more about the National Bee Health Roundtable, follow this link.


We frequently monitor and evaluate the Prime Savings Accounts in Eire. It does have some hoops to leap by: (1) a hard Equifax pull for opening the checking account, and another exhausting pull ( appears like a Transunion pull ) for opening the credit card (bank card is critical to get 4.fifty nine% rate); (2) Should put $1k per 30 days on a Consumer's bank card which solely earns 1% back (it is not fairly so dangerous since you may put $6k at the grocery and earn three% back on that ); (3) Should do 12 debit transactions (e.g. purchase twelve 50¢ Amazon reward playing cards).
Nevertheless, you may all the time go to your local financial institution or credit union and ask them to beat the rates listed on this article. But it also demonstrates how even a excessive-curiosity savings account won't be making you wealthy — the interest is merely a nice bonus. This is why it's best to by no means accept just any financial savings account: The very best pay eight occasions greater than the common (zero.25 p.c APY ). I additionally did not want to pay the month-to-month fees which might have taken an excellent chunk out of the earnings every month.
Savings accounts are specifically designed to help your financial savings grow sooner. I found a forty three 12 months old federal government workers credit score union in Panama offering 4% on regular financial savings accounts in US dollars. The account affords a number of benefits, similar to a free AAA ATM Card and access to a convenient cellular banking app. We include private financial savings accounts from our panel.
Account holders get standard advantages with their e-Financial savings account, including online banking and free e-statements. Once you compare our financial savings accounts you'll discover merchandise with totally different rate of interest commitment durations and fees. If, for instance, you've got over £22,000 in savings, then you could wish to take into account placing the first £20,000 of it into a tax-free ISA savings account, and the rest into another financial savings account.
Current rates are one of the best that you would be able to get in current occasions.
A handful of banks have raised the charges they pay to savers each on straightforward-entry and stuck-rate offers. The APY or Annual Proportion Yield for Mango Financial savings is a whopping 5.1% for a stability of as much as $5000 This excessive proportion is a promotional rate, meaning you will not earn that quantity on anything over $5000. There is a minimal deposit of $250, no monthly charge and you do not want to be a resident of Maine (any US resident can open an account). Whilst you'll solely need $2,500 to open the account, you may need to have a minimal stability quantity of $10,000 to earn the APY.
Brick-and-mortar establishments will fluctuate in their required fees, but many online banks (including most of those listed in this article) do not charge month-to-month account maintenance fees in any respect. If you should not have checks, the quantity can be located on your statements next to the Checking Account share ID or inside Online Banking, locate the ACH number by clicking in your Checking account and clicking the hyperlink See account details.
With a web based savings account, additionally it is necessary to contemplate how you'll manage your funds. Regardless that vm.accountsByApy0.display_name 's fee is barely higher, really both of these accounts are big enhancements over what Chase, Bank of America, or Wells Fargo would pay you. Here's tips on how to consider what banks supply. There are a number of different free providers out there, akin to free incoming wire transfers (including those from abroad), free deposit envelopes with postage paid, and free ACH transfers to any of your non-Ally financial institution accounts.
Keep in mind that when the time period of a regular savings product ends, chances are you'll need to maneuver the steadiness to make sure you proceed to earn the perfect return.


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Q: Getting real Google results in Google AJAX API When i perform a search I using the Google AJAX API (http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=flowers&gl=fr)
(with gl=fr)
the first found URL is : flowercampings.com.
whereas when I use google.fr, the first link is : www.1800flowers.com
How I can get the same results using the API (I need the RESTinterface parameters)
Thanks for helping

A: you can't.
there are no "real" results.
a SERP (search engine result page) you see != a SERP someone else sees because a sh*tload of factors some into account (location, your web history, pervious searches, logged in, logged out, time of day, .... )
and yes, the API is known to not display same results as the google search page (some say it's an older google index, i think it's just different), but then again if the person next to you searches from his computer, he might also see another SERP.
the only way to get the same results you see would be installing a programmable browser on your machine and then scrap the results and make your own JSON out of it. but that's probably not what you want.

A: Almost Search Engines base on your personal info (location, nation, language, history, search behave/trend,...) to calculate result page, this is reason.

A: We've built a solution that run a full browser to fetch results that are the closest possible to what actual user see: https://serpapi.com
We have integreations in several languages. Python:
from lib.google_search_results import GoogleSearchResults
query = GoogleSearchResults({"q": "coffee"})
html_results = query.get_html()

GitHub: https://github.com/serpapi/google_search_results_python
Java:
Map<String, String> parameter = new HashMap<>();
parameter.put("q", "Coffee");
parameter.put("location", "Portland");
parameter.put(GoogleSearchResults.SERP_API_KEY_NAME, "demo");
GoogleSearchResults serp = new GoogleSearchResults(parameter);

JsonObject data = serp.getJson();
JsonArray results = (JsonArray) data.get("local_results");
JsonObject first_result = results.get(0).getAsJsonObject();
System.out.println("first coffee: " + first_result.get("title").getAsString());

GitHub: https://github.com/serpapi/google_search_results_java
And Ruby:
require 'google_search_results'
query = GoogleSearchResults.new q: "coffee"
hash_results = query.get_hash

GitHub: https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-ruby

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The day of his P&G job interview, Mr. McDonald dined with Mr. Lafley, who was to be Mr. McDonald's company mentor because they shared military careers prior to P&G. As their company careers crisscrossed over the years, the two would rib each other about their military days.
That should add more weight to the argument about the value of formal mentorship programs.
Tagged with CEOs, mentoring, Proctor & Gamble, succession.


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About ScienceNordic
The President of the European Commission visited the ESOF conference in Copenhagen. At a press briefing he said that he thinks science should be made a little 'sexier' to the wider public. (Photo: Lise Brix)
Barroso: researchers must learn from the Americans
Science needs to be sexier and Europe should look to the Americans for inspiration, says President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso.
Lise Brix
thursday 26. June 2014 - 09:07
Science needs to be spiced up, arouse our curiosity, and reduce our fear of new research.
That was the message from the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso when he visited ESOF2014.
"It's incredibly important to communicate science to a wider public and to generate enthusiasm about research," said Barroso when ScienceNordic met him at a press briefing.
Is the future Einstein at the conference?
Barroso pointed out that the ESOF conference is a great means of creating interest in research.
The President of the EU Commission José Manuel Barroso pointed out that the Danish Minister of Higher Education and Science Sofie Carsten Nielsen would probably be better at making science 'sexy' than he would. The Danish minister was quick to respond that the scientists themselves are the best at making their research sexy. (Photo: Lise Brix)
"This type of event is important. It creates a sort of momentum for research and I'm sure it will create enthusiasm. And who knows, maybe some of the young people here will turn out to be future Einsteins -- why not?" said Barroso.
Science has to be sexy
The President of the European Commission went on to say that he felt that European scientists could learn from their American colleagues when it comes to communicating science to a wider public.
To give an example, Barroso mentioned the American astronomer Carl Sagan (1934-1996) who succeeded in making scientific topics readily understandable to laypersons.
Too much fear of science
During the press meeting, which was attended by a number of Danish and international journalists, Barroso stressed that he believes the debate about science is characterised by too much fear.
"To be honest, at times there's too much fear of science in Europe. I think it's important to have a rational debate about it."
"It's true that when we're building a new world with our technologies, there are some legitimate worries. But at the same time I do believe that there are scientific responses to these worries. So it's best to meet this fear with dialogue," said Barroso.
Stem cells and GMO creates fear
To give examples of research areas that create fear, Barroso mentioned stem cell research, nanotechnology, GMOs, and pharmaceutical research.
"I'm not criticising this fear, because sometimes it's legitimate, but I don't like it when the discussion gets ideological."
"When there's a new discovery, there's often a conservative, not to say reactionary, attitude from society -- society is in shock. When [the Italian astronomer] Galileo said that Earth wasn't the centre of the universe, it was a shock."
"Right now we're seeing extremely important breakthroughs for science -- and the typical attitude towards them is often defensive," says Barroso.
EU President applauds Danish science
The theme of this year's ESOF conference is 'building bridges' with science.
The EU President pointed out that a number of bridges with science have already been built in Europe, but these need to be expanded, creating bridges between different branches of science, between science and industry and to research in other countries.
In his opening speech at his year's ESOF conference Barroso also took the opportunity to praise the host country for its research. Among other things, he mentioned that Denmark is renowned for its expertise in biotechnology, pharmaceutics, and telecommunications.
"It's a country that's proud of and confident about its knowledge-based research – a country renowned for its openness and desire to collaborate internationally," said Barroso.
Read the original story in Danish on Videnskab.dk
Translated by: Iben Gøtzsche Thiele
ESOF2014
society and culture esof2014 videnskab.dk society & culture
Researchers want to put Norway on the pig embryo map. Animal rights activists are critical.
Wolf packs don't actually have alpha males and alpha females, the idea is based on a misunderstanding
Sex for the first time: Norwegian teens are postponing their sexual debut
This is why you have negative feelings after sex
Researchers' Zone:
New research lets us into the brains of artists
Ever wondered what goes on inside a performer's brain? With EEG-technology we can show what the performing person feels in real time.
Can we vaccinate the world?
Self-interest seems to be a dominant motivating factor for vaccine-rich countries to donate - and it gives modest hope about win-win global cooperation during pandemics.
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Q: I want to get/print df by range instead of head or tail I can't find or understand how to get the data I want by range
I want to know how to get df['Close']from x to y then .mean to sum it up
I have tried "costomclose = df['Close'],range(dagartot,val)"
But it gives me something else like heads and tails from df
if len(df) >= 34:
        dagartot = len(df)
        valdagar = 5
        val = dagartot-valdagar
        costomclose = df['Close'],range(dagartot,val)
        print(costomclose)

edit:
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A: Here is an example of slicing out the middle of something based on the encounter index:
>>> s = pd.Series(list('abcdefghijklmnop'))

>>> s
Out[135]:
0     a
1     b
...
12    m
13    n
14    o
15    p
dtype: object

>>> s.iloc[6:9]
Out[136]:
6    g
7    h
8    i
dtype: object

This also works for DataFrames, e.g. df.iloc[0] returns the first row and df.iloc[5:8] returns those rows, end not included.
You can also slice by actual index of the DataFrame, which is not necessarily a serially-counting sequence of integers by substituting iloc for loc.

A: Here is an example of slicing out the middle of a dataframe that stores the alphabet:
>>> df = pd.DataFrame([dict(num=i + 65, char=chr(i + 65))  for i in range(26)])
>>> df[(76 <= df.num) & (df.num < 81)]
    num char
11   76    L
12   77    M
13   78    N
14   79    O
15   80    P


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Shaka Hislop
Shaka Hislop is a football analyst with ESPN and a 2006 World Cup player with Trinidad and Tobago. He played professionally in England with Reading, Newcastle, West Ham and Portsmouth and has an Executive MBA in Business Administration and a Mechanical Engineering degree from Howard University. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame athlete in Trinidad and Tobago and Howard while he was the inaugural winner of the England PFA's Special Merit Award for his services to football.
Dr Shaka Hislop: "We must be intentional in how we want to shape this world"
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In this Ted talk, ESPN soccer analyst and former Trinidad and Tobago World Cup goalkeeper and England Premier League star Shaka Hislop reminds us that culture, identity, and community are powerful weapons in our journey to success: More from Wired868 B&B Ep 18: Jan-Michael Williams (Pt 1): My path to …
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Well, this really has been a strange couple of weeks. I've found myself having in-depth conversations with some of my best and dearest friends regarding our football and the position we currently find ourselves in. We really are up a murky creek; and Fifa has snatched our paddles and are …
'An issue for every single one of us!' Shaka Hislop on the killing of George Floyd
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'Riot is the language of the unheard'—Reverent Dr Martin Luther King Jr George Floyd's death has sparked riots and reactions like I have not witnessed during my lifetime. Coming at a time when the many faces of racism and racist reaction had already brought the conversation to the front pages. …
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Who I'd like to see win the World Cup and who I think will win are two completely different things. I'd like to see Argentina win it. For Leo Messi. To take his rightful place on the "best ever" shortlist, Messi, who, in my opinion, is the best player of …
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Richard Milhous Nixon
37th President of the United States, from 1969 to 1974
Nixon, a republican served under Dwight D. Eisenhower as Vice President for eight years and as President from 1969 to 1974. Richard Nixon is the only President to have resigned the office. The Watergate political scandal involved wiretapping, break in's, Money laundering through the Federal Reserve system and much more. Facing near-certain impeachment, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974 in disgrace but his successor, Gerald Ford, issued a pardon to President Nixon after his resignation.
Like most presidents, Nixon had little grasp of complex economic issues but a clear understanding of his political stakes in them. Popular quotes from the Nixon age were "nixonomics" and the Council of Economic Advisers began issuing "inflation alerts". Richard Milhous Nixon was a member of the Bohemian Club as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and his Secretary of State was Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger has also been a long time member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bohemian Grove. Nixon's cabinet was full of men with a future in the upper levels of government and finance. Placing the agenda of "New Federalism" from the mid Sixties on the fast track to empowerment. Richard Nixon enacted Presidential Order #11647 on February 14, 1972 in effect creating a new country out if the United States.
Nixon Passed a Resolution that the United States must Reorganize into 10 Super Regions
and these 10 Regions are Administrative Units of the United Nations. All the people of the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska, were placed under the control of these 10 Regions. The original document is not listed (my backup copy Download the PDF here) click save as and take it with you, it's just amended or uh Revoked, only remnants remain as proof here and here. It is clear now that Mr Nixon's administration was filled with underhanded agendas from Watergate to the Globalists 10 Regional Governors with all the Federal Bureaucracy changes that were necessary to implement those regions.
Richard Nixon proclaimed a massive reorganization of the Executive Branch, the most sweeping in history. He rolled out a super Cabinet and a super-super Cabinet with a total of eight trusted aides and official Cabinet members who was superimposed on the existing government including a Department of Human Resources. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." — James Madison, address to the Virginia Convention, June 16, 1788. James Madison was correct.
references: Sweet Liberty Wikipedia American Presidency Project
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Anything that has to do with the God of heaven, Lucifer has a counterfeit, here's a little history of the Babylonian empire and the tower of Babel, the European Union and its Occult connections.
Quote: In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. Some called him 'Red Roosevelt' comparing to communist Russia saying that the government was taking over.
Is Weishaupt's Illuminati still around? The seed of Illuminatism has surfaced in many forms today. On a Global level the entire New Age/Secret Society system is rooted in this one common foundation, Lucifer.


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A Review Of Star Trek: Discovery Season 3
The third season of Star Trek: Discovery concluded the other week with the finale "The Hope That Is You, Part II", which was a peculiar title since the premiere episode was part I. This helps illustrate the off-kilter nature of Star Trek: Discovery's third season. It had a great premise which functioned as a soft reboot for the show, but the execution was lacking at times and has turned off fans.
In the final second season episode of the show, the U.S.S. Discovery was hurled over 900 years into the distant future and the latest season chronicles the crew of the Federation starship after they arrive in the year 3188. Or rather the series lead Commander Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) arrives in that year ahead of her starship. After Burnham and her crewmates are reunited they set out to find out what happened to the United Federation of Planets. At this time in history, the Federation is a shadow of its former glorious self. Roughly a hundred years prior, the galaxy suffered an event called The Burn that destroyed most of the Federation's Starfleet and Star Trek's crystalline power source, dilithium crystals became a rare commodity. Meanwhile, the Federation was forced to contract its vast borders as core member worlds like Earth and Vulcan (now called Ni'Var) left it to become independent states.
Before long, the Discovery and its crew encounter the remnants of the Federation and soon offer their services to help rebuild the Federation with the aid of their ship's unique spore drive that can travel instantly throughout the galaxy. By the way, the ship received a nifty upgrade.
To repeat, this is a terrific premise but the execution was woefully uneven and frustrating at times.
First the good: The production was exceptional with film-quality special effects and production design that rivals the J.J. Abrams films (fans of those films will be pleased to know that that alternate universe was mentioned in one episode).
Many of the new characters were instantly engaging and memorable such as Cleveland "Book" Booker (David Ajala), your typical space rogue with a heart of gold and Burnham's love interest. Book was a fascinating rogue who had selfish motives in the beginning but quickly allowed his inner goodness come to light and he strove to become part of Starfleet. Speaking of Starfleet, the show introduced one of Star Trek's best admirals with Admiral Charles Vance (Oded Fehr) who projected the gravitas of a seasoned and reasonable leader. He also helped make up for the loss of Captain Pike, one of the best highlights of the second season. The Discovery also recruited a young human Adira Tal (Blu del Barrio), who is co-joined with a Trill symbiont and possesses a keen scientific mind. Occassionally, they (as Adira asked to be referred to) interacts with their deceased lover and previous Trill host Grey Tal (Ian Alexander). It turned out that Grey was not a hallucination and in a later episode when other Discovery crew members were able to see and interact with Grey, these encounters were one of the best emotional highlights of the season.
The new baddies in the Star Trek universe are the Emerald Chain, a criminal organization led by Orions and Andorians who now occupy significant portions of former Federation space. Their leader is Osyrra (Janet Kidder), a vicious and manipulative thug who will stop at nothing to capture the Discovery and steal its technology. Basically the Emerald Chain are the Ferengi on super steroids and gave us a hint of how the Ferengi were supposed to be portrayed in early episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG).
Some episodes were quite good like the premier episode and season finale; "There is a Tide…", which basically was Die Hard on the Discovery with Michael Burnham doing a bang up job as as 32nd century John McClane; "Far From Home" reunited Burnham with the Discovery; and "Unification III" had the Disocvery travleing to the former Vulcan. This episode functioned as a distant sequel to the TNG episodes "Unification I and II" and gave us a brief cameo of Leonard Nimoy as Spock.
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Like any good showman knows, you've got to give the people what they want. And, clearly, what the people want is an homage to a bit on foreign painkillers from a lovable oaf. So this morning on Sunday NFL Countdown, Chris Berman used the Buffalo Bills "home game" in Toronto against the Seahawks to return to the Canadian well with just a little drop of codeine.
Chris Berman has many bits that he trots out for our pleasure each week, but today he referenced one that was never intended to be aired, yet made it's way to our eyes and ears years later. "I'm sure if there's aches and pains in that Canada game....the deux deux deuxs might help." That pause. My goodness, you can almost feel the full-body wink.
Smart move on his part though, not to discuss his chosen method of procuring the Canadian aspirin with "juuuust enough to give you that pop"—which would be smuggling the pills in his suitcase—as he was actually live on air this time. Poor Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen react in the way one presumably reacts to all Berman interactions: confused, awkward laughter and a quick change of subject.


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Nas [Untitled]
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[Def Jam; 2008]
By Ajitpaul Mangat https://www.tinymixtapes.com//writer/ajitpaul+mangat 2008-07-28T07:46:29-04:00
Styles: commodified art for market's sake
Others: Katy Perry, FOX News, {The Matrix}
Ever since the Western world's market transformed from a feudal (producer/government-controlled) system to a market/capitalist (consumer-controlled) system, one question has remained ubiquitous in the art world: is it possible for an artist to create art for art's sake anymore? That is, can art be made without the audience in mind and have intrinsic value? Or, is it now inextricable as a commodity to be bought and sold, with a value dictated by the ebbing-and-flowing market? The past hundred-plus years seem to indicate that the former is true: movie producers utilize test screenings and record labels manufacture lead singles, so the audience's reactions can be accurately gauged and the work altered accordingly. The artist's idiosyncratic vision has seemingly been effaced by the capitalistic bottom line. Such is the case with the contrived, desultory, and ultimately hollow untitled album by Nas.
One tried and true formula often employed by artists to sell their music to consumers has been to shock them. From sex (Elvis' scandalous elastic hips and Katy Perry's salacious #1-hit single, "I Kissed A Girl") to violence (Ozzy Osborne and that unfortunate dove, rap sheets longer than most setlists), controversy has continually proven to be the most effective form of publicity for a musician. Of course, race as publicity generator is not to be forgotten. And Nas certainly has not. Along the lines of Body Count's "Cop Killer" and Public Enemy's "Fight The Power," Nas originally named his latest album Nigger. However, more so than those aforementioned tracks, his racial politicking came across as visibly contrived and as an attempt simply to generate pre-release buzz rather than to stimulate important, intellectual race-related dialogue.
Firstly, once the necessary national hype had been generated and various prominent voices, such as the NAACP, began to vociferously attack him, there was his too nonchalant and seemingly uncomplicated decision to change the album's title. Then, there were the strange rationalizations of his decision. Notably, on "Hero" Nas raps, "This universal apartheid/ Blocking y'all from going to stores and buying it/ My lawyers only see the Billboard charts as winning/ Forgetting, Nas the only one true rebel since the beginning." This verse is Nas' supposedly angry response to his record label's (Def Jam) concerns over the decision of major retail chains, such as Wal Mart, not to carry his album under its original moniker. But doesn't Nas' decision to comply with Def Jam's demands make him utterly complicit in their apparently opposed decision-making? Isn't he clearly subjugating his voice and artistic vision in favor of capitalism? Especially in a day and age (the Web 2.0 epoch) when artists have other less monopolized and bureaucratized means to distribute music, is this really the definition of a rebel? Or, a hero?
For an album with race politicking as its major theme, the rest of the tracks deal no better with this important but admittedly problematic subject matter. "N.I.G.G.E.R. (The Slave and the Master)" could have been one of the most interesting tracks on the album, as it most clearly evokes the album's "real" title. In a typically hip-hop, non-Hegelian sense of the phrase, Nas raps on the chorus: "We are the slave and the master." That is, African Americans were freed only to enslave themselves again by flossin', among other things. However, his concepts contradict one another with every rhyme and lyrical twist. At times, Nas rationalizes his own gaudiness ("It's necessary I bling/ Puts rims on everything/ Wear Timbs on every scene"), only to then inconsistently condemn material possessions ("Yep! I'd give this cash up/ This paper don't matter"). He gets even more desultory and confusing on "Sly Fox." On this track, his targets are too obvious (FOX News, Halliburton, the FCC), references too tired: ("The Matrix doctrine"), lyrics too baffling ("The Fox has a Bushy tail/ And Bush tells lies and Fox trots/ so I don't know what's real"), and topics too varied for any subversive ideas or exciting discourse to emerge.
The aesthetics on the untitled album prove no more successful. On "Hero," in-vogue producer Polow da Don bombards the listener with tinny rising and descending pianos, pounding drums, an unnecessary R&B-er (Keri Hilson) on the chorus, and doses of heavy reverb. Such a cacophonous template would be fine for a club-banger, but on a track where Nas' lyrics are supposed to be the most important aspect, it muddles his message. On the craven, inappropriate "Make the World Go Round," Nas employs every currently popular trend in pop music to create one of the most explicit crossover attempts of his career, as he toasts every clichéd figure in hip-hop -- ballers, gangstas, hustlas -- and name-drops Fendi and Porsche over a generic Cool & Dre beat, while Chris Brown adds nothing but marketability.
Ultimately, Nas' decision to sacrifice lyrical and aesthetic sensibility for controversy, hype, and pop-appeal exposes the commodification and hollowness of his artistic voice and vision. There's nothing wrong with an artist wanting to eat, but to conceal obvious commodity under a guise of meaningful art is misleading, hurtful, and above all inappropriate. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot be a rebel and give in so easily to industry pressure. You cannot be a hero and spew contradictory, desultory poetry. You cannot talk meaningfully about race and become a black-faced minstrel performer by mimicking every hip-hop stereotype. Playwright Oscar Wilde once said, "The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art." With his untitled album, it seems clear Nas ate his art only to be dominated by the gazing, domineering spectator.
1. Queens Get The Money2. You Can't Stop Us Now3. Breathe4. Make The World Go Round5. Hero6. America7. Sly Fox8. Testify9. N.I.G.G.E.R. (The Slave And The Master)10. Untitled11. Fried Chicken12. Project Roach13. Ya'll My Niggas14. We're Not Alone15. Black President
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I think considering that I was playing Danger and Opportunity 13 years ago, *now* declaring I Found Her dead is like beating a dead horse. I pretty much gave up on it 8 years ago.
I think they were together in the comics (or became one during its run). Some internet commentary I've read from people familiar with the source would have rather they been a couple from the start than how they did it.
I don't think any of the women leads have died. Mira, Claudia, Tracy Scoggins, Pat Tallman, Andrea Thompson, whoever played Na'Toth, are all still alive. But yeah, the male leads? Fear not though, Byron is still alive.
As I said in my Facebook post....Vir was who we all wanted to be if we were everymen in that universe.
I've never seen the movie, but has always wanted to. Regardless of the accuracy, I saw some 4k stills taken from the most recent remastering, and dear god its gorgeous.
Maybe they have no way of testing young children. For example, Lyta's parents may be telepaths, but there's a chance she herself is not. Maybe all telepathy is latent, but comes into play for most at a very young age.
I only watched the first five episodes, but I really, really liked it. Need to finish it up and then watch season 2 when it comes on!
I think the fact that telepaths were talking to each other is more of a media convenience....like when Minbari are alone and they talk in English.
Yeah the pun was fitting of Anakin from the Clone Wars rather than the films. I liked it, honestly. The Red and Gold leader cameos were a really nice subtle touch!
Its been over ten years since I've seen it, so I really need to do another viewing.
Sad times for sure But that image looks like a modern rendering of the original model, rather than an original image.
I do really like how they did the Drakh emissary that episode though. It was very....unsettling with the effect they used. Really wish they used that for the other Drakh.
I don't see any Beatle in that picture. There is, however, a nice blue Beetle.


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Under surveillance: Cities struggle to balance safety, privacy
Massachusetts town opts for camera with 'eyelids' that close when not needed
By Kevin McCaney
Police departments around the country are steadily installing surveillance cameras to help prevent crime, often funded by grants from the federal Homeland Security Department, but at what point does public safety cross the line into violating privacy? Is there a way to balance the two?
It's an old debate that hasn't slowed down, and among the questions have been where to place cameras and who should be able to monitor them. But while the debate goes on, cameras keep cropping up in surveillance systems that run the gamut of coverage.
Victorville, Calif., recently activated 31 cameras in high-crime areas, reported that city's Daily Press. Feeds are monitored by the San Bernardino County Sheriff's office.
Lancaster, Pa., last year opted for full coverage. The small, low-crime-rate city in the heart of Amish country installed a system of 165 cameras — more than Philadelphia or Boston has — monitored not by law enforcement but by the nonprofit Community Safety Coalition, reported the Guardian. The American Civil Liberties Union says it objects on that grounds that that citizens would monitor the system and that it covers the whole town, not just high-crime areas.
At least one city has had its doubts about using cameras. Last year, the Cambridge, Mass., City Council stopped the activation of eight surveillance cameras over privacy concerns and questions about how images from the cameras would be used, David Abel reported in the Boston Globe.
At the other end of the spectrum, the Neighborhood Watch program in Ramsey County, Minn., invites residents to visit its WebCop website, where they can watch live feeds from 14 surveillance cameras and alert police if they see anything suspicious.
The Police Department in Marshfield, Mass., seems to be trying to split the difference with the deployment of a dozen SituCam Privacy Protecting Cameras, which can remain closed except during certain times of day or when activated by an alert, Russell Nichols writes in Government Technology.
Each of the cameras, made by SituCon Systems, has an "eyelid" that can be kept closed except for assigned times of the day or night, Nichols writes. During an emergency or other incident, authorized personnel could activate a wireless alert, which would open the eye and give dispatchers information about the incident.
The significance of a physical eyelid is that people would know when a camera is recording, according SituCon. They would also know that they're not being recorded around the clock.
A camera that blinks could help ease some worries over privacy. But the ACLU, while not opposing cameras in high-risk areas, has still voiced concerns over who controls the cameras and what is done with the images, Nichols reports.
Kevin McCaney is a former editor of Defense Systems and GCN.


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Convention on the Rights of the Child 15.1
ILO Convention No. 87 concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize, June 17, 1948
Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women "Convention of Belem Do Pará", Brazil June 9, 1994. Art 4
International Convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families. General Assembly resolution No 45/158, December 18, 1990. Art 40.
International Labour Convention No. 11 Concerning The Rights Of Association And Combination Of Agricultural Workers.
Report of the Committee of Freedom of Association of the International Labour Organization, number 337 with respect to Colombia, supra par. 48, pars. 535 and 539.
Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly of association. UN
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Case of Baena Ricardo et al. v. Panama. Merits. February 2, 2001. Series C no. 72. Par.156-159, 162, 166, 171, 172
Case of Huilca Tecse v. Peru. Merits, R and C. March 3, 2005. Series C No. 121. Par. 69-72
Case of Yatama v. Nicaragua. PO, Merits, R and C. June 23, 2005. Series C No. 127. Par. 215-217
Case of Cantoral Huamaní and García Santa Cruz v. Peru. PO, Merits, R and C. July 10, 2007. Series C No. 167. Par.. 144-149
Case of Garcia and Family v. Guatemala. November 29, 1012. No 258. Par. 122 (association and expression are related)
Young, James and Webster v. United Kingdom , August 13, 1981, Â § 57, Series A no. 44
Sigura A. Sigurjónsson v. Iceland , June 30, 1993, § 37, Series A no. 264
Chassagnou and Others v. France [Grand Chamber], nos. 25088/94, 28331/95 and 28443/95, § 103, 1999-III
Refah Partisi (the Welfare Party) et al. v. Turkey [Grand Chamber], nos. 41340/98, 41342/98, 41343/98 and 41344/98, § 88, 2003-II
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On Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein maintained that Barr is being "as forthcoming as he can" with regard to the Mueller report.
"He's being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he's trying to mislead people, I think, is just completely bizarre," Rosenstein told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Wednesday. He believes the public should have "tremendous confidence" in Barr's integrity.
Lat month, the Attorney General released a four-page summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's findings during his investigation into the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russia. According to the summary, Mueller found no collusion with Russia but made no definitive conclusions on obstruction of justice.


Whether one has a new or existing home, just changing window treatments like blinds can change to look of space, The Blinds Gallery notes. Plantation shutters are quite a popular choice with many homeowners in Perth.
Looks: Plantation shutters look good and are available in various finishes. Wood blinds are a popular choice as they can be painted or stained in colors to suit the rest of a home's décor.
Safety: These shutters are a better option in homes with young children as there are no dangling cords or strings. Children can get seriously hurt by pulling on cords.
Durable: These blinds are very durable and last a long time. They are a worthwhile investment.
Energy savers: These shutters also provide great insulation by keeping a home cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Furniture savers: UV rays cause a lot of damage to furniture and rugs. Colors fade and furniture can get warped due to excessive humidity. Installing shutters can help a homeowner control the amount of light and heat in any space.
Privacy: The beauty of plantation shutters is that slats can be angled to let light in and people inside a room look out. Depending on the way the slats are angled, passersby cannot look into a house.
Ventilation: Plantation shutters can also be used with window meshes to provide maximum air circulation. Slats are fixed so they don't rattle in a breeze.
Value: These shutters look attractive with any kind of décor and look luxurious too. If a homeowner decides to sell, he can be assured of getting a very good price.
Dividers: There are quite a few ways to use plantation shutters other than on windows. These can be used as room dividers, cabinet doors etc.
Easy to maintain: Because of their design, they are very low maintenance. An occasional wipe down with a damp cloth will keep them looking good for years.


So I didn't know where to post this so I chose this one because the news section isn't the right place for that.
I found a "Making of Libertad" video that is pretty nice to watch! Anyone knows where it's from?
ok. I thought there was only one deluxe version including the webisodes from making the album and the live stuff from the argentina gig. which version (country) was that?
I could be wrong? found the case but with no cd init.. I'm bad when it comes to looking after my cds..
its bugging me now I cant remmber if I buyed two albums?
I think it's confusing because there were two 'making of' videos released with Libertad related CDs.
Melody and the Tyranny (mini EP/She Builds Quick Machines single released before the album) had one just called 'Making of Libertad' which was all the webisodes done as one video.
Then Libertad itself had the one that's on youtube, called 'Re:Evolution:Making of Libertad'. It was actually on the CD itself, not the bonus DVD but I'm not 100% sure if it was included with all versions. Personally I think this is the better of the two, because the webisodes were recorded as teasers they don't really go into much detail.


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Metro News Now, Sept. 7: Expo Line, Dodgers, Traxx
Dept. of Dodger Stadium Express: The Dodgers' magic number is down to four to clinch their seventh straight NL West division title. That means they'll likely wrap things up this weekend, meaning in turn they're likely to host game one of the Division Series on Oct. 3. The Dodger Stadium Express will once again be running for all playoff action.
The Dodgers will probably face the winner of the Wildcard game in the Division Series. I suspect the teams they most want to avoid in a best-of-five series are the ones with a pretty decent starting rotation that could dominate — i.e. the Nationals and Mets, assuming either makes it to the playoffs.
I will resist the temptation to look ahead to a World Series matchup other than to say a 1965 World Series rematch versus the Twins might be fun.
Dept. of Construction
Lifts in the Regional Connector station box. ◽ #GoMetro #construction #nextstop #dtla #regionalconnector
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Things to listen to whilst transiting: next in my que is The Dropout, described as such:
The story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos is an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong. How did the world's youngest self-made female billionaire lose it all in the blink of an eye? How did the woman once heralded as "the next Steve Jobs" find herself facing criminal charges — to which she pleaded not guilty — and up to 20 years in jail? How did her technology, meant to revolutionize healthcare, potentially put millions of patients at risk? And how did so many smart people get it so wrong along the way?
In my former career I had the opportunity to watch some so-called smart people — from the private investment and real estate world — babble nonsense that led to a lot of other people (not them) getting sacked. Thus, my interest in this podcast.
•Streetsblog LA takes a look at crowding on the Expo Line in the wake of the June service changes in which peak hour trains went from running every six minutes to every eight minutes. Excerpt:
Some have speculated that the recent Expo/Blue Line service cuts could be Metro admitting operational issues – ie: that it is just too difficult to have Blue/Expo trains running every three minutes on shared tracks in downtown Los Angeles, including getting trains in and out of the 7th Street station terminus. Even with some delays the old schedule provided riders more service and less crowding. For riders, it would still be better to schedule for every six minutes, and to slip a little – delivering trains say every seven minutes – than the current (arguably more reliable) schedule for every eight minutes. For crowding and ridership, frequency would be better than reliability.
Here's what we wrote about the service changes in May:
Metro is also making changes to rail service hours that will help standardize train frequencies, improve on-time performance, provide three-car trains at peak hours and save taxpayer money by reducing under-used service.
•During peak hours all Blue, Expo and Gold Line trains will be three cars instead of the current mix of two-car and three-car trains.
•Weekday peak hour frequencies for the Blue, Expo and Gold Lines would have trains running every eight minutes instead of the current every six minutes (Blue and Expo) or seven minutes (Gold). This is to make frequencies consistent and more efficient on Metro's three busiest light rail lines.
•On the Blue Line, every train would run every eight minutes between 7th/Metro and Downtown Long Beach instead of trains running every six minutes between 7th/Metro and Willow and every 12 minutes between Willow and Downtown Long Beach. Blue Line customers will experience less waiting time for trains from Downtown L.A. to Long Beach.
Metro CEO Phil Washington stresses that Metro, as always, will monitor bus and rail ridership and can adjust service at any time based on changing demand.
•Eater Los Angeles reports that Traxx — the long-time restaurant in Union Station that suddenly closed earlier this year — has new owners and will reopen in phases, beginning this fall. That means we'll return to having three sit-down restaurants for those passing through Union Station, including Cafe Crepe and Imperial Western.
•A new half-mile segment of the L.A. River bike path opened Thursday in Studio City — between Whitsett Avenue and Coldwater Canyon Boulevard. Reports Streetsblog LA:
Studio City now has three officially-open river greenway stretches: Radford Avenue to Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Laurel Canyon to Whitsett, and Whitsett to Coldwater Canyon. It is not possible to walk or bike directly between these as there are currently no safe provisions to cross the streets/bridges that separate them. Cyclists come to the end of the segment, then need to ride along a busy street to get to a signalized intersection, cross there, then ride along the street back to the path. In the future, the city is looking to add under- or over-crossings.
Metro's Measure M has funds to continue expanding the bike path and the city of L.A. says it will address under/over-crossings in the future. Metro's big L.A. River project — called the L.A. River Path Project — is in the planning phase and will close the eight-mile gap in the river path between Elysian Valley and Maywood.
•The U.S. Department of Interior issued a rule change to allow electric bikes to be used in national parks in places where regular bikes are allowed, reports the LAT. Several groups have protested, citing the speed of electric bikes while others say the rule will make riding more comfortable or doable for more people.
Categories: Transportation Headlines
Tagged as: crowding, Dodger Stadium Express, electric bikes, Expo Line, Los Angeles River
Late-night closure of I-10 busway bridge/HOV lane from Sept. 9 – 13
Metro to release "Understanding How Women Travel" report this month
Well, let this be a lesson for Metro not to ever build another Expo Line again. Way too many stops, no Express trains, and no signal priority. If the city are ultimately the ones in Charge of signal priority then why on earth would Metro even consider the cheap-o option and connect the Blue and Expo Line Together? Under no circumstances should it take 10-12 min for a train to go from 7th/Metro to LATTC. Metro literally pointed the blame on everyone but themselves with this one.
What's even more sad is now the Gold Line is going to be prone to these exact delays once the regional connector is built unless there will be LAUS-Azusa only trains as well.
It's sad that the Expo Line will end up being the Poster child of how a light rail line should never be build.
If there's going to be another sales tax ballot again, there better be fixes like Grade Separating Blue, Expo and Gold in Downtown, in addition to Express Tracks, otherwise it's an instant no. I'm done voting for half-baked projects like this.
B. Kuo says:
Well yes, Expo is indeed packed to the brim and the street running tracks probably can't deal with more trains without major capital investment. This is not going to get better. In fact it will probably get worse when the Regional Connector opens and a new crush of riders flow into the system (though I do see some operational efficiencies with trains not having to reverse at 7MC).
1. TAKE OUT SEATS! Everyone sits closest to the aisle. In order to sit down, you must actually be the a*hole and demand people move over. It's notable that even in the cover photo for the Streetsblog article there apparently is an empty seat on the right. The easiest way to increase capacity is to do it like NYC where seats line the side of the car and you do not have to ask to sit down.
2. Vertical bike racks so people do not lay their bikes everywhere. Currently the space reserved for bikes can accommodate 2-3 at the most and it's almost comically bad as people shuffle their bikes in and out.
Unreal that Metro has a high performing light rail line in Expo that is exceeding initial ridership projections, then decides to cut service. And then Metro throws its hands up in the air and says it doesn't know what to do about declining ridership. Do two things–grade separation/physically separate bus lanes and increase frequency of service. It's not that complicated.
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Metro is so goddamn stupid and inconsiderate to its ridership. I dont care if you publish this, i just want one of you worker lackeys to read it with your own two eyes.


The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has launched a new online radio station called "The Mormon Channel".
Faith Promoting Programming: Commercial Free.
What exciting news! The LDS Church has taken another huge step onto the world stage using "New Media" to spread a positive message to the world. The radio channel was created to give an inspirational option for online listening, religious instruction, and uplifting music. Members and non-members of the Mormon church will enjoy the messages. For example: when I clicked on this morning, the program playing was called "Facing Death". The program included Interviews with religious and spiritual leaders of many faiths – exploring the subject of religion and death, and interviews with individuals sharing their personal stories of death and grief. It was compelling, thought provoking, and extremely hopeful. The second program was a rebroadcast of Music and The Spoken Word.
I am especially pleased to see two programs completely dedicated to MUSIC. Check it out!


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Celluloide
Label: Boredom
I am not alone in thinking there is something uniquely magical about the French synth scene, especially with lyrics sung in their mother tongue. Celluloide have embraced this fact since their 2010 album "Hexagonal". Their first three albums had English lyrics and while still very good, you just knew things would take off if they shifted to French.
"Futur Antérieur" sinks its analogue teeth into you from the first second all the way until the dreamy title track ends after 39 minutes. If it wasn't for the clinical production, this could have been passed on as a lost minimal synth gem from the early eighties, a time when the French were a synthetic force to be reckoned with. Still the album sounds very moderna and you can tell Celluloide know how to make use of their equipment. The sultry, mesmerising vocals of Darkleti, much like Yazoo in their day, provides a soulful counterpart to the cold machines.
It is very hard to pick out favourites as "Futur Antérieur" has no weak pieces. One could argue that the sound could get a bit samey after a full album, but as it is such a glorious sound it is nothing to worry about. Analogue, sparse synthpop does not get much better than this. As a bonus for the collectors, the album also comes out on white vinyl as well as CD, limited 2CD and digital. Superbement!


The wonderful Red Cross staff and volunteers bring shelter equipment to prepare for displaced residents after apartment fire.
The shelter was open for three days as the residents secured new housing.
Thank you to these Red Cross staff and the many others who staffed the shelter during this event.


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Cover Band from Louisville, KY
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Artie Dean Harris Band
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Big Black Cadillac - Funk & Soul Band
Dance Band from Bardstown, KY
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Bluegrass Band from Lexington, KY
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Bluegrass Band from Louisville, KY
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Swing '39
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Dance Band from Louisville, KY
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Junction Creek
Country Band from Shepherdsville, KY
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The Dimestore Dandy
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The Derby City Dandies are a lively, uke-driven Hot Jazz combo based in Louisville, Kentucky. We specialize in early danceable music from the 1920s Jazz Age to the 1930s Swing Era and beyond. Our repertoire ranges from songs from Tin Pan Alley to the Great American songbook and, for variety, will include music from other popular genres of the early 20th century including; Hawaiian, Blues and Americana. Decked in vintage attire, we're also perfect visual complement to any retro themed... (more)
DownStage Live - Wedding Band
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Background Jazz LLC
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Legacy BAND
Cover Band from Lexington, KY
For the utmost in live entertainment, you've got to go have LEGACY BAND SET YOUR EVENT ON FIRE! Comprised of some of the area's most TALENTED MUSICIANS and VOCALIST, LEGACY BAND puts the 'FUN' in any function. Featuring Family Friendly Hits, Classic Oldies, and your favorite ballads! LEGACY BAND offers the Versatility and Knowledge to fit YOUR needs. Whether you're planning a WEDDING, CORPORATE GATHERING, or an EPIC PARTY, professional pitch-perfect musical style that's sure to PLEASE... (more)
Josh Goodlett
Country Band from Louisville, KY
We are a country band. We play anything from George Jones to Brantley Gilbert. We've open for acts such as Kip Moore, Drake White, Micheal Ray, Tyler Farr, Shooter Jennings, and many more. We've played shows all over the US. If you want a mix of old and new country we are the band for you! We also can accommodate acoustic shows as well. We are very professional. We've been together for 7 years. It's a 6 piece band. No show to far for us. Thanks hope we see y'all soon. Josh Goodlett will... (more)
Carrie Johnson and Taylor Hampton Duo
Acoustic Band from Lexington, KY
We are an acoustic guitar duo from Lexington Kentucky. We play music by Norah Jones, Adele, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Linda Ronstadt, Chris Stapleton, Patsy Cline, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, The Beatles, James Taylor, plus originals, and lots more! We use our own sound system, and also have our own soundman.We are experienced and professional, and would love to play for your next event! Also, we love to travel! Carrie Johnson- Acoustic Rhythm Guitar & Vocals Taylor Hampton-... (more)
Ronnie Lee Williams
Oldies Band from Covington, KY
RONNIE LEE WILLIAMS is based out of northern Kentucky. For many years he has been delivering great heart felt performances all around the country. He has been seen at many types of venues from corner bars and lodges to festivals to casinos, city concerts and on and on. Currently, he is performing with the Ronnie Lee Williams Band which is a 6 piece group playing Good Old Rock 'n Roll and Country hits of the 50s-80's and a bit beyond. Also, he is performing with Ronnie Lee Williams & The... (more)
Rob Barnes Band
Jazz Band from Lexington, KY
My band plays jazz- everything from the old classics to jazz versions of current pop songs. I am blessed to work with people in my band who are the best musicians in Kentucky. It has been a joy to continually play jazz music for the people of the region at events such as weddings and parties. The reactions we get make it worth it- we always get people dancing and having fun, and that's what it's all about to me. Fun! Also, we can play really soft so people can relax and have conversation... (more)
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Indie Rock Band from Owensboro, KY
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'Fresh Prince of Bel Air' Reboot: Peacock Releases New Trailer
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Get ready to head back to West Philadelphia! Peacock released a new teaser for their highly anticipated Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot, Bel-Air, Tuesday, narrated by the original prince of Philly, Will Smith. In the trailer for the reimagined drama series, we see newcomer Jabari Banks, as "Will," being thrown into the overwhelming and often opulent world of Bel-Air, as Smith's voice is heard reciting the show's theme song in the background.
Banks is nearly drowning under the pressure, wading his way through a pool filled with remnants from his old life in Philly. As basketballs, a trophy and ATVs float past him, a glistening crown alludes to the possibility of a new life for the teen. By the end of the clip, Banks is "finally there," to sit on his throne as none other than the Prince of Bel-Air.
Set in modern-day, Bel-Air is a serialized one-hour dramatic adaptation of the '90s sitcom starring Smith. The show will lean into the series' original premise, following Will's complicated journey from the streets of West Philadelphia to the gated mansions of Bel-Air. However, Bel-Air will dive deeper into the inherent conflicts, emotions and biases that were impossible to fully explore in a 30-minute sitcom format, while still delivering swagger and nods to the original show, Peacock said in a September press release.
Morgan Cooper, director, co-writer and executive producer of the series, said the show will peel back the layers of the otherwise comedic characters seen in the original '90s sitcom.
"With this dramatic reimagining, we wanted to create a show that stands on its own while honoring the spirit and innovation of the original series. Because Bel-Air is a drama, we're able to really peel back the layers of these characters and themes in a way that you simply couldn't do 30 years ago in the half-hour sitcom format," Cooper said in a statement. "We're able to go have tough conversations that challenge perspectives. At its core, Bel-Air is a celebration of the black experience through the perspective of a family."
With casting Banks as "Will" in the modern take on this classic coming-of-age story, co-showrunners and executive EP's, T.J. Brady and Rasheed Newson, feel like they've found the perfect person to step into the role.
"During the development of Bel-Air, the most daunting question was: Could we find a young actor who'd be able to step into the role of Will Smith? Well, did we ever find him. His name is Jabari Banks and he won our hearts in the same way he won this role," the pair said in the release. "Our creative team, including Will Smith, recognized that Jabari embodied the talent, charisma, and sheer swagger necessary to make this iconic role his own."
It's a sentiment Smith echoed himself in August, when handing down the baton to the young actor.
"From the deepest parts of my heart, I want to say congratulations to you, you have the role of Will on Bel-Air," Smith told Banks.
"You have a fantastic road ahead of you and I'm looking forward to being an asset for you in this process as you build out your life and your career," Smith added, telling Banks to "go have some fun."
While Bel-Air hasn't been given an official release date, it is set hit the streamer next year.
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