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Foreword, Jessica Silbey Mar 2023
Foreword, Jessica Silbey
Most of us think we are familiar with graffiti – lettering on trains or graphic images on walls that follow us as we walk by. But Enrico Bonadio's new book on graffiti and street art opens a door to more complex and nuanced worlds of artists and their communities. The focus is on everyday creators of graffiti and street art. Built from nearly 100 interviews and hundreds of hours of observation, the book is filled with the voices of artists and vivid details of their plein air studios and interactions. Also present in the book is the author, who weaves …
Bridging The Gap In Lgbtq+ Rights Litigation: A Community Discussion On Bisexual Visibility In The Law, Nancy C. Marcus, Bendita Malakia, Ann E. Tweedy, Mya Reid Jan 2023
Bridging The Gap In Lgbtq+ Rights Litigation: A Community Discussion On Bisexual Visibility In The Law, Nancy C. Marcus, Bendita Malakia, Ann E. Tweedy, Mya Reid
This essay discusses the genesis of BiLaw, a coalition of Bi+ lawyers and law students, and highlights the importance of a 2021 Lavender Law session organized by BiLaw in which representatives of LGBT rights organizations discussed the erasure of Bi+ persons in jurisprudence and the importance of, and their commitment to, serving the needs of the Bi+ community, along with those of other stakeholders. A transcript of the groundbreaking discussion follows the essay.
The Ali Principles Of The Law Of Family Dissolution: Addressing Inequality Through Functional Regulation, Linda C. Mcclain, Douglas Nejamie Jan 2023
The Ali Principles Of The Law Of Family Dissolution: Addressing Inequality Through Functional Regulation, Linda C. Mcclain, Douglas Nejamie
As part of a volume commemorating the American Law Institute on its centennial, this Essay reflects on the ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution. We show how the Principles' drafters intervened in cutting-edge issues at a time of flux in family law in ways that elaborated a progressive agenda that would continue to gain traction in the years after the Principles' publication in 2000. Beginning from the assumption that family law should reflect how people actually live, the drafters developed a functional, rather than formal, approach to legal regulation. Such an approach, they believed, could vindicate commitments to …
A Qualitative Method For Investigating Design, Jessica Silbey, Mark P. Mckenna Jan 2023
A Qualitative Method For Investigating Design, Jessica Silbey, Mark P. Mckenna
This chapter describes our qualitative study of designers and design practice. It situates the study in the broader field of empirical studies of intellectual property, and it describes in detail the methodology and benefits of a qualitative interview study of designers and design practice to shed light on some of the persistent puzzles in design law. The chapter focuses on four lines of inquiry: defining "design" and "design practice" from within the profession; exploring the various inputs to design practice and the process of "problem solving" designers pursue; understanding what "integrated" form and function mean to designers; and explaining the …
The New Pornography Wars, Julie A. Dahlstrom Jan 2023
The New Pornography Wars, Julie A. Dahlstrom
The world's largest online pornography conglomerate, MindGeek, has come under fire for the publishing of "rape videos," child pornography, and nonconsensual pornography on its website, Pornhub. As in the "pornography wars" of the 1970s and 1980s, lawyers and activists have now turned to civil remedies and filed creative anti-trafficking lawsuits against MindGeek and third parties, like payment processing company, Visa. These lawsuits seek not only to achieve legal accountability for online sex trafficking but also to reframe a broader array of online harms as sex trafficking.
This Article explores what these new trafficking lawsuits mean for the future regulation of …
New York Environmental Legislation In 2022, Michael B. Gerrard, Edward Mctiernan Jan 2023
New York Environmental Legislation In 2022, Michael B. Gerrard, Edward Mctiernan
Several significant environmental bills were enacted by the New York legislature and signed by Gov.Kathy Hochul in 2022, and several others were vetoed. As a result of measures enacted last year, New York will see $4.2 billion invested in environmental protection, restoration, climate resiliency and clean energy projects; potential disproportionate and inequitable impacts on disadvantaged communities will become a key factor in determining whether environmental permits are issued; and apparel containing intentionally added per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) will no longer be sold in the state. In addition, important changes were made to New York's brownfield and wetlands laws. These …
Would You Make It To The Future? Teaching Race In An Assisted Reproductive Technologies And The Law Classroom, Sonia Gipson Rankin Dec 2022
Would You Make It To The Future? Teaching Race In An Assisted Reproductive Technologies And The Law Classroom, Sonia Gipson Rankin
Would you make it to the future? For the last five years, I have started my Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) lecture in Family Law with this question. Students take the query seriously. They ponder their lived experiences such as home training, medical history, education, financial well-being, personality traits, work ethic, and social graces when determining if they would be the "model DNA" someone might select in a future society. The good-natured jokes about being nearsighted, having a pitiful jump shot, and wearing orthodontic headgear turn reflective when someone raises the question: would someone in the future select my race? In …
Designing For Justice: Pandemic Lessons For Criminal Courts, Cynthia Alkon Dec 2022
Designing For Justice: Pandemic Lessons For Criminal Courts, Cynthia Alkon
March 2020 brought an unprecedented crisis to the United States: COVID-19. In a two-week period, criminal courts across the country closed. But, that is where the uniformity ended. Criminal courts did not have a clear process to decide how to conduct necessary business. As a result, criminal courts across the country took different approaches to deciding how to continue necessary operations and in doing so many did not consider the impact on justice of the operational changes that were made to manage the COVID-19 crisis. One key problem was that many courts did not use inclusive processes and include all …
Essential Property, Timothy M. Mulvaney, Joseph William Singer Dec 2022
Essential Property, Timothy M. Mulvaney, Joseph William Singer
For a sizable swath of the U.S. population, incomes and wealth are insufficient to cover life's most basic necessities even in the most ordinary of times. A disturbingly resilient explanation for this state of affairs rests on the view that resource inequities are avoidable through self-reliance, a stance that invites observers to see people in poverty as morally suspect. This Article advances a counterview in contending that the widespread lack of essential resources did not simply arise naturally via individuals' life choices but instead has been, in very meaningful part, created and perpetuated by our system of property laws.
The …
Commentary On Reynolds V. Mcnichols, Aziza Ahmed Dec 2022
Commentary On Reynolds V. Mcnichols, Aziza Ahmed
The 1973 case Reynolds v McNichols concerns a woman who was repeatedly arrested on suspicion of and for "prostitution." During these arrests, Roxanne Reynolds, the defendant, was subject to forced examination and treatment. The arrests and examinations were authorized by Section 735 of the Revised Municipal Code of the City and County of Denver, which directed the Department of Health and Hospitals "to use every available means to ascertain the existence of and investigate all suspected cases of communicable venereal disease, and to determine the sources of such infections." Reynolds argued that the ordinance was unconstitutional because it was irrational, …
The Sec's Compensation Clawback Loophole, David I. Walker Dec 2022
The Sec's Compensation Clawback Loophole, David I. Walker
The SEC has recently released final rules implementing the executive incentive compensation recovery or "clawback" provisions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. These rules are aimed at recovering from executives incentive compensation determined to be excessive in light of a subsequent accounting restatement. Unfortunately, the SEC's rules create a loophole by excluding purely time-vested stock and stock option grants from the reach of the new clawback regime. This aspect of the rulemaking seems inconsistent with the intent of Congress, and the result likely will be to distort executive pay practices in a perverse fashion, shifting compensation back in the direction of …
Comments Of The Cordell Institute For Policy In Medicine & Law At Washington University In St. Louis, Neil Richards, Woodrow Hartzog, Jordan Francis Nov 2022
Comments Of The Cordell Institute For Policy In Medicine & Law At Washington University In St. Louis, Neil Richards, Woodrow Hartzog, Jordan Francis
The Federal Trade Commission—with its broad, independent grant of authority and statutory mandate to identify and prevent unfair and deceptive trade practices—is uniquely situated to prevent and remedy unfair and deceptive data privacy and data security practices. In an increasingly digitized world, data collection, processing, and transfer have become integral to market interactions. Our personal and commercial experiences are now mediated by powerful, information-intensive firms who hold the power to shape what consumers see, how they interact, which options are available to them, and how they make decisions. That power imbalance exposes consumers and leaves them all vulnerable. We all …
Centering Black Women In Patent History, Jessica Silbey Nov 2022
Centering Black Women In Patent History, Jessica Silbey
Professor Kara Swanson's latest article is a remarkable example of legal historical scholarship that excavates stories from the past to illuminate the present. It is chock full of archival evidence and historical analysis that explains gaps and silences in the United States patent registry as evidence of marginalized inventors–particularly Black women–who should be named inventors but are not.
The article is arresting reading for anyone interested in antebellum history, intellectual property, and the intersection of racism and sexism in law. Mostly, I am grateful to Professor Swanson for doing the obviously very hard work of digging through archives, reading microfiche, …
Two Approaches To Equality, With Implications For Grutter, Keith N. Hylton Nov 2022
Two Approaches To Equality, With Implications For Grutter, Keith N. Hylton
The question "what is equality?", applied to the distribution of resources across races, suggests the following answer: when there appears to be no need for a policy that focuses on improving the welfare of one race relative to another. There is another way to approach the same question: equality is when traditionally-recognized paths to advancement do not give preference to or disadvantage an individual because of his race. Notice the difference here is between end-state and process-based notions of equality, a distinction Nozick emphasized in his examination of justice in distribution. Nozick rejected end-state theories of justice in distribution. I …
Responsibility, Lawyering, Justice, David Mcgowan Nov 2022
Responsibility, Lawyering, Justice, David Mcgowan
Between 1942 and 1946, approximately 112,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were ordered to leave their homes and were transported to internment camps where they were held under armed guard. Four cases litigated before the United States Supreme Court dealt with orders related to this policy: Hirabayishi v. United States, Yasui v. United States, Korematsu v. United States, and ex parte Endo. Property deprivation related to internment was at issue in Oyama v. California. This note discusses whether the Solicitor General of the United States violated a duty of candor in Hirabayashi and Yasui or in Korematsu. That question requires analysis …
Algorithmic Governance From The Bottom Up, Hannah Bloch-Wehba Nov 2022
Algorithmic Governance From The Bottom Up, Hannah Bloch-Wehba
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are both a blessing and a curse for governance. In theory, algorithmic governance makes government more efficient, more accurate, and more fair. But the emergence of automation in governance also rests on public-private collaborations that expand both public and private power, aggravate transparency and accountability gaps, and create significant obstacles for those seeking algorithmic justice. In response, a nascent body of law proposes technocratic policy changes to foster algorithmic accountability, ethics, and transparency.
This Article examines an alternative vision of algorithmic governance, one advanced primarily by social and labor movements instead of technocrats and firms. …
In The Name Of Energy Sovereignty, Guillermo J. Garcia Sanchez Nov 2022
In The Name Of Energy Sovereignty, Guillermo J. Garcia Sanchez
Throughout history, the phrase "In the name of the King" justified actions that trumped the rights of citizens in order to safeguard the interests of the Crown. Today, in the name of energy sovereignty, states deploy the government apparatus to access oil and gas in other parts of the world, build pipelines on private lands, subsidize renewable energy, and nationalize their oil and power industries. States justify each of these actions by noting that they create a sense of energy independence, ensure security, or achieve other social and economic goals. Energy, however, cannot be trapped in one "realm." Its nature …
Characterizing Legal Implications For The Use Of Transboundary Aquifers, Gabriel Eckstein Nov 2022
Characterizing Legal Implications For The Use Of Transboundary Aquifers, Gabriel Eckstein
Groundwater resources that traverse political boundaries are becoming increasingly important sources of freshwater in international and intranational arenas worldwide. This is a direct extension of the growing need for new sources of freshwater, as well as the impact that excessive extraction, pollution, climate change, and other anthropogenic activities have had on surface waters. It is also a function of the growing realization that groundwater respects no political boundaries, and that aquifers traverse jurisdictional lines at all levels of political geography.
Due to this growing awareness, questions pertaining to responsibility and liability are now being raised in relation to the use, …
Using Artificial Intelligence In The Law Review Submissions Process, Brenda M. Simon Nov 2022
Using Artificial Intelligence In The Law Review Submissions Process, Brenda M. Simon
The use of artificial intelligence to help editors examine law review submissions may provide a way to improve an overburdened system. This Article is the first to explore the promise and pitfalls of using artificial intelligence in the law review submissions process. Technology-assisted review of submissions offers many possible benefits. It can simplify preemption checks, prevent plagiarism, detect failure to comply with formatting requirements, and identify missing citations. These efficiencies may allow editors to address serious flaws in the current selection process, including the use of heuristics that may result in discriminatory outcomes and dependence on lower-ranked journals to conduct …
Are Rules Effective Before Publication? Reflections On The D.C. Circuit'S Decision In Humane Society V. Usda, Jack M. Beermann Oct 2022
Are Rules Effective Before Publication? Reflections On The D.C. Circuit'S Decision In Humane Society V. Usda, Jack M. Beermann
Since at least 1980, there has been a documented increase in regulatory activity at the end of presidential terms, especially in the post-election period when the outgoing President's successor is from the other party. This phenomenon has come to be known as "midnight regulation," and the products of end-of-term legislative rulemaking are referred to as "midnight rules." While a study I conducted for the Administrative Conference of the United States revealed that most midnight rules are routine,[1] some are not and are designed to project the agenda of the outgoing administration into the future and force the incoming administration …
Taking Care With Text: "The Laws" Of The Take Care Clause Do Not Include The Constitution, And There Is No Autonomous Presidential Power Of Constitutional Interpretation, George Mader Oct 2022
Taking Care With Text: "The Laws" Of The Take Care Clause Do Not Include The Constitution, And There Is No Autonomous Presidential Power Of Constitutional Interpretation, George Mader
"Departmentalism" posits that each branch of the federal government has an independent power of constitutional interpretation—all branches share the power and need not defer to one another in the exercise of their interpretive powers. As regards the Executive Branch, the textual basis for this interpretive autonomy is that the Take Care Clause requires the President to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" and the Supremacy Clause includes the Constitution in "the supreme Law of the Land." Therefore, the President is to execute the Constitution as a law. Or so the common argument goes. The presidential oath to "execute …
Nonpatentability Of Business Methods: Legal And Economic Analysis, Peter Menell, Michael J. Meurer Oct 2022
Nonpatentability Of Business Methods: Legal And Economic Analysis, Peter Menell, Michael J. Meurer
In this brief filed in Bilski vs. Kappos, pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, we argue that the "useful Arts" limitation of the the Intellectual Property Clause of the U.S.Constitution restricts the scope of Congress's patent power to technological advances. Beyond this constitutional limitation, Congress has not extended patent protection to business methods. The subject matter provision of the 1952 Patent Act merely codified existing subject matter categories and limitations, including the exclusion of business methods. The First Inventor Defense Act of 1999 did not alter this limitation on patentable subject matter. It did not amend the subject matter provision. …
The Administrative Agon: A Democratic Theory For A Conflictual Regulatory State, Daniel E. Walters Oct 2022
The Administrative Agon: A Democratic Theory For A Conflictual Regulatory State, Daniel E. Walters
A perennial challenge for the administrative state is to answer the "democracy question": how can the bureaucracy be squared with the idea of self-government of, by, and for a sovereign people with few direct means of holding agencies accountable? Scholars have long argued that this challenge can be met by bringing sophisticated thinking about democracy to bear on the operation of the administrative state. These scholars have invoked various theories of democracy—in particular, pluralist, civic republican, deliberative, and minimalist theories—to explain how allowing agencies to make policy decisions is consistent with core ideas about what democracy is.
There is a …
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (Spacs) And The Sec, Neal Newman, Lawrence J. Trautman Oct 2022
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (Spacs) And The Sec, Neal Newman, Lawrence J. Trautman
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are simply enterprises that raise money from the public with the intention of purchasing an existing business and becoming publicly traded in the securities markets. If the SPAC is successful in raising money and the acquisition takes place, the target company takes the SPAC's place on a stock exchange in a transaction that resembles a public offering. Also known as "blank-check" or "reverse merger" companies, this process avoids many of the pitfalls of a traditional initial public offering.
During late 2020 and 2021 an unprecedented surge in the popularity and issuance of Special Purpose Acquisition …
A Proposed Sec Cyber Data Disclosure Advisory Commission, Lawrence J. Trautman, Neal Newman Oct 2022
A Proposed Sec Cyber Data Disclosure Advisory Commission, Lawrence J. Trautman, Neal Newman
Constant cyber threats result in: intellectual property loss; data disruption; ransomware attacks; theft of valuable company intellectual property and sensitive customer information. During March 2022, The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a proposed rule addressing Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure, which requires: 1. Current reporting about material cybersecurity incidents; 2. Periodic disclosures about a registrant's policies and procedures to identify and manage cybersecurity risks; 3. Management's role in implementing cybersecurity policies and procedures; 4. Board of directors' cybersecurity expertise, if any, and its oversight of cybersecurity risk; 5. Registrants to provide updates about previously reported cybersecurity …
Content Moderation As Surveillance, Hannah Bloch-Wehba Oct 2022
Content Moderation As Surveillance, Hannah Bloch-Wehba
Technology platforms are the new governments, and content moderation is the new law, or so goes a common refrain. As platforms increasingly turn toward new, automated mechanisms of enforcing their rules, the apparent power of the private sector seems only to grow. Yet beneath the surface lies a web of complex relationships between public and private authorities that call into question whether platforms truly possess such unilateral power. Law enforcement and police are exerting influence over platform content rules, giving governments a louder voice in supposedly "private" decisions. At the same time, law enforcement avails itself of the affordances of …
The Role Of Law And Myth In Creating A Workplace That 'Looks Like America', Susan Bisom-Rapp Oct 2022
The Role Of Law And Myth In Creating A Workplace That 'Looks Like America', Susan Bisom-Rapp
Equal employment opportunity (EEO) law has played a poor role in incentivizing effective diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and harassment prevention programming. In litigation and investigation, too many judges and regulators credit employers for maintaining policies and programs rather than requiring employers to embrace efforts that work. Likewise, many employers and consultants fail to consider the organizational effects created by DEI and harassment programming. Willful ignorance prevents the admission that some policies and programming harm those most in need of protection.
This approach has resulted in two problems. One is a doctrinal dilemma because important presumptions embedded in antidiscrimination law …
Colorblind Capture, Jonathan Feingold Oct 2022
Colorblind Capture, Jonathan Feingold
We are facing two converging waves of racial retrenchment. The first, which arose following the Civil Rights Movement, is nearing a legal milestone. This term or the next, the Supreme Court will prohibit affirmative action in higher education. When it does, the Court will cement decades of conservative jurisprudence that has systematically eroded the right to remedy racial inequality.
The second wave is more recent but no less significant. Following 2020's global uprising for racial justice, rightwing forces launched a coordinated assault on antiracism itself. The campaign has enjoyed early success. As one measure, GOP officials have passed, proposed or …
Donor-Advised Funds In The Wake Of The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act, David I. Walker Sep 2022
Donor-Advised Funds In The Wake Of The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act, David I. Walker
Donor-advised funds (DAFs) are conduits for charitable giving that support immediate tax deductions while creating a reservoir of assets for subsequent disposition to end-use charities. The number of new DAF accounts has skyrocketed in the wake of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). This Article presents evidence suggesting that bunching charitable contributions to game the TCJA-enhanced standard deduction likely motivates much of the onslaught of new DAF accounts established since 2016 and argues that the typical buncher is likely to differ from other DAF account holders in ways that matter from a policy perspective. Thus, while DAF critics …
Inflation, Market Failures, And Algorithms, Rory Van Loo Sep 2022
Inflation, Market Failures, And Algorithms, Rory Van Loo
Inflation is a problem of tremendous scale. But inflation itself is unlikely to cause the greatest economic harm during inflationary periods. Instead, a more likely source of devastation will be policymakers' response to inflation. Their main anti-inflation tools, most notably increasing interest rates, increase unemployment and the risk of recessions. This Article argues that there is a better approach. Rather than defaulting to interest rate hikes that harm markets, policy makers should prioritize laws that lower prices while improving markets. For decades, businesses have raised prices by manipulating consumers, exercising monopoly power, and lobbying for laws that block competition. Automated …


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The media is rife with hypothesis approximately Steve Jobs health after it's been introduced that he could be taking some other scientific depart. What is the destiny of the organization? What effect will Steve Jobs absence from Apple has on its inventory performance? What ails Jobs and the way severe is it?
Steve Jobs has asked that his privacy be reputable for the duration of his duration of healing. Let's hope his desires are respected and there is no prying into his clinical records or personal family affairs by using sleazy bloggers or "newshounds" seeking to get a few types of "scoop."
It is not out of line, however, to invest in Apple's future, as many pundits and analysts are already doing. Unfortunately, Much of the hypothesis about everything includes pointless handwringing if no longer downright hysteria. It's time for a few cool heads to set the report immediately.
During his career, Steve Jobs has revolutionized no longer one enterprise but numerous: computers with the Apple II and later the Macintosh, running structures with NeXT, animation with Pixar, music, and enjoyment with Apple's iTunes, the mobile cell phone industry with the iPhone and now the whole international of tablet PCs with the iPad. Steve Jobs has had an exceptional capacity to intuitively hold close what the general public wishes and to peer opportunities that others have ignored. In addition, the power of his persona and popularity had given him and Apple extensive heft in relation to negotiation.
Steve Jobs ego has gotten within the manner at instances.
Certainly, a good deal of the speculation surrounding Apple after Steve Jobs is not unexpected. Steve Jobs has provided himself as Apple's public face. He has run the keynotes, given most of the large announcements, and made Apple a completely persona-pushed company. Although this has constructed the Apple mystique through the years, it had the disadvantage of leading to speculation about Apple's destiny after Jobs is no longer with the corporation. Certainly, Jobs' ego is one of the things that led to his authentic ouster from Apple back in 1985.
Apple is a multibillion-dollar, multinational organization which, in line with Wikipedia, has 46, six hundred complete time employees and a couple of,800 temporary full-time personnel worldwide, and global annual sales of $ sixty-five .23 billion.
Apple is plenty bigger than one man. In fact, Apple continued to revel in an extensive user base and popularity throughout the time between Steve Jobs ouster and his eventual return. Although Jobs is a unique technology visionary, runs Apple in a totally arms-on fashion, and is, in truth, the general public face of the agency, it would be a mistake to assume that he's the only one maintaining it going.
Steve Jobs has been tormented by health troubles for a number of years now. Being the forward-questioning guy he's, Jobs has honestly no longer ignored the fact that he's going to now not be around for all time. Steve Jobs is aware of what it takes to reach commercial enterprise and has surrounded himself with an extremely good group of very gifted human beings. He has been careful to groom Tim Cook as his proper-hand man, ensuring that there will be someone available to maintain operations of the corporation if he has to ever have to go away.
Apple has a fantastic control team which includes Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, Peter Oppenheimer, Phil Schiller, Jonathan Ive, Ron Johnson, Sina Tamaddon, Bertrand Serlet, Scott Forstall and Bob Mansfield. I've, who has been with Apple when you consider that 1992 has been the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design due to the fact that 1997.
During that point, Apple becomes not stagnant, either. The company added much progressive merchandise, which includes the Newton, a groundbreaking hand-held computer; the PowerBook, which set up the cutting-edge ergonomic format and form element of the laptop pc; System 7, a prime enhance in operating systems; the PowerPC processor, a brand new computing architecture the use of Motorola and IBM hardware; and TrueType font generation, an open well known for fonts that substantially simplified font management.
Sure, Apple has had some missteps throughout that time, but it'd be a mistake to assume that everything Steve Jobs touches has grown to become to gold both; the Xserve has been discontinued, the Macintosh Cube flopped and the Apple TV has but to honestly take off.
Apple enjoys millions of unswerving clients and customers. Apple save openings frequently draw crowds of heaps, some of whom wait in line for as long as an afternoon earlier than the hole, and a number of whom even fly in from other international locations for the occasion. The dice-shaped store on Fifth Avenue in New York drew crowds half of a mile lengthy for its grand commencing; some of the visitors even took the opportunity to advise marriage at the occasion. Mac users have been fiercely dependable to their system due to the ease of use of the working system and applications and the industrial design of the gadgets themselves.
The Macintosh has loved a "halo impact," as customers of the iPod, iPhone and different Mac products were inspired to try Apple's other offerings, inclusive of its computing device computer systems. This method that the Mac consumer base has been growing over the last numerous years. The loyalty of Mac customers has inspired the word "Cult of Macintosh." Users of Macs and Apple's different merchandise love their gadgets due to Apple's progressive business design, software program made to be clean to use from the floor up, superior running system, award-winning assist, compatibility with PCs and 1/3-celebration hardware, ability to work with Microsoft Office and other PC files, and non-susceptibility to PC viruses.
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Most people do not think about the advantages and disadvantages to different garage door materials. However, if you are building a home, renovating your house, or simply wanting a change, you should consider an all-wood garage door. There are many benefits to this type of garage door, but it does require some upkeep. Here are the important things you should know before picking a wooden garage door.
Wooden garages can be easily customized. Since, other designs are manufactured in standard sizes; therefore if you don't have a garage opening of a standard size then this can be a problem.
In fact, building your dream home complete with some spiffy garage doors is indeed possible. Make a list of the features that you want to have in your new house. In your decision process, you should look at regular designs as well as designs of the rich and famous that are pictured in catalogs. Looking at those pictures will give you inspiration.
Try a reflective surface in insulating custom garage doors san diego in hot climates. Screw or glue the panels of insulation on the back of the door. Then use an adhesive to stick reflective sheeting facing the outside of the garage to the door. The space you have created will help to block out the heat the door would otherwise conduct.
If you have a homeowner's association, you should look at the CC&Rs before adding a new look to your house. Some HOAs do not allow styles that look too different from other houses, while some do not have a preference. The same applies when painting any new doors, as there are often color restrictions.
Over the years, the garage door industry has boomed because people have realized that the front of the house is the first impression of the house and adds greatly to both the curb appeal and to the value of the house.
Custom garage doors may not be for everyone. In these difficult times, they may be something of a luxury for most people. However, if you do have money to spend, why not splurge it on something that definitely adds value to your home?


You're so lucky… Lucky that you found this page. Why? Because I just figured out how to win the lottery and, right now, I will teach you how to do it too.
In fact, I bet that the moment you finish reading this, you'll be rushing out to play the lottery and buy a Powerball ticket.
All of the bad luck in your life is about to change. No more financial worries. Heck, no more worries, period. That's what winning the lottery will do for you.
Your first stroke of luck was finding this article. But, through some mystical happenstance, you did it, you found this page. That, my friend, is fate. Now prepare to be wowed!
I'm going to tell you how to win the lottery. But first, I will tell you what pushed me to try to figure out how to do it. Then I will tell you why you should trust me that this works.
Finally, I'll tell you exactly how to do it – How to win the lottery.
I, myself, wanted to learn how to win the lottery. As with anything, when you want to learn how to do something new, you find out how to do it by searching the internet (D'uh!). That's what I did. I searched "How to win the lottery" on my favorite search engine.
This internet search engine provided plenty of results to my query. One, in particular, caught my attention. It was a system developed by a man claiming to be a professor from Oklahoma.
This professor claimed to have developed a magical formula that guarantees you'll win the lottery 8-times-out-of-10.
8-times-out-of-10, eh? Nice, but I wanted to win it every time I played, like 10-times-out-of-10. Further, this professor wanted $100 to purchase his system. Ya, right! Like I'd fork over a hundred bucks to buy a system that fails 20% of the time. As if!
So I kept searching. I couldn't find anything. I decided to figure it out on my own. I figured it out. In a moment, I will tell you.
That Oklahoma professor that I told you about makes a lot of money selling his system at a hundred bucks a pop. Why? Because people trust him. He's got credentials. I mean, he's a professor… How could you not trust him?
You can trust me too. I've got credentials. For instance, I once passed a high school calculus exam without cheating. And, when I watch Jeopardy, I can sometimes answer a question (Or question an answer, whatever).
To top it all off, my mom once told me that I'm the second smartest out of all four of her sons. So you see, I'm smart.
You know what else my mom told me? She told me I'm her fourth best-looking son. Ya, I'm hot! And another thing – As hard as it may be to believe, I'm even better looking than Philip Taylor (If you don't know who Philip Taylor is, he's the author of PT Money, silly-head).
Why does it matter what I look like, you may ask? It matters because people that are good-looking are perceived to be more intelligent. It's true, they did a study.
I'm smart, good-looking, and you can trust me. Now I'll tell you how to win the lottery. But unlike that Oklahoma professor, I will not charge you anything for this. I will tell you for free.
If you do wanna pay me back, though, just buy me a Dr. Pepper when you win, OK?
I'm going to give you this information in concise, easy-to-understand steps. I'm going to specifically tell you how to win the Powerball game. However, you can use these steps to win any lotto game, worldwide.
Step 1:: Ask your mom for $2. You'll need $2 because this is how much it costs to buy a Powerball ticket.
Step 2: Grab your skateboard and skateboard on down to the local gas station. I prefer to go to BP because they're a company that are meticulous about their offshore oil drilling safety.
That's important to me. They almost never spill oil into the waters, especially the waters in the gulf of Mexico. But, for you, any gas station will do.
Step 3: Walk into the gas station and look for a multi-colored plastic stand that says "Lotto" on it. Go there. You will find number-selection slips. Take the one that says "Powerball." That's the one you need.
Step 4: This is the most important step. You have to pick five numbers from 1-to-59, plus one more number from 1-to-35.
Listen carefully, now. To win the Powerball jackpot, you have to correctly predict which numbers will be drawn on Powerball draw night. Those are the numbers that you need to mark down on the Powerball number-selection slip in front of you.
All you have to do to win the Powerball jackpot is correctly predict the numbers that will be drawn, ahead of time. That's it! That's all you have to do to win Powerball! It works every time!
Now you know how to win the lottery – You just have to correctly predict the numbers that will be drawn on draw night. You can do that for any lottery game, worldwide. It's guaranteed to work every time, 10-times-out-of-10.
You're so lucky… Lucky that you found this page. Why? Because I just figured out how to win the lottery and, right now, I will teach you how to do it too. In fact, I bet that the moment you finish reading this, you'll be rushing out to play the lottery and buy a Powerball ticket. All of the bad luck in your life is about to change. No more financial worries. Heck, no more worries, period. That's what winning the lottery will do for you. Your first stroke of luck was finding this article. But, through some mystical happenstance, you did it, you found this page. That, my friend, is fate. Now prepare to be wowed! I'm going to tell you how to win the lottery. But first, I will tell you what pushed me to try to figure out how to do it. Then I will tell you why you should trust me that this works. Finally, I'll tell you exactly how to do it – How to win the lottery. I, myself, wanted to learn how to win the lottery. As with anything, when you want to learn how to do something new, you find out how to do it by searching the internet (D'uh!). That's what I did. I searched "How to win the lottery" on my favorite search engine. This internet search engine provided plenty of results to my query. One, in particular, caught my attention. It was a system developed by a man claiming to be a professor from Oklahoma. This professor claimed to have developed a magical formula that guarantees you'll win the lottery 8-times-out-of-10. 8-times-out-of-10, eh? Nice, but I wanted to win it every time I played, like 10-times-out-of-10. Further, this professor wanted $100 to purchase his system. Ya, right! Like I'd fork over a hundred bucks to buy a system that fails 20% of the time. As if! So I kept searching. I couldn't find anything. I decided to figure it out on my own. I figured it out. In a moment, I will tell you. That Oklahoma professor that I told you about makes a lot of money selling his system at a hundred bucks a pop. Why? Because people trust him. He's got credentials. I mean, he's a professor… How could you not trust him? You can trust me too. I've got credentials. For instance, I once passed a high school calculus exam without cheating. And, when I watch Jeopardy, I can sometimes answer a question (Or question an answer, whatever). To top it all off, my mom once told me that I'm the second smartest out of all four of her sons. So you see, I'm smart. You know what else my mom told me? She told me I'm her fourth best-looking son. Ya, I'm hot! And another thing – As hard as it may be to believe, I'm even better looking than Philip Taylor (If you don't know who Philip Taylor is, he's the author of PT Money, silly-head). Why does it matter what I look like, you may ask? It matters because people that are good-looking are perceived to be more intelligent. It's true, they did a study. I'm smart, good-looking, and you can trust me. Now I'll tell you how to win the lottery. But unlike that Oklahoma professor, I will not charge you anything for this. I will tell you for free. If you do wanna pay me back, though, just buy me a Dr. Pepper when you win, OK? How To Win The Lottery I'm going to give you this information in concise, easy-to-understand steps. I'm going to specifically tell you how to win the Powerball game. However, you can use these steps to win any lotto game, worldwide. Here we go: Step 1:: Ask your mom for $2. You'll need $2 because this is how much it costs to buy a Powerball ticket. Step 2: Grab your skateboard and skateboard on down to the local gas station. I prefer to go to BP because they're a company that are meticulous about their offshore oil drilling safety. That's important to me. They almost never spill oil into the waters, especially the waters in the gulf of Mexico. But, for you, any gas station will do. Step 3: Walk into the gas station and look for a multi-colored plastic stand that says "Lotto" on it. Go there. You will find number-selection slips. Take the one that says "Powerball." That's the one you need. Step 4: This is the most important step. You have to pick five numbers from 1-to-59, plus one more number from 1-to-35. Listen carefully, now. To win the Powerball jackpot, you have to correctly predict which numbers will be drawn on Powerball draw night. Those are the numbers that you need to mark down on the Powerball number-selection slip in front of you. All you have to do to win the Powerball jackpot is correctly predict the numbers that will be drawn, ahead of time. That's it! That's all you have to do to win Powerball! It works every time! Now you know how to win the lottery – You just have to correctly predict the numbers that will be drawn on draw night. You can do that for any lottery game, worldwide. It's guaranteed to work every time, 10-times-out-of-10.


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Гуачжо́у () — уезд городского округа Цзюцюань провинции Ганьсу (КНР). Уезд назван в средневековой административной единицы, органы власти которой размещались в этих местах.

История
При империи Суй был создан округ Чанлэ (常乐郡). При империи Тан он был в 622 году преобразован в область Гуачжоу (瓜州).

При империи Цин после того, как было уничтожено Джунгарское ханство, в этих местах был размещён Аньсиский караул (安西卫).

В 1913 году был создан уезд Аньси (安西县).

В 1949 году был образован Специальный район Цзюцюань (酒泉专区), и эти земли вошли в его состав. В 1955 году Специальный район Цзюцюань и Специальный район Увэй были объединены в Специальный район Чжанъе (张掖专区), но в 1961 году Специальный район Цзюцюань был воссоздан. В 1970 году Специальный район Цзюцюань был переименован в Округ Цзюцюань (酒泉地区).

Постановлением Госсовета КНР от 18 июня 2002 года были расформированы округ Цзюцюань и городской уезд Цзюцюань, и образован городской округ Цзюцюань.

В 2006 году постановлением Госсовета КНР уезд Аньси был переименован в Гуачжоу.

Административное деление
Уезд делится на 5 посёлков, 6 волостей и 4 национальные волости.

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The Summer Olympic Games will have a transformative effect on Brazil and bring a new level of understanding and appreciation of this amazing country to the rest of the world, says Bridgestone's communications leader for the Americas.
With less than two months until the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the city of Rio de Janeiro and the world's greatest athletes are chasing their dreams into the final stages of their Olympic preparations, and so is Bridgestone.
For our company and brands, the upcoming Games are a series of firsts. They are Bridgestone's first since signing on as a Worldwide Olympic Partner in June 2014, and mark the first truly global marketing platform in our company's history. They are also the first Olympic Games in South America and the first in Brazil, a country where Bridgestone has more than 90 years of history.
There is no greater stage than the Olympic Games, and as a communicator, this is both an exciting and challenging time to practice our craft. Much like the incredible athletes we aspire to emulate, partners of the Games must prepare for any and all conditions and be confident that our tireless planning will pay off. At Bridgestone, we are working hard to maintain the delicate balance of maximizing all the wonderful opportunities our Olympic partnership offers us and navigating the many varied hurdles facing Brazil, the Games, and all those involved.
Bridgestone has a long history of large-scale sporting event and sports marketing experience to draw upon and every event, including the Olympics, brings its own unique set of challenges. In that respect, Rio 2016 is no different, but the storylines coming out of the host country – from political and economic crises to infrastructure and public health concerns – make Rio a "perfect storm." Like all partners, we have been preparing for many months by closely monitoring events in Brazil, working with organizers and stakeholders behind the scenes, and setting up processes and protocols for internal and external communications. We are also keeping our employees and hospitality guests informed. Creating a seamless and nimble team across management, marketing, and security that can adjust and react in real-time is paramount.
At the same time, we are proud – and ready – to celebrate the Olympic spirit, the world's greatest athletes, and the rich culture and people of the beautiful host country of Brazil. Bridgestone's integrated activation strategy for Rio 2016 includes soon-to-launch advertising, retail marketing, and digital campaigns, as well as robust athlete and hospitality programs. Through our association with the Games, Bridgestone will show the world who we are and what we do, ignite pride amongst our 145,000-plus employees around the world, and engage more deeply with those who rely on our products.
Ultimately, as a new Olympic partner, the Rio Games are a time for Bridgestone to test, learn, and be inspired. With Olympic marketing rights in the U.S., Brazil, Japan, and Korea this year (our rights go fully global in 2017), our program is designed to build a strong foundation that will enable us to fully maximize our sponsorship and help drive business outcomes, over the next eight years of our partnership. We are the world's number one tire company, but we are much more, and we are anxious to share that with the world.
I am honored to have a personal connection to these Games, having lived in the host country with my family for nearly four years, including during the time when Rio was named as host city. I have no doubt my Brazilian colleagues and the country's dynamic spirit will dazzle the world once the Olympic Flame is lit during the Opening Ceremony at the iconic Maracaña Stadium on August 5. While an array of important topics continue to capture the headlines, the hope and belief is that the focus soon will turn to the inspiring athletes, the pageantry of the Games, and the sense of peace and unity that the world stops to celebrate every Olympiad.
As Olympíadas estão chegando. Vamos lá!
Paul Oakley is VP of communications for Bridgestone Americas.


Cycle along rural country lanes in the morning then later paddle along the Mae Ngat Dam lake using sit-on-top kayaks. A fun and active day with plenty of time to swim, relax, explore and enjoy a Thai lunch with peaceful surroundings .
08:30 Pick-up at your hotel in Chiang Mai and transfer by vehicle to our cycling starting point.
10:00 Upon arrival, your guide provides a quick briefing and fits you with a 24-gear TREK 4300 model mountain-bike and helmet. Cycle a 20km loop along rural roads through this scenic valley; we will encounter mostly flat terrain, and a few off-road sections along irrigation canals and rice paddies – authentic Northern Thailand countryside.
12:00 Enjoy a homecooked Thai meal at a local restaurant.
13:15 This afternoon we swap our bikes for sit-on-top kayaks! After a short vehicle transfer to the nearby Mae Ngat Dam in Sri Lanna National Park we begin paddling to reach tranquil floating raft houses (1+ hour paddling). Choose to either relax on the deck, or swim around the raft house.
15:30 Take a 15-minute motor boat journey back to the shore, followed by a short transfer to our adventure base, Le Cocotier Resort.
16:00 Relax and have a drink. Shower and changing rooms available.
Note: This trip is suitable for families with young children and it can be tailor-made when booked as private tour.


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How is Flutter App Development Setting Trends?
by Artistixe IT Solutions LLP
Having trouble coming up with a startup business idea and planning to launch a mobile app? In a competitive world that is evolving as we speak, we live in the world of technology. The reason for the highest rate of startup failure is the wrong choice of development platform for mobile apps. Flutter App Development is definitely the way to go in 2021 if you want a cross-platform framework that can speed up the development process and reduce development costs. In addition to offering you a great user experience, it also provides you with both aesthetic and smooth animation.
What is Flutter?
The free and open-source Flutter project helps developers build multi-platform apps using a single codebase. It includes a mobile app, a web app, and desktop apps. Cross-platform app development is made easy due to the fact that it is not a library or framework that supplements other technologies, but rather a UI software development kit (SDK). It is an open-source platform by Google for creating hybrid mobile applications. Flutter 1.0 was released in 2018.
In programming, libraries are pieces of code that can be used in an app in order to accomplish a particular task. On the other hand, frameworks act as a structure for future apps by providing tools for creating the architecture. An SDK is a combination of tools, such as libraries, frameworks, documentation, APIs, and other components that are sufficient to construct a fully functional application.
Various Google Assistant modules and the Google Home Hub's interface are built with Flutter. The number of Flutter apps in the Google Play Store has already reached 50,000, and it's growing dramatically each day. In addition to Alibaba Group, eBay, Groupon, and other popular e-commerce vendors using Flutter for their mobile and web applications, Amazon also uses it for Amazon Web Services.
How does Flutter work?
A Flutter app uses both the Flutter engine and the Foundation library written in the Dart programming language. A declarative approach to UI development makes Flutter different from other development approaches. There is a need to start at the end, meaning that before developing any element, the user needs to have an idea of what kind of UI it is. UIs written in this manner are considered by developers to be more clear, but they can also present certain challenges initially.
It basically consists of a set of widgets that developers can combine to create an entire user interface. Interfaces of applications typically include many nested widgets, which may be any type of object. Any button can be combined with a widget, and the developer can customize the application radically by combining widgets. There is a possibility of interactions between widgets and the use of built-in functions to respond to external influences. Users can customize widgets according to the design specifications for Android, iOS, and web applications.
Developers can use Flutter to create custom widgets that integrate seamlessly with existing ones. Flutter Gallery does not provide OEM widgets, but it provides developers with a set of ready-to-use widgets that look like native Android and iOS design languages (Material and Cupertino).
Similarly, Flutter provides developers with the ability to view widgets in a reactive fashion. Flutter isn't the first mobile SDK to offer a reactive look, but it's the only one that does it without needing a JavaScript bridge. Also, Dart provides a software package repository that can enhance an application's capabilities.
Data Related to Flutter App Development
Flutter is an extremely powerful framework when compared to other languages. Many developers of Flutter app development are very happy with it and find it easy, interesting, and fruitful.
In December 2018, Flutter was released for the first time, but by April 2020, 2 million people had downloaded it.
As of April 2020, there were over 90,000 Flutter-built apps in the Play Store, a significant increase from 50,000 in April. The Flutter Framework is available for mobile, web, and desktop.
On the 4th of December 2018, the Flutter beta was live. The updated version launched on 13th March 2018. Despite its short existence, Flutter already had an established position on the market.
In December 2017, 35% of Flutter developers were employed by startups, 26% by enterprises, 19% by self-employed developers, and 7% by design agencies.
Flutter app development was selected by 39% of software developers who surveyed cross-platform mobile frameworks used in 2019 and 2020.
Flutter App Development is Setting Trends in the Following Ways
Single Codebase
Among the characteristics of Flutter that make it distinctive is the write-once principle. Developers no longer have to manually adapt to multiple platforms as they had to with traditional cross-platform approaches. The Flutter app development platform means only one-time coding for two platforms, Android and IOS, and not a second time for both. According to most developers, Flutter is a wise choice. Flutter cuts down on both user and developer efforts with its Hybrid App Development framework. The result is that they can improve the quality, design, and speed of the application quickly.
Writing and Testing Code Efficiently
Flutter app development is extremely efficient. As only one code is required, the process is streamlined and accelerated, which leads to increased efficiency. Developers are able to reuse the single codebase across multiple plugins, thus cutting down development time. Additionally, when testing a cross-platform mobile application, a simple quality assurance process is sufficient to identify and verify its functionality, features, and program.
An Easy Language to Develop in
The operating system Flutter is based on is Dart, which is the in-house language of Google. Compared to other languages, Dart is a one-source and general-purpose language, so even developers with little to no coding experience can learn it easily and quickly. Additionally to Mobile Application Development, Dart is also widely accessible to the developing web that runs on servers and desktops.
Utilizing Widgets
As a client of an application, you must be aware that widgets play a very significant role in the user interface. A variety of widgets can be customized regardless of screen size with Flutter integrated apps, including navigation, scrolling, and fonts. The Flutter mobile app framework provides an extremely smooth, yet highly customizable UI experience.
Suitable for MVP
As MVPs have become the primary means for startups to validate their ideas and get funding, they are essential for the success of any startup. The MVP version of an application is a small, basic version with the most essential features. They have the purpose of testing a concept and collecting feedback so that we can improve the app for the next release. Without an MVP, startups struggle to find investors and must proceed blindly in their development. Flutter app development is a viable option for creating an MVP, as the SDK includes many features, is easy to learn, and delivers quality apps.
Flutter app development consists of creating apps using ready-made widgets. The widget technique in Flutter is much more consistent than other usual approaches like layouts, views, or controllers, and simplifies the development process. In Flutter development, every element you touch is a widget, and widgets can be combined to create more complex layouts.
Ending Statement
In Flutter App Development, businesses can develop native-like apps while spending less money and launching the apps on both Android and iOS at the same time. There is an enormous potential for companies that work on different platforms quickly and efficiently. In addition to being free, Flutter benefits from being a reliable and easy-to-use platform for app development. Artistixe uses Flutter as its primary technology. We have the ability to develop the most suitable apps for your needs as a Flutter App Development Company.
Artistixe IT Solutions LLP
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The Science Behind
Underwater Farming and Standard Agriculture
Invest in Nemo
Where's Nemo
In the summer of 2012, Sergio Gamberini, founder of diving equipment firm Ocean Reef Group, was enjoying a seaside vacation on the Italian Riviera. Resting in between dives, he enjoyed strolling along the edge of the sea chatting with friends.
One day, the conversation veered to his other passion: gardening.
Would it be possible, he wondered, to create the perfect growing conditions for basil, the most popular local herb and an essential ingredient for pesto?
Like most herbs, basil prefers protected, sunny locations with well-drained soils and a constant, stable temperature.
Glancing at the sea, Gamberini was struck with an unusual idea: why not try to grow basil underwater? Bizarre as it might have seemed, the idea made perfect sense coming from a diving aficionado and innovation-minded entrepreneur. In fact, it would have allowed Mr. Gamberini to combine two of his passions: scuba diving and gardening. He made a couple of phone calls and, with the help of his team at Ocean Reef Group, started experimenting, sinking transparent biospheres 20 feet below the surface of the sea and filling them with air.
The project's goal
The project's goal was initially a provocation, but suddenly turned in something more ambitious:
create an alternative system of agriculture, especially dedicated to those areas where environmental conditions, economical or morphologic reasons make plants growth extremely difficult.
Nemo's Garden's aims to create a system that utilizes natural resources already available, the foremost important one being the oceans and other bodies of water.
Nemo's Garden Project may be described with two keywords:
Self-sustainable
Nemo's Garden is not only a technological endeavor, aimed at making underwater farming an economically viable, long-term alternative form of agriculture, but most and foremost it is an eco-friendly and self-sustainable project.
The use of renewable energy harnessed from the sun and of fresh water obtained by desalination of seawater, in fact, make Nemo's Garden a self-sustainable system.
The microclimate and thermal conditions within the biospheres are optimal for plant growth and crop yields, not unlike a conventional greenhouse, yet it requires no additional energy sources.
The underwater farm determines very minimal, if none, interaction with the marine environment and related ecosystems, exception made for a positive shelter-like effect in order to support the repopulation for the surrounding marine areas.
A new environment for botanical research and further opportunities
The interest and seriousness of the project has drawn attention to the research side as well. Nemo's Garden has already been rented to pharmaceutical companies willing to explore this alternative solution in growing plants. These companies believe, like us, that plants grown underwater may unveil interesting discoveries for the future.
"Every year, we are discovering new possible applications for the biospheres," said Gianni Fontanesi, project coordinator at Nemo's Garden.
These include eco tourism, fish farming, seaweed farming, or as scientific research labs or underwater stations for monitoring wildlife, scientific research, etc.
For general enquiries please fill out the form below.
If you are interested in investing in Nemo's Garden's technology,
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Buhari promises to cut oil output for higher prices
President Buhari receiving a message from King Salman of Saudi Arabia on need to cut oil output
President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday pledged the cooperation of Nigeria to the effort to reduce oil output in order to attract higher prices in the global market.
Buhari made the promise during a meeting with Mr Ahmad Qattan, Minister of State for African Affairs and Special Envoy of King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and King of Saudi Arabia, at the State House, Abuja.
Abba Kyari's last words to Nigerians on COVID-19
President Buhari said as a responsible member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, Nigeria is willing to go along with the Saudi initiative in limiting output so that prices would go up.
The President said output cuts had always been difficult for Nigeria considering the country's peculiar circumstances of large population, huge expanse of land and state of under-development, adding, "I wish we can produce more."
However, he said: "I have listened carefully to the message. I will speak with the Minister of State for Petroleum. I will call for the latest production figures. I know that it is in our interest to listen. We will cooperate."
President Buhari explained that higher oil prices will make both nations stronger and their citizens more prosperous.
He commended King Salman for his leadership in global oil matters, assuring that Nigeria will continue to accord respect to the Kingdom in that regard.
The Special Envoy said he had brought special greetings from King Salman and the Crown Prince, and expressed their best wishes for Nigeria as the country goes into general elections.
Mr Qattan said the important reason for which King Salman sent him was to make a request to President Buhari to ensure Nigeria's compliance with quotas assigned in January by exiting previous exemption from output cuts.
He said his country had reduced its own output by 1.4 million barrels per day to ensure that prices went up, stressing however, that Saudi Arabia alone cannot bring stability to the oil market and shore up prices.
The Special Envoy called for greater adherence to production cuts by Nigeria and hoped that he would take a positive message back home.
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AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards
2015 Radio - Gold
Rami Tzabar
"What the Songbird Said" - 11 May 2015
BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service
Rami Tzabar and Angela Saini of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) won for radio reporting that explored how animal models of vocal communication may be useful in understanding how human language might have evolved. "Just like the birdsongs they report on, the BBC team produced a program that is both a delight to the ears and elegantly structured," said Seth Borenstein, a science reporter for the Associated Press, who helped judge the competition.
Vocal learning — the ability to learn and imitate sounds — is a trait humans share with only a few other species, most notably, songbirds. Charles Darwin noticed this similarity as far back as 1871 and researchers recently have been finding many similarities in the way humans and songbirds perceive and process speech and song. Borenstein called the report "a fascinating peek into language, biology, and maybe ourselves." Tina Hesman Saey of Science News called it "one grammar lesson you won't want to miss." Rami Tzabar said the program "was inspired by a chance meeting with one of the contributors, the MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa, who talked about using animal behavior as a way of understanding the evolution of human language. And of course, birdsong and primate calls make wonderful radio material."
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Synonyms are great for helping your students to build their vocabulary. Use these colourful posters, puzzle activity and worksheets in your primary school classroom to show a range of synonyms for some commonly used words and concepts. The posters can also act as a great way to assist your students in making their writing more interesting and using different words - rather than the same old 'said', 'good', 'went' etc.
A resource pack of posters displaying the orders of comparison for adjectives.
A poster displaying the orders of comparison for adjectives sad to distraught.
A poster displaying the orders of comparison for adjectives not any to all.
A poster displaying the orders of comparison for adjectives good to ecstatic.
A poster pack displaying synonyms for the different words and feelings.
A Posters Resource Pack to assist when teaching synonyms.
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NBA 2021-22: Latest rookie class could make immediate splash
By	Sports Desk	October 18, 2021
On the eve of the 2021-22 NBA season, the league appears well-positioned with as much talent and star power as in any year in recent memory.
Future Hall of Famers like LeBron James, Chris Paul and Kevin Durant remain at the centre of the basketball universe, while a younger generation led by Luka Doncic, Jayson Tatum and Zion Williamson continues to grow stardom.
But the most recent additions to the league – those in the 2021 NBA Draft class – appear to be in prime position to make their mark in their rookie seasons.
This year's class of rookies was targeted years ago as a deep crop of talented prospects, and some of the most coveted players landed in situations that will allow them to contribute immediately.
Early and frequent contributions – in combination with the NBA's current wide-open, high-scoring style of play – mean that this year's talented rookie class has a chance to make history.
Shaq and Co. set the standard
The top five picks from the 1992 draft class averaged 19.0 points per game in the 1992-93 season, the most by the top quintet of first-year players since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976. That class featured Shaquille O'Neal (23.4 points per game), Alonzo Mourning (21.0), Christian Laettner (18.2), Jim Jackson (16.3) and LaPhonso Ellis (14.7) taken with the first five picks.
The top five from 2018 was the highest-scoring rookie class in recent memory by averaging 17.3 points, led by Doncic (21.2 points per game) and Trae Young (19.1).
Michael Jordan's 28.2-point rookie scoring average boosted the top quintet from the 1984 class to 16.9 points per game.
The high end of the lauded 2003 class – which included James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh – averaged 15.9 points per game despite scant contributions from the infamous Darko Milicic (1.4 points per game).
But can this year's top five picks compete with some of the best draft classes in league history?
Green already impressing in Houston
The Detroit Pistons took Cade Cunningham number one overall, the Houston Rockets selected Jalen Green second and the Orlando Magic picked Jalen Suggs number five – three natural scorers on the perimeter who landed on teams deep in the rebuilding process.
Cunningham and Suggs both averaged more than 15 points in Las Vegas Summer League action, while Green was a top-10 scorer there, averaging 20.3 points in just 24.1 minutes.
Detroit and Orlando ended last season with two of the youngest five rosters in the NBA, making it likely that they feature their rookies early and often in the 2021-22 campaign.
Cunningham has been held out all preseason after suffering a sprained ankle in a late-September practice, but Pistons head coach Dwane Casey classified the injury as "mild", giving Detroit hope that the top pick will be available for the team's season-opening game on Wednesday.
The Cleveland Cavaliers, who selected versatile big man Evan Mobley number three overall, seem to have intentions of making a playoff push and have more experienced players inside like Jarrett Allen, Lauri Markkanen and the estranged Kevin Love. A slight frame and Cleveland's crowded frontcourt could limit Mobley's minutes in his first year, but he has shown his versatility in exhibition play, blocking shots and grabbing rebounds while averaging 11.7 points per game in Summer League and exhibition play.
Scottie Barnes was drafted fourth overall by the Toronto Raptors and, like Mobley, is more of an all-around player than a pure scorer, but the six-foot-nine forward has averaged 10.0 points, 5.7 rebounds and 6.3 assists in his first three exhibition games, handling the ball plenty for a team that lost Kyle Lowry this offseason.
Potential for eye-popping numbers
It is far too early to count on the 2021 class to be one of the best in recent memory, but today's rookies have the advantage of putting up big numbers in a high-scoring league, especially with each of the top five selections showing promise from three-point range.
When LeBron James was a rookie in 2003-04, teams scored an average of 93.4 points per game and attempted 79.8 field goals per game. Last season's league scoring average was 112.1 points, a 20 per cent increase, and a typical team launched 88.4 shots, up nearly 11 per cent.
Last season saw 32 different players score at least 20 points per game. Just a decade ago, only 19 players hit that milestone.
The NBA's pace and scoring continue to rise, and young players are seeing statistical bumps as well. Last year's top pick, Anthony Edwards, struggled to begin his first season with the Minnesota Timberwolves. He finished the season by scoring at least 15 points in 36 of his last 40 games and averaged 23.5 points per game over that span.
Cunningham, Green and Suggs are all considered better outside shooters than Edwards was heading into his rookie season, and this crop of rookies could let it fly from three-point range early and often.
While the ultimate verdict on the 2021 draft class will be decided several years down the line, the door is open for some of league's most coveted prospects to put up eye-popping numbers in today's wide-open NBA.
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Time off the only solution for faltering Chelsea – Tuchel
Time off is the only antidote to Chelsea's ongoing malaise, according to Thomas Tuchel.
The Blues were held to a 1-1 draw at Brighton and Hove Albion on Tuesday, extending their winless streak in the Premier League to four matches – their worst such run under Tuchel.
Chelsea have won just one of their past seven top-flight matches and sit 12 points adrift of leaders Manchester City, who have a game in hand.
The meeting with Brighton was Chelsea's 15th game in all competitions since the start of December and Tuchel believes the only way they can get back on track for a prolonged period is through rest.
"We look tired. And we are. It's like this," Tuchel told BT Sport after Adam Webster's header cancelled out Hakim Ziyech's opener.
"We knew they were well prepared, they had more time to prepare and you saw at the end the stadium celebrates like a victory. That's what you face.
"We need our full strength to overcome these obstacles. In these moments there's no blame for the team. We tried everything. We are mentally and physically tired. We need some days off, there's no other solution.
"We have two days off then we have two days to prepare the match against Tottenham. There's no other solution."
Tuchel was critical of Ziyech after the 1-0 loss to City at the weekend and the former Ajax winger did not celebrate his first-half goal. He was also regularly engaged in heated conversations with Romelu Lukaku.
The Chelsea boss was unbothered by either of those aspects, though.
"I am happy. [Ziyech] can score 20 more and not celebrate, I have no problem," said Tuchel.
"It's normal that they talk. It's normal they're not happy and they don't like it if we say we want more from them. In the reaction to the goal, you can see we are tired because we are saving energy even there."
Brighton boss Graham Potter said: "We're really pleased and proud of the performance, definitely. We gave Chelsea a good game. Our performance was full of everything.
"It's not easy because they have some top players but the courage of our defenders... The boys played on the front foot as much as they could. They scored from not much, but it was a performance I really enjoyed.
"We were well in the game and the boys could feel it was a good performance. Chelsea don't give much away, so you have to work for everything. We could maybe test the goalkeeper more, but I thought we had everything."
Holders Borussia Dortmund shocked by St Pauli in DFB-Pokal
Erling Haaland's penalty was not enough to rescue Borussia Dortmund as they crashed out of the DFB-Pokal following a shock 2-1 defeat by St Pauli.
The reigning champions' title defence came to an abrupt end at Millerntor-Stadion, where the 2. Bundesliga leaders claimed a memorable victory.
Dortmund arrived in the tie having netted five goals without reply in their opening two matches of this season's DFB-Pokal, defeating Wehen Wiesbaden 3-0 and Ingolstadt 2-0.
Meanwhile, only Bayern Munich, Werder Bremen and Wolfsburg had beaten them in this competition since 2011.
However, they fell behind to Etienne Amenyido's fourth-minute strike, while an Axel Witsel own goal doubled the hosts' lead before the break.
Haaland halved the deficit from the penalty spot 13 minutes into the second half but ,despite eight shots on goal and 70.4 per cent of the possession, the visitors were unable to avert a shock exit.
Juventus 4-1 Sampdoria: Bianconeri make strong start to Coppa Italia defence
Juventus launched their Coppa Italia title defence with a commanding 4-1 victory over Sampdoria at the Allianz Stadium.
A free-kick from Juan Cuadrado gave the reigning champions a 25th-minute lead, while Daniele Rugani's first Bianconeri goal in almost three years doubled the advantage after the break.
Andrea Conti replied for Sampdoria, whose fortunes were overseen by Felice Tufano following the sacking of coach Roberto D'Aversa on Monday.
But substitute Paulo Dybala put the hosts back in control, before Alvaro Morata's penalty sealed their place in the quarter-finals.
Juventus had won eight of their nine previous Coppa Italia meetings with Sampdoria, while they had not been eliminated from this stage of the competition since 2005.
The Bianconeri made a strong start as Cuadrado tested Wladimiro Falcone with a fierce drive, but soon after there was no denying the Colombian, who drilled a low free-kick into the far corner.
Juve thought they had doubled their lead when Morata swept home within 60 seconds of the restart. But the Spain international was denied by VAR after Adrien Rabiot was adjudged to have fouled Tomas Rincon in the build-up.
The second goal arrived seven minutes after the interval; Rugani, who last found the net for Juventus in February 2019, climbed to nod home Arthur's inviting cross.
Despite a turbulent build-up that included the departure of D'Aversa, Sampdoria responded in the 63rd minute. Unmarked at the far post, Conti was allowed too much time to control before drilling past Mattia Perin.
However, their hard work was undone almost immediately as they were robbed of possession outside the penalty box, with Dybala gratefully sweeping home.
Morata then put the icing on the cake from the penalty spot after Marley was brought down by Tommaso Augello.
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Hailed as the largest 3D museum in Asia, Art in Island is a place where you can get the guaranteed relaxation and amusement you've been waiting for a long time. Going around this museum is one of the best ideas anyone can do to celebrate their success, a.k.a. the graduation. Use your imagination and make the art pieces more real and alive.
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In LUCY IN THE SKY, Natalie Portman plays Lucy Cola, a strong woman whose determination and drive as an astronaut take her to space, where she's deeply moved by the transcendent experience of seeing her life from afar. Back home as Lucy's world suddenly feels too small, her connection with reality slowly unravels.
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Ultra Fine Flair: Procrastinate This, Sucka!
Saturday I move into BP:LE. A few weeks ago, with the help of about half a dozen kickass girlfriends, I packed up loads of crap from my old apartment in preparation for the move. Sadly, the BP (v1) remains intact. I've looked around a few times to approximate how many boxes I'll need, and mostly thought, hey, it'll be fine. How long can it take to pack this place up? I've only lived here for a few months!
And so, in the week leading up to the big move, I have cleverly overbooked myself so that my packing follows the law of all packing (and software development and wedding planning): It will take as much time as is available to do it.
Last night, La Farlow came over to watch a movie. Then I baked banana bread, which I took out of the oven at approx. 12:30 a.m. Tonight, we had game night at work! I got home from that at 10:30, and now I'm blogging, but it's ABOUT packing so that kind of counts, right? I actually canceled my plans for tomorrow night (a leftover birthday mani-pedi) just so I'd have an evening to pack, which I'm SURE will be long enough, right?
Wanna get M/Ps with me on Thursday instead? I can't help your packing situation but I am totally there for you when it comes to procrastination!


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China Review International
Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature (review)
Wiebke Denecke
10.1353/cri.0.0063
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Atsuko Sakaki . Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. ix, 269 pp. Hardcover $59.00, ISBN 0–8248–2918–2.
This book is for lovers of perennial problématiques and for treasure hunters in search of texts and people that have fallen to the wayside in diversely enticing ways: A Japanese official—traveling to China in search of his late father who has just been reborn as a Chinese prince—ends up having a child with his father's mother, a Yang Guifei–esque consort, who is herself about to be reborn as the child of her Japanese stepsister. There is a female poet of kanshi, Sino-Japanese poetry, whose image became tarnished by rumors about her romantic liaison with her patron. A Spanish woman and an Irish woman, well versed in Xiao Tong's Literary Selections, Qu Yuan's Encountering Sorrow, and the Classic of Poetry, compose kanshi in Philadelphia to entertain their Chinese and Japanese male friends. Who is the Japanese official? The protagonist in The Tale of Middle Councilor Hamamatsu (1060), an imaginary travelogue written in the vernacular (wabun) that spins out complex fantasies of the cultural impact of the Japanese in China. Who is the slandered kanshi poet? Ema Saikā (1787–1861), whom Sakaki puts on par with Murasaki Shikibu, but whose kanshi oeuvre was underrated because she wrote in a predominantly male genre, as a protégé of the sinologist and kanshi poet Rai San'yō (1780–1832), which gained her equal amounts of admiration and contempt. Who are the Spanish and Irish women? Protagonists in Shiba Shirō's (1852–1922) political novel Unexpected Encounters with Beauties (Kajin no kigû), which was wildly popular in its own day but looks now like a swan song of literary production in Sino-Japanese (kanbun), which has rapidly faded during the twentieth century as a medium of social distinction and communication with other East Asian countries.
These are only three out of a wealth of thought-provoking snapshots and plots of Japanese literary engagement with China between the tenth and the twentieth centuries, through which Atsuko Sakaki's new book guides us with a sweep of force. Her book transcends ordinary boundaries: those between fiction and fact; real places and imaginary spaces; protagonists, beasts, and historical figures; wishful and virtual history. More important, it wants us actively to undo the boundaries and binaries that Japanese created in representing themselves and what represented China for them. Sakaki identifies four binary metaphors that have dominated Japan's vision of China and Chineseness: China as the foreign and exotic (versus Japan as domestic and indigenous); China as intellectual, conceptual, abstract (versus Japan as sentimental, spontaneous, material); China as masculine (versus Japan as feminine); China as traditional and rigid (versus Japan as modern and variable). Most of these binaries go back at least to the Heian period, as Sakaki's book vividly [End Page 360] shows. But their systematic and unrelenting enforcement and ostracizing power in deciding who belonged and did not belong into an indigenous, purified literary canon that represented the modern Japanese nation is of modern origin and intent. Although nativism and modern nationalism amputated Sino-Japanese literature (kanbun) from the national canon of Japanese literature and reinforced what Sakaki calls the "Sino-Japanese polarity," the ensuing death of kanbun, the productive literary language of Japan for not quite one and a half millennia, has neutralized this polarity. This might be in part what Sakaki means when she says in her introduction that the conclusion to her book "was written with the anticipation of liberation from the stake of the 'Sino-Japanese polarity'" (p. vii). In preparation for that step, which goes beyond the boundaries of the book, she shows how contingent, malleable, and imaginary the configurations of the Sino-Japanese polarity have been. Sakaki does not mechanically cover a millennium of Sino-Japanese literary engagements, but uncovers a string of thought-provoking showcases. The Sino-Japanese polarity is to her more than just the contrastive dialectics between "Japanese" (wa) and "Chinese-style" (kan) elements in the...
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VAT Chances And The Perfect Solutions For You
The applicable VAT regulations in the European Union provide that Member States may apply one standard rate, the minimum of which may not be less than 15%, and two reduced rates, the minimum of which may not be lower. at 5 %. Note that there is no upper limit to the standard applicable rate, but that the highest rates observed in the European Union do not exceed 25%.
On the other hand, certain specific provisions allow Member States which, before 1 st January 1993, applied to certain goods or services reduced rates lower than 5% or exemptions (zero) to maintain these exceptions temporarily.
VAT is an indirect tax, on consumption, which gives it several characteristics that can be seen as just as many flaws from a certain point of view:
By definition, it weighs all the more on an economic agent the more he consumes a larger fraction of his income. The associated criticism is therefore to weigh more on the poor, who consume a large fraction of their income, than on the rich, who can afford to save more.
It is not a redistributive tax: the rate paid is the same for everyone, regardless of income. The VAT is therefore criticized by some political forces that prefer progressive taxes.
For companies, even if they do not pay VAT directly, it increases the final price of the good, consequently it decreases their markets and penalizes them: VAT fixes the respective share of companies and the State in the quantity of money spent by consumers. Companies therefore claim the lowest possible rates for their industry. For the tax return calculator this is important.
For the State, it generates revenues which depend on consumption, consequently on the importance of economic flows (and not on the stock of available wealth). This puts public finances in line with economic activity there is an automatic fiscal increase with growth, and vice versa a reduction in resources in the event of a recession) which can be seen as a drawback. What is more, focusing more on the flow than on the stock can generate perverse effects (stimulate consumption to the detriment of the stock, in particular with regard to a poorly evaluated stock such as natural resources and the environment.
On the first two points, the States which have adopted VAT explicitly recognize the validity of the argument, insofar as they have developed measures which in fact give VAT a certain progressivity:
Reduced rates of VAT on primary goods, and vice versa "luxury" rates for other goods; what is more, certain goods can be excluded from the scope of VAT, for example housing in France.
Goods made available free of charge, and which therefore do not bear VAT, which benefit the poorest
We observe that the apparent rates of VAT paid by households, that is to say the amount of VAT divided by the household consumption expenditure, fluctuates little according to the level of household income. The rate of effort (amount of VAT paid compared to income) decreases with the standard of living, in part because high incomes devote a greater part to savings (whose income will itself be taxed).
The poorest households devote a slightly larger part of their income to VAT, but a smaller part of their expenditure: the VAT tax burden, as a percentage of expenditure, of the 10% of households with the lowest standard of living. High is 11.6%. That of the 10% of households with the lowest standard of living is 10.5%.
The Third Point
The third point is also accepted, and the States occasionally use it to stimulate a sector which they consider desirable, but their financing need is generally too great for them to waive significant VAT in the general case.
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Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum és una espècie de granota que viu a Colòmbia, Costa Rica, Panamà i, possiblement també, a Nicaragua.

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 Solís, F., Ibáñez, R., Chaves, G., Savage, J., Jaramillo, C., Fuenmayor, Q., Castro, F., Grant, T., Wild, E. & Acosta-Galvis, A. 2004. Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum. Llista Vermella d'Espècies Amenaçades de la UICN 2006. Consulta: 25 d'abril del 2008.

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Today I'm providing my personal favorite, tested-a-gazillion times rub recipe for pork ribs.
How you cook the ribs is up to you. My husband has a smoker, so he smokes these things for hours for delicious, succulent results.
However, using this rub, you could barbecue ribs on a grill, or bake them in the oven. The choice is yours!
The amounts stated in this recipe will cover about 5 pounds of meat. If you have leftover mix that hasn't been in contact with raw meat, jar it and save it for later. You can also double or triple the recipe with that in mind.
I have made this with several types of paprika. I favor smoked paprika, but all kinds worked well. I have also made this with fresh oregano and dried. You could certainly substitute or add other herbs, too.
Whenever I find ribs on a good sale, we use this recipe. It's one we often make for when company comes over, too. Everyone leaves full and happy!