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It's that time of year again…time for the Dance Advantage Top Dance Blog contest. However, I simply don't have the time or the desire to do a ton of promotion–basically asking over and over again–to get tons of comments here on the blog and then votes over at the Dance Advantage site during later rounds (should I qualify). That said, I am entering the contest. Why? Winning or placing is always a great honor and is good for readership of this blog. The more readers I have, the more dancin' boys and parents I can reach.
Plus, entering offers me an opportunity to get feedback from my readers.
Here's the thing: I'm going to tell you how to help me win the contest–or at least get through the first stage. Then I'm going to ask you to do something of even more value to me.
I am new to following blogs, new to this particular blog, and relatively new to being a proud Dance Mom. I feel like a divine hand guided my fingers to find this blog – it has told me just what I need to know at just the right time. I have to force myself not to stay up all night to keep reading and regret I haven't had more time (yet) to delve into old posts.
The Summer Dance Intensive Handbook is a great help. Since my dancer is auditioning to ABT in NYC for a SI, that specific info is extremely useful.
My specific need is for info to get me up to speed, considering all these things: I am a relative newcomer to the journey of having a son who wants to be a professional ballet dancer, he is already 16, he has talent, and it seems everything is happening so fast for him (we don't want to miss anything important). Two years ago he had never danced, one year ago I had never heard the words "summer intensive" and now he is on scholarship at a year round professional training program.
Right now we are wondering when is the right time to have him be seen elsewhere besides the program he is in and loves (Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts). A related question is when is the right time to spend the big bucks, give up the summer vacation or college fund, etc to pay for a SI that may not include housing or give even boys scholarships? Nutmeg has been wonderful and he plans at this point to return in the fall. He did so well in his first lead role with The Nutmeg Ballet Company during Nutcracker that it might be time to go elsewhere for the summer, like audition for ABT in NYC. But how do we know what is right to aim for and when? And what do I need to know soonest to be the best Dance Mom possible to help my son reach his dreams?
Lots of my questions will probably get answered when I catch up and read the prior posts. I love how organized the blog is and how easy it is to find topics.
Thank you, Nina! And also to all those adding their perspective in the comments.
Nina– you know I love your blog! 🙂 I'm big on interviews, so I'd love to see some from both men and women commenting on how a man's role has changed over the years. Good luck in the contest!
I know Julian didn't go to college for dance but I would love to hear some information from boys that decided to go to college and major in dance. It is often hard to find which programs have men that attend. I love the interviews. Another idea might be to post which summer intensives have men's programs. There are so many that just don't have many boys in attendance and most boys out there want to go to an intensive with lots of boys.
Thanks for continuing this blog now that your son is a pro!
I love this blog. It has been so helpful. As a mom of a dancing son, it is great to hear about your personal experiences. For future, maybe you could interview parents of dancing sons who are working their way up in their respective pre-pro schools, who are auditioning for 2nd company/corps positions or who want to pursue college while still dancing. Advice/interviews with professionals in the industry (from a teacher perspective or other) would also be helpful. Looking forward to 2013. Thanks, again.
I have always thought that this is one of the best dance blogs out there, especially if you have a dancing boy who is serious about becoming a professional dancer and what it takes to get there. I think it addresses most of the trials, tribulations, joys, and rewards of that journey and a wonderful resource to prepare and plan for it. Full disclosure – I am Nina's husband and Julian's father. I would like to see more about Julian and his continuing journey as an apprentice, and, hopefully, as a full-fledged professional dancer in a company, but that may not be so appropriate at this stage. I must admit, I miss my dancin' boy, but I am oh so proud of him and his perseverance and success.
I did ballet for 12 years , danced with Charlize Theron at the Art School in Jhb…and yes, we only had one boy in the class…what a thrill to read about yours here!
Anyway, so perhaps you could add something about dancing in later years, ie. for older men/women who might just like to take up the sport again for fitness and fun?
I would like to see a post about August intensives. Where can a dancing boy get top-notch dance classes in August?
Perhaps something about YAGP would be nice, too. For instance, I have always wondered if it is an advantage to do two classical variations at regionals, instead of one? I can't seem to find that out.
I agree with the above. Much of the value of the blog has just been knowing that we are not alone on this journey. That being said, I have a 9-going-on-10 danseur with a potential professional career ahead. I would find helpful articles that deal with navigating the upcoming years; how long to stay local with our classes; when should we get serious about getting out there & being "seen"; is it worth it & at what age is it worth it to go away to a full time training program; pros and cons of various SI and full time programs; what programs are good for what kinds of boys; the idea of teacher/professional interviews is great (eg what do they like to see? how can we be "good" parents to help our boys & their teachers?); oh these are just a few! I'm sure I could go on!!
In your future post I would like, if possible, read about Julian's further development as a dancer. Also I would love to know your opinion on raising a dancing boy – what should or could be done to help him to achieve his fullest potential.
Nina, I am happy for you that Julian has both studied dance in New York City and is now performing in Germany. This is sensitive issue, but here goes. I find myself thinking that men who participate in ballet are gay. You had a Tweet today in which you referenced a post from Oct. 22, 2011. You wrote about your husband and you going to New York City to see Julian at the School of American Ballet. You wrote that Julian "seems to have settled in nicely. He has friends – girls (no girl friend per se) and boys." Do you have knowledge that can shed light on and help me get over my prejudicial thinking? I tried to come to grips with and have tried to accept homosexuality after my younger sister's husband left her for a gay man when their oldest daughter was in college. I am still seeking enlightenment.
I would love to have an information exchange among boys dance teachers where they can share tips, lessons plans, ideas, etc. Maybe set up a network of contact information.
Julian performing in Germany!! Wow! I lost track of youfor a while and didn't realize what was happening with his career. How old is he now? Our Emily (16), whom I had referenced in the past is still at American Ballet Theatre in Level 7. They have classes with Studio Company. Emily was one of 8 students of JKO taken to Rome in December to perform at the opera house, and to accept an award for JKO as the best ballet school of the year. (This award was given to the Bolshi Academy). She was also asked to dance in a documentary by Marcello Gomez Fall 2012.
I am so glad that I stumbled across this blog. I have 2 sones–one who is 19 and then my 15 year old dancer. He has been dancing ever since he was 6: Irish dance, lyrical, tap, acro, contemporary & ballet. He performed in The Nutcracker this past December @ the WA Center for Performing Arts (mechanical doll in the party scene & the Russian dancers, and he just auditioned last weekend in Seattle for the ABT SUmmer Intensives. Just this past year he joined with a local Ballet studio and he is finally able to work with other teenage boys and men who dance.
Sorry, forgot to suggest anything! Could you please discuss Summer Intensives and how they helped your son grow as a dancer? We are a bit nervous about him being gone for 3-4 weeks w/o us. Also what should our son (as well as us, his parents) do to make sure he grows as a dancer?
Since I just found your blog and I'm in process of backreading almost all of your previous posts (I'm thirsty as well as a voracious reader of info) – you may have already blogged and written about what I may request. Just looking at the tag list tells me that!
I want to know how to support my dancer – not just the big ways through $, finding summer programs, driving, signing up for classes, etc. But all the maybe not so obvious ways as well as the small ways.
Supporting my son is also supporting the dancers at his studio and all kids who want to dance. How do I advocate for the kids who can't afford the classes – in my own community? How can we promote that boys dancing is not a stereotype (ie., the Studio where some of ballet boys go back out to hunt after class)? Supporting in ways other than donating $. Supporting the boys -> more boys will try dance.
Where do I find info on pyelometrics – jumping?
How about a Dummies Guide for the Parent of a Ballet Student? I admit my older son knows the French terms better than me.
I have to return to studio in a bit and take some photos to submit for a summer program. Tips for taking good dance position photos.
OK, I just finished reading the other comments and suggestions – you have plenty to keep you busy writing and researching. Wonderful ideas and suggestions that I didn't think of but seeing their requests – yes, I want that too.
A place for parents to somehow share and ask – maybe there already is – ?Facebook?
I make an effort to encourage any of the little boys that take classes at my son's studio – usually by encouraging the moms and their dads if I ever see the Dads. (There need to be more Dads showing up – that would help). I personally think Dads struggle with their sons dancing. Which is sad and frustrating. There's another good topic!


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Plunder Pirates is a freemium mobile MMO pirate-themed strategy video game, inspired by Clash of Clans, developed and published by Midoki. For iOS, it soft-launched in Canada and Finland on June 16, 2014 and the worldwide iOS release was on September 17, 2014. The game was one of the first to use Metal for advanced graphics in iOS 8. The Android version was released on April 22, 2015. It was originally published by Rovio Stars.

As of December 2014, the game had over 5 million players.

Gameplay
Plunder Pirates is a multiplayer game in which players build a base, train pirates, explore the sea, defend against players and attack other players to earn gold and grog, which can then be used to build defences and buildings. The player can complete quests while doing those activities. The game differs from Clash of Clans by being in 3D and the player can control the camera.

The gameplay environment has received seasonal updates for Halloween, Christmas and Chinese New Year.

Buildings
Buildings have many uses such as storing a player's gold and grog. Buildings can be defensive, which can be  cannons, mystic mortars, ground pounders, gun towers, mines, mystic mines, legendary mines, flame traps, shark traps, bunkers, pirate ship, and the pirate hall at upgrade level 9 or higher. Players automatically collect resources with gold mines and grog collectors. All buildings get stronger when upgraded with resources.

Rumbles
Rumbles are quick 24 hour wars between two rival guilds. To win, a guild must collect more battle points than the other guilds. If a player finds a member of an opposing guild while looking for pirates to attack, the player gets a guild war bonus and get a percentage increase on the number of battle points gained. The guild that wins gets resources such as gems, battle points and a large amount of gold while the losers get less gold, grog, and battle points, and no gems. To start a guild war the captain or quartermaster starts it.

Events
Events are regular, seven day competitions that are based on either an individual player or a guild's progress. The players earn rewards by collecting Event Tokens.

Legendary Pirates
As of August 2015, the game included Legendary Pirates - an individual unit that provides various additional attacking and defensive capabilities. To date there are twelve Legendary Pirates.

Gems
Aside from gold, grog, battle points and exploration points, the game also uses gems as a currency. Gems can be awarded for completing certain missions, getting them in chests or finding them in the sea and can be purchased using real money. Gems can be used to speed up every aspect of the game; from construction time to pirate recruitment to research. They can also be used to purchase more gold and grog. If you buy enough gems you will get a reward of some extra battle points and exploration points.

Battle Points
Battle points are gained by attacking other players and NPC bases, in chests, in the sea exploring, killing sea creatures and completing errands. They are used for upgrading buildings such as the academy and mystic mortars.

Exploration Points
Exploration points are gained by exploring the sea, in the sea, defeating sea creatures and doing errands. They are used for upgrading buildings like the lighthouse that is used to upgrade a player's pirate ship.

Reception

Plunder Pirates received mixed reviews, with a Metacritic score of 71/100 based on 5 reviews. The consensus of reviewers is that it is a good strategy management game that is very similar to Clash of Clans.

Plunder Pirates received the UK TIGA Game Industry Award for best debut game published by a new studio in 2014.

Plunder Pirates received best "New Games IP - Mobile" at the British Develop Awards 2015.

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Well, it's almost Easter, friends, and although this celebrated holiday brings to mind many special things for many different people, one universal question, albeit superficial, that most women must ponder this season is…. "What bag will I wear with my Easter outfit?!" Now, before any of you male readers check out on me here, let me give you a piece of advice. If you help your honey bunny find the perfect bag for her dress, YOUR hippity- hop down life's lane WILL BE soooo much EASIER… and you will win instant brownie points, of course! So, if you are in search of the perfect bag, or if you know someone in search of the perfect bag, this post is for you. Today and tomorrow, I will be showcasing a few bunny-licious finds from my retail portion of Knotting Hill Interiors. Today… you guessed it…. I have selected a few of my favorite pastel Easter bags currently for sale in the shop. These bags are flying off the shelves, so hop on over as soon as you can before your favorite one is gone! Prices range from the mid-30's to just under $200.
Here is only a small portion of the lovely Easter bags to choose from at Knotting Hill Interiors. Beautiful pastels and sparkley accents make each bag seem special!
These beautiful patent-leather pastel bags make a perfect accessory for almost any Easter ensemble.
These bags are all perfect for Easter and beyond. One is crafted from cork, one from straw, and last one is fashioned into the shape of a flower! So cute, yet so elegant!
These two beauties have the most fabulous "broaches" attached to the fronts of them and are so "springy"!
Let's hope now that Peter Cotton tail hops down your bunny trail with a bag-in-hand from Knotting Hill Interiors!


Home Social Siyappa Who is Tariq Anwar? NCP MP Tariq Anwar quits from party!
Who is Tariq Anwar? NCP MP Tariq Anwar quits from party!
Katihar MP Tariq Anwar has resigned from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and from the Lok Sabha. He resigned following NCP leader Sharad Pawar's comments on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale deal.
"Our (NCP) national president Sharad Pawar indirectly gave a clean chit to PM, in a statement on Rafale deal. PM is completely involved in deal. Opposition is demanding constitution of JPC for probe in it. I'm upset with his statement," said Tariq Anwar after resigning.
NCP Spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Majeed Memon and party leader Nawab Malik confirmed Anwar`s resignation.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar has said people "do not have doubts" over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intentions.
In an interview with a Marathi news channel, former Defence Minister Pawar also said the opposition's demand to share technical details relating to the fighter jet "made no sense".
He, however, said there was no harm for the government to disclose prices of the aircraft.
Anwar was a Lok Sabha member from Katihar in Bihar. The Muslim leader was a prominent NCP face in Bihar.
n 1999, Tariq Anwar along with Sharad Pawar and P A Sangma broke away from Congress (I), in protest of a person of foreign origin (Sonia Gandhi) being appointed as president of Congress party and formed Nationalist Congress Party.
His political career started from Indian National Congress, as a student leader. He contested his first Lok Sabha election from Katihar Parliamentary constituency on a Congress ticket in 1977 which he lost. But he won the 1980 Lok Sabha Election from Katihar. He has been the National President of Indian Youth Congress.In 1989, Tariq was offered the post of a cabinet rank with Finance portfolio in the substance of deputy Chief Minister in the Bihar Cabinet, headed by veteran Satyendra Narain Sinha.
NCP chose to be part of Indian National Congress controlled UPA's federal government of India, from 2004-2014 (2 terms). On 28 October 2012, he was appointed Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing of the Government of India.
In 1999, Tariq Anwar along with Sharad Pawar and P A Sangma broke away from Congress (I), in protest of a person of foreign origin (Sonia Gandhi) being anointed president of Congress party and have formed Nationalist Congress Party.
He was a Member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He has been Member of Lok Sabha several times from Katihar Parliamentary constituency .


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Mexico's plans for 6-runway airport revive resistance from neighbouring farmers
Mexico's President recently unveiled details for a new Mexico City airport that will quadruple existing capacity, from about 30 million to 120 million annual passengers, and potentially become Latin America's biggest transit airport. But a group of farmers living near the planned site is fiercely opposed to the project – and they have already taken down one airport project before. There have been plans for this huge airport – with 6 runways – for some 15 years. There are the usual claims, that we are so used to in the UK, of huge economic benefits, thousands of jobs, and a fear that not building it will cost vast sums of money ….. familiar? In 2001 farmers around the nearby town of Atenco protested fiercely, as they were threatened with land expropriation for very small financial sums. They had armed with machetes and Molotov cocktails, blocked roads and clashed with police, and eventually the project was cancelled.The President says this time the airport will only be built on federal owned land, with no expropriations. However, there are doubts about the legality of land sales, when people thought the land would be used for an environmental project, not an airport. Intense opposition remains, and farmers say they "will defend our land with our lives."
Mexico's Plans For A $9.2 Billion Airport Revive Resistance From Neighboring Farmers
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Journalists and guests stand next to a mock-up of the new international airport after a ceremony in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Reuters/Tomas Bravo
Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto unveiled this week details for a new Mexico City airport that will quadruple existing capacity and potentially become Latin America's biggest transit hub. But a group of farmers living near the planned site is fiercely opposed to the project – and they have already taken down one airport project before.
The government has dreamed of overhauling the existing Benito Juarez International Airport for at least 15 years to ease oversaturation of the country's second-busiest airport. Analysts say the existing infrastructure can handle up to 32 million passengers per year; last year, it saw 31.5 million passengers, and traffic is expected to keep growing.
The economic stakes are high: The Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, a Mexico City-based think tank, projects a new airport could contribute 1.4 percent to 2.5 percent of GDP, excluding the impact of tourism. That kind of a boost would surely be a boon to Peña Nieto's legacy as he faces waning approval for his economic policies. Meanwhile, the think tank argues that not building the airport could reduce GDP by as much as 3 percent.
The new airport, according to the government's plans laid out Wednesday, would cost $9.2 billion, cover 11,400 acres, include six runways and have the capacity to handle 120 million passengers. The first phase of the project, which includes the completion of three runways, would be finished by 2018. British architect Norman Foster and Fernando Romero, the son-in-law of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, were tapped as the project's designers.
Peña Nieto has been careful to avoid the mistakes of former President Vicente Fox, who proposed a new Mexico City airport in 2001. Fox was forced to scrap those plans after farmers from the nearby town of San Salvador Atenco – 20 miles outside Mexico City – launched a fierce campaign against the government's plan to expropriate their land for a scant 70 cents per square meter. Armed with machetes and Molotov cocktails, the protesters blocked roads and clashed with police, and eventually Fox canceled the project.
This time, Peña Nieto says the airport will be built entirely on federally owned land adjacent to the site of the 2001 proposed airport, emphasizing that no expropriations would be necessary. But members of the People's Front in Defense of Land – the same group that led the 2001 demonstrations – jumped back into protest mode just hours after the president's announcement.
"We continue to battle and are ready to fight," said Ignacio del Valle Medina, leader of the front, at a press conference Wednesday. "We will not give up, and we send a message to Vicente Fox and Enrique Peña Nieto that is the same, that we will defend our land with our lives."
Del Valle Medina said that the July 1 assembly of core communal landowners, which approved the government's use of the land, was not held transparently or fairly, making the sale illegal. He also said that the airport's proximity to Atenco would disrupt the residents' way of life.
For now, it's not yet clear if the front will be able to mobilize residents to the same degree as the 2001 protests, but it has called for its first widespread demonstration on Monday.
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Atenco Farmers Demand Judges Grant Injunction Against New Airport
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8th September, 2014
Mexico City – Campesinos from Atenco began demonstrating today in rejection of construction of the new Mexico City International Airport (AICM) in the Texcoco region. The project was announced by President Enrique Peña Nieto as a trigger for substantial social investments.
The Atenquenses. headed by Ignacio del Valle, leader of the Peoples' Front in Defence of the Land (FPDT), arrived this afternoon at the Superior Agrarian Court (TSA) of the Federal District [Mexico City] to ask the judges to award the petition for amparo [protection, similar to injunction] filed by ejidatarios against the change of ejido structure to full [not collective] ownership.
The people's distress, he pointed out, is because ejido lands were acquired arguing that they would be used for environmental projects and denying that they would be part of the new airport project.Ignacio del Valle and a group of representatives from eight communities in San Salvador Atenco were received by the judges. At press time, no additional information was available.
At an early hour, the group of campesinos gathered in the main square of San Salvador Atenco, where four buses were waiting to take them in convoy to the Federal District. Another committee left for the Unitary Agrarian Tribunal in Texcoco.
At exactly 9:20 AM, some villagers set out marching toward the Angel of Independence [in Mexico City] and then on to the TSA, in order to confirm their position to defend their land and oppose construction of the airport announced by Peña Nieto.
For Ignacio del Valle, who led the rebellion of San Salvador Atenco between 2001 and 2006, the new airport project will affect residents and ejidatarios in the area, because he said it is about a "future city" rather than a "green project," as the government argued when it acquired the lands, and he emphasized: "They are projecting the airport in the same place (as in 2001); of course, it affects us."
In an interview with Milenio [newspaper], Del Valle stated:
"Our resistance is not for greater payment; we are not saying that it wasn't adequate. We do not want the airport project. In Atenco and other communities they have implemented the same system, the same deception. "(They said), 'It isn't the airport. These lands are to be used for another project, having to do with an ecological project. There won't be projects like the future city. It's certain: you are going to remain ejidatarios'."
FPDT's leader explained that lands were purchased in two ejidos, one in Ixtapa, where the government bought the land "starting in 2001-2002 through CONAGUA (National Water Commision)." The rest, he added, were acquired when he and other Atenco leaders were prisoners, "on the pretext that they wanted the lands for an ecological project. We're talking about 2008 and 2009, during the time we were imprisoned. They took advantage of that situation."
Del Valle admitted that during construction of the first phase of the terminal the intent is to use federal and not ejido lands, but he fears that the reality might be something else. In the interview, he stated: "They are initially managing two runways. One apparent location has to do with land located on federal land, but I think that the reality has been hidden.
"We have to warn that the effect of dispossession is the same, because at this early stage they are not talking about the future city. They limit themselves to saying that it is the airport, and they say 'we do not need another centimetre', but that's not true."
Ignacio del Valle also accused the government of having "scared the ejido nuclei, the ejido representatives," and of having purchased the land "in a concealed and fraudulent way."
Translated by Jane Brundage
http://dorsetchiapassolidarity.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/more-about-the-new-airport/
New Airport Will Bring More Urban Sprawl and Water Scarcity: Expert
César Arellano
La Jornada,
Construction of the airport east of Mexico City, as announced by the federal government, will exacerbate problems of urban sprawl, over-development and water supply affecting the Valley of Mexico,* said Manuel Frías, civil engineer and graduate from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), who has been a consultant and adviser for public works and basic infrastructure projects in past federal administrations.
"The project does not take into account the environmental–both ecological and urban–impact that it will have on the region of ancient Lake Texcoco, where every winter thousands of migratory birds arrive, including endangered species."
Frías also said that not only are the physical hydro-geology and groundwater characteristics ignored [in the proposal] but, at the same time, [the proposal] compromises the future destiny of the entire Valley of Mexico.
"The only thing that an airport in that area will promote, in addition to real estate speculation, is that the time frame for the collapse of the Valley of Mexico is shortened, because fostering uncontrollable territorial expansion and urban sprawl throughout its 2,000 square kilometres and will create difficulties regarding the availability of groundwater.
"Today 50,000 litres of water are extracted per second from the impaired [existing] aquifer; [the airport construction is] a disturbance that will give rise to foreseeable conflicts due to the reduction and scarcity of water."
Frías added that "it isn't just a question of architectural models, presentations and exhibits in order to support the technical and economic feasibility of a necessary and forward-looking airport, but of vision, imagination, responsibility and comprehensive knowledge of the conditions, characteristics, regional variations and hydro-geological transformations."
For Óscar Terrazas, a specialist in urban studies at the Autonomous Metropolitan University at Atzcapotzalco, the basin of former Lake Texcoco offers a number of advantages, "but the issue of land tenure and environmental impact studies in the area must take place in a responsible manner.
"It's an asset to any city, above all, for great metropolitan cities like Mexico City, that they can count on a space to accommodate a large infrastructure."
"The location's proximity to Mexico City and to the existing airport seems to me to be convenient. It has advantages in terms of accessibility, services already available in the area, such that constructing an airport there is going to be less arduous than extending it to Tizayuca [state of Hidalgo; Tizayuca is 43 kilometers [27 miles], or 53 minutes by car from Mexico City]."
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2014/09/08/index.php?section=politica&article=010n3pol
*An old problem, still unresolved, is the gradual settling of the old lake bed on which the city is built and the steady sinking of many buildings.
New Mexico City Airport Proposal Developed Under Government Secrecy
The initiative was introduced on September 3 by President Enrique Peña Nieto, who assured that the work will be done with transparency. The federal government launched the web page aeropuerto.gob.mx to provide information about the project. Although the web page has a section on transparency, there are no documents about the selection process.Aristegui Noticias
The project to construct the new airport in Mexico City is marked by a lack of information about the process by which the design proposal submitted by architects Norman Foster and Fernando Romero was chosen. Fernando Romero is a son-in-law of Carlos Slim, considered the world's richest man, owner of Telmex and numerous contractors specializing in public works.
Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, Secretary of Communications and Transport, stated that selection of the design by Romero and Foster was the result of an analysis by a committee of experts, without either giving details of the process or specifying who was involved.
The decision, said the Secretary, took place last September 2, exactly two hours before President Peña Nieto delivered the message for his second year in office: "It is the product of a complete analysis conducted by a committee of experts, with specialists in this highly technical issue, at a high technical level, in order that the committee would act in favour of the proposal that met all the requirements. Yesterday at 9:50 AM, the committee voted unanimously in favour of the design submitted by architects Norman Foster and Fernando Romero."
In an interview with CNN's Carmen Aristegui, Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto, director of the Airport Group of Mexico City, said that the process was done under confidentiality, in order that it might be viable: "What in this case allows undertaking a market investigation by invitation and under the law of reserve to keep a project confidential."
However, Núñez did not specify the criteria used to choose the design submitted by Foster and Rosemary, before adding: "Whoever won, won for a reason of principle … a committee was formed. We provided instruction that it was a very important project for the country. Here friendships, relationships, or situations of any nature other than the project that was in Mexico's interest did not matter."
Other participating firms were Gómez Pimienta Magar, Legorreta, Hernández Rogers, López Guerra, Javier Sordo Madaleno and Bringas, among others.
On its website, Norman Foster announced that it had won the "international competition," without elaborating. Fernando Romero also noted that the proposal was selected after a nearly six-month long competition, without delving into the competition, the process or the decision.
Secretary Ruiz Esparza expressed gratitude for the participation of Mitre, an aeronautical research agency; of the organization of international civil aviation; the International Air Transport Association; as well as specialists, government agencies, the UNAM [National Autonomous University of Mexico] and the National Polytechnic Institute, but did not specify their level of responsibility.
The only information available about the selection process is a direct award made in October 2013 of 3 million pesos [$229,420 USD] to the company ADHOC Consultores Asociados. This contract, signed by the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation, was for "an external consulting expertise to support selectively and strategically new projects for the realization of the airport in the centre of the country."
The names of the experts are not made public. Nor if they were responsible for selecting the winning proposal.
The lack of information is also reflected among those involved. In his speech, Secretary Ruiz Esparza said that the airport will need 4,600 hectares however, on his website, architect Fernando Romero reported that it will occupy 4,700 hectares while Norman Foster's website indicates 5,555 hectares.
Furthermore, President Enrique Peña Nieto said that the first phase of the airport includes three runways, while Secretary Ruiz Esparza maintains that there will be two.
http://aristeguinoticias.com/0509/mexico/el-nuevo-aeropuerto-nace-entre-el-secretismo-del-gobierno/
Posted: Friday, September 12th, 2014. Filed in News about Airports, Recent News.


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Gutierrez takes first pole from Bendsneyder
Oscar Gutierrez put in two brilliant laps at the end of Qualifying to take Pole Position from Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup points leader Bo Bendsneyder. While the 16-year-old flying Dutchman is looking for his fifth victory in a row the 15-year-old Spaniard is seeking his first.
Makar Yurchenko, the 16-year-old Russian recorded exactly the same qualifying time as Fabio Di Giannantonio but the 16-year-old Italian takes third on the grid thanks to the fact that his second best time was faster.
After a string of three podium places in the first four races of the season, Gutierrez has only one way to go. "I want to stop Bo getting his fifth win," exclaimed the ever cheerful native of Santa María de Palautordera near Barcelona. "My first pole! I really can't believe it. That was such a great session, on the second to last lap I was hitting the rev limiter through one corner so went a gear higher on the last lap and it worked perfectly!"
"The bike is great, we changed it a little after the first session but after that it has been just great. I couldn't put in a lot of fast laps in the qualifying because so many riders were waiting for a tow but then I found some space when I needed to at the end. Now I can't wait for the race," concluded Gutierrez.
No easy ride
Bendsneyder missed last year's German GP through injury and had only a bit of experience from four years ago to call on for track knowledge. "It was a bit different at first but after some laps I knew the track and the lines. We had a bit of chatter early on but some adjustment sorted that out and the bike is good."
"Oscar was just faster today, that is fair enough," he admitted with his great smile. "I was not taking it easy, I was pushing and going for a front row start. That is what I have so I'm not unhappy about that, I am sure we are going to have a great race."
Different reactions
Though they tied on time, Di Giannantonio and Yurchenko felt very differently about qualifying. "Not good," said the Italian. "Fantastic!" enthused the Russian who has taken big steps forward this season after injury disrupted 2014. "That was such great fun, when my dad hung out the board saying I was third fastest I couldn't believe it, I had to look three times to make sure," bubbled Yurchenko.
"Especially after Free Practice 2 when I wasn't happy with the bike and came into the pits twice, I was only 19th in that session. Then Santi (suspension engineer Santiago Morralla) came up with some magic and the bike was just great for qualifying. I have never ridden here before but I love it," enthused the Saint Petersburg native.
Set high
Of course Di Giannantonio has a different perspective having finished second in the last three races. "No it was very bad. I really love this track, it is so much fun but the bike is just doing whatever it wants, I didn't know what I was doing with it."
"We changed a lot of settings today but it still isn't right and honestly we don't know why. I am not sure what we will do for a race setting, probably leave it as it was for qualifying but I don't know, I will really have to think about it."
This weekend's Rookies Cup races can be seen live on www.redbull.tv and on TV stations around the world. Race 1 is at 16.30 CET on Saturday and Race 2 is on Sunday at 15.30, the show starts 10 minutes before the race.
Dopwnload qualifying classification
Download starting grid
Gallery | Sachsenring Practice and Qualifying
Di Giannantonio beats Bendsneyder's hex in Sachsenring 2
The mighty quin for Bendsneyder in Sachsenring - Race 1
Perfect pair for Bendsneyder at Assen
Bendsneyder betters Di Giannantonio in fabulous Assen duel
A long day chasing Bo at Assen


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Getting started with [Angular CLI](https://github.com/angular/angular-cli).

John's Quick How-Tos:
- [Install](#install)
- [Generate New Project](#generate-new-project)
- [Run locally](#run-locally)
- [Build for deployment](#build-for-deployment)
- [Generate Components](#generate-components)
- [Styling Preprocessors](#styling-preprocessors)
- [Unit Test](#unit-test)
- [Code Coverage](#code-coverage)
- [E2E Tests](#e2e-tests)
- [Linting](#linting)
- [Proxying](#proxying)

#Install

Run `npm install -g angular-cli`.

After installation, Angular CLI will be available using the `ng` command.

#Generate New Project

Run `ng new <projectname>`

A directory named after your <projectname> will be created.  There are no prompts when creating a new project.  Instead, the project is scaffolded using sensible defaults.

#Run Locally

New projects can be immediately ran locally without any further setup.

For local deployment, run `ng serve`.

The CLI will utilize webpack to transpile (TS->JS) and compile your source files and static assets.

Open from your browser at `http://localhost:4200`.

#Build for deployment

Run `ng build`.

The webpacked files will be outputed to your project's `/dist` folder.

These files can then be dropped to any web server to be served.  I recommend tar'ing the files to make exchanging and deploying easier.

#Generate Components

Run `ng generate component <component_name>` to scaffold a new component that generates the following:

- Angular2 code (TypeScript)
- Styling (CSS)
- Template (HTML)
- Unit Test (Spec)

More than just components can be generated.  Try generating the following: `pipe`, `service`, `directive`, and `module`

#Styling Preprocessors

There is a good chance that you'll want to use a CSS preprocessor such as SASS.  Rigging the project for SASS is straightforward and can be done in three simple steps:

1) `npm install --save node-sass`
2) Edit `angular-cli.json`, change "defaults.styleExt" to "scss" and "apps.styles" to ["styles.scss"]
3) Change the file extensions of your components' CSS files from ".css" to ".scss"

That's all there is to it.  The project will now compile SASS down to CSS automagickly.

#Unit Test

Run `ng test` to get execute unit tests.

The unit test configuration is stored in `karma.conf.js`.

#Code Coverage

Run `ng test --code-coverage` to run unit tests and generate a code coverage report.  The default location that the report is written to is the `/coverage` directory in your project.

#E2E Tests

Run `ng e2e` to run your suite of e2e tests.

The e2e configuration is defined in `protractor.conf.js`.

#Linting

Run `ng lint` to run the typescript linter.

The lint configuration is defined in `tslint.json`.

#Proxy to a backend

It is likely that you will want to connect a backend to the frontend that Angular CLI generated.  One way is to simply hardcode the backend URL in your Angular2 service.  However, this is not very scalable and it would be difficult to manage that URL across environments.  A scalable solution would be to route all backend calls through a single relative path to your back end such as /api/*.   See Angular CLI's documentation for an example on how to do this:

https://github.com/angular/angular-cli#proxy-to-backend

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Scattershooting on a Sunday night while wondering if spring finally has arrived (sorry, Brandon and area) . . .
F Connor Bedard of the Regina Pats will be on the roster when Hockey Canada announces the roster of the team that will play in the IIHF U-18 world championship in Germany later this month. . . . That means he will be reunited with David Struch, who was fired as the Pats' head coach on Nov. 18 and will be an assistant coach with Team Canada. . . . Bedard and his Pats closed out their WHL regular season on Sunday with a 7-4 victory over the visiting Moose Jaw Warriors. Bedard put up five points — two goals and three assists — to finish the season with 100 points, including 51 goals, in 62 games. . . . Bedard, who will turn 17 on July 17, is the third 16-year-old in WHL history to score 50 times in one season. F Glen Goodall of the Seattle Thunderbirds scored 63 times in 1986-87, which was his third season in the WHL, while F Dan Lucas of the Victoria Cougars struck 57 times in 1974-75. . . . The U-18 tournament is to run from April 23 through May 1 in Landshut and Kaufbeuren, Germany. . . . I believe that Bedard also is eligible to play in the 2022 Hlinka-Gretzky Cup early in August in Red Deer and the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship, which is scheduled for Aug. 9-20 in Edmonton. . . . As for his future in the WHL, well, there already are rumblings in the hockey world that he could end up with the Blazers if Kamloops wins the right to play host to the 2023 Memorial Cup. Now that would be a trade for the ages!
SUNDAY IN THE WHL:
Connor Bedard with an empty-net goal for his 51st goal and 100th point of the season. Pats win 7-4. pic.twitter.com/TozhJO5Blt
— Rob Vanstone (@robvanstone) April 18, 2022
In Regina, F Connor Bedard ended his season with a flourish, putting up five points as the Pats beat the Moose Jaw Warriors, 7-4. . . . Included in Bedard's effort were his 50th goal and 100th point of the season. He finished with 51 goals. . . . F Tanner Howe (27) snapped a 4-4 tie, on a PP, at 7:15 of the third period. Bedard followed with No. 50, on another PP, at 13:50, then got No. 51 into an empty net at 19:36. . . . Howe's season shouldn't be overlooked in all the Bedard hype. Howe, who turned 16 on Nov. 28, finished with 69 points, including 42 assists, in 64 games. . . . F Cole Dubinsky (20) added two goals and an assist for the winners. . . . D Denton Mateychuk (13) score twice for Moose Jaw. . . . The Warriors will meet the Saskatoon Blades in the first round of the playoffs; the Pats didn't qualify. . . . Regina ended up tied for ninth with the Swift Current Broncos and Calgary Hitmen, each with 59 points, two shy of a playoff spot. . . .
In Calgary, F Alex Thacker's OT goal gave the Lethbridge Hurricanes a 3-2 victory over the Hitmen. . . . Thacker's 14th goal came just 19 seconds into extra time. . . . The Hurricanes led this one 2-0 before the first period was 12 minutes old. . . . Calgary F Riley Fiddler-Schultz (28) tied it, on a PP, at 18:27 of the second period. . . . The Hurricanes finished seventh in the Eastern Conference and will meet the No. 2 Edmonton Oil Kings in the opening round. . . . The Hitmen didn't qualify.
The osprey have arrived back on the South Thompson River east of Kamloops. This happy couple have started rebuilding their nest, while also looking for food. The latter won't be an issue with lots of fish in the river.
SOME NUMBERS: F Arshdeep Bains of the Red Deer Rebels won the Bob Clarke Trophy as the WHL scoring king with 112 points. He was one of four players with at least 100 points, the others being linemate Ben King (105), F Logan Stankoven (104) of the Kamloops Blazers and F Connor Bedard (100) of the Regina Pats. . . . King led in goals (52), one more than Bedard. . . . Bains was tops in assists (69), five more than D Olen Zellweger of the Everett Silvertips. . . . King finished with 15 game-winning goals, one off the WHL record that was set by F Brian Propp of the Brandon Wheat Kings in 1978-79. . . . G Daniel Hauser of the Winnipeg Ice had the best GAA, at 2.00, while G Taylor Gauthier, who was acquired by the Portland Winterhawks from the Prince George Cougars during the season, was tops in save percentage (.928). . . . Hauser and Dylan Garand of Kamloops led in victories, each with 34. . . . Hauser had a WHL-high eight shutouts. . . .
According to numbers compiled by the WHL, the average attendance for 748 games was 3,203. That's down from 4,154 for 694 games in 2019-20 and from 4,361 for 748 games in 2018-19. Of course, this season's numbers are skewed because of pandemic-related restrictions in the early going.
THINKING OUT LOUD: Nothing sums up the end of the race for playoff spots in the WHL's Western Conference like the Prince George Cougars starting Saturday in seventh place, dropping a 3-1 decision to the Rockets in Kelowna that night, and, despite the loss, moving up to sixth place in the final standings. . . . The Winnipeg Ice won the Scotty Munro Memorial Trophy as the WHL's top regular-season team. If the Ice goes on a deep playoff run, will it play all of its home game in what is the smallest arena in the 60-team CHL? The most frequently announced attendance in the Wayne Fleming Arena is 1,621. . . . The playoffs open on Thursday with the Lethbridge Hurricanes visiting the Edmonton Oil Kings. . . . Because of a Paul McCartney concert in Spokane on April 28, the Chiefs and Kamloops Blazers will open with three games in Kamloops, and then have a break between Game 3 (April 25) and Game 4 (April 29). This is the first stop on the tour, so they will start setting up and staging on April 24. Perhaps the Chiefs can get Sir Paul to hang around and do the anthems before Game 4. Hey, why not? After April 28, he's off until May 2 in Seattle.
If you're a baseball fan, you no doubt were disappointed on Wednesday when Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts yanked left-hander Clayton Kershaw, who was throwing a perfect game through seven innings. Kershaw had thrown 80 pitches and the Dodgers held a 7-0 lead over the host Minnesota Twins at the time.
There was a whole lot of indignation on social media, with Roberts getting mostly roasted.
But the best take I saw came from Joe Posnanski, who wrote in part:
"There was no chance in the world that Clayton Kershaw was pitching nine innings on Wednesday in Minnesota. We all knew it. We might not have liked it, might have wished for something else, but I mean, when that game started, if someone had asked you, "What are the chances that Clayton Kershaw throws a nine-inning complete game today?" you would have said: Zero percent.
"Not 1%. Not 0.5%. No: 0.000000000000000%."
Posnanski went on to point out that Kershaw "finished last season with his elbow barely intact . . . he only began throwing again in January . . . in a shortened spring training, he threw a grand total of 101 pitches . . ." Posnanski also mentioned that Kershaw hadn't thrown a complete game in almost five years and it was "like 30 degrees with a howling wind at Target Field."
Posnanski's complete take is right here.
The outrage at the Kershaw decision just shows how much more we need to educate the baseball world about ramping up a pitcher to be 100% for a season.
— Tom House 〽 (@tomhouse) April 14, 2022
Google is your friend if you aren't aware of Tom House and his accomplishments in the world of baseball.
Joe Maddon, the manager of the Los Angeles Angeles, ordered up a bases-loaded walk in a Friday game.
How did that work out?
Here's Joe Posnanski: "Here's something funny about managing a baseball game: You could do the absolute right thing from a percentage and logic standpoint and have it blow up in your face. And you could do the dumbest thing imaginable for the dumbest reason imaginable and have it work out perfectly."
His complete take on Maddon's move is right here, and it's a great read.
Don't know who did this, but I just started a slow clap of admiration … pic.twitter.com/axAOZZduti
From Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: "Kiara Thomas was arrested and charged with assault in Laurel, Mississippi, for punching an umpire at a 12-year-old girls softball game, WLBT-TV reported. The capper? In her mugshot, Thomas rocks a 'Mother of the Year' t-shirt."
Perry, again: "LSU outfielder Gavin Dugas was hit by a pitch 13 times in his first 103 plate appearances this season. Twins scouts love him, saying he'd be a perfect for Target Field."
The Athletic's Chris Branch reports: "MLB commissioner Rob Manfred gifted every major leaguer a shiny new pair of Bose headphones on Opening Day as a way of saying, 'I'm sorry for trying to withhold as much money from you as possible' after a lockout that got particularly nasty at points. At least those pregame playlists will sound crisp now."
One more note from Branch: "Jrue Holiday started Milwaukee's 133-115 loss to Cleveland on (April 10), his 67th game this season, but didn't stick around for long. Seconds after the opening tip, Holiday intentionally fouled Cavaliers guard Darius Garland, exited the game and never came back. Why? Holiday's game total triggered a $306,000 bonus in his contract. That's $38,250 per second of play. Not bad."
The aforementioned Dwight Perry chimed in with: "Which pencils out to a tidy $136.8 million an hour."
Headline at The Beaverton — Canada to distribute remaining vaccines through "Roll Up the Rim to Win" contest.
One more from The Beaverton — Study finds cycling healthiest way to get hit by a car.
Headline at TheOnion.com — Climate report finds Antarctica could support multiple golf courses by 2050.
It was just a week ago when I mentioned in this space that OF Byron Buxton of the Minnesota Twins was capable of having an MVP-type season if only he could stay healthy. . . . Well, he went down in the Twins' 8-4 victory over the Red Sox in Boston on Friday afternoon. He left the game in the first inning with soreness in his right knee, and now is likely to miss at least a week.
If you're a regular in these parts, you know that my wife, Dorothy, is with us today because of a kidney transplant. And now she is preparing to take part in the annual Kidney Walk for a ninth straight year. . . . The 2022 Kidney Walk will be held on June 5, but thanks to the pandemic it again will be a virtual event. . . . If you would like to be on her team by sponsoring her, you are able to do that right here.
Author greggdrinnanPosted on April 17, 2022 April 17, 2022 Tags Alex Thacker, Arshdeep Bains, Ben King, Brian Propp, Chris Branch, Connor Bedard, Daniel Hauser, Dorothy Drinnan, Dwight Perry, Dylan Garand, Everett Silvertips, Joe Posnanski, Kamloops Blazers, Lethbridge Hurricanes, Living Kidney Donor Program, Logan Stankoven, Olen Zellweger, Paul McCartney, Portland Winterhawks, Prince George Cougars, Red Deer Rebels, Regina Pats, Rob Vanstone, Spokane Chiefs, Super 70s Sports, Tanner Howe, Taylor Gauthier, Tom House, Winnipeg Ice
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<?php
namespace TSwiackiewicz\EventsCollector\Tests\Unit\Event\Watcher;

use TSwiackiewicz\EventsCollector\Event\Watcher\Watcher;
use TSwiackiewicz\EventsCollector\Event\Watcher\WatcherFactory;
use TSwiackiewicz\EventsCollector\Exception\InvalidParameterException;
use TSwiackiewicz\EventsCollector\Exception\UnknownTypeException;
use TSwiackiewicz\EventsCollector\Tests\BaseTestCase;

/**
 * Class WatcherFactoryTest
 * @package TSwiackiewicz\EventsCollector\Tests\Unit\Event\Watcher
 */
class WatcherFactoryTest extends BaseTestCase
{
    /**
     * @test
     * @dataProvider getWatcherConfigurationParameters
     *
     * @param string $aggregatorConfiguration
     * @param string $actionConfiguration
     */
    public function shouldCreateWatcher($aggregatorConfiguration, $actionConfiguration)
    {
        $factory = $this->createWatcherFactory();
        $watcher = $factory->create(
            'test_event',
            '{"name":"test_action","threshold":100,"aggregator":' . $aggregatorConfiguration . ',"action":' . $actionConfiguration . '}'
        );

        $this->assertInstanceOf(Watcher::class, $watcher);
    }

    /**
     * @return WatcherFactory
     */
    private function createWatcherFactory()
    {
        return new WatcherFactory();
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function shouldThrowInvalidParameterExceptionWhenWatcherActionTypeIsNotDefined()
    {
        $this->setExpectedException(InvalidParameterException::class);

        $factory = $this->createWatcherFactory();
        $factory->create('test_event', '{"aggregator":{"type":"single"},"action":[]}');
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function shouldThrowInvalidParameterExceptionWhenWatcherAggregatorTypeIsNotDefined()
    {
        $this->setExpectedException(InvalidParameterException::class);

        $factory = $this->createWatcherFactory();
        $factory->create('test_event', '{"aggregator":[],"action":{"type": "null"}}');
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function shouldThrowUnknownExceptionWhenGivenWatcherActionTypeIsUnknown()
    {
        $this->setExpectedException(UnknownTypeException::class);

        $factory = $this->createWatcherFactory();
        $factory->create('test_event',
            '{"aggregator":{"type":"single"},"action":{"type":"unknown_type"}}');
    }

    /**
     * @test
     * @dataProvider getWatcherConfigurationParameters
     *
     * @param string $aggregatorConfiguration
     * @param string $actionConfiguration
     */
    public function shouldCreateWatcherFromArray($aggregatorConfiguration, $actionConfiguration)
    {
        $factory = $this->createWatcherFactory();
        $watcher = $factory->createFromArray(
            'test_event',
            [
                '_id' => '3a942a2b-04a0-4d23-9de7-1b433566ef05',
                'name' => 'test_action',
                'threshold' => 100,
                'aggregator' => json_decode($aggregatorConfiguration, true),
                'action' => json_decode($actionConfiguration, true)
            ]
        );

        $this->assertInstanceOf(Watcher::class, $watcher);
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function shouldThrowInvalidParameterExceptionWhenCreatedFromArrayWatcherActionTypeIsNotDefined()
    {
        $this->setExpectedException(InvalidParameterException::class);

        $factory = $this->createWatcherFactory();
        $factory->createFromArray(
            'test_event',
            [
                'aggregator' => [
                    'type' => 'single'
                ],
                'action' => []
            ]
        );
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function shouldThrowInvalidParameterExceptionWhenCreatedFromArrayWatcherAggregatorTypeIsNotDefined()
    {
        $this->setExpectedException(InvalidParameterException::class);

        $factory = $this->createWatcherFactory();
        $factory->createFromArray(
            'test_event',
            [
                'aggregator' => [],
                'action' => [
                    'type' => 'null'
                ]
            ]
        );
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function shouldThrowUnknownTypeExceptionWhenCreatedFromArrayWatcherActionTypeIsUnknown()
    {
        $this->setExpectedException(UnknownTypeException::class);

        $factory = $this->createWatcherFactory();
        $factory->createFromArray(
            'test_event',
            [
                'aggregator' => [
                    'type' => 'single'
                ],
                'action' => [
                    'type' => 'unknown_type'
                ]
            ]
        );
    }

    /**
     * @return array
     */
    public function getWatcherConfigurationParameters()
    {
        return [
            [
                '{"type":"fields","fields":["field1","field2"]}',
                '{"type":"email","to":"user@domain.com","subject":"Test subject"}'
            ],
            [
                '{"type":"single"}',
                '{"type":"email","to":"user@domain.com","subject":"Test subject"}'
            ],
            [
                '{"type":"fields","fields":["field1","field2"]}',
                '{"type":"null"}'
            ],
            [
                '{"type":"single"}',
                '{"type":"null"}'
            ]
        ];
    }
}


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Chatham Living by the Sea Magazine Wins Three Folio Awards
Filed Under: Other News
Chatham Living by the Sea magazine has won several 2020 Folio Award, the magazine world's equivalent to the Oscars, Publisher Janice Rogers announced.
Every year, Folio's Eddie & Ozzie Awards showcase the best and the brightest magazines, from their content and design to marketing initiatives and community involvement. Out of thousands of entries narrowed down to about 300 winners, Chatham Living received the following awards:
Winner: Special Recognition Award to Editor-in-Chief Lisa Connors and Publisher Janice Rogers for Audience Engagement/Community Management
Winner: Magazine Launch/City & Regional
Honorable Mention: In the category for Single Article/City & Regional/Northeast: "Beacon Hill by the Sea," a story about Riptide, a classic Colonial Revival on Shore Road renovated and updated by Polhemus Savery DaSilva (PSD). Story written by Carol K. Dumas, with photography by Brian Vanden Brink.
Chatham Living by the Sea presents stories about Chatham's vibrant restaurant scene, business owners, fishermen, history, artisans and community leaders. The glossy publication, which comes out twice a year (in spring and fall), is available at Chatham Village Market and Barnes & Noble in Hyannis, Hingham, Boston, Connecticut and New York. The fall/winter 2020 issue will be available on newsstands Oct. 9.
For a complete list of Folio's Eddie & Ozzie Awards, visit foliomag.com/go/2020-eddie-and-ozzie-awards/
To order a copy of Chatham Living by the Sea, visit chathamlivingmag.com
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Bosch: History of a Global Enterprise
Johannes Bähr, Paul Erker
C.H.Beck, 21.8.2015 - 703 sivua
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Bosch is a company with a rich history. It stands for important trends of the modern world, such as the motorization of transport or the electrification of the household, and was one of the pioneers of globalization. Its founder Robert Bosch was as well known for his liberal views as he was for the social principles he applied to company management. With this book, Johannes Bähr and Paul Erker present the first comprehensive history of Bosch to be written by independent historians. In undertaking their research, the authors had unrestricted access to the company archives. Starting from the figure of the company founder, his business principles, and the early days of his company as a modest, courtyard-entrance workshop in the west end of Stuttgart, they go on to describe the company's rise to become the world's leading automotive supplier, as well as the emergence of a distinctive corporate culture oriented to social concerns. The authors also profile the company's most important subsidiaries, charting the development of the diverse business activities that characterize today's supplier of technology and services. The work's focal points include the company's conduct during the Third Reich as well as the later evolution of its corporate constitution. Spanning a period of more than 100 years, the authors recount the history of one of the world's first global enterprises, a history of outstanding innovations and triumphs, but also of crises that time and again put the company founder's principles to the test.
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Johannes Bähr is adjunct professor at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, and the author of a number of historical studies of major German companies. Paul Erker is adjunct professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and the author of a number of studies in business history.
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The financing of the 2020 refurbishment of the flat above 11 Downing Street, the official residence of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, became the subject of a controversy in 2021 when allegations were made in the press as to whether an undisclosed loan was used initially to help finance it. An Electoral Commission inquiry found that the Conservative Party had not accurately reported donations to the party and imposed a £17,800 fine on the party. The commission also said that the full cost of the works had been repaid in full in March 2021. The Conservative Party had said at the time that the Prime Minister had met the full cost of the works.

Background
Traditionally, the British Prime Minister resides at 10 Downing Street and the Chancellor resides at 11 Downing Street. However, starting with Tony Blair there has been a reversal of this tradition, as the private residential apartment above 11 Downing Street is larger than the one above 10 Downing Street. Following his election in 2019, Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds decided to reside at Number 11. Johnson hired Soane Britain, an interior design company headed by Lulu Lytle, to redecorate the apartment. Refurbishment began in April 2020, whilst Johnson was hospitalised with COVID-19.

The Prime Minister receives an annual allowance of  to maintain and furnish their private residence above 11 Downing Street. Any expenses above this amount must be covered by themselves. Johnson's renovations in 2020 cost . The Ministerial Code requires members of parliament to report loans and donations to the Electoral Commission within 28 days. No such reports for the financing of the refurbishment were submitted by May 2021.

Allegations
In April 2021, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson's former aide, Dominic Cummings, made allegations that the prime minister had arranged for donors to "secretly pay" for renovations on the private residence at 11 Downing Street. On 23 April 2021, Cummings published a statement on his blog that the plans were "unethical, foolish, possibly illegal" and "almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended".

Dominic Grieve, former Attorney-General and Conservative Party MP, described Johnson as a "vacuum of integrity" and called on Johnson to explain how the refurbishments were paid for. Douglas Ross, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, said that Johnson should resign if the investigations find he has broken the Ministerial Code over the flat renovations.

Rebuttals
On 23 April 2021, Lord True, Minister of State for the Cabinet Office said in a written answer in the House of Lords that "any costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the prime minister personally".

On 28 April 2021, Johnson insisted he had not broken any laws over the refurbishment and had met the requirements he was obliged to meet in full. During Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir Starmer, Leader of the Opposition, also specifically asked "Who initially paid for the redecoration of his Downing Street flat?" and Johnson responded "I paid for Downing Street's refurbishment personally, Mr. Speaker."

Investigations
On 27 April 2021, Johnson asked the Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case, to hold a review of how the refurbishment was paid for. On 28 April 2021, the Electoral Commission announced it had opened a formal investigation into the allegations.

Lord Geidt's report
Lord Geidt was appointed by Boris Johnson as the "Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests" in April 2021. On 28 May 2021, Lord Geidt published a report on the allegations, in an annexe to the register of interests. The report concluded that Johnson did not breach the Ministerial Code and that no conflict, or reasonably perceived conflict, of interest arose. However, Lord Geidt expressed that it was "unwise" for Johnson to have proceeded with refurbishments without "more rigorous regard for how this would be funded". Angela Rayner, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, wrote to Lord Geidt asking for evidence of the lack of conflict of interest and said that it was "frankly scarcely believable" that Johnson did not know who was funding the refurbishments. In November 2021, it was reported that academic staff at King's College, London, where Lord Geidt held a position as Council chair, wrote an open letter complaining that Lord Geidt had undisclosed or unmanaged conflicts of interest, namely failing to disclose that he had worked for the Sultan of Oman when KCL had "multiple partnerships" with Oman state bodies, and had failed to manage the conflicts in Geidt holding positions at BAE Systems and Schroders when the KCL endowment fund had investments in those companies.

Electoral Commission report
The Electoral Commission reported on 9 December 2021 that it found that the Conservative Party had failed to follow the law in not accurately reporting donations to the party from Lord Brownlow and imposed a £17,800 fine on them. The Herald say the commission's report outlines how in March all the money paid by Brownlow and his company had been reimbursed as had payments made by the Conservative Party and Cabinet Office. Downing Street had said at the time that the full cost of the works had been met personally by the Prime Minister. Following the publication of the report, The Guardian reported that Johnson had been accused of misleading Lord Geidt during his investigation due to apparent inconsistencies between the reports. Johnson had told Geidt that he did not know who had paid for the refurbishments until the story was reported in the media in February 2021, whereas the Electoral Commission found that he had messaged Lord Brownlow asking for extra funds in November 2020. Downing Street denied that there was any inconsistency stating that Johnson only contacted Brownlow in his role as the head of a blind trust collecting donations, but was not aware that Brownlow was also the source of the donations. Labour MP Margaret Hodge wrote to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, Kathryn Stone asking her to investigate.

See also

 2021 in United Kingdom politics and government
 Premiership of Boris Johnson

References

External links
 Lord Geidt's report
 Electoral Commission report

2021 in British politics
Downing Street
Boris Johnson controversies


Mercury News reports that in addition to his $600,000 salary in 2004, Terry Semel, the Yahoo CEO, received $231 million by exercising options and then selling the stock. Semel's total pay package, disclosed in a Yahoo regulatory filing Monday, ranks among the biggest ever for a corporate executive nationwide.
This guy does not deserve this pay whatsoever - no hired executive does! Yahoo is a company that has grown organically and likely would have met its targets with any competent CEO. That sort of compensation should be fairly divied among the ranks, not just to the top brass. I'm sure there are hundreds of rank and file employees who deserved a portion of that pay more so than Semel.
I'm never a fan of going after Boards, but this is completely outrageous. It's a breach of fiduciary responsibility and I hope someone goes after those gusy.


TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Paul McCartney gave his first concert in Israel on Thursday before tens of thousands of cheering fans, 43 years after the Beatles were barred from singing there because of fears they could corrupt youngsters.
Security was tight at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv and media reports in Britain said an Islamist militant had threatened the ex-Beatle, while some Palestinians urged him to cancel his trip over Israel's occupation of the West Bank since 1967.
The 66-year-old ignored the demands, but delighted Palestinian fans during his visit to the region when he went to the West Bank city of Bethlehem, lit candles at the Church of the Nativity there and wished for peace for Palestinians.
McCartney opened the Tel Aviv gig with Beatles song "Hello Goodbye," and addressed the 40,000 fans in Hebrew and Arabic as well as English throughout the evening.
"Shalom Tel Aviv!" he said, using the Hebrew word for "peace" and "hello." The ex-Beatle also wished the crowd a happy new year in Hebrew ahead of Jewish celebrations next week and wished Muslims a good Ramadan, the month of fasting, in Arabic.
McCartney, who wore a dark suit over a pink shirt, dedicated Wings track "My Love" to Linda, his wife who died of cancer in 1998, and also paid tribute to late Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison.
Teenaged girls were reduced to tears and the crowd waved its arms in the air as the star performed some of his biggest hits during two hours of almost non-stop music.
Among the favourites were "Give Peace a Chance" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," the closing number.
McCartney's visit to Israel prompted a fresh wave of Beatlemania, with radio stations playing the band's tunes almost non-stop in the past few days.
"Even just a quarter of the Beatles is awesome to see," said 16-year-old Gaya Yona before the concert.
Ilan Yacobovich, 55, added that the gig made up for the Beatles ban of 1965.
"That was a screw-up when I was a kid. I'm here to rectify that — this is our compensation," he said.
But Israeli culture historian Alon Gal said documents show it was a defunct culture panel, not Meir, that made the decision after youthful crowds were unruly at an appearance in the early '60s by British rock star Cliff Richard.
Israel's ambassador to Britain apologised in January for the cold-shoulder to the Beatles. He invited McCartney and the other surviving Beatle, Ringo Starr, to perform in Israel.
During his visit, McCartney was mobbed by reporters as he visited some of the region's holiest sites.
"All we need is peace in the region and a two-state solution," McCartney told reporters and tourists outside the Bethlehem shrine revered as the site of Jesus's birth.


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To the Members of AMIC:
A Message from the Chair
AMIC welcomes its third President, Mr. Sean Duke, following the retirement of the former President, Mr. Steve Wells. The AMIC Board is looking forward to the future under Mr. Duke's leadership and feel he will be a great asset to our organization and bring value to the services we provide our members.
Looking forward, while continuing to fulfil its primary objective, the AMIC Board has its eye on the horizon and is looking to create additional programs or services that will help its member cities and towns, not just survive, but thrive through the next millennium.
Overall, AMIC's membership, continues to hold steady with 589 insureds, including 392 municipalities, 81 utility boards, 41 solid waste/water authorities, 54 associations and 21 transit authorities. AMIC's current market share exceeds 95 percent.
I am pleased to report, that in 2022, AMIC will pay a 5 percent dividend for capitalized members. This equates to approximately $17,700,000 in dividend credits AMIC has returned to its participating capitalized members since 1998. Dividends will be paid to all participating members renewing with AMIC. This is made possible because of the tremendous support from our members.
AMIC's Loss Control Department will continue to combine its Loss Control resources with the MWCF. This team approach has allowed both programs to provide 10 dedicated staff members to focus on all aspects of our members' operations, which translates into more services and programs at a much-reduced cost.
The SkidCar system, which was implemented in 2001, has been very successful with over 21,700 police officers, fire fighters and employees trained to date. The Firearms Training System (FATS), which provides state of the art "decision making" training to our police officers, has trained more than 9,200 police officers from departments throughout the state.
We have just completed 21 years with all services in-house. This improvement has allowed AMIC to increase its quality of services, while reducing expenses by more than $40,000,000 over the last 21 years. To put it simply, that is $40,000,000 you get to use to improve your city or town. AMIC continues to monitor its costs and is working hard to keep its expenses and your insurance costs down.
On December 31, 2021, on a statutory basis, assets were $147,251,173 and net worth was $72,367,367. Net earned premiums are $37,320,837, a slight increase from 2020. Total gross premiums written now exceed $52,000,000.
In closing, let me say it is a distinct pleasure to bring this excellent report to you. Membership continues to hold steady; member surplus is strong; and AMIC looks forward to Insuring the Future of Your Local Government.
Mayor Charles H. Murphy, Chair


I like tools. Throughout the years I've collected a lot of tools. I'll bet you're nodding your head in agreement about that statement. When I go to a Craft & Hobby Association (CHA) trade show I'm like the proverbial kid in a candy store. It's Nirvana for paper crafters, and any other kind of crafter for that matter. Being in "the business" affords me lots of opportunities to try out quite a few of them each year.
With that being said, lately I've been so busy with other things that I haven't purchased many new toys -- er, tools. I even waffled back and forth on this one for quite a while, but I finally broke down and used The Coupon to pick one up.
I've had a blast making little envelopes for every reason I could invent. I made little Christmas cards for my office mates just so I could use this cool tool. If I win the lottery and can stay home and craft all day, my challenge will be to make a card for every measurement this baby has on its platform!
Until then, here's one with an envelope ON the card -- the best excuse I could find for making two envelopes for one project!
It's also a great way to use up scraps, too. Thanks for stopping by -- have a wonderful weekend!


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Q: Why does my pattern match fail in Scala? My method is as follows
  protected override def onEvent(event: Class[_]) = event match {
    case event: mydomain.Quote => println("qu")
    case _ => println("eventsample" + event)

  }

The console prints out the following
eventsampleclass mydomain.Quote

I thought this would have been caught in the pattern match

A: There is no match, as your pattern is looking for an instance of Quote and your are passing classOf[Quote], which is an instance of Class[Quote], not a Quote.
To match, you would jave to call onEvent(new myDomain.Quote(...)), not onEvent(classOf[myDomain.Quote]). (It is somewhat unfortunate that the compiler accepts your first pattern, as it has no chance to match with event of type Class).
If you want to recognize class[Quote], you can use pattern case c if c == ClassOf[Quote], but I don't see any reason not to do that with a simple if/ else

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Q: VBA logic when using macros from personal.xls I run a spreadsheet report that holds about 50 columns of data for anywhere from 1 to 5000 rows.  I'm only interested in 4 columns, but they are never in the same location as these reports are set-up a bit differently for each client.  I then take those 4 columns and paste into a new workbook that I can import into another program.
I have three macros created that accomplish this task flawlessy if ran from the local file.  When I load them into the personal.xls for use on various files I have issues.  Specifically workbook/worksheet referencing issues.
Parts of the macro run to the sheet I intend from them to result on, while other parts act on the personal.xls file itself.  This confuses me because I don't have any lines that use commands such as 'thisworkbook' or 'activeworksheet'.
For example:
- The first line is coded to rename Sheet1.  The macro renames Sheet1 in personal.xls.
- The  next line is the first of four Find commands that locate where the columns i'm interested are located and then move them.  This macro runs perfectly on the sheet I intend.
I think my best course is to begin each macro by naming the active workbook and then breaking out each command to the workbook level instead of starting with Worksheets, Range, etc.
Can anyone help me understand what VBA is thinking when performing macros from personal.xls and how to best avoid the macros being run on that sheet itself?

A: There are two approaches you can take. I use one or both in my code - it's not a one or the other situations.
Declare Variables
Start by defining each sheet that you want to work on in a variable. I generally stay at the sheet level, but that's just a personal choice. If you'd rather be at the workbook level, that's OK too.  A procedure might looks like:
Dim shSource as Worksheet
Dim shDest as Worksheet

Set shSource = Workbooks("SomeBook").Worksheets(1)
Set shDest = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Summary")

then whenever I reference a Range or Cells or anything else on a sheet, I preface it with that sheet object variable.  Even if I need to get to the workbook, I start with the sheet. If I needed to, for instance, close the Source workbook from the above example, I would use
shSource.Parent.Close False

I set up the sheet variables I need and then everything I do is in terms of those variables.
Edit
If you're opening or creating workbooks, then variables is definitely the way to go. For example, if you're opening a workbook, you could use one of these two examples
Dim wb As Workbook
Set wb = Workbooks.Open(C:\...)

Dim ws As Worksheet
Set ws = Workbooks.Open("C:\...).Worksheets(1)

or creating new, one of these two examples:
Dim wb As Workbook
Set wb = Workbooks.Add

Dim ws as Worksheet
Set ws = Workbooks.Add.Worksheets(1)

With Blocks
When I'm only trying to get at something one time, it seems like a waste to set up a bunch of variables. In those cases, I use a With Block so I can still have fully qualified references, but without a bunch of clutter in my code.
With Workbook("MyBook")
    With .Worksheets("First_Sheet")
        .Range("A1").Value = "stuff"
    End With

    With .Worksheets("Second_Sheet")
        .Range("G10").Formula = "=A1"
    End With
End With

I probably prefer the variable method, but I use them both.
Edit 2: Implicit Referencing
You should always explicitly reference your workbooks and worksheets, but it's still instructional to know how Excel will behave if you don't.  A line of code that starts like Range("A1").Value = ... is called an unqualified reference. You're referencing a range, but you're not saying which sheet its on or which workbook that sheet is in. Excel handles unqualified references differently depending on where your code is.
In a Sheet's Class Module (like where you use sheet events like SelectionChange), unqualified references refer to the sheet represented by that module. If you're in the Sheet1 module working in the Change event and you code x = Range("G1").Value then the G1 you are referring to is on Sheet1.  In this case, you should be using the Me keyword rather than relying on Excel.
In any other module (like a Standard Module), unqualified references refer to the ActiveSheet. The same x = Range("G1").Value code in a Standard Module refers to G1 on whichever sheet has the focus.
Excel's treatment of unqualified references is very reliable. You could easily create robust code by relying on Excel to resolve the qualified references. But you shouldn't. Your code will be more readable and easier to debug if you qualify every reference. I qualify every reference. And that's not one of those things I "always" do except when I'm lazy - I really do it 100% of the time.


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My other reason for believing this is Jesus own statement…John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.


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import java.util.Scanner;

class Calculos extends Soma {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Calculos calculo = new Calculos();
        calculo.executa();
    }
    public void executa() {
        double v1, v2;
        Scanner insere = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.print("Digite o primeiro valor: ");
        v1 = insere.nextDouble();
        System.out.print("Digite o segundo valor: ");
        v2 = insere.nextDouble();
        setSoma(v1, v2);
        System.out.printf("O resultado da soma eh %.2f", getSoma());
    }
}

class Soma{
    private double total;
    public void setSoma(double s1, double s2) {
        total = s1+s2;
    }
    public double getSoma() {
        return total;
    }
}

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Нюйди () — село в Ахсуйском районе Азербайджана.

География

Расположено у подножий гор в 27 км к северу от районного центра Ахсу.

История

«Описание Ширванской провинции, составленное в 1820 году, по распоряжению главноуправляющего в Грузии Ермолова, генерал-майором  Мадатовым и статским советником Могилёвским», приводит сведения об татарской  (азербайджанской) деревне Нюиди Гоузского магала Ширванской провинции. Деревня Нюиди на то время принадлежала Мардан-беку, который являлся родственником последнего ширванского хана. Жители поселения в количестве 6 семей, являвшиеся выходцами из Кубы были освобождены от каких-либо податей в казну.

В 1965 году, вблизи села исследователем Ф. Л. Османовым был найден бронзовый шлем, датируемый II-I веками до нашей эры и являющийся единичным, найденным в области, охватывавшей Кавказскую Албанию.

Достопримечательности

К юго-западу от селения в Нюйдинской степи находится археологический комплекс, относящийся к III-I вв. до н. э. Состоит комплекс из поселения и кладбища.

Население

Материалы посемейных списков на 1886 год сообщают данные о численности, этническом и конфессиональном составе села. Согласно этим материалам, в Нюгди 1-е Шемахинского уезда Бакинской губернии насчитывалось 13 дымов и 97 жителей (56 мужчин и 41 женщина).
Все жители — азербайджанцы-сунниты.

По результатам Азербайджанской сельскохозяйственной переписи 1921 года селение Нюгды (1-е)  входило в состав Басхальского сельского общества Шемахинского уезда. Общая численность населения составляла — 63 человека (22 хозяйства). Преобладающая национальность — азербайджанские тюрки (азербайджанцы).

В начале 1980-х население Нюйди составляло 259 человек. Жители были заняты виноградарством, животноводством. Имелись восьмилетняя школа, клуб, библиотека, медицинский пункт.

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I have started rigging. Some bones were installed today and will be set "constraints" to them tomorrow. This process is important. In other words, the setting here affects the efficiency of future work. A life will live in him in a few days.


In the courtyard of the building at No. 8, Nikolskaya Street is where you'll find a small but exquisite white church with white decoration – it's the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in the Chizhovsky Courtyard.
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin was built in the mid-C17th, as an entrance annexe to the Convent Church of the Myrrh-Bearers in the Chizhevskogo Courtyard. The myrrh-bearers after whom this Church was named were the women in the Gospels who first discovered that Christ's tomb lay empty. The convent itself once lay at the junction of Nikolskaya and Bogoyavlensky (or Epiphany) Lane. The small C17th church we see today is all that remains of this formerly extensive convent. The church was shut down in the soviet period, but Divine Worship was re-instituted in 2000.