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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import complexism as cx
import complexism.agentbased.statespace as ss
import epidag as dag

model_name = 'M_BD'

# Step 1 set a parameter core
bn = cx.read_bn_script(cx.load_txt('../scripts/pBAD.txt'))
sm = dag.as_simulation_core(bn,
                            hie={'city': ['agent'],
                                 'agent': ['ToM', 'ToO', 'Die']})
pc = sm.generate(model_name)
pc.impulse({'dr': 0.01})

# Step 1- set dynamic cores as agents need
dbp = cx.read_dbp_script(cx.load_txt('../scripts/BAD.txt'))

# Step 2 define at least one type of agent
eve = ss.StSpBreeder('Ag', 'agent', pc, dbp)
pop = cx.Population(eve)

# Step 3 generate a model
model = cx.StSpAgentBasedModel(model_name, pc, pop)

# Step 4 add behaviours to the model
# ss.Cohort.decorate('cycle', model, s_birth='Young', s_death='Dead')
# ss.Reincarnation.decorate('cycle', model, s_birth='Young', s_death='Dead')
# ss.LifeRate.decorate('cycle', model, s_birth='Young', s_death='Dead', rate=0.2)
ss.install_behaviour(model, 'cycle', 'LifeS',
                     s_birth='Young', s_death='Dead', rate=0.5, cap=150, dt=0.5)

# Step 5 decide outputs
# for tr in ['ToM', 'ToO', 'Die']:
#     model.add_observing_transition(tr)

for st in ['Young', 'Middle', 'Old', 'Alive', 'Dead']:
    model.add_observing_state(st)

# Step 6 simulate
y0 = [
    {'n': 34, 'attributes': {'st': 'Young'}},
    {'n': 33, 'attributes': {'st': 'Middle'}},
    {'n': 33, 'attributes': {'st': 'Old'}}
]

output = cx.simulate(model, y0, 0, 10, 1)
print(output)

# Step 7 inference, draw figures, and manage outputs
output.plot()
plt.show()


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The New Fall TV Shows You Will and Won't Be Seeing
Last week in New York, the big 5 broadcast networks (and some of the cable networks) held their annual "upfronts." What is that? NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and the CW unveil their new fall TV shows and introduce the new schedule they'll be airing, all so advertisers can decide whether or not they want to buy commercial space.
There look to be some surefire hits on the way—ABC's spinoff of The Avengers called Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and NBC's The Michael J. Fox show both got a positive response. But you'll be seeing those soon enough—what about the rest? Here are some of the more "out there" shows that were up for a spot on the fall schedule. Most of these didn't make it…but some did!
• Big Thunder. In the late 1800s, a big city doctor and his family move to a creepy Western mining town run by an enigmatic tycoon. Like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Big Thunder is loosely based on a Disneyland ride, in this case, the Big Thunder Mountain rollercoaster.
Passed on by ABC.
• Intelligence. The U.S. Cyber Command—an anti-computer-crime agency—has a secret weapon: an agent with a microchip implanted in his brain that allows him to interact with "the entire electromagnetic spectrum," whatever that means.
Picked up by CBS.
• Gothica. A sexy soap opera in which the characters are Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dorian Gray.
• Super Clyde. A fast food worker decides to quite his job to become a superhero. This comedy stars Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter movies.
Passed on by CBS.
• Girlfriend in a Coma. Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel was about a teenager who falls into a coma after a skiing accident the day after unknowingly becoming pregnant. The book details her boyfriend's struggle to mature and move on from that traumatic event and raise their troubled daughter. The book ends with the end of the world. Seriously. NBC commissioned a pilot based on that novel, but in name only—it's a comedy about a woman who wakes up from a coma only to find she has a teenage daughter she barely knows.
Picked up by NBC.
• The Ordained. An action drama about a man who is part of a well-connected New England political family who must prevent his sister from being assassinated, but first…he must leave the priesthood.
• The Family Guide. A teenager tries to navigate life in his crazy family, which includes an elderly, blind father and a thirtysomething mother having a midlife crisis. Oh, and the parents just divorced but they're all still living together.
• Delirium. In the distant future, love is illegal and feelings are eliminated with brain surgery. In the pilot episode, a character falls in love and doesn't want to get the surgery.
Passed on by Fox.
• Donor Party. An immature man meets a woman and her young son, and romance starts to develop. Then the man realizes the boy is the result of a years-ago sperm donation.
Passed on by NBC.
• Jessica. Remember pop star Jessica Simpson? On this show, produced by Simpson and her father/manager Joe Simpson, Jessica Simpson would have played Jessica Simpson on this show loosely based on the life of Jessica Simpson.
• The 100. A century in the future, the world has been destroyed by nuclear war. But a spaceship housing the last of humanity aims to repopulate and recolonize…by sending down 100 juvenile delinquents.
Picked up by The CW.
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Predrag Nikolić (nacido el 11 de septiembre de 1960 en Bosanski Šamac, Bosnia y Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) es un Gran Maestro de ajedrez bosnio.

Biografía
En la lista de enero de 2008 de la FIDE, Nikolic ocupaba la posición 50 de la lista mundial con 2665 puntos de ELO.

Compitió por primera vez en el Campeonato de Yugoslavia en 1979, compartiendo la segunda plaza. Al año siguiente y de nuevo en 1984, fue un paso más allá y se convirtió en campeón nacional de Yugoslavia. Se le concedieron los títulos de Maestro Internacional y de Gran Maestro en 1980 y 1983 respectivamente. El título de GN lo consiguió gracias a sus actuaciones en 1982 en Sarajevo (tercero) y Sochi (segundo después de Mikhail Tal).

Fue vencedor en Sarajevo en 1983, en Novi Sad en 1984 y en Reikiavik dos años después. En 1986 también compartió la segunda plaza por detrás de Nigel Short en Wijk aan Zee. Volvió a la senda de la victoria en Sarajevo en 1987 y en el Torneo interzonal de Zagreb, no se clasificó por poco para el Torneo de candidatos (compartiendo la cuarta plaza por detrás de Víktor Korchnói, Jaan Ehlvest y Yasser Seirawan).

En 1989, Ganó el Torneo Corus de ajedrez en Wijk aan Zee (junto con Viswanathan Anand, Zoltan Ribli y Gyula Sax) y ocupó la primera plaza en Portorož/Liubliana (el torneo memorial Milan Vidmar). Después siguió el interzonal de Manila en 1990, donde una vez más compartió la cuarta plaza, pero esta vez se clasificó para el torneo de candidatos de 1991. En los dieciseisavos de final se encontró con Borís Gélfand, que terminó siendo una rápida eliminatoria, habiendo empatado el match 4-4. Después, viajó a São Paulo para un match contra Henrique Mecking y aseguró una victoria por 3.5-2.5. Una victoria en el torneo de Bled completó un gran año.

Mientras jugaba el torneo de Buenos Aires de 1992 (donde finalizó segundo), la guerra civil irrumpió en su país natal y durante cierto tiempo se mudó a Holanda, junto con el bosnio Ivan Sokolov. Vendrían más victorias en torneos, primero en Wijk aan Zee en 1994 y el Campeonato de Holanda de ajedrez de 1997 (empatado con Jan Timman pero ganando el desempate) y de 1999. En 2004, compartió un gran éxito al empatar con Vasili Ivanchuk por la primera posición del Campeonato de Europa Individual de ajedrez, jugado en Antalya, aunque perdió el desempate por el título.

Entre 1980 y 2002, fue, con la excepción de 1982, miembro de los equipos olímpicos de Yugoslav y después de Bosnia, ganando una medalla de cada color - plata y bronce por equipos y oro individual. También participó regularmente en el Campeonato de Europa por equipos de ajedrez y en 1983, ganó la medalla de plata por equipos y la medalla de oro individual.

Ha jugado durante muchos años en la Bundesliga para el club SG Aljechin Solingen. A principios de la temporada 2006-07, era el jugador con mejor clasificación del equipo y fue segundo tablero por detrás de Artur Yusúpov.

Predrag Nikolic actualmente ha vuelto a casa a Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Referencias

 Olimpbase - Información sobre Olympiadas y otros Torneos por Equipos

Véase también
 Ajedrez

Enlaces externos
 Tarjeta de la FIDE de NikolicNikolic
 Predrag Nikolic en www.chessgames.com

Competidores de las Olimpíadas de ajedrez
Grandes maestros internacionales de ajedrez
Serbobosnios
Ajedrecistas de Bosnia y Herzegovina
Ajedrecistas de Yugoslavia
Bosnios del siglo XX
Bosnios del siglo XXI

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Our company values represent the guideline of our employees' behaviour. We are committed to our customers and business partners, to our employees and company owners. All our deeds are guided by truthfulness, fairness and integrity, following a humanist- influenced business ethos.
The Würth Group's corporate culture characterised by mutual trust, predictability, honesty and straightforwardness internally and externally. Compliance with national and international laws, regulations, as well as company- specific commitments and guidelines is mandatory.
Consequently, these values and guidelines are also binding for our Würth Elektronik Group.
Our Compliance System aims to ensure these values and commitments; in this sense, it has embodied the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) Code of Conduct.
This RBA Code of Conduct summarises the business-ethical and socially compatible working conditions and minimum requirements in the electronics industry. It governs business relationships with our customers / suppliers and their business partners.
The complete RBA Code of Conduct is available in multiple languages as download here.
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Midsummer – June 24, 2023
Midsummer is celebrated on June 24 and it's a day that's meant for us to appreciate all the gifts that nature gives us. The summer solstice marks the longest day of the year and that lands on June 20, but because the old Julian calendar marked it differently, the date for Midsummer Day remains June 24. The holiday originates from Sweden, but it's celebrated all over the world and many use the weekend closest to the date for traditional festivities.
History of Midsummer
Midsummer started as a pagan ritual for fertility and a successful harvest during the Stone Age. The pagans believed that plants had healing properties during the summer solstice and they honored the day showing reverence to nature with rituals. They danced around maypoles, fashioned garnets, and herbs were picked on Midsummer's Eve and bonfires were used to keep away any evil spirits. It was said that spirits were free to roam the earth when the sun was turning towards the southern hemisphere.
In the fourth century, the holiday was changed to fit into Christian beliefs that honored St. John the Baptist called St. John's Day. In the Gospel of Luke, Saint John's birthday is said to be six months before the birth of Jesus, which would put his birthday in June. It was celebrated by bathing in water the night before for purification, a feast, and prayer on the holiday, but despite the name change, some of the customs from Midsummer remained.
In the Middle Ages, Germany had its own Midsummer rituals which would eventually be adopted by Sweden and others. Germanic neopagans called their summer solstice festival Litha. In their rituals, the Maypole was decorated with leaves and raised on May 1, which is where the name comes from. It was hard to find green leaves during that time, and the holiday was moved to Midsummer.
Today, it's still a celebrated holiday and it's incredibly popular. In Sweden, it comes only second to Christmas and people travel from all over the world to experience it themselves. During the time of the Summer Solstice, inhabitants of the British Isles and Scandinavia have nearly a full day of sunlight, making it easy for them to imagine how the Pagans once lived and they reenact the traditions of old.
Midsummer timeline
Pagans hold festivities and rituals honoring nature, fertility, and a successful harvest.
4th Century
Midsummer is co-opted by Christianity and called St. John's Day.
German Remix
Germany celebrates with customized rituals like maypoles decorated with leaves.
Past is Present
People celebrate the ancient day by dancing, eating, bonfires, and festivals.
Midsummer FAQs
Why is Midsummer called Midsummer?
The summer-solstice is considered to be "mid-summer" because it's believed to be the longest day of the year.
What is Swedish midsummer?
Sweden's "Midsommar" is a summer celebration many Scandinavian countries look forward to after their long and dark winters.
How do you celebrate Midsummer?
Midsummer is usually celebrated with a traditional feast, incense, a bonfire, maypoles, and connecting with nature.
Midsummer Activities
Visit Sweden and experience Midsommar where the pagans once did. Travel to the countryside where you can attend festivities, make flower garlands, drink traditional drinks like nubbe, and dance around maypoles. You can also learn ancient history firsthand from Swedes who know what they're talking about.
Eat like the pagans
Celebrate the day by preparing traditional foods. Pagans would eat foods that consisted of fresh garden fruits and vegetables in a variety of dishes in honor of their deities. Use recipes for pickled herring to make sill, potatoes for potatis, cured salmon for gravlax, crispy bread for Knäckebröd, and more. If they're too complicated, simple salads and vegetables will do just fine.
Nature hike
Experience nature in a new way by going on a hike by yourself or with friends. Midsummer is about connecting with nature, so explore a new trail that you've never taken before and really notice your surroundings. Pay attention to all the different trees and flowers and give appreciation for the wonder that is nature.
Five Facts About Midsummer
Empty cities
During Midsummer, cities are left practically vacant as residents leave for the countryside.
There's a tradition where people pick seven different species of flowers and place them under their pillows to dream of their future spouse.
Many people wear a traditional folk dress called folkdrekten and make their own flower crowns called krans.
Feel the spirit
People drink a spirit called aquavit that's distilled from potatoes or grains and flavored with either caraway or dill seed.
Hopping mad
There are songs sung about frogs and people hop around the maypole like they're frogs themselves.
Why We Love Midsummer
Respecting tradition
It's impressive that the spirit of Midsummer is still celebrated today when it could have easily been forgotten. The passage of time and the attempts to change the holiday weren't enough to get rid of it, and its perseverance deserves respect simply for withstanding the obstacles in its way. Its longevity and the love that people have for it is proof enough that the holiday is here to stay.
Loving nature
Midsummer reminds us that we should be appreciative of nature. Without it, we wouldn't be able to survive. There's a direct correlation between people and plants with every breath we take. Stopping to smell the flowers and being one with nature is something that we should all do more often.
Thinking of others
It helps us think of our fellow humans. It's always good to be kind to our family and friends, but we should extend ourselves to everyone. Midsummer is about being appreciative of the day itself and offering selfless gifts with the hopes of bettering others. There can never be too many reminders to be charitable.
Midsummer dates
2023 June 24 Saturday
2024 June 24 Monday
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TueAug 15
Chant at the Moon Day
FriSep 29
ARRL Field Day
Farmer Day
International Fairy Day
International St. Johns Day
Midsummer Day
National Kenneth Day
National Le Day
National Pralines Day
National Relationship Equity Day
National Summersgiving Day
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day
St John's Day (Venezuela)
Swim a Lap Day
Upcycling Day


Over the past decade, Rob Heeney has established a dual reputation as both as an award-winning comedy writer and as one of the top comedians on the live circuit.
As a stand-up, Rob Has played all of the nation's leading clubs including The Comedy Store, Jongleurs, Highlight, The Glee Clubs, Komedia, The Stand, The Frog & Bucket, Laughterhouse & Up the Creek. Further afield, he's also performed in countries as diverse as the UAE, USA, the Netherlands and South Africa.
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Heartland Town Square Project Offers Housing Options with Redevelopment of State Land
The Long Island Regional Planning Council designated the Heartland Town Square a Project of Regional Significance in 2008. Heartland Town Square, a new planned mixed use community in Brentwood that can help address the region's shortage of rental housing and has the potential to attract commercial activity offering additional jobs.
The project has been discussed since the early 2000s when the developer purchased 450 acres on the grounds of Pilgrim State Hospital from the state. The original proposal included 9,000-plus apartments, 1 million square feet of retail space and 3 million square feet of office space.
The Islip Town Board recently approved a modified version of the proposal. The first phase of the project, built on 113 acres would permit over 3,000 apartments and a lesser amount of retail and office space — while allowing for the town to monitor traffic and stress on the surrounding infrastructure. The height of the buildings is limited to 10 floors.
The project is one of the most important and regionally significant projects for Long Island which will expand and transform Long Island's housing stock providing homes for young people and empty nesters.
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Avonside 1568/1909 'Lucy'
Lucy was built by the Avonside Engine Company at Bristol in 1909 and delivered to the Hutchinson Estate & Dock Co. Ltd. at Widnes. She was one of three class B3 0-6-0STs supplied having 14″ x 22″ cylinders and 3′ 3″ driving wheels, a type so familiar for so long in Liverpool's dockland. They were named 'Gertrude', 'Lucy', and 'Mary' and dated from 1906, 1909 and 1913 respectively, and were named after the daughters of John Hutchinson, one of the founders of the Widnes chemical industry.
The engine 'Lucy' spent it's entire working life on the Widnes dock system.
It was dismantled in August 1952 and sent to the Hunslet Engine Co. for overhaul. One year later, she returned to work very smartly painted green with yellow lining.
Lucy was retired in January 1971 and was purchased by the Liverpool Locomotive Preservation Group in February 1972 and stored together with 'Efficient' in a dockside engine shed at Seacombe. She was transferred to Steamport Southport on 1st August 1973, but briefly returned across the Mersey in July 1978 to take charge of the Birkenhead docker No.4 railtour. Once again in the early 1980's, Lucy took retirement, and remains a static exhibit.
Lucy moved to Preston with the rest of the stock from Southport, and arrived in Preston on 27th February 1999. Recently given a new coat of paint for exhibition in the museum, the long term plan is to return Lucy to working condition once more when time and materials become available.


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In the future, Caitlyn would love to buy an RV and travel around the country with her family and her fur-children. She also plans to travel to less fortunate areas of the world and lend a helping hand to those in need.


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18567 Segenthau è un asteroide della fascia principale. Scoperto nel 1997, presenta un'orbita caratterizzata da un semiasse maggiore pari a 2,7789065 UA e da un'eccentricità di 0,0660394, inclinata di 3,35641° rispetto all'eclittica.

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De Dadao-regering van Shanghai, formeel de Grote Weg Gemeentelijke Regering van Shanghai (), was een kortstondige marionettenstaat die op 5 december 1937 in Pudong werd uitgeroepen om het door Japan bezette Shanghai in de vroege stadia van de Tweede Chinees-Japanse Oorlog te beheren.

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Na de Slag om Shanghai van 1937 drong het kabinet van de Japanse premier Fumimaro Konoe aan op een snelle en diplomatieke oplossing voor de oorlog in China, en niet op een dure en langdurige bezetting. Bovendien wilde het Keizerlijke hoofdkwartier niet toestaan dat de politieke experimenten van het Kwantung-leger bij de oprichting van Mantsjoekwo zouden worden herhaald en zette het druk op Legergroep Centraal-China om een collaboratieve lokale regering aan te stellen om de details van het lokale bestuur van het metropolitaanse gebied van Shanghai te regelen.

In november 1937 werden een aantal prominente inwoners benaderd om het voorlopig burgerbestuur van de stad over te nemen. Uiteindelijk konden de Japanners de hulp verwerven van Fu Xiao'an, de rijke directeur van de Chinese Handelsbank en hoofd van de Algemene Kamer van Koophandel van Shanghai. Fu was een persoonlijke en politieke vijand van de nationalistische generaal Chiang Kai-shek en was door de Kwomintang in 1927 gevangen gezet omdat hij weigerde Chiang geld te lenen. Na zijn vrijlating uit de gevangenis vluchtte hij naar het door de Japanners bezette Mantsjoerije en leefde enkele jaren onder Japanse bescherming, waar zijn haat voor Chiang toenam.

Fu was echter niet bereid om zelf de nieuwe regering te leiden en beval Su Xiwen aan, een professor in religieuze filosofie en politieke wetenschappen aan de Chizhi-universiteit in Jiangwan. Su was afgestudeerd aan de Waseda-universiteit in Tokio en stond bekend om zijn conservatieve politieke opvattingen. Su stond ook bekend om zijn visie op het boeddhistisch-taoïstische syncretisme, dat de naam van het nieuwe bestuur beïnvloedde - de 'Grote Weg' refererend aan het oosterse filosofieconcept van de Tao - en zijn vlag: het yin-yang-symbool van het taoïsme op een gele achtergrond (de kleuren geel, goud en saffraan worden vaak geassocieerd met het boeddhisme).

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De nieuwe regering leverde snel inspanningen om de openbare diensten van de stad te herstellen en richtte een politiemacht op onder leiding van Zhang Songlin, de voormalige commandant van de provinciale politie van Jiangsu, om de openbare orde te handhaven. Financiering werd verstrekt door een belasting geheven op alle invoer en uitvoer via de Japanse frontlinies in en uit Shanghai, en Su werd bijgestaan door een aantal deskundigen geleverd door de Zuid-Mantsjoerische Spoorwegmaatschappij. Su beloofde om de stad van zowel communistische als Kwomintang-elementen te zuiveren. Noch Su noch zijn Dadao-regering werden echter serieus genomen door Japanse politieke agenten, die met ontzetting en minachting keken naar het assortiment van criminelen, religieuze sekteleden en drugshandelaren die werden aangetrokken tot leidende posities in de nieuwe regering. De beloofde openbare werken werden niet geleverd doordat de trawanten van Su fondsen verduisterden, en de propagandawaarde van de nieuwe regering kelderde spoedig. In december 1937 haalden de Japanners een taaie Noord-Chinese collaborateur met de naam Wang Zihui binnen om operaties te overzien als een tijdelijke maatregel.

Nadat Liang Hongzhi de Hervormde Regering van de Republiek China in maart 1938 in Nanjing had gevestigd, organiseerde de Legergroep Centraal-China een aantal openbare bijeenkomsten en ceremonies ter ondersteuning. In minder dan een maand deed de Hervormde Regering haar gezag over de Dadao-regering gelden door een Yamen-toezichtsorgaan op te richten om de taken van het gemeentebestuur van Shanghai over te nemen. Su Xiwen erkende formeel de Hervormde Regering en verving zijn vlag op 3 mei 1938.

Onder de Hervormde Regering bleef Su Xiwen aan als hoofd van het Yamen-toezichtsorgaan totdat hij op 16 oktober 1938 alsnog werd vervangen door Fu Xiao'an als burgemeester van Shanghai.

Zie ook
 Japanse koloniën
 Autonome Regering van Noord-Shanxi
 Autonome Regering van Oost-Hebei
 Autonome Regering van Zuid-Chahar

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Houston and San Antonio each had two winning teams, while the other winners hailed from Dallas and Fort Worth at the 2017 Adult 65 & Over Championships held in New Braunfels.
San Antonio went undefeated, finishing with a team score of 4-0 to win the Ladies 6.0 Championship for the third straight year. San Antonio had an individual score of 10-2 and lost just six sets throughout the championship.
"Blossom Over the Netters" play out of N.E.I.S.D Blossom Tennis Center and are captained by Rosemary Vernor and Co-Captain Bev Williams. Their roster includes Lera Borden, Ruby Culp, Ruth Dekruyff, Cherie Kassinger, Katie Reed, Florence Scrafield, Martha Stevenson and Nancy Tisdall.
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Houston earned a hard-fought win in the Men's 7.0 division, defeating Fort Worth 2-1 to be crowned 2017 7.0 65 & Over Champions. Houston shared the same individual score as Austin and lost more sets in flight play, but defeated Austin when it mattered most, posting the only undefeated record in the division.
"Missouri City - Quail Valley Aces" play out of the Missouri City Recreation and Tennis Center in Missouri City and are captained by Tony De Santis and co-captain Gautam Adhia. Their roster includes Don Avera, Don Cooper, Parsons Jim, Larry Lowers, Luis Montilva, Gene Saylors, Jack Shubert, Robert Smith, Yulim Tey, David Wang and Babu Zachariah.
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"TCU Irwin" plays out of Bayard H Friedman Tennis Center and is captained by Maggie Irwin. Their roster consists of Glenda Allen, Kathy Ayres, Sissy Boll, Joan Cordell, Kathy Coughran, Jackie Daniel, Julia Dobbins, Nancy Duncan, Patty Hepp-Perez and Sarah Stevens.
Houston won the Men's 8.0 Championship for the third straight year, taking the title 3-0 over Dallas. Houston shared the same record as Fort Worth of 2-1 in flight play, but posted a better individual score at 7-2.
"Team Peterson" is captained by David Peterson. Their roster includes David Camp, Brian Engel, Aubrey Frazier, Gary Hirshey, George Orchard, Robert Schmidt and Ronald Wells.


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John Jansen van Galen (Velp, 15 juli 1940) is een Nederlands journalist en schrijver.

Jansen van Galen studeerde in 1965 af in de politieke en sociale wetenschappen aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam waarna hij bijna drie jaar lang verslaggever was bij het Algemeen Handelsblad (in 1970 gefuseerd met de Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant tot NRC Handelsblad). In 1968 stapte hij over naar de Haagse Post (HP) waar hij in januari 1986 hoofdredacteur werd in een periode dat het al slecht ging met dat opinieweekblad. Hij zou daar hoofdredacteur blijven tot de praktisch failliete HP in 1990 fuseerde met het weekblad De Tijd, en verder ging onder de naam HP/De Tijd. In de periode 1969 tot 1985 was hij tevens actief bij de VPRO-radio. Jansen van Galen maakte daar onder andere reportages over Suriname. Voor zo'n reportage bezocht hij in 1970 voor het eerst dat land, waar hij later ook meerdere boeken over zou schrijven (zie de bibliografie).

Vanaf 1990 tot maart 2015 was hij presentator van het radioprogramma Met het Oog op Morgen van de NOS, eerst op de zaterdagavond en later op de zondagavond. Deze uitzendingen sloot hij altijd af met een gedicht. Naast het werk voor de radio schreef hij veel columns voor onder andere Het Parool, NRC Handelsblad en Natuurbehoud (kwartaalblad van Vereniging Natuurmonumenten). Zondag 1 maart 2015 presenteerde hij Met het Oog op Morgen voor de laatste keer. Hij spreekt regelmatig een column uit in het VPRO-radioprogramma OVT.

Momenteel is John Jansen van Galen guest researcher bij het Instituut voor Migratie en Etnische Studies (IMES; verbonden met de Universiteit van Amsterdam) waar hij werkt aan een project over de dekolonisatieprocessen bij de verschillende Nederlandse koloniën. Hij is redacteur van de tweewekelijkse opiniekrant Argus.

Jansen van Galen heeft boeken geschreven over (voormalige) Nederlandse koloniën, wandelen en politici; hij stelde ook een poëziebloemlezing samen.

Bibliografie (incompleet)
 "Politiek jaarboek 1969. De Nederlandse politiek in het parlementaire jaar 1967-68", 1968
 "Tochtjes: John Jansen van Galen teksten, Steije Raviez foto's en Ila Schoutsen plannen", Querido, 1975, ISBN 9021410745
 "Het volle literaire leven: Portretten uit de Haagse Post", samen met Jan Brokken, Martin Schouten en William Rothuizen, Arbeiderspers, 1978, Grote ABC-316, ISBN 90-295-0815-9
 "Drees, wethouder van Nederland", 1980, samen met Herman Vuijsje, ISBN 90-218-2630-5
 "Ons laatste oorlogje : Nieuw-Guinea: de Pax Neerlandica, de diplomatieke kruistocht en de vervlogen droom van een Papoea-natie", 1984, ISBN 90-269-4776-3
 "Het eilandgevoel", 1988, ISBN 90-5018-048-5
 "Joop den Uyl : politiek als hartstocht, samen met Bert Vuijsje, 1992, ISBN 90-246-4901-3
 " Rare jaren. Nederland en de Haagse Post 1914-1990, samen met Hendrik Spiering, 1993, ISBN 90-388-2661-3
 "Klein vademecum van de dagelijkse moraal", 1994 (red. John Jansen van Galen), ISBN 90-388-7587-8
 "Kapotte plantage : Een Hollander in Suriname", 1995, ISBN 90-5018-305-0, 2008, ISBN 9789025433116
 "Dorpsstraat Ons Dorp : een briefwisseling", 1995, samen met Jan Siebelink, ISBN 90-290-4641-4
 "Gaius : de onverstoorbare gang van W. F. de Gaay Fortman", 1996, samen met Willem Breedveld, ISBN 90-5546-010-9
 "Wandelingen: Nederland in vier Seizoenen", 1997, ISBN 90 5018 3565
 "Hetenachtsdroom : Suriname, erfenis van de slavernij", 2000, samen met John Albert Jansen, ISBN 90-254-1209-2
 "Het Suriname-syndroom : de PvdA tussen Den Haag en Paramaribo", 2001, ISBN 90-351-2279-8
 "Wandelen om Amsterdam", 2002, ISBN 90-254-1659-4
 "Wandelen op de Wadden", 2003, ISBN 90-254-1595-4
 "Met het oog op morgen", poëziebloemlezing samengesteld door en met inleiding van John Jansen van Galen, 2004, ISBN 90-254-1908-9
 "De toekomst van het koninkrijk : de dekolonisatie van de Nederlandse Antillen", 2004, ISBN 90-254-1916-X
 "Laatste gouverneur, eerste president : de eeuw van Johan Ferrier, Surinamer", 2005, ISBN 90-6718-265-6
 "Geboortegrond : herziene uitgave", 2012, ISBN 978-94-91409-11-0
 "De gouden jaren van het linkse levensgevoel: Het verhaal van Vrij Nederland", 2016, ISBN 978-94-600-3097-0
 "Wandelparadijs Nederland, te voet door alle provincies", 2018, ISBN 978-94-600-38518
"Fiasco van goede bedoelingen. Nederland en de Indonesische onafhankelijkheid", 2019, ISBN 9789492928757
"Ik? Het ego in de journalistiek", 2021, uitgave bij het 100ste nummer van opiniekrant Argus.

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LinkedIn to pay nearly $6 million in overtime wages, damages – National
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NEW YORK – Professional networking service LinkedIn has agreed to pay nearly $6 million in unpaid wages and damages to 359 current and former employees, the Labor Department said on Monday.
The U.S. Department of Labor said an investigation found LinkedIn Corp. in violation of overtime and record-keeping rules that are part of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. It said the violations occurred at company branches in California, Illinois, Nebraska and New York.
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A representative for Mountain View, California-based LinkedIn did not immediately respond to a message for comment.
LinkedIn agreed to pay the back wages once it was notified of the violations and to take steps to prevent them from happening again.
Federal law requires that hourly employees get paid 1.5 times their regular hourly rates for hours they work beyond 40 per week.
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Helicopter pilot believes he was shot at with flare gun over Ladner skies
VANCOUVER — No good deed goes unpunished, at least not for Daryl Goodwin.
He's a Ladner pilot and donates helicopter rides to different charities in the area that they sell off for silent auctions. Recently, he took the most recent winners up for a tour. They were a mother and a daughter; the mother was 90-years-old.
Part way through the flight, something exploded in the sky in front of them.
"It was basically vertical, straight vertical, right up in front of us. I have no idea what they were trying to do but it could have been a catastrophic disaster," Goodwin told Global News.
The trio had toured the North Shore and were checking on one of Goodwin's turf fields along the journey, flying at 250 to 300 feet, when Goodwin noticed what looked like a flare.
"I've been flying helicopter for over 20 years, retired from the airline for 33 years and I've never seen anything like this in my life," he said.
One of the passengers saw it too and they turned the chopper back to see what the flash could have been. They saw two men on the ground, and one walked 20 feet out and started gesturing toward the helicopter with his finger, according to Goodwin. He said he believes someone intentionally shot at his chopper with a gun powder-based bird banger, which are supposed to be shot horizontally and not up in the air.
The consequences could have been deadly for the pilot and his passengers. Goodwin says the propeller might have disintegrated on impact or the engine could have exploded if hit in the right spot. He reported it immediately to Air Traffic Control in Richmond, and the Delta Police and Transportation Safety Board are now investigating the incident.
— With files from Darlene Heidemann.
Israeli rights don't justify 'massacre' of civilians: France – National
PARIS – Israel's right to security does not justify the "massacre" of civilians, France's foreign minister said Monday in unusually harsh language against a close ally. The French president said Gaza was among the wars that called into question any ability to remain neutral.
"How many more deaths must there be to stop what must be called the carnage in Gaza? The tradition of friendship between France and Israel is old and Israel's right to security is total, but this right does not justify the killing of children and the massacre of civilians," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.
The Gaza war, in its fourth week, has killed more than 1,800 Palestinians and more than 60 Israelis.
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Fabius said a cease-fire, followed by a two-state solution, is needed and "should be imposed by the international community because, despite numerous attempts, the two sides have shown themselves to be incapable of concluding negotiations."
In a speech commemorating the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, French President Francois Hollande said wars raging near Europe's borders called neutrality into question. In a grim litany of violence, he cited Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and, finally, Gaza.
"How can we remain neutral, when in Gaza a deadly conflict endures for nearly a month?" Hollande said. "There is an obligation to act."
US airports screen for passengers with Ebola's flu-like symptoms – National
WASHINGTON – Government agents at U.S. airports are watching travellers from Africa for flu-like symptoms that could be tied to the recent Ebola outbreak, as delegations from some 50 countries arrive in the nation's capital for a leadership summit this week.
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Border patrol agents at Washington's Dulles International and New York's JFK airports in particular have been told to ask travellers about possible exposure to the virus and to be on the lookout for anyone with a fever, headache, achiness, sore throat, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain, rash or red eyes.
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Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland, which will receive several African heads of state, is screening passengers too, while U.S. Secret Service agents in charge of security for the three-day summit have been briefed on what to look for and how to respond, officials said Monday.
If a passenger is suspected of carrying the deadly virus, they would be quarantined immediately and evaluated by medical personnel, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which provided the additional training to local airports.
"There is always the possibility that someone with an infectious disease can enter the United States," CDC spokeswoman Barbara Reynolds said Monday.
"The public health concern is whether it would spread, and, if so, how quickly."'
The Ebola virus causes a hemorrhagic fever that has sickened more than 1,300 people in Africa, killing more than 700 mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. It is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids, such as blood or urine, unlike an airborne virus like influenza or the common cold. A person exposed to the virus can take up to 21 days to exhibit any symptoms, making it possible for infected travellers to enter the U.S. without knowing they have it.
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While the CDC says it is not screening passengers boarding planes at African airports – the job of local authorities there – the centre said it has encouraged vulnerable countries to follow certain precautions. Outbound passengers in the countries experiencing Ebola are being screened for fevers and with health questionnaires, Reynolds said.
Health officials say the threat to Americans remains relatively small, even with the uptick in travel this week between Africa and the United States. In the past decade, five people have entered the U.S. known to have a viral hemorrhagic fever, including a case last March of a Minnesota man diagnosed with Lassa Fever after travelling to West Africa.
Reynolds said in all five instances, U.S. officials were able to contain the illness.
A vaccine against Ebola has been successfully tested with monkeys, and there is hope it could become available as early as next July, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health told "CBS This Morning" television on Monday.
Toledo mayor lifts water ban for 400,000 residents – National
WATCH ABOVE: After a weekend without water – like is getting back to normal in Toledo Ohio. The water there was contaminated with a toxin, but this morning testing showed it is once again safe to drink.
TOLEDO, Ohio – A water ban that had hundreds of thousands of people in Ohio and Michigan scrambling for drinking water has been lifted, Toledo's mayor announced Monday.
Mayor D. Michael Collins lifted the ban at a Monday morning news conference, and said the city's drinking water is safe.
Ohio's fourth-largest city warned residents not to use city water early Saturday after tests at one treatment plant showed readings for microcystin above the standard for consumption, most likely from algae on the lake. Ohio Gov. John Kasich declared a state of emergency.
Early Monday, Collins kept in place an advisory against drinking or using the water pending additional tests. At a 3 a.m. news conference, Collins said it was his decision to keep the advisory in place at least into the morning hours, even though latest test results suggest the algae-induced toxin contaminating Lake Erie had probably dissipated to safe levels. The mayor said two tests had come back "too close for comfort."
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With the warning, worried residents told not to drink, brush their teeth or wash dishes with the water descended on truckloads of bottled water delivered from across the state. The Ohio National Guard was using water purification systems to produce drinkable water.
Oliver Arnold, of Toledo, loaded up on bottled water Sunday so that he could give baths to his six children, including 4-month-old twins. "We're going through a lot. I know by tomorrow, we're going to be looking for water again," he said.
Some hospitals cancelled elective surgeries and were sending surgical equipment that needed sterilized to facilities outside the water emergency, said Bryan Biggie, disaster co-ordinator for ProMedica hospitals in Toledo.
READ MORE: Too early to tell what caused toxic spike in Toledo's water supply
In southeastern Michigan, authorities were operating water stations Sunday for the 30,000 customers affected by the toxic contamination.
Drinking the water could cause vomiting, cramps and rashes. But no serious illnesses had been reported by late Sunday. Health officials advised children and those with weak immune systems to avoid showering or bathing in the water.
Amid the emergency, discussion began to centre around how to stop the pollutants fouling the lake that supplies drinking water for 11 million people.
"People are finally waking up to the fact that this is not acceptable," Collins said.
The toxins that contaminated the region's drinking water supply didn't just suddenly appear.
Water plant operators along western Lake Erie have long been worried about this very scenario as a growing number of algae blooms have turned the water into a pea soup colour in recent summers, leaving behind toxins that can sicken people and kill pets.
In fact, the problems on the shallowest of the five Great Lakes brought on by farm runoff and sludge from sewage treatment plants have been building for more than a decade.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a satellite image showing a small but concentrated algae bloom centred right where Toledo draws its water supply, said Jeff Reutter, head of the Ohio Sea Grant research lab.
The bloom was much smaller than in past years and isn't expected to peak until early September. But instead of being pushed out to the middle of the lake, winds and waves drove the algae toward the shore, he said.
"Weather conditions made it such that bloom was going right into the water intakes," said Reutter, who has been studying the lake since the 1970s, when it was severely polluted.
The amount of phosphorus going into the lake has risen every year since the mid-1990s. "We're right back to where we were in the '70s," Reutter said.
Almost a year ago, one township just east of Toledo told its 2,000 residents not to drink or use the water coming from their taps. That was believed to be the first time a city has banned residents from using the water because of toxins from algae in the lake.
Researchers largely blame the algae's resurgence on manure and chemical fertilizer from farms that wash into the lake along with sewage treatment plants. Leaky septic tanks and stormwater drains have contributed, too. Combined, they flush huge amounts of phosphorus into the lake.
Environmental groups and water researchers have been calling on Ohio and other states in the Great Lakes region to drastically reduce the amount of phosphorus flowing into the lake. Ohio lawmakers this past spring took a step toward tackling the algae problem when they enacted a law requiring most farmers to undergo training before they use commercial fertilizers on their fields. But they have stopped short of mandating restrictions on farmers.
The International Joint Commission, an advisory agency made up of Canadian and U.S. officials, said last year urgent steps are needed to reduce phosphorus applied to fields, suggesting among other things that states ban the spread of manure on frozen or snow-covered ground.
That report came after a state task force in Ohio called for a 40 per cent reduction in all forms of phosphorus going into the lake.
Agriculture industry groups have been asking farmers for more than a year to reduce phosphorus runoff before government regulators step in and impose their own restrictions.
"We're clearly showing progress," Reutter said. "You have to decide for yourself whether you think it's fast enough."
In Michigan, Detroit's 4 million-user water system gets its water from Lake Huron and the Detroit River. In the face of the Toledo water crisis, Detroit officials plan to review their contamination procedures Monday, water department Deputy Director Darryl Latimer told The Detroit News. He said it was unlikely Detroit would face a problem like Toledo's.
"The system is tested every two weeks for blue-green algae," Latimer said. "We haven't seen the precursors for this type of toxin."
Ebola treatment kept secret: Possible serums and effect on survivors – National
WATCH: Doctors are treating two infected Americans with an experimental Ebola serum, never before used on humans … and it's working. Anthony Robart reports.
TORONTO – As the death toll from Ebola in several West Africa countries climbed to 887, a special plane was sent to evacuate the second American missionary who contracted the disease in a Liberia treatment facility. But the experimental serum being used on the Americans remains somewhat of a mystery.
Missionary Nancy Writebol's plane is set to arrive in the U.S. Tuesday, where she will join Dr. Kent Brantly in an Atlanta hospital's special isolation ward. Brantly has already received a unit of blood from a 14-year-old boy, an Ebola survivor, who had been under his care, said the aid organization he works for.
But neither organizations are commenting on further treatment for their workers or which serum is being used.
Dr. Kent Brantly is shown in this 2013 photo provided by JPS Health Network.
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"It's one of two possibilities," suggested Dr. William Schaffner, a preventive medicine expert from Nashville's Vanderbilt University.
"One is they could have taken some serum from a patient who has recovered from Ebola and used that in and of itself as the treatment. Or they could have …made a monoclonal antibody to Ebola and used that."
Schaffner said a monoclonal antibody means producing an antibody in a molecular-biological fashion rather than taking it from a recovered patient.
"When we first heard that plasma or a blood transfusion had been given to these two patients—the plasma first to the lady, and then the blood transfusion to Dr. Brantly—we actually thought it was the first of the two possibilities: that these were harvested from survivors of Ebola and then infused into the sick patients," said Schaffer.
"It's strange that we don't have a little bit more information yet about these details."
No vaccine or antidote
Ebola has no vaccine or antidote, but international relief group Samaritan's Purse (the group Brantly works for) said both workers were given the experimental treatment last week. Samaritan's Purse has been providing emergency response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa for months.
Writebol has received two doses of the serum and is showing marked improvement, said Palmer Holt, a spokesman for Service in Mission (SIM), the aid organization for which Writebol works.
Nancy Writebol with children in Liberia. Writebol is one of two Americans working for a missionary group in Liberia that have been diagnosed with Ebola.
AP Photo/Courtesy Jeremy Writebol
"She is walking with assistance….strength is better…has an appetite," wrote Holt in an email to Global News. When asked for details on which serum Writebol received, Holt said, "Medical questions not our area of expertise."
Companies testing Ebola treatments
Aside from using survivor plasma, there are two pharmaceutical companies that have been working with the U.S. military to help find a treatment for the drug, according to the International Business Times.
One is Canadian company Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp., which has already issued a statement that no one infected in the ongoing outbreak in West Africa has been treated with its drug, called TKM-Ebola.
Although there are a number of Ebola therapies in development, Tekmira's is thought to be the furthest along in the regulatory process, though its clinical trial was recently put on hold by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which asked for additional data related to an inflammatory reaction seen when the drug was given at higher doses.
A second company working on the treatment is Mapp Biopharmaceuticals, developed with the help of tobacco leaves, according to the IB Times. CNN reports this is the company responsible for the drug administered to Writebol and Brantly.
A 2011 Arizona State University Report suggested Mapp's plant-derived vaccine for Ebola "provided strong immunological protection in a mouse model" in which 80 per cent of mice given the treatment compounds survived.
'Desperate times' and life after Ebola
Ebola, which causes hemorrhagic fever, spreads through close contact with bodily fluids and blood, meaning it is not spread as easily as airborne influenza or the common cold. Doctors and other health workers on the front lines of the Ebola crisis have been among the most vulnerable to infection as they are in direct physical contact with patients.
Schaffner said experimental serums have a long tradition in the history of the treatment of infectious diseases.
This image by the CDC shows an Ebola virus.
AP Photo/CDC, File
"If you have experimental, possibly therapeutic mechanisms or devices available, you can use them in individual patients in exigent circumstances—and this is the kind of emergent circumstance in which you might try something even in advance of a clinical trial.
"Desperate times demand desperate measures, and you do those things only in very controlled and limited circumstances."
While the fatality rate for Ebola can be as high as 90 per cent, health officials in the three countries say the current crisis is killing at least 60 per cent of the people it infects in Africa.
But there have been some survivors. Schaffner said not many survivors have been studied, but the body would eventually rid itself of the virus for a complete recovery, unlike other diseases.
"You don't create a chronic infection like HIV or sometimes Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C, where the patient for months and years continues to have the virus in the body with the risk of a resurgent disease; that does not happen with Ebola.
"It is not an auto-immune disease, and it is not a chronic infection."
With files from The Canadian Press and The Associated Press
Block Parent Program makes a comeback in the West Island – Montreal
WATCH ABOVE: Many in Montreal's West Island are working hard to bring the Block Parent program back to life. Rachel Lau has more.
POINTE-CLAIRE – For more than 40 years, the Block Parent Program was a comfort for parents; a red-and-white sign that everyone on your street was looking out for your children.
"We say it takes a village to raise children, but it also takes a village to watch over our children," said Pina Arcamone, Director General of the Missing Children's Network.
"The Block Parent sign, I think, is one of the icons that is well-known across the province."
Over the years, Block Parent signs have slowly disappeared, but many in Montreal's West Island are working hard to bring the program back to life.
"There were Block Parent signs pretty much on every street at that time," said Pamela Santini, who was a Block Parent when the program first started back in the 1970s.
She remembers the relief children felt when they saw that red sign in her window.
"Mums were just starting to head back to work," she said.
"It certainly was something that our children learnt that it could be a safe place."
The Block Parent signs started disappearing in the early 2000s, but some residents insist their West Island neighbourhoods have never lost that community feel.
"Everyone kind of does look out for everyone," said mother Kimberly Holt.
"They usually do know all the kids on the block."
Grandmother Joyce Docherty admitted parents worry more about their kids now than they did be fore.
"I guess things have changed since my kids were small," she said.
"We used to let them walk to school by themselves and come up to the park on their own, but now it's not done."
Bringing the Block Parent program back to the West Island is good news to the Missing Children's Network, as a way to encourage parents to have that conversation about the importance of safety.
"We want to watch over our children, we need to watch over our children," said Arcamone.
"Collectively we can protect children, and maybe even discourage perpetrators from committing crimes."
For Santini, the return of the Block Parent Program is also a way to make sure children are aware of their surroundings.
"I don't think children get as many chances to learn to make good judgments for themselves," she said.
"We are protecting them so much. We drive them everywhere, few go on school buses. They don't have as much awareness."
Anyone who is interested in becoming a Block Parent is encouraged to apply online.
Wal-Mart to personalize online shopping experience – National
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Wal-Mart is rolling out a feature that will enable its website to show shoppers more products that they may like, based on their previous purchases. It also will customize Wal-Mart's home page for each shopper based on where that customer lives, showing local weather and events, as well as the customer's search and purchase histories.
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The personalization feature is part of a push by Wal-Mart to improve the online shopping experience of its customers, leading up to a complete re-launch of the site in early 2015. The retailer is looking to boost its business online at a time when its U.S. discount division has seen disappointing sales.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s e-commerce sales increased by 30 per cent to over $10 billion in its fiscal year that ended Jan. 31. By comparison, Wal-Mart's U.S. discount division has had five straight quarters of sales declines at stores opened at least a year. Wal-Mart sees big growth opportunity in the online business: Online sales still are only a fraction of the $473 billion Wal-Mart generated in overall annual revenue, dwarfed by Amazon's $60.9 billion in annual sales.
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Other retailers, including home-improvement chain Home Depot and office-supplies retailer Staples, have been ahead of Wal-Mart in the race to personalize the online shopping experience. In fact, a quarter of customers who visit Home Depot's home page see product recommendations that are based on recent purchase or browser history, according to the company.
Retailers have seen benefits in personalizing their websites for customers, as well as other efforts to improve the online shopping experience. Overall, Forrester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru said that changes in customization can help lift a retailer's online sales in the mid-single digits.
Wal-Mart said that customers have responded well to improvements it has made to its website in the past two years, including quadrupling the assortment of items it offers online to 8 million. For example, when Wal-Mart updated its search tool, it saw a 20 per cent increase in shoppers completing a purchase after searching for a product using the new search engine.
Wal-Mart has other changes in store for customers. Among them: Over the next couple of months, customers will see a quicker online checkout process: They'll view one page instead of six before clicking on the "buy" button. And the company will be able to update web pages quicker with new products.
Calgary concert to honour Brentwood murder victims
CALGARY – It's expected thousands of people will gather at a memorial concert this fall, which will be held in honour of five Calgarians killed in a horrific mass murder.
Zackariah Rathwell, 21, Jordan Segura, 22, Josh Hunter, 23, Kaitlin Perras, 23, and Lawrence Hong, 27, were stabbed to death at a house party in Brentwood on April 15th.
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The concert will pay tribute to the young victims, and help raise funds for scholarships created in their honour.
READ MORE: Young Calgary stabbing victims receive honorary degrees
The event was organized by Kyle Tenove and Barry Mason, who used to play in the band Zackariah & The Prophets with both Hunter and Rathwell.
They say they were left scrambling to find a venue after the University of Calgary's Student's Union denied their request to use campus space.
Although officials later reversed their decision, Tenove and Mason decided instead to host the concert at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium.
Mason was with Josh Hunter's father when he was contacted by government officials who offered up the venue.
"When we found out, both of us, we had tears kind of welling up in our eyes," says Mason. "We never could have imagined having such a large-scale forum for us to do this event."
"What we want to do is not think about that tragic end, we want to really celebrate the years before."
The concert will be held on Thursday, September 4th, 2014.
– With files from Carolyn Kury de Castillo
Residents calling it an environmental disaster: tailings pond breach at Mount Polley Mine near Likely, BC
WATCH: The scale of Monday's disaster at the Mount Polley Mine is becoming more clear tonight. Reporter John Daly has more on how authorities are responding to the tailings breach
Local residents are calling it an environmental disaster.
A breach of the tailings pond on Mount Polley Mine sent five million cubic metres of toxic waste into Hazeltine Creek, Quesnel Lake and Polley Lake, with fears it could spread far and wide in the coming days.
Residents in the area, along with visitors to waterways near the Mount Polley Mine close to Likely, B.C., have been issued a complete water ban. Affecting close to 300 homes, it extends to the entire Quesnel and Cariboo River systems up to the Fraser River, including Quesnel Lake, Cariboo Creek, Hazeltine Creek and Polley Lake.
People in Quesnel are also being asked to avoid using water from the Quesnel River, and late in the day the Cariboo Regional District extended the water advisory right to the Fraser River – although they said that was a precautionary measure.
WATCH: Aerial view of the destruction from the Mount Polley Mine tailings pond breach
There are already concerns that the total damage will be immense. The sheer volume of toxic slurry from the pond – equivalent to 2,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools – caused Hazeltine Creek to expand from four feet in width to 150, and some of the sludge has already made its way into Quesnel Lake and Polley Lake.
READ MORE: Concerns about Mount Polley tailings pond were raised 3 years ago
Phil Owens, a professor at the University of Northern British Columbia and researcher with the Quesnel River Research Centre, says it's impossible to know at this stage where the tailings will stop.
"Once something starts, it will just cascade down through the chain," he said.
"We don't know when it will stop, and we don't know when it will move through the system."
Al Richmond, the Cariboo Regional District Chair and Area G Director told Global News that clean-up is premature at this point and officials are still assessing the situation.
"Our concern mainly is first of all for life and limb and there's been no one injured in this event and for that we're thankful," he said. "Our next concern is for the community of Likely and those folks living around Likely that their water supply is safe and potable for them to use."
WATCH: An environmental disaster is unfolding in the Cariboo. Catherine Urquhart reports.
The Ministry of Environment said the breach at Mount Polley Mine happened in the middle of the night on August 4. The ministry. along with the Cariboo Regional District (CRD), RCMP, Central Cariboo Search and Rescue and emergency management crews are investigating and assessing the possible environmental impact.
Mount Polley Mine is an open pit copper and gold mine, which is operated by Imperial Metals Corporation. The dam that holds back the tailings pond is an earth-filled dam.
MAP: Route from Mount Polley Mine to Williams Lake
The Horsefly Likely Forest Service Road has been washed out at Hazeltine Creek, but the Likely Bridge is not affected at this time.
Rob Hood, president of the Likely Chamber of Commerce, told Global News that the Cedar Point Provincial Park campground has also been evacuated.
There are concerns around the debris and chemicals from the tailing ponds coming down into Quesnel Lake, Hood says, where approximately 300 people get their drinking water. Others fear the billions of litres of contaminated water could pollute other water ways in the area. The alert will remain in place until test results are completed.
READ MORE: Water from breached tailings pond near Likely B.C. is almost drinkable: President
Likely resident, Larry Chambers says he was woken at 3 a.m. and could hear the sounds of rushing water. "I could hear the roar like a 747 jet," he told Global News.
Chambers describes Polley Lake as "milky green" and says the flood is bringing in a ton of debris. Residents described a stench in the air and dead fish washing up.
MAP: Mount Polley Mine Infrastructure.
From Imperial Metals
WATCH: The resource industry is BC's fastest growing economic sector and tailing pond breaches don't help generate confidence among people already wary about environmental risks. Jas Johal reports.
Several employees of the mine, who wished to remain anonymous to protect their jobs, said the same tailings pond had a minor breach three months ago.
Common minerals and elements found in tailings – which is the waste material left over from the extraction of metals – can include: arsenic, mercury, sulfur and cyanide.
A spokesperson from the Ministry of Environment told Global News that, "further monitoring and testing of waterways will be required before the full extent of potential environmental impacts can be determined. Steps are being taken to put those processes in place."
Imperial Metals has issued the following statement:
Imperial Metals Corporation reports the tailings storage facility at its Mount Polley mine was breached, releasing an undetermined amount of water and tailings in the early morning of August 4. The cause of the breach is unknown at this time.
Senior company management are at the mine site and are working with mine operating personnel, local agencies, provincial ministry officials and the engineers of record to assess the extent of the breach and the impact of the released water and tailings on the surrounding area.
The Company will provide further information when confirmed and available.
RELATED VIDEO: Reporter Jas Johal spoke with Imperial Metals last year about BC Hydro's Northwest Transmission Line
Aerial photo of the lake and breach, Global News.
Aerial photo of the breach site, Global News.
Polley Lake after the tailings breach. Photo by Larry Chambers
Before and after, credit Elaine Lucas.
Elaine Lucas
Post-breach, credit Larry Chambers.
Larry Chambers
Where the tailings came down, credit Larry Chambers.
Quesnel Lake, near the site of the breach, via Facebook.
Where Hazeltine Creek enters Quesnel Lake.
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Jean René Gauguin (April 12, 1881 – April 21, 1961) was a French-Danish sculptor. He won a bronze medal for Denmark in the art competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics for his Boxer.

Biography
The fourth  child of the marriage of Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) and Mette Sophie Gad (1850–1920), Jean René Gauguin was born in Paris in 1881. His family moved to Copenhagen in 1884 where his father briefly and unsuccessfully tried making a living  as a tarpaulin salesman. Six months  on, his father left Copenhagen for Paris and beyond  to pursue his life of creativity and wanderlust. Jean René last saw his father at age ten when Paul spent two weeks in Copenhagen before leaving for Tahiti. They had little communication as Jean René spoke no French at that time and his father spoke no Danish.

Jean René was raised in Copenhagen by his mother Mette and maternal grandparents.  Albeit from a bourgeois Danish family he was brought up in  very modest circumstances. At the age of eight he fell out a third floor window and sustained severe injuries from which he  recovered.  He left school in 1895 and undertook an 11-month sailor's training program. Thereafter he apprenticed as a carpenter but hated the trade and went back to working  as a  sailor.

In 1904 shortly after Paul Gauguin's death he inherited three of his father's paintings that he immediately sold. With these funds he traveled throughout Europe, venturing as far as Greece, visiting museums and viewing monuments wherever he went. These travels initiated his long artistic career.

He loved to travel and visited his birthplace, Paris, a number times learning French fluently. In 1927 he set off on an extremely long cycling tour of France. Starting in Lyon, he pedaled on to Montpellier, Lyon, Avignon, Narbonne, Toulouse, Orléans, Paris, Dunkerque, and completed the feat with a return leg all the way to Copenhagen. He visited Portugal in 1930 and visited Paris anew in 1937. Despite his wanderlust, his life and work remained rooted in Copenhagen. He was an outspoken socialist, not afraid to make his political views known. In December 1913 Jean René married Clara Federsen (1889–1966), from this marriage was born a son Pierre Sylvester. They settled at Nyhavn 33, Copenhagen but later separated. He married a  second time 1935 with cartoonist Sys Poulsen (1909–1999) and from this union was born Lulu Gauguin in 1937. He is buried with a simple gravestone in the Vor Frelser cemetery in Copenhagen.

His work
Jean René Gauguin was an active and prolific ceramist and sculptor from 1910 until shortly before his death in 1961. His ceramic  production pieces were made in collaboration with Sleiss of Gmunden (Austria), Bing & Grøndahl, Copenhagen and Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. His earliest works were wood carvings however these rapidly evolved into bronze castings of athletes, dancers, centaurs, and classically inspired male and female torsos.

In 1921 he traveled to Gmunden, Austria and worked at the Sleiss Factory  where he created tin glazed ceramic figures. As of 1923 he started  working  for the Bing and Grondahl ceramic studios for whom  he continued creating new models throughout his life. His first major sculpture was a Boxer ( col. Statens Museum for Kunst) created in 1922 for the 1924 Paris Olympics. For this work the Olympic committee awarded him a bronze medal following a competition held at the Grand Palais in Paris. Jean Rene Gauguin exhibited several works created for B§G at the seminal 1925 Paris 'Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs'. His large stoneware sculptural groups with themes from mythology  won him critical acclaim and an article in the October issue of the influential revue 'Art et Décoration'. For these works he was awarded the 'Grand Prix de la Ceramique' . He equally showed a  massive silver guild hall chalice created in collaboration  with Georg Jensen and Anton Rosen. In 1927 he worked as guest artist at the Sèvres porcelain works. Around this time  he  received a  commission  to  create a sculpture for the Jardin des Tuileries. Referred to as La Fontaine de Chine, no sign of this structure exists today and its whereabouts remain a mystery.

On April 6, 1932, Jean René Gauguin leapt off a ten-meter diving board into the gigantic swimming pool of the resort town of Havested. This was a fitting way to inaugurate his largest work, Sea Horse. An enormous stoneware structure built in this studios of  Bing § Grondahl, Sea Horse was a remarkable undertaking. Inspired by the myths of Europa and Poseidon, it dominated a massive public swimming pool where it was totally destroyed by a falling scaffolding on June 14, 1952.

Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, his work continued to alternate between two principal mediums, bronze and stoneware. On the one hand he produced stylized athletes and animals cast in bronze. Alongside these he expressed  his fascination with the sea and its myths and it's monsters creating  a fascinating ceramic opus of tritons, nereids, underwater creatures, octopuses, and unusual depictions of the horses of Poseidon. The production pieces he created for Bing § Grondahl were executed in polychrome glazed stoneware or porcelain for the smaller figures. Expressive monkeys, water buffaloes, tigers and lions in ceramic form also populated his universe. In his studio pieces he often opted for rough surfaced  unglazed  stoneware, witness his impressive urns with Chinese inspired temple dogs as lid handles.

In the 1950s, his ceramics became inspired from pre-Columbian Peru home of his paternal grandmother. He created a series of bottle shapes incorporating sculptural depictions. In the last year of his life these evolved into a surreal series of screaming agonizing ceramic vessels.

In interviews with journalists he clearly stated that his namesake had been  a hindrance to his career. Although his work would never become a pillar of modern art like his father's, his oeuvre was totally original and not a pastiche based on a recognizable name. He expressed that bearing the Gauguin name had been a barrier to museums and art critiques accepting his work seriously.

His work interpreted the vibrant bright color spectrum used by Scandinavian painters of the early years of the 20th century onto stoneware. His formal language created a rapprochement between the erotic and the fantastic. In his depiction of an underwater world he excelled in the illustration of the phantasmagorical and the grotesque. His technical prowess with glazed figural stoneware remains unparalleled to this day as were his experiments in polychrome glaze work. Paienne cultures as diverse of China and Peru were amongst his many sources of inspiration. With his mastery of the human figure he brought to life musicians, storytellers, athletes, dancers, and jockeys, and his capture of animal movement vitalized a whole menagerie of beasts, real and imagined.

Catalog of works
Although there is to date no catalogue raissoné of the works of Jean René Gauguin, an excellent listing was established by Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon in 1947. A major cataloged exhibition of his works was held at the Vejen Kunstuseum (Denmark) in 2002–2003 with 176 photos of individual works.

Collections
Art Institute of Chicago. (catalog no. 1971.815). Triton and Nereid
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York U.SA, ceramic sculpture Surf, inventory number 46.94.1
Royal Copenhagen Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, numerous ceramics
Fyns Kunsmuseum Odense bys Museer inv. JWL 188
Arthus Kunsmeuseum inv. S72
Statens Museum for Kunst inv. 5723
Storstroms Kunsmuseum, Maribo
Det danske Kunstindustriemuseum

The above listing is incomplete.

Bibliography
Revue Commerciale Danoise No. 7  Avril 1925, publieé par le Ministère des Affaires Etrangères par les soins de la Danish Publishing Office, Copenhagen
Asger Bremer, Monograph Jean René Gauguin 1941
Vejen Kunstuseum (Denmark) 2002–2003, catalogue
"Jean René Gauguin And The Underwater World" Annette Rosenvald in Ordrupgaard Focus, 02, Ordrupgaard Denmark 2007

Exhibitions
Gauguin exhibited throughout Europe as well as the US  with one man shows  and group showings of the  Bing § Grondahl ceramic studios. His monumental works created huge interest and were the subject of many press articles. Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon
provides a very complete listing of his expositions.

Den frie Udst. 1911–12; Der Sturm, München 1913;
Charl. Forår 1914, 1916–17, 1919–21, 1923, 1937–44, 1946;
Høstudst., Kristiania (Oslo) 1915- 16;
Grønningen 1915, 1921–22, 1926, 1929–33;
da. udst., Liljevalchs, Sth. 1918–19;
KE 1920–21, 1923;
Nord. konst, Göteborg 1923;
Olympiske Lege, Paris 1924;
verdensudst., Paris 1925, 1937, Bruxelles 1935;
Det da. Kunststævne, Forum 1929;
Barcelona 1929;
Salon des Artistes décorateurs, Paris 1930;
Exhib. of Painting, Sculpt. and Arch., Edinburgh 1934;
da. udst., Amsterdam 1934;
bien., Venezia 1936; da udst., Riga, Budapest, Bukarest 1936, Beograd 1937;
Da.-norsk billedh.sammenslutn., Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo 1938; N.Y. 1939;
Den off. da. Kunstudst. i Oslo 1946;
Ny Carlsbergfondets jub.udst. Charl.borg 1952;
Charl. Eft. 1953, 1958, 1961 (mindeudst.);
Deense beeldhouwkunst, Stadspark Groningen 1957;
Carl Gruvemans kunstsaml., Anneberg 1978;
Erling Koefoeds saml. af maleri, skulp., grafik, Nikolaj, Kbh. 1980;
Grønningen, de tidlige år, Glyptoteket 1990. Separatudstillinger: Oslo 1912, 1918;
Bird, Eriksen & Ko., Vestervoldg., Kbh. 1913;
Da. Kunsthdl., Kbh. 1918; Sèvres 1927; Sth. 1928; Kunsthallen, Kbh. 1936;
Chr. Larsens Kunsthdl., Kbh. 1938; Bing & Grøndahl, Kbh. 1941, 1943, 1951, 1981.

References

External links
 Profile
French National Television: Video interview 23/09/60 with French journalist Louis Pauwels (from archives of Institut Nationale de l'Audiovisuelle)
Interview with Ruth Hamilton 1937
Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon

1881 births
1961 deaths
20th-century Danish sculptors
20th-century male artists
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic competitors in art competitions
Olympic bronze medalists in art competitions
Artists from Paris
Danish people of French descent
Recipients of the Thorvaldsen Medal
20th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
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DoD Cost Analysis is like Pin the Tail on the Donkey | POGO Blog
February 25, 2015 - Op-Ed - Tagged: contractors, procrument, Waste Fraud & Abuse
By: Mandy Smithberger
In a sensationally titled piece, "Pentagon Pricing Zealots Put the Screws to Pratt & Whitney," Loren Thompson makes the argument that the Department of Defense Inspector General (DoD IG) is unfairly targeting the company for ripping off taxpayers in its contract to support the C-17 fleet's F117 engines. Thompson, who discloses that his think tank receives funding from Pratt & Whitney, has defended the company's interests on other issues before. In this case, without seeing the report, he alleges that the company has proven to the Air Force that it is offering "comparable" prices to what it offers its commercial customers.
But in actually reading the DoD IG's report, first reported by Tony Capaccio at Bloomberg and released in its entirety to POGO, it reveals that the DoD IG found "Pratt and Whitney's unwillingness to provide requested sales data and cost data exploited the sole-source situation." In lieu of providing commercial sales data to verify that the prices were actually comparable to commercial sales, the company provided a series of unknown redacted invoices and other information on a different engine's sustainment services. Unable to make a decision about price reasonableness, senior Air Force and DoD leadership got involved and received a tentative agreement from Pratt & Whitney to provide the information. The fact that Pratt & Whitney didn't provide the information, the DoD IG writes, "may cause one to question whether Pratt and Whitney acted in accordance with the FAR [Federal Acquisition Regulations] which requires DoD and its contractors to conduct business with integrity, fairness, and openness."
Without any commercial pricing data, the Air Force doesn't know whether the $1.54 billion already spent on this contract —or the estimated $3.76 billion that it will spend supporting this engine for the next seven years—is actually fair and reasonable.
Thompson argues that the subpoena wasn't necessary because Pratt & Whitney already provided 5,500 files. However, according to the IG, the company has provided only minimal information on one commercial customer for engine services and even more limited data on maintenance services. They also asked the DoD IG to wait to publish any of this information until after they concluded negotiations with the Air Force, suggesting that the prices offered to this commercial customer deviates significantly from what the company is charging the government.
If Pratt & Whitney continues to refuse to provide information to show that the services are truly similar to what it charges on the commercial market, the DoD IG recommended, "the AF should only contract or subcontract with Pratt and Whitney as a last resort and should prepare a written plan that allows for the development of a competitive market for F117 sustainment."
The Air Force's "high risk of paying too much" has not escaped the notice of Congress. In this year's National Defense Authorization Act report, the House Armed Services Committee expressed concerns about the ballooning sustainment costs for the F117 engine:
The committee notes that the Department of the Air Force has struggled to reign in F117 engine MRO costs. The committee is concerned that the Secretary of the Air Force cannot sufficiently determine whether the Department is paying a fair and reasonable cost for F117 MRO because of limited performance and cost data available to the Department as a result of the F117 MRO contract structure and administration.
Due to these concerns, the bill prohibited the Secretary of the Air Force from entering into a new contract for the sustainment, maintenance, repair, and overhaul of the F117 engine (Sec. 341) until the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics certifies that they have sufficient data to determine that they are paying fair and reasonable prices. It's unclear whether this will be enough to protect taxpayers, however, since it allows for a vague national security waiver to be issued by the Secretary of the Air Force.
Determining the fairness of these costs is important because the Air Force plans to keep the C-17 in its fleet until 2040. For now, the Air Force seems to be taking these concerns seriously, including requiring a Defense Contract Management Agency assessment of the commerciality of the engine support requirements.
If Congress is serious about reforming the defense procurement system, it has to rethink the current landscape of commercial item contracts. This contracting mechanism was created so the federal government could buy commercial items without needless red tape. But in this case, and the case of Bell Helicopter s spare parts, the government is negotiating blind as companies refuse to provide genuine commercial pricing data. To determine if the government is being charged fair and reasonable prices, the contracting officials then have to perform their own cost analysis, and the IG can only extract this information from the companies by issuing a subpoena. That process is a recipe for disaster. In short, commercial item contracting is creating loads of unnecessary work for an overworked contract workforce and wasting millions of taxpayer dollars. If Congress doesn't act, it might be time for DoD to protect itself and require that commercial cost or pricing data be supplied on all sole source commercial item contracts to ensure that it is paying fair and reasonable prices.
There may be more bad news to come as well, since this is only the first in a planned series of reports by the DoD IG to assess the F117 engine sustainment contract.
Update: Pratt and Whitney has offered the following explanation for their compliance with the DoD IG's subpoena:
We are devoting substantial effort to gather the information requested by the DOD IG. We started providing requested information relative to the DOD IG audit in July, and have been providing additional information in response to the subpoena (which we received at the end of October), even while we have been in discussions with the IG to clarify the subpoena requests and while we await its response to our questions. The F117 is a complex commercial program and is not designed to track data in the way the DOD IG has sought it. The data sought is voluminous and not immediately accessible for a commercial, fixed-price service, and some data requires us to seek third-party agreement prior to release.
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