In an unfamiliar moment, China's pursuit of a larger role in the world coincides with America's pursuit of a smaller one.
When the Chinese action movie "Wolf Warrior II" arrived in theatres, in July, it looked like a standard shoot-'em-up, with a lonesome hero and frequent explosions. Within two weeks, however, "Wolf Warrior II" had become the highest-grossing Chinese movie of all time. Some crowds gave it standing ovations; others sang the national anthem. In October, China selected it as its official entry in the foreign-language category of the Academy Awards.
The hero, Leng Feng, played by the action star Wu Jing (who also directed the film), is a veteran of the "wolf warriors," special forces of the People's Liberation Army. In retirement, he works as a guard in a fictional African country, on the frontier of China's ventures abroad. A rebel army, backed by Western mercenaries, attempts to seize power, and the country is engulfed in civil war. Leng shepherds civilians to the gates of the Chinese Embassy, where the Ambassador wades into the battle and declares, "Stand down! We are Chinese! China and Africa are friends." The rebels hold their fire, and survivors are spirited to safety aboard a Chinese battleship.
When I moved to Beijing, in 2005, little of that story would have made sense to a Chinese audience. With doses of invention and schmalz, the movie draws on recent events. In 2015, China's Navy conducted its first international evacuation, rescuing civilians from fighting in Yemen; last year, China opened its first overseas military base, in Djibouti. There has been a deeper development as well. For decades, Chinese nationalism revolved around victimhood: the bitter legacy of invasion and imperialism, and the memory of a China so weak that, at the end of the nineteenth century, the philosopher Liang Qichao called his country "the sick man of Asia." "Wolf Warrior II" captures a new, muscular iteration of China's self-narrative, much as Rambo's heroics expressed the swagger of the Reagan era.
"Wolf Warrior II" Captures China's Newfound Identity An interview with Wu Jing, the star and director of the film.
China is also seizing immediate opportunities presented by Trump. Days before the T.P.P. withdrawal, President Xi Jinping spoke at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, a first for a paramount Chinese leader. Xi reiterated his support for the Paris climate deal and compared protectionism to "locking oneself in a dark room." He said, "No one will emerge as a winner in a trade war." This was an ironic performance—for decades, China has relied on protectionism—but Trump provided an irresistible opening. China is negotiating with at least sixteen countries to form the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, a free-trade zone that excludes the United States, which it proposed in 2012 as a response to the T.P.P. If the deal is signed next year, as projected, it will create the world's largest trade bloc, by population.
Xi Jinping has the kind of Presidency that Donald Trump might prefer. Last fall, he started his second term with more unobstructed power than any Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping, who died in 1997. The Nineteenth Party Congress, held in October, had the spirit of a coronation, in which the Party declared Xi the "core leader," an honor conferred only three other times since the founding of the nation (on Mao Zedong, Deng, and Jiang Zemin), and added "Xi Jinping Thought" to its constitution—effectively allowing him to hold power for life, if he chooses. He enjoys total dominion over the media: at the formal unveiling of his new Politburo, the Party barred Western news organizations that it finds troublesome; when Xi appeared on front pages across the country, his visage was a thing of perfection, airbrushed by Party "news workers" to the sheen of a summer peach.
Xi has inscribed on his country a rigid vision of modernity. A campaign to clean up "low-end population" has evicted migrant workers from Beijing, and a campaign against dissent has evicted the most outspoken intellectuals from online debate. The Party is reaching deeper into private institutions. Foreign universities with programs in China, such as Duke, have been advised that they must elevate a Communist Party secretary to a decision-making role on their local boards of trustees. The Party is encouraging dark imaginings about the outside world: posters warn the public to "protect national secrets" and to watch out for "spies." Beijing is more convenient than it was not long ago, but also less thrilling; it has gained wealth but lost some of its improvisational energy.
Back in 2008, I met a jittery young conservative named Rao Jin, a contrarian on the fringes of Chinese politics. Long before Trump launched his campaign or railed against the media, Rao created a Web site called Anti-CNN.com, which was dedicated to criticizing Western news coverage. Over lunch in Beijing recently, he exuded calm vindication. "Things that we used to push are now mainstream," not only in China but globally, he said. In Rao's view, Trump's "America First" slogan is an honest declaration, a realist vision stripped of false altruism and piety. "From his perspective, America's interests come first," Rao said. "To Chinese people, this is a big truth, and you can't deny it." Rao has watched versions of his ideas gain strength in Russia, France, Great Britain, and the United States. "In this world, power speaks," he said, making a fist, a gesture that Trump adopted in his Inauguration speech and Xi displayed in a photo taken at the start of his new term.
China's leaders rarely air their views about an American President, but well-connected scholars—the ranking instituteniks of Beijing and Shanghai and Guangzhou—can map the contours of their assessments. Yan Xuetong is the dean of Tsinghua University's Institute of Modern International Relations. At sixty-five, Yan is bouncy and trim, with short silver hair and a roaring laugh. When I arrived at his office one evening, he donned a black wool cap and coat, and we set off into the cold. Before I could ask a question, he said, "I think Trump is America's Gorbachev." In China, Mikhail Gorbachev is known as the leader who led an empire to collapse. "The United States will suffer," he warned.
Over a dinner of dumplings, tofu, and stir-fried pork, Yan said that America's strength must be measured partly by its ability to persuade: "American leadership has already dramatically declined in the past ten months. In 1991, when Bush, Sr., launched the war against Iraq, it got thirty-four countries to join the war effort. This time, if Trump launched a war against anyone, I doubt he would get support from even five countries. Even the U.S. Congress is trying to block his ability to start a nuclear war against North Korea." For Chinese leaders, Yan said, "Trump is the biggest strategic opportunity." I asked Yan how long he thought the opportunity would last. "As long as Trump stays in power," he replied.
The leadership in Beijing did not always have this view of Trump. In the years leading up to the 2016 election, it had adopted a confrontational posture toward the United States. Beijing worked with Washington on climate change and on the Iran nuclear deal, but tensions were building: China was hacking U.S. industrial secrets, building airports on top of reefs and rocks in the South China Sea, creating obstacles for American firms investing in China, blocking American Internet businesses, and denying visas to American scholars and journalists. During the campaign, China specialists in both parties called on the next President to strengthen alliances across Asia and to step up pressure on Beijing.
When Trump won, the Party "was in a kind of shock," Michael Pillsbury, a former Pentagon aide and the author of "The Hundred-Year Marathon," a 2015 account of China's global ambitions, told me. "They feared that he was their mortal enemy." The leadership drafted potential strategies for retaliation, including threatening American companies in China and withholding investment from the districts of influential members of Congress.
Before he entered the White House, China started assembling a playbook for dealing with him. Shen Dingli, a foreign-affairs specialist at Fudan University, in Shanghai, explained that Trump is "very similar to Deng Xiaoping," the pragmatic Party boss who opened China to economic reform. "Deng Xiaoping said, 'Whatever can make China good is a good "ism." ' He doesn't care if it's capitalism. For Trump, it's all about jobs," Shen said.
Inside the new White House, there were two competing strategies on China. One, promoted by Stephen Bannon, then the chief strategist, wanted the President to take a hard line, even at the risk of a trade war. Bannon often described China as a "civilizational challenge." The other view was associated with Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and adviser, who had received guidance from Henry Kissinger and met repeatedly with the Chinese Ambassador, Cui Tiankai. Kushner argued for a close, collegial bond between Xi and Trump, and he prevailed.
He and Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of State, arranged for Trump and Xi to meet at Mar-a-Lago on April 7th, for a cordial get-to-know-you summit. To set the tone, Trump presented two of Kushner and Ivanka Trump's children, Arabella and Joseph, who sang "Jasmine Flower," a classic Chinese ballad, and recited poetry. While Xi was at the resort, the Chinese government approved three trademark applications from Ivanka's company, clearing the way for her to sell jewelry, handbags, and spa services in China.
Kushner has faced scrutiny for potential conflicts of interest arising from his China diplomacy and his family's businesses. During the transition, Kushner dined with Chinese business executives while the Kushner Companies was seeking their investment in a Manhattan property. (After that was revealed in news reports, the firm ended the talks.) In May, Kushner's sister, Nicole Kushner Meyer, was found to have mentioned his White House position while she courted investors during a trip to China. The Kushner Companies apologized.
By early November, Trump was preparing for his first trip to Beijing. Some China specialists in the U.S. government saw it as a chance to press on substantive issues. "We have to start standing up for our interests, because they have come farther, and faster, than people thought, pretty much without anyone waking up to it," a U.S. official involved in planning the visit told me. Among other things, the U.S. wanted China to open up areas of its economy, such as cloud computing, to foreign competitors; crack down on the theft of intellectual property; and stop forcing American firms to transfer technology as a condition for entry to the Chinese market. "It is time for a sense of urgency," the official said.
Following the Nineteenth Party Congress, Trump marvelled at Xi's new power. "Now some people might call him the king of China," he told an interviewer, shortly before his trip. Trump arrived in more modest standing. A few hours before his plane touched down, on November 8th, Republicans were thumped in state elections, losing governors' races in Virginia and New Jersey. His approval rating was thirty-seven per cent, the lowest of any President at that point in his tenure since Gallup started measuring it. Three former aides had been charged with felonies in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. It was the first summit since 1972 in which the American President had less leverage and political security than his Chinese counterpart.
Trump and Xi met for several hours and then appeared before the press. "The hosting of the military parade this morning was magnificent," Trump said, and he praised Xi as a "highly respected and powerful representative of his people." He mentioned the need to coöperate with regard to North Korea, and to fix an "unfair" trade relationship, but he said nothing about intellectual property or market access. "I don't blame China," Trump said. "Who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens?" There were gasps from business leaders and journalists. "I give China great credit." Some Chinese members of the audience cheered. Xi and Trump took no questions from the press.
In preparations for Trump's meeting with Xi, the State Department had urged the President to bring up a human-rights case: that of the poet Liu Xia, the widow of the late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, who is under house arrest, without charges. According to two U.S. officials, Trump never mentioned it.
In the U.S., where police departments and the F.B.I. are adopting comparable technology, facial recognition has prompted congressional debates about privacy and policing. The courts have yet to clarify when a city or a company can track a person's face. Under what conditions can biometric data be used to find suspects of a crime, or be sold to advertisers? In Xi Jinping's China, which values order over the rights of the individual, there are few such debates. In the city of Shenzhen, the local government uses facial recognition to deter jaywalkers. (At busy intersections, it posts their names and I.D. pictures on a screen at the roadside.) In Beijing, the government uses facial-recognition machines in public rest rooms to stop people from stealing toilet paper; it limits users to sixty centimetres within a nine-minute period.
Foreign governments and human-rights groups have expressed alarm that Beijing is pursuing critics beyond its borders and bringing them to mainland China for detention. One night last January, unidentified men escorted a Chinese-Canadian billionaire, Xiao Jianhua, from a Hong Kong hotel, in a wheelchair, with a sheet over his head. (His whereabouts are unknown.) In several cases, beginning in 2015, the publishers of books critical of China's leaders were abducted from Hong Kong and Thailand, without public extradition procedures.
Across Asia, there is wariness of China's intentions. Under the Belt and Road Initiative, it has loaned so much money to its neighbors that critics liken the debt to a form of imperialism. When Sri Lanka couldn't repay loans on a deepwater port, China took majority ownership of the project, stirring protests about interference in Sri Lanka's sovereignty. China also has a reputation for taking punitive economic action when a smaller country offends its politics. After the Nobel Prize was awarded to the dissident Liu Xiaobo, China stopped trade talks with Norway for nearly seven years; during a territorial dispute with the Philippines, China cut off banana imports; in a dispute with South Korea, it restricted tourism and closed Korean discount stores.
Late one afternoon in November, I went to see a professor in Beijing who has studied the U.S. for a long time. America's recent political turmoil has disoriented him. "I'm struggling with this a lot," he said, and poured me a cup of tea. "I love the United States. I used to think that the multiculturalism of the U.S. might work here. But, if it doesn't work there, then it won't work here." In his view, the original American bond is dissolving. "In the past, you kept together because of common values that you call freedom," he said. Emerging in its place is a cynical, zero-sum politics, a return to blood and soil, which privileges interests above inspiration.
Evan Osnos joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the new American isolationism, and how China is exploiting it.


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Home Most Popular GORDO unleashes new track 'EENIE WEENIE' with a bantering music video
GORDO unleashes new track 'EENIE WEENIE' with a bantering music video
Metodi Gogovski
GORDO is back with another slamming cut, building on his growing body of work and reputation in the tech house scene. The release was followed by a tongue-in-cheek music video, starring the DJ/producer and shot in Amsterdam.
Reworking a hilarious vocal from a classic '90s crossover house smash, 'EENIE WEENIE' is a monstrous slab of rolling tech house that will do the damage on any floor it's played on. A kooky lead line is crafted out of what seems to be a distorted violin synth, pitch-bending its way dizzyingly around a hard funkin' bassline and back-whipping beats.
The unmistakable vocal interjects at just the right moments, and hefty snare rolls are deployed to heighten the intensity of the drop to come. It's a beast, whose tough nature is in keeping with the no-nonsense sounds of his alter ego.
Here's what GORDO had to say about his new track:
"EENIE WEENIE has been in the works for years. It's one of those tracks that has lingered around on for a while now and I'm beyond proud of what the final result came out to be. IT'S GORDO SZN!"
EENIE WEENIE
Electronic Dance Music is an integral part of Meto's life. Though he enjoys a variety of EDM sub-genres he mainly listens to Progressive House and Trance. Other than being publisher for Rave Jungle, he also has a passion for Football and video games.
Tiësto Takes GORDO's track 'TARAKA' To New Heights With New Club Remix
Mochakk remixes The Martinez Brothers, Gordo & Rema hit track 'Rizzla'
KAS:ST released their track "Leaving Earth" on Cercle Records

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Module U202
This programme is highly integrated with the text of Unit 12 which deals with the science of 'Plate Tectonics'. It discusses the climatic and paleo-magnetic evidence for the theory of continental d...rift, first proposed as a hypothesis by Wegner in 1915. Wegner was led to this concept of drifting continents chiefly from indicators of past climatic evidence gathered from fossils in dated rocks. But it wasn't until the 1950s when measurements of past magnetic fields in rocks gave over-whelming support which led to general acceptance of the theory. It was discovered that material was bursting out of the Earth's interior in the middle of the Atlantic and other oceans. The concept of 'huge plates' of stable areas of oceanic and continental crust being forced apart by seafloor spreading is of crucial importance to the theory of plate tectonics. This programme uses model and extensive animation sequences to teach the essential physics: ocean floor spreading, continental and oceanic collisions which produce earthquakes and volcanoes, and the concept of a dipolar magnetic field which periodically 'flips' from North to South, leaving evidence in rocks formed at the time. It also looks at evidence of past climates in Britain which show the European continent has been moved extensively across the globe from polar regions to desert regions. The actual physical mechanism responsible for continental drift is, however, still in the realms of conjecture.
U202, Inquiry
U202; 05
Tony Jolly
Continental drift; Earthquake zones; Plate tectonics; Volcanic zones; Wegener
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The programme begins with shots of volcanoes erupting and earthquakes. Chris Wilson describes the causes of these phenomena. He explains that the behaviour of the Earth's crust is now described in terms of Plate Tectonics and then goes on to describe the immediate evidence for this argument, the shapes of the continents, volcanic and earthquake activity confined to certain zones, near continental oceanic boundaries. Prior to 1915 however, these factors were thought to be evidence that the Earth's crust was contracting. Wegener's arguments about continental drift were greeted with scepticism. Wegener supported his hypothesis with various arguments including the distribution of indicators of past climatic conditions. To develop this line of argument Chris Wilson looks at evidence of past climatic change in Britain. Shots of mountains and U-shaped valleys; these were caused by coverings of thick ice sheets 25,000 to 300,000 years ago. Chris describes the type of materials left by the departing ice-sheets. Shots of clay, rocks and boulders, melting ice and streams. Boulder clay is the end result of this process. Fossil equivalents of this kind of deposit would tell us about the climate in Britain hundreds of millions of years ago. Shots of rocks in Scotland which show that Britain experienced an Ice Age climate 700 million years ago. Chris is shown standing in an open cast coal mine. He describes a coal seam, 300 million years old and the rocks and shale that separate the seams. He reveals some fossils found in the rocks which indicate the type of plant material which make up the coal. These are evidence of a warmer climate in Britain. Shots of tree fossils preserved in a Glasgow park. They look like the type of trees found in hot swampy conditions. This indicates that the coal in Britain grew in hot equatorial conditions. Shots of sand-dunes in the desert. Shots of sandstone deposits in Britain, which were once desert sands 270 million years ago. Chris recaps on the evidence for Britain's extremes of climate. He argues that this shows that Britain has moved northwards through geological time, crossing the equator to do so. For evidence of continental drift Wegener examined the distribution of fossil climatic indicators all over the earth. Shots of globe with continents assembled into one supercontinent showing in the South evidence of cold glacial conditions. When the continents are placed together the ice sheet assumes a reasonable size. Chris argues that this is strong evidence for the drift hypothesis, but it was not accepted until the 1950s, when detailed studies of fossil magnetism in rocks enabled the position of the poles to be determined through time. Using a compass and a globe containing a magnet, Chris shows how magnetic readings can give a measurement of latitude across the surface of the Earth. Cooling lavas freeze the magnetic field within them as they cool. This allows us to plot the past positions of the North Pole back in time. He then shows diagrams giving the polar wandering curves for Britain and two continents. Due to the similarity of the last two curves geophysicists believe that the two continents moved in unison until about 15O million years ago. This provided strong evidence for the continental drift theory. Next Chris looks at the magnetic patterns produced by rocks under the oceans, which differ markedly from those on land. Shots of magnetic field contours on the Pacific Ocean floor. The field pattern for ocean ridges is symmetrical on either side. Using the globe and the compass, Chris shows how the Earth's magnetic field has reversed on different occasions in its history. This pattern of reversed magnetic fields has been mapped out in the rocks on ocean ridges. This discovery fitted with Holmes suggestion that drift was caused by convection currents in the Earth's mantle. In the 60s Hess further developed this idea, arguing that mantle material brought up beneath the ocean ridges cools there and moves aside as further material is emplaced in the same area. Animated shots of the process, known as sea floor spreading. Using a model Chris shows how the magnetic field reversals found on land map to the patterns found above the sea-bed. Chris now considers what happens to the crust as it spreads out from the ocean ridges. Animation of ocean crust diving beneath the continental crust. The denser crust is pushed down by lighter continental crust, this results in seismic or earthquake activity, and later, as the crust melts, to volcanic activity. Hence these activities mark the site where oceanic crust is being destroyed. Chris looks at the spread of these activities across the globe. The vast stable areas are known as the tectonic plates. Plate boundaries can occur within continental areas. Animation of a continental collision of the plates. As they collide the crust thickens to twice the normal amount, creating mountain ranges such as the Himalayas. Computer animation of accepted pattern of continental drift. Chris sums up the development of the drift concept and argues that the true nature of the driving mechanism causing the drift is still not properly understood.
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Cyprus : a geophysical case study 3 : the formation of oceanic crust
This programme is about models to explain the formation of oceanic crust and the ki...nd of evidence geophysicists look for to support these models. The programme begins with Dr. Eldridge Moores recalling the petrology of the rocks on Troodos. He shows how the sequence is less well defined that that suggested by the Greenbaum model which has been discussed in a previous programme. Professor Ian Gass continues by discussing other aspects of the geology of Troodos. He reminds the student of his ideas
Colliding continents
The programme examines the evidence for the movement and collison of continents wit...h a look at the youngest, of the collision zones, the Alpine Himalayan mountain chain. Evidence for an older collison zone, the Hercynian is also discussed towards the end of the programme.
Ocean crust
This programme provides earth scientists with an introduction to the structure, for...mation and evolution of ocean crust. A quick review cf the evidence for plate tectonics is given in the early part of the programme, followed by the more detailed ocean crust information. A great deal of use is made throughout the programme of graphicsand animation sequences and there are several filmed illustrations of various geophysical techniques.
Drifting continents
The programme looks at the evidence supporting the theory of continental drift.


This week I was out of town at the Laguna Cliffs Resort for a Kofax reseller's conference (Dataimage is a vendor of Kofax software and services. Incidentally, Dataimage just won Top Reseller in the Rocky Mountain region for 2005) when Nancy called me and told me that she thought Anne had broken her arm riding on the neighbor's scooter. It's rather irritating because last year Emily broke her arm riding on the exact same scooter.
I think the problem with the scooter is that Emily and Anne get on it and try to go as fast as their friends do when they don't have the experience on it. Anyway, Nancy took Anne to the doctor where Anne got a splint on her arm and an appointment to come back in a few days and get a cast. During the next few days Anne complained that her other arm hurt as well so when Nancy took her to get a cast, the doctors also X-rayed the other arm.
Yup – you guessed it. It turns out that both arms were broken. This makes a total of five broken arms that our three oldest girls have suffered – three of the broken arms coming on scooters. I don't want to outlaw the (I thought it was way lame when I was a kid and some kid's parents wouldn't let them jump on trampolines) but I do wish my girls would use a little common sense and not try to go as fast as their friends when they don't have enough practice on the scooter yet.
I also wasn't happy that Anne let other people scribble on her cast but at least she chose a good color.


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Syria-focused Middle East reporter, based in Beirut. Working with The Washington Post and other international outlets, previously The Daily Telegraph's Cairo Correspondent and Middle East Reporter. I am available for breaking news commissions, as well as in-depth investigations and radio and television lives. I previously worked with Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Programme.


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The International Conference on Education and New Developments 2018 invites you to showcase presentations, from the most diverse countries and cultures, to promote growth in research methods intimately related to teaching, learning and applications in Education nowadays. We wish to illustrate developments and new ways of thinking in these main fields: Teachers and Students; Projects and Trends; Teaching and Learning; Organizational Issues (see below in "Themes of Interest").
The conference will cover many types of presentation formats, incorporating Invited Keynote Speakers, oral and thematic showcases. Conference materials will be given to all registered attendees.
A book with selected papers from the conference will be published.
In TEACHERS AND STUDENTS: Teachers and Staff training and education; Educational quality and standards; Curriculum and Pedagogy; Vocational education and Counselling; Ubiquitous and lifelong learning; Training programmes and professional guidance; Teaching and learning relationship; Student affairs (learning, experiences and diversity; Extra-curricular activities; Assessment and measurements in Education.
In PROJECTS AND TRENDS: Pedagogic innovations; Challenges and transformations in Education; Technology in teaching and learning; Distance Education and eLearning; Global and sustainable developments for Education; New learning and teaching models; Multicultural and (inter)cultural communications; Inclusive and Special Education; Rural and indigenous Education; Educational projects.
In TEACHING AND LEARNING: Critical Thinking; Educational foundations; Research and development methodologies; Early childhood and Primary Education; Secondary Education; Higher Education; Science and technology Education; Literacy, languages and Linguistics (TESL/TEFL); Health Education; Religious Education; Sports Education.
In ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES: Educational policy and leadership; Human Resources development; Educational environment; Business, Administration, and Management in Education; Economics in Education; Institutional accreditations and rankings; International Education and Exchange programmes; Equity, social justice and social change; Ethics and values; Organizational learning and change; Corporate Education.
Corporates can also showcase their products or services in the conference exhibitions area by contacting the secretariat or publicity email (provided below).
END 2018 will be held in Budapest, Hungary (hotel Novotel Budapest Centrum) and will occur from 23 to 25 of June, 2018.


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Racial injustice themes on display in empty NFL stadiums
Author: Jimmy Golen, Associated Press
The Cincinnati Bengals stand arm in arm as "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is played before an NFL football game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Chargers, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Aaron Doster)
Seattle's Jason Myers kicked the ball through the end zone to open Seattle's season at Atlanta. No one else on the field moved.
Instead, the Seahawks and Falcons dropped to one knee where they had stood.
After years of pleading with their league to act against systemic racism, NFL players were prepared to wait another 10 seconds to make their point.
Teams opening their seasons in empty stadiums on Sunday knelt, locked arms, raised fists in protest or stayed off the field entirely for the "Star-Spangled Banner" and the Black anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing" as the once-reluctant league brought racial injustice to the forefront on the NFL's first full slate of games.
In Atlanta, the teams wore armbands honoring civil rights leader John Lewis and staged the most striking of the day's gestures: They watched the opening kickoff sail through the end zone for a touchback, dropped to one knee, and remained there for about 10 seconds before trotting off the field to resume the game.
"We're taking this moment and making it a movement, not just as a race, a community or a team, but as a nation," Falcons defensive end Steven Means said in a statement issued by the team. "It's time to stand up, rise up and vote."
Lewis, the Georgia Congressman who died in July, was named an honorary captain for the game. The Falcons also wore shirts with his quote: "The Vote is the most powerful, nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society."
While fans were absent everywhere except Jacksonville because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Minnesota Vikings hosted the family of George Floyd, who died in May in a videotaped killing that sparked national protests over police brutality against Black men.
Players kneel in remembrance of Rep.. John Lewis, D-Ga., during the first half of an NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020 file photo, fans stand for a presentation on social justice before an NFL football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans in Kansas City, Mo. The NFL's new stance encouraging players to take a stand against racial injustice got its first test as some fans of the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs booed during a moment of silence to promote the cause, touching off a fresh debate on how players should use their voice. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Chicago Bears Roquan Smith (58), Josh Woods (55), Joel Iyiegbuniwe (45) and James Vaughters (93) listen during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions in Detroit, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
New England Patriots stand during the singing of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing ' by Alicia Keys, on the video screen, before an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Vikings players locked arms in the end zone about a half-hour before their game against Green Bay for "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the song unofficially known as the Black national anthem that was played before each game in Week 1 as part of the NFL's social awakening.
Ten or so of Floyd's relatives were then shown on the stadium video board from their perch in the upper concourse near the Gjallarhorn. The symbol of Norse mythology, which the Vikings took their name from, had been sounded before every game since 2007.
On Sunday, it remained silent.
"We hope in silencing the Gjallarhorn today we can continue to call attention to these silenced voices and collectively work toward a better, more just society," the team said.
The Packers remained in their locker room for the two songs, following the lead of the Miami Dolphins, who said in a video last week that they would stay off the field for the national anthem rather than participate in "empty gestures." The Jacksonville Jaguars, Buffalo Bills and New York Jets also remained in their locker rooms for the pregame ceremonies.
"We don't need another publicity parade. So we'll just stay inside until it's time to play the game," Miami players said in the video. "This attempt to unify only creates more divide. So we will skip the song and dance and as a team we'll stay inside."
Other teams lined up on their sideline or along the goal line and locked arms. A few dozen players — was well as Indianapolis coach Frank Reich — knelt during the anthem, a silent echo of the 2016 protest by 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick that forced the NFL to confront racial injustice in a way that Commissioner Roger Goodell and many of the league's most powerful owners would have preferred to avoid.
Several teams made a point of stressing on Sunday that their protest was not unpatriotic — a point Kaepernick also made, but which was often drowned out by those — including President Donald Trump — latching onto the issue.
"To be clear — we were not protesting the flag, the anthem, or the men and women who wear the uniform," the Colts said in a statement. "The timing of this action is meant to highlight that the presence, power and oppression of racism remains inconsistent with the unity and freedoms of what it means to be an American."
Falcons owner Arthur Blank and Patriots owner Robert Kraft joined their teams as they lined up on the goal line when "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was played before their games. Quarterback Cam Newton, who was making his New England debut against Miami, appeared to be singing along.
The Dolphins remained in their locker room, as they promised in their 2-minute, 15-second video featuring nearly 20 players trading pointed rhymes about the nation's social protest movement.
When the anthem began in Detroit, a slew of Lions walked off the field and headed toward their locker room; some remained on the field and knelt. On the other sideline, several Bears players took a knee while about 20 of their teammates waited for the anthem to end before jogging onto the field.
The NFL had been at the center of social justice protests in American sports ever since Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem in 2016 to call attention to the systematic oppression of Black people in the U.S. Kaepernick, who led San Francisco to the Super Bowl in 2012 and the NFC title game the next year, was unable to get a job in the league in 2017 — or since.
But the football league was in its offseason when Breonna Taylor was shot in her own apartment by Louisville police in March; when a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly eight minutes in May, killing him; when Jacob Blake was shot and paralyzed by Kenosha, Wisconsin, police in August; and when protests over those and other acts of violence against Black Americans erupted across the nation.
Goodell posted a video in June conceding that the league had been late in acknowledging the problem. Since then, the league has taken largely symbolic steps like allowing racial justice messages in end zones and on helmets and T-shirts.
Some team owners have pledged money toward social justice causes or offered their stadiums as polling places for the November election.
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The SSV Oliver Hazard Perry looks like an old timey ship, but was completed just this year. It has engines that run on biodiesel, fuel that was supplied by Newport Biodiesel. (Story, pg. 14 September.) T.H. Malloy & Sons, a fuel marketer in Cumberland, R.I., that delivered the biodiesel to the ship for its maiden voyage, is a longtime marketer and promoter of the fuel. "They've been our partners from day one," says Robert Morton, chairman of Newport Biodiesel. Some of us are attending the Southern New England Energy Conference in September in historic Newport, homeport of the Oliver Hazard Perry, and a town renowned for ships, yachts and generally "salty surroundings" (as the tourism promoters put it).
Boots2Roots, a Maine non-profit organization, focuses on connecting with active duty military members who are planning to transition to The Pine State before they leave military service. "We connect with people while they are still in the service and help them do self-assessments, write cover letters and resumes, help them with networking and interview preparation," says Jen Fullmer, executive director of Boots2Roots. "We want to establish relationships with employers. It takes a lot of time and effort to translate military experience so that employers can understand" the capabilities and potential of military members, Fullmer says.
Mike Estes, owner of Estes Oil & Propane in York, Me., is one employer who has no trouble understanding that. His company has a long history of hiring people with military backgrounds, including its recent hire, Shawn Campbell, a young U.S. Air Force veteran. Boots2Roots, Fullmer and Campbell reached out, Estes says, "And we were hiring and we were glad to take him on." This summer Campbell was working as a helper on air conditioning, heating oil and propane installations, and this fall he is working with oil technicians (story, pg. 17, September).
Also in the September issue: a feature article about full-service fuel marketers building distinct discount operations online; our annual Truck, Trailer and Equipment Directory; and a report on Eastern Propane Gas using propane-fueled trucks.
Fuel Oil News and biofuel producer REG Inc. are hosting a webinar on Thursday, Sept. 21 at 11 a.m. EDT that will show how heating oil companies are managing and marketing Bioheat blended fuel—biodiesel blended with traditional heating oil. Our speakers include Ray Hart, founder of Hart Home Comfort, in the Long Island and New York City metropolitan area. Hart Home Comfort started as a cash-on-delivery heating oil company nearly 40 years ago before expanding into the diverse company it is today. Hart will talk about how Bioheat blended fuel has helped his business continue to thrive, how he incorporated biodiesel into his fuel offerings, and the positive customer reactions to the cleaner-burning fuel.
Joining Hart is Barry Knox, director, Northeast region, REG, who has more than 30 years of experience in the petroleum industry. Knox has served as a board member of industry organizations, including the New England Fuel Institute (NEFI), the Massachusetts Energy Marketers Association (MEMA) and the National Oilheat Research Alliance (NORA). Knox will discuss trends in the heating oil industry, how the Northeast is supplied biodiesel and the infrastructure that is in place to get it to dealers and the positive economics of Bioheat blended fuel for heating oil retailers and their customers.
Register for the webinar at fueloilnews.com/webinars/register/.


Do you play with yourself to enjoy yourself or do you self enjoy playing with yourself.
They reckon your first and your last will be self administered.
Played Windaroo with Brisbane Fairways today. Shotgun start and we were off 13. Started decently for first 6 holes then fell apart on the turn from 1 to 6 with 3 woods, a double and 2 pars (on no shot holes), then came decent again.
3 GIR - dropped 2 1/2 shots here but missed greens from good opportunities that I shouldn't have.
4/12 up and downs - dropped 7 shots here including going OOB with a thin bunker shot on 4, 1 out of other 4 bunker shots was up and down, 2 Texas not up and down, and a LW chip not down.
Had the hooks for a lot of the game which cost me quite a few shots. Some good play and should have had a birdie on 12 after a good drive and an excellent Mini Driver. Would have been a birdie birdie finish bit birdie par is enough to get me back.
How was 'snake gully' weets? How'd ya play it, score there?
Snake Gully bit me badly - not a good hole when you have the hooks!
Got a project role but it's only a month or so - got a couple of weeks left. Still looking for the longer term role.
Pretty rubbish play at RiverLakes today for 31 points. Took 8 holes to get a par. Some bad luck and some bad shots.
Been a while since I played there. Lived in the security estate there years ago... Played the course a lot.
My BIL and I, pre kids, played it every Christmas day for about 5 years.
That par 4 with the rock wall at front of the green, water in front of wall... F.uk me, I've birdied it and also walked off smashing a wedge into the ground after 20 attempts together out of the sand, and hitting from up the back across the green into the sand again... Still gives me shivers.
What's the hole with water to carry driver ... Plays longish off the back markers, par 5 from memory? Has the green to the right of the fairway, so a long second shot had to go over some really long 'rough', used to be almost sugarcane high... Front markers it was doable to carry the water off the tee and try for green in 2, but back markers never a chance for me ... But. We always egged each other on to try!
The course is very dry. The greens are watered - they're a little slow but played well. But the fairways are very dry. Preferred lie but often that made no real difference.
It wasn't an easy day out with the wind either. it was gusting a fair bit.


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Loss to Geneva sends Pioneers on road for playoffs
Geneva overcame a five-run deficit Monday night to beat the visiting Elmira Pioneers, 9-8, in 10 innings, earning a home game for the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League playoff game between the teams at McDonough Park.
The Red Wings finished the regular season with a 29-21 record, two games ahead of the Pioneers (27-23) in the West Division. Geneva will host Elmira at McDonough Park at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday in a one-game division semifinal.
Elmira could have earned the second seed for the playoffs, and the right to play Tuesday's game at Dunn Field, with a win based on a better head-to-head record against the Red Wings.
Elmira scored five runs in the seventh inning to take an 8-3 lead, but Geneva scored twice in the seventh, twice in the eighth and tied the game on a passed ball with two outs in the ninth.
The Red Wings won it in the 10th when Yohei Ishiyama scored on an error after leading off the inning with a double.
Andrew Orzel went 3-for-4 with three RBI for Elmira. Colton Evans was 3-for-4 with two runs for the Pioneers.
The first-place Jamestown Jammers (34-15) will host the fourth-place Onondaga Flames (23-26) at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday in the other West Division playoff.
The best-of-three division finals are scheduled to start Wednesday, with the top remaining seed at home for the first and third game, if it's needed.
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I've always found it amusing that orecchiette means "little ears." Many humans (and dogs) actually do eat pig's ears, so I guess it's not such a foreign concept. But I digress.
I'm in "lobe" with a pasta dish—orecchiette with sausage and kale. I often order this sort of dish at Italian restaurants, but recently, I found myself craving it at home...so I made it.
Turns out that it's super easy to create this lip-smacking, comforting meal, with a little help from your pantry.
Drizzle a large saucepan with extra virgin olive oil. Cook the onion and garlic for approx. 5 minutes over medium heat.
While that's cooking, fill a large pot with water and bring to a boil.
Add the tomatoes and kale to onion and garlic in the saucepan. Chop up the sausage and throw it in with your veggies. Stir until kale is wilted.
Meanwhile, cook the pasta to al dente (taste as you go) and drain. Add the drained pasta to the saucepan along with the pesto and seasonings (red pepper flakes, salt and pepper). Stir and serve immediately.
It has finally begun to get a bit warmer here in the city. Central Park is abloom with magnolias and cherry blossoms and dandelions, and the air is filled with possibility. In rereading that old classic, The Great Gatsby (yes, in preparation for the movie, ha), I happened upon a passage that matched this mood to a T.
"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees—just as things grow in fast movies—I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. There was so much to read for one thing and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving air."
Well put, Fitzgerald. All this spring business makes me think, what foods embody that notion of possibility and renewal? Seeds and grains and eggs are some that come to mind. I happen to like all three. Quinoa is one of the seeds I recently learned how to cook. And I discovered that it tastes darn good with eggs and hummus. Add a poached salmon fillet and it's a light yet hearty dinner.
Find a pot that has a lid and drizzle it with olive oil. Add the onion and saute over medium heat until translucent, about 5 minutes. Then add in the water and bring to a boil, then add the quinoa and bring to a boil again, and cover. Turn down the heat slightly and let it simmer for 15 minutes. Turn off the heat, but don't lift the lid just yet. Let it sit for about 5-10 minutes. Alas, fluffy quinoa requires patience, young grasshopper. Meanwhile, let us distract ourselves from hunger by preparing the eggs.
Set a nonstick skillet over high heat and a drizzle a bit of olive oil inside. Add in the tomato and garlic. Let cook for a about 5 minutes (I like to smash the tomato a bit with a wooden spoon to get all the juices out) until the tomato is really broken down. Add a bit of water if it looks too dry; the consistency should be slightly watery.
Crack in the eggs and beat with a wooden spoon until the yolk is broken up. Let cook a bit before flipping the eggs and breaking them up a bit more. Add in the scallions and season with salt (and a pinch of sugar, if you like) when the eggs are just about solidified.
Lift the lid of your quinoa (if you haven't already), and spoon about half into your bowl. Spoon as much egg as you like over the top and add the dollop of hummus* on the side. This recipe makes about two servings of quinoa and 1 serving of eggs, if you're an egg lover, and 2 servings of eggs if you're not a big egg eater.
*This tastes surprisingly delicious with hummus! I also imagine it would be good with a bit of corn or chopped bell pepper.
Yay for seeds that taste like grains! Quinoa, my dear, you are not only fun to pronounce, but also fun to eat.


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Some people are fans of leaks. But many, many more people are not fans of leaks. This article is for the latter group.
What you think you're doing:
We're liberating information, man! He's hacking the Gibson! HACK THE PLANET.
What you really are doing:
Congratulations, idiot. You ruined Christmas.
Your Problem: Leaks. (Not leeks.)
People are jacking information from Wizards of the Coast and posting it all over the internet. The latest leaks of Commander Legends were on eBay. You can't even sell your old Limp Bizkit CD without seeing Magic leaks. It's ridiculous.
The problem with sharing leaks are multiplicative; if the cards don't appear to be "good," you're going to hurt sales, which ultimately hurts Magic. People want to be surprised, so you're essentially telling them Santa isn't real and giving them a lump of coal. And dozens of people are given card reveals, and you stole that from them. People wait for years to have these types of reveals, and you swooped in like some kind of jackass vulture and jacked their joy. Wow. You're so cool! Everyone is cheering your name!
Why Do People Leak:
First and foremost, because they suck. This isn't hyperbole. If you're given advanced knowledge of cards that are going to be printed and you share that information with other people that you know are going to take that information and do seedy things with it, you're not just a part of the problem: you're the whole damn issue.
Wizards of the Coast gives out information to publishers and other parties so they can begin to create press for them. You may have heard of the "Godbooks" which show off new mechanics, card arts, abilities, and well, are basically the entire new set. Thiese are meant to build hype and get people ready to buy packs and boxes. A few years ago some salacious things were done with a Godbook and it broke the trust between Wizards and certain parties that will go nameless *cough* and it hurt the release of the next set because everyone had prior information.
But why do people leak?
Because they feel insignificant. Without a doubt, people that share leaks do so to feel important. People want to feel like they mean something in the grand scheme of things. Ruining an entire set—let alone a Commander set which is undoubtedly going to be one of, if not the, most hyped sets in Magic history—means you get to be the shining star for a few days. Internet fame means you're important, right! Impressing a large group of people you can't see by being some bastardized version of Robin Hood will make you important!
Just kidding. You're not.
How This Impacts Content Creators
Hi! I'm a content creator! I sit at a computer once a week and spend a few hours writing articles for Tee Cee Gee Playa Dot Com. They pay me. My job is to get you excited to play Magic—specifically Commander, and to write articles like this that piss off the nerds. So that you can go, "Wow, that Gisa and Geralf deck looks sweet I wanna play that." and have fun with your friends. And so TCGplayer can add another coin to the money pool their CEO swims in, Scrooge McDuck-style. Everyone wins.
Now imagine you're me and you have a card that WoTC has chosen you to write about or reveal through Twitter or your stream. You're given this info way in advance so you can properly hype this bad boy up. You've waited your entire career for this. I mean, I'll never get one because WotC hates me, but I have friends who do, and I love seeing them happy! This is the leadup to everything we do, and all the content we create for you, the reader and consumer, in order to gain a following large enough for Wizards to hand us the keys to dad's car.
And then some snail of a person posts pictures of packs they illegally got a hold of with the contents on full display. The card you have worked your entire career for was just plastered on the front page of a Magic Reddit page. All your hard work means nothing. All the preparation you've put in to showcasing it—the articles, the Youtube videos, the streaming—it was ruined.
Eventually to stop this, Wizards decides to stop giving out preview cards to people because they can't risk the huge loss of income if cards are leaked in advance of when they're supposed to be shown to an audience. How cool! Now everyone that spent years working toward this gets screwed over. Was it worth it to get a few upvotes? Was it worth it to ruin something for hundreds of thousands of fans? If you say "yes," you suck.
What's New That Sucks
Commander Legends is going to be one of the biggest drops in Magic history. Commander is the biggest format by a wide margin, and having an entire set to showcase it is going to be huge. That is, until the leakers dipped it in a fryalator and served it up like some overdone, dried-out Arby's roast beef.
These are the same people that stuck their heads out the car window at a Barnes and Nobles during the Harry Potter craze and yelled "Snape killed Dumbledore."
What's Old That Sucks
Ruining sets is a pastime shared by the worst (period) Magic (period) crowd (period) in all of the game. You're the kind of sickos that laugh at racist memes on freemagic because you're too stupid to come up with real comedy material (such as what you are reading. Haha I'm so funny.) And these people are as old as Magic itself. No one wants to be surprised anymore and feel that joy of opening a pack and going "what the hell does this do?" No. They want to make sure that if they can't have fun, you can't either. They're about as corrupt as they come. Without a doubt our hobby would be better off without you leakers.
What Has Always Sucked
The fact that I even had to write this article is what sucks the most. Do you think I like this? I planned on writing about a freaking Commander deck this week, but after these leaks I sat there in awe of the audacity and decided this is what we were doing instead. I hate this. I like making fun of stupid things in Magic, not stupid people in Magic. If this article applies to you, please reach out to me on Twitter @DynamoNestico and apologize while selling me your collection so I can donate the proceeds of it to the content creators around the world you just screwed over.
What Might Not Suck
Me for writing this. You for reading it. Do me a favor: don't participate in leaks.


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A new species of the genus Haplochromis, H. katonga, is described from nine specimen, ranging from 37.1 to 68.7 mm SL, collected from the Katonga River, Uganda. It differs from other species of the genus by its relatively small size, the combination of morphological characters (such as the relatively large eye, a low number of scales in the midlateral line (30), a smaller body depth than in other fluviatile species (32.7 vs. 35-40 % SL in Astatotilapia), and its coloration (in males: bluish to dark grey-brown on dorsum, flanks greenish, ventral parts yellowish, with reddish areas in unpaired fins). It is the only known Haplochromis species from the Katonga River, which connects the Lake Victoria and Lake George basins. It shows affinities to the genera Astatotilapia and Enterochromis (as defined by Greenwood 1979, 1980).


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Gut flora link to Parkinson's disease
Medical researchers in Finland hope that their discovery of a significant variation in the gut microbiota of Parkinson's sufferers could be used to improve diagnostics for the disease and perhaps even prevent it. The new research was made possible by funding from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and the Finnish Parkinson Foundation.
The work, by researchers from the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH), adds to other recent studies that have linked gut flora to a range of conditions and diseases such as obesity, depression, schizophrenia, and Chlamydia.
In the new work, the researchers show that Parkinson's disease sufferers have a significantly different microbiota in their intestines than their healthy counterparts. The findings are based on 72 subjects with Parkinson's and an equal number of healthy controls.
"Our most important observation was that patients with Parkinson's have much less bacteria from the Prevotellaceae family; unlike the control group, practically no one in the patient group had a large quantity of bacteria from this family," explained HUCH neurologist Filip Scheperjans.
The researchers have not yet determined what the lack of Prevotellaceae bacteria in Parkinson's sufferers means - do these bacteria perhaps have a property which protects their host from the disease? Or does this discovery merely indicate that intestinal dysfunction is part of the pathology of Parkinson's? "It's an interesting question which we are trying to answer," Sheperjans says.
Interestingly, the researchers also discovered that the amount of bacteria from the Enterobacteriaceae family in the intestine was connected to the degree of severity of balance and walking problems in the patients. The more Enterobacteriaceae they had, the more severe the symptoms.
"We are currently re-examining these same subjects to determine whether the differences are permanent and whether intestinal bacteria are associated with the progression of the disease and therefore its prognosis," explains Sheperjans.
"In addition," he added, "we will have to see if these changes in the bacterial ecosystem are apparent before the onset of motor symptoms. We will of course also try to establish the basis of this connection between intestinal microbiota and Parkinson's disease - what kind of mechanism binds them."
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Source: University of Helsinki


Use Augmented Reality for a trade show and you'll be swimming in leads.
There's no easy answer. Easy or not, you have to find it. Having a booth at a trade show is an effective way to display your business and its product or service. But, for a trade show appearance to truly count as a 'win,' you want to come away with a handful of new qualified leads to nurture into customers.
That's why you need to stand out. You're competing with hundreds of other companies for the same potential customers. Your display needs to grab their attention away from everyone else's and keep it locked on what you have to offer. Your technology needs to be newer, cooler, and more effective. While other booths are handing out pamphlets, you should be creating experiences. If a potential customer can experience your product or service, that's a huge advantage over the display across the way that reads information at them. Bring something to the table (or booth) that's so memorable, potential customers bring friends by to see it for themselves. That will help sell your product or service and generate buzz.
So, how can you stand out? Use augmented reality at your next trade show.
A Lightsaber vs. Regular Saber fight would be over quickly. Incorporating augmented reality into your trade show display will have the same effect. In contrast, there's not much traditional media can do to stand up to the unmatched 'wow' factor of AR. As an emerging technology, it will still be brand new to some people and that curiosity alone will bring them to your booth.
Even if curiosity brings them there, the amazing capabilities of AR will keep them captivated. Augmented reality can break down physical obstacles that other display technology can't. For example, AR can bring a digital representation of any product into any room. Have a bigger product (like a vehicle) that won't fit through the door? Use augmented reality and not only display it, but allow potential customers to interact with it. That lets them experience your product, moving them closer to buying.
Easily generate leads by asking for contact information within AR applications. Building lead capture into an experience is a non-intrusive and natural way to offer them more access, features, and information about your AR experience - and your product or service.
Create a trade show display that potential customers will tell all their friends about. You can do that with augmented reality. It has 'wow' factor for days, it provides a superior marketing experience, and it will capture leads without the awkwardness of asking out of the blue. Augmented Reality is the future. By adopting early, you're putting yourself comfortably ahead of your competition.


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Will the Real Nick Swisher Please Stand Up?
By Brian Heise
Jul 11, 2014; Cleveland, OH, USA; Cleveland Indians designated hitter Nick Swisher (33) celebrates after hitting a two run home run during the fifth inning against the Chicago White Sox at Progressive Field. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports
After two less than spectacular seasons, can Nick Swisher finally live up to expectations?
Things have been better for Nick Swisher. After nine successful seasons at the big league level split between stops in Oakland, Chicago, and New York, he came to Cleveland in the winter prior to the start of the 2013 season amid lofty expectations. Perhaps those expectations got the best of Swisher as he limps his way into 2015.
In the nine seasons before committing to the Indians, Swisher was an above average player with all around decent skills. He could hit for power and get on base, posting a .256/.361/.467 slash line and 118 OPS+ with 209 homers and 673 RBI. Throw in the fact that Swisher is an alumnus of The Ohio State University and there was a lot to like about the four-year deal he signed.
However, injuries and poor performance have changed the narrative completely. Rather than putting the finishing touches on a successful career, a victory lap for lack of a better term, Swisher is simply trying to hold on. He implied just as much in a recent interview.
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""I feel great, man," Swisher said. "I feel really good. We started running this week, so every week, it just continues to keep getting better."I just miss playing. I miss diving into second base, skinning up my forearms. I miss running into the right-field wall. There's just a lot of things I miss about the game, and I really realized that after sitting at home when you're all bandaged up and can't do anything.""
That is not a player looking to make an impact in upcoming season. That is a player simply looking to make a positive contribution after so many failures and disappointments in such a short period of time. Anyone who thinks Nick Swisher has enjoyed collecting paychecks is clearly mistaken and Swisher's words indicate that. The past two seasons have been torturous.
It's no secret that 2013 and 2014 were hard to watch if you were a fan of Nick Swisher. He clearly looked like a player in decline and the stats backed that up. In his age 32 and 33 seasons, Swisher saw his strikeout percentage increase to 24%, a career worst, while his walk rate dipped below for only the second time in his career. Not only that, but the drastic decline in power production was alarming. For his career, Swisher had averaged a home run once every 20 at bats. In two seasons in Cleveland, that has dropped to one home run every 30 at bats to go along with a .386 slugging percentage.
But, with two years remaining on a four-year contract, is there any chance that Swisher might regain some resemblance of the player he once was; the player the Indians expected to see when they signed him?
No one is asking Nick Swisher to hit 30 homer runs and drive in 100 runs. That ship has long since sailed away. The truth of the matter is Swisher was never going to be that player and was miscast as a clean up hitter in his first season in Cleveland. However, with the emergence of players like Michael Brantley, Yan Gomes, and even Jason Kipnis, Swisher would fit nicely in the sixth or seventh spots in what looks to be a solid lineup.
The addition of Brandon Moss in another huge piece of the puzzle. With Moss in the middle of the lineup, along with the aforementioned players filling out around him, this should help take pressure off of Swisher to be something he is not. Instead of focusing on home runs and power, Swisher can focus on things like timely hitting with runners on base, moving runners over, picking up the guys ahead of him when they fail. These are all things that a 34-year-old Nick Swisher can do and probably do well.
Ultimately though, the success or failure of Nick Swisher's 2015 season will be determined by his health. If he can stay on the field with any sort of consistency there is reason to believe he can still be an effective player making contributions on a nightly basis. Because he legitimately gives a damn, he's going to continually try his best. The talent is still there, somewhere. Whether his body will hold up is a different story.


-BC Warriors pick up QB Chris Chandler, place him on IR.
-Horatio Rage drop RB Rashaan Shehee, pick up QB Jeff Blake.
-Wrath Squadron pick up TE Cameron Cleeland and place him on IR.
in exchange for the Cobra's 1st, 2nd, and 6th round picks.
in exchange for Rage's 1st, 2nd, and 6th round picks.


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MHI receives order for 1,600 MW combined cycle plant in Thailand - Turbomachinery MagazineTurbomachinery Magazine
MHI receives order for 1,600 MW combined cycle plant in Thailand
By TMI Staff & Contributors · On January 2, 2012
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has recently secured a full-turnkey order from Gulf JP NS Company (GNS) to construct a 1,600MW gas turbine combined-cycle power plant in Thailand. The power plant in Nong Saeng district, Saraburi Province, is being built based on the Thai government's electric power development plan.
The facility will include two 800MW power generation plant trains and will primarily consist of four M701F gas turbines, two steam turbines and six generators. The two power units are slated to begin operations in June and December 2014 respectively, and will be operated by GNS. Electricity generated at the plant will be supplied to Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand for 25 years.
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At the end of every episode of Game of Thrones comes the "next time" trailer. But what glimpses do we have for next week's episode? Sunday's cliffhanger of Jaime Lannister floating face down in the water does not inspire confidence of his survival. Meanwhile, Dany has finally won her first decisive victory. The score is technically Lannister 2, Targaryen 1. Let's see what we can glean from the Game of Thrones Season 7, Episode 5 teaser.
As a reminder, we don't actually have an official synopsis for next week's episode. Heck, we don't even have a the title this week, since no one has accidentally posted it anywhere. It is rumored to be "Blood of the Dragon," but several in-the-know sites, including Watchers on the Wall, insist that's bupkis.
All we have are a few images strung together in a YouTube video to give us any idea of what happens next.
Bend the knee and join her. Seems reasonable... unless you're Jon Snow.
"You Need To Find A Way To Make Her Listen"
Is Varys talking about Dany? Or does he mean Cersei?
I don't know about y'all, but if I spoke dragon, I would assume this one is yelling "You guys!! It's another Targaryen! We have another rider! OMG so exciting! Guys? Guys?! Where are you GOING?!"
Of course she is. When is Cersei *not* in total denial? I ask you.


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Farming in the past: A multimedia learning programme for schools
Hillis, Peter, (Principal Investigator)
The multimedia CD ROM is based on research into life in rural society largely based on a Journal kept between 1879 and 1892, important decades between the period of high farming and agricultural depression, by James Wilson, a farmer in Deskford, Banffshire. This Journal is a highly unusual and original account of life at the time due to the detail provided, from accidents through to the weather, his poetry and in the lectures given to Deskford Mutual Improvement Society. The Journal is to be published by the Scottish History Society in 2008 as a book edited by the Principal Investigator. The Journal provides the basis for a learning programme contained within a multi-media CD ROM which will allow teachers and pupils to study life in rural Scotland. The CD ROM will move beyond this area to examine issues surrounding food production, past and present The program will contain a plethora of primary sources including, for example, film, photographs, music, extracts from newspapers, advertisements, maps, a database for the 1881 Banffshire census, and associated learning tasks. These support an investigative approach to learning as advocated in the current curriculum framework, A Curriculum for Excellence. For example, pupils can use the census database to investigate people living in a particular locality-their families, occupations, places of birth etc; archive film in the CD ROM allows pupils to compile their own presentations of life in the past and the concluding authentic activity asks pupils to prepare a guide for tourists who wish to learn about life in the past-the guide should be produced in English and any other 'foreign' language. In this and in other ways, for example, through suggested art and drama activities, the programme will support wide areas of the curriculum. The multimedia CD ROM will be trialled and evaluated in two Primary Schools, one of which was attended by James Wilson. A DVD will be produced showing pupils and teachers working with the resource. This DVD forms one part of a strategy to exchange the results of the evaluation and the CD ROM itself more widely in schools and museums. This exchange is further developed by distributing the CD ROM to schools and relevant museums, for example, the Museum of Rural Life; providing training for students and practicing teachers in the CD ROM and associated learning tasks and publicising the results of the evaluation in journals, professional publications and other relevant media. The Scottish Farmer, for example, has published and article on the Journal. In addition to enhancing our understanding of the past, the multimedia CD ROM will provide practical and workable support for using ICT in Primary and Secondary Schools which is a current educational objective throughout the United Kingdom. This enhancement comes, for example, in teachers and pupils using a multimedia resource: interrogating databases; working with media such as film and photographs; using programs such as iMovie, iPhoto and PowerPoint to create presentations, documentaries, displays and the like; searching the internet from hyperlinks in the CD ROM and using word processing and graphic programs in the production of documents such as reports.This proposal, therefore, uses original research in history and education to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in many areas largely within the context of schools where knowledge exchange is a central rationale with a large multiplier effect.
AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council): £42,960.00


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The Latest: Dutch activists use red spray paint on statue
By The Associated Press, 13/06/2020
TOP OF THE HOUR:
— Statues boarded up in London ahead of anti-racism and far-right protests.
— Australian PM urges protesters not to attend rallies because of virus.
— Columbus statue in Camden, New Jersey, latest taken down.
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — Dutch activists have spray painted the words "killer" and "thief" and daubed red paint on a statue of a man from the 17th-century Golden Era of Dutch trade and colonial expansion.
A municipal worker was removing the paint from the statue of Piet Hein in Rotterdam on Friday, amid a wave of vandalism on statues of historical figures in the United States and Europe.
Hein is best known for leading a Dutch naval action in 1628 that captured a Spanish treasure fleet near Cuba. A group calling itself "Heroes of Never" in Dutch claimed responsibility, saying in a statement Hein was "a key figure in clearing the way for trans-Atlantic human trade in enslaved West Africans."
The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers has sparked a re-examination of the actions of historical men, who often were exalted in the form of statues and other memorials.
SYDNEY — Hundreds of police have disrupted plans for a Black Lives Matter rally in downtown Sydney, but protest organizers have vowed that other rallies will continue around Australia over the weekend despite warnings of the coronavirus risk.
Police ringed the Sydney Town Hall hours before around 3,000 people were expected to attend a rally on Friday following the death in Minnesota of George Floyd.
Police vans were parked in side streets in preparation for mass arrests for breaching a 10-person limit on public gatherings. Protesters instead split, and 100 dispersed around the hall while another few hundred converged on a nearby park.
The protesters all appeared to obey police directions to leave. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has urged police to charge protesters with breaching pandemic restrictions this weekend.
Police largely didn't enforce social distancing rules during peaceful Black Lives Matter rallies attended by thousands in Australian cities last weekend that focused on the high incarceration rate of indigenous Australians.
Rallies are planned in various cities this weekend about the Minnesota death of George Floyd and the coronavirus risk posed to asylum-seekers held in crowded Australian immigration detention centers.
LONDON — Authorities in London have boarded up a war memorial and a statue of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill ahead of expected rival demonstrations by anti-racism and far-right protesters.
Monuments have become major focuses of contention in demonstrations sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. A statue of slave trader Edward Colston was dumped in the harbor by protesters in the English port city of Bristol on Sunday.
Several other statues have been defaced around the country. Police are concerned far-right groups plan to seek confrontation under the guise of protecting statues.
With more demonstrations expected on the weekend, a protective plywood screen was erected around Churchill's statue outside Parliament. Authorities also fenced off the nearby Cenotaph, a memorial to Britain's war dead.
A Black Lives Matter group in London said it was calling off a planned protest on Saturday because the presence of far-right activists would make it unsafe. Another anti-racism protest Friday is set to go ahead.
BERLIN — Police in eastern Germany have suspended two officers who filmed themselves harassing a homeless man.
A 90-second video on social media of Sunday's incident in Bad Belzig, southwest of Berlin, showed one of the officers shoving the inebriated man and trying to kick him.
Police in Brandenburg state say the two officers have been suspended and face a criminal investigation and disciplinary proceedings.
CAMDEN, N.J. — A statue of Christopher Columbus in this southern New Jersey city, has been taken down, joining others across the country.
The city of Camden released a statement calling the Farnham Park statue a "controversial symbol" that has "long pained residents of the community."
Protesters mobilized by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police have called for the removal of statues of Columbus around the country, saying the Italian explorer is responsible for the genocide and exploitation of native peoples in the Americas.
Video from local news outlets showed the statue coming down Thursday night. The city's statement says "a plan to reexamine these outdated symbols of racial division and injustices" is overdue. The majority of Camden residents are people of color.
Statues of Columbus have also been toppled or vandalized in cities such as Miami; Richmond, Virginia; St. Paul, Minnesota, and Boston, where one was decapitated.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The use of controversial "no-knock" warrants has been banned in Louisville. The new ordinance is named for Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot after officers burst into her home.
The city's Metro Council unanimously voted Thursday night to ban the controversial warrants after days of protests and calls for reform.
Taylor, who was studying to become a nurse, was shot eight times by officers conducting a narcotics investigation on March 13. No drugs were found at her home.
"I'm just going to say, Breonna, that's all she wanted to do was save lives, so with this law she will continue to get to do that," Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, said after the law was passed. "She would be so happy."
The law bans the use of the warrants by Louisville Metro officers. Police typically use them in drug cases over concern that evidence could be destroyed if they announce their arrival. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul also introduced federal legislation Thursday that would ban the use of no-knock warrants nationwide.
ATLANTA — Charges have been upgraded against a 42-year-old man accused of deliberately running his ATV into an Atlanta police officer during a protest of police brutality and the death of George Floyd.
In a statement Thursday, Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos said Avery Goggans, of Stone Mountain, faces new charges of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Campos said the new charges were filed because Goggans had tried to hit two other officers at different intersections before he rammed into Officer Maximilian Brewer in downtown Atlanta on the night of May 30. Brewer suffered significant injuries to his legs.
Goggans was initially charged with DUI, reckless driving, possession of marijuana and other traffic offenses including serious injury by vehicle, Campos said.


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Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: We will continue resisting euthanasia.
Let me put this in terms of a parish. I know not every reader is religious but think of it as a model for small-scale resistance. The Catholic Church has always taught that the most effective way to change minds happens at the local level. This makes sense, as it's easier to get things done in a small group then say nationally or globally. A few can do that but most of us have limited time and other duties.
In any parish, there are those who think euthanasia is a good idea. The polls bear this out. So our aim should be to find these people and try to change their minds. In a religious context it's easier than a secular context because there is more common ground. Even the worst Catholic who attends mass knows that certain things are wrong, though they try to run from that truth.
Also the people we know at the local level are familiar faces and often friends. There is a level of trust there that a stranger won't assume.
These are the people who need formation and need our help and wisdom.
We must also recognize the importance of caring for and others. People who we know will experience difficult circumstances and we need to be caring friends and recognize that we are capable of saving a life by caring and supporting others in their difficult circumstance.
Let's say you change one person's mind. You may say, So what?
You never save one person: you save a whole group of people each time you save one. You save this person's spouse, children, relatives and other close friends. Every time someone chooses legalized suicide it sends a message that it's okay.
On the other hand every time someone says no it will send a powerful message. We should choose life.
It will also mean local groups can come to the aid of physicians who find themselves at odds with the requirement to refer patients who want to die to doctors who have no qualms of ending someone's life with a syringe. It's going to mean moral support and financial support. It will mean raising a stink to high heaven because the stripping of conscience rights is a moral outrage.
We are going to be true rebels. We will fight endless skirmishes. We will be odd to others. The ones who won't accept defeat. That's fine. We're not in high school. Being popular is not the goal. Fighting for Truth and Justice is.
When I read your article about how you struggled through intense pain to get to your destination, it was a huge inspiration. I can't say how much I agree with your articles. Huge thanks to you and Alex and everyone at EPC. May God give us the strength to continue the fight.