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Justified Use of Deadly Force
Posted on January 8, 2019 by Steve Townsend
Case against man charged with killing 2 people outside gas station headed to trial
AMBRIDGE, Pa. – The case against the man accused in the shooting deaths of two men who he said were part of a group that attacked him at an Ambridge gas station last month will move forward.
Brandon Lee Richardson, 31, was surrounded by supporters Friday during a preliminary hearing.
The judge heard testimony from two Ambridge police officers who told the judge they saw multiple shell casings, blood and a bullet hole in a silver sedan.
The prosecutor played surveillance video for the judge that the defense attorney said showed Richardson being jumped while standing at the back of his car and being beaten, kicked and punched.
Richardson's attorney, Steve Townsend, said his client fired only after the group of five walked away and two came back and continued the assault. Brandon Everett and Lamar Seymour died in the shooting.
According to Townsend, Richardson didn't know the people who allegedly jumped him, and everyone involved was at a bar in the evening, but nothing happened there.
Richardson, who Townsend says has stage 4 prostate cancer, was held for trial on all charges.
Pennsylvania Use of Force: Title 18 Pa.C.S.A. Sec. 505
Use of force in self-protection.
(a) Use of force justifiable for protection of the person.—The use of force upon or toward another person is justifiable when the actor believes that such force is immediately necessary for the purpose of protecting himself against the use of unlawful force by such other person on the present occasion.
(2) The use of deadly force is not justifiable under this section unless the actor believes that such force is necessary to protect himself against death, serious bodily injury, kidnapping or sexual intercourse compelled by force or threat;
There are legal experts like in Law Office of Daniel Deng personal injury lawyers that can help with legal representation of such cases.
Posted in Criminal Law, Firearms, Steven Townsend, Use of Force
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Alberto Paz Soldán Pol (Cochabamba, Bolivia; 4 de septiembre de 1911 - La Paz, Bolivia; 19 de abril de 2014) fue un piloto de aviación, militar y centenario boliviano, considerado por el gobierno del presidente Evo Morales Ayma y por la Fuerza Aérea Boliviana como uno de los últimos héroes militares bolivianos de la guerra del Chaco junto a los otros demás beneméritos.

Biografía
Alberto Paz Soldán Pol, nació el 4 de septiembre de 1911 en la ciudad de Cochabamba, Bolivia. Comenzó sus estudios primarios en su ciudad natal en 1916 y los secundarios en 1924, saliendo bachiller el año 1927 durante el gobierno del presidente Hernando Siles Reyes.

En 1928, a los 17 años de edad, continuó con sus estudios superiores ingresando al Colegio Militar del Ejército de la ciudad de La Paz, egresando de la misma institución como subteniente de artillería en enero de 1932.

En 1932, cuando tenía 21 años de edad y durante el gobierno del presidente Daniel Salamanca Urey, fue inmediatamente movilizado en el ejército boliviano al teatro de operaciones de la guerra del chaco, conjuntamente también con otros miles de militares y soldados bolivianos, donde combatió al ejército paraguayo en las batallas de: Bogado, Corrales, Platanillos, Fernández y Toledo.

En abril de 1933, se incorporó como observador aéreo en la Fuerza Aérea Boliviana, después de haber sido formado en el curso de pilotaje y en el mismo teatro de operaciones de la guerra se graduó como "Piloto Aviador" siendo uno de sus instructores de vuelo el mayor y héroe boliviano Rafael Pabón.

Ya como teniente aviador, Soldán actuó en diferentes batallas de la guerra del chaco, combatiendo en: Campo Vía, Gondra, Ballivián, Cañada Strongest, Picuiba, Irindague, Ibibobo, Capirenda, Huirapitindi, Parapeti, Villamontes, Camanditi, Carandaiti - Mosa, La Penca - Boyuibe y Cambeiti. Sostuvo también combates aéreos con su avión en los lugares de La Rosa y Picuiba, aterrizando en la pista milagrosamente alguna vez con 16 impactos de bala en su aeroplano.

Post guerra
Pasada la Guerra del Chaco, en los años 40, fue becado al exterior para su especialización, graduándose como piloto de Alta Acrobacia en Gorizia, Italia. Obtuvo los títulos de oficial de estado mayor aéreo en la Escuela Superior de Guerra Aérea en Roma, Italia conociendo y obteniendo dicho título de manos de Benito Mussolini según él. Fue también oficial de estado mayor aéreo de la universidad aérea Montgomery de Estados Unidos.

Regresó a Bolivia en donde egresó y comando la Escuela de Altos Estudios Nacionales. En 1950, se desempeñó como jefe de Estado Mayor de la Fuerza Aérea Boliviana. Durante su carrera militar, Alberto Paz Soldán ascendió a los diferentes grados de acuerdo a la Ley Orgánica de las Fuerzas Armadas (LOFA).

Culminó su carrera militar como General de División Aérea en enero de 1967. Después de haber estado en servicio activo durante 35 años (1932 - 1967), pasa al servicio pasivo (jubilación) según la LOFA llevándose así las más altas condecoraciones por méritos de guerra, además de ser uno de los pocos militares bolivianos combatientes de la Guerra del Chaco y que aún quedaron en servicio activo en las fuerzas armadas hasta ese año de 1967.

Últimos años
En 1990, a los 79 años de edad, Soldán escribió el libro "Conducción de la Fuerza Aérea Boliviana en la guerra del Chaco", donde relata las diferentes batallas de la guerra donde participó la fuerza aérea y su persona en dicho conflicto, además de explicaciones sobre el material bélico y aéreo que poseía la institución aérea para ese tiempo.

El 4 de septiembre de 2011, cuando cumplía los 100 años de edad, fue condecorado por el comandante y el estado mayor de la Fuerza Aérea Boliviana como máximo héroe de Bolivia.

El 4 de septiembre de 2012, a sus 101 años edad, fue condecorado también por el presidente de Bolivia Evo Morales Ayma como el último héroe militar boliviano, además de ser para ese año el último militar que aun quedaba con vida y que había participado en la guerra del Chaco con el grado de subteniente.

Fallecimiento
Alberto Paz Soldán Pol falleció de muerte natural en su casa ubicada en el barrio de Irpavi de la ciudad de La Paz el 19 de abril de 2014, cuando tenía 102 años de edad, falleciendo como el último militar boliviano de la Guerra del Chaco. Asistió personalmente a su velatorio el presidente Evo Morales expresando sus condolencias a la familia. Los restos de Paz Soldán hoy descansan en el cementerio jardín de la ciudad de La Paz.

Véase también
Últimos sobrevivientes bolivianos de la Guerra del Chaco
Guerra del Chaco
Fuerza Aérea Boliviana
Rafael Pabon
Bernardino Bilbao Rioja
Germán Busch Becerra
Gualberto Villarroel López
Adrián Patiño Carpio

Referencias

Enlaces externos
El último héroe de la Guerra del Chaco Alberto Paz Soldán cumplió 101 años de vida.

Cochabambinos
Militares de Bolivia
Escritores de Bolivia
Centenarios de Bolivia

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Israeli Occupation Forces served on October 27, 2016 stop-work orders on a residence and water well owned by citizen Mohammad Abu Qbeitah in the area of Wad Al-Amayer, east Al-Samou' town on the claim of "unlicensed construction". The affected citizen said that he found the order left by a stone next to the residence. The order assigned November 27, 2016 as the hearing session of the Inspection Sub-Committee in the Israeli court of Beit El colony to consider whether to demolish the target structures or restore their previous status.
It should be marked that the150m2 house was built in 2016 and is still under construction. The residence is supposed to be home for eight members including 2 children. As for the water well, it is reported to be of 120m3 in volume; it was supposed to be used for irrigation and house ends.
At the legal level, the team of field research at Land Research Center guided the affected people to the methods of preparing a legal file to be used in the objection to military orders.
18 kilometer south of Hebron, Al-Samou' is surrounded by Yatta town (north), Khirbet Dier Shams (west), Susiya colony (east), and Khirbet Ghuwein(south). Al-Samou' has a total population of 25340 people according to statistics conducted in 2044. It has a total area of 2786 dunums of which 93 dunums are the village's built-up area.
Moreover, bypass numbers (60, 317, 3178) took over 1610 dunums from the village lands.
The apartheid wall confiscated 892 dunums from the area and isolated 1065 dunums behind its construction.


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H is for... Hebden Bridge
"Ever since the chattering classes invaded Hebden Bridge"
– Lord Hereford's Knob
So… what do we know about Hebden Bridge?
Being mischievously promoted as the potential heart of Britain's new 'second city'. Don't think the band have ever played there, despite it being an archetypal HMHB gig venue. I assume their gig venue isn't big enough, sadly.
TAYLO
I saw The Wedding Present there years ago and going to see Sleaford Mods there in a couple of weeks. I could definitely see HMHB playing there.
Birthplace of fellow C86 contributors Bogshead; burial place of Sylvia Plath (q.v.); famous for lesbians, suicides, floods and banning plastic bags.
Granted Fairtrade Zone status in 2003; Sylvia Plath buried in nearby Heptonstall.
Declared the 4th quirkiest place in the world by highlife, the British Airways flight magazine in 2005. If proof were needed, Ed Sheeran was born there.
I saw Damo Suzuki here last year. Very nostalgic ,as I hadn't seem him for 40 years.We have both gained stones and sport the grey of age .We remain quirky.
HMHB have indeed played at the wonderful Hebden Bridge Trades Club Chris, sometime early-to-mid-nineties as I recall. Somewhere on this site I linked to a review of the gig, in which I proposed a possible inspiration for the "chattering classes" line. Probably in the LHK thread?
I did consider inviting the lads to play there again a few years ago, when the Trades Club asked me how they could help with an event I was fundraising for, but then realised it was certainly too small for the band's current requirements.
The Trades Club is also the home of the legendary Hebden Bridge Aliens football team, splendid fellows who come to all our events, though year after year their cartilages get fewer.
Thoroughly excellent little town as long as you're uphill from the flood zone.
Gez's site informs us that HMHB played HB on 12.2.99, with four reviews of the gig.
(Exxo may recall that he commented on the Lomas Hall thread that it was the highest altitude at which the band had played since that night at the Trades Club.)
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I was planning to see Damon at Hebden, Peter, but couldn't make it. I hear that he recruited members of the aforementioned Bogshed into his band for the night.
So named because of an ancient packhorse bridge over the Hebden Beck..
@ Eric Olthwaite. Not sure Eric.He played 2 sets,with different line ups. In one set Bridget Hayden was on guitar.Interesting to put it mildly! Damos stance and delivery was exactly as it was in 1972 and 73.
Whatever happened to Bogshed? I remember buying their debut album on vinyl, Let Them Eat Bogshed as a wedding present for a work colleague. Hebden Bridge itself…some nice walks, some great pubs, one excellent record shop and that's about it.
toastkid
Hebden Bridge gets a mention in the excellent Fall song "Blindness":
http://annotatedfall.doomby.com/pages/the-annotated-lyrics/blindness.html
There was a poster at the top of the street
Encapsulated in plastic
It had a blind man
So I said: "Blind man, have mercy on me."
I said: "Blind man, have mercy on me."
The flat is evil and full of Cavalry and calvary
And Calvary and cavalry.
"Do you work hard?"
It said, "I am from Hebden Bridge.
Somebody said to me: I can't understand a word you said."
Said: "99% of non smokers die"
Batley's very own… Steve malkmus
According to Roger's Profanisaurus, "On the bus to Hebden Bridge" (adj.) of a lady who wears comfortable shoes and likes tennis.
Used to have a clog factory (Walkleys) but they've drifted down the valley to Mytholmroyd according to their website.
Dickhead in quicksand
You couldn't make it up.


I'm getting more and more excited about libertarian candidate for the Republican nomination for President Ron Paul. I've always liked Paul. He's a steadfast devotee to the principles of liberty, and yet running as a Republican, not a candidate of the Libertarian Party.
Although he still seems like a long shot, Ron Paul may just be the man to bring libertarian ideas to a mass audience in America. With that in mind, he may be the most important libertarian alive today. As such, he deserves his own category on this blog.


The documentary, as many suspected it would be, was primarily tourist videos and library materials. Sweeney stood out from the students in a way that, as many of you expected, would surely mean that the North Koreans did know exactly who he was.
> This is funny how you can show at the same time so much interest for human rights in DPRK, and so little regard for the fate of these North Korean guides and their families.
> You take great pride and legitimacy in your numerous short trips to DPRK. But I can tell you one thing : I lived approximately a year in North Korea (working for different humanitarian organizations, in Pyongyang and in the countryside) and I know how dangerous life can be for all the staff (drivers, guides, translators, etc) who deal daily with us, foreigners. Some disappear.
> "No shred of evidence", you say ? Ask humanitarian workers. They will not agree with you. I saw real fear in the eyes of some of our DPRK counterparts when something went wrong. Working with us is dangerous.
> Brave journalists who go to DPRK one week (with their article already written no matter what they will see), have fun, extract confessions from their guides, escape their minders, take footage and put at risks the life of the people they filmed (and their families) are not much worth the regime they feel so superior to.
> This palaver is regrettable. There's no shred of evidence any NKorean ever got into trouble for the shenanigans of visitors -- the BBC mission having been one of many such ventures. I ran into the same head guide for my visit in 2005 and again 2008. He talked to me at some length. KNTO and Koryo Tours (the latter never handled my visits incidentally) will go on as usual. Nobody's claiming heroics -- nothing heroic about going there, very simple once you get the visa. Visitors may be among the world's best protected people, shielded from all harm while also shielded from seeing stuff they don't want seen. Trips can be quite routine when you're led to some of the same places every time, but they're the best one can do when the place is closed to the kind of reporting one can do even in repressed dictatorships.(No other country on        earth compels visitors to line up in front of statues of their deceased leaders, bow and place flowers.) It's unfortunate some listees don't respect what the BBC, and others, are trying to do. Some listees seem to place higher priority on sensitivities about which they have no evidence than the need to attempt, against odds, to convey a modicum of understanding to the rest of the world.
> I find this behavior highly unethical and irresponsible, for a number of reasons.
> In addition to the many points made already, let's not be too self-centered. The feelings of LSE students and potential aid workers are important, but one affected group we have ignored so far. There were North Koreans responsible for that trip: folks from KNTO (the tourism organization) and others. They will now, away from the public eye and not protected by a Western passport, face allegations of not having done their job properly. I have always been deeply annoyed by the fact that such allegedly "heroic" behavior by Westerners - seriosly, what can happen to us in the worst case? - is taking place at the expense of those nameless people who are left behind in NK and who will have to bear all the wrath of the regime. We talk about human rights in NK and so on in our Sunday speeches, but in fact we don't give a bloody damn about the people there. This is disgusting.
> Besides, the NK state has also been lied to. Such behavior enforces stereotypes about Westerners who cannot be trusted.          Not that anyone would care, but I wanted to at least mention that.
> Great, good job. And all that for stuff (I suppose) that I and 1000 others have filmed again and again before? Wow.
> I have decided not to give any interviews to BBC anymore. Well, they'll survive.
> PS: I forgot the tour operator, most likely Koryo tours. Their business is not going to get easier. But why should the BBC care? It's in the holy name of truth (about others), isn't it. Collateral damage, so what.
> I trust that some list members have heard of the lead news story today on the BBC, about three BBC journalists who accompanied students from the LSE – under the disguise of themselves claiming to be students. A BBC spokesman has claimed that to film the documentary (due to be broadcast tomorrow), it was worthwhile putting students at risk (Can this be right? – it was what their spokesman said on Radio 4 this afternoon).
> I would be interested in colleagues' reactions.


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Barbara Bader (* 1972 in Bern) ist eine Schweizer Kunstwissenschaftlerin und Kunstdidaktikerin. Seit 2013 lehrt sie als Professorin für Kunstdidaktik und Bildungswissenschaften an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart; am 4. April 2017 wurde sie zur Rektorin  ernannt.

Biografie

1972 in Bern in der Schweiz geboren, erlangte Bader zunächst eine Ausbildung zur Primarlehrerin, absolvierte das Lehramtsstudium für Bildnerisches Gestalten und studierte anschließend die Fächer Illustration und Buchgestaltung an der Kunstgewerbeschule in Prag. Nach ihrem Masterstudium der Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Oxford promovierte sie ebendort über das kunstwissenschaftliche Thema "Modernism and the Order of Things: A Museography of Books by Artists".

Bader hatte eine mehrjährige Unterrichtstätigkeit im In- und Ausland sowie Lehr- und Forschungsengagements an Kunsthochschulen, Universitäten und Pädagogischen Hochschulen. An der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) etablierte sie das Institute Art Education und war von 2006 bis 2013 an der Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB) als Professorin tätig. Dort zeichnete sie für die Ausbildung von Kunstlehrerinnen und Kunstlehrern an Gymnasien sowie das Forschungsfeld Vermittlung verantwortlich.

Seit 1. Dezember 2013 lehrt Bader als Professorin für Kunstdidaktik und Bildungswissenschaften in den Studiengängen Kunst, Künstlerisches Lehramt sowie Kunstwissenschaften-Restaurierung an der   Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Seit ihrem Ruf an die Akademie hat Barbara Bader den neu geschaffenen Lehrstuhl für Fachdidaktik Kunst und Bildungswissenschaften in Lehre und Forschung aufgebaut und profiliert. Dies wird an der Verankerung des Lehrstuhls innerhalb der Akademie und des Hochschulstandorts Stuttgart ebenso deutlich wie in der Vernetzung des künstlerischen Lehramts mit dem schulischen Umfeld und den Berufsverbänden. In der Hochschulselbstverwaltung engagierte sich Bader bis zu ihrem Amtsantritt als Rektorin am 4. April 2017 als Mitglied des Hochschulrats und der Studienkommission Kunst/Künstlerisches Lehramt sowie als Vorsitzende des Promotionsausschusses.

Ehrenämter
 Sprecherin der Landesrektorenkonferenz der Baden-Württembergischen Kunsthochschulen
 Mitglied des Vorstands Haus für Film und Medien Stuttgart
 Mitglied im Stiftungsrat der Werner-Pokorny-Stiftung
 Vorsitzende der Expertenkommission Fachdidaktik Swissuniversities
 Vorsitzende der Steering Group der ELIA Academy
 Mitglied im Editorial Board Art and Design and Communication in Higher Education

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My name is Brandy and I'd like to share my story about my precious dog, Pretty Boy with you.
17 years ago my husband and I went to our local animal shelter and that's where I found my Pretty Boy. A lil Beagle! Pretty Boy (he had the look...) is the way I call him.
He has developed loss of kidney retention. But, he never acted like he was hurting.
Yesterday, 3-10-2014 I called the Vet. And made an appointment. The Vet said he found masses in his kidney and liver area. He said it was time to let him go... That it was the best thing for him.
The only thing I could do was holding him and cry. And, when they stuck the needle in, my words to him were "I'm sorry, please forgive me ..."
I feel so guilty , I hope he knows I love him ...and why I'm feeling this ...He will always live in my mind, always be in my prayers.
Needless to say, I had to make the same heart wrenching decision you did. Read the story about the Rainbow Bridge and maybe you can get some comfort from that. I know you miss your sweet "Pretty Boy" but he's playing with our lady on the other side!
Condolence's from someone who understands!
You will miss Pretty Boy for sure but you have wonderful memories. And yes, Pretty Boy knows you love him and that you were doing what's best for him... I truly believe that.


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HomePoliticsAPGA Is The Third Force In Nigeria - Gov. Soludo Boasts
APGA Is The Third Force In Nigeria – Gov. Soludo Boasts
Governor Chukwuma Soludo
While celebrating his first 100 days in office as the Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra has reiterated his earlier claims that the All Progressives Grand Alliance remains the most formidable political party in Anambra and third in Nigeria as the country inches closer to the 2023 general elections.
Governor Soludo, who had made these statement while addressing party faithful at the Governor's Lodge Amawbia, Awka South Local Government Area, had also reiterated that some of those who left the party after losing in the recent APGA primary elections had not made the best decision.
Read Also: Gov Soludo Reveals Achievements After 100 Days In Office
He boasted that APGA would contest strongly for all positions it had candidates and that in Anambra, their target was House of Assembly, 30 seats; House of Representatives,11 seats and Senate three seats.
Soludo said, "elections are not done on WhatsApp or the Internet, you have to be on the ground, APGA is on ground here and everywhere, how can a party that does not have a councilor want to compete with us?
"We are strong and we are growing stronger, stand a real chance in Abia, we will compete in all places vigorously,
"It is sad that the people that left had to leave, why would one leave a party he had laboured to build; it is not good to labour in vain; however, they are not contesting election. The election in Anambra is between APGA and other political parties.
"We shall campaign when it starts and by the time we enter January next year, we will know those that are still contesting.
"Our victory will be resounding this time but we will not take anything for granted, Anambra people will see," he said.
He said the APGA government was determined to deliver value-based governance to the people of Anambra in face of dwindling revenue.
Soludo said about 220 km of road had been designed for construction and that all the 21 Local Government Areas in the state would witness massive road activities soon after the rains were over.
"We are determined to cut the cost to the bones, we have renegotiated some contracts and saved money with which we are fixing some roads.
"We have used N20 million saved from there to fix the Chisco Part area of the Bridge Head-Upper Iweka expressway in Onitsha, but the approval that was presented to me by FERMA for that same job is about N200 million, but by this week it will be done," he said.
Soludo said the task demanded belt-tightening on the part of the government and people and thanked all for their understanding.
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Having a degree of self-control is central to living a happy, productive life. Yet, most people live completely at the whim of their impulses. They're jerked around by their most immediate desires, and wonder why they find themselves stuck in the same patterns again and again.
We don't take control of the things we do have control of: how we respond to things, what we think, what our emotions are trying to tell us to do in life. Rather, we try to control what happens, what others think, and what we feel, rather than how closely we listen to our internal guidance systems. This is the essential reason we do not have self-control. We're preoccupied by trying to alter and change that which is unchangeable, and consider that "having control."
The way this comes out most typically is by trying to self-monitor ourselves in social situations so people react to us in a way we desire, by trying to control our bodies and how they look, or who loves us and to what degree. These are all things we ultimately do not have control over: we can only do our part to be healthy, show up, be loving, and see what happens.
The first step to developing real self-control, therefore, is accepting what we do not inherently have control of. (There's a lot.) But there's even more that we can be autonomous of, if we only take the necessary steps to practice and develop our abilities. Here are five really productive, healthy ways to do just that.
Practice Meditation As A Means Of "Brain Training"
Force yourself to focus on one thing and one thing only for extended periods of time. Start with one minute, then five, then ten. The point of meditation isn't just "to feel good," it's to develop your ability to choose what you think and what you focus on.
To successfully function in this world, you cannot live in avoidance of the things that tempt you. You have to be able to look them in the face, admit that you want them, but then choose otherwise — choose something more important, like your bank account or your health.
If you have to go shopping, wait three hours. If you need a new blouse for an event, wait a day before you head out searching. If it's actually something you need, you'll be able to withstand the time delay.
You cannot expect to dissolve and then create a whole new mindset simply by staring at the ruins of what you're trying to move beyond. You must create something new, you must have alternatives at-hand no matter what. When you want to impulse shop, or smoke, or binge think, have alternatives right on deck. Meditate, shower, go for a walk, re-budget your money, and so on.
You will not feasibly be able to exert self-control over every thought, action or moment of the day. What you have to do is decide what's most important to you, and then let yourself off for the rest. Practically, this could look like setting a rigid schedule in the morning where you get done exactly what's necessary, and then keep your time a little less planned throughout the rest of the day.


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Tuning dissociation using isoelectronically doped graphene and hexagonal boron nitride: Water and other small molecules
Al-Hamdani, Yasmine S. and Alfe, Dario and von Lilienfeld, O. Anatole and Michaelides, Angelos. (2016) Tuning dissociation using isoelectronically doped graphene and hexagonal boron nitride: Water and other small molecules. Journal of Chemical Physics, 144 (15). p. 154706.
Official URL: http://edoc.unibas.ch/43412/
Novel uses for 2-dimensional materials like graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) are being frequently discovered especially for membrane and catalysis applications. Still however, a great deal remains to be understood about the interaction of environmentally and industrially relevant molecules such as water with these materials. Taking inspiration from advances in hybridising graphene and h-BN, we explore using density functional theory, the dissociation of water, hydrogen, methane, and methanol on graphene, h-BN, and their isoelectronic doped counterparts: BN doped graphene and C doped h-BN. We find that doped surfaces are considerably more reactive than their pristine counterparts and by comparing the reactivity of several small molecules, we develop a general framework for dissociative adsorption. From this a particularly attractive consequence of isoelectronic doping emerges: substrates can be doped to enhance their reactivity specifically towards either polar or non-polar adsorbates. As such, these substrates are potentially viable candidates for selective catalysts and membranes, with the implication that a range of tuneable materials can be designed. Published by AIP Publishing.
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isi: 000375786000037


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Andrés Pérez Domínguez (Sevilla, 1969) es un escritor español, conocido principalmente por sus novelas.

Es también autor de narrativa breve y colaborador de varios medios de comunicación. Ha ganado numerosos galardones nacionales e internacionales tanto por su obra de ficción como periodística. Su obra se caracteriza por unas historias potentes, con capacidad de llegar a un gran número de lectores y por la creación de personajes bien perfilados.

Premios principales

 Premio Internacional de Cuentos Max Aub 2000 por Ojos tristes
 Premio Ciudad de Coria 2001 por Estado provisional
 Premio José Luis Castillo-Puche 2002 por la novela corta Los mejores años
 Premio Tierras de León 2002 por la novela corta Duarte
 Finalista en el Memorial Silverio Cañada en la Semana Negra de Gijón 2005 por "La clave Pinner"
 Premio Luis Berenguer 2007 por el El síndrome de Mowgli
 Finalista del Premio Setenil 2009 por El centro de la Tierra
 Premio Ateneo de Sevilla 2009 por El violinista de Mauthausen
 Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Corta La Espiga Dorada 2009 (Salón del Libro Iberoamericano) por Los perros siempre ladran al anochecer
 Finalista en el Premio Espartaco de Novela Histórica en la Semana Negra de Gijón 2010 por "El violinista de Mauthausen"
 Finalista del Premio Setenil 2019 por "La letra pequeña".
 Premio Albert Jovell 2020 por "La bailarina de San Petersburgo".

Obras

 Ojos tristes, relato, 2001
 Estado provisional, colección de cuentos, 2001
 Los mejores años, novela corta, 2002
 Duarte, novela corta, 2002
 La clave Pinner, Roca Editorial, 2004 , Debolsillo (2012)
 El factor Einstein, Martínez Roca, 2008, Debolsillo (2012)
 El síndrome de Mowgli, Algaida, 2008, Algaida Eco (2012)
 El centro de la Tierra, colección de cuentos, Paréntesis, Sevilla, 2009
 El violinista de Mauthausen, Algaida, 2009, Algaida Eco (2012)
 El silencio de tu nombre, Plaza & Janés, Barcelona, 2012, Debolsillo (2013)
 Los perros siempre ladran al anochecer, Alianza, 2015
 Los dioses cansados, Alianza, 2016
 La letra pequeña, colección de cuentos, Triskel, 2019
 La bailarina de San Petersburgo, Almuzara, 2021

 Referencias

 Enlaces externos

 Aurora Intxausti. Los nazis escondidos en España, sobre El silencio de tu nombre, El País, 10.12.2012; acceso 07.01.2012
 Entrevistas televisivas con motivo de la publicación de su novela El silencio de tu nombre'': Miradas 2, Canal 9, Castilla y León TV
 El violinista de Mauthausen en Canal Sur, video

Andrés Pérez Domínguez en informativos TELECINCO (2009): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbm5vv

Novelistas de España del siglo XXI
Nacidos en Sevilla


One of Khal Drogo's three bloodriders, whose lives are sworn to defend the khal and to ride with him both in life and in death. Qotho is the cruellest of the bloodriders, and hot-tempered with it. He is a deadly warrior, especially skilled with the arakh.


Fishpond Arrowhead Retractor. Quite possibly the most purposeful, elegant, and timeless piece of design by mankind is the arrowhead.
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The Addicks have two tough away games in three days coming up. First up is the trek to rejuvenated Blackpool on Saturday, followed by a trip to the south coast to face table-topping Portsmouth next Tuesday.
It is unlikely that Bowyer will field the same team in both games, he will want to freshen his side up a little for the game at Fratton Park.
The oroblem he has is in which game does he field his strongest team? Blackpool is probably the more winnable of the two games, so should he field his strongest team at Bloomfield Road, or play his best XI in the tougher game at Fratton Park?
Bowyer may feel Patrick Bauer is not yet ready to play two games in quick succession, and Jamie Ward has said that he can not play for 90 minutes on a Saturday, then again three days later.
If Bauer does not start both games, Bowyer will probably play Naby Sarr alongside Jason Pearce, switch Chris Solly to left-back, and bring Anfernee Dijksteel in on the right.
He may also consider playing Dijksteel in the middle and leaving Solly in his natural position.
Warranted he is fit, Tariqe Fosu is the obvious alternative to Ward.
Up front, Lyle Taylor and Karlan Grant look certain to start both games.
The length of the journey to Blackpool is another factor Bowyer willl have to consider.
It willl be fascinating to see how he decides to play it.
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Come the fall season, corn mazes are a popular attraction. Before you can trace your way through a maize maze, it has to grow. In order to "grow" our maze, find all of the fall-related words and phrases listed below in the grid by searching horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. Once you have circled each word, lightly color it in. These words will form the walls of the maze. Then, start at the opening in the top left corner and follow the correct path through until you reach the exit at the bottom right. We've found the phrase SWEET POTATO and shaded it for you as an example. The path to the exit will travel horizontally and vertically; it may not travel diagonally. Be sure to find all of the words. Best of luck reaching the end!


Syntax motherboard my question is i have a syntax s635mp motherboard with a viac3 samuel2 prossesor wich runs very slow i wanted to know can i install a stronger prossesor on my motherboard?
I have a d845gvsr motherboard, &prossesor is 2.6 but bios show me me your prossesor is 1.3. what i do?
I would like to know if I can hook up a 320 GB hard drive to this board?
In motherboards of this age the max hdd capacity is limited by the BIOS at 127 GB. Install one only if you can get an updated/unlimited BIOS before.
Want a manual find anywhere? Syntax S845GE Motherboard?
It is highly probable the the other chip ( also known as Memory / RAM ) is faulty, hence causing the system to stop working.
Take out the working one and put in the other RAM. if the system does not startup, it is the RAM issue.
Nothing to do with BIOS or Windows 2000.
I think Vista might be a bit too beefy an operating system for your PC. If you dont have 1gb RAM minimum its just not going to be fast. You would be better off going back to XP.
I think that your MB does not support Athlon 1500. You can try with BIOS update.
Have a manual for Syntax S746FX Motherboard?


This is a fine piece and very well done.
This is the proper memorial story.
And as I believe more and more, the focus should not be on the monster and how he operated, but on his cult and why they followed.
A nice berserk intro to the Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of the Witches), which is a really freaky volume worth checking out of the library if you can stand a dip into a world rife with superstitious sexism.
This is what I wrote almost four years ago. I would make one major change. I suggested that if Cosby had muffled his arrogant criticism of younger black culture, the story of his serial molestations might have stayed dead. That is absolutely not true. He could have used everything he had to keep the accusations old news, but social and cultural change would have kept them burning-hot items. It's one of the saddest, most abject collapses of my life.


bought a 2005 ktm 200 exc and the speedometer seems to be removed. also there is a small metallic pin next to the speedometer mounting, any idea what that is for?
I have no knowledge in bikes, and would like to get the lights working as soon as possible.
That pin is the push/pull switch for the lights (there was a black nob on the end of it but they don't stay on there long) pull it out to turn the lights on. Check your bulbs.


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Tiff between Egypt and Saudi Arabia endangers new Arab alliance
Jazz ShawPosted at 10:41 am on June 12, 2017
Back when President Trump gave his speech in Saudi Arabia during his first official trip abroad I wondered if he might be on the verge of opening the door to a new era of Arab participation in the war on terror and possibly improved relations with the west. Those hopes were stoked quite a bit when a block of Arab countries announced that they would be cooperating in just such an endeavor, but even then there were doubts remaining. Such things had been tried before and the individual nations in the region had a history of squabbling over pretty much everything except the price of oil. The alliance was already treading on shaky ground when they recently decided to isolate Qatar, but now another fight seems to be erupting.
The government of Egypt is in the midst of carrying out a deal which would return two islands in the Straits of Tiran (the stretch of water between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba) to Saudi Arabia. It seems that Egypt's president (and the legislature which his party largely controls) is ready to turn over the islands which Saudi Arabia gave to them for protection more than half a century ago, but the public is largely and loudly opposed to the move. (Associated Press)
In a raucous and tense meeting, Egyptian lawmakers on Sunday began reviewing a disputed 2016 agreement to hand control over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, a move critics say ignores a final ruling by a high court to annul the pact.
The ratification of the pact — an almost foregone conclusion if put to a vote by the 596-seat chamber packed with supporters of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi — could spark a repeat of the street protests that greeted the agreement when it was first announced in April 2016. It would likely also set the state's legislative branch on a collision course with the judiciary. Last year's protests, the biggest since el-Sissi took office in 2014, were foiled with the arrest of hundreds of protesters and activists, most of whom were later released.
There's little debate over the fact that Egypt and Saudi Arabia are the two biggest players in the Arab pact and if their relationship falls apart yet again it will likely scuttle much of the deal the White House has been working on. If Egypt's president is swarmed with more massive street protests and the prospects of violence on the home front we also run the risk of further destabilization of that country. But their president, Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, seems to be getting a bit heavy handed. His nation's Supreme Court has already rejected this land deal, but al-Sissi has responded by simply ignoring them, saying, "I have nothing to do with the ruling of any court of law. These rulings are the concern of the judiciary and they amount to nil."
That's not exactly a formula for winning over the hearts and minds of your people.
The crazy part of all this is that the islands in question aren't exactly prime real estate. Tiran Island is all of 31 square miles in territory. Sanfir Island is less than half that size. The beaches of both of these desolate lumps of sand and rock are rumored to be peppered with land mines. Both are uninhabited, though Tiran has room for a small helicopter base on one end and supported some troops protecting the Suez Canal back in the fifties. Sure, their position in the straits between the two nations could be considered strategic if they were ever at each other's throats, but most of the action there historically has had to do with Arab defensive positions against Israel. (And I don't think anyone is anticipating a new war with the Israelis any time soon.)
But this goes back to the complicated history between Saudi Arabia and Egypt I mentioned above. They're prone to squabbling and probably don't need much of an excuse to start up again. Egypt is only now coming out of a period of crisis and reestablishing something of a stable government. Keep an eye on this situation because it might still work out productively, but all the elements are there for a collapse in relations, and nobody in the west needs that headache.
Tags: Abdel Fatah al-Sissi alliance Egypt King Salman Qatar Saudi Arabia territory
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Q: R Web scrape Excel spreadsheet URLs to read with openxlsx I need to read parts of an Excel file into R. I have some existing code, but the authority changed the source. Previously, there was a direct URL to the document, now the link to the document can only be accessed through a website landing page.
Could someone tell me with which package I can achieve that? The link to the Excel file is: http://www.snamretegas.it/it/business-servizi/dati-operativi-business/8_dati_operativi_bilanciamento_sistema/
There i am looking at the document: "Dati operativi relativi al bilanciamento del sistema post Del. 312/2016/R/gas - Database 2018"
I add the previous code to give an idea what I did. As you can see, I only required read.xlsx for this first step.
Many thanks in advance!
  library(ggplot2)
  library(lubridate)
  library(openxlsx)
  library(reshape2)
  library(dplyr)

  Bilres <- read.xlsx(xlsxFile = "http://www.snamretegas.it/repository/file/Info-storiche-qta-gas-trasportato/dati_operativi/2017/DatiOperativi_2017-IT.xlsx",sheet = "Storico_G", startRow = 1, colNames = TRUE)

  # Selecting Column R from Storico_G and stored in variable Bilres_df

  Bilres_df <- data.frame(Bilres$pubblicazione, Bilres$BILANCIAMENTO.RESIDUALE )

  # Conerting pubblicazione in date format and time
  Bilres_df$pubblicazione <- ymd_h(Bilres_df$Bilres.pubblicazione)
  Bilreslast=tail(Bilres_df,1)
  Bilreslast=data.frame(Bilreslast)
  Bilreslast$Bilres.BILANCIAMENTO.RESIDUALE <- as.numeric(as.character((Bilreslast$Bilres.BILANCIAMENTO.RESIDUALE)))

A: If you copy the URL from the web page, you can then use download.files() first to download as a binary file and use read.xlsx() to read the data. Depending on how frequently the content changes on the web page, you may be better off just copying the URL than parsing it from the page.
oldFile <- "http://www.snamretegas.it/repository/file/Info-storiche-qta-gas-trasportato/dati_operativi/2017/DatiOperativi_2017-IT.xlsx"
newFile <- "http://www.snamretegas.it/repository/file/it/business-servizi/dati-operativi-business/dati_operativi_bilanciamento_sistema/2017/DatiOperativi_2017-IT.xlsx"

if(!file.exists("./data/downloadedXlsx.xlsx")){
     download.file(newFile,"./data/downloadedXlsx.xlsx",
                   method="curl", #use "curl" for OS X / Linux, "wininet" for Windows
                   mode="wb") # "wb" means "write binary"

} else message("file already loaded locally, using disk version")

library(openxlsx)
Bilres <- read.xlsx(xlsxFile = "./data/downloadedXlsx.xlsx",
                sheet = "Storico_G", startRow = 1, colNames = TRUE)
head(Bilres[,1:3])

...and the output:
> head(Bilres[,1:3])
  pubblicazione aggiornato.il IMMESSO
1 2017_01_01_06      42736.24 1915484
2 2017_01_01_07      42736.28 1915484
3 2017_01_01_08      42736.33 1866326
4 2017_01_01_09      42736.36 1866326
5 2017_01_01_10      42736.41 1866326
6 2017_01_01_11      42736.46 1866326
>

UPDATE: Added logic to avoid downloading the file once it has been downloaded.

A: You can find the .xlsx links this way:
library(rvest)
library(magrittr)

pg <- read_html("http://www.snamretegas.it/it/business-servizi/dati-operativi-business/8_dati_operativi_bilanciamento_sistema/")

# get all the Excel (xlsx) links on that page:

html_nodes(pg, xpath=".//a[contains(@href, '.xlsx')]") %>%
  html_attr("href") %>%
  sprintf("http://www.snamretegas.it%s", .) -> excel_links

head(excel_links)
## [1] "http://www.snamretegas.it/repository/file/it/business-servizi/dati-operativi-business/dati_operativi_bilanciamento_sistema/2017/DatiOperativi_2017-IT.xlsx"
## [2] "http://www.snamretegas.it/repository/file/it/business-servizi/dati-operativi-business/dati_operativi_bilanciamento_sistema/2018/DatiOperativi_2018-IT.xlsx"

And, pass in what you want to your Excel reading function:
openxlsx::read.xlsx(excel_links[1], sheet = "Storico_G", startRow = 1, colNames = TRUE)
## data frame output here that I'm not going to show

BUT!!
This is a very selfish and unkind way to do this since you hit that site for the Excel file every time you want to read it, wasting their CPU and bandwidth and your bandwidth.
You should use the download.file() technique Len described to cache a local copy and only re-download when necessary.

A: This should get you going in the right direction.
library(data.table)
mydat <- fread('http://www.snamretegas.it/repository/file/Info-storiche-qta-gas-trasportato/dati_operativi/2017/DatiOperativi_2017-IT.xlsx')
head(mydat)

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Risk of severe COVID-19 and mortality in patients with established chronic liver disease: a nationwide matched cohort study.
Simon TG, Hagström H, Sharma R, Söderling J, Roelstraete B, Larsson E, Ludvigsson JF
BMC Gastroenterol 21 (1) 439 [2021-11-23; online 2021-11-23]
Some, but not all, prior studies have suggested that patients with chronic liver disease are at increased risk of contracting COVID-19 and developing more severe disease. However, nationwide data are lacking from well-phenotyped cohorts with liver histology and comparisons to matched general population controls. We conducted a nationwide cohort study of all Swedish adults with chronic liver disease (CLD) confirmed by liver biopsy between 1966 and 2017 (n = 42,320), who were alive on February 1, 2020. CLD cases were matched to ≤ 5 population comparators by age, sex, calendar year and county (n = 182,147). Using Cox regression, we estimated multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for COVID-19 hospitalization and severe COVID-19 (intensive care admission or death due to COVID-19). Between February 1 and July 31, 2020, 161 (0.38%) CLD patients and 435 (0.24%) general population controls were hospitalized with COVID-19 (aHR = 1.36, 95% CI = 1.11-1.66), while 65 (0.15%) CLD patients and 191 (0.10%) controls developed severe COVID-19 (aHR = 1.08, 95% CI = 0.79-1.48). Results were similar in patients with CLD due to alcohol use, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, and other etiologies. Among patients with cirrhosis (n = 2549), the aHRs for COVID-19 hospitalization and for severe COVID-19 were 1.08 (95% CI 0.48-2.40) and 1.23 (95% CI = 0.37-4.04), respectively, compared to controls. Moreover, among all patients diagnosed with COVID-19, the presence of underlying CLD was not associated with increased mortality (aHR = 0.85, 95% CI = 0.61-1.19). In this nationwide cohort, patients with CLD had a higher risk of hospitalization for COVID-19 compared to the general population, but they did not have an increased risk of developing severe COVID-19.
PubMed 34814851
DOI 10.1186/s12876-021-02017-8
Crossref 10.1186/s12876-021-02017-8
pii: 10.1186/s12876-021-02017-8


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Tyrrell, Naomi and Sime, Daniela and Kelly, Claire and McMellon, Christina (2018) Belonging in Brexit Britain : Central and Eastern European 1.5 generation young people's experiences. Population, Space and Place. ISSN 1544-8444
Sime, Daniela (2018) Belonging and ontological security among Eastern European migrant parents and their children. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 7 (1). pp. 35-53. ISSN 2300-1682
Sime, Daniela and Fassetta, Giovanna and McClung, Michele (2017) 'It's good enough that our children are accepted' : Roma mothers' views of children's education post migration. British Journal of Sociology of Education. pp. 1-17. ISSN 1465-3346
Forbes, Joan and Sime, Daniela (2016) Relations between child poverty and new migrant child status, academic attainment and social participation : insights using social capital theory. Education Sciences, 6 (3). pp. 1-15. ISSN 2227-7102
Sime, Daniela and Fox, Rachael (2015) Migrant children, social capital and access to services : transitions, negotiations and complex agencies. Children and Society, 29 (6). 524–534. ISSN 0951-0605
Moskal, Marta and Sime, Daniela (2015) Polish migrant children's transcultural lives and transnational language use. Central and Eastern European Migration Review. ISSN 2300-1682
Sime, Daniela and Fox, Rachael (2015) Home abroad : Eastern European children's family and peer relationships after migration. Childhood, 22 (3). pp. 377-393. ISSN 1461-7013
Sime, Daniela and Pietka-Nykaza, Emilia (2015) Transnational intergenerationalities : cultural learning in Polish migrant families and its implications for pedagogy. Language and Intercultural Communication, 15 (2). ISSN 1747-759X
Sime, Daniela (2014) 'I think that Polish doctors are better' : experiences with and views of health services in Scotland among newly arrived migrant children and their parents. Health and Place, 30. pp. 86-93. ISSN 1353-8292
Sime, Daniela and Sheridan, Marion (2014) 'You want the best for your kids' : improving educational outcomes for children living in poverty through parental engagement. Educational Research, 56 (3). pp. 327-342. ISSN 0013-1881
Sime, D. (2008) Ethical and methodological issues in engaging young people living in poverty with participatory research methods. Children's Geographies, 6 (1). pp. 63-78. ISSN 1473-3285
Sime, Daniela (2006) What do learners make of teachers' gestures in the language classroom? International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 44 (2). pp. 211-230. ISSN 0019-042X
Priestley, Mark and Sime, Daniela (2005) Formative assessment for all : a whole-school approach to pedagogic change. Curriculum Journal, 16 (4). pp. 475-492. ISSN 0958-5176
Sime, Daniela and Priestley, Mark (2005) Student teachers' first reflections on information and communications technology and classroom learning : implications for initial teacher education. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 21 (2). pp. 130-142. ISSN 0266-4909
Sime, Daniela (2018) Educating migrant and refugee pupils. In: Scottish Education. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474437844
Sime, Daniela (2017) Challenging barriers to participation : doing research with migrant children and young people. In: Methodological Approaches. Geographies of Children and Young People, 2 (1). Springer, Singapore, pp. 135-157. ISBN 9789812870193
Sime, Daniela (2016) Migrant children and young people's 'voice' in healthcare. In: Handbook of Migration and Health. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham. ISBN 9781784714772
Sime, Daniela (2016) Migrant children in cities : the spatial constructions of their everyday lives. In: Movement, Mobilities and Journeys. Geographies of Children and Young People, 6 . Springer, Singapore, pp. 271-288. ISBN 9789812870285
Sime, Daniela (2015) Researching children's lives : on becoming and being a sociologist in education. In: Sociologists' Tales. Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 257-262. ISBN 9781447318668
Sime, Daniela (2015) Poverty in Scotland. In: Poor Europe. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9788380125810
Sime, Daniela (2013) Poverty and schooling in Scotland. In: Scottish Education. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 860-870. ISBN 9780748645824
Sime, Daniela (2008) 'Because of her gesture, it's very easy to understand'- learners' perceptions of teachers' gestures in the foreign language class. In: Gesture. ESL & Applied Linguistics Prrofessional Series . Routledge, New York, pp. 259-280. ISBN 9780805860528
Sime, D. (2005) Perceiving the whole teacher: speaking and gesturing in the language class. In: Holistic Approaches to Language Learning. Kolloquium Fremdsprachenunterricht, 20 . Peter Lang AG, pp. 87-102. ISBN 978-3-631-53984-2
McMellon, Christina and Sime, Daniela and Corson, Stephen and Käkelä, Emmaleena and Tyrell, Naomi and Kelly, Claire and Moskal, Marta (2018) Eastern European Young People's Political and Community Engagement in the UK. [Report]
Kelly, Claire and Tyrell, Naomi and Sime, Daniela and Käkelä, Emmaleena and Corson, Stephen and McMellon, Christina and Moskal, Marta (2018) Eastern European Young People's Use of Services in the UK. [Report]
Tyrell, Naomi and Käkelä, Emmaleena and Corson, Stephen and Sime, Daniela and Kelly, Claire and McMellon, Christina and Moskal, Marta (2018) Eastern European Young People's Feelings of Belonging : Any Place in Brexit Britain? [Report]
Sime, Daniela and Kakela, Emmaleena and Corson, Stephen and Tyrell, Naomi and McMellon, Christina and Kelly, Claire and Moskal, Marta (2017) Eastern European Young People in Brexit Britain : Racism, Anxiety and a Precarious Future [Research and Policy Briefing No.1]. [Report]
Sime, Daniela (2015) The Health of EU Migrant Children in the UK. [Report]
Forbes, Joan and Sime, Daniela and McCartney, Elspeth and Graham, Archie and Valyo, Anne and Weiner, Gaby (2015) Poverty and Children's Access to Services and Social Participation. [Report]
Willis, Mark and Sime, Daniela and Lerpiniere, Jennifer (2015) Poverty and children's health and well-being : policy briefing. [Report]
Sime, Daniela and Fassetta, Giovanna and McClung, Michele (2014) Roma Families' Engagement with Education and Other Services. [Report]
Sime, Daniela and Fox, Rachael and Pietka, Emilia (2010) At home abroad: the life experiences of children of migrant workers in Scotland. [Report]
Save the Children (Funder) (2009) Improving outcomes for children living in poverty through home-school partnerships in the early years: final report. [Report]
Becta (British Educational Communication and Technology Agency) (Funder) (2005) Already at a disadvantage? ICT in the home and children's preparation for primary school. (ICT Research Bursaries 2004 - Final Report). [Report]
Sime, Daniela and Forbes, Joan and Lerpiniere, Jennifer (2015) Poverty and Children's Education. Scottish Universities Insight Institute, University of Strathclyde.


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Christine Chou, student, tutor, mentor
"Why not go somewhere and learn something new?" might be Christine Chou's slogan. The owner of several Chinese restaurants over the years, she has many interests including international travel, Irish and belly dancing, and writing.
Energy and spirit
You hear that spirit of adventure underlying every chapter of Christine's life story. From Taiwan, she came to Boston, then to Hampden. She was restless at home with a small child, so she took a cosmetology course. Then she packed up her kit and her son and went to clients' homes to cut their hair.
When she began to work in her family's Chinese restaurants, she realized there was a communication problem. "The wait staff would say 'not spicy' and the cooks wouldn't understand," she says. With four restaurants and at least eight cooks, it was a big problem.
Additionally, she realized, "My own English needed work." That sent her straight to Literacy Volunteers.
Student, tutor, mentor
Christine got a tutor and worked until she was satisfied with her progress. Then she began tutoring her workers. She also invented a shorthand for her staff to use–"ER for eggroll, 007 for chicken fingers" (think "Goldfinger").
She has continued to mentor and tutor Chinese immigrants throughout her career. She has also taught Chinese to English speakers, for free, but says few stick with that difficult language.
Christine, center, was part of a panel on diversity at a tutor workshop.
Christine maintains close contact with Literacy Volunteers and has often returned to help out with events. Recently she was a panelist at our tutor workshop "Toolkit for Tutors." Over the years, she had donated thousands of dollars to Literacy Volunteers through the sale of her self-published book A Chinese Woman's Thoughts on American Culture.
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Ms. Religa is a hand talker, an inventor of acronyms (IOA), and a phenomenal parallel parker (just ask her). Clients are wowed by her marketing cojones and campaign prowess. She, meanwhile, is impressed by decisiveness and tall engineered structures (i.e. Eiffel Tower, Wind Turbines).
A fan of going to the gym, she strives to have a physique as strong as her love of chocolate peanut butter overnight oats.
She is brilliant at accents and voices, including high-pitched, exaggerated Southern, and vaguely European. For her 12th birthday, she had a "General Lee" cake. Not surprisingly, subsequent birthdays have always fallen short.
What She IS: Coffee dependent. A kid chauffer. Neat-ish. Averse to her office being filled with packing peanuts. In favor of entirely yellow bananas. Competitive. Incredible at air drums. In need of dark chocolate. Passionate about replacing the toilet paper roll in a timely manner (and over, not under).
What She Is NOT: In possession of two working knees. A volleyball player…anymore (sniffle). A cheater at board games. Impressed by coconut. Good with vomit. A strong swimmer. Crazy about having her face in the water. Easily embarrassed. Afraid of making up words.
Preferred Smells: Coffee. Or rain. Or coffee in the rain.
Top Movie Pick: Despicable Me, because it just is, and Gru is her kind of people (accent and all). Favorite quote: "It's so fluuuffyyy!"
Dogs or Cats: Dogs. Because they can eat cats in one bite.
Bert or Ernie: "Ernie, based entirely on his laugh."
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Q: How to get lasts 15 posts of user wall via fql stream table? I'm confused with this FQL query:
SELECT type,attachment,message,permalink,created_time
FROM stream
WHERE
  source_id = xxxxxx and
  actor_id= xxxxxx and
  type = 247
ORDER BY created_time DESC
LIMIT 46

It returns empty. But when I try this:
SELECT type,attachment,message,permalink,created_time
FROM stream
WHERE
  source_id = xxxxxx and
  actor_id= xxxxxx and
  type = 247
ORDER BY created_time DESC
LIMIT 50

It returns 1 record as I expect.
Is it because of the LIMIT or something else? How do I show the 15 posts of the user?

A: This is a facebook quirk: some of the posts are "hidden" from the response. So the top 45 posts are all hidden (given the credetials you're using to get the posts) and 1 (one) of the next 5 are visible. So it only returns the visble one. Increase limit and you may get more.
No real work around except to not include the limit, and then to manually count and use the first 15.

A: List<WallPosts> posts = facebookClient.executeQuery("select strip_tags(message),type from stream where filter_key = 'others'",WallPosts.class);
Iterator<WallPosts> postIterator = posts.iterator();
int wallCount = 0;
while (postIterator.hasNext()) {
  if (wallCount == 15) break;
  WallPosts post = postIterator.next();
  if (post.message != null) { // if message is not blank
    wallCount ++;
    System.err.println(post.message);
}

Will get you the last 15 messages on the authenticated user's wall from others. Some of the messages are blank, which is why I have the null check.


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Martin Cross began his career in as an in-house editor of Japanese patent translations in Tokyo. Later, he lived for many years in Italy and France, where he translated from those languages into English. His articles have been published in the New York Law Journal, the Westlaw Journal, The ATA Chronicle, and Intellectual Property Today.
He is currently the president of Patent Translations Inc., where he continues to translate and to serve as an expert witness on translation. He spends much of his time editing translations and training translators and editors in the ins and outs of patent translation


I moved to England to 10 years ago to work in theatre – that was specifically what I wanted to do. I did that for 7 years and really loved it. I was a creative producer which meant that I didn't often get to do my own projects – I was helping other people with their own work. So, on weekends, I just wanted to do something that was mine. I started blogging about 5 years ago, put recipes up online but nobody read them for a very long time until The Guardian picked it up! I signed a book deal and wrote The Little Library Cookbook.
The Little Library Cookbook was awarded one of The Guardian's Best Books on Food of 2017 and was described as a 'Cookbook for Readers' by Nigella Lawson. How did you react to such an achievement?
It was just a great thing! I've loved reading cookbooks for years and the people who responded were really positive, warm and lovely. Food writers are a really nice community, which was something I didn't expect. I'm still so shocked and how supporting and passionate these people, who I've admired for years, are about the work that other people make.
What Inspired you to write The Little Library Cookbook?
It was very much an extension of the blog, being inspired by pieces of fiction – particularly ones I've grown up with. A lot of the initial recipes were from children's books and particularly with things that I have grown up reading about in real but never eaten as I've grown up in a different country. I grew up in Australia and moved to England but I had never had a treacle tart but I knew it was a good thing as it was Harry Potter's favourite dessert.
I had never had a treacle tart but I knew it was a good thing as it was Harry Potter's favourite dessert!
It really informed what I wanted to make, so The Little Library Cookbook came out to that. I picked 100 recipes that worked in a cookbook so the idea was to take you from breakfast through to midnight feasts with an additional chapter on Christmas. That was there because there's just so much Christmas literature to enjoy! It was very much about choosing the stuff that I loved to cook all the time, but also books that I wanted to recommend to people. Every recipe had to be something that I thought was great for some reason and was something that I always wanted to cook and eat! I've just finished writing my second book, which is coming out in October.
I think that my favourite recipe in the book is probably the one that I use most often which is the Midnight Ramen and that came out of wanting a meal that was quick and easy when I got home from long days in the theatre, or from a party with a friend – just something you just put together with ingredients from the fridge. It's something that I can make now in less than 15 minutes, so it's the thing that I still make most often because I always have those ingredients in the house. It's from a book called Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, which I absolutely adore. It's about a family, food and love – a sort of coming of age story, set in Tokyo. This recipe is all about adding whatever you fancy to it. I love adding tofu because it's such a great ingredient but you really can make it with anything. It uses a really simple mushroom and miso broth, so it's vegetarian, it's easy, and it's cheap to make too!
How did you pick the characters from your book?
When I was writing the book, the blog was much easier. When it started as a blog, it was basically everything I was reading that week because it doesn't have to have a structure or format and I didn't want to repeat stuff too close together so I tried to pick something a bit different next week. But, really – you could repeat stuff or you could be a bit more flexible with it. However, the book needs to feel it works as a cookbook so you need to be able to open it and think "I want to cook that!" as well as thinking "Oh, what a nice reference!" Otherwise, it would be used as a nice coffee table book but I wanted it to be used as a cookbook and so I sat down with my publisher with at one point 250 recipes from different books. What I wanted to do was ensure that every single book featured was one that I had an affinity to throughout my childhood.


The Reverend James Forbes is the Senior Minister Emeritus of the Riverside Church, an interdenominational (American Baptist and United Church of Christ) church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. He was the first African American minister to lead this multicultural congregation, and served it for 18 years. On June 1, 2007, after 18 years of service, Forbes officially retired from this position to become president of the Healing of the Nations Foundation, a national ministry of healing and spiritual revitalization. Forbes hosts the radio program The Time Is Now, which airs weekends on the Air America Radio network. Learn more here.
Because marriage is a basic human right and an individual choice, RESOLVED, the State should not interfere with same-gender couples who choose to marry and share fully and equally in the rights, responsibilities, and commitment of civil marriage.
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Norfolk County Council
Published: December 3rd 2020
Norfolk County Council secure £635k homelessness funding
Norfolk County Council has announced that they have secured £635k of funding to tackle homelessness in the county.
There has been a worry across the country that the Government's Everybody In scheme would lead to those that had been housed returning to the streets once the pandemic was over.
With a vaccine on the horizon, Norfolk County Council are determined to invest over £600k in making sure that evidence-based services are provided for those that need it most.
The £635k has been secured through a Social Impact Bond (SIB) and will cover a four-year project, due to start in April 2021, to introduce a new structured, evidence-based approach through better data collection and analysis. The funding has been secured through working with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Life Chances Fund (LCF).
Norfolk County Council's Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, Cllr Bill Borrett, said:
"This funding will provide crucial support for vulnerable people in Norfolk, and works towards our strategic aim of 'No Homelessness in Norfolk'.
"We have an opportunity to build on the work done during the Covid pandemic to reduce homelessness and the risk of homelessness and the timing of this funding will allow us to do exactly that.
"By reducing homelessness we not only reduce the additional healthcare costs homelessness brings but also help vulnerable people and their families avoid the real and human consequences of rough sleeping. By getting this right we can make life better for anyone at risk of homelessness, and for the communities they live in."
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MOSCOW (Rahnuma): Russia's manned spacecraft will perform record-long missions to the International Space Station (ISS), lasting for seven months, Sputnik news agency reported Thursday.
"Soyuz MS-12 is to be launched on March 1 and is to land on Oct. 3 with the mission duration of 216 days. Soyuz MS-13 is launched on July 6 and lands on Feb. 6, 2020, with the mission duration of 215 days," a source in the aerospace industry was quoted by Sputnik as saying.
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KINDNESS TO THE WORLD
This 95-foot Inace has been around the globe and is ready for her next adventure.
Sales broker Dana Cambon at Luke Brown Yachts has been excited about the 95-foot Inace, Kindness to the World for the better part of a decade. He negotiated the orginial owner's deal with the Brazilian shipyard in 2003, was with the project through the launch in 2005 and has watched her cruise around the globe not only with that original owner, but also with the current one.
"The first owner, sadly, the boat came on her own bottom from Brazil to Fort Lauderdale nonstop, and he took that trip and did a little bit of cruising, and then his wife passed away and he decided to sell," Cambon says. "Another gentleman bought the boat and took her to Europe, out into the Pacific, really got out there, and now his agenda has changed and he's looking to sell the boat."
Kindness to the World was specifically built for that type of long-range cruising. She has a steel hull and aluminum superstructure, plus a fuel capacity of 16,000 gallons that gives her a range of 5,000 nautical miles.
"She's got the legs to go anywhere in the world," he says. "She's got in-line six-cylinder (1,920 horsepower) Caterpillars that are very fuel efficient."
Also appealing for go-anywhere yachtsmen is the helipad the current owner installed to make use of his Robinson R44 helicopter, which has traveled with the yacht for a number of years.
The one thing Kindness to the World hasn't needed is a large crew: She has both bow and stern thrusters, which make her easy for three capable people to run.
Cambon acknowledges that the current asking price of $2.9 million reflects the yacht's readiness for another refit, to augment the general updates made by the current owner in Europe about three years ago. The woodwork is in pretty good shape, he says, but things like fabrics could use a refresh. "It's not like the boat needs to be gutted or anthing," he says. "It's got everything it needs to get out there and get serious."
Learn more at www.lukebrownyachts.com.


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Manchester United have won the seventh consecutive victory with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on Saturday, beating Brighton & Hove Albion (2-1) with goals from Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford. The 'red devils' continue their climb in the table and are thus placed in sixth position, with 44 points , two of the Champions League posts that Chelsea marks.
Pogba , penalty, and Rashford, after a great play by the left wing started by Diogo Dalot that he defined with a corner kick, they left the match practically sentenced in the first part. Solskjaer left on the bench Juan Mata, who entered the second half, for the second consecutive game and put Ander Herrera in midfield along with Pogba and Nemanja Matic, just like in the triumph against Tottenham Hotspur last week.
Up, the Norwegian again trusted Rashford, who has already six goals in this league championship, and kept on the bench Romelu Lukakuuntil it gave him eight minutes to go. Pascal Gross approached the south of England in the 72nd minute, but Brighton could not get anything out of it and he ran out of time to get at least one point at Old Trafford.
Those of Chris Hughton are thirteenth in the Premier table with 26 points, seven above the relegation zone.


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TSG Asks: What genre have you yet to give a chance that you really want to get into?
Missed opportunities and retrospective appreciation for the genres of games we've yet to dig in to.
by TSG Staff August 27, 2018, 9:00 am
Gamers like to play the types of games they're familiar with. If you really like role-playing games, you probably play a lot of RPGs and may not touch sports games or puzzlers or first-person shooters. On the other hand, many gamers dabble in numerous genres rather than specialize in a few. Whatever your personal preferences, digging into an entirely new genre can be a somewhat uncomfortable experience. It's a commitment to learning new rules and tactics, almost like learning a whole new sport. This process is what makes crossing into the new territory both challenging and exciting. The following genres are ones that have piqued our interest for some time, but that we just haven't found the time to dive into yet.
The recent appearance of the Soulslike genre is super interesting to me. I've heard nothing but glowing things about the Dark Souls series, but the games' reputation for punishing difficulty and the commitment it entails has kept me away. Although Dead Cells fits more into the "roguelike" category, its surface level similarities to Dark Souls' leveling system is one of my first forays into games where death is truly punishing rather than inconvenient. I'm hoping that my newfound addiction to Motion Twin's sidescroller can trigger a deep dive into the masochistic heart of FromSoftware's Souls series and its imitators.
I feel like I really missed out on the Battle Royale craze. PUBG seems so 2017 and even though Fortnite is still hot, I don't want to invest the time to become decent at it. The concept of an entire genre emerging around the concept of Last Man Standing is super cool though. Nobody wants to give credit where its due. Smash Bros. for Wii U started this trend with 8-player Smash. And if Smash Ultimate gives us 100-player Smash, that's when I'll go all in on the Battle Royale genre.
CRPGs are a genre of games that has interested me but never grabbed me. One, I've never owned a gaming PC, but they've also always felt so complicated and imposing. Yet games like Baldurs Gate, Pillars of Eternity, and the original Fallout games are held in such high regard by those that played them, it's always intrigued me.
After having learned to play and enjoy tabletop RPGs such as D&D, and having experiences from modern RPGs that have taken cues from CRPGs such as the recent Fallout games and even Mass Effect, I feel I am in a better place to appreciate the pace and complexity of this genre. And with games like Divinity Original Sin receiving carefully crafted ports to fit a console experience, it seems the timing has never been better for me to get on board… that is if it weren't for Spider-Man and Red Dead 2 just around the corner.
Written by TSG Staff
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HGM-25A Тайтен I (,  — «Титан») — американська рідинна двоступенева міжконтинентальна балістична ракета з моноблочною головною частиною. Була першою ракетою-носієм із роду Титан.

Спочатку, відповідно до системи позначень прийнятої у ВПС США в період 1955—1963 рр.. мала індекс SM-68. Була розроблена як міра підстраховки на випадок невдачі проекту балістичної ракети SM-65 Atlas

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These giant machines cover the world of mining, transport, space and shipping. Do you know any that are bigger?
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1) Dual Cat Hauler
2) Bagger 288: World's Largest Digging Machine
The bucket-wheeler excavator, built by the German company Krupp, is a mobile strip mining machine. It is the largest tracked vehicle in the world at 13,500 tons. However, Bagger is powered from an external source and is more correctly described as a mining machine which can be moved. Height: 95m, Length: 215m.
3) Largest Earth-hauling Truck in the World
The Liebherr T 282B is used in surface mines around the world. Driven by a 90 liter diesel engine producing 3650 horsepower. Weight: empty 203 tons; maximum capacity 365 tons; maximum operating weight 592 tons. Length: 14.5m, Height: 7.4m, Wheelbase: 6.6m, Top Speed: 40 mph, Cost: US$3.5M
4) New 800-ton Mining Excavator
At the MINExpo 2008 in Las Vegas, Liebherr announced the R 9800 Mining Excava-tor. Rated at 800 tons of service weight the R 9800 provides a nominal bucket capacity of 38 to 42 m³. This new flagship of Liebherr mining excavators' range is targeting bucket loads of 75 tons in both versions, as a backhoe and a shovel execution.
5) Knock Nevis
Is a floating storage and offloading unit owned by the Fred Olsen Production of Norway. It was previously a supertanker and held the record for the world's largest ship.Length: 458m, Width: 69m, Height: 30m, Weight: 564,763 tons. When fully laden a draft of 24.6m rendered it unable to navigate the English Channel, Suez Canal or Panama Canal.
6) NASA Crawler Transporter
Space shuttle Discovery makes its way up the 5 percent grade to the hard stand of Launch Pad 39B. 131 feet long and 113 feet wide, with a flat upper deck measuring 90 feet square. Powered by two 2,750-horsepower diesel engines. The hydraulic system includes 16 jacking, equalizing and levelling cylinders, which keep the crawler's surface level at all times.
7) Largest and Heaviest Land Vehicle.
The TAKRAF RB293 is a giant bucket-wheel excavator used in Australia for removing over-burden from a brown coal mine in Victoria. Height:94.5m, Length:220m, Weight:14,196 tons, Operation: requires five people to operate, Bucket Wheel: 21m, It can move 240,000 cubic meters of earth per day.
8) TGV Record 574.8 km
9) Mine Truck
10) Typhoon Class Submarine
A nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine deployed by the Soviet Navy in the 1980s. With a maximum displacement of 33,800 tons, the Typhoons are the largest class of submarine ever built. In its day it was one of the most feared weapons of mass destruction ever made.
11) Airbus A380
The largest passenger airliner in the world, the A380 made its maiden flight on 27 April 2005. With 50% more floor space than the next largest airliner, the Boeing 747-400, and providing seating for up to 853 people in all economy class configuration.
12) Australian Road Train


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Prepare 108 Peas sized balls from wheat flour [Atta] and feed them to fish. You have to take each ball in your hand and chant this mantra ॐ ह्रीं नमः [ Om Hreem Namah] and the throw the ball in the water to the fish.
After the morning bath each member of the family must throw some sugar out of the house. This sugar is meant to feed ants and other minute organisms.
It has been recommended that one can try any one or both of these remedies till one starts feeling relief from debts and money problems.
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Stirling Prize shortlist recognizes British architects
| Jul 22, 2010 |
Now in its 15th year, the RIBA Stirling Prize is awarded to the architects of the best new European building built or designed in Britain.
The six buildings competing for this year's title include: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Rick Mather Architects; Bateman's Row, London by Theis and Khan; Christ's College School, Guildford by DSDHA; Clapham Manor Primary School, London by dRMM; MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome by Zaha Hadid Architects; and Neues Museum, Berlin by David Chipperfield Architects with Julian Harrap Architects.
"Unique in the history of the RIBA Stirling Prize, three major museum buildings make up half of the list, showing us three very different ways of building - and re-building - museums and galleries. They are the fruits of the economic boom of the last decade and sadly may represent the end of an era," Ruth Reed, RIBA President said.
"This is also the first year that two schools have been shortlisted for the prize. They represent what all schools should be: light, well-laid-out and well-equipped environments in which all students can flourish. Investment in well designed schools demonstrates to teachers and pupils how much they are valued and has measurable impact – attendance and results rise; truancy and bullying fall."
The judges include Ruth Reed, RIBA President (chair); Ivan Harbour, architect, Rogers Stirk Harbour; Edward Jones, architect, Dixon Jones; Professor Lisa Jardine, historian and writer; and Mark Lawson, broadcaster. They will visit the six buildings and convene the day of the presentation to pick the winner.
The winner will be announced at The Roundhouse, London on October 2, 2010, and broadcast live on BBC TWO's The Culture Show at 6.30pm, presented by Kevin McCloud.


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