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106-Year-Old Woman Gets Engaged, Love Never Dies
Drew Weisholtz
Drew Weisholtz Published: February 7, 2017
This couple will stay together 'til death do them part.
A 106-year-old Brazilian woman has become the oldest person to get engaged when her 66-year-old boyfriend popped the question last weekend.
Yes, she's 106 and he's 66 -- she's a cougar. This is the most romantic Valentine's Day act since Cupid got diapers.
The couple got engaged during a ceremony at their retirement home, even though doctors told them tying the knot was not a good idea after they expressed their desire to live in a house together.
It will be the first marriage for bride-to-be Valdemira Rodrigues de Oliveira -- known as Valda -- and her young buck, Aparecido Dias Jacob, neither of whom has any children.
The couple met in 2014 at the home and hit it off. According to Jacob:
I fell in love with Valda from the moment I saw her. I know she's a little older than me, but that doesn't matter because she makes me really happy."
Valda, meanwhile, glows when talking about her man. "I fell in love with him," she said. "I like him a lot. If he died, I die too." It's so sweet that we're going to bypass the joke that she's lucky she didn't break a hip when she fell in love with him.
There's no word when they'll actually marry, but, considering she was alive when World War One broke out we vote for not holding out for a summer wedding.
Source: 106-Year-Old Woman Gets Engaged, Love Never Dies
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Tomorrow is the first day at work for us this year. As normal will be heading in on our trusty motorcycles.
As is traditional for us, we have noted the milage on both our bikes. Once again we had a light year again for us. The big holidays of the year were all in the car as they were photography focussed.
Our Honda Deauville finished the year on 60133, again only light commuting duty by Caroline. So she completed 672 miles last year. She is getting old now and we only use her occasionally.
Caroline mainly travels on the GS now. If your a lady and would like a big GS but are put off by the height then do what we did and order the low seats, we have both seats, the standard seat which when set on its highest position is perfect for some one like me over 6′ 2″, and the low seat option for Caroline who is 5′ 6″, who can then confidently put down both feet. The big GS is also actually lighter and easier to handle then the Deauville.
Our Lovely BMW R1200GS finished the year on 27158, no big trips for us last year but a weekend round North Yorkshire. She completed 5299, still quite low for us. This next year is also going to be a light year. We are visiting the Scottish Islands again with the Large Format Camera gear, so the car again will be the order of the day.


Mamelodi Sundowns squandered an early advantage, to hand Nigeria's Lobi Stars a 2-1 victory in the CAF Champions League on Friday night.
The visitors held all the aces in this fixture, but on their trip back to South Africa Pitso Mosimane's players will have to reflect on how this glorious opportunity slipped through their fingers.
The fact that Sundowns are in a tough group has been well documented already and there was every indication that the Lobi Stars fixture would be their best chance to secure maximum points away from home.
For 45 minutes, it appeared that objective would be realised. It is not just the fact that Sundowns scored early but it was the manner in which that goal was scored, which suggested to all and sundry that this would be a good night at the office.
Gastón Sirino found himself on the end of a well placed through ball and cut it back into the box for none other than Anthony Laffor, who finished the move with considerable aplomb. Laffor seldom makes mistakes from that range.
It is that kind of composure and discipline that was such a prominent feature for Sundowns in the first stanza - not one yellow card until the infraction from Kennedy Mweene in first-half injury time and nothing in the referee's book in the second stanza.
The first-half penalty was no doubt a turning point in the fixture. At the start of the second stanza the Lobi Stars attacking intent was clear and a disgruntled Mweene was even forced to make a series of remarkable saves to keep the visitors in the game.
However, the Sundowns resistance finally faltered, when Mathias Martins poached a ball in the box to break Sundowns hearts, with just under 40 minutes to play. Even then, Sundowns would still have believed that they deserved something out of this fixture.
There was strong evidence of that for the remainder of the match but the finishing touch, which had secured them the early, was found wanting when it mattered most. Sundowns now find themselves at the bottom of what is a tough group.
Will they have the character to fight back? We believe they will.


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Singapore, 3 July 2018 – Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) launches a new 2018 campaign today, challenging Singaporeans to go beyond random acts of kindness and think of our individual and collective characters and values. Be Greater is a call for everyone to be better and greater versions of ourselves, no matter which social groups we belong to.
The Be Greater television vignette is directed by celebrated local filmmaker Kirsten Tan, whose debut feature film 'Pop Aye' was awarded the prestigious World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting at the Sundance Film Festival 2017. In collaboration with SKM, Kirsten presents her take on kindness and being greater, imbuing the video with a raw, humanistic element present in her directorial style.
The video questions how we define greatness, typically associated with achievements, wealth and power. Instead, we are called to reflect on and consider our characters and inner values like kindness. As such, greatness is a mantle that anyone can assume, be it a student or a high-flying CEO. It is a call to be more than oneself, to move beyond sporadic towards greater acts of kindness which are sustainable and leave a lasting positive impact.
"The Be Greater campaign aims to embolden society to be kind, unhindered by doubts or self-consciousness," according to Dr William Wan, General Secretary of the Singapore Kindness Movement. "Kindness should become second nature, not limited to random acts. It should be sustainable, where one good deed begets another, fostering long term change.
The Be Greater campaign will be rolled out in several stages, the first being the manifesto video which encapsulates the spirit of the campaign. A cornerstone of the campaign, it will be screened as an advertisement in cinemas and on television, both terrestrial (Channel 5 & 8) and cable (StarHub channels like BBC Earth, E-City and Warner TV) throughout the month of July.
● Senthil Anathan, a civil servant who volunteers regularly.
Through showcasing exemplary members of society who are being great through their kindness, it is the hope that all the rest of us will be inspired to do the same in our own ways.
Other than traditional advertising channels, the message is also being spread by famous personalities like Fandi Ahmad and Wong Li Lin. Each has crafted their own kindness statements on their individual "Be Greater" T-shirts, and will be walking ambassadors of the campaign. They intend to engage their fans by posting their accounts of kindness on social media, with the hashtag #BeGreaterSG. Selected designs will available for sale at the Kindness Gallery and participating cafes, for a limited period.
SKM is pleased to work with Starbucks Singapore to launch a month-long Kindness Cafe in one of its outlets in August. The cafe will be decked in friendly kindness quotes and reminders, in line with the "Be Greater" campaign messaging.
Considerate customers who display kindness will be identified by the staff, who will in turn reward them with exclusive campaign memorabilia designed by both Singapore Kindness Movement and Starbucks. As one of Starbucks' core values is to create a culture of warmth and belonging, the Kindness Cafe seeks to remove customers' inhibitions to be kind and be greater.
A time to ask: Are we compassionate enough?


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Krishnan, SH and Ayappa, KG (2012) Glassy dynamics in a confined monatomic fluid. In: PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 86 (1, Par).
Molecular dynamic simulations of a strongly inhomogeneous system reveals that a single-component soft-sphere fluid can behave as a fragile glass former due to confinement. The self-intermediate scattering function, F-s(k,t), of a Lennard-Jones fluid confined in slit-shaped pores, which can accomodate two to four fluid layers, exhibits a two-step relaxation at moderate temperatures. The mean-squared displacement data are found to follow time-temperature superposition and both the self-diffusivity and late a relaxation times exhibit power-law divergences as the fluid is cooled. The system possesses a crossover temperature and follows the scalings of mode coupling theory for the glass transition. The temperature dependence of the self-diffusivity can be expressed using the Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann equation, and estimates of the fragility index of the system indicates a fragile glass former. At lower temperatures, signatures of additional relaxation processes are observed in the various dynamical quantities with a three-step relaxation observed in the F-s(k,t).


Feeling unusually warm this summer? Through the mid point of this month we are on pace to break the all time record average temperature for July. In 2010, Hartford officially had an average temperature of 77.4 degrees in July, not including today we are at 79.8 degrees with four more days of 90's coming up. Our fifth heat wave this summer is well under way and may finish with a consecutive string of seven 90+ degree days on Saturday. The record is ten days in 1995. A heat wave is when we have at least three consecutive days at 90 degrees and over. The heat will be turned off temporarily on Sunday as a cooler dryer Canadian air mass finally pushes out the oppressive heat. Maybe a solid 3 or 4 days of beautiful summertime weather early next week.


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Q: Which one is it: a4paper or paper=a4? I'm using XeLaTeX mostly, and I never know what to put into \documentclass[]{}.
Usually I use something like \documentclass[a4paper, 11pt]{scrartcl}. But I never know whether it's a4paper or paper=a4. I believe it has something to do the documentclass I'm using.
I need the paper selection for the KoMa-Classes, scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt, as well as g-brief2, dinbrief, etc.
There is a plethora of sources on the internet, and while one source says paper=a4, another says a4paper. I need clarification on this one.

A: The syntax paper=a4 is exclusive of the KoMa-Script classes, that is, scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr.
No other class or package that I know of accepts it: the only notable exception is, of course, the package typearea, which is part of the KoMa-Script bundle, to which the paper size options given to the KoMa-Script classes are deferred.
However, typearea.sty says also
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so that a4paper as global option is recognized.
My preference would be to always use a4paper. While I see virtues in KoMa-Script approach, it's non standard.
Notice that g-brief.cls uses only A4 paper, while dinbrief uses it by default, so for these two classes you can avoid specifying the option. Also scrlettr uses A4 paper by default.

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5 unicorns that will probably go public in 2019 (besides Uber and Lyft)
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There's been plenty of fanfare surrounding Uber and Lyft's initial public offerings — slated for early 2019 — since the two companies filed confidential IPO paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in early December. On top of that, public and private investors have had plenty to say about Slack and Pinterest's rumored 2019 IPOs but those aren't the only "unicorn" exits we should expect to witness in the year ahead.
Using its proprietary company rating algorithm, data provider CB Insights ranked five billion dollar companies most likely to perform IPOs next year in its latest tech IPO report. The algorithm analyzes non-traditional public signals, including hiring activity, web traffic and mobile app data to make its predictions. These are the startups that topped their list.
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Peloton Co-Founder and CEO John Foley speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 on September 6, 2018 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch).
Peloton, dubbed the "Netflix of fitness," has raised nearly $1 billion in venture capital funding in the six years since it was founded by John Foley, most recently raising $550 million at a $4 billion valuation. The manufacturer of tech-enabled exercise equipment is more than doubling in size every year and is "weirdly profitable," an unusual characteristic for a venture-backed business of its age. Headquartered in New York, Peloton doesn't have any public IPO plans, though Foley recently told The Wall Street Journal that 2019 "makes a lot of sense" for its stock market debut.
Select investors: L Catterton, True Ventures, Tiger Global
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Cybersecurity unicorn Cloudflare is likely to transition to the public markets in the first half of 2019 in what is poised to be a strong year for IPOs in the security industry. The web performance and security platform is said to be preparing for an IPO at a potential valuation of more than $3.5 billion after last raising capital in 2015 at a $1.8 billion valuation. Since it was founded in 2009, the San Francisco-based company has raised just north of $250 million in VC funding. CrowdStrike, another security unicorn, is also on track to go public next year and it wouldn't be surprising to see Illumio and Lookout make the jump to the public markets as well.
Select investors: Pelion Venture Partners, NEA, Venrock
Zoom, a provider of video conferencing services, online meeting and group messaging tools that's raised $160 million in VC cash to date, is eyeing a multi-billion IPO in 2019 and has reportedly hired Morgan Stanley to lead the offering. Founded in 2011, the company most recently brought in a $100 million Series D financing, entirely funded by Sequoia, at a $1 billion valuation in early 2017. Based in San Jose, Zoom is hoping to garner a valuation significantly larger than $1 billion when it IPOs, according to Reuters.
Select investors: Sequoia, Emergence Capital Partners, Horizons Ventures
Data management company Rubrik co-founder and CEO Bipul Sinha.
Data management company Rubrik has quietly made moves indicative of an impending IPO. The startup, which provides data backup and recovery services for businesses across cloud and on-premises environments, hired former Atlassian chief financial officer Murray Demo as its CFO earlier this year, as well as its first chief legal officer, Peter McGoff. Palo Alto-based Rubrik was valued at over of $1 billion with a $180 million funding round in 2017. The company has raised nearly $300 million to date.
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Medallia
Medallia, a customer experience management platform that's nearly two decades old, may finally become a public company in 2019. The San Mateo-based company, which has been rumored to be planning an IPO for several years, hired a new CEO this year and reported $250 million in GAAP revenue for the year ending Jan. 31, 2018, according to Forbes. Medallia hasn't raised capital since 2015, when it secured a $150 million funding deal at a $1.2 billion valuation. It has raised a total of just over $250 million.
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Сарма́тське баро́ко — у термінології мистецтвознавця Тамари Габрусь, аскетична варіація архітектури бароко, що отримала розповсюдження на території Великого князівства Литовського наприкінці XVII — початку XVIII століть, для якого характерні «виразна масивна пластика форм» та загальна орієнтація на середньовічну традицію.

Барочні формі максимально геометризуються та спрощуються, у оформлення фасадів вводяться ренесансні, готичні та навіть романські елементи. Силуети храмів масивні, інколи вони нагадують мініатюрні фортеці, їх декор підкреслено суворий. Лаконічне оформлення фасадів незрідка контрастує с пишним ліпним інтер'єром.

У пам'ятках сарматського бароко прийнято бачити віддзеркалення ідеології сарматизму, що ідеалізувала патріархальний спосіб життя середньовічних пращурів польсько-литовських шляхтичів. У 1720-і роки примітивізація барочних форм вийшла з моди, на зміну важкому сарматському прийшло легке та пишне віленське бароко.

До найвизначніших пам'яток «сарматської» групи належать Фарний костел у Новогрудку (1714—1723), Воскресенська церква у Клецьку (1683), костел у Михалишках (Гродненська область, 1662—1684), Троїцький костел у Засвирі (1713—1714, Мінська область), костел бернардинок у Слонімі (1670). Початкова суворість архітектурного рішення таких пам'яток, як собор Сходження Святого Духа у Мінську та монастир кармелітів у Мстиславлі, була пом'якшена при наступних перебудовах.

Термін «сарматське бароко» також застосовується для характеристики польської літератури того часу.

Див. також
 Архітектура Великого князівства Литовського
 Бароко в Речі Посполитій
 Віленське бароко

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Барокова архітектура Литви
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Monday's (5/2) Alert Is...
** AWSL (Atlantic Wind & Solar, Inc.)**
We hope you're enjoying your Sunday. After our last alert, we are ready to kick things back into gear with an alert that we covered a LONG time ago and if we recall correctly, this one was able to GO THE DISTANCE. Now that it's at MUCH LOWER LEVELS, we think that TOMORROW (5/2) could be set for something BIG!
AWSL (Atlantic Wind & Solar, Inc.) Is Our New Bottom Bounce Alert!
Start Your Research Here: http://atlanticwindandsolar.com
RENEWABLE ENERGY has hit a major stride in the last 5 years and 2016 could mark a MAJOR tipping point within the industry. What AWSL is doing could quickly become a game changer and what the company has announced this year alone could make it a SERIOUS CONTENDER to become a market driver.
AWSL is a renewable energy company. The company focuses on the development of utility scale solar projects. All power plants projects developed sell the generated power to local governments and/or utilities.
But for AWSL, 2016 embarks on a HUGE opportunity for the company as well as the industry and that's not the only thing that's got us excited heading into Monday (5/2) morning's open either!
AWSL Set For BIG Upside?
AWSL has hit a bottom level on the chart and over the last 3 days it has seen consecutive days of churning at this level. In fact, AWSL hasn't seen pps levels like this since 2014 and during that same period, once downward pressure slowed, AWSL ended up exploding to highs of OVER $0.40!
In more recent weeks it seems like AWSL has shown potential for big explosive moves on an intra-day timeframe making for quick breakouts! Just a few weeks ago, AWSL managed to move to highs of $0.139 (over 50% north of Friday's 4/28 closing price). Once again it looks like downward pressure COULD BE SUBSIDING and AWSL could be ready for a BIG MOVE as early as Monday morning (5/2)! As you can see, the stock has managed to run as high as $0.399 within the last 2 months and within the last few weeks, AWSL has seen previous levels on more consistent support/resistance at $0.20...that's OVER 120% ABOVE its current levels !
That could mean SERIOUS upside heading into the week ahead!
AWSL: It's All About #Growth
Global solar installations will reach 64.7 GW in 2016 according to Mercom Capital Group, a clean energy communications and research firm based in Texas. "The top 3 countries will be China, U.S., and Japan and they will account for about two thirds of the global market," said Raj Prabhu, CEO and co-founder of Mercom.
Although China is expected to continue leading the global PV market, the U.S. will show the most robust growth in 2016, due to the anticipation of the federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC) expiration, which developers and EPC had already factored into their business plans for 2016, prior to the five-year extension received at the end of 2015.
Better yet, in 2016, the U.S. is set to overtake Japan as the second largest solar market, exceeding the much-anticipated 10-GW mark. Another notable shift will see India move up to the No. 4 position, pushing down the former European leaders, U.K. and Germany.
Atlantic Wind & Solar Brings 320 KW Utility Scale Solar Power Plant On Line in Burlington Ontario
AWSL announced that it has completed construction on a 320 KW AC utility scale solar power plant in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
The $2 million commercial rooftop installation, consisting of 1,488 panels, is expected to produce 7,900 megawatt hours of power over the next 20 years supplying Ontario with clean reliable energy. The power will be sold under the province's Feed-In-Tariff program.
AWSL could have some SERIOUS NEAR TERM UPSIDE and this could be the time to start paying close attention. The company has shown that it can move and move massively in a short space of time and as far as the company is concerned, it could be on the verge of a multi-million dollar project set to supply power for TWENTY YEARS!
In our opinion this isn't the time to sit on your hands but THE TIME to pull up AWSL and start your research, TONIGHT!
Pull Up AWSL because this could be set for action as early as Monday (5/2) Morning!
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FELCO joins forces to build the future
A leader in pruning shears and cutting tools, FELCO SA is merging with FELCO Motion SA, a spin-off entity founded in 2010 specializing in electric pruning tools and digital solutions. From July 1st 2020, the new FELCO SA entity will be managed by two Co-CEOs to strengthen industrial operations and customer development. As for the Board of Directors of this new entity, it will now be chaired by a woman for the first time.
Dual management
The new FELCO SA entity will be placed under dual management which, thanks to the specific and complementary skills of its directors, will create the synergies necessary for a dynamic evolution. This innovative concept is intended to give the company a new direction, based on two focus areas of the business:
- Customer Development, headed by Stéphane Poggi, Co-CEO, whose mission is to meet the needs of the users of FELCO products and services through an approach based on innovation and active listening.
- Industrial Development, headed by Christophe Nicolet, Co-CEO, whose mission is to produce high-quality tools using agile and high-performance 4.0 technology.
The reorganization will have no impact on employment, as FELCO Motion SA personnel are fully integrated into FELCO SA.
A woman chairs the Board of Directors
From the outset of this new entity, Manuela Surdez will take over as Chair of the Board of Directors of FELCO SA. The Board is now composed of André Haemmerli (Vice-Chair), André-Pierre Bouille, Anne Headon and Laurent Perrin, who is resigning as Chair. Although the latter will remain as a Director, he wishes to devote more time to his role within FLISCH Holding SA, the family group that owns FELCO SA, as well as to his operational activities for FELCO SA as Head of the North American Market, where he resides.
Mini biographies
Stéphane Poggi: An industrial electronics engineer (HES) with an additional MBA specializing in marketing, Stéphane Poggi joined FELCO SA in 2003 as a Sales and Marketing Director. His primary focus at the time was to develop new markets and expand European distribution networks. In 2010, he co-founded the spin-off, FELCO Motion SA, which he has continued to manage until today.
Christophe Nicolet: FELCO's first Managing Director outside the founder's family, Christophe Nicolet joined the company in 2011. He trained as a mechanic and then as an engineer at the Ecole technique supérieure de Lausanne (ETS), followed by an HEG business management course in Neuchâtel. Upon completing his studies, he then spent ten years in various positions in manufacturing industries, including with the SWATCH Group where he worked for nine years in Malaysia and Switzerland.
Manuela Surdez: As an economist with a degree from the University of Neuchâtel, Manuela Surdez co-directs the company Goldec SA which she founded with her husband in 1989. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Neuchâtel Cantonal Bank since 2010 as a Director, having taken over the Chair from 2011 to 2019. She has been a member of the Board of Directors at FELCO SA since 2009.
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The office of the prime minister of Ethiopia gave its first press briefing to local and international media in Ethiopia for the very first time after being restructured under Press Secretary. The Prime Minister appointed prominent women rights advocate, author, and poet Billene Seyoum as its first press secretary.
The second topic the press secretary was focused on clarifying the structure and working areas of the new press secretary office. The newly appointed press secretary highlighted the Prime Minister's commitment to bringing more transparency and access to media. Some of the questions that were raised from journalists during the press briefing include the frequency of the press briefing, access to the PM tours, establishment of an online database to access archives and so on. In response to the questions, the press secretary focused on assuring the office will be addressing the topics with details in the coming few days.
As we mentioned on our tweet despite having the opportunity to attend the press secretary briefing we were not allowed to carry our phones. While understanding the security precaution we would like to urge the press secretary to be mindful of the 21st century leading media platform which is our mobile.
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Димитар Аґура (;  26 жовтня 1849, с. Чешма Варуіта —  11 жовтня 1911, Ясси) — болгарський історик, ректор Софійського університету.

Біографія
Народився 26 жовтня 1849 року у селищі Чешма Варуіта, що на Бессарабії, в сім'ї болгарських переселенців. Навчався в Болграді, згодом у 1868 році закінчив семінарію в Яссах, та вивчав історію в Ясському університеті (1872). Потім працював у Бирладі учителем та шкільним інспектором в Яссах та Васлуї. Також кілька років викладав румунську мову й болгарську історію у Болградській гімназії (1875 —1878).

Після звільнення Болгарії повернувся в країну, де працював чиновником у Міністерстві внутрішніх справ (1879 —1883). В уряді Леоніда Соболєва тимчасово очолював Міністерство освіти. Після цього очолив Софійську (1884 —1885) і Пловдівську чоловічі гімназії (1885 —1889).

Після відкриття Вищої школи (нині Софійський університет Святого Климента Охридського) в 1889 став в ньому професором історії. Тричі очолював й сам університет (1889 —1890, 1892 —1895, 1907 —1908). У 1900 став дійсним членом Болгарської літературної спільноти. У 1901-у був в числі засновників болгарського історичного товариства та очолював його до своєї смерті.

Помер в Яссах в 1911, де знаходився на урочистостях, присвячених 50-річчю Ясського університету.

Бібліографія
 1890 — «Новейшая история на Френската революция до днешно време»
 1893 — «Бележки по едно научно пътуване в Румъния» (в съавторство)
 1893 — «Дако-ромъните и тяхната славянска писменост» (в съавторство)
 1904 — «Средновековна история. Лекции»

Джерела
 Tashev, Tasho (1999) (în Bulgarian). The Ministers of Bulgaria 1879–1999. Sofia: Ministry of Education.
 Agura, Dimitŭr D., 1849-1911 The Library of Congres

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Болгарські історики
Академіки Болгарської АН
Ректори Софійського університету


Soup is always great when the weather begins to get cold, and fall is here. Soup is comforting and warms your stomach. One great soup to make during the fall season is potato soup. Potato soup is easy to prepare and tastes great!
Step One: Dice all six potatoes, and place them in a crock pot set to medium- high. Slice the baby carrots, and place them into the crock pot. Also, cut the 1/2 onion very small, and place them into the crock pot as well.
Step Two: Fill the crock pot with the half gallon of water. Add a teaspoon of salt, and a teaspoon of pepper before placing the lid over the crock pot.
Step Three: Let the soup cook in the crock pot for about 2 1/2 hours on medium- high heat. Since the soup takes about 4 1/2 – 5 hours to cook completely, I'd recommend starting the soup in the morning or in the early afternoon to ensure that it is done by dinner.
Step Four: After 2 1/2 hours open the crock pot, and pour the entire quart of half and half into the crock pot.
Step Five: Let the soup cook for an additional 2 hours in the crock pot.
Step Six: After 2 hours, check the soup. If the potatoes and carrots are completely cooked turn off the soup and serve. You can check if the potatoes and carrots are cooked by putting a fork through them, and if the fork goes completely through the potato easily then you know the potatoes and carrots are completely cooked.
Step Seven: Add salt and pepper to taste, serve, and enjoy!
This potato soup recipe is simple, and easy to male. Just put it in the crock pot! Potato soup makes the perfect fall comfort food when the cold months begin. Also, you can serve this soup with a side salad. It is perfect for a soup and salad night with family or friends!


Yesterday, Bradley Moss penned an excellent explainer of how the security process works and how revocation of security clearances are handled. In particular he explained how one Supreme Court case, Department of the Navy v. Egan, is generally read to preclude judicial review of the substance of a security clearance determination. He also noted, however, that Webster v. Doe, opened the door slightly to procedural constitutional due process claims relating to those determinations.
By sheer coincidence, today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a decision in a security clearance case, Palmieri v. U.S., that bears on these issues. Palmieri's personal case seems frivolous and was dismissed. What is notable, however, is the concurrence from Judge Katsas. He notes that it is unclear whether or not Egan bars non-frivolous constitutional challenges to the denial or revocation of a security clearance. Indeed, he notes that such challenges might go either to the investative or to the adjudicatory process. While taking no position on the legal question Judge Katsas makes clear that he thinks it is not necessarily goverened by Egan and that the issue should be address by the Circuit.
Given that the former national security officials named by the president would have a non-frivolous claim that the revocation of their clearances was for protected constitutional speech, Judge Katsas' concurrence is both relevant and coincidentally quite timely.


This study is an official clinical trial and is explained on our Clinical Trials page.
The Biochemical Genetics Laboratory is currently seeking volunteers to participate in an important study involving newborn screen testing for Cerebral Creatine Deficiency Syndromes (CDS) at the Mayo Clinic.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is conducting a study to help researchers learn more about children with Creatine Transporter Deficiency (CTD).
You are invited to participate in a study to help researchers learn more about children with Creatine Transporter Deficiency (CTD). We want to determine which tests and questionnaires are best to understand more about children with CTD. These tests and questionnaires may then be used in future studies.
Parents of children ages 3-17 with CTD are eligible to participate in a study that can be completed in your home – no travel is required. Parents will be asked to complete a phone interview, as well as several questionnaires about their children's behaviors, and one questionnaire about themselves. These questionnaires can be completed online or on paper. We also ask that parents send us home videos of their children, if available, so we can observe their movements and behaviors.
Families who live close to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia may be invited to an in-person study visit. The visit will involve behavioral testing and motor activities and will last about 4-6 hours.
For both parts of the study, families will be compensated for their time.
If you are interested in taking part or have questions about the study, please contact Lauren DePolo at 267-426-1472 or email her at Depolo@email.chop.edu. Thank you for your interest in CTD research! We appreciate your time and consideration.


Discussion in 'Wii U - Games & Content' started by Parasite X, Jun 10, 2013.
Hellow fellow tempers you maybe asking what this particular thread is about pay attention because i'm only going to say this once.I'm here asking you to "trend this on Miiverse make deluxe digital program a subscription service for basic set owners".If you don't understand by now you're lleh sa biquts.
Owkay...erm...don't take this personally, but...I really cannot make any sense of what you're writing there. The words are English, but there's this concept of "sentence" that just isn't there.
The Milkman, MAXLEMPIRA, ShonenJump and 2 others like this.
The deluxe set is more expensive for a reason and the digital promotion deal is part of that reason, there's nothing fair in your request for those who paid more in order to get this service.
And try to write in proper sentences next time, I had a hard time reading all that.
I think your preverbially "pissin in the wind" . Its a service provided to certain people with certain criteria .
What's so hard to understand about what i'm saying because it's not hard at all.
Ever hear of suply & demand ? where this is where demand comes in to play we demand they do it if there is enough demand it may not be the same name but same concept.
Really so your saying you wouldn't demand for a subscription service version of this service for us basic owners .
if you wanna pay for the service , then they may listen .
Thank you for finally understanding if your in lets get this party started by trending on Miiverse =) .
Lrn to english and multi quote betr.
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No...YOU think it's not hard. But you already know what it's about, which makes it easier to decipher the actual meaning. I bet that if I show you this very same sentence in a couple months or so (long enough for you not to directly remember what it's about), you will at least have to read it twice as well.
As for what I cannot understand about it: it's a single sentence without inter punctuation. That makes it harder to grasp what the important parts are. The whole sentence becomes a stream of words without proper connection.
Second...after some guessing where points and commas should be, it's something about the digital promotion program. If I understand correctly, you want nintendo to give it to owners of the basic set. If so...then I don't understand why. If they wanted it, why did they buy that basic set in the first place? It comes across as buying the cheapest model of a car and then complain that it can't do everything the more expensive one can.
Third: "something similar or even better than PS+". I've looked at that list a few days ago. Yeah...I think everyone will really want that. But who's going to provide it? Nintendo already is very busy recycling their old games in newer forms. If they're going to cheaply provide their entire library, they'll soon run out of games to release an updated version for. So...it's not going to happen. Just be glad that sony DOES manage to offer it.
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Really look who's talking you should look at some of your post selohssa are anoying as kcuf.
As for what I cannot understand about it: it's a single sentence without inter punctuation. That makes it harder to grasp what the important parts are. The whole sentence becomes a stream of words without proper connection.Second...after some guessing where points and commas should be, it's something about the digital promotion program. If I understand correctly, you want nintendo to give it to owners of the basic set. If so...then I don't understand why. If they wanted it, why did they buy that basic set in the first place? It comes across as buying the cheapest model of a car and then complain that it can't do everything the more expensive one can.
Well thank you for finally getting the picture with that one sentence because your right on the dot & saying it won't happen is really funny because I say it will happen & if Nintendo does make a subscription service then you'll have to except it.
You should know that when you register your Nintendo Network ID & console you will be able to get credits towards games in the e shop that includes retail games in the e shop but only when you buy 2 games that cost 50$ or more in the e shop.
It isnt just two 50 pound games , its an accumulation of purchase no matter what cost.
Well atleast I was on track but your still very lucky to have the DDP program so are you in on bringing a subscription service for it ?
This is getting on my nerves cause they got the money, I don't have the service I was supposed to.
That's exactly like demanding that the Basic model include Nintendo Land and 4 times the storage space.
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You're talking about my post?
No, the first post. Well the title, really, since the first post doesn't make any sense.
My friend what i'm trying to do is get enough people here & on Miiverse to trend this make the deluxe digital promotion a subscription service for basic set owners.
If you wanted the service you should have bought the Deluxe system. It's as simple as that. That is what the Deluxe system is for.
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Q: Orange DM: How does Orange calculates the euclidean distance for categorical data? I have been using Orange for a while now and am trying to implement some classification methods to classify my data.
I am using the Test and Score widget to test a few classification methods (kNN,ANN, etc.) on my dataset and am using k-fold cross validation.
My dataset is the nursery dataset from the UCI Repository available here which only contains categorical attributes.
Here, is my question: How does the kNN Algorithm calculate the Euclidean distance? I thought that for categorical datasets the "hamming-distance" should be used. However, when I use the hamming distance, which I have to program manually in the python widget:
import Orange
knn = Orange.classification.KNNLearner(n_neighbors=9, metric="hamming")
out_learner=knn

the results with both distances are always the same.


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Tuesday, May. 22, 2018
Wrap Up (The Senate Stands Adjourned), Whitehouse
Tomorrow -
The Senate will convene at 11:00 a.m.
Following leader remarks, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session and begin consideration of Executive Calendar #593, Brian D. Montgomery, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, with four hours of debate equally divided in the usual form.
At 3:15 p.m., the Senate will VOTE on confirmation of Executive Calendar #593, Brian D. Montgomery, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Following disposition of the Montgomery nomination, all post-cloture time will be considered expired on the motion to concur and the Senate will VOTE on the motion to concur in the House Amendment to S. 2372, the V.A. Mission Act.
Following disposition of the motion to concur the Senate will VOTE on cloture on Executive Calendar #670, Jelena McWilliams, of Ohio, to be Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Executive Calendar #672, Jelena McWilliams, of Ohio, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in the order filed.
If cloture is invoked on the McWilliams nominations the post-cloture time will run concurrently.
Note: on Thursday, Mary 17, cloture was filed on Executive Calendar #618, James Randolph Evans, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to Luxembourg.
Senator Whitehouse: (6:02 p.m.)
Spoke on climate change.
"In this, my 207th speech about the climate changes and ocean changes being driven by fossil fuels, I would like to discuss America's largest oil company, ExxonMobil. For decades ExxonMobil did everything in its power to deceive the American public about the existence and causes of climate change. I believe that full transparency would show ExxonMobil and its agents still obstructing efforts here in Washington to resolve the climate crisis. But I want to focus on one particular audience I believe Exxon has long misled: Its shareholders. An Exxon C.E.O. once went so far as to cite a bogus scientist petition to its shareholders. Yes, that infamous petition cooked up by climate deniers that included cartoon characters and spice girls among the scientists."
Manchin, Tillis, Rounds
Motion to Concur in the House Amendment to the V.A. Mission Act (S. 2372)
Senator Manchin: (4:48 p.m.)
Spoke on veterans' issues.
"I'm sure that the mission act just passed out of the House 347-70, and I have a lot of good friends on both sides of the aisle who want the overall bill. It has the support of the national veterans' service organizations and the effects of this bill will not likely come into being until 2025. And I will not be serving in the Senate then. Yet for the sake of the veteran population in West Virginia, I have to say something publicly. The act could have detrimental second or third order effects in our communities. If this bill passes with the act in it, the powers that wish to downsize the level of care that we give to veterans will should -- we'll see it as a victory but they should be prepared for robust, exhaustive oversight by me and my colleagues on the committee."
Senator Tillis: (4:54 p.m.)
"And we may have to do basic maintenance on them but they're properties that may have historic value. Maybe we can convey them to the states and sell them and use those resources to blow back into quality - plow back into quality care for the veterans. I can tell my friend from West Virginia we share a mountain range together. We share a lot of cultures out in the western part of our state and West Virginia, and there's no way on Earth that I would allow the V.A. to move forward on something that I felt like was going further away from providing quality care to any veteran anywhere in west Virginia and North Carolina or any other rural area."
Senator Rounds: (4:58 p.m.)
Spoke on the V.A. Mission Act.
"I rise to discuss the legislation known as the V.A. Mission Act of 2018. A significant change for the health care delivery system at the department of veteran affairs. The V.A. Mission Act passed the House of Representatives last week and is scheduled to be voted on in the Senate in the coming days. The bill is the result of months of negotiations and discussions between stakeholders, the administration and house and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees of which I am a member. While I appreciate the hard work of those involved, unfortunately the final legislation is not something that I am able to support. Before I get into my concerns about the bill and what I believe to be its fatal flaws, I want to point out there are a host of good provisions that I do support."
Moran, Tester, Murphy, Thune
Senator Moran: (3:28 p.m.)
"I indicated last week that currently within our office we have 80 what we call cases in which we're dealing with veterans who are facing challenges from something they need from the V.A. and are not receiving it, and that's - I looked at the numbers prior to that since I've been a member of the United States Senate, that has occurred on 2,650 occasions in which a veteran seeks help from their United States senator for something we would expect them to be entitled to based upon their service to our nation. We're grateful to those veterans. We want it make sure they're honored and esteemed. But we want to make sure that the promises to those who served our nation are kept. The legislation before us that has been approved by the House of Representatives and is now in front of the Senate has been title the V.A. Mission Act."
Senator Tester: (3:47 p.m.)
"As Senator Moran pointed out, coming from a state like Montana, a rural state, 147,000 square miles, I know you cannot have a V.A. clinic in every community. But veterans cannot always drive two hours to the nearest V.A. clinic, and they certainly can't afford to wait months for an appointment. And that is why we need private health care to fill in the gaps when the V.A. cannot deliver that health care. But I also know how much veterans need the services they get from a V.A. clinic. In my dozens and dozens and dozens of face-to-face listening sessions with veterans, they have told me that the kind of care they get from the V.A. is important. They are surrounded by their peers, many of whom have experienced mental and physical challenges of being in combat."
Senator Murphy: (4:05 p.m.)
Spoke on gun control.
"Part of the 33,000 a year, 2,800 a month and the 3 on average a day. -- And 993 on average a day that are - and 93 on average that are killed by guns in this country. It is a mix of domestic violence incidents, mass shootings and homicides. There is no other country in the world in which this number is this big. There have been 5,531 deaths from gun violence in 2018 alone. That's according to gun violence archive. 1,200 kids have been killed or injured, and we're not even halfway through the year. Our rate of gun violence in this country is 20 times higher than all of our other competitor OECD nations, and it is not because our schools are less safe. It is not because we have more troubled young men. It's not because we spend less money on law enforcement."
Senator Thune: (4:31 p.m.)
Spoke on tax reform.
"Since jobs and opportunities are created by businesses, that meant reforming our tax code to improve the playing field for businesses so they could improve the playing field for workers. And that's what we did, and I am proud to report that it's working. Last week the national association of manufacturers released the result of its recent tax reform survey, and here's what the survey showed. 77% of manufacturers planned to increase hiring as a result of tax reform. 72% plan to increase wages or benefits, and 86% report that they plan to increase investments, which means new jobs and opportunities for workers. Madam President, these are tremendous results and what we were looking for with tax reform."
Daines, Murray, Sullivan
Senator Daines: (2:15 p.m.)
"It brings V.A. care into the 21st century by encouraging telemedicine and strengthens the oversight of opioid prescriptions. Veterans will have more access to doctors because there will be measures holding companies accountable, companies like Healthnet for how they manage the new program. It provides scholarships to encourage medical and dental students to serve in the V.A., and it creates a new loan repayment program for medical students who are training in specialties that are currently lacking in the V.A. This is one of the big problems we have. We can't fill the slots of medical professionals in the V.A. It's about time we take meaningful steps towards fully delivering on the promises that we have made to our veterans."
Senator Murray: (2:38 p.m.)
"I have heard from countless people who when their loved one came home from service with an injury or illness made big life changes, like quitting a job or scaling back their hours or taking leave from college. They put big purchases and retirements and dream vacations on hold. Or they took on more parenting responsibilities. You name it. They sprang into action and did what they needed to do because it's just what you do when it's someone you love. But we know the care our military caregivers provide comes at a cost. Several years ago, in fact, the dole foundation commissioned the largest ever study of its kind to examine the sacrifice of military caregivers. It showed some caregivers spend more than 40 hours a week caring for veterans."
Senator Sullivan: (3:01 p.m.)
Spoke on in tribute to the Alaskan of the Week.
"As my colleagues know one of the best times of the week is when I get to come down to the floor and talk about some of my great constituents back home in Alaska. Somebody, or a group of Alaskans, which I refer to as the Alaskan of the Week. You know, Mr. President, we all think we come from great states, but what I really enjoy talking about the Alaskan of the Week is not just talking about Alaska and how beautiful, big, and majestic it is, but the people who make it such a great place. What I wanted to do in this Alaskan presentation is talk not just about rich Owens, who I'm going to talk about a lot this afternoon, but I'm going to also talk about small businesses in Alaska, and small businesses in my hometown."
Blumenthal, Cornyn, Jones, Nelson, Thune
Executive Session (Baiocco Nomination)
Senator Blumenthal: (11:09 a.m.)
Spoke on the nomination of Dana Baiocco to be a commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
"And so that agency is already resource starved. It is already depleted in terms of the support that it needs in Congress, and already it needs zealous and relentless advocacy. The individuals who are members of that board should be dedicated to that mission and to the safety and well-being of consumers above all. That's their mission. And so today when we consider the nomination of Dana Baiocco, we should keep in mind that no matter how able and skilled and experienced a litigator she is, the question is whether she will devote those skills, ability, and experience to the mission of this agency. Unfortunately, every sign that she has given indicate that her goal will be contrary to the agency's mission."
Senator Cornyn: (11:22 a.m.)
Spoke on Republican economic policy.
"So what we're beginning to see is the slumbering giant of the American economy wake up and grow. People have confidence again, optimism in the future, which is a good thing. Unemployment fell to 3.9% recently, which is the lowest in 17 years. And 14 states hit record low employment, unemployment as well. As I said, consumer confidence is high. As a matter of fact, it's at an 18-year high. And the tax reform package we passed last December has been the biggest single game changer, although I want to talk about regulations here in a minute. But the tax reform package got America back in the game. It made us more competitive globally as a place where people who want to invest money and create a business or grow their business, it's attractive finally."
Spoke on judicial nominations.
"One of the most significant things that the Trump Administration has done is nominate and see the Senate confirm a record number of judges. Judges who, by the way, are committed to faithfully interpreting the Constitution and not legislate from the bench because of their personal preferences. If you want to pursue a personal agenda or political agenda, you ought to run for Congress, not seek the federal bench because we expect and demand something different out of judges, which is faithful adherence to the law, not imposing their personal policy preferences, and that's what President Trump has prioritized in his nominees and the nominees we've confirmed."
"Frequently the spouse of that wounded warrior has to quit his or her job and come care for their loved one, and it's really an important aspect of the continuum of care for them to get back on their feet. We're going to provide greater access to caregiver assistance so that spouses and family members can do exactly that, and it's the right thing for us to do. Our V.A. Mission bill also authorizes access to walk-in clinics, it removes bureaucratic red-tape. In this new technological age, it makes no sense to have restrictions on the ability for people to get access to care through telemedicine when and where appropriate."
Senator Jones: (11:40 a.m.)
Spoke on rural healthcare.
"These persistent gaps in health care inevitably lead to poor health outcomes. As a result, life expectancy for rural Alabamaians is approximately six months lower than those who reside in urban areas, and three and a half years lower than people living in the rest of the country. In some parts of my state the outlook is even worse. In Wilcox County, for example, life expectancy is nine years lower than the national average. That is unacceptable, Mr. President. The county of your birth or where you choose to live should not dictate the quality of your life much less your life expectancy."
Senator Nelson: (11:49 a.m.)
"And so a small modification, if those had been in place last summer, it's very likely that some of those Floridians who lost their lives would still be with us. And that brings me to Mrs. Baiocco's nomination. Now, she certainly has a distinguished legal career. She's been a partner of a major law firm. And I congratulate her on that. But when she was in front of our Commerce Committee, when she was asked would she support a mandatory standard requiring that generators have mechanisms that limit carbon monoxide emissions or other devices that switch the generators off when the carbon monoxide level rises to dangerous levels, her response was that we should defer to a voluntary industry standard."
Senator Thune: (12:03 a.m.)
"To date, Mr. President, I have not heard a single argument against Mr. Baiocco's abilities, notwithstanding her extensive qualifications to be a commissioner at the CPSC, however, some colleagues on the other side have voiced concern about her nomination on the grounds that her career representing business clients in the consumer product and liability space may impact her impartiality when considering issues before the commission. A few have raised issues about her impartiality because of her spouse's career as a litigator at the law firm of White and Williams. Mr. President, to my colleagues who harbor such concerns, I would note that the senate routinely confirms nominees who are lawyers with private practice backgrounds and we expect such office holders to advocate for the public interest just as zealously as they would for their clients."
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Senator Durbin: (10:11 a.m.)
"Last Friday America watched in horror as a news story broke of yet another school shooting. This time in Santa Fe High School in Texas. Eight students, two teachers fatally shot. 13 victims wounded. Another devastating tragedy. The alleged gunman was a student who came into the school with his parents' shotgun and handgun and used them to commit mass murder. Of course we grieve for the families and the victims in Santa Fe, and of course we're grateful for first responders who ran to the sound of gunfire. But let's be honest. The shooting at Santa Fe High was, by one count, the 22nd school shooting in America this year."
Spoke on for-profit colleges.
"And then there is Robert Eitel, hired by Secretary Devos in February, 2017, as a special assistant. For the first nine weeks of his Department of Education tenure, tell was actually on unpaid leave of absence from Bridgepoint. You heard that right. He was an employee of the Department of Education and continued as an employee of one of the most predatory for-profit colleges in this country at the same time. ABC News reports tell had a hand in dismantling the department's borrower defense rule which would help students who were defrauded by for-profit colleges like Ashford. How is that for a fox guarding the henhouse?"
Senator Schumer: (10:28 a.m.)
Spoke on China.
"And I have public arguments with both President Obama and president bush on this issue. So when Donald Trump started talking about going after China and making them play fair, I felt that was a good thing. And when his administration fined Z.T.E. and then put sanctions on them so they couldn't get American components, I said finally, finally we're doing something tough on China. So you can imagine my disappointment in the reports last night that president trump, being advised so wrongly by people like treasury Secretary Mnuchin, is backing off on his toughness and just giving them a slap on the wrist, the fine."
Spoke on the Mueller investigation.
"Then yesterday the president summoned the leaders of the Russia probe to the White House to pressure them into releasing sensitive and classified documents pertaining to the investigation of congressional - of the investigation by congressional Republicans. Let me repeat that. The White House planned to arrange a meeting where highly classified and other information will be shared with members of Congress is highly irregular, inappropriate and unprecedented. The president and his staff should not be involved in reviewing or dissemination of sensitive investigatory information involving any investigation let alone one about the activities of his own campaign. It's amazing. It is what you hear happening in third world countries."
Spoke on teachers.
"We need great teachers in every classroom so that our children have every opportunity to succeed. In my view, as I said, teaching should be an exalted profession in the 21st century, and teachers' pay should more closely reflect their value to society."
Senator Isakson: (10:49 a.m.)
"We won those wars because our best and brightest sacrificed so America could be there. There's nothing less we need to ask for ourselves than to have the health care benefits we've promised them for so long. The V.A. Mission Act answers all those questions that have been long on the front pages of the newspapers. I want to thank John McCain. John McCain was really the inspiration for the Veterans Choice bill, which we started four years ago when I was on the committee, finally passed a part of that program and it's been in operation until now. It's needs to be reformed and funded and with the passage of this legislation, we'll make it even better."
Senator Ernst: (11:00 a.m.)
"There were on average 22 veteran suicides every single day in the United States. It underscored the troubles within the V.A. and the urgency to act immediately to help our veterans get the quality and the timely care that they have earned and that they deserve. That's why I introduced on that very day my first bill, the prioritizing veterans' access to mental health care act. My bill would have eliminated the distance and the wait time requirements for veterans seeking mental health care under the current choice program. Every veteran should have the choice to receive care in the community, but they should not be burdened by bureaucratic red tape or strict guidelines that serve as roadblocks to receiving this type of care."
Following leader remarks, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session and resume consideration of Executive Calendar #608, Dana Baiocco, of Ohio, to be a commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
At 12:00 p.m., the Senate will VOTE on confirmation of Executive Calendar #608, Dana Baiocco, of Ohio, to be a commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Following disposition of the Baiocco nomination, the Senate will VOTE on cloture on the motion to concur in the House Amendment to S. 2372, the V.A. Mission Act.
The Senate will then recess until 2:15 p.m. to accommodate the weekly policy lunches.
Note: on Thursday, May 17, cloture was filed on Executive Calendar #670, Jelena McWilliams, of Ohio, to be Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Note: on Thursday, May 17, cloture was filed on Executive Calendar #672, Jelena McWilliams, of Ohio, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Senator McConnell: (10:03 a.m.)
"The bipartisan reform legislation before us builds on the earlier progress of the Veterans Choice Act of 2014 and reaffirms a clear message. Delays at the V.A. cannot stand between veterans and the medical care that they need. The shortcomings of a federal bureaucracy do not free our nation from its promises to our all-volunteer forces. Veterans deserve prompt, thorough care, period. In a few short years since the creation of V.A. Choice, the program has seen important success. More than two million veterans have taken the opportunity to see private providers when the V.A. system couldn't meet their needs. In Kentucky it helped more than 23,000 veterans in 2017 alone. Thanks to the leadership of Chairman Isakson, this new legislation builds on this significant progress, continues it, and improves it in ways that will help veterans even more."
Spoke on water infrastructure legislation.
"Chairman Barrasso has led an open, bipartisan process that has demonstrated a strong proposal. It builds on President Trump's infrastructure approach, encouraging local control over local priorities and leveraging federal resources to ensure that each dollar spent goes to major water infrastructure improvements. It cuts red tape and empowers the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to break through bureaucratic backlogs."
"Let me say that again. More Americans say it's a good time to find a quality job than at any point in the last 17 years. Under President Obama, this number got as low as 8%. It never broke 50% during his administration. But today, 67% of Americans say it's a good time to find a quality job. 67% of Americans say it's a good time to find a quality job. Optimism has taken off for all groups since this president was elected, and the Republican Congress was sworn in. But the hope has been felt most among working-class Americans. This is a major distinction between the economic policies that Democrats spent year putting in place and the new approach this Republican Congress has taken."
Senate Opening
The Senate convened.


Hagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671.
The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south.
Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized on March 25, 1846.
There are no incorporated municipalities within the township. The unincorporated communities of Riverside and Lake Michigan Beach (also known as "Hagar Shores") are within the township.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 18.7 square miles (48.4 km2), of which 18.4 square miles (47.6 km2) is land and 0.31 square miles (0.8 km2), or 1.76%, is water.
Interstate 196/US 31 serves the township with two interchanges, and M-63 passes through the township along the shore of Lake Michigan.
The Paw Paw River flows to the southwest through the township.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,964 people, 1,639 households, and 1,085 families residing in the township. The population density was 213.4 per square mile (82.4/km²). There were 2,122 housing units at an average density of 114.2 per square mile (44.1/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 95.59% White, 1.74% African American, 0.71% Native American, 0.30% Asian, 0.83% from other races, and 0.83% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.14% of the population.
There were 1,639 households out of which 29.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.5% were married couples living together, 8.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.8% were non-families. 27.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.41 and the average family size was 2.94.
In the township the population was spread out with 23.8% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 30.4% from 25 to 44, 25.2% from 45 to 64, and 12.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 97.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.1 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $38,614, and the median income for a family was $47,768. Males had a median income of $34,890 versus $23,924 for females. The per capita income for the township was $19,710. About 6.5% of families and 8.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.1% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over.
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How much has your network expanded in 2010? Has your monitoring kept up with your growth? Do you still need to "backfill" your monitoring? You can install all the sites you want, but your job really isn't done until you protect them with alarm monitoring.
And what about older monitoring gear? Is your legacy system going to last another year?
Improving your monitoring is a great use of funds at any time, but they simply aren't available for much of the year. At the end of 2010, you have an important opportunity to perform a complete site audit and use CapEx budget to make improvements. Visit your sites and review network trouble spots to identify areas where your monitoring needs improvement.
You've got end-of-year budget. Don't fall into the trap of waiting too long and missing your chance to use it.
Most of the time, it can be difficult to get the monitoring coverage you need, because managers often see network monitoring only as a cost center and not the "revenue and service protection tools" they are. Using your year-end budget resources can be your best chance to plug the monitoring gaps that are serious threats to your operations and revenues.
The fourth quarter is also the right time to complete your network monitoring goals. Take a look at your monitoring needs and start planning today for how you can meet them before the end of the year. For example, now is the right time to get network monitoring coverage for all your sites, restock your spares, and even reevaluate your existing sites to determine what your end-of-year monitoring needs are.
If you need to take delivery in December or earlier, you need to take action fast. Every year around this time, DPS receives a rush of urgent requests for delivery before the end of the year, while budget money is still available. For many of our clients, the need is even more urgent because of budgetary deadlines that fall in early to mid December.
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Shadow magic is a rare, but powerful Nevernal discipline involving the manipulation of, and communication with, shadows.
Wielders of shadow magic are often able to manipulate and utilize ordinary shadows for a variety of purposes. There are both combat and non-combat uses for shadow magic.
An experience shadow mage may also be able to communicate with shadows -- though it is the shadows that speak with the mage -- and only of their own free will.
As shadows meld into other shadows, the power a shadow mage wields, either through manipulating them or gleaning information from them, grows immensely.
It is possible, for example, for a mage several miles from home to manipulate a connected series of shadows to directly affect things in the distant location. He could learn from listening to the shadows who has entered his home, or even perhaps cause an unlocked door so suddenly lock itself.
Shadow magic is not an officially-recognized magical discipline and there are indeed very few shadow mages to be found these days.


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COVID-19 strengthens the case for sectoral collaboration
Simon Hill, CEO, Wazoku
|Apr 2| 9 min read
COVID-19 is a crisis that is virtually unprecedented in modern times and one in which no-one really knows what the long-term impact will be.
What is clear, though, is that COVID-19 is a global challenge and one that will require collaborative thinking and an innovative approach to address it.
Just as forward-thinking businesses are harnessing the value of networks of people closest to them, to help generate ideas and solve challenges together, so must governments around the world work more closely with each other and the private sector.
Co-creation in business
One of the really powerful benefits of innovation and co-creation is that they allow a business to ride out periods of disruption. It does so by embracing the theory that no one person has all the answers and many organizations realize that the solutions they're looking for may lie outside the business.
This has never been truer than it is during the COVID-19 crisis.
Businesses all over the world are having to rethink how they deliver products and services, how they manage their employees and how they interact with customers, suppliers, partners and more. Many will need to pivot dramatically to stay open.
Businesses are unlikely to get the inspiration for ideas that will help them by focusing on their usual methods.
An innovative approach is essential, as is canvassing the thoughts of as wide a group as possible, while the really smart companies will put together a process for managing the outpouring of ideas.
Collaboration for the global good
While every country is at a different stage of COVID-19, it is truly a global issue. Any response will require widespread collaboration and co-creation at all stages, whether that is working on ways to address COVID-19 itself or ways to manage the aftermath.
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This idea has already been kickstarted but needs more involvement. During a recent call with the Italian Prime Minister, China's President proposed the construction of a 'Health Silk Road' to help co-ordinate global efforts to tackle the pandemic.
Such open collaboration has become the norm for many businesses, with firms willing to take ideas from employees, partners, customers and more, and also providing the ways and means for them to collaborate.
World leaders must put political differences aside and work with each other and with business to tackle COVID-19.
A more collaborative approach to leadership
There is a need to put political differences aside at a country level too and leaders should call upon the collective group that best understands what they are going through.
Why shouldn't President Trump, draw on the expertise of former presidents such as George W Bush and Barack Obama? The input and ideas of elite politicians with experience of leading during previous crises would be invaluable in terms of how COVID-19 is managed.
The world is in crisis right now and we need more collaboration than ever across society. Collaboration and co-creation bring many benefits to businesses and government departments all over the world. COVID-19 has only made the case for collaboration even stronger.
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Christ for India, a registered charitable organization in the US is known as New India Church of God in the nation of India.
This organization was founded in 1976 in the state of Kerala under the leadership of Rev R Abraham and Rev V A Thampy. A ministry which began in the primitive areas of Kerala has spread its wings to the lengths and breaths of the nation today.
Today the ministry spreads its work over 24 states of India with 4550 full time churches. It is our endeavour to bring the good news of Jesus and spread the love of God to many in our great Nation.
What we Do Christ for India is a ministry that is involved in an array of Christian activities in the nation of India. Even though we started as a church planting organization which is our focus to this day, CFI found itself being the hands and feet of God in all the avenues of Serving and making the love of Christ tangible to all people in villages, towns and cities of India. We preach the gospel, serve the downtrodden of society, feed and clothe the disenfranchised, educate the poor, teach skill to empower people to make a livelihood.
A student graduated from Regent University and serving full time in the ministry, Ranjit serves as the Missions Coordinator for Christ For India. He is also the Associate Pastor at Capital Christian Centre, New Delhi which is the urban expression of churches under the banner of New India Church of God. Ranjit and his wife Sneha who have just started their newly wedded lives are passionate about reaching out to the young folks and helping them pursue true and genuine love for Jesus. Ever since Ranjit has come back to India in 2014, he has been working in bringing more involvement & engagement in the younger generation of New India Church of God hence paving a way for the sustenance and growth of the ministry in the years to come.
This is a thriving youth group which started in the latter part of 2014 in the front of room of his home. This group started with only 5 people with an aim to encourage community and accountability amongst the youth and young adults of the church. The vision behind The Link is to connect with God and connect with people under the greatest commandment to love God and love people. Now we have 3 Link locations discipling and encouraging over 100 youngsters.
Which means "to nurture", is also an urban community and missions outreach project in the city of Delhi. The young adults of the church go out to serve, teach and love on the people who live in slums in various parts of New Delhi. This project enables the youth to be engaged with the community we live in and not just learn and worship in church, but reach out to the community exhibiting the love of Christ.
This is Ranjit`s newest endeavour to reach out to the youth of the nation of India. This is a 30 minutes segment that is aired nationwide once a week on a christian TV channel "Powervision Tv" . Ranjit believes that the first step to draw young adults to God is to expose them to the presence of God through the power of worship. Hence, during the 30 minutes Ranjit`s sole purpose remains to usher people into and facilitate the presence of God through worship into the watcher`s lives.
Get Involved There are various ways in which you can get involved in the ministry. We require a lot of prayer for the various operations of the ministry. We need many people to advocate for the ministry in various parts of the world. We need volunteers to come to India and work with us to serve the people in an urban or a rural setting.


The government is concerned that prepayments for goods or services which are never delivered to the customer are resulting in VAT being collected by the would-be suppliers but not being paid to HMRC. For example, where no supply is made, there is no taxable transaction.
Effective from 1 March 2019, all prepayments for goods and services will be brought into the scope of VAT where customers have been charged VAT but have failed to collect what they have paid for and have not received a refund.
This will affect those who agree to make supplies and receive prepayments from their customer, but the supply is never made.


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Report: Rise in virus attacks costs firms dearly
Not only did companies suffer more virus infections last year, but they had to also spend more--an average of almost $100,000--to cure them, according to a new survey.
Robert Lemos
March 19, 2004 3:47 p.m. PT
More companies suffered extensive virus infections in 2003 than in the previous year and spent on average almost $100,000 to clean up each attack, according to new research.
The Computer Virus Prevalence Survey found that last year, almost a third of the hundreds of businesses polled worldwide had suffered a virus "disaster," defined as 25 or more computers infected by a single virus in the same incident. The report was released on Friday by the ICSA Labs subsidiary of security firm TruSecure.
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"The re-emergence of 'outbreak events' and the success of mass-mailers in early 2004 illustrates that organizations are not making enough progress in their defense against malicious code," Larry Bridwell, a content-security program manager at ICSA Labs, said in a statement.
The survey polled 300 randomly selected companies and found that 92 had had major virus incidents in 2003, up from 80 in the year before. The cost to recover from the incidents also increased, to almost $100,000 last year from $81,000 in 2002. Moreover, nearly 11 percent of all their machines were infected every month, according to the survey.
The numbers indicate that antivirus software isn't proof against infection. Almost all of the companies surveyed said that at least 90 percent of their desktops have antivirus protection, but still a third of the companies suffered virus disasters.
The issues is not that such software doesn't work, but that it is inherently reactive, Bridwell said. First, a virus has to be detected, and then a cure has to be created and downloaded to all antivirus tools.
"No matter how fast the antivirus industry is, no one can react fast enough," he said. "Corporations are having to be much more proactive in their policies."
The MSBlast worm, also known as Blaster, affected the most computers among the businesses surveyed, infecting almost 130,000 systems of the some 960,000 computers used by the companies. Other top threats were the Microsoft SQL Slammer worm and the Sobig and Klez mass-mailing computer viruses.
More than 80 percent of virus disasters involved one or more computer servers. The servers had to be taken down for an average of 17 hours as a result, the report said. While companies estimated the average dollar cost of a virus disaster at nearly $100,000, the most common answer was much less, at $10,000.
More than three-quarters of respondents said that outages had caused a loss of productivity, and two-thirds indicated that a major effect of an attack was to make a PC inaccessible. Corrupted files and inaccessible data were the other top virus effects.
Microsoft and antivirus firms Network Associates and Trend Micro sponsored the report.
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Frank Won't Seek Re-Election
Massachusetts Lawmaker Joins a Growing List of 2012 Democratic Retirements
Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, a key lawmaker on financial issues and a longtime liberal voice on Capitol Hill, said Monday that he will retire from Congress at the end of next year. Jerry Seib has details on Lunch Break.
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NEWTON, Mass.—Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.), an architect of last year's landmark financial-regulation overhaul, said Monday he wouldn't seek a 17th term, adding to a list of Democratic retirements that could hurt the party's already slim chances of retaking the House next year.
The decision to leave Congress by Mr. Frank, the most high-profile Democrat to do so since 2010, will deprive liberals of one of their most outspoken champions and conservatives of a national political lightning rod.