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Hizbullah has taken Lebanon "hostage" through dangerous and irresponsible actions that have brought disrepute to the state and placed the Lebanese people in harm's way, Lebanese politicians and experts say.
Hizbullah "has taken Lebanon and its people captive to its terrorist policy", said former Lebanese MP Fares Souaid, noting that the party has retained its arms in violation of the Lebanese constitution and UN resolutions 1559 and 1701.
Only the Lebanese army is authorised to bear arms, he said, noting that Hizbullah's claim that it has retained its arms "under the pretext of defending Lebanon" is both inaccurate and illegal.
Politicians pointed to the party's storage of weapons at the Beirut port, where an August 4 explosion caused massive damage and loss of life, and in residential areas around the country, where they have put civilian lives at risk.
It remains unclear if Hizbullah's arsenal was a factor in the port blast. But the incident "caused the world to open its eyes to the issue of the party's arsenal and its practice of storing weapons in residential neighbourhoods", Souaid said.
Politicians and experts also blame Hizbullah for driving Lebanon into poverty through its control of the government's decision-making process.
The country's economic crisis has brought surging unemployment, spiralling prices and a plunging currency.
More than half of the population is living below the poverty line, and prices have soared as the Lebanese pound has lost more than 80% of its value.
The party's presence in and influence over the government has complicated and delayed the country's efforts to obtain essential international support which would help it pull itself out of its economic crisis.
Protecting al-Hariri assassin Ayyash
Hizbullah's outsized influence in Lebanon is perhaps best illustrated by the country's response to the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon investigating the February 14, 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
On December 11, the tribunal sentenced Hizbullah operative Salim Jamil Ayyash in absentia to five concurrent sentences of life imprisonment on terrorism-related charges pertaining to the bombing that killed al-Hariri and 21 others.
The tribunal found that Ayyash led the "assassination team" that carried out the attack on al-Hariri and was actively involved in the assassination on the day of the attack.
The US last week announced it is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the location or identification of Ayyash. He is believed to be in hiding in Lebanon, where Hizbullah has refused to hand him over.
Legal experts and analysts noted that due to Hizbullah's hegemony over the state, Lebanese state agencies did not search for Ayyash to hand him over to the tribunal.
This was despite the existence of a memorandum of understanding between Lebanon and the tribunal that obligates Lebanon to implement its decisions.
Lebanon "signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Tribunal for Lebanon, established under Security Council Resolution 1757", international law expert Antoine Sfeir said.
Lebanon is obliged to implement the tribunal's decisions, Sfeir said, noting that in essence this means "the state must search for Ayyash and hand him over to the international tribunal".
Corrupting judicial process
The sentence against Ayyash is immediately enforceable in Lebanon, which was notified of it in accordance with the memorandum signed with the court, said international law expert Ghassan Moghabghab.
Lebanon must either task security services to search for him, arrest him and hand him over to the tribunal, or notify Interpol to implement the sentence and arrest him in any country or at border crossings, he said.
He noted that the Lebanese state "responded to the tribunal's request to extradite Ayyash by saying that it did not know his whereabouts. It also did not search for him because no one would dare to do so".
This is because of Hizbullah's hegemony over the Lebanese decision-making process, he said, "and because the judiciary works in the party's favour and not against it".
Moghabghab said the only way to force Hizbullah to hand Ayyash over is to "lift its hand off the state, bring it down to size, and implement the judicial sentences issued against it and its members".
Lebanese Centre for Research and Consulting director Hassan Qutb said the US reward offer "underscores the lack of seriousness by the Lebanese authorities in pursuing and arresting Ayyash or their inability to do so".
The reward "may not lead to his arrest, but it affirms the seriousness of the US in pursuing Ayyash and making his life and movement difficult, and making him fearful about his surroundings and friends, lest they inform on him", he added.
It serves as "a message to Hizbullah's leadership that the time of committing crimes without getting prosecuted and punished is over", he said.
Sacrificing the Lebanese people
Outside Lebanon, Hizbullah's record of actions "is rife with condemnations of its cadres for carrying out terrorist attacks", Qutb said.
Its operatives have trained fighters in Bahrain to carry out bombings, as well as the Houthis (Ansarallah) in Yemen, who have fired missiles at Saudi cities and civilian targets, for example, he said.
Hizbullah's past actions confirm it is "an armed group that raises [sectarian] slogans, engages in sectarian mobilisation and works to serve Tehran's project in the region and the world", Qutb added.
Since its inception in 1985, Hizbullah has taken the Lebanese people "hostage", said Southerners for Freedom co-ordinator Hussein Ataya.
The party has been involved in kidnappings of foreigners "and other terrorist activities in Lebanon and the region", he said, while these days it stores weapons and missiles in depots in Beirut's southern suburb.
The party also stores weapons in other "storage places and tunnels dug for this purpose", he said, some of which were uncovered in Mount Lebanon's Deir Kobel, Tumat Niha, Shahrour and areas near Jabal al-Barouk.
Through irresponsible actions like this, Ataya said, the party "is sacrificing the Lebanese people, and primarily its own base".
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take me some place where there's music and there's laughter.
i don't know if i'm scared of dying but i'm scared of living too fast, too slow, regret, remorse, hold on, oh no i"ve got to go.
yeah i just keep on keeping on.
it has been a busy two years for the swedish sister act since the release of their sophomore album. while on tour with conor oberst and lykke li as well as playing festivals around the world, these girls have managed to create a third album for the world to add to their indie folk archives. the verse above comes from their single "my silver lining" setting the tone for the rest of the stay gold album.
you can buy this song along with their album now on iTunes here.
the other day as i was staring helplessly at the immensely long soup aisle, a woman approached me. she complimented me on my freckles in which i couldn't help but respond with "i got it from my momma". she politely laughed, and began to tell me how truly beautiful she thought freckles were, or as she called them "angel kisses". after a lot of blushing on my behalf, we parted ways and i couldn't help but feel great about my freckles. not that i was ever self conscious about them before but i felt like running out of the grocery store and yelling "I HAVE FRECKLES AND I"M PROUD!" i love my angel kisses and i think they are beautiful at any age.
it's official…white is the new black, which means i'm in a lot of trouble considering my closet is about 85% black. zara has some great pieces to help brighten up my wardrobe and from what i saw online, i'll take one of everything please.
kimbra released her latest music video today via just jared. leading up to the release she teased her fans with behind the scenes footage on her facebook page. with her vibrant and bold ways kimbra is breaking music barriers and creating a league of her own. keep an eye out for her new album the golden echo due this august!
yesterday as i scrolled through my phone i came across an article with the title "5 year old transgender". guilty of my own ignorance i thought there was no way a child so young could be confused about their sexuality. i then clicked the link, read the article along with the touching video and became informed and inspired by 5 year old transgender child, ryland. his story exemplifies the love and support of a family, explaining " we signed up as parents with no strings attached". hillary and jeff whittington are the two proud parents of ryland. After what was thought to be a phase, they realized they were dealing with something much bigger. through professional help and self research they came to the conclusion that ryland was transgender. through their research they found a disturbing statistic… 41% of transgender people have attempted suicide due to lack of acceptance; the national average is 4.6 %. taking matters into their own hands their hope is that their voice will be heard and this world will become a more loving and accepting place. at birth ryland was declared female, now he is 6 years old and living a happy and healthy life as a brother, son and transgender child. watch their video below and help share their story.
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Report: 6 Million Acres Of State Lands In West Inaccessible
Montana Public Radio | By Matthew Brown
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and onX; http://www.trcp.org/unlocking-public-lands/
Landlocked public land in southeastern Montana.
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and onX, a Montana-based land data company, analyzed land ownership patterns for a report detailing the extent of state-owned parcels that lack public access.
Montana, Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming each have more than 1 million acres (0.4 million hectares) of state lands surrounded by private property, according to the report. Nevada has the least amount with less than 1,000 acres (405 hectares) landlocked.
Access issues have become increasingly important in the West as the population grows and more people go outdoors to hunt, hike and fish. A similar report last year identified 9.5 million acres of federal lands with no permanent public access.
"It's startling how many of these lands do not have permanent legal access," said Joel Webster with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.
Ownership patterns across much of the region were established when Western territories entered statehood.
The federal government granted land to newly-formed states so they could generate revenue in support of schools and other services. But those blocks of land typically were disconnected from one another, resulting in a patchwork of ownership that left state lands isolated as surrounding blocks were consolidated, often to form private ranches.
Montana has one of the highest rates of inaccessible public lands — about 28% of the 5.6 million acres (2.266 million hectares) of state lands.
Since 2003, the state has used money raised from disposing of unwanted tracts of land to buy almost 100,000 acres (40,469 hectares) of accessible lands, said John Tubbs, Director of the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation.
"We're looking for (land) where the public is really interested in accessing," Tubbs said. "Every acre is not the same. There are some that everybody wants to get out to."
Surrounding landowners sometimes offer access to landlocked parcels through cooperative programs with state agencies. But there's no guarantee those programs will continue indefinitely, Webster said.
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Im trying to download the Wolfendoom Second encounter artic wolf yea yea you get the point.The 3d downloads take too frigging long and was wondering if anyone had the zips on a site or something that doesnt take as long.
Gonna Make myself a WolfenDoom Cd to bring along with me.
Goto http://www.edgeemu.com/ and join. It's free and you'll get all the roms you want, including Wolfenstein 3D (uses 2nd Encounter Missions), and the Beta versions.
If so, then you have just given a warez link.
Goto SOME SITE and join. It's free and you'll get all the roms you want, including Wolfenstein 3D (uses 2nd Encounter Missions), and the Beta versions.
Why are you insulting me? I'm a dumbass, not an idiot, you dumbass!
No, actually, that's not warez. It says on THE SITE that you can have the ROM on your hard drive for 24 hours unless you own the game, then it's illegal. He can just keep redownloading the rom everyday, or delete it when he's not using it and redownload it later.
I'm not trying to get out of an obvious ban, It's the truth.
It says on THE SITE that you can have the ROM on your hard drive for 24 hours ... He can just keep redownloading the rom everyday, or delete it when he's not using it and redownload it later. ... It's the truth.
No, it's an outright lie. This "24 hours" stuff is pure invention.
If so, I didn't make it up.
Yes, it's quite a common claim made by these sites. I suppose that "sorry, we thought it was OK" is considered a better defence than "we knew it was illegal".
Erm... speaking about idarchives... which of the positions there holds WolfenDoom: Original missions? Ya know, the one with 30 maps based on three first episodes of Wolfenstein?


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2 something to make a stand out of for the shocks to sit in this can be anything thats strong but easy to cut and drill.
3 About 30 minutes of spare time to build it .
ring sits on top of the cordec.
anything you can find .
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SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - April 15, 2010) - Juniper Networks® (NYSE: JNPR) today announced it has been selected by Allied Wireless Communications Corporation (AWCC), a subsidiary of Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATNI), to build a high-performance mobile infrastructure that ensures its customers have the highest quality wireless service today and in the future. Using Juniper's framework, AWCC will be able to accommodate evolving user behavior and expectations while improving the revenue opportunities of the network.
"AWCC is planning for the long-term demand of bandwidth driven by smartphones and other advanced devices," said Frank O'Mara, CEO of AWCC. "Delivering service to customers in this environment requires a partner that understands the importance of planning for the next stage of the mobile network. Juniper stood out as the best company to help us provide the highest quality wireless service and a superior customer experience."
In order to deliver on its commitment to customers, AWCC required a solution that offers an enhanced, secure user experience for mobile applications while improving the total network operating costs and revenue opportunities. It was also imperative that AWCC build a foundation for long-term expansion and, at the same time, provide the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
Unlike most legacy networks in the current mobile landscape, Juniper's "New Network" for mobility is based on open standards and flexible software platforms. The innovative Juniper architecture enables mobile operators, such as AWCC to support a broad range of devices, applications and subscriber needs. As part of the network upgrade, AWCC will deploy a combination of mobile network edge services, including Juniper's breakthrough MX 3D Series Universal Edge Routers to offload traffic directly to the Internet, lowering network operating costs and latencies.
In addition to the MX Series, AWCC will deliver carrier Ethernet transport with the EX Series Ethernet Switches, and multiservice transport services with the M Series Multiservice Edge Routers, along with SRX Series Services Gateways for integrated security. The complete solution is based on Junos® software, a single source operating system that will enable AWCC to build and maintain a truly open and secure network.
"AWCC will be on the leading edge of regional mobile carriers. They needed to build a migration path to an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) that is seamless and protects its investments in existing network assets," said Manoj Leelanivas, executive vice president and general manager, Junos Ready Software at Juniper Networks. "Juniper's mobile product portfolio and innovative strategy will uniquely address AWCC's needs as it supports legacy circuit traffic while enabling graceful migration to an EPC that builds a long-term solution for the next decade of mobile computing."
AWCC was formed in connection with Atlantic Tele-Network's agreement to purchase wireless properties, licenses and network assets from Verizon Wireless. The sale of assets to ATN is expected to close in the second quarter of 2010.
From devices to data centers, from consumers to the cloud, Juniper Networks delivers innovative software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. The company serves more than 30,000 customers and partners worldwide, and generated more than $3 billion in revenue over the last year. Additional information can be found at http://www.juniper.net.


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Q: How to test struts 2.0.x applications How do we test action classes of Applications written in 2.0.x version?
I read through this link and found out that, struts-junit plugin is only available for struts 2.1.1 or later.
My application is written using struts 2.0.11 and I don't think upgrading the version is easy in my project.
How do we unit test Action classes,given these limitations ?

A: Is there any special aspects of your action classes that you would like to test?
As long as your action classes are written as POJOs, you can test them as ordinary Java classes using any testing framework of your choice.
EDIT: Give a try this custom class which extends JUnit's TestCase class. You will need dependency to org.springframework: spring-mock.

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Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel Seen Together For First Time Since The Hand-Holding Scandal
It's been two months - by Christopher Luu
Things seem to be back to normal for Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel. Two months after he was seen holding hands with his Palmer co-star Alisha Wainwright in New Orleans, The Sun published photos of the couple together at the Hotel Bel-Air. The dinner marks the first time they've been photographed together since the incident.
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People adds that a representative for Wainwright confirmed that there is "no validity" to any rumours surrounding a romance between the actor and Timberlake. After the news broke in late November, both Wainwright and Timberlake returned to work.
"Nothing has changed or been influenced by the press reports," a source told People. "The show goes on."
As for Timberlake, he issued a public apology on his social media channels, although Biel hasn't made any sort of statement.
"A few weeks ago I displayed a strong lapse in judgment — but let me be clear — nothing happened between me and my costar. I drank way too much that night and I regret my behavior. I should have known better," he wrote. "This is not the example I want to set for my son. I apologize to my amazing wife and family for putting them through such an embarrassing situation, and I am focused on being the best husband and father I can be. This was not that."
An onlooker told The Sun that Timberlake appeared to be "extra attentive" with Biel at dinner.
"Justin seemed to be intently focused on conversation with Jessica," a source explained. "He was extra attentive, rubbing her shoulders and leaning in to her. Then they left the hotel arm in arm after what looked to be a fun dinner date."
Sources close to the couple told People that the couple has moved on from the scandal.
"Obviously Justin drank too much this time, but Jessica believes he didn't cheat on her," a source said. "What's most important to her in life is her family and being the best mom to Silas. She'll never break up her family over something like this."
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Nominations closed on 2 June 2014 and a random draw for positions on the ballot paper was conducted on 3 June 2014. Following is the full list of candidates, in the order they will appear on the ballot paper.
Nominations for this election closed at 12 noon on Monday 2 June 2014.
To be eligible to vote, or to be nominated as a candidate for the election you must be an Aboriginal person or Torres Strait Islander, at least 18 years old, and on, or entitled to be on, the ACT electoral roll. However, candidates cannot be under sentence of imprisonment for 1 year or longer for an indictable offence.
are not under sentence of imprisonment for 1 year or longer for a conviction for an indictable offence.
To be entitled to be on the ACT electoral roll, a person must have a current place of living in the ACT and have lived at that place for at least the preceding month.
under the Migration Act 1958, he or she is the holder of a temporary visa or is an unlawful non-citizen.
Nominations open on Monday 19 May 2014.
Nominations must be given to the ACT Electoral Commissioner by the close of nominations at 12 noon on Monday 2 June 2014. Forms can be hand delivered to the office of the Commissioner, or faxed, or scanned and emailed - link to contact details below.
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Special relativity / Elementary Tour part 3: The relativity of space and time
One of the most surprising features of special relativity is that a number of statements and results which we usually think to be absolute turn out to be observer-dependent. In particular, statements about space and time, distances and duration turn out to be relative.
For example, in Einstein's theory, simultaneity is a relative concept. Imagine that there are two events which an observer in space station A judges to be simultaneous – say, the explosion of a firecracker at one point in space and an alarm clock going off a few miles away. For an observer in space station B, which is moving relative to A, this statement will not necessarily be true: In general, such an observer will come to the conclusion that one of the events happened earlier than the other. (More about this unfamiliar state of affairs and about the necessity to first of all define simultaneity can be found in our Spotlight topic The definition of "now".)
Similarly, temporal duration depends on the observer. This relativistic effect is called time dilation. Summarized briefly: Moving clocks are slower than stationary ones. A bit more precisely: An observer on station A measures time using his on-board clock. Station B, passing A at high speed, has an exact copy of A's clock on board. Yet, from the point of view of A, the clock in station B runs more slowly than his own. A down-to-earth version of this effect can be tested with the help of elementary particles such as those particles accelerated inside the "proton synchrotron" of the European research centre CERN. A segment of this particle accelerator can be seen in the following photograph:
Particle accelerator © CERN
Many kinds of elementary particles are unstable. After some time has passed, they decay into certain other elementary particles. The average time until decay is called the particle's life-time. When particles of the same kind that are either at rest or speeding around in a particle accelerator are compared, it turns out that the life-time of unstable particles at rest is significantly shorter. Experiments of this kind are in excellent agreement with the predictions of special relativity – from the point of view of an external observer, the "inner clock" of such particles slows down when such particles are accelerated to high speeds. Correspondingly, on average, they can take much longer to decay than particles at rest.
Time dilation has a counterpart in space called length contraction. From the point of view of an observer in space station A, who measures lengths using his own measuring rod, an exact copy of that same measuring rod whizzing by on-board space station B appears to be shortened.
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It is a fact of life that not all events in our universe happen concurrently - instead, there is a certain order. Defining a time coordinate or defining time, the way physicists do it, is to define a prescription to associate with each event a number so as to reflect that order - if event B happens after event A, then the number associated with B should be larger than that associated with A. The first step of this definition is to construct a clock: Choose a simple process that repeats regularly. (What is "regular"? Luckily, in our universe, all elementary processes such as a swinging pendulum, the oscillations of atoms or of electronic circuits lead to the same concept of regularity.) As a second step, install a counter: A mechanism that, with every repetition of the chosen process, raises the count by one. With this definition, one can at least assign a time (the numerical value of the counter) to events happening at location of the clock. For events at different locations, an additional definition is necessary: One needs to define simultaneity. After all, the statement that some far-away event A happens at 12 o'clock is the same as saying that event A and "our clock counter shows 12:00:00" are simultaneous. The how and why of defining simultaneity - a centre-piece of Einstein's special theory of relativity - are described in the spotlight topic Defining "now". With all these preparations, physicists can, in principle, assign a time coordinate value ("a time") to any possible events, and describes how fast or how slow processes happen, compared to that time coordinate.
time dilation
In special relativity: From the point of view of an observer (more precisely: an inertial observer), a moving clock goes slower than an identically built clock at rest. All other processes moving alongside the clock (for instance: everything happening aboard a rocket speeding by) are slowed down in an identical fashion. Time dilation can be mutual: When two inertial observers speed past each other, each will find that the other's clocks go slower.Some aspects of this unfamiliar mutuality are explored in the spotlight topic The dialectic of relativity; a geometric analogy is presented in Time dilation on the road. In general relativity, there is the phenomenon of gravitational time dilation: Roughly speaking, clocks in the vicinity of a mass or other source of gravity run more slowly than clocks which are farther away. This phenomenon is closely related to the gravitational redshift.
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A particle accelerator, in which particles are accelerated with the help of electric fields, while strong magnetic fields keep them on track (the fact that ever-stronger magnetic fields are needed as acceleration proceeds is a consequence of the fact that relativistic mass increases with speed.)
Roughly speaking, in relativity, a situation or a spacetime is stationary if there is no change over time. To be more precise, one has to take into account that, in general relativity, time can be defined in many different ways, all of them equally valid for formulating the laws of physics. This leads to a modified definition: A situation or a spacetime is stationary if it is possible to define time in a way so that there is no change of its properties over time - if you follow the properties of a given region of space over time, they will not change.
An object's average speed is the distance it moves during a given period of time, divided by the length of the time interval. If you make the time interval infinitely small, the result is the object's speed at one particular moment in time. The notion of speed can be applied to waves in different ways; for instance, for a simple wave, the phase speed is the speed at which any given wave crest or wave propagates through space. See also the more general entry velocity.
Albert Einstein's theory of the fundamentals of space, time, and movement (but not gravity). For a brief introduction, check out the chapter Special relativity of Elementary Einstein. Selected aspects of special relativity are described in the category Special relativity of our Spotlights on relativity.
In a strict sense: Space as we know it from everyday life: the totality of all locations in which objects can sit, with three dimensions. In a more general sense used by mathematicians, all kinds of sets of points are spaces - a line for instance, which has but a single dimension, or a two-dimensional surface, but also higher-dimensional spaces. Also, in such more general spaces, geometry can be different from the standard Euclidean geometry taught in high schools - such spaces can be curved.
Models, effects or phenomena in which special relativity or general relativity play a crucial role are called relativistic. Examples are relativistic quantum field theories as theories based on special relativity, or the relativistic perihelion shift as a consequence of general relativity. In addition, conditions under which the difference between relativistic physics and ordinary, classical physics are especially pronounced, are also called relativistic. For instance, when material objects reach speeds close to speed of light, one talks of relativistic speeds, while speeds that are so small compared to light as to make relativistic effects undetectably small are non-relativistic.
Particle that carries positive electric charge and is comparatively massive; the atomic nuclei consist of protons and neutrons. Protons are not elementary particles, they are compound particles consisting of quarks that are bound together through the strong nuclear interaction . Collectively, protons, neutrons and a number of similar particles are called baryons.
Elementary "building block" of geometrical entities such as surfaces or more general spaces. For instance, a surface is the set of all its points, of all possible locations on the surface, and all geometrical objects in that surface are defined by the points that belong to them - for instance, a line on the surface is the set of (infinitely many) points.
relativistic (perihelion advance, relativistic)
For planetary orbits, there is a small difference between the predictions of Newtonian gravity and general relativity. For instance, in Newton's theory, the orbital curve of a lonely planet orbiting a star is an ellipse. In general relativity, it is a kind of rose or rhodonea curve. Such a curve is similar to an ellipse curve, which shifts a bit with each additional orbit. The shift can be defined by looking at the point which is closest to the sun (perihelion) on each orbit. The additional relativistic shift is, hence, called relativistic perihelion shift or relativistic perihelion advance. A picture can be seen on the page A planet goes astray in the chapter General relativity of Elementary Einstein.
The most important experimental technique of particle physics: accelerating electrically charged particles with the help of electric forces, make them collide with each other and, from the result of the collision, draw conclusions about the properties of elementary particles and their interactions. It is an intriguing possibility, suggested by models based on the ideas of string theory, that particle accelerators such as the LHC might actually produce miniature black holes (for more about this, see the spotlight text Particle accelerators as black hole factories?).
In the context of relativity, "observer" can mean two different things. Often, observer is synonymous with reference frame or (spacetime-)coordinate system: An observer in this sense is someone who assigns coordinates to everything that happens around him. In particular, all events are assigned space coordinate values and a time coordinate value. In the context of special relativity, it is often the case that when one talks about an observer, what is really meant is an inertial observer, corresponding to a special type of reference frame. On other occasions, the term is used in a more narrow sense - in those cases, an observer is someone sitting at a certain point in space and using the light signals reaching that location to construct an image of his surroundings. In the context of optical effects in relativity, for instance gravitational lensing, observer is usually meant in this way.
length contraction
Effect of special relativity theory: An observer (more precisely: an inertial observer) measures a shorter length for a moving object than for an identical copy of that object resting beside him (here, length refers to extension in the direction of movement - extension in orthogonal directions remains the same).
elementary particles (elementary particle)
Within the commonly accepted models of physics, certain particles are not built of even more fundamental sub-particles - they are themselves elementary. Examples for elementary particles are electrons, quarks and neutrinos, while particles such as protons or neutrons consist of sub-units and are thus not elementary. The study of elementary particles is called particle physics, under which keyword some more information about the theoretical framework of elementary particles can be found.
European research centre for nuclear and particle physics (Centre Européen pour la Récherche Nucleaire - pardon my French), located near Geneva on both sides of the franco-swiss border, founded 1954. CERN isn't famous just because of particle accelerators like its proton synchrotron, the Large Electron Positron Collider (LEP) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), but also as the birthplace of the World Wide Web. > CERN website


Steve Cram Olympics 1500m signed 10x8 inch photo.
10x8 inch colour photo personally hand-signed in black sharpie pen by British middle-distance running legend, Steve Cram.
Along with fellow Britons Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, Cram was one of the world's dominant middle distance runners during the 1980's. He set world records in the 1500m, 2000m and the mile during a 19-day period in the summer of 1985. He was the first man to run 1500m under 3 minutes and 30 seconds. He won the 1500m gold medal at the 1983 World Championships and the 1500m silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games. He also won two gold medals at the European Championships and three gold medals at the Commonwealth Games.


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Apr. 28 - There's nothing new in today's Almanac: it's mostly a reprise of last year's April 28 edition. That's because I don't have time for a full Almanac today. Check in on the Moron Abroad blog later today and maybe there'll be something.
It's got to be a bummer of a birthday for Saddam Hussein, whose exact age is a matter of some dispute. Maybe he'll get a few candles in his gruel and one of those hilarious birthday cards full of double-entendres.
It's safe to assume that the day will be a little more upbeat for Jay Leno (1950), who shares the day with Ann-Margret (1941) and James Monroe (1758).
It's Flag Day in the Åland Islands, an "autonomous, demilitarized, and unilingually Swedish province of Finland."


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Horror News Network 2021 Comic Awards: Best Mini-Series Of The Year
by Thomas Tuna December 29, 2021
written by Thomas Tuna December 29, 2021
New York City. A murderous maniac. The bowels of the vast subway system. Sounds like the makings of a memorable comic book mini-series.
And that's just what Aftershock Comics dropped on us this year with Maniac of New York–the winner of the Horror News Network 2021 Best Mini-Series of the Year Award.
From Emmy Award-winning author Elliott Kalan, artist/colorist Andrea Mutti (Hellblazer) and letterer Taylor Esposito, Maniac of New York is a non-stop, bloody thrill ride through the tunnels of the Manhattan subway labyrinth. The attention to detail–both in the writing and artwork–makes readers feel as if they are in New York City…at its best and worst.
A knife-wielding slasher–dubbed Maniac Harry by the media–has become an inhuman, unstoppable mass murderer on Manhattan's subway cars. The city officials have chosen to ignore him, as they pray frightened New Yorkers will adapt to this horrifying threat.
Only trauma-haunted political aide Gina Greene and disgraced NYPD Detective Zelda Pettibone band together to stop the terrors. But how can they fight a monster when they can't even fight City Hall?
Congratulations to Aftershock Comics and the creative team behind Maniac of New York for earning Horror News Network's 2021 Best Mini-Series of the Year Award.
Maniac of New York
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Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen once a year invites visual and media artists, art critics, theorists, and curators to apply for a fellowship. The competition for a fellowship is usually held in the months November until April. Candidates can apply for a five-month fellowship.
The closing date for submissions for a fellowship in 2019–2020 (30 September 2019–5 June 2020) was 25 January 2019.
Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen is a post-graduate center for production, research and exchange in the fields of visual arts and art theory. Within the framework of the Fellowship Program for Art and Theory, the Künstlerhaus provides a platform that facilitates the development and production of artistic and art-theoretical projects in a critical context. At the same time, it offers a forum for direct exchange between professionals—artists, theoreticians, critics, and curators—from the region and abroad, as well as a point of interaction with local, interested audiences. Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen is affiliated with the Tiroler Künstler*schaft (the Tyrolean Artists' Association), the major association of visual artists from the region.
Büchsenhausen brings together two programs under one roof. On the one hand, it is the site of the Fellowship Program for Art and Theory. On the other hand, it is the location of several studios for artists based in Tyrol who are looking for a working space in a professionally interesting environment. Four apartment studios are used by the participants in the fellowship program. The other six studios are available to artists based in Tyrol. The project and presentation space is equipped with multimedia facilities and is at the fellows' disposal.
The program combines the advantages of a residency with the possibilities of a postgraduate, non-academic research and production fellowship on the basis of an open, non-formalized structure. In terms of content, the program addresses a worldwide public made up of professionals in the fields of contemporary art, architecture, art and media theory, and criticism.
The fellows are selected by a jury of experts following an open call for applications. They come to Büchsenhausen for a minimum of five months to work on realizing their proposed undertaking, and accompany this process with public events. For this purpose, Büchsenhausen assigns a monetary award and provides a production budget, a budget to facilitate the exchange with other experts and to (at least partially) cover the fellows' own travel costs, free access to the working space, free lodging, as well as artistic and technical advice.
The fellowship year starts with the 'Orientation Weeks' at the beginning of October. The 'Orientation Weeks' end with the Start Up Lectures and the opening of the autumn/fall exhibition by the fellows. In so-called 'focus weeks' in January and March, the fellows and/or their guests publicly discuss issues related to their ongoing work, enjoy an intense exchange with their colleagues in the program, and carry out cooperation activities with other university and non-university partners and institutions. The fellowship year ends with a group exhibition curated by the artistic director of the fellowship program. The opening of the show takes place in the middle of May.
The conveyance and discussion of the fellows' own work occurs parallel to the development of the individual proposals. The focus of the public events is determined by the respective emphases of the various fellows' works. Within the framework of these discursive formats, the fellows (or their guests) can present various points in their investigations, open up their works-in-progress to critical discussion, interact with experts who they invite, work through content with the public, and/or try out new ways of working.
In the recent past, fellows occasionally collaborated with other artists/professionals based in the greater Innsbruck region. Cooperation activities have been carried out, among others, with the University of Innsbruck (Institute for Comparative Literary Studies, Institute for Architectural Theory, the Research Group 'Cultural Encounters—Cultural Conflicts', the Research Center 'Migration and Globalization', Institute for Pedagogy, the Italy Center, the Russia Center etc.), the Network Gender Research and the Working Group 'Global Learning' of Südwind Tyrol (in both of which Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen is an active member) etc. We are encouraging the candidates for a fellowship to be aware of and to take into consideration the opportunity for such collaboration.
For former and current fellows and their realized work please visit buchsenhausen.at/en/fellows/.
The selection of fellows is made by a jury of experts and based on the quality, originality, and relevance of the proposed undertaking and the work samples submitted by the applicants. The jury includes the director of Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, a member of the advisory board at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, and one external expert.
The personal interview with the jury forms the second stage. For the interview, the applicants have to come to Innsbruck to present their working plans and aims during the fellowship personally.
Büchsenhausen will pay for accommodation in Innsbruck for one night, but cannot cover the costs of travel to Innsbruck. Alternatively, a video conference (for instance via Skype) is also possible.
There is no legal right to be awarded a fellowship at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen. The jury is therefore under no obligation to justify decisions. The jury's decision will be communicated in written form in March 2019 (first stage) and April 2019 (second stage).
The electronic application form can be found here.
fellowship@buchsenhausen.at, phone +43 512 278627, fax -11.


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Бра́тство Свято́го Гро́ба Госпо́дня (, также Святогробское братство, Хранители Святого Гроба) — общество, объединяющее монашествующих Иерусалимской православной церкви. Резиденция братства располагается в монастыре святых Константина и Елены в старом городе Иерусалима. Главой братства является патриарх Иерусалимский.

История
Свою историю возводит к братству «Знамение» в Иерусалиме, которое было основано, как считается, в 313 году (что соответствует Миланскому эдикту императора Константина Великого и легализации христианства в Римской империи). Древние рукописи подтверждают существование Знаменского братства до посещения царицей Еленой Святого града в 326 году. Задачей этого монашеского Братства было «служение паломникам, молитвы и в основном псалмопение в славной церкви Святой Гробницы». Братство «Знамения» получило поддержку императора и расширило свою деятельность за пределы Иерусалима на главные Святые места Палестины.

В 638 году Братство было признано халифом Омаром ибн Хаттабом и впоследствии его преемниками. В последующие столетия все завоеватели Палестины так или иначе признавали права православных монахов этого Братства заботиться о Святых для христиан местах.

Постоянным условием деятельности Братства на протяжении многих веков сделалось соперничество со стороны нехалкидонитов и римо-католиков, разными путями старающихся захватить попечение о Святых местах. Будучи лишённым поддержки единоверного государства в Святой земле, Святогробское Братство оказалось вынуждено вести нескончаемую борьбу за доказательство и подтверждение своих прав на поддержание Святых мест. С умалением православного присутствия в Святой земле, всё большая доля клириков Иерусалимского Патриархата оказалась также членами Святогробского Братства — важнейшей структуры Иерусалимской  Церкви.

Как писал П. И. Ряжский в 1915 году «В руках Святогробского Братства было сосредоточено управление церковными делами и имуществом Иерусалимской Церкви, во главе которой стояли Патриарх, Синод и отцы Гроба Господня. Все они были греками, православные других национальностей, особенно славянских, в братство не допускались».

Несмотря на убывание и почти полное исчезновения греческого и греко-язычного населения в Святой земле, Братство в последние столетия неизменно сохраняло преимущественно греческий характер. Это стало причиной напряжения и периодических волнений в Иерусалимской Церкви, более девяти десятых паствы которой составляют палестинские арабы и арабоязычные местные жители.

Сейчас Хранители Святого Гроба управляются советом из 18 членов с председателем Иерусалимским патриархом.

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Ссылки
 Хранители Святого Гроба или Братство Святого Гроба  // pravoslavie.ru

Иерусалимская православная церковь
Религиозные организации Израиля
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I've posted this in the iOS section, but should be in the Android.
After a connection reset or requested data not getting there within a certain time, Spotify should use a smarter reconnect strategy using different time-out values depending on the network type and number of retries. (Using tiny ping packets first, not the whole request block) On a GPRS network getting a response can take a long time if you get it at all. On HSPDA or LTE the response should be there relativly fast, when it's not you can give up and retry much faster. In the Android API you can get the network type using TeleponyManager.getNetworkType(). It may also be helpful if Spotify would learn what the connection times are with the user's provider for each netwerk type to be able to get the timeout values right. If I were the programmer I would probably experiment with two looping connection threads with different sockets, one with a short time-out and one with a longer. The first one successful will become the active one the other discarded. But on a very slow network that may not work. But I think the key is probing the connection first with tiny ping packets before sending a full request, opposed to having the risk of sending a full request multiple times which clog the line if the full responses come late, but multiple times. Another strategy could be requesting small pieces of data from different sections of the audio timeline or playlists. Then when sucessful try requesting bigger pieces until the connection breaks again. This way the traffic for probing connection is utillized.


To improve and update the data and tables used by Caltrans to identify locations with a high concentration of accidents on wet pavements.
To plan for safety improvements, Caltrans develops a list of high concentration collision locations (Table C) every quarter using the Traffic Accident Surveillance and Analysis System (TASAS) database. Table C identifies the ramps, intersections and highway segments with accident rates that are significantly higher than the statewide average. Caltrans also develops a Wet Table C annually that analyzes wet accidents alone, using a similar methodology as Table C. The existing table of percent wet time table (percentage of time the pavement is wet) was developed in 1972, using data from 1957-67. Recent research on precipitation patterns indicate that the percent wet time table from 1972 does not reflect the current percent wet time and needs to be updated. Incorrect wet percent time factors could result in locations not being identified for safety investigations as well as incorrect locations being identified for investigation. It is critical that all high wet collision locations are identified, because approximately nine percent of fatal collisions in California occurred on wet pavement conditions in 2003. This project will collect and analyze data to update the wet percent factors used in the development of Wet Table C. In addition, the research will investigate methods to improve the accuracy and precision of the tables.


Owen Marshall completed a 4-year MPhys degree in Physics at the University of Manchester, UK, in 2004 and went on to earn his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2009 while working in the Semiconductor Physics Group of the Cavendish Laboratory. His PhD research centred on the design, fabrication and characterisation of THz quantum cascade lasers (QCLs), with a particular emphasis on photonic crystal laser waveguides for frequency control and beam-shaping, as well as high frequency direct modulation of THz QCLs.
After completing his PhD, Owen returned to the University of Manchester as a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. From 2009 he continued to work on novel THz QCL waveguides, first incorporating non-random aperiodic photonic structures for multi-frequency control, and later integrating graphene into the plasmonic QCL waveguides. He subsequently took up a post-doctoral position within the Condensed Matter Physics Group in Manchester, where from 2013 he primarily worked on the optical characterisation of state-of-the-art graphene-based devices (and other 2D materials), ranging from optical modulators and metamaterials, to electrically-driven hydrogen isotope sieves.
In 2017, Owen joined Ghent University-IMEC, Belgium, where his current research focuses on the combination of 2D materials with photonic integrated circuits.
O.P Marshall, M. Hsu, Z. Wang, B. Kunert, C. Koos, D. Van Thourhout, Heterogeneous Integration on Silicon Photonics, Proceedings of the IEEE (invited), 106(12), p.2258 - 2269 (2018).


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Home » News » Sun's hosted computing model gets a little bigger
Sun's hosted computing model gets a little bigger
March 15, 2007 by Doug Black
Sun has been talking recently more about hosted computing solutions, including hosted applications for science and engineering the ordinarily run locally on supercomputers. All of this ties in with the grid computing and virtualization strategies. Scott McNealy talks about the concept here (pdf).
Sun announced this week that it has
added additional features to its Network.com pay-per-use offering, giving developers and open source communities the ability to just "click and run" applications online and a unique new way to create personalized application playlists. The first of its kind, the new Network.com Application Catalog enables developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to develop and publish their applications online, allowing communities of scientists and academics in life sciences, education, engineering, and other fields to accelerate innovation and complete research projects quickly and less expensively.
The offering includes some significant science and engineering apps:
ConcurrentEDA, CDO2, Simbiosys, Wolfram Research, Mathspec, Q-Chem, OpenEye Scientfic Software, Hypercube and WU BLAST, are just a few of the ISVs that support Network.com.
And includes some traditional HPC users like Lawrence Livermore and the EPA who are either kicking the tires or satisfying some of their surge demand.
As I've said before, I think this is an important model going forward that has already been slowly gaining momentum in other segments of the business market for IT resources.
With Innovative Cooling, New HP Apollo Systems are Tailor-Made for HPC
Canada's biggest super to be an iDataPlex
More buttons in the wild
Curtiss-Wright & Dolphin Speed HPEC System Fabric
Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
The Graphcore Second Generation IPU
Our friends over at Graphcore, the U.K.-based startup that launched the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for AI acceleration in 2018, has released a new whitepaper introducing the IPU-Machine. This second-generation platform has greater processing power, more memory and built-in scalability for handling extremely large parallel processing workloads. This paper will explores the new platform and assess its strengths and weaknesses compared to the growing cadre of potential competitors.
National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL)
PhD scholarship in GPU processing for Super Resolution Ultrasound Imaging


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Q: sIFR double titles? I used the latest sIFR version, and for some reason it shows the title double. I've experienced this problem on 2 pages now.
I uploaded an example here:
http://www.romenov.com/fairflex/form.html
and for some reason, the problem does not occur on page.html
Any clues?

A: Possibly because you don't have the sIFR stylesheet included in the form.html.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="sifr.css" type="text/css">

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Governors met with 6 class teachers: YR Y1 Y2 Y3 Y5 Y6and Special Needs was discussed with HT + an in-school visit took place.
KS team meetings were discussed in all meetings and were found to be in place across the school, in spite of some issues with time in YR and a feeling that 15 mins was too short in KS2. All agreed that these are of value to all staff in ensuring consistency of approach and coverage.
Deployment of TAs to work with small groups on interventions is effective, but flexibility across the teams has proved harder to achieve. The work of TAs is highly valued by all teachers, and all teachers are careful to rotate the TAs around the different ability groups, to support and to stretch as appropriate.
O track was found to be easy to use and useful for assessment during half termly updates. One teacher remarked that its visual nature is helpful.
Lesson plans were examined and explained in most meetings. These are important in keeping an eye on progress and skills building as well as curriculum coverage. TA roles clearly identified. Quality texts are central to topic planning in all year groups.
The author visit was unanimously agreed to have been a success and had led to increased enthusiasm for reading and writing in all age groups.
MR (governor with responsibility for Special needs) reported that the changes in the nomenclature for groups of children deemed to need intervention of various kinds had not impacted on the School's proven method of half termly reviews of the various groups and individuals and adjustment of strategies accordingly. The HT is finding that she is spending more time supporting those families whose children were previously designated SA+ (now School Support).
MR spent time with Y6 to observe a PP pupil during an English lesson. She reported that the PP pupil was indistinguishable.
Governors saw examples of children's work in all classes and Staff explained how high standards of presentation are worked on as appropriate to the age group of the children. In KS1 the focus in handwriting is on correct letter formation and joining up is begun when this is in place. Staff use modelling and a range of differently printed stationery to help with neat presentation. Consistent use of rulers for underlining is expected. This last is continued in KS2, where pens are introduced when the handwriting is fully joined. In Upper KS2 children are allowed to develop their own style, providing it is of a consistent size, slope etc.. At this stage some work is drafted and then copied out for presentation in Topic books.
IH carried out a Health and Safety visit during which no problems were identified.
During the year both Staff and Governors found the new style of visit form to be useful in helping to focus visits on aspects of the SIP.
Governors in all classes were shown examples of the use of green for children's responses. Staff explained that the pupils were given time to respond to marking as appropriate for their age group/ability. The system is consistent and teachers all feel that it is beneficial since it helps children to judge their own progress and to know what their next steps should be.
MR held a meeting with JS and SP re SEN and with JS re monitoring of Pupil Premium funding.
SEN provision was found to be effective and flexible both in and out of the classroom.
PP funding is mostly used to buy in more support staff but also for discreet payments for outings. JS identified a continuing need for close engagement with parents.
4 classes (R, Y1, Y3, Y5) + PPA cover were visited.
Governors found that there is a consistent use of individual targets for pupils throughout the school and that assessment is used to tailor learning to each child's needs. Teachers plan effectively to present children with activities of sufficient challenge, with the most able being catered for by for example, 'extended input' and small group work. The use of 'I can' statements enables self assessment and dialogue between the teacher and pupil.
IH carried out a Health and safety visit, during which no issues were found to be of concern.
MR conducted a data review with JS which was generally very favourable. Areas to be monitored included the gap between the performance of FSM and non-FSM children in KS1 and progress in Maths in KS2.
AG met with VD (PE cordinator) to review PE and found this to be a well organised area of the curriculum.


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West Harper Avenue Garage will be Closed for Pressure Washing
The entire municipal parking garage at 200 W. Harper Avenue will be closed for pressure washing from Thursday evening, September 2 through Saturday, September 4. Cars must be removed from the garage before the work begins. This garage is near the intersection of Cates Street and West Harper.
Alternative parking areas include the municipal garage - entrance on W. Broadway Avenue, the open public lot across the street from the Harper garage, the Sam Houston lot near Broadway Towers, the parking lot near the Blount County Courthouse, and the Founders Square Parking lot near CBBC Bank.
Broadway Avenue in Downtown Maryville will be Closed Friday 5 - 9 p.m.
To accommodate the Downtown Maryville Association's Music and Market event on Friday, August 27, Broadway Avenue from Cates Street to Norwood Street will be closed from 5 until 9 p.m. Detours will be in place. The top level of the municipal parking lot at Broadway and Cusick will also be closed. Parking is available in the area off Harper Avenue and Church Street. For more information about Music and Market, visit downtownmaryville.com.
S. Washington Lane Closure today - Monday, August 23
City of Maryville Engineering and Public Works will have the right northbound lane closed on S. Washington Street from Jones Avenue to High Street from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today for catch basin work. Drivers are urged allow extra time for delays and use caution in the area.
Montvale Road at Goddard Ave Lane Closures Today - Friday, Aug 13
Engineering and Public Works will be replacing the crosswalks at Goddard Avenue on Montvale road today beginning at 8:30 a.m. Traffic will be slowed but no detours are necessary. Please allow extra time and use caution while driving in the area.
A Section of County Farm Road will be Closed Friday, August 13
City of Maryville Water and Sewer will close County Farm Road (north of Alnwick Drive) again on Friday, August 13, while they continue to work on a sewer main repair. Crews will wait until the morning school traffic is completed, around 8:30 a.m. and the work will continue potentially into the evening.
Residents and local traffic may need to use Big Springs Road for an alternate route to their homes.
Our water and sewer department personnel have been in contact with Central Office of Blount County Schools regarding bus traffic in the afternoon.
A Section of McCammon Ave. will be Closed Today
City of Maryville Water & Sewer Dept. will have McCammon Ave. closed from Home Ave. to Rural King for most of the day today while crews work on a road crossing. Residents in the area and Maryville Housing Authority traffic will have access to their homes/destination by entering McCammon from the W. Bessemer Street area near Rural King.
A Section of Lambert Lane will be Closed for the Rest of the Week
UPDATE: Water Main Extension work on Lambert Lane has been rescheduled for next week.
City of Maryville Water and Sewer Dept. will close Lambert Lane between Larry Road and Lisa Drive starting today August 10, 2021. This section of Lambert Lane will remain closed until approximately 5 p.m. Friday, August 13, while crews work on a water main extension. Residents will have access to their homes. Motorists are encouraged to use caution in the area.
W. Church Ave. Parking Garage Lower Levels to Temporarily Close
Contractors for the city of Maryville will be pressure washing the municipal parking garage on W. Church Avenue on August 13 and 14. This will require closing the interior two levels of the garage on Thursday evening, August 12. Cars must be removed from the garage before the work begins. The top level of the parking garage will remain open.
Alternative parking areas include the municipal garage - entrance on W. Harper Avenue and the open public lot across the street, the Sam Houston lot near Broadway Towers, the parking lot near the Blount County Courthouse, and the Founders Square Parking lot near CBBC Bank.
Left Turn Lanes on Middlesettlements Road to be Closed August 5
City of Maryville Water and Sewer Department will have both left turn lanes on Middlesettlements Road at Atchley Lane/Robert C. Jackson Drive closed tomorrow, August 5, 2021. Motorists will still be able to access Robert C. Jackson from Middlesettlements Road by turning left from the through lane (see the map above for clarity). This will be in effect at 7 a.m. and run through approximately 12 noon. Crews will be working on a water main tie-in for the TDOT improvements to Robert C. Jackson Drive.
For more information, please call the Water and Sewer department at (865) 273-3300.
City of Maryville Utility Plant Mechanics repair and maintain machinery and equipment in the Water Filtration Plant, Wastewater Treatment Plant, and stations throughout the system. Utility Plant Mechanics work four (4) ten- hour shifts and rotate on-call status on weekends.
We offer an excellent benefit package includes health, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, retirement pension with Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System, Section 457 plan, Roth IRA, and 24- hour access to onsite fully equipped fitness center.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Swing Set himself, Alex Brenner.
Straight outta Decatur...Warm in the Wake.
Blake Guthrie and Nicole Chillemi make their world premiere on stage together...covering Tom Waits, no less! We were honored to witness their first collaborative performance.
One beard to rule them all, one beard to find them, one beard to bring them all and in the darkness bind them: Richard Parsons.
That's a nice rifle you're sporting, but it sure don't beat our Pistolero.
And then there's Warren. After a full day of Record Storing, he likes to dress up in receipt tape and dance around all by his lonesome. This time we caught it on camera.


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namespace BusTicketsSystem.Core.Commands
{
    using System.Text;
    using Contracts;
    using Models;
    using Services.Contracts;

    public class PrintReviewsCommand : ICommand
    {
        private readonly IBusCompanyService service;

        public PrintReviewsCommand(IBusCompanyService service)
        {
            this.service = service;
        }

        public string Execute(string[] args)
        {
            var busCompanyId = int.Parse(args[0]);
            var busCompany = this.service.ById<BusCompany>(busCompanyId);

            var sb = new StringBuilder();
            foreach (var item in busCompany.Reviews)
            {
                sb.AppendLine($"{item.Grade} {item.DateAndTimeOfPublishing}\r\n{item.Customer.FirstName} {item.Customer.LastName}\r\n {item.Content}");
            }

            return sb.ToString().Trim();
        }
    }
}

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Al Teglia in Community
JFY History, News / By Jobs for Youth
Al Teglia has contributed in many ways to our San Mateo County community! He has received special recognition, honors, and awards throughout his life.
In 2005, Al was awarded the Jefferson Award for helping the needy and making a difference in his community. The Albert Teglia Community Center in Daly City was named to honor him and is open to the community. Al was honored by having the Albert M. Teglia Blvd. in Colma/Daly City named after him. There is an engraved bronze plaque showcased for children's dental services at Mike Nevin Health Clinic in Daly City. He received special recognition in the San Mateo County Women's Hall of Fame. Al was one of six individuals who received the 49'ers Community Quarterback Award from the San Francisco 49ers Foundation, in partnership with NFL Charities, for his leadership, dedication and commitment to bettering the San Francisco Bay Area.
The San Mateo County Historical Association has a Movie Framed Memorabilia poster "Made in America: San Mateo County's Journey from Dairies to DNA" dated December 7, 2006 with autographs of many special SMC community members like Al Teglia, Gene Mullin, Jackie Speier and so many more community leaders.
The list of honors, awards and recognitions goes on! Do you have a story and/or pictures to share of Al Teglia receiving a special award or recognition? What memories do you have of Al in our San Mateo County community? Will you share it with us?
Al's story and the history of Jobs for Youth continues as we lead up to our 40th JFY Al Teglia Scholar Shine Bright Celebration on May 19, 2022!
We hope you'll join us for this special celebration, donate toward equity in higher education scholarships and invite you to share an Al Teglia memory with photos on our special virtual video booth! Please share with your family, friends, collogues to collectively create a beautiful time capsule for future generations.


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Back To All Winners
Mimi Phan
I.H. Kempner High School, Sugar Land, TX
Mimi, a former Miss Teen Sugar Land, has founded and driven multiple health initiative programs. Once immersed in the beauty pageant culture, Mimi has bore witness to the physical and psychological damage induced by eating disorders. Her personal testimony has been published on anti-bullying websites. As president of the Health Club, Mimi has increased health consciousness at I.H. Kempner High through health seminars and informational posters. She intends to disband the facades of physical perfection and redefine beauty to young girls through her study of nutritional science, health clubs, and preventive awareness events. Mimi has directed Health Snacks Food Drives through partnerships with local service organizations. She is also the Senior Representative of the Science National Honor Society and a team member at Lifetime Fitness.
Scholoarships Awarded: 2014 Abercrombie & Fitch Anti Bullying Scholar Awards
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About NSHSS Foundation
The NSHSS Foundation fosters the growth of graduates enrolled in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), business, economics, public policy, and environmental science and sustainability fields. Through special programs, including the NSHSS Honor Society, the NSHSS Foundation connects young scholars with additional opportunities to advance their education, personal growth and career interests.


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Acianthera brachiloba is a species of orchid plant native to Brazil.

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John Ambrose O'Brien (né le  à Renfrew, Ontario, mort le ) fut le premier propriétaire des Canadiens de Montréal.

Biographie

Canadien d'origine irlandaise, son père Michael John O'Brien était né pauvre mais avait réussi à devenir riche grâce à son dur labeur et à son sens des affaires.

Arrivée à Montréal

À l'automne 1909, Montréal possède deux équipes professionnelles, les Wanderers et les Shamrocks, membres toutes deux de la ligue de l'Association de Hockey de l'Est du Canada (AHEC).

La ville possède aussi deux arénas, l'Aréna de Westmount et le Jubilee. Ce dernier appartient à un certain Patrick Doran, qui réussit en 1909 à acheter pour 750 $ la concession des Wanderers à un groupe d'hommes d'affaires dirigé par Fred Strachan.

Doran, propriétaire du Jubilee, entend faire jouer les Wanderers dans son aréna, ce qui déplaît aux autres propriétaires du groupe : le Jubilee ne contient que 3 000 sièges, ce qui entrainerait des pertes de revenus. La saison n'est pas encore commencée qu'il y a déjà des problèmes au sein de la ligue.

Le , l'AHEC tient une réunion pour étudier différentes suggestions, dont celle d'ajouter quelques nouvelles équipes à la ligue, dont le National, une équipe francophone. Cependant, cette réunion est plutôt l'occasion de se disputer les droits sur l'équipe des Wanderers. Certains représentants des autres équipes, dont ceux d'Ottawa, affirment que Strachan n'avait pas les droits requis pour vendre l'équipe. Strachan, qui représente Doran, leur exhibe un document officiel prouvant qu'il avait tous les droits requis lors de la vente et que le tout est légal, ce qui laisse les accusateurs à leur déception. Le lendemain de cette réunion, les adversaires de Doran et Strachan annoncent officiellement la création d'un nouveau club : le All-Montreal.

À cette époque, le hockey sur glace est déjà le sport le plus populaire du Canada et les nouvelles de cette réunion houleuse se font entendre jusqu'à Renfrew, un petit village de  en Ontario. Reconnue pour ses crémeries et son beurre, cette petite communauté agricole possède quelques familles millionnaires dont les O'Brien et les Barnett. L'un des propriétaires des Creamery Kings, (équipe de hockey locale de Renfrew) Jim Barnett, appelle son ami, Ambrose O'Brien pour profiter des événements de Montréal pour y faire inclure l'équipe de Renfrew.

O'Brien se rend à Montréal dès le , pour la suite de la réunion ajournée le . Cette fois, on se concentre sur l'ajout de nouvelles équipes. Cependant, Dave Mulligan, représentant d'un club d'Ottawa remet la démission de son équipe et invite toutes les autres équipes à faire de même pour tout simplement repartir à neuf. La dernière équipe à démissionner est les Wanderers de Montréal. Il s'agit d'un piège...

Mulligan fait interrompre la réunion pour quelques minutes et en profite pour faire signer les Bulldogs de Québec et les Shamrocks de Montréal. En quelques minutes est créé une nouvelle ligue, soit le Canadian Hockey Association (CHA). Informé de ce qui se trame, le National remplit rapidement un formulaire d'adhésion à la ligue. On n'accepte leur adhésion qu'à la condition qu'ils jouent à l'aréna de Westmount et non. au Jubilee.

Pour ce qui est de Doran et d'Obrien, ils sont laissés de côté. Ils font connaissance alors et s'aperçoivent que leurs intérêts sont complémentaires : l'un à l'équipe et l'autre à l'argent.

C'est à la suite d'une discussion d'O'Brien avec Jimmy Gardiner (gérant des Wanderers) qu'ils décident à leur tour de créer une nouvelle ligue, comprenant les équipes de Renfrew, Haileybury, et le Wanderers de Montréal. Il ne reste plus que l'acquisition d'une autre équipe, cette fois, francophone, dirigée par Jack Laviolette.

Création d'O'Brien

Le jeudi , O'Brien et Gardiner organisent une réunion à Montréal. En peu de temps, ils créent l'Association Nationale de Hockey (ANH). On accorde aussi l'acquisition à la ligue d'une équipe Torontoise qui ne jouera qu'en 1912 (Tecumsehs), faute d'avoir une patinoire adéquate. Il était important pour l'ANH d'avoir une équipe francophone, pour rivaliser avec le National du CHA.

C'est à cette date que les Canadiens de Montréal fut créé et dirigé par Jack Laviolette avec une somme considérable donnée par un certain Tommy Hare, de Cobalt (Ontario). Il ne s'agissait en fait que d'un prête-nom de la famille O'Brien, pour qui il travaillait. C'est Ambrose O'Brien qui avait donné la somme requise.

Pour la saison 1909-1910, O'Brien est le propriétaire des Canadiens de Montréal, mais il laisse finalement le club l'année suivante au groupe Club Athlétique Canadien inc.

Il est intronisé au Temple de la renommée du hockey en 1962.

La coupe O'Brien

Le trophée distribué à l'équipe gagnante de la finale de l'Association nationale de hockey fut appelé O'Brien. On cessa de donner cette coupe en 1950.

Dirigeant canadien de hockey sur glace
Membre du Temple de la renommée du hockey
Naissance en mai 1885
Décès en avril 1968
Étudiant de l'Université de Toronto
Décès à 82 ans


Fast trains from Bielefeld to Cologne take around 1 hour and 42 minutes, covering a distance of approximately 163 kilometres. There are frequent services on the rail route between Bielefeld and Cologne.
1. Are there direct trains from Bielefeld to Cologne?
Direct trains from Bielefeld to Cologne have been found.
We usually find around 63 direct trains on the route from Bielefeld to Cologne every weekday.
2. How long is the train journey from Bielefeld to Cologne?
The Bielefeld to Cologne train travel time is normally about 1 hour and 42 minutes, whatever time you make the journey.
3. What are the Bielefeld to Cologne train times and schedule?
On weekdays the earliest direct train to Cologne is usually scheduled to depart Bielefeld around 04:36 and the last train is around 00:29. This is the same at the weekend.
What's the Bielefeld to Cologne train price?
The earlier you book the better, and the cheapest tickets we've found for trains from Bielefeld to Cologne are $22.91.
When to book Bielefeld to Cologne train tickets?
Trains in Germany usually open for booking around 6 months in advance. If booking is not yet open for your dates then you can set a booking alert to receive an email on the day that the cheapest tickets are released for your journey from Bielefeld to Cologne by train.
Which train companies operate between Bielefeld and Cologne?


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What City Observatory this week
1. 2021 is when we have to get real about tackling climate change. We've boiled our analysis of the climate challenge down to four key points:
Pledges alone won't accomplish anything. Saying you support the Paris Accords and plan to emit much less greenhouse gas a two or three decades from now doesn't count for anything without immediate actions now to lower emissions.
We're falling further and further behind our stated goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, principally because since 2014 we're driving more. That's true in cities around the country, including our own home Portland. Transportation agencies are particularly complicit in this failure, and are chiefly rationalizing "pollution as usual" in the guise of climate strategy.
Cities are central to the climate solution: We need to build more great walkable city neighborhoods, and more housing in the great walkable neighborhoods we already have.
Pricing carbon (as well as pricing driving and parking) can go a long way to creating the incentives and leveraging the financial resources and human ingenuity needed to save the planet.
2. If Portland's going to have a carbon tax, let's make it apply to the biggest and fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The City of Portland has proposed a $25/ton "healthy climate" fee, which we think is a good idea, but doesn't go far enough. The city's proposal would apply the fee only to about 30 "facilities" around the city that together account for only about 5 percent of the cities carbon footprint. In our view, the fee ought to be extended to two of the largest sources of greenhouse gases, travel on the Oregon Department of Transportation's interstate freeways in Portland, and flights in and out of Portland International Airport. Together, these two sources account for several times more carbon pollution than the three dozen facilities singled out in the cities proposed ordinance.
3. A Green New Deal for Portland? In the wake of the failure at the polls of a multi-billion transportation proposal, the region could use new leadership and a new direction for metro Portland's transportation and climate efforts. We're pleased to present a guest commentary from planner and strategist Garlynn Windsong speaking to what the Portland metropolitan area could be doing to seriously address the climate crisis.
1. Streets before trust. Alon Levy of Pedestrian Observations has an insightful column about the unfortunate paralysis created by insisting that we make community trust a pre-requisite for meaningful changes to the urban environment. In Levy's view, the way we're most likely to build trust with dispossessed communities in by tangible actions, not extended if sympathetic conversations.
There's an emerging mentality among left-wing urban planners in the US called "trust before streets." It's a terrible idea that should disappear, a culmination of about 50 or 60 years of learned helplessness in the American public sector. . . . The correct way forward is to think in terms of state capacity first, and in particular about using the state to enact tangible change, which includes providing better public transportation and remaking streets to be safer to people who are not driving. Trust follows – in fact, among low-trust people, seeing the state provide meaningful tangible change is what can create trust, and not endless public meetings in which an untrusted state professes its commitment to social justice.
Nothing Levy says denies the real disempowerment that low income and BIPOC communities experience; it acknowledges that actions speak much louder than words. The problem is that too frequently the processes that are used to simulate trust building via public involvement become a substitute for more direct and tangible measures to redress past injustices.
2. Automobile Dependency and Equity. The irreplaceable Todd Litman has a timely essay looking at the inherent inequity of our automobile centric transportation system. One of the key findings: while owning an automobile can increase a low income household's access to jobs, on average it ends up costing them more for car payments, fuel insurance and repairs that it generates in increased income. As Litman summarizes:
. . . low-income households that obtained a car were able to work more hours and earn approximately $2,300 more per year, which sounds great, but they spent an additional $4,100 annually on their vehicles, so they ended up with less time and less money overall. For many lower-income people, automobiles are an economic trap: they force people to work harder so they can earn more money so they can pay vehicle expenses to commute to their job, making them worse off overall.
There's nothing equitable about a transportation system that works well only for those who can afford and operate an expensive private motor vehicle.
3. A big fraction of metro moves appear to be short-term. A key facet of the "urban flight" stories associated with the pandemic was data on people looking to change metro areas. Chris Salviati, who analyzes apartment web search activity at ApartmentList.com reports that a larger than normal share of movers are looking for short-term leases, suggesting that what movement has been observed may be reversed as the pandemic and recession subside. For example, there's been a big uptick in searches for short term leases in places like Honolulu: Who wouldn't want to ride out the pandemic there?
According to Apartment Lists analysis of millions of searches, declines in some markets like San Francisco have been driven more by a reduction in in-bound moves than an increase in out-bound activity. It appears that the market is reflecting uncertainty about the immediate economic situation, rather than a permanent, long-term shift in location preferences.
It's become increasingly clear in the past decade that induced demand makes freeway widening futile as a congestion reduction strategy. Building more roads generates more and longer car trips, which show up as an increase in vehicle miles traveled (VMT), air pollution and sprawl. That's a fact that the existing four-step models used by state highway departments to justify freeway construction and expansion projects simply aren't designed to incorporate. An analysis by transportation experts Jamey Volker, Amy Lee and Susan Handy of the UC Davis Institute for Transportation Studies concludes:
. . . most models do not include all of the feedback loops necessary to represent the secondary effects of capacity expansion. These models were designed to estimate the effect of capacity expansion on travel times for a given population and employment level for the region. . . . Few models feed the estimated travel times back into the trip distribution or trip generation stages of the model, thereby ignoring the possibility that improved travel times will increase the number of trips that residents choose to make or the possibility that they will choose more distant destinations for their trips. Few models feed estimated travel times back into assumptions about the distribution and growth of population and employment that also influence the frequency and length of trips. In short, the models may do an adequate job of accounting for changes in route and shifts in mode, but they underestimate increases in VMT attributable to increases in trip frequencies and lengths that the capacity expansion will induce.
The academic literature on that subject has converged on the idea of unit elasticity, that in dense urban environments, a one-percent increase in highway capacity generates a one percent increase in vehicle travel. Volker, Lee and Handy have used that analysis to construct an induced travel calculator, calibrated for California freeways, that estimates the additional vehicle miles of travel induced by an expansion of roadway capacity.
The article examines how induced demand has (and usually hasn't) been addressed in planning for five major highway expansion projects in California. They find that highway departments usually only address induced demand in response to public comments, rarely apply state-of-the-art modeling to their analysis, and routinely underestimate the effects of induced demand, by as much as an order of magnitude. If we're serious about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, highway expansion projects need to be routinely analyzed using models that reflect the best available science, and which explicitly model the impacts of induced demand.
Jamey M. B. Volker, Amy E. Lee, Susan Handy, "Induced Vehicle Travel in the Environmental Review Process," Transportation Research Record, Volume: 2674 issue: 7, (July, 2020)pages 468-479
Bloomberg CityLab editor David Dudley has a long column, fondly remembering his lengthy pre-pandemic commute to work; in it he quotes our observations about the relative rarity of super-commuting.
2020 was a trying, tumultuous and often tragic year. Here are some of the top commentaries that marked the year. Like...	→


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International community hails Geneva talks on Syria
WASHINGTON-Anadolu Agency
Foreign ministers of several countries welcomed the launch of talks in Geneva on Syria's Constitutional Committee.
Top diplomats of the U.S., U.K., Germany, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia issued a joint statement on Oct. 31 and saluted UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen for their efforts on Syria.
"We support efforts to create a safe and neutral environment that enables Syria to hold free and fair elections, under UN supervision," the statement said, adding the political solution in the war-weary country should be based on UN Security Council Resolution 2254.
"We recall our statement in New York on Sep. 26 and continue to call for an immediate and genuine nationwide ceasefire in Idlib," it said, referring to opposition-controlled northwestern Syria.
Syrian Constitutional Committee kicks off second day of works
Structure of Constitutional Committee
The committee is composed of two different bodies. The large body is made up of members from the opposition, regime and civil society whereas the small body includes 45 people responsible for the creation of the new national charter.
The drafts prepared by these 45 members must be approved by the large body, from which it must acquire a "yes" vote from 75 percent of its 150 members.
Notably, the committee includes two co-chairman.
Syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011, when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity.
Since then, over 5 million civilians have become refugees. Turkey hosts 3.6 million of them -- more than any country in the world.
Weeklong snowfall to hit Istanbul by weekend
Tonga races to clear runway for volcano aid flights
Blinken calls on Putin to choose 'a peaceful path'
Maltese lawmaker elected EU parliament chief
Rescue workers search for survivors after deadly Afghanistan quake
Peru beaches suffer oil spill blamed on waves from Tonga volcanic eruption


Evenspot app no longer available??
we have found out that we could no longer download the Eventspot barcode scan app when my colleague in paris called CC someone told him that the app was no longer available on either platform Android or IOS. We tried to find the app to download on both Android and IOS (that's how we found out it had been scrapped). This means we are no longer interested in using the CC event management software and I am very sorry as it was a great finding. I also found out that I prepaid for another year just recently via corporate credit card. Is it possible to have some funds back as we are going to cancel our contract?
Re: Evenspot app no longer available??
I can understand how helpful having this app would be. I apologize this event check-in application is no longer available. As a workaround we suggest using a QR scanner application to check-in registrants instead. However for your account security we are unable to go into your billing details here in the Community. Instead please call into our Billing Department directly. One of our Billing agents can help answer any questions you may have!


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HomeOffice of the SpokespersonPublic Schedule...Public Schedule – December 6, 2021
Public Schedule – December 6, 2021
***THE DAILY PUBLIC SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
SECRETARY ANTONY J. BLINKEN
9:30 a.m. Secretary Blinken meets with Malala Yousafzai, at the Department of State.
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DEPUTY SECRETARY WENDY R. SHERMAN
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Sherman delivers virtual keynote remarks at the National Democratic Institute, at the Department of State.
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4:30 p.m. Deputy Secretary Sherman meets with the ASEAN Committee in Washington, at the Department of State.
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DEPUTY SECRETARY FOR MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCES BRIAN P. MCKEON
Deputy Secretary McKeon attends meetings and briefings, from the Department of State.
UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS VICTORIA J. NULAND
Under Secretary Nuland attends meetings and briefings, from the Department of State.
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY BONNIE JENKINS
Under Secretary Jenkins is on travel to France and Belgium from December 1-8, 2021. Please click here for more information.
2:00 p.m. Department Press Briefing with Spokesperson Ned Price.
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The Department Press Briefing will be live streamed on www.state.gov.
Office of the Spokesperson The Secretary of State
Public Schedule – January 20 2022


Technological advances have allowed videogames to depict individual likenesses with an increasing degree of fidelity. Because of this, it is now not uncommon to see videogame characters bearing the likenesses of well-known celebrities. Often, this will be the outcome of a licensing arrangement between the videogame developer and the celebrity concerned. Disputes may arise, however, where a videogame developer chooses to recreate the likeness of a celebrity in its videogame without first securing the latter's consent.
In various US states, the outcome of these disputes would be determined under the law relating to the 'right of publicity', which gives individuals the right to control the commercial exploitation of their name, image, voice, and other aspects of their identity; in a number of continental European jurisdictions, similar disputes would be decided under the law relating to the individual's 'right of personality'. The UK, however, has no equivalent legal framework. Disputes relating to the unauthorised use of a celebrity's likeness in a videogame will therefore have to be determined under a range of different intellectual property regimes, in particular copyright law, the law of passing off, and trade mark law.
This article [which will be published as Advance Access here in a few weeks' time, and will be included in one of the next issues of JIPLP] will show that, while the unauthorised recreation of a celebrity likeness in a videogame is unlikely to amount to copyright infringement, the position may well be very different under the law of passing off and trade mark law. This is due to the expansion of the ambit of each of these regimes over the course of the last few decades. In recent cases, the courts have become increasingly willing to recognise that the likeness of a celebrity is capable of functioning as an indicator of origin and, as a corollary, to accept the possibility that the unauthorised use of such a likeness on a product may mislead or confuse the public into believing that the product was authorised or endorsed by the celebrity concerned. While the unauthorised use of a celebrity likeness in a videogame might appear to be far removed from the paradigmatic case of passing off or trade mark infringement, therefore, the applicability of these two regimes to such a scenario can no longer be dismissed out of hand.


Two young girls have covered a Radiohead classic on Germany's The Voice Kids.
During blind auditions last month, Mimi and Josefin performed their own rendition of the Oxford band's 1992 single 'Creep'.
A video documenting their performance has reached over 10 million views, while they also earned a standing ovation from the live audience as well as the judges Lena Meyer-Landrut, Mark Forster, BossHoss, and Stefanie Kloß.
All four of the judges had turned their chairs around by the time the pair hit the first chorus. "You belong here," they were told afterward. You can watch their performance below now.
In other Radiohead cover news, Red Hot Chili Peppers covered the band's 'Pyramid Song' as they played a special concert Pyramids of Giza last week (March 15).
The Chilis covered the famous single during a 20-song set as guitarist Josh Klinghoffer marked the historic occasion by performing a solo piano version of the track.
Meanwhile, Radiohead will next week (March 29) be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Originally confirming that he wouldn't be present at the ceremony, Thom Yorke has since changed his mind and it's been confirmed that David Byrne will introduce Radiohead and induct them into the Hall.


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