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The lineup includes Black Hippy (Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, and Jay Rock performing together), Earl Sweatshirt, Purity Ring, Sky Ferreira, DIIV, Trash Talk, Beach Fossils, Teengirl Fantasy, Ducktails, Palma Violets, inc., Royal Teeth, Black Dave, and more. There are even more artists to be announced in the coming weeks. Stayed Tuned!


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"I've never known anybody as totally fearless as he was."
Dr. Robert Strozier and Roger Smith
Dr. Robert Strozier (left) tells his former student, Roger Smith, about his older brother Frank who, when they were growing up in the 1930s, was his "totally fearless" protector.
Originally aired May 15, 2009, on NPR's Morning Edition.
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Robert Strozier (RS) and Roger Smith (RSmith)
RS: Frank was a big guy, he weighed 13 1/2 pounds when he was born and one day I was about 9, and we had these little neighborhood gangs back then, they were these little kids all about the same age who played together all of the time but then all of a sudden they would have raids on each other. And one day we were out playing marbles when we looked up and the Hill gang came around the corner, it was about five or six of them, and so we picked up some rocks, they started throwing at us and we started throwing back at them. I was pretty athletic when I was little and at the time my hero was Bob Feller, and I was going to be a major league pitcher like Bob Feller so I picked out Freddie Armond, who was the oldest guy, and uh, I hit him right in the middle of the forehead and it decked him.
RSmith: Did it draw blood?
RS: It drew plenty of blood. He was screaming like crazy and all of the other kids disappeared and we were about ready to disappear ourselves. Freddie came out with his father, Mr. Armond, and Mr. Armond called me out. He said, I'm going to give you a whipping. I was scared to death. About that time my brother, Frank, came down the side of the house on his bicycle and skidded into the front yard and dropped the bicycle and said, You know, What's going on? And so Mr. Armond said, Your brother has laid open my son's head and I'm going to give him a whipping. And so my brother Frank said, No sir. And he said, What do you mean sonny? He said, My name's Frank, sir. And you're not going to give him a whipping. Frank was about 5'9 and Mr. Armond was probably about 5'8. His son was standing there and my brother said, You're going to have to whip me first sir and I don't believe you can do it. My father can take care of this and my family can take care of this, and I will not let you touch my brother without coming through me first. He backed off and they left. Frank was a very authoritative kid. I've never known anybody as totally fearless as he was and Frank was just a wonderful big brother.

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Trump addresses pre-existing conditions and surprise billing in North Carolina, as analysts say it's just a 'photo op'
Executive orders are about a 'health-care message before the Nov. 3 election' and won't have a practical impact, analysts say
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President Donald Trump talks to journalists on Thursday before departing the White House for North Carolina, where he is expected to present health-care policy goals, and Florida, where he will hold a campaign event. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed executive orders touted as protecting people with pre-existing conditions and addressing surprise medical billing, with that action coming as he gave a speech on health care in the swing state of North Carolina.
Trump also tackled topics such as drug prices and telehealth's rise during the coronavirus crisis, as he talked up a new "America First" health plan.
"We're delivering a healthier, safer, brighter and more prosperous future for every citizen in our magnificent land, because we are proudly putting America first," he said in his speech in Charlotte, N.C.
Analysts said the executive orders were unlikely to have a practical impact and had more to do with winning re-election.
"We believe the orders are aimed at bolstering the president's health-care /zigman2/quotes/205918244/composite XLV +0.55% message before the Nov. 3 election and will not meaningfully impact providers, physicians or insurers, though the groups may publicly oppose the orders," said Height Capital Markets analysts in a note on Thursday before the president's speech, which began around 5 p.m. Eastern Time.
The president trails Democratic challenger Joe Biden "in polls on which candidate can best address health care, so he has scheduled a photo op today in North Carolina to address the issue," said Greg Valliere, chief strategist at AGF Investments, in a note.
Trump has repeatedly made efforts to address the concerns of Americans with pre-existing conditions who have health-insurance protections because of Obamacare and fear those safeguards will disappear because of the Trump administration's legal push to scrap Obamacare.
"The president is declaring that it is the policy of the United States to provide protections to ensure that Americans with pre-existing conditions are protected, regardless of whether the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional and its protections for pre-existing conditions invalidated," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on a conference call before the Charlotte event.
But a University of Michigan law professor, Nicholas Bagley, tweeted that unless Trump is "exercising a power that's been specifically delegated to him, an executive order directed at private parties has no more legal weight than a press release ."
Trump previously has talked up his recent executive orders on drug pricing, but analysts have dismissed them as "largely campaign fodder as each contains limitations or caveats, and is subject to further action."
His speech in North Carolina comes after he would not commit on Wednesday to a peaceful transfer of power in the event of his defeat in the White House race. A White House spokeswoman on Thursday said Trump "will accept the results of a free and fair election," as his stance sparked concern across the political spectrum.
Ahead of his trip to Charlotte, Trump was met with boos and chants of "Vote him out!" as he visited the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's casket at the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning. Trump suggested on Wednesday that the Supreme Court will have to make a ruling on the November election, so a new justice for the high court should be confirmed before Election Day.
After speaking in North Carolina, the president is slated to give a campaign speech in the swing state of Florida, making remarks around 7 p.m. Eastern Thursday in Jacksonville. At 10 a.m. Friday, he was due to take part in a "Latinos for Trump" event in Miami.
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When it comes to landscape, travel, and outdoor photography it has become relatively easy to see an amazingly beautiful photo taken in a specific location, show up, and capture it for yourself. This video demonstrates seven ways a professional landscape photographer goes about using composition to achieve his personal take on the beautiful locations he visits.
On social media apps like Instagram, it has become a huge problem both for the areas being visited and in my opinion the overall creativity in these photography genres. Every day, I see the same images in the same locations over and over again. For the most part, these are usually well-taken images, beautiful even. However, with the number of images being shared and how much good quality photography we see regularly in our online communities, we have to take the time to use even basic techniques to reexamine our surroundings and try to find new, unique, and still beautiful photos of our favorite locations.
Coming from the talented landscape photographer and YouTuber Nigel Danson, this video starts with how he examines a location once arriving through to mixing points of interest, lighting, and weather into a composition. Each step and tip walks you through his thought process. One thing I love about his approach is how he takes his time working an area kind of like a fisherman before either giving up and moving on to a new location or getting a keeper. One of the ways I try to avoid falling into typical or trendy compositions is to find an area I like and then just hang out for a bit. I might explore or even just sit for up to an hour if I have the time before finally taking out my camera.
But you can teach someone to look for their own unique take on something. That, I think, at least puts them on the road to find their creativity.
That is literally what they do in art classes. In basic design, we would sketch out a concept, then make 4 variations, then more and more until we had at least 20 variations and something that could look quite different from your original concept. When your assignment is "build a sculpture from this cardboard box" you learn to be creative.
Photography classes are the same. They have you do things like take 50 pictures of a fork and you learn to be creative with various angels, lighting, balance, etc. Another was a list of concepts to photograph such as red (yes, the color/concept of red for a black and white film class), wonderful, and a bunch of others. There are plenty of exercises to do to develop creativity just like how improv actors learn by practicing various scenarios.
There are a few good books by the Disney Imagineers that are about the creative process that are a good read.
Well done.... great things to think about!
That was surprisingly informative - I really liked the way he used multiple examples from his own portfolio to break down how he thinks about things. The idea about 3D is very true, and something I find really easy to forget when I'm in an environment.


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FDA Moves Female Incontinence Device to 'High Risk' Status
Vaginal mesh devices have been linked to pain, infection, other problems, agency says
TUESDAY, April 29, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Vaginal mesh devices that support the pelvic organs and help ease incontinence in women will get stricter oversight in the future due to safety concerns, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday.
"The FDA has identified clear risks associated with surgical mesh for the transvaginal repair of pelvic organ prolapse and is now proposing to address those risks for more safe and effective products," Dr. William Maisel, deputy director of science and chief scientist at the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in an agency news release.
The FDA said it plans to reclassify the devices, moving them from its "moderate" to "high" risk category. The agency will also require manufacturers to submit pre-market approval applications to the FDA, so it can better evaluate a device's safety and effectiveness beforehand.
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The new rules apply to surgical placement of the mesh devices through the vagina to fix pelvic organ prolapse -- a weakening or stretching of internal structures that support pelvic organs such as the bladder, bowel and uterus.
These organs then drop to below their normal position and bulge (prolapse) into the vagina. This can cause pelvic pain, disruption of sexual activity and problems with urination and defecation, the FDA explained.
However, the mesh devices have been fraught with problems for years, including pain, infection, bleeding, pain during intercourse and urinary problems, the FDA said.
The proposals, which will be open for comment for 90 days, do not apply to other uses of surgical mesh, the FDA said.
Abdominal or vaginal surgery that uses traditional stitches is an alternative method of treating pelvic organ prolapse. In a safety warning issued in 2011, the FDA said surgical placement of mesh through the vagina may pose greater risks than other surgical methods, without offering any added benefits.
In 2011, Meisel said the FDA was "asking surgeons to carefully consider all other treatment options and to make sure that their patients are fully informed of potential complications from surgical mesh."
He stressed that the mesh "is a permanent implant -- complete removal may not be possible and may not result in complete resolution of complications."
In a statement released in 2011, the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists said it "shares the FDA's concerns and encourages patients and physicians to review the FDA's White Paper that describes, in detail, the health risks associated with the surgical mesh products when used to treat pelvic organ prolapse."
The American Urogynecologic Society has more about pelvic organ proplapse.
SOURCES: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, news release, April 29, 2014; American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, statement, 2011


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Release Date: Monday 30th November -0001
Genre(s): Factual
You just don't know what to expect from a Richard Linklater film. He can veer from the slacker indie classics (Dazed and Confused and, er, Slacker) to more mainstream family friendly ventures (School of Rock, a Bad News Bears remake) to hip romance (Before Sunrise) by way of druggie sci-fi (A Scanner Darkly). So sitting down in front of Bernie you've no idea what to expect, which is exactly what Bernie needs for it to work its magic. A lot of online reviews are giving away too much - don't make the mistake of researching it.
Bernie has an odd presentation. Told for the most part in flashback, these dramatic moments are intercut with to-camera interviews that set the story up. We're in a small town in Texas, a community that either congregates at church or the bake sale and everyone knows each other by first name. All the interviews are about one man - mortician assistant Bernie Tiede (Black), a God-fearing Dudley Do-Right. But what's this? They're all talking about him in the past tense: he was a good Christian, always went out of his way to help you, never said boo to a ghost, etc. Something has gone down, something everyone in town has an opinion on, and over the next ninety-nine minutes or so Linklater is going to slowly tease out what happened and the effect it has had on the community.
It's been called a character study but it's more a study of a town's character, a la Christopher Guest's Waiting For Guffman, and its reaction when life is turned upside down. Black hasn't been better as the effeminate Bernie. He doesn't exactly turn on the serious, like Robin Williams does every time he's asked not to be Robin Williams, but he's not the hell-raising, guitar-slinging motormouth he usually is. A surly MacLaine is a lot of fun too as one of the elderly women Bernie 'comforts' when a loved one passes on and McConaughey makes with the laughs as the tanned District Attorney Danny Buck.
While Linklater can play the interviews a little too straight at times - sometimes Bernie forgets that it's a black comedy - the oddball nature of it all helps things along. Oh, and stick around for the end credits. There's a wow moment that colours everything you've seen with a different hue.
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The Importance of using Safety Equipment
The owner of a roofing company based in Suffolk was caught red handing putting lives at risk. He was filmed operating a disc cutter on top of a roof he was working on without using any safety equipment. One of his employees was also on the roof at the time the disc cutter was in use, he too had no safety equipment on and there were no safety measures being carried out to reduce risks.
Member of the Public Reported the Incident and Captured Work in Progress
Antony Nightingale, director of his roofing firm, 3A Roofing, was filmed by a concerned member of the public waling by the property in Dennington. The person who recorded the unsafe work then contacted the Health and Safety Executive and reported the incident. The HSE followed up the report and decided to prosecute Mr Nightingale for putting lives at risk and breaching health and safety laws.
The HSE discovered that there were no roof ladders adequate for working at height in use. Roof ladders are necessary so the ridge of the roof is safely reached. Instead Mr Nightingale and his worker were clambering up the tiled roof to reach the ridge. They were also witnessed walking on the edge of the roof where there was no safety measures placed to stop them from falling off.
Guilty Plea at Ipswich Magistrates Court
Mr Nightingale pleaded guilty to breaching the Work at height Regulations at Ipswich Magistrates Court. Elizabeth Fowle, a Health and Safety Executive said that Mr Nightingale was risking the life of his employee and his own life by not having safety measures in place. Ms Fowle was astonished that the director of 3A Roofing thought that working on the roof using machinery was acceptable without the use of safety measures and equipment. He was fined £1,300 and must pay £3,000 in costs and an additional £15 victim surcharge.
Falls from Height Continue to be a Risk
Falls from height are responsible for the most deaths in the workplace in the United Kingdom. In 2010-2011 there were 15 deaths and over 4,000 severe injuries. Roofers and anyone working in the construction industry must follow the Work at Height Regulations and reduce the risks to try and stop employees from being seriously injured or killed.
This case shows that directors and owners will be taken to court and prosecuted if they are discovered to be putting loves at risk. By law all employers must have measures in place to prevent anyone falling and being injured. Health and Safety Consultants are able to advise all owners on their legal and moral duties. There are many health and safety services available designed for people in the construction industry, and anyone that is responsible for people working at heights.
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Fighter Squadron is a 1948 American World War II aviation war film in Technicolor from Warner Bros., produced by Seton I. Miller, directed by Raoul Walsh, that stars Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack, and John Rodney.

Plot
At an American air base in England in 1943, conniving, womanizing Sergeant Dolan (Tom D'Andrea) manipulates everyone, while insubordinate, maverick pilot fighter ace Major Ed Hardin (Edmond O'Brien) gives his commanding officer and close friend, Colonel Brickley (John Rodney), headaches by ignoring the out-of-date rules of engagement formulated by Brigadier General M. Gilbert (Shepperd Strudwick). When Major General Mike McCready (Henry Hull) promotes Brickley to whip a new squadron into shape, Brickley also recommends Hardin as his replacement.

Despite his misgivings, McCready agrees. To everyone's surprise, Hardin strictly enforces the rules. One rule in particular, forbidding pilots to marry, irks his friend and wingman Captain Stu Hamilton (Robert Stack). As a result, when his tour of duty ends, Hamilton does not sign up for another, and instead goes home to marry his sweetheart. He later returns a married man, however, hoping to persuade Hardin to overlook his transgression.

Hardin refuses to let him back into the squadron, but does weaken enough to let him fly one last mission. Unfortunately, Hamilton is shot down and killed; he admits to Hardin over the radio as his burning aircraft plummets to Earth that he had been distracted during the mission by thoughts of his wife.

McCready decides that he needs Hardin for his staff, but allows him to first finish his current combat tour. Hardin's next mission is providing close air support for the Allied landings on D-Day. His aircraft is hit by flak and goes down in slow spiral. Hardin's final fate, though, is never revealed, as his squadron continues to support the D-Day invasion.

Cast

 Edmond O'Brien as Major Ed Hardin
 Robert Stack as Captain Stu Hamilton
 John Rodney as Colonel Bill Brickley
 Tom D'Andrea as Sergeant Dolan
 Henry Hull as Major General Mike McCready
 James Holden as Lieutenant Tennessee Atkins
 Walter Reed as Captain Duke Chappell
 Shepperd Strudwick as Brigadier General M. Gilbert
 Arthur Space as Major Sanford
 Jack Larson as 2nd Lieutenant "Shorty" Kirk
 Bill McLean as Private Wilbur
 Lilian Bond as English lady
 Mickey McCardle as Jacobs
 Claude Allen as Stunt Pilot

Cast notes:
Rock Hudson has an uncredited role as a pilot in his film debut. Hudson, a former truck driver by the name of Roy Fitzgerald, was under personal contract to director Raoul Walsh, who rode him unmercifully, saying "You big dumb bastard, don't just get in the center of the camera and stay there like a tree, move!"  It took 38 takes to get a good version of Hudson's first line, "You've got to get a bigger blackboard." He had another line after the raid on Berlin, as they celebrate in the bar with their lucky mascot black cat, "You're sure it's the same one?".

Production
In Fighter Squadron, the fighter group is equipped with 16 Republic P-47 Thunderbolts provided from the Air National Guard units in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, which were still equipped with the type. To portray Luftwaffe fighters, the film used eight North American P-51 Mustangs from the California ANG, with ersatz German markings. The film was shot for two weeks at Oscoda Army Air Field on Lake Huron, Michigan, a location that approximated the terrain of the fictional English air base where the fighter groups were located. The ANG units that were assigned to the film also were able to take their active duty training while flying with the film company

Fighter Squadron used previously unreleased aerial combat color footage shot by William Wyler for his documentary, Thunderbolt! (1947). Additional location shooting took place at Van Nuys Airport, California.

Fighter Squadron, while is fictitious, is based on the exploits of the fighter groups based in England before the D-Day Normandy landings. Screenwriter Seton Miller based the film on the actions of the 4th and 56th Fighter Groups. In the 4th Fighter Group, the men called themselves "Blakeslee's Bachelors"; when one got married, it was followed by ordered transfers to other units. The transfer policy was decided by the unit's commanding officer, Col. Donald J. M. Blakeslee. The technical advisors for the film included Major Joseph Perry, a veteran of the 56th Fighter Group and Major Leroy Gover, an ace with the 4th Fighter Group.

Film music
Warner Brothers recycled Max Steiner's main theme music from their naval aviation film Dive Bomber (1941) as the main theme for Fighter Squadron. This rousing march was used again, three years later, as the main theme music for Warner Bros. World War II submarine drama Operation Pacific (1951).

Reception
Fighter Squadron was reviewed by Bosley Crowther in The New York Times. He disparaged the "lurid adventure episodes" in the film story, and commented: "The glamour-repute of the Air Forces and the 'hot rocks' who flew the fighter planes, which was cause for much ironic jesting among the lowly 'doughfeet' during the war, is the stuff that Warner Brothers has exclusively put upon the screen in its loud, Technicolored Fighter Squadron, which came to the Strand yesterday".

Box Office
According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $2,252,000 domestically and $834,000 foreign.

References
Informational notes

Citations

Bibliography
 Beck, Simon D. The Aircraft-Spotter's Film and Television Companion. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2016.
 Orriss, Bruce. When Hollywood Ruled the Skies: The Aviation Film Classics of World War II. Hawthorne, California: Aero Associates Inc., 1984.
 Paris, Michael. From the Wright Brothers to Top Gun: Aviation, Nationalism, and Popular Cinema. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1995.
 Pendo, Stephen. Aviation in the Cinema. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1985.

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1948 films
1940s war films
American war films
World War II aviation films
World War II films based on actual events
Films about the United States Army Air Forces
Warner Bros. films
Films directed by Raoul Walsh
Films scored by Max Steiner
Films set in England
1940s American films

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In T'ai Chi all movement is based on having a strong core, relaxation in your muscles and mobility in your joints. These three themes go perfectly with running. In order to create easy, fluid, and faster movement, the entire body needs to be supple and relaxed. Any held tension restricts your ability to run easily and economically.
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Nepal's Singha Durbar damaged in 2015 earthquake inaugurated after reconstruction
by NE NOW NEWS February 15, 2021 8:03 pm November 11, 2021 11:53 pm
Nepal's main administrative complex Singha Durbar, which was heavily damaged in the 2015 earthquakes, came into operation again on Monday.
Most of the reconstruction works of the Durbar have completed.
The complex had housed the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Defence and the National Planning Commission of Nepal for decades before being devastated by the 2015 earthquakes.
Some 9,000 people were killed and 22,000 others injured in the twin devastating earthquakes on April 25 and May 12, 2015 in Nepal.
Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli inaugurated the use of the restored areas of Singha Durbar, whose western part is still being reconstructed.
"Singha Durbar isn't just the main administrative complex, it is also a historically important site of the country," he said during the inauguration.
"The effort to bring the same building into operation after a retrofitting is commendable."
The government had decided to reconstruct the neo-classical structure built-in 1908 instead of demolishing it for its archeological value.
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Leontari is situated on the base of the arcadian part of Mount Taigetos (540m altitude), 11 km from the town of Megalopoli. It is a significant traditional settlement. Archeological findings suggest that ancient Leuctra (7th century B.C. – 4th century A.D.) was situated where Leontari is today. Its most glorious days where during the Byzantine times, as it was a thriving Greek community which succeeded the franciscan settlement of Veligosti. As time went by, it became the 2nd most important town of the Despotate of Mystras, and during some periods around 1391, it laid claim to being its head town, due to its castle's strategic position.
According to prevailing opinion, the village's name is due to a significant social and economic figure named Leontaris or Leontarios, who lived in the region in the times of Alexios Komninos the 1st, between 1081 and 1118. Local tradition however says a different story: the byzantine castle of Leontari was said to appear like a sitting lion from a distance. This opinion is strengthened by the fact that local people remember the engraved representation of a lion which was found in the area in ancient times.
In the post-byzantine period, it becomes the centre of conflict between Venetians and Turks, since the castle was of strategic importance to both. During one time period, it houses the headquarters of the Turkish head (pasas) of the Peloponnese. Its significance during the Turkish occupation is such, that it was considered one of the famous castles of the Peloponnese (this group includes the castles of Mystras, Nafplio, Patras, Navarino, Mehtoni and Koroni).
Theodoros Kolokotronis (a Greek general and one of the leaders of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire) was ordained "Kapos", in Leontari, at the age of 16. Shortly after, he fled to the mountains, where he joined the ranks of a Peloponnesian guerrilla band. He often referred to Leontari in his writings. Since the region of Leontari was the grazing ground for the surrounding mountainous regions, it was named Livadia (thus the well known folk song of the "40 palikaria from Livadia"). During the War of Independence, Leontari was the base for several operations led by Kolokotronis, Nikitaras and Papaflessas.
Leontaris' geographical position, climate, byzantine churches, castle, small alleys as well as two-storey stone archontika (manor houses) are some of the characteristics which give it, its special character and beauty.
1. The church of the Apostles in the main town square, which was recently restored by the Ministry of Culture. It is a masterpiece of 14th century religious architecture and is considered one of the most important religious monuments of the Peloponnese. Tradition has it, that Constantine XI Palaiologos (the last reigning Byzantine Emperor) received the news that he was to become emperor while he was in Leontari (1448 A.D.). He was sworn into his new role in the church of the Apostles, and then travelled to Mystras, where he was crowned in 1449 A.D.
2. The castle has 3 towered curtains. The "Loubardoutroupa" can still be seen on the northeastern corner where the walls are 4,60m high. At the top of the castle is the chapel of Profitis Ilias and at the base of the castle is the chapel of Taxiarhis which most probably was part of a monastery.
3. Notice the water springs in the main square and the castle as well as the several wells throughout Leontari. Walk along the alley ways and enjoy the view from different parts of the village.


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U.S. Gulf Coast braces for Hurricane Ida after Cuba takes hit
By Maria Caspani and Steve Gorman
A satellite image shows Tropical Storm Ida after forming in the Caribbean, about 75 miles (125 kilometers) north-northwest of Grand Cayman, August 27, 2021. NOAA/via REUTERS
Hurricane Ida churned toward the U.S. Gulf coast on Saturday, forecast to gather strength in coming hours and prompting evacuations of flood-prone New Orleans neighborhoods and oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
Forecasters said it could make U.S. landfall as a dangerous Category 4 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, generating winds nearing 140 miles per hour, heavy downpours and a tidal surge that could plunge much of the Louisiana shoreline under several feet of water.
Ida battered Cuba on Friday and by early Saturday it was carrying top winds of around 80 mph as it headed northwest, the National Hurricane Center said. The NHC expected the storm to intensify rapidly before coming ashore by late Sunday.
Flooding from Ida's storm surge – high water driven by the hurricane's winds – could reach between 10 and 15 feet around the mouth of the Mississippi River, with lower levels extending east along the adjacent coastlines of Mississippi and Alabama, the NHC said.
Scattered tornadoes, widespread power outages and inland flooding from torrential rain across the region were also expected.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, whose state is already reeling from a public health crisis stemming from a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, urged residents to ready themselves for the hurricane immediately.
"Now is the time to finish your preparations," he told a Friday afternoon news conference. "By nightfall tomorrow night, you need to be where you intend to ride out the storm."
New Orleans officials ordered residents to evacuate communities outside the city's levee system, and posted voluntary evacuation notices for the rest of the parish.
Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome signed an emergency disaster declaration and said the city had pre-positioned sand and sandbags at eight strategic locations as part of storm preparations.
Lifelong Gulf resident Hailey DeLaune, 29, told Reuters she and her fiance spent Friday evening boarding up the windows of his house in Gulfport, Mississippi, and gathering provisions to ride out the storm.
"Hurricanes have always been part of my life," said the high school theology teacher, who was born during 1992's Category 5 Hurricane Andrew. "You just run through your list and hope for the best."
Edwards declared a state of emergency on Thursday, and on Friday U.S. President Joe Biden issued a pre-landfall federal emergency declaration at Edwards' request. It authorized the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster relief efforts in the state.
Edwards also said he had authorized activation of all 5,000 troops in the Louisiana National Guard for emergency deployments as needed.
U.S. energy companies racing to complete evacuations of offshore platforms in the Gulf ahead of the storm had reduced petroleum production by nearly 60% and gas output by almost half, federal regulators said.
Caribbean takes first hit
On Friday, Ida smashed into Cuba's small Isle of Youth, off the southwestern end of the Caribbean island nation, toppling trees and tearing roofs from dwellings.
Jamaica was flooded by heavy rains, and there were landslides after the passage of the storm. Many roads were impassable, forcing some residents to abandon their homes.
Ida, the ninth named storm and fourth hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, may well exceed the strength of Hurricane Laura, the last Category 4 storm to strike Louisiana, by the time it makes landfall, forecasters said.
The region was devastated in August 2005 by Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1,800 people.
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Q: Automatic string enums A string enum like the following looks quite redundant, tedious to code and prone to errors if you mistype some creating a duplicate (see as in the last one in the following sample)
enum Cmd{
    StartServer = "StartServer",
    StopServer = "StopServer",
    ResumServer1 = "ResumeServer1",
    ResumServer2 = "ResumeServer1"   // this would cause problems
}

I am looking for a way to declare only the elements of the enum and have the values automatically be the symbol name and optionally with a prefix
The farthest I arrived is to something like this:
export function stringifyEnum(enu:any, prefix:string=undefined){

  Object.keys(enu).forEach( k =>{
    if (isNumber(k))
        enu[k] = prefix+enu[k]
    else
        enu[k] = prefix+k
  })
}

that seems to work:
enum Cmd{
    StartServer,
    StopServer,
    ResumeServer1,
    ResumeServer2
}

stringifyEnum(Cmd,"Cmd")
console.log(Cmd.StartServer)  // --> CmdStartServer

With this approach, so far, the only problem is that typescript considers the enum being numerical and complains in some cases.
Is there a better approach to this (the main target here is a concise enumeration) or do you see hidden risks in this idea?

A: I have all but abandoned enums in TypeScript in favor of string literal union types.
For your example that would look like:
type Cmd = 'StartServer' | 'StopServer' | 'ResumeServer1' | 'ResumeServer2';

This approach will give you the same benefits in compile-time checks as an enum:
function foo(cmd: Cmd) {}

foo('StartServer'); // OK
foo('BeginServer'); // error

A: I don't think you can programmatically do a prefix so that the type system understands it; that would require some type operations that are not part of the language yet.  There is an existing suggestion for this feature, but it doesn't look like anyone is working on it.

As for getting the key and the value to be exactly the same, you can write a function that takes a list of strings and produces a strongly-typed "enum"-like map:
function enumize<K extends string>(...args: K[]): {[P in K]: P} {
  const ret = {} as {[P in K]: P};
  args.forEach(k => ret[k]=k);
  return ret;
}
const Cmd = enumize("StartServer", "StopServer", "ResumeServer1", "ResumeServer2");

It is recognized that the value Cmd has the type { StartServer: "StartServer"; ... }.  You will be able to access elements as expected:
console.log(Cmd.StartServer); // works

An official enum also creates some named types, which enumize() doesn't.  To fully replicate the types, you would have to more work:
type Cmd = keyof typeof Cmd; // allows you to refer to the type Cmd as before

That's the union type mentioned in @RobbyCornelissen's answer.  You need it if you're going to refer to Cmd as a type, as in:
declare function requireCmd(cmd: Cmd); // the Cmd here is a type
requireCmd(Cmd.StopServer); // works

If you need to refer to the types of each enum element, you have to do even more busywork, including ugly code duplication:
namespace Cmd {
  export type StartServer = typeof Cmd.StartServer
  export type StopServer = typeof Cmd.StopServer
  export type ResumeServer1 = typeof Cmd.ResumeServer1
  export type ResumeServer2 = typeof Cmd.ResumeServer2
}

That stuff would be needed to refer to types like Cmd.StopServer as in:
interface CommandInfo {
  kind: Cmd;
}

interface StopServerInfo extends CommandInfo {
   kind: Cmd.StopServer;  // need namespace for this line
   commandIssueDate: Date;
   numberOfUsersForcedOffline: number;
}

But if you're not going to do that very much, then you can leave out the namespace stuff... you can always use the type typeof Cmd.StopServer instead.

Hope that helps; good luck.

A: If you are looking for a way to achieve the scenario where multiple keys may map to the same value, a map could get you there. You can freeze it to ensure it is immutable:
const CmdMap = {
    StartServer: "StartServer",
    StopServer: "StopServer",
    ResumServer1: "ResumeServer1",
    ResumServer2: "ResumeServer1"
};

Object.freeze(CmdMap);

If you want to have prefixed commands, get the map from a factory:
function getCommandMap(prefix: string) {
    const cmdMap = {
        StartServer: `${prefix}StartServer`,
        StopServer: `${prefix}StopServer`,
        ResumServer1: `${prefix}ResumeServer1`,
        ResumServer2: `${prefix}ResumeServer1`
    };

    Object.freeze(cmdMap);

    return cmdMap;
}

const CmdMap = getCommandMap('Cmd');

console.log(CmdMap.StartServer);

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When: Saturday 14 September 2019 at 09:45.
Where: Weald Country Park, South Weald, Brentwood, Essex. CM14 5QS.
Toilets: There are free toilets a short walk from the Start/Finish area, next to Stock Pond, for use throughout the event.


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Home News GE Healthcare partnership aims to improve gene therapy manufacturing
GE Healthcare partnership aims to improve gene therapy manufacturing
GE Healthcare Life Sciences has announced a partnership with the Children's Medical Research Institute to improve the efficiency of manufacturing gene therapies.
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Scientists at Children's Medical Research Institute conduct research on AAV vectors for gene therapy (credit: CMRI)
The companies will jointly develop new affinity ligands for the purification of adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors used in gene therapies. GE Healthcare and the Children's Medical Research Institute will aim to bring to market specific ligands for multiple AAV types. In doing so, the companies hope to enhance the chromatographic separation of AAV-based vectors, improving the manufacturing efficiency and scalability of gene therapies, and improving the availability of viral vectors on a global scale.
With more than 800 gene therapies currently in clinical trials, there is an increasing demand for the raw materials needed in the manufacturing process of viral vectors – which are used to deliver cell and gene therapies into patients.
Children's Medical Research Institute will share with GE Healthcare Life Sciences AAV capsid variants targeting different tissues. GE Healthcare Life Sciences will then design and test ligand prototypes, which Children's Medical Research Institute will assess. Based on the performance results, GE Healthcare Life Sciences will manufacture and commercialise novel improved AAV affinity ligands.
Dr Leszek Lisowski, lead gene therapy scientist at Children's Medical Research Institute, said: "Bringing the fruits of our work to the patients requires a joint effort between academia and the industry. The collaboration with GE Healthcare Life Sciences will allow us to expedite the development of novel clinical options at a lower cost."
Olivier Loeillot, general manager, Bioprocess at GE Healthcare Life Sciences, commented: "The industry needs better and more personalised technologies to speed biopharmaceuticals through clinical trials and bring them to market. Our long biomanufacturing expertise combined with Children's Medical Research Institute's pioneering research will lead to purification technologies that will streamline the production of gene therapies."
Catarina Flyborg, general manager, Cell and Gene Therapy at GE Healthcare Life Sciences, added: "Collaborations with organisations such as Children's Medical Research Institute are critical to developing the technologies needed to move the industry forward. By working directly with the world-class researchers, GE Healthcare Life Sciences can develop the purification technologies that will contribute to increase the availability of viral vectors globally."
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De Teshik-Toshgrot (ook: Teshik Tash of Tesjik-Tasj, Russisch: Пещера Тешик-Таш, Oezbeeks: Teshik-Tosh - "steen met gat") is een archeologische vindplaats in het Boysuntogʻ-gebergte, in de Oezbeekse provincie Surxondaryo.

Op 4 juli 1938 vond de Sovjet-archeoloog Aleksej Okladnikov 70.000 jaar oude skeletresten van een acht- tot tienjarig neanderthalerkind in Teshik-Tosh. In de literatuur meestal aangeduid als de  "Jongen van Teshik-Tash", betreft het volgens recente studies het gedeeltelijke skelet van een meisje. De resten waren zodanig in de grond geplaatst dat men mogelijk kan spreken van een begrafenis.

Locatie

De Teshik Tosh-grot bevindt zich 125 kilometer ten zuiden van Samarkand en 24 kilometer ten zuiden van de stad Boysun, in het Boysuntogʻ-gebergte, de zuidwestelijke uitlopers van het Hisorgebergte, op een hoogte van 1600 meter boven zeeniveau. De grot ligt bij de bodem van een smalle kloof, slechts 15 tot 20 meter breed, met steile 40 tot 50 meter hoge, gedeeltelijk overhangende rotswanden, aan de linkeroever van de Turgan-Darjarivier.

Beschrijving
De ingang van de Teshik-Tosh-grot ligt op het noordoosten. De grot bestaat uit een bij de ingang 20 meter brede en 7 meter hoge kamer, die zich 21 meter diep uitstrekt.

Vijf afzonderlijke bewoningslagen en een dozijn vuurkuilen, sommige met gebroken botten en hoorns van wilde geiten, botten van andere dieren, evenals afslagen en ander stenen gereedschap, werden in de Teshik Tosh-grot gevonden. Bij de westelijke wand ongeveer 10 meter van de ingang vond men de skeletresten van een kind. Het door het omringende sediment geel gekleurde gedeeltelijke skelet lag in de bovenste van de vijf Moustérien-cultuurlagen, in een ondiepe kuil met zijn voeten naar de ingang van de grot.

De schedel was door het gewicht van de sedimenten erboven verbrijzeld. Toch waren de ongeveer 150 fragmenten zo goed bewaard gebleven dat men het kon reconstrueren. De schedel toonde anatomische kenmerken van de neanderthalers: een gezicht met een groot neusgebied, de aanduiding van een wenkbrauwboog, een laag voorhoofd, lange hersenschedel en een onderkaak zonder uitstekende kin. De hersenen hadden een volume van ongeveer 1500 kubieke centimeter, wat zelfs voor moderne mensen tamelijk groot is.

Rondom  de schedel lagen verschillende postcraniale botten zonder anatomische samenhang verspreid: een halswervel, verschillende ribben, het linker opperarmbeen, de sleutelbeenderen, het rechter dijbeen, het linker scheenbeen en de twee kuitbeenderen. De uiteinden van het opperarmbeen en het dijbeen waren weggeknaagd. Naast de skeletdelen vond men een coproliet. Mogelijk plunderde een roofdier het graf, haalde er botten uit en knaagde daaraan.

Het meest opvallende aan het graf waren de zes paar grote botkegels van hoorns van Siberische steenbokken, die in een cirkel rond de schedel waren gerangschikt met de punt naar beneden. De hoorns waren deels heel en deels gebroken. Twee waren nog bevestigd aan het voorhoofd van de schedel, drie of vier paren waren gescheiden van het voorhoofd. Alle hoorns waren met hun uiteinden in de grond gestoken en in één richting gerangschikt, waardoor ze een soort omheining aan de bovenkant van het graf vormden, en lagen in dezelfde laag en op dezelfde diepte als de schedel. Naast het lichaam had korte tijd een vuur gebrand.

Relatie met andere vondsten

Tot de ontdekking van de Okladnikovgrot in de Altaj, 2000 kilometer verder naar het oosten, markeerde de vindplaats de oostelijke grens van het bekende verspreidingsgebied van de neanderthalers. DNA-onderzoek toonde aan dat het kind  van Teshik-Tosh waarschijnlijk nauwer verwant was aan de Europese neanderthalers dan de vondsten uit Zuid-Siberië.

De Russische archeoloog Michail Gerasimov, grondlegger van de forensische beeldhouwkunst in de archeologie, maakte een sculptuur met een gedetailleerde gezichtsreconstructie van het Teshik-Tosh-kind.  De sculptuur wordt getoond in de Kunstkamera van de Russische Academie van Wetenschappen in Sint-Petersburg. De fossiele vondsten bevinden zich in het Museum voor Antropologie aan de Staatsuniversiteit van Moskou.

Midden-paleolithische vindplaats in Azië
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Cancelled and Renewed Shows 2011: The Wendy Williams Show renewed for two more seasons
October 25, 2011 / Guillermo Paz
Still adding info to update lists for renewed shows on 2011 and all the cancelled shows on 2011, I go to syndicated TV front now, since The Wendy Williams Show has been renewed for two more seasons.
The show nailed a great interview with Charlie Sheen, and is doing good on the younger demos, and that managed to make the case for the renewal through 2014 for The Wendy Williams Show, even though it is the lowest rated talk show in households.
Anyways, Fox stations renewed The Wendy Williams show giving it two more seasons to run and gain some oomph in the numbers.
There will be more of the opening routines, the Hot Topics, the Ask Wendy segment, and the Eye Candy of the Day; and it will probably get some more controversy along the way. After all, Wendy Williams is good at it, and she proves it every ousting of her GSN show Love Triangle, and by referring to herself as The Queen of All Media.
What do you think? Are you happy Fox Stations renewed The Wendy Williams Show for two more seasons? Let me know in the comments section.
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Three of the Most Ruthless Businessmen in History (Don't Copy Them)
by Tim Denning | Sep 5, 2022 | Entrepreneurs
Image Credit: Wikimedia Creative Commons (Right: Ray Kroc)
As a man, I can say we're not all choir boys.
We do some bad stuff. And when it comes to business, some men can sell their souls to the devil just to prove they have the most money.
Seeing bad male actors helps you avoid becoming one or being manipulated by one.
500 dead because of one man's idiocy
In the 1980s, during the lead up to the Seoul Olympic games, it was boom time for Korean construction companies.
One building was halfway through construction. The original plan was to make it an apartment complex. But a fiery chairman took over the project well after construction started and said "this will be a shopping mall."
Shopping malls need escalators and the only way to fit them in was to cut away key support beams.
The construction company refused to remove the beams. They knew it was a dumbass decision. So the ruthless chairman, Lee Joon, fired them.
He demanded the thickness of floor columns be reduced to increase floor space. Fifteen tonnes of air conditioner units were placed on top of the roof, exceeding the weight limit by four times.
It only took a few short years.
The building started to show huge cracks. The cracks on the top floor got so bad that Lee Joon simply ordered merchandise to be moved to the basement instead.
Then the top floors got closed altogether. "They're unsafe," said management. Engineers came to the rescue. They recommended the building be closed. Lee Joon refused to listen to their advice because it would lower his revenue.
Lee and his other executives did, however, evacuate themselves from the building due to the risks.
Perhaps the most ruthless part, his daughter-in-law kept working in the building. Lee didn't tell her a damn thing. In the afternoon on July 29th 1995 the roof started to collapse.
Lee refused to close the building even then. He wouldn't even authorize emergency repairs.
One hour later loud sounds of cracks could be heard. Staff hit the emergency alarm and told customers to evacuate. It was too late. As the roof collapsed, the fifteen tonnes of air conditioner units crashed through all the floors of the building. The support columns quickly buckled.
20 seconds later half the building came down. Chaos everywhere.
500+ people died and another 900 got injured. The trapped survivors stuck in the rubble took days to rescue. They were traumatized for life.
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It took days of rescue efforts to find trapped survivors. To make things worse, some drowned to death due to the water used to put out the building fires.
Incompetence on every level.
The incident eventually got a formal investigation. When they interrogated Lee Jon he showed zero remorse for the dead people. He kept crapping on about how much money his firm lost.
The ruthless man did seven years in prison and then died days after his release. The silly man showed us what evil looks like and how some big businesses can become nothing more than economic extraction machines.
Some think Lee deserved his quick death. I don't like to go that far, as I don't wish ill on anyone. I'll let you make up your mind.
"If my competitor were drowning, I'd walk over and put a hose right in his mouth."
Ray Kroc said this.
People often refer to him as the founder of McDonald's. The truth is he started as a lousy milkshake salesman. After selling eight milkshake machines to the Mcdonald's brothers, he became interested in their humble hamburger business.
He introduced them to a new type of franchise model. He also pioneered McDonald's actual business — real estate.
Eventually Ray bought the business off the two brothers who got $1M each after taxes. But Ray became obsessed with the first McDonald's store.
The brothers didn't give it to him because they wanted the employees to own it ongoing.
Ray became pissed. He set up another store close to it and forced the original store to change its name to "The Big M." Six years later the employee-owned store shut forever because of what Ray did.
As part of the business sale, Ray supposedly shook hands on giving the brothers an ongoing 1% royalty. He never gave it to them.
Some say Ray cheated the Mcdonald's brothers. Others say the brothers held Ray back from making the brand a success.
Either way, his famous catchphrases "Business is war" and "It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat" show his ruthlessness.
Oh, and his unconventional policies didn't make him a popular leader either. Everyone had to answer their own damn phone, and hiring college graduates was a no-no.
Without a doubt the most ruthless businessman you can find
Let's finish with a bang.
John D. Rockefeller is perhaps history's most ruthless. His father had the gorgeous job title early in his career of "snake oil salesman." John had a bad childhood, too, thanks to the rape conviction his father got.
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John eventually made a bucketload of money from his business. But he was tight as hell. He kept expense records and tracked every dollar.
The sentence that got John his ruthless title was "competition is a sin." His Standard Oil company happily did secret railroad deals to get unfair advantages against his competition.
If oil supply was short, John's company would buy up any free barrels to ensure his competitors got none.
He'd even lower oil prices short term to bankrupt his competitors. Bribery and coercion were his favorite things. Without John, the business world may never have come up with the phrase monopoly.
All the ruthlessness got John the proud title of "the most hated man in America." As he got older, he tried to undo his evil ways by giving money to good causes.
Some say nothing will ever undo the evil he did.
Being a ruthless businessman seems cool.
You can make a lot of money and buy plenty of Lambos. But when people hate you, it's dangerous for your mental health, and you'll have regrets about all the evil you had to do to get rich by being ruthless.
Real wealth is how people talk about you. Ruthlessness is a poison that repels good humans from your life. Avoid.


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Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) TCP provides a connection-based, reliable byte-stream service to applications. Microsoft networking relies upon the TCP transport for logon, file and print sharing, replication of information between domain controllers, transfer of browse lists, and other common functions. It can only be used for one-to-one communications. TCP uses a checksum on both the headers and payload of each segment to reduce the chance that network corruption will go undetected. NDIS 5.0 provides support for task offloading, and Windows 2000 TCP takes advantage of this by allowing the NIC to perform the TCP checksum calculations if the NIC driver offers support for this function. Offloading the checksum calculations to hardware can result in performance improvements in very high-throughput environments. Windows 2000 TCP has also been hardened against a variety of attacks that were published over the past couple of years and has been subject to an internal security review intended to reduce susceptibility to future attacks. For instance, the initial sequence number algorithm has been modified so that ISNs increase in random increments, using an RC4-based random number generator initialized with a 2048-bit random key upon system startup.


This is going to sound like a joke or some of the satire we tend to do. It's going to sound like that episode of South Park where Chef petitioned to change the local flag that showed white people lynching a black person, or like the running gag on Parks and Recreation about how Pawnee is so backwards that their city hall is blanketed in murals of various assaults against minorities. But this is real life.
This is an actual thing that's happening that's so ridiculous it just seems like a joke.
The AP reports that a village in central New York voted Monday night on whether or not to change their town emblem. 157 to 55, they voted to keep it as it is.
Of course the town had to be called Whitesboro. And in case you were wondering, the 2000 census determined 97.69% of Whitesboro's population was white.
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Last summer a petition from an outsider reignited debate, so the town renewed discussions of changing the controversial logo. After all, it's not the first revision made to it. Back in the 1970s people complained because White's hands were blatantly on the neck of the unnamed Oneida man. So it was decided White's hands should be moved to his opponent's shoulders, which I guess is where they're supposed to be in the image above. To me, it still looks like he's being strangled. But what do I know? I'm not a Whitesboro resident.
You can read about that curious history at the village's website.
So, should pressure from the larger world push this small town to change the emblem that they see as a major part of their history? It may be pretty on-its-face offensive, but in the grand scheme of things what's a town's emblem matter anyway, right? It only appears on every one of Whitesboro's welcoming signs, police cars, and official documents. Oh. Nope. I see where that's a problem.


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New arrests highlight sex trafficking issues in KC metro
27 people arrested in two weeks
William Joy
KMBC 9 News Reporter
WILLIAM JOY HAS JUST HOW COMMON SEX TRAFFICKING IS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP. REPORTER: INDEPENDENCE POLICE ARRESTED 21 PEOPLE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION ALONG THIS STRETCH ALONG I-70. >> IT IS A SECRETIVE CRIME. REPORTER THEY WANT TO RAISE AWARENESS FOR THE PUBLIC AND LAW ENFORCEMENT. >> THIS IS MODERN-DAY SLAVERY. REPORTER: POLICE SHUT DOWN SEVERAL MASSAGE PARLORS AND ARRESTED SIX PEOPLE. FOLLOWING AN INVESTIGATION THAT LASTED MORE THAN A YEAR. >> PEOPLE ME TO KNOW WHAT DRIVES TRAFFICKING IS THE DEMAND FOR IT. REPORTER: VERONICA'S VOICE WORKS TO PREVENT WOMEN GETTING INTO PROSTITUTION. >> IT IS BECAUSE A LACK OF CHOICES AND OPPORTUNITIES. REPORTER: THIS SHOWS WERE HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS MOST COMMON. 178 CASES REPORTED IN MISSOURI LAST YEAR, 95 IN KANSAS. TRAFFICKERS SOURCE AND BRAINWASH THEIR VICTIMS. REPORTER: IT IS OFTEN RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR EYES. >> A LOT OF LEADS WE GET ARE FROM THE PUBLIC
Independence police arrested 21 people for human trafficking and prostitution last week along the stretch of Noland Road by Interstate 70.Immigration and Customs Enforcement assisted in the raid that also allegedly uncovered counterfeit money and weapons."It is an extremely secretive type of crime," ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok said. "This is modern-day slavery." In Olathe, Kansas, police raided several massage parlors and arrested six people, including former Johnson County sheriff's Sgt. Philip Ward following an investigation police say lasted more than a year. Lucy Bloom leads Veronica's Voice, which works to prevent women from getting into prostitution and empowering them to leave. "People need to know that what drives trafficking is the demand for it," Bloom said. "It is because of a lack of choices. It's a lack of options and opportunities for them." Polaris Project tracks human trafficking and says there were 178 reported cases in Missouri last year and 95 in Kansas."The traffickers essentially coerce and brainwash their victims," Rusnok said. Not all commercial sex is human trafficking, but Bloom worries for women wrapped up in the recent raids. "That's where I feel like some of our laws need to catch up," she said. Bloom and Rusnok add the crime is often in plain sight. "A lot of the leads we get are from the public where people say, 'You know what? This situation just does not look right,'" Rusnok said. Veronica's Voice provides a two-year recovery home to victims along with a variety of other life services.
Independence police arrested 21 people for human trafficking and prostitution last week along the stretch of Noland Road by Interstate 70.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement assisted in the raid that also allegedly uncovered counterfeit money and weapons.
"It is an extremely secretive type of crime," ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok said. "This is modern-day slavery."
In Olathe, Kansas, police raided several massage parlors and arrested six people, including former Johnson County sheriff's Sgt. Philip Ward following an investigation police say lasted more than a year.
Lucy Bloom leads Veronica's Voice, which works to prevent women from getting into prostitution and empowering them to leave.
"People need to know that what drives trafficking is the demand for it," Bloom said. "It is because of a lack of choices. It's a lack of options and opportunities for them."
Polaris Project tracks human trafficking and says there were 178 reported cases in Missouri last year and 95 in Kansas.
"The traffickers essentially coerce and brainwash their victims," Rusnok said.
Not all commercial sex is human trafficking, but Bloom worries for women wrapped up in the recent raids.
"That's where I feel like some of our laws need to catch up," she said.
Bloom and Rusnok add the crime is often in plain sight.
"A lot of the leads we get are from the public where people say, 'You know what? This situation just does not look right,'" Rusnok said.
Veronica's Voice provides a two-year recovery home to victims along with a variety of other life services.


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Louise Esther Blenman is a former Appellate Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and the current Chief Justice of Belize. She was the first woman to ever be appointed to the post. On 22nd November 2022, she was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the High Court and the Court of Appeal after the successful passage of the Senior Courts Act.

She is Guyanese by birth and Saint Lucian by naturalisation. She obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree (Upper Second Honours) from the University of the West Indies in 1986, a Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School in 1988, and a Master of Laws from the University of London with Merit.

Her legal career began in Guyana in 1988 where she served in various capacities including as Acting Deputy Solicitor General in the Attorney General's Chambers. In 1990, while employed at the Attorney General's Chambers she was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship and completed the Commonwealth Lawyers' Course at the Institute of Advance Legal Studies and the University of London. During this period she was a pupil of Lord Anthony Lester, QC of Herne Hill. In Guyana, she also served as an acting Magistrate in the criminal division of the country's Magistrate Courts. She practiced at the private bar as an associate to Mr. Rex McKay, SC. And, from 1992 to 2000, she served as a lecturer in law at the University of Guyana.

In September 2000, Justice Blenman was appointed as the Solicitor General of Saint Lucia - a post she held until she was elevated to the bench of the High Court of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in 2003. As a High Court Judge, she SERVED in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda and Anguilla. She also served as a member of several committees, boards and commissions both in Guyana and in the Eastern Caribbean. From January 2010 to January 2016, she served as Chairperson of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court's Judicial Education Institute. She was a member of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Mediation Committee. She also served as chair of the Mediation Committees in Antigua and Barbuda and Anguilla, Chair of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Sentencing Guidelines Committee and a member of the Criminal Justice Reform Committee in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. She also served as a member of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission of Anguilla.

After serving 9 years as a High Court Judge, Justice Blenman was appointed as a Justice of Appeal Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in 2012. She served for ten years as an appellate judge. She was sworn in as the Chief Justice of Belize on September 2, 2022.

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Auctions are an age-old method of selling property. From the early years of the settlers to today's modern world nearly everything has been traded by auction. Today's auctions are seen as a choice place to do business both for buyers and sellers alike. Sellers can successfully disperse assets in a short period of time with limited stress or negotiations. Buyers can purchase everything from real estate to equipment to antiques direct from sellers through the open bidding process where they set the price. With today's technology auctions are stronger and more popular than ever. Whether LIVE or ON-LINE Auctions remain the "Marketing Method of Choice".
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As part of South West Water's (SWW) ongoing commitment to driving value through efficiency, the utility company's Waste Water Services division recently took final delivery of its new state-of-art 36-vehicle fleet of Rioned high-pressure jetting van-packs.
At the recent WWETT show in Indianapolis, USA, Rioned launched two new van-pack jetting machines that have been developed for sister company Spartan Tool and the North American market. Broadly based on Rioned's ProfiJet and CityJet range, the Spartan branded Urban Warrior skid-mounted models are an addition to the company's existing trailer-mounted Warrior range.


A school camp has been organised by Pioneer Hospital at Swami Vivekanand English Medium School at Talegaon Dabhade. Specialized Doctor Yogesh Shaha, Dr. Mrs. Vaishali Pawar along with supportive doctors Dr. Bhagirathi Parekar, Dr. Smita Olekar, Nursing Staff Miss. Jyoti S P, Mrs. Deepali Ovhal were there for the camp. Total student crowd for the treatment were 650 belongs to general health check -up. The complete event/camp has been smoothly co-ordinated by Marketing department by Mr. Shailesh Jagtap.


Some of the earliest English settlers in Hopkinton were Aaron and Susanna Kimball, who came from Massachusetts in 1740. Their son, Abraham, was the first English child actually born in Hopkinton. In 1771, the King of England granted Aaron Kimball some land on Beech Hill. In 1893 Herbert M. Kimball purchased the land and buildings that later became known as Beech Hill Farm.
H. M. Kimball imported his first Ayrshire cattle from Scotland in 1896, and was the seventh person in the state to acquire a license to bottle and sell raw milk. The original license number is painted on his beautiful red horse drawn sleigh in the farm stand.The horse drawn sleighs that were used to deliver milk have also been preserved and are on display at Beech Hill Farm, along with many other original artifacts that now fill the Corn Crib and Grain Barn Museum.
The Kimball family of today is proud to continue the tradition of excellence and commitment to quality set by our earliest ancestors in Hopkinton. We hope you experience a little of New Hampshire farm history on each of your visits here!


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1.Which of the following schemes have the best error performance with the same energy per bit?
4.A control system with feedback gains 0.1 and forward gains 10. What is the sensitivity of the system w.r.t the feedback system?
6.Which of the following system is stable?
9.Which of the following is a privileged instruction?
10.Which of the following instruction is not converted to binary by an Assebly Language Program?
12.Which of the following has the highest distortion?
13.Which of the following distortions occur in Class B push pull amplifier?
15.Schmitt Trigger with 3V & 1V UTP and LTP respectively. A sinusoidal input with 10V peak is fed as the input.
29. HVDC is preferred to EHV Transmission y?
35. A switch s is closed at t=0,what is the value of L at t=0+?
36. Ratio of eddy current loss to hysteresis loss when B is changed.
38. Hall effect is used to determine? Ans type of the conductor.
39. Questions based on cb, cc, Ce configurations?
40. Questions based on voltage amps?
43. Major questions came from antennas, waveguides, microwave oscillators, mw strips, mw devices, and etc?
45 About wave propagation in different layers?
46. Radiation pattern of antennas?
47. Questions on op and ip resistances of feed back amps?
50 Question on slot antenna?
51. Question on range of a radar?
53 A question on network?
54 ROM is non volatile storage device?
55RAM is not used for long storage puprose because. When power is lost we loose the memory?
56 Non programmable device is 8212?
57 7400 is Quad NAND gate?
59 Yagi uda antenna radiation pattern is?
60 Helical antenna is used in satellite becoz in RC phaseshift oscillator a condition to get oscillations in hfe>= 4K+23+29/K.
If there are 8 sections in RC phase shift oscillator then each section has a phase shift of 45degrees directivity of half wave dipole is 1.64?
61 Voltage series has input impedance is high and output impedance is low?
62 READY signal is used in MP because of slow devices connected?
63TRAP is non maskable interrupt?
64 There are several 1K byte memory devices to be connected to memory chips and address lines connected to be are AD0--AD9.
65 When on write signal if a pulse is from low to high then the address/data bus lines contains.


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BAZ releases shortlisted applicants for TV broadcasting licenses
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HARARE – The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has issued a public statement informing that 14 applicants have been shortlisted for Free-to-Air National Commercial Television Broadcasting Services.
Zimpapers Newspapers (1980) Ltd is part of the shortlisted applicants.
Zimbabwe currently has a very narrow broadcasting space in the television sector with ZBC enjoying a monopoly. However, the company has failed to provide satisfying content with many Zimbabweans opting for foreign channels such as SABC and Dstv services.
Another criticism always levelled against ZBC is its political partisanship which has led to its failure to provide for diverse views and opinions.
The statement highlighted that the applicants are still yet to undergo public hearings to determine their suitability to be licensed.
HARARE - The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has issued a public statement informing that 14 applicants have been shortlisted for Free-to-Air National Commercial Television Broadcasting Services. Zimpapers Newspapers (1980) Ltd is part of the shor...


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The New York Yankees drafted Kyle Holder out of the University of San Diego in the first round of the 2015 draft with the 30th overall pick. Holder skipped his senior season at San Diego and signed a $1.8 million signing bonus to join the Yankees.
Although selected in the first round, he was the second player drafted by the Yankees in the 2015 draft after selecting James Kaprielian with the 16th overall pick.
Fresh off of his junior year at San Diego, Holder was assigned to the Staten Island Yankees to start his professional career. He played in 56 games, all of them at shortstop. He struggled at the plate hitting .213/.273/.253 in 225 at-bats. Out of his 48 hits, seven were doubles to go with one triple. He stole six bags out of eight attempts.
Defensively, Holder played excellent at shortstop where he only committed seven errors out of 266 chances.
Holder was promoted to the Charleston RiverDogs where he was paired with Hoy Jun Park, another highly regarded prospect in the Yankees system. Holder and Park would alternate between shortstop and second base, which was a new position for Holder.
Holder benefited from the tutelage of Yankees minor league roving hitting instructor James Rowson and RiverDogs hitting coach Greg Colbrunn. "Our hitting coordinator James Rousen works a lot on just some simple mechanics stuff like load and separation, and short, direct path to the ball and using left-center field, right-center field as a target," Holder said. He also added about Colbrunn, "I got a great hitting coach, Greg Colbrunn; he helps out a lot. He hones in on having a routine, sticking it out whether you're going good or going bad."
In 88 games, Holder posted a .290/.323/.347 line. He had 102 hits on the season with 13 doubles and two triples. That's a significant improvement over his numbers the year before at Staten Island, and his offense was an area of concern coming into 2016.
The highlight of his season at the plate was his 16 game hitting streak in May. During the hitting streak, Holder batted .349.
Defensively, Holder had another excellent year. In 230 chances at shortstop, he committed only seven errors in 55 games at shortstop. In 24 games at second base, he just committed two errors in 116 chances. "It's always cool going from a position that you're not sure with and playing there for a couple of games and then going back to your natural position," Holder said of getting time in at second base.
Holder did miss some time in 2016 due to a couple of injuries. The first injury occurred early in the year in April where he suffered an undisclosed upper-body injury. The second injury occurred in July where he hurt his ankle hitting the bag beating out a bunt single.
Holder spent the season with the Tampa Yankees of the high-Class-A Advanced Florida State League. Holder was again slowed by injuries in the first half of the season but had a strong second half of the season to get back on track. In 104 games, Holder put up a slash line of .271/.317/.350 while collecting 16 doubles, two triples four home runs and driving in 44 runs. He stole four bases in seven attempts.
Holder also saw some time at third base with the T-Yanks in addition to his usual majority of play at shortstop and some games at shortstop.
The Yankees sent Holder to the Arizona Fall League where he played in 11 games with the Scottsdale Scorpions. He batted .333 while swatting three doubles, one triple, and one home run.


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LeBron James Profoundly Shows How Basketball Can Transform Society with I Promise School
Martin Soaries
The infamous words, "shut up and dribble", spewed by TV host Laura Ingraham towards LeBron James earlier this year have become a battle cry. Those words are now society's way of acknowledging the fact that a basketball player has the power to influence a lot more than just what happens on a basketball court. In this case, it was defending the historic opening of LeBron's I Promise School in Akron, Ohio on Monday.
Built by the LeBron James Foundation and a roster of private partners and investors, the school is for first to eighth graders with a curriculum in science, math, engineering, and technology. It will also include additional career, academic, and emotional support for families. The school year for the I Promise School will run from July 30 to May 17 and the hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
LeBron's "I Promise" School:
Free uniforms
Free transportation within 2 miles
Free breakfast, lunch, & snacks
Guaranteed college tuition for every student who graduates
Food pantry for families
GED's and job placement services for parents
Free bicycle and helmet
— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) July 31, 2018
In 1993, as a fourth grader in Akron, LeBron James was essentially homeless, sleeping on the couches of family and friends, and missed 83 days of school
25 years later, in 2018, LeBron is donating over $40 million to open a school that will send hundreds of Akron kids to college pic.twitter.com/YSdZC9qZym
— Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) July 31, 2018
A fascinating potential follow-up to what LeBron has done is how it can trend among other high-profile athletes. If it becomes a trend for players to build schools, rec centers, hospitals, or any pillars of need in their hometown communities, the contagious positivity of basketball will be at work.
LeBron James represents the full magnitude and influence of a basketball megastar. Lately, he's been using that influence adamantly in efforts to speak out on social and political issues and has made it clear how he feels about President Trump.
Among other things, basketball has been a platform for LeBron James, probably now more than ever. As he's conquered the sport as a player, it's giving him a chance to venture into other avenues. He's putting his fingerprints on entertainment, business, the film industry, and public education.
For the best and biggest basketball player in the world to have an impact on all of these functions of society speaks to the transformative soul of the sport, and how it's influence can be far more profound than just dribbling.
(Featured image via: Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
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Organised by Asia Art Archive in collaboration with The University of Hong Kong, the symposium explores how periodicals have fostered conversations around art and emergent forms of visuality in twentieth-century Asia.
Periodicals have been more than just platforms or sites for artistic experimentation and exhibition; they have themselves shaped and staged them. In so doing, periodicals have played a defining role in forming diverse publics for art in Asia.
The papers presented in the symposium explore periodicals in relation to emerging practices that cut across genres, new nomenclatures and aesthetic propositions, verbal and visual manifestos, the production of alternative publics and communities for art, and other topics.
Speakers include Charles Esche, director of Van Abbemuseum and co-founder of Afterall; Li Xianting, Beijing-based independent critic and curator; Phoebe Scott, curator of National Gallery Singapore; Michael Erdman, curator of Turkish and Turkic Collections at The British Library, and more.


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My name is Hoov and I will be helping you with your problem. As you have been here before and know how we work, I will skip the preliminaries. Please start Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and update it. You should have to update the program as well as the malware signatures. If it does not update the program please go to this page and get the newest free version. Once you have installed the new version, please run a full scan on your computer. If it finds anything, please fix it and then post the resulting log. If it does not find anything, post that log instead.
The date was adjusted to 10-8-2015 sometime recently.
That could be the problem. Try adjusting the date and time (if needed) so it reflects your local date and time. Then check to see if the problem has gone away.
The reason this could be the problem is because the internet and your computer use the date and time and compare them to SSL certificates. If they do not match up, then it because a problem.
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Special Issue "Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Quantum Logic and Quantum Structures"
Since its origins, quantum theory posed deep questions with regard to the fundamental problems of physics. During the last few decades, the advent of quantum information theory and the possibility of developing quantum computers, gave rise to a renewed interest in foundational issues. Research in the foundations of quantum mechanics was particularly influenced by the development of novel laboratory techniques, allowing for the experimental verification of the most debated aspects of the quantum formalism.
The VIII Conference on Quantum Foundations (https://sites.google.com/view/viiijfc), to be held during 21–23 November, 2018, at the CAECE University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, aims to gather experts in the field to promote academic debate on the foundational problems of quantum theory. This Special Issue captures the main aspects of this debate by incorporating a selected list of contributions presented at the conference. Researchers not attending the conference are also welcome to present their original and recent developments, as well as review papers, on the topics listed below. All contributions will be peer-reviewed.
A quantum correlation NFG,A for (n+m)-mode continuous-variable systems is introduced in terms of local Gaussian unitary operations performed on Subsystem A based on Uhlmann fidelity F. This quantity is a remedy for the [...] Read more.
Abstract: We explore diverse features of a set of relations between entanglement, energy, and quantum evolution, that can be interpreted as entropic energy-time uncertainty relations. These relations arise naturally within the timeless point of view advocated by Page and Wootters , but they can be formulated and interpreted independently of that approach.
BZ-lattices (called $BZ^\ast-lattices$) that represents a quite faithful abstraction of the concrete model based on $\mathcal E(\mathcal H)$. Interestingly enough, in the framework of BZ$^\ast$-lattices different abstract notions of ``unsharpness'' collapse into the one and the same concept, similarly to what happens in the concrete BZ$^\ast$-lattices of all effects.