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Le Poisson-ange nain à deux bandes (Centropyge bicolor) est un poisson de l'océan Pacifique équatorial. On le trouve couramment en Nouvelle-Guinée et sur la grande barrière de corail.

Description
Il mesure entre 10 et  avec une forme quasi rectangulaire. Son patron de coloration comporte 2 teintes : le jaune vif et le bleu roi. La queue, les nageoires pelviennes et l'avant du poisson sont jaune ; la partie arrière du corps est bleue y compris la nageoire anale. Un bandeau bleu descend du haut du front vers l'œil ; le haut de la nageoire caudale est teintée de jaune. Comme de nombreux Pomancathidés, Centropyge bicolor possède une épine blanche non venimeuse à la base de son opercule. La tempe est matérialisée par un point orange. Les juvéniles sont de la même coloration que les adultes. La bouche est munie de lèvres plutôt grosses.

Cette espèce peut vivre plus de .

Biotope
Centropyge bicolor vit dans les lagons et pentes coralliennes entre la surface et  de profondeur.

Comportement
Centropyge bicolor vit en harem constitué d'un mâle dominant, de 1 à 4 femelles matures et de 0 à 9 femelles immatures. Il a un caractère relativement territorial et agressif envers ses congénères, mais reste pacifique envers les autres espèces. C'est un poisson farouche qui ne s'éloigne jamais de sa cachette.

Alimentation
Cette espèce est principalement alguivore, mais se nourrit également de petites proies diverses (vers et crustacés).

Aquariophilie
De par sa taille moyenne et ses couleurs vives, Centropyge bicolor est très apprécié par les aquariophiles : il s'adapte bien à la vie en aquarium pour peu qu'on puisse lui fournir un aquarium assez vaste. Compter un bac de  pour un individu dans un aquarium communautaire. Un volume très supérieur sera nécessaire pour en maintenir plusieurs exemplaires ( pour 2). Ce poisson est plutôt résistant et va passer son temps à picorer le décor. Il restera un poisson farouche mais très actif en journée. Il peut s'avérer agressif envers les nouveaux arrivants. Il est capable d'infliger des morsures et des blessures avec son épine.

Il accepte facilement la nourriture congelée ou lyophilisée. Il faut bien le nourrir avec un complément végétal obligatoirement. Selon certains récifalistes, Centropyge bicolor a tendance à picorer les polypes des coraux maintenus avec lui, cette tendance semble varier selon les spécimens. Il est fortement recommandé de bien l'alimenter avec une nourriture très variée pour qu'il dispose de tous les nutriments dont il a besoin pour prospérer.

Il peut être maintenu avec d'autres Centropyge aux patrons de couleurs différents : Centropyge bicolor ignorera la plupart du temps les autres espèces.

Bien que de nombreux Centropyge bicolor sauvages soient pêchés à destination du commerce aquariophile, des Centropyge bicolor d'élevage sont régulièrement proposés à la vente : le prix d'un poisson élevé en captivité est souvent 2 à 3 fois celui d'un spécimen sauvage.
De nombreux aquariophiles sont de plus en plus sensibles à acquérir des poissons issus de l'élevage pour diminuer le prélèvement naturel : bien que plus chers, les poissons élevés en captivité s'alimentent en général plus facilement avec les nourritures en granulés ou en flocons, et sont moins enclins aux maladies et aux parasites.

Reproduction
Ces poissons sont des hermaphrodites protogynes : ils sont d'abord des femelles puis se transforment en mâles. Il n'est pas possible de distinguer physiquement le mâle et la femelle.

Des pontes ont déjà été observées en aquarium, il semble néanmoins que l'élevage des larves soient difficiles pour l'aquariophile amateur en raison de la petite taille de la bouche de l'alevin. Centropyge bicolor est sexuellement mature quand il atteint une t'aille d'environ .

Comme de nombreux Centropyge, une parade entre le mâle et la femelle a lieu au crépuscule où sont libérés et fécondés les œufs en pleine eau.

Notes et références

Liens externes

 https://www.masterfisch.fr/meerwasser-kaiserfische/59864-centropyge-bicolor-elevage.html

Perciformes (nom scientifique)
Pomacanthidae

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In February this year, reports of government departments paying high-profile people through personal service companies were everywhere, writes Chris Leslie, formerly in charge of tax investigations at HMRC and the founder of specialist advisory Tax Networks Ltd.
The Treasury has since investigated how many other people who work for government departments were employing similar techniques to lower their tax bills.
HMRC's ethical rhetoric about disguised employment is apparently hypocritical and now being exposed.
Recently, we have seen IR35 sticking plasters in relation to categorising people in controlling positions and even HMRC suggesting some pretty much absurd business tests.
Probably due to political pressure, HMRC IR35 enquiries have now been sent out. It is sensibly assumed that this new campaign is not restricted to high-profile people.
IR35 is about assessing the employment status characteristics of hypothetical contractual arrangements between the worker and end-client by striking out the personal service company acting as the contracted intermediary.
Those challenged by the latest batch of IR35 enquiries will recall one-time 'face' of the Revenue Moira Stuart's 2008 slogan that "tax doesn't have to be taxing". Nothing is further from the truth. Ironically, Moira Stuart was reported in February 2012 as being paid by HMRC through a personal service company arrangement.
However, when considering a recent Upper Tribunal decision whereby ITV's NICs appeal was quashed because entertainers where deemed as employees, tax is taxing.
So why does the tax and NICs treatment differ? The simple answer is revealed in the history of NICs regulations.
Generally, where Class 1 NICs are paid, the employee who has paid those contributions may be entitled to a wider range of state welfare benefits, such as Jobseekers Allowance, which are not available to self-employed people paying other classes of NICs (- a fact that much of the anti-limited company press coverage seems to omit).
Most performers/artistes in the entertainment sector are engaged under contracts for services and would generally be assessable to tax as self-employed (under Schedule D). However, it was acknowledged that to follow this line for NIC purposes would mean that the majority of entertainers who had previously paid Class 1 NICs would only be liable for Class 2 and Class 4 NICs, which would not entitle them to welfare benefits.
The NICs treatment of individuals who are entertainers is different from that which applies for tax. This is amplified in the case of ITV Services Ltd v HMRC (FTC/12/2011 ); the Upper Tribunal decision was released February 7th 2012. This was just at the time of the breaking news about Moira Stuart.
In essence the payments by ITV to actors were computed in various ways under various types of contract were deemed as "salary" as defined in the NICs legislation.
HMRC had determined that certain entertainers engaged by ITV should have been treated as being in employed earner's employment for NICs purposes, and that ITV is to be treated as liable to pay secondary Class 1 NICs in respect of the payments it makes to those entertainers.
The NICs "Categories of earners" legislation deems many different 'classifications' that may otherwise be self-employed for tax purposes. When considering the characterisation of payments, from the outset of the contract, ITV entertainers were considered to be caught by this NICs legislation.
Now what if they had had their own personal service companies, and the arrangements were not caught by IR35? It's difficult to provide a straightforward answer other than to conclude that the legislation appears to be contradictory and absurd.
Similarly, and in the Stuart case, if Moira was personally engaged by ITV they would have to pay employment NICs. Though when engaged by HMRC though her personal service company, HMRC doesn't have to pay employment NICs. So what if Moira got an IR35 enquiry, what would HMRC do; argue that she was not self-employed?!


Vacations get delayed because savings accounts are slim or you end up toiling away at jobs you hate just to get by and eventually quit to follow your passion.
For Jami Krause, that day came sooner than she expected.
At 28, she dumped her boyfriend, turned her back on her job at the American Bar Association and decided it was time to start living out her dream to travel the country—by bike.
But with mounds of student loans and a seriously strained piggy bank, she knew she had to come up with a plan to fund her adventure along the way.
"I decided that even though I had debt that I should still do it," Krause said. "I was ready to take a leap because being cautious wasn't going to get me what I wanted."
So she took her passion for ballooning— that is, the art of making just about anything out of multi-colored tubes of elastic — and decided it was her ticket to freedom.
Several months into her journey, she's pedaled 1,000 miles over more than a dozen states and managed to stay afloat by earning cash from balloon gigs, relying on the kindness of strangers, and a whole lot of budgeting.
Krause carries everything she needs in a pair of panniers on her vivid yellow touring bike and a basket. That's it.
To pare her belongings down to the bare minimum, she sold off all her furniture on Craig's List, gave away some things that wouldn't sell and sublet her apartment to a friend.
"I went on a selling frenzy," she says. "There was stuff I wanted to keep so I set it aside in storage, but I donated a lot to charity."
Luckily, ballooning is a pretty cheap hobby to pick up.
Krause can find bags of 100 balloons for less than $6 from distributors.
But since she can only carry so much on her bike, she purchased tons of balloons back home and left them with friend, who periodically ships them to wherever she is on the road.
Traveling the country by bike sounds romantic but the reality can be a little disappointing—especially when you're confronted with endless miles of "suburban sprawl."
As a backup plan, Krause takes commuter trains when roads become unsafe for her to cycle, she says. Tickets cost around $10 and it's pretty easy to load her bike on and off.
"Sometimes it can be an entire day's journey for me that I'm cutting out, so it's not a huge expenditure," she says.
To track her cash flow, Krause uses the Chase banking app on her iPhone.
She can easily deposit checks earned for balloon gigs, make transfers and manage her student loan payments on the road.
Krause set up a website before hitting the road so her fans and family could track her trip along the way.
It's also a great way to show her talents off to potential sponsors and score work.
"I've made about $1,200 so far but I could have been a lot more aggressive," she says. "I'm investing my money now and will try to get more sponsors later when my portfolio is stronger."
Just in case she falls ill or injures herself, Krause pays for a $100/month high-deductible health insurance plan.
She spends most of her budget for emergencies on bike repairs and maintenance along the way, which has set her back about $250 so far, she says.
That's chump change compared to the price of gas these days.
Nearly every morning before she hits the road, Krause throws together a quick balloon "outfit" for her helmet.
It's a huge conversation starter and often leads to offers for free lodging and, more often than not, free beers.
Most of the time, Krause manages to wash her clothing at hosts' homes or at laundromats. But she's had to wash her clothes by hand a number of times on the road, she says.
"I've helped out with folding in return for getting laundry done at a hostel," she says. "But sometimes I have to rinse my bike shorts myself since I only have two pairs."
There's a huge subculture of balloon artists out there and Krause isn't afraid to tap total strangers for advice on where to score ballooning gigs or tips on where to busk.
"Most of the money I've made has been from networking with other artists," she says. "I use BalloonHQ to find artists in whatever town I'm traveling to and see if they're available for coffee."
Krause will set up shop at parks or anywhere busking is legal. She often attracts small crowds that multiply over time and her customers always leave happy.
She can create whatever they dream up—from vampire fanged giraffes (no, really) to mutant reptiles.
"When I was in Hampton, Mass., I went to a Chalk Day festival and twisted balloons for, like, two hours," she said. "I had a line of kids the entire time. I made $150, which was pretty awesome."
Krause scored a job helping a New York ballooner construct a 20-foot long float for the Pulaski day parade in September. She made $750 and spent three days having a blast on the project.
"That was really a boon," she says. "[The parade] was pretty hilarious and the job also helped me feel more comfortable about spending more money."
Sometimes Krause scores freebies for her balloon work and often trades them for a drink or even a meal.
"One time a hotel owner gave me a 10% discount for making balloons for his kids," she says.
And as a 'Thank You' to generous lodging hosts, Krause often whips out her bag of balloons and goes to town.
"It makes me feel like less of a free-loader," she says. "I like making things for people. It makes me feel better using balloons to sort of pay for lodging."
On a recent stint in Brunswick, Ga., Krause seized the opportunity to check out her liberal hostel's clothing-optional lake.
"I went skinny dipping for the first time!" she says. "It was totally a hippy place."
When one of her earbuds was damaged, Krause saved $25 on buying a new pair by fixing it up with the supplies she had on hand—in this case, her balloons.
She's used the foot-long strands of elastic as head bands and for easy repairs on her bike as well.
Other times, she lucks out and scores free meals at hostels or with her hosts.
"I try to pick up breads that won't get crushed too easily on my bike," she says. "I'll make sandwiches and end up stopping at a lot of gas stations throughout the day."
Krause carries a tent and sleeping bag on her at all times and camps out a lot on the road to cuts costs.
"I stayed in a horse stall at a county fair once in Ohio," she says, but typically she'll camp out behind churches or anywhere it's free and legal.
"I only pay when I have other people to camp with," she says. "I shared a campsite with a couple in North Carolina and it cost, like, $10-$15 once it was split."
After randomly striking up a conversation with an Amish farmer, Krause was offered dinner and a place to sleep on his family's farm in Pennsylvania.
"I don't have any photos but just picture three adorable little Amish children with balloon animals," she says. "I made one a cow, one a dog and one a chicken."
Krause came across a pretty unusual hostel in Brunswick, Ga. For $25 a night, she got to sleep in her very own tree house in the forest.
"It was like a Tolkien novel," she said. "You wake up and you're looking right into the forest. They're like little huts scattered throughout the forest."
Krause often uses cycling-oriented sites like Warm Showers, which connects her to hosts that open their homes (and bathrooms) to touring cyclists like herself.
After riding 50 miles on a daily basis, a warm shower is all she really needs.
"Sometimes people offer accommodations inside or let you pitch your tent in the backyard," she said. "But usually they give you a meal and that's been helpful cutting down food costs."


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Convicted Rapist, Faking Daibetes, Trapped Girls by Begging for Sugar, Police Say
A convicted rapist preyed on the kindness of underage girls by tricking them into believing that he suffered from diabetes and desperately needed sugar, and then sexually assaulting them in their Moscow apartments, police said Thursday.
A suspect in the hoax, 47-year-old Stanislav Titov, has been arrested and is accused of attacking at least two 15-year-old girls on Dec. 17 and 24 in southeastern Moscow.
"The suspect developed a criminal scheme: He would follow a girl into her apartment building entryway and tell her that he is a diabetic in urgent need of sugar," an unidentified investigator told Interfax. "After the girl let him into her apartment, he would make sure that there were no adults present and commit his crime."
Titov faces charges of sexually assaulting a minor, which carry a prison sentence of eight to 15 years.
The suspect was released from prison on Sept. 18 after serving time for a similar crime, Interfax said.

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December 11, 2019 / 4:24 AM / a month ago
Bougainville overwhelmingly votes for independence from Papua New Guinea
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The South Pacific islands of Bougainville have overwhelmingly voted to be independent from Papua New Guinea, the referendum commission said on Wednesday, in a historic poll that will trigger separation negotiations between the two governments.
Almost 98% of the 181,067 votes cast backed independence in the non-binding poll that is part of a peace pact struck in the aftermath of a decade-long war between Bougainville's rebel fighters and PNG forces, which ended in 1998.
The referendum gave voters in the island cluster a choice between independence and greater autonomy.
Reporting by Jonathan Barrett in Sydney; Editin by Shri Navaratnam


Beyond their newfound emancipation and opportunities for self-discovery, college students in the young adult stage of development are expected to achieve balance between their autonomous new world and the impending pressures of postgraduation life. The college student must not only reconcile issues related to identity formation, goal pursuits, and career exploration, but is expected to begin the process of identifying and developing the skills required to address salient social themes. How students establish competency beliefs, negotiate controllability over future outcomes, and appraise challenges have deep implications in their capacity to discover their social change "voice." The following discussion proposes a triadic framework that highlights the inextricable connections between self-efficacy, attribution, and appraisal as they relate to the capacity of college students to effect social change. As future leaders, role models, and visionaries preparing to transition into an increasingly complex world, an exigent need exists to create opportunities for (a) enhancing the self-efficacy beliefs that underpin the capacity to transform perceptions, (b) formulating attributions that foster perceived controllability over objectives, and (c) promoting appraisals that induce the motivation to approach challenges. Perspectives discussed in this paper have implications for students, parents, educators, and administrators to consider best practices for cultivating self-efficacy, attribution, and appraisal abilities that will facilitate future social change agency long after the college years.


Right. So, after we had the old kitchen taken down and finished the new walls we could start assembling the new kitchen! I bought the cabinets and doors from Ikea – I've been happy with my previous Ikea-kitchens, they look nice and are very good value for money.
That nook that extends from the wall outwards was a challenge: it's only 172 cm high. It had the fridge-freezer combi and that fit nicely, so I decided to stick with that. Another challenging point was that the lower cabinets needed to be extended from the wall about 8 cm in order to fit the plumbing there: my counter needed to be at least 70 cm deep. The normal depth is 62 cm, but a lot of places sell 80 cm deep counters for islands and such. The only problem was length – my counter is 3,20 m long. Apparently you can buy countertop materials in 62 cm for up to 400 cm long sheets, but the 80 cm deep sheets tend to extend to maximum 300 cm.
Since there was going to be a seam anyway (there was no way I was gonna shell out the cash for a MTM Corian counter!), I figured I could try something out. Plywood is relatively cheap and looks awesome, and it has held up nice with the Osmo wax in the table I made a couple of years ago. So I got a couple of sheets of the thickest birch plywood and we cut them to form on site.
Plywood can be tricky to saw, mmkay. Any sawblade needs to be very sharp, and at least for circular saws there's special plywood blades with a lot of small teeth. If you use an electrical jigsaw, like we did on the cutouts for the sink and the stove top, don't use any forward motion in the blade. That will splinter the plywood. Some people recommend putting tape to the intended saw line and sawing through that, which might have helped. I only saw this tip after we had already finished the counter… 🙂 Anyway, no forward motion on the blade with very slow and careful forward motion with the saw did the trick for us.
Starting to take shape… the empty spot in the middle is for the dishwasher.
Sanding the countertop would have been easier on top of another table, but we had already attached this in order to measure and cut out holes for the sink and stove top. The sides of the holes, especially for the stove top, were thin and we were scared to break the counter top if we moved it.
The cut outs are lined with a marine silicone/glue to keep any water out of the plywood. After attaching the sink (more silicone/glue and the snippets that are screwed in), I waxed the counter with Osmo products just like I did with the table. I've been using the kitchen for about 7 months now, and it seems I need to put another coat of the wax on… but this was to be expected. My friend has waxed their counter with the same products and she told me they needed to rewax a couple of times the first year and yearly after that.
And here it is in all it's glory! 🙂 The top cabinets are lined with plywood, I think that gives the outside a nice finish. I was a bit worried about placing the oven next to the fridge, but I've been cooking a lot and following how it behaves, and there seems to be very little escape heat on the sides of the oven. There's plenty air space behind the oven and some between it and the fridge too.
I finished the back edge of the countertop with some more silicone/glue and a U-shaped aluminium profile. My first idea was to put glass next to the wall to protect the wallpaper, but I didn't like the look of it. So I painted the wallpaper with a couple of coats of clear laqcuer. I figured I'll see how long it lasts… So far it's held up nice! I just wipe any spills with a damp cloth and they haven't left stains.
The oven, stove top , fridge, microwave (in the left cupboard) and faucet are from the old kitchen, so I only had to buy the dishwasher, extractor hood and sink. I dreamt of a new faucet, but the nice ones tend to cost a pretty penny. My plumber warned me against Ikea faucets, he had heard of a lot of leaks with them. In the end I figured I could update the faucet later.
The washing machine I had bought for my old place, so that didn't add to the costs either. It needs so much extra space behind it that I can't get a door to cover it, because the plumbing eats away what extra I had behind there. I've been thinking of a curtain to cover it up, but it doesn't really bother me as it is, either, so that hasn't been a high priority.
The red line marks where the plumbing and pipes run, and unfortunately a lot of that would have been visible in the new kitchen. So we built the wall out to house the plumbing, pipes and electricity. Also, there were 2 holes near the ceiling. These are for the air to get around the building and could not be covered. So we put in extension pipes for them.
I was super afraid to drill into the floor because of the underfloor heating. I had no idea where the pipes lay in the floor, although they probably didn't run them right next to the bathroom wall under the kitchen cabinets in -58. Nevertheless, I didn't want to risk puncturing one of them. So we attached the vertical studs on a horizontal stud that's attached to the original wall behind it. It took some fiddling to get the wall extension as thin as possible, so here we're building a bridge over the original sewer that was much wider than the modern plastic plumbing.
I had the plumber and electrician come in and finish everything they needed to do behind the wall, and then we finished the studs and attached the drywall. You can see the drywall up in the post about the floor.
After the wall was finished and floor extended all the way, we smoothed the new kitchen wall and put up the wallpaper. The plumbing and electrical cables are still just sticking out of the wall, since further progress with them needed the kitchen to be assembled first.
That recess the fridge and oven are sitting in is actually sticking out from the building wall. It used to be one of those pantries or cold storage cabinets they had in the 50's. It basically had insulated doors and a couple of holes in the back wall, to let in the cold air from the outside. Now the doors are gone, the holes covered and insulated and it's just a weirdly shaped nook in the kitchen… but more of that later!
With the floor gutted to the concrete and (most of the) painting done, it was time to start laying new floor! Originally I thought I'd replace the old and worn parquet with a nicer parquet, but it turns out laminate performs better than parquet with underfloor heating (being thinner), and that was a big thing on the building rules. Laminate is also considerably cheaper. I wanted a certain look, and after narrowing it down to a few choices on both types, the laminate options cost about half of the cost for comparable parquet. That adds up fast, when you factor in the whole floor surface!
I ended up scraping the window frames. That was a ton of work, but there were so many layers of old paint that just painting over was not going to look good. I tried to sand them at first, but there was simply too much to sand.
So I got out a heat gun. That looks and works like a blow dryer, but produces much more heat. So much that you can burn stuff, if you're not careful – I curled the hair on my arm a time or two, but luckily didn't get real burns. Warm up the paint just enough for it to soften and then scrape off the warmed piece, repeating the steps until most of the paint is gone.
The place didn't look bad to begin with, not at first glance anyway. It had seen better days, but it was in totally livable condition. Very much like my previous rentals!
The apartment is 41 sqm, but the walls and especially the beams separating the living room from the alcove and kitchen made it feel smaller. The parquet was probably made from spare ends, as a lot of the pieces were just a couple cm long… and it was very, very worn.
The kitchen wasn't that bad, having been updated in 2008. There was space for a small dining table, but it also felt very cramped, and I hated that if I put my table there, I would need to go around it to reach the fridge… the layout just wasn't working out for me.


How Are You Framing It?
Much of what happens starts with how we see it. Will it be a success? Not likely if deep down we are seeing everything that can go wrong. Will it fail? Not likely if deep down we are seeing everything that can go right.


The fundamental challenges of building and sustaining human settlements have not changed significantly for centuries. The relative urgency of these challenges, however, has changed over time, as have the planning and public policy approaches to address them. Planners and policy makers in some European nations and some U.S. states have significantly changed the relative roles of international organisations and national, state, regional and local governments. Climate change, economic development, social justice, and community revitalisation top the planning agenda in some European nations and U.S. states. The case studies in this book follow the changes in international planning frameworks and the roles of national, state, regional, and local governments in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Oregon in the United States and in Denmark, France, Ireland, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom in Europe.


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University of Oregon board of trustees to meet Thursday to vote on 6-year, $27.3 million contract for Mario Cristobal
By James Crepea | The Oregonian/OregonLive
EUGENE — Mario Cristobal expected to have news of a contract extension to share later this week, and Oregon will formalize a new six-year deal with the third-year coach on Thursday.
The executive and audit committee of the University of Oregon board of trustees will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday "for purposes regarding an employment contract for the head intercollegiate football coach," the school announced Wednesday.
Terms of the new six-year, $27.3 million contract include increases to Cristobal's guaranteed base salary, retention bonuses and a one-year extension that will automatically be enacted if Oregon either wins nine regular-season games in any of the next three seasons, 10 games in 2024 when a scheduled trip to Hawaii allows UO to play a 13-game regular season, or if the Ducks win the Pac-12 North division in any of the next four seasons.
Cristobal's $2.7 million base salary, 11th among Pac-12 coaches, will increase to $4.3 million beginning Jan. 15. He'll also receive a $500,000 retention bonus for this season on Jan. 14, with subsequent annual retention bonuses of $300,000, $350,000, $350,000, $300,000 and $250,000.
Under the new deal, Cristobal's six-year average salary of $4.55 million will rank fourth in the Pac-12 and be only $450,000 behind the conference leader, Utah's Kyle Whittingham ($5 million)
Cristobal's performance incentives for reaching the College Football Playoff increase while some of his incentives for regular season wins decrease or are eliminated entirely.
His $150,000 bonus for reaching a bowl game with eight regular-season wins is eliminated, though reaching a bowl with seven regular-season wins goes up from $100,000 to $150,000. Winning any bowl game is now worth $50,000 to Cristobal, though his cumulative performance bonuses for winning at least eight regular-season games all decrease compared to his existing contract, resulting in lower maximum performance incentives ($1,675,000) compared to his current deal's $2,175,000.
The bonus for reaching a CFP bowl game that's not a national semifinal increases from $175,000 to $300,000. A CFP semifinal appearance increases from $200,000 to $375,000 and a CFP National Championship game appearance goes from $250,000 to $375,000, the maximum bowl participation incentive in his new deal.
Cristobal's buyout to leave UO, presently $8 million, increases to $9 million through Jan. 14, 2022, and decreases annually to $6.5 million, $4 million, $2 million and $1 million, respectively.
The buyout UO would owe Cristobal if he were fired increases from 60% of his remaining base salary to 80%, subject to mitigation on Cristobal's part to find other employment.
Negotiations between UO and Cristobal, who is under contract through January 2024, began following last year's Pac-12 championship and Rose Bowl championship, paused for several months due to the pandemic and resumed recently.
On Monday, amid his rumored candidacy at Auburn, Cristobal confirmed the talks between himself and UO and said he had "full trust in the administration here that things are going to be worked out and that I'll be coaching here."
Cristobal was due $2.7 million in salary this season, with raises of $100,000 in each of the next three years, and took a voluntary 10% pay cut and forwent all his bonuses this year due to the pandemic.
There is a new clause related to the pandemic in Cristobal's contract that states, "If athletic department revenues generated from non-philanthropic sources (includes all revenue streams other than gifts/donations from UO Foundation) are reduced by at least 15%, based on the previous 5 fiscal years rolling average established by University documents, due to an unforeseeable natural disaster, war, riot, pandemic, public health emergency, NCAA directive, government order, or other catastrophe beyond the control of the University, University and Coach may enter into good faith discussions regarding a temporary reduction to Coach's Guaranteed Salary. ...
"If the good faith negotiations do not result in an agreement within 4 weeks, University shall be entitled to implement a temporary reduction to Guaranteed Salary, which shall not exceed 15% or be for greater than a 12-month period."


Srinagar, March 28: A gunfight erupted on Tuesday between militants and security forces in Kashmir's Budgam district, police said.
Youth on Tuesday morning hurled stones at a CRPF convoy heading towards the encounter site in Chadoora area of central Kashmir's Budgam district.
Witnesses said that the convoy came under a barrage of rocks in Nagam village, barely three kilometers from the site of the encounter.
Meanwhile, an intermittent exchange of fire is going on in Durbugh village where a gunfight erupted at around 6 am today.
Horoscope for 28th March: Is today your Lucky day?


Books and Ideas will return in September 2009. Previous episodes are available at http://booksandideas.com/.
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Theme music for Books and Ideas is "The Open Door" by Beatnik Turtle.


Alright! is a company owned by H2O Delirious that sells guns filled with cocaine-laced toilet paper. It is rivals with the Okay Company.
While there was much disagreement on what product they are selling between the CEO and the employees, the product that were being sent to warehouses were cocaine laced toilet paper fired from a toilet paper shaped gun, toilet paper, and action figures so you can play while on the toilet.
H2O Delirious is the founder and CEO of the Alright Company. He feels as the CEO, he doesn't get enough respect from his employees. He tries to deal with this with a therapy session, which proved to be more awkward and ineffective than intended. He was denied giving massage to his employees and he wasn't given enough time to talk about problems. He also didn't seem to really know employees or what employment was. He had a meeting about the first order of business, finding warehouses to ship products. From that was confusion on what the company was selling between him and his employees, but it was ultimately what it was. He and his employees on their first action as company, was not finding warehouses, but rather stealing from their rivals, the Okay Company. Delirious decided to best next option was to buy a warehouse. The employees realized the CEO can't speak properly when he tried to his message across.
The Vice President of this company is unknown, but given the recency of the company, and the CEO's poor knowledge of running a business, there might not be a Vice President.
VanossGaming helps ships and obtains the products and acts at the company's therapist despite proving not doing it very well. People can sign up for his "Happy Ending" which on top of the therapy session, also includes a massage from one of the company's employees or from the CEO himself.
Terroriser helps ships and obtains the products of the company. Due to being from the future, he is asked of how business is doing for the company in the future, which he states that there is no competition in the gun shaped toilet paper that shoots cocaine laced toilet paper business.
Ohmwrecker helps ships and obtains the products the company sells. Not much else is known about him other than he dresses improperly.


Born in Nottingham, England, I moved at an early age to north Wales where I went to school. Growing up close to the magnificent castles of King Edward I, I developed a lifelong interest in history and the medieval period in particular. Add to that a German great-grandfather who was an architect, a German grandfather who was an artist and a brother, Henry, who is a full-time artist and it was perhaps inevitable that I should eventually combine my own love of drawing with my interest in history and the built heritage.
Initially however, on the advice of my teachers, I chose a career in science, going to Cardiff in south Wales to study geology. The highlights of my time there were five summers spent on expedition in Norway doing fieldwork for my B.Sc. and then for my Ph.D. Drawing during those years was largely confined to recording geological structures, though I did sketch my expeditionary colleagues in 1973 and 1974.
I then worked for several years as a professional geologist, teaching in universities in Swansea in south Wales and in Dublin in Ireland. In Ireland, as well as teaching, I worked for the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI), mapping and making geological maps for publication and later researching, writing and designing geo-tourism pamphlets aimed at a non-professional audience. A number of geological publications came out of this period. During this time I also illustrated a resource book for schools on environmental issues.
I made my first serious reconstruction drawing in 1990. This drawing of Kells Priory in County Kilkenny, Ireland, an Augustinian monastery, was made as a wedding present. It subsequently became the centrepiece of a booklet I designed and wrote on the priory, published in 1993. The full text and illustrations are posted on the Internet courtesy of German photographer Dirk Frantzen, together with his own photographs of the priory. A second edition of the book is in preparation at the time of writing.
Publication of the Kells Priory drawing in Ireland of the Welcomes, an Irish tourist magazine, and later in Archaeology Ireland, led to a series of commissions for further drawings. At first these were done between geological contracts, but in 2004, after a short period as an instructional designer in the I.T. industry, I decided to make archaeological and historical reconstruction a career. In April 1996 I was judged to qualify for tax-exemption as an artist for this work.
Since then I have been fully employed on commissions for both serial (multiple) reconstructions and individual drawings. These have gone on permanent display at the sites they illustrate and have been published in site guides and other books and journals.
Medieval history, archaeology and architecture, and castles in particular; drawing and design; current affairs; reading, crime fiction in particular; most music, but particularly opera; cinema; town and country walking; geology and its popular presentation; home, marriage, family and friends.


The Stanley Film Festival handed out awards for its annual horror film festival which takes place at the haunted and historic The Stanley Hotel.
Live updates on winners of the 2015 Grammy Awards.
The full list of those who won at today's BAFTA Awards.
Our predictions for the 2015 BAFTA Awards airing this Sunday, February 8th.
Many repeated wins from the Golden Globes on the film side as Patricia Arquette, J.K. Simmons , Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne win.
Like them or not, the 2015 Oscar nominations are in and 'Birdman' and 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' tie for the most noms.


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Vizsla Resources Soars in First Day of Trading Following Panuco Mine Acquisition
October 10, 2019 10:52 AM PST
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Shares of Vizsla Resources Corp. (TSX-V: VZLA) almost doubled in value to 48 cents per share Wednesday in the company's first day of trading following its Sept. 17 optioning of the Panuco silver-gold mines in Mexico.
The Vancouver-based junior explorer announced last month that it had entered into a definitive agreement to buy all outstanding shares of Canam Alpine Ventures Ltd. for 18 million Vizsla shares, giving them a 15% stake in the company. As a result, Vizsla shares were halted until Wednesday, pending regulatory review of the associated documentation.
The move gives Vizsla access to 20 veins totalling more than 75 kilometres, spread across five mines and deposits in Sinaloa, Mexico. The last, and only, exploration activity of note on the property was a small drill campaign conducted by Capstone Mining Corp. (TSX: CS) between 2006 and 2008. This historic program struck three encouraging intercepts: 2,235 grams per tonne (g/t) silver and 9.5 g/t gold over 4.23 metres; 288 g/t silver and 1.65 g/t gold over 11.33 metres; and a whopping 1,634 g/t silver and 10.38 g/t gold over 2 metres.
2008 resources estimates of the property's Clemens El-Muerto and La Colorada included an indicated resource of 656,000 tonnes containing 204 g/t silver and 1.11 g/t gold, and an inferred resource of 2.53 million tonnes containing 80.2 g/t silver and 0.38 g/t gold, respectively.
The company touts its acquisition as the first "consolidation" of the district-scale system, which it says has gone largely untapped due to "fragmentary property ownership." The company plans to start exploration work immediately, with drills in the ground within three months.


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Children are the cause of climate change says the United Nations
by Brian Lilley Nov 20, 2009 May 1, 2020 / 5 mins /
Lock up your baby prams and strollers, or at least don't take them out in the daylight hours. Children are, according to one United Nations agency, the new enemy of climate change.
The latest report from the United Nations Population Fund was released on Wednesday at news conferences in Ottawa and other key venues where policy makers could be made aware of the news: more babies will undermine attempts to stop climate change.
Strangely, much of the news conference, like the material put out by the Population Fund, was taken up with detailing the ways the world's leading population control agency works to combat maternal deaths and serious complications from childbirth, both admirable goals. Yet the crux of the report is that, while we need to save those who do give birth, we need fewer of them. In the eyes of the UNFPA, it is the babies of maternity wards present and future that are the culprits in climate change: "Each birth results not only in the emissions attributable to that person in his or her lifetime, but also the emissions of all his or her descendants."
Before world leaders head to Copenhagen to try and hammer out a deal on climate change, UNFPA wants them to consider population growth as a contributing factor to be dealt with. Its report says: "No human is genuinely 'carbon neutral,' especially when all greenhouse gases are figured into the equation. Therefore, everyone is part of the problem, so everyone must be part of the solution in some way. The world's Governments and peoples will need to work together on every aspect of the factors that increase greenhouse-gas emissions. One such factor is the earth's growing population."
Silly me; I thought that people of the world working together was the cause of population growth.
Seriously, though, the simplicity of the logic behind this report might win you over. If people are causing climate change and we wish to stop it, then we should have fewer people on the planet.
According to a report prepared for Britain's Optimum Population Trust, spending just $7 on basic family planning would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by one tonne, while achieving the same reduction by using alternative low carbon energy sources would cost $32. Again, this makes sense; who wouldn't want to save $25 and avoid having to look at an unsightly wind turbine if all it will take is mailing boxes of Durex to the third world?
It's a theme advanced by some very powerful people, including Jonathon Porritt, an advisor to prime ministers, Prince Charles, and Tim Flannery, the Australian scientist who not only backs reducing Australia's population, but also recently let slip that the Copenhagen negotiations are not really about climate change.
Yet the logic is fundamentally flawed.
The UNFPA study suggesting a greater family planning effort to prevent future children from being born and therefore reduce carbon emissions, actually shows that unplanned pregnancies are higher in Western industrialized countries. It says:
"Rates of unintended pregnancies are actually higher in the industrialized countries than in the developing ones, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which studies the phenomenon in both blocs. In Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the United States, an average of 41 per cent of all pregnancies are unintended. In the developing countries, an estimated 35 per cent of pregnancies are unintended."
I can't speak for all of those developing countries, but I can say that in Canada, young people can hardly ride the bus or head out to a bar to meet their friends without being confronted with "family planning" messages and often have access to free contraceptives if they are at university. Yet despite all of this, the rate of unintended pregnancies — the type the report hopes to reduce in a bid to fight climate change — is higher where there is greater access to basic family planning. The facts do not support the hypothesis, but the report goes on: "Preventing unintended pregnancies could contribute to population stabilization in the long run and may in turn contribute to a reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions in the future."
Then there is the problem of emission levels. The report admits that the populations a family planning program would target — the developing nations — emit far less greenhouse gases than people living in, say, Kansas. So if someone living in a little village outside of Nairobi emits a sliver of a fraction of the amount their cousin in Topeka emits, why would the Population Fund target the Kenyans instead of the Americans with their family planning model? It's an important question, but one the report dances past, simply stating that the carbon footprint of the one billion poorest people in the world is 3 per cent of the global total, and since climate change will impact the poor of the world most severely we should have fewer of them.
Well, okay; the report does not actually say, "Let's have fewer poor Africans", which would be a noble goal if it meant lifting Africans out of poverty; but the report does say the poorest countries who contribute the least to carbon emissions should be the target of the family planning model for dealing with climate change. Ergo, the United Nations thinks one solution to climate change is fewer poor Africans. Not very enlightened now, is it?
There is another problem with the idea that sending condoms and other family planning paraphernalia into the developing world will reduce the population in the way that well-meaning Western researchers think it will. Simply this: it hasn't worked with AIDS.
When Pope Benedict came out against condoms as the way to prevent AIDS in Africa saying their use would only make the situation worse, the reaction was swift. The leader of the Catholic Church was condemned as someone who was out of touch and driven by agenda. Yet who should leap to the pope's defence, but Dr. Edward Green, director of Harvard's HIV Prevention Research Project. Dr. Green's research found that in areas where access to condoms was more prevalent the incidence of HIV infection was also higher.
Not a fan of the condom and AIDS example? Consider then how well Britain's aggressive plan to reduce teen pregnancy has fared. Despite having family planning education throughout the school curriculum, teen pregnancy rates in Britain are the highest in Western Europe. According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, teen pregnancy rates in Britain have risen by one-third over the last decade.
The UNFPA report promises solutions that don't work for a problem that doesn't exist. If the organization truly believed that having fewer people was a solution to climate change, it would be advocating getting rid of those pesky people commuting into Topeka, Kansas or Ottawa or any of the many North American towns surrounded by suburbs with massive carbon footprints. That idea however, is not an easy sell to the donor countries that support the UNFPA. If you want to understand why the report puts forth the solutions it does, you need to follow the money. As for those illicit prams and strollers, keep them out of sight lest the climate police coming snooping for surplus children.
Brian Lilley is the Parliamentary Bureau Chief for radio stations Newstalk 1010 in Toronto and CJAD 800 in Montreal, Canada. Follow Brian on Twitter to get the latest as it happens.
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This week I was at the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research (GCCR), participating in a postgraduate research symposium and summer school. It was a terrific few days, organised by postgraduates for postgraduates. I did my PhD at Griffith, attached to the GCCR, so it was a bit of a homecoming for me, and it was really great to catch up with old colleagues and friends. Huge thanks go to the organising committee and the GCCR for flying me up and hosting me. This was the seventh year the event has been run, and I was on the very first organising committee, so it was just excellent to see how it has evolved and expanded over the years as the next generation has made it their own.
I was given a pretty wide brief with my talk, and was asked to share my experience as a Griffith graduate post-PhD. I was asked by a few people for a copy of my slides, so I thought I'd put them up here with some context. I've written before about the kind of things I did during my PhD to prepare me for an academic job in the social sciences. I covered some of that in my talk this week, but I also went beyond that to consider: the academic job market over the past five years, developing a post-PhD research agenda, and entering into the competitive grant space. I shared selection criteria for the job I'm in now and also engaged with Looser's concept of the shadow CV.
My slides are below. Thanks to this Buzzfeed article by Jessica Misener for the PhD student memes. Thanks also to Ariadne Vromen for sharing some of her own slides on a similar topic with me, providing some much-needed inspiration. There were also many links and references to the terrific Thesis Whisperer and Research Whisperer sites. Finally, thanks to some fab peeps on Twitter for tweeting out some good advice to HDR students considering academic careers.
The take-home message from the advice over the couple of days I was there was that there are lots of things you can do to prepare, but there are also many elements of an academic career out of your control. You have to be versatile and ready to consider a range of post-PhD options. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
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A fairly delicate Viognier compared to others we've had, but certainly not disinteresting. It's got a light gently fruity flavour, pleasantly sweet but not sickly. This would be perfect at a BBQ where you want to serve quality that will please everyone. A really nice staple white which goes above and beyond for mass consumption or for Friday night with a pizza. Note to self; perfect BBQ wine.


Sareem Poems links up with James Gardin, Sivion and Sojourn on his new single to collectively catch wreck like a crash dummy.
"Work For It" is a four corner rallying cry encouraging everyone out there to get up, get out and get something.
Tee-Wyla's masterful production is a melting pot of Trap, House and Hip-Hop but with one singular aim – to make your body and mind move into action.


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Welcome to Cobby!
Number 5 of the FCI newsletter is ready, although somewhat later than usual. But, as number 6 is already in the pipeline and will be out soon, we will be able to present you with six issues a year as promised. Together with my partners Marie Luna Duran and Yves De Clercq we have worked hard to keep you informed on a regular basis about what goes on in the world of the FCI. As if starting up a newsletter was not enough, there were also the festivities to celebrate the FCI Centenary Year with the FCI Centenary Champion of Champions Show and the Cynological Days recently held in Brussels as the highlight. In the next issue we will focus on this event only, with a full report and lots of photos. I realize that it was not just an exhausting year for us, but for everyone who has worked hard to make all this happen, especially all the people who helped organizing the different events...
Karl DONVIL
Member of the Editorial Board of the FCI Newsletter
Interview with Monique van Wijk
Hi Monique, could you please introduce yourself in a nutshell?
After finishing my education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam in 1986, I started as a painter. Portraits have been my specialty since then. First only human portraits, but as Bull Terrier Fancy came into my life in 1993, I started painting dogs as well.
Monique, you have been cooperating with the FCI on several projects, like some illustrations for the FCI brand new Judging Manual (launched in Leeuwarden, on the occasion of the EDS) or the portraits of some of FCI's main figures (exhibited in the lobby of the WTC hotel in Leeuwarden, also on the occasion of the EDS). Can you tell us about this work?
In the beginning of my presence (with the works) at international dog shows, the FCI already asked me to make two paintings for the headquarters in Thuin. A portrait of a Viszla and a big painting with three Sighthounds are hanging there.
© Vince Hogan, Our Dogs
The last six years, I've been asked to paint portraits on order for the FCI, as gifts on the occasion of several jubilees of kennel clubs. The VDH (DE) got a painting with 8 German breeds on it, the Austrian, Swiss and American kennel clubs got a painting, each with a breed from their country.
Recently, I have made some illustrations (drawings) for the judging manual and painted portraits of 4 Presidents and 3 General Secretaries; you could see the latter exhibited in Leeuwarden. These portraits (two more are still under construction) later this year will hang in Thuin as well.
How did you come to the "dog world"? What is your motivation behind your artistic activity in the "dog world"?
The way I make my portraits has never been seen in the dog world. People were mostly used to see classical portraits, with one colour in the background. In my work the dog is coming out of an almost abstract background; the colours play an important role to create the specific sphere of the dog and his owner. Besides, showing the character of the dog, the painting itself is a piece of art. The first time I (as a visitor) visited a dog exhibition I immediately knew that this was what I wanted to do: to show my work to this public. Painting dog portraits on order started!
What is your favourite breed and why? What does your dog companion bring into your life?
I started with "my breed" at that moment: the Bull Terrier. In a Bull Terrier you find so many starting points to make a very expressive piece of work. I still have a big feeling of love for the breed, although after Fancy died (at 14) I didn't want a new one. Afraid I would compare him or her with my pet... After living with a hunting mixed-breed dog and two Miniature Teckels, there now is a Kings Poodle (called Nel) in my life. Without her, my life would not be complete. She's my companion everywhere. Also at the shows where I am, presenting my work in a stand. She's a poodle, shaved in one length and gets the attention of people all the time and everywhere. Not a showing dog, but Nel is almost my mascot at the show...
Are some breeds more difficult to depict and why?
Painting dogs, for me there's no difference between the breeds. Every breed and every single dog has its own expression and special being. They're all different and all unique. That's why it is so much joy painting them; the challenge to give that expression!
© Monique van Wijk
How do you deal with the illustration of a breed to reach a "picture perfect" illustration? By the way, is there something like a "picture perfect" illustration of a breed, in your opinion?
Over the years, I learned a lot about "the ideal" standards. Where in photographs sometimes it's hard to show exactly how it could be, in an illustration you are able to change details. Although it stays difficult to "make a dog" in which every specialised person can find him- or herself seeing the ideal dog...
What is the difference between painting a human being and painting a dog?
If you paint a human being, you have to deal with another "psychology"... Dogs don't see themselves and have no complains about themselves…:-) A bigger difference is that dogs exist in so many different looks. It's easier to catch their characteristic. In a human portrait, if you paint for example one line underneath an eye a bit too dark, one immediately looks ten years older. It takes more time to give the right expression in a human face (there are no people with very long ears or noses, nor do they have noses about 20 centimetres, or eyes you cannot see... :-)
If you had to choose among your paintings only one portrait and only one breed illustration, which one would it be and why?
No answer... you can see some of my favourites on the website (www.moniquevanwijk.eu) Next year a special page will be made about the FCI works.
What would be your message to dog lovers for the next 100 years of the FCI?
Love your dogs. You're alone without them.
Make sure your dog can be a dog.
See it the way it is. Its beauty is in its nature.
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Tél. : +31- (0)6 40 27 22 87
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FCI Marketing and Public Relations Manager
FCI & viyo
Together For Dogs Worldwide


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My Best Friend Is You är det andra studioalbumet av Kate Nash. Det utgavs 2010 av skivbolaget Fiction Records. Som första singel från albumet gavs låten "Do-Wah-Doo" ut, och den blev också skivans största hit. Albumet nådde åttondeplatsen på brittiska albumlistan.

Låtlista
"Paris" - 3:04
"Kiss That Grrrl" - 3:41
"Don't You Want To Share The Guilt?" - 5:05
"I Just Love You More" - 3:05
"Do-Wah-Doo" - 2:32
"Take Me To A Higher Plane" - 3:20
"I've Got a Secret" - 2:39
"Mansion Song" - 3:22
"Early Christmas Present" - 3:08
"Later On" - 3:34
"Pickpocket" - 3:21
"You Were So Far Away" - 3:26
"I Hate Seagulls" - 4:13
"My Best Friend Is You" (gömd låt, börjar vid 7:11 på föregående låt)

Källor

Musikalbum 2010


Voters in the city of SeaTac, WA went to the polls on Tuesday and decided that they wanted to have minimum wage for transportation workers and hospitality workers raised to $15 per hour.
In Washington, where the state minimum wage is $9.19, all precincts in the SeaTac approved SeaTac Proposition 1 by a 54 percent to 46 percent margin. Of course, the final results are still pending because of mail-in voting ballots. The proposition also has provisions that secure tip protection and paid sick leave.
The pay increase would mainly focus on those who work in and around the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Supporters bolster the positive effect that SeaTac Prop 1 will have on the local economy. Obviously and expectedly, labor unions backed the legislation while it experienced heavy opposition from business organizations. However, beyond labor and business groups, other municipal politicians have taken notice of the law.
Former Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, who recently lost the mayoral race to opponent Ed Murray, supports, as does Murray, a $15 minimum wage in Seattle.
Quite recently, there have been major initiatives and movements to improve the rights, wages, and benefits of low-wage workers across the country.
Beginning in early summer this year, in many cities, fast food workers went on strike demanding a raise to $15 an hour, a living wage in major metropolitan areas. California expanded the rights of domestic workers, who are usually immigrants, by giving them added benefits like mandatory breaks and overtime compensation.
States and several cities have also extended paid sick leave to workers, much similarly to the provision in SeaTac Proposition 1.


A man has been charged with manslaughter following the death of an 80-year-old woman in Camden.
Harry Goodwin-Sims, 29 (15/10/1988) of Adolphus Road, N4, was charged with manslaughter on Wednesday, 4 April.
He is in custody and will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, 4 April.
This follows the death of a woman in hospital after an incident in Camden Road, NW1 at around 14.20hrs on Saturday, 31 March.
This follows the death of a UK Cypriot woman Ourania Lambrou in hospital after an incident in Camden Road, NW1 near Tesco at around 14.20hrs on Saturday, 31 March.
Ourania Lambrou of Gaisford Street, Kentish Town had just come back from visiting her daughter Rita in Palmers Green where she was preparing flaounes for Greek Easter. She had just got off the bus when a commotion was taking place between the alleged attacker and passing cars and people and it is alleged he pushed Ourania to the ground and hit her head she was taken to hospital and released within a few hours but died two days later at home.
Found by her granddaughter from the USA who is Staying in her house and studying in the UK for the last nine months and her daughter in law.
Ourania Lambrou, an immigrant from Kalavasos, Cyprus has had anything but an easy life, but she proudly embraced her hard times and struggles as a way to grow stronger.
Lambrou migrated to London when she was just 17 years old and has stayed since. She will be celebrating her 80th birthday lamt year January in London.
be found tending to her large lush garden behind her cozy two bedroom flat in Kentish Town, London.
Engaged at just 14 years old and a mother at 16, Lambrou had to grow up quickly in order to support her family.
Ourania had no regrets getting married to Michael even although they seperated when she was 35 years he died ten years ago..
At a young age she had to leave school in order to learn proper skills so she could one day raise a family.
After Lambrou left school at 11 years old, she asked her older cousins, who owned a small clothing factory if she could learn how to sew. "My cousins weren't very nice to me and didn't teach me much of anything. They made me fetch heavy jugs of water and tend to their cleaning rather than teach me, but I was a smart cookie." When Lambrou wasn't doing chores for her cousins, she watched how they would sew different pieces of clothing and would memorize how it was done. These skills later came in handy when she migrated to England at 17, where she worked in a clothing factory.
Lambrou's wit and sharp mind quickly earned her the most important and best paid position at the factory which involved creating samples of the clothing for other workers to follow. Lambrou was even sent on trips all over the U.K. to help the sister factories. "I'm very grateful for my fast hands because it helped me make a lot of money to support my family on my own. People didn't believe how much money I made." Lambrou made 15 pounds an hour, and was able to retire at 60 years old comfortably.
At 79, Lambrou had given birth to six children, had her gallbladder taken out, both of her knees replaced, two heart surgeries, and was even resurrected on the operating table, but that did not stop her from working in her garden, cleaning her house, babysitting her great-grandchildren and just living life as an independent woman without help from anyone.
Her family called her their Quuen that was stolen from them.
When the body is released the funeral will take place in Kakavassos in Cyprus. A memorial service will be held in London.


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University Staff: Plan for 100 Percent Return to Campus by June 14
Photos by Chieko Hara, University Relations
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Staff members who are still working remotely should begin making plans for a full return to campus this summer. Faculty and students should expect a full return to face-to-face classes this fall.
By June 14 — or sooner — the goal is to have 100% of employees who would normally be on campus back on campus.
RETURNING NON-FACULTY STAFF
In an effort to support the full return of students this fall and in concert with last week's Board of Trustees resolution articulating expectations for the entire University of Arkansas System to be back on campus by the start of the fall 2021 semester, planning for more staff to return should start now, with each department completing an anticipated plan of return.
Each unit's return plans should be approved by unit heads (dean or vice chancellor) and be ready to share by May 17 so employees can plan accordingly.
Supervisors should plan for the appropriate benchmarks in consultation with their unit heads, Remote staff who express readiness to return to campus this spring could begin doing so if the workplace is ready.
Any surge in COVID-19 infections could modify return plans as the health and safety of the campus community will continue to shape all decision making. Consideration for employees who may need to continue to work remotely as a reasonable accommodation for a disability will be addressed on a case-by-case basis through our normal accommodation process with the Office of Equal Opportunity and Compliance.
The university is also in the process of reviewing and updating its remote work policy, which will be shared with campus as soon as possible. It is anticipated that some employees and/or campus functions may continue to work remotely if in the best interests of the university.
REMINDERS FOR RETURNING TO CAMPUS
A staff member enters a campus building.
The COVID-19 website will be updated with all the latest guidance and information later this spring. Here are some reminders as we begins phasing in more on-campus staff:
Employees who have COVID-19 should not work on-site.
Employees recovering or recovered from COVID-19 should follow ADH guidance and the guidance of their doctor.
Employees should self-screen for symptoms daily. Workday has a feature built in to assist with this.
Face masks or face coverings that completely cover the nose and mouth are still required in all buildings.
Employees are still encouraged to limit the size of in-person meetings and participants are encouraged to utilize a conference call or video option when appropriate.
In-person meetings must accommodate sufficient social distancing and face covering requirements. (Our meeting rooms all have posted capacity limits.)
PREPARING FOR FACE-TO-FACE CLASSES IN FALL
The university is now planning our return to campus in preparation for a face-to-face fall. This includes classes, student organization activities and events, and other related in-person functions and activities. This transition will get underway starting this summer, guided by vaccination availability and progress, which will inevitably allow us to open more activities as warranted. The university is already allowing events on campus, with approval and safety measures.
While many faculty, staff and students have already returned to campus, those numbers will continue to grow this summer, with the university's entire non-faculty staff population back by mid-summer.
"While things may never be exactly the same as they were before, we expect to achieve some level of normalcy, including classrooms and workplaces at their usual capacity, as well as regular capacity crowds at sports events, public performances and lectures," Chancellor Joe Steinmetz said. "Whether masks will still be needed remains to be seen as vaccination rates will be a consideration — it's just too early to say at this point, but we know it's good practice."
The university will maintain mask use and social distancing protocols at this time, and anticipate doing so through summer classes. Additional details about the fall semester will be announced later this spring.
About the University of Arkansas: As Arkansas' flagship institution, the U of A provides an internationally competitive education in more than 200 academic programs. Founded in 1871, the U of A contributes more than $2.2 billion to Arkansas' economy through the teaching of new knowledge and skills, entrepreneurship and job development, discovery through research and creative activity while also providing training for professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the U of A among the top 3% of U.S. colleges and universities with the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the U of A among the top public universities in the nation. See how the U of A works to build a better world at Arkansas Research News.
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Mark Rushing, assistant vice chancellor
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Q: What's the use of the Name parameter in RouteAttribute? Looking at this:
[Route("", Name = "GetChanges")]

What's the use of the Name parameter? The only useful usage of this is I am able to refer to the action when calling CreatedAtRoute such that:
return CreatedAtRoute("GetChanges", new { id = model.ChangeId }, model);

So why and what's the use case for the "Name" in RouteAttribute?

A: I think the use case is simply ambiguity resolution. If there are more than two actions on a controller that may qualify somehow the name is not ambiguous. I would prefer not to use a name unless needed, but I could see organizations adopt the 'though shall use names to resolve unambiguously" approach as well. Count me as not a proponent, but the mechanism is there should you need it.

A: WebAPI by itself doesn't allows function overloading. So if there are two functions with same name but differing in parameters (overloading within the implementing class), the name attribute allows for those methods to be called by a specific names.
Along with, the class naming may be governed by different coding standards, whereas route names are those exposed to client, hence may have to be following different guidelines

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Q: git clone silent doesn't work I am trying to clone a repo automatically from a .bat file.
I use ssh so the .bat file first moves a "id_rsa" file to the "user\.ssh" folder.
Then, when I run "git clone ssh://repo c:\repo", I get the question
The authenticity of host can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is ........
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

If I answer yes manually it works and the "known_hosts" file is created in "user\.ssh" folder. Now if I run the .bat file the git clone will work without the question.
I need to do this silently from the .bat file.
I have tried to answer yes from the .bat file and to add "> /dev/nul 2>&1" but with no success.
Any ideas?

A: You should try and adapt "Can I automatically add a new host to known_hosts?" in order to add the remote server to your %USERPROFILE%\.ssh\known_hosts.
Even from your Windows bat script, you can use a /path/to/git/bin/bash -c '...' command.
c:\path\to\git\bin\bash -c 'ssh-keyscan -t rsa,dsa HOST 2>&1 | sort -u - ~/.ssh/known_hosts > ~/.ssh/tmp_hosts && mv ~/.ssh/tmp_hosts ~/.ssh/known_hosts'

That allows you to use linux commands like grep, sort, ... which are part of the git distribution.

A: Are you using an updated bash?. Essentially what you're doing here is redirect to /dev/null, which is "nowhere". If you want to do it silently you can try git clone git@gitlab.com:username/repo directory -q

A: To make it work, at least for now, I download both the known_hosts file and id_rsa from another server.


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Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
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Trustee, Wikimedia Foundation
Visiting Scholar, Northeastern University, Boston
Knight of the Republic of Serbia
Welcome to the personal homepage of Dame Rosie Gojich Stephenson-Goodknight, MBA, a women's empowerment activist and an expert on structured data and organizational strategy principally within the Wikimedia digital space.
In 2021, she was appointed a Trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. Since 2017, she serves as a Visiting Scholar, at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. She was a member of the Board of Directors of Wikimedia District of Columbia, 2016-21; vice-president 2017-21. Rosie is the founder of Wikipedia's Women Writers project, and is the co-founder of Wikipedia Women in Red. Women in Red, established in 2015, is an international community with thousands of members around the world, which addresses Wikipedia's content gender gap; in 2016, it was shortlisted for the UN Women/ITU GEM-TECH award in the category 'Apply technology for women's empowerment and digital inclusion'.
Rosie has been a featured speaker at the United Nations, the Parliament of the Republic of Serbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Medical School, the National Academies of Science, University of Stockholm, University of Belgrade, and so forth.
Her expertise and insights have been published by "CBS News - Sunday Morning Edition", "NBC Universal", "CNN", "BBC", "Washington Post", "Deutsche Welle", "Slate", "Huffington Post", "Radio New Zealand", "Nature", and the "Guardian". She is the co-author of her grandfather's biography, "The Diplomatic Mission of Dr. David Albala" (2018).
Her honors include a knighthood bestowed by the Republic of Serbia and selection as Wikipedian of the Year. She resides in California.
More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rosiestep
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Mythreal Expands Big Screen Gaming to Millions of Low Spec Devices
Tel Aviv, Israel--(Newsfile Corp. - December 6, 2022) - Mythreal, an Israeli tech startup, has developed proprietary technology for bufferless streaming of mobile games on large screen TVs by leveraging the power of smartphone devices. The technology gives players a console-like gaming experience without the need to purchase an expensive console. Mythreal thus provides gamers with a platform that offers the best of both worlds through the convergence of gaming and a widescreen TV. The company, which was initially funded by an incubator program, has already applied for a patent and is in the process of taking the technology global by seeking out partnerships with developers of mobile games.
Mythreal's technology is platform agnostic and can be easily integrated with any game. This gives game developers the flexibility to create content for any kind of TV or streamer. All gamers need to do is continue the game as they would today. When they want to play their favorite game that has already partnered with Mythreal, they will be prompted to play the game either on their mobile device or on the TV. In the event that they opt to play the game on the TV, the mobile device will act as their controller, and they can enjoy the game on a bigger screen for a better experience. Currently, Mythreal has soft-launched its product and has partnered with 10 game developers to offer games like a racing game and a shooting game.
Gaming is an industry that boomed during the pandemic, with the sector expected to be worth USD 321 billion by 2026. At a time when social distancing was the norm, it proved to be a way for people to connect with each other online as well as entertain themselves. However, logistical issues related to the pandemic also meant that there was an immense shortage of chips, leading to a decrease in the production of gaming consoles. Consoles became highly expensive, putting them out of the reach of the consumer.
The founders of Mythreal, avid gamers themselves, spotted this gap in the market. Recent studies show that almost 2.5 billion people play mobile games on an average for 20 minutes a day via their smartphones. This led them to develop the technology that is now patent pending. Mythreal's technology makes it easy for gamers to access any game that is currently available on their mobile in a wide screen format with close to zero latency. The capability to play such games is only limited by the processing power of their smartphones.
Commenting on what the company has achieved so far, Kobi Gur, the CEO of Mythreal, said, "This technology will definitely be of great interest to leading game developers as it will give them access to millions of customers across the world who might not have the purchasing power to buy a console. But it is very rare to find a household that does not have a smartphone. Integration of our technology is a very smooth and seamless process for game developers. Our technology will also be highly useful to content creators like streaming platforms, as they can add new games to the list of options they provide to their users. I don't think we have even scratched the surface."
About Mythreal
Mythreal is a tech startup that was founded in Tel Aviv in 2020. The firm specializes in proprietary technology to provide highly engaging and interactive gaming content through CTVs using buffer-less streaming by leveraging the computing power of a smartphone.
Name: Kobi Gur
Email: kobi@mythreal.io