Jon pays a visit to the vast rings spinning around the brown dwarf J1407b.
There's an intriguing star in the constellation of Centaurus, about 90 per cent the mass of the Sun. It glows at a magnitude of +12.3, so it is visible to a telescope from southern latitudes.
This fascinating star has the name of (get ready) 1SWASP J140747.93-394542.6, a name with all the hallmarks of a complicated moment halfway through the Shipping Forecast. Thankfully it's usually abbreviated to a more manageable J1407.
There's something highly perplexing about this star when seen by the SuperWASP observatories. Its light is dimmed and brightened in the most astonishingly variable and complex fashion. At times, 95 per cent of its light ebbs away before once again returning, emulating the tides of Earth's oceans with stellar light. What could be creating light fluctuations of such enormity?
The cause of this phenomena goes by the mercifully short name of J1407b, a foreboding companion brown dwarf surrounded by a singularly spectacular ring system, the discovery of which left astronomers slack-jawed with stupefaction. Fanning out for 145 million km and 200 times the size of Saturn's magnificent rings, you have no choice but to marvel at this system while feverishly speculating about its formation.
Settling my new ship, the Perihelion, upon the ring system's outer edge gives an awesome view of a seemingly infinite banded horizon. You feel like a microbe perched on the edge of Status Quo's Piledriver vinyl album. Endless, beautifully circular grooves appear together like compressed isobars on a weather map.
There are several gaps at intervals within the rings, similar to concentric Cassini divisions, cleared paths occupied by exomoons orbiting their parent brown dwarf. The view from the surface of these moons must be utterly breathtaking, with the sky dominated by the arcs of the rings and the smouldering, rusty glow of the brown dwarf hanging steadfastly above them.
The sight of this exo-ring system could easily be one of the 700 Wonders of the Universe. If the rings swapped places with Saturn's and were observed from Earth, they would span the width of about 20 apparent full Moons across our sky. Perhaps in the past there was a cataclysmic clash of planetary bodies of sufficient force to completely reduce the objects into proverbial smithereens. It seems that the wreckage settled down after a period and the gravity of the brown dwarf was enough to sustain a magnificent ring system spanning the best part of an astronomical unit.
Surveying the scene, I wonder if we're witnessing a period of planet and moon formation around the brown dwarf – quite a privilege if so. Or does the gravity of J1407b coupled with the manner of the initial clash mean that fragments of the rings and the moons are moving towards the brown dwarf and being absorbed by it, a fate similar to Phobos around Mars? If that's the case, I imagine a cosmic domino effect where eventually every fragment of the ring system becomes absorbed. Perhaps when a sufficient amount of fragments have been digested, J1407b might take on enough extra mass to reboot and upgrade from a brown dwarf to a proper star. Nothing like an exoplanet excursion to set the imagination in motion.


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Performing Dance Arts Announces the Opening of a New Location in Toronto, Ontario
Performing Dance Arts (www.PerformingDanceArts.ca), a premier dance academy for youth, is announcing the opening of a second location in Etobicoke, Ontario.
Performing Dance Arts's highly anticipated second location will be at 37 Advance Road, suite 104, in Etobicoke, Ontario. Its grand opening celebrations will be on August 14 and 15, 2017; while the studio will be open for drop-in classes during the month of August, classes will officially begin in September 2017.
"Our Vaughan location has been brimming with new students, so we decided to open a second location in Etobicoke since it's an expanding area with a lot of families and children interested in dance," says Ashley Daychak, Creative Director at Performing Dance Arts.
The new Toronto location is fully equipped with the necessities and will feature three large studios with state-of-the-art flooring, girls' and boys' changerooms, as well as up-to-date audio systems and lighting. Parents will also have the luxury of watching their children during their sessions thanks to the TVs in the lobby and cameras in each studio.
"We're so excited to be branching out further into the GTA to be able to serve all of our students better," says Daychak. "Our main focus will be to help our new students realize their potential and see how far they can take their passion for dance."
The new Toronto Performing Dance Arts location will offer jazz, tap, ballet, hip hop, and acro style classes; however, this studio will only offer recreational dance and part-time competitive programs. Hours will remain the same as those of the Vaughan location: Monday to Friday from 4:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m., Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m., and closed on Sundays.
"Our staff consists of trained teachers who have an exceptional talent when dealing with children," says Daychak. "We're looking forward to using these teaching abilities to reach the youth in the Toronto area, and we are thrilled to become a part of the rapidly growing neighbourhood."
Ryan Daychak, General Manager of the Vaughan location, will also be managing the Toronto studio. The lead dance instructors will be Ashley Daychak, who has 20 years of teaching experience, and Vanessa Suppa, who brings 25 years of dance experience and more than a decade of teaching experience.
"Vanessa and I can't wait for the first classes in the new studio—we're certain that parents and students alike will enjoy the atmosphere of Performing Dance Arts and the amenities we have to offer," Daychak concludes.
Performing Dance Arts provides both professional and recreational dance lessons for children and youth. Operating out of their Vaughan location, Performing Dance Arts has served the GTA since 1986 and will continue to do so with the addition of its Etobicoke studio.

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With Justin in the field for the foreseeable future, I knew this would be the perfect opportunity to start binge watching shows in the evenings.
I have a love hate relationship with binge watching.
Sometimes I'll start a show, watch the first 5 seasons, and then stop cold turkey. Other times I can binge watch a show in one sitting. With so many options for streaming services and even more choices for shows to binge watch, trying to choose a show to watch can be a daunting task. Talk about overwhelming.
So I did what I know best in this situation: I reached out to all of you! I hit up Instagram stories with a question about what shows I should binge watch and boy, did you guys deliver! I've compiled the list of all of the Made in Mom Jeans reader recommendations submitted in case you're like me and have absolutely no idea what to watch! I've also included a brief synopsis of each show and where you can watch it to make decided what show to binge watch next even easier!
Shows I've Watched or Started
The Office (Netflix)
What IMDB says: A mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, and tedium.
What I Say: I actually didn't watch The Office at all until this year. Justin and I binge watched The Office together and I had a love hate relationship with it at first. Now I rewatch it almost as much as I watch Friends.
This is Us (Hulu)
What IMDB says: A heartwarming and emotional story about a unique set of triplets, their struggles, and their wonderful parents.
What I Say: If you're looking for a show that has it all, look no further. Unless you live under a rock then you've probably heard of This Is Us and believe me, it's definitely worth a binge watch session. Just make sure to have the tissues ready.
Jane the Virgin (Netflix)
What IMDB says: A young, devout Catholic woman discovers that she was accidentally artificially inseminated.
What I Say: I've only watched two seasons of Jane the Virgin so far but I absolutely love it. It's hilarious. I honestly had no idea going in if I would like it or not but the telenovela/soap opera style adds so much to the humor.
The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu)
What IMDB says: Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
What I Say: An adaptation of classic literature is a sure fire way to get me every time. While I actually stopped watching after the first season, it's on my list to catch up on soon. The dystopian setting can sometime seem not-so-dystopian which gives this relevant drama an eerie vibe.
What IMDB says: Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late 1950s to early 1960s.
What I Say: Call the Midwife is one of the most heartwarming shows I've watched in a while. The characters are funny and relatable despite the 1960s setting and I already love it. If you like Downtown Abbey style historical fiction, you'll love Call the Midwife.
Shows I haven't Watched or Started
Dexter (Netflix)
What IMDB says: By day, mild-mannered Dexter is a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami police. But at night, he is a serial killer who only targets other murderers.
Maniac (Netflix)
What IMDB says: Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.
Justified (Amazon Prime)
What IMDB says: Old-school U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural coal mining towns in eastern Kentucky.
New Girl (Netflix)
What IMDB says: After a bad break-up, Jess, an offbeat young woman, moves into an apartment loft with three single men. Although they find her behavior very unusual, the men support her - most of the time.
Anne with an E (Netflix)
What IMDB says: The adventures of a young orphan girl living in the late 19th century. Follow Anne as she learns to navigate her new life on Prince Edward Island, in this new take on L.M. Montgomery's classic novels.
Man in the High Castle (Amazon Prime)
What IMDB says: In a dystopian America dominated by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, a young woman discovers a mysterious film that may hold the key to toppling the totalitarian regimes.
Twin Peaks (Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu)
What IMDB says: An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.
What show are you currently binge watching?
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Trusted Translations, a global leader in language solutions, received its ISO 9001:2008 Certificate of Registration for high quality translation and interpretation services.
Miami, FL. (PRWEB) – January 16, 2013, Trusted Translations", Inc., recently announced that it has received its ISO 9001: 2008 Certificate of Registration from American Systems Registrar, an ANAB accredited registrar, for its South Florida facilities. The scope of the registration was for high quality translation and interpretation services.
ISO 9001:2008 is an internationally-recognized quality management standard published by the International Organization of Standardization (ISO). It is one of the leading standards in quality management for services and is designed specifically to ensure that companies utilizing the standard produce services that are reliable and of good quality.
More than 100 countries have adopted the ISO standards including, the U.S., Germany, France, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Chile, China, Belgium, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Australia and the U.K.
"Trusted Translations has always employed high quality management systems to deliver both highly reliable interpretation and translation services. We are extremely proud to now have our high quality management systems receive an ISO 9001:2008 Certificate of Registration from one of the most reputable registrars — American Systems Registrar," commented CEO Richard Estevez.
American Systems Registrar is an international registrar headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan with offices in the European Union, Middle East, Africa and Asia. They are accredited by the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB) and have been providing their service for over 15 years.
In order for Trusted Translations to receive its ISO 9001:2008 Certificate of Registration, it had to go through rigorous internal and external onsite audits at its South Florida Miami office and South Florida facility to ensure it met all the quality management requirements mandated by the ISO standard. This included providing detailed records of the company's quality control processes, quality objectives, support processes and quality training. The audit also reviewed Trusted Translations's Translation Process for its Miami translation services including the management of sensitive documentation delivered physically to the Miami office.
"As Trusted Translations provides both translation and interpretation services to some of the top organizations in the world, having the ISO 9001:2008 Certificate of Registration issued by an ANAB accredited registrar is an added value and helps our clients demonstrate that their preferred language provider adheres to global standards of quality," further mentioned Mr. Estevez.
Trusted Translations is the preferred language provider of over 5,000 clients worldwide including many Fortune 500 companies, top government agencies and global institutions. The company provides professional translation and interpretation services at some of the most competitive rates in the industry. As demonstrated by this recent ISO 9001:2008 accreditation, the company is dedicated to adhering to the highest quality standards while finding ways for its clients to save on the often high costs of translations and interpretations. A copy of our ISO Certificate of Registration is available upon request.
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Natural gas strategy nothing more than a fairy tale
Marc Lee, Special to The Vancouver Sun 10.19.2012
An artist's rendering of the Kitimat LNG liquefied natural gas export facility.
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British Columbia's quest to substantially boost natural gas development seems like a real winner at first glance: heaps of new jobs in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, billions in government revenues, and exports that fight global climate change by displacing coal in China.
Alas, this story is too good to be true. Many are questioning whether these ventures work at all from a corporate profitability perspective, given interest by other countries in LNG exports. But it is also the case that economic benefits for ordinary British Columbians, in terms of jobs and government revenues, will be minuscule, and environmental costs high.
Last week's front-page story that Chinese temporary foreign workers will be brought in to mine coal in northern B.C. should give us pause. Use of temporary foreign workers has surged in recent years, particularly in the oil and gas industry. In Alberta, more than 58,000 temporary foreign workers were on the job in 2011.
Even assuming all work is done by British Columbians, the natural gas industry is very capital-intensive, and not a big employer. Extraction and processing of gas, plus various support services, amounted to about 7,000 jobs in 2011, or just 0.3 per cent of B.C.'s 2.3 million workers.
Jobs for LNG projects are mostly in the construction phase, with a much smaller number of long-term jobs. For the Kitimat LNG facility, the government estimates 3,000 short-term jobs in the construction of pipelines and the LNG terminal facilities, but only 125 long-term jobs once built.
On the higher end, up to 2,500 long-term jobs have been claimed, if five large LNG plants are built. This seems wilfully optimistic, but even at face value that latter number represents a mere 0.1 per cent of B.C.'s current employment.
As for royalties to the government, don't bank on them. Current-year natural gas royalties are estimated at $157 million, 0.3 per cent of the B.C. budget, in spite of record high production levels. B.C. is basically giving away the resource right now, even as the North American market is flooded.
B.C.'s gas reserves are not going anywhere — this is a finite resource after all — so why the rush to liquidate? A real commitment to reforming the gas royalty regime is needed to ensure British Columbians receive fair compensation.
Big picture: Activity in this sector needs to be managed for wind-down, not ramp-up. Natural gas may be the cleanest burning fossil fuel, but it's still a significant contributor to global warming, which is now breaking weather records all over the world and causing tens of billions of dollars per year in damage to housing, infrastructure and food production.
B.C.'s plans for expanding the natural gas industry would be like adding 24 million cars to the roads of the world. And emissions from extraction and production would mean B.C. breaking with 2007's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act, and its 2020 target of a 33 per cent reduction in GHG emissions.
The government's assertion that B.C.'s natural gas is good for the climate because it will displace coal use in China is wishful thinking. Natural gas will only pile on to China's growing demand for energy. Meanwhile, Japan wants LNG to displace its nuclear capacity, which will mean a major increase in their emissions.
Natural gas can only be a useful transition fuel if managed as part of an international climate action plan, and only if exported to jurisdictions that have GHG targets as tough as our own. Otherwise, it's just another fossil fuel contributing to global warming.
The infrastructure investments B.C. really needs are in public transit, building retrofits, district energy systems and waste reduction. Funded by a rising carbon tax, these investments would create 10 to 20 times the number of jobs per million dollars as fossil fuel investments.
B.C. would be much better off by finishing what we started five years ago, and by making sure all political parties commit to obeying the law of the land by sticking to its GHG reduction targets. Some progress has already been made: GHG emissions were down 4.5 per cent between 2007 and 2010.
The B.C. government lacks a strategy to meet its 2020 legislated target. Jettisoning natural gas ambitions and making a new round of investments in a Climate Action Plan 2.0 is not only better for the climate, but it's a much better jobs plan for B.C.
Marc Lee is a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His recent report, BC's Legislated Greenhouse Gas Targets vs. Natural Gas Development: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, is available here.
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Killing grasses is least of our weed control troubles. A lot of guys will tell you to just throw it in, don't cost much... but isn't that the attitude that got us where we are today? Grasses are basically the only thing round up is good for anymore so unless you have grasses present why throw it out there to keep building resistance in all our broadleaves. I know there are some synergies and things that roundup and other chemicals help each other be more effective but not in every case is it warranted to just "throw it in, can't hurt"


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Home > Policy Manual > Volume 11 - Travel and Identity Documents > Part A - Secure Identity Documents Policies and Procedures > Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
A. Purpose
USCIS issues a variety of documents that establish identity and immigration status in the United States. These include, but are not limited to, employment authorization documents, travel documents, permanent resident cards, and naturalization and citizenship certificates.
In 1946, the U.S. government began issuing different types of registration documents based on an alien's status in the United States. The Identification Card for the Use of Resident Citizen in the United States (Form I-179; later known as Form I-197) was introduced in 1960 to provide naturalized U.S. citizens living along the Mexican border with identification to facilitate border crossings between the United States and Mexico. Legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) guidance provided that the identification card could only be issued in certain districts of the Southwest United States. The card was issued until February 1973. [1]
Lawful permanent resident (LPR) cards were first issued as Form I-151. Between 1952 and 1977, legacy INS issued 17 different re-designs of the card. In 1977, the permanent resident card (PRC) (Form I-551) replaced Form I-151 as evidence of LPR status. In 1989, legacy INS introduced a new version of the PRC with a 10-year validity period. [2]
USCIS currently issues a number of documents for travel and identity purposes. These secure identity documents often serve multiple purposes; they may also be used as proof of an alien's immigration status, employment authorization, and as travel authorization. [3]
USCIS has also increased the security, integrity, and efficiency of secure identity document delivery, and maintains better tracking and accuracy of delivery. Various USCIS initiatives work to confirm that secure identity documents are delivered to the right address and person, an important step in the delivery of sensitive documents, which may be subject to abuse. [4]
C. Legal Authorities
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8 CFR 103.16 - Collection, use and storage of biometric information
1. [^] Although Forms I-179 and I-197 are no longer issued by USCIS, valid existing cards continue to be acceptable documentation of U.S. citizenship. See 8 CFR 235.10.
2. [^] Except for conditional permanent residents, who are issued Forms I-551 with an expiration date of 2 years, after the date on which the alien became a conditional permanent resident.
3. [^] For more information, see USCIS to Issue Employment Authorization and Advance Parole Card for Adjustment of Status Applicants: Questions and Answers
4. [^] USCIS previously was unable to confirm the status of the delivery of secure identity documents, the accuracy of the delivery address, or who signed for the document. This left USCIS vulnerable to persons seeking to obtain sensitive immigration documents by theft or other illicit means. Advances in USCIS' delivery of sensitive documents have significantly reduced this risk.
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Q: Android WebView app works fine on computer but crashes on Mobile The app is working perfectly fine on Emulator but is constantly crashing on mobile. This started happening as I worked on SplashScreen, before that it was working just fine on mobile as well. So maybe SplashScreen is the issue but, I couldn't find the exact issue so I am showing all my files here.
MainActivity.java
    package com.yoalfaaz.yoalfaaz;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton;
import android.support.design.widget.Snackbar;
import android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.support.v7.widget.ShareActionProvider;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.webkit.WebSettings;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;
import android.support.v4.view.MenuItemCompat;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    private WebView YoWeb;
    private ShareActionProvider mShareActionProvider;

    SwipeRefreshLayout swipe;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

        swipe = (SwipeRefreshLayout) findViewById(R.id.swipe);
        swipe.setOnRefreshListener(new SwipeRefreshLayout.OnRefreshListener() {
            @Override
            public void onRefresh() {
                LoadWeb();
            }
        });
        LoadWeb();
    }

    public void LoadWeb() {
        YoWeb = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webview);
        WebSettings webSettings = YoWeb.getSettings();
        webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        YoWeb.loadUrl("http://www.yoalfaaz.com");
        swipe.setRefreshing(true);
        YoWeb.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {

            //onPageFinished Method
            public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
                //Hide the SwipeRefreshLayout
                swipe.setRefreshing(false);
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        if (YoWeb.canGoBack()) {
            YoWeb.goBack();
        } else {
            super.onBackPressed();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
            case R.id.action_settings:

                Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
                sharingIntent.setType("text/plain");
                String shareBodyText = "Check it out. Your message goes here";
                sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,"Subject here");
                sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, shareBodyText);
                startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Sharing Option"));
                return true;

            default:
                return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate menu resource file.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);

        // Locate MenuItem with ShareActionProvider
        MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_item_share);

        // Fetch and store ShareActionProvider
        mShareActionProvider = (ShareActionProvider) MenuItemCompat.getActionProvider(item);

        // Return true to display menu
        return true;
    }

    // Call to update the share intent
    private void setShareIntent(Intent shareIntent) {
        if (mShareActionProvider != null) {
            mShareActionProvider.setShareIntent(shareIntent);
        }
    }
}

AndroidManifest.xml
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.yoalfaaz.yoalfaaz">

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
        <activity
            android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"
            android:label="@string/app_name"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity android:name=".SplashScreen">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

SplashScreen.java
package com.yoalfaaz.yoalfaaz;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SplashScreen extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_splash_screen);
        Thread myThread = new Thread() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    sleep(3000);
                    Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MainActivity.class);
                    startActivity(intent);
                    finish();
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        };
            myThread.start();
    }
}

activity_splash_screen.java
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
    tools:context="com.yoalfaaz.yoalfaaz.SplashScreen">

    <ImageView
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        android:layout_height="240dp"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        android:src="@drawable/ss"
        />
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

content_main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"
    tools:context="com.yoalfaaz.yoalfaaz.MainActivity"
    tools:showIn="@layout/activity_main">

    <android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout

        android:id="@+id/swipe"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent">

        <WebView
            android:id="@+id/webview"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            />

    </android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout>
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

activity_main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.yoalfaaz.yoalfaaz.MainActivity">

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">

        <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
            android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
            app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" />

    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

    <include layout="@layout/content_main" />

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

logcat
10-09 19:27:20.114 7919-7919/com.yoalfaaz.yoalfaaz E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
                                                                     Process: com.yoalfaaz.yoalfaaz, PID: 7919
                                                                     java.lang.RuntimeException: Canvas: trying to draw too large(118914624bytes) bitmap.
                                                                         at android.view.DisplayListCanvas.throwIfCannotDraw(DisplayListCanvas.java:260)
                                                                         at android.graphics.Canvas.drawBitmap(Canvas.java:1415)
                                                                         at android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable.draw(BitmapDrawable.java:545)
                                                                         at android.widget.ImageView.onDraw(ImageView.java:1299)
                                                                         at android.view.View.draw(View.java:17086)
                                                                         at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:16068)
                                                                         at android.view.View.draw(View.java:16852)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3768)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:3554)
                                                                         at android.view.View.draw(View.java:17089)
                                                                         at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:16068)
                                                                         at android.view.View.draw(View.java:16852)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3768)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:3554)
                                                                         at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:16063)
                                                                         at android.view.View.draw(View.java:16852)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3768)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:3554)
                                                                         at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:16063)
                                                                         at android.view.View.draw(View.java:16852)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3768)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:3554)
                                                                         at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:16063)
                                                                         at android.view.View.draw(View.java:16852)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3768)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:3554)
                                                                         at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:16063)
                                                                         at android.view.View.draw(View.java:16852)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3768)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:3554)
                                                                         at android.view.View.draw(View.java:17089)
                                                                         at com.android.internal.policy.DecorView.draw(DecorView.java:751)
                                                                         at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:16068)
                                                                         at android.view.ThreadedRenderer.updateViewTreeDisplayList(ThreadedRenderer.java:657)
                                                                         at android.view.ThreadedRenderer.updateRootDisplayList(ThreadedRenderer.java:663)
                                                                         at android.view.ThreadedRenderer.draw(ThreadedRenderer.java:771)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewRootImpl.draw(ViewRootImpl.java:2808)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performDraw(ViewRootImpl.java:2616)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:2223)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1258)
                                                                         at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:6348)
                                                                         at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:871)
                                                                         at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:683)
                                                                         at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:619)
                                                                         at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:857)
                                                                         at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751)
                                                                         at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
                                                                         at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
                                                                         at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6123)
                                                                         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
                                                                         at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:867)
                                                                         at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:757)

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Army moves in to quell looting in Chile
Around ten thousand Chilean troops have been moved into areas stricken by the massive earthquake there at the weekend.
Their aim; to put a stop to riots and widespread looting.
Police used tear gas and imposed a curfew in the badly damaged town of Concepcion where hundreds of people had ransacked stores for food and other goods.
Police also made dozens of arrests after looting broke out in the capital, Santiago.
Crowds also gathered at petrol stations to siphon off fuel.
Meanwhile, the rescue operation is continuing. More than 700 are known to have been killed by the earthquake and its feared many more remain unaccounted for.
Some communities in the centre of the country remain cut off and officials say the death toll is very likely to rise.
Damage from the quake is expected to cost more than 20 billion euros. Aid money is already beginning to come in.
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Coinbase, one of the most significant crypto exchanges with an approximative 1,300,000 USD daily income from trading fees announced the hiring of Tim Wagner as vice president of engineering on Monday.
Tim Wagner was a general manager of some Amazon Web Services business units before joining Coinbase. Brian Armstrong, the platform's chief executive, wrote in a blog post.
"He's aligned with our values, and he has deep experience with leading great technical organizations,".
Wagner took an essential role in the creation of the AWS Lambda, which was a server-less computer system having a considerable reputation for its immense security. Tim Wagner also worked with diverse API services and apps at Amazon. He formerly worked at Microsoft.
During the last months, Coinbase has made big news with staff employment. A series of high-profile joined the crypto trading firm recently, which includes the head of business development, Emilie Choi, who previously worked for Linkedin and Tina Bhatnagar, which was an operations veteran at Twitter, who was appointed by Coinbase as head of customer relations.
One of the most significant issues crypto companies complain about is the lack of experienced and experts in the industry. Although many universities are setting up crypto education and courses, it seems that more talent from major web giants such as Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter are now leaving the ship and heading to significant crypto firms such as Coinbase, which is a positive aspect for the industry.
"Today we're excited to announce that Tim Wagner is joining Coinbase as Vice President of Engineering. Engineering is central to our mission of creating an open financial system for the world. It is core to our strategy to deliver the most trusted and easiest to use cryptocurrency products and services. We have built an amazing engineering team at a Coinbase, one which Tim will now lead and expand.
Through this period of rapid growth, we are more focused than ever on meeting the increasing needs of individuals, institutions and businesses while continually advancing the frontiers of cryptocurrency. At the same time, we're creating the infrastructure that will allow us to add more assets to our platform and accelerate the adoption of crypto around the world.
Tim is passionate about the Coinbase mission, he's aligned with our values, and he has deep experience with leading great technical organizations. These qualities, along with his engineering expertise, make him the ideal addition to our team. We couldn't be more excited to have him on board.


May 7 (UPI) -- Chris Pratt's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $145 million in receipts, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.
Coming in at No. 2 is The Fate of the Furious with $8.5 million, followed by The Boss Baby at No. 3 with $6.2 million, How to be a Latin Lover at No. 4 with $5.3 million and Beauty and the Beast at No. 5 with $4.9 million.
Rounding out the top tier are The Circle at No. 6 with $4 million, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion at No. 7 with $3.2 million, Gifted at No. 8 with $2 million, Going in Style at No. 9 with $1.9 million and Smurfs: The Lost Village with $1.8 million.


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Джеваншир:
 Джеванширы — династия тюркских ханов Карабаха, правившая в 1748—1822 гг.
Носители фамилии:
 Джеваншир (? — 681) — князь Кавказской Албании из династии Михранидов, правитель феодального владения Гардман в Кавказской Албании, являвшегося личным доменом династии.
 Джеваншир, Алихан-бек (? — 1612) — сефевидский генерал и военный инженер; известен проектами уникальных построек XVII века, сохранившихся до нынешних дней.
 Джеваншир, Амир-хан (1732—1775) — хан Кашмира (1770—1775).
 Джеваншир, Бехбудхан (1877—1921) — азербайджанский политический и государственный деятель, дипломат, министр внутренних дел Азербайджана (1918) и заместитель министра торговли и промышленности Азербайджанской Демократической Республики.
 Джеваншир, Мамед Гасан Ага (1766—1805) — российский военачальник, генерал-майор, сын и наследник карабахского хана Ибрагим Халила.
 Джеваншир, Мирза Джамал (1773—1853) — азербайджанский историк, везирь (1797—1822) при карабахских ханах Ибрагим Халиле и Мехтикули.
 Джеваншир, Мухаммедхан-бек (ум. 1797) — наиб Джеваншир-Дизакского магала, комендант Шушинской крепости, отец Мирза Джамал Джеваншира.
 Джеваншир, Сафи-хан I (1661—1721) — азербайджанский военный деятель XVII века.
 Джеваншир, Сафи-хан (1709—1768) — азербайджанский военный деятель XVIII века; с 1734 года на службе у Надир-Шаха.
 Джеваншир, Халаф-бек (1791—1835) — азербайджанский военный деятель XIX века; с 1817 года на службе у Мехти Кули-хана.
 Джеваншир, Ширин-бек (1760—1819) — азербайджанский военный деятель XVIII—XIX вв.; с 1797 года на службе у Ибрагим Халил-хана.

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You'd better hope that your Nikon camera doesn't break now…
By Louise Carey
Nikon USA is ending its authorized repair program in 2020, which means it's about to be a LOT harder to fix your Nikon camera
(Image credit: Nikon)
Nikon USA has announced that it will officially be ending its authorized repair program in early 2020, which means that if you want to get your Nikon camera fixed your options will have dwindled from a healthy bounty of 15 independent shops to an anaemic choice between two facilities located at either end of the US.
This is because each of the 15 Authorized Repair Station members are about to become non-authorized repair shops, which Nikon stopped selling genuine parts to in 2012. It seems unlikely that these independent shops will continue to have access to the speciality components, software, tools, manuals and model training that Nikon has previously given - although, it's worth mentioning that Nikon hasn't actually clarified this as of yet.
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In an exclusive scoop (opens in new tab) by iFixit, Cliff Hanks, the parts manager for Kurt's Camera Repair in San Diego, California, says, "We need more information before March 31. We can make contingency plans, start stocking up on stuff, but when will we know for sure?"
iFixit obtained a letter from Nikon USA that states that it would not be renewing its agreement with the remaining Authorized Repair Station members. The letter said, "The climate in which we do business has evolved, and Nikon Inc. must do the same… [We] must change the manner in which we make product service available to our end user customers."
Cameras such as the Nikon D850 will have to be sent to one of two Nikon US repair facilities to be fixed (Image credit: Nikon)
So, what does this mean for consumers? Well, the cost of repairs might go up. Not only will you likely have to ship your Nikon camera further, but the lack of independent shops mans that there will be less competition on price - meaning that Nikon's two repair facilities will hold the monopoly.
It might also mean that you'll end up waiting longer for your fixed kit to get returned to you. iFixit stated that they'd sent their "own camera for repairs including sensor cleaning and USB port replacement. Even living less than four hours away from Nikon's facility, some repairs leave us without cameras for two weeks or more." And this is before these facilities become inundated with 15x more repairs.
Considering Nikon is hovering in a fragile third place behind Canon and Sony in the camera market, this is definitely a frustrating move from the imaging giant. When you're investing thousands of dollars in a camera system, you're not going to want to be worried about long wait times and high prices if you need to get your Nikon camera fixed.
Nikon hasn't been particularly forthcoming with information about what will happen after 31 March so far, but we'll be keeping an eye on the situation. If we hear any further developments then we will update this story.
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The Lame Duck President
Ryan Brunette
Reflecting upon the Jacob Zuma tenure at the head of South Africa and the prospects of a Cyril Ramaphosa presidency.
Image credit Government of South Africa Flickr.
South Africa's President, Jacob Zuma, is a lame duck. On December 18 2017, Cyril Ramaphosa, Zuma's deputy, was elected president of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), placing him on a trajectory toward the state presidency. Zuma, clearly unable to threaten this eventuality, has lost support, as erstwhile allies jockey for position around his successor. Seizing the initiative, Ramaphosa has instead activated political and legal processes that will remove Zuma before the end of his term in mid-2019 and purge the more visible of his illicit networks from the state. This moment prompts reflection upon the Zuma presidency, and the prospects of Ramaphosa. It should however be recognized that though much is made of differences in personal qualities between these two figures, presidencies are defined by the possibilities of the broader political regimes that constitute them. And in this respect Ramaphosa, much like Zuma before him, finds himself in the unenviable position of presiding over a regime that is in crisis and terminal decline.
Political regimes involve obdurate commitments of ideology and interest. The ANC articulates an ongoing "national democratic revolution," which posits black South Africans as the motive forces undoing the negative legacies of white colonialism, while establishing a liberal democratic society, reconciling through restitution with the country's white minority.
The ideology is made material through redistribution. Policies of affirmative action and black economic empowerment augment the growth of black middle and business classes. Black workers are partners in a labor relations framework that extends significant rights to organize, bargain and strike; provides unions with an important voice in the negotiation of social and employment legislation; and ensures serviceable protections for individual employees. Social welfare and basic services are progressively extended to poorer black South Africans. Many feel, with considerable justification, that movement along all these lines has been too slow. Much of that is because the economic engine chosen to drive these advances, both enabling and severely constraining their possibilities, is contemporary capitalism, the state framing its parameters largely in accordance with the dictates of neoliberalism. Notably, in this context the ANC party machine, through politicized control over the regulatory and resource allocation powers of the state, distributed as patronage, offers an important channel of upward mobility, giving opportunities to many who are otherwise destined to suffer immense material deprivation in the prevailing political economy.
Over time, all such regimes lose programmatic vigor. Their limits are steadily revealed. Their grander promises are broken. Disappointments accumulate. Adjustments to conditions generate enduring political tensions and factionalism. All regimes cycle from ebullient emergence to despirited decline.
The ANC fought its 1994 election campaign on the prospect of a broadly social-democratic and developmentalist Reconstruction and Development Plan (known everywhere by its acronym. RDP). By 1996, then deputy president Thabo Mbeki (who was effectively the prime minister to President Mandela; running the country) imposed as non-negotiable the neoclassical orthodoxy of the Growth, Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) program, which prioritized inflation targeting, financial and trade liberalization and fiscal austerity. Among other effects, this de-industrialized the economy and increased the official unemployment rate from 17% in 1995 to 27% in 2005. As Mbeki's tenure proceeded, unity among the motive forces unraveled. His centralizing style excluded and alienated provincial and local patronage-brokers and powerful businesspersons. The ANC governed through a "Tripartite Alliance" with the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the union federation Cosatu. Mbeki's neoliberalism invited fractures in the Alliance. Critics of GEAR in the SACP and Cosatu were denounced and often purged as the "ultra-left". In the last five years of Mbeki's ANC presidency, South African police recorded an average of 9,085 crowd incidents per year, perhaps half of these were protests, making around 12 protests a day against the government. In 2002, industrial action saw a low of 615,723 workdays lost, rising consistently, year-on-year, to 9,528,945 in 2007. Mbeki's critics presented Zuma as the antidote and at the ANC's Polokwane Conference of that year he handily defeated Mbeki. (Zuma's deputy president for his first term was Kgalema Motlanthe, a former trade unionist; Ramaphosa – then still "deployed" by the ANC to corporate South Africa – only served as Zuma's deputy during the latter's second term.)
Put another way, Jacob Zuma rode to power upon a regime in crisis. His rise was at the time heralded as a pivotal rejection of Mbeki. No ideologue, Zuma was a compromise among the discontented, able to pose as a container for their divergent aspirations. Imbued with occult powers in South African political debate, he was labelled the game-master, the supreme tactician, able in arcane, rarely observed ways to leverage his position to dictate the course of political history. This characterization lingers, but Zuma's whole incumbency bears the motif of a weak president, who notwithstanding his personal qualities, was structurally unable to marshal the formidable powers of the state presidency into significant departure from the regime that formed and ultimately contained him.
Regimes, even in crisis, are not easily discarded. Politicians who emerge from within them continue to display complex ties of affiliation to them. They continue to enact routines that reinforce their regime. They continue to see costs in discarding the still resilient commitments that have thus far ensured their own political prominence.
Zuma and his coalition, thus positioned, rejected Mbeki but failed to provide a comprehensive repudiation of Mbeki's regime, nor the visionary formulation and legitimation of an alternative. Instead Zuma tried to reinvigorate the past by cultivating an aura of Mandelaism. He made a public show of reconciliation with Afrikaners and the white poor. He adopted the style of a unifier, a negotiator of compromise within his disparate coalition and beyond. Presidential patronage complemented this approach. Zuma's administration was carved up into fiefdoms for powerful groups, periodically reshuffled in accordance with the vicissitudes of his favor, with otherwise limited direction and discipline rendering policy development and implementation uncoordinated and ineffective.
The keystone policy achievement of Zuma's first term, the 2011 National Development Plan, is a 430-page tome that touches on every feature of the South African social landscape, projects to 2030, and is often inconsistent. Crucially, in economic policy it involved only tentative elaboration on Mbeki, reaffirming government's commitment to such measures as financial liberalization and fiscal restraint, and reprising GEAR's attempted reversal of labor's post-1994 legislative gains. It remains to be systematically implemented.
Unions rejected it. Zwelinzima Vavi, then general secretary of Cosatu, noted that "This raft of policies generate déjà vu, it seems history is going to repeat itself." Other reforms promised to unions, like an end to labor broking, were constrained by ANC-aligned business interests (one of Zuma's own sons was identified as holding stakes in a labor broking firm). The resulting estrangement with Zuma first split the union movement. More Zuma-aligned elements in Cosatu had Vavi and its largest union, NUMSA, expelled. Zuma himself was always more tightly tethered to the business-oriented wing of his coalition. Such was the character, for instance, of his initial political base in Durban and the province of KwaZulu-Natal, where his network included people like Don Mkhwanazi, a controversial businessman and so-called godfather of black economic empowerment. As he lost the support of remaining unions, Zuma became isolated to such a base. Its leading figures, who like Zuma presently gained from and wished to expand the channels for upward mobility provided by the ANC party machine, prompted and framed Zuma's second term radicalization, now a real attempt at departure from the post-Apartheid regime.
The major policy development of this turn was "radical economic transformation." While always thin on details, this drew on 2012 ANC Conference Resolutions, where it emerged in awkward contradiction with the National Development Plan and was initially conceived as inclusive of the interests of the entire liberation movement. In 2014, when enshrined in government policy, Rob Davies, the left-leaning Minister of Trade and Industry, said it called for "radical transformation of production relations … characterised by more equitable benefit-sharing and by less inequality." However, it increasingly emphasized more narrow concerns, particularly the promotion of black business. Illustratively, in state contracting, contrary to older National Treasury legal advice as to unconstitutionality, from April 2017 new legislation mandated set-asides, the reservation of tenders for black and other categories of disadvantaged business. Revealingly, this legislation included a new category, businesses "owned by black people living in rural or underdeveloped areas or townships", providing legal basis for geographically-defined set-asides, giving some legal structure to a patronage system that has become intensely territorial at ward and broader levels.
Mostly this drive was not so structured. Zuma was permissive. Politicians and associated businesspersons were given relatively free reign outside of the disciplinary framework of legislation. This proceeded to a point that exposed severe financial and administrative limits to the expansion of the ANC party machine. For example, in a country facing the prospect of catastrophic water shortages, now most prominently in the Democratic Alliance (DA) run City of Cape Town, construction of a major dam in the Lesotho Highlands, intended to serve the country's economic powerhouse of Gauteng, had its procurement process delayed for a year, as the responsible minister interfered in favor of a particular supplier. By early 2017, as the resulting scandal expanded, her Department of Water and Sanitation was reported to be "bankrupt", R4.3 billion in the red, with senior state officials noting that "internal controls, project management and contract management have collapsed." Reflective of a prevalent pattern, Zuma's incumbency saw the amplification of critical pre-existing problems in basic education, public health, public transport, communications, land reform, and beyond into the whole fiscal situation of the state.
One Zuma acolyte, the powerful Minister of Mineral Resources, declared at a gathering of the Black Business Council that this sort of "radical economic transformation" justified and required that "We will take pain, business will take pain, and our people will take pain." For now, there remains enough of a stake in the existing post-Apartheid regime for such a vision to be widely rejected. Over Zuma's last years, a range of groups that rarely agree – established, traditionally-white business, a multi-racial cross-section of the middle class, nearly all the unions, the news media, opposition parties, many in the ANC – joined the chorus for his removal. By late 2017 this momentum was expressed in polls that suggested that Ramaphosa was massively favored over Zuma's preferred successor, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Thirty-two percent of black voters suggested that a Dlamini-Zuma presidency would leave them less likely to vote for the ANC, leading ANC pollsters to note that this was a "repellent factor" unique in the history of the party, which had taken just 56% of the vote in the municipal elections of 2016, in the process losing control over the running of three large city councils, including Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Since his election as ANC President, Ramaphosa is said to have ridden, most evocatively, a "Rainbow Revolution," inaugurating a society where "good governance, economic growth and anti-corruption may no longer be a pipe dream." On these terms Ramaphosa has elicited a groundswell of goodwill from corporates and the middle class, even those historically outside the ANC. Tony Leon, former leader of the official opposition in Parliament, the DA, has acknowledged risks to other parties, stating that "Ramaphosa's election has been a game changer," then doubling down to the effect that "he should be supported 1000% when he's right." Certainly, constitutionalism has been strengthened, important standards as to presidential integrity have been set, and critical parts of the state may now be insulated. Ramaphosa has repudiated Zuma's most ominous project, a multi-trillion rand nuclear construction plan, and gestured toward prosecution of Zuma himself. But this is not a revolution so much as a reassertion.
Ramaphosa has also recommitted to the National Development Plan, which he played a prominent role in drafting, and to South Africa's 22-year-old "stable and predictable macro-economic framework." Yet it is precisely within this framework that South Africa's patronage politics gains a widely appreciated function. Ramaphosa's faction in the ANC has itself always included powerful patronage-brokers and connected businesspersons. He seeks "unity" with Zuma's erstwhile allies, no doubt cognizant of the fact that newly competitive elections leave him poorly positioned to cut the many patron-client threads that hold the ANC organization together, that fuel its electoral machine. Competitive elections also leave him with little space to alienate any other component of his coalition or the broader black majority. Fiscal and administrative crises constrain quick movement in any popular direction. And in 2012, Ramaphosa was implicated in the massacre that killed 34 mine workers at Marikana. In 2013/14 police recorded 13,575 crowd-related incidents. In 2015, students at the prestigious University of Cape Town led a wider youthful rejection of Mandelaism. The post-Apartheid regime is coming undone, but Ramaphosa seems more dependent upon it than ever.
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Come and visit Masai mara National Reserve.
Location: The Masai Mara National Reserve lies in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, on the border to Tanzania and the Serengeti National Park.
Rainy Season: It rains in April and May and again in November to February and this can cause some areas of the Mara to be inaccessible due to the sticky 'black cotton' mud.
The Masai Mara is one of the most well known and most popular reserves in the whole of Africa. This is also partly because of the tall red-robed Masai people whose lifestyle has changed little over the centuries and jointly with the government own the Masai Mara which is its reasoning for being a Reserve rather than a National Park. As with most game parks in East Africa there is no border fencing which gives animals the liberty to move outside the park into huge areas known as 'dispersal areas'. There can be as much wildlife roaming outside the park as inside. Many Masai villages are located in the 'dispersal areas' and they have, over centuries, developed a synergetic relationship with the wildlife.
In a short stay during the wildebeest migration you could see thousands of animals, at other times there are still hundreds. The plains are full of wildebeest, zebra, impala, topi, giraffe, Thomson's gazelle. Also regularly seen are leopards, lions, hyenas, cheetah, jackal and bat-eared foxes. Black rhino are a little shy and hard to spot but are often seen at a distance. Hippos are abundant in the Mara River as are very large Nile crocodiles, which lay in wait for a meal as the wildebeest cross on their annual quest to find new pastures. Due to their generally relaxed state once in the water there is the opportunity to leave the vehicle and with a park armed guard to walk high along the river bank to view the crocodiles and hippos lazing in the sun.
The Mara is a bird lover's paradise with great variety and colour including common but beautiful ones like the lilac breasted roller and plenty of large species like eagles, vultures and storks. There are 53 different birds of prey. Game driving in the Mara is done in the comfort of our ATC truck, which allows great height for game viewing! ATC has their own camp on the border of the Masai Mara and it is at this camp, Acacia Camp that all trips stay. The campsite has great facilities and clients overnight in pre erected safari tents for the duration of their stay.
ATC has a 3 day Masai Mara Safari (NN3) that departs from Nairobi daily with a minimum of 2 passengers. This safari can be sold as a standalone product but is most times taken up as our bonus safari offer (clients receive the trip price of the safari for free only needing to pay the local payment on any trips ten days or longer starting or finishing in Nairobi. Please note the free safari only departs the Thursday before or the Sunday after the main tour.
Staying in the Masai Mara between tours: This is possible if you take up our Free Masai Mara Safari before doing the trips that start in Nairobi. These trips do visit the Masai Mara region, so you will be travelling the same route twice if you do the free trip. There is an option for you to do the free trip (Thursday to Saturday) and then remain at the campsite (this saves you having to do the full days drive on not the greatest roads). The campsite has great facilities and all clients stay in pre erected safari tents whilst in the Mara. This option is highly recommended as the Acacia Campsite in the Masai Mara is a very beautiful campsite. The truck will arrive at the Mara Campsite on Saturday and then return to Nairobi to meet the rest of the clients who chose not to do the Free Masai Mara Safari. You will then have Saturday afternoon until Sunday afternoon (when the Truck returns) to relax, reading a book, soaking up the African sunshine and even visiting the local Masai villages. There is also an option to go on a game walk in the conservation area or again visit the Manyata. Any game drives undertaken are at your own cost.
The cost to stay at the campsite for the Saturday night after the 3-day tour ends and before the Gorillas trip group arrives on Sunday is US$ 85. This is settled direct with the campsite. This US$120 (2012 price) includes accommodation in Walk-in tents on Saturday night, Lunch and dinner on the Saturday and Breakfast and Lunch on the Sunday (excludes any activities).


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Bishop tells families to be God's image for secularized society
Bishop Barron WMF
PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- Being created in the image of God is a mission, an adventure and a command that each Catholic is called to carry out into the world and something we need to rediscover as people of faith living in today's secularized culture, said Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles Sept. 21.
He made the comments in the opening keynote address at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. Bishop Barron is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, host of the award-winning "Catholicism" film series, and from 2012 to 2015 was the rector/president of the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary outside Chicago. He was ordained an auxiliary bishop Sept. 8.
His YouTube videos have been viewed over 13 million times and next to Pope Francis, he is the most-followed Catholic leader on social media.
In a talk that was simultaneously translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese and American Sign Language, Bishop Barron explored how each person is made in the image and likeness of God -- "imago Dei" -- and the great responsibility and mission that comes with that.
It is through Adam -- the first priest, prophet and king -- that all of God's children find their purpose as imago Dei, he said, speaking to a crowd of several thousand at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia.
As priest, Adam adored God. As prophet, he cultivated humanity and creation. As king, he took the Gospel message out to the world. We, too -- men and women -- are called to follow Adam's example as priests, prophets and kings, Bishop Barron said.
The Old Testament shows how the imago Dei is compromised along the way. "Instead of worshipping God, we worship all other kinds of things," he said. "What always goes wrong with Israel is bad praise, running after false gods. We're the new Israel. The same rubric applies to us."
We lose our priestly identity by worshipping things other than God, he said. We lose our prophetic identity when we make up our own ideas about what is true and right and we stop being good kings when we privatize our religion and keep it to ourselves.
False gods like wealth or pleasure cannot satisfy the longing of the heart, the bishop said. "It's only God that can satisfy the deepest longing of the heart," he said. "We need to teach our culture how to worship aright."
To fulfill our mission of prophets we must embrace freedom in God's laws instead of what the current society tells us will make us free.
Today's world says "my will determines what is truth, which is a lie," Bishop Barron said. "That's inimical to the Bible." Rather, by embracing God's laws and understanding them we will be truly free to live in his image and likeness and be happy.
"It's the shaping of desire so as to make the achieving of good first possible and then effortless," Bishop Barron said. The bishop likened this to learning the game of golf. If a person truly loves the game and wants to be good at it, they must follow the rules of the game and the rules of how to swing in order to be good at it. They can't just pick up any club and swing away expecting to be successful without instruction.
In the same way, God's laws help us to be free as human beings.
The church has the truth of what makes true freedom possible but people who say, "Who are you to tell me what to do?" have cowed Catholics into a "prophetic silence," Bishop Barron said.
"Friends, if we stop speaking, it won't be heard," he told the crowd.
This truth is rooted in the Catholic Church's "extravagant demand" on her people to be saints, Bishop Barron said. But that demand is coupled with an extravagant mercy. When following God's laws, moral demand and mercy should be stressed equally. It's not one or the other.
"Moral demand, all the way. Extravagant mercy, all the way," he said.
To embrace imago Dei we must also fulfill our role as kings, people willing to go on campaign -- like a military effort without the aggression or violence -- bringing the Lord to the world.
"Authentic Christianity is a faith on the march," Bishop Barron said.
Christ promises us success if we follow our mission. That promise came in chapter 16, verse 18 of Matthew when Jesus told Peter that he would build the church through him and "the gates of hell will not prevail against you."
In Jesus' time, walls and gates protected cities from armies and intruders. Christ was telling the apostles that by following him, people campaigning for the Lord would be able to break through hell's gates.
"We're the ones on the march. Hell has something to fear from us," Bishop Barron said, adding a word of caution. "It's not going to happen if we allow our religion to be privatized."
The fathers of the Second Vatican Council would be disappointed if they knew that today 75 percent of Catholics wouldn't be attending Mass, he said. When they wrote about the call of the laity and the universal call to holiness they were seeking great Catholic laity to go forth into the world and sanctify it.
"We to a large extent have lost our sense of mission to sanctify the world," Bishop Barron said.
Bringing it back to the World Meeting of Families, the bishop said the family, as the basic cell of civil society, has a huge role to play in rediscovering that mission of imago Dei.
"The family is the place where the imago Dei is burnished, where the imago Dei is brought to life," he said.
Families that pray together, bless their kids when they go to bed at night and cultivate virtues and forgiveness in their children are learning right praise and teaching their children to go out into the world and teach that to the world, he added.
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Jugnoo raises $2.5M funding from existing investors to complete the $5.5M Series B round
By Jai Vardhan
Chandigarh-based autorickshaw hailing app Jugnoo has secured additional $2.5 million funding from existing investors - Paytm and Snow Leopard, adding to the $3 million round raised last year. The company says that the latest round is the second tranche of its Series B round financing.
The proceedings will be will allocated for the following:
Pan-India expansion.
Launching new offices.
Improving supply quality.
Giving incentives and rewards targeted towards driver welfare and performance improvement
Scaling up marketing
Advertising campaigns.
Currently, Jugnoo has presence across 22 cities with 20,00,000 users and 30,000 transactions on a daily basis. Samar Singla, Co-founder and CEO, Jugnoo, said
We see great prospects lined up for Jugnoo with this funding. Our growth is improving with each new city expansion. We will invest this funding to increase our presence to 25 more cities over the coming six months and provide access to the remotest corners of the country.
Jugnoo is using auto-rickshaws to revolutionize hyperlocal commerce. Besides offering on-demand auto-rickshaw, it enables B2B hyperlocal deliveries like food, grocery, and veggies among others via its own network of auto-rickshaws. Last year, the company had to halt its B2C hyperlocal delivery to focus on its core business.
Brainchild of Samar Singla and Chinmay Agarwal, Jugnoo had earlier raised $5 million Series A round from Paytm and SnowLeopard in June last year. To increase women participation in on-demand economy, Jugnoo also started for pilot onboarding female drivers on its platform.
Jugnoo acquired taxi aggregator BookMyCab in July 2015 and was in advance talk to acquire Pune-based Autowale but the deal didn't go through at the last moment.
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder & CEO of Paytm said:
Since its inception, Jugnoo has been showing a very promising growth. With its focussed approach and high user engagement, they have succeeded in understanding the auto-rickshaw space really well.
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Off late, Jugnoo has understood on-demand auto rickshaw space better than other players achieving significant scale in cities like Gurgaon, Noida, Mumbai and Indore among others. This tranche will help the company to spread its wings to other tier II and III cities and accelerate operations in existing cities. Jugnoo has been trying to pull-in a bigger round from quite some time, however it appears like it's not able to convince new investors to pump $20-30 million round. As of now, it raised two rounds of institutional funding which came from same investors - Paytm and Snow Leopard.
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Ukrainian Presidential Election Heads For Runoff
1 November 2004 -- Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko are headed for a second-round runoff vote in Ukraine's presidential election.
Electoral authorities said that with almost two-thirds of yesterday's vote counted, Yanukovych had 43.3 percent and Yushchenko 36.2 percent.
More than 50 percent was needed for a first-round victory.
Yanukovych, the pro-Russian candidate backed by Ukraine's ruling party, and the Western-leaning Yushchenko are now expected to face off in a second-round vote 21 November.
The vote was held without major violence, but observers alleged numerous apparent electoral violations during the election to replace outgoing President Leonid Kuchma.
Voter turnout was put at around 75 percent.
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Muleshoe to host its 4th of July celebration
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America's Independence Day is approaching, so bring on the fireworks, hot dogs and summer activities. Muleshoe's Fourth of July celebration is set to take place July 3 and is packed with community events for all ages.
In addition to contests, tournaments and food, the celebration will also include a live performance of Janis Diane's world premiere "Pete the Mule" song at 12 p.m. On June 13, Mayor Colt Ellis signed a proclamation declaring "Pete the Mule" as the official theme song of The National Mule Memorial.
Parade participants will lineup at 9 a.m. with the parade starting at 10 a.m. The 17th annual Brisket BQQ Meal will start at 11 a.m. and last through 2 p.m. Contests taking place after the parade include:
The 2021 Little Miss and Little Mr. Firecracker Pageant: The contest will host three divisions including children under one, those ages 1-3 and kids 4-6. There will be a $20 entry fee, and participants must register by June 30. Contact Andrea Alfaro at (806) 518-8566 for more information.
The car, tractor and motorcycle show: The show will take place immediately after the parade. There will be a free entry fee.
The most patriotic bike contest: Participants will decorate their bike and whoever has the most patriotic bike will take home a prize. Judging will take place immediately after the parade by the car show set up. There is no entry fee.
Pie eating contest: The contest is sponsored by United Supermarkets, and the winner will receive a prize.
To get registered for theses contests contact the Muleshoe Chamber of Commerce at (806) 272-4248.
Tournaments include:
Co-ed softball tournament: Teams will consist of three guys and three girls with an entry fee of $150 per team. Each game will last 45 minutes with a 3/2 pitch rule. The tournament will be located at 8th St. Fields. The deadline to register is June 30. Contact Raymond Toscano (806-729-1346), Bobby Toscano (806-729-3409) or Ricky Diaz (806-946-6659) for more information.
Nana's Benefit Co-ed Kickball Tournament: There must be 10 players per team. Each team must have an equal number of girls and guys, and the entry fee is $120 per team. The deadline to register is June 30. Contact Lore Marrufo (806-792-6071), Carolina Regalado (806-518-5319) or Goya Franco (806-315-0290).
Horseshoe tournament: There will be single and double games with a $20 entry fee. A first-place prize will be available for each division. Contact Richard Orozco (806-946-6063), Ronnie Orozco (806-543-0047) or Rudy Orozco (806-215-4176) to register.
Cornhole tournament: Entry fee will be $20 per team and first and second place winners will receive a T-shirt prize. Contact Richard Orozco (806-946-6063), Ronnie Orozco (806-543-0047) or Rudy Orozco (806-215-4176) to register.
For more information about the Fourth of July weekend celebration contact the Muleshoe Chamber of Commerce at (806) 272-4248.
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The 4-7-8 breathing technique, also known as "relaxing breath," involves breathing in for 4 seconds, holding the breath for 7 seconds, and exhaling for 8 seconds.
Box breathing is a popular method of relaxation breathing. Learn more here.
There is some evidence to suggest that deep breathing techniques have a positive impact on a person's anxiety and stress levels.
Studies suggest that 6 weeks of practicing pranayamic breathing, or breathing that focuses on controlling breath movement, may have a positive effect on a person's heart rate variability, which correlates with stress, and also improve cognition and anxiety.
Fletcher, Jenna. "How to use 4-7-8 breathing for anxiety." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 12 Feb. 2019. Web.


I love photographing landscapes, and when I was out photographing barns one day, I found myself framing a shot across a pasture with this rustic old fence in the foreground. I noticed the sunlight just filtering through the grasses growing along the edge of the field, and decided it was a much prettier tableau than the barn itself. Note that this image is available in a horizontal/landscape crop (image #1) or vertical/portrait (image #2).
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A simple, clean and subtle s-curve makes its way up the dunes of Wedge Island in Western Australia. I was driving down the beach after an early morning storm and spotted this s-curve in the distance and knew I had to make a photograph of it. I have always had a soft spot for black and white photography! Secure your limited edition, Wedge Island photographic print, 'Serpent', by selecting your desired print size in the menu to the right.


For more on each of the Big East teams, click on each team name for in-depth previews I wrote for NBE Basketball Report, complete with quotes from the top players and coaches in the conference.
The Big East had one of the best seasons a conference could have asked for last season, as up to nine teams were ranked in the polls last season. Two teams, Connecticut and Villanova, reached the Final Four, and another two made it to the Elite Eight in Pittsburgh and Louisville. Overall, 12 teams reached the postseason. This season will certainly not be the same. The conference will be down slightly, as there are only two teams with a legitimate shot at reaching Indianapolis, maybe three with Connecticut, but the rest of the league is a crapshoot. Several of the league's marquee programs of the past few seasons will be down, as Pittsburgh and Marquette lose a ton from last year, while Seton Hall and Cincinnati could be ready to take the next step forward. There is a lot of talent across the board in the league, but not as much as a season ago. With 16 teams, though, there will be a war on a nightly basis in the Big East. Expect another excellent season.


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