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Jaime Botín, sentenced to 18 months in jail and a fine of 52 million euros for smuggling a Picasso
The Criminal Court number 27 of Madrid has sentenced former Bankinter president Jaime Botín to 18 months in jail and a fine of 52.4 million euros for a crime of smuggling cultural property for wanting to take the picture of Picasso Cabeza de young woman , to sell it in the United Kingdom being "fully aware" that the Spanish Government had forbidden it. The work, valued at 26 million, will go to the State. The staff of the auction company Christie's let him know that given the age of the piece, he should have permission from the Ministry of Culture to export it The trial was held...
SEG wants to be a world leader in hybrid systems and the Government will participate in that "bright future"
The SEG Automotive company aspires to be a European and even world leader with the production of hybrid systems - alternators and motors - in the Cantabrian factory in Treto, which has a "promising future" in which the regional Executive will continue to participate "The future, tomorrow, of this plant is promising and the Government of Cantabria wants to be another ingredient of that bright future," said Industry Minister Francisco Martín on Thursday after meeting with senior executives and touring the facilities . In statements to the media, he recalled the support for the...
The government helicopter locates and rescues the corpse in the marshes of Santoña ...
The team of the helicopter of the Government of Cantabria has located at 14:25 hours in an area of the marshes of Santoña the corpse of the fisherman disappeared during the early morning in Laredo. The body has been rescued by the members of the Executive, who have taken him to the Santoña passage, where he has been in the custody of the Civil Guard. The 41-year-old fisherman and neighbor of Santoña was missing when, around 4:00, the boat in which he was going with another companion overturned in an area of breakers in the Laredo Strut. One of those affected managed to...
Sodercan awards grants for 161,000 euros to 19 companies for internationalization
The public company Sodercan has resolved to grant grants to a total of 19 Cantabrian companies from different sectors (agri-food, ICT, industrial, metallurgy and manufacturing of metal products), for a total amount of 161,018 euros, for the permanent hiring of specialized technicians in commerce abroad and for the participation in trade fairs and missions carried out during the year 2019, within the Globalization 2019 internationalization program. The call for 'Incorporation of specialized personnel in foreign trade' is aimed at companies in the region with ongoing internationalization...
They look for a 41-year-old man after his ship flips in front of Laredo
112 people search for a 41-year-old man from Santoña from Wednesday morning, after dumping the boat where he was with another fisherman in an area of breakers , next to the Puntal, as sources reported to Europa Press of the Civil Guard. The man has been dragged by the current and is being sought by divers from the 112 Emergency Service and the Civil Guard. The operation began at 04:20, when a man appeared in the maritime club to report that his ship had overturned and that his partner had disappeared in the area of the strut , near the shore of Salvé beach. The man who gave the...
Cantabria has four active fires
In the last 24 hours 15 forest fires have been caused. 13 of them starting at 7:00 p.m. yesterday, Tuesday. Currently, at the beginning of Wednesday, 4 fires are active: 2 of them in Selaya, 1 in Cillorigo and another in Camaleño. All of them are in high mountain areas without any risk for people or for infrastructure. A fire is also controlled in San Martin de Toranzo, which was caused yesterday afternoon and which has affected the largest area of trees, specifically, about 25 hectares (provisional data), pine and eucalyptus. The fire is controlled, but there are still areas within...
The wind brushes 100 km / h and the waves exceed 10 meters in Cantabria
Wind gusts have touched the 100 kilometers per hour tonight in Tresviso, while the waves have exceeded ten meters high in Santander, in a day in which Cantabria is in yellow warning (risk) for adverse coastal phenomena and winds , according to the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET). This morning, wind gusts have blown at 99 kilometers per hour in Tresviso, the seventh highest value in the country. In the Alto Campoo station, 89 kilometers per hour have been reached, in Villacarriedo 85 and 80 in Reinosa 80. At the Santander airport, gusts of 76 kilometers per hour have been recorded. ...
15 fires in the last hours
In the early hours of Wednesday, four forest fires of the 15 that have been caused in the last 24 hours remain active in Cantabria, 13 of them starting at 7:00 p.m. yesterday, Tuesday. As reported by the Government of Cantabria, two fires are currently active in Selaya, one in Cillorigo and one in Camaleño. All of them are located in the highlands of the mountains, without any risk for people or infrastructure, said the Executive. A fire is also controlled in San Martin de Toranzo, which was caused yesterday afternoon and is the one that has affected the largest area of trees,...
Cs national manager appoints regional spokesman in Cantabria Javier Fernandez Soberon
The National Citizens Management Commission (Cs) has appointed the current mayor of Astillero, Javier Fernández Soberón, as regional spokesman in Cantabria replacing Félix Álvarez who resigned almost a month ago. The national body, in compliance with the statutes and regulations of the organization in force, has approved the appointment at its last meeting, as reported by the party this afternoon in a statement. The appointment of Soberón, who signed for Cs in January last year after leaving the PP, party of which he was councilman and president of New...
Waiters, laborers and cleaners, most hired professions in 2019 in Cantabria
Waiters, laborers from the manufacturing industries and office and hotel cleaning staff are the professions that have brought together more contracts in Cantabria in the last year, a profile that confirms, for CCOO, the need to change to a stable and quality labor market , given the "absolute precariousness" and the "lack of stability" in which the workers of the autonomous community live immersed. The 2019 hiring data of the Cantabrian Employment Service (SCE), to which CCOO has had access, has put on the table the reality that the union has been denouncing for a long time since the profile...
Police release three women and detain eight people after dismantling a prostitution network in Cantabria
Agents of the National Police have dismantled a criminal network in Cantabria, allegedly dedicated to the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women from Colombia. The police investigation began thanks to a telephone complaint received in the Service of Attention to the Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings of the National Police, which brought to light the existence of a criminal organization of Colombian origin that sexually exploited women in two Appointment floors located in Santander and Torrelavega. The police operation has ended with the release of three women and the arrest of...
Puertas Nueva Castilla ends the ERE without agreement and dismisses its 57 workers
The Puertas Nueva Castilla company, located in Polanco, has completed the negotiations on the Employment Regulation File (ERE) of termination without agreement with the unions and, therefore, will execute it unilaterally by firing the entire workforce, formed by 57 workers Union sources have detailed that the company, which "does not have a hard one," has been looking for "a potential investor" until, at least until now, has not found it and, therefore, executes this ERE of extinction that leaves 57 people unemployed. Some workers who, according to the same sources, will now have to "go...
The former president of Racing says he did not order to pay "anything" without proof
The former president of Racing Francisco Pernía has assured in the trial that he started this Monday against him at the Provincial Court of Cantabria that he never gave orders to pay "nothing" without a payment receipt or documentary proof. In addition, he explained that the bills did not reach him directly and that "all" they were "intervened" by the Club Administration, in addition to, as he said, "not all expenses had to be authorized" by him. Pernía faces the request of the Prosecutor's Office for six years in prison and compensation of more than 410,000 euros for...
The neighbors had denounced and won the trial of Gesvican for water leaks in the parking lot
The Minister of Housing of the Government of Cantabria, José Luis Gochicoa, has acknowledged that the neighbors had denounced in the Court to the public company Gesvican, a promoter, and to the winning company, the UTE Dragados-Ascan, for water leaks in the parking lot that today has suffered the collapse, but has indicated that "in no expert report" - before the judicial process - it was pointed out that there was "structural risk with regard to garages; yes risk of moisture seepage". The neighbors have remembered that they won the lawsuit against Gesvican. "Now surely it will be when...
End of the crisis: the PSOE is committed to the central executive assumes the commitments.
The PRC Organization Secretary, Paula Fernández, has indicated that with this new document "the crisis is closed" Crossing of declarations and warnings to break the pact so that everything remains the same. PRC and PSOE will continue to rule Cantabria after burying the ax of war a meeting held on Monday in the regional Parliament. Both formations will sign a new addendum, for their incorporation into the government pact of June 2019, whereby the General State Budgets for 2020 must include the commitments with Cantabria, especially, those referring to the payment of the debt of...
The collapse of parking in Nueva Montaña is settled without victims
A children's playground has sunk this morning over the underground parking of a residential complex located in Nueva Montaña, on Tomás and Valiente street in Santander, without causing any personal damage, although substantial materials have occurred. This is a community garage, with about 500 seats, of which a hundred would have been affected, promoted by the public company Gesvican between 2004 and 2006. The weight of the land in the playground could be the cause of the sinking, although it will be technicians of the Santander City Council and the Government of Cantabria...
Public Administrations will lose more than 900,000 civil servants in ten years in retirement
Public Administrations will lose in the next five years more than 330,000 employees due to retirement, and over the next decade, the forecast is that 905,100 reach retirement age, which is equivalent to 30% of the current workforce, according to a study by Adams Training based on data from the National Statistics Institute (INE). The report raises up to 1.41 million public employees who will have retired in the next 15 years, 44% of the total of 3,228,700 officials currently available to the Public Administrations. The study, which has taken 65 years as a retirement age as a reference,...
PRC and PSOE could agree tomorrow to continue with the government agreement of absolute majority
This Monday is presented as a key day for Cantabria, but despite the offers of Citizens and PP, the PRC-PSOE coalition will continue to rule in Cantabria . The government crisis between PRC and PSOE, after the "no" of José María Mazón at the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, may end tomorrow. And is that the monitoring committee of both formations meet in the office of the president of Cantabria, Miguel Ángel Revilla, of Parliament at 16.30. On the part of the PRC, there will be the secretary of Organization of the party and counselor of the...
'Seventeen', shot in Cantabria, awarded at the Forqué Awards
The last work of Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, 'Seventeen', has received the award for Cinema and Securities Education in the 25th edition of the Forqué Awards, which have been delivered this Saturday in Madrid and are organized by the Rights Management Entity of the Audiovisual Producers (EGEDA). The film, shot in Cantabria, is a "road movie" that tells the emotional journey of two brothers. The producer, José Antonio Velez, stressed that Netflix's support has been "decisive" so that the film could be made, while its director has dedicated this award to "children and...
Turismo returns to Madrid Fusión with the restaurant 'Cantabria Infinita' and three Michelin star chefs.
The Ministry of Tourism once again opts for the installation of the restaurant 'Cantabria Infinita' within the framework of the Madrid Fusion 2020 congress as a showcase to show the great moment of regional cuisine and the talent of its protagonists. Three chefs from the region will be responsible for representing the Cantabrian cuisine in the 18th edition of the gastronomic meeting, one of the most avant-garde and international in the sector, which will be held from January 13 to 15 in Hall 14 of IFEMA (Madrid) . Nacho Solana (Solana Restaurant. Ampuero), Toni González (Nuevo...
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The sea-change surrounding cloud computing has brought with it a push-pull towards lowest common denominator components on the one hand and higher level services on the other.
As the goal posts keep moving, Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) has embarked on a strategy to evaluate the benefits and challenges of diverse solutions, with the aim of helping companies, large and small, to capitalise on its open source technology.
As part of the Business Track (22-23 September) within the premier annual grid event EGEE'08, David Sinclair from Imense, a UK SME, illustrates how involvement with EGEE and the STFC's (Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK) PIPSS award have served as a catalyst, enabling Imense to raise commercial funding and turn an idea into a business. Sinclair's talk illustrates how grid access can level the playing field for new companies wishing to demonstrate internet scale technology. "We have reaped the benefits of EGEE's open source gLite middleware to run our content-based image retrieval technology. Our work with EGEE and the University of Cambridge helped us demonstrate that our software can handle millions of images, at a time when as a small company we could not supply the computing power needed ourselves," says Sinclair.
Bob Jones, EGEE Project Director, comments: "EGEE's Business Associate (EBA) Programme is an important component in our strategy to foster commercial up-take. The programme offers companies a prime opportunity to engage in collaborative work of mutual interest. In just over 12 months EGEE has built up an impressive roster of Business Associates, all experts in distributed computing and market trends." Constellation Technologies (UK) and Linalis (Switzerland) are two companies that have recently joined the programme, together with Avanade, Excelian, GridwiseTech, Hitachi (Sophia Antipolis Lab), NICE and Platform.
Nick Trigg, CEO of Constellation Technologies, is convinced of the added value of being an EBA. "It has been a massive benefit to Constellation both commercially and technically. CERN and EGEE have supported the company in its general marketing. Closer access to the latest roadmap decisions has meant that Constellation is able to respond more quickly to technical and market changes," remarks Trigg.
During the Business Track, Constellation describes how it is offering a commercial level cloud service to industry using gLite. "The product, the Constellation SuperCloud (TM), uses gLite's proven ability to manage large amounts of data across a global, widely distributed network. Constellation has ambitions to provide an enterprise and utility cloud solution across Europe and the rest of the world," says Trigg.
CommuniTies," says Steve Adams, Managing Director of Linalis. Adams's talk provides details on the Linalis training programme, which currently targets end-users, and explains their plans to develop a full training and certification programme.
Experts from Avanade and Platform also feature in the Business Track. Luca Regini from Avanade offers insight into the company's Virtualised Grid Technology, which adopts Virtualisation as a means to provide more configurable, dynamic, secure and cost-effective Grid Computing solutions. Bernhard Schott, Platform Computing, brings the RoI of Green HPC into sharp focus. Schott demonstrates how slightly modified scheduling policies can reduce costs and minimise power related operational risks without reducing the capabilities of the data centre.


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Girls hockey: Fond du Lac hangs tough, but falls to Waupaca
For two whole periods, the Fond du Lac co-op girls hockey team hung with one of the best teams in the state. Unfortunately for the Warbirds, there were moments in the first period where that wasn't the case.
Girls hockey: Fond du Lac hangs tough, but falls to Waupaca For two whole periods, the Fond du Lac co-op girls hockey team hung with one of the best teams in the state. Unfortunately for the Warbirds, there were moments in the first period where that wasn't the case. Check out this story on fdlreporter.com: http://fondul.ac/1ARPiMG
Sam Oleson, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 4:46 p.m. CT Dec. 20, 2014 | Updated 4:50 p.m. CT Dec. 20, 2014
Fond du Lac's Rebecca Binder (No. 31) tries to keep the puck away from goal Saturday afternoon in the Warbirds' game against Waupaca at Blue Line Family Ice Center.(Photo: Doug Raflik/Action Reporter Media)Buy Photo
Against a powerful squad like the Waupaca co-op, that can make all the difference.
Waupaca scored three goals in the first period as it staved off a strong effort from Fond du Lac to defeat the Warbirds 4-1 in nonconference action Saturday afternoon at Blue Line Family Ice Center.
"We knew they were going to be a good team," Fond du Lac coach Duane Woeshnick said of Waupaca. "Obviously they have a couple of very talented players. Their top line is very good and they're well-coached. ... We knew they would come out with a lot of firepower and our girls were kind of shell-shocked a little bit in the first period. I thought we responded very nicely in the second and third period."
Waupaca (11-1), ranked No. 10 in the lastest Wisconsin Prep Hockey poll, came out hot — scoring just 3:51 into the contest on a goal by freshman sensation Markie Ash. Three minutes later, Mandy Tomlinson added a goal and then Ash scored her second of the game, and 27th of the season, with just under a minute left in the period. Tomlinson assisted on Ash's first goal, while Brianne Huettner had the assist on Tomlinson's score.
Trailing 3-0 after the first, Fond du Lac (3-4) was on the brink of getting blown out. But the Warbirds didn't give in, playing solid hockey for the final 34 minutes of the contest and keeping the Comets from turning it into a rout.
After a scoreless second period, the Warbirds got on the board 41 seconds into the third on a goal from Kaylee Miller, assisted by Laura Tymm. However, Fond du Lac wasn't able to generate much offense after that. Tomlinson scored her second goal of the game, an empty-netter, with 19 seconds left to give the Comets a 4-1 lead.
Following a rough start, Fond du Lac goalie Rebecca Binder turned in a solid game overall, recording 32 saves, as she helped limit one of the state's top scoring duos in Ash and Tomlinson, who now have a combined 83 points on the season.
"Overall she played very well," Woeshnick said of Binder. "She didn't get a lot of help in the first period. She made a couple great saves. There were players wide open, they crashed the net very hard and we were unable to pick up the rebounds."
Offensively, the Warbirds did have a number of opportunities to trim into the deficit in the latter half of the game, but were unable to finish — something that's been a recurring problem for Fond du Lac this year. Waupaca's Cassie Rasmussen had 19 saves.
"That's been the story of the whole season," Woeshnick said. "We're just not able to get goals when we need them. We get a lot of scoring chances, we get a lot of opportunities to put the puck in the net. For whatever reason, it's just not going in. But I liked our girls' effort in the second and third period. We came out and played hard."
First period: WAU— Markie Ash (Mandy Tomlinson), 3:51. WAU— Tomlinson (Brianne Huettner), 6:01. WAU— Ash, 16:01.
Third period: FDL— Kaylee Miller (Laura Tymm), 0:41. FDL— Tomlinson, 16:41.
Saves: WAU— Cassie Rasmussen, 19. FDL— Rebecca Binder, 32.
Sam Oleson: (920) 907-7930 or soleson@gannett.com
Fond du Lac girls hockey take on Waupaca at Blue Line
Waupaca girls hockey travel to the Blue Line Ice Center in Fond du Lac Saturday afternoon, December 20, 2014, to take on the Fond du Lac Warbirds. Saturday December 20, 2014. Doug Raflik Action Reporter Media , Doug Raflik/Action Reporter Medi
Waupaca girls hockey travel to the Blue Line Ice Center in Fond du Lac Saturday afternoon, December 20, 2014, to take on the Fond du Lac Warbirds. Saturday December 20, 2014. Doug Raflik Action Reporter Media , Doug Raflik Action Reporter Medi
Fond du Lac's Rebecca Binder gets ready to block a hit from Markie Ash of Waupaca Saturday afternoon, December 20, 2014, at the Blue Line Ice Center in Fond du Lac. Saturday December 20, 2014. Doug Raflik Action Reporter Media , Doug Raflik/Action Reporter Medi
Fond du Lac's Rebecca Binder struggles to keep the puck away from the goal against Waupaca Saturday afternoon, December 20, 2014, at the Blue Line Ice Center in Fond du Lac. Saturday December 20, 2014. Doug Raflik Action Reporter Media , Doug Raflik/Action Reporter Medi
Fond du Lac's Rebecca Binder gets ready to block a hit from Mandy Tomlinson of Waupaca Saturday afternoon, December 20, 2014, at the Blue Line Ice Center in Fond du Lac. Saturday December 20, 2014. Doug Raflik Action Reporter Media , Doug Raflik/Action Reporter Medi
Waupaca's Mandy Tomlinson takes a shot for the net Saturday afternoon, December 20, 2014, at the Blue Line Ice Center in Fond du Lac, against the Fond du Lac Warbirds. Saturday December 20, 2014. Doug Raflik Action Reporter Media , Doug Raflik/Action Reporter Medi
Fond du Lac's Madi Zipp stands between a Waupaca player with the puck, and the goal Saturday afternoon, December 20, 2014, at the Blue Line Ice Center in Fond du Lac. Saturday December 20, 2014. Doug Raflik Action Reporter Media , Doug Raflik/Action Reporter Medi
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Forming part of Jenny Sibthorp's new Botanical collection, Daisy is a bright and bold repeat design hand screen printed onto natural linen using white and yellow fabric ink. This linen purse is printed on both sides, and lined in natural calico.
Each bag is fastened using a 20cm Brass YKK Zip in colour co-ordinating yellow with a suede leather pull. Each bag has a leather logo tab sewn into the right seam and a woven name label sewn into the calico lining. It measures 16.5 x 21.5 cm.
This zipped bag would be a great every day accessory for yourself or as a gift, and would compliment our range of products in Daisy beautifully.


Beyond apps to view your current account balance, there are a whole host of opportunities for the delivery of financial services via smartphones, from credit card management through to the ability to view and pay off store card balances for leading retailers.
The business case has always been difficult to define in this area but for retail banking in particular, IE carried out a survey with YouGov that revealed one in four of generation Y (aged between 18 and 34) would improve their opinion of their bank if it offered mobile phone banking services. Compelled by the customer satisfaction benefits that opening up the mobile channel will bring, banks and financial service providers are getting serious about mobile strategy.
The growth in mobile financial services brings a fresh take on in-app marketing, enabling a new wave of targeted marketing efforts that are closely linked to a customer's financial behaviour. Marketers won't just know the profile of their customer base, they will be able to correlate financial activity such as over-spending on credit cards or regular store card purchases directly to marketing initiatives.
The mobile channel allows financial institutions and (any organisation that has financial account holders), to gain a better understanding of not just 'what' but also when and where their customers are reviewing their account information. Being able to deliver timely, tailored marketing messages to the right customer, in the right place, at the right time is a powerful differentiator. For example, a customer that checks their current account balance on a Saturday morning from a shopping centre and is about to go overdrawn is likely to be receptive to marketing messages around loans or credit cards.
The challenge for the marketer, as we reach a critical stage in mobile app roll out, is to ensure they are involved with other stakeholders in the organisation in the development of this new channel to exploit the clear opportunity to offer innovative and targeted marketing to their customer base.
In a recent IE survey, 34 per cent of marketers in banks and financial services companies identified the main challenge to mobile services roll out as ensuring that they have the right resources in place, suggesting that companies are anxious about their in-house teams capacity and experience.
Part of the difficulty here is knowing which mobile operating platforms to invest in. For the marketer, this means ensuring that the brand and overall look and feel are not distorted across different platforms as a result of a lack of attention/expertise from banks in-house developer teams. The mobile must be seen as an extension to existing channels after all.
Overall, offering customers greater functionality and empowerment to choose how they interact with their bank is crucial, and will ensure that financial institutions can build sustainable competitive advantage through increased customer loyalty, as well as adding a valuable marketing channel to drive additional revenue. If you haven't already heard about your organisation's mobile strategy to support its credit card / store card / loyalty card, it's time to ensure that the marketing team is included in internal preparations to reap the many business benefits that mobile has to offer.


The MP Magic socks have a comfortable and attractive design that is integrated with the metals silver, copper, and zinc, plus minerals, to help them work to kill the bacteria that cause odor. These innovative socks are odorless, comfortable, antibacterial, super durable, and breathable. They are available in two styles and three colors, in either a small or large size. The metal infusion technique used in these socks is from technology developed for the aerospace Industry.
MP Magic socks are attractive-looking, light-weight business, or dress socks, in conservative colors.
The large size MP Magic Sock was big enough to comfortably fit my size 11.5 feet.
The socks did not smell at all funky after three days, and at day five still smelled better than my normal socks after one day.
After several washings they still looked as crisp as new.
With airline's smaller overhead storage and extra baggage fees, being able to eliminate a week's worth of fresh socks while packing a carryon bag will free up valuable space for other necessities.
The material in MP Magic Socks is too thin for me to comfortably wear in my everyday athletic (hiking) shoes.
After several washings they had to stretch a bit to fit my feet.
The rather drab colors are not what I normally wear.
Final Evaluation: I would prefer MP Magic Socks to be thicker, to act more as a cushion for my feet because I am on them all day. That said, these socks are promoted as five day socks, meaning they don't have to be washed between five separate wearings. Putting aside the eww! factor, that really is true. And while no one suggests regularly wearing socks for five days without washing, sometimes you have an emergency when all you have are the clothes on your back. (I'm thinking lost luggage, or an unexpected overnight.) With these socks at least your feet will be comfortable and odor-free until (and even after) you can get replacements. For someone with serious foot odor, being able to take shoes off in public is no longer a worry. From a business traveler's perspective, even in non-emergency use these socks are easily packed. Wearing one pair and packing another would free up valuable suitcase space while leaving you confident that they'll continue to look and smell great.
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Transfer news: Man United want to sign new right-back and Arsenal linked with Isco
by Robert Redmond
The transfer window opens on January 1.
In today's transfer news roundup, Man United are planning to sign a new right back. The 'next Vincent Kompany' wants to join Liverpool, and Arsenal are interested in taking Isco on loan from Real Madrid.
Transfer news: Man United want competition at right-back.
Manchester United want to sign another right-back due to the shortcomings in Aaron Wan-Bissaka's game, according to ESPN.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is said to be 'prioritising' finding a player to provide competition for the position.
During his only full season in the first-team at Crystal Palace, Wan-Bissaka impressed with his defensive ability. Man United subsequently sanctioned a £50m transfer for the 23-year-old in the summer of 2019.
Wan-Bissaka, however, has yet to convince as an attacking entity at Old Trafford, with his passing and attacking end-product often unconvincing.
Man United reportedly feel that Wan-Bissaka may improve if there is more competition for his starting spot.
Solskjaer, meanwhile, is said to believe that Man United's lack of cutting edge on their right flank is hindering the team.
The 'next Vincent Kompany' wants to sign for Liverpool.
Liverpool are currently short of central defenders due to an unprecedented injury crisis at the heart of their backline.
Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez are both sidelined with long-term knee injuries, while Joel Matip has been had his playing time reduced by niggling injuries.
Jurgen Klopp may need to sign a new central defender in January, and the 'next Vincent Kompany' has said he wants to join the Reds.
Marco Kana, an 18-year-old who plays for Anderlecht under Kompany and has been compared to the former Manchester City captain, has stated his ambition to play for Klopp's team.
"Later, I would first like to play abroad in a top or sub-top club," Kana told media in Belgium, via the Liverpool Echo.
"And then in the best English teams, preferably in the English top five. Currently, I prefer Liverpool. They really dominate everything."
Arsenal linked with a move for out of favour Isco.
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has asked the club to sign Isco on loan from Real Madrid in January, according to reports in Spain, via Sport Witness.
Isco has only played seven times so far this season for Zinedine Zidane's team, starting just three games. The Spanish midfielder, 28, could be available for a move in January.
Real Madrid, however, would reportedly prefer to sell him on a permanent deal.
Arsenal have already taken midfielder Dani Ceballos on loan from the Spanish champions.
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Two Women Are Rescued On Hike Only To Die After Driving Off Pier In Maine
Last week, there was a bizarre and tragic accident killing Amy Stiner, 37, and Melissa Moyer, 38. The two women were hiking in Maine when they became lost. They were rescued only to get into their car and drive of a boat ramp and drown. Adding to the tragedy, Stiner was four months pregnant. Moyer left behind a 12 year old son.
This type of accident is all too common in rural areas where roads often lead directly to piers or boat ramps. In the dark, it is very difficult to judge water ahead instead of a road. This town of only 300 clearly did not have barriers to prevent this type of accident. The problem is that locals often need to tow boats to the water's edge and smaller towns have limited funds to add lights and other devices.
What is particularly difficult in these cases in torts is that on their face there is often negligence in failing to mark such dangers sufficiently in the dark. However, locals generally know of the danger and with only 300 people accidents are likely low. It remains strangers that are most at risk in such accidents.
The result is that there can be tort liability against the town or county. Yet, local juries tend to treat such dangers as common to rural areas. Maine particularly is known for such localized notions of fault. In one infamous case, a jury ruled in favor of a hunter who shot a woman in her garden in Bangor, Maine. She was viewed as reckless for going out during deer season wearing white mittens and a dark coat, here.
These pier cases are less controversial. They present a common conflict over foreseeable risks in rural areas. These piers are part of the terrain and lifestyle of Maine residents. Indeed, people come to that beautiful state for these small towns and waterways. Yet, the high number of tourists also means that many will not be experienced with such dangers. You can see with the picture below how short the road is before you fall into the ocean. It is an overt danger . . . unless it is foggy.
In this case, Stiner was from Maine. However, the conditions were foggy that night. The women were able to call police to say that their car was filling with water, but they were found drowned with their dog by rescuers.
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Rainyj, extremely well said. For the glib folks who make snide remarks about "personal responsibility" for not opening the window or other similar tripe. That is not only insensitive, it ignores several of the laws of physics, not the least of which is electric window controls won't work under water, and hydrodynamic pressure can make a door impossible to open even if it is unlocked. Then there is fatigue, panic and disorientation.
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What is consistently overlooked in the comments made about this very sad accident is that these two women had just been rescued after spending a good part of the day lost in the woods in a torential downpour. It is safe to assume they were exhausted mentally, physically, and emotionally. It was late, dark and foggy. They were in unfamiliar surroundings, they turned right instead of left and probably hit the water before they knew what happened. Investigators now believe the air bags deployed when they hit the water and the women moved to the back seat to escape them. They were in a mini-van with only a sliding door in the back which they were unable to open. Personally, I believe the ranger was negligent for taking them to their car and leaving them to their own devices. That aside, when people respond to an event like this with blond, women driver and Darwin Award jokes, they are demonstrating total insensitivity for the fact that these women were someone's daughters, wives, perhaps mothers, nieces, or sisters. What would be nice is if people thought before making these kinds of stupid insentive comments.
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Тирел 017 е болид от Формула 1, конструирано от Маурис Филип и Брайън Лайслес за отбора на Тирел които се състезаваха през сезон 1988 и в първото състезание за сезон 1989. Също така използва и двигатели Косуърт DFZ V8 както неговия предшественик DG016. Болидът бе използван от Джонатан Палмър и Джулиан Бейли за когото това е негов първи сезон във Формула 1. Впоследствие Бейли бе заменен от Микеле Алборето за 1989 като Косуърт DFZ са заменени с могъщите DFR двигатели.

Тимът очакваше по-добри резултати с 017 за сезон 1988, както го направиха предишния сезон като спечелиха трофеите на Джим Кларк и Колин Чапман. Това не се получи като Бейли участвал само в 6 състезания и без точки. Междувременно Палмър се представи не по-зле от съотборника си като спечели 5 точки за тима и участвайки във всички състезание без Монца и класирайки Тирел на 8-а позиция при конструкторите.

През 1989 колата имаше малки подобрения за първото състезание преименуван на 017B. Палмър и Алборето не бяха така конкурентни и финишираха съответно 7-и и 10-и, като за състезанието в Сан Марино бе заменено с Тирел 018 за остатъка на сезона.

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Blog OUPA LESIBA SIBEKO: BUTOH DANCE
OUPA LESIBA SIBEKO: BUTOH DANCE
The Art Room is proud to host a stunning collection of photographic works of Johannesburg-based performance artist Oupa Lesiba Sibeko.
The exhibition will open at 6pm on Wednesday 15 March. A live performance by Sibkeo will commence at 7pm.
The photographic series consists of 14 black & white photographs, signed by the artist and limited to an edition of 10. These images were taken in a studio as Sibeko performed a Butoh dance, and are completely unposed.
A Butoh dance is often about the exploration of an object, and in the Reeds of Iqhawe – Reeds of the Warrior – Sibeko not only explores the essence of the reed as a signifier to his cultural and historical roots, but also as to the origin of himself as a performer.
Sibeko has performed for diverse audiences from Namibia to Iceland. The Art Room is excited to host Sibeko for the month of March before he heads off to Thailand in April.
The Butoh dance technique, inspired by Sibeko and captured in the photographic works, is a Japanese theatrical dance form first performed by Hijikata Tatsumi in 1959. Tatsumi's intention was to create a dance form removed from Western styles as well as traditional Japanese styles. He drew inspiration from the avant-garde playwright and director Antonin Artaud. In the Butoh state, performers must clear their minds of all emotion and thought and dance "from the inside out".
Performers often wear white body paint, shave their heads and have exaggerated expressions. They perform in unusual spaces and use slow, well-controlled movements.
The Art Room, Santos Centre, Cnr 4th Ave & 7th St, Parkhurst


A small number multinational companies control the world's food supply chain, from seeds to pesticides, and industrial transformation to commercial distribution.
This has been highlighted in the Ipes Food report by Italian farmers lobby group Coldiretti, following a number of recent mergers and acquisitions in the industry.
The association warns that the world's 1.4 billion farmers are 'in the hands of a few large multinational groups that dictate market rules', and also 'control the purchase and marketing of agricultural and food products'.
It adds that this practice puts consumers' freedom of choice at risk, as well as food safety standards.
According to Coldiretti, after the completion of the mergers by Dow-Dupont, Bayer-Monsanto and ChemChina-Syngenta, three companies could end up controlling over 70% of plant production for agriculture, and more than 60% of seeds globally.
It adds that about 90% of the global cereal market is currently controlled by four groups, namely ADM-Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus Commodities, while in the food processing segment, the ten largest food and beverage companies account for 37.5% of the share of the top 100 companies.
In the food retail sector, the top ten companies are responsible for 29.3% of global sales, driven by market leader Walmart.
The Coldiretti report concludes by mentioning that for every euro spent by consumers on food, less than 15 cents go to agricultural producers, while the price of a product rises almost seven times from the field to the table, due to 'distortions and speculations along the chain'.


IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ROY COCKRUM, ET AL ., Plaintiffs, v. Case No. 1:17-cv-1370-ESH DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT, INC. ET AL ., Defendants. OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE SURREPLY Defendant Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. opposes Plaintiffs' motion for leave to file a surreply. "Surreplies are generally disfavored." Banner Health v. Sibelius, 905 F. Supp. 2d 174, 187 (D.D.C. 2012). They should be all the more disfavored here, where the Court has already granted Plaintiffs leave to file a 70-page instead of a 45page opposition, and has already allowed three amici to file three further briefs amplifying Plaintiffs' arguments. Plaintiffs claim that they should have the chance to file a surreply so that they can "addres[s] a handful of arguments that are raised or emphasized for the first time in Defendants' reply briefs." (ECF No. 46 at 1.) But the Campaign's reply does not assert a new ground for dismissing Plaintiffs' complaint—such as a new procedural defect 1 never identified in the motion to dismiss. The reply simply answers the points made in Plaintiffs' opposition. To be sure, some of these answers involve making or emphasizing fresh arguments. But that is what reply briefs inherently do. After all, there is no point to filing a reply that simply repeats the opening brief. Unless we are to have endless briefing, a litigant's failure to anticipate a counterargument later raised in a reply does not justify granting leave to file a surreply. What is more, one part of Plaintiffs' surreply—the section that addresses Bartnicki v. Vopper, 532 U.S. 514 (2001)—is indefensible even on Plaintiffs' own reasoning. The Campaign's opening brief highlighted Bartnicki, discussed it at length, and even flagged it in the table of authorities as a principal case. (ECF No. 20 at ii, 22–26.) Plaintiffs should have addressed Bartnicki in their opposition, giving the Campaign a chance to address any purported distinction of that case in its reply. Yet instead, Plaintiffs filed an opposition that never even cites, let alone discusses, Bartnicki. Only now, after the Campaign has already filed its reply, do Plaintiffs seek leave to file a surreply to explain why they think "this case is … unlike Bartnicki" and why "[Bartnicki's] holding was narrow." (ECF No. 46-1 at a 5.) There is simply no justification for this late-breaking attempt to address a case that the Campaign raised and emphasized in the opening brief, but that Plaintiffs entirely ignored in the opposition. Indeed, unless the Court wishes to add a sur-surreply to the already large stack of briefs in this case, Plaintiffs' surreply directly prejudices the Campaign, depriving it of the opportunity to respond to Plaintiffs' attempts to distinguish Bartnicki—an op- 2 portunity that the Campaign would have had if Plaintiffs had identified those distinctions in their opposition. Plaintiffs transparent effort to deny Defendants an opportunity to reply should not be tolerated, much less rewarded with a surreply. We therefore respectfully request that the Court deny leave to file a surreply. Dated: January 22, 2018 Respectfully submitted, /s/ Michael A. Carvin Michael A. Carvin (DC Bar No. 366784) Counsel of Record Vivek Suri (DC Bar No. 1033613) JONES DAY 51 Louisiana Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001 (202) 879-3939 macarvin@jonesday.com vsuri@jonesday.com Jeffrey Baltruzak (PA Bar No. 318156) JONES DAY 500 Grant Street, Suite 4500 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (412) 391-3939 jbaltruzak@jonesday.com Counsel for Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. 3 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I certify that on January 22, 2018, I electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk of Court using the CM/ECF system, which will send a notice of electronic filing to all registered parties. Dated: January 22, 2018 /s/ Michael A. Carvin Michael A. Carvin Counsel for Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.


Twin NASA spacecraft have provided scientists with their first view of the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of powerful explosions from the Sun known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. This new capability will dramatically enhance scientists' ability to predict if and how these solar tsunamis could affect Earth.
"We believe we can now predict when a CME will hit Earth with only 3-hours of uncertainty," says Angelos Vourlidas of the Naval Research Lab, who helped develop the model. "That's a four-fold improvement over older methods."
Coronal mass ejections are billion-ton clouds of hot magnetized gas that explode away from the Sun at speeds topping a million mph. Sometimes the clouds make a beeline for Earth and when they hit they can cause geomagnetic storms, satellite outages, auroras, and power blackouts. The ability to predict the speed and trajectory of a CME is key to space weather forecasting.
"This is an important advance," says Lika Guhathakurta, STEREO program scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington DC. "From a distance, CMEs appear to be a complicated and varied population. What we have discovered is that they are not so varied after all. Almost all of the 40-plus CMEs we have studied so far with STEREO have a common shape - akin to a croissant."
Thousands of CMEs have been observed by NASA and European Space Agency spacecraft, but until now their common shape was unknown. That's because in the past observations were made from only a single point of view. The STEREO mission has the advantage of numbers. It consists of two probes that flank the Sun and photograph explosions from opposite sides. STEREO's sensitive wide-field cameras can track CMEs over a wider area of sky than any other spacecraft, following the progress of the storm all the way from the Sun to the orbit of Earth.
"STEREO has done what no previous mission could," notes Guhathakurta.
Vourlidas says he is not surprised that CMEs resemble French pastries. "I have suspected this all along. The croissant shape is a natural result of twisted magnetic fields on the Sun and is predicted by a majority of theoretical models." He offers the following analogy: Take a length of rope and hold one end in each hand. Start twisting the ends in opposite directions. Twist, twist and continue twisting until the middle of the rope is a fat knotted mess.
"That's how CMEs get started - as twisted ropes of solar magnetism. When the energy in the twist reaches some threshold, there is an explosion which expels the CME away from the Sun. It looks like a croissant because the twisted ropes are fat in the middle and thin on the ends."
The shape alone, however, does not tell the full story of a CME. The contents of the CME must be considered, too. How much plasma does it contain? What is the orientation and strength of its internal magnetic field? When a CME strikes, the havoc it causes will depend on the answers - answers the croissant model does not yet provide.
"There is more work to do. We must learn to look at a CME and not only trace its shape, but also inventory in contents," says Guhathakurta. "We are halfway there."
Eventually, the quest to learn what lies inside the croissant will be taken up by other spacecraft such as the Solar Dynamics Observatory, slated to launch in August 2009, and Solar Probe+, a daring mission (still on the drawing board) to fly close to the Sun and actually enter these storms near their source.
STEREO isn't finished, though. The two probes are continuing their journeys to opposite sides of the Sun for a 24/7, 360-degree view of the star. Along the way, they'll actually run into a few CMEs and have the chance to sample the 'croissants' in situ.


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Q: Adding buttons into tabs I have tabs in a tabbed pane that use a custom class called FilePanel and that is what makes this a little confusing. It is for saving and loading files hence the class File Panel. I want to add a little button of an icon to the right in each of the tabs. when clicked it should close that specific tab.
File Panel Class:
package texteditor;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.File.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.filechooser.FileNameExtensionFilter;

class FilePanel extends JPanel {

   private File file;
   private JTextArea textArea;
   private String name;

   public FilePanel(File file) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
      this.file = file;
      setLayout(new BorderLayout());

      textArea = new JTextArea();
      JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(textArea);
      add(scroll, BorderLayout.CENTER);

      textArea.read(new FileReader(file.getAbsolutePath()), null);
      name = file.getName();

   }

   public FilePanel()  {

       try
       {
      setLayout(new BorderLayout());

      textArea = new JTextArea();
      JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(textArea);
      add(scroll, BorderLayout.CENTER);

      textArea.read(new FileReader(file.getAbsolutePath()), null);
      name = file.getName();

       }
       catch(Exception e)
       {
           System.out.println(e);
       }

   }

   public File getFile() {
      return file;
   }

   public JTextArea getTextArea() {
      return textArea;
   }

   public String getName() {
      return name;
   }

   public void setName(String name) {
      this.name = name;
   }

}

Adding new frame method:
private void btnNewActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
       increment++;

       try
       {
          FilePanel p = new FilePanel();
          p.setName("File " + increment);

          //code im testing goes here and I just remove the 3 you see below.
          tabbedPane.add(p);
          tabbedPane.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(2, 0, 0, 0));
          tabbedPane.setSelectedComponent(p);

       }
       catch(Exception e)
       {
           System.out.println(e);
       }
    }

Code that I am trying but to no avail:
Icon icon = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("redclose.png"));
         JButton butt = new JButton();
         butt.setIcon(icon);
         butt.setIconTextGap(5);
         butt.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.RIGHT);
         tabbedPane.setTabComponentAt(0, butt);

This works for just the icon itself:
Icon icon = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("redclose.png"));
          tabbedPane.setIconAt(tabbedPane.getSelectedIndex(), icon);

A: Here is a quick example of what the closable tab would look like:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;

public class ClosableTab extends JPanel implements ActionListener{

    private final JTabbedPane pane;
    private final int index;

    private JButton closeButton;

    private JLabel titleLabel;

    public ClosableTab(final JTabbedPane pane, final int index){
        super(new BorderLayout());
        setOpaque(false);

        this.pane = pane;
        this.index = index;

        titleLabel = new JLabel(pane.getTitleAt(index));
        titleLabel.setHorizontalAlignment(JLabel.CENTER);

        closeButton = new JButton("X");
        closeButton.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(-5, 2, -5, 0));
        closeButton.setOpaque(false);
        closeButton.setContentAreaFilled(false);
        closeButton.setFont(closeButton.getFont().deriveFont(20F));
        closeButton.setForeground(Color.RED);
        closeButton.addActionListener(this);

        add(titleLabel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        add(closeButton, BorderLayout.EAST);

        setPreferredSize(getPreferredSize());
    }

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
        final Object source = e.getSource();
        if(source.equals(closeButton)){
            pane.remove(pane.indexOfTabComponent(this));
            pane.revalidate();
            pane.repaint();
        }
    }

    public void apply(){
        pane.setTabComponentAt(index, this);
        pane.revalidate();
        pane.repaint();
    }

    public static void apply(final JTabbedPane pane, final int index){
        new ClosableTab(pane, index).apply();
    }

}

After you add your FilePanel, try invoking ClosableTab.apply(tabbedPane, tabbedPane.getTabCount()-1);

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The Warratahs
Fri 18 Sep '15, 7:30pm – 11:00pm
Brydone Hotel, 115 Thames St, Oamaru
Kings of the road, titans of country soul, brothers of the back beat; The Warratahs will be celebrating the release of their new album at Brydone Hotel Friday 18th September.
"Runaway Days" is the 7th studio album from The Warratahs in an illustrious career spanning more than 25 years. A career which has won the band the affection of the New Zealand public, has entertained hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders at countless live performances in halls, clubs and pubs all around the country and has given us some great songs that are truly a valuable part of New Zealand Music.
The band was formed to play some of their favourite music - the likes of Jimmie Rogers, Hank Williams, Hank Snow etc plus a handful of their own songs with its brand of country/folk combined with the fire of 50's style rock and roll. But the band quickly gained prominence with their own music and 86 000 sales of albums later, they are very much still alive.
Barry Saunders voice and songs and Nik Brown's ability to set the music alight with his violin has remained the basis of the Warratahs sound.
Their first album Only Game in Town spent months in the charts propelled by two hits: Hands of my Heart and Maureen which both become classics.
Their second album Too Hot To Sleep included St Peters Rendezvous for which Barry won Songwriter of the Year.
In 1991 the band toured New Zealand with Billy Joel and a couple of years after with The Highwaymen and Johnny Cash.
They have also toured Australia. In 1999 the band was invited to play the Tamworth Music Festival in Australia and were a hit with audiences playing songs from their new album One of Two Things featuring the hit single Rescue Me.
The latest album - a remastered 19-track Warratahs collection - features Barry Saunders on vocals, guitar and harmonica, Nik Brown violin and mandolin, Maurice Newport drums and Nick Theobald bass and vocals.
The Warratahs will be joined by support act, rising singer/songwriter Jenny Mitchell.
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The kids behind Operation Dress Up!
Mitchell is a senior at Alameda High School. He is a dedicated, competitive baseball player at both Alameda High and to the Alameda Area Babe Ruth program. In his spare time, Mitchell enjoys working out, traveling, the beach, and socializing with his friends and family.
Nate Low is a sophomore at Alameda High School. He plays for his high school baseball team. During his spare time, he enjoys an occasional game of golf and likes hanging out with friends. Last summer, Nate played baseball in Japan on the Alameda World Baseball team.
Christopher Regan is a sophomore at Alameda High School. He likes to challenge himself academically and enjoys playing sports. He plays high school baseball and Buena Vista basketball. Last summer, Christopher played on the Alameda World Baseball team that played in Japan.
A senior at Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School in Alameda, Angel loves to participate as a member of both his school's basketball and baseball teams. In his free time, he spends early mornings on the lake fishing for the perfect catch.
Bronson is a senior at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, where he participates in both Baseball and Football. Originally from Hawaii, on sunny days Bronson enjoys swimming and riding his skateboard.
Colin is a senior at Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School in Alameda. He plays for his high school baseball team and is also a member of the Oakland Strokes Rowing Program. During his downtime, Colin enjoys hanging out with friends.
A senior at Alameda High School, Ryan stays busy playing football for his
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A WOMAN ON THE INTERNET
10 Video Games with a Female Protagonist
This is a list of 10 Video Games with women as the main or one of the main protagonists. To make this list, the female protagonists needs to be a playable character, have her own personal backstory, in control of her own body (sexually objectified female characters made so solely for the sake of fitting into male gamers' fantasies, are a no), characters such as Ivy from Soul Calibur. This list isn't a top 10 of games but simply 10 games with what I consider include proper, good, female protagonists. This is based on my personal gaming history, and so if you think of any game and character(s) that should make the next list, leave a comment.
[This list will contain spoilers.]
1. The Walking Dead Season 2: CLEMENTINE
The Walking Dead series is, in my opinion, the best of Tell Tale's that I have experienced, and although The Walking Dead's first season only allows you to play Clementine a few rare times, and mostly only at the end of the game, she isn't the main playable protagonists of the game until season 2.
In Walking Dead's first season, Clementine is an 8 years old little girl who is left at home with her babysitter while her parents are away out of the city. She is found and saved by the male main protagonist, Lee, played by you, who then cares and watches over her throughout the game. By season 2, now 9 years old, Clementine has greatly changed. Hardened by the events of season 1, and by the past eighteen months living in a zombie apocalypse, Clementine isn't the easily scared and in need to be protected and sheltered little girl that we watched over in season 1. Now a capable fighter, she is a witty and intelligent girl that easily sees through the adults that constantly try to make decisions over her, and control her. Playing the game through the eye of a child who experiences terrifying and dangerous moment one after the other, while constantly fearing death either by the hand of walkers or the adults she encounters, Clementine is an amazing character to play as well as the most interesting one without a single doubt.
2. Dragon Age 1, 2 & Dragon Age Inquisition: PERSONALIZED CHARACTER
Being quite a fan of the Dragon age series, it was obvious that it had to make my first list. The Dragon Age series though, does have quite a few issues with sexualizing secondary characters, or NPCs, as well as many sexist moments I have personally noticed on my own time, but for this list, I will focus on the main protagonist.
Not only does Dragon Age gives you the option of choosing to play a male of female character in all of its games, it let's you choose your character's race (human, elf, dwarf & Qunari), and gives you a list of various characters of all sex, gender, sexual orientation, race and walks of life to romance to choose from. The Dragon Age games offer you the same in game experiences regardless of the sex you choose for your character. Proper, rarely sexualized clothing is given and in a game where everything can change depending on the race (and sometimes sex) it is great to be able to create your own female Grey Warden or Inquisitor, and be the leader of your own quests.
3. Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly: MIO & MAYU AMAKURA
All of the Fatal Frame games have female protagonists, but for this list I will focus on Fatal
Frame 2 Crimson Butterfly follows Mio and Mayu. When Mayu, the oldest sister, who walks with a limp from an accident and is the skittish of the two, is drawn to an abandoned village by a butterfly, and her worried sister follows.
The game is a survival horror tale of sisterhood, which mainly follows Mio as she tries to find her sister while exorcising the ghost habitat of the village using a camera. The game focuses on the implied sacrifice that the two sister must go through, and later on, an even more horrible destiny forced upon Mio and Mayu. The game, which is about the two sisters, is also a particularly good game, and one of the best of the horror genre.
4. Mirror's Edge: FAITH CONNORS
It was more than obvious that Mirror's Edge would make the list, considering who it's main character is, and how original and beautiful of a game it is. Mirror's Edge is a game that deserves all the praise it can get and much, much more.
5. The Mass Effect Trilogy: FEMALE SHEPARD
I'd like to acknowledge right now that the Mass Effect games do have quite a few issues within themselves regarding the unnecessary sexualization of female character, most notably with the Asari, a mono-gender race of female aliens who are also more or less what I would define as "Pansexual" but at an intergalactic level - alas, they very often serve as the pun of sexual jokes or innuendos, as often reduced to less because of their sexuality and sexual orientation, and are the strippers of the galaxy...yeah. And so, for this, I will focus on Shepard, the female version. Although the female version of Shepard, the main protagonist of the trilogy, barely received any advertisement until the third instalment of the game, where she got her own trailer and (back side) cover of the game, she is, in my opinion, by far the better experience compared to her male alternative.
Having experienced multiple play-throughs of the game with both version of the character, Female Shepard not only seems to have better animated facial features, giving you the ability to truly empathize or cheer for her, but she has was given the absolutely amazing Jennifer Hale as voice actress and this...should tell you everything you need. Female Shepard has a voice that clearly emanates genuine emotions, which, for video games, is one of the most important thing you want for a main protagonist.
Similar to a lot of open world, choice driven game nowadays, the game gives you the option of many different characters of various gender, race and...well, race, to romance, creating the option for many woman/woman, man/man as well as heterosexual romances and relationships, which all matter and greatly affect your experience of the game, unless you don't want it to. Female Shepard doesn't see her story differ from her male counterpart on the basis of her sex at all, she is a commander, a leader, a friend, a lover, and a saviour of the world, and can be either the great force for good or the massive force of evil you can build her to be.
6. Tomb Raider (current): LARA CROFT
As many most definitely know, regardless of how hard we try to push that fact aside, Lara Croft, most likely the most well-known female video game character in gaming history has been sexualized, reduced to a sex object or fantasy and so on through the years...and although I have grown with the games and they will always remain beloved classics in my heart, I choose to entirely put aside all of the Tomb Raider franchise with the exception of the 2013 reboot; Tomb Raider.
Now with much more clothes on, the 2013 reboots is the tale of Lara pre-all-of-the-Tomb-Raider-games, Lara Croft before she became the Tomb Raider she became known as. We play as a much younger, naive and emotional Lara (which is very positive) as she and her crew become stranded on an island that isn't inhabited at all, where she much fight other people while adventuring throughout the very large island and discover its many secrets within its many tombs.Although the game presents you with a more "fragile" Lara, the experiences she is thrown into aren't for the softhearted, from an attempted rape, to her first kills, and her very, very many near death experiences, Lara grows a much thicker skin by the end of the game, but never loses her heart as she searches for her best friend and the rest of her crew.
This absolutely breathtakingly beautiful open world game was a complete re-experiencing of Lara Croft that I recommend to anyone and everyone.
7. Child of Light: AURORA
Child of Light will forever and always have a very special place in my heart. A game native of Montreal Ubisoft (so proud of you guys), Child of Light follows Aurora, young daughter of a duchess and duke from 1895 Austria who after the death of her mother, has developed a deep bond with her father until she wakes up in Lemuria and must journey across the land, defeat enemies and collect the sun, moon, and stars in order to return to her beloved father's side.
Child of Light is an absolutely beautiful and lovely game drawn like a captivating pastel painting, and we follow Aurora as she meets companions, learns, grows, learns to fly (literally), learns to fight, defines what it means to be a princess to HER, and as she thinks of her father, her love for him and his love for her. Aurora is strong willed, stubborn, strongly empathizes with the pain and struggle of others, and her strong desire for others to not treat her differently for her status as a princess makes her a particularly memorable character.
Child of Light is a love letter to the classic Japanese RPG genre, most precisely, the Final Fantasy franchise, and is a must play.
8. Life is Strange: MAXINE CAULFIELD
Max Caulfield is an 18 years old teenage girl who recently moved from Seattle, Washington to the fictional city of Arcadia Bay in Oregon, to a college where she will now take a course on Photography. Although she tends to be easily judgmental towards other kids her age (like, well, most kids her age) Max is a quiet, soft spoken, caring girl who is confused between the awkwardness of being alone in a town she used to live in with her family, and being in awe of the general very mellow Oregon vibe (something i have personally experienced and absolutely adore). The game, at first glance, with its look and it`s point and click, heavily choice based game play, strongly resembles Tell Tale games, but offers you all the good things and the story-lines that Tell Tale has yet to give us. After 3 years of silence, Max reunites with her childhood friend Chloe and awkwardness, tension and possible romantic tension ensues. You follow max as she experiences a changed Chloe, the many mysteries of Arcadia Bay, and the unsurprising incredibly dramatic life of a teenage girl among teenagers.
The game takes a quick turn to very serious subjects such as bullying, depression, violence, addiction, abuse, sexual abuse, and even rape, all through the eyes of an 18 years old girl who...just realized she can go back in time. At her side, with her friend Chloe, now all about that punk attitude and dealing with obvious issues herself, their relationship sometimes clashes and sometimes grows deeper as their stories together as well as their (possibly romantic??) relationship, which offers an interesting example of a more or less unhealthy and co-dependent relationship.
As the series is just about to release it's final episode of its series, I have yet to experience the ending of Life is Stranger, but there isn't a single doubt in me that the creators of the game at Don't Nod, have created a game I won't stop talking about for a least a good while.
(P.S: Big THANK YOU to Square Enix for being the ONLY one who didn't ask Don't Nod to change Life is Strange's main protagonist from a woman to a man, and a big fuck you to everyone else.)
Max's sexual identity as being queer/gay was also made cannon.
9. Resident Evil 1: JILL VALENTINE
The very first instalment of the hugely popular Resident Evil franchise is yet another game that holds a dear place in my heart, being one of my first experience with the horror genre. Now that I think about it, I truly feel like there was something particularly special about Resident Evil 1 and the fact that it gave you the option between playing as Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine for the entirety of the game, which was, at least for me, a very first for an action/horror game.
In Resident Evil 1, Jill and the rest of her crew, members U.S. special police unit STARS, are trapped in a mysterious mansion where monsters seem to roam. Jill, along with Lara Croft and Samus Aran, is a character that is often very thought of when people think of female characters and female leads in video games, a character that has grown to be absolutely iconic. And for valid reasons.
10. Metroid: Samus Aran
So, this is a tricky thing. Samus Aran was and is sadly sexualized in the Metroid games, whether by "rewarding" the player with a sexy outfit at the end of the game, or by giving sexy costumes to replace her much more iconic and appropriate Varia Suit.
But, considering that Metroid was the very first game to feature a female main protagonists, I will allow it to skip my requirements and receive the praise I believe it should get.
But for what Samus represents to all past, present and future female and male gamers, and for how awesome she is regardless of the sexualization that has been forced onto her; go Samus, go!
I hope that you liked this list, keep in mind that this isn't a top 10 but simply a list of 10 games with female protagonists, that follow my personal preferences, requirements and that I have personally experienced/played. If you liked this, or have any other games or female characters you'd like to tell me about for the next list, or so that other people learn of games they might like to play, feel free to leave a comment, share, and talk with your friends! Who's YOUR favourite video game with a female protagonist? Who's YOUR favourite female character, and why?
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What to say, in the Rostov region technical sports weak. Even motoring we are practically in its infancy. And this news. Racing on tractors.
12 Forward to the past!.
«20 years rostovskomu underground» said personal exposure Yuri PALAYCHEVA ..
12 Representatives of the power structures of Russia and France have agreed to jointly fight terrorism.
The fight against terrorism should be another area of cooperation between Russia and France.
11 In Rostov found conspiracy gasoline kings.
For the first time been able to establish that the sharp rise of gasoline last year was caused by an artificially.
11 SCA won the first point in the championship.
Football SKA Rostov had a 4-game first round of the championship of Russia among the clubs of the Second League Zone South.
04 Russia cast a 1 billion in the pipe.
The idea of an alternative route of transportation of oil from Russia and CIS countries through the pipeline Bourgas (Bulgaria) - Alexandroupolis (Greece), was launched in 1994, the number of Russian and Greek companies.
04 Three days of continuous jazz.
For three days Rostov turned in Chicago, New York and New Orleans at once: from 14 to 16 March in the southern capital gremelo a rare number of jazz stars.
03 In the Rostov region, wireless communication is the most promising type of connection.
According to the Rostov regional state statistics committee and the press service of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, the Rostov region, at the beginning of the year in the Rostov region registered 1341 cellular subscribers that 1.8 times more.
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And with that, your complimentary five-game simulcast package of Dodgers' SportsNet LA games on KTLA-Channel 5 for 2018 went away after Saturday night's game in San Francisco.
For better or worse, Spectrum Sports hasn't decided about partnering up on more games later in the season, because it all depends on what its marketing department feels is important. It may feel a bit sorry for the Dodgers and want to reinforce its branding message – Spectrum remains the team's exclusive carrier – or it could just leave things alone.
First, depending on what numbers you want to believe, 90 percent of all homes in the Dodgers' designated TV market area (DMA) actually have access to Spectrum and SportsNet LA. Only 40 percent choose to act on it. So the number that 60 percent don't get Spectrum, it's always been a bit deceiving. Of that, 10 percent live in areas where either Cox or Comcast cable is the only choice. The other 50 percent are sticking with AT&T-owned DirecTV, Dish, Frontier FiOS or AT&T U-verse service.
But we're at a point when Spectrum/Charter is trying to rationalize, across the country, what ways it can go to stop losing money and customers, based on recent second-quarter reports that look somewhat dismal.
And as the U.S. Department of Justice is about to hear final arguments Monday in its case to block a pending $86 billion merger AT&T wants with Time Inc., things could start to go into motion again.
If AT&T prevails, it will then own a whole new assortment of channels – CNN, HBO, Cinemax, TNT and TBS, for starters. AT&T will need to play nice and renew those contracts with cable companies. Charter remains the second-largest cable operator in the country with 16 million customers.
"It'll make the Dodgers' deal look like adding just another PBS station," one sports business insider told us this week.
The last time the DOJ gave Spectrum any hope of helping out, it filed an antitrust collusion case against DirecTV in late 2016, prior to its takeover by AT&T, but quietly settled without much of an explanation in spring 2017.
Yet, if the DOJ loses this argument, the plot thickens again.
This Dodgers' TV rights fiasco is scaring the heck out Cubs' fans in Chicago, we have learned from those learning about it.
The University of Illinois at Champaign offers a class – RST 199-Business of Sports Entertainment – which examines the business side of sports TV rights deals. Ed Sherman, a former Chicago Tribune media columnist and contributor to Poynter.org in tune with how the real world of sports and media works, was lecturing his 87 undergrads recently about how the dark side of this Dodgers situation.
The course ends Tuesday, and the topic of the students' final paper is to think through this situation.
The reason this matters in Chicago is the Cubs' current local TV deal runs out after 2019 and they have yet to announce a new rights contract. They are loudly contemplating having their own channel.
Hulu CEO Randy Freer, on the job since October after spending more than 20 years in charge of the Fox Sports Media Group – which included overseeing the two regional channels in L.A. – was talking to a room full of hundreds of smart business executives at the CAA World Congress of Sports last week at LA Live. Freer went from broad strokes of how sports programming rights remains strong to a very specific example about how "dynamic pricing" for customers can change the paradigm.
These days, when you yank out your cable cord or dismantle the roof-top dish and subscribe to a device on your Internet-ready TV – like Hulu or YouTube TV or Amazon Prime – you still need a new way to get to the local sports nets. A generation of today's TV viewers have figured out end-around plays. But when that happens, the teams and channels lose the opportunity to cash in.
"How do you create an opportunity in baseball where, either through MLB.tv or with ESPN's app, you can buy a Yankees-Red Sox game for $10 or $20 or whatever is the right price?" Freer asked. "To me, one of the bedrocks of why I think live sports is important to the business is because it has great value and you can start to offer it in a different way – reprice things, re-create value, give people an opportunity to come in and out across the board.
"Honestly I'm a little surprised in L.A., where you have some distribution channel issues, the Dodgers haven't been more aggressive and more innovative in figuring out a way to get outside of the geography and the parameters that they're stuck in and get out.
First, Freer is very freed-up from his previous position to make such a suggestion that would ultimately benefit Hulu and others. Were he still at Fox, it's doubtful he'd support such a business model that would amount to just a very small percentage of income and, more importantly, would damage the exclusive nature Spectrum customers currently have in accessing the Dodgers games.
Honestly, we're a little surprised he even brought that up as a viable option.
Unless technical issues from past performances have been resolved, expect some handwringing in these parts when Facebook Watch snatches up exclusive coverage of the Dodgers-Diamondbacks game in Phoenix scheduled for 12:40 p.m. first pitch Thursday – meaning no SportsNet L.A. live coverage, but it can replay it later that night.
Buffering issues affected the first telecast earlier this month. The D'backs-Phillies feed last week was compromised by the chat scroll on the side of the screen that was infiltrated with adult webcam services with pictures of naked women and suggestive emojis.
"This is a concern and we are working with Facebook to ensure the proper safeguards are in place," an MLB spokesperson said in a statement to The Athletic.
The MLB Network production has Rich Waltz on play-by-play, Orel Hershiser and Eric Byrnes sharing the role of analysts, and Alanna Rizzo as the reporter. Coverage starts at noon with a special Dodgers' insider show on the team's Facebook Live feed.
* Colin Cowherd's hiring of Kristine Leahy to launch his new FS1/radio show based at the Fox studios near Century City more than two years ago was questionable at best, but the news she is leaving the show, even if only to join an esports broadcast on FS1 this fall, comes with much relief here. Perhaps we can listen to more than a full half hour now without flipping somewhere else because of the irritant interjections.
* The AVP's new video streaming rights deal with Amazon Prime begins with the Huntington Beach Open this week. Customers in more than 200 countries can watch live and on-demand, including whichever of the men's or women's final NBCSN decides not to air May 6.
* CBS will have live coverage from the two-day World Surf League Cup inaugural event next weekend from Kelly Slater's Surf Ranch in Lemoore, just south of Fresno – the first major event with a machine that generates the surf in a giant pool. KCBS-Channel 2 has Saturday coverage at 11 a.m., with Sunday coverage to be announced.
* The Colorado Rockies should not have to defend anything about a decision made in concert with its regional sports channel to give reporter Jenny Cavnar a shot at doing play-by-play on a game last week. Still, the anticipated social media trolling didn't go away. The Rockies' Twitter account did a nice job of holding up a mirror – also known as clapping back — on those who decided to vent about a female voice on their TV sets. "This has nothing to do with criticism," one tweet read. "Criticism, dealing with differing opinions, is absolutely part of the job. This has everything to do with respect." We respect them for standing up. We might even respect the Dodgers or Angels more if they decided to become more proactive in finding a female voice – Jeanne Zelasko, anyone? – for their radio booths which are, at this point, beyond a dismal experience.


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Why You Should Fight For Your Right to Die
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radical life extension
It should be within our rights to take our own lives when the circumstances warrant it. That means we must be prepared to accept laws in favor of assisted suicide. This becomes even more important in light of potential technologies that could grant us extreme longevity.
As a supporter of radical life extension, it might seem hypocritical of me to stand up for physician-assisted suicide. Though it might not be immediately obvious that the two are related, they are; both issues pertain to our bodily autonomy and our right to self-determination.
Moreover, as life-extending technologies become increasingly effective, and as we get to live longer and longer lives, we will increasingly insist on taking ownership over our lives. Otherwise, the day may come when we're forced to live indefinitely — a potentially dystopian state of affairs by any measure.
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But before I get too far ahead of myself, here, it's important to note why assisted suicide is also relevant to the here and now. This is an issue as much for the present day as it is for the future.
As it stands, physician-assisted suicide is illegal in most jurisdictions. The only places where it's sanctioned are Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and four American states (Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and Montana).
So, in most jurisdictions, it is not legal for someone to help you die — even with your informed, willing, and competent consent. Legislation almost everywhere insists that you allow your body and brain to be ravaged by disease until you die from its effects. This, it seems, is seen as being somehow less repugnant or more ethical than the compassionate and considerate act of assisted suicide.
Much of this has to do with historical, religious, and cultural inhibitions against suicide. The notion of respecting the "sanctity of life," while at the same time rejecting people's wishes, is characteristic of the Christian bioethic. Death, Christians would argue, is the exclusive domain of God, a place where humans have no business. From this context, it shouldn't come as a surprise that current laws retain this paternalistic quality; taking ownership of death is still considered taboo.
Western medical practices are also contributing to the bias against assisted suicide. The injunction to "do no harm" has hampered efforts in favor of increasing patient autonomy.
According to the American Medical Association, "Physician assisted suicide is fundamentally inconsistent with the physician's professional role," and that " Requests for physician-assisted suicide should be a signal to the physician that the patient's needs are unmet and further evaluation to identify the elements contributing to the patient's suffering is necessary."
So, it's not what the patient wants, but what the physician thinks is in the best interest of the patient.
Don't believe the hype
The most common argument against assisted suicide is that, once legalized, it could eventually get out of control and lead to abuse. Critics also worry that it will increasingly diminish the value of life, that terminally ill patients will be coerced by friends and family into killing themselves, or that it will be seen as an easy way out.
But the evidence simply doesn't support these fears.
Studies carried out in the Netherlands by Paul J. van der Maas compellingly show no evidence whatsoever of a descent down a slippery slope toward non-voluntary assisted suicide.
Another study, this one done just last year, showed that assisted suicide legality does not increase the desire for death in patients with incurable diseases. The study, which was carried out on patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — one of the most common illnesses in which suicide is requested — showed that 94% of patients didn't have any desire for assisted suicide, but 57% could imagine a time when they might want it done. As Liat Clark of Wired aptly noted, "The findings reveal that patients have a strong desire to take their own healthcare, treatment and fate in their own hands — which is essentially why assisted suicide exists in the first place, to allow those who feel they are losing control of their minds or bodies to regain power and see their own will take shape again."
And in a study from earlier this year, Elizabeth Trice Loggers and colleagues showed that physician-assisted suicide programs are rarely used. Specifically, they noted that terminally ill patients in Washington state are not rushing to get lethal prescriptions. Almost three years after the state's Death With Dignity Act was enacted, just 255 people had obtained a lethal prescription from their doctor. Revealingly, the researchers found that the most common reasons cited for wanting to participate in the program were loss of autonomy, an inability to engage in enjoyable activities, and a loss of dignity.
"Each year, there are over 50,000 deaths in Washington state, and cancer is the second leading cause of death," noted Trice Loggers. "The number who chose to participate in the Death With Dignity program is miniscule. This study shows that people are not making these decisions lightly."
The study concludes: "Overall, our Death with Dignity program has been well accepted by patients and clinicians."
Another common argument is that palliative care is improving, and that terminally ill people are therefore no longer in significant pain or discomfort. I only wish this were true.
High-quality palliative care still results in undesirable side effects, including nausea, incontinence and loss of awareness arising from semi-permanent drowsiness. And not only are people still experiencing intolerable levels of pain, they are not receiving adequate healthcare in these days of rampant anti-universal-healthcare sentiments.
As Peter A. Singer of the University of Toronto's Joint Centre for Bioethics (not to be confused with Princeton University's Peter Singer) has argued, hospitals are not providing enough palliative care. "Go into a ward of your local hospital and unfortunately you should have no trouble finding a dying patient who is in pain, or one who has not been effectively engaged in discussions about life-sustaining treatment decisions," he says.
The right to refuse medical treatment
This issue is also closely related to the right to refuse medical treatment. People should also be able to choose whether or not they wish to undergo painful treatments or radical surgery. Many treatments are uncomfortable, expensive, and far from guaranteed. In the case of terminal illnesses, it's perfectly reasonable for someone to want to live their final three months with dignity rather than 12 uncertain months in agony — not to mention the risk of bankrupting the entire family.
Which is in-and-of itself extremely problematic — yet another strong case for universal healthcare.
As it stands right now in the United States, the right to refuse medical treatment can be granted on religious grounds (First Amendment) or where a person is deemed to be incompetent and unable to give consent — so consent is instead in the hands of a surrogate. This would imply that a competent person should be able to refuse their own life saving treatment.
As judicial expert William Rehnquist argued, the right to refuse medical treatment is embodied within several other rights, including our right to bodily integrity and the notion of informed consent, the right to self-determination, and the right to privacy.
Ultimately, the law must respect competent personal choice so long as it doesn't harm others, along with the assurance that effective mechanisms are put into place to prevent abuse. If a person is suffering from a terminal illness, is unlikely to benefit from the discovery of a cure in the time remaining, is suffering intolerable pain, has a life that is unacceptably burdensome, has a continuing voluntary and competent desire to die, and is unable to commit suicide without assistance, then there should be no legal or medical provision to deny that right.
People have an interest in making important decisions about their lives. They are the ones who are suffering. They are the ones facing the physical and psychological ordeal of a terminal illness. They know how they want their lives to go.
Death, technology, and the future
Technology is intimately tied to the assisted suicide debate. Future advancements in the health industries are poised to rearrange conventional conceptions of life and death, thereby forcing us to reconsider those laws and practices that lack practical, ethical and logical consistencies.
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We are already facing these important issues today.
And indeed, we die differently now compared to previous decades. A report in Legal Medicine by Heleen Dupuis of the Department of Metamedica at Leiden University Medical School noted that people used to die "gently" and relatively quickly from such things as infections.
As the Dupuis report revealed, today's diseases and causes of death are different. Technology has eliminated many causes of quick deaths and are leading to more deaths from age-related illnesses. So, for example, we have people who die from terminal cancer and Alzheimer's after a period of progressive decline.
Accordingly, life-support systems and other life-extension technologies need to be carefully assessed, particularly for their capacity to inflict more harm than good. Just because we can prolong the life of a terminally ill patient does not justify the drawing out of undue pain and suffering —particularly if it's against a patient's will and informed consent. The popularity of living wills and "Do Not Resuscitate" orders are testament to the fact that people value quality over quantity when it comes to life.
Pending technologies will distort and complicate this landscape even further.
Cryonics, and eventually/possibly brain plastination (or other techniques we don't know about yet), present the opportunity for recently deceased people to enter into a state of preservation in the hopes that they will be "reanimated" in the future. As each year passes, the theoretical potential for reanimation after death becomes more plausible, not less.
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And as some of these prospective corpsicles discover that their brains are under attack from currently irreversible effects of aging or various neurological diseases, they will find themselves dealing with the issue of assisted suicide straight on; it doesn't make sense to preserve a brain decimated by a neurodegenerative disorder or cancerous tumor. They will not settle for "convenient accidents," nor will they ask doctors to break the law. Instead, they will force the courts to properly re-assess suicide laws.
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What's more, since aging is increasingly coming to be regarded as a kind of disease unto itself, it's conceivable that at some point in the future we will have overcome this pervasive nemesis, along with death itself.
With the potential for an unbounded lifespan, it would be ludicrous for people not to have a say over when they wish to terminate their lives. Some individuals may discover after a lengthy run of, say, 500 years, that they've had enough life, and wish to die. In such a futuristic scenario, assuming that current sensibilities on assisted suicide still dominate, the state would compel people to live indefinitely. Such a prospect does not sit well with me; it sounds more like a Twilight Zone episode than reality.
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And possible future developments, including mind uploading and cyborgization, could complicate the issues of life and death even further.
Informed and free people deserve the right to choose when they wish to die. So while we fight for the right to a long life, we mustn't forget that we need also fight for the right to die with dignity.
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import io.grpc.Internal;
import io.grpc.NameResolver;
import io.grpc.NameResolver.Args;
import io.grpc.NameResolverProvider;
import io.grpc.internal.GrpcUtil;
import java.net.URI;

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@Internal
public final class GoogleCloudToProdNameResolverProvider extends NameResolverProvider {

  private static final String SCHEME = "google-c2p-experimental";

  @Override
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          targetUri, args, GrpcUtil.SHARED_CHANNEL_EXECUTOR,
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    return SCHEME;
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