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Eric Adams takes early lead in NYC Democratic primary
June 23, 2021 1:30AM EDT
▶ Watch Video: New York City votes in heated mayoral primary
Eric Adams is leading. Andrew Yang has conceded. Kathryn Garcia vowed that the winner will come down the "twos and threes" in ranked-choice voting. Maya Wiley assured her supporters "every single vote will count."
Initial reported results in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary showed Adams with a formidable lead, but it is expected to take weeks before a winner is declared.
The votes released on Tuesday night were just the first-choice votes for ballots cast in-person during early voting and on primary day. There are no absentee ballots factored into the results yet because ballots can arrive through the mail until June 29, although they had to be postmarked by Tuesday.
Adams led his rivals with about 31% of the votes tallied by 12:00 a.m. Wednesday, which accounted for about 92% of the city's election scanners. He was confident about his prospects at a rally with supporters on Tuesday night, but urged patience in waiting for the results.
Stephanie Keith/Getty Images, AP Photo/Kevin Hagen, Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
"We know that this is going to be layers. This is the first early voting count. We know that. We know there's going to be twos and threes and fours, we know that," Adams said. "But there's something else we know: that New York City said 'our first choice is Eric Adams.'"
Trailing him were Wiley with about 22% and Garcia with about 20%. While they were trailing at the end of Tuesday night, they made clear that there's a long road ahead before a winner is declared.
"I don't know what New Yorkers have chosen tonight. Not any one of us does because the votes are still being counted. I will tell you what is true: every single vote will count," Wiley said.
"This is going to be a ranked choice election," Garcia said in her speech. "This is going to be about not only the ones, but also about the twos and threes."
Yang, who was a front runner in the first few months of 2021, was trailing Wiley and Garcia by several percentage points and conceded on Tuesday night.
"You all know I am a numbers guy. I'm someone who trafficks in what's happening by the numbers and I'm not going to be the next mayor of New York City," Yang said. "I am conceding this race. Though we're not sure ultimately who the next mayor is going to be, but whoever that person is, I will be very happy to work with them to help improve the lives of the 8.3 million people who live in our great city."
This is the first citywide primary where New York City used ranked-choice voting. The system allows voters to rank up to five candidates for mayor and other city offices. If no candidate receives a majority of first-place votes, the candidate who receives the fewest first-choice votes will be eliminated and his or her supporters' votes will be reallocated based on other selections. That process of elimination and redistribution will be repeated until two candidates remain, and the candidate left with the most votes wins.
The Board of Elections is expected to release the first tabulation of ranked-choice votes for the early in-person and primary day votes on June 29. The first round of ranked-choice tabulation with absentee ballots is expected to take place on July 6. Any subsequent rounds of tabulation will take place in the following weeks. Voters have until July 9 to cure any deficiencies with absentee ballots, meaning the final results may not come until July 12. As of Monday, about 207,000 absentee ballots were sent in the Democratic primary and about 87,000 had been returned.
In many ranked-choice voting elections, the candidate leading after the first-choice votes goes on to win the election, but races can change significantly during ranked-choice tabulation. In 2018, San Francisco Mayor London Breed was winning by about 12 points, but went on to win by just one point in the final round of tabulation. That race isn't directly comparable to New York City because the field was less crowded and two candidates formed a solid alliance.
New York voters saw a bit of an alliance between Garcia and Yang during the final weekend of early voting. Yang urged his supporters to rank Garcia second, but Garcia did not explicitly endorse Yang and direct her supporters to rank him second .It remains to be seen how that strategy plays out in the final tabulation. Adams and his allies sharply criticized the alliance, which led to an ugly final stretch of the campaign.
The winner of the primary will take on Republican Curtis Sliwa in November. Whichever candidate takes the Democratic primary will be a considerable favorite to win the general election in heavily-Democratic New York City.


Chairman's statement. Our mission. Leadership.
Redeem is a global leader in the provision of high volume value recycling and re-commerce solutions for a range of hand-held technologies across the operator, retail, consumer and business wireless landscape.
Our innovative solutions and tried and tested processes make recycling and re-commerce easy for our customers. We allow our customers to focus on making their business grow by remaining flexible and approachable.
We work around our customers. We adapt positively to changing markets and continually evolve to increase our efficiency. We are proactive in our approach, working closely with our customers to find the solution that fits best for them whilst striving for professional improvement within our own business.
We connect with our customers and our rapidly changing market to continually innovate and grow. We use our industry experience, expertise and connections to provide a punctual and profitable service that removes waste and drives value.
Through customer engagement we aim to be transparent and build relationships that grow and develop over time. We are ethical and environmentally compliant and take responsibility for our actions.
"Redeem started life as a UK-focused recycling business. Following several years of strong growth and development the business now operates on a global basis providing a wide range of services to high-profile blue chip clients including some of the largest operators in the mobile phone and adjacent industries. We deliver innovative and tailored solutions to help our Partners meet the ever changing customer management, environmental and data security requirements now prevalent in our industry.
We are able to provide a full suite of solutions surrounding used mobile and related devices including; take back and recycle programs on behalf of network operators, retail and corporate clients; device testing and data security services; a full end to end consumer offering including white label e-commerce solutions, purchase and supply of devices and related ancillary products; device refurbishment and repair; financial services support such as device replacement device services for insurers and partners, residual value and device lease solutions. In essence we are able to integrate into every touch point in the customer life cycle enabling our partners to drive improved customer service, acquisition and retention.
More recently the market has seen immense change driven by a significant increase in the cost of new devices, the wider acceptance of used devices as a viable alternative to new, un-bundling of device costs and minutes, longer device "hold" periods and a slow down in technological development. All of these factors mean that anyone operating in the mobile sector needs to manage their used device strategy very carefully. In this regard Redeem have the expertise, experience and solutions to help so please get in touch with myself or one of our senior management team to find out more."
Redeem is a leading re-commerce supplier with the vision of making sustainability easy. We enable our customers to redeem the value of used electronics by extending their lifespan. Our value-adding solutions are enterprising, efficient and make customer acquisition and retention easy. We are committed to reducing electronic waste globally by driving sustainable business growth through innovation, empowerment and ethics.
Prior to his appointment as Chairman in early 2018 Paul was an active non-executive director of the company for over four years. An engineer by background, Paul has 25 years experience of working in large multinationals, including Pirelli, Ernst and Young and Fidelity, and has been involved in a number of small-to-medium size business both as a director and as an investor. He has sat on the boards of over 20 companies and more recently was executive chairman of Acoura Group, a supply chain compliance group based in Edinburgh.
Simon has a Master's in Business Management and Marketing and has been with Redeem for over 12 years, playing a pivotal role in shaping and growing the businesses take-back strategy. He has had various roles including Director of Marketing, Director of Commercial Development and Director of Group Business Development.
Roger has over 20 years' experience in senior management roles in IT. He joined the company in April 2017 with responsibility for all of the IT teams across the Redeem Group. He is tasked with establishing the company's future IT vision in line with Redeems growth strategy. Previously, Roger has led IT teams at RR Donnelley, Schawk and Seven Worldwide, amongst others, working with many multinational companies delivering strategic IT initiatives driving added business value through the use of technology.
Raul has over 30 years' experience in the consumer electronic industry. He joined Redeem in 2014 following roles in Polaroid, Canon and most recently Ericsson Mobile Iberia and Sony Ericsson Iberia where he was Managing Director. He is currently Managing Director for our Spanish Operation located in Madrid.
Managing Director Nordics and Baltic's.
Fredrik joined Redeem in August 2017. He has great experience building and growing business on a geographical scale especially in Europe, South America and South East Asia. Fredrik has 20 years experience of telecom and online business and has spent 10 years at Verizon managing their European outsourcing rollout. He is responsible for all sourcing activities in the Nordics and Baltics.
Craig brings over 8 years of industry experience to the role of Director of Group Sales having held multiple service based roles with his previous company, Brightstar UK, including Head of Project Management, Head of Trade In and MNO Client Director holding overall P&L accountability within the respective channels.
Ashleigh and her team look after our partnership programmes, ensuring we continue to grow together and do the right things for our customers.
Ashleigh has been with Redeem for nine years within our Business Development team helping us to attract and retain our key partnerships. Prior to Redeem, Ashleigh worked with O2 for four years.


Teaching is hard. It can drain you physically and emotionally. I don't want to pretend it is the only profession that does that, but teaching does take its toll at times. There are so many things that can go into how we react to our profession. One thing that has become clear to me over the years, more teachers deal with anxiety, depression, and other aspects of mental illness than I would have ever imagined.
That tells me a few things. First, if you are suffering right now, you are not alone. The stress, frustrations, and frequent isolation from peers while working can augment many of the difficulties we face, but you are not alone. I am inspired by teachers who share their own personal experiences with anxiety and depression so openly. I can only hope it leads to more awareness and less burnout for teachers. Second, the way you approach your job and the way other people around you at your job approach you can make a huge difference.
Each one of us is the hero in our own journey. We are not, however, the hero in the journeys of others. We are merely the other characters in the story. How are you helping? It is something I try to live by in both my professional and personal life. How are you helping others in their own journeys? Or, are you hindering them? Are you the obstacle or the enemy they need to overcome? Too often in education and in life people can get caught up in the details. Little things that in the grand scheme of things that matter only because we want them to matter. Take some time today to reflect for yourself. Are you helping others, or hindering them?
"Look to the helpers" as Mr. Rodgers would say. My challenge is that whenever possible, we should be helpers as well.
In the end, we must decide who we are and who we want to be. I know we as educators already seem to be prone to stress, anxiety, depression, and more. Because of this, I choose to be a light. I am not anyone else's hero, just something to aide them along the way. Something to help them when the darkness sets in or they need to find their way. I try to live this way. Sometimes I fail, but so do we all.
This same thing applies to kids. They are people too. We can either help them or hold them back.
How are you finding ways to help? How can we help one another?
This has a beautiful message. Help or hinder? The answer is always #help. Thanks dor being the caring educator and colleague thaat you are.
Thank you! I think it is also important to note that there are so many ways to help, even the smallest ways matter.


W3i is a company that is focused on connecting people with apps, and they have some awesome looking job opportunities.
Posted by Willy Franzen on November 2, 2011. Jobs updated daily.
I recently discovered an awesome iPhone/iPad flight simulator/shooter game called MetalStorm: Wingman. It's free, and it's a lot of fun, but the publisher is constantly trying to eke revenue out of the game. There are ads, upsells to buy new planes and weapons, and suggestions of other apps to download. It's that last one that caught my attention, and it led me to a company called W3i. They're based in Sartell, MN, and they are in the business of "intelligently connecting people to apps." They do this with both mobile and desktop apps, and they provide an opportunity for app developers to both expand the reach of their software and make money by promoting other apps.


He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the dispersed children of God. So from that day on they planned to put him to death.
Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews, but went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness; and he remained there with the disciples.
This short passage tells of a pivotal moment in the life of Jesus, as told by John. Occurring immediately after the Raising of Lazarus, the final miracle or 'sign' of Jesus, it marks the end of one phase of the gospel – the 'book of signs' and sets the scene for the next phase – the 'book of glory'. Jesus' hour had now come, and the Temple authorities began to make plans to put him to death.
Whilst it is clear that some people recognised these signs as from God and believed in Jesus as a result, others remained blind and were quick to report Jesus to the Pharisees. They in turn had only one concern – to protect their own interests in the face of the Romans.
It is perhaps too easy for us to condemn the Jewish leaders for their attitude and subsequent actions when we so often are prone to behave in similar ways. How many times do we fail to see God at work in our lives, or are blind to good things that are happening in the world because we fear for our established way of life, resisting change or personal upheaval? How often do we say we are acting to protect the interests of others when in reality it is our own interests that are at stake? We dress things up to make it look like we are helping others when our primary aim is to look after Number One.
Caiaphas' solution to the problem was quite simply put. Get rid of Jesus. Eliminate the trouble maker and everything can return to normal. The status-quo can be restored. And so, this is what they began plotting to do. Unwittingly though Caiaphas makes a very profound statement – prophetic even – that Jesus' death would lead to the saving of the nation of Israel and those beyond it too.
The good news in this is that God's work in the world cannot be snuffed out as easily as some might hope or believe. In the face of selfish ambition and the desire to remain in control, the power of God to overcome even death itself proves much stronger. Perhaps those who sought to get rid of Jesus in order that they might save themselves should have realised this. And perhaps we, who so often act in ways that have similar aims should realise this too. The irony however is that when we, sometimes unwittingly, attempt to protect our lives and our selfish interests from the disruption that true discipleship might bring, there we find Jesus with outstretched arms, saving us from our very selves.
In our lives and in the lives of others.
Give us the courage to act on what we see.
And to live our lives in the service of others.
we are redeemed and restored.
Through the saving power of Jesus our Lord.
The Rev'd David Salsbury is minister of Dyserth and Holywell and Training and Development Officer in the National Synod of Wales.


On Friday, July 31, most of the world will have a "blue moon." Credit: Starry Night software.
The moon won't actually be blue in color. The expression "once in a blue moon" is a statement about the rarity of an event, not about the moon's color.
The expression "once in a blue moon" existed long before anyone tried to define exactly what a "blue moon" is. I believe that someone tried to come up with something about the moon that rarely happens, and got the idea that it might be an "extra" full moon in a given period of time.
In most years we have 12 full moons, one in each month. But because the lunar month is slightly shorter than the calendar month, some years, such as 2015, have 13 full moons. The synodic month (full moon to full moon) averages 29.530589 days, which is shorter than every calendar month in the year except February. Those extra 1/2 or 1-1/2 days accumulate over the year, causing the date of full moon to migrate through the calendar month.
If we look forward to 2016, we see the date of full moon continuing to move forward through the month until it falls on the December 14 at the end of the year.
Full moon is an instantaneous event, when sun, Earth and moon fall close to a straight line. It occurs at the same instant everywhere in the world, whether the moon is above or below the horizon. The full moon on July 31 occurs at exactly 10:43 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the time that astronomers and pilots use. It is equivalent to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the local time in Greenwich, the suburb of London England where the Royal Observatory was established by King Charles II in 1675.
Universal Time always uses the 24-hour clock, no "a.m." or "p.m." The day starts at midnight (0h), noon is 12h, and the last minute of the day begins at 23h 59m.
The time zones across the world are all measured from Greenwich and expressed in the number of hours they differ from Greenwich time. In most of eastern North America, we are currently on Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), which is obtained by subtracting 4 hours from GMT or UTC, so full moon occurs at 6:43 a.m. EDT.
As we move west across North America, we have to subtract more hours from UTC to get the local time. For example, on the west coast, we use Pacific Daylight Time, which subtracts 7 hours from UTC. Full moon occurs at 3:43 a.m. PDT.
So, where did the idea come from that this extra full moon should be called a "blue moon"? The idea seems to have originated in the Maine Farmers' Almanac, which started listing the quarter of the year in which 4 rather than 3 full moons occurred. In 1946, Sky & Telescope published an article which misinterpreted the older definition and defined a blue moon as the second full moon in a month. This definition was forgotten until the popular board game Trivial Pursuit used it as one of its trivia questions in 1986. This made this rather arcane definition mainstream.
So, when you look at the "blue moon" on Friday morning, don't expect to see any different color. Just be aware that it is a byproduct of the many compromise we make so that our calendar works well most of the time.


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from django.contrib.gis.db.backends.mysql.creation import MySQLCreation
from django.conf import settings

class TranslationMySQLCreation(MySQLCreation):
    def create_test_db(self, verbosity=1, autoclobber=False, serialize=True, keepdb=False):
        """
        Creates a test database, prompting the user for confirmation if the
        database already exists. Returns the name of the test database created.
        """
        # Don't import django.core.management if it isn't needed.
        from django.core.management import call_command

        test_database_name = self._get_test_db_name()

        if verbosity >= 1:
            test_db_repr = ''
            action = 'Creating'
            if verbosity >= 2:
                test_db_repr = " ('%s')" % test_database_name
            if keepdb:
                action = "Using existing"

            print("%s test database for alias '%s'%s..." % (
                action, self.connection.alias, test_db_repr))

        # We could skip this call if keepdb is True, but we instead
        # give it the keepdb param. This is to handle the case
        # where the test DB doesn't exist, in which case we need to
        # create it, then just not destroy it. If we instead skip
        # this, we will get an exception.
        self._create_test_db(verbosity, autoclobber, keepdb)

        self.connection.close()
        settings.DATABASES[self.connection.alias]["NAME"] = test_database_name
        self.connection.settings_dict["NAME"] = test_database_name

        # We report migrate messages at one level lower than that requested.
        # This ensures we don't get flooded with messages during testing
        # (unless you really ask to be flooded).
        call_command(
            'migrate',
            verbosity=max(verbosity - 1, 0),
            interactive=False,
            database=self.connection.alias,
            test_flush=not keepdb,
        )
        call_command(
            'sync_translation_fields',
            interactive=False,
            verbosity=max(verbosity - 1, 0),
        )
        # We then serialize the current state of the database into a string
        # and store it on the connection. This slightly horrific process is so people
        # who are testing on databases without transactions or who are using
        # a TransactionTestCase still get a clean database on every test run.
        if serialize:
            self.connection._test_serialized_contents = self.serialize_db_to_string()

        call_command('createcachetable', database=self.connection.alias)

        # Ensure a connection for the side effect of initializing the test database.
        self.connection.ensure_connection()

        return test_database_name

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Marta is 20 years old and recently moved to California from Venezuela. Although her two sisters, mother, and father moved to the US with her, most of her family is still in Venezuela and she worries about them every day.
Marta has recently started dating an American boy named Casey. Since she didn't know anyone when she first moved to the US, Casey, who is 25, became her best friend and boyfriend. Now, Casey's political beliefs are beginning to be a problem in their relationship.
Casey identifies as a communist, something Marta struggles to understand considering the economic and political situation she just escaped from. Whenever Marta brings up what she has seen in her own country, Casey tells her that she doesn't understand socialism. Marta feels that this is condescending. In Venezuela, Marta's father was a surgeon, so Casey tells her she can't understand because she comes from a privileged family. This is hard for Marta to believe, considering the stories she hears from her family every week.
It has gotten to the point where Marta is offended by the things Casey says to her. To her, Casey is a middle class, college educated white man, so she has trouble seeing the oppression that he claims to have suffered. Meanwhile he tells her, an immigrant from Latin America, that she is too privileged to understand his political beliefs.
Today, Marta and Casey got into another fight about politics. Marta does not know what her political beliefs are, but she feels that Casey is pressing his on her too much. She is eager to learn, but does not feel that she should just believe whatever Casey tells her. When she argues with him or brings up stories from her own past, Casey often becomes frustrated and yells at her, which makes her feel like he does not hear her or respect her. Worse, Casey got into a fight with Marta's father about politics today too. Marta was taught to respect her parents above all else, so for her this may be the final straw with Casey, although she doesn't want to admit that politics have come between her and someone that she loves.
Is it ever ok to let politics come between two people? Are Casey and Marta's issues about politics or respect? When have you failed to respect someone else's beliefs or experiences? Do you consider compassion to be part of your political values?


FINN, Madeline Thelma (Thelma) Late of Rosedurnate Aged Care and formerly of High Street, Parkes. Who passed away peacefully on Tuesday Februray 5, 2019. Aged 95 years. Dearly loved wife of the late Joe Finn. Much loved mother and mother in law of Dennis & Rose, Bruce & Jenny, Les & Bev and Geoff & Mandy. Cherished Nan of Michelle, Justine, Erica, Melissa, Alec, Chris, Brett (Dec), Andrew, James, Mitchell, and all of their familes. 'In God's Care' The cortege is appointed to leave St George's Anglican Church, Parkes, after a service commencing at 10.00am on Tuesday February 12, 2019, for interment in the lawn portion of the Parkes Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations to Rosedurnate will be gratefully received at the service.


I've run into dozens of designers who aren't fully clear on what jQuery is. They know it's cool, they know it's useful, and they may have even followed some related tutorials, but they're confused about what it really is. Is it something that comes with a browser? Is it a way of writing code? Is it a replacement for Flash? Is it just old-fashioned black magic?


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Bacteriophage treatment decontaminates infant formula
by American Society for Microbiology
A phage showed strong anti-microbial activity against a type of food-borne bacterium that often kills infants after infecting them via infant formula. Phages are viruses that infect only bacteria. The research is published Oct. 23 online in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
In the study, the phage, called "CR5," showed high antimicrobial activity against the bacterium, Cronobacter sakazakii, as well as against several other species of Cronobacter, which can also cause dangerous illness, said coauthor Sangryeol Ryu, professor in the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea.
The research was conducted using infant formula that had been contaminated with C. sakazakii. "Interestingly, CR5 killed C. sakazakii quickly, and no C. sakazakii was detected in the infant formula after 10 hours had passed," said Ryu.
Ryu said that the phage is safe for humans, noting that his analysis of its genome revealed neither toxin gene nor virulence factor. In 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the use of bacteriophages as biocontrol agents in foods. But the agency does not allow the use of antibiotics in infant formula.
Bacteriophages are abundant in the environment, which means they are ecologically friendly, said Ryu. "They infect and kill only bacteria, which means they could be used as novel biocontrol agents and even as natural food preservatives," he added, noting that other food-borne pathogens could also be controlled, by other types of phages.
Cronobacter, the target bacterial genus of the phage, CR5, is a family of closely related species that cause illness in people of all ages. While infection is rare in the US, these bacteria kill up to 40 percent of infected infants. Additionally, those that survive can face long-term neurological problems, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Heretofore, C. sakazakii-contaminated infant formula has been considered an unsolved problem because antibiotics cannot be used," said Ryu, adding that C. sakazakii has been known to have multiple antibiotic resistance genes. "In this study, we proved that C. sakazakii-phage CR5 is an efficient biocontrol agent in infant formula. Therefore, this bacteriophage treatment is a promising approach to solve this problem."
A touch of garlic helps kill contaminants in baby formula
Journal information: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Provided by American Society for Microbiology
Citation: Bacteriophage treatment decontaminates infant formula (2015, October 23) retrieved 21 January 2020 from https://phys.org/news/2015-10-bacteriophage-treatment-decontaminates-infant-formula.html
New infant formula safety advice could prevent infant suffering
Oklahoma baby is 3rd sickened by rare bacteria
2nd bacterial infection reported in Missouri baby
Scientists bolster 'phage' weapons in food safety battle
Viruses join fight against harmful bacteria

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


diazinon (Diazinon 50W) at 3 to 4 lb ai/a. Broadcast before planting and incorporate into top 4 to 8 inches. REI 4 days.
Isaria fumosorosea (PFR-97 20% WDG) applied as soil drench, chemigation or soil injection. Refer to label. OMRI-listed for organic use.


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Autumn's new openings and exciting events
As the nights begin to draw in, there's plenty to entice you out, from a brand new spot to unwind with friends to new fashion ranges. Find out exactly what's arrived this season.
Brand new: The Beau Brummell
St James's Market is rightfully renowned for its world class selection of restaurants, offering a single location in which to explore cuisine from around the globe. But until now, it hasn't had a spot serving serious British gastropub classics and tipples to boot. That's all set to change this month, with the grand opening of The Beau Brummell, a new all-day Public House named after St James's original well-dressed dandy himself. The food focuses on farm-to-fork sharing plates sourced from British farms, something that extends to breakfast too. There's a focus on British wines at the bar, with sparkling and champagne served by the glass, and fresh juices or cold brew coffee earlier on in the day.
For more information on the 23rd of September launch party and their membership offering, visit the website.
Go behind the scenes at BAFTA
For the first time ever, Piccadilly landmark the British Academy of Film, Television and Arts is throwing its doors open to the public with an exhibition of costumes, scripts and artefacts from some of the most famous BAFTA award winners and nominees of all time. Over the next two years, the rotating exhibition will showcase such things as striking costumes from the first series of Killing Eve and Chiwetel Ejiofor's original research papers for his role in 12 Years A Slave. You'll also find a 50th anniversary celebration of children's classic The Clangers, including annotated scripts from the very first episode. There's a new in-house café serving breakfasts, salads and sandwiches, so you can get totally absorbed in this most famous of modern cultural institutions.
See what else is on show at BAFTA: Behind The Screens here.
Harper's Bazaar do St James's Art Walks
The popular St James's Art Walks are back, this time in partnership with Harper's Bazaar. You'll begin with a welcoming glass of Ruinart Champagne at the recently relaunched Cristea Roberts Gallery, where you can view vibrant artworks by Bridget Riley, Rana Begum and Polly Apfelbaum. The walk then reveals a route through some of St James's most famous as well as hidden away galleries and exhibitions, including next stop at the Stern Pissarro, plus a chance to catch the solo show from Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck at the RA. Thomas Dane, Christie's, Panter & Hall then follow, before finishing up with a glass of wine at the ICA. Taking place on the 10th and 12th of October, this is the perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in a world of outstanding art in one fell swoop.
Join the Art Walk - tickets and full info here.
Autumn Collections begin to drop
Plenty of contemporary - and lovingly retro - style is to be found in St James's' many fashion and accessories boutiques for the new season. Acclaimed tailors Harvie & Hudson take it back to their roots with a collection heavily inspired by the style of the 1920s. Their sophisticated jackets, blazers and jumpers can be layered with a vibrant range of shirts and accessories for a timelessly smart look. Meanwhile Jigsaw's womenswear collection is all about the 70s, where deeply rich and earthy tones add some autumnal charm, alongside retro prints and tartans. The menswear range sees sharp work-wear meet the Scottish Highlands, as top quality tartans meet sharply cut coats, jackets, and sumptuous knits. If you're looking for eyewear, the latest frame from Cubitts is faithfully inspired by the 1960s. Crofters are classically bold yet effortlessly sleek and come cut from a choice of eleven different shades of acetate, with standard optical lenses or uber-cool sunglasses.
For more updates from St James's follow @StJamesLondon and sign up to our newsletter below.


Cayman Islands weather will give visitors one of the hotter Caribbean experiences. A trip to Channel Islands National Park is much more adventurous than visiting many other national parks. It was the core of a larger region, called Moro, that included the island and the coastline of Halmahera closest to Morotai to the south. Seasons are mirror opposites of each other above and below the equator, so there is always a spring or summer for tourists on a tropical island somewhere.
There's an island in everyone's dreams – a place for relaxing and recharging, for fun and sun, to experience or just to be. Isla Mujeres in Mexico, is a great way to escape the tourist crush in Cancun. Not including Santa Barbara Island, which is about 54 miles southeast of Ventura, the Channel Islands can be thought of as the Santa Monica Mountain range with a shoreline.
Most people like the idea of a kitchen island that doubles as a breakfast bar and a place to do homework or hang out with friends. So far, the ownership of Skorpios in the land register in Lefkada has not been changed and it will not happen as the island is leased.
It will be nice to know as to where the original title is and who with as the island was given as a gift in the first place. Peter was our next guide – he owns a farm on the island and is head of the Foulness Archaeological Society. Indonesian know it as Kalimantan but western call it island is owned by 3 countries,Indonesia,Malaysia,and Brunei Darusalam.
Because of the dense mountain rainforest and frequent rain fall the Philippines is endowed with spectacular sceneries within the islands tropical rainforest majestic waterfalls magnificent caves and rock formations. Even if the island were 'ready to go' i.e. all development work was complete, and no further costs were incurred in the running of the business (impossible), it would still take nearly 7 years to recoup the purchase investment price.


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Yesterday review: This Beatles homage doesn't come together
The film works best in flashes when it is a sincere love letter to The Beatles, but otherwise, it's so full of wasted opportunities, it's hard to keep count.
By Virat Nehru
Reading Time: 3 minutesMovie: YESTERDAY
Starring: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Ed Sheeran, Kate McKinnon
Director: Danny Boyle
Rating: ** (2 stars)
It's a surprise to know that Yesterday is penned by the same person who is responsible for the scripts of classic British TV comedies Black Adder, Mr Bean, The Vicar of Dibley and Not the Nine O'Clock News. Moving from TV to film, Richard Curtis came to be synonymous with British romantic comedies through films like Love Actually and About Time. If Hugh Grant has anyone to thank for in making a career out of playing the male rom-com lead, first on that list must be Curtis.
Which is why one of the biggest disappointments of Yesterday, with a screenplay by Curtis, is with its writing. The alternate, surreal universe imagined by Curtis isn't developed beyond the intriguing premise: what would you do if you woke up one day and realised you were the only person who remembers that The Beatles ever existed? It's such a fascinating concept, the kind of crazy idea that you can do so much with. But the film just ambles along, unsure of what it really wants to do with the exciting premise it's been given, before landing on a completely unnecessary, bizarre twist.
Singer-songwriter Jack Malik (played by Himesh Patel) wakes up one morning after a worldwide blackout to find that he seems to be the only one with any memory of this little-known, definitely-not-famous band called The Beatles. With his music career going nowhere, Jack decides to perform Beatles' songs and pass them off as his own as a shortcut to music superstardom.
Let me first give credit where it's due. We don't get to see people of colour as mainstream rom-com leads in movies all that often. Yes, that trend is slowly and surely changing with box office smash hits like Crazy Rich Asians and the recent Netflix rom-com Always Be My Maybe. But this is different. This is a film written by Richard Curtis and directed by Danny Boyle, a film that has the stamp of a decidedly 'British' sensibility, where Lily James plays the doe-eyed, 'I've been in love with you for twenty years' type of love-interest opposite Himesh Patel. Not only does this film present Himesh as a conventional male rom-com lead, it also subverts our expectations through the dynamic between the two leads. You would expect Himesh's character pining for James – who fits the conventionally attractive image of the rom-com heroine to the T – but no, it's the other way around here. These small touches show the self-awareness of Curtis and Boyle to update the mainstream rom-com template to match contemporary sensibilities, given how mainstream rom-coms as a genre have historically not considered people of colour as lead material.
However, it's the trappings of the rom-com genre that ultimately prove to be the film's undoing. Curtis' screenplay is too preoccupied in hitting all the conventional notes for a formulaic rom-com when the premise never actually limited the narrative to that kind of a story. The film works best in flashes when it is a sincere love letter to The Beatles. That is what this film was meant to be. Unfortunately, the narrative is way too muddled to focus on the story it ultimately wants to tell. There are some surprising cameos by famous faces, but even they can't save the film.
Though Patel is a decent enough singer, it was such a wasted opportunity to have a talented singer like James but not give her even a single lead song. But then again, this film is so full of wasted opportunities, it's hard to keep count.
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If a person wants a tailor-made program in farrier forge work, we can do that, but no horses on the floor. We do ironworking only. Students are taught how to use the coal forge, anvil and accessory tools. Some essential techniques developed during the course include drawing, upsetting, punching, hot splitting, fullering, twisting, bending, hot rasping, forge welding, forge brazing, striking with sledge and using the trip hammer. Early class projects include making of fire tools to be used during the course and more advanced projects include fabricating steel tools, tongs, utensils, hinges, door latches and scrollwork. Specific instruction is also given in the tempering of students handmade tools.
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What is the student-to-instructor ratio?
Class size limit is five.
How many hours of instruction is the program?
I have a three-week program, 105 hours, and a 6 day program, 42 hours.
Do you track what percentage of graduates end up working as farriers? If not, do you have an estimate?
I don't track graduates after they leave.
Are supplies included in the cost of tuition and if so, do students get to keep the supplies?
I furnish everything needed during class time. The students keep their projects, but not tools and supplies.
Does your program follow a standard curriculum set out by a farrier association that's designed to help students achieve certification upon graduation?
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What kind of selling can a chatbot actually do?
A front-end conversational tool for an existing e-commerce website. This will be useful in making purchases on the fly, answering FAQs, and maybe just having a good old chinwag if your customers are feeling lonely. AI will also use your customer's purchase history to give accurate suggestions – like Amazon.com or Netflix.
A 'route manager' – the bot reaching out to customers on a predetermined cycle: when there's a special on, or when you've integrated with your CRM – when you know their stock is running low!
Cross-selling – you know your customers right? At the very least you'll know what they buy from you right now. And you know what you currently sell, so simply offer them some of your other stuff. If you've invested in analytics and maybe even have some existing AI, you'll know that similar customers are likely to buy other similar things from you. So make those offers!
The key thing to understand now; it's the transactional selling that is appropriate for the bot to take over today. Give it a couple of years and it may be more relationship-based selling, but it starts with the simple and/or repetitive.
Establish the most appropriate channel.
As it stands today, at Ambit, we're deploying chatbots for text-based interaction only. We're experimenting with voice, but the recognition isn't quite there for the Niew Zilland accent as yet (over time it will be.) For now focus on textchat. So how should we get this into our customers' hands? In simple terms, your choice is to either stick with a web-based bot (imagine a "chat to us" pop-up in your browser), or deploy it on one of the messaging platforms – ala Messenger, Skype, Whatsapp etc. We'll write more on this soon but at this stage, the logic is; if you're a B2B business, stick with business tools – Slack and Skype for business and web. If you're B2C, then get onto Facebook my friends! Especially if you have a strong presence there already.
There's a few options available for you. In simple terms, it's the old bottom-up or top-down options.
Work out where the money comes from. Apply Pareto's (the 80/20 guy) thinking to establish where 80% of your revenue comes from. It's highly likely to be from 20% of your customers. Then give the other 80% of the customers to the bot. Boom!
Time and motion study – look at where your salespeople spend their time. Consider the tasks undertaken and how much value is added in relation to the time spent. There's a 100% likelihood that some low-level tasks, primed for automation, are occupying 10-20% of an expensive resource's time. Imagine the revenue flow-on of giving back that much time to your reps! Plus, Bots are almost infinitely scalable, so the more salespeople you have, the more you're likely to save.
Map out a customer journey as you'd like it to be, based upon a workshop/journey mapping/CX approach. This is a big picture "imagine what's possible" perspective. We advocate design thinking, and well, this is a key part of what we do at Ambit!
Once you have a clear grasp of all three, you are ready to deploy a Smartbot. At Ambit, we'll help you do exactly that. Our best-of-breed AI platform will make you wish you never spent so much time managing that wannabe Jordan Belfort salesman. Contact me at josh@ambitai.com if you'd like to know more. We'll be following up with more weekly content, so follow our LinkedIn page to get updates here.


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Hotel Lecidere supports local independent Timorese artists. The restaurant provides a place for these talented artists to publicly display and sell their works.
As Timor Leste is developing, caring for this destination is becoming more important every year. We encourage all our guests not to change towels daily as it uses a great deal of water which is a valuable resource in Timor Leste.
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This is the precision of real numbers. The dimension bounds of the dummy argument array may be passed into the procedure via the argument list. Such errors are nearly impossible to track down so be careful when passing constants as actual arguments. To overcome this problem, we should use format. However, the parentheses must be present even if there are no arguments. Save Statement Under normal circumstances, local variables declared within a procedure become undefined as soon as control passes back to the calling program. Thus, before the subroutine call, M 5 and the write statement fotrran N 20 but after the subroutine call, N has been altered to the number. This is similar to composing an outline for an essay before writing the essay and will help keep you on track. External Functions, the intrinsic functions in fortran are useful but there will be a time when there is no intrinsic function to meet your needs. In this example, time, H, M and S are actual arguments in the call statement in the main program. The general way to activate a function is to use the function name in an expression. 0.0) return 2 END In the main program, the subroutine confus is called with six arguments: A, B, C and three statement labels, each preceded by an asterisk. Unlike an external function, a subroutine does not have a data type because a subroutine returns any values through its argument list, not through its name. Now go to the exercises and work your way through the subprograms and functions. This is a great aid to safe programming, your favourite Fortran resources will explain in detail.
His function returns the value of the polynomial C y a0 a1 x a2. The alternate return returns control to the calling program unit to a labelled statement after the completion university biology essay of the call statement. This is not a problem because a function is a self contained entity whose only tie with the main program is the order of the values in the argument list. It is used to declare linguistics definition in essays a name to be that of an intrinsic function but is necessary only if that function is used as an actual argument in another procedure call. Sends that value to the sqrt function. Subroutines, and more useful way when your programs become a little bit larger. However, n Return and save, a dummy argument may not appear more than once in the argument list but an actual argument may.
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Heart of the City
By Robert Rotenberg
Canadian Origin eBook
Canadian Origin Trade Paperback
In the latest thrilling crime novel from bestselling author Robert Rotenberg, Homicide Detective Ari Greene discovers the bludgeoned body of Toronto's most reviled developer behind his controversial new construction site.
When Detective Ari Greene was charged with the murder of the woman he loved, he stopped at nothing to clear his name and uncover the real killer. After his acquittal, Greene fled to London to get away from it all, but now he's back. And he's not alone—with Greene is his twenty-year-old daughter, Alison. The child he never knew he had.
Determined to leave his life as a cop behind him, Greene gets a job on a construction site for one of Toronto's many new condos. It seems he has finally found peace as he settles into a new career and new role as father, helping Alison adjust to life in Canada.
But when Greene stumbles upon the corpse of hated developer Livingston Fox, he is plunged back into the life he tried so hard to leave behind. As the body count rises, Greene is forced into a reluctant reconciliation with his former protégé, Daniel Kennicott. The pair must delve into the tight-knit world of downtown development, navigating tangled loyalties, unexpected corruption and family secrets, some of which are closer to home than Greene could have ever imagined.
In a world where the stakes are high and the profits are even higher, Greene and Kennicott race against the clock as they follow the trail of blood and money to its shocking end.
(c) Ted Feld Photography
Robert Rotenberg
Robert Rotenberg is the author of several bestselling novels, including Old City Hall, The Guilty Plea, Stray Bullets, Stranglehold, and Heart of the City. He is a criminal lawyer in Toronto with his firm Rotenberg, Shidlowski, Jesin. He is also a television screenwriter and a writing teacher. Visit him at RobertRotenberg.com or follow him on Twitter: @RobertRotenberg.
Publisher: Touchstone (August 1, 2017)
Fiction > Thrillers
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"The only complaint I ever have about Robert Rotenberg's novels is that he takes too long between books. . . . [Rotenberg] makes his legal-cop dramas spot-on for details, along with terrific plots and characters that evolve."
– The Globe and Mail
"Pleasantly loaded with [complications], each one delivered in Rotenberg's swift and sure brand of prose."
– Toronto Star
"Rotenberg is a natural storyteller. Full of colourful, fascinating characters, Heart of the City moves fast and always keeps you guessing."
– David Bezmozgis
"Rotenberg, who earns the title as Canada's John Grisham, is well worth reading, especially for those of us who love crime novels with a Canadian setting. The city becomes a character in his story, but this is a writer who full well knows how to build legal suspense and he does."
– Owen Sound Sun Times
"Rotenberg has created believable and likeable characters, put them into a fast paced story and sprinkled the mix with astute observations of contemporary urban life. What more can we ask for."
– MAUREEN JENNINGS, author of the Murdoch Mysteries
Praise for Stranglehold
"his fourth and best."
"…his most shocking book yet."
– The Orillia Packet & Times
"Rotenberg does rich work — full, and full-hearted, compelling and compassionate. And judging from Stranglehold's final words, there's more of this good work to come."
– London Free Press
"Readers of all descriptions will get off on Stranglehold's courtroom drama…the action is authoritatively presented…and as twisty as anything from Perry Mason's worst nightmares."
"Author Robert Rotenberg was in the business of turning Toronto into fiction before Toronto became stranger than fiction."
– Metro News
Praise for Stray Bullets
"A cracking good story."
"Rotenberg really knows how to build legal suspense."
"The added frisson of a city craving justice combined with evidence that can't quite add up the way law enforcement and prosecutors want them to gives Rotenberg the extra storytelling juice he needs to propel Stray Bullets to its inevitable but riveting conclusion."
– National Post
"Rotenberg makes it his own with propulsive plotting, crisp, vivid, no-wasted-words writing, and, most importantly,distinct characters virtually all of whom make individual claims on a reader's interest and empathy…In fact, the entire unfolding and resolution of a tragic, sadly semi-familiar, crime-and-punishment tale shows a real pro of a writer, just getting better and better."
Praise for The Guilty Plea
"Not since "Anatomy of a Murder" has a novel so vividly captured the real life of criminal lawyers in the midst of a high-stakes trial. This is a book that every lawyer, law student, and law professor should, no must, read."
– Edward L. Greenspan. Q.C.
"A few lawyers are really expert in managing cases--especially criminal cases--in the courtroom. A small percentage of these are very good at making trials come alive. Robert Rotenberg is one of the few, along with Scott Turow, David Baldacci, John Lescroat. His Guilty Plea is a crackling good read. Plan to keep turning pages late into the night!"
– F. Lee Bailey
Praise for Old City Hall:
"It's clear that Old City Hall has enough hidden motives and gumshoeing to make it a hard-boiled classic."
"Loved it! Rotenberg's Old City Hall is a terrific look at contemporary Toronto."
– Ian Rankin
"The book has wowed pretty much everyone who's read it. . . . A finely paced, intricately written plot is matched by a kaleidoscope of the multicultural city's locales and characters."
– Maclean's
"Twenty-first-century Toronto is a complicated place, rife with the kind of paradox and contradiction that lends a city depth and complexity. It's a good setting for sinuous legal machinations to unfold, steeped in that elusively desirable literary quality we call character."
"A convincing portrayal of backstage operations in the justice system. . . . An enjoyable addition to the literature of urban crime."
– The Times Literary Supplement
"Clever, complex, and filled with an engaging cast of characters, Old City Hall captures the vibrancy and soul of Toronto."
– Kathy Reichs
"Robert Rotenberg knows his Toronto courts and jails, he knows his law, and he knows his way around a legal thriller. Old City Hall is a splendid entertainment."
– Andrew Pyper, author of The Killing Circle
Book Cover Image (jpg): Heart of the City
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Peterborough United's offer accepted for highly sought after Oldham Athletic star
Oldham Athletic defender George Edmundson (15) warming up before the EFL Sky Bet League 1 match between Peterborough United and Oldham Athletic at London Road, Peterborough, England on 20 January 2018. Photo by Nigel Cole.
A report from Football Insider has claimed that League One side Peterborough United have had an offer of £600,000 plus add-ons accepted for Oldham Athletic's young defender George Edmundson.
It has been heavily reported over the past few months that Oldham Athletic defender George Edmundson has been attracting significant transfer interest from a number of sides in England and Scotland.
Scottish giants Rangers have had bids for Edmundson rejected already, with Championship trio Preston North End, Hull City and Stoke City have all been credited with interest in the centre-back. League One duo Sunderland and Fleetwood Town have also been linked, with Peterborough United also keen.
Amid the interest, it was claimed that the 21-year-old has handed in a transfer request to try and push through a move away from Boundary Park.
IN OTHER NEWS: Leeds United join Fulham in the race to sign Rangers star Connor Goldson
Now, it has been claimed that it is The Posh who have edged ahead of the chasing pack, with a bid for Edmundson reportedly accepted.
Yesterday, Sun reporter Alan Nixon announced that Leeds United was making a loan-to-purchase bid for…
The development will come as a significant blow to Steven Gerrard's transfer plans. with Gareth McAuley out of contract and Joe Worrall returning to Nottingham Forest, Rangers are in the market for a new centre-back to fill the gap, with Edmundson one of their priority targets. And if they want to continue their pursuit of the youngster, the Ibrox side will have to equal or better Posh's offer.
IN OTHER NEWS: Martin Samuelsen excited for "new start" at Hull City after move from West Ham United
The 21-year-old played 54 games in all competitions this season, starring in Oldham's backline over the course of the season, scoring two goals and laying on five assists along the way.
A move to London Road with Posh would see Edmundson become Posh's seventh signing of the summer. He would arrive to seemingly fill the gap left by the departed Ryan Tafazolli as the club look to push for promotion in the 2019/20 season.
Leeds United and Nottingham Forest's possible deal for Watford striker Andre Gray – major development
Transfer Rumour
According to Football Insider's Wayne Veysey, Leeds United have been offered striker Oumar Niasse on a loan deal until the…
Yesterday, Sun reporter Alan Nixon announced that Leeds United was making a loan-to-purchase bid for Hull City star Jarrod Bowen…
Middlesbrough take on Fulham at Craven Cottage in the Championship this evening, with the away side hoping to make it…
Free Transfers
Contract talks ongoing for Middlesbrough trio Djed Spence, Marcus Tavernier and Aynsley Pears
Middlesbrough Head Coach Jonathan Woodgate has revealed to Teesside Live that contract talks are underway with a host of young players. Youngster…
Loan Deal
Middlesbrough, Brentford and QPR interested in Scotland and Dundee United striker Lawrence Shankland
According to The Daily Record, Dundee United forward Lawrence Shankland is linked to Championship trio Middlesbrough, Brentford and Queens Park…
Middlesbrough keen on loan deal for Augsburg defender Reece Oxford
According to Pete O'Rourke of Football Insider, Middlesbrough are looking to secure a loan deal for Augsburg centre-back Reece Oxford.…


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ECS announces route to Registered Electrician status for military personnel
The Electrotechnical Certification Scheme (ECS) has announced that Defence Awarding Organisation electrical military qualifications for the Corps of Royal Engineers will form a route to an Installation Electrician occupation and ECS Registered Electrician status.
The quality of training provided by the Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME) to the Royal Engineers at Chatham in Kent is extremely high, with personnel typically spending a minimum of five a half years in the Corps, inclusive of training to become artisan tradespeople in their relevant engineering specialism.
However, military qualifications have rarely, if ever, been fully recognised outside the armed forces, with many candidates having to undertake additional civilian vocational qualifications once they have made the transition from military life. The Joint Industry Board (JIB), National Electrotechnical Training (NET), Electrical Contractors Association (ECA) and Unite the Union have been working with the Royal Engineers at Chatham to map these worthwhile and valuable qualifications into the electrical industry, for equivalence to the established National Occupational Standards and industry criteria.
Andy Reakes, Head of Operations, Employment and Skills at the JIB, said: "The Armed Forces offer a range of professional careers as well as many transferrable skills that will serve soldiers well once they leave. It is vital to be able to transition into civilian life as smoothly as possible and this work provides important industry recognition of the skills and experience gained during their time in the military within ECS. This announcement will create a career path for ex-military personnel who will be a great addition to the pool of talent in the building sector."
Qualifications undertaken through the Royal Engineers for electrotechnical studies and practice culminate in the awarding of Level 3 or Level 4 Diplomas in Electrotechnical Studies and Practice (Military Engineering). An AM2 end point assessment is also required. Furthermore, upon completion personnel achieve continuing professional development qualifications for inspection and testing, and BS 7671: 2018 through City & Guilds.
The Ministry of Defence has established the Ofqual approved Defence Awarding Organisation (DAO) to award vocational qualifications to armed forces personnel, helping individuals to gain this valuable recognition, and as such the Royal School of Military Engineering were able to work with the JIB to gain recognition through ECS. Industry and employers value the skills, work ethic and organisation of those who have been in the military. This is why ECS cards awarded to those who qualify through this route will be recognised with 'HM Forces Trained' on the reverse of their ECS card.
For personnel who trained prior to the introduction of vocational qualifications through the DAO, the industry has the Experienced Worker Assessment (EWA) which includes facility for industry Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) for training via HM Forces routes.
Lt Col Stuart Brown, Head of People Policy for the Royal Engineers, said: "I'm delighted to find out how the qualifications gained at the RSME for our electricians can now result in the award of an Installation Electrician and ECS Registered Electrician status. This shows just how good our training is and a massive thank you to the Royal School of Military Engineering for that and to our partner MKC Training who are responsible for the instruction and who have been working with the awarding body to attain the qualifications."
Lt Col Stuart Brown added: "It is hugely important to have the work and skills of our soldiers recognised by the civilian industry. This shows the quality of work we do in the Army and also, considering how everyone leaves the Army one day, this allows our soldiers to apply for a job getting the full credit for the skills and experience they have amassed. Being 'HM Forces Trained' is a sign of quality, integrity and something to be proud of."
Andy Mitchell, Head of Defence Awarding Organisation at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, said: "This is very pleasing to hear of the ECS recognition, not only will this be very helpful to many Service Personnel but also falls into line with other industrial bodies' recognition of DAO qualifications."
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Sunshine helped draw in the crowds when Grundisburgh held its annual village show in 2005.
The event is a prominent fixture in the area's calendar, organised by the Grundisburgh Burgh & Culpho Horticultural Society, and in recent years was renamed the Village Show.
The show features a range of competitive classes, from floral displays to jams and home baking, as well as entertainment and garden parties for the whole community to enjoy.
The 2005 spectacle included a number of family activities, from games and competitions, to rides on the 'Zippy Dipper' and a motorcycle show.
There was also a rather comical fancy dress competition which saw one young guests dress as a tin of Heinz tomato soup.
The event this year is taking place on July 14.


Home / Blog / Buan, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets.
In Buan, there are countless dog farms, slaughterhouses, markets and restaurants where the dogs, who are tortured their entire lives, end up being slaughtered in the most inhumane ways, such as by electrocution, hanging or beating; and then thrown into boiling water – sometimes while they are still alive. In many places, dogs are being killed in full view of other terrified, caged dogs; and this takes place in broad daylight. In addition, many abandoned and stolen former pets end up in this industry, and are subjected to the same cruelty.
A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Buan's dog meat demand.
The searches resulted in: 87 Health Food Shops; and 4 dog meat restaurants in and around Buan.
Even if half of these 'Health' Food Shops and restaurants serve dog and cat 'ingredients' in one form or another, just imagine how many dog/cat slaughterhouses must be present in and around Buan in order to supply all of these outlets.
Please sign petition, call, write and email the Buan Mayor and the County Council TODAY!
Subject: Buan, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets.
Petition: Buan, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets.
[Update: January 11, 2019] Click HERE to see the Buan's response.


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Western Carolina's Travion McCray scored 20 points in Monday's loss at Georgia.
Oquendo scores 21 points as Georgia holds off WCU
By Carey Phillips
Georgia held off Western Carolina 85-79 Monday in a non-conference men's basketball game before 7,271 fans at Stegeman Coliseum.
Kario Oquendo scored 21 points for the Bulldogs. He received support from Braelen Bridges with 17, Aaron Cook with 13 and Dalen Ridgnal with 10.
Travion McCray paced the Catamounts (6-6) with 20 points. He was joined in double figures by Nick Robinson with 14, Marvin Price with 13, Vonterius Woolbright with 12 and Joe Petrakis with 11.
After trailing the entire first half, WCU pulled into a 44-44 tie on Petrakis' three-pointer with 16:23 left in the game.
Western took its first lead at 53-52 as Price made a fast break layup with 12:01 on the clock.
McCray's three-pointer put his team up 59-57 at the 9:13 mark.
The Cats led 62-61 with 7:49 to go as McCray made three free throws.
Georgia took the lead for good at 63-62 when Oquendo converted a three-point play with 6:45 on the clock.
That started a 12-2 run, during which Oquendo and Noah Baumann both hit three-pointers as the Dogs went up 73-64 at the 3:46 mark.
The game's largest lead was 24-13 after a basket by Georgia's Jabri Abdur-Rahim with 8:06 to play in the first half.
Western cut the gap to 35-33 at halftime after Price's basket with 19 seconds left.
The Bulldogs made 44.6 percent of their field goal tries and limited WCU to 41.9 percent.
Baumann's 11 rebounds helped Georgia control the boards 48-38. McCray and Tyler Harris both had eight for the Cats.
The Dogs committed nine turnovers, and Western had six.
Completing the WCU scoring were Marlow Gilmore with six and Harris with three.


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New Architecture and Design Museum in Helsinki sees historic private donation
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By Jonathan Baker
Helsinki's New Architecture and Design Museum has received a donation of 20 million Euros, making it the largest private donation ever given to Finland's cultural sector.
The private donation of 20 million Euros came from the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation. In addition to that, at least two million Euros will be given as part of individual contributions from the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Swedish Cultural Foundation, making an additional four million in total.
A foundation is set to be established by the City of Helsinki and the Finnish government later in 2021, with the aim of raising at least 150 million Euros in capital. The City of Helsinki and the Finnish government are set to contribute 60 million each, with the remaining 30 million Euros raised by private sources.
The project will be led by the Executive Director of the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, Kaarina Gould, with the preparation phase expected to last until the end of 2023. Then, final decisions for the implementation of the project will be carried out.
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Yeah, looks not bad, but at zero degrees, all this snow is freezing when it hits the pavement.
Posted on February 11, 2019, in photography, Photos I took and tagged FOWC. Bookmark the permalink.	4 Comments.
The photos through the blinds are actually really interesting showing your perspective of how cold it is out there!
Ironically, it's not all that cold. Just really, really snowy!
I always thought it snowed everywhere in Canada. So much for that!


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Q: Locating Tailwind CSS File anyone here use tailwindcss? as a clueless newbie, can someone tell me how you do you access the base css file where changes are being shown. I'm using vite, postcss and autoprefixer.
OR how do I build it?

A: Usually if you are using Tailwindcss you don't need a separated file. Whenever you are writing a div, you can give its style inside classeName if you are using React. example in React:
<div className="bg-white py-6 px-4 md:px-10">
</div>

You can also make specifics styles in a separated file and call them inside the divs like CSS but it is not so common.

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Gilles-Philippe Delorme est journaliste québécois et animateur d'émissions d'information télévisées né à Montréal en 1944.

Biographie
Durant ses études en lettres à l'Université de Montréal, en 1965, il entre au Journal de Montréal, nouvellement créé en pleine grève du quotidien La Presse, grève qui profite au nouveau-né des quotidiens montréalais pour s'implanter solidement auprès des lecteurs.

En 1966, Gilles-Philippe Delorme quitte le Journal de Montréal et entre au service des nouvelles de la Société Radio-Canada (SRC). Il est pendant 4 ans reporter-interviewer, puis reporter judiciaire au Palais de Justice de Montréal durant les procès célèbres des présumés chefs du FLQ Pierre Vallières et Charles Gagnon, pour la télévision du service des nouvelles de la SRC.

En 1968, Yvan Canuel, Jean Duceppe et Gilles-Philippe Delorme fondent le Festival de Sainte-Agathe, un événement culturel inspiré du Festival d'Avignon, de Jean Vilar, et qui se tient au village de Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, dans les Laurentides. C'est au Théâtre des Patriotes que se déroule la première saison théâtrale du festival de Ste-Agathe, à l'été 1968. Deux œuvres inédites de Réjean Ducharme y sont créées : Le Cid Maghané et Ines Pérée et Inat Tendu mises en scène toutes les deux par Yvan Canuel. Parmi les principaux interprètes, on retrouve François Tassé dans le rôle du Cid, Roger Garand, Hélène Loiselle, Sophie Clément et plusieurs autres. Une demande de subvention gouvernementale, présentée à Québec à l'automne, ayant été refusée par le ministre des Affaires Culturelles du Québec, Jean-Noël Tremblay, le Festival de Ste-Agathe se voit contraint de mettre fin à ses activités après une seule saison, malgré un succès remarquable durant tout l'été 1968. Il aura cependant permis aux amateurs de théâtre québécois de découvrir le volet auteur dramatique de l'écrivain Réjean Ducharme, Prix Goncourt 1966 pour son roman L'Avalée des avalés.

Journalisme télévisé

 Reporter-interviewer au Service des Nouvelles de la SRC à Montréal, 1966-69.
 Correspondant parlementaire à Toronto pour la SRC, 1970.
 Correspondant parlementaire à Québec pour la SRC, 1971-75.
 "L'Âge de l'Énergie" Radio-Canada 1980 (Série documentaire sur le contexte énergétique mondial)
 "La Parole est à vous" Réseau TVA, de 1981-85. (Débat politique hebdomadaire)
 "Antenne 10" Réseau TVA 1982 (Magazine d'information)
 "L'Hiver Nucléaire" Radio-Canada 1985
 "Science-Réalité" Radio-Canada de 1985-88. (Magazine d'information scientifique)
 "Sur la Colline" Réseau TVA 1992 (Magazine sur les actualités à l'Assemblée Nationale du Québec)
 "Le Saint-Laurent" Canal D 1997 (Documentaire de 4 heures sur l'éco-système du fleuve Saint-Laurent. Productions Impex)
 "Mer et Monde" Canal D 1999 (Série documentaire de 20 épisodes sur le nautisme mondial. Productions Héroux+)
 "Exploration Rivières" Canal D 2004 (Documentaire sur les 10 plus grandes rivières du Québec. Productions Impex)

Bibliographie
 Les Déshonorables : Les Dessous de l'affaire Munsinger paru chez "Les Éditions JCL" en . Gilles-Philippe Delorme est coauteur, avec sa compagne Danielle Roy, de ce livre qui explique les dessous de ce qui a constitué le scandale politique le plus médiatisé de l'histoire du Canada.

Filmographie
 St-Denis dans le temps un long métrage de 86 minutes, réalisé par Marcel Carrière, produit par l'ONF 1970. Ce film historique, reconstitue sans complaisance, en l'inscrivant en pleine actualité, la bataille de Saint-Denis, au Québec, en 1837, une des rares victoires canadiennes-françaises d'une rébellion malheureuse contre les Anglais, qui ensanglanta le Canada au siècle dernier. Sorti deux ans après le printemps de Prague, ce long métrage est présenté pour la première fois au Cinéma St-Denis, à Montréal, en 1970, dans l'effervescence des événements qui conduiront à la Crise d'Octobre au Québec en 1970. Le film est interprété par Gilles-Philippe Delorme, Marie-Claire Nolin, Donovan Carter, Jackson Quirk. Le tournage débute en 1968.
 Elvis Gratton : Miracle à Memphis de Pierre Falardeau

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Naissance à Montréal
Naissance en 1944
Journaliste québécois

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The spacecraft successfully completed its fly by of Saturn's moon Enceladus and its jets of water vapor and ice. At its closest approach, the spacecraft flew approximately 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the moon's surface.
The close approach was designed to give some of Cassini's instruments, including the ion and neutral mass spectrometer, the chance to "taste" the jets themselves.
The images of the surface include previously seen leading-hemisphere terrain. However, during this encounter, multi-spectral imaging of these terrains extended farther into the ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum than had previously been achieved at this resolution.
By looking at the surface at ultraviolet wavelengths, scientists can better detect the difference between surface materials and shadows than they can at visible wavelengths, where icy materials are highly reflective and shadows are washed out.
With both ultraviolet and visible images of the same terrain available to them, scientists will better understand how the surface coverage of icy particles coming from the vents and plumes changes with terrain type and age.
Enceladus. In this picture it is visible the southern regions of the satellite (35 degrees south latitude, 45 degrees west longitude).
Enceladus is one of the most geologically active satellites in the Solar System. Scientists suggest the existence of liquid water ocean under the ice, peppered with cracks and faults of satellite bark.
In this picture received on September 13, 2011, Enceladus appeared from a distance of only 42000 km.
Moons of Saturn. Enceladus and Tethys, two rather large satellite of Saturn, were in the field of view of the cameras, "Cassini" September 13, 2011.
Satellite Tethys is seen at the bottom of the picture. It seems that Tethys is in the foreground. This is indeed the case: when the shooting distance to Tethys was 208 000 km and Enceladus – 272000 km. Tethys is also twice the size of Enceladus, 1,062 km against 504. Saturn's rings create, as always, unique atmosphere.
Hyperion. On September 16 probe "Cassini" flew past one of the strangest moons of Saturn, Hyperion. The surface of this small (only 270 km in diameter) satellite is like a sponge.
Another feature of Hyperion is its random rotation around its own axis. Due to this it is difficult to predict in advance which part of the satellite turns to the cameras, "Cassini" during their next encounter.
2011 Cassini was only 62 kilometers above the surface of Enceladus and sent to Earth a series of photographs of of the most interesting satellite.
The shadows from the rings.
Titan and Dione behind the limb of Saturn.
Four moons of Saturn are visible in this picture of Cassini
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New Media DE Andrea Horbinski has been awarded a Dr. C.F. Koo and Cecilia Koo Chair Fellowship for Outstanding Graduate Students in East Asian Studies for 2014.
The Dr. C.F. Koo and Cecilia Koo Chair endowment was established in 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley. The Dr. C.F. Koo and Cecilia Koo Fellowships in East Asian Studies have been established at Berkeley's Institute of East Asian Studies to honor outstanding graduate students in East Asian studies, as demonstrated by their academic record and by the submission of an original research paper. Horbinski, whose dissertation focuses on the history of manga from 1912-2012, submitted an unpublished translation of sections of a 1764 educational text for women, with commentary. "I am strongly interested in women's history and in media history, and translating the Onna teikin gosho bunko seemed like a worthy way to unite those two interests in an era before the 1970s," Horbinski writes. "The third chapter of my dissertation, a history of manga (Japanese comics), focuses on that era, when girls and women reading and writing manga both officially and unofficially reshaped the medium with global consequences for its popularity; there are deep connections between the 'material girls' of eighteenth century Edo and Kyoto and the female readers and writers of comics in Japan more than two centuries later."
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