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The Commerce Department's Technology Administration has released a report updating the policy questions surrounding the recycling of discarded electronic products. The report is the outgrowth of several meetings in which stakeholders attempted to reach a consensus on how to proceed with recycling electronic waste.
The stakeholders agreed that a uniform, national system of electronics recycling is preferable to a patchwork of state systems. For example, five states ban the disposal of cathode ray tubes in landfills, and four have statewide electronics recycling laws with a variety of financing systems. In some states, recycling is paid for by the consumer, but in others, it is the producer's responsibility. In addition, more than 10 countries have national laws on recycling electronics. The stakeholders, however, were not able to reach a consensus on how to finance a national system, according to the report.
"Federally, we're committed to help fashion a balanced, equitable solution so that we can preserve not only our environment but also our nation's economic strength for our children," said Robert Cresanti, undersecretary of commerce for technology, in releasing the report. The report is intended as a guide for policymakers.
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TIFF 2012: Cianfrance's 'The Place Beyond the Pines' is Mesmerizing
Karma. Fate. Sheer luck. Violence begets violence. These are some of the bigger themes touched upon in The Place Beyond the Pines, the latest film from Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance. Going in to the world premiere screening at TIFF 2012, I had no idea what we were going to get, besides a blonde-haired Ryan Gosling playing a motorcycle stunt driver. Where would it go from there? What's the actual story? Where does it all lead? Cianfrance tells a massive, generational story that spans beyond just Gosling into the lives of two families from the small town of Schenectady in upstate New York. And it's mesmerizing.
Mesmerizing for many reasons. Place Beyond the Pines is actually three different stories (essentially almost three short films) combined into one epic film, showing pieces of these different families, eventually culminating in a timeline set 15 years ahead (in present day) focusing on the generational effects of decisions made. If that description isn't already making you think about what this addresses, just wait until you actually get into it. Cianfrance is one of the most adept directors on the rise right now, and it shows in the way he's able to understand the subtleties and generation-spanning impacts of decisions made. I heard a couple of comparison to The Godfather being tossed around afterwards, and they're honestly not far off.
There are a couple of story twists and turns that, for the sake of your own experience, I can't ruin here and won't detail. Yes, Ryan Gosling is in The Place Beyond the Pines, and plays a very pivotal role, but so does Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes. Cianfrance pushes them to give incredible performances I've never seen from either of them before. And later on, young up-and-coming actors Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) and Emory Cohen ("Smash") take things to new heights, playing the "next generation" and really embodying every last aspect of the characters they're playing. The performances really stand out (in a good way) in this.
Besides being gorgeously shot (by cinematographer Sean Bobbitt), the film has a very eerie, foreboding score used almost entirely throughout the film. Not just during important scenes or climatic moments, but throughout, during almost every lingering crane shot and even the more intense moments. But it's not overbearing, and it adds something to this that I think I haven't even begun to realize even after sleeping on it. Most of the score is this angelic, choir-sung melody, the rest of it was just a low noise that sometimes built into something amazing. I can't take it off my mind, and I think it may have been that score that he was using to bring all of the three different pieces of this together in the end - to emphasize their connection.
However, the thing is, by the end I wasn't sure what to think. The Place Beyond the Pines left me drained, emotionally drained, but I believe that's what Cianfrance does so well, as odd as that seems. It might not be a good thing for everyone seeing films, but I think it really means something that he takes us on a cinematic journey that grabs whatever is inside of you and rips it out and says, look at this world we live in, look at how our decisions and tragedy affect more than just the people directly involved. Maybe, weeks, months later, we'll think back to these themes, and think about every decision we are making, trying to understand their impact. That's what Cianfrance gets into with Pines, and it's very mesmerizing but draining to watch.
Alex's Toronto Rating: 8 out of 10 (Note: upgraded from a 7.5.)
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Great review, really looking forward to this one. Would this be a movie that a potential distributor would want to release before the end of this year or sit on until sometime in 2013?
Nicolo on Sep 8, 2012
Just tell Gosling fans that he has a supporting role in it. Your review doesn't match the score you gave it.
VVS on Sep 8, 2012
You called it mesmerizing, mentioned comparisons to the Godfather and yet it only gets a 7.5?
E on Sep 8, 2012
yeah, slightly bizarre
Darren Howells on Sep 18, 2012
gosling as a stunt driver..... AGAIN
john on Sep 9, 2012
its a completely different role
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Vilijampolė ist ein Stadtteil in Kaunas, in der zweitgrößten Stadt Litauens.

Geschichte
Im 18. Jahrhundert entstand der Jüdische Friedhof Vilijampolė.
Von 1882 bis 1941 gab es die Jeschiwa Vilijampolė. 1932 baute man eine katholische Kirche und 1936 Litauische Veterinärakademie (heute Litauische Universität für Gesundheitswissenschaften).

1939 wurde das metallverarbeitendes Unternehmen "Grandis" (jetzt AB Atrama) errichtet.

Aus der Vilijampolėr Filiale der Gewebefabrik Kauno audiniai wurde 1956 der eigenständige Betrieb (Siebert-Seide-Kombinat). 1982 gab es 3.100 Mitarbeiter. Als AB Šilkas wurde der Betrieb 2004 geschlossen.

Der Winterhafen Kaunas, ein von vier Binnenhäfen in Kaunas, befindet sich am linken (westlichen) Ufer des Flusses Nemunas (dt. Memel). Er wurde in der Sowjetzeit erbaut.

Söhne
Louis Washkansky (1913–1967) war der erste Mensch, bei dem eine erfolgreiche Herztransplantation durchgeführt wurde

Literatur
Vilijampolė. Lietuviškoji tarybinė enciklopedija, XII t. Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, 1984. T.XII: Vaislapėlis-Žvorūnė, 249 psl.

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VM Houses is a housing project consisting of two adjacent apartment buildings in  Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed by JDS Architects and Bjarke Ingels Group, the M House with 95 units was completed in 2004 and the V House with 114 units, in 2005.

Background
The developer Per Høpfner, working with the Dansk Olie og Naturgas company -now DONG Energy-, was interested in creating housing in Ørestad on land purchased from the state. Despite the fact that Bjarke Ingels and Julien De Smedt had not built anything on such a large scale before, he decided to commission PLOT, their architecture firm, to design VM Houses. Høpfner's son Peter explained how cooperative Ingels turned out to be, always ready to adapt his plans if the costs were too high. "VM may look crazy," Høpfner remarked, "but it came in on budget." He believes the project's success was due in part to the frequent discussions the architect had with the developer in his role as general contractor. Ingels lived in the complex until 2008 when he moved into the Mountain Dwellings.

Design

Inspired by Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation concept, two residential blocks, with footprints in the shape of the letters V and M, have been designed with an emphasis on daylight, privacy and views. Rather than looking over the neighbouring building, all the apartments have diagonal views of the surrounding landscape. Corridors are short, rather like bullet holes through the building. There are some 80 different types of apartment in the complex, adaptable to individual needs.

Award

VM Houses was the first major project to be designed by Julien De Smedt and Bjarke Ingels, winning them the Forum AID Award for the best building in Scandinavia in 2006.

Gallery

Further reading
 Bjarke Ingels, Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution (exhibition catalogue), Copenhagen 2009,

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Piggly Wiggly Midwest, a Sheboygan, Wisconsin-based food retailer, has launched a new and improved website, designed to make online grocery shopping faster, easier and more efficient for its customers. The long-established supermarket chain has partnered with Mercatus—a leading provider in digital solutions for grocery—to design and build the new web experience.
For Piggly Wiggly, all of these capabilities can now be managed with the simplicity of a single cloud-based platform, providing maximum performance and scalability.
Now well positioned for growth in digital commerce and supported by its ongoing relationship with Mercatus, Piggly Wiggly Midwest is equipped to deliver richly-immersive, compelling online experiences as consumer demands continue to evolve.
Mercatus is redefining the digital experience within grocery. The company's purpose is to empower grocers to create best-in-breed shopping experiences for their customers. Mercatus helps leading North American grocers integrate with multiple technology partners to deliver exceptional in-store and online shopping experiences.
Piggly Wiggly Midwest continues to build on its 100+ year history in the grocery business. Currently, the Company supplies 101 Piggly Wiggly supermarkets in the greater Wisconsin and northern Illinois areas, as well as, 12 Butera Market stores in the Chicagoland area. Piggly Wiggly Midwest operates corporate stores and services independent franchisees under a chain-style program. This program combines the strength and consistency of chain style centralized buying and merchandising with the locally tailored entrepreneurial management (skills, charm, hospitality, and attention) of a community-based retailer.


Chef Schneider has worked in some of the world's culinary capitals such as New York to Hawaii and Anguilla, with a strong focus on fresh seafood. Now at WYLD, he's looking to incorporate local, seasonal and fresh menu options. He tells patrons to expect more veggies to be added to the menu.
A visit to The Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch always seems like a special occasion, and with a new executive chef taking the reins for the property there is certainly something to celebrate.
Jasper Schneider has been working in the culinary world for more than 25 years, from New York to Hawaii to the Caribbean Islands, most recently in Anguilla, with a strong focus on fresh seafood.
"Now that I have arrived in the mountains at the beautiful Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch, I'm inspired to create dishes utilizing fresh, local seasonal ingredients," Schneider said.
Seafood dishes will still be making waves on Executive Chef Schneider's menu at WYLD, the property's most upscale restaurant, but he said the kitchen will be exploring new and innovative ways to bring meat and vegetable-focused dishes into the seasonal cuisine.
"We are evolving the menu at WYLD to focus on fresh, seasonal ingredients," Schneider said.
Since opening in 2016, WYLD has maintained a refined definition of Colorado cuisine, highlighting the best elements of the environment, from local ingredients to rustic and inspired combinations. Schneider's menu embraces all that and more, with unique preparations that focus on all the intricate details of a well-composed dish while keeping ingredients clean and fresh.
For example, at WYLD, guests can enjoy Maine diver scallops with a cauliflower almond raisin ragout and yuzu brown vinaigrette as an unexpected entree.
Among all of delicious dishes I tried on a recent dinner WYLD, I was most impressed by the beautiful colors and flavors of his baby beet salad. Hazelnuts, goat cheese and dried cherry vinaigrette were delightful alongside the earthy flavors of the orange, red and purple beets and the roasted heirloom carrot appetizer, spread on the plate like a painting and finished with fresno peppers, lime and raita.
Schneider's duck breast was lovely too, served with apple fennel, green lentil confit and dried cherry jus.
So it's true, from start to finish: Schneider really is an exciting addition to The Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch and to the whole of this mountain valley's culinary depth.


Fernando Cardenal, Nicaraguan Christian Revolutionary– Presente!
Fernando Cardenal, the revolutionary Jesuit priest who served as Secretary of Education in the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, died in Managua on February 20 following complications arising from heart surgery. He was 82 years old.
Cardenal, joined the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) before the Nicaraguan revolution of 1979, having been like his brother the poet Ernesto Cardenal, also a priest, recruited by top Sandinista leaders. Cardenal played a key role in the 1970s, before the revolution, in building the Christian Revolutionary Movement and after the revolution he was the leader and organizer of the National Literacy Campaign. When in 1984 Pope John Paul II insisted that the Cardenal leave the Sandinista government, he refused, writing that he could not believe that God would want him to stop serving the poor.
In the early 1990s Cardenal broke with Daniel Ortega's increasingly authoritarian Sandinista government, returned to the Jesuit order in 1997, and continued his work among the poor.
At the time Fernando Cardenal joined the Sandinistas, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, a dictator who used torture and murder to maintain his grip on power, ruled Nicaragua, as had his father and brother, with the support of the United States. A few former Communists and admirers of Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution joined together to create the Sandinista Front for National Liberaton (FSLN) with the goal of creating a guerrilla army and installing a government such as Cuba's in Nicaragua. The Sandinistas attracted Nicaraguans from all walks of life: workers and peasants, business owners and professionals, and also several Catholic priests.
His ideas about religion and believers were totally different than the theory and practice that had been being carried out for more than 50 years by the Communist parties of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and by Cuba's for decades. It was clear that in those parties one could not be a Christian and be a party militant [ie., a party member]. In some of those countries there had been real persecution of the Church. The Sandinista Front in this respect began its revolutionary life with a complete originality and in a way that was really appropriate for our profoundly religious people. This position was very satisfying and calmed me tremendously.
Later after being invited to a left event in Managua and finding himself there with many Sandinistas, Cardenal wrote, "I knew that we were sharing profound ideas of justice and solidarity with the oppressed, with our people." Through such conversations and gatherings the FSLN won over not only the two Cardenal brothers, but also other Catholic priests and lay people.
By the early 1970s Nicaragua Catholic priests had initiated Christian base communities (comunidades eclesiales de base) made up of grassroots people in poor neighbourhoods, served by priests or catechists. Delegates of the Word, as they were called, offered short courses (cursillos) based on what was called "consciousness raising," that is, using the Bible as a way to interpret contemporary social reality. The Gospels and the Old Testament story of Exodus in particular were used to question and criticise the Somoza regime, the repression, the lack of democracy and the country's backward economic and social situation. Through the Christian base communities and consciousness-raising groups, some priests and a number of lay activists and parishioners would come to join the Sandinista organisation or at least to support the FSLN-led movement.
Catholic activists also became involved in the revolution through the Jesuit University and Catholic high schools. Father Fernando Cardenal and other Jesuit priests organised consciousness-raising groups among college and secondary school students. Much like the Christian base communities, these student groups discussed the country's social situation using not only the Gospels but also the writing of Karl Marx. Cardenal mentions study groups that read eclectically: Marx, Marta Harnecker, Mao Tse-tung, and liberation theologians such as Leonardo Boff, Gustavo Gutiérrez and Helder Cámara, among others.
The students, many of whom came from upper class and middle class homes, became radicalised through these discussion groups and some became convinced revolutionaries, leading to the formation in 1972 of the Christian Revolutionary Movement (MCR). Radical, humanitarian, and in a broad sense socialist, the Christian revolutionaries, however, had no distinct revolutionary socialist theory of their own, consequently they tended over time to fall under the sway of the FSLN, which modelled itself on Castro's Cuban Communist Party.
By the early- to mid-1970s the Christian base communities and the Christian Revolutionary Movement had turned to activism, joining with working people and the poor to protest increases in bus fares and in basic food prices as well as marching with teachers protesting Somoza's expulsion of the teachers' leaders from their union. Throughout the decade, the Christian activists who participated in protests were photographed, identified, arrested, jailed, tortured, and often murdered, their bodies thrown into the volcanoes or into the lakes. For these reasons, "Being involved in the urban protest movement was often more dangerous than being involved in the guerrilla," wrote Fernando Cardenal in his memoir.
The MCR recruited a number of activists to the Sandinistas, or, when Somoza's repression threatened to kill them, the young Christian revolutionaries ran away to the mountains to join the guerrilla movement. While these students considered themselves socialists, they did not have the Stalinist, Fidelista, or Guevarist politics of the original Sandinistas and they grew to represent a distinct Christian current of socialist politics within the FSLN. Though they did not have a very clearly elaborated socialist theory, they had their Christian principles, their common history in the MCR, and their shared commitment to the movement.
While Catholic priests such as Fernando Cardenal became secret members and leaders of the FSLN while another priest, another, Gaspar García Laviana, actually joined the guerrilla and was killed in combat. García wrote, "With a gun in hand, filled with faith and love for the Nicaraguan people, I must fight to my last breath for the advent of the reign of justice in our country." Many other priests worked with the Sandinistas and significant numbers of young Catholics eventually joined the Sandinistas, participated in guerrilla operations, or more typically as civilians supported the FSLN in one way or another.
After the triumph of the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979, Cardenal was chosen to head up the National Literacy Campaign that aimed to eradicate illiteracy in revolutionary Nicaragua. The National Literacy Campaign represented in many ways the highpoint of the Sandinista Revolution and of the government of 1979-1990. Morally inspiring and uplifting, pedagogically innovative, logistically challenging, the campaign of 1980, in a nation of just three million people, involved 100,000 volunteers, most of them youth from 14 to 18, in the education of 400,000 illiterate men, women and children in the cities, towns and in the countryside. It was conceived of as a second liberating army, but far larger and with a far greater scope than the guerrilla army that had fought in the mountains or even than the masses who had participated in the insurrection.
Under the Somoza dictatorship, religious schools and other private schools had educated the rich, as they had done since colonial times, while his expanded public education system provided basic education to some in the large cities and small towns. Most of those in the countryside had very little if any education. Few students went beyond primary school and most did not finish sixth grade, while only a handful attended and fewer finished high school. University education was for the children of the elite only. Consequently, illiteracy in 1980 was estimated to be more than 50 per cent, and probably significantly higher, since few polled wanted to admit they were illiterate.
Carlos Fonseca, the founder of the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) had early on adopted the slogan "And also teach them to read." The initiative for the National Literacy Campaign came from the Sandinista government almost immediately after the Triumph of July 1979. The new government asked Father Fernando Cardenal to assume leadership of the campaign under the aegis of the Ministry of Education headed by Carlos Tünnerman, who gave it his full support and bestowed upon the campaign virtually complete autonomy.
This would be a second army and a second revolution. The Sandinista government and Cardenal worked to create an air of excitement and enthusiasm about the campaign. The government declared 1980 'The Year of Literacy'. The campaign itself was officially called 'The National Literacy Crusade: 'Heroes and Martyrs of Nicaragua''. Carlos Mejía Godoy composed a Crusade's hymn with the famous line, 'Fist held high! Book open!' The volunteers who would go forth to conduct the campaign were called 'The Peoples Literacy Army' (El Ejército Popular de Alfabetización or EPA).
Departmental and municipal commissions were established throughout the country. In order to be able to travel to all of these locations, Cardenal boldly asked Mexican President José López Portillo to give him helicopters for the campaign. López Portillo gave him the helicopers, Mexican pilots, and paid for the fuel. The helicopters and a couple of planes provided by the Nicaraguan Air Force made it possible to visit the departments to supervise the work as well as to respond to emergencies.
The sheer scale of the operation was daunting. The Campaign would send 60,000 volunteers into the countryside and 40,000 adults and young people into the cities. The primer titled 'Morning of the People' contained 23 lessons organised around Nicaraguan history and issues. Each class would begin with a general discussion, followed by the reading lesson. The lesson might deal with "Who was Sandino?" or the word "revolution." One lesson dealt with the Church, with a sentence reading, "There is religious freedom for all churches that defend the interests of the people." Since many of those who could not read were also incapable counting, adding or subtracting, in addition to the reading primer there was also a book to teach arithmetic. There were special materials for the Atlantic Coast where people were taught to read in their native languages: Creole English, Miskito, Sumo and Rama.
The campaign had the support not only of the Sandinista leadership, but also of all of the Sandinista mas organisations: Association of Rural Workers (ATC), the Sandinista Workers' Confederation (CST), the 'Luisa Amanda Espinoza' Association of Nicaraguan Women (AMNLAE), the Sandinista Defence Committees (CDS) the National Association of Nicaraguan Educators (ANDEN) the Sandinista Children's Association (ANS) and the "19 of July" Sandinista Youth, the Sandinista Peoples Militias (MPS). Unlike the Cuban experience, where the mass organisations had actually carried out the literacy campaign, in Nicaragua they were only the supporters of the youth who would carry out the work.
The training program, which eventually trained 200,000 literacy workers, was based on what has come to be called a 'train the trainer method'. A group of 80 teachers from ANDEN and 80 youth from the Sandinista Youth trained the first 200 trainers, who in turn went off in groups to train others, the numbers expanding geometrically until they trained 200,000 literacy workers, of whom 100,000 participate in the campaign.
The young volunteers of the Peoples Literacy Army were loaded up on buses and trucks and sent throughout the country, most of them going to the rural farming areas. There each day for five months they worked alongside the farmers and their families doing the daily chores and in the afternoon they held their classes. Most of the volunteers came from Nicaragua's cities and this was their first encounter with the peasantry and with rural poverty and hunger. The National Literacy Campaign provided food for the volunteers, 120,000 rations of rice, corn and beans per month, but the volunteers often shared the food with the families, just as they shared the medicines in their first aid kits. Many of the young people formed strong attachments to their host families while living in the towns and villages, working alongside the families, and teaching them to read, write and count.
Throughout the campaign, Cardenal and the other directors boarded their helicopters and flew to cities, towns and rural areas to deal with problems and emergencies. The campaign was not without its tragedies. The Contras murdered a number of the volunteers; altogether seven volunteers were killed, forty-one died in accidents and eight died of natural causes. Yet despite the murders intended to demoralise and disorganise the campaign, not one of the volunteers asked to return home. When the five months had been completed, the Literacy Campaign had taught 400,000 Nicaraguans to read and write and had lowered the illiteracy rate from 51 per cent to 12.9 per cent, Cardenal reported. For ten days returning volunteers were greeted in Managua's Plaza of the Revolution by family and friends, an army of returning veterans of the war against ignorance.
The Literacy Campaign led by Fernando Cardenal, which in one way or another involved 500,000 people or one-sixth of the country's entire population, had a profound impact on the nation, creating a sense of national unity around the commitment to improve the lives of working people and to uplift the poor. Because it involved such a large proportion of the country's population, it created a tremendous new national consciousness and a strong sense of patriotism. Led by the Sandinista government, the campaign also tended to strengthen the FSLN and the government and the party-state's influence throughout the country.
The National Literacy Campaign created a tremendous élan as the country's youth confronted and defeated the great enemy before them: ignorance. The literacy campaign would provide a model for other projects such as the inoculation campaigns against polio and other diseases, the coffee brigades of the 1980s, and the initially voluntary military mobilisation against the Contras. The Sandinista Revolution would, however, unfortunately prove incapable of creating such an extraordinary national sense of commitment, mission and accomplishment again. Nor would subsequent governments be able to maintain high literacy rates.
In the early 1980s, Fernando Cardenal found himself under attack by Pope John Paul II for his role in the Sandinista government as it planned to hold the country's first elections since the overthrow of Somoza. The context for the Pope's attack on Cardenal and other Sandinista priests was the government's decision to hold elections in 1984 in the midst of both civil war and foreign intervention.
When Ronald Reagan became U.S. president in 1981, he threw the support of his government behind the Contras, the Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries who were attempting to overthrow the Sandinista government through violent attacks on rural communities, schools, and hospitals, attacks that took the lives of hundreds. Reagan's principal charge against the Sandinistas was that they were establishing a Communist government in Central America, and that, like Fidel Castro's Communist government in Cuba, the FSLN government had never held elections and never allowed the people of Nicaragua to choose their own leaders.
Faced with this criticism of their government, not only from Reagan but also from their domestic critics, American liberals, and European and Latin American social democrats, the Sandinistas decided to create a government along more liberal democratic lines. The Sandinistas decided to hold elections in 1984 for president and vice-president and to create a congress made up of elected representatives of political parties. This would be the first elected leadership since the triumph of the revolution five years before and it opened the first major public, society-wide debate of the revolution's success or failure in Nicaraguan society.
During this period, under both domestic and international pressure, the Nicaraguan Catholic Church had split. Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo, a very popular figure in a country that was 95 per cent Catholic, played the leading role as spokesperson for the anti-Sandinista forces throughout the entire election period, mobilising the church to oppose the Sandinistas. He received economic assistance from USAID and secret funds from the CIA and other foreign sources to help finance the Church's anti-government activities. Obando attacked the Sandinistas for suppressing political liberties and for challenging the Church's authority as well as for drafting the country's youth to fight the Contras. On the other hand he never criticised the Contras, despite emerging reports of their many atrocities, including the murder of health workers and schoolteachers. His attitude exacerbated the division among Nicaraguan Catholics, between those loyal to the institutional Church and those who supported what they called the "popular church" and backed the Sandinistas.
The split in the Church came into the open in March of 1983 when Pope John Paul II, a staunch anti-Communist, visited Nicaragua. The Christian Base Communities of the popular church prepared for the Pope's visit with the slogans: "Welcome to free Nicaragua, thanks to God and the Revolution" and "Between Christianity and Revolution, there is no contradiction." The Pope responded by condemning the popular church as "absurd and dangerous" and demanding obedience to the bishops. The differences became public when during the Pope's open air mass members of the popular church shouted slogans such as "Popular Power!" and "We Want Peace!" and, though the Pope called for "Silence!" the mostly poor congregations continued their chants. The public confrontation with the Pope proved a public relations disaster and an enormous political problem for the Sandinistas.
In 1985, the Pope, infuriated by the Nicaraguan popular church, suspended Cardenal—who had already been expelled from the Jesuit order in 1984—as well as three other priests in the Sandinista government, including Fernando's brother Ernesto. In response Fernando Cardenal wrote an open "Letter to my Friends" in which he defended his continued his participation in the Sandinista government. "I cannot conceive of a God that would ask me to abandon my commitment to the people," he wrote. Shortly thereafter the Pope elevated Obando to the rank of Cardinal in 1985. Archbishop Obando, now clarly the dominant figure in the Nicaragua Church led the right in its attack on the Sandinistas in the 1984, raising the dominant themes of the campaign: the lack of political freedom, the decline of the economy, and the draft. Still, Ortega and the Sandinistas won the election and remained in power.
During the 1980s and 1990s, the Ortega and his clique in the Sandinista government took power completely into their own hands. At the same time, though the U.S.-backed Contra war had ended, the combination of continuing political turmoil, violence, and the calamitous economic and social situation meant that the FSLN continued to be under tremendous pressure from both the wealthy elites above and the working class and the poor below. The political tendencies that had emerged at the time of the FSLN First Congress held in 1991 developed into full-blown factional organisations over the next few years, creating a genuine debate over theory, politics, and strategy within the organisation. No longer able to support the Sandinista leadership of Daniel Ortega, Cardenal resigned from the government.
The Majorities, who were in essence social democrats, wanted to build a party capable of winning elections and, beyond that, building a new social consensus for democracy and socialism. Ramírez and his comrades criticised the FSLN leadership's historic tendency to see the state-ification, that is, the nationalisation of property, as the solution to the country's problems. The so-called Democratic Left, on the other hand, still inspired by the Soviet Union and Cuba, defended state property and the organisation of the working class and peasant masses in a socialist and anti-imperialist movement that would return to power through mass actions and electoral success. The Democratic Left put great emphasis in the language of its document on representative and participatory democracy, though these had never been strong points in the FSLN leaderships practice.
Stripping away the rhetoric, the 1994 debate was one between the social democratic critics led by the party's outstanding intellectuals such as Sergio Ramírez and Ernesto Cardenal on the one hand, and the historically Stalinist, Fidelista, and Guevarista leaders of the FSLN such as Ortega, Borge and Ruiz on the other. The latter won the votes and were reconfirmed as the FSLN leadership, strengthening the historic tendencies of vanguardism, democratic centralism, and the top-down dictation of directives to the party membership. With the social democratic tendency having lost the fight over the leadership and the future direction of the FSLN, Fernando Cardenal resigned from the party.
Though no longer directly involved in politics, Fernando Cardenal remained deeply committed to the Theology of Liberation, the organization of Christian base communities, and the education of the poor. In 1997 Cardenal was reinstated by the Jesuit order and became head of the Nicaragua office of Fe y Alegría (Faith and Happiness), a Jesuit program providing schools and education to the poor of Nicaragua. When I met and talked with Fernando Cardenal in 2013, he remained an opponent of both capitalism and bureaucratic communism, a man committed through his faith to democratic socialism.
dan,thanks for this great article: succinct, accurate and much needed.


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A: You can't host a WPF usercontrol inside any website. The closest thing is the use of Silverlight, which runs in a browser. But Silverlight isn't maitained and developed anymore...

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I've reworked the terrain editing tools, in Area mode can 'paint' with left drag, and (instead of the crappy Set) is Level mode: Right drag creates level areas as before, but best is the left drag, which is a sort of smoothing effect (actually more of a 'flatten'). Very useful for creating roads/pathways up hills/cliffs.
My strategy: create the general shape of hill and cliff with Paint tool(doing a left drag) and Level (doing a right drag). Then while in Level mode, turn on "auto-subdivide", set radius=0, feather=2, and right drag back and forth along the pathway I'm creating. With a bit of practice, it turned out to be easier than I thought to create pathways.
Quite nice, Andres. It's also quite refreshing to see you actually beginning to use your own tools and extensive knowledge and apply that to produce tangible results.
Indeed, after many long hours writing TresEd, it is nice to have some fun using it! Also by using it I notice things that are difficult to do or inconvenient (eg. Ajusting movement speed "Ctrl+6" is hard to do if one hand is on the mouse!). Do to tell me if there are little things like that that could be changed - I probably just haven't noticed because I don't use TresEd much.
Does anyone have a copy of this version? Rebel?


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Q: How to use @value annotation in kotlin data class I have an application.properties file like:
person-one-name=John

This is my data class, I have used @Value annotation outside dataclass.
@Value("\${person-one-name}")
lateinit var personOne: String

data class Person(val name: String, val age: Int) {
        constructor(age: Int) : this(personOne, age)
}

I want to use the var personOne in my data class.
It gives an error lateinit property personOne has not been initialized

A: Following on from my comment under the Question:
data class Person(val name: String, val age: Int)

@Service
class PersonFactory(
    @Value("\${person-one-name}")
    private val personOne: String,
) {

    fun createPerson(name: String? = null, age: Int) =
        if (name != null) Person(name, age)
        else Person(personOne, age)
}

Another gotcha, is that the PersonFactory service needs to be in a package at the same level or within the class that starts the App.
More info: https://springhow.com/a-guide-to-value-in-spring-boot/


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Q: How can I access /data/data directory of other app without rooting the phone as per Google documentation,

By default, files saved to the internal storage are private to your
  application and other applications cannot access them (nor can the
  user). When the user uninstalls your application, these files are
  removed.

Source: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html
By default implies that it is only temporary and can be modified. So is there any way to modify this permission to allow your app to read internal storage files from other Apps ?
I am willing to access /data/data/com.Whatsapp to access my encryption key to study how Whatsapp actually generates the key and i need to done this using my App, not a rooted phone or anything.

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So is there any way to modify this permission to allow your app to read internal storage files from other Apps ?

No. In the quoted passage above, please see the "nor can the user" part. You, as a user, do not have rights to access those files, let alone change permissions on them. The exception is a user who roots their device.


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Cardiology > Cardio Brief
CardioBrief: 'Time to Move Beyond Ruling Out Harm' in Diabetes
Sanjay Kaul takes a deep dive into the LEADER data pool
by Larry Husten, CardioBrief June 13, 2016
This article is a collaboration between MedPage Today® and:
There will be a lot of discussion in the near future about the LEADER trial, the large new trial assessing cardiovascular outcomes with liraglutide (Victoza). The trial is the latest in a series of large cardiovascular outcomes trials with new diabetes drugs showing benefit -- or at least no harm -- with these drugs. It is no exaggeration to state that these trials are causing a major shakeup in the increasingly important area of type 2 diabetes, though it is still unclear exactly how these trials will be applied in clinical practice, since many of these drugs have already achieved enormous success in the marketplace despite the earlier absence of evidence regarding outcomes.
I asked clinical trial expert Sanjay Kaul, MD, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, for his perspective on the trial, in which 9,340 people with type 2 diabetes and high risk for cardiovascular disease were randomized to liraglutide or placebo. With a median followup of 3.8 years, there was a significant reduction in the first occurrence of death from cardiovascular causes, nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI), or nonfatal stroke (13% in the liraglutide group versus 14.9% in the placebo group, hazard ratio 0.87, CI 0.78-0.97, P<0.001 for noninferiority, P=0.01 for superiority).
Placing the trial in perspective, Kaul noted that "until last September, when the results of EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial were first announced, diabetes intervention trials had a checkered history with regards to cardiovascular outcomes for nearly 5 decades. Now within the space of 9 months we have two published trials with unequivocal evidence of cardiovascular outcome benefit, plus one that reported favorable top line results with semaglutide, a long-acting GLP-1 agonist, in SUSTAIN 6."
"Overall," said Kaul, "the LEADER trial results along with the EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial results represent a clinical breakthrough in treating type 2 diabetes mellitus, warranting a shift in the treatment paradigm to consider treatment with empagliflozin [Jardiance] or liraglutide as a first-line therapy along with metformin in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease."
Kaul says that it is now time to change the focus of clinical trials in this area. Until now the main goal of these trials has been to rule out excessive risk. Now we need to know how the drugs should be used in the much larger lower-risk patient population. "It is time to move beyond the restricted focus of ruling out unacceptable cardiovascular harm in high-risk patients," said Kaul. Cardiovascular outcomes trials should be designed to assess outcomes "in lower-risk patients that are more representative of the patients we treat in clinical practice."
Kaul said LEADER was "a well-conducted outcome trial where the quality and the quantity of the data yield a clear and convincing evidence of cardiovascular outcome benefit and an overall favorable benefit-risk profile for liraglutide." Kaul compared LEADER with EMPA-REG and made a number of notable observations:
"1. The superior reduction in the primary composite endpoint (1.9% absolute risk difference) in LEADER was driven by a significant reduction in cardiovascular death (1.3% absolute risk difference) with numerical, but not statistically significant, favorable difference in nonfatal MI and nonfatal stroke. The favorable effect on nonfatal stroke in LEADER (HR 0.89) is in contrast to the numerical imbalance not favoring empagliflozin in EMPA-REG (HR 1.24). The absolute and relative risk difference in MACE-3, nonfatal MI, or hospitalization for unstable angina was similar to that observed in EMPA-REG trial. However, the P-value for MACE-3 was more robust in the LEADER trial (P=0.01 vs P=0.04), thereby rendering it more stable to sensitivity analyses. The absolute and relative benefit in cardiovascular death, all-cause death, and hospitalization for heart failure was relatively greater in the EMPA-REG trial.
"2. The delayed separation of the Kaplan-Meier curves in LEADER (>12 months for cardiovascular death and >18 months for all-cause deaths and hospitalization for heart failure) contrasts with the early separation of curves (<3 months) in the EMPA-REG trial. This might -- at the risk of speculation -- indicate different mechanistic pathways underlying outcome benefit. As with empagliflozin, the reduction in cardiovascular risk with liraglutide is unlikely to be attributable to the small but favorable differences in cardiometabolic factors such as HbA1c, blood pressure, or weight loss.
"3. A notable difference from the EMPA-REG trial is that silent MIs were counted in the primary composite outcome in LEADER and they were favorably impacted (HR 0.86). Among the half of the patients in EMPA-REG in whom silent MIs were evaluated, treatment with empagliflozin was associated with a nonsignificant increase in risk (HR 1.28).
"4. Unlike the results of EMPA-REG trial, there is a treatment-by-renal function interaction in the LEADER trial, i.e., treatment benefit with regards to primary composite endpoint is only evident in those with moderate or severe renal impairment (eGFR <60ml/min) in LEADER. The interaction P-value of 0.01 is unadjusted for multiple comparisons. It is unclear whether this interaction is also evident for cardiovascular and all-cause death as well."
Remaining Questions
Kaul also pointed to several potentially important lingering questions about the trial, relating to a lack of effect on retinopathy, a possible increase in pancreatic cancer, and the effect of liraglutide on lower risk patients:
"1. Why was retinopathy endpoint not impacted favorably within the time frame that the nephropathy endpoint was? What drove the reduction in the nephropathy endpoint -- 'softer' or 'harder' components? What accounts for nephroprotection with liraglutide?
"2. The increase in incident pancreatic cancer (13 vs 5, HR 2.60, 95% CI 0.93-7.28, P=0.06) is obviously a concern in light of the relative short follow-up.
"3. Why did patients without established cardiovascular disease (19% of the overall cohort) not show a reduction in primary composite outcomes? Was this lack of benefit also seen with respect to cardiovascular or all-cause death? If true, this has important implications for designing cardiovascular outcomes trials to show benefit in patients at lower cardiovascular risk. Because 99% of patients enrolled in EMPA-REG had pre-existing cardiovascular disease, it remains to be established what the effects of empagliflozin might be in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients without cardiovascular disease."
Double The Events
Kaul also pointed out an important deviation from the investigators' original plan. LEADER, he notes, "was an event-driven trial requiring 611 events to rule out a HR of 1.3 at a power of 90%. The observed annual primary endpoint event rate was 3.9% in the placebo arm (14.9% over 3.8 years), which was >2-fold higher than the expected annual event rate of 1.8%." As a result, "the final number of observed events accrued (n=1,306) exceed the planned number of events (n=611) by more than twofold."
I asked trial investigators John Buse, MD, PhD, and Steven Marso, MD, to explain this unusual circumstance. (In my experience, it's much more common for a trial to fail to reach the expected number of events than to exceed that number.)
They explained that "the trial was prespecified to last at a minimum 3.5 years and up to 5 years for each participant to allow minimal exposure that was meaningful for assessment of not only the primary endpoint but also broader safety assessments. The annualized event rate was twofold higher than projected perhaps because there were more patients with prior cardiovascular disease recruited than planned. We recruited faster than expected and enrolled somewhat more patients than expected."
Kaul disclosed relationships with Boehringer Ingelheim and Novo Nordisk.
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I don't know the other two maps as well since I only occasionally play on them. But I love being an imposter on "Skield" also!!
I know and like all three of the maps. I mainly play on the "Skield" though
I like to play all the maps
Oh I see, I am kinda sad no one plays the game anymore but hopefully they add the update so it doesn't completely die.
The new update is where you can see the hats on discussion time, and you can't see who votes for who. Unfortunately, most people don't have the update yet.
Aw, I don't know how much I like the invisible voting thing. I guess that will make it kind of harder bc sometimes you can tell who the imposter is when they skip right away or don't vote someone out.
yes... I wish more people played. It's such a fun game! {except when the game ends right away}
Some times my whole family plays among us together! it's the best time ever!
It's not just a matter of trusting yourself, it's a matter of testing yourself - Joseph Sugarman
That sounds so fun!! I play with my sisters and sometimes we facetime our cousins. Look at Among Us bringing people together :))))


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SpiceJet launches dedicated freighter services to Leh in Ladakh, operated by SpiceXpress, the dedicated cargo arm
The first time a civil airliner has started freighter services to Leh. Accordingly, the airline operated its first freighter flight from Delhi to Leh carrying 13 tonnes of cargo supplies. Boeing 737 freighter has been deployed on this route.
Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh: R. K. Mathur
India has emerged as fourth largest producer of renewable energy in world: PM Modi
India's renewable power capacity is the 4th largest in the world and it is growing at the fastest speed among all major countries. The renewable energy capacity in India is currently 136 Giga Watts, which is about 36 percent of the country's total capacity
Germany: largest producer of renewable energy in the world
India and Finland sign MOU for developing cooperation in the field of environmental protection and biodiversity conservation.
Indian and Finnish partnership and support, exchange best practices in areas like prevention of Air and water pollution; Waste management; low-carbon solutions and sustainable management of natural resources including forests etc.
Capital: Helsinki;
UNDP and Invest India launch the SDG Investor Map for India
UNDP and Invest India have launched the SDG Investor Map for India, laying out 18 Investment Opportunities Areas (IOAs) in six critical SDG enabling sectors, that can help India push the needle forward on Sustainable Development.
United Nations Development Programme
HQ: New York;
Formed : 1965
Indian Railway launches digitised online Human Resource Management System (HRMS)
Human Resource Management System (HRMS) is a high thrust project for Indian Railways to leverage improved productivity & employee satisfaction. Launched HRMS modules of Employee Self Service, PF Advance and Retirement Settlement.
Chairman and CEO of Railway Board:Vinod Kumar Yadav
Honey FPOs will help in achieving the goal of increasing income of small farmers: Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar
The Honey FPO Programme of National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd was inaugurated by Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. Beekeeping in India is predominant in the unorganized sector among the rural and tribal population.
NAFED
Founded: 1958;
HQ: New Delhi
Indian Army launches cycling expedition in Gujarat & Rajasthan to commemorate 1971 Indo-Pak War victory
To commemorate the commencement of the Golden Jubilee Victory Celebrations of Indian Armed Forces in the Indo-Pak War of 1971.Konark Corps of Indian Army has launched a 1971 km cycling expedition was flagged off Lakhpat in Kutch.
Vijay Diwas: 16 December
FC Kohli, first CEO of TCS and father of Indian IT industry, passes away at 96
Faqir Chand Kohli, the first CEO of Tata Consultancy Services and father of India's software industry died. He pioneered India's 'Technology Revolution' to help the country build a USD 100 billion IT industry during his tenure at TCS.
TCS CEO: Rajesh Gopinathan;
Founded:1968
James D. Wolfensohn, Former World Bank Chief, Dies at Age 86
James Wolfensohn, whose reforms as the head of the World Bank Group for a decade made him known as a champion of the world's poor. World Bank provides loans and grants to the governments of low and middle income.
Headquarters: Washington, US;
President: David Malpass
Indian Oil successfully tests innovative Zero-Emission Electric Mobility technology
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. has successfully conducted a "Proof of Concept" feasibility study on "Zero-Emission Electric Mobility" at one of its fuel stations in Bengaluru. Zero-Emission Electric Mobility is a concept that allows the electric vehicle(EV).
EV charging system designed: Hygge Energy.
Bangladesh to take legal action against online portals spreading rumours, fake news create instability in society
Bangladesh government has announced that action will be taken against the news portals which don't register with the authorities. The government of Bangladesh started the process for the registration of online news portals in December last year.
PM: Sheikh Hasina;
Capital: Dhaka
Currency: Taka
L&T bags Rs 7,000-cr order to construct part of Bullet Train project
Infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) will construct a part of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR), also known as the Bullet Train Project. The approx.508 km speed rail project will cover Maharashtra, Dadra &Nagar Haveli & Gujarat
India's first High-Speed Rail corridor project
APEDA holds Virtual Buyer Seller Meet with Germany
Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority, continued its endeavour to promote export of agricultural products through the virtual medium. It shows the strength of Indian agricultural products grapes, fresh fruits & vegetables.
APEDA: Apex body under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry,
Mastercard and USAID partner to launch 'Project Kirana' for women entrepreneurs
A two year programme, will first be rolled out in select cities of Uttar Pradesh - Lucknow, Kanpur and Varanasi. It will work to increase revenue streams, financial inclusion and digital payments by adoption of kirana shops that owned/ operated by women.
USAID: US Agency for International Development
TN schoolgirl wins Children's Climate Prize for designing solar-powered ironing cart
Vinisha Umashankar,a 14-year-old studying in 9th grade at a private school in Tiruvannamalai, has won prestigious Children's Climate Prize for designing a mobile ironing cart using solar panels to power a steam iron box rather than conventional charcoal.
Award founded by Telge Energi;
started: 2016
CCI Approves Acquisition by Reliance Retail Ventures of Retail of Future Group
The Competition Commission of India approves acquisition by Reliance Retail Ventures Limited, Retail & Fashion Lifestyle Limited of the retail and wholesale undertaking and the logistics & warehousing undertaking of Future Group under Competition Act 2002.
RRVL a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd, is an unlisted one
Sea-launched interceptor destroyed mock intercontinental-range ballistic (ICBM) in test, Pentagon says
Aegis SM-3 missile, manufactured by Raytheon Missiles & Defense, was fired from a U.S. Navy destroyer situated northeast of Hawaii, targeting a mock ICBM that was launched from a test range at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Pentagon: HQ of US defence department;
International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, UNICEF India, FOGSI and 3 others partner for POSHAN Abhiyaan
Government of India's flagship programme to improve nutritional outcomes for children, pregnant women and nursing mothers. All these organisations will meet every month for scientific deliberations on various issues addressed under POSHAN.
POSHAN Abhiyaan:- National Nutrition Mission


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U.S. President Donald Trump has been an avid denier of climate change and the need to utilize clean energy. He has even gone as far as to tweeting his beliefs that climate change is a hoax invented by China.
But according to a recent report by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 97% of climate change scientists see President Trump's views as not only ignorant, but also incredibly dangerous to the Earth's environmental future.
The details of President Trump's new "America First Energy Plan" outlined on the White House website makes no mention whatsoever of alternative energy. Despite a massive boom in the solar and wind energy industries, Trump's new plan of going back to utilizing fossil fuels is forcing the U.S. to take steps backward instead of forward.
Not only is the Trump administration taking steps backward in the energy industry, Seeker has found they have removed the vast majority of climate change action plans that were previously posted on the EPA website. They have even gone as far as removing the mention of carbon pollution as a cause of climate change.
In order to help make a difference in the United States and its stance on climate change, we need to stand up to the Trump administration and make sure they understand how important this issue is for future generations. Speak up for the planet and fight back against this science-denying administration!
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Nicolaas ("Johnny") Rep (Zaandam, 25 november 1951) is een Nederlands voormalig voetballer. Hij won in 'de gouden tijd van Ajax' twee keer de Europacup I en een keer de wereldbeker, evenals twee keer de Europese Supercup. Rep kwam van 1973 tot en met 1981 42 keer uit voor het Nederlands voetbalelftal en speelde in de met Oranje verloren finales van het WK 1974 en WK 1978.

Als speler
John Rep werd op zijn achtste jaar lid van de Zaanse club ZFC. Op zijn zestiende debuteerde hij in het eerste elftal van deze vereniging, die toen speelde in de Tweede divisie van het betaalde voetbal. Hier werd hij opgemerkt door Ajax dat hem overnam en waar hij vervolgens op 29 augustus 1971 debuteerde. Ajax had toen een selectie met spelers als Johan Cruijff, Ruud Krol, Dick van Dijk en Piet Keizer, maar ook Barry Hulshoff, Arie Haan, Johan Neeskens en Gerrie Mühren en zou in de jaren daarop de beste club in Nederland, Europa, en ter wereld worden. Reps bijnaam het goudhaantje dankte hij aan het vermogen om te scoren op beslissende momenten. Hij drukte als spits zijn stempel op de returnwedstrijd om de wereldbeker in 1972 tegen het Argentijnse Independiente met twee van de drie Ajax-doelpunten (3–0). In 1973 zorgde hij voor de beslissende 1–0 in de Europacup I-finale tegen Juventus.

Op het WK 1974 maakte Rep deel uit van een voorhoede met Johan Cruijff en Rob Rensenbrink. Het Nederlands elftal scoorde op dit toernooi vijftien maal en kreeg drie treffers tegen (doelsaldo +12) en Oranje maakte onder aanvoering van Johan Cruijff en coach Rinus Michels naam met het totaalvoetbal en werd tweede.

Rep redde in het derde en tevens laatste duel in de eerste pouleronde het Nederlands elftal in 1978 met een doelpunt tegen Schotland (beperkte 2–3 nederlaag) van een voortijdige afgang op het wereldkampioenschap in Argentinië. In de eerste twee duels van de 1ste pouleronde had waren de uitslagen: Nederland–Iran 3–0, Nederland–Peru 0–0; Nederland speelde toen met een sterk verouderd team, en het tempo lag met name tegen Peru veel te laag. Nederland ging op doelsaldo door naar de tweede pouleronde, waarin na een verjongingskuur onder meer Oostenrijk met 5–1 werd verslagen. In dit duel scoorde Rep 2 maal, evenals Rensenbrink.

Het laatste toernooi dat Rep met het Nederlands elftal speelde was het EK 1980 in Italië. Nederland slaagde er in de pouleronde net niet in zich te kwalificeren voor de volgende ronde. Tegen Griekenland werd met 1–0 gewonnen, tegen West-Duitsland werd na een snelle 3–0-achterstand uiteindelijk dankzij goals van Willy van de Kerkhof en Rep de schade beperkt tot een 3–2 nederlaag, tegen Tsjechoslowakije was de uitslag 1–1.

Zijn laatste interlands speelde Rep tussen maart 1981 en november 1981. Met name door twee kleine uit-nederlagen (2–1 en 1–0) in de kwalificatiewedstrijden eind 1980 tegen Ierland en België, waar Rep niet in meespeelde, wist het Nederlands Elftal zich net niet te kwalificeren voor het WK 1982 in Spanje.

In totaal scoorde Rep twaalf keer voor Nederland (1973–1981) en vijftig keer voor Ajax (1971–1975). Met zeven doelpunten verdeeld over veertien wedstrijden in twee WK's is Rep minstens tot 2026 topscorer aller tijden van Oranje op WK-eindronden.

Half 1975 vertrok Rep van Ajax naar Valencia, zijn opvolger bij Ajax werd rechterspits Tscheu La Ling, overgenomen van FC Den Haag. Daarna speelde Rep nog voor SC Bastia, AS Saint-Étienne, PEC Zwolle, Feyenoord en HFC Haarlem.

Met het Zuid-Franse Bastia (Corsica), haalde Rep in het seizoen 1977/78 de finale van de UEFA Cup, die werd verloren van PSV (0–0, 3–0), dat onder andere coach Kees Rijvers en spelers als Willy van der Kuijlen, Willy en René van de Kerkhof, Adrie van Kraaij, Harry Lubse en Jan Poortvliet in de gelederen had. In het seizoen 1978/1979 kreeg Rep bij Bastia gezelschap van de bij Feyenoord vertrokken Wim Rijsbergen. Vanaf medio 1979 speelde Rep samen met onder andere Michel Platini en Santini voor het Zuid-Oost-Franse Saint-Etienne. In het seizoen 1980/1981 werd Saint-Etienne kampioen van Frankrijk.

Bij PEC Zwolle werd Rep in 1983/84 met Piet Schrijvers herenigd. Met Feyenoord eindigde Rep in 1984/85 en 1985/86 als derde in de Nederlandse Eredivisie.

Rep speelde nog in het eerste zaterdagteam van ZFC, waarmee hij in 1990 de fusie tot Hellas Sport Combinatie meemaakte.

Statistieken

 : 42 interlands, 12 doelpunten.

Als trainer

Vanaf 1987 was Rep werkzaam als trainer en scout voor diverse amateurclubs. Als trainer maakte hij de overstap van VV Zwarte Schapen (DZS) van Amsterdam naar Almere mee waar de club een jaar als Sporting Flevoland speelde om daarna FC Omniworld te worden. Met DZS degradeerde hij uit de hoofdklasse en promoveerde een jaar later weer terug. Tussen 2003 en 2006 trainde hij toenmalig vierdeklasser VV Texel '94. In het seizoen 2007/08 was hij tijdens het seizoen trainer van RKSV Pancratius uit Badhoevedorp geworden na het ontslag van de trainer. Met Pancratius wist hij degradatie uit de tweede klasse na de nacompetitie te voorkomen. Hierna moest hij weer plaatsmaken.

Erelijst

Individueel als speler

Namen en bijnamen
Reps officiële voornaam is Nicolaas en zijn roepnaam volgens het geboortekaartje was Sjonnie, later werd het Jonny: Toen ik een jaar of dertien was, heb ik dat eigenhandig veranderd in Johnny. Vond ik stoerder staan. Later heb ik daar echt spijt van gehad. Anders was ik de enige profvoetballer ter wereld ooit geweest met de naam Sjonnie.

Bij AS Saint-Étienne verwierf Rep door zijn debuut de bijnaam blonde engel. De "ASSE" was in 1979 een arbeidersclub en Rep was de eerste sterspeler die voor relatief veel geld aangekocht werd. De supporters waren sceptisch, maar hij werd hun engel toen hij in zijn eerste wedstrijd een hattrick maakte, in de UEFA Cup-wedstrijd tegen Widzew Łódź. Daarnaast werd hij goudhaantje genoemd vanwege zijn reputatie dat hij kon scoren op beslissende momenten.

Biografieën
In augustus 2010 kwam een biografie uit over Rep, getiteld Rep. Een roerig (voetbal)leven, geschreven door Mik Schots. Zijn tweede biografie werd in november 2016 uitgebracht: Johnny Rep. Buitenbeentje, van de hand van Mark van den Heuvel.

Eerbetoon
 De Franse popgroep Mickey 3D bracht in 2004 het album Live à Saint Etienne uit, met een single genaamd Johnny Rep, over zijn debuut met hattrick bij Saint-Étienne. Jacques Vendroux, de commentator uit 1979, sprak hiervoor nieuw commentaar in.
 De jazzpianist en componist Leo Cuypers schreef in 1974 de Johnny Rep Suite.
 In de Amsterdamse buurt Park de Meer, waar vroeger stadion De Meer lag, zijn bruggen vernoemd naar Ajaxspelers van de jaren 1970. De Johnny Repbrug is een houten voetgangersbrug over de Tweede Molenwetering.

Trivia
 Op Reps geboortedag, 25 november 1951, werd de wedstrijd Nederland–België gespeeld waarbij linksachter Henk Schijvenaar zijn been brak. België won met 6–7.
 Rep was gewend met zijn shirt over de broek te spelen, net zoals Ruud Krol, Michel Platini en Jesper Olsen.
 Rep nam in 1980 de single Hey Johnny op (TREMA 410138)

Zie ook

 Lijst van meest scorende spelers bij Ajax
 Lijst van spelers van ZFC
 Lijst van spelers van Ajax
 Lijst van spelers van SC Bastia
 Lijst van spelers van AS Saint-Étienne
 Lijst van spelers van PEC Zwolle
 Lijst van spelers van Feyenoord
 Lijst van spelers van HFC Haarlem
 Lijst van spelers van het Nederlands voetbalelftal

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HERE ARE PHOTOS of Saint James Church, in the village of Millstadt, Illinois, of the Diocese of Belleville. The church is about 15 road miles southwest of downtown Saint Louis, Missouri.
The church has a large school, shown here on the right.
A view of the nave from the choir loft: the church was packed for first communion. Here the little kids are getting their photos taken by proud parents. The pastor told me that this church photographs rather well, and he is correct!
The tabernacle and Last Supper scene.
"VIII - you shall not lie."
The stained glass windows along the nave show the Commandments.
Painting in choir loft showing symbols of Christ and the Evangelists.
Symbol of the Holy Ghost.
Statue of the Resurrected Christ, decorated for Easter.


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A Demon Lord's Tale: Dungeons, Monster Girls, and Heartwarming Bliss
A Demon Lord's Tale: Dungeons, Monster Girls, and Heartwarming Bliss Chapter 84
Editors: Joker, Speedphoenix
There was a moment of silence. The air was filled with naught but stillness until the moment I loosed a victorious roar.
"Yes! I got a bite!"
"What!?"
I glanced to the side as I gave my fishing rod a good tug and reeled in my catch, only to see Lefi making an expression of shock.
"Well, Lefi, that's fish number two," I said with a snarky grin. "Iunno about you, but I think it's pretty safe to say that I've already won this little match of ours."
"Your pursuit of victory comes with excess haste, for the event has yet to conclude. Victory has not yet eluded me." The dragon, who'd been grinding her teeth in frustration, humphed before continuing to speak in an indignant tone. "And I see no reason to perform such a menial task in the first place. It makes little sense not to simply dry the riverbed should you wish to consume a fish."
"Lefi, please. Talk about no taste in leisure." I rolled my eyes. "Look, this, this is way more fun. And before you even think about actually doing it, running the river dry is hella wasteful and destructive, so please don't."
'Cause coming from you, that seems a bit real, y'know?
The banter Lefi and I were engaged in was only an aside to the activity that we were focused on: fishing. The two of us were both camped out in front of the river running through the dungeon's grasslands, rods in hand and ready to extract our prey at a moment's notice.
We weren't the only two fishing either. Lyuu was doing the same, though she didn't quite seem all that focused. She kept glancing towards Illuna and Shii. Bored of fishing, the two had started playing around with Rir, hence why Lyuu was so distracted. As a warwolf, she couldn't help but allow the Fenrir to draw her attention.
Like Illuna and friends, Leila was also situated nearby. She was seated on a large picnic blanket, and continued to watch over the rest of us with a big smile on her face. Or at least that was what she was doing most of the time. She would occasionally seem to make a eureka face, pull out a stack of paper and start scribbling away while chuckling with all the wickedness of a mad scientist. It was something I had seen many times now. She'd started doing it ever since she put an abrupt end to that magic lesson the other day, and had basically never stopped. She didn't seem to be able to focus on anything all that much either. The sheep-horned demon girl would always be mumbling something or another under her breath, even while doing the chores.
That said, it wasn't like I'd grown accustomed to her cackling. Honestly bro, that shit's kinda freaky.
I wasn't the only one that found her recent actions intimidating either. Lyuu had evidently felt the same way, as she'd come to me for a consultation. Frankly, Leila's demonic cackling had terrified her.
Despite her newfound habits and lack of attention, however, Leila was still doing one hell of a job. Yeah, you know what? I'mma just leave that be. She'll get back to normal eventually. I hope.
I shook my head to stop myself from imagining the opposite case and once again returned to reflecting on the day. Today was, like the day we had the picnic, another outing for everyone to kick back and relax. And of course, the cause of it all was the discovery that the river contained fish.
I myself had not been responsible for placing the fish where they were. I hadn't known that they were there at all. In fact, I was surprised to see that the river I'd used DP to create was filled with life. All sorts of fish were swimming around in it like it was nobody's business. The only conclusion I could come to was that the fish just happened to come with the river, and that was just how it was. Thinking along those lines, that probably means that there's stuff living in the mountains I decided to place as a backdrop and whatnot too. But oh well whatever. They're way too far out for me to really give a shit. And the fish are way more important right now.
The fact that fish existed and were in a safe, accessible area meant that I straight up had no choice but to start fishing. And that was why I'd arranged this little get together. A fishing trip, per se. But despite it being the purpose of the outing, Lefi, Lyuu, and I were the only ones that were actually fishing.
"…Woah! I think I just got one!" Lyuu shouted wide-eyed as she reeled her catch.
"Nrgghhh…" Again, Lefi groaned. "I see that you too have done as Yuki has, Lyuu."
"Mhm! I guess that leaves you in last place, huh?" replied the warwolf.
"I shall see to it that the two of you face retribution for your conceit," growled Lefi.
The supreme dragon's discontent stemmed from the fact that us three fishermen were engaged in a high stakes game with tonight's dinner on the line. Literally. We were planning to have fish tonight, and whoever caught the least would be stuck with the shoddiest meal, or maybe even no meal at all depending on the catch. Of course, while numbers were the primary method of determining the winners and losers, one could redeem themselves and perhaps even claim victory through quality as well. The requirement for such a victory was to catch something large enough to function as tonight's main dish.
As I was lost in thought, Illuna, who'd been playing around, pitter-pattered over and gave Lefi's back a big hug.
"Hey Lefi! Have you caught anything really big yet?" she asked.
"I-I have not," stuttered the dragon girl. "But it shan't be long. I assure you that I will soon procure a catch of an impressive size."
"Wow! I'm really excited to see what you'll fish up, so do your best!" Illuna left as quickly as she came, and returned to playing with everyone else after voicing a few words of encouragement.
I began to grin. I really couldn't help it given what I'd just seen.
"And why precisely have you that look on your face?" Lefi scowled.
"Naw, it's nothing. I was just thinking that you two sure are close."
"Fmph." Lefi snorted as her cheeks turned red and her lips curled upwards in an expression of discontent. "I've little reason to consider Illuna anything less than a sister. It is only fair that I regard her with kindness."
"I see, I see. A sister, huh?"
"What is it that you are trying to say?"
"Nah, don't sweat it. It's nothing."
I'm just happy you think of her that way. That's all.
"…Regardless, the expression you bear is one that stirs my rage. I shall see to it that you change it, even if I must do it mys—" Lefi was cut off mid-sentence as she suddenly felt something pull at her rod. "—A catch! It is time for me to lessen the gap between our scores!"
"That rod's mad bending. You hook the riverbed again or something?"
"Say what you will, for soon, you shall weep! The creature I have caught is undoubtedly one of impressive size!"
Lefi enthusiastically roared as she pulled on her rod. And as she did, her prey surfaced. Wait. The fuck is that thing!?
The bizarre creature had a body that resembled a tree trunk, a beard made of writhing tentacles, and a mouth lined with dozens of tiny fangs. I had absolutely no idea what it was, but it creeped me out either way.
"Hey uh… Lefi… You mind doing me a favour and fishing up something that's a little less… bizarre? Like, seriously. I can't even tell if that thing's supposed to be a fish or something else altogether."
"T-That is completely irrelevant. All that matters is that I too have now landed a catch!"
"I mean, yeah sure. But if you're going to count that, then you better make sure you eat it when dinner comes around, alright?"
"…I shall leave that duty to Rir."
Please don't feed my pet weird shit. Kthxbye.
"Ahem!" Lefi cleared her throat. "As I was saying, I believe that this brings Lyuu and I to one catch apiece. While you are still yet ahead of us, the end is yet to be in sight. This contest of ours is not yet over!"
The dragon smirked before turning to the beastkin beside her.
"Listen well, Lyuu. We must burn away the very essence that composes us and steal away all that there is to capture. For tonight, we leave Yuki with only the smallest morsel!"
"Huh? Uh… sure! Master's been kinda mean lately, so this is just the right thing I gotta do to teach 'im a lesson!"
"Hah!" I scoffed. "All I hear from you guys are the cries of the incapable. I'll show you noobs just how overwhelming a real fisherman can be!"
And so, with our spirits lit aflame, the three of us continued to fish.
Editor's note (Joker): Hey, guys! Joker here. Been a while, hasn't it? A lot of stuff has happened since the last chapter. I had my debut in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and created a new tier list in the process. Boss Young'un is applying to a bunch of companies, so wish him luck with that. Sebas finally banged Tuareninya (it's about time if I do say so myself) [Note, this is from Overlord], and Speedphoenix went through about 3 reincarnations. Stubborn ol' flamin' bird just won't stay dead. Uh, I mean… I cherish our friendship. Hehe… heh…. And as for our favorite dungeon crew, seems like Yuki raised a flag with his "Oh, stuff might live in the mountains too, but they're too far away to worry about." Ol' boy's gonna wake up to a Yeti in his face. Naturally, with Lefi there, ain't much gonna be done by it, but it'd still be a real colon cleanser, wouldn't it? All right, I see we got four letters in Joker's Big Sack O' Letters (trademark pending), so big thanks to kx, dicky satria, Zehd Cashew, and zekkendo for your wonderful questions. All right, I gotta head out now. Ganondorf's getting real uppity, so Arsene and I need to knock him down a peg or two on the tier list. See y'all in the next chapter!
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Writing NSW > On Writing > Writers On Writing > Aleesah Darlison shortlists her favourite children's books…EVER!
Writers On Writing / Aleesah Darlison shortlists her favourite children's books…EVER!
We asked award-winning author Aleesah Darlison one tough question… and she rose to the challenge with a stellar list of children's books.
This was a difficult list to compile when I've fallen in love with so many characters and storylines during my reading life. It's literally agony for me to exclude books, but common sense and a strict word count prevail! So, here goes …
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – staple reading for every child of my era. Thankfully!
A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair – what is it with the list-of-three titles? Either way, this one has stayed with me because of the twist ending. It was a true 'gotcha!' moment.
Lord of the Flies – gritty, realistic, and a gripping fictional 'social experiment'.
The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne spoke for so many Jewish children who lost their voice and their lives so tragically.
Flowers in the Attic – edging into the YA/Adult sphere, but I was totally obsessed with these books when I was sixteen. Probably my generation's version of the 'forbidden love story' ala the Twilight Saga but without the vampires and werewolves. I was Team Jacob, by the way.
Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox – encourages the page turn right to the end. One of those stories that appears simplistic … yet requires meticulous care to pull off.
The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey – super funny!
The Once Series by Morris Gleitzman – heart-breaking yet triumphant. Felix and Zelda stay with the reader long after their story has ended.
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson – seriously, who doesn't wish they could rhyme and maintain rhythm and build in a brilliant, quirky narrative?
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen – funniest bear picture book you'll ever read. Guaranteed.
So, there you have it, my shortlist of favourite children's books. Apologies to all the books I couldn't squeeze onto the list. PS: I still love you.
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Clegg Is Still Winning
Uber-Tory Charles Moore in the Telegraph:
Hard-headed people in the two main parties send me grim dispatches. "I fear we've blown it," says a Tory candidate. For Labour, it is worse. "This is absolute death," says one of the party's best brains. ...
Voters care little about the Liberal record. They have come to detest anyone who can plausibly be identified with power – bankers, bureaucrats, Labour and, despite 13 years without it, the Tories. The Liberals do not have this taint. In the political wilderness of debt, Vince Cable could be made to look like John the Baptist, paving the way for Mr Clegg. Clegg, I can exclusively reveal, is not the Messiah, but voters are not much impressed when told this by the Pharisees and Sadducees.


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Q: Inner join and 2 left joins The inner join works, i can left join the second table, but i cant join the third table.
I dont know why, even if i inner join the first table and then left join the third it doenst work.
If i inner join the table and left join with the second it works like said, but when i put the third table into the query it fails again.
create table xxxx AS select
t1.XXX,
t2.YYY,
t3.ZZZ
from
DB_AA..P1 t1
INNER JOIN DB_TT..TQ t5 on (t5.NR = t1.NR)
LEFT JOIN DB_II..GG t2 ON (t2.LS = t1.LS)
LEFT JOIN DB_AA..PP t3 ON (t3.NR= t1.NR)

Anybody see something i dont see?
I pass the code to a Netezza.


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Q: Stop Angular Material Menu from showing URL link when not hovering on a menu item I want to use  as menu items so that I get the display of the URL link at the bottom left corner in the browser when the mouse pointer is hovering above the menu item (if this behaviour is browser dependent then at least Chrome does this).
However, it seems once the menu is shown, the URL link of the first menu item is already showing at the bottom left corner, even when not mouse hovering it.
Here is an example https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-3pbvns
How do you stop the URL links from showing unless you mouse hovering on the menu items?

A: You can work around this by changing focus to menu trigger whenever menu opens
component.html
<button mat-button [matMenuTriggerFor]="menu"
(menuOpened)="menuTrigger.focus()" #menuTrigger="matMenuTrigger">Menu</button>
<mat-menu #menu="matMenu">
  Item 1
  Item 2
</mat-menu>

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'And forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors.' For we have many sins. For we offend both in word and in thought, and very many things we do worthy of condemnation; and 'if we say that we have no sin' (I Jn. 1:8), we lie, as John says...The offenses committed against us are slight and trivial, and easily settled; but those which we have committed against God are great, and need such mercy as His only is. Take heed, therefore, lest for the slight and trivial sins against you, you shut out for yourself forgiveness from God for your very grievous sins.
Not only is it wonderful that He forgives us our sins, but also that He neither uncovers them nor does He make them stand forth clearly revealed. Nor does He force us to come forward and publicly proclaim our misdeeds, but He bids us to make our defense to Him alone and to confess our shins to Him. And yet, if any judge of a worldly tribunal were to tell some captured highwayman or grave robber to confess his crime and be excused from paying the penalty, this prisoner would with all alacrity admit the truth and scorn the disgrace in his desire to go free. But this is not the case in baptism. God forgives our sins and does not force us to make a parade of them in the presence of others. He seeks one thing only: that he who benefits by the forgiveness make learn the greatness of the gift.
Sometimes we do not see any outlet, any escape from our sins, and they torment us: on account of them, the heart is oppressed with sorrow and weary. But Jesus looks upon us, and streams of tears flow from our eyes, and with the tears all the tissue of evil in our soul vanishes. We weep with joy that such mercy has suddenly and unexpectedly been sent to us.


Purpose: To study the biofilm formation and to examine the correlation between antibiotic resistance and biofilm formation among the clinical isolates of Acinetobacter.
Materials and Methods: A total of 43 isolates of Acinetobacter collected from samples like peripheral venous catheter tips, urine from Foley's catheter, central venous catheter tips and endotracheal tube aspirates were preserved and processed. The tube method was performed to qualitatively detect Biofilm production. Antimicrobial susceptibility was done as per CLSI guidelines.
Place of Study and Study Period: Yenepoya medical college, Mangaluru and June 2015 to December 2015.
Results: Out of 43 isolates of Acinetobacter, 26(60%) showed biofilm production, among which 19 isolates (73%) were Multidrug resistant (MDR) and only 7 isolates (27%) were Non-MDR. Highest sensitivity was seen to colistin (100%) followed by imipenem (73.7%) and least sensitivity to ampicillin (0%) followed by ciprofloxacin (3.8%).
Conclusion: Antibiotic resistance was found to be significantly higher among biofilm producing Acinetobacter isolates than nonbiofilm isolates. Routine and advanced studies of the biofilm production will help in making better usage of the invasive devices with less critical complications.
Keywords: Biofilms, Acinetobacter, Multidrug resistance.


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Шарифулла Сагдуллович Сагдуллин (; 1930—2001) — советский работник сельского хозяйства, тракторист, Герой Социалистического Труда.

Биография
Родился 29 июля 1932 года в деревне Угез-Елга (по другим данным — Шушмабаш) Арского района Татарской АССР. Трудиться начал уже в годы Великой Отечественной войны, став кормильцем в семье после гибели отца под Смоленском. Работал в поле колхоза «Шушмабаш», вспахивая и бороня землю на лошади.

После службы в Советской армии вернулся на родину и уже продолжил работу на тракторе. Был первоцелинником — поднимал залежные земли в Кокчетавской области Казахской ССР. В Татарскую АССР вернулся уже опытным механизатором, с 1956 года работал на полях родного совхоза «Северный». С 1967 года Сагдуллин трудился в совхозе «Ватан» Арского района. Занимался общественной деятельностью — был депутатом Верховного Совета Татарской АССР в 1980—1985 годах.

Даже выйдя на заслуженный отдых, Шарифулла Сагдуллович продолжал работу на тракторе. Умер в 2001 году.

Ш. С. Сагдуллин был автором книги «Верность родной земле : [Рассказ механизатора, Героя Соц. Труда совхоза "Северный" Арского района Татарской АССР]» / Лит. запись Г. Ризванова.

Награды
 Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР в марте 1976 года Шарифулле Сагдулловичу Сагдуллину было присвоено звание Героя Социалистического Труда с вручением ордена Ленина и золотой медали «Серп и Молот» (за проявленную трудовую доблесть в выполнении заданий IX пятилетки (1971—1975 годы) по увеличению производства и продажи государству продуктов земледелия).
 Также был награждён вторым орденом Ленина (1971) и медалями, среди которых «За доблестный труд в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.»

См. также
 Герои Социалистического Труда Татарстана

Примечания

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Wim (Willem Petrus) Bosman ('s-Heerenberg, 29 oktober 1941 - Brasschaat, 10 november 2017) was een Nederlandse transportondernemer en eigenaar van de Wim Bosman Groep.

Wim Bosman werd geboren te 's-Heerenberg als zoon van Antoon Bosman en Annie van Hal. Zijn ouders hadden een transportbedrijf in 's-Heerenberg. Omdat zij op een gegeven moment 'meer kinderen dan vrachtwagens' hadden kocht Bosman in 1963 zelf een vrachtwagen en startte zijn eigen bedrijf dat in eerste instantie gevestigd was in Netterden.

Toenemende groei en ruimtegebrek waren in 1979 aanleiding om te verhuizen naar een nieuwe locatie aan de Industriestraat te 's-Heerenberg.

In een periode van bijna vijftig jaar bouwde Bosman zijn bedrijf uit tot een internationaal logistiek bedrijf met diverse werkmaatschappijen, verenigd in de Wim Bosman Groep. Naast vervoer over de weg voorzag Bosman in de jaren 80 al dat hij ook moest zorgen voor aanbod van transport via de luchtvaart en scheepvaart. Hiertoe richtte hij de werkmaatschappij Wim Bosman Air & Ocean op.

Gebrek aan opvolging binnen de familie zorgde ervoor dat Bosman op zoek ging naar een geschikte koper van zijn bedrijf. Op 7 maart 2011 werd bekend dat het bedrijf overgenomen werd door het Nieuw-Zeelandse Mainfreight voor een bedrag van 110 miljoen euro. Het bedrijf had op dat moment ca. 1600 werknemers in dienst, verdeeld over diverse Europese landen. In 2013 ontstond een conflict tussen Mainfreight en Bosman, omdat hij tijdens de onderhandelingen verzwegen zou hebben dat zijn bedrijf drie grote klanten ging verliezen. Hierop eiste Mainfreight een schadevergoeding van Bosman. Uiteindelijk heeft Bosman een schadevergoeding van 8,3 miljoen euro aan Mainfreight betaald.

Wim Bosman overleed op 10 november 2017 in Brasschaat (België).

Externe links
 Reportage Omroep Gelderland over Wim Bosman
 Documentaire van Wim Maatman over Wim Bosman

Nederlands ondernemer