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LAND AND BUILDINGS TRANSACTION TAX – WHERE ARE WE NOW?
Mixed transactions – more residential than you might think?
In addition, following the UK Budget but in advance of its Scottish equivalent, the seminar will mention the increasing divergence between LBTT and SDLT; and examine whether SDLT changes may be replicated for Scotland.
The new tax has increased the demands on those whose primary work is in conveyancing and other land services. This seminar is intended to assist those who have no wish to become tax specialists, but need to know how to deal with situations that have become more complex and expensive for their clients than they might wish. A must for all those involved in real estate.
As a feature of this seminar, the speaker will attempt to address some points and questions put in advance by those attending.
The learning outcomes and objectives are that (i) by the end of the seminar, participants should have a sound knowledge and understanding of all major developments surrounding the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax since its introduction and (ii) through the provision of extensive materials, should be equipped to undertake such further study of developments as they may find necessary or desirable.


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Siberia's Deadly Anthrax Outbreak
Melted permafrost that exposed an infected reindeer carcass is believed to have resulted in the cases that killed a 12-year-boy and sickened eight others.
By Krishnadev Calamur
Reindeers and herders at a farm in Siberia's Tundra on the Yamal peninsula in November 2007 (Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters)
NEWS BRIEFA heatwave in Siberia is believed to have melted permafrost, exposing the carcass of a reindeer infected with anthrax, resulting in the first outbreak of the deadly bacterial disease in the Russian tundra since 1941. The result: A 12-year-old boy is dead and eight others are sick.
The boy and several other indigenous people were evacuated from western Siberia, where the outbreak was detected. He died at a hospital in Salekhard, the capital of the Yamalo-Nenetsk Autonomous Area, which has been under quarantine since the outbreak was declared last week, Russia Today, the state-run English-language broadcaster, reported.
"We are 90 percent sure that he died from anthrax," Dmitry Kobylkin, Yama's governor, told TASS, the Russian news agency. "He had the intestinal form of the disease, which is harder to diagnose."
A scientist who spoke to Agence France-Presse and a physician interviewed by Russia Today both said recent high temperatures in the region, which have touched 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius), likely melted the permafrost, exposing the carcass of an already-infected reindeer. Other reindeer in the area could have contracted the disease from the carcass, they said. More from Russia Today:
More than two thousand of those deer have already died, all of them in the Yamalo-Nenetsky area. This territory is located above the Arctic Circle, and is generally known for a very long winter that lasts up to 8 months, and extremely low temperatures, reaching -70 degrees Celsius.
A total of 90 people, half of them children, were taken to hospital after being evacuated from the remote area where the infection spread. Most of them tested negative for the disease.
Most of the people who live in the area herd reindeer.
Siberia Today reported that healthy animals from the affected herd will undergo additional vaccination. The dead animals will be burned separately, it reported.
Anthrax, which is caused by Bacillus anthracis, can be treated with antibiotics. Those most at risk are people who handle animal carcasses.

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Gibby Thomas elected Valedictorian
Gibby Thomas
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The Class of 2019 elected Gibby Thomas (12) last Friday as the valedictorian who will deliver a commencement speech at this year's Upper Division Graduation.
"I was very grateful to see that people thought highly enough of me to vote for me," Thomas said.
"I find it interesting that our valedictorian system involves students voting rather than selecting the person with the highest GPA," Hannah Long (12) said. "The valedictorian should represent our grade, so it makes sense that the grade chooses someone they feel can best represent them and their high school experience."
Nicholas Perry, the Dean of the Class of 2019, has been thrilled about the whole process of the valedictorian election, he said.
"The valedictorian is supposed to give a speech recognizing the experience of the class as a whole," Perry said. "That the class decided to recognize Gibby, who has worked so hard to add life to the school in so many different ways, was extra special," he said.
Janvi Kukreja (12) believes that Thomas best represents the Class 2019 because she is close with everyone in the grade, she said.
"If you are walking in the hallway with her, she will say hi to every single person," Kukreja said. "She has a really good sense of what everyone in the grade likes and how they've progressed throughout the four years."
"I believe it is important to have some sort of relationship with everyone, and I think perhaps that's why I was selected to represent my grade," Thomas said.
In her commencement speech, Thomas hopes to address how grateful she is for all the faculty members and classmates who have helped her during her high school experience, she said.
"The reason I love Horace Mann is because of the students and the faculty, and I want to make sure to convey that in my speech," Thomas said.
"Gibby has been everywhere. She's a presence in the classroom, on the tennis courts, in the theatre, as a mentor and tour guide, with her friends and classmates," Perry said. In all of her roles, she genuinely wants the best for the community around her. [Her] unfailing sense of curiosity, kindness, and fun…is essential to the class, he said.
Thomas will also try her best to represent the many aspects of her grade in her speech, keeping in mind the diversity of the Class of 2019, she said.
Allen Park (12), a close friend of Thomas, believes that she represents a great balance between athletics, academics, and social awareness, he said. "Her ability to handle everything so well while also being friendly with everyone respects the best traits in our grade."
In addition to such talents, Thomas's special ability to make everybody in the class laugh is invaluable, Young Joon Kim (12) said.
Hannah Long (12) is excited to have Thomas as the valedictorian, she said.
"I was honored to co-captain the tennis team with her just because she is just so positive, enthusiastic, fun, and friendly to everyone," Long said. "It's honestly no surprise that she has become close with so many people in our grade."
Thomas' election did not come as a surprise to many members of the grade, Nader Granmayeh (12).
"I'm really happy for her," Granmayeh said. "She's a great member of the class, nice, and thoughtful, and I know she'll give a great speech. Everybody knows that she'll take it very seriously and put a lot of work into it," he said.
"Everyone in our grade is very close to each other, and I want to make sure to convey that in my speech, as it is what makes us so special," Thomas said.
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Smith and Anthony transferring to pursue basketball
Javaid Khan '92 named Head of Middle Division
The Horace Mann Record
Parli concludes season with powerful finish
Model Congress gathers gavels at Dalton tournament
Chou's performance brings comfort women's stories to life
College Board announces Environmental Context Dashboard
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Relay for Life rallies against cancer
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Students and faculty participate in school-wide accreditation process
Diversity conference inspires students
Ben Hu (12) named Presidential Scholar


I have been doing crazy things with my skin for a long time now. I grew up with a lot of skin issues that left me feeling really insecure, so I've always been pretty high strung when it comes to skincare. There was a point in elementary school where I would use an electric toothbrush over all of my flaws for five minutes at a time and ended up with bruise-like rashes ALL over my face. I'm a lot more chill than that now obviously, but just for some context.
I definitely heap on the products at night then let my skin take a breather in the morning. I start my mornings off with a quick wash of Boscia's Makeup Breakup cleansing oil then apply a layer of Maude's eye serum. I love the eye serum because its not heavy like a lot of other products which actually helps my face not puff up. Then I apply a liberal coat of Skin Drink from Lush occasionally mixed with some of the The Face drops from Luxe Tan. I don't apply sunscreen and yes, I know, I am crazy. I just want to feel the sun rays on my skin and maybe get a little tan. I know. Editor's note: we don't condone this! Still trying to convince her to at least wear makeup with SPF.
At night the real ritual begins. I start with double cleansing, again with the Boscia Makeup Breakup cleanser. Then I go in with a toner that also exfoliates, which right now is the Pixi Glow Tonic. I give my skin a minute to absorb, then I apply a layer of retinol. I'm using Differin gel right now but I'm trying to slink my way into a prescription. Next is Maude's eye serum again, followed with Maude's collagen firming serum. I sometimes switch this one out for Maude's vitamin c serum and dermaroll it in. I do that maybe once a week or whenever I'm feeling kinda spotty. Your flaws just flake off! I end my ritual with another heaping dose of Skin Drink by Lush. And a little bit of a lash serum on my brows and lashes, but I haven't found the one for me yet and Latisse is like $3 per day or something heinous like that.
I sort of hate makeup, I think because I haven't figured out how to use it. I like it to look pretty invisible, so I keep a pretty simple routine. I start off with the Urban Decay Naked Skin Color Corrector in the peach tone for under my eyes and follow with maybe half a pump of Fenty foundation which I use in a darker tone than my actual skin tone to bronze up my face. I have always had an issue with tinted moisturizers because I've always been like "just use less foundation!" Then I do the lightest contour in the world with Kat Von D's Shade and Light Palette just using the lightest color. I follow with a bit of an Elf highlighter I found at TJ Maxx on the tops of my cheeks. I recently started filling in my brows, just the ends, but honestly I just use an angled brush made for gel liner and some matte brown shadow, nothing special. I also have up-ed my eye game since I recently cut off all my hair in an attempt to manifest Jean Seberg vibes. I used to just tightline with some brown liner then run a pink-ish mauve-ish color under my eyes to brighten them, which I still do. Now, however, I also add a light brown to my crease and a light coat of mascara in order to defend my femininity in the wake of short hair. I'm usually a bit too lazy to do anything with my lips, honestly, so this is where I usually stop.
Like I said, I recently cut off all my hair, so I don't have a lot to say about hair at this point. I kind of just wash it whenever I want, using Lush's purple shampoo from my bleach blonde days. Sometimes I moisturize using Lush's R&B cream which I couldn't recommend more. In the morning, I basically have to get it completely wet using a spray bottle and force it down into something reasonable. I got this Gentlemen's Tonic Matte Paste that I use to glue down the really unkempt parts, but really that's about it. Any tips for growing out a pixie cut?
I love fragrance and I love feeling buttery soft. Nothing feels better than when people brush your skin say, "Wow! You're really soft!" I shower at night, another new development in my life, and use Lush's Karma soap on a biodegradable sponge. I follow either with Lush's Scrubee in the shower or hop out, apply a heap of almond oil, and body brush for a full five minutes. I try to even out these days, but one of these is obviously easier than the other and ends up being my go to (it's the bee). In the morning, I use Lush's Karma Kream sometimes mixed with Tan Luxe's The Body drops. Then for fragrance I use a little bit of Karma solid perfume then a few precious spritzes of Diptyque's Figuir, which is actually my dream scent but is also very pricey indeed.


Delegates James Malone Jr. and Steven DeBoy Sr. are denying reports they threatened to derail a business tax credit benefiting non-public and public schools as a way of pressuring Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien to keep open the "more successful" Catholic schools slated for closure.
Investigative Voice, a local online news site, reported March 13 that during a recent community meeting at Ascension School in Halethorpe, the delegates cited the bill as an example of legislation they and other lawmakers could stall to prevent the closures.
The legislation, known as BOAST – Building Opportunities for All Students and Teachers in Maryland – would grant businesses a 75 percent state income tax credit for donations to scholarship organizations for nonpublic school students. It would also support enrichment programs in public schools and professional development for public and private school teachers.
Gov. Martin J. O'Malley is among the bill's supporters who believe passage of the bill would help prevent future Catholic schools from closing.
Del. Malone also told The Catholic Review that he "never, ever said anything" like what was reported in the Investigative Voice. Like Del. DeBoy, he pledged he would vote for BOAST if it makes it to the House floor.
Alan Z. Forman, reporter for the Investigative Voice, told The Catholic Review his reporting was accurate.
"We stand by everything in our story 100 percent," he said.
Del. DeBoy and Del. Malone, Democrats who represent Baltimore and Howard Counties, told The Catholic Review that they both are longtime BOAST sponsors.
"I don't know how much more you can do than being a sponsor to let everyone know how you feel about it," Del. Malone said.
Both delegates have raised concerns about the archdiocese's plan for consolidation of Catholic schools.
As The Catholic Review went to press, the full Senate was expected to pass the BOAST bill March 17. Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien and Casper R. Taylor Jr., former speaker of the House of Delegates, were to testify in support of BOAST during a March 17 hearing in a house committee.


This is an interpolation function for the given dof handler and the given solution vector. The points at which this function can be evaluated MUST be inside the domain of the dof handler, but except from this, no other requirement is given. This function is rather slow, as it needs to construct a quadrature object for the point (or set of points) where you want to evaluate your finite element function. In order to do so, it needs to find out where the points lie.
If you know in advance in which cell your points lie, you can accelerate things a bit, by calling set_active_cell before asking for values or gradients of the function. If you don't do this, and your points don't lie in the cell that is currently stored, the function GridTools::find_cell_around_point is called to find out where the point is. You can specify an optional mapping to use when looking for points in the grid. If you don't do so, this function uses a Q1 mapping.
Once the FEFieldFunction knows where the points lie, it creates a quadrature formula for those points, and calls FEValues::get_function_values or FEValues::get_function_gradients with the given quadrature points.
If you only need the quadrature points but not the values of the finite element function (you might want this for the adjoint interpolation), you can also use the function compute_point_locations alone.
// from some place. Assume that tria_2 is *entirely* included in tria_1.
The snippet of code above will work assuming that the second triangulation is entirely included in the first one.
FEFieldFunction is designed to be an easy way to get the results of your computations across different, possibly non matching, grids. No knowledge of the location of the points is assumed in this class, which makes it rely entirely on the GridTools::find_active_cell_around_point utility for its job. However the class can be fed an "educated guess" of where the points that will be computed actually are by using the FEFieldFunction::set_active_cell method, so if you have a smart way to tell where your points are, you will save a lot of computational time by letting this class know.
When using this class with a parallel distributed triangulation object and evaluating the solution at a particular point, not every processor will own the cell at which the solution is evaluated. Rather, it may be that the cell in which this point is found is in fact a ghost or artificial cell (see GlossArtificialCell and GlossGhostCell). The solution can be evaluated on ghost cells, but for artificial cells we have no access to the solution there and functions that evaluate the solution at such a point will trigger an exception of type VectorTools::ExcPointNotAvailableHere.
Definition at line 162 of file fe_field_function.h.
Typedef holding the local cell_hint.
Definition at line 444 of file fe_field_function.h.
Construct a vector function. A smart pointers is stored to the dof handler, so you have to make sure that it make sense for the entire lifetime of this object. The number of components of this functions is equal to the number of components of the finite element object. If a mapping is specified, that is what is used to find out where the points lay. Otherwise the standard Q1 mapping is used.
Set the current cell. If you know in advance where your points lie, you can tell this object by calling this function. This will speed things up a little.
Get one vector value at the given point. It is inefficient to use single points. If you need more than one at a time, use the vector_value_list() function. For efficiency reasons, it is better if all the points lie on the same cell. This is not mandatory, however it does speed things up.
When using this function on a parallel::distributed::Triangulation you may get an exception when trying to evaluate the solution at a point that lies on an artificial cell (see GlossLocallyOwnedCell). See the section in the general documentation of this class for more information.
Reimplemented from Function< dim, VectorType::value_type >.
Return the value of the function at the given point. Unless there is only one component (i.e. the function is scalar), you should state the component you want to have evaluated; it defaults to zero, i.e. the first component. It is inefficient to use single points. If you need more than one at a time, use the vector_value_list function. For efficiency reasons, it is better if all the points lie on the same cell. This is not mandatory, however it does speed things up.
Set values to the point values of the specified component of the function at the points. It is assumed that values already has the right size, i.e. the same size as the points array. This is rather efficient if all the points lie on the same cell. If this is not the case, things may slow down a bit.
Set values to the point values of the function at the points. It is assumed that values already has the right size, i.e. the same size as the points array. This is rather efficient if all the points lie on the same cell. If this is not the case, things may slow down a bit.
Return the gradient of all components of the function at the given point. It is inefficient to use single points. If you need more than one at a time, use the vector_value_list function. For efficiency reasons, it is better if all the points lie on the same cell. This is not mandatory, however it does speed things up.
Return the gradient of the specified component of the function at the given point. It is inefficient to use single points. If you need more than one at a time, use the vector_value_list function. For efficiency reasons, it is better if all the points lie on the same cell. This is not mandatory, however it does speed things up.
Return the gradient of all components of the function at all the given points. This is rather efficient if all the points lie on the same cell. If this is not the case, things may slow down a bit.
Return the gradient of the specified component of the function at all the given points. This is rather efficient if all the points lie on the same cell. If this is not the case, things may slow down a bit.
Compute the Laplacian of a given component at point p.
Compute the Laplacian of all components at point p and store them in values.
Compute the Laplacian of one component at a set of points.
Compute the Laplacians of all components at a set of points.
Given a set of points located in the domain (or, in the case of a parallel Triangulation, in the locally owned part of the domain or on the ghost cells for the current processor), sort these points into buckets for each of the cells on which at least one of the points is located.
This function fills three output vectors: cells, qpoints and maps. The first is a list of the cells that contain the points, the second is a list of quadrature points matching each cell of the first list, and the third contains the index of the given quadrature points, i.e., points[maps] ends up as the 5th quadrature point in the 4th cell.
This function returns the number of cells that collectively contain the set of points give as points. This also equals the lengths of the output arrays.
This function simply calls GridTools::compute_point_locations : using the original function avoids computing a new Cache at every function call.
Given a cell, return the reference coordinates of the given point within this cell if it indeed lies within the cell. Otherwise return an uninitialized boost::optional object.
Pointer to the dof handler.
Definition at line 451 of file fe_field_function.h.
A reference to the actual data vector.
Definition at line 456 of file fe_field_function.h.
A reference to the mapping being used.
Definition at line 461 of file fe_field_function.h.
Definition at line 466 of file fe_field_function.h.
Definition at line 471 of file fe_field_function.h.


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We've had some interesting musicians and artists on our Music Corner and this time is no different. Our music corner sponsor, Ramsay Phillips Guitars recently introduced me to the wonderful sounds of Joanna Broomfield.
So here's a great idea readers, why don't you follow this link…hit the play button on Joanna's Soundcloud page, and whilst listening to one of her tunes in the background, you can read through this interview and get an even better feel for this wonderful artist's work: CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO JOANNA!
RIGHT!!! LISTENING….READY….AND….READ…..
Not having met Joanna before, I did a bit of research on her and her music and she certainly does have an interesting story to tell! We'll share this and her music with you here.
XPM: Hi Joanna, thanks so much for taking the time to answer some questions. I'm sure our readers would love to learn more about you! Lets start with the easy stuff….Give us some personal background. I know it's an interesting story…
JB: Hmm ok. Where to start? I moved to Australia in 2007 and since then everything has been a bit of a whirlwind. At this time I'd been playing guitar for a good 4 years and was just starting to get into song writing and singing. I loved it and had lots of free time to practice when I first moved. A couple of years later I was picked to appear on Australia's Next Top Model! Which was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. It really was. But the filming time and everything that came after it meant that I had little time for my music. After living as a full time model in Sydney for a few years I moved to London hoping to pursue modelling further but was so blown away by the London music scene. I went to see a Sofar Sounds gig and that was it, modelling was put on the back burner and music became my focus. Then in October last year my fiancé Max and I moved out to Dubai, which has been great for my music. I've been so lucky to be able to spend so much time on music and be able to play at gigs all over Dubai.
XPM: Wow, what an amazing few years! I'm guessing you didn't have too much time for music whilst you were taking part in Australia's next top model…is that right? Did a part of you really miss the music?
JB: Yeah filming was really full on and then work was go, go, go after filming so I didn't have much time for it and I really missed it. Whilst we were filming we actually weren't aloud phones, TV, newspaper, Ipods, nothing. We were being filmed 24/7 so there really wasn't time. However, 1 of the crewmembers snuck me in a guitar to play on one day, which was awesome! Shhhh don't tell anyone though.
XPM: So now you're back on track and fully committed and involved with your music. After listening to some of your tracks on Soundcloud, I noticed it's mostly acoustic guitar and vocals, so quite solo really. Do you ever play with a band or have ever in the past?
JB: Nope its just little old me! But actually I would love to find someone with the same style to maybe do a duo with. I find my music is quite different to a lot of the stuff you find in Dubai so it's quite difficult to find anyone on the same page as me! So if anyone out there likes my music and wants to pair up, let me know!
XPM: What about the style of music? Did you do different types of music in the past?
JB: Well I guess, like any musician, my music has evolved but I think I've always had the same kind of style. Maybe not the style I would like it to be, I guess it just comes out the way it does though! Ha ha. One day I hope my music evolves to be a little bit more lyrically complex and maybe one day I'll write a song that's a bit more upbeat!
XPM: And with that in mind what are both your current [present artists] and past influences?
JB: My main influence would definitely be Laura Marling. She is a genius when it comes to vocals, lyrics and melodies. Her music is whimsical and everything I aspire to be musically. I also have taken a lot from Bon Iver, Ben Howard and Jack Johnson (he was probably my earliest musical influence in terms of song writing). At the moment I am loving Lucy Rose and Emily and the Woods. They are both beautiful English singer songwriters who you must listen to!
XPM: Besides your influences…is there anything in particular that inspires you to write a song…in general?
JB: If its profound enough I think anything can inspire me to write a song. Whether it's loneliness, birds, other music, happiness, or even just the weather (how very English of me). In my early years of song writing I remember noticing how different all the every day sounds were in Australia compared to England and it inspired me to write a song, which I finished in about 3 hours!
XPM: Strange question, but do you consider yourself a deep thinker when it comes to writing, or do you do this more on a spontaneous level?
JB: I think yes to both of those. My music is written very much spontaneously, but in a sub conscious way the lyrics tend to come out with deep meanings and connotations. For example, Mother Ground was written in about 20 minutes. I wrote the guitar music and then in 1 hit, (I record myself when I write songs) I just sang whatever came to my head and in 1 shot the lyrics and melodies were all there. I just needed to listen back, learn them by heart and the song was done. At the time I didn't really know what I was singing but when I listened back it was like listening to a story I had never heard before.
XPM: Can I ask, if you could play with any dead musician or artist in the past 100 years, who would it be and why?
JB: Hmm I could be really clichéd here and say Jimi Hendrix, because I used to love his music when I first started playing guitar but truthfully I would love to write a song with Joni Mitchell. I realise she isn't dead but she's old now. Does that count?
XPM: Ha ha Joanna, it sure does!! Do you think a musician has to experience pain and hardships to write good songs…or can it be the opposite. Can you still write good music if life is always hunky dory? Sorry, I don't mean to sound cynical here, just interested in your thoughts on this?
JB: Ha ha! Good question. To be honest I find it really difficult to write music when I'm completely happy. A lot of my favourite songs were written in London when I wasn't really all that happy. So now when I write songs, I have to get my amazing fiancé Max to leave the house because if he's there he makes me happy and then song writing just doesn't work! A very strange process I know.
XPM: Do you play anything else besides a guitar? If not…is there anything in particular you'd wish you could?
JB: I would LOVE to play cello or double bass. I love how they both sound and in some of my songs all I can hear is a cello sized gap! I've been looking for a cellist to partner up with for ages… but no luck yet.
XPM: Just a couple more…Is there any one of your songs, in particular, that really means a lot to you…kind of your favourite? Which song is it and why?
JB: I have 2 favourites actually. My first is Mother Ground. I love the story that came out of it and its one of my favourites in terms of the guitar melodies. It's actually also about my home country England so it means a lot to me personally. My second favourite is my newest song; Save me. Despite it not sounding like a happy song, the lyrics are actually about my fiancé Max and I saving each other; which I think is more hopeful and optimistic.
XPM: How do you distribute your music? Is it all on line or can we grab a CD from any of the music stores in Dubai?
JB: Some of my songs you can download for free on Soundcloud and sometimes I sell my demos when I play gigs. But at the moment I'm actually looking for a studio to record my new songs and some old ones for an EP. So keep your eyes peeled for that!
XPM: Well, I think that's about it Joanna, thanks so much for featuring in our Music Corner this issue. We wish you every success here in Dubai and beyond!
Dear readers, if you haven't been listing to one of Joanna's tracks whilst reading this interview, I implore you to have a listen on the links below to Joanna's music!
GO TO JOANNA'S SOUNDCLOUD – www.soundcloud.com/joannabroomfield


The Brabus 850 6.0 Biturbo iBusiness and I first met back in March 2014 at the Geneva Motor Show. The latest in a long line of extremely well-appointed Brabus S-Class models, this über-sedan offers supreme speed, comfort and connectivity for the tycoon on the move. However, with the Brabus stand offering plenty of captivating machinery and dozens of new car unveilings going on elsewhere at the show, this was not the time or place to get to grips with the world's fastest business tool on wheels.
A few weeks later, I visit Brabus HQ in Bottrop, Germany, on a pilgrimage to familiarize myself with the 850 6.0 Biturbo iBusiness, minus the distractions. And because of the car's doubled-edged mission statement to excel in both kinds of hustle, I'll be conducting this test from the back seat as well as behind the wheel.
Straight from the factory, the current W222 S-Class is an imperious conveyance. Its visual presence is an important aspect for owners, especially in places like China and the Middle East where social status—or at least its perception—is everything. With distinctive AMG styling and larger alloy wheels, the S63 AMG carries even more cachet. However, when the car reaches Bottrop, the Affalterbach tailoring is morphed into something altogether different. Like swapping Boss for Armani. Neither is better than the other; it's merely a matter of taste.
Out of the box, the M157 motor deploys a bore and stroke of 3.86 x 3.56 inches. The Brabus conversion uses a custom-made billet steel crankshaft, machined billet connecting rods and forged Mahle Motorsport pistons to take the swept capacity to 5912 cc with a bore and stroke of 3.9 x 3.78 inches. The company's deputy development chief, Jorn Gander, explains that the new pistons have to be shorter to stay close to the stock compression ratio of 10:1, although the shorter connecting rods raise the thrust angle.
"We increase boost pressure to between 1.1 bar (16 psi) and 1.2 bar (17.4 psi) depending on engine speed, and this peaks at 1.3 bar (18.8 psi) on overboost," Gander says. "The greater combustion pressures and temperatures require a special head gasket material. This comprises three bonded metal layers to create a gasket that reliably meets those physical demands."
To achieve maximum-intake airflow, Brabus employs a setup similar to its first E V12 800. "We designed a carbon-fiber ram air collector system that sits between the grille and hood and feeds air to a custom high-flow filter box for each cylinder bank with 45 percent more surface area than stock," Gander says. "When the hood is closed, these boxes are sealed and so [they] maximize air pressure."
Carbon-fiber pipes feeding air to the turbochargers are also larger in diameter and, like the intake pipes, are covered in a gold heat-reflecting material. "We did a lot of testing to optimize the intake and charge-air pipe diameters," Gander says. "With the higher airflow and bigger turbos, we had significant loss under-pressure using the standard pipework, so we had to go larger to reduce power loss. It is always a balancing act. If you go too big, power starts to fall off again."
From the well-upholstered driver seat, there's an immediate feeling of immense power and torque. The standard S63 AMG is a snarling beast in a smart suit. With its exhaust valves open, the 850 iBusiness does nothing to disguise an even more aggressive nature. Activating those valves (at the touch of a button) will dampen things down a bit, but there's no hiding the ferocity under the hood that seems to be biding its time until the driver opens the throttle again.
Step on the gas and the car lunges for the horizon with a fervor that made me thank Mercedes-Benz for its excellent self-leveling Airmatic suspension. The last time I experienced anything similar, there was a big Brabus twin-turbo V12 involved. Now this smaller and lighter twin-turbo V8 can convincingly out-punch its big brother. That's progress.
Not long ago, in-vehicle office facilities tended to be clunky, with a distinct lack of integration between software and hardware. But now, thanks to 3G and 4G cell phone technology, along with the superior connectivity of Apple's ecosystem, we can reach out and touch the world more easily while on the move.
The all-new 2014 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG 4MATIC (all-wheel drive) is claimed to be the most powerful high-performance sedan in the luxury segment and a quick glance at the spec sheet backs that up. Read on to find out more.


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As we moved down a small hill, the East Chicago Avenue Armory came into view. Ahead of us, the forward ranks of the marchers began to mass on the street, which was closed to traffic at both ends. Just before we were able to join them, the huge doors of the armory swung open. Hundreds of soldiers in gas masks swarmed out, charging the crowd with bayonet-fitted rifles. Others, from behind the front ranks, lobbed tear gas canisters into the crowd. People were coughing, wheezing, screaming they couldn't see, falling to the ground. Through the smoke, I could see marchers being poked by bayonets, with no way to escape. I remembered I had a handkerchief in my pocket, put it over Cat's nose and moved her hand to hold it in place.
Marcellus called out, "Let's go!" We turned and followed him back the way we'd come, then down a side street. His prosthetic knee caused him to run with an odd gait, but he was still fast, and he kept looking back to make sure we could keep up.
"This way," called Marcellus, leading us into a block-through alley. No cops followed, and it seemed for a moment that we'd escaped. When we made it halfway through, though, a canopied troop transport pulled up at the far end, blocking the exit. Two soldiers climbed out of the cab and walked toward us, hands resting on their sidearms. Soldiers on one end, cops on the other. Nowhere to run. Worst of all, I could see the terror in Cat's eyes. I held her close.
Marcellus stayed calm, though. "Stay here," he ordered, and strolled confidently toward the two soldiers. I noticed then that he was wearing his old army field jacket, and combat boots. As he walked, he pulled a green beret from a pocket and put it on.
I couldn't hear the conversation he struck up with them, but it seemed to begin well. I thought he just might be able to talk us through this. Then one of them raised his voice and pointed at us. Whatever Marcellus was selling, they weren't buying it now. I could see the guns coming out of their holsters. I started forward, but Sharon grabbed my arm.
Sharon was right. Marcellus suddenly morphed into a whirl of chops, jabs and kicks. In less than a minute, the two soldiers were on the ground, one obviously unconscious, the other dazed. At his beckon, we ran forward.
"Get in the back of the truck," he said. "I'll drive." At that moment, if he'd told us to jump on a flying carpet, we would have done it.
We rushed to the rear of the transport and parted the curtain. Six more soldiers were inside, sitting on benches. I froze, but Cat, as usual, instantly grasped the situation.
When all six were inside the alley, we jumped into the truck and closed the curtain. Marcellus fired up the engine, and off we went. Ten minutes later, he drove it right into the park we'd started from. The weather was getting really nasty now, and it was deserted. We jumped out, ran over to Tooter, packed ourselves into the little car and headed for home.
"I guess it did," he agreed.
All three of us just stared.
"Cassius taught me how to do that when I was a kid," he explained, adding "I guess I've had a varied education. 'Interdisciplinary' is the college word for it, I think." Now, we all laughed, releasing some of the day's tensions.
A few minutes later, I asked Marcellus if he thought they'd be looking for us.
"Later," Cat said firmly, pulling me inside. Upstairs, we went at each other with an adrenaline-fueled lust that bordered on violence.


Reggie Watts thinks your ideas about genre are naive. But if you were this multi-talented, you'd agree (and wouldn't be so naive). Watts is a combination comic, singer, musician, and beatboxer, a vaudville villain for our time. You might know him from his College Humor-backed viral hit "What About Blowjobs" or from his many appearances on Conan O'Brien's show Conan. Or you might know him if you went to LCD Soundsystem's final show; he performed during the 45:33 portion of the evening. Reggie Watts is insane.
Catch him for free as part of the 2011 SummerStage series this Wednesday in Central Park. He'll be performing with Natasha Leggero, a stand-up comic co-signed by Chelsea Handler.


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Violence sport event participate in violent confrontations with
Violence in sports today is most prevalent and can be mostly seen in team sports such as basketball, ice hockey, football, and rugby. Most violence sparks from players including coaches, fans, and media which resulted in contributing to the wide spared of violence in sports today.
Athletes resolved to violence in sports as a means to help them to demonstrate as an act of competition to challenge themselves against other competitors. During the game athletes would hope to win their opponent which results in them showing instinctive aggressive behaviour towards their competitors by injuring and intimidating them. Likewise, athletes may show frustration or aggressiveness at instances where they come across disappointing experiences such as when the footballer is about to score a goal, his opponent deflected the ball away preventing him from scoring.
Next, in the game of sports, when coach emphasizes a lot on winning, athletes will have intensifying stress and frustration and when the players do not achieve the aims it will then trigger the aggressive violence amongst the team members. This effect of violence is related to each athlete's perception of aggression towards the coach. Additionally, it has also been a culture in the early days where by ancestor's resort to performing violence and aggressiveness during a sports game due to their nature competitiveness.Violence can be resulted from fans/spectators at the sport event participate in violent confrontations with spectators during a competition, such as fans/spectators intruding into the play area to engage in a disputed game as a result of frustration and disappointment, throwing punches, pushing and kicking the players which resulted in injuries. Apart from that there are also incidents of object throwing at the players resulting in injuries, match delays and match cancellation. The fans/spectators of the Young players widely respect their sports player as heroes would view them as their role models and imitate their behaviour therefor they would be exposed to violence in sports which further leads to aggression.
Mass media socialise and influences the young into gaining sports violence. Subsequently, they will be influences to violence sports resulting in them copying the bad violence behaviour. Apart from that, mass media companies also use violence in their advertisements and publication to attract more viewers attentions in order to generate greater profit. Hence, media can spread violence significantly in sports. In conclusion, violence in sports can be caused by many factors as seen mention above.
It has resulted in many athletes sustaining injures with the excessive violence in sports, this will eventually affect the athletes mental and physical performances. To reduce excessive violent in sports, preventive measures can be implemented to minimises the risk during competition such as implementing strict rules and regulation, suspension, penalties etc.
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Steven (Chicagoland, United States) on 19 November 2015 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.
View from the Star Princess cruise ship while docked in Whittier, Alaska. We had just boarded the ship, preparing for a 7-day cruise from Whittier to Vancouver.
Photo captured September 12, 2015.
Well seen and glorious moment you capture with this rainbow vanishing into the clouds.
Wow, a very terrific instant! Masterpiece.
A super image. Well done.
Quelle image cet arc en ciel ce lac la glace quelle compo.
I'm glad you had your camera handy to get this unusual shot. Such a short rainbow must be very novel. Well done.
Terrific! Great catch. And a superb atmosphere in a dream scene.
A fleeting moment beautifully captured ... The view is spectacular !!!
Is that a pot of Alaskan gold I see? Gorgeous shot.
All these shots from port! I hope your cruise is a prolific.
Fantastic cold landscape! The rainbow is a great bonus and stands out superbly.
Beautiful scene, nice moment captured.
this is so dreamlike... fabulous capture!
Un moment fantastique et superbement mis en image!
A fantastic moment and superbly imaged!
A well deserved Spotlight ... Congratulations !!!
Congratulations on the Spotlight Steven! Very well deserved!
Congratulations on the Spotlight Steven! Wonderful shot!
the colors of the north... beautiful!
Congratulations on your well deserved SPOTLIGHT!
Un arc-en-ciel bienvenu dans ce magnifique paysage !
félicitations ! une photo rafraichissante !
Ohhhhhhhhh, Steven, this is GORGEOUS and so deserving of the Spotlight!
This is a terrific image! Kudos to you!!
After the biblical flood. Congatulations.
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Dr. Philip Nitschke considers himself the Elon Musk of assisted suicide—and his latest death machine, the Sarco, is his Tesla.
Newsweek spoke with the 70-year-old doctor immediately after the state of Victoria in Australia, his home country, voted this week to legalize euthanasia. Many are billing this as the first law of this nature Down Under, though Nitschke performed his first assisted death in 1996, during a brief period of legality in the country's Northern Territory.
As a young medical school graduate, Nitschke found himself drawn to the world of euthanasia and the work of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the most famous euthanasia proponent in the United States. Inspired by Kevorkian's death machine, Nitschke set out to create an updated version that he called "the Deliverance." The machine was rudimentary, comprising only a laptop hooked to an IV system, but it worked. A computer program would confirm a patient's intent to die and then trigger a lethal injection of barbiturates. It successfully ended four lives before Australia repealed the bill that legalized euthanasia in 1997.
Nitschke has aided in hundreds of what he calls "rational suicides." In 1997, he founded Exit International, a nonprofit that advocates for the legalization of euthanasia, and in 2006, he published the Peaceful Pill Handbook, which instructs on the most painless and efficient ways to commit suicide.
All the while, Nitschke continued to innovate his death devices. He created an "exit bag," a bizzaro breathing mask with carbon monoxide replacing oxygen. The bag was highly effective but not very appealing, Nitschke said, citing the "plastic bag factor": People don't want to leave the world in such an aesthetically displeasing way.
His latest machine, the Sarco, is the answer to that problem. The Sarco is sleek—and, Nitschke stresses, luxurious. It resembles a spaceship and is intended to convince its user that he or she is journeying to the great beyond. Its base contains canisters of liquid nitrogen and a removable capsule compartment that can be repurposed as a casket. The whole operation will be open-source and could theoretically be 3-D-printed anywhere in the world. It is, in short, the Model S of death machines.
Here's how it works: Potential users fill out an online test of mental fitness, and if they pass, they receive an access code that works for 24 hours. After the code is entered and an additional confirmation is given, the Sarco capsule will fill up with liquid nitrogen to bring the oxygen level down to about 5 percent. Within one minute the user passes out, and a few minutes later, death comes.
Nitschke vowed that a Sarco death was relatively painless—there is no asphyxiation and the user breathes easily, he said, comparing it to an airplane cabin depressurizing. The model is scheduled to become widely available next year, and Nitschke was already in talks with some suicide clinics in Switzerland to license the machine.
But each state and country has its own nuanced set of rules around medical aid in dying, while Nitschke believes the right to die is a human right, not a medical or legal privilege. No one should be subject to rules about whether or not a person is sick enough to choose to die, he said.
Of course, not everyone agrees with Nitschke. "I think it's bad medicine, ethics, and bad public policy," Dr. Daniel Sulmasy, a Georgetown professor of biomedical ethics, told Newsweek. "It converts killing into a form of healing and doesn't acknowledge that we can now do more for symptoms through palliative than ever before." Palliative care focuses on improving the quality of lives for people fighting deadly illnesses, rather than ending those lives.
Sulmasy believes assisted suicide violates the bedrock of all ethical thinking, which is that people have value simply by being human beings. He argued that assisted suicide sent a message to disabled and dying people that society believed they should choose death if they became too much of a burden.
He worried about the contagious effect suicide often has, pointing to the rash of suicides that occurred after Derek Humphry published Final Exit, a book that detailed aspects of planning and carrying out suicide. After the book was published in 1991, the number of suicides by asphyxiation in New York City rose by 313 percent that year. Sulmasy also pointed out that in Holland, nearly 5 percent of all deaths are due to euthanasia or assisted suicide.
Doctors can ethically help patients find the ultimate relief in their final days, ethically, through a process called the rule of double effect, Sulmasy said. The rule says that if a patient agrees to the risks, an attending physician is allowed to keep increasing the dosage of pain medication until pain is completely under control, which may mean administering enough to render the patient unconscious or kill them.
Nitschke argued that palliative care wasn't for everybody. People in good health had approached him simply because they felt that they'd had a good life and were ready to go, he said. He believes they have just as much a right to death as anyone else.
Now a septuagenarian himself, the death doctor is coming to terms with his own mortality. And his invention might be his solution.


Such a month, there are two large children's consignment sales you might even look into.Both sales are take place in hamilton county and offer variety.
Indy kids sale specials 16, 000 square feet of top quality, new and gently used baby youngster's clothing, items, kit, furniture and mother to be clothing.Almost certainly have over 300 consignors offering over 40, 000 possessions each season.Look for baby gear, attires, lifelike dolls, maternity wear and many more!Generally is march 7 10 at the hamilton county4 h fairgrounds located at 2003 pleasant street in noblesville.
The spring whale of a sale children's consignment event develops march 15 17 at meridian village plaza, 136th meridian operating across carmel.New and gently used children's and maternity items are offered at a small price of retail cost.
The presentation features popular brands such as gymboree, baby opening, ralph lauren, janie and jack port, peg perego, burley, fisher value, pottery barn kids and a lot more.Shoppers can anticipate finding upscale fall and winter clothing, their dolls, Pandora UK Sale system, home household pieces of fixtures, bedsheets, apparatus, maternity and a variety of vendors from the indiana area.


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The awesome connection between Lady Gaga and Freddie Mercury!!
By Vishal Verma | 12 Nov 2018 16:25:24 IST
As BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY the biographical on the British rock band Queen, starring Rami Malek as Mercury focusing on Freddie Mercury's life produced by 20th Century Fox, New Regency, GK Films, and Queen Films, is all set to hit the theatres in India on November 16 2018, a trivia that connects Lady Gaga with Freddie Mercury is the need of the hour.
Lady Gaga the deadly combo of style with substance has millions of followers worldwide, do you know that the iconic Freddie Mercury has influenced Lady Gaga and how?! Read to know more..
We watch the shows, we watch the stars, on videos for hour and hours, we hardly need to use our ears, how music changes through the years, All we hear is radio ga ga, Radio goo goo, Radio ga ga…Radio what's new? Radio, someone still loves you!Remember this number 'Radio Gaga' by Queen?!
Lady Gaga in her admiration for Freddie Mercury has been quoted calling Freddie a genius and the reason for her name is the 'Radio Gaga' number. She has been quoted saying, I love the name, Freddie was unique - one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of the theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short: a genius".
As we all know Freddie infectious charm and music has influenced many artiste, the icon of flamboyance, soul, voice, and music.. is known for his over the top stage appearances. So, now whenever you see Lady Gaga in her stunning new avatar, you know from where is the inspiration coming.. Radio Gaga… Lady Gaga it's there is the name as well!!
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Q: git finding submodule commit message I update a submodule, then I open the parent repo in my git editor (gitkraken) and I see this update image. Where is the actual file with this value? When I right click and look at file path it just takes me to the submodule: C:\Users\aaa\PARENT_REPO\SUBMODULE_NAME.
My end goal is to sync a specific version of the parent to a specific version of the submodule

A: The submodule commit is encoded as a tree entry in the git repository (just like a file or directory). The only way* to modify the value is by updating the HEAD of the submodule and then making a commit in the parent.
*: That's actually a lie, but the technical answer would involve using git low-level tools (see e.g. documentation on git mktree).

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image//29.04.2015Steve Smith performing at this year's LIMS show!
SONOR Drums has been part of the recent LIMS – the London International Music Show – that took place June 11 to 14 in London at the "ExCeL" Docklands exhibition center. With a booth on the show floor displaying the latest 2009 News, Saturday saw Steve Smith (Vital Information, Journey, Jazz Great) performing live in front of more than 400 enthusiastic drummers.


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This historic building, completed in 1796, is now a museum complex with exhibits that focus on Connecticut history. Joseph Steward's 1798 collection of natural history items is showcased on the third floor in the Museum of Natural and Other Curiosities. The building is said to be haunted and was featured on TV's Ghost Hunters. Among their discoveries were unexplained sounds of a doorknob turning in the empty Senate Room and a woman sighing in the Steward Museum.
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(TEHRAN, IRAN.) LATEST: The owner of an Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 that was seized off Gibraltar says the ship will head to Mediterranean ports, an Iranian maritime official was quoted as saying on Thursday, after they decided to free the tanker #AceNewsDesk reports
#AceNewsReport – Aug.15: "According to an announcement by the owner of the tanker, the destination of Grace 1 will be Mediterranean ports," the deputy head of Iran's Ports and Maritime Organisation, Jalil Eslami, was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency. He did not name the owner: Britain's Mediterranean territory Gibraltar has decided to free the tanker, but did not immediately indicate when or if the ship would set sail after the United States launched a new, last-minute legal bid to hold it. [nL8N25B23G]
A view of the Grace 1 supertanker is seen backdropped by Gibraltar's Rock, as it stands at anchor in the British territory of Gibraltar, Aug. 15, 2019.
Gibraltar media is reporting that the government has decided to release the Grace 1 Iranian supertanker after receiving formal written assurances from the government in Tehran that it would not discharge its cargo in Syria: "On that basis, Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has decided to lift the detention order and allow the ship to sail," the the Gibraltar Chronicle said on Twitter on August 15.
The reported move came despite a last-minute attempt by the United States to seize the vessel at the heart of a standoff between Tehran and London: "The U.S. Department of Justice has applied to seize the Grace 1 on a number of allegations which are now being considered," the Gibraltar government said in a statement on August 15, adding that the matter will be reviewed by the British overseas territory's Supreme Court at 4 p.m. local time (1400 GMT/UTC)……………The U.S. application came "just hours before the Gibraltar government was poised to release" the Iranian supertanker that has been detained since early July………………….."…the Government of #Gibraltar has now received formal written assurances from the Iranian government that the ship will not discharge its cargo in #Syria," the newspaper reported……………However, it added that "It is not clear at this stage when the ship will sail from #Gibraltar, or whether the U.S. will formally apply to the court to detain it before that happens."…………………The U.S. Justice Department didn't comment on the matter, while Britain's Foreign Office said the "investigations conducted around the Grace 1 are a matter for the government of Gibraltar."
The current detention order on the Grace 1 is set to expire on the evening of August 17: On July 4, authorities in Gibraltar seized the vessel with the help of British Royal Marines. The Grace 1 was carrying 2.1 million barrels of Iranian oil and authorities alleged that it was in violation of European Union sanctions on Syria.
Iran says the tanker was in international waters and was not headed to Syria: In response to the Iranian ship's seizure, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on July 19 captured the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero close to the strategic Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman: Tehran said the vessel was "violating international maritime rules," while the British authorities called the seizure "state piracy."……………..On August 13, the deputy head of Iran's port authority, Jalil Eslami, said that Britain was thinking of freeing the Grace 1 following an exchange of documents………"We hope the release will take place soon," Eslami said in comments reported by state news agency IRNA.
…………………….A spokesman for the Gibraltar government had earlier said it was seeking to "deescalate issues arising since the lawful detention of Grace 1."
Earlier, Britain said it was joining the U.S.-initiated task force to escort ships through and around the region, though some other European powers, most notably Germany, have rejected the idea, fearing the United States will use the force as part of its "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran: The captain and three officers from the Grace 1 have already been released from arrest: The legal team for the captain, chief officer, and a third crew member of the Grace 1 told the BBC that formal police proceedings against them had ended.
#AceNewsDesk reports ……………..VOA America: BBC News – Iranian Oil Tanker Allowed to Leave Gibraltar Published: August 15, 2019 at 06:26PM: Reuters: Reporting by Dubai newsroom; Editing by Toby Chopra
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DDC visits Kheer Bhawani, reviews arrangements
By Guest on 5:19 am May 30, 2017 No Comment
District Development Commissioner Ganderbal, Tariq Hussain Ganai, today paid a visit to Kheer Bhawani Shrine to review the arrangements put in place for smooth conduct of the forthcoming Mela.
The DDC was briefed about the preparedness of the district administration for the upcoming Mela and was informed that a foolproof mechanism would be in place to ensure that the devotees get all necessary facilities for performing religious rituals.
The Deputy Commissioner stressed the concerned officers to be proactive and make every possible effort for smooth conduct of the Mela Kheer Bhawani. He asked the officers to maintain close coordination so that all possible facilities are made available to the devotees during the festival.
He directed the concerned authorities to ensure proper cleanliness in and around the shrine complex where thousands of Kashmiri Pandits are expected to pay obeisance at the temple.
He also went around the shrine complex and took stock of the arrangements being made by the administration for the pilgrims. He directed the officers to ensure that devotees do not face any sort of inconvenience.
Officers of R&B, PHE, PDD, Police, Municipal Committee, Health, CAPD and other departments accompanied the DDC.
DDC visits Kheer Bhawani, reviews arrangements added by Guest on 5:19 am May 30, 2017


Project C.A.R.S is an excellent race title but has come under a lot of fire since its release. I have personally experienced the issues that are causing racers ' frustration. But I agree-most of the problems I have had so far seem to be related to third party conflicts, and the biggest fail for me is the controller (ffb wheel) in my case.
The game itself is playable but some racers feel the game devs have "dumb down" the game's physics for the Xbox One release.
The game director at Slighty Mad Studios has been quick to push back this rumour.
Some players have speculated that the physics model used for the Xbox One version is drastically worse than the PS4 and PC versions due to players reporting odd incidents when playing the game.
According to Ian Bell, Xbox One owners version isn't substantially different to the PS4 and PC versions of Project Cars. The issues that are causing many to claim the Xbox One version is dumbed down is quite simple actually: it's a controller issue.
"The good news is that it has been rectified and that the team are just waiting for the patch to pass certification and that in the SMS HQ they're actually using the new patch with Ian Bell saying that "with the patch it feels ace here," going on to reassure disgruntled players that "it will be with you soon."
Xbox One owners can rest easy in the knowledge that they'll soon be playing to the same standard as their PS4 and PC brethren.
Patches aren't the only thing being worked on. SMS team are working hard on bringing more content to Project Cars in the form of tracks and cars.
Ian Bell explained that the team are working on more content, but the focus is on a more varied offering of tracks rather than an abundance of cars.
He goes on to speculate that there will be over 150 cars for players to choose from eventually, but that the main focus should be on getting more tracks out to the players.


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Q: How to ensure that unit test doctrine is attempting to load to the same database as dev? I would like to do some unit-testing in Symfony and am attempting to test something that already works, like this:
<?php namespace App\Tests\Api\Controller;

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use App\Controller\Admin\ProductAdminController;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Test\WebTestCase;

/**
 * Class ProductsAdminControllerTest
 * @package App\Tests\Api\Controller
 */
class ProductsAdminControllerTest extends WebTestCase
{

    protected function setUp()
    {
        $kernel = static::createKernel();
        $kernel->boot();
        static::$container = $kernel->getContainer();
        /*$this->_em = $kernel->getContainer()->get('doctrine.orm.entity_manager');
        $this->_em->beginTransaction();*/
    }

    public function testSearchProductsEmpty()
    {
        $request = new Request([], [
            "product_name" => ""
        ]);
        $controller = new ProductsAdminController();
        $controller->setContainer(static::$container);
        $controller->getProducts($request);
        //$products = json_decode($controller->getProducts($request));
        $this->assertEquals(1, 1);
    }
}

Of course this will be modified after I overcome my current problem, which is that no matter what I do, I get the error of

Doctrine\DBAL\Exception\ConnectionException: An exception occurred in
  driver: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user
  'db_user'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Of course the database where my dev env is connecting has different credentials and I would like to ensure that my unit test is using the same credentials. How to achieve that?

A: If you want to using different connection parameters for different environment, you can override configuration by creating file in config/packages/{env}/doctrine.yaml
For testing you can create config/packages/test/doctrine.yaml
doctrine:
    dbal:
        # configure these for your database server
        url: 'mysql://db_user4test:db_password4test@host4test:3306/dbname4test'

phpunit will use this configuration.
otherwise you can create a .env.test and override configuration (Customizing Database URL / Environment Variables)
[EDIT] Another way as suggested by @LajosArpad is to add in phpunit.xml.dist:
<env name="DATABASE_URL" value="mysql://db_user4test:db_password4test@host4test:3306/dbname4test" />

See Changing Database Settings for Functional Tests


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Two Data Leaks Expose Millions of Records
Customers of Adobe and Italy's UniCredit Affected in Separate Incidents Scott Ferguson (@Ferguson_Writes) • October 28, 2019
Two new security incidents demonstrate yet again how easily millions of records can be exposed, leaving customers open to the potential of identity theft and other criminal activity.
In the first incident, reported on Friday, security researchers found an unsecured Adobe Creative Cloud database left about 7.5 million customer records exposed for at least a week.
And on Monday, UniCredit , an Italian bank and financial services company, reported a "data incident involving a file generated in 2015 containing a defined set of approximately 3 million records." The bank reports that both internal and police investigations are underway.
The two incidents exposed millions of names, email addresses as well as other information that could be used for identity theft, phishing attacks and more, security researcher say.
These incidents, along with other unsecured databases recently uncovered by security researchers, show that many organizations are not taking basic precautions when it comes to uploading and storing large amounts of customer data in cloud services, says Terence Jackson, CISO of the security firm Thycotic Software.
"On the surface, it appears that that both of these incidents could be related to misconfigurations in cloud services," Jackson tells Information Security Media Group. "There must be additional controls implemented to minimize the occurrence of misconfigurations and additional countermeasures deployed to make sure secure baselines are not changed."
Adobe's Unsecured Database
On Friday, researcher Bob Diachenko of Security Discovery and Paul Bischoff, a journalist at CompariTech, published a report about the unsecured database that contained information about customers of Adobe Creative Cloud - the company's cloud-based subscription service for products such as Photoshop and Lightroom.
Diachenko first discovered the unsecured Elasticsearch database on Oct. 19 and notified Adobe the same day, according to the report. The database was secured and password- protected a few hours later, the report states.
Bischoff and Diachenko note that the database apparently had been exposed to the internet at least for a week before it discovered; it could have been accessed with a web browser, with no password or authentication needed.
The database included email addresses, account creation dates, subscription status, whether the user is an Adobe employee or not, member IDs, country, time since last login and payment status, according to the report.
It's not clear if anyone had inappropriately accessed the data. Adobe says it's reviewing its development process to find out why this database was left unsecured.
Back in 2013, Adobe acknowledged that account information on 38 million customers was exposed following a data breach.
Bischoff and Diachenko have a track record of finding other exposed databases. On Oct. 18, for example, the two published a similar report concerning an unsecured database containing 2.8 million customer records belonging to CenturyLink. The data came from a third-party notification platform used by CenturyLink.
Trouble at UniCredit
Meanwhile, UniCredit announced Monday that it's investigating the exposure of about 3 million records of Italian citizens who used the bank.
The exposed file, created in 2015, contained names, city, telephone numbers and email addresses, according to the company. It's not clear if any of the this customer data has been accessed by cybercriminals.
UniCredit reports that earlier this year, it implemented two-factor authentication and biometrics.
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Africana Studies B.A. / B.S.
African American Studies Minor
AST Study Abroad
Requirements for Minor in African American Studies
Director: Louis Woods
Louis.Woods@mtsu.edu
The African American Studies Program offers an undergraduate interdisciplinary minor. The primary objective is to provide students an opportunity to examine the multidimensional, multicultural experiences of African Americans and their responses to the blending of an African heritage and American culture.
The person who completes the African American Studies minor will have enlarged perspectives and increased skills and marketability for jobs in the fields of education, criminal justice, social work, governmental departments and agencies, and in the private sector.
Interdisciplinary Minors
Interdisciplinary minors require the student to complete a minimum of 15 to 21 hours from a list of specific courses. Unless otherwise noted, a student may take no more than 6 hours of courses from a single department until he or she surpasses the required minimum number of hours necessary for completing the minor. Exceptions to this rule may be found within the discussions of several of the minors. In most cases, a student is also limited to just 3 hours of credit toward the minor in the same department or discipline in which he or she is taking a major. Except for the Paralegal Studies minor, no course may be counted both for major and minor credit. Students must fulfill all departmental prerequisites for any course within an interdisciplinary minor. In some cases, advisors may approve course substitutions within these program requirements.
Required Courses (12 hours)
AAS 2100 - Introduction to African American Studies 3 credit hours
AAS 2100 - Introduction to African American Studies
Introductory interdisciplinary survey course which examines the African American experience from enslavement through the present; social, religious, political, and cultural interactions evolving from that experience.
AAS 2020 - Themes in Literature and Culture: Survey of Afro-American Literature 3 credit hours OR
AAS 2020 - Themes in Literature and Culture: Survey of Afro-American Literature
Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020. Traces a specific theme or idea through a number of literary texts that reflect different historical and cultural contexts. Subjects will vary.
ENGL 2020 - Themes in Literature and Culture 3 credit hours
AAS 3250 - Perspectives on Black Psychology 3 credit hours OR
AAS 3250 - Perspectives on Black Psychology
(Same as AST 3250 and PSY 3250.) Application of psychological principles to the personality development and behavior patterns of African Americans, in light of cultural heritage and contemporary events. Implications for assessment and counseling.
PSY 3250 - Perspectives on Black Psychology 3 credit hours
PSY 3250 - Perspectives on Black Psychology
Application of psychological principles to the personality development and behavior patterns of African Americans, in light of cultural heritage and contemporary events. Implications for assessment and counseling.
AAS 2040 - Survey African American History I 3 credit hours OR
AAS 2040 - Survey African American History I
(Same as AST 2040 and HIST 2040.) The role of African Americans in establishing and shaping the American nation. Covers their historical development and contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion.
HIST 2040 - Survey African American History I 3 credit hours
HIST 2040 - Survey African American History I
(Same as AAS 2040 and AST 2040.) The role of African Americans in establishing and shaping the American nation. Covers their historical development and contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion.
AAS 2050 - Survey African American History II 3 credit hours OR
AAS 2050 - Survey African American History II
(Same as AST 2050 and HIST 2050.) The role of African Americans in shaping the American nation and creating a twentieth-century racial identity. Covers their historical development and examines their contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion.
HIST 2050 - Survey African American History II 3 credit hours
HIST 2050 - Survey African American History II
(Same as AST 2050 and AAS 2050.) The role of African Americans in shaping the American nation and creating a twentieth-century racial identity. Covers their historical development and examines their contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion.
Electives (6 hours)
AAS 4600 - Interdisciplinary Seminar in African American Studies 3 credit hours
AAS 4600 - Interdisciplinary Seminar in African American Studies
Selected topics, issues, and problems in the African and African American experience. Course emphasis on primary source materials, critical reading, and critical analysis. Topics will vary. This course may not be repeated for additional credit hours in the minor.
AAS 4990 - Independent Study in African American Studies 3 credit hours
AAS 4990 - Independent Study in African American Studies
Allows the examination of a specific topic within the study of Africa, the Caribbean, or America. Student conducts research and confers regularly with the instructor. Work must draw upon theories and methods applicable to African American Studies. See the program director for guidelines. This course may not be repeated for additional credit hours in the minor.
ART 4870 - African Art 3 credit hours
ART 4870 - African Art
Prerequisite: ART 1910 with C or better or permission of instructor. Survey of visual art from the African continent and an examination of selected artists of the African diaspora. Discussion of ancient through contemporary artistic production, with focus upon nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
ART 4880 - African American Art 3 credit hours
ART 4880 - African American Art
Prerequisites: ART 1920 and ART 1930 with C or better or permission of instructor. An art historical survey of African American culture and visual arts, beginning with eighteenth century expressions in painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts, but focusing on the twentieth century expressions.
MUHL 4540 - History of Black Gospel Music 3 credit hours
MUHL 4540 - History of Black Gospel Music
Historical and cultural survey of black gospel music from its West African and European American antecedents to the present.
PS 3170 - Civil Rights Policy and Politics 3 credit hours
PS 3170 - Civil Rights Policy and Politics
Assesses the institutional impact--past and present--of the civil rights movement on American political institutions (the presidency, Congress, the courts, the executive cabinets, the administrative regulatory agencies, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights). Events and topics include the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 1991 Civil Rights Act, voter dilution, felony disenfranchisement and sentencing disparities, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, disability rights, gender discrimination, and majority-minority congressional districts.
AAS 4240 - Race and Ethnic Relations 3 credit hours OR
AAS 4240 - Race and Ethnic Relations
(Same as AST 4240 and SOC 4240.) The dynamics of race and ethnic relations in the United States from a socio historic perspective.
SOC 4240 - Race and Ethnic Relations 3 credit hours
SOC 4240 - Race and Ethnic Relations
(Same as AAS 4240 and AST 4240.) The dynamics of race and ethnic relations in the United States from a socio historic perspective.
AAS 3514 - People and Cultures of Africa 3 credit hours OR
AAS 3514 - People and Cultures of Africa
(Same as ANTH 3514 and AST 3514.) The diverse peoples and cultures of Africa. History, sociocultural system, and contemporary issues and impacts resulting from globalization from an anthropological perspective.
ANTH 3514 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa 3 credit hours
ANTH 3514 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa
(Same as AAS 3514 and AST 3514.) The diverse peoples and cultures of Africa. History, sociocultural system, and contemporary issues and impacts resulting from globalization from an anthropological perspective.
AAS 3340 - The Black Experience in Modern Afro-American Literature 3 credit hours OR
AAS 3340 - The Black Experience in Modern Afro-American Literature
(Same as AST 3340 and ENGL 3340. Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Defines and traces the development and transformations of the African American literary tradition. Emphasis on analysis of historical, literary, philosophical, and cultural contexts.
ENGL 3340 - African American Literature 3 credit hours
ENGL 3340 - African American Literature
(Same as AAS 3340 and AST 3340.) Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Defines and traces the development and transformations of the African American literary tradition. Emphasis on analysis of historical, literary, philosophical, and cultural contexts.
AAS 3470 - Geography of Africa 3 credit hours OR
AAS 3470 - Geography of Africa
(Same as AST 3470 and GEOG 3470.) Cultural and physical geography of Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Emphasis on geography of humans specifically their demographics, settlement patterns, urbanization, internal and external migrations, ethnicity and ethnic tensions, humans and natural resources, and globalization.
GEOG 3470 - Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa 3 credit hours
GEOG 3470 - Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa
Cultural and physical geography of Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Emphasis on geography of humans specifically their demographics, settlement patterns, urbanization, internal and external migrations, ethnicity and ethnic tensions, humans and natural resources, and globalization.
AAS 4430 - Sub-Saharan Africa 3 credit hours OR
AAS 4430 - Sub-Saharan Africa
(Same as AST 4430 and HIST 4430.) Prerequisite: HIST 2040, HIST 2050, HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120 or AAS 2040 or AAS 2050. Survey of the history of Africa from prehistoric times to the present. Emphasis on the early African kingdoms, European imperialism and colonialism, and the role of Africa as a contemporary world force.
HIST 4430 - Sub-Saharan Africa 3 credit hours
HIST 4430 - Sub-Saharan Africa
(Same as AAS 4430 and AST 4430.) Prerequisite: HIST 2040, HIST 2050, HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120 or AAS 2040 or AAS 2050. Survey of the history of Africa from prehistoric times to the present. Emphasis on the early African kingdoms, European imperialism and colonialism, and the role of Africa as a contemporary world force.
AAS 4490 - Mexico and the Caribbean 3 credit hours OR
AAS 4490 - Mexico and the Caribbean
(Same as AST 4490 and HIST 4490.) The development of cultural, economic, and political traditions since 1492.
HIST 4490 - Mexico and the Caribbean 3 credit hours
HIST 4490 - Mexico and the Caribbean
(Same as AAS 4490 and AST 4490.) Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. The development of cultural, economic, and political traditions since 1492.
AAS 4750 - African American Social and Intellectual History 3 credit hours OR
AAS 4750 - African American Social and Intellectual History
(Same as HIST 4750.) The changing ideology of race and the socioeconomic status of African Americans in the American experience; contributions to the culture and institutions of the United States.
HIST 4750 - African American Social and Intellectual History 3 credit hours
HIST 4750 - African American Social and Intellectual History
(Same as AAS 4750 and AST 4750.) Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. The changing ideology of race and the socioeconomic status of African Americans in the American experience; contributions to the culture and institutions of the United States.
AAS 4530 - History of Jazz 3 credit hours OR
AAS 4530 - History of Jazz
Study of the history and literature of jazz music including African roots, developments and aspects of style periods, and the contemporary state of jazz. Listening and analysis.
MUHL 4530 - History of Jazz 3 credit hours
MUHL 4530 - History of Jazz
AAS 4200 - African American Film, Theater, and Television Images 3 credit hours
AAS 4200 - African American Film, Theater, and Television Images
(Same as SOC 4200.) Prerequisite: SOC 1010 or PSY 1410. Survey of African-American film, theater, and television images in relation to social movements and social policy. Human behavior theory application and sociological paradigm application required.
AAS 3200 - Cultural Diversity: Competency for Practice 3 credit hours OR
AAS 3200 - Cultural Diversity: Competency for Practice
(Same as AST 3200 and SW 3200.) Prerequisites: SW 2570 and SW 2630. Examines culturally appropriate practice issues that are essential considerations for effective service delivery, including African American families and ethnic subcultures predominant in the U.S.
SW 3200 - Cultural Diversity: Competency for Practice 3 credit hours
SW 3200 - Cultural Diversity: Competency for Practice
(Same as AAS 3200 and AST 3200.) Examines culturally appropriate practice issues that are essential considerations for effective service delivery, including African American families and ethnic subcultures predominant in the U.S.
AAS 3180 - African Politics 3 credit hours OR
AAS 3180 - African Politics
(Same as PS 4180 and AST 4180.) Prerequisite: PS 1010. Comparative study of the political systems, modernization efforts, and development problems of countries with different traditions or colonial pasts, selected from the continent of Africa.
PS 4180 - Contemporary African Politics 3 credit hours
PS 4180 - Contemporary African Politics
(Same as AAS 3180 and AST 4180.) Prerequisite: PS 1010 or permission of instructor. Comparative study of selected African political systems with different colonial traditions in the process of rapid change; trends, issues and common themes in African politics. The ideology and politics of development, political system forms and processes, development efforts, and the challenges of state and nation-building.
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CO-WRITTEN / PARTNER | Staff Reporter, Singapore
Published: 03 Dec 20
Everise's CEO recognised as outstanding leader at SBR Management Excellence Awards
Sudhir Agarwal is reinventing how a BPO operates by embracing innovative digital customer experience transformation solutions.
Whilst the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is known as one of the toughest industries to operate in, one intrepid CEO, Sudhir Agarwal, who founded Everise, is aiming to reinvent how a BPO operates by providing innovative digital experience transformation solutions for a brand's customers.
Self-described as a next-generation global BPO, Everise helps high-growth companies to scale globally with their leading-edge customer service solutions. Their tech-enabled processes and solutions help their agents provide consistent, empathetic, brand experiences for brands in industries such as health and wellness, smart home, travel and hospitality, and financial services.
To reinvent how BPOs operate, Everise identified three major experience points—the customer experience (CX), the digital experience (DX), and the product experience (PX). The company believes that with these pillars in place, it will help their customers to proactively identify problems before they become issues, an approach which has never been offered before the BPO industry.
In acknowledgement of their enterprising business approach, Sudhir Agarwal, the founder and CEO of Everise, received the Executive of the Year in the Business Services category at the recent SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020. The awards programme, in their sixth year, lauds individuals, innovators, and teams, whose initiatives have brought tangible business gains for the success of their companies. But it's the team that he's built at Everise, and the company's people-first approach that is their competitive edge.
For example, many of the industry's largest BPO's were caught off guard by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, unable to transition their workforce to remote work to comply with social distancing requirements. Yet, Everise had already anticipated, and had developed, and thus was prepared with a home-based agents' solution. And whilst they weren't expecting to scale it as aggressively as they needed to, they were able to migrate some 10,000 employees in 15 geographic locations, under varying jurisdictions, to a work-at-home model within two weeks. Remarkably, under Agarwal's leadership, a global team was rapidly established to put in place the logistics, time, and directives, to make the transition to remote work happen smoothly. Their accomplishments were exemplary.
The pandemic has impacted each of us individually, and for some it's brought out strength of character. In Agarwal's case, he and his team demonstrated an ability to work as a team, persevere and thrive in very difficult circumstances. Their ability to do so has been acknowledged by many. Clients of Everise, and even their own employees, have expressed on social media and written letters about the extent to which Everise has gone the extra mile. Agarwal himself has expressed his gratitude and pride in creating an admirable team culture.
An equal opportunity employer, Everise has a diverse and inclusive workforce, with many women in leadership positions, which enables the company to provide elevated and culturally informed customer experiences.
An integral part of their company's success is that they prioritise learning and developmental platforms for employees. Everise University is an instructor-led training program with remote work management modules. Everise Accelerator and Everise Career Development are carefully designed career coaching and skills development platforms that have proved very popular.
With the majority of their staff working at home now, Agarwal has also overseen the deployment of online leadership development training, which focuses on helping managers to effectively manage a remote workforce. The company offers this along with other virtual learning courses and desktop tools which help employees and their managers to collaborate and communicate with each other.
Now that remote working has become an acceptable norm, it will only be to the benefit of brands that outsource, because they can leverage next-generation BPO's like Everise which have flexible, diverse teams that are globally distributed, and that work from home or office.


Sometimes, the heat gets to be a little much – both around the city and in our offices – and we find ourselves wanting to try crazy things. While we've always enjoyed playing with infusions (especially vodka infusions), we never thought we'd try something quite this… irreverent. However, after a little thought, we decided that an ongoing office joke (candy-infused vodka) might actually be a good idea. After all, it's an inexpensive, sweet solution to amping up some ordinary juice. It turns out this simple experiment (which you can easily do at home) produces spirits that are both colorful and yummy. Splash these vodkas in lemonade or iced tea to enjoy a drink that's both reminiscent of childhood and a celebration of adulthood. Check it out!
Tasting notes: raspberry, lemon, hand-sanitizer, blackberries.
Tasting notes: Butterscotch, caramel, yellow cake, marmalade.
Tasting notes: Peach, white sugar, melon.
Tasting notes: Watermelon, golden cherries, Moscato.
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Nestled in the South Pacific, right about where you might expect to find Skull Island, is French Polynesia and Tahiti. Tahiti was also made into a meme with the recent release of Red Dead Redemption II, as the main characters work tirelessly to make it to the carefree islands.
In order to best explore this tropical paradise, the official tourism organization recommends taking to the sea to explore the islands. There are plenty of things to do throughout the islands and beyond.
When you travel to Tahiti, set aside at least one day for an island-hopping sailing adventure. Voyaging between islands is a quick processand, in a single day, depending on your charter, you can hop between multiple islands. Typically, each island or atoll has neon-blue, temperate lagoons, which make for excellent views and swimming experiences.
There are 118 islands with a total of more than 1,000 stopover spots in the region. Before you arrive, make sure you research and book your charter well in advance. Even though there are so many competent organizations, planning ahead will take stress out of the situation.
Another site to see and visit throughout your trip is Fautua Falls, an inspiring waterfall on Tahiti proper.
No matter which island you start or end up on, you can take solace in the fact the water is bound to be beautiful and relaxing, no matter where you end up.