WASHINGTON — No collusion. Let's party.
After two years spent in a defensive crouch, the president's aides have emerged from their emotional bunkers in celebration of what they say is a total vindication of President Trump.
That view may be based on the best possible interpretation of the letter written by Attorney General William P. Barr summarizing the conclusions of the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. But any caveats in the letter or the possibility of surprises when more of the report is released has not put a damper on the celebratory dinners at downtown Washington restaurants, the number of teamwork-focused photos posted on social media or the hugs in the White House driveway between television interviews.
"We're colluding," Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the president, told reporters as she embraced Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, in the driveway after returning from a Fox News appearance on Monday.
Inside the White House, the reaction was more low key, but aides still wanted to make their happiness known: Ms. Sanders posted, and then deleted, a celebratory Instagram photo of a scowling Mr. Trump flanked by a team of lawyers and his social media director, Dan Scavino.
Later that day, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump's personal lawyer, surfaced at one of his favorite haunts: the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. Relieved by the investigation's results, which he had framed a day earlier as "better than I expected," a jovial Mr. Giuliani and Brad Parscale, the president's campaign manager, drew a crowd of supporters who waited for the opportunity to mingle.
Along with wisecracks, there was a decidedly less playful theme emerging that once the party is over, the president's perceived enemies should pay.
Mr. Hill said he shared the president's grievances, including the suggestion that anyone involved in the Russia investigation's origins had engaged in treasonous behavior.
That mood is shared within the administration. Ms. Sanders is using her Twitter platform as press secretary to single out Mr. Trump's "haters," using a March Madness-style bracket to identify perceived enemies of the administration, most of them journalists, by name.
Mr. Trump, who has barely contained his anger over what he feels was a sustained personal attack in several encounters with reporters since Sunday, suggested on Tuesday that the origins of the Mueller investigation could be traced to the Obama White House, and made it clear that for him, the process had not been political but personal.
On Twitter, Mr. Trump has continued his usual drumbeat against the news media, but has cast a wider net by calling all "mainstream" journalists the enemy of the people.
In a closed-door meeting with Senate Republicans at a policy lunch on Tuesday, where he promoted his emboldened administration's decision to try to strike down the Affordable Care Act, Mr. Trump praised Mr. Barr for releasing such a quick summary of Mr. Mueller's report.
"I love the A.G. He works fast. I love this guy. You told me I would," Mr. Trump told the group, according to a person familiar with his remarks, before suggesting that he would not like to see any leaks coming from the meeting. He also shared his reasoning for doubling down on his targets.
"People love it when you attack the press," he told the group.
The president's targets include individual Democrats and law enforcement institutions. Senator Lindsey Graham, a White House ally, said he would investigate anti-Trump bias at the F.B.I. and Justice Department, presumably shifting the focus back to Mr. Trump's Democratic opponent from 2016, Hillary Clinton.
Some of the targets have been happy to hit back.
Representative Adam B. Schiff, a California Democrat and vocal critic of the administration who heads the House Intelligence Committee, is among those facing pressure from the White House to resign. Asked by a reporter Monday evening whether he feared that Republicans would keep up the pummeling in a public hearing on Russia hosted by his committee on Thursday, Mr. Schiff laughed.
One figure conspicuously absent from the president's ire is Mr. Mueller himself, but Mr. Trump's earlier suggestion that the special counsel acted honorably during the process was undermined by Mr. Giuliani, who said on CNN on Tuesday that he was not left with that impression.
"Maybe I was in the trenches more," Mr. Giuliani said.
Joe Lockhart, a Democratic strategist who was President Bill Clinton's press secretary when he was impeached, said in an interview that the White House was playing a dangerous game by declaring full victory and going on the attack before the full results of Mr. Mueller's report — including full details on the actions Mr. Trump took during the course of the investigation — became public.
Other Democrats are watching the behavior of the president and his aides closely, but are taking a more cautious approach as Republicans celebrate and go on the offensive. In remarks during a closed-door meeting of House Democrats in the basement of the Capitol on Tuesday morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California sought to quiet her own troops.
"Let's just get the goods," she added.
But among the president's aides, there is a feeling of relief on behalf of a president and group of voters who have been maligned during the two-year Russia investigation, Ms. Conway said in an interview.
Peter Baker and Nicholas Fandos contributed reporting.


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The 13 Weirdest Slasher Movies of the '80s
by William Penix
– on May 12, 2016
Only in an era of Ronald Reagan conservatism could something as crude as slasher films hit their peak popularity. And though its market appeal couldn't at least fluctuate like the Gipper's approval ratings, the subgenre has given us some lasting figures of popular culture. Maniacal and monolithic villains Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, for instance, terrified us, only to entertain us after they broke out into stardom. Fans and those that have studied the genre will tell you that its quality – not that there was much to begin with – began to dip just before the decade's midpoint.
But amidst both the good and bad, there have been some truly strange slasher films to come out of the 80s, especially later on in the decade when the subgenre had begun the five stages of grief with a healthy dose of denial. For various reasons, these films were the decade's biggest head-scratchers.
Here are The 13 Weirdest Slasher Movies of the '80s.
13 Cutting Class (1989)
The silliness of slasher films had certainly reached their apex long before 1989, yet Cutting Class still feels like the subgenre's prime example of goofy '80s fun. Featuring a young Brad Pitt in his first major role, the film depicts the return of troubled teenager Brian Woods after spending time at a mental institution.
Predictably, people are mysteriously killed after his return, and the general suspicion is cast onto him. Most films would build suspicion in one direction, and then take it in another place entirely with one final plot twist. But amazingly, Cutting Class's overall effort is so minimal it couldn't satisfy even that basic requirement. From the first moment, Brian is the suspected killer, and in turn, the film offers no surprises when Brian [SPOILER ALERT, as if you care] turns out to be the killer. The film may have carved out new territories in slasher film laziness, but Pitt's presence and its campy quality have partially saved it from complete insignificance.
12 April Fool's Day (1986)
Perhaps a slasher film called April Fool's Day was a really obvious choice for an attempt at parody. Even still, the film feels as familiar as can be. A group of friends travel to an island for a spring break bash where a friend is waiting for them with some pranks, ranging from the light-hearted to the genuinely dark.
One by one, the friends turn up mysteriously dead. Except, when the ending comes around, everyone is completely fine. If the film is, in fact, meant to be a parody of slasher movie tropes, it plays itself straight for most of its runtime. One final scene supposedly legitimizes any argument for its potentially being a parody, which seems rather flimsy when the beginning opens on a rather serious note as a deckhand on the ferry to the island for the rendezvous is brutally injured.
11 Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Anyone who has seen the original Sleepaway Camp knows exactly why it's being included, so bringing up the film's legendary, so completely out-of-left-field twist ending is moot. But those in the know will tell you it's probably the only reason the film remains relevant.
Even by 1983, the scene was familiar. In the film, a shy young girl named Angela joins her cousin Ricky at Camp Arawak, returning to the scene where a motorboat driver on the lake killed her father and brother. As soon as she arrives, the camp's meaner inhabitants get what they give, dying in mysterious fashions. Everything about the film from the characters to the dialogue, the story, the acting and the deaths screams 'miserable' and 'forgettable.' One final, unexpected shot lifted Sleepaway Camp from horror obscurity to horror franchise – but ironically, the sequels themselves are quite obscure.
10 Just Before Dawn (1981)
The forest isn't an uncommon setting for slasher films. Whether its teens and college students at a summer camp, out camping or shacking up in a cabin, many filmmakers have utilized the woods for its naturally terrifying aesthetics. Very few slasher films, however, have really taken advantage of its qualities like the little known Just Before Dawn.
Filmed at Silver Falls State Park in Silverton, Oregon, Just Before Dawn may feature a recognizable plot – five college students head to the woods for a getaway – but unlike most slasher films of the early '80s, the film is more focused on atmosphere than delivering gory kills. For instance, the film features an especially creepy opening, with master shots of the sun rising over the forest accompanied by distant whistling. In addition to a murderous tag team, as opposed to a lone wolf, and a relatively low body count, Just Before Dawn is strange in the best way.
9 Stage Fright (1987)
Very few slasher films from the late '80s stand out in a positive manner. While Stage Fright might not be one of them, it deserves recognition for trying to do something different with the genre – even if the results are rather mixed.
Directed by Michele Soavi, who had previously worked with Dario Argento, the film depicts a group of actors confine themselves to their set as they rehearse a musical about a murderous villain named the Night Owl. Little do they know a deranged actor has escaped from the asylum he's been kept in to commit his own rampage. The film combines elements of slasher film and giallo to peculiar effect, although this amalgamation often clashes with the late 80s new wave cheese. This is possibly the sign of a first time director demonstrating some self-reflexivity, though those intentions are arguably superficial given the aesthetics.
8 Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Jason Voorhees has been killed and brought back to life many times in the Friday the 13th franchise, but Part VII: The New Blood contains, by far, the most ridiculous means of revival. Tina Shepherd is a teen with budding psychic powers, but when her physician tries to use her abilities for his own purposes, she unwittingly resuscitates Jason from the watery grave Tommy Jarvis put him into in Part VI. Just in time for another batch of unenviable cannon fodder to arrive at Crystal Lake, too. To be fair, revival through troubled psychic teen was the next logical step after being brought back to life through a makeshift lightning rod in Part VI.
Even with special effects artist John Carl Buechler at the helm, the film's double-digit body count – including the infamous sleeping bag kill – was heavily edited down thanks to the MPAA. But considering where the series went after Part VII, the overall damage was surely minimal.
7 Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1987)
Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 simultaneously had a lot and little to live up to. Its 1984 predecessor was met with much controversy as many families protested the film's release for depicting Santa Claus, or rather a man in a Santa Claus suit, as a coldblooded killer, achieving cult status almost immediately. Then again, in many ways, Silent Night, Deadly Night was just another cheap, sleazy slasher film, and the critics' anger towards it was palpable.
The sequel focuses on Ricky, the younger brother of the previous film's villainous Saint Nick, and the murders he has committed. Much of the story is told in flashbacks, and incorporates Ricky into Billy's story, which is a curious choice considering at the time of Billy's murders, Ricky was still in the foster home. Not only that, the flashbacks primarily use footage from the original film. Finally, for a genre that thrives on bloody, creative kills, a significant number of Ricky's victims die of single gunshot wounds – including the notorious "It's garbage day!" kill, which became a meme when someone uploaded it to YouTube.
6 Final Exam (1981)
Lack of originality is one of the most tried and true criticisms of slasher films, right next to patent misogyny. There's lack of originality, and then there's Final Exam, a strangely blatant rip-off of John Carpenter's Halloween.
In the film, students of Lanier College are dealing with the stresses of exam period, but that stress intensifies for a select few when a deranged killer visits campus looking for fresh meat. Similarities to Halloween only include a mysterious Michael Myers-type killer using a kitchen knife as his M.O., a Laurie Strode female heroine copycat, and the secondary tagline "He Came Back," which is eerily similar to "The Night HE Came Home." None of this is helped by the script's failure to kill off any of its useless characters for nearly 50 minutes after the opening death scene.
5 A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
At the time, no one knew that Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street would be such a critical and financial success. It did so well that New Line Cinema will forever be known as 'The House that Freddy Built.' Naturally, a sequel was quickly green-lit and released the following year, but many were caught off guard by the different direction it took.
In the film, Freddy uses vulnerable and insecure teenager Jesse as a conduit to continue his murderous rampage rather than kill teens in their dreams. This change to a possession-style Freddy didn't sit well with many, and those people were perturbed even more so during the infamous pool sequence, when Freddy randomly appears in reality without warning. Perhaps, the film's only saving grace was its pure camp, which was a break from Craven's scares, and the homoerotic subtext, especially significant considering its premiere in an era of conservatism when AIDS was at the forefront of global discussion. And to think there was still more weirdness to come from this fledgling franchise.
4 Return to Horror High (1987)
A cast that included Alex Rocco (The Godfather), Maureen McCormick (The Brady Bunch) and a young George Clooney isn't quite as weird as the personnel involved with Happy Birthday To Me, but that isn't the weirdest part about the 1987 film Return to Horror High.
Depicting a film crew revisiting the high school where a series of gruesome murders took place for their own film about the massacre, Return to Horror High, for whatever reason, is told through a nonlinear narrative. In spite of its mere 95-minute runtime, the film tells its story through the perspective of the film crew getting picked off one by one, the film's screenwriter, survivor of the massacre Arthur Lyman, being interrogated by local police and bizarre cinema verité segments of the film within the film's principal photography. Such an approach would be admirable if there were any cohesion, not to mention a lack of another ending where the supposed 'victims' are only pretending to be dead.
3 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
One of Freddy Krueger's most memorable lines comes from Dream Warriors, when he exclaims to one of his victims, "Welcome to primetime, b**ch!" With the help of director Renny Harlin on The Dream Master, the blackly humorous slasher welcomed himself to primetime, evolving from a terrifying demon to a playfully demonic puppeteer.
A film that uses a fire-pissing dog to bring Freddy's remains back to life, The Dream Master was itself a marked change from the previous three films due to its various action film influences, including A Chinese Ghost Story. In the documentary Never Sleep Again, Robert Englund refers to the film as "the MTV Nightmare," referencing its kinetic pace and camera and post-production tricks to help make the film more appealing for a mass audience. Unfortunately, parts of the script were being written during shooting because of an ongoing writers strikes – a fact that especially hurt one cheesy karate-based kill scene when Freddy is invisible. Yes, The Dream Child is arguably the strangest of the Nightmare films conceptually, but it's all thanks to the new direction Harlin took the franchise and thus became par for the course.
2 Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Among the most ardent of genre fans, the American-Canadian Happy Birthday To Me is one of the lesser known, yet most-beloved slasher films to come out of the '80s. A few factors contribute to its cult status, each perhaps more bewildering than the last. First of all, the film contains some of the oddest kills to grace the silver screen, including the shish-ka-bob through the mouth and being crushed by one's own bench press. Secondly, there are a plethora of plot twists, including a final revelation that defies reason, but such is normal territory for a slasher film trying to play whodunit.
But strangest of all was the film's main cast and its director. Its director, J. Lee Thompson, directed Gregory Peck in both the original Cape Fear and The Guns of Navarone, a film that earned Best Picture and Best Director nominations, among six others. On top of that, two of the film's primary stars were Melissa Sue Anderson, better known as Mary Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie, and the great Glenn Ford, who starred opposite Rita Hayworth in Gilda. What these big names were doing in a production so small is beyond baffling.
1 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
Tobe Hooper's original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the more grisly viewing experiences to undertake. The dinner scene alone is enough to make your skin crawl. Twelve years later, Hooper shocked viewers once again, although in a decidedly different fashion.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a more darkly comical view of the Sawyer family than its predecessor, and the presence of comedy of any kind is enough throw off anyone encountering the film for the first time. Every kill in the original film was met with an uncompromising viciousness that dared its viewers to keep watching. The beginning of Hooper's sequel, on the other hand, continues with the trend of fun slasher films in the mid to late 80s, as Leatherface stands on a moving truck and wields his mighty chainsaw to eviscerate the two obnoxious frat boys in the car alongside him. A chainsaw duel between Leatherface and Dennis Hopper is the sweet cherry on top.
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Diversity after the Oscars
Ted Williams III • March 16, 2016
How can minorities who've had personal success in Hollywood create opportunity for others? The New Testament concept of community offers a model.
Growing up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights movement, I believed in hope and opportunity. The majority of my childhood was spent in the 1980s, a time when my heroes — symbols of success in popular culture — were diverse: Michael Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, Harold Washington, Hulk Hogan, Walter Payton, Dan Marino and an optimistic president who was once an actor. They convinced me that I could do anything, and that race was insignificant.
There is a different spirit today. Consider this year's Oscars. After the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was heavily criticized for a lack of diversity among the nominees, Academy Awards host Chris Rock was faced with a monumental cultural moment and platform to address it. Unfortunately, the result was three hours of offensive joking that did little for social progress. Was some of it funny and relevant? Sure. Yet it mocked the struggles of the past in a way that served to further separate and highlight our differences, rather than to create constructive dialogue.
Race is still, unfortunately, a major issue in the United States. America's inequality problem, one that maps heavily along ethnic lines due to a history of institutionalized preference, has never gone anywhere. Today it just may be a little more complicated.
True power in Hollywood comes not from asking for inclusion, but from creating opportunity.
Individual successes, like those of wealthy African-American celebrities like Rock, do not negate larger historic injustices. Yet they do provide opportunities for the constructive development of solutions. Artists like Tyler Perry and Shonda Rhimes display that true power in Hollywood comes not from asking for inclusion, but from creating opportunity for themselves and others. Rock, who has produced and written his own film and television shows, should be aware of the potential of this power.
In Jesus' ministry, He called people to personal transformation. After His ascension, the apostles called converts into a larger community, in which their responsibilities were no longer simply to themselves, but to one another. This model applies to our current American dilemma. There has been much progress at the individual level. However, our issues must be also viewed through a greater lens. How can those who've had personal success create institutional opportunity for others? How can we make the societal treatment of the collective look as promising as the treatment of the individual? I believe that Jesus calls us to this full set of obligations.
America's persistent challenges with racial and socioeconomic division will not be overcome easily. They will require doing the hard work of individual and collective reflection, while acknowledging uncomfortable truths from both ends of the political spectrum. In this way, maybe Rock's Oscar reflections were necessary to begin a conversation. Ultimately, however, these issues are no laughing matter. We must approach race in a thoughtful, holistic, empathetic and solution-orientated manner, or we will only serve to further fan the flames of division. It is time for serious-minded and concerned people of all backgrounds to lead in taking on this important task.
Topics: Movies, Culture At Large, Arts & Leisure, Entertainment, News & Politics, Social Trends, Justice, North America
Ted Williams III teaches Political Science at Kennedy-King College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. He is the author of the book, The Way Out: Christianity, Politics, and the Future of the African-American Community.
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Consumers Still Want to Make Purchases with Cash
Cash Is King,
Cash Management,
Payment Processing + Security
Cash is still one of Americans' favorite methods of payment for purchases. While it scored behind debit cards in the September 2017 Cardtronics Health of Cash study, cash remains the most commonly used form of payment, with 91% of respondents saying they had used cash in person-to-person payments in the last six months. That's an uptick from 89% a year earlier.
This compares to 72% of survey respondents who used debit cards, 68% who used credit cards, and 51% who used digital payments such as mobile wallets, P2P apps and retailer apps. "Cash, which notably remains the most commonly used form of payment, continues to play a meaningful and often leading role among the full range of cash, card and digital payment options. Merchants (grocers, convenience stores, pharmacy, small/local businesses, and mass merchants) also prefer cash payments," according to a NACS blog about the study.
Interestingly, cash wasn't the preferred form of payment. That distinction went to debit cards, named by 33% as their preference. But cash scored higher (27%) than credit cards (22%), electronic payments (15%) and checks (3%).
Nevertheless, consumers want the choice of paying with cash. The study found that 89% of respondents like having payment method choices and 61% "get upset when establishments don't accept cash." And for about 7% of the U.S. population that has no bank accounts — about 9 million households — cash may be the only option for completing transactions. Worldwide, the number of "unbanked" is 2 billion, roughly 20% of the population.
Security and Convenience
Aside from the unbanked, using cash has a lot to do with convenience, but that isn't the whole story. Security plays a big role as well. "After convenience, people continue to be highly concerned about payment safety, with 84 percent describing themselves as worried about data security," Tom Pierce, Cardtronics Chief Marketing Officer, said in a news release.
Cash topped the list when respondents were asked to name the safest way to pay, as well as the payment method that bests protects their privacy, Pierce said. Cash is still so prevalent, the study found, that two-thirds of respondents (67%) feel nervous when they have no cash on them.
The Cardtronics survey reinforces earlier research about the dominance of cash. For instance, the Federal Reserve's State of Cash study in 2015 found that cash was "the most frequently used consumer payment instrument."
Cash is Here to Stay
Despite cash's dominance, the debate about whether to move toward a cashless society rages on. A recent Wall Street Journal column, for instance, argued that getting rid of higher-denomination bills — $50 and $100 — would help reduce crime by cutting down on the "underground economy" and, in the process, also reduce tax evasion. Since most people don't use the larger bills anyway, the author argued, few would notice their absence.
The column fell short of arguing for a totally cashless system, though that is what some cashless advocates would like to see. Proponents argue that cashless payments add convenience and help consumers better track their purchases — arguments that also are used in favor of using cash.
In the United Kingdom, The Bank of England's Chief Cashier, Victoria Cleland, also recently commented on the cashless society controversy saying: "The end of notes has been predicted for decades, first with the rise of bank cards and now the internet revolution." She continued that "for consumers, a key benefit of cash is its tangibility. It can be a useful budgeting tool, and it is a quick and easy payment method which works even when, for example, card terminals do not."
The bottom line is a cashless society isn't likely to become reality so long as consumers continue to demand choice in forms of payment. The Cardtronics study found that 82% of respondents would miss cash if it disappeared. That is a solid majority — and it proves that no matter how much talk there is of replacing cash with other forms of payment, consumers simply aren't ready for that. And that means cash is here to stay.
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Which audio and video formats Split n Join support depends on the operating system. If you use Mac OS 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard, you can import such multimedia container formats as AVI, Divx, M4V, MKV, MOV, MP3, MP4, MPEG, MPG, WMV and more when appropriate QuickTime components are installed. Snow Leopard users should have less choices because Apple changed the way QuickTime accesses QuickTime components under Mac OS 10.6. As for joining audio clips involving Ogg Vobis, XIPH.ORG's XiphQT Core Audio component is required.
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Fix:The application closed the movie player window after the imported audio clip was saved or when the user canceled the SaveAs operation under JoinAudio.
A few minor fixes are made.
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2. SplitZip: The application will launch itself and loads the file If a file with the extension of zip is dropped onto it.
3. A few bug fixes are made.
1. Change: The application rejects movies which have 387 pixels or less in height under SplitMovie to maintain the user interface.
2. Fix: The application failed to import movies when extensions were visible under version 1.1.1.
1. A new component is added. SplitMKV allows users to split a single Matroska container movie into multiple movie clips, each of which can be separately opened.
2. JoinMovie: The maximum number of movie clips to be appended is increased to 50.
3. JoinAudio: The maximum number of audio clips to be appended is increased to 50.
4. JoinMovie: The movie player displaying combined movies is put in a frame.
5. SplitMovie: The Movie info button is installed to show movie information.
6. JoinMovie: The Movie info button is installed to show movie information.
7. JoinAudio: The Audio info button is installed to show audio information.
8. JoinImg: The Disc info button is installed to show disc image information.
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Home World Asia
Hong Kong leader rules out concessions in face of escalating violence
By Editorial Bureau October 16, 2019 37
HONG KONG – Embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday ruled out making any concessions to pro-democracy protesters in the face of escalating violence, which police said was now "life threatening" citing the detonation of a small bomb.
"I have said on many occasions that violence will not give us the solution. Violence would only breed more violence," Lam told a news conference.
"For concessions to be made simply because of escalating violence will only make the situation worse. On the other hand, we should consider every means to end the violence."
Protesters have five main demands, which include universal suffrage and an independent inquiry into what they say has been excessive force by police in dealing with the demonstrations.
Hong Kong has been rocked by four months of unrest, with massive marches and at times violent protests involving tear gas, petrol bombs and live rounds, over concerns Beijing is tightening its grip on the city and eroding democratic rights.
Beijing rejects the charge and accuses Western countries, like the United States and Britain, of stirring up trouble.
The unrest poses the biggest popular challenge to Chinese President Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012. He has warned that any attempt to divide China would be crushed.
The violence has escalated since the government brought in colonial-era emergency powers on Oct. 4.
On Sunday night, protesters and police clashed in running skirmishes in shopping malls and on the streets. Black-clad activists threw 20 petrol bombs at one police station.
A crude explosive device, which police said was similar to those used in "terrorist attacks", was remotely detonated as a police car drove past and officers cleared roadblocks. A police officer also had his neck slashed by a protester.
An 18-year-old school student has been charged with attacking the officer with a box cutter intent on causing grievous bodily harm.
Police have arrested more than 2,300 people since June when the unrest escalated, scores of them teenagers, some as young as 12, according to Lam.
The senior U.S. defence official for Asia said the United States had some concerns about some of the tactics used by demonstrators but was also concerned about the heavier hand Beijing and Hong Kong authorities had used against the protests.
Randall Schriver, the assistant secretary of defence for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, said the United States was "100%" behind those in Hong Kong who were speaking out for respect for fundamental rights guaranteed in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration.
"The general trend is concerning, that we're seeing less autonomy, more influence from Beijing, heavier hand from the authorities there, and in general an erosion of the things that were promised the people of Hong Kong."
'POLICE STATE'
Hong Kong was guaranteed 50 years of freedoms under the "one country, two systems" formula when Britain returned its former colony to China in 1997.
A failed attempt to create a China extradition bill, which could have seen residents sent for trial in Communist Party-controlled courts, was seen as the latest attempt to reduce those freedoms, and ignited the unrest.
The protests have at times attracted millions onto the streets as the movement widened to include residents angry at growing inequality in Hong Kong, which boasts some of the world's most expensive real estate.
Lam said she would focus on land and housing initiatives in her annual Policy Address on Wednesday, seeking to restore confidence in the city's future.
Hong Kong is facing its first recession in a decade, with tourism and retail hit hard by the unrest.
High street retail rents have experienced the sharpest quarterly decline since the first quarter of 1998 at the time of the Asian financial crisis, says commercial real estate investment firm CBRE.
Protesters, residents and some lawmakers have accused police of excessive force.
Police have fire more than 3,000 rounds of tear gas, more than 600 rounds of rubber bullets and 3 live rounds. Two people have been shot and wounded and thousands injured.
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, visiting Hong Kong on Sunday, warned the city was in danger of sliding into a "police state". Lam rejected such criticism on Tuesday.
"The Hong Kong police force is a highly professional and civilised force," she said. "I would challenge every politician to ask themselves if the large extent of violence acts and all those petrol bombs and arson and really deadly attacks on policeman happened in their own country, what would they do?"
According to media, Hawley responded on Tuesday saying: "I chose the words 'police state' purposely – because that is exactly what Hong Kong is becoming. I saw it myself. If Carrie Lam wants to demonstrate otherwise, here's an idea: resign."
(Content & Photos Syndicated Via Reuters)
(Additional reporting by Twinnie Siu, Farah Master and John Ruwitch in Hong Kong and David Brunnstrom in Washington; Writing by Michael Perry; Editing by Stephen Coates and Richard Chang)
How Amazon.com moved into the business of U.S. elections
'More like us': Japan's new imperial couple puts relaxed face on monarchy
Asian African Chamber of Commerce & Industry (AACCI) announces the Asian African Leadership Forum to Recognize Business Leaders Across Continents
By Editorial Bureau March 27, 2019
What they left behind: Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombing victims
By Editorial Bureau May 17, 2019
Firms move legal battles from protest-hit Hong Kong in fresh setback for business
By Editorial Bureau December 4, 2019


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uid: intro_toc
---

Table-Of-Content (TOC) Files
===========================

Introduction
---------------------
DocFX supports processing Markdown files, which we call *Conceptual File*s, as well as structured data model in YAML or JSON format, which we call *Metadata File*s. Besides that, DocFX introduces a way to organize these files using *Table-Of-Content File*s, which we also call *TOC File*s, so that users can navigate through *Metadata File*s and *Conceptual File*s.

*TOC File*s must have file name `toc.md` or `toc.yml`, notice that file name is case-insensitive.

Basic format
----------------
### Markdown format TOC `toc.md`

`toc.md` leverages Markdown [Atx-style headers](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#header) which use 1-6 hash characters at the start of the line to represent the TOC levels 1-6. We call each line starting with hash characters a *TOC Item*. A *TOC Item* with higher level is considered as the child of the nearest upper *TOC Item* with less level. A sample `toc.md` is as below:

```md
# [Header1](href)
## [Header1.1](href)
# Header2
## [Header2.1](href)
### [Header2.1.1](href)
## [Header2.2](href)
# @UidForAnArticle
```

For a *TOC Item*, it can be either plain text, or a [Markdown inline link](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link), or `@uid` as the shortcut for [cross-referenced](../spec/docfx_flavored_markdown.md#cross-reference)

Three kinds of links are supported:

1. Absolute path, for example, `http://example.net`.
2. Relative path, for example, `../example.md`. This kind of link has several advanced usages and is described in detail [below](#relative-path-in-detail).
3. URI with `xref` scheme, for example, `xref:System.String`, the value is the `uid` of the file to be [cross-referenced](../spec/docfx_flavored_markdown.md#cross-reference).

### YAML format TOC `toc.yml`

```yml
- name:
  href:
  homepage:
- name:
  href:
  homepage:
  items:
    - name:
      href:
      homepage:
```

Comparing to `toc.md`, `toc.yml` represents a structured data model and conforms to the [YAML standard](http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html). It supports advanced functionalities.

#### Data model for `toc.yml`
The data model for `toc.yml` is an **array** of *TOC Item Object*s.

##### *TOC Item Object*
*TOC Item Object* represents the data model for each *TOC Item*.

Note that all the property names are **case sensitive**.

Property Name | Type              | Description
------------- | ----------------- | ---------------------------
*name*        | string            | Specifies the title of the *TOC Item*.
*href*        | string            | Specifies the hyperlink of the *TOC Item*.
*homepage*    | string            | Specifies the homepage of the *TOC Item*. It is useful when *href* is linking to a folder.
*uid*         | string            | Specifies the `uid` of the referenced file. If the value is set, it overwrites the value of *href*.
*homepageUid* | string            | Specifies the `uid` of the homepage. If the value is set, it overwrites the value of *homepage*.
*items*       | *TOC Item Object* | Specifies the children *TOC Items*s of current *TOC Item*.

Relative path in detail
---------------
If a *TOC Item* is linking to some relative path, there are three cases:

1. Linking to another *TOC File*, for example, `href: examples/toc.md`.
2. Linking to a folder, which means, the value of the link ends with `/` explicitly, for example, `href: examples/`
3. Linking to some local file.

Each case is described in detail below.

### Link to another *TOC File*
If the *TOC Item* is linking to some other *TOC File*, it is considered as a placeholder of the referenced *TOC File*, and DocFX will extract content from that *TOC File* and insert into current *TOC Item* **recursively**.

This technique is always used when you want to combine several *TOC File*s into one single *TOC File*.

If `homepage` is set for this *TOC Item*, it will be considered as the `href` of the expanded *TOC Item*.

For example, one `toc.yml` file is like below:

```yml
- name: How-to tutorials
  href: howto/toc.yml
  homepage: howto/overview.md
```

It references to the `toc.yml` file under folder `howto`, with the following content:

```yaml
- name: "How-to1"
  href: howto1.md
- name: "How-to2"
  href: howto2.md
```

DocFX processes these `toc.yml` files and expands the uppder `toc.yml` file into:

```yaml

- name: How-to tutorials
  href: howto/overview.md
  items:
    - name: "How-to1"
      href: howto/howto1.md
    - name: "How-to2"
      href: howto/howto2.md
```

*NOTE* that the referenced `toc.yml` file under `howto` folder will not be transformed to the output folder even if it is included in `docfx.json`.

### Link to a folder
If the *Toc Item* is linking to a folder, ending with `/` explicitly, the link value for the *Toc Item* is determined in the following steps:

1. If `homepage` or `homepageUid` is set, the link value is resolved to the relative path to `homepage`
2. If `homepage` or `homepageUid` is not set, DocFX searches for *Toc File* under the folder, and get the first [relative link to local file](#link-to-local-file) as the link value for current *Toc Item*. For example, if the *Toc Item* is `href: article/`, and the content of `article/toc.yml` is as follows:

    ```yaml
    - name: Topic1
      href: topic1.md
    ```
    The link value for the *Toc Item* is resolved to `article/topic1.md`.

3. If there is no *Toc File* under the folder, the link value keeps unchanged.

### Link to local file
If the *Toc Item* is linking to a local file, we call this local file *In-Toc File*. Make sure the file is included in `docfx.json`.

Not-In-Toc Files
----------------
When a local file is not references by any *Toc Item*, we call this local file *Not-In-Toc File*. Its *TOC File* is the nearest *TOC File* in output folder from the same folder as the local file to the root output folder.

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ISSN (Online): 0975-8232,
International Journal Of
Pharmaceutical Sciences And Research
An International Journal published monthly
An Official Publication of Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research
Home » EMPAGLIFLOZIN: A REVIEW ON ANALYTICAL AND BIO-ANALYTICAL METHODS
EMPAGLIFLOZIN: A REVIEW ON ANALYTICAL AND BIO-ANALYTICAL METHODS
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that causes high levels of blood glucose level in that 90% of the diabetic population accounts for type 2 diabetes mellitus it also has secondary complications like Cardiovascular disorder, Renal impairment, and susceptibility to infections. Empagliflozin is a potentially highly selective Sodium-glucose co-transportace-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus alone or in combination with the metformin or dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors. The literature entitles the various analytical techniques like UV spectroscopy, High Performance Liquid Chromatography, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography, Liquid Chromatography-Mass spectrometry. In this literature, we reviewed the various analytical, stability studies, impurity profiling and bio-analytical methods used for the estimation of Empagliflozin. This review gives the concise and collective information about the analytical validating parameters like Limit of detection (LOD), Limit of Quantification (LOQ), Standard Curve, Accuracy & Precision for the analysis of Empagliflozin alone or in combination with the Linagliptin or Metformin. This review helps to carryout further analytical studies on the mentioned drugs.
Sr No: 8
Page No: 4144-4151
Cited By: 0
Licence: IJPSR
Authors: S. Rahul *, B. P. Kumar and H. R. Avinash
Authors Address: Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Sri Adichunchanagiri College of Pharmacy, Adichunchanagiri University, Mandya, Karnataka, India.
Email: rahulgowdaacu@yahoo.com
Revised: 31 January 2020
DOI: 10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.11(9).4144-51
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Life has been hectic, so much that I forgot to share with you the little update I made to the front porch when the patriotic decor was put away until next year.
I didn't buy anything new. Once again I used fabric and flowers leftover from when I decorated my back porch.
I had everyone at home on vacation, so little planning went into decorating the front porch.
I just sincerely had no time at all.
I started by making a very simple wreath with the extra flowers and I used burlap for a ribbon.
On the small white table I just added an apple greet mat, the small lantern and I also painted the solar lamp green.
And on the bench, several green apple pillows.
For the stand I made a new sign with some scrap wood we had in the garage. I just painted it white, made some vinyl letters with the Silhouette and a small banner using card stock.
Thank you all for stopping by. Enjoy your day!


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dom-binding-stream
==================

Binds to a DOM node, and emits changes of any inputs/textareas/selects inside it.

This module expects a DOM node with either `<textarea>`, `<input>`, or `<select>` tags as children somewhere inside it (can be as deep in the tree as you want). Those elements should then have the attribute `data-binding` which contains a keypath to emit updates under.

Example
-------

Live [demo](http://rangermauve.github.io/dom-binding-stream/example/).

Given some HTML that looks like this:

```html
<main>
	<div>
		<label>Select box</label>
		<select data-binding="select" value="foo">
		<option>Foo</option>
		<option>Bar</option>
		<option>Baz</option>
		</select>
	</div>
	<div>
		<label>Text Input</label>
		<input data-binding="text">
	</div>
	<div>
		<label>Radio Button Input</label>
		<input type="radio" name="radio" value="foo" data-binding="radio">
		<input type="radio" name="radio" value="bar" data-binding="radio">
		<input type="radio" name="radio" value="baz" data-binding="radio">
	</div>
</main>
```

We can set up the binding and listen for changes like so:

```javascript
var domBinding = require("../");
var map = require("through2-map").obj;
var merge = require("object-merge-stream");

var output = document.getElementById("output");

domBinding("main") // Listen for changed inputs
	.pipe(merge()) // Merge all the changes together
	.pipe(map(log)); // Log merged changes to console

function log(data) {
	// Log the changed data to the console
	console.log(data);
}

```


beds, ranging in thickness from 186 to 300 feet.
and confined by the Cloud Chief Formation.
Creek, and Deer Creek; Cobb Creek is impounded by Fort Cobb Reservoir.
added to the aquifer boundary based on findings of the investigation.
4. Develop a groundwater flow model to test management scenarios.
5. Develop a surface water rights allocation model.
Rush Springs outcrop along a small creek near Weatherford, OK.
Subject Rush Springs Aquifer (Okla.)--Periodicals.
Purpose The Rush Springs aquifer underlies approximately 2,400 square miles in west Central Oklahoma, including large prtions of Caddo, Custer, Washita, and Grady counties. It is the second most developed aquifer in the state after the Ogallala. Caddo County is ranked fourth statewide in the amount of permitted groundwater per county.; The study objectives are: 1) determine aquifer recharge based on climate history, 2) delineate the western extent of the aquifer and include the Rush Springs Sandstone north of the Canadian River, 3) update aquifer maps, and 4) incorporate permitted groundwater withdrawals to develop a better understanding of groundwater use.
Full text The Aquifer The Rush Springs aquifer underlies approximately 2,400 square miles in west central Oklahoma, including large portions of Caddo, Custer, Washita, and Grady counties. It is the second most developed aquifer in the state after the Ogallala. Caddo County is ranked fourth statewide in the amount of permitted groundwater per county. The predominant geologic formation in the Rush Springs aquifer is the Permian-age Rush Springs Formation. The formation is described as an orange-brown, cross-bedded, fine-grained sandstone with some dolomite and gypsum beds, ranging in thickness from 186 to 300 feet. The Rush Springs is underlain by the Marlow Formation, and the western portion is capped and confined by the Cloud Chief Formation. Surface Water Major streams with headwaters in the aquifer area include Cobb Creek, Sugar Creek, and Deer Creek; Cobb Creek is impounded by Fort Cobb Reservoir. The Washita River flows across the aquifer and gains significant flow from perennial streams, such as Cobb and Sugar Creeks. The Canadian River forms the northern extent of the aquifer and gains flow from streams, such as Deer Existing extent of the Rush Springs aquifer shown outlined in red. The area shaded in green may be added to the aquifer boundary based on findings of the investigation. OWRB geologists search for wells suitable for installing groundwater-level recorders. Oklahoma Water Resources Board Rush Springs Aquifer of Oklahoma Hydrologic Study Newsletter October 2012 Study Objectives 1. Redefine aquifer boundaries. 2. Characterize the aquifer • Water-level measurements & continuous groundwater recorders, • Stream discharge measurements, • Water quality data collection, • Water budget (groundwater use, precipitation, and evapotranspira-tion) determination. 3. Update aquifer maps (aquifer thickness, saturated thickness, and potentiometric map). 4. Develop a groundwater flow model to test management scenarios. 5. Develop a surface water rights allocation model. 6. Determine maximum annual yield (MAY) and Equal proportionate share (EPS). Water-level data from hourly recorders help determine periodic influences on the aquifer. (continued on back) Hydrologic Investigation of the Rush Springs Aquifer of Oklahoma October 2012 Rush Springs outcrop along a small creek near Weatherford, OK.


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Michael Anthony LePond III (born 1966), is an American musician from Newark, New Jersey. LePond has recorded over 40 albums with various bands and has appeared on over 20 other albums in a guest capacity.

Best known as the current bassist of the progressive metal band Symphony X, LePond joined the band in 1999 and can be heard on all albums since the release of V: The New Mythology Suite in 2000. He has also worked with a number of bands within the European metal scene, and has released 4 solo albums with Mike LePond's Silent Assassins.

Biography
In 1979, at the age of 13, LePond attended a Kiss concert in Madison Square Garden, New York. Upon seeing the performances of Gene Simmons, LePond decided "that's what I wanna do!" LePond's father soon bought him a Univox bass guitar and a 150 watt amplifier. LePond took lessons from a jazz musician for approximately one year, learning music theory and sight reading, but did not feel strongly for the genre and instead oped to self-teach. LePond was introduced to Rush, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden through friends, and has since cited bassists Geddy Lee, Geezer Butler and Steve Harris as influences to his style of playing.

In 1999, LePond was introduced to Symphony X guitarist Michael Romeo through a mutual friend. Romeo invited LePond to audition for Symphony X, as the band were in need of a bass player following the departures of Thomas Miller and touring musician Andy DeLuca. LePond was sent a copy of The Divine Wings of Tragedy, and was required to learn 3 songs for the audition, later recalling how challenging the material was to learn. A second auditon was arranged, this time with 2 songs from Twilight in Olympus. He has gone on to record 5 albums with the band.

In May 2006, LePond was diagnosed with Crohn's disease following hospitalisation for abdominal pain. LePond required surgery, causing Symphony X to cancel festival appearances in Spain and Sweden. On May 31, LePond announced his recovery on Symphony X's website.

In 2012, LePond formed progressive metal supergroup Affector with drummer Collin Leijenaar, vocalist Ted Leonard and guitarist Daniel Fries. The band's first album, Harmagedon, was released on May 21. The album includes guest keyboard players Jordan Rudess, Derek Sherinian, Neal Morse and Alex Argento.

On August 21, 2014, it was announced that LePond would be releasing his first solo album, Mike LePond's Silent Assassins. The album was released on September 26, featuring LePond on bass and rhythm guitars. Symphony X bandmate Michael Romeo provided drum programming and some guitar work on the album, with vocals provided by Alan Tecchio (Hades, Watchtower) and additional guitar work from Mike Chlasciak (Halford, Testament).

Equipment
Upon joining Symphony X, LePond was playing a red 1987 Hamer Scarab 4-string bass, which was featured on the releases V: The New Mythology Suite and Live on the Edge of Forever. The instrument was used on tour with Symphony X up to 2002 and was later auctioned off by the band.

For the Paradise Lost album, he used a Caparison Dellinger bass guitar, Madison 8x10 cabinet and a Tech 21 RBI preamp.
Live, he uses a Fender Precision bass guitar and a Hamer Cruise as back up, amplified by an Ampeg 4x10 Classic cabinet and an Ampeg B2-R head. In the past he has been known to use Hamer Scarab and Musicman Sterling bass guitars.

Discography

With Dead on Arrival

 Alive And Kickin''' (1995)

 With Symphony X

 V: The New Mythology Suite (2000)
 The Odyssey (2002)
 Paradise Lost (2007)
 Iconoclast (2011)
 Underworld (2015)

 With Distant Thunder

 Welcome The End (2004)

 With Operatika

 The Calling (2008)

 With Mike Bino Project

 On the Verge of Reality (2010)

 With Holy Force

 Holy Force (2011)

 With Seven Witches

 Call Upon The Wicked (2011)

 With Affector

 Harmagedon (2012)

 With Ashenveil

 Black of Light (2012)

 With Epysode

 Fantasmagoria (2013)

 With Lalu

 Atomic Ark (2013)

 With Mike LePond's Silent Assassins

 Mike LePond's Silent Assassins (2014)
 Pawn And Prophecy (2018)
 Whore of Babylon (2020)
 With Mindmaze

 Back From The Edge (2014)

 With AREA51

 Judge The Joker (2014)

 With Starbynary

 Dark Passenger (2014)

 With Heathens Rage
 Knights of Steel (2015)

 With Ureas

 The Black Heart Album (2015)

 With Waken Eyes
 Exodus (2015)

 With Elegacy
 The Binding Sequence (2015)

 With Anuryzm

 All Is Not For All (2015)

 With Last Union
 Most Beautiful Day (2016)

 With Them
 Sweet Hollow (2016)
 Manor Of The Se7en Gables (2018)

 With Burnt City
 Resurgence (2017)

 With Tomorrow's Eve
 Mirror Of Creation III - Project Ikaros (2018)

 With Ross the Boss
 By Blood Sworn (2018)

 As a guest

 With Jack Frost
 "Brotherhood of Lies" and "Slow Burn" (Raise Your Fist to Metal) – Frost (2003)
 Various (Out in the Cold) – Frost (2005)

 With Terry Ilous
 Various (Here And Gone) – Terry Ilous (2007)

 With Michael Angelo Batio
 "Juggernaut" (Intermezzo) – Michael Angelo Batio (2013)

 With Embrace of Disharmony
 "The Edge Of Nowhere" (Humananke) – Embrace of Disharmony (2014)

 With Telegry
 Various (Hypatia) – Telergy (2015)

 With Marius Danielsen
 "Mirror of Truth" (The Legend Of Valley Doom Part 1) – Marius Danielsen (2015)

 With The V
 Various (Now or Never) – The V (2015)

 With Mindmaze
 Various (Dreamwalker) – Mindmaze (2015)

 "Remember (Acoustic)" (Mask of Lies) – Mindmaze (2017)

 With Silvertrain

 Various (Walls of Insanity) – Silvertrain (2016)

 With Universal Mind Project
 "Truth" and "The Force Of Our Creation" (The Jaguar Priest) – Universal Mind Project (2016)

 With Vivaldi Metal Project

 "The Age Of Dreams (Autumn #1 - Allegro)" (The Four Seasons) – Vivaldi Metal Project (2016)

 With Midnight Eternal
 "When Love And Faith Collide" (Midnight Eternal) – Midnight Eternal (2016)

 With Enbound
 "Feel My Flame" (The Blackened Heart) – Enbound (2016)

 With Myrkgand
 "Mysterious Malediction" (Myrkgand) – Myrkgand (2017)

 With Aldaria
 "Land Of Light" (Land Of Light) – Aldaria (2017)

 With Kiko Dittert
 "Black And White" (Black And White'') – Kiko Dittert (2017)

References

External links
 Interview with Michael Lepond at IndianMusicMug

1966 births
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Musicians from Newark, New Jersey
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American male bass guitarists
Progressive metal bass guitarists
Symphony X members
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When an institution is classified as a 'secure facility' this is what that looks like. From top to bottom: Metro Youth Services in Dorchester, MA; Fulton Treatment Center in Fulton, MO and New Beginnings Youth Development Center in Laurel, MD and their various secure set-ups. At Metro Youth Services, in the first image, the fence is topped with a combination of coiled concertina wire and straight barbed wire. Metro's set up is relatively simple compared to the perimeter of New Beginnings in the last image. New Beginnings, built in the last couple of years is lined with a complex assortment of razor wires. Both of these exteriors stand in stark contrast to the fence at the Fulton Treatment Center which curves inward and is topped with a climb-proof wire mesh– a less menacing alternative for children. Another option is to eliminate the fence entirely. At Red Hook Residential Treatment Center in Red Hook, NY, which we'll look at later this week, there is no fence.
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2017 Pre-MTV Awards Event
Check out all of the celebrities we were able to turn on to Zumer Sport at the 2017 Pre-MTV Awards gifting lounge with GBK Productions!
Akbar Gbajabiamila, former professional NFL DE / LB, co-host for American Ninja Warrior and works as a sports analyst for the NFL Network.
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Allen Maldonado, actor known for movies, Straight Outta Compton, The Equalizer, Black-ish, Dope
Althea Heart, cast member of the VH1 reality series Love & Hip Hop Atlanta who works as a real estate investor. She released a single called "Ghetto Love" in 2013.
Amber Portwood, from the first season of 16 and Pregnant / Teen Mom
Angell Conwell, actress,The Young and the Restless. Has also appeared on Thats So Raven, 30 Rock, Everybody Hates Chris, Soul Plane, and Baby Boy
Anna Vo, Editor-in-Chief at L'empereur Magazine
Anthony Anderson, actor, comedian, writer, and game show host. currently in ABC sitcom Black-ish
Arlen Escarperta, actor, known for Friday the 13th, Brotherhood, Final Destination 5, and Into the Storm (2014).
Asia Monet Ray, dancer, first featured on the first season of Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition, later, the third season of Dance Moms.
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Chyna Layne, Jamaican actress from movie Precious, the television movie Life Support, and the television drama Push
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Diora Baird, actress appeared in Wedding Crashers, Accepted, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Don Benjamin, model (America's Next Top Model) and musician
Donavon Carter, D-Lineman at UCLA, Actor on "Ballers"
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Almirante Tamandaré foi um cruzador protegido operado pela Marinha do Brasil de 1897 a 1915. A construção do cruzador foi fruto do esforço do Brasil em desenvolver um navio de aço de grande porte, mas o país não tinha experiência com esse tipo de navio, e esse projeto resultou em uma embarcação de pouca confiabilidade. Media 95,92 metros de comprimento máximo, 14,43 metros de boca extrema, 7,06 metros de pontal, 6,02 metros de calado máximo, e 4 537 toneladas de deslocamento, o que fez tornar-se o maior navio de guerra já construído no Brasil até hoje. A bateria principal constituía-se de dez canhões de 152 milímetros. A propulsão era por mastros e máquinas a vapor. Após a construção, em 1890, permaneceu fundeado no Rio de Janeiro por problemas de navegabilidade. Antes mesmo de ser comissionado, foi tomado por rebeldes durante a Revolta da Armada (1893-1894), e utilizado contra o governo federal.

Os problemas de navegabilidade o impediram de realizar comissões, se resumindo à duas ou três em toda a sua carreira. A provável primeira viagem teria sido para Santa Catarina, ainda sob controle dos rebeldes. A segunda foi em 1908, quando viajou para a Bahia. Nessa viagem, a tripulação não conseguiu controlar a embarcação, ficando esta à deriva e, posteriormente, encalhando próximo ao Morro de São Paulo. Foi só depois de ser socorrida por cruzadores que a embarcação pode retornar ao Rio de Janeiro. Após essa viagem, ficou permanentemente fundeado ao Porto do Rio de Janeiro, servindo de escola naval para guardas-marinha e grumetes até 1914. A marinha registrou sua baixa em 27 de dezembro de 1915, sendo enviado para desmanche em 1920.

Construção

O cruzador protegido Almirante Tamandaré foi construído no estaleiro N.°1 do Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro, ainda no período imperial do Brasil. Seguiu o projeto do Engenheiro Naval João Cândido Brazil por determinação do Ministro da Marinha, Senador João Florentino Meira de Vasconcelos em 1883, a um custo de 3.700:000$000. O projeto iria conceber um navio de grande capacidade ofensiva e defensiva.

A construção foi iniciada em 1884 e esteve sob supervisão de Arthur Silveira de Motta, Barão de Jaceguai e, depois, Francisco Pereira Pinto, Barão de Ivinheima, quando foi finalizado. O nome Almirante Tamandaré, segunda embarcação a ostentá-lo, é uma homenagem ao Almirante Joaquim Marques Lisboa, Marquês de Tamandaré, patrono da Marinha do Brasil. A quilha foi batida ainda em 1884 e o lançamento ao mar ocorreu em 20 de março de 1890. Ainda durante a fase de construção, o Almirante Tamandaré solicitou ao Ministro da Marinha Eduardo Wandenkolk que a embarcação fosse batizada de Almirante Cochrane, em homenagem a Thomas Cochrane, oficial britânico e comandante de fragatas que lutou ao lado do Brasil na Guerra de Independência, entretanto a solicitação não foi atendida. O cruzador foi o maior navio de guerra construído até hoje no Brasil, com mais de 4 500 toneladas de deslocamento.

Características

O Almirante Tamandaré possuía as seguintes características: construção em aço, fundo duplo com 119 estanques forrado com 175 milímetros de madeira de peroba. Esse revestimento tinha como característica a adaptação feita junto ao costado por meio de cavilhas de ferro galvanizado. O navio media 95,92 metros de comprimento máximo, 86,67 metros de comprimento entre perpendiculares, 14,43 metros de boca extrema, 14,03 metros de boca moldada, 7,06 metros de pontal, 6,02 metros de calado máximo, e 4 537 toneladas de deslocamento. O meio ofensivo consistia em dez canhões Armstrong de tiro rápido de 152 milímetros, dois canhões de 120 milímetros; dez canhões Nordenfelt de 47 milímetros; oito metralhadoras; e oito tubos lança-torpedos. Em 1897, os canhões de 157 milímetros foram retubulados.

O sistema de propulsão do cruzador era misto. Originalmente, o navio era equipado com três mastros em galera, com a superfície da vela no convés de 1 612 metros quadrados. Dispunha de duas maquinas a vapor alternativos, construídas em Londres nas oficinas de Maudslay Sons & Field. Tinha sete caldeiras e 28 fornalhas. Todo esse aparato fazia desenvolver 6 500 cavalos-força de potência a até 7 500 cavalos-força quando forçada as máquinas, levando o cruzador à velocidade de 17 nós (31,48 quilômetros por hora). O navio tinha pequenas embarcações auxiliares acopladas ao casco: duas lanchas a vapor, uma lancha a remo, um escaler salva-vidas, e mais cinco outros escaleres e duas baleeiras.

Serviço
Antes de sua incorporação na armada brasileira, o Almirante Tamandaré permaneceu muitos anos ancorado no porto do Rio de Janeiro devido a um problema de navegabilidade nunca solucionado. Por isso, quando da Revolta da Armada (1893-1894), o navio foi utilizado pelos rebeldes antes mesmo de ser comissionado oficialmente. O primeiro comandante do cruzador foi o Capitão de Mar e Guerra, Frederico Guilherme Lorena, um dos líderes da revolta. É provável que a embarcação estivesse na frota que rumou para o sul do país, em Desterro (Florianópolis), liderados por Custódio de Melo, para tentar angariar apoio dos federalistas, porém sem sucesso. Durante os combates na Baía de Guanabara contra os florianistas, a artilharia do cruzador se mostrou eficiente, conforme relato da tripulação. Após o fim da revolta, o navio permaneceu no Rio de Janeiro até ser comissionado em 27 de novembro de 1897.

Após a incorporação, o navio teve de passar por reparos ainda em 1897. Sua armação em galera foi substituída por dois mastros militares. O castelo recebeu novo ventilador metálico e foram retirados os canhões rápidos. Apesar das reformas, muitas deficiências ainda permaneceram, obrigando o navio a ficar permanentemente fundeado no Rio de Janeiro. Entre os anos 1901 e 1902, o Almirante Tamandaré serviu como quartel para guarda-marinhas, e de 1906 a 1914, como sede das Escolas Profissionais e da Escola de Grumetes; nessa época o navio foi chamado de cruzador-escola.Devido aos seus problemas de construção, a embarcação era muito pouco confiável e por isso fez poucas viagens. Apesar do esforço em construir um grande navio de aço por seus próprios meios, o país não tinha qualquer experiência nessa área, resultando na construção de um navio de guerra de baixa qualidade. Em agosto de 1908, o cruzador viajou para Bahia, passando em Vitória, entre os dias 20 e 24. Quando se aproximou do Morro de São Paulo, no estado da Bahia, a tripulação não conseguiu mais controlar a embarcação, e esta ficou à deriva. O navio auxiliar Andrada tentou rebocá-lo, mas o cruzador acabou por encalhar nessa mesma região. Posteriormente foi socorrido pelos cruzadores República e Tiradentes e um rebocador. Retornou ao Rio de Janeiro e permaneceu como sede de escolas navais, na Baía de Guanabara, até 1914. No ano seguinte, em 27 de dezembro, foi dada a baixa do serviço ativo. O cruzador foi desmanchado em 1920. Por causa de suas deficiências, nunca realizou mais que duas ou três comissões (viagens) em toda a sua carreira.

Ver também
Lista de navios da Marinha do Brasil com o nome Tamandaré
Lista de navios descomissionados da Marinha do Brasil

Ligações externas

Cruzadores da Marinha do Brasil
Navios da Armada Imperial Brasileira
Navios construídos pelo Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro
Navios de 1890


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Woman's immigration arrest in California draws criticism
Updated: 4:05 PM PST Mar 9, 2018
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The U.S. Border Patrol drew criticism Friday for video that shows agents pulling a woman away from her anguished daughters on a street to arrest her on immigration violations.The agency said Perla Morales-Luna was an "identified as an organizer for a transnational criminal smuggling organization" but offered no information to support the claim. It is seeking to deport her for being in the country illegally and has said nothing about pursuing smuggling-related charges.Video of the woman being pulled from her daughters on March 3 in National City, a San Diego suburb, drew nearly 10 million views on Facebook by Friday afternoon. At least one person can be heard crying uncontrollably as agents forced her into a vehicle and drove away.The woman's attorney, Andres Moreno II, said agents left the daughters - ages 17, 15 and 12 - alone on the street. The children, all U.S. citizens, are now living with family in the San Diego area."It's overkill," Moreno said.Morales-Luna, 36, is a single mother who came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 15 years old, Moreno said. She was walking with her daughters to pay rent when agents stopped her in what the Border Patrol said was "the result of a targeted operation.""You can do your job without causing such a dramatic separation of family members," Moreno said. "She's a single mother She was walking with her three minor children. The officers came up and ripped her away from her kids, threw her in the car and left her kids on the street."Morales-Luna denies being part of a smuggling organization and "has no idea what they're talking about," Moreno said.Judith Castro-Rangel, who identifies herself as a special education aide on Facebook, posted the video on Thursday. She did not respond to an email and a receptionist at her school said she was not immediately available.The Border Patrol transferred Morales-Luna to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody Friday for deportation proceedings, said agency spokeswoman Lauren Mack. She referred questions about alleged smuggling activities to the Border Patrol, which did not immediately respond to a request for more details.Moreno said he will fight his client's deportation.Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee's U.S.-Mexico border program and frequent critic of the Border Patrol, said questions remain but that it appeared the agents acted inappropriately."It doesn't seem as though they care to know if the children will be cared for," he said.Immigrants in the country illegally and their families have been on edge as deportation arrests have spiked more than 40 percent under Trump.The administration has said it targets people with criminal records but many others are getting picked up. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has said 65 percent of arrests from October to December were criminals, compared to 82 percent during the final full three months of the Obama administration.National City, a working-class suburb of about 60,000 people, is near the border wall prototypes that Trump plans to visit next week. The prototypes are intended to guide future designs of the wall he pledges to build along the U.S.-Mexico border.---Story by Associated Press writer Elliot Spagat
NATIONAL CITY, Calif. (AP) —
The U.S. Border Patrol drew criticism Friday for video that shows agents pulling a woman away from her anguished daughters on a street to arrest her on immigration violations.
The agency said Perla Morales-Luna was an "identified as an organizer for a transnational criminal smuggling organization" but offered no information to support the claim. It is seeking to deport her for being in the country illegally and has said nothing about pursuing smuggling-related charges.
Video of the woman being pulled from her daughters on March 3 in National City, a San Diego suburb, drew nearly 10 million views on Facebook by Friday afternoon. At least one person can be heard crying uncontrollably as agents forced her into a vehicle and drove away.
The woman's attorney, Andres Moreno II, said agents left the daughters - ages 17, 15 and 12 - alone on the street. The children, all U.S. citizens, are now living with family in the San Diego area.
"It's overkill," Moreno said.
Morales-Luna, 36, is a single mother who came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 15 years old, Moreno said. She was walking with her daughters to pay rent when agents stopped her in what the Border Patrol said was "the result of a targeted operation."
"You can do your job without causing such a dramatic separation of family members," Moreno said. "She's a single mother She was walking with her three minor children. The officers came up and ripped her away from her kids, threw her in the car and left her kids on the street."
Morales-Luna denies being part of a smuggling organization and "has no idea what they're talking about," Moreno said.
Judith Castro-Rangel, who identifies herself as a special education aide on Facebook, posted the video on Thursday. She did not respond to an email and a receptionist at her school said she was not immediately available.
The Border Patrol transferred Morales-Luna to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody Friday for deportation proceedings, said agency spokeswoman Lauren Mack. She referred questions about alleged smuggling activities to the Border Patrol, which did not immediately respond to a request for more details.
Moreno said he will fight his client's deportation.
Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee's U.S.-Mexico border program and frequent critic of the Border Patrol, said questions remain but that it appeared the agents acted inappropriately.
"It doesn't seem as though they care to know if the children will be cared for," he said.
Immigrants in the country illegally and their families have been on edge as deportation arrests have spiked more than 40 percent under Trump.
The administration has said it targets people with criminal records but many others are getting picked up. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has said 65 percent of arrests from October to December were criminals, compared to 82 percent during the final full three months of the Obama administration.
National City, a working-class suburb of about 60,000 people, is near the border wall prototypes that Trump plans to visit next week. The prototypes are intended to guide future designs of the wall he pledges to build along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Story by Associated Press writer Elliot Spagat


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Do small annual raises for everyone really make sense? Many employers have dropped the practice of spreading around modest (for example, two or three percent) raises broadly because it limits funds available to give substantial pay raises to top performers. Often these raises are referred to as 'cost of living adjustments,' but the value of a job does not necessarily move in lockstep with inflation (even when inflation is low).
Are you using the right benchmarks? Although salary surveys can tell you average pay levels for jobs in your labor market, they can be misleading. This is because, in your own organization, an employee whose job pays, for instance, $50,000 on average in your community might be worth much more or less to you because of factors distinctive to your organization. An employee who understands his or her value to you — particularly when it is high — probably will not be content with pay that simply matches a market average.
What employee behaviors are you rewarding? It is important to establish a clear link between the activities you are rewarding and your strategic goals. For example, if your goal is to raise employee skill levels to equip them to assume greater responsibility, are they rewarded for acquiring those skills, or simply for performing well at their existing jobs?
Is your incentive system overly complicated? It may be tempting to devise a bonus system that touches on every possible metric of employee performance. But employees are not finely tuned machines that can calibrate their efforts precisely in response to a multitude of incentives. If they feel as though they are being pulled in too many directions, or do not really understand the formula, the bonus will lose potency.
After you have created, or perhaps revised, your compensation philosophy, communicating it to employees is critical. Craft a carefully-written description in your employee handbook. But do not stop there — train your managers to explain your philosophy clearly while onboarding new hires and when discussing compensation during performance reviews. For more information, please contact us.


I feel like my art is very eclectic. I have taken my favorite things - be that costume designing, fashion sense, music and video editing - and I threw them all into one big clump. And that's what I do.
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Europe in general is a great place for me, but specifically Germany has been very good to me. Germans love classical music... Electronic dance music is massive over there, so I'm kind of the marriage between the two.
I was very unfamiliar with YouTube; I thought it was the place for dog and cat videos.
I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.
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Iwan (Jan) Andrejewicz Iłgowski herbu własnego – ciwun wieszwiański w latach 1569-1571, ciwun szawdowski w latach 1565-1569, ciwun tendziagolski w latach 1554-1565, ciwun kraski w latach 1555-1565, podstarości żmudzki w latach 1554-1566, ciwun kraski w latach 1555-1565, dworzanin hospodarski.

Podpisał unię lubelską 1569 roku. Poseł na sejm 1570 roku z województwa żmudzkiego.

Był wyznawcą kalwinizmu.

Bibliografia

 Rafał Jaworski, Litewscy posłowie ziemscy na sejmie walnym warszawskim 1570 r., w: Piotrkowskie Zeszyty Historyczne, t. 21 (2020), z. 1, s. 19.

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Sygnatariusze unii lubelskiej 1569 (Wielkie Księstwo Litewskie)
Szlachta kalwińska w Polsce (I Rzeczpospolita)
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WheatFlour with pumpkin puree for the cake tastes awesome. Have a cup of tea with this cake, will taste great. Actually I had prepared this cake for snacks. But my kids liked it so much that all pieces got vanished in minutes. I was very happy that i could bake a cake with wheat flour and pumpkin. My kids love choco chips, I just added choco chips for this cake.
1. Sift Wheat flour, Baking powder, Baking Soda, Salt and Cinnamon powder. Keep it aside.
2. Powder the sugar and mix it well with the oil.
3. Grate the pumpkin and make the puree from it by using curds. Wheat Flour and Pumpkin puree should be in 1:1 proportion.
4. Mix this puree to sugar oil mixture. Mix well.
5. Meanwhile Preheat oven to 200C for 10 mins.
6. Add the dry ingredients (Wheatflour) from Step 1 to Step 4 wet ingredients. Stir well.
7. Add dry copra, raisins, walnuts. Mix well. Grease your cake tin. Pour this on to it and top it with choco chips.
8. Bake this for 20 - 25 mins. Allow it cool and cut in to pieces.
Your delicious Pumpkin Wheat flour cake is ready to eat.


Regulators can stop funding a major North Texas psychiatric hospital over unsafe conditions that led to one woman's death and other patients' assaults, based on a federal judge's ruling Thursday night.
The chief executive for Timberlawn Mental Health System in Dallas said it would appeal the decision. Shelah Adams added that the hospital remained open but was "assessing all matters regarding facility closure" — a move she previously said was possible if funding were cut.
"We are disappointed in the trial court's ruling and intend to immediately appeal, " Adams said.
Timberlawn had requested a temporary restraining order to keep regulators from shutting off millions in Medicare and Medicaid while it fought their decision in a months-long administrative process.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn wrote that her court lacked jurisdiction to intervene at this point, because Timberlawn hadn't finished that administrative process, as required by the Medicare Act.
An official with the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said the agency would stop reimbursements for new government-insured patients starting Friday. It agreed to continue payments on existing patients for up to 30 days.
CMS, as the agency is known, rarely terminates a hospital's funding as punishment for chronic safety problems. Since February, the hospital has flunked multiple safety inspections and failed to make promised improvements, records show.
"This ruling allows us to continue enforcement of the basic patient health and safety requirements expected of all hospitals receiving federal monies, " said David R. Wright, acting regional administrator in CMS' Dallas office.
At 144 beds, Timberlawn is one of the biggest and oldest standalone psychiatric hospitals in North Texas. It provides in-patient mental health and substance abuse treatment, along with specialized care for trauma and child cases.
Most of the 60 or so patients there right now are covered by Medicare and Medicaid. The loss of those dollars will lead its parent company, Universal Health Services, to close Timberlawn, rather than provide financial support during the appeals process, Adams testified in a hearing earlier this week.
"We simply do not have the financial capability to sustain ourselves with revenue, " Adams said of Timberlawn.
UHS was less definitive about Timberlawn's outlook in a quarterly report last week, telling shareholders the funding cut-off "could result" in closure.
UHS, based in suburban Philadelphia, is the nation's largest chain of standalone psychiatric hospitals. It had a record $8 billion in revenue last year, according to its annual report, and bragged that its stock price had appreciated by 37 percent to $111. Shares ended Thursday even higher at $142.
Timberlawn's lawyers argued in this week's hearing that CMS unfairly rejected its request for a systems improvement agreement, a sort of probation that would have continued payments and put safety monitors inside the hospital.
Other local hospitals have received such deals during similar safety crises, including Dallas' Parkland Memorial in 2011 and UHS-owned Texoma Medical Center in Denison this year.
"A systems improvement agreement would achieve the goals of patient safety, " said Timberlawn lawyer Joseph Coniglio during the hearing. He called it "outlandish" that CMS wouldn't treat Timberlawn the same.
But Lynn wrote in her ruling that Timberlawn had not presented "persuasive evidence" that it received unfair treatment from CMS.
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