Anila's Sauces has rebranded post Design Strategy workshops with OsanNimu to place emphasis on family heritage and to be competitively responsive to International demand.
As part of a Train to Gain Design Workshop programme with OsanNimu as facilitator this small family owned producer needed to engage with its audience by leveraging intimate business relationships and authenticity that is a signature of its food development process.
In the last year and a half there has been an overhaul of labelling and brand engagement with core audience. This is paying with more shelf space at retail independents, such as Whole-foods Kesington, London Store, Planet Organic in London with corresponding jump in sales.
It is an evolving branding change at multiple touch-points for this family-owned Curry Sauces, Chutney, Pickles and Sips producer from about five years ago when the company dropped its start-up labelling design.
Design strategy workshops – in store competitive packaging design and customer audits – informed the company's consumer research showing that consumers in London were seeking authenticity and more intimate branding.
Neat, directional information design linked to more personal stories and know-how about food making were becoming more popular and the idea of provenance.
The business model now means the range of condiment category products might be in a position to retail to hotels Internationally and could be served in first and business class cabins at international airlines.


The Stakeholder Analysis Matrix Template is used to identify project stakeholders and interests. The Strategy Team should identify individuals or groups likely to have an effect on or be affected by the product, service, or process under consideration – the stakeholders – and list the stakeholders in the "Stakeholder" column of MP1010-1 STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS MATRIX. The Strategy Team should develop and refine the stakeholder list over one or more brainstorming sessions.
Changes the project may require of the stakeholder (e.g., automating a process, changing sales territory boundaries).
The Strategy Team should determine each stakeholder's current needs and how well the company addresses those needs and record their observations in the "Current Needs Assessment" column of the matrix. The team should also attempt to determine possible future needs of each stakeholder and determine how the company might best address those needs – or if it can (or wants to) address them – and record such observations.


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Today's Photo of the Day is a lovely Renaissance fresco from Rome's Villa Farnesina, taken by Flickr user AlexSven. It's not the most famous artwork from the museum, that of Raphael's "Triumph of Galatea," but it depicts another voyage of the gods. It's what we all hope our travel will be: swift, elegant and a bit magical. The mode of travel, chariot pulled by a pair of oxen, is as old-fashioned as it gets, and a group of hidden angels assure safe passage for the rider. May your next trip be as smooth.
Upload your magical voyages to Gadling's Flickr pool for another Photo of the Day.
We wrote yesterday about Tim Baynes' delightful travel sketches from around the world on BBC and liked them so much we came back for more. You can (and should!) get lost for hours looking at his drawings on Flickr with fun anecdotes and scribbles bringing depth and humor to his slice-of-life artwork.
Check out some of our favorites in the gallery below, from a look inside the BBC Starbucks to the madness of Dubai immigration during the ash cloud to a quiet barbershop in Tripoli.
See more of Tim Baynes' work on the BBC, his personal Flickr stream, or order a copy of his book Doors to Automatic and Cross Check, direct from the artist.
All photos courtesy of Tim Baynes.
Visitors to New York City this spring should be on the lookout for a new landmark: a giant yellow teddy bear, bronzed and 23 feet high. The 35,000 pound untitled (Lamp/Bear) sculpture was created by New York-based Swiss artist Urs Fischer, one of three made in 2005/2006. The button-eyed bear sits against a lamp, which turns on above the bear's head to keep him lit at night.
The behemoth bear will be outside the Seagram Building at Park Avenue and 52nd Street in Manhattan from next week for five months. Christie's will auction the bear in May and the private collector who owns the artwork has already turned down a $9 million offer. There is a possibility the sculpture could be bought by a private institution or museum, but don't rule out New York as a buyer if the bear proves to be a tourism draw.
Hat tip to Brooklyn Nomad on the story.
Photo courtesy of NYC Loves NYC on Flickr.
Armory week is always an exciting time for New York City's art community. In addition to the main show that occurs on the city's west side, there are seemingly countless smaller shows that have popped up all over Manhattan and in Brooklyn. If you're looking for options … you've got 'em. Of course, serious collectors are drawn to the Armory, where you'll find five- and six-figure pieces from established investment-grade artists who are represented by major galleries – household names for this world. If you're looking for the next big name, however, the sort of artist whose work has yet to really soar, you need to check out the satellite shows.
Traditionally, Pulse has been among the must-see art fairs in Armory week, and for good reason. This time around, unfortunately, it didn't measure up. Quite simply, Pulse lacked what its name asserts.
I walked into the pavilion on W 26th Street expecting to see edgy, interesting and engaging artwork, the sort of pieces that stop you, make you think and leave you with a broader perspective. I left the show a tad disappointed.
The greatest problem with Pulse was that few artists seemed to be taking any risks. Much of the fare was conventional, and it felt as though the artists (or, rather, the show's decision-makers) were trying to play it safe. The exhibition appeared to be catering to a different audience, one that wasn't willing to put its assumptions on the line. To those inviting a challenge, Pulse fell short.
Much of the work was devoid of expression. Artists either tried too hard to find the abstract – such as a video piece of feet and ankles walking through heavy mud – or they relied too much on shocking color. I haven't seen so much pink and other bright colors since similarly hued ski jackets were in vogue in the early 1990s. And, the display of an empty wine bottle with "MUTE" printed on the label simply defines uninspired.
There were a few bright spots, though, particularly the exquisite layered video created by David Ellis. Nestled in the "Impulse" section of the fair, upstairs, the previous Pulse standout offered a time-lapse video that encompassed the creation of several pieces, all intricately and seamlessly linked together to create an ongoing narrative nearly 20 minutes long. Called "The Animals," it provided an array of morphing geographic designs that occasionally stopped to show a (what I took to be) a walrus before continuing on to show further creations. The action didn't stop, and the work reflected the vision necessary to be a true thought leader as an emerging artist.
Aside from Ellis, Pulse was on life support this year, and my fingers are crossed for something more engaging in 2012. If we learned anything from the art market bust of 2008 and 2009, it's that we need fresh, original and interesting talent to engage collectors and the public.
Otherwise, art investment dollars will be funneled into the known quantities (a la Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol), driving up the price and creating a new bubble. We also learned that betting on the vapid creations of emerging artists who have "made it" – such as Damien Hirst – isn't enough. The purpose of Pulse is to give the next wave of artistic geniuses a platform.
Lladró (pronounced "YAH-drow") is a design house which has been creating coveted works of high porcelain since 1953. The company was founded by three brothers whose combined passion for porcelain has led to the genesis of a ceramic sculpture empire. You may recognize the name Lladro from a friend's collection, from their stores in major cities across the world, or from browsing your parents' or grandma's mantle. That's not to say "porcelain is for old people," it's just that it's expensive, and perhaps an acquired taste.
A taste I had not acquired.
I was planning a trip to Valencia, Spain and I learned that it was home to Lladro's infamous "City of Porcelain," where all their works are designed and created. I decided to go check it out. Why not? Perhaps I could gain an appreciation for something new. The truth is, I didn't get porcelain figurines. There. I said it. I thought of them as being unnecessarily feminine and dated.
Then I went to the City of Porcelain.
A sculpture is first created in clay, then a plaster mold for each piece of it is made. The molds are filled with liquid porcelain, then set aside to harden. Molds are used a maximum of 25 times to ensure that each sculpture is perfect. Using liquid porcelain as adhesive, the pieces from the molds are assembled with artful precision into their designed forms. In the case of complex forms like flowers, they must be assembled petal by petal (or tiny piece by tiny piece).
Next, they are painted. The pigments used to paint the sculptures are transparent, and develop later in the kiln, so the artists tint them (so they can see where they've painted). This means you'll see oddly painted figurines in hot pinks and watery purples; that color is only there to help the painter color inside the lines and isn't necessarily indicative of the final color at all. After painting the larger portions of the sculptures, facial features are painted, using a mixture of pigment and porcelain, giving extra definition and depth to the eyes, eyebrows and mouth. As I watched the simple act of a woman painting a perfect eyebrow, I began to have a new respect for porcelain.
After the women assemble and paint the figurines (only women have ever done this role at Lladro), they are fired in the kiln at about 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit, and they shrink about 15%. The pieces are left to cool for 12 hours. And that's how porcelain is made.
It's a fascinating process to watch. So much could go wrong, and every single person who handles the items has to be a truly superior craftsperson or they would wreck someone else's work. After seeing how the porcelain sculptures are made, it was a treat to walk around the showroom and see all the incredible pieces, some of which are so complex, it takes weeks for a whole team of artists to make them.
Lladro is continuing to step up their game by allowing hot young designers to collaborate with them on pieces for special collections. Check out the gallery above for some of the amazing works of art Lladro has created with the other designers, as well as some stunners from their own collections. You might be surprised at how modern and wonderful they are!


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Best Content for KidsEuropean Award
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European jury
Winners were announced on Safer Internet Day, 11 February 2014. Please go to Winners' gallery to view the winning entries.
***Please note: The European Award for Best Content for Kids has now closed and the winners have received their awards from Vice-President Neelie Kroes on Safer Internet Day 2014 – see details of the winning entries here.***
The European Jury met in Brussels on January 7th, 2014, to select the winners of the Best Content Award. The members of the jury were: Sonia Livingstone (UK, Chair), Axenia Boneva (BG), Eline Kwantes (NL), Meral Akin-Hecke (AT), Martin Schmalzried (BE) and Georges Kremer (youth representative, LU).
Bios of the members of the European jury
Sonia Livingstone (chair) is a full professor in the Department of Media and communications at LSE. She teaches master's courses in media and communications theory, methods, and audiences, and supervises doctoral students researching questions of audience, publics and users in the changing media landscape. She is author or editor of eighteen books and many academic articles and chapters. She has been visiting professor at the Universities of Bergen, Copenhagen, Harvard, Illinois, Milan, Paris II, and Stockholm, and is on the editorial board of several leading journals. She is past President of the International Communication Association, ICA. Sonia was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2014 'for services to children and child internet safety.'
She directs the 33-country network, EU Kids Online, funded by the EC's Safer Internet Programme. She also directs The Class, within the MacArthur Foundation-funded Connected Learning Research Network. She participates in the European COST action,Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies, leads ECREA's Children, Youth and Media group and blogs for the LSE Media Policy Project.
Axenia Boneva has a background in French and Bulgarian language, and has been involved in production and creation of audiovisual programs for children both in Bulgaria and in the French-speaking world. She hosts a great interest towards digital/audiovisual policy on the EU level, and demonstrates this as a member of working groups related to audiovisuals/ safer internet / media education for both the European Commission and the Council of Europe. She is also a member of the board of PEGI.
Eline Kwantes is the managing partner of Blooming Digital BV and Dromenkroon, which aims at increasing quality and applicability of the digital aspect in children's media. Ms. Kwantes is passionate about media and education, as well as the constant challenge the speed of digital media provides, and has been involved as a judge in the "Gouden Apenstaart" and "Media Ukkie Award" (best children's' content prizes in the Netherlands).
Meral Akin-Hecke has been appointed Digital Champion Austria in June 2013. Digital Champions are ambassadors for the EU Digital Agenda, appointed by their Members States to help every European become digital.
After studying Business Informatics at the Technical University Vienna Meral Akin-Hecke started her career as software consultant at SAP and went on at the Austrian Broadcasting Company ORF.
In 2007 she initiated the non-profit platform Digitalks bringing digital skills and social media know-how to a mainstream audience. Besides the non-profit initiative Digitalks she works as a media and management consultant and accompanies businesses at their first steps in social media. She is one of the Executive Board Members of Open Knowledge Foundation Austria and supports the idea of an "open society".
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/austria-0
http://www.digitalks.at
Martin Schmalzried is Policy Officer at COFACE (Confederation of Families Associations in the European Union) in charge of sustainable Development, Education and ICT policies since 2009. Martin is also Alternate Member at European Economic and Social Committee.
Georges Kremer is currently the Vice-president of the Student's committee in the School he goes to. He has taken part as a Jury member in the international Festival for audiovisual programs in Biarritz and has also worked as a youth panelist at the Safer Internet Forum 2013.
Criteria for judges
Target group and age-appropriateness
Target group or age range is transparent and comprehensible.
The cognitive development of the target group (physical and mental skills, emotions) is taken into account regarding content, design and navigation.
The content is understandable for the target group.
Information for parents is provided, especially when the target group is young children.
The content is presented in an attractive way to the target group through use of creative, interactive, innovative, entertaining and/or educational features.
The visuals are of high quality, properly attributed and labelled.
The language used is well written, without mistakes and suitable for the target group.
Positive online interaction and/or offline interaction with peers and family is stimulated.
The navigation structure is user friendly and adapted to the target group. Users do not get lost within the site: they always know where they are.
The URL is easy and simple to reach. Typo-errors will not land the children in unwanted or harmful domains filled with viruses and advertising.
The design of the content channel facilitates navigation and enables children to easily find their way through the content/site.
The content is accessible through different platforms and devices (browsers, mobile devices etc.).
If social media communication features are present: social networks, chat rooms, forums, guest books, video platforms etc.
Specific rules and security information on how to use the services safely are offered (i.e. guidance on netiquette while communicating with others, protection of personal data, protection against cyberbullying etc.).
Parental consent is asked for if registration is required.
Easy to use and find reporting mechanisms are provided (i.e. an alarm button, in case children need help or advice or need to report potentially harmful content or contact).
Constant and active monitoring and moderation of user contributions ensures that all content that may be harmful to children is deleted.
If commercial elements are present: advertising, sponsoring, online shopping etc.
Commercial elements, advertising and online shopping facilities are clearly set apart from the content, easily recognisable, labelled as such and not age-inappropriate to the target group (e.g. no advertising or shopping for alcohol or cigarettes).
Commercial elements do not restrict the user's control of actions.
There is a financial limit to what children can spend on the site or in the game.
The commercial proposition is openly communicated.
Payment methods require parental control.
The content is not harmful to minors: it does not contain offensive material or other harmful elements (i.e. pornography, racist/violent/offending content, pictures or videos).
Children are not directed to other unsuitable content such as external websites with content that is not appropriate for children.
Information about the provider/creator is offered.
Contact details are easily accessible, in order to enable parents or children to get in touch in case of problems.
The content does not infringe on the copyright of others.
Privacy laws are respected.
No more data than necessary is gathered.
Personal data is treated confidentially, exceptions (i.e. for the purpose of delivering a prize) are made transparent and it is stated clearly that the data is deleted afterwards.
Information about privacy measures and policies are clearly visible and in a language suitable for the target group and his/her parents.
If the data of visitors is processed while using the site, this should be made transparent.
If children can share their personal data, they have to actively confirm parental consent.
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Mark Leone is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Leone was trained in anthropology at the University of Arizona and focused on the "New Archaeology." In 1976, Leone began teaching at the University of Maryland where he became the Chair of the Department of Anthropology between 1993 and 2003 as well Chair of the University Senate in 2000 – 2001. He has a general interest in critical theory, as it applies to archaeology, and particularly, to historical archaeology. Dr. Leone is most well known for his use of critical theory in archaeology for the Archaeology in Annapolis project where he was able to bring these interests together. The development of his approach started in his early work within the New Archaeology movement and through his interest in Marxist perspectives to past and present cultures. His approach combines a commitment to social responsibility with a belief in the scientific method.
Dr. Leone is committed to public interpretation of archaeology through the relationship between public interpretation and the politics of archaeology. He runs a well-known, six-week archaeological field school in Annapolis each summer, which is co-sponsored by Historic Annapolis Foundation,who offer practical experience for public outreach.
2005 The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital: Excavations in Annapolis. University of California Press.
1979 Roots of Modern Mormonism. Harvard University Press.
1995 Invisible America, with Neil A. Silberman. Henry Holt Co.
2008 Overview, for Review Feature (3 reviews of the "Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital: Excavations in Annapolis"). Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18:1:102-105.
2008 CA Comment on: Time to Destroy. Current Anthropology 49:2:266-267.
2007 Beginning for a Postmodern Archaeology. In "Revolution Fulfilled? Symbolic and Structural Archaeology a Generation On." Review Feature: Symbolic and Structural Archaeology edited by Ian Hodder. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17:4:203-207.
2006 LiDAR for Archaeological Landscape Analysis: A Case Study of Two Eighteenth Century Maryland Plantation Sites. With James M. Harmon, Stephen D. Prince, and Marcia Snyder. American Antiquity 71:4:649-670.
2006 How the Landscape of Fear Works in Spring Valley, a Washington, D.C. Neighborhood. City and Society. XVIII (1). 36-42.
2006 Foundational Histories and Power. Archaeological Dialogues 13:2:23-28.
2005 The Archaeology of Black Americans in Recent Times. With Jennifer Babiarz and Cheryl LaRoche. Annual Reviews of Anthropology. 13: 15: 575-599.
2005 Perspective and Surveillance in Eighteenth-Century Maryland Gardens, Including William Paca's Garden on Wye Island. With James M. Harmon, and Jessica L. Neuwirth. Historical Archaeology, 39:4: 131-150.
2003 Hidden in View: African Spiritual Spaces in North American Landscapes. With Timothy Ruppel, Jessica Neuwirth, and Gladys-Marie Fry. Antiquity. 77: 296: 321-335.
2002 The Political Economy of Archaeological Cultures. With Christopher N. Matthews and Kurt Jordan. Journal of Social Archaeology, 2:1:109-134.
1999 Conjuring in the Big House Kitchen: An Interpretation of African American Belief Systems, Based on the Uses of Archaeology and Folklore Sources, with Gladys-Marie Fry. Journal of American Folklore, Summer 1999; 112:445:372-403.


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To investigate the effect of space charge, a method has been implemented in COSY INFINITY to achieve efficient and accurate calculation of the interparticle Coulomb forces based on variants of the Fast Multipole Method (FMM)... The FMM algorithm is especially suited for beam dynamics simulations because of the efficiency and low computational error compared to other space charge algorithms.
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This is a prediction of an entire license plate with audience involvement! The magician shows different numbers and letters on a license plate-style pad. The combinations are endless. One or several spectators choose freely, a letter or number at a time, to create a unique license plate. Magically, the magician then reveals a metal license plate that matches the chosen one exactly! This can be themed as either the magician knowing ahead of time what license plate would be created by the audience, or the audience has some special ability to predict the license plate hidden by the magician!


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Hug It Out
Written by Erica Sanderson on August 1, 2011
Hugging and cheek-pinching kids with every entrance to a room has been encouraged as one way to ensure proper development and growth, but where's the love for grown-ups The importance of touch in development. Ardiel, E.L. and Rankin, C.H. Brain Research Centre and Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia. Paedietrics & Child Health 2010 March; 15(3): 153-156. ? Research suggests the good old fashioned hug might also reduce stress and blood pressure in adults More frequent partner hugs and higher oxytocin levels are linked to lower blood pressure and heart rate in premenopausal women. Light, K.C., Grewen, K.M., and Amico, J.A. Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Departments of Pharmaceutical Science and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Biological Psychology 2005 April; 69(1):5-21. , so maybe it's time to seriously consider hugging it out.
Hooray for Hugs — The Takeaway
Studies indicate hugs can do a body good by reducing stress, lowering blood pressure, and improving attitude More frequent partner hugs and higher oxytocin levels are linked to lower blood pressure and heart rate in premenopausal women. Light, K.C., Grewen, K.M., and Amico, J.A. Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Departments of Pharmaceutical Science and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Biological Psychology 2005 April; 69(1):5-21. . It turns out regular hugging can also help adults— particularly women— decreasing heart rate and levels of cortisol, the "stress hormone" linked to depression and immune problems More frequent partner hugs and higher oxytocin levels are linked to lower blood pressure and heart rate in premenopausal women. Light, K.C., Grewen, K.M., and Amico, J.A. Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Departments of Pharmaceutical Science and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Biological Psychology 2005 April; 69(1):5-21. Effects of partner support on resting oxytocin, cortisol, norepinephrine, and blood pressure before and after warm partner contact.Grewen KM, Girdler SS, Amico J, Light KC. Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Psychosom Med. 2005 Jul-Aug;67(4):531-8. . Some frequent huggers even have a more positive outlook on their mental health than those who don't embrace as often. Plus, hugs (namely between spouses/partners or parents and children) may increase levels of oxytocin, a hormone shown to potentially ease stress and help with social bonding Effects of partner support on resting oxytocin, cortisol, norepinephrine, and blood pressure before and after warm partner contact.Grewen KM, Girdler SS, Amico J, Light KC. Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Psychosom Med. 2005 Jul-Aug;67(4):531-8. . Don't have a loved one close by? Try a self-hug— really. Other research suggests self-induced hugs can ease pain by tricking the brain. When the arms are crossed, the right and left hands visually appear to be on the wrong sides of the body The anaglesic effect of crossing the arms. Gallace, A., Torta, D.M., Moseley, G.L. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Pain, 2011 Jun; 12(2): 1481-23 . When this happens, the brain can't pinpoint the origin of pain and therefore has difficulty registering it. Now if only there was a way to trick the brain into believing chocolate is a vegetable… Some people take alternate routes to soak up the benefits of hugging. Oxytocin, for instance, is often sold online as a "love drug," even though the hormone's affectionate effects are still unclear. So skip the pill and go for the real deal by embracing the hug and enjoying the potential benefits for the body and mind. The only negative? Don't squeeze too tight— extreme cases of strong bear hugs could cause injury to the spine or back.
Research suggests hugs do a body good by reducing stress, lowering blood pressure, and improving attitude.
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• (n.) A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone.
A large area of high atmospheric pressure, characterised by outward-spiralling winds - a 'high'.
A large area of high pressure around which the winds blow clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.
A large body of air in which the atmospheric pressure is higher than the pressure in the surrounding air. The winds blow clockwise around an anticyclone in in the Northern Hemisphere.
A region of relatively high pressure where air is descending through the atmosphere normally brings dry and settled weather. Winds on the surface blow clockwise around it in the northern hemisphere and anti-clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
An anticyclone is a phenomenon presenting some features opposite to those of a cyclone. It consists of a region of high barometric pressure, the pressure being greatest in the centre, with light winds flowing outwards from the centre, and not inwards as in the cyclone, accompanied with great cold in winter and with great heat in summer.
An area of high pressure around which the winds circulate in a clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere. It is usually responsible for fair, dry weather.
An area of high pressure, also called a High, around which the winds circulate in a clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere (and counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere). It is usually responsible for fair, dry weather. When the area of highest pressure is elongated, it is called a high pressure ridge, or simply a ridge.
An area of high pressure. Winds blow in a clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and in a counter clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere. Fair weather is associated with an anticyclone.
An atmospheric pressure system consisting of an area of high pressure and outward circular surface wind flow. In the Northern Hemisphere winds from an anticyclone blow clockwise, while Southern Hemisphere systems blow counterclockwise.
anticyclone An extensive system of winds spiraling outward from a high-pressure center, circling clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Area of increased atmospheric pressure relative to surrounding pressure field in the atmosphere. It is outlined by closed isobars on a synoptic surface chart, and by closed contours on a constant-pressure chart. This term is used interchangeably with high.
high pressure area with counterclockwise winds in the Southern Hemisphere and clockwise winds in the Northern Hemisphere.
Refers to weather. A region of relatively high barometric pressure in which the pressure is highest at the middle. The winds circulate clockwise around the centre in the Northern Hemisphere and anti-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Anticyclone is the opposite of Depression.


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Pokemon GO blamed for illegal border crossing from Canada to U.S.
A virtual map of Bryant Park is displayed on the screen as a man plays the augmented reality mobile game "Pokemon Go" by Nintendo in New York City, U.S. July 11, 2016. REUTERS/Mark Kauzlarich/File Photo
(Reuters) - Two youths unaware of their surroundings when they were playing Pokemon GO on their cell phones made an illegal border crossing this week from Canada into the United States in a remote part of Montana, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said.
The two, who were not identified, were found by U.S. Border Patrol agents on Thursday, with their attention affixed to their phones as they were trying to hunt down cartoon characters on a journey that took them over the border.
"Both juveniles were so captivated by their Pokemon GO games that they lost track of where they were," said Michael Rappold, a spokesman for the agency.
The two were reunited with their mothers at a nearby border patrol station, the agency said.
The game has been an unexpected success from Spain to Australia, doubling Nintendo's value since the game's launch in the United States earlier this month.
Using mobile devices, players search for virtual Pokemon characters that appear to pop up at office spaces, restaurants, museums and other places. Players score points in various ways, including capturing the Pokemon characters with a flick of a finger on their phone screen.
The game was also to blame for a rash of car accidents and a slew of mishaps stemming from distracted players.
Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Bernard Orr


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Q: Expressing $2010_{2}$ To express $2010$ in base $2$, we use exactly $8$ ones and $3$ zeros. Find the next two integers in base $2$ that use the same number of ones and zeros.

A: If you convert $2010$ to base $2$, you get $11111011010.$
Can you see of a method to increase the number while maintaining the same number of ones and zeros?
Hint, leave the upper 5-msb's alone and play with the lower 6 to keep the number of 1's and 0's the same. You want the next higher numbers. Does that make sense?
Regards -A

A: The next number is $2012_{10}=11111011100_2$.
Because $2010_{10}=11111011010_2$.

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This package provides a type for storing numbers in the log-domain, primarily useful for preventing underflow when multiplying many probabilities as in HMMs and other probabilistic models. The package also provides modules for dealing with floating numbers correctly.
As of version 0.13.3, we've dropped support for Hugs and GHC < 7.8. Nothing major has changed, so they should still work; it's just that they're no longer officially supported. (In practice, GHC 7.6 still works just fine, and is still being tested against. It's just that this support will be droped in the future, once it becomes a burden.) Thus, this version of the library provides a transitional point between backwards compatability and adding new features (see below).
Note that the GitHub repository is just a clone of the Darcs repo. I'm testing out whether to switch things over to GitHub in order to use TravisCI, and an official ticket tracker, etc.
The Haddock step is optional.
The logfloat package uses the FFI to access functions in libm to improve accuracy. These functions are part of the ISO C 1999 standard and are supported on most systems, however they're not part of the ANSI C standard nor the System V standard and so they might be unavailable on some systems. If you encounter errors during build about not being able to find <math.h>, not having prototypes for functions, or linking errors, then you are probably on such a system.
In order to use pure Haskell and disable the FFI, pass -f-useFFI during the configure phase to disable the useFFI flag. This will degrade the accuracy of certain operations, but should still compile cleanly.
The logfloat package builds and installs cleanly with GHC on Windows (without needing Cygwin nor Mingw/Msys), and the installed package can be used in compiled programs without any issues.
The most reliable workaround at this point, alas, is to compile the library with FFI support disabled in order to be able to use it in GHCi, and then to recompile with FFI enabled whenever you need to ship a compiled program.
A less-reliable workaround (i.e., needs to be tailored for your system based on your paths, and you'll need to have gcc installed) which avoids the need for recompilation is to generate the DLL yourself by running the following two commands and then placing the resulting m.dll into your path.
The results of the code coverage are in ./dist/hpc/vanilla/html/logfloat-$VERSION/hpc_index.html. If you're not interested in the coverage of the test suite, then you needn't pass the --enable-coverage nor --keep-tix-files flags. Note that older versions of cabal used the flag name --enable-library-coverage instead of --enable-coverage. And IIRC hpc integration in cabal was broken for ghc-7.6.
In Cabal 1.2 there is a bug in the handling of building Haddock documentation when CPP is involved. These issues have been fixed in Cabal 1.6, but here are the instructions if you're on older systems.
In Cabal 1.2 the cpp-options field is not passed to Haddock, and therefore any macros defined there are not seen, which can cause Haddock to fail. The old workaround was to define CPP macros in the ghc-options field which does get passed to Haddock. This is now considered bad style and is forbidden by Hackage. It appears that passing --haddock-option=... or --ghc-option=... flags during configure does not have the same effect as defining the field.
Therefore, in order to properly compile Haddock documentation on Cabal 1.2, you should go into logfloat.cabal and uncomment the ghc-options fields which declare CPP macros -D_USEFFI__ and -D__HUGS__=200609. If you know of a better workaround for this configuration, contact the maintainer.
If you need to disable the FFI due to issues with not being able to find <math.h>, not having prototypes for functions, or linking errors, be sure not to pass -D_USEFFI__ to the cpp filter for ffihugs.
Notably, Hugs installs cpphs under the name "cpphs-hugs" by default. The which command will try to resolve the location, assuming it's on your $PATH. If it isn't, then change the --with-cpphs= flag to point to where cpphs is installed on your system.
Monomorphized logFloat, logToLogFloat, fromLogFloat, and logFromLogFloat: that is, they all take/return Double now. The change was made to help reduce the need for explicit type signatures. It shouldn't really affect most users, since it seems noone was really making use of the polymorphism provided by previous versions. To get the previous behavior back, just explicitly add calls to realToFrac wherever necessary.
Added the functions sum, product, and pow. Both sum and product preserve more precision than the fold-based definitions in the Prelude. Moreover, sum is much faster than the Prelude version, since it only requires crossing the log/exp boundary n+1 times, instead of 2*(n-1) times. The only downside is that sum requires two passes over the input and thus is not amenable to list fusion.
(Version 0.13.3.2; 2015-08-06) Fixed the Show LogFloat instance to produce parentheses in the right place.
Since the Data.Number.RealToFrac module is no longer required by any of the others, it will probably be forked off to a separate package in order to improve portability of the rest of the package by removing the need for MPTCs.
There's long been clamoring for adding a vector:Data.Vector.Unboxed.Unbox instance. I've been reluctant to add such an instance due to wanting to retain backwards compatibility and portability. Having dropped support for Hugs and older versions of GHC, I'm now willing to add them in.
The logfloat library is conceptually quite simple, and thus to whatever extent possible I'd still like to retain portability to non-GHC compilers. So if you are interested in using logfloat with another compiler/interpreter but run into problems (e.g., due to the type families required by the vector library), please get in touch and I'll try to get things to work.
The package is compatible with GHC 7.8.3 and 7.10.1. It may still compile with older versions of GHC (or even Hugs!), however they are no longer officially supported.
The package is not compatible with nhc98 and Yhc because Data.Number.RealToFrac uses MPTCs. However, that module is no longer required by any others, and all the other modules should be compatible with these compilers. Thus, it should be fairly easy to port. If you do so, please let me know and I'll try to incorporate support for them.


How much does your organization spend on your brand? Usually, this question yields answers in the following categories: logo design, collateral production messaging, and ads. And for more sophisticated organizations, it also includes elements of Social Media.
While all of these items are important, this list is missing the two fundamental delivery mechanisms of the brand itself: people, and the online user experience.
Each of these areas (and more) directly impact the brand: If the brand "spend" excludes people, then a huge opportunity has been missed. Without brand strength on the inside, there can't be brand strength on the outside.
In other words, the brand spend must also be made with the HR department.
Online User Experience: The number and frequency of online touchpoints (web/social media/automated email) has increased dramatically over the last number of years for two main reasons: internal pressure to reduce costs, and external pressure for always-available self-service. At the same time, users' expectations of a simple, hassle-free online experience have also increased dramatically. If your users become frustrated interacting with you online, they will "abandon" you. Or worse, share their poor experience with the world via Social Media.
Using the most up-to-date thinking for design, information architecture, and site logic.
Ensuring that a community management strategy is in place and that the function is staffed and trained.
Ensuring that any existing call center (or front-line service staff) are empowered – and technically able to respond to chat/SMS/Twitter, and any other online outreach.
In other words, the brand spend must also be made with the IT department.
This week's action plan: Brand actually needs to infuse every group within your organization, not just marketing, HR, and IT. This week, make sure that it is, starting first with HR then with IT.


Nigeria has been ranked second worst country in the world in the use of sovereign wealth funds.
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, according to the Fiscal Monitor report released today, ranked Qatar the first worst nation in the world.
The index was compiled using the corporate governance and transparency scores of the sovereign wealth funds and the size of assets as a percentage of 2016 GDP of the countries considered.


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Managing as Designing
Richard Boland
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"Managing as Designing" explores "the design attitude," a new focus for analysis and decision making for managers that draws on examples of decision making and leadership in architecture, art, and design. Based on a series of conference papers given at the opening of the Peter B. Lewis Building (designed by Frank Gehry) at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, the book includes keynote speeches from Frank Gehry and Karl Weick.
The premise of this book is that managers should act not only as decision makers, but also as designers. Though decision and design are inextricably linked in management action, managers and scholars have too long emphasized the decision face of management over the design face. In a series of essays from a multitude of disciplines, the authors develop a theory of the design attitude in contrast to the more traditionally accepted and practiced decision attitude.
The book will appeal primarily to scholars of management theory and organization strategy and managers, with many contributions from a variety of academic backgrounds including architecture, sociology, design, history, choreography, strategy, economics, music, and accounting. There is a potential for strong crossover appeal to these groups, especially to those people and groups interested in design and product development.
Författare: Richard Boland
Förlag: Stanford University Press


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August saw the release of a monologue anthology of mature women, curated by Victoria Taylor Roberts, containing 39 brand new audition pieces written by 14 established and emerging writers from all around the UK. In response to research uncovering that there were no audition monologue resources for older female actors in the UK at present, we decided to make one! The pieces range from 1 – 3 minutes and cater to those aged 40 – 80.
WOMEN ARE LIKE WINE is now available as an Ebook or in paperback on Amazon
…or from the famous Samuel French Bookshop at the Royal Court Theatre and at the brilliant Calder Bookshop opposite the Young Vic!
And finally, thank you peeps for those lovely reviews on Amazon. Keep them coming 🥰
"Really inspiring intro about the value of women over 40 as actors followed by a brilliant choice of different monologues to suit of range of women of different ages, class, ethnicity, plus a very enjoyable read."
Between the 24th and 30th March the ebook version of the short story collection, Hidden & Other Stories, will be available for 99p.
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Delighted to say that The Cookie Cutters, in its final lap of the international festival circuit, has been selected once again – this time by the amazing Unrestricted View Film Festival (on our doorstep in North London's lively, leafy borough of Islington). The team are beyond excited as @UviewFF directly supports the wonderful Hen & Chickens Theatre, one of London's iconic fringe theatres. Check out Vicky's interview with James Wren, the festival director, below. And, yep, as always – fingers crossed!
Fantastic News…. We've hit the FINALS at the Oaxaca Film Festival in Mexico!!
Not only that, The Cookie Cutters has been selected to be screened as part of the festival's 10th anniversary celebrations at their beach edition festival later in the month. Thrilled, to say the least!
In other news, we were honoured to have The Cookie Cutters selected for the UK Monthly Film Festival, Barnes Film Festival and Winchester Film Festival, despite not making it to their short lists.
We're delighted to say that those amazing people from Get Over It Productions have selected to stage our ten minute short, The Cookie Cutters, as part of The Scene collection at West London's fabulous Tabard Theatre. With the film version already enjoying one festival selection and the stage version having just been aired in Ireland, The Cookie Cutters is enjoying a spurt of success. We're really looking forward to seeing where the always innovative GOI crew take the piece next.
http://tabardtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-scene/
FLYING AROUND THE WORLD! Newest short, The Cookie Cutters, heads to its 22nd festival
Thrilled to report that The Cookie Cutters is now on it's way to its twenty-second festival, amongst the esteemed international list: FilmBath, Underwire, Reading, Norwich, Melbourne, Prague, Sydney (twice!) and Athens. Special mention to the folks at The HB Film Festival in Paisley who have been amazing (we love you HB!) #TheHBfilmfestival
It's been a whirlwind with one selection laurel already under our belts courtesy of the brilliant UK Monthly Film Festival. #UKmonthlyfilmfest
Fingers, toes, corporeal tendons all crosses for us folks. Let's see if we can get a second selection.
The Cookie Cutters: festival news
Wistful Thinking's newest comedy short is now doing the rounds at film festivals in all four corners of the world. We're delighted to say that we've already secured our first festival selection laurel – in the UK Monthly Film Festival no less!
Here's to more laurels and fingers crossed for The Cookie Cutters' auspicious journey on the world's festival circuit. Feel free to check out the film's trailer on the vimeo channel here:
https://vimeo.com/user16055453
The Cookie Cutters is complete!
The Cookie Cutters was borne of being witness to – and a part of – numerous surreal conversations between parents in the more privileged parts of the world. (And we really do mean the world, having researched this as far as Australia!) The dismaying fact is that the emphasis on children's predicted academic success today far outweighs their nonchalant experience as little people still unshackled to life's responsibilities. We wanted to shine a light on what we consider to be the misguided view of modern parents that children are merely adults-in-waiting and must be prepped (or more accurately, pummeled) into vocational beings. In doing so, parents are being bent to the will of the powers that be in need of tax paying office fodder; parents are being trained to believe that for their children to be legitimate members of a future society means being successful – and to be that in an expensive world, one must be affluent. It's a heavy subject so we thought we'd have a go at handling it tongue in cheek!
And so to the story of the film…
After several months of re-writes, pre-production and recruitment, Wistful Thinking's latest short film was ready to shoot. September 1st was the big day and, with the hard work of an amazing crew and fabulous cast, footage was in the can within 8 hours! (We're pretty proud of that, considering it's a ten minute short.) With it's final edit complete and a trailer to boot, we are now ready to roll The Cookie Cutters out to festivals across the world. Fingers crossed for us – there's stiff competition out there from some fabulous film-makers, but we're hopeful. If you'd like a glimpse of the trailer, head over here: https://vimeo.com/292936306
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More festival entries, more fun!
Bolstered by our entry into the finals for the Funny Women UK Film Festival, we have been scanning the planet's film festival offerings for the perfect places to submit The RAFTAs. We are now entrants to the BFI London Film Festival and, not only that, clever Dominic James, The RAFTAs' Director of Phtography and Editor, has cooked up a 2 minute edit of the film for The Comedy Crowd's fabulous Chorts competition. Take a look at our festival poster – oh, and more fingers crossed please!
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The Krásná Hôrka castle in Slovakia has burned down, and the way the Czech and Slovak media have reported on the case makes for sad reading. From the start of their reporting on this scandal, the media have insisted that ethnic Slovaks could not have been involved. Romani people, of course, are always to blame for everything that goes wrong.
The first media reports alleged that Romani people living in a nearby settlement had burned the castle down when they were burning grass near it. The commander of the local volunteer firefighting unit said the building had caught fire from grass that was burning beneath the castle in the area of the Romani settlement.
"I can confirm with 100 % confidence that the blaze spread from the grass that was being burned. They called us from the settlement to come there originally," Stanislav Peti, an officer with the firefighters in Rožňav, told news server pis.sk, which also reported that Slovak Culture Minister Daniel Krajcer had immediately "sharply criticized the fact that the blaze had probably been caused by inadaptable citizens living near the castle."
Then suddenly the media were not reporting about Romani adults burning grass, but children: According to TV JOJ, Romani children had been burning grass below the castle and were responsible for the blaze. News server Topky.cz reported that a spark from their fire had reached the roof of the castle, which was composed entirely of wooden shingles.
Then it turned out the information about the grass having been intentionally set alight had not been true. The media began reporting that two children from a Romani settlement had set it alight when trying to smoke. News server aktuálne.sk quoted Jana Mésarová, spokesperson for the police in Košice, as saying the grass had caught fire when two boys aged 11 and 12 were trying to light a cigarette.
Residents of the Romani settlement assisted volunteer firefighters in putting out the fire. Some of them told news server váš.čas.sk that "the families of the boys involved don't live in the settlement, but in the village."
So from the initial claims that the fire had been caused by Romani people burning grass, the information then shifted to the idea that the blaze had been started by two boys trying to smoke. Those two children may not be from the Romani settlement, but from the village of Krásnohorské podhradie. It is not even certain that they actually are Romani themselves.
The question still remains as to how the roof of the castle could have caught fire from the burning grass. Some Slovak media outlets have reported that after the dry grass caught fire, the shingles of the castle roof caught fire a few minutes later. The flames spread during about 10 minutes across the entire hill on which the castle is located because of a strong wind.
However, even that does not explain the extent of the blaze. Of course, the media have not provided an explanation, but we have found one on the official website of the village of Krásnohorské podhradie.
"We must realize one essential fact, and that is that the arsonist, or the person who set this fire, is not directly responsible for the fact that the castle has burned down. The castle is surrounded by bushy, rampant brushwood, dry grass, and fallen trees, an ideal environment for a forest fire. Several years ago a dispute about the castle hill came to a head between the Betliar Museum and the State Forest Service. The museum acquired ownership rights to the land. The cleaning and maintenance of it, therefore, is the full responsibility of the Betliar Museum administration, which even has an 'Historical Greenery' department as part of its administrative structure. That department works, or should work, in close cooperation with the Regional Monument Authority. That authority previously delivered a decision to the directors of the Betliar Museum on paper demanding that they clean up the castle hill by cutting down and removing the brushwood in order to prevent a possible fire... There are also questions about the fireproofing of the castle's framing and roof. Anyone who has visited the upper castle on a tour must have noticed that the roof is not in good repair. Wherever a shingle is missing, the rain and snow fall into the exhibition. In some places the holes have just been covered with fabric. I can still recall how a few years ago, when they changed the shingles, gentlemen in overalls were running around the roof painting them - shingles which were supposed to have darkened naturally over time under the influence of weathering. I won't even go into the fact that there is no form of water at the castle whatsoever... Media outlets have reported that those who started the fire were Romani and readers have discussed that very point online. That information was immediately taken up by the director of Betliar Museum, Eva Lazarová, who even criticized the low fines that are currently levied against the burning of grass. Minister Krajcer also made sure to point out that our 'inadaptable co-citizens' must be brought into line. It is forbidden to burn grass and it is certainly wrong to do so, but it is just as sick to put the blame on 'unidentified perpetrators' who are allegedly members of a minority in the interest of distracting attention from one's own responsibility."


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AG Nessel Announces Two Vacated Wrongful Convictions in Oakland County
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The Oakland County convictions of George DeJesus and Melvin DeJesus have been vacated after a collaboration between the Michigan Department of Attorney General's (DAG) Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU), the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office, the Oakland County Sheriff's Office, the Cooley Law School Innocence Project and the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic.
The brothers were wrongfully convicted of murder and felony firearms in 1997. New evidence discovered during the CIU's investigation exonerates them after nearly 25 years in prison.
Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Martha D. Anderson set aside the convictions Tuesday morning during a hearing held via Zoom.
The DeJesus cases mark the third and fourth wrongful convictions overturned through the CIU's efforts. Previously, Gilbert Poole, Jr. and Corey McCall were exonerated.
After DAG's CIU launched, the Cooley Innocence Project and Michigan Innocence Clinic asked the unit to conduct DNA testing and review both the brothers' claims of innocence. Following its own thorough investigation, the CIU moved to have George and Melvin's convictions vacated and requested dismissal of all charges.
The Oakland County Sheriff's Office and the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office collaborated with the CIU to provide essential information. They also assisted in the submission of evidence for DNA testing.
"I appreciate the tireless work the unit put in to secure these exonerations for the DeJesus brothers," Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said. "This day is another source of great pride for our Conviction Integrity Unit, which was established in 2019 to ensure those convicted of state crimes are in fact guilty. I look forward to our continued collaboration with the Cooley Innocence Project and University of Michigan Innocence Clinic in our collective pursuit of providing justice to those wrongfully imprisoned."
CASE BACKGROUND
On July 11, 1995, a woman's body was found in her home in Pontiac, Michigan. She was found nude in her basement with a pillowcase over her head and wires binding her neck, wrists, and ankles.
Brandon Gohagen was linked to the crime scene through DNA and eventually confessed to sexually assaulting the victim. Gohagen claimed that Melvin forced Gohagen to sexually assault the victim and then both Melvin and George bound the victim and beat her to death.
Ultimately, Gohagen received a deal and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and first-degree criminal sexual misconduct in exchange for his testimony against George and Melvin.
At trial, George and Melvin presented alibi defenses that they were all at a party on Saturday night, the night Gohagen said the crime occurred. George, Melvin, and Gohagen went their separate ways after the party. However, both alibi witnesses were scrutinized as they were inconsistent as to whether the party was on Friday or Saturday. George and Melvin were ultimately convicted by a jury in 1997 and sentenced to serve life without parole in the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) on Dec. 30, 1997.
In 2017, Gohagen was convicted of the 1994 sexual assault and murder of another woman in Oakland County. Gohagen acted alone in that crime. In addition to the 1995 and the 1994 cases, the CIU discovered 12 other women who were emotionally, physically, and sexually abused by Gohagen. The CIU also found other evidence that impeached Gohagen's credibility, and the CIU spoke to a witness who said that Gohagen confessed to implicating the brothers in exchange for a deal.
Additionally, the CIU spoke to numerous witnesses and reviewed decades of documents. The CIU located witness statements made within weeks of the crime that corroborated the brothers' alibis the night of the 1995 murder.
"We are happy that George DeJesus can say he has been fully exonerated after nearly a 25-year struggle to prove his innocence," Tracey Brame, the director of the Cooley Innocence Project, said. "George has steadfastly maintained that he had nothing to do with this terrible crime. We are grateful to Attorney General Dana Nessel and the Conviction Integrity Unit team for their willingness to listen to the brothers and reinvestigate the case. Today, George and his brother, Melvin, have finally received justice."
"We are thrilled to learn that our client, Melvin DeJesus, and his brother, George, will be fully exonerated, some 27 years after the true killer framed the brothers for this heinous crime." Dave Moran, co-director of the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic, said. "We thank the Attorney General's Conviction Integrity Unit for their thorough reinvestigation of this case, which led them to reach the same conclusion that we did: the brothers are completely innocent. And we thank the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office for agreeing to this result. We will now focus on helping Melvin DeJesus adjust to his freedom and move on with his life."
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Christian Gómez (* 7. listopadu 1974) je bývalý argentinský fotbalový záložník. V roce 2006 byl vyhlášen nejlepším hráčem Major League Soccer. Na profesionální úrovni hrál 28 let, svoji kariéru ukončil v 44 letech.

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Gómez začal s profesionálním fotbale v 17 letech v druholigovém argentinském CA Nueva Chicago. Za klub hrál od roku 1991 do roku 1997, odehrál 155 zápasů a vstřelil 46 gólů. V roce 1997 přestoupil do jednoho z nejslavnějších klubů Argentiny, do CA Independiente. Pro druhou polovinu ročníku 1999/2000 přestoupil do Argentinos Juniors, odkud se vrátil do Nueva Chicago. V Chicagu odehrál 63 zápasů, poté se krátce vrátil do Independiente, poté přestoupil do Arsenalu de Sarandí. V roce 2004 Gómez podepsal smlouvu s americkým klubem D.C. United, který o něj projevoval zájem několik let. V sezoně 2004 odehrál 9 zápasů, vstřelil 4 góly a pomohl D.C. k zisku MLS Cupu. V roce 2005 dal 11 gólů, přidal 9 asistencí a byl jmenován do nejlepší XI soutěže. Svoji nejlepší sezonu v MLS odehrál v roce 2006, kdy ve 27 zápasech zaznamenal 10 gólů a 9 asistencí a byl vyhlášen nejlepším hráčem celé ligy. Po sezoně 2007 podepsal Coloradu Rapids, ve 20 zápasech ale vstřelil pouhé 3 góly a zamířil zpět do D.C. United. V D.C. ale hrál pouze jednu sezonu, poté se přesunul do Miami FC v nižší lize. Po jedné sezoně v Miami se vrátil do Argentiny do Nueva Chicago, kde odehrál 9 sezon a v 44 letech svoji hráčskou kariéru ukončil.

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For my money, Espo has always been one the top reporters to watch in the hallways of the U.S. Capitol, as he has helped to lead political coverage for the AP from Congress for many years.
Speaker Boehner dropped by as the gathering began, and spoke for a few minutes to salute Espo's work, noting that David always seemed to know where to find the Ohio Republican for an interview before he was Speaker.
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Floor Kids
Floor kids puts a funky-fresh spin on the rhythm genre
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Published on 26 Apr, 2018
Much as I used to love playing them, it's not a huge surprise that rhythm games never found too much footing outside of the arcade circuit. Increasing demands for specialized hardware and a focus on memorization of a set playlist means that they're not the best of fits for home play, especially without a dance-pad or similar controller. Breakdancing-themed game Floor Kids is different, with a focus on freestyle competitive play and flow over rote memorization.
While key development credit goes to Canadian outfit MERJ Media, the artists that define this game are animator JonJon and the scratch-happy DJ Kid Koala (formerly of Deltron 3030), who provides the beats that you'll be moving to. It's a stylish pairing, and while the limited number of artists involved does give this game a somewhat narrower stylistic scope than many rhythm games, it's impossible to deny that it's got a unique look and sound to it.
As you've probably noticed from the trailer above, outside of a few distinct rhythm challenges, there's no note-chart to follow in Floor Kids. For the most part, you'll be dancing freestyle, trying to elegantly chain as many moves as you can to the beat without breaking your combo. Like a more stationary Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, then. Each character has their own repertoire of moves and there's some technique involved in chaining from one trick to the next, so it shifts the focus of the game from learning the track itself to learning your character while matching the beat.
The game was released on Switch late last year, but the PC version is about three weeks away yet, set for launch on May 16th. Looking at reviews of the console original, it was pretty well received on the whole, with common complaints being that it's a bit short as a single-player experience, but can be a lot of fun when two good players really start competing. You can follow or wishlist the game on Steam here.
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It is a horrible thing to be exiled: to be thrown out and forced to leave the place which is your home . . . and to be sent to a place which you do not know and which does not know you. It is horrible, and most of us cannot imagine it. We're lucky, of course, for exile is not really an unusual human experience. In fact it is quite common. How very many exiles (refugees) there are in the world today. And throughout history how often have individuals or families or even whole nations of people been compelled to leave their homes and go to a foreign and most often unfriendly land.
It happens for many reasons. Perhaps it is a war that forces people out. Or an epidemic or pestilence or famine. Perhaps it is politics or economics or race or religion. There are many reasons, but always the experience is roughly the same. Most of the time they don't want you in that foreign land any more than you want to be there. The people don't speak the language that you speak, and everything looks different. There they don't eat the food that you eat, and their clothes and their habits and their customs are unfamiliar, even disgusting to you. Things don't work the same way as they did at home. And often the people there shun you and treat you with shame. And then, the worst thing . . . one day you discover that your children are becoming more like them and less like you.
In exile you are cut off. Cut off from your past, and cut off, it seems, from your future. You cannot go back, and yet you are not at home where you are. People lose their bearings when they are uprooted like this. And their standards. They give up hope sometimes. Sometimes they lose their will to live.
The passage which we heard from Isaiah this morning was written to people in just such a situation. It is surely one of the most beautiful passages in all of Scripture. It was written as a message of reassurance to a people in exile.
Behold the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him. . . He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
And so the Jews found themselves in exile, in a foreign land, "among a people of strange speech." ( Ez. 3:5 ) And yet we know it was not a time of great privation; strangely enough they were treated well in Babylon. Indeed, the period the Exile was a rich and formative one for Judaism itself. But even so, it was exile, and they longed to return. Far away from home their very existence as a people was threatened. Their sons and daughters learned foreign ways and gave up their own traditions. Some among those in exile began to doubt their religion. God had forsaken them or perhaps the God of Israel was powerless or absent in this place.
It was to this dejection, this despair, this loss of hope that Isaiah addressed himself, and in the name of God he made the people of the Exile a promise: they were not abandoned. God would come to them and he would bring them home.
But they never forgot their Exile, as unhappy and bitter as it had been. Like the experience of slavery in Egypt which was their beginning, exile and return became a way by which Jews understood themselves and thought about their God. It was an experience which profoundly marked and determined them. Perhaps indeed it prepared the Jews for the many centuries of Exile and bitterness that they were yet to know.
About six hundred years after Isaiah wrote what we heard in the lesson this morning, another group of people began to understand that same passage in a way somewhat different from what Isaiah had originally intended. It was not a contradiction of its meaning, nor was it a distortion, but an amplification and enlargement of what the prophet meant. Most of these people were Jews, and they too had experienced exile, and they too were convinced that God had come to them and had brought them home. And they looked forward to yet another and a greater home which God would make for them. I am speaking, of course, of the people who wrote the New Testament.
The exile they had known had nothing to do with where they were, but with what they were. It was an inner exile. It was a spiritual Babylon. It was the state of not being at home with oneself and not being at home with God. This was an exile, as they understood it, which afflicted all humanity, and there was no place one could go to escape, no home, at least in this world, to return to. They called this exile sin.
But if they understood themselves to be in exile, they also believed with great certainty that God had come to them in Jesus and was delivering them from the exile of their sins. In Christ God would establish was even now establishing within them and within their community, the Church, " new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells". ( II Peter 3:13 ) God was again returning them from exile and bringing them home by making them in Christ, by His grace, at home with Himself.
Permit me a brief aside: do you know what "parish" means? I've mentioned this before. Do you remember? We are the Parish of the Advent, but do you know what the word means? It's taken from two Greek words which together mean "away from home". The implication is that a parish is one's home away from home. It is the place to which one goes to be truly at home: at home with God, at home with one's fellows, at home with one's self.
And so those New Testament people, the very ones who invented the word "parish", who felt themselves returned and returning from a spiritual exile, read the prophecy in Isaiah of God's promise to His people in a strange and alien land, and they could not but see it also as God's promise to them of the Messiah whom they knew, the Christ who led and leads them out of spiritual Babylon into their true and holy home. And it speaks as well to us, doesn't it? We who both know and await the same Messiah.
Comfort ye, Comfort ye my people saith your God! Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned.


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Throughout the 1800s, all more than the Europe and United States of America, the game roulette began to spread. It rose to reputation and became a single of the most renowned casino games ever. Soon after the German rule place an finish to gambling for the duration of the 1860s, the Blanc loved ones decided to move to the final remaining legal casino operation of Europe in Monte Carlo. With them Monte Carlo became the new gambling Mecca for these elite Europeans. It is in this location that this single zero roulette gained mass favor and became a premier casino game. More than a handful of years this roulette was exported all about the globe. But the double zero roulette remained dominant in the United States. Roulette is recognized as the "King of Casino Games". It earned its name most likely simply because of its association with the splendor of these casinos of Monte Carlo.
Legend has it that Francois Blanc allegedly negotiated with the Devil so as to access the secrets of the game of roulette. This legend partly derived based on the detail that the total of the numbers, from to 36, on the roulette wheel comes to 666. This is believed to be the "Quantity of the beast".
In United States, the renowned double-zero French roulette wheel ready its way from New Orleans to Mississippi and then sailed westward. Throughout this journey in States, the wheel was sooner or later positioned on top rated of a table. It was accomplished due to rampant cheating each by the gamblers as nicely as the operators and to cease folks from hiding the devices on the wheel or the table. The betting strategy was also simplified. This in due course evolved into an American strategy roulette game, very distinct from that of the established French process.
The American roulette created and grew in all the gambling dens in the new regions exactly where provisional games had been established. On the other hand the classic French roulette progressed with its style and elegance in the casinos of Monte Carlo. Having said that, the American style roulette layout with the quick money actions and simplified betting that makes use of either a double or single zero wheels dominates most of the casinos in just about every corner of the planet.
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When the winning colour and quantity is decided by the wheel, the croupier areas the marker recognized as the dolly on the winning quantity on that roulette game layout. While the dolly is placed on the table no players can location bets, get rid of any bet, or gather bets from the roulette table. The dealer or the croupier then sweeps away all the other losing stakes either by rake or hand. He determines all the payouts of the remaining outdoors and inside winning bets. When the croupier is accomplished with creating the payouts, just after that the dolly is taken away from the roulette board. The players then gather the winnings and begin to location new bets. These winning chips will keep on the gaming board.
There is the "Get in touch with Bets" that are referred as the "Announced Bets". There is a legal distinction among these seemingly identical bets. A player can location a "Get in touch with Bet" with out putting income on the roulette table that covers the price of that bet. In numerous jurisdictions such as Nevada, USA and United Kingdom this is regarded as a type of gamble on credit and hence is illegal. In case of the "Announced Bet" the player straight away areas sufficient income that covers the sum of the bet on the roulette table, even prior to he knows the outcome of that spin in progress.
In roulette there are diverse quantity series obtaining particular names. Regularly these bets are known as as "the French bets". Each and every element covers a segment of this wheel. The series rely on the proximity of a group of numbers on a roulette wheel. Not all the casinos may well supply the identical bets and some may well deliver more bets and the variations of other folks.
The history of roulette is thoughts-boggling. Einstein after famously exclaimed that unless a single steals income from the roulette table it is not possible to beat it. For centuries, with the evolution of roulette there had been folks who attempted to do just that – determine the secret code so as to turn the tables of roulette and the player wins. A handful of succeeded but most could not.


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