"Niedźwiedź jest zwierzęciem i królik jest zwierzęciem."
Translation:A bear is an animal and a rabbit is an animal.
I was marked as incorrect for "The bear is an animal and the rabbit is an animal", which is a valid translation.
So it is the bear bear district!


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Why did elite Incas have high foreheads?
Why were Incas so impressive?
What race were the Incas?
What elevation did the Incas live?
Is Head binding still practiced today?
Did the Incas flatten heads for beauty?
What did the Incas invent that we still use today?
What did the Incas not have?
What killed the Inca empire?
Did the Incas have slaves?
Members of the ruling elite in parts of South America would have been very easy to spot 700 years ago – due to their tall, elongated skulls. Their artificially extended heads were apparently status symbols, and could have helped foster a sense of community and collective identity, according to a study.
The Incas were magnificent engineers. They built a system of roads and bridges across the roughest terrains of the Andes. Through their system of collective labor and the most advanced centralized economy, the Incas were able to secure unlimited manual labor.
The Inca Civilization
The Incas were a civilization in South America formed by ethnic Quechua people also known as Amerindians.
A High Altitude Culture
The Incas ruled the Andean Cordillera, second in height and harshness to the Himalayas. Daily life was spent at altitudes up to 15,000 feet and ritual life extended up to 22,057 feet to Llullaillaco in Chile, the highest Inca sacrificial site known today.
In most cultures, the practice of head-binding begins Sat birth – for that is the time when the skull is most pliable. Artificial cranial deformation is very rare today – but it still occurs in places like the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.
IT IS INTERESTING: Frequent question: Why did the Japanese immigrate to Peru?
Ancient peoples in the Americas practiced head flattening as a mark of social status. Head flattening is the practice of shaping the skull by binding an infant's head. Some Incas also shaped the heads of male infants by wrapping their heads with braided wool straps for more than a year. …
Many Inca roads and bridges can still be used today. In fact, the Inca faced so many problems getting from mountain to mountain that they invented different kinds of bridges. One was a suspension bridge, which uses thick cables to hold up the walkway.
Or did they? The Incas may not have bequeathed any written records, but they did have colourful knotted cords. Each of these devices was called a khipu (pronounced key-poo). We know these intricate cords to be an abacus-like system for recording numbers.
Influenza and smallpox were the main causes of death among the Inca population and it affected not only the working class but also the nobility.
It is important to note that they were not forced to work as slaves. Some were born into the category of yanakuna (like many other professions, it was a hereditary one), some chose to leave ayllus to work, and some were selected by nobles.

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Daughter's fury after hospital fall leaves 97-year-old looking like he's gone '10 rounds with Mike Tyson'
Albert Scott has been left with broken bones to his face and a black eye
Ruby Davies
A daughter has spoken of her fury after her elderly dad was left looking like he'd fought Mike Tyson.
The 97-year-old suffered harrowing injuries after a hospital fall in the Midlands.
Now, the Second World War veteran's daughter is to lodge an official complaint with the NHS.
Albert Scott has been left with broken bones to his face and a black eye.
He also suffered intense bruising to his leg following Sunday's fall within the acute medical unit (AMU) at the Royal Stoke University Hospital.
Furious daughter, Yvonne Brown, says her father should have been more closely monitored and wants to make sure the incident is not repeated.
StokeonTrentLive reports the 67-year-old, of Belfield Avenue, May Bank, said: "He went in with a fall on Friday by ambulance after falling down a few stairs. He was taken to A&E and miraculously had no broken bones, just a cut on his head and leg and bruising.
"He was kept in for observation as they wanted to keep him in in case he fell again and was transferred to the AMU.
"He was doing really well but then on Sunday he fell in the unit and the results are shocking, I couldn't believe it when I saw him.
"It's so upsetting, he's got a black eye and broken bones in his face. He looks like he's gone 10 rounds with Mike Tyson.
"We have been told there were not enough staff and they were attending a commotion in the next room when his fall happened."
Grandmother Yvonne says an 'at risk of falling' sign was only put by his bed after his fall.
She added: "That sign should have been put there from the moment he was admitted because he had gone in following a fall.
"After he fell bigger sides were put on the bed to stop him getting out.
"He's always been really active and I think he was trying to go to the toilet himself as it can be a long wait for the the nurses to come and take him when he presses the button.
"It's sad to see.
"I know that the staff are under a lot of pressure and struggling but my dad went in OK and was due to be sent home with a small care package in place."
Fugitive who taunted police with Madeleine McCann jokes celebrates 'one year on the run'
Yvonne is planning to lodge a complaint through the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS).
She added: "The hospital is having its own investigation.
"There was a lack of supervision and he should have been more secure in the bed.
"It's given him a real setback to his recovery.
"It's affected me terribly and it's made me ill, I had put my trust in the hospital."
Latest figures show University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust - which runs the Royal Stoke and Stafford's County Hospital - recorded 2,581 patient falls in 2018/19. That compares to 2,663 falls in 2017/18.
Stafford house fire home where four children tragically died to be demolished as police issue update
Royal Stoke officials have confirmed an investigation is underway.
Chief Nurse Liz Rix said: "We have spoken to Mr Scott's family and apologised.
"Quality, safety and patient experience are our top priorities and an investigation is underway.
"We have seen a reduction in patient falls during 2018/19 compared to 2017/18 and strive to improve on this."


Trauma, hate, distrust, fear, frustration, tears, disgust, abuse, resentment. These are some of the effects of doing time.
After all, programming and conditioning convicted psyches for self-destruction is the soul crushing reality of life in the American prison system.
Incarceration may supposedly be about rehabilitation, but more often than not, it is a process that results in committing more crime and serving more time.
When kids are direct filed into adult facilities, many live, the rest of their lives fighting Post Traumatic Stress Demons behind concrete, steel, and razor wire.
And for adults who get locked up, their arrest usually means an arrested emotional development. So even if they get out at age 50, they're still locked in the mindset of a twenty year old selves.
For every Malcolm X, there are ten million felons whose names you'll never know, who never shake their past. Society breeds impropriety; and careless citizens through the infected soul of American democracy.
Where there is injustice for one, there is injustice for all. Welcome to Felony Miami, let's air it out.


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Child exploitation ring and new Ilford Station drug dealers of 'grave concern' to Redbridge Council
Ellena Cruse
Published: 7:00 AM October 30, 2018
Robbery has also increased. Picture: Paul Bennett. - Credit: Archant
New drug dealers and child exploitation rings have started operating from Ilford Station, Redbridge police have confirmed.
Leader of the Council, Councillor Jas Athwal said children being groomed for ill-gain in Cranbrook Road is of "grave concern".
"We are working with the police, Transport for London (TfL) and other agencies to work out a better layout for the new Ilford station, thereby helping to prevent drug and other criminal activity," he said.
"It is good the police are taking positive action to tackle child sex exploitation as it is of grave concern to us.
"Police are also working with our social services teams to prevent these activities."
Sgt Lee Wilkinson, of Ilford Town Centre Police team, said new dealers have filled the space the old dealers took up.
In April 2016 the Recorder reported that rival gangs of Afghan and Somali descent were vying to control drug territories around the station in Cranbrook Road.
After months of police investigations and home raids, 11 dealers, aged between 18 and 29, were sentenced to a collective 28 years behind bars for numerous offences involving the supply of heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis, in March 2017.
Police confirmed the majority of the gang members are now back on the streets but they have not been seen reoffending with new dealers filling the space the old dealers took up.
"Safer Neighbourhood officers have continued to police this area resulting in successful seizures of controlled drugs and prosecutions for supply offences," said Sgt Wilkinson.
"Eighteen Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBOs) have been given to the most prolific offenders in Ilford town centre."
In addition to incidents around the station, robbery has gone up by 87.1 per cent in the Ilford Town Centre ward.
Between September 2017 and August 2018, there were 174 reported incidents compared to 93 the year before.
Business robbery has also risen from seven incidents to 11.
During the same time period "other violence against the person" has risen by 104pc.
All violence against the person categories, including wounding, GBH, common assault, offensive weapons and harassment has increased from 709 to 814 incidents.


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UMaine's Corkum hoping hardest part of hockey odyssey is over
Freshman Kelen Corkum has fought through a series of injuries to crack the Black Bears' lineup for the first time.
By Rachel Lenzi
ORONO – In the moments before Saturday's 2-2 tie at Boston University, Bob Corkum had a word with Tim Whitehead, the head coach of the University of Maine hockey team.
Corkum, an assistant for Maine, admitted something to Whitehead. He was more nervous about his son's first college game than he was about his first NHL game — March 16, 1990, when the Buffalo Sabres faced the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Kelen Corkum
Funny to hear that coming from someone whose photo is plastered above the concourse of Alfond Arena and whose NHL resume includes 720 games and an appearance in the Stanley Cup finals.
But it was probably parental instinct speaking when Corkum's son, a freshman center for the Black Bears, made his college debut. For Kelen Corkum, it was a personal landmark.
"It's a big stepping stone for me, to becoming myself again," said Corkum, a 6-foot-1, 205-pound freshman center. "I've proven to myself that I can come back from anything. It was one bad thing that happened to me after another, and I kept coming back. I'd get shot down, and then I'd come back and get hurt, then I'd come back again. But I'm taking everything I've learned through all that difficulty I went through and applying it now to everyday life.
"That first game? That first game was huge. I feel like myself again."
Corkum, 20, spent parts of four years away from the game as a result of various injuries, including a cracked vertebra in 2006 and broken ribs in 2007, but most notably because of a series of concussions he sustained from 2006 to 2009.
While recovering, he learned how to consider the positive things in his life, and what he could accomplish by having the emotional strength and the proper mindset.
"If you don't have a strong mind, you're not going to have a strong body," Corkum said. "You have to be tough mentally, and that will show in your physical strength. And when I was down, I thought of things that made me feel good, and what made me look forward to doing it again."
He thought of the time he spent with the United States national team program. He thought of all the teammates with whom he'd formed bonds. He focused on enjoying the time with his parents, grandparents and three siblings.
Still, there was a psychological strain. As a teenager, he dealt with depression, a symptom of the concussions, and the strict limit on activity exacerbated the symptoms of depression.
One of the things that sustained him, he said, were the e-mails his father sent to him.
"One of the e-mails he sent me was the lyrics to a song he had heard, called 'The Light at the End of the Tunnel,' " Corkum said. "When I started working out and I was symptom-free, and I got back on the ice and started feeling like myself again, that was the light."
It hasn't been determined yet if Corkum will be in the lineup this weekend when the Black Bears (4-1-3, 2-0-1 Hockey East) play Northeastern in a two-game series at Alfond Arena. But because of a rash of injuries to the Black Bears, ranked fifth in both national polls, Corkum got his chance to crack the lineup in Saturday's tie at BU. He provided a physical presence at center, and executed well defensively.
Corkum's now has the opportunity to learn the college game and adapt to a faster pace against older, stronger opponents.
"Kelen will bring an ingredient that will help the team tremendously," Whitehead said. "He got his first game under his belt and now, we can build off that."
When he steps on the ice again, chances are he'll think back to his first college game at Agganis Arena, where he was finally back on the ice. His father was behind the bench. His grandfather was sitting in the stands behind bench.
"They were with me through this whole struggle of mine," Corkum said. "To talk to my dad about it, it was very exciting. It was good to see how proud he was of me, and to prove to him that I've made it. That I'm through that tunnel, so to speak, and that I'm making progress to becoming my own man."
Staff Writer Rachel Lenzi can be reached at 791-6415 or at:


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Can Yogi ours ever get to marry Cindy ours after he learns to l'amour her? Go ahead and tell me, please?
Does Yogi ours ou BooBoo ever get stuck and have to be pulled out? Tell me the episode ou movie that has them getting stuck. Please!!!
Dig up Scooby-Doo's history, meet the gang, relive your favori episodes, and more!
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Q: Creating Ubuntu VM with VirtualBox I am trying to set up my very first virtual machine via VirtualBox (4.1.8). I created the machine and selected Linux → Ubuntu inside VBox's installation wizard. I then went to run the machine for the first time, and it asked me for a drive from which to boot Ubuntu from.
I panicked, realizing I had got ahead of myself and did not have an Ubuntu ISO downloaded ahead of time. So I canceled out of the "first run" only to get a black terminal screen saying:

FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted.

I powered off the VM. Just to see what it did when I tried running it a 2nd time (manually invoking a startup from VBox Manager), I re-started the VM and it did the same thing. In VBox Manager it shows the boot order as being: Floppy, CD/DVD-DOM, and then HD.
I am now confused as to how to point this VM to boot from an Ubuntu ISO somewhere on my host (Windows 7) machine. Hopefully, once Ubuntu is installed on the VM, I can just start it from VBox Manager without having to worry about where the ISO is, yes?
Can anyone point me in the right direction here?

A: Go into the settings of your VM. Under Storage, you'll see your Virtual HDD and a CD. Click on the CD and on the top right, select the ISO file. Restart your VM and this should do the trick.

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Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck, today announced the initiation of an international Phase II study designed to assess the efficacy and safety of MSB0010718C, an investigational fully human IgG1 monoclonal antibody that binds to programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1). This multicenter, single-arm, open-label study is being conducted in patients with metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (mMCC), a rare and aggressive type of skin tumor,, who have previously received one line of chemotherapy. It is expected to recruit 84 patients across Asia Pacific, Australia, Europe and North America. The primary endpoint of the study is overall response.
The PD-L1/PD-1 pathway is implicated as a major mechanism by which tumors evade elimination by the immune system. The PD-L1 molecule is expressed in many cancer types, including mMCC., MSB0010718C, which blocks the interaction of PD-L1 with its receptor PD-1, may have the potential to restore effective anti-tumor T-cell responses and thereby to inhibit tumor growth.
Immune mechanisms are implicated in the pathogenesis of MCC, with an increased risk observed in immunosuppressed individuals. MCC also is associated with the presence of the Merkel cell polyomavirus, which may have a role in tumor formation. Globally, the incidence of MCC is increasing, and outcomes for patients with this disease are poor., Therefore, new treatment approaches are required to improve the outcome of patients with this type of cancer.
"We believe that modulating the immune system by targeting PD-L1 represents a promising new approach in the treatment of this aggressive cancer, especially considering that many of the predisposing factors for mMCC seem to be related to functional disruptions of the immune system," said Helen Sabzevari, Senior Vice President of Immuno-Oncology at Merck Serono. "Our anti-PD-L1 compound may present a potential new approach for the treatment of mMCC patients. The initiation of this Phase II study is an important milestone, as we endeavor to help those suffering from mMCC, a devastating disease with significant unmet need."
In addition to this new study in mMCC, MSB0010718C is currently being explored in a Phase I clinical trial for the treatment of solid tumors. The study aims to recruit 590 patients and has enrolled 422 patients to date. On June 1, 2014, Merck Serono presented initial data from this dose escalation study in solid tumors at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago. This study is currently recruiting patients into expansion cohorts in seven cancer types: castrate-resistant prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, gastric/gastroesophageal cancer, melanoma, metastatic breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer and ovarian cancer.
1) Hughes MP, et al. Curr Dermatol Rep 2014;3:46-53.
2) Kaae J, et al. J Natl Cancer Inst 2010;102(11):793-801.
3) Lipson EJ, et al. Cancer Immunol Res 2013;1(1):54-63.
4) McDermott DF and Atkins MB. Cancer Med 2013; 2(5):662-73.
5) Bhatia S, et al. Curr Oncol Rep 2011;13(6):488-97.
6) Feng H, et al. Science 2008;319(5866):1096-100.
7) Heery CR, et al. J Clin Oncol 2014;32:5(Suppl.) Abstract No. 3064.
MSB0010718C is an investigational fully human IgG1 monoclonal antibody that binds to the PD-L1 (programmed death-ligand 1) protein, which is present at high levels in many cancer types. By competitively blocking the interaction with PD-1 receptors, it is believed that MSB0010718C thereby restores anti-tumor T-cell responses.
MCC is a rare and aggressive disease in which cancer cells form in the top layer of the skin, close to nerve endings. MCC, which is also known as neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin or trabecular cancer, often starts in those areas of skin that are most often exposed to the sun, including the head and neck, arms, legs, and trunk. Risk factors for MCC include sun exposure and having a weak immune system (i.e., solid-organ transplant recipients, people with HIV/AIDS and people with other cancers, such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia, are at higher risk). Caucasian males over age 50 are at increased risk.
MCC tends to metastasize at an early stage, spreading initially to nearby lymph nodes, and then potentially to more distant areas in the body, including other lymph nodes or areas of skin, lungs, brain, bones, or other organs.
Current treatment options for MCC include surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Treatment for metastatic or Stage IV MCC is generally palliative.


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The Future Will Be Personalized
When my partners and I joined MySpace, we were lucky enough to be at the leading edge of the social revolution that changed how we use the Internet. A new groundswell is coming, transforming the web once again: the personal revolution.
Today, we live in a world where we're constantly overwhelmed by information. There are over 90M tweets per day, 34 hours of YouTube video uploaded every minute, and every Facebook user has an average of 130 friends who are becoming more and more active all the time. We also experience this with content farms flooding search results and with the thousands of articles available everyday on traditional websites like the New York Times and ESPN: of which only a handful appeal to each of our individual interests.
The rampant proliferation of information isn't a new phenomenon. The signal-to-noise ratio on the web has fluctuated substantially as new technology to organize information has battled with new technology to create and distribute information.
Their Web: The Early Days of The Internet
In the early days, content was created and organized by professionals. At first, it was contained in networks like AOL, one of the pioneers of the Internet. As the Internet opened up, Yahoo! brilliantly organized the open web with Yahoo! Directory. But eventually the volume of the information overloaded even the directory, and search companies like Google introduced a better way to find content we were interested in. By understanding how sites linked to each other, Google applied new science to find a solution within the problem itself. It worked so well, every website is search engine optimized for this framework.
Our Web: Present Day
In 2003, user-generated content hit the mainstream via sites like MySpace and YouTube, and the volume of information being created increased dramatically.
"Every two days, we create as much information as we did up to 2003." –Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
Search engines weren't designed to effectively organize this social and real-time data. So innovative companies like Facebook and Twitter created a social filter by empowering our friends and people we trust to organize information for us. This new filter has given us access to more and better information than we ever thought possible. Like search, it's so effective, every website is socially optimized for this framework.
Many of you reading this are avid users of social technology. Like me, you're probably beginning to experience information overload in your social streams. There's great content there, but it's getting increasingly difficult to find it. In engineering terms, the signal-to-noise ratio is dropping (or, as a corollary, the work-to-reward ratio is increasing). And, as more people become more active in the social and real-time web, the problem will only get worse.
Your Web: The Future
Imagine opening up any web page or application and being presented with an experience that's entirely personalized to you. Go to ESPN.com and see stories about the sports you love and teams you follow featured on the top. Check your daily Groupon for deals that map to your interests. Receive updates from Foursquare about restaurants you'll want to visit. This is where things are headed. It's about shifting from you trying to find the right information to the right information finding you.
In the past, we lacked the data and the technology to make this type of personal experience a reality. But that's changing quickly. The abundant social data that's overwhelming our social streams not only presents a problem but the solution. Using natural language processing and semantic analysis to evaluate your tweets, status updates, like, shares, and check-ins, it's possible to build a holistic understanding of who you are and what you're interested in.
Once the web knows your interests, it can start to change… Any website or app can use knowledge of your interests in order to give you a personal experience.
Music followed a similar evolutionary path. Music discovery has grown from being curated by professionals (DJ's, MTV) to being introduced socially (mixed tapes, playlists) to being organized around your personal interests (Pandora).
All of this doesn't mean that editors go away or your friends' referrals don't matter. Rather, it's a new lens focused entirely on you.
Building the Personal Web: Enter Gravity's Interest Graph
Incredible academic and commercial research in the fields of natural language processing and semantic technology has built the groundwork for where we are today. Still we have a long way to go before the personal web is a reality. Gravity will be one of many companies working on the personal web in the coming years. Our platform will allow partners to personalize their experiences when a user connects to the service. The basis for our platform is what we call the Interest Graph, an online representation of your interests, including your strength of attachment and its trajectory over time.
To view your Interest Graph right now and help us tune our algorithms, we'd love for you to play Twinterest (gravity.com/labs) and send us feedback.
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Amit Kapur, the cofounder and CEO of Gravity.


Many of you have asked me about my twitter name in the past two years — and I always had to reply that there was –err– none. but I had this on my to-do list for a long time. Having finished my PhD I thought this was a great occasion to start over new and join twitter for an even more vibrant exchange on biodiversity offsets and fighting to halt biodiversity loss.
You can follow me @MarianneDarbi (who would have guessed ;o)) and see all the updates from the Biodiversity Offsets Blog on LinkedIn and on Twitter.
Dear all, I can't believe it's been four months since I have not been blogging. This past time has been full of work and excitement for me — after years of hard work it was finally time to harvest the fruits.
Slowly coming back to earth I want to thank all of you who have supported me and shared your knowledge and experience with me over the past years! But please don't get me wrong: this is not intended to be the end, but rather a new start and I hope to keep in touch and to develop the exciting and challenging field of biodiversity offsets further. I am sure there will be plenty of opportunities for collaboration and exchange!
For the moment I am looking for a Postdoc or interesting project on offsets somewhere around the world and I am also exploring how I can sustain the Biodiversity Offsets Blog in the long term (in the end it's always about perpetuity, right ;o)). I am open for any ideas or suggestions.
Finally, I will now bit my bit incorporate the information to the blog that some of you have generously sent me in the last few months (thank you and very sorry you had to wait that long) and respond to your messages as soon as possible.
As you might have seen, there haven't been any posts both last week and this week (and probably there won't be next week either) as I am overwhelmed by work finalizing my PhD thesis. Thanks for your understanding. I'll be back.
and find the pdf of the report here.
This is a guest post by Ariadna Chavarria, PhD candidate at the University of Padova, Italy. This comment is the expression of the author's thoughts and experiences and such is acknowledged as a fruitful contribution to the discussion on biodiversity offsets. If you want to react or clarify your own position (underpin or disprove Ariadna's reasoning), please leave a reply below!
I am organizing a session on biodiversity offsets for the 2016 Ecosummit to be held in Montpellier (29 August — 1 September 2016 | Le Corum, Montpellier, France) together with Fabien Quétier and Wolfgang Wende. The title is: European perspectives and global challenges on achieving no net loss of biodiversity in the context of development. Abstracts can be submitted until February 15 here.
What's it about in short: Miles King writes about Natural Capital day at the Green Alliance and the related report (called Natural Partners) and debate.


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Adventure facts for kids
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An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports. Adventures are often undertaken in order to achieve a greater goal or in the the pursuit of knowledge.
Adventurous experiences can be exciting and intimidating at the same time. Outdoor adventurous activities are typically undertaken for the purposes of recreation or excitement: examples are adventure racing and adventure tourism.
Adventurous activities can also lead to gains in knowledge, such as those undertaken by explorers and pioneers such as Marco Polo and numerous more. Adventure education intentionally uses challenging experiences for learning. Adventures can also bring about personal growth as well as world knowledge.
Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey. Many popular feature films, such as Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark are full of adventurous events.
Adventure books may have the theme of the hero or main character going to face the wilderness. Examples include books such as Hatchet or My Side of the Mountain. Many adventures are based on the idea of a quest, the hero goes off in pursuit of a reward, whether it be a skill, prize, or perhaps the safety of a person. On the way, the hero must overcome various obstacles.
In video-game culture, an adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes a role in an interactive story.
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a well-known example of a fantasized adventure story
Exploring frozen Minnehaha Falls
Fridtjof Nansen reached a record latitude of 86°14′ during his North Pole expedition of 1893–96
HMS Endeavour was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook sailed to Australia and New Zealand on his first voyage of discovery
Raiders of the Lost Ark is a film full of many adventures
Adventure Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.


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Is 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie' Based on a True Story? Here's What We Know
By Mustafa Gatollari
Sep. 20 2021, Published 9:37 a.m. ET
If you want to give an idea the biggest chance of being turned into a TV series, stage production, or movie, then you'll probably want to make sure of two things. First, make sure a pre-established intellectual property that's demonstrated some level of success exists for the project. And make it based on a true story, like Everybody's Talking About Jamie.
Yes, 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie' is based on a true story.
In 2011, BBC Three released a documentary called Jamie: Drag Queen at 16. It's believed that the documentary, which chronicles teen Jamie Campbell's struggles with coming out in his town of Bishop Auckland, served as the basis for the 2017 stage musical and 2021 Amazon Prime film adaptation called Everybody's Talking About Jamie.
Campbell didn't have the easiest time coming out to his small community. A local parent called the teen "disgusting" when he was open with his sexual orientation at 14. Jamie's proclivity for dressing in drag only exacerbated local adverse reactions to his identity, especially when he wanted to appear at his school prom as his drag alter ego, Fifi la True.
Jamie's school expressly forbade the young man's decision, something his mom couldn't understand: "I said to them, if a girl wanted to go to the prom in a suit, they wouldn't ban her, so why a lad in a frock?" she told The Guardian,
EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE isn't perfect but it is cute and it IS doing everything THE PROM thought it was doing with 100% less James Corden pic.twitter.com/RNPWUj5bwD
— Tom Zohar (@TomZohar) September 18, 2021
So how much of 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie' is true?
While streaming services and movie theaters are filled with films that are based on or inspired by true events, how accurately those real-life events are represented on the screen is another matter entirely.
Jamie's mother says that the musical actually did a pretty good job of capturing the "essence" of Jamie's story.
Wrote this piece about how, for all its successes, CHICAGO actually ignited a Hollywood anxiety about singing onscreen that movies like EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE, IN THE HEIGHTS, and ANNETTE are correcting. https://t.co/UBLDnlYWOb
— Kyle Wilson (@icanvalk) September 18, 2021
However, the production company did lay down some sauce in terms of what actually transpired in the musical the movie is based on: "Some details may not actually be true, but they have all happened to us in some shape or form, and when I saw it I was transported. I lived through all those good, bad, s--tty, whatever times again in two hours and by the end, I felt like I had been in a tumble dryer. I was wrung out emotionally and it felt surreal."
Being yourself is never (ever) out of style 👠 Everybody's Talking About Jamie, coming September 17th! pic.twitter.com/SQ78tMqr9g
— Amazon Prime Video UK (@primevideouk) September 15, 2021
When I tell you I screamed…@HERRTHEQUEEN went to last night's UK premiere of Everybody's Talking About Jamie wearing a replica of the iconic lewk Ashley Tisdale wore to the 2004 premiere of The Princess Diaries 2. pic.twitter.com/73hoSzG2bc
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) September 14, 2021
Jamie didn't go on to pursue a full-time career in drag. In an "as told to" article for the BBC, he said, "When I was young, I thought I wanted to make a career out of doing drag, but I've since changed my mind. I got lost in the drag persona."
Everybody's Talking About Jamie is available to watch on Amazon Prime.
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Alabang-Zapote Road is a long stretch of oftentimes congested roadway that links Zapote, Las Piñas to Alabang, Muntinglupa. One is inclined to think that traversing Zapote-Alabang Road is safe enough since it's quite a busy road with policemen, traffic aids and barangay tanod peppering the route. On the contrary.
I was busy preparing dinner when D2 called at around 4:33 P.M yesterday. She said that she was victimized on the jeep en route to Zapote. She was fine et al but lost her pouch of chargers, USBs and other laptop/iPhone paraphernalia. That she was currently on board a police mobile car with the suspect in tow. Huh? Rewind please.
D2 got off from work at 4:00 P.M. Wanting to beat the afternoon rush hour; she opted to ride an empty jeepney near West Gate, Alabang going to Zapote, Las Piñas. Near Alabang Hills, a group of passengers flagged down the jeepney and boarded.
D2 was sitting by the jeepney's rear entry point. Seated directly in front of her was a fat guy and beside that fat guy was a man wearing black shirt. Let's tag the black-shirted man as Guy 1. On D2's right side was Guy 2 then Guy 3. The moment Guy 3 seated himself, he started belching and heaving, ready to vomit. After a hundred meters or so, Guy 3 decided to alight since he was about to vomit (allegedly). He made a big show of gagging on his own vomit in front of D2 then got off at Toyota Alabang. The fat guy alighted too so Guy 1 was now sitting directly in front of D2.
Guy 1 quipped: "Miss, may suka po kayo". To which D2 replied "anong suka?" as she thought there was no way Guy 3 could have vomited on her. To D2's horror, she realized that her shoulders, hair and bag had saliva (vomit?!) all over! Guy 1 was very solicitous in trying to wipe off the "vomit" from D2's bag. D2, on the other hand, kept on telling Guy 1 to stop helping her as she was starting to have this nagging feeling that something was amiss. Guy 2, the one sitting beside D2, was seemingly fidgeting and fiddling as D2's bag was being purposely and forcefully pushed towards Guy 2. Guy 1 was trying to flip over D2's bag and kept on saying that there was still spit on the bag's back.
The high school students pointed out to D2 a mobile car parked along the road. D2 got off near Lozada and ran to the mobile car to tell her story. The very efficient policemen quickly asked D2 to get on the police car hoping to spot any of the cohorts along the road. A few meters away, D2 spotted Guy 2 riding another jeepney. She quickly told one of the policemen and they raced to cut-off the jeepney.
To cut short Guy 2 was apprehended. He called his cohorts and told them to give back D2's pouch. The accomplices left D2's pouch in the restroom of Jollibee Casimiro so D2 was able to recover it.
By the time my son and I reached the sub-station, I was quite decided to tell D2 not file a formal complaint against the culprit. I even talked to the suspect and was quietly "sermonizing" him on the demerits of what he has done. The commanding officer of the sub-station encouraged us to lodge a complaint against the suspect since the so called Dura-Dura gang has been terrorizing commuters in and around Las Piñas for some time now.
After 5 hours, we were finally able to go home - tired but wiser about double-word-entry MOs: budol-budol; dugo-dugo and dura-dura.
That guy stole my iPhone, together with 5 more of them when they harrassed me on a jeep saying "may dugo na yung likod ng shirt mo!"
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GIR uses the SpeechMiner application to play back call and screen recordings that are stored in the GIR system. Note that call or screen recordings that have been backed up and then purged from the GIR system cannot be played back through SpeechMiner. These should be played with your own media player.
To install and configure SpeechMiner, follow the instructions in the Deploying SpeechMiner topic of the SpeechMiner Administration Guide. Pay attention to the instructions specific to Analytics and Recording UI, or Recording UI Only modes.
The UConnector service is not required for GIR.
For information about upgrading your SpeechMiner components, see the SpeechMiner 8.5.x Upgrade Guide.
The SpeechMiner documents are restricted and require specific credentials to access the content. If you have a login, you can access the docs here: Login.
To access the online documents and if you don't have an account on this site, click the Employee Login / Restricted Content link in the lower-right corner of the page. Create your login and send your username to Tech Pubs Admins so that we can grant you access.
Contact the product manager to access to these documents.
If you are upgrading SpeechMiner, you must upload and deploy the Solution Definition (SPD) files in order to gain access to any new Genesys Administrator Extension roles or privileges.
For more information about uploading the SPD file, see the Upgrading the Plug-in.
In addition to the configuration that is described in the SpeechMiner Administration Guide, the SpeechMiner database and application must be configured specifically for Genesys Interaction Recording (GIR).
Verify that each template has Genesys Generic Server in the Type field.
Verify that the log parameters are defined.
Create four new Application objects using the newly created templates.
Enter the names in the Name field as they are indicated in the template. For example, name SpeechMiner Platform application, Speechminer_Platform, where SpeechMiner is the default and can be changed in the SMConfig Recording panel. The name used and the name in the SMConfig Recording panel should match.
The SpeechMiner components do not integrate with LCA.
Verify that the template has Genesys Generic Client in the Type field.
Create three new Application objects.
Create a connection for each Application object to the Server application with the similar name. For example, for Speechminer_Web_Node use the name Speechminer_Web.
Configuring SpeechMiner settings in RWS.
When you are logging in for the first time, you must go to the license tab, and add your recording-only license, and login to SM Config again. You will see the Recording tab in the UI only after you have added the license .
Click Select Languages and select English USA.
Configure the User Application Name so that it refers to the application you want to use for authenticating users. By default, it is default and should only be changed in a multi-tenant environment, for security reasons. For details, refer to the Configuring SpeechMiner users section in the Permissions page.
In the Recording tab, set the parameters.
[+] Show the table that describes the parameters.
Configuration Tenant Specifies the tenant as configured in Genesys Administrator Extension.
Note: For single-tenant contact centers, the Tenant should match the tenant used in the configuration server.
User and Password The Configuration Server user and password that SpeechMiner applications should use when connecting to the Configuration Server. Verify that the specific user was given read and execute permissions for the tenant object in the configuration server and all its objects in the tenant object hierarchy.
User Application Name The name of the Configuration Manager application object that will be used to validate user credentials.
Note: The values of RP Authorization User and Password must match the values that are configured in the SpeechMiner Interaction Receiver Authorization Header in the IVR Profile.
Note: The values of MCP Authorization User and Password must match the values that are configured in the SpeechMiner HTTP Authorization Header in the IVR Profile. Leave these parameters empty unless you have purchased and enabled speech analytics mode on SpeechMiner.
External RCS URI Specifies the URI that the SpeechMiner browser application uses to access the Recording Crypto Server.
Note: This parameter is required to playback encrypted screen recordings, unless you have configured the local decrypt URI prefix (refer to Local Decrypt URI Prefix for Call Recording and Screen Recording).
External RWS URI Specifies the URI that the SpeechMiner browser application uses to access Interaction Recording Web Services.
Note: This parameter is required for screen recording playback only. If you do not want to use screen recording, leave this value blank.
In Recording and Analytics mode, create and apply a program in SMART for every Program ID that RP may send.
Both of these actions can be skipped, if the default in the database is satisfactory, or if the Recording Processor Script includes the program ID in the metadata.
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New ATIS Report Details Areas in Which Collaboration is Needed to Advance the New IP; Establishes Testbeds to Complete This Work
WASHINGTON, DC - ATIS today made major recommendations on key areas in which service providers can best collaborate through an industry testbed activity to advance the All-IP transition. They come from a new report marking a major step towards helping the industry overcome challenges in terms of the cost and complexity of establishing a multi-provider testbed. The report, Testbeds Landscape Team Assessment and Next Steps, is the product of the ATIS Testbeds Landscape Team, convened to identify synergies among proposals for single-purpose testbeds, and to assess the viability of creating a multi-provider, multi-functional testbed to solve some of the industry's leading All-IP transition challenges. The first three areas named for collaboration are number acquisition, IP-NNI interconnect routing, and authentication of information, such as caller ID.
In developing the report, the Landscape Team gathered a number of scenarios and documented them in the form of use cases. These use cases fall into the areas of numbering, routing and provider-to-provider metadata, which encompasses both enhanced caller ID and mechanisms to prevent caller ID spoofing. Building on the candidate cases, the Team analyzed high-level requirements and assessed interest from service providers and vendors to potentially provide personnel, equipment, systems or prototypes to participate in testing. Next, it will develop an action plan to deliver results based on the new report's findings.
"Ensuring the new IP fulfills its high-stakes mission will take collaboration," said ATIS President and CEO Susan Miller. "ATIS has brought together the essential industry experts to identify the top challenges in the All-IP transition that providers have in common, to know what it will take to solve them, and to create the testing environment to secure end-to-end validation of those solutions."
Testbeds Landscape Team Assessment and Next Steps is available in the ATIS Document Center, the global ICT industry's resource for technical operations standards produced by ATIS Committees and Forums: https://www.atis.org/docstore/product.aspx?id=28212
About ATIS
As a leading technology and solutions development organization, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) brings together the top global ICT companies to advance the industry's most pressing business priorities. ATIS' nearly 200 member companies are currently working to address the All-IP transition, network functions virtualization, big data analytics, cloud services, device solutions, emergency services, M2M, cyber security, network evolution, quality of service, billing support, operations, and much more. These priorities follow a fast-track development lifecycle - from design and innovation through standards, specifications, requirements, business use cases, software toolkits, open source solutions, and interoperability testing.
ATIS is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). ATIS is the North American Organizational Partner for the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), a founding Partner of the oneM2M global initiative, a member and major U.S. contributor to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), as well as a member of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL). For more information, visit www.atis.org.
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"And then, without warning, I watched my youngest child take a step and then slide right off the mountain ..."
my soul would soon have dwelt in the land of silence.
thy steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
One day when we were living in Hawaii, my family went for a hike along the Tantalus ridge, which would bring us right along the top of Tantalus volcano to the very back of the valley we lived in. We would then take the trail straight down past Manoa Falls and the abandoned Paradise Park, and then out again into the Manoa Valley neighborhood.
Our kids were with us. It was a beautiful day: blue sky, perfect temperatures. This was going to be the longest hike we had taken as a family. My "smalls" were very young to be doing such a long hike. Bethany was five years old; Mark was six. My two "bigs" were eight and nine. And, of course, we had Biscuit the dog with us. We were excited — this was going to be a grand adventure.
Except we didn't take one thing into account.
One thing a person notices pretty quickly about Hawaii, especially in the area we lived in, is that it's not uncommon for the clouds to build up throughout the day, crowning the volcano peaks and then shedding themselves of their water in the mid to late afternoon. We called it "liquid sunshine," because many times it would be pouring, yet seem perfectly sunny, too. The weather was fascinating.
We should have started out earlier in the day, but there was much too do on this "day off," and we kept adding little things to the schedule, so by the time we started out it was mid-afternoon.
About an hour into our hike, the liquid sunshine began. It rained. Then it poured. The rain itself wasn't a problem. We were all used to rain — one gets very used to it, living in the Manoa valley. We trudged along, because really, there was no other choice. There was nowhere to stop on this trail that hugged the side of the mountain, and was only maybe two feet wide, if that.
And the rain kept raining.
And the trail became muddier and muddier and muddier.
After about an hour of this, I knew we were in trouble. It was raining so hard we could barely see each other, let alone know where we were. Worse, the trail itself was becoming treacherous.
And then, without warning, I watched my youngest child take a step and then slide right off the mountain.
In those split seconds, I imagined her falling all the way down to the valley floor.
I dropped to my hands and knees and looked over the edge, fearing I wouldn't see her — but there she was. Terrified, muddy, crying, but she was there. She had landed in a tree, just about ten inches out of the reach of my hand.
My husband was just ahead of us on the trail, but the rain created a virtual wall that kept him from seeing what had happened. Desperate, I tried to grasp something — anything — to plant my feet on, something solid, in hopes that I could reach down and grab her and pull her back up. But I couldn't find traction. The mud was now more water than anything else, and I couldn't get a grip on it with my feet. Over and over and over again, they slipped just like her little foot did. If I wasn't careful I would pitch over the side as well, and knock her out of her temporary safe perch on the tree branch below us.
With each slip of my foot, I panicked a bit more.
Through the pounding rain, though, my girl's father finally heard me screaming, and he stopped and backtracked to where we were. He immediately leapt down to — well — something. I can't remember if he actually found ground to stand on near her, or if he landed in the tree next to hers. Either way, somehow he found a way to plant himself and convince her to let go of the tree so he could pass her up to my waiting arms.
She was ok. We were ok. After a few minutes rest so her father could climb back onto the trail — and we could gather our wits and calm down a bit — we proceeded on the trail. In the rain. And the mud. But far more cautiously than we had before.
It is terrifying not to be able to find something solid to stand on. It's frightening when we feel our feet slipping, and we don't know how to stop them, whether on a muddy trail on the mountain, or on the perilous trail of life here on earth.
The words in Psalm 94 (above) are not quiet, hushed, meditative words. At least, I don't think so.
No, I believe that the writer of this Psalm, as he penned these words, was in a panic situation. A very real, very horrifying panic situation.
He knew the very real sensation of his foot slipping; and he knew that his only hope was God.
It is God who would rise up against the wicked that surrounded him. It is God who would stand up in defense and protection of his mind, soul and body. It is God, and God only, who possesses the very steadfast, solid love author the author needed to fight for purchase on this muddy thing we call life here on earth. It is God — when the things of this world threaten to drown out reason and our own steadfast faith — it is God and only God who will not forsake or abandon us (94:14), and it is He who beckons us to the very reality of verse 17: He is our help.
He is the consolation that cheers our soul. He is the truly bright essence of liquid sunshine — the only hope that can break through the choking darkness, much like the sun often breaks through the rain in Manoa Valley, producing the most spectacular rainbows on the face of this planet.
It is only our God who can do this.
I don't know about your souls and minds, dear reader, but I know mine, and I recognize the slipping of my mind, and the panic in my soul. It slips so often because of so many different things: lack of spiritual disciplines, choking fear, consuming worry, default cynicism and doubt, loneliness, deep griefs and so many other things can cause my foot to slip.
But I also know this: When that intense panic comes, it is to God, my Father, I must run. He and He alone can take hold of my wavering faith and my slipping soul and place them on Himself, the only true, firm and steady rock.
His steadfast love holds me up. His consolations fans embers of joy into flames. He alone is my stronghold.
Originally published at All is Well. Used by permission.


Daylong event will be held on April 23rd at the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown New York City.
AMHERST, NEW YORK, April 21, 2015 – The use of drones in cinematography, commercial production, and more than 300 identified commercial market applications will be addressed in detail by a panel and speakers participating in a daylong series of seminars taking place this Thursday, April 23rd, at the Roosevelt Hotel (45 East 45th Street) in New York City. The series of panels is being sponsored by leading ProAV solutions provider Stampede (www.stampedeglobal.com), North America's leading provider of comprehensive unmanned aerial vehicle offerings, training, and support programs custom designed for business customers in virtually every commercial market.
The sessions will kick off at 10:00AM with a panel presented by Systems Contractor News, the world's leading AV/IT systems integration magazine and moderated by editor-at-large Kirsten Nelson. "Drones: The Next Wave of Innovation in the Sky" will zero in on the more than 300 applications that are driving consumers and commercial end-users to incorporate drone technology into their personal and professional lives. The panelists will include Fred Bivetto: Dean, School of Unmanned Technology, Unmanned Vehicle University; TJ Diaz: President and CEO, XFLY SYSTEMS INC.; Kevin Kelly: President and COO, Stampede; Lisa Ellman, Co-Chairperson, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Practice Group at McKenna Long and Aldridge, LLP and; and Eric Jameson, CTO and Drone Technology Specialist.
Lt. Col. (Ret) Fred Bivetto joined Unmanned Vehicle University straight from the USAF Test Pilot School (TPS), where he served the Director of Curriculum Standards and Chief Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Test Pilot with responsibility for the development and maintenance of $37M, 1200 hour, Master of Science accredited flight test curricula with over 22 years of engineering, aviation and project management experience. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Master's Degree in National Security, and is a graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School.
TJ Diaz is the CEO of XFLY Systems, the manufacturers of the innovative xFold drone that is designed and built for aerial cinematography. TJ is an experienced Aerial Cinematographer, Founder and CEO of XFly Systems, and IT Professional. He has thousands of UAV flights under his belt and countless hours of designing, building and testing Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) for Aerial Photography and Videography. TJ holds executive sUAS certifications from Unmanned Vehicle University and is a corporate member of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI).
Lisa Ellman is a Counsel in the Washington, DC office of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP and serves as Co-chair of the firm's Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Practice Group. She is also a member of the firm's Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs practice. Lisa uses her experience in the Federal government to help bridge the sizable knowledge gap between government policymaking and business innovation. In February 2015, Lisa was featured in Fortune magazine's "Most Powerful Women" series for her efforts to develop policy to govern drone use in the domestic United States.
Mr. Eric Jameson is an Instructor at Unmanned Vehicle University (UVU) where he teaches a range of survey classes on UAV's and sensor systems. A career Intelligence Officer with the United States Air Force (USAF) with over 25 years of analytical, instructional and operational integration experience, Mr. Jameson has served in numerous combat zones from the Tactical to the Strategic level and has worked with all combat related, manned and unmanned USAF platforms. He began his career as a Target Intelligence Specialist with a reserve F-16 unit, where he was awarded numerous Outstanding Performer awards and deployed to contingencies supporting OPERATION DESERT STORM, OPERATION DENY FLIGHT, OPERATION DECISIVE EDGE, and OPERATION NORTHERN WATCH working with a variety of USAF aircraft and sensor systems.
Then at 2:00PM, Unmanned Vehicle University, the only university in the world licensed to offer graduate degree programs in unmanned systems engineering, will take the stage to host a seminar entitled "Overview of the Drone/UAS Industry and Business Potential" that will discuss recent FAA initiatives, the impact of these initiatives on commercial markets and job creation, and what steps can be taken by entrepreneurs to capitalize on this rapidly growing industry.
At 3:00PM, ZM Interactive (ZMI) will host a seminar entitled "Drone Aerial Cinematography" that really says it all. ZMI is an interactive media company with over 15 years of experience and thousands of projects and clients around the world in different markets such as entertainment, pharmaceutical and health, gaming, sports, government and security and other technology projects for clients such as Nike, Adidas, Visa, Microsoft, xBox 360, eBay, Paypal, Pink Floyd, Symantec, YouTube, and many more. Company co-founders TJ Diaz and Ziv Marom will discuss their use of drones in feature films and television production.
This New York event will also serve as New York market introduction of the new line of XFold ultra-professional multi-rotor platform drones, which will be introduced in the fourth and final seminar entitled "xFold Drones—Technical Configuration Training" at 4:00PM. This seminar which will feature TJ Diaz of XFLY Systems talking about how to build and configure the xFold drone platform for major motion picture video, shooting in high winds, shooting with dual cameras for 3D, and lifting of more than 200 pounds of cargo.


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When lawmakers gave more than $69 million in mental health to school districts after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting, many cast the funding as a way to help prevent future mass shootings and identify troubled students who needed help.
But there was little discussion while crafting the bill—and no mention in the final 105 pages of legislation—that specifically directed schools to consider suicide prevention efforts, the most pressing mental health challenge facing a generation and the second leading cause of death for young people under 35.
As Parkland continues to be rocked by a pair of recent suicides tied to the trauma of last year's shooting, a Herald/Times review shows that though school districts outlined spending those mental health dollars to hire hundreds of counselors, therapists and other mental health personnel, only a handful of plans explicitly flagged suicide prevention programs as a central focus. Seventeen of the 67 counties' plans didn't mention suicide or suicide prevention at all.
Powerful advocates in Broward County—including former Broward state representative and current state emergency director Jared Moskowitz—have called on lawmakers to more directly address suicide prevention after the deaths in Parkland on Feb. 14, 2018, and revisit last year's funding. Those calls are also being raised as the House and Senate begin grappling with whether to retain the existing mental health assistance allocation or increase it by more than $30 million, respectively.
The $69 million package in the Parkland bill last year was doled out to districts and charter schools based on the number of students they have—it was a significant uptick after years of underfunding mental health programs in schools, though several lawmakers and mental health advocates said it was too low. Florida, like the rest of the country, has historically had a shortage of school psychologists and other mental health staffing.
Those districts, which each received at least $100,000, were required to spend 90 percent of the allocation on direct, evidence-based mental health care services or coordination under the new law. The plans largely outlined the hundreds of staff they hoped to hire—in some cases doubling staff already on hand, but many noted suicide prevention only as part of general trainings provided to educators or staffers in the district. Only a handful explicitly detailed specific prevention programs targeted at lowering rising suicide rates.
In Broward, the school district has used most of its more than $6 million allocation to fund 50 mental health professionals, including nurses, family therapists, counselors, and social workers, said Tracy Clark, marketing and communications director at Broward County Public Schools. The district has also received $8 million in local referendum money for mental health resources and a $500,000 federal grant for a violence prevention program in the district.
Clark added that the district conducted three staff trainings in July covering warning signs for suicide, risk factors, and how to respond, and held one training for parents with a suicide prevention component. The school district, which is currently on spring break, is also working on outreach efforts with local agencies to help parents identify warning signs and connect with their children on the issue.
The suicides—and the Parkland community's alarm—are being raised as the House and Senate are already grappling with whether to retain the existing mental health allocation or increase it. The Senate plan would raise the funding for the mental health allocation to schools to up to $100 million.
Copyright (c) 2019, Miami Herald. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency.
"After Suicides of Parkland Survivors, Here's What Educators Should Know About Supporting Students," (Rules for Engagement) March 25, 2019.


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Q: How to fix issue in Extjs when my app is RTL? When I drop my panel in non drop zone the Extjs animate the drag element back to the source element in wrong directions, how to fix this behavior?

Here is my code for Dragzone and DropZone, when I change my app to LTR it just fine, and when I switch it back to RTL then the issue appears again.

function calEventPnlSourceDD(sender){
  sender.mX=sender.getX();
  sender.dragZone = new Ext.dd.DragZone(sender.getEl(), {
        ddGroup: 'dgCal',
        getDragData: function(e) {
            var sourceEl = e.getTarget(sender.itemSelector, 10);
            if (sourceEl) {
                /*sourceEl=sourceEl.parentElement;*/
                d = sourceEl.cloneNode(true);
                d.id = Ext.id();
                return {
                    ddel: d,
                    sourceEl: sourceEl,
                    repairXY: Ext.fly(sourceEl).getXY()
                }
            }
        },
        getRepairXY: function() {
                return this.dragData.repairXY;
          },
        onDrag: function(e) {

        }
  });
}
function calEventPnlTargetDD(sender){
 sender.dropZone = new Ext.dd.DropZone(sender.el, {
        ddGroup: 'dgCal',
        isDropAllowed: false,
        getTargetFromEvent: function(e) {
            return e.getTarget(sender.rowSelector);
        },
        getAllowed: function(e) {
            var proto = Ext.dd.DropZone.prototype;
            var tg=e.target;
            this.isDropAllowed=true;
            return proto.dropAllowed;
        },
        notifyOver: function(source,e,data) {
            return this.getAllowed(e);
        },
        onNodeDrop: function(target, dd, e, data) {
         return this.isDropAllowed;
        }
  });

A: After 9 days I found the cause of the problem, in my local file local-he.js I removed this line:
Ext.define('Ext.locale.container.Viewport',{override:'Ext.container.Viewport',requires:['Ext.rtl.*'],rtl:!0});

Because I already defined my app as RTL in UniMainModule.
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Today was a perfect day to be celebrating the Orthodox Christmas Eve. With temperatures dipping to minus 7 degrees celsius, and swirling snow dusting the cityscape white, all that was needed was a warm spot, some hearty food and a good story. Each of these were readily provided by Tom, the guardian of an iconic eating house in the heart of the East Village. Veselka is a legacy of all things Ukrainian. I was met with people exchanging holiday greetings in their own language, Christmas borscht being served with the traditional ear shaped mushroom dumplings, and a 12 course dinner awaiting the festively famished. Everything is as real as it looks, and even though the original Ukrainian community may be more of a New York community now, the slavic soul is a generous survivor.
Sixty years ago a small candy store on the corner of 9th and 2nd Avenue sold essentials such as milk, lighter fluid and coffee. Like an early 7/11, the store was open 24 hours a day and offered simple food, diner style, thanks to a group of Ukrainian women who came in the evenings to cook for Tom's father-in-law and his friends. There was no english and there were no recipes. It was a place to share conversation and food – borscht, cabbage rolls, potato pancakes and pierogis. The Vietnam war was on, there were students on the street along with partying hippies looking for good inexpensive food.
When management of the store passed to Tom in 1967, one of his first tasks was to create menus in english. About the same time the plastic lettered Pepsi menu board on the wall was replaced, the restaurant space doubled in size, overseen by the benevolent Ukrainian holders-of-title. But the food did not change. In the kitchen old staff taught new staff how a dish should be prepared. While Tom said there are as many recipes for borscht as there are grandmothers who make it, there was consistency of style. But secrets were another thing. When Tom was approached five years ago to write a Veselka cook book he just laughed. There were still no recipes!
Borscht has been on the menu for 61 years. Made with beef and pork in a three day labour of love, it's probably listed with the City as a national treasure and will be there forever. Let's hope so – it's rich, soulful and satisfying. Same with the pierogis. Four women work 40 hours a week just to keep up with the demand – that is, about 3,000 a day. A day! And such delicate dumplings. Potato is the most popular flavour, maybe because of the perfect combo with caramelized onions – although the apple sauce and sour cream condiments made me save the farmer's cheese pillow until last.
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Gabrielle — this is a truly seductive FitzyReport! Take me to the Lower Eastside! It is a fascinating neighborhood, yes?
That's one of the best menu's you've taken us through dear Gabrielle!
Ah Chrissy – how I wish I knew about this place when you were here! It's right in your neighborhood!
I have not had borscht for years now I am hungry.
The borscht was fantastic! I have only ever made this soup as a cold beetroot consommé with hot potato and sour cream dropped in. Which is delicious of course, but nothing like Veselka's….


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The British Commission for Maritime History (BCMH), in association with the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust, invites contributions to its twenty-seventh conference for new researchers. For 400 years the dockyard provided new ships and repair facilities for the Royal Navy, from sailing warships, steam warships to submarines. It is a wonderful location in which to hold this annual conference and provides a unique opportunity for new scholars to present their work in a historic setting.
The Conference, which is supported by the Society for Nautical Research, helps emerging scholars who wish to share their work in a supportive environment and build relations with other maritime historians. We encourage applications from postgraduate students and warmly encourage participation by independent scholars. Contributions can address all aspects of maritime history in its broadest sense.
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Match 'Dodged a Major Bullet' With Tinder Founder Settlement
By Chris Dolmetsch and Tina Davis
Dec. 1, 2021, 10:27 PM
Resolution comes right before case was to go to jury
Settlement ends contentious trial over worth of stock options
Match Group Inc. said it will pay $441 million to resolve a hard-fought legal battle with Tinder's founders over the valuation of the mobile dating app, ending a nearly monthlong trial just before it went to the jury.
Match announced the settlement on Wednesday morning, a day before the parties were to give closing statements in the trial over a lawsuit brought by Tinder founder Sean Rad and other early executives and employees against Match and its controlling investor, IAC/InterActiveCorp.
Rad, who created Tinder during a hackathon at IAC's Hatch Labs incubator, and the other plaintiffs in the case say they were cheated by the companies, which valued Tinder at $3 billion in 2017, instead of the $13.2 billion they claim it was actually worth.
Match "dodged a major bullet" with the settlement, as the company continued to face "significant" risk as the trial progressed, and could have been hit with as much as $2 billion in damages if the jury found in favor of Rad's group, Tom Claps, a litigation analyst with Susquehanna International Group, wrote in a note to investors.
"The biggest surprise to me is that a deal took this long," said Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Matthew Schettenhelm, who estimated Match had a 70% chance of winning. "This is a substantial settlement, but letting a jury decide a billion-dollar question simply carries too much risk. This removes the issue as an overhang and should let the company move on."
Shares in Dallas-based Match fell $2.51, or 1.9%, to $133.69 on Wednesday in New York. IAC fell $5.27, or 3.9 percent, to $128.38.
Read More: Match CEO's 'Fist Bump' Sparks Tinder Trial 'Bullying' Claim
The contentious trial featured testimony from witnesses including Rad, IAC Chairman Barry Diller and former Match Group Inc. chairman and chief executive officer Greg Blatt.
"The trial included testimony from both sides that painted diametrically opposed views of what occurred during the valuation, and we believed plaintiffs were successful in raising significant doubt" whether Match and IAC properly handed the valuation process, Claps said.
Rad and other early employees and executives sued IAC and Match in 2018, alleging the companies provided false information about the app's financial prospects to the banks that were hired to estimate its market value, in order to produce a assessment well below the $13 billion they claim it was worth.
The lawsuit said they were granted options that entitled them to more than 20% of the company under a 2014 agreement that required Match to hire investment banks to independently value Tinder on four specific dates between May 2017 and May 2021.
Lowball Valuation?
They alleged Match and its controlling investor, IAC, engineered a lowball valuation of the app by feeding information to the banks that underplayed its future growth prospects while excluding Rad from the process -- then terminated the agreement, merged Tinder into its parent company and launched a new premium service, Tinder Gold, the next day.
"We are very pleased that this valuation dispute has been settled," Orin Snyder and Josh Dubin, attorneys for the plaintiffs, said in a statement. "It was a long and hard battle and our clients are grateful that they had the opportunity to have their voices heard and achieve this outcome."
IAC and Match contended that the banks independently assessed Tinder's value after considering information from both sides. The companies said Rad fully participated in the process and that the plaintiffs sold their options for more than $700 million, which included $400 million for Rad, and are simply bitter that they missed out on Tinder's explosive growth.
The case is Rad v. IAC/InterActiveCorp, 654038/2018, Supreme Court of the State of New York (Manhattan).
Chris Dolmetsch in Federal Court in Manhattan at cdolmetsch@bloomberg.net;
Tina Davis in New York at tinadavis@bloomberg.net
Katia Porzecanski at kporzecansk1@bloomberg.net
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Il pleocroismo è un fenomeno osservabile in alcuni cristalli, che si manifesta con una variazione di colore osservando il cristallo da direzioni diverse. Se i colori diversi osservabili sono due, si parla di dicroismo, se invece sono tre, si dice tricroismo. Il pleocroismo si può presentare di vari livelli: nullo, debole, medio o forte, a seconda di quanto è evidente la variazione del colore ruotando il campione.

L'effetto è dovuto alla differente capacità del cristallo di assorbire la luce incidente policromatica, a seconda dell'orientamento assunto dal raggio di luce rispetto alle direzioni cristallografiche. Il comportamento si manifesta in presenza di un reticolo cristallino non equivalente per simmetria nelle tre direzioni, quindi si può presentare solo con cristalli birifrangenti.

Esiste uno strumento, chiamato dicroscopio, che permette di vedere affiancati i vari colori della pietra.

Uno dei minerali che presenta il fenomeno in modo più evidente è la cordierite (tanto da esser chiamata anche dicroite), il cui colore può variare dal giallo al blu-viola.

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Senator Feinstein and the problem of adhering to America's enemies
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence … the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the baneful foes of republican government."
George Washington, 17 September 1796
Perhaps the most salient point in the whole debate over Senator Feinstein's report is the one that has not been mentioned. Feinstein and many of her congressional colleagues are out to wreck the CIA and thereby further propel Obama's attack on America's ability to defend itself. But they are always silent on an issue that, if you, like Feinstein, think foreign policy has to do with morality, is directly analogous to the one they are using to try to destroy CIA. That issue is, of course, Israel.
Feinstein's staged and slobbering moral outrage over enhanced interrogation techniques belies her and her colleagues' reliably bloodthirsty and always enthusiastic support for whatever Israel's government wants to do against a Palestinian or any other Muslim. Israel uses harsher interrogation techniques against Islamist prisoners than any used by CIA; Israel intelligence services have murdered Palestinians in Europe; smothered them in the Emirates; stole their land and demolished their homes in a never-ending search for Jewish lebensraum in Palestine; periodically destroyed their social, economic, and educational infrastructures; and generally roughed-up Muslims in a manner that the gods of the pathetically outdated Geneva Conventions would frown upon. Israeli governments also have long supported, planned, and encouraged operations inside the United States to conduct espionage; suborn U.S. citizens to commit treason; control or block media reporting; and smear and arrange unemployment for Israel's American critics. Added up, these Israel-approved actions must surely amount to something that Feinstein would define as a "stain" on a nation's character.
But that is not the case. The critical comments about Israel's behavior made by Feinstein and her ilk in the Congress — in both houses and both sides of the aisle — are virtually nonexistent. Indeed, when Israel engages in these practices, the stern Feinstein gang sends the billionaire and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg to Israel to cheer on the death the Israeli military is raining down on the Palestinians, and to promise Israel more money, more ordnance, and the passing of more U.S. secrets from their agents in the U.S. Congress so they can kill more Muslims. Perhaps there is a double standard here?
Well, yes, there is, and one that makes it clear that Feinstein and the huge number of her fellow congressional fifth columnists are manifestly more interested in the survival of Israel than in that of the United States. Indeed, the monetary, military, rhetorical, and private aid they provide to Israel to kill Muslims is directly responsible for dead, wounded, and maimed U.S. military personnel and civilians in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the U.S. cities raided on 9/11. But for Feinstein and her Israel-First colleagues these dead American Marines, soldiers, and civilians are simply the well-worth-it price they are willing to pay protect their country of first allegiance, which is not the United States.
For these Israel-First folks, dead Americans are not even a passing concern when compared to what they see as the "crime" of the United States interrogating terrorists to defend itself against Islamist enemies who are, in a large part, motivated by the absurd, war-causing, and self-defeating relationship the United States has with Israel, one that is based on the rank disloyalty of the huge Israel-First fifth column in the U.S. Congress and, from all appearances, the most wealthy and influential leaders of the U.S. Jewish community.
At base, of course, this is not an Israel problem. Because foreign policy has nothing to do with morality, but with material interests and national security, no one should dare to tell the Israeli people how, when, and with what to defend their country. Clearly no sovereign state — except perhaps for the United States under Obama and Bush — can allow itself to be attacked without responding with overwhelmingly devastating military force. Indeed, it is only constant U.S. intervention in the affairs of both Israel and Palestine that has prevented either from applying this rule of thumb and seeking an end to a war that has been draining both Israeli and Palestinian blood for more than sixty years.
While no nation has a right to exist — not Israel, not the United States, not the UK, not any other nation-state — all have the right to defend themselves to whatever extent and in whatever manner they deem necessary in order to eradicate a threat to their survival. Governments owe this responsibility to their citizens, and those — like Obama's America and Cameron's Britain — that do not successfully fulfill this responsibility must be removed by their citizens to ensure the nation's survival.
If America's real problem is not the state of Israel, what is it? The answer is disloyal Americans like Feinstein and most of the rest of the members of both Houses of Congress. (NB: I wonder how many are dual U.S.-Israeli citizens?) By prizing Israel's security over that of the United States, by attacking and undermining U.S. defenses — like the CIA and border control; and by endorsing Israeli behaviors that motivate the mujahideen to attack America as much as any other single factor, they are knowingly murdering U.S. military personnel and committing Americans to an endless U.S.-Islam war.
The present Feinstein Phenomena is not the first time the United States has experienced a situation in which U.S. citizens are more loyal to a foreign nation's interests than to those of America. In George Washington's presidency his administration was plagued by disloyal members of the Republican Party — the forerunner of today's Democratic Party — who sided with revolutionary France against the interests of the United States. Jefferson and Madison were among the disloyal, and the former schemed with French diplomats and emissaries to undercut U.S. neutrality, to promote attacks by U.S. citizens on the territory of Spain in Louisiana, and to involve a virtually unarmed United States in France's war with Britain and much of the rest of Europe.
President Washington, with the able assistance of Alexander Hamilton and a mostly loyal and nationalist citizenry, faced down and broke the pro-French fifth column of American citizens by enforcing U.S. neutrality and letting Republican disloyalty become so publicly obvious that Jefferson and the party's other leaders had to back away from France so their organization would survive. Hamilton, at the time, accurately and succinctly described U.S. citizens who behaved as Feinstein, her congressional colleagues, and influential Jewish-Americans are now behaving as follows (readers should simply insert "Israel" in the place of "France.") "The man who … shall be the apologist of France and the calumniator of his own Government is not an American. The choice for him lies between being deemed a fool, a madman, or traitor."
Having listened to Feinstein and her supporters during the past week, it may well be deemed that she and they are all three of the vile miscreants Mr. Hamilton described.
Author Michael F. ScheuerPosted on December 14, 2014 March 2, 2020
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