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Cardinal Burke sent to Guam to oversee sex abuse trial
Cardinal Raymond Burke at EWTN studio in Rome during the Canonization of Pope St. John Paul II and Pope St. John XXIII. Credit: Steven Driscoll/CNA.
Vatican City, Feb 16, 2017 / 03:47 pm ().-
The Vatican has sent Cardinal Raymond Burke to Guam to act as presiding judge at the trial of Archbishop Anthony Apuron, who was removed from office in June 2016 following allegations of child sex abuse.
Cardinal Burke is a canon lawyer and former prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the Holy See's highest court. He currently serves as the chaplain of the Knights of Malta, where he has clashed with the Holy See over the removal of the Grand Chancellor of the Knights. He is also one of four cardinals who signed the controversial dubia, a letter asking Pope Francis to clarify parts of his apostolic exhortation "Amoris Laetitia".
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, who leads the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), appointed Cardinal Burke to the Guam trial.
Archbishop Apuron has denied the allegations against him and has not been criminally charged. Most of the allegations involve sexual abuse of altar boys in the 1970s.
On Thursday, the AP reported that one of Archbishop Apuron's accusers refused to appear before the Vatican court, despite a request from Cardinal Burke for testimony.
Attorney David Lujan, representing former altar boy Roland Sondia, told the AP that the proceedings were "worse" than he had expected because he wasn't allowed to be present to advise his client, who was to have been "questioned by the prosecutor, who is a priest, and Archbishop Apuron's lawyer, who is a priest, and a presider who is Cardinal Burke, and a notary who is also a priest."
"We felt it wasn't in my client's best interest to be in that position," he said. He said Sondia may submit a written declaration instead.
Many of the allegations against Archbishop Apuron became public last year, after full-page ads sponsored by Concerned Catholics of Guam encouraged anyone who had been abused by clergy to come forward, according to reports from Pacific Daily News.
Following the new allegations, the Archdiocese created a new Task Force for the Protection of Minors and a new Victims Support group to aid in the counseling and support of victims and their families.
"The Church on Guam has a duty and desire to render pastoral care to all of its faithful, most especially those who have been severely wounded by those holding trusted positions in our Archdiocese. We are strengthening our work in this area and pledge to provide a safe environment for all children and all people entrusted in our care," the Archdiocese said in a November statement.
In November 2016, Pope Francis appointmented Detroit Bishop Michael Jude Byrnes as coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of Agana. He replaced Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai, who was sent to Guam by the Vatican in June to temporarily replace Apuron.
Archbishop Apuron is a member of the Neocatechumenal Way, a group within the Church that has also clashed with other Catholics on the island over the past few years.
Besides sexual allegations, Archbishop Apuron has also been accused of mishandling control over the island's seminary, reportedly using it as a Neocatechumenal seminary rather than a diocesan seminary, which led to the withdrawal of all Samoan students. Guam's Carmelite nuns also relocated to California last year over issues with Apuron.
Guam is a U.S. island territory in Micronesia, in the Western Pacific, with a population of 165,124. Approximately 85 percent of the island's citizens identify as Catholic.
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With the rain has my travelling company I continued north , With a stop for coffee in Aberdeen and a little sunshine starting to show I was on my way. It was just after Newburgh that I pull into a road side parking to get a photo while the sun was shining. Looking around I spotted and world war two pillar box.
With grass and shrub trees growing around it it was hard to get a good photograph of it. Would have had a look inside only it was full of rubbish. Sitting on the River Ythan it had a good view of anything moving on the river.
Has you can see for this photo the sky way just hanging on to the next shower of rain and I didn't have to wait long. I follow the coast through small town and villages. They are all worth a photo but when on a motorcycle with all the wet gear on plus your camera in a tank bag inside its own waterproof bag. It's not just a quick stop and grab a shot. So my next stop was the city of Elgin where I grabbed a soon food for to cook for my evening meal. with the tent up and the sound of waves breaking I started cooking has the rain drummed on the tent. There's something very relaxing about the sound of rain on a tent. Yea I know weird guy. Well it relax's me. Yes next morning the rain is still drumming only this time it's got bigger drum sticks. Now packing up camp is no fun in the wet. but I'm getting to be an expert.
One of my stop overs.
It's of to Inverness and over the new Firth bridge. Road works and heavy traffic make for slow progress. The next bridge was over the Cromarty Firth and more roadworks to make me stop and admire the view.
These were taken after I crossed the bridge. Seals basking in the foreground and traffic hold ups in the background.
And looking the other way oil or gas platforms being worked at.
And at this point I will thank you for visiting and part 3 will follow soon.
always a great tour George!!
I have done many a motorcycle tour over the years, today I finished the Scotland leg and at this moment I'm in North Yorkshire. I swear I have grown web feet, never have I seen so much rain. I'm disappointed at the number of photo's i got but will be completing my post when i return to Ireland next week. All said I did enjoy my trip, I did around 2.5 thousand miles in Scotland and saw a lot of the country. All trips are just research for the next one.


One strong hint is buried in the fine print of the closely guarded draft. The provision, an increasingly common feature of trade agreements, is called "Investor-State Dispute Settlement," or ISDS. The name may sound mild, but don't be fooled. Agreeing to ISDS in this enormous new treaty would tilt the playing field in the United States further in favor of big multinational corporations. Worse, it would undermine U.S. sovereignty. ISDS would allow foreign companies to challenge U.S. laws — and potentially to pick up huge payouts from taxpayers — without ever stepping foot in a U.S. court. Here's how it would work. Imagine that the United States bans a toxic chemical that is often added to gasoline because of its health and environmental consequences. If a foreign company that makes the toxic chemical opposes the law, it would normally have to challenge it in a U.S. court. But with ISDS, the company could skip the U.S. courts and go before an international panel of arbitrators. If the company won, the ruling couldn't be challenged in U.S. courts, and the arbitration panel could require American taxpayers to cough up millions — and even billions — of dollars in damages. If that seems shocking, buckle your seat belt. ISDS could lead to gigantic fines, but it wouldn't employ independent judges. Instead, highly paid corporate lawyers would go back and forth between representing corporations one day and sitting in judgment the next. Maybe that makes sense in an arbitration between two corporations, but not in cases between corporations and governments. If you're a lawyer looking to maintain or attract high-paying corporate clients, how likely are you to rule against those corporations when it's your turn in the judge's seat?


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Boris Johnson leaves his central London residence on Wednesday. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
Steve Bannon: 'Now is the moment' for Boris Johnson to challenge May for PM
Former Trump strategist interviewed by Daily Telegraph
Ex-foreign secretary is 'like Trump … people dismissed him'
Sat 14 Jul 2018 18.02 EDT
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon believes now is the time for Boris Johnson to challenge British prime minister Theresa May for her job, the Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday.
Trump adviser Roger Stone 'probably' American cited in Russia indictments
Bannon's remarks come shortly after Donald Trump, in an interview with the Rupert Murdoch-owned Sun newspaper published hours before he was due to meet May, directly criticised May's Brexit strategy and heaped praise on Johnson, saying he "would be a great prime minister".
Johnson, who led the main Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum, resigned as foreign secretary on Monday over May's strategy which he said was killing the "Brexit dream".
Bannon was Trump's 2016 campaign chair and senior White House strategist before leaving the administration last year. His standing in Trump's orbit was damaged by the publication of a book about the Trump White House by the author Michael Wolff but he has since positioned himself again as a leading voice on the US far right.
He was quoted by the Telegraph as saying: "Theresa May has got a lot of great qualities – I am not sure if it is the right leader at the right time."
May's government was rattled by the departures of Johnson and her chief Brexit negotiator David Davis just days after she appeared to have gained the support of her cabinet.
Asked if now was the moment for Johnson to lead the UK, Bannon said: "I believe moments come. It is like Donald Trump … people dismissed him."
He added: "Now is the moment. If Boris Johnson looks at this … There comes an inflection point, the Chequers deal was an inflection point, we will have to see what happens."
On Friday, the Telegraph said Johnson had re-joined the newspaper as a columnist.

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What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings?
When the world looks at the United States, it sees a land of exceptions: a time-tested if noisy democracy, a crusader in foreign policy, an exporter of beloved music and film. But there is one quirk that consistently puzzles America's fans and critics alike. Why, they ask, does it experience so many mass shootings?


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Kawhi Leonard Receives Huge Honor Following Championship Season
By Alexander Cole
LeBron has been given this award three times.
Kawhi Leonard had an incredible 2019 that was highlighted by an NBA Championship. Leonard carried the Toronto Raptors on his back and gave the city their first-ever NBA title. In the offseason, Leonard received a huge payday as he signed with the Los Angeles Clippers. Heading back to his home state, Leonard now has a chance to deliver a championship to three different teams which would certainly be an incredible accomplishment.
For many, Leonard is one of the most impressive athletes on the planet and as the year wraps up, he is being rewarded for his efforts. Today, the Associated Press revealed that Leonard was being named as the AP Male Athlete Of The Year.
Considering everything Leonard was able to accomplish this year, the honor is well-deserved. Last year, James won the award for the third time which put him in fairly great company. As we head into 2020, Leonard has the perfect opportunity to repeat. The Clippers are poised to make a deep run in the NBA playoffs and fans are anticipating what he'll be able to do.
Leonard is quickly embracing the superstar role and we can't wait to see what he has in store for us next year.
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Q: Does a regular P-space always have clopen base? Just an the title explains, does a regular P-space always have clopen base? A P-space $X$ means that every $G_\delta$-subset of $X$ is open in $X$. Thanks ahead:)

A: Yes.  For any $x \in X$ and any open neighbourhood $U_0$ of $x$ use regularity to construct a sequence $$U_0 \supseteq \overline{U}_1 \supseteq U_1 \supseteq \cdots \supseteq U_n \supseteq \overline{U}_{n+1} \supseteq U_{n+1} \supseteq \cdots \ni x.$$
Then $\bigcap_{n \in \mathbb{N}} U_n$ is G$_\delta$, and hence is an open neighbourhood of $x$ and $\bigcap_{n \in \mathbb{N}} U_n = \bigcap_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \overline{U}_n$ is closed.  Therefore the clopen sets form a base for $X$.

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Does Steve Jobs Just Not Get Game Development?
Jul 14, 2010, 4:40am
Steve Jobs thinks games made with middleware aren't so good. Unity CEO David Helgason, whose SDK is used in the creation of plenty of games used in the App Store, disagrees. And he was quite vocal about it yesterday.
Helgason's remarks came during his keynote presentation at Develop, where he was challenged with the assertion that Jobs thinks middleware makes for "crappy" games. The response:
"He doesn't understand the economics of game development fundamentally," says Helgason, saying that while pure native code development might suit simpler apps, it's simply not an option for many game developers.
He also said that the popularity of iPhone games developed using Unity shows that middleware isn't responsible for creating "crappy" games, as has been suggested.
This has been an ongoing spat between developers and Apple, and it's likely not one that will end anytime soon. Because while it's probable that Jobs isn't a gamer, it might be going too far to say he doesn't get game development economics. Apple's shown a distinct preference for - and had plenty of financial success with - a closed system, walled garden approach. And the only economics Steve Jobs is concerned about, rightly so, is Apple's. [Mobile-Ent]


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Patrick Mercer under investigation by parliamentary watchdog
The parliamentary watchdog has launched an investigation into Patrick Mercer following disclosures in the Telegraph that he abused his position by tabling parliamentary questions and motions after being paid thousands of pounds.
Patrick Mercer was exposed in a Telegraph/BBC Panorama investigation for abusing his position by tabling parliamentary questions and motions after being paid thousands of pounds. Photo: David Rose for the Telegraph
By Holly Watt, Claire Newell and Ben Bryant
Kathryn Hudson, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, started an inquiry after Mr Mercer, the MP for Newark, referred himself for investigation.
A Daily Telegraph and BBC Panorama investigation found that the MP for Newark, had tabled five questions to government ministers and put down a parliamentary motion after being paid £4,000 as part of a contract he believed would earn him £24,000 a year.
The parliamentary questions were all drafted by undercover reporters purporting to be lobbyists for businesses with interests in Fiji.
Mr Mercer also established an all–party parliamentary group in support of the cause being promoted by the lobbyists, which he boasted he had persuaded around 20 other politicians to back publicly. He also agreed to provide the fictional client with a Parliamentary pass.
"I do not charge a great deal of money for these things," Mr Mercer said during a meeting to arrange his "consultancy" fee. "I would normally come out at £500 per half day. So £1,000 a day."
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Following the disclosures, Mr Mercer resigned from the Conservative party.
Parliamentary rules ban MPs from undertaking "paid advocacy" on behalf of paying clients. It is also possible that the police will launch an investigation into Mr Mercer over potential offences of bribery and misconduct in a public office.
Alistair Graham, the former Commissioner for Standards, said that Mr Mercer's actions were "totally unacceptable". "It brings us back to 'cash for questions' in the Nineties and is deeply depressing. It's parliamentary prostitution – whatever the client wants, the client appears to get," he said. The scandal also highlights David Cameron's failure to bring in promised laws to allow disgraced MPs to be expelled from Parliament and to regulate political lobbying.
In 2010 Mr Cameron stated that lobbying was "the next big scandal waiting to happen", yet a proposal of a register of lobbyists has been absent from the Queen's Speech for two years running.
Mr Mercer signed a contract with the bogus lobbying firm and has been paid £4,000 for his services, which he has yet to declare publicly. After receiving his first payment, Mr Mercer was recorded saying: "I will put a handful of parliamentary [questions], PQs about it [the issue raised by the lobbyists]".
Earlier this year, The Daily Telegraph and Panorama set up a bogus lobbying company to investigate what Parliamentarians working as consultants were prepared to do for their clients. Specific MPs and peers were identified as allegedly using their position in Parliament to benefit paying clients.
Undercover journalists purported to be lobbyists representing a group of businesses trying to end Fiji's suspension from the Commonwealth on democracy and human rights grounds. Fiji has been ruled by a military dictatorship since 2006 and its suspension has cost its sugar industry millions of pounds in EU subsidies.
In March, Mr Mercer signed a contract with the lobbying company to work as a consultant and agreed to be paid £2,000 a month. On March 20, an undercover reporter. provided Mr Mercer with the wording of the proposed parliamentary motion .
On March 26, Mr Mercer submitted an early day motion with almost identical wording. He did not declare his financial interest. Four other MPs have since signed the motion. There is no suggestion the other MPs knew Mr Mercer was being paid by the client or that they behaved improperly.
In April, the reporter told Mr Mercer he was "brilliantly earning your money, which … will go through today". Mr Mercer responded by giving a thumbs up sign.
He said it was proving easy to recruit MPs. He said: "I mean who doesn't want a trip to Fiji?" The undercover reporter also asked the MP if he could submit a question to ministers on behalf of the client. After examining the draft, Mr Mercer suggested putting in a "handful".
He had five questions tabled. Again he did not declare his financial interest.
Mr Mercer has apparently failed to register his relationship with the firm, despite signing a contract in March and receiving £4,000. The Conservative MP has declined to answer a series of questions relating to his conduct .
But he is understood to be privately claiming he believes the re–entry of Fiji to the Commonwealth to be a worthwhile cause and said during one meeting that he had an interest in the sugar industry through his constituency. In a statement, Mr Mercer said: "I am taking legal advice about these allegations – and I have referred myself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards . In the meantime, to save my party embarrassment, I have resigned the Conservative whip and have so informed Sir George Young. I have also decided not to stand at the next general election."
A spokesman for the Conservative Party said: "The Prime Minister thinks Patrick Mercer has done the right thing in referring himself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards and resigning the whip. It's important that the due processes take their course."
A Panorama special will air on Thursday at 9pm.
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Against the Tide: Profeminism in the Twenty-first Century
Apr 23, 2015 | Books |
By Michael S. Kimmel
The quotes that serve as the epigraphs for this book's preface and initial chapter are separated by only about 60 years, yet they span the arc of a social movement: two moments defining the first two waves of feminist activism. Floyd Dell, the Greenwich Village bohemian writer, was among the founders of the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, a group of prominent public figures who led men's contingents in the great suffrage parades and organized men's support of women's suffrage. Sixty years later, that message echoed across continents and decades, finding a new generation of men who saw in feminism an opportunity to live richer, fuller lives, animated by intimacy, emotional expressiveness, and equality.
In a sense, this book chronicles that movement. Just as Against the Tide: Pro-feminist Men in the United States, 1776–1990 documented the history of men who had supported gender equality since the founding of the country, Voice Male chronicles the contemporary profeminist men's movement, providing a documentary record of activism, engagement, and personal reflection. That first wave only glimpsed the ways that political activism and personal life were intertwined. If the watchwords of that first wave were the motto of The Revolution, the newspaper of the National Woman Suffrage Association— "Men their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less"—the motto of that second wave was, and continues to be, "the personal is political." That is, the dynamics of our personal lives articulate and reproduce the larger structural dynamics of inequality. Feminist engagement requires political activism, but it also inspires personal engagement.
If the personal is political, so, too, is the political personal. And for two decades, under Rob Okun's able stewardship, Voice Male has provided an outlet for the full range of men's engagement, from moral outrage to personal anguish, from political passions to, well, passion itself. At its best, VM has been a journey, not a destination, a shared space in which men could listen to one another, listen to the women who shared their experiences in its pages, and, most of all, feel heard by others. It has also been a place to explore the meaning of gender equality, or feminism, in our personal lives, offering painful self-reflection, some exhilarating, and some merely an exhale into a richer emotional life.
It has also been a place of celebration of the rich diversity among men, helping to bridge the barriers of race, class, and sexuality that separate men, as well as engaging men in the work of dismantling those same social barriers that are hierarchical and oppressive to some, even as they impoverish us all. Voice Male is a respite, a haven, a community. A place to see old friends, to recharge the batteries, and to get inspired and outraged all over again. Equal parts comforting and challenging, Rob uses his talents as a writer, a therapist, and an activist to offer what always feels like just the right mix: the cold political analysis, the warm therapeutic community, the heat of political outrage and exhortation—never tepid, but always "just right." I think what I like best about Voice Male is its balance of personal and political. We often read writers who talk a good line and wonder if they are able to walk their own talk. We wonder perhaps if they are only saying the right thing to ingratiate themselves, to be good boys. Moral exhortation borne of political outrage often gives me the queasy feeling that the writer is saying, "Do as I say, not as I do."
But just as VM has been a place for men to engage, to take their first steps, it is also a public space, a place where they could declare themselves—their politics, their personal struggles—publicly. (Many VM writers were writing for a public for the first time—a hallmark of any editor's patience and skill and dedication). That is, VM is also a place for men to talk their walk—to publicly express the sorts of changes they were already implementing in their lives, changes as fathers, as partners, as friends, as allies. There are many who are engaged in the political activism and personal transformations that together comprise what I often like to call the Gentleman's Auxiliary of the Women's Movement. Most do so quietly, in their interactions with those they love, work with, and interact with in their daily lives. Yet all around us, antifeminist activists troll the Internet, attempting to shout down any male voice that dares to support gender equality.
Plus ça change. Profeminist men have always faced the derision of other men who question their manhood, their sexuality, their motives. The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass was ridiculed as an "Aunt Nancy Man" by the Syracuse newspapers on the morning after his rousing speech in favor of suffrage at Seneca Falls in 1848. And during those mass women's voting-rights demonstrations in the 1910s, marchers behind the Men's League banner were routinely pelted with debris and insults. Those who break ranks and stand with the marginalized are often seen as traitors.
Which is why we need more of us to not only walk our talk, but also to talk our walk, to state publicly our opposition to gender inequality, to be allies to women, and to support and challenge one another in bringing our political commitments and our personal transformations into public view. For more than two decades, Voice Male has been one of our most cherished shared spaces.
We men have a choice, and most men, in fact, choose to stand with women—because we believe, as men, that women's equality will not only make it possible for us to be free, but also to be happy.
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Again this year, St. Mark's church will be joining us as we remember the events of the Last Supper and Garden Of Gethsemane. Rev. Dr. Jim Sitler is inviting us to come and "REMEMBER" with candle lighting and a special Communion Service. The choirs from both churches will provide music.


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The US Ambassador Julie J Chung visit to Beauty Products Lanka PVT Ltd
The US Ambassador Her Excellency Julie J Chung recently visited the Beauty Products Lanka Private Limited. It was an honour to have her and a privilege to organise a tour to Her Excellency to see and examinethe manufacturing plants.
The team discussed how they are rising to the challenges posed by the current economic environment so that high quality Revlon products can continue to be brought to Sri Lankans.
Beauty Products Lanka (Pvt) Ltd., is a solely owned subsidiary of the Umesh Modi Group of Industries in India that manufacture, import and distribute Revlon colour cosmetics and personal care products of Revlon USA.
This company formerly known as Revlon Lanka (Pvt) Ltd was incorporated on the 23rd of August 2006 and commenced operations in April 2008 as Revlon Lanka (Pvt) Ltd as a joint venture of Revlon, USA and Modi Revlon Pvt. Ltd., India which was then renamed as Beauty Products Lanka (Pvt) Ltd in 2016.
Beauty Products Lanka is a leading cosmetic and toiletries manufacturer company and has launched its extensive range of colourcosmetics and toiletries products in Sri Lanka such as RevlonTop Speed and Colour Silk hair colours, Photo Ready and many more well-known products.
In 2019, the company expanded its product portfolio by adding nutritional supplementsunder the brand name Signutra with the technical collaboration of DuPont, USA. Signutra caters to adults, pediatric, diabetic and gynec manufacturing locally under the brand names Vidavance, Groviva,Maxvida and Vivamom.
Beauty Products Lanka is currently in the process of stepping into another milestone in 2023 where it will expand to manufacture consumer healthcare products.
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EXCLUSIVE: DNC Hackers Targeted Conservative Heritage Foundation Before Election
Peter Hasson Editor
The same hackers believed to have been behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta targeted employees at the conservative Heritage Foundation during the run-up to the 2016 election, The Daily Caller has learned.
The influential nonprofit worked closely with the Trump transition team both before and after the election, and was dubbed "Donald Trump's think tank" by CNN. The Trump campaign relied on Heritage's research for policy ideas, a fact that the nonprofit proudly promoted on its website.
Heritage alerted employees to the phishing attempts in an email just two weeks before the election, adding that the FBI had contacted Heritage about the phishing attempts.
"The same threat groups that have been releasing information about the DNC, Hillary Clinton, and recently John Podesta have been targeting specific people within Heritage via phishing campaigns," the email, dated Oct. 24, 2016, said. "Our security monitoring tools and services show no signs of an active compromise. However, we were contacted by the FBI agent-in-charge regarding emails sent to Heritage staff in August and September."
TheDC has obtained a copy of that email, and former Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint confirmed the phishing attempts to TheDC on Tuesday. DeMint added that the hacking attempts (to his knowledge) were largely unsuccessful. DeMint said that the hackers targeted employees who were "outside" of Heritage's firewall. DeMint added that they never had any indication that Russian hackers ever infiltrated Heritage's internal computer systems.
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"The private sector like us have developed a lot better security systems than the government has and that was one of the things that frustrated me as one of the rankings members on [the Senate Commerce Committee], we were like 10 years behind in the government," said DeMint, a former Republican senator.
"The private sector has gotten a lot better, but I still think that the Defense Department, the government and apparently the states with their voting booths are not very well protected."
A Heritage spokesperson declined to get into specific details in a statement emailed to TheDC, but emphasized that the nonprofit is not aware of any successful infiltrations.
"Like other high-profile policy organizations, Heritage is the target of phishing attacks on a regular basis, some from sophisticated actors. We have extensive security measures in place and have not identified any unauthorized access of our systems. When appropriate, we share relevant information with law enforcement and the information security community," the statement said.
U.S. intelligence services have identified Russian hackers as the ones who hacked Podesta and the DNC.
Podesta's emails were infiltrated after he fell for a phishing scam that asked him for his email log-in information. The email appeared to fool one of the Clinton campaign's computer technicians, who emailed Podesta saying the password request was "legitimate." That staffer later blamed that bad advice on a typo and said he meant to say the email was "illegitimate."
Heritage warned its employees that "Phishing attacks are using increasingly sophisticated methods to convince you to share your username and password information" and instructed them to never give away their log-in information if prompted.
This isn't the first time that Heritage, which is considered to be one of the most influential think tanks in D.C., has been targeted by hackers.
Heritage was successfully breached in 2015 by hackers who stole emails and sensitive donor information. In October 2012, the organization claimed to have recently warded off hacking attempts by Chinese hackers.
DeMint, who took over Heritage in December 2012 before being ousted earlier this year, told TheDC that Chinese hackers had successfully infiltrated Heritage in the past, although he did not specify when those infiltrations took place.
"We have had a situation where we knew the Chinese were in our system, they had gotten past the first door and they were watching some of the papers we were doing," he said. "We were fine with that, we would give them hard copies of everything they were looking at. We knew they were there and we didn't try to do anything because we didn't want them to change their strategy."
That the DNC hackers apparently targeted the Heritage Foundation in August and September of 2016 is consistent with the intelligence community's findings that the hackers' original goal was to disrupt and undermine American civic institutions, before shifting their focus to helping Trump. Russia was believed to have later shifted tactics to undermining American electoral institutions once they believed Trump no longer had a chance at winning.
Then-FBI Director James Comey testified in January that Russian hackers also targeted the Republican National Committee, although he said they only gained "limited" access to old computer systems that were "no longer in use."
Amanda Tidwell contributed to this report.
This article has been updated to include Heritage's statement.
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3 .	And what will explain to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour is?
5 .	And the mountains will be like carded wool.
7 .	Will be in a life of good pleasure and satisfaction.
9 .	Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit.
10 .	And what will explain to thee what this is?
11 .	(It is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!
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Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "arguably the best dance buffet in the Midwest," SPRING TO DANCE®, the region's vibrant, must-see dance extravaganza returns for its 12th year!
Presented by Dance St. Louis and the Touhill Performing Arts Center, the 12th Annual Emerson SPRING TO DANCE Festival brings together more than 30 professional dance companies from across the country and beyond for three unique, exhilarating nights of nonstop dance on Memorial Day weekend.
From ballet, modern and contemporary to tap, hip-hop, aerial and more, the vibrant festival offers something for everyone with a distinct, dynamic program each night.
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Eleonore Laloux is waging a campaign to become one of the first women with Down syndrome to win a local council seat France's municipal elections
The 34-year-old is fighting for inclusion.
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Eleonore Laloux is waging a campaign to become one of the first women with Down syndrome to win a local council seat France's municipal elections
Eleonore Laloux, 34, is waging a campaign to become one of the first women in France with Down syndrome to win a local council seat in this month's municipal elections.
"I've fought hard to live with Down syndrome. It doesn't trouble me any longer. Now I am fighting for inclusion. Handicapped people have their place in society," said Laloux.
As a young girl, Laloux's parents refused to place her in a special needs school, instilling in their daughter a self-belief that would later help her overcome bullies and secure her a job as an administrator in a hospital.
Now she's using her drive, tenacity and fresh perspective to hopefully land her a seat in her local council elections
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Meg Whitman tells IT leaders everything they need to know about HP Enterprise
In a recent interview, HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman discusses her firm's RD strategy and how it differentiates itself from other IT vendors in areas including cloud computing and hyper-converged infrastructure, among others. She also talks about HP's image problem.
John Gallant (Computerworld (US)) 07 April, 2016 06:55
Meg Whitman doesn't shy away from a challenge. She led eBay from tiny startup to household name, ran for governor of California and, nearly five years ago, took the helm at Hewlett Packard and stabilized an organization stumbling badly from a variety of very public missteps. Having engineered the split of the Silicon Valley icon into consumer tech (HP, Inc.) and corporate-focused Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Whitman is now HPE's Chief Executive Officer.
The IT market is undergoing fundamental and rapid change owing to cloud, mobile and other powerful drivers. The competitive landscape in which this $US50 billion startup plays is also shifting dramatically, with a slew of emerging players and the prospect of the largest-ever tech merger of Dell and EMC. No sweat, right?
In this installment of the IDG CEO Interview Series, we asked Whitman to talk directly to IT leaders about what the company split means for them as customers, and how HP Enterprise's new innovation agenda will help them transition to private and hybrid cloud. Whitman spoke with Chief Content Officer, John Gallant, about why HPE is better positioned than Dell/EMC to drive customer success, and about the company's strategy for hyper-converged infrastructure -- HPE's so-called Composable Infrastructure. She also shared insights on big data, cognitive computing, networking, high-performance computing and other critical growth areas for the company. Whitman discussed the challenges ahead and how she'd like perceptions of the company to change.
I really want to focus on what your strategy, as well as some of your recent moves, mean for our readers, who are senior IT leaders. If I'm a CIO or another top IT executive who has considered HP a strategic partner over the years, how exactly does this split benefit my organization?
First, I would say that the market is moving at lightning speed. I'm sure your audience says this to you every day. I've been in the IT industry for a long time. I've never seen it move this fast. And, in fact, part of the reason for the split was that we had to get smaller to go faster.
What they will find, I believe, is a stronger, more agile, more innovative company that is better positioned to help them transform their IT infrastructure. Virtually every customer I talk to has an aging, siloed, relatively high cost and not as flexible an infrastructure as they would like. And they're going to have to get to a new place with better security, using big data, enabling a mobile generation of users. Most people, not everyone, but most customers need help thinking through that and actually getting it done.
We hear terms like agile and nimble a lot. Can you give our readers some specific examples of what that means for them? Where is this agility actually showing up in terms of new investment or bringing things to market more quickly?
It turns out these two businesses -- both HP, Inc. as well as Hewlett-Packard Enterprise -- are two different businesses. Right? The PC and printer business is a scale [business]. We sell six PCs a second at HP, Inc.
The Hewlett-Packard Enterprise business is a solutions business. And we are now doubling down on innovation and RD. We have introduced probably the fastest and most important innovation agenda that we have had -- at least since I've been here, for sure, and maybe in the last decade. A lot of long-time HP'ers tell me this is the best product lineup we've had in a decade. It is more focused.
[According to data provided by an HPE spokesman, RD increased both in absolute terms and as a percentage of revenue over the past three years. RD grew from $US1.95 billion and 3.4 per cent of revenue in fiscal year 2013 to $US2.33 billion and 4.5 per cent of revenue in FY2015.]
I'll just tell you personally, I went from running seven businesses to basically running four. And I can tell you I go deeper on each customer, I go deeper on the technology roadmap over the next three years and I work a lot more closely with our business units because I have more time. And that shows up, I believe, in results. We've strengthened our go-to-market and I'd be happy to go through some of the products that we've introduced in the last year if that would be of interest.
I definitely want to go into some of those key areas that you've mentioned. When you talk specifically about RD and doubling down, can you put some numbers around that? What exactly would people see there?
Well, first of all, they would see research and development as an increasing percentage of sales over the last 4-1/2 years, even as we were cutting costs pretty dramatically. We expect that trend to continue with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. When you break apart the two businesses, we actually spend a higher percentage of sales on RD at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise than we did at HP, Inc. because, obviously, the PC business doesn't have a big RD spend and it's a huge business. I think you will see quite a different picture of our RD spend and we're going to continue to increase that spend.
When you talk about that innovation agenda, what tops that innovation agenda? What should people know about that?
Well, it really focuses around the four transformation areas that we outlined late last year. The strategy for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is in many ways the same. We want to help people transition to what we call the new style of IT and we're organizing ourselves around four transformation areas that customers basically told us were their biggest pain points.
I'll recap briefly for you. How do we help IT leaders transform to a hybrid [cloud] infrastructure? How do you decide what apps you want locked down in your data center and touched only by your employees? What are you willing to have in an on-prem private Cloud, a virtual private Cloud and managed by the Cloud and in the public cloud? And then how do you orchestrate all of that for the best asset utilization, the most flexibility and the lowest cost?
The second area, of course, is how do you secure your digital assets? We have both a services practice and a software practice there.
Then, how do you empower a data-driven organization? And we have a slightly different take on this because, remember, we have a very big high-performance compute business. We're practically the last man standing in high-performance computing -- only us, Cray and SGI. As the data multiplies, someone has to crunch that data and so we're really focused on the high-performance compute market. We have products like Vertica and IDOL that help gain insights from all that data.
And, finally, empowering a mobile and generationally different workforce. I don't know about your company, but our 50-somethings have a very different point of view on what they want at work than our 20-somethings. And that was of course why we bought Aruba, for great wired, wireless, LAN capability at the campus, branch and edge.
That investment really seems to be paying off.
It was such a great acquisition for us. It was really just like 3PAR, just like 3Com, it was complementary technology that leveraged our go-to-market, and frankly gave us legitimacy in the switch market. Obviously now everyone understands that we're committed to networking and a great alternative to Cisco in many, many instances.
Meg, I want to get into some of those specific product areas in a moment, but I want to explore more of the context here. Let's say I'm a customer that's committed to HP. If I'm concerned about the company no longer being the one-stop shop that it once was, or I'm worried about losing long-time contacts at the company or changes with my service and support, what are you telling customers like me?
Our TS [Technology Services] organisation - which is break/fix - used to be one organisation. But 4-1/2 years ago we actually split TS to support printing and PCs, and then the other half to support our server/storage/networking/cloud initiative. What we found was the skills to service printers and PCs are actually quite different than the skills to service Superdome Integrity X servers running SQL. So that has not been a big change for customers. If they bought our PCs and printers they got one set of TS execs and workforce, and if they bought our data center products they had another.
When we went through the separation, we actually had two separate contracts with customers because we had to invoice as two separate companies, they had to pay two separate companies. So to do that we went customer by customer -- by the way, value added reseller by value added reseller, of which we have 150,000 -- to get that technology change made there.
Then, by the way, most folks had at least two representatives calling on them. They had a data center person and a printer and PC business. Our global accounts had one person, and the global accounts will still run interference. If you're on the HPE side, they'll run interference for HP, Inc.
I have to say that customers have adapted to this beautifully. I think I've had one customer call me and say, "Hey, I wish I could still have my AGM [account general manager] in charge of all of HP." And I said, "Well great, you can. Don't worry about it, we'll do some one-offs for you."
But the truth is the people making the printer and PC decisions are almost entirely different than the executives that are making the data center decisions. So it's been a really seamless separation of these two companies. Customers got it. There's an expression in politics: When you're explaining, you're losing. And we didn't have to do much explaining on this, honestly.
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Shoulder pain is a common complication of a stroke which can impede participation in rehabilitation programs and has been associated with poorer outcomes. The evidence base for current medical and therapeutic management options of hemiplegic shoulder pain is limited. This study will evaluate the use of suprascapular nerve block injection as part of an interdisciplinary approach to the treatment of shoulder pain following stroke. The technique has previously been proven safe and effective in the treatment of shoulder pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis and degenerative shoulder conditions but its usefulness in a stroke population is unclear.
A double blind randomised placebo controlled trial will assess the effect of a suprascapular nerve block compared with placebo in a population of 66 stroke patients. The trial will measure effect of injection on the primary outcome of pain, and secondary outcomes of function and quality of life. Measurements will take place at baseline, and 1, 4 and 12 weeks post intervention. Both groups will continue to receive routine physiotherapy and standard ward care.
The results of this study could reduce pain symptoms in persons with mechanical shoulder pain post stroke and provide improvement in upper limb function.
This trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) - ACTRN12609000621213.
In any year, there are approximately 48,000 stroke events amongst Australians. Shoulder pain is a distressing complication of hemiplegia  and is reported as one of the 4 most common medical complications of stroke . The prevalence of shoulder pain following stroke has reported to be as high at 70% . A more recent prospective study of 327 consecutive stroke patients concluded that almost a third of this population developed moderate-severe shoulder pain after stroke onset . This more moderate figure reflects the 2006 paper by the same investigators, which focused on patient's perspectives on pain . Each of these studies highlight a correlation between pain and reduced functional ability, as well as a higher incidence of depression. Hemiplegic shoulder pain is associated with reduction in functional use of the arm, interference with rehabilitation and increased length of hospitalisation . A further complication of hemiplegic shoulder pain is identified as a limitation to patient access to developing technological upper-extremity rehabilitation techniques .
Investigation into the cause of hemiplegic shoulder pain has revealed a multifactorial aetiology . Note is made of the dependence on musculotendinous integrity to provide stability of the shoulder complex. The most common non-central, musculoskeletal aetiologies of hemiplegic shoulder pain include adhesive capsulitis, subluxation and rotator cuff patholgies, with up to one-third of patients have multiple contributing factors . Biomechanical changes result from a combination of paralysis, fluctuation in muscle tone and prolonged shoulder immobility which lead to postural malalignment . Dromerick et al  investigated the characteristics of hemiplegic shoulder pain, demonstrating that approximately 50% of the sample population experienced pain in the vertical stabilisers of the shoulder (biceps and supraspinatus). A 2006 evidence-based medicine review concluded that subluxation may be a cause of shoulder pain , though literature is inconsistent regarding this association. It should be noted that not all shoulder pain is associated with the complications of limb flaccidity, and may be attributable to spasticity or central-pain concepts.
There is lack of evidence to support the development of clear clinical guidelines, as identified in an overview of the challenges of managing shoulder pain after stroke . This paper concludes that further efforts are required to examine intervention options. There have been positive research results for the use of Functional Electrical Stimulation , though a Cochrane Systematic Review  of this topic did not support electrical stimulation as an effective pain treatment. There is a lack of Level 1 evidence for surgical interventions, motor blocks and intra-articular corticosteroid injection.
Suprascapular nerve block is a safe and efficacious treatment of shoulder pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis and degenerative shoulder conditions . The objective of this study is to evaluate the use of Suprascapular nerve block as part of an interdisciplinary approach to the treatment of shoulder pain following stroke. There is anecdotal report of successful use of suprascapular nerve block in treating intractable hemiplegic shoulder pain , though to date no clinical trials have been completed to form an evidence base.
The study design is a double blind randomised placebo controlled trial will assess the effect of a suprascapular nerve block compared with placebo in a population of 66 stroke patients (Figure 1). The trial will measure effect of injection on the primary outcome of pain, and secondary outcomes of function and quality of life. Measurements will take place at baseline, and 1, 4 and 12 weeks post intervention. Both groups will continue to receive routine physiotherapy and standard ward care.
Study Design - Randomised Controlled Trial.
Participants invited to participate in the study will be recruited via the acute stroke and rehabilitation wards at multiple hospitals sites across Adelaide, South Australia including: Repatriation General Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre (Royal Adelaide Hospital), and Griffith Rehabilitation Hospital. Ethics approval for the study has been granted by the Human Research Ethics Committees of Flinders Medical Centre (61/09), Royal Adelaide Hospital (09325), Repatriation General Hospital (09/09) and Queen Elizabeth Hospital (2009031).
Following consent and baseline measures, participants will be randomized to receive suprascapular nerve block or placebo injection. Allocation will be managed by a pharmacist external to the project.
Participants will be assessed for eligibility, provided with information about the study, provide informed consent, be enrolled into the study and complete the baseline assessment prior to allocation into the control or intervention group. Participants will be assigned to the control or intervention group by a pharmacist external to the project by simple randomisation generated by a computer software program.
The intervention group will receive an a suprascapular nerve block injection to the back of the affected shoulder (using depo-medrol 40 mg and 0.5% bupivivocaine hydrochloride). The technique proposed for suprascapular nerve block  involves approaching the patient from posterior aspect of shoulder, which will ensure patient unable to visualise syringe contents. The doctor administering the injections will not be blinded for safety reasons. This approach has been used in a prior trial examining suprascapular nerve blocks  Intervention participants will continue to receive routine ward care of positioning of limb, careful manual handling and physiotherapy/occupational therapy suitable for the individual. The treating team will remain blinded to the randomisation.
The control group will receive an injection to the back of the shoulder of 5 ml normal saline infiltrated subcutaneously after the 2 ml subcutaneous 1% lidocaine infiltration. Control participants will continue to receive routine ward care of positioning of limb, careful manual handling and physiotherapy/occupational therapy suitable for the individual. This project does not involve the withholding of standard treatment to any participant. The treating team will remain blinded to the randomisation.
Outcomes will be assessed at 1 week, 4 weeks and 12 weeks by a physiotherapist blind to allocation. Proposed primary outcome measure involves use of a 100-point modified visual analogue scale (VAS) to assess pain . This measure involves a 100 mm vertical line with periodic demarcations, anchored with the written extremes of subjective pain. Patients are asked to mark the severity of their current self-perceived pain on the scale, and this is then recorded in millimetre readings. Research suggests that a minimum change of 20 mm on the VAS is required to demonstrate clinically significant lessening of pain (initial reports >60 mm) . Whilst a lesser minimum change is accepted for lower initial pain scores, we have chosen the stronger difference in the context of best evidence in a population who is predicted to report higher pain scores.
Secondary outcomes of disability and quality of life will be measured using the Modified Rankin Scale , Croft Disability Questionnaire , and the EuroQol Health Questionnaire . The Croft Disability Questionnaire  includes 22 questions regarding disability associated specifically with shoulder pain. This measure is validated and chosen for this study as it more applicable in a more dependant sample population. Minimal level of detectable change (90% confidence) will be 3 points. Secondary outcome of spasticity will be measured using the Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS). MAS scores spasticity from 0-5.
Validity data will be collected for the AbilityQ and ShoulderQ measures . These tools were developed by Lynn Turner-Stokes in 2006 to provide a sensitive measure of shoulder pain which is responsible to change in pain experience in a stroke population.
Based on the data in the table 1, the standard deviation of the change scores are assumed to be in the range of 18-25. The attached table includes the estimated required sample size for a range of standard deviations and the three different clinically interesting changes above.
Hence using a conservative estimate, it is expected that a sample size of 26 participants per group (treatment and placebo) will achieve a statistically and clinically significant difference between the two groups (power 80%, alpha 0.05). To allow for deaths and withdrawals with a total attrition rate of 20%, a minimum total of 66 participants will be recruited, 33 per group. It is anticipated that recruitment of 66 participants (33 treatment, 33 placebo) size will take approximately 12 months and that each patient will be followed for 12 weeks.
Data will be exported into SPSS software for subsequent analyses. A statistical analysis plan will be drafted at the start of the project and all analyses will be carried out after masking allocation.
The research questions will be assessed using an intention to treat approach. Independent samples t-tests, Mann-Whitney U tests and Chi-square test of association will be used as appropriate to compare groups at baseline. To determine differences between the groups at the primary end-point, ANCOVA or logistic regression will be used with models adjusted according to potential confounders.
The protocol has been carefully designed with the aim of achieving measurable, replicable and important results. The methodological strength of the study focuses around the use of placebo control, though the contributors acknowledge that this may pose a recruitment challenge. Considering that eligible patients have a pain score of > 3, it is anticipated that patients may decline participation on the grounds of not wanting to risk 50/50 chance of randomisation to placebo group. Taking this into account, greater time allowance has been given for recruiting. Careful provision of information prior to consent is vital in ensuring patient's are fully aware of implication of the randomisation. All patients will be informed of their randomisation group at the end of their trial participation and offered active suprascapular nerve block if desired.
Another uncertainty is in establishing methodology to catch probable timing of hemiplegic shoulder pain. Lindgren's 2007 population-based study on hemiplegic shoulder pain found that the majority of the incidence of pain occurred within the first 4 months post stroke . Our inclusion criteria allow for patients to be up to twelve months post stroke, allowing for later incidences of pain occurrence. Difficulty may arise, however, in that ethics approval required injection in inpatient facility only. It is anticipated that many otherwise eligible participants may be unidentified by inpatient recruitment strategies.
Despite the realistic uncertainties outlined above, this study will provide useful information pertaining to an important topic. Shoulder pain is a common and debilitating symptom for a large number of people following a stroke and currently there is poor evidence regarding effective treatments. If the study shows that the suprascapular nerve block is efficacious in management of hemiplegic shoulder pain, it could potentially provide a new treatment option for stroke patients.
ZA, MS and MC conceived the study, drafted the original protocol, and applied for funding. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.


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Bogdan Bogdanović, né le  à Belgrade, alors en République socialiste de Serbie, est un joueur international serbe de basket-ball, évoluant aux postes d'arrière et ailier.

En 2014, il est drafté en  par les Suns de Phoenix, ses droits de draft étant par la suite échangés aux Kings de Sacramento. Cette même année, il devient vice-champion du monde avec la Serbie lors de la Coupe du monde en Espagne. Il est médaillé d'argent aux Jeux olympiques de 2016.

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Carrière en club

Partizan Belgrade (2010-2014)
Bogdanović réalise une excellente saison 2013-2014. Le Partizan participe à l'Euroligue et se qualifie pour le Top 16. Bogdanović termine  marqueur de la compétition avec 14,8 points par rencontre (ex æquo avec son homonyme Bojan Bogdanović) et est aussi choisi comme meilleur espoir de l'Euroligue. Il est aussi nommé dans le meilleur cinq de la Ligue adriatique avec son coéquipier Joffrey Lauvergne, Dario Šarić du Cibona Zagreb, Boban Marjanović et DeMarcus Nelson de l'Étoile rouge.

Fenerbahçe Ülker (2014-2017)
En juillet 2014, Bogdanović signe un contrat avec le Fenerbahçe Ülker, club de première division turque. En mars 2015, il est nommé meilleur joueur de la  du Top 16 de l'Euroligue : lors de la victoire de Fenerbahçe contre l'Olimpia Milan, il marque 25 points et fait 4 passes décisives.

En juin 2014, il remporte le championnat de Serbie avec le Partizan. Bogdanović est élu MVP des playoffs, en finale, contre l'Étoile rouge, il marque en moyenne plus de 31 points. Quelques jours plus tard, Bogdanović est choisi par les Suns de Phoenix en  lors de la draft 2014 de la NBA.

En mai 2015, alors que Fenerbahçe est qualifié pour le Final Four de l'Euroligue, Bogdanović conserve son titre de meilleur espoir.

Le 21 mai 2017, il remporte l'Euroligue avec le Fenerbahçe, grâce à une victoire sur le score de 80 à 64 contre l'Olympiakós en finale. Il termine ce match avec 17 points et 5 rebonds.

Kings de Sacramento (2017-2020)
En juillet 2017, il rejoint les Kings de Sacramento afin de commencer sa carrière en NBA. Bogdanović signe un contrat de trois ans pour 36 millions de dollars américains.

En novembre, il est transféré aux Bucks de Milwaukee via un sign-and-trade mais ce dernier est annulé par la suite à cause du refus de Bogdan Bogdanović de resigner au préalable avec les Kings.

Hawks d'Atlanta (depuis 2020)
Agent libre restreint lors du marché des agents libres, le Serbe signe un contrat de 72 millions de dollars sur quatre ans avec les Hawks d'Atlanta. Les Kings ne s'alignent pas sur l'offre.

Carrière en équipe de Serbie

Bogdanović est vice-champion du monde en 2014 avec l'équipe nationale de Serbie, après s'être incliné en finale contre les États-Unis (92-129). Malgré la défaite et une faible réussite à trois points (1/9, soit 11 %), Bogdanović parvient à marquer 15 points lors de cette rencontre. L'arrière de Fenerbahçe inscrit en moyenne 12,0 points sur le tournoi, dont une pointe à 21 points contre la Grèce en huitième de finale.

Deux ans plus tard, à Rio de Janeiro, dans le cadre des Jeux olympiques d'été 2016, les deux formations se retrouvent une nouvelle fois en finale et la sélection serbe s'écroule de nouveau (66-96). Bogdanović ne s'illustre pas dans cette rencontre qu'il termine avec une faible ligne statistique (7 points à 17 % aux tirs, 3 rebonds, 3 passes, 5 balles perdues pour 2 d'évaluation générale). Toutefois, pour la seconde compétition mondiale consécutive, Bogdanović remporte la médaille d'argent derrière Team USA.

Palmarès

Palmarès en club

 Champion de Serbie avec le Partizan Belgrade en 2011, 2012, 2013 et 2014.
 Vainqueur de la Ligue adriatique avec le Partizan Belgrade en 2011 et 2013.
 Vainqueur de la coupe de Serbie avec le Partizan Belgrade en 2011 et 2012.
 Champion de Turquie avec le Fenerbahçe Ülker en 2016 et 2017.
 Vainqueur de la coupe de Turquie avec le Fenerbahçe Ülker en 2016.
 Vainqueur de l'Euroligue avec le Fenerbahçe Ülker en 2017.

Palmarès en sélection nationale

  du championnat d'Europe U20 2010 en Lituanie.
  Médaillé d'argent au championnat du monde U19 2011 en Lettonie.
  du championnat d'Europe U20 2012 en Slovénie.
  de l'Eurobasket 2013 en Slovénie.
  Médaillé d'argent à la coupe du monde 2014 en Espagne.
  de l'Eurobasket 2015 en France, Lettonie, Allemagne et Croatie.
  Médaillé d'argent aux Jeux olympiques d'été 2016 à Rio de Janeiro (Brésil).
  Médaillé d'argent au Championnat d'Europe 2017 en Slovénie.

Distinctions individuelles

 MVP des finales du championnat serbe en 2014.
 Élu meilleur espoir d'Euroligue en 2014 et 2015.
 Élu dans le cinq majeur de la Ligue adriatique en 2014.
 MVP de la coupe de Turquie en 2016.
 MVP du tournoi préolympique 2016 de Belgrade (Serbie), qualificatif pour les Jeux olympiques 2016.
 Élu dans le cinq majeur du Championnat d'Europe en 2017.
 MVP du Rising Stars Challenge au NBA All-Star Week-End en 2018
 NBA All-Rookie Second Team en 2018.
 Élu dans le cinq majeur de la Coupe du monde en 2019.

Statistiques

Statistiques en club

En Europe

En NBA

Saison régulière

|-
| align="left" | 2017-2018
| align="left" | Sacramento
| 78 || 52 || 27,9 || 44,6 || 39,2 || 84,0 || 2,86 || 3,31 || 0,92 || 0,21 || 11,76
|-
| align="left" | 2018-2019
| align="left" | Sacramento
| 70 || 17 || 27,8 || 41,8 || 36,0 || 82,7 || 3,47 || 3,81 || 1,03 || 0,21 || 14,14
|-
| align="left" | 2019-2020
| align="left" | Sacramento
| 61 || 28 || 29,0 || 44,0 || 37,2 || 74,1 || 3,39 || 3,39 || 1,05 || 0,25 || 15,15
|-
| align="left" | 2020-2021
| align="left" | Atlanta
| 44 || 27 || 29,7 || 47,3 || 43,8 || 90,9 || 3,64 || 3,34 || 1,11 || 0,29 || 16,36
|-
| align="left" | 2021-2022
| align="left" | Atlanta
| 63 || 27 || 29,3 || 43,1 || 36,8 || 84,3 || 4,00 || 3,10 || 1,10 || 0,20 || 17,80
|-bgcolor=#e9d9ff
| align="left" colspan="2" | Carrière
| 316 || 152 || 28,6 || 43,9 || 38,4 || 82,2 || 3,40 || 3,40 || 1,00 || 0,20 || 14,20

Mise à jour le 11 octobre 2022

Playoffs

|-
| align="left" | 2021
| align="left" | Atlanta
| 18 || 18 || 33,2 || 39,0 || 32,9 || 70,6 || 4,17 || 2,89 || 1,61 || 0,28 || 14,06
|-
| align="left" | 2022
| align="left" | Atlanta
| 4 || 0 || 26,7 || 40,8 || 34,6 || 80,0 || 4,80 || 3,00 || 0,30 || 0,30 || 14,30
|-bgcolor=#e9d9ff
| align="left" colspan="2" | Carrière
| 22 || 18 || 32,0 || 39,3 || 33,1 || 74,1 || 4,30 || 2,90 || 1,40 || 0,30 || 14,10

Mise à jour le 11 octobre 2022

Statistiques en sélection

Légende : En gras apparaissent les moyennes records de Bogdanović sur un tournoi officiel.

Records sur une rencontre en NBA
Les records personnels de Bogdan Bogdanović en NBA sont les suivants :

 Double-double : 3
 Triple-double : 0
Dernière mise à jour :

Salaires

Références

Liens externes

  Profil www.eurobasket2013.org

Naissance en août 1992
Naissance à Belgrade
Joueur international serbe de basket-ball
Joueur du KK Partizan Belgrade
Joueur drafté par les Suns de Phoenix
Joueur du Fenerbahçe Ülkerspor
Joueur de basket-ball aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2016
Médaillé d'argent olympique serbe
Joueur des Kings de Sacramento
Joueur des Hawks d'Atlanta
Vainqueur de l'EuroLigue de basket-ball

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Day After Christmas Officially Tired Of Playing Second Fiddle To Black Friday
This article originally appeared in Robot Butt.
A press conference held this week to mark the holiday season turned controversial when December 26th told reporters that it has finally had it with always taking a back seat to Black Friday. Citing the abundance of "doorbuster" deals and even the special name for whichever date follows Thanksgiving, the day after Christmas announced that it's finally taking a stand.
"For thousands of years, I've been nothing but consistent in my dealings," the 26th said. "No matter what, I'm always the same day every year. Then a few decades ago a newfangled day all of a sudden pops up and it gets its own special name? For goodness sake, it literally has people clamoring to buy as much as they can. All anyone wants to do when I come around is just return bad presents they got the morning before. Enough is enough. I've been the low date on the totem pole for far too long."
December 26th added that its displeasure is also rooted in the fact that Black Friday always represents the start of the holiday season, when everyone is happy, as opposed to the day after Christmas when people begin to throw out their trees and get ready for the New Year and responsibilities again.
"I've been around for far too long to be the second banana of the days following a much more notable day," the 26th forcefully proclaimed. "I'm no longer going to be overshadowed, and so I must reclaim my title as the most important day after a holiday of the year."
At press time, the day after Christmas was seen being dragged out to the curb and quickly forgotten about.
Nothing Jewish Boyfriend Could Ever Do Will Make Gentile Girlfriend Happier Than Christmas
OAKLAND, CA — Noah Rothstein doesn't pretend to kid himself when it comes to where he ranks in the eyes of his longtime girlfriend and obvious goy, Amber Fleming. Witnessing Fleming swell with excitement at the mere mention of the word "Christmas," Rothstein is keenly aware that no amount of love, admiration or even couples social media pics will ever help him measure up to Santa Claus, colorful lights and joyful carols.
As a result, Rothstein has had to come to terms with his No. 2 standing in the relationship. "Nothing about me — or the culture I grew up with — will ever make Amber feel as good as Christmas does," Rothstein admitted. "So I've just learned to embrace it. I don't try to be better than candy canes, sugarplums or anything roasting on an open fire."
Early on in the two-year relationship, Rothstein made attempts to integrate some Jewish practices into the couple's holiday celebrations. However, nothing he did could compete with the allure of Christmas. "I really wanted our holidays together to have more of a Christmukkah feel, but we have latkes and chocolate, and they have pretty much everything else," he said.
While it took Rothstein some time to fully comprehend Fleming's strange obsession with the holiday, he now tolerates hours-long gift shopping trips, ugly sweaters and pulling random spruce tree needles out of his feet every morning. "There's no point in fighting it," he said. "Now, I just enjoy Christmas the same way Amber does; in a maniacal and frighteningly unhealthy fashion."
For Jews, Christmas Is Complicated
A special message to those who celebrate Christmas
From: Your Jewish friend


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What limits adoption of alternative silvicultural systems?
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Pulished in Forest Ecosystems 2, 8
Silvicultural alternatives to conventional even-aged forest management - what limits global adoption?
Puettmann K.J., Wilson S. McG., Baker S., Donoso P., Droessler L., Amente G., Harvey B. D., Knoke T., Lu Y., Nocentini S., Putz F. E., Yoshida T. and Bauhus J.
The development of forestry as a scientific and management discipline over the last two centuries has mainly emphasized intensive management operations focused on increased commodity production, mostly wood. This "conventional" forest management approach has typically favored production of even-aged, single-species stands. While alternative management regimes have generally received less attention, this has been changing over the last three decades, especially in countries with developed economies. Reasons for this change include a combination of new information and concerns about the ecological consequences of intensive forestry practices and a willingness on the part of many forest owners and society to embrace a wider set of management objectives. Alternative silvicultural approaches are characterized by a set of fundamental principles, including avoidance of clearcutting, an emphasis on structural diversity and small-scale variability, deployment of mixed species with natural regeneration, and avoidance of intensive site-preparation methods.
Our compilation of the authors' experiences and perspectives from various parts of the world aims to initiate a larger discussion concerning the constraints to and the potential of adopting alternative silvicultural practices.
The results suggest that a wider adoption of alternative silvicultural practices is currently hindered by a suite of ecological, economic, logistical, informational, cultural, and historical constraints. Individual contexts display their own unique combinations and relative significance of these constraints, and accordingly, targeted efforts, such as regulations and incentives, may help to overcome specific challenges.
In a broader context, we propose that less emphases on strict applications of principles and on stand structures might provide additional flexibility and facilitate the adoption of alternative silvicultural regimes in a broader set of circumstances. At the same time, the acceptance of alternative silvicultural systems as the "preferred or default mode of management" will necessitate and benefit from the continued development of the scientific basis and valuation of a variety of ecosystem goods and services. This publication is aimed to further the discussion in this context.
⇒ http://www.forestecosyst.com


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The rural community of Chari is located in the district of Checacupe, Canchis Province, some 100km from Cusco. The town is located 3446 meters above sea level between the district capitals of Checacupe and Pitumarca. Chari is famous for having recovered ancestral weaving techniques and designs, like the "Ticlla Liclla", a four piece decorative blanket/shawl. Rainbow Mountain and the Incan archeological site/park "Machu Pitumarca" are located nearby.
In Chari we have worked with the association of women "Pallay Lliclla" ("shawl designs" en Quechua) since 2004. The women of the Chari are the founding partners of the Association of Weavers of the South Andes "Inkakunaq Ruwaynin", which runs a fair trade artisanal textile store in the Historic Center of Cusco. They have come a long way: from women who were illiterate and discriminated against they have become leaders with business skills and self esteem. They have traveled to fairs in France and Mexico and constructed, with the revenue from selling their textiles, two community lounges in Chari, where they attend to visitors. Now they form part of two projects led by the CBC in conjunction with the BACKUS Foundation and "Brot für die Welt".


In the planning phase, we carry out room acoustic measurements in scaled-down models. These miniature halls rich in detail are created by professional model designers in close correlation with the acoustic requirements on the basis of the architectural plans on a scale of 1:10 or 1:20.
The measurements in the model are performed according to the same method as the measurements in real rooms. However, the sound wavelengths of the measuring signals have to be reduced according to the scale factor of the model, i.e. the measurements have to be carried out at higher frequencies.
Acceptance measurements in the completed hall objectively documents the excellent acoustic relationship.
Model measurements have an advantage compared to computer simulations, in that the transfer takes place true to the wave nature of the sound, that means that acoustic focus and sound scattering patterns are very well mapped. Because of the specific advantages and disadvantages of both model measurements and computer simulations, Müller-BBM often uses both methods for the most demanding acoustical plans for concert halls and opera houses.
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In this model, sound absorption of the audience is simulated using textiles.


Should I sow a new lawn or not ? Advice please?
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 3:33 pm Post subject: Should I sow a new lawn or not ? Advice please?
Yep, that doesn't look too bad. Although pictures never tell the full story. If you think you would be happy for it to be just 'greened up' then its probably the way to go, but if you think you still wouldn't be happy then a new lawn is what's required.
I used almost 2 bags of Bauemgarten Amenity grass mix for good durability at a cost of £55/bag. I think good quality grass seed is the most important part as it seriously reduces the weed content. My seed was sown 2 weeks from tomorrow night and already I have around 35mm growth from just one type of grass in the mixture. The other types are just starting to open now. There are extremely few weeds rearing their heads.
There is already a nice deep green covering although a bit patchy I'm confident that over the next few weeks it will thicken nicely. Every morning when I leave the house there is a noticable difference to the covering.
Anyway in my eyes, for me, the work was worth it although people passing by probably thought I was mad killing, what looked like to passers by, a perfectly good lawn.
The decision as they say is all yours.
It would be interesting to see a male/female breakdown of opinions here. Men seem far more obsessive about "lawns"......sure once it looks reasonable and green and is nice to walk on that's enough for me.
The thing that bugs me most about the grass that's there is the unevenness of the ground. So I think the only answer is to import topsoil or plough and rotovate what's there.. I will most likely go for the latter.
I assume I have to wait until its completely died back? Or could I mow it now as short as possible then plough it?
Lawn sowed on 22nd September 2013.
indeed; i know plenty fo guys who have zero interest in gardening but are obsessive about a green carpet.
anyway, is it not a bit late to sow a lawn? it won't establish before the winter, i'd have thought, so will be unusable till at least may, without making a mess of it.


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Q: Why css for admin url in python-django project is not loading? I am new to python & django. I have learnt basic of both and made a simple project called PythonDjangoDemo. I have visited admin urls during development. But I am unable to load css for admin url in python-django project. At first lets look at project structure. I have -
PythonDjangoDemo
  |--- PythonDjangoDemo
  |      |--- __init__.py
  |      |--- settings.py
  |      |--- urls.py
  |      |--- wsgi.py
  |--- static_cdn
  |      |--- admin
  |      |      |--- css
  |      |      |      |---base.css
  |      |      |      |---login.css
  |      |      |--- fonts
  |      |      |--- img
  |      |      |--- js
  |--- media_cdn
  |--- templates
  |--- manage.py
  |--- db.sqlite3

Let's have a look at settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]

... ... ...

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
MEDIA_URL = "/media/"

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR), "static_cdn")
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR), "media_cdn")

I have put all my css for admin urls at "static_cdn/admin/css". When I try to access "127.0.0.1:800/admin"  I do not get any error(s). Here is the console output -
[30/Apr/2017 16:04:58] "GET /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 302 0
[30/Apr/2017 16:04:59] "GET /admin/login/?next=/admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 1650
[30/Apr/2017 16:04:59] "GET /static/admin/css/base.css HTTP/1.1" 200 16066
[30/Apr/2017 16:04:59] "GET /static/admin/css/login.css HTTP/1.1" 200 1203
Not Found: /favicon.ico
[30/Apr/2017 16:04:59] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 2329

Could you please explain

*

*What is going on wrong compared to the console response (that is no error)?

*And what is the meaning of STATIC_URL and STATIC_ROOT?

A: Yes I got the solution to the problem. Though everything is OK but the browser's console shows -
Resource interpreted as Stylesheet but transferred with MIME type application/x-css: "http://localhost:8000/static/admin/css/base.css".
Resource interpreted as Stylesheet but transferred with MIME type application/x-css: "http://localhost:8000/static/admin/css/login.css".

The problem was discussed at python built in server not loading css.
I got the solution at CSS not loading wrong MIME type Django.

A: your css is loading fine as you can see there is no error.
check this for details.
Also your media folder should be at the same level as the static folder.

A: you should put static_cdn folder in parallel to media_cdn folder.
Then clear the cache and load  admin page.

A: STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATIC_ROOT =  os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static", "static")

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static", "static-only"),

I put my static files as above and created it in my Django base directory.
Afterwards I ran django manage.py collectstatic.
Then ran django manage.py runserver but it still didn't work.
Until I cleared my BROWSER CACHE.


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