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Biografia
Paul nacque a Berlino Est, col nome Heiko Paul Hiersche, figlio degli slavi Anton ed Erika Hiersche. Sua madre proveniva da Ełk in Masuria, Polonia, e suo padre da Böhmisch Kahn, oggi Velké Chvojno, Repubblica Ceca. Entrambi i genitori hanno dovuto lasciare i loro paesi d'origine dopo la seconda guerra mondiale e si sono incontrati durante gli studi a Halle (Saale). Landers visse a Mosca per un breve periodo da bambino. Sa parlare un po' il russo; tuttavia, non sa leggerlo o scriverlo.

Vita privata
Quando sposò Nikki Landers nel 1984 (all'età di 20 anni), prese il cognome di sua moglie e cambiò il proprio nome, diventando Paul Landers. Dopo il loro divorzio nel 1987, ha mantenuto il cognome Landers. Paul ha anche un figlio nato nel 1990, Emil Reinke, ed una figlia minore, Lilly Landers.

Carriera musicale
Nel 1983, all'età di 18 anni, Paul Landers ha fondato il gruppo punk della Germania Est Feeling B, assieme al cantante Aljoscha Rompe e al batterista Alexander Kriening. Alcune settimane dopo hanno reclutato il sedicenne Christian "Doktor Flake" Lorenz per suonare il basso, sebbene  lo strumento del tempo di Lorenz fosse un organo, strumento che egli ha utilizzato per creare suoni di basso. Il gruppo ha avuto diversi batteristi temporanei, tra i quali Christoph Schneider. Landers ha anche suonato in un certo numero di altri gruppi tra i quali Die Firma e Die Magdalene Keibel Combo.

Verso la fine degli anni '80, Landers incontrò Till Lindemann alla proiezione del documentario della GDR "flüstern und SCHREIEN", che riguardante le culture musicali giovanili nella RDT. Incontrò anche Richard Kruspe, un amico di Lindemann, durante questo periodo. Landers ha suonato occasionalmente la chitarra nel gruppo di Lindemanns e Kruspe First Arsch. Nel 1992, i First Arsch pubblicarono il loro unico album, Saddle up. Nel 1993, Lindemann, Kruspe, Schneider e il bassista Oliver Riedel dettero vita ad una nuova formazione chiamata Templeprayers. Hanno vinto il Berlin Senate Metro Beat Contest nel 1994, che ha permesso loro di registrare professionalmente una demo a quattro tracce. Landers e Flake si unirono presto a questo nuovo progetto, che divenuto noto come Rammstein.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Landers, Paul H.

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A few days ago I was cursing under my breath while doing sit-ups and a fellow from the gym came and sat on the incline bench next to me. He totally ignored my mutterings and asked me if there was anything I did special in my training prior to a fight.
I sat up and stopped, pausing to consider a few things before answering. In short: not really. A few small differences: The week before a fight is when I can do increases in running, try to start a weigh-lifting regimen that I almost immediately have to abandon because my fights are close together, or bust out additional sets of push-ups or pull-ups or whatever. I always do five rounds on the pads, every day, so that's not different (this surprised him; I guess he only does three rounds sometimes) and I do the same number of rounds on the bags or in shadow but Den has me do extra drills of kicks and jumping knees on the bag after everything the week of a fight. I told him that I'd been advised not to lift weights the same week of a fight, but that body weight exercises are fine.
He nodded along with my list and then asked, "so, two or three weeks out you don't do much different?" I laughed and explained there is no "two or three weeks out" in my fighting schedule, but that he could look to the Thai boys to see what they do when there are longer pauses between fights. Basically, I'm always training for a fight.
Why I hate: "I want to fight well, so…"
I'd asked this guy about a month ago if he plans on fighting while he's in Thailand and he'd said "no," that he didn't feel ready. I'd told him at the time that I really think he should fight, that he'd probably surprise himself. I thought his line of questioning now, on the sit-up benches, indicated that he was reconsidering his answer. Turns out he wasn't – not outwardly so, anyway. He said his return to the US was in only another week and that he planned to return to Thailand for a longer stay later in the year, after he saved up enough money. I asked him why he didn't just fight anyway before leaving and then he could plan for more fights on this return trip. His answer was almost verbatim what every dude at the gym who has trained but doesn't fight answers: "I want to fight well, so I don't want to fight yet."
I hate this answer and I'll tell you why. The first reason is because I know exactly where they're coming from. Muay Thai is a performance and the Thais out here perform like nobody else in the world. You can even be an amazingly skilled fighter and be made to look like crap by your opponent. And it feels terrible to look bad. I felt this way for a long time and it is still the case that I don't want to look bad in a fight and on that same level I want to "do well." But the second reason I hate this answer is a follow up on the first, my slow realization (or early suspicion that has become realized over time) that in order to do well in fighting you have to fight. It's just that simple. You don't really want to get better at a language and refuse to speak it because you're not going to make any sense at first – you keep speaking it until you do make sense, until it becomes casual and comfortable and finally expressive. It doesn't happen through endless study, it happens through the struggle of engagement and the risk of misunderstanding, embarrassment and sure, yeah, failure.
So this guy says he wants to go home and work on his boxing, get his boxing much better and then he'll be ready to fight in Thailand. His boxing is already his strongest skill, which further emphasizes his fear of looking un-supurb in the ring. Basically, he wants to continue focusing on the thing he's already good at, already confident and competent in… and then fight in a style that will still present innumerable weaknesses because that's one of the many things fights do.
I tried to explain to him that he was missing a great opportunity by choosing not to fight while he's out here. He's been training for three months and he doesn't putz around the gym, he's an active participant. I explained that for Thais it doesn't make any sense that he doesn't fight. If you're fit and have trained enough to have skills and are disciplined enough to show up for training then you fight, simple as that. It would be like training with the soccer team every day and then not wanting to show up on game day – it's mind boggling. And for me, because I'm from the west and the difference between fighting there and fighting in Thailand is such a profound difference for me, I consider the time spent training at a camp and deciding not to fight (even though you can and probably kind of want to but are maybe a little scared) akin to going to the beach and then not going in the water.
So why should this guy fight? Because fighting in Thailand is not the same as fighting in the west. You can schedule a fight on very short notice – you don't have a full-time job or credit hours or kids or whatever that you have to put aside for the scheduled 6-8 week training build up to a fight. You don't know your opponent's name or record or what s/he looks like until you get there and you probably won't even remember their name afterward (unless that's important to you) and they won't remember yours. Whether you win or lose matters for as long as you allow it to. And if you didn't do everything you wanted to do or you felt amazing and like you could take on the world, there's another fight right behind that one, to correct your mistakes or underline your strengths. But maybe the best reason to fight, superior to all other reasons, is simply that you can.
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Ex-Spurs man on the verge of being a national hero?
Welsh international football has been a bit of a joke through recent history. A number of clodders from the depths of the English game have made up XIs around some genuinely talented players, which has, no doubt, contributed to their failure to even come close to gracing a big tournament.
HOWEVER, times are a-changing, and Chris Coleman's Dragons, who are spearheaded by the world's most expensive player in the form of Gareth Bale, are well on course to booking a spot at EURO 2016 – which would be their first showpiece event since 1958. The former Spurs star netted a wonderful winner against Belgium on Friday, who are ranked No.2 in FIFA's order of power, putting them three points clear at the top of Group B with just four games to play.
Elsewhere in the world of football there have been stories from Chile 2015 and the efforts of Roy Hodgson's England side, and our very own Marcus Speller has taken a cheeky look at it all in the video below!


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About Wasted Years : First single written by guitarist Adrian Smith, who also sings backing vocals . It reached number 18 in the UK Singles Charts . It is the only song on the album that features no synthesizers . The song deals with subject of homesickness and alienation, as well as the negative aspects of previous tour and personal problems that Smith and other band members were going through in that period . The original working title was "Golden Years", as can can be heard on numerous bootlegs . The cover depicts the band mascot Eddie's point of view as he flies a time machine . Only a part of Eddie's face is seen as a reflection in a screen . As with the cover, the single cover also features the TARDIS from the BBC series Doctor Who . It was released in 1986. It was released as part of album Somewhere in Time. The genre is heavy metal. The track was release in 1986. Wasted Years has a significant contribution from artist(s) Adrian Smith. It is related to the album(s) - Somewhere in Time.
About Adrian Smith - Adrian Frederick "H" Smith is a guitarist and pianist . Smith writes songs and performs live backing vocals on some tracks . Iron Maiden Smith joined Iron Maiden in November 1980, replacing Dennis Stratton . After leaving school at 16, he formed Urchin, which he led until their demise in 1980 . Smith purchased his first record, Deep Purple's Machine Head, at the age of 15 . He formed Stone Free with Dave Murray and Dave McCloughlin, who played bongos . Adrian Smith's music is influenced by genre(s) - heavy metal progressive rock hard rock.
About Somewhere in Time (Iron Maiden album) : Iron Maiden's sixth studio album was released on 29 September 1986 . It was the band's first album to feature guitar synthesisers . In the United States, Iron Maiden was released by EMI Records and Capitol Records . Since its release, Somewhere in Time has sold over one million copies in the US . Somewhere on Tour was the album's supporting tour . The World Slavery Tour of 1984–85 was physically draining for the group . The resulting exhaustion is credited as the main factor in the lack of songwriting contributions from lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson . Its music is influenced by genres - heavy metal.


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Battery – 02
Posted by Guardian Enzo on July 22, 2016	 July 22, 2016 Battery / First Impressions
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"The Banks of the Pond"
It's probably no exaggeration to say Battery isn't a series that's going to play to the masses. It doesn't seem to have a natural target demographic, apart perhaps from the old NoitaminA audience (which tended to be pretty small anyway, and never had a sports-themed show to contend with). It's not a hard-core sports series like Diamond no Ace, nor is it an Ikebukuro shippers paradise like Haikyuu or Yowapeda. It has no commercially powerful source material to support it and be supported by it (the novels it's based on were released well over a decade ago). In short, it's one of those periodic anime that make you wonder how they were ever greenlit in the first place – and like many of them, it makes me heartily glad that in defiance of all logic it exists.
As if all that weren't enough, Battery also gives us a main character who, at this point in the story, is pretty unlikable. This is a syndrome I've seen repeated over and over in recent years – in a medium where light-novel adaptations have become highly influential, fans don't have much patience for a character who has to develop into someone admirable. They want a winning protagonist right out of the gate, because we've been conditioned to believe that everyone is going to be pretty much the same in the final episode as they were in the first. That's certainly not true with either the writer or director of Battery's prior works and it won't be the case with this one, but I don't know how many viewers are going to stick around long enough to find that out.
For now, though, Takumi is a big (abnormally big for a 12 year-old, even a jock) bucket of attitude. There are some definite patterns emerging here, and one of them is that Takumi is someone for whom things have tended to come pretty easy – at least in terms of baseball. As his grandfather says, he's been given a great gift that no amount of practice can replicate – he can throw any pitch wherever he wants, at any time. But as a result of it, he's never really suffered adversity. This is a syndrome common to super-athletes – as kids they utterly dominate the competition, to the point where their sport is barely a challenge. But the higher they go up the chain, the less likely that is to continue. Sooner or later, at least some of the c0mpetition catches up to you – and it's how you react that determines whether you flame out or become one of the unicorns who can actually compete in a sport professionally.
It's also clear that Takumi's love for baseball is genuine – at least for as long as he owns it. That makes it ironic that all of a sudden he's being asked left and right to urge those close to him to give up the sport. In the case of Gou, I think we can assume the reason his mother wants him to quit is so that her son can follow in his father's footsteps (in Japan, it's more or less expected that an eldest son will inherit a father's medical practice). Takumi's own mother is asking him to convince Seiha to stop playing – or trying to – for reasons that were already clear in the premiere.
Takumi's reaction to these requests is telling – he's totally unwilling to entertain the idea of urging Gou to quit, because he knows Gou is good enough to help him succeed on the diamond. But he's happy to piss on Seiha's dreams, and a real fault-line clearly exists in the Harada family over this. Seiha's medical issues haven't been explained clearly yet, but there does seem to be some sort of legitimate issue at work there. But Seiha is a pretty clear-headed and determined little boy, and he has allies in his grandfather and in Gou as well. That's why it's no surprise when Takumi goes to meet his new catcher at the Shrine and finds Gou already there, playing catch with Seiha (who, as we know from the premiere, has a pretty good arm himself).
The contrast between the brothers could hardly be more stark here. Seiha is adorably frank and wise, taking a very mature view about his possible future in baseball ("I don't want to become you. I just want to play"). Of course for Takumi, everything has to be about him – his favorite response to other people's problems seems to be "It has nothing to do with me". He's really at his most obnoxious here – being rude to adults (as he is) may be more shocking in Japanese society, but being so cruel to a child who adores him is the far greater sin in my view. Throwing away Seiha's precious baseball is indeed crossing the line, and Gou points it out in no uncertain terms.
What this all comes down to, I think, is Takumi being "weak under pressure". His reaction to Seiha getting lost is for all intents and purposes abject panic, and his fall in the lake after he and Gou find Seiha once again highlights that there's something going on with Takumi's pitching arm (which he tries to protect when he falls – whether it be an anxiety disorder of a physical ailment. Takumi defines himself through baseball, because in baseball everything has always been handed to him. He's going to taste the harsher side of life now, clearly (perhaps terribly harsh, though I hope what I'm imagining doesn't come to pass), and how he's able to persevere and grow through that experience is going to define both Takumi as a person, and Battery as a story.
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The kid is like 12… The way he acts doesn't make ANY sense.
Actually, I think the way he acts makes sense for a kid his age. It's the way he looks that's a little harder to believe.
It is indeed the art because the manga illustration makes him look much younger.
sadamitsu
ok i thought he is 15 or older but anyway its normal for kids in his age to act the way he is , im liking the anime so far so i'll keep watching.
laila703
I've been noticing online (e.g. Reddit) that a lot of people think the characters in the show act unrealistically. I strongly disagree with that. I think the characters in Battery act refreshingly human.
Takumi acts just like a 12 year old, all of his rash decisions, jealousy, confusion, etc. are hard for young adults to empathize with, but are very typical teenage behaviors.
Go's parents and Takumi's parents acted just like usual (Japanese) parents with regards to quitting baseball. Some criticize them for asking Takumi to do all the talking, but that's what parents do when their words don't get through to their kids.
All in all, I'm irked to see so much talk about 'unrealistic' behavior in Battery. I think anime watchers are just too used to high school settings where the parents are irrelevant and the characters are static.
No normal 12 year old behaves in this sort of manner. And I speak from direct experience of being 12 myself not so long ago, and being around numerous others of the same age (the 400 other students in my grade/year).
Hence people saying such behaviour is unnatural, which I completely agree with.
lebleu
Personally I'm fine with Takumi. Its the catcher I don't like. What right does he have to continually butt into what is a personal family matter? He also doesn't know about the little brother being sick & weak & just assumes Takumi is being a dick, rather than looking out & worrying for his little bro.
& don't get me started on the 2 mums. Try parenting yourselves you useless women, rather than forcing a 12 year old to do your job for you. Its especially bad with the catcher's mum. She demands Takumi talk to a guy he's known for like a day about what could be a life-changing decision, rather than be a good mother & do it herself.
If Gou doesn't know anything about Seiha's condition, his encouraging him to play baseball really isn't butting in, is it? It's just being a friend.
As for his Mom asking Takumi to talk Gou into quitting, I agree that was kind of a sleazy thing to do. But the feeling I got was that she'd already tried to do so herself many times and had so luck, which still doesn't give her the right to ask Takumi to do it, but I don't think it's fair to suggest she's never done it herself. I don't think the evidence suggests that.
It was more that Gou takes the little brothers side over his supposed new friend's. I know I wouldn't like someone butting in between me & my brother. Especially if they just assumed something, without even wondering if there's more going on.
fair enough with the mum, she did try herself first. Though there are better methods than giving up & asking a kid to do your job for you
I get your point with Gou. But to me, you know, these are 12-13 year old kids (even if they don't look it). Is it so hard to believe a good-hearted guy like Gou would see a seemingly healthy little boy like Seiha who obviously wants to play ball, think his brother was being a DB to him, and want to show him some kindness? With the perspective of an adult maybe you wouldn't do that, but these aren't adults.
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	 * should be false.
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	 * @see java.lang.reflect.Proxy
	 */
	static boolean HAVE_NATIVE_GET_PROXY_CLASS = false;

	/**
	 * Set to true if the VM provides a native method to implement the first
	 * part of Proxy.getProxyClass: generation of the array of methods to
	 * convert, and verification of the arguments. If this is true,
	 * HAVE_NATIVE_GET_PROXY_CLASS should be false.
	 *
	 * @see java.lang.reflect.Proxy
	 */
	static boolean HAVE_NATIVE_GET_PROXY_DATA = false;

	/**
	 * Set to true if the VM provides a native method to implement the second
	 * part of Proxy.getProxyClass: conversion of an array of methods into an
	 * actual proxy class. If this is true, HAVE_NATIVE_GET_PROXY_CLASS should
	 * be false.
	 *
	 * @see java.lang.reflect.Proxy
	 */
	static boolean HAVE_NATIVE_GENERATE_PROXY_CLASS = false;

	/**
	 * Optional native method to replace (and speed up) the pure Java
	 * implementation of getProxyClass. Only needed if
	 * VMProxy.HAVE_NATIVE_GET_PROXY_CLASS is true, this does the work of both
	 * getProxyData and generateProxyClass with no intermediate form in Java.
	 * The native code may safely assume that this class must be created, and
	 * does not already exist.
	 *
	 * @param loader
	 *            the class loader to define the proxy class in; null implies
	 *            the bootstrap class loader
	 * @param interfaces
	 *            the interfaces the class will extend
	 * @return the generated proxy class
	 * @throws IllegalArgumentException
	 *             if the constraints for getProxyClass were violated, except
	 *             for problems with null
	 * @throws NullPointerException
	 *             if `interfaces' is null or contains a null entry, or if
	 *             handler is null
	 * @see #HAVE_NATIVE_GET_PROXY_CLASS
	 * @see #getProxyClass(ClassLoader, Class[])
	 * @see #getProxyData(ClassLoader, Class[])
	 * @see #generateProxyClass(ClassLoader, Proxy.ProxyData)
	 */
	static native Class getProxyClass(ClassLoader loader, Class[] interfaces);

	/**
	 * Optional native method to replace (and speed up) the pure Java
	 * implementation of getProxyData. Only needed if
	 * Configuration.HAVE_NATIVE_GET_PROXY_DATA is true. The native code may
	 * safely assume that a new ProxyData object must be created which does not
	 * duplicate any existing ones.
	 *
	 * @param loader
	 *            the class loader to define the proxy class in; null implies
	 *            the bootstrap class loader
	 * @param interfaces
	 *            the interfaces the class will extend
	 * @return all data that is required to make this proxy class
	 * @throws IllegalArgumentException
	 *             if the constraints for getProxyClass were violated, except
	 *             for problems with null
	 * @throws NullPointerException
	 *             if `interfaces' is null or contains a null entry, or if
	 *             handler is null
	 * @see #HAVE_NATIVE_GET_PROXY_DATA
	 * @see #getProxyClass(ClassLoader, Class[])
	 * @see #getProxyClass(ClassLoader, Class[])
	 * @see Proxy.ProxyData#getProxyData(Proxy.ProxyType)
	 */
	static native Proxy.ProxyData getProxyData(ClassLoader loader,
			Class[] interfaces);

	/**
	 * Optional native method to replace (and speed up) the pure Java
	 * implementation of generateProxyClass. Only needed if
	 * Configuration.HAVE_NATIVE_GENERATE_PROXY_CLASS is true. The native code
	 * may safely assume that a new Class must be created, and that the
	 * ProxyData object does not describe any existing class.
	 *
	 * @param loader
	 *            the class loader to define the proxy class in; null implies
	 *            the bootstrap class loader
	 * @param data
	 *            the struct of information to convert to a Class. This has
	 *            already been verified for all problems except exceeding VM
	 *            limitations
	 * @return the newly generated class
	 * @throws IllegalArgumentException
	 *             if VM limitations are exceeded
	 * @see #getProxyClass(ClassLoader, Class[])
	 * @see #getProxyClass(ClassLoader, Class[])
	 */
	static native Class generateProxyClass(ClassLoader loader,
			Proxy.ProxyData data);
}

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At the end of separate interviews on Hardball, Chris Matthews gives Howard Dean a chance to respond to Mary Landrieu's statements and he comes at her hard for forcing everyone into private insurance by not allowing other choices in the bill. I'd call that a smack down for sure.
Sen. Landrieu drones on and on about her blind love and devotion to the insurance industry that has been a nightmare for many Americans. Why does she hate the idea that Americans deserve to have a choice about who they buy their health care from?
Dean: Mary, I'd like to know why you deny my people of the choice to sign up for an alternative? You are forcing us in to insurance companies. You took away our choice.
You would not let us choose another program. You forced us into the insurance industry and we don't want to be forced into the insurance industry and you took away our choice. That is wrong.
Landrieu: That is not true. You never had that choice to begin with.
Landrieu: No, he didn't. He did not campaign for a public option.
Dean: ...He most certainly did. He absolutely did, you are not accurate. He campaigned for a federal employee benefit with a public option. That's what he campaigned for.
Landrieu obviously never bothered to read the health care bill that President Obama ran on in the general election.


As a record collector for years, ever since I was gifted my very first Michael Jackson records from a family member, I have meticulously kept my collection organized and catalogued. Nowadays, with the ability to hold tons of information in the palm of your hand, my collection resides online. While I'm out looking through bins of dusty records, I find it difficult to decide whether to make a purchase without doing a proper google search. This is the case for most "crate diggers." I had always wanted to see an app that has cover recognition software and that can search online databases instantly with the touch of a button. Crate Digger does all that and more, allowing for social interaction with fellow diggers in your area and the ability to review your collection based on multiple variables, from price to time of purchase and geo-tagged location.


Relish stunning ocean views as you scream through the twists and turns of the Giant Dipper at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. In addition to the rides, this seaside amusement park has an arcade, mini-golf, laser tag along with plenty of dining and shopping options for the young and not-so-young! Enjoy a day at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, minutes from Holiday Inn Express & Suites, Watsonville, CA.


Previously in part 1 of this blog we discussed how to increase the efficiency of student interaction for your institution. Here are two more powerful tips from our solution experts, one on empowering your team leaders and the other on resource planning and performance monitoring.
As the number of staff dealing with student enquiries increases, so does the need for effective management of your skills based routing to effectively allocate agents to skills and queues. IT resource is increasingly hard to reach. Does your solution empower your supervisors to rapidly respond to changing student demand in real time and respond by moving, adding team members or changing teams while adjusting groups, skill sets and queue types?
Through our work with more than 40 higher education institutions, we've seen a large increase in demand from existing customers for call handling systems for staff working on more than one site. Heriot-Watt University wanted to find a way to radically improve communications across their sites, implementing an automated call distribution (ACD) solution allows them to effectively direct calls through skills based routing using automation, which is available 24x7.
Supervisors are challenged to optimise the performance of their teams. Having real-time dashboards that allow them to view the current day's performance for factors such as number of enquiries processed, longest wait time and agent utilisation rate, ensures they can proactively respond and allocate resources effectively. Actively track historic performance on a regular basis by using bookmarked views (in URL format) and instantly generate reports saving a significant amount of time for month end reporting.
UCAS Customer Services Unit answers as many as 15,000 calls per day. By implementing a Workforce Management solution the team increased their efficiency and call capacity ensuring demand fluctuations are handled efficiently. Their teams were able to answer 3,000 more calls per day.
Once the building blocks of an effective contact centre have been established through workforce management, consider implementing an agent adherence programme to enable better monitoring of your contact centre staff and improve agent performance.
An Agent Adherence programme begins the conversation of 'the power of one'. This is the power every agent has to make a difference to service and to their team's performance. Objective measures and a collaborative approach will increase agent buy-in ultimately, the level of success you can achieve.
Staff will be increasingly motivated and see the benefits of the new system as their individual efforts and achievements are recognised.
Consider listening to recorded calls or analysing contact logs to highlight skill gaps, so supervisors gain a new level of clarity when analysing individual and team performance. Showcase successful interactions at team meetings grow capability and morale. Use quality performance output to devise relevant training and personal development plans.
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From Dublin City/Crumlin: On the Long Mile head toward the Naas Road. Immediately after Toyota Long Mile turn left into Parkmore industrial estate (Argenta on the Corner). Take the second left in the estate to the end and turn left again. We are the Grey & Blue Building at an angle.
From the M50: Take Junction 9 Heading toward City Centre. Continue to Kylemore Luas Stop Lights/FBD Building. Turn right onto Walkinstown Avenue. Turn Right onto the long Mile (Toyota on Corner). Immediately after Toyota Long Mile turn left into Parkmore industrial estate (Argenta on the Corner). Take the second left in the estate to the end and turn left again. We are the Grey & Blue Building at an angle.


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Address in honor of Alexander Hamilton by Stephen F. Knott
Wed, January 20, 2016
IWP is pleased to post the transcript of Steve Knott's address at Trinity Church on the occasion of Alexander Hamilton's birthday on January 11. Dr. Knott, professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College in Newport, RI, has written widely on Hamilton. His latest book is Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America, coauthored with Tony Williams. Hamilton is buried at Trinity Church.
It truly is an honor to be with you today as we pay tribute to a remarkable founding father who was one of the greatest members of, with all due respect to Tom Brokaw and our World War II veterans, the greatest generation of Americans.
I would like to talk with you today about what I believe to be the most important collaboration in American history. I am referring to the unlikely alliance between a wealthy Virginia planter and a brash immigrant from the Caribbean who went on to establish a "new order for the ages." George Washington and Alexander Hamilton fought for the better part of twenty-five years to secure the American experiment in the face of bitter partisan opposition at home and determined enemies abroad. This collaboration was vital to winning the American Revolution, adopting the Constitution, and creating the institutions necessary to secure liberty at home and respect abroad.
Remarkably, this critically important alliance has not been given its due, for Alexander Hamilton, for much of our history, has been seen as a somewhat sinister character, not worthy of being paired with the likes of George Washington.
Attacking Hamilton was and is a far more acceptable approach than attacking the towering figure of George Washington, and throughout our nation's history Hamilton has suffered more than his share of attacks. One sees this tendency to criticize Hamilton but not Washington in accounts dealing with the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. This rebellion involved thousands of "rebels" in western Pennsylvania who defied a federal excise tax on alcohol, armed themselves, and at one point threatened to burn Pittsburgh to the ground. Federal agents attempting to collect the tax were attacked, and in one instance, a "revenuer" was held in a distillery for three days without food, and told that he could secure his freedom by submitting to having his nose ground off by a grindstone.
President Washington repressed this insurrection on the grounds that he was constitutionally obligated to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed," but this view tends to be dismissed in lore and legend. Instead, this episode of lawlessness on the part of whiskey distillers and their sympathizers is celebrated by progressive historians as an example of grassroots democracy in action. According to this caricatured account, the whiskey rebels were simple country-folk who abandoned their cracker barrels to defend their God-given right to produce moonshine. They fought to liberate themselves from an oppressive east coast establishment led by Hamilton and the "moneyed interest" – all of whom were traitors to the Spirit of 1776.
This tale is Jeffersonian-inspired propaganda masquerading as history, but it has proved remarkably resilient. For Washington and Hamilton, the Whiskey Rebellion was a challenge to the rule of law, and while hindsight might allow one to dismiss the seriousness of the rebellion, the threat was quite real to a newborn government whose viability was still open to question.
Hamilton tends to be the villain in various progressive portrayals of the rebellion, but it was President Washington who authorized the use of force against the rebels, and even led, for a time, the 15,000 man force (which Washington cunningly named "the Army of the Constitution") that marched into western Pennsylvania. For Thomas Jefferson, Washington's response to the Whiskey Rebellion, or "Hamilton's insurrection" as Jefferson called it, was further evidence of the great man's decline; the President had become the captive of a dictatorially-inclined Hamilton.
Nowhere were the conflicting visions of Washington's and Hamilton's Federalism and Jefferson's Republicanism more pronounced than in their differing views on the French Revolution. And nowhere were Washington and Hamilton more closely allied than in their disdain for the destructive character of the French Revolution. They were repulsed by the ease with which the French revolutionaries and their American supporters countenanced mob violence and show-trials as a means of purging elements of the old order. In Washington's and Hamilton's view, there was no common ground between the American and French Revolutions; the former was characterized by a devotion to liberty, the latter by a passion for licentiousness. The American Revolution was, to borrow a term coined two centuries later, a revolution of sober expectations, while the French Revolution anticipated the totalitarian upheavals of the twentieth century, with their mass executions and their propensity to turn on themselves with unbridled ferocity.
Jefferson welcomed the violence in France as a legitimate means to cleanse the new republic of its reactionary holdovers. The Sage of Monticello argued that if the revolution extinguished all but one man and one woman, it would be well worth the price. This was the same Jefferson who proposed executing any Virginia banker who cooperated with Hamilton's Bank of the United States.
Washington and Hamilton, who had experienced more than their share of violence, were far less taken with juvenile notions of the positive effects of bloodshed and upheaval. Hamilton came from a Caribbean environment rife with lawlessness and simmering discord, and his family upbringing was marked by instability and dislocation. In contrast, Jefferson's earliest childhood memory was a recollection of being carried on a pillow by a slave. One was shaped by fragility of life and the constant struggle for mere survival, the other by the infinite possibilities of a carefree life built on the toil of others.
While Hamilton won almost all of the key policy battles with Jefferson during his time in the Washington administration, he arguably lost the battle with Jefferson for the hearts and minds of the American people. Despite being George Washington's closest confidant, or perhaps because they resented the fact that he was, Thomas Jefferson and his lieutenants sought to denigrate, if not erase, Hamilton's contributions to the founding of the United States. Hamilton was, in a sense, the first victim of the politics of personal destruction.
Jefferson considered Hamilton, the lone immigrant among the core group of founding fathers, to be not quite "American." In fact, Jefferson saw him as a covert British agent intent on foisting a crown upon the republic and corrupting its councils of government in order to benefit the privileged few. Jefferson's animus toward Hamilton knew no bounds, in part because, as mentioned, the latter had bested him in almost every policy battle in President Washington's cabinet. Jefferson dismissed reports of Hamilton's courage as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, perhaps out of jealously, since Jefferson's only encounter with the war involved a hasty flight from his plantation after receiving word that British forces were heading for Monticello. Hamilton was in fact "timid," Jefferson believed, and his reputation for courage was simply not "genuine."
Jefferson also believed that Hamilton was "not only a monarchist" but an advocate "for a monarchy bottomed on corruption." When Jefferson became president in 1801, he ordered his Secretary of the Treasury to comb through the records and find examples of Hamilton's corruption. None were ever found. Nevertheless, Jefferson's sinister interpretation of Hamilton became gospel within the ranks of many progressive historians and politicians.
Progressive hatred for Hamilton persisted well into the twentieth century. It reached its peak during the 1920s, when Republican president Warren G. Harding led the effort to erect a monument to Hamilton on the grounds of the Treasury Department. Harding was guaranteed to offend the sensibilities of any right-thinking progressive, both then and now, and his celebration of Hamilton did little to burnish the latter's image.
At the 1928 Democratic National Convention, the keynote address was delivered by Claude Bowers, a party operative and journalist who in his spare time wrote popular histories, including one entitled Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy in America (1925). In his book and his keynote address, Bowers summarized all of the hatred his party felt toward the east coast elites, a fraternity apparently founded by the "dictatorial" Hamilton. According to Bowers, Hamilton believed that the people were "a great beast," continuing a longstanding tradition of circulating a "quote" that Hamilton likely never uttered.
Bowers' book received a glowing endorsement in the only book review Franklin D. Roosevelt ever wrote, which appeared in the New York Evening World in 1925 under the title of "Is There a Jefferson on the Horizon?" The answer was yes, of course, for this latter day Jefferson was the reviewer himself. Roosevelt found Bowers book to be a "breathless" account of "escape after escape" as the Sage of Monticello battled the dark forces of oppression and privilege. Were it not for Jefferson's heroic efforts, Hamilton's "aristocracy of wealth and power" would have triumphed, FDR alleged, all the while suggesting that he [FDR] would challenge the new Hamiltonians in the reactionary, neo-fascist, Republican Party.
It was Franklin Roosevelt who elevated Jefferson into the pantheon of American immortals. FDR led the effort to erect the beautiful Tidal Basin memorial to Jefferson and insisted that the Sage's face adorn both the nickel and a popular U.S. postage stamp. Hamilton's reputation reached its low-point during the New Deal years, to the point where Fortune magazine felt compelled to state that if Hamilton were alive in 1942 he would have no sympathy for the Nazis. Many Americans were not entirely sure – the great Jefferson biographer Dumas Malone professed to see parallels between Hamilton and the fascists who were wreaking havoc around the globe in the 1940s.
It has been something of an iron-law in American historiography that as one falls the other rises, and with Jefferson's ascent in the 20th century, Hamilton remained in eclipse. It was not until the late twentieth and early 21st century that Hamilton broke free of the Jeffersonian-inspired progressive interpretation of the founding and was seen for who he truly was – an immigrant who rose from obscurity and emerged as George Washington's closest confidant in war and in peace, and became a co-founder of a New York society devoted to the abolition of slavery.
While Lin Manuel Miranda's musical and Ron Chernow's biography made great strides in rehabilitating Hamilton's image, the caricatured account of Alexander Hamilton first put forth by Jefferson and his allies, and repeated by countless authors from Claude Bowers to Dumas Malone to Thomas DiLorenzo, still persists in far too many quarters. This caricature pits the supposed "champions of the people" (Jefferson, Madison, and their party) against the "forces of privilege and authoritarianism" (Hamilton and the Federalists).
Americans should put aside this caricatured account, and if they do so, they will discover that due to the exertions of George Washington and to the individual buried just a few steps from where we meet today, the American people began to "think continentally." These two men, more than Jefferson and Madison, created a strong Union which would go on to defeat fascism and communism, explore the universe, produce endless scientific and technological breakthroughs, and perhaps most importantly, abolish slavery and Jim Crow, thereby securing the blessings of liberty for all of their fellow citizens.
Stephen F. Knott
Co-Author, Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance That Forged America


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Q: Show that $\frac{x}{\sin x}$ is strictly increasing on $(0,\frac{\pi}{2})$ I have tried by calculating the derivative, $$f'(x)=\frac{\sin x-x\cos x}{\sin^2 x}$$ However I don't know how to show that  $ \frac{\sin x}{x} > \cos x $. If this approach won't work, how else sould I tackle this problem?

A: your Statement is equivalent to $$\frac{\sin(x)}{\cos(x)}=\tan(x)>x$$ which is true.
Hint: consider $$f(x)=\tan(x)-1$$

A: Inequality $\tan{x}>x$ holds on $(0,\frac{\pi}{2})$.
Proof of this fact you can check here.

A: $\begin{array}\\
\dfrac{\sin x}{x}
&=\dfrac1{x}\int_0^x \cos(t)dt\\
&\gt\dfrac1{x}(x\cos(x))
\qquad\text{since }\cos(t)\text{ is decreasing on }[0, \pi/2]\\
&=\cos(x)\\
\end{array}
$

A: Overkill: we have
$$\frac{\sin x}{x}=\prod_{n\geq 1}\left(1-\frac{x^2}{\pi^2 n^2}\right),\qquad \cos(x) = \prod_{n\geq 1}\left(1-\frac{x^2}{\pi^2\left(n-\frac{1}{2}\right)^2}\right) \tag{1} $$
and for every $x\in[0,\pi/2]$
$$ \left(1-\frac{x^2}{\pi^2 n^2}\right)\geq \left(1-\frac{x^2}{\pi^2\left(n-\frac{1}{2}\right)^2}\right)\tag{2} $$
holds for every $n\geq 1$.

A: We may as well prove that ${\rm sinc}(x):={\sin x\over x}$ is decreasing  on $\left[0,{\pi\over2}\right]$. Now for all $x\geq0$ we have
$${\rm sinc}(x)=\int_0^1\cos (t\,x)\>dt\ ,$$
and this is clearly decreasing in $x$ as long as $0\leq x\leq{\pi\over2}$.

A: *

*$x$ is strictly increasing since it's slope is $1$

*$\sin(x)$ is strictly increasing over the interval since it's slope is $\cos(x)$, which is positive in this interval.

*For all $x$ in the interval the interval, $1\ge\cos(x)$.

Therefore, the $\frac{x}{\sin(x)}$ is strictly increasing on the interval.

A: Suppose $0\lt y\lt x\lt\pi$. Then
$$
\begin{align}
\frac{x\sin(y)-y\sin(x)}{x-y}
&=\frac{(x-y)\sin(y)-y\,(\sin(x)-\sin(y))}{x-y}\\
&=y\left(\frac{\sin(y)-\sin(0)}{y-0}-\frac{\sin(x)-\sin(y)}{x-y}\right)\\[6pt]
&\ge0\tag{1}
\end{align}
$$
because $\sin(x)$ is concave on $[0,\pi]$.
Multiplying $(1)$ by $\frac{x-y}{\sin(x)\sin(y)}$, we get
$$
\frac{x}{\sin(x)}-\frac{y}{\sin(y)}\ge0\tag{2}
$$
That is, $\frac{x}{\sin(x)}$ is increasing on $(0,\pi)$.

In the answer above, we can avoid the use of calculus, if we accept that $\sin(x)$ is concave.
However, we can also note that on $[0,\pi]$,
$$
\sin''(x)=-\sin(x)\le0\tag{3}
$$
We can also use the fact that $\cos(x)$ is decreasing on $[0,\pi]$ and the Mean Value Theorem to get that
$$
\underbrace{\frac{\sin(y)-\sin(0)}{y-0}}_{\cos(u)\text{ for some } u\in(0,y)}-\underbrace{\frac{\sin(x)-\sin(y)}{x-y}}_{\cos(v)\text{ for some } v\in(y,x)}=\cos(u)-\cos(v)\ge0\tag{4}
$$
since $u\lt v$.

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Platypareia albipes är en insektsart som beskrevs av Frederick Arthur Godfrey Muir 1934. Platypareia albipes ingår i släktet Platypareia och familjen sporrstritar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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The Gynaecology Centre consists of the Gynaecology Department and Polyclinic. Our centre deals with gynaecological oncology, gynaecology and breast health. We provide late-stage health consulting in the whole field of gynaecology, including gynaecological oncology and breast disease.
Our centre's specialists have visitations with outpatients in the polyclinic in addition to treating inpatients, dealing with both planned and emergency cases. The North Estonia Medical Centre offers 24-hour gynaecological assistance.
Each gynaecologist has two appointment days per week; in addition to initial and follow-up appointments, there are also separate initial appointment times for oncological patients, giving patients speedy access to specialists.
The Gynaecology Department's inpatient ward has 28 beds. For post-operative monitoring, the intensive care ward is equipped with the latest resources and monitoring equipment. Anyone can fall victim to oncological disease and the speed at which treatment begins has a decisive role. The North Estonia Medical Centre consolidates specialists from various fields who have the skills to work in emergency circumstances. In addition, we have the possibility of using late-stage intensive care if a patient's condition and the seriousness of the operation require it.
We are the only hospital in northern Estonia to offer patients all of the possible treatment methods (surgical, radiological, systemic) using both individual and combined approaches.
The Gynaecology Department has been renovated; the four, two and single-bed wards are comfortable and each is fitted with a WC and shower. Our department contains a spacious patient resting area with a television and bookshelf. Patients can also meet loved ones in the hospital's coffee shops.
The handing of patients is complex and multimodal. The treatment approach for patients of oncological pathology is determined by the council in accordance to international treatment guidelines.
We have extensive experience as a cancer treatment centre. Our centre's physicians have co-authored the European gynaecological oncology treatment guidelines. All of the available oncological treatment methods meet international guidelines and are conducted on a high technological level.
All of the gynaecologists and oncologists have carried out their residency training at the Gynaecology Centre. In addition, we serve as a training centre for both family doctors and gynaecologists in post-diploma studies. All of our doctors speak foreign languages on a high level, and regularly attain supplementary experience through specialty training, medical congresses, and fellowships? at Europe's prestigious gynaecological oncology centres. Our task is to be the leading women's health centre in Estonia.
Timely detection and prevention of pre-cancerous conditions.
Conducting radical and ultra-radical gynaecological oncology operations at the required level.
Use of laparoscopic methods in treating gynaecological tumours.
Perioperative rapid diagnostics with immediate full capacity for surgical intervention.
Use of organ-sparing and fertility-saving methods.
Multimodal treatment for gynaecological oncology patients - all in one medical institution.
Innovative method of treatment of ovarian tumours - hyperthermal chemical treatment during operation of abdominal cavities in the case of patients with specific symptoms.
Complex monitoring during the perioperative period [KP1] by the surgeon, oncologist, psychologist, physical therapist, anaesthesiologist and other specialists.
The presence of experienced pathologists in the hospital whose high-quality work ensures adequate information for determining the need for and extent of oncological aftercare.
The breast health unit is part of the Gynaecology Centre. We deal with the diagnosis and surgical treatment of benign and malignant diseases of the mammary gland, including breast reconstruction operations.
The unit includes two general surgeons, two oncology surgeons, one gynaecologist and one plastic surgeon. We conduct around 550 mammary gland operations annually, two-thirds of which involve the treatment of malignant tumours. All of the department's physicians also see outpatients in the polyclinic two days a week.
If breast cancer is suspected, it is possible to register an appointment with a breast specialist by telephone 617 2361 or 617 1149. A referral from a general practitioner is required.
The sentinel lymph node trial method is used daily, allowing to spare lymph nodes under the armpits and reducing the risk of swelling in the arm later.
A prerequisite of high-quality and modern breast cancer diagnosis and treatment is close cooperation across various specialties. Our daily partners include the Radiology Centre along with the Nuclear Medicine Department, the Chemotherapy Centre, the Radiotherapy Centre, and the Pathology Centre.
Decisions pertaining to diagnosis and treatment are made by councils consisting of the aforementioned specialists. In addition, patients can seek assistance from the anaesthesiology cabinet and the reconstructive treatment cabinet. Counselling is also provided by psychologists, social workers and our domestic support treatment team.
In September 2012, the North Estonia Medical Centre opened the breast health cabinet, where patients can seek assistance for various problems related to breast health by registering by telephone at 617 1049. The wait time for an appointment is one to two weeks. A referral is not required and there is no charge for the appointment.


New online insurance provider Dinghy has found an ally in ARAG.
Teaming up to roll out "Freelancer Assist," the two providers will combine their offerings to afford freelance professionals legal services and protection. Freelancer Assist – which consists of ARAG's online legal resources, advice, and insurance – will be part of all Dinghy packages.
Currently the insurtech start-up offers professional indemnity, public and cyber liability products, as well as cover for business equipment to independent workers.
"Our customers tend to be comfortable with technology, so ARAG's digital legal tools, which allow them to self-serve but fall back on expert help if they need it, are a perfect fit," noted Dinghy co-founder Rob Hartley. "Legal expenses insurance inevitably tends to focus on the risk of employment disputes, but that sort of cover is irrelevant to freelancers.
Dinghy – whose principal underwriter is Beazley Syndicates at Lloyd's and is an Appointed Representative of ReSolution Underwriting Partnerships – caters primarily to the IT, creative, and wider consultancy sectors.
"More and more people are working independently, and they tend to be time-poor but also conscious about their overheads," commented ARAG corporate account manager George Bladon, who believes his firm's new partner has "really hit" on a market that is ripe for such technological disruption.


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Q: How Is tkinter not affected by threading when tkinter is always occupying the CPU? Update the title to clarify my question:
I was recently told that Python cannot truly thread and I find this confusing. Something to do with IO and CPU. Take for example I run multiple "Threads" to run multiple queries against an SQL Server all at the same time as to not take forever running them one after another. This is also done as to not block Tkinters mainloop as Tkinter is a single threaded library. At this point I feel like everything in python is single threaded...
So when bringing up this question I was told that Each thread can only occupy the CPU at once and the SQL server is handling the load. I understand that to a point but if this is the case then how is it that Tkinters mainloop is not blocked if the CPU can only work on one thread at a time then any time my other threads are doing stuff the mainloop should be blocked by this logic.
I know that cannot be true as the mainloop is running just fine and my GUI is not frozen so something else I am not understanding must be going on.
So my question is this:
How is this threading not blocking the tkinter mainloop if it is not parallel processing?
How exactly does Python "Thread" and what is the difference between IO and CPU in terms of threading?
This post has some information on my 2nd question. Still not what I want to know about the mainloop though.


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Of crime, confidence and reality television
February 10, 2014 February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff
Bulgaria's Interior Ministry mounted a well-publicised "special operation" against crime in villages on February 10, a few hours before the government was to face a no-confidence debate in Parliament on security sector issues.
But Interior Ministry chief secretary Svetlozar Lazarov insisted in a breakfast television interview that the timing of the special operation and the holding of the debate were not linked.
The ministry telegraphed its intentions well in advance, with an announcement on February 9 about the special operation. A note on the ministry's website invited the media to cover the start of the operation.
On February 10, most major television stations had reporters on the spot in various villages, interviewing villagers and broadcasting pictures of police and their vehicles. One Bulgarian-language website sceptically described the spectacle as "reality television".
Lazarov said that the operation had been planned "since the autumn".
It came against a background of a series of media reports on television over the past year about villages where residents' houses are vulnerable to burglaries and vandalism because of a lack of local police. There have been reports of villagers hiring private security firms for patrols.
Lazarov, in a morning interview with public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television, promised that the first results of the operation would be seen "within hours".
Large numbers of police and vehicles were deployed. Earlier unconfirmed Bulgarian-language media reports said that some of them had been redeployed from border duty to which they had been posted in late 2013 to contain the influx of refugees entering Bulgaria illegally across the Turkish border.
Speaking to BNT, Lazarov rejected claims that crime had worsened because large numbers of police were posted in capital city Sofia in response to the eight months of anti-government protests.
The motion of no confidence, the third tabled against the current Bulgarian Socialist Party government, was based on reasons wider than conventional crime.
Tabling the motion on February 6, centre-right opposition party GERB, formerly the ruling party from 2009 to early 2013, based it on what it called the high crime rate, the government's failure to cope with the refugee issue and on smuggling.
The motion had no chance of success, given that ahead of the debate, the three other parties in the 42nd National Assembly – the BSP, Movement for Rights and Freedoms and ultra-nationalists Ataka – all said that they would vote against it.
Moving the motion, GERB MP Vesselin Vuchkov said that it was intended to force the government to correct its conduct in the field of security and public order.
He criticised the current government on a range of counts, including the abortive appointment of media mogul and MRF MP Delyan Peevski as head of the State Agency for National Security, a move that resulted in mass protests by an indignant public, as well as rewrites by the current government of security sector laws that shifted power, especially over key appointments, into the hands of the parliamentary majority in an absence of preliminary public debates.
The government also came under fire for its handling of the refugee situation and other issues such as covert surveillance.
In a lengthy address, Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev defended the government's record on control of phone-tapping, refugees and other issues, using his speech to seek to deflect criticism back on the GERB government and its record in office.
Yovchev dwelt on the handling of the situation immediately after the July 2012 terrorist attack at Bourgas Airport, in which a suicide bomber and accomplices – later announced after an international investigation led by Bulgaria to be linked to the military wing of Hezbollah – killed Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver.
According to Yovchev, hours after the bomb explosion at Bourgas Airport, the site of the blast and the surrounding area had not been secured, there was "no communication" among institutions, and the entire cabinet of the time had arrived at the scene, "so that even the minister of finance was there, to step on clues".
"It was public relations that was important, not human security. I was ashamed of my country at this time," Yovchev said.
Seeking to defend the government's handling of the refugee issue, he acknowledged that this had "caught the state and the system unprepared" but the government had drastically reduced the number of illegal migrants, drastically increased the number of those deported and had increased the capacity of the State Agency for Refugees, according to Yovchev.
As debate was heading for a close with a speech by GERB deputy leader and former interior minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, MPs from the BSP, MRF and ultra-nationalists Ataka walked out in unison from the House, leaving Tsvetanov addressing only his party colleagues and the sole non-GERB MP left, the Deputy Speaker from the MRF who was presiding.
After Tsvetanov finished speaking, the GERB caucus held up signs directed at the ruling axis, with chants of "resign!". The close of Tsvetanov's speech was followed by the MPs from the parties of the ruling axis return to the hall.
(Photo: Interior Ministry press centre)
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Title: Approving the plat of Atriums East at Soho West, an addition in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; accepting various easements and a certain agreement; and authorizing the City Clerk to file this ordinance and attached agreement.
Section 1. That the plat of Atriums East at Soho West, a subdivision in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, a true and correct copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference is hereby approved.
Section 3. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to accept a Subordination of Deed of Trust, to be in a form substantially as that attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by reference.
Section 4. That the City Clerk is hereby directed to file copies of this ordinance, together with the Subordination of Deed of Trust, in the Office of the Secretary of State of Missouri and in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jackson County, Missouri together with all other relevant documents.


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For Open Access week we're examining the role of the library in improving the impact and visibility of an institution's research output. Guest blogger, Kimberly Chapman, Director of Campus Repository Services at the University of Arizona, discusses faculty relationships and their value in growing an institution's repository.
The UA Campus Repository, the institutional repository for The University of Arizona (UA), celebrates its fifth year this month, having grown from a small starter collection of approximately 9,000 electronic theses and dissertations to a community of more than 49,000 items and multiple collections today.
The repository disseminates, showcases and preserves UA scholarship, including: open access copies of published articles and books; unpublished materials such as supplementary research data; undergraduate and graduate theses/dissertations; peer-reviewed journals; magazines and newsletters; conference proceedings; technical and research reports; bulletins; datasets; photos; presentations, and historical documents.
While I'm often asked "What's in your repository?" I think the more interesting question is "Who is your repository?" Collaborating with our campus customers has been key to developing interest and promoting the repository across campus.
The repository is as much about building community as it is about building collections. Faculty, staff and departments partner with the library in developing collections and adding content that they wish to share, archive and preserve. Faculty that we collaborate with commit to making materials available open access and have a vested interest in the success of the repository.
Who is the UA Campus Repository?
The repository is our College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; the Honors College; the Graduate College; the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research; the College of Medicine; the Water Resources Research Center; Mexican American Studies; Linguistics faculty; and other departments, groups and individuals in our campus community.
The repository is as much about building community as it is about building collections.
The repository makes content available in a central location and ensures access and preservation. Its value lies in the content being readily discoverable by search engines and other access points, as compared to individual websites which have limited search capability and are not optimized for discoverability.
The delivery of statistical information on views and downloads is important to our campus collection managers. The integration with Altmetric and ORCID are timely and useful Open Repository enhancements that add value for authors as the Library builds out open access manuscript deposit, in collaboration with faculty, to support compliance with funder requirements.
The collaboration between faculty and the library has been essential to the growth of the repository, and we're looking forward to the future developments with the UA Campus Repository.
Kimberly graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Master's degree in Library and Information Science. As part of the Office of Digital Innovation & Stewardship at the University of Arizona Libraries, Kimberly leads institutional repository services and is involved with scholarly communications and open access initiatives.


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Our Biggest Pregnancy Challenge
An Excerpt from Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
Pregnancy is a time when common sense all too often flies out the window, chased by a culture that is out of balance concerning birth. Nowhere is a woman's connection or loss of connection to her inner guidance more evident than during pregnancy. Suddenly, her body is no longer her own. Her entire extended family feels that it is pregnant, and all of them give her advice about what to eat, what to wear, and what to do. I was amazed by how total strangers would approach me when I was pregnant, pat my belly, and offer suggestions. Friends seem to think it their duty to tell pregnant women the worst stories they can think of about cesarean sections, labor pain, and poor outcomes. (This is another example of our dominator culture — glorifying pain and destruction over the life-enhancing qualities potentially available through pregnancy and birth.)
I felt blessed to be an obstetrician because I was spared hearing all these horror stories. (Perhaps people figured that I had been "socialized" by having already learned these horrible stories firsthand!) War stories about the rigors of birth are often passed down from generation to generation. Mothers not uncommonly tell their daughters that "now you'll see how I suffered with you."
At some very deep level, we are all awed by pregnant women and their power. But instead of emphasizing a woman's awe-inspiring birth power, in classic patriarchal reversal our culture attends to the fear that that power brings up. Pregnant women are emotionally more porous and more in touch with their intuition than usual, and they are therefore more vulnerable. They pick up on all the collective societal fear of them.
Media images of pregnant women suddenly falling to the ground during pregnancy and shrieking things like, "Oh, John, the baby!" reinforce in our psyches the notion that pregnancy is a time of great danger and unpredictability instead of a normal process. They reinforce the misconception that pregnancy, like our female body, is a disaster waiting to happen. In every hospital I've ever worked in, pregnant women who come into the emergency room are rushed to the labor and delivery floor as quickly as possible, even if they've come in for some other problem. In Boston, the ER crew once sent up a woman in mid-pregnancy who had a broken leg!
This emergency mindset is especially damaging to women who are having babies in their thirties or forties. Most, if not all, pregnant women over the age of thirty are taught by our culture that they are much more at risk for complications than if they were in their twenties. This perception of increased risk is not necessarily true and depends on the individual woman's health. I remember the first pregnant woman I ever met who was over thirty. It was in the prenatal clinic at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital during my second year of medical school, and I thought that she was very unusual and very brave to be having her first baby at such an advanced age—age thirty-two. Looking back, I realize that this woman was at the very beginning of a trend that began in the 1970s and has continued unabated through the present—delaying childbearing until later. (As an evolutionary side note, my now twenty-something daughters both feel that marrying much before the age of thirty is awfully young.)
Women having their first babies after the age of thirty-five were once referred to as "elderly primigravidas." Happily, that term has been dropped. Though the term "geriatric" obstetrics is still used occasionally, it should be eliminated, as it sets up all kinds of negativity. Whether or not a woman is more at risk in her thirties must be completely individualized. A forty-year-old in excellent health who has a planned pregnancy is apt to do much better than a twenty-five-year-old who smokes two packs and quaffs a gallon of Diet Coke per day. Too often the medical profession "hexes" women who become pregnant in their thirties and forties by lumping them into statistically high-risk categories that are not necessarily applicable.
Older women who are pregnant, as well as infertility patients who become pregnant, have a much higher risk of a C-section. In some places, a woman older than forty will be told that she is very apt to have a cesarean because hers is a "premium pregnancy" (as opposed to a pregnancy in the mother's twenties, whose success doesn't "matter" as much because "you can always have another—you have time"). Premium pregnancy means that because the mother is presumed to be or is more anxious (or is made to be anxious by her culture and her doctor), we should treat her differently. This is a reflection of the health care team's own unfinished emotional work. And this is the thinking that has led to our current all-time high rate of cesarean birth—which is now about 33 percent, Goldin1 despite the fact that the World Health Organization says that a 5- to 10-percent rate is optimal and that recent research shows that anything over 15 percent does more harm than good. Chamberlain2
The rate of births by C-section keeps going up every year, and over the past decade, it's increased by more than 50 percent. Way back in 1965, for example, the rate was only 4.5 percent! China3 At least in part, these sky-high rates may be linked to doctors' fears of being sued. In 2003, more than three quarters of all American obstetricians were sued at least once, with a median award of $2.3 million for medical negligence in childbirth. As a result, many doctors are more likely to opt for performing a C-section at the first sign of a complication. Rosenberg4 Even so, C-sections are far from benign procedures and our collective trust in them is mind-boggling!
In fact, age doesn't predict anything when it comes to labor and birth. Chronological age (age in years) and biological age (age of one's tissues) aren't necessarily related. One of my friends had her first baby at forty-one. The first stage of her labor lasted only three hours—very short by any standard. And if her hips hadn't been so narrow, she'd have delivered in a total of four hours. Healthy women who are well supported in labor usually do beautifully, regardless of age.
One of the nicest things about women having their first babies in their late thirties and early forties is that by then, these women have established themselves in the outside world of work and career. When they do have babies, they take the time to enjoy them. They already know what it's like "out there." They realize the limitations of the corporate world and are willing to put aside its "benefits" to reassess their lives through the lens of parenting. Many have had time to get in touch with their bodies over the years and are more comfortable with themselves than they were in their twenties. In my mind, such women are actually low risk.
Excerpted with permission, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, by Christiane Northrup, M.D., Bantam, revised 2010.
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Christiane Northrup, M.D., Bantam, revised 2010.
Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, "The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions," Journal of Political Economy, vol. 110, no. 4 (August 2002), pp. 730-70; available online.
David Chamberlain, The Mind of Your Newborn Baby (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1998); see also www.birthpsychology.com.
I met a woman OB/GYN physician from China who told me she had performed twenty thousand abortions in her career. In China, only one child per couple is allowed—sometimes not even one. Abortion is commonly used for birth control. If a couple has more than one child, the parents may lose a job or be subject to other sanctions. As a result, Chinese couples now selectively abort female fetuses, and now an entire generation of young men do not have enough women their age for wives—a fact that, although tragic, seems a cruel kind of justice.
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
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Visual artists have long been interested in the stage as an arena for experimentation, and their interdisciplinary collaborations have immeasurably enriched the history of modern art. Stage Pictures presents a selection of designs for dance, theater, and opera from MoMA's drawings collection. The exhibition highlights set and costume studies, as well as more abstract suggestions of light and mood, spanning a century of visual experimentation on the stage—from the total theaters of the Ballets Russes and the Bauhaus, to Lincoln Kirstein's formation of an American ballet company, to Pop performances and contemporary epic opera. These works demonstrate how artists have used drawing strategies to, as one critic put it, "anticipate an event": interpreting texts to create dramatic mises-en-scène, imagining bodies in space and motion, and manipulating illumination and shadow. Featured artists include Fernand Léger, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera, and Jim Dine.
Organized by Jodi Hauptman, Curator, Department of Drawings.


Guy walking around claiming he's the camp host. This place is self pay and some rude dude almost got pepper sprayed and rock salt in his a**!! Never have I had someone come into my site to make sure I've paid. And I never do pay right away unless the site is FULL (I was the only one there) and until I've SAFELY and successfully had an overnight stay because of idiots like him is why I don't pay right away. I am aware people probably get away without paying the $10, but the refund process is a nightmare if you choose to not stay. I travel alone and highly armed and this creep walked up to my bubble and tried to take my money!


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Rapid Prototyping | Imagine Ave.
Having a lot of success with the Marvel rapid prototype tool for usability testing.
I create screenshots, link them together and test my assumptions on Usertesting.com very quickly. These prototypes can be viewed on iOS or Android phones and tablets and they allow a launch icon to be created to make it feel like the user is testing a real app. Love it!


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Q: How many friends do you have? Doing exercises to improve my English and this is the following question:

*How many friends do you have?

  A - Just a little
B - A few
C - Much
D - Lot

The exercise doesn't have any other especification about, so I presume that wants me to mark the most correct option.
I'm thinking about marking A. Letter D doesn't look like correct, nor C, and letter B appears to be missing the rest of context in this sentence. Am I right about going with A?

A: The correct answer is B, because "friends" is a countable quantity. "Just a little" and "much" can only be used with non-countable quantities. For example:

How much soup do you have left over?
Just a little.

However, some quantity nouns in some contexts require the indefinite article, which is why D is wrong. "A lot" can be used for both countable and non-countable quantities:

I have a lot of friends.
I have a lot of soup.

But can't be used without the indefinite article:

"How many friends do you have?"
"Lot."

is not grammatical English. "Few" has different implications depending on whether you use the indefinite article, but here it's required. "Few" alone would be wrong. So in short, B is the only correct response.

A: English has two types of nouns, countable nouns (also called "count nouns") and mass nouns (also called "non-count" or "uncountable").
(Many mass nouns can also be used as countable nouns in certain cases.)
Countable nouns take the determiners "many" and "few".
Mass nouns take the deerminers "much" and "(a) little".
"A lot of" works with both types.  So does "some".
Countable nouns can be singular or plural - for example, "boy", "girl", "man", "woman", "computer", "book", "horse".
Mass nouns are always grammatically singular - for example, "mud", "dirt", "honour", "grace", "dignity", "joy".  They don't form plurals.
With a countable noun, a question such as "How many men are present?" could lead to an answer such as "many", "a lot", "a few", "not many".
With a mass noun, a question such as "How much aluminium will we need?" could lead to an answer such as "a lot" or "a little" or "not much".  ("Much" is a less likely response because "much" is a polarity word that occurs primarily in either negative or interrogative phrases - though there are some idiomatic exceptions.)
The form of the question also tells you the possible responses.  If the question asks "How many" then it must be asking about a countable noun, and if it asks "How much" then it must be asking about a mass noun.
Countable nouns can be counted - so "how many" can lead to a response such as "one" or "four".
Mass nouns can only be measured, so "how much" can lead to a response such as "ten metres", "ten litres", "a handful" or "a spoonful".


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Home > NewsInferno > Impotence, Erectile Dysfunction, Low Sex Drive, Other Propecia Side Effects May be Long-Lasting
Impotence, Erectile Dysfunction, Low Sex Drive, Other Propecia Side Effects May be Long-Lasting
It's becoming increasingly clear that men who use Propecia run the risk of developing severe sexual side effects, including impotence, erectile dysfunction, lower sex drive, infertility, testicular pain and genital shrinkage. Unfortunately for many men, recent research indicates that Propecia sexual side effects often continue long after they stop taking the baldness drug.
Propecia belongs to a class of drugs known as 5-alpha reductase inhibitors, or 5-ARIs. The active ingredient in Propecia can interfere with male hormones, including testosterone derivatives. According to a report from the Brisbane Times, a study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine in July found that the majority of men who report Propecia sexual side effects continued experiencing problems for at least three months after they discontinued the medication. The most common problems reported included:
Low libido (94 percent)
Erectile dysfunction (92 percent)
Decreased arousal (92 percent)
Problems with orgasm (69 percent)
These Propecia sexual side effects can take a tremendous toll on the people who suffer them A second study authored by the same researcher and published in August found nearly 44 percent of 61 young, healthy Propecia patients reported suicidal thoughts, while 36 percent had symptoms of severe depression.
Dr. Michael Irwig, the author of both studies, published a previous study in 2011 which also found that men using finasteride may develop an ongoing loss of libido and orgasm, even after they go off the medication. The average duration of persistent sexual side effects was 40 months after they stopped taking finasteride. In about 20 percent of the cases, men reported suffering these side effects more than six years after stopping finasteride.
In April, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) ordered new warnings for the Propecia and Proscar labels detailing possible long-lasting male sexual side effects associated with the drug. Until the FDA ordered the April label change, warnings provided to U.S. users of the drug suggested that these problems typically resolve. As we reported previously, Merck changed the Propecia label in Europe several years ago to warn that the drug could lead to permanent erectile dysfunction.
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Ever since we first laid eyes on the Alfa Romeo 4C, we've been thinking that the top just needs to come down. The ultralight two-seater looks made to drive with the air rushing through your hair, and a convertible version is finally on the way. Alfa Romeo revealed the 4C Spider last week at the Geneva Motor Show.
While it's called a "Design Preview," this appears to be nothing more than a technicality because this car looks like it's ready to roll into dealerships as is. Alfa says that it will begin Spider production early next year.
In order to give the 4C the proper roof shaving it's long deserved, Alfa strengthened the structure of the car to meet convertible regulations. As usual, this process added weight, but the Italian automaker was able to keep that addition to around 132 lb (60 kg) thanks to the use of carbon fiber roll bars, spoilers and windshield surround. The elimination of the rear windshield and the soft canvas top also helped. The convertible maintains the 40:60 front-rear weight distribution of the coupé.
Taking the extra 132 lbs into account, the Spider should weigh in just north of 2,100 lb (955 kg), giving it performance "all but identical" to the 4C coupé's 4.5-second 0-62 mph (100 km/h) and 160 mph (258 km/h) top speed. Those numbers come by way of the same 1.8-liter turbo four-cylinder driving the rear wheels through Alfa's six-speed dual clutch TCT transmission.
Simply prying the top off the 4C would have been more than plenty, but Alfa also gave the Spider a few evolutionary updates. The Design Preview shows a new set of carbon fiber clamshell headlamps, along with new aluminum alloy wheels wrapped up tightly in bespoke Pirelli tires. We definitely prefer the simpler look of the new headlamps versus the multi-light bug eyes on the coupé, pictured below.
Underneath its sensuous curves, the 4C Spider packs a new dual-stage central exhaust system from Akrapovic, a motorcycle and sports car exhaust specialist. The system offers enhanced performance and revised exhaust note at the push of a button.
One of Alfa's selling points for the Spider version is opening up a better view of the interior to the outside world. As seen in Geneva, the cabin included an elegant contrast between rich leather and the underlying carbon fiber monocoque, which peeks through in places like the door sills, center console and rear bulkhead.
We would have preferred to see the debut 4C Spider dressed in one of the luscious reds that the hard-top has worn in the past and present, but Alfa explains that it chose three-layer gloss white because it believes the color emphasizes the car's shapes and surfaces particularly well. Still, please make it red next time, Alfa.


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Chetia mola е вид бодлоперка от семейство Цихлиди (Cichlidae). Видът е застрашен от изчезване.

Разпространение и местообитание
Разпространен е в Замбия.

Обитава сладководни басейни, реки и потоци.

Описание
На дължина достигат до 13,3 cm.

Източници

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This will NEVER happen again in our lifetime.
neither will 03:04:05 06/07/08 lol - EDIT someone already posted.
01:02:03 04/05/06 is a hell of a lot better.
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At 6:40am (7th hour) on 07/07/07 on Saturday, the 7th day of the week, it will be my birthday!!
So much for the once in a liftime theory!!
Does nobody even *read* threads anymore? I already covered this.
Time is a man-made concept and man gets enthralled with the silliest things. My $.02.
I never understood the excitement behind this. Time is completely made up. What would happen if we'd had a 10 hour clock and not a 12 hour clock? What if we used weeks instead of months? Who decided that there should be 7 days to a week? What if we hadn't switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian? What if you're Jewish or Chinese and you're living by an entirely different calendar? What if all the people who follow the calendar die out, like the Mayans? How did they know about these things before the concept of time?
woooowwwww, total blonde moment...BED TIME!
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