As many people will be aware, torrent sites are surrounded with a gloomy cloud of uncertainty. Are they legal? Are they safe? Can you use them?
It goes without saying that while many torrent sites are safe to use, there is a huge grey area with regards to the legitimacy of the services they offer. If you are reading this post, you are specifically interested in the best anime torrent sites; as we proceed through this article, we will reveal the top anime torrent sites. First of all, let's talk for a moment about the importance of using a VPN with any type of torrent site.
1. Do you need a VPN for torrent sites?
Absolutely. It goes without saying that you should be using a VPN regardless of whether you access torrent sites or not. However, for those who access torrent sites for anime and other content streaming purposes, that need is even great. Here, we give you three very compelling reasons why you need to use a VPN in order to access anime torrent sites.
Your IP address is essentially the same as your home address where the internet is concerned. When you access any site online, your IP address can be used to track your location, email address, contact details and more. Without your knowledge, there is data collected and stored about your personal connections and activities online.
When you use a VPN, your IP address is kept out of the public eye and one belonging to the VPN company is used instead. This ensures that your privacy is maintained and any activities you perform, along with the details of any of your visited sites is kept from being linked to your personal IP and your individual devices.
Staying safe online is a primary concern for us all. However, for those accessing torrent sites, there is even more of a compelling reason to be concerned with security. There are many instances where people who access torrent sites claim to have had their devices and their connections compromised.
An easy way to safeguard yourself from such an occurrence is to use a subscription-based VPN that uses encryption to tunnel your traffic through a secure connection that cannot be intercepted.
When you use a VPN, you will not have to deal with worries about your internet service provider throttling your bandwidth, and will not have to contend with slow servers that prevent you from downloading the content you need quickly.
Most of the subscription-based VPN services are run across thousands of servers in up to 100 different prime locations around the globe. Not only does this deliver a constantly acceptable speed for torrenting, but it also means you get a reliable connection from a network that is free from having a single point of failure.
When compared with the infrastructure offered, (or lack of) by free VPN providers, this is a very compelling reason why a subscription-based VPN is the most suited to those looking to stream content online.
Leading on nicely from the above point, a quick note about free VPNs. There is an old saying, ''you get what you pay for''. Where a free VPN is concerned, this is very true indeed.
Free VPNs lack operational integrity, they are well-known for storing copies of user activity logs and selling data to marketing and research companies, and more worryingly, there have been countless instances of free VPNs dropping virus and malware infections onto the devices of their users, causing their equipment to break or perform illegal actions without the knowledge of their owners.
When you consider the cost of a paid VPN is as little as just $3 per month, and in many cases, this will cover up to 7 devices under the one license, it is simply not worth the risk to trial out a free VPN in the hope that it will be a legitimately free service.
Every business needs to make money in order to survive. Think about that before you sign up to a so-called free VPN service.
While there are lots of well-known torrent sites for Anime. There are also many of the lesser known sites which perform equally as well. In this section, we name our top ten anime torrent sites for 2018.
While each of the above sites offers something a little bit different, this collection of the top ten anime torrent sites provides you with all the needed resources in order to enjoy as much anime content as you can handle.
Anime-ultime has the friendliest user interface out of all ten torrent sites for anime.
Bakabt is the most popular anime torrent site in 2018.
Animetosho enables instant anime downloads.
Anime Torrents is said to have the most up to date collection of Anime Torrents.
Horriblesubs is unique in that it lets you choose the quality of the anime torrents you want to download.
9anime makes it easy to download an entire series of anime content with ease.
NYAA has the best overall search and categorization for anime torrents.
As you can see, there are lots of great anime torrent sites for you to choose from, all of which offer their content entirely free of charge.
As we mentioned at the start of this article, it is always important to make sure you use a VPN in conjunction with your torrent sites. Protect your connection, protect your data, protect your viewing pleasure, and more importantly, protect your IT equipment from security compromises and harmful files.
Express VPN and Nord VPN are two specific subscription-based VPN services that work exceptionally well with anime torrent sites. With the costs starting at around $3 per month and flexible plan options available to all, there has never been a better time to buy a VPN to compliment your anime torrent site activities.


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Murray Makes Quick Work at Helldorado Days
Tillar Murray
Las Vegas, Nevada—While spending any time at all in Las Vegas can be cause for missed sleep, WPRA barrel racer Tillar Murray had an entirely different reason for being a bit sleep deprived during her time in the City of Lights.
Murray was scheduled to compete during the Elks Helldorado Days Rodeo during the second performance on Saturday afternoon, May 13. Only problem was the University of Texas-Austin sophomore was scheduled to make a business presentation as part of her finals week curriculum at 2 p.m., that same day.
"It was kind of stressful," admits Murray, who is enrolled in the honors programs for Liberal Arts and Business and eyeing a major either in accounting or business information systems. "I made my business presentation at two and caught a plane at three."
"My flight landed in Las Vegas at 4:30 and the rodeo started at 4:30."
Murray relied upon hauling partner Josee Groves, who had her horses at Las Vegas Village and ready to compete. Groves has been taking care of things for Murray during this busy spring run, keeping the horses in California while Murray flies back and forth between rodeos and her classes in Austin.
"She's been a huge blessing to our family," notes Murray. "She took the horses from Logandale out to Erin Ricotti's place for those rodeos in California. She's doing a better job keeping them tuned up than I could! She's awesome."
Murray also thanked Ricotti, who has been along to help since Murray purchased Royal Star Commander a little over a year ago. Ricotti had piloted the talented gelding during his derby years and first year of rodeoing.
"It's a huge relief to have a great place to keep the horses, where they can be comfortable and get to rest instead of being on the road someplace," Murray says.
"I'm so grateful for both of them." Murray also thanked her mentor, Martha Wright, who has kept her seasoned pro, Tic Tac (Lil Gracie Dude) while she is finishing school, keeping him tuned up for the Texas circuit rodeos.
While Commander carried Murray to her biggest career win at Cheyenne Frontier Days last July and Tic Tac earned her an All American ProRodeo Series title, it was another sorrel gelding who took the load during Murray's first appearance on the Las Vegas Strip for Helldorado.
"I bought Dan from Mark Bugni about three weeks before Houston," Murray says of the six year old Dirty Dan Stinson, who is by Eddie Stinson out of Miss Lano Jewell. Eddie Stinson is a son of Dash Ta Fame and also the sire of Ivy Conrado's CFour Tibbie Stinson, the 2016 Helldorado Days Champion.
Murray took the reins from Bugni's mother, Lynn Hastings, who had been campaigning the gelding at jackpots after a successful futurity season with Bugni himself.
"The first rodeo I took him to was Houston—and it was his first rodeo ever," laughs Murray. "He just handled it real well." In fact, the young horse even earned Murray a check inside NRG Stadium.
Murray has found success easy with her new mount, calling it a testimony to Bugni's training.
"He is such a calm horse, he never spooks at anything," she says. "He acts like he's been hauled for ten years."
"My dad took Commander in with us [at Houston] because you can't leave him alone and he was acting worse than the young one. I was thinking, 'Commander, you're supposed to be the babysitter!'"
After deciding to give Commander a few weeks off, Murray has focused on getting her timing together with Dan, running him in Red Bluff, Lakeside and Las Vegas.
"They are complete opposites," notes Murray of Dan and Commander. "Dan is ratey and he is so easy to ride. He is always looking to turn. Commander is such a free runner and you have to ask for the turn with him. Our runs are never that pretty but he is so fast."
In Las Vegas, Murray found herself a bit scattered as she prepared to compete.
"I was just glad I made it, first of all," she laughs. "Then I looked at the arena and it was much smaller than I had expected. I had never ran Dan with the walls so tight before and I was just hoping he wasn't too ratey."
A Las Vegas tradition since 1934, the Elks Helldorado Days was originally devised as an entertainment outlet for workers and visitors to the Hoover Dam during its construction. After missing a few years due to waning sponsorship and interest, the festival was revived in 2005 in time for Las Vegas' 100th anniversary with help from the Las Vegas Centennial Commission (LVCC).
Beginning in 2016, the event has been produced by the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) in conjunction with the Elks and LVCC and has included traditional fare like the rodeo, parade, carnival and Whiskerino Contest as well as the PBR's Last Cowboy Standing, a major stop on their annual tour.
It's new location at Las Vegas Village puts it right on the Strip with iconic landmarks in the backdrop like the Mandalay Bay and Luxor's great pyramid.
"It's a really cool set up, being right on the Strip," says Murray, echoing the sentiments of many of her fellow Helldorado Days competitors. "The ground was good and honestly, it's now one of my favorite rodeos."
Facing down a lightning quick 14.56 posted by Nicole Riggle during Friday's slack, Murray and Dan scampered through the pattern in the shadows of the giant casinos. When she came back across the line, her time of 14.54 seconds was just enough to grab the lead.
"It was just one of those really fun runs where everything comes together," says Murray, who is sponsored by Oxy-Gen and Myristol PRO.
Murray's time held up through the onslaught of top barrel racers who competed on Sunday for the win. She earned $2,722 for a two-week total to start May off with $5,303.
Riggle finished second in an incredibly tight barrel race. With 12 monies paid out, the time difference from top to bottom was just .23 seconds.
Murray had little time to celebrate her victory. She quickly boarded another plane to get home in time for another final exam on Monday. She officially finished classes for the semester on Tuesday, leaving her free to go on the rodeo trail in earnest.
Already ranked ninth in the WPRA World standings with just over $40,000 won in 28 rodeos, Murray is well positioned to make a run for her first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (WNFR) this season after finishing 22nd a year ago with limited hauling.
The cowgirl who is a native of Fort Worth is hopeful for her season, noting that both Commander and Dan are good outside and she hopes to split the summer runs between them, possibly putting them into two different rigs to cover more ground.
"Josee will stay with us and my parents will come out as well, so we may go with two rigs; we don't really have a plan yet," she says.
If everything continues according to plan, Murray may again find herself juggling college finals and runs in the City of Lights come December.
For more information on the Elks Helldorado Days Festival, visit www.elkshelldorado.com and www.pbr.com.
1. Tillar Murray, 14.54, Dirty Dan Stinson, $2,722
2. Nicole Riggle, 14.56, Shoeless Joe Biankus, $2,314
3. Kellie Collier, 14.65, Streakin Easy April, $1,906
4. Kali Parker, 14.67, Tuneful, $1,633
5. Gaylene Buff, 14.68, $1,361
6. Timi Lickley, 14.69, $953
7. Barbara Johnson, 14.72, Playguns Fame, $681
8. Taylor Langdon, 14.73, Vegas Firefighter, $544
9. Taylor Jacob, 14.74, Honor Thy Frenchman, $476
10. Jessica Telford, 14.75, $408
11. Rachel Rule, 14.76, A Red Streak, $340
12. Kailey Mitton, 14.77, $272

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Subaru BRZ, Boxer engine Rear wheel drive Zenith, är en bilmodell lanserad av biltillverkarna Subaru och Toyota. Bilen är en körglad sportkupé med bakhjulsdrift.

Bilen lanserades år 2012 tillsammans med sina "systerbilar" - Toyota GT86 samt Scion FR-S, där den sistnämnda endast är tillgänglig för den amerikanska/kanadensiska marknaden. Dessa tre bilar har  samma prestanda. Det enda som milt skiljer sig mellan dem är i grund och botten endast exteriören samt vilket bilmärke som sitter på bilen.

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Home PoliticsCommentary John Durham indictments: Brennan, Clapper, Deep State reckoning coming
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John Durham indictments: Brennan, Clapper, Deep State reckoning coming
by L.J. Keith Nov 11, 2019
written by L.J. Keith Nov 11, 2019
WASHINGTON, DC: Well placed sources close to the John Durham investigation are saying that indictments of senior DOJ officials and others involved in the FISA abuses surrounding the Trump Campaign are coming soon. They add that the long-delayed IG report from DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz is being delayed – until indictments are announced.
Indictments are coming for Senior Obama officials
The Durham Grand Jury has been hearing testimony for some time. Much of the evidence they are being presented is in conjunction with the contents of the Horowitz report. That is what is to account for the protracted delay of the Horowitz report, which was completed in early September. Publicly the IG report was said to be under review for classified material.
Privately sources are saying that it is being withheld until the first round of Grand Jury indictments is presented.
Eric Ciaramella, Brennan protege, more coup plotter than "whistleblower"
After the indictments are announced the IG report will be released. Those facing indictment include all of those principles involved in the illegal FISA applications and renewals from September 2016 through the 3rd renewal in May of 2017. That would include Peter Strzok, Andrew Weissmann, James Comey, Sally Yates, and Rod Rosenstein.
Operation Crossfire Hurricane and illegal FISA warrants
Those involved in the setting up and framing of George Papadopoulos in March of 2016, which was the basis of opening the Operation Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence investigation are also in jeopardy. That would include John Brennan, James Clapper, and possibly Obama's national security advisor Susan Rice.
The elusive Joseph Mifsud is clearly a material witness, as is Australian Ambassador Alexander Downer.
The mysterious Stefan Halper, who was paid over $1 million dollars by the Department of Defense and his handler there, a Colonel James Baker. Halper's role to apparently spy on Trump's associates and be a conduit for framing them illegally with fabricated information.
Brennan is emerging as the clear mastermind of the operation which used the full powers of the intelligence agencies, the CIA, NSA, the DOD, and the FBI to target a major Presidential candidate. Sabotage his campaign. Label him a Russian agent. And deprive Trump and those around him of their civil rights through illegal, unauthorized surveillance.
RICO style racketeering and deprival of civil rights
Charges could range from espionage, deprival of civil rights under color of authority, fraud on the FISA court, perjury, and RICO style racketeering conspiracy charges. Durham is also too be said to be looking at unprecedented unmasking of American citizens by senior White House officials.
Obama WH corruption: Rampant pay to play by Clinton, Kerry, and Biden
That would put Samantha Powers, Susan, Rice and Ben Rhodes squarely in the crosshairs of the expanded Durham investigation. At some point, all roads will lead to the Obama Oval Office, Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett and former President Barack Obama himself.
diGenova and Toensing set the record straight
In an extended interview last week with Lou Dobbs on Fox Business channel, attorneys Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing revealed that the indictments from Durham and the Grand Jury are imminent. Victoria Toensing says that
"It's going to be very bad for the people in the Obama Administration". According to Toensing, "It is going to be worse than you can imagine".
Joseph diGenova adds:
"I would say (it's going to be) explosive. For people at the highest levels of the FBI and at the highest levels of the Justice Department. More importantly, the Justice Department. It's going to be devastating. It's going to ruin careers."
He emphasizes that people will be disbarred.
"It's going to make people have Bar Association problems."
The greatest political scandal in American history
diGenova goes on to say,
"What's clear, and now we know, is that the senior levels of the Obama Justice department were complicit in knowingly submitting materially false applications to the FISA court for an illegitimate counterintelligence purpose, not for a legitimate purpose, but to spy on Americans for political purposes."
Eric Ciaramella, Schiff's "whistleblower" has ties to Susan Rice and Joe Biden
diGenova makes clear, "It really will end up being the beginning of the greatest political scandal in history. And it's being held up (the IG report) partially because of John Durham's new grand jury, which by the way, exists for one reason and one reason only. Because people are going to be indicted."
Toensing says about Durham's investigation,
"It's been expanded. He is now going into whole other areas. He's gone back into the origins of the investigation. They disobeyed all the rules of a counterintelligence investigation."
Unmasking and leaking classified information
diGenova adds,
"It is expanded because they found out from the Devin Nunes experience at the White House in March of 2017 that there had been massive, massive unmaskings of Americans for political purposes. That information was given, and leaked, to the press. The Michael Flynn Ambassador Kisliak call, the Russian Ambassador, which was leaked to David Ignatius of the (Washington) Post is, in fact, the subject of one of the criminal investigations. Because that leak (of classified information) is a 20-year felony."
Toensing takes it further, urging Durham to bring in Mark Zaid, 'whistleblower" Eric Ciaramella's attorney, before the grand jury and,
"ask him how he knew that CNN was going to be a part of it." Zaid tweeted in January of 2017 that "impeachment was about to begin" and that "CNN was going to be a big part of it."
Toensing adds.
"Was he talking to James Clapper and did he know that Clapper was going to leak the dossier".
Smashing the Deep State coup against Donald Trump
The implications are clear and decisive. A reckoning is finally coming for those who have been purposely staging an attempted coup d'etat from the day Donald Trump was elected President. The coup plotters began their criminal malfeasance long before Trump took office. Abusing their authority to thwart the will of the American people. The current impeachment farce is a cover to deflect from the coming indictments and muddy the waters.
Schiff witness Taylor has ties to Burisma think tank, Soros, McCain leaker
Deep state operative and fake 'Whistleblower" Eric Ciaramella is the latest extension of the ongoing slow-rolling coup against Donald Trump. A John Brennan protege, who worked with Susan Rice in the White House, Ciaramella is part and parcel of the current phase of the never-ending Russia Hoax, Mueller Weissmann Inquisition, and the Impeachment farce unfolding right in front of our eyes.
Now that Ciaramella is being blocked from testifying by Adam Schiff, who he collaborated with to launch the current impeachment farce, Victoria Toensing tweeted "When I was a prosecutor I couldn't decide who defense called as a witness."
Finally, let justice prevail to save the Republic
America sees what is happening. The American people aren't stupid. After three years of constant illegitimate attacks on Donald Trump from the Deep State, a reckoning is finally coming.
The transparent farce of the impeachment inquiry is not going well. Calling Democrat Deep State operatives like Eric Ciaramella and Lt. Col Vindmann some kind of legitimate patriots instead of the partisan assassins that they are. Leaking selected tidbits of selected testimony to harm the President. Acting like an East German Stassi show trial that would make Stalin blush.
The Russia Hoax: James Clapper throws Barack Obama under the bus
At long last, this three-year national nightmare of abject criminality is about to turn against the Democrats.
We have waited a long time for the IG Horowitz report to be released. Now we know why it is still under wraps. Indictments are coming from John Durham. The first round of many. Once those are issued we will finally see the Horowitz report. We will finally learn the truth about 2016.
It will be a devastating cascade of horrors for the Obama White House, for Adam Schiff, the Deep State "whistleblower" Eric Ciaramella, and the Democrat party as a whole. It can't come soon enough.
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LJ Keith is a non-partisan commentator taking aim at all aspects of governmental domestic and foreign policy and the American socio-political landscape with an eye toward examining the functional realities of the modern age, how they can be understood, and what context to view the changing face of life in America and its place in the world at large.
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Chef Beau MacMillan said his starring role in the new competition "Worst Cooks in America" left him feeling optimistic about his future.
He knows he'll always have a job.
The chef and culinary instructor said he knew the contestants on the show, which debuts Sunday night at 10 p.m. on Food Network, would need plenty of handholding and help. But he didn't realize just how completely helpless they would be.
In the opening episode, the 12 players -- all competing for a chance at a $25,000 payday -- were asked to serve up a signature dish for MacMillan and fellow chef Anne Burrell. One contestant, Marque Hernandez of Brea, above, prepared asparagus for the judges by cutting off most of the tops -- and serving the hard, stringy bottoms. (He explained that he thought they looked better that way.) Another contestant cooked a whole chicken by plunging it into boiling water, plating it up, and then covering the beige, rubbery skin with a canned sauce. Goulash was made, inexplicably, with rice and lentils thickened with flour and mustard. And one person made a pasta dish and added pineapple at the end. "For crunch."
"These guys could not follow common sense, infantile instructions....They were just deer in the headlights," MacMillan said.
"They would just let their imagination get the best of them every time, and try to do something way out of their range," he said. "There were fires, smoke. It was so hard to watch. They blew up that kitchen every day."
MacMillan said the show wasn't just a culinary bootcamp for the contestants. "It taught me so much about who I am as a teacher." He said the show left him a little sad, as well. "It's a lost art, cooking." Food awareness is greater than ever before in this society -- the cooking shows, the magazines, celebrity chefs, the proliferation of restaurants, the awareness of concepts such as seasonal eating and the slow food and farm-to-table movement, etc. But that doesn't translate into an ability to cook at home.
Which means lifetime employment for a chef and culinary instructor.
Photo caption: Marque Hernandez, left, with chefs Beau MacMillan and Anne Burrell. Photo credit: Food Network.


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Fila opens its largest store in China
Italian sportswear brand Fila inaugurated its largest store in China last month in the city of Beijing.
The Fila Sport Fashion House in Beijing. - Fila
Opening at the APM Mall, the Fila megastore spans over 1,700 square metres, across three floors. Dubbed the 'Fila Sport Fashion House', it was designed to blend the brand's Italian DNA with the local culture, aesthetics and architecture of Beijing.
Hence, the inside embraces the typical Hutong roof as a decorative wall, while the tracks of the Milanese metro characterize the fitting room area. The final touch is the splash of brand colors that delineate an area entirely dedicated to Instagram fans.
Customers can expect to shop all the Fila sport lines, as well as items from various collaborations, such as the new MSGM X Fila collection dedicated to tennis in store. Designed by MSGM founder and creative director Massimo Giorgetti for the Roland Garros tennis tournament in Paris, the collaborative collection includes halter tops, mini skirts, shorts, polo shirts, and t-shirts in MSGM's iconic tie-dye prints or marble motifs.
The opening of the new megastore and recent fashion collaboration, coincides with the brand's 110th anniversary, as it seeks to take on the world of fashion and increasingly combine it with the world of sport.
Earlier this month, Fila also unveiled a vibrant capsule collection to celebrate the European Football Championship taking place between June 11 and July 11, 2021. Prior to that, it teamed up with U.S. clothing label Brooks Brothers to launch a limited-edition collection that includes apparel, footwear and accessories for both men and women.


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By Alexander Salter|2016-07-12T13:34:02-05:00July 11th, 2016|Categories: American Founding, England, Politics|
By now, countless articles have been written on Brexit. But what implications does Brexit have for the United States? In answering this question, I do not want to focus on whether Brexit was a good idea or not. It's far too soon to tell. Instead, I will consider whether the decision procedure for Brexit—the referendum—was sound.
The Washington Post published an essay about how, after the vote, millions of Britons were Googling the European Union to find out what it was. Vox ran an article titled "Regrexit" that told the stories of voters who voted Leave, but who regretted it immediately after. One would guess that voters acted without basic knowledge of the issues, and as if their actions didn't matter. Given the importance of the issue, how could this be the case?
Imagine if I came up to you and told you I will soon force you to spend $30,000 on a new car of your choice. How would you react? Undoubtedly, you'd be irritated, perhaps even panicked, about having to make such a major purchase. But you would probably spend the remaining time trying to make the best of a bad situation: You'd compare models, features, reviews, etc. to make sure that you'd at least get your money's worth.
Now let's tweak the scenario slightly. I will still force you to spend $30,000 on a new car. But now there is only a one in 40,000,000 chance that you will get the car you choose. Otherwise, you will have one randomly assigned to you. Now how would you react? Suddenly going to the effort of getting that information doesn't seem worthwhile, since the odds it will make a difference are practically zero. Even when you factor in the dollar value of picking a good car, since this outcome is so unlikely, the expected value of being a responsible car shopper is tiny.
The scenario above is basically a referendum, like Brexit. The voting pool is so large that no individual voter has any incentive to do all the things required to vote responsibly, since doing so is expensive (in terms of time and money), and there's no personal cost to getting it wrong. If any voter had become an expert on the relationship between the UK and the EU in the weeks before the referendum, and poured his heart and soul into treating the issue with the seriousness it deserves, the result would still have been exactly the same.
Okay, but what does this have to do with the United States? In November, U.S. voters will face a similar choice: the exercise of power, decoupled from personal costs, and hence personal responsibility. The mess we are in, in terms of the sorry state of U.S. politics, has been a century-long experiment from unchaining power from accountability. At least when the U.S. was still genuinely federalist, and the majority of governance anybody cared about took place in City Hall or the State House; the small size of voting pools, combined with personal knowledge and reputation within communities, incentivized some small amount of civic virtue. Now, not so much.
"Limits on democracy are un-American!" comes the reply. Not so. Consider what some of the Founders had to say on the subject.
Here's James Madison: "Democracy is the most vile form of government…. Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as the have been violent in their deaths."
Alexander Hamilton: "We are a Republic. Real Liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy."
John Adams: "Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy; such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit, and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable [abominable] cruelty of one or a very few."
Even Thomas Jefferson, one of the most populist Founders, feared democracy: "Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine percent."
The lesson that Brexit has to teach the U.S. is one we knew in 1787, but seemed to have forgotten: democracy is a means, not an end in itself. To the extent that it produces good governance, we should embrace it. To the extent that it does not, we should avoid it. The whole point of our Constitutionalized compound republic is using elections as one tool among many to control those who would exercise power over us.
It's probably too late to avoid the consequences of unrestrained democracy in 2016. Let's hope we wise up before too long.
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Toro Rosso asks to change its denomination in F1 for AlphaTauri
The F1 team Toro Rosso formally asked to change its name to be renamed AlphaTauri from the 2020 season, the International Automobile Federation (FIA) informed AFP, confirming information from specialized media.
The Red Bull subsidiary team, based in Italy, would thus take the name of the clothing brand founded in 2016 by the group known for its energy drinks.
This request, which must be accepted by the owner of the commercial rights of F1 and by the teams, is subject to an electronic vote that will conclude on Thursday.
Scuderia Toro Rosso has run under that name since its arrival in F1 in 2006 after the Austrian group bought the Minardi team. AFP
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Turf Wars And Details Bog Down A Banking Overhaul
July 31, 2009 • Lawmakers are months behind the original goal of making sweeping changes to the nation's financial regulations. Leaders agree that changes are needed, but they just don't see eye to eye on what those changes might be.
HUD Chief Admits Gaps In Loan Modification Program
July 31, 2009 • Shaun Donovan calls the 200,000 loans modified through the program since March a "significant achievement," but says the pace will have to pick up to have a real impact. The agency was shooting to have 3 million to 4 million loans modified over three years.
House Works To Limit Executive Pay
July 31, 2009 • The House of Representatives took the first step toward an overhaul of financial regulation by passing a bill that aims to curb executive pay deemed excessive. The bill would give shareholders a voice in executive pay and allow federal regulators to restrict pay practices that might encourage risky behavior.
GDP Data Show Recession May Be Easing
July 31, 2009 • The recession that began in December 2007 is likely still with us, but it appears to be fading. A report released Friday by the Commerce Department shows the economy contracted at a 1 percent annual rate during April through June. The new data also show the downturn was quite a bit deeper than previously thought.
Analyst On Cash-For-Clunkers Program
July 31, 2009 • The government's cash-for-clunkers program ran out of funds only days after it was launched. Gary Dilts, senior vice president of global automotives at the market research firm J.D. Power, offers his insight.
House OKs More Cash-For-Clunkers Funds
July 31, 2009 • The House voted Friday to rush $2 billion more dollars into the government's cash-for-clunkers program. It emerged Thursday that the $1 billion set aside to encourage purchases of fuel-efficient vehicles may be in danger of running out only days after the program began.
Economic Recovery Looks Likely, But In What Form?
July 31, 2009 • Most economists now say the recession is bottoming out and a turnaround is expected in the second half of 2009. But what shape it might take is still a matter of debate. The latest GDP numbers could point to a pronounced "V-shaped" type of rebound, rather than the less desirable and drawn-out "U."
House Approves Fresh 'Cash For Clunkers' Money
July 31, 2009 • The government program, which offers owners of old cars and trucks up to $4,500 if they trade in their old vehicle for a new, more fuel-efficient one, has burned through its initial funding.
Financial Turmoil Grips World Markets
How Bad Is The Recession? Answer: Depends
July 31, 2009 • Many Americans are still feeling the pain of the recession, and are hard-pressed to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Some people in suburban Chicago comment on the condition of the nation's economy.
GDP Figures Indicate Recession Is Easing
July 31, 2009 • There have been signs lately that the recession is nearing an end. A Commerce Department report out Friday is further proof. It indicates the economy slowed at a pace of just 1 percent in the second quarter of the year. The numbers were better than what had been expected.
Canada's Real Estate Market Heating Up, Eh?
July 31, 2009 • Statistics this week suggest the U.S. housing market may have hit bottom and begun to rebound. But in Canada, real estate is red hot. Bidding wars are driving prices through the roof in Toronto.
Auto Industry In Turmoil
'Cash For Clunkers' Lacks Cash For Clunkers
July 31, 2009 • The White House says it's reviewing options for keeping the "cash for clunkers" program going. Auto dealers already may have surpassed the 250,000 vehicle sales funded by the $950 million program. The White House says any valid deals already made will be honored.
Jody Hall, the owner of Cupcake Royale in Seattle, is struggling to pay for escalating health insurance premiums for her employees. She supports a proposal to create an insurance plan offered by the federal government. Courtesy of Cupcake Royale hide caption
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Health Care Costs Measured In Cupcakes
July 31, 2009 • Health care costs are killing small businesses, which pay substantially more in premiums than large firms do. The owner of a cupcake business in Seattle pays as much in health insurance for her employees as she does in rent for four choice Seattle storefronts.
Tracking The Overhaul
Pharma Industry Keeps Hand In Health Care Bill
July 30, 2009 • One of the groups key to passing health care legislation is the pharmaceutical industry, which has been quite active behind the scenes. Billy Tauzin, president and CEO of PhRMA, the biggest trade association for the prescription drug industry, says health care is a moral imperative.


We've all heard one complaints of how the media is biased in one direction or another, but what many of us aren't aware of is the very news we seek to keep ourselves informed is slanted various directions simply based on search engine sorting (the algorithm.) The effect is larger than you think.
In recent studies done over the course of several years, covering India, America, and Australia, it was demonstrated that search engine results can sway the results of an election significantly.
According to The Week, "Manipulating search engine results can sway undecided voters by 20 percent or more, according to a study from Robert Epstein and Ronald E. Roberston at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology."
And considering how hotly contested the presidential primaries have been this year, especially on the Republican side, that could be a huge boost (or loss) for a particular candidate. In other words, the way Google ranks/displays articles could affect the outcome of a national election.
And in presidential elections, where the popular vote is usually fairly close, Google could have an enormous impact on the fate of America. This is an enormous responsibility, especially considering the average person doesn't know exactly how these algorithms (involving a LOT of math) will work.
In one experiment performed by Epstein and Robertson on voters in Australia "Whichever side people saw the positive results for, they were more likely to vote for-by more than 48 percent."
And in the words of Epstein himself, "Google's search algorithm can easily shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 percent or more-up to 80 percent in some demographic groups-with virtually no one knowing they are being manipulated, according to experiments I conducted recently with Ronald E. Robertson."
Considering this influence, perhaps it isn't unreasonable to be concerned about the future of politics, especially when we don't know is actually influencing our information flow.
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NOTES: Andy Warhol cover art. Cover has seam wear with 2 inches of barely visible tape along top corner and 5 inches of tape along bottom seam. There is slight shelf wear on the front as shown in the photos. Overall, the Warhol art presents well. Record plays fine, but that is of secondary interest with this item.
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Griffith Joyner was one of 25% of the population to have a congenital weakness of a blood vessel in the brain, called cavernous angioma, said Dr. Barbara Zaias, a forensic neuropathologist with the coroner's office. She said 10% to 15% of those people suffer from seizures.
In most instances, though, the condition doesn't cause problems, and many people live their lives unaware of it. Other times it may cause headaches, bleeding or seizures, Zaias said.
Fukumoto said he knew of nothing in the medical literature that showed this condition could be brought on by using performance-enhancing drugs, such as steroids.
Charles Yesalis, an expert on performance-enhancing drugs at Penn State, said the autopsy would not definitively show whether Griffith Joyner ever used steroids or human growth hormone. The most long-lasting steroids leave the body within a year, he said, and Griffith Joyner retired from competition nearly a decade ago.
Griffith Joyner had suffered a seizure previously, during a flight from Los Angeles to St. Louis in 1996, and she was hospitalized briefly. After her death, her brother said it was the result of stress. On Thursday, the Joyner family and coroner's doctors declined to take questions about the athlete's medical history.
Zaias said a cavernous angioma might show up during sophisticated imaging tests, such as an MRI or a CTI, but even then it might stay hidden.
The day she died, Griffith Joyner's husband called paramedics from their Mission Viejo home at about 6:30 a.m. and said his wife was not breathing. Joyner told investigators when he had last checked on his wife at 1 a.m. she was sleeping.
Coroner's office officials said Griffith Joyner had a healthy heart.
Griffith Joyner died almost 10 years after winning the 100-meter gold medal, the first of three she won in the 1988 Olympics.
She later won the 200 meters and was a member of the teams that won the 400-meter relay and came in second in the 1,600-meter relay. She became the first woman to win four medals in track at one Olympics and still holds the world record in the 100–10.49 seconds.
Because of her muscular build and dominance of the sport, Griffith Joyner came under suspicion for using steroids or human growth hormones, but she never failed a drug test. The Olympic champion credited her success to a new diet and extensive weightlifting.


Pictured: Professor Jennifer Burn (right) with Annaleigh Nash from Norton Rose Fulbright, who is on a six-month secondment at Anti-Slavery Australia.
It's an issue no-one wants to talk about, but online child exploitation is on the increase – and Australia has some of the most prolific offenders. In May, research released by UTS advocacy centre Anti- Slavery Australia (ASA) threw a spotlight on the matter, revealing that flaws in the legislation can make it very difficult to prosecute those responsible.
"People think it's something that happens to very few people and generally overseas, which is just not the case," says Gemma Livingston, national pro bono coordinator at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF). Livingston, who has a background in prosecuting these offences, was one of 24 NRF solicitors who contributed to the ASA report, assisted by firm partner Helene Lee and special counsel Nicki Milionis.
The Behind the Screen report, which took 18 months to compile, reviews legislation and international treaties, plus sentencing, court procedures and the role of internet service providers. "It's the first national analysis of law and policy addressing the production and dissemination of child exploitation material," says Professor Jennifer Burn. The director of ASA, Burn has spent the last 18 years campaigning for policy reform and providing legal advice to victims of forced labour, domestic servitude and human trafficking.
Her team helped draft the NSW Modern Slavery Act, which passed in June and increases penalties for cybersex trafficking. In another sign the issue is gaining traction, the federal government recently launched the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation, a law-enforcement group that collaborates with government agencies and non-profits, including ASA.
Burn's team is currently working with NRF to produce a follow-up report that will review these changes. Part of the Faculty of Law, ASA is supported by patron Judith Neilson AM and is made up of six researchers, lawyers, secondees and students, who work closely with other non-profits, social workers and law firms. "It's such a small but vital team and the more research we can provide, the more they can use their resources for other things," says Livingston.


The Erie Times-News had hired me to do an interview of Robert Merrill to appear as the cover story in a forthcoming 'Showcase' tabloid. I met Mr. Merrill, the world famous baritone, for lunch as he suggested and got a wonderful interview done while having a wonderful lunch. After lunch, we were walking down the rather elegant staircase in the Park Plaza Hotel when we observed quite a few people seeming very upset. Mr. Merrill inquired from one of the bellboys and found out that the then President Reagan had just been shot!
Mr. Merrill asked me if I'd like to go with him to the Columbia Artists Building where we could watch at least 5 different televisions all tuned to different news networks. I of course agreed, but then he asked me if I would rather ride over in his limousine or walk under his umbrella with him, on this lightly raining day, while he sang some of his favorite arias. I, of course, opted for the latter.
This story gets even better!
Once Mr. Merrill and I were comfortably seated before this bank of television sets, the one door opened and in walks Robert Goulet. You could have knocked me over with a feather at that point (and I didn't wash the hand that Robert Goulet shook and kissed for at least a day afterwards). About twenty minutes later, Roberta Peters, a famous soprano, opens the door to watch the news with us as well! This is too much: I'm now seated with Robert Goulet on my right, Robert Merrill on my left and Roberta Peters next to Robert Merrill……Wow!


It's hard to pick, really. Jaya Bachchan…nee, Bhaduri was an exceptional talent. She ushered in the era of the new-age heroine who didn't have to look like a painted doll 24×7. In an era of extreme artifice Jaya was a perfect natural.And a superstar to boot.Here's my pick of her finest performances.
Uphaar(1971): She stormed into movie theatres with two back-to-back debut films in 1971. And although her performance in Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Guddi as a schoolgirl who has a crush on Dharmendra(no doubt superlative, the performance not the crush) fetched her instant stardom, it was her absolutely unselfconscious performance as a child bride in Rajshri's Uphaar that proved once and for all, that we were staring at exceptional talent of the kind never seen before.I have discussed Jaya's performance in Guddi and Uphaar with her Significant Other. Even Mr Bachchan agrees she surpassed herself in Uphaar. The role of a naïve child-woman's awakening into emotional and sexual maturity was never seen before in Indian cinema.Outstanding song: Sooni re nagariya sooni re sajariya.
Koshish(1972): 1972 was hands-down the year of Jaya Bhanduri, She had as many as 11(!!!) releases which included the superhit Jawani Diwani(where her attempts to glam-up herself where pretty disastrous) and Bansi Birju(where her efforts to dance were embarrassing). But this was the year she stunned audiences time after time in Parichay, Piya Ka Ghar, and above all, with her deaf and mute act in Gulzar's Koshish. Jaya was a last-minute replacement for Moushumi Chatterjee. Both Jaya and Sanjeev Kumar were beyond comparison in Gulzar's unofficial ripoff of the Japanese film Happiness Of Us Alone.So how come only Sanjeev got the National award??? Outstanding song: none in Koshish. But she got to sing Jaan-e-jaan in Jawani Diwani.
Abhimaan(1973): 1973 was another super-prolific year for Jaya. During this year she did some awful film like Gai Aur Gori(where she played Indian cinema's first gau bhakt) and Zanjeer(which she did only because no other major heroine was willing to work with a flop actor named Amitabh Bachchan).Abhimaan stood out. As a simple hearted wife who out-sang her husband in front the microphone and paid the price for it, Jaya's face was a delicate mirror of the heart out. Outstanding song: Piya piya bina basiya baje na.
Doosri Sita(1974): She played an abused pregnant wife who murders her husband in this Gogi Anand directed offbeat film . The uneven film assumed greatness from Jaya's stark brutally raw performance. I still get goosebumps when I recall her in the sequence where she pummels her belly to kill her unborn child. Would there have been the resplendent neo-realism of Shabana Azmi and Smita Patil if Jaya had not paved the way? Outstanding song: Din jaa rahen hai ke raaton ke saaye.
Mili(1975): One of her last performances before marriage and retirement directed by her favourite Hrishikesh Mukherjee , Jaya excelled as the sunshine girl who dispels the clouds in the life of a dark brooding alcoholic (Amitabh Bachchan). This role could have been an over-sweetened gender-reversed version of Rajesh Khanna in Anand. But Jaya made it all her own, imbuing the child-woman's role with an aching humanism. Outstanding song: Maine kaha pholon se hanson toh woh khil-khila ke hans diye.


Vangelis Papathanasopoulos oversees the installation of the geothermal heating system.
A remarkable building project is under way in Isterni where Athenian publisher (of the Kedros publishing house), Vangelis Papathanasopoulos, is using the very latest in eco-technology to build his home on the island.
Following the Hervé François exhibition from 26 May-24 June is a sculpture and drawing exhibition by Angelika Vaxevanidou opening on 30 June.
The exhibition 'Tribute' by Platon will run from June 9-22, followed by an exhibition of marble carvings and painting by Richard King and Ellen Shire opening June 25 and a concert by Olla Vogola on June 28.
Galerie Pontoporos, Athens IPAC Exhibition, Marble Sculpting Seminars.
For three intoxicating days, Paros was swarming with poets, curious creatures, like bees buzzing the flowering lemon orchards.
The "Paros meets Naxos" itinerant exhibition project created by the Art+Art contemporary art consultants-curators, opens on June 1st in Naxos.
This year the Paros Symposium is guest-organized by Greek poet Liana Sakelliou and U.S. poet Eleni Stecopoulos. It will run from June 25th to June 30th at The House of Literature in Lefkes.
Still Waters at Apandima Beach, Antiparos will be hosting an Art & Crafts Market every second and fourth Sunday during June, July, August and September starting on June 10th.
At the crossroads of Logaras & Marpissa is a brand new business run by Mani and Marisa and offering a completely unique menu for Paros.
Peter Abbs, Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Sussex, England, was a guest at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts in late March when he gave a lecture on the subject of "eco-poetics".
The May IWOP meeting was held at Pebbles in Paroikia and those present put forward their ideas for next winter's activities and events.
Traditional dancing and a speech on the meaning of May Day were the highlights of the celebrations for May Day 2007 which took place at the stadium of Marmara.
In an effort to establish a better and systematic contact with non-Greek citizens and to help them efficiently with the different problems they might face during their stay on the island the Municipal Authority has decided to open a liaison office.
The Tao's Center at Ambelas hosted two workshops this spring which were guided by gifted facilitator Ambu from Pune, India. She will return this month and will guide the "Mystic Rose" meditative therapy from 2-22 July.
Thank You, e-billing, easyCruise, The Parthenon Marbles, New-style Post Office, AMEAI Centre, Awards for Paros Students.
Life According to Zeus, a Paros Cat.
Summary of the General Assembly held in May and the Paros Animal Welfare Society accounts to date.
A brand-new company, "Dream Planner", has been set up by to provide a complete service in organizing weddings, baptisms, conferences, parties and other personal or business events exclusively on the island.
Last month a very special event took place on the island of Antiparos when Charles Hostler, previously Military Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Athens, donated a plot of land to the community.
An archaeological mystery on Paros and Antiparos.


A chiefly British term for insured.
Qantas Loyalty CEO Lesley Grant said the initial response to the Qantas Assure concept had been extremely positive, and matched up with research showing consumers want more value from their health insurance.
BT said it has combined event monitoring technology and professional services to create Assure Threat Defence to meet the growing threat of complex and targeted cyber attacks.
To assure that the right head is attached to the right block, a system is used to check the pieces prior to assembly.
Once this principle is accepted, SNFs can proceed to adopt tools that will more correctly estimate patient costs and provide information to assure improved profitability.
The selector must consult with appropriate acquisition specialists, purchasing agents, and/or legal counsel to assure that all user and technological needs can be met before the final selection decision is made.
When selecting an interior design firm or consultant, the facility manager looks for designers who have experience with the type of project being undertaken, can work within a set budget, can review corporate standards and assure selections fit within those standards, and have respect for costs, schedules and the true function of the office.
Once the operation commences, observing enough cycles of that operation to assure that the operator is performing the task as directed.
NASA has standardized on Power Assure across all of its more than 75 data centers; Power Assure has shipped its EM/4 energy management software; Power Assure announced PAR4, a new energy efficiency rating to accurately measure server power usage on a transaction per watt basis; Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and Power Assure jointly announced a new UL standard, UL2640, based on Power Assure's PAR4 methodology; and Power Assure was recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in DCIM tools, Red Herring North America Top 100 company, Data Center Change and Innovation award winner, and GigaOm Structure 50 company.
Our quota share treaty is subject to early termination or re-pricing at Assured's option under certain circumstances, and we cannot assure you that the quota share treaty will continue for one year or will be renewed.


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1. Immediate release by the Federal Food & Drug Administration of drugs that might help save our lives.
These drugs include: Ribavirin (ICN Pharmaceuticals); Ampligen (HMR Research Co.); Glucan (Tulane University School of Medicine); DTC (Merieux); DDC (Hoffman-LaRoche); AS 101 (National Patent Development Corp.); MTP-PE (Ciba-Geigy); AL 721 (Praxis Pharmaceuticals).
2. Immediate abolishment of cruel double-blind studies wherein some get the new drugs and some don't.
3. Immediate release of these drugs to everyone with AIDS or ARC.
4. Immediate availability of these drugs at affordable prices. Curb your greed!
5. Immediate massive public education to stop the spread of AIDS.
6. Immediate policy to prohibit discrimination in AIDS treatment, insurance, employment, housing.
7. Immediate establishment of a coordinated, comprehensive, and compassionate national policy on AIDS.
President Reagan, nobody is in charge!
OF YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN.
Tell your friends. Spread the word. Come protest together.
7 AM ... March 24 ... You must be on time!
AIDS IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS NOW.
The AIDS Network is an ad hoc and broad-based community of AIDS-related organizations and individuals.


A kitchen design is based on the person who will be using the kitchen and on how he or she will use it. Prior to drawing one line, the designer should clearly know about the taste, priorities, and the lifestyle of the kitchen's owner. This is when the obvious questions of 'how would you use that?' and 'what is needed in that space'? come about.
The objective of kitchen design is to achieve a useful space for the activities that will take place in it. We strive to minimize the travel distance from workspaces. There are three main areas to a kitchen: the cooking zone, the washing zone, and the prepping zone. Ideally, a designer should locate the prep zone in a prime location easily accessible to the washing zone as well as to the cooking zone.
- You are making a long-term investment. Even a small oversight can create a chain of unfortunate events, so make sure you hire a professional.
- Plan your budget. Don't forget to account for new appliances.
- Take a close look at your space. Consider where doors, windows, and access to water, gas and electricity are located.
- Functionality is key to create a great flow mobility.
- Identify the style you want. Traditional with cozy accents, contemporary with clean lines, or classic inundated with the charm of organic materials.
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Q: How to get multiple tables from stored procedure in RDLC? Got a massive issues with understanding .rdlc reports.
My situation is:
I have a procedure with incoming parameters, but with multiple select results.
When I tried to add it with dataset, nothing happened, but any other procedure (where result is only one select) working as intended (it appears in "available datasets".
As I understand, it is possible to create DataSet by my own and send inside .rdlc form, somehow, but I can't get it at all (for example, how I supposed to Design .rdlc after this).
Right now I received 4 Lists with data from Stored Procedure, and I need to send those inside .rdlc. How can I accomplish this?

A: By default the report wizard will only take the first result set of a stored proc. You can handle multiple result sets from a stored proc in a .rdlc generated programmatically within an ASP.NET WebForms application, but it's not simple... at least the way I know how to do it isn't. Take for example the following proc that returns 3 result sets:
CREATE PROCEDURE Multipass
AS
    DECLARE @t table (ID int, SomeText varchar(256));
    SELECT ID AS FirstID, SomeText AS FirstName FROM @t;
    SELECT ID AS SecondID, SomeText AS SecondName FROM @t;
    SELECT ID AS ThirdID, SomeText AS ThirdName FROM @t;
    RETURN 0;

Now you'll have to add your datasets manually to the report file. Create a blank Report item and open in a text editor (in Visual Studio you can right-click the .rdlc file, click Open With... and select Xml Editor for pretty colors.) The full XML of the .rdlc with the datasets for the above stored proc added would look something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Report xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/reportdefinition" xmlns:rd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner">
  <Width>6.5in</Width>
  <Body>
    <Height>2in</Height>
  </Body>
  <rd:ReportTemplate>true</rd:ReportTemplate>
  <Page>
  </Page>
  <DataSources>
    <DataSource Name="Whatever">
      <DataSourceReference>Whatever</DataSourceReference>
      <rd:DataSourceID>b257dc38-aff2-4fac-9e8b-73ea232f5ca8</rd:DataSourceID>
    </DataSource>
  </DataSources>
  <DataSets>
    <DataSet Name="DataSet0">
      <Fields>
        <Field Name="FirstID">
          <DataField>FirstID</DataField>
          <rd:TypeName>System.int</rd:TypeName>
        </Field>
        <Field Name="FirstName">
          <DataField>FirstName</DataField>
          <rd:TypeName>System.string</rd:TypeName>
        </Field>
      </Fields>
      <Query>
        <DataSourceName>Whatever</DataSourceName>
        <CommandType>StoredProcedure</CommandType>
        <CommandText>dbo_multipass</CommandText>
      </Query>
    </DataSet>
    <DataSet Name="DataSet1">
      <Fields>
        <Field Name="SecondID">
          <DataField>SecondID</DataField>
          <rd:TypeName>System.int</rd:TypeName>
        </Field>
        <Field Name="SecondName">
          <DataField>SecondName</DataField>
          <rd:TypeName>System.string</rd:TypeName>
        </Field>
      </Fields>
      <Query>
        <DataSourceName>Whatever</DataSourceName>
        <CommandType>StoredProcedure</CommandType>
        <CommandText>dbo_multipass</CommandText>
      </Query>
    </DataSet>
    <DataSet Name="DataSet2">
      <Fields>
        <Field Name="ThirdID">
          <DataField>ThirdID</DataField>
          <rd:TypeName>System.int</rd:TypeName>
        </Field>
        <Field Name="ThirdName">
          <DataField>ThirdName</DataField>
          <rd:TypeName>System.string</rd:TypeName>
        </Field>
      </Fields>
      <Query>
        <DataSourceName>Whatever</DataSourceName>
        <CommandType>StoredProcedure</CommandType>
        <CommandText>Multipass</CommandText>
      </Query>
    </DataSet>
  </DataSets>
</Report>

Note that I named each dataset with a number after it, that's important in the code that uses the template to generate the report. Do something like the following that will loop through the collection of resultsets from the stored proc and add them to the report for rendering:
private byte[] GetReport()
{
    Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.Warning[] warnings = null;
    string[] streamids = null;
    string mimeType = null;
    string encoding = null;
    string extension = null;
    byte[] bytes = null;
    try
    {
        //  Retrieve the dataset from your stored proc which will contain a DataTable object for each resultset
        DataSet ds = this.GetMultipass();

        //  Instantiate a report object using your new spiffy template
        Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.LocalReport rpt = new Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.LocalReport();
        rpt.ReportPath = "path_to_your_report.rdlc";
        rpt.DataSources.Clear();

        //  Now we loop through the tables and add them as ReportDataSource objects to the LocalReport object
        for (int i = 0; i <= ds.Tables.Count - 1; i++)
        {
            //  Note that we name each datasource DataSet0, DataSet1, DataSet2 to match the DataSet names in the .rdlc. Kinda important.
            rpt.DataSources.Add(new Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.ReportDataSource($"DataSet{(i > 0 ? i.ToString() : "")}", ds.Tables[i]));
        }

        // Adjust the render to how you want the output
        bytes = rpt.Render("EXCELOPENXML", null, out mimeType, out encoding, out extension, out streamids, out warnings);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        //  Blame the internet for misguiding you
    }
    return bytes;
}

There is possibly a better way to do this, and hopefully there's a way to do this without WebForms or I'm in trouble when I finally migrate my application to MVC. Anyway, I hope this helps guide you in a functional direction!

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Siyang Xu provides a tactical analysis about the Confederations Cup final that finished Chile 0-1 Germany.
Chile's third major final in three years ended in defeat as Lars Stindl's goal proved enough to secure yet another trophy for Joachim Low's team. The South Americans will be encouraged by their performance against the world champions, however, they proved yet again that they are capable of going toe-to-toe against any of the world's big footballing nations.
The main focus of Germany's defensive game plan was to nullify the central overload created by Chile's 4-4-2 diamond formation. They rarely pressed high and preferred to set up in a 5-4-1 mid-defensive block, allowing Chile to progress play to around the halfway line. Interestingly, Chile changed their build up shape slightly by forming a 2-2 shape with their midfield, with Marcelo Diaz and Pablo Hernandez on the first line in front of the German midfield line and Arturo Vidal and Charles Aranguiz positioned behind. Juan Antonio Pizzi would likely have been trying to get Vidal and Aranguiz in offensive positions where they could support Alexis Sanchez and Eduardo Vargas with quick combination plays or make runs into space to add depth to Chile's shape and stretch the German defence.
Diaz and Hernandez would make angles to receive from their centre backs before looking to turn and engage the German midfield. Low ensured that his midfield line maintained strong horizontal compactness at all times in order to prevent Chile from playing centrally. Leon Goretzka and Sebastian Rudy were charged with ensuring that the passing lanes into Vidal and Aranguiz were blocked so that Chile were unable to progress the ball into dangerous positions within the German block. They did this very successfully and forced Chile's play to go into wide areas where it would be easier to contain the attack.
Chile ended up trying to use their full backs, Mauricio Isla and Jean Beausejour, as a route to finding Vidal and Aranguiz. Rather than going straight through the German midfield, they tried to go around and then back inside. The Germans were also able to adapt to this, however, with the ball-near winger doing well to shift over and close down the full back quickly. Any pass that did make it back inside would quickly be met with German pressure and would be surrounded by the two central midfielders and three central defenders, snuffing out any space the receiver would have.
Chile too were very impressive in their defensive phase, although their plan was a completely different idea to Germany's. They sought to press in an aggressive man-orientated manner high up the pitch, going man-for-man against Germany's centre backs and central midfielders in build up. This naturally left the wing backs free, but Aranguiz and Hernandez were always quick to shuttle over as the ball was travelling whenever Germany tried to pick them out. They received strong support from their team mates too, with players moving to mark the nearest passing options as the first presser moved towards the ball, meaning it was often possible to force a turnover off one of the wing backs and start a counter attack from a dangerous attacking position.
As the match developed, Germany tried to play out less against this organised press and preferred to play long. Given Low's generally low-risk game plan and also the game state – Germany were leading from the 20th minute after a horrendous individual error from Diaz gifted the world champions a goal – it is not a surprise to see Germany turning down the challenge of playing through Chile's press. It meant that Germany saw very little possession, with most of their attacks coming through counter attacks. There were some occasions when winning individual battles against Chile's man-orientated press allowed Germany to break through and run at the back four, but this was generally quite rare. It allowed Chile to control Germany's attacking game, limiting them to only three shots on target.
Both sides displayed interesting defensive schemes to counteract the other's strengths, and in truth, both game plans worked quite well. Clear chances were at a premium, with arguably the best chance of the match falling to Alexis Sanchez, but only after a goalkeeping error where ter Stegen palmed the ball straight into the path of the onrushing attacker. Other chances were few and far between, and Marcelo Diaz will be left to rue his carelessness on the ball that led to Germany's only goal.


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Brunch: What Is It & Why Is It So Popular?
By September 3, 2019 No Comments
Brunch may appear to be a millennial phenomenon, but it actually goes back much, much further.
Originally, brunch was the 19th Century hangover cure. The term, which are the words breakfast and lunch sandwiched together, was allegedly coined by an Englishman called Guy Beringer in 1895. The meal was reputedly designed for "Saturday-night carousers" who were too hungover to get out of bed on Sunday morning.
Other sources credit early 1900s New York reporter Frank Ward O'Malley with coming up with the term as a way of describing the odd eating habits of newspaper journalists.
Popularised and (supersized) by Americans, this stylish Sunday hangover cure was quickly exported throughout the world. Comic books in the 1960s, cooking books and even smash-hit 90s TV shows such as Sex in the City has helped make brunch mainstream. Today, everywhere from the UK and Dubai to South Africa and China enjoy their own version of brunch.
With that said, brunch has taken millennials by storm. So, what is behind the explosion of this generation's late elevenses? Emma Bricknell, Owner of Made in Belfast, has the answer after launching her new brunch menu: "Maybe it really is the best hangover cure on a Sunday. Perhaps it's the perfect opportunity to catch up with friends and recap the previous night's shenanigans."
Or maybe it's just a sign of the times. Income is meagre and prices are steep, then after squandering all of Fridays paycheck in the bar, getting up and eating later saves money on a couple of meals. If brunch is timed right, it could be the only meal of the day. So it's possible it ticks a box that says 'all of the above'. Or simply, it's an excellent excuse to make drinking before noon socially acceptable.
Alternatively, it could be a case of a lifestyle change among 20-somethings. Over the previous decade, brunch has quickly overtaken breakfast, lunch and dinner as the most popular meal of the day. Restaurants everywhere are reporting longer lines than ever before, proving that the love affair with brunch is far from over. A study by Fahrha Ternikar, who wrote the academic; Brunch: A History, claims that brunch's popularity has been steadily on the rise since 2004.
The two most popular days for brunch were Mother's Day and Easter Sunday. Ternikar also noted that there is a correlation between those with disposable income and those who eat brunch. After all, brunch has its roots firmly planted in high society, who possessed both the time and the money to drag breakfast into lunch as a social affair. While modern-day vape-toting hipsters may not have the income – they do have the time.
What's clear though, is that brunch represents a culinary pillar of our society. So, sleep in a little longer, skip breakfast, then let's have brunch.
Book now for brunch at Made In Belfast, Talbot Street, Belfast at www.madeinbelfastni.com or just call in.


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The sipping of hot, ionized water has a profound cleansing effect on all the tissues of the body. It helps reduce overall toxicity, improves circulatory functions and balances bile.
When you boil water for 15 to 20 minutes, it becomes thinner (its molecule clusters are reduced from the normal number of about 10,000 to one or two clusters), and it is charged and saturated with negative oxygen ions (hydroxide, OH−).
When you take frequent sips of this water throughout the day, it begins to systematically cleanse the tissues of the body and help rid them of certain positively-charged ions (those associated with harmful acids and toxins).
Most toxins and waste materials carry a positive charge and, thus, naturally tend to attach themselves to the body, which is negatively-charged overall. As the negative oxygen ions enter the body with the ingested water, they are attracted to the positively-charged toxic material.
This neutralizes waste and toxins, turning them into fluid matter that the body can remove easily. For the first couple of days or even weeks of cleansing your body tissues in this way, your tongue may take on a white or yellow coating, an indication that the body is clearing out a lot of toxic waste.
If you have excessive body weight, this cleansing method can help you shed many pounds of body waste in a short period of time, without the side effects that normally accompany sudden weight loss.
Directions: Boil water for 15 to 20 minutes and pour it into a thermos. Stainless steel thermoses are fine. The thermos keeps the water hot and ionized throughout the day. Take one or two sips every half hour, all day long, and drink it as hot as you would sip tea.
You may use this method anytime you do not feel well, have the need for decongesting, wish to keep the blood thin, or simply want to feel more energetic and clear. Some people drink ionized water for a certain time duration, such as three to four weeks; others do it ongoing.
The oxygen ions are generated through the bubbling effect of boiling water, similar to water falling on the ground in a waterfall or breaking against the seashore.
In the thermos, the water will stay ionized for up to 12 hours or for as long as it remains hot. The total amount of water you need to boil to give you enough hot, ionized water for one day would be about 20 to 24 ounces.
Please note: This specially prepared water should not substitute for normal drinking water. It doesn't hydrate the cells like normal water does; the body uses it to only cleanse the tissues.


Whether you're an alpinist, backcountry skier, or traveler, many savvy explorers now rock personal locator beacons, to call the cavalry in emergencies (storm, injury, getting lost, etc.). A light (10oz), super-reliable option is the ACR MICROFIX 406 GPS PERSONAL LOCATOR BEACON ($599, acrelectronics.com). The streamlined MicroFix 406 features just two buttons: one to check the battery and one to activate the 406 MHz emergency signal — simply fl ip up the fl at, stainless-steel antenna and hold the power button for one second. Immediately, a GPS frequency detailing your location — complete with a device-specific signal — is sent via satellite to the nearest rescue authorities.


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El Centro de Exposiciones y Convenciones Mitad del Mundo, más conocido por su acrónimo CEMEXPO, es un centro de convenciones internacional ubicado en la Autopista Manuel Córdova Galarza km. 9. Vía Mitad del Mundo en Ecuador.

Fue inaugurado en septiembre de 1999 y cuenta con una superficie de superficie de 85.253 m².

Eventos realizados
 Miss Universo 2004
 Miss Ecuador 2008
 Miss Ecuador 2010
 Campus Party Ecuador 2015

Referencias

Mitad del Mundo


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We take our Environmental responsibilities seriously and operate an internal Environmental Management System, which is externally audited and approved to ISO 14001. We are also monitored and licensed by the Environment Agency: Permit No NP3533BN.
The company enjoys a very close working relationship with the local water company Wessex Water and the site is continuously monitored to ensure waste water effluent remains within consent limits.
In recent years we have run a number of successful programmes to substitute and reduce the amount of metals, acids, alkalis and other plating chemicals we use. Despite this we are not complacent and continue to look at ways of reducing our environmental impact. The risk of uncontrolled spillages has been significantly reduced and the Environment Agency consider us to be a low risk site.


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Q: Firebase Website deployment I'm having trouble hosting my website on firebase.  My files, including index.html, have been uploaded onto firebase.
When I type in the URL given by firebase I get a 404 error.  However, if I type my URL and add '/index' at the end it works.
Any advice on how to resolve the issue?

A: It sounds like you're missing a rewrite in your firebase.json file.
"hosting": {
  // Add the "rewrites" section within "hosting"
  "rewrites": [ {
    "source": "/",
    "destination": "/index.html"
  } ]
}

For more on the configuration options see the Firebase hosting documentation.


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New Team Trailers: K' & WOMAN FIGHTERS
After team ANOTHER WORLD, the next two teams in the running for the title THE KING OF FIGHTERS are team K' and team WOMAN FIGHTERS, both eager to join the battle. Team K' consists of K', Kula Diamond and Maxima, who have all been enhanced and made for battle by the secret syndicate, 'NESTS'. The other team, WOMAN FIGHTERS, consisting of King, Mai Shiranui and Alice, are known for their various fighting styles. All members of both teams are ready to fight in THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV.
K' is a modified human with genes transplanted from Kyo Kusanagi by the secret organization NESTS. He wields the ability to manipulate fire, a power he controls with his right hand glove. His personality is a mix of introversion and bluntness. He continues fighting in order to reclaim his lost memories.
KULA DIAMOND
Kula is a modified human engineered by NESTS in order to oppose K'. She is able to instantly freeze the moisture in the air. As a result of her remodeling, she appears to be younger than she actually is. After the fall of NESTS she made peace with K' and began operating alongside him.
Maxima is a cyborg remodeled by NESTS. With 80% of his body comprised of machinery, he is equipped with weaponry everywhere. His fighting ability is far beyond that of any human. As a loyal intellectual full of heart, he also understands K' well.
TEAM WOMAN FIGHTERS
King is a female fighter dressed brilliantly in men's clothing. She fights with her own style of Muay Thai kickboxing. Taking advantage of her tall physique, she specializes in a variety of kicks. She is recognized as a leader among the female fighters. She is also the owner of the "Illusion" bar.
MAI SHIRANUI
Mai is a kunoichi and successor of the Shiranui style of ninja arts. Her opponents are at the mercy of her graceful movements and fascinating attire. Using large fans as weapons, her fighting style is to "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee". The future of her romantic relationship with Andy is on her mind…
Wanting to be like Terry Bogard, Alice picked up her own fighting style from those of the fighters gathered in South Town. Although still rough, her outstanding physique and sense for fighting will make her formidable with time. She is known for her cheerful and somewhat irresponsible personality.
Dream Battle contest between fighting game top players in "KOF XIV"! "KOF XIV DREAM MATCH" program release announcement!
SNK PLAYMORE CORPORATION (Corporate HQ: Suita-city, Osaka, Japan, Company President & CEO: Koichi Toyama) is proud to announce the release of "THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV DREAM MATCH", a program in which some of the best fighting game players will clash and face each other in the PlayStation®4 exclusive title "THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV".
4 of the best and most famous fighting game players worldwide will reunite and fight each other in "THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV DREAM MATCH". Who will remain in the end and be the best of the best! Please make sure to watch the stream to know the final answer!
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV Fighting Game, 2016-08-26


Most people, that is, except for me.
I have this odd prejudice against fruit mixed with meat and poultry. If the combination is put in front of me, I'll politely eat it, but as an old friend used to say, "it's not the fondest thing I'm of." It's reflected in my work: about the only fruit and meat combinations in any of my cookbooks are apples with pork and citrus fruit with fish. So it's very likely that I'm one of the only culinary professionals in the country who has never put grapes, blueberries, or strawberries into chicken salad.
But the rest of my household has a sweet tooth and loves fruit and poultry, chicken salad with grapes in particular. And there sat all the ingredients for it in my refrigerator, threatening to rebel if they had to sit one more day. I sighed, took out a favorite local community cookbook from St. Andrews Academy to use as a guide, and went to work.
And do you know what? I loved it, and will make it again. And again.
Sometimes we need to bite the bullet and get over a prejudice: we just never know what lovely experiences it might be causing us to miss.
But I'm still not playing football. You can't make me.
This is based on a recipe from First Come, First Served . . . In Savannah: A Taste of Southern History and Hospitality, a lovely fundraiser cookbook from the Parent Teacher Organization of St. Andrew's School in Savannah. Thanks to wonderful cook Jeannie Knight and a diligent committee, it's brimming with so many of Savannah's culinary treasures.
1. Combine the chicken, celery, scallion, pickle, grapes, and 1 tablespoon of the parsley in a mixing bowl. Add the mustard, and most of the mayonnaise and gently fold it in until all the ingredients are evenly coated, adding more mayonnaise as needed to just lightly coat the ingredients. Add the lemon juice and season with black pepper to taste, and gently mix it in. Cover and refrigerate until well-chilled, at least 2 hours.
2. Just before serving, taste and adjust the pepper and add salt if needed. Fold in the pecans or almonds. Fold them in and turn the salad into a serving bowl. Sprinkle with the remaining tablespoon of parsley and serve immediately.