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Blair confirms that Catholic adoption agencies will not be able to discriminate
The UK government has announced there will be no exemption from anti-discrimination laws for Catholic adoption agencies, but that they will get 21 months to prepare for change, which will make it illegal to discriminate against lesbian and gay people.
Prime Minister Tony Blair, himself a practicing Anglican married to a Catholic, called the outcome "a sensible compromise". The Catholic Church in England and Wales said it was "deeply disappointed" that no exemption had been offered.
The 2006 Equality Act will face a vote in Parliament in February before coming into effect on 6 April 2007.
A spokesperson for the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement told Ekklesia this evening that the decision looked like a "reasonable outcome overall". Secular groups and the Liberal Democrats have said that the change period is too long.
It remains to be seen whether Catholic adoption agencies will eventually hand their service over to others in the voluntary sector. A similar thing has happened in the USA, after pressure from the Vatican.
Mr Blair commented: "There is no place in our society for discrimination. That's why I support the right of gay couples to apply to adopt like any other couple. [This is why] there can be no exemptions for faith-based adoption agencies offering public funded services from regulations that prevent discrimination."
If the plan is approved, religious agencies will have a "statutory duty" to refer gay couples to other agencies until the end of 2008, the BBC has reported.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, who has said that the churches' agencies will close rather than adopt children to gay couples, admitted that the PM "has listened to some of the concerns of the Catholic Church."
The Equality Act, which comes into effect in England, Wales and Scotland, following its implementation in Northern Ireland, outlaws discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities and services on the basis of sexual orientation – bringing the law into line with provisions outlawing discrimination on the basis of race, gender, disability, age – and religion.
Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly described the announcement as a "breakthrough" on what had been an "extremely complex issue".
She has been attacked for allegedly over-accommodating Catholic arguments for an opt-out, which critics say is a clash of interests given her own faith position, and her membership of the Opus Dei movement.
But Ms Kelly's integrity has been defended not only by the Evangelical Alliance, which occupies a very different place on the Christian spectrum, but also by gay Anglican priest Martin Reynolds – LGCM's press officer, who has brought up a fostered son with his partner of 27 years.
Mr Reynolds said last week that he thought many remarks about Ms Kelly had been intemperate and unfair. LGCM and Changing Attitude, an Anglican group affirming the place of gay people in the church, had both opposed an exemption for the Catholic Church.
Simon Barrow, co-director of the UK Christian think tank Ekklesia, writing on the Guardian website last week, had argued that needing to comply with equalities legislation in the public arena "may be the best spiritual outcome for the church", recalling it to the anti-exclusionary gospel message.
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INTERPOL Discovers €1.5m COVID-19 Face Masks Fraud Traced to Nigeria
INTERPOL "unmasked an international COVID-19 fraud" involving three European countries, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands. Nigeria was mentioned, as the source to an account that was to receive a fraudulent transfer.
The report by Interpol titled 'Unmasked: International COVID-19 fraud exposed' said:
It all started with an email address and website which appeared to be linked to a legitimate company in Spain selling face masks. Unbeknownst to the buyers, the site was a fake and their legitimate email addresses had been compromised.
Through email correspondence, the company initially claimed to have 10 million masks, only for the delivery to fall through. As consolation, they then referred the buyers to a 'trusted' dealer in Ireland. The Irish middleman promised to put them in touch with a different supplier, this time in the Netherlands.
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On climate alarmists and other discarded relics
http://www.conradmblack.com/1136/on-climate-alarmists-and-other-discarded-relics
It is with inexpressible pleasure that I reply to the attack on me this week by Dr. Michael Mann, the discredited harpy of the now almost defunct global warming movement.
Readers may recall that last week, Mann made a cameo appearance in my column about the coalition industriously cobbled together by Naomi Klein, of Marxists, eco-alarmists, native-activists, and a congeries of opinionated useful idiots rounded up in the lounges of the Toronto International Film Festival in what called itself the Leap movement. I referred to him in citing the fact that "Dr. Mann's renowned hockey stick has been exposed as an infamous fraud."
The "hockey stick," the most important graphic in the entire climate debate, held that the world's average temperature proceeded along for centuries in a straight line like the shaft of a hockey stick lying flat, but had begun a sharp 45-degree climb like the up-raised blade of the stick. Of course, as I will show, this theory has been exposed as complete bunk and while extreme environmental vigilance and ever greater research are called for, the demand for a savage reduction of all aspects of the use of carbon-derived energy has been abandoned by all but the eco-Janissaries who went too far out on the limb to come back, in the disorderly retreat from global warming to climate change. The world's average temperature has risen one centigrade degree in eighty years, the last 20 years of which is described by the eco-terrorists as "a pause." But Mann, who built a world-wide cult of personality and scientific eminence on his hockey stick, has become a laughingstock.
He responded grumpily to my very short reference to him, and came snorting out of the cyber-undergrowth with a fierce little Tweet: "Climate change denial, thy name is convicted and imprisoned felon, Conrad Black; (that) is the best climate change denial has to offer these days." He referred his beleaguered followers to my entry in Sourcewatch, a pastiche of bowdlerized, stale-dated and malicious snippets from leftist media outlets, such as the Guardian, and individual commentators in the New York Times and CBC. None of the cited authorities was more recent than my initial conviction in June 2007 on three counts of fraud and one of obstruction of justice (of 17 original charges, including, in the usual hyperactive shock and awe manner of American prosecutors, racketeering, money laundering, and embezzlement). Mann's chosen and recommended authority implies that I was sent to prison for six-and one half years and that that was the end of a squalid story of corporate pillaging.
It is not the purpose of this column to relitigate my case. Before returning to the fleeing sniper Dr. Mann, I would just remind readers that, in fact, all counts against me were abandoned, rejected by jurors, or vacated by the Supreme Court, and that it was an honour to fight an unjust prosecution as long and successfully as I did, and to have served three years and two weeks in prison doing it. It was in some ways a rewarding experience, and I made many friends in prison (generally a more interesting group than the membership of the Toronto Club), with whom I have maintained contact, including some members of the Bureau of Prisons regime, who well know what a corrupt and evil system U.S criminal justice is. Mann's cited source, about me, is as authoritative as Mann himself has been with his hockey stick, and neglected even a hint of events subsequent to my initial conviction, including the fact that I collected the largest libel settlement in Canadian history, $5 million, from the sponsors of the initial allegations against me.
Mann also tweeted falsely that I was "the best climate change denial has to offer." Scientifically renowned skeptics on the subject have virtually shut down the original zealots, and Mann is clinging to his hockey stick like a passenger on the Titanic grasping a raft. I commend to readers Climate Change: the Facts, edited by Alan Moran and published by the Institute of Public Affairs of Australia, and Mark Steyn's edited "A Disgrace to the Profession" (published by Stockade), exposing the hockey stick, in the words of more respected scientists than Mann, as "a brazen fraud" and a "crock of obvious drivel" and similar terms, for hundreds of pages. There is a full explanation of the long warming pause (despite massive increases in carbon emissions) and of "the growing chasm between the predictions of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the real-world temperatures."
These books make the point that the hockey stick theory abolished "the very concept of 'natural variability' and insisted that nothing happened in the global climate until the 20th century, and it did so using a handful of unreliable tree-rings processed through a (spurious) statistical method." Mann has sued Steyn (disclosure: a good friend of many years) for defaming him, although the civil tort of defamation, as a practical matter, has not existed in the United States since the New York Times v. Sullivan case in 1964, which required proof of intent to defame in the case of a public figure. Mark didn't write much more scornfully about Mann's scientific impersonation of Rocket Richard and Wayne Gretzky than I did, so let me be clear that in these matters Michael Mann is a sleazy charlatan, and he is welcome to try the same legal trick on me, in Canada, where there is a civil legal sanction against defamation, for which, as for much else in this country, I am grateful.
That imbroglio began when Steyn wrote a 270-word blog, which the dysfunctional and obscene U.S. justice system, as he points out, has not been able to bring to trial in 270 weeks, although his legal bills have exceeded $1 million. Mann went jurisdiction-shopping and sued in the District of Columbia, though neither he nor Mark live in that jurisdiction. Mark invoked the statute barring "Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation" (SLAPP), which is designed to prevent the muzzling of public adversaries by tangling them up in lawsuits. This drove the issue into an apparently endless series of appeals about the appealability of the District of Columbia's anti-SLAPP law, and whether there is a right to appeal that law. Only in America could the asphyxiating legal cartel reduce the right to justice to such a procedural quagmire. Steyn has done what he can to get this to trial and answered Mann's discovery requests more than a year ago, but Mann has determined that Steyn's counter-claims cannot be pursued until the anti-SLAPP issue has been resolved, and that could go right through the appellate system, a veritable high-rise honey pot for greedy American lawyers.
Rotten though the American legal system is, and despite the fact that most of these organizations do not agree with Steyn's views on climate change (nor necessarily with Mann's either), amicus curiae briefs supporting Mark's position have been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Reporters' Committee for Press Freedom, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associations of American Publishers and of Alternative News Media (e.g. Village Voice), NBC Universal, Bloomberg, Time, USA Today, the Washington Post, and many other publications and groups. All condemn Mann's tactics as an assault on the free press.
As Steyn acknowledged in a blog of June 8, 2015, "I won't deny that there are days when I wished I didn't have my head in some interminable brief and could be working on my next book, or album, or on the lam holed up in a Swiss clinic awaiting the removal of my facial-construction bandages and the delivery of my new Azerbaijani passport. But the moment passes, and I can assure you I'll see this thing through — and I'll win." I know the feeling, aggravated as it generally is by the ambivalence of counsel about everything except collecting their foaming and proliferating invoices.
All supporters of freedom of expression, including those more alarmed at the current state of the climate than Steyn and I are (though we both are certainly concerned), should hope that he does persevere and does win. And those cajoled or dragooned into Naomi Klein's Marxist-led Leap coalition should be aware of the flimsy basis of their purported belief that the hockey stick will pastoralize and dematerialize the pecuniary society of thousands of years. Shame on Michael Mann and shame on those responsible for the tenebrous legal jungle in which he hides, and which is strangling the Sweet Land of Liberty.


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Posted on May 26, 2017 by carlosdev
Raindrops keep falling on our heads.
(2017) Biographical Drama (HBO) Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Rocky Carroll, Reg E. Cathey, Leslie Uggams, Courtney B. Vance, Ellen Barkin, Peter Gerety, Adriane Lenox, Roger Robinson, John Douglas Thompson, Karen Reynolds, Sylvia Grace Crim, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jaedon Godley, Kyanna Simone, Jane Rumbaua. Directed by George C. Wolfe
In the past half a century there have been some amazing medical advances. Some of these breakthroughs have come as a result of a strain of cells known as HeLa, which have helped find, among other things, the polio vaccine. So what's the story behind those cells?
In 1951, Henrietta Lacks (Goldsberry) was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore where she fought hard but eventually succumbed. While she was alive some of her cells were harvested without her knowledge and researchers were amazed to discover that the cells remained alive and were reproducing and would be indefinitely. The cells became well-known throughout the medical research community but few people knew where they came from.
Eventually word got out that the cells had been taken from Henrietta Lacks. Her daughter Deborah (Winfrey), or Dale as she is called by friends and family, never knew her mother being only two years old when she passed away. In time her brothers Sonny (Carroll), Day (Robinson), Zakkariya (Cathey) and Lawrence (Thompson) as well as sister Barbara (Lenox) and her mother's friend Sadie (Uggams) – who have discovered that their mom was the source of these wonder cells that have made pharmaceutical and medical research companies millions upon millions of dollars – give up on getting any reparations, particularly when charlatans like the colorfully named Sir Lord Keenan Kester Cofield (Vance) put them through hell.
When freelance journalist Rebecca Skloot (Byrne) wants to write a book about Henrietta she is met with resistance and outright hostility by the Lacks family and understandably so, considering how they've been exploited and condescended to over the years. Rebecca is patient and persistent and eventually she wins over Dale, the most wary of the group. As Dale and Rebecca go on a journey to find out who Henrietta was the two begin to bond unexpectedly especially as that journey yields far more than the women expected.
I've noticed that whenever Oprah Winfrey gets involved in a project, it behooves me to set the bar high. It's a very rare occasion that movies she is part of aren't the highest of quality. Once again, she shows that she's not just a talk show host, losing herself in the role of the embittered and troubled Dale – whose sexual assault as a teen is part of what informs her paranoia and violent mood swings – so much so that you forget it's Oprah. That's an accomplishment when you consider how much her personality has become part of her brand.
But she's not the only reason to see this movie either. She is surrounded by a strong cast, including Vance as the oily con man, Cathey as a severely troubled ex-con and Byrne as the sweet but strong-willed journalist who may come off as a bit of a sorority girl but can give back as well as she gets when push comes to shove. It was wonderful as well to see Uggams – a fixture in African-American movies and TV back in the day – onscreen, but she's not there as a token Name. The girl can still bring it.
Cinematographer Sofian El Fani – best known for the wonderful Blue is the Warmest Color – brings an autumnal beauty to both urban Baltimore and rural Virginia, adding a sepia-toned hue to the flashbacks involving Henrietta (a scene on a Ferris Wheel is particularly delightful). Branford Marsalis adds a jazz-infused score that captures the vibe of the era, both the 50s during Henrietta's story and in the 90s during Dale's.
Wolfe plays this as part character study and part detective story and the two elements mesh very well. The family's pain is evident throughout, having lost their mother at so young an age (she was just 31 when she passed away) and her loss has resonated throughout their lives in very tangible ways. For Deborah, it meant being moved in with an aunt and uncle, the latter of which ended up sexually abusing her. That is part of Henrietta's immortality, the loss that those who loved her still felt. However, there was joy as well, as Dale and Zakkariya see their mother's living cells through a microscope and realize that a part of her is still alive and with them. It's a powerful moment in a movie that is full of them.
The filmmaking is efficient as Wolfe essentially sets up the whole story in an opening montage of animation and graphics that set the stage for the film in about two and a half minutes. It's an impressive feat, one that young filmmakers should take note of. This could easily have been a three hour movie but Wolfe utilizes his time wisely.
Yes there will be waterworks and tissue paper should be kept on hand if you intend to fire up HBO and watch this puppy. While the race card is definitely in the deck, the filmmakers choose not to play it which I think makes the movie even stronger. Of course racism played a part in the exploitation of Henrietta Lacks but you're not hit over the head with it. The filmmakers assume that the viewer understands that and move forward with the story which is not so much about Henrietta but about Dale. What could be more powerful a story than a daughter mourning the loss of a mother she never truly knew?
REASONS TO GO: There are some very strong performances, particularly from Winfrey and Uggams. The story is very moving, the family's pain palpable throughout. The film possesses great cinematography and a great score.
REASONS TO STAY: There is a bit of cinematic shorthand going on here.
FAMILY VALUES: There is a scene of rape, some violence and a bit of profanity.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: In an interview on NPR, Rebecca Skloot said that the real Deborah Lacks predicted that the book would be a best seller, that Oprah would produce a movie based on the book and that Oprah would play her. Although Deborah died in 2009 just before the book came out, all of her predictions came to pass.
BEYOND THE THEATERS: Google Play, HBO, YouTube (please note that Google Play and YouTube will not be available for purchase until after initial HBO run is complete)
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Loving
NEXT: Chuck
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Posted on February 22, 2016 by carlosdev
Deadpool is knocking the movie industry sideways.
(2016) Superhero (20th Century Fox) Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, Gina Carano, T.J. Miller, Brianna Hildebrand, Stefan Kapicic (voice), Michael Benyaer, Karan Soni, Leslie Uggams, Rob Hayter, Greg LaSalle, Hugh Scott, Donna Yamamoto, Kyle Cassie, Taylor Hickson, Randal Reeder, Jed Rees, Style Dayne, Aatash Amir, Chad Riley, Emily Haine. Directed by Tim Miller
We're all used to the ponderous superhero movies with tons of special effects as we see how the hero went from a young nobody to being a powerful and charismatic hero, saving the world (or at least New York) from threats that even Schwarzenegger at his best couldn't overcome.
Wade Wilson (Reynolds) is an ex Special Forces vet with 41 kills to his credit. These days he makes a living by being a bad guy taking out worse guys, as he puts it. He hangs out in the St. Agnes School, which is really a bar where mercenaries hang out awaiting assignments and the bartender Weasel (Miller) is Wilson's best friend.
Then Wilson meets Vanessa (Baccarin), a cocktail waitress and hooker who agrees to go out on a date with him and eventually, the two become a couple. But when things are going good, fate has a way of laying the smack down on us. Wilson is diagnosed with terminal cancer. While drinking away his troubles, he is met in the bar by a recruiter (Rees) for an experimental medical program that can cure Wade's cancer but also give him superpowers. With nothing to lose, he leaves Vanessa's bed in the middle of the night and heads for the clinic (which is more like a warehouse) overseen by psychotic scientist/super villain Ajax (Skrein) who hates his given name of Francis. The process which it takes to cure Wade is a brutal one and an excruciating one.
When he escapes the compound after Ajax and his super-strong minion Angel Dust (Carano) – whom Wilson describes as a less angry Rosie O'Donnell – torture him with a modified hyperbaric chamber, Wade is disfigured and pissed off. Donning a costume with a mask so nobody can see his face, he adopts the name Deadpool after a pastime at the bar, and goes on the hunt for his nemesis.
In the meantime, the X-Men in the form of Colossus (Kapicic/LaSalle) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Hildebrand) are trying to recruit Deadpool for their team although 'pool is far too focused on getting revenge to bother with saving the world. Not that he's against saving the world, as long as he gets the girl, puts the bad guys into the ground and has plenty of chimichangas afterwards.
Reynolds has been trying to get this made for six years, ever since the unsatisfying appearance of the Merc with a Mouth in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Fox has been resistant to the idea of doing an R-rated superhero movie and for once, the filmmakers got their way and I'm sure the executives at Fox are happy that they did. The movie has been a phenomenal success; already some pundits are talking that it will force the industry to rethink the entire release concept of tentpole blockbusters.
I don't know if this will eventually be that kind of game-changer but it is excessively entertaining. As has been noted basically everywhere, the tone is irreverent (the opening credits proclaim the movie was directed by "An Overpaid Tool" and has similar credits for most of the cartoonish opening) and the main character often addresses the audience directly, or makes references to the fact that he's in the movie as when he tells Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Colossus that they are the only two X-Men he ever sees despite living in a huge mansion: "I guess the producers couldn't afford any more X-Men" he says snidely.
Reynolds was born to play this role. He has the right amount of attitude and the right amount of physicality and somewhat importantly, the right amount of looks. He's also willing to take a bit of a right cross to the career jaw and make fun of his own image even as his movie is lampooning the genre and Marvel in one fell swoop. Reynolds is engaging and even though his character is violent, annoying and a little bit psychotic, he ends up carrying the audience's interest throughout.
The rest of the cast is for the most part pretty much unknown although Baccarin, best known for her stint in Firefly, makes for a fine love interest, Carano (a former MMA fighter) a mostly line-less henchwoman and Skrein a suave villain who gets annoyed whenever his real name is used. While Skrein isn't the most charismatic man to hit Hollywood ever, he nonetheless fulfills the role of an urbane British villain nicely.
I think overall the movie captures the spirit of the comic book pretty well, which is good news for fans. If there are any sticking points it's that the movie slows down a little near the end when it should be building momentum, and the excessive gore and profanity may be a little much for those sensitive for such things. And parents, please do NOT bring your kids to this. Unless you feel comfortable dropping the F-bomb in front of them regularly and exposing them to scenes of heads being sliced off of their necks, this isn't meant for kids. I don't know how many people have to say this however many different ways – and I still see idiot parents bringing their six and seven year old kids to the movie. Get a flippin' babysitter if you want to see it that badly.
In any case, this is the movie we asked for, it's the movie we deserve. It's fun and while I get the sense that Fox kind of hedged their bets with the budget, it's clear that there will be lots more Deadpool goodness in our futures. And that suits me just fine.
REASONS TO GO: A fun romp throughout. Stays true to the spirit of the comic book.
REASONS TO STAY: The gore and profanity may upset the sensitive.
FAMILY VALUES: Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygawd! Do not take your children to this movie. If they're under ten chances are it will be too much for them. There's a TON of f-bombs, gratuitous violence (always the best kind), and some graphic nudity.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Became the first R-rated film to open with more than $100 million at the box office.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Super
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Q: How do I extract a RAR archive in Linux How can we extract a .rar archive in Linux?

A: First, download unrar from here.
Then use the following command :
unrar x -o- -y file.rar /usr/local/file/

A: In a terminal:
sudo apt-get install unrar-free

Then:
unrar x blah.rar

A: If you don't want to bother with the terminal, you can download the engrampa package for your distribution or file-roller.
Depending of your linux, I will tell you how to get them.

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6) Have some sort of understand of wiki coding.
When you request any form of special rights, it will take around 5 hour - 2 days before your request is viewed. A admin will investiage all your edits, contributions, user page, talk page, messages to other users. After being viewed if you meet all the criteria above the admin will approve the request. If you do not meet the criteria then it will be declined and you won't be able to request again for nearly 1 month.
If your request is approved, then a 5 day community vote will take place. If the majority approves then you will be granted the rights you requested. If the majority does not approve then you will have to wait 1 month before requesting any rights again.
Hello I am ( user name ) I am requesting rollback rights because I feel that I have done a great job on this wiki. I am requesting rollback rights because I feel I can help this wiki fight vandals and keep all edits in good faith.
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Sten Sture le Jeune (en suédois : Sten Sture den yngre) né en 1492, mort le  est administrateur du royaume ou régent de Suède (Riksföreståndare en suédois) de 1512 à 1520, à l'époque de l'Union de Kalmar.

Biographie

Sten Sture est le fils du régent Svante Nilsson Sture et de Iliana Gisladotter Gädda, héritière d'Ulvåsa.

À la mort de son père, c'est le chef du parti pro-danois au Conseil du royaume Erik Trolle, partisan de l'Union, qui est élu administrateur du royaume. Sten Sture, âgé de seulement 19 ans, s'appuie alors sur les troupes fidèles à son père, promet de continuer les négociations avec le gouvernement danois et se fait reconnaître régent à la place de Erik Trolle, qui se retire.

En réalité, Sten Sture envisagea de maintenir l'indépendance suédoise pour y établir son pouvoir personnel. Il relève à cette époque le nom de « Sture », qui est celui de son arrière-grand-mère paternelle Karin Sture, issue d'une famille homonyme de celle du régent Sten Sture l'Ancien.

La disparition du roi  de Suède, en 1513, et l'avènement de son fils  rend le conflit inévitable avec le Danemark. Sur le plan intérieur, l'élection en 1514 au siège d'Upsal de Gustave Trolle, le fils d'Erik, renforce l'opposition au jeune régent. Le nouvel archevêque tente d'imposer l'autonomie de l'Église face au pouvoir politique. Sten Sture expose en 1515 à l'assemblée d'Arboga le différend qui l'oppose au prélat. Ayant obtenu l'appui qu'il souhaitait, il entame un conflit armé contre l'archevêque, qui est déposé et doit s'enfuir au Danemark tandis que l'archevêque de Lund excommunie ses adversaires.

 estime alors la situation propice à une reprise en main de la Suède, mais il est repoussé à Brännkyrka en 1517 et à Vädla en 1518. En 1520, il franchit la frontière entre le Halland et la Västergötland à la tête d'une armée de mercenaires allemands, français et écossais. Il se heurte à l'armée des chevaliers et des paysans suédois qui est battue le  à Bogesund. Sten Sture est mortellement blessé au cours d'une rencontre  et il meurt deux jours plus tard, le 3 février, sur le lac Mälar pris par les glaces, dans le traîneau qui le ramène à Stockholm.

Sa veuve Christine Gyllenstierna, devenue régente de facto, tente en vain de défendre Stockholm contre les Danois, mais elle doit accepter la reddition en . Malgré les promesses d'amnistie du roi , les partisans de Sten Sture sont condamnés pour hérésie et exécutés lors du Bain de sang de Stockholm. L'horreur provoquée par ce massacre entraîne dès 1521 l'insurrection de Gustave Vasa.

Union et descendance

Sten Sture avait épousé Christine Gyllenstierna, arrière-petite-fille du roi , dont :
  (1512-1527/1528)
 Iliana (née en 1514)
 Madeleine (1516-1521)
  (1517-1567)
 Anne (née en 1518)
 Gustave (1519-1520)

Bibliographie

Naissance en 1492
Roi de Suède
Personnalité suédoise du XVIe siècle
Décès en février 1520
Militaire suédois mort au combat

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Joerg Heidrich, Bayer Berkeley site head, stands at the construction site of a new $100 million drug manufacturing and testing facility in Berkeley on April 29, 2015.
BERKELEY — Bayer HealthCare is spending $100 million over the next two years to build a product testing facility here for a new hemophilia drug, a project that will create 325,000 hours of construction work, officials said in a news conference Wednesday.
Bayer's Berkeley campus, which spans three city blocks on 7th Street between Dwight Way and Grayson Street, manufactures a drug for people with hemophilia A called Kogenate. It is expecting FDA approval late this year or early next year on a second hemophilia drug called Kovaltry to be produced at the same site.
Kogenate is the company's second-biggest drug with $1.2 billion in sales last year behind Xarelto, a blood thinner, that had $1.86 billion in sales in 2014.
Heidrich said the company invested an additional $100 million at the same 45-acre site in Berkeley in 2009 for a lab to produce the second hemophilia drug for which it is waiting for approval.
He said Bayer has been producing hemophilia drugs in Berkeley for 25 years. Last year the Berkeley site paid $71.3 million in local, state and federal taxes.
The new building, with an array of extremely expensive scientific equipment, will be used to quality test both drugs during the manufacturing process, a spokeswoman said.
Hemophilia A is a genetic disorder that prevents blood from clotting. According to the National Hemophilia Association website, the disorder affects about 20,000 people in the U.S. People with the disorder often bleed longer and can bleed internally or externally from cuts. Bayer's current hemophilia drug is shipped to 80 countries around the world from Berkeley.
Bayer HealthCare is the largest private employer in Berkeley, with 1,500 employees. Aside from the construction jobs to build the new facility, the company will not be adding permanent jobs.


Petroleum flow equipment manufacturer needs to reduce the cost of purchasing expensive coolants, improve the quality of existing coolant to ensure longer tool life and a quality finish of the end product.
Reduces new coolant purchases up to 75 percent by removing tramp oils.
Decreases hazardous waste disposal costs up to 90 percent by recycling coolants.
Increases tool life due to cleaner coolant.
Enhances employee health by eliminating bacteria in coolant that can cause dermatitis.
Cameron International is a leading provider of flow equipment products, systems and services to worldwide oil, gas and process industries. The company generates annual bookings in excess of $5 billion with more than 16,000 employees at more than 250 locations around the world.
Cameron's Malaysia sub-sea facility manufactures valves for deep-sea wells ranging from a few hundred to thousands of feet (meters) below the surface. Specialty valves can range in size from as small as a file cabinet drawer to as large as a small vehicle. The facility's 32 machining centers run 24/7 to keep up with demand.
Like most machine shops, Cameron is continually looking for ways to reduce the purchase of costly coolant while improving the quality of coolant to ensure longer tool life and a quality finish of the end product.
"We were experiencing excessive coolant usage due to heavy tramp oils at our machining centers," said Chew Siew-Ling, Project Operations Manager at Cameron's Malaysia plant.
To compound the issue, the warm and very humid climate in Malaysia – average of 80° F (27° C) and 80 percent humidity year-round – is a perfect environment for breeding bacteria that is quick to spoil expensive coolant.
"Bacteria present in the coolant was causing it to become rancid in a short span of time," noted Siew-Ling.
While the operation employed several other types of filtration technologies, none offered the results Siew-Ling knew Cameron needed to combat tramp oils and bacteria. An online search led him to PRAB, who offered a depth and breadth of filtration units focused on solving industry issues. In specific, the Guardian coolant recycling system appeared to be just what Cameron needed.
PRAB's Guardian systems are widely used to recycle and reuse coolants from machining centers, lathes and mills, as well as oily wastewater from pressure wash stations and other applications. Standard systems can process up to 1,500 gph (5,678 lph) or 25 gpm (95 lpm). "The Guardian system recycles used coolants by filtering solid contaminants down to 5 micron clarity and coalescing free-floating and mechanically dispersed oils to less than 1 percent," said Mark Graf, Sales Manager for PRAB.
A continuous overflow process utilizing two, 800-gallon (3,028-liter) tanks prevents rancidity by ensuring clean fluid spills into the dirty tank. This eliminates bacteria from forming in the clean tank due to pooling. In addition, the Guardian's continual overflow process polishes the coolant as it repeatedly passes through the liquid/solid filter as well as the coalescing filter for liquid/liquid separation.
Bacteria growth is retarded through injection of Ozone into the coolant through an automated coolant manager. Graf, who assisted with the installation, ran a test to ensure the system was inhibiting bacterial growth.
Installation was completed with a fork-lift truck to position the unit. Plant-supplied electrical, air (40 psi) and a water source for automatic coolant make-up were the only utilities needed.
Cameron initially installed the Guardian system as a standalone unit. As such, a worker transports coolant to and from the Guardian system for several of the facility's machining centers. In the future, the facility will integrate the Guardian unit into a plant-wide coolant system that will include overhead piping for on-demand delivery coolant that will keep the concentration in balance and at the proper fill level for each machine.
"We're looking forward to a system payback in a relatively short period of time by reducing new fluid purchases up to 75 percent while reducing hazardous waste disposal by up to 90 percent," said Siew-Ling. "We're also gaining efficiencies in time spent making up coolant lost due to evaporation or drag out with a properly proportioned mix from the automated make-up system." Typical payback of a Guardian coolant recycling system is between six and nine months.


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Jules van Hest (Baarlo, 16 februari 1980) is een Nederlandse radio-dj.

Carrière
Van Hest start zijn radiocarrière bij een lokale zender Omroep P&M. Hierna komt hij terecht bij de Radio 538 dj school en na een aantal maanden krijgt hij een nachtprogramma op deze zender.

Na twee jaar vertrekt hij naar de Nederlandse Antillen om bij Dolfijn FM de ochtendshow te gaan presenteren. Na 1,5 jaar keert hij terug naar Nederland, waar hij aan de slag gaat bij de regionale radiozender Hot Radio.

Van september 2007 tot medio 2009 presenteert hij iedere zondag het programma Ook Goeiemorgen op Radio Veronica. In juni 2008 komt ook de zaterdagochtend erbij.

In maart 2009 begint hij bij TMF Radio.

Van augustus 2014 t/m begin januari 2018 maakt Van Hest alle dagen van 9.00 tot 13.00 uur een programma op Qmusic Limburg.

Sinds 2022 is hij invaller op Radio 10.

Nederlands radio-dj


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News • Education / January 22, 2016
Indianapolis Lawyer Named President Of Taylor University
Indianapolis Lawyer Named President Of Taylor UniversityThe Taylor University board of trustees announced the selection of P. Lowell Haines on Thursday. Haines is a 1975 graduate of the Christian liberal arts college in Upland.urlTaylor University, Upland, P. Lowell Haines, Eugene Habecker2016-01-22T00:00:00-05:002016-01-22T00:00:00-05:00
UPLAND, Ind. (AP) — An Indianapolis lawyer has been selected as the next president of Taylor University in eastern Indiana.
The Taylor University board of trustees announced the selection of P. Lowell Haines on Thursday. Haines is a 1975 graduate of the Christian liberal arts college in Upland, 75 miles northeast of Indianapolis. Haines has been a member of the board of trustees for 13 years. He is a partner at Faegre Baker Daniels, working as the firm's nonprofit team leader.
Haines will take over as president on June 1, replacing outgoing Taylor President Eugene Habecker, who announced in May he would retire at the end of this school year. He has served as president since 2005.
Haines was vice president for student development at the university from 1985 to 1987 and also served as dean of students, director of student programs and as a residence hall director.
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Education / January 13, 2020
Indiana University Set To Commemorate 200th Anniversary
The Day of Commemoration events are scheduled for Jan. 20. It represents the 200th anniversary of Indiana Gov. Jonathan Jennings signing of a bill that led to the school's 1820 founding.
Franklin College Fires President Following Wisconsin Arrest
Franklin College in Indiana has fired its president after he was arrested in Wisconsin on suspicion of using a computer to facilitate a sex crime and attempted child enticement.
Education / December 30, 2019
Indiana University Testing License Plate Cameras For Parking
Indiana University has started a yearlong test of using license plate reading cameras for parking regulation enforcement on its Bloomington campus.
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Networking in the job search involves connecting and interacting with people who can be helpful to you (and whom you can help in return). You want to develop an informal information network you will engage with to gather knowledge about available jobs opportunities.
You created a Company Contacts list when you researched your targeted companies. Now you need to expand beyond your targeted companies to encompass your personal network with whom you interact. Your basic network will include friends, acquaintances, immediate family, distant relatives, professional colleagues, supervisors, and local business professionals (such as your doctor, lawyer, banker, minister, etc.). You should expand this to include individuals you know and have interacted with over the past 10 or more years.
There are many resources to assist you in identifying and extending your network through new associations and organizations. These resources are listed in the Networking Checklist.
Military Associations – As a transitioning service member, you have the opportunity to join a variety of military associations, many of which offer some form of job search assistance. Being a member of such an association significantly expands your opportunity to network with other veterans, many of whom are employed in the private sector. Consider joining one or more of these associations.
Professional/Trade Associations – Professional or Trade Associations offer you more networking opportunities within your career field and beyond your military connections. You can identify and connect with fellow professionals by researching and joining these types of associations.
Community Organizations – Joining organizations in your community, such as the Rotary Club, Lions Club, faith-based organizations, etc., is a good way to build your local network.
Social Media Sites – By leveraging the power of the Internet, you can extend your networking activities beyond your basic network. Social media tools such as Linkedin, Twitter, and Facebook can maximize the chances that your friends, as well as people you may not yet know but share a common interest, will help you identify job leads.
For more tips on using social media effectively in your job search, visit the Corporate Gray Blog and search on "social media" articles. For a more comprehensive explanation of social media job search tools, check out the book Social Media and Your Job Search: Maximizing your Network for a Successful Transition available on the Transition Guide page of Corporate Gray Online and the Corporate Gray Blog.
School/College Alumni Associations – Check to see if your high school or college has an alumni association that offers networking opportunities among members. If your school does not offer this, the social media sites are another way to connect with classmates. For example, you can do a people search at LinkedIn by schools, among many other filters.
Respect your contacts' time – Be respectful, mindful, and appreciative of the time others are giving you. Make sure you call people at times that are convenient for them. Plan what to say ahead of time to help you be concise. Don't expect an immediate response to your request for assistance or pressure them with repeat calls.
Research your contacts – Do research before you meet with someone to ensure your questions are relevant and to avoid wasting their time. LinkedIn is a great resource for this.
Respect your contacts' privacy – Always respect your contact's name. Get permission before you use a person's name as a referral or a source of information.
Reciprocate – Networking should be two-way. Share information you've gained while networking if it can help others. Periodically send your connections important information, articles, or relevant upcoming events to stay in touch and reciprocate the support. If you're asked for an article or phone number, jot it down and follow through on your promise to send it to them. Offer assistance to your contacts in the future.
Show gratitude – Thank everyone who helps you with leads, ideas, or advice. A quick phone call or hand-written thank you note is always welcome.
Follow up – Follow up on leads or referrals quickly. Also follow up with your contacts – keep them informed of your progress.
Stay organized – Keep a file of contact information to help you stay organized and in touch with people in your network. Use Networking Contacts or a business card organizer to keep not only contact information but also the date you contacted them and useful notes/reminders about the contact.


India should seek a regional solution to the Afghan conflict with the help of China, Iran and Russia.
After the ongoing review of the war strategy in Afghanistan and its efficacy, President Barack Obama will decide whether the planned exit of US and Nato troops will commence in July 2011.
The broad goal of the US-Nato-ISAF war strategy in Afghanistan is to ensure that Afghanistan acquires the stability that is necessary to be able to control its territory so as to prevent the Taliban-al-Qaeda (Taliqaeda) combine from operating successfully from its soil against the US and its allies and to reduce the risk of a return to civil war.
According to a Council for Foreign Relations task force the US objective in Pakistan is, "To degrade and defeat terrorist groups that threaten American interests from its territory and to prevent turmoil that would imperil the Pakistan state and risk the security of Pakistan's nuclear programme." The US also seeks to prevail on Pakistan to stop providing support to the Afghan Taliban and Pakistani terrorist organisations.
Time is running out for the achievement of the political and military objectives laid down by the coalition forces. Hence, the war strategy has been modified by General Petraeus from 'clear-hold-build' during the command of General McChrystal to 'clear-hold-transfer', although Petraeus shares McChrystal's ideas on rebuilding and reconstruction and had supported them as the C-in-C central command.
The emphasis in Afghanistan is now on training the Afghan national army and police forces as quickly as possible and gradually transferring the responsibility for security to them while simultaneously conducting intensive counter-insurgency operations with the troops reinforced by the surge of 2010 to break the back of the Taliqaeda insurrection in areas like Helmand, Marja and Kandahar.
The US seeks to transfer all combat responsibilities to the Afghan security forces by 2014. President Obama has made winning in Afghanistan his primary national security priority and is fully committed to the present US-NATO strategy. Contrary to earlier apprehensions, it has now clearly emerged that the US will not cut and run in July 2011.
The exit strategy will be based on a phased drawdown with not more than 10,000 troops being withdrawn each year till an "equilibrium that is manageable" is achieved. Afghanistan lies on the strategic crossroads to Iran, West Asia, the Caucasus and the Central Asian Republics and India has important geo-political and energy security interests in the area.
One of India's key objectives is to prevent the re-emergence of safe havens for anti-India terrorist groups in Afghanistan. India's diplomatic aim has always been to work towards a stable Afghan state, which is governed by a dispensation that is neutral between India and Pakistan even if the regime is not friendly towards India. The Indian approach is not tactical but long-term.
India has invested over $1 billion and immense time and effort in the post-2001 reconstruction of Afghanistan, but has been completely marginalised in discussions for the resolution of the ongoing conflict due to Pakistan's sensibilities, indeed paranoia. India's foremost concern is that the US-NATO-ISAF forces will begin their deadline-mandated exit before putting in place a strong international force to continue their work.
India's apprehension is that the Taliban will defeat the weak and poorly trained Afghan national army, take over Kabul, extend their reach to the countryside in due course and once again begin to practice their peculiar brand of jihad and cultural bigotry. Even Iran and China are wary of the return of Wahabi Islam to Afghanistan.
With Kabul back under Taliban control, Pakistan will divert a large number of mercenary terrorists to Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India, as it did after the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan in 1988-89. It is in India's long-term interest to seek a regional solution to the Afghan conflict with the help of the CARs, China, Iran and Russia. This would involve putting together a regional force, preferably under a UN flag, to provide a stable environment for governance and development till the Afghan national army can take over.
In the short-term, it is in the regional interest to support the continued operational commitment of US-NATO-ISAF forces beyond July 2011 till the situation comes under control and security can be handed over to the Afghan national army. India must seek to further enhance its role in the reconstruction effort and the training of the Afghan national army, including in situ in Afghanistan, so as to hasten the process and pass on its special expertise in counter-insurgency operations to bring up the professional standards of the fledgling force.


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Orlando City at Real Salt Lake: Match Preview, Starting XIs, Predictions, and More
Jason Kreis returns to his former home as Orlando City travels to Utah to take on Real Salt Lake.
By Gavin Ewbank@GavinEwbank Jun 30, 2017, 11:30am EDT
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Following a 4-0 loss in Chicago on Saturday night, Orlando City returns to the site of Kaká's first MLS red card almost two years ago to the day when the Lions take on Real Salt Lake at Rio Tinto Stadium this evening (9:30 p.m. ET, ESPN).
Three days after capturing a point in Seattle, Orlando found itself in a much less successful situation against one of the hottest teams in the league. The Lions let David Accam pick up his first MLS hat trick, suffering their first loss in four games this month after drawing the previous three.
Now, the Lions head to Utah to take on RSL, one of the worst teams in the league this season, one which fired its head coach just three games into the season. Now coached by former New York Red Bulls boss Mike Petke, RSL comes into the match off of a 2-1 loss at San Jose over the weekend. It currently holds the league's worst goal differential (-20), but has won three straight home matches after taking all three points in just one of its first five at home this season.
For Orlando City Head Coach Jason Kreis, the trip also marks a return to Rio Tinto Stadium, which he left after the 2013 season to take over the New York City FC head coaching position. A win on the road against his former club, at this time especially, would likely cap off a good night for the Lions' gaffer.
Note: Carlos Rivas is day-to-day with an ankle injury. If he can't go, look for Giles Barnes to push up alongside Larin and Cristian Higuita to return to the left side of the diamond.
The big news coming out of the Orlando City camp this week — two big news items, actually — starts with the return of Cyle Larin, who was cleared to return to all team activities by Major League Soccer earlier in the week after completing the league's Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health (SABH) course. After missing the club's last three games, Larin will be eligible for selection this evening, and the Lions will surely be excited to have their leading scorer back, having scored just four goals in their last three games.
The second piece of roster news comes from Matias Perez Garcia, who was waived by the team on Wednesday ahead of his contract expiring this evening. The two sides could not come to an agreement on a contract extension, and the Argentine midfielder was forced to move on from the club after coming over late last summer. How the Lions move forward without one of their more important midfielders — in terms of minutes played — will be something to watch for in the coming weeks, especially as the transfer window officially opens up.
RSL is not, at least according to the league standings, a very good team. Its home performances have been much better as of late, but don't let that fool you. Only one other team in MLS has let in more goals than RSL this season. Nick Rimando has been faced with a lot, needless to say.
Yura Movsisyan is the club's leading goal scorer with five this year. Albert Rusnák follows closely behind with three, and Joao Plata sits with just two. These are still dangerous men that can break down a back line, and will provide more than enough work for Jonathan Spector and company throughout the night.
Player to Watch For
Keep your eyes marked on Movsisyan. He has the most goals for RSL this season, and, if he can be so fortunate as to have the rest of his teammates up for it this evening, it would be an interesting evening against a defense that has had trouble preventing goals lately.
Prediction: Orlando City 1, Real Salt Lake 1
This game has a steady draw written all over it. Cyle Larin will return from his suspension and score a goal with a vengeance.
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This is a little story started by me many many moons ago when something strange happened to the OzChat Posting Board. All of the the posts disappeared for some bizzare reason, so while the board was totally void of posts, I decided to have a bit of fun. While I wrote most of it, there were a couple of additions by Tank and Digger which helped keep the story moving, so some credit goes to them. In the end, we just sort of got a bit sick of it, so thats why theres no real ending. Check it out in the Output section.


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About Jerry Isenhour
Meet Jerry
Jerry Isenhour learned at a young age that he had an entrepreneurial spirit. Going from small business ventures as a child, he eventually turned that innate passion and leaning into his own business directions. He built various businesses including a chimney service business, a fireplace & outdoor living retail operation, and a manufacturing entity from the ground up. Like any entrepreneur, he enjoyed the freedom and pride that comes with business ownership, all the while continuing to invest his business profits and bank funding into his ideas and concepts. But when the economy tanked in 2008, Jerry helplessly watched all his dreams and his businesses come crashing down. Just about everything that could go wrong did. But that's not where Jerry's story ends.
With tenacity, determination, and the support and encouragement of his wife, Sheryl, along with the belief he felt from some of his close friends, Jerry could pick up the pieces and rearrange them to create a new mission and purpose for his life. He decided to embark on a new career, an enhanced life mission to coach others and use his experiences and discoveries to help them reach their dreams, and prevent them from falling into the traps he so solidly found himself in.
Jerry launched CVC Coaching, a business coaching service aimed at helping those primarily in the chimney and venting industry. Jerry offers advice on everything from developing standard operating procedures and systems to being financially savvy and marketing your business wisely. To that end he has built a network of colleagues and clients located across the USA in just a few short years.
Over his years in the industry he has served in many volunteer capacities and functioned as an instructor to train industry members in all the areas required for success. This moved him into a position of being considered as a true expert in his trades. Today he divides his time between training, writing, coaching, education, and speaking. He is one who spends his waking hours helping others determine just what their dreams are and how they can achieve them.
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My handlers at Hodder have sent me a terrific Carte Blanche mission kit today -- including a nicely embossed 007 folder containing the press release, a slick official website card, and a Technika MP4 player with the Carte Blanche title and cover reveal animation. Very nice! And it did not self-destruct in 5 seconds.
Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver will be released on May 26, 2011, and can be pre-order now at Amazon.co.uk.


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Blessings of the Equinox and the promise held in this time of balance.
This time of the year is one of connection. The veils between the worlds have thinned and many will reach out to the Goddess Hecate as they seek the deeper wisdom of her triune form.
Some will call to the Goddess to guide them to the land of the ancestors as they seek the gifts of those beloved who have passed on. Others will call to the Goddess seeking greater knowledge of their own strength and the power held in the trinity in the human form. And, some will use the energy of Hecate to transform and renew what will be carried into these months ahead that may be used as space of reflection.


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C.S.H.B. 686
By: Moody
Juvenile Justice & Family Issues
Committee Report (Substituted)
There are thousands of juveniles who were tried as adults for capital and first degree felonies and who are currently serving lengthy prison sentences and are ineligible for parole until late adulthood. It has been noted that juveniles do not have the same capacity as adults to appreciate the consequences of their actions and cannot be held accountable in the same manner as adult offenders. Additionally, it has been suggested that juveniles are likely to be different people in adulthood, and while paroling a youthful offender who becomes a mature adult equipped to successfully reenter society may be equitable, current law often makes it unavailable for decades later than appropriate. C.S.H.B. 686 seeks to address these issues by requiring parole panels to consider certain factors relating to growth and maturity when making release decisions for inmates who were younger than 18 years of age when they committed the applicable offense and by changing parole eligibility for inmates serving a sentence for certain capital or first degree felonies committed when younger than 18 years of age.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill expressly does one or more of the following: creates a criminal offense, increases the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or changes the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
C.S.H.B. 686 amends the Government Code to require a parole panel, in determining whether to release on parole an inmate who was younger than 18 years of age at the time the applicable offense was committed, to assess the inmate's growth and maturity, taking the following into consideration:
· the diminished culpability of juveniles, as compared to that of adults;
· the hallmark features of youth; and
· the greater capacity of juveniles for change, as compared to that of adults.
C.S.H.B. 686 requires the Board of Pardons and Paroles (BPP) to adopt a policy establishing factors for a parole panel to consider when reviewing such an inmate for release on parole to ensure that the inmate is provided a meaningful opportunity to obtain release. The policy must do the following:
· consider the inmate's age at the time of the commission of the offense as a mitigating factor in favor of granting release on parole;
· permit persons having knowledge of the inmate before the inmate committed the offense or of the inmate's growth and maturity after the offense was committed to submit statements regarding the inmate for consideration by the parole panel; and
· establish a mechanism for the outcome of a comprehensive mental health evaluation conducted by an expert qualified by education and clinical training in adolescent mental health issues to be considered by the parole panel.
These provisions expressly do not create a legal cause of action or affect the rights granted to a victim, guardian of a victim, or close relative of a deceased victim under provisions relating to parole and mandatory supervision or to crime victims' rights.
C.S.H.B. 686 makes an inmate who is serving a sentence for certain capital or first degree felony offenses committed when the inmate was younger than 18 years of age ineligible for release on parole until the inmate's actual calendar time served, without consideration of good conduct time, equals 20 calendar years or one-half of the applicable time computed under parole eligibility provisions, whichever is less. The bill establishes that in no event is the inmate eligible for release on parole in less than four calendar years unless the inmate would otherwise be eligible for release on parole under those provisions. The bill makes such an inmate who is serving a sentence for a capital murder offense in which more than one person was murdered during the same criminal transaction or pursuant to the same scheme or course of conduct, other than an inmate who was found guilty only as a party under the law of parties, ineligible for release on parole until the inmate's actual calendar time served, without consideration of good conduct time, equals 40 calendar years.
C.S.H.B. 686 applies to any inmate who is confined in a facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on or after the bill's effective date, regardless of whether the offense for which the inmate is confined occurred before, on, or after the bill's effective date.
C.S.H.B. 686 repeals Sections 499.053(d) and 508.145(b), Government Code, which establish parole eligibility of a person transferred from the Texas Juvenile Justice Department or a post‑adjudication secure correctional facility for capital murder and of an inmate serving a life sentence for a capital felony committed when the inmate was younger than 18 years of age, respectively.
On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2021.
COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 686 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following summarizes the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
The substitute does not include a provision authorizing the BPP to employ a psychiatrist, psychologist, or qualifying psychiatric mental health advanced practice registered nurse to conduct a mental health evaluation or assist a parole panel with its duties under the bill.


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Q: Accessing a QPainter in base class I am creating widget classes that draw grids using QWidgets paint event. My base class BaseRenderArea contains this method:
//draws a list of guesses in the grid
void BaseRenderArea::drawGuesses(const QList <GuessPoint> &list, QPainter *painter)
{
    //QPainter painter1(this);

    QPen currentPen = painter->pen();

    painter->setPen(QString("red"));

    for(int i=0;i<list.size();i++)
    {
        GuessPoint gp = list.at(i);

        switch(gp.m_type)
        {
        case GuessPoint::Miss:
            drawMiss(gp.m_row, gp.m_col, painter);
            break;
        case GuessPoint::Dead:
            drawDead(gp.m_row, gp.m_col, painter);
            break;
        case GuessPoint::Hit:
            drawHit(gp.m_row, gp.m_col, painter);
            break;
        default:
            ;
        }
    }

    painter->setPen(currentPen);

}

I am calling this method from the paintEvent of the derived class widget.
//the paint event
//uses the base class to draw the texts and
//the grid
//and then draws the guesses made until now
//as well as the score for each choice of the computer
void DebugRenderArea::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event)
{
    QPainter painter(this);

    BaseRenderArea::paintEvent(event);

    //to do: draw guesses
    drawGuesses(&painter);

    //draw scores
    //drawScores(&painter);

}

The drawGuesses method in the derived class is implemented as follows:
//draws the guesses made until this moment
void DebugRenderArea::drawGuesses(QPainter *painter)
{
    QList <GuessPoint> list = m_logic->getListGuesses();
    BaseRenderArea::drawGuesses(list,painter);

}

This approach gives me a segmentation fault in the BaseRenderArea::drawGuesses in the second line painter->setPen....
If I change the BaseRenderArea::drawGuesses with the following code (not reusing the QPainter created in the derived class but creating a new QPainter):
//draws a list of guesses in the grid
void BaseRenderArea::drawGuesses(const QList <GuessPoint> &list, QPainter *painter)
{
    QPainter painter1(this);

    QPen currentPen = painter1.pen();

    painter1.setPen(QString("red"));

    for(int i=0;i<list.size();i++)
    {
        GuessPoint gp = list.at(i);

        switch(gp.m_type)
        {
        case GuessPoint::Miss:
            drawMiss(gp.m_row, gp.m_col, &painter1);
            break;
        case GuessPoint::Dead:
            drawDead(gp.m_row, gp.m_col, &painter1);
            break;
        case GuessPoint::Hit:
            drawHit(gp.m_row, gp.m_col, &painter1);
            break;
        default:
            ;
        }
    }

    painter1.setPen(currentPen);

}

everything works fine. My questions why ? What can I do to use the QPainter created in the paintEvent of the derived class in method of the base class?

A: The documentation says that you can't have 2 active QPainters on the same paint device.
So, because BaseRenderArea::paintEvent is probably creating its own QPainter, it might have invalidated the one you created before in DebugRenderArea::paintEvent.
You could simply reorder the two lines:
BaseRenderArea::paintEvent(event);

QPainter painter(this);


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Henriette Grassmann es una deportista alemana que compitió en acuatlón. Ganó una medalla de plata en el Campeonato Europeo de Acuatlón de 2011.

Palmarés internacional

Referencias

Acuatletas de Alemania


MPI President Jeff Schwartz will participate in a panel on smart beta at terrapinn Quant World Canada 2015. The panel, titled "Smart beta or dumb alpha Ð which side are you on?", will explore performance persistence, sustainability of product growth and the outlook for strategy developments. MPI is proud to be an associate sponsor of the event.
New research utilizes MPI's proprietary Dynamic Style Analysis (DSA) to dive into the opaque world of endowment investing. With only ten data points representing a decade of returns, the model reveals significant insights into the sources of top endowments' returns. The study finds a predominant portion of endowment returns are explained by asset allocation, particularly to illiquid alternative factors. To read more, including a performance attribution for fiscal year 2015, see the full analysis on the MPI Research Corner.
MPI Research from Senior Analyst Sean Ryan on the behavior and performance characteristics of nontraditional bond funds was broadly featured across the investment media landscape, including Barron's, Daily Alts, Financial Times, InvestmentNews and WSJ Wealth Adviser. The full research report, "Examining Recent Winners and Losers in the Nontraditional Bond Fund Category", can be found on the MPI Research Corner.
MPI research on the recent performance of CTA funds amidst the ongoing commodities rout from Senior Analyst Sean Ryan was included in leading aggregator Abnormal Returns' daily links. For the full research, see MPI's Research Corner.
Executive Vice President Bill McBride was invited to present on the institutional challenges of investing in smart beta products at Financial Research Associates' Smart Beta 2.0. The presentation, "Benchmarking Smart Beta: What Are the Rules for Measuring Nontraditional Strategies" was given to an audience of asset owners and investment managers. To see the presentation, please contact us.
MPI partners with Eurekahedge to create and maintain the Eurekahedge 50 Index, a new benchmark index tracking the top 50 hedge funds. The Eurekahedge 50 Index was created to meet the demands of institutional hedge fund investors seeking a more selective benchmark reflective of diversified institutional quality hedge fund portfolios. The Eurekahedge 50 Index tracks the returns of the top hedge funds based on longevity, assets under management and quality of risk-adjusted returns, taking into account stability and consistency. See the press release here.
In light of CalPERS' termination of its ARS hedge fund program, Risk Magazine asked MPI to look at the relationship between scale, selection and impact of allocations to hedge funds on the portfolio risk and return profile at pension funds. Testing a hypothetical pension portfolio with allocations to hedge funds of 1%, 5% and 10%, the study finds significant positive benefits on total returns and risk-adjusted returns of hedge fund allocations at the 5% and 10% levels, though negligible impacts on the risk and return profile at the 1% level. The findings contribute to the industry debate about the role of hedge funds in defined benefit plans, including issues of scale and selection, as well as fee structure challenges and the need to evolve. The research appeared first in Risk Magazine's November issue, and was later referenced in Asset International's Chief Investment Officer, DailyAlts and widely in the Twitter sphere. For the full research, see MPI's Research Corner.
MPI's analysis of Pimco Total Return is exclusively quoted in The New York Times, reposted on ZeroHedge and linked to in Barron's "Focus on Funds".


The Tantalus Lodge offers an ideal Whistler Village location, close enough to the heart of the action, yet far enough to enjoy the peaceful surroundings of Whistler. Featuring very spacious suites complete with full kitchens, LCD TV's and Wireless Internet Access. Warm up by the fire or unwind in the outdoor heated pool and hot tubs. There is a complimentary ski shuttle exclusive to Tantalus guests.
The Tantalus Lodge offers twenty-four hour hospitality and & daily housekeeping. Each of their affordable whistler accommodations offers spacious living, with real wood burning fireplaces and the large private balconies. A convenient and easy to find location, just a 5 minute walk to the gondolas and the main Whistler Village. You'll never be too far from your Whistler Condo.
Most Suites offer either one or two bedrooms, with 650 and 900 square feet of living space respectively. There are some with Bunk Beds catering for families and smaller one bedroom Suites all with fully fitted kitchens.
The Tantalus Lodge is in our opinion a well located, affordable Whistler Hotel, suitable to price conscious guests seeking easy access to Whistler Ski Hill and amenities. This well respected Whistler Vacation Property sells out quickly, so don't delay.
These huge One Bedroom Suites are 650 sq ft and come complete with a full kitchen and a queen bed or twins in the master bedroom, wireless internet, double size Sofa bed in the living room.
These Suites come with two separate bedrooms with a queen bed in one and two twins in the second. There is also 2 full bathrooms, a Sofa bed in the living room and a full kitchen and dining area. Usual facilities such as Wireless Internet and Flat Screen tv's.
Maximum Occupancy 6 persons (comfortably 5).
We are regulars at this hotel, usually stay 2 or 3 times a year.
It is nice to see they keep upgrading the hotel & the staff have been there for years and know the town & the hotel inside and out.
Overall, it is a friendly, clean, and comfortable place to stay at prices that can't be beat. We even saw a bear in the hotel driveway this time! This is not the Four Seasons, but it isn't Four Seasons pricing either!
Yes, the parking fee is a pain but it seems everyone in Whistler is charging it. I noticed a few signs outside the Westin & Crystal Lodge for $24 self parking, makes $17 a bit easier to bare.
Tantalus Lodge is a pet friendly hotel that offers special accommodations and services for travelers with pets. A pet fee of $35 for up to a five night stay. ($70 for up to 10 night stay) plus tax will apply.


Mounted or handheld directed-energy, non-lethal wapons are used for temporarily blinding or disorienting targets with laser lights.
Our laser dazzlers are designed to warn the criminals away by temporarily blinding them iwth pulses of geren laser light.
When directed at the target, the laser's optics temporarily expand to generate a blinding light which penetrates smoke, fog at twice the range of white light. Modulation of such high intensity light cause disorientation, dazzle and blink reaction that reduces the target's activity.
1. Non lethal weapon: commonly used in combat operations, laser dazzlers have become the new threat deterrent alternative to lethal force.
2. Run by Rechargeable Lithium Batteries that are easy to use and replace.
3. Computer controlled system: with built-in CPU that allows the user to configure the setting of work modes of the dazzler; the setting is also both exportable and importable.
4. Electronically Focus Adjustable, easy to adjust the beam size according to the distance from the target.
5. Wide Temerature Tolerance. The risfile laser dazzler system has a wide temperature range. It is workable at low temerature, and does not drip at high temperatures.


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Blackpool man charged with murder of 76-year-old Malcolm Frary as cause of death confirmed
A Blackpool man has been charged with the murder of Malcolm Frary who was found dead at his home on New Year's Day.
The body of Malcolm Frary, 76, was found at his home in Eccleston Road after emergency services attended at around 4.35pm on Saturday (January 1).
A post-mortem examination later found Mr Frary died from strangulation, police said.
Two men, aged 51 and 43, both from Blackpool, were arrested on suspicion of murder following his death.
Detectives today (January 5) confirmed Ian Dunne, of Withnell Road, Blackpool, was charged with murder following consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service.
The 43-year-old is due to appear at Blackpool Magistrates' Court on Thursday (January 6).
The 51-year-old man was released under investigation pending further enquiries, officers added.
The body of Malcolm Frary, 76, was found at his home in Eccleston Road at around 4.35pm on Saturday (January 1)
A spokesman for Lancashire Police said: "In respect of the earlier press appeals concerning a mobile phone and jacket, detectives no longer need the public's help to locate these items.
"We are also continuing to appeal for witnesses and are keen to speak to anyone who saw any suspicious activity in the area of Eccleston Road and Harris Street, as well as the Horncliffe Road and Woodstock Gardens areas of South Shore, on New Year's Eve (Friday, December 31) and New Year's Day (Saturday, January 1)."
Anyone with information can contact police by calling 101, quoting log number 1276 of January 1.
Alternatively, independent charity Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.org.
Police also encouraged anyone with dashcam footage to use the Major Incident Public Portal via https://mipp.police.uk/operation/0401020121W10-PO1.
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I received today an invitation to Fuse 90: Beyond Typography, a typography conference to be held in San Francisco late, this year. The titles of the lectures are: Scales of Abstraction, Robot, The Tribalism of Geography, Ritual of Resistance, The Luxury of Conflict, Repetitive Strain, Machines: Heritage and Heretic, Baby, Skin Deep, Conjecture, Touch and Stepping into the Dark.
I am baffled, can anyone help?


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To develop this technology, Google employs some of the smartest minds in the industry. It is not really surprising to see Christopher Urmson and Nathaniel Fairfield listed among the inventors: Both joined Google from Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. Urmson was the technical leader of the Tartan racing team, which won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge: Their "Boss" vehicle, a heavily modified Chevy Tahoe, completed a 55 mile urban course in 4 hours and 10 minutes and won the $2 million prize of the competition. Also listed among the inventors is Nathan Fairfiled, also from Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, who worked on sonar data for navigation in 3D environments at the university.


In a article on sensory processes, it was fascinating to read that, while we live in 3-Dimensional world, the images formed in our retinae are only 2D representations. The information we need about depth, for instance, can only be inferred by our visual system in the same way that our sense of space can be referenced by sound.
Thoughts after a portrait session with Astrid, an Opera singer with less than 10% sight.


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	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

	<parent>
		<groupId>br.com.cams7.apps</groupId>
		<artifactId>apps</artifactId>
		<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
	</parent>

	<artifactId>android</artifactId>
	<name>Todas as aplicacoes Android</name>
	<description>Modulo com todas as aplicacoes Android</description>

	<packaging>pom</packaging>

	<url>https://github.com/cams7/apps/tree/desenv/android</url>

	<properties>
		<jdk.version>1.6</jdk.version>

		<platform.version>4.1.1.4</platform.version>
		<android.plugin.version>3.8.2</android.plugin.version>

		<android.platform>10</android.platform>
		<android.emulator>API_10</android.emulator>

		<site>https://github.com/cams7/apps/tree/desenv/android</site>
	</properties>

	<modules>
		<module>siscom-mobile</module>
	</modules>

	<dependencies>
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			<groupId>com.google.android</groupId>
			<artifactId>android</artifactId>
			<version>${platform.version}</version>
			<scope>provided</scope>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>

	<build>
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		<sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>

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					<artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId>
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					<extensions>true</extensions>
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				<plugin>
					<groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
					<artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
					<version>1.0.0</version>
					<configuration>
						<lifecycleMappingMetadata>
							<pluginExecutions>
								<pluginExecution>
									<pluginExecutionFilter>
										<groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId>
										<artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId>
										<versionRange>[1.0.0,)</versionRange>
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			<plugin>
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				<artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId>
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					<assetsDirectory>${project.basedir}/assets</assetsDirectory>
					<resourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/res</resourceDirectory>
					<nativeLibrariesDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/native</nativeLibrariesDirectory>
					<sdk>
						<path>${android.sdk.path}</path>
						<platform>${android.platform}</platform>
					</sdk>
					<emulator>
						<avd>${android.emulator}</avd>
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					<deleteConflictingFiles>true</deleteConflictingFiles>
					<undeployBeforeDeploy>true</undeployBeforeDeploy>
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			<activation>
				<os>
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			<properties>
				<android.sdk.path>C:\Users\cams7\Desenv\android\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20140702\sdk</android.sdk.path>
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			<id>linux</id>
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			<properties>
				<android.sdk.path>/home/cesar/desenv/android/adt-bundle-linux-x86_64-20140702/sdk</android.sdk.path>
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