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Climate Change Alarmists Lose in France
posted by Ken Webster jr & Sandra Peterson - Dec 6, 2018
Climate change alarmists are losing the global war against logic.
After weeks of protests and riots in Paris and around France, the "Yellow Vests" have won their feud with President Emmanuel "French Gigolo" Macron.
France's Macron has scrapped the anti-fossil fuel tax. Initially, the tax was put on hold for 6 months until the summer. Then somebody realized that a lot of other Europeans vacation (or holiday, as they call it) in France, and they drive their cars. Extra fuel tax would be VERY bad for bidness.
The Associated Press reports an official with the Elysee palace said the president decided to get rid of the tax on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told French lawmakers "the tax is now abandoned" for the 2019 budget, and French government's leadership is "ready for dialogue."
Is this a sign that the Paris Climate Accord could be next? Probably not, but it's a step in the right direction for people who use their brains to process information.
All that being said, Have you noticed how all the policies intended to help average folks like you and me end up screwing us over instead? And nobody ever gets called out!
In much the same way that anti-fossil fuel taxes only ended up screwing over the middle class in France, yesterday a piece in Bloomberg pointed out that women aren't getting hired on Wall Street because of #MeToo. Bummer.
But you can point out a whole bunch of other liberal policies that ended up screwing people up:
Mortgage lending because of community banking (bad credit risks helped tank the banks in 2008--they couldn't manage risk profiles adequately)
Speech policies
Etcetera Etcetera Etcetera
And add one more to your list--California (per The Hill) has approved rules that mandate solar panels on all new homes constructed in the state. Soon, the Golden State will glow with sunlight reflected off solar panels as far as the eye can see.
Currently, the cost to add the panels runs about $10K and is expected to save you $19K in energy costs over a 30 yr period. But do you really see that money?
Nope. Not by a long shot. If you increase your home's price by $10K at today's rate of about 4.6% for a 30 yr mortgage, that will end up costing you about $19K.
California will turn into one giant solar grid. And that will be great! Except for all the fried birds, and then all the bugs that the birds don't eat will consume all the crops in California, turning it into a giant green dust bowl. But that's OK, because it will save us all money! And save the planet.
The point is, we don't need the government to help us with grassroots political movements and bad policy ideas. If we're not careful, we might unintentionally allow the invisible hand of government eat us alive (and all in the name of "helping" us).
Thanks, government!
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Home Money The Richest Arab In The World 2021
Algerian Gazette
This year there are 22 Arab billionaires worldwide than there were in 2020, while 2019's list omitted Kuwait's Kutayba Alghanim, but welcomed back Qatar's Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani with an estimated wealth of $1.3 billion, and Morocco's Othman Benjelloun & family, also with $1.3 billion.
Egypt's Nassef Sawiris remains the richest Arab in the world 2021, with a net worth of $8.3 billion—$3.3 billion more than last year. His most lucrative asset is a 6% stake in sportswear manufacturer Adidas. He also runs OCI, one of the world's largest nitrogen fertilizer producers, with plants in Texas and Iowa.
Algeria's only billionaires, Issad Rebrab & family, are the world's second-richest Arabs, worth $4.8 billion. Rebrab is the founder and CEO of Cevital, Algeria's largest privately-held company. Cevital owns one of the largest sugar refineries globally, with the capacity to produce two million tons of refined sugar a year.
Qatar's second billionaire, Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani, owns Al Faisal Holdings and is valued at $1.6 billion. Oman's only billionaire, Suhail Bahwan, is valued at $2.3 billion.
Lebanese Jeweler Robert Mouawad is the only billionaire living in Bahrain and is valued at $1.4 billion. Najib and Taha Mikati are the only Lebanese billionaires residing in Lebanon and are worth $2.5 billion each. Bahaa, Ayman, and Fahd Hariri—sons of the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafiq Hariri now live in Europe and are worth $2 billion, $1.3 billion, and $1.1 billion, respectively.
5. Abdulla bin Ahmad Al Ghurair ( Net worth: $2.8 Billion)
Abdulla bin Ahmad Al Ghurair
Al Ghurair founded Mashreqbank, a leading United Arab Emirates bank, in 1967. He stepped down as chairman in October 2019 but remained a board member. His eponymous holding company has interests in food, construction and real estate; non-family members are part of the leadership team.
His construction company did the exterior cladding of Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, and helped build the Dubai Metro. His brother Saif Al Ghurair, who passed away in August 2019, was also a billionaire. Abdulla bin Ahmad Al Ghurair's net worth is $2.8 Billion.
4. Naguib Sawiris ( Net worth: $3.2 Billion)
Naguib Sawiris
Naguib Sawiris is the son of Egypt's wealthiest family. His brother Nassef is also a tycoon. He built a telecom fortune by developing Orascom Telecom in 2011, which was purchased by Russian telecom company VimpelCom (currently VEON) at a multibillion-dollar price tag.
Sarwat Sawiris is chairman of the telecom company Orascom TMT Investments. which has stakes in an asset manager in Egypt and Italian internet company Italiaonline, among others. Sawiris owns 88% of pan-European pay-TV and video news network Euronews through his Media Globe Holdings. He also developed a luxury resort called Silversands on the Caribbean island of Grenada. Naguib Sawiris's net worth is $3.2 Billion.
3. Majid Al Futtaim ( Net worth: $3.6 Billion)
Majid Al Futtaim founded Majid Al Futtaim Holding, known formerly as MAF, in 1992. MAF owns 13 hotels and 26 malls, including the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai and the Mall of Egypt in Cairo. It also has the exclusive license to operate hypermarkets for French company Carrefour across the Middle East,
North Africa and Central Asia. His son Tariq sits on the board while non-family members manage the conglomerate, which publishes its revenues and profits annually. The group had $9.4 billion in revenue in 2018 but registered a slight loss because of a market downturn. Majid Al Futtaim's net worth is $3.6 Billion.
2. Issad Rebrab ( Net worth: $4.8 Billion)
Issad Rebrab
Issad Rebrab is the founder and CEO of Cevital, Algeria's largest privately-held company. Cevital owns one of the largest sugar refineries in the world, with the ability to produce over 2 million tons a year. In addition, Cevital owns European businesses, including French home appliances manufacturer Groupe Brandt,
an Italian steel mill and a German water purification company. After serving eight months in jail on corruption charges, Rebrab was released on January 1, 2020. He denies any wrongdoing. Issad Rebrab's net worth is $4.8 Billion.
1. Nassef Sawiris ( Net worth: $8.3 Billion)
Nassef Sawiris is an investor and a scion of Egypt's wealthiest family. His most valuable asset is a nearly 6% stake in sportswear maker Adidas. In December 2020, he acquired a 5% stake in New York-listed firm Madison Square Garden Sports, owner of the NBA Knicks and the NHL Rangers teams.
He runs OCI, one of the world's largest nitrogen fertilizer producers, with plants in Texas and Iowa; it trades on the Euronext Amsterdam exchange. Orascom Construction, an engineering and building firm, trades the Cairo exchange and Nasdaq Dubai. Nassef Sawiris's net worth is $8.3 Billion.
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Nashville Songs: Music From Season 1, Episode 2, "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)"
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Between Rayna Jaymes ( Connie Britton ) and Juliette Barnes ( Hayden Panettiere ), Deacon Claybourne ( Charles Esten ) was certainly in demand in Nashville Season 1, Episode 2, "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)." But all we wanted were the cast versions of the amazing songs. Check out where to find them below! //www.wetpaint.com/nashville/articles/nashville-songs-music-from-season-1-episode-2-i-cant-help-it-if-im-still-in-love-with-you?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wetpaint%2Flatest%2Fexcerpt+%28Wetpaint+Network+%28Excerpt%29%29
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Nashville "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)" episode 2 airs Wednesday Oct 17, 2012 at 10 pm on ABC. Episode Synopsis: Teddy's mayoral campaign is moving ahead and Rayna reluctantly endures an investigation that reveals some explosive family secrets. Meanwhile Coleman Carlisle is starting to lay down the groundwork for his campaign when he discovers Lamar is poised to go head to head with him… even if it means exposing his longtime friend; Juliette, who will stop at nothing when it comes to getting her hands on Deacon, sees him perform with Rayna at the Bluebird, and it's clear that not all feelings fade with time; and Scarlett is torn between pursuing her dream of songwriting with Gunnar and her commitment to Avery, on "Nashville," WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. Read More... //www.tvequals.com/2012/10/17/nashville-abc-episode-2-i-cant-help-it-if-im-still-in-love-with-you/
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Q: Text over the image/button How to make text over the image/button using html/css.
Eg: I have a button(Login Button). I want the text "Login" to be placed over that button. The text should be center of the image/button.

A: You can simply set the background-image property of the relevant button (or other element if you are using in place of a button).
Note that you can control height/vertical centering of the text using line-height, however, if the text is multi-line this may have other issues, so you may wish to resort to using padding, or a sub element with top:50%;tranform:translateY(-50%);
If using a semantically valid button element, text is center aligned by default, otherwise simply set text-align:center

button {
  line-height: 50px;
  width: 300px;
}
button.imgButton {
  color: white;
  background-image: url(http://abdpbt.com/tech/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/gradient.jpg);
  background-size:cover; /* <-- scale the image to cover the button */
  background-position:center center; /* <-- center the image in the button */
}
<button>Normal Button</button>

<button class='imgButton'>Image Button</button>

A: Try this,
HTML Code:
<input type="submit" value="Login" class="myButton"/>

CSS:
.myButton {
    background-color:#44c767;
    border-radius:28px;
    border:1px solid #18ab29;
    display:inline-block;
    cursor:pointer;
    color:#ffffff;
    font-family:Arial;
    font-size:17px;
    padding:16px 31px;
    text-decoration:none;
    text-shadow:0px 1px 0px #2f6627;
}
.myButton:hover {
    background-color:#5cbf2a;
}
.myButton:active {
    position:relative;
    top:1px;
}

A: Centering in front of an image
If you need to center text over an image, you might want to wrap your img in a div, use positioning on the img itself as well as the text.
You would then be able to center this using transforms (supporting multi-lined text).
demo

.wrap {
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
  height: 300px;
  width: 300px;
}
img {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
}
p {
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  display: inline-block;
  transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
  font-size: 20px;
  color: tomato;
  font-weight: bold;
}

some text

Images with buttons
Since button elements are centered automatically by default, you're issue would be to add an image to the button.
This can be achieved using the background-image property.
So in your CSS use something like:
background-image:url(http://lorempixel.com/200/200);

adjusting the size using
background-size:100% 100%;

to stretch it to the full size of the button.

A: Encapsulate the text between the button tags.
In CSS, select the button and do something like this
#button {
    text-align: center;
}

A: Here you can find your code
take a look at bootstrap framework as well
http://jsfiddle.net/Lw2nhc26/

    Button

.button {
    padding:10px;
    background-color:#000000;
    width 100%;
    color:#FFFFFF;
    text-align: center;
    border-radius:5px;
}

A: Use this code. It will take centre alignment by default.
<button type="button">This is Button</button>

A: As I mentioned in my comment, you can have a div with background image.
HTML

    Login

CSS
div{
    background-image:url("http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d4/androa.jpg");
    width: 200px;
    height: 100px;
    color: white;
    text-align: center;
    line-height: 100px;
    font-weight: bold;
}

Fiddle

A: How about using a table?  You can find an example here: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
Otherwise it might look something like this:

Machine Name

        <asp:TextBox ID="txtMachineName" ClientIDMode="Static" CssClass="form-control" MaxLength="256" runat="server" required="required"></asp:TextBox>

Serial Number

        <asp:TextBox ID="serialNumber" ClientIDMode="Static" CssClass="form-control" MaxLength="256" runat="server" required="required"></asp:TextBox>

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Vienna's Classic Hollywood
Vintage Hollywood films and stars
RAY TEAL
A face you immediately recognise. RAY TEAL (1902-1976) had a 4 decade career starting in 1937. Never out of work I imagine, Ray had many uncredited roles for a long time, then in 1946 he got the part of Little John in THE BANDIT OF SHERWOOD FOREST.
Ray Teal on far left, Edgar Buchanan (Friar Tuck), John Abbott, Cornel Wilde, Anita Louise, Russell Hicks. BANDIT OF SHERWOOD FOREST.
Ray has one powerful scene in THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, as the Axis sympathiser who tells 'Homer' (Harold Russell) that his sacrifice was in vain – Ray gets a swift punch from Dana Andrews.
ACE IN THE HOLE. What a trio – Ray with Jan Sterling and Kirk Douglas. Ray may be a sheriff in this classic, but he is up to no good!
Ray In the centre of this photo.
One I've never seen, also from 1946. Ray plays a villainous ship's captain in this Monogram release about sunken treasure. Eddie Albert starred.
John Hodiak, David Brian, John Derek, Ray Teal
In AMBUSH AT TOMAHAWK GAP(1953), Ray is one of four robbers released from prison who go after the money that landed them in prison.
Ray was a natural in westerns whatever side of the law he was on. He had the moustachioed rough looks to be type cast as mean and treacherous, but surprisingly he often played good guys.
According to IMDB, Ray appeared in 21 films in 1948 and 14 in 1949!
Randolph Scott, James Westerfield, Ray Teal. DECISION AT SUNDOWN.
Ray was in several Randolph Scott westerns . He had a small but crucial role in Decision At Sundown, as a local rancher who finally steps in to help the beleaguered Scott.
Ray Teal, Arthur Kennnedy, Ray Collins, Fredric March, Whit Bissell.
I know you can only see Ray in profile at far left of this photo, but it's a good reminder of the great THE DESPERATE HOURS. Ray yet again played a policeman, this time a state trooper.
William Shatner, Spencer Tracy, Ray Teal, Maximilian Schell.
Ray sits next to Spencer Tracy as one of the judges in JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG.
With Lorne Greene in BONANZA. Ray had a long running role as Sheriff Roy Coffee from 1960 to 1972.
Ray was in every TV series you care to name in the 50s and 60s.
Just one of the great character actors of classic Hollywood.
Be sure to check out all the other great character performers in the 2018 WHAT A CHARACTER BLOGATHON.
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Patricia Nolan-Hall (@CaftanWoman) on December 16, 2018 at 12:52 am said:
I grew up watching Ray Teal as Roy Coffee on Bonanza, and the more older films I watched the more I became impressed with the versatility of this former musician. I imagine casting directors shaking their heads over whether to cast him as a good citizen or an outlaw as he made every role believable.
Vienna on December 16, 2018 at 8:39 am said:
He was such a good villain! Yet managed to play good guys too. Says a lot for casting directors that they didn't pidgeon-hole him.
Jacqueline T. Lynch on December 16, 2018 at 1:32 am said:
What a great choice for this blogathon. I love Ray Teal. Even as a creep, he was genuine, and you had to smile at him.
He was so believable in any role however small.
Deirdre on December 16, 2018 at 7:20 am said:
I recognised the face but could never have told you his name! Very interesting.
So many of the great character actors were immediately recognisable.
Colin on December 16, 2018 at 11:00 am said:
An extremely versatile actor who could play good or bad guys, and those existing precariously in between, with consummate ease. His is a name it's invariably a pleasure to see among the credits of a movie.
Vienna on December 16, 2018 at 12:24 pm said:
Yep, versatile's the word.
J P SIMPSON on December 16, 2018 at 12:42 pm said:
Ashamed to say I have never heard of him but will look out for him in future.
You've probably seen him in lots of films.
john k on December 16, 2018 at 3:12 pm said:
Mighty fine to see a tribute to the splendid Mr Teal.
My favourite Ray role; the incredibly slimy horse trader
in GUNMAN'S WALK. You can actually see the cogs tick over
in Ray's mind as he conducts his dodgy deals.
Vienna on December 16, 2018 at 3:53 pm said:
Slimy is s good word to describe Ray at his nastiest!
J P SIMPSON on December 16, 2018 at 6:44 pm said:
Vienna The Arnelo Affair, which you mentioned in a previous post, is now on You Tube. Eve Arden and Joan Woodbury in the supporting cast.
Thanks, Jim.
J-Dub on December 16, 2018 at 8:09 pm said:
For the longest time, I didn't know Ray Teal's name. He was "That guy…you know, that guy Dana Andrews belts in Best Years of Our Lives." Awesome read!
It's great to be able to name some of these wonderful actors. Ray will definitely be remembered for that scene in Best Years…
Chrisk on December 17, 2018 at 7:41 am said:
Ray had one of his biggest role in his career in The Burning Hills, a western with Tab Hunter and Nathalie Wood. Best regards.
Vienna on December 17, 2018 at 11:14 am said:
Haven't seen that one. Looks like a strong cast.
Marsha Collock on December 17, 2018 at 3:13 pm said:
Oooh – one of my favorites! My cinematic tail always wags a bit when I see him on screen (in the "happy to see you!" way). I, too, first met him on "Bonanza," and, as the years unfolded, was more and more amazed at how many time I came across him in film and on TV. Great post and great entry in the blogathon.
Good to know Ray is so well regarded.
Silver Screenings on December 17, 2018 at 9:42 pm said:
I'm one of those who always recognize Ray Teal, but am a little ashamed to say I never knew his name. However, I know he always gives a good performance no matter what the role.
Thanks for helping me become better acquainted. 🙂
Jocelyn on December 18, 2018 at 1:45 pm said:
Another one I didn't know! Yay! Thanks for bringing him to life. As you said, I do recognize him just a bit. I will be on the lookout for him in more Westerns, and in any film from 1948 or 1949! 🙂
Yes, he was in so many films in these two years in the 40s.
Coquitlam sports on November 19, 2019 at 8:02 am said:
Excellent choice! He brought a steady and in charge kind of feel to most every role — didn't hurt that he was constantly playing cops, sheriffs or prison guards! Like most, Roy Coffee is what I remember most but he did a good turn as a crooked cop in Ace in the Hole (as mentioned)… It's hard to imagine but apparently he was a band leader before catching the acting bug!
Vienna on November 19, 2019 at 7:28 pm said:
How interesting to hear Ray was a band leader.
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In 2018, Crossing guards earned an average of $22,253, $31,636 less than than the average national salary of $53,888.
Personal care aides make somewhat more than Crossing guards while Manicurists and pedicurists make somewhat less. This chart shows the various occupations closest to Crossing guards as measured by average annual salary in the US.
In 2018, Crossing guards had a wage GINI coefficient of 0.503, which is higher than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly for Crossing guards (shown in red) than for the overall labor force (shown in gray).
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Clearfield, McKean, Elk, Potter & Cameron Counties PUMA, PA
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This map shows the Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) in the United States shaded by average annual wage for Crossing guards.
PUMAs with a Relatively High Concentration of Crossing guards
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Cayuga & Onondaga (South) Counties PUMA, NY
Bergenfield, Paramus, Dumont & New Milford Boroughs PUMA, NJ
This map displays which Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) in the United States have a relatively high population of Crossing guards.
The most common industries employing Crossing guards, by number of employees, are Justice, public order, & safety activities , Elementary & secondary schools, and Construction.
The highest paying industries for Crossing guards, by average wage, are Rail transportation, Construction, Construction, Services incidental to transportation, Other administrative & other support services, and Executive offices & legislative bodies.
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The number of people employed as Crossing guards has been growing at a rate of 7.17%, from 57,291 people in 2017 to 61,400 people in 2018.
This graphic shows the share of Crossing guards employed by various industries. Justice, public order, & safety activities employs the largest share of Crossing guards at 35.6%, followed by Elementary & secondary schools with 21% and Construction with 19.5%.
Demographic information on Crossing guards in the US. The average age of male Crossing guards in the workforce is 52.6 and of female Crossing guards is 53.6, and the most common race/ethnicity for Crossing guards is White.
55.3% of Crossing guards are Female, making them the more common gender in the occupation. This chart shows the gender breakdown of Crossing guards.
Most Common Race or Ethnicity of Crossing guards
66.9% of Crossing guards are White, making that the most common race or ethnicity in the occupation. Representing 22% of Crossing guards, Black is the second most common race or ethnicity in this occupation. This chart shows the racial and ethnic breakdown of Crossing guards.
The median age of Crossing guards is 53.2, and Male employees are generally 0.944 years younger than than their Female counterparts.
Data on higher education choices for Crossing guards from The Department of Education and Census Bureau. The most common major for Crossing guards is Business but a relatively high number of Crossing guards hold a major in Social Sciences.
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Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for Crossing guards from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Crossing guards need many skills, but most especially Active Listening, Speaking, and Monitoring. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Crossing guards need more than the average amount of Service Orientation, Social Perceptiveness, and Coordination.
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Lehigh Valley Flashback July 27: In 2004, former Kutztown star John Mobley ends NFL career because of injury
By Morning Call Staff
A look back at Lehigh Valley sports stories over the years from July 27.
Denver Broncos linebacker and former Kutztown University star John Mobley carries the ball after intercepting a pass from New England quarterback Drew Bledsoe and returns it 13 yards for a touchdown during a Monday night game on Oct. 6, 1997, at Denver's Mile High Stadium. (JAY JANNER / AP)
2004—Denver releases former Kutztown University All-American linebacker John Mobley because of a lingering neck injury that would keep him from playing in the upcoming season. Mobley, the team's first-round pick in 1996, suffered the injury while making a tackle the previous Oct. 26, and a physical before training camp reveals the bruise is still present. The Broncos leave the door open for Mobley, who had started 102 of 105 games during his career and helped them win two Super Bowl titles, to return when healthy, but the injury ultimately forces him to retire.
1999—Jay Rothenhauser hits three homers for Martins Creek in a 13-5 Blue Mountain League victory over Lower Nazareth.
1980—Neil Bonnett holds off Buddy Baker on the last lap to win the Coca-Cola 500 before 80,000 race fans at Pocono International Raceway.
1980—Tim Fisher's grand slam helps Hellertown (27-3) tie the Blue Mountain League's record for wins in a season and leads the Royals to their 17th straight victory, a 16-3 drubbing of Saylorsburg. The winning streak ends two nights later in a 10-4 loss to Martins Creek, the Creekers' third win over Hellertown.
1974—After using a City vs. Suburban format for its first three seasons, the LARC football classic changes to an East-West match-up for the first time, and Allen quarterback Mark Smith leads the West to a 21-6 win before 10,000 fans at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium. Smith completes 9-of-14 passes for 95 yards in the first half to set up two touchdowns, then scores himself in the second half.
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Ah, the Tennessee River. The majestic waterway weaves its way through the state that is its namesake, threading in and out of Alabama and Mississippi before pouring into the mighty Ohio River in Paducah, Kentucky. It's 652 miles of idyllic, Southern nature, but for one man, over the course of thirty-four days, it combined its idyllicism with pure labor.
Like many Southern rivers, the Tennessee was once an important waterway for traders, trappers, and townsmen. Along its shores settlements have long arisen, from the temporary sites of Native Americans to the timbered towns of settlers. Its natural beauty and rich waters drew homesteaders for generations.
Many of the cities that still exist along the Tennessee today are remnants of the river's trading boom—including Paducah. Set at the confluence of two rivers, the Kentucky town served as a hub for two trade routes, pulling merchants from both the Ohio and the Tennessee.
Thanks to the invention of steamboats in the early nineteenth century, trade in Paducah doubled since boats could now travel upstream to deliver goods to the riverside city, as well as downstream to take merchandise to far-off destinations like Natchez and New Orleans. Trade continues on the Tennessee even today, the steamboats of yore replaced with modern tugboats and barges.
Cities like Paducah have the river to thank for their successes, both historic and modern. The Tennessee continues to define the town today, both as a merchant waterway and as a natural destination, its glittering, dancing waters a draw for outdoorsmen and athletes alike. And apparently for scientist-athletes as well, especially those concerned for the health of our rivers and the communities they support.
In 2014 German professor Andreas Fath performed the unthinkable when he swam the length of Europe's Rhine River. The 764-mile journey took the swimmer twenty-eight days. Carried by the cool and quick current, Fath beat the world record for the swim—and all the while, he was on the job, simultaneously collecting samples from the river. When he took those samples back to his team at Furtwangen University, the professor was astounded by the pollutants he found in the water, including residue from artificial sweeteners, dishwasher tabs, and painkillers, as well as microplastics, more than 130 foreign substances in total.
On the other side of the Atlantic Martin Knoll is professor of geology and hydrology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. When Knoll heard of Fath's endeavor and findings, an idea was born to conduct a similar project on his native Tennessee River. The trade and travel that had long defined the region and built cities like Paducah, Knoll knew, had also perhaps inadvertently damaged the river on which they were founded. What pollutants sift through the waters of the Tennessee, Knoll asked, and how do we reverse them? Together with other universities and organizations in the United States, Fath and Knoll joined forces to create the TenneSwim project in order to answer those questions.
In the summer of 2017, Fath once again donned his swim cap and took to Southern waters for the new multifaceted TenneSwim project. With the support of his team—which included a guiding kayak to mark "The Magic Line," or racing line he was aiming for, and a pontoon boat stocked for mobile eating and researching—the professor swam the length of the river in thirty-four days. Fath took only one rest day over the course of his swim, which was made far more difficult than his sister-swim on the Rhine because of the Tennessee's sluggish current, warm temperatures, and the nine reservoirs he had to slog across along the way.
At eight hours every day, swimming literally became Fath's job. As he swam, he and his accomplices collected daily water samples for analysis in order to create a "report card" for the Tennessee River.
Fath was buoyed as much by the crowds of supporters that showed up as the current itself. Local swim clubs sent contingents to swim alongside the swimmer for portions of the trip, and Fath was also occasionally joined by his family. Another fellow swimmer was Mimi Hughes, the only other person to have swum the length of the river. Fath beat Hughes's swim time to establish a new world record.
Fath's intention in the swim was to garner attention for the river as much as it was to gather its samples. By raising awareness about the pollution of the world's rivers and easy ways to arrest our poor habits, Fath hopes to help keep our rivers—Southern or otherwise—idyllic for generations to come.


A country-pop singer and songwriter out of Knoxville, Tennessee, Kelsea Ballerini started writing songs when she was 13 years old, began learning guitar a year later, and moved to Nashville at 15 to pursue her dream of being a professional singer and songwriter. Four years later in 2013, when she was 19, Ballerini signed a publishing deal with Black River Publishing and a recording deal with Black River Entertainment later that same year. A debut single, "Love Me Like You Mean It," appeared from the label in 2014; the single slowly became a big hit, reaching number five on the Billboard country singles charts and number one on its country airplay charts. A digital EP, simply titled Kelsea Ballerini, was released in November 2014, and as word about Ballerini spread, she was named one of 2014's Next Women of Country by CMT and appeared on the Grand Ol' Opry for the first time on February 13, 2015.
In May 2015, Black River released Ballerini's first full-length album, The First Time; it debuted at four on Billboard's U.S. country charts and 31 on the Billboard Top 200, eventually going gold. In June 2017, Ballerini released "Legends," the first single from her follow-up LP Unapologetically, which appeared in November. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply..


I've never ruled a kingdom. Have you? The closest I've ever gotten was the Kingdom of Hyrule (if you don't get that reference, you're dead to me).
Proverbs 29, as I've quoted above, has a few things regarding the rule of kings. Now, in our context it's hard to equate the meaning of kingdoms since we live in a democracy. The people have the power to vote and all that jazz. This is continued in Proverbs theme of living in Righteousness/Wisdom or Folly/Wickedness. These are proverbs of observation of what we all see in the world on our smart phones or computers or television screens every day: The results of following the path of wickedness/foolishness.
Yes, the list continues to grow.
Coming from an Evangelical Christian point of view, we as believers mourn these evils just as much as the next person. We should not take delight in any person who suffers or dies, no matter who that person may be. Those are unnatural things.
This should reassure the oppressed that justice will come. This should also serve as a warning to those serving the kingdom of darkness that their time is running out!
In the Kingdom of Jesus, which we as Christians are to represent while on earth, means we seek to better the world around us, because Jesus seeks redemption of all things. We are to love one another, as the music video suggests. But I would go one further on the "Kite String."
This wisdom we've been reading about in Proverbs? It's the string that ties us. The wisdom of God that created the universe and the resurrecting power of the Spirit of God, who resides in us, is the string that ties us.
We are only free in the way God sees fit. He's God. Who are we to argue what freedom really means? He wants us to follow the heart, soul, and mind of Christ because being in unity with God is the very reason we were created!
I look forward to the day we can soar, freely worshiping and fellowshipping with the One who has known be before I was even in my mother's womb.
29 years, 364 days, 14 hours, 53 minutes.... that seems like awhile.
But eternity, freely being a son of God, will be longer... and much better. May the string that holds me never be snapped.


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HASTINGS Valley Vikings have thoroughly thrashed Coffs Harbour Snappers in a grand final rematch for the ages. The Snappers claimed a grand final win when the two sides last met at Oxley Oval but looked deflated as the Vikings produced a monster 49-26 thumping at Oxley on Saturday, May 11. The Reserves also taking home a 20-14 win. The win continues a strong run for the black and green men as they row along at the top of the ladder from a 64-12 victory over Kempsey the week before. Vikings coach Andrew Kable said the Snappers appeared to be off their game. "We certainly set ourselves some goals in respect to the way we play and for most of the first half the guys were able to really get their head around things and as a result they dominated their opposition," he said. "I don't think Coffs Harbour were at their best yesterday and they certainly improved in the second half, it was very uncharacteristic for them to be missing tackles the way they were. "It's a bit difficult to get a read on it, but the lines our guys were running, I was really happy with it. "(However) we missed plenty of kicks yesterday and obviously its something quite concerning. "We are going to have to find ourselves a goal kicker or get the guys who are kicking at goals to do some work." As the Vikings cruised through the match, new and returning players were rotated off the bench to gain some much needed experience before the Viking's upcoming away game showdown with the Port Macquarie Pirates. "We made a number of changes in the second half, giving guys in the reserve grade some experience at first grade in key positions," said Kable. "We did drop off a little without offence and it was disappointing to let them get a bonus point just before the end of the game through scoring four tries. "That's something that we will have to look at, just maintaining our concentration for the whole 90 minutes. "We gave Lyndon Gale a run this season, he's come back from a pretty serious shoulder injury last year and he enjoyed his time out there. "Ben Cutler went out to replace Adam at halfback and he'll get more opportunities throughout the season. "I'm not going to say they will get bumped up but they will certainly get more opportunities on the bench to play if others aren't performing." Halfback Adam McCormack was again dominant in the middle, securing the player of the day award - while Peter Segal collected the players award for the day. "Adam picked up some points yesterday for the player of the day award, he was outstanding," said Kable. "We gave him a rest with twenty minutes to go, he's been around a long time and he certainly knows his craft, he's an important part of our team." The run of triumphant games continues for the Vikings who are not leaving home until they face Port Macquarie Pirates. "It was a grand final replay, obviously Coffs beat them on Oxley Oval last year," said Kable. "That's a fair motivator for the boys. "So far so good, we're undefeated but we're only a third of the way through and we'll see how we go in a couple of weeks time against the Pirates. "We'll probably give the boys a bit of a light run on Tuesday, there is a few bad bodies there. "We'll continue working on our defensive patterns and set piece." While you're with us, you can now receive updates straight to your inbox from the Port Macquarie News. To make sure you're up to date with all the news, SIGN UP HERE.
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Hastings Valley Vikings defeat Coffs Harbour Snappers, 49-26
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Vikings: Halfback Adam McCormack charging for the line against Coffs Harbour Snappers.
HASTINGS Valley Vikings have thoroughly thrashed Coffs Harbour Snappers in a grand final rematch for the ages.
The Snappers claimed a grand final win when the two sides last met at Oxley Oval but looked deflated as the Vikings produced a monster 49-26 thumping at Oxley on Saturday, May 11.
The Reserves also taking home a 20-14 win.
The win continues a strong run for the black and green men as they row along at the top of the ladder from a 64-12 victory over Kempsey the week before.
Grand final rematch: Snappers search for the line against Vikings.
Vikings coach Andrew Kable said the Snappers appeared to be off their game.
"We certainly set ourselves some goals in respect to the way we play and for most of the first half the guys were able to really get their head around things and as a result they dominated their opposition," he said.
"I don't think Coffs Harbour were at their best yesterday and they certainly improved in the second half, it was very uncharacteristic for them to be missing tackles the way they were.
"It's a bit difficult to get a read on it, but the lines our guys were running, I was really happy with it.
"(However) we missed plenty of kicks yesterday and obviously its something quite concerning.
"We are going to have to find ourselves a goal kicker or get the guys who are kicking at goals to do some work."
Oxley Oval showdown: Snappers and Vikings hoist high for the line-out.
As the Vikings cruised through the match, new and returning players were rotated off the bench to gain some much needed experience before the Viking's upcoming away game showdown with the Port Macquarie Pirates.
"We made a number of changes in the second half, giving guys in the reserve grade some experience at first grade in key positions," said Kable.
"We did drop off a little without offence and it was disappointing to let them get a bonus point just before the end of the game through scoring four tries.
"That's something that we will have to look at, just maintaining our concentration for the whole 90 minutes.
"We gave Lyndon Gale a run this season, he's come back from a pretty serious shoulder injury last year and he enjoyed his time out there.
"Ben Cutler went out to replace Adam at halfback and he'll get more opportunities throughout the season.
"I'm not going to say they will get bumped up but they will certainly get more opportunities on the bench to play if others aren't performing."
Halfback Adam McCormack was again dominant in the middle, securing the player of the day award - while Peter Segal collected the players award for the day.
"Adam picked up some points yesterday for the player of the day award, he was outstanding," said Kable.
"We gave him a rest with twenty minutes to go, he's been around a long time and he certainly knows his craft, he's an important part of our team."
Looking for the line: Vikings search for a way forward before halftime.
The run of triumphant games continues for the Vikings who are not leaving home until they face Port Macquarie Pirates.
"It was a grand final replay, obviously Coffs beat them on Oxley Oval last year," said Kable.
"That's a fair motivator for the boys.
"So far so good, we're undefeated but we're only a third of the way through and we'll see how we go in a couple of weeks time against the Pirates.
"We'll probably give the boys a bit of a light run on Tuesday, there is a few bad bodies there.
"We'll continue working on our defensive patterns and set piece."
Oxley Oval: Snappers moving down the line against Vikings.
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Examining the Efficiency of Rule-Based Machine Translation
Burns, Kyle Joseph
Computer Science (Behrend)
Richard Zhao, Thesis Supervisor
Meng Su, Honors Advisor
Hidden Markov Models
Rules-Based Machine Translation
Regardless of the advancements in technology, humans will always need language to communicate with one another. There are over 7,000 recognized languages around the world, and while not all of them are widely used, this still presents trouble for communicating across language barriers.1 Machine Translation has existed for decades, and the field has split into different schools of translation, mainly statistical machine translation and rules-based machine translation. Statistical machine translation, a method based heavily on probabilities adapted from pre-compiled language texts, is a faster approach but is more prone to errors, while rule-based translations, which require native speakers to notate all the rules of a language in a computer digestible format, are traditionally more accurate, with the tradeoff of being slower. The purpose of this experiment is to examine if a rules-based machine translation system can be improved enough to match a statistical based translation system in the amount of time needed for translations, while still retaining the accuracy of a rules-based translation system. This experiment, using various modified versions of the Apertium English to Spanish translation system which were ran on a testing corpus of 200 sentences, shows that a rules-based system can be moderately improved in time, but not to the extent of matching or overtaking a statistical system.
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Share this Story: Letter of the Day: Clear cutting along rail lines was wrong
Letter of the Day: Clear cutting along rail lines was wrong
The brutal approach taken by the rail company leaves much to be desired, writes John J. Penner.
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I wish to bring your attention to the clear cutting of vegetation along the CP/CN rail line in Saskatoon along 33rd Street from Second Avenue North to Spadina Crescent, which occurred in April of this year.
There was a substantial growth of trees along the north and south sides of the tracks which buffered the rail line from the City Park residential neighbourhood on the south and the North Park residential neighbourhood to the north.
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The clear cutting of these trees left both neighbourhoods completely exposed to the noise, light and sight of the freight trains moving through this residential area. Clear cutting may also facilitate erosion on such a steep embankment.
This work was done without any public consultation or consideration of the consequential impact on the neighbourhoods. If the rail company cared at all about the impact of the landscaping along the tracks, it would have instead cleaned up the garbage that has accumulated on its property for many years and done a property inspection annually with followup maintenance.
The brutal approach taken by the rail company leaves much to be desired and is an abdication of its corporate public responsibility.
I hope that this type of insensitive approach to property management is not the norm and that a more considerate maintenance regime will be considered in the future, perhaps actually including landscape plans along your tracks in the city.
Deliberate planting of boulevard type trees along the edge of the railway right-of-way would be a better alternative to the clear cutting of volunteer "scrub" trees.
John J. Penner
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An investigation has found that European researchers have cooperated with China's National University of Defense Technology, whose purpose is to "Strengthen the Armed Forces and the Nation."
By Naomi Conrad, Esther Felden, Sandra Petersmann
The promotional video for China's elite National University of Defense Technology is set to dramatic music. In quick succession, soldiers run behind tanks, guns blazing, followed by uniformed NUDT professors addressing attentive students.
"We dedicate our lives to the modernization of the national defense army," a narrator intones.
The NUDT is the alma mater of a Chinese student who subsequently did his PhD in Germany, conducting research that may have had potential military applications.
Yet the German professor who supervised the student's PhD readily admitted in a recent phone call that he had never given his student's military affiliation much thought.
A note of regret crept into the professor's voice as he recalled the friendly and "outstanding" student, whom he had been proud to host at his institute of computer sciences in a small university town. He said he had been sorry to see the student return to China once his Chinese scholarship ran out.
Upon going back to China, the student took a job with the NUDT.
His former German host knows little about the exact nature of the man's research. "When you're at NUDT," the professor told DW, "you're not allowed to talk about your work."
Run by the Communist Party's Central Military Commission, the NUDT plays a crucial role in military research, from hypersonic and nuclear weapons to quantum supercomputers, said Alex Joske, an independent researcher who until 2020 tracked military institutes and labs in China as an analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Researchers across Europe have forged close ties with scientists from the NUDT, whose mission is written in bold characters on a gargantuan stone slab close to the campus's College of Computer Sciences: "Excel in Virtue and Knowledge; Strengthen the Armed Forces and the Nation."
From AI to robotics to quantum
Under the lead of the Dutch outlet Follow the Money and the German investigative nonprofit CORRECTIV, DW and 10 European newsrooms collaborated for several months on the China Science Investigation, which found nearly 3,000 scientific publications by researchers affiliated with European universities and their counterparts at military-linked institutions in China — most notably the NUDT.
Though it is possible that some papers may relate to the same research projects, the overall figure gives an estimate of the extent of the cooperation.
The joint publications ranged from artificial intelligence and robotics to quantum research: fields that explore what are often referred to as emerging technologies. These are set to reshape the ways in which we communicate, socialize, drive and, crucially, conduct — and win or lose — wars.
In a future in which the countries with the most powerful algorithms and computers are set to dictate the world order, it shouldn't come as a surprise that China, in its stated quest to establish itself as the global superpower, is actively pursuing this expertise abroad. This includes sponsoring top Chinese researchers to study internationally.
Military personnel are among them, Joske said. "For every couple of papers that are published, you will possibly also see an actual Chinese military officer who's worked and studied at a European university and built a relationship that's led to these collaborations and research papers," he said.
As many Chinese students are funded by lucrative government scholarships, they are particularly attractive to European institutes and research groups, which are often strapped for cash. The joint research, DW and its partners have found, may, in essence, represent a transfer of knowledge from European scientists to the Chinese military.
More than 200 projects in Germany
Nearly half of the studies gathered by DW and its media partners were published by NUDT-affiliated scientists and researchers at universities in the UK, followed by the Netherlands and Germany. In the latter case, at least 230 papers were published from 2000 through early 2022.
DW and its German partners, CORRECTIV, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Deutschlandfunk, found several problematic publications among those. The studies were conducted with researchers at the University of Bonn and University of Stuttgart and through the prestigious Fraunhofer organization in fields such as quantum research, artificial intelligence, and computer vision.
DW has decided not to name the titles of papers and the scientists to protect individuals from retribution at home and abroad. And, given the scale of collaboration across Europe, DW does not believe that individuals should be singled out. It is very likely that there are more potentially problematic papers in the data set that have yet to be identified as such.
'Have to make a real effort not to see the dual-use application'
Several independent researchers confirmed that the research described in the papers might indeed have — to varying degrees — potential dual-use applications. In other words: The research could serve civilian as well as defense or security purposes.
One paper was published in 2021, the others within the past five years. In some studies, such as one on tracking groups of people, the application was immediately clear. One would "have to make a real effort not to see the dual-use applications here — you can't rule out that it can be used to track Uyghurs," one researcher said, referring to the Muslim minority that China has submitted to a systematic and forced program of "reeducation" in detention camps and all-encompassing surveillance.
The study was published together with a researcher from the NUDT who had received numerous military awards prior to publication.
Another paper delves into encrypted quantum communication. Several experts agreed that, though this field is at a very early stage, the research may eventually have potential dual-use applications, such as shielding military communication from eavesdropping.
Dual-use application not always easy to foresee
In a paper that aims to estimate the depth of objects, the potential military application was less clear-cut. "We could imagine that an adversary might have low-quality images they want to estimate depth from but can't without this," one expert wrote in an email to DW and its partners.
"At the same time, however, this could be exceedingly useful for, for example, open-source confirmation of covert sites by repressive governments and a range of peaceful activities," he continued. "We have a dual-use issue where the balance of risks and benefits are not clear."
Members of Chinese People's Liberation Army attend a flag-raising ceremony at Tiananmen Square, in Beijing, China, June 16, 2021.
And that leads to the heart of the problem: Military applications are not always easy to see and even less easy to foresee. Drones, for example, can be used to spray fields with fertilizers — or to gun down opponents in a war zone.
Scientific research is like a tower constructed out of a big pile of Lego bricks. Each researcher or institute adds a different colored brick until eventually a structure emerges that becomes clear for all to see. The difficulty in predicting potentially problematic applications is particularly acute in the field of basic research, as opposed to applied research, which is conducted with a certain application in mind.
Alex Joske said the line between basic and applied research could be "gray and unclear: One year you work on AI and algorithms for coordinating groups of objects, and the next year that very same research could be applied to military drone swarms, for example."
And, while scientists may set out with benign applications in mind, they can be co-opted — or coerced — to put their research to a different use.
In China, the omnipotent Communist Party has lifted all boundaries between civilian and military aspects of life: Anything and anybody can be commandeered for military purposes, including scientists.
Dual-use export regulations
In Germany, it's up to individual researchers to determine whether their research does indeed have a dual-use application. If it does, they need to apply for an export license for joint publications with scientists based outside of the European Union or for guest lectures abroad with the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA).
Universities need to provide an end-use certificate that attests to a purely civilian use. But, one export control officer told DW, whether that certificate amounts to much "is another matter".
DW and its partners sent the list of potentially problematic publications to BAFA and the involved universities to determine if they had been granted export licenses. BAFA declined to comment on individual papers.
The NUDT also did not respond to questions.
In a written response to another inquiry, one German institute stressed that it was aware of its responsibility when it came to "academic freedom and risks." Though officials declined to comment on individual papers, the university asserted that each case was given careful consideration, particularly when it came to "sensitive topics of cooperation."
A spokesman for another university wrote that officials were not aware of any "contractually agreed research cooperation" with the NUDT. He added that the university had abided by German laws and regulations and pointed to "written information and offers of consultation" to raise awareness among faculty and students.
Agreements with foreign partners were given careful consideration, the spokesman wrote. However, he added, the university had "not seen any reason" to apply for an export license, given that the paper was the result of basic research.
A different university stressed that the paper in question was written without "direct involvement by the NUDT" and that it, too, was based on basic research that did not meet any "dual-use concerns."
'The hand that bites you'
When it comes to basic research, there are no restrictions whatsoever. "Anything goes," another export officer said.
The logic is that placing too many restrictions on basic research and collaborations would stifle scientific advancement. But lift all controls and you may risk feeding "the hand that bites you," Didi Kirsten Tatlow, a journalist and the co-author of "China's Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage," told DW and its partners.
Tatlow cautions against working with China in certain fields, but she also concedes that all such scientific cooperation could not — and should not — be capped. Rather than treating all Chinese researchers with suspicion, Tatlow and others call for more stringent controls when it comes to research into potential dual-use technologies, and background checks for Chinese researchers along the lines of those already conducted for Iranian nationals.
For now, Tatlow said, "China feels that it can operate very freely in open societies such as Germany or the United States, and indeed it can, because we're not stopping most of these behaviors." The current situation for China, she said, is "a little bit like being a kid in a sweet shop: You can go in and take a lot of stuff."
Western courting of China
For a long time, Western countries actively courted China. Cooperation on all levels was encouraged, with China seen as a vast economic market to be tapped into.
The idea was that strong economic, scientific, and cultural ties would automatically lead to more liberalization and democratization. They didn't.
It took a while for the warning signs to trickle into the public consciousness through reports of the unlawful and arbitrary internment of Uyghurs in camps, China's active courting of authoritarian regimes, and the quashing of the last pockets of opposition on the mainland and in Hong Kong. You could warn policymakers "until you were blue in the face," one security official sighed.
It was only in the past couple of years that politicians seemingly began to heed the warnings from German security agencies that the strategy of mutual entanglement might indeed be flawed. In 2020, the German Foreign Ministry started to screen visa applications from visiting Chinese researchers more closely, DW and its partners learned from security sources. Yet universities, which one security official called "naive and obsequious" when it comes to China, seemed to see little reason to change course.
The German computer scientist readily admits that he never really gave the student's affiliation with the NUTD a second thought — at least until recently. When pressed, he conceded that his former star pupil's research might have defense applications down the line.
But, he said, sounding genuinely surprised about the line of questioning, he had never met any foreign researchers "who behaved strangely: I just don't believe they are evil people." The international scientists he has met, he said, have been purely motivated by their quest for knowledge. They are, he stressed, essentially "good people."
Even now, he does not seem overly perturbed by his former student's NUTD affiliation, though he also does not think that they could collaborate on a project at this stage, given that his Chinese colleague was not allowed to even talk about his work, let alone share specific details.
But, the computer scientist said, should his former student be employed by different university at some point in the future, "then I could well imagine working together again."
Additional reporting by a journalist at DW who wishes to remain anonymous for safety reasons.
Edited by: Milan Gagnon
This article was originally published on Deutsche Welle. Read the original article here.
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Bangladesh & New Zealand will face each other in a Cricket Series from December 26th, 2016 to January 24th, 2017. This Bangladesh vs New Zealand 2016-17 series will comprise of 2 Tests, 3 ODIs & 3 T20s. It will be a home series for New Zealand.
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Glaucoma is a condition which is characterised by damage to a certain sub set of nerve cells in the back of eye. This typically tends to happen at the level of the optic nerve. There are many different types of glaucoma, but the end affect is frequently the same for all. The end affect generally relates to loss of these important nerve cells, which can be likened to the disconnection of an electrical circuit.
Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness in the western world, and in England it is estimated that almost half a million people have glaucoma.
It is frequently the case that glaucoma will not be recognised by the patient. Most commonly it will be picked up by routine screening either when seeing an optometrist, or another eye care professional. Very occasionally glaucoma can present in an acute fashion, where the pressure can be extremely high secondary to a closed outflow of fluid from the eye. This is typically painful and presents with significantly reduced vision. This is termed "acute angle closure".
Glaucoma is typically diagnosed through the recognition of raised intraocular pressures (IOP) during an eye examination. This may sometimes prompt further investigation such as visual field testing, or alternatively optical coherence tomography (OCT) testing of the optic nerve, which may demonstrate evidence of glaucoma.
If glaucoma remains untreated for a long time, then the patient may then start to notice the peripheral vision being less sensitive. If at this point the condition is not treated, then visual field may continue to become restricted which will eventually lead to significant visual loss. Glaucoma rarely leads to total loss of sight, but can cause significant symptoms secondary to loss of peripheral vision.
Why do people get glaucoma?
There are many reasons why one person should develop glaucoma, and various risk factors are at play in the development of this condition. Glaucoma is most common in the over 40s, and so age remains a significant risk for developing glaucoma. Additional factors include genetic predisposition, race and use of certain medications can also induce glaucoma (such as steroid drops or tablets).
As many people do not even realise that they have glaucoma, one of the most important factors in managing it is regular monitoring. This will often be in the form of measuring intraocular pressures (IOP), alongside measurement of the visual field, and an examination of the eye as a whole.
Additionally more objective measurements such as optical coherent tomography (OCT) or Heidelberg Retina Tomography (HRT) of the optic nerve head will be undertaken, to allow us to determine to amount of damage that has occurred at the optic nerve (Figure 3.0 and 4.0) At the first visit, often many measurements will be taken as a baseline, in order to allow more effective management in the future.
The treatment of glaucoma can vary immensely, and ultimately this will depend on the stage of glaucoma at presentation. In the first instance, if glaucoma is diagnosed, usually we would recommend starting certain drops to use in the eye, in order to reduce the pressure. By reducing the pressure within the eye, this can prevent cell death, and hence preserve visual field.
If it becomes apparent that the prescribed drops are not lowering the pressure to an adequate degree, then there are further drops which can be added.
Sometimes it may not be possible to control the intraocular pressures to a satisfactory degree with drops alone, in which case laser can sometimes be used, or even surgery. Typically surgery is reserved for when glaucoma is difficult to manage.
What management options may become available in the future?
The treatment of glaucoma is constantly changing. This can be in the form of new drops becoming available, as well as new techniques such as laser and various surgical techniques. It is becoming increasingly popular to use techniques to control intraocular pressures at the time of having cataract surgery, such as the use of the i-stent.


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One of the first steps of the project was to carry out a feasibility study on the green jobs potential in the involved territories.
The research, coordinated by the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization, contains for each territory the baseline on Green Jobs, their projection based on a hypothetical ´What if' scenario, the skills analysis in the context of the envisaged transition to a greener economy (macroeconomic, sectorial, occupational and skills, training and education) and findings from the analysis of linking employment and social development policies with Green Economy. The report includes recommendations based on the findings of the study. The research phase included 'consensus building' meetings among project partners and key stakeholders (SMEs, Universities, public administrations, etc.), data collection and disaggregation, experts consultations and involvement of research institutes.
The report offers a general scenario of the Green Jobs situation and potential in the areas covered by the project.


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Red Centre Local's Tips: Mountain biking in Alice Springs
Think off-road transportation in the rugged terrain around Alice Springs and what usually pops into mind is the four-legged variety. Camels were used to build the telegraph line linking north and south and now they're taking visitors across this stunning but forbidding landscape.
Those who prefer to move around under their own steam and with a bit more speed and a whole lot more thrills are opting for peddle power — climbing onto a mountain bike, tearing along the hundreds of kilometres of trails encircling Alice Springs and taking in scenery that would stop the most ardent traveler in their tracks.
Other mountain biking locals around the country require hours of transportation just to get to the start line. However, the Alice Springs Mountain Bike Network is so close to town you'll be leaping over rocks, racing down hills and blissing out on the changing hues of the Red Centre not long after checking into your accommodation.
The diverse landscape, the eye-popping scenery and the easy access to well-maintained trails is why Alice Springs is enjoying a mountain-biking boom, according to local off-road enthusiast Jennifer Rajher.
"Riding in Central Australia is unlike anywhere else in the world. When you're riding through the bush the only sounds you hear are the tyres on the dirt, the birds above and the wind in the trees. All your stress just drains away and you have a real connection to nature," says Jennifer.
Canadian-born Jennifer came to Australia on a one-year working holiday visa. So taken by Alice Springs, she stayed on and now works at Outback Cycling, taking visitors on tours and introducing them to the unique way of appreciating the history, culture and beauty of Australia's mysterious heart.
"Riding a bike is such a wonderful way of engaging with Alice Springs and the beautiful country around it," says Jennifer. "You cover a lot of terrain, you can stop and take in the amazing scenery and you get to do a little bit of exercise."
Mountain biking in the Red Centre
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While the trails around Alice Springs are well-marked and there's little chance you will get lost, Jennifer still recommends riders are well-stocked with water.
"It's a bit deceiving on the trails, especially when it's a bit cooler during winter. By the time you get thirsty you're probably already dehydrated. We encourage riders to carry lots of water and to drink about a litre per hour," advises Jennifer.
Jennifer also recommends a repair kit (spare tube, levers, multi-tool, pump), a map and a cellphone. "I haven't heard of anyone getting into trouble out there, but it is always good to be prepared," says Jennifer.
The big surprise for mountain bikers hitting the trails around Alice Springs for the first time is how varied they are and how well they've been organised into a series of circuits suitable for riders of varying skill, experience and fitness levels.
The 200km or more of trails (nobody is quite sure the total length) range from old dirt roads and access trails to handmade singletracks that weave through outcrops and fast tracks that take riders through tall bush grass, many of them following the natural lines taken by wildlife.
"The variety is incredible," says Jennifer. "In an easily manageable area you could find yourself on a sharply twisting climb as you scale a ridge, rolling down a rock face into a gully or powering through a sandy singletrack surrounded on all sides by eye-level high vegetation.
"All the trails are colour-coded so riders can choose their level of difficulty. There are beginner's trails with small obstacles and shallow climbs, intermediate trails where the ground is a little lose and the gradients steeper and trails that offer real challenges for more advanced riders."
Hitting the trails
Slow down for a gander
While the tracks offer a variety of challenges, what makes Alice Springs so unique for those who want to get off the beaten track is the scenery, especially when bathed in the early morning or late afternoon sun.
"The sunrises and sunsets are unlike any I've seen anywhere in the world. They are breathtaking," says Jennifer. "There's nothing like just pulling over your bike and looking out over the desert as the colours change. It's the main reason why people come to Alice to bike."
One of the most popular stopovers for mountain bikers is the Telegraph Station, which is located in the Historical Reserve. Within this protected area there are 28 kilometres of handmade singletracks that cater for riders of every level, with signposts all along the way to allow you to relax and fully enjoy the experience.
The Telegraph Station, which was the site of the original European settlement in Alice Spring and has a museum and a café, is also the home of the Alice Springs Mountain Biking Network. Most of the mountain biking trails begin at the Telegraph Station so its a great point to kick off your Alice Springs mountain bike adventure.
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Hello, my name is Shawn. I have been an AeroGardener since February 2016. I know that is not long at all but I quickly got addicted. I own several different models totaling right now of 10+ units. I really enjoy growing Peppers, Herbs and Flowers. I have learned a lot from others and hope to be able to learn more and share what knowledge I have gained. We have a lot of knowledgeable members as well as new ones.
If you are here as a Guest and reading this, I welcome you to register and join in the conversations!
Now please jump in, introduce yourself, ask questions or just say hello!
I have finished my first lot of herbs which I was pleased with. I have planted these out as they have over grown my 6 pod unit.
I now want to try Heirloom Cherry tomatoes.
Any advice would be welcome, how many pods should I plant ?
And on garden grown tomatoes I take off the shoots that don't provide fruit is it the same for the Aerogarden ones.
Welcome! If you have purchased a kit for the 6 pod, the kit only contains 2 plants..just enough to properly fit your 6 pod machine when they are mature.
There are videos here you may enjoy which Admin Shawn has compiled from AG which will guide you in your first pruning and then further growth.
Personally I do not remove any suckers, only dead leaves from my projects and they do fine.Others may or may not..and I am sure they will jump on in.
Welcome and Hello bobh ! Happy to have you join us here.
I see Corinne already chimed in and I am sure some others will as well. I have not grown tomatoes yet so I can not help, sorry.
We do have some information in the Tomatoes Board and there is a lot of information in the How-To's Board.
Hi Bob - welcome! So glad to have you here! I have never grown the tomato kit in a Harvest, only in a tall garden so I am unschooled as to how to grow them in a short garden. That said, inexperienced though I am with them in a short garden, I would hazard a guess that you should top them after the requisite 4-6 true leaves (if that's the correct amount?) to play it safe in a short garden. But I'm not sure on this subject.
As to suckers I have never cut them from the AG kit, though I do with outdoor tomatoes. I do end up trimming a lot of what I consider excess foliage in the blooming stage, if that helps. Kate on this forum has grown amazing AG tomato kit plants. She'd know more than me.
If it were me, I might try with just 1 tomato plant to start in a Harvest, only because the company always had people grow 2 plants in the large gardens. But that's just a guess on my part. Heck, if I'm wrong about topping and you wreck the first plant, at least you have another pod to try with!
I am looking forward to seeing your tomato garden progress. Please keep us up to date with how it is going!
PS. Once you reach 4-6 leaves please re-post so we can try to offer you further advice. We can research more by then.
What machines do you own?
Welcome to the forum markreveley!
How long have you been Aerogardening? What machine(s) do you have?
Welcome droberts! How long have you been Aerogardening?
Please join us in our conversations!
How long are you Aerogardening?
With a name like that I have to hear what you like to grow Do you have many AG Units?
Welcome charly. How long have you been growing in an Aerogarden?
Welcome to our forum. How long have you been Aerogardening?
My name is Stefanos, i am from Greece and i bought my first aerogarden 12 days ago.
Well Welcome Stefanos. I would love to visit Greece one day. A friend of mine recently went and the pictures and videos were breathtaking.
Congratulations on your new Aerogarden. What unit did you purchase and what are you going to grow?
I purchase aerogarden bounty and i grow the herbs. I am thinking to buy a second unit for peppers (from seed) but my space is limited.
One of the reasons these are so great is because you can grow all kinds of things in small spaces. However I know some of our members also have space issues. Some of them even come up with cleaver ways to make more room.
I always have Peppers growing. I will suggest a large machine (Ultra or Bounty) for peppers. There are only one or two varieties that I can personally say can fit in a smaller machine.
Please post any questions you have and check out all the different boards Happy to have you hear and looking forward to seeing and hearing about your gardens.
In amazon de (The only place that i can buy aerogarden) has only 2 models. Harvest elite and bounty. I have order Black Cherry tomatoes, Habanero Chocolate peppers, Filius Blue peppers and Jalapeño Early peppers. Can i grown tomatoes and 2 peppers in the bounty? or only a tomato and a pepper?
It is recommended that you grow TWO Tomatoes OR TWO Peppers OR ONE of Each.
Also always check the heights that plants grow as the growing area is 24". Some plants if you prune/trim you can stint the growth but I can't remember if I did that of not.
Welcome Stefanos! I hope to see your herb garden, and perhaps also a pepper garden in the future.
Please jump in and introduce yourself and tell us what machines you own.


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Keeping in step with the fresh start approach to our new year we are exploring superfoods and how they benefit our total well being. Turmeric ( Curcma Longa), is a flowering plant called Zingiberaceae of the ginger family (they cousins). The roots of which are used in cooking. This beautiful golden warm spice has been around for thousands of years, native to the Indian Subcontinent, South East Asia and Africa as well. Tumeric has been known to flavor and color many dishes from around the world. You can't lose with its ability brighten up any dish from rice, curries, meats, vegetables, sauces etc. Turmeric has a warm- black pepper earthy taste and a mustard like aroma. In addition to its ability to bring color and warmth to any dish this powerful spice packs more than you may know. This little golden bright spice can be used to treat and prevent many illnesses, from breathing problems, fighting cancer growths and easing depression to name a few. This Turmeric is the truth..you can make tea ( love this in a latte.. Add a little black pepper to activate all those super-properties of the turmeric), cook your food, make a facial mask, and even take a healing bath..(stay tuned for that recipe). This baby is high on the list as a Supper Food due to its anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties.. We simply love this stuff and have found ourselves integrating more of this spice in our everyday lives.
Add the rice, stir and make sure the liquid and the rice is at the same level.
When the water level decreases and you can't see it add the vegetables, do not add the the herbs and green onion save for the very end: Peppers, Onion, peas and carrots and tomatoes.
Stir the top of the rice to incorporate your veggies, lower heat to low cover and continue cooking.
Your rice is done when all the water is completely gone. Stir in your parsley, cilantro, and green onion. Turn fire off but return the lid to steam the herbs and green onion a bit before serving.


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Book Review: The Analogy of Faith
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The Analogy of Faith: The Quest for God's Speakability
Archie J. Spencer. The Analogy of Faith: The Quest for God's Speakability. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015. pp. 445. $28.00 (paperback).
Reviewed by Michael Reed
One of the great ironies of modern theology is that in attempting to ensure we speak accurately about God we find ourselves with less and less to say. Can we have any confidence that human speech about God 'reaches' God in any meaningful or accurate way? Archie's Spencer's The Analogy of Faith: The Quest for God's Speakability labors over this foundational question. His answer—to put it in simple and Barthian fashion—is that we cannot unless God in Christ shows us how. His monograph is meant to establish the preconditions for reliable human speech about God in a Christological "analogy of faith"—that is, in the correspondence between God and humanity enacted in Jesus Christ.
Spencer's work is divided into five chapters, the first four of which provide historical overview and commentary for the concept of analogy, ranging from Plato the present day. In the first chapter, he identifies the cosmological assumptions in Platonic, Neoplatonic, and Aristotelian thoughts, which he delineates as a "Cause Effect Resemblance" (CER)—the idea that every effect bears some resemblance to its cause. In the second chapter, he argues that these assumptions make possible Aquinas' "analogy of being." Reliable human speech about the transcendent reality of God can be guaranteed by way of analogy, as long as one can safely maintain the ontological similarity and dissimilarity inherent within Creator and creation. This, Spencer seeks to argue, is both a difficult task and a shaky assumption. He argues that much of the confusion in later Catholic thought about analogy stems from Aquinas' own inconsistent development of the term.
Chapters 3 and 4 respectively turn to Barth and Jüngel. These chapters present not only a quintessentially Protestant rejection of natural theology, but an interpretation of modern agnosticism and atheism as the inevitable result of a doctrine of God predicated upon the cosmological ontology of antiquity. Following Barth, Spencer argues that reliable speech about God must be sourced in the Word of God—i.e. in Christ as the "analogy of faith." To do so, he looks to Barth's doctrine of election, and holds forth against criticism that Barth's concept of the analogia relationis becomes a kind of accidental "analogy of being." His use of Jüngel allows him to extend the content of a Christological "analogy of faith" towards sociolinguistic applications, which serves to set up his final argument. Spencer's fifth chapter contains his own contributions to the "analogy of faith," in which Christ—as Word of God—is conceived of in terms of participation, performance, and parable, thus legitimating all three for analogical use in theological speech.
Spencer's conclusions depend heavily upon the work of Karl Barth and Eberhard Jüngel; those not already predisposed towards Barth will find little new to love. A desire to speak towards a wider audience, both specialist and popular, means that the tempo and pacing of the work can a bit uneven. His journey through the history of major Christian discourses on analogy provides chronological breadth appropriate to a popular work, even while it addresses a question and genealogy of thought that likely appeals more to the specialist. Here, he devotes several hundred detailed pages to conceptions of analogy that he will comprehensibly reject. The admirable goal of introducing the reader to the full extent of debate runs up against the fact that the prose style, technical discussions, and philosophical terminology are largely unsuited to anyone not already familiar with the subject matter.
Set against this extensive historical backdrop, Spencer's own conclusions seem, by contrast, to be far more quickly sketched. One might ask whether he understands his work to represent a further extension of the Christological applications of Barth and Jüngel's work, or perhaps as a means of drawing connections between the existing Christology of these two thinkers and a larger evangelical tradition. That said, the book is a thorough and academic treatment of the theological uses of analogy. Spencer's comprehensive treatment of his subject matter is a strong-point, as is his ability to appropriate Barth for evangelical audiences in order to bring greater richness to discussions of the doctrine of God.
Michael Reed, MDiv Student, Princeton Theological Seminary