It's an unfortunate truth that no character is safe on The Walking Dead; fans have learned that lesson time and time again. It doesn't matter how fascinating or beloved or seemingly necessary to the plot a character is — everyone and anyone can fall victim to the randomness of death. When living in a world that's under constant threat from every side, it means that any character could meet their maker at any moment. So even though his time on the show only just began, does King Ezekiel die on The Walking Dead? Warning: TWD comics spoilers ahead!
If the show decides to follow the comics, then unfortunately Ezekiel's days are numbered. There is always a chance that the show will deviate from its prescribed path but it's not likely, especially lately; in most recent seasons, The Walking Dead has been paying homage to its source material more and more. Even when one character's comic death is given to another character (like how Denise received Comic Abraham's death by arrow), the character who died in the comics usually ends up biting the dust eventually too. There are some exceptions, like Carol, but usually if a character dies in the comics then odds are they will die on the show at some point. And Ezekiel did die in the comics... just not for some time.
After contact was finally initiated between the Kingdom, Alexandria, and the Hilltop, in the comics the three communities decided to join forces to try and overcome Negan and his seemingly endless amount of Saviors. While the show isn't quite there yet, that does seem to be the direction things are moving in. Once everyone got on the same page, they worked together to fight against Negan. Though there were setbacks in the comics, such as Ezekiel losing his tiger Shiva to a horde of walkers and then Ezekiel's resultant depression, the joint communities were successful in ousting Negan from his position of power.
However, the trouble only ramped up from there. Ezekiel returned to ruling the Kingdom with Michonne by his side (their romance was another thing that was changed on the show), but he ended up falling victim to the newest threat in town. A group called the Whisperers sought revenge against the assembled communities for infringing on their territory, so they killed a whole bunch of characters, Ezekiel among them, and put their heads on spikes as a warning.
It's a disappointing end for an interesting character, but luckily it's still a far away event. In the comics, Ezekiel's death occurred two years after Negan's defeat (which hasn't even happened on the show yet), though there was a time jump that makes the chain of events feel a lot quicker. Unless the show chooses to change the timeline, then Ezekiel's death won't happen for a while yet. So enjoy him while you can!


Title: "The development of the converter sea waves energy".
Description of the project: "Wave energy converters", an organisation from Ukraine, is looking for partners interested in developing sea wave energy converters.
Also, they would like to create desalinators, pumps and compressors driven by the energy of sea waves in order to work units in the expanded from 0.5 mto 6 mrange of wave heights. They aim to develop a device without limitation the height of waves, only the output power limit.
Partner sought: Partners from France, Ireland, Spain and United Kingdom with expertise in the field of wave energy conversion.
Adress: Budkevicha 54, 24400 Bershad, Vinnitca, Ukraine.


It's an easy, almost expected thing to say, but is it always the right approach from a media agency? I've heard it said a lot, and I don't think it is.
Consumer insight is important to media planning, no argument there. There is more consumer data available to us than there has ever been, we are drowning in the stuff.
A media agency will always have an important role to play in understanding and distilling this audience data. There are few great campaigns that aren't based in an audience truth in some way.
The audience should, then, always be front of mind of all we do. In the 'head'. But putting it at the 'heart'? I believe a stronger core for a media agency is an ethos, something that builds a culture around an approach to challenges. Putting 'the consumer at the heart of everything' places a restriction upon the broad level of upfront thinking that good communications planning benefits from.
There should be a step before the audience of broad, open-minded thought. Thought that's ingrained in the culture of the agency and isn't just switched on when a brief lands.
Sure, every communications plan will look at the audience in detail, but the problem and solution may not wholly lay there.
Take the famous example of Sainsbury's 'try something new today'. The solution was consumer based, but before that a planner at AMV BBDO looked at the numbers, and realised that the brief was actually asking every Sainsburys' shopper to spend an additional £1.14 each time they shopped. The £1.14 business challenge then lent itself to the consumer challenge. This was a step before the audience. It is also something that required an inquisitive mind and a broad objective approach to isolate. Put 'the consumer at the heart' and you are only looking approaching work from a consumer starting point.
Put 'the freedom to think at the heart' and you give communications planners the opportunity to apply the breath of their knowledge to a client's work, starting from a multitude of angles.
Thinking freely is making connections, lateral thinking; taking a number of entry points and seeing where they take you. One, or several, or all of these entry points may be relating to the audience, but it is the explorative nature of a Freethinking ethos that is at the heart, not the audience itself.
At Republic of Media, we are putting Freethinking at the heart of everything we do. We believe our planning and campaigns for our clients are stronger for it, and that we as planners get more out of our day-to-day work.


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Juventus got their season off to a modest but efficient start, beating Chievo 1-0 in Serie A away from home. The result is a great opening to the title defense for Juve and no fan should ever complain at a clean sheet and three points away from home. The result places them just behind last season's second place, who will inevitably be a title contender again this season, and AC Milan, who after a 3-1 win seem a lot more confident and motivated under new manager Filippo Inzaghi. Juventus aren't a team to shy away from a challenge and their players will relish the chance to test themselves against the red side of Milan in a few weeks.
The Juventus Home Shorts don't do anything exceptionally unusual or look quirky. They're just a regular, reliable piece of football kit – as football shorts should be. The color is a bold white, with a thick black stripe down each side of the shorts, and the adults football shorts have an elasticated waistband with drawstrings to secure the fit around the waist.
The shorts are made from 100% polyester to be durable and lightweight and the material means they are safe to clean in a washing machine. Each leg of the Juventus football shorts has stitching. On the left leg is the golden Nike Swoosh while on the right is the Juventus football club crest.
Beneath the waist is the phrase Dri-FIT too, and this refers to Nike's sweat wicking technology which is incorporated in the fabric of the shorts. The process works by drawing perspiration into the shorts material from which it can be easily ejected as evaporation to keep you not only dry and cool but free from the irritation of sweat.
At Soccer Box we have Juventus home kits for the 2014 – 2015 season and even remainder stock from previous seasons. Fans of all ages can support the team from Turin and enjoy the entertainment Serie A has to offer.
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Today we'd like to introduce you to Guillaume Plisson.
Guillaume, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
I began working as a press photographer in 1999, and since 2007 I've focused on a research which name is Lightgraff. The same year, I did the first book dedicated to this art which was published in France. Lightgraff is the art of painting with lights. Since a few years, the name "light painting" is used. It consists of using a camera at night and long-time exposure photographies in order to draw with lights. It is the same as night shots with cars on roads but here, I paint with lights to create pictures. I work all over the world for companies to develop this research in events, festivals, shows, exhibitions… The first public event was "the Nuit Blanche" in Paris, France, in 2007. There were others in different countries such as China, Brazil, Greece, Norway, Chile, Portugal, Indonesia… At the same time, I go on developing my personal art and narrative forms for exhibitions or new ways of expression. According to projects, this work federates artists and technicians in different fields: photographers, filmmakers, editors, cameramen, light creators, musicians, sound designers, computerists…leading to more and more ambitious creations.
During the first years of this research, I had a lot of charges but no financing. I had to be cunning to have publications and visibility to go on. It was not easy. This work holds different difficulties: technical ones due to photography particularities, to the creation of ergonomic and powerful lights, used to draw in the air, in 3 dimensions, with ephemeral light inks… Another difficulty is that people think that my pictures are done with computer retouches but they are not. It's an important point to appreciate my pictures.
Lightgraff – what should we know? What do you guys do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
I am a visual artist. I propose performances and solutions destined to events and communication for pictures, films, virtual realities, shows…sometimes with the public. The experience acquired for ten years helps me to develop my creativity and to answer my clients' needs. I am known for public live shows and my unique light participative performances.
For me, success is here when my clients have been surprised by my work and satisfied by my choices.


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2 Most Surprising Teams In NBA Western Conference
By Adam Lowenstein
@StatsAdam
(Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
The NBA Western Conference has just two double-digit win teams thus far this season.
The conference has the league's best team and the hottest team in the NBA as well.
The Western Conference is looking to reign supreme again in the NBA after losing in two of the last three NBA Finals.
The lone champion from the West recently was the LeBron James-led Los Angeles Lakers in the bubble.
So, which Western Conference teams are going to be battling it out for the conference's spot in the Finals this year?
Without further ado, here are the two most surprising teams in the West:
2. Phoenix Suns
Last year, the Phoenix Suns finished with 51 wins, the second-highest total in the Western Conference.
They then played tremendous postseason basketball en route to their first Finals appearance since 1993.
After the Suns lost in six games to the NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks, they seem to be out for blood this season.
On Sunday night, they won their ninth straight game:
29 points for @DevinBook…9 STRAIGHT WINS for the @Suns! pic.twitter.com/fyw2Dmx8x6
— NBA (@NBA) November 16, 2021
Behind great shooting and ball-handling, Phoenix is on fire.
Shockingly, the team is now on pace for a whopping 63 wins, which would be a franchise-best number for the Suns.
Devin Booker leads the way with 23 points per game, and Chris Paul and Deandre Ayton are both averaging double-doubles.
The Suns next take on the impressive 9-4 Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday.
The contest will be the first of a two-game series in Phoenix for the Mavs and Suns.
However, the Mavs will be without superstar Luka Dončić, who is out for the upcoming contest against the Suns.
If Dončić does not play in either of the games, Phoenix could have a huge edge on the Mavs.
With their strong start and long winning streak, the Suns could be a threat to the best team in the NBA.
1. Golden State Warriors
The NBA-best Golden State Warriors have played fantastic basketball thus far in the 2021-22 season.
Even without Klay Thompson, they are looking like the championship teams from years ago.
On Monday, they continued to prove how impressive they are with a dominating win over former Warrior Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets.
Golden State played so well that Steve Nash even said that he does not consider his team elite.
The Warriors have been unbelievable in the third quarter this season, and they won the quarter, 35-18, on Monday night.
The Warriors are now +124 in their 14 third quarters this season. The next best third quarter team in the league, the Suns, are +36. A grand canyon gap.
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) November 17, 2021
Golden State has been performing very well on both sides of the court, and they are just one of three teams in the top 10 in both offense and defense:
Teams with a top 10 offense and defense this season:
Chicago Bulls pic.twitter.com/blVpt0oVbo
— StatMuse (@statmuse) November 16, 2021
The Warriors entered the season with an over/under of 48.5 wins.
With the 12-2 start, they are on pace for 70 wins.
Not many people expected them to start this well.
Let us not get ahead of ourselves, but we know Stephen Curry is capable of a lot on the hardwood.
He continues to rain 3-pointers.
His shooting records continue to astonish the NBA world:
There is only one player in NBA history with 10+ games of 9+ threes.
And it's Steph with 37.
THIRTY SEVEN.
No other player is in the 10-36 range. pic.twitter.com/GeWowZDwg1
From 2015 to 2018, the Warriors won three championships.
Are they going to have a resurgence and make it to the NBA Finals?
It seems very likely at this time.
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About Adam Lowenstein
Adam Lowenstein is a freelance sports journalist. He is also a dental resident at Tufts University. While completing his degrees, Adam wrote for numerous websites, covering various professional sports. Adam is a native of Massachusetts, and he attended Washington University in St. Louis when the St. Louis Rams were actually a thing. Adam recently completed his master's and doctorate degrees. In sports, Adam has spent the last couple of years covering the NBA, specifically the Boston Celtics.
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Court of Tax Appeals Act: An Overview
Republic Act No. 1125 (1954) is the law that created the Court of Tax Appeals (CTA). Originally, the CTA has one division composed of a Presiding Judge and two Associate Judges. Pursuant to Republic Act No. 9282 (2004), the CTA's membership was expanded from one division to two divisions of six Justices, composed of a Presiding Justice and five Associate Justices, all of whom were given the same rank as that of the Presiding Justice and the Associates Justices, respectively, of the Court of Appeals. Republic Act No. 9282 also expanded the jurisdiction of the CTA to include, among others, jurisdiction over criminal cases.
Republic Act No. 9503 (2007) further increased the CTA's membership to three divisions, composed of a Presiding Justice and eight Associate Justices.
Under the law, the CTA shall exercise:
(a) Exclusive appellate jurisdiction to review by appeal, as herein provided:
(1) Decisions of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in cases involving disputed assessments, refunds of internal revenue taxes, fees or other charges, penalties in relation thereto, or other matters arising under the National Internal Revenue Code or other laws administered by the Bureau of Internal Revenue;
(2) Inaction by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in cases involving disputed assessments, refunds of internal revenue taxes, fees or other charges, penalties in relations thereto, or other matters arising under the National Internal Revenue Code or other laws administered by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, where the National Internal Revenue Code provides a specific period of action, in which case the inaction shall be deemed a denial;
(3) Decisions, orders or resolutions of the Regional Trial Courts in local tax cases originally decided or resolved by them in the exercise of their original or appellate jurisdiction;
(4) Decisions of the Commissioner of Customs in cases involving liability for customs duties, fees or other money charges, seizure, detention or release of property affected, fines, forfeitures or other penalties in relation thereto, or other matters arising under the Customs Law or other laws administered by the Bureau of Customs;
(5) Decisions of the Central Board of Assessment Appeals in the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction over cases involving the assessment and taxation of real property originally decided by the provincial or city board of assessment appeals;
(6) Decisions of the Secretary of Finance on customs cases elevated to him automatically for review from decisions of the Commissioner of Customs which are adverse to the Government under Section 2315 of the Tariff and Customs Code;
(7) Decisions of the Secretary of Trade and Industry, in the case of nonagricultural product, commodity or article, and the Secretary of Agriculture in the case of agricultural product, commodity or article, involving dumping and countervailing duties under Section 301 and 302, respectively, of the Tariff and Customs Code, and safeguard measures under Republic Act No. 8800, where either party may appeal the decision to impose or not to impose said duties.
(b) Jurisdiction over cases involving criminal offenses as herein provided:
(1) Exclusive original jurisdiction over all criminal offenses arising from violations of the National Internal Revenue Code or Tariff and Customs Code and other laws administered by the Bureau of Internal Revenue or the Bureau of Customs: Provided, however, That offenses or felonies mentioned in this paragraph where the principal amount of taxes and fees, exclusive of charges and penalties, claimed is less than One million pesos (P1,000,000.00) or where there is no specified amount claimed shall be tried by the regular Courts and the jurisdiction of the CTA shall be appellate. Any provision of law or the Rules of Court to the contrary notwithstanding, the criminal action and the corresponding civil action for the recovery of civil liability for taxes and penalties shall at all times be simultaneously instituted with, and jointly determined in the same proceeding by the CTA, the filing of the criminal action being deemed to necessarily carry with it the filing of the civil action, and no right to reserve the filling of such civil action separately from the criminal action will be recognized.
(2) Exclusive appellate jurisdiction in criminal offenses:
(a) Over appeals from the judgments, resolutions or orders of the Regional Trial Courts in tax cases originally decided by them, in their respected territorial jurisdiction.
(b) Over petitions for review of the judgments, resolutions or orders of the Regional Trial Courts in the exercise of their appellate jurisdiction over tax cases originally decided by the Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts in their respective jurisdiction.
(c) Jurisdiction over tax collection cases as herein provided:
(1) Exclusive original jurisdiction in tax collection cases involving final and executory assessments for taxes, fees, charges and penalties: Provided, however, That collection cases where the principal amount of taxes and fees, exclusive of charges and penalties, claimed is less than One million pesos (P1,000,000.00) shall be tried by the proper Municipal Trial Court, Metropolitan Trial Court and Regional Trial Court.
(2) Exclusive appellate jurisdiction in tax collection cases:
(a) Over appeals from the judgments, resolutions or orders of the Regional Trial Courts in tax collection cases originally decided by them, in their respective territorial jurisdiction.
(b) Over petitions for review of the judgments, resolutions or orders of the Regional Trial Courts in the exercise of their appellate jurisdiction over tax collection cases originally decided by the Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts, in their respective jurisdiction. (R.A. No. 1125, sec. 7, as amended by R.A. No. 9282)
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Dr. Cortez comes to Continuing Education from Berkeley City College (BCC), where he has served as Acting Vice President of Instruction and Dean of Academic Pathways, Workforce Development, and Student Success.
Dr. Cortez will assume leadership of San Diego Continuing Education, which serves 45,000 students per semester at seven campuses and many community locations. Continuing Education plays a vital workforce development role in the region and offers an array of programs ranging from citizenship courses to welding classes. It is one of the oldest and largest noncredit institutions in the nation, serving San Diego since 1914, and its students are among the most diverse in California culturally, ethnically, and educationally. It also offers the high school diploma and GED in conjunction with the San Diego Unified School District. The Continuing Education division was recently lauded by the California Little Hoover Commission for its organization, practices, and success, and is being used as a statewide model.
In addition to his position at BCC, Dr. Cortez also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, where he has worked in various capacities since 2001. His research interests center on the role of educators and administrators of color in the historical development of American social welfare and education policy. He is also an expert in the area of promoting equity and access in urban education through literacy and policy initiatives. Before BCC, he served as Director of Education Extension at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to UCLA, he worked in education at the P-12 level as a teacher, administrator, and researcher.


Channel partners can be a great source of accurate forecasts, but Brand, OEMs and Tech companies don't engage on Demand.
Channel Management is a huge opportunity to increase sales and have great eyes and ears in the market place. But inconsistent Demand planning and lack of integrated supply chain practice with the channel lead to less value in the relationship.
In our interviews with firms that rely on the channel we have found disparate practices. But those that have invested in more precision, more support, and better processes, are quite enthused about the improved results that they are achieving with partners.
As we discussed in Part One, managing channels is not just orchestrating events, but rather a set of holistic programs that provide more precision in the method and management. One area where brand companies and manufacturers can improve is the supply chain and forecasting practices within their channels.
For many firms that sell through channels, the sheer distance from the end market makes accurate demand planning a huge challenge, one that many have 'given up on.' In addition, they use antiquated methods to stimulate demand or create unnecessary pricing discounts—blunt instruments due to lack of demand planning processes and market visibility.
The farther we are from the end customer's purchase/consumption date, the longer the supply chain cycle time, the more challenging the forecast. If we are too far afield, we miss orders, miss profits, lose customers and maybe lose the company. Yet one up/one down forecasting is the model, and suppliers often don't trust the forecasts. So, how about the supplier managing the demand process? Managing your channels to manage your forecast accuracy.
First, it behooves companies to have a structured view to how they design the interfunctional decision making, such as we see in Figure 1 (right).
Aligning process is a practice. You get better at it with time, as the insights come. Let's look at some learning to engage with channel.
One practice that we often see, especially in hardware firms or component firms, is defining the channel partner as the 'customer.' Although it is true for so many that, due to the nature of your product, you are looking up a stack of assemblies and it appears a long way to the end market, that market might not be as far away as you think. In fact, the end consumer of your product is ultimately driving the sales, though you may have little knowledge or contact with that segment of the market. But to ignore it or not try to analyze it in an analytic way would be a huge mistake.
This often happens with raw material providers. But fad and fashion or changes in value can rapidly dry up a market. And for many channels, substitution may be easy, with little risk to switching. So, mastering the end market and creating brand awareness of the uniqueness of your product, though appearing to be a commodity, would be wise. Your device may be used in automotive, but there might be a market for it in transportation. As the auto market depresses, the question arises as to how to capitalize on a growing end market instead, through other partners, other nuances in the way you sell, package, etc. Many of our customers are embedded technologies that partner with other of our partners. And it is interesting to listen to the OEM vs. the embedded devices, vs. the VAR, vs. consultants/application providers. For the embedded device designer, these are all constituents that they need to manage and satisfy, but who is the customer? The Customer is still XYZ Company that will use the final solution in their business.
This tedious little lecture may seem oh so obvious, but it makes a huge difference in forecasting and business growth! Lessons have been learned by the big box merchants, that the brand companies know better about the long term impact of their products in markets; rather than particular stores that may be good at a tactical short term demand signal, but have little understanding of the value or application of a particular product.
For many markets, getting the new product introduced correctly is a onetime chance. Often the channel partner is the last to know, with last minute announcements. Once the product is ready, manufacturing throws a big party to announce and train on the product, and poll for sales numbers—not a great NPI strategy. Often, wild pronouncements are made on the future sales of such products, but the sales are not delivered. This particular set of behaviors is often what leads to the cynicism in channel programs.
The solution is more collaboration, from design through the life of the product, so that the strategy forecast has not only their insights, but also the commitment of the channel to sell the volumes. Then the partners have time to prepare and ready their team, and gain the needed insights at the customer level in order to mount the right kind of sales efforts, whether new sales, upgrade, or replacement within their customer base.
Often younger or smaller firms feel that these approaches are not for them. Au contrarié! "When we started working more closely with our channel partners, stimulating more demand, through unique marketing programs geared to specific partners, sharing leads and managing the overall sales process in a consistent way, we found we got better results," says Tim Pavela, CEO of OmniID and Foster City, High Tech brand and manufacturing company.
Most of the great practices in Demand Management should be applied (Figure 2, above), just stretched across the network of channel partners, but applying precision and security—non disclosure—in the relationship.
Issues such as price erosion can be avoided with better market visibility: why are customers buying or not, and how we can improve the offering, if needed.
A bit more thinking about how this applies to demand practices with some precision (based on sales performance numbers, ultimately) can allow you to enhance your business planning process across the channel.
Over time you will be able to manage each relationship with precision and understand what products they sell best. If they are struggling with certain products, be able to build training programs around these, or segment your channels based on the markets and capabilities of each partner.


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No one has favorited this theater yet
Previously operated by: Douglas Theaters
Douglas 3 Theatre
Cinema Twin
Varsity Theatre
Rococo Theatre
This was a free standing theatre that was built by Star Plex Theatres, but opened by Douglas Theatres on April 17, 1992. It was last operated as a discount house. Seating was listed at 2,160.
It was closed and demolished in 2006.
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Joe Vogel on October 21, 2007 at 3:05 am
This cinema has been closed and was demolished almost a year ago.
rivest266 on February 16, 2019 at 8:19 pm
This opened on April 17th, 1992. It was opened by Douglas Theatres. Grand opening ad posted.


Roman doesn't have a sense of humor.
Duncan came back to Boston for a class reunion.
Nicolo won't listen to her friend's advice.
Rees takes good care of the birds.
I've never dated anyone like Amanda.
It's obvious that Darin isn't talking to Barbra.
Will we see Lindsay again?
Ralph called me this afternoon.
Anna must be somewhere near retirement age.
Terri wasn't sure how he could help.
Vincent found a four-leaf clover.
Phiroze is standing on his head.
Simon should definitely ask for Marlena's opinion.
I'm not as creative as Dalton.
Manavendra was one of them.
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Kristen is a correctional officer.
Someone should tell Andries that the meeting was canceled.
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Marcel's hair is wet from the rain.
Olivier should be done by now.
Boyd understands what I mean, I think.
Let's get Pim to look into the problem.
Edgar nearly fell off his chair.
Rand has a safety deposit box.
Nikolai reassured Janice that he was perfectly normal.
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Published on October 24th, 2019 | by Adrian Gunning
NEW DAILY BUGLE SERIES SPINNING OUT OF AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
Since the very beginning, The Daily Bugle has been an essential part of Spider-Man's adventures and now, the Marvel Universe's chief newspaper will be headlining a thrilling new limited series! AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: DAILY BUGLE will give readers an inside look at the ever exciting world of investigative journalism as Robbie Robertson follows a lead into Spider-Man and Kingpin's past. And like any great news story, this series will have revelations that will change the way you view Spider-Man forever as Robbie discovers a secret that will affect anyone who's ever come into contact with the web slinger!
Spanning five issues and tackling events from Nick Spencer's current run on AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, this tale will be chock full of twists and turns as the Daily Bugle dig into the past to uncover the deadly truth. Guiding us on this winding journey will be writer Mat Johnson(Hellblazer Special: Papa Midnite, Incognegro, Loving Day) who will be making his Marvel Comics debut as well as Mack Chater, known for his acclaimed work on books like BLACK PANTHER AND THE CREW! This will be one story worth chasing and you can read all about it this January!
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: DAILY BUGLE #1 (of 5)
Written by MAT JOHNSON
Art by MACK CHATER
Cover by MARK BAGLEY
SPINNING OUT OF AMAZING SPIDER-MAN!
The journalist must speak truth to power—whether or not it's wielded responsibly. Helmed by Peter Parker's mentor, Robbie Robertson, the Daily Bugle staff is at last chasing stories that matter. And in a city under Mayor Wilson Fisk, keeping the public informed is as essential as it is dangerous. Weaving between events in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and DAREDEVIL, Mat Johnson (Hellblazer Special: Papa Midnite, Incognegro, Loving Day) and Mack Chater (BLACK PANTHER AND THE CREW, Briggs Land) are following a lead into Kingpin and Spider-Man's past that will change the way you look at the webslinger now, and as his story continues.
Adrian Gunning Adrian lives in Melbourne Australia and has a huge passion for gaming, technology and pop culture. He recently finished his a Bachelor of Journalism and is currently focusing on games journalism. When not writing and playing video games, Adrian can be found in Comics 'R' Us debating the pros of the DC Universe and cons of the Marvel Universe.


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New research shows that more women are surviving ovarian cancer today than they did 20 years ago.
The American Cancer Society estimates that 21,000 American women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year, with 14,000 dying of the disease during that same period. Still, experts say the odds of surviving ovarian cancer are far better today than they were two decades ago.
Now, a new study lends weight to that position. A team of researchers working under Dr. Jason Wright, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, recently examined roughly 50,000 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer between 1975 and 2011. They found that a woman diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2006 was 50 percent more likely to survive than a woman diagnosed with the disease in the mid-1970s.
Specifically, women with stage 1 cancers were 51 percent more likely to survive in 2006 when compared to 1975. Meanwhile, women with stage 3 and 4 tumors were 49 percent more likely to survive when compared to women given the same diagnosis three decades earlier.
"They're living with the disease for longer and longer periods of time as we have new chemotherapies, new drugs, new way to deliver drugs for ovarian cancer," Wright said.
Nevertheless, ovarian cancer remains a serious health threat for women. It's particularly dangerous because its symptoms–including abnormal periods, pain in the abdomen, back pain, and weight gain or loss–can be mild or even nonexistent.
The Early Signs & Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer
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Tesla Autopilot Drives Owner To Hospital After He Suffers An Embolism
Tesla's Autopilot Just Straight Up Saved A Driver's Life
37-year-old Joshua Neally survived a pulmonary embolism while driving his Tesla X home from work thanks to his car's autopilot feature. The car was able to find the road to the hospital, and Neally was able to check himself into the emergency room.
Last time we heard about Tesla's controversial self-driving autopilot feature, the news wasn't good – the technology resulted in an accident in Montana in June. But when it comes to life, what Tesla taketh away, it can also giveth.
Late last month Joshua Neally, the proud new owner of Tesla's Model X, was on his way home from his law office in Missouri, USA, having left early for his daughter's fourth birthday. But as he approached an interchange that would take him the rest of the 45-minute commute home to Branson, he felt a sharp, searing pain in his stomach.
It quickly moved up into his chest. He told Slate that it felt like "a steel pole through my chest." It turned out to be a pulmonary obstruction, a blockage of the blood vessels in your lungs that can be fatal.
Road And Track
After calling his wife and deciding that he needed immediate medical attention, Neally had the car drive the next 20 miles until it turned off onto a road that led to a nearby hospital. He was able to manually steer the car into the hospital's car park and check himself in.
Neally, who characterizes himself as a generally attentive driver who isn't distracted while the autopilot is on, credits the feature for saving his life.
"If something like that happens where I become unconscious or incapacitated while I'm driving, I'm not going to cross over the interstate and slam into somebody or slam into one of the big rock walls," he told local NBC affiliate KY3. He says the car would have pulled over automatically if he'd fallen unconscious.
"It's not going to be perfect, there's no technology that's perfect, but I think the measure is that it's better and safer," he said.
Is it too much to ask for my 15-year-old Corsa to do the same?
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No matter how many lives are saved, people are still going to be freaked out by self-driving cars.
According to Slate, by mid-July, there had been at least three US federal investigations into Tesla's autopilot feature. There have been at least two well-publicised crashes involving self-driving Teslas.
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Beaver is the most genus among mammals of rodents. There is only one modern representative of the beaver family – Castoridae Hemprich. It is separated into two types. The 1-st is a "Castor canadensis" (Canadian beaver). They live in North America. The 2-d is a "Castor fiber" (Ordinary beaver). Its members live in the zone from the Atlantic coast to the Baikal region. You can meet the cute group of beavers just from your home in Las Vegas.
"But how??!" –the gambler asks. The Dam Rich Slot is "Amaya"s (also known as "Chartwell") play production that was programmed for the online using somewhere on the not stable casinos. At first, it's better to check the "out-of-pay" game mode. While using it, nobody has to make downloads or to be registered.
Dam Rich's game process is so fine!
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Down the reels, on the stripped (in the diagonal lines colored in light-orange and white wide lines) repair fence, which takes place from the first to the last reel, there are many important gambling buttons: "autoplay" (It has the tiny green "triangles"-regulators for the choosing times of auto scrollings.); "Play" (Placed on the gray wooden rectangle.); "Advanced" (Is visible on the light-terracotta wooden texture.); "Paytable" (Located in the striped black and yellow diagonal lines.
Nextgoing "paycards" made on the topic of a builder-beaver present in all (standard and "features") types of slot games: a hammer made from a knot and three curves of a metal nails are scattered around it; a small saw; a couple of fir (or cedar) cones, one of which is forked; a bright-yellow build helmet with a bright red "$"; a small white box on which is "Beaver Gass" is written with red letters:; a wooden plaque with a dam construction plan; a bright-yellow rhombus-shaped sign with a black silhouette of beaver and an inscription: "Beavers At Work" and a large assiduous working beaver. A resting beaver with a violet nose can be met in Dam Rich Slot as well.
A piece of log with green "Wild" can be met on all except the first reel. A beaver with a green nose under the water is "scatter".
A beaver with a red nose and a yellow helmet on his head is not only a foreman in the building but also a "Free Spins" "scatter". In Dam Rich Slot a yellow-black "cation"-ribbon with black "Bonus" is also present.
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Q: Is String.hashCode() inefficient? When looking at the source code of java.lang.String of openjdk-1.6, i saw that String.hashCode() uses 31 as prime number and computes
s[0]*31^(n-1) + s[1]*31^(n-2) + ... + s[n-1]

Now the reason for me to look at this was the question i had in mind whether comparing hashCodes in String.equals would make String.equals significantly faster. But looking at hashCode now, the following questions come to my mind:

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*Wouldn't a bigger prime help avoid collisions better, at least for short strings, seeing that for example "BC" has the same hash as "Ab" (since the ascii letters live in the region 65-122, wouldn't a prime higher than that work better)?

*Is it a conscious decision to use 31 as prime, or just some random one that is used because it is common?

*How likely is a hash collision, given a fixed String length? where this question is heading is the original question how good comparing hashCodes and String length could already discern strings, to avoid comparing the actual contents.

*a little off-topic, maybe: Is there a good reason String.equals does not compare hashCodes as additional shortcut?

*a little more off-topic: assuming we have two Strings with the same content, but different instances: is there any way to assert equality without actually comparing the contents? I would guess not, since someway into String lengths, the space explodes into sizes where we will inevitably have collisions, but what about some restrictions - only a certain character set, a maximum string length... and how much do we need to restrict the string space to be able to have such a hash function?

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Wouldn't a bigger prime help avoid collisions better, at least for short strings, seeing that for example "BC" has the same hash as "Ab" (since the ascii letters live in the region 65-122, wouldn't a prime higher than that work better)?

Each character in a String can take 65536 values (2^16). The set of Strings of 1 or 2 characters is therefore larger than the number of int and any hashcode calculation methodology will produce collisions for strings that are 1 or 2 character long (which qualify as short strings I suppose).
If you restrict your character set, you can find hash function that reduce the number of collisions (see below).
Note that a good hash must also provide a good distribution of output. A comment buried in this code advocates using 33 and gives the following reasons (emphasis mine):
If one compares the chi^2 values [...] of the variants the number 33 not even has the best value. But the number 33 and a few other equally good numbers like 17, 31, 63, 127 and 129 have nevertheless a great advantage to the remaining numbers in the large set of possible multipliers: their multiply operation can be replaced by a faster operation based on just one shift plus either a single addition or subtraction operation. And because a hash function has to both distribute good and has to be very fast to compute, those few numbers should be preferred.
Now these formulae were designed a while ago. Even if it appeared now that they are not ideal, it would be impossible to change the implementation because it is documented in the contract of the String class.

Is it a conscious decision to use 31 as prime, or just some random one that is used because it is common?

Why does Java's hashCode() in String use 31 as a multiplier?

How likely is a hash collision, given a fixed String length?

Assuming each possible int value has the same probability of being the result of the hashcode function, the probability of collision is 1 in 2^32.

Is there a good reason String.equals does not compare hashCodes as additional shortcut?

Why does the equals method in String not use hash?

assuming we have two Strings with the same content, but different instances: is there any way to assert equality without actually comparing the contents?

Without any constraint on the string, there isn't. You could intern the strings then check for reference equality (==), but if many strings are involved, that can be inefficient.

how much do we need to restrict the string space to be able to have such a hash function?

If you only allow small cap letters (26 characters), you could design a hash function that generates unique hashes for any strings of length 0 to 6 characters (inclusive) (sum(i=0..6) (26^i) = 3.10^8).

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Zanna, Don't! in South Florida
Subversive Musical Near Ft. Lauderdale
By: Aaron Krause - Jan 20, 2018
(Photo by George Wentzler) Conor Walton engages his pet bird in Island City Stage's production of Zanna, Don't!
(Photo by George Wentzler Steve (far right, played by Arrow ZurSchmiede) finds himself a bit isolated at first in Zanna, Don't!
(Photo by George Wentzler) The cast of Zanna, Dont'! performs a number from the vibrant musical.
You'd have to be a fuddy-duddy or a complete cynic not to feel refreshed and uplifted after seeing the award-winning Off-Broadway hit musical, Zanna, Don't!
This sweet and, well, loveable fairy tale possesses what most casual theatergoers are looking for in a show: An upbeat, escapist story, a simple, yet universal and timely message (in this case about the importance of loving one another), identifiable characters we care about and an infectious, vibrant score.
The musical is running through Feb. 11 in a largely strong, energetic production at Island City Stage's extremely intimate theater near Ft. Lauderdale. Andy Rogow vibrantly and sensitively directs.
This wide-eyed, gooey, sugary story might bring to mind pure-hearted, peppy, cartoonish musicals such as You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
But in today's society, when we're not exactly singing medleys of "Kumbaya," "One Love" and "Happy," there is, in addition to Zanna's sweetness, a biting quality to the show.
The target for this satiric tone? It certainly seems to be those perpetuating a hateful, close-minded atmosphere in the halls of government and streets that have become stages for violent protests.
Songs such as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," for example, seem to want to send a message to those making a big fuss out of homosexuals serving in the military.
Zanna Don't! is set in an alternate, fairy tale America, "once upon a time." It's an America in which most of the world is homosexual. Heterosexuals are subject to "heterophobia." That's especially true in fictional Hartsville, the setting of the musical. It's a small-town somewhere in the Midwest to western states populated by heterophobic folks. They're the same type of people who, in today's real America, some might construe as narrow-minded.
The musical spans most of a school year, and is set in and around the town's school. The usual kind of high school "drama" prevails, complete with cheating love interests and broken hearts. Fortunately for these young folks, one of the students is a fairy named Zanna (a fantastic Conor Walton).
One might ask: Where is our 2018 version of Zanna when we need him most, which seems to be about right now? Wouldn't it be wonderful, for instance, if he could flash his signature mood-brightening smile, use his wand to slice through the tension-filled air in Washington and at least make Democrats and Republicans compromise with each other (perhaps love each other is asking a tad too much). What if a real-life, 2018 Zanna could work his magic with the U.S. and North Korea? Or maybe, perhaps, the parties forever negotiating peace in the Middle East?
Well, we can dream. But thanks to the power of live, intimate theater, we can do more than that. We can escape reality for two hours, vividly envisioning a Zanna-type with magical powers who can right the world's wrongs.
Zanna is a Peter Pan-like character; he's able to speak to and understand his pet bird (certainly Tinker Bell comes to mind). But this magical individual with similarities to the boy who refuses to grow up isn't entirely naïve. Neither is the show in which he appears, with a book, music and lyrics by Tim Acito, as well as additional book material and lyrics by Alexander Dinelaris.
Zanna, Don't!, for all its seeming naivete, never pretends that creating a society in which love prevails is as easy as waving a magic wand. The whole concept of love isn't a magical potion, but something that frustrates, troubles and creates conflict. Even Zanna runs into obstacles. Some of the roadblocks he faces threaten to make even the perpetually-happy, fairy, always ready to come to the rescue, miserable and vulnerable.
In short, Zanna, Don't! isn't just another show with catchy songs and a "love conquers all" theme. It subverts norms, with its alternative universe. Who would have thought of a society in which a heterosexual couple find themselves as the minority, knowing they're in a forbidden love relationship and must keep it a secret? Yes, gay theater has indeed come a long way from its early days, when AIDS and direct political messages dominated the genre in the 1980s and 90s.
The folks in Zanna are proudly and unapologetically gay and lesbian, tough and brimming with confidence and enthusiasm.
Those are apt adjectives to describe Conor Walton's charismatic performance in the central role. His Zanna is flamboyant, effeminate and cheery. But underneath those qualities, there's also a Peter Pan-like unabashed confidence and conviction about this Zanna. This is the case even when his character is soft, comforting and re-assuring to those who need him most.
Watching him, you'll notice Walton's Zanna can barely contain his enthusiasm. He shakes at one point, as though his seemingly uncontrolled zest for life is an electrical charge, providing him with the fuel that drives his positive, upbeat mindset.
Walton also excels at conveying Zanna's vulnerability and frustration when heartbreak sets in. A similarly strong intensity takes over his eyes, voice and facial expressions. It's just as present and convincing as when he's serene, happy and Willy Wonka-like magical.
Walton possesses a strong, expressive singing voice, along with his castmates. They're accompanied by a vibrant orchestra that at times makes it a bit hard to hear the often-playful lyrics. Cast members also execute Andy Fiacco's creative, energetic choreography with flair.
The songs, while not particularly memorable like classic musicals of the past, still possess an infectious verve that might make you want to sing along, if not dance. The musical numbers, which won't make you forget musical theater's great writers, don't always move the plot forward. However, they help characters express themselves at a deeper emotional level. There's variety in this score, with some songs carrying a western/country flavor, while others contain a more contemplative, melancholy melody.
The patter song "Fast," a tongue-twister, might remind you of the "Very Model of a Modern Major General" from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. Cast members sing the number at a rapid pace without missing a beat. Never mind that you won't be able to make out any of the lyrics. Merely listening to them sing the number smoothly and with ease will make you marvel at their talents.
The song suggests that people should fall in love fast. It's a contrast to "Don't You Wish We Could Be in Love." The character singing it is named Roberta, played commandingly by Darcy Hernandez-Gil.
Each of Roberta's girlfriends "dump her the next day." Love needs to put on the brakes for a moment, the song suggests.
They say that love is blind.
They say that love can't see.
But that don't matter at all?
All it needs to do is stop
And listen to me.
Just as the songs are varied, so are the characters. There's high school football quarterback Steve (an at first shy, insecure Arrow ZurSchmiede), who eventually realizes he has feelings for overachiever Kate (an ambitious Mallory Newbrough).
That's when the trouble starts. The entire school is heterophobic.
That doesn't sit well with Zanna, who tries to help Steve and Kate. After all, he believes anything done in the cause of spreading love is worthwhile.
The notion of spreading love is nicely captured in scenic designer Natalie Taveras' visually-appealing, brightly-colored set. Its central image is a large circle with rays extending from around the circle. It's as though the circle is a sun, which is sending rays of love out in various directions. Within the circle, we witness various projections, including a star-filled, moon-lit sky. It's an appropriate visual for the more contemplative songs.
During one scene, fog rises from the stage, moves toward audience members and becomes quite heavy. The effect reinforces the fairy-tale aspect of the musical. The same is true for Peter A. Lovello's plaid costumes, which also reinforce the light-hearted, upbeat mood of the show. '
While it's not among the greatest musicals, Zanna, Don't! will engage you for its two hours…and make you think just a bit.
Chalk up another winning production for Island City Stage, a multi-award-winning theater whose productions focus on the LGBTQ community, "but have a heart and soul that is truly universal," according to its website.
Zanna, Don't! runs through Feb. 11 at the theater, 2304 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. Call (954) 519-2533 or visit www.islandcitystage.org for more information.


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Slumdog Millionaire - Indian orphan tale a box-office hit
by Anthony Barich
Slumdog Millionaire is reviewed by Anthony Barich.
The film Slumdog Millionaire (MA), a British-made rags-to-riches drama set and shot in modern-day India, has become a resounding box office success.
But don't look to director Danny Boyle's previous outings, like the iconic Trainspotting (1996) or 28 Days Later (2002), to judge how he might tackle his Indian saga, which has Oscar written all over it.
Slumdog Millionaire is based on Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup's novel, Q and A. Realistic without bludgeoning, heartbreaking while still being hopeful, the story traces the life of a street child from the slums of Mumbai, Jamal Malik (Dev Patel). At age 18, incidents from his life give him all the answers to be on the cusp of winning 20 million rupees (AUS$626,000) on Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
The movie opens with Jamal being brutally interrogated by police who can't believe that a penniless orphan, who literally grew up on the streets of Mumbai and who doesn't seem to care that much about money, could possibly answer all the show's questions correctly.
Harrowing tale
The story progresses in a series of flashbacks as Jamal tells a jaded police inspector (Irrfan Khan) a riveting but harrowing tale of his life in the slums where he grew up with his older, protective brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) after having witnessed their mother being killed in a Hindu anti-Muslim riot.
This murder — which, like every part of Jamal's story, provides the answer to one of the gameshow questions — turns him and his brother into vulnerable streetkids.
Desperate to survive, the brothers react differently to their brutal environment, and it is this contrast that lifts this production above the average underdog-wins-the-day story. While both do what's necessary to survive, Jamal holds onto his soul despite all the hits he takes, while Salim willingly sells his soul to get out of trouble, then wallows in the pleasures he thereby gains.
Jamal's attitude does not necessarily earn him a better life. In fact, Salim enjoys the pleasures of working for a gangster while Jamal struggles on selling chai lattes. Yet while Jamal continues to work hard to raise his lot in life the honest way, Salim at least prays every night to Allah — the brothers are Muslim — begging for forgiveness.
But Salim's choices are not entirely derived from succumbing to easy pleasures. Being the older brother who saves his younger sibling time and again has left him a tortured soul, easily corrupted by anything that will fill the hole left by their mother's murder.
A deep sense of spirituality and humanity underpins the narrative and its characters. It is not until the very end that Salim is redeemed — an ending which this review won't reveal here. It says something about the love that wells in each of us, despite what we've done.
It is primarily love that drives Jamal, not lust or teen angst. Throughout the account of his earlier life that he recites to the police inspector, and in the "present" as he comes to the final 20-million-rupee question and beyond, his life revolves around searching for the beautiful but vulnerable Latika (Freida Pinto), with whom he has been smitten ever since, when as a boy, he first laid eyes on her.
In a country with a Hindu culture in which women are regarded as lesser beings, Latika, homeless like the two brothers, is susceptible to the prostitution trade. The three are separated when they escape from Maman, a gangster who runs an orphanage as a front for a child begging-ring. The relationship between Maman and the children he takes in under the guise of charity evokes memories of Fagin and his gang of young pickpockets in Dickens's Oliver Twist.
From the moment Jamal loses Latika, we fear for her life and the state in which Jamal will find her. Still we know that whatever situation she has been forced into, Jamal will love her unconditionally.
While bursting with dazzling colour and pulsating with Indian composer A.R. Rahman's soundtrack, which modernises familiar traditional Indian Bollywood music, Slumdog does not hide India's heartbreaking squalor, nor over-sentimentalise the plight of the country's most vulnerable.
Its depiction of life on the streets, filmed as it is with the edgy energy of a street-kid, is chillingly accurate.
However, throughout the film is an undercurrent of hope, because we know that Jamal somehow gets through all his life's trials to end up sitting in the television studio quiz. But is he out of danger yet? And why did he enter himself on the gameshow in the first place?
All will be revealed. But don't expect to just sit there and chew your popcorn. This film will force you to think.
— Slumdog Millionaire reviewed by Anthony Barich, a journalist for The Record (Perth).


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Doklam, for the home theatre?
Xi was responding to calls for nationalism. With a crucial party congress ahead, Xi needed to show that the army was subservient to the party and the party to him.
A full month has passed since the sudden end to the 76-day-long standoff between China and India at the Doklam plateau, a junction where three borders, that of India, Bhutan and China, meet. There still is no rational explanation on why China thought it prudent to bring down the heat.
The fact that the crisis was engineered even as China was preparing for a prestigious summit of the BRICS members only added to the mystery. After all, the summit was to cap the well-attended international conference on China's One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative held in May. India kept off that high profile OBOR summit, despite hints from Beijing that it dare not boycott. But the Doklam impasse effectively overshadowed whatever was achieved at the OBOR summit and whatever little was claimed for the BRICS summit.
promised much and achieved even less. The summit was saved from total collapse by Prime Minister Modi's decision to attend. For India, this presented an opportunity to come face to face with China. Beijing grabbed the signal.
The Doklam crisis erupted on 18 June when Indian soldiers moved into stop China from building a road deep inside the Bhutanese land, close to the Indian border at Doka La. The heat kept simmering as China spewed out undesired statements even as the world watched. On 28 August, the two sides disengaged their troops: India announced "an expeditious disengagement of border personnel on both sides" while Beijing claimed, "the Indian side withdrew all its border personnel and equipment that were illegally placed on Chinese territory." China also withdrew its construction equipment and material. 'A pullout just in time.' a headline read. A last-minute act? Or, the last act of a choreographed display of military might? Hysterical reactions by the Chinese media during the intervening days seem to point out to the latter. You would have been excused if you thought that for a brief while, the Chinese media had liberated itself out of state control and was breathing free. For more than 70 days, the Chinese government via the press issued threats on a daily basis, demanding that India end its 'trespass' while recalling the 'unlearnt' lessons of the 1962 war. The visual media in India reacted in like fashion. The BJP's unofficial arms, led by the RSS, raised the war cry and ran a campaign to boycott Chinese goods and trade. The government, on the other hand, reacted with calculated reassurance while announcing the deployment of more personnel along the border. Apparently, diplomatic initiatives behind the scenes were on and were moving in the right direction. The outside world viewed the confrontation between the Asian giants with increasing concern. Finally, the announcement about the 'expeditious disengagement' arrived which paved the way for the Xiamen summit of BRICS members in a few days. A continuing impasse over Doklam would have cast a long shadow on the proceedings. Besides, China had a lot at stake that depended heavily on the success of the annual event.
Following the summit, Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping had a meeting at which the two sides declared their allegiance to panchsheel and status quo on the border. Indian spokesmen described it as a 'forward-looking' conversation while the Chinese spokesman stressed the need for 'sound and stable' China-India relations. Xi emphasised that China and India are "each other's important neighbour" and should focus on "seeking common ground while shelving differences and uphold peace and tranquillity at the borders" to keep the bilateral relationship "on the right track," under the "guidance of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence." The meeting certainly broke the ice between the two leaders and may yet pave the way for more pragmatic relations, in which polemics and the cold war, would have no place.
India and China realise that they have a crucial role to play for the maintenance of peace in the region. Even before completing two decades, the Asian Century, ie., the post-American century, faces one of its most explosive crises. The White House is occupied by a white supremacist who is a contradiction to all that the country has stood. Europe is in search of new leadership. Russia is under an ambitious Stalinist who is on the rise but has got a good ground to cover. With this sudden vacuum in global leadership, China is trying to assert itself and stake its claim to the top spot. One instrument to achieve that is the massive One Belt One Road project which extends to Europe via central and west Asia. Xi has already described it as the project of the century in an address to leaders from about 30 countries, telling them that a series of infrastructure projects will link China with the world. North Korea, with a trigger-happy ruler in Pyongyang, is another issue where Beijing and Moscow have combined to staunch the U.S. But as the rattle of the Chinese media during the Doklam crisis showed, Xi's audience as he hosted the OBOR and BRICS summits, was right there at home. He was responding to calls of nationalism, which he had intermittently roused and allowed; with a crucial party congress ahead, Xi needed to show that the army was subservient to the party and the party was subservient to him.
The makings of Mao Mark 2?


Plasmacure addresses the huge problem of the 3-4% of the world population suffering with chronic or non-healing wounds. Quality of life is reduced strongly for these patients. This number of patients increases with the aging of the population and the increase of patients with chronic diseases like diabetes.
Chronic wounds cause pain, have high risks of infection and lead to amputations (diabetic foot ulcers). The risk of death within 5 years after a foot or lower leg amputation is higher than for most cancers. Costs are exploding with an average cost per non-healing wound of €10.000. Any treatment that will heal these wounds will be a great relieve for these patients and a cost saving for the society.
The existing solutions for non-closing wounds are limited, and the market needs new solutions and modalities. Our proposition is to heal wounds with an effective, affordable and easy-to-use cold-plasma treatment.
We continue this SMB meeting with a great February tradition: We welcome a number of student company pitches from Radboud University Panorama science course, who will pitch their proposition and are looking for feedback and help.


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People: Amy Fathers Moves from Prosek to Infinite Global
Amy Fathers
Infinite Global has named Amy Fathers, a vice president, based in New York. Fathers comes to the agency from Prosek Partners, where she served as senior vice president for more than 10 years. At Prosek, she was instrumental in building the agency's professional services practice, and worked in areas including business education, executive recruiting, consulting, financial services and legal. "Amy's deep-rooted experience leading strategic communications programs for top corporate clients makes her a natural addition to grow our professional services business and accomplish our strategic goal of expanding into the financial services industry," said Infinite Global CEO Jamie Diaferia.
Lisa Lark
Lambert & Co. has brought on Lisa Lark as director in its automotive and mobility practice, with Katelyn Davis joining the practice as senior manager. Both will be based in the firm's Detroit office. Lark joins Lambert from automotive supplier Varroc Lighting Systems, where she was corporate communications manager. She has also served as a group manager at Weber Shandwick and a senior communications advisor to the Detroit Public Schools Community District. Davis was previously director of MICHauto, a key economic development initiative of the Detroit Regional Chamber. She has also held corporate affairs and communications positions with Yazaki North America, and worked onsite at Ford Motor Company as part of a communications team from GTB.
K. Kim Atterbury
The Recording Industry Association of America has named K. Kim Atterbury senior vice president of media relations. Atterbury comes to RIAA from the Service Employees International Union, where she was managing director, national communications. She was previously senior director of communications and external affairs at the National Urban League and served as communications director to Rep. G. K. Butterfield (D-NC) during his tenure as vice-chair and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. In her new post, Atterbury will lead RIAA's media relations and messaging strategy.


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Nicola Willis launches petition for second Mt Victoria Tunnel
December 10, 2019Business, Elections, Latest Headlines, Politics, PressRelease12 comments
Media release from NZ National Party
The National Party is today launching a petition to bring forward construction of a second Mt Victoria tunnel as part of a balanced transport plan for the capital, Wellington-based National MP Nicola Willis says.
"Wellingtonians don't want to spend another decade wasting their lives in gridlock while politicians fail to deliver the infrastructure our capital city needs.
"By pushing back construction of a second Mt Victoria Tunnel, the Government is consigning Wellingtonians to more years of going nowhere.
"The Let's Get Wellington Moving project identified the second Mt Victoria tunnel as key to unlocking the Basin Reserve chokepoint that has dogged Wellington for years.
"Unlocking traffic-flow on this important section of SH1 needs to be done alongside planned improvements for cyclists, pedestrians and public transport users.
"The Government was told another tunnel should be prioritised to improve traffic flow on SH1, allow for growth and alleviate the increased congestion that construction of Wellington's mass transit network will create.
"By ignoring officials, and bowing to the wishes of Julie Anne Genter instead, Transport Minister Phil Twyford has delivered a gut-punch to Wellingtonians who are crying out for action on transport.
"We're calling on Kiwis to make their voices heard by signing our petition by email or online.
"If elected in 2020, National will build the infrastructure that Labour is neglecting and give motorists something in return for all the extra tax this Government is hitting them with."
National's petition can be found here
Julie Anne Genter is one of the few parliamentarians who knows anything about transport. She should be listened to. The National Party is of the mistaken view that you can solve traffic problems with policies that encourage more traffic and neglect alternative modes. Its adherents remain stuck in the 1970s.
Wellington Commuter, 11. December 2019, 22:21
If Julie Anne Genter is such an expert on transport and advised Transport Minister Twyford to postpone building the second Mount Victoria Tunnel, then don't you think the public should see her advice to him? If Assoc Minister Genter had such a compelling argument and any supporting evidence that convinced Minister Twyford to follow her advice instead of the advice from the transport experts at Let's Get Wellington Moving, why can't we see it?
The problem with the Minister's decision is that he has not provided any evidence or advice from Genter or anyone else to support it. This leaves him open to a claim that the decision to postpone the tunnel was based on ideology and politics rather than evidence and sound logic.
@dave b ……….you're kidding, right?
TrevorH, 12. December 2019, 7:40
@Dave B: It is not roads that have produced the congestion which makes a second Mt Victoria tunnel necessary, it is the numbers of people now arriving by air or living in the rapidly-expanding infill housing on the Peninsula. If Shelly Bay goes ahead, we are in for a daily traffic disaster.
Brendan, 12. December 2019, 8:53
Well said TrevorH! There has hardly been any increase in the road network in the Wellington region in the last 30 years. Traffic growth is due to more people living in Wellington and visiting it. We need the Melling interchange improved now!
Keith Flinders, 12. December 2019, 9:46
What is the point of a second Mount Victoria tunnel only. It will not address the congestion issues by itself, only make more "parking" space for vehicles in at peak times.
If the National Party spokespeople were to come up with a composite plan to address the issues related to traffic through Te Aro, in particular, then more might be inclined to listen to what they have to say. A regurgitated "four lanes to the planes" scheme is not going to meet with popular approval, just as the Basin flyover didn't.
Marion Leader, 12. December 2019, 11:22
TrevorH – Shelly Bay can't possibly go ahead with the present plans. The road access and who pays for it has also been deliberately fudged in the official reports given to the last council.
@ Glenn: ". . .you're kidding, right?".
No, I'm deadly serious. The previous three Ministers of Transport (Joyce, Brownlee and Bridges) had no prior experience in transport at all. Their philosophy was "whatever the problem, the answer is build a new motorway". Julie Anne Genter with transport-planning credentials is aware of the futility of this. She is trying to help us break out of the car-dependency trap, rather than perpetuating the problem.
luke, 12. December 2019, 14:37
If you want more people driving more often, build more roads. Melling interchange, transmission gully, four lanes to the planes, Petone to Grenada, cross valley link road, four lanes to Levin. A multi billion dollar traffic inducing spend up.
TrevorH, 12. December 2019, 20:25
It's only inertia that keeps me in Wellington now, and the view and a fondness for the "handyman special" we bought nearly four decades ago and have spent so much of our earnings upgrading. Wellington is rapidly going backwards. I am in a cafe in the Waikato again and this place is humming, a total contrast.
Dave B, 13. December 2019, 1:32
Sorry to hear that TrevorH, but if you leave for the Waikato I'm sure there are many currently-frustrated home-seekers who would happily snap up your lovingly restored residence here. I don't think Wellington is going so "rapidly backwards" that it is deterring the huge demand to live here. Are you sure it's not just you that is getting itchy feet?
Yes, Luke let's get those road projects built and get Wellington moving and reduce the emissions from cars stuck in traffic jams.


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The Gold Flex 40", designed for golfers shorter than 5'4", ideal for Ladies and Juniors, improves swing tempo, strength, and flexibility. The more you swing the Gold Flex off the golf course, the stronger and more flexible your swing muscles will become. The exaggerated flex in the shaft helps lengthen your swing by keeping your hands and arms extended increasing with power. It's this power that will help you bomb your drive and gain more distance. The extra flex also encourages a slight lag at the top of your backswing, establishing the ideal swing tempo. The momentum the weighted head creates when swinging through encourages proper weight transfer and a full follow through for form, balance and power.
Best used by golfers shorter than 5' 4"


Ever since 1966, a year even before colour television swamped German households, a grand jury awards a gold plated camera to actors, musicians and entertainers. Again this year, we were asked to support this event with words, deeds and a unique design. The task was to depict the 'stress field' between two centuries without it feeling dated. The modern typefaces Grotesk Walsheim built the basis of this. Two type styles are being used prominently on all printed materials. A look back is cast to the beginnings of the Golden Camera with the lettering "Fünfzig" (meaning 'fifty' in German), that was created solely for this event. It is used discreetly, always as a hot foil stamp. On the invitation it is nestled closely up against the lettering of the Golden Camera. The materials we chose are a golden paper with a softtouch coating and an "Ultra Black" paper. The stamp, which was also especially created for this event, is held in black, white and gold. Being both the highlight and the final element, the programme is designed in the style of a gold bullion.


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"Last month, read about the MORyde's suspension system, contacted our local RV dealer, Jenning's RV, Princeton, WV, and had the product installed last week. Just pulled camper about 15 miles home on a four lane highway, and could feel a positive improvement right away.


I had a great group of pattern testers that very graciously took the time to sew the pattern, send me feedback and photos! Seeing their creations roll into my inbox was exciting and overwhelming. They did a fabulous job and really motivated me to get to work and release this pattern so that everyone can have it in time for spring. These photos provide some great inspiration for kinds of fabric you can use and give you glimpse into how the skirt looks on different body shapes.
A couple of fun facts from testing: 78% of testers rated the Nita Wrap Skirt as a "Very Easy" pattern. 90% of testers would recommend the pattern to a friend. I want to give another BIG THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to test the pattern for me. I truly appreciate it.
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Canals: The making of a Nation by Liz McIvor is a tie-in with a BBC series of the same name, presented by the author. It is about canals in England from the mid-18th century through to the present day although most of the action takes place before the end of the 19th century.
The chapters of the book match the episodes of the series which are thematic, rather than chronological. Each chapter introduces a different topic, loosely tied to a particular canal.
The book starts with a discussion of the growth of London, and the Grand Junction canal linking it to Birmingham. The guild system was a factor in limiting the growth of the capital until the mid-18th century. The "Bubble Act" of 1720, enacted in the aftermath of the South Sea Bubble likely also had an impact. It prevented the formation of any joint stock company without an act of parliament to approve. It was repealed in 1825 before the railways saw their enormous growth. The Grand Junction canal was built as Birmingham became a manufacturing hub and London a great city with many requirements for daily life, and also a showroom to at least the United Kingdom, if not the world.
I was chastened to discover that the Bridgewater canal, one of the earliest of "canal boom" projects of the 18th century is only just up the road from me in Chester. I'd always assumed it was close to the town of a very similar name in Somerset! Bridgewater is named for the Duke of Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, for which the pub just over the road from me is presumably named. The Bridgewater canal was built around 1760, linking the Duke's coal mines at Worsley to Manchester. With this revelation I realise that the Bridgewater canal and the Liverpool to Manchester railway, the first exclusively steam railway, are sited very close to each other.
Support for manufacture was the theme of canal building in the North of England, and also around Birmingham with canals built to move bulky raw materials to factories placed to benefit from hydraulic power, and benevolent climates for the processing of materials such as cotton. Manufacturers such as Josiah Wedgewood were keen to see their fragile wares safely make the outward journey to the showrooms of London.
The Kennet and Avon canal was built to provide navigable water access from Bristol to London. William Smith, who produced the first geological map of Great Britain is introduced in this chapter. I read more about him in The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester. The digging of canal cuts and tunnels reveal the local geology. Nowadays we see canals as bucolic thoroughfares but when they were built they were raw cuts indicating industrialisation.
The Manchester Ship Canal was opened in 1894 to bypass the port of Liverpool, these were the dying days of canal building. 154 died in its construction and 1404 were seriously injured from a workforce of 16,361. For comparison, projects such as the 2012 London Olympics and the close-to-completion Crossrail project are of similar scale yet have casualty numbers hovering around zero although these are best-in-class projects for health and safety. In this chapter McIvor talks more of the Irish "navigators" who built the canals, and something of the early trade union movement.
The families that worked the canals were seen as outsiders, once the long networks were set up they led an itinerant lifestyle with no fixed church or school for their children. The Victorian moralists arguing for improved conditions for the boat families seem to do so from the point of view of pointing out how bloody awful they were!
It's interesting to see the likes of Thomas Telford and John Rennie cropping up repeatedly in this book. They have the air of rockstar engineers, not a niche found these days. Perhaps this is a result of the work of the Victorian writer, Samuel Smiles, who was very keen on self-improvement and wrote biographies of these men to promote his ideas.
To me the book lacks a little prehistory, the great boom for canal building in the UK was at the end of the 18th century but the very first "pound lock" in England was built in 1566 on the Exeter canal. What went on between these two times? And what was happening elsewhere in the world? Perhaps the answer here is that the canals in Britain never represented a technological revolution, they were always about the social and commercial climate being right.
Canals: The Making of a Nation is an unchallenging read, well-suited to a holiday. If you're on a canal boat it won't tell you much about the particular bridges and tunnels you pass over but it will give you a strong feeling for the lives of the people that built and used the canals, and why they were built in the first place.


A DASH OF PUBLIC HEALTH WITH MY HEALTHCARE REFORM, PLEASE?
1.	Protecting everyone from the financial consequences of illness and medical care itself.
2.	Expanding social provision in America.
3.	Using healthcare to transfer in-kind resources down the income scale.
4.	Controlling public and private health expenditures.
5.	Improving care quality and cost-effectiveness.
6.	Providing stable financing for state and local governments now reeling under Medicaid and safety-net expenditures.


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Calderdale sports club could fall apart after repeated raids
Illingworth Sports and Social Club broken in to again. Illingworth RL under 14s girls and boys outside the clubhouse.
A sports club that provides football and rugby to hundreds of children in Halifax is it risk of collapsing after being repeatedly targeted by vandals.
The clubhouse at Illingworth Sports and Social Club, which is home to Crossley Juniors AFC and Illingworth Juniors RLFC, has been hit five times in six months by burglars who have taken stock and caused severe damage.
Crossley Juniors vice chairman Craig Naylor said: "Ultimately if we can't afford to keep it then the whole structure collapses.
"We might have to stop providing junior football and rugby. In that case they would have to travel a long way and a lot of poor people live in north Halifax so these kids may not end up going anywhere else.
"That can have a knock-on effect with crime and health if they are not being distracted by playing sport. It would be an enormous blow to the whole district of Halifax."
In the most recent incident he said that burglars had entered the building "like a military operation", left one of the lager pumps turned on so all the liquid would drain onto the floor and used the club's bins to carry out stolen property.
Mr Naylor, who played at the club as a child and has sat on the board for 13 years, explained that costs for repairs at the clubhouse, at Mason Green, Keighley Road, on top of ongoing bills meant the club had little money available for essential equipment.
He said the building was in "a terrible state and is not fit for purpose" and did not have the necessary space to accommodate facilities for girls' rugby, which he said was increasing in popularity. He said he understood the difficulty that Calderdale Council, which owns the land, was face with due to cuts.
The vandalism follows a similar ransacking of Boothtown Community Centre last summer, which was left in ruins but has since been taken over and restored by Boothtown Terriers Juniors.
West Yorkshire tourists litter Scarborough because they have 'no concept of picking up their rubbish'