Australian Football League Geelong Cats vs Melbourne Demons Live Stream Free, AFL 2019 Round 02 Live Stream. Geelong Cats vs Melbourne Demons match will be kickoff at GMHBA Stadium, South Geelong, Australia, Saturday 30 March 2019 online, 19:25 pm (AEDT) and its broadcast on Channel Seven, Foxtell.
The two sides had contrasting results in AFL Round 1 and the action gets underway at 7.25PM. The game will be broadcast live on Channel 7 and Fox Footy.
Geelong were stirring winners over Collingwood in AFL Round 1, defeating last year's Grand Finalists by seven points in a tight tussle at the MCG.
The same cannot be said for Melbourne, who were on the receiving end of one of a number of upsets in the opening round, going down to Port Adelaide by 26.
Heading into the season, the Demons were expected to be one of the major contenders for the 2019 flag and it will be interesting to see if they can bounce back.
Max Gawn comes off a relatively quite game in the ruck but should be able to exert some influence, while Nathan Jones, Jack Viney and Clayton Oliver are other players that need to lift on their output.
The Cats unveiled a number of young players that showed plenty of promise against Collingwood and their enthusiasm rubbed off on the likes of Tim Kelly, Patrick Dangerfield and Gary Ablett, who were outstanding. That trio should give Geelong the upper hand in what shapes as a massive game for both clubs.
Steven May is set to play his first game for Melbourne after missing Round 1 due to suspension. Brayden Preuss may come in to give Max Gawn some relief in the ruck but will need to pass a fitness test.
Geelong don't have too many fitness concerns and may head in unchanged. Zac Smith is a chance to come back into the side.
Geelong have an excellent record over Melbourne but it was the Demons that fired in last year's Elimination Final, taking out that encounter by 29 points. Clayton Oliver was one of the stars for the Demons, while Sam Weideman booted three majors in that game. Gary Ablett was Geelong's best.
The Cats had won 14 of 15 games against the Demons prior to that, including a stunning after-the-siren victory in Round 18 last year. They have won eight of their past nine against the Demons in Geelong.
AFL Live Port Adelaide Power vs Carlton Blues Live Streaming Free 2019 Round 2 Live Stream Online,The AFL match will be kick off at Adelaide Oval, North Adelaide, Australia, Saturday 30 March 2019 online, 17:10 pm (AEDT) and its broadcast on Channel Seven, Foxtell.
CARLTON will take on Port Adelaide in enemy territory this Saturday for its Round 2 clash at Adelaide Oval.
The Blues will go into Saturday's match with something to prove, after falling 33 points short to Richmond in the season opener.
Carlton will be hoping to disappoint Port Adelaide fans who will no doubt turn out in droves for the first home game of the season.
Carlton showed promise in its season opener against the Tigers, but will need a four-quarter effort to beat the Power on their home deck.
Sam Walsh and Nic Newman gave a fans a glimpse into what the Blues' new recruits are capable of, providing some spark in an emphatic second-quarter fightback against Richmond.
Port Adelaide will have the home crowd in their favour, so the Blues will need to a strong start if they are to silence them.
The Power will be a formidable opponent, with their 26-point victory over Melbourne still front of mind. Tom Rockliff starred with 44 disposals, while he was well-supported by Justin Westhoff (five goals) and Travis Boak (34 disposals, one goal).
The Blues fought hard for milestone man Kade Simpson in his 300th game in Round 15 last year.
Simpson was inspiring across half-back, notching up a game-high 37 disposals to keep the Blues in contention until early in the fourth. He became just the third player to poll three Brownlow votes in his 300th game.
Gun forward Charlie Curnow impressed in the air with nine marks and finished the day with four majors as one of Carlton's best.
Despite a strong start and a third-quarter resurgence, Port Adelaide ran out the Blues to finish with a 21-point victory.
Marquee recruit Mitch McGovern will run out in the navy blue for his 50th game when the Blues face Port Adelaide.
It will be familiar territory for the high-flying forward: it will be McGovern's first match at Adelaide Oval since making the move from the Crows in the off-season.
The new recruits made a strong start for the Blues and is one of six debutants who keep their spot from last week.
The pair made an immediate impact on debut for the Blues, with Newman racking up 26 disposals across half-back and Setterfield notching 24 through the midfield to be in Carlton's best for Round 1.
Carlton captured the imagination of Bluebaggers for two quarters in the season opener, but now it's time to make that a four-quarter reality.
With the Power midfield proving a headache for Melbourne in Round 1, it will be a game won and lost in the centre.
But with Patrick Cripps at the helm and emerging stars already making an impact, it is certain to be a hard-fought contest.
AFL Live Adelaide Crows vs Hawthorn Hawks Live Streaming Free 2019 Round 1 Live Stream Online,The AFL match will be kick off at Adelaide Oval, North Adelaide, Australia, Saturday 23 March 2019 online, 16:35 pm (AEDT) and its broadcast on Channel Seven, Foxtell.
Little went right for the Adelaide Crows in 2018. Injuries and poor form meant that they couldn't go anywhere near to reproducing their 2017 effort that saw them finish runners-up to Richmond. They ended last season in 11th position with 12 wins.
Things were much brighter for Hawthorn, who qualified in 4th position in 2018 with 15 wins before bowing out of the finals in straight sets. However, the Hawks pre-season hasn't quite gone to plan with their star midfielder, Tom Mitchell, going down with a broken leg. The 2018 Brownlow Medalist is out for the season.
Alistair Clarkson's side have lost both of their JLT Community Series games. They were no match for Brisbane when fielding an inexperienced side before going down to Richmond by eight points in week two. Adelaide won both of their encounters with wins against Port Adelaide and GWS.
The Crows are firm favourites in the head to head betting for the Round 1 clash and with a number of their star midfielders ready to go, they should be hard to beat. Matt and Brad Crouch head in with outstanding form, as does Rory Sloane. Josh Jenkins, Eddie Betts and Taylor Walker will be the focal points up forward.
Hawthorn will need big games from the likes of Jaegar O'Meara and Isaac Smith in the middle of the ground, while key bookends in Jack Gunston and James Sicily can have some influence.
Adelaide bring a relatively fit side into the clash with Brodie Smith and Brad Crouch ready to go after strong pre-seasons. Chayce Jones is a chance to debut.
Hawthorn will look to James Cousins to provide some cover for the absence of Tom Mitchell. Chad Wingard, Tom Scully and Grant Birchall are other big names on the sidelines. Jack Scrimshaw and Dylan Moore are among possible new faces.
Hawthorn have a great record against Adelaide, winning nine of the past 10 between the two sides including an against the odds victory at the Adelaide Oval in 2017 by 14 points. The Hawks have never lost to the Crows at the Adelaide Oval in three attempts.
The most recent game between the two sides was at the MCG in Round 18 last season and the Hawks cruised home by 56 points. James Sicily was the star for the brown and gold.
Club with last season having just as much media attention focused on the off-field action (a training camp that didn't go to plan) as the performance on the park.
It seems, however, that the coaching staff decided to stick with the playing squad from last year with little off season player movement. Probably not a bad move as if the likes of Taylor Walker, Brad Crouch and Rory Sloane can recapture old form, a surge up the ladder is expected.
Hawthorn enter 2019 with the bad news still lingering that the reigning Brownlow Medallist Tom Mitchell will miss the entire 2019 season due to a knee reconstruction.
From such heartache also comes opportunities as it provides lesser known players such as Blake Hardwick, Daniel Howe, Darren Minchington and James Cousins the chance to cement their place in the team.
The other big unknown the Hawks face is what impact Tom Scully (ex Giants) can provide. Rumour has it he has been ticking all the right boxes as he overcomes his ankle injury, though Hawks fans may have to wait until the second half of the season before a positive return eventuates.


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USA: Bid to suspend California global-warming law gets $1 million from billionaire brothers' firm
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Environment, Law & Regulation, Money & Politics
The donation to the Proposition 23 campaign comes from a subsidiary of Kansas-based Koch Industries, which owns refineries and controls 4,000 miles of oil pipelines.
The fight over a November ballot initiative to suspend California's global warming law has escalated sharply with the Koch brothers, oil billionaires and "tea party" backers, making a million-dollar entry into the fray.
The contribution to the campaign for Proposition 23 came Thursday from a subsidiary of Wichita, Kan.-based Koch Industries, the nation's second-largest private company (after the agribusiness giant Cargill). A spokeswoman for the subsidiary, Flint Hills Resources, said the company "may consider additional support." The Kochs' company has estimated annual revenues of $100 billion, owns refineries in Alaska, Texas and Minnesota, and controls about 4,000 miles of oil pipelines.
California's global warming law, known as AB 32, is designed to cut the state's emission of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the end of this decade. A significant chunk of the reductions would come through regulations aimed at fostering alternative fuels and generating electricity from solar, wind and other alternative energy sources.
The ballot measure would suspend the global warming law until the state's unemployment rate dropped below 5.5%, a level achieved only three times in the last three decades. Until now, the measure has been largely financed by two Texas-based companies, Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp., which operate refineries in Wilmington and in Northern California.
The initiative is opposed by environmental groups, most Democratic officeholders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican who considers the global warming law one of the major achievements of his tenure. The GOP candidate for governor, Meg Whitman, has said she is leaning against the ballot measure but would take steps if elected to suspend the global warming law for a year.
The Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Carly Fiorina, had refused to state a position in a broadcast debate Wednesday. On Friday she released a statement calling Proposition 23 "a band-aid fix and an imperfect solution" but saying she would vote for it.
Her Democratic opponent, Sen. Barbara Boxer, responded with a statement released by her campaign manager that called Fiorina "out of touch with most Californians" and accused her of "siding with oil companies."
The money from David and Charles Koch could significantly help the campaign for the ballot measure, which has been trailing in most polls. They have founded a web of libertarian organizations and think tanks dedicated in large part to fighting what they see as excessive government regulation. They also have helped finance efforts to develop arguments denying that global climate change is a real phenomenon.
Katie Stavinhoa, a Koch spokeswoman, said the company believes that the state's global warming law will cause "significant job losses and higher energy costs. It sets a bad precedent for future regulation by other states and the federal government."
Schwarzenegger, in a statement, called the contribution "extremely disappointing." He described Proposition 23 backers as "a handful of out-of state polluters supporting ... the oil companies' dirty energy proposition."
Scientists say greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels to power cars and industries are trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere. California is already experiencing the effects of climate change, they say, with rising sea levels and melting snowpacks that affect the state's chief source of fresh water.
Refinery owners are keenly focused on the state's law and regulations, which could significantly reduce demand for their products.
The goal of AB 32 "is to reduce the use of petroleum," said Charles Drevna, president of the National Petrochemical and Refiners Assn. "What happens in California doesn't stay in California. Other states are waiting to see ... if they can inflict similar harm on their constituents."
So far, the Proposition 23 campaign has raised $8.2 million, of which 97% has come from oil interests and 89% from out of state.
The campaign against the measure has raised $6.6 million, including $2.5 million from Thomas F. Steyer, founder of Farralon Capital Management, a $20-billion San Francisco hedge fund, and smaller contributions from environmental groups and clean-tech businesses.
Steyer said that his company has hardly any clean-tech investments but that he is backing the measure because "the lion's share of investment in a clean-air economy is here in California. Our biggest competition is China.... We have to prevent this proposition from passing so we can protect the jobs of the 21st century."
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Business, Marketing, Top 10	| by Bethany Saville on 22nd April 2016 Tags advertising, communication, empowerment, femvertising, marketing, women
Top 10 Ad Campaigns to Empower Women
So, in no particular order here's my pick of the top 10 ad campaigns that have been created to empower women! The term 'Femvertising' is used widely within the industry, some have criticised the style of ads and messaging, claiming that they are sexist; however I see these campaigns as a drive of empowerment and confidence to young women through a brand (and some clever marketing!)
1. Sport England: This Girl Can
After the first year of the 'This Girl Can' launch, 2.8 million 14-40 year old women said they had done some or more activity as a result of the campaign. The campaign not only had an impact on UK women, it sparked conversations across the globe in more than 110 countries worldwide.
2. Always: Like a Girl
Always #LikeAGirl generated considerable global awareness and changed the way people think about the phrase 'like a girl', achieving more than 85m global views on YouTube from 150+ countries.
Prior to watching the film, just 19% of 16-24s had a positive association toward 'like a girl'. After watching, however, 76% said they no longer saw the phrase negatively. Furthermore, two out of three men who watched it said they'd now think twice before using the 'like a girl' as an insult.
3. L'Oreal: Women of Worth
L'Oréal Paris awards 10 new women each year with $10,000 to support their extraordinary efforts to serve their communities.
4. Under Armour: I Will What I Want
The Under Armour 'I Will What I Want' campaign won the 2015 Grand Prix Cannes Lions 2015 Cyber category award. The video has been viewed over 2.8 million times on YouTube, earning $10m in free media coverage and a 293% lift in brand conversation for the sporting brand. In addition, there was a 42% increase in traffic to underarmour.com.
5. Microsoft: Girls Do Science
The Girls Do Science advert was featured as AdWeek's ad of the day in March 2015.
6. Dove & Twitter: #SpeakBeautiful
The results of this campaign exceeded expectations most importantly, they stimulated a behavioural change on a mass scale through #SpeakBeautiful.
In 2014, there were over 5.3 million negative Tweets about beauty or body image sent by women. In 2015, that number dropped to 3.4 million – a 36.8% decrease year over year.
Throughout the course of the year, women were inspired by the message, using #SpeakBeautiful more than 168,000 times and driving 800 million social media impressions of the campaign.
7. HelloFlo: First Moon Party
This advert was immediately successful and went viral overnight! The ad's authenticness and edgy humour was a huge hit for the relatively unknown brand, attracting almost 8m views and 203,000 shares in 2013.
8. Pantene: #ShineStrong
As well as launching the social campaign, the brand also launched the Shine Strong Fund, which seeks to educate and enable women to overcome bias and societal expectations as well as celebrate strong women. The fund collaborates with the American Association of University Women, underwriting monetary grants and helping college women have access to influential leaders.
9. UN Women & Emma Watson: #HeForShe
The #HeForShe campaign acts as a voice that is constantly fighting for gender equality, so far, 1.3b conversations have been had surrounding this.
10. Sports Illustrated: #SwimSexy
The #SwimSuitsForAll campaign allowed Sports Illustrated to break the mold more than they ever have before – the models proved that sexy has no size or age limit.
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'10 to Track' soccer matches for Saturday (9/22) – NWSL championship leads the way!
So what IS Noob? I am Noob. This site is Noob. Most importantly, Noob is of two main facets:
Bringing Noobites the ten most important matches to follow, from the perspective the (well, a) newish American fan of the global game.
Noob also fancies himself to be the Sunday comics section to the rest of the more mainstream, serious soccer sites out there. Even if it's closer to just old Farside than any other strips.
Now, feast on a kick-ass slate of matches today!
Portland Thorns vs. North Carolina Courage – National Women's Soccer League
American women's soccer fans, the Final you deserve is here. Regular season #B hosts #1! Some places might have NC listed first as the top seed, but they're playing it in Portland because of Florence.
Portland's Lindsey Horen was just announced as league's Player of the Year, having finished 3rd in scoring. NC's Lynn Williams was runner-up in that category. Both also sport top-notch attacking passers.
Noob thinks the difference-maker for Portland will have to be secondary scorer Christine Sinclair. Two goals with one being by her and the Thorns will hoist the trophy. Otherwise, the one-loss superpower Courage win. (4:30 PM EST, Lifetime)
RESULT: Courage 0-3 Hail to the victors! Jessica McDonald with a pair of scores.
B. Atlanta United vs. Real Salt Lake – Major League Soccer
League-leaders in putting points on the board, Atlanta look to extend their four-point lead in the Eastern Conference. Meanwhile, RSL lead the Noob in riling me UP.
Original owner Dave Ricketts decided when the club was formed to tie into a club that doesn't suck (Real Madrid). Never mind that Madrid get to be royal because of a king's patronage. Rickett's is a JetBlue board member, which is anything but monarchal in the corporate world.
Oh yeah, and they're 5th in the West. It's a good matchup. But RSL needs to lose for Noob's belief in an omni-benevolent god in the universe to be confirmed. (7:00 PM, ESPN+)
RESULT: ATL 2-0
Number B – straightening Noob out on the whole omni-benevolent God-matter.
Montreal Impact vs. NYCFC – Major League Soccer
Noob's been writing of late that Montreal have been recently and surprisingly frisky. Turns out, they made their big move in June and early July. We live, we learn, Noobites. They're in 6th, and top eight will make the Playoffs.
NYCFC are somehow still in 3rd, despite not having won a match in five weeks. They're in no danger of dropping out of the playoffs this late in the regular season. But it's looking like they need some kind of shock to the system to get them moving back up toward a top-two seed. That wold mean multiple postseason home matches. (7:30 PM, ESPN+)
Manchester United vs. Wolverhampton Wanderers – English Premier League
No two teams from the table's top are battling today in the PL, but we do get a match with two teams in strange positions.
Man Utd. have won three in a row, though that only pulls them up into 8th place. And those victories were over two bad league teams and an overmatched Swiss side in the Champions League.
Wolverhampton have also had three wins a row, also over weaker competition (two poor PL sides and a second-division team in the EFL Cup). They didn't allow a goal to any of them, either.
All considered, it's about impossible to not consider the evergreen powerhouse that is Man U the favorites. Wolverhampton have seen some early success after having been Promoted, but they have to score more than a single goal per match to keep it up.
RESULT: 1-1 Or maybe one per game can keep you afloat! On a side note, Man Utd's goal was scored by "Fred". Yup. Just Fred.
Feel about it how you will, Wolvers, Noob calls it as seen.
Toluca vs. Necaxa – Liga MX
Another league dear to our hearts that isn't featuring a 1-B matchup or anything close. But we have what I have called a "Hiccup Watch".
Toluca is 5th here in the Apertura (first half-season). Top eight make the Playoffs. By table position, Necaxa should be toast on the road.
Thing is, they haven't lost to Toluca in many consecutive matches. Noob's not convinced Toluca an avoid having a Hiccup tonight. Momentum, inertia – powerful forces. (6:00 PM, ESPN Deportes)
Schalke 04 vs. Bayern Munich – Germany Bundesliga
Last year's #B and #1 face off! The exclamation point could be overkill in a way, though.
Schalke have lost all three of its matches to start the new league year. More, none of those opponents were teams that finished anywhere near the top in 2017-18. Noob's not ready to call their 1-1 Champions League home draw against Portugal's FC Porto a sign that everything is turned around now.
Bayern are 3-0-0, doing Bayern-y things to all. (12:30 PM, FS2)
Ummmm…
Isn't anything we do Bayern-y by definition?
Can we do otherwise?
Al Ahly vs. Horoya AC – CAF Champions League
Not long ago, Noob Tracked the first match of this two-legged Quarterfinal. Africa's greatest team went to Guinean Horoya and only got a 0-0 draw. By ELO ratings, this is a team the Egyptians should utterly wreck, no matter whose pitch their playing on.
Still, now they get to take care of business at home. Perhaps they won't assume Horoya will just lay down for them this leg.
RESULT: Al -Ahly 4-0
Pittsburgh Riverhounds vs. Indy Eleven – United Soccer League
Noob tends to shy away a little from second division leagues on weekends, even Amuricuh's. Just sooo much D1 football here and the world over.
But "an opening" was created when one of the teams in a Nadeshiko 1 match I'd pre-listed dropped too far in the standings to meet Noob's exacting criteria. Match 8 was going to be three-time defending champion NTV Beleza hosting Noob-fave Urawa Red Diamond Ladies. Alas, Urawa has slipped to midtable.
RESULT: Pitt 3-2
I got the word, Noob!
Urawa's #1 U.S. supporter and unofficial spokesman mascot is back once again.
<— Where the sushi goes.
Sorry, The Situation. I know you were excited. Don't worry, you'll still get your appearance fee.
I'd better! I'm still waiting for them all from last season.
Check, er, checks are in the mail, The Situation.
Aaaaanyway, Pitt and Indy are 3rd and 5th-place in the USL Eastern Conference. Top eight make the Playoffs. Top four get home-pitch advantage to start out.
Riverhounds are the class of the entire league, defensively. Thankfully, not just by taking the air out of the ball, they score more than a little. Indy are more balanced, but seem like they've peaked in what they can achieve. Their D is just mediocre.
Coleraine vs. Linfield – Northern Ireland Football League Premier
It's merely semi-pro ball, one of Europe's lower-ranked leagues. But Western Europe is always on Noob's radar. These are two perennial powers, #1 and #3 in the early season-table. They're also the only two who haven't yet lost.
RESULT: 0-0 That's one boring way to make sure you each stay undefeated.
# Honorable Mention: At odds with Noob's desire to keep things mostly D1 on weekends is my utter inability to stay away from shiny 1-B matchups. So before we wrap up, Noob sends the hippest of shouts out (shout outs?) to Ross County and Inverness of Scotland's second-tier Championship League, #B and #1 there. Go fight win!
Hiroshima vs. FC Tokyo – Japan J1 League
Hiroshima looked ready to run away with the league title not too far back. And while they haven't played poorly the last month, they've scuffled just enough to give hope to more traditionally great Kawasaki. They're better on both sides of the ball than #3 FCT.
But a loss – hardly unthinkable – and that Kawasaki group could pull to within a point of the league lead.
So long from Hiroshima!
Try to visit when you can catch the Flower Festival.
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'10 to Track' Midweek Edition soccer matches – USWNT leads the way
The Midweek Edition Track finishes with two more matches for Thursday.
There's not much in the way of preview for the matches proper. But you'll learn about two brand spanking new tournaments themselves. Enough to get you through high-end water cooler-level chat.
Germany vs. France – UEFA Nations League
"Nations League. Here I thought I was really starting to know club and national team football around the globe. But I've never heard of this league! You have failed all Noobites. You are a scalawag, cretinous yahoo, ne'er-do-well. You are declared outlaw!"
Outlaw as adjective originally meant living outside the law. People could do anything to you with no consequences, including murdering you. So why don't we hold up and give ol' Noober a chance to explain.
Perhaps I should've mentioned this tournament before, given you a heads up. This is a new biennial tournament. All 55 member teams of UEFA have been divided into four leagues, based on their UEFA rankings (as of pre-2018 World Cup Group Stage). Those leagues, in turn, are subdivided into four smaller groups. Within each Group, they'll play standard home-and-away double-round robin format.
Example: League A is the top 12 teams in UEFA. The four Groups within League A are relatively even cross-sections in terms of ranking.
The Group Stage games are now through November. The winners of each Group in League A will play for the Nations League championship. That bracketed stage will be in June of next year, location TBD.
Leagues B, C, and D will not have their own bracketed championships. Their journeys end with the Group matches. However, the Group winners get Promoted to the next highest League for the next incarnation of this tournament in two years. The poorest Group performers are Relegated in turn.
The Perceived Good: This event is largely replacing intra-European "friendlies", provide more competitive matches. Also, this event will serve as another qualifying means for national teams to make the 2020 European Championships. It's an extra chance for smaller/weaker teams to perhaps get in.
The Critique: This is an extra chance for smaller/weaker teams to qualify for the 2020 European Championships.
Noob's not going to delve into the particulars of this event as qualifier for the Euros. There are other sites for that. The self-assigned job here is to make you aware of basics. So go, be free! Use your Google machine powers to learn finer details. Noob will, too, in time.
Today's Track'ed Match:
Germany and defending World Cup champions France are UEFA-ranked 4th and 5th, respectively, as of today. Noob phrases is that way because UEFA used the rankings as of right before World Cup Group Stage began to seed all the teams for this event. These two were 1st and 5th-ranked at that time.
Either way it's two of the best teams in the world. Though yes, Germany struggled at WC. Here stateside, we can watch it on Univision Deportes at 2:45 PM EST with great joy.
Hopefully this spares Noob a mob lynching, you rascally animals.
Dominica vs. Suriname – 2019-20 CONCACAF Nations League qualification
Yup! This tournament is new, too. It doesn't truly start until next year. This is a qualifying tournament. As such, Noob will keep things even simpler about the whole thing for now.
The top six-ranked national teams in CONCACAF have already automatically qualified for actual Nations League next year.
34 of the 35 other member nations' teams play in this qualification event (Guatemala are nawtee, suspended). They are divided into four Pots, based on rankings. Each team will play four matches, two home and two away. Each team will play one match against a team from each Pot.
All the teams' results will be in just one aggregate table. The top six finishers will qualify for Nations League A, joining the six teams that auto-qualified, as mentioned earlier. The other teams will be divided in half, into League B and League C.
(The CONCACAF Nations League is a qualifying event of its own, putting teams into something called CONCACAF Gold Cup, which in turn qualifies teams for the FIFA Confederations Cup. Interestingly, the top ten finishers from this qualification event being played now automatically qualify for Gold Cup regardless of how they do in Nations League. Oy veh.)
These two are ranked 25th (Pot C) and 12th (Pot B) in CONCACAF. They're #177 and #153 in all FIFA. Should be a pretty even matchup since is in Dominca.
The match is actually being held in Guadeloupe, not Dominica. Curious.
So long from Les Abymes, Point au Pitre, Guadeloupe!
NYCFC vs. New England – Major League Soccer
NYCYC have won just once their last six outings. They're settling into the #3 seed in the East as the regular season approaches its final stretch.
New England now sit in 8th, five points out of the sixth and final playoff berth in their conference. That they can still even smell the postseason as a mathematical possibility is a testament to how improved they'd appeared in the season's first half. They just got a draw at home against a solid Portland side, but that's now nine straight matches and no victories.
NYCFC will be missing goal-scoring leader Ismael Tajouri-Shradi. He's on international duty this week, as are several of his club teammates. He is Libyan by birth, but Noob presumes is with the Austrian national team now, as he holds citizenship there. (7:00 PM EST, ESPN+)
RESULT: Revs 0-1
Speaking of international duty, did this mascot-guy just get vomited out after finally agreeing to go to Ninevah?
Oaxaca vs. Morelia – Copa MX
Noobites can find a bit about the format below in the Tuesday Copa match mini-preview.
Guadalajara has already advanced as this Group's winner, with ease.
Liga MX side Morelia lead the Ascenso's Oaxaca by two points in the table. Morelia only need a draw to finish #B in the table, but only a draw almost certainly still leaves them out of the next Round. Even a win for Oaxaca probably leaves them among the bottom two Group runners-up and out of this tournament.
Both sides have been scuffling in their respective league seasons, sitting midtable. Morelia likely takes this one by a goal on the road. (8:00 PM, ESPN Deportes)
RESULT: 1-1 And with that, both teams are eliminated.
Indy Eleven vs. NYRB II – United Soccer League
Former NASL-side Indy are tied for 5th in the East, two points up on NYRB. The top eight from each conference make the Postseason.
Indy doesn't score much, have stayed afloat with a lot of draws. Red Bulls' reserve squad have even more draws. That's surprising, given that they play such a wide-open style, eschewing defense almost entirely.
RESULT: Indy 3-0 Evgeni Starikov with two goals, and Indy climbs to 4th place.
Is it just Noob, or does this look like an entrance to kinda nowhere?
Internacional vs. Flamengo – Brazil Serie A
It's #B and #3 in South America's best domestic league!
Internacional trail only Gremio in defensive prowess, haven't allowed a goal in seven consecutive matches. That said, they've only achieved draws in their last two games.
Flamengo are more balanced. They're coming off a sleepy home loss to newly-promoted, weak Ceara. (8:00 PM, GOL TV)
RESULT: Internacional 2-1 The winners now lead the entire league, while Flamengo drops to 4th place.
U.S.A. vs. Chile – international friendly
Déjà vu all over again. They played a few days ago, are now back to battle today. Noob guesses Chile have been training in – perhaps even with – the USWNT. The Americans won the first one 3-0 in Carson (L.A.). Tonight, they play in San Jose.
Fun Fact: The San Jose Earthquakes played a friendly last night against Chile's children's Special Olympic side and lost 0-14. SJ were not sandbagging, by all accounts.
Pardon the interruption, this is The Management. I apologize on behalf of Noob. We're not even sure they have Special Olympics in Chile. Said friendly did not occur.
And if it had, a more likely score would be 1-14. The 'Quakes wouldn't get shut out completely at home.
*gasp* The Management, throwing shade on San Jose! Is Noob dreaming? (10:00 PM EST, ESPN2)
RESULT: USA 4-0 Carli Lloyd with a pair in the second half
B. Chicago Red Stars vs. Sky Blue FC – National Women's Soccer League
Three of the four Playoff teams are set. Two regular season matches to go for #4 Chicago. They're two points up on Utah and Houston.
One of Noob's primary sources indicates Houston is already eliminated though. That feels unlikely, even given head-to-heads are the first tiebreaking criterion.
And since they're playing winless Sky Blue, a Chicago result and postseason berth seem likely.
Aaaaand then they'll get slaughtered by the world's best women's team, North Carolina Courage in the Playoffs.
RESULT: Chicago 5-0 Alyssa Mautz with the first two goals
Number B, expressing the carnage that awaits Chicago or Utah in the postseason.
Zacatecas vs. Queretaro – Copa MX
They're also down to the last match in each of the three-team Groups in this opening stage of the Apertura (first half-season) Copa in Mexico. All nine winners will advance, plus seven of the runners-up.
Second-division Clausura regular season champs Zacatecas trail Queretaro and Leon by three points. So Los Mineros have to win today just to get tiebreakers into it. Leon has played all their matches already, so three-way tie. Go, Minnows!
Zacatecas are having trouble scoring, even as they win games so far this year in Ascenso MX. Queretaro should be at least a one-goal favorite on the road today. They're near the top of the Liga MX table themselves.
RESULT: Queretaro 1-2
Netherlands vs. Norway – UEFA women's World Cup qualification
The Group Stage is down to its last matches here, too. The winners of all seven qualify for 2019 WC. The four best runners-up will have a Playoff for one more berth.
In Group 3, these are your top two and no one else can catch them. They've outscored opponents 21-0 and 0-3 and are FIFA-ranked #9 and #14, respectively. Nothing appears guaranteed for whichever team finishes #B in the group.
Now, check out this mockumentary done by Norwegian women's national team. I'm sure is the current team, but regardless, this is priceless.
RESULT: Norway 2-1 had the home/away mixed up
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'10 to Track' soccer matches Midweek Edition (5/29-31) – Top American leagues, World Cup calisthenics
The American league seasons are at about there 1/3 marks, things starting to feel more pressured. National teams are warming up for the World Cup. It's going to be an extraordinary soccer summer!
The ten best matches to follow for us – the newish American fans of the global game. Perfect little previews, more than a little inanity – stroke them like a villain would his cat. *purr*
(Note: Enjoy Thursday off. Play some ping pong or something.)
Portland Thorns vs. North Carolina Courage – NWSL
Jessica McDonald. Crystal Alyssia Dunn. Even at home, good luck stopping this high-scoring duo, Thorns. They've got four goals apiece, which ties them both for 3rd in the league after ten matches. NCC haven't lost because no one can stop both.
Portland sit in in 4th place, and have won two straight matches. But those wins have come against expansion Utah and lowly Houston. Today is more than a step up in level.
RESULT: NC 1-4
"We are still undefeated and we are going OUT!"
B. Real Monarchs SLC vs. Sacramento Republic – USL
The Western Conference and league leader hosts #4 Sacramento in your American undercard today. RMSLC had won four in a row before losing to #B Portland II in their last match.
Sacramento have won two in a row. The Republic may well be a playoff-caliber team, but Noob thinks they've overachieved to this point, have weaknesses on both sides of the ball that will cost them big today.
RESULT: Monarchs 1-0
Number B, consoling a young Sacramento fan.
Panama vs. Northern Ireland – friendly
You might recall that it was Panama that claimed the final CONCACAF berth into World Cup ahead of 'Muricuh. They are the ranked just the 55th-best men's national team in the world, and Panama is the smallest country by population to every qualify for WC.
Northern Ireland rank a surprising-to-Noob 27th, so this is a good tuneup match for Panama.
Peru vs. Scotland – friendly
World #11 hosts #44 in Peru's warmup for WC. Fans of South American football will be catching this on In Demand PPVHD (unpaid plug, just informational) at 9:00 PM Eastern.
RESULT: Peru 2-0
Easy, cowboy! Trying to get some sponsorship here.
Argentina vs. Haiti – friendly
Srsly, Argentina? (7:00 PM, beIN Sports) And you can watch the carnage on the teevee. Heaven help us.
Argentina, Noob has not picked a rooting interest for World Cup yet. But if that happens, it won't be you! They're not even in the top 100 in the world. Pick on someone your own size. Noob shakes his fist at you!
RESULT: Argentina 4-0
Wedesnesday, 5/30
New England Revolution vs. Atlanta United – MLS
New England are in 6th, which will be good for the last playoff berth at season's end. But there's more than half the season to go, and the Rev have been fading in May.
Atlanta have lost two of three and fallen into a first-place tie with Columbus in the East. The losses have come to a good Red Bulls side and the West's #1 (KC). But they were home matches. Noob's having a tough time reading this bunch.
If Atlanta are to get back into form, look for a big game from forward Josef Martinez. He was a finalist for Newcomer of the Year in MLS last season. The 25 year-old Venezuelan has scored eight goals, leads ATL. Noob wonders if he'd be in a European league if he were more than 5'7", about 150 lbs.
RESULT: 1-1 Josef Martinez did get a goal. But the Rev made a penalty kick at 88′ to earn the draw.
Actual, current photo of Josef Martinez.
The Management: I'm going to beat you.
*snortlaugh*
Indy Eleven vs. Charleston Battery – USL
Indy Eleven have lost three straight matches. Two were in the league, and one was to PDSL (fourth-tier) Mississippi Brilla, a Christian ministry team.
3rd-place Charleston haven't allowed multiple goals in a single game all season. They will be looking to kick Indy while they're down, make a move on Cinci and Louisville in the East Division.
RESULT: 3-3 Both teams scored in the 90′.
Austria vs. Russia – friendly
Russia hit the road for a World Cup tuneup. They're only the 66th-ranked team in the world, qualify as the host nation. They are likely to get a tough lesson today in how things will go in the coming weeks. Austria didn't qualify for WC, but they're the far better side, ranked #27 worldwide.
RESULT: Austria 1-0
It's going to be a weird, wild World Cup.
Japan vs. Ghana – friendly
WC warm-up. Japan qualified, are ranked 60th in the world. FIFA puts Ghana at 50th. The visitors today had qualified for World Cup three straight times before missing this year.
RESULT: Ghana 0-2
Aluminij vs. Olimpija Ljubljana – Slovenia FA Cup
The Final! Despite being listed second, this match is in Ljubljana.
O.L. won the Prva Liga, tying with Maribor on points, winning the title on head-to-head goals tiebreaker. Now they play for the double against a weak Aluminij side. They finished third-to-last in the league, just avoiding Relegation.
RESULT: Ljubljana 1-6
So long from Ljubljana!
Where they know how to do stag parties proper…
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'10 to Track' soccer matches for Globetrotting Friday (5/11) – from MLS to around the planet!
Please keep your trays in the upright and locked position. Your about to jet off with Noob on our weekly football adventure! Buckle up. It will get weird. Again.
Vancouver Whitecaps vs. Houston Dynamo – MLS
Everyone in the Western Conference is chasing KC and LAFC. The Whitecaps so far are the best of the rest. For #6 Houston to eke out a road win, look for Argentinian national midfielder Tomas Martinez to need a big game. (10:30 PM Eastern, NBA League Pass 6)
Noobstradamus Sees: Houston 2-1, with a goal and assist for Martinez
RESULT: 2-2 Martinez did get a goal. Houston scored the go-ahead goal in 89′ and then Vancouver tied it right back up at 90′!
And welcome to the Track, Tomas.
B. Pittsburgh Riverhounds vs. Indy Eleven – USL
Your division two-undercard is also a #3 versus #6. This is likely to be a defensive slog, er, artistic performance by both sides.
Noobstrdamus Sees: Pittsburgh's surprising undefeated streak continuing as they claim 1st place. They have yet to lose all season.
Noob…doesn't see how going incognito has a bird is relevant, Number B.
Derby County vs. Fulham – English Championship
Wolverhampton and Cardiff City finished in the top two spots in England's second division, earning automatic promotion to Premier League next season. Now it's time for the next four in the table to battle for the third and final spot.
#6 Derby Co. has bounced back from a mostly-catastrophic April (three straight losses) to not lose in their last three. Fulham lost their last match – one that didn't matter to them in the table – and before that last lost in early January.
Noobstradamus Sees: The allure of something like a quarter billion pounds in added Premier League revenue being a strong, strong motivator. Derby Co. overcomes a deficit at home, wins the first leg of this quarterfinal 3-2.
RESULT: Derby Co. 1-0
Guingamp vs. Marseille – Ligue 1
Noob once had a nasty case of Guingamp on his left foot. That stuff will eat the flesh right to the bone if you're not careful!
The Management here, apologizing once again for the randomly-non sequitur ramblings of Noob. Is this something Farside comic-ish related to a foot disease like necrotizing fasciitis?
I like dogs. I forget math sometimes.
Weirdo. Anyway, this match is important because Marseille are one point outside of 3rd place and the league's last CL berth with two league matches to go. Don't make me do your job, Noobstra-dumbass.
RESULT: 3-3 Marseille went down to ten men due to a red card at 66′. Guingamp scored the go-ahead at 70′, but Marseille tied it back up at 81′.
Reims vs. Nimes – Ligue 2
Where Noob deems nothing is as it seems. *Noob beams*.
What the actual f– um, fruit? The Management wonders if we need to talk to Human Resources. #1 and #2, er, "#B" in France's second division.
RESULT: 2-2 And that ends the regular season in France's second division! These two are promoted for next year to Ligue 1. Next come the playoffs for the next three teams in the table to see which other club moves up.
Antalyaspor vs. Istanbul Basaksehir – Turkey Super Lig
Turkey's clubs have just two matches each to go, and nothing is decided at the table's top. Istanbul Basaksehir is tied for #B (3rd on tiebreaker though), trailing #1 Galatasaray by three and leading Besiktas by just one in the standings.
This is definitely a Hiccup Watch match. Antalyaspor are in 12th and have done nothing against any of the top four clubs this season. But anything can happen on the road, and I.B. cannot afford a Hiccup here. (1:00 PM, beIN Sports En Español)
Noobstradamus Sees: Istanbul eking this one out. They're offense is the weakest of the four top teams, but Antalyaspor can't stop a beach ball generally. I.B. 1-3, with a the third being a meaningless late one.
RESULT: I.B. 0-2
Yup. Turkey club on top of a table.
No apologies.
Erzurum BB vs. Umraniyespor – Turkey First League
Welcome to the Track, Turkey second division! Just like in England's second tier, the top two get auto-promoted, while the next four duke it our for a third slot moving up. These two finished #5 and #4, respectively. Both have been rolling.
Noobstradamis Sees: …Erzurum's freaky two-headed bird crest emblem. Not a vision, just a plain old nightmare. Umraniyespor wins 1-8. Maybe.
RESULT: EBB 4-3
Leipaja vs. RFS – Latvia Higher League
it's very early in this European summer league, where these two are #1 and #3, and are tied for the largest GD so far (+10). Let's have a shootout!
Noobstradamus Sees: Leipaja 4-3
Ismaily vs. Al Masry – Egypt Premier League
Perennial powerhouse Al Ahly has already claimed the title, but this league gets two berths into the next CAF Champions League. #B Ismaily is up on #3 Al Masry by five in the table, but this is the host team's last match of the season. Al Masry have one more after this in which to earn points.
Noobstradamus Sees: …that Ismaily hasn't lost since February. it will be hard-fought by Al Masry, but the final will be 2-2, securing ismaily's CL invite.
Al-Jazeera vs. Al-Wehdat – Jordan Premier
Let's end the Track with a celebratory congrats to Al-Wehdat, you're 2017-18 Jordanian champs! This is the last match of the season for these two. Al-Wehdat are tied for #B and Noob presumes a Confederations Cup slot (think: Europa League for Africa).
Noobstradamus Sees: ….a grand party for Al-Wehdat!
RESULT: Al-Wehdat 0-4
And so long from Amman, Jordan!
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This narrative piece uses interactive illustrations to explore the potential of textile as a dynamic surface, not only in terms of how it drapes and moves on the body or how it becomes used and marked by time, but also in terms of future technological developments.
Technologies such as color-change inks and shape-memory alloys can be integrated into textiles to make them move and change in electronically controlled ways. I am fascinated by the design possibilities and the huge potential for subtle yet complex use of color and shape to communicate with the world through those soft, dynamic surfaces.
View the progress and interaction of students and Joanna Berzowska for the special project, Digital Threads Network, from September-December 2007 via the Digital Threads Network Blog.


Take Music Technology online and earn 0.5 credits toward your high school diploma. It's free for Wisconsin students.
This class will allow students to explore the world of creating digital music and use it in different projects (Music for documentaries, commercial music, creation of special effects, music for video games, and creation of electronic music and manipulation of sound). During this project base learning experience students will also learn and apply musical concepts taught in a traditional setting like harmony, time signatures, dynamics, and expression, among others.
Students will acquire the foundations for creating computer based music using varied software technologies that will introduce and enhance their understanding of basic digital recording techniques. Students will also gain an understanding of and appreciation for the history and development of recording technology and sound recording.


I've never been to BookOff in San Diego! I will check it out this summer. And okay now I want to know about these disappointing LA and SD bookstores you've been to. Have you checked out Skylight Books, Book Soup or Last Bookstore in LA?
The only book I've read in your stack is The Book Thief, but I have Ness' Chaos Walking books waiting for me on my kindle, and I have the audio of More Than This. Love what he wrote in your book!
I used to be a short story addict but I never read them anymore. I just got a collection that looks good though called The Other Language (by Francesca Marciano) so maybe that will get me back into them.
Ha! That's a hilarious note that Ness wrote. The Chaos Walking series was fantastic but I was extremely impressed with More Than This. Hope you enjoy them!
I love short story collections too but find them so difficult to review and they're often fairly time consuming because I don't like reading them in their entirety all at once. hahaha I agree, that cover you got for Alif the Unseen is MUCH better than the ones I've been seeing around.


Ano Mathraki Village "Kentro Kafenion"
Enquiries about Tavernas should be made direct to the owners using the contact information given.
Spiros's "Dolphins" Taverna in the Port is open all year and managed by Costas, supported in the summer by members of his family. The Taverna is open all day, serving coffee in the morning, good lunches and dinner, which for those that linger can be enjoyed whilst they watch the sun set into the sea. There are regular dishes as well as specials for supper.
In conjunction with St Spiridon church, Kentro mounts an annual music and dancing festival on the Agios Spiridon saints day 13th July….popular with the local community and attracting many visitors from Corfu and New York.
At Levante you will find a wide range of groceries, fruit, vegetables wines and beers and household goods. The freezer holds meat and fish (as well as ice-creams!) and there is a small delicatessen for cooked meats and cheeses.
Looking out to a stunning sea view from the terrace you can enjoy coffee, juices and drinks by day and late into the evening. Take lunch or dinner at Levante and you will enjoy a tasty and varied menu.


Blog home Corporates&Diversity and inclusion&Expert view&Global talent&Managing people What does diversity mean to different generations?
The makeup of the workplace today is very different to that of the past in terms of gender, ethnicity, attitude and behavior. The older generation can be credited with ushering in diversity. But what diversity actually means has changed – and will most likely continue to evolve as the last baby boomers retire and Generation Z enters the workforce.
For companies to function effectively, and happily, it is essential for each of the four generations currently in employment to understand how others perceive diversity – from the early days of gender and race relations to the newer concept of diversity being more about attitude, values and beliefs.
As earlier boomers reached the height of their careers, diversity and inclusion began to be talked about in the workplace. This was the first generation that had to practice compliance in business. To this segment, the concept is more about integrating people of different gender, faith, ethnicity and physical ability into the workplace. Boomers are more likely to see diversity as a reputational issue for their workplace, or a moral and legal imperative, than a concept that makes the workplace more pleasant.
The earlier members of this cohort were brought up to respect authority, to conform and to demonstrate loyalty to their company. Generation Xers, who followed them, are more independent, less conformist, more tech-savvy and more likely to see themselves as entrepreneurs, having grown up with the belief that they can achieve anything. But they're also known as a selfish generation, obsessed with their own career progression and with personal growth.
Boomers in the workplace need to understand that to younger Gen Xers and millennials, today's most influential consumers and the bulk of the workforce, diversity means being free to express oneself and be listened to, and extends far beyond merely achieving compliance. Companies that lack this 'cognitive diversity' could find it difficult to hold on to their millennial employees.
Gen Xers – manager now in their 50s – may think they're embracing diversity but it never hurts to perform a quick audit. How many diversity candidates apply for jobs with your company? Is the number proportionate with the number that are hired? Look, too, at your recruitment panels and your board. Do they all comprise middle-aged white men? Today, this is not giving the right message.
To millennials, or Generation Y, diversity is a wider concept than the ideas of gender, ethnicity, faith, physical ability and age. Physical diversity is important to them, of course; in a 2016 study by Weber Shandwick, KRC Research and the Institute of Public Relations, 47% of millennials said diversity and inclusion was important when looking for a new job, versus 33% of Generation X-ers and 37% of boomers. But essentially, diversity to this cohort is more about considering others' experiences, identities and opinions – cognitive diversity, in other words. Millennials have been proven in surveys to favor companies where communication is open and team members are not afraid to voice ideas, however unorthodox. They don't downplay their differences but rather, celebrate them. Part of cognitive diversity is a collaborative environment, with transparent and communicative leadership, a strong focus on teamwork and recognition of individual achievements.
Millennials have grown up in a connected world, which they see as a small and manageable place, thanks to technology. They are used to documenting their lives on social media and as such, have high expectations of a company's social media policy and presence, and the diversity this represents.
This generation is just entering the workforce, as new graduates or interns. They are the first generation to have spent their whole lives in the digital age. Because of this, their attention span has been proven to be shorter and their focus less intense – but their ability to multitask is impressive. Because they have grown up with technology, they feel even more global in their thinking and interactions than millennials. They are coming of age in an era where freedom of expression is more important than ever and there are more ways to self-identify than their parents could ever have imagined.
Generation Z wants acceptance of this diversity, as well as flexible working, much of it based online. To them, in the UK and North America, at least, freelancing and entrepreneurship are far more appealing than the idea of a nine-to-five office job. They know that today, job security is a rare phenomenon. They want experiences, constant variety, new challenges and they want instant results. They will not be loyal to brands or employers whom they feel don't appreciate them. Recruiting this generation is not so much about promising a diverse workplace – to them, this is a given. It's about tolerance, flexibility, choice and career progression – but not necessarily in a linear fashion.


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10 Ways Uber Is Shaping The Modern World
Benjamin Thomas May 16, 2019 0
Uber's rise to global prominence has played out in the blink of an eye. Struggling to find a taxi one frosty night in Paris, founders Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp were inspired to set up a ride-hailing app that ended up flourishing into an enormous worldwide success. Or so the press release claims.
It hasn't all been clear sailing. Uber's journey has been marred by a series of controversies, earning the company a reputation for lax security, bawdy jokes, and worker exploitation.
The culmination of these difficult episodes resulted in half a million users deleting their accounts in the space of a week. That said, the app still boasts 75 million customers worldwide and annual revenue of $11.3 billion. Like it or loathe it, Uber has transformed our modern world.
10 They Improve Health Care Efficiency
The United States is said to have one of the least efficient health care systems on the planet. Approximately 3.6 million Americans are unable to attend their appointments each year due to a lack of reliable transportation. In total, around $150 billion is lost annually in health care due to no-shows from patients.
UberHealth aims to address this pressing issue. First introduced in February 2018, the service has been set up to promptly deliver patients, including those who don't own smartphones, to nonemergency appointments. Uber designed the platform in collaboration with a team of medical experts, and it can be tailored to meet the needs of individual clinics and hospitals.
A little over a year after its launch, UberHealth appears to be making a positive impact. In Massachusetts, the Boston Medical Center has reported savings of half a million dollars following the replacement of their shuttle bus service. Patient satisfaction is on the rise, too.
On the other hand, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that UberHealth had no significant effect on the number of missed appointments. Whether UberHealth will provide long-term improvements to the US health care system remains to be seen.[1]
9 They Run Outreach For Military Veterans
When a military veteran returns home from the service, finding work can often be a struggle. Many employers have no direct need for the skills acquired during military training, which means that veterans can find themselves at the bottom of the pile in an overcrowded job market.
Uber is striving to change this. The company has employed around 56,000 veterans as drivers since the launch of their UberMilitary outreach service in September 2014. The scheme helps to reduce the ex-service unemployment issue and increase profits for Uber. In fact, UberMilitary is predicted to earn $500 million in revenue by 2020.
In addition, it paves the way for Uber to expand into military bases. Currently, ride-sharing apps are banned from carrying passengers on journeys to and from military bases. Todd Bowers, director of UberMilitary, has told journalists that he hopes the veteran scheme may persuade the Department of Defense to change its mind.[2]
8 They Claim To Be Saving The Environment, But Are They?
Photo credit: vice.com
Environmental sustainability is a key piece of Uber's image. The company prides itself on encouraging commuters to give up their vehicles and hail a lift instead. Proponents claim that the app is reducing the amount of traffic that spews harsh pollutants into the atmosphere.
As cofounder Travis Kalanick explained in 2015:
A city that welcomes Uber onto its roads will be a city where people spend less time stuck in traffic or looking for a parking space. It will be a cleaner city, where fewer cars on the road will mean less carbon pollution—especially since more and more Uber vehicles are low-emission hybrid vehicles.
Kalanick's bold claims about sustainability are refreshing to hear. However, the body of evidence to support them is worryingly small. One of Uber's key boasts is that they reduced San Francisco's monthly carbon dioxide emissions by 120 metric tons back in 2015. However, there is a significant possibility that the data was distorted by a series of promotional offers that the company was running at the time.[3]
Furthermore, by claiming to reduce the number of cars on the road, Uber assumes that all its passengers would otherwise have driven. This fails to account for the former pedestrians and cyclists who have been enticed to hail rides.
In their defense, Uber claims that they are reticent to release journey data publicly to stave off competition from rival start-ups. They also cite the need for security.
7 They Sparked Mass Online Condemnation
Photo credit: The Guardian
#DeleteUber is arguably one of the biggest PR nightmares in the history of social media. In one week, half a million users deleted their accounts in protest of the company's contentious actions.
In January 2017, the US travel ban on a number of Muslim-majority countries was met with a wave of backlash. As part of the protest, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a professional drivers union, announced an hour-long boycott of the John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Shortly afterward, Uber decided that surge pricing (increasing fares at peak times in affected areas) should be turned off around JFK Airport. This was viewed by many online as an attempt to undermine and profit from the strike.
Protesters on Twitter reacted with a surge of condemnation, severing ties with the app and encouraging others to do the same. #DeleteUber promptly started trending. In total, around 500,000 users deleted their accounts.[4]
In his response, CEO Travis Kalanick branded the travel ban "unjust" and promised to support affected drivers. This included a $3 million investment in immigration and translation services.
6 They Fund Better Public Infrastructure
According to Uber, there is an urgent need for investment and innovation in public infrastructure. The ride-hailing company hopes to tackle the issue in collaboration with cities across the US while also pressing Congress to step up their contribution toward improving the roads.
Although the company does seem to be having a noticeable impact on infrastructure, it is important to understand that Uber's actions are not charitable donations. The changes for which they are lobbying ultimately increase their profit margins.
Since 2015, Uber has forked out $2 million to encourage congestion pricing in New York with the aim of reducing traffic and boosting revenue for the city. The divisive decision to charge drivers to enter Manhattan's busiest neighborhoods will benefit the company enormously. Reduced traffic will result in shorter journey times for Uber vehicles, and motorists put off by the congestion fee could be enticed to hail a ride instead.[5]
On top of this, Uber has announced four key principles to which Congress should adhere when financing federal infrastructure. In March 2019, the tech giant called on Congress to repair and maintain existing roads, prioritize public-private partnerships, encourage sustainable forms of transportation, and advance their use of cutting-edge technology.
While some supporters hail these developments as a win-win situation that promotes better infrastructure and boosts Uber's profits, others are concerned about the implications of the company's corporate dominance of the roads. The worry is that Uber's lobbying is discouraging cities from investing in public transportation or other alternatives that may be more beneficial in the long run.
5 They Try To Conceal Hacks
Photo credit: digitalagencynetwork.com
In October 2016, Uber was the victim of an immense global hack. Personal data—including names, phone numbers and emails addresses—was stolen from 57 million users. The license details of 600,000 US drivers were also accessed. Most damning of all, Uber's chief security officer attempted to cover up the hack rather than inform users. But it all came spilling out a year later.
With flagrant disregard for their responsibility to notify customers, the company chose to pay the hackers $100,000 to delete the data and keep the breach quiet.
Although Uber assured passengers and drivers that no sensitive information like credit card and social security numbers was compromised by the breach, it was a massive blow to their public image that threw the integrity of the company into serious dispute.[6]
In 2018, Uber agreed to pay $148 million in compensation to 50 US states and the District of Columbia. As part of the settlement, they also promised a major overhaul of their security systems.
Xavier Becerra, the attorney general of California, blasted the cover-up as "a blatant violation of the public's trust." Cybersecurity expert Paul Lipman called the company's data storage practices "unforgivable."
4 They Are Changing The Face Of Drug Dealing
You might not imagine it, but drug dealers have been at the forefront of almost all major advances in technology. The rise of the dark web has provided an underground forum for black market sites like Silk Road to thrive. Burner phones are inextricably linked to dealing narcotics. Rumor has it that the first sale made over the Internet was a bag of marijuana.
Uber is no different. According to anecdotal reports from drivers, dealers are happy to use them as private chaperones from one client to another. However, a number of drivers are uneasy about having a potentially large quantity of drugs in their vehicles. Due to the nature of Uber, the vast majority of drivers own their cars and, as such, could be found culpable even if they weren't aware.
Fortunately, in the handful of legal cases involving drug dealers and Uber, the drivers were rarely charged. In one instance in 2015, two Uber passengers were arrested in California after authorities discovered them with a quarter-pound of cannabis oil and $2,000. While both passengers were placed on probation, their driver was found innocent rather than charged as a coconspirator.
Although some drivers are concerned about being implicated by criminal passengers, others are less fazed by the prospect. As one driver from Boston wrote on an Internet forum: "Hookers, pimps, and dealers have been using taxis for 400 years, is it really surprising that they'd use Uber as well?"[7]
3 Some Of Their Staff Have Been Condemned For Serious Harassment
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In recent years, some of the most serious accusations leveled against Uber involve harassment and discrimination. The tech giant has come under fire in a series of scandalous headlines which claim that some Uber workers are a danger to both passengers and fellow employees.
In 2018, it emerged that Uber had agreed to pay a settlement of $10 million to current and former employees following claims of serious workplace misconduct. Fifty-six people received a reported $34,000 each after being subjected to "incidents of discrimination, harassment, and/or hostile work environment and connecting their experiences to their race, national origin or gender." A further 483 people were each paid around $11,000 due to other discrimination issues.
Technology corporations in Silicon Valley are often viewed as neglecting gender diversity issues and fostering toxic workplace environments. In February 2017, former Uber engineer Susan Fowler published a high-profile account of her manager propositioning her for sex. She also detailed the tepid response from human resources.[8]
Furthermore, the company has faced accusations that it attempts to suppress passengers who claim that they were assaulted by drivers and instead pressures the women to settle out of court.
Passengers who allege assault are made to settle their disputes through the private and often confidential process of arbitration. According to critics, this plays into hands of serial offenders and gives other victims less confidence to come forward.
In response, Uber announced that it is taking action to change. This includes reorganizing salary and equity structures and changing the method of performance review in line with legal recommendations.
2 They Are The Leaders Of The Sharing Economy
The sharing economy—using technology for the exchange of goods and services between multiple individuals—is one of the most rapidly expanding industries on the planet. Companies that a mere decade ago were seen as budding start-ups have grown into lucrative global businesses, including key players like Airbnb, Lyft, and, of course, Uber.
Due to the privacy of the businesses involved, the exact size of this hybrid market is anyone's guess. However, the decisions by Uber and Lyft to hold initial public offerings (IPOs) should begin to open up the mystery. It is predicted that the number of Americans using the sharing economy will have risen to 86.5 million by 2021.
The unprecedented rise of the sharing economy is a wake-up call for traditional industries—either adapt or become obsolete. For example, Uber has swiftly dominated the transportation sector by providing a more efficient and convenient alternative to buses and taxis. In New York City, there are now 4.5 times more Ubers than yellow taxicabs, causing the cost of cab ownership in New York City to fall from $1 million to $200,000 in three years.
The sharing economy has transformed our relationship with services such as transportation and accommodation, while online peer-to-peer marketplaces like Ebay have revolutionized the sale and purchase of consumer goods. Traditional sectors must now catch up if they are to survive this advanced digital age of business.[9]
1 They Are Pioneers Of Self-Driving Cars
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Uber is paving the way for a future filled with autonomous vehicles, although that future is a lot further away than initially expected. Only a few years ago, they were viewed as bold, enthusiastic technological trailblazers eager to get as many self-driving cars on the roads as possible.
Several of their global competitors like Google and Tesla rushed to bring out their own rival vehicles. Meanwhile, Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson announced that premium car owners would flock to buy autonomous cars.
That all changed after the death of Elaine Herzberg. On March 18, 2018, Herzberg was struck by an autonomous Uber SUV while walking outside a crosswalk in Arizona. She was later pronounced dead at the hospital. In the aftermath of the fatal collision, Uber suspended its autonomous test vehicles and brought operations in Arizona to a halt.[10]
A second wave of public testing resumed in December 2018, which marks the start of a more cautious approach to development in the self-driving industry. Instead of brash, overhyped comments about ushering in a new era, Uber now appears to understand that the engineering involved in building a car that can think for itself is far more complex than originally predicted.
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Dave & Buster's Debuts First Virtual Reality Free-Roaming Arena Experiences in Tampa, Florida
Expands Relationship with VRstudios – Builds on Strong Customer Interest for Its VR Simulator Attractions
Redmond, WA, May 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VRstudios® and Dave & Buster's announced today the immediate availability of new and exciting virtual reality VRcade Arena™ experiences, including the VR sport of the future," VRcade PowerPlay™", and "Barking Irons Gunslinger™." Dave & Buster's is the first nationwide Location-Based Entertainment (LBE) operator to debut VRcade PowerPlay, and the experiences are being offered first for a limited time at the Dave & Buster's location in Tampa, Florida.
Dave & Buster's guests will now have the choice of multiple types of VR attractions, both on Dave & Buster's popular proprietary multiplayer simulator, and now in a free-roaming environment. In this new experience, players can explore without wires and become completely immersed in virtual world experiences and action-packed competition. VRcade PowerPlay is the only truly athletic eSport in VR, a game in which players compete through a series of matches and move naturally as if they were on a real-world playing field: running, ducking, and jumping to defeat their friends. Best described as a combination of Laser Tag and Dodge Ball, VRcade PowerPlay is highly competitive, re-playable and fun for all skill levels. Players may also elect to play a second title, Barking Irons Gunslinger, where they will step into a Wild West town and face off against their friends in the ultimate VR showdown. Players can compete in three different game modes to see who has the fastest hands in the West, including a "High Noon" quick draw duel, a fast-paced search and destroy engagement, and an exciting skeet shoot.
These new VRcade Arena attractions expand on a longstanding and successful relationship between VRstudios and Dave & Buster's, providing market-leading commercial VR products and attractions. VRstudios focuses exclusively on the commercial LBE market and offers the most robust catalog of systems and attractions purpose built for LBE operators, all marketed under the VRcade® brand and all centrally managed by their enterprise-class Attraction Management Platform software: AMP. Dave & Buster's has integrated VRstudios' AMP system into their popular VR simulator attraction and VRstudios also continues to develop multiple high-profile exclusive attraction experiences for the Dave & Buster's simulator, including most recently Dragonfrost, Star Trek: Dark Remnant, and Men in Black: Galactic Getaway.
About VRstudios:
VRstudios www.vrstudios.com is an award-winning pioneer and recognized leader in innovating and integrating commercial VR solutions exclusively for Location-Based Entertainment operators of all sizes. It's VRcade products deliver the most comprehensive and complete range of systems, management software and commercial attraction titles in the industry. Turnkey solutions are available direct or through its channel partners including, Player One Amusement Group. VRstudios also partners with other development studios for distribution of their high-quality commercial VR content through the VRcade Attraction Management Platform™ (AMP), and licenses AMP to manage other 3rd party commercial OEM systems.
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Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLAY), headquartered in Dallas, TX, operates 128 high-volume restaurant/entertainment complexes throughout North America. The exciting environment of Dave & Buster's also provides the perfect setting for corporate and group events. Each Dave & Buster's offers an impressive selection of high-quality food and beverage items, combined with the latest games and attractions. Guests can watch sporting events in the D&B Sports Bar and play state-of-the-art simulators and games of skill they can't play anywhere else. For more information, visit www.daveandbusters.com.
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import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import com.gbicc.bll.sys.bean.SysTreeInfo;
import com.gbicc.bll.sys.bean.Tree;
import com.gbicc.bll.sys.dao.TreeDAO;
import com.gbicc.bll.sys.service.TreeService;

/**
 * 是对TreeService的实现
 * @author YXK
 *
 */
public class TreeServiceImpl implements TreeService {

	private TreeDAO treeDAO;

    public void setTreeDAO(TreeDAO treeDAO){
    	this.treeDAO=treeDAO;
    }

    /*
     * 获取对应的模型的树的信息
     *
     */
	@Override
	public List<Tree> selectQuDaoModelTreeByType(Map<String, Object> map) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		List<Tree>  list=null;
		list=treeDAO.selectQuDaoModelTreeByType(map);
		return list;
	}

	/**
	 * 获取对应的公共模型树信息
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	public List<Tree> selectGgQuDaoModelTreeByType(
			Map<String, Object> map) {
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Futbolnyj klub Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Ochtyrka (ukrajinsky: Футбольний клуб «Нафтови́к-Укрна́фта» Охтирка) je ukrajinský fotbalový klub sídlící ve městě Ochtyrka. Klub byl založen v roce 1980.

Své domácí zápasy odehrává na stadionu Naftovyk s kapacitou 5 256 diváků.

Historické názvy

Zdroj:

 1980 – FK Neftjanik Achtyrka (Futbolnyj klub Neftjanik Achtyrka)
 1992 – FK Naftovyk Ochtyrka (Futbolnyj klub Naftovyk Ochtyrka)
 2004 – FK Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Ochtyrka (Futbolnyj klub Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Ochtyrka)

Umístění v jednotlivých sezonách

Zdroj:

Legenda: Z - zápasy, V - výhry, R - remízy, P - porážky, VG - vstřelené góly, OG - obdržené góly, +/- - rozdíl skóre, B - body, červené podbarvení - sestup, zelené podbarvení - postup, fialové podbarvení - reorganizace, změna skupiny či soutěže

Odkazy

Reference

Externí odkazy
 Oficiální webové stránky

Ukrajinské fotbalové kluby
Fotbalové kluby založené v roce 1980

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Health Reform WK-EDGE A good step but more is needed to address the opioid crisis
A good step but more is needed to address the opioid crisis
By Susan Smith, J.D., M.A.
The opioid crisis continues to have a debilitating impact on the country. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 72,000 Americans are projected to have died of drug overdoses in 2017, outnumbering fatalities from influenza and pneumonia and nearly rivaling the number of deaths from diabetes-related complications each year. In recent years, Congress has taken steps through the passage of at three laws "to address this ongoing and largely preventable crisis," due in a large part to the efforts of health advocates and medical professionals, Corey S. Davis, J.D., M.S.P.H, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. Davis noted, however, that "more than a decade into the crisis, the country still lacks an integrated federal response to reduce the rates of overdose-related death and disability."
Prior legislation. Although Congress passed and President Obama signed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) (P.L. 114- 669) and the 21st Century Cures Act (P.L. 114-255) in 2016 in an effort to address the opioid crisis, Davis noted that "neither law substantially altered the federal policy landscape . . . and overdose-related deaths have continued to increase." The provisions of the laws intended to expedite access to evidence-based care and treatment for people with substance use disorders (SUDs).
The SUPPORT Act. Most recently, in October of 2018, President Trump signed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (P.L. 115-271) (see Trump signs wide-reaching opioid bill, October 24, 2018). According to Davis, the SUPPORT Act is a good step in addressing the opioid crisis, but to alter the current increase in opioid use will require "a comprehensive, integrated, and public health–oriented response coordinated throughout all branches and levels of government." The SUPPORT Act, however, does little to further a coordinated federal strategy for addressing the epidemic."
The Act includes provisions that will be beneficial for people with substance use disorders (SUDs) and those at risk for SUDs. Such provisions are designed to improve pain management, support the development of the SUD-treatment workforce, and eliminate kickbacks for referring patients to recovery homes as well as increase access to evidence-based treatment and follow-up care, specifically for pregnant women, children, people in rural areas, and people in recovery from an SUD. The Senate passed the bill in September (see Opioid legislation package passes Senate—but is it enough? September 19, 2018).
Stumbling blocks in providing needed care. In terms of addressing the addiction, Davis explained that the surgeon general's office has strongly supported proven public health interventions such as increased access to sterile syringes and the opioid-antagonist naloxone, while the office of the attorney general has waged a "war on drugs" with a focus on arrest and incarceration. In addition, the Office of National Drug Control Policy has not had director a since President Trump's inauguration. Furthermore, the Trump administration has threatened to budget cuts and Congress has repeatedly attempted to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148), a law, which Davis noted has "significantly reduced the number of people with heroin use disorders who are uninsured."
Conclusion. Davis believes that "the tools and knowledge to reverse the unprecedented and largely preventable, avalanche of overdose-related morbidity and mortality" are available. "The question is not how to end the crisis of opioid-related harm but whether we will choose to mount an effective, evidence-based, and equity-focused response."
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How Kenya almost became the Promised Land for Jews in 1903
May 08, 2019 at 01:00 pm | History
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Kenya would have been a different country with the State of Israel sited between it and Uganda, had a proposal to use a territory, in what is now Nairobi, as a safe haven for Jews been accepted.
Over 115 years ago, anti-Semitism was growing in Europe, and 'God's chosen people', the Jews, were being targeted, thus, they needed to flee.
The idea that Kenya, then known as the East Africa Protectorate, should be the Promised Land for the long-suffering race was introduced after a violent incident in Kishinef village in Russia on April 19, 1903, an article on Standard Digital said.
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Anti-Semitic demonstrations that followed led to the deaths of hundreds of Jews while thousands were rendered homeless after their houses were torched.
As world leaders looked for a solution, one of the Jewish leaders and the founding father of Zionism, Theodore Herzl, approached Britain's Foreign Office and held a meeting with the colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain.
Theodor Herzl. Pic credit: Haaretz
There, Herzl proposed that a Jewish settlement be established in East Africa, though other accounts state that the proposal came from Chamberlain.
According to Haaretz, when the two met in April 1903, Chamberlain's East Africa settlement offer was nearly rejected by Herzl, who had actually wanted a Jewish settlement in Cyprus or Sinai. He, however, accepted the new offer, knowing that it would be good for the Zionist movement's ties to the British.
Chamberlain reportedly offered 5,000 square miles (13,000 km2) of the Mau Plateau in what is today Kenya, with the only precondition being that "His Majesty's government would not shoulder the financial responsibility of running the autonomous state within a state."
The proposal further said that a chief administrator, who would be free from British rule, enjoying freedom of municipal legislation, would rule the Jewish state.
Herzl brought the proposal before the Sixth Zionist Congress in Brussels from August 23, 1903. Attended by 600 delegates and about 2,000 observers, the proposal met strong opposition from some of the delegates, who felt that the plan was against the very ideological basis of Zionism.
A section of the Zionist Movement argued that establishment of a homeland in East Africa, so far away from the Holy shrines and the Jews' ancestral land, was unacceptable, said the Standard Digital report.
When a vote about the proposal was organized three days later, 295 delegates supported a Jewish settlement in Kenya while 175 rejected and 90 abstained. Other delegates left the meeting in anger.
Victoria (Tom Mboya) Street, Nairobi in the 1900s. Pic credit: Pinterest
The Congress further refused to finance the investigative team that was to travel to Kenya to check out the territory offered in the proposal.
In Kenya, particularly what is today Nairobi, white settlers, who had then received news of the Zionist Congress Movement, also opposed the giving away of territory to the Jews.
"Allowing a flood of people of the class of Jews was sure to lead to trouble, with half-tamed natives jealous of their rights," Lord Delamere, who was said to be the leader of the settlers wrote.
British authorities rubbished the protests and wondered why a few numbers of settlers who contributed insignificant amounts in terms of tax would question the move.
In the midst of the complaints, the investigative team that was to check the suitability of the proposed land managed to fund the trip to East Africa, following contributions received from some Christians.
For three months, the investigative team checked the suitability of the proposed Jewish settlement and left to compile a joint report. In their report, two years later, the team rejected some parts of the territory given to them.
For instance, it said the Uasin Gishu plateau, which was very remote from the outside world, had so many lions and other wild animals that could attack the Jews. The report further said that the Maasai, who were seen as the region's fiercest warriors, used part of the Plateau as grazing fields.
When the team presented the report to the Seventh Zionist Congress held in Brussels in July 1905, delegates unanimously agreed that Kenya could not be made a home for the Jews, and thanked the British for its offer. The Zionists reaffirmed their commitment to a Jewish homeland in Palestine, according to Haaretz.
By then, Herzl had passed away due to a heart condition in 1904, a death which many blamed on the various controversies he had to deal with over the Jewish settlement proposal.
Even though the Jewish settlement plan in Kenya was rejected, scores of Jewish families did move to Kenya. There were about 20 families in Nairobi when the first synagogue was built in 1913, according to Owaahh.
This figure would increase after the Holocaust, however, it couldn't reach the extent of Jewish settlement Chamberlain and Herzl had hoped for.
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