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SS Patrick B. Whalen was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Patrick B. Whalen, who was lost at sea while he was the 1st assistant engineer on , after she was torpedoed by , on 2 June 1942, in the Caribbean.

Construction
Patrick B. Whalen was laid down on 29 January 1945, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2404, by J.A. Jones Construction, Brunswick, Georgia; she was sponsored by Mrs. Leo W. Regan, and launched on 15 March 1945.

History
She was allocated to the Isbrandtsen Steamship Co. Inc., on 30 March 1945. On 19 July 1949, she was sold to Atl. Marine Transport Co., for commercial use and renamed Christiam and later Bostonian and Manhattan. In April 1952, she was sold to National Transocean Carriers, Inc. In November 1952, she was sold to Phoenix Steamship Corp., and renamed Seadragon. In July 1953, she was sold to Navigator Steamship Corp., and renamed Charles C. Dunaif. In July 1958, she was sold to Cargo Ships & Tankers, Inc. In June 1961, she was sold to a Liberian shipping company and renamed Wilderness. On 4 May 1962, she was reflagged for the US. In March 1967, she was sold to Debbie Mae Shipping Corp., and renamed Debbie Mae. She was sold for scrapping in Taiwan in May 1967.

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Dread Nautical Review
Dread Nautical
A pleasant boat trip transforms into a fight for survival in this turn-based strategy title.
Zen Studios has been associated with pinball games for more than a decade, be it with Zen Pinballs, Pinball FX and a multitude of licensed variants, including Star Wars Pinball or Bethesda Pinball. Occasionally they come out of their comfort zone and offer us different adventures, such as the CastleStorm or the new Dread Nautical, a turn-based tactical RPG released on iOS last fall – via Apple Arcade and now coming to PC via Epic Games Store as well as to PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.
Despite its gloomy title and voice-over of its introduction and the nods to Lovecraft, the truth is that we are not facing an excessively terrifying, dark or violent game; There are survival elements but applied to an SRPG with random maps. Its initial history does not offer us much context of what awaits us either: an elegant cruise ship suffers an incident that transforms most of its crew into mutant zombies. We are one of the survivors of the ship and the mission is clear: explore the floors, get resources, food, weapons and everything that is useful to us to progress through further into the ship. Occasionally we will survivors throughout the journey who, hopefully, will join our side.
Terror at sea?
Not too many new features for SRPG players, although the title knows how to twist around to make up for the shallow depth of its systems with rogue-lite mechanics. We have two game phases: exploration and combat. The movement through corridors and rooms is done in a gridded grid, but in the exploration phase, this does not affect us too much either because there is no type of limit to the movements: just click on the place you want to go, and the character will go to the zone. You can find some objects, key objects and inspect each room. The general objective of each floor is to sound the horn of the ship, at which point the cycle begins again from our refuge in the holds to ascend again in the elevator.
Although the game will usually keep us on edge: due to the limited inventory. It won't take much for you to fill your character's pockets and start discarding resources. Which do you prefer, new weapons to be prepared when the pipe you use to hit breaks, or more space for healing items? At the base, we will also be able to repair –or improve- objects and level up the facilities with the scrap we found, so at all times you must be clear about your progress priorities. As in other random map games, you may find your way out of the flat soon, but you can risk seeing the unexplored rooms to come back with better loot.
Now, the ship is not empty and we will meet many zombies ready to end our lives. Depending on our chosen level of difficulty, the death penalty is more or less harsh: in normal we lose what was achieved in the last game, but we can return to the last day and our companions will continue with us. In difficult the defeat is punished more, the companions are lost in the ship, and in madness mode you directly lose everything and you must start again. The protagonist, of whom we have not spoken, is left to our choice among several to choose from, each with specific life values, action points, inventory, active and passive abilities.
The gameplay is what we could expect in these cases, and once we enter the range of vision of an enemy, the fight phase begins. It must be said that many enemies are asleep and can be dodged if we do not make noise, but they can also be surprised – which gives us a small advantage. Use a turn-based system, that is, each action – displacement, punch, attack by weapon, use of an object – consumes a number of points and when they are exhausted, a partner or the enemy acts. Everything is done intuitively – after all, it was born on mobile systems – without having to move through complex menus, so it is suitable for novices.
The colleagues have a little more crumb than they appear because they have a trust system. Before joining our group we must meet a series of requirements, and what is more expensive, once onboard they need their space in the shelter and food. The problem is that food does not abound and each day that passes the characters – including yours – will have to fill their stomach, and not doing so has its consequences. In short, more partners also means more group management, but they become necessary because the game is not exactly a walk.
All in all, Dread Nautical is a good tactical game that shines on mobile systems but remains one point more discreet on home systems. Although it engages and knows how to entertain, the offer is very wide on these platforms, with more complex and original games. The merit of Zen Studios is to adapt many themes generally oriented to a very specific audience – a genre that sometimes is complex, the setting of terror, dose of roguelike – but simplifying the formula so that it can be played on PC, console or mobile, without it being so insipid that it is not worth it.
Horror cartoon
The best way to describe the setting of the game is a horror cartoon. Partly because of its origin for the Apple Arcade, the art of the game is never intended to cause fear, and monsters are grotesque shapes without much detail. We will not say that it is a kind of infantilized version of survival horror, but of course that at no time will it seek to give fear or scares, only tension and more by the threat of losing a game than by the explicit of some pretty nice cartoon graphics. The sound doesn't stand out too much, but it doesn't bother it either.
Dread Nautical has really good ideas in its core, albeit none original and without the expertise behind an experienced turn-based strategy team. Sometimes it seems that the game tries to do too many things, such as that lack of definition between a horror story told by characters with the appearance of a plastic figure; The strategy is a bit short during battles, but there is a system of wear and tear on equipment, food and scarce resources that do raise the difficulty, forcing us to make more than one difficult decision. While it never ceases to be a turn-based tactical game, in the end, yet shows a mix of influences. A very interesting title in the mobile market that you can finally enjoy in-home systems.
We prepared this review with a PS4 digital review copy of the game provided by Terminals PR.
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It had been years since I'd first talked of doing a writing course. Years filled with other things – travel, marriage, babies, work. Years filled with stuff. Life.
But it was no longer a vague dream for the future. Now it was an appeal from a close friend – let's do it together. How could I refuse? It had been easy to procrastinate, fiddle, waste time, say it was too frivolous, too self-indulgent, too extravagant. I was busy, couldn't afford it, didn't deserve it, no money, no time, no passion. I watched, bemused, as the years ticked by and stoically regretted my inaction.
But now it was different. Now there were two of us. No more excuses. It was time for action, time to get started.
I found the NZ Writers' College on the web, sent off my application and checked my emails obsessively.
The course work arrived in no time and I did the first module. Back came my story from my tutor Ginny double quick with suggestions for improvements and lots of encouragement.
I e-mailed my writing buddy – What did you get? Read mine and tell me what you think. What are you doing for the next one?
We would meet for coffee and talk shop. We were like kids in a playground.
On to module two, then three and four. No need for chivvying. I was motivated and buzzing, loving it and learning fast. Procrastination was dead; long live enthusiasm!
I found myself taking sneak peeks at what was coming in future assignments so I could start thinking about them. Lying in the bath a snippet of great dialogue would come to me and I'd be scrabbling, wet and soapy, for a pen and paper. Nodding off at night a clever twist would slip into my thoughts and I'd roll out of bed and stumble into the office. Walking on the beach I'd think of an idea and start reciting the story in my head so I wouldn't forget it. I urgently needed a notebook.
Then flicking through a magazine one idle afternoon, I decided to send in a letter. I rattled one off by email and forgot about it. A month later a cheque arrived in the post. Wow. I sent off a couple more letters and another cheque arrived. It seemed ludicrously easy. I did a bit of research and found that household tips, photos, fillers, jokes and letters were all accepted. Some magazines paid better than others; I focused on them. And so began a nice little side line. An hour or so at the weekend could yield a couple of cheques in the mail.
I began to look at local writing competitions. Reading past winners was enormously entertaining and educational. Surely I could write that well? I sent off a story. Nothing happened. I sent off another and told myself I must write a hundred stories before I could expect any success. But it came – at least modestly – well before I'd written a hundred stories; long listing then short listing, mentions and even the occasional prize.
I made contact with another local writer and another: in no time we were five, a Proper Group, enough for a workshop. We found a local facilitator who was happy to spend the afternoon with us and we came away pleased with what we had learnt. It was a great start and we began meeting every six weeks.
Our format is to bring a work-in-progress and offer it for critiquing. Platitudes are banned. We analyse and dissect; we offer our best ideas and comments. Considering and critiquing others' work gives new perspective to my own.
It's a great motivator. I can't turn up empty-handed and I don't want to miss a self-indulgent afternoon with a tasty spread and lots of laughter, so I write. At the end of the afternoon I'm full of enthusiasm and fresh ideas so I write some more.
Mavis Gallant said "Success can only be measured in terms of distance travelled" (Travellers must be content). Indeed, how often have I read that the writers who make it are those who cover the distance, those who turn out dozens or hundreds of submissions, those who keep trying? The little distance I have covered gives such perspective. Looking back on my first attempts I cringe – wrong tense, wrong POV, clichés, poor openings, weak endings. The only thing I could do for sure was spell.
What would I say if it was someone else's work?
And I've discovered I love editing, cutting irrelevant passages, shifting paragraphs, weeding dross. It's satisfying to watch a piece of work evolve, to search for weaknesses and chop them out. The hard part is getting the first draft down, forgoing that great movie on TV and applying bum to seat. Writers have always said that is the hard part so perhaps I'm on the right road.
1000 Short Story Competition in 2010.


Meagan Murphy's idea is deceptively simple: a documentary about women's breasts. Yet, what emerges from the Breast Archives is complex, deep.
By interviewing nine women speaking about their breasts, Murphy's film addresses a multitude of psycho-social issues regarding women and American culture.
The film is relevant to women, of course, yet the more teenage and adult males who see the the Breast Archives, the greater its social impact. Yours truly would have found more compassion and empathy had I seen this movie as a teenager.


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Different judges, different results: R. v. Harley Davidson
In 2014 I represented a Barrie man named Harley Davidson (yes, that's his real name) on charges relating to the production of marijuana. I said that the police had no right to enter Mr. Davidson's home, which is where the marijuana was found. The trial judge said that I was wrong. The Court of Appeal for Ontario said that I was right (R. v. Davidson, 2017 ONCA 257). In this blog post, I discuss the Court of Appeal's recent analysis.
On June 2, 2013, Harley Davidson arrived home and found police concerned because his five-year-old son was seen outside at a busy intersection clad in a diaper. Harley explained to the officers that the child was autistic and the child had somehow been able to get outside alone by defeating a special lock that Harley had installed on the front door. The police insisted on examining the lock, and Harley agreed they could do so.
After being satisfied about the state of the lock, police insisted on looking inside the house. Their reasons for wanting to enter the house were sketchy. Once inside the house, the police smelled marijuana and ultimately found a marijuana grow operation in the basement.
The trial and appeal process
I argued at the trial that the police had no right to enter Harley's residence. I said the police needed a warrant, and since they did not have one Harley's constitutional right against unreasonable search and seizure was violated. The Crown Attorney even agreed with me. The Crown Attorney conceded that Harley's rights were breached. However, the judge was not so convinced. The judge invited the Crown to withdraw the concession that Harley's rights were breached. The Crown complied (who wouldn't?), and the judge found that the police could enter and search Harley's home under their common law police powers.
Harley was sentenced to 18-months in prison. He barely served a week, though, as I had him on bail pending appeal within days of his sentence.
Fast forward to two years later. Thanks to the outstanding work of my colleagues, Craig Bottomley and Sherif Foda, the Court of Appeal has ruled that the police never had the power to enter Harley's residence. The judge's conviction was reversed and Harley was acquitted of all charges.
The Court of Appeal's analysis
The trial judge concluded that the Barrie Police Service entered Harley's residence for the purpose of ensuring that it was safe for his children. The Court of Appeal did not buy this. Nevertheless, the appellate court was bound to accept the judge's factual conclusions for the purpose of their analysis.
The Court of Appeal reaffirmed that the police can enter a person's home without a warrant in response to a 911 call. The police must reasonably believe that the life or safety of a person inside the home is in danger. And once inside the home, the police's authority is limited to ascertaining the reason for the call and providing any needed assistance.
Significantly, the police do not have any further authority to search the home or intrude on a resident's privacy or property. To be clear: the police do not have the power to enter a home without a warrant to investigate whether a child's mother and father are good parents.
This is the extent of the police's power when there is a 911 call: Get in. Determine the reason for the 911 call. Provide assistance. Get out.
The Barrie Police had no power to go into Harley's residence. They could see for themselves at the roadside that Harley's son was safe and not in any immediate danger. At most, the Barrie Police could have inspected the locks to ensure that they were in working order. Even this would have required them to remain outside of Harley's house.
Two small tips for cross-examination
This section is for the lawyers and law-students who frequent this blog. When making a Charter application, it is important to build a record that addresses the police's systemic Charter violations in addition to the Charter violation(s) committed against your client. This favours you well in the analysis under section 24(2). It seems obvious but is easy to forget when you are working through the weeds of your cross-examination. The amount of topics to cover, and contingency topics that arise if the witness provides an unexpected answer, can seem overwhelming.
In this case, the Barrie Police officers were cross-examined about the other times in which they had entered a person's home for the purpose of checking on the safety of children. The Court of Appeal treated the officers' answers to these questions as evidence of a serious breach against my client:
The police admitted to a systemic practice of warrantless searches of homes to check on the well-being of children. Sergeant Henderson admitted to conducting four or five of these searches every year — searches that the police could not justify by any constitutional authority.
Another tip is to investigate ahead of time whether the police force uses a form for consent searches. If a person consents to the police searching his or her residence, they cannot later complain that the search violated the Charter. Due to this significance, many police services have a form to diarize a person's informed consent to the search of their residence. A corollary to this practice is that an officer who testifies to performing a consent search should have the form signed by the accused person. Otherwise, there is a strong appearance that the officer is lying. This is especially so when the officer is experienced and should know his or her police service's policies. The lead officer in R. v. Davidson was caught in this regard – and the Court of Appeal saw right through him:
[34] I agree with counsel for Davidson that even accepting the police's evidence, at most it showed Davidson acquiesced to the police's inevitable intrusion into his home, but not that he consented.
[36] … Henderson agreed that his police force has a form they ask a homeowner to sign before doing a consent search of a home and that he never asked Davidson to sign this form:
Q: The Barrie Police Force has a consent form that they read to a person and have them sign before they perform a consent search of a residence?
Q: You're a Sergeant with the Barrie Police Force?
Q: You've been with this police force for 14 years?
Q: You did not provide one of those consent forms to Mr. Davidson?
A: No, those consent forms are if we're going in to search for something, like stolen property, drugs, something offence related. I wasn't going in offence related at all. That wasn't on my mind even a little bit. I was going in to ensure that these kids were safe.
[37] Overall the evidence shows that the police thought they had the right to enter Davidson's home without his consent. The warrantless search of his home cannot therefore be justified on the basis of his consent.
I hope you enjoyed this month's blog post. Keep checking regularly for the next installment.
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What if there were a portal to another world, right here in Colorado Springs, that you could visit today?
A visit to a far-away land, and a poem to capture the moment.
It's not science fiction – and it's a great reason to write poetry! Come see Poetry Heals at the What If… Festival today until 4 pm. You can't miss us, because we're right next to the giant Portal by the Pioneers Museum.
In the Portal, you can connect in real time with people from all over the world. And afterwards, you can write a poem with us about your experience (or anything else you want), like this lovely lady did this morning.
Don't miss this chance for an amazing experience – it's free, it's awesome, and it's happening right now. See you soon!!


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You should know that this type of help can actually make consumers see your organization as an actual authority within your industry. A decent blog that is rich with current and helpful content will show others that you know everything you need to know about your field. This will help you build trust while giving people something that has value, and without you having to actually spend any significant sums of money.
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#	include "config.h"
#endif

/* External libs */
#include <bson.h>
#include <mongoc.h>

/* PHP Core stuff */
#include <php.h>
#include <php_ini.h>
#include <ext/standard/info.h>
#include <Zend/zend_interfaces.h>
#include <ext/spl/spl_iterators.h>
/* Our Compatability header */
#include "php_compat_53.h"

/* Our stuffz */
#include "php_phongo.h"
#include "php_bson.h"

PHONGO_API zend_class_entry *php_phongo_regex_ce;

/* {{{ proto BSON\Regex Regex::__construct(string $pattern, string $flags)
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PHP_METHOD(Regex, __construct)
{
	php_phongo_regex_t       *intern;
	zend_error_handling       error_handling;
	char                     *pattern;
	int                       pattern_len;
	char                     *flags;
	int                       flags_len;

	zend_replace_error_handling(EH_THROW, phongo_exception_from_phongo_domain(PHONGO_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT), &error_handling TSRMLS_CC);
	intern = (php_phongo_regex_t *)zend_object_store_get_object(getThis() TSRMLS_CC);

	if (zend_parse_parameters(ZEND_NUM_ARGS() TSRMLS_CC, "ss", &pattern, &pattern_len, &flags, &flags_len) == FAILURE) {
		zend_restore_error_handling(&error_handling TSRMLS_CC);
		return;
	}
	zend_restore_error_handling(&error_handling TSRMLS_CC);

	intern->pattern = estrndup(pattern, pattern_len);
	intern->pattern_len = pattern_len;
	intern->flags = estrndup(flags, flags_len);
	intern->flags_len = flags_len;
}
/* }}} */
/* {{{ proto void Regex::getPattern()
    */
PHP_METHOD(Regex, getPattern)
{
	php_phongo_regex_t       *intern;

	intern = (php_phongo_regex_t *)zend_object_store_get_object(getThis() TSRMLS_CC);

	if (zend_parse_parameters_none() == FAILURE) {
		return;
	}

	RETURN_STRINGL(intern->pattern, intern->pattern_len, 1);
}
/* }}} */
/* {{{ proto void Regex::getFlags()
    */
PHP_METHOD(Regex, getFlags)
{
	php_phongo_regex_t       *intern;

	intern = (php_phongo_regex_t *)zend_object_store_get_object(getThis() TSRMLS_CC);

	if (zend_parse_parameters_none() == FAILURE) {
		return;
	}

	RETURN_STRINGL(intern->flags, intern->flags_len, 1);
}
/* }}} */
/* {{{ proto void Regex::__toString()
    */
PHP_METHOD(Regex, __toString)
{
	php_phongo_regex_t       *intern;
	char                     *regex;
	int                       regex_len;

	intern = (php_phongo_regex_t *)zend_object_store_get_object(getThis() TSRMLS_CC);

	if (zend_parse_parameters_none() == FAILURE) {
		return;
	}

	regex_len = spprintf(&regex, 0, "/%s/%s", intern->pattern, intern->flags);
	RETVAL_STRINGL(regex, regex_len, 0);
}
/* }}} */

/* {{{ BSON\Regex */

ZEND_BEGIN_ARG_INFO_EX(ai_Regex___construct, 0, 0, 2)
	ZEND_ARG_INFO(0, pattern)
	ZEND_ARG_INFO(0, flags)
ZEND_END_ARG_INFO();

ZEND_BEGIN_ARG_INFO_EX(ai_Regex_getPattern, 0, 0, 0)
ZEND_END_ARG_INFO();

ZEND_BEGIN_ARG_INFO_EX(ai_Regex_getFlags, 0, 0, 0)
ZEND_END_ARG_INFO();

ZEND_BEGIN_ARG_INFO_EX(ai_Regex___toString, 0, 0, 0)
ZEND_END_ARG_INFO();

static zend_function_entry php_phongo_regex_me[] = {
	PHP_ME(Regex, __construct, ai_Regex___construct, ZEND_ACC_PUBLIC)
	PHP_ME(Regex, getPattern, ai_Regex_getPattern, ZEND_ACC_PUBLIC)
	PHP_ME(Regex, getFlags, ai_Regex_getFlags, ZEND_ACC_PUBLIC)
	PHP_ME(Regex, __toString, ai_Regex___toString, ZEND_ACC_PUBLIC)
	PHP_FE_END
};

/* }}} */

/* {{{ php_phongo_regex_t object handlers */
static void php_phongo_regex_free_object(void *object TSRMLS_DC) /* {{{ */
{
	php_phongo_regex_t *intern = (php_phongo_regex_t*)object;

	zend_object_std_dtor(&intern->std TSRMLS_CC);

    if (intern->pattern) {
        efree(intern->pattern);
    }

    if (intern->flags) {
        efree(intern->flags);
    }
	efree(intern);
} /* }}} */

zend_object_value php_phongo_regex_create_object(zend_class_entry *class_type TSRMLS_DC) /* {{{ */
{
	zend_object_value retval;
	php_phongo_regex_t *intern;

	intern = (php_phongo_regex_t *)emalloc(sizeof(php_phongo_regex_t));
	memset(intern, 0, sizeof(php_phongo_regex_t));

	zend_object_std_init(&intern->std, class_type TSRMLS_CC);
	object_properties_init(&intern->std, class_type);

	retval.handle = zend_objects_store_put(intern, (zend_objects_store_dtor_t) zend_objects_destroy_object, php_phongo_regex_free_object, NULL TSRMLS_CC);
	retval.handlers = phongo_get_std_object_handlers();

	return retval;
} /* }}} */
/* }}} */

/* {{{ PHP_MINIT_FUNCTION */
PHP_MINIT_FUNCTION(Regex)
{
	zend_class_entry ce;
	(void)type;(void)module_number;

	INIT_NS_CLASS_ENTRY(ce, "BSON", "Regex", php_phongo_regex_me);
	ce.create_object = php_phongo_regex_create_object;
	php_phongo_regex_ce = zend_register_internal_class(&ce TSRMLS_CC);

	zend_class_implements(php_phongo_regex_ce TSRMLS_CC, 1, php_phongo_type_ce);

	return SUCCESS;
}
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Thomas Timothy Traumann (Rolândia, 29 de julho de 1967) é um jornalista brasileiro, consultor político-econômico, palestrante corporativo e acadêmico e ainda pesquisador da Diretoria de Análise de Políticas Públicas da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (DAPP-FGV), no Rio de Janeiro.

Traumann foi porta-voz da Presidência da República e ministro da Secretaria de Comunicação Social, ambos no governo Dilma Rousseff. Em 2014, foi condecorado com a Ordem de Rio Branco - ORB. Em outubro de 2018 lançou o livro "O pior emprego do mundo - 14 ministros da Fazenda contam como tomaram as decisões que mudaram o Brasil e mexeram no seu bolso", com grande repercussão na imprensa.

Biografia
É um dos cinco filhos de Michael Traumann, judeu alemão refugiado de guerra, com alguma pedagoga norte-americana. Cresceu em uma fazenda em Rolândia, no norte do Paraná.

Formou-se em jornalismo na Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), em Curitiba, e mora atualmente no Rio de Janeiro com sua esposa e três filhos.

Carreira jornalística
Traumann foi correspondente da Folha de S. Paulo, em Curitiba, entre 1990 e 1994, quando mudou-se para São Paulo para participar do núcleo da agência de notícias que resultaria na criação do portal de notícias UOL.

Em 1995 transferiu-se para a revista Veja. Cobriu o avanço do desmatamento e a ação ilegal de madeireiras estrangeiras na Amazônia e coordenou a edição especial de Veja Ecologia, em 1997. Foi editor de assuntos gerais da revista. Em cinco anos, participou de mais de vinte capas.

Em 2000 voltou para a Folha de S. Paulo como repórter especial. Cobriu a ação de guerrilheiros na Colômbia, as eleições no Equador, a busca de tribos de índios isolados no Vale do Javari (Amazonas), desastres ambientais da Petrobras, ações do Movimento dos Sem Terra e a crise política na prefeitura de São Paulo na gestão Pitta. Especializou-se na cobertura do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT).

Traumann passou a integrar a equipe da Revista Época em 2001, onde foi responsável pela cobertura da campanha presidencial de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Fez quatro entrevistas exclusivas com o então candidato, antecipou o poder que José Dirceu teria no futuro governo e relatou a ascensão de Antonio Palocci junto a Lula.

Mudou-se para o Rio de Janeiro em 2002 para ser o chefe da sucursal carioca da revista Época. No ano seguinte, acumulou a função de chefe da sucursal com a de colunista de política (seção que, sucessivamente, se chamou Portal, Bastidores e, finalmente, Janela Indiscreta). Durante a cobertura do escândalo do mensalão, em 2005, publicou a explosiva entrevista em que o então presidente do Partido Liberal (PL), Valdemar da Costa Neto, detalhou como recebeu malas de dinheiro de Marcos Valério, a mando do PT. Em 2006 criou a newsletter "O Filtro", um resumo das principais notícias do dia distribuído todas as manhãs para mais de 250 mil assinantes da revista Época. Foi também convidado eventual do programa "Entre Aspas", da Globonews.

Em 2008 transferiu-se para a consultoria de comunicação espanhola Llorente & Cuenca, sendo responsável pela abertura do primeiro escritório em país não-hispânico. Mais tarde, em maio de 2010, Traumann foi contratado pela FSB Comunicações para chefiar a comunicação corporativa do Grupo Andrade Gutierrez.

Desligou-se da FSB Comunicações em janeiro de 2011 para assumir a coordenação de imprensa da Casa Civil da Presidência da República como assessor especial do então ministro Antonio Palocci. Com a saída de Palocci do governo, em junho de 2011, tornou-se assessor especial da Secretaria de Comunicação Social (Secom), e porta-voz da Presidência da República.

Ministro de Estado
De fevereiro de 2014 a março de 2015, foi ministro-chefe de Comunicação, tornando-se o responsável pela área de comunicação da Presidência. O ministro organizou a estratégia digital do governo federal, além de coordenar a comunicação da Copa do Mundo de 2014 que resultou no prêmio PR Week Global Awards 2015 na categoria "Campanha do Ano – Setor Público". O programa de comunicação "Fora do campo: o Brasil na Copa do Mundo da Fifa 2014" foi eleito o melhor case de comunicação pública de 2014. A estratégia de assessoria de imprensa e mídias sociais desenvolvida para divulgar o Brasil no exterior – mostrar sua diversidade e o compromisso do país com o desenvolvimento sustentável – gerou mais de 7.000 reportagens em mais de 12 línguas e o aumento de seguidores do canal BrazilGovNews, em inglês, nas redes sociais (40% no Twitter e 33% no Facebook).

Traumann disciplinou ainda a publicidade dos órgãos e entidades do Executivo através da Instrução Normativa Nº 7 da Secom (dezembro de 2014), que impede o poder público de fazer publicidade sem medições de audiência ou tiragem de veículos. O ministro também fez parte da delegação oficial do Brasil em mais de vinte viagens oficiais, incluindo os encontros de cúpula do G20 e BRICS, e integrou o Conselho de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social da Presidência da República. Em 25 de março de 2015, pediu demissão da Secom.

Saída do governo Dilma
No dia 17 de março de 2015, o jornal Estado de São Paulo publicou um documento elaborado pela Secretaria de Comunicação Social, chefiada por Traumann, que apontava "caos político" e erros na estratégia de comunicação do governo de Dilma Rousseff. O documento, vazado para a imprensa, era uma comunicação interna, reservada a integrantes do governo. De acordo com o jornal Estado de São Paulo, Dilma teria ficado muito irritada com o vazamento do texto.

No dia 24 de março de 2015, a Comissão de Ética Pública da Presidência da República instaurou processo para apurar a responsabilidade de Traumann no vazamento do documento. O processo de apuração de infração ética pelo órgão foi realizado após pedido do senador Aloysio Nunes Ferreira (PSDB-SP). Traumann pediu demissão do governo um dia após a abertura do processo, no dia 25 de março de 2015.  Após quatro meses de análise, em 28 de julho de 2015 a Comissão isentou Traumann de infração ética no episódio, avaliando não haver provas suficientes de uma eventual participação do ex-ministro no vazamento no documento.

Em 18 de abril de 2016, um dia após a aprovação do impeachment de Dilma Rousseff pela Câmara, Traumann reuniu-se com o vice-presidente Michel Temer, que viria a substituir Dilma quando o processo fosse aprovado pelo Congresso, ao lado de Moreira Franco. De acordo com o senador Cássio Cunha Lima (PSDB-PB), haveria conversas sobre o PMDB levar Traumann para o governo Temer, o que, entretanto, não aconteceu. Segundo o ex-secretário de Imprensa do Planalto, Olímpio Cruz, a presidente teria dito ter ficado "pasma com a deslealdade e traição" de Traumann no episódio da visita do jornalista a Temer.

Comentarista político
Thomas Traumann estreou em fevereiro de 2019 como comentarista da Rádio Globo no programa Redação Globo, apresentado pela jornalista Rosana Jatobá. Todas as segundas e sextas-feiras, Traumann analisa as principais questões políticas do país no quadro "Traduzindo Brasília".

O programa Redação Globo traz as informações mais relevantes do dia no Brasil e no mundo de segunda a sexta-feira, das 17h às 18h30. Traumann, que integra o time de comentaristas do programa, faz uma previsão do que será importante na semana às segundas. Na sexta, o jornalista analisa os principais fatos da semana.

Consultoria, palestras e o livro "O pior emprego do mundo"
Atualmente, Traumann se dedica à consultoria empresarial para diversos clientes de vários setores. Desde 2016, é pesquisador da Diretoria de Análise de Políticas Públicas da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (DAPP-FGV), no Rio de Janeiro, e promove ainda palestras em universidades e empresas sobre o cenário político-econômico brasileiro.

Em outubro de 2018, lançou o livro "O pior emprego do mundo - 14 ministros da Fazenda contam como tomaram as decisões que mudaram o Brasil e mexeram no seu bolso", com ampla repercussão na imprensa. A obra é resultado de três anos de pesquisa e de entrevistas presenciais com 14 ex-ministros da Fazenda, entre eles Delfim Netto, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Guido Mantega, Henrique Meirelles, Antonio Palocci e Zélia Cardoso de Mello, que relataram fatos marcantes como planos Cruzado, Real, confisco das cadernetas, tarifas de energia, dívida externa e hiperinflação (para quem não viveu ou se esqueceu do que é uma inflação descontrolada, o livro traz um dado espantoso: o valor de compra de um automóvel Gol em agosto de 1989 servia apenas para comprar os quatro pneus sete meses depois, em março de 1990).

Trata-se de uma grande reportagem sobre o poder, como ele é exercido e a complexa relação entre o comandante da economia e o presidente da república. Na obra, Traumann traça um vasto panorama da economia brasileira e aborda as piores crises dos últimos 50 anos. Explica ainda como o Brasil se tornou o país com a maior dívida externa do mundo, mostra de que maneira os protestos de 2013 influenciaram na explosão do déficit das contas públicas e revela como a economia foi decisiva para o impeachment de Fernando Collor e Dilma Rousseff, mas salvou FHC, Lula e Michel Temer nas votações no Congresso.

Algumas considerações que constam no livro:

1- Paulo Guedes, do governo Bolsonaro, não é o primeiro a comandar um superministério. Na era Collor, o ministro Marcílio Marques Moreira acumulou as pastas da Fazenda, do Planejamento e da Indústria. Acabou apanhando por causa da crise política.

2- Diante da iminência do choque do petróleo, o então ministro da Fazenda Delfim Netto propôs ao presidente Médici, em 1972, o fim do monopólio da Petrobras e a abertura do mercado como forma de reduzir a dependências das importações brasileiras, que haviam explodido com o crescimento do chamado milagre econômico brasileiro. A proposta foi bombardeada pelo general Ernesto Geisel, que presidia a Petrobras e tinha mais poder que os ministros da Esplanada em Brasília. Geisel não acreditou na informação que Delfim trouxera de uma reunião do FMI de que os árabes preparavam uma alta unificada de preços.  O então ministro francês Giscard D'Estaing foi o autor da confidência a Delfim, mas Geisel reagiu: "Quem entende de petróleo sou eu." Pouco depois, os países árabes criaram a OPEP e o preço do barril de petróleo saltou de US$ 3,00 para US$ 11,30 de imediato.

3- No final de 1989, com o Brasil já vivendo uma hiperinflação e com um governo sem credibilidade, o Ministro Maílson da Nóbrega sugeriu e o presidente Sarney convocou uma reunião para discutir sua renúncia ao cargo. A ideia era antecipar a posse do futuro presidente, Fernando Collor, que só ocorreria em 15 de março de 1990, tempo demais para um governo sem alternativas para deter a crise. A proposta só não vingou por reação do ministro do Exército, Leônidas Pires. O general disse que a renúncia poderia "manchar a imagem dos militares na transição democrática".

4- No início de 2013, Dilma Rousseff fez um pronunciamento em rede nacional para anunciar que a redução da tarifa de energia elétrica para o consumidor seria de 18% e de até 32% para a indústria e comércio. O ministro Guido Mantega confidenciou a Traumann que não teve palavra final sobre isso. "A minha ideia era só fazer o desconto para as empresas. Tentei argumentar, mas a presidente reagiu: ´Tem que ser assim porque se eu fizer um desconto apenas para a indústria vão dizer que não estou beneficiando a população´. Argumentei. Ela não ouviu e enfiou todos os domicílios no projeto. Não havia um cálculo detalhado de quanto custaria o programa incluindo o desconto para as residências".

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p-nonylphenol
↓Groups:
Mol. formula: C15H24O
Danger! According to the classification provided by companies to ECHA in REACH registrations this substance causes severe skin burns and eye damage, is very toxic to aquatic life, is very toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects, is harmful if swallowed and causes serious eye damage.
This substance is used by professional workers (widespread uses), in formulation or re-packing, at industrial sites and in manufacturing.
This substance is used in the following products: coating products.
ECHA has no public registered data on the types of manufacture using this substance. Other release to the environment of this substance is likely to occur from: indoor use as processing aid and outdoor use as processing aid.
This substance is used in the following products: coating products, fillers, putties, plasters, modelling clay and inks and toners.
Release to the environment of this substance can occur from industrial use: in processing aids at industrial sites.
Endocrine Disrupting
Important to know Important to know
This section highlights four regulatory activities or outcomes under REACH – Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals – Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006:
Community rolling action plan - indicates if the substance is or was included in the Community rolling action plan (CoRAP). The CoRAP list includes substances that could pose a risk to human health or the environment and whose (potentially hazardous) properties are to be evaluated by the Member States in the next three years. After evaluation, proposals may be made for further regulatory action regarding the substance.
Candidate List - indicates if the substance is included in the candidate list of substances of very high concern (SVHCs). The Candidate List includes substances that are subject to additional protocols and reporting obligations and which may eventually be included in the Authorisation List, further limiting their use.
Authorisation list (Annex XIV to REACH) - indicates if the substance is included in the Authorisation list. These substances cannot be placed on the market or used after a given date, unless an authorisation is granted for their specific use, or the use is exempted from authorisation.
Restriction list (Annex XVII to REACH) - indicates if the substance is included in the Restriction List. The Restriction List describes the conditions for the manufacture, placing on the market or use of certain substances, either on their own or in mixtures or articles.
Please note: The identification of relevant regulatory activities and outcomes is done automatically and without manual verification. Substances may be grouped together under a specific regulatory activity for more efficient risk management and legislative processing (e.g. restriction on "Lead and its compounds"). In these cases, Infocards may not identify all substances in the group.Therefore it does not represent official and legally–binding information. To confirm if a substance is covered by a specific regulatory action the official publication, e.g. the electronic edition of the Official Journal of the European Union should be consulted.
Substance of very high concern (SVHC) and included in the candidate list for authorisation.
Annex III: criteria for 1 - 10 tonne registered substances
Substances predicted as likely to meet criteria for category 1A or 1B carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, or reproductive toxicity.
Candidate List of SVHC for authorisation
Substances to be considered for potential authorisation at EU level.
Substances intended to be identified as SVHC and entered in the Candidate list of SVHC for authorisation.
PIC - Prior Informed Consent Regulation
Substances subject to export controls or banned from export from the EU under the PIC regulation.
Export notifications for substances subject to PIC.
Industrial Emissions Directive
IPPC - Industrial Emissions Directive, Annex II - Polluting Substances
EU. Polluting Substances: Annex II, Directive 2010/75/EU on Industrial Emissions (IPPC), 17 December 2010
This database contains the list of polluting substances for which emission limit values are assigned under Directive 2010/75/EU on Industrial Emissions (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control - IPPC) . Member states must permit all qualifying facilities in order to ensure that they minimize impact on the environment. The permit issued must provide emission limit values for pollutants on this list.
Water Environmental Quality Standards Directive
Annex I, Part A - Priority Substances & Pollutants in water
EU. Environmental Quality Standards (EQS) for Priority Substances: Annex I, Part A, Dir 2008/105/EC, 24 Dec 2008, amended by Dir 2013/39/EU, 24 August 2013
This list contains environmental quality standards (EQS), including annual averages and maximum allowable concentrations, for priority substances and certain other pollutants as provided for in Article 16 of Directive 2000/60/EC.
Water Framework Directive
Water Framework Directive, Annex X - Priority Substances
EU. Annex X to Directive 2000/60/EC, Priority Substances in the Field of Water Policy, as amended by Directive 2013/39/EU, OJ L 226/1, 24 August 2013
This list contains substances identified as priority substances that are targeted for reduction and eventual removal from waste water discharge. The list includes 'priority hazardous substances' which are subject to special restrictions.
Water Framework Directive, Annex X - Priority Substances, Annex I, Part A - Priority Substances & Pollutants in water, IPPC - Industrial Emissions Directive, Annex II - Polluting Substances
p-n-Nonylphenol
EC Inventory, PIC, Pre-Registration process, EU Ecolabels - Restrictions for Hazardous Substances/Mixtures
PIC, Pre-Registration process, Other, EU Ecolabels - Restrictions for Hazardous Substances/Mixtures
Candidate List, PIC, Pre-Registration process, EU Ecolabels - Restrictions for Hazardous Substances/Mixtures
para-Nonylphenol
Phenol, 4-nonyl-
Phenol, p-nonyl-
EC Inventory, C&L Inventory, Candidate List, PIC, Registration dossier, Pre-Registration process, Other, Water Framework Directive, Annex X - Priority Substances, EU Ecolabels - Restrictions for Hazardous Substances/Mixtures, Annex I, Part A - Priority Substances & Pollutants in water, IPPC - Industrial Emissions Directive, Annex II - Polluting Substances
Group parents
This substance has been identified as member of the following groups of substances:
4-Nonylphenol, branched and linear
substances with a linear and/or branched alkyl chain with a carbon number of 9 covalently bound in position 4 to phenol, covering also UVCB- and well-defined substances which include any of the individual isomers or a combination thereof
- - Official source
Nonylphenols C6H4(OH)C9H19 - - Expert judgement


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The Role of Digital Tools in Taiwan's Response to Covid-19
Nicholas Martin, 01 May 2020
Among the countries hit by Covid-19, Taiwan stands out for several reasons. Most importantly, Taiwan has managed to keep the number of infections and deaths very low, with 429 cases (as of 30 April) and 6 deaths in total, or 18 cases and 0.3 deaths per million inhabitants. This compares to 161,539 cases and 6467 deaths in Germany (1928 cases and 77 deaths per million).
This fortunate outcome was not obvious. Taiwan's dense human and economic links and geographical proximity to China potentially set the stage for a rapid spread of Covid-19. Over 400,000 Taiwanese citizens work in China; the total number of Taiwanese in China likely numbers over 1 million, out of a national population of about 23.8 million.
Taiwan's fortunate outcome is interesting also because the country implemented neither a lockdown nor mass testing.
This blog entry does not attempt a full account of how Taiwan managed to control Covid-19.[1] The aim is more limited: to explore the role of digital tools in Taiwan's response, and if possible draw some first conclusions about the implications of the Taiwanese experience for current German and European debates.
For two reasons, Taiwan presents an interesting case study in this regard. Firstly, it is a highly digitised society. For instance, some 79% of the population uses a smartphone, and Taiwanese companies are key players in global ICT supply chains. Secondly, Taiwan is a vibrant democracy with robust civil liberties, rule of law, and an active and contentious civil society. Taiwan received a score of 93 (out of 100) in the annual rankings by Freedom House for 2019, comparable to Germany (94/100).
Taiwan's use of digital tools to contain Covid-19 can be divided into four areas; linking databases to identify potential Covid-19 cases, contact tracing, quarantine surveillance, and monitoring of mobility patterns.
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Siri, sum up football for me.
Moise Kean bailing out Leonardo Bonucci four days after his own captain failed to back him in the wake of racist monkey chanting.
Bonucci's wayward pass allowed Krzysztof Piatek to put AC Milan ahead, only for goals from Paulo Dybala and Kean to turn the game on its head. Unlike against Cagliari, the 31-year-old was very keen to get involved with Kean's emphatic celebrations.
The events of Cagliari- in which Kean hit back at monkey chants by celebrating what was just his fifth senior Serie A goal for Juventus- naturally overshadowed what would otherwise have been another clinical step forward for the striker.
The Italian national team was moments away from dying of old age. Then Kean, born in 2000, came along. The striker is now spearheading the next generation, alongside Roma's languid 19-year-old Nicolo Zaniolo and the oldest 20-year-old in world football in Gianluigi Donnarumma.
Kean is putting up numbers that teenage strikers shouldn't be putting up, especially not in the Land of Defending. He hasn't looked back since becoming the first player born in the 2000s to score in one of Europe's top five leagues.
That goal against Bologna, in his fifth league outing for The Old Lady, set the tone for what was to come. When Kean scores, Juventus and Italy win. It's as simple as that.
Kean's strike against Bologna was the first of three match winners, with the other two coming against Empoli in March and in Juventus' last outing, against Milan.
The 19-year-old's other six goals for Juventus and Italy have all come in wins, meaning Kean is yet to come away with anything other than three points in the eight games he's scored in.
If you include Kean's loan spell at Verona last season, in which he scored four times, a 2-2 draw with Torino is the only game in which the 19-year-old's goals haven't been accompanied by three points.
Kean's goal against Milan was a typical marriage of clever, drifting movement and devastating finishing. One minute Ricardo Rodriguez had him in his sights, the next the Swiss defender was watching him bury the ball in the bottom corner.
The fact that he celebrated by pointing towards the Italian badge on Juventus' kit spoke volumes about his class and maturity in the face of significant abuse based purely on the colour of his skin. He had every right to act with anger, but he rose above it all yet again.
Kean has now scored in five consecutive games for club and country, while also joining Paul Pogba as the only Juventus teenager to score at least five league goals for Juventus in a single season this century.
If this was exclusively a football story, Kean would be a superstar. How many other teenage strikers in world football have contributed so much towards winning efforts this season?
Unfortunately, as long as football takes such a lax attitude towards racism, players like Kean will be asked to be superhuman in maintaining their cool and carrying on with their jobs during situations that wouldn't be tolerated in any other walks of life, outside of sport.
A second Serie A title at the age of 19 is richly deserved. When Kean scores, Italy and Juventus win while racists lose. Long may it continue.


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Photographer André Kertész was born in Budapest. Although he was interested in photography early on, he bowed to the expectations of his family by studying business and taking a job as a clerk at the Budapest Stock Exchange.
In his own time, he photographed Hungarian street scenes, the countryside and, as a soldier during World War I, fellow soldiers.
In 1925, when he was 31, Kertész moved to Paris. The 11 years he lived there were among his most productive. He worked as a freelance photographer for many of the best publications of the day, had his first one-man exhibit, and began to see his work collected by museums. With his innovative use of the hand-held camera and pioneering photojournalistic style, Kertész became a major influence on other photographers, including Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Between 1949 and 1962 Kertész worked for Condé Nast in New York City, producing commercial photographs for fashion and style publications. In 1962 he decided to concentrate solely on his own photographs. Kertész's work soon garnered renewed interest, including a one-man show of his photographs at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1964. Kertész died in New York at the age of 91.
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Lager is about to have its craft beer moment.
A winter weekend in Seattle. It's cloudless, warm. People rove the city in shorts and skirts, and it's only early March. On that little bend in Olive Way where the street finally sheds downtown and coils into Capitol Hill, the bar is half full. The bartender looks like truckers look in movies, shoulder-length mullet under a flat-brimmed baseball hat. No one can believe the sunshine pouring in. It's the day after daylight saving, and there's some complaining about having lost an hour. A woman with high bangs and dramatic eyebrows reminds everyone that it partly dates back to farming and farmers' hours. Everyone agrees that, yes, that's just crazy, we should dispense with losing 60 minutes every spring. She says the state legislature is debating that very idea right now, you can look it up.
The color of the beer in everyone's glass, though, that's the great change in the seasonal tide—a bigger deal than the missing clouds, right up there with the shorts. The dark porters and stouts people at the bar typically huddle around this time of year, beers that look like coffee, beers hearty as stew, have disappeared, as if they vanished with that lost hour. In their place, customers order lager. Olympia mostly, some Old Seattle Lager, gold tinted and nearly translucent.
People say lager is about to have its craft beer moment. Allecia Vermillion says it in this issue. Long the land of the all-holy India pale ale, a style of beer that takes full advantage of the state's rich hops harvest and supports those who maintain it (farmers' hours!), Washington is seeing a rise in lager production.
Used to be that if you ordered a lager it marked you, telegraphed that your tastes and opinions in matters of beer (and probably many other things) were not to be taken seriously—like you were too timid to bear the hoppy smack of an ale on the palate, let alone the pucker punch delivered by a double IPA. But lager's stigma, burnished thanks to its association with mass-distributed beers like Coors and Budweiser, is slipping away. After all lager, as Vermillion notes, is a "tricky beer to make—its finicky yeast requires colder temperatures and the ferment is slower." It was only a matter of time before that trickiness appealed to those enamored with craftsmanship.
Back at the bar on Olive Way talk of time drifts into other topics. High Bangs is hosting a baby shower. She doesn't know if she'll ever have a kid herself. The bartender shuts the door on the cooling breeze and refills the glasses, again and again, with the clearest beer he has on tap.


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The following is a list of all regular season and postseason games played between the New Orleans Saints and Buffalo Bills. The two teams have met each other 11 times, with the New Orleans Saints winning 7 games and the Buffalo Bills winning 4 games.
New Orleans Saints lead series 7-4-0
New Orleans vs BuffaloNO vs Buf
Saints (7-2) 7 10 20 10 47
Bills (5-4) 3 0 0 7 10
N. Peterman (BUF), 10-7-79, 0 INT, 1 TD
L. McCoy (BUF), 8-49
M. Thomas (NO), 9-117
P. DiMarco (BUF), 3-21
Saints/Bills Box Score
Bills (3-5) 0 10 0 7 17
T. Lewis (BUF), 39-22-234, 1 INT, 1 TD
F. Jackson (BUF), 15-45, 1 TD
S. Chandler (BUF), 7-72
D. Sproles (NO), 4-0
Bills/Saints Box Score
Bills (1-2) 0 7 0 0 7
T. Edwards (BUF), 35-20-156, 1 INT, 0 TD
F. Jackson (BUF), 18-71
J. Reed (BUF), 6-60
J. Losman (BUF), 15-7-75, 1 INT, 0 TD
W. McGahee (BUF), 16-84, 1 TD
J. Smith (BUF), 2-30
D. Stallworth (NO), 8-129
R. Johnson (BUF), 27-16-160, 3 INT, 0 TD
T. Henry (BUF), 22-58
J. McDaniel (BUF), 4-36
Bills (10-6) 21 7 3 14 45
Saints (6-10) 0 14 7 12 33
J. Linton (BUF), 13-60, 1 TD
W. Perry (NO), 9-45
J. Riemersma (BUF), 3-26
C. Cleeland (NO), 10-112, 1 TD
Bills (11-4) 3 0 7 10 20
J. Kelly (BUF), 28-13-135, 1 INT, 0 TD
T. Thomas (BUF), 24-115, 2 TD
T. Thomas (BUF), 6-62
T. Thomas (BUF), 16-40
E. Martin (NO), 4-100
J. Ferguson (BUF), 25-13-173, 0 INT, 4 TD
J. Cribbs (BUF), 26-84
G. Rogers (NO), 4-28
M. Mosley (BUF), 5-59, 2 TD
Bills (3-0) 7 7 7 14 35
J. Cribbs (BUF), 22-89, 2 TD
J. Cribbs (BUF), 6-52
J. Ferguson (BUF), 19-9-87, 0 INT, 0 TD
O. Simpson (BUF), 20-79
L. Watkins (BUF), 4-24
J. Beasley (NO), 6-47
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11/12/201711/12/17 New Orleans SaintsNO 47 @ Buffalo BillsBUF 10 W Box
10/27/201310/27/13 Buffalo BillsBUF 17 @ New Orleans SaintsNO 35 W Box
09/27/200909/27/09 New Orleans SaintsNO 27 @ Buffalo BillsBUF 7 W Box
10/02/200510/02/05 Buffalo BillsBUF 7 @ New Orleans SaintsNO 19 W Box
12/27/199812/27/98 Buffalo BillsBUF 45 @ New Orleans SaintsNO 33 L Box
10/30/198310/30/83 New Orleans SaintsNO 21 @ Buffalo BillsBUF 27 L Box
11/04/197311/04/73 Buffalo BillsBUF 0 @ New Orleans SaintsNO 13 W
Points Scored: New Orleans Saints 283, Buffalo Bills 193


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Marine Corps Evolving Synthetic Training Environments, Live and Synthetic Training Environments
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ORLANDO, Fla. — As the Marine Corps evolves to meet new challenges posed by great power competitors, the service's leaders are pressing for upgrades to its training systems.
The Corps is syncing its live and synthetic training environments to match operational changes outlined by Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger in his "Force Design 2030" strategy. This document gave the command to the service to abandon the tactics of the past two decades of war in Iraq and Afghanistan and to prepare for future battles against sophisticated adversaries like China and Russia.
"We have, I think unintentionally, put training third or fourth in sequence of our priorities," Berger said at the National Training and Simulation Association's annual Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando, Florida. "We go after a capability, we figure out how we're going to structure the force, we buy platforms, and then we turn to the training guy and say: 'We need a way to train.' That's not going to work going forward."
Service leaders agreed that the Marine Corps must be able to adapt its training systems to meet evolving threats under less familiar operational conditions.
"We're going to have to be able to train like we fight," said Brig. Gen. Matthew Mowery, assistant deputy commandant for aviation. He explained that this means that training exercises can be matched to new strategies, such as expeditionary advanced base operations.
EABO is a form of expeditionary warfare that "involves the employment of mobile, low-signature, operationally relevant, and relatively easy to maintain and sustain naval expeditionary forces from a series of austere, temporary locations ashore or inshore within a contested or potentially contested maritime area in order to conduct sea denial, support sea control or enable fleet sustainment," according to the service.
Accurately replicating the operational environment a Marine could face in training will be key to achieving Berger's vision as laid out in Force Design 2030, said service leaders during a panel at the conference.
Upon taking the helm of Marine Corps Training Command last year, Maj. Gen. Julian Alford said he first tackled how to revamp the training of the service's infantry. The Corps has fielded three new infantry immersion trainers — two on the East Coast and another on the West Coast — that has troops complete tasks under stress, he said.
"The first time that a Marine goes into combat should not really be the first time they go to combat," Alford said. He said that pilots go through multiple flight and combat simulations when they attend flight school before being able to fly in a live aircraft.
"We owe that to our young frontline infantrymen to do the same thing — particularly if we're going to do EABO … with small teams, squads, platoons, companies that are spread out," he said. "That's a different Marine Corps than we have today."
To make training more realistic and immersive, Marine Corps Systems Command is working to close a number of gaps, said Jim Fraley, the command's branch head for range and training area management. The service is currently implementing interactive targets that move and show human behavior.
It is also adapting its training systems to replicate the scenarios Marines might experience in the Indo-Pacific, said Maj. Gen. Austin Renforth of Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command, and the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms in California.
Twentynine Palms developed a force on-force exercise called the MAGTF Warfighting Exercise (or MWX), which was first started in 2019. Designed to expand training focuses and address gaps, the live exercise invites international partners and Marines from different regiments to "adapt to a thinking enemy in a challenging environment where the adversary force is equipped with capabilities more consistent with a pacing threat," Renforth said.
Although Renforth called live exercises like MWX the "gold standard," he acknowledged that not all scenarios can be effectively replicated in a live training environment.
"We'll certainly rely on virtual constructive systems to supplement," he said.
Platforms that leverage synthetic capabilities like the live, virtual, constructive training environment, or LVC-TE, have been one of the command's foremost modernization priorities. LVC uses a combination computer-generated entities and virtual reality to replicate live training. Systems Command was granted authority to start planning stages for the platform in July.
Col. Luis Lara is the program manager for training systems at command. He said that the service was preparing to undergo a milestone decision review in order to enter the execution phase LVC-TE. The command says that an early version is available and will be fielded at Twentynine Palms once the next phase has been approved and funds are allocated.
Renforth stressed that the Corps can improve its ability to replicate real world threats.
"We're trying to create a pacing threat on a shoestring," he said. "We know what the pacing threat looks like. We know what effects they can put on our command-and-control systems."
Mowery explained that Force Design 2030 has caused the Corps to shift its focus away from platforms and instead onto the capabilities they represent.
He said that the Marine Corps used to be focused on ensuring the F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet was capable of keeping up with the technology for pacing threats. Now, the Marine Corps is paying more attention to the capabilities the platform brings to the table and evaluating it based on whether it meets the service's requirements.
"Once a program or a platform no longer meets the requirement or need, then we're moving on to something else," he said.
Mowery said that while the service was training pilots well before Berger released his Force Design 2030 planning guidance, he also realized "we were doing some things wrong." For example, better interoperability — particularly on the ground side of missions — is going to be a greater focus area for the service.
He stated that EABO training systems must be easy to deploy, shock-resistant, and small enough to be used year round, rather than just during large events.
Renforth's focus for force-on-force exercises is teaching future commanders how to make informed and competent decisions, he said. Some leaders are not able to use the new systems Force Design 2030 requires. They must rely on their previous training.
"We've got to get our commanders comfortable with these systems to where they have confidence in the systems to utilize all the information that comes from [them]," he said.
Equipping the vast training ranges at Twentynine Palms with better high-tech networks like 5G would be "a game changer," Renforth said, as it would give leaders a more comprehensive picture of larger exercises in real time. Renforth said that training commanders could also benefit from the ability to replay and record exercises for future review.
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Fraley said that the Marine Corps is working together with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (Virginia) and industry partners in order to develop a device capable of replaying and providing feedback to commanders of fire teams or units.
"The ability to do that instead of having a green book in your hand and [another Marine]Slap tags on people and say,
'You're dead,' would be extremely important," Fraley said, referring to how live infantry training is traditionally executed.
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"That's at the peak of our attention as we develop these new weapons systems today, but also in a way that they harmonize with the gear that's ready for tonight's force and readiness," he said.
The aviation component of the Marine Corps is laser focused on technology that has an open architecture so the service won't need to procure entire new platforms as technology and adversaries evolve, Mowery said.
"We've got to be able to take a platform or system and be able to update that on the fly as needed," he said.
Renforth agreed that the service needs to be more agile in procuring new platforms to keep pace with rapidly changing technology. He noted that the long time it takes to get a system into service can lead to training gaps.
"We'll procure something and we'll say, 'OK, this is a good program. In 2025, we're going to have it.' Well, what do we do in the interim?" he asked. "By the time 2025 comes around and we get this thing, it's outdated."
A persistent challenge for the Marine Corps has been figuring out how to balance being prepared for today's challenges and future fights.
"One of the things we say about Force Design 2030 — that's not an end state. You've got to get 2030 out of your head," Renforth said.
"Really, it's a concept and we're in it now."
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1.1 This Policy sets out the Company's beliefs with respect to diversity within the Company and outlines the processes through which the Company will actively promote diversity across its operations.
1.2 The Company believes that the promotion of diversity within the organisation generally:
1.2.1 enlarges the pool for recruitment of high quality employees;
1.2.2 is likely to encourage employee retention; and
1.2.3 is likely to encourage greater innovation through the inclusion of different perspectives.
1.3 In the compilation of this Policy, the Company has where possible followed the recommendations of the ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations with 2014 Amendments, 3rd edition. If the Company has not followed a particular recommendation it has sought to explain why it has not.
1.4 The Company intends to adopt the relevant recommendations. However, given the size of the Company and its current operations as at the date of adoption of this Policy, the Company is not currently in a position to fully implement the recommendations and statements as set out in this Policy. As the Company grows, it will implement the recommendations and statements as set out in this Policy.
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Board means the Board of the Company;
Diversity is recognising and valuing the unique contribution people can make because of their individual background and different skills, experiences and perspectives. This includes gender, ethnicity, age, marital status, sexual orientation, religious background and culture and involves a commitment to equality and to the treating of one another with respect;
Senior Management means employees of the Company who manage the Company pursuant to the directions and delegations of the Board.
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3.2 Diversity will be promoted by creating a culture of empowering people to act in accordance with this Policy, through appropriate recruitment practices, appropriate training of employees and the implementation of internal mentoring and leadership programs.
3.3 It is noted that in terms of appointments, the Company's policy will be to appoint the best available candidate for any role or position in the Company or on its Board as this is in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders.
4. PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES TO INCREASE DIVERSITY
To assist with improving diversity within the organisation, the Company will develop and introduce programs and initiatives which include:
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(d) provide opportunities for male and female employees to balance their work, life and family responsibilities including flexible work options and return to work programs.
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5.1 The Board will establish measurable objectives for achieving diversity in the Company, as follows:
5.5.1 aim to increase the proportion of women on the Board as vacancies and circumstances allow; and
5.5.2 aim to increase the proportion of women in Senior Management roles as vacancies and circumstances permit.
5.2 Senior Management will be responsible for assessing and reporting to the Board in relation to the Company's progress towards achieving the measurable objectives on an annual basis.
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Castel Sant'Angelo Tickets with Self-Guided Audio Tour
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With its rather rough, round exterior, this old fortress is an easily recognizable monument. Though imposing, it often falls under the shadow of the magnificent St Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums hiding within the walls of the Vatican City. Would you believe that this castle and the Vatican share a connection? Not just through history but also by a secret tunnel! In fact, Castel Sant'Angelo Tickets open doors to a lesser-known side of the Vatican.
The castle was originally built to be a mausoleum for the powerful emperor Hadrian. Later, however, it was converted into a fortress used as a sanctuary for the popes. Today, the fortress houses the Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo (Castel Sant'Angelo National Museum) and featuring a varied collection of sculptures, paintings, military memorabilia and even medieval firearms. A short walking distance from the Vatican, Castel Sant'Angelo is not short on surprises. [readmore]
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Castel Sant'Angelo Tickets with audio guide let you explore the interior of this magnificent National Museum as well as learn all about its history. It sits on the bank of the River Tiber, just a stone's throw away from the Vatican. It's impossible to miss the museum entrance. The bronze statue of Archangel Michael on the top of the castle swaying his sword is unmistakable.
Inside, you will be treated to a vast and eclectic collection of artifacts and memorabilia across history. Besides sophisticated Renaissance interiors like the Sala Paolina with frescoes picturing the life of Alexander the Great, you will get to see a plethora of medieval firearms. In fact, a majority of them are the very weapons that were used to protect the fortress! After a walk through a great piece of history, stunning views of Rome will await you on the castle's terrace.
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As for the Castel Sant'Angelo (Castle of Holy Angel), its history couldn't be more exciting. Commissioned by the emperor Hadrian, the structure's first function was to be a family mausoleum. Later, during the construction of the Aurelian Walls, Hadrian's mausoleum was fortified and became part of the defensive city wall.
From that point, the building slowly transformed into a fortress. Its name though, originated in the 6th century. It was when the Vatican renamed the castle and turned it into a papal fortress. Why? Thanks to an angelic vision of Pope Gregory the Great.
Angelic Vision
Pope Gregory had the vision while crossing the bridge of Hadrian with the penitents' procession on the way to the St. Peter's Basilica. The procession was a plea and a prayer to end the plague that was seizing Rome. The pope and other participants saw the vision of Archangel Michael standing on top of the Mausoleum, wiping his flaming sword and returning it to the sheath. Gregory interpreted it as a sign that the plague was about to end. And it did!
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The secret corridor connecting the castle with the Vatican is famous as Passetto di Borgo. Perhaps the most famous story associated with it is that of Pope Clement VII and his Swiss Guards. They used it to hide from the army of Charles de Bourbon during the sack of Rome in the first half of the 16th century.
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