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2016 WBC Qualifier Preview: Panama City (Panama, Spain, France, Colombia)
Like the Mexicali pool, this is a pool that will pit Latin America and Europe. However, in some ways the only European team will be France, as Spain weighs heavily on imported talent. This should be the most competitive WBC qualifier bracket so far, with only France being a team that I can say has no chance.
Go below the jump for more:
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World Baseball Classic Update for March 11, 2016
Finally, the rosters for the Panama and Mexicali qualifiers of the WBC have been unveiled. I'll go deeper when I do the previews for the tournaments, but a quick rundown:
Mexicali:
It appears, on paper, that this is going to be Mexico's pool to lose. They have by far the most experienced and MLB-related of the rosters in the pool, led by All-Star Adrian Gonzalez and Oliver Perez.
The Czechs are generally using their own players (such as Cleveland farmhand Martin Cervenka), which is commendable, but they have a few guys who are there due to Czech heritage, such as Mike Cervenak.
Nicaragua is probably Mexico's biggest threat in the Mexicali bracket, with 11 MLB-affiliated players, as well as some players who used to be in affiliated ball.
Germany is hurt by not having Max Kepler, but still has six affiliated players, including Donald Lutz, who has MLB experience. They also will have former MLB player Will Ohman on the squad- he was born in Germany.
Panama City:
The home team Panamanians are led on the field by former All-Star Carlos Ruiz, and possess nine other affiliated players. Many of the other players on the team have also played affiliated ball, with Manny Corpas having reached the Majors.
The biggest threat to Panama is Colombia, with 16 affiliated players led by MLB or soon-to-be MLB players in Dilson Herrera and Harold Ramirez. They also have four players in AAA.
The Spanish are one teams in the WBC that are most blatant in their use of "Passport" players who are only eligible for their team due to lax citizenship rules. Almost all of their players, as far as I can tell, are expats from the Caribbean. None of their four affiliated players (Rogelio Armenteros of the Astros organization, Luis Guillorme of the Mets organization, Lazaro Leyva of the Orioles and Carlos Sierra of the Astros' organization) are from Spain, for example.
France is probably the team in this pool most likely to go 2-and-out. Only one- Andy Paz- is MLB-affiliated, although some, like Rene Leveret, have been in affiliated baseball in the past.
Finally one last other piece of news:
There is some exhibition action, as Germany split a two-game series with the Tijuana Toros, France beat Seminole State College, and the Czechs lost to a Brewers' minor league squad.
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World Baseball Classic Update for February 26, 2016
Hello, everybody. Here's some WBC news from the last few weeks, in no particular order:
The Mexican League and the Mexican Baseball Federation continue to squabble, making it unlikely that any Mexican leaguers will partake in the qualifying. However, I've also seen some tweets that indicate that this has been solved and that Mexican League players will take part. I'll let you know when I have it cleared up.
Yovani Gallardo had said that he was going to play for the Mexican team in the qualifiers, but that was before he signed with the Orioles, so that may change. Another iffy Mexican pitcher is Julio Urias, a top prospect for the Dodgers, who has said he will skip the qualifiers if it looks like he has a good chance of making the team.
A preliminary roster for Team Nicaragua (thanks to Max Wildstein) was released. This roster has since changed (you can find how it has in some of the other items) and would be pared down to 28 anyway, but it gives you a good idea of some of the players who will be on the team:
Omar Vizquel will be the manager of Team Venezuela next year. Bobby Abreu and Magglio Ordonez were candidates for the batting coach position, and it appears that Magglio won the job. Other tweets have confirmed that Eduardo Perez will be a bench coach, Roberto Espinoza will be the pitching coach, and Henry Blanco will be a bullpen coach. Also in Venezuelan news: Gregor Blanco wants to play for his country in the 2017 WBC.
The Spanish have announced their coaching staff for the upcoming qualifiers, led by Tigers Latin American director Manny Crespo.
Quebecois closing great Eric Gagne, meanwhile, will helm Team France.
Mike Griffin will manage the Czech team, while Trot Nixon (!) will be hitting coach.
Speaking of the Czechs, it appears that they will have more players with North American experience than last time thanks to players of Czech ancestry, such as John Straka, Brett Tomko, Mike Cervenak, and Alex Sogard. However, apparently Eric Sogard has been denied, unless if he hasn't. I find it much less likely that he will take part, though. The Czechs will be playing exhibitions in Arizona ahead of the qualifiers.
Donovan Solano, now in the Yankees organization, is still deciding whether he will play for Colombia in the qualifiers or if he will stay in camp. However, he is listed in a list of MLB-affiliated players who are "confirmed" for Colombia:
Peloteros de organizaciones de Grandes Ligas que están confirmados para jugar por Colombia. (vía @Beisbol2600mts) pic.twitter.com/RXbeWFd6bw
— Pinceladas del CMB (@pinceladascmb) February 26, 2016
Dilson Herrera of the Mets, as said above, will definitely suit up for Team Colombia. Others listed in the above tweet (if it doesn't show up): William Cuevas, Carlos Mario Diaz, Kevin Escorcia, Tayron Guerrero, Gregory Nappo, Jesus Posso, Mauricio Ramos, Reynaldo Rodriguez, Tito Polo, Harold Ramirez, and Carlos Vidal. Apparently a complete list for Colombia will be out on Saturday.
David Ortiz doesn't think he'll play for Team Dominican Republic next spring.
Carlos Ruiz has been authorized to play for Team Panama, which is huge, even if he isn't as good as he used to be.
Dean Kremer, a pitcher for UNLV who's parents are from Israel and who lives there during summers when he isn't playing, hopes to play for Team Israel in the WBC qualifiers.
Elmer Reyes of the Braves organization will play for Nicaragua. Wuillian Vasquez, a Venezuelan-born player who has lived and played in Nicaragua for several years while also playing in Europe, is also eligible.
The German National team will have a exhibition game against the Tijuana Toros on March 9.
Quick run-down of other players who have been confirmed in/out for certain qualifying teams (from various Twitter sources found by @MaxWildstein):
Randall Delgado is out for Panama but Andy Otero is in.
Cheslor Cuthbert is out for Nicaragua, as is Wilton Lopez, who has an injury.
Luis Guillorme is in for Spain.
Now, this was a lot of news. Maybe too much. And I probably missed some. And for that reason, I'm glad to say that starting now, WBC Updates will be FAR more frequent, occurring AT LEAST once a week, but at times happening on a daily or every-other-daily basis.
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World Baseball Classic Qualifier Preview: Jupiter, Florida (Israel, Spain, France and South Africa)
The World Baseball Classic starts soon! Well, the qualifiers do, anyway. For the first time ever, there are four qualification pools to decide who reaches the Round of 16. Two of those pools- in Panama and Taipei- will be in November. But first there are two pools that start in about a week. One of them is in Jupiter, Florida (mainly because the teams in it don't exactly have baseball fields in their countries) and the other is in Regensburg, Germany. The Jupiter pool starts slightly before the Germany pool, so I'll be covering that one first, covering the baseball heritage (or, in some cases, lack thereof) of the the countries and looking at their teams and chances.
So, go after the jump for my preview of the 2012 WBC Qualifier in Jupiter, Florida. All rosters are from Baseball America.
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Nate Taylor
nate.taylor@indystar.com
Pelicans at Pacers, 4 p.m. Monday, Fox Sports Indiana & NBATV
LONDON — Coach Nate McMillan wanted a timeout. Jeff Teague, once the referees awarded the stoppage of play, used both hands to pound the ball down onto the court in frustration. Inside the huddle, the Indiana Pacers looked at the scoreboard as much as they did McMillan.
That scoreboard inside the O2 Arena on Thursday showed the Pacers trailing the Denver Nuggets by 30 points. This was not how the Pacers, in their first regular-season game overseas, envisioned their trip to London ending.
The entire fourth quarter still remained, yet the Pacers knew they had wasted perhaps all their goodwill with fans from the United Kingdom with an utterly embarrassing performance. Their defense reduced to rubbish, the Pacers, in front of sellout crowd of 18,689 fans, fell, rather swiftly, to the Nuggets in a 140-112 blowout loss.
"We didn't show up tonight, and I don't have a reason for that," McMillan said. "I thought there was a lot of energy in the building and I thought it was a good atmosphere for the players to play in. Denver showed up and played well. We're much better than what we showed."
Thursday's result snapped two streaks: the Pacers' five game-winning streak and the Nuggets five-game losing skid.
The Pacers (20-19) struggled preventing the Nuggets from penetrating into the paint. Once the Pacers' defense collapsed, the Nuggets (15-23) were able to score by making crisp interior passes that led to either dunks or layups. The Nuggets also made 15 3-pointers to help create their comfortable lead.
• BOX SCORE: Nuggets 140, Pacers 112
Beyond being outworked by the Nuggets, the Pacers compounded their own problems by not demonstrating the excellent ball movement they used to win their previous five games. Many of the Pacers' passes in the first half were either lethargic, sloppy or altogether ill-advised.
"We got really stagnant," said Teague, who committed six turnovers. "I had a lot of unforced turnovers, the ball just slipping out of my hand. It was a weird game, but they played well."
McMillan felt the Pacers' isolation-filled offense sabotaged the team's ability to play solid defense once the Nuggets got the rebound. Indiana's mental mistakes and 16 turnovers led to Denver scoring 29 fast-break points.
"Most of our mistakes were self-inflected," McMillan said. "When you're taking quick shots, and they're contested shots, those rebounds a lot times turn into fast-break points. I thought that was the difference early in the game. On the defensive end of the floor, they just seemed to be much faster than us. We seemed to be, like, running in the mud throughout this game. Just totally domination, I thought."
The international stage created by the NBA's annual global game, which was broadcast in 215 countries, was set for Paul George to showcase his many skills. Instead, George struggled to find his rhythm and never performed to his usual All-Star level. Even in his new Nike signature shoe, George had as many missed shots (10) as points.
"They had a good game plan against us," George said of the Nuggets. "They trapped, they loaded the paint, they switched. We take pride in trying to move the ball and get a free-flow offense going. When a team switches, it's hard to move the ball if guys don't move. We fell into that trap. We really got away from how we played in our past five wins."
The brightest star in Thursday's game was Denver's Nikola Jokic, who led all players with 22 points. Jokic, a Serbian who received much adoration from the fans inside the arena, also collected 10 rebounds and recorded seven assists. He thoroughly outplayed Myles Turner (9 points, 6 rebounds) in the post and used his strength to score with ease.
"This was our best game of the season," Jokic said.
As for the Pacers, they spent time after the game refusing to believe the notions that their long trip to London or the five-day break between games were the reasons they underperformed.
"We had time to get ready and be prepared," said C.J. Miles, the lone effective Pacer with a team-high 20 points in 20 minutes. "We have to be professional about it. We have to go out there and do our job. We knew we had a game when we came over here."
The second quarter ended in embarrassing fashion for the Pacers. George swished a 3-pointer on the team's final possession, and the crowd roared as he extended his arm to show the follow through on his jumper. But Denver's Gary Harris, George's defensive responsibility, sprinted down the court during the mini celebration and scored an easy layup just before the halftime buzzer.
The start of the third quarter was no better for McMillan and the Pacers. The Nuggets continued to dissect the Pacers' lackluster defense. Denver also added another play into their offense: the backdoor alley-oop. Several plays in the second half ended with the Nuggets lobbing the ball over the Pacers for a thunderous dunk that brought plenty of applause from the fans.
When the final buzzer sounded, the Pacers quickly walked off the court. They went back into their locker room and changed out of their uniforms in silence. Awaiting the Pacers, after their sightseeing, appearances and bludgeoning beating, was a long flight back to Indianapolis.
"It's a tough loss for sure, especially to come this far for this trip," Miles said. "Now you've got to take that long ride with that L on your back."
Call IndyStar reporter Nate Taylor at (317) 444-6484. Follow him on Twitter:@ByNateTaylor.
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What about feeding the livestock?
We know that global livestock contributes about 15% of human driven GHG emissions. And this is a data point from 2006, when there was a billion less people on earth. This ecological problem does not just concern livestock for our own consumption, but also feeding it. Soy bean farming depletes soil and fish feed is caught in the ocean. We also know this problem is only worsening, thanks to accelerating global population growth.
Entocycle is one of many start-ups working on developing alternative protein, growing larvae of black solider flies. However, Entocycle focuses of alternative protein to sustainably feed our livestock. In addition to being a feed for livestock, Entocycle larvae consume food waste, which doubles the environmental benefits. At its facility in London, the company monitor the larvae with visual recognition and machine learning tech logy that promises cost-efficient scaling.
Really interesting post @greentechsmartcities I find the approach of engaging citizens though art a powerful approach. It reminds me that, in one of my classes yesterday, we were discussing the challenges of engaging the masses on sustainability related matters. It is becoming clear that the carrot will be more successful than the stick. How can we make the sustainability message a positive one? For inspiration, we watched a video on the theory of fun. See below. Regardless of ordinary citizens' reasons for engaging, what matters is the outcome.


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import math

from utils import get_char_count
from utils import get_words
from utils import get_sentences
from utils import count_syllables
from utils import count_complex_words

class Readability:
    analyzedVars = {}

    def __init__(self, text):
        self.analyze_text(text)

    def analyze_text(self, text):
        words = get_words(text)
        char_count = get_char_count(words)
        word_count = len(words)
        sentence_count = len(get_sentences(text))
        syllable_count = count_syllables(words)
        complexwords_count = count_complex_words(text)
        if sentence_count > 0:
            avg_words_p_sentence = word_count/sentence_count
        else:
            avg_words_p_sentence = 0

        self.analyzedVars = {
            'words': words,
            'char_cnt': float(char_count),
            'word_cnt': float(word_count),
            'sentence_cnt': float(sentence_count),
            'syllable_cnt': float(syllable_count),
            'complex_word_cnt': float(complexwords_count),
            'avg_words_p_sentence': float(avg_words_p_sentence)
        }

    def ARI(self):
        score = 0.0
        if self.analyzedVars['word_cnt'] > 0.0:
            score = 4.71 * (self.analyzedVars['char_cnt'] / self.analyzedVars['word_cnt']) + 0.5 *(self.analyzedVars['word_cnt'] / self.analyzedVars['sentence_cnt']) - 21.43
        return score

    def FleschReadingEase(self):
        score = 0.0
        if self.analyzedVars['word_cnt'] > 0.0:
            score = 206.835 - (1.015 * (self.analyzedVars['avg_words_p_sentence'])) - (84.6 * (self.analyzedVars['syllable_cnt']/ self.analyzedVars['word_cnt']))
        return round(score, 4)

    def FleschKincaidGradeLevel(self):
        score = 0.0
        if self.analyzedVars['word_cnt'] > 0.0:
            score = 0.39 * (self.analyzedVars['avg_words_p_sentence']) + 11.8 * (self.analyzedVars['syllable_cnt']/ self.analyzedVars['word_cnt']) - 15.59
        return round(score, 4)

    def GunningFogIndex(self):
        score = 0.0
        if self.analyzedVars['word_cnt'] > 0.0:
            score = 0.4 * ((self.analyzedVars['avg_words_p_sentence']) + (100 * (self.analyzedVars['complex_word_cnt']/self.analyzedVars['word_cnt'])))
        return round(score, 4)

    def SMOGIndex(self):
        score = 0.0
        if self.analyzedVars['word_cnt'] > 0.0:
            score = (math.sqrt(self.analyzedVars['complex_word_cnt']*(30/self.analyzedVars['sentence_cnt'])) + 3)
        return score

    def ColemanLiauIndex(self):
        score = 0.0
        if self.analyzedVars['word_cnt'] > 0.0:
            score = (5.89*(self.analyzedVars['char_cnt']/self.analyzedVars['word_cnt']))-(30*(self.analyzedVars['sentence_cnt']/self.analyzedVars['word_cnt']))-15.8
        return round(score, 4)

    def LIX(self):
        longwords = 0.0
        score = 0.0
        if self.analyzedVars['word_cnt'] > 0.0:
            for word in self.analyzedVars['words']:
                if len(word) >= 7:
                    longwords += 1.0
            score = self.analyzedVars['word_cnt'] / self.analyzedVars['sentence_cnt'] + float(100 * longwords) / self.analyzedVars['word_cnt']
        return score

    def RIX(self):
        longwords = 0.0
        score = 0.0
        if self.analyzedVars['word_cnt'] > 0.0:
            for word in self.analyzedVars['words']:
                if len(word) >= 7:
                    longwords += 1.0
            score = longwords / self.analyzedVars['sentence_cnt']
        return score

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Happy Birthday, Wonder Woman!
Great Hera!
By Susana PoloMar 22nd, 2011, 5:55 pm
Who would have guessed that Wonder Woman and William Shatner would share a birthday? It could even be intentional, except that the Shat was ten when she debuted in December 1941.
But wait, you say, if her first comic came out in December, why is her birthday in March? Well, for the same reasons that Lex Luthor has now canonically stolen 40 cakes: little known apocryphal published tie-in materials. Like this calendar:
(via DC Women Kicking Ass.)
So, we apologize for the quality, but we wanted a video of Wonder Woman kicking ass, and this was the only one we could find that illustrates the raw power unleashed when you stick a mind-control device on the Champion of the Amazons. The other heroes in this Justice League Unlimited clip (Huntress, Black Canary, Vixen, and Hawkgirl) are by no means lightweights themselves. Huntress and Canary are some of the most skilled hand-to-hand combatants on the show, and Vixen and Hawkgirl are relative bruisers.
Susana Polo - Editor at Large
Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.
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Last Friday, CAM (Contemporary Art Museum) Raleigh celebrated their opening with a beautiful gala that was a black tie event. Going Greene Events was the architect of the event, which was beautifully designed and executed. The museum is absolutely fantastic, as well as a much-needed and welcome addition to the arts scene in Raleigh. Congratulations to the Board and everyone who made CAM possible. I was so happy to be able to help celebrate the opening.
It also gave me the opportunity to wear this amazing dress, which has been in my closet for almost a year. A fabulous friend of mine wore this dress to an event previously and I instantly fell in love with it. After she was done with it, she passed it along to me. One of the best benefits of having friends with impeccable taste, who are the same size as you.
Since the dress really was the centerpiece, I picked some toned down jewelry that complemented the dress. I loved the fact that I had the opportunity to wear the jewelry from our wedding again. Nadri makes very beautiful pieces, that add the right amount of sparkle while not being overpowering. Added bonus: they are also moderately priced.
In an earlier post, I mentioned that Badgley Mischka makes an amazing shoe. I found these Randi Sandals (on sale) at Nordies and couldn't resist!
glad i got to see the shoes! fab, of course! and ALMOST my size!
That dress is absolutely amazing... you look great Chelbel!!


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Q: Enhanced for loop 2d array in android java class **Hi guys, i am trying to learn how to build apps and small games in android. Can someone explain how the enhanced for loop works in this case and how the if statement in the enhanced for loop checks for the winner? The code is from a tic tac toe game with red and yelow circle. Sorry if the question was already asked. **
// 0= yellow player; 1 = red player;

int activePlayer=0;

boolean gameIsActive = true;

//2 means unplayed
int[] gameState = {2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2};

int[][] winningPositions= {{0,1,2}, {3,4,5}, {6,7,8}, {0,3,6}, {1,4,7},{2,6,8}, {0,4,8}, {2,4,6}};

public void dropIn(View view) {
    ImageView counter = (ImageView) view;

    int tappedCounter = Integer.parseInt(counter.getTag().toString());

    if (gameState[tappedCounter] == 2 && gameIsActive) {

        gameState[tappedCounter]=activePlayer;

        counter.setTranslationY(-1000f);

        if (activePlayer == 0) {
            counter.setImageResource(R.drawable.yellow);
            activePlayer = 1;
        } else {
            counter.setImageResource(R.drawable.red);
            activePlayer = 0;
        }
        counter.animate().translationYBy(1000f).setDuration(300);

     for (int[] winningPositon : winningPositions){
         if (gameState[winningPositon[0]]== gameState[winningPositon[1]]&& gameState[winningPositon[1]]==gameState[winningPositon[2]]
                 && gameState[winningPositon[0]]!=2){

        //someone has won
        ....

A: Enhanced loops are nothing but a simpler for of regular for loop .
Below for loop
for (int i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++) {
    System.out.println(myArray[i]);
}

Can be converted in to enhanced for loop as
for (int myValue : myArray) {
    System.out.println(myValue);
}

In your case
for (int[] winningPositon : winningPositions){
         if (gameState[winningPositon[0]]== gameState[winningPositon[1]]&& gameState[winningPositon[1]]==gameState[winningPositon[2]]
                 && gameState[winningPositon[0]]!=2){

"winningPositon" is a 2D array so if iterate over its element you will get a single dimensional array ("winningPosition") on each iteration , rest is the game logic.
Ankit

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« Lhamon runs to success!!
Gavin Knoblich keeps his eyes locked on the incoming ball.
Wolf QB Dawson Houston, now 2-0 as a varsity starter, scans downfield for an open receiver.
Ben Smith gets some practice reps in, perfecting the tuck-and-explode maneuver.
Xavier Murdy (2) prepares to hurt the ball. Badly.
Jake Pease snags an incoming ball during warm-ups.
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Two games, two wins, and now photos to prove it.
Ever-busy photo god John Fisken slid through Coupeville Friday on his way up to Oak Harbor, where his son is a senior lineman for the Wildcats, and merrily snapped away.
The pics seen above are a mix of warm-ups and early game action.
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Walsall Manor Hospital gets £36 million A&E funding
By Pete Madeley | Walsall | Health | Published: Dec 7, 2018
Walsall Manor Hospital has been given the green light for a new A&E department after the Government signed off on its £36 million funding bid.
Walsall Manor Hospital's Emergency department is outdated
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust submitted a bid for the cash to NHS Improvement earlier this year, with bosses warning that outdated A&E facilities at the hospital were not fit for purpose and were in desperate need of an upgrade.
Ministers at the Department for Health and Social Care have today signed off on the deal, which will see the current site expanded to allow capacity for 87,000 patients a year. It currently supports 79,000.
Walsall North MP Eddie Hughes, who has campaigned for extra cash alongside West Midlands Mayor Andy Street, said: "I have fought hard for this money and it is great to see the work pay off. The new emergency department is an essential development for Walsall, which will improve capacity, improve patient care and improve conditions for staff."
MP Eddie Hughes was delighted with the cash boost
The trust's bid for the money was put forward in July, along with a number of other bids from hospitals around the country.
It was officially announced by Theresa May during Prime Minister's Questions in September.
Earlier this week Mr Street made a direct appeal to the Government to sign off on the funding. He said the Manor had a 'strong and special case' for the cash, and stressed the urgency for work to start on expanding facilities as soon as possible.
The emergency department has struggled to meet key targets in recent years, largely due to overcrowding as a result of increased demand. Bosses now hope to start work on the Moat Road site by the end of 2019, with a view to opening it fully by October 2021.
Richard Beeken, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust chief executive, has said that to ensure 'minimal impact' to services during the work, an extension would be built allowing staff and patients to continue to use the department.
The announcement comes after the Government agreed to fund part of the delayed Midland Metropolitan Hospital in Smethwick.
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As many of you are and for those who aren't aware, Rick and Kim Powers retired as managers of the camp at January 2016 after serving for over 23 years!
The new managers are Eric and Johanna Spaulding, previously from Bartlesville, OK. They began serving at the camp on January 1, 2016.
We will be updating you on the exciting things happening at camp. For the latest, most up-to-date information over on our Facebook page HERE.
Thanks for checking in. We look forward to a long and powerful ministry at Hidden Haven. Serve Him well!
The Hidden Haven Christian Camp 2015 Registration Card is now up online and available for download. We hope that you are looking forward to camp this summer. We are fast on our way to making another great summer for all our kids.
Today was the last day of camp for our Junior Highers. We had such a great week out here this week. JB was the speaker as well as the dean and had some amazing messages for the kids. This was the first time for some of our Junior Highers to go down the water slide and be at camp and we think they had a blast. We had 3 baptisms here at camp and on one that went home to get baptized, and then we had several re dedications. God is doing some amazing things here at Hidden Haven. Please keep praying for the camp as we head into Junior I on Sunday.
P.S. here are some pictures from camp this week.
T-shirts and first day of Camp!
Sunday will kick off the first week of camp for Hidden Haven. We are excited and have been preparing all year for this summer. JB Brown is the dean for this week and he has some very exciting things planned for the week. Please do not park on ANY of the roads, because people will be trying to drive through there. Please park on the grass. We also have some great news for everyone! We have new T-shirts this year! We hope you like them. Don't forget to bring your money on Sunday! And the water slide and pool is up and running and ready to go. Registration starts at 3:00 p.m. See you then.


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Is Jay Leno the new Larry King?
By Amy Ryan Updated June 03, 2008 at 12:00 PM EDT
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Poor Larry King. He reminds me of the poor fellow near the beginning of Monty Python and the Holy Grail who keeps insisting that he's not dead yet, that he feels just fine, really. Both King and CNN have said that he's not going anywhere, and yet rumors persist of his imminent replacement. Names floated have included Ryan Seacrest, Katie Couric, and now, Jay Leno.
I don't even know if any of these people want the job — Seacrest's sorta busy, yes? Couric will have to stick it out at CBS a while longer in order for both the network and herself to save face when she finally does leave. Leno, though, is going to have plenty of time on his hands starting next year, and I'm sure he's happy to irk NBC by letting other networks court him. Whether or not any of these folks end up replacing King, I'm certainly ready to see him put into suspendered animation. Not because he's old, but because he's always been unable (or unwilling) to acknowledge context. Everything is equally important and newsworthy to him, whether it's the utterances of a world leader, Anna Nicole Smith's mailman, or caller Bob from West Tumbleweed.
If CNN does hire Leno or Seacrest (and maybe even if it hires Couric), there's only going to be more of the same. So maybe he should stick around for a while, long enough to curdle and turn cranky like Andy Rooney. At least then, maybe he'd venture an opinion once in a while that would ruffle some feathers, or recognize that some matters are weightier than others.
Your turn: Who would you pick to fill Larry King's slot? Or would you have him stick around as long as he likes?


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Introduction by José de Yturbe Bernal. Text by Alberto Blanco, Igor Moreno, Pedro Salinas.
Born in 1942, José de Ytube studied under the great precursors of Mexican architecture - Lusi Barragán, Juan O'Gorman among others. Through his projects, Yturbe has defined the new, ground aesthetic rules in contemporary architecture: buildings biologically incorporate to their environment, with bold and balanced lines, great cylinders, crunchy rectangles that toy with curves and seemingly endless lines, always flooded with warm, vibrant colors, thus creating unique spaces - both personal and generous in space and light distribution.
He funded his firm, De Yturbe Arquitectos, in 1971, and has completed 200 projects since - private households, corporate buildings, banks, museums, educational or cultural centers, hotels, golf clubs, in Mexico, the United States, South India, Spain, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Argentina and Dubai. The statement of an architecture that's rooted in Mexican traditions.
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Its Been Two Weeks...and I'm Still Gluten-Free, Dammit!
Upon the cusp of the second full week of the gluten free diet...and I must say I think I will keep it going. So far I have been able to maintain a steady budget with groceries averaging at the goal of $50/week, I don't feel bloated and heavy, I have WAY more energy and...as of yesterday I lost 3 pounds. I'd weigh myself today for a truly updated weight loss but my hair is wet and may cause the scale to give false reading. Yea I said it.
Breakfasts: Gluten Free Cinnamon Chex- sometimes a full size bowl with an added banana, sometimes a small bowl with a boiled egg on the side...skim milk all week.
Lunches: Leftovers from dinner, of course.
I found all my recipes at simplyrecipes.com (tweaked some of them just a bit to fit my own tastes) and they all came out phenomenal.
HOWEVER. I went to Hilton Head and Tybee Island last weekend to celebrate the first weekend of summer 2012 and THAT was a bit of a struggle.
Thank goodness I ate a boiled egg before we headed out of town because breakfast was had at a McDonald's on the road. I had a small coffee. Aside from the fact that I haven't had McDonald's food in about a year, there's NOTHING gluten free on that menu.
Moving on to the road trip snacks...in the car there were...Doritos, an ice cream bar and other delicious "no-no" foods. Me? oh... I had beef jerky. I just chewed and chewed...and....chewed...on my freakin jerky.
When dinner came around...we went to a seafood restaurant. Everyone had appetizers...all fried...and therefor all off limits to me. Apparently anything battered and fried has gluten. So I just waited for my food while everyone else munched on calamari and other tasty appetizers. Ultimately I had some sort of skillet with veggies, seafood and potatoes. Nothing battered, all no gluten approved. Dinner was a success. So was this eerie picture that the waiter took. Pretty sure the distortion was a ghost. Yep, Hilton Head is haunted too..and this was the ONLY picture in the restaurant and that night that came out like this.
The next day, I got up second..there was a fifth person on the trip but they disappeared for the first chunk of the morning...I woke up STARVING. So I headed downstairs for the continental breakfast since it was still early. Not so continental...NOTHING gluten free. Not the cereal, not the ratchet 'hot' choices of fake eggs and sausages...and of course, biscuits and gravy. So...I grabbed some black tea and headed on my merry way to wait for the rest of the group to wake the hell up. Once they finally woke up...and we all came to the agreement that we would indeed head to Tybee Island, we headed to Hilton Head Diner , which was right down the street.
I chose to have bacon, eggs and fruit. All gluten free. I did however have a craving for chocolate milk. The thing is...POWDERED chocolate milk isn't gluten free because it includes malt. When I asked the waitress whether they used powder or syrup, she looked at me confused and said she didn't know...that they just have a "thing" that they use for chocolate milk. Luckily, it was syrup that they used. Gluten free!
Moving right along to dinner on the trip back...we went to Chili's and ...Chili's has a WHOLE list of gluten free menu items. Praises were due.
Breakfasts: Chex Gluten free cinnamon cereal (what can I say, it's damn good) with bananas and almond milk. I decided to also go lactose free this week.
Dinner 2: A second try at the risotto (the first attempt was a little difficult) ...added spinach to the mix to get some veggie action.
Not a meal, but we did have cake in the office for a coworker's farewell. I stuck to my guns and had these delicious gluten free cookies. Really...they're good.
Dinner 3: Almond ginger chicken, green beans with shallots and mushrooms and colcannon (basically mashed potatoes with kale mixed in) DELISH. One of my favorites. I substituted mango chutney for honey on the chicken and it was a perfect swap.
Friday group lunch at the office: We had Jason's Deli....and luckily...Jason's Deli had a gluten free box lunch option for meee! It was actually good too!
Monday lunch...because we got home late from the beach...I knew Amy's would be there for me with gluten free, organic options. Pretty good.
Friday dinner....the chicken with arugula and goat cheese- with added garlic, and brussels sprouts with toasted almonds.
All in all this diet experiment has been kind of fun. I'm cooking every night and it's becoming easier and easier to figure out gluten free options when I haven't cooked. As of right now, day 6 of week 2, I recommend this diet to anyone looking to feel better, eat healthier and of course...lose a little weight along the way. I'm going to keep this going to see just how much it affects my body and overall well being. Stay connected to the results via twitter/instagram and check back here for updates. @sdotcurls everything !


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Zombies stalk the streets of Hastings
The living dead were on the march on Saturday for the annual Hastings Walk of the Dead Zombie Walk.
Tuesday, 1st November 2016, 9:09 am
Updated Friday, 8th June 2018, 12:10 am
Hastings Zombie Walk. Photo by Sid Saunders. SUS-161030-062934001
Dozens of zombies, in make up that rivalled horror film special effects, shambled from the pier to the town centre in a terrifying procession.
At Priory Meadow a Thriller flash mob took centre stage re-enacting Michael Jackson's iconic dance video.
But the gory spectacle was all for a good cause as it raised money for the charity Jack's Dream, a charity which was started by a Bexhill mum in 2011, which provides support to families who have babies who are stillborn, or die shortly after birth.
The pier was serving up special Zombie cocktails, and hosted an after-party, and a few zombies shambled as far as the Old Town.
Organiser Scott Bartholomew said: "Thank you to everyone that came along this year and took part and those that took part in the dancing from both groups performing thriller. And a big thank you to 1066 target sports for sponsoring the zombie walk because without them this year wouldn't have been on."
Pictures by Sid Saunders.
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About Thornbury Fishponds
Drawing up a long-term arboricultural management plan for an historical site at Thornbury just north of Bristol entailed close collaboration with various agencies including English Heritage and the local Wildlife Trust.
When David Wilson Homes (DWH) purchased land for development that was once part of the medieval estate of Thornbury Castle, it acquired an interesting challenge: a series of at least eight interconnected fishponds that were likely used to breed tench, bream and pike for the tables of second and third Dukes of Buckingham, and even the honeymooning King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
Although defunct for more than a century, the ponds are considered to be of national archaeological, cultural and natural significance and are now protected by a Scheduled Ancient Monument listing and open to the public via a series of footpaths.
While seriously neglected, the area nevertheless boasts numerous large and mature native trees of conservation value including field maple and oak, and the rich tapestry of ground plants associated with ancient woodland carpets, such as pendulous sedge, bluebell, herb-robert, wood avens and hart's-tongue fern.
As part of its planning consent, DWH agreed to manage the site, making it safer and more easily accessible to the public while preserving this valuable slice of history.
To help it do this, it engaged a number of agencies - including JP Associates, Cotswold Archaeology and MD Ecology – to work with English Heritage, Avon Wildlife Trust and South Gloucestershire District Council to develop a sensitive yet effective strategy for the site.
For JPA's part, we conducted an in-depth, qualitative survey of all the trees and vegetation around the ponds. We assessed the relative significance of the older plants, the risk posed to the public by the larger trees, the impact that the planned construction of additional footpaths and interpretation panels might have on the ancient trees, and the potential damage that various root systems could do to the historical ponds and associated archaeological assets if unchecked.
In close consultation with the other agencies, we then weighed up all these factors and drew up a long-term arboricultural management schedule for the site with recommended dates, timescales and specific locations for each activity. This included, for example, a hazel coppicing rotation and removal of mature and regenerating non-natives such as sycamore. These activities will address public liability and accessibility concerns, while allowing more light back into the woodlands which will, in turn, help the site recover some of its original ecological diversity.
The plan also includes remedial surgery to promote the long-term survival of the prized mature oaks and field maples.
It was no mean feat to balance the competing demands of public access vs public safety, educational and research potential vs the conservation of the ponds, or the protection of the trees vs the restoration of traditional biodiversity. However, the resulting plan is testament to the expertise, collaborative commitment and diplomatic skills by all parties involved.
We think we'd have impressed even Henry. Or at least avoided a beheading.
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Perry provides personal and commercial lines insurance solutions to clients throughout South Carolina and is headquartered in Lexington, South Carolina, with multiple locations throughout the state. Perry further expands Relation's capabilities across South Carolina across small commercial, middle-market commercial, and personal lines coverages. David Perry will continue with Relation as a leader in Relation Select.
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Trump Unblocks Some Critics on Twitter, But Will Fight Ruling
The White House is appealing last month's court ruling that found the president's practice of blocking his critics on Twitter to be unconstitutional.
By Michael Kan
June 5, 2018 3:09PM EST
President Donald Trump will fight a court ruling that found his habit of blocking people on Twitter unconstitutional, but in the meantime, Trump's Twitter account has unblocked the seven plaintiffs named in the original lawsuit against him.
"We whined. We complained. We sued. We won our First Amendment lawsuit in federal court," tweeted Philip Cohen, a university professor. "And now @realDonaldTrump has unblocked me. Wow!"
Trump finally obeys court order and unblocks me on @Twitter #BlockedByTrump pic.twitter.com/xdR5Ct2sce
— Brandon Neely (@BrandonTXNeely) June 5, 2018
How long the unblocking will last remains to be seen. On Monday, attorneys with the US Justice Department appealed the May ruling. According to the judge, the president's Twitter account is a "public forum" that anyone should be able to view and direct comments to, given that Trump is now an elected official.
Clearly, the White House disagrees. But for now, it has decided to abide to the judge's ruling, which stemmed from a lawsuit filed on behalf of seven plaintiffs who were critical of Trump on Twitter and later blocked.
"Two days shy of the one year anniversary of my blocking, @realDonaldTrump has unblocked me," tweeted Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza, a writer and legal analyst.
The Knight First Amendment Institute, which filed the original lawsuit, said all seven plaintiffs had been unblocked, but noted that other critics of Trump remain banned from viewing the president's account.
So @realDonaldTrump has started to unblock people, per court decision. But not us, or the 550k vets, military families and their patriotic supporters we represent.
Well, sorry, @POTUS, but blocking us won't silence us. pic.twitter.com/8Ubea9vZKU
— VoteVets (@votevets) June 5, 2018
"It should go without saying that those individuals have the same rights as our clients. If they have been blocked on the basis of their viewpoints, the White House should unblock them immediately," said Katie Fallow, a senior staff attorney at the institute in a statement.
Why Trump doesn't simply "mute" his critics on Twitter as opposed to blocking them isn't clear. But the legal battle has implications for all public officials on Twitter. If the court denies Trump's appeal, it may mean US elected officials will have to keep their Twitter accounts open to all.
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The head of the EFCC was recently interviewed on Hardtalk, a BBC program. Thanks to Dee for sending me the link.
Oh my gosh, his interview was so exciting to watch. His clarity in tone cannot be underestimated. He means business, and I want him back!
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Election 2020: For the 2020 Democrats, It's America First, Too For the 2020 Democrats, It's America ...
For the 2020 Democrats, It's America First, Too
The slate of Democratic candidates includes two Rhodes scholars, two ex-soldiers, and a former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But don't count on them to resurrect a Pax Americana.
By Colum Lynch
| December 4, 2019, 6:38 PM
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It's no accident that when the 2020 Democratic candidates are asked about impeachment or Russian interference in U.S. elections, they prefer to pivot to domestic issues like wealth taxes and universal health care. The U.S. role in the world is not a favorite topic of either political party these days.
And for the rest of the world, that means that even if President Donald Trump is defeated in 2020, a pared-down U.S. presence abroad and increased burden-sharing by allied governments will almost certainly be the result. The not-so-distant days when the Democratic Party's foreign-policy establishment embraced America's role as the indispensable nation that confronted or toppled dictators and war criminals from Serbia to Libya are receding from memory—and with them the expectation that the United States can be relied on as a reliable enforcer of world peace.
"If a Democrat is elected, we will have all the nice words we have not had in the last four years," Gérard Araud, France's former ambassador to Washington and the United Nations during the Obama and Trump administrations, told Foreign Policy. "It will be much more polite, much more courteous, more predictable and coherent than under Trump. But frankly, the Americans won't be more engaged in most of the world's conflicts."
The political battle fatigue caused by costly, open-ended wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has soured the American public, and the Democratic and Republican political leadership, on foreign entanglements. Democrats and Republicans alike "don't want to be the policeman of the world anymore," Araud added. "I think it's a major shift."
The pendulum under almost any Democratic administration would be bound to swing back to a more internationalist foreign policy. And the Democrats' leading candidates have all issued calls for restoring America's standing in the world by rebuilding the State Department, repairing strained alliances, embracing international institutions like the U.N., recommitting to the Paris climate agreement, and patching up relations with Iran.
But enthusiasm for the U.S. role as the primary guarantor of peace and security from Europe to the Middle East and Asia is losing currency in Democratic quarters. "The United States has an important role to play in leading the world, but we don't necessarily have to do it at the point of the gun," said a foreign-policy advisor of one of the Democratic candidates. "We do have the strongest and most capable military in the world. But that doesn't mean we need to use it to throw our weight around."
This has been a Democratic Party line, of course, since the administration of President Barack Obama, who opposed the ill-fated 2003 invasion of Iraq and was notably restrained in his use of large-scale military force. But if anything, it's becoming more ingrained. The current slate of Democratic candidates lacks a single voice extolling the virtues of humanitarian intervention in far-off lands, and there is diminishing interest, particularly among progressives, in deploying U.S. military power to recover influence ceded to China and Russia.
More centrist Democratic candidates still see a need for a more limited projection of U.S. military power, whether through the use of special operations forces to counter terrorism or to support critical allies.
More centrist Democratic candidates—including former Vice President Joe Biden; Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana; and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar—still see a need for a more limited projection of U.S. military power, whether through the use of special operations forces to counter terrorism or to support critical allies. Biden, for instance, has called for an increase in security assistance—including weapons—to Ukraine to help it defend itself and to make sure "Russia pays a heavier price for its ongoing war in Ukraine."
"I've spent more time in the Situation Room, more time abroad, more time than anybody up here," Biden boasted in the November Democratic debate. "I know every major world leader. They know me, and they know when I speak, if I'm the president of the United States, who we're for, who we're against, and what we'll do, and we'll keep our word."
But even Biden, while vice president, pushed for a somewhat reduced U.S. presence abroad—for example, arguing during the Obama administration that the United States should dramatically cut back its troops in Afghanistan and taking the lead in negotiating the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
"Anything would be better than what we have now," said Victor Cha, who served as the director for Asian affairs in the National Security Council under George W. Bush's administration. But "after the euphoria wears off," America's allies will have to come to terms with the fact that they will have to shoulder a greater burden for their defense than in the past, he said.
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"We're not going back to what it was before Trump," Cha said. "There needs to be some recalibration, and greater burden-sharing by the allies, but it's not extortion. For many partners, that is not a high price to pay for more predictability and an actual strategic plan from the key ally."
And for more progressive candidates, such as Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, experience in the war room is not necessarily a plus. For them, the creed of American exceptionalism is giving way to a more restrained view of the virtues and benefits of U.S. military power and calls for reductions in U.S. military spending.
"There is weariness among Americans of all parties and independents with long-term military engagements and legitimate questions of the consequences of that," said Matt Duss, Sanders's top foreign-policy advisor. "Iraq is the most obvious example, but there are others. Trump tapped into this in his usual divisive way." By doing so, he exposed a "very shallow" national consensus over America's international policing role, according to Duss.
Beyond that, progressives like Warren and Sanders have, like Trump, opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement and other free trade deals and would be likely to push for more protectionist trade practices.
U.S. Army soldiers are seen through a cracked window of an armed vehicle at a checkpoint in eastern Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on July 7, 2018. WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images
The end of the Cold War rang in a new era of military interventionism, persuading American leaders on both sides of the aisle that the projection of U.S. military power could shape the future and be a force for good.
President George H.W. Bush led the charge, leading an international U.N. coalition that ended Iraq's annexation of Kuwait and authorizing the deployment of U.S. Marines in Somalia to help avert famine. President Bill Clinton found that superior U.S. air power could help end the genocide in Bosnia and drive the Serbian army out of Kosovo.
Democratic liberal interventionists, from Richard Holbrooke and Madeleine Albright to Hillary Clinton and Samantha Power, believed in the muscular use of force to achieve U.S. objectives, whether in Ivory Coast, Libya, or the Balkans. U.S. diplomacy, they asserted, was at its most successful when backed by the credible threat of U.S. military action. "What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?" Colin Powell, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recalled then-U.N. Ambassador Albright telling him in 1993.
But the misguided and falsely justified Iraq invasion, and nearly a generation of war in Afghanistan, has tempered that view among Democrats and Republicans alike. Both wars exacted huge human and geostrategic costs—including the deaths of more than 6,700 U.S. service members, more than 30,000 Americans wounded, and trillions of dollars in expenditures—and did little more than destabilize these regions, providing Iran with a strategic boost as it sought to expand its influence. Biden has struggled to live down a 2002 Senate vote approving the U.S. war in Iraq—a vote he now acknowledges was a mistake.
Today, virtually all the Democratic candidates want to bring combat troops home from Afghanistan as soon as possible, though some, like Biden and Buttigieg, favor retaining some U.S. special operations forces and intelligence units to prevent terrorist groups like al Qaeda and the Islamic State from reconstituting. "Americans are rightly weary of our longest war; I am, too," Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations in August. "But we must end the war responsibly."
Starting new wars is altogether another matter.
In 2011, Obama grudgingly lent his support to a U.N.-sanctioned invasion of Libya, following appeals by France, as well as by then-Secretary of State Clinton and White House advisor Power, to take action to avert atrocities.
The mission resulted in the downfall of Libyan strongman Muammar al-Qaddafi, who was executed by militias in the street, and the disintegration of the North African nation, which descended into a political and security abyss from which it has never recovered. The experience—which deepened Obama's skepticism about the virtue of military intervention—led to the formulation of Obama's "don't do stupid shit" foreign-policy doctrine. It also helped convince Obama that American interests in Syria, where a government crackdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, were best served by limiting U.S. military involvement.
That skepticism has taken root in the Democratic Party. There is little appetite for taking down dictators and even less for military intervention beyond the limited use of special operations forces and drones. Even as evidence that Russian and Syrian forces are targeting hospitals and civilians in rebel-held towns, leading Democrats have expressed little appetite for a U.S. military role to stop it.
On Venezuela, Democrats have offered varying degrees of support for Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan opposition figure recognized by the United States and dozens of other countries as his country's legitimate transitional leader. But they oppose a U.S. military role in forcing President Nicolás Maduro from power.
"[W]e cannot simply anoint a new Venezuelan government—that would be repeating the mistakes of our dark history," New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker told the Council on Foreign Relations.
The current slate of Democratic progressives shares a "rather anti-interventionist streak and see virtue served by a restrained U.S. foreign policy," according to Stephen Pomper, the senior director for policy at the International Crisis Group and a former advisor on Africa and multilateral affairs in Obama's National Security Council. "They are much less likely to give the U.S. a pass in order to achieve some pragmatic objective."
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a working lunch with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House in Washington on March 20, 2018. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
A further U.S. retreat could have far-reaching impact on security and stability from the Middle East to Europe and East Asia, where America's great-power competitors, Russia and China, are all too keen to fill the vacuum.
Last month, South Korea—seething from the U.S. decision to jack up the cost of hosting nearly 30,000 U.S. troops from under $1 billion to about $5 billion a year—signed an agreement with China to open channels for military cooperation. The U.S.-South Korean security alliance, warned an editorial in the Korea Times, "may fall apart due to Washington's blatantly excessive demands."
"Our allies and partners in East Asia and the Middle East are anxiously looking to the 2020 elections in the U.S. and thinking through a range of options," Suzanne DiMaggio, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told Foreign Policy by email. South Koreans may welcome a changing of the guard in Washington, "as most of the Democratic candidates have voiced support for rebuilding our long-standing alliance with Seoul."
But key allies in Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, may be rattled by the prospect of a Democratic victory.
"If Trump is defeated, Riyadh should be prepared for a dramatic shift. All of the leading Democratic presidential candidates have called for reassessing the U.S.'s relationship with Saudi Arabia."
"If Trump is defeated, Riyadh should be prepared for a dramatic shift," DiMaggio said. "All of the leading Democratic presidential candidates have called for reassessing the U.S.'s relationship with Saudi Arabia," she added. "For starters, a new administration likely would end U.S. support of Saudi [Arabia]'s war in Yemen and focus on re-engaging Iran in talks as early as possible. It's not surprising that we're already seeing nascent moves by the Saudis toward potential dialogue with Tehran."
Virtually all of the Democratic candidates have advocated greater restraint in the use of U.S. military power, citing the long-running wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the endless global war on terrorism.
Even a party outlier like Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard—who has called for an "end to this ongoing Bush-Clinton-Trump foreign-policy doctrine of regime-change wars"—is not as far from her party's mainstream as her Democratic rivals would like to make out.
But the Democratic Party's traditional and progressive wings continue to struggle to reconcile differences on a range of issues, including the U.S. military role in the world and the uncritical support of an Israeli government that has become increasingly allied with Trump and the Republican Party.
"The split at the center of the party is between elites in the foreign-policy community who would want to revive the indispensable nation point of view, whereas progressives are very skeptical of that because it tends to imply an endorsement of U.S. military global hegemony," said Stephen Wertheim, the deputy director of research and policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
But the consensus is that the traditional elites have already lost that internal war in the party.
Colum Lynch is a senior staff writer at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @columlynch
Tags: Democrats, Election 2020, Elections, International Relations, Military, U.S. Foreign Policy


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LiveScore Group nets £50m investment from Ringier
LiveScore Group and Ringier AG have today announced a landmark strategic partnership, with the Swiss-based media and technology company making a substantial investment in LiveScore Group's rapidly growing sports media and gaming business.
The deal will fuel the expansion of the industry-disrupting business which incorporates leading brands LiveScore, LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet. LiveScore Group is a rapidly scaling business, which has made significant share gains in highly competitive markets. This has been achieved through leveraging its differentiated customer acquisition funnel with bespoke gaming integrations across its LiveScore assets.
As the latest evolution within one of Europe's pre-eminent media businesses, the recently created Ringier Sports Media Group division boasts a thriving portfolio of innovative businesses which are changing the way global audiences interact and engage with sport. The new strategic investment in LiveScore Group will specifically accelerate growth across key Central and Eastern European territories, a notable strength of Ringier's sports media assets.
Following the investment, Stilian Shishkov will join the Supervisory Board of LiveScore Group. Shishkov is currently Senior Partner of the Ringier Sports Media Group, as well as founder and CEO of Ringier`s Sportal Media Group in Bulgaria.
The significant new investment comes after three-years of eye-catching performance for LiveScore Group, founded in 2019 by former Gamesys Chairman and co-founder Noel Hayden, and led by industry veteran Sam Sadi.
Sam Sadi, CEO LiveScore Group: "This is a hugely significant day for LiveScore Group, as we take a significant step forward following a £50 million strategic investment from Ringier which values our business at £500 million. Ringier, with its Sports Media Group, is the perfect partner as we look to accelerate our expansion into Central and Eastern European territories, given their outstanding expertise, assets and relationships."
Noel Hayden, Executive Chairman LiveScore Group Board: "I'm excited to see two of the most innovative sport and media businesses form a game-changing new relationship. This is a breakthrough moment which will allow LiveScore Group to maximise strategic opportunities together with Ringier, and to deliver better experiences and value for sports fans around the world."
Marc Walder, CEO Ringier AG: "From delivering real-time sports scores and free-to-air live streams to millions of global users, to offering the most innovative and trusted sportsbook betting opportunities, LiveScore Group has demonstrated it is already a true industry leader and will be a fantastic business partner for Ringier. Together, we aim to enhance, and increase the enjoyment of sport, through innovative products, and immersive experiences under the operational lead of the Ringier Sports Media Group. With LiveScore Group's support we will better understand the way people feel about sport and what it means to them. Our vision is to fuel the fans' passion for sport."
Robin Lingg, Chairman of the Ringier Sports Media Group Supervisory Board: "Sports media is THE place where sports audiences, athletes and advertisers meet. Within its three-month existence, Ringier Sports Media Group has very purposefully put into practice its founding promise, to unite leading digital sports media brands under its umbrella. The participation in LiveScore Group is another decisive step to develop innovative products based on common technologies in the future and to benefit from the exchange of know-how. That a leading business such as LiveScore Group has agreed to work closely with us in strategic partnership is truly a tribute to our vision of sports media at Ringier."
The Ringier Sports Media Group includes the sports brands of Sportal Media Group and Digital Ventures OOD in Bulgaria, Gazeta Sporturilor in Romania, Sportal.rs in Serbia and Pulse in Africa. The group`s portfolio is set to grow strongly in the coming months through mergers and acquisitions as well as newly launched products.
Moelis & Company LLC acted as financial advisor and CMS acted as legal advisor to LiveScore Group. DLA Piper acted as legal advisor and KPMG as financial advisor to Ringier AG.
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Composite showing left: super-resoluted ultrasound image obtained using bio-compatible micro-bubbles as contrast agent. The picture shows direction of the blood flow in the brain vasculature of an anesthetized rat. The colours indicate the directions taken by the blood vessels (red: up and blue: down). From (Errico et al., Nature 2015) Right panel: cartoon illustrating a patient suffering from back pain.
Chronic pain diseases affect 30% of the European population. However, effective treatments are often missing. Only 50% of patients receive appropriate alleviation, due to a lack of treatment specificity and efficacy, as a result of a current poor understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Neuronal plasticity both in the peripheral and central nervous systems were already reported to be key elements in pain maintenance.
Therefore, it is now crucial to develop relevant animal models, to fully decipher the underlying mechanisms, to identify the key molecular target of theses pathologies and to develop new treatments (pharmacological or not, such as motor cortex stimulation, meditation or biofeedback).
The topic of our research is the study of the mechanisms underlying the maintenance of cortical plasticity in chronic pain conditions.


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package org.apache.storm.serialization;

import org.apache.storm.utils.ListDelegate;
import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo;
import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.io.Input;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public class KryoValuesDeserializer {
    Kryo _kryo;
    Input _kryoInput;

    public KryoValuesDeserializer(Map conf) {
        _kryo = SerializationFactory.getKryo(conf);
        _kryoInput = new Input(1);
    }

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Bioenergy, Solar
Intersolar: How the US can grow, support solar PV
James Montgomery 7.12.11
A spirited panel discussion involving solar PV industry organizations, vendors, and even local government on the first day of Intersolar North America explored whether and how the US can grow and nurture solar PV as a viable energy alternative.
July 11, 2011 – A spirited panel discussion involving solar PV industry organizations, vendors, and even local government gathered on the first day of Intersolar North America to come up with ideas about whether and how the US can grow and nurture solar PV as a viable energy alternative, from consumers to utility and overall with policymaking decisions.
Fielding the first volley from panel moderator (and solar industry luminary) Eicke Weber from Germany's Fraunhofer ISE whether they are satisfied with solar PV progress in the US, and specifically California, analyst Paul Gipe with Wind Works replied that Ontario has a FiT and installed 350MW in 2011, well on its way to becoming the largest PV market in North America. And the US' 2GW installations is half of Italy's 4GW in 2010, and Italy is reining in its market just to keep doing 2GW for several years out. How, then, can anyone in a nation 5× bigger than Italy, or a state twice the size of Ontario, be satisfied with comparative domestic "progress" in renewable energy? Kevin Fox, cofounder of Keyes & Fox LLP, noted that after California it's tricky to name ripe US markets for solar PV, as policies inspire confidence only for about the current year or so, and not the few years out that investors and proponents hope for.
FiTs, net metering, and a capitalism lesson from Germany
Johanna Gregory Partin, director of climate protection initiatives for San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee, blamed a lack of leadership at both the national and state level to promote renewable energy, but also pumped up what SFO is doing: 18MW of total solar across the city (~2500 installs), a solar map (sf.solarmap.org) gauging solar readiness for every building, as well as two new PV support efforts being launched during this week's show.
Talk quickly turned to feed-in tariffs. One problem, noted Weber, is in who sets the rates, a government agency or policy body? He proposed a "radically simple" idea of "net metering plus" — set the price at prevailing household electricity rates. Arbitrariness is removed from the equation, utilities would see no net cost (it would be "indistinguishable" from simple energy savings, he argued), and installers would peg the rate at the moment of installation, a dampening effect as prices go down. Gipe responded that such a plan benefits PV, not all renewable energy. John L. Geesman, co-chairman of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), went further, noting that prices inherently are based on the people; California's regulatory benchmark is a natural gas plant, for which 70% of costs are tied to fuel, which is regulated by no one ("Jesus sets the fuel price," he quipped). Fox added that how rates are designed is important, e.g. more solar friendly (i.e. based on time of use) or less friendly (demand-based). A robust discussion is needed to figure out rates that will both incentivize PV and maximize grid benefits by offsetting the system peak as much as possible.
Back to net metering, Craig Lewis, executive director of the Clean Coalition, noted the distinction between residential, large-scale/centralized, and interconnected in between the two — a sweetspot partly identified by California's SB32 which is now being implemented two years after its introduction. It's an important consideration that net metering inherently shifts costs to everyone who *doesn't* have renewable energy, and utilities will end up breaking those users' backs to get its fees and taxes, and that's no way to win favor and spur interest in RE. He also noted the difficulty in figuring out net metering for buildings with multiple tenants or those that are underoccupied, and the difference between the "wholesale" rate — calculated as transmission connection — and the retail rate, the level as measured at the end-destination.
Eicke Weber playfully jumped in that it's positively un-American to conceive of a net metering scheme in which a user who produces excess energy would not seek nor receive compensation for excess delivered back to the grid. (Three years ago at a SEMICON West lunch panel he similarly wondered aloud how it was that in solar PV, Europe had to teach the US how to make money.)
An audience member from Indiana asked the panel to consider whether a national FiT would spur some competition for California in national PV solar "so they're not #1 forever." In response, panelists Lewis noted that Indiana is actually a great example of utility-spurred local efforts at a FiT that are "close to being useful, and there are similar "exciting things happening all over the US," including a proposed "state's rights clean bill." Rhone Resch from the SEAI added that it's probably more fair to compare large California not with individual states but with regions, e.g. the Northeast, where from Boston-DC there is more installed solar than in CA.
Revisiting incentives for users, Geesman argued that the underlying problem is in trying to change the public's behavior by altering the way they are charged for energy; instead we need to teach the important distinction in how peak energy (midday, summer) costs more than offpeak (night).
A quick side discussion about "intelligent" rates was squelched by Resch, who related how his own house's PV system monitoring showed how smart — or actually, not smart — his new meter was, which ended up pinging "Error" and generated no credit for three weeks. Pepco, his (Washington DC-area) utility, ended up installing 500kl of smart meters that simply weren't ready.
An audience member noted that there was no banker on the panel, which spurred another discussion surrounding money and finance. Weber said he urges people to see rooftop PV systems as actual cash-money investment — e.g. a 20-year guaranteed return, for a retired couple putting a solar system on their house, can provide valuable cash income. Minh Le, principal scientist at the DoE, noted that German banks see residential PV as an asset class. Resch noted that the legacy of Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) is the concept of a "green bank" to service all markets (utility to residential), operating as a "patriot" organization somewhat outside government restriction, like the Red Cross. Lewis reiterated the difference between a "clean program" and net metering is in the strength of credit, i.e. borrowing from the credit worthiness of a utility vs. a residential consumer.
Another audience member representing Hawaii's solar PV interests pointed out that net metering in fact worked well for his state, which has unique concerns about energy security (so reliant upon oil imports) and clean considerations. Panelists also agreed that HI also has the unique angle of sky-high electricity rates which aren't as heavy a consideration elsewhere. Other areas (e.g. Gainesville, FL) successfully replaced net metering with FiTs, pointed out Lewis; and in fact most FiT proponents favor multiple tracks, and are adopting them in the UK and Italy, added Gipe.
EV + solar PV, a heavenly match?
One final audience question drew praise from the panel for its insightfulness: will the rise of electric vehicles spur more solar PV adoption, once people realize they can charge their (environmentally friendly) vehicle with electricity they generate themselves (solar PV), thus saving on both ends — gas and utility bills? "This has huge political implications," agreed the DoE's Minh Le, pointing out that on a per-kWh basis, one could achieve $0.50/gal equivalent for EV, vs. $4/gal for gasoline. EV costs currently bring total lifetime to around $3.50/$4/gal, though — but with so much attention now being paid to energy storage, including EV battery technology (including DoE efforts), this is a potential major area.
Geesman agreed, saying that the EV-solar PV combination could "catalyze utilities" to upgrade their own networks, because it eases concerns about what to do about integrating PV into the grid and distribution/load balancing problems. Fox agreed it's a classic and needed example of why we cannot look at new technologies in silos, and must explore policies together going forward. SFO's Partin pointed out that CA's EV tariff rates need reform badly. And Resch chimed in that acre-for-acre, solar means 85% reduced landmass than ethanol (though admitted it's not a totally fair comparison as few people can grow corn on their roofs).


Discover the magic and charm of Tingo María. Do not miss unforgettable moments in the Tingo María National Park.
Visit the Tingo María National Park, "Cueva de las Lechuzas", an enormous grotto nestled in a jungle spot with stalactites and stalagmites, where parrots, parakeets, swallows, bats and guacharos live.
Meet the "VELO DE LA NOVIA" and enjoy its impressive waterfall which forms a large natural pool, where you can spend pleasant and refreshing moments.
Visit the beautiful Laguna Milagros, with a spectacular landscape and surrounded by trees of Huairuros, we will cross its banks and those who wish to walk in craft boats.
Bus terminal in Tingo María.
In the morning pick up from the terminal at Tingo María. Installation at the hotel. We will start the tour visiting the Tingo María National Park, "Cueva de las Lechuzas", a huge grotto nestled in a jungle spot with stalactites and stalagmites, where parrots, parakeets, swallows, bats and guacharos live.
In the afternoon we will visit El Manantial of sulphurous waters. Lagoon of fresh turquoise waters with high concentration of sulfur and medicinal qualities for the skin. Then we will go to "La catarata de Santa Carmen", (30 min. Walk) on the way we will observe plantations of cacao, medicinal plants, ornamental plants. And to finish the day we will know the Mirador SAN CRISTOBAL, from where you can appreciate the whole city and the hills that surround it like "Sleeping Beauty", "Cotomono", "RupaRupa" and the Huallaga River. Return to the hotel.
Approximately one and a half hours drive, where we will enjoy the beautiful jungle landscape, crossing the blue mountain range, then reach the "VELO DE LA NOVIA" and enjoy its impressive waterfall which forms a large natural swimming pool where you can spend pleasant and refreshing moments.
Return to the city on time.
We will also visit The Devil's Shower as well as the famous Ovni, in this place you will appreciate the difference between high jungle and low jungle. Return to the hotel.
Visit to the beautiful Laguna Milagros, located in the town of Pendencia 25 minutes from the city of Tingo Maria, with a spectacular landscape and surrounded by trees of Huairuros, we will cross its banks and those who wish to walk in craft boats; then in its vicinity we will visit a recently discovered cavern for adventure and speleological tourism.
In the afternoon we will visit Lamas, where they sell handicrafts.
At the right time boarding at the Tingo María terminal.
Tourist mobility for 3 days.
2 Nights of lodging in hotel 2 ** of Tingo María.
Food (2 Breakfasts + 2 lunches).
Excursions to all the places mentioned in the program.
Tickets to all the mentioned tourist places.
Tickets Lima - Tingo María - Lima.
From Lima to Tingo María there are 12 hours of travel, by land.
CHILDREN: Up to 3 years do not pay. From 4 years old to over, they pay as an adult.


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Every server i join im receiving the 'map differs' error, i checked round the site and Faq and it says its only because my version differs, but when i check my maps file i have all the maps the server runs - also i join the server and it kicks me out after map rotation.... Any ideas?
Im running 'Hidden source beta 2' which i dowloaded from Fileplanet, wrong one?
Thankyou thankyou my pretties! Thought something was wrong with my ****ing hardware like it has been since i got it all.
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cj Sez: Because I think this information needs repeating . . .
It wasn't always Memorial Day — it used to be known as Decoration Day. Whatever the name, it's a day of remembrance for all those who have died in service of the United States of America.
In 1915, inspired by the poem "In Flanders Fields," Moina Michael conceived the idea to wear red poppies on Memorial Day in honor of those who died serving the nation during war. She was the first to wear one and sold poppies to her friends and co-workers with the money going to benefit servicemen in need.
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    public static final String DB_FIELD_STUDYID="studyId";
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Report Groups are the primary reporting bucket for Focus POS. This article explains how to create a new Report Group and change a menu item to report to that group.
Unused report groups are typically groups that do not have a name to them.
Enter the desired name for the report group into the Name field.
Note: Super Groups are not required. If you use the Focus Daily Sales Report (Daily Report) set to Super Groups in the Super Groups drop down, and you omit a Super Group from your newly created Report Group sales from the Report Group will not show in the Daily Sales Report. The totals on the Daily Sales Report will be reflective of the omitted Report Group sales however.
All sales from this point forward will be bucketed into the newly selected Report Group.
Historical menu item sales CANNOT be changed to reflect the newly created Report Group.