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Q: iCal - can a TimeZone TZID parameter contain a ":" char? In a c++ project, I'm writing a parser to read from and write to .ics files. To do that, I test my parser against several files with a maximum of possible cases, from several sources (gmail, yahoo, ...). Recently I found in a test file a situation that leaves me a little confused, and for which I could not find a satisfactory answer.
One of my test file failed to be imported by my parser. The VEVENT that cause the issue contains the following start date:
DTSTART;TZID=GMT+04:00:20120103T120000

This event match with a VTIMEZONE, that declares his TZID parameter as follow:
TZID:GMT+04:00

AFAIK the ":" char should be instead used as separator, and I suspect that the VTIMEZONE itself is malformed in the sample described above, but I  didn't find any document that explicitly specifies that this situation can never happen. I also noticed that several apps like Thunderbird also fail to import this file, apparently for the same reason.
So my question is: can a TZID parameter in a VTIMEZONE contain a ":" char?
Also, I don't know if I should use the TZID content as a key to extract the ISO date from the DTSTART parameter, or if I do simply reject a such event, tagging it as corrupted, and showing an error message after the importation?

A: The authority on this is RFC5545 and the relevant subsections:
RFC5545 3.2.19.  Time Zone Identifier

tzidparam  = "TZID" "=" [tzidprefix] paramtext

which is complemented by
RFC5545 3.1.  Content Lines

param         = param-name "=" param-value *("," param-value)
param-value   = paramtext / quoted-string
paramtext     = *SAFE-CHAR
[..]
SAFE-CHAR     = WSP / %x21 / %x23-2B / %x2D-39 / %x3C-7E
/ NON-US-ASCII
; Any character except CONTROL, DQUOTE, ";", ":", ","

From which we can conclude that a Time Zone ID parameter cannot contain a ":" char.


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Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Report for the General Federation of Women's Clubs for Fiscal Years 2000 and 1999: GAO-01-895R
Steinhoff, Jeffrey C.
GAO Reports;6/25/2001, p1
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Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Yale School of MedicineObstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Yale Joins NIH Research Network Aimed at Improving Maternal-Fetal Health
High-impact research that makes its way into clinical practice is made possible thanks to large-scale multicenter clinical trials. In obstetrics, much of this research is conducted through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network. Yale School of Medicine (YSM), in collaboration with Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH), has joined the MFMU Network, which supports clinical research to improve the health of mothers and infants.
MFMU was established in 1986 by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to conduct clinical trials in such areas as reducing rates of preterm birth, fetal growth abnormalities, newborn morbidity, and maternal complications of pregnancy. MFMU trials have resulted in such practice-changing advances as the use of late-term steroids to reduce the risk of respiratory problems in newborns and the finding that induction of labor at 39 weeks leads to similar or better outcomes compared to expectant management.
"Yale New Haven Hospital has become nationally known for high-quality clinical care," says MFMU subsite Principal Investigator (PI) Christian Pettker, MD, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at YSM and chief of obstetrics at YNHH, who works with MFMU Site Coordinator Jessica Leventhal. "Joining MFMU puts us at the forefront of obstetrics research that has the potential to lead to better pregnancy outcomes and healthier newborns." Currently the research focus of the MFMU is addressing two of the most important problems in maternal-fetal medicine: preterm birth and obstetric hemorrhage.
Yale is a satellite site of Brown PI Dwight Rouse, MD, with support from Research Coordinator Donna Allard. Nationwide there are 165,000 deliveries in the MFMU of which Yale New Haven Hospital will contribute 6,000 deliveries per year.
"We are committed to compassionate, outstanding care for mothers and babies and we are very excited to be part of the groundbreaking work being accomplished through this national collaborative," said Cynthia Sparer, SVP, operations, YNHH and executive director, Yale New Haven Children's Hospital.
MFMU Network research will draw upon the expertise of many faculty members and staff at Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital. The School of Medicine's Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI) has a firmly established research structure for conducting high-quality, well-monitored, community-based research. Supported by an NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award, YCCI will provide such services as quality control, IT, and minority subject recruitment support through its Cultural Ambassadors program. YNHH's state-of-the-art labor and birth facilities, NICU, and research pharmacy will also play an important role.
"Participating in the leading pregnancy research network in the world speaks to the strong collaboration between the School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital and our joint commitment to providing the best possible care for our patients," says YCCI Co-Director Brian R. Smith, MD, who is also deputy dean for scientific affairs (clinical departments) at YSM.
"I'm excited that Dr. Pettker and his research staff will be performing cutting-edge clinical research at Yale to improve the health of mothers and babies as part of the MFMU Network," says Uma Reddy, MD, MPH, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and division director of maternal-fetal medicine at YSM.
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Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences (Ob/Gyn)
Christian Pettker, MD
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; Chief Patient Safety Officer and Associate Chief Quality Officer, Yale Medicine and Yale New Haven Health; Chief of Obstetrics; Vice Chair of Quality, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Uma Reddy, MD, MPH
Professor Adjunct of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences; Section Chief, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Brian Smith, MD
Professor of Laboratory Medicine, of Biomedical Engineering, of Medicine (Hematology) and of Pediatrics; Director, Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Laboratory Medicine; Deputy Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, Office of the Dean, School of Medicine; Chair, Laboratory Medicine; Co-Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI); Chief, Laboratory Medicine


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What We're Listening To: Soundscapes Folio
IR can't wait to read your sound & place writing for our Summer 2020 Soundscapes Folio! Here's what we're listening to right now, with some tasteful book pairings:
Mariah Gese, Editor in Chief
I recently finished Kraken by China Miéville, and I haven't been able to escape the London he evokes—filled with cults, horror, grime, and fear, ever since a taxidermied giant squid vanished from London's Natural History Museum. A cult of cephalopod worshipers are the suspected culprits, and since their foretold doomsday approaches, London's magical underworld fears this apocalypse may be the real thing. A war erupts in an effort to stop—or bring about—the end of the world. Chelsea Wolfe is the perfect haunted accompaniment, and a great seasonal mood. Her voice moves between soft flutters and guttural screams of noise, propelled by a doom metal drum line to…The End.
Alberto Sveum, Associate Editor
Whether withering in the sun, finding solitude in front of the television, or asking garden slugs about how they view sociability, Snail Mail's 2016 EP Habit is constantly balancing both lethargy and fervor. The opening track "Thinning" exemplifies this quite well. While the lyrics are about sickness and a desire to remain languid, the pop of the snare drum and the recurring guitar riff, somewhat reminiscent of Sonic Youth's "Incinerate," punctuates "Thinning" with a driving purpose. Lindsey Jordan's whirring chord progressions and raw vocals, mellow and atmospheric, are present all throughout the six-song stretch, but nowhere do these tunes turn dull or cliché. "Static Buzz," for example, dwells in a feeling something like sinking, before the drums pick up and Jordan cries out until the song's end. Though Habit is largely an exploration of coming-of-age monotony and introversion, Snail Mail deftly proves that this does not mean the music needs to be tedious or alienating.
Prada knockoffs, Niles from Frasier, privilege. All of this and more makes up the absurd cultural and political landscape that Carmen Giménez Smith sets her sights on in her poetry collection Cruel Futures. Giménez Smith wields irony much like we see in Habit; rather than couple ennui with gain-laden guitar riffs and drum fills, however, these poems approach the absurdity of our current epoch with a critical eye, co-opting pop culture references to offer scathing assessment of where we are. She writes in the title poem, "We're so not-naughty, so tweet-missiles against injustice, but smiling / on the outside, waiting to pay dearly, subject to change." Cruel Futures forces the reader to stop and think about where they are and to turn the corner, away from comfortable pacification, into the tumultuous world.
Soleil Davíd, Poetry Editor
I'm currently teaching Sarah Gambito's Loves You in my poetry class, and it's a sardonic, jubilant collection that utilizes recipes—most of them Filipino food recipes—to complicate, contemplate Filipino/Filipino-American identity, postcoloniality, immigration and family, with the consumption of brown immigrants in this country a definite hum in the background.
The poem "Cento: Don't Eat Filipinos!" uses a Wikipedia article on Filipinos—a sweet snack food sold in European countries, including Spain, which colonized the Philippines for more than 300 years—to make this hum a shout, metaphor turned literal.
Gambito follows the poem with "My Husband's Lychee Macarons" a recipe-poem that begins with the missive, "Instead of eating Filipinos, make these and enjoy." The six-page poem details the gargantuan task of making French macarons from scratch, concluding with instructions to serve the infamously temperamental dessert to a theme song of the reader's choosing. The speaker has recommendations, including Madonna's "Get into the Groove," David Bowie's "Rebel, Rebel," and Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." I love those three songs, and can definitely see myself waltzing into the dining room with a tray of macarons in my hands. But I think I'll choose The National's "All the Wine," to pair with Loves You, because they both capture an inflated sense of accomplishment, a touch of mania that barely covers a sense of utter desolation.
Jenna Wengler, Fiction Editor
While Flynn's other novels (Sharp Objects, Gone Girl) get more attention thanks to their hit screen adaptations, Dark Places is perhaps even harder to put down. As the novel explores rural America and the Satanic panic of the 1980s, protagonist Libby Day must excavate her long-avoided past in order to solve the cold-case behind the murder of her mother and sisters. Not only does Halsey's "Control" feel like the perfect moody backdrop for Dark Places, the lyrics echo many of its driving questions: Who should we be afraid of? How do we grapple with the darkness inside ourselves? And who is in control of the narratives that shape our lives?
L. Renée, Nonfiction Editor
The first few seconds of Lianne La Havas' "Lost & Found" opens with a single piano that I imagine is played in a low lit, cavernous room. At second five, a bass drum knocks on the door of this room and a few delicate acoustic guitar strings answer. The strumming blossoms into the kind of woe that only a shattered heart recognizes as its shadow. Everything, in fact, about this song plays with light and dark. The instruments, paired with haunting vocals, swell and contract. They labor in concert, imploring the listener to face that ever-swinging pendulum between shame and need in the absence of an intimate partner.
Rachel Eliza Griffiths' Lighting The Shadow does much of the same, breathtaking work in poem after poem. The collection traverses immense landscapes of trauma, grief and desire, as well as the determination to survive one's physical and spiritual losses. Repeating images of fire, light and ash are juxtaposed with skin, flesh and blood. "Lighting the shadow, a woman/ crawls out beneath her own war" because, after all, she must persist. Otherwise, as the speaker asks in "The Dead Will Lead You," "Who will embalm our bones?" This was one of the first books of poetry that both astounded and confounded me in the best way — stripped of artifice, I was frighteningly made visible to myself. Lost and found.
Austin Araujo, Prize Editor
I just finished Saidiya Hartman's latest, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, and am still working to gather coherent thoughts about it. Hartman writes beautifully and rigorously, and capably wields both wide and narrow looks at the lives of black women in Philadelphia and New York at the turn of the 20th century, using the scraps and periphery of archives of that time period. What excites me most about the book, and what makes it hard to be in conversation with, is the manner in which Hartman manages to hone in on particular romantic relationships and carefully consider each aspect of their struggles while smoothly transitioning into an exploration of how what some might consider romantic failure is actually a "revolution in a minor key," as Hartman writes. It's a book curious about untangling just how much our notions of what tenderness and the erotic can be are tied up in structural white supremacy and patriarchy, and how black women in particular have suffered and thwarted it.
The song that most often soundtracked that reading experience was Stevie Wonder's "Maybe Your Baby," from his 1972 record Talking Book. Basically, it concerns the speaker's worry that their baby has someone else, namely the speaker's best friend. Melding lament with a funk groove that rides for almost seven minutes, "Maybe Your Baby," culminates with a guitar solo that articulates a similar sort of sorrow that Hartman gets at in Wayward Lives, one entrenched in a dread that love is doomed but that one can still push up against it, can outlast that fright. Listen, at least, to this song for its funky synthesizers.
October 04, 2019 by Indy Review
Tags: 42.1, music, reading recommendations, soundscapes folio, Summer 2020


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FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, July 5, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A pro-life group is back in operation next door to a privately-run abortion mill in New Brunswick's capital city less than two years after a fire gutted its old building.
The blaze started in a third-floor apartment of New Brunswick Right to Life's Mother and Child House, which also housed its Women's Care Centre, at 562 Brunswick Street in downtown Fredericton on the last weekend of July, 2016.
Next door to the pro-life organization was the site of the former Morgentaler abortion center. It's now home to Clinic 554 which performs abortions for $700 to $850, depending on the preborn baby's gestational age.
New Brunswick's pro-lifers were disheartened at the loss of their building next door to the abortion center.
The destruction of the group's building was particularly troubling because the organization was then in the middle of a transition. Long-time executive director Peter Ryan was leaving. Heather Hughes, the association's current top exec, had just taken over the reins.
Office equipment was damaged beyond repair. Files were destroyed by water damage and smoke.
In the wake of the fire, NBRTL moved into a temporary location in downtown Fredericton. It was cramped. The group couldn't offer all its usual services.
Soon it also became clear the fire-gutted three-story house which had been the organization's base of operations was too damaged and too old to make a renovation feasible.
The group decided that to demolish and rebuild at the old location, next door to the abortion center, was the best option.
On the ground floor, New Brunswick Right to Life's Women's Care Centre would – as it had before the fire – offer pregnancy counseling, pregnancy tests, and limited obstetrical ultrasounds. The association's offices were to be on the second floor.
All of this is allowed under the City of Fredericton's zoning bylaw.
Still, there was a snag.
In its application for a building permit, NBRTL had also asked the city for two minor variances. The first was to allow its new home to be 1.9 metres lower than the minimum height allowed, two storeys instead of three. The other variance was to go ahead with only as much parking space as is usually allowed in the city's centre.
With that, the group's plans went to Fredericton's planning advisory committee, a public process. The abortion business next door did not approve of the proposal. Abortion supporters accused the pro-life group of harassment, lying, and interfering with the abortion center's operations. In several emails to the city's planning department, they insisted NBRTL be denied a permit to rebuild and operate next to Clinic 554.
"I watched people from the centre scream at young women, stick their heads inside open car windows and yell at patients' children, try to physically block patients' entrance into the building and lie to patients in order to frighten them out of entering the building," she added.
But Crouchman countered that pro-lifers have the right of assembly and also the right to their religious beliefs.
"If you're intimidated by prayer, by someone who does not share your point of view, that's very sad because that's freedom of speech," she said.
The president of the pro-life group said those trying to prevent the Women's Care Centre from rising from the ashes were well-funded.
"They bring in a great deal of money and we are just a small little group trying to help women," she said.
Despite resistance from pro-abortion advocates, the City of Fredericton nevertheless approved the pro-life group's plans.
Today, the Women's Care Centre is back in operation.
Its new $30,000 ultrasound machine along with other pieces of life-saving equipment will not be operational until the Women's Care Centre officially opens later this year, likely in October.
Despite this, however, the organization is still offering counseling and pregnancy tests. It is now more accessible for the disabled. There is an elevator. And there's air-conditioning, something very much appreciated during the July heatwave.
The space is now custom-designed to meet NBRTL's needs and the needs of every woman seeking help and an alternative to abortion.


This is a life-or-death mission for ONI's black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which is tasked with preventing the rutheless Elites, once the military leaders of the Covenant, from regrouping and threatening humankind again. What began as a routine dirty-tricks operation - keeping the Elites busy with their own insurrection - turns into a desperate bid to extract one member of Kilo-Five from the seething heart of an alien civil war. But troubles never come singly for Kilo-Five. Colonial terrorism is once again surfacing on one of the worlds that survived the war against the Covenant, and the man behind it is much more than just a name to Spartan-010. Meanwhile, the treasure trove of Forerunner technology recovered from the shield world of Onyx is being put to work. And a kidnapped Elite plots vengeance on the humans he fears will bring his people to the brink of destruction.
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A couple of runners today at Salisbury with SWEET PURSUIT (pictured) making a quick return having finished an unlucky second at Goodwood on Tuesday.
Has had a couple of runs at Ffos Las and showed more on his second start but as a son of Champs Elysees he will come into his own next season and should make up into a nice three-year-old handicapper.
Tough Pastoral Pursuits filly who is having an excellent season, racking up a Ffos Las hat-trick before being unlucky on her last two starts. She should have won on Tuesday, but she half missed the kick which left her badly placed in a slowly run race before flying home inside the final furlong to finish second. She is out again 48hrs later but when there are only six runners with £22,000 on offer you need to take a chance when a horse is fit and well. The negatives would be the stronger grade and quicker ground, however, you can never rule out a filly in form and she shouldn't be too far away.


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Automation doesn't consistently work to unlock and/or arm the alarm from the app.
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Open Access Journals: A Great Option for Researchers - By : Held Barbosa De Souza, Marie Stewart, Félix Langevin-Harnois,
Open Access Journals: A Great Option for Researchers
Held Barbosa De Souza
Held Barbosa De Souza Author profile
Held Barbosa de Souza is a librarian at ÉTS. She holds a master's degree in Information Sciences from Université de Montréal, and the subject of her thesis was about the contribution of postdoctoral fellows to the advancement of knowledge.
Marie Stewart
Marie Stewart Author profile
Marie Stewart is a librarian at ÉTS, where she is responsible for Library Department communications and participates in the development of the Espace ÉTS portal and services related to copyright compliance and free access to research.
Félix Langevin-Harnois
Félix Langevin-Harnois Author profile
Félix Langevin Harnois is a librarian at ÉTS and holds a master's degree in Information Sciences from Université de Montréal. He is part of the Paper Writing Help Service's team (SARA) and supervises events and services that are offered.
Open access is an increasingly popular topic in the scientific community, particularly since changes were made to the policies of the three federal granting agencies, stipulating that any articles stemming from funded research must be made available in open access for everyone to read. But did you know that there are two ways to publish an open-access article? And did you know that the green road to open access is the best option for researchers?
Open access is a worldwide movement that encourages researchers to make their papers available online for free and allow everyone to use it for any lawful purpose (Budapest Open Access Initiative, February 14, 2002.
In doing so, this movement promotes access to knowledge for the entire global community. It gives researchers a valuable alternative to commercial scientific publications that have tremendous control over what scientific information gets published—and that charge university libraries increasingly exorbitant subscription fees. (Read more about "The Oligarchy of Major Scholarly Publishers," available in French only).
Open access journals make their articles available for free on the Internet, but most charge authors a publication fee to cover content management and publication costs. Unfortunately, some of these new "publishers" use the system as a profit-making scheme. They approach researchers, flatter them and offer them the opportunity to publish in their journal. But the truth is that these "predatory publishers" will post their papers without putting them through a proper peer review process.
The good news is that other open access journals, like PLoS One, enjoy a very good reputation. So, how can you assess the credibility of journals and recognize the predatory publications among them? Here's what you should do:
See if the journal is listed in Web of Science or Scopus. (For more information about these two databases, read "Analyzing and Assessing Research: Bibliometrics and its Drawbacks";
See if the journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals;
Check out the publisher's website. Be wary of sites that don't provide much information or a clear editorial policy. You should also be suspicious if they promise to publish your article in record time;
Apply the set of good practices presented in the article Pseudo‐Science Publishers: the Latest Pitfalls;
When in doubt, talk to your institution's librarians.
Dissemination methods: green road and gold road
Open access is often associated with free journals that are available online only and sometimes charge authors a considerable sum for having their work published. But that's just one open access method. Called the "gold road" to open access, it refers to a model by which the publisher is responsible for making the paper freely accessible.
The other method for open access publishing involves self-archiving by the authors who deposit their papers to an institutional repository. This is called the green road to open access.
There are two ways of finding out which method a journal uses. First, you can check the journal's website and try to find information on their sharing policies. The other method is to search the Sherpa/Romeo directory which contains the sharing policies of many scientific journals. If the information is not available, chances are that the journal does not permit open access in any way.
This table summarizes the differences between the gold and green roads to open access:
For some researchers, the green road to open access introduces unknown territory, particularly concerning the publication process. The infographic below was created by the management team at Espace ÉTS, the institutional repository at ÉTS. It outlines what authors need to do if they want to use the Green road to open access.
Journals of the Green road each have their own policies about self-archiving of papers in institutional repositories. Note that this information should be provided on the publisher's website and the Sherpa/Romeo directory. Publishers usually indicate which version of the article may be self-archived and whether an embargo applies (for example, you may have to wait 12 months after the journal publication before you can make your paper available).
What version of my paper is allowed?
Here are the different versions of articles at the different stages in the scientific publishing process:
Many of the journals indexed by the Scopus and Web of Science databases subscribe to the green road to open access method. That's why so many researchers naturally turn to these journals to publish their papers. In 2015 here at ÉTS, a large proportion of articles were published in green road to open access journals, even though the institution doesn't have a guiding policy on submitting papers to journals that allow self-archiving by authors.
Proportion of articles published by ÉTS professors in 2015 for each open access road permitted by the publisher
Open access and article impact
Several experts believe that the green road is the best means of sharing knowledge. First, it's free for the author. Second, the article is available to a broader audience because the content of institutional repositories can be harvested by web search engines, and this in turn increases the chances that the article will be cited. Studies have shown that articles available in institutional repositories are generally cited more often than those that are not (Gargouri et al. 2010). Furthermore, three of the tips included in the article "10 Tips for Increasing the Visibility of Your Publications" are directly related to self-archiving (green road to open access).
Citations are used to assess the scientific impact of a researcher or scientific community. This impact is a central pillar of bibliometrics and research assessments.
For more information on this subject, read "Analyzing and Assessing Research: Bibliometrics and its Drawbacks."
Articles that are available in institutional repositories are generally cited more often than those that are not.
Do you have questions about the information presented in this article? If so, talk to the librarians at your institution. If you are an ÉTS researcher, contact us at [email protected] or visit Espace ÉTS, our institutional repository, to deposit your articles.
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Gargouri, Y., Hajjem, C., Larivière, V., Gingras, Y., Carr, L. Brody, T., Harnad, S. (2010). Open access, whether self-selected or mandated, increases citation impact, especially for higher quality research. PLoS ONE, 5(10): e13636. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013636.
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Last night, 17-year-old Chloe Kim won the gold medal in the women's halfpipe, and in doing so, became the Olympic hero we all need right now. Between all three of her staggeringly impressive runs, Kim was tweeting about how she regretted not finishing her breakfast sandwich, worried that choice might make her "hangry," and how she could "really use some ice cream rn." All. While. Competing.
Kim headed to PyeongChang with so much heat she was basically a human flame. Four years ago at the ripe age of 13, her age kept her from competing in the Olympics despite being one of the best snowboarders in the entire world. Despite the pressure, Kim set the bar impossibly high on her first run by landing a backside air, frontside 1080, cab 720, frontside 900, McTwist and frontside inverted 720, scoring a 93.75. I don't even know what most of those things are, but they were truly insane to witness. Her second run wasn't as flawless, but her first score was so good that all the other competitors spent the rest of their runs vying for silver and bronze. Kim took to the pipe for what was a ostensibly a victory lap, throwing up a mind-boggling score of 98.25... just for kicks.
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Longford man who threw stones through shop window ordered to pay compensation
Judge Seamus Hughes.
A man who appeared at last week's sitting of Longford District Court charged in connection with damage caused to a local shop was ordered to pay €200 in compensation before matters will be brought to a conclusion.
Joe Campbell (48), 8 Great Water Street, Longford appeared before Judge Seamus Hughes charged with damaging two front windows of Shahje Continental Foods at Great Water Street, Longford on November 29, 2017.
He was also further charged with being intoxicated and engaging in threatening, abusive and insulting words or behaviour at Great Water Street, Longford on November 29 last and of failing to comply with the orders of An Garda Síochána at Great Water street, Longford on November 11, 2017.
Outlining the evidence to the court, Inspector Blaithín Moran said that on the date in question at approximately 8:30pm, gardaí were called to the shop in the Great Water Street area of Longford town after it emerged that the defendant had thrown two stones through the premises' front window.
The Inspector said that €200 worth of damage had been caused in the incident.
"On November 29, 2017, gardaí received a call that Mr Campbell was abusing the owner of the same store and when gardaí went there, they found the defendant to be intoxicated," Inspector Moran continued.
"Mr Campbell was also very abusive and was shouting at a member of the public.
"He was very abusive and was intimidating other people.
"He was subsequently arrested."
Meanwhile, the court heard from the defendant's solicitor Bríd Mimnagh who said that her client was having "difficulties" with a number of parties who also lived in and around the Great Water Street area of Longford town.
"He has been living there for four years and there is a number of people who he had been friendly with and now there are problems with those people," Ms Mimnagh added.
"He has a sister with difficulties and he told them about her, but now those people are saying that his sister is the way she is because he abused her."
The local solicitor went on to tell the court that while her client drank too much "now and again", he was a decent man who was simply trying to get on with his life.
"These people are giving Joe a really hard time, but he is staying quiet now and not reacting to them," Ms Mimnagh continued, before pointing out that as recently as last weekend, the people involved had been giving her client "the finger" in public.
During his ruling on the matter Judge Hughes said that he wanted €200 for the shop owner whose windows Mr Campbell had broken.
The Judge also pointed out to the defendant that if there was any further trouble, he would send him to prison.
"Bite your bottom lip Mr Campbell and turn the other cheek; if there is problems leave it to the Gardaí to sort it out," Judge Hughes said before ordering the defendant to furnish the €200 compensation to the court on March 6 next.


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Does No Physician Report Mean No Supplemental Job Displacement Benefit?
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The following is a guest blog post by Michael W. Sullivan of Michael Sullivan & Associates LLP, an aggressive workers' compensation defense firm with offices throughout California. Mr. Sullivan is a bar-certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation Law.
An employee who suffers residual effects from an injury and can't return to work is entitled to a supplemental job displacement benefit. The benefit comes in the form of a nontransferable voucher, and often is simply referred to as the "voucher." An employer's duty to investigate liability for the voucher is triggered by a Physician's Return to Work & Voucher report (RTW Report). If there's no RTW Report, does that mean an employer can't be liable for the voucher?
Before 2013, an employer was liable for the voucher if it didn't offer permanent, modified, or alternative work meeting certain requirements within 30 days of the termination of temporary disability indemnity payments. Because temporary disability payments often ended before an employee was deemed to be permanent and stationary, the Legislature changed the point at which the benefit is triggered.
For injuries on or after January 1, 2013, Lab C §4658.7(b)(1) requires an employer to offer regular, modified, or alternative work
"no later than 60 days after receipt by the claims administrator of the first report received from either the primary treating physician, an agreed medical evaluator, or a qualified medical evaluator, in the form created by the administrative director…finding that the disability from all conditions for which compensation is claimed has become permanent and stationary and that the injury has caused permanent partial disability."
Conforming regulations require a RTW Report (Form DWC-AD 10133.36) in which a physician must specify an injured employee's work restrictions. 8 Cal Code of Regs §10133.31(b). This is intended to make it easier for employers to know when to begin investigating whether work is available to an injured worker and delineate the work restrictions to consider.
But physicians frequently fail to complete the RTW Report. In fact, it's common for an injured worker to be declared permanent and stationary without the form being completed by a physician. If an employer's duty to investigate liability for the voucher is never triggered by the report, can an employer ever be liable for the voucher?
In Fndkyan v Opus One Labs (Feb. 28, 2019, ADJ10079944) 2019 Cal Wrk Comp P.D. Lexis 51, the WCAB held that it could. The WCAB recognized that the RTW Report is described by §4658.7(h)(2) as a "mandatory attachment" to a medical report. But because it was undisputed that the defendant received the qualified medical examiner report, which informed the defendant that the applicant was permanent and stationary and of the applicant's work capabilities and restrictions, it would "place form over substance" to also require the RTW Report. So, even though no RTW Report was sent to the defendant, the applicant was entitled to the voucher.
This decision can still be challenged because the Labor Code and administrative regulations specify that an employer's liability for the voucher is triggered by receipt of the RTW Report. In Honeywell v WCAB (Wagner) (2005) 35 C4th 24, the California Supreme Court explained that when a statute is clear and unambiguous, the WCAB may not depart from it. Thus, because §4658.7(b)(1) specifies that the 60-day period starts on receipt of the RTW Report, employers may argue that liability for the voucher also doesn't begin until they receive the RTW Report.
But 8 Cal Code of Regs §10109 requires a claims administrator to "conduct a reasonable and timely investigation upon receiving notice or knowledge of an injury or claim for workers' compensation benefits." A reasonable investigation must try to get the information needed to determine and provide benefits. So, if an employer receives information that an employee may be entitled to the voucher, it must try to get information needed to determine whether the voucher must be provided.
The bottom line: If an employer receives a permanent and stationary report from a physician, but the physician doesn't complete a RTW Report, the employer may request one if it doesn't have enough information to determine whether permanent, modified, or alternative work is available. On receipt of the RTW Report, the employer would then have 60 days to make an offer of work. But, if an employer receives the necessary information to make an offer of work, even if it's not on the required form, it can't avoid liability for the voucher by its own inaction.
Michael Sullivan's 16-chapter treatise, Sullivan on Comp, a preeminent resource in the field, is now available online, with links to primary law, in CEB's Workers' Compensation OnLAW Library.
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The rich man's anti-New Deal coalition called itself the Liberty League. It formed in 1934 with du Pont gunpowder and the Morgan banking money behind it. The league foreshadowed Sheldon Adelson, the Koch brothers and Karl Rove "Super PACS." The du Ponts alone poured almost a million dollars into the 1936 Republican campaign, money used in some cases to incite racism and facism. Then, as now, there were no effective limits on campaign contributions. Shadowy groups that acted on their own gave the league the cover of deniability. Officially, it promised an "unremitting" fight against "government encroachment upon the rights of citizens." The script hasn't changed.
Other distant echoes reverberate in this year's campaign. Lammot du Pont argued that "all government regulation of business . . . should be abolished." He pressed his case in millions of pamphlets and the new technology of radio, harnessed via nationwide broadcasts made on purchased time.
Irenee du Pont crafted an early version of the makers vs. takers case when he said, "The Roosevelt administration practices the socialistic maxim 'work like hell so that the parasites may get the benefit of your labor." When Roosevelt and the Democrats complained about the yawning gap between the richest Americans and all the rest, Republicans charged them with waging class warfare. That script remains the same as well.
"Down with government" is today's Republican campaign in a nutshell. Otherwise, all of Smith's 1936 accusations were voiced in the Republican primary campaign and are daily fare on Fox News and the rest of the right-wing talk machine.
The 2012 campaign is the latest front in an eighty-year war. Republicans see this year as the best chance they've had to do what they've been trying to do for all those years: take down the New Deal. Once again, they have unlimited cash with almost no restrictions on how to spend it, few serious foreign policy distractions, and an economy that (with their help) resists efforts to revive it. With the unions reeling, the double-speak narrative they've shaped that blames government for both overspending and a lack of jobs, and a Supreme Court that's as conservative as any since the early 1930s, the GOP wants to use this election to alter what have been fundamental facts of life for most Americans for at least three generations.
But a growing youth and ethnic population means it may be the last attempt to roll back the social and financial progress enjoyed by the larger population since the Great Depression. That – and the money funneled into this campaign by those who want to return to what Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called the "old order" – is the reason this is the most vicious, intemperate, thuggish campaign from the right since 1936.


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Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, known as the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill. It was founded towards the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest of England. The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by William the Conqueror in 1078, and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by the new ruling elite. The castle was used as a prison from 1100 (Ranulf Flambard) until 1952 (Kray twins), although that was not its primary purpose. A grand palace early in its history, it served as a royal residence. As a whole, the Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat. There were several phases of expansion, mainly under Kings Richard the Lionheart, Henry III, and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layout established by the late 13th century remains despite later activity on the site. (from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Tower)
One of the tour guides at the Tower of London - retired military offices are specifically selected and given quarters at the tower. One of the tour guides at the Tower of London - retired military offices are specifically selected and given quarters at the tower.
The armory at. The armory at.
Upper view of the armory. Upper view of the armory.
Looking down into the courtyard from the armory. Looking down into the courtyard from the armory.
Henry VIII suit of armor. Henry was a large man for the times standing about 6' tall. Henry VIII suit of armor. Henry was a large man for the times standing about 6' tall.
Side view of Henry's suit. Side view of Henry's suit.
Guard outside the jewel vault at the Tower. He's wearing a traditional uniform but notice his rifle is modern, and loaded. Guard outside the jewel vault at the Tower. He's wearing a traditional uniform but notice his rifle is modern, and loaded.
The same guard at his post. The same guard at his post.
Residences within the courtyard. Residences within the courtyard.
More resicences within the courtyard. More resicences within the courtyard.
Panoramic view of the Tower of Londow from a pub across the street. Panoramic view of the Tower of Londow from a pub across the street.
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Every holiday should have its own designated Sangria, right? This Christmas Sangria is tart, yet has a hint of sweet and has Christmas written all over it with the beautiful red cranberries and a sprig of fresh Rosemary. The Rosemary is the perfect touch, bringing a Christmas aroma while you sip on the Sangria. This Christmas Sangria also has a hint of bubbly to it with the Ginger Ale. The Pinot Grigio and unsweetened cranberry juice perfectly balance the sweetness of the Ginger Ale.
Sip on this Christmas Sangria while wrapping presents, or maybe while sitting in front of the fire on Christmas Eve. Sounds so peaceful, right? Or sip on this while the kids are running around screaming and your in-laws are staying for the holiday weekend. Whatever the situation, this drink will bring you peace and joy. Ha!
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"Being in the moment it was not a scary moment... it was a cool moment. I was face-to-face with those majestic creatures. It was incredibly eye opening because I was always terrified of great white sharks, but being in the water with them, being within their habitat, they don't look like big, monstrous creatures - they're beautiful, peaceful and serene," Blake said in a statement.
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The actress was initially hesitant to jump into the water
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Actress Blake Lively had to shoot with white sharks for her film The Shallows. She says it was not a scary, but a cool moment.
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She added: "In the movie, I'm not thinking of the shark as an attacker - the shark is a remarkable creature, simply trying to survive."
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Germany has been a significant beneficiary of the world's post-war prosperity, enjoying rapid industrial growth via its world-class export industry. But the global order is changing rapidly and Berlin has found itself caught in the crossfire of the trade war. With demand for new vehicles in structural decline as fewer young people sit driving tests, it appears that the German economy is heading for a period of significant turmoil – whatever the Brexit outcome.
Last week, the Federal German government slashed its growth forecast for 2019 once more, with GDP now expected to expand a pedestrian 0.8pc over the year. This is a steep haircut from its original projection of 1.8pc. A substantial amount of the German success story is down to its car industry, which makes up around 16pc of total exports and employs more than 820,000 Germans directly. The car industry had been hit hard by a slowdown in the global economy and the "dieselgate" scandal where emissions data was falsified; but things could be about to get worse as tensions between Washington and Berlin deteriorate.
Last week, the Federal German government slashed its growth forecast for 2019 once more, with GDP now expected to expand a pedestrian 0.8pc over the year. This is a steep haircut from its original projection of 1.8pc. A substantial amount of the German success story is down to its car industry, which makes up around 16pc of total exports and employs more than 820,000 Germans directly. The car industry had been hit hard by a slowdown in the global economy and the "dieselgate" scandal where emissions data was falsified. But things could be about to get worse as tensions between Washington and Berlin deteriorate.
Donald Trump is unhappy about large imports of German vehicles into the US and, last month, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross completed a report on whether imported vehicles posed a "national-security risk". President Trump has 90 days to respond, but he is unlikely to act until there is a resolution with China, as action on two fronts will upset markets significantly. But once a deal with China is agreed, the Germans should be worried. The EU estimated in June last year that a 25pc tariff would add about €10,000 (£8,503) to the price of a car made in the EU and sold in the US, and it would cut American purchases of vehicles and parts by half.
Because of this backdrop, you would expect that the Germans to act in a manner that would not antagonise the thin-skinned occupant of the Oval Office. After all, the US is Germany's largest export market and vital to its economic health. However, China is the country's third largest export destination after France – and offers substantial long-term growth potential as it continues to develop.
The trade war is really about a clash of values between China and America, but Germany has been unyielding to American demands relating to Huawei. Last week, Washington threatened Germany with a reduction in intelligence sharing if it allowed the Chinese company's equipment to be installed in its 5G networks. Angela Merkel's economic advisor Lars-Hendrik Roller was recently sent to China to try and negotiate a "no-spying" agreement that would allow Huawei's technology to be installed, but the value of such an agreement is moot. Nevertheless, Germany's actions will be regarded by the Trump administration as a refusal to pick sides in what Washington hawks have dubbed the "new cold war".
Adding to the tensions between Washington and Berlin is Nord Stream 2, a gas pipeline between Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea. It has become so much of an issue between the Trump administration and Germany that Washington hinted this week it could slap sanctions on companies involved in its construction. Reports suggest that "a tougher stance" is already being prepared by Washington ahead of the pipeline's completion later this year. Russia currently supplies around 40pc of the EU's gas supplies, just ahead of Norway. However, the pipeline will increase European reliance on Russia significantly and the project has been described as an "energy weapon" that could be used by Vladimir Putin to hold the EU to ransom. After all, the Russians have form on this front. Mr Putin cut off all gas flowing through its pipelines through Ukraine in 2006 as part of a political and pricing dispute. An additional reason for the Americans to be against the pipeline is President Trump's ambitions on energy exports. The US is expected to overtake Saudi Arabia later this year as the world's leading energy exporter and Germany could have been a significant market for US liquefied natural gas if it wasn't cosying up to Russia. Critics of the project argue that the Germans have fallen into a Russian "trap" – and they are not necessarily wrong.
Yet another source of friction is agriculture. A food fight between the EU and US looks almost certain, despite a truce being declared last year after European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker held direct talks with President Trump. But this détente could end very soon. On Tuesday, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told Congress that discussions with the EU had reached a "complete stalemate" with over intractable agricultural demands. "The United States can't have a trade agreement with Europe that doesn't deal with agriculture, and their view is that they can't have one that does," Mr Lighthizer told the Senate Finance Committee. If agriculture becomes a major sticking point – and it appears likely that it will considering Donald Trump's significant support in the farming states, tariffs on German cars seem almost inevitable.
Germany therefore looks quite vulnerable to US action later this year once a deal is agreed with China. Mrs Merkel must be hoping that Donald Trump's comments on Wednesday that he was in "no rush" to complete a trade pact with China are true rather than a negotiating tactic. Unfortunately for her, I think they are the latter.
A version of this article originally appeared in the Daily Telegraph.


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Ready Player One: Why is there no reference to Spielberg's cinema in the film?
In 2018, Steven Spielberg came back in force with the staging of "Ready Player One". With this impressive blockbuster, the filmmaker has everyone agree. Yet he chose not to make any reference to his own films.
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Ready Player One : a golden adaptation
In 2018, the filmmaker Steven Spielberg chooses the actors Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn and Mark Rylance to shoot in his new film: Ready Player One. Adapted from the novel by Ernest Cline published in 2011, the feature film was a resounding success. Ready Player One has been nominated for one Oscar cover (in the Best Visual Effects category) and has mostly brought in over $ 582 million in box office revenue.
Parzival / Wade (Tye Sheridan) – Ready Player One © Warner Bros
Thus, the concept of the film, and more broadly of the book, is to offer an astronomical amount of references and easter-eggs to popular 1980s film culture. Yet, paradoxically, there is a great lack in Ready Player One : Steven Spielberg's own cinema.
The return of the 1980s
Ready Player One is full of references to 1980s cinema. Shining To King Kong, Passing by Chucky, There is something for every taste. If almost all references from the film evoke the atmosphere of the 1980s, it's not for nothing. This is because Ernest Cline is a huge fan of the cinema of that time:
James Halliday designed his game around his tastes, and that got me very excited because I thought his passions could mirror mine. The 1980s were the most memorable of my life because they corresponded to my adolescence. It was around this time that I received my first video game console and my first computer. We were at the dawn of the Internet. I wondered if the book would only appeal to people of my generation nostalgic for the 1980s. But it wasn't, because it also talks about our current way of life.
Ready Player One © Warner Bros
And who better than Steven Spielberg to represent the cinema of the 1980s? And yet, if he does well Ready Player One, none of his films are mentioned in the feature film. Steven Spielberg willfully omitted to quote his own works in his own film. The director, for the sake of humility, preferred to remove all mentions of his films in the adaptation of Ernest Cline's novel. And yet, for the author, Steven Spielberg is the greatest source of inspiration for his novel:
It is difficult to assess the considerable influence of Steven Spielberg's career on my life and interests, but I could not have written 'Player One' if I had not seen all of his films when I was a kid. As for all those who were passionate about cinema from childhood in the 1970s and 80s, his work runs through my veins. His films ended up inspiring many aspects of the plot and my storytelling style, and there are obvious clues to that throughout the book.
The feature film quickly became a benchmark. Ernest Cline also released a sequel in 2020, soberly titled Ready Player Two. It is rumored that Warner Bros would already like to adapt it to the cinema. As for Ready Player One, the film can be found tonight on TMC.
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