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What Makes Weed So Flavorful? Scientists Just Found The Answer
Scientists just discovered 30 different genes that contribute to the flavorful experience of cannabis. Here's why this new research is groundbreaking.
A new study published in PLOS One has figured out what gives cannabis its distinct and tantalizing aroma. While researchers have known for a while that the herb contains an abundance of terpenes, aroma molecules found in plant resin. These aroma molecules give different cannabis strains their unique musky, pine, and fruity aromas. Now, researchers have uncovered just how cannabis produces so many of these flavorful chemicals.
Why is weed so flavorful?
Cannabis is a stand-apart plant for many reasons, and fragrance is certainly one of them. Now, researchers have a good glimpse into how the plant produces so many striking scents and tastes. According to the study, which was conducted at the University of British Columbia (UBC), there are at least,
30 terpene synthase genes that contribute to diverse flavors in cannabis. [These genes] play a role in producing natural products like limonene, myrcene, and pinene in the cannabis plants.
Limonene (lemon), myrcene (musk), and pinene (pine) are all common terpene aroma molecules found in the cannabis plant. With over 30 synthase genes, which enable cannabis to produce said terpenes, the variety of aromas, flavors, overall effects that the plant can produce are immense.
Interestingly, this study shows that the cannabis plant produces a similar amount of flavor molecules to the grapevine, which is essential for giving rich antioxidant flavors to aged wine.
In a media release from UBC, Jörg Bohlmann, a professor in the Michael Smith laboratories and faculty of forestry, explains why the University conducted this researcher. He states,
The goal is to develop well-defined and highly-reproducible cannabis varieties. This is similar to the wine industry, which depends on defined varieties such as chardonnay or merlot for high value products. Our genomics work can inform breeders of commercial varieties which genes to pay attention to for specific flavour qualities.
The study also happened to find the gene that creates a specific terpene, beta-caryophyllene, which engages some of the same cell receptors in the body as THC and CBD, the active cannabinoid molecules in the plant. Though, beta-caryophyllene does not cause a psychoactive high.
Why is this research so important?
There has been a lot of recent discussion on how to properly classify cannabis strains. While the idea that cannabis comes in two primary types, indicas and sativas, reigns supreme in the industry today, genetic research such as this study suggests that the cannabis plant is far more complex than meets the eye.
Different strains may express different genes, which give individual cannabis plants their particular flavors. These flavor compounds also happen to work synergistically with cannabinoids (like psychoactive THC) to amplify medicinal effects.
This synergy is known as the "entourage effect", and it is the reason why many find whole plant medicine preferable to some isolated cannabis extracts.
Understanding the genetic background for terpene expression has a variety of game-changing benefits.For one, this research opens the door to genetic modifications or more targeted cannabis breeding programs.
If a particular gene enables a plant to produce large amounts of myrcene, a musky terpene which is thought to contribute to the sedative qualities of cannabis, then it may be possible to use this genetic information to create strains with extremely specific medicinal effects.
Medical cannabis, however, is not the only reason why this information is so important. Cannabis is joining the ranks of wine, beer, coffee, and chocolate as a craft consumer good. To truly grow and appreciate the artistry behind a perfectly grown and cured cannabis bud, learning a little about terpenes is key.
If things continue in this direction, consumers may soon be able to pick up perfectly flavored cannabis with specific, tailored effects. It's official, one of the world's oldest cultivated plants has entered the future.
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Iranian HMI + HPI Parties Condemn Turkey Invasion To Kurds
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject: Iranian HMI + HPI Parties Condemn Turkey Invasion To Kurds
Iranian HMI + HPI Parties wrote:
Iranian HMI + HPI Parties Condemn Turkey Invasion To Kurds:
The press release of two nationalist parties is an example of national solidarity.
Iranian HMI Party: Condemn Kurdish Massacre
سرکوب کردهای ترکیه ادامه دارد
Iranian HPI Party: Turkey Attacks to Kurdish Region Is Considered As Very Clear Open Invasion To Iranian Nation
هجوم تركيه به سرزمين‌هاي كردنشين تجاوز آشكار به ملت ايران است
http://activistchat.com/PanIranistPartyPositionKurdistan.doc
ActivistChat wrote:
United We Stand With Kurds As Part of 200 Million Iranian Nation Against Turkish Army Invasion and Massacre ....
Major News Media wrote:
Must Watch CNN Video: Turkish copters pound Kurd rebels
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/30/turkey.kurds.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest#cnnSTCVideo
AFP wrote:
Iraq's Kurdish leader rejects 'orders' from Turkey
Tue Oct 30, 5:54 AM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071030/wl_mideast_afp/turkeykurdsunrestiraqbarzani_071030095440
ANKARA (AFP) - Iraq's Kurdish leader Massud Barzani said in an interview published Tuesday that he would not take orders from Turkey to crack down on Turkish Kurd rebels based in his autonomous region.
Barzani, president of the Kurdish regional government that holds sway in northern Iraq, regretted Ankara's refusal to hold direct talks on the crisis over the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels.
"You do not speak to me, then you ask me to do things against the PKK. How can this be?" he told Turkey's Milliyet newspaper. "I am a friend of Turkey but I am not taking orders from Turkey or anyone else."
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Shameful Armenian Genocide By Turks from 1915 to 1917 .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide
The Armenian Genocide (Armenian: Հայոց Ցեղասպանութիւն ("Hayoc' c'ejaspanut'iwn"), Turkish: Ermeni Soykırımı) � also known as the Armenian Holocaust, Great Calamity (Մեծ Եղեռն "Mec Ejer'n" ) or the Armenian Massacres � was the forcible deportation and massacre[1] of hundreds of thousands to over 1.5 million Armenians during the government of the Young Turks from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire.[2]
It is widely acknowledged to have been one of the first modern, systematic genocides,[3][4] as many Western sources point to the sheer scale of the death toll as evidence for a systematic, organized plan to eliminate the Armenians.[5] The event is also said to be the second-most studied case of genocide after the Nazi Holocaust.[6] To date twenty-two countries have officially recognized it as genocide. The government of the Republic of Turkey rejects the characterization of the events as genocide.[7]
http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/armenian_genocide.htm
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject: Turkey: Fighting with Kurds will surge
Children approach Turkish soldiers on patrol near the Iraq border, in the province of Sirnak, southeast Turkey, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007. Turkish attack helicopters fired rockets into Kurdish rebel positions in mountains near the Iraq border, one of several clashes as government forces kept up the pressure on the guerrillas. Two Turkish soldiers were killed in the fighting, according to reports. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
Turkey: Fighting with Kurds will surge
By SUZAN FRASER, Associated Press Writer
Tue Oct 30, 5:04 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071030/ap_on_re_mi_ea/turkey_iraq_91
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's prime minister said Tuesday increased military action against separatist Kurdish rebels was "unavoidable" and pressed the United States for a crackdown on guerrilla bases in northern Iraq.
Turkish helicopters pounded rebel positions near the border with rockets for a second day and Turkey brought in troops by the truckload in an operation against mountainside emplacements.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told members of his party in parliament "it is now unavoidable that Turkey will have to go through a more intensive military process."
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:05 pm Post subject: Turkey's Islamist President Abdullah Gul
Turkey's Islamist President Abdullah Gul (2nd R) and his Islamist wife Hayrunnisa Gul (R) welcome their guests during a reception at the Presidential Palace in Ankara October 30, 2007. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY)
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: Pan Iranist Party Condemn Kurdish Massacre
Pan Iranist Party Condemn Kurdish Massacre
Turkey Attacks to Kurdish Region Is Considered As Very Clear Open Invasion To Iranian Nation
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:06 pm Post subject: Kurds in Turkey
Kurds in Turkey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_people
Main articles: Kurds in Turkey, Turkish Kurdistan, Human rights in Turkey, and Kurdistan Workers Party
About half of all Kurds live in Turkey. According to the CIA Factbook they account for 20 percent of the 70 million people of Turkey, thus numbering about 15 million people.[48] Other estimates vary between 12 to 15 million. They are predominantly distributed in the southeastern corner of the country.[9]
The best available estimate of the number of persons in Turkey speaking a Kurdish-related language is about five million (1980). There are about one million speakers of Dimli (Southern Zaza), and about 140,000 speakers of Kirmanjki (Northern Zaza), which has about 70 percent lexical similarity with Dimli. These estimates are from 1999 in the case of Dimli and 1972 in the case of Kirmanjki. About 3,950,000 others speak Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) (1980).[49] While population increase suggests that the number of speakers has grown, it is also true that use of the language has been discouraged in Turkish cities, and that many fewer ethnic Kurds live in the countryside where the language has traditionally been used. The number of speakers is clearly less than the 15 million or so persons who identify themselves as ethnic Kurds.
From 1915 to 1918, Kurds struggled to end Ottoman rule over their region. They were encouraged by Woodrow Wilson's support for non-Turkish nationalities of the empire and submitted their claim for independence to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The Treaty of S�vres stipulated creation of an autonomous Kurdish state in 1920, but the subsequent Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 failed to mention Kurds. In 1925 and 1930 Kurdish revolts were forcibly suppressed.
Kurdish mother and baby near Lake Van, 1973Following these events, the existence of distinct ethnic groups like Kurds in Turkey was officially denied and any expression by the Kurds of their ethnic identity was harshly repressed. Until 1991, the use of the Kurdish language � although widespread � was illegal. As a result of reforms inspired by the EU, music, radio and television broadcasts in Kurdish are now allowed albeit with severe time restrictions (for example, radio broadcasts can be no longer than sixty minutes per day nor constitute more than five hours per week while television broadcasts are subject to even greater restrictions). Additionally, education in Kurdish is now permitted though only in private institutions.
Coffee shop in Diyarbakır, 1909.As late as 1994, however, Leyla Zana, the first female Kurdish representative in Turkey's Parliament, was charged for making "separatist speeches" and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. At her inauguration as an MP, she reportedly identified herself as a Kurd. Amnesty International reported that "[s]he took the oath of loyalty in Turkish, as required by law, then added in Kurdish, 'I shall struggle so that the Kurdish and Turkish peoples may live together in a democratic framework.' Parliament erupted with shouts of 'Separatist!', 'Terrorist!', and 'Arrest her!'".[50]
The Partiya Karker�n Kurdistan (PKK), also known as KADEK and Kongra-Gel, is considered by the US and EU to be a terrorist organization dedicated to creating an independent Kurdish state in a territory (traditionally referred to as Kurdistan) consisting of parts of southeastern Turkey, northeastern Iraq, northeastern Syria and northwestern Iran. It is an ethnic secessionist organization using force and threat of force against both civilian and military targets for the purpose of achieving its political goal.
Between 1984 and 1999, the PKK and the Turkish military engaged in open war, and much of the countryside in the southeast was depopulated, with Kurdish civilians moving to local defensible centers such as Diyarbakır, Van, and Şırnak, as well as to the cities of western Turkey and even to western Europe. The causes of the depopulation included PKK atrocities against Kurdish clans they could not control, the poverty of the southeast, and the Turkish state's military operations.[51] Human Rights Watch has documented many instances where the Turkish military forcibly evacuated villages, destroying houses and equipment to prevent the return of the inhabitants. An estimated 3,000 Kurdish villages in Turkey were virtually wiped from the map, representing the displacement of more than 378,000 people.[52][53][54][55]
Nelson Mandela refused to accept the Ataturk Peace Award in 1992 because of the oppression of the Kurds. After the rejection, Turkish press called him An Ugly African and Terrorist Mandela[56].
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:33 pm Post subject: Taazi Thug FM on surprise visit to Turkey
Iran Focus wrote:
Taazi Thug FM on surprise visit to Turkey
Thu. 01 Nov 2007
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=13002
Tehran, Iran, Nov. 01 - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will travel to Ankara late on Thursday to hold talks with Turkish officials, state media reported.
Mottaki will discuss Iran-Turkey bilateral relations as well as regional issues during the visit, the official news agency IRNA quoted an Iranian embassy official in Turkey as saying.
Mottaki travelled to Baghdad on Wednesday to meet and hold talks with Iraqi officials.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan visited Tehran earlier this week.
Mottaki has made at least four other trips to Turkey since becoming Foreign Minister.
Mottaki has a chequered history in Turkey and was once expelled for his involvement in terrorism when he was the Islamic Republic�s ambassador to Ankara.
He has been accused of involvement in a series of terrorist attacks in Turkey in the late 1980s, according to Iranian exiles and defectors from the theocratic regime.
Turkish authorities had asked him to leave the country in 1989, when he was Iran�s ambassador in Ankara, after his role in several terrorist incidents in Turkey became known.
As a radical Islamist in his student days in India�s Bangalore University, Mottaki was a fervent supporter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He returned to Iran during the revolution and joined the ranks of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) soon after the fall of the Shah�s regime in 1979. After taking part in the bloody campaign against Kurdish dissidents, Mottaki moved to the Foreign Ministry, where for some time he was the IRGC liaison officer.
Mottaki was appointed Iran�s ambassador to Turkey in 1985 and it was during his tenure in Ankara that the Revolutionary Guard-turned-diplomat became involved in a number of terror attacks and assassinations of dissidents, according to Iranian opposition figures and defectors. In the 1980s and the early 1990s, at least 50 Iranian dissidents were kidnapped or assassinated in Turkey by Iranian secret agents often working closely with diplomats from Iran�s embassy and consulates.
On Mottaki�s watch, the Iranian embassy in Ankara and the consulate-general in Istanbul were turned into safe houses for agents of Iran�s notorious secret police hunting down Iranian dissidents, according to exiles.
The Turkish authorities ordered Mottaki to leave Turkey in October 1989 for his role in assassinations and kidnappings in that country. The expulsion was couched in diplomatic terms, and Turkey agreed to allow Iran to avoid public embarrassment by withdrawing its ambassador.
Mottaki later became Vice-president of Islamic Cultural and Communications Organisation, an agency created by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for export of the Islamic revolution to other parts of the Muslim world.

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Last week I bought a vintage cocktail shaker with an unexpected bonus.
It had a stack of black-and-white photos inside.
First was a bride without her groom.
Then a couple shots of her in some really short shorts.
And the poses get progressively provocative.
And apparently loved him a lot.
So why were they hidden in a cocktail shaker for 60+ years?
Makes you wonder what happened to them all!
Wow….now thats a saucy shaker….I think she liked her husbands brother a tad….
Or her sister's husband! We'll never know!
Wow. We all want to know the rest of the story. She couldn't have him so she married his brother? It's kinda sad.
It IS sad. I can't imagine it turned out nicely, but maybe it stayed unrequited.
I would not have even looked in the shaker…good thing you did!
I'll be looking in anything with a lid now! It would have been fun to find money but not half as interesting as a 60-year-old secret.
Juicy story – thanks for sharing!


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Chime might talk like a bank but it doesn't walk like one, says regulator
Chime may have made a name for itself as one of the world's leading neobanks, but now it will have to call itself something else. The fintech unicorn has agreed with a Californian regulator to stop referring to itself as a "bank" in a case that could change the self-image of the entire US neobank sector.
The company came under fire from the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation after it used the URL "chimebank.com" and phrases like "bank" and "banking" in its marketing material, according to a settlement between Chime and the agency. While neither admitting nor denying any wrongdoing, Chime has agreed to comply with the regulator's order to change how it presents itself.
As per the settlement, the $14.5bn company has agreed to stop using terminology suggesting that the startup is a bank by 15 May 2021. In any case where testimonials refer to banking with the business, Chime has agreed to make it clear that it is a fintech firm, not a bank, and that all its banking services are provided by partner banks.
For anyone accustomed to hearing Chime mentioned in the same breath as the phrases "challenger bank" or "neobank", the settlement may seem odd. The company is, after all, constantly on the list of companies in the sector to look out for.
However, that doesn't make it a bank. At least not according to the law. Businesses must have banking licences to be banks. Acquiring a licence is not easy in the US and always a lengthy affair. Chime competitor Varo Money famously waited over three years and suffered through several application rounds before it was approved for its licence in 2020. Other digital lenders like Monzo and Revolut have also applied for US licences.
Despite not technically being US banks, these companies have been able to provide traditional banking services – such as debit cards, spending and savings accounts, credit services and money management solutions – by partnering with FDIC-insured banks, adding an important layer of protection for consumers using their services.
Chime no longer calling itself a bank is unsurprising, especially given that it has taken steps in the past to distance itself from suggestions that it may be a bank.
"We're more like a consumer software company than a bank," Chime CEO Chris Britt told CNBC last year. "It's more a transaction-based, processing-based business model that is highly predictable, highly recurring and highly profitable."
Chime focusing even more on making it clear in its material that it is not a bank dovetails with these efforts.
The question is if other challenger banks will commit themselves to an equally stringent approach. Revolut declined to comment on this story; Monzo didn't reply to requests for comment before the publication of this story. N26 replied that it doesn't refer to itself as a bank in the US and that all its services is offered via its partnership with Axos Bank.
Of course, challenger banks have been able to get licenses elsewhere as different regions have different regulations for their digital lenders, a situation outlined in GlobalData's recent Beyond the Hype: Insight into Digital Challenger Banks thematic research report.
"Chime is operating in the US context and the US regulator is quite different from the FCA here in UK," Yusuf Özdalga, partner and head of UK at QED Investors, tells Verdict. "Here we've seen new banking licences being granted more easily."
He adds that some companies branding themselves as neobanks have not been granted their licence in the UK either, but have overcome this obstacle by signing partnerships with different service providers.
While Chime may have stopped referring to itself as a bank, neobanks and challenger banks are probably going nowhere, even if they may not call themselves banks.
Eric is the fintech editor at Verdict. You can reach him on eric.johansson@globaldata.com.
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The Belichick Era
by Michael Doane | Jan 29, 2019 | Football | 0 comments
The story is famous. It involved a disgruntled head coach, a rookie wide receiver with break neck speed out of Ohio State, and a meddling owner who had the last say in all things team-related. On his way out, after taking an absolute pounding in the Super Bowl by the Green Bay Packers, head coach Bill Parcells said "if they want you to cook the dinner at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries." He wanted to pick a defensive player. Patriots' owner Robert Kraft wanted Terry Glenn.
Parcells was traded to the New York Jets that offseason, taking his staff with him and making sure that ownership knew he wanted his assistant head coach Bill Belichick to take his place after he retired. The Patriots were compensated with four draft picks for Parcells that new head coach Pete Carroll was given the chance to use to load up his roster. That didn't go so well, as none of the picks the Patriots received from the Jets ended up being starters. After three seasons with a decline in team performance every season, Kraft let Carroll go.
Robert Kraft knew who he wanted as his coach. Problem was, so did Parcells, the GM of the New York Jets. At the time, Bill Belichick was the Jets coach. In order for Kraft to get his guy, Parcells made Kraft trade a 1st round pick to New York for Bill Belichick, which he agreed to willfully.
Bill Belichick was ready. Taking cues from his early days on the Navy sidelines with his dad as coach, his days in Cleveland making not so popular choices as head coach, and his time as defensive coordinator for Bill Parcells' New York Giants. He took this Patriots opportunity head on. Getting his house in order didn't take too long and after going 5-11 in year one, he took the Patriots to an 11-5 record and won the Super Bowl in year two.
For his entire career, Belichick's coaching style has been strict and smart. His coaches buy into his system and work hard. He's notorious for signing players with little flair and great work ethic. He sees things in players that others miss. He finds ways for his offense to consistently keep defenses off guard.
He also demands perfection out of everyone. He once sent four players home from practice when they were late because of a blizzard. Wes Welker was benched for the first few plays of a playoff game for making obscure remarks about Rex Ryan and his wife's extracurricular activities. Malcolm Butler was a healthy scratch in the Super Bowl for reasons that may never be known. Stevan Ridley was a healthy scratch after constant fumbling issues and was seen on the sideline holding a football during the game (likely a punishment). Belichick even has a tendency to let opposing players know when they're not acting the way they should be–even barking at Adam Thielen and Derrick Mason from the sideline.
Belichick is tough. He runs a tight ship. But he's also on his way to his twelfth super bowl appearance as either head coach or an assistant coach. What he does works.
Robert Kraft is now a fan/owner. He has the last word in how much money the team spends, but Belichick and his staff pick the players and the terms. A trustful relationship was built somewhere along the road and it's worked out quite well. Kraft is a businessman and cares about the bottom line; Belichick treats the Patriots like his business and cares about the bottom line. For eighteen years now it's seemed to be a perfect match. It's anyone's guess how much longer it will last.
Michael Doane is a Contributor to the Unwrapped Sports Network website. Follow him @00BONZE on Twitter.


This week's interview is with Gokan Ozcifci.
1) Who are you, where are you, and what do you do? What are your specialty technologies?
"Bonjour" to the community. My name is Gokan Ozcifci, also known as SharePoint Pirate and I am real passionate about Microsoft SharePoint Server.
I'm working at the company Vision Consulting Group in Belgium, a multinational and a Microsoft GOLD Partner. I have specialized in SharePoint since January 2010, almost 3 years (it feels like 3 days!). Actually I work for the biggest "energy client" in Belgium, for creating an Intranet web application. I am the Technical reference and the SharePoint Farm Administrator.
2) Tell us about the Turkish and French communities on TechNet Wiki. How did it start? What's it like? Is it growing?
To be honest, I began with the French community. It was very exiting to share information and see persons like Pierre EROL (SharePoint MVP) or Lionel Limozin (SharePoint MVP) sharing and liking my contributions. It was a fantastic sensation.
But I have Turkish blood, and I asked myself, why don't I contribute in Turkish? But Turkey doesn't have a "SharePoint Community". There are technical references for SharePoint, but they are not enough developed for a "sharing group". There are many Turkish groups and forums about Windows Server, Citrix, Lync, C#, Exchange… But what about SharePoint?
I will be in touch with Microsoft Turkey in a few weeks to create a "Turkish SharePoint User Group". So there will be a place to share information between contributors.
3) What are your big projects right now?
First, I've sent an email to 45 MVPs all around the world and asked 3 questions. My objective is to create the "most interesting wiki page ever". Just wait a few days. My new article will serve future generations.
Second, I already wrote 2 eBooks about SharePoint 2010, but they are in French. I received a ton of mails asking if there was an English version. I couldn't provide it, but now, I am writing my 3rd eBook in English about SharePoint 2013. I hope it will be another success like the 2 previous books.
4) Besides your work on TechNet Wiki, where do you contribute?
5) On what Wiki articles do you spend most of your time?
I'm spending the most time on specific SharePoint articles like FBA, Project Server, out-of-the-box services, or other stuff that I know that a society will 100% use. As you know, contributors, users, and Administrators want to read impressive articles on Wiki. If you see articles from Thuan Nguyen, Christian Buckley, or Hakan Uzuner, you know that you have to be competitive if you want to be "a" real challenger.
6) What are your top 5 favorite TechNet Wiki articles?
7) Who has impressed you in the Wiki community, and why?
Ed, you impressed me the most on Wiki, because your knowledge is limitless. You can edit every article, you can add content and modify content, and it's just wonderful. You are the first to improve our articles when there is a mistake. Your contributions make our world better.
Also Fernando Lugão Veltem is a great contributor on the Wiki who impresses me. Every time when I went to the Wiki to add an article or modify any article I can see his name on the Wiki.
He can be proud of all his time passed on TechNet Wiki!
Thank you to Gokan! If you have any questions for him, ask below!
I have a question for Gokan: I've seen the all caps in last names before... Is that a Turkish custom?
Ed, for the CAP in the last name it bring back some memory of my early year in college !! So I guess it's a french's thing ! Someone can correct me (and yes if you go look in the french's forum a lot of user write it that way !) But honestly I have no idea why !
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Thanks Gokan! So you also dropped the "h" from your name?
Do you agree with Yagmoth… that capitalizing the last name is a French custom? Do they do it in Belgium? What language do you speak the most in Belgium? French? Dutch?
Arrrgh! Pieces of [Windows] Eight!
Hahahaha! I didn't understand the "Arrgh" at first in my alert until I came here. Hilarious use of Windows 8!
Merci pour ton commentaire.. Cela me fait vraiment plaisir! J'esseye de faire au mieux, pour pouvoir seduir les gens qui parle francais et comme tu dis, c'est tellement rare de voir de la bonne documentation en francais ..
Euhh, it's a little bit different here. They speak here 3 official languages..
Dutch on the north and french on the south .. east speaks german.. And if you are at Brussels in the middle you have to speak at least 2 languages .. Like me !
Congratulations Gokan, very good work.


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Democrats Eyeing Way To Get President Trump In Prison
Published June 15, 2019 at 12:17pm
Democrats are working on a way to go beyond impeaching President Donald Trump and actually get him into prison.
They are working on a way to overturn a Department of Justice guidance that says that a sitting President of the United States cannot be indicted, The Hill reported.
House Democrats are weighing legislation to scrap the executive guideline that bars the Justice Department from indicting a sitting president.
The informal rule is decades old but has come under heavy new scrutiny since Robert Mueller cited it explicitly as the reason he declined to recommend — or even consider — bringing obstruction charges against President Trump during the course of his 22-month investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
In response to the special counsel's report, Democrats are piecing together a package of legislation focused largely on shielding elections from foreign influence, including proposals to bar candidates from accepting foreign help of any kind, while making it mandatory that campaigns alert the FBI when such offers are extended.
But some lawmakers want to press further, eying legislation to nullify the Department of Justice's (DOJ) long-standing determination that presidents cannot be charged with federal crimes while they remain in office.
"It strikes me as a reasonable thing to consider," House Democratic Caucus Chairman and New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said.
"It's fair to say that one of the options we should consider is revisiting that Department of Justice rule so you don't have a rogue and lawless president immunized from criminal prosecution," Jeffries said.
"It's definitely on the menu," (House Oversight and Reform Committee member and Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly said.
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"I'm in favor of expanding enforcement tools and accountability tools, and that's definitely one of them," he said.
Connolly said that he was not certain how the proposal would come to the forefront but "I guarantee you it will be a topic of discussion," he said.
"A necessity to defend a criminal tri.al and to attend court in connection with it, however, would interfere with the President's unique official duties, most of which cannot be performed by anyone else," the guidance reads.
"It might be suggested that the same is true with the defense of impeachment proceedings; but this is a risk expressly contemplated by the Constitution, and is a necessary incident of the impeachment process.
"The Constitutional Convention was aware of this problem but rejected a proposal that the President should be suspended upon impeachment by the House until acquitted by the Senate.
"During the past century the duties of the Presidency, however, have become so onerous that a President may not be able fully to discharge the powers and duties of his office if he had to defend a criminal prosecution.
"This might constitute an incapacitation so that under the provisions of the Twenty-fifth Amendment, Sections 3 or 4, the Vice President becomes acting President.
"The same would be true, if a conviction on a criminal charge would result in incarceration. However, under our constitutional plan as outlined in Article I, sec. 3, only the Congress by the formal process of impeachment, and not a court by any process should be accorded the power to interrupt the Presidency or oust an incumbent."


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Filip Šušnjara (Osijek, 7. travnja 1978.) je hrvatski umirovljeni nogometaš.

Od 1999. do 2003. nastupao je za klub Standard Liège, a potom se vratio u NK osijek gdje brani do 2009. godine kada završava karijeru i počinje raditi u nogometnoj skoli Osijeka gdje i dan danas trenira mlade vratare od limaca do juniora.

Hrvatski nogometni vratari
Nogometaši NK Osijeka
Nogometaši Standard Lièga
Životopisi, Osijek

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No 8 (like sister engines 7 and 9) had probably the oddest application of the rail blue livery during the 1970s.
The Vale of Rheidol Railway (VoR, Welsh: Rheilffordd Dyffryn Rheidol ) is a narrow-gauge 1 ft 113⁄4 in (603 mm) gauge heritage railway that runs for 11¾ miles between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge in Wales, UK. It was the last steam line to be operated as part of the nationalised British Railways network.
The originally-planned primary purpose of the line was to serve the mines in the Rheidol valley, carrying ore, especially lead, and timber (for pit props etc) to the sea and the main line railway at Aberystwyth. But by the time that the railway was built, lead mining in Ceredigion was in steep decline.
Construction was begun in 1901 following an Act of Parliament in 1897. Rock was hand-hewn instead of being blasted in order to save money. The railway was unusual in that it developed its tourist potential by carrying passengers from its opening: the line opened for mineral traffic in August 1902 and for passengers on 22 December 1902.
On 1 July 1913, the line was absorbed by Cambrian Railways. It was subsequently grouped into the Great Western Railway (GWR) network in 1923 and incorporated into the nationalised network in 1948. The line was finally privatised in 1989 and still operates as a tourist railway offering an hour-long journey through spectacular mountain scenery, much of it at a gradient of 1 in 50. The headquarters of the railway are at Aberystwyth, where it shares a terminus with the standard gauge main line, trains leaving from a bay platform.
There are seven intermediate stations, all request stops.
When the lead mines were being worked there was an aerial cableway linking them with Rhiwfron.
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'Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure.' The opening lines of Albert Camus's 1942 novel The Outsider are among the most famous in literature. With them begins the story of Meursault (we never know his first name), a lowly young settler in French colonial Algeria. Unmoved by the death of his mother, his detached, matter-of-fact nature puts him at odds with society.
At the heart of the novel is a murder on a beach in Algiers at two o'clock in the afternoon, the result of a confrontation that pits Meursault and his streetwise pimp friend, Raymond, against a group of unnamed Arabs.


This is a second chance at love story and it's almost lyrical in the way that it's written. It's hard to describe it, but there is most definitely a unique style to the writing of this book and it really worked for me.
This book is so emotional. It's been four years since Nikki and Brant's marriage fell apart in the worst way. They were both left completely broken and that's a wound that's just not healing. So powers that be converge to get them together so they can heal.
The pain from the characters leaps off the page in the way this book is written. If you don't like angst in your romance, then you should steer clear of this book, because it has angst on every single page that makes you want to weep with the sheer pain of it. Personally, I loved it.
It's obvious that these two desperately loved one another. What isn't obvious as the reader goes through the first half of the book was exactly what destroyed that love and their marriage. There are hints, but it takes a long time for the full story to come out. Part of the problem is that neither of the characters knows the full story either...and that's just another way that makes this hurt so incredibly painful. They just blew up and fell apart at a time when both of them were already reeling. It was all reaction and pain and hurt.
And I don't want to say anymore because I don't want to spoil anything. I thought the book and story telling was gorgeous. It was unusual, but the style worked for me in a very big way. The author does a really good job of not dragging the reader into the angst. Yes, the book is emotional. Yes, it is heart-breakingly sad, but there are moments of light and joking that balance out the sad parts and keep it from becoming too heavy.
In one word...Cole. OMG, I loved this character...and I'm going on record right now requesting that Rachel Van Dyken write his story. He was so amazing...both as a character and as Nikki's best friend. My heart hurts for him, though. He needs his own HEA...PLEASE!
But Cole is a side character in this book. At the center are Nikki and Brant and they are everything. I loved them so, so much and adored this book. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT. Definitely one of the best books of 2017.


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Rory McIlroy in cruise control at British Open
Rory McIlroy only saw birdies at Royal Liverpool, mostly on his scorecard, and even one pheasant that trotted across the eighth green as he was lining up a putt. That was but a minor interruption in his command performance Friday in the British Open.
Rory McIlroy in cruise control at British Open Rory McIlroy only saw birdies at Royal Liverpool, mostly on his scorecard, and even one pheasant that trotted across the eighth green as he was lining up a putt. That was but a minor interruption in his command performance Friday in the British Open. Check out this story on stargazette.com: http://stargaz.tt/1mp5JXW
Doug Ferguson Published 6:39 p.m. ET July 18, 2014
Rory McIlroy plays his approach shot to the18th green during his second round at the British Open at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club on Friday.(Photo: USA TODAY Sports)
Rory McIlroy is at 12-under 204.
HOYLAKE, England – Rory McIlroy only saw birdies at Royal Liverpool, mostly on his scorecard, and even one pheasant that trotted across the eighth green as he was lining up a putt. That was but a minor interruption in his command performance Friday in the British Open.
Once he made a birdie, and then another, nothing could stop McIlroy.
Not another collapse in the second round. Not anyone in the field. And certainly not Tiger Woods.
After a bogey on his opening hole stirred memories of another "Black Friday," McIlroy looked more like the Boy Wonder who won two majors in a runaway. With three birdies in his last four holes, he posted a second straight 6-under 66 to build a four-shot lead over Dustin Johnson.
McIlroy spoke of an "inner peace," and the two secret words that triggered his powerful swing and set up birdie chances on just about every hole.
"People call it the zone, people call it whatever," he said. "It's just a state of mind where you think clearly. Everything seems to be on the right track. I've always said, whenever you play this well, you always wonder how you've played so badly before. And whenever you've played so badly, you always wonder how you play so well. I'm happy where my game is at the minute. And hopefully, I can just keep up the solid play for another couple of days."
Woods is fortunate to even play for two more days.
He started the second round only three shots behind. He finished it on the 18th hole, standing over a 6-foot birdie putt just to avoid missing back-to-back cuts for the first time in his career. Woods made the putt for a 77, matching his second-worst round as a pro in the British Open.
Woods hit driver five times — four more than he hit all week when he won at Royal Liverpool in 2006. None found the fairway. Woods was 14 shots out of the lead and still thought he had a chance, referring to Paul Lawrie making up 10 shots in one round to win at Carnoustie in 1999.
That was against Jean Van de Velde. This is Rory McIlroy, who has won both his majors by eight shots.
"Two 66s from Rory is a bit special, but he is just that — he is a bit special," Graeme McDowell said. "So he's going to be tough to catch this weekend if he keeps that up."
McIlroy was at 12-under 204 — the same 36-hole score of Woods in 2006.
Dustin Johnson birdied the last two holes for a 65, the low score of the week. That ordinarily would put him in the last group with McIlroy, except they will have company in a historic decision at golf's oldest championship. Because of a nasty storm approaching England, the Open will go to threesomes teeing off on both sides Saturday.
Francesco Molinari (70) will join them. He was part of a large group at 6-under 210 that included Rickie Fowler (69), Sergio Garcia (70), Charl Schwartzel (67), Louis Oosthuizen (68) and Ryan Moore (68).
Johnson had a chance at the claret jug three years ago until a 2-iron that went out-of-bounds on the 14th hole at Royal St. George's. He also lost a three-shot lead in the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, and missed out on a playoff at Whistling Straits for grounding his club in sand at the 2010 PGA Championship.
"I'm glad and I'm in the last group," Johnson said. "Just go out there and try to shoot a big number."
Four shots can be lost quickly in any major, especially in links golf, particularly in nasty weather. McIlroy followed up a record-tying 63 at St. Andrews in 2010 with an 80 the following day.
Even so, the ease with which he moved around Royal Liverpool was more frightening than any forecast.
McIlroy picked up his first birdie with two putts from across the green on the par-5 fifth. But it was on the par-3 sixth, when McIlroy deposited an 8-iron to 7 feet for birdie, that he found that peace and put the pedal down on the rest of the field.
He ushered the pheasant off the eighth green, regrouped and holed a 7-foot birdie putt, chipped to tap-in range on the 10th and then kept giving himself chances on all but one hole until ending with three birdies. McIlroy was in such a groove that with the wind at his back, he hit driver 396 yards on the 17th hole and pitched to 8 feet.
It was only Friday — a fantastic one, not a freaky one — but the kid looked like he was going for a knockout.
"Once I got to 7 (under), I felt like, 'OK, this time I feel good. I can get to 8. I can get to 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.'"
The 17th hole is where Woods fell apart. He started double bogey-bogey and made only pars the rest of the way until his tee shot on the 17th was about 100 yards short and 50 yards wider than McIlroy's drive.
Hanging his head, Woods was walking down the fairway when he was told it was out of bounds.
Back at the tee, he hooked that shot closer to the 16th fairway and made triple bogey.
A birdie enabled him to make the cut, a small consolation considering what McIlroy is doing.
As for those two secret words that keep McIlroy locked into what he's doing?
"I'll tell you on Sunday, hopefully," he said.
Five-run sixth carries Corning-Painted Post to district title
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Rain strategy pays off for Tioga Downs Casino Resort 240 winners
Elmira College introduces more fierce eagle as new logo
Boorse, Baldwin earn top athlete honors for Elmira High School


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"... This paper presents the packet-pair rate-based feedback flow control scheme. This scheme is designed for networks where individual connections do not reserve bandwidth and for the available bitrate (best-effort) component of integrated networks. We assume a round-robin-like queue service discipline ..."
"... Abstract — Although packet-pair probing has been used as one of the primary mechanisms to measure bottleneck capacity, crosstraffic intensity, and available bandwidth of end-to-end Internet paths, there is still no conclusive answer as to what information about the path is contained in the output pa ..."
"... Abstract — The Packet-pair dispersion techniques are the most common probing-based approach to measuring the bottleneck capacity of a path. In practice, the dispersion measurement, and therefore the bandwidth estimation, could be seriously distorted by the cross traffic queuing between or in front o ..."
"... In this paper, we examine the problem of estimating the capacity of bottleneck links and available bandwidth of endto -end paths under non-negligible cross-traffic conditions. We present a simple stochastic analysis of the problem in the context of a single congested node and derive several results ..."
"... The packet-pair probing algorithm for network-bandwidth estimation is examined and an approximate model is proposed for predicting its behaviour. The model replaces the Poisson arrival process with a Gaussian distribution and resolves the queue-size profile into two separate components: A transient ..."


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Q: Saxon php xml schema validation with entity reference I'm developing a php application with saxon c api EE edition which need to validate xml files against xsd schema.
i'm getting the below error when i do the validation.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:**path**/temp.xml; lineNumber: 6; columnNumber: 48; The entity "nbsp" was referenced, but not declared
my xml file content is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE section [
<!ENTITY % ent1 SYSTEM "isonum.ent">
]>

This is a test Heading   and & check

Another sub section heading with   and & check

there is a reference in the xml for a entity file isonum.ent which is plased in the same path where xml file is in.
the entity file has definition for
<!ENTITY rdquo  "”" >
<!ENTITY nbsp   " " >
<!ENTITY shy    "" >

my php code for validation is below
    $proc = new Saxon\SaxonProcessor(true);
    $proc->setConfigurationProperty("xsdversion", "1.1");
    $proc->setConfigurationProperty("http://saxon.sf.net/feature/validationWarnings", "true");
    $proc->setConfigurationProperty("http://saxon.sf.net/feature/multipleSchemaImports", "on");

    $val = $proc->newSchemaValidator();
    $val->registerSchemaFromFile($xsd_path);
    $val->setProperty("report-node", "true");
    $val->setProperty("verbose", "true");
    $val->validate($xml_path);

I referred the documentation available in https://www.saxonica.com/saxon-c/documentation/index.html and also the samples provided with the library download zip but could identify the solution..
How can i mention the the Schema validator where to look for the entity files.
And also is possible to get all the errors at once, because in this case the validation returned only one   issue where as there are two  's in the file.

A: This turns out to be a simple user error. The DTD declares a parameter entity but does not reference it, so the content of the parameter entity does not become part of the DTD. It needs to be written:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE section [
<!ENTITY % ent1 SYSTEM "isonum.ent">
%ent1;
]>

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I'm glad to see you blogging again and have enjoyed reading your posts this week. I'm beginning to see the light at the end of the MLS tunnel now (little less than a year to go). It's been nice to read what a "typical" day is like, although I can't imagine being without A/C in this weather ?!
Hi Joe, Good luck finishing up your MLS! Thanks for the comment. I am trying to get back to blogging – of course, we shall see how that goes. The a/c thing has been tough, but I think it has been resolved.


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