Vodafone Australia has said the three 'pressing' issues in the telecommunications industry are domestic roaming, spectrum allocation, and the USO.
The federal government needs to fine tune its spectrum allocation process, come through with Universal Service Obligation (USO) reforms, and declare wholesale mobile domestic roaming in order for Australia not to "fall behind" the global telecommunications standard, Vodafone CEO Inaki Berroeta has said.
These three topics could unlock "enormous economic, social, and technological potential" by providing ubiqoutus coverage across Australia if addressed correctly, Berroeta said at the Charles Todd Oration in Sydney on Wednesday afternoon.
Calling it the "hot topic" of the industry, Berroeta said responses to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) enquiry into whether to declare wholesale domestic mobile roaming have been "bordering on hysterical".
On the USO, which Vodafone has been fighting against for several years, Berroeta said Vodafone is "very pleased" that the government is now looking into the matter.
"What we have here in Australia is hundreds of millions of dollars a year being paid to the incumbent to supply a plain old copper telephony service. That's despite the fact that several different technologies have been available for many years which could also deliver this service -- fibre, mobile, fixed-wireless, and satellite," the chief executive said.
"That's despite the copper network servicing the same areas that billions of dollars has been spent deploying NBN fixed-wireless and satellite services."
Berroeta has previously argued that the USO -- which mandates Telstra as the fixed-line phone service provider of last resort, giving the telco hundreds of millions of dollars each year for the installation and maintenance of fixed-line services -- should have its funding redistributed to a permanent mobile blackspot program.
While he did not address the Australian government's decision last week to auction off 2x 15MHz of the 700MHz spectrum band that went unsold during the 2013 digital dividend auction following Vodafone Australia's proposal to buy the spectrum for AU$571,814,450 upfront, Berroeta did express uncertainty that the federal government is focused on long-term benefits to the industry; rather, it seems to be taking a "fragmented" approach to spectrum allocation.
"Ironically, competition limits sometimes fail even to ensure fair competition in the allocation of spectrum," he argued.
"The 5G standard internationally is about to be defined. The band most likely to be used for initial 5G services across multiple geographies is the 3.4 to 3.7GHz band. That means that the ecosystem of 5G equipment and devices will operate on this band.
"However, a large portion of this band in Australia has been set aside in metropolitan areas for the NBN to deliver services to just 80,000 premises at the fringe of metro areas."
Berroeta said Vodafone is itself "well advanced" in its 5G plans, having last week conducted a public lab trial at the University of Technology Sydney in partnership with network technology giant Nokia last week, demonstrating throughput speeds of up to 5Gbps.
The lab trial, announced by Berroeta in August, was conducted across the 4.5GHz spectrum band, with 200MHz cell bandwidth.
"We are in the planning phase for future network architecture and platforms, and participating in demonstrations with our vendors," Berroeta said on Wednesday.
"I hear a lot of debate around whether 5G will eventually make fixed broadband technology redundant. But it doesn't make sense to talk about 5G and fixed broadband as competing, or even separate, services. We should be taking an 'always-on' approach."
Berroeta also used the speech to make the announcement that Vodafone will be entering the National Broadband Network (NBN) market as a retail service provider before the end of 2017.


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Golden Globes 2018 Live Stream Online Video: Watch Salma Hayek, Ricky Martin, Winners & More
It's a new year and award season officially starts with the Golden Globes 2018 as the Hollywood Foreign Press organization celebrate the best of television and movies. Seth Meyers is set to host the gala and you can expect him to address the issue that plagues the industry. "With the monologue, as far as talking about anything in the news right now, it seems like this year more than ever Hollywood has its own internal politics that obviously deserve to be talked about," he told People magazine. "Going into it our focus is far more on the worlds that make these films and less on anything that's happening in Washington."
What celebrities will present during the show? Confirmed to present are Salma Hayek, Ricky Martin, Penelope Cruz and Edgar Ramirez. Also set to take the stage are Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie, Helen Mirren, Emma Stone, Gal Gadot, Kerry Washington, Amy Poehler, Kelly Clarkson, Halle Berry, Carol Burnett, Darren Criss, Greta Gerwig, Hugh Grant, Neil Patrick Harris, Chris Hemsworth, Christina Hendricks, Isabelle Huppert, Shirley MacLaine, Sarah Jessica Parker, Seth Rogen, J.K. Simmons, Sharon Stone, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alicia Vikander and more.
How to watch the show? The main event is on Sunday, January 7 on NBC. A live stream of the red carpet will be available through the official Golden Globes Facebook page starting at 6pm ET/3pm PT. The award show starts at 8pm ET/5pm PT with live streaming online through the NBC app (with cable credentials) or streaming services like Sling TV and YouTube TV.
Oprah Winfrey is set to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award that honors her contributions to the entertainment world. "As a global media leader, philanthropist, producer and actress, [Winfrey] has created an unparalleled connection with people around the world, making her one of the most respected and admired figures today," HFPA president Meher Tatna said. "For generations, Oprah has celebrated strong female characters on and off screen and has been a role model for women and young girls for decades. Holding titles such as chairman, CEO and founder, Oprah is one of the most influential women of our time, and this honor is well deserved especially in this 75th anniversary year of the Golden Globe Awards."
Guillermo del Toro is leading the nominations pack this year with seven nods for his film "The Shape of Water." In the Best Director category he will be competing with Martin McDonagh ("Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"), Christopher Nolan ("Dunkirk"), Ridley Scott ("All The Money in the World") and Steven Spielberg ("The Post"). In the top award for Best Motion Picture - Drama "The Shape Of Water" will compete with "Call Me By Your Name," "Dunkirk," "The Post" and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri."
On the television spectrum for Best Television Series in the Drama genre the following are competing for the award: "The Crown," "Game of Thrones," "The Handmaid's Tale," "Stranger Things" and "This Is Us." On the comedy side the titles competing are: "Black-ish," "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," "Master of None," "SMILF" and "Will & Grace."
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Over the years, hundreds of HSU graduates have joined the Peace Corps to get a head start on their careers and make a positive impact in communities around the world.
HSU Grad Kayla Masengale ('15, Child Development) is currently serving as a community development Peace Corps volunteer in Timor-Leste in Southeast Asia.
Recently Humboldt State University was ranked No. 5 among medium-size schools on the Peace Corps' 2017 list of Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities.
It's the 10th year in a row that HSU has been a ranked as a top volunteer-producing school. HSU has been ranked each year over the past decade and is one of five California schools to make this year's list.
There are 33 HSU alumni currently volunteering worldwide—and Kayla Masengale is among them.
Since the Peace Corps' founding in 1961, 841 Lumberjacks have traveled abroad to serve as volunteers. Service in the Peace Corps is a life-defining, hands-on experience that offers volunteers the opportunity to travel to a community overseas and make a lasting difference in the lives of others.
Other recent graduates like Jocelyn Keranen ('13, Geography) started their careers with service in the Peace Corps. Currently, Keranen is serving as the malaria coordinator in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Kiera Yeomans ('15, Environmental Studies) is using Peace Corps service to complete a master's degree that combines social advocacy with climate change awareness at Antioch University in New Hampshire.
The Peace Corps has simplified its application process with a focus on volunteers. A straightfoward and personal Peace Corps application process can be completed online in about one hour. Applicants can learn more about service opportunities by assignment area, country, and departure date by visiting the Peace Corps website and connecting with a recruiter.
The Peace Corps ranks its top volunteer-producing colleges and universities annually according to the size of the student body. Below find the top five schools in each category and the number of alumni currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers. View the complete 2017 rankings of the top 25 schools in each category here (PDF) and find an interactive map that shows where alumni from each college and university are serving here.


This foundation brush comes from the Real Techniques Core Collection Set, which is amazing because you get 4 fabulous brushes for less than $10. Yes please! It blends foundation seamlessly and doesn't leave any streaks.
Elf is such a great quality makeup brand that is SO inexpensive. I picked up this powder brush in a rush one day because I couldn't find my other one. I did not expect to like it as much as I did! It really does a great job applying powder and doesn't shed. I like to lightly dab on my powder rather than rub, because I find it provides a more solid coverage.
I always set the concealer under my eyes because I feel like it prevents creasing and keeps the product from looking cake-y. For the longest time, I simply set the concealer with my regular powder brush (the Elf one above) but it didn't quite seem to do the trick. The Real Techniques Setting Brush is small enough to fit in just the under eye area so it works great for setting your under eye concealer!
This one is another brush from the Real Techniques Core Collection Set (greatest brush set ever?!). It's the perfect size and allows you to get a very precise contour. It's not too small that it creates just a line. It allows you to create an extremely natural contour, and who doesn't want that?
I searched and searched and couldn't find any place on the internet that sold this brush! This is super sad, because this is by far the most amazing blush brush I've ever used. I almost didn't include it since I couldn't find it sold on the internet, but I honestly haven't found any blush brushes that compare. It's incredibly soft and applies blush perfectly. Now, although I said I couldn't seem to find it on the internet, I purchased mine at TJ Maxx, and I've seen this brand of brushes sold in their stores multiple times. Next time your shopping for good deals at TJ's, take a quick trip down the beauty isle and see if you get lucky enough to see one of these brushes!
Okay, it's technically a concealer brush, and I have used it for that in the past. I became obsessed with the beauty blender, so I stopped using this brush for concealer. I quickly discovered that it worked great as a highlighting brush. It's small enough to just get the tops of the cheekbones and wherever else you want to highlight.
I love the duel ended brushes from Eco Tools. These are amazing for traveling, as it's like 4 brushes that take up the space of two brushes. They have literally everything you need for your eyeshadow. Of course, I have a separate create brush, just because I like a really fluffy brush to blend out eyeshadow. This one from It Cosmetics is really soft and blends colors beautifully.
What a great post! I adore eco-tools brushes! I remember the first one I purchased and was blown away by how soft it was... I prefer it to some of my more expensive brushes! Great post!
They are seriously so soft! I love them!
I loooove Real Techniques brushes- great quality for the price, too!
I agree! So affordable and such great brushes.
I love real techniques brushes. They're amazing quality for affordable prices.
You should try the Ollie and Olivia foundation brush. It's amazing! I also bought mine at TJ Maxx, however, it was last one brush of that brand in the entire store. So sad they didn't have more.
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It's a great day to go to the zoo! As her family hustles to get out the door, Little T lags behind. She's afraid to go back to the zoo; the only trouble is, she can't remember why. As an ingenious solution to help her remember, her mom, dad, and sister construct homemade costumes and act out zoo animals--in alphabetical order, no less! The costumes and scenes grow increasingly elaborate and breathtakingly creative. An umbrella and bubble wrap magically transform into a jellyfish, bath towels and a can of soda become a parrot, and many, many more. At the end of the day, Little T has conquered her fear and no longer feels like a "fraidyzoo."
"WARNING: Expect riotous buffoonery after reading this clever and original alphabet story, as kids will definitely want to "parrot" the examples."
"The cut-and-paste, handmade look and feel of this picture book underscores its thematic ode to creative problem solving... The charming, detailed watercolor and ink illustrations really tell the story, and children will relish poring over them to guess the animal costumes and identify their construction materials."
"Heder tells a child-relevant story about facing your fears with a light hand and zippy prose, but it's her art that dials the zippiness up to 11, as her warm and humorously realistic figures gallivant alongside some remarkably envisioned handcrafted animal puppets."
"This book does the impossible, taking one of the oldest children's book conventions, the zoo alphabet, and completely reinventing it. It's a story about a family helping one of their own overcome fear by being utterly silly and completely loving. The whole thing is done with such a confident and lively style, it's hard to believe that this is Heder's first picture book. Fraidyzoo is funny, original, and announces Heder as a force to be reckoned with."
Illustrations capture the empathy of a very concerned, loving, and creative family."


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package main

import "encoding/binary"
import "flag"
import "log"
import "net"
import "strconv"
import "sync"

const (
	network = "udp"
)

func main() {
	target := flag.String("t", "", "Target host to send packets to.")
	port := flag.Uint("p", 33333, "First queue UDP port to send traffic to. Other queues use subsequent port numbers.")
	size := flag.Uint("s", 8, "Datagram packet size.")
	num := flag.Uint64("n", 10000, "Number of packets to send.")
	queues := flag.Uint("q", 1, "Number of simultaneous queues.")
	flag.Parse()

	if *size < uint(8) {
		log.Fatal("Packet size should not be less than 8 bytes.")
	}

	var wg sync.WaitGroup
	for q := uint(0); q < *queues; q++ {
		wg.Add(1)
		go send(&wg, *target, *port+q, *size, *num)
	}
	wg.Wait()
}

func send(wg *sync.WaitGroup, target string, port, size uint, num uint64) {
	defer wg.Done()
	addr, err := net.ResolveUDPAddr(network, target+":"+strconv.Itoa(int(port)))
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal("ResolveUDPAddr returned ", err)
	}

	conn, err := net.DialUDP(network, nil, addr)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal("DialUDP returned ", err)
	}
	defer conn.Close()

	buffer := make([]byte, size)
	for i := uint64(1); i <= num; i++ {
		binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(buffer, uint64(i))
		n, err := conn.Write(buffer)
		if err != nil {
			log.Fatal("Write returned ", err)
		}
		if uint(n) != size {
			log.Fatal("Failed to send a complete packet of size ", strconv.Itoa(int(size)),
				", sent ", strconv.Itoa(n), " bytes instead")
		}
	}
}

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The Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize
In 1994, acting on the suggestion of its President, Janice Carlisle, The International Society for the Study of Narrative established an award that "honors the many past and continuing contributions of Barbara Perkins and George Perkins to the development and success of the Society, including the founding of both The Journal of Narrative Technique and the Society itself. The award, presented annually to the book that makes the most significant contribution to the study of narrative," offers a prize of $1000 plus a contribution of $500 toward expenses for the winning author to attend the Narrative Conference where the award will be presented. The first Perkins Award was announced at the MLA meeting in Chicago in December, 1995, and presented at the Tenth Anniversary Conference at Ohio State University in April 1996.
The Perkins Prize is conceived as a book prize rather than an author prize. Thus all books on the topic of narrative, whether edited collections, collaboratively written books, or monographs, are eligible to compete. If an edited collection or collaboratively written book is selected, the prize goes to the editor(s) or the collaborators. Publisher, third-party, and self-nominations are appropriate.
The deadline for submissions each year is June 1. Books published during the previous calendar year are eligible. In the following year the winner will be announced at the MLA Convention and the prize will be awarded at the Narrative Conference the following year.
The latest call for nominations can be found at our blog:
Call for Nominations: Perkins Prize
Current Prize Winner
Yogita Goyal, Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, New York: New York University Press, 2019
Past Prize Winners
(listed by the year of the award, two years after the year of publication)
Ruth Page, Narratives Online: Shared Stories on Social Media, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018
Rita Charon et al., The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017).
Honorable Mention: Christopher González, Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature (Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2017).
Kent Puckett, Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2016).
Erin James, The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2015).
Honorable Mention: Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser (eds.), Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2015).
Liesbeth Korthals Altes, Ethos and Narrative Interpretation: The Negotiation of Values in Fiction (Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P 2014).
Honorable Mention: Marco Caracciolo, The Experientiality of Narrative: An Enactivist Approach (2014).
Thomas Pavel, University of Chicago, The Lives of the Novel: A History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP 2013)
Honorable Mention: Daniel Stein and Jan-Noël Thon, From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels (de Gruyter, 2013)
Srinivas Aravamudan, Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel (Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2012).
Edward Adams, Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill (Charlotte, VA: U of Virginia P, 2011).
Honorable Mention: Jonathan Lamb, The Things Things Say (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2011).
Margaret Cohen, The Novel and the Sea (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010).
Honorable Mention: Jesse Molesworth, Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010).
Garrett Stewart, Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction (Chicago: U of chicago Press, 2009).
Honorable Mention: Jennifer Wenzel, Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (Chicago: U of chicago Press, 2009).
Hilary Dannenberg, Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction (University of Nebraska Press).
Sharon Marcus, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton UP, 2007).
Brian Richardson, Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2006).
James Phelan, Living To Tell About It: A Rhetoric And Ethics Of Character Narration (Cornell UP, 2005).
A.C. Spearing, Textual Subjectivity (Oxford, 2005).
Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern (Duke University Press, 2004).
Alan Palmer, Fictional Minds (University of Nebraska Press, 2004).
Caroline Levine, The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt (University Press of Virginia, 2003).
David Herman, Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002)
Jorgen Dines Johansen, Literary Discourse: A Semiotic-Pragmatic Approach to Literature (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002).
Amy Elias, Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)
Michael Whitmore, Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England (Stanford University Press, 2001)
Patricia Yaeger, Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)
Marie-Laure Ryan, Narrative As Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
Robert L.Caserio, The Novel in England, 1900-1950: History and Theory (Twayne Publishers, 1999)
Eileen Gillooly, Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)
Susan Stanford Friedman, Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998)
Dorothy J. Hale, Social formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present (Stanford University Press, 1998)
Kali Israel, Names and Stories: Emilia Dilke and Victorian Culture (New York: Oxford Univ Press, 1998)
Elizabeth Bronfen, The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998)
Susan Slyomovics, The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998
Joseph Litvak, Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997)
Judith Roof, Come As You Are (Columbia University Press, 1996)
Monika Fludernik, Towards a 'Natural' Narratology (Routledge, 1996)
Adam Zachary Newton, Narrative Ethics (Harvard University Press, 1995)
Laura Doyle, Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture (Oxford University Press, 1994)
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Losing your teeth, while being abroad, is the worst nightmare for many people. The fact that your dental expenses are not covered by your medical insurance makes it even scarier. Many people start losing teeth at an early age and may even end up with several crowns by the time they reach 30.
Many cultures around the world have feared the tooth loss. Gum disease is among the reasons why people lose teeth. The treatment may be very costly once the disease settles in. However, you can find another way to save money on the next visit to the dentist. There are a lot of alternative natural and homeopathic remedies for gum disease.
Lemons possess anti-inflammatory qualities. That is why when you place some lemon on your gums you may feel an instant relief. Squeeze some lemon and add a bit of salt to the juice. Apply the paste on your teeth and gums and keep it for several minutes. Make sure you rinse the paste with a lot of water as lemons are also incredibly acidic. Acids from lemons may even damage your enamel if your keep the paste for too long.
Various cultures around the world use sea salt to treat gum disease and oral ulcers. I remember my grandmother telling me to mix water with a little salt and rinse my mouth with it for 30 seconds before spitting it out. This little trick helps in reducing the swelling of infected gums and getting rid of infections in your mouth.
Tannic acid from soaked tea bags proved its effectiveness in reducing the gum swelling. Place one bag of black tea in hot water, let it absorb the liquid and then put it on your gums for several minutes. Your pain and swelling would shortly disappear.
Baking soda is another natural disinfector. Make a paste by mixing a bit of water with baking soda. Use your toothbrush to apply the paste on your gums to prevent the spreading of the disease. This preventive technique is incredibly effective at preserving your teeth and destroying all the bacteria in your mouth.
You should appreciate honey for its restorative and healing qualities. It might seem a bit weird to apply sweet honey on your teeth. Nonetheless, this natural remedy is effective at combating tooth decay. Brush your teeth first and then apply some honey on the swollen area. Honey cannot be used as a preventive measure. It only helps with existing gum disease.
Natural and unsweetened cranberry juice can make wonders. This anti-inflammatory miracle juice will prevent the spreading of the bacteria in your mouth. Your gums will have more time to heal and rejuvenate. Try making your own cranberry juice, or buy some organic juice in the store as sweetened juices would promote the tooth decay and slow down the healing process.
Most of these methods are great at preventing gum disease. Nonetheless, even if you follow these suggestions you should still visit your dentist on a regular basis as infected crowns can promote gum disease. You need to consult with your doctor as soon as you notice the swelling in your gums.


Japan is home to one of the biggest auto industries in the world, so it's understandable why many automakers send special edition models to the Land of the Rising Sun. Recently, General Motors took its turn gifting Japanese customers with a special edition Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport. The Vette is about as exclusive as they come, at least considering where it's headed. The limited-run sports car is officially billed as the Grand Sport Admiral Blue Heritage Edition, and like most exclusive cars that come to Japan, it comes with some nifty features that underscore its status as a true special edition.
Needless to say, the Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Admiral Blue Heritage Edition isn't going anywhere else in the world. In fact, even Japanese customers will have to fight over the special edition Corvette as reports indicate Chevrolet will only send over five units, each priced at ¥12.8 million. That converts to roughly $115,000 based on current exchange rates. By comparison, the Corvette Grand Sport starts at $66,445 here in the U.S., so Japanese customers will have to fork over nearly double to get their hands on one. Then again, it is an exclusive Corvette Grand Sport with unique details in the exterior and interior. Having a chance to own one means paying a premium for that opportunity.


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Home Football Dooley Noted: Was it the greatest play in Florida history?
Pat Dooley
Dooley Noted: Was it the greatest play in Florida history?
Pat reviews the Florida-Tennessee game — and Feleipe Franks' remarkable game-winning pass — and catches you up on other SEC news from the weekend.
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Ernie Moore September 18, 2017 At 3:52 pm
What was more fun Chiozza's 3 or Cleveland's TD?
Justin September 18, 2017 At 4:45 pm
Doering's got a touchdown?
Kyle September 18, 2017 At 5:31 pm
😂😂😂😂😂😂 hahahhahahahaha!!!!
Justin September 19, 2017 At 8:06 am
Meaning it should have received mention, not that it was the greatest. Troll on.
Thank you Justin
Home Grown Gator September 18, 2017 At 6:39 pm
I like the idea of sticking with Franks even though I agree with you on Del Rio probably the better QB today. If we stick with Franks through thick and thin he will be the better QB by the end of the year.
I still don't understand how even a rookie QB you running three or four reverses a game. You put Malik o toss sweep ad reverse it with Toney. Malik's speed will make the defense fly i that initial direction which makes the reverse player very dangerous. I also think it would producction on a toss sweep after seeig a reverse oor two because the defense will have to stop selling out on the initial toss sweep.
I haven't seen us run aloot of plays that set up other plays it's a defiite area I would to see improvement.
Go Gators
Awesome Finish, but that James Jones catch was one the greatest catches I have ever seen.
cattrick September 18, 2017 At 8:15 pm
This group of Gator fans weren't born when James Jones made that stumbling, one-handed over the shoulder catch that beat Miami. Can't remember exact date but 1982 or 1984 sounds right.
The debate can go on an on, with plenty of plays in both football and basketball. Chris Chiozza's 3 to beat Wisconsin. Chandler Parsons heaving a 75 foot shot at the buzzer to beat North Carolina State by 2, Chris Doering's 25 yd. TD pass to beat Kentucky. Antonio Callaway vs. UT two years ago. The block on the South Carolina FG attempt that allowed GAtors to win 17-16 (they also blocked an Xp attempt). The list goes on an onl
Joe Shiver September 19, 2017 At 3:33 pm
The '84 Miami game was Kerwin Bell's first start, and the Canes came back late to win the game. Also, I'm pretty sure Jones graduated in '83, so I think the Jones catch was in '82. It was a great catch, regardless, and it won the game, as did Doering's and Callaway's, but with all of those, there was still time left on the clock after the play. Cleveland's catch is the only time I know of that Florida has won a game by scoring a touchdown on the game's final play of regulation. That, and the fact that the ball traveled 65+ yards in the air, make it the best play in Gator football history (imo)… not the most important, but the best, or at least most exciting.
BTW, one of my favorites is Bell limping into the endzone for the 2 pt conversion to beat Auburn in '86.
jh October 9, 2017 At 11:11 pm
My favorite was Bell's 96 yd. TD pass to Natiel against GA after a four-down goal line stand.
vulcan_alex September 18, 2017 At 6:43 pm
Probably top 10 not number one.
Sginn65 September 18, 2017 At 7:16 pm
Blocked field goal against South Carolina let to National Championship
Steve J September 19, 2017 At 6:44 am
Agreed! There have been a lot of great plays in Florida history, but without the "Cock Block" we don't play for the NC. I don't know how this is even a debate!
Albert D'Alligator September 19, 2017 At 3:17 pm
Don't forget, Jarvis blocked a potentially equally important extra point in that game as well.
Chris Thompson September 19, 2017 At 5:25 pm
That's the one
daz wazlle September 20, 2017 At 3:44 am
Absolutely, No National Championship without that blocked field goal!
DeWayne September 18, 2017 At 8:31 pm
(1) After reading Franks review of "the play", it was a 70 yard air time "pass play" with Cleveland catching the ball in stride, not a "hail Mary" (2) "the play" reminded me of the first TD in the 1995 UT game where it was 3rd and 15 at the UT 35 (107K crowd) and HB Coach called time out and gave Danny the play saying "lets see if they are in the right coverage" (3) You're right Pat, can't think of a bigger play but a top 10 play that meant something would be the "fake hurt Danny play" with Krieser's 25 yard pass play as part of "the drive" for a SEC title against Bama. (4) Nessler is way better fresh air announcer than lib Vern, but got tired of them saying "oh the 3 missed FGs", well UT was not good enough to make 3 long FGs. (5) After this past weekend, Yes, the East is now doable, BUT unless Hurt gets Hurt, Bama is untouchable. (6) Miss State did look good! (7) Hot seats are lining up, that with a great season, Dan Mullen will be a richer man!
Oh yea, Davis's fumble on the half yard line reminded me of the 1983 Auburn game when Neil Anderson fumbled on the half yard line after a long run, on his own, with no defenders near…Auburn recovered the ball in the end zone and Bo Jackson went of right tackle on the next play for 80 yards! My father and I had crappie seats on the north end line, row one, looking down the goal line. We could not really tell what had happened until we got home to see the replay. Likely, if Anderson scored, we win the game and the first SEC under Charlie Pell, BUT that's how bad fate was for Charlie. He had really turned us around, but for the violations!
Glenn A September 19, 2017 At 1:20 am
Charley — it was his bad fate to forever see his name misspelled.
Jim September 18, 2017 At 8:41 pm
Kerwin Bell's two point conversion to win the game against Auburn is the greatest play hands down.
Yea, I missed that one, had to stay home…great call!
mveal2006 September 18, 2017 At 9:25 pm
ike hilliard stop and pop
its so good it has a name
inversely 4th and dumb does as well
GatorMan727 September 18, 2017 At 9:51 pm
In my top 10 (or so) off all time for the Gators! I do rank this just before Doering's miracle at Kentucky.
I think Jarvis Moss' blocked FG holds alot of weight as well.
The Quez Green catch vs FSU, Spurrier's FG, Heck… Cleveland's long TD catch vs LSU last year. Collingsworth's TD throw in his first game ever vs Rice…so many more!
Rick Gillmore September 18, 2017 At 10:37 pm
Being reported now that Callaway and Jordan Smith are going to be arrested and charged with felony credit card fraud. Hopefully, this will be the end of Callaway's time on the UF campus and football team. About time.
Ugator September 19, 2017 At 7:42 am
We need to use the speed of the RB's and make opposing defenses run every play. Reverses, screens, and roll outs to wear down the defense is absolutely necessary. Remember "choke at Doke"? They ran us off the field in the second half with little depth to substitute a very tired defense.
Our OL's don't move well so pass blocking is a project that probably won't get much better. The RB's have to block on pass plays and don't whiff most attempts like Thompson does. Hope our QB's can see the field and not lock on any receiver so could Del Rio help with that? We had a good but very revealing game with many flaws to overcome.
Tim Ackley September 19, 2017 At 2:10 pm
The throwin' Mayoan's two point conversion against AU and Doering's catch vs. UK have to be right up there, but I'd rank this play by Franks and Cleveland as number one, since it was against a rival and was a game winner with no time remaining. I still remember Chris Collinsworth's 99 yard pass to Derrick Gaffney against Rice too. I think it is still the longest TD pass in NCAA history.
amber7 September 19, 2017 At 3:23 pm
I wouldn't call it that. video shows holding on at least 2 florida players on the replay.
WDV1964 September 19, 2017 At 3:44 pm
Ref's missed multiple holding calls on Tennessee through out the entire game
wake up WDV….we're talking about the last play of the game.
wdv1964 September 20, 2017 At 11:52 am
Get over yourself…it can't be reversed. Officials miss calls all the time , against everyone; in crucial situations. Gators were screwed over BIG TIME against Tennessee in '01 on the last play: Blatant pass interference…UT defender holding Jabar Gaffney. Official did not drop the flag.Personal foul called against Dallas Baker vs UT in '04.
Larry September 19, 2017 At 8:15 pm
"The Kick" by Spurrier still rules!
My favorite was Kerwin Bell's 4th quarter 96 yard TD pass to Ricky Nattiel against Georgia after a four-down goal line stand, putting the nail in their coffin and ending a six game losing streak in 1984.
After four years of being humiliated at the hands of Herschel Walker, it was very cathartic!


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A sequel to the 2019 CoD: Modern Warfare smash hit seems all but inevitable now, as narrative director Taylor Kurosaki hints at a character's return.
By James O'Connor on April 22, 2020 at 2:49PM PDT
Spoiler Warning: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has been continuing on the story from its campaign through its multiplayer modes, and it's gone in some surprising directions. The biggest reveal so far has been that the character Alex, the US operative we last saw in the campaign preparing to sacrifice himself to destroy a facility, is still alive.
But while this might make it seem like Infinity Ward is trying to wrap up all the game's loose ends, a tweet from narrative director Taylor Kurosaki suggests that the series won't be done with Alex by the time a sequel arrives. Responding to a user who said that he wished Alex would be brought back for the sequel, Kurosaki responded "who says we won't?"
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Who says we won't?
— Taylor Kurosaki (@taylorkurosaki) April 18, 2020
This isn't the first time Kurosaki has suggested that there's more to explore in a sequel, and it could still, ultimately, not mean anything--a Modern Warfare follow-up has not been announced yet. But it feels more likely than ever, particularly since Modern Warfare sold so well.
Aside from the Black Ops series, the Call of Duty series has not produced a sequel in some time, with Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, Infinite Warfare, and WW2 all being original stories (and Modern Warfare sitting somewhere between a reboot and a prequel). The Modern Warfare series is the most celebrated Call of Duty sub-brand, though, so it would make sense for Infinity Ward to stick with it.
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1. Ovid and the cultural politics of translation in early modern England [2006]
Oakley-Brown, Liz.
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.
List of illustrations-- General editor's preface-- Acknowledgements-- Introduction: Translation and transformation-- Titus Andronicus and the sexual politics of translation-- The heterotopic place of translation: The Third Part of the Countesse of Pembrokes Ivychurch-- Entituled, Amintas Dale-- Violence in translation: George Sandys's Metamorphosis Englished-- From Sandys's Ghost to Samuel Garth: Ovid's Metamorphoses in early eighteenth-century England-- In Arachne's trace: women as translators of the Metamorphoses-- The curious case of Caxton's Ovid-- Epilogue: Translation and fragmentation-- Bibliography-- Index.
In "Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England", Liz Oakley-Brown considers English versions of the Metamorphoses - a poem concerned with translation and transformation on a multiplicity of levels - as important sites of social and historical difference from the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. Through the exploration of a range of canonical and marginal texts, from Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" to women's embroideries of Ovidian myths, Oakley-Brown argues that translation is central to the construction of national and gendered identities.
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2. Shakespeare and the translation of identity in early modern England [2011]
London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, ©2011.
Acknowledgements-- Notes on Contributors-- Introduction Liz Oakley-Brown--
1. Schooling Coriolanus: Shakespeare, Translation and Latinity Barbara Correll--
2. A Midsummer Night's Symposium: Translating Platonic Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream Erica Birrell--
3. 'Silence! Trouble Us Not!': Travail and Translated Identity in The Tempest Julia Major--
4. Harming Macbeth: A British Translation Paul Innes--
5. 'Most Retrograde to Our Desire': Translating Recusant Identity in Hamlet Richard Chamberlain-- Afterword: Ton Hoenselaars-- Index.
Featuring contributions by established and upcoming scholars, Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England explores the ways in which Shakespearean texts engage in the social and cultural politics of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century translation practices. Framed by the editor's introduction and an Afterword by Ton Hoenselaars, the authors in this collection offer new perspectives on translation and the fashioning of religious, national and gendered identities in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.
This title is an exploration of the ways in which Shakespearean texts engage in the social and cultural politics of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century translation practices. During the last twenty-five years or so, critical and theoretical interest in translation and the construction of early modern identities has gathered momentum. Featuring contributions by established and upcoming scholars, "Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England" explores the ways in which Shakespearean texts engage in the social and cultural politics of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century translation practices. Framed by the editor's introduction which takes "Venus and Adonis" as a starting point for the collection and an Afterword by Ton Hoenselaars, the authors offer new perspectives on translation and the fashioning of religious, national and gendered identities in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Coriolanus", and, "The Tempest". This title contains major scholarly research monographs in Shakespeare Studies from Continuum.
3. Translation and nation : towards a cultural politics of Englishness [2001]
Clevedon, UK ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, ©2001.
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2. Translating the Subject: Ovid's Metamorphoses in England, 1560-7 / Liz Oakley-Brown
3. Women Translators, Gender and the Cultural Context of the Scientific Revolution / Christa Knellwolf
4. Hooked on Classics: Discourses of Allusion in the Mid-Victorian Novel / Hugh Osborne
5. 'All the Others Translate': W.H. Auden's Poetic Dislocations of Self, Nation, and Culture / Rainer Emig.
In recent years the marginal position which has defined translators and their texts has come under increasing and sustained challenge. However, although translation and subjectivity has been thoroughly considered in terms of post-colonialism and post-structuralism, there are few discussions which focus specifically on the construction of "Englishness" through vernacular translation. Using a range of theoretical approaches the five essays in this volume aim to realise such an understanding of translation by critically analyzing the cultural and political implications of translation and the construction of English subjectivities at particular historical moments.
Clevedon, UK ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, c2001.
Book — vi, 225 p. ; 21 cm.
Figures of English translation 1382-1407, Roger Ellis-- translating the subject - Ovid's "Metamorphoses" Liz Oakley-Brown-- women translators, gender and the cultural context of scientific revolution, Christa Knellwolf-- hooked on the classics - the discourses of allusion in the mid-Victorian period novel, Hugh Osborne-- "All the Others Translate" - W.H. Auden poetic dislocations of the self, nations & culture, Rainer Emig.
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Meghan Markle's sister, Samantha, is reportedly on her way to the UK 'to confront Duchess of Sussex over father's health'
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Meghan Markle's half-sister is reportedly on her way to the UK.
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Meghan Markle's half-sister, Samantha Markle, is reportedly on her way to the UK to confront the duchess over the health of their father, Thomas Markle.
Rob Cooper, who is believed to be Samantha's publicist, tweeted on Monday that she is heading to the UK after having "made numerous attempts" to arrange a meeting.
Cooper fears that Kensington Palace has not made Meghan aware of the previous "discreet attempts."
Meghan Markle's estranged half-sister Samantha is said to be flying to the UK to confront the duchess over their father Thomas Markle's health.
Samantha Markle, who is often outspoken in her opinions about her sister, has previously stated that Meghan could do more to help her father.
Mr. Markle pulled out of attending the royal wedding earlier this year after suffering a heart attack and has since claimed he told Prince Harry during a phone call that "it would be better for you guys if I was dead."
At the weekend Ms. Markle posted a photo of herself in Italy on Twitter, where she is understood to be taking part in media interviews.
—Samantha Markle (@SammyMarkle64) September 22, 2018
Rob Cooper, who is believed to be her publicist, tweeted on Monday that after "making numerous attempts" to arrange a meeting with Meghan, this may be "the only option we have left."
He wrote: "Samantha Markle is coming to the UK. After making numerous attempts in private to arrange a one on one meeting with The Duchess of Sussex to discuss their 74-year-old father's health, Kensington Palace have refused to respond."
—Rob Cooper (@RobCooperPR) September 24, 2018
"I fear Meghan may not be made aware of these discreet attempts and therefore making this public is the only option we have left.
"I currently have Samantha in Europe with just one short flight away."
Mother-of-three Ms. Markle, who lives in Miami with her partner and children, has repeatedly publicly criticised Meghan after her romance with Harry was revealed in November 2016.
Earlier this month she called her "duchASS" in her latest rant over her treatment of their father.
She has also dubbed her "narcissistic and selfish" and claimed she always wanted to be a princess, and labelled her "Cruella Deville," in reference to the sinister 101 Dalmatians villain, and "Witchy Poo."
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I learned that a happy environment where in they play and learn is vital in helping ensure a bright and happy future for them, and in the end, for the entire family.
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Interact – Interact meaningfully as much as possible by creating good habits like eating together, praying together, story-telling during bedtime even singing inside the car. These short interaction will help them learn how to converse while creating intimate family relationship. Interaction also means knowing your children's friends, classmates and other individuals they interact with – teachers, school bus drivers, etc.
Hear their stories – make believe and how their days went.
Be involve with your child.
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Collaborate with the kids on a family project and you'll be surprised how committed they are.
Planning strengthens cognitive skills; they'll learn the effects and results of consequences.
Affiliation, being part of the family will help them be confident where they belong, and it all starts at giving them age-appropriate tasks.
Placing cutlery on the table.
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Rituals – This goes hand in hand with involvement. Family dinner, prayer together before meals and Sunday Worship are just some of the few but constant regular family activities we should establish. These unspoken rules will enable children to prioritize family, observe limitations and follow rules. For example, if friends invite them for leisure on a Sunday, they'll prioritize their family if Sunday was austerely implemented as family day.
Organization – A place for everything and everything in place. Independence with self-regulation will sprout from practicing organization inside the home.
Express – Let your children express themselves.
Perspective – Taking – While in the middle of mindful and reflective listening, we should recreate and see our child's point-of-view, of where they are coming from.
Bigger perspective means anticipating the short and long term effects of our action.
This also involves choosing our battle when it comes to our kids. Choosing wisely will lead to more harmony, less anger. Example: he accidentally toppled over his food. Do not overreact, or punish him immediately. Why not just calmly remind him to be careful next time and point out that food should be respected because it's a necessity in life.
Minor on the minor, major on the major.
Presence – Put your phone down, and be truly present with your child. Eye contact. Mindful language. Warm touch.
Self-Care – Remember that its ok to be good enough mom. Do not deprived yourself into thinking that you have no right or time for Me-Time. If we want to be always ready to serve our family, we should take care of our core, ourselves. An hour of brisk walking, a long shower, pampering, even a squeezed time to read a book, or swiping a red lipstick on. Things that will make us feel better will energize us to be the best mom we could be.
Love yourself and believe what you're doing as a mom.
Love yourself and you'll convey that you truly love your children, as well.
Do you have a unique Me-Time activity? Share it down below.
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Q: ECSlidingViewController with UITabBarController I have a requirement where I need to slide the view but thats inside a UITabBarController.
Does any one tried doing that ? ECSlidingViewController works perfect if I make it rootViewController but I want that in UITabBarController.
I tried setting the ECSlidingViewController as one of the view controllers for the UITabBarController but it keeps crashing after the first swipe or some times it goes in infinite loop
Below is my code
    myWorkController = [[TaskWorkViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"WorkViewController_iPhone" bundle:nil]; // This is the controller where I have my specific logic

    myWorkNavController = [[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:myWorkController] autorelease]; // setting the myWorkController to UINavigationController as I need to navigate from this view controller to different view on specific actions

//SlidingviewController setup
        self.slidingViewController = [ECSlidingViewController slidingWithTopViewController:myWorkNavController];
    self.slidingViewController.topViewController = myWorkNavController;
    [myWorkNavController.view addGestureRecognizer:self.slidingViewController.panGesture];
    self.slidingViewController.anchorRightPeekAmount  = 100.0;
    myWorkController.slidingViewController = self.slidingViewController;

UITabBarController *tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
    tabBarController.viewControllers = @[ self.slidingViewController, createNavController, currentWorkNavController];

and I am setting the underRightViewController inside myWorkController
 if (self.slidingViewController != nil)
    {

        UIViewController *underRightViewController = [[[UIViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
        // configure under right view controller
        underRightViewController.view.layer.borderWidth     = 0;
        underRightViewController.view.layer.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0.9 alpha:1.0].CGColor;
        underRightViewController.view.layer.borderColor     = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0.8 alpha:1.0].CGColor;
        underRightViewController.edgesForExtendedLayout     = UIRectEdgeTop | UIRectEdgeBottom | UIRectEdgeRight; // don't go under the top view
        self.slidingViewController.underRightViewController = underRightViewController;
    }

1) First swipe works perfect but the second swipe breaks in ECSlidingViewController code
2) As I am using UINavigationController, when I try to change underRightViewController it fails at     [oldUnderRightViewController removeFromParentViewController]; of ECSlidingViewController code
Can some one please guide me what I am doing wrong or if this is possible with ECSlidingViewController
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University offers year-round programming for families, children
by the Office of Community and Regional Affairs
Oct. 29, 2015, noon
Be amazed by a faculty science lecture, explore the University's green spaces, listen to a children's concert, or come and relax in the gallery of our children's library. There's plenty for families to do at Princeton University.
The University offers a variety of quality programs — many of which are free and open to the public — in areas such as the arts, athletics, literacy and science. Under the umbrella of "YouthCampus," the Office of Community and Regional Affairs lists these programs online and sends email alerts about upcoming programs to subscribers.
"Princeton University offers many exciting programs for children in our community. We wanted to have all the information in one place so families could easily find a program that's right for them. From story time to science, it's all there," said Erin Metro, associate director of community relations.
The Princeton University campus is open to youth and families for exploration and play, as illustrated in this scene by Henry Moore's "Oval With Points" sculpture near Cannon Green. (Painting by Matilda Luk, Office of Communications)Click to enlarge.
A sampling of the programs follows.
The Princeton University Art Museum hosts a number of family-oriented programs, such as Art for Families, which involves a gallery activity and related art project; Artful Adventures, a series of self-guided tours and activities; Family Days, full-day programs held each October and May; and Homeschool Week, with tours and projects held the second week of January. Throughout the year, families and school groups can visit the museum; admission is free.
The University's student-athletes lead a youth sports clinic at Community and Staff Day, teaching children a variety of sports, such as lacrosse (above). (Photo by Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications)
Princeton offers a number of youth sports clinics and camps. The Campus Recreation department offers a summer day camp for children in first through eighth grades, and the Department of Athletics offers about 70 summer camps and clinics direct by varsity coaches. In addition, the University's Community and Staff Day in the fall includes a youth sports clinic, while the National Girls and Women in Sports Day consists of an interactive sports fair for girls ages 7 to 14.
In summer 2014, high school student Raul Rodriguez (right), guided by graduate student Leslie Alexis (left), worked in a University lab, creating and testing specific gene mutations using yeast cells. "This was a good opportunity to get my feet wet in the research field," Rodriguez said. "It has definitely furthered my interest in science." (Photo by Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications)
Princeton, a research university, has opportunities for high school students to gain experience in the lab. The Laboratory Learning Program matches students with faculty, staff or student mentors to conduct research on ongoing research projects, and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory allows students to perform independent laboratory work.
Cotsen Children's Library offers a wide range of activities in a playful setting. (Video still from Danielle Alio, Office of Communications)
Community House and the Cotsen Children's Library are the two primary groups offering literacy programming for youth. Community House's programs are aimed at strengthening the academic skills of students who are underrepresented minorities or the first in their families to pursue postsecondary education. Community House also offers an SAT preparation program for underrepresented high school students, with sessions twice a week.
Cotsen Children's Library has a whimsical reading gallery for children, and activities include story times, writing contests and feedback, book discussion groups, guest speakers, craft activities and blogs. Cotsen staff members also visit local classrooms through the Cotsen in the Classroom program.
Princeton University Concerts often includes children's concerts in its programming each season. This academic year, the concert series includes "My Brother Franz Schubert" on Saturday, Nov. 7, and "Baby Got Bach: Principally Percussion," an interactive concert, on March 20.
Annual events such as the Holiday Science Lecture, New Jersey Science Bowl and Youth Women's Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics complement regular programs around the University. Princeton holds a monthly open house at Peyton Observatory for observing the night sky; bimonthly public tours of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL); and Science on Saturdays lectures in winter at PPPL.
To learn more about Princeton's efforts to make the University more environmentally sustainable, school groups can take campus Green Tours, highlighting features such as green roofs and a stream restoration project. The Office of Sustainability also encourages K-12 summer camp organizers to schedule a visit to the Princeton Garden Project, a student-run organic garden where campers can learn about organic gardening.
During its run at the Hamilton Murray Theater on campus, Princeton Summer Theater produces a children's show and offers a six-week series of young artists' workshops for children ages 6 to 12, focusing on fundamentals of theater.
A colorful array of 8,000 flowers ranging from geraniums to day lilies appear in Prospect Gardens, established in the mid-1800s. (Photo by Danielle Alio, Office of Communications)s
Walking on campus
Princeton's campus is always open to families who want to stroll through the gardens, view the outdoor sculpture collection, visit a Gothic courtyard, or say hello to the tigers guarding Nassau Hall. In addition to an interactive map, self-guided tours on gargoyles and campus art are available online.
University contributions to Princeton town: 2019 summary
Community and Staff Day brings students and families together for fun, football and fireworks
Community and Staff Day unites students and families for football and fun
University contributions to Princeton town


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60,000-Square-Foot Food Market Set to Open in New York
Published June 14, 2017 • Updated on June 14, 2017 at 7:35 am
New Yorkers will have another place to grab a bite - a new 60,000-square-foot marketplace that includes the first outpost of the famed Katz's Delicatessen.
DeKalb Market Hall is set to open Friday in Brooklyn, featuring 40 restaurant entrepreneurs selling everything from pickles to pho.
Jake Dell, owner of Katz's Deli, tells the New York Times it made sense to open first outpost in the market.
Legendary New York City Eatery Named Best Casual Restaurant in America
He says the mix of restaurants reminded him of the Lower East Side neighborhood where the original deli is located.
A Trader Joe's grocery store will share the space. There will also be two full-service restaurants: a branch of Han Dynasty and Italian restaurant Fortina.
Recently, Katz's claimed the top spot on The Daily Meal's list of the 101 Best Casual Restaurants in America for 2017.
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Lefkada is the only island which can be accessed only with your car without using a ship or ferryboat, one linked to the mainland Greece with the floating bridge, which allows the passage of both vehicles and vessels.
In Exanthia you can enjoy your coffee in the traditional coffee shops that exist in our village.
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Q: FATAL: Cannot generate COM file : invalid initial entry point adress While linking this asembly file  using Tlink /tdc command I got the FATAL: Cannot generate COM file : invalid initial entry point adress. error message. I don't know how repair this BUG. What should I change in my code to make this program able to start.
.MODEL HUGE
org    100h

;.386
.code
Dane            SEGMENT
DL_TABLICA      EQU     10
Tablica         DB      01h, 02h, 00h, 10h, 12h, 33h
                DB      15h, 09h, 11h, 08h, 0Ah, 00h
Najmniejsza     DB      ?
Dane ends
Kod SEGMENT
ASSUME  CS:Kod, DS:Dane
                ;jmp     Poczatek

Start:

                mov     ax, 4C00h
                int     21h
Kod ENDS

End     ;Endprog
Start

A: *

*The .MODEL for .COM programs is "tiny".

*.COM programs have only one segment. So you shouldn't use any SEGMENT, ENDS or ASSUME directive in it. A single .CODE serves the purpose. Therefore, at the beginning should be code, not data.

*A .COM program starts always at the beginning. To give it a label is just for satisfying TLINK.

*A .COM program starts with DS=CS. You don't need to initialize DS (mov ax, @data mov ds, ax).
A simple Hello World program:
MODEL tiny
.CODE
.386                        ; Just to show at what position it has to be
ORG 0100h

Start:

    mov ah, 09h             ; http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-2562.htm
    mov dx, OFFSET hello
    int 21h

    mov ax, 4C00h           ; http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-2974.htm
    int 21h

hello:  db "Hello World", '$'

End Start


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#include "gm.h"

using namespace skiagm;

GM::GM() {
    fMode = kGM_Mode;
    fBGColor = SK_ColorWHITE;
    fCanvasIsDeferred = false;
    fHaveCalledOnceBeforeDraw = false;
    fStarterMatrix.reset();
}

GM::~GM() {}

void GM::draw(SkCanvas* canvas) {
    this->drawBackground(canvas);
    this->drawContent(canvas);
}

void GM::drawContent(SkCanvas* canvas) {
    if (!fHaveCalledOnceBeforeDraw) {
        fHaveCalledOnceBeforeDraw = true;
        this->onOnceBeforeDraw();
    }
    this->onDraw(canvas);
}

void GM::drawBackground(SkCanvas* canvas) {
    if (!fHaveCalledOnceBeforeDraw) {
        fHaveCalledOnceBeforeDraw = true;
        this->onOnceBeforeDraw();
    }
    this->onDrawBackground(canvas);
}

const char* GM::getName() {
    if (fShortName.size() == 0) {
        fShortName = this->onShortName();
    }
    return fShortName.c_str();
}

void GM::setBGColor(SkColor color) {
    fBGColor = color;
}

void GM::onDrawBackground(SkCanvas* canvas) {
    canvas->drawColor(fBGColor, SkXfermode::kSrc_Mode);
}

void GM::drawSizeBounds(SkCanvas* canvas, SkColor color) {
    SkISize size = this->getISize();
    SkRect r = SkRect::MakeWH(SkIntToScalar(size.width()),
                              SkIntToScalar(size.height()));
    SkPaint paint;
    paint.setColor(color);
    canvas->drawRect(r, paint);
}

// need to explicitly declare this, or we get some weird infinite loop llist
template GMRegistry* GMRegistry::gHead;


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I was recently commissioned to make a few rings for a client.
I really enjoy being commissioned to create pieces. Particularly rings as the sizing is always so important and I always prefer to make them to just the right measurement instead of having to re-size the rings later.
There are two other commissioned rings on the way and hopefully a few other things as well.


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Q: Create many empty dictionary in Python I'm trying to create many dictionaries in a for loop in Python 2.7. I have a list as follows:
sections = ['main', 'errdict', 'excdict']

I want to access these variables, and create new dictionaries with the variable names. I could only access the list sections and store an empty dictionary in the list but not in the respective variables.
for i in enumerate(sections):
    sections[i] = dict()

The point of this question is. I'm going to obtain the list sections from a .ini file, and that variable will vary. And I can create an array of dictionaries, but that doesn't work well will the further function requirements. Hence, my doubt.

A: To clear dictionaries
If the variables in your list are already dictionaries use:
for var in sections:
  var.clear()

Note that here var = {} does not work, see Difference between dict.clear() and assigning {} in Python.
To create new dictionaries
As long as you only have a handful of dicts, the best way is probably the easiest one:
main = {} #same meaning as main = dict() but slightly faster
errdict = {}
excdict = {}
sections = [main,errdict,excdict]

The variables need to be declared first before you can put them in a list.
For more dicts I support @dslack's answer in the comments (all credit to him):
sections = [dict() for _ in range(numberOfDictsYouWant)]

If you want to be able to access the dictionaries by name, the easiest way is to make a dictionary of dictionaries:
sectionsdict = {}
for var in sections:
   sectionsdict[var] = {}

You might also be interested in: Using a string variable as a variable name

A: Robin Spiess answered your question beautifully.
I just want to add the one-liner way:
section_dict = {sec : {} for sec in sections}

For maintaining the order of insertion, you'll need an OrderedDict:
from collections import OrderedDict
section_dict = OrderedDict((sec, {}) for sec in sections)


A legacy of the Yugoslavian war has passed the Suez and is sailing towards its graveyard at Alang, a nondescript town in Gujarat, India. This ship, the Clemenceau, was a French aircraft carrier, serving the NATO fleet, led by the USA. The ship was a damaging substance, asbestos, a harmful material when inhaled. Meanwhile, at Alang, a large number of Shipbreakers await the mighty carrier, with no safety equipment and shabby debris removal techniques. While environmental groups file cases after cases barring the ship from Indian shores and keep away the toxic waste, the government does nothing.
Almost every movement abandons some sort of waste in nature. Households make conventional waste. Autos, trucks, and transports emanate fumes gases while in a task. Mechanical and fabricating forms make strong and dangerous waste. A few wastes contain chemicals that are unsafe to individuals and nature. Once these unsafe chemicals are available in the earth, individuals can end up presented to them. Presentation happens when individuals have contact with a concoction, either specifically or through another substance debased with a synthetic.
Hazardous wastes are poisonous byproducts of manufacturing, cultivating, city septic frameworks, development, car carports, research centres, doctor's facilities, and different ventures. The waste might be fluid, strong, or ooze and contain chemicals, substantial metals, radiation, hazardous pathogens, or different poisons. Indeed, even family units produce perilous waste from things, for example, batteries, utilized PC hardware, and remaining paints or pesticides.
Alang is a place that was deliberately overlooked, yet advantageously recalled when it expected to dump its toxic body. No cutting edge apparatus here, no Makita drills and no Hitachi cranes, only 40,000 vagrant workers working in subhuman conditions, sparsely clad, unprotected, exposed footed, scrabbling with their uncovered hands to meet the steel mafia's amount and procure a minimum wage. Scurrying like ants on fresh road-kill, workers haul miles of cable out to burn on the beach, use blow torches to cut through pipes containing oil and gas that often explode in their faces, and expose themselves to hundreds of debilitating chemicals that surround them 24 hours a day.
For undeniable reasons Alang, where the air itself appears to be medicated on a harmful mixed drink, and tar balls sway in the languid water, is alluded to as the armpit of India.
The Foreign Waste Issue: Business over Ethics?
Let's take another example of first world dumping toxic waste on the shores of developing nation For a couple of years now, India is emerging into a hotspot to dump toxic waste. Thousand tons of dangerous American waste have been dumped at Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin Port, where just about 35 vast holders disguise the waste, that has been lying untouched for as far back as three years. The origin of the waste is far away in New Jersey, a State in the USA, on a different continent. The waste, quite incredibly, didn't quite catch the attention of the local municipal corporation, raising questions over its vigilance in its own area.
Since the previous three years, polluted civil waster, for example, polythene packs, pulverized soda pop jars, pesticide holders, utilized batteries, metal wires and others more have been spoiling without end at the port, all labelled under paper waste, imported by an Indian Company.
Notwithstanding the normal checks, port specialists, much to their amazement, found that the load did not have just paper but rather carcinogenic wastes disposed of by America. The Madras High Court, as expected had the waste sent back to where it came from after confirming that the refuse is a threat to Indian people.
Alarmingly, in 2003 December around 40 compartments of household waste on the way to India from Ireland were captured by the Netherlands Inspectorate for the Environment, a station of the Seaport Project set up by six European Union nations to implement the arrangements of the Basel Convention on Trans-limit Movement of Hazardous and Other Wastes.These occasions just keep coming up, where the West has utilized India as a dump yard. In October 2007, a gigantic discussion ejected after a lot of dangerous waste sent from New York was seized at the Kochi port.
Damaging a large group of universal assertions – including the Basel Convention that spreads "family unit and different wastes" and forbids their trans-limit development – import of local waste from European nations seems, by all accounts, to be transforming into a lucrative business.
According to reports as far back in 2004-2005, European countries have been dumping domestic waste into Indian ports labelling them as paper waste. While the import of paper waste – reused here – isn't prohibited in India, blended family unit waste is entering the nation with the holders normally set apart as "green class" or "paper squander".
American companies set up medicine plants in India, using them as bases to manufacture, pack and supply medicinal drugs to all their markets across the world. The wastewater from the plant is simply discharged into a local body, while incineration inside the plant spews out toxic gas into the atmosphere. People from the local areas around keep protesting, writing, signing petitions, yet no Government action occurs, primarily since the huge tax income from the factory helps implement the local budget.
This is why the Supreme Court's rap on the hands of the Indian government a few days ago is both rare and important. Environment legislation in India is weak, and this issue is further calibrated by the absence of proper law implementation by the law enforcement agencies in India. While the country reels under the tonnes of toxic wastes which keep getting dumped on Indian shores, especially by the US and the UK, implementation of laws do nothing to avert this problem.
The biggest concern with respect to improperly handled medical waste involves an introduction to irresistible pathogens. Those presented to restorative waste can be tainted through punctures of the skin, and through breathing or ingestion. While HIV and Hepatitis B and C display the most serious hazard, antimicrobial safe E.coli and different unsafe microorganisms can likewise be wellsprings of disease. As a result of the potential for sharps to exchange pathogens by means of cuts or scraped area, edges, hypodermic needles, and other comparable materials are considered as a larger amount of peril and should be gathered through red packs for preparing and transfer.
Anyone who comes into contact with irresistible waste all through the waste stream is helpless, including regulatory staff, waste handlers, and those working at reusing or landfill offices. Additionally, shameful treatment of restorative waste can bring about sullying of the nearby condition, including the ground, air, and neighbourhood watershed.
SWACHH BHARAT: An elaborate PR stunt?
In recent times the Government officials from different gatherings have taken up broomstick and dustpan and cleared the nation's refuse lined avenues. In any case, have you thought of the end result for the trash they clear up after the cameras quit buzzing and panning? It most likely winds up in one of India's landfills, a large number of which are overfull and unsanitary.
In spite of the fact that the Union service of condition and woods (MoEF) issued rules – the Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules (MSW Rules) – to manage waste, no state or real city has tried to agree to them.
The principles anticipate that residents will isolate trash and urban communities to mastermind its productive accumulation and treatment, either by fertilizing the soil or reusing. Be that as it may, but information from the Central government's contamination watchdog, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), in its report distributed in 2015, paints a completely different picture.
This is hard to believe but some reports says that only in some cities, as few as 13 states segregate waste into organic, inorganic and hazardous,In spite of the fact that the MSW the Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) decides to require that local governments treat and recycle wastes, state-wise information from the CPCB uncover that most states neglect to agree.
For example, of 34 states and Union domains, five don't treat or reuse any waste, four treat or reuse under five for each penny of what they gather, and 15 under 15 for every penny. This signifies sorry measurements: India treats just 23 for each penny of the monstrous 1,44,165 tons of refuse it produces.
Additionally, local governments of the country neglect to gather a gigantic 28,400 tons of waste created every day. This uncollected trash probably winds up contaminating waterways and lakes or stopping up seepage frameworks. What is gathered, either wind up in landfills or is signed, both miserably obsolete waste administration systems particularly in the time of brilliant urban communities. Landfills are unsustainable as they posture dangers to wellbeing and the earth, and are arrive concentrated in a setting where it is rare. In spite of this, 895 new landfill locales have been recognized, as per the CPCB report.
The situation in Andhra: It's still going south.
Andhra Pradesh falls a far behind in the waste management component contrasted with different states in the nation with the level of waste being processed constrained to 8% as of January 2016.
Consistently, the urban nearby collections of Andhra Pradesh create around 6,440 metric ton of garbage. Be that as it may, shockingly its greater part gathered from the family units is dumped into landfills with no handling. According to the projections, the quantum of family junk would develop twofold overlay in the following 10 years, which constrains the urban local bodies to look for alternatives such as waste-to-energy plants, scientific disposing and plastic shredding units.
As per the late discharged Swachhta Status Report by the National Sample Survey (NSS) office, around 3,072 out of 3,389 wards of urban local bodies (ULBs) of AP do have 100%door to door accumulation. But the percentage of processing accounts for a tiny fraction compared to what is generated.
Unorganized waste management practices could pose an array of threats right from the open burning releasing toxic gases and pollutants and the pollutants seeping into the groundwater and causing subsequent health problems. Though the Union government drafted some guidelines with regards to municipal solid waste management for effective segregation and disposal, implementation is still on the low side.
Waste management practices could represent a variety of dangers ideal for the open consuming discharging harmful gases and toxins and the poisons saturating the groundwater and causing ensuing medical issues. In spite of the fact that the Union government drafted a few rules concerning city strong waste administration for viable isolation and transfer, execution is still on the low side.
A state official informed that they had started different measures, including fertilizing the soil and vermi-treating the soil offices in a few city bodies other than the waste-to-vitality plants. The SSR report by NSS additionally features that around 32.9 level of towns of Andhra Pradesh doesn't have any seepage game plans. In AP, just around 45.9 wards in urban nearby bodies have sewer organizing, yet around 93.9 level of lanes have the arrangement of road cleaning. Still, there is no dumping place for strong waste in around 21% of wards in ULBs of AP.
Appropriate seepage course of action guarantees simple taking away waste water and fluid misuse of the house with no flood or drainage. A correlation between the level of household units without having a drainage framework during 2012 and 2008-09. India demonstrates that by 2012 about 49.9 percent provincial or rural household and 12.5 percent urban families had no waste management contrasted with 56.7% country rural household units and 14.8% urban household units during 2008-09.
In the late summer of 2017, a huge amount of junk was discovered in a village near Tirupati. This waste was actually dumped by the Municipality, intent on making it another dump yard. Reportedly, more than 30 protesters, led by their local MLA, Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy, were arrested for protesting this. Things got worse when the municipality didn't honour its promise of shiting the dump yard and shifted all the barricades erected by the villagers to prevent vehicles from getting into C.Ramapuram.
As a new state, AP has to come up and be a pioneer in the whole scenario. It has the advantage of having the technical know-how, and its capital city, Amaravati, is still a plan that's been executed. Unfortunately, when AP officials think green, they only think of green vehicles, like electric autos rather than looking at a much bigger problem staring them in the face.
The final state of the matter: Are we focusing on the right things?
The Supreme Court's rap on the Government's knuckles is a significant offering, just because prima facie, this government seems to be very environmental and sanitation focussed. Ever since the announcement of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan atop the Red Fort on that rainy morning in Delhi by the Prime Minister, the government keeps coming out with reports and rankings to demonstrate its commitment to the aforementioned goals.
Yet the Supreme Court found the affidavit submitted by the same government a farce, something that they had not read themselves before submitting them. This has clearly highlighted one important point: The government somehow has a tendency of turning a blind eye to matters where it should have focussed a bigger part of its energy on. Law enforcement has been lax, even though laws get strengthened, the local administration has done nothing to implement these in full force. Take the example of what's happened in Mumbai. Kanjurmarg, a large junkyard located in Mumbai was recently found to have been using improper practices in waste dumping. Illegal reclamation of the existing water body happened in the name of waste dumping, and then the leachate from the decaying waste started mixing into the creek, a creek which is part of a flamingo sanctuary, Not to mention, the flamingos decided they would be better off elsewhere, since salt water is their sanctuary, not toxic water, and the tourist dried up too, fed up with having to face the unbearable stench of the dump fill.
Mumbai has been known as one of the better waste management bodies in India, yet something like this happened right under their nose. It can only be wondered how bad the situation would be in other tiers II and tier III cities of India, where even basic amenities are rare.
The Supreme Court has finally weighed down on the government. This scenario is absolutely a gold mine for opposition parties, which they choose to blatantly ignore, lest their own hollow claims are called out. Andhra Pradesh can really grab this with both hands and make itself a shiny example, but somehow somewhere the Government seems to have lost its footing again on a cause which really impacts people's lives and seems set on concentrating on other immaterial things.
The government, sadly, seems to be in collusion with this. Why else would it permit the import of waste paper and others when we have a huge waste generating economy ourselves? This clearly seems to be a self-made loophole that can be exploited by the first world countries to come and dump their waste in India under the grab of Paper Waste. After all, who would create a department in India that would check all the shipping containers coming over from the high seas? Also, the government has been making money out of this whole thing.by imposing taxes etcetera. This clearly seems to be a case where the government is ready to put the environment in a rut to instead fill its coffers, a classic case of nearsightedness.
Chief Justice JS Khehar said pulling out the centre for taking waste from other countries and allowing it to be dumped in the country at the cost of citizens health.