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Track World Cup 08-09 Round 2 - CDM
Melbourne, Australia, November 20-22, 2008
Track stars: The next generation
By Laura Weislo
Lizzy Armistead (center) and Katie Colclough (right) will be in Melbourne
Photo ©: Gerry McManus
In this post-Olympic year, the first World Cups of the season are providing a marvelous display of emerging young talent, and like the first round in Manchester, the three days of racing in Melbourne's Hisense Arena will feature a huge crop of new faces. In fact, of the 171 riders on the start list, just a dozen are over 30, and 100 are under 23!
The biggest buzz for the Australian hosts ahead of the event is the performance of 21-year-old Jack Bobridge, who set a time which would have been good enough for a silver medal in the Olympic Games in the Oceania Championships individual pursuit last week. He should be a shoo-in for a gold medal since none of the British pursuiters are making the trip down under.
The Australian track programme took a big hit this summer in Beijing, where its veterans took home just one medal – but riders like Bobridge, junior world champion Josie Tomic, Leigh Howard, Glenn O'Shea and Kaarle McCulloch have shown some real promise and should challenge for the golds this week.
Speaking of the British, not a single British man is on the start list for Melbourne, but the three-woman wrecking crew from Manchester will be on hand to try and destroy the competition again. Between them, Lizzy Armistead, Katie Colclough and Joanna Roswell took home gold in every endurance event except the individual pursuit, where Olympian Wendy Houvenaghel took top honours. Australians Tomic, Ashlee Ankudinoff and Sarah Kent put in a strong team pursuit at the Oceania championships, however, and should push the British trio to be on top of their game.
Absent will be the British sprint crew, men and women, which should open up the floor for other countries to step forward into the spotlight. François Pervis (Cofidis) was the only foreigner to beat the Brits in the sprint events in Manchester, and will look to gain valuable World Cup points in the sprint and pad out his lead in the Keirin standings. Fellow Frenchman Michaël d'Almeida will look to regain his place atop the kilometre standings.
Aussie Shane Perkins
The men's sprint looks to be another chance for the Aussies to shine, and 22-year-old Shane Perkins, who took second to Jason Kenny in Manchester, will be free of his British nemesis. But watch out for 21-year-old Malaysian Azizul Hasni Awang, the three-time Asian keirin champion who put in a strong performance in Beijing.
On the women's side, the Dutch should have an edge with the absence of Victoria Pendleton. Willy Kanis, winner of the sprint in Sydney last year and Yvonne Hijgenaar paired up to win three of the four World Cup rounds last season and should have little trouble taking gold in Melbourne. Kanis will be a real threat in the Keirin as well, but will get a challenge from riders like Kiwi Natasha Hansen, who won the recent Oceania championships.
While the majority of the participants in this World Cup come from the time zones east of Europe, there are a few opportunists who will circumnavigate the globe in search of UCI points. Shelly Olds and her Proman teammate Cari Higgins, Becky Quinn and Teresa Cliff-Ryan are the only Americans who will take the long flight to Australia.
In the men's pursuit events, the top three teams in Manchester will all stay home, so the tide shifts in favour of the home teams. New Zealand and Australia will be chased by the Ukrainian and Russian squads.
That said, with such a large batch of young talent it's safe to say that we'll see some big surprises in Melbourne, and we should start to see a glimpse of the 2012 Olympic contenders emerging.

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Doldrums New Album
Mike Gregory April 24, 2015, 10:39 November 15, 2017
Air Conditioned Nightmare
"The Air Conditioned Nightmare is the name of the new album by Doldrums.
"The title was spawned by Henry Miller upon his return to the US after ten years as an expatriate. Keen to rediscover the country he left behind, Miller found it a stifling place of big business, pollution, credit, misinformation and prejudice. In short: a spiritual, moral, cultural and aesthetic vacuum. "Nowhere else in the world," he wrote in his 1945 collection of essays "is the divorce between man and nature so complete". The Air Conditioned Nightmare.
"Seventy years on and the book lends itself to the title of the anticipated second album by Doldrums, the band lead by 25 year old musician Airick Woodhead. On the follow-up to the 2013 debut Lesser Evil, the DJ, producer and performer makes a sizeable leap from being darling of the same fertile Montreal warehouse creative explosion that gave the world the likes of Grimes, Majical Cloudz, Blue Hawaii to simply being a stand-alone artist and composer on the cusp of something quite special.
"Doldrums craft musical montages, paint sonic pictures from a new palette, construct sounds using leader, Airick Woodhead's own unique architectural blueprint. He applies punk rock ethos to electronic music, creating songs using samplers and DJ gear in place of guitars. Bold, anxious, dream-like, uplifting, glacial, hypnotic, constricting, expansive, alien – this is an album that is ever-changing. "Conflict is at the heart of this album," explains Airick. "There's a lot of paranoid sentiment and dystopian imagery in there. The threat of a mundane reality ties it together, as does an obsession with plasticity. Songs come from specific feelings or images. Anxiety is my default state (read more at Sub Pop)."
Songs To Check Out:
"My Friend Simjen"
"Hotfoot"
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Oklahoma: Pyongyang on the Prairie
A criminal justice system that operates in the dark is arbitrary, unjust and criminal. In Oklahoma, it asks us to believe that a Japanese American of impeccable reputation is a serial rapist of black women. No wonder they fear the light of day!
In Oklahoma this year, a Kafkaesque set of sealed motions, secret orders and closed-door hearings completely shut out a criminal defendant, his public defenders and the public. A trial judge served as handmaiden for the prosecutors, even failing to notify the defendant and his lawyers of the kangaroo court proceedings until after they had occurred.
The defendant, who is appealing his convictions and maintains his complete and actual innocence, was denied an opportunity to challenge the state's legal arguments for hiding information about a crime lab analyst's shoddy work on his case that could be exculpatory and key to his exoneration. His public defenders were also denied the opportunity to cross-examine witnesses — all government employees from Oklahoma City and the Oklahoma City Police Department.
Welcome to Pyongyang on the Prairie.
The Oklahoma attorney general's office claims that the trial judge, Timothy Henderson, conducted an "exhaustive" review of the protected materials and "deeply explored" their contents with government witnesses who only represented the government's side of the story.
Don't worry, be happy, comrades.
Here's the thing: While the defendant was denied representation at the secret hearings, Oklahoma County Assistant District Attorney Gayland Gieger was allowed to enter the star chamber with an entire "team" of fellow prosecutors. (We only know this after two local TV journalists obtained video footage from a surveillance camera outside the hearing room.) In fact, the state attorney general divulged in one of the few unsealed court filings on the matter, Gieger "facilitated the District Court's inquiry by thoroughly examining those witnesses in an ex parte proceeding."
Gieger was the original prosecutor in the defendant's case. The defendant's appeal argues that Gieger "repeatedly and flagrantly misrepresented" evidence at trial, including the forensic evidence and testimony of the OCPD crime lab analyst, Elaine Taylor. A report by six internationally renowned DNA scientists and experts released this summer highlighted Taylor's "flawed forensic science, including insufficient serological analysis and improper DNA testimony" in the case at hand. The scientists concluded that the defendant, former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, who is now serving 263 years for a bandwagon pile-on of sexual assault allegations, "was deprived of his due process right to a fair trial because the State misused DNA evidence" and stated that his "conviction should be overturned and he should be given a new trial."
Taylor's work on the case, the state was forced to acknowledge, just happened to be the subject of the secret hearings that Assistant District Attorney Gayland Gieger was allowed to "facilitate."
Can you spell "conflict of interest"?
Incredibly, the state attorney general pats itself on the back for "its strong commitment to transparency" and argues that the "State was forbidden by law from turning any of the material over to the defendant" because a crime lab review of Taylor's work is "an unfinished personnel review" protected by the state open records act.
Nonsense on a stick. The law specifically states that a public body "may," not must, keep personnel records confidential — and there is no indication that a review of Taylor's work would invade her privacy.
Both the public's right to know and the defendant's constitutional rights to exculpatory information (as well as information subject to cross-examination) trump the phony "personnel records" shield erected by the state attorney general's office and its collaborators.
In fact, given the wave of crime lab scandals across the country from Austin, Texas, to Washington, D.C., it is in the national interest to disclose such information about questionable forensic analysis and testimony (which I've exposed more at length in my CRTV.com work on the Holtzclaw case and other wrongful convictions for "Michelle Malkin Investigates" ).
It's even more imperative given the Oklahoma City Police Department's sordid history of fabricated forensic evidence and misconduct dating back more than 15 years.
Fact: Elaine Taylor worked under disgraced former OCPD forensic chemist Joyce Gilchrist, who was fired for systematic fraud, false testimony and planting evidence that led to countless death row and other convictions.
Fact: Taylor reportedly told a former supervisor that she destroyed rape kits under Gilchrist's orders because she "believed the only thing (she) could do was to follow (Gilchrist's) orders or else pay the consequences."
Fact: Elaine Taylor is the mother-in-law of Detective Rocky Gregory, the co-lead investigator in the current defendant's case (a relationship that was not disclosed at trial).
Fact: My attempt through a public records request to obtain a list of cases from the DA's office in which Taylor served as an expert witness — so that the public can learn if she botched other analyses and testimonies — was flippantly rejected because "our office maintains no list of cases in which Ms. Taylor appeared as a witness to give testimony as an expert or otherwise," and so "this matter (is) now closed."
Nearly six months after the cloak-and-dagger confab on Taylor's work held in late June in Judge Henderson's locked courtroom, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has yet to respond to Holtzclaw's motion to unseal the secret proceedings. In fact, the criminal appeals court has yet to issue a ruling on his public defenders' simple motion for an order to preserve evidence in light of the police department's admission that it had deleted Taylor's email account after she retired on Feb. 2, 2017 (a fact not known to the defendant until media public records request forced disclosure).
Legal experts left, right and center tell me they've never seen anything like this. Former ACLU of Oklahoma president and retired University of Oklahoma law professor Randall Coyne blasted the secrecy circus this summer, and his words bear repeating:
"This is no way to run a criminal justice system. In 29 years of practicing and teaching criminal law in Oklahoma, I have never seen the level of sealed orders and secret, ex parte courtroom proceedings that has occurred in the Holtzclaw matter. ... The dark cloud of secrecy over the Holtzclaw case gives rise to suspicions that somebody is hiding something. ... The court immediately should unseal all orders and filings so the public — as well as other convicted defendants whose cases and lives may be impacted — can see the details."
Is this North America or North Korea? Over to you, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.
Guam Has a Racist Voting Law -- and Obama didn't care
It took Jeff Sessions to make the department fulfill its duty.
It looks like Arnold Davis is finally getting some justice. I have written numerous updates about the voting-rights lawsuit that Davis, a retired Air Force officer, filed back in 2011 against the territory of Guam. Guam refused to allow Davis, a longtime resident of Guam, to register to vote for a plebiscite on the future of the territory because he is white and not Chamorro, the racial designation given to the natives who originally inhabited Guam.
Through eight long years of litigation, Davis has been represented by J. Christian Adams and the Center for Individual Rights. The Eric Holder/Loretta Lynch Justice Department refused to represent Davis or otherwise assist with the lawsuit. Holder even made a ceremonial visit to Guam in 2012, one in which he voiced no criticism whatsoever of the territorial government, or even of the racist attacks that Guam's community leaders and government officials have launched against Davis.
Finally, in March of this year, a federal judge in Guam ruled in favor of Davis and issued a permanent injunction against the territory, barring it from enforcing its discriminatory registration law. Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood held that limiting voter registration to so-called Native Inhabitants of the island violated both the 14th and 15th Amendments. The Constitution does not allow the government "to exclude otherwise qualified voters in participating in an election where public issues are decided simply because those otherwise qualified voters do not have the correct ancestry or bloodline."
After Guam lost in March, it appealed the decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. On Nov. 28, after eight years of studied indifference, the U.S. Justice Department under Attorney General Jeff Sessions finally did the right thing: It filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit supporting Arnold Davis.
DOJ's brief, which was filed by John Gore, the acting assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division, argues that "Guam's plebiscite law intentionally discriminates based on race." It directly violates Supreme Court precedent set in Rice v. Cayetano, a 2000 decision in which the Court threw out a similar Hawaii law. DOJ points out that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments both apply to Guam; the fact that it is a territory does not deprive its residents of those constitutional protections. The brief asks the Ninth Circuit to uphold the district court's decision.
This follows on a lawsuit filed in September by the Civil Rights Division against the government of Guam and its Chamorro Land Trust Commission for violations of the Fair Housing Act in discriminating against non-Chamorros. The government and its land trust owns about 15 percent of the land on the island. It leases one-acre residential tracts at a cost of $1 per year for 99 years and also provides below-market-rate loans and numerous housing-related benefits. However, not all residents of the island are eligible — only Chamorros. So if Arnold Davis wanted such a lease, he would not be eligible for one, just as Guam told him he couldn't vote.
As the saying goes in Washington, "personnel is policy," and that is certainly true in both of these cases. The Obama administration refused to enforce federal law barring racial discrimination in voting, housing, employment, and education on a race-neutral basis. The Holder/Lynch Justice Department didn't care if you were being discriminated against unless you were a member of one of its favored groups, a distinction that does not exist in our anti-discrimination laws. The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, as well as federal statutes such as the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act, protect all Americans from racial discrimination.
It took a Jeff Sessions Justice Department to finally recognize that.
The marvelously 'wild richness of American philanthropy'
WOULD YOU LIKE to be happy? A Chinese proverb offers advice:
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody else.
On the calendar this week was "Giving Tuesday," the informal start of the post-Thanksgiving charitable season, when many people make a particular point of donating to charity. Two-thirds of American households give money to charitable causes each year, and 63 million adults give of their time to charities as unpaid volunteers. If you're in either camp (they overlap significantly), you probably don't need a Chinese aphorism to tell you that charity blesses those who give as well as those who get.
Researchers have found notable correlations between charitable giving and happiness. For instance, data from the 2001 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a major source of information on civic activity, indicates that people who donate to charity were 43 percent more likely to say they are "very happy" than nongivers, while nongivers are more than three times as likely to say they were "not happy at all."
America's philanthropic culture has amazed foreign observers for generations. In the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville famously marveled at Americans' "innumerable multitude" of charitable endeavors: "The Americans make associations to give entertainments, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries," he wrote. Eighteen decades later, the German-born British journalist Matt Frei expressed similar astonishment: "Americans give to schools, hospitals, libraries, galleries, and the poor like no other country in the world," he noted with awe on BBC. "Americans, wealthy and not so wealthy, are giving their dollars away by the lorry load."
There are some who argue that most of this giving doesn't really count as charity since it isn't dedicated to the relief of the poor and sick. Peter Singer, a well-known professor of bioethics at Princeton, disdains those who give money to orchestras and museums when so many people still suffer from hunger and disease. Former NPR executive Ken Stern laments that charitable status is granted so promiscuously — not just to groups that help "the poor and downtrodden," but also to "organizations that have little connection to common notions of doing good: the Sugar Bowl, the US Golf Association, the Renegade Roller Derby team . . . and the All Colorado Beer Festival."
Clearly there are better and worse ways to donate one's money and time; and clearly those who help the poor, sick, and hungry should be praised and emulated.
But I think Karl Zinsmeister, editor of the Almanac of American Philanthropy, makes a better argument. I'm a fan of Zinsmeister's work, which I've cited in the past. I return to it today because he persuasively refutes the idea that only generosity aimed directly at the poor should count as philanthropic. That attitude, he writes in the lyrical introduction to the almanac's 2017 edition, "is astoundingly narrow and shortsighted."
For starters, he notes, direct aid is only one way to help the poor. He cites the example of George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak photography company, who donated tens of millions of dollars to higher education, transforming the University of Rochester and MIT into top-tier research institutions and sustaining Tuskegee, Hampton, and other historically black colleges for decades. In so doing, he contributed to the knowledge, prosperity, and advancement of tens of thousands of individuals across the social spectrum — and through them and their achievements, to the welfare of millions of human beings. Viewed in that light, is donating money to a college really less valuable than giving to a soup kitchen or homeless shelter?
American philanthropy comes in more varieties, supports more ventures, and has done more good than the most industrious team of researchers could ever fully tally.
"The wild richness of American philanthropy," as Zinsmeister calls it, is exhilarating. Historic treasures like Mount Vernon and Monticello; houses of worship from the tiniest neighborhood churches to the National Cathedral; innumerable public libraries; vast swaths of Acadia, Grand Teton, and other national parks; great astronomical observatories; cutting-edge medical facilities; art museums and orchestras — all them of them thrive today thanks to the benevolence of legions of charitable donors. Entire scientific disciplines, such as oceanography and biomedical engineering, have been brought into existence through visionary philanthropy. And without philanthropy, some of the nation's most enlightened causes, like the temperance movement and the preservation of endangered species, would never have gotten off the ground.
American philanthropy comes in more varieties, supports more ventures, and has done more good than the most industrious team of researchers could ever fully tally. Yes, some charities are of dubious worth. But taken as a whole, private giving in America has been one of history's greatest engines of progress, kindness, and uplift. Be a part of it. Give.
Ahead of Jerusalem Announcement, House Passes Bill Withholding Funding Until Abbas Stops Paying Terrorists
With all eyes on President Trump's expected Jerusalem policy announcement, the House of Representatives on Tuesday dealt the Palestinian Authority another potential blow by passing legislation withholding funds until the P.A. stops paying terrorists.
"If you finance or reward terrorism, you don't deserve a penny from the United States," House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) said after the bipartisan bill passed by voice vote. "The Palestinian Authority should be forced to choose between its despicable practice of paying terrorists' salaries and receiving foreign aid funded by the American taxpayer."
The Taylor Force Act, introduced by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) and co-sponsored by 169 lawmakers from both parties, is named for U.S. Army veteran and Vanderbilt student Taylor Force who during a visit to Israel was stabbed to death by a Palestinian in Jaffa in March last year.
P.A. chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization hailed Bashar Masalha, the terrorist who killed Force and wounded another ten people during the attack before being shot dead, as a "heroic martyr."
Masalha's relatives benefited after his death from the longstanding P.A. policy of paying stipends to terrorists – or if they are killed, to their families.
Published reports indicate that a Palestinian jailed for an attack which did not lead to fatalities receives a $400 monthly salary, while in cases where victims were killed the amount rises to $3,400 a month. There are also increases linked to the length of sentence, and grants issued upon release from prison that can reach $25,000 for a released killer.
Dead terrorists' families receive stipends that begin at $100 a month and increase depending on the family circumstances of the "martyr."
A comprehensive study published last summer by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs found that the P.A. dedicates almost half (49.6 percent) of all 2017 foreign budgetary aid – most of which comes from the U.S. and Europe – to payments to prisoners and ex-prisoners, and the families of "martyrs."
Critics say the payments not only send the wrong message to Palestinians, but amount to an incentive to carry out attacks – and especially attacks that cost lives.
"This system is a disgrace," House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) said Tuesday. "It is also the result of an abiding climate of hatred Palestinians leaders continue to foster toward Jews and Israelis."
The P.A. has defended the payments as "humanitarian" and a form of welfare.
Last August, the head of the PLO mission in Washington, Husam Zomlot, was quoted by the Palestinian news agency Ma'an as saying he had told U.S. decision-makers that "if there is a choice between the American aid and our responsibilities to our people we will choose the latter."
"In Taylor's memory, we must stop sending aid money to an entity that rewards his murderer's family and prevents any future injustice," Lamborn said Tuesday after the measure passed.
"I urge my colleagues in the Senate to vote 'yes' on this bill and hold the Palestinian Authority accountable for financing terrorism."
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee last August passed an amended version of the original bill, including an amendment to create an escrow fund to hold the set-aside money until the secretary of state certifies that the P.A. has stopped the payments.
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The ads were placed in Backpage.com, Carlton said, which is a Craigslist-style online ad service. While the "adult" system is marked as being censored, they still managed to place an ad with a girl's picture, Cartlon said. They set up dates with the men over the Internet.
But the men were allegedly greeted by a different young woman than the one in the picture, who led them into the East Alton house. At that point they were faced with a revolver and robbed of money, drivers' licenses, cell phones and credit cards, according to court records.
"When the guys would show up, they would come into the room and (one of the suspects) would come out of a back room and rob them at gunpoint," Carlton said.
Three incidents have occurred: two in East Alton and one in Hartford, though Carlton said he's aware of at least two more incidents: one in East Alton and one in South Roxana. He suspects, however, that there are probably several more cases, but the victims have been too embarrassed to file charges.
Charged were:
▪ Antquello Young, 26, charged with three felony counts of armed robbery, a Class X felony. In one of the charges, it alleged he discharged the firearm. However, Carlton said he is not aware of any injuries occurring during the robberies.
▪ Sierra Holman, 22, two counts of armed robbery. Holman also has an order of protection requiring Young to stay away from her.
▪ Nicholas Gansz, 32, one count of armed robbery without a firearm. His charge alleges he was armed with a knife.
For safety, Carlton said people responding to online ads should be cautious.
"Be very skeptical; even with Craigslist, people can get robbed or shot," Carlton said. "Do your exchanges in public or at the police department. To go somewhere for sex with someone you don't know ... I was afraid if we didn't catch them, they were going to hurt someone."
In 2015, 19-year-old SIUE student Taylor Clark was murdered while meeting someone to whom he intended to sell his car. Michael Gordon of St. Louis was arrested and charged with Clark's murder. His trial is still pending.
Several area police departments have set up "online trading" locations in their parking lots, including the Madison County Sheriff's Department. People who wish to meet up for an online purchase can do so in the parking lot, where they are on camera and close to law enforcement.
Anyone who has information about these robberies is asked to contact their local police department, Carlton said.
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package sitelinks

import "github.com/nk2ge5k/goyad/support"
import "github.com/nk2ge5k/goyad/general"

type SitelinksSetAddItem struct {
	support.ApiObject

	Sitelinks []Sitelink `json:"Sitelinks"`
}

type SitelinksSetGetItem struct {
	support.ApiObject

	Id        *int64      `json:"Id,omitempty"`
	Sitelinks *[]Sitelink `json:"Sitelinks,omitempty"`
}

type Sitelink struct {
	support.ApiObject

	Title       string  `json:"Title"`
	Href        string  `json:"Href"`
	Description *string `json:"Description,omitempty"`
}

type GetRequest struct {
	support.ApiObject
	general.GetRequestGeneral

	SelectionCriteria *general.IdsCriteria    `json:"SelectionCriteria,omitempty"`
	FieldNames        []SitelinksSetFieldEnum `json:"FieldNames"`
}

type GetResponse struct {
	support.ApiObject
	general.GetResponseGeneral

	SitelinksSets *[]SitelinksSetGetItem `json:"SitelinksSets,omitempty"`
}

type AddRequest struct {
	support.ApiObject

	SitelinksSets []SitelinksSetAddItem `json:"SitelinksSets"`
}

type AddResponse struct {
	support.ApiObject

	AddResults *[]general.ActionResult `json:"AddResults,omitempty"`
}

type DeleteRequest struct {
	support.ApiObject

	SelectionCriteria general.IdsCriteria `json:"SelectionCriteria"`
}

type DeleteResponse struct {
	support.ApiObject

	DeleteResults *[]general.ActionResult `json:"DeleteResults,omitempty"`
}

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Aristotle's suggestion , then, seems to be what is needed for mathematics to be both true and knowable is for there to be a bridge between the physical world and the (fictitious) world of mathematical object. ....Moreover, there must be a bridge to cross from the structural features of the world to the mathematical world and then return to the physical world.
Granted, this defines intelligence more narrowly than I did. Perhaps this definition was attractive to me because mathematics was my first academic love.
The passage quoted was Lear's interpretation of passages in Aristotle's Metaphysics (chapter 13) and Physics (chapter 2). I need to read these to see if this definition of intelligence has broader application than mathematics.
Even if it doesn't, I'm gratified that Aristotle and I are on the same page. After all, he wrote the book (literally!) on how to think.


Improvements and a new feature that allows players to refill their health by watching a video at any time!
Updated the ad exchange code to prevent some potential issues.
Fixed an issue with some textures being wonky on a few devices.
Fixed an issue with the ink not appearing correctly on some devices.
The Stickman adventure continues in the Drawn Below DLC as you descend into the depths of mysterious Evil Fortress and embark on an epic new quest! Get ready to experience a vast new realm of challenges and puzzles, brawl against crafty beasts, and eliminate the ancient evil ink once and for all!
Link to games facebook page on title screen.
Fixed bug where same drawing could be shared multiple times in one session.
Links to Community Page where users can share drawings.
Upgrading to the full game removes ads and adds check points.


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Q: Posting dynamic live location GPS Coordinates to the Server from android studio What i am trying to do is track a location of the vehicle, where i am getting the vehicle location being traced up at regular intervals/at specified distance. The next thing was to post the location details to the server, i do am acheiving it with the Volley library but its being posted only once to the server but not a regular intervals of time.
@RequiresApi(api = Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
    private void startBackgroundService() {
        if(!registered) {
            IntentFilter i = new IntentFilter(JOB_STATE_CHANGED);
            i.addAction(LOCATION_ACQUIRED);
            LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).registerReceiver(jobStateChanged, i);
        }
        JobScheduler jobScheduler =
                (JobScheduler) getSystemService(Context.JOB_SCHEDULER_SERVICE);
        assert jobScheduler != null;
        jobScheduler.schedule(new JobInfo.Builder(LocationJobService.LOCATION_SERVICE_JOB_ID,
                new ComponentName(this, LocationJobService.class))
                .setOverrideDeadline(500)
                .setPersisted(true)
                .setRequiresDeviceIdle(false)
                .build());
    }

    protected void createLocationRequest() {
        mLocationRequest = new LocationRequest();
        mLocationRequest.setInterval(30000);
        mLocationRequest.setFastestInterval(15000);
        mLocationRequest.setSmallestDisplacement(50);
        mLocationRequest.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY);
        LocationSettingsRequest.Builder builder = new LocationSettingsRequest.Builder()
                .addLocationRequest(mLocationRequest);
        SettingsClient client = LocationServices.getSettingsClient(this);
        Toast.makeText(this, "Location request created", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        Task<LocationSettingsResponse> task = client.checkLocationSettings(builder.build());
        task.addOnSuccessListener(this, new OnSuccessListener<LocationSettingsResponse>() {
            @Override
            public void onSuccess(LocationSettingsResponse locationSettingsResponse) {
                // All location settings are satisfied. The client can initialize
                // location requests here.
                // ...
                bService.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                startLocationUpdates();
            }
        });
        task.addOnFailureListener(this, new OnFailureListener() {
            @Override
            public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception e) {
                int statusCode = ((ApiException) e).getStatusCode();
                switch (statusCode) {
                    case CommonStatusCodes.RESOLUTION_REQUIRED:
                        // Location settings are not satisfied, but this can be fixed
                        // by showing the user a dialog.
                        try {
                            // Show the dialog by calling startResolutionForResult(),
                            // and check the result in onActivityResult().
                            ResolvableApiException resolvable = (ResolvableApiException) e;
                            resolvable.startResolutionForResult(MainActivity.this,
                                    REQUEST_CHECK_SETTINGS);
                        } catch (IntentSender.SendIntentException sendEx) {
                            // Ignore the error.
                        }
                        break;
                    case LocationSettingsStatusCodes.SETTINGS_CHANGE_UNAVAILABLE:
                        // Location settings are not satisfied. However, we have no way
                        // to fix the settings so we won't show the dialog.
                        break;
                }
            }
        });
    }

    private void startLocationUpdates() {
        mLocationCallback = new LocationCallback() {
            @Override
            public void onLocationResult(LocationResult locationResult) {
                Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Starting Location Updates", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                for (Location location : locationResult.getLocations()) {
                    // Update UI with location data
                    // ...
                    updateMarker(location);
                }
            }

            ;
        };
        if (ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED && ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
            // TODO: Consider calling
            //    ActivityCompat#requestPermissions
            // here to request the missing permissions, and then overriding
            //   public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, String[] permissions,
            //                                          int[] grantResults)
            // to handle the case where the user grants the permission. See the documentation
            // for ActivityCompat#requestPermissions for more details.
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"location permission required !!",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            return;
        }
        mFusedLocationProviderClient.requestLocationUpdates(mLocationRequest,
                mLocationCallback,
                null /* Looper */);
        button.setTag("f");
        button.setText("STOP FOREGROUND TRACKING");
//        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Location update started",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
    private void stopLocationUpdates() {
        if (button.getTag().equals("s")) {
            Log.d("TRACK", "stopLocationUpdates: updates never requested, no-op.");
            return;
        }

        // It is a good practice to remove location requests when the activity is in a paused or
        // stopped state. Doing so helps battery performance and is especially
        // recommended in applications that request frequent location updates.
        mFusedLocationProviderClient.removeLocationUpdates(mLocationCallback);
        button.setTag("s");
        button.setText("START FOREGROUND TRACKING");
        bService.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
//        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Location update stopped.",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        try {
            if (registered) {
                unregisterReceiver(jobStateChanged);
            }
        }catch (Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        super.onDestroy();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        if( requestCode == REQUEST_CHECK_SETTINGS) {
            switch (resultCode) {
                case Activity.RESULT_OK:
                    Log.i("Dash", "User agreed to make required location settings changes.");
                    createLocationRequest();
                    break;
                case Activity.RESULT_CANCELED:
//                    showTimeoutDialog("Without location access, GreenPool Enterprise can't be used !!", true);
                    Log.i("Dash", "User choose not to make required location settings changes.");
                    break;
            }
        }else{
            super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
        }
    }

    static void animateMarkerToICS(Marker marker, LatLng finalPosition) {
        TypeEvaluator<LatLng> typeEvaluator = new TypeEvaluator<LatLng>() {
            @Override
            public LatLng evaluate(float fraction, LatLng startValue, LatLng endValue) {
                return interpolate(fraction, startValue, endValue);
            }
        };
        Property<Marker, LatLng> property = Property.of(Marker.class, LatLng.class, "position");
        ObjectAnimator animator = ObjectAnimator.ofObject(marker, property, typeEvaluator, finalPosition);
        animator.setDuration(3000);
        animator.addListener(new Animator.AnimatorListener() {
            @Override
            public void onAnimationStart(Animator animator) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onAnimationEnd(Animator animator) {
                handler.post(moveThread);
            }

            @Override
            public void onAnimationCancel(Animator animator) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onAnimationRepeat(Animator animator) {

            }
        });
        animator.start();
    }

    public static LatLng interpolate(float fraction, LatLng a, LatLng b) {
        // function to calculate the in between values of old latlng and new latlng.
        // To get more accurate tracking(Car will always be in the road even when the latlng falls away from road), use roads api from Google apis.
        // As it has quota limits I didn't have used that method.
        double lat = (b.latitude - a.latitude) * fraction + a.latitude;
        double lngDelta = b.longitude - a.longitude;

        // Take the shortest path across the 180th meridian.
        if (Math.abs(lngDelta) > 180) {
            lngDelta -= Math.signum(lngDelta) * 360;
        }
        double lng = lngDelta * fraction + a.longitude;
        return new LatLng(lat, lng);
    }

    private class MoveThread implements Runnable {
        LatLng newPoint;
        float zoom = 16;

        void setNewPoint(LatLng latLng, float zoom){
            this.newPoint = latLng;
            this.zoom = zoom;
        }

        @Override
        public void run() {
            final CameraUpdate point = CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngZoom(newPoint,zoom);
            runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    mMap.animateCamera(point);
                }
            });
        }
    }

    private void updateMarker(final Location location) {
        if(location == null){
            return;
        }
        if(mMap!=null && mapLoaded){
            if(carMarker==null) {
                Toast.makeText(this, "Updating Marker Locations", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                oldLocation = location;
                MarkerOptions markerOptions = new MarkerOptions();
                BitmapDescriptor car = BitmapDescriptorFactory.fromResource(R.mipmap.ic_car);
                markerOptions.icon(car);
                markerOptions.anchor(0.5f, 0.5f); // set the car image to center of the point instead of anchoring to above or below the location
                markerOptions.flat(true); // set as true, so that when user rotates the map car icon will remain in the same direction
                markerOptions.position(new LatLng(location.getLatitude(),location.getLongitude()));
                carMarker = mMap.addMarker(markerOptions);
                if(location.hasBearing()){ // if location has bearing set the same bearing to marker(if location is acquired using GPS bearing will be available)
                    bearing = location.getBearing();
                }else{
                    bearing = 0; // no need to calculate bearing as it will be the first point
                }
                carMarker.setRotation(bearing);
                moveThread  = new MoveThread();
                moveThread.setNewPoint(new LatLng(location.getLatitude(),location.getLongitude()),16);
                handler.post(moveThread);
                try {
                    RequestQueue requestQueue = Volley.newRequestQueue(this);
                    String URL = "abc.com/location";
                    JSONObject jsonBody = new JSONObject();
                    jsonBody.put("latitude", location.getLatitude());
                    jsonBody.put("longitude", location.getLongitude());
                    final String requestBody = jsonBody.toString();
                    Toast.makeText(this, "Locations are posted", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    StringRequest stringRequest = new StringRequest(Request.Method.POST, URL, new Response.Listener<String>() {
                        @Override
                        public void onResponse(String response) {
                            Log.i("VOLLEY", response);
                            parseData(response);
                        }
                    }, new Response.ErrorListener() {
                        @Override
                        public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
                            Log.e("VOLLEY", error.toString());
                        }
                    }) {
                        @Override
                        public String getBodyContentType() {
                            return "application/json; charset=utf-8";
                        }

                        @Override
                        public byte[] getBody() throws AuthFailureError {
                            try {
                                return requestBody == null ? null : requestBody.getBytes("utf-8");
                            } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee) {
                                VolleyLog.wtf("Unsupported Encoding while trying to get the bytes of %s using %s", requestBody, "utf-8");
                                return null;
                            }
                        }

                        @Override
                        protected Response<String> parseNetworkResponse(NetworkResponse response) {
                            String responseString = "";
                            if (response != null) {
                                responseString = String.valueOf(response.statusCode);
                                // can get more details such as response.headers
                            }
                            return Response.success(responseString, HttpHeaderParser.parseCacheHeaders(response));
                        }
                    };

                    requestQueue.add(stringRequest);
                } catch (JSONException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }

            }else{
                if(location.hasBearing()){// if location has bearing set the same bearing to marker(if location is acquired using GPS bearing will be available)
                    bearing = location.getBearing();
                }else { // if not, calculate bearing between old location and new location point
                    bearing = oldLocation.bearingTo(location);
                }
                carMarker.setRotation(bearing);
                moveThread.setNewPoint(new LatLng(location.getLatitude(),location.getLongitude()),mMap.getCameraPosition().zoom); // set the map zoom to current map's zoom level as user may zoom the map while tracking.
                animateMarkerToICS(carMarker,new LatLng(location.getLatitude(),location.getLongitude())); // animate the marker smoothly
            }
        }else{
            Log.e("map null or not loaded","");
        }
    }

    private void parseData(String response){
        try {
            JSONObject object = new JSONObject(response);
            if (object.getString("status").equals("true")){
                Toast.makeText(this, "Successfully Location Details Posted to server", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

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Dead Frontier 2 is the sequel to the original zombie survival surprise hit released in 2008. Developer Creaky Corpse is stepping up its game with a sequel that ditches the top-down view of the first game in favor of a more usual – and terrifying – third-person perspective. This should improve gameplay and follow on the template that other online survival games use, such as State of Decay or Left 4 Dead, not to mention DayZ, among others.
Dead Frontier 2 is a free-to-play game where the developers promise that it will use a "ethical" business model – you should only be able to buy cosmetics and utility upgrades with real money, nothing that will give you an advantage over other players. Just as it happens in every other survival game, you will have to scavenge a lot and use the items to craft weapons. Saving your ammo is vital, as you need to make every shot count, and teaming up with other players is a good way of surviving the zombie menace. The player economy set in place will allow you to trade items with other survivors and decide what you want to keep. You can play solo if you want to, as Dead Frontier 2 allows both types of playstyles. Along the way, you will find other survivors which you may help or leave them to their fate.
PvP is also part of the game, in case you want to take a break from all the zombie bashing and just settle the score with other players. Later on, Creaky Corpse is going to add global events where the survivors will have to take down huge bosses, and the option to barricade doors and turn a house into your very own safe haven.


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Capital markets fintech Nivaura has appointed Scott Eaton as its new Chief Executive Officer. Eaton brings three decades of experience in leadership roles in capital markets and financial technology. Most recently he served as CEO of Algomi from 2018 until its sale to BGC in 2020 and prior to that as Chief Operating Officer of MarketAxess Europe from 2015-2018.
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Nivaura, a London and Italy based Fintech, has delivered the technology underpinning Singapore-based DBS Bank's groundbreaking bond issuance platform. DBS' Fixed Income Execution (FIX) Marketplace marks the world's first fully digital and automated fixed income execution platform, where issuers can directly connect with the bank's dealer teams and investors.
Event: Nivaura hosts successful industry event and product launch
LONDON, 14 February 2020 – Nivaura, a regulated financial technology company focused on primary market automation solutions, today announced the completion of a successful industry event and product launch.
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LONDON, 2 December 2019 – Nivaura, a regulated fintech company focused on primary market digitization and automation, today announced the launch of enhanced functionality for its flagship technology, Aurora.
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Doctor: Ticks Are Out in Full Force, Protect Your Kids
Kimberley Haas
Kimberley Haas Published: May 10, 2021
A pediatrician who practices in Rochester says his office has been taking calls from concerned parents who have seen a rise in the number of ticks this spring.
Ticks are small crawling bugs which are part of the spider family. Many of them carry bacteria, viruses or other pathogens which can cause disease in humans and animals, according to www.lymedisease.org.
Dr. Walter Hoerman, who works as part of Greater Seacoast Community Health, said on Monday morning that routine checks should be enough to prevent children from contracting Lyme disease.
Lyme disease is most commonly spread in the midwestern and eastern United States by deer ticks, but Hoerman said there are other types of ticks, so the best thing to do is to monitor a child if you see one on them.
"The key thing I'm always telling people is to check their kids every night," Hoerman said, adding that a deer tick usually has to be on a person for 24 hours before there is trouble.
If there are any signs of a tick bite, which typically includes a "bull's-eye" rash, Hoerman suggests visiting a doctor. Antibiotics may be prescribed.
Hoerman said other signs that a child may have contracted Lyme disease include an unexplained fever and joint pains.
Tickborne diseases can be serious and can affect people of any age. According to the NH Department of Health and Human Services, across the United States, Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tickborne disease.
To remove a tick, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend using fine-tipped tweezers. Grasp the tick as close to the skin's surface as possible. Pull upward with even pressure and make sure to remove the entire tick before flushing it down the toilet.
Contact Managing News Editor Kimberley Haas at Kimberley.Haas@townsquaremedia.com or via Twitter @Kimberley Haas.


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Environment mapping and bump mapping (not shown here) are now possible on objects. Clothes can't be env mapped or bump mapped. The envmap is pretty simple - it's just the current skybox. (It changes color as the day goes by - at sunset, the "chrome" was sunset orange.) Note that this is NOT a mirror, and will not reflect anything.


The MyBroadband website accompanying the Government Broadband and Availability Report 2013 is reviewed yesterday on Technology Spectator in an article MyBroadband gets an 'F' for Fail. The report and the website should provide powerful tools in our quest to learn more about the true state of broadband in Australia but the are too many questions left unanswered. Add to this problems in the data collection and analysis methodology (the algorithms used are not published) and the result is less than helpful. The greatest concern is the way the availability and quality are portrayed on the website and it is quite remarkable, but HFC in your area is a sure winner and will attract an 'A' even if you have FTTP running past your residence - which appears to get a 'C' grade only. I've asked for clarification from the Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull and there is a strong possibility he will respond on Monday.
The Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull provided one of the missing pieces of information in the NBN debate this month with the release of the complete Broadband Availability and Quality Report 2013 and the launch of the Department of Communications MyBroadband website.
It's a lofty goal and one for which the government should be applauded because the lack of information about the true state of broadband in Australia has hampered the NBN debate.
Unfortunately, the MyBroadband website raises more questions than answers.
The first hint that something is wrong comes when you read answers to the frequently asked questions.
What this means is the data used was provided by "several different telecommunications carriers", the Telstra Wholesale website and therefore does not provide a comprehensive picture of broadband in Australia.
What is interesting is the information collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)on Internet Activity does not appear to have been used in the analysis.
If the ABS data was used the government would have found that as of June 30, 2013 about 4.8 million of the 12.4 million internet subscribers in Australia were Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) subscribers.
The MyBroadband website included "over 20,000 real world observations on ADSL usage". Whoopee! That means the government utilised observations on less than 0.5 per cent of DSL subscribers in the data set.
The description of broadband technologies indicates that Dial-up modem technologies "is a basic technology and is not considered to be a broadband technology. As such, dial-up was not assessed in this study".
Why not? ABS data shows there were 227,000 dial-up internet subscribers on June 30, 2013. Surely identifying where Dial-up customers are located would assist to find under-served areas in need of prioritisation? Or is the government worried that a review would find that Dial-up internet subscribers are mostly located in regional and rural areas – possibly National party electorates?
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) definition of broadband can be found in Recommendation I.113 of the ITU Standardization Sector which states "transmission capacity that is faster than primary rate Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) at 1.5 or 2.0 Megabits per second (Mbits)".
Other broadband technologies are listed including ADSL, ADSL2+, mobile broadband, Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial (HFC), Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP), Fibre-to-the-node (FTTN), NBN Fixed Wireless and Satellite.
Interestingly, ISDN also fails to appear as a broadband technology on the MyBroadband website. And we should remember that in Australia, the government, Telstra and other companies were promoting and selling ISDN basic rate access at 256 kbit/s as a "broadband service" when ISDN first became available. Here is a link to some of the information on the Telstra website about ISDN services available today.
The argument that dial-up internet connections are not broadband and will therefore be omitted is not acceptable when the purpose of MyBroadband is to reflect the results of a study into broadband availability and quality. ABS figures show that two per cent of Australians still utilise Dial-Up internet connections and they're not all located in one place but distributed widely with some on major city fringes.
A colleague of mine, who until recently lived in the Dandenong ranges on the Melbourne fringe, was only able to connect to the internet utilising Telstra ISDN. His problem was that the length of copper from the exchange to his home meant that DSL would not work and only with the use of an ISDN repeater was the ISDN service made available.
So why has ISDN been omitted from the MyBroadband website? For some, ISDN remains the only way to get internet connection speeds that sit between dial-up and DSL.
Indicative of what you might ask?
Well the "Broadband profile for your area" includes three sections. The first is the overall fixed broadband availability, the second is the overall fixed broadband quality and finally mobile broadband.
The overall fixed broadband availability "measures access for each premises in your local area to at least one fixed broadband technology." It appears that if a listed technology can be accessed from the property then it is listed as an 'A', otherwise listed as 'not available'. If HFC goes past my street or stops 50 meters from my home do I get a 'B' or a 'C'? There is no mention of the broadband availability scale on the website.
The mobile broadband availability and quality provide information on whether mobile coverage exists and what the highest network type available is, for example "4G coverage".
But it was at this point that it became clear that there was a significant problem with the information shown. Let me explain.
The overall fixed broadband quality section is misleading.
Quality usually relates to several factors, not just the "speed capability of the fixed broadband technology". But if quality was just limited to the "speed capability of the fixed broadband technology" the website is still misleading and technically incorrect.
The website stated that HFC was an 'A' reflecting the DOCSIS 3.0 standard implementation by Telstra and Optus. DOCSIS 3.0 provides for channel bonding to utilise 24 channels downstream and 8 channels upstream, yet Telstra and Optus are currently providing connection speeds below what is possible. DOCSIS 3.0 also incorporates quality of service capability to ensure services such as Voice over IP work correctly, yet during peak periods both Telstra and Optus cable have serious contention problems which negate any quality of service implementation.
So should the HFC rating have been 'A'?
Not surprisingly the ADSL quality rating was a 'C' but on what scale? ADSL is not implemented in Australia with quality of service, capacity and traffic class management capability. Traffic is sent utilising "best effort" transmission which provides the lowest quality of service capability.
The quality rating should be provided relative to the best technologies capability and implementation. Currently this is FTTP and NBN Co has commenced offering a FTTP wholesale product with 1 Gbps/400Mbps connections with quality of service, traffic and capacity management from January 2014.
Utilising the FTTP capability and implementation as a baseline, and selecting the Optus HFC network because it is implemented at 4 channels down and 1 channel up (152 Mbps/27Mbps) which appears to be lower than the Telstra HFC network capability of 8 channels down and 4 channels up (400 Mbps/108 Mbps), the rating for HFC should have been 152 out of 1000 for download, 27 out of 400 for upload and 0 out of 3 for quality of service, traffic and capacity management.
The result for ADSL (in my area) would be 12.12 out of 1000 for download, 0.8 out of 400 for upload and 0 out of 3 for quality of service, traffic and capacity management. A quick series of speedtests during the busy evening period found my home ADSL service provided about 8 Mbps down and 0.6 Mbps up.
While HFC networks support services with peak download speeds approaching 110 Mbps, these networks were weighted lower than FTTP due to the lower upload speeds available and the current contention ratios for shared infrastructure which can limit the potential for these networks to deliver high speed services to a large number of premises simultaneously.
So how on the MyBroadband website can FTTP and HFC both be given an 'A'?
For a location picked at random, 158 Brunswick Road, Brunswick Victoria the ratings were FTTP 'C', HFC 'A' and ADSL 'B'. Hang on to your seats! The overall fixed broadband quality rating was 'A'. How is this possible?
Australia is funding NBN Co to the tune of $43 billion or more to install a new optical access network. According to the MyBroadband website FTTP at 158 Brunswick Road, Brunswick Victoria receives a 'C' quality rating.
FTTP is a new standard that utilises an all optical network and if it is installed and operated according to the standard Australians should expect that FTTP will always get an 'A' for quality.
At the Senate Estimates Committee on the NBN last week, the NBN Co Chairman and CEO Dr Ziggy Switkowski complained that he was spending too much time in front of the committee. Possibly he is there for good reason and at his next appearance the question should be put to Dr Switkowski about why NBN Co is installing FTTP and it is receiving a 'C' quality rating.
Without knowing the mathematical equations used in the report it is hard to judge the validity of the report's findings but if the report is reflected in the MyBroadband website then serious questions need to be asked about the methodology and the findings. The mathematical model must be released for public scrutiny. Samples taken randomly from the data set should be released so the model can be tested.
A layman will be confused by the MyBroadband website into thinking that an 'A' means they can access the best quality broadband access network currently available in Australia yet this is not the case.
Or has this been another carefully crafted exercise to give people an impression that HFC means 'A' and that is all people need?
The coalition government does not help its cause by serving up gibberish that does not provide a clear and understandable statement of the true state of broadband in Australia. My rating for the MyBroadband website is 'F' for fail. Turnbull needs to remove the website until the deficiencies have been fixed.


Widely regarded as one of the world's leading progressive rock ('prog') musicians, there is now no doubt that NEAL MORSE is a "big success," but his desire to move people through his music burns brighter than ever.
Now in his mid-fifties and his children grown up, there is a sense on his new album, LIFE AND TIMES, that MORSE is looking around and taking stock. "I've come through a lot of difficult times and I'm in a fairly content place now," he says. "You can feel that on some of the songs." Much of this 'acoustic-orientated, singer/songwriter' album was written while he was travelling around the world on "The Road Called Home" tour in 2017, with some of the songs being inspired by the places he visited, while others are from spending time with his family.
Paul Bielatowicz has earned a name for himself as a technical guitarist in the Prog Rock genre. Paul has toured the world as a member of both the Carl Palmer Band (Emerson Lake and Palmer) and Neal Morse's band (Spock's Beard, Transatlantic). His live performances with these two bands have been well documented on both live albums and DVDs.
Aside from his busy touring schedule, Paul's career as a studio musician has seen him making album appearances alongside Paul Gilbert, Mike Portnoy, Randy George, Neal Morse and Carl Palmer, to name but a few.
Over the years, Paul has been a regular contributor for the UK guitar magazines; writing regular columns for Guitarist Magazine and working as a transcriber for Guitar Techniques magazine. Through his work with Guitar Techniques magazine he has also had the opportunity to interview some of the biggest names in rock guitar, including Steve Vai and Joe Satriani.
Oh, and he has a BA (Hons) in Jazz… but that's not very rock 'n' roll, so he likes to keep quiet about it!


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EVA FINAL DEADLINE NOTICE: ROSEN, NATIONAL TRIAL ATTORNEYS, Encourages Enviva Inc. Investors with Losses Exceeding $100K to Secure Counsel Before Important January 3 Deadline in Securities Class Action – EVA
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NEW YORK, Dec. 31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Enviva Inc. (NYSE: EVA) between February 21, 2019 and October 11, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important January 3, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Enviva securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Enviva class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9162 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than January 3, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Enviva had misrepresented the environmental sustainability of its wood pellet production and procurement; (2) Enviva had similarly overstated the true measure of cash flow generated by the Company's platform; (3) accordingly, Enviva had misrepresented its business model and the Company's ability to achieve the level of growth that defendants had represented to investors; and (4) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Enviva class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9162 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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« یوفینگ ڈسٹرکٹ، لیوژو شہر میں نمایاں ثقافت سیاحت کے لئے نئی ڈرائیونگ فورس، شاعری کے ساتھ مستقبل کا اشتراک
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Medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) are fats with an unusual chemical structure that allows your body to digest them easily. Most fats are broken down in the intestine and remade into a special form that can be transported in the blood. But MCTs are absorbed intact and taken to the liver, where they are used directly for energy. Your body deals with MCTs in much the same way it deals with carbohydrates.
MCTs are unique in that they can be used by people wanting to gain weight and muscle without gaining fat. They are usually found in high-quality food supplements designed to help people gain weight.
Medium chain triglycerides (MCT) are a class of fatty acids found in coconut oil, palm kernel oil, and butter. They are different from other fats in that they're digested and absorbed much faster than conventional fats (in fact, as rapidly as carbohydrate) and are immediately available for energy.
Athletes have begun to use MCTs to increase calorie consumption, providing energy and facilitating weight gain. MCTs have very little tendency to be converted to body fat. Unlike conventional fats, which are are deposited in fat cells, MCTs are transported directly to the liver and used for energy. Only 1-2% of MCTs are stored as fat.
One of the main reasons for the interest in MCT as an aid to weight gain is the fact they contain more calories than carbohydrate but fewer calories than other types of fat. One gram of a "normal" fat provides around 9.4 calories. In contrast, one gram of a medium-chain triglyceride provides only eight calories per gram .
What's more, MCTs are also less likely to be stored as fat because they boost your metabolic rate. For example, 400 calories of MCT increase the metabolic rate for at least six hours after a meal to a greater extent than other types of fat . MCTs also increase the rate at which other fats in the diet are burned for energy . If we were to take a sample of fat tissue from your body, we wouldn't be able to find any medium-chain fatty acids in there. This makes them a perfect addition to the diet of anyone who wants to gain weight without getting fat.
Most experts believe that 2-5 grams of MCTs can be consumed with both carbohydrate and protein to promote weight and muscle gain. Athletes who want to gain weight typically consume a food supplement containing carbohydrate, protein and MCTs several times each day. To gain weight, you must eat smaller, more frequent meals. Six smaller meals, rather than three larger ones, is the best way to put on muscle while minimising fat gain.
Combined with an effective training programme and a high protein diet, most people can gain 1-2 pounds of weight per week when using a supplement containing MCTs, carbohydrate and protein..
MCTs should be combined with protein and carbohydrate for best results. Some athletes report impressive gains in muscle after combining MCTs with a source of high-quality whey protein and complex carbohydrate (such as maltodextrin).


Posted by Kulbir Singh Kalsi,Ludhiana L Maheeda , a non-government organization, distributed 300 blankets to the poor and needy people, who were mostly homeless and were sleeping on the footpaths or under bridges in the open. The initiative was undertaken to counter the severe chill that has gripped the northern part of country for past few days.
The organization is youth oriented and keeps organizing motivational and inspirational lectures in the schools and colleges in the city to get support both in cash and in kind.
The NGO chose to distribute the blankets in the early hours of the day, since most of the needy people are easily located sleeping in the open on the roadsides at that time.The NGO gets volunteers from schools and colleges; hence most of the members are from students.
Who will provide justice to women and hear her plight ?


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Approaches to the Study of Sound Structure and Speech
Interdisciplinary Work in Honour of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, 1st Edition
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This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of work of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk on the study of sound structure and speech. // The book features concise contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars who have worked with Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk across a range of disciplinary fields toward broadening the scope of how sound structure and speech are studied and how phonological and phonetic research is conducted. Contributions bridge the gap between such fields as phonological theory, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, and morphology, but also includes perspectives from such areas as historical linguistics, which demonstrate the relevance of other linguistic areas of inquiry to empirical investigations in sound structure and speech. The volume also showcases the rich variety of methodologies employed in existing research, including corpus-based, diachronic, experimental, acoustic and online approaches and showcases them at work, drawing from data from languages beyond the Anglocentric focus in existing research. // The collection reflects on Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk's pioneering contributions to widening the study of sound structure and speech and reinforces the value of interdisciplinary perspectives in taking the field further, making this key reading for students and scholars in phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and speech and language processing.
Part 1: With Hindsight: Diachronic Approaches 1. The consonants of 19th-century English: Southern Hemisphere evidence 2. Vennemann's Head Law and Basque 3. Social Dialect: The halting of a sound change in Oslo Norwegian revisited 4. Why Early Modern English vowel shortenings may have been morphotactically conditioned after all 5. Palatalisation in Celtic and Slavic languages 6. High Vowel Decomposition in Midwest American English 7. Ex oriente lux: How Nepali helps to understand relict numeral forms in early Indo-European Part 2: On Close Inspection: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches 8. Speech rhythms are physical after all 9. Main differences between German and Russian morphonotactics: a corpus-based study 10. Pholk Phonology 11. Initial clusters and self-contained universals 12. Sounds delicious! 13. Cross-language phonetic relationships account for most, but not all L2 speech learning problems: The role of universal phonetic biases and generalized sensitivities 14. The role of boundaries and typological variation in laryngeal phonology 15. Prosodic and gestural contribution to the flow and interactivity of conversation 16. L1 foreign-accentedness in Polish migrants in the UK: linguistic and social dimensions 17. The Greater Poland Spoken Corpus: data collection, structure and application Part 3: Reality Check: Empirical Approaches 18. The relative Contribution of Consonants and Vowels to Word Recognition in Fluent Speech 19. To what extent is the cerebellum responsible for rhythm properties? An acoustic study with patients with cerebellar dysfunctions 20. Variable rhoticity in the speech of Polish immigrants to England 21. Polish two-consonant clusters. A study in native speakers' phonotactic intuitions 22. ERP correlates of figurative language processing 23. Selected spectral aspects of Polish vowels 24. Applications of electropalatography in L2 pronunciation teaching and phonetic research 25. Competing vowels facilitate the recognition of unfamiliar L2 targets in bilinguals: The role of phonetic experience 26. Areas of external evidence as a testing ground for NAD 27. Testing receptive prosody; a pilot study on Polish children and adults 28. Laryngeal phonology and asymmetrical cross-linguistic phonetic influence 29. Segment frequency in cross-language perspective
Agnieszka Kielkiewicz-Janowiak is University Professor in the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She has done research and lectured on social dialectology, historical sociolinguistics, discourse analysis as well as language and gender issues. Her current research interests focus on life-span sociolinguistics and the discourse of ageing across cultures.
Magdalena Wrembel is University Professor and Head of Studies in the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Her main research areas involve bilingualism and multilingualism, phonological acquisition of the third language and language awareness. Her current work focuses on cross-linguistic influence and longitudinal development of L3 phonology.
Piotr Gasiorowski is University Professor in the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. His research interests include historical and evolutionary linguistics, theories of language change, dialectology, phonetics and phonology. His current research work focuses on various aspects of Germanic and Indo-European reconstruction as well as Modern English prosody.
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Skeptic is too strong a word. Realist?
"Perhaps the most misunderstood aspect of energy transitions is their speed. Substituting one form of energy for another takes a long time. U.S. nuclear generation began to deliver 10 percent of all electricity after 23 years of operation, and it took 38 years to reach a 20 percent share, which occurred in 1995. It has stayed around that mark ever since. Electricity generation by natural gas turbines took 45 years to reach 20 percent.
"In 2025 modern wind turbines will have been around for some 30 years, and if by then they supply just 15 percent of the electricity in the United States, it will be a stunning success. And even the most optimistic projects for solar generation don't promise half that much. The quest for noncarbon sources of electricity is highly desirable, and eventually such sources will predominate. But this can happen only if planners have realistic expectations. The comparison to a giant oil tanker, uncomfortable as it is, fits perfectly: Turning it around takes lots of time.
"And turning around the world's fossil-fuel-based energy system is a truly gargantuan task. That system now has an annual throughput of more than 7 billion metric tons of hard coal and lignite, about 4 billion metric tons of crude oil, and more than 3 trillion cubic meters of natural gas. This adds up to 14 trillion watts of power. And its infrastructure—coal mines, oil and gas fields, refineries, pipelines, trains, trucks, tankers, filling stations, power plants, transformers, transmission and distribution lines, and hundreds of millions of gasoline, kerosene, diesel, and fuel oil engines—constitutes the costliest and most extensive set of installations, networks, and machines that the world has ever built, one that has taken generations and tens of trillions of dollars to put in place.


That song from the Disney movie Mulan "Someday I'll Make A Man Out Of You" has inspired a new song in me: someday I'll make a runner out of you! I've recently [within the last month] taken up running. Growing up, I played softball for 5 years and then moved on to basketball, which I played for 3 years. You run a pretty good bit in both of these sports and that was always my least favorite part. I was in great shape when I played basketball, but a sickness caused me to have to sit out a season in high school, and after we moved, I didn't have the desire to try to play school ball again. I did play golf my senior year of high school, but there's NO running there!
When I got in to college, I tried to start running again. I even bought an awesome watch and heart rate monitor that let's me track workouts, enter different workouts to train by and a bunch of other things that I'd have to pull the manual out to know what they're for! But after a few short weeks, I gave up. Why? It wasn't fun. No, it wasn't fun at all. It was work. And it was hard.
So why now? What's so different? Well, there's actually a LOT that's different now.
Now, I have a husband who LOVES to run. He's training to run a marathon at the end of the year. His love for this sport is contagious. When I was pregnant, he started out his journey in running and he'd come home telling me all about his run. All I wanted to do was be out there running beside him!
There's also the health side of why I want to run now. I have two baby boys and they need a healthy momma to be able to chase after them. I gained a lot of weight during my pregnancies and want to shed those pounds, too. I know that living a sedentary lifestyle is so far from how we were created to live.
And there's the challenge. Any attempt at running just for the pureness of the sport in my past has been a failure. Now, I'm finding myself accomplishing way more than I ever thought I would be able to do. Running is just as much a mind sport as it is a physical sport. My mind wants to fail me and say, "I can't possibly run another step" way before my body feels it. To be able to push those thoughts out of my mind and keep going is so rewarding to me.
There's a lot that I've had to learn to do differently this time around. Before, I was concerned about how far I could go in a short amount of time. That's one reason I would tire out so quickly. Now, I've learned to slow down and be more concerned about how long I can run without stopping, and not so much about how far I'm going. I know that I'll pick up my pace later and be able to cover more distance, but that comes after I've built a foundation of running consistently without many breaks. Secondly, I've had to learn that the results I'm looking for as far as my weight goes will not happen overnight. No, they won't even come after a month, or maybe even six months. If I'm only running to lose weight, then I've got to see that it will take time to see the results. So my goal for running is not weight loss (although I do hope to shed some pounds!). My goal is a lot bigger than that. [Ill get to my goal in a minute.] The third thing I've had to learn is to enjoy running. I really don't know too many people that are always excited about going running, but after they finish their run, they're always pretty pumped up! I've had to learn that there's enjoyment in setting goals and reaching them, pushing yourself beyond points that you never thought you could get past. This helps to fuel my runs.
My biggest motivation for anything is having goals. I have a lot of goals I want to accomplish through running. My first goal is to run a 5k for my birthday next month. I've ran one 5k in the past, and it was awful. I was miserable the whole time and although I ran a good bit of it, my time was exactly what it would have been if I would have just briskly walked the whole thing. I want to do better than that this time. Even if I can't find an official 5k to sign up for around my birthday, Lance and I are going to get out there and run one for my birthday. My other goal is to run a half marathon by the beginning of next year. That statement scares me and excites me at the same time. It's a big goal, but one that I know I can reach.
And now, the last thing that I've learned, is that you have to surround yourself with people who will push you. Lance runs with a couple of other men in our area who have done marathons and they push him to get better. By running with these men, he's improved everything about his runs, and he will continue to learn from them and get better. I love running with Lance because he pushes me and encourages me to get better and to keep going. He sends me pictures of quotes throughout the day that encourage me to keep going. Knowing that someone believes in you is fuel to reach that goal. So while I'm out there running, you can believe that I'm singing my theme song "someday I'll make a runner out of you"!


Posted on	 January 20, 2018 .
20 Home Gadget Gift Ideas to Fit Any Budget"! It's filled with several of the "hot" new smart-home devices, some timeless favorites, and a few items you've probably never heard of.
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