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Turkey declares 'state of emergency' after failed coup
In response to failed coup, Turkish president says state of emergency will last for three months.
21 Jul 2016 04:38 GMT
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that the country will be placed under a "state of emergency" for three months, in response to the failed coup.
In a televised address on Wednesday, Erdogan said the decision was made following a meeting with members of the national security council.
The state of emergency was needed "in order to remove swiftly all the elements of the terrorist organisation involved in the coup attempt," he said at the presidential palace in Ankara.
READ MORE: The lessons to be learned from Turkey's failed coup
"I would like to underline that the declaration of the state of emergency has the sole purpose of taking the necessary measures, in the face of the terrorist threat that our country is facing," he said, vowing that the "virus in the military will be cleansed".
In an interview with Al Jazeera earlier on Wednesday, Erdogan has expressed doubts the coup attempt was entirely over.
"I don't think we have come to the end of it," he said.
Turkey has accused the group of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of being behind the coup.
Gulen has strongly denied links to the coup.
According to the Turkish constitution, a state of emergency is allowed up to six months.
Turkey criticized over post-coup backlash
Article 120 of the constitution allows a state of emergency to be imposed "at a time of serious deterioration of public order because of acts of violence".
Turkey had in 2002 lifted its last state of emergency, which had been imposed in provinces in the southeast for the fight against Kurdish armed groups in 1987.
Under a state of emergency in Turkey, the president can largely rule by decree.
Curfews could be enforced, and gatherings and protests could be banned without official consent, under the declaration.
Media could also be restricted, while security personnel could conduct searches of persons, vehicles or properties and confiscate potential evidence.
But the interior ministry said that the order "will not affect civilians", according to Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker, who was reporting from Ankara.
In his televised address, Erdogan also tried to reassure the public that military powers will not be expanded, adding that Turkey would emerge as a "stronger nation" following the coup attempt.
SOURCE: Al Jazeera and agencies
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Q: Evaluating a definite integral with the use of a Riemann sum Question
Consider the partition $\mathcal{P}_n = \{q^0,q^1,q^2,...,q^n \}$ where $q^n = 2$. If $f(x) = x^j$ for some positive integer $j$, then evaluate the integral
$$\int_{1}^{2} f(x)\,dx$$
by calculating the limit $\displaystyle \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}\underline{S}_{\mathcal{P}_n}(f)$ of the corresponding lower Riemann sums.
My Attempt
I began by writing out the series as
$$\sum_{k=1}^{n} (q^k - q^{k-1})(q^{k-1})^j = q^{n(j-1)-j} - 1$$
but clearly, this doesn't really provide any progression to solving the problem. Perhaps there's an issue with the sum, although I've spent a while looking at it and I cannot find any issue.
Is my approach correct? If so, where do I go from here. If it isn't correct, where have I gone wrong?
EDIT: Also, I know that $1<q<2$ and $q \rightarrow 1$ as $n \rightarrow \infty$.

A: I got a different result for the sum.
Since the $q's$ depend on n I used the notation $q_n:=2^{1/n}$ and computed
\begin{align*}
\sum_{k=1}^n(q_n^k-q_n^{k-1})(q_n^{k-1})^j&=\sum_{k=1}^n q_n^{k+(k-1)j}-\sum_{k=1}^n q_n^{(k-1)(j+1)}\\
&=(q_n-1)\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}q_n^{k(j+1)}\\
&=(q_n-1)\frac{1-q_n^{(j+1)n}}{1-q_n^{j+1}}\\
&=\frac{q_n-1}{1-q_n^{j+1}}(1-2^{j+1})
\end{align*}
By using l'Hopitals rule we get
\begin{align*}
\lim_{x\to 1} \frac{x-1}{1-x^{j+1}}=\lim_{x\to 1}\frac{1}{-(j+1)x^{j}}=-\frac{1}{(j+1)}
\end{align*}
and therefore
\begin{align*}
\lim_{n\to  \infty}\sum_{k=1}^n(q_n^k-q_n^{k-1})(q_n^{k-1})^j=\frac{2^{j+1}-1}{j+1}
\end{align*}

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In trying to make sense of the darkest extremes of human behavior, the public turns murderers into myths and monsters.
But even if Gacy never killed as Pogo, people still associate his murders with white makeup, a painted, pointed red mouth, and a frilly collar. As heinous as his crimes were, this one offbeat detail from his life propelled him to infamy. Because when it comes to serial killers, the myth is what matters.
If you were to carefully calibrate your fear of being murdered according to statistics, you should be 12 times as afraid of your family members as of serial killers. Less than one percent of murders in any given year are committed by serial killers, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's report on serial murder; in 2012, 12.5 percent of murders were committed by victims' family members.
Sadly, tales of domestic violence zoom in and out of the news so frequently that they rarely capture the public's attention, and when they do, they don't hold it for long. Meanwhile, Gacy's story, along with those of other serial killers like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and David Berkowitz, are remembered even decades later: They're so well-known that we continue to hear casual references to them in pop culture. For example, in Katy Perry's recent song "Dark Horse," Juicy J raps, "She'll eat your heart out/like Jeffrey Dahmer." Dahmer, who was known for cannibalizing his victims, committed his crimes between 1978 and 1991, and was killed in prison in 1994, nearly 20 years before "Dark Horse" was released.
Juicy J can drop that tasteless reference and know it will be understood because serial killers are "still very much a part of our culture," Penman says. The question is, why? What draws people to their dark, disturbing stories? Why do some killers become celebrities while others are forgotten?
What made serial killers this way? Why did they kill, and why did they do it so gruesomely? How are they different from us? (Please let them be different from us.) These are complicated, compelling questions. But here, at the outer boundaries of the human condition, are realities that resist our understanding.
In reality, Bonn says, "they are actually far more nuanced, far more varied than the general public realizes." The racial breakdown of serial killers is about the same as that of the U.S. population at large, according to the FBI. Based on the Radford University serial killer database, which includes data on nearly 4,000 killers, just 46 percent of serial killers since 1910 have been white men.
"It's almost as if we have a canonical group, and anyone who comes after that is just seen in that context," suggests David Schmid, a professor of English at the University of Buffalo who has studied serial killer celebrity and the popularity of true crime in the United States.
Bonn has a few theories about why white male killers get more attention. Female serial killers tend to kill by less-gory methods—poisoning rather than shooting—which makes their stories less sensational. Aileen Wuornos, the killer portrayed by Charlize Theron in the film Monster, murdered with a gun, and Bonn believes that is a key reason for her fame.
Only about 9 percent of serial killers since 1910 have been women, according to the Radford database. But 40 percent have been African American, and few of those have achieved celebrity status. Bonn notes that most serial killers tend to kill within their own race, and that white victims, especially white female victims, usually get wider media attention. This means their killers, who are likely white as well, consequently get more coverage.
Just as there are misunderstandings about who serial killers are, there are false assumptions about how they got this way. Another prominent myth involves three specific warning signs: bedwetting, cruelty to animals, and setting fires. The Macdonald Triad, as it's sometimes called, originated from a small 1963 study in which psychiatrist John M. Macdonald analyzed 100 of his violent patients at one psychiatric hospital. Ramsland calls it a "small, poorly-designed study": Later research refuted the idea that the presence of these childhood traits necessarily predicts violent behavior.
Unfortunately, there's no easy way to identify a serial killer in the making. The FBI reminds readers in its report that there are a lot of factors that go into influencing human behavior. Just as it would be impossible to describe all of the reasons a person decides to get married—or makes a far more mundane choice, like having pizza for lunch—it's impossible to explain all the reasons why a person chooses to kill.
The serial killers who become famous are extreme, either in their methods (like Rader, who named himself Bind Torture Kill after his modus operandi) or their madness (the Zodiac, who sent baffling letters written in code to the press). These shocking details are what get people's attention; the need for answers is what keeps it.
This is why Bonn believes the public experiences no meaningful difference between real serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer and fictional serial killers like Hannibal Lector from The Silence of the Lambs. "They are equally scary and entertaining," he writes. And fiction and reality do bleed into each other: Buffalo Bill, who collects victims' skin in Silence of the Lambs, was based in part on real-life killer Ed Gein, who kept a collection of women's body parts. Jeffrey Dahmer, the cannibalistic serial killer who was apprehended in 1991, was compared endlessly to Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lector, particularly since the film version of Silence of the Lambs came out that same year.
Even the news media plays into this tendency to paint serial killers as storybook villains. For his book, Bonn did a little media analysis. He looked at articles mentioning serial killers in The New York Times and Time magazine between 1995 and 2013, and searched within them for the words "devil," "monster," and "evil." In both publications, 35 percent of articles contained one or more of those descriptors.
It's a reductive story, but a useful one. The good-versus-evil/monster-hunt narrative is a way to manage the incomprehensible. Evil doesn't need to be understood, just eliminated. So the desire for answers is satisfied; the burden of parsing a killer's complicated motivation falls away. All the messy details are composited into a single figure: the serial killer. This boogeyman-like entity has become less of a threat than a stock character, useful for selling publications and spicing up fictional stories.
David Schmid has another theory about why people find serial killers entertaining, one that's not necessarily flattering to American audiences. Procedural shows like CSI or True Detective may attract viewers simply because of the drama and the plotting, he says, but in other recent shows like Dexter and Bates Motel, the criminals are the protagonists—the characters people are supposed to identify with when they watch. People both fear and admire criminals, he says, because they live outside the bounds of laws and social conventions.
It's been many years since any new serial killers were added to the canonical group. That's not to say there haven't been any: Richard Beasley*, who killed victims he met via Craigslist, and Anthony Sowell, or The Cleveland Strangler, both got some media attention. But none of these recent criminals have attained true celebrity status. There is no modern John Wayne Gacy.
As the most infamous serial killers slip farther and farther into the past, people are able to look at them through a more detached, historical lens, as "examples of Americana," Schmid says. According to Eric Hickey's book Serial Killers and Their Victims, in the 1970s and 1980s, there were 40 or so films about serial killers, real or imagined. From 2000 to 2008, there were more than 270, though he notes that more than half of those were straight-to-video releases.
These stories get told and retold, calcifying as they go, shedding the pesky details that don't quite fit into the mold we've come to expect, until we're left with the familiar, archetypal story: that of the white male serial killer whose everyman exterior hides a twisted, violent alter ego. Killers who don't fit are forgotten or ignored—as are, all-too-often, their victims.
* This post originally stated that Scott Davis was the name of the Cragislist killer. We regret the error.


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Chinchilla Facts
Scientific Name: Chinchilla chinchilla and Chinchilla lanigera
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Reproduction and Offspring
Chinchillas and Humans
The chinchilla is a South American rodent that has been hunted to near-extinction for its luxurious, velvety fur. However, one species of chinchilla was bred in captivity starting at the end of the 19th century. Today, domesticated chinchillas are kept as playful, intelligent pets.
Fast Facts: Chinchilla
Scientific Name: Chinchilla chinchilla and C. lanigera
Common Name: Chinchilla
Basic Animal Group: Mammal
Size: 10-19 inches
Weight: 13-50 ounces
Lifespan: 10 years (wild); 20 years (domestic)
Habitat: Andes of Chile
The two species of chinchilla are the short-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla chinchilla, formerly called C. brevicaudata) and the long-tailed chinchilla (C. lanigera). The short-tailed chinchilla has a shorter tail, thicker neck, and shorter ears than the long-tailed chinchilla. The domesticated chinchilla is believed to have descended from the long-tailed chinchilla.
The defining characteristic of a chinchilla is its soft, dense fur. Each hair follicle has between 60 and 80 hairs growing from it. Chinchillas have large dark eyes, rounded ears, long whiskers, and furry 3 to 6-inch tails. Their back legs are more than twice as long as their front legs, making them agile jumpers. While chinchillas appear bulky, most of their size comes from their fur. Wild chinchillas have mottled yellowish gray fur, while domestic animals may be black, white, beige, charcoal, and other colors. The short-tailed chinchilla ranges from 11 to 19 inches in length and weighs between 38 and 50 ounces. The long-tailed chinchilla may reach a length up to 10 inches. Wild long-tailed chinchilla males weigh slightly more than a pound, while females weigh slightly less. Domestic long-tail chinchillas are heavier, with males weighing up to 21 ounces and females weighing up to 28 ounces.
At one time, chinchillas lived in the Andes mountains and along the coasts of Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, and Chile. Today, the only wild colonies are found in Chile. Wild chinchillas inhabit cold, dry climates, primarily at elevations between 9,800 and 16,400 feet. They live in rocky crevices or burrows in the ground.
Distribution of two chinchilla species in 1986. Amerique_du_Sud.svg: Cephas / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license
Wild chinchillas eat seeds, grasses, and fruit. Although they are considered to be herbivores, they may consume small insects. Domestic chinchillas are usually fed grass and kibble specially formulated for their dietary needs. Chinchillas eat much like squirrels. They hold food in their fore paws, while sitting upright on their hind limbs.
domestic chinchilla holding food with arms. olgagorovenko / Getty Images
Chinchillas live in social groups called herds that consist of 14 to 100 individuals. They are largely nocturnal, so they can avoid hot daytime temperatures. They take dust baths to keep their fur dry and clean. When threatened, a chinchilla may bite, shed fur, or eject a spray of urine. Chinchillas communicate using a wide variety of sounds, which include grunts, barks, squeals, and chirps.
Chinchillas can mate at any time of the year. Gestation is unusually long for a rodent and lasts 111 days. The female may give birth to a litter of up 6 kits, but usually one or two offspring are born. The kits are fully furred and can open their eyes when they are born. Kits are weaned between 6 and 8 weeks of age and sexually mature at 8 months of age. Wild chinchillas may live 10 years, but domestic chinchillas can live over 20 years.
Chinchillas are born with fur and open eyes. Icealien / Getty Images
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies the conservation status of both chinchilla species as "endangered." As of 2015, researchers estimated 5,350 mature long-tailed chinchillas remained in the wild, but their population was decreasing. As of 2014, two small populations of short-tailed chinchillas remained in the Antofagasta and Atacama regions of northern Chile. However, those populations were also decreasing in size.
Hunting and commercial harvesting of chinchillas has been banned since a 1910 treaty between Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru. However, once the ban began to be enforced, prices of pelts skyrocketed and poaching brought the chinchilla to the brink of extinction. While poaching continues to be a significant threat to wild chinchillas, they are safer than before because captive chinchillas are bred for fur.
Other threats include illegal capture for the pet trade; habitat loss and degradation from mining, firewood collection, fires, and grazing; extreme weather from El Niño; and predation by foxes and owls.
Chinchillas are valued for their fur and as pets. They are also bred for scientific research of the audio system and as model organisms for Chagas disease, pneumonia, and several bacterial diseases.
Jiménez, Jaime E. "The extirpation and current status of wild chinchillas Chinchilla lanigera and C. brevicaudata." Biological Conservation. 77 (1): 1–6, 1996. doi:10.1016/0006-3207(95)00116-6
Patton, James L.; Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J.; D'Elía, Guillermo. Rodents. Mammals of South America. 2. University of Chicago Press. pp. 765–768, 2015. ISBN 9780226169576.
Roach, N. & R. Kennerley. Chinchilla chinchilla. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T4651A22191157. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T4651A22191157.en
Roach, N. & R. Kennerley. Chinchilla lanigera (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T4652A117975205. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T4652A22190974.en
Saunders, Richard. "Veterinary Care Of Chinchillas." In Practice (0263841X) 31.6 (2009): 282–291. Academic Search Complete.
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The Tech for Social Good program at UC Davis has announced its 2017 awardees, divided into two categories: Tech Development and Student-Led Events.
The CITRIS and the Banatao Institute Tech for Social Good Program, supports student-led learning and technology development for healthy, sustainable, connected, and equitable livelihoods in the United States and abroad. To achieve its mission, the program (which runs at UC Davis and UC Berkeley) provides funding support to undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students, groups, teams or organizations developing hardware, software, events or programs.
The program at UC Davis is made possible through a partnership between CITRIS at UC Davis, the Blum Center for Developing Economies, the Center for Regional Change, and the Institute for Social Sciences.
The Tech Development Track funds early-stage technology research, hardware, software, web or mobile application development that address issues in health, robotics, connected communities, and sustainable infrastructures. The Events & Programming Track funds student-led activities that increase awareness, skills, and relationships related to technology for social good. In addition, this track supports student efforts to foster diversity and inclusion in tech fields.
Congratulations to the following awardees!
OneLoop is a diverse, multidisciplinary group of engineers working to design and build a functional, half-scale model of a Hyperloop pod to race in SpaceX's Hyperloop Pod Competition.
Relevant, accessible, and effective climate change information can help small-scale farmers better plan for and respond to climate change effects. The On-Farm Climate Resilience Toolkit will enable farmers to utilize online learning networks, on-farm data collection, and participatory mapping to learn and share long-term climatic risk management strategies.
Together We CAN teaches food preservation methods for pineapples, a crop with large post-harvest losses in the Mwogo sector, Bugesera district, of Rwanda. Teaching these skills to Rwandan pineapple farming community members can increase local food source availability and socio-economic development.
SER empowers smallholder farmers to improve their quality of life, while simultaneously enabling collective social action to alleviate poverty through the development of a vocational center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil that supports the development of hydroponic farming.
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Mi Vida Saludable is a web-based platform to streamline data collection for mental health parameters at Clinica Tepati in Sacramento, California.
For those living in the floating villages on the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia, potable water is difficult to obtain. This team will develop and pilot test a low-cost biosand water filtration system that will convert contaminated lake water into clean water for household use.
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Torbia viridissima () è un ortottero ensifero della famiglia Tettigoniidae, endemico dell'Australia.

Descrizione
Le larve di I stadio sono estremamente somiglianti a delle formiche, di colore dal bruno scuro al nero (mirmecomorfismo); ciò garantisce loro protezione da eventuali predatori. Dopo le prime mute perdono tale caratteristica ed iniziano a sfoggiare la livrea verde brillante tipica dell'insetto adulto.

Distribuzione e habitat
La specie è endemica dell'Australia.

Popola una varietà di habitat, dalle aree desertiche dell'Australia centrale alle alte quote delle Alpi australiane, accomunati dalla presenza di alberi di Eucalyptus.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Tettigonioidea
Taxa classificati da Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl

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A few months ago we decided that we should go for Napoleonic's. First we had to build up our armies. The rule system we plan to use is Black powder, a set of rules that suits the large battles and historic scenarios, rather than points, competition and wargaming "tennis matches". Totally different from warhammer stuff and from FoW. We have already been playing the BP rules with our ACW miniatures for a while but we are saving the Napoleonic's for later when we all have great big armies. The miniatures that we are planning to use, are first and most, Victrix and Perry. But Tim has already bought some Front Rank as well. As usual its my gaming-compadres that has painted the largest amount of figures. But in time I also will have a large army, I hope. I have a lot of unpainted and half painted stuff.
As a progressive and enlightened gentleman, I choosed to build up a French Napoleonic army. I do sympathise most whit France during this age of political and armed conflicts. I also love the uniforms. The first sample of my naps is some fellows of the 1th Grenadiers of the imperial guard. I hope you like them.


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Sugarpaws One: Partners in Mischief
by Sienna Hwang, age 9
Sienna Hwang is a budding writer and a student at Writopia Lab. "Sugarpaws 1: Partners in Mischief" is Sienna's debut novel and the first of its series. The second and third novels of the Sugarpaws series are now completed and she is working on the fourth. Sienna's first poem, "My Family Food", appeared in New York City Poetry Picnic. Born in New York, Sienna spent her early childhood in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul and is in her fourth grade at Battery Park City School in New York City. When she is not writing, she plays the violin and swims competitively. She is also an avid sketcher.
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"A puppy named Sugarpaws was raised by a boy named Sammy. She was named Sugarpaws because she loved cookies, and always had sweet stuff sticking to her paws. She was golden brown, and she had a beaded flower crown on top of her head because Sammy and Sugarpaws found scraps and put it together."
A puppy named Sugarpaws was raised by a boy named Sammy. She was named Sugarpaws because she loved cookies, and always had sweet stuff sticking to her paws. She was golden brown, and she had a beaded flower crown on top of her head because Sammy and Sugarpaws found scraps and put it together. He fed her, slept with her, tenderly stroked her, and was always her companion. Even though Sammy was a slave, he did everything he could to take care of Sugarpaws. Sammy gave Sugarpaws a nickname. Her nickname was Queenie because she acted so royal. Everyday, Queenie thought about how Sammy got punished. One day, she decided that she would help Sammy. Queenie would scout and steal food from Sammy's owner, and then they would have a feast every night.
Today was the day she would start stealing! She would start going into ninja mode. Queenie knew she wouldn't get caught if she were camouflaged. She always knew that, like a circus dog, she could walk on her hind legs for a long time. When one of the maids came out of the mansion, Queenie grabbed the maid and put her in the outhouse and took her clothes. Now Queenie was a "maid." The maid's clothes were navy and white, and she had a white apron and laced socks, a navy black dress, and black heels. Now, Queenie had to tie up her ears so it would look like hair in a bun. But her ears kinda looked like a cinnamon bun, instead of a hair bun! Queenie was a little worried that she looked furry, but she knew it was okay because she had a lot of clothes on.
Now, it was time to go inside the mansion. Wait! She forgot to put on the gloves so that her paws wouldn't show. Now, she was ready.
She knocked on the door. The door was made out of thin marble with lots of fancy designs and swirls on the top.
"Who is it?" a deep, growly voice asked.
Queenie thought, I don't know how to speak. Well, Sammy taught me how to say hi.
She opened her mouth and said, "Hi!"
Then, a bulky, muscular man opened the door. "Stella, what's wrong? You always know the code."
Queenie thought, Wait. I know the code? I mean, yeah I know the code! I'm the maid!
She turned her head sideways and shot the man a questioning glance.
The bulky man said in a hoarse whisper, "The code is 'We love the mistress.'"
Queenie giggled inside her head. Now, Queenie knew the code, so she could deliver it to Sammy! She nodded once and entered the mansion.
It was much, much, much bigger than the old cabin that Sammy and Queenie lived in. She saw a long corridor. On both sides, there were really, really pretty pictures and vases of lilacs and tulips. One of the tulips had a muddy pawprint on them. Queenie knew that those were the bunches of flowers she had picked with Sammy. After every picture, there was a door.
Suddenly, a fat, mustached man popped out of nowhere. Queenie knew at once that he was the "Mister" as Sammy called him. In real life, the man was actually named Eugene Andrew Frances II. The bulky man bowed clumsily, and Queenie knew she was in big trouble! She didn't know how to curtsy! Thankfully, "Mister" didn't notice and went to the bulky man instead.
"Thank God!" Queenie squealed silently.
"Arthur, you're supposed to be serving Mistress her dinner."
"I apologize greatly, Sir," Arthur half-groaned.
Arthur rolled his eyes, but "Mister" didn't notice. He was now staring suspiciously at Queenie.
"Mister" said, "That's better," while staring at Queenie even more suspiciously, giving her a look as if he had X-ray vision.
Queenie started feeling uncomfortable and noticed that her heels were not as cushiony as she thought. Finally, Eugene looked away and walked back through the corridor.
"Arthur!" a shrill voice called from a place Queenie assumed to be the dining room.
Then, that's when she noticed that this voice belonged to the mistress. She felt much more alert now because she knew that she could not steal food while the mistress was dining. She'd either have to go in the kitchen, or take what was left.
"Stella?" Mistress called again.
Queenie took off at a run for the dining table. She stuffed the food inside of the pouches and sacks that she carried, and stuffed some in her paw, and started running for the door on all threes. All three paws, she meant.
Sammy was picking cotton when Queenie burst through the doors. She started fiddling with the lock.
She barked what sounded like, "Arf! Arf! Lock the doors for me!"
Sammy stopped, ran toward the doors, took a safety pin, and turned the pin in the lock. With a click, the doors locked shut. Mistress and Arthur started banging on the doors and screaming loudly.
Out of nowhere, Arthur exclaimed, "We're so stupid! There's a back door!"
Oops! Queenie led Sammy to the back door. When she came, he turned the safety pin once again, and the doors were shut. Now, the owners of the mansion were trapped in their own home. At least they had enough supplies to survive for a million years. They would be happy there. At least, that's what their neighbors thought. Mistress got what she deserved.
Twenty minutes later, Sugarpaws heard the owners and the servants give up and go back to their rooms. She slipped into the now-quiet mansion, took all of their food in a big sack, and dragged it back outside. All the slaves had a big celebration.
Sammy said, "I don't know where my family is, but you're my family."


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#PanamaPapers | ANAF looking to get access to Romanians involved in offshore scandal
After the tax administration agency ANAF said it created a group tasked with looking at potential local links with the Panama Papers scandal, the fiscal authority has taken a step further.
"The ANAF has initiated procedures to gain access to all documents involving Romanian individuals and companies from Romania, which are included in the PanamaPapers case," said the institution, which is headed by Dragos Doros, in a statement for HotNews.ro news portal.
The authority said that the documents will be processed in confidentiality, taking into account the fiscal secret.
Some 100 Romanian names appear in the documents leaked from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, according to journalists at Rise Project.
Businessman Frank Timis, who appears in the papers, said he started companies in tax heavens to pay less in taxes.
Adrian Mihai (FAN Courier) will be a speaker at re:FOCUS on eCommerce, Retail & Logistics 2023
Meanwhile, Romanian businessman Ion Tiriac rejected the allegations that he had all his fortunes parked in an offshore account. Tiriac said he had only a private foundation registered in Panama, which had its own management board.
The Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) is also looking into the Panama Papers, to see whether it can help in any way ongoing investigations, said Daniel Horodniceanu, the chief prosecutor of DIICOT.
Even Romanian MPs want to find out more about this scandal and will hold a public hearing on this topic.
Ovidiu Posirca
Tags: anaf panamapapers, offshore romania tax, panamapapers romania


Post a monthly lunch menu on the refrigerator. Go over the choices with your child the night or the week before. Highlight his/her choices. Click here for the link.
Write down the choice and have your child either read the choice to the teacher or hand it to her/him when lunch ordering takes place in the classroom. Send a lunch menu to school with your child with her/his highlighted choices.
During the morning announcements we make it a point to announce the next day's lunch items. When our daily broadcasts get up and running, we post the lunches for the next day as well as announce them to students. Your child has a chance to make the next day's choice right then, if he he/she wants.
To pay for lunches online http://www.sendmoneytoschool.com/.
Starting October 8th, 2018 breakfast will be served in our cafeteria at 8:45am each morning. Students can enter through the outside cafeteria door #7. Breakfast is $1.55 and $.60 for milk.


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Browns' Manziel not throwing because of sore elbow
Buffalo Bills cornerback Merrill Noel (46) sacks Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel during the third quarter of an NFL preseason football game, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
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BEREA, Ohio (AP) The Browns believe Johnny Manziel's sore elbow could be the result of his slinging arm motion, something they won't try to change.
Manziel did not throw any passes during practice Monday, the second time in two weeks that Cleveland's celebrated backup quarterback has been withheld from drills because of elbow pain. The Browns don't think Manziel has a serious injury and two days of rest should help.
However, the club conceded that Manziel's injury could be attributed to his occasional side-arm delivery.
''You see him three-quarters at times, and sometimes that's a lot of pressure on the elbow and shoulder,'' offensive coordinator John DeFilippo said. ''I won't say it's the wrong way to throw a football because I've seen a lot of successful quarterbacks throw the ball like that. That's part of the reason why Johnny can get the ball out of his hand so fast. He has that whip release.
''At times, that will put a lot of stress on your elbow.''
Manziel's elbow flared up during practice Sunday, when he left the field following a completion pointing at his arm. He only participated in hand-off drills Monday and watched as fellow QBs Josh McCown and Thad Lewis threw passes.
The team is hoping the break - the Browns also have a scheduled day off Tuesday - will revive Manziel's arm. DeFilippo and coach Mike Pettine believe the high number of repetitions during training camp have worsened Manziel's elbow issue.
Pettine said at this point that Manziel will not undergo an MRI.
''I think we have a pretty good feel that just the days' rest will be enough,'' Pettine said, ''and if it is not, we will deal with it accordingly.''
Pettine is hopeful that Manziel, who has had a strong training camp as he tries to rebound from a rough rookie year, will play Saturday night at Tampa Bay.
DeFilippo, a former NFL quarterbacks coach, said Manziel's problem is normal.
''Johnny has probably got what 30 or 40 percent of the other quarterbacks in the league have right now - sore elbows, sore shoulders,'' he said. ''There's a lot of wear and tear on those guys in terms of their arm. Those guys have been throwing footballs since they've been young guys.''
DeFilippo and Pettine both said Manziel's elbow issues may be related to how he throws, but there are no plans to alter his mechanics.
''At this point in his career, we're not going to try to change his throwing motion,'' Pettine said. ''That's an advantage that he has. There are times he'll change his arm angle to make a throw. If you stick with your traditional throwing motion, the ball might get knocked down. You've got a guy in your way, you've got an outstretched arm, you want to go ahead and drop the ball down a little bit and make a throw.
''We just have to be mindful of it and when he does get sore, shut him down. But if that's what made him successful, it's something that you don't want to tinker with. It's an advantage as long as you can manage it.''
Manziel's elbow soreness has been the only major glitch in an otherwise smooth second preseason for the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner, who is expected to begin the season backing up McCown.
Although Pettine hasn't officially chosen McCown as the Week 1 starter against the New York Jets, the 36-year-old hasn't done anything to change the pecking order.
DeFilippo has been pleased with Manziel's progress.
''He's a new guy,'' he said. ''I think his overall understanding of the game and what we're trying to do has changed drastically. I really think that. He understands protections, he's making the calls.''
NOTES: WR Terrelle Pryor missed another practice with a nagging hamstring injury. Pettine has stressed the importance of the former QB getting healthy and on the field, and DeFilippo reiterated that Pryor's time is running short to make the roster. ''There's got to be a sense of urgency from Terrelle,'' he said. ... Pettine said LB Barkevious Mingo, who recently underwent knee surgery, ran for the first time since the operation last weekend and could be ready by the opener.
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Integrity Municipal Systems
Biological Odor Control System Installation Project Profile 2
Integrity Municipal Systems' I-BOx®6000 Biological Odor Control System Eliminates Severe Odors
at the Palomar Commons Shopping Center in Carlsbad, California
The Cities of Vista and Carlsbad share ownership of the Buena Outfall Interceptor Sewer, which routes sewage approximately 7.5 miles through two pump stations and force mains to the Encina Wastewater Authority (EWA) Water Pollution Control Facility (WPCF).
Located next to a sewer main along the Outfall Interceptor is the high-profile Palomar Commons Shopping Center, which consistently attracts heavy daytime foot traffic. A carbon adsorber odor control system was installed and connected to the sewer main to eliminate odor issues and prevent a
negative impact on public health and nearby businesses. The carbon adsorber odor control system, while initially inexpensive to procure, had very high operating costs for the removal and disposal of spent activated carbon media as well as its replacement with fresh carbon media, adding up to tens of thousands of dollars per year. The carbon adsorber odor control system was ineffective at handling the odors for any significant period of time
because the inlet hydrogen sulfide (H2S) concentrations were very high, ranging from 200 to 300 ppm. This situation became a source of irritation for the nearby community, and neighbors voiced their frustrations in numerous complaints filed with the City of Carlsbad.
The City of Carlsbad needed a sustainable, environmentally friendly odor control solution with a proven technology offering maximum value measured by performance, reliability, capital, installation, maintenance, and operating costs. A critical objective was to ensure that the population at the Palomar
Commons Shopping Center was protected from any odors.
After technology analyses and long-term cost considerations, an innovative, environmentally-friendly and sustainable hybrid biological odor control system from Integrity Municipal Systems, LLC (IMS) was selected. The system features superior performance, compact plug-and-play design, long lasting inert
media, minimal routine maintenance and low operating costs.
The I-BOx® 6000 biological odor control system is preassembled, piped, wired, and factory-tested for easy installation and fast start-up at the jobsite. The packaged biological odor control system consists of an FRP air exhaust fan, FRP dual-stage odor control vessel, water and nutrient feed panel, nutrient tank and electrical control panel.
The fan operates continuously and pulls foul air from the process area into the biological odor control system for treatment before releasing to the atmosphere. The system is composed of two distinct process stages. Stage 1, where primary treatment occurs, is designed to remove primarily
hydrogen sulfide (H2S) by providing an environment promoting the natural growth of acidophilic, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. The first stage media is an inert, porous, mineral-expanded clay material designed to resist compaction and degradation from the acidic sulfates of the biological oxidation of the hydrogen
sulfide. Stage 2 is a polishing stage used to remove any remaining hydrogen sulfide as well as other odorous organic compounds.
An intermittent water irrigation system is incorporated into the biological system design to provide the Stage 1 media with adequate moisture. Nutrients are also trickled over the media to enhance and sustain the biological activity. The nutrients are commercially available fertilizers stored in an integral nutrient
tank and dosed into the system by a nutrient pump mounted in the water and nutrient feed panel. Water and acidic sulfate byproducts washed from the media leave the system through the drain piping at the bottom of the vessel and are returned to the sewer main.
After delivery to the jobsite, the biological odor control system was installed and started up in just a few short hours. With inlet H2S concentrations consistently ranging between 150 to 250 ppm, the system has maintained more than 99 percent hydrogen sulfide removal efficiency since being placed in
operation. Community odor complaints have been eliminated. Minimal maintenance keeps operating cost low. The I-BOx® 6000 biological odor control system solved the odor control problem at the Palomar Commons Shopping Center and provides the City of Carlsbad with a reliable, efficient, costeffective
and sustainable odor control technology. Andrew Jamison, Project Manager of Jamison Engineering Contractors, Inc., said, "The installation process of the odor scrubbing unit went very smooth with no difficulties or time delays. The documentation was thorough and there were no complications encountered with the design and function of the unit."
Please contact us here for more information on our Biological Odor Control Systems, product specifications, or a customized project quote or chat with us now by clicking on the chat icon in the bottom right.
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The Old Pump Works is an exciting new development for us.
It brings together both modern and traditional architecture in a redevelopment of the old Victorian Pump Works and reservoir into a modern office scheme.
The traditional brick facades will house light filled modern offices, with the most exciting aspect involving a re vamp of the old box style reservoir into glass fronted open plan offices .
A breathtaking combination of traditional victorian architecture and slick modern styling.


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My Short List: Books and Games for Parents and Young Kids
A parent recently asked me a great question: what books (and games) would be useful for home use?
There are lots of resources around, such as living math, or the book list from Love 2 Learn 2 Day, where you can find great ideas for math books and games to read and play at home.
However, sometimes the sheer profusion of options is a bit overwhelming. That's why I want to give a short list of my current favorites for parents with young kids.
What's Math Got to Do With It by Jo Boaler
A great overview of what math is, how best to do it, how best to teach it, and why we should care.
An important read for parents and teachers.
Old Dogs, New Math: Homework Help for Puzzled Parents by Mike Askew
Sage advice on what's ahead in the math curriculum, how it's different than what we learned, and why the changes were made. Also some cool games, activities, and puzzles.
A Mathematician's Lament:
How Schools Cheat Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart
A dazzling screed against the standard vision of math education, and one of the best pieces on what math really is and what it feels like to do it. Almost too radical for me, at times, and you should take his suggestions with a grain of salt, but still a tremendous read.
Books for Kids (and adults)
Games for Math by Peggy Kaye
Peggy Kaye brings such a sense of joy to these simple games.
Tons of great suggestions on quick activities for home use. Perfect for K-3.
Anno's Math Games by Mitsumasa Anno
A beautiful and inventive books to communicate subtle mathematical concepts.
The Sir Cumference Series by Cindy Neuschwander
Math infused fairy tales. What's not to love?
Family Math by Stenmark, Thompson, and Cossey
I haven't read this yet, but it has been so highly recommended to me, I think it should be on the list.
My copy is in the mail.
Arm in Arm by Remy Charlip
I had this book as a kid, and loved it.
It's not explicitly trying to be a math book, but I can't think of a better introduction to infinity.
Games for Kids and Adults
I would describe all of these games as mathematical in some way.
All of them are worth playing, and worth getting addicted to.
Set — one of the all time best family games.
Nim — I spent many car trips playing nim with my little brother. Later, I read about "nimbers" and other contributions to game theory and set theory based on the game.
Hex — Phenomenal game, which I've used in math classes and with students for years. There are some beautiful geometric and topological questions that arise from the game, but the strategy alone is enough to make it worth playing.
Cribbage — I played cribbage incessantly when I was a kid. I credit it with my skill in adding and finding combinations.
Casino — Another classic from my youth. Really fun, and also great practice for adding and subtracting, and subtler strategies. I recommend Royal Casino, with Sweeps.
Backgammon — I played briefly when I was young, but didn't see how much deep strategy there was to this game. I rediscovered it as a teacher, and was hooked. Excellent for probability.
Pente — Another I wish I'd known when I was younger. Simple to learn, but devious to learn to play well.
Dots and Boxes — All you need is pencil and paper, and kids can play this game endlessly. Some beautiful strategy, and also good exposure to arrays and multiplication.
Also, Games with Pencil and Paper by Eric Solomon has some more excellent games to play anytime.
For more, check out Avery's blog for his top twenty games. While I haven't played every one of them, I trust the man's judgment. People who know how to play deserve one's trust, I think. I have especially high regard for Avery in this area, because he and I are both Scrabble players, and we used to play together from time to time back when we were both at Saint Ann's, and while I consider myself a pretty fierce competitor, it was all I could do to take one game in five from the man.
Happy playing and reading!
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RAF News
RAF Typhoons fly to Greece for Exercise Iniochos
RAF Coningsby based Typhoon jets are taking part in one of Europe's biggest military air exercises to bolster NATO's ability to respond to aggression.
Six jets from the Lincolnshire based 3 (Fighter) Squadron are in Greece to test their skills alongside the Hellenic Air Force and also pilots from America, Italy, and the United Arab Emirates.
It is the RAF's first appearance at Exercise Iniochos and the Typhoons have been practising air tactics in a multinational environment in preparation for future Coalition operations in the Middle East and elsewhere.
"This is the first time that Typhoon has deployed to Greece. This Exercise offers us a great opportunity to prepare for future operations and strengthens our existing relationship with the Greek Armed Forces."
Wing Commander Lewis Cunningham
UK Detachment Commander
The exercise is run annually and is based at the Hellenic Air Force's facilities at the Air Tactics Centre on the Andravida Air Base, located in the Northwest Peloponnese.
The exercise will last for 15 days and the intention is to provide high-quality training, which is achieved by creating a realistic battle environment. Participating personnel are exposed to an intensive battle rhythm with realistic attrition rates and challenging scenarios that include multiple modern threats and real-time events that are tailored to produce the fog of war. This, therefore, tests both the physical and psychological endurance of the airman.


A group of us have founded a new paranormal team. We are Transcend Paranormal. We still operate out of Richmond, VA, but we've changed up our structure a bit and it's been very awesome. Check us out!
I just found out that Mark Butler at his HalloweenMonsterList has added the Hauntary on his big list for the general Haunt 101 page as well as the Antique Photo method explained here on the site! I'm extremely excited that something I've put together made it :). Also Troy from HalloweenHellmouth brought up a good addition to the Haunt 101 page, which I will definitely be adding soon! Thanks! 26 days until Halloween, and 10 days until the 2-day Dead Man's Ball we're hosting this year! Best of luck to all, and enjoy!
The Richmond Paranormal Society has performed its first investigation under our new leader, Greg Halupa. We had the opportunity to investigate the Byrd Theater, located in the Carytown section of Richmond, Virginia. Greg, myself, and 6 others met up at the Byrd with General Manager Todd Schall-Vess at 11:30PM. After unpacking our gear and getting ready, we split into groups and started investigating. We are still reviewing all the data collected at this point, but most of us had personal experiences – not caught on any film/photo/audio at this point. We wrapped up our investigation around 3:ooAM. I'll be posting my data online soon for you all to check out if you wish – maybe you'll see something I missed!
Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen! Mark Butler has updated his MonsterList! I highly suggest checking this out – no matter how experienced of a Haunter you are, there is something for everyone from Beginner to Highly Experienced. There is currently a total of 808 Halloween Prop/Project How-To's, and Mark constantly updates the List. Give it a shot!


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The 'Emergence' project, built in 2018, extends our interest into structural and spatial logics. It is installed in the main gallery of the new SLCC Westpointe Campus building in Utah.
The project spans over 20-feet long and 16-feet high, with a total weight of 350 lb. The structural concept for the installation is that of a hybrid system, which is only partly attached to the gallery wall, and partly suspended from the dropped-ceiling cavity of the gallery. The combination of these distinct structural systems allowed for a spatial continuity of the project by blending aspects of figure/ground, which then visually challenged the notion of gravity.
The art piece is fabricated out of 1,276 unique, waterjet-cut, and pre-painted white aluminum components, which are connected by over 14,000 white-aluminum rivets. Assembled like a large, three-dimensional puzzle, the design forms a soft, curvilinear, yet dynamic, volume wrapping in and around itself, while performing as a closed structural system that only works when the last piece is inserted. The digitally cut, and then analog rolled, 0.05-inch thin aluminum pieces form a continuously connecting network of scales with mutual dependence among the pieces. This multi-connectivity generates a large-scale, volumetric architectural space that has comprehensive structural stiffness, while also being exceptionally lightweight.
The project serves as a communication device playfully allowing the public to discover the variety of moire effects, interconnections and reflective surface effects within the distinct pattern and ephemeral qualities of light and shadows provided. The concept for the artwork is based on the notion of innovation (technology and material) and a reflection of the forward looking culture on the SLCC campus (complexity, connectivity, and dynamism). The abstract, yet controlled form of the sculpture allows for multiple readings and a curious ambiguity between surface, aperture and continuation.
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Project Team: Volkan Alkanoglu, Matthew Au, Daniela Leon, Cody Miner, Jakob Falk, Ravyn Crabtree, Tom Ferrer
Structural Engineering: Laufs ED
Client: Salt Lake Community College
Location: New Engineering Building, Salt Lake City, UT
Photography: John McCarthy


A March Madness concert in April? Okay. Who cares when Rihanna is the headliner?
Ri is certainly getting it in with these promo spots.
Tune in on April 4th to catch her performance at the NCAA March Madness Music Festival during the NCAA championship tournament. Her new single 'American Oxygen,' which is produced by Alex Da Kid, is also featured in a 30-second promo for NCAA March Madness.
The three-day concert (3-5) will be held at the White River State Park in Indianapolis.
Rihanna promotes her new animated feature 'Home' at Mandarin Oriental on March 15, 2015 in New York City.


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Prominent Surgeon Dies 'Trapped by Flames' in Australia Fires
Marcia Frellick
Clayton Lang, MBBS, 43, a prominent plastic surgeon in Adelaide, South Australia (SA), who specialized in hand surgery, died along with his father on Friday in a Kangaroo Island brushfire.
Dr Clayton Lang
The Australian Associated Press reported that the two men were returning to the family property on Kangaroo Island when they were trapped by flames after fighting a nearby fire for 2 days.
Clayton Lang supervised surgical training at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South Australia and consulted privately at Dextra Surgical in Adelaide, Maitland Medical Center, and Gawler Medical Clinic, according to the practice's website.
Rhea Liang, MBChB, a colleague of Lang's, tweeted after she learned of the tragedy: "Shocked. Utterly shocked. Clayton was a colleague, a true gentleman, and a skilled surgeon."
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Liang told Medscape Medical News she had worked closely with him when they were young consultants. While she remains on the Gold Coast, he had moved to work nearer his family, she said.
"He was a kind and gentle man who didn't stand on hierarchy, treating everyone the same. He extended the same respect to his patients, who trusted him deeply. No matter how long or stressful the operation, I never saw him raise his voice or lose his composure," Liang said.
Once, during an operation that lasted more than 8 hours, two blood vessels were joined, but the blood wouldn't flow, which meant a stage of the procedure that took 3 hours would have to be repeated. Team frustration was evident.
"Clayton said, 'Oh I think we're traveling alright,' looked around at the team and asked if anyone needed to scrub out for a cuppa or bathroom break before we kept on. That was his special ability to think of others, even at a time when his back must have been aching as much as mine," she said.
"In my mind's eye I see him as the fire swept down, still as calm as ever, thinking of everyone else before himself. Somehow that image, for me, is equal parts heartbreaking and comforting."
Liang said that she hadn't been aware he was fighting a fire in the days before but that she was not surprised.
"For someone who laid his body on the line in the service of the community on a daily basis as a surgeon, he has made a final sacrifice doing the same for his home community. It will be up to the rest of us to remember and honor him by continuing to look after the patients that he cared for so deeply."
Family "Heartbroken"
The American Medical Association tweeted its condolences, noting that he was "well known to many in the AMA, both in SA and nationally."
He was a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, secretary of the Australian Hand Surgery Society, secretary of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, and a member of the Australian and New Zealand Burns Association.
Police said the men died on Playford Highway in the center of the island.
Lang was the youngest of four sons of Dick Lang, 78, a well-known outback bush pilot and tour guide known as "Desert Dick," and Helen, Dick's wife of more than 55 years.
The Lang family issued a family statement: "Helen and the family are heartbroken and reeling from this double tragedy and are touched by people's thoughts at this difficult time."
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Clayton Lang had two daughters with his wife, Christie.
Plastic Surgeons Australia tweeted: "ASPS is deeply saddened to learn that one of our members, Clayton Lang and his father Dick died yesterday in the bushfires on Kangaroo Island. Our thoughts are with their family, our South Australian colleagues, especially at Dextra Surgical and our members."
Another tweet from longtime colleague David Caldicott read: "Absolutely heartbroken to hear about the death of Clayton Lang, a great doctor, teacher, and friend with whom I had the pleasure of training & working, in another life. My profound commiserations to his family, & the many, many folk who knew and loved him."
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According to news reports, about a third of Kangaroo Island has been ravaged by the fires. The fires had been burning for weeks on the island but escalated severely on Friday with changing weather conditions.
This season's devastating fires in eastern Australia have killed at least 23 people in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia.
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Google's Tom Uglow Joins AWARD
After previously starting Google's creative lab in Europe, he has recently moved to Sydney
Creative strategist, technological enthusiast and Google Creative Labs champion Tom Uglow is set to join the Communications Council's AWARD Committee.
The AWARD Committee has a long-standing history of reflecting the diversity and experience of the broader creative industries. Championing new and original thinking in the Australasian region, AWARD seeks to work with world class talent to progress its agenda of raising the creative standards in the region.
Craig Davis, Chief Creative Officer and Co-Chairman of Publicis Mojo said: "Advertising agencies, design companies and digital specialists don't have a monopoly on creativity. Google is a technology company with a highly creative culture and Tom Uglow has been instrumental in Google's creative development globally. AWARD exists to champion commercial creativity and inspire new thinking, new ideas and new ways of working. Tom will bring another set of talents and a different perspective to the table. I'm thrilled that Tom is joining us".
Tom Uglow started Google's Creative Lab in Europe and has recently moved to Sydney to work on exploratory projects and creative ideas that help connect Google, Android and YouTube with users.
Tom said: "I'm very happy to be joining the AWARD committee at an exciting time for digital marketing, with the Australian creative industry beginning to show on the global digital stage. There is a wealth of talent and opportunity here, and it's a privilege to be invited to join this group."
"At Google we work collaboratively with a range of agencies but always try to bring a "digital first" perspective to creativity.
I believe in a future of creative that exists for the user across mobile and interactive, online and offline - and I hope that my involvement can help young creatives to champion that imperative for the industry."
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The committee works across five portfolios: the industry's yearly festival of Commercial Creativity 'Circus', AWARD Membership, Events, the annual AWARD Awards and the Education portfolio, currently operating under AWARD School head Adrian McNamara.
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Kalash: Mi Kalash, Is the new secret weapon against racism and oppression. So let me introduce to the new Kalash: Regardless the part the world of you are living, you already see, or heard the sound of a Kalash, which is associated with the AK-47, or AK as it is officially known (Russian: Автома́т Кала́шникова, tr. Avtomát Kaláshnikova, lit.Kalashnikov's Automatic Rifle), also known as the Kalashnikov, is a gas-operated, 7.62×39mm assault rifle, developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov.
It is the originating firearm of the Kalashnikov rifle (or "AK") family this rifle, is the firearm where generations from the last fourth decades saw and continue to see movies, live streaming media, and novel as terrible weapons using by the military in war, by gangsters members in urban conflicts, by drug-dealers in operation, by rebels, by political group, by ideological fringe as a core arsenal inside they army revolts and finally by Hollywood in action movies.
Kalash videos has 250 million viewers on Youtube, Vevo, Facebook, Spotify combined. Best Afro- Caribean Artist, Best French Rap RNB Dancehall and Reggae, number one artist on social media that sing in French, Creole and English simultaneously, Number non-American showbiz hip-hop personality on Twitter, Instagram, SnapChat, Kalash the french rapper is also one on the words searching on Google from three regions: Caribbean, European, and African.
Really the word Kalash is everywhere in all conversation worldwide, it's also present in most of the action and fiction novels, but the new Kalash is not a Kalash Nikov as known as AK-47 the deadly rifle gun. It's a new ideological secret weapon that using music culture and entertainment to attacking oppression, racism, discrimination all over the world.
The new Kalash is a lyrical full automatic rifle and a calculating machine words that shooting: hits, songs, tube, albums, video clip on after one. The new Kalash it is also a tsunami musical directly from the Caribbean that cracking the Internet and social media platform as Vevo, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat with more 100 million views combine all-time.
The Kalash songs in invading smartphones, tablets, and computers to operative an identity awaken job that made all his audio and video became viral on radio stations, online and on live performance. The new Kalah is activating an artistic solidarity shock wave that generates featuring and collaboration from the top engaging names in the showbiz business behind him all over the world.
The new Kalash is a Voice that gives power the those one who can not rich this level on a bigger platform, in the arena of megastars that writing history in the showbiz universe by is Afro-Caribbeanoriginality that allows Kalash to be able to sing simultaneously in Creole, French, Anglish.
Kalash , whose real name is Kevin Valleray , aws born on June 12 , 1988 in Strasbourg , is a French singer and rapper from Martinique Ralph Valleray came to pursue his studies of philosophy and history before becoming a professor of philosophy in an Adventist high school in Sainte-Luce in Martinique.
He leaves France with his parents, two months old. He spent his childhood in a religious atmosphere within the Seventh-day Adventist Church, through his father who also studied theology in Jamaica for 4 years, such as his two pastors and theologians Guy and Joel Valleray. His mother, Murielle nee Filin, remarried to the traditional sailing champion, Joseph Mas alias Athon, is a state-certified nurse, a nurse in Martinique.
Grownup inside a multi multicultural religious family the young Kalash spent his first four years of childhood at the Cité Dillon, a popular district of Fort de France. Following the separation of his parents in 1994, he will live in the township of Saint-Esprit, then in the innercity François.
Kalash's childhood is musically marked by Afro-Caribbean roots culture contain revolutionary musicality with strong lyrics and profound message into it. He caught this habit from his father a Bob Marley fervent admirer.
Kalash does most of his schooling in Seventh-day Adventist institutions: Kerlys Primary School and then Rama High School / High School in Monestry St. Luce. He keeps a deep religious impregnation and especially an intense faith in God. His last year of high school was at the prestigious Schoelcher High School where he has learned a lot about philosophy, social identity, and social origin.
His high education teaches him discipline, and persistence shape him made him become a real challenger who his very strict with himself in term of never delivered and undone task and always looking for perfection.
Kalash has been immersed in a religious milieu, in social violence and discrimination environment that's make him find himself as products of the Ghetto. An intelligent human being he his Kalash embarrassing a social mission which fights against oppression and made it become his leitmotiv and his signature brand.
Whenever his distance himself from churches or a particular religion, Kalash social evolution shows total spirituality influence particularly in four titles, "Only God can judge me", "4 crossed", "According to me", "Red Net # 509" express with force, this religious and spiritual dimension, in complete freedom by said his life is securing by the Great Manitou.
Kalash the French hip-hop stars fighting the far right in a society polarized by racism sponsored by the French Front National (FN), a right-wing French political party strongly supported French nationalism and controls on immigration, and it often has been accused of fostering xenophobia, anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant.
Kalash particularly answers the far right in a video clip by this words "I've fucked Jean-Marie since I was born and his daughter that orangutan." that give the respect in the Franco-Arabic and muslin community in France. but Kalash is more than that.
The singer earns the public respect for his creativity, his intellectuality, his artistic performance but more for his bold attitude to discuss in public what others are afraid to say. Kalash is also a new Caribean Voice in the footsteps of Bob Marley himself because Kalash is not real, is true and his not afraid of Babilon's in referral to cops by the Ghetto language code.
Kalash music is warming welcome in any Ghetto or Inner City he visited in all continents all over each country want him to do live. By the time Kalash is arriving in your city, he is the most, Reggae, Dancehall, French Rap, Creole Rap, Afro-Caribbean, non-American artist Hip-Hop blowing the internet by millions of views all time.
13 to 14 November 2014, Kalash and Admiral T are placed in custody for aggravated violence.
They are accused of assaulting three police officers, apparently in a state of drunkenness.
Both singers dispute this version and claim to have been victims of police violence.
November 15, they are released and placed under judicial control.
Their file was returned to instruction. Kalash will be judged for the following reasons: obvious drunkenness, violence on a police officer (2 days of ITT), kicking, punching, ground projection, violence on a police officer, slaps, radio and glasses torn off , contempt of a police officer.
July 2015, released the gangsta-rap single Bando , the single meets a great success and Kalash is relayed by Booba who will expose it to the metropolitan scene, and will collaborate twice on the upcoming album Kalash.
May 6 , 2016 Kaos releases Kalash's 3rd album with tracks ranging from rap to dancehall. The album reached the 4th place of the French top album, flowing to 7,034 copies during its first week of operation 7 . The album is certified gold in July 2016 .
He is the father of a boy named Ethan born of an unknown mother and a girl Iéva born in 2017 with his long-time partner Ingrid Littré, former Martinique Queen who was finalist at the Miss World 2009 contest.
Kalash upon his arrival in the Metropolis he lives in the heart of Paris, near the Champs Elysees .
He later moved out to an unknown place in the Gheto because the police broke into his home.
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^ Jump up to:a b "Kalash discography". hitparade.ch. Hung Medien. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
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US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on stage during the 2019 Athena Film Festival closing night film, 'Knock Down the House' at Barnard College on March 3, 2019 in New York City.
File this under: Please make this happen.
But if one member of Netflix's hit series Queer Eye has anything to say about it, the freshman congresswoman may be giving her critics even more to talk about, thanks to a tweet from the show's interior designer, Bobby Berk, who reached out to volunteer his services on Monday (h/t Vogue).
On Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez got the message—and invited Berk to "swing by [her] office" to address the "[bachelor] pad/warehouse type situation" going on there—including a rainbow Post-It wall?
And this is where it gets really exciting, because Berk said he'd love to. At last glance, the two were moving the conversation to DM.
We want AOC to get the same treatment—including a super-chic but under-budget wardrobe from Queer Eye stylist Tan France—if only because it'll make a few right-wing heads explode (likely on the sheer gayness of it all, alone). Netflix, please, please, please make this happen; and then release it as a special, so we can all share in the joy.
Maybe things just keep getting better, after all?
There, they not only got a tour from the freshman firebrand, but met Speaker Nancy Pelosi and fellow congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-Wa.), and did a little unofficial lobbying for the Equality Act.


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To me, Dr. Minuchin was a mentor, a paternal figure, and my "family" in Florida. The therapy community lost a founder and theorist. I lost connection and a piece of my heart. We often talked about death since it was a reality for him but a small part of me believed him when he jokingly told me 4 months ago that he had decided to live forever. He was a giant of a man with lots to share with the many who reached out to him. His mind remained active and his desire to develop therapists was a passion to his last day.
As a mentor, he pushed me and pointed out my insecurities. He did it with such directness, yet gentleness and patience. I often wondered why he bothered with someone like me.... He has worked with so many who are much smarter!!! He consistently asked about my practice, would be genuinely excited for my ideas and progress, and would encourage me to stay systemic. I was blessed to have him in my life. And I was blessed to work with a genius. A genius who, in the years we worked together, helped shape and mold how I wish my therapy to be as well as remained open to my thoughts and ideas for himself. I'm nowhere near that person, yet, but he nudged me towards better. He showed me that even at 96 he continued to learn so we should never stop trying to be better.
As a paternal figure he showed me love that was unexpected. He welcomed me into his home, he extended his family to me, and he gently chided me when I would express frustration with "trivial" interpersonal conflicts. I found I could express my thoughts about school, my life, my practice... and all was embraced with dialogue and acceptance which became our "normal". He took the time to meet all of my family, to give my father a gift as a thank you for me... He would ask for my presence during events he held, and he would tell me how "remarkable" my puppy is while he played with her. I cherished the time we had together, from sharing a meal, to watching videos, to exploring thoughts, to discussing therapy.
As my "family" he would check on me... he respected me and entrusted me to be his voice to the public. he offered his home to me. And I would check on him! There have been multiple times my heart stopped when I didn't know where he was… Was he OK? He's not answering my calls or my knock… what has happened? And then I would find him shortly after, on some adventure and asking me why I allow myself to get flustered for no reason.
Two days before we had to say goodbye he asked me why I was so loyal to him. He made me cry. I was thinking the same thing about him.
He thanked me for loving him.
I'm very private about our time together because I took seriously the responsibility of his work and our bond was special to me. Yet I'm so thankful to have been blessed with his influence and his presence in my life. My 8 years with him is only 1/10 of his life and only a fraction of what he has accomplished. I saw a softer side of him that you don't read about in textbooks and a vulnerable side that many forget exist in our iconic role models.
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Garbage are always "quite surprised" by good reviews.
The 'Only Happy When it Rains' hitmakers "expect the worst" when they release new material so any positive comments are always much welcomed.
Singer Shirley Manson said: "To be perfectly frank, we've reached a point in our career where we just accept the worst.
"We are always quite surprised when we get a positive reaction. It's not something we really expect or are accustomed to."
This year, the group marked the 20th anniversary of their 'Beautiful Garbage' LP with a re-release and Shirley recalled thinking her career was over after the record first came out and "died on the vine".
She said: "I honestly thought that was the end of my career and that we were never going to recover.
"It took a long time for us as a band to regain our equilibrium and our confidence and our joy.
"Joy is of monumental importance when you're an artist, particularly in an industry that has become so hard.
"So to realise that you've regained something at this late stage in your life and career feels like unexpected treasure."
The 'Stupid Girl' hitmaker counts the likes of Blondie's Debbie Harry and Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches amongst her friends and she is always inspired by people who want to "shake the tree".
She told Classic Rock magazine: "All musicians, whether they like it or not, are tied to each other.
"We're all out there vying with each other for the connection of an audience and that puts you all in the same swimming pool.
"And when you're all in the sae pool, you're going to brush up against one another.
"I'm inspired by anyone who's willing to push up against the status quo and try and shake the tree.
"I do not want to go to my grave feeling like I've watched all this injustice unfold in front of me and never having raised my voice."


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AIST develops new ceramic catalyst that can kill MRSA
- Catalyst has potential for application in measures against nosocomial bacteria and decontamination of water with bacterial levels of 5-30 ppm -
(Translation of AIST press release on March 6, 2002)
The mesoporous ceramics research group at the Ceramics Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has developed a novel ceramic catalyst (patent pending) that can kill Escherichia coli and MRSA. The ceramic catalyst may be useful for water decontamination, as it can be used to treat water containing extremely low bacterial levels of the order of 5–30 ppm and can also break down bleach and toxic organic compounds. The catalyst can be used in baths and pools, to prevent nosocomial infections, and to sterilize and clean medical devices and clothing, as it is safe and harmless. It may also dramatically reduce the use of chlorine-based agents. The catalyst is being commercialized by Health Chemical Co., Ltd., as a bath cleaner.
The new material consists of a ceramic catalyst containing a titanium dioxide photocatalyst coated in apatite. It can adsorb and break down bacteria and organic compounds. A novel design by the research group head Tooru Nonami enabled an effective reaction even using the light emitted from household fluorescent lighting. Moreover, the photocatalyst can kill E. coli and MRSA at these low levels of light once the apatite has adsorbed the bacteria.
The figure shows the results from experiments using E. coli. With an existing titanium dioxide system, a solution of 1000 CFU/mL still contained around 600 CFU/mL after 5 hours' treatment. However, with the new material, a solution of around 30 ppm (3 g per 100 L) contained under 10 CFU/mL after 3 hours' treatment and 0 CFU/mL after 5 hours. These results demonstrate that the new material is extremely effective.
Chlorine-based agents are normally used to clean bathwater, but they cause the generation of trihalomethanes and various other environmental problems related to safety . The new material could dramatically reduce the use of chlorine-based agents and enable E. coli disinfection, as well as break down substances such as organic matter in bathwater and slippery substances on bathtubs. As the research was a partly collaborative project, Health Chemical Co., Ltd., is commercializing the product as a bath cleaner and will present the product at the International Hotel and Restaurant Show HOTERES JAPAN 2002 that opens on 12 March 2002 at Tokyo Big Site. AIST has already filed for a number of patents on the ceramic catalyst.
The ceramic catalyst has potential for use as a denture-cleansing agent and in measures against nosocomial infections. It could also be used to sterilize and clean clothing, electronics parts, machine parts, and food. In addition, the catalyst exhibits superior organic compound breakdown and bleaching capabilities. Systems containing titanium dioxide alone have almost no bleaching effect on paper stained with blood components or tobacco tar, but the ceramic catalyst produces exceptional results with bleaching in around 5 minutes. The research group has also confirmed that the catalyst can completely eliminate calcium deposits, such as dental calculi (tartar), and it expects to develop other applications in the future. AIST plans to establish ties with companies that wish to obtain more information or conclude a technology transfer agreement.
The new ceramic catalyst is expected to be available for applications in the near future, as low-cost production and simple manufacturing methods are possible.


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Q: java Cant retrieve the data from sql server in my jtable //i get all this connection errors.... i guess i miss something thats why this mess happends .i am new with this so if enyone can help :D
com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: Incorrect syntax near 'Suppliers'.
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException.makeFromDatabaseError(SQLServerException.java:196)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.getNextResult(SQLServerStatement.java:1454)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.doExecuteStatement(SQLServerStatement.java:786)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement$StmtExecCmd.doExecute(SQLServerStatement.java:685)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSCommand.execute(IOBuffer.java:4026)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.executeCommand(SQLServerConnection.java:1416)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.executeCommand(SQLServerStatement.java:185)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.executeStatement(SQLServerStatement.java:160)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.executeQuery(SQLServerStatement.java:620)
    at mylogin.Suppliers.getuserList(Suppliers.java:61)
    at mylogin.Suppliers.show_suppliers_in_Jtable(Suppliers.java:75)
    at mylogin.Suppliers.<init>(Suppliers.java:30)
    at mylogin.Suppliers$6.run(Suppliers.java:345)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:311)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:756)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:726)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)

public class Suppliers extends javax.swing.JFrame {
    /**
     * Creates new form Suppliers
     */
    public Suppliers() {
        initComponents();
        show_suppliers_in_Jtable();
    }
     String driver ="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver";
     String url ="jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1435;databaseName=supermarket";
     String user ="sa";
     String pass ="sql!123";

     public Connection getConnection()
     {
         Connection con;
      try {
         Class.forName(driver);
         con=DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, pass);
         return con;
       }catch (Exception e){
           e.printStackTrace();
           return null;
       }

     }
     public ArrayList<Update_del_insert> getuserList()
     {
         ArrayList <Update_del_insert> userList =new ArrayList <Update_del_insert> ();
         Connection connection =getConnection();

         String query ="SELECT * FROM 'Suppliers'";
         Statement st;
         ResultSet rs;
         try{
            st = connection.createStatement();
            rs = st.executeQuery(query);
            Update_del_insert  update_del_insert ;
            while(rs.next())
            {
               update_del_insert = new Update_del_insert (rs.getString("SupName"),rs.getString("SupSurName"));
               userList.add(update_del_insert);
            }
            }catch (Exception e){
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
         return userList;
     }
     //display data in jtable
     public void show_suppliers_in_Jtable(){
         ArrayList<Update_del_insert> list= getuserList();
         DefaultTableModel model =(DefaultTableModel)jtable_Suppliers.getModel();
         Object[] row =new Object[2];
         for(int i =0;i< list.size();i++)
         {
             row[0] = list.get(i).getsupName();
             row[1] = list.get(i).getsupSurName();

             model.addRow(row);

         }

}

//SupName and SupSurName are my tables on sql
public class Update_del_insert {
    private String SupName;
    private String SupSurName;
    public Update_del_insert(String supName,String supSurName )
    {
        this.SupName=supName;
        this.SupSurName=supSurName;
    }

    public String getsupName()
    {
        return SupName;
    }
     public String getsupSurName()
    {
        return SupSurName;
    }
}

A: Change this line
String query ="SELECT * FROM 'Suppliers'";

with this
String query ="SELECT * FROM Suppliers";

You dont need to (') in your select