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Oklahoma Attorney General files charges against Oklahoma roofer
by Jack Money
Published: Sat, June 27, 2020 5:00 AM Updated: Sun, June 28, 2020 1:31 AM
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter announced Friday that his office has filed four felony charges against a contractor in Noble who received thousands of dollars from Oklahomans in exchange for roofing repairs prosecutors assert he never completed.
Chad Davis, 38, faces those additional charges after Hunter's office filed three prior felony charges against him in February.
In all seven charges, investigators accuse Davis of following the same pattern of fraudulent behavior by using his company, Storm Shield Roofing and Restoration, to sell customers, including several senior citizens, roof replacement or repair jobs that he then refused to complete or refund.
Authorities assert Davis took about $40,000 from the victims.
Three charges accusing Davis of violating the Consumer Protection Act were filed in Washington County this week, plus one charge accusing him of patterned felony behavior. Davis faces additional charges in Oklahoma County.
A warrant was issued this week to arrest Davis. He appeared in Washington County District Court Thursday, where bail was set at $25,000, court records show.
Hunter said Friday his office believes additional victims likely exist.
"Unfortunately, when we see a pattern ... there are typically more victims than the ones who came to us," he said. "Taking advantage of Oklahomans, especially targeting the elderly for personal gain, is inexcusable."
Individuals who believe they were treated similarly are being encouraged to contact the attorney general's Consumer Protection Unit by emailing consumerprotection@oag.ok.gov or by calling 1-833-681-1895.
Jack Money
Jack Money has worked for The Oklahoman for more than 20 years. During that time, he has worked for the paper's city, state, metro and business news desks, including serving for a while as an assistant city editor. Money has won state and regional... Read more ›
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Rafael's New Improved Typhoon Mk-30
MONS talks to Rafael about the improvements they made to the Typhoon Mk-30
At Pacific 2017, Rafael launched its new modified version of the Typhoon Mk-30 remote weapon station. Doron Levi, Marketing and Business Development Director for Naval Warfare Systems at Rafael, told MONS: "Although the Typhoon already exists in many different versions, we wanted to take the opportunity of Pacific 2017 to launch the Typhoon Mk-30 with the few extra features we have added to it."
First amongst these is an on-mount Electro-Optical (EO) Director including a Fire Control Systemto to optimise effective surveillance and engage threats in all weather conditions, day and night. "These gives any ship fitted with the Typhoon Mk-30 the ability to deal with swarm attacks from fast and small boats firing anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM) or suicide boats," continues Mr. Levi.
The second key improvement is the increased elevation of the gun to 70°. "Combined with applied ballistic munitions (ABM) and the EO device, which has a laser range finder that detects targets and gives their range thus facilitating prioritisation, the Typhoon can now defeat small and medium unmanned aerial systems," says Mr. Levi.
The Typhoon Mk-30c fires all NATO standard 30×173 ammunition with adjustable rates of fire, from single shot, up to 200 rounds per minute. Its magazine holds 200 ready rounds on mount and has dual feed.
"The first customer for this new version is the Peruvian Navy, who selected it for its 'Rio Pativilca' class Offshore Patrol Vessels'," concludes Mr Levi. "We expect the Israeli Navy will also select this system, although it has not yet been decided, and we are in talks with the US Navy, which is one of our biggest customers for other Typhoon weapon systems."


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Although comparatively late on the scene in motor car manufacture, the Wolverhampton-based Sunbeam factory quickly established a fine reputation alongside Lanchester, Wolseley, Austin and Daimler at the heart of the escalating Midlands-based motor industry. The 12/16 hp model of the Edwardian era was conventional in all respects, with a sturdy, four cylinder and side valve power unit, displacing 2,413cc and rated at 15.9hp. Final drive was via a four-speed gate change gearbox with worm drive rear axle, and 12/16 hp models generally carried elegant factory coachwork which was offered in tourer, two-seater, landaulette and cabriolet versions.
BH 1319 was purchased by our vendor in 2011 and this elegant tourer had spent the preceding 37 years in a private museum collection. Its early history is not recorded however the registration number suggests first registration in Buckinghamshire and a dashboard plaque suggest it was original supplied by F. Parker, Motor Dealers, of 57 High Street, Slough. VCC dating certificate no.94 confirms that this original delivery took place in 1911. Its known early history commences in post-war years when it was acquired by Wing Commander Malcolm Anderson of Bourne End, Bucks, in November 1946. Anderson was to retain the car until 1952, taking part in the VSCC Eastbourne Rally and Concours d'Élégance in March 1947 and VCC events in 1947 and 1948. Three subsequent owners are recorded in Putney, Rugby and Kilsby before the car is recorded in the ownership of well-known Nuneaton collector, Reg Parker, in 1970. During his ownership it was photographed and illustrated in Peter Hugo's book, Private Motor Car Collections of Great Britain, published in 1973.
This car is one of the earliest and most original 12/16s and it presents extremely well in cream with green leather upholstery. The car sits on 815 x 105mm wheels and tyres with a spare wheel and tyre mounted on the running board, a further spare wheel is offered with a suitable wheel spanner. A two gallon petrol can sits on the nearside running board. This four speed car has a Rotax switch panel with volt meter and ammeter and a Stewart speedometer.
This impressive vehicle has been sensitively recommissioned by JC engineering with some concessions for modern driving, these include a concealed electric starter, CAV electric headlamps and H and B electric side lamps. In addition to this work the current owner has spent nearly £30,000 on BH 1319, the list of works include a new radiator, new roof frame and cover, new clutch and over £9,000 on a rear axle upgrade.
This 1911 Sunbeam is presented to auction with an interesting history file with correspondence and invoices from the 1940s and 50s, several old MoT test certificates and a V5C registration document.


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Review of Repertory Phil's NOISES OFF: Farce Within a Farce
"Noises Off" is a 1982 play by British playwright Michael Frayn. I have vague memories of seeing the film version in the early 1990s, starring Michael Caine, Carol Burnett and John Ritter. I do not recall the exact story anymore, but I knew it was about the funny goings-on backstage while an actual play was being performed onstage.
This year, Repertory Philippines has chosen this funny farce to be its third offering this season. Yes, it is only March and this is already Rep's third production (after the suspenseful "Wait Until Dark" and the bitter "August Osage County"). This time they tackle all-out comedy, and I was eager to see how they would stage this play within a play.
The play is about a particularly disastrous touring production of a sex comedy entitled "Nothing On." This was about a couple who hides from the tax man by taking a vacation in their country house unannounced. Their housekeeper, a real estate agent and his sexpot girlfriend/client, and an elderly burglar make their supposedly quiet getaway a riotous comedy of errors. The director and the actors in the cast performing this play are all self-important neurotics who have secret love affairs with each other, thus adding to the mayhem. "Noises Off" has three acts, with the whole thing running for three hours, with two ten-minute intermissions.
The first act is a rather straightforward run through of "Nothing On", their final technical dress rehearsal before opening night. This was done so that we know what should really take place on stage, as we witness the perfect cueing of scenes and location of specific props. For the second act, the entire central set piece is rotated around to reveal an elaborate backstage set. The whole scene was run through another time, but this time we see the topsy-turvy shenanigans backstage. The actors struggle to get their cues, lines and props straight onstage, while everyone gets on each other's nerves backstage. The third act is supposed to be one of their final shows, if not the final. Here, the personal conflicts among the actors go completely haywire as the chaos and anarchy actually go onstage.
The story is a challenge for all the actors because they all play two roles: that of a hammy stage actor and that of the crazy character that actor plays. Oftentimes, the two characters they play are very different from each other, so they would have to switch from character 1 to character 2 by the snap of a finger, and that would add to the wackiness of the entire situation.
I confess I recognized only three members of the cast while I was watching.
Of course, I knew veteran stage actor Chinggoy Alonso, who played director Lloyd Dallas. He could play this authoritative character blindfolded, like second nature to him. So real and effortless.
I also knew Lorenz Martinez, who played actor Garry, who played the role of the real estate agent Roger. It was Garry's secret affair with Dotty and his extreme jealousy that was the root of all the misfortune, Martinez played this role with glee. His character had the most physical comedy moments.
I was so surprised to recognize Carla Guevara-Laforteza in the role of newbie actress Brooke, who plays a sexy bimbo named Vicki. It was unthinkable that the actress who played the good fairy Light in "Bluebird of Happiness" is now traipsing onstage with nothing more than a skimpy black lingerie and thigh-high stockings. Now that is versatility for you! She is hilarious!
I know the name of Shiela Valderrama-Martinez but did not recognize here as the sensible actress Belinda, who plays the sensible wife Flavia. Of course I know the name of theater veteran Paul Holme, but I did not immediately recognize him the way he looked as the drunk unreliable actor Selsdon, who played the burglar.
The other members of the cast whom I did not recognize are also new names to me.
Frances Makil Ignacio plays actress Dotty, who plays the smart-aleck housekeeper Mrs. Clackett. By the curtain call, she seemed apparently an esteemed member of the cast since she took a bow at the center beside Chinggoy Alonso during the curtain call. She is also billed first in posters. I apologize that I did not know her till now. I did not like the unfunny way her character was written for the third act, so I did not really enjoy her Mrs. Clackett there.
Gerard Sison plays the flamboyant actor Freddie, who plays error-prone Philip, the owner of the house. This guy was really very funny, maybe because his kooky character, between having a plate of sardines glued to his hand or having his trousers falling to his ankles, had the most funny moments as written.
The backstage crew of "Nothing On" Poppy and Tim are played by Peachy Atilano and Nico Dans respectively. I thought Atilano seemed miscast because she looked too young for her role. Dans was alright as the abused stage manager. Seeing how they countdown to the curtain opening was very interesting, especially how Frayn made even that mundane matter so funny.
Overall, the British farce still plays well even thirty years after it had been written. I would admit it did feel a bit dated at certain parts. The third act, with all its hilarious moments, almost feels like overkill of a good idea, since the first two acts already seemed good enough as they are. Act 2 is the best for me.
I admit the fact that I did not know a lot of the actors also affected my overall appreciation. This would have been so much more exciting with an all-star cast of Rep stalwarts. I think the audience energy will also affect your enjoyment of the play. At the matinee I watched this afternoon, the laughter was not exactly rollicking among the audience. The two and a half hour length of the play may also be a factor in this regard.
Despite the blurb in the flyers that this show is suitable for all ages, I think maybe not because of there is quite a bit of raunchy adult humor. I personally had fun, but not everyone may not enjoy the witty wordplay. The jokes were funny, but rather old-fashioned in a sense, lacking the bite of the more current styles of theatrical comedy as that in, let's say, "Avenue Q" or "August Osage County".
As with all the past Rep productions this season, the set design is top notch! In that first intermission break, it was quite an awesome kick to witness the whole set turn around in its giant lazy-susan to reveal the backstage set for Act 2. It was so good that we can see some of the action "onstage" while the main focus was action "backstage". Something you really have to see. Congratulations to director Miguel Faustmann, who just tackled suspense earlier this year with "Wait Until Dark", following it up now with a slapstick comedy this time with "Noises Off".
"Noises Off" shall run from March 28 – April 13, 2014 and April 25-27, 2014 with shows on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and matinee shows on Saturdays and Sundays at 3:30 p.m. All performances are at Onstage, 2/F, Greenbelt 1, Paseo de Roxas cor. Legazpi St., Makati City.
Paul Manlapaz April 1, 2014 at 6:47 AM
Hi. It is Peachy ATILANO. Not Norton-Taylor, which is mentioned in this review. The Norton-Taylor is the surname of the character she portrays. :)
Also, the show just runs for approximately 2 hours plus 2 10-min intermissions (which sums up to 2hrs&20mins). I watched the evening show and it ended at 10:17pm.
fyhmd April 1, 2014 at 11:43 AM
Thank you Mr. Manlapaz for your kind comments and pointing out my errors. I have edited Ms. Atilano's name already. I apologuze for that. As for the running time, yes I mistakenly thought I started watching at 3pm, but actually play started at 330pm. So your right, just about 2 and a half hours only, not three.
mdying toask August 17, 2014 at 10:45 AM
Thanks for the review! This is Gerard Sison. May I just request to change the spelling of my name for posterity's sake? Thanks again.
fyhmd August 18, 2014 at 6:08 AM
Hello Mr. Sison. I have corrected my error. Sorry about that? May I ask, what will be your next play?
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On my way to the station this morning I found this newly emerged black swallowtail butterfly (jakou ageha) next to the remains of its chrysalis on a tree. It was exciting enough to find my first black swallowtail of the year, but still more exciting is the fact that this species shows Mullerian Mimicry (wikipedia article here) with a moth I photographed last year (here). I've combined the two in the fourth picture below so that you can compare them. As you can see, they are nearly identical. Remarkable!
Location: Yamada Village near Akama (Google map).
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Each year, we make it a family tradition to visit a Christmas lights display near our home in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. This year, we decided to give another location attraction a try! We have frequently visited Kennywood Park for amusement fun in the summer. Once we heard they also have a Holiday Lights display, we were all in! Though many of the rides and eateries in the park are closed during the Holiday Lights festivities, there is still LOTS to do and see.
Upon arriving to the park, we were pleasantly surprised that parking was actually FREE for the Holiday Lights festivities — score! We visited on a Saturday evening and didn't have to wait in any long lines to enter the park. We were able to order the tickets a head of time online through the Kennywood Park website. Nonetheless, we skipped the ticket lines in the park and went straight through security. On a side note, there was a military discount offered for ticket purchases for up to 6 guests when we went. Be sure to inquire about the discount if a member of your party is a veteran for some extra savings.
When you enter the park, you are greeted by a beautiful array of twinkling and dancing lights throughout the park! Many of the trees and landscape are strung with lights. Several of the rides that were operational glowed with hues of green and red, or were also strung with lights. Our favorite "ride" that was decorated for the Kennywood Park Holiday Lights was Noah's Ark — super cool! Even the inside atmosphere of the rides were also decorated with all things Christmas.
Toward the back of the park is a HUGE tree of lights that makes the perfect backdrop for family photos. My favorite light display was surrounding the lake that is situated toward the center of the park. Here, we were able to watch a light show where the lights "danced" and were synchronized to holiday tunes. This light show is performed on timed intervals throughout the evening and is something you don't want to miss.
There are several games open during the Holiday Lights festivities, and they, too, are holiday themed. Aside from games that are fun for all ages, there are also vendors set up in "booth" fashion around the park. One booth that we visited actually sold personalized ornaments, so our family purchased an one to add to our ornament collection of memories. Another booth had a Santa Shoppe with gift ideas for the children. Here, they could also join in the gift-giving by shopping for friends and family.
So What is There to Eat During the Kennywood Park Holiday Lights?
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My oldest son recently graduated from the United States Navy Basic Training in Great Lakes, Illinois. My husband and I decided to drive to the graduation ceremony in Chicago from our home near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had no idea where to stay or what to do while we were there. Due to timing constraints on when we needed to pick up our event tickets, we traveled to Chicago a day early and had extra time to explore the city prior to meeting up with our son for his time of Liberty ("free time" military style). Here is our experience with Northern Chicago Accommodations, Attractions and Dining that we visited while in Illinois for 2 days.
I have to give my husband credit on this one, as he was the one who researched (and researched what seemed like forever!) the places to stay while we attended graduation. We knew we wanted to be in close proximity to the Training Center but also wanted to be accessible to restaurants and "things to do" during our visit. We settled on the Comfort Inn located in Gurnee Mills, Northern Chicago area.
The Comfort Inn was affordably priced and offered clean rooms with a traditional flair. The room provided a mini Keurig coffee maker with all the fixins, a mini fridge and a microwave. On the premises, there is an indoor pool and fitness room. In the mornings of our stay, we enjoyed the generous continental breakfast the Inn provided.
Personally, my FAVORITE feature of the Comfort Inn was location, location, location! Gurnee Mills is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! The Gurnee Mills mall area was quite large, with shopping and dining for practically whatever suits your fancy. And the movie theater — WOW! So many options of viewing screens and the over-sized reclining sofa-like chairs are like nothing I have ever seen before! I think it will be difficult for me to go to the movies now back in my hometown because there is no comparison to the theater that we experienced in Gurnee Mills.
Ok, so what's a trip to Chicago with experiencing a Chicago deep dish pizza, right!?!? During our stay in Gurnee, we decided to check out the local UNO Pizzeria & Grill restaurant for some local cuisine. And, boy did they deliver! My husband opted for a traditional Chicago pizza from UNO that was absolutely yummy and bursting with flavor. I was amazed at how thick the crust was on that pizza, and the center of the pizza was completely stuffed with meat, meat and more meat. I, on the other had, couldn't decide on just one thing. So, I opted for two! I enjoyed the guacamole chips and dip appetizer, along with the boneless wing bites, sweet chili style. The portions were plenty and our bellies were full once we devoured these Chicago delights. If you decide to visit the Gurnee, Illinois area (or any other area, for that matter, that has the UNO restaurant), I highly recommend you give them a try. We were NOT disappointed!
Overall, we really enjoyed our visit to Great Lakes, Chicago! The Comfort Inn in Gurnee, Illinois offered the accommodations we needed while visiting our son, and the drive from the hotel to the Navy Training Center was approximately 8 miles — close enough, yet convenient to shopping, entertainment and dining. If you are planning to visit Chicago for business or pleasure, I would check out what Gurnee, Illinois has to offer.
Considering a cruise for your next vacation but aren't sure what to expect? Check out my blog posts regarding our recent experience on board the Oasis of the Seas with Royal Caribbean. The following posts will give you insights on our experience with the ship, on board attractions and our stateroom accommodations: Boardwalk Balcony Staterooms on the Oasis of the Seas, Teen Only Zones on the Oasis of the Seas, Adventure Ocean Kids Club Aboard the Oasis of the Seas, and Walk With Me through Central Park at Sea!
During our most recent cruise with Royal Caribbean International on board the Oasis of the Seas mega ship, my family traveled in adjoining Boardwalk Balcony Staterooms. Our rooms were located on the 10th floor of the ship in the Aft orientation. Traveling with a family of six, the rooms were spacious and accommodated our needs without issues. Here is an overview of our Boardwalk Balcony Stateroom.
Though we had two adjoining balcony staterooms overlooking the Boardwalk, the accommodations with regards to sleeping arrangements differed. The first stateroom was equipped with a king-sized bed. The king bed could be separated into two twin beds if desired. In that same stateroom, there was also a hideaway sofa bed. The sofa bed was approximately full sized and worked perfectly for my twin 8 year old daughters to share. The only downfall that we found was when the sofa bed was extended for the evening. When the bed was turned down, it was difficult to walk around the bed to get to the balcony area for our room.
The second stateroom that adjoined ours also had a king-sized bed. We ended up separating the king into two twin beds. My teen sons were able to share these beds comfortably (when they weren't arguing over the TV remote, of course!) The second stateroom also had a standard sofa. It did not contain a hideaway bed. Since the sofa was only used for extra seating, the second room was more spacious and ended up a catch-all for extra luggage during the trip.
I was pleasantly surprised of how spacious the full bathrooms were in our staterooms. The bathroom offered a large shower with a slider door. The door was curved to allow ample "arm room" while showering. The shower head was adjustable and offered great water pressure as well. There was also plenty of storage in the bathroom for personal toiletry items, and a full width counter top with sink with over-sized mirror. A downside that I experiences was there was no plug in the bathroom capable of supporting a blow dryer. For this reason, I had to blow dry my hair at the desk area in the main living quarters of the stateroom.
The stateroom offered "expected" amenities, such as an in-suite safe and telephone. The safe instructions are provided on the safe for guest use. Just a word of caution (only because I speak from experience). If you lock yourself out of the safe, you have to call guest services to have a master-key holder come open it for you. Stateroom attendants do not have access to open the safe. The telephone can be used to call other areas on the ship, such as other staterooms or room service. The clothes storage was ample, with a large closet with multiple hanging rods and shelves. The desk area also offers drawers for additional clothes storage, if desired.
My favorite amenity due to the convenience was the stateroom TV. Aside from a selection of general TV channels for entertainment, there are also informational channels. Each evening, we were able to watch the Captain of the ship discuss our current travel time and cruising path. He would also discuss the next day's itinerary. Personally, I found the account information channel to be the most useful. I could check my account status with on board spending at any moment. I did this by turning on the allotted TV channel and electing which guest account I wanted to view. Here is another useful tip if you are traveling with children. If you are concerned with spending capabilities, do not activate the children's SeaPass cards to have spending privileges.
On the evening of the last night on the ship, I was able to check my account to confirm charges and any outstanding account balance. Since all checked out and I had a credit card assigned to my on board spending account, I did not have to wait in the lengthy guest services line to settle the account. BONUS!
The balcony size for our room was a pleasant surprise. Over-sized patio doors opened to a private balcony area with a moderate round table and two chairs. The curved, clear acrylic design of the balcony railing enclosure served to not obstruct the Boardwalk and ocean views. From our balcony, we had a clear view of the Aqua Theater and restaurants and shops below. In the evenings, we often sat on the balcony and watched the night life below, or the performers in the Aqua Theater shows. During the day, we could take in ocean views beyond the Aqua Theater or observe children and adults alike enjoying a carousel ride.
Overall, we were satisfied with our Boardwalk Balcony Staterooms with regards to amenities, size and location for our family. Though our stateroom didn't offer a panoramic ocean view, it did offer relaxation and entertainment from the comfort of a private balcony over the Boardwalk.
To read more about our cruise vacation on board the Oasis of the Seas, check out my "Walk with Me through Central Park at Sea!" Travel and Lifestyle post. You may also find "Teen Only Zones on the Oasis of the Seas" and "Adventure Ocean Kids Club Aboard the Oasis of the Seas" to be informational if you are traveling with teens and younger passengers.
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Josephine Henning (Trier, 1989. szeptember 8. –) olimpiai- és Európa-bajnok visszavonult német női válogatott labdarúgó.

Pályafutása

Klubcsapatban
2005-ben a Saarbrücken csapatában kezdte pályafutását, majd 2009-ben 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam játékosa lett. A potsdamiakkal bajnokságot és Bajnokok ligáját is nyert.

2011-ben a VfL Wolfsburg együtteséhez távozott, ahol két bajnoki címmel, egy német kupával és két Bajnokok Ligája győzelemmel gazdagodott.

2014 júniusában a francia Paris Saint-Germain együttesébe igazolt, majd két év után az angol Arsenalhoz.

2017-ben egy rövidebb lyoni kitérő után tért vissza az Arsenal együttesébe.

A válogatottban
Részt vett a 2008-as U19-es női labdarúgó-Európa-bajnokságon és a 2013-as női labdarúgó-Európa-bajnokságon, utóbbit megnyerték.

A 2015-ös női labdarúgó-világbajnokságon a bronzmérkőzésen vereséget szenvedtek az angolok ellen.

A 2016-os olimpián két mérkőzésen lépett pályára és aranyérmesként távozott a válogatottal.

A 2017-es női labdarúgó-Európa-bajnokságon is részt vett, ahol csoportgyőztesként jutottak tovább, azonban a negyeddöntőben a későbbi döntős dán válogatott ellen 2–1-re kikaptak.

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2017. július 21-i állapotnak megfelelően.

Sikerei, díjai

Klub
1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
Bundesliga: 2009–10, 2010–11
UEFA Női Bajnokok Ligája: 2009–10
VfL Wolfsburg
Bundesliga: 2012–13, 2013–14
Német kupa: 2012–13
UEFA Női Bajnokok Ligája: 2012–13, 2013–14
Arsenal
Angol kupa: 2015–16
Olympique Lyonnais
D1 Féminine: 2016–17
Francia kupa:2016–17
UEFA Női Bajnokok Ligája: 2016–17

Válogatott
 Németország
Női labdarúgó-Európa-bajnokság: 2013
Algarve-kupa: 2012, 2014
Olimpiai aranyérmes: 2016

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Az 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam labdarúgói
A VfL Wolfsburg női labdarúgói
A Paris Saint-Germain női labdarúgói
Az Olympique Lyonnais női labdarúgói
Labdarúgóhátvédek
Trieriek
A 2015-ös női világbajnokság labdarúgói
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Olimpiai bajnokok (2016)
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Az 1. FC Saarbrücken női labdarúgói
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Global Warming To Hinder Wi-Fi Signals, Claims UK Gov't
By Soulskill from Slashdot's stock-up-on-tinfoil department:
radioweather writes with news of a government report from the UK's Dept. for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which warns of global warming's harmful effect on Wi-Fi and other communication protocols. Quoting the Guardian:
"Presenting the report, the secretary of state for the environment, Caroline Spelman, said that higher temperatures can reduce the range of wireless communications, rainstorms can impact the reliability of the signal, and drier summers and wetter winters may cause greater subsidence, damaging masts and underground cables. The threat posed by climate change to internet and telephone access is a rare example of when the developed world would be hit harder than developing countries, which are in general more at risk from increased floods, droughts and rising sea levels. 'If climate change threatens the quality of your signal, or you can't get it because of extreme fluctuations in temperature, then you will be disadvantaged, which is why we must address the question,' said Spelman, 'and just imagine in the height of an emergency if the communications system is down or adversely affected.'"
New Chrome Exploit Bypasses Sandbox, ASLR and DEP
By Soulskill from Slashdot's is-it-time-for-the-disclosure-argument-again department:
Trailrunner7 writes "Researchers at the French security firm VUPEN say they have discovered several new vulnerabilities in Google Chrome that enable them to bypass the browser's sandbox, as well as ASLR and DEP, and run arbitrary code on a vulnerable machine. The company said they are not going to disclose the details of the bugs right now, but they have shared information with some of their government customers. The vulnerabilities are present in the latest version of Chrome running on Windows 7, VUPEN said."
Ask Slashdot: Going Beyond Comment Threads?
By Soulskill from Slashdot's tell-a-story-in-140-emoticons-or-fewer department:
asa writes "The Knight Foundation and Mozilla are running a series of news innovation challenges. The goal: get the world's smartest hackers thinking about how news organizations can harness the open web. The current challenge is all about comment threads. This seems like the perfect question to pose to Slashdotters: how would you foster more dynamic spaces for online news discussion? How would you preserve the context of online discussions and stamp out trolls? All ideas, technical, practical or impractical are welcome. What technologies (federation, atomic commenting, moderation, algorithms) would you employ? What are the immutable social dynamics? Knight and Mozilla will work with the best challenge entrants to deploy the solutions in newsrooms at Al Jazeera English, the BBC, boston.com, The Guardian, and Zeit Online. Submissions are open until May 22nd."
World's Servers Process 9.57ZB of Data a Year
By Soulskill from Slashdot's how-many-gigaquads-is-that department:
CWmike writes "Three years ago, the world's 27 million business servers processed 9.57 zettabytes, or 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information. Researchers at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the San Diego Supercomputer Center estimate that the total is equivalent to a 5.6-billion-mile-high stack of books stretching from Earth to Neptune and back to Earth, repeated about 20 times. By 2024, business servers worldwide will annually process the digital equivalent of a stack of books extending more than 4.37 light-years to Alpha Centauri, the scientists say. The report, titled 'How Much Information?: 2010 Report on Enterprise Server Information,' (PDF) was released at the SNW conference last month."
Project Icarus: an Interstellar Mission Timeline
By Soulskill from Slashdot's to-boldly-go department:
astroengine writes "What would the infrastructure supporting an interstellar mission look like? Considerations such as fuel sources, mining methods, interstellar spaceship construction activities and maintenance are being analyzed, all of which would be carried out before even reaching the ultimate interstellar goal. Project Icarus is currently unravelling the complexities of this operation and recently created a nifty animation of how one of the many fuel tanks may be recycled as communication relay pods en route to nearby stars."
Ubuntu Aims For 200 Million Users In Four Years
By Soulskill from Slashdot's it's-nice-to-have-goals department:
dkd903 writes "Delivering the keynote at the Ubuntu Developer Summit at Budapest, Hungary, Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Canonical's goal is to have 200 million Ubuntu users in four years. Canonical has not officially provided any data on how many Ubuntu users there currently are — in fact, the number is quite difficult to track. However, according to Prakash Advani, a partner manager for Central Asia at Canonical, there are an estimated 12 million Ubuntu users"
Book Review: Alfresco 3 Records Management
By samzenpus from Slashdot's read-all-about-it department:
ecmguru writes "My first impression of the book was that the author did an excellent job in presenting records management (RM) concepts, describing how Alfresco implemented the RM features in Share, and how you could customize this features if necessary. I was somewhat excited about reading this book because I am currently working on an RM project." Read on for the rest of ecmguru's review. Alfresco 3 Records Management
author Dick Weisinger
publisher Packt
reviewer ecmguru
summary Provides a good mix of records management concepts and technical details for developers
Worldwide Night Sky Stitched Together In 5 Gigapixel Image
By Soulskill from Slashdot's billions-and-billions-of-pixels department:
katarn writes "Nick Risinger traveled the world, using a robotic camera mount and six air-cooled cameras, each fitted with their own lenses and filters, to capture the entire night sky in one image; the largest full true-color sky survey. The project took a year to complete, and Risinger logged 60,000 travel miles. The final image is made up of over 37,000 individual photos, has a resolution of 5,000 megapixels, and took months to piece together. Risinger says, 'Travel was necessary as capturing the full sphere of the night sky brought with it certain limitations. What might be seen in the northern hemisphere isn't always visible from the south and, likewise with the seasons, what may be overhead in the summer is below the horizon in the winter. Complicated by weather and moon cycles, this made for some narrow windows of opportunity which we chased through the remote areas of Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Colorado, California and Oregon.'"
Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable
By Soulskill from Slashdot's cowboy-up department:
imamac writes "Those who were hopeful that Netflix would bring the fight to the cable companies may be disappointed in the latest comments from their CEO. 'Reed Hastings is pleased with his company's massive growth, but he fears that getting too large will start "an Armageddon" with cable networks.' It's a fight he doesn't think his company could survive."
The Dirtiest Jobs in IT
By samzenpus from Slashdot's but-someone-has-to-do-it department:
snydeq writes "Carcasses, garter belts, anthrax — there is no end to nasty when it comes to working in IT, as the fourth installment of InfoWorld's Dirty IT Jobs series proves. From the systems sanitation engineer, to the human server rack, surviving in today's IT job market often means thriving in difficult conditions, including standing in two feet of water holding a plugged-in server or finding yourself in a sniper's crosshairs while attempting to install a communications link." In case you missed them, here are the first three parts.
Apple Delays Release of LGPL WebKit Code
By CmdrTaco from Slashdot's hey-now-wait-a-minute department:
jfruhlinger writes "Ever since Apple forked the KHTML project to create WebKit, the rendering engine at the core of Safari, the company has been a good open source citizen, releasing the code back to the community after updates. But that suddenly stopped in March, with no code releases for the last two updates to the iOS version of the browser, for reasons unkown. This might remind you of Google's failure to release the Honeycomb source code. But at least Google announced that it was holding the code back, and Android is under a license that allows for a delay; the LGPL'd WebKit isn't."
Drudge Generates More News Traffic Than Social Media
By samzenpus from Slashdot's nobody-cares-about-your-day department:
tcd004 writes "A report released today by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that the Drudge Report is a far more important driver of online news traffic than Facebook or Twitter. In fact, for the top 25 news websites, Twitter barely registers as a source of traffic. The report hits on several other interesting findings about news behavior."
Battle Brews Over FBI's Warrantless GPS Tracking
By samzenpus from Slashdot's who-watches-the-watchers department:
fysdt writes "The FBI's use of GPS vehicle tracking devices is becoming a contentious privacy issue in the courts, with the Obama administration seeking Supreme Court approval for its use of the devices without a warrant, and a federal civil rights lawsuit targeting the Justice Department for tracking the movements of an Arab-American student. In the midst of this legal controversy, Threat Level decided to take a look at the inside of one of the devices, with the help of the teardown artists at iFixit."
Chain Reactions Reignited At Fukushima
By CmdrTaco from Slashdot's someone-explain-the-science department:
mdsolar writes "Radioactive byproducts indicate that nuclear chain reactions must have been burning at the damaged nuclear reactors long after the disaster unfolded. Tetsuo Matsui at the University of Tokyo, says the limited data from Fukushima indicates that nuclear chain reactions must have reignited at Fuksuhima up to 12 days after the accident. Matsui says the evidence comes from measurements of the ratio of cesium-137 and iodine-131 at several points around the facility and in the seawater nearby."
Anonymous Under Civil War?
By CmdrTaco from Slashdot's oroboros-is-hungry department:
Stoobalou writes "Civil war appears to have broken out in the ranks of headless 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous, with claims that a rogue admin has seized control of two key sites used to coordinate the loose-knit group's online direct action. The news follows speculation that a breakaway group of Anonymous members was responsible for the hacking attacks on Sony's PlayStation Network and Online Entertainment Network, which saw personal information, including credit card details, stolen from as many as 100 million users' accounts."
AMD To Support Coreboot On All Upcoming Processors
By timothy from Slashdot's you-had-me-at-hello department:
nukem996 writes "AMD has just announced that they will be supporting Coreboot (previously LinuxBIOS) on all upcoming processors." That means a flexible Free software BIOS replacement with a nice list of benefits.
In Indonesia, a Winner For Now In the Browser Wars
By timothy from Slashdot's no-longer-beginner's-luck department:
angry tapir writes "Mozilla is building an army of volunteers in Indonesia to help customize Firefox and recommend add-ons. Mozilla wants that input so it can retain the high market share that Firefox already has in the country. Web statistics company StatCounter puts the share at 75 to 80 percent, the browser's highest in Asia. The worldwide share of Firefox, which competes with Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, is just over 30 percent."
Australian Tax Office Seeks Keylogger To Combat RSI
By timothy from Slashdot's hot-key-for-naughty department:
schliz writes "The Australian Tax Office plans to track employees' keystrokes and mouse clicks in attempts to address the growing incidence of repetitive strain injuries (RSI) among staff. It hopes to purchase commercial, off-the-shelf 'pause or exercise break software' that delivers safety messages to users, while determining 'more information about the nature of computing use in the workplace.'"
Bin Laden Hideout Recreated In Counter-Strike
By timothy from Slashdot's should-be-done-for-every-workplace department:
dotarray writes "Osama bin Laden's final hiding spot in Abbottabad, Pakistan, has been made into a playable map for Counter-Strike: Source. Honestly, we're a little surprised that it took this long."
File-hosting Sites Not a Safe Haven For Private Data
By timothy from Slashdot's but-then-nowhere-really-is department:
An anonymous reader tips a story at the Register, according to which "Academic researchers say they've uncovered weaknesses in dozens of the most popular file hosting sites that allow people to gain unauthorized access to data that's supposed to be available only to those selected by the user."


SOME of the most popular children's fairytales and stories will be brought to life in a series of open air productions starting next week.
Every Monday through the summer holidays, The Storytellers will be bringing classic tales to life on the lawn at Worden Park in Leyland.
Pendle Productions, the company behind the hugely successful pantomime at the Thwaites Empire Theatre in Blackburn, stages the weekly productions.
Families are invited to bring along a picnic and enjoy the shows which will be held at 12.30pm and 2.30pm.
Each week, for even more fun, there will be also be hour-long workshops at 11am, before the first performance, with the themes of theatre dance moves, a play in an hour, West End musicals, film making and stage fighting.
These workshops are free to any child with a ticket for one for the two afternoon performances.
The season kicks off Monday withAlice In Wonderland. You can join Alice as she falls down the rabbit hole to a land where all the characters she meets really are as mad as they seem and leave you wondering… was it all a dream?
Following this on August 5 is the tale of Pinocchio, the wooden puppet and his quest to rescue his father, Gepetto.
Tales from the Gypsy Caravan will be told on August 12 with the The Storytellers bringing together tales from around the world.
These include The Greedy African Spider and the Honey Tree, the Slovak tale of Raisa, Baba Yaga and finally the hilarious Chinese tale of Bigmouth and how his mean landlord, Skinflint, gets his comeuppance with the help of a "magical" horse!
Tom Sawyer brings a little of the Deep South of America to Worden on August 19 so you can find out about his many scrapes with his friend Huckleberry Finn and to round off the season in grand style, Mr Toad of Toad Hall pays a visit as the classic Wind In The Willows is brought to life on August 26.
Tickets are all £7 and one adult gets in free with every two child tickets purchased. Tickets are available direct from Pendle Productions on 01253 839375, wordentickets@pendleproductions.co.uk or at the gate on the day.


Mentors - Why Hire One?
Mentors – Why Hire One?
One of the first reasons to hire a mentor-coach is that, hopefully, they know how to do what you want to do.
There are several different types of mentors.
There are the people who produce a fancy package and charge you a couple of thousand pounds and then you get thrown into a group of people who are working through the same thing together.
There's another kind, which is someone who hasn't done what you want to do but who asks good questions, who gets you to think differently.
I think the best kind is someone who's done the thing you want to do and who also has coach training so they can spot your limiting and negative beliefs as well as knowing which tools to use and which way to do things.
So, if you're thinking about doing something different in 2019, then why not think about getting yourself a mentor or a mentor-coach to hold your hand, kick your bum and walk with you along the way?


Death Cab For Cutie's Nick Harmer talks about the anxiety of recording without founding member Chris Walla, how the band's live lineup and sound has changed and more ahead of their Red Rocks show.
When Death Cab For Cutie entered the studio to record its eighth album, the members weren't certain that the end product "would still sound like the band that we know us to be," said bassist Nick Harmer.
In late 2014, the band announced that after 17 years, guitarist and founding member Chris Walla would be leaving the band. Though he performed on the latest release, "Kintsugi," he wouldn't be acting as the record's producer, as he had for every other Death Cab album.
Only a week later, after recording its first song with new producer Rich Costey, "we all felt pretty quickly that we were all in the right place," Harmer said.
On "Kintsugi," Costey remains true to the Death Cab spirit — adding small shiny flourishes here and there while allowing the mix to stay focused on Ben Gibbard's iconic, vibrato-less vocals.
While the personnel change hasn't yet resulted in a drastic stylistic change on the recorded product, it will have a clear impact on the band's live performances and symbolically for Death Cab For Cutie.
When Death Cab For Cutie takes the stage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on July 15th they'll look different than the band ever has before. Walla has been replaced with two members: Dave Depper and Zach Rae both on guitar and keyboards. Besides a tour with Magik*Magik Orchestra in 2012, Death Cab has always hit the road as its original four-piece — something the band has long been respected for as acts tend to add members when the production and albums get more complicated with time.
For nearly two decades DCFC live performances were a stripped-down contrast to the recorded product. But with another member filling out the lineup, it's not the case.
"I think it was really eye-opening for us to go back through the material and realize that there's a ton of musical information that a fifth person can handle that would make these songs sound a little bit more closer to how they sound on the albums and also fill out the sonic space in a way that's much more full and add more depth," Harmer said.
As Harmer puts it, transition can go two ways: It can be the end of something or the beginning of something new. And though it won't be clear until the band heads back into the studio just how much Walla contributed to the fabric of Death Cab For Cutie, Harmer is excited for moving on to something new.
It marks a new chapter for Death Cab For Cutie — one that the band is still in the process of transitioning into, buoyed by the therapeutic process of making music.


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Check in time is at 3.00 pm and Check out time is at 12.00 pm.
Family Plan – No extra charge for children 12 years age and below occupying same room with parent.
Special group rate are available upon request.
Reservation will only be held until 4.00 pm on arrival day unless guaranteed by a deposit or any major credit cards.


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Darnold leads Jets to 27-23 win over Allen, Bills
By By JOHN WAWROW and Associated Press
Jets quarterback Sam Darnold passes against the Buffalo Bills during the first half Sunday. (Jeffrey T. Barnes / AP)
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Sam Darnold one-upped fellow rookie Josh Allen, rallying the Jets to a 27-23 win over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.
Elijah McGuire scored on a fourth-and-goal run from the 1 with 1:17 remaining to cap a drive during which Darnold completed three of five passes for 52 yards. The rookie quarterback particularly showed off his deft touch on a 37-yard pass to Robby Anderson, who made an over-the-shoulder catch up the right sideline.
It was Darnold's first career fourth-quarter comeback and came in his first game back after missing three with a strained right foot.
He finished 16 of 24 for 170 yards with a touchdown and interception. The Jets (4-9) snapped a six-game losing streak, and bounced back a week after squandering a 16-0 lead in a 26-22 loss at Tennessee.
Darnold, drafted third overall, got the edge on Allen, who was selected with the seventh pick.
Allen went 18 of 36 for 206 yards and two interceptions, both by Trumaine Johnson, including one on the Bills' final drive to seal the Jets victory.
Allen did finish with 101 yards rushing to become just the second quarterback in NFL history to top 90 yards rushing in three consecutive games, joining Tobin Rote, who did that with Green Bay in 1951.
Buffalo dropped to 4-9 in what proved to be a sloppy game.
The Jets won when embattled coach Todd Bowles elected to gamble after Darnold was stopped at the 1 on third-and-goal from the 4.
McGuire scored by taking a handoff and running to his right before finding a crease to squeeze his way into the end zone. He finished with 60 yards and was playing in place of starter Isaiah Crowell, who left with a shoulder injury in the second quarter.
The Bills were eventually down to their final running back, Marcus Murphy, after Chris Ivory was sidelined by a shoulder injury in the second half.
Buffalo squandered a 14-3 lead, and was undone by a special teams unit that allowed Andre Roberts to return five kickoffs for 176 yards. Roberts' 86-yard return set up Trenton Cannon's 4-yard run, which cut Buffalo's lead to 17-13 with 6:31 left in the second quarter.
It was the first touchdown scored by the Jets' offense in 24 possessions, dating to the first quarter of a 27-13 loss to New England two weeks ago.
The Jets' special teams also blocked Stephen Hauschka's 49-yard field-goal attempt at the end of the first half.
New York trailed until Darnold capped an 11-play, 85-yard drive by hitting Anderson for a 7-yard touchdown pass to tie the game at 20 with 12:06 left.
The Bills responded with Hauschka hitting a 36-yard field goal with 2:31 remaining.
Allen scored on a 7-yard run and Isaiah McKenzie also scored on a 15-yard run.
Opportunistic Jets
The Jets scored a touchdown and two field goals in the first half despite managing four first downs and 68 yards offense. Special teams and the defense helped Jets finish with an average drive start of their own 47.
Bills undrafted rookie Robert Foster had 104 yards receiving in his first career start after the Bills released Kelvin Benjamin on Tuesday. Foster now has two 100-yard outings, both of them coming against the Jets. He had 105 yards receiving in a 41-10 win at the Meadowlands on Nov. 11.
Jets: Host Houston on Saturday.
Bills: Close their nonconference schedule by hosting Detroit on Dec. 16.
Andre Roberts
Trumaine Johnson


In 2009, the use of the mobile internet has increased with 148% worldwide.
Mobile devices now represent 1,3% of all web pageviews in North America, with Apple's iPhone operating system accounting for 65,1% of mobile web traffic in the region. Google's Android OS is second at 12,4%, followed by Research In Motion's BlackBerry OS at 8,7%.
These numbers come from a study of Quantcast, who predicts that the mobile web consumption the US will further increase towards 2,3% by the end of 2010.
An iPhone user downloads on average 10 mobile apps per month. An iPod Touch user almost double.
Most users find their apps "by coincidence". Searching a specific app, usually because of word of mouth, only comes second place.
iPhone users are more willing to pay for their apps than Android users.
An iPhone user spends on average 9,49 USD per month on apps.
Almost 6 out of 10 iPhone users downloads between 1 and 3 paying apps per month. 5% buys more than 20.
Half of the users spends less than 5 USD per month on apps. One out of 4 pays between 6 and 10 USD.
Some interesting facts & figures of the use of Mobile Internet in France.


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As The Number Of Public Toilets In Delhi Keeps Increasing, Several Challenges Still Lurk For City To Go Open Defecation Free
The Delhi government and MCDs have together built over 11,000 public and community toilets since the inception of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, but open defecation in Delhi remains a difficult challenge to tackle
Written By: Saptarshi Dutta | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar |
The Delhi government has already built over 11,000 public toilets
The municipal corporation of North Delhi plans to go ODF by December 2017
The number of women only toilets in Delhi is only 300
New Delhi: Sanitation and cleanliness remain worrying issues for Delhi and efforts are being made to better the national capital's sanitation coverage. With an abundance of slums and unplanned colonies, and the municipal corporations' unsuccessful performance in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan till now, Delhi's sanitation scenario is not becoming of a national capital. The city hopes to improve its track record with steps like the one on August 30, where Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated 1,206 community toilets across 36 locations.
The toilets were built by the Government of Delhi at JJ Basti in Punjabi Bagh, West Delhi. The toilet complexes inaugurated are large 60-seater ones, accommodating a large number of people at one go. This is the second time in 2017 that the Delhi government had successfully inaugurated community toilets in slum areas to counter the problem of open defecation. Earlier in January this year, the Chief Minister had inaugurated 1,000 community toilets at JJ Basti in Kalkaji, South Delhi and also inaugurated 810 public toilets more in June 2017. With the recent inauguration, public sanitation in Delhi has received a much needed breather, but much work needs to be done for the city to become completely open defecation free (ODF).
CM @ArvindKejriwal and PWD minister @SatyendarJain inspected newly constructed public toilets.#OpenDefecationFreeDelhi pic.twitter.com/rFffbaWHmr
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) August 30, 2017
Delhi's Sanitation Woes
The sanitation conditions in Delhi, especially the slum areas have only worsened over the decades due to rise in population but absence of infrastructure. The Census 2011 estimate stated that 1.8 million of Delhi's 22 million residents lived in slums. Nearly 65 per cent of Delhi's slum population continued to defecate in the open till 2015, a concerning large number of people. The fact that under the first year of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the combined tally of toilets built by the three divisions of MCD was zero. By 2015, the MCD's contribution to the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was 112 under construction toilets an 94 proposed ones.
In the subsequent two years, the sanitation scenario has improved mildly but not at a pace the government or the municipal corporations would have liked. The latest data from the Swachh Bharat Urban website shows that only 15 individual household toilets have been constructed in Delhi till now. The low number of IHHLs can be attributed to space constraints, a major problem in many of Delhi's households due to which the focus has been strengthened towards building public toilets for larger number of people to use at once. The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) and the MCD are both responsible authorities for building public toilets.
The first year of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan saw no efforts from the MCD to improve the city's sanitation scenario. In fact, the DUSIB, built more than 4,000 public toilets between 2015 to 2016 with its own funds. But the MCD did not complete a single construction in the first year of the Abhiyan, and the city had to pay a price for that for the next two years, said Sushmita Sengupta of Centre for Science and Environment.
Improvement Efforts
The recent inauguration of public toilets joins the list of improvement efforts in Delhi's sanitation scenario. The years of 2016 and 2017 saw some improvements, as the MCD's approach towards public toilet construction got some much needed acceleration. The North Delhi Municipal Corporation has set a target of December 2017 to go ODF and on July 2017 declared 90 of its 94 wards as ODF. The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) also claimed in March 2017 that 92 of its 104 wards were ODF. In total, the NDMC has built 220 public and community toilets in two years. The number of public and community toilets built by SDMC stands at 70. Till July 2017, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) and the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) have built 135 and 220 toilets respectively.
Though the first year saw a lag in the number of public and community toilets built by all the wings of MCD, the subsequent years have seen momentum. At SDMC, we have already built more than 200 such public toilets and by the end of December, plan to build 50 more to completely eradicate open defecation, said Puneet Goel, Commissioner, South Delhi Municipal Corporation.
Open Defecation Free Delhi: A Possible Reality?
The definition of the term open defecation free is yet to be wholly understood by municipal authorities across India. Mere construction of toilets does not make a town or city ODF as the practice of open defecation must entirely be eradicated for the ODF certificate to be granted. Delhi still faces significant challenges in terms of becoming entirely ODF. Open defecation is still a common practice across the city, especially across railway tracks in South and North Delhi. Further, two issues which continue to plague Delhi's sanitation scenario are cleanliness of the toilets and low number of toilets for women. A March 2017 independent survey by an NGO called Action Aid surveyed 229 public toilets in Delhi and found 70 per cent to be unclean, without water supply, which included both DUSIB and MCD built toilets.
Whether Delhi goes ODF on time or not, whether its ranking in the next year's Swachh Survekshan improves or not, the inauguration of public toilets is definitely an optimistic change, especially for slum dwellers who have struggled to have access to safe sanitation. But the real improvement will only be possible when the constructed toilets are properly functional with water, lights and other amenities and when there is adequate number of toilets for Delhi's women population.
Also Read: Swachh Survekshan 2017: Why Did The Nation's Capital Delhi Fare Poorly In Swachh Rankings?
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President Trump met Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the White House to discuss the Gateway Project, which would rebuild passenger rail lines between New York City and Newark, N.J.
The two men were joined at lunch on Wednesday, Nov. 28 by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, a White House spokesman.
The infrastructure development is one of the few issues where Trump may find newly empowered House Democrats willing to work with him.
The meeting appeared on Trump's public schedule and Cuomo confirmed in this statement that he planned to discuss the issue with the president.
Cuomo of New Castle said the rail infrastructure requires renovation or it will cause significant transit problems in New York and New Jersey.
"I recently sent a video of the tunnels that fully explains the situation to President Trump," Cuomo said. "The video shows the decay inside the tunnel. I spoke to the President after he received the video and we have a tentative meeting scheduled for tomorrow with the President to continue to discuss the tunnel project."
"This is not a partisan issue but a practical government necessity," Cuomo said..
Funding for the Gateway Project has been a priority for New York and New Jersey lawmakers in recent years.
The Trump Administration blocked a move to include money for the tunnel project in an omnibus spending bill earlier this year, but clarified it does not oppose the project.


To become a reputed department for civil engineering education and applied research in the country with focus on producing professionally competent and highly recognized engineers.
To prepare, and provide conductive environment for, civil engineering graduates to be competent and quick learners of the latest emerging technologies on the engineering horizon.
To become a hub of technical know-how in civil engineering and allied domains for the service of industry bodies, governmental bodies, and society at large.
To ensure our students are confident with latest and emerging technologies, that affect the traditional roles of civil engineers, so that they could push the envelope to be relevant in the fast changing technical field as practicing engineers, entrepreneurs, or research personnel.
Also, the Department aims to train socially and environmentally sensitive professionals as civil engineering profession has high contact and visibility with the public.
Academic Environment: To provide students a conductive academic environment for efficient learning helping them succeed in industry or research career.
Core Competence: To provide students a strong foundation in basic mathematics, science, and engineering principles needed to solve engineering problems.
Professionalism: To inculcate in students good professional and ethical attitude, effective communication skills, teamwork skills, multidisciplinary approach, and an ability to relate engineering issues to broader social context.
Graduate will be able to write technical documents (abstract, summary, project report, etc) and give oral presentations on the work conducted.
Graduate will recognize the need of self education and ability to engage in life - long learning.


Asking the important questions: Will a bulletproof vest stop an arrow?
I am not surprised at the result. Granted, this was ridiculously close range, but there is a tremendous amount of force in the point of an arrow. Just ask medieval knights.
I am even less surprised by the crossbow result – Pope Urban actually banned their use against Christians in 1096.
The compound had a Muzzy broadhead, and it appears it would have only poked the skin. I'd consider that a success.
However, the crossbow had quite a bit more penetration, and in fact, it could have been potentially fatal. Without a bulletproof vest, both shots would have been a clean passthrough at that shooting distance.
Id like to see other heads used . that Muzzy is a chisel point ,a cut on contact will typically penetrate with less resistance and a two blade even more so . On deer it's often a mute point as both styles will get a pass through with today's bows . On the vest I'd bet a two blade cut on contact would penetrate much further .
Arrow weight also has big effect .
Plus what was that vest rated at anyway, level 2? What about a level 3A?, that may have stopped both the arrow and that bolt. Btw, going by that video, it did stop the arrow, you titled this wrong since a bolt was used too. Any of the hard rifle plates would stop both.
If it's enough to puncture 10 gauge steel and take a man off a horse, body armour will be penetrated but how deep is the question.
Now with the new metal foam armour coming soon, will be interesting to see.


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Q: how to open dll and exe files in ubuntu I have a few dll and exe files. My laptop has ubuntu version 12.04 installed in it. Can anybody give me suggestion what should I be doing now so that the file runs on Ubuntu?

A: You can install Wine from the Ubuntu repository and try to execute the files with it. AFAIK many Windows programs can be executed with an out-of-the-box Wine installation, for some, you have to take extra steps (like adding some libraries) and some do not run with it.
Another option would be setting up a virtual machine with a Windows installation in it for executing the programs you need.

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‹ Science meets Poetry, Manchester, 26th July 2016 • BSLS 2017 Conference ›
CFP Writing Remains: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature
May 18, 2016 in CFP by bsls | Permalink
Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, Friday 20th January 2017.
'It's a kind of literary archaeology: on the basis of some information and a little bit of guesswork you journey to a site to see what remains were left behind and to reconstruct the world that these remains imply'. Toni Morrison is not the only writer to have imagined her work as a kind of archaeological digging, as an imaginative excavation of the past and a reconstruction of past lives from remains. From Wordsworth's call to 'grieve not, rather find / strength in what remains' to Heaney's bog poetry, writers have interrogated the significance of the earth, the buried, remains and fragments, and drawn upon techniques and tools associated with archaeology as a means of thinking about history, memory and the body. Conversely, archaeologists have begun to examine the potential influence of literature on their approaches to material traces and human remains. In the introduction to their 2015 book Subject and Narrative in Archaeology, Ruth M. Van Dyke and Reinhard Bernbeck note that there is an 'increasing clamour for and interest in alternative forms of archaeological narratives, involving writing fiction, making films, constructing hypertexts, and creating media that transcend the traditional limitations of expository prose' and that 'Visual art, fiction, creative nonfiction, film, and drama have much to offer archaeological interpretation and analysis'. Literary critical approaches are also being recognised as useful ways of thinking about archaeological processes: for archaeologist John Hines, there is an 'affinity between the scholarly disciplines', archaeology involving 'the same exercises of interpretation, analysis and evaluation as literary criticism.'
This conference brings together archaeologists, literary scholars and creative writers to explore similarities and points of convergence between literature, literary studies and archaeology across historical periods. We invite papers which adopt a range of disciplinary or interdisciplinary approaches to the relationship between archaeology and literature and/or the potential for methodological exchange between the disciplines. We are particularly interested in exploring synergies between archaeological science and literature, and how the human body as a site of archaeological knowledge might shape and be shaped by literary and critical approaches to the body.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
Literary and cultural representations of archaeology
Fragments, remains and reconstruction in archaeology and literary studies
Theoretical uses of archaeology in the work of Benjamin, Freud, Foucault
Human remains, bodies, bones and skeletons in literature
The influence of archaeological writing on literary studies
Representations of archaeology in the media
Metaphor, analogy and storytelling in archaeology
The relationship between memory, history and narrative
Race and gender in archaeology
Confirmed keynote speakers include:
Dr. Robert Witcher, Durham University
Dr. Jerome de Groot, University of Manchester
Dr. Nadia Davids, Queen Mary University of London
This conference is supported by the AHRC and is being held as part of the AHRC-funded project 'Literary Archaeology': Exploring the Lived Environment of the Slave http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/research/literary-archaeology/
Attendance at the conference is free and there is a limited fund for reimbursement of UK travel expenses. We are also pleased to offer a postgraduate bursary which will cover all expenses of the successful applicant.
There will be an opportunity to publish conference papers in a journal special issue following the conference.
Please send 250 word abstracts to Josie.Gill@bristol.ac.uk by 16th September 2016. Delegates will be notified of the outcome in mid-October.


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Transforming our Campus
Museum of Literature Ireland
UCD Confucius Institute
Our Global Ambitions
Few institutions have played as significant a role in the building of a nation and the preservation of its heritage as University College Dublin. UCD is unique among Ireland's universities in that it was born out of a vision for higher education and a flourishing, successful Ireland.
In that context, re‐imagining and transforming the UCD campus continues to be one of our most urgent priorities. The quality of our facilities has a direct impact on all other objectives. A world‐class campus will help attract the best faculty and the brightest students from all over the world.
In the last 162 years, UCD has grown and developed, and students remain our core focus. We strive to provide an holistic education, inspiring our scholars to learn and create, to question and reason, to innovate, and to contribute to society at all levels. UCD's distinguished alumni stand as a testament to our ability to nurture pioneers across academic disciplines.
Already a leader in Ireland, we have global ambitions. By 2020, the University will be highly engaged locally, nationally and internationally, and will be known around the world as Ireland's Global University.
Ireland's Global University
Building on the accomplishments of the last decade, we are now poised to enter the next phase of our development. We have identified the areas that will have the most direct impact on our ability to improve our global standing and rankings, and strengthen our engagement internationally.
Following a review of the University's campus master plan we have identified several priority capital projects, which require an investment of ca €400 million in 2016-2028 in key areas such as Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Data Science, Business, Health, Agriculture, Engineering, Architecture, and Sport.
Achieving our ambitious goals will necessitate a substantial commitment of time, effort and resources, a clear focus on measurable priorities, and a higher level of investment from public and private sources. Now is the time to demonstrate our abiding commitment to our academic faculty, students and to Ireland.
Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI)
When it opens in Spring 2019, the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) will be a new landmark cultural institution in the heart of Ireland's capital city at Newman House, the original home of UCD. Named for Molly Bloom, the illustrious heroine of James Joyce's Ulysses, MoLI will celebrate Ireland's internationally-renowned literary culture and heritage from the past to the present, inspiring the next generation to create, read and write.
Drawing on the expertise from leading literary institutions, MoLI aims to provide a unique experience. This includes providing space and support for young scholars from Ireland and across the globe to engage in collaborative projects based on Ireland's literary heritage by giving them the opportunity to study and create in the very rooms and corridors frequented by Newman, Joyce and the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Visitors will experience a journey through diverse and immersive exhibits examining not only contemporary Irish writers, but Irish writing in other cities and the history of publishing in the Irish State. An ambitious temporary exhibition programme will see changing exhibitions focus on individual writers and works from the past to the present as well as Irish folklore and intangible literary heritage through artefacts, sound, film, new technologies and digital media.
The location of MoLI is of particular significance since Ireland's most famous writer, James Joyce, spent his formative years as a student both at Newman House and at the National Library on Kildare Street. Newman House itself figures centrally in one of his classic works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Furthermore, The Idea of a University, by John Henry Newman, after whom the complex is named, is still regarded worldwide as one of the most enduring texts on the value of higher education and captures the rationale for establishing the first Catholic University of Ireland in 1854.
With its proximity to St Stephen's Green, the Iveagh Gardens and the National Concert Hall, MoLI will serve as a pivotal location, creating a new cultural precinct in the heart of Dublin city, significantly enhancing the tourist experience, enlivening the tourist trail and enhancing the south side of St Stephen's Green.
The total capital investment required for this project is €10 million which comprises the construction, exhibition fit-out and ancillary works associated with the project. To date, 90% of the funding has been secured for this project; 25% of which is State funding (Fáilte Ireland) and the remainder secured through philanthropic donations. We are seeking to raise the balance through philanthropic donations to complete this initiative.
To learn more, please contact Jacqueline Mahon at
jacqueline.mahon@ucdfoundation.ie and visit www.moli.ie
Confucius Institute for Ireland
The vision of the UCD Confucius Institute is to become Ireland's pre-eminent learning centre and commercial connector for Sino-Irish business, culture and trade. As Ireland and China rapidly increase the scale and volume of its business exchange and as more Chinese people come to live in Ireland, the need for this national resource dedicated to the training and development of Chinese language skills, understanding of culture and to connecting business people and students has never been more urgent.
Established in 2006, in partnership with Renmin University of China – one of China's top 10 universities – the Institute has experienced an almost 700% demand growth for services in the last nine years. To respond to this need the Institute is moving to a dedicated, state-of-the-art building adjacent to the new lake on the University campus.
The new UCD Confucius Institute, designed by architects Robin Lee and Arthur Gibney, will feature classrooms, meeting rooms, language laboratories, conference rooms and performance spaces. It will also include a 'demonstration kitchen' for showcasing Chinese cuisines. The ground floor has been designed around a large, light-filled atrium for performances and exhibitions.
For further information about the partnership opportunities available, please contact:
Jessica Kavanagh
Head of Trusts and Major Gifts
Tel: 353 1 7161268
Email: jessica.kavanagh@ucdfoundation.ie


The fall in China's recorded Treasury holdings in April has attracted a fair amount of attention. Too much, in my view. Best that I can tell, China shifted from bills to short-dated notes in April rather than actually reducing its overall Treasury portfolio. It just so happens that China buys all its short-term bills in ways that show up in the US TIC data, but only a fraction of its longer-term notes in ways that show up in the US TIC data. A shift from bills to notes then could register in the US data as a fall in China's total Treasury holdings and a rise in the UK's holdings.
This is actually a well established pattern. The past five surveys of foreign portfolio investment in the US have all revised China's long-term Treasury holdings up (in some cases quite significantly) even as they revised the UK's holdings down. The following graph shows the gap between Chinese long-term Treasury purchases in the TIC data and China's actual purchases of long-term Treasuries-- as revealed in the survey. With the help of Arpana Pandey, I have smoothed out the impact of the survey revisions. But when there is a hard data point -- say June 2006 -- the y/y increase in China's Treasury holdings in the adjusted series should match the increase in the survey.
Here are three signs to watch to know when China really is reducing its US holdings.
First, the TIC data should show a fall in China's holdings, i.e. net sales of Treasuries.
Third, the Fed's custodial holdings should not be rising at a strong clip -- as, given China's size, it is hard to see how China doesn't make up a large fraction of all custodial holdings. Mathematically, it is impossibe for China not to be largest holder of Agencies at the New York Fed, and it is hard to see why it wouldn't also hold a decent chunk of its Treasuries there.
In April, only one of those three things happened. China's recorded holdings fell. In my book, that doesn't meet Accrued interests' call for "hard evidence" that China actually is reducing its holdings. Not when there were also large purchases of notes through the UK, and in the past much of that flow has ultimately been reattributed to China. And not when there was a fairly strong rise in the Fed's custodial holdings.
The best explanation for that combination of facts is that China was shifting a small fraction of its portfolio out of bills (hence the fall in it bill holdings) and into short-term Treasury notes (hence the rise in direct Chinese note purchase and UK note purchases).
The TIC data for China has too many problems to be taken at face value. Just using the unadjusted TIC flow data -- the kind that is often downloaded from Bloomberg -- to estimate China's total purchases of US assets produces a result that doesn't match the revised data in the United States final balance of payments data. Nor does it match the known stock of Chinese holdings, which gets bumped up when the survey data is released.
To be sure, the pace of growth in China's overall US portfolio has slowed. That certainly reflects China's decision to lend more money to a host of commodity exporters -- and its decision to stockpile key commodities. That has cut into the funds available to invest in the US.
And the pace of growth in China's Treasury portfolio has also slowed.
But that is to be expected. Much of the growth in China's portfolio, and indeed much of the overall growth in central banks Treasury holdings, over the past year has reflected a shift out of risk assets. Central bank purchases of Treasuries have actually been running far above total global reserve growth for the last couple of quarters. That cannot last forever.
Some reduction in the pace of inflows into the Treasury market was always to be expected if reserve growth didn't pick back up.
At least if major governments remain adverse to credit and equity market risk. That though may also be changing. At least the China Investment Corporation is once again taking risks. Lou ji-Wei is apparently worried about missing 'opportunities near the bottom of the market."
The CIC was actually quite conservative in 2008, no doubt in reaction to its losses on its high profile 2007 investments. SAFE took on far more risk. Now it seems that roles may have reversed once again. The overarching reality about China is that it now has so much money that it can now do a little bit (or even a lot) of almost everything.
* The US only tracks the initial sale of a bond to an investor abroad. Subsequent sales never into the TIC data, though they are often picked up in the annual survey.


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newswire article 12.Jun.2002 15:01
ARE YOU SCARED YET? DIRTY BOMBS ALERTS AND OTHER PROPAGANDA
author: U R Being Psyopsed
Hey everybody, are you really really really scared yet, what with the news of that scary Radioactive Dirty Bomb? It is just like something from that Hollywood film, "The Sum of All Fears." I know that I am really scared. That is why we must support the War Effort and give the US military and CIA more and more money to hunt down the Evil-Doers. Also, we must support President Bush to our very last ounce of strength. AS patriotic Americans, we must believe everything the American Media tells us to think and do everything the American government tells us to do.
Forget the 'dirty bomb' - this looks more like dirty tactics on the part of the Bush administration. There was no dirty bomb; there was no realistic prospect of a dirty bomb; and there was next-to-no possibility of a dirty bomb being detonated anywhere in the USA. Rather, the whole affair looks like a desperate attempt by Bush and co to deflect accusations that they have failed to foil terrorist attacks - and many people seem to be falling for it.
The alleged dirty bomber, Abdullah al-Muhajir (formerly Jose Padilla), was arrested on 8 May 2002. Yet US attorney general John Ashcroft only chose to announce that al-Muhajir's arrest had helped to foil a dastardly dirty bomb plot on 10 June 2002 - more than a month after al-Muhajir had been arrested, but conveniently just days after America's secret services, the FBI and the CIA, were lambasted for failing to act on pre-11 September intelligence. Indeed, Ashcroft used the dirty bomb announcement to heap praise on both the FBI and the CIA for their good work.
As the BBC pointed out: 'In recent weeks, America's key intelligence agencies have had to face a series of accusations that they failed to act properly on warning signals they received prior to 11 September. For a government under pressure to show it is getting results in its war on terrorism, the apparent foiling of an attempt to make a dirty bomb will certainly not be unwelcome to the Bush administration.'
Muhajir hardly sounds like the kind of person capable of making and detonating a radioactive device. Consider the Washington Post's potted biography: 'He was born in Brooklyn. He joined a Latino gang in Chicago, where he was involved in a killing as a teenager. He worked at a hotel in Florida, where he was sent to prison after a road-rage shooting incident. And now the menacing 31-year-old man who calls himself Abdullah al Muhajir is the first accused al-Qaeda operative with "Jose" tattooed to his right arm....' Hmmm. As Dack says, 'Jose Padilla couldn't even spell bomb, let alone make one'.
But then, pretty much no one could make a radioactive bomb. Back on 5 April 2002, scientist Fred Singer argued: 'A dirty bomb makes no practical sense. To produce significant radioactivity over an area of, say, one square mile, the concentration within a small bomb would have to be roughly 10 million times greater and would quickly kill the terrorists trying to assemble the material. The radioactivity also creates large amounts of heat energy, sufficient to melt most containers. What's more, any such bomb would be easy to detect at long distance if it emits gamma rays. We therefore conclude that a dirty bomb is mostly hype.' (Also see Iain Murray's piece on Tech Central Station.)
Now, US officials are admitting that they are 'not sure' what al-Muhajir's plans were (if any) - with FBI director Robert Mueller conceding that 'there was not an actual plan'. So what was there? A disaffected Latino youth with Islamic fundamentalist aspirations who thought about - maybe even talked about - building a nuclear device and blowing up an American city? This looks like a slightly more serious version of arresting and detaining children for writing stories about shooting their teachers - the likelihood of either happening is slim to non-existent. Padilla seemed to be engaged in little more than a fantasy, which the rest of us are only too happy to treat as a potential reality that the great guys at the FBI and the CIA managed to foil. God bless them.
Bush has now announced a 'full-scale manhunt' for anyone else believed to be 'involved in the alleged al-Qaeda plot to detonate a radioactive bomb in the USA' - indicating that he intends to make 'tackling dirty bombers' a priority. He certainly won't let facts like there being no dirty bombs, no dirty bombers and no plot stand in his way. Why should he - when much of the US and European media seem content to report this blatant attempt to save face as a spectacular new development? It is exactly nine months since the 11 September attacks - so when are journalists going to get their critical faculties back?
homepage: http://www.boneill.blogspot.com/2002_06_01_boneill_archive.html
*BREAKING* 12.Jun.2002 15:26
chicken little link
The Jose Padilla story is a govt hoax (english)
Freebooter 2:43pm Wed Jun 12 '02
address: http://freebooter.da.ru freebooter@pippo.it
June 11th Wall Street Journal additional details:
Officials said there is no sign that Mr. Padilla, who goes by the name Abdullah al-Muhajir, had acquired radioactive material. The material is the essential component of a dirty bomb, which uses conventional explosives to spew radioactive material.
Although some U.S. officials, including U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, said that Mr. Padilla researched dirty bombs in Lahore, Pakistan, an intelligence official said his research consisted of "basically surfing the Internet" for information on the crude devices. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said "there was not an actual plan. We stopped this man in the initial planning stages."
In short, this American citizen was basically arrested for surfing the Net!
Now THAT scares me 12.Jun.2002 17:16
naranja link
what to do... what to do...
write the whorish press? call/write bought and paid for politicians? get off my ass and be told my meager attempts are worse than nothing? sit here and passive/aggressively observe a long, grotesque, convoluted apocalypse?
so many wonderful possibilities.
But he isn't white 12.Jun.2002 17:21
jane link
so he's an easy target, with a record and gang connections, and he'll be the Adminstration's media focus for a while until the thugs feel the heat is off. Hope the families of those who died and are asking questions about 9/11 keep up the clamor, and that people get away from their televisions and start talking to one another.
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maybe more this this case 14.Jun.2002 11:49
jacob richter, the CAU$E instruggle@hotmail.com link
There may be more to this case than violation of 4th, 5th, and 6th amendment rights. Check out the web link posted here. It could be that Jose is just one of the many mujahideen in previous service to the U$ that the gov't is now "debriefing." Read a quote from Rumsfeld saying "we just want to know what he knows."
I would like to know how the Eugene protest goes, particularly what approach activists take to this issue. Should we pursue it as a "rights of the accused" or should we raise the conspiracy issue?
If we make it an issue of government accountability vs. secrecy, we can cover both possibilities.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
Stink Bomb 15.Jun.2002 01:03
El Acrata link
What have we now, Abdullah Al Mujahir, a disfranchised US citizen (Jose Padilla), from the rogue county of Brooklyn, on his way to Washington to set it ablaze? A top gun operative from the Al Qaeda terrorist organization on a secret mission from Osama bin Laden himself to blow up the capital of the most powerful nation in the world? Hmmm, well... yes, he had a book of Pakistani matches and some Ice Blue Aqua Velva in his suitcase that could be used to detonate a radioactive dirty bomb. And, besides, there were high physics documents in his possession with the equation E = MC2 written all over them. No doubt about it, this is definitely a very dangerous person. Lets take a closer look at this drama as it unfolds:
"Damn, we are good!" --- yells Ashcroft from faraway Russia to the hypnotized press.
"He looked Puerto Rican and pissed off, so we started trailing his ass for many days" --- reveals George Tenet staring at Mueller with a funny face.
"Did you check his pockets for plastic forks and picnic knives?" --- asks the New York Times reporter in bed with Condoleeza Rice.
"Yes, and we found a fingernail clipping device... " --- answers Ari Fleischer who joins them for a three ménage.
"He must be connected to the IRA and the Axis of Evil" --- declares Tony Blair from across the sea.
"We are just going to lock him up and throw away the key" --- utters Robert Mueller, sticking out his slurping tongue at Tenet through his teeth.
"He lost his civil liberties the day he became a Muslim fiend"--- says Big Dick Cheney while trading baseball cards with Kenny Lay.
"We're gonna ride this posse night and day" --- barks Don Rumsfeld while playing golf with Ariel.
"And we ain't stopping till we make 'em all crawl out of their holes and pay" --- says (in John Wayne mode) the idiot who stole the elections while buckling up his snakeskin belt.
"This is a great day for democracy and the separation of church and state" --- declares the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court while in recess.
"Calm down, people, there are no such things as deceitful conspiracies" --- the professional leftist lectures with a Magna Cum Laude --- "governments are victims of institutional circumstances".
"This is no terrorist dirty bomb plot as they're trying to make us believe, this smells more like another government stinking bomb to me" --- says the common citizen with a streetwise degree.


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Esporo fue un joven que llamó la atención del emperador Nerón por su parecido físico con su difunta esposa Popea Sabina, hasta el punto de que el emperador se unió a él en matrimonio tras ordenar la castración del muchacho.

Esporo vestía elegantemente y finamente, se hacía pasear en litera y recibía del emperador muestras de su cariño en público. Después de la muerte de Nerón, Esporo fue favorito de Ninfidio Sabino y de Otón. Otón (que también había estado casado con Popea Sabina antes de divorciarse) también tomó a Esporo como consorte bajo el nombre de Popea.

Su sucesor, Vitelio, ordenó que Esporo actuara en el escenario del teatro en el papel de Perséfone siendo violada por Hades, una humillación final que llevó a Esporo al suicidio.

Véase también
Pitágoras (liberto)

Bibliografía
VOUT, Caroline: Power and eroticism in Imperial Rome. Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 151-ss

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Libertos
Nacidos en el siglo I
Antiguos romanos del siglo I
Suicidas de la Antigua Roma
Travestismo
Amantes reales masculinos
Castrados
Nerón
Popea Sabina


Apparently 5 million gallons of water couldn't sink the pop-up shop. After patiently awaiting the return of power inside Photo Pop Philly and the Philadelphia Building due to the recent water main break, the power is back on!
Photo Pop will be reopening July 13 at NOON. They will hold events and promotions for our final two months as a thank you for the incredible support. Attendees will enjoy a lowered general admission ticket of $20 per person. There will also be several NEW installations inside the Empowerment Room that will encourage people to get interactive and actually be part of the piece. You can purchase your tickets here.


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