It must be a slow news day today in Apple-land (oh hell, we know firsthand... it is a slow news day in Apple-land!) because it's being reported all over the internet that it's *****CONFIRMED****: Steve Jobs is giving the keynote speech in January's MacWorld Expo in San Francisco.
We know. Breathe. In through the nose, out through the mouth.
According to the MacWorld Expo's press release about this groundbreaking news, the keynote will happen on Tuesday, January 10th, 2006 at 9:00am Pacific Time, and the Expo itself runs from the 9th to the 13th at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
"Steve's keynote is always a great way to kick off the biggest Mac event of the year," said David Korse, CEO of IDG World Expo. "We've added several new features to this year's event, and we're working hard to make this the most entertaining and informative Macworld ever."
No official word whether there will be a streaming webcast of the keynote—there always has been one in previous years' keynotes (at the MacWorld Expos, anyway), so we're not worried about it for now. Personally, I'm just glad I can finally go to sleep at night knowing that Mr. Jobs will be showing his beautiful face at MWSF once again, just as he always has.


Tomorrow I'll be boarding a bus that will take me far from this town and these people. Can my time here really be nearly finished? My mind is not ready to grapple with that thought. This five-and-a-half months doesn't seem to fit any concept of time. It's been both short and long. The sheer volume of things I have learned, experienced and felt . . . how could it all have happened in such a short span time? I've no idea.
I've begun realizing the loss I will feel when I leave. I came here and did my best to take these people and this land into my heart. Only now do I realize how successful I've been. They are a part of me and now I'm faced with leaving a part of myself behind. Now I can neither stay nor leave without being separated from people I care about.
I love the wide open spaces, the violent rainstorms, and the thatched huts; but it is the people that will make it hard to get on that bus. It's the people I'll be thinking about as my plane takes off from Ndjamena. A few months ago, these people were just unfamiliar faces. Now they have names and personalities. Now I call them brother and sister. Now we joke and laugh. Now we sit on benches and talk about life, family, the future, and God. The patients who became my friends—or even the people I shared a smile with at the market . . . it's not going to be easy to leave these people. Leaving without knowing if I'll ever see them again is difficult.
I find myself often talking about Heaven. I tell them I want Jesus to come soon because then we can all be together again. All over the world I have spoken hopefully of this with friends I've had to leave. Leaving Africa gives me yet another reason to want that Day to come very soon.
My time in Africa has been one of the greatest gifts of my life. Alone, as just one person, I came to love and give to Africa, but through many, many people Africa has loved and given to me. What I've contributed seems very small, but what I have gained is very large.
Now the God who led me here is the One leading me on. I'm sad. I'm happy. I'm thankful. I'm at peace.
Heather, thanks for all that you've shared on here.... my heart feels with you the pain of goodbyes, the longing for heaven.... praying for you tonight and as you begin another step on the Journey.
Hey Heather. My name is Jessica You don't know me and I don't know you. But when I was looking up things for becoming a nurse, a link came up for your blog.
I have just finished a year of Bible college and have one more year, and I know that with all my heart I want to become a nurse and go to Mexico. But I have absolutely no idea how to even get started and I am looking for any advice that I can get. Even from a stranger. I was just wanting to see how you got started as a nurse.
I'm sure God has wonderful plans for you!


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Q: Weekly Billing reports in AWS I am looking to configure a weekly billing report in AWS. It should contain the basic information like for last 7 days, $x is charged for the account. If is shows the services also, it will be good, but main focus is on the charged amount. The weekly billed amount should be sent over mail or SMS to inform users about the charges. Eg: $10 has been charged to your AWS acc id xyz in last week.
Is there any inbuilt AWS service which can be used or we need to write a custom script?
For now I have created a daily budget, using which I have set budget report to be sent every week. But that is not sufficient. Let me know if there is more sophisticated way present.
Thanks

A: You could check out the AWS Cost Explorer and build your own, custom report, that might look like this:

Go to your AWS Account -> Billing -> Cost Explorer -> Launch Cost Explorer.
NOTE: If you're running it for the first time, you need to enable it and wait approx. 24 hours for the initial data.

As of now, there's no out-of-the-box solution from AWS that sends the report as an email, but anyone interested might want to explore this repository - AWS Cost Explorer Report.

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Community-centered Collaboration Led by MCW, GMF and Royal Capital Group Announces Name, Key Focus Areas
On September 10th, the community-centered collaboration led by the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), the Greater Milwaukee Foundation (GMF), and Royal Capital Group has chosen the name of the ThriveOn Collaboration as the organizations continue deep resident and stakeholder engagement together to inform priorities and investments for supporting a thriving King Drive corridor and its connected neighborhoods.
The ThriveOn Collaboration champions a vision for a Milwaukee that is equitable, healthy and thriving for all. Achieving this vision will require partnerships with the community, focus on places where investment has been scarce, and supporting people of color, especially African Americans, who are disproportionately affected by health and social disparities.
The ThriveOn Collaboration is built on the fundamental understanding that where a person lives has a tremendous impact on their health and well being because housing, education, jobs, health resources and social connections are the underpinnings of healthy lives and communities. Consequently, a key component of the ThriveOn Collaboration is a place-based investment in the redevelopment of 2153 N. Martin L King Jr. Dr. into a community hub with neighborhood amenities, and offices for key MCW centers and programs and the Foundation's new headquarters.
"For Milwaukee to thrive, we are approaching solutions differently than ever before," said Ellen Gilligan, president and CEO of the Foundation. "We are rejecting and working to replace systems that generate uneven and unjust outcomes, particularly for people of color. We are centering community voices and ideas. We are honoring the generational commitment to racial equity and inclusion the Foundation made in 2016 with the bold action it requires. The ThriveOn Collaboration is the perfect expression of our shared values, and our work together is a catalyst for economic and social change in our city."
Ongoing dialogue with residents, deep analysis of local and national data, and years of expertise in their respective sectors has shaped the collaborators' approach to identifying priorities and developing thoughtful solutions that will add value to the community. The ThriveOn Collaboration's corresponding strategies are designed to dismantle systemic racism and reverse the disinvestment that has negatively impacted black and brown communities in Milwaukee for generations.
"At this time, we are suffering simultaneously from three inter-related crises – a global pandemic, an economic crisis, and systemic racism. It should come as no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis have had disproportionate impacts on people of color, and especially African American and Black people," said John R. Raymond, Sr., MD, president and CEO of MCW. "Achieving health equity is more important than ever before, and inherently requires addressing racial equity. By honoring this community's history, culture and people, and by listening and collaborating every step of the way, we hope to accomplish our shared mission to support and sustain a united, equitable, thriving community."
FIVE PRIORITIES
The ThriveOn Collaboration has identified five priority areas for program development and investment. These areas are informed by the social determinants of health, factors that contribute significantly to health such as where people live, access to healthy foods and affordable housing, and social support networks.
Housing – The ThriveOn Collaboration aims to invest in the availability of safe, quality and affordable housing for area residents. The long-term goal is to increase the number of residents leasing, purchasing, and maintaining homes with a focus on keeping longtime residents in the neighborhood.
Early Childhood Education – The ThriveOn Collaboration aims to invest in the quality, access and sustainability of early childhood education in the city. The long-term goal is to improve education outcomes for youth.
Health & Wellness – The ThriveOn Collaboration aims to invest in access to health and wellness facilities, healthy food options and preventive health services in the area. The long-term goal is to reduce rates of chronic disease and increase quality and length of life.
Social Cohesion – The ThriveOn Collaboration aims to support the community in building positive social and business relationships, celebrating diversity and promoting a sense of belonging among neighbors. The long-term goal is to increase resources for resident-led events and organizations.
Economic Opportunity – The ThriveOn Collaboration aims to support small business and enhance equitable economic opportunities for entrepreneurs and the local workforce. The long-term goal is to increase the stability of the small business community and increase access to quality jobs.
THE THRIVE ON COLLABORATION
The ThriveOn Collaboration reflects the views and values of community shared through continuous dialogue and participation among residents, the collaborating organizations and other community leaders. These conversations help shape the collaboration's goals and how the work moves forward. Community engagement for the ThriveOn Collaboration remains active. Staff members currently are holding virtual office hours, and the team is establishing a Community Advisory Council (CAC). The goal of the CAC is to integrate community perspective and participation by ensuring residents have meaningful decision-making power within the collaboration. The role of the CAC is to include a community voice in grantmaking and program initiatives that promote an equitable, healthy and thriving community with a focus on the Harambee, Halyard Park and Brewers Hill neighborhoods.
The ThriveOn Collaboration has already been working to implement its vision and priorities. Its commitments in community have included:
Helping to prevent resident displacement through partnership in the MKE United Anti-Displacement Fund. Housed at the Foundation, which contributed seed funding, the Fund so far has provided about $37,000 in property tax relief to 114 homeowners in the Harambee, Halyard Park, Brewers Hill and Walker's Point neighborhoods, the majority of whom were over 60 years old.
Approving approximately $100 million for joint investment in building improvement and development, including streetscaping and exterior art and green design.
Providing more than $13.2 million in grants through the Foundation and Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment led by Medical College of Wisconsin experts and community agency partners in support of COVID-19 relief, response, and recovery related to food, shelter, health, education, economic stabilization and more.
FUTURE SITE
When redeveloped, the collaboration's corresponding Milwaukee location on King Drive and, adjacent to Dr. Vel Phillips Avenue and West Garfield Avenue, will support health and growth, and be a destination where Halyard Park, Harambee and Brewers Hill neighbors can interact, learn and share.
"With our collaborative efforts, we have the opportunity before us to influence meaningful change that will have an intergenerational impact. Impact that recognizes the challenges in racial, health, and economic equity," said Kevin Newell, president and CEO of Royal Capital Group. "At Royal Capital, we are leaders in urban development and innovation, and we are proud to stand with our partners at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and we are even more proud for the opportunity to stand up for our community."
For more information about the ThriveOn Collaboration, please visit our website.
About the Greater Milwaukee Foundation
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation is Wisconsin's largest community foundation and was among the first established in the world. For more than a century, the Foundation has inspired philanthropy by connecting generous people to community needs that align with their interests. The Foundation was founded on the premise that generosity can unlock an individual's potential and strengthen the community as a whole for everyone who lives here. We work in partnership with those who are committed to ensuring greater Milwaukee is a vibrant, economically thriving region that comprises welcoming and inclusive communities providing opportunity, prosperity and a high quality of life for all.
greatermilwaukeefoundation.org | @GrMKEFdn | facebook.com/GreaterMilwaukeeFoundation
About the Medical College of Wisconsin
With a history dating back to 1893, The Medical College of Wisconsin is dedicated to leadership and excellence in education, patient care, research and community engagement. More than 1,400 students are enrolled in MCW's medical school and graduate school programs in Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Central Wisconsin in. MCW's School of Pharmacy opened in 2017. A major national research center, MCW is the largest research institution in the Milwaukee metro area and second largest in Wisconsin. In the last ten years, faculty received more than $1.5 billion in external support for research, teaching, training and related purposes. This total includes highly competitive research and training awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Annually, MCW faculty direct or collaborate on more than 3,100 research studies, including clinical trials. Additionally, more than 1,600 physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, provide care in virtually every specialty of medicine for more than 2.8 million patients annually.
About Royal Capital Group
At Royal Capital, having the opportunity to serve its communities in such an intimate and catalytic manner, is a privilege that it carries with high appreciation. From housing, retail, philanthropy, and community services, the people of Royal Capital Group are grateful for the opportunity to provide quality experiences that stretch beyond bricks and mortar. With a disciplined strategy and intentional execution, its efforts have led to the development of quality sustainable communities, while achieving the double bottom line for its investors and partners. The employees of Royal Capital Group are proud to be considered leaders in urban development, and we maintain our excitement to build, create, and be afforded the opportunity to "color outside the box."
Popular Interests In This Article: Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Medical College of Wisconsin, Royal Capital Group, ThriveOn Collaboration
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El Castello Brown és una casa-museu situada a una certa alçada per sobre del port de Portofino, Itàlia. El castell està ben situat per a la defensa del port, i segons el Registre de Gènova, va ser utilitzat com baluard de defensa des del .

Història
Segons l'Oficina del Registre de Gènova, piles de canó van ser construïdes en el lloc a principis del  , i enginyer militar Giovanni Maria Olgiati va dibuixar els plànols per una fortalesa cap el 1554. El castell resultant va ser completat el 1557, i, el 1575, va ser utilitzat per a contestar un atac a la ciutat per part de Giò Andrea Doria. L'estructura va ser ampliada entre 1622 i 1624, havent sobreviscut d'aquesta forma durant un segle i mig. La petita torre va ser destruïda el 1798 per un atac anglès durant la República Lígur de Napoleó. El castell va ser abandonat el 1815, després del Congrés de Viena.

El 1867, l'estructura va ser adquirida per 7,000 lires per Montague Yeats-Brown, el cònsol anglès a Gènova. Amb la feina de l'arquitecte Alfredo d'Andrade i el consell del seu amic i artista James Harris el fort va ser transformat en una vil·la comfortable sense alteracions substancials en la seva estructura general. Els seus descendents van mantenir la propietat fins 1949. Aleshores el castell va ser venut una parella anglesa, el Coronel John Baber i la seva esposa, que van restaurar moltes seccions en ruïnes. Finalment els darrers propietaris van vendre el baluard a la ciutat de Portofino l'any 1961.

Curiositats
Elizabeth von Arnim va escriure al castell , el seu llibre Un abril prodigiós, el 1922. La pel·lícula de 1992, basada en la novel·la, també es va filmar al castell.

Vegeu també
 Pesto

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Enllaços externs
 il-promontorio-di-portofino
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KREIS-BASKET-MILL®s are fast-running high-performance batch mills with variable speed adjustment using modern frequency converter technology, for the fine dispersing / fine grinding in the batch production.
In connection with the KREIS-DISSOLVER® extremely high product qualities and very short grinding times are achieved. For both processes only one production container is necessary! After the pre-dispersion with the KREIS-DISSOLVER® the grinding process is carried out in the same container with the KREIS-BASKET-MILL®.


Each year, Outsourcing Today brings a landmark edition of the Romanian Outsourcing and Shared Services Summit and this year, we are hosting the Fifth of the annual Romanian Outsourcing and Shared Services Awards on May 7th, 2019 in a joint half-day event.
ROMANIAN BUSINESS SERVICES FORUM & AWARDS will engage keynote sessions by industry leaders, interactive panel discussions, networking opportunities and Gala Awards dinner.
The Gala Awards will meet its winners following the combined commitment and effort of apanel of jury members that will consider and score the nominations that are submitted by the due date and meet all eligibility requirements for the Romanian Business Services Awards for Excellence. The name of the Award Winners will be announced during The Gala dinner held at Constanta Hall, Marriott Hotel Bucharest on 7May, 2019, starting 6:40 P.M.
The deadline for all nominations is 5 April, 2019. The nomination procedure will be closed after this date and late entries will not be considered for 2019 awards.
THE FORUM is an arena where key players in the field can discuss the current challenges and opportunities that the business services providers deal with and THE AWARDS GALA continues to reward and celebrate the success of the most prominent companies acting in the Outsourcing – BPO, ITO and SSC industry in Romania.


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5. Reboot your device to Custom Recovery (Press Home + Power Button).
WITHOUT SD- PARTITION YOU FACE "AUTOMATICALLY REBOOT PROBLEM"
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- Go To CyanMobile Settings>> Performance>>Tick On "Kernel Same page Merging">>KSM Sleep Time-2500>>KSM Page scan-512>>VM heap size-48m>>Low Mem Killer-Hard Multitasking.


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Iran vs USA: Who is Antonio Mateu Lahoz, the referee for this FIFA World Cup match?
Spanish referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz will be in charge of the proceedings during the USA v Iran match.
29 November, 2022 15:20 IST
FILE PHOTO: Referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz in action during the AC Milan vs Salzburg UEFA Champions League match at San Siro, Milan, on November 2, 2022. | Photo Credit: REUTERS
The USA and Iran will take on each other in a high-voltage match at the Al Thumama Stadium in Qatar on Tuesday night. The match will start at 12:30 AM Indian Standard Time (IST).
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Ever since the draw in April, the Group B game between the USA and Iran has stood out as one of the highlights of FIFA World Cup 2022 since the two countries share enormous political and historical hostility.
FIFA World Cup Day 10 Highlights: England, USA through from Group B; Netherlands, Senegal qualify in Group A
Off-pitch controversies have already set the tone for the match, with the USA football body removing the Islamic Republic emblem from Iran's flag on its social media posts and former USA coach Jurgen Klinsmann claiming Iran 'worked the refeere' in its 2-0 win over Wales.
The Iranian state media also sought suspension of the USA from the Qatar World Cup for the "unprofessional and provoking" activity.
The USA is currently placed third in Group B, while Iran is second with a slender lead. Hence, the winner of this match will have a chance to advance to the Round of 16.
It is the third meeting between the USA and Iran, with the first coming in the 1998 World Cup in Paris, when Iran beat the USA 2-0. Spanish referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz will be in charge of the proceedings tonight.
Who is Lahoz?
Lahoz has experience officiating World Cup, La Liga, and UEFA Champions League matches.
Lahoz officiated the Qatar vs Senegal match on November 25, when the latter took three points with a 3-1 win. Overall, Iran vs USA game will be Lahoz's fourth in a World Cup after the two he officiated in the 2018 Russia World Cup. He also acted as the fourth referee in three games in Russia.
All of Lahoz's matches came in the group stage. He made his World Cup debut on June 21, 2018, officiating Australia vs Denmark game that ended in a 1-1 draw. In his second game, eventual runner-up Croatia beat Iceland 2-1.
Also Read | How England, USA, Wales, Iran can qualify for round of 16: FIFA World Cup, Group B points table, scenarios
The 45-year-old showed four yellow cards in the Qatar-Senegal game which was interrupted by hard tackles and injuries. In the Norway-Serbia Nations League match in September, he booked two players.
In La Liga, he has officiated matches involving Athletico Bilbao and Real Madrid. In this UEFA Champions League, he has officiated Juventus-Maccabi Haifa and AC Milan-Salzburg games. While he issued two cards in the first game, the second UCL game saw him booking four players, including Olivier Giroud.
On Tuesday, Lahoz will be assisted by his compatriots Pau Cebrian Devis and Roberto Diaz Perez del Palomar on the field. Kevin Ortega of Peru is the fourth official, while Spain's Juan Martinez is the VAR official.
USA vs Iran Match Officials
Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)
Assistant Referees: Pau Cebrian Devis (Spain), Roberto Diaz Perez del Palomar (Spain)
Fourth Official: Kevin Ortega (Peru)
VAR Official: Juan Martinez (Spain)
Assistant VAR Officials: Ricardo de Burgos (Spain), Neuza Back (Brazil), Alejandro Hernandez Hernandez (Spain), Bruno Pires (Brazil)
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Whenever I am around food I am at my happiest; nothing can be more pleasing than the sight of beautiful, freshly prepared rustic and tasty food. It kind of warms the heart, lifts your mood. Food is one of the greatest gifts of life.
Do you know the feeling of being in the right place at the right time? That's how I felt at "Taste Italia" an Italian food fair I recently visited in London.
There was lots of prosciutto and I could not take my eyes off it. I kept munching from stall to stall going from savoury to sweet, from sweet to savoury then from savoury to sweet again. Later, I actually felt ashamed by how greedy I was. But only later though..when my belly was nice and full.
I met "Salumificio Leoni" a family run producer of Italian cold meat cuts which makes many types of prosciutto, like culatello, a delicacy made with the best part of pork's leg. Ham marinated in balsamic vinegar and various types of pancetta, one flavoured with chilly which I found particularly interesting. All lovely meats, for a perfect antipasto or to fill a good hearty panino.
And then a magic vision before my eyes: tararallini with pecorino cheese.. I literally dived into that!
A taste of fried vegetables in a light tempura batter was interesting, especially if served with white wine. They are very popular for aperitives in Italy. I particularly love the fried courgette flowers.
I love these cute tortellini of different colours.
And the feast continued.. could you say no to these??
And greedy me I ended my binge by sinking my teeth into two of these Sicilian cannoli. The soft, perfumed creamy ricotta filling was to die for. In Italy we say "Mangia e muori", eat and die. And these literally took my breath away as they were so exceptionally good.
The "Salumificio Leoni" kindly gifted me with a selection of their fab prosciutto to take away; so the feast continued at home the next day. With the addition of some olives, tomatoes and grissini I made the perfect starter.
Two days of authentic happiness, I would not have swapped it for anything else.
Sounds like you had a great time, love those tortellini!
Mamma mia che meraviglia! Volevo trovarmi li con te a gustare tutte queste prelibatezze! Un abbraccio!
What a feast!!! I would have done the exact same thing as you at each and every stall. There are so many things I haven't had in years and years how could I possibly stop myself!!! Oh the prosciutto, and the salami! I would dive into the tararallini with pecorino cheese and drown, lol…But I would pop right up just in time to stuff myself with as many cannoli that would fit in my mouth!!!
Oh Alida, thank you so much for letting us tag along:) Now I am famished!!!
What an amazing food fair…… I wouldn't have felt guilty in the slightest…… and when I had got to the end I would have gone round again!


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Ludwig Karl Koch MBE (13 novembre 1881, Frankfurt am Main – 4 maig 1974, Harrow, Londres) va ser un locutor i gravador de so. Expert en l'enregistrament de sons animals, va jugar una paper important en l'augment de l'apreciació del públic britànic vers la vida salvatge.

Biografia
Koch va néixer en una família amant de la música, i de nen exercí com a violinista, fent possible que fos admès al cercle de música de Clara Schumann. Més tard, va estudiar cant, i va tenir una curta però reeixida carrera com a cantant de concert. Aquesta es va acabat amb l'esclat de Primera Guerra Mundial. En la seva infància se li va regalar un fonògraf que li va permetre enregistrar el so de diversos animals, incloent el primer enregistrament conegut de cant d'ocell, fet l'any 1889.

El fet que parlès francès amb fluïdesa, li va permetre allistar-se a la intel·ligència militar. Després de l'Armistici del 1918, es va convertir en president de la delegació de repatriació de la zona ocupada pels francesos a Alemanya. Va treballar pel govern alemany fins al 1925. El 1928, va ser comissionat per la filial alemanya d'Energies i Industries Musicals (EMI) per començar una branca cultural de la indústria de gramòfon; fet que va coincidir amb el ressorgiment del seu interès de la infància vers els animals. Així doncs, des de 1929, va començar l'enregistrament de sons animals utitlitzant un equip tecnològicament avançat. Va inventar el llibre sonor: subjectant a un llibre il·lustrat el registre del gramòfon. Avui dia parlem d'aquest concepte com a multimèdia.

El gener de 1936, Koch va portar a terme una gira de conferències per Suïssa. El seu vol de tornada va ser produït per Hermann Göring, el qual com a amant de l'ornitologia i els animals era un seguidor de la feina de Koch. Després que Koch dónés la seva darrera conferència, se li va aproptar un home que va dir que era representant del Tercer Reich a Suïssa, que havia seguit les conferències de Koch, i escrit un informe molt favorable sobre les mateixes. Aquest va resultar que era Wilhelm Gustloff, el qual va ser assassinat l'endemà. En el moment que Koch havia estat vist parlant amb Gustloff hores abans de la mort d'aquest, es va anar preocupant pel seu retorn a Alemanya, pel fet que fos acusat d'assassinat. Va cridar el director de la seva empresa d'enregistrament, un Nazi, qui li va dir, "Queda't on estas. L'aire a Suïssa és molt millor que el d' Alemanya." Koch Llavors va fugir a la Gran Bretanya. Sir Julian Huxley el va ajudar en contactar amb l'ornitòleg i editor Harry Witherby en un llibre sonor sobre els ocells salvatges britànics. El 1936 es va publicar, Songs of Wild Birds, seguit d'altres dos llibres sonors, publicats el 1937: More Songs of Wild Birds; i el 1938 Animal Language. El 1937 va fer enregistraments d'ocells en el parc del Castell Reial de Laeken (Bèlgica) amb l'ajuda de reina Elisabeth de Bèlgica. Aquests enregistraments van ser publicats fins al 1952, a causa de les circumstàncies de guerra i el debat successori reial.

A principis de la Segona Guerra Mundial, Huxley va introduir a Koch a la British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), i la seva veu característica, atractiva i força musical, va acompanyar als enregistraments sonors i ben aviat es va fer familiar entre els oients. Els seus enregistraments de so van ser adquirits per la BBC, la qual cosa li va permetre organitzar una biblioteca sonora d'història natural. Koch mai va pedre el seu fort accent alemany. El seu treball va ser parodiat per Peter Sellers. Koch es va retirar el 1951, però va continuar fent expedicions per enregistrar sons de la vida salvatge,fins i tot visitant Islàndia quan tenia setanta-un anys. Era el tena d'un documental emes per la BBC4 Ràdio amb el títol, "Ludwig Koch and the Music of Nature". Els seus enregistraments i papers manuscrits es conserven a la British Library Sound Archive.

Discografia
 Der Wald Erschallt (Verlag Knorr & Hirth, 1934)
 Im gleichen Schritt und Tritt (Verlag Knorr & Hirth, 1934)
 Stolz weht die Flagge (Verlag Knorr & Hirth, 1934)
 Gefiederte Meistersänger - 1st edition (Brühlscher Verlag Giessen, 1935)
 Songs of Wild Birds (H.F. & G. Witherby, 1936)
 More Songs of Wild Birds (H.F. & G. Witherby, 1937)
 Hunting by Ear - 1st edition (H.F. & G. Witherby, 1937)
 Animal Language (Country Life / Parlophone, 1938)
 Les Oiseaux Chanteurs de Laeken (Parlophone, 1952)
 Songs of British Birds (HMV, 1953)
 Ludwig Koch Remembers: 1 (BBC, 1957)
 Ludwig Koch Remembers: 2 (BBC, 1957)
 Hunting by Ear - 2nd edition (H.F. & G. Witherby, 1960)

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Bibliografia
 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 L. Koch, Memoirs of a Birdman (1955)
 J. Burton, 'Master of nature's music: Ludwig Koch, 1881–1974', Country Life, 157 (1975), 390–91
 J. F. Burton, 'Our debt to Ludwig Koch: master of nature's music', Recorded Sound, 74–5 (1979), 36–7
 C. Tipp, 'With an Ear to the Earth', Slightly Foxed, No. 43, Autumn 2014
 The Times obituary, 7 May 1974

Enllaços externs
 Wildlife recordings of Ludwig Koch - àudio en streamed de la British Library
 Wild Film History: Ludwig Koch - biografia i fotografies
 Ludwig Koch and the Music of Nature  - BBC documental de ràdio
 Gefiederte Meistersänger (Feathered Mastersingers) 1935  - revisió del llibre sonor, publicat en The Field Reporter
 Animal Language - British Library Sound and Vision blog
 In Times of War - British Library Sound And Vision blog
 To a Skylark - British Library Sound and Vision blog
 Steph Feremansː La(e)ken Revisited

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With this house you get free access to a nearby waterpark, throughout the whole year within the waterparks opening hours. Here you can always go for a swim, irrespective of the weather, and you can visit as many times as you would like in your rental period. Check what waterpark you get access to under 'Nearby' in the features list. Please be aware that dansommer does not provide a guarantee for any changes in the opening hours of the waterpark.
Enjoy your holiday right near water on a huge, nature plot located right next to a beach. This home stands in one of the best locations of Ebeltoft. This fully-renovated, luxurious house is in an excellent, secluded location with all contemporary furnishings. This home is bright and tastefully furnished. This property is a paradise for children, as there is a trampoline, swing and sandbox. Enjoy the close proximity to the beach, and in the evenings enjoy the view of sun sinking in the sea.


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Ghadan 21: Abu Dhabi gives up islands and desert for eco-tourism schemes
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Some of Abu Dhabi's maximum remoted areas can be transformed into tourism hotspots so one can meet growing call for from eco-friendly traffic.
It is hoped that a package of tax waivers, advertising, and marketing support and the promise of constructing delivery infrastructure to attach far off attractions will tempt private firms and traders to commit to massive eco-tourism projects.
Mirfa, positioned on the coast, around a ninety-minute power from Abu Dhabi city, has been recognized as one place this is ripe for improvement, probably turning into a chief center for snorkeling and chicken looking. Plans for three or 4 superstars, affordable bungalow-style resorts, in the tourism sector, have been proposed.
Parts of the barren region, Liwa, Alwathba, Alkhatim, and Suwaihan, are seen as feasible houses for sights together with new inns, while it's miles hoped that private islands inside two hours of Abu Dhabi city will become home to new "luxury green inns with water activities."
The plan could even assist the emirate to become an "island hopping destination," in line with the ones behind the power, by means of utilizing the 215 privately-owned islands in Abu Dhabi.
Qasr Al Sarab in Liwa, lately voted the arena's maximum Instagram-friendly lodge, has been noted via economic system bosses for instance of an existing a success improvement. Meanwhile, Jubail Island, close to Saadiyat Island, is presently being advanced to provide environmentally-friendly villages.
The flow to perceive eco-tourism as an area for brand spanking new funding follows growing demand from tourists, with the UAE now not seen simplest as a hub for luxurious inns, skyscrapers, and shopping, tourism professionals stated.
"One of the most popular UAE tourism products – namely the 'Desert Safari' – can be considered as a type of precursor to greater tricky ecotourism projects that the UAE has now recognized, developed and promoted," stated Professor Amitabh Upadhya, a consultant in journey and tourism management at Skyline University College in Sharjah.
"They are conducted in a natural environment and gives a glimpse of the Bedouin way of life with camels and barren region villages – an ecotourism idea.
"The switch towards greater neighborhood and nature conforming tourism is being correctly advanced and luxury accommodations like Al Maha [in Dubai] or Qasr Al Sarab provide a wonderful combination of luxurious eco-tourism.
"Eco-tourism is the destiny because the concept is going beyond environmental aspects and encompasses network welfare as a crucial guiding principle. It offers the enterprise an opportunity to contribute to sustainability in a worthwhile way, which is a win-win scenario."
Applications for aid via the scheme might be open in July and August, with exams taking location in September.
Any tasks have to have an of completion date prior to January 2022, when the Ghadan 21 investment initiative is due to end. It is envisaged that the offer of assist will attract hobby from private developers, motel operators, and people, each from organizations already inside the UAE trying to expand and international corporations seeking to input the market.
The Abu Dhabi Investment Office is providing hire exemptions, tax waivers, administrative and marketing assist, and infrastructure funding, for example through constructing roads to new sites, too involved groups. There is no restriction on the number of packages that can be granted.
Developers are expected to illustrate that their tasks will follow environmental requirements and have a low carbon footprint as soon as built.
Rajasthan has continually been called as the golden land with the cherished lifestyle for the tourists from all over the global. Other than having the lavish palaces, forts and the Rajputana rulers there's also the wide Great Indian Thar Desert. The safari in Rajasthan provides the danger to discover the substantial land of the Thar Desert with Camel which is also known as the deliver of Desert. The Safari additionally presents the choice for the tourists to enjoy the magic of desert safari. The traveler can also decide the short safari through the Rajasthani village in the lengthy safari for the few days with the vast expanse of land. Camel safari could be very interesting and thrilling.
The barren region safari in Rajasthan is very interesting and it also en direction the remarkable attractions which lingers the past reminiscences from a long time. The desert safari passes via the villages with the herd of cattle and sheep, kids who are going to school. Men busy in their daily sports and the women folks getting ready the meals. The occasional inexperienced spots of the wilderness are the signal of water within the massive golden sand. The safari additionally halts for the night camps in the village it is inside the path.
The colorful cherishing way of life of Rajasthan is famous for the hospitality of the vacationers. The maximum standard Rajasthani food is being served at the night time with the Rajasthani people dance and tune to entertain the tourist's crowd. There is also the night time halt underneath the sky in camps. The satisfaction of fun crammed starry nights is incomparable with every other delight. From the morning the another a part of the adventure starts offevolved at the camel back until the traveler is reached to the nearest city.


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How to get ListViewItem that have called this MenuFlyout or Content of this ListViewItem?

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FS Investments Closes on More Than $1.7 Billion of Middle Market Commitments in the Fourth Quarter
Apr. 10, 2017, 08:00 AM
PHILADELPHIA, April 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- FS Investments, a leading alternative investment manager and the largest manager of business development companies (BDCs), announced that its BDC direct lending platform committed more than $1.7 billion in senior secured loans and other debt and equity financing to middle market companies in the fourth quarter of 2016, bringing its total originations in 2016 to approximately $4.0 billion. The directly originated investments supported five new portfolio companies and provided financing to several existing portfolio companies during the quarter.
The 2016 commitments were provided by five BDCs managed by affiliates of FS Investments and sub-advised by affiliates of GSO Capital Partners LP: FS Investment Corporation (NYSE: FSIC), FS Investment Corporation II (FSIC II), FS Investment Corporation III (FSIC III), FS Investment Corporation IV (FSIC IV) and FS Energy and Power Fund (FSEP).
FS Investments' directly originated transactions, which are unique to its BDCs and not typically accessible elsewhere, included investments in the following companies in the fourth quarter:
Addison Group (Addison)
FSIC, FSIC II, FSIC III and FSIC IV provided senior secured financing to support Odyssey Investment Partners' acquisition of Addison Group. Addison is a leading national provider of professional staffing and direct hire services. The company concentrates on placing skilled professionals in service lines including information technology, finance and accounting, non-clinical healthcare, and HR/administration.
Empire Today, LLC (Empire)
FSIC, FSIC II, FSIC III and FSIC IV provided a new senior secured unitranche loan to Empire Today, LLC. Empire is the largest in-home sales flooring company in the United States and one of the largest specialty flooring providers in America. The financing supports the acquisition of Empire by an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a leading global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with more than $21 billion of equity capital under management.
ABOUT FS INVESTMENTS
FS Investments is a leading asset manager dedicated to helping individuals, financial professionals and institutions design better portfolios. The firm provides access to alternative sources of income and growth through funds managed in partnership with top institutional investment advisers. It focuses on setting industry standards for investor protection, education and transparency.
FS Investments is headquartered in Philadelphia with offices in Orlando and Washington, DC. The firm currently manages seven funds with over $19 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2016. Visit fsinvestments.com to learn more.
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ABOUT BLACKSTONE AND GSO
Blackstone is one of the world's leading investment firms. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our asset management businesses, with approximately $367 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2016, includes investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow Blackstone on Twitter @Blackstone.
GSO Capital Partners LP (GSO) is the global credit investment platform of Blackstone. With approximately $93 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2016, GSO is one of the largest alternative managers in the world focused on the leveraged-finance, or non-investment grade related, marketplace. GSO seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns in its business by investing in a broad array of strategies including mezzanine debt, distressed investing, leveraged loans and other special-situation strategies. Its funds are major providers of credit for small and middle-market companies and they also advance rescue financing to help distressed companies.
Forward-Looking Statements and Important Disclosures
This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements, including statements with regard to the future performance or operations of FSIC, FSIC II, FSIC III, FSIC IV and FSEP. Words such as "believes," "expects," "projects" and "future" or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to the inherent uncertainties in predicting future results and conditions. Certain factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in these forward-looking statements, and some of these factors are enumerated in the filings FSIC, FSIC II, FSIC III, FSIC IV or FSEP make with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. FSIC, FSIC II, FSIC III, FSIC IV or FSEP undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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A Sarkozy lunch, PSG and beIN sports: questions for Platini over Qatar 2022
Why was Michel Platini detained by French investigators? What are they looking for? And could Qatar lose the 2022 World Cup?
Tue 18 Jun 2019 13.59 EDT Last modified on Tue 18 Jun 2019 17.22 EDT
Michel Platini has said it was clear Nicolas Sarkozy wanted him to vote for Qatar to host the World Cup and the Qataris to take over PSG, but he was not influenced by a lunch. Photograph: Laurent Gilliéron/EPA
Why has Michel Platini been questioned by French investigators?
France's Parquet National Financier, which investigates serious financial crime, has since 2017 been looking into possible French corruption in the vote that made Qatar the hosts for the 2022 World Cup. Platini was the Uefa president at the time and, as one of the 22 voting Fifa executive committee members in December 2010, he has acknowledged that he voted for Qatar.
Michel Platini detained over award of 2022 World Cup to Qatar
What are the investigators looking into specifically?
The French newspaper Le Monde has reported that the PNF is particularly interested in the now famous lunch nine days before the vote, to which Platini was invited by the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy. Platini has said that, when he arrived at the Élysée Palace, he found that Sarkozy had with him Tamim al-Thani, then the son of the Qatar Emir, now the Emir himself, and the then prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim.
Platini has said it was clear Sarkozy wanted the Qataris to take over the club he supported, Paris St‑Germain, and for Platini to vote for Qatar to host the World Cup. Platini told the Guardian a fortnight ago in Paris before the Fifa congress that he had made his mind up to vote for Qatar before the lunch, having at first considered supporting the USA bid. He said that when he arrived at the lunch and saw the guests, he understood that Sarkozy was supporting Qatar, but has always insisted he was not influenced himself. Sarkozy has denied influencing Platini to vote for Qatar, suggesting in 2015 that he did not have the power to do so.
How has Qatar been prominently involved in France since the vote?
Six months after the World Cup was awarded to Qatar, one of the country's sovereign wealth funds, Qatar Sports Investments, did take over Paris Saint-Germain, which had been in financial difficulties. QSI has put huge amounts into the club, buying superstars including Neymar and Kylian Mbappé, won six Ligue 1 titles in the last seven years and become fixtures in the Champions League.
The Qatari broadcaster beIN immediately also bought the TV rights for Ligue 1 in France and has continued to pay huge money for the French football rights since. The chairman of beIN, Nasser al-Khelaifi, is also chairman of QSI and president of PSG.
France has also further developed lucrative trade links with the wealthy gulf state, notably the 2011 sale of 50 Airbus planes to Qatar Airways.
Michel Platini rages from the sidelines as Infantino stands to keep Fifa crown
Was Platini also questioned about the 2016 European Championship?
Platini confirmed this in a statement issued by his representative. It said he had answered all questions "calmly and precisely, including about the circumstances of the award of Euro 2016".
Uefa's executive committee awarded the tournament to France in May 2010, by one vote, over Turkey, of 13 cast in a second ballot. There was some surprise at the time that Turkey came so close but there have been no public allegations made of any corruption.
The tournament should have been a personal triumph for Platini, in his home country where he is a football legend, but in December 2015 he and the then Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, were banned from football for a payment of 2m Swiss francs Platini received from Fifa in 2011. Platini's ban concludes this October and he is hoping for a return to football involvement.
Could the World Cup be taken away from Qatar if corruption is proved?
This seems very unlikely. In eight and a half years Qatar has retained the tournament through several investigations. Most recently the Qataris sailed through an effort by the current Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, to expand the tournament and share it with neighbouring countries. Qatar has spent billions preparing for the tournament three and a half years away, so an extremely good reason would be needed to remove it.


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Do you have a picture of 'Cuttaburra Creek'?
Cuttaburra Creek flows through New South Wales and Queensland and starts at an elevation of 192m and ends at an elevation of 99.8m flowing into the Warrego River.
The Cuttaburra Creek drops around 92.2m over its 416km length.
The Cuttaburra Creek flows through Booribooka Waterhole (158m), Murrechi Waterhole (141m), Wancobra Waterhole (136m), Porrialla Waterhole (133m), Maranoa Waterhole (131m), Mukudjeroo Waterhole (127m) and Mullarara Waterhole (125m) on its way to joining the Warrego River.
The following creeks and rivers flow into the Cuttaburra Creek: Kulkyne Creek, Burrawantie Creek, Niccamucca Creek and Back Creek.
Cuttaburra Creek is highlighted in yellow on the map below.
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2008 was a busy, if tumultuous year for the Flash.
As 2008 opened, the Flash was just wrapping up the six-part story "The Wild Wests," the relaunch featuring Wally West as head of the Flash family and introducing his super-powered twins, Iris and Jai. To put it mildly, it was not received well by fans, and former fan favorite writer Mark Waid quickly left the book.
After a one-shot by Keith Champagne, Tom Peyer picked up the regular writing chores and Freddie Williams II stayed on for the 6-part "Fast Money," which resolved the twins' super-speed aging problem and gave us a glimpse of an adult Iris West II.
The series wrapped up with the year, as Alan Burnett, Paco Diaz, and Carlo Barberi brought us "This Was Your Life, Wally West." The four-part story arc looked back at Wally West's career as Kid Flash, then the Flash, and his relationship with his wife Linda and their children.
The Rogues' Gallery were off-limits to start with, as they were off-planet for Salvation Run. Early in the year, DC released the news of Flash: Rogues' Revenge, a miniseries that would spotlight them after they returned to Earth, going after Inertia for tricking them into killing the Flash. Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins would return to the speedster mythos for six issues.
By the time the series was launched, it had become Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge, and instead of six regular-sized issues it was three oversized issues.
Just one month later, at Comic-Con International in San Diego, DC announced the upcoming miniseries, Flash: Rebirth, by the Green Lantern: Rebirth team of Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver. The series is currently scheduled to start in April 2009. See also: what we know so far about Flash: Rebirth.
Jay Garrick continued to appear regularly in Justice Society of America. He also teamed up with Batman in The Brave and the Bold #13, as they battled a nearly-forgotten villain from the late Silver Age: the Samuroids.
Wally West started appearing in the newly-launched Titans series. After a conspicuous absence in Justice League of America, he shared the spotlight with Wonder Woman for issue #20, as they went up against Queen Bee — the same villain who would headline the final story arc in this volume of The Flash.
Wally also made several appearances in Brave and the Bold. While his spotlight issue was released in 2007, he appeared as one of the original Teen Titans in a flashback story in issue #10, and in the present day in #12. Speaking of flashbacks, Teen Titans: Year One looked back at the formation and early days of DC's main teen super-team.
And then there's the 12-part Tangent: Superman's Reign, which started in March. Wally West shared the first cover with the Tangent Universe's Flash, Lia Nelson, and both Flashes have continued to play a role in the story.
Just about everyone has shown up in Trinity at one point or another, and of course in Final Crisis. Outside the DCU, the Flash has appeared in Super Friends and Kid Flash in Tiny Titans.
2008 started with a second edition of Blood Will Run, the first story arc Geoff Johns wrote as the regular Flash writer (with Wonderland he'd been hired just for the one arc), which added the graphic novel, Iron Heights.
The second volume of Showcase Presents:The Flash arrived in June, reprinting more of Barry Allen's Silver-Age adventures in a cheap, black-and-white collection.
In February, Barry Allen appeared in the direct-to-DVD animated film, Justice League: The New Frontier (reviewed on my other blog), based on Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier. The movie debuted at WonderCon in San Francisco the weekend before its release.
In March, the Flash appeared in the two-part series finale of The Batman, "Lost Heroes," alongside the Justice League. Season 5 was released on DVD in July, and reviewed here earlier this week.
Teen Titans Season 5, which featured Kid Flash in several episodes, was also released on DVD in July.
The DVD set DC Superheroes: The Filmation Adventures was released in August, featuring (among others) the Flash and Teen Titans segments from the 1967 Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure. They're certainly a different take on the heroes.
Meanwhile, a number of DC-based cartoons and TV series including Superfriends, the live-action Flash TV series the Filmation cartoons and others have been made available as digital downloads from such services as iTunes, Amazon Video on Demand, and XBox Live.
This summer, word came out that the Flash would appear in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. The game was released to mixed reviews in November.
Back at Comic-Con in July, Sony previewed the upcoming massively-multiplayer online game, DC Universe Online. At least two Flashes (Jay Garrick and either Wally West or Barry Allen) appear in the game, which is being scripted by Geoff Johns and will likely ship in late 2009 or early 2010.
In July, just in time for Comic-Con, TwoMorrows released The Flash Companion. The 224-page book covers the full behind-the-scenes history of the Scarlet Speedster, from his origins in the 1940s to the present day. The biggest part of the book is dedicated to interviews with and articles about the writers, artists and editors who have brought the character to life for the past seven decades.
In addition to the interviews, there's previously unpublished artwork, articles about unusual facts — like the time one editor ordered two covers for the same issue, or the unused Flash — and of course, Rogue Profiles.
I'm still excited about this one because I contributed several of the character profiles — specifically, the ones for Abra Kadabra, Professor Zoom, and Zoom.
So what's coming up for the Flash in 2009? That's the subject for another post, and I'll have it ready for you…next year!
Thanks to the Grand Comics Database for several of the covers.
This entry was posted in General and tagged Alan Burnett, Barry Allen, Collections, Final Crisis, Flash Companion, Flash: Rebirth, Freddie Williams II, Geoff Johns, Mark Waid, MK vs DC, New Frontier, Rogues Revenge, San Diego, Scott Kolins, SDCC 2008, Tangent, The Batman, Tom Peyer, Wally West on December 30, 2008 by Kelson.
It was a pretty tumultuous year for the Fastest Men live, but all in all I have to say, it was a good one. With Wally, Linda, and the kids having adventures in the main title, Barry coming back, Jay playing the awesome elder statesman, Rogues' Revenge showcasing the baddies, plus the release of both Showcase Presents: The Flash V.2 and the Flash Companion really add up to a very good year!
I don't think Keith Champagne's done-in-one was given enough props. It was a great little story, and I hope he gets to write most of the West family in the future.


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Headquartered in Noida, Paytm was launched in 2010 as a mobile recharge website. The online retail recharge platform that is owned by One 97 communication has now become the biggest mobile recharge and bill payment platform in India. The online platform that was established to provide online recharge and bill payment facility to the customers has now come to be recognized as one of the biggest most valuable business avenues, providing online recharge and bill payment facilities. The Paytm recharge and bill payment facilities are rated among the top in the country and provide some of the best experiences to customers in form of recharge cashbacks using coupons and Paytm promo codes.
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The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) has awarded a new grant to our KI group for work on neurotrophic signaling in the adult nervous system and its importance for neuropsychiatric disorders. Tack för förtroendet!
The Weizmann Institute in Israel has named Carlos Ibanez Weston Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Biochemistry, Department of Biomolecular Sciences for 3 years, starting October 2016 to conduct educational and research activities.


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Healthy hearts lead to love
Sometimes finding true love requires bypass surgery.
Rolf and Martha Burkhart met at the cardiac/pulmonary rehabilitation gym at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in 2010. Martha had a single bypass in 2008 and had been coming to cardiac rehab three times a week ever since. Rolf had a triple bypass in 2006 and another cardiac event in 2009 that finally brought him into rehab in 2010.
Quinn Griffis, cardiac/pulmonary rehab lead exercise specialist, introduced the two initially.
"I knew both of them were widowed, and it was really very purposeful on my end," she said. "I try to match the personalities of the group so patients can help each other. I wasn't necessarily thinking it would be a romantic connection, but I did think they would have a good connection."
Cardiac rehab, which consists of structured exercises and heart-related education as well as group motivation and support, usually creates close-knit relationships between members.
"Your class becomes your support group," said Martha. "We all become very close. And Rolf wasn't doing a very good job of keeping it a secret that he was interested in me."
Rolf wooed Martha during class, coming early to talk to her before the workout. She loved his soft German accent. After a few conversations they discovered they went to the same church — First Presbyterian in Corvallis.
"Rolf always sat toward the back and snuck out early, and I always sat toward the front," said Martha. "I couldn't believe we'd been going to the same church all these years and never met."
Shortly thereafter Martha made the move to sit in back with Rolf during church.
"I didn't think he'd ever propose," she recalled of their courtship.
"I do things my own way," Rolf said.
When Rolf did propose in May of 2013, "he was really beating around the bush," said Martha. "Finally I asked him, 'Are you asking me to marry you? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!'"
The couple married on July 28, 2013, and they continue to work out together at the cardiac rehab gym.
"Love is very therapeutic," said Griffis of watching the two fall in love. "Having both had serious heart events, it may seem like these two did not start out with a fairytale beginning, but they wound up with a very happy ending."


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Błyskawica (polnisch: Blitz) war eine Maschinenpistole, die während des Zweiten Weltkrieges im durch die Deutschen besetzten Polen durch die Armia Krajowa, die größte polnische Widerstandsbewegung, entwickelt und hergestellt wurde. Es handelte sich um einen technisch erfolgreichen Entwurf einer kompakten Waffe; sie war mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit die einzige im besetzten Teil Europas entwickelte und in Massen hergestellte Waffe.

Geschichte
1942 schlug der Ingenieur Wacław Zawrotny der Führung der Armia Krajowa vor, eine billige Maschinenpistole für den Eigenbau für den polnischen Widerstand zu entwickeln. Der Hauptaugenmerk lag dabei in der Einfachheit der Konstruktion, damit die Fertigung sogar in kleineren Werkstätten durch unerfahrene Techniker erfolgen konnte. Die Idee Zawrotnys wurde angenommen, weswegen er zusammen mit Seweryn Wielanier eine Maschinenpistole entwarf, die bald darauf Błyskawica getauft wurde. Um eine einfache Fertigung sicherzustellen, waren alle Einzelteile der Waffe mit Schrauben und Gewinden verbunden, nicht mit Bolzen und Schweißnähten, wie seit dem Beginn der Schusswaffenproduktion im 17. Jahrhundert üblich.

Der technische Entwurf basierte auf zwei der bekanntesten Maschinenpistolen der Ära: Die äußere Form mit einer einschiebbaren Schulterstütze aus Metall und unter der Waffe montiertem Magazin war an die erfolgreiche deutsche Maschinenpistole 40 angelehnt. Der innere Aufbau der Mechanik war der britischen Sten Gun nachempfunden. Die Waffe arbeitete aufschießend mit einem Masseverschluss. Sie zeigte gute Leistungen und eine hohe Verlässlichkeit. Im Gegensatz zur Sten Gun und ihrem polnischen Klon hatte sie einen frei beweglichen, also nicht federbelasteten Schlagbolzen.

Die Entwurfsarbeiten endeten im April 1943, im September 1943 lag ein erster Prototyp vor. Nach ausgiebigen Versuchen in den Wäldern um Zielonka in der Nähe von Warschau wurde die Waffe dem befehlshabenden Offizier der KeDyw, August Emil Fieldorf, vorgestellt, der den Entwurf annehmbar fand. Im November wurden die Konstruktionspläne an einige Werkstätten im besetzten Polen übergeben, und die Serienproduktion lief an. Der Name der Waffe kam daher, dass die Entwickler auf dem Prototyp drei Blitze eingraviert hatten. Dieses Logo ähnelte dem der Elektrit Radiotechnical Society, bei der die Entwickler vor dem Krieg gearbeitet hatten.

Die Produktion begann in einem Warschauer Betrieb, der offiziell Metallzäune herstellte. Nach den anfänglichen Tests mit fünf Prototypen bestellte das KeDyw 1000 Stück und später nochmals 300. Bis Juli 1944 und dem Beginn der Aktion Burza wurden annähernd 600 Stück in Warschau hergestellt. Während des Warschauer Aufstandes wurden weitere 40 produziert. Es ist möglich, dass die Błyskawica in geringer Stückzahl auch außerhalb Warschaus hergestellt wurde.

Literatur
 PWN Leksykon: Wojsko, wojna, broń, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2001, ISBN 978-83-01-13506-5

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Globalization has resulted in most nations after and teaching axioms of IFRS. United states of america based businesses follow the rules of GAAP which causes complications for United States companies that are looking for to accomplish company internationally. Both practices of accounting provided accurate and useful interpretations of a business's financial predicament. However comparing a statement that is financial was made following GAAP to a statement that follows IFRS may lead to meaningful discrepancies.
The United States makes use of GAAP or generally speaking Accepted Accounting maxims for financial reporting. GAAP are guidelines that really must be followed on financial statements and only are appropriate inside the United States. Unlike GAAP, IFRS or Global Financial Reporting Standards is principal based. This implies whenever company transactions happen GAAP must follow a progression that is certain of to record it. Whereas IFRS has the capacity to interpret the transaction is a few ways that are different. Another difference with IFRS being principle based versus GAAP being rules based is you can't find a loophole in a principle as easily as you might a rule. Since axioms are vaguer than a specific guideline it covers more potential threats to unfaithful reporting. An example of this might be cost that is historical in GAAP versus the "real value" used by IFRS for fixed assets. Historical price used the price paid for the asset while "real value" utilizes the value that is estimated of asset today. "Real value" is incredibly helpful for organizations who spend money on something because of its future economic benefit.
Another United States companies face is accounting work that is double. For reporting and auditing information that is financial States based organizations have to us GAPP that is of good use when you compare financial statement to other US based businesses or internally within the business for administration. But also for worldwide reporting, plus in more than 110 nations, Overseas Financial Reporting guidelines is used. (Bannister) The double accounting work is extensive as well. An example could be IFRS perhaps not recognizing LIFO as an inventory system that is acceptable. If the price of an item is increasing, using LIFO saves a company cash because a greater cost against gross income leads to less income that is taxable. If a business using LIFO had a need to report internationally now, any financial record involving stock would need to be reevaluated to fulfill IFRS. (Intuit Team) this accounting that is double one more disadvantage other than just doing more work with United States accountants also.
Accountants who learned in the usa are taught how exactly to satisfy GAAP whenever doing monetary reporting and the CPA exam certify them to achieve that. They are not nevertheless taught to meet IFRS principles, so they really might not being planning top IFRS-satisfying economic statements. This will be bad for the company reporting the details it could be for the company because it may not be the best reporting. It is also detrimental to any or all usa taught accountants. In an world that is ever globalizing, accountants taught to satisfy only one countries accounting guidelines is less valuable than an accounting who can satisfy accounting axioms in over 100 countries.
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To start the match, USC won two of three doubles matches to earn the first point. The Trojans' Ryan Moore and Nick Rainey defeated UNLV's Thomas Michaud and Romain Tug at No. 1, while Andrew Park and Prakash Amritraj defeated Avirim Saloman and Leslie Eisinga at No. 3. Both matches were won by 8-1 scores.
USC won the first set in each singles match, then earned a quick 3-0 lead as Daniel Langre cruised past Eisinga (6-2, 6-2) at No. 5 and Moore defeated Tug (6-3, 6-1) at No. 2. It was freshman Amritraj who clinched the match for the Trojans as he pulled out 7-6 win in the first set, then rolled to a 6-1 victory in the second. In the other matches, Park rallied to come from behind in the second set and beat Schneiter (6-3, 7-5) at No. 1, Rainey moved up to No. 3 and defeated Saloman (7-5, 6-4) and Ruben Torres claimed a three-set victory over Andreas Maurer (6-2, 6-7, 6-1).
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4 Behaviors That Empower CFOs to Lead With Compassion
What can finance leaders do to promote a healthy psychological and emotional perspective on the current crisis?
John ToueyMay 18, 2020
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While added stress of managing the impact of the current pandemic has hit all leaders and functions hard, the hardest hit may be chief financial officers and the departments they are leading through these highly dynamic times. With a majority of companies predicting a loss of revenue and profits, finance functions are being asked to pull all the levers they can to minimize the financial damage caused by the crisis.
I've had the opportunity to speak with a number of CFOs over the past several weeks and have heard their stories of how they are managing the impact of the COVID-19 crisis at their companies. What I have witnessed, quite frankly, has been an incredible display of competence and compassion in the most difficult of environments. Yet, one challenge that I've seen neglected is managing the stress that this crisis is putting on these finance leaders and their teams.
There's no doubt that the pace at which these leaders are running is impossible to sustain. On top of that, many of the strategies CFOs are recommending integrate restructuring plans that have real human impact. Needless to say, stress is at an all-time high.
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A chief financial officer is one of a handful of executives who guide the organization from the enterprise level. Even in the most average of business environments, it is a sizable, demanding, and highly complex responsibility. In volatile times such as these, that responsibility becomes enormously heavy.
From a leadership standpoint, the CFO not only has to manage and lead themselves through this crisis, but also their teams, and more broadly, their companies. What can finance leaders do to cultivate a sustainable environment and promote a healthy psychological and emotional perspective on the current crisis?
The following four activities may well lie outside their comfort zones, but by embracing them, CFOs will drive positive outcomes in their organizations:
Practice self-awareness. Understand that the crisis is going to have a personal impact on you. Working 16-hour days and making decisions that potentially result in your co-workers losing their jobs is going to take a personal toll.
Be open and curious. Commit yourself to learning and thinking differently about things; don't have the crisis force you to do so. Great organizations will innovate through these times rather than simply work harder. These organizations will then be poised to pivot quickly as things shift in the future.
Actively listen. Especially to your team. Being receptive to their ideas and understanding their challenges creates connection at a time when you need it the most. Standing firm in your own position versus being open to another's is counterproductive. Keeping an open mind and encouraging diversity of thought is imperative.
Focus on the future. Your organization is going to come out on the other side of this crisis. How, depends on the actions you take today, because what you do and say now will be remembered for years to come. Given this far-reaching impact, talent needs should always be part of the decision-making criteria on any restructuring or downsizing event.
On the personal side, finance leaders may not feel comfortable demonstrating such vulnerability. In fact, their default strategy is often the exact opposite — just let the cortisol flow and tough it out. This begs the question, how effective, and for how long, can a leader who is increasingly "amped up" and overleveraged be?
CFOs must be cognizant that their people are looking to them for signals on how to react and respond during this crisis. If as a leader, you are closed to new ideas, your direct reports will model that same behavior. As leaders of leaders, CFOs' direct reports can cascade unfavorable, pervasive behaviors ubiquitously into the organization. The aftermath of ineffective leadership at this level can echo and reverberate through every area of the business and have a negative impact on morale, encouraging an environment where innovation and collaboration are stifled when needed most.
On the other hand, leaders who can recognize the emotional aspects of what's going on inside themselves and others will be better poised to nurture empathy, create calm and balance, and enhance critical connection among team members throughout the organization, thereby accelerating productivity and effectiveness. As companies face increasingly challenging barriers, an atmosphere such as this promotes constant, transparent communication, which is required to make stalwart, forward-thinking decisions.
CFOs are routinely tasked with making data-driven decisions. But, in order to be effective in the current environment, good CFOs and their teams will need to exercise their qualitative analytical skills as well as their quantitative. Quantitative data, such as a fall in revenue, may indicate the need for a reduction in the workforce. Those types of decisions need to be made and, frankly, are fairly simple.
What's more difficult is to predict the implications of that revenue drop over the longer term. Will that revenue come back or is it gone forever? What can we learn from recent changes in our customers' buying patterns and behaviors that will impact our business model and cost structure moving forward? These are more involved questions that require a finance leader to create a more collaborative and inquisitive decision-making process.
At an enterprise level, a leader's ability to practice self-awareness, remain open and curious, listen, and focus on the future amid these extraordinary obstacles will serve to strengthen the foundation they've built. This gives them the leverage they need to pull their organization and teams out of their immediate and natural fight or flight responses and stand them solidly in a position to create the stability and routine needed to unlock their capacity for long-term perseverance. However, this only happens when the leader owns the transition on a personal level.
John Touey is a principal at executive search firm Salveson Stetson Group with 20 years of experience providing executive search, human resources, and management consulting services to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, utilities, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries. Follow him @JohnTouey
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The governments of the United States of America and of Great Britain threaten with a unilateral attack on Iraq without the authority of the United Nations in order to topple the Iraqi leadership on the ground of allegations that Iraq continues to build up its arms of mass destruction and represents a threat to world security.
The majority of Western experts agree that no evidence exists to suggest that Iraq is engaged in the production of nuclear weapons.
Iraq has the second if not the largest and best quality oil reserves in the world; and the US interest in an attack on Iraq appears to be primarily motivated by its desire to protect its secure access to oil, particularly since the social and political situation in Saudi Arabia looks increasingly unstable.
Two thirds of the Iraqi territory has been declared non-fly zones. Unfortunately, US and British forces have taken advantage of this situation to bomb those areas for years for reasons that have nothing to do with the protection of the population and which are therefore contrary to international law.
No doubt exists about the long-standing and persisting gross violations of human rights and democratic principles, perpetrated by the Iraqi dictatorship – with support by its Western allies for many years – which has inflicted much suffering on the peoples of Iraq. Included are crimes against humanity such as the use of chemical weapons against the Kurdish population.
UN organisations as well as specialised NGOs have come to the conclusion that the UN embargo against Iraq in its present form has served the purpose of limiting effectively Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, while it has contributed much to aggravate the suffering of the civilian population.
We point out that the "Oil for food programme" was so ill-designed as to have devastating effects on the Iraqi population which led two consecutive UN co-ordinators of this programme to resign in protest. The situation was exacerbated by the lack of cooperation of the Baghdad authorities who formally decreased the production of oil while smuggling a great deal of it and using the relevant revenues for unclear purposes.
Since December 1998 Iraq has refused controls by UN weapons inspectors as foreseen by the UN resolutions, due to disputes over the interpretation of these texts and to blatant misuse of the information obtained on the part of certain UNCSOM inspectors.
1. We note with relief that the Iraqi Government accepted on 19. September the return of UN weapons inspectors without conditions and the prompt agreement with the UN on 1 October defining the practical modalities of such a return within two weeks.
2. UN weapons inspectors could and should have returned to Iraq on the basis provided by existing UN resolutions and international law, and we call on the members of the Security Council to agree on their rapid return.
3. We regret once more the lack of political will of the European Council to reach a common position based on the EU founding principles and in line with the UN Charter.
4. We condemn US threats to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iraq as illegal, and denounce the UK Government's support for US policy.
5. Our concern is that a new Security Council resolution will be used not to avert but to provoke war and we state that UN Security Council approval for a war on Iraq is a necessary but not sufficient requirement for a military intervention in Iraq.
6. There are no new elements proving an increase in Iraq's capacity to threaten world peace and non-military means have not only not been exhausted, but non-military means are being deliberately avoided by the US/UK approach.
7. The best way of ensuring that Iraq destroys and does not use possible remaining weapons of mass destruction is to allow the UN weapons inspectors to effectively resume controls.
8. The feelings of vulnerability to outside threats, which motivate US administration's policy of offensive unilateralism after 11 September, are understandable. However the only reasonable hope to reduce such risks in the future remains in an active policy of multilateral interest arbitration through democractic means on the national, regional and international level.
9. We are concerned that the US policy towards Iraq gives an outlook on the concrete implications of the new US National Security Strategy shifting from the post war military doctrine of deterrence and containment to pre-emptive war as accepted means of self-defence, combined with unlimited military supremacy for the United States.
10. Iraq is only one of the many countries world-wide allegedly in possession of weapons of mass destruction. We stress the importance to increased world-wide efforts towards arms reduction as well as the ultimate goal of replacing warfare as a means of policy by negotiated conflict resolution and warn that the new Bush doctrine puts the last decades' achievements towards those goals at risk.
11. This policy of unilateral action is going to set a dangerous precedent which could be used for the same reasons by Russia in its drive to crack on Chechen guerrilla in Georgia and by China with Taiwan thus destroying international institutions.
12. We are highly alarmed that an attack on Iraq would further destabilise the region or even lead to a full-scale regional war, contribute to heightened tension worldwide and foster international terrorism, including in the US and in Europe.
13. We welcome the attitude of the French and the German government to oppose attempts by the United States to pass a single Security Council resolution allowing for the use of force in case the US unilaterally decides that Iraq does not fulfil its commitments. The EU should adopt a collective position along these lines to avert an unnecessary military conflict.
14. The uneven treatment of Iraq and the Palestine conflict represent a primary source of tension in the Middle East.
15. The world needs a strong international initiative on the Middle East along the lines of the 1991 Madrid Conference and based on the Saudi proposal of the recognition of the state of Israel. It has to be accompanied by the necessary and determined international pressure, in order to address the interconnected social, economic and political problems of the region as a whole. Such a conference forms the necessary prelude for urgently needed mutual disarmament efforts in the region.
16. We demand with the return of the UN weapons inspectors an end to those sanctions that adversely affect the civilian population and we call for free access of human rights monitors to Iraq.
17. It is of utmost importance to support the return and the work of international humanitarian organisations in Iraq. The European Commission should take adequate steps so as to tackle urgently the present dramatic situation.
18. The EU and the Member States should find ways to support Iraqi civil society and democratic Iraqi refugees' organisations with a view to paving the way for a change of regime in Baghdad by non-violent means.
19. We call for an immediate halt to the bomb attacks by US and British forces in the no-fly-zones, without putting into question the protective function of those zones for the local population.
20. The best way to prevent Iraq from obtaining fissile material from abroad is a renewed effort to promote and enforce the fissile material cut-off treaty, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the Comprehensive Testban Treaty, the Convention on the Prevention of Chemical Weapons, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, and other relevant treaties.


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Q: is a query portable if the where-clause-value exceeds the column length? If I have an acct_id CHAR(3) and a query like
select * from some_table where acct_id like '12%3%';

will most relational databases accept this query or will some fail because I'm comparing a value longer than the column?
In other words: will this query be portable across typical databases (like MySql, DB2, and Oracle) if my where clause exceeds the column's limit?
Also, Is the same true for an = comparison instead of LIKE?
I tried a query on DB2 (x86 and mainframe) and it didn't cause any errors, but I wasn't sure about other databases. I looked through the titles of several SO questions before submitting.

A: The only value that can be found in your CHAR(3) column that will match is '123', but the % operators support 0 or more repeats.  There's no cause for the test to be rejected.
In fact, you could even compare WHERE acct_id = '1234' and a sophisticated optimizer might realize that no value will equal that and treat the term as false.  There's no obvious reason why this should be rejected as 'invalid SQL'; it is just an opportunity for dramatic optimization.

A: Thanks to @MarcinJuraszek in the comments I now know about SQL Fiddle and it worked in each DB I tried it with:

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*MySQL 5.5.30

*Oracle 11g R2

*PostgreSQL 9.2.1

*SQLite

*MS SQL Server 2012

*MS SQL Server 2008

Plus I tried it on DB2 Express-C 9.7.5 and DB2 on z/OS (mainframe) 9.1 and it worked in both.


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Q: Linq Entities Query Compare days of Dates I have a table that save users birthday, I want to find Users who are born today.
 _db.BirthdayReminders.Where(m => DbFunctions.DiffDays(m.Birthday,today.Date)==0 && ).ToList();

But  find this year's birthday.

A: What about simply checking the Day and Month?:
_db.BirthdayReminders
    .Where(m => m.Birthday.Day == today.Day && m.Birthday.Month == today.Month)
    .ToList();

I'm not sure how you want to handle people born on the 29th of February. Apparently some celebrate their birthdays on the 28th of February, and others on the 1st of March. I'm not sure how you would want to handle that.
My advice in that scenario would be something like (if you celebrated their birthday on the 28th of February):

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*Determine if it's a leap year. If it's not, proceed to 2.

*Determine if their birthday is the 29th of February, and then either evaluate true on the 28th of February, or 1st of March, or both.

Which could be written as:
_db.BirthdayReminders
    .Where(m => (m.Birthday.Day == today.Day && m.Birthday.Month == today.Month)
        || (!isLeapYear && m.Birthday.Day == 29 && m.Birthday.Month == 2 && today.Day == 28 && today.Month == 2))
    .ToList();


Carla Creates: Fanfare - Continuation of the 6th Birthday!
Fanfare - Continuation of the 6th Birthday!
Using up the last of my Fanfare paper - - thought I would make a companion page to the layout I posted yesterday HERE.
(No title on this one - because it will act as the right side of a 2 pager with the one from yesterday).
I used a One Page Sketch #5 from Sketch Support.
What a great layout and they sure do seem to be having fun. Love the stars.