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February 2017 Special Edition
Showcasing Fall 2016
July 2016 Special Edition
May 2016 Special Edition
Outcomes 2015
The Land Holds Memories
On the occasion of the University's sesquicentennial, two Native American faculty members provide a prologue – an understanding of often-erased knowledge and a view of how all past living and learning give Colorado State its presence.
A view of the foothills, including Horsetooth Rock, west of the Colorado State University campus. Photo: Colorado State University Libraries, Archives & Special Collections
Essay by Doreen E. Martinez, Ph.D. and Lindsey Schneider, Ph.D.
Where the prairie converges with the Plains, the foothills watch. They have long been the relatives of these lands and witnesses to all adventures, explorations, and settlings. The Plains and prairie have also long been partners in this space; they are the original innovators, the knowers, and teachers. The foothills remain present as protectors of those west winds and incubators of the snow and rain that feed these spaces, peoples, and purposes. Our sense of this place, our sense of this land, is beckoned through this convergence and their ancestral traditions. Waters flow in snake rivers, are cradled in valleys where corn and long grasses, such as Indian ricegrass and needlegrass, grew and grow, dozens of flowers, including prickly poppy, yucca, rabbitbrush, and prairie sunflowers, bloom and nestle; these are the homes for the bison, pronghorn, and deer, as well as swift fox, burrowing owls, and golden eagles.
These lands, siblings of the Rockies, hold many lessons and ways of being. The clay still holds knowledge and footprints of beings, events, and experiences. It, the clay, waits for new stories and new understandings. Communities were here more than 12,000 years ago; those were the times of the mammoth. And, although they are often called the Paleo-Indians, they were here: relatives, ancestors of societies and knowers of land, sensors of place, and practitioners of purpose.
What is now Larimer County and the lands from which Colorado State University was born, come from these histories, from this place, these knowers that are thousands and thousands of years old. Let us also recall some of those who were here before and adjacent to CSU's birth: the Apache, the Arapaho, the Cheyenne, the Pueblo, the Shoshone, and the Ute are named by the Colorado Department of Education to be those earlier neighbors, residents, and citizens. As we also know, in the time period we recognize peoples historically, they were the original inhabitants, the interspecies kinship knowers, the original land-grant stewards. Furthermore, the Comanche, the Kiowa, and the Navajo/Diné, were frequent travelers, regular knowledge gatherers, and recurring residents, as well as the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota and the Pawnee. All these nations, tribes, and peoples have walked, laughed, and learned in these lands. Some of us can still sense their presence as their stride walks within us, their laughter continues to feed us, their knowledge is still teaching us; and we, their relatives, still call this place home.
Most historical records of CSU, Fort Collins, Larimer County, and the United States suggest that history began with the arrival of white/European settlers, the structures they built, the religion they practiced, and the economic endeavors they undertook. Only certain people, certain cultural formations, are positioned as the agents of history and thus, they wield the tools to capture, create, and acknowledge historical records. Indigenous people, when we are mentioned in such histories, are too often portrayed as obstacles to the inevitable march of progress. In such accounts, we exist as mere historical precursors to the stars and stripes of democracy – an era of improvement manifested in land-grant institutions. While this may be typically accepted and understood as truth, we seek through ethical and educational obligations to enhance our sense of place, this place, and our histories. We must teach the fallacies, inaccuracies, and continued legacies of this singular history, this one-dimensional knowing of land, chronicle of memoirs, and erasure of life.
CSU's 150th anniversary is a cause for celebration; yet, it is also a critical opportunity to reflect upon the dire cost paid by the original people of this place and these lands.
CSU's 150th anniversary is a cause for celebration; yet, it is also a critical opportunity to reflect upon the dire cost paid by the original people of this place and these lands. We must call to, recognize, and require the University's ongoing obligations to that legacy and to the indigenous community today. For, we do know the original peoples of this area cultivated a profound sense of place, and a wealth of history, traditions, and lifeways for thousands of years through the learning that came from, on, and through the land, water, and all the inhabitants. In recognition of place, histories, and our relationships, there needs to be acknowledgment of the more dynamic realities of people, nations, education, and sociopolitical demands and desires as well as the writings, the recordings of truth of these histories. All of the past living and learning on what is now CSU's campus are what give it its presence and sense of place today – including what and who existed prior to those 150 years.
The removal of tribal nations and erasure of this original sense of place within these lands was neither an inevitable result of Westward Expansion nor was it simply an unfortunate, if violent, phase in history. It was the intentional work of national policies and the enforcers of edicts and dictates, including Colorado Gov. Frederick Pitkin, who held the state's top office from 1879 to 1883 and ran on a campaign of forcible Ute removal and extermination. And yet today, Pitkin Street is one of the main campus thoroughfares. Pitkin's violent legacy is only one example of the erased histories we are obliged to uncover and name, since such truth is fundamental to the University's nature. Otherwise, the ongoing erasure of Native American and indigenous presences goes unnamed, their/our lifeways positioned as antithetical to growth, evolution, and, ironically, freedom. Practices such as street and building naming glorify and historicize, once again, those responsible for that initial removal under the auspices of progress and triumph of knowledge advancement. Celebrations of history can serve to re-story familiar and beloved places as having been established on a blank slate, rather than located on stolen territories through violent, forceful, and vicious means.
In an effort to begin to challenge that erasure and to recognize the original stewards, knowers, and protectors of this place, CSU has recently adopted a land acknowledgment process. It aims to recognize that these lands CSU now occupies, and thus CSU's founding, came at a grave cost to the nations and peoples who were (and are) here. The acknowledgment affirms the ongoing ties Native nations and peoples have to this space. As a land-grant institution, CSU has an obligation to rewrite and more fully understand our sense of place.
Doreen E. Martinez and Lindsey Schneider are assistant professors of Native American/Indigenous Studies in CSU's Department of Ethnic Studies.


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David Jonathan Gross (19 de febrero de 1941) es un físico, profesor estadounidense y teórico de cuerdas. Junto con Frank Wilczek y David Politzer recibió el Premio Nobel de Física en 2004 por el descubrimiento de la libertad asintótica.

Semblanza
En 1973-74, Gross trabajando junto a Wilczek en la Universidad de Princeton, descubrió la libertad asintótica que afirma que cuanto más próximos estén los quarks menor es la interacción fuerte entre ellos; cuando los quarks están extremadamente próximos la interacción nuclear entre ellos es tan débil que se comportan casi como partículas libres. La libertad asintótica, descubierta independientemente casi al mismo tiempo por David Politzer, fue importante para el descubrimiento de la cromodinámica cuántica.
Gross, junto con Jeff Harvey, Emil Martinec y Ryan Rohm, descubrió también la cuerda heterótica.

Gross recibió su diploma universitario y su diploma de máster en la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén en 1962. Recibió su doctorado en Física de la Universidad de Berkeley en 1966 bajo la supervisión de Geoffrey Chew y fue becario en la Universidad de Harvard y profesor en la Universidad de Princeton hasta 1997. Recibió la medalla Dirac en 1988 y es el director de la cátedra de Física Teórica en el Instituto Kavli para Física Teórica de la Universidad de California, Santa Bárbara. Así mismo, es miembro del Instituto de Estudios Cuánticos en la Universidad Chapman en California y miembro extranjero de la Academia China de Ciencias.

Activismo

En 2003, Gross fue uno de los 22 premios Nobel que firmaron el

Gross es uno de los 20 estadounidenses ganadores del Premio Nobel de Física que firmaron una carta dirigida al presidente George W. Bush en mayo de 2008, instándolo a "revertir el daño causado a la investigación científica básica en el proyecto de ley de asignaciones generales del año fiscal 2008". solicitando fondos de emergencia adicionales para la Oficina de Ciencias del Departamento de Energía, la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias y el Instituto Nacional de Estándares y Tecnología.

En 2015, Gross firmó la Declaración de Mainau 2015 sobre el Cambio Climático el último día de la 65.ª Reunión de Premios Nobel de Lindau. La declaración fue firmada por un total de 76 premios Nobel y entregada al entonces presidente de la República Francesa, François Hollande, como parte de la exitosa Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático de 2015 celebrada en París.

Premios y reconocimientos

Becas y premios
 Beca, Fundación Alfred P. Sloan en 1970.
 Premio J. J. Sakurai, Sociedad Estadounidense de Física en 1986 compartido con Frank Wilczek y David Politzer.
 Beca de la Fundación MacArthur en 1987.
 Medalla Dirac, Centro Internacional de Física Teórica en 1988.
 Medalla Oskar Klein, Real Academia de las Ciencias de Suecia en 2000.
 Premio Harvey, Technion-Instituto de Tecnología de Israel en 2000.
 Premio de física de partículas y alta energía, Sociedad Europea de Física en 2003.
 Gran Medalla de la Academia de Ciencias de Francia en 2004.
 Premio Nobel de Física en 2004.
 Premio Golden Plate, Academy of Achievement en 2005
 Premio San Carlos Borromeo, Universidad de San Carlos, Filipinas en 2008.
 Premio Richard E. Prange, Universidad de Maryland en 2013.
 Medalla de Honor, Instituto Central de Investigaciones Nucleares, Dubná, Rusia en 2016.

Membresía
 Doctor Honoris Causa en Ciencias, Universidad de Camboya en 2010.
 Doctor Honoris Causa, Academia de Ciencias de la Universidad de China en 2016.
 Miembro de la American Physical Society (elegido en 1974)
 Miembro de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Ciencias (elegido en 1985)
 Miembro de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias (elegido en 1986)
 Miembro de la Asociación Estadounidense para el Avance de la Ciencia (elegido en 1987)
 Miembro honorario del Instituto Tata de Investigación Fundamental (2005)
 Miembro de la American Philosophical Society (elegido en 2007)
 Miembro honorario de la Academia de Ciencias de la India, Bangalore, (India) (elegido en 2007)
 Miembro de la Academia Mundial de Ciencias para el mundo en desarrollo (elegido en 2007)
 Miembro de la Academia Internacional de Filosofía de la Ciencia (elegido en 2009)
 Miembro extranjero de la Academia de Ciencias de China (elegido en 2011)
 Miembro extranjero de la Academia de Ciencias de Rusia (elegido en 2016)
 Elegido para un mandato de cuatro años en la junta presidencial de la Sociedad Estadounidense de Física (2016-2020)

Publicaciones destacadas

Véase también
 Libertad asintótica

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Laureados con el Premio Nobel de Física 2004

Físicos judíos
Físicos teóricos
Premios Nobel de Estados Unidos
Físicos de Estados Unidos
Becarios MacArthur
Judíos laureados con el Premio Nobel de Física
Premio Sakurai
Doctores honorarios de la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén
Doctores honoris causa por la Universidad de La Salle–Manila
Laureados con el Premio Nobel de Física
Laureados con el Premio Nobel 2004
Nacidos en Washington D. C.

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Best Characters That Ever Lived.
Here's honouring the most beautiful friends that ever lived, by going through some of the inspiring episodes from the chapters of ancient Indian texts.
There are proverbs galore that describe what friendship is and who real friends are. It's a relationship that transcends barriers of caste, faith, colour and geographical boundaries. It's a bond that we build by choosing who we want in our life, and hence, it matters the most to us. And as we look forward to rejoicing the beautiful relationship, let's take a quick look at a few interesting stories that are relevant even today.
Here's honouring the most beautiful friends that ever lived, by going through some of the most inspiring episodes from the chapters of ancient Indian texts. These stories epitomise the true spirit of friendship and will remind you of your dearest friend.
Shri Krishna and Sudama
Friends care the least about the amount of wealth you have in your treasure box. Shri Krishna and Sudama's friendship testifies the statement mentioned above. Sudama was a poor Brahmin while Krishna was the King of Dwaraka. They spent their childhood at Sandipani Ashram and grew up together. Years after graduating from the ashram, Sudama visited Krishna's palace after his wife insisted, he must seek financial help from his friend. Sudama, who didn't have anything apart from a handful of flattened rice to offer to his friend, hides it in his bag after feeling embarrassed about the small gift. But Krishna was gracious to accept it whole-heartedly. He even said that the handful of flattened rice was the most beautiful present he had ever received. Sudama was left speechless by Krishna's gesture. After staying at Krishna's palace for a couple of days, when Sudama got back home, he was pleasantly shocked to see a mansion in place of his hut. Krishna could hear Sudama's unspoken words, and that's what friendship stands for.
Karna and Duryodhana
When Karna battled rejection owing to his caste, it was Duryodhana, who gave him a new lease of life and identity, by anointing him as the king of Anga. As a token of thanks, Karna promised to sacrifice his all and even die for Duryodhana. Thus, the two friends stood by each other through the moments of ecstasy and agony.
Shri Rama and Sugreeva
When Sugreeva was abandoned and ostracised from his kingdom Kishkinda by his brother Vali, it was Rama, who lend a helping hand. Rama eliminated Vali from Sugreeva's path and anointed him as the king of Kishkinda. To thank Rama for the gesture, Sugreeva deputed his army of Vanaras to join Shri Rama and his brother in the battle against Ravana, who had abducted Mata Sita. Thus, Shri Rama and Sugreeva proved that a friend in need is a friend indeed.
Sita and Trijata
Sita, the lady of personified holiness, was held captive by the demon king of Lanka, Ravana in Ashoka Vatika. His servants, all of who were devils like him ill-treated Sita, the wife of Shri Rama. If there was anyone who respected her and cared for her, it was Trijata. She became a close confidante of Sita and even stopped her from ending her life. Trijata wanted to rid Lanka of the rule of Ravana and hoped for Rama's victory in the battle.
Draupadi and Shri Krishna
Draupadi, the daughter of King Panchal, was one of the closest friends of Shri Krishna. Her life without Shri Krishna was incomplete. When the Pancha Pandavas lost the game of Chausar, Duryodhana asked his brother Dushasana to drag Draupadi to the court. The two brothers committed the greatest sins of their lives by misbehaving with Draupadi. Dushasana outraged her modesty by taking off her garment from her body. At a time when even her husbands – Yudishthir, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakul and Sahadev – sat helplessly, it was Shri Krishna, who came to her rescue.
Let us take a cue from these great friends that will continue to inspire generations after generations.
Pawan Tikar
Maharashtra, IN
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We ain't seen nothing yet, warns JOHN MCGURK. Almost there? We may think it's all over, but the BBC is firing up the news helicopters as we speak.
Soon the cameras in the sky will be following black limousines as they travel through the streets of Westminster. Microphones will be trying to eavesdrop on broken bits of conversation. The news channels will be in overdrive constantly repeating the same stuff.
But our political heroes, fresh from trying to grab every ounce of publicity for the past month, will suddenly be struck dumb as they attempt to outmanoeuvre each other.
It was certainly like that for days in May 2010 when that general election result ended in indecision and the country fell into paralysis.
Who will be out and who will be in?
Will Ed really refuse to speak to Alex and Nicola?
Will Dave and Nick be trying to make-up?
Who will dare to speak to Nigel?
Let's ensure we remember what they've all been saying these last few days as they've jockeyed for position and see how it compares when the real talking gets underway.
The nation will just have to play yet another waiting game and we will come to realise that all these weeks of frustration, irritation and boredom have been a precursor for more of the same to come.
This election has been the most stage-managed, soundbite-driven, least informative and, frankly, unacceptable political contest this country has ever seen.
Perhaps the most exciting moment so far was when Ed nearly tripped as he left the Question Time stage after last week's grilling by a TV audience in Leeds.
His stumble wasn't quite up to the standard of Neil Kinnock, who crashed to the ground when he was hamming it up for the cameras on a beach in 1992, but it was certainly a chuckle-worthy moment.
Poor old Ed will be praying that the similarity between him and the then Labour leader will end there since Kinnock went on to lose in dramatic fashion to John Major and his trusty soapbox thanks to a late swing to the Conservatives when the result was supposedly too close to call.
This time around, the strategists and the minders have worked tirelessly to ensure that their man, or woman, would not be the subject of the game-changing gaffe such as the "bigoted woman" moment between Gillian Duffy and Gordon Brown five years ago.
So gone were the daily press conferences, when leaders could be scrutinised every morning, and gone was the free movement of reporters and photographers as they followed the battle buses around the country.
Instead, the cameras, microphones and notepads were continually cordoned off and only invited from behind the barriers when the spin doctors were ready with their phoney picture opportunities and interview offerings with carefully selected, sympathetic supporters who had been coached with what to say.
So not long to go now until we find out…but hang on a second!
We will know the exact result of the election on Thursday night when David Dimbleby, the BBC's election night master of ceremonies, open ups the programme with the conclusion from the exit poll.
Honestly, we will all be able to go to bed unless, of course, we want to personally witness the humiliation, particularly in Scotland, of those who will be booted out.
The reason for this is because the exit poll has been 100 per cent accurate for the last two UK general elections.
When the Conservatives polled he highest number of seats in 2010 but were 19 seats short of a majority, the exit poll called it exactly right.
When Tony Blair waltzed to his third victory in 2005 with a majority of 66, the exit poll called it exactly right.
Despite the 39,000 polling stations around the country, the pollsters, MORI and NOP, concentrate on the marginal seats where there is a history of the constituency changing hands.
By selecting the required number of voters to question, depending on the turn-out, the exit poll is no longer a barometer of opinion but a mathematical equation which produces the actual result.
So there's no need to be locked into an all-night session in front of the box hoping that the actual result will be any different.
You really can have an early night on Thursday or switch over to the late night movie or get stuck into that bestseller you've been anxious to start.
Even better, get the DVD box set of the Kevin Spacey version of House of Cards…and be glued to the screen until dawn.
Unlike what we've had to suffer during this election campaign, this is a real political thriller!


Homtom HT16 w/ CPU MT6580 only!
- Don't Wipe Dalvik Cache If you've installed gapps with this rom!
- Reboot (It may take a while longer than usual. Up to 5 minutes on first boot). Please be patient, at the end you will have a fully working Lineage OS Nougat ROM.
(It will be in Russian by default but if you manage to find the settings button and then click on the "A"/Globe button which stands for "languages", in the first line you can easily change into your own language).
Google Apps are pico version, which comprises only of Google Play Store and Google Services.
There might be some remnant Russian language at some icons on notifications menu since this ROM was ported by a Russian citizen. Just click on them and they will change to your designated language.
Best rom so far no bugs good performance only problem couldnt play videos on galery fixed with vlc great job!
Hi Needromlovers. in ht16 device, this firmware have a error in the display, the screen turns black and it has to be restarted, apparently there is a problem with the screen driver.
I love the language choices – Lineage 13 only has Russian, Ukrainian and English.
For me works fine (as far as I can tell) untill reboot – then I get black screen and nothing can be done.
Thanks for making these ROMs available here to an English speaking audience rucaxp!
I tried this one on my recently purchased HT16. The good: it's LineageOS 14.1 with a security patch level of November 5, 2017, yay! The bad: the screen rotation doesn't work correct, when holding the device in portrait mode the screen rotates to landscape mode and vice versa. Even if you lock the screen to portrait mode, when taking pictures they will be saved with the wrong orientation which is very annoying! Also the flashlight doesn't work. And at some point the battery level suddenly dropped by 50%?! Might contain more bugs.
Now with the aid of Google Translate I had a look at the Russian 4PDA forums. It seems until recently most HT16's had either a V6 or V9 stock firmware. My device came with a V1.0.3. firmware, it lists build number as HOMTOM-HT16-Android-6.0-V1.0.3_user-20171221. There was some talk about this new firmware on 4PDA too.
I guess the custom ROMs that have been made until now are based on the older firmwares and don't work without bugs on phones that come with a V1.x build. I even tried a V9.1.1 official ROM and it also had the screen rotation bug. Also tried DotOS and it had the same bug.
Shout out to all the devs, hackers and Android enthousiasts out there!
- Contacts stored on SIM card are not found. But this seems to be a wider Lineage OS bug, not only this ROM. Haven't tried the second SIM card slot yet.
I cannot reproduce the issues that not a robot describes: rotation works as expected, the flashlight works and until now I haven't seen sudden battery drops.
All in all I would recommend this ROM for daily use. It would be great if this phone becomes an official supported LineageOS device! So, thanks rucaxp and nicitos505020 for the great work and keep those updates coming!
Thank you very much, there is only one bug, it gets lag when live display is on automatic.
por favor vocês tem a rom customizada do Homtom HT17?
pra a versão do android 7.1 ou 8 oreo?
Die Kamera spint man muss das Handy neu starten dann funktioniert sie aber nicht lang .
gps not working ht 16- 1gb-8gb-mt 6580.


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Showcasing this shift is Volvo Cars recent announcement of their partnership with Google to develop the next generation of its in-car infotainment and connectivity solution based on Android. But what you don't see is our work that went on to make this technology come to life.
What makes this enhanced user experience possible? Two things – the computing platform and software. Aptiv and Volvo Cars engineers developed the complex software algorithms needed to enable the next-generation features. Also, the team created the infotainment computing platform with the horsepower and data transmission speeds to support these features.
Aptiv used the Agile engineering framework to bring this project to life, with engineers around the globe, in 'scrums' or teams. These teams partnered with Volvo Cars and Google, in order to move this project on a rapid pace with efficiency, resulting in a higher-level of technology personalization and engagement in the new Volvo.
The integration aims to revolutionize how Volvo customers engage and interact with their cars. The large catalogue of popular Android apps – developed by Google, Volvo Cars, or third party app developers – will offer connected services in and around the car.
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Being part of this confluence of automotive and technology is both exciting and rewarding. Aptiv is like a bridge – in this case between Silicon Valley and Gothenburg, Sweden – the home of Volvo Cars. We speak the languages of both the car and software, and can merge these complex worlds together for the benefit of the consumer.


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Home | Search | Phrase Dictionary | Space: the final frontier
The meaning and origin of the expression: Space: the final frontier
What's the meaning of the phrase 'Space, the final frontier'?
Other phrases with
American origin
The first line of the opening voice-over in Star Trek
What's the origin of the phrase 'Space, the final frontier'?
This introductory text was spoken at the beginning of many Star Trek television episodes and films:
These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise
Its 5 year mission
To explore strange new worlds
To seek out new life and new civilizations
To boldly go where no man has gone before
See also - to boldy go where no man has gone before.


One of the biggest gift shops in Norway, attracting mainly train passengers, is Saga Souvenirs (tel. 57-11-00-11). Here you'll find all those regional products visitors like to haul away from Norway and take back home. There's an excellent selection of knitwear, along with jewelry and the inevitable trolls.


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Quercetin is a plant pigment (flavonoid). It is found in many plants and foods, such as red wine, onions, green tea, apples, berries, Ginkgo biloba, St. John's wort, American elder, and others. Buckwheat tea has a large amount of quercetin. People use quercetin as a medicine.
Quercetin is used for treating conditions of the heart and blood vessels including "hardening of the arteries" (atherosclerosis), high cholesterol, heart disease, and circulation problems. It is also used for diabetes, cataracts, hay fever, peptic ulcer, schizophrenia, inflammation, asthma, gout, viral infections, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), preventing cancer, and for treating chronic infections of the prostate. Quercetin is also used to increase endurance and improve athletic performance.
1.Quercetin may expel phlegm and arrest coughing, it can also be used as anti-asthmatic.
2. Quercetin has anticancer activity, inhibits PI3-kinase activity and slightly inhibits PIP Kinase activity, reduces cancer cell growth via type II estrogen receptors.
3.Quercetin may inhibit histamine release from basophils and mast cells.
4. Quercetin may control the spread of certain viruses within the body.
5, Quercetin may help reduce tissue destruction.
At the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm the name of the working group "Plant cell walls" speaks for itself. Led by Staffan Persson, the group investigates how plant cell walls are constructed. The focus of the research is cellulose, which, next to pectin and hemicellulose, constitutes the main component of the cell walls. The researchers hope to elucidate which proteins are involved in building up the world's most abundant biopolymer. Cellulose has previously been used for industrial purposes in the paper and textile production, and is expected to become an important source of energy in the future. Martin Bringmann, a PhD student at the Institute until 2012, explains the cellulose research.


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Q: Criteria - Order by order different parameters from different conditions I have a method in Query criteria which returns the "Covers" ordered by their generation date, but also includes those that have "re-entry" between those dates, the method returns the correct covers, but I need it to order them in a special way: If they have a "re-entry" tuple, it uses the re-entry date as order criteria, and if it does not have one, it uses the generation date as criteria. I need to join both criteria in a single order.
The method is the following:
public List<Cover> ListCover(Long startDate, Long finalDate) {

        CriteriaBuilder criteria = em.getCriteriaBuilder();

        CriteriaQuery<Cover> query = criteria.createQuery(Cover.class);
        Root<Cover> cover = query.from(Cover.class);

        Subquery<Long> miniQuery = query.subquery(Long.class);
        Root<ReEntryCover> reEntryCover = miniQuery.from(ReEntryCover.class);

        Predicate predicateMini1 = criteria.between(reEntryCover.get("reEntryDate"), startDate, finalDate);

        Predicate predicateMini2 = criteria.equal(reEntryCover.get("coverNumberFK"), cover.get("coverNumber"));
        Predicate predicateMiniFinal = criteria.and(predicateMini1, predicateMini2);
        miniQuery.select(criteria.max(reEntryCover.get("reEntryDate"))).where(predicateMiniFinal);

        Predicate predicate1 = criteria.between(cover.get("coverGenerationDate"), startDate, finalDate);
        Predicate predicate2 = criteria.isNotNull(miniQuery);
        Predicate predicateFinal = criteria.or(predicate1, predicate2);

        query.select(cover).distinct(true).where(predicateFinal).orderBy(criteria.asc(cover.get("coverGenerationDate")));

        return em.createQuery(query).getResultList();
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In other words, I need to put a conditional inside the "order by" so that it doesn't order by generation date in case the cover has a tuple in the "re-entry" table, and instead use the "re-entry date" parameter like sort parameter (use "orderBy(criteria.asc(cover.get("coverGenerationDate"), criteria.asc(cover.get("reEntryDate"))" is not what I need since I want to use the reentry date (if any) as the generation date for ordering).
How is it possible to do this?
I tried to use:
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orderBy(criteria.asc(cover.get("coverGenerationDate"), criteria.asc(cover.get("reEntryDate"))

not working.
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multiSelect with differents predicates for 2 types of covers, I don´t know how it works.
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2 querys is working, but is very slow, i need to do all in 1 query.

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Continuing deposit flight versus finite central bank support. What gives?
January 4, 2011 by namawinelake
I don't pretend to be an expert on central bank financing, though I have touched on the subject academically at least twice in my lifetime (for a great basic overview of the subject I'd recommend you consult UCD Professor Karl Whelan's selected lecture notes here) So the following will no doubt be deficient in some respects but I believe the central principles to be sound and that the information used is accurate overall.
Ireland is suffering from a decline in bank deposits. In recent weeks the portentous term "bank run" has returned (eg here and here) with a vengeance though we seem to have accepted the more benign sounding term "deposit flight" for a few months. Declines in deposits can simply reflect the usual ebb and flow of movement in funds or they can be triggered by specific events. And we have had a few specific events in the past few months – more severe NAMA haircuts causing bigger holes in banks' balance sheets, the expiry of the original blanket guarantee and its replacement with a new guarantee, generally poor or anaemic economic outlook predictions and of course the arrival of the EU and IMF financial-recovery wallahs and the subsequent bailout. But with the acceptance of the IMF/EU deal in our Dail which makes up to €35bn available to our banks (and it's not needed claim the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) Governor and our Minister for Finance – it's simply additional firepower to bolster confidence) wouldn't you think that the decline in deposits would reverse and indeed might attract a stampede of funds to Irish banks which have such massive capital firepower supporting them? Having undertaken the NAMA exercise on our banks' land and development loans and additionally, shoveled massive amounts of State funding into them, shouldn't Irish banks be more secure than counterparts in say, the UK or Germany? And as some helpful recent exchanges with our German friends have shown, deposit rates on offer in euro accounts in Germany are practically one half of those available here (these are two German banking comparison websites here and here). So why is no-one predicting deposits at Irish banks to have increased in December 2010 (eg here and here) and if they had increased then wouldn't you have expected the Central Bank Governor, Minister for Finance or Irish banks to be shouting about them from the rooftops?
What we know –
(a) The ECB has provided €138.2bn of Emergency Liquidity Assistance to the Irish banking system to the end of November, 2010 of which €97.3bn was to the domestic Irish banking system (list of banks at bottom). The ELA is confirmed in the note at the bottom of page 4 of the latest CBI monthly report. Lending from the ECB is up from €80bn in April 2010 and at €138.2bn at the end of November, considerably higher than the previous era all-time high of €118.3bn in March 2009 when the Irish banking system was teetering following the nationalization of Anglo and the exposed €7bn liquidity holes in AIB and Bank of Ireland.
(b) The Central Bank of Ireland has additionally provided liquidity assistance of €44.674bn to domestic Irish banks to the end of November, 2010 up from €13.474bn at the start of 2010 and increasing by €30bn-odd in the three months ending November 2010.
(c) Some €70bn of deposits fled Irish domestic banks (the six State-guaranteed and some 14 others that provide domestic banking facilities) in the 11 months to the end of November, 2010.
(d) The six State-guaranteed banks had €198bn of customer deposits as at their last reporting dates (June 2010 save for INBS which was in December 2009). ECB funding has increased from €87.3bn to €138.2bn since June 2010. If all of this was to replace deposits in the six State guaranteed banks, that would still leave a potential requirement of €150bn from the ECB/CBI should deposits flee in their entirety.
What we don't know –
(a) The up to date deposit position for the six State-guaranteed banks. The latest reporting which is a year old in the case of INBS (six months for the other five) is that these six banks had €198bn in customer deposits. Reporting for the six State-guaranteed banks is masked by reporting by the CBI and the Bank for International Settlements which either lump the six banks in with 14-odd other banks serving the Irish economy or with all banks including those which solely operate in the IFSC. Related areas of ignorance include the degree of assistance provided by the ECB to the six State-guaranteed banks (as opposed to the 20-odd domestic Irish banks) and deposit movement for those six State-guaranteed banks (a concern being that the €70bn deposit flight in the 11 months to November 2010 is intra-country, we don't know if there have been substantial movements between the six State-guaranteed banks and the other Irish domestic banks).
(b) The practical ceiling of support that can be provided by the ECB and CBI. You would expect the ECB to be able to fulfill its role as lender of last resort to what should be a marginal member of the 17-country currency grouping. But Ireland's domestic banking system ballooned during the boom and the ECB must surely be concerned about the quality of assets on banks' balance sheets – our NAMA revealed significant unprovisioned losses in €70bn of loans but what about the provisioning on the remaining €250bn+ of commercial property, business lending, personal lending and residential mortgages? Would the ECB be prepared to pump an additional €150bn of funding into Irish banks to shore up fleeing deposits?
What we can suspect
(a) Although I think High Court judge, Ms Justice Maureen Clark deserves criticism for her decision to exclude journalists and others from the clandestine AIB hearing on 23rd December, 2010 and to disallow any appeal against that decision, it is likely to be the case that matters of serious importance to AIB not hitherto in the public domain were at issue. And the only issues I can think of that might be so important are insolvency (new loan losses or derivative exposures for example) or illiquidity (deposit flight). I would have said that loan losses could generally be drip-fed onto the balance sheet but derivative exposures could certainly be an issue, despite government mouthpiece John Curran's "understanding". But I would have said that a bank run was more likely.
(b) Despite the assurances that the €35bn of bailout funding earmarked for the banking sector won't be needed and is merely firepower, there has not been a stampede to transfer deposits to Irish banks. C'mon, on the face of it our banking system is better capitalized and has access to more funding than gilt edged German banks. We have a State-backed guarantee of €100,000 or limitless compared with Switzerland's €15,000. My suspicion is that decision- makers behind major deposits tend to believe the words of Anglo's CFO and chairman that the €35bn will in fact be needed to cover losses rather than merely being auxiliary firepower.
(c) The decision of Nationwide UK (not to be confused with our own zombie Irish Nationwide Building Society) to open its first deposit-taking High Street branch in the State in November 2010 might conceivably be driven by the belief that retail depositors are looking for perceived safer havens for their deposits.
(d) That the ECB has called a slowing halt to its funding of Irish banks, evidenced by the startling increase in funding from the CBI in the last three months to the end of November 2010. Are the assets on offer by Irish banks (loans principally you would expect) not of sufficient quality to pledge in exchange for ECB funding?
What's the prognosis?
(a) We should find out from the CBI in the next week how deposits have performed in December, 2010.
(b) We should find out in quarter one the results of the bottom-up and top-down review of non-NAMA loans and off balancesheet exposures required by the IMF as a condition of providing the bailout
(c) We will find out in the next month if the ECB is continuing to expand its Emergency Liquidity Assistance.
When will matters come to a head?
Anytime – since we don't have up to date deposit data or ECB/CBI assistance data nor do we know the practical limit to ECB and CBI assistance. We can hope that the flight of deposits decelerates or even reverses, in which case the crisis will be averted.
What happens if the ECB/CBI stop funding the banks and deposits continue to flee?
I have no idea but it is possible that there would be controls over the amount you can withdraw or freezing term deposit accounts, but this is all uncharted territory. It is worth pointing out that Irish State has extensive guarantees in place for deposits and you can see details here. And the purpose of this entry was to explore the issue of deposit flight without scare-mongering but at the same time acknowledging the facts.
Irish domestic banks are specified by the Central Bank of Ireland as
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on January 4, 2011 at 5:05 pm Rob S
Excellent post.
Very informative and the points were illustrated well.
One thing, am I correct in thinking we still don't know how much of the €44bn (CB lending) the 'Domestic Market Credit Institutions' account for?
on January 4, 2011 at 9:28 pm namawinelake
Hi Rob, thanks for your comment. As far as I know and I have checked to see if there was any press interview that might help, there is no breakdown of the €44bn by bank or between "domestic bank" and IFSC bank – we are really let down by the statisticians – the BIS don't differentiate between the 20 domestic financial institutions and the 400-odd in the IFSC and the Central Bank doesn't differentiate between the 20-domestic banks and the six State-guaranteed.
on January 5, 2011 at 2:09 pm ObsessiveMathsFreak
I've been thinking of taking my money out of BOI for some time. Ulster bank seemed like a good bet, but RBS seems to be a kind of British version of AIB. Credit unions would seem a logical safehouse, but no doubt they've all put their deposits in Irish banks. Goldsaver _was_ tempting, until I found out Goldcore are run by a crowd in Dublin.
Nationwide UK in Dublin seems interesting, as does Rabobank; both have the benefit of not being Irish Institutions at least.
Another good choice is simple cash. Apparently you'd have only lost 12% of value over the last 10 years if you kept everything in cash. Frankly, considering the alternatives, I'd take those odds and consider it a bargain for the surety.
on January 5, 2011 at 5:36 pm JR
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on January 5, 2011 at 7:56 pm Jake Watts
Best bet, Norwegian Krone, backed solid by oil in a safe state.
A good runner up bet might be Icelandic Krone which has been stable with the euro for a year.
http://www.exchange-rates.org/history/ISK/EUR/T
on January 10, 2011 at 2:28 pm BaNAMA Republic
Hi NWL and Happy New Year to you. I am trying to find a chart that I think you have prepared which shows the 6 covered institutions non-NAMA property loan exposure after transfer to NAMA. Is there any chance that you could put up a link to it here?
Also will the results of the stress testing that is supposed to occur on the banks non-NAMA assets be made public or will it be subject to commercial senistivity under the new Credit Institutions (Stability) Act 2010?
on January 10, 2011 at 2:42 pm namawinelake
Hi BaNAMA Republic, and a Happy New Year to you also. I think the link below is the one you want which sets out the non-NAMA loan portfolios based on the latest reporting available at the time.
https://namawinelake.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/the-nama-principle-%e2%80%93-cleanse-banks-of-bad-or-unsafe-loans-so-that-banks-can-attract-funding-which-they-can-lend-to-homes-and-businesses-is-there-a-flaw/
Regarding the next PCAR (the third), I think the results will be made public as I understand the purpose of this exercise, which has been demanded by the IMF/EU though the Fin Reg did signal a new PCAR in 2011 back in Oct 2010, was to bolster confidence in our banking system. If the PCAR is kept confidential then what will that do for confidence? That said the detailed results of the first two PCARs weren't publicised.


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As part of my never-ending study into the meaning (or lack of same) of spring training statistics, I tried to take a different approach. I decided to look at several breakout seasons in recent years to see if there was any hint in spring training of what was to come. I opted to focus on performances since 2006, after an exhaustive study of the weather patterns in Florida and Arizona revealed that the atmospheric conditions in 2005 and earlier were so erratic that it skewed results. OK, that's not true. The real reason is that the data base on MLB.com and ESPN.com only carry spring stats back to 2006. But that should be enough to make any point that's going to be made.
My methodology was admittedly unscientific. I identified as many seasons as I could in which a player took a major step forward, and then looked back to see how he had done in spring. I didn't cherry-pick to prove a point. I had no idea when I started out what the results were going to show. (I stuck with hitters for now. Maybe later I'll look at pitchers).
The results should give some hope to the likes of Justin Smoak and Jesus Montero, who are putting up outstanding numbers as they try to advance their careers to another plateau. And maybe also to Kendrys Morales and Michael Morse, who had already had previous breakthroughs, followed by setbacks due to injury.
The first name to come to mind was Mike Trout, who emerged last year to have a season for the ages. Turns out Trout barely had a spring. He battled a virus and shoulder tendinitis most of the spring, and hadn't even appeared in the outfield when he was optioned to the minors on March 30. At that point, Trout had a mere six at-bats, with one hit — hardly a precursor to the exploits to come when he was called up in late April.
Miguel Cabrera, who would win the Triple Crown and beat out Trout for the MVP, had a killer spring, hitting .413/.491/.652, with two homers and nine RBIs. But for this exercise, I'm not interested in consistently great players like Cabrera I'm more interested in the likes of Jose Bautista, who came out of nowhere to hit 54 homers in 2010. It sure looks the momentum started to build in spring,when Bautista put up a .439/.448/.895 (!) line for a 1.343 OPS, with five homers. My first obvious question was how he did in previous springs. Bautista had a good one in 2009, but not as great as the following year. He went .366/.422/.439 in the spring of '09 with zero homers, then had a so-so regular season.
Last year, Bautista's Toronto teammate Edwin Encarnacion had a breakout of his own with 42 homers and 110 RBIs (he had never gone higher than 26 or 76 before). And in spring, Encarnacion put up a .924 OPS (.306/.343/.581) with four homers (he had hit .227 the previous spring). Again, excellent spring, excellent season.
Justin Morneau was the next hitter who came to mind. In 2005, Morneau was a promising but inconsistent player, hitting .239 with 22 homers. But in 2006, he exploded to hit .321 with 34 homers and 130 RBIs, winning the American League MVP award. That spring, Morneau hit .375 with a .444 on-base and .575 slugging, two homers and 12 RBIs.
Josh Hamilton became a superstar with the Rangers in 2008, when he hit 32 homers and drove in 130 runs. That spring, he was sensational, going .435/.470/.758 for a 1.228 OPS, with three homers and 19 RBIs. (The previous spring, when Hamilton had a strong year with the Reds, though not in a full-time role, Hamilton had gone .403/.457/.556).
Here comes an exception to this trend: Carlos Pena in 2007, when he stepped up from a journeyman career to hit 46 homers with 121 RBIs for the Rays. Pena didn't have much of a spring and actually was sent to the minors late in camp until a teammate's injury gave him another shot. Pena hit .255 with no homers in spring — hardly a sign of things to come.
Two years later, the Rays' Ben Zobrist — thought at the time to be nothing more than a utility guy — surged to a .948 OPS with 27 homers and 91 RBIs and was eighth in the MVP voting. Zobrist hit just .232 that spring, but he did draw 16 walks to build a .411 on-base percentage — in line with his .405 OBP during the season.
Then there's San Diego's Chase Headley, who last year emerged as a power hitter of the first order with 31 homers and a league-leading 115 RBIs. Headley's spring average was just .224, but he slugged .510 and had four homers, maybe an indication that the power stroke was coming around.
Alex Gordon of the Royals had been a huge disappointment until 2011, when he hit .303 with 23 homers and 87 RBIs. That spring, Gordon went .343/.459/.729 (a 1.187 OPS) with six homers.
Carlos Gonzalez of the Rockies emerged as a triple-crown threat in 2010 when, largely of out of the blue, he hit .336 with 34 homers and 117 RBIs. That spring, he hit .339/.391/.576 (.976) with two homers and 13 RBIs.
Jacoby Ellsbury of the Red Sox had never come close to putting up the complete season he did in 2011, when he hit .321 with 32 homers and 105 RBIs and finished second in the MVP voting. Ellsbury hit .355 that spring, with a .385 OBP and .565 slugging (.949) with three homers.
Morse's huge 2011 season with Washington (31 homers, .910 OPS) was preceded by a spring in which he hit a whopping nine home runs, good for a .818 slugging percentage to go with a .364 average. Morse, of course, had put up a huge spring for the Mariners in 2008, hitting .492, but an early-season shoulder injury wiped out his season before we could find out if it was indicative of better things to come.
Morse's new Mariners' teammate, Morales, became a star in 2009 when he hit .306 with 34 homers and 108 RBIs, finishing fifth in the MVP voting. And Morales had a great spring that year with a .400 average, .429 OBP and .682 slugging, with three homers and 17 RBIs.
That's enough examples of players having great springs in their breakout seasons to think there might be something to it. Certainly, it's no guarantee, because I've already provided many examples in the past of players whose great springs turned out to be the precursor to nothing more than continued mediocrity. But for those players whose time has come — and we'll find out soon how many Mariners fit into that category — the signs can often be seen in spring.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go back to poring over those weather charts.


Palliative care is the care of people who are dying from active, progressive diseases or other conditions that are not responsive to curative treatment. Palliative care embraces the physical, social, emotional and spiritual elements of wellbeing–tinana, whanau, hinengaro and wairua – and enhances a person's quality of life while they are dying. Palliative care also supports the bereaved family/whanau.
palliative care provision is complex,and a range of issues need to be addressed.
All people who are dying and their family/whanau who could benefit from palliative care have timely access to quality palliative care services that are culturally appropriate and are provided in a co-ordinated way.
specialist palliative care services in each region, particularly in Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. These providers would have particular responsibility for providing the specialist palliative care advice for the region, maintaining linkages with the tertiary hospitals and undertaking regional and national quality improvement and educational activities.
Nine strategies have been developed which will be implemented over a 5 –10-year period in order of priority. The first priorities will be to ensure that essential services are available for all dying people and that at least one local palliative care service is available in each District Health Board. Additional funding has enabled the implementation of these strategies to be started.
The other strategies will be implemented in line with other government priorities outlined in the New Zealand Health Strategy.


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Medal society to honor ordinary citizen heroes The Congressional Medal of Honor Society, composed of the 107 living Medal of Honor recipients, has announced that it will recognize ordinary Americans who have become extraordinary through acts of selflessness with Above and Beyond Citizen Honors.
Medal society to honor ordinary citizen heroes
The Congressional Medal of Honor Society, composed of the 107 living Medal of Honor recipients, has announced that it will recognize ordinary Americans who have become extraordinary through acts of selflessness with Above and Beyond Citizen Honors.
After a nationwide nomination process by the American public to identify the heroes in our midst for the Above and Beyond Citizen honors, through online balloting, the society will select 50 finalists to represent their respective states. The society will announce three Above and Beyond Citizen Honors recipients at the National Medal of Honor Day ceremony in March. Their stories of hope and courage will be broadcast to the nation and to the men and women in uniform serving around the world from Constitution Hall in Washington.
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Glass artist donates "lotus" work to GCC
Well-known glass artist Paul Stankard recently donated a piece from his latest series to Gloucester County College's permanent art collection.
The piece, an orb titled "Flowering Lotus with Honeybee," is valued at $15,000, the college said.
Stankard, who creates flowers and insects with colored glass, captures the beauty of nature in crystal. The Mantua artist has appeared on numerous television programs, and his artwork is on exhibit around the world.
The college's permanent collection, with about 300 pieces, comprises one of the largest art compilations of New Jersey's county colleges.
Lions Club donates magnifier to library
The Glassboro Lions Club has donated a video magnifier to the Glassboro Branch of the Gloucester County Library. The tabletop unit magnifies type by up to four inches. The equipment has four controls for field of view, size of print, amount of light, and contrast on the screen.
Two couples honored for helping eagles
Mary Jane and Leroy "Red" Horner of Elmer and Elmer and Bunny Clegg of Gibbstown recently were honored by the New Jersey Audubon Society with its 2007 Richard P. Kane Conservation Award. Both couples have been critical to the recovery of bald eagles in the state.
The Cleggs began working with the Bald Eagle Project in 1991. They began observing a pair of bald eagles in 1993, tracking the birds' movements until 1997, when the eagles began nesting at one site on the Delaware River. As the New Jersey eagle population grew, the Cleggs became the official observers of more nests. So far in 2007, they are watching and reporting on six nests.
The Horners have been volunteers with the Bald Eagle Project since 1996. They currently watch seven eagle nests. They work near the Cohansey River, the area with the densest nesting in the state. This is not an easy task. In the rest of the state, observers report on eagle activity at one or more distinct nest sites. Along the Cohansey, territorial boundaries seem to change from year to year as eagles build and maintain several nests.
Police cracking down on drunken driving
The police departments of Elk Township, Franklin Township, Washington Township, Glassboro, East Greenwich, Monroe and Mantua are targeting drunken drivers as part of a statewide crackdown that is in effect until Jan. 2. The departments plan a highly visible police presence on all roads they patrol.


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Recently he's more and more focused on plugin development, since nothing feels better to him than actually coding a feature.
Adrian met Cristian in college, where they first teamed up and worked on several projects. A few months later a dream was born when they decided to found Cozmoslabs.
He's a book lover, a basketball fan and a passionate angler, deeply in love with nature and outdoor activities.
He's the lead developer of WordPress Creation Kit.
He's always been passionate about creating and shaping new things and Cozmoslabs is the perfect environment for that. Ambitious, focused and determined he's on the path to becoming a codecrafter.
He likes to think of himself as a gamer and he is willing to take you on any time in a game of Quake Live or Starcraft. Some other passions are reading (especially sci-fi novels), movies (over 1000 seen so far, yes he keeps a list) and music, rock being one of his favorite genres (Metallica rules!).
Living in Timisoara together with his wife and their daughter. He's a sci-fi fan and loves Star Trek ( so far he's watched all the series and his favorite character is Jean-Luc Picard ).
He started as a web-developer over 7 years ago and learned the tools of the trade mostly all by himself.
She runs the Administrative Department and she is always willing to learn more about IT. She doesn't mind being the only girl in the Cozmoslabs team because the guys always put a smile on her face. She likes riding her bike, travelling around the world and yoga.
Starting as a support team member, he worked his way up to being a full time web developer.
He loves to ride his bike, practice juggling routines and go swimming. Sometimes he gets fascinated about a subject and learns everything there is to know about it.
The youngest member of our team, started a support engineer, now working as a Developer.
Georgian loves technology, eSports, riding his bike, music and a good book. He also likes to go camping a lot, never missing an opportunity.
Technical support engineer and qigong instructor, Gabriel is also a family man.
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Late Brazilian legendary footballer, Pele's F£et To Be Kept In The Museum As Agreed By Family
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Underneath that they wrote a paragraph in tribute to the footballing icon, in which they said: 'There will never be another like him. We will never forget that man who put Brazil in the pantheon of football.
'As long as there is football in this country, every player who wears the number 10 shirt pays homage to the genius who immortalized that number.'
Spanish publication Marca wrote Pele in large letters with a small caption writing: 'Never before have four letters been so big.'
Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport said the Brazilian 'gave happiness and enchanted the world.'
Pele died at the age of 82 on Thursday after the three-time World Cup winner's battle with colon cancer.
His passing has dominated front and back pages across the globe, with newspapers paying tribute to one of the sport's greatest players of all time.
Then they wrote as the headline: 'Eternal goodbye. Sadness has no end.'
Portuguese newspaper O Jogo had a picture of Pele's famous overhead kick with the headline: 'Escaped to eternity.'
Super Deporte, a newspaper based in Valencia, Spain, mentioned that the Brazilian legend could have played for the LaLiga club in the city on their front page.
They wrote: 'Pele dies. A myth that won three World Cups and could have played in Valencia. King - immortal.'
Spanish paper AS Sport simply posted a photo of Pele's feet to honour his talent, while also calling him the 'king' of football. His death was confirmed by his manager, Joe Fraga. The Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in São Paulo said the cause was multiple organ failure, the result of the progression of colon cancer.
Pelé had been receiving treatment for cancer in recent years, and he entered the hospital several weeks ago for treatment of a variety of health issues, including a respiratory infection.
A national hero in his native Brazil, Pelé was beloved around the world — by the very poor, among whom he was raised; the very rich, in whose circles he traveled; and just about everyone who ever saw him play.
Celebrated for his peerless talent and originality on the field, Pelé (pronounced peh-LAY) also endeared himself to fans with his sunny personality and his belief in the power of soccer — football to most of the world — to connect people across dividing lines of race, class and nationality.
He won three World Cup tournaments with Brazil and 10 league titles with Santos, his club team, as well as the 1977 North American Soccer League championship with the New York Cosmos. Having come out of retirement at 34, he spent three seasons with the Cosmos on a crusade to popularize soccer in the United States.Before his final game, in October 1977 at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., Pelé took the microphone on a podium at the center of the field, his father and Muhammad Ali beside him, and exhorted a crowd of more than 75,000.
In his 21-year career, Pelé — born Edson Arantes do Nascimento — scored 1,283 goals in 1,367 professional matches, including 77 goals for the Brazilian national team.
Many of those goals became legendary, but Pelé's influence on the sport went well beyond scoring. He helped create and promote what he later called "o jogo bonito" — the beautiful game — a style that valued clever ball control, inventive pinpoint passing and a voracious appetite for attacking. Pelé not only played it better than anyone; he also championed it around the world.
Among his athletic assets was a remarkable center of gravity; as he ran, swerved, sprinted or backpedaled, his midriff seemed never to move, while his hips and his upper body swiveled around it. Before his final game, in October 1977 at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., Pelé took the microphone on a podium at the center of the field, his father and Muhammad Ali beside him, and exhorted a crowd of more than 75,000.
He could accelerate, decelerate or pivot in a flash. Off-balance or not, he could lash the ball accurately with either foot. Relatively small, at 5 feet 8 inches, he could nevertheless leap exceptionally high, often seeming to hang in the air to put power behind a header.
Like other sports, soccer has evolved. Today, many of its stars can execute acrobatic shots or rapid-fire passing sequences. But in his day, Pelé's playmaking and scoring skills were stunning.
Pelé sprang into the international limelight at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, a slight 17-year-old who as a boy had played soccer barefoot on the streets of his impoverished village using rolled-up rags for a ball. A star for Brazil, he scored six goals in the tournament, including three in a semifinal against France and two in the final, a 5-2 victory over Sweden. It was Brazil's first of a record five World Cup trophies.
Pelé also played on the Brazilian teams that won in 1962 and 1970. In the 1966 tournament, in England, he was brutally kicked in the early games and was finally sidelined by a Portuguese player's tackle that would have earned an expulsion nowadays but drew nothing then.


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Jonathan's cousin, Azibaola, challenges EFCC, alleges breach of fundamental rights
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Robert Azibaola, a cousin to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has asked a Federal High Court, Lagos to declare that the EFCC has no power to remand suspects under the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA).
Azibaola, a lawyer and environmental activist, had filed the suit following his arrest and detention by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in April 2016.
He has since been arraigned and granted bail by a Federal High Court in Abuja, but Azibaola, in the suit filed on his behalf by a Human Rights lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, joined the EFCC, and the Attorney-General of the Federation as respondents.
He is challenging his alleged illegal detention.
On Tuesday, Adegboruwa informed the court that he was ready to move the applicant's originating summons.
However, Justice Mojosola Olatoregun, asked him to return on another date for the hearing.
She, consequently, fixed July 5, for hearing.
Azibaola had been accused of receiving 40 million dollars in September 2014 from a former National Security Adviser Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) for supplying "tactical communication kits".
The commission said he received another N650 million from Dasuki on Dec. 8, 2014.
The plaintiff, however, is praying the court to hold that sections 293 and 294 of the ACJA 2015, which the EFCC relied on to secure remand orders from magistrate courts, were inapplicable in his case.
He said the sections were for capital offences such as murder, armed robbery, kidnapping or treasonable felony, for which a legal advice from the Attorney-General is required before a charge is filed.
Azibaola said that the sections do not apply to financial crimes.
He is also praying the court to hold that EFCC's alleged attempt to force him to implicate Jonathan is contrary to section 7 of the ACJA, which he said has outlawed the practice of arresting a citizen in lieu of another.
The applicant said that he was engaged to meet with stakeholders in the Niger Delta to explore how to prevent oil pipelines vandalism, oil bunkering and crude oil theft, among others.
According to him, the assignment was duly executed upon payment, adding that under Section 8 of the ACJA, he should not be arrested or prosecuted for a civil contract or transaction.
He avers that he is being persecuted on account of his blood ties with Jonathan.
Meanwhile, in its processes, EFCC denied detaining the applicant illegally, describing his claims as unfounded.
The commission said Section 264 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State 2011 empowered it to detain suspects based on remand warrants issued by magistrate courts.
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We know many people are looking forward to the final conference in our seven-year series exploring Richard's themes of an alternative orthodoxy. The last CONSPIRE, focused on nondual consciousness, is the culmination of years of learning, connecting, and growing. We've reserved the Albuquerque Convention Center so we can host more people from our wider community (in the past, CONSPIRE has filled up quickly, with many unable to join in person). And we're planning a deeply contemplative, embodied experience. Stay tuned for more information and registration in fall 2019!


the pixle sounds like nice phone. I got the moto Z 2 Force and am very happy with it. You might want to give that one a test. Not much blote where and also have the Moto mod Jbl speakers. There are impressive.
I have heard some great things about that phone. We are planning to bring in some more Moto phones in the new year.
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Module links existing motors to the cloud for analysis
Siemens has announced plans for a technology that will transmit data from existing electric motors directly to the cloud for analysis, without needing any structural modifications. At next month's Hannover Fair, the company will demonstrate a module that will allow plant operators to view the operational status of their drive systems and to plan servicing schedules, improve efficiency, as well as extending service lives. Typical applications will include pumps, fans and compressors.
The Simotics Connect 400 connectivity module will come with all of the sensors needed to capture vibrations or temperature-related data from motors, as well as a WLAN communication module and a battery that allows it to operate autonomously. The module, which can be fitted to Siemens' size AH100–AH450 low-voltage motors, will process and save the operating data, and send it to the company's Sidrive IQ Fleet App for cloud-based analysis.
This app will produce KPIs (key performance indicators) detailing the status of the motors, and indicating if any remedial action is needed. The modules can be retrofitted to existing motors to improve their reliability and availability, and to boost performance.
Sidrive IQ is part of Siemens' digitalisation portfolio which uses the IoT (Internet of Things) to optimise drivetrains, from production to servicing. It will encompass several different applications and customised services that operate on Siemens' MindSphere cloud platform.
Siemens' Sidrive IQ technology will allow motor users to monitor their existing machines and to service them when needed to avoid possible failures
The Sidrive IQ Fleet app is intended mainly for use in process industry applications, while the Analyze MyDrives app targets discrete manufacturing. Both apps can be used to visualise, analyse and monitor drive data.
The Analyze MyDrives app can also be used to monitor the operating status of Sinamics low-voltage converters, and to gather and analyse operating data from them. By monitoring power consumption, torque and frequency, as well as measuring energy flows, it can help users to identify any need for optimisation and maintenance, and to initiate any necessary actions in good time. Siemens says it will reduce the need for fixed-interval maintenance, improve machine productivity and help to identify energy-saving opportunities.
Cloud app boosts drive productivity and reliability
Wireless gateway sends real-time motor data to the cloud
Ironless linear motors boost force-to-mass ratios by up to 45%
Servodrives target protective extra-low-voltage applications
Piezo motors challenge traditional technologies


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eVic-VTC Mini, a new version of eVic VT, is much cuter and more fashionable in appearance. In addition to the high power of 60w and variable temperature control system, the multiple choices of attractive colors make it even more popular.
eVic-VTC Mini is one of the most innovative device ever made by Joyetech with its new integrated magnetic battery cover based on interchangeable 18650 and upgradable firmware.
The replaceable battery is another highlight of eVic-Mini.
Seems to be in good condition, but I was a little disappointed in visual appeal. The picture shown on the website had the red color looking like it had a matte finish and when I received the product it was a glossy red instead. It also almost even looked slightly used as there were a few light scuffs, resin from a removed sticker, and a dirty display.


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Hwange Colliery wants to sell town for $300m to pay workers
HWANGE Colliery Company has tabled plans to sell its residential properties in colliery town to raise at least $300 million required to pay workers' outstanding salaries which have ballooned to over $70 million.
BY VENERANDA LANGA
Board member Ntombizodwa Masuku announced the proposal yesterday when she appeared before the Temba Mliswa-led Parliamentary Portfolio Committee, where she also disclosed that the coal mine needed a capital injection of around $500 million to recover.
Masuku, who was accompanied by Hwange Colliery Company chief executive officer Thomas Makore, said the company was considering selling its residential properties to the workers as part of reducing the salary backlog.
"We are doing everything possible to ensure that workers are given their due benefits, and we have a plan to sell the town to the tune of $300 million and sell some of the houses because the company is in possession of 5 000 houses, which we do not need and some of these houses are occupied by some of our former workers," she said.
"We would request the Ministry of Local Government to purchase the houses so that we clean our balance sheet to pay the creditors, while the workers will be given an opportunity to purchase some of the houses."
The colliery company's board member claimed that they had an obligation to pay $1,8 million every month to workers, adding that they were up to date, and that the last payment was made on April 25.
However, she said the Hwange Colliery Company workers were working on a two-week shift basis, which meant that they were getting 50% of their normal salaries.
Masuku added that they were also toying with the idea of retrenching some of the workers after it emerged that the company only required 1 000 out of a current workforce of 2 045 workers.
"Our hope is that once we reach our plant production levels, we will be on the road to recovery because what we need is capital injection of $500 million and equipment. We also owe government and we are faced with a lot of challenges in terms of maintenance of infrastructure because HCC is maintaining infrastructure like water, roads, the hospitals and others, while other coal players are benefiting from it, but not paying anything."
She said the $70 million owed to workers dated back to five years, as the debt accumulated due to problems faced by the company such as debts, breakdown of equipment, and high production costs which were causing the company to fail to break even.
However, Hwange is said to have vast coal resources which can last for up to 50 years.
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