What To Look Into In A Landscape Designer It is a is landscape designer that you have to hire if you would want to achieve your dream garden. It is the varying methods that most landscape designers have when it comes to doing landscape designs. There will also be a varying experience that these landscape designers have. That is why it is important that you will choose the one that will be able to provide the needs that you have. When choosing a landscape designer, it is also important that you will also know what you will be looking for. One of the ways for you to find a landscape designer is to ask around from people that you know. The referrals from the people that you know is one of the best information so that you can get a landscape designer that you can trust. The landscape designer that can be trusted can also be asked from your local landscaping association.It is also the local landscaping association that will be able to point you to landscape designers that you can trust. The moment that you have made a list of your prospects then it is now time to set a meeting with them. It is very important that you will be inviting them into your house to make sure that they will see your area and evaluate it at the same time. The moment that you will set for an initial consultation, these are done mostly for free and that is something that you should be happy about.
You have to see to it that you will know what are the type of gardens that they specialize in. This is very crucial especially if you still don't have any idea what you are looking for. The things that you would want to get from your garden should be known by the landscape designer that you will be hiring.
You also should determine that you and the landscape designer have the same chemistry when it comes to the thing that you want. You have it see to it that you will be comfortable in giving suggestions with the landscape designer that you will hire. This is one way of ensuring that you will be able to achieve the garden that you have in a more enjoyable way. In order to get this kind of landscape designer, you just choose the one that is willing to listen to your ideas and needs. The training, education, and experience of the landscape designer is another thing that you should also consider. It is these things that you will be able to know the moment that you will determine the previous works that they have already accomplished. You can also have the option to personally visit the site of the landscape designs that they have done. See to it that you will be having two or more options to choose from. The moment that you will be doing this one, then you can have the chance it compare the service and skills that they will be offering.


LG has recently announced that the LG V30 will be the 'first smartphone from LG to sport a plastic OLED FullVision display.' The company is expected to launch its V30 flagship in a press event on 31st August at IFA in Berlin.
Following the LG V30's renders, a leaked image of the smartphone's prototype has recently surfaced. The image is reported to be an engineering unit of V30. This hands-on photo of the device confirms the widely reported features like the P-OLED display, and the bezel-less 18:9 form factor, similar to this year's LG G6.
The picture showcases the V30's front-facing camera on the top-left and a 6-inch POLED display. By the looks of the leaked image, LG's claims of reducing the top and bottom bezels by 20 per cent and 50 per cent appear to be true. LG will be replacing the 'V' series hallmark feature, the secondary display at the top with a "floating bar." Speculations are, that the newly introduced feature will work similar to the V10 and V20's secondary display by revealing the time, date, notifications, etc.
LG's flagship device is expected to run on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Chipset with 4GB RAM and 64GB onboard storage. Along with a POLED display, the LG V30 is rumoured to be powered by a 3,300mAh battery with support for wireless charging. On the camera front, the smartphone will feature a 13MP dual-camera setup along with a fingerprint sensor at the back, much like the other flagships of the year.
Rumoured to be priced at around USD 700 (approximately INR 45000), LG V30 is expected to go on sale about a month after its launch in August, with pre-orders starting on September 17.


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If I think about why I am the way I am as an adult, especially sexually, it's not difficult to figure out where some of these things come from. I'm very sex positive and open about my sexual side, I'm pansexual and I'm polyamorous (poly). This is kind of the story of how of all of these three identities came to pass. They're independent but still connected.
Sex positive
If I think back on anything that happened when I was super young, that's more in the sex positive strand of events. I don't really know what my earliest sexual memory is but I know I was playing with sexuality before I had any concept what sex actually was.
Starting from the age of five I started playing these sexualized games with a few close friends. I would have sleepovers with one friend and we would play truth or dare and would dare each other to do this kind of proto-blowjob. We would just put each other's dicks in our mouths for a few seconds, not really doing anything. We had no idea what a blowjob was but we were curious and it felt good.
I have no idea where we came up with this idea. In my memory it wasn't really sexualized at all, it was just curiosity. It was a funny game and it felt good. I didn't even know what sex was and I had no concept of gay or straight.
We also somehow both were interested in trying to put things up our butts. Mostly we would take the knights out of our Lego sets and use their little lances. They were really tiny so we thought we could handle them. Again it was just a funny game. Nothing sexual and nothing that had any association of being straight or gay.
What probably shaped me more than anything when it comes to being open and sex positive, was that my parents are very liberal and I spent a lot of time at nude beaches growing up. There was also always nudity in the house. Not while watching TV or something but if you change or if you go to the bathroom or shower it was a normal thing to be naked.
Before I was even born my parents went to nude beaches in France. We would drive down with the camper van every summer until I was fifteen or sixteen. We would all take our clothes off right when we got there and then put them back on five weeks later. I was around naked people all summer, every summer. That's the atmosphere I grew up in. I think that lead to this sex positivity or to this idea that bodies are just normal and nice and nothing to be ashamed of.
I also always felt like sex was not a big deal. It's a nice thing that you can do; definitely nothing to feel bad about. It's just about how you like it and how the other person likes it. Not this kind of, you only have sex after you fall in love and decide you are going to get married kind of thing.
The way my parents talked about sex was also super open. My mom bought us a pretty common, and in some ways very German, sex ed book when we were in elementary school. The story was about a family who was having another baby and they explained to the kid they already had how the baby was made. It was pretty nice and positive, not just biological but also about how sex is about feelings and also for fun.
I was also very proud that by thirteen years old, I was one of the first kids in my school to download porn off of the internet. My dad is a programmer so we had internet at home way before everyone else. This was around 1996 when the internet was very slow. I would download individual images onto a disk, a floppy disk, which had 3.2 megabytes. I had one other friend who had access to the internet so we would trade disks, each of which probably had only five pictures.
My friend would talk about these pictures as if he could read the character of the girl depending on what she was doing in the picture. As if a woman with exposing pictures would be more bold or daring than one with a shy posture. As if that wasn't at all connected to the guy who took the pictures.
Around that time I also started playing again with trying to insert things in my butt. It's interesting to think about it, am I interested in anal play because I had this primer of experimenting with it at an early age or did I experiment with it because I was into it?
This time around it was much better though, I would use things like pens. I would try all sorts of things since, of course, I was too young to buy anything proper. I had a biology kit and there was a glass test tube in there so I used that for a long time. Which in retrospect… Oh god… I even left it in the shower once and it was still there a day later. My parents never really interfered with that at all.
Once my mom even found this incredibly racy mail order catalog that I had stolen from my dad. It was essentially hard-core porn. I had a bunch of friends spend the night in the basement and we were looking at it. Then the next day, I came home and my mom had cleaned up the room and just stacked the magazine with everything else. She for sure saw it but decided not to take it away.
These basement sleepovers escalated over time. Eventually we did the classic comparing penis size thing and got all horny and ramped up. I don't remember if it was the same night or just on this escalation of how things were going but one of my friends and I were cuddling on the sofa watching a movie, but in a very, we are never going to admit what is happening kind of way, we aren't even going to admit to ourselves what is happening.
We were lying next to each other and he started grabbing my cock and we just started making out and touching each other and he gave me a blowjob. That felt like a big deal at the time, we were only thirteen. That was the most intense sexual experience I had had by a wide margin.
I have no idea how I thought about gay or straight but looking back, it was never a big deal to me. I was never worried if I was gay or straight. To me, being gay wasn't something negative or something that mattered all that much. There was sex with whoever was hot and there were hot people of any sex. I didn't care so much what their configuration was. I think this says a lot about my parents, they were really an island of liberalism in a conservative society.
The story is actually not as nice as it sounds because it was followed by a very traumatizing experience.
I was stupid enough back then to think that everyone else thought the same way I did. So, when we were thirteen, in a conservative school in the countryside that was ripe with bullying already, I thought it was a good idea to tell one of my friends about what happened because I was so excited about it and had zero guilty conscience. I just thought it was this great thing. I was even proud of it a little.
The immediate reaction from him was mixed. He just thought I was crazy. Maybe this isn't what he would have wanted but it was ok. It wasn't an immediate bad reaction. The problem was that he told someone, who told someone else, who told someone else and it wasn't long before what felt like the whole school knew.
I had random people coming up to me and asking me for a blowjob.
It's hard in retrospect to see how this contributed to the overall state of bullying but I had some really bad times of being bullied physically and philologically and that definitely fed into it. What's even worse is I brought this on myself in a way. This poor other kid though, he was smart enough. He would never have told anyone but then he was outted as well.
He never confronted me about it but this definitely broke our friendship. Years later we talked about it and he very rightly felt it was incredibly stupid of me to be open about this. We say "eine Steilvorlage liefern," which means serve it to them on a silver platter.
I learned that just because I wasn't homophobic didn't mean that others weren't as well. That pushed me back into the closet. I didn't have experiences with guys again until much later. Amazingly enough, I didn't feel bad about myself; I just felt that everyone else was stupid. I was always ok with the fact that I liked guys but it took me a long time to trust other people.
My parents also played a bit with non-monogamy but I didn't realize that until I was much older. They met another couple down at the nude beaches and were dating them for a long time. We would see this other couple quite often, one year we even went up to their place in Northern France. We knew them and really liked them; they had kids around our age as well. All in all, there are extremely positive memories of these holidays and of these people.
When I was thirteen, my parents got divorced and my mom told me that my dad had another girlfriend. I was really upset about it. I thought this was why my parents were getting a divorce.
It wasn't until my twenties when I started talking to my mom about me being poly that she told me that it wasn't just my dad who had a girlfriend, she also had another boyfriend. It wasn't like he was sneaking around with a girlfriend; they were trying to make poly work.
For so many years I didn't see what they were doing as being poly, I just thought my dad was doing something he shouldn't do. I just didn't have the full story until ten years later.
Sadly there aren't many positive role models out there for poly.
Even before finding out that my parents had tried to be poly, I questioned monogamy quite a bit for myself. As a teenager I had a girlfriend that I liked but I didn't love. I loved being sexual with her but none of that meant that I felt like being monogamous with her. Somehow there was this cognitive dissonance in my head. I knew I liked this woman, it's nice to hang out with her, it's nice to talk to her, it's nice to have sexual things with her, but somehow society expects more.
It felt completely right but it also felt wrong because I didn't fit inside what society thought this girl should be for me. I would go to music festivals without her when I was 17 and I met some girl. It was an immediate sexual connection and we ended up in my tent.
I didn't really have a guilty conscious. I felt like it's so obvious that of course I am doing this. What does this have to do with my girlfriend at home? They are totally unrelated things. It's totally the poly way of thinking but there was no concept of poly at all.
I think overall my parents taught us a lot of good things about people and relationships. It was a lot in subtle ways about pleasure like with food. Eating good food and hanging out with friends was always a focus. Those are the kinds of values I got from my parents. You should be nice to other people but you should also enjoy other people and you should enjoy yourself and enjoy life. It's not about work or money.
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The first kid to discover masturbation
A. from Germany
The showerhead at my parent's house had a massage function where the water would pulsate and one day, the water hit my penis by accident and I realized it was really nice. I never actually masturbated with the water, it was nice, but not nice enough to keep on doing it. This experience did however, get me curious about what else I could use for this kind of sensation.
My parents had a massage device that looked a bit like an iron and it had different covers that you could use to make it feel different. The function that I liked the most felt like a hand rubbing back and forth really fast. At one point while using it, I put it on my crotch and realized it was way better than the showerhead. That primed me in a lot of ways; even today I prefer masturbating with a flat hand on my penis like the massager did. It's super quirky and I found the fact that I masturbated differently than other people really shameful for a long time. As a guy, you are supposed to jerk off in a certain way.
I was using the massager a lot, probably more than my parents were, and since it was kept in my parents' room, I used it in there a lot of the time. At one point, it even got so hot that the side of it burned and turned browned a little bit. I probably took off a few years of life expectancy on that thing but on the other hand, I put it to good use.
For most of the time that I was doing this, I wasn't very careful about my mom seeing what I was doing with the massager because I thought she had no idea what I was doing. I was convinced I was the first person to discover masturbation, because I am so smart right?
Obviously she eventually figured out what I was doing and the massager got locked away in the drawer. I don't think it was because my parents were against their kid masturbating, but were against their kid masturbating with their back massager. Eventually I found the key to the drawer though and continued to use it.
I was using the massager so much at one point that I eventually I made it into a challenge to see how fast I could get myself off. My personal record was ten seconds. It's kind of funny because these days, I'm really hard to get to orgasm, at least with other people. The other thing is what I experienced pre-puberty, I would not call an orgasm. I just put the massager on my crotch and it got nicer and nicer and at some point, it instantly became too intense and unpleasant and I knew it was time to put it away. A couple of times I tried to push through the weird sensation to see what would happen and it would just continue to be unpleasant. It was not like an adult orgasm, not an explosion.
As a kid I was also pretty morbid and thought a lot about what happens after you die, maybe because my grandma died when I was six or seven. I thought if I died, I needed to share this discovery. I imagined myself falling from a building and at the last minute shouting,
"Do you know what you can do with your penis!?"
In the last minutes before dying, I thought I have to at least shout a testament or something. There are a few things that need to be said before I go.
Along that thread of things I misunderstood in life, I totally pitied girls because they didn't have a penis, therefore, they couldn't masturbate right? It's just not there those poor things! Also, no penis means nothing to pee out of, so I thought girls just had a cloacae like birds, where pee and poop come out of the same orifice. Obviously I was slightly confused to eventually find out otherwise.
Once I got a little bit older, around the time of puberty, I decided it would probably be fun to shove things up my butt while I was masturbating. I was a smart kid, but not the smartest about my choices of what to use; so I used a tampon. An unwrapped one, without lube. In other words, it didn't get very far. Later on I discovered candles are really great. I used them a lot and put them in a plastic bag under my bed when I was done. I never disposed of them but one day, the bag was gone
I'm not sure I want to know what exactly my parents thought was going on when they found the bag.
Learning about Sex
I come from a very conservative and religious part of Germany. There are still differences between former East and West Germany and one of these differences is that in the West, religion is subtly everywhere. There was a cross in every classroom, or if not every, at least in most. You never notice it though, it's just decoration, I was never really bothered by them. It's completely natural and you don't think about it much until you speak with people from Eastern Germany and they are like, what in the fuck are you talking about?
In the West, every child gets assigned either Protestant or Catholic at birth and that classification is on your official government records. There are exceptions, but in my class of around thirty kids, there was only one boy who did not have a designation thrust upon him by his parents. Then once you are in school, religion is a mandatory subject. All of the kids get separated, Protestants in one room and Catholics in another, and every year from something like third grade until tenth, you take a religion class.
It's also a stereotype, but it was also true for my school, that the religion teachers are pretty cool guys. They were fun and never told us masturbation was a bad or anything like that. It was mostly just learning about the Bible, other world religions and cults. One of our lessons was even on Scientology as a cult, which was a cool lesson. Surprisingly, religion and sex don't have any crossover in my brain.
There was also a bit of information about sex and sexuality in "Bravo," a German magazine for teens, but I always hated the magazine because it was pop culture and I was always into counter culture.
In school, people told me they admired me about my "no fucks given," attitude; but at the same time, I was only avoiding people because I was afraid they were going to hate me anyway, so I wasn't really above things, I was just never really into peer groups. You do your thing and I'll be over here being lonely.
Even though I hated this magazine, I was really grateful for these three pages of letters to the Sex Ed team. There were all kinds of questions and stories about all different kinds of sexual topics that were made to be super straight forward. These stories and bits of information really changed how I felt about what I was doing.
It was this really stereotypical message about how "it's totally normal," but I really enjoyed getting that message and I think it was important in how I grew to view my own sexuality.
May 17, 2017 TAGS: ass, Bravo, Bravo Magazine, childhood, childhood misunderstandings, Children, death, Dr. Sommer, exploration, Germany, it's normal, massager, masturbation, pleasure, religion, school, sexuality, shower, stories, West Germany, youth BY: stumbling
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South Africans have recently experienced the return of load-shedding as Eskom struggles to keep up with energy demands.
Eskom's energy output is insufficient for the country, and this shortfall is expected to continue for years to come.
In fact, it will reportedly take 6 months for energy availability to return to stable levels – signalling an extensive period of energy problems for South Africans.
While load-shedding presents many problems for businesses and individuals at home, its impact on traffic is often overlooked.
Road safety organisation Arrive Alive has released a statement discussing how drivers can be safe when load-shedding takes place, as it takes down robots and street lights.
When traffic lights are out, intersections should be treated as stop streets.
Drivers must stop at traffic lights which are out, even if there are no other cars nearby.
Drivers must then take turns to safely pass through the intersection.
Arrive Alive also warned drivers to be on the lookout for reckless motorists who do not obey these rules.
Drivers should also be aware that other road users may make innocent mistakes, and are asked to remain patient and polite at all times.
"We are all annoyed with load-shedding, but we also have the same objective – to arrive alive at our destinations," said Arrive Alive.
Arrive Alive also highlighted the potential danger that a lack of functioning street lights can pose.
Without these lights to assist with night-time or bad weather driving, it is imperative that drivers are particularly alert to potentially dangers.
Recommendations include driving slower to allow for more reaction time, as well as using your brights if it won't blind oncoming traffic.
Arrive Alive urged motorists to be aware of their surroundings to ensure that they don't fall victim to hijackers and "smash and grab" criminals, too.


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And most importantly of all, creators who join the program will retain full control over their own IP created through the program.
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High-speed rail With a top speed of 200km/h, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link will connect Hong Kong with the Mainland's high-speed rail network.
Michelin city From international fine dining to "cha chaang teng" (HK style tea room), the city offers abundant Michelin-starred restaurants and local cuisines.
Rich biodiversity Hong Kong is a small place, but it's big on biodiversity with over 3,300 species of vascular plants, 57 species of terrestrial mammals, over 550 species of birds and 239 species of butterflies.
Best hike The 100-km long MacLehose trail has been named one of the best hikes in the world by the National Geographic Society.
Family fun! Ocean Park is not just an educational theme park in Hong Kong, it is also a great place to wine and dine and even feed the seals!
Mind the gap! The super-efficient MTR is renowned for its 99.9% on-scheduled services.
Snow skin mooncake A Chinese food eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival, snow skin mooncakes were developed by a Hong Kong bakery as a healthier non-baked alternative to traditional high-calorie mooncakes.
Meeting Ironman Canto-pop hitmaker Eric Kwok (a Tony Stark lookalike) is dubbed Hong Kong's own ironman. Or take the Iron Man themed ride at Hong Kong Disneyland.
Music therapy Full-house concerts and popular music lessons demonstrate a love of music in Hong Kong.
Start-up hub Hong Kong has all the ingredients for start-ups to thrive. The city now hosts over 2,200 start-ups.
Long live HK people Average life expectancy of Hong Kong people is among the longest in the world: 87.7 years for women and 81.7 years for men.
Safe and sound Whether taking public transport or out and about, you will find Hong Kong to be a safe and convenient city.
Electric vehicles Increasingly popular electric vehicles continue to enjoy first registration tax (FRT) concessions until 2021.
Bay Area Covering 9 cities in Guangdong plus Hong Kong and Macao, our Bay Area is the largest major bay area in the world in terms of total area and population.
Nam Sang Wai Enjoy wetland wildlife, scenic woodland paths and cycle along River Red Gum. The Nam Sang Wai ferry has become a hotspot for wedding photos and artists.
Revitalised heritage Major revitalised heritage attractions in Hong Kong include the historical Blue House Cluster, Tai Kwun and PMQ. Blue House Cluster has won the highest Award of Excellence of the United Nations
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Hong Kong, from amazing to zany ... enjoy our A-Z of Fun Trivia in Asia's world city.
Art Basel in Hong Kong
Art Basel in Hong Kong is central to Asia's international art scene, offering a premier platform for renowned artists and galleries. Held annually at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, the event showcases an eclectic palette of quality art from East and West all under one big roof.
Avenue of Stars, opened in 2004 on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront to pay tribute to local celebrities such as Bruce Lee and Anita Mui, has been revitalised with a host of new features to give visitors an even more exciting and interactive experience.
Bauhinia
The Bauhinia x blakeana, whose magnificent blooms brighten the city in the winter months, is the official flower of Hong Kong. Botanists believe that all Bauhinia x blakeana trees in Hong Kong derive from one tree at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens.
Bun Festival
The Bun Festival is a traditional Chinese festival on the tiny island of Cheung Chau in Hong Kong. It is staged to mark the Eighth day of the Fourth Month, in the Chinese calendar (usually in early May) and coincides with the local celebration of Buddha's Birthday.
Big Buddha, or Tian Tan Buddha, can be found on Lantau Island. In fact, it is difficult to miss! Reaching 34 metres high and weighing 250 tonnes, it is one of the world's largest seated outdoor bronze Buddhas and a favourite with tourists.
The new Central harbourfront
From popular international cultural, sports and tourism events, to relaxing picnics and outdoor yoga, the iconic harbourfront site offers an open-air activity space with unrivaled views of the Hong Kong skyline and the Victoria Harbour.
Dim sum is a style of Chinese cuisine prepared as small bite-sized portions of food. Hong Kong offers some of the most affordable Michelin-starred dishes, such as delicious dim sum for just US$2.
Ding ding (tram)
"Ding ding" is the sound of Hong Kong's popular and historic trams that have been operating since 1904. They are also world's largest double-decked trams and still carry around 172,100 passengers every day along the northern part of Hong Kong Island.
The Dragon Boat Festival, or Tuen Ng, is a splashing good time in Hong Kong, the birthplace of modern dragon boat racing. The festival is said to originate from drowning death of an ancient courtier, when people splashed the water to keep the fish away from his body.
Egg Tart
The egg tart, a Western influenced Cantonese dessert, is a popular offering at Hong Kong bakeries and teashops (cha chaan teng) especially for afternoon tea. They are best enjoyed piping hot from the oven and washed down with a cup of sweetened HK-style "silk stocking" milk tea.
Express Rail Link
All aboard! With speeds of up to 200km/h, the 26km Hong Kong Section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link opened in September 2018 directly connects Hong Kong to 44 stations along the Mainland's 29,000km national high-speed rail network, and reaches Guangzhou in 47 minutes, Shanghai in 8 hours and Beijing in 9 hours.
Father of Fibre Optics
Professor Charles Kao, a former Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009, is widely regarded as the "Father of Fibre Optic Communications". Without fibre optics, we wouldn't have the Internet or email, Facebook or Twitter!
Formula E HKT Hong Kong E-Prix is one of Formula E's most iconic races. Held along the Hong Kong Central Harbourfront every year, it is the first ePrix held in Asia to secure double-header status. HK ePrix fans are able to enjoy all the action in the E Village zone for free.
Hong Kong has four seasons: winters are short and chilly, summers are hot and humid, spring and autumn are just right!
Outlying islands, quaint villages, sandy beaches and undulating mountain paths present a lesser-known view of Hong Kong, away from the city centre. Here people love to go cycling, hiking and get close to nature.
Located in the eastern part of Hong Kong, Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark is a single entity where sites and landscapes of international significance, including the hexagonal rock columns in Sai Kung, are holistically managed with the support of local communities and other geopark stakeholders.
HK International Airport
Hong Kong International Airport has two runways and operates 1,100 flights daily. It is connected to about 220 destinations worldwide by more than 100 airlines. It is one of the world's busiest air cargo hubs and has garnered over 70 "World Best Airport" awards.
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge
Covering a total length of approximately 55km and straddling the Pearl River Estuary, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge opened in October 2018. It is the world's longest bridge-cum-tunnel sea crossing and connects Hong Kong with Macao and Zhuhai.
Ice-cream vans
First imported in 1970, there are now just 14 original Mister Softee vans selling the popular ice-cream. Did you know that Mister Softee's Hong Kong operation was renamed Mobile Softee in 2010?
Intangible Cultural Heritage
480 items are listed in the Intangible Cultural Heritage inventory of Hong Kong. Domains include oral traditions and expressions; performing arts; social practices, rituals and festive events; knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe; and traditional craftsmanship.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club is a world-class horse racing body and a leading charitable organisation, providing some sports betting services and managing the Mark Six lottery. Race courses at Sha Tin and Happy Valley host approximately 800 races per year. The LONGINES Hong Kong International Races, which is the most prestigious of Hong Kong's international Group 1 races, is held in December every year.
The ultra-modern Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, capable of handling the world's largest cruise vessels, is helping to establish Hong Kong as a premier cruise hub in the region.
Lo Wu Control Point and Lok Ma Chau Spur Line Control Point
Lo Wu Control Point and Lok Ma Chau Spur Line Control Point between Hong Kong and the Mainland of China are among the busiest land boundary control points in Hong Kong, with more than 380,000 people crossing daily.
Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point
The new Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point (BCP) is the first land-based BCP in Hong Kong with direct access facilities for both passengers and vehicles. It is a cross-boundary link to the east of Shenzhen, providing efficient access to and from the eastern part of Shenzhen, Huizhou, eastern parts of Guangdong and neighbouring provinces.
The super-efficient MTR carries more than 5.5 million people every day.
The Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon is a signature international sporting event in Hong Kong, attracting about 74,000 runners in 2018. Apart from the race, it is committed to serving the community and supporting different charitable causes.
MIT Innovation Node
MIT's Hong Kong Innovation Node opened in 2016. It is building long-term value by enriching the educational experiences of MIT and Hong Kong students in key areas of practical innovation including entrepreneurship, making, and rapid scale-up of prototypes.
The Peak and A Symphony of Lights provide an amazing night view in Hong Kong. The Peak, the highest point on Hong Kong Island, offers stunning panoramic views, and relaxing nature walks. Lights come alive with the world's largest permanent sound and light show (Guinness World Records), with laser beams and searchlights streaming from more than 40 buildings on both sides of Victoria Harbour every evening.
An Octopus card can be used to pay for almost all public transport in Hong Kong and even to settle payments at many retail, dining and convenience stores.
Poon choi
Poon choi or "basin food" is a traditional dish originating in the Hakka walled villages of the New Territories. Combining more than 10 ingredients cooked separately and arranged in layers in large metal bowls or wooden basins, a good-sized poon choi can feed 10 to 12 people at festive tables.
Qipao or "Cheongsam" is a traditional tight-fitting Chinese dress, which sometimes described as being like a wonderful blossom in China's bright-colored fashion scene. Because of its unique charm, many women wear it to show their special grace.
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The Hong Kong Government is dedicated to promoting research and development (R&D). We have set a target to double the Gross Domestic Expenditure on R&D to about $45 billion a year (i.e. equivalent to 1.5% of GDP) by 2022. To encourage enterprises to conduct more R&D activities, we will provide super tax deduction to qualifying R&D activities conducted in Hong Kong. The first $2 million of qualifying R&D expenditure will enjoy a 300% tax deduction and the remainder at 200%.
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Wetland Parks
With 60 hectares of wetland reserve and a 10,000-square metre visitor centre, Hong Kong Wetland Park has received a number of international awards granted by professional organisations, including the Institute of Landscape Architects of UK and the Urban Land Use Institute of USA.
Wine hub
Hong Kong is Asia's premier wine hub and among the top three wine auction centres in the world. In 2008, the government eliminated wine import tariffs, making the city the first free wine port among major economies.
Xiqu Centre
Xiqu Centre, a new world-class performing arts venue at the West Kowloon Cultural District dedicated to promoting Chinese opera, houses a 1,073-seat Grand Theatre and a variety of facilities specially designed for different types of xiqu-related functions and activities.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong has introduced a 3D X-ray machine which can cut radiation exposure by more than half, especially important for children with spinal deformities.
Surrounded by the sea, Hong Kong currently has around eight main marinas that are capable of mooring and serving big yachts. There are also large mooring spaces provided by the government for pleasure yachts. These are known as typhoon shelters. Royal Yacht Club Hong Kong is one of the oldest yacht clubs in the world.
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Miami skyline taken from the Rusty Pelican restaurant.
I was taking pictures of the full moon over Biscayne Bay. When I came back in the living room from the balcony, I noticed that the tequila bottles on the window ledge, looked kind of cool with the moonlight behind them, so I took this picture. I kind of like it. The top part is the bay, the bottom part, the city lights are showing through the bottles.
Woke up at 3:00 in the morning, and noticed that a fog had rolled in. From our 28th floor balcony, we were above the tops of the clouds. So took these pictures of the Miami downtown skyline.
Biscayne Bay from our balconey.
Madonna put on a great show in Miami Tuesday night at the American Airlines Arena.
New Martini bar, Bar Louie opened in Midtown Miami. From 11-12 until 11-18, from 6:00 to 9:00 you get one free appetizer, and all the martinis you can drink. Went there tonight, the place was packed, the menu looked really great. I guess we'll have to go there thru Sunday just to sample all the appetizers.


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Kadampa é uma tradição do budismo mahayana fundada pelo mestre budista indiano Atisha (AD 982-1054).

Seus seguidores denominam-se "Kadampas". "Ka" significa "palavra" e se refere aos ensinamentos de Buda, e "dam" se refere às instruções transmitidas por Atisha ao povo do Tibete, chamadas de Lamrim ou As etapas do caminho à iluminação.

O Lamrim mostra passo a passo como ingressar, progredir e concluir o caminho à iluminação.

O conhecimento Kadampa foi passado de geração à geração até ao século XIV.

Novos Kadampas
A partir daí, a tradição Kadampa foi desenvolvida e amplamente difundida no Tibete por Je Tsongkhapa, que tornou os ensinamentos do Darma kadampa mais claros e acessíveis às pessoas.

Particularmente, ele ensinou a maneira de combinar o lamrim, lojong e o mahamudra tantra em uma só prática diária.

Assim como a união do estudo e da prática foi o objeto dos primeiros kadampas, a união do sutra e do tantra se tornou a tônica dos discípulos de Je Tsongkhapa, conhecidos sob o nome de novos kadampas.

O budismo kadampa no mundo contemporâneo
Nos últimos anos o Budismo Kadampa sofreu uma considerável expansão no mundo todo, devido principalmente às ações do mestre budista Kelsang Gyatso.

Em 1997, ele fundou a Nova Tradição Kadampa - União Budista Kadampa Internacional (NTK- UBKI), com o propósito de difundir a fé budista em todo o mundo.

Ligações externas

 site oficial da Nova Tradição Kadampa - União Budista Kadampa Internacional

Escolas do budismo tibetano
Budismo no Tibete

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Deborah (Markowitz) Solan grew up in a Jewish home in Brooklyn, New York, during the turbulent 1960s. She witnessed the devastating trauma of death at an early age, and without even realizing it, began to question the meaning of life. Though outwardly "successful," (she graduated high school at the age of 16 and was the first student intern at Sesame Street-Electric Co. Magazines), she sought answers to life in all the wrong places and made many dangerous and unhealthy life choices. At age 19, she accepted an invitation to an Antioch weekend at West Virginia University when it seemed like "something" was directing her to go. It was there that she first heard about Jesus Christ as the Jewish Messiah and His Promise of Eternal Life.
Despite strong objections (what would her Jewish mother think?), Deb spent the entire weekend hearing from people whose lives had been radically changed by God. She knew she needed to be true to herself (hadn't her parents taught her to be open-minded?) and by the end of the weekend, she asked Christ to come into her heart and life. A lightning storm that day was the first of many "signs and wonders" that God would allow her to experience. Ten years later, Deb's mother, Maxine, though initially strongly opposed to Deb's Christian faith, recognized her own need and also accepted Christ as the Jewish Messiah. Five years later, Maxine prayed for her mother, Jessie, in a Jewish nursing home, to accept Christ as well.
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US CISA Warns of Iranian Cyber Attack Threat
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Chris Krebs posted a warning about an increase in Iranian cyber attacks against the United States. The CISA warns of a "recent rise in malicious cyber activity directed at United States industries and government agencies by Iranian regime actors and proxies." The CISA Director's warning was posted on his Twitter account.
Iranian hackers are using wiper tools rather than ransomware, spyware or other less harmful malware on targeted networks and computers. Wiper tools are destructive malware that completely delete computer files or damage a network with no way to recover data unless a backup exists. Cyber researchers at FireEye, CrowdStrike and Dragos Inc. have all reported an increase in phishing emails sent to US targets. The hackers are believed to be Advanced Persistent Threat 33 (APT33). Hacking group APT33 is also known as Magnallium or Refined Kitten.
CISA Director Chris Krebs post
The cyber and phishing attacks come amidst escalating tension between the United States and Iran.
US Cyber Attacks on Iran
The United States claimed responsibility for its own retaliatory cyber attack on Iran. The US cyber attacks were launched by US Cyber Command and were targeted at an intelligence group connected to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard with the intention to crippled Iran's rocket launch systems involved with the bombing of two oil tankers last week.
Iranian official Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran's minister for information and communications technology admitted to the cyber attacks and posted about it on Twitter, "They try hard, but have not carried out a successful attack." He went on to say that, "Last year we neutralized 33 million attacks with the (national) firewall."
MuddyWater Iranian Hacking Group
Iranian government-backed hacking group MuddyWater, also called SeedWorm, supplemented its techniques with two new tactics. MuddyWater is using Microsoft Word documents containing malicious macros that drop payloads on to victims via compromised servers. The hacking group is also using the CVE-2017-0199 exploit also known as Microsoft Office/WordPad Remote Code Execution Vulnerability with Windows API.
MuddyWater targets the telecommunication industry and government organizations. The group is known to actively impersonate government accounts.
CVE-2017-0199 is not a new security vulnerability. A hacker who exploits the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability can take control of a computer system and install malware, view or delete data; or grant themselves admin access to the device. The cyber attack is initiated with a phishing email that tricks the recipient into opening a malicious email attachment. To guard against the cyber attack Microsoft Office and WordPad should be kept up-to-date with the latest security patches.
What are Advanced Persistent Threat Groups?
Advanced Persistent Threat Groups (APT) are organized hacking groups that are many times state-sponsored. These hacking groups are assigned numbers to keep track of their progress and hacking techniques. APT groups are responsible for some of the largest and most successful cyber attacks in the world. The hacking groups are also given names by private cyber security researchers to avoid offending governments by calling out the attacking agency. The US government backed APT group is called Equation Group. APT groups generally work with a "low and slow" strategy by not attacking a large volume quickly but rather working to remain undetected for long periods of time while gathering the data or money. Many APT groups have gone undetected for years before discovery.
What Is the Main Goal of An APT Attack?
Advanced Persistent Threat cyber attacks target corporations and government agencies usually to fund activities or gather sensitive data. APT groups conduct corporate and government espionage on behalf of their sponsoring government entity. They also fund other activities by siphoning money from large corporations. APT groups tend to specialize or focus on a few industries or governments. Most APT attacks begin with social engineering to obtain login credentials.
Are Advanced Persistent Threats Fully Automated?
Advanced Persistent Threats are not fully automated. They require a level of skill and IT network knowledge. Although part of the APT cyber attack may be automated so intelligence can be gathered over long periods of time., hackers must continually hone their skills to circumvent new cyber security protocols and defenses.
What is Malware?
Malware is any unwanted program or app on a computer, hardware, device, or IT system. Malware includes ransomware, adware, spyware, malicious macros and executable files. The goal may be to take over a device or system. Many times, identity theft or credential phishing are part of the strategy.
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7:30am Wednesday, December 13, 2017 – but only started then. Here I am on Christmas Eve, and I'm going to re-read, edit, and post this without filling it in.
I confess, and not proudly, that daily devotions are not my strong suit. I wish they were. I do live in an awareness of God's presence in my life. I desire to live my life to his glory – in word, thought, and deed. Periodically I'm successful in that.
Do – do – do. sitting here trying to bask in his presence, having read today's Advent devotion about mystery by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and listening to Keith and Kristin Getty's In Christ Alone. And yet a 100 things to DO are running through my head – the "this and that" of life that Bonhoeffer notes are present even in prison. All important stuff, for sure. But why can't I drop them for a few minutes and have a cup of coffee with my Lord? Does my value-add come from the things that I do, or who I am? Or both?
Do I do the things I do so that I will be liked and appreciated? Well, yes. Don't we all? Can anyone say that they don't? How do we move away from that? How can we truly say that we desire to live only for God's glory? I think recognition – "praise of man" – is a magnetic pole that draws us, but there is another power available to us, another pole – God's Holy Spirit – that can take us into the mystery of self-less-ness. Elusive, yes, but entirely possible, and offered to us freely. As Tim Keller relates in a sermon on Romans 7, when we depend on the Holy Spirit's presence in us, we are in a battle we cannot lose. Oh, Joy! And what a mystery. Without the Holy Spirit, we are slaves to the law in one way or another – trying to live up to it, or wishing it would go away and leave us alone – a battle we cannot win, like Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde.


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Chorion macri groups that do not understand good; Suresh Gopi responds to Vishukaine controversy 2022
Suresh Gopi MP responds to controversy Some people are intolerant of giving out. He also scoffed that those who criticized the handing over of the baby to the hands were chorion macros who could not recognize the good.
One rupee is given to the children. After 18 years, it is not a vote-buying cup. A rupee note does not have a picture of Narendra Modi or Suresh Gopi, but a picture of Gandhiji. He takes a rupee note and prays to Goddess Mahalakshmi and puts the baby's hand in white, praying that it will be a blessed year when the baby will be able to perform. What to say to the Macri gangs who do not understand this goodness. Suresh Gopi added that they are Chorian Macri gangs.
Earlier, it had become a controversy that Suresh Gopi handed over money to the Shantikars of Vadakkumnatha temple in Thrissur. Subsequently, the Cochin Devaswom Board had ordered the upper castes not to accept such money from individuals. Suresh Gopi said the Devaswom Commissioner's order was politically motivated.
The order states that handing over the outstretched treasure to the upper castes is tantamount to abusing the temples. The order was issued without mentioning Suresh Gopi's name. However, the Devaswom Board had said that the move was prompted by concerns that some individuals were abusing the temples for reasons such as outreach.
It has been alleged that Suresh Gopi is trying to reactivate his political activities in Thrissur by extending his hand in the event of his Rajya Sabha term coming to an end. Temples and festivals are being turned into polling stations. CPI leader P Balachandran MLA had said that the people of Thrissur have the ability to recognize this.
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NFL NOTEBOOK
Sun | Sports
The Associated Press — Dec 21st, 1999
* BROWNS
Tackle's eye may be permanently damaged by flag
BEREA, Ohio - Orlando Brown might have permanent damage in the eye that was accidentally hit by a referee's weighted penalty flag during a game, doctors said Monday.
The Cleveland Browns tackle, who pushed the ref to the ground after being struck by the flag, was being treated for impaired vision at the Cleveland Clinic.
Brown said his family's medical history is what drove him to storm onto the field and confront Jeff Triplette. Brown's father lost his sight to glaucoma in 1993.
Triplette's 3-ounce flag - weighted with BBs - struck Brown directly in his right eye Sunday in a game against Jacksonville.
"My actions yesterday were based upon an incredible amount of pain which affected my judgment," Brown said in a statement. "This situation was very scary due to my father's blindness and having to deal with that for many years.
"My injury and those facts still do not justify pushing an official. I regret what happened a great deal. Nothing like this will ever happen again."
The NFL is considering disciplinary action, which could include a fine and suspension. The minimum fine for physical contact with an official is $10,000.
Brown was expected to remain under a doctor's care for at least two more days.
"It's not good," said Cleveland coach Chris Palmer, who visited Brown at the hospital. "He is concerned about losing his eyesight."
Palmer said doctors were concerned about pressure building around the eye, which was swollen shut and covered by a metal patch. Doctors told Palmer that because Brown is predisposed to eye problems, any injury could lead to permanent damage.
* BRONCOS
Carter won't be fined for spitting
DENVER - Denver Broncos cornerback Dale Carter will not be fined because the NFL could not determine by looking at a videotape whether he spit on an opponent.
The tape showed Carter spitting in the direction of Jacksonville tackle Tony Boselli in a Dec. 13 game, but it was inconclusive whether Carter actually spit on Boselli.
"The NFL said there would be no fine," Broncos coach Mike Shanahan said Monday. "They don't fine somebody for spitting in somebody's direction. If they did that, they'd be fining a lot of people."
Carter told Shanahan he spit in Boselli's direction but not at him.
"When you see Dale in practice, he spits all the time," Shanahan said. "He's not going to be fined, but this is not the image we want to portray."
— 12/31/1969
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The carbon vacancy (V-C) is a prominent defect in as-grown 4H-SiC epitaxial layers for high power bipolar devices. V-C is electrically active with several deep levels in the bandgap, and it is an efficient "killer" of the minority carrier lifetime in n-type layers, limiting device performance. In this study, we provide new insight into the equilibration kinetics of the thermodynamic processes governing the V-C concentration and how these processes can be tailored. A slow cooling rate after heat treatment at similar to 2000 degrees C, typically employed to activate dopants in 4H-SiC, is shown to yield a strong reduction of the V-C concentration relative to that for a fast rate. Further, post-growth heat treatment of epitaxial layers has been conducted over a wide temperature range (800-1600 degrees C) under C-rich surface conditions. It is found that the thermodynamic equilibration of V-C at 1500 degrees C requires a duration less than 1 h resulting in a V-C concentration of only similar to 10(11) cm(-3), which is, indeed, beneficial for high voltage devices. In order to elucidate the physical processes controlling the equilibration of V-C, a defect kinetics model is put forward. The model assumes Frenkel pair generation, injection of carbon interstitials (C-i's) from the C-rich surface (followed by recombination with V-C's), and diffusion of V-C's towards the surface as the major processes during the equilibration, and it exhibits good quantitative agreement with experiment.


Calvin continues with his discussion of sin and man's will here in chapter 4. He uses an interesting analogy from Augustine. He compared man's will to that of a horse with God and Satan as the riders. When God has the reigns, "he guides it properly, spurs it if it is too slow, checks it if it is too swift, restrains it if it is too rough or wild, subdues it if it balks, and leads it down the right path." Satan on the other hand, "violently drives it far from the trail like a foolish and wanton rider, forces it into ditches, tumbles it over cliffs, and goads it into obstinacy and fierceness." Calvin does make it clear that Satan can not force his will on anyone but "rather that the will, captivated by Satan's wiles, of necessity obediently submits to all his leading."
Then Calvin gets interesting. He examines the story of Job again. This time, he carefully looks at how God, Satan, and man were all active in the same event. Job recognized that God was active in the entire affair. The Chaldeans attacked Job's shepherds and flock. It was just after this event that Job declared, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD." Calvin poses the question, "How may we attribute this same work to God, to Satan, and to man as author, without either excusing Satan as associated with God, or making God the author of evil?" Calvin responds that this is easy. "The Lord's purpose is to exercise the patience of His servant by calamity; Satan endeavors to drive him to desperation; the Chaldeans strive to acquire gain from another's property contrary to law and right." It boils down to intention. Calvin concludes, "Therefore we see no inconsistency in assigning the same deed to God, Satan, and man; but the distinction in purpose and manner causes God's righteousness to shine forth blameless there, while the wickedness of Satan and of man betrays itself by its own disgrace."
Finally today, Calvin begins to address instances where God hardened a man's heart. Specifically, he addresses what "hardness" means. Theologians have always struggled with this. Even Augustine was troubled by it. Calvin references that at times Augustine referred to this hardening as not referring to actual activity by God, but just his foreknowledge. But at other times Augustine, "argues at great length that sins happen not only by God's permission and forbearance, but by his might, as a kind of punishment for sins previously committed." Calvin tells us that many times God blinds or hardens people in order to achieve his will. Isaiah 6:10 is referenced as an example, "Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed." Calvin says that the hardening takes place in two ways. "For after his light is removed, nothing but darkness and blindness remains. When his Spirit is taken away, our hearts harden into stones...Thus it is properly said that he blinds, hardens, and bends those whom he has deprived of the power of seeing obeying, and rightly following. The second way, which comes much closer to the proper meaning of the words, is that to carry out his judgments through Satan as minister of his wrath, God destines men's purposes as he pleases, arouses their wills, and strengthens their endeavors." Calvin sites the example of King Sihon not allowing Moses and the Israelites through his land. This was done to accomplish God's purpose. "Therefore, because God willed that Sihon be destroyed, He prepared his ruin through obstinacy of heart."
It can make us uncomfortable to think about God hardening the hearts of men. It is clearly stated in Scripture, but we often try to dance around the topic because we want to be so careful not to attribute any evil to God. Calvin does an excellent job in not shying away from the truth contained in Scripture while maintaining God's goodness.


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In ACIS, journalling really helps with these problems but it has its limitations. Journalling is a feature of ACIS where you can call APIs with a special option setting which tells them to print a scheme script describing the operation, and save a sat file for the inputs. What are the problems? It is time consuming and unusual work to support. (How often to most ACIS programs manipulate strings? The c library for strings is really dangerous which makes this even more fun.) In addition, only APIs are journalled, but customers can all sorts of functionality. There are sg functions which are lower level and generally are not journalled. Then there are call backs (e.g., MESH_MANAGERs) which we don't even try to journal.
I dislike using C++ samples because it consumes a lot of time, but they have their place. Scheme scripts (or JS scripts for CGM Component) can distill a customer situation to just a bunch of solid modelling operations. A sample application often illustrates context. Sometimes an API call that seems to reveal a bug as a scheme script was actually caused by an application trying to do a workflow that doesn't make sense. Experience maintaining a solid modeler gives a person a warped perspective about what is natural.
I write this because I spent the better part of a day debugging a sample application which showed a problem that could have been journalled. I didn't know the problem could have been journalled, because I couldn't reproduce it. I had the sat file and the same code level of ACIS and a description of what the user was trying to do. It turned out that using facet_options_expert rather than facet_options_precise caused a significant change in the answer. Since the customer was using a GLOBAL_MESH_MANAGER that they wrote, I assumed some of the difference in behavior could be caused by that.
I guess it takes practice asking the right questions and getting a little creative about how to debug a problem. What is the craziest thing you have had to do to reproduce a bug?


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Next Canada MNT 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ Qualifier just a month away; Tickets on sale Tuesday
Tickets for the Canadian home match go on sale this Tuesday, 4 August at 10.00 ET / 7.00 PT
Canada's Men's National Team will take on Belize in a home-and-away series in the CONCACAF Round 3 of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ Qualifiers, with matches on Friday 4 September (19.30 kickoff) at BMO Field in Toronto, ON, and the return leg in Belize on Tuesday 8 September.
Tickets for the Canadian home match go on sale this Tuesday, 4 August at 10.00 ET / 7.00 PT via Ticketmaster.
Looking to build on the momentum of a soccer-rich summer and, in true #CanadaRED spirit, create a significant home-field advantage, nearly 80% of tickets are priced at $30 or less, with tickets available starting at $20 (plus applicable fees) and the best seats in the house available for only $50 (plus applicable fees).
A special 'Me+3' offer is also available for this match. When purchasing three full price tickets (Categories 2 and 3), fans will receive the fourth one free! This offer is available via Ticketmaster by selecting the 'Me+3' offer.
In addition, discounts of up to 30% are available for groups of 10 or more for tickets in Categories 2, 3 and 4. To secure group tickets, group organizers need to complete the Canada MNT v BLZ Group Order Form.
The full details on tickets for the Canada v Belize match, including special and group offers, are available on the event page at canadasoccer.com/canMNTvBLZ.
And since a #CanadaRED match wouldn't be complete without the colourful and boisterous support of our supporters, the Canadians Supporter Section, led by the Voyageurs, will once again be located in the South Stand. For additional information on how to access tickets in this section visit the Voyageurs' website.
Canada MNT will lean on the lively and partisan crowd as it looks to keep its BMO Field 11-match unbeaten streak, and its 2018 FIFA World Cup™ qualifying journey, alive.
To make things even more interesting, with the 4 September Canada v Belize match being played during the 2015 Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), every match ticket will also provide complimentary admission to the grounds on match day. So come out early, and take in all the action!
Fans headed to the match at BMO Field on 4 September are strongly encouraged to have tickets picked-up in advance or printed at home.
If you are planning to purchase a ticket on match day, or are required to pick-up at Will Call, you will have to purchase a deposit ticket at the CNE gate. The deposit will be refunded to you in cash at the BMO Field Ticket Office at Gate 1 on purchase/collection of your match tickets. Please note that refunds will be given on a one deposit ticket to one picked up or purchased game ticket basis.
For more information on the Canada v Belize match at BMO Field on 4 September, tickets and other match-day activities, visit canadasoccer.com/canMNTvBLZ.
The winner of the Canada-Belize home-and-away series will move into Group A for CONCACAF's fourth round of 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ Qualifiers, a tough group that features regional powers Mexico, Honduras and the winner of the series between Curacao and El Salvador. The first two games of that round take place in November 2015, with venue and tickets details to follow in early September.
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Canada Soccer outlines return to soccer guidelines. The return to soccer guidelines provide member organizations with a five-step process, including a checklist of weighted questions known as the Return to Soccer Assessment Tool.
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Good Morning America co-host and NFL legend Michael Strahan announced that he will fly to space on Jeff Bezos' 'Blue Origin' on its next flight, to take place on December 9. It will be the rocket's third human flight this year, and marks the first flight with a full astronaut manifest of six crew members in the capsule. Liftoff is set to take place at 9 a.m. CT on Dec. 9 at the "Launch Site One" facility in the West Texas desert.
Strahan said that one of the reasons he wants to travel on Blue Origin is the opportunity to be part of space exploration: "I believe that this is the way of being innovative, creative, pioneers in aviation, now space travel. And it's going to take a while but I do believe that it will bring a lot of technological breakthroughs and also innovations to us here on Earth, and I just want to be a part of it."
Joining Strahan on the mission will be Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Alan Shepard, who is the first American to fly to space and the namesake of New Shepard on the space flight. They will also be joined by Space industry executive and philanthropist Dylan Taylor, investor Evan Dick, and Bess Ventures founder Lane Bess and his child, Cameron. Lane and Cameron will be the first parent-child pair to fly in space.
Strahan began preparing for the mission two weeks ago, and has spoken to his fellow crew members via Zoom. The crew members will meet in Texas to begin training and undergo safety briefings soon.
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Zimbabwe: Presidential Election and its Significance
Zimbabwe held its presidential election over the weekend of 9-10 March. The result, declared on 13 March, produced a resounding victory for the incumbent – President Robert Mugabe, who secured 1,685,212 votes, as against the 1,258,401 secured by his challenger, Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement... [Read more]
VENEZUELA: US-directed anti-popular coup defeated by the will (and guns) of the people
All the signs of an impending coup in Venezuela were there for the world to see. The US are the world leaders in the orchestration of coups in third world countries, but you'd be forgiven for thinking they'd become a little complacent, relying on the same formula applied in Chile and so many... [Read more]
On returning from Occupied Ramallah
Having just returned from the occupied Palestinian city of Ramallah, we can report to you that the Israeli state is conducting nothing short of a campaign of terror against the civilian population in that city and many others. We were in Ramallah to experience and document the realities of life... [Read more]
Palestinian Resistance blunts Israel's Brutal Offensive
For all his bravado and a massive use of brutal force, Sharon is no nearer extinguishing the raging inferno of the Palestinian Intifada at the end of a whole year in office than was his predecessor, Ehud Barak. His bankrupt policies having failed utterly, his government was left with the simple... [Read more]
People's war in Nepal
by Comrade Prachanda, Chairman CPN (Maoist) Today, on 13 February 2002, it's been six years and entering the seventh since the historic people's war was initiated under the leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). A period of merely six years is not a long one in the process of the... [Read more]
Our tasks in the light of increased support for far-right parties in Europe
The world was stunned when in the April 2002 Presidential elections in France, the birthplace of Liberté, Fraternité, Egalité, the fascist demagogue Jean-Marie Le Pen beat the 'left' social-democratic candidate, Lionel Jospin, into third place in the first round. In the second and final round,... [Read more]
The Butcher of Jenin
Immortal heroes of Jenin
In 1897, the day after the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Theodor Herzl, wrote in his diary: "In Basel I founded the State of the Jews." This week, Ariel Sharon should note in his diary: "In Jenin I founded the State of the Palestinians." Of course, he did not mean to. His intention was to... [Read more]
Consignia: death by a thousand cuts
The Post Office, lately known as Consignia plc, but apparently now changing its name back to Royal Mail, has been for the last four years under attack from the vultures of privatisation. It owns three businesses: the Post Office, the UK mail delivery service and a parcels delivery service. ... [Read more]


Android is one of the most popular smartphones operating systems nowadays and most tech-savvy people need no introduction to it. On the other hand, Brew is also an operating system for phones but is relatively obscure. The main difference between Android and Brew is the intended device as Android is intended for smartphones and even tablet computers while Brew is intended for simpler phones.
The company behind Android is Google, a huge software company that has fueled the rapid development and adaptation of the platform. What's more of a surprise is the company behind Brew; Qualcomm. Qualcomm is a hardware manufacturer that is quite famous for their processors that are used in many smartphones, among other things.
One of the many advantages of Android is the number of applications that a user can choose from. Android almost has 150,000 applications in its Android market; some of them are free while others are available at a price. In comparison, Brew only has 18,000 applications; relatively limited when compared to Android. All Brew applications are for sale, so don't expect to find free apps.
With all the things stated above, you'd expect that Brew is another new entry to the phone operating system melee, but you'd be wrong. While Android is only a couple of years old, Brew has been around for over 9 years. Brew has been used in many different phones from different manufacturers. The reason why Brew has gone under the radar for so long is the lack of branding on phones that used it. The branding on Brew phones is often of the carrier or the company behind the phone. There is also no mention of Brew in most cases. Android phones carry some sort of Android branding in one form or another; whether it be the name or the green robot, which is its mascot/logo. Phone manufacturers and telecoms are also keen on marketing the Android name as it would clearly indicate that the unit is a smartphone.
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Planet Money launches Kickstarter campaign for T-shirt reporting project
By Andrew Lapin, Freelance Contributor | May 1, 2013
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NPR has launched, and already met the goal for, a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign backing a special investigative project by Planet Money, its reporting unit that produces multi-platform economics coverage.
The T-shirts contain a smartphone scan code that opens an interactive page with photographs of the people who created and distributed the shirt. (Photo: Planet Money)
The campaign, which went live April 30, set a goal of $50,000 for a reporting series that tracks production and distribution of T-shirts. A portion of the proceeds will also fund news training for station-based reporters. The program reached its goal on May 1, one day after launching the campaign. There are 13 days remaining in the campaign.
Backers contributing on Kickstarter will place orders for the shirts, and Planet Money's reporters will report through each stage of production and distribution — from farms overseas that grow the cotton to factories that manufacture the shirts, and to cargo ships that deliver the shirts to the U.S. The series was inspired by Pietra Rivoli's book The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy.
The campaign, NPR's first venture into crowdfunding, is unusual in two ways: It will run for two weeks, instead of the 30-day average for Kickstarter projects, and it offers only one contribution tier to backers – ordering the T-shirt, which costs $25.
"It didn't seem like it was a project that needed a lot of time to catch on," Planet Money Contributing Editor Alex Blumberg told Current, adding that the team saw crowdfunding as "a way of bringing people along on the journalism." If the campaign fails to meet its goal, the project will not go forward, Blumberg said.
Planet Money has partnered with clothing company Jockey to produce the shirts. Jockey will likely direct reporters to its factories in Colombia and Bangladesh as they follow the shirts' journey, Blumberg said. He compared the investigation to Planet Money's 2010 series following the repercussions of the mortgage crisis, when the Planet Money team bought a toxic asset and followed its movement through the financial system.
In a memo to stations April 30, NPR said Planet Money will limit promotions of the Kickstarter campaign to its blog, podcasts and social media channels; it will not be mentioned during NPR news programs. The Planet Money blog is hosted on NPR.org.
Planet Money has been "very active in communicating all of this with the member stations," Blumberg said, adding that he would welcome support and additional publicity for the project from stations.
The reporting and T-shirt production is budgeted at $41,000. Planet Money will put the remaining $9,000 and any excess funds toward a "news reporting boot camp" to bring station reporters to NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., where they will learn tricks of economics reporting from the Planet Money team, presuming the campaign hits its goal.
This article has been updated.
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Aaron Read on May 1, 2013 at 4:22 pm said:
Huh. Great timing! John Sutton just had a thought-provoking article about direct-to-listener fundraising by NPR, and here they are testing the waters of that.
http://www.current.org/2013/05/a-digital-revolution-for-public-radio-fundraising/
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It is officially announced today that Macross Δ (Delta), the newest Macross TV anime series, is set to premiere on Tokyo MX at 22:30 on April 3 (JST). Its 19 voice cast including the 18-year-old audition winner Minori Suzuki as one of the two main heroines, Freyja Wion, are also revealed.
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Q: Communication between two apps in Android I have a question regarding the communication between two apps in Android. Below is my question,
Let's say I'm watching a video using any mobile browser or a native android app. Firstly, Can I Use something like an snipping tool (or an alternative tool) to crop a persons face in the video (and this should not send my video running application to background)? and Secondly, Can I send the cropped image to another native android app (my own created app) running in the background?
Is this possible, please let me know.

A: First of all you need to download the video you are watching and then you can edit/crop video but while editing your video player app will go in back ground.
And yes you can definately share video with other app, for that you ca nuse MediaStore class.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/MediaStore.html

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The 990 is a marriage between two technologies, each element carefully arranged to play only to its strengths. It marks a true turning point in power amplifier design.
Combining the effortless musicality of thermionic valves with the capable power delivery of solid state, it follows every musical twist and turn with ease and subtlety. High levels and demanding loudspeakers are effortless.
The 990 power amplifier liberates music that will touch you, both supremely poised and beautifully coherent.
The no compromise valve input stage is fully shunt regulated with its own separate transformer. This supplies all the voltage gain to the output stage, which is what valves do best.
The output stage is arranged in a bridge configuration. The arrangement is effectively two amplifiers: one pushing and one pulling current through the speaker. This removes the large currents involved from the system's critical ground reference, keeping the amplifier supremely composed under heavy drive.
The power supply for the power amplifier output stage is the hungriest in a system. The 990 takes the unusual step of using a choke input power supply. This enables the power reservoir to draw current from the mains supply in a much more linear fashion than a regular supply, resulting in a smooth and stable platform from which the output stage can deliver.
At normal listening levels the first watt delivered is the most important. It is the most visited part of an amplifier's range. By using small and agile output FETs, performance at this critical level is optimised. When demand rises, higher power bipolar devices seamlessly contribute additional current to deliver impressive power when needed.
Throughout the amplifier, great care has been taken with its physical construction. The heatsink, which is milled from a solid billet of aluminium, forms a spine through the centre of the case. This provides a substantial thermal mass, and allows the output devices to operate at a constant temperature, free from mechanical resonance. It also effectively screens the power supply magnetics from the sensitive audio circuitry. Solid copper binding posts are used to eliminate the audible mechanical resonance of more common brass.
QuietBuss technology ensures the integral housekeeping microcontroller is completely inactive unless required. This keeps the audio circuits completely free from digital processing interference under normal operation, whilst protecting the amplifier against potential damage.
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OPD OFFICER CHARGED WITH CHILD ABUSE
Kevin Connolly and Pedro Ruz Gutierrez of The Sentinel StaffTHE ORLANDO SENTINEL
An Orlando police officer was charged Thursday with aggravated child abuse after officials found welts and bruises on his 7-year-old son's arms and chest, Apopka police said.
Officer Dennis L. Turner, 37, was arrested by Apopka police officers when he arrived at the city's police station to pick up his son, Police Cmdr. Chuck Vavrek said.
Police said the abuse occurred at the family's home Wednesday in Apopka after the child brought home a bad report from school.
In an interview Thursday night, Turner said he was surprised at being arrested and denied severely beating the child.
"Don't let this stop you from disciplining your children," said Turner.
Turner was released from the Orange County Jail on $2,500 bond. Aggravated child abuse is a second-degree felony that carries a 15-year maximum sentence.
Sgt. Jeff Goltz, an OPD spokesman, said Turner was suspended from the force pending the outcome of the investigation. Turner worked the midnight shift on patrol on the city's west side.
He joined the Orlando Police Department in 1995.
Turner received oral reprimands after two internal affairs investigations by Orlando police. In 1996, he was cited for "substandard performance" after he lost the wallet of a suspect he arrested.
Investigators from the Orange County Sheriff's Office and the state Department of Children & Families found the injuries during a visit to the boy's school, Lovell Elementary School, near Apopka.
The boy was taken to the Apopka police station and later turned over to his mother.
Stuart Doyle, a spokesman for the Department of Children & and Families, said the agency removes children from their homes only when there is a persistent threat to them.
In this case, the child's mother was not considered a threat.


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AB Šilkas war das größte Seide-Gewebe produzierende Unternehmen (Kombinat) in Litauen mit Sitz in Kaunas.  Das Unternehmen beschäftigte 3.100 Mitarbeiter (1982).

Geschichte

1951 wurde es als eine Filiale in Vilijampolė der Gewebefabrik Kauno audiniai in Sowjetlitauen gegründet. 1956 wurde sie zum eigenständigen Betrieb Ziberto šilko kombinatas (dt. 'Siebert-Seidekombinat'). 1982 produzierte man 29,4 Mio. Meter Seide-Gewebe und 0,8 Mio. Meter andere Gewebe. Man exportierte nach alle Republiken von Sowjetunion und Polen, Kuba, Bulgarien, Tschechoslowakei, Volksrepublik Nordkorea. Nach der Privatisierung gehörte das Unternehmen Akcinė bendrovė "Šilkas" dem litauischen Konzern EBSW. 2002 wurde es insolvent. Am 26. Januar 2004 wurde es aufgelöst.

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Ehemaliges Unternehmen (Kaunas)
Produzierendes Unternehmen (Kaunas)
Herstellung von Seide
Ehemaliges Unternehmen (Textilindustrie)
Gegründet 1951
Aufgelöst 2004
Unternehmen (Litauische Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik)
Vilijampolė
Produzierendes Unternehmen (Sowjetunion)