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First Bank secures $150m Afreximbank facility to support businesses
African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank), a Pan-African multilateral financial institution, has disbursed the sum of US$150 million finance facility to First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria's premier and leading financial inclusion services provider.
The funding was provided under Afreximbank's Pandemic Trade Impact Mitigation Facility (PATIMFA).
Afreximbank's US$150 million financial support will be accessible to FirstBank customers that are involved in the manufacturing and importation of products and equipment required to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as initiatives to rehabilitate hospitals and strengthen diagnostic and testing capacity.
The loan will also be used for the financing of trade debt payments falling due to avert payment defaults in trade debt obligations. In addition, proceeds of the facility will help beneficiary businesses manage the impacts of the Ukraine crisis.
Benedict Oramah, president and chairman of the board of directors of Afreximbank, commented: "This new disbursement under PATIMFA is a further proof of the relevance of the programme in helping African economies to recover from the crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since April 2020, when PATIMFA was launched, we are more than proud to have disbursed more than US$7 billion to help Afreximbank member countries manage the adverse impact of the financial, economic and health shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Through First Bank, one of our trade finance intermediaries, this $150 million facility will help build the resilience of many businesses to the adverse impacts of the pandemic, while helping them to overcome the consequences of the current Ukraine crisis."
Also expressing his delight in the partnership, Adesola Adeduntan, FirstBank's CEO, said: "We commend Afreximbank for this impactful financial response. It will immensely contribute to empowering many businesses adversely impacted by the economic shocks caused by Covid-19. The selection of FirstBank as a partner in this initiative is a testament to their confidence in our capacity and proven track record over the years.
As a Bank that has been woven into the fabric of our society for over 128 years, we remain committed to the success of businesses in our host communities and ensuring they are given the needed boost to sustain their operations and further drive economic growth in the nation.", he concluded.
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Hunt, the former Kansas City running back, was placed on the commissioner's exempt list Friday after TMZ released a video showing him pushing and kicking a woman during a February scuffle at a Cleveland hotel. The video's jolt across the sports world accelerated a case that had been, in effect, put on the backburner for both the club and the league, with Hunt losing his job the same day — a steep fall for an elite playmaker for one of the most explosive offenses in football.
The Chiefs said Hunt had lied to them about the scuffle, an assertion Hunt acknowledged in an interview with ESPN on Sunday. But authorities never charged Hunt with a crime and the league's internal investigation — under guidance implemented after the lengthy legal saga involving the former Ravens running back Rice — stalled when NFL officials couldn't get in touch with the woman.
Hunt cleared waivers on Monday and could sign with another team. He can't play while he's on the exempt list, but it's up to Goodell and league officials to decide when to take him off when — or if — they see fit.


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Earlier today, a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, returned guilty verdicts against Pedro Espada, Jr. ("Espada"), on four counts of stealing from non-profit medical clinics that received federal funding. The jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict as to the remaining counts against Espada. Espada is a former New York State Senator for the Bronx and served as the New York State Senate Majority Leader from 2009 to 2010. When sentenced, Espada faces up to 10 years' imprisonment on each count of conviction. The jury deadlocked as to all counts in the indictment against Espada's son, Pedro Gautier Espada ("Gautier Espada"), who previously served in the New York State Assembly and the New York City Council.
The guilty verdicts were announced by Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office, and Victor Lessoff, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, New York.
Espada was, until recently, the CEO and President of Soundview Healthcare Center ("Soundview"), a network of health care clinics that served the underprivileged in the Bronx. Gautier Espada was Soundview's Director of Environmental Care. Espada founded Soundview in 1978 as a charitable not-for-profit organization under the Internal Revenue Code. Soundview received more than $1 million per year in federal grant money from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and millions more annually in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, and New York State funding.
● Espada used the charity's credit card to pay for over $100,000 in personal expenses, including more than $10,000 in home renovations, $60,000 in weekend restaurant bills, spa treatments for his wife and other family members, and a four- day trip to Puerto Rico that tallied $20,000.
● Espada caused Soundview to pay for his wife's $60,000 SUV, a GMC Yukon, and to make a $20,000 down-payment on a Mercedes Benz automobile for himself.
● Espada submitted fraudulent receipts for reimbursement, totaling thousands of dollars, as legitimate business expenses, including weekend meals that he falsely claimed were work meetings, expenses that Soundview had charged on its credit card and already had paid, and invoices for work that a Soundview employee had performed at no additional charge.
● As the leaseholder at various properties, Soundview subleased conference rooms and other facilities to medical professionals, Weight Watchers and other subtenants. Espada caused these subtenants to make rent and other payments to his privately owned janitorial companies, rather than to Soundview. Between 2005 and 2009, the subtenant rent payments Espada caused to be diverted from Soundview exceeded $200,000.
Through the various schemes, Espada stole more than $500,000 from Soundview.
"Pedro Espada, Jr. embezzled funds to finance his personal lifestyle and lavish gifts on friends and family members at the expense of taxpayers and underprivileged members of the Bronx community who were deprived of needed health services and medical equipment. The people of the Bronx trusted Pedro Espada to have their best interests at heart. Instead, he abused that trust to the tune of more than half a million dollars. Under obligation to use the funds he received for the benefit of people sorely in need of quality health care, he chose instead to benefit himself and his family at their expense," stated United States Attorney Lynch. "The defendant will now be held to account for his crimes." Ms. Lynch expressed her grateful appreciation to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service, the agencies responsible for leading the government's investigation, and thanked the office of New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman for its assistance.
The government's case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Carolyn Pokorny, Roger Burlingame and Todd Kaminsky.


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#define OXS_TRANSFORMS_FACTORY_H

/**
  * @file oxs_transforms_factory.h
  * @brief Produces transforms for OMXMLSecurity
  */

#include <axis2_defines.h>
#include <oxs_ctx.h>
#include <axutil_env.h>
#include <axiom_node.h>
#include <axiom_element.h>
#include <axutil_qname.h>
#include <oxs_transform.h>

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
#endif

    AXIS2_EXTERN oxs_transform_t *AXIS2_CALL
    oxs_transforms_factory_produce_transform(const axutil_env_t *env,
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    /** @} */
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif                          /* OXS_TRANSFORMS_FACTORY_H */

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Q: Opencv Image Registration - MapperGradEuclid I'm trying to find the translation & rotation of an image with the reference template image.
The template image is one of the following pictures.

Since the resolution is quite small (320*240) we would like to solve the alignment problem with the image registration class of opencv (Image Registration). We don't want to use feature based alignment.
So far I did the following function to align the reference mImageTemplate image and the image to find the rotation and translations image - input:
cv::Mat pixelMapRegistration::align(cv::Mat input)
{
    cv::Mat transformed;
    cv::Ptr<cv::reg::Map> rot_shift_res;
    cv::reg::MapperGradEuclid rot_shift = cv::reg::MapperGradEuclid();
    rot_shift_res = rot_shift.calculate(mImageTemplate, input);
    cv::reg::Map* res = rot_shift_res.get();
    rot_shift_res->inverseWarp(input, transformed);
    return transformed;
}

Unfortunately it does not work so far. Does someone see the problem?

A: In your images, you have a static gradient background and a moving foreground.  You need to get rid of the background detail as it will impact the MapperGrad.  You could try taking an empty picture and use the absolute difference, or you could try doing a morphological TopHat or BackroundSegmentation to filter out the background.  But I suspect you will need to start with cleaner images where the background has no detail.  It would certainly be easiest.
If the movements are small, you use MapperGrad directly, but if the movements are big like in your image set, then you need to feed MapperGrad into a MapperPyramid.
I think the real answer is that you will want to use something like shape or template matching instead.  Image Registration is not really meant to be a feature/pattern match tool as it considers the whole image.  It's really for when you're trying to mitigate vibrations between captures without using fiducials, video stabilization, etc.

A: The solution was not only one, but several different aligning methods.
Those image registration techniques only work if the target is already close to the template position. Therefore I was not using it anymore.
To achieve mentioned aligning problem the pipeline of several methods did the job :

*

*PCA (basic shift and rotation)

*ICP (Iterative Closest Point - for refinement)

or

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*Ellipse Fitting (basic shift and rotation)

*ECC (cv::findTransformECC function - for refinement)

At the end you still face the problem that none of mentioned rough alignment methods are able to rotate the part properly if the part is rotated more than +/- 90° from the template. Therefore use the Enhanced Correlation Coefficient (ECC) to check if your alignment was successful, if not - rotate it around 180°.

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Q: Upside down question marks when printing characters from a 2d array I have a 2d array that is a prototype "map" for a game I am making. It takes in the length of the map and width of the map, and then the type of character to make the map (either a - _ or .) and prints the character X by Y times.
For some reason whenever my grid X and Y do not equal each other and are of a value of about 20 or higher, I get upside down question marks instead of the character symbol I am specifying.
Why is this so?
#include <stdio.h>

int main(){

int Y=25;
int X=15;
char map[Y][X];

int i,j=0;

for (i=0;i<Y;i++)
    for(j=0;j<X;j++)
        map[Y][X]='-'//any character;

for (i=0;i<Y;i++){
    for(j=0;j<X;j++){
        printf("%c",map[Y][X]);}
    printf("\n");}

return 0;

}

A: No, subtracting one from X and Y isn't the point.  You are increment i and j. Use them.  Consider making X & Y const.
int Y = 25;
int X = 15;
char map[Y][X];

int i, j = 0;

for (i = 0;i < Y;i++)
    for (j = 0;j < X;j++)
        map[i][j] = '-';  //any character

for (i = 0;i < Y;i++)
{
    for (j = 0;j < X;j++)
    {
        printf("%c", map[i][j]);
    }

    printf("\n");
}

return (0);


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However, current RFID tagging procedure still relies on slap-and-ship of RFID labels on product packages, which is time-consuming, prone to damage and not cost effective. More importantly, because the performance of RFID antennas is greatly dependent on the packaging and content materials as well as the form-factors of the package itself, general-purpose RFID tags will not yield the best performance in most applications.
In this project, we propose to design product specific RFID tags that are tuned and optimized for the packaging materials and different form factors, and explore the enabling technologies that will embed RFID tags inside product packages. The project will focus on case level packaging on paper and plastic packaging materials. This project will greatly facilitate the deployment of RFID technology in the packaging industry as well as other RFID applications in Hong Kong and PRD region.


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Afghans Threaten A Hunger Strike
Simon Kearney
From: The Australian
December 28, 2009 12:00AM
EIGHTY Afghan asylum-seekers in an Indonesian detention centre that also holds 63 Sri Lankans whose claims are being fast-tracked are threatening to stage a hunger strike.
The Afghans' frustration comes amid signs Indonesia will refuse to help process asylum-seekers targeting Australia.
Indonesia's patience with the so-called "Indonesian Solution" to process Australia's asylum-seekers in the island archipelago appears to be running out.
The Indonesian Foreign Ministry's director of diplomatic security, Sujatmiko, who led negotiations with Australia to process the Sri Lankans quickly on Bintan, has told the state news agency Antara that it was a once-only deal.
"This will be the last time we are helping Australia deal with its foreign refugee influx problem," Sujatmiko said.
It is bad news for the Afghan group, which has been detained for nine months after being captured before they could reach Australia. Their 16-year-old spokesman Maisum Hussein told The Australian they had been kept in the dark about the special deal done for their fellow detainees at the Australian-funded centre on the Indonesian resort island near Singapore. He said they were considering a hunger strike now as the only option to highlight their plight.
"We are ready to die, but Australia is our destiny," he said.
The young man said he found it difficult to understand how their claim could be any less valid. "In Afghanistan, we are under (the) barbarity of Taliban," Maisum said.
"All my family members are killed in Afghanistan.
"They (the Sri Lankans) are also in same camp with us. They are also in Indonesia as we are. Why the UNHCR or Australia can't free us?
"We are like slave behind the cell (locked up). What is our guilt, that we abandon Afghanistan?"
The Afghans have been kept, 20 to a cell, in the facility in Bintan's capital Tanjung Pinang, for nine months. They have complained of beatings by guards, the theft of their money, no air-conditioning in the steamy climate and not being allowed to exercise.
Maisum said some of his fellow detainees needed medical attention and psychological counselling.
An Ottawa-based Afghan doctor, Farouq Samim, said he believed as many as 80 per cent of the population in his war-torn country had some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
A spokesman for Immigration Minister Chris Evans said yesterday negotiations were continuing over the ultimate destination of the remaining 63 of the original 78 Tamil asylum-seekers from the Oceanic Viking.
"The minister is not going to be providing an ongoing commentary on negotiations," he said.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has so far referred 13 to Canada and two to Australia, having found them to be bona fide refugees with family connections in the countries.
The Australian government has given a commitment to the Indonesian government that the refugees would all be resettled by tomorrow.
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The 2019 Stanley Cup Eastern Conference First Round series between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Columbus Blue Jackets was a playoff series in the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2018–19 season. The series began on April 10, 2019 and ended on April 16.

The 2018–19 NHL season saw the Tampa Bay Lightning tie the 1995–96 Detroit Red Wings for the most regular season wins in NHL history. The Columbus Blue Jackets came into the series as the eighth seed, finishing with 98 points and qualifying for the playoffs in their second to last game. Tampa Bay won the Presidents' Trophy with 128 points and had beaten Columbus in all three regular season meetings by a combined score of 17 to 3. The Lightning were seen by analysts as the overwhelming favorites to win the series. However, the series ended in a shocking elimination for the Lightning; they blew a 3–0 lead at the end of the first period and lost Game 1, 4–3. The Blue Jackets subsequently won Game 2, 5–1 and, in Columbus, Ohio, won games 3 and 4, 3–1 and 7–3 respectively. The series concluded with Columbus sweeping the Lightning in four games, with a +11 goal differential, while never trailing in the final three games.

The series marked several NHL records. Tampa's elimination was the first time a Presidents' Trophy winner was swept by an eighth seed. It also marked the first time that a Presidents' Trophy winner was eliminated in the first round since 2012, and the fifth time in NHL history that a team with the best regular season record got swept in the First Round (and the first time since the Expansion Era). The Blue Jackets' victory marked their first ever playoff series win in franchise history.

Many commentators consider this series to be one of the greatest upsets in NHL history, considering that the Blue Jackets trailed the Lightning by 30 points exactly during the regular season. Jeremy Roenick of NBC Sports described Tampa's elimination as "one of the biggest letdowns in history", while the Tampa Bay Times described it as "the disappointment that all others are measured against".

The two teams would once again play each other the next year in the first round of the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs, where the Lightning would avenge the previous year's loss winning that series 4–1 and would eventually go on to win the Stanley Cup. Tampa Bay would go on to win back-to-back Stanley Cups in the 2020 and 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs, and the Lightning would make it back to the Stanley Cup Finals in the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs.

Background

Columbus Blue Jackets

The Blue Jackets entered the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs as a wild card qualifier, qualifying in back-to-back years for the first time in franchise history. They faced the Washington Capitals in the first round, winning the first two games in overtime and their first series lead. However, they lost the next four games and the series in six games.

Two-time Vezina Trophy winner Sergei Bobrovsky and the team's leading scorer, Artemi Panarin were in the final year of their contracts before becoming unrestricted free agents. Blue Jackets GM Jarmo Kekalainen was an active participant near the trade deadline window of the 2018–19 season, acquiring several players with expiring contracts. On February 22, the Blue Jackets acquired Matt Duchene in a trade with the Ottawa Senators. A day later, the Blue Jackets traded again with the Senators, this time acquiring Ryan Dzingel in exchange for Anthony Duclair. On February 25, the Blue Jackets acquired Keith Kinkaid from the New Jersey Devils in exchange for a fifth round pick in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft, and later acquired Adam McQuaid from the New York Rangers in exchange for Julius Bergman and fourth and seventh round picks in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.

Despite these acquisitions, the Blue Jackets initially struggled into March as they faced fierce competition from the Montreal Canadiens and the Carolina Hurricanes for the last two Wild Card spots. They won seven of their last eight games and on April 5, 2019, the Blue Jackets clinched the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with a 3–2 shootout win over the New York Rangers.

Tampa Bay Lightning

In the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, the Lightning eliminated the New Jersey Devils in the first round and the Boston Bruins in the second round, both in five games. However, they were defeated in the Eastern Conference Finals by the eventual Stanley Cup champions, the Washington Capitals, in seven games.

Prior to the start of the 2018–19 season, it was announced that Steve Yzerman was resigning from his position as GM, and Julien BriseBois took his place. The Lightning clinched their first Presidents' Trophy and second consecutive division title and secured home-ice advantage throughout the playoffs.

The Lightning finished the regular season with 62 wins, tied with the 1995–96 Detroit Red Wings for most wins in a single season in NHL history. They recorded 128 points in the regular season, with a points percentage of .780, the second-highest rate for an 82-game season, behind only the 1995–96 Detroit Red Wings (.799). They were also the highest-scoring team on average (3.89) since the 1995–96 Red Wings and, of their 62 wins, 30 were by a margin of three or more goals, which was tied for the most since 1992–93.

Pivotal to the Lightning's success was their offense led by Steven Stamkos, Brayden Point, and Nikita Kucherov. On March 9, 2019, Kucherov set the Lightning single season record for points in a season with his 109th point of year. Kucherov went on to record his 40th goal of the season on April 5, 2019 and his 126th point, setting the record for most points in an NHL season during the salary cap era, a record formerly held by Joe Thornton. Kucherov ended the season with 128 points (41 goals and 87 assists), surpassing Alexander Mogilny for most points in the NHL by a Russian-born player and winning the Art Ross Trophy. Stamkos and Point also exceeded 40 goals and 90 overall points each by the seasons end.

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Team rosters

Columbus Blue Jackets
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Prior to Game 4 between the Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs, Maple Leafs' forward Zach Hyman expressed shock over the Lightning's exit from the playoffs. "I don't think Columbus is really an eighth seed. They loaded up at the (trade) deadline. They've got some great players. But Tampa set a bunch of records, so it's pretty surprising." Hyman's teammate Travis Dermott acknowledged a difference between the regular season and postseason, but continues to state: "It's kind of crazy to think such a good team in the regular season can go out in four like that. You never really would have thunk it." Bruins head coach Bruce Cassidy acknowledged that every team had a chance, but also admitted that he did not guess the Lightning to fail to win a single game in the series.

Media

The Tampa Bay Times' sports section greeted the Game 3 result with a headline reading "Torturella". When the Blue Jackets' sweep was confirmed, Tampa Bay Times' frontpage headlines read "Fizzled Sticks" and "Floored". The paper savaged the Lightning for their poor play, suggesting their defeat "was the final chapter in a whole new story of despair. In a way, it was as if an entire community was duped. For six months, the Lightning had you believing you were seeing something historic. And in the end, it was all choke and mirrors."

Meanwhile, Columbus paper The Columbus Dispatch heralded the results, with its frontpage headline reading "A Sweep to Savor". Game 4 of the series delivered a household rating of 9.83 for Fox Sports Ohio, the highest-ever ratings for a Blue Jackets telecast. On average, the series delivered an average of 6.48 HH in the Columbus metropolitan area.

The New York Times described the series' result as a playoff meltdown for the Lightning, suggesting that the Lightning could be amongst the biggest playoff underachievers in sports history. USA Today described the Lightning's exit as one of the worst playoff flops in NHL history, while Deadspin stated "[the Lightning] failed to show up in their first-round series against the tremendously underestimated Columbus Blue Jackets, and they paid the price." In an interview on NPR, Greg Wyshynski of ESPN stated the Lightning had to apologize to their fans. Wyshynski went on to state that the only other team in the history of the four major sports leagues in America that failed to win a playoff game after equivalent levels of regular season success was the 2011 Green Bay Packers. "But in [the Packers'] case, we're talking about one game. [The Lightning] is a team that had four chances to win a game, and they couldn't do it."

In Canada, Rory Boylen of Sportsnet described the series as the biggest upset in the salary cap era of the NHL. He postulated that the result may be a culmination of how the Lightning got eliminated in recent seasons, going as far back as their First Round loss in the 2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Montreal Canadiens. In his words, "time will tell if these Lightning are like the San Jose Sharks – a squad that seemed to have everything in place for years and even got to one Stanley Cup Final, but could never win it all – or if they'll eventually put it together for a successful run as Washington [Capitals] did last season."

Financial
WFTS-TV reported that the city of Tampa could lose up to $50 million in potential revenue as a result of the sweep. Conversely, in Columbus, merchandise sales tripled as a result of the Blue Jackets' surprise series win.

See also
2023 Fairleigh Dickinson vs. Purdue men's basketball game, the second time a 16-seed beat a 1-seed in men's college basketball, held at Nationwide Arena
Miracle on Ice
Miracle on Manchester

References

External links
 Lightning vs Blue Jackets series at NHL.com

Tampa Bay Lightning–Columbus Blue Jackets playoff series
Stanley Cup playoff games
Tampa Bay Lightning games
Columbus Blue Jackets games
Ice hockey competitions in Florida
Ice hockey competitions in Ohio
Tampa Bay Lightning–Columbus Blue Jackets playoff series
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1.1 Beginner level
1.1.1 Lesson 1
1.2 Intermediate level
1.3 Advanced level
1.4 Special level
Lessons[edit | edit source]
The lessons in this wikibook are intended to cover the basic needs of a future Macedonian speaker, and are divided into three levels of difficulty, with six lessons each. In each and every one of the lessons we meet John, the main character, who gets more and more familiar with Macedonian as time passes. Eventually, even though he doesn't get the job in Macedonia, he decides to visit the Balkan country, after having studied so much about it.
Beginner level[edit | edit source]
These six beginner lessons are meant for people who have had limited or no contact with the Macedonian language, and have almost or absolutely no knowledge of the language whatsoever.
Lesson 1[edit | edit source]
John starts learning Macedonian online after finding that he might be stationed there. (click for lesson 1)
John goes to his first class in New Jersey, where he is taught by his new teacher Slavica. (click for lesson 2)
John learns basic phrases in Macedonian with his fellow co-students. (click for lesson 3)
John learns about the grammar features in Macedonians, more specifically noun gender, and adjectives. (click for lesson 4)
John and the group encounter Macedonian verbs. (click for lesson 5)
John is preparing for the big test. (click for lesson 6)
Intermediate level[edit | edit source]
These next six lessons are meant for people who have had some contact with the Macedonian language, and are familiar with a few basic phrases and grammar rules, and want to improve their knowledge.
Advanced level[edit | edit source]
These next six lessons are meant for people who have had contact with the Macedonian language for a longer period, and are familiar with a many basic phrases and a few advanced phrases and grammar rules, and want to improve their knowledge even further.
Special level[edit | edit source]
These four lessons are meant for people who want to learn a few things about how people in the major cities of Macedonia speak, and be able to understand a few slang words used around the country.
John visits the Ohrid Lake and is surprised by the locals, including Klime. (click for lesson 1)
John continues his trip to Bitola where he meets Sarah and Pece, and after being surprised again, they head off to Prilep. (click for lesson 2)
John and Sarah visit Prilep, and are relieved when they find out that things aren't so different from Bitola, and that they didn't go through all those lessons in standard Macedonian for nothing. (click for lesson 3)
After an emergency back home, John needs to go back home, and even though there was an airport in Ohrid, they went all the way back to Skopje where the country's largest airport is situated, and John flew back to New York, via Vienna. (click for lesson 4)
Learning Macedonian
Introduction • The Alphabet • Common phrases
Lesson 1 • Lesson 2 • Lesson 3 • Lesson 4 • Lesson 5 • Lesson 6
Special level
Lesson 1 • Lesson 2 • Lesson 3 • Lesson 4
Adjectives • Adverbs • Prepositions • Nouns • Verbs
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RALEIGH, N.C. - Plaintiffs who won an emergency motion in June have notified the Wake County Superior Court that the state of North Carolina is not meeting its obligations under the Court's orders to protect the close to 32,000 people who are incarcerated during the pandemic. Among the issues raised in the filing, plaintiffs and their attorneys assert that despite the court's orders to do so:
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'None of you have the intellectual level': Kyrgios hits out again at Djokovic, Thiem
July 8, 2020 — 10.42am
Nick Kyrgios has once again taken aim at fellow tennis superstars Novak Djokovic, Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev, questioning whether they have the "intellectual level" to understand the problems he has with their behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thiem called Kyrgios out overnight, questioning why he felt the need to "interfere" when Zverev was caught partying despite placing a self-imposed, self-isolation period on himself after the ill-fated, Djokovic-led Adria Tour.
"Kyrgios did a lot of mistakes himself. It would be better for him to come clean instead of criticising others," Thiem said.
Thiem also said it was "bad luck" that Zverev was filmed partying after having promised to go into self-isolation.
Kyrgios clearly wasn't copping the criticism this morning.
He launched an explosive pair of tweets which started with his aim squarely on world No. 3 Thiem.
"What are you talking about @ThiemDomi? Mistakes like smashing rackets (sic)? Swearing? Tanking a few matches here or there? Which everyone does?" Kyrgios asked. "None of you have the intellectual level to even understand where I'm coming from. I'm trying to hold them accountable."
Six minutes later, Kyrgios turned his attention to Djokovic and Zverev.
"This just shows what a joke @ThiemDomi, @AlexZverev & @DjokerNole think this is," he said.
"Two of them partying like potato's (sic) during a global pandemic. People losing lives, loved ones and friends, and then Thiem standing up for the 'mistake'.
"These guys are the 'top' of our sport. SMH [shaking my head]."
Kyrgios has been a vocal critic of Djokovic, Zverev and all other players that took part in the Serbian's infamous Adria Tour.
Djokovic, Grigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric and Victor Troicki all tested positive to the deadly COVID-19 virus in the week after the event, which was held in Serbia and saw thousands of fans watch some of tennis' biggest stars compete.
Kyrgios has also repeatedly slammed the ATP and the USTA, who are pushing on with plans to host the US Open at Flushing Meadows at the end of August.
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Local reflections on Barack Obama's re-election as US President.
"Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward." Amid the massive challenges facing Barack Obama, the President returned to soaring rhetoric as he addressed supporters in Chicago.
Over in Boston, Mitt Romney conceded defeat graciously and called on Democrat and Republican leaders "to reach across the aisle to do the people's work" and on citizens to "rise to the occasion" as well. Winning 206 electoral votes was an improvement for the Republicans on John McCain's 173 in 2008, with gains in North Carolina and Indiana. Obama, though, secured victory by holding all the swing states and appealing to a wider coalition of support.
agendaNi talked to US Consul-General Greg Burton about his impressions of the campaign.
"My sense was that people were following it very closely," he said of the local interest in the election. "I cannot think of a conversation that I had in the two months leading up to the election that didn't touch on the election. In a very anecdotal and personal way, I felt that people were very focused on it."
Every four years, the consulate-general traditionally organises its own presidential debate, involving teams of students from Queen's University and the University of Ulster. The 2012 debate was won by Queen's (for Obama), although University of Ulster's Garreth Quigley put in the best individual performance.
The narrow margin between presidential candidates, in Burton's view, is explained by the two main parties both having strong bases. "At the end of the day," he added, "in an election campaign, the trick is to pull the middle into your camp so that you gain the votes."
Growing up in Pennsylvania in the 1970s, he remembered people being excited by the campaigns and "kids walking around the polling stations to see what was happening" on election day. "There was always a little bit of mystery about the process" with everybody waiting for the final result. Voting, he concluded, is "part of our civic responsibility in America."
Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness jointly welcomed the President's re-election. "The American administration has always been a strong supporter of the peace and political process and we do not underestimate the positive role it has played over recent years," they stated.
A forthright Mark Durkan has called on Obama to be "more active and ethical in using his stature in pursuit of peace, international justice and human rights in the Middle East." David Ford hoped that he would continue to deliver on his liberal policies on foreign affairs, environmental protection, energy and equality.
For his part, Green MLA Steven Agnew had backed the "excellent and strongly-principled" US Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who had polled 414,545 votes.
Jim Nicholson's European Conservatives and Reformists group is allied to the Republican Party. Its leader, Martin Callanan, had supported Mitt Romney but Nicholson felt that, on balance, Obama was the better candidate.
"We may have battled fiercely," Obama reflected in Chicago, "but it's only because we love this country deeply and we care so strongly about its future."
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Pupils and teachers from Lurgan College and St Michael's Grammar School attended the US Consulate-General's post-election breakfast, at Belfast Metropolitan College's Springvale campus.
"From day to day, it changed so you didn't know who was going to actually win," Dylan Murphy remarked. Rebecca Taylor was surprised that Mitt did as well as he did and thought that he would win more states. "It wasn't as close as I thought it would be," Adam Casey said, while Dylan McAtamney "didn't really expect Obama to win as many swing states as he did".
"I didn't think it would be as exciting as it was," Shannon Dowds said, but she thought that the result would have been "closer than it ended up." Renwick Sharp, commented that the campaign was "very expensive."
Rebecca McLoughlin felt that Romney was "open misogynistic" whereas Obama was "more trustworthy on women" e.g. by advocating equal pay. Ciara Mackle, though, found the Republican candidate "very, very graceful in his defeat."


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Since the earliest civilizations, people have recorded their thoughts and experiences through storytelling, art, philosophy and other forms of expression. Studying these works – collectively known as the humanities – helps us understand the past and ultimately ourselves. In today's digital age, scholars are advancing this research with tools like visual mapping and computation to better probe questions of how and why history unfolded the way it did and what makes us human.
At Stanford, this research happens through many interdisciplinary collaborations among the humanities, social sciences and technical fields. Some of that work takes places at the Stanford University Libraries, the Stanford Humanities Center and the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), which is home to the Literary Lab, Spatial History Project, Humanities + Design, Poetic Media Lab and Text Technologies, among others. These stories represent some of the ways Stanford scholars are probing ancient questions through modern digital technologies.
Stanford University Press's digital publishing program gives scholars an extraordinary opportunity to publish and peer review their interactive scholarship. The press was the first academic publishing group to offer scholars a way to publish and peer review academic research that involves digital tools not usually found in online journals.
A new website curated by Stanford faculty and students, the Global Medieval Sourcebook, translates medieval literature into English for the first time.
Researchers digitized thousands of pieces from 19th-century archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani's collection to help scholars across the world study Rome's transformation.
A digital humanities team sifts through two centuries of British novels and geography to see how London's readers felt about different parts of their city.
Using digital tools and literature to explore the evolution of the Spanish language, Stanford researcher Cuauhtémoc García-García reveals a new historical perspective on linguistic changes in Latin America and Spain.
A team at Stanford created an interactive website to shed light on the money the federal government has paid to counties and states in the American West over time in turn for controlling parts of their lands.
In his recent book, Stanford historian Zephyr Frank explores how 19th-century literature tells the social history of Rio de Janeiro, revealing the foundations of today's Olympic city.
The fallout from the world's biggest data-based journalistic investigation known as the Panama Papers continues to reverberate across the world.
Few may realize that the revelations were made possible thanks in part to a visualization tool prototyped by humanities scholars at Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA).
Ellie Redding is tapping her computer science skills to uncover the literary brilliance of tales of the Old West.
The David Rumsey Map Center is a spacious room with maps at every turn – in slender atlases tucked into bookcases, displayed on the fragile pages of rare books, mounted on walls with magnets, gleaming on two vast video walls – even etched on its front doors.
Stanford English Professor Mark Algee-Hewitt and a team of eight graduate students combine digital tools of textual analysis with the emotional experience of reading to uncover what creates suspense in stories.
Nestled along the border between Argentina and Brazil are the spectacular, thundering Iguazu Falls. Surrounding them are two national parks – legally protected areas of subtropical rainforest that appear free of both people and politics.
According to Stanford's Frederico Freitas, however, the national parks served a more pointed purpose throughout the 20th century: They were geopolitical weapons and highly effective tools for nation-building.
A digital humanities project led by Stanford historian Tom Mullaney is creating a map that illustrates the ongoing and multifaceted impact of funeral reform and grave relocation in China.
A new interdisciplinary minor gives students the opportunity to blend traditional humanistic research with technology tools.
The Stanford scholars who founded the groundbreaking online encyclopedia say that the project owes its success to the unique way it organizes its community of contributors, editors and users.
Stanford scholar Ian Hodder is leading the way on an international effort to reconstruct the story of humanity's past in a Neolithic village in modern-day Turkey. Part of that effort has been creating and maintaining the Catalhoyuk Living Archive, which provides central interactive database for different scientific findings, interpretations of archaeological artifacts.
The history of the settlement of the American West comes to life with Geography of the Post, a digital mapping platform that creates visualizations of where and when post offices operated.
Digital tools, including a free, public online manuscript training course, are allowing English professor and medieval manuscript scholar Elaine Treharne to share her expertise well beyond traditional classroom walls.
With maps, photos, news clippings and written artifacts about Pryor's roots in Illinois, the interactive website Richard Pryor's Peoria offers an online tool to learn about segregation, urban renewal and the roots of Pryor's comedy.


In the first picture you can see how severely matted he was, including burrs on his adorable raccoon-masked face. He was whisked away to the vet's office for a complete shave, some dental work and a full work-up. He is in great health and is estimated to be a very young eight years of age.
Stanley loves walks, especially in his current Greyhound streamlined coat. He prances, holds his tail high and can easily walk a mile at a good pace. He's a great eater, but, we've found, doesn't care for green beans. Clearly Stan came from a home environment since he is completely house-trained. Not a single accident. He is learning to trust and has become very affectionate with his foster mom and dad and the teen in the household. Many nights he will head to her bedroom to assist her with her homework, snoozing happily in the comforter.
No car ride is too short for Stanley. He's a great traveller, but prefers a dog seat or restraint to a crate. We don't think he was crate-trained in his other home, but, since he is such a gentleman, he hasn't had to be put into one, preferring to hang out in the house with the resident dogs behind door gates. If you are looking for a snuggler, Stan is your man. Whether at the computer or in bed for the night, he wants to be right next to you. We are working on commands such as sit and stay and he is a quick learner. When we come back into the house from his walk, he sits and waits to have his retractible lead taken off and his HRI-mandated lead put on.
Because we don't know Stanley's background, a home without children is recommended. We think Stanley would do well as an only dog and will require patience on the part of his owner/s as he learns to trust and love them.
A donation will be requested to adopt this dog. The recommended donation amount will be based on the dog's age, and medical and behavioral issues, if any. A completed application is required if you are interested in adoption. Thank you for considering a rescue dog!


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To view the full video: https://www.media4math.com/library/algebra-applications-systems-equations-segment-1-profit-and-loss
Video Transcript: Algebra Applications: Systems of Equations, Segment 2: Encryption
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Telling Stories of being human Reply
by Marc L. Roark • Edgar Allan Poe, Humanness, Story Telling, Uncategorized, Yann Martel • Tags: Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Yann Martel
Nathaniel Philbrick's history of the whaling ship the Essex is complex. Its complex in the sense that modern historical narrative is complex — filled-in with more details about the details than the narrative itself. Maybe that in itself should tell us something. Perhaps there is substance beyond the surface of the story that calls us to the whale ship's story some 190 years later. The whale ship essex is about far more than survival. Its the story about being human in an age where humanness was defined by sharp boundaries. Those boundaries included the color of one's skin, the identity of one's religion, and the status one held in community. All of these and much more emerge in Philbrick's telling of the Essex.
The overall narrative is fairly straight forward. The whaling ship Essex set out from Nantucket Massachusetts with a cast of characters fit for a shakespearean play. There was the youngish 28 year old Captain at his first command who isn't as sure of himself as his position might demand. At his side was his ambitious first mate who comes off more nautical book-smart than sea-smart; he also seems more fortuitous whether by destiny or sheer force of will, thus making his name — Owen Chase — a name that seems right at home. Also on board was the young cabin boy Nickerson who's memory plays a vital role in Philbrick's retelling of the Essex, but who otherwise is rather inconsequential to the ship's fate. There are the dumbshows that emerge from time to time, whether they are the Captain's cousin or the three shipwrecked sailors that remain on a deserted island. And there is of course, the whale that delivers fatal blows to the whale ship, setting her crew loose on the high seas in three small whale boats and few supplies. If you watched the trailer to the movie based on Philbrick's book, one might come away with the impression that the whale is the main character of the story. While the whale is certainly the antagonist that sets the Essex's crew adrift in smaller whale boats to peril the open waters, Philbrick's story is at core a human story. Its the story of a crew that suffers being separated, finding land that lacked significant water and food, and cannibalism — an eventuality of survival where so many shipwrecked persons tend to turn.
Much has been made of the connections between the Whaleship Essex and Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Indeed, much has been written of late by numerous writers, including the Smithsonian Magazine, this review in the Telegraph, and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association's discussion of whether Moby Dick was a real whale. To this end, Philbrick's history is like all the others — connecting a writing that is so American to its context and creating a greater appreciation of Melville's layers of complexity in Ahab's pursuit. As Philbrick suggests, perhaps the Ambitious Owen Chase's single-minded pursuit was to bring the whale that did in the essex to justice after obtaining his own command.
But as I said before — Philbrick's work is not about a whale, but rather about the Humans after the Whale. What may be more interesting is the way men live after coming to the brink of living as non-men. The tale is certainly not unique. Edgar Allan Poe placed this question at core of his only novel The Narrative of Authur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, describing the anguish which four shipwrecked sailors consider the possibility of cannibalism. Yann Martel described the story telling capacity of humans to explain cannibalism. And court cases that have dealt with the legalities of the act have considered how legal structures deal with those accused. It is in this tradition, more than any other, that Philbrick's work should be considered. Indeed, there are other books and works on whaling in the nineteenth century. But to explain how humans return from being non-human, Philbrick endeavors to live where very few have endeavored to exist.
In Poe's The Narrative of Author Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Poe's cannibalism story is quite small. After the crew of his unlucky vessel are shipwrecked and survivors are cast in boats, the Pym and his ship mates running low on food and water begin to wonder whether they should look to each other. The narrator's initial instinct is to reject the possibility.
"I had for some time past, dwelt upon the prospect of our being reduced to this last horrible extremity, and had secretly made up my mind to suffer death in any shape, or under any circumstances rather than resort to such a course. Nor was this resolution weakened by the present intensity of hunger under which I belabored."
The narrator makes plain that his plan was to avoid resorting to this type level of survival no matter the pain. Yet, its the urging of his comrades that brings him into the fold of those that would cast lots for who survived and eat the unlucky sailor. The sailor wants to make plain — its the act of the community that causes this action, not the act of the individual. Thus, at first forced to participate, and then convinced to acquiesce to this type of plan. Yet, when time comes to satisfy the hunger and thirst through the fallen man, our narrator says little.
He made no resistance whatever, and was stabbed in the back by Peters, when he fell instantly dead. I must not dwell upon the fearful repast which immediately ensued. Such things may be imagined, but words have no power to impress the mind with the exquisite horror of their reality. Let it suffice to say that, having in some measure appeased the raging thirst which consumed us by the blood of the victim, and having by common consent taken off the hands, feet and head, throwing them together with the entrails, into the sea, we devoured the rest of the body piecemeal, during the four ever memorable days of the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth,and twentieth of the month.
Perhaps this is not so unusual. I have said in other places that the most human thing we do is tell stories to one another. Our stories and culture elevate humans above other creatures of the earth because through hem we create a collective memory — a memory that is moral, moving and rational. Its not surprising that Poe's narrative would spend more time discussing the decision of whether and how to go about this act, where rationality and morals remain in one's grasp. But after the decision is made, there is little to say, save the few strands of redemption that one might cling to, such as removing the markers of humanness from the victim's body. The sailors of the Essex when they engaged in cannibalistic acts also detached the heads, hands and feet of their comrades so as to separate the humanness that once was, from the sustenance that remains. But to talk about it — to tell stories about what happened — that most human of activities — perhaps reveals the inhuman act that took place. Perhaps some things can't be retold.
Captain Pollard of the Essex seems to have the opposite approach. According to Philbrick, Pollard tells what happened in detail, as if reaching beyond the grave to recapture some aspect of humanness — from either himself or his fallen sailors. These questions are not unique. Poe wrestled with these questions in the context of a shipping culture and suggests like in his other works that morals and choices do not require delving into a moral oblivion — they are far more simple. You are human or you are not, and when you're not, then why should we expect you to act like a human — like telling stories.
The Narrative of Author Gordon Pym of Nantucket like the Essex conjures other real life events. In a manner that only Poe is able to achieve, there is mysticism, mystery and a strange convolution of time, since the events that are most related to Poe's narrative take place nearly 60 years after the novel was published. (I'm not joking). Its not just the tale of cannibalism (apparently a not so uncommon occurrence for shipwrecked persons on the high seas) or the means in which it occurs (casting lots was also not so uncommon) but rather the name Richard Parker who in both Poe's novel and in the case R. v. Dudley and Stephens, is the loser of the lots and confined to death and a cannibalistic faith.
Many rationales are given in the Dudley and Stephens case, including that the act was inconsequential (the boy would have died soon anyway); necessity (that not doing so would have doomed the others); futility (that there was no prospect of hope or survival anyway, so, in other words, why not). But non of these questions answer the question that Poe and Martel are seemingly trying to understand — if so, then what can we say about ourselves. For Poe, the answer seems to be nothing. For the courts, the answer is in its utility or lack there of.
There is another voice. Yann Martel asks the question in the context of a more complicated culture, where humanness can be described through different stories with different strands. Yann Martel's Life of Pi, another story about a shipwreck where the main protagonist is confined to a cannibalistic route for survival, forces us to consider the role of humanness and story telling in a far more straight forward manner. But unlike the Essex, or Poe's Narrative of Author Gordon Pym, Martel talks at length about being eaten — the fear, the observation, and the ultimate act. Except that in Martel's novel, the cannibalism is disguised in allegory and allusion, where those that cannibalize and those that are cannibalized are reimagined as animals. When pressed to explain how the narrative with the animals may be true, the protagonist tells a different story with his family and some crew in boats and one by one being subjected to cannibalism. Then the boy asks his interrogators:
"Which is the better story, the story with the animals or the story without?"
Like Captain Pollard of the Essex, Martel's protagonist recognizes that to be human is to explain. But even in explanation, unlike Pollard, Martel's protagonist struggles to bring the narrative actually alive. But perhaps what Martel's protagonist suggests is that there is more than one way to tell the story of being human. Certainly the protagonist's background as someone that had dabbled in the religious beliefs of Christianity, Hindu, and Islam, affirming his belief in all three suggests his willingness to find humanness is multiple stories.
Humans ability or inability to tell tales of inhuman things reaffirms the ways in which we do continue to reflect a moral understanding of humanness in our culture. Perhaps its not the stories we tell that shape the parameters of human culture, but rather the stories we don't tell.


March 8, 2017 -- Santa Monica Police are looking for the driver who struck a pedestrian in Ocean Park early Sunday morning and fled a scene.
The incident took place at approximately 1:50 a.m. at the 2400 block of Nielson Way, police said.
The vehicle is described as a silver, four-door "possible 2012-2016 Toyota Camry," said Lt. Saul Rodriguez, the Police Department spokesman.
"The vehicle may have substantial front end damage to the driver's side," he said.
Officers who responded to a call for service found "an unresponsive male pedestrian with significant head trauma," Rodriguez said.
The victim was treated at the scene by Santa Monica Fire Department Paramedics and transported to a local hospital for treatment, Rodriguez said.
The man remains hospitalized in critical condition, he said.
The department's Major Accident Response Team responded to the scene to conduct an investigation.
"A preliminary investigation revealed the involved vehicle fled the scene after colliding with the pedestrian," Rodriguez said.
Police have not received any information on the driver or possible occupants of the suspect vehicle.
The investigation is ongoing and investigators are interested in speaking with anyone who was in the area near the time of the collision.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Officer S. Pace at (310) 458-8993; Investigator J. Olson at (310) 458-8954 or the Santa Monica Police Department at (310) 458-8491.


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Lámh Dhearg produced an incredible fightback to shock Cargin at Casement Park. The sides swapped early goals but the Erin's Own men looked well on course for victory with ten minutes to play when they led by seven.
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Antrim GAA have planned a series of events to mark the last county finals at Casement Park before major redevelopment work starts at the Andersonstown venue.


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