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#BombayHectic: A graphic novel chronicling life in Mumbai made entirely with a smartphone
The semi-autobiographical story follows the journey of a Delhi boy who moved to Mumbai in 2015.
Rhema Mukti Baxter
Jun 04, 2016 · 10:30 am
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Anyone who has ever lived in Mumbai speaks of having developed an inexplicably deep connection with the city. Not everyone, however, makes a graphic novel out of this feeling.
But Bombay Hectic, a graphic novel that currently lives on the internet, is unusual in another way: it's made entirely with a smartphone. From the pictures to the text, everything has been captured, edited and then added to Facebook using a One Plus One phone.
This juxtaposition of images with text to create a narrative is the brainchild of 28-year-old Aazar Anis, a Delhi boy who now lives in Mumbai. The novel features banter between two people while exploring the city of dreams. Everyday situations are used to convey emotions. The text is crisp and chatty, with a dash of poetry here, a hint of serendipity there.
The creative juice of Bombay Hectic is new but not completely fresh. Anis has tried it out before with Delhi Hectic, a virtual novel which he made in 2013 using Instagram images.
Delhi Hectic went on for 12 chapters before its creators – Anis and his friend, Arjun Jassal – decided to end it. "We didn't want to run it into the ground with one vitriolic chapter after another," said Anis. "After we felt that we'd said everything, we decided to stop."
Bombay Hectic picks up where Delhi Hectic left off. The love affair shifts to Mumbai, or Bombay as Anis would have it. "To sound highly politically incorrect, it's always been Bombay in my head," confessed Anis. "Just like it will always be Orissa, Bangalore and Calcutta for me, and not the weird aberrations they're being referred to as now."
There's a gap of at least three months between Chapter 10 and the latest addition, Chapter 11, which was posted on Facebook recently. When asked about the long gap between chapters, Anis, who works in the advertising industry, said work was to blame. "Things were getting hectic at work and I felt like I should have a story to tell before I dive into writing another chapter on the Bombay nightlife, or feeling existential in the city."
Bombay Hectic is semi-autobiographical. When Anis arrived in Mumbai in July 2015, he was clearly not impressed with the city of dreams. The first few chapters reek of a sadness which comes from initial disappointment. They speak of clogged drains and the woes of living alone.
"I've always lived in a joint family, so no human noises at night creep me out," he said. "Sometimes living alone is about braving the dark, administering first aid to yourself, watching how much you drink on weekdays, cleaning maggots out of the dustbin, running out of water for four days and surviving without electricity in the night when humidity is 98%, and getting used to silence."
But like it does with most of its migrants, Mumbai slowly grew on Anis. He's now a convert. "Bombay moves at its own pace and makes you a slave to routine and you are forever running against the clock," he said. "But the rewards are great. The people are warm and welcoming, and the city truly never sleeps. Once you've lived here, you'd never want to go to another city. It has changed me for the better, made me happier, more confident and I feel shifting here was the best decision I made."
And now that he's lived in both Delhi and Mumbai, does he have a favourite? What follows is a cautious response: "Bombay for its people and the sea. Delhi for its food and winter." Both cities, Anis said, have migrants from different walks of life trying to make a new home or a new start. "And when you start looking, both cities have their own wonderful stories to tell."
Of the 11 chapters in Bombay Hectic, Anis has a favourite – Chapter 2: Walking Around, which struck a chord with the poet in him. "I was happy that the chapter came out as a small poem that I think weaves well the ethos of Bombay," said Anis, who occasionally reads out his compositions at poetry meets.
A Home For Two is the latest in the series. What does the title refer to – a partner, a lover or a friend?
"It refers to all three, actually!" said Anis. "The chapter is basically about falling in love with the city while falling in love with a person, and how those two often get intertwined. It's also about those precious moments that make you feel alive… you belong in the present without thinking about the past or worrying about the future."
So what's next in the novel?
"The possibilities are endless!" declared Anis. "Maybe I will write a chapter on advertising – an industry I work for. Maybe I'll write a chapter on where my mother grew up – in a Kurla chawl."
Here's the latest chapter: A Home For Two.
All images have been used with permission.
Bombay Hectic
Delhi Hectic
In the digital age, a 120-year-old library in rural Maharashtra shows that books aren't dead


So yesterday's (almost/nearly)last-ditch efforts to sort out as deal between Russia and Ukraine ended, predictably, in the same stalemate. The meeting was held in Kyiv/Kiev (or whatever we should call it nowadays). European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger attended, seriously phased by the possibility that Ukraine (no, not Russia) will shut off transit of Russian gas to the EU (note: Russia is not threatening to stop supplies to its non-Ukrainian buyers, so let's dispense with this bit of propaganda).
We do not know if talks will resume today. Gazprom said yesterday that no new date for talks has been fixed, but that can change any time.
Last week, Gazprom offered Ukraine exactly the same gas contract terms that were extended to Yanukovych, including the discounts. That's official: President Putin confirmed as much in public. Gazprom agreed to delay gas payments until June 16th to sort out new contract.
The discount advanced to Ukraine was $100 per thousand cubic meters (mcm) and the first price offer was $385 mcm net. Again, this was confirmed by Russian President.
Ukrainian response was that they wanted lower price and they wanted that lower price fixed over a long-term contract. We do not know how long of a fix Ukraine expected (may be, Kiev wanted something similar to Chinese deal - which came at around $350-380 mcm but covers larger volumes and options to increase these volumes further), plus involves a counterpart (China) that never failed to pay on contracts. History of Ukraine-Russia dealings on gas has been checkered at best (see this note which only touches on some top level points relating to 2009 gas deal and more here on 3 years of consecutive violation by Ukraine of the gas purchase contract: here, albeit I do find the 2009 contract to be harsh for Ukraine).
So back to the current saga. $385 mcm is lower than price Poland pays for Russian gas, which comes at a price of around $465 mcm, and is slightly above the price paid by Germany or $370 mcm (though Germany has direct access to Russian-controlled, jointly enveloped Nord Stream pipeline).
Relating to Ukraine's demands/concerns with contract duration, President Putin instructed the Government to develop an option to fix contract terms 'for a certain period' - again, we are unclear as to what duration this period refers to or what duration fix Ukraine wants.
Specifically, president Putin said: "I would like to ask the government and the head of the cabinet to think on how it could be possible at the level of the government of the Russian Federation or upon agreement with the government of Ukraine freeze these terms and make them absolutely guaranteed and free from changes for a certain period…" Ukraine's concern that the $100 mcm discount offered can be unilaterally canceled: "We have never done so. We have always demonstrated that our agreements are reliable to the maximum."
Putin's point makes sense: he offered Ukraine exactly the same terms and conditions for gas pricing as Yanukovich faced prior to Kharkiv Accords. But Kiev has some valid points too - Khrakiv Accords have been annulled by Russia on foot of Crimean crisis (see below). So it's a Russian offer of 'Yanukovich deal, pre-2010' vs Kiev counter 'Yanukovich deal post-2010'.
Where that price of $286 mcm came from is anyone's guess. Until the overthrow of Yanukovich's Government, Kiev paid $268.5 mcm which was a special concessionary price set under the agreement in November 2013 that shelved the Ukraine's association agreement with the EU. In Q2 2014, following Russia non-recognition of the Yatsenyuk Government in Kiev, the agreement was voided and Ukraine was switched back to 2009 agreement on pricing at $385.5 mcm. This is quite reasonable: agreement on $268.5 mcm was based on specific deal struck with Yanukovich and there is no ground, in my view, on which it should translate to a government that was not recognised by Russia. Hence, 2009 deal applied, and $385.5 mcm was legit.
Now onto a tricky bit of the deal. In 2010, under the so-called Kharkiv Accords, Ukraine signed a deal with Russia that suspended $100 mcm export duty from shipments of gas to Ukraine (internal consumption, not transit). This was done in exchange for Ukraine extending the duration of Russian lease on Crimean naval facilities from 2017 to 2042. Note: $100 mcm discount did not reduce the cost of lease paid by Russia to Ukraine, but simply underpinned extension of contract duration.
What happened next is dodgy: on April 2, 2014, President Putin signed a law annulling the Kharkiv Accords. Crimea was no longer a 'leased land' and the $100 mcm discount on export duties was gone. The price of Russian gas shot straight up from $385.5 mcm to $485.5 mcm. My view is that this was wrong.
Following Russia: $385.5 mcm offer and Ukraine's initial counter at $268.5 mcm, Kiev said on Friday that it was ready to pay $326 mcm, but only over an interim period of 18 months - a period it claimed will be required to negotiate a long-term price agreement.
Now things get a bit more convoluted. Per June 11 reports, (see here), Ukrainian Minister of Energy and the Coal Industry Yury Prodan said "Ukraine believed the temporary price for Russian gas could be the mean price of $268-$385 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas until the issue is resolved in the Stockholm International Arbitration Court." Which puts pre-negotiations offer at $326.5 mcm - on-the-dot with second round counter-offer from Ukraine. So the second round offer was there before the first round offer. But to confuse things even more, the $326mcm price was not even Kiev's idea, but the EU's idea: see here.
Ukraine's government is too nice, should really demand a special discount of 70% on the market price for the occupation of Crimea.
The reality was that the prices were the politics, and given that the countries in the state of war at present, the only hope can be that now the price could be determined by economic factors to whatever extent possible.


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All About Truffles: Your Questions Answered
Few ingredients in culinary lore beckon to diners like the mysterious truffle. Ethereal in aroma, decadent in taste, and sold for thousands of dollars per pound, truffles have long captured the interest and imagination of diners and cooks alike. Truffles may be things of culinary legend, but they do not have to be mysteries. For insight into the world of truffles, we asked our founding team of Michelin-rated chefs and Dining Room professionals to break down the basics.
Are Truffles Mushrooms?
Contrary to popular belief, truffles are not mushrooms. Members of the genus Tuber, truffles are more akin to potatoes than mushrooms. A truffle is the fruit or spore-bearing organ of a fungal network called Mycelium, which grows underground.
Mushrooms typically release their spores into the wind as a means of reproduction, but truffles depend on animals to spread. Most truffles are devoured by forest animals that dig them up to eat. Given the fact that truffles have evolved to emit aromas that mimic mammalian reproductive pheromones, it is not surprising those who enjoy truffles consider them irresistible. Practically perfumed to seduce, they are considered aphrodisiacs in some circles. Truffle hunters famously used sows to seek out the delicacies because a truffle's musky scent attracted female pigs. The trouble came when the truffle hunter needed to collect his prize despite the best efforts of a determined (and hungry) barnyard animal.
Are there different types of truffles?
While gourmands may be familiar with the famous White Alba and Winter Perigord truffle, the reality is that there are, in fact, hundreds of varieties of the mysterious tuber in all manner of shapes, colors, sizes, and aromas ranging in taste from the savory to the insipid. The leucangium cartgusianum is charcoal in color and often smooth. It exudes the smell of pineapple and grows in areas of France and the Pacific Northwest, where it is commonly known as the Oregon Black Truffle.
The most common truffles found in dining rooms and used in kitchens are the White Tuber Magnatum, the Black Winter Tuber Melanosporum, and the Summer Tuber Aestivum.
How do we cook with truffles? Rules of thumb
As they relate to cooking, truffles are best expressed when likened to a delicate seasoning, whereas mushrooms are typically used as components of a dish. Hold your nose while enjoying a truffle and ready yourself for disappointment. Because they are so aromatic, the flavor of a truffle is rooted in its smell, and not necessarily its taste alone.
Just as a paint's color is expressed on canvas, a truffle's aroma needs a backdrop to express its flavor; generally something rich, starchy, or fatty will highlight a truffle's natural flavor. Simple dishes like buttered pasta or scrambled eggs are classically employed to spotlight the truffle. The three types of truffles most often used in cooking all have different appearances, aromas, flavor profiles, and each lends itself well to different cooking techniques and applications.
Black Winter "Perigord" Truffles
Tyler Vorce is the Chief Operating Officer at Truffle Shuffle. Before co-founding Truffle Shuffle, Tyler served for eight years as the Expediting Sous Chef at The French Laundry, where truffles are ordered, scrutinized, processed, and consumed en masse. Having been tasked with selecting the very best from plethoras of truffles, he is intimately familiar with the delicacies.
Tyler's first memory of truffles formed when he was a young cook in Maine, "We used to do a truffle demi glace at Pier 77 restaurant back in Maine on special occasions using Oregon truffles." Tyler says. It wasn't until he was cooking in New York City that he encountered fresh black truffles from Perigord, France. He fell in love with the product and its allure. It is rare, he says, that a product so lauded is cloaked in mystery. "Everyone has heard of them, but few have seen or had them," says Tyler. As a cook, Tyler loves to share the mysterious tuber with guests; "They create an experience in and of themselves," he says.
What do Black Truffles look like?
Black truffles, Tyler says, should have a deep, rich espresso and dark chocolate aroma. Visually, black truffles are jet black, have a textured exterior, and are covered in tiny semicircular bumps. Bisect them and see swirling white patterns like veins against the truffle's dark flesh. Those are elements of Mycelium, which expand outwards like rings of a tree as the truffle grows.
How are black truffles used in dishes?
Black truffles can be simply shaved over hot dishes, but also lend themselves well to be incorporated into dishes and cooked with. They can be pureed into soup or finely diced and folded into sauces. Memorably, Tyler recalls cooking in France where black truffles were poached in consommé and baked whole in puff pastry.
White Winter "Alba" Truffle
Sarah McKinney is the Director of Communications and co-founder at Truffle Shuffle. Before founding the company, she was part of the team at The French Laundry, where it was considered an honor to shave truffles over dishes, and only top dining room brass were permitted the privilege--exclusively sommeliers, captains, and matri'ds could shave them. Sarah now delights in the opportunity to share truffles with thousands of guests in her role at Truffle Shuffle.
No matter a diner's experience with truffles, "size matters" she says; "Size or quantity. They look at a box of truffles and think 'wow, that must be millions of dollars." Truffles can fetch hefty prices. Quality white truffles can cost thousands of dollars per pound.
What do white truffles look like?
White truffles are smooth and often beige in color. They can have areas of red or brown throughout their exterior, and legend has it that truffles so marked have grown on the roots of chestnut trees.
What do white truffles taste like?
"White truffles don't have much of a taste," Sarah says. "Their impact is all aroma."
That aroma is pungent but more delicate than that of the black truffle. White truffles have an intense garlicky parmesan cheese aroma that can be at times likened to the smell of petrol.
How are white truffles used in Dishes?
Since white truffles are so aromatic, their flavor translates well into fat. They infuse beautifully into butter and oil. As centerpieces, they are typically shaved raw over hot dishes. Classics like white truffle risotto reign supreme in the culinary arts, but white truffles are also delicious shaved over roasted squash, chestnuts, and greens.
The Summer or "Burgundy" Truffle
Jason McKinney is the CEO of Truffle Shuffle. He has been working with truffles for nine years. Six of those years were spent cooking at The French Laundry, and three of them have been spent selling truffles directly to restaurants.
Chef Jason's interest in truffles began at the age of 17, where he was working with a chef who cooked a dish of corn, scallops, and black truffles.
"He was one of those chefs that let other people clean up his station," Jason says.
The chef left a nub of black truffle on his cutting board before he left the kitchen. Jason swiped it and put it in his pocket for safe-keeping. Later, in his room, he held the sliver in his hand.
"The songs of angels came out of the truffle and I thought I was about to enjoy one of the most delicious things in my whole life," he says. "It literally tasted like dirt, and I was like 'how does that work?'' And that is where Jason's curiosity about truffles began.
Summer truffles (Tuber Aestivum) are found in two varieties: the summer truffle and the Burgundy truffle.. The two are the same species of tuber, but summer truffles grow in summer months and transition into Burgundies for the colder months, continuing to grow in the fall.
What do Summer truffles look like?
Summer truffles "look like little rocks," says Jason. They have pale interiors and bumpy surfaces like those of black truffles, but the protrusions are much larger in size and differently shaped. If the black truffle is covered in tiny semicircles, the summer and burgundy truffles are covered in larger bumps that are shaped like pyramids. They are dark tan on the outside with pale, fleshy interiors.
Burgundy truffles are darker in color and their interiors can be better likened to a hazelnut or cocoa color. The Burgundies are more prized than summers for their fragrance, which is more pungent than that of the summer truffle.
What do Summer and Burgundy Truffles taste like?
The summer truffles "are like a button mushroom and a hazelnut had a lovechild," Jason says. Summer and Burgundy truffles are not as aromatic as the blacks and whites and have more savory and mushroom qualities. "I think its closest relative is a hen of the woods mushroom," Jason says.
How are summer truffles used in cooking?
Summer and burgundy truffles are not as aromatic as the black and white winter truffles. As a result, they are often cooked first to release their aroma before adorning dishes. Try poaching them gently in olive oil before adding them to your favorite risotto. They also pair well with meats, poultry, and game. Most directly, they can be minced and added to savory dishes.
How can I learn more about truffles?
Still curious?
The best way to learn about truffles is to cook with them and eat them! Check out Truffle Shuffle's online store for your one-stop shop for honest truffles and quality small-batch truffle products.
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In March 2006, the office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with the help of Lakshmi Pratury organized a team and managed to web cast the first ever teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama very successfully. We were impressed with Lakshmi's passion and dedication to her work. We wish Lakshmi all the best for her future projects.
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Lakshmi. For an artist, the hospitality and the warmth of the organizer is what stays as a wonderful memory and interests him to come back again and again to work with the same company. This is exactly what I experienced with Lakshmi's company and would love to be associated with her for many many ventures.
I have enjoyed co-hosting the retreat with Lakshmi Pratury's organization, and am equally pleased with the quality of attendees who joined me. I am impressed by the quality of events created and presented by Lakshmi and am confident that Aamra Grove will be a much sought after retreat for the Indian Diaspora in the years to come.
I have been interviewed by Lakshmi Pratury and I am impressed by the depth of knowledge that she brings to the table and by her ability to put her subjects at ease so that they can talk with candor about their personal and professional lives.
I thank you for providing a unique forum to showcase the many facets of India to both Americans and Indians. I really enjoyed the experience. Goodluck in the future.
As an artist, actor and poet I speak with my art. Lakshmi's interview brought forth the words from me, expressing the thoughts and desires that make me passionate about my art. Thanks for the opportunity to share this with your audience Lakshmi.
I greatly enjoyed my interview with Lakshmi Pratury of Lakshmi's Lounge. She was at once professional, intelligent, funny and intimate. Her questions were original and thoughtful--and funny as well. After the event, many members of the audience came up to tell us that this was a unique experience.
My trip to India was by far the best trip of my life. India is a fascinating country and Lakshmi was an extraordinary guide. We went as a delegation of business women with the objective of getting a better understanding the many aspects of India – business, cultural, historical, social and religious. Lakshmi used her extension network to expose us to so many aspects of India. - From visiting a remote village to see micro finance in action, to drinks on the balcony with the Maharana of Udaipur to the Taj Mahal, each day offered another interesting and enlightening experience. Lakshmi organized the trip with love and passion and left us with an unforgettable memory.
Exploring India with Lakshmi was a magical adventure ... no better person to help you understand the many dimensions of this intriquing country! All your 'senses' will be triggered and a million new ideas will be born!
Well, Lakshmi proved once again, what focused woman power can do! The retreat was a flawless weekend packed with exciting conversations and I hope you are pleased with how it all turned out. Thanks for such an amazing weekend - I am buzzing with new ideas and learnings and hope that our work at Breakthrough contributed to the discussions as well.


Ahhh... the great outdoors! Warmer temperatures mean it's time to pack up the four wheel drive with your camping gear. But having the right gear isn't all you need! It's these camping hacks that will make your camping trip the best ever. Read on to find out the secrets of the top campers.
Whether you're an ace camper (maybe you were a Girl Scout or Boy Scout) or a novice nature lover, you can still pick up some camping tips. Camping can be an amazing way to not only bond with nature, but with your family and friends too. Knowing what you're doing, or at least knowing a few tricks, will ensure your experience will be amazing.
Making space for everything is a definite necessity. That means 2-for-1's, as in a lighter that also serves as a duct-tape holder, and a water jug that can also serve as a reading lamp. And camping doesn't have to be all about getting dirty. If "glamping" is more your style, check out our ways to stay clean while roughing it: single-use soap leaves and a portable hand-washing station. You don't even have to share a toilet with a bear! You can take (or make) your own!
Make sure you and your friends or family are ready to hit the great outdoors and have the absolute best camping experience you've ever had with these camping tips. Vote up the ones that will keep you well-lit, well-fed, and well... having the time of your life.
Camping is all about getting a little bit dirty. But it's still nice to be able to wash your hands (after fishing, before dinner, after answering "the call of nature" in nature). Use an old detergent bottle as a portable hand-washing station.
Ice takes up so much space. And you know you're going to need water. So why not freeze the water and use it as ice to keep everything cool? It's a great way to save space.
You don't have to worry about transporting eggs to the campsite. Chances are they'll be all scrambled by the time you get to your destination anyway. Just pre-crack 'em and put them in a container. All you have to do is pour out the eggs for scrambled eggs in the morning.
The active ingredient in Orajel is benzocaine, a local anesthetic that numbs whatever it's applied to. In a pinch, it can be used to stop the itch and annoyance of a mosquito bite.
If you're doing ANYTHING in the water, throw a cork onto your keychain to avoid the need to search the bottom of the lake for your keys.
You can purchase solar-powered lights stakes at any sports or garden store. These are a great way to ensure you won't trip over tent stakes in the middle of the night.
You can either pick one of these up at your local camping store or make your own with a 5 gallon bucket, toilet seat, a plastic garbage bag, and some kitty litter. You'll always be prepared when nature calls!
Chances are you're probably definitely going to need a lighter on your trip. Chances are you might not need duct tape, but like a good girl scout or boy scout, it's best to be prepared. Wrap a few feet of duct tape around your lighter, just in case.
Camping pancakes are super easy to make. They just require a little prep. You can either fill plastic bags with pancake batter so they're ready to pour, or just mix everything in a plastic container. Then just heat up a pan over the fire! Check out instructions here.
Make single use soap leaves with just a bar of soap and a vegetable peeler. Now you don't have to worry about dropping a bar of soap in the dirt.
Not sure if this still qualifies as camping (it's more like "glamping"), but you can build your own portable camping organizer with sink. Check out directions here!
You can still have pizza on your camping trip! Check out the directions for how to do this in 5 easy steps here!
Any good camper can toast a marshmallow (well, actually, that does take a certain skill) but have you tried Starburst candy? Apples? Asparagus? Reese's Cups? There are so many things you can roast. Check out more ideas here and here.


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African Leaders: Frantz Fanon & Amilcar Cabral - 2 disc set
Portrait of two leaders of the Pan-African Liberation Movement: Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral. Using rare archival footage, director Ana Lucia Ramos Lisboa accurately chronicles both the personal and public sides of an African icon...
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Portrait of two leaders of the Pan-African Liberation Movement: Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral.
Using rare archival footage, director Ana Lucia Ramos Lisboa accurately chronicles both the personal and public sides of an African icon in Amilcar Cabral (Cape Verde/ Portugal, 2001, 52 mins., in Portuguese with English Subtitles). The founder of the African Party for Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC), Amilcar Cabral led the Liberation Movement against Portugal for those countries.
In the documentary Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work (Algeria/France, 2001, 52 mins., in French and Arabic with English subtitles), director Cheikh Djemai uncovers and interviews scores of former associates of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist, philosopher and political leader. He became a spokesman for the Algerian revolution against French colonialism, and as the author of Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon documented the effects of colonialism and racism on the people of colonized countries.
Kirikou and the Sorceress
Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba! DVD with bonus short Aces
Great African Films - Vol. 4
Youssou N'Dour & Sotigui Kouyate: African Storytellers
Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death Movie


Enjoy this free Christmas presentation template that you can use both in Powerpoint and Google Slides. The design is subtle and elegant with a background of snowflakes and stars, besides, the cute christmas icons included will get your audience into the festive mood. Treasure up your special memories in a slideshow, use it for sending your Christmas photos or make special Christmas greeting cards for friends and family. It is released under a public domain license so there's no need to keep the credits slide, use it for any purpose you want. And if this theme doesn't exactly fit your needs remember that you can use other Christmas templates. Enjoy it and Merry Christmas to all!
This is a lovely Christmas slides presentation – great colors, terrific fonts – well done!
Muito bonito essa apresentação. Ficou realmente tudo perfeito. Muito obrigado por compartilhar isso conosco. Deus te abençoe, e um Feliz Natal e Ano Novo.
Really well done! How do you get the same emoji to show up on MS PowerPoint?
You no longer have permission to access this document, so your changes can't be saved. If you believe this is an error, contact the document owner. If your access is restored, you will be able to continue working." Please help!
Hi RJ, once you make a copy of the template in your Google Drive it's no longer under "my control" and I can't change the permissions to access the document.
If your Google account doesn't have permissions to make a copy (it happens with some company/school accounts), remember that you can always download the Powerpoint file and upload it to your Google Drive to edit with Google Slides.


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Merging grocery chains to unload 86 stores
Buyers include Weis, Saubel's
By: Joel Berg
Midstate grocery chains are joining the feeding frenzy as two industry giants propose to sell off dozens of supermarkets ahead of a merger expected to close this month.
European grocery companies Ahold and Delhaize Group said last night they plan to sell 86 U.S. stores, including some in York and Franklin counties, in an effort to satisfy antitrust concerns related to their merger. Ahold and Delhaize own the Giant and Food Lion brands, among others.
The buyers include Sunbury-based Weis Markets Inc., which is buying 38 Food Lions in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
Saubel's Markets, a small chain that operates three groceries in southern York County and northern Maryland, plans to buy a Food Lion store in Springettsbury Township, York County.
Ahold and Delhaize expect to close their merger this month and said they have agreements in hand to sell the 86 stores, which are scattered across Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia and West Virginia.
"Together, Ahold and Delhaize Group have been working hard to resolve the competition concerns raised by the (Federal Trade Commission), and we are pleased to have found strong, well-established buyers for the stores we are required to divest," Ahold CEO Dick Boer said in a statement.
The store sales are contingent on the FTC's approval of the merger, first announced last summer. Shareholders and European regulators approved the deal earlier this year, Ahold and Delhaize said.
The biggest chunk of stores is going to Weis, which said it is nearly doubling its store count in Maryland and entering Delaware and Virginia for the first time. The four Delaware stores are in and around the resort towns of Bethany Beach, Lewes and Rehoboth Beach.
Weis said it expects to convert most of the stores in September and October, and hopes to hire existing employees.
Supervalu, meanwhile, is scooping up 22 stores, the second-biggest chunk. Four are Food Lions in Franklin County: two in Chambersburg and one each in Greencastle and Waynesboro. The others are in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.
"The stores will operate under our Shop 'N Save format, which we believe is a great format for us and our wholesale customers," Mark Gross, Supervalu's president and CEO, said in a statement. The company said it expected to close on the sale within 15 weeks.
Other buyers are:
• New Albertson's Inc. (part of Albertsons Cos. based in Idaho) purchasing a Giant Food store in Salisbury, Md.
• Big Y (based in Massachusetts), purchasing eight Hannaford stores in eastern Massachusetts.
• Publix (based in Florida), purchasing 10 Martin's stores in Richmond, Va.
• Tops Markets (based in New York), purchasing one Stop & Shop store in Massachusetts as well as three Stop & Shop stores and two Hannaford stores in New York.
A full list of stores and locations is available here.
Delhaize is a Belgian food retailer with 3,524 stores in seven countries.
Ahold, based in the Netherlands, operates 3,253 stores in the U.S. and Europe. It's Giant-Carlisle division is based in Cumberland County.
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With the 4th pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys selected Ohio State's star running back, Ezekiel Elliott, as the man to fix the backfield hole Demarco Murray created with his departure. Elliott has already become a beloved athlete, thanks in part to his red carpet antics and, quite frankly, the fact that he's now one of the biggest names on "America's team."
However, before the preseason has even begun, Elliott's NFL career may be in danger of being derailed. Today, his girlfriend, Tiffany Thompson, uploaded photos of bruises and injuries to Instagram, accusing Elliott of inflicting them on her. Deadspin has also acquired filed police reports from Thompson, and a 911 call from her to the police from this morning, after the alleged beating incident.
On said 911 call, Thompson alleged that Elliott had been "doing it for five days straight," alluding to the fact that he's been assaulting her for just short of a week. As you can see in the report excerpt above, Elliott has denied that he's physically assaulted Thompson, and his father recently released a statement regarding the troubling allegations.
The reported allegations and Internet postings regarding our son are completely false. Ezekiel has done nothing wrong. The police have investigated this matter and eyewitnesses have verified the lack of any wrongdoing. The actual evidence in this matter clearly indicates what the real motivation was behind the police being called. We are confident that when the truth comes to light it will reveal the falsity of these claims. Ezekiel has been fully cooperative with the police and will continue to do so—along with cooperating with the NFL—moving forward.
The NFL has yet to publicly comment on the incident, and will likely conduct a full internal investigation before doing so. Ezekiel's father's statement was posted to the Dallas Cowboys Twitter account just over an hour ago.
We'll have more details once they're made available.
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Intel Corporation today announced its support for Narrow-Band Long-Term Evolution (NB-LTE) technology as the ideal wireless connectivity solution for the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market segment.
"We are excited to collaborate with two leading network vendors, Ericsson and Nokia, on the next wave of wireless innovation to connect the growing IoT market segment, and to further grow the momentum for Intel's LTE portfolio and roadmap with NB-LTE," said Stefan Wolff, vice president, Platform Engineering Group and general manager of the Multi-Comms Business Unit, Intel.
"We believe in building an ecosystem around NB-LTE to speed up the take-up of the Internet of Things. This development will bring consumers benefits, such as enhanced and improved connectivity of devices and at lower cost. This is another extension of Nokia's aim to improve people's lives through a programmable world where billions of people, things, sensors and devices are connected," said Stephan Litjens, vice president, Portfolio Strategy & Analytics, Nokia Networks.


Harry (George Clooney) and Linda (Frances McDormand) go on a blind date, after dinner both of them end up back at Linda's place.
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Magnet Acquires 'Skin Trade' With Tony Jaa, Dolph Lundgren, And Michael Jai White
Separately, if you throw the names Tony Jaa and DolphLundgren into any picture, I'll totally watch the crap out of it. Put them together in the same movie, and it's one I'll shove my own family members out of the way in order to get into the theater first. (And if you want to sweeten the deal with Michael Jai White, Ron Perlman, and Peter Weller, that's also fine with me, it's like all of my favorite things.)
That's exactly the case with the upcoming Skin Trade, which teams the two action heroes up for the first time. Sometimes with these outside-of-the-mainstream actioners, it can take a while to see them as they eventually drop on the DTV market without much fanfare. Lucky for us, however, Skin Trade now has solid distribution in place.
According to Indie Wire, Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia, has snatched up the rights to the Ekachai Uekrongtham-directed actioner, which was written by Lundgren and Steven Elder.
Lundgren stars as Nick Cassidy, a detective who is hot on the trail of a Serbian gangster, Viktor Dragovic (Perlman), and his human trafficking network. When thugs murder Nick's family, he follows the clues to Southeast Asia where he joins forces with a Thai detective, Tony Vitakayui (Jaa), and the duo dismantle the criminal syndicate while exacting a healthy dose of revenge in the process. In the process, FBI Agent Nick Eddie Reed (White) is sent to bring Cassidy home. Yes, please.
All I'm saying is that there better be a fight involving Jaa and White, two of the baddest action stars on the planet. I don't if they fight each other or work together to take down an entire warehouse full of stock bad guys, but this has to happen.
Skin Trade hits VOD everywhere on April 23, and gets a limited theatrical run starting May 8 (which just so happens to be my birthday, happy birthday to me).
Check out this sneak peek.
Posted by Brent McKnight at 11:31 AM
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No. 24 Virginia Tech men's basketball defeats Miami, 80-78
Virginia Tech moves to 8-1 on the year.
Virginia Tech's Tyrece Radford (23) tries to get the ball from Miami's Harlond Beverly (5) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020 in Blacksburg, W.Va. (Matt Gentry/The Roanoke Times via AP, Pool)(Matt Gentry | AP)
Published: Dec. 29, 2020 at 8:01 PM EST
BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - The No. 24 Virginia Tech Hokies defended Cassell Coliseum Tuesday night against the visiting Hurricanes, securing an 80-78 victory.
Keve Aluma led the way for the Hokies with 26 points.
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Q: Why does autoclass create aliases here? In short, I have code that works but if I make a slight tweak, some things fall apart and I can't seem to figure out why. I'm hoping someone more experienced than me can give me a few Sphinx pointers. I've searched and haven't seen anything like this issue posted before.
Thing that works
I have package my_pkg that contains module mod that contains a number of classes and functions.
If I use the following line in my conf.py
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../my_pkg'))

and one of my .rst files contains the following
.. automodule:: mod

.. autoclass:: mod.classA
   :members:

.. autofunction:: mod.functionA

.. autoclass:: mod.classB
   :members:

then when I run my documentation everything works! However, these render the call signatures in the output documentation as mod.classA (for instance) and I'd rather they render as my_pkg.mod.classA.
Thing that doesn't work
To make this change, I thought I should remove pkg from conf.py like so
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../my_pkg'))

and then change my .rst file to start looking from pkg like the following:
.. automodule:: my_pkg.mod

.. autoclass:: my_pkg.mod.classA
   :members:

.. autofunction:: my_pkg.mod.functionA

.. autoclass:: my_pkg.mod.classB
   :members:

If I do this, the automodule directive doesn't pick up on anything and therefore doesn't show my module's docstring (I don't get any warnings about autodoc being unable to find pkg.mod, so I find this bizarre). The output for
.. autoclass:: my_pkg.mod.classA
   :members:

is simply alias of my_pkg.mod.... even though that's wrong. Despite this, the "source" button in the class signature correctly links to the code for that class. Finally, the remaining function and class render precisely as I want them to. It just appears Sphinx really doesn't want to document this module or classA for some reason.
This problem is driving me bonkers. It happens across multiple themes, so I believe it's a Sphinx issue. I've tried changing the docstring of classA to be just """foo""". I've tried moving classA around in the document so it's not the first bit of real code. I've tried renaming classA. Nothing seems to fix it and classA is always the problem.
Does anyone know why this could happen? I'm using Sphinx v4.1.1 and sphinx-rtd-theme v0.5.2 (the latest versions of both at the time of this post).

A: Edit: my original thought was completely wrong but I've now been able to recreate the issue multiple times. mzjn is correct that I didn't provide enough context.
This issue seems to be caused by my_pkg being a mocked import. Within conf.py I had a line
autodoc_mock_imports = ['my_pkg', 'numpy', 'scipy', 'pandas']

My finding is that if I try to start documenting from the package root (i.e. my_pkg is the first argument to automodule and autoclass, as described in the section that didn't work) and my_pkg is a mocked import, Sphinx causes the issues that I described above. I had forgotten to remove my_pkg from the mock imports when changing the structure (which still doesn't really explain why this behavior exists, but at least I found how to reproduce it).

A: You might need to define the __module__ attribute for your classes/functions, as described in another Stack Overflow post.

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Defendant's Lawyers in Nevada Amtrak/Truck Crash Accuse Union Pacific of Concealing Evidence
By Pottroff & Karlin LLC July 9, 2012 No Comments
(Reno, Nevada – June 29, 2012)
Attorneys representing John Davis Trucking as well as those representing the children of an Amtrak conductor who was killed in a tragic June 24, 2011 truck/train collision east of Reno, NV have accused Union Pacific Railroad, upon which the Amtrak passenger train was operating, of tampering with or destroying key evidence from the site.
Truck driver, Lawrence Valli, and Amtrak conductor, Laurette Lee, both were killed in the collision, as were four Amtrak passengers, and to date, 15 lawsuits have been filed by attorneys representing the deceased or some of the 100 passengers who received various injuries.
Steve Jaffe, attorney representing John Davis Trucking, and Jay Sullivan, lawyer for Lee's children, are in agreement that the crossing gates at the scene could not have properly functioned because skid marks made by the truck did not divert from a path leading directly to where the gates would have blocked Valli's path, yet photographic evidence taken after the accident show the gate was undamaged.
Jaffe requested a dismissal of the lawsuits against his client, telling a federal judge that instead of preserving evidence, Union Pacific altered and then destroyed the crossing gate from the crash scene, thus making it difficult for the trucking company to defend itself against claim's that the truck driver was at fault. Union Pacific said it left the gate in place so that it could have been inspected by lawyers involved in the numerous lawsuits.
Sullivan, meanwhile, said that "There's credible evidence that the gates came down late or not at all," adding that "A late deployment of the crossing gate would help explain why Mr. Valli drove his truck into the train."
The attorneys also refer to a Reno Gazette-Journal investigative article published Sunday, June 24, 2012, which found that despite numerous reports of close calls by locomotive engineers at the rural U.S. 95/UPRR crossing, the Nevada DOT had failed to make any safety improvements at the crossing in question.
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Tax: the average tax burden on earnings in OECD countries continues to rise
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The average tax and social security burden on employment incomes increased in 26 out of 34 OECD countries in 2011 according to the new OECD Taxing Wages publication.
Tax payers in Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and the Slovak Republic were among those hit with the largest increases. Those in New Zealand and the United States saw their tax burden fall. In Hungary, the average single worker without children was faced with the largest increase in the tax wedge, but for families with children, it fell.
In most countries the higher overall tax burden was due to personal income tax, rather than increased Social Security Contributions. Only 5 countries raised their statutory tax rates on average earnings. In most cases the rise in the tax burden was due to a higher proportion of earnings being subject to tax because the value of tax free allowances and tax credits fell relative to earnings. In a few countries including the Czech Republic, Hungary and Ireland they were actually reduced in nominal terms.
Taxing Wages provides nationally comparative details about the taxation of employment incomes and the associated costs to employers for different household types and at different earnings levels. These are the key factors in determining the incentives both for individuals to seek work and for businesses to hire workers.
The tax burden is measured by the 'tax wedge as a percentage of total labour costs' – or the total taxes paid by employees and employers, minus family benefits received, divided by the total labour costs of the employer. Taxing Wages also breaks down the tax burden between personal income taxes (PIT), including tax credits, and employee and employer Social Security Contributions (SSC)
Key Taxing Wages results in 2011 included:
The highest tax wedges for single workers without children who are earning the average wage in their country were observed in Belgium (55.5%), Germany (49.8%) and Hungary and France (49.4%). The lowest tax wedges on the same basis were in Chile (7%), Mexico (16.2%) and New Zealand (15.9%) The average for OECD countries was 35.3%. (See Table 1)
The average overall tax wedge, for those earning the average wage, increased by 0.3 percentage points between 2010 and 2011. This was largely due to PIT. Of the 26 countries where the tax wedge rose, in 18 the PIT wedge also rose, most notably in Ireland (+3.8 percentage points), Hungary (+2.4 percentage points) and Portugal (+1.4 percentage points). Falls in the overall tax burden were also primarily due to PIT changes – the largest decrease was in New Zealand where the tax wedge fell by 1.1 percentage points due to changes in the income tax rates in 2011.
The United States was the main exception to the rule. The overall tax wedge fell by 0.9 percentage points in 2011, due to a decrease in employee social security contributions which outweighed an increase in income taxes resulting from the expiry of the temporary "Making Work Pay" non-wastable tax credit.
The highest tax wedges for one-earner families with two children at the average wage were 42.3% for France, 40.3% for Belgium and 38.6% for Italy. New Zealand had the smallest tax wedge for these families (-1.2%), followed by Chile (7%), Ireland (7.1%) and Switzerland (8.4%). The average for OECD countries was 25.4%.(See Table 2).
Single people in Hungary faced the biggest increase in the tax burden, but families with children enjoyed the biggest reduction due to a reform of the child tax relief scheme that changed from a tax credit to a more advantageous tax allowance in 2011.
In all OECD countries except Mexico and Chile, the tax wedge for families with children is lower than that for single individuals without children. The differences are particularly large in the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand and Slovenia.
Taxing Wages 2011 includes a special feature that analyses trends over time in statutory PIT and employee SSC rates, the income thresholds where they apply, and other statutory provisions that shape average and marginal personal tax rates in OECD countries.
The most pronounced trend has been the reduction in top statutory PIT rates, inclusive of surtaxes and sub-central income taxes. The average OECD-wide top statutory PIT rate decreased significantly in each of the last three decades, from 65.7% in 1980 to 46.5% in 2000, and to 41.7% in 2010. More recently, this trend appears to have come to a halt – , in 2010 and 2011 more countries increased than reduced their top PIT rates.
The PIT for top wage earners fell in 2011, but these cuts were partly offset by employee SSC increases. On average the top "all-in" rate across the OECD fell by 4 percentage points, from 49.4% in 2000 to 45.4% in 2010, compared with the 4.8% reduction in the average top statutory PIT rate.
Over the last decade, almost two-thirds of OECD countries have reduced the income threshold at which the top statutory PIT rate starts to apply, though in the majority it is still more than twice the average wage. For people earning average wages, the statutory PIT rate fell across the OECD from an average 30.5% in 2000 to 27.4% in 2010, with the corresponding average personal income tax rate falling from 16% to 14.5%. For low income earners there were no clear trends in the level of income at which an individual starts to have to pay tax, or in the starting rate of tax.
In some countries a range of insurance-related benefits are provided not through SSCs to government but through compulsory payments to privately-managed pension funds or insurance companies. These countries include Australia, Chile, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Switzerland. More information on these "non-tax compulsory payments" is included in the OECD Tax Database NTCP figures 2011.
For more information please go to the following link: http://www.oecd.org/document/8/0,3746,en_21571361_44315115_50165640_1_1_1_1,00.html
Analysis: Mexico's labor reform no panacea for denting the black market
"Actualización de buzón tributario para Personas Físicas"
"EMPRESAS MEXICANAS CON OPERACIONES EN EL EXTRANJERO"


Cabourg is a small beach town in the North of France, only a quick 2 hour drive from Paris. And in two weeks time, a rather fantastic selection of French and international artist will be taking the stages at Cabourg Mon Amour: a three day celebration of music, summer, France and life itself, really.
On the line-up are some very major names, among them: Fishbach and her tropically fused French way of pop. Should be a banger under the skies of Calvados. Attached below is the title track Un Autre Que Moi off her debut EP of the same name that came out in May this year. Team Poule says, drinks on you, Cabourg.


Source: Maryland State Law Library, Special Collections KFM1225.2 1782-1783: Laws of Maryland, made and passed at a session of Assembly : begun and held at the City of Annapolis, on Monday the twenty-first of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three (1783) ch. 34.
Crawford, Francine. 'Pre-Constitutional Copyright Statutes.' Bull. Copyright Soc. 23 (1975): 11-37.
Bugbee, Bruce Willis. The Genesis of American Patent and Copyright Law. Washington D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967.


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Q: Как проверить, сохранены ли все данные из поле на странице? Добрый день. Имеется таблица с товарами. У каждого товара есть возможность редактировать несколько полей. Сохраняются данные через AJAX (для каждого товара своя кнопка Сохранить).
Также есть внизу навигация. Как сделать так, чтобы при попытке покинуть страницу (закрыть) или перейти по навигации, осуществлялась проверка, сохранены ли изменения в полях товара или нет. Если нет, то выдавать сообщение.

Я пока вижу вариант следующий. При изменении данные полей товара записывать в скрытый input сообщение (например, 1) о том, что поля подверглись изменению. А при сохранении очищать значение этого input. Тем самым при навигации я могу делать проверку за наполнение таких input-ов.
Но может есть более правильное решение?

A: Лично я предпочитаю помечать измененные инпуты специальным классом, например dirty.
$("#mytable input").change(function() {
    $(this).addClass("dirty");
});

И проверить легко:
if($("#mytable .dirty").length) { ..... }

и визуально можно подсветить с помощью css:
#mytable .dirty {
    background: #ffffaa;
}

UPD: ну и при сохранении не забываем чистить
$(".....").removeClass("dirty");


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Series Preview: New York Yankees vs. Toronto Blue Jays (9/22-9/24)
By Matthew Luzzi - September 22, 2017
The final road trip of the regular season will take the Yankees north of the border to face the last place Blue Jays, who will be trying to eliminate the possibility of the Yankees winning the AL East. Despite winning eight of their last ten, the Bombers still find themselves three back of the Red Sox with just ten games to go, and in dire need of a few Boston losses in order to avoid the dreaded wild card game. The series shouldn't be as easy as one would think however, as the Yanks are only 6-7 vs Toronto this season.
Game One: Friday September 22nd 7:07 PM ET
Masahiro Tanaka (12-11, 4.73 ERA) vs. Marco Estrada (9-8, 4.84 ERA)
In the series opener, Masahiro Tanaka will get the ball as he goes for win number 13, and his third against the Blue Jays on the year. Tanaka has recovered nicely in the second half after being one of the worst pitchers in baseball in the first half, yet his ERA is still close to five and he has still been giving up the home run ball at a frequent rate, 32 overall. Tanaka has been a horse for the Yanks over the past month, as he has gone seven innings in four of his last five starts.
Marco Estrada, like Tanaka, has not had the year that he envisioned in March, and also has a similar ERA and win loss ratio as Tanaka, something that would be a good thing in recent years. Estrada also gives up too many home runs, 29 on the year for him, and has struggled in his four previous starts against the Yanks this year, with a 5.64 ERA.
Game Two: Saturday September 23rd 4:07 PM ET
Sonny Gray (9-11, 3.38 ERA) vs. Joe Biagini (3-11, 5.33 ERA)
Sonny Gray will be on the mound on Saturday afternoon, meaning that it is official that the Yankees will not score more than five runs in this game. To be exact, in Grays nine starts since being acquired, the Yankees have scored more than five runs only twice, and have been held to one run or fewer in five of those nine starts. Even with the lack of run support, Gray has not been as effective this month as he was in August, posting a 2.70 ERA in August and currently sitting on a 4.01 ERA for September. Gray will hope to have his third stellar start against the Jays on Saturday, but hopefully he will get more than the one run combined he has gotten in those two games.
Photo Credit: AP Frank Franklin II
Joe Biagini is the type of pitcher that could very well shut down this Yankee lineup. The reason for this is because this Yankee lineup seems to do poorly against pitchers who are pitching poorly, and make no mistake about it: Joe Biagini has been pitching poorly this season. Even though Biagini has put together a few nice starts since moving from the bullpen, he has also had some very quick, ugly outings, so beware of anything from Biagini on Saturday.
Game Three: Sunday September 24th 1:07 PM ET
Jordan Montgomery (8-7, 4.06 ERA) vs Marcus Stroman (12-8, 3.01 ERA)
It is easy to forget just how well of a rookie season Jordan Montgomery has had, giving Yankee fans a possible sneak peek into the future at a fixture in the rotation. Montgomery has bounced back well since his bad July and his minor injury, and he showed that in his last start, when he threw six innings of shutout baseball in a win vs the Orioles, which was Montgomery's first win since July 25th.
Marcus Stroman is the ace of the Blue Jays staff, and will most likely give the Yankees his best stuff when he faces off with them on Sunday, as Stroman has been one of the hottest pitchers in baseball for not just this month, but since the beginning of July. Stroman's 2.57 ERA since the beginning of July is outstanding, and so is his 2.18 ERA in his four starts during this month. Yet, maybe most impressive is the fact that he has only allowed six home runs in those 15 starts since the start of July, with three coming in the same start. Safe to say that Tanaka and Estrada could learn a thing or two from Stroman.
Players to Watch: Yankees
Didi Gregorius:
Didi recently became the all-time leader among Yankee shortstops for most home runs in a season with 25, passing the Captain. Didi hasn't just launched 25 homers this year, he's also become arguably the best all-around player on the team, and is hitting an impressive .332 on the road this year, compared to just .248 at home. Not only is Didi the most consistent hitter on the team, he also may be the most clutch, as he has delivered big hits all year in big spots, which will need to continue in order for a deep run into October to be possible.
Photo Credit: AP Seth Wenig
Gary Sanchez:
When Sanchez got injured in the beginning of the year, it seemed as if his aspirations of being the best power hitting catcher in baseball were dormant for the year 2017, yet someway, somehow, Sanchez is sitting at a whopping 32 home runs with ten games left to play, and is by far the most powerful catcher in the game today. Gary has been on a tear in the month of September, batting .339 and showing much more focus behind the plate.
Aaron Judge:
Aaron Judge may be the first player in history to go from being the best player in the league to the worst, to back to being one of the best all in the same season. It was tough to watch Judge at the plate in the second half of July and August, as it seemed he was striking out in most at-bats. However, in the month of September, Judge has once again rediscovered his power stroke, as he has eight homers in the month, and should be delighted to be facing the Jays, who he has crushed this year. Judge is hitting .333 with six homers against the team from Canada this year, yet he still probably wishes he was facing the Orioles instead.
Photo Credit: AP Bill Kostroun
It will be vital for the Yankees this weekend to take advantage of their inferior opponent, as there will be no more inferior opponents come playoff time. Something else to watch out for as the season winds down is the rotation, and whether Joe Girardi pushes certain starters back or up in order to plan accordingly for the likely Wild card game and even a possible one game play in for the AL East title, as if the Yankees and Red Sox end the season with the same record, there will be a one game play in at Yankee Stadium. Safe to say, the winner of that game if it happens will be in great shape to make a deep run.
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Temple, TX Residents Take a Stand for Public Library Neutrality on LGBTQ Nipping the Library's promotion of LGBTQ in the bud at this stage is our objective.
This past summer, our City Library here in Temple, Texas decided to put up a display in the children's section celebrating, and encouraging our children to celebrate, the LGBTQ lifestyles.
This display crossed a critical line from neutrality to advocacy.
That line that should not be crossed by a public, taxpayer-funded institution like our Library, especially when it undermines a large part of the community's moral values.
Having a wide variety of books in a public library is one thing; but erecting displays that promote dangerous and destructive lifestyle choices – especially to our children – is entirely another thing.
The job of the Library is simply to make informational and educational resources available for its patrons, not to promote one side over another in social or political matters.
This display has come to the attention of many local residents who are seeking to raise our children with Biblical moral values, and we are moved with the conviction that now is the time to take a stand for what is right. We have approached Library and City officials, courteously but firmly, to ask that they not allow such displays to be placed in our Library in the future. We have urged them to remain neutral in matters of a sexual nature, rather than creating a hostile environment for the values held so dearly by so many in our community.
From Mass Resistance: Given out in the children's section: Here's what the Temple, Texas library officials think your children should be told about.
Judging from other cities where LGBTQ is pushed on children (such as in Brooklyn, New York, whose Library hosts the weekly "Drag Queen Story Hour" for children), we have reason to believe that this Library display may only be a foot in the door for more aggressive attempts to normalize these lifestyles in the future.
The Bible calls such lifestyles sin, in places such as Romans 1:18-32 (which dramatically depicts the dreadful state we currently find ourselves in as a nation). Science confirms these moral choices as physically and emotionally destructive (see the confirming references footnoted in our petition).
Nipping the Library's promotion of LGBTQ in the bud at this stage is our objective.
A counter-movement to ours has now sprung up, seeking to defend the pro-LGBTQ display and insisting that the Library was only displaying information. Though we have, as is typical in these kinds of cultural conflicts, been mischaracterized by our opponents (as those trying to ban books, for instance), and have been called bigots and such by those who refuse to be objective, we are not deterred.
The issue is simple: either the Library is a place for unbiased information for all of its patrons, or it is a place for the promotion of one side against another in matters directly affecting the moral and sexual education of our children. We believe the answer is clearly that the Library must remain neutral and impartial.
This Tuesday, January 30th, the Library Board meets again.
We have prepared a petition (you can view the petition at www.concernedchristiancitizens.org ) that lays out our concerns and presents our request to the Library, and we are in the process of gathering signatures for that petition from local residents. Our opponents have also prepared a petition, only theirs is a digital petition that receives signatures not only from our community, but from all over the world (as I write this, a cursory perusal of recent signees includes people from California, Canada and the U.K.). This push from outside of our community illustrates a big part of the problem here.
In fact, not only is the counter-petition gathering signatures from outside of our community, but some very large, well-funded, politically correct Goliaths have written a "don't listen to those within your community, listen to us instead" letter to our Library and City officials (see this letter at http://ncac.org/blog/texas-library-evaluates-policy-after-criticism-of-lgbt-themed-display).
Whom we are stirring up says much about what we are doing.
Perhaps these Goliaths are not used to this kind of backlash against their obvious agenda to indoctrinate our children with values not shared by us. We hope they will have to get used to it, not just in Temple.
What is happening in Temple, Texas is certainly not limited to our locale. Sexually deviant agendas have come or are coming to a city or town near you, too. Only the people from within each community can do what needs to be done about that to protect our children and our grandchildren in our own backyards. It's our turn to stand; we were born for such a time as this!
We have been told that the City is writing a new policy for the displays in our Library. We are actively praying, and asking all who join our concern to join us in actively praying, for God to break through here with a truly good and constructive policy going forward.


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Violent Attack on Custody Assistant at Lakewood Station
Today, an inmate at the Lakewood Station jail punched a female custody assistant in the face during fingerprinting, took her taser and pulled her into a locked cell. Despite suffering a broken nose and a concussion, the C.A. managed to active her emergency alarm while the inmate held her hair in one hand and the taser in the other. Responding deputies were forced to shoot the inmate in order to save the life of the custody assistant. Both the C.A. and the inmate were transported to the hospital for treatment. The C.A. is recovering and PPOA Executive Director Wayne Quint was at the hospital with her and her family to offer support. Meanwhile, a PPOA attorney was dispatched to Lakewood Station to assist the lieutenant involved in the incident.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the custody assistant and her family — PPOA is committed to assisting them throughout the recovery.


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Q: Combinatorial argument for this problem: Problem: find : $\sum_{r=0}^{21}\binom{42+r}{42}*\binom{42-r}{21}$ ,is there a combinatorial argument for this summation? My progress i realized that sum of upper terms in binomial is constant equal to 84 : so i thought of somehow distributing 84 items in such a manner that 42 gets some and 21 are given with some restrictions but that doesnt work

A: Perform a change of index $j=r+43$ to rewrite your sum as
$$\sum_{j=43}^{64}\binom{j-1}{42}\binom{85-j}{64-43},$$
which you can combinatorially prove is $$\binom{85}{64}$$
by counting the $64$-subsets of $\{1,\dots,85\}$ according to the $43$rd smallest element.


YANGON (Reuters) - Authorities in Myanmar used excavators on Wednesday to hunt for 27 people buried for two days in a landslide, officials said, the latest disaster to hit a northern centre of the Southeast Asian nation's lucrative jade trade.
Deadly landslides during Myanmar's rainy season from May to October frequently bury informal scavengers, or handpickers, who scour large piles of earth for jade, production of which stood at $31 billion (£23.5 billion) in 2014, advocacy group Global Witness says.
Small-scale miners who flouted repeated warnings in their search for jade at a defunct mining site were buried by muddy earth that slid off a cliff on Monday, said Kyaw Swar Aung, the administrator of Hpakant in Kachin state.
"There were 4 inches of rain the night before it happened," he said, adding that no survivors or bodies had yet been pulled from the rubble. "Warnings had been issued twice not to do mining at that site."
Six backhoes were brought in on Tuesday to help with the search in the village of Ma Mone, said fire brigade official Aye Thein.
"We could not perform the search when it happened, since we did not have the machinery," he said.
Those trapped had come from nearby villages to pick through tailings for jade, he said. Experts say most of the stones are smuggled to neighbouring China.
About 100 people are estimated to have died in landslides this year in the Hpakant region, said Dashi La Seng, a lawmaker for the ruling National League for Democracy. A large landslide on July 14 killed at least 15 people and injured 45.


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Bio-economie (Engels: biobased economy, bioeconomy of biotechonomy) heeft betrekking op alle economische aspecten van het gebruik van natuurlijke hulpbronnen. Dit betreft alles wat groeit en hergroeibaar is. Vaak heeft men het over biomassa als men spreekt over bio-economie. Maar ook biobased grondstoffen in de bouw en productie van goederen uit hergroeibare grondstoffen zijn steeds belangrijker voor een duurzame economie. Soms wordt de term gekoppeld aan biotechnologie.

Geschiedenis
De term biobased economy is geïntroduceerd door Juan Enriquez en Rodrigo Martine. Sinds 2005 is er in Nederland aandacht voor de bio-economie. In België is de Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant opgericht.

Praktijk
Bij het denken over bio-economie richt men zich met name op de verschillende manieren om biomassa aan te wenden voor
 Energieproductie
 Vezels voor bouwmaterialen en kleding (vlas, vezelhennep en brandnetel, hout)
  productie van bioplastics
 biologische gewasbescherming zoals het kiemremmingsmiddel Talent gewonnen uit karwijzaad
 specifiek onderzoek, zoals het mogelijk gebruik van de kleurstof purpurine gewonnen uit meekrap als organische kathode in een lithiumaccu ter vervangen van het metaal kobalt.
Gewassen die kunnen groeien en al eeuwenlang gebruikt worden maken ook deel uit van de bio-economie. Denk daarbij aan hout en bamboe.

Bij energieproductie gaat het nu vooral om gewassen als maïs en suikerbieten of om reststromen organisch afval uit landbouw of natuurterreinen, maar in de toekomst mogelijk ook om algen.
Er worden verschillende processen gebruikt om de biomassa te oogsten en om te zetten. Dit kan gebeuren met technieken zoals:
 Pyrolyse (wordt gebruikt voor het maken van pyrolyse-olie)
 Uitdroging
 Fermentatie
 Bioraffinage
 bio-ethanolproductie
 Anaerobe vergisting (wordt over het algemeen gebruikt bij het maken van methaangas)

Centre for Biobased Economy
In Nederland is het Centre for Biobased Economy opgericht. Aan het centrum zijn universiteiten en bedrijven verbonden, onder andere de Wageningen Universiteit, Hogeschool Inholland en Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein.

Biotechnologie

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Rick Pitino has been fired amid a bribery scandal. Will justice for NCAA players follow?
The latest scandal is an opportunity to move toward fairly compensating student athletes
By Taylor Link
Published September 27, 2017 2:18PM (EDT)
Louisville Cardinals head coach Rick Pitino (AP/Gerry Broome)
The scandal that rocked college basketball this week has brought down one of the most illustrious coaches in the game. University of Louisville placed Rick Pitino on unpaid administrative leave Wednesday, bringing his 16-year, championship-winning tenure to an end, according to ESPN.
On Tuesday, the FBI revealed its probe into a system of bribery and paybacks that seems to span much of top-tier college basketball, a probe has led to multiple criminal indictments. Four assistant coaches of major Division I programs were arrested, but Pitino was not mentioned in the federal indictment. Louisville had received official notice that it was under FBI investigation, according to CBS Sports.
Pitino and Louisville were already appealing NCAA sanctions following a sex scandal that began nearly two years ago.
As far as the FBI's latest investigation, federal prosecutors alleged that top high school recruits were bribed as much as $150,000 — with money supplied by Adidas — to attend schools.
While these investigations have immediate implications on the coaches involved, it's starting to feel as if the entire system of NCAA sports may have just reached a breaking point. College athletics has been corrupt since its inception, exploiting amateur athletes for a billion-dollar business. Universities, corporate sponsors and highly-paid coaches have relied on student athletes — predominantly black athletes — to bring in significant amounts of revenue for their own gain.
In a system where students can lose their scholarships for taking so much as a free lunch, college coaches at non-private schools are often the most highly paid public employees in their states. The multimillion-dollar boons for universities in the form of TV rights, apparel sales and free enrollment marketing is also lucre derived off the sweat of free labor. The benefits to corporations, be they media giants or sportswear producers, is, too, fruit from a rotten tree.
Now that the feds are involved, this scandal may finally lead to the compensation of student athletes, or at least spur serious talk about it. This has been a growing issue in recent years, especially since the NCAA struck a $11 billion deal in 2011 with CBS for March Madness broadcasting rights through 2023.
Overall, NCAA is an archaic system that could — morally should — come crumbling down. Perhaps the benefit of all this exposed corruption will be that the athletes, many of whom come from unprivileged background, may finally be able to support their families by attending two-a-day practices and offering their young lives and bodies up for entertainment. At least, one hopes.
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My UK publisher Jamie Byng - who I imagine must be pretty tired of the enfant terrible label - talks to British GQ.
The possibilities have never been greater, but that doesn't make it easier. E-books do involve lower costs, but only in manufacturing and distribution. Publishing is also about finding new talent, rigorous editing, championing the books you believe in, and all that doesn't just disappear with digital books.
To keep my mind off the temptation to weep uncontrollably, I asked myself which book would make the most fitting final purchase. The buzzards had long since started circling, so the remaining books were already huddling toward the middle shelves, hemmed in by vacant plywood on all sides. When I hit Mark Sarvas up for a suggestion, that sly blogger at the Elegant Variation — with unnerving speed, as if he'd already somehow had the question leaked to him — pointed discreetly toward a copy of Philip Roth's The Dying Animal. Then he resumed fulminating darkly about the evening's events: "Where were all these people six months ago?"
I'm still fulminating darkly, too angry to put down my own thoughts about the closing. Everything I have to say will likely get me kicked out of my neighborhood. So you have Kipen's frankly superior musings in my place. Check them out. And for those wondering, my final purchases at Village Books were At Swim-Two-Birds, Pictures from an Institution, The Lonely Passion of Judth Hearne and Kate Christensen's latest, The Astral.
OK, that's an obvious headline. Almost cheap, I admit. But it got your attention, right?
Which, at the risk of getting a bit too meta, perfectly distills Dale Peck's raison d'etre.
His recent squib at Mischief and Mayhem is a perfect summation of why he is utterly dispensable as a critic, as forgettable as he is flamboyant. He represents the worst of the Wieseltier School – the bitterness and the careless, self-defeating rage, without the learned humanity.
Daniel Mendelsohn—a Princeton-educated classicist who should never be allowed to write about anything more recent than, say, Suetonius. Frankly, I'm not sure he should be allowed to write about the classics either, but I don't know enough Latin and Greek to say if he's as wrong about them as he is about modern stuff. Because man is this guy wrong. Always. Every time. Completely off the mark.
… torpedoes any credibility the person making it might have. Anyone who spends five minutes in the NYRB will see that this is the sort of scorched earth idiocy that suggests that Peck's true métier has all along been blogger, not critic.
It's an assertion that is both empty and exhausted. First, the term postmodern has been beaten so bloody, waved so relentlessly for decades, that I'm not sure anyone can agree on what it means any more. But Peck lazily relies on presumptions and associations, and then presumes that we will agree with him and see their truth and value. There's so much assuming going on here, one's head spins.
If Peck were interested in discussion, he might take a moment and explain this allegedly fascinating phenomenon. But that's clearly not his game, and I suspect he knows if he were called to make a more substantive argument, he'd fall on his face. Once the insults are over, he runs out of gas.
Obviously, I linked to the Mendelsohn piece earlier because it resonated with me, and confirmed my experience of watching the program. And the essay is considerably more nuanced than Peck's sneering (or the Times's scandal-baiting) suggests. Still, it can and should be engaged with, and one hopes that more responsible, intelligent and insightful interlocutors will make themselves heard.
But when Amis goes on in the email to inquire about the condition of my wine cellar and whether there might be space for him to store a few bottles of his "favorite plonk," I have to wonder if this email, like the previous one of his that found its way into my in-box, may have been misdirected. I wouldn't know a wine cellar from a bomb shelter, and I never touch the stuff, wine snobbery making me break out in hives. Perhaps Marty meant to reach out to Jay McInerney and got me instead, a mix-up which will someday give us all a good laugh at the nursing home.
Wolcottt goes on to reveal that Amis has opened his yap again - only for once, the usual hyperbole notwithstanding, I'm hard-pressed to disagree with the substance.
Zadie Smith goes on the Leonard Lopate Show to talk about her new book reviewing gig with Harper's.