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COMMISSIONER FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS
COMMISSIONER FOR SOCIAL AFFAIRS
COMMISSIONER FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
African Union Missions
Amb. Amina S. Ali, Ambassador, African Union Mission, Washington, Amb. Analif, Ambassador, African Union Mission, Brussels.
African Embassies
Mr. John-Thomas Dipowe, Chair, Sub-committee, Administrative, budgetary and financial matters and Minister Counsellor, Boipelo Paakane, First Secretary, Edgar Sisa, First Secretary, Maphoi Komanyane, First Secretary, Seno Mpuchane, First Secretary and Julian Mokgath, Counsellor in the Embassy of Botswana, Dr. Paul Dong, Chair, Sub-committee, Programmes and Conferences and Minister Counsellor, Embassy of Cameroon, Amb. John Aggrey, Chair of the PRC and Ambassador, Embassy of Ghana, Amb. Saleh Sahboun, Chair, Sub-committee, Contributions and Minister Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Libya, Chair, Sub-committee, Structural Reforms and Ambassador, Embassy of Mozambique, Amb. Obioma Oparah, Ambassador, Embassy of Nigeria, Mr. Papa Diop, Counsellor, Embassy of Senegal, Mr. Sandile Schalk, Deputy Ambassador, Embassy of South Africa
African and European Policy Analysts
Mr. Mehari Maru, Researcher in conflict studies, Harvard Law School (Ethiopia), Mr. Tim Murithi, Senior Researcher, Institute for Security Studies (Kenya), Mr. James Mackie, Senior Officer, ECPDM.
Mr. Ozias Tungwarara, Director, Afri-Map Open Society Institute (Zimbabwe), Mr, Evens Jeune, Teacher (North America), Mr. Paul Henri Sedogo, Mr. Ben Hadj Abdellaziz (Tunisia), Dr. Emmanuel Akwetey, Director, Institute for Democratic Governance (Ghana), Mr. Henry Ekwuruke, Executive Director, Development Generation Africa (Nigeria), Chief Charles O. Okereke (Nigeria), Mr. Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz (Egypt), Ms. Carmelle T. Norice, Student (Diaspora in North America), Ms. Rachel Reap and Mr. Shernard Mazengera, Country Programme Manager, Oxfam Malawi, Mr John Tesha, Director, Africa former Heads of State and Government Forum
Amb. Yves Boulanger Ambassador and Ms. Catherine Berard, Head of AU and Regional Cooperation Section, CIDA – Canada, Ms. Bridget Dillon, Head of AU and Regional Cooperation Section, DFID – Great Britain, Ms. Alfreda Meyers, Political Economic Counsellor, United States Embassy, Ms. Valentina Auricchio, Head of AU and Regional Cooperation Section, European Union, Mr. Per Knutsson, Head of AU and Regional Cooperation Section, SIDA – Sweden, Ms Aide Gingnard, Junior Expert on Politics at the EU Delegation in Namibia.
B. Select Bibliography
TREATIES AND STATUTES
Sirte Declaration, 1999
The Constitutive Act of the African Union, 2000
Protocol on Amendments to the Constitutive Act of the African Union, 2003
Statutes of the African Union Commission, 2002 and Amendments 2007
African Union Rules of Procedures for the Assembly
African Union Rules of Procedures for the Executive Council
African Union Rules of Procedures for the Permanent Representatives Committee
Statutes of the ECOSOCC
Protocol Relating to Peace and Security Council of the African Union
Protocol to the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community Relating to the Pan African Parliament, Sirte, Libya, 2 March 2001
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights 1981
Treaty Establishing the African Economic Commission
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
Draft Rules of Procedure of ECOSOCC 2005
Report of the Status of OAU/AU Treaties (As at 13/6/2007)
Executive Council Decision on the Interim ECOSOCC (EX.CL/Dec.338(X))
ECOSOCC Resolution No. 01/ECOSOCC/AU/05 of 30 March 2005
Executive Council Decision on the Structure of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (EX.CL/331(XI))
Decisions on the Integration of NEPAD into African Union Structures and Processes (Assembly/AU/Dec.153 (VIII))
Decision on the Report of the 9th Extraordinary Session of the Executive Council on the Proposals for the Union Government (Doc. Assembly/AU/10(VIII))
Decision on the Union Government (Doc. Assembly/AU/2 (VII))
Decision on the Report of the Committee of Seven Heads of State and Government Chaired by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Assembly/AU/Dec.99 (VI))
Decision on the Report of the Committee of Seven Heads of State and Government on the Proposals of the Socialist Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Assembly/AU/Dec.90 (V)
Brainstorming Session of Ministers of Foreign Affairs/External Relations of the African Union, Durban, South Africa, 8-9/5/2007: Some Perspectives on the State of the African Union: Issues Paper.
Assembly Decision on Gender Equality in Africa (Assembly/AU/Dec.12 & 13 (III)), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 6-8/7/2004
Assembly Decision (Assembly/AU/Dec.134-164 (VIII)) and Assembly/AU/Dec.1-6 (VIII), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 8th Ordinary Session, 29-30/1/2007
Assembly Decision (Assembly/AU/Dec.91-110 (VI)); Assembly/ AU/Dec.1-3 (VI) and Assembly/AU/Recommendations (VI), Khartoum, Sudan, 6th Ordinary Session, 23-24/1/2006
Assembly Decision (Assembly/AU/Dec.55-72 (IV)) and Assembly/AU/Dec.1-2 (IV), Abuja, Nigeria, 4th Ordinary Session, 30-31/1/2005
Assembly Decision (Ext/Assembly/AU/Dec.1-2 (II)), Sirte, Libya, 2nd Extraordinary Session, 27-28/2/2004
Assembly Decision on the Reform of the United Nations Security Council (Ext/Assembly/AU/Dec.1(IV)) Page 1, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 4th Extraordinary Session, 4/8/2005
Assembly Decision (Assembly/AU/Dec.166-167 (IX)) and Assembly/AU/Decl.1 (IX), Accra, Ghana, 9th Ordinary Session, 1-3/7/2007
Assembly Decision (Assembly/AU/Dec.6-31 (II)) and Assembly/AU/Dec.4-11 (II), Maputo, Mozambique, 2nd Ordinary Session, 10-12/7/2003
Assembly Decision (Assembly/AU/Dec.73-90 (V)), Assembly/AU/Dec.1-3 (V) and Assembly/AU/Resolution 1 (V), Sirte, Libya, 5th Ordinary Session, 4-5/7/2005
Assembly Decision (Assembly/AU/Dec.111-132 (VII)) and Assembly/AU/Dec.1-4 (VII), Banjul, The Gambia, 7th Ordinary Session, 1-2/7/2006
Assembly Decision (Assembly/AU/Dec.33-54 (III)), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 3rd Ordinary Session, 29-30/1/2007
Assembly Decision (Assembly/AU/4 (VI)), Khartoum, Sudan, 6th Ordinary Session, 23-24/1/2006
Assembly Decision (Assembly/AU/Dec.99 (VI)), January 2006
Assembly Decision (Assembly/AU/Dec.90 (V)) on the Report of the Committee of Seven Heads of State and Government Chaired by President of the Republic of Uganda on the Proposals of the Great Socialist Peoples' Libyan Jamahiriya
Communiqué on Launching of the Interim General Assembly of ECOSOCC
Resolution on Promoting Gender-Responsive Governance in Countries Emerging from Conflict Adopted at the 3rd AU-CSO Pre-Summit Forum, Banjul, The Gambia, 20-21/6/2006
Assembly Decision on the Union Government (Doc. Assembly/AU/2 (VII))
Executive Council Decision on the AU Policy Framework on Post-Conflict Recommendations and Development (Doc. EX.CL/274 (IX))
Decision on the Outcome of the Meeting of Governmental Experts on Early Warning and Conflict Prevention (Doc. EX.CL/300 (X))
Executive Council Decision on the AU Policy on PCRD (Doc. EX. CL/274 (IX))
Executive Council Decision on the Budget of the PAP for the Period July to December 2004 (Doc. EX. CL/90 (V))
Decision on the Report of the Board of External Auditors for the PAP (Doc. EX.CL/334 (XI))
Assembly Decision on the Report of the 9th Extraordinary Session of the Executive Council on the Proposals for the Union Government (Doc. Assembly/AU/10 (VIII))
African Union Commission – 2004-2007 Strategic Plan
Contributions by Departments, Directorates and Offices of the Commission to the High Level Panel on Audit of the African Union, August 2007
Mfasoni J. Handover report on status, programmes and activities of Conference Services Directorate, August 2007
Executive Council Progress Report on the recruitment of staff of the Commission, June 2007.
Executive Council Report on the advisory sub-committee on the harmonisation of the remuneration policy, June 2007
African Union Commission: Financial Rules and Regulations, June 2006
African Union Commission: Draft Staff Rules and Regulations, forthcoming
African Union Commission: Staff Rules and Regulations, 199
Executive Council Report of the Status of OAU/AU Treaties, June 2007, Accra, Ghana
Staff Association Report of the Bureau of the Staff Association on its Activities February 2004 to July 2007, August 2007
Questionnaires from AU Specialised and Technical Offices competed for the Panel, 2007
African Union Commission Staff List availed to the Panel, 19 October 2007
African Union Commission Minutes of Cabinet meetings, 2005-2007
African Union Commission Monitoring and Evaluation Report for 2005, July 2006.
Ernst and Young Institutional Assessment of the Commission, 2006
Introductory Note of the Chairperson and Report on Activities of the Commission (EX.CL/79(IV)), March 2004
MOU on Security, Stability, Development and Cooperation in Africa, Durban, South Africa, July 2002
Issue Paper No. 2: Proposal for an Indication Module, Presented at the Meeting of Governmental Experts on Early Warning and Conflict Prevention (PSD/EW/EXP/4(I)), Kempton Park, South Africa, 17-19/12/2006
Framework for the Operationalization of the Continental Early Warning System Presented at the Meeting of Governmental Experts on Early Warning and Conflict Prevention (PSD/EW/EXP/FRAMEWORK (I)), Kempton Park, South Africa, 17-19/12/2006
Issue Paper No. 1: Draft Roadmap for the Operationalization of the Continental Early Warning System, Presented at the Meeting of Governmental Experts on Early Warning and Conflict Prevention (PSD/EW/EXP/3(I)), Kempton Park, South Africa, 17-19/12/2006
Background Paper on the Review of the Working Methods of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (Dakar, Senegal) 5-6/7/2007
Roadmap for the Operationalization of the African Standby Force (EXP/AU-RECs/ASF/4 (I)), Addis Ababa – Ethiopia, 22-23/3/2005
Summary of Yearly Contributions to the AU Peace Fund from June 1993 –December 2005
Declaration of the AU-Private Sector Forum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 2004
AFRODAD, Afrimap, Oxfam Towards A People-Driven African Union: Current Obstacles And New Opportunities, January 2007
Report on Alternative Sources of Funding the African Union (EX.CL/255(IX))
Status of Allotments, Expenditures and Obligations – Solidarity Budget 30/9/2007
Statement of Fiduciary, Trust and Special Funds, 30/9/2007
Report on Specialized Technical Committees (EX.CL/328(X)Rev.1 Annex II)
Report of the Sub-Committee on Structural Reforms on the Structure of the Commission and the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (Doc. EX.CL/331(XI))
Comments of the Delegation of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Structural Reforms relating to the Structure of the Registry and the System of Remuneration for Judges.
Activity Report of the Court for 2006 (Assembly/AU/8(VIII)).
Report of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (EX.CL/363(XI)).
Contribution of the Members of the Court to the Consultation on the Union Government Project, June 2007
Conclusions of the Retreat of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, Dakar, Senegal, 5-6/7/2007 (PSC/PR/2(LXXXV)).
Report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (EX.CL/364(XI))
22nd Activity Report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Report on the Draft Single Legal Instrument on The Merger of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Court of Justice (EX.CL/253 (IX) REV.I), 9th Ordinary Session, Banjul, The Gambia, 25-29 June 2006
Report of the 2nd Meeting of the Interim ECOSOCC Standing Committee, Cairo, Egypt, 24-26 February 2007
Report of the Meeting of the Interim Standing Committee of ECOSOCC, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 3 September 2007
Draft Report of the 1st Meeting of the Interim ECOSOCC Standing Committee, Nairobi, Kenya, 22-24 April 2005
Resolution and Recommendations of the 3rd AU-CSO Forum, Banjul, The Gambia, June 2006
Report of the Official Launching of the Interim General Assembly of ECOSOCC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (INT/ASSEMBLY/ECOSOCC/DRAFT/RPT(I))
The Role of CSOs in Enhancing Shared Vision and the Re-engagement of People in Post-Conflict Governance (PCRD/Workshop/1(II)), Lusaka, Zambia,17-19 July 2007
Report on the Elaboration of a Policy on Post Conflict Reconstruction and Development (EX.CL/274/6), 9th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council, Banjul, The Gambia
Conclusions and Decisions of the Meeting of the Interim Standing Committee of ECOSOCC, Yaoundé, Cameroon, July 2007.
Outcome of the 2nd Meeting of ECOSOCC Interim Standing Committee, Cairo, Egypt, 24-26 February 2007
Report of the Meeting of the 1st Inter-Departmental Taskforce on the Launching of ECOSOCC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July 2004
Civil Society Declaration, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 26-27 June 2004
Template for Election into ECOSOCC General Assembly
The Strategic Plan of the Pan African Parliament 2006-2010
Report of the 14th Ordinary Session of the PRC (PRC/RPT (XIV)): Consideration of the Report of the Advisory Sub Committee on the Report of the Board of External Auditors for PAP, Accra, Ghana, 25-27/6/2007
Annual Report of PAP for the Period March 2004-March 2005
Annual Financial Statements of PAP for the Period ended 31/12/2004
Report of Workshop on the Oversight Function of the Pan African Parliament (PAP), 9 November 2005
Report of the Committee on Rules, Privileges and Discipline on the Oversight Function of the Pan African Parliament, by Inzoungou M.Z. Pierre, 28 November 2005
Comparative Study of Oversight Mechanisms, Functions and Powers of National and Regional Parliamentary Assemblies, 24 August 2005
Report of the 8th Ordinary Session of the Pan African Parliament, 15-26 October 2007
Report of the Meeting of the Bureau of the Pan African Parliament, 9 November 2007
Transforming the Pan African Parliament by Dr. Eddy Maloka
Concept Document on the Transformation of the PAP from a Consultative and Advisory to a Fully Legislative Organ of the African Union
The Pan African Parliament Contribution to the Grand Debate on the African Union Government
Report of the PAP Seminar on the Harmonization of the Regional Economic Communities and Regional Parliamentary Bodies
Annual Financial Statements of the Pan African Parliament for the Year ended 31 December 2004
Framework Document for the Implementation of the Decision of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Implementation Committee (HSGIC) on the Integration of NEPAD into AU Structures and Processes: Joint Proposal by the African Union and NEPAD Secretariat
Institutional and Programmatic Implications of a Union Government
Rationalization of the Regional Economic Communities (RECs): Review of the Abuja Treaty and Adoption of Minimum Integration Programme (Economic Affairs Department April 2007)
Assessing Regional Integration in Africa (ECA Policy Research Report, 2004)
Assessing Regional Integration in Africa II: Rationalising Regional Economic Communities (2006)
Democratic Governance, Regional Integration and Development in Africa (Development Policy Management Forum, 2003)
The Role of Regional Parliaments in Meeting the Challenges of Globalisation to Democratic Governance in Africa ( Development Policy Management Forum, 2003)
Study on the African Union Government: Towards the United States of Africa
Some Perspectives on the State of the African Union: Issues Paper
African Union Commission Chairperson's Report on the Strengthening of the Commission and STCs: Towards a Union Government
African Union Commission Report on Specialized Technical Committees
Africa and the Challenges of the Changing Global Order: Desirability of a Union Government, 12-13 November 2005, Abuja-Nigeria
Report of the All-Inclusive Continental Consultation on Union Government Project, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 29-30 June 2007
The Accra Diary: CSO activities on the Union Government, September 2007
Report on the African Union, the RECs, UNECA, AfDB and the UN System
Towards a Closer Cooperation in Africa by Yoweri Museveni, 10 July 1998, Kampala, Uganda
Minutes of the Committee of Heads of State and Government on the Proposals of the Great Socialist Peoples' Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Kampala, Uganda, 13 June 2005
Political Integration and Re-Organisation in Africa by Yoweri Museveni, Sirte, Libya, 3 July 2005.
Draft Report of the 10th Extraordinary Session of the Executive Council and the Conclusions of the Brainstorming Session of Foreign Ministers (EX.CL/351(XI)).
Draft of the Establishment of a State of the United States of Africa, Sirte, Libya, 9 September 1999
Minutes of the Committee of Heads of State and Government on the Proposals of the Great Socialist Peoples' Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Assembly/AU/3(V)), Kampala, Uganda, 13 July 2005.
Report of the Committee of Seven Chaired by President Olusegun Obasanjo of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Assembly/AU/4 (VI))
Report on AUG Implementation Modalities, 2007
Report of the Chairperson on Strengthening the African Union Commission and STCs: Towards a Union Government (EX.CL/328 (X)), 10th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 25-26 January 2007.
Some Perspectives on the State of the African Union – Issues Paper (Brainstorming Session of Ministers of Foreign Affairs/External Relations of the African Union), Durban, South Africa, 8-9 May 2007
Draft Report of the 10th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council and the Conclusions of the Brainstorming Session of Ministers of Foreign Affairs/External Relations of the African Union, Durban, South Africa, 8-9 May 2007.
C. ORGANIGRAMME OF THE AU COMMISSION
BUREAU OF THE CHAIRPERSON
SECRETARY TO THE COMMISSION
BUREAU OF THE DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON
DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF
DIRECTORATE OF WOMEN, GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT
DIRECTORATE OF STRATEGIC PLANNING POLICY, MONITORING AND EVALUATION AND RESOURCE MOBILISATION
OFFICE OF THE LEGAL COUNSEL
AFRICAN CITIZENS DIRECTORATE
INFORMATION AND POPULARISATION DIRECTORATE
PROTOCOL SERVICES UNIT
DEPARTMENT OF PROGRAMMING, BUDGETING, FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING
DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION, HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF CONFERENCE SERVICES
SECURITY AND SAFETY UNIT
AU COMMISSION
COMMISSIONER FOR PEACE AND SECURITY
DIRECTOR FOR PEACE AND SECURITY DEPARTMENT
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT DIVISION
DEFENCE AND SECURITY DIVISION
PEACE SUPPORT OPERATIONS DIVISION
PEACE AND SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARIAT
AFRICAN CENTRE FOR THE STUDY AND RESEARCH ON TERRORISM (Algiers)
DIRECTOR FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
DEMOCRACY, GOVERNANCE, ELECTIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS DIVISION
HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS, REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS DIVISION
AU REPRESENTATIVE AND PERMANENT DELEGATION OFFICES IN: Brussels, Burundi, Cairo, Geneva, New York, Washington, DC,
AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS SECRETARIAT
DIRECTOR FOR SOCIAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
AIDS WATCH AFRICA SECRETARIAT
LABOUR, EMPLOYMENT AND MIGRATION DIVISION
HEALTH, HIV/AIDS, NUTRITION, OTHER RELATED INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND POPULATION DIVISION
SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION
CENTER FOR LINGUISTIC AND HISTORICAL STUDIES BY ORAL TRADITION (CELHTO) (Niamey)
AU COMMISSION CONTINUED
DIRECTOR FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND REGIONAL COOPERATION
ECONOMIC POLICIES, RESEARCH & STATISTICS
PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT, INVESTMENT AND RESOURCE MOBILISATION DIVISION
AU MISSION TO SADC
COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RESOURCES, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DIRECTOR FOR HUMAN RESOURCES, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
HUMAN RESOURCES AND YOUTH DIVISION
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
EDUCATION DIVISION
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH COMMISSION (Lagos)
COMMISSIONER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENERGY
DIRECTOR FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENERGY
ENERGY, TRANSPORT AND TOURISM DIVISION
TELECOM AND POST DIVISION
COMMISSIONER FOR RURAL ECONOMY AND AGRICULTURE
DIRECTOR FOR RURAL ECONOMY AND AGRICULTURE
RURAL ECONOMY, NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT DIVISION
AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND SECURITY DIVISION
RURAL ECONOMY DIVISION
SPECIALIZED AND TECHNICAL OFFICES: IBAR (Nairobi), SAFGRAD (Ouagadougou), PATTEC, PANVAC (Debre Zeit, Ethiopia), FOUTA JALLON PROJECT (Conakry), INTER-AFRICAN PYTOSANITARY COUNCIL (Yaounde)
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PC Mag Middle East | Cell Phone | Review
byChris Fernando Sep 06, 2016
Street Price$ 435.00
Attractive. Sharp dual-sensor camera performance. Fingerprint scanner doubles as programmable key. Includes IR blaster, NFC, dual-band Wi-Fi, and fast charging.
Average battery life. Slippery, fingerprint-prone design.
The Huawei Honor 8 is a stylish Android handset with some unique features. It excels in photography capabilities using its dual-sensor camera module.
The Huawei Honor 8 (AED 1,599) is here to show that not only can affordable phones match their high-end counterparts in features, they can look every bit as good while doing so. The Honor 8 is one of the best-looking phones we've tested in some time, with a back panel covered in a special finish that gives it an iridescent effect when the light hits it.
The Honor 8 isn't just a pretty face, though: It has a capable processor, a sharp dual-sensor camera, and a slew of unique features you don't commonly find at this price point. At a glance, the Honor 8 resembles other glass-and-metal handsets available on the market today.
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But take a closer look and Huawei's unique design aspects shine through. The back is made of a 15-layer, specially finished glass that reflects light in stunning patterns. The slick glass back is free of a camera hump, so it lays completely flat, and is complemented by attractive aluminum sides. We received the gold version for review, which looks gorgeous, but it's also available in black and white.
Coming in at 5.7-by-2.8-by-0.3-inches (HWD) and 153-gms, the Honor 8 feels comfortable to use in one hand. However, you'll probably want to slap on a protective case because the phone is exceptionally slippery. On the back you'll find a round fingerprint scanner indented in the middle, and two flush camera sensors, which I'll get to below.
The fingerprint scanner is a bit different than what you usually see, as it doubles as a programmable key. You can also set it to unlock different functions, like touching and holding it to take a picture, or sliding your finger over it to show the Notification panel.
A clicky volume rocker and power button sit on the right side of the phone, both of which can also be programmed to do other things, like launch the camera app. The bottom has a loud speaker, a USB-C charging port, and a 3.5mm audio jack. On the left there's a SIM/microSD card slot that had no trouble working with a 256GB microSD card.
The top of the phone features an IR blaster, which allows you to control compatible products with the Smart Controller app. The front is dominated by a 5.2-inch, 1,920-by-1,080 IPS display with a narrow bezel on either side. Colours appear rich and vibrant, viewing angles are good, and you can see it in direct sunlight at maximum brightness.
Sample 1: Indoor shot.
The Honor 8 supports GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz), HSDPA (850/1700/1900/2100), and LTE (2/4/5/12/17/20) bands, when it comes to mobile networks. The phone also supports Bluetooth 4.2 and NFC, allowing you to use Android Pay.
Call quality is good. Transmissions are clear and natural, and the earpiece volume is loud enough to be easily understood. Background noise cancellation blotted out everything except for some blaring car horns and persistent wind noise.
Don't discount the Honor 8's octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 950 processor. The chipset is clocked at 2.3GHz, and while it's not on the same level as the Qulacomm Snapdragon 820, it delivers solid performance for the price. On the AnTuTu benchmark, which tests overall system performance, the Honor 8 scored 91,712, which is quite good.
Sample 2: Depth of field test.
The phone also comes with 4GB of RAM, which is just the right amount to keep overall performance smooth. The phone also comes with 32GB of internal storage, which can be further expanded by using the microSD card slot.
Battery life is average. Despite having a 3,000mAh cell, the Honor 8 only managed 5 hours and 12 minutes of runtime when we set screen brightness to maximum and streamed full-screen video over WiFi. There's a built-in Battery Manager with a number of power-saving options that lets you limit power-sucking apps, keep track of power usage, lower screen resolution to 720p, throttle the CPU, and turn off background data. And thanks to fast charging you can also charge up to 50 percent in 30 minutes.
Sample 3: Outdoor shot.
The Honor 8's camera setup is as unique as its design, boasting dual 12-megapixel sensors on the back. One is a full RGB sensor, while the other is monochrome. The two combine to make for richer colour, more control over depth of field, improved low-light performance, and post processing that lets you change focus after a shot has been taken. The majority of pictures I took outdoors looked sharp, with minimal blur and noise, and accurate colour reproduction. Low-light performance was decent, with less graininess than usual.
Video performance is impressive, recording 1080p footage at a smooth 120fps. There's no optical image stabilization, which can lead to blurry photos at longer shutter speeds, but most pictures and video I took were clear. The 8-megapixel camera on the front also snaps solid shots, though the built-in Beauty Mode tends to make everything far too soft. You're better off setting the slider to zero if you want accurate images.
Manual controls can be accessed by swiping to the left, and allow you to adjust white balance, shutter speed, exposure, and other settings. I liked using the Shallow Depth of Field setting, which allows you to take close-up shots of an object without having to worry about the minimum focal distance.
The Honor 8 comes running Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, with a the company's very own EMUI 4.1 on top. The phone is also chock-full of added features, many of which are integrated directly into the Settings menu. I already touched on some, like the programmable keys and the Battery Manager. There's also a built-in Optimizer that cleans up background processes and closes apps that aren't being used, voice commands for various functions, motion controls, Gloves mode, and a One-Hand mode (which resizes the screen), among others.
Some of these features are useful, some are gimmicks, and some, like Knuckle Sense (which allows you to take a screenshot by knocking on the screen with one knuckle or record a video by wrapping with two) are simply odd. On the plus side, the Honor 8 only has a handful of pre-installed apps.
Android's Adoptable Storage feature is enabled, which allows you to treat a microSD card like internal storage. The Huawei Honor 8 is an attractive phone with solid overall performance and some cool features you don't commonly see. If you prefer the Honor 8's striking design, dual cameras and intuitive UI, you won't be disappointed.
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L Archidiocèse de Karachi est une circonscription ecclésiastique de l'Église catholique au Pakistan. Séparé de Bombay et érigé comme diocèse en 1948 il fut élevé au rang d'archidiocèse deux ans plus tard (1950). Il a comme diocèses suffragants le diocèse de Hyderabad et le vicariat apostolique de Quetta. Il s'étend sur la ville de Karachi et les districts environnant de la province de Sindh.

Histoire
Aux  et s des missionnaires augustiniens et carmes font du travail d'évangélisation dans la région.

Au , la ville portuaire de Karachi se développant rapidement après l'arrivée des Anglais, les jésuites  y ouvrent le collège Saint-Patrick (1861), principalement fréquenté par des catholiques de Bombay ou de Goa installés à Karachi.

En 1932, le travail apostolique et d'évangélisation est confié aux franciscains. Après l'indépendance du Pakistan, la région est détachée de l'archidiocèse de Bombay, et le diocèse de Karachi est érigé (). Deux ans plus tard, il devient archidiocèse ().

Œuvres apostoliques
A Karachi, se trouve l'unique grand séminaire du Pakistan, le séminaire du Christ-Roi.
Outre le célèbre collège Saint-Patrick, l'archidiocèse a développé un réseau d'écoles et collèges (17 de langue anglaise et 46 de langue ourdoue), d'hôpitaux, orphelinats et autres institutions caritatives.
Une congrégation religieuse féminine, les religieuses franciscaines missionnaires du Christ-Roi [FMCK] a été fondée à Karachi. Elle a étendu ses activités (hospices, écoles, orphelinats) en Inde et au Sri Lanka.
L'archidiocèse publie un hebdomadaire en langue ourdoue Agahi (en français : Connaissance) et un autre, en anglais, le Christian Voice.

Suffragants
Le vicariat apostolique de Quetta (Baloutchistan) et le diocèse de Hyderabad sont suffragants de Karachi.

Évêques et archevêques de Karachi
 1948-1958 : James Cornelius van Miltenburg OFM.
 1958-1994 : Joseph Cordeiro, créé cardinal en 1973
 1994-2002 : Simon Pereira, démissionnaire
 2004-2012 : Evarist Pinto, démissionnaire
 2012-2021 : Joseph Coutts, créé cardinal en 2018, démissionnaire

Voir aussi

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It is a Challenge to Provide Disability-Inclusive Education. But it is Worth it
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By Manos Antoninis
PARIS, Jun 23 2020 (IPS)
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa get bad press for their progress in providing inclusive education. Just two in three children complete primary school on time, while the number of out-of-school children and youth is 97 million and growing. Less is said, however, about the range of tools many countries in the region are deploying to include some of those furthest behind in mainstream schools: students with disabilities.
These efforts should be celebrated and there seems no better time to think about inclusion than now. Inequalities in education are always blatant, but the new 2020 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report by UNESCO shows that the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated exclusion. About 40% of countries in sub-Saharan Africa have not been able to support disadvantaged learners during school closures, notably students with disabilities.
Many of the countries looking to move from segregated towards inclusive systems need to overcome management challenges. They need to think how to better share specialist resources between schools so that all children can benefit
Prior to the pandemic, countries in the region were taking different approaches to inclusion. Data from the continent shows that 23% of countries have laws calling for children with disabilities to be educated in separate settings. Most countries, however, combine mainstreaming with separate arrangements, usually for learners with severe disabilities.
Many of the countries looking to move from segregated towards inclusive systems need to overcome management challenges. They need to think how to better share specialist resources between schools so that all children can benefit. Examples of this can be found across the continent.
Angola and Nigeria, for instance, are looking at transforming special schools into support bases for children with disabilities in mainstream schools, as well as providing training for teachers. Angola set a target in 2017 of including 30,000 children with special education needs in mainstream schools by 2022.
Kenya also recognizes special schools' pivotal role in the transition towards inclusive education. At present, almost 2,000 primary and secondary mainstream schools provide education for students with special needs.
Malawi tries a twin-track approach. Those with severe disabilities are educated in special schools or special needs centres, while those with mild disabilities are mainstreamed. Special schools at each education level are being transformed into resource centres.
Instead of resource centres, Tanzania is mobilising itinerant teachers offering specialist services. These teachers are trained and managed by Tanzania Society for the Blind and provided with a motorbike. They also perform vision screening, refer children to medical facilities and organize community sensitization and counselling
While the political will for change seems clear, there is often a gap between theory and practice. This is where the emphasis between now and 2030 must lie. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, teachers mention that implementing inclusive education is hard because they lack resources.
Take Malawi for instance. While it is increasingly encouraging learners with special needs to enrol in mainstream schools, a lack of facilities forces many to transfer to special schools. In Namibia, the shortage of resource schools in rural areas, a lack of accessible infrastructure and unfavourable attitudes towards disability are just some of the barriers to successfully implementing its inclusive education policy. Similarly, in the United Republic of Tanzania, only half of children with albinism complete primary school. Because they lack support, they often end up being transferred to special schools.
The same story can be found in South Africa. It has a law from 1996 stating that the right to education of children with special needs is to be fulfilled in mainstream public schools. But recently it reported back to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that it had new segregated schools in basic education and a lack of provisions for children with severe intellectual disabilities.
Ghana is another case. It is the only country in the region to make provisions for all learners in its education law. Its 2015 inclusive education policy framework envisages transforming special schools into resource centres, while maintaining special units, schools and other institutions for students with severe and profound disabilities. But children with intellectual and developmental disabilities must perform the same tasks within the same time frame as their peers without disabilities, occupy desks placed far from teachers and are often physically punished by teachers for behavioural challenges, even in inclusive schools in Accra.
While all these efforts are commendable, simply laying the groundwork for inclusion in education will not suffice. Implementing the ambitions spelled out in education policies will take a new wave of efforts. The 2020 GEM Report looks at the different steps needed to provide disability-inclusive education, providing ten recommendations for policy makers, teachers and civil society over the next ten years. We hope it will prove a useful resource for countries in the region to move to the next stage.
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Manos Antoninis is the Director of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, UNESCO


Pet owners often claim their pets have distinct personalities. Is this the result of familiarity, the same way people tend to connect an emotional state with a nervous tic or habit? Or can pet owners actually interpret a pet's emotional state via body language? According to some experts, yes they can. By focusing on their pet's tail, along with some other signals, pet owners and strangers can get a good sense of how the animal is feeling.
Veronica Sanchez, a trainer and behavior consultant for Cooperative Paws with credentials from multiple dog-training organizations, stresses that every dog is unique, and "the specifics about the dog, the context and the dog's behavior history matter."
"Most dogs carry their tails in the middle and move both their tails and their bodies when they are relaxed," Sanchez says. "A dog carrying his tail higher than usual generally means the dog is excited or on alert." Sanchez warns that this state should be considered a "red flag," signifying that the dog is overexcited or possibly aggressive. "Fearful dogs tend to lower their tails and may wag them very low or simply tuck them if they are very afraid," adds Sanchez.
But a person should not focus on only one part of a dog's body language. Ideally, a dog's body should be in a Goldilocks-like, relaxed state: "Their mouths are slightly open, their ears are not too far forward and not held back, their tails are held in the middle, and they are wagging them, but not too fast and not too slowly." Pay attention to deviations from this state.
"Dogs that are excited or nervous will often move much faster, may pant more than usual and vocalize. Fearful dogs often move more slowly and have a crouched posture," notes Sanchez. When confronting a dog displaying these traits, Sanchez advises giving the dog space, standing off to the side of the dog and avoiding eye contact.
Similarly, Dr. Fred Jones, a cat owner and veterinarian at Arlington (Va.) Animal Hospital who has been practicing for 14 years, says that cats' tails can also reveal a lot about a their emotional states.
"Generally speaking, when a cat's tail is up, it means they are relaxed. It means they are comfortable with their surroundings," Jones says. And when a cat's tail is down, it "can be an indication that it's under the weather or not wanting to be bothered at the time. More often than not, when a cat's tail is down, it's a cautionary sign."
Unlike dogs, which tend to wag their tails out of excitement, Jones says that when a cat "swishes its tail from side to side or lightly thumps it" against something, it "usually means the cat is severely irritated. If I have a cat start to swish his tail back and forth, it means my time to finish the exam is limited." But for kittens, Jones says the swishing "can indicate playfulness and that the kitten is about to pounce on something."
People can look at cats' ears, like dogs', for a secondary clue about their emotional state. "If a cat's ears are straight up or slightly forward, the cat is good. If the ears start to fall back and flatten, that's an indication that they are scared, and that can lead to aggression," says Jones. "Of course, some cats can be generally aggressive, but generally, aggression in cats is fear-based." And like a dog, cats that are feeling fearful should be approached indirectly. Jones suggests approaching from the side or even from behind. Additionally, he reported that at a recent continuing-education event, an expert said a chirping or purring -- "or some nonaggressive, high-pitched, neutral or friendly repetitive noise" -- could help put a cat at ease.
Every animal is unique, but by studying these signals, pet owners and those meeting cats or dogs for the first time can have a better sense of how an animal is feeling and act accordingly. And that can mean safer, happier interactions for all concerned, animals and humans alike.


Not many people come to Best Friends and specifically request a challenging dog for a sleepover - sight unseen. However, Dianne Wiles is not your typical volunteer.
She's the development director for First Coast No More Homeless Pets (FCNMHP), a No More Homeless Pets Network partner based in Jacksonville, Florida, and she wanted her first-ever visit to the Sanctuary to be unforgettable. That wasn't difficult, as this trip was a surprise given to her by her husband, Nooney Ritacco, to mark her 40th birthday.
The couple volunteered at both Cat World and Dogtown, but without a doubt, Dianne's most memorable experience while at Best Friends was her time spent with Judge.
Despite her request for a "hard" dog, Judge was anything but a challenge. He couldn't be around other dogs, but aside from having to eat takeout pizza instead of dining out, having him spend the night with them wasn't even an inconvenience.
It's no wonder Judge is selective about his friends. Who could blame him after surviving the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina? It had been a while since he'd been on a sleepover, so he was a little shy at first. However, once he realized that he was among friends, he warmed right up.
"It was very rewarding to work with him and to break that barrier when he did get up and start wagging his tail, says Dianne. "He just turned into this lovebug." She was hooked, so Judge stayed all three nights with the couple.
They took lots of walks together, but bedtime was the best. Since evenings were chilly, Judge knew a good thing when he saw it, so he loved cuddling in bed.
"You could tuck him in and wrap him up in blankets and pillows, and he would just snuggle and grunt and snort," says Dianne. What a charmer!
She'd adopt Judge, but she already has dogs. However, nothing would make her happier than to find him a loving home.
Dianne thought the Cat World staff must really love the work being done at FCNMHP because when she arrived to volunteer, they started jumping around and cheering, "Florida, Florida, Florida." Though true, they were actually excited to have someone heading back to the Sunshine State.
A woman from Daytona Beach had adopted Athena, but the little calico has feline leukemia, so couldn't fly cargo. Athena's adopter was visiting a town close to Jacksonville, so flight arrangements back with Dianne were made.
Though Athena started out a bit chatty on the car ride to the airport, she soon quieted down, and, according to Dianne, "didn't make a peep" on the plane. She says the transport was a "piece of cake" and was excited to have been a part of such a special delivery.
Now back in Jacksonville, Dianne continues her work to bring about a time of No More Homeless Pets. The efforts in Jacksonville have been on the cutting edge of animal advocacy for years.
FCNMHP is known for their spay/neuter clinic, which fixed 25,332 pets in 2012, and their Feral Freedom program has become a national model for vaccinating, fixing and returning free-roaming cats to their neighborhoods instead of taking them to the shelter to be killed. Add in their pet food bank, mega adoption events, and Target Zero Institute, FCNMHP's new program to teach their lifesaving models to other communities, and you have a true animal welfare powerhouse.
And it's working. Duval County, where FCNMHP is located, experienced its first-ever no-kill month in November 2012, obtaining a 92 percent save rate.
So, Dianne, keep up the great work on behalf of the animals in Jacksonville, but don't forget to come back to Best Friends. Judge has spread the word, and there's already a lineup of dogs hoping for a sleepover with you.


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Keegan-Michael Key lists organizations he's supporting amid the protests
Jun 3, 2020 Entertainment, Keegan Michael Key, Stephen Colbert, Talk Show, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
As protests against racism and police brutality continue to sweep America and the wider world, many people are trying to help in whatever way they can.
Actor Keegan-Michael Key, who appeared on The Late Show on Tuesday, spoke to Stephen Colbert about the various causes and organisations he's supporting.
"The frustration that people are feeling, the anger that people are feeling, is a manifestation of a systemic problem," Key says in the clip above. "So I'm trying to figure out how we cut into the system. And the way I think that we do that is by supporting organisations that do things like criminal justice reform, and voter rights reform, and voting reform — things where you can replace somebody with a person who wants to abide by the law, or wants to use the law to help all of the citizens of the nation. So that that dream — that American dream — is applying to everybody."
Key specifically mentions organisations like RFK Human Rights (which works with activists to "ensure lasting positive change in governments and corporations"), whenweallvote.org (a non-profit "on a mission to increase participation in every election"), and Run For Something, which supports young people running for local office.
"I've been trying to put my energy towards those things, and then also, the other thing I've been trying to put my energy towards, Stephen, is: Are there organisations that can help us on what I would call the seed level or the source level?" Key continues. "Like teaching children how to have self-worth and self-esteem, so that they get to a place where they know that they have a choice, and they have a choice other than, 'I'm going to push somebody else down, or oppress somebody else, to make myself feel better.'"
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HOLLYWOOD—Oscar winning filmmaker and actor Kevin Costner ("Dances With Wolves," "Field of Dreams") grew up in ethnically diverse Compton and other Southern California communities, where simmering racial and ethnic tensions sometimes boiled to the surface. So when he read Mike Binder's screenplay "Black or White," which tackles the subject of race relations head-on, he knew he had to ensure that the picture would get made, so came onboard not only as the star of the film but he also as a producer.
The filmmaker says he wanted to make a film about how, as a country, we can move forward in race relations and begin a dialogue. Costner, who previously starred in Binder's family drama "The Upside of Anger," concurred. This all happened well before the marches and riots that followed police-involved incidents in Ferguson, Mo., New York and L.A., that have reignited the subject of race relations in this country.
Twice married, Costner is the father of seven, so he knows a bit about child rearing. However, the character he plays in "Black or White," Elliott, is a successful Los Angeles attorney, whose wife has recently passed away and he is left to care for their biracial granddaughter. Busy with his work and an undiagnosed alcoholic, Elliott knows very little about little Eloise (played by newcomer Jillian Estell), despite the fact that she grew up in his spacious suburban home. His white daughter, as it turns out, died in childbirth, and the black father has been AWOL for most of Eloise's life. However, the child's paternal grandmother (played by Oscar winner Octavia Spencer) and her extended family want custody of the 7-year-old. She believes she can offer Eloise, who is black, a better upbringing.
Costner, 60, is enjoying a bit of a resurgence in his acting career with the success of the 2012 HBO miniseries "Hatfields & McCoys," and last year's theatrical releases "3 Days to Kill," the sports drama "Draft Day" and the rebooted Jack Ryan franchise. Costner also stars in the upcoming sports drama "McFarland, USA," in which he plays the high school cross-country coach to a group of underprivileged Latinos. The still boyish-looking actor recently spoke about why he wanted to make a socially relevant film.
Q: You got onboard with this pretty quickly. What was it about the script or Mike Binder or the story that really appealed to you?
Costner: Mike wouldn't quit bugging me. After the sixth (phone call), I said, "Okay!" It was really like when your brother is holding you down threatening to hock a loogie on you. I go, "Okay, I'll do it." (He chuckles.) No, that's awful, what I just said. Actors are looking for great parts and we are asked to open scripts all the time. The bigger your careers get, the more scripts flow. Too often, when you open a script, it just doesn't ring a bell. Everybody can write, but not everybody can really write. A screenplay is an art form. What happens is some of the films that have really propped up my career all had the same thing in common. On the first page, they started to sing in their own little way. This screenplay started that way. It was just carefully crafted, and it became the movie that you see. Every page I turned, I was surprised. Every page I turned, I wish I might have said that. I thought that that's what I would say, and sure enough Mike wrote it. It was in the magic of a great screenplay and a story, in this instance, of the times that we're living made so much sense to me. When my heart broke into a thousand pieces on the last page, I know that this was a movie that I was going to try and have made.
Q: What was it like working with your young co-star Jillian Estell, who plays your granddaughter Eloise)?
Costner: We were lucky. It came down to three girls. I've said before, two hearts break, and one can possibly change their lives. What I hope is it doesn't change Jillian's life. I hope that this is a moment that shines for her and that she chooses to go on in this profession, and that she continues to conduct herself the way she conducted herself on our set. We were lucky and we needed to. When we selected her we can't say for sure we knew it was going to work. That had to do a lot with Jillian, and how she came to set every day.
Q: Your character, Elliott, is affluent and can give his granddaughter every material thing including a private school education, but her grandmother Rowena (Octavia Spencer) thinks that he is unable to give her the kind of love and attention she deserves. Rowena's lawyer brother (played by Anthony Mackie) argues that the girl is better off with his sister because she can offer Eloise a family and people of her race. What can you say about the issue of black and white in this film?
Costner: It was powerful to hear Anthony do that speech in the courtroom. It was powerful to see Octavia in that driveway speaking for everyone who was watching closely and everyone who knows what time it is out there in the world when you have to straighten somebody out that's closest to you. I believe we succeeded. Every movie has to get lucky. Every movie you have to work hard. And we had that.
Q: You play a man struggling with alcoholism. What was the most challenging part of this role?
Costner: We were smart enough to understand that what was written was something that maybe we need to be saying for ourselves, for our generation, for our own culture. The beauty of being an actor is sometimes we're going to be forever remembered as the people who say these things and say them with a level of conviction and a level of passion because we want this veil lifted. We want it moved. This movie didn't propose that they could be that. It's just a jumping-off point to have this conversation. You have to understand that when I read this I thought that was possible. This isn't a wish that everybody in America should go see it, but it is. We think we know what this conversation is, but white people don't know what it's like to be black. We don't get it. We don't know for sure. We can empathize and that's an absolute because that's part of the human condition to be able to empathize with someone else that you don't know.
There's the opposite idea that we have to move forward, which is an absolute. So how do we go about doing this? These things that we weren't smart enough to write, as actors, we are going to forever be identified with being those people (on film) saying these things.
Q: How did you prepare for this role, and especially the tense courtroom scene?
Costner: I was nervous. I was scared because it was so good, I knew I had to get it right and I knew I immediately was the only person that could blow it. Fear motivates me a lot. In that courtroom, my fellow actors knew that I had a really good speech. We all know when it's somebody's time to step up, and I knew when it was Anthony's time to step up, and he nailed it. I knew when it was Octavia's time and she nailed it. Here I am come "Mr. White Oscar Winner," and now it's my moment in the courtroom. I knew what was at stake. I want to prop up the movie up and I want to stand as tall as my fellow actors did.


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Heads Up! 10 Most Iconic Football Shirts Of All Time
By Aliana Baraquio September 24, 2021
Are you a football fan? If yes, you may have also felt the excitement rush into your body when you see racks of classic football shirts.
And when you see a certain shirt, do you also go back to the days when it was worn by the players? It's a great thing to go back to the first game you've attended, and the first time you've seen your team win and lose.
Imagine yourself in a warehouse where tons of football shirts are just hanging around, would you feel overwhelmed? If you think you will, then you should check the list below!
Denmark's 1986 World Cup Kit wasn't a crowd-pleaser at first. However, as years gone by, people gradually appreciate its design.
It's composed of a solid red on the left part, and some stripes of red and white on the right side and the sleeves. At first, it was called the "Carnival Suit" but the fans and the players welcomed the design warmly.
Did you know that Hummel (Denmark's designer) took his team to travel just to get new ideas for the shirt? The time and effort they spent on coming up with the shirt's design were worth it, as it's one of the most talks about classic football shirts.
2. England
Have you seen the official music video of New Order's World In Motion? If you have, then you know why the 1991 England shirt is on the list.
It's a blue shirt with layers of crystal-like shapes. Its colour is perfect for the summer vibe, and you'll always remember it when you hear the song World In Motion. Moreover, it's the third official kit for the season.
The astonishing red shirt (with the print of 'Sharp' at the middle, as their sponsor) of Manchester United's 1994 home kit was the most unforgettable one since fans have always been fond of its design. Cantona became even more popular wearing the shirt that fans would copy his look.
4. Brazil
The plain and simple shirt of Brazil in the 1970 World Cup campaign created a big impact on the history of football. Moreover, Pele's team was labelled as the greatest team of all time.
A solid light yellow with dark green on the neckline and sleeves rim made everyone believed that a simple shirt can make a big difference.
5. Napoli
The Napoli 1985-86 light blue shirt with white text of the sponsor caught the eyes of many fans. Additionally, the most important part about it is that Diego Maradona played his part in bringing the team on top.
Since then, this has become one of the most important classing football shirts in the history of football.
6. Boca Juniors
In the 1981 game, the Boca Juniors wore their iconic horizontally striped blue and yellow kit. Fans all over the world loved the traditional touch of the shirt. Moreover, there was no need to add their badge on it because it can easily be identified by anyone.
The players and shirt design at that time were adored by many people that's why this retro football shirt will never be removed from the list.
7. Lazio
The rare blue and white shirt with an eagle on the middle completed Lazio's 1982-83 game. It was the time when the team needed rebranding, and they made it as the kit becomes one of the collectibles.
After a few seasons, they replaced the eagle with their badge because, according to interviews, they don't own the rights for the previous design.
8. Arsenal
The Arsenal's 1991-93 away shirt scream black and yellow. What's even iconic is that the shirt gained its name "Bruised Banana". Since then, no one ever forgot about it.
Adidas was happy about it and that it became one of their most popular templates. It also gained a lot of imitations throughout the years.
9. Nigeria
A home kit sold out in just a few moments after release, and received millions of pre-orders worldwide? Remember Nigeria's World Cup home shirt in 2018? Well if you don't know about it, then you might probably miss the chance.
The shirt design took inspiration from past designs with wave lines of white and green. It was so popular that people camped outside Nike Town to avail themselves of the first batch.
10. Liverpool
In the 1989-90 game, Liverpool wore one of the best reds they have. Just like their other shirts, this one is solid red, but this time they added patches of white triangle-like shapes.
The logo of Adidas (three white stripes) is also included on the shoulder area, while their sponsor 'Candy' is written in white on the chest area.
Did you find your all-time favourite classic football shirts? If you didn't, don't hesitate to share them with us by leaving a comment below!
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Why Advertisers Are Dragging Their Feet On Connected TV
by AdExchanger // Monday, November 6th, 2017 – 2:01 pm
"On TV And Video" is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.
Today's column is written by Lauren Wiener, CEO at Tremor Video DSP.
Mary Meeker, have we got a new gap for you. Audiences are moving away from traditional television in droves. They are breaking up with their cable companies and starting new relationships with connected TV. But advertiser spending lags behind user behavior.
Connected TV has its challenges – chiefly targeting and segmenting issues, a fragmented buying space and a lack of standardized measurement in audience validation. This isn't news to players in the space.
To unlock advertiser demand, it is going to take advancements in measurement and more granular targeting. Improvements are in the works, but we have a way to go. Hopefully, as advertiser demand increases, so too will the technology solutions, and we will begin to close the gap.
Connected TV Spending
With media consumption behaviors shifting to digital devices, viewers have been moving away from traditional ways of consuming TV content through their cable providers. The definition of "watching TV" has changed. Many cord-nevers don't even call it TV – it is video. Already, more households have access to Netflix than a DVR.
Connected TV represented 20% of weekly time spent viewing digital video in the US in August 2016, according to a Frank N. Magid Associates study. In the US, adults spent an average of five hours and 13 minutes watching video (both linear and digital) every day, according to eMarketer.
Right now, 66.5% of US households have connected TVs – that is 82 million households. By 2021, eMarketer forecasts that number will rise to 93.8 million households.
This trend is driven partly by the emergence of linear OTT services, including Sling TV, DirecTV Now, PlayStation Vue, YouTube TV and Hulu with Live TV. Although these emerging digital services are subscription-based, they are not technically "pay TV," which eMarketer defines as subscriptions to traditional multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), as opposed to services that require an internet connection.
While there aren't any US connected-TV ad spend statistics available, we know anecdotally that it is low. Weekly time spent with connected devices represented 11% of total viewing across linear TV and digital video, according to Nielsen's Q1 2017 Comparable Metrics Report.
When compared to the time spent for linear TV only, connected TV's share rose to 13.6%. However, OTT ad spend is estimated to be only about 2-3% of total TV dollars. For OTT/CTV ad spend to be proportionate to the time viewers spend with it, it should be significantly higher than currently levels.
Connected TV is mainstream, but we are observing the same phenomenon as we saw with mobile: Ad spend is lagging behind consumption.
Connected TV Challenges And Solutions
Connected TV holds great promise for marketers, but right now, many can't see past its limitations, particularly the lack of standardized measurement in audience validation for evaluating campaign reach, impressions and performance, along with data inconsistency across devices and apps.
Marketers are also put off by targeting and segmentation challenges, since connected TV is a cookieless environment with no device ID. There are some solutions in place here, like Neustar, but they don't offer the level of granularity that other connected devices provide. It's all done at the household level.
Connected TV's ad effectiveness measurement is behind compared to other digital platforms. You can't track and optimize campaigns in real time, metrics are limited and measuring attribution is difficult. Viewability should, in theory, be close to 100%, similar to linear TV, but connected TV campaigns are limited in the fraud, brand safety and viewability measurement capabilities available.
Furthermore, buying connected TV is mostly a manual, I/O-based process, and there is limited premium inventory and scale. Although ownership levels of connected and smart TVs are relatively high, the actual consumption is meager compared to traditional platforms. That is growing rapidly, though, especially among millennials and younger generations.
For example, just two years ago, OTT represented only 8% of digital video ad views. Now, it represents 32%, according to the FreeWheel Video Monetization Report: Q1 2017.
Another factor affecting marketing budgets is that OTT is disconnected from the rest of the TV industry. Buying is fragmented, which is a major obstacle to OTT and linear TV becoming one programmatic buy.
While the challenges connected TV currently face mirror those mobile faced in its nascent stages, so will the solutions. Just as mobile players worked, and continue to work, to address these problems, so, too, will the connected-TV industry.
Connected TV is complex because of the large number of operating systems across different devices and apps. Currently, Nielsen provides some connected-TV campaign-level audience measurement, which allows advertisers to compare reporting across connected TV, mobile, desktop and traditional TV, but it is limited. To advance measurement, we need technology to advance, too.
The measurement challenges will take longer to address because of their complexity, which could slow advertisers' adoption, as we have seen with mobile. But consumers have spoken, and for marketers looking to reach an engaged audience, this could be a very good thing. Connected TV has tremendous promise: the ability to combine the targeting capabilities of digital with scale on the big screen. Marketers and industry players have to work through these challenges to start closing the connected TV gap.
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The University of Plymouth has been granted permission to create an iconic new facility that will inspire and educate the next generation of engineers and designers.
The Babbage building, on the western edge of the University's main campus, will be enlarged and enhanced to provide an innovative and sustainable new home for the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics and additional space for the School of Art, Design and Architecture.
Designed by internationally award-winning architectural practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, it has received conditional planning approval from Plymouth City Council.
The facility will include a dedicated new-build component and refurbishment of the 1970s Babbage Building, creating more than 10,000m² of research and teaching space. This will offer enhanced and modern specialist equipment, aligned to staff research and expertise and targeted on activities that support our research focus and enable us to engage with regional industrial partners.
The new engineering and design facility forms part of a long-term Campus Masterplan which complements a number of recent developments.
Over the next 10 years, the University will be investing significantly in its campus to ensure existing and future staff and students will continue to enjoy a first-class education, research and working environment.
Professor Judith Petts CBE, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Plymouth, said: "This is a landmark decision for a project that will have a number of significant benefits for the University and wider community. Over the past decade and more, we have invested in our estate and created outstanding research and teaching facilities in the arts and health, ocean science and sustainability. This project will enable us to build on our existing expertise in engineering and design, and provide staff and students with a facility that matches their aspirations and enables them to push the boundaries in addressing real-world challenges."
The current plans have been developed by the project architects and University staff over the space of around a year, with a virtual public consultation in July 2020 also influencing its internal and external facilities and appearance. The planning decision means the University can continue commercial negotiations with BAM Construct UK, with the aim of exchanging contracts in early 2021 and beginning work.
Colin Cobb, Associate at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, said: "Our proposals for the engineering and design facility will provide state-of-the-art new facilities through the sustainable re-use of existing infrastructure. Our plans take the building back to the original concrete frame – a characterful waffle-slab construction – that will be revealed by stripping out suspended ceilings and overhead services to create open and well-lit spaces to promote creativity, cross-disciplinary collaboration and wellbeing. The design has incorporated a range of complex and ambitious technical facilities, which will provide engineering and design students with the experience and skills they need to design our future. We are excited to have received planning permission for the project and look forward to starting construction in 2021."
"It is a tremendous pleasure to renew our relationship with the University of Plymouth, which has previously produced the Roland Levinsky Building among others. We're looking at all the ways we can bring our higher education knowledge and our digital expertise in design and construction to bear, to create a facility that is sustainable and energy efficient. As always we plan to work in our highly collaborative way and use this scheme to support Building Plymouth by creating opportunities for future employment and training."
Graham Kingdon
Construction Director, BAM
BAM's engagement has come via the Southern Construction Framework procurement route.
More details about the new Engineering and Design building are available here.
Further information about the Campus Masterplan can also be found here.
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"big fat networks". Two such network technologies which show this problem are 802.11 (abgn), and 3g wireless. In one, the buffers are distributed among the clients (and may also be in the access points and routers); in the other, both possibly in the clients, and the radio controllers they talk to, but also possibly in the backhaul networks.
You have suffered unusable networks at conferences. Wonder why no more. You can make your life less painful by mitigating your operating system's and access point's buffering.
Whether you call what we see on 802.11 and 3g networks "congestion collapse" as the 1980's NSFnet event was called (with high packet loss rates), or something different such as bufferbloat (exhibiting much lower, but still significant packet losses), the effect is the same: horrifyingly bad latency and the resulting application failures. Personally, I'm just as happy with "congestion collapse" as with bufferbloat.
Life's been a bit crazy, including shipping a machine, and being in the clutches of a surgeon several times. So I've not been blogging….
Here's this morning's rant: I just installed Kompozer (formerly nvu) to edit some html. Here we are in 2008, and I still find that KDE and Gnome aren't sharing simple settings; I end up with a different font on my screen.
My other rant are for spammers and crackers… Evil behavior, indeed. Someone broke into my home server. As time is short, I've decided to move my web log to to here where others can maintain the software for me; someday I'll upload my old postings….


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Maple Leaf Foods Inc. är ett kanadenskt livsmedelsföretag som grundades 1927 i Toronto. Företaget har sitt huvudkontor i Mississauga, Ontario.

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House District 95 Rep. Bill Pluecker, I-Warren, will hold a meeting with constuents at the Appleton Library, 2916 Sennebec Road. All constituents are welcome. The district includes Appleton, Hope, Warren and east Union.


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Q: Text in HTML Table is a incorrectly a clickable "event" in WKWebview I have an issue I've not been able to find a solution for a long time. Please bear with me if I am not using the correct terminology. I am relatively new to software development and very new to iOS.
Basically I have a list of numbers in an HTML table displayed in a webview and some of them, apparently randomly, are displayed in bold text and allows me to click on them to create an "event" within iOS. This should not be the case. No data should be clickable or generate an even with a press.
I've included a screenshot and a snippet of my html code. Any assistance is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.css">

            </button>

        <form>
            <input id="filterTable-input" data-type="search" placeholder="Search For Material...">
                </form>

                    Material
                    lb/ft³
                    g/cm³

                        Aluminum Hydroxide
                        26.5
                        0.42

                        Aluminum Oxide
                        36
                        0.58

                        Aluminum Silicate
                        31
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A: That's very odd...
Some quick testing, and it appears that when you adjacent table cells match this format:
dd.mm hh.mm

it is often but not always detected as a date. So,
26.5 0.42 == May 26th
26.10 5.12 == October 26th

If you disable Calendar Event data detection on your WKWebView, those won't be detected. Of course, any actual dates that you want to be detected won't work either.
I haven't been able to find any documentation on the internal parsing code... Probably could find it for Swift, but that wouldn't help much anyway.

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Q: Android create item in GridView with round corners and ImageView I have a GriView in which every element is a card with rounded corners. At the top of it there's an ImageView loaded from the net. I would like to fit the image inside the card so that it will have the top corners rounded. I've tryied with layer-list background, but no result.

Is there anyone who can give me some hints?
Thanks in advance

A: I found a solution: just put a rounded imageview (rectangle with rounded corners) behind the opaque relative layout (with same amount of rounded corners only in the bottom) and then set a negative bottom margin in the imageview, so that it will be covered for nearly 5 px by the relative layout

A: you can use this lib
and set this parameter for it:
<com.joooonho.SelectableRoundedImageView
    ...
    app:sriv_left_top_corner_radius="16dip"
    app:sriv_right_top_corner_radius="16dip"
    app:sriv_left_bottom_corner_radius="0dip"
    app:sriv_right_bottom_corner_radius="0dip"
    ...
    app:sriv_oval="false" />


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Sundance 2010 U.S. Competition Films
by Scott Renshaw
Amazingly, it's that time of year again. The 2010 Sundance Film Festival Competition slate was announced today, providing a very happy day for select filmmakers. Links to the films' or filmmakers' official Websites are provided where available.
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Bhutto (Directors: Jessica Hernandez and Johnny O'Hara; Screenwriter: Johnny O'Hara)—Profile of recently assassinated Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Casino Jack & The United States of Money (Director: Alex Gibney)—Investigation into the D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff. World Premiere
Family Affair (Director: Chico Colvard)—The director explores dark family secrets involving his father.
Freedom Riders (Director: Stanley Nelson)—The story behind a band of 1960s civil rights activists who in challenged segregation in the American South.
Gas Land (Director: Josh Fox)—A cross-country odyssey uncovers toxic streams, dying livestock, flammable sinks and weakening health among rural citizens on the front lines of the natural gas drilling craze.
I'm Pat _______ Tillman (Director: Amir Bar-Lev)—The story of professional football star and decorated U.S. soldier Pat Tillman, whose family takes on the U.S. government when their beloved son dies in a "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan in 2004.
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (Director: Tamra Davis)—The story of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose work defined, electrified and challenged an era, and whose untimely death at age 27 has made him a cultural icon.
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Directors: Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg)—A rare, brutally honest glimpse into the comedic process and private dramas of legendary comedian and pop icon Joan Rivers as she fights tooth and nail to keep her American dream alive. World Premiere
Lucky (Director: Jeffrey Blitz)—The story of what happens when ordinary people hit the lottery jackpot.
My Perestroika (Director: Robin Hessman)—Follows five Muscovites who came of age just as the USSR collapsed and are adjusting to post-Soviet reality.
The Oath (Director: Laura Poitras)— Filmed in Yemen, The Oath tells the story of two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Restrepo (Directors: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington)—Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's year dug in with the Second Platoon in one of Afghanistan's most strategically crucial valleys reveals extraordinary insight into the surreal combination of back breaking labor, deadly firefights, and camaraderie as the soldiers painfully push back the Taliban.
A Small Act (Director: Jennifer Arnold)—A young Kenyan's life changes dramatically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, he founds his own scholarship program to replicate the kindness he once received.
Smash His Camera (Director: Leon Gast)—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sued him, and Marlon Brando broke his jaw. The story of notorious, reviled paparazzo Ron Galella opens a Pandora's Box of issues from right to privacy, freedom of the press and the ever-growing vortex of celebrity worship.
12th & Delaware (Directors: Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing)—The abortion battle continues to rage in unexpected ways on an unassuming corner in America.
Waiting for Superman (Director: Davis Guggenheim)—Examining American public education through multiple interlocking stories—from a handful of students and their families whose futures hang in the balance, to the educators and reformers trying to find real and lasting solutions within a dysfunctional system.
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Blue Valentine (Director: Derek Cianfrance; Screenwriters: Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis) —A complex portrait of an American marriage charting the evolution of a relationship over time. Cast: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel, John Doman.
Douchebag (Director: Drake Doremus; Screenwriters: Lindsay Stidham, Drake Doremus, Jonathan Schwartz and Andrew Dickler) —On the verge of getting married, Sam Nussbaum insists he escort his younger brother, Tom, on a wild goose chase of a journey to find Tom's fifth grade girlfriend. Cast: Andrew Dickler, Ben York Jones, Marguerite Moreau, Nicole Vicius, Amy Ferguson, Wendi McClendon-Covey.
The Dry Land (Director and screenwriter: Ryan Piers Williams)—A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas. Cast: America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, Ethan Suplee, June Diane Raphael, Melissa Leo.
happythankyoumoreplease (Director and screenwriter: Josh Radnor)—Six New Yorkers negotiate love, friendship, and gratitude at a time when they're too old to be precocious and not ready to be adults. Cast: Malin Akerman, Josh Radnor, Kate Mara, Zoe Kazan, Tony Hale, Pablo Schreiber, Michael Algieri.
Hesher (Director: Spencer Susser; Screenwriters: Spencer Susser and David Michod; Story by Brian Charles Frank)—A mysterious, anarchical trickster descends on the lives of a family struggling to deal with a painful loss. Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, Rainn Wilson, Devin Brochu, Piper Laurie, John Carroll Lynch.
Holy Rollers (Director: Kevin Tyler Asch; Screenwriter: Antonio Macia)—A young Hasidic man, seduced by money, power and opportunity, becomes an international Ecstasy smuggler. Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Danny A. Abeckaser, Ari Graynor, Jason Fuchs.
Howl (Directors and screenwriters: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman)—A nonfiction drama about the young Allen Ginsberg finding his voice, the creation of his groundbreaking poem HOWL, and the landmark obscenity trial that followed. Cast: James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels.
The Imperialists are still Alive! (Director and screenwriter: Zeina Durra)—Juggling the sudden abduction of her childhood sweetheart as well as a blooming love affair, a French Manhattanite makes her way as an artist in an indifferent, sometimes hostile world. Cast: Élodie Bouchez, José María de Tavira, Karim Saleh Karolina Muller, Marianna Kulukundis, Rita Ackerman.
Lovers of Hate (Director and screenwriter: Bryan Poyser)—The shaky reunion of estranged brothers takes a turn for the worse when the woman they both love chooses one over the other. Cast: Chris Doubek, Heather Kafka, Alex Karpovsky, Zach Green.
Night Catches Us (Director and screenwriter: Tanya Hamilton)—In 1978, complex political and emotional forces are set in motion when a young man returns to the race-torn Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age during the Black Power movement. Cast: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Jamie Hector, Wendell Pierce, Jamara Griffin.
Obselidia (Director and screenwriter: Diane Bell)—A lonely librarian believes love is obsolete until a road trip to Death Valley with a beguiling cinema projectionist teaches him otherwise. Cast: Gaynor Howe, Michael Piccirilli, Frank Hoyt Taylor.
Skateland (Director: Anthony Burns; Screenwriters: Anthony Burns, Brandon Freeman, Heath Freeman)—In the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way. Cast: Shiloh Fernandez, A.J. Buckley, Ashley Greene, Brett Cullen, Ellen Hollman, Heath Freeman.
Sympathy for Delicious (Director: Mark Ruffalo; Screenwriter: Christopher Thornton)—A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing. Cast: Orlando Bloom, Mark Ruffalo, Juliette Lewis, Laura Linney, John Carroll Lynch.
3 Backyards (Director and screenwriter: Eric Mendelsohn)—A quiet suburban town becomes an intense emotional terrain for three residents over the course of one curious autumn day. Cast: Embeth Davidtz, Edie Falco, Elias Koteas, Rachel Resheff, Kathryn Erbe, Danai Gurira.
Welcome to the Rileys (Director: Jake Scott)—On a business trip to New Orleans, a damaged man seeks salvation by caring for a wayward young woman. Cast: James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo.
Winter's Bone (Director: Debra Granik; Screenwriters: Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini)—An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt, Kevin Breznahan.
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Development of Oxygen Scavenger Additives for Jet Fuels
Annual rept. no. 1, 1 May 1993-30 Apr 1994
DUQUESNE UNIV PITTSBURGH PA
Beaver, Bruce
In this project it is assumed that the thermal stability of most jet fuels would be dramatically improved by the efficient removal of a fuels dissolved oxygen in flight. It is proposed herein to stabilize the bulk fuel by the addition of an additive which will be judiciously designed and programmed to react with oxygen and produce an innocuous product. Consequently, it is envisioned that a thermally activated reaction between the oxygen scavenging additive and dissolved oxygen will occur, in a controlled and directed manner, such that formation of insoluble thermal degradation products will be limited. It is believed that successful completion of this project will result in the development of a new type of jet fuel additive which will enable current conventional jet fuels to obtain sufficient thermal stability to function as JP-900 fuels. In addition, it is postulated that the successful development of thermally activated oxygen scavengers will also provide the sub-critical thermal stability necessary for future development of endothermic fuels.
*JET ENGINE FUELS
*FUEL ADDITIVES
THERMAL DEGRADATION
OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTIONS
CONCENTRATION(COMPOSITION)
FUEL AIR RATIO


The Rams' n° 29 has been retired in his honour.
The Pontiac Firebird is an American automobile built by Pontiac from the 1967 to the 2002 model years. Designed as a car to compete with the Ford Mustang, it was introduced 23 February 1967. The first generation Firebird had characteristic Coke bottle styling shared with its cousin, unlike the Camaro, the Firebirds bumpers were integrated into the design of the front end. The Firebirds rear slit taillights were inspired by the 1966–1967 Pontiac GTO, both a two-door hardtop and a convertible were offered through the 1969 model year. Originally, the car was a prize for Pontiac, which had desired to produce a two-seat sports car based on its original Banshee concept car. However, GM feared this would cut into Chevrolet Corvette sales, the 1967 base model Firebird came equipped with the Chevrolet 230 cu in SOHC inline-six. Fitted with a carburetor, it was rated at 165 hp. The Sprint model six came with a carburetor, developing 215 hp. Most buyers opted for one of three V8s, the 326 cu in with a two-barrel carburetor producing 250 hp, the four-barrel HO326, producing 285 hp, all 1967–1968400 CI engines had throttle restrictors that blocked the carburetors second barrels from fully opening.
A Ram Air option was available, providing functional hood scoops, higher flow heads with stronger valve springs. Power for the Ram Air package was the same as the conventional 400 HO, for the 1968 model, the 326 CID engine was replaced by the Pontiac 350 cu in V8, which actually displaced 355 cu in, and produced 265 hp with a two-barrel carburetor. An HO version of the 350 CID with a revised cam was offered starting in that year, power output of the other engines was increased marginally. There was an additional Ram Air IV option for the 400 CID engines during 1969, complementing the Ram Air III, the 350 CID HO engine was revised again with a different cam and cylinder heads resulting in 325 hp. During 1969 a special 303 cu in engine was designed for SCCA road racing applications that was not available in production cars, the front door vent-windows were replaced with a single pane of glass and Astro Ventilation, a fresh-air-inlet system. The 1969 model received a facelift with a new front end design but unlike the GTO.
Herschel Walker is a former professional American football player, bobsledder and mixed martial artist. He played college football for the University of Georgia, earned consensus All-American honors three times and won the 1982 Heisman Trophy, Walker began his professional football career with the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League, before joining the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. In the NFL, he played for the Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999, Walker was born in Augusta, Georgia to parents Willis and Christine Walker. He was raised in Wrightsville, Georgia and he was one of seven children in his blue collar family. Walker said that as a child he was overweight and had a speech impediment, Walkers mother taught him not to use these problems as excuses in life. Walker attended Johnson County High School in Wrightsville, where he played football, basketball and he played for the Johnson County Trojans high school football team from 1976 to 1979.
In his senior year, he rushed for 3,167 yards and he was awarded the first Dial Award as 1979 national high school scholar-athlete of the year. Also a standout athlete, Walker competed on the Trojans track & field team in events ranging from the 100-yard dash to the shot put and he won the shot put, 100-yard dash, and 220-yard dash events at the GHSA Class A State T&F Championships. He anchored the 4x400 team to victory, with a time of 3,24.01 minutes, Walker competed as a sprinter at Georgia, where he was a two-time All-American selection. He was a member of the SEC champion 4 ×100 m relay squad in 1981 and he ran the 100 meters in a PR of 10.23 seconds in 1982 and ran 10.10 seconds wind-assisted. He improved his high school 100-yard dash time of 9.5 to 9.3 seconds and he competed in the 55-meter dash in 1983, recording a time of 6.11 seconds. He competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics in two-man bobsled, paired with Brian Shimer and he is the only player in NCAA history to finish in the top three in Heisman voting in all three of his collegiate seasons.
John Albert Elway Jr. is a former American football quarterback and current executive vice president of football operations and general manager of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. Elway played college football at Stanford and his entire 16-year professional career with the Denver Broncos, at the time of his retirement in early 1999, Elway recorded the most victories by a starting quarterback and statistically was the second most prolific passer in NFL history. He was a prolific rusher of the ball, being one of two players ever to score a rushing touchdown in four different Super Bowls and the only quarterback to do so. Elway set several records for passing attempts and completions while at Stanford. He was the first selection in the 1983 NFL Draft, famously known as the class of 1983. The moment is known in National Football League lore as The Drive, following that game in Cleveland and the Broncos lost in Super Bowl XXI to the New York Giants. The Broncos repeated as champions the following season in Super Bowl XXXIII by defeating the Atlanta Falcons 34–19, as Denvers quarterback, Elway led his teams to six AFC Championship Games and five Super Bowls, winning two.
Elway was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2004 in his first year of eligibility and his twin sister were born in Port Angeles, Washington, to Janet and Jack Elway, the head coach at Port Angeles High School on the Olympic Peninsula. The family of five included sister Lee Ann, an older than the twins. They moved the year to southwestern Washington, where Jack was the junior college head football coach at Grays Harbor Community College in Aberdeen for five seasons. As a youth, Elway lived primarily in Missoula and Pullman, Washington, in February 1976, Jack joined the staff at Palouse neighbor Idaho, but a month became the head coach at Cal State-Northridge, a Division II program in southern California. Also an accomplished player, Elway was selected by the Kansas City Royals in the 18th round of the 1979 Major League Baseball draft. In 1979, he started attending Stanford University, where he played football and baseball. In his senior season in 1982, Stanford was 5-5 and needed to win their final game, with two minutes remaining in the game, Stanford was down 19-17 and had 4th-and-17 on their own 13-yard line.
Herschel Walker talks with Navy Capt. David Lane.


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Los enquitreidos (Enchytraeida) son un grupo de lombrices acuáticas, tanto marinas como de agua dulce, aunque algunas pueden ser terrestres o anfibias. Abundan especialmente en regiones frías.

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