PHUKET: The Phuket Prosecutor's office has asked for an extension of 30 more days in which to consider an appeal against the verdict dismissing all charges in the Phuketwan case. A judge is expected to respond early next week, possibly as soon as Monday.
The request is made in a letter dated December 28. The author of the letter may have been unaware of a previous notation from a Phuket judge that the extension granted in November would be the final extension of time in which to lodge an appeal.
According to court officials, up to five 30-day extensions can be sought. In the hand-written note on the request in November for the second extension, the judge appears to have signalled that in the Phuketwan case, a third extension is not warranted.
A verdict at Phuket Provincial Court on September 1 dismissing all charges against journalists Alan Morison, Chutima Sidasathian and Phuketwan's parent company, Big Island Media, was hailed at the time as a victory for Thai justice and media freedom.
The verdict seemingly brought to an end a case in which the Royal Thai Navy initiated criminal defamation and computer crimes allegations that carried a maximum penalty of seven years in jail.
The Navy cited a paragraph written by Reuters' journalists that first appeared in a feature on Rohingya trafficking and was reproduced word-for-word on Phuketwan. Reuters later won a Pulitzer Prize for a series that included the paragraph.
Ironically, Phuketwan shuts for good at midnight on December 31 after eight years of reporting on Phuket and the region. Corruption, the safety of tourists and residents, environmental issues and the human trafficking of Rohingya from Myanmar (Burma) have been the topics most frequently covered by Morison, Khun Chutima and other staff.
Early in February, Khun Chutima is taking up an invitation to contribute to an international conference at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France.
The conference, 'News Organisations Standing Up For the Safety of Media Professionals,' has the support of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, the International Federation of Journalists, the European Broadcasting Union, the International Press Institute and the International Women's Media Foundation.
Morison will be going to Australia, where he was recently the recipient of a Freedom Award from Anti-Slavery Australia, and where he expects to be interviewed by media outlets about the trafficking of Rohingya and Bangladeshis through Thailand and South East Asia.
Coincidentally, the chief investigator in Thailand's human trafficking investigation, former Royal Thai Police Major General Paween Pongsirin, is now seeking asylum in Australia.
The major general says the investigation was brought to an abrupt halt after five months and he was forced to flee Thailand soon after because of threats to his life. Major General Paween was regarded as one of the most honest and hard-working investigators in Thailand's police force.
His investigation began after the discovery in May of graves near secret jungle camps along the Thai-Malaysia border, where thousands of Rohingya and more recently Bangladeshis had been held for ransom, beaten, raped and in some cases murdered.
At the same time as the graves were being exhumed, hundreds of boatpeople - men, women and children - were photographed in distressing conditions at sea off the coast of Thailand and in other parts of South East Asia.
Rohingya whistleblowers later led a team from Australia's 'Four Corners' television program to more graves near the home of an alleged human trafficking kingpin in southern Thailand, but the graves remain unexhumed and the accusations have not been investigated.
The government of Thailand has expressed the desire for Thailand to be lifted from Tier 3 - the bottom rung - of the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons ladder next year.
But if Major General Paween and others with knowledge of the trafficking networks are to be believed, many more suspects have yet to be investigated and accused.
''Over the years that Phuketwan reported on the hideous trade in people through Thailand, the industry grew with little or no enforcement,'' Morison said. ''Dealers changed from selling drugs to trading in humans because there was no danger of arrest or punishment. This was a huge business.
For what it's worth Alan and Khun Oi .. Happy New Year!
Thanks, Ian. Likewise to you . . .
Hi, why are you closing after so long?
We are weary of seven-day working weeks. PW is tops for news and views but except for a couple of wise and loyal sponsors, Phuket business offers no support.
Unbelievable. Will they not be content until they have completely ruined the reputation of the country/policeforce/military/legal system in Thailand. Bringing all the good officers into unfair dispute with them ? And dragging you down too. Shameful. Hopefully they get the Judge's note.
What a way to wish you a Happy New Year, ey !
Well with three very powerful persons with intricate knowledge of the people smuggling in Thailand, being outside of Thailands borders, those who know about it, took part in it or turned a blind eye to this horrendous activity, should be trembling in their boots. The facts will come out and given to the international press and media.
Thanks to the Thai Navy and their ill advised court action against Phuket Wan, for bringing the plight of the Rohingya and human trafficing into the world spotlight.
May 2016 bring big arrests and jail time to all those human slave traders.
To Maj General Paween, Uncle Alan and Khun Chutima, may you folk have a safe and peaceful new year, before exposing all you know to the world.
My dear Alan and Khun Chutima we wanted to wish you bon voyage and safe travels wherever your plans take you. It is a sad end to this difficult year to be loosing PW and we sincerely say thanks for all the hard work and excellent reporting. We wish you every success and good health for the future.
Congratulations on maintaining your high standards over such a long period of time, and for shining a very bright light on issues that the world needed to be made aware of. Best wishes to you, Alan and Chutima, on your future pursuits.
Boring isn't it getting the authorities to put their hands up and ackowledge defeat. Best of luck to you both.
Thanks, Andrew. May you be back soon.
Good luck to you both in the future, you deserve a break.
Our morning routine will be slightly different tomorrow!
Thanks, Andrew. You have a great 2016, too.
Will miss my daily phuketwan read. First time comment but enjoyed phuketwan for 6 years. All the best Alan. Happy new year.
We miss you what can a say But have A Very Good New Year All An To Phuket Wan we se you next year, you can`t stop like that. Best Regards Bjorn Ronningen.
My new year's wish for PW is for the harassment to stop. I also wish that journalists and media around the world pay more attention to this situation. All the best to PW and thanks for its struggle to provide unbiased reliable information.
My first post too. I used to play Aussie footy against Mt Gambier teams. They were always tough and maybe a little mad. ....I guess you brought some of that spirit to Phuket. I hope yours, K Chutima's and the rest of the PW team's future endeavours are successful. Happy New year.
A Big thank you to Phuketwan for stepping up and telling the truth in the face of adversity, whether it be corruption, slave trading, statistics or any number of controversial issues, along with the standard news items.
Few tread where you bravely did, and never flinched. You are good journalistic and humanistic role models for many.
All the best wherever you land.
Thanks, farang888. All the best for 2016.
This is BAD fore you, but for me it`s good you rock 30 days more ??
2 wonderfull people we lose here in Phuket + all employees in Phuket Wan, we have a tear in my eyes.
I Don`t you ends this new ????
My New Year Greeting to Alan and Khun Chutima!I wish good luck in 2016. The PW is our pride.
Happy New Year & with any luck 2016 will be better than the last.
P.S. Let me know if you need need Malcolm Turnbull's email address.
A little disillusioned with the land of smiles? You aren't the first and won't be the last farang to fly off with his tail between his legs.
Don't you mean Red Faced? I am going on a holiday then coming back. Please withdraw your head from your bum.
Best Wishes to ALL the crew @ PW .
You're leaving a large hole which I doubt will be filled soon .
30 days are long gone, so I presume the option for appeal has passed?


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Since I have been gone a couple weeks, I thought I would give you some highlights of not only this week, but since I have been gone!
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Well that's all for now but thanks for checking in!


Ex-Gala flanker Gary Graham is on the sidelines as Scotland name the starting line-up for Saturday's second-round Guinness Six Nations clash with Ireland at BT Murrayfield (kick-off 2.15pm, live on BBC).
There's no place in the squad this time for Gary, son of Hawick head coach George Graham, after he gained his first cap last week with a late appearance against Italy, as a sub for Ryan Wilson.
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Ex-Melrose prop Jamie Bhatti is on the bench once again, although another not in contention is Selkirk's Lee Jones, who has a knee injury.
Maitland will form a familiar back-three with fellow British & Irish Lions Tommy Seymour and full-back Hogg, who will bring a combined 150 caps and 49 tries into their 18th Scotland Test start as a trio this Saturday.
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BBC Sport pundit Danny Murphy says that Tottenham need to stop relying on striker Harry Kane and other players need to step up.
Spurs lost 2-1 at Leicester in the Premier League last night and have only taken one point out of a possible nine from their last three matches.
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Q: Finding deeply nested key/value in JSON Suppose I have a JSON array like this:
[
    {
        "id": "429d30a1-9364-4d9a-92e0-a17e00b3afba",
        "children": [],
        "parentid": "",
        "name": "Expo Demo"
    },
    {
        "id": "f80f1034-9110-4349-93d8-a17e00c9c317",
        "children":
            [
                {
                    "id":"b60f2c1d-368b-42c4-b0b2-a1850073e1fe",
                    "children":[],
                    "parentid":"f80f1034-9110-4349-93d8-a17e00c9c317",
                    "name":"Tank"
                }
            ],
        "parentid": "",
        "name": "Fishtank"
    },
    {
        "id": "fc8b0697-9406-4bf0-b79c-a185007380b8",
        "children": [
            {
                "id":"5ac52894-4cb6-46c2-a05a-a18500739193",
                "children":[
                    {
                        "id": "facb264c-0577-4627-94a1-a1850073c270",
                        "children":[
                            {
                                "id":"720472b5-189e-47f1-97a5-a18500a1b7e9",
                                "children":[],
                                "parentid":"facb264c-0577-4627-94a1-a1850073c270",
                                "name":"ubSubSub"
                            }],
                        "parentid": "5ac52894-4cb6-46c2-a05a-a18500739193",
                        "name": "Sub-Sub1"
                    }],
                "parentid":"fc8b0697-9406-4bf0-b79c-a185007380b8", "name":"Sub"
            },
            {
                "id":"4d024610-a39b-49ce-8581-a18500739a75",
                "children":[],
                "parentid":"fc8b0697-9406-4bf0-b79c-a185007380b8",
                "name":"Sub2"
            }
        ],
        "parentid": "",
        "name": "Herman"
    },
    {
        "id": "a5b140c9-9987-4e6d-a883-a18c00726883",
        "children": [
            {
                "id":"fe103303-fd5e-4cd6-81a0-a18c00733737",
                "children":[],
                "parentid":"a5b140c9-9987-4e6d-a883-a18c00726883",
                "name":"Contains Spaces"
            }],
        "parentid": "",
        "name": "Kiosk"
    }
]

No I want to find a certain object based on a id and once I have that, I need its children and all its childrends children
So lets say i want to find the element with an id if 4d024610-a39b-49ce-8581-a18500739a75
That should find the Element Sub2
And now it should produce all the child elements ids witch will be:
facb264c-0577-4627-94a1-a1850073c270
720472b5-189e-47f1-97a5-a18500a1b7e9

Let say I would do
findElementsChildren("4d024610-a39b-49ce-8581-a18500739a75")

So i guess its two parts, first find the "parent" element. Then find its childrends childrends children etc..
Any help would be much appreciated!

A: You can use recursion to solve the problem of unlimited nesting. With Gson, it would be something like the following code snippet (not tested). Other libraries will provide structures as JsonElement as well.
private JsonElement findElementsChildren(JsonElement element, String id) {
    if(element.isJsonObject()) {
        JsonObject jsonObject = element.getAsJsonObject();
        if(id.equals(jsonObject.get("id").getAsString())) {
            return jsonObject.get("children");
        } else {
            return findElementsChildren(element.get("children").getAsJsonArray(), id);
        }
    } else if(element.isJsonArray()) {
        JsonArray jsonArray = element.getAsJsonArray();
        for (JsonElement childElement : jsonArray) {
            JsonElement result = findElementsChildren(childElement, id);
            if(result != null) {
                return result;
            }
        }
    }

    return null;
}

A: Based on Stefan Jansen's answer I made some changes and this is what I have now:
nestedChildren declared globaly, and before the children are searched reset to new ArrayList()
private void findAllChild(JSONArray array) throws JSONException {

    for ( int i=0;i<array.length();i++ ) {
        JSONObject json = array.getJSONObject(i);
        JSONArray json_array = new JSONArray(json.getString("children"));
        nestedChildren.add(json.getString("id"));
        if ( json_array.length() > 0 ) {
            findAllChild(json_array);
        }
    }
}

This assumes it is all Arrays, witch in my case it is

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Sources: Redskins to hire Rivera; fire prez Allen
Sources: Redskins set to hire Ron Rivera as coach; fire president Bruce Allen
Orlovsky: Rivera is an outstanding hire for Redskins (1:14)
Dan Orlovsky, Rex Ryan and Domonique Foxworth applaud the Redskins for hiring Ron Rivera as their next head coach. (1:14)
The Washington Redskins are expected to hire former Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera as their next head coach, barring unforeseen developments, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Monday.
The news comes on the same day that Washington parted ways with team president Bruce Allen.
The Redskins hope the moves can revive a franchise that hasn't won a playoff game in 14 seasons and faces plummeting attendance.
Rivera becomes the seventh head coach hired by owner Dan Snyder. Because Rivera, 57, is a minority candidate, the Redskins could fulfill the Rooney Rule immediately. Carolina fired Rivera on Dec. 3 with a 5-7 record, and he was viewed as a strong candidate for any opening.
The Ones Who Got Away
The Redskins had future NFL head coaches Kyle Shanahan (offensive coordinator), Sean McVay (tight ends) and Matt LaFleur (quarterbacks) on their staff in 2013, just a season before hiring Jay Gruden. They have since combined to go 69-43 (.616 win pct.) as NFL head coaches.
-- ESPN Stats & Information
The Redskins fired Jay Gruden after an 0-5 start in his sixth season. Some players bemoaned a lack of discipline, something interim coach Bill Callahan said he wanted to correct.
Allen was the primary voice in Washington's football matters since the firing of coach Mike Shanahan in 2013. The Redskins hired Scot McCloughan as general manager after the 2014 season, but he was fired after the 2016 season, and Allen regained control. Snyder had hired Allen to be his top executive late in the 2009 season.
The team released a statement from Snyder on Monday morning regarding Allen's ouster:
"As this season concludes, Bruce Allen has been relieved of his duties as President of the Washington Redskins and is no longer with the organization. Like our passionate fan base, I recognize we have not lived up to the high standards set by great Redskins teams, coaches and players who have come before us. As we reevaluate our team leadership, culture and process of winning football games, I am excited for the opportunities that lie ahead to renew our singular focus and purpose of bringing championship football back to Washington D.C."
Now the team turns to Rivera. He'll try to revive a franchise that hasn't made the playoffs since 2015 and hasn't won a postseason game since 2005. Attendance at Washington home games has plummeted, and opposing fans often outnumber Redskins fans. Washington ranked 19th in the NFL in attendance and 30th in percentage of seats used this season.
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Rivera quickly turned around the Panthers, who went 2-14 in 2010, the season before he took over. Three seasons later, they went 12-4. In 2015, they were 15-1 and reached the Super Bowl. Rivera compiled a 76-63-1 record with Carolina, although the Panthers had only three winning seasons in his eight full years. They reached the playoffs four times, including in 2014 with a 7-8-1 record, and won the NFC South three seasons in a row.
"He gets the best out of players," said cornerback Josh Norman, who played for Rivera in Carolina. "And not just players, but men. He builds men and guys and also builds character.''
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Washington, meanwhile, has had quite a fall from grace for a franchise that played in five Super Bowls -- and won three -- between 1972 and 1991.
The franchise has been beset by conflicts; one former member of the Redskins' football department said the team would win again when the "non-football people stop making football decisions." Players have often complained about the overall culture at Redskins Park outside of the locker room. Among other things, they point to a facility that lags behind most in the NFL despite having been updated in recent years.
This season, a key storyline involved the holdout by seven-time Pro Bowl tackle Trent Williams. Allen didn't trade him by the Oct. 29 deadline, prompting Williams to report to the team -- but also to rip the franchise over a loss of trust stemming from medical issues. Williams later said he would not have said anything had the Redskins traded him; he had strong support from teammates.
It adds up to why the Redskins needed change. Sources said the Redskins knew they needed a strong leader, someone with previous head-coaching experience -- and who has had success.
Rivera had a reputation in Carolina for being firm with players but also for getting to know them beyond the field.
Rivera also was Chicago's defensive coordinator in 2006 when the Bears reached the Super Bowl. He served in the same role from 2008 to 2010 with the San Diego Chargers. Carolina hired him as its head coach in January 2011. With the Panthers, Rivera earned a reputation in his first two seasons for being conservative. But in 2013, he changed tactics and became known as "Riverboat Ron" for what others called gambling on specific playcalls; he referred to the decisions as "calculated risks."
In Washington, he'll inherit a team with plenty of young players, including quarterback Dwayne Haskins. By season's end, partly because of injuries, the Redskins had used 12 players age 25 or younger as consistent starters. Washington also owns the No. 2 pick in the 2020 NFL draft.
Allen had a legacy with the franchise. His father, George, coached the Redskins from 1971 to 1977, guiding the team to its first Super Bowl, where it lost to Miami. He had turned around a franchise that had floundered throughout the 1950s and '60s.
But his son could not duplicate that success from an executive position. Bruce Allen became a divisive figure for the fans. During his 10-year tenure, the Redskins won the NFC East twice but finished with double-digit losses five times and never won more than 10 games. They made just two playoff appearances, losing in the first round each time. The Redskins were 62-97-1 under Allen. After a four-year stretch in which they were a combined 31-32-1 with two injury-filled seasons, they plummeted to new lows in 2019. The Redskins' 3-13 record this season included eight losses by 10 or more points.
Allen was named the 2002 Sporting News Executive of the Year while with the Oakland Raiders. He joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2004 as a general manager but was fired after the 2008 season.
ESPN's John Keim and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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This type of savings account generally offers higher interest rates than you will find on standard accounts. However, there may be a notice period for any withdrawals you wish to make, and you will also have to adhere to minimum and maximum monthly deposit limits, too.
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You will need to keep an eye on your cash once a fixed rate bond matures. Some providers will roll your savings into a similar account, whereas others transfer your money into a low-interest easy access account.


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Christian Bjørnshøj Poulsen (* 28. Februar 1980 in Asnæs auf Seeland) ist ein ehemaliger dänischer Fußballspieler und heutiger -trainer. Er kam meist als Mittelfeldspieler zum Einsatz.

In seiner aktiven Karriere stand er bei Vereinen in Dänemark, Deutschland, Spanien, Italien, England, Frankreich und in den Niederlanden unter Vertrag. Er kam in 92 Spielen für die dänische Nationalmannschaft zum Einsatz und beendete Ende 2016 seine aktive Karriere.

Karriere als Aktiver

Verein

Jugend und frühe Karriere
Mit dem Fußballspielen begann Poulsen 1985 bei Asnæs BK. Nach der Zwischenstation Holbæk B&I, bei denen er mit 17 Jahren Mannschaftskapitän wurde, ging er 2000 zum FC Kopenhagen, mit dem er 2001 die dänische Meisterschaft gewann. In der Champions-League-Qualifikation gegen Lazio Rom ausgeschieden, spielte Poulsen mit dem FC Kopenhagen im UEFA-Cup weiter. Dort schied man gegen den späteren Finalisten Borussia Dortmund aus. Zum Ende der Saison 2001/02 wurde Poulsen mit dem FC Kopenhagen Vizemeister; das Endspiel im dänischen Pokalwettbewerb wurde mit 1:2 gegen Odense BK verloren. Somit gelang es Poulsen nicht, mit dem FC Kopenhagen einen Titel zu gewinnen.

FC Schalke 04
Kurz nach dem UEFA-Cup-Spiel des FC Kopenhagen mit Poulsen gegen Borussia Dortmund bekundete Dortmund Interesse an Poulsen. Die Verhandlungen zwischen Kopenhagen und Dortmund scheiterten allerdings an der zu zahlenden Ablösesumme für den Spieler. Später entschied sich Poulsen für einen Wechsel zu Borussia Dortmunds Erzrivalen FC Schalke 04, der zur Saison 2002/03 vollzogen wurde.

Sein Debüt für Schalke 04 gab er am ersten Spieltag der neuen Saison, in der Schalke 04 am Ende den siebten Tabellenplatz belegte; Poulsen kam dabei zu 24 Einsätzen und erzielte ein Tor. In der Saison 2004/05 wurde er mit Schalke Vizemeister.

Während seiner 4 Jahre bei Schalke gehörte Poulsen regelmäßig zur Stammformation und kam auf 111 Einsätze in der Bundesliga. Zudem absolvierte er 23 Spiele im UEFA-Pokal und sechs weitere in der Champions League, in denen er drei Tore erzielte.

FC Sevilla
Zur Saison 2006/07 wechselte Poulsen zum FC Sevilla, der zuvor den UEFA-Pokal gewonnen hatte. Zuvor hatte der FC Villarreal Poulsen aus einem Vorvertrag entlassen. Für die Entlassung mussten 850.000 Euro bezahlt werden. Poulsen gewann am 16. Mai 2007 mit dem FC Sevilla den UEFA-Pokal, dem somit die Titelverteidigung gelang, und am 23. Juni 2007 die Copa del Rey nach einem 1:0-Finalsieg gegen den FC Getafe.

Juventus Turin
Zur Saison 2008/09 wechselte Christian Poulsen für 9,75 Millionen Euro zum italienischen Rekordmeister Juventus Turin, bei dem er einen Vierjahresvertrag unterzeichnete. Am 31. August 2008 debütierte er für Juventus in der Serie A am ersten Spieltag gegen die AC Florenz in der Anfangself. In seiner ersten Saison kam Poulsen auf 23 Einsätze und erzielte ein Tor. Mit den Turinern wurde Poulsen Vizemeister. In der Folgesaison kam er für Juve in 25 Spielen zum Einsatz. In der Champions League 2009/10 kam Poulsen in fünf Spielen zum Einsatz, zudem wurde er im Achtelfinalrückspiel gegen den FC Fulham eingesetzt.

FC Liverpool
Im August 2010 wechselte Poulsen für etwa fünf Millionen Euro zum englischen Verein FC Liverpool, bei dem er wieder unter Roy Hodgson, seinem Trainer aus der Zeit beim FC Kopenhagen, spielte. Nach dem Trainerwechsel von Hodgson zu Kenny Dalglish verlor Poulsen seinen Stammplatz. Er kam für Liverpool lediglich in zwölf Spielen in der Premier League zum Einsatz.

FC Évian Thonon Gaillard
Ende August 2011 wechselte er in die französische Ligue 1 und unterschrieb beim Aufsteiger Évian Thonon Gaillard FC; der Vertrag lief bis zum Saisonende. In Évian kam Poulsen zu 24 Einsätzen und belegte mit dem Verein den neunten Tabellenplatz.

Ajax Amsterdam
Im August 2012 zog es Poulsen zu Ajax Amsterdam, bei dem mit Christian Eriksen, Nicolai Boilesen und Lasse Schöne drei dänische Landsleute spielten. Für den niederländischen Rekordmeister debütierte er am 15. September 2012 in der Eredivisie gegen den RKC Waalwijk und stand in der Anfangself. Poulsen blieb zwei Jahre bei Ajax und wurde dort als Stammspieler eingesetzt. In der Saison 2012/13 kam er dabei auf 25, in der Saison 2013/14 auf 29 Einsätze (ein Tor). In beiden Saisons gewann er mit Ajax die niederländische Meisterschaft.

Rückkehr zum FC Kopenhagen
Im September 2014 kehrte Poulsen zum FC Kopenhagen zurück. Am 19. Oktober 2014 gab er seinen Einstand beim 1:0-Sieg am elften Spieltag gegen Randers FC, als er in der 88. Minute für Nicolai Jørgensen eingewechselt wurde. In der Saison 2014/15 kam er für den FC Kopenhagen 16-mal zum Einsatz, dabei erzielte er ein Tor. Zum Saisonende verließ er den FC Kopenhagen. Seitdem war er ohne Verein. Am 29. Dezember 2016 beendete Poulsen seine aktive Karriere.

Nationalmannschaft
Am 10. November 2001 debütierte Poulsen in der dänischen Nationalelf beim 1:1 im Spiel in Kopenhagen gegen die Niederlande in der Anfangself. Für die Nationalelf kam er auf 92 Länderspiele und erzielte sechs Tore. Poulsen nahm mit der Nationalelf an der WM 2002, der EM 2004 und an der WM 2010 und an der EM 2012 teil. Das letzte Gruppenspiel der EM-Endrunde 2012 am 17. Juni 2012 gegen Deutschland war sein letztes Spiel für die dänische Nationalmannschaft.

Im August 2012 trat er aus der Nationalmannschaft zurück.

Besondere Vorkommnisse
 Beim EM-Spiel gegen Italien am 14. Juni 2004 in Guimarães (0:0) wurde er vom italienischen Spieler Francesco Totti angespuckt, nachdem er diesen provoziert hatte. Totti wurde daraufhin für drei Spiele gesperrt.
 Im EM-Qualifikationsspiel gegen Schweden am 2. Juni 2007 schlug Poulsen dem Schweden Markus Rosenberg in den Bauch und wurde vom Platz gestellt, woraufhin ein Fan den Schiedsrichter Herbert Fandel angriff.
 Er ist neben Florin Răducioiu und Stevan Jovetić der einzige Spieler, der in den fünf größten Ligen Europas spielte (England, Spanien, Deutschland, Italien, Frankreich).

Karriere als Trainer
Im September 2018 begann Christian Poulsen ein Praktikum bei der Profimannschaft von Ajax Amsterdam. Später bekam er eine Festanstellung und schloss sich somit endgültig dem Trainerteam an; zur Saison 2019/20 wurde Christian Poulsen neuer Co-Trainer unter Cheftrainer Erik ten Hag.

Titel und Erfolge

Im Verein
 Dänischer Meister: 2001
 Dänischer Super-Cup: 2001
 UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2003, 2004
 DFL-Ligapokal: 2005
 UEFA Super Cup: 2006
 UEFA-Pokal: 2007
 Copa del Rey: 2007
 Eredivisie: 2013, 2014

Individuelle Erfolge und Ehrungen
 Dänemarks Fußballer des Jahres: 2005, 2006

Weblinks

 Profil beim dänischen Verband

 Profil beim FC Liverpool

Einzelnachweise

Fußballnationalspieler (Dänemark)
Fußballspieler (FC Schalke 04)
Fußballspieler (FC Kopenhagen)
Fußballspieler (FC Sevilla)
Fußballspieler (Juventus Turin)
Fußballspieler (FC Liverpool)
Fußballspieler (Ajax Amsterdam)
Fußballspieler (FC Évian Thonon Gaillard)
UEFA-Europa-League-Sieger
UEFA-Super-Cup-Sieger
Niederländischer Meister (Fußball)
Dänischer Meister (Fußball)
Teilnehmer an einer Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft (Dänemark)
Teilnehmer an einer Fußball-Europameisterschaft (Dänemark)
Däne
Geboren 1980
Mann
Dänemarks Fußballer des Jahres

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Q: Interacting with akka receptionist outside of actor Is there a way to fetch some receptionist listings outside of actor. From documentation I see examples where some actor is subscribed to receptionist listing, but can I do it outside of actor facility.

A: If you have a reference to the ActorSystem, you can call the receptionist method  to get an ActorRef for the receptionist.


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Which of the following statements is not true?
A) Prime Minister is the chairman of the Planning Commission of India
B) The National Development Council is presided over by the Prime Minister of India
C) Secretary of Planning Commission is also the secretary of the National Development Council
D) Planning Commission is the highest decision making body for Planning in India
Correct Answer: D
[d] The National Development Council (NDC) or the Rashtriya Vikas Parishad is the apex body for decision making and deliberations on development matters in India, presided over by the Prime Minister.


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Cannes Diary, Day 7: Behind the Candelabra Changes Everything
by Wesley Morris
When a week of constant moviegoing fails to rouse either unanimity or contentious division, the world's film press gets a little antsy. Where is The Movie? You know, the one that will bring us to tears or to war. Where's the movie that incites peals of laughter, intentional or otherwise? Where on earth are the Oscar-caliber, midmovie storm-outs? The applause has been tepid. The boos have been virtually nonexistent. No one seems willing to kill for anything. No one has any idea what the Steven Spielberg jury will or should do.
That sense changed this morning with the unveiling of Steven Soderbergh's Liberace movie Behind the Candelabra. When the film ended, the house applauded Soderbergh's name and cheered for Michael Douglas and Matt Damon. The song that sends you floating up the aisle and through the exits is Douglas doing "The Impossible Dream" as Liberace. It's a strangely moving moment in exactly the same way that the film itself is strangely moving: It's determined to see beyond the obvious kitsch of Liberace to find something close to the man.
The wigs, the constellational sequins, the giant piano-cars that glide onto the stage, the plastic surgery and opulent tackiness, the sheer Vegas of it all: They become more than shameless accoutrements. They become endearments, and they become so mostly because Soderbergh, Douglas, and the screenwriter Richard LaGravenese are able to ignore the flamboyance just as America did for almost 30 years. They didn't see a freak or a queen. They saw a talent and a friend. The magnitude of Liberace's fame remains one of those phenomena you can't quite believe began in the 1950s and lasted through the dawn of the AIDS crisis.
Shrewdly, the movie doesn't explore how gay Liberace seemed. It explores how gay Liberace was. Behind the Candelabra is a love story that happens to involve a very famous person. Liberace was born Władziu Valentino Liberace, but everyone called him "Lee." Backstage after a show one night, a friend of his named Bob (Scott Bakula) introduces Lee to Scott Thorson, a former foster kid and aspiring veterinarian, whom Bob picked up in a Los Angeles gay bar (their introduction is the movie's opening scene). Lee (Douglas) comes on to Scott (Damon), who'd been rightly astonished by Lee's onstage showmanship earlier in the evening. Eventually, an arrangement is proposed, and the arrangement turns into a marriage of sorts.
Previous Cannes Diaries
Spielberg gets misty; DiCaprio gets wet
Bling Ring sings
Days 3-5
Coen Bros. films and real-life jewel heists
False alarms, speed-dating Inside Llewyn Davis, and a Last Tango in Tikrit
Scott moves into Liberace's palace and receives a separate bungalow. From 1977 to the early 1980s, Lee's casas were Scott's. And eventually so was his face. One of the outré dimensions of their May-December coupling, according to Thorson's 1988 memoir that LaGravanese has adapted, was Liberace's wish that Thorson have surgical work done to more closely resemble himself. (Rob Lowe plays their doctor as a Ken doll version of Katherine Helmond's face in Brazil, and he got the biggest laughs this morning.) The surgery was both vanity in extremis and perhaps a ruse for a public obsessed with the star finding a woman to marry — Scott, who plays Lee's valet in his live shows, looks like he could be his boyfriend's son. The pills prescribed for both the recovery and the Hollywood diet he's put on turn addictive, and Lee dislikes the moods they cause.
But the movie understands and respects the affection that passes between these two. When they lie in bed one evening and Lee says he wants to be the family Scott never had, you feel the younger man let go of his apprehensions (he seems creeped out by Lee's eager flattery); you feel him fall not simply for a father figure but a lover. It's important, I think, that both men are Midwesterners, from Wisconsin. In divergent ways, they're compelled to maintain a sense of wholesomeness. (Lee tells Scott he is still a devout Catholic. He looks after his Polish mother, whom Debbie Reynolds plays with relish, steel, and accents. Scott insists that he's bisexual.)
The love doesn't last, not because they're gay, but because not all love does. The film has arrived at the right cultural moment. It's no longer shocking that Liberace was gay. It's shocking that he was so gay in plain sight for so long. Douglas and Damon are playing homosexuals, and, even though that still rarely happens at the movies or television, it doesn't feels as momentous as it did when Brokeback Mountain was released eight years ago. The event here is that a big studio lacked the confidence and imagination to finance and distribute the movie theatrically. It's airing instead on HBO this weekend.
Its inclusion in the main competition at Cannes only underscores a film studio's missed opportunity, not to mention a kind of squandering of Soderbergh's cinematic elegance. Rarely does chintz achieve the casual grandeur that it does here. It's impossible to imagine that the film, made with the relatively modest budget Soderbergh had been seeking, wouldn't have been some kind of hit. Liberace wasn't a cult figure. He was a star, and Soderbergh treats him accordingly. So does Douglas. He does lapse into his usual slurry, word-swallowing self. But for the most part, he elongates and enunciates Lee's words until the character sounds like a man who enjoys the music in his speaking voice. Douglas also discovers a brashness he's always too brazenly masculine to investigate. The sight of him sitting at a piano swiping gently but quickly at the keys while he patters with the audience gets at both Liberace's uncanny self-comfort and the comfort Douglas locates in approximating it.
The character suits the actor, in part, because Liberace wasn't in a gendered drag. His drag constituted a guise of propriety. He didn't hide his personality. He hid his peccadilloes, just like the men of Douglas's famous sex roles (Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, and Disclosure). During the packed press conference after the film, Damon joked that he now had something in common with Glenn Close, Sharon Stone, and Demi Moore, that now he, too, had been done wrong by Douglas.
There is an Interview With a Vampire quality to Behind the Candelabra. An innocent loses himself to a kind of undead creature of the night. Scott fears domestic entombment. But the relationship doesn't play out as Transylvanian grotesquerie. It's much sadder than camp or satire. It's true melodrama. Scott becomes the trophy of a man obsessed with youth and statues and things. In the same way that Douglas doesn't play Liberace's swishiness, Damon isn't playing the drug addiction. He inhabits the sinking awareness of romantic demise and really gets at the sting of disillusionment. The film could have been high mockery or cruel derision. But it's a serious movie that veers into tragedy but, suddenly, detours toward the ethereal. The last, loving image of Liberace is of him ascending toward the rafters, taking his place as a sequin on that great big fur coat in the sky.
Who knows what the jury will do with that movie. But in the last couple of days, Spielberg has gotten a little more to work with. The night before the Soderbergh, the festival unveiled La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty), Paolo Sorrentino's enormous bauble of Italian decadence and the most visually ambitious film in the competition so far. It's as obsessed with opulence as Behind the Candelabra, but Sorrentino has something almost better than Soderbergh's clinical precision. He has vulgarity.
The movie is 140-something minutes of being fire-hosed with champagne, of having your face rubbed between a woman's giant fake breasts, of doing a dance called la colita until your colita falls off. Sorrentino gives us dinner parties, garden parties, cosmetic injection parties, all among the Roman middle-aged and super-rich. (This is Spring Breakers on Cialis.) His interpolator is a silvered writer named Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo) who himself lives in aristocratic splendor and is very much the sort of person he'd chronicle in one of his novels or magazine profiles. He misses his youth the way you'd miss someone who broke your heart, and he spends the film trying to recapture it with spectacular binges of sex, disco dancing, and speculative philosophizing.
Decadence, fabulousness, and delusion bind this movie to Candelebra, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's A Castle in Italy, which screened yesterday, and The Great Gatsby, which opened the festival last week. But Sorrentino, whose last two movies were Il Divo, with the great Servillo, and This Must Be the Place, with Sean Penn, wants to assess modern Italy with the same dimension of affluence and excess as Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita. What I love about this movie is that Sorrentino believes he's topped that classic. In some ways, he has. It's got gassiness, self-indulgence, incoherence equal to Fellini's. Sorrentino just has a better sense of wild satire. Fellini had a way with grotesquerie, but he thought the comedy would speak for itself. Sorrentino knows how to structure a joke. At some point, he concocts a sequence in which a bratty girl throws paint at a giant canvas in front of dozens of partygoers. The length of the sequence becomes funny, and ends with a human-condition punch line that's damning, sly, and apt. This movie also has all of Berlusconi-era Italy to work with, and Sorrentino treats the times like a vast forest fire that simply has to burn itself out before anything good can grow in its place. A colleague overheard me enthusing about the film and said it's a just good director farting in the dark. Perhaps. But as that sort of thing goes, this is fragrant stuff that goes off like the Fourth of July.
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Equine dreams
"Our songs are about the same things that everyone else's songs are about: Lost love, and somebody stole your fastest horse." –Mongolian singer
Horse riding in Mongolia isn't a hobby. It's transportation, a survival skill, a job, and a sport. Horse milk is used to produce a favorite Mongolian alcoholic drink. While I found it an acquired taste, it is a taste Mongolians have acquired.
"Move over this way, as quickly as possible." Our guide's voice betrayed no fear, which surprised me, because from what I could see, a Mongol horde on horseback was descending on us. It's now very clear to me why the Mongol hordes were so intimidating: they shriek across the steppe at enormous speeds, leaving a massive dust cloud behind them and shaking the ground as they run. The riders, faces rock solid in concentration, push the horses at speeds of up to 70 km/hour.
Last-minute practice
That is… their faces were rock solid in as much concentration as they could muster, but this Mongol horde was a group of kids about eight years old. Many of them were riding bareback. Cars with horns were warning us (the only people around) out of the way. A minute later, they reached their starting point, turned around, and the horses took off so fast that their hundreds of legs were a blur of speed and dust. I barely knew what was happening before that Mongol horde was over the horizon and out of sight.
We had stumbled across a practice run for the upcoming Naadam, the Mongolian festival of the three manly sports: horse racing, archery, and wrestling. The sports didn't seem so manly to me, since the archers were both men and women and the horse racers were kids no older than thirteen (and as young as 5). But the Naadam festival is the biggest sports event of the year in Mongolia, and these kids had to be ready, lest they fall off during the incredible 13-19k race. It's all about the horse here, though, and even a riderless animal that crosses the finish line can win.
Luckily for us at the actual Naadam race the finish-line audience stood behind barriers, which helped limit the feeling of being descended on by a Mongol horde… a little.
The leaders approaching
The fight for the finish
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Was Led Zeppelin a Band of Musical Thieves?
LT Wright
Accusations of plagiarism against classic rock acts aren't uncommon, but complaints against Led Zeppelin seem to occur far more frequently than for their contemporaries. While many artists in popular music have been accused of plagiarism or have had lawsuits filed against them, accusations against Led Zeppelin seem to have stuck to them the way they haven't to most others. Wikipedia actually has a page tactfully titled "List of Led Zeppelin songs written or inspired by others" although the list also consists of songs the band did properly credit. I couldn't find a comparable Wikipedia page for other classic rock artists.
One of the most damning cases of plagiarism against the band involved the song Dazed and Confused. In 2010, folk singer Jake Holmes sued Led Zeppelin for plagiarizing the song which was released on his debut album in 1967. At that time, Jimmy Page was a member of the Yardbirds. Holmes had opened for the Yardbirds at a Greenwich Village performance in August 1967. According to Holmes:
"That was the infamous moment of my life when Dazed and Confused fell into the loving arms and hands of Jimmy Page."
After the Yardbirds broke up, Page brought the song to his new band Led Zeppelin. The song appeared on the group's 1969 debut album credited solely to Jimmy Page. While the resemblence to the Holmes song has been discussed for many years, it's unknown why he waited so long to file a lawsuit. In 1990, Page was asked about Holmes:
"I haven't heard Jake Holmes so I don't know what it's all about anyway. Usually my riffs are pretty damn original."
In 2012, a settlement was reached in the case and Holmes is now credited as a writer.
Multiple tracks on Led Zeppelin's 1969 debut album weren't properly credited
Whole Lotta Love from 1969 is lyrically very similar to the 1962 song You Need Love by Muddy Waters. Songwriter Willie Dixon sued and received a settlement. Led Zeppelin also borrowed from the Dixon track Bring It on Home by Sonny Boy Williamson. According to Page:
"The thing with "Bring It On Home," there's only a tiny bit taken from Sonny Boy Williamson's version and we threw that in as a tribute to him. People say, "Oh, 'Bring It On Home' is stolen." Well, there's only a little bit in the song that relates to anything that had gone before it, just the end."
The problem was Dixon was never given any credit on the song. Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) didn't initially receive credit on the Lemon Song despite similarities to his song Killing Floor. Anne Bredon's lack of writing credits for Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, also from Led Zeppelin's 1969 debut, seems to have been an error rather than theft. The band mistakenly thought it was a traditional song with no credited songwriter when they covered it. Bredon was unaware until the 1980's that Led Zeppelin had covered her song.
Scottish folk singer Bert Jansch never sued for Black Mountain Side (similar to Down by Blackwaterside) and Bron-Y-Aur Stomp (similar to The Waggoner's Lad). While he never sued, Jansch wasn't happy about it. He told an interviewer in 2007:
"The thing I've noticed about Jimmy [Page] whenever we meet is that he can't look me in the eye...Well, he ripped me off, didn't he? Or let's just say he learned from me. I wouldn't want to sound impolite."
Bert Jansch never sued Led Zeppelin but he was unhappy about not being credited on songs his work inspired
While there haven't been any lawsuits, many people noticed similarities between Since I've Been Loving You and the 1968 track Never by the indie band Moby Grape. In Led Zeppelin Dazed and Confused: The Stories Behind Every Song, author Chris Welch said:
"Some have claimed Moby Grape's 'Never' as the inspiration for the tune and certainly the band were one of [Robert] Plant's favourites."
Led Zeppelin was also sued for plagiarizing Taurus by Spirit but they won in court. That lawsuit involved some of the instrumental portions of Stairway to Heaven. Lawyers for Spirit have filed an appeal in the case.
"Led Zeppelin not only opened for Spirit in 1968, played several shows with them, covered a Spirit song, and owned several Spirit albums, but Mr. Page also extensively praised Spirit in interviews before and after he created "Stairway to Heaven" in 1971. Despite Led Zeppelin's denials, the jury was unequivocally clear that Led Zeppelin had access to "Taurus," one of the key elements in a copyright infringement case.""
Led Zeppelin have admitted that they did take from the works on others. And these quotes have been used against them in court. Jimmy Page told one interviewer:
"And Robert [Plant] was supposed to change the lyrics, and he didn't always do that– which is what brought on most of the grief. They couldn't get us on the guitar parts of the music, but they nailed us on the lyrics."
Another time Robert Plant told an interviewer:
"I think when Willie Dixon turned on the radio in Chicago twenty years after he wrote his blues, he thought, 'That's my song [Whole Lotta Love].'...When we ripped it off, I said to Jimmy, 'Hey, that's not our song.' And he said, 'Shut up and keep walking.'"
A defense could be made of Led Zeppelin in all of this. No artist is actually original. Everyone is building on the work of everyone else. Or as Pete Seeger put it:
"Plagiarism is the root of all culture."
Woody Guthrie would have agreed. He talked about making modifications to the works of others.
"The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune."
Many other greats are in agreement as well.
"All ideas are secondhand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources. We are constantly littering our literature with disconnected sentences borrowed from books at some unremembered time and now imagined to be our own." -- Mark Twain
"Good artists copy, great artists steal." -- attributed to Pablo Picasso
"Originality is undetected plagiarism." -- William Ralph Inge
"The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique." -- T.S. Eliot
In Plagiarism in Dylan, Or a Cultural Collage? Jon Pareles of the New York Times wrote:
"Ideas aren't meant to be carved in stone and left inviolate; they're meant to stimulate the next idea and the next."
So if everyone is doing it, why have Led Zeppelin received harsher criticism? Probably because as Gavin Edwards in Rolling Stone pointed out, Led Zeppelin was way too obvious.
"The Beatles swiped elements from musicians ranging from Chuck Berry to Pee Wee Crayton, but were usually careful to disguise the source. Led Zeppelin, however, took the practice further than most of their peers."
They didn't ensure that their plagiarism was "undetected." They didn't weld their theft into a "feeling which is unique." They sounded too much like their inspirations and in some cases lifted their lyrics directly from other people's songs. That was their mistake and they may never be able to shake the allegation that they are plagiarizers and musical thieves.
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As the world becomes increasingly aware of the harmful effects of climate change, it is more and more common to hear the term carbon thrown about in conjunction with the topic of global warming. But before you take to your Twitter feed to advocate for the removal of carbon from the environment, let's take a moment to better understand the relationship between different forms of carbon, greenhouse gasses (GHGs), and climate change. This resource category contains information on how carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH3) emissions contribute to global warming.
Carbon Dioxide Primer: "Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities". Though CO2 is a naturally occurring gas in the atmosphere, and necessary in certain amounts, human activity has drastically influenced the amount of CO2 around our earth by increasing the presence of CO2 in our air, while simultaneously decreasing nature's capability of absorbing that CO2. Through this alteration of the carbon "sinks" and "sources" scale, human activity is effecting the concentration of GHGs, which in turn build up in the atmosphere and warm the climate. The resources listed below all touch on the interconnectivity of these terms, and are good primers for learning the ins and outs of carbon emissions.
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Treatment cannot replace vaccines, but it can provide additional protection for people in need of additional immune system enhancements and may be the basis for other future treatments.
A new nasal spray developed by researchers at the University of Helsinki may be able to prevent infection in immunocompromised patients (file image)
In laboratory studies, this treatment was able to prevent viral replication-for several different variants, including Delta and Omicron.
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These people are extremely vulnerable to severe Covid symptoms. Also, common vaccine series may not be able to strengthen the immune system enough to effectively protect against the virus.
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In addition to continuous vaccination, many researchers are currently pursuing treatment specifically for immunocompromised and other high-risk people who can supplement vaccination.
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New nasal spray treatments being developed by scientists at the University of Helsinki may also be a useful option for these patients.
Treatment was described in a preprint posted in late December, but has not yet been peer-reviewed.
"Its preventative use is aimed at protecting against SARS-CoV-2 infection," Karle Saksela, a virologist at the University of Helsinki and lead author of the study, told Gizmodo in an email.
"But it's not a vaccine, and it's not intended to be a substitute for a vaccine," Saxela said. , People receiving immunosuppressive therapy.
This new drug is based on previous studies showing that the tissue in the nose is a major spot for coronavirus replication.
After multiplying in the nose, the virus usually travels through the respiratory tract to the lungs, where it causes more serious symptoms.
As a result, sending anticovid antibodies directly to the nose can prevent the virus from replicating at the earliest possible stage of the disease.
Nasal spray treatment uses lab-made antibodies developed on the basis of some of the viruses that have not been altered by various variants or strains.
Treatment by Helsinki researchers uses a type of laboratory-made antibody that resembles a monoclonal antibody.
However, unlike monoclonal antibodies, the immune system particles used for treatment are smaller and more versatile.
These antibodies are made from some of the viruses that have changed little between different variants and strains.
To increase the potential of nasal drops to neutralize Covid, researchers have combined three of these antibodies into one drug.
Researchers first tested the drug against a pseudovirus, a laboratory-made virus that mimics the coronavirus.
In this test, the drug was able to block viral replication in the original Wuhan strain and in beta, delta, and omicron variants.
Next, the researchers tested the drug against human cells in cell culture. Once again, it was able to neutralize several different coronavirus variants.
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In untreated mice, the coronavirus spread to the nasal passages, respiratory tract, and lungs.
Coronavirus did not spread at all in mice treated with nasal drops. Researchers write that these animals were "absent of viral antigens" and showed no symptoms.
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This study has not yet been peer-reviewed and requires more steps before testing nasal sprays in humans.
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Monoclonal antibody therapy commonly used in the United States is less effective against Omicron than past viral strains.
However, this nasal spray should be effective against Omicron and other new variants because it is based on some of the viruses that have not changed during the mutation.
In addition to Covid treatment, Helsinki researchers may pursue similar sprays for other respiratory infections.
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I love the idea of the hidden pirate island and would like to see more of it but in smaller size. Credit to @Banished Privateer and many others before him who suggested this and I would like to bring it to general attention again. These hidden mini treasure islands would be a great place to start raids from and should have limited dock aswell as warehouse space. Those hideouts could also be on islands and coasts already in game but hidden from sight in some bay, so only people who have been there or know about it can tell where it is... There could also be a black market for smugglers and more. Here are small islands that are already in game but there is nothing to be discovered and it would make ideal spots for those hidden mini ports. @admin This would give more content and life to the beautiful OW, driving more captains out to discover.
I've been pondering how to best deal with spies and subversive elements over the past few weeks, and I've come to the conclusion that the Tribunal forum section is grossly ineffective and little more than a writhing cesspool of the vocal minority that results in no appropriate punitive action being taken. At the same time, I do genuinely enjoy the presence of spies and traitors, in a meta-game sense, in that it keeps things interesting and organic and helps prevent stuffy stagnation. The other side of this coin, however, is the frustrating lack of agency regarding said subversive individuals. I want to preface this with the stance that I do not want these people removed from the game or banned in any lasting or tangible sense, but having no recourse to put a stop to an individual spy's activities is immensely frustrating. What I have envisioned involves the introduction of Outlaws, national Admiralties, and a jury-like Admiralty Council. As always, I welcome feedback and constructive criticism. Creating the Admiralty Council During the course of play, certain activities that include sinking Enemies (see politics suggestion in signature), War opponents, or Pirates will generate Admiralty points. Completing Delivery missions to your nation's capital or sending prizes to the Admiralty will also generate points, but at a significantly reduced rate. The twelve players with the most admiralty points generated in the past two weeks would be selected to be on the Admiralty Council and given access to a new Admiralty tab in port. This represents an active trust and vested interest in the Nation that is recognized by the Admiralty. Active players must stay active to maintain their seat on the Council; Every two weeks, new council members are selected based upon the past two weeks' activities. Should a sitting Council member fall below another player, any pending Judgements will have removed members' votes removed as well and their timeframe extended to the full week. Laying Down Judgement These admiralty points would count toward normal admiralty store purchases, but one of these purchases would be a Traitor Judgement, taken out against a specific player. The cost for this Judgement should be significant to prevent spamming, approximately a week's worth of playtime or more for an active player. Once the Judgement is taken out and the valid, specified player name provided (the Subject), the Council is notified of the Judgement and votes twice on it; the first round of voting is to determine the validity of the claim on the individual, and the second round determines sentencing. Not only is the Council notified of the Subject of the Judgement, but each Judgement also lists the player responsible for initiating the Judgement (the Plaintiff). The options available for sentencing would wholly depend on the results of voting. The subject of the Judgement is -not- automatically notified when the Judgement is taken out against them. Multiple Judgements can not be taken against the same player at the same time. During voting, each member of the Council votes Yea or Nay against the individual with the Judgement. The vote is open for one week, but will close and resolve immediately upon the last vote being confirmed. Abstaining council members' votes are automatically counted as Nays. When a vote resolves, a new vote for sentencing is opened with options dependent upon the result of the Judgement: If there are at least 7 Yeas, the Council receives the option to vote on Censure for two weeks. Censure will severely hamper a player's ability to do business. Every purchase on the market and contracts will cost the player twice the listed gold amount. In addition, they will not be able to generate Hostility (or conduct/join Raids, see signature), collect Admiralty Points, or join Port Battles, and they will be forcibly evicted from Nation chat for the duration of their Censure. Their OW info box will specify that they are Censured. This option is intended for minor subversive elements that engage in economic espionage, joining battles only to leave or not contribute, and so on. An individual that receives a second Censure Judgement while Censured is simply refreshed to the full two weeks. If there are at least 9 Yeas and the subject has been Censured at least once in the past 30 days, the Council receives the option to Exile the subject. This decision is permanent. Outlaws are still technically members of their nation with a few interesting caveats. They are forcibly evicted from the National chat and treated like permanent smugglers; they cannot craft or open outposts in National ports, and players of that nation (as well as AIs) can actively engage Outlaws without penalty. Once a character has been labelled an Outlaw, that account is restricted from creating a new character in the same nation for 30 days. Outlaws cannot be the Subjects of further Judgements, nor can they take Judgements against other players. Similar to a Censured individual, they cannot join battles for their nation or take out Hostility missions (and will not generate hostility themselves). (might be open to options for redemption.) Outlaws are notified of their existing Outlaw status and see all of their parent nation's ships as hostile. If there are 12 Yeas and the subject has been Censured at least twice in the past 30 days or is currently an Outlaw, the Council receives the option to Execute the subject. This decision is, understandably, permanent. Once an Execution Judgement is resolved for a specified Subject, they are immediately labelled an Outlaw. If this player ever subsequently docks or logs in to a port owned by their parent nation, the character suffers summary deletion, and the account responsible is prohibited from creating a new character in the same nation for 30 days following deletion. This is a serious judgement and should only be rendered on individuals that are proven, beyond a reasonable doubt, to be subversive elements and traitors to the nation. Subjects that are slated for Execution are not notified of this condition. Instead, they are notified of their Outlaw status and, for all intents and purposes, treated like an Outlaw until they dock or log in at a port owned by their nation. If there are 3 or fewer Yeas (the Council is overwhelmingly opposed to the guilt of the Subject), they receive the option to Censure the Plaintiff, instead, for two weeks. This option is present to discourage false claims against loyal Subjects, encouraging Plaintiffs to be certain of the subversiveness of a Subject before purchasing a Judgement against them. If there are 0 Yeas (the Council is Unanimously opposed to the guilt of the Subject) and the Plaintiff has been Censured at least once in the past 30 days, the council receives the option to Exile the Plaintiff instead. This option exists to prevent repeated false claims on loyal Subjects and abuse of Judgements by subversive elements. Let me know what you think, gents, any feedback and changes to this suggestion are always appreciated.