Shopping for an iComfort mattress can be exciting as you get to sample different prices and varieties.
However, the most difficult part of this process is trying to predict whether a certain type will suit your needs or not. There is a lot of hype in the media about various types of iComfort mattresses, and this makes it even harder for you to decide on the right one.
This review will help you make a wise selection out of the wide range of iComfort mattresses available in the market.
It has a 25-year warranty covered by the manufacturer.
The memory foam contours at the sleep surface, thus relieving pressure and making you more comfortable.
It is compatible with other adjustable foundations.
It meets the requirements of federal flammability standards.
It does not trap in heat, and this keeps your body cool.
The mattress is heavy, and this makes it difficult to rotate or move when needed.
The cost is relatively high.
The iComfort mattress easily loses firmness after a few years of frequent use.
The mattress is one-sided, so you cannot flip it over.
It has a good temperature control, so you get to sleep comfortably.
It achieves a balance between support and comfort. It provides firm support but is still soft enough to give you that smooth, comfortable feel.
This comfort mattress retains the original shape, firmness and support even after years of use.
It conforms well to your body, resulting in well-distributed support and relief of pressure points.
It provides edge support, so you cannot easily fall off from the edge of the bed.
It lacks the thickness and density of a highly supportive mattress.
Body impressions usually develop on this iComfort mattress after three years of use.
One needs to incur an extra cost of purchasing a foundation.
It conforms to your body to offer more support and eliminate the unpleasant springy feeling experienced with other types of mattresses.
The yarn fabric top cover on this iComfort mattress gives a soft, luxurious feel and improves heat flow.
It comes with ten years of limited warranty.
It has motion isolation ability and this makes it couple-friendly because movements made by one person will not disturb the other.
The iComfort mattress forms indentations where your body lies, and this could result in indentations.
It is not suited for sick or elderly people because it offers resistance to movement due to the conforming ability.
There is no turning and tossing as you sleep because this iComfort mattress has been uniquely designed to relieve pressure.
It has an open cell structure that increases airflow and provides that cooling effect.
It has no initial off gassing and is, therefore, comfortable to use even on the day of purchase.
It provides little or no bounce, so movement within the bed is not unpleasant.
It is easy to maintain since it is one-sided and does not need to be flipped over.
The mattress comes with an additional cost of purchasing box springs.
It is quite expensive but in the long run, the benefits are worth the extra cost.
Warranty: 10-year warranty covered by the manufacturer.
This iComfort mattress is compatible with Serta adjustable foundations.
The memory foam contours to the body and makes sleep more restful and comfortable.
It acts as a heat trap and is, therefore, suitable for those who live in cooler climates.
It is suitable for an average sized person and may not offer adequate support for people who weigh above average.
The iComfort mattress tends to sag after a long duration of use, and this can be a major cause of back pains.
It is a unique blend of quality memory foam and high-performance gel for enhanced comfort.
Edges of this iComfort mattress are individually wrapped in a coil system to offer firm support.
It is compatible with Serta adjustable foundations.
The quilt top layer is made of fire blocker fiber.
Body impressions form after some years of use, and this makes sleep uncomfortable because one feels like they are sleeping in a hole.
The heat retention feature in this iComfort mattress can undermine the quality of sleep for people in warmer climates.
It offers a firm support, and this eliminates aches and pains.
The top layer of the mattress is extra cushioned, and this makes it plusher.
It has effective temperature regulation due to the cooling layers of foam.
This iComfort mattress initially feels a little hard since it takes some time to achieve the break-in effect.
It does not come with the box spring, and one has to purchase it separately.
The Cool Action Dual Effects Gel Memory of this iComfort mattress adds quality to your sleeping experience.
It has a high-performance fabric cover that offers protection and increases durability.
It has a stable base for extra firm support.
The iComfort mattress becomes soft and squishy after some time, so it is not suitable for people who need a firm support.
The memory foam in this iComfort mattress is dust-resistant, so it improves the quality of sleep for people who develop allergic reactions to dust.
The open cell structure increases airflow, so the mattress does not get too hot.
The ComfortLast Foam core provides firm support and makes sleep more restful.
The iComfort mattress has MicroSupportTM gel beads that gather around areas of your body which need extra support.
The foam tends to break down after some years of use.
The conforming effect of the memory foam does not last for long.
This iComfort mattress is luxuriously comfortable while offering the needed support at the same time.
It has three layers of advanced memory foam that provide extra support and pressure relief for a deeper sleep.
The sleep surface gently contours to your body for enhanced cushioning while you sleep.
The fire blocker feature enhances the safety of the user.
This iComfort mattress is one-sided, so you cannot flip it over.
It is expensive and has an additional cost for a box spring which is purchased separately.
A good mattress should keep your body in proper alignment while you sleep so that you don't wake up with body aches. You can test for support in a mattress by ensuring that it comes up to support the curves and arches of your body in whichever position you are sleeping.
Choose a mattress whose surface is similar to your skin temperature. A mattress that is too warm or too cold can disrupt your sleep.
For people sharing a bed with their partners, this is an important consideration so that your movements will not disturb the other person.
If you like to sleep near the edge of the bed, or you plan to sit on it often, get a mattress whose edge has been designed with extra support to prevent you from rolling off the bed during sleep.
These play a great role in determining the type, size, and density of the mattress you want to purchase. You will be using the mattress for many years to come, so it is important that you choose something that you like.
The warranty provisions differ from one manufacturer to the other, and the period covered could range from 2 to 25 years. In most cases, it covers manufacturer's defects. If a manufacturer offers a longer period of the warranty that is an indication that they have faith in your product, and you can expect it to be durable.
Why Choose an iComfort Mattress?
The comfort provided by an iComfort mattress will enable you to have a deep and more relaxing sleeping experience.
The iComfort mattress provides value for money because you get to use it for a long time and still enjoy the firm support.
IComfort mattresses are designed at different levels of firmness, so it is easy to find one that suits your personal preferences.
It is easy to locate an iComfort mattress since they are available online and in stores too.
IComfort mattress has been designed for people of all sizes in mind. One only needs to choose a mattress that can comfortably support their weight.
An iComfort mattress does not make noises which can easily disrupt your sleep.
How Do iComfort Mattresses Differ from Other Mattresses?
Unlike other mattresses, an iComfort mattress has additional innovations as a result of research. These provide a cooling comfort and provide extra support for quality sleep.
The memory foam in an iComfort mattress is a combination of firm support and cooling gel, so a sleeper gets to experience the best of both worlds.
Unlike other mattresses, an iComfort mattress has little or no history of off-gassing and this gives more customer satisfaction.
An iComfort mattress has Everfeel technology, so its feel is not easily influenced by changes in temperature and humidity.
An iComfort mattress has stronger motion isolation than other mattresses, and this makes it couple friendly because movements by one person do not disturb the other person in the same bed.
IComfort mattress is heavier, thicker, and more difficult to move around especially for one person. This is unlike other mattress types where you can find light mattresses that are easily flipped over.
An iComfort mattress has more layers than other types of mattresses for increased support and comfort.
All the reviewed products are great, your choice will probably be influenced by the affordability and personal preferences.
However, Serta iComfort Savant Plush Memory Foam Queen Size Mattress stands out from the rest because it has features that greatly increase the quality of your sleeping experience. The temperature control works just fine in both warm and cold climates. It is also a preferred choice because it is dust-resistant, and this is important in ensuring that you are breathing fresh air as you sleep. Although the price is a bit high, the value that you get from using the mattress is definitely worth the cost.


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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo today signed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), a law codifying some of the strongest climate pollution reduction requirements in the country.
The new law makes New York, the country's third largest economy, a leader in the U.S. and the third state this spring to set strong short-term and long-term goals to cut pollution, while requiring development and implementation of regulations to achieve these targets. Given New York's size and diversity of land use and energy needs, including one of the world's most vital urban centers and several heavily industrial regions, this latest law builds on the momentum of other states, among them Colorado and Maine, which have put in place comparable overarching pollution reduction requirements.
"This is a bold move. New York is cutting climate pollution, making the air cleaner, and protecting vulnerable communities," said Mary Barber, Director, Regulatory and Legislative Affairs at Environmental Defense Fund (edf.org). "These targets to reduce emissions are among the best in the country and will propel progress toward cutting climate pollution nationwide. By developing a clear timeline for implementing these short and long term targets, New York is taking a significant step toward a 100% clean economy by 2050."
The new law commits New York to reducing greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, and 85% below 1990 levels by 2050—while setting a goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. It also requires that New York's power sector eliminate carbon pollution by 2040, recognizing that significant near-term reductions of pollutants in the power sector and accelerated deployment of clean energy technologies are critical to achieving economy wide emissions reductions at a level consistent with science.
Similar to the Colorado law, the CLCPA also calls for the Department of Environmental Conservation to identify and prioritize measures to maximize reductions of conventional air pollutants in disadvantaged communities, in addition to greenhouse gases, when developing regulations to implement statewide mandated targets.
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The Fountainhead Summary
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The first book of Ayn Rand, the writer more famous for her epic trilogy "Atlas Shrugged" takes place in the United States roughly in late 1920s and at the beginning of 1930s. The main location is New York, though the characters sometimes travel to other places. It is the story of the young, creative and ambitious architect named Howard Roark, who tries to build his career not in a convenient way.
At the beginning of the book, Roark is twenty-one and the things aren't going well for him: he has been just expelled from the Stanton Institute of Technology. He is a brilliant student, but the reason of expelling wasn't his bad marks or insufficient knowledge, it was "insubordination" e.g. refusal to blindly follow the ideas of his teachers and administration and arguing with them. Also Howard's study projects weren't designed in classical and traditional styles the teachers preferred: he had his own vision of architecture. What insults him even worse is that his classmate, the son of the Howard's landlady, a young man named Peter Keating, graduated with high honors. He absolutely lacked Roark's creativity, intelligence and innovative vision, but he was exceptionally good in lip service and doing exactly what the professors expected.
Roark doesn't know what to do after leaving his university, but luckily he finds a similar outstanding mind to work for. Henry Cameron is already an elderly man, but with still young, vivid imagination that is supported by his genius. His ideas are too revolutionary for his time, so often Cameron is seen as a typical "mad scientist" by the society. Cameron was a rising star in architecture during 1880s. The pinnacle of his revolutionary approach was building a skyscraper. He wasn't shy about it and didn't even try to blend his building with the rest of the landscape, stating that a tall building should look tall. But that was way too much for the conservative society that preferred Classical styles and even made Neoclassical architecture style an American trademark in the Columbian Exposition of 1892. Cameron was a pure modernist, so he became an exile in the architectural world. The architect refused to yield and remake his project for his building to appear shorter, but it only worsened the situation for him. Roark learns Cameron's story during the three years he spends working on him. Then, unfortunately, Cameron's health fails and Howard has to move on, yet forever taking with him the infinite gratitude to his genius mentor and the great knowledge in modernist architecture.
Keating's fate is much easier and more predictable. With his diploma with honors he goes from Stanton directly to Guy Francon's bureau, working for the most famous and successful architect in all the United States. But Francon is a perfect employer for such a man as Keating: he also just copies the past designs, using his more-than-mediocre talent to change them slightly, so that they won't be instantly recognized. He mastered the skill of giving his clients exactly what they wanted to see and this granted him the great prestige, fame and reputation. He is also a socialite who attends every grand dinner and make acquaintances with every even slightly famous person, acquiring famous clients through these actions. The main skill he teaches Keating is charming people and manipulating them into making orders, not the actual knowledge of architecture.
But if Keating is similar to Francon as his own son, Francon's daughter by blood, beautiful, young and no-nonsense Dominique is as unlike his father as possible. She is brilliant, sarcastic and painfully honest, openly and brutally criticizing his father's works and later the works of his apprentice. Dominique is an interior designer and decorator and even writes her own column in the New York Banner - the respected newspaper owned by the rich and powerful publisher named Gail Wynand. The idealism of Dominique annoys her father, but soon it fades after too many hits from cruel reality. Now Dominique is a jaded knight in sour armor, who believes in doing what is right deep inside, but also in the fact that the vulgarity and mediocrity will inevitably triumph and her desire to open the human potential of everyone is the hopeless fight with windmills. Despite her open hostility, Keating, who is enchanted with her fierce spirit and, of course, social status and the way her beauty and eloquence impress the others, makes a proposal to her. Though Francon fully approves the marriage, Dominique sarcastically replies that she didn't commit such a grave crime to be punished so severely.
Dominique's refusal is the only failure Keating has at the moment. The fame of his mentor helps him to achieve success by himself. Manipulating his colleagues and employers, Keating makes his career to rocket up to the position of the chief designer - actually the second person in the company after Francon. But this position adds responsibility: the chief designer has to design, to do something new - the thing Keating isn't very good at. Still, he knows how to deal with situation: he finds Howard and offers him the job. Roark is repulsed by the methods Keating uses, but his desire to create new buildings and make them innovative and beautiful winds. Howard accepts the job offer and starts helping Keating with design. Keating's (actually Roark's) designs are stunning and he, forgetting who he owes his success, decides to replace Francon's current partner: a man named Lucius Heyer. Soon he has a chance to achieve his goal: Francon receives the invitation to the Cosmo-Slotnick Building competition held by Hollywood company. The goal of the competition is to design the "world's most beautiful building". Francon believes that Keating is capable to win the competition and is ready to give him the position of his partner if he does. But Keating himself knows he isn't skilled enough for such a high standard, so he orders Roark to design a building for him. Roark does a very simple, effective and elegant project and Keating just adds to it his ornaments he uses on every "his" project. Keating feels that Roark's design is too eclectic and simple and has no chances to win, but he doesn't have other options. But he decides to become Francon's partner before the competition that, as he thinks, will be inevitably lost. Using the old age and fragile health of Heyer, he constantly berates, teases him and screams on him while no one can see it. Finally Heyer has a heart attack because of constant stress and dies, leaving his position vacant for Keating to take it. Surprisingly for Keating, Roark's design wins the competition and he returns from it as a wealthy, famous and respected partner of Francon in his enormous architectural firm.
Now Keating doesn't need Roark anymore and Francon immediately tries to put the rebellious young architect in line demanding Howard to design like everyone else. Roark refuses and is immediately fired. He desperately tries to find a job, but for a long time no one is ready to accept his innovative ideas. Finally Howard finds a new employer: a man named John Erik Snyte, an eclectic architect that constantly shifts from one style to another and mixes them as he pleases. To achieve the effect he wants, Snyte gathers in his firm the best architects in various styles - Classical, Gothic, Renaissance and others. Howard is his newly found Modernist treasure. Snyte gives his architects complete freedom, taking only the role of combining their ideas in one integral project. So, Roark can do whatever his fantasy allows him, but he will never be able to see a complete building made according to his design - only some elements integrated into the common project. Suddenly, his first personal client, the newspaperman named Austen Heller, notices him and commissions him a project of his private home. Roark, encouraged by his first success, goes to open a private architect office, but his designs are still too outstanding for the commoners, so he either gets no orders or refuses to change them according to the client's ideas. The final stroke for him is the case with Manhattan Bank Building - a very costly project he prefers to refuse than violate his design according to the customer's whims. Frustrated, Roark closes his office and goes to Connecticut to work as a common worker in a granite quarry.
By a strange coincidence the quarry is also owned by Guy Francon and is situated to his countryside family manor. Dominique attends the manor right when Roark comes to work and decides to see how the work is doing in the quarry. She immediately sees Howard and notices that there is something in his eyes that distinguish him from the whole bunch of former criminals working there. His manner to hold himself and move and his composure charm Dominique so much that she begins to stalk him constantly. One of their pursuits ends in them making love passionately, even without knowing each other. Despite Dominique considers this sex the best in her life, she still doesn't dare to admit that she is in love with anonymous quarry worker and fears to open up to him emotionally, because the woman feels her beliefs and ideals can be shattered again - something that would be almost impossible to survive. But her hesitations are finished when Roger Enright, a rich and open-minded businessman, finds Roark and blows his cover, asking him to design an apartment building for him. Roark leaves his work and returns to New York to start working - but for him Dominique isn't a temporary affection either: he can't stop thinking of her.
The design of Enright House is accepted without changes and the building is made exactly like Roark envisioned it. This becomes his rising. Very soon, another influential businessman from Wall Street commissions a new design: an office building with fifty floors, right in the centre of Manhattan. Then comes Kent Lansing with his idea of a five-star hotel on Central Park South. The clients start to fight for Roark's time, he becomes more and more popular and earns prestige with every new project. Lansing wins the "battle" and Roark starts designing the Aquitania hotel. Though the construction is delayed due to some legal issues, Lansing gives Roark the highest credits and best recommendations.
But Roark's fame brings him not only powerful friends and rich clients. He attracts the attention of the man named Ellsworth Toohey, the architectural critic and the nemesis of the new and promising architects. Toohey considers himself a god of architecture, thought he haven't designed any buildings, he seeks the individuals who think differently and make designs he doesn't like and crushes them in his reviews. He orders his wealthy but dim-witted minion named Hopton Stoddard to commission Roark a design of a temple. Toohey knows that Roark is an atheist and his designs are always revolutionary new. So he hopes to announce that Howard is an enemy of religion and his inconvenient design is a blasphemy and violation of religion principles. Toohey studies Howard's personality and finds the words to persuade him. Hopton, taught by Toohey, says that Roark has a religion of his own, the religion of human spirit that can achieve everything, which one can see in his designs. Flattered, Roark accepts the order and begins to compose a design of a temple to the heroic human spirit.
At the moment Roark is a superstar of architecture. His design of the temple is beautiful and magnificent. To make the sculptures for the temple, Howard finds the equally talented young sculptor named Steven Mallory. His using of Classical Greek style shall perfectly balance the Modernist motifs of Howard, bringing the equilibrium of styles to all the temple. Dominique receives an offer to pose nude for the main statue in the temple and Mallory, with all his talent, manages to capture both her stunning beauty and inner flame of her free spirit. This work for Mallory is very important: though sculpting in a very conservative style he was already rejected several times for innovative poses and ideas he brought to his works. But seeing that Roark, who had the same problems, managed to rise and now is one of the most popular architects in the country, inspires him greatly. Mallory hopes that collaboration with Howard will also get him some new commissions and make the society to recognise his style. But despite the fact that both temple and sculptures are outstanding, Stoddard plays the second part, proclaiming that the temple is heresy and blasphemy and raising the crowd to boycott the building. The temple is torn down and the career of both Roark and Mallory plummets, leaving them almost in poverty with a few small commissions.
Dominique, devastated by the destruction of the temple, decides that she has to burn out of her soul her ideals, passion and love to Roark, just not to experience more pain. She finally accepts Keating's proposal, hoping that the dull life and marriage to a disgusting man will break her, leaving her numb and indifferent to any failure of the noble human spirit in the world. For twenty month she lives with him, thoroughly and purposefully killing her potential, her belief and - as she thought - her very soul. But Toohey wants her to suffer more: he introduces her to Gail Wynand, who was her former employer. He was an idealist equal to Dominique once, but now he turns Banner into the yellow-pages magazine, publishing scandals and gossips to earn more money and to win the audience. Wynand, seeing the sparks of the spirit still left in Dominique, proposes her to marry him instead. Dominique agrees, thinking that this man is even more disgusting for her now, because she remembers who he was before. She hopes that seeing the crush of the ideals every day will break her faster than living with the man who lacked the idealism from the very beginning. Keating without any extra questions just sells his wife for a decent check and another great commission, allowing Dominique to divorce and marry again.
Dominique goes to Reno to get divorced, but on her way she suddenly meets Roark in the small town of Clayton. Howard now works in province, building the department store - that looks as outstanding as his great projects in New York. Dominique tries to stay calm, but Roark clearly sees that she still loves him - and never stopped to love him ever. The woman says that she is ready to quit her suroundings, marry Roark and live with him in the rural town of Clayton. But all that she can offer him is washing dishes and ironing clothes for him. Dominique, thinking that Roark is equally broken, offers him also to quit being an architect and find a job in the store. This suggestion amuses Howard to no end, but out of respect to who Dominique was before, he tries not to laugh and rejects firmly, saying that it is too cruel and he could agree to such a marriage just to see who would be the first to plead the other to return to their real self. Dominique understands, but she still is afraid to believe that their idealism can survive. She returns to the train and, as she planned before, divorces Keating and immediately marries Wynand.
Despite Wynand, as Dominique thinks, has sold his soul for wealth and fame, he still has the former admiration of the feats of human spirit. He gathers them and Dominique is one of his possessions. Considering her his property, Wynand becomes extremely jealous, willing to hide Dominique under home arrest so that no one would see her in the city. He searches for the isolated house in the countryside to buy it for them and store his living property there. He chooses between some of the variants, but when he learns that all of the houses he likes are designed by single architect, he decides to hire this architect to make a project of his own house, protected as a fortress. Of course the architect he wants to hire is Howard Roark. Wynand feels that his house will be another valuable possession and praises Roark's genius very high. Admiring Howard's talent, he even helps him to get more clients from New York again, helping him to gain popularity again.
The biggest commission Wynand helps him to get is the project of the Monadnock Valley Resort. But the order is tricky: the clients want the project to fail and already are playing some financial schemes based on that failure. They see that Howard proposes to use separate small houses instead of hotel-type clustered buildings and decide that it will repel people who go for a vacation to socialize. But as always, Roark's idea immediately makes the resort one of the most popular, and his spectacular design allows the resort to enter the list of the best places to go for a vacation in all the country. The owners are arrested for fraud, but Roark receives his money and can return to New York and start his career anew. Soon he receives a letter from his old client, Kent Lansing, who has finally settled down the legal issues with his Aquitania Hotel and asks Roark to come and finish the job.
In the meantime, Keating's career is not as brilliant as he thought it to be. His borrowed designs are replaced by the newer Modernist trend, started by Roark and his first mentor. Trying to stay afloat he comes to Roark again, pleading him to design his last commission for him - the complex of apartments called Cortland Homes. Keating is ready to pay any money, but demands that he takes all the credit for the design. Surprisingly, Roark agrees, demanding only one "payment" - that the building will be constructed exactly according to design. Keating, not believing his luck, agrees immediately and Howard starts working. From their point of view it is a win-win situation: Howard wants to build another great structure without being chased and destroyed again by Toohey, so he uses Keating (who seems to get along well with Toohey) as a proxy. Keating, which is obvious, gets his design for free.
Roark completes the design and goes on a cruise with Wynand. But Toohey demands the design to be altered and Keating, who fears the critic greatly, can't refuse. When Roark returns and see that Keating broke his promise, he blows the building up, even not hiding from the authorities and clearly stating that he did it, saying that he haven't got his payment for the job - the design was altered and that was the only condition. Moreover, he states that Dominique actively helped in blowing up the building, knowing that she is recovering. She was afraid to believe in her ideals before, but now, when she enlisted into the "terrorist" crew, Roark knows that she is again the same Dominique he loved once.
Wynand uses The Banner to save Roark's reputation, because he doesn't want to lose such a brilliant architect he considers almost as valuable for him as Dominique. He still believes that his magazine can revert the public opinion and orders some fiery articles about the wronged genius. But suddenly he discovers that the public he fed the scandals for years is no more interested in noble ideals. They want more yellow stories. Moreover, Toohey was rooting under Wynand for a long time. He bought the majority of the editor positions and they announced a strike, demanding Wynand to change his opinion. Even Dominique's help is futile, Wynand has to fire each of the traitorous editors but all the rest of the team goes on strike too. Finally, defeated Wynand has to write an official apology and revert his public opinion about Roark.
Meanwhile, Roark is taken on trial. He openly confesses that he dynamited the Cortland Homes and once more states that it was he who designed the building. His only payment should be not altering the design and he wasn't paid. Roark proclaims that a creator has the basic right to work on their own terms, the society can accept these terms or not, but it has no right to meddle with his creation. Howard turns to history, saying that lots of great inventors of the past moved the culture and technology forward despite the rejection of their societies. He claims that design of Cortland Homes is his intellectual property and if the city needs it built, he demands his payment - the unchanged project. His speech is so passionate that jury fully agree with his positions and votes to release him. Roger Enright buys what is left from Cortland Homes and hires Howard to rebuild it. Later, Wynand offers Roark the great commission of his own business building - the Wynand Building. He wants it to be the tallest building in the city and is ready to pay enormous sum of money for it. Roark accepts the offer and finally achieves the financial and social success.
The ending of the story shows the fates of all the major characters. Howard finally achieves what he desired and his triumph isn't a compromise with his own ideals and principles. He finishes what Cameron started and proved that his style and methods are revolutionary new and incredibly useful. Dominique finally regained her former self, seeing that the idealists aren't destined to fail. Free from her terrors and sorrows, she finally marries Howard. Wynland, whose wife and best architect fled from his arms is crushed. He understands that all his wealth and fame were built on a lie and he lost the most important part of his personality - his ideals. He has nothing to pass to the next generation and he will not be remembered for his deeds. But there are some debts that he will gladly pay: when Toohey tries to take over The Banner again, using his power over the editors, Wynand just closes the magazine, not caring about his own income anymore, but content to break all the Toohey's schemes that took years to be prepared. Now Toohey is a loser twice: neither he managed to stop Roark nor he took away Wynland's paper. Toohey can start all over again of course, but now, devastated, he lacks both drive and physical health to do so. Keating gets what he deserved. Now, when Roark publicly announced that he did the design for him, giving him all the credits, Keating is exposed as a man who committed fraud. He will never get any major commissions and his career comes to an end forever.
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Mirza Berbić (8. prosinca 1953.), bivši bh. košarkaš i dugogodišnji košarkaški sudac iz Tuzle

Športsku karijeru započeo je skupa s prijateljem Mirzom Delibašićem, poslije poznatim košarkaškim sucem. Delibašić je trenirao nogomet u malom klubu Polet. Nakon nogometa okrenuli su se tenisu, jer su im teniska igrališta bila blizu domova. Tadašnji Teniski klub Sloboda bio je među najbolje organiziranima u cijeloj Jugoslaviji. U završnici republičkog prvenstva pobijedio je ga je prijatelj Delibašić. Na kraju su oboje otišli u košarku. Prvi su im treneri u Slobodi bili Anto Ramljak i Zdravko Dugonjić koji su odmah prepoznali umijeće kod Delibašića. Trenirali su u dvorani Osnovne škole "Franjo Rezač", danas OŠ "Kreka".
U finalu Kupa Bosne i Hercegovine 1970. godine Sloboda je pobijedila u sarajevskoj Skenderiji Bosnu. Pobjednički sastav bio je: Anto Ramljak, Mujezinović, Ilić, Izet Delibašić, Husanović, Milosavljević, Imamović, Muharem Abdurahmanović Haro, Ilija Simendić, Krešo Raspudić, Berbić, Delibašić, Halilagić, Ristić, te još Kašarević, Biberović.
Berbić se poslije okrenuo uspješnoj sudačkoj karijeri.

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Anti-religious bigotry has struck two campuses of the State University of New York (SUNY). In November, SUNY-New Paltz hosted a conference entitled, "Revolting Behavior: The Challenges of Women's Sexual Freedom." Widely discussed for its obscene exhibitions, the conference also targeted Orthodox Jews and Catholics: both were mocked and humiliated in a most callous way. Then last month, the student newspaper at SUNY-Stony Brook, the Press, depicted graphically and editorially a vile, anti-Catholic and ad hominem attack against SUNY Trustee, Dr. Candace de Russy; de Russy was the person who blew the whistle on what happened on the New Paltz campus.
Catholic League president William Donohue explained what the league is doing about this issue:
"I have written a letter to SUNY Trustees, New York State Education officials, the Governor and the entire New York State Legislature, asking them to explain why SUNY has allowed this bigoted assault against Catholics and Jews to occur with impunity. Specifically, I would like to know why Catholics and Jews appear to be treated differently than African-Americans and gays: there is little doubt that if the latter two groups were the subject of a vicious assault, much more would be said than the usual First Amendment response.
"The First Amendment, of course, allows for administrators and faculty to express their moral outrage at what has happened. Their deafening silence will only give succor to the bigots, making further assaults likely.
"The cruel attack on Dr. de Russy is particularly upsetting insofar as she is being punished for simply doing her job. At the very least, the Catholic League would like to see New York State officials contact Dr. de Russy expressing their support for what she has done and empathy for her situation."
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Aymen Tahar (en ), né le  à Alger, est un footballeur algérien. Il évolue au Boavista FC au poste de milieu relayeur.

Biographie

Il joue plus de 100 matchs dans le championnat de Roumanie.

Avec le club du Steaua Bucarest, il joue trois matchs en Ligue des champions, et une rencontre en Ligue Europa.

Palmarès
 Finaliste de la Supercoupe de Roumanie en 2015 avec le Steaua Bucarest

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Footballeur algérien
Joueur du Sheffield United FC
Joueur du Ferencváros TC (football)
Joueur du CS Gaz Metan Mediaș
Joueur du Steaua Bucarest
Joueur du Sagan Tosu
Joueur du Boavista Futebol Clube
Naissance en octobre 1989
Naissance à Alger


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Can Democrats Finally Fix Their Nagging Florida Problem In Time For 2020?
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March 7, 2019 6:00 a.m.
Nikki Fried headed into Election Day last fall with a spring in her step.
The Democratic candidate for Florida's agricultural commissioner had led in nearly every recent public and private poll, as had Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Andrew Gillum (D), the party's nominee for governor. They had built up what looked like solid leads in early voting. While Fried says she remained "cautiously optimistic" about her chances, other Democrats were already measuring the drapes.
"Everyone kept asking me, 'Who's going to be on your transition team?'" she told TPM.
But election night didn't go as planned. By the time Fried went to bed, Republicans led in every single statewide race.
Weeks of recounts, lawsuits and protests followed. After the smoke cleared, Fried emerged with a 6,753-vote lead out of more than 8 million votes cast— the only Democrat to win statewide in Florida, as Nelson and Gillum both fell just short.
Florida's results were the biggest disappointment of an otherwise triumphant night for Democrats in competitive states around the country. As the party made inroads in other formerly red Sun Belt states and rebounded in a major way in some key Midwestern battlegrounds, the perennial swing state stayed just out of Democrats' reach.
The results gave Fried "so much heartbreak." They left her and other Democrats wondering what went wrong, and whether they can fix things in time for 2020, when strategists in both parties believe the Sunshine State could once again decide the presidency.
Past Failures
The 2018 election was the latest bleak result for Florida Democrats.
Billionaire Rick Scott won the governorship by just over one percentage point in the 2010 GOP wave, and hung on for an even closer win over Republican-turned-Democratic former Gov. Charlie Crist four years later. He defeated Nelson by just 10,000 votes last fall.
Scott's fortune played a huge role — he spent more than $200 million of his own money in his three elections including $64 million in 2018, building out a targeted field operation that Democrats have failed to match.
Crist, now a congressman, said he's "living evidence" of Democrats' recent statewide struggles.
"It's disappointing to say the least, but I think that there is hope that Florida will continue to be competitive. Obviously it is competitive," he told TPM.
Crist was in part a victim of the year he ran. Clinton's 2016 loss came as Trump saw a huge surge in votes from rural and exurban North Florida and the Panhandle, patterns that continued in 2018. Nelson's and Gillum's losses are harder to justify given Democrats' big wins in other swing states. The two essentially beta tested Democrats' ideological divide, with the old, white, moderate Nelson and the young, black, progressive Gillum reaching near-identical results.
Nelson was the only Senate Democrat to lose a race in a state that Trump had won by less than double-digit margins, and Democrats both nationally and locally expressed deep frustration that he didn't take Scott seriously enough. He hired campaign staff late, did little outreach to key Hispanic communities, and as the state's sole statewide elected Democrat didn't do much over the years to help his party build a ground game.
When Gillum pulled off a surprise primary win over a crowded field including former Rep. Gwen Graham (D-FL), he came into the general election with no statewide organization. Gillum ended up raising huge sums, but it takes early investment to build up field operations — late TV buys only go so far. An FBI probe into Tallahassee hurt him too, though it didn't end up involving Gillum.
State party chaos didn't help either. Florida Democratic Party Chairman Stephen Bittel was forced to resign in late 2017 after multiple women accused him of creating a hostile work environment. His successor, Terrie Rizzo, spent much of the year playing catch-up to Scott's well-oiled machine. Outside groups poured money into the state to help make up the difference, but their voter registration and field efforts were poorly coordinated, often duplicating one another's efforts in one part of the state while missing troves of voters elsewhere.
Democrats argue it's not all doom and gloom. They picked up two House seats in 2018, Fried won, and Nelson and Gillum fell just short. But they agree something needs to change.
"There is an element of randomness to it. You can play blackjack and lose 10 hands in a row and not play bad," said Steve Schale, Obama's top Florida adviser. "But there are real structural problems we have to deal with that make it harder for us to win."
Demographic Shifts Cut Both Ways
Democrats' ongoing Florida struggles come amidst a period of rapid growth and diversification in the state.
Non-Hispanic whites made up just 54.1 percent of Florida's population in 2018, according to Census figures, down from 59.1 percent in 2010 and 66.4 percent in 2000. The total Hispanic population has grown to 25.6 percent of the state's overall population, up from 22.5 percent in 2010 and 16.8 percent in 2000.
The fastest growth has come in the Democratic-leaning Puerto Rican community. That population more than doubled since 2000 and more than 1 million lived in Florida by 2017. That was before Hurricane Maria hit the island. Another 200,000 Puerto Ricans moved to Florida in its aftermath, according to some estimates, though it's as yet unclear how many have stayed.
But Hispanics aren't the only ones moving to Florida. White retirees continue to flock south in droves, with massive retirement communities like The Villages in central Florida ranking among the fastest-growing metro areas in the country.
Retiree arrivals have shifted from the Northeast to the more conservative Midwest in recent years. Old, white midwesterners are about as likely to lean Republican as young Latinos are to lean Democratic. They're also much more likely to be citizens — and significantly more likely to vote.
"Any gains Democrats have made with their constituencies, with Puerto Ricans and other Hispanic groups in central Florida and the southeast around Miami, are being offset by the influx of white retirees that are moving into the state," said University of Florida Professor Michael McDonald. "That's why we continue to be this battleground state."
Autopsies and Investments
Even as the state has become marginally more Democratic demographically, Republicans have out-organized their opponents on the ground for the past decade. That's partly because it's simply a lot easier to register retirees moving into concentrated communities than new arrivals scattered across diverse communities. Scott's money played a huge factor. But Democrats admit they haven't been doing enough.
When Obama won the state in 2008, Florida Democrats had a voter-registration edge of 670,000. Their edge is now down to 250,000 — the lowest in decades. Both the Florida Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee have been in various states of disarray for much of the past decade, and the bevy of outside groups that have stepped in to try to plug holes in Democrats' organizational apparatus have failed to coordinate amongst themselves and replace a functioning party.
"We're in a better place demographically but a worse place politically, partly because we do voter registration for four months every four years," said Schale.
Florida Democrats are currently going through a formal autopsy, and held their first in-person statewide meeting last Saturday to discuss what must be changed. A full report is expected by late spring.
Florida Democratic Party executive director Juan Penalosa admits they were outdone in 2018 — but says things are changing.
Penalosa came onboard in March 2018, a late start to begin building out an operation in a state as massive and diverse as Florida.
"For us to win we need to do a ton of party registration," Penalosa told TPM.
The state party has laid out a $2 million battle plan for 2020, with $400,000 of that already raised. The goal is to register at least 200,000 new Democratic voters this year, a major improvement over the 80,000 registered in the entire 2018 cycle. Party operatives also plan to continue to invest in getting low-propensity voters to register for vote-by-mail — a way for them to push their supporters to vote before Election Day and make sure they turn in their ballots.
Part of that includes Organizing Corps, a new effort from the Democratic National Committee to train swing-state college juniors in field operations, have them lead on-campus efforts their senior years and and then provide them stipends to work after graduation through the 2020 elections.
The DNC's first wave of recruits will be from Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. Penalosa says he doesn't have an exact number of how many will be in his state, but that it will be at least 100 people — and he plans for it to be double that number, even if he has to raise funds for the others himself.
Priorities USA, Democrats' main national super-PAC, is stepping up with a huge digital investment as well. The group is pouring $100 million into Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan this year on digital messaging efforts — the four core states the group believes are most likely to decide the presidency.
The state party has also issued state records requests to try to compile a robust list of former felons in the state, hoping to take advantage of a recent state constitutional amendment that restored their right to vote.
Democrats have talked about those 1.4 million former felons as a huge potential boon: Crist called registering that new pool of potential voters "the greatest hope there is" for state Democrats.
But McDonald, the Florida professor, told TPM that the real number of eligible voters in that population is likely more like 300,000. It's early, but McDonald said his initial review of new voter registration numbers indicates that just 5,000 former felons have registered to vote so far — and that Democrats barely lead Republicans among this group.
Republicans aren't standing still, either. Unlike in 2016, Trump and the RNC are actually building out a robust campaign infrastructure. Democrats will spend the next year-plus fighting it out for their party's presidential nomination, and a late nomination could leave whoever's the nominee scrambling to catch up in organizational efforts. Florida Democrats saw a similar scenario play out last fall after Gillum won his August primary, and are concerned it might happen again.
A lot can happen in the 20 months until the 2020 election. The Democratic nominee will play a huge role in how the party does in Florida next year. The looming investigations hanging over Trump could doom any chance of reelection, or he could look more formidable by then. And Florida has historically been incredibly close — less than half a percent divides the two parties in the last five presidential elections combined.
But Florida Democrats know they have their work cut out for them.
"With a little extra added effort this can be overcome," Crist said. "I believe that."
Cameron Joseph Cameron Joseph is Talking Points Memo's senior political correspondent based in Washington, D.C. He covers Capitol Hill, the White House and the permanent campaign. Previous publications include the New York Daily News, Mashable, The Hill and National Journal. He grew up near Chicago and is an irrationally passionate Cubs fan.
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The Royals lost last night to their cross-state rival, the Cardinals, 8-4, splitting the first two games of the home and away 4-game series. Yordano Ventura gave up 7 runs in 5.1 innings, thanks to Brian Flynn allowing both of Yo's runners to score after he entered the game. The Royals also had bases loaded and one out on two different occasions and didn't score either time, including the bottom of the ninth.
The Royals have now lost three of their last five at home after winning 12 of the previous 13 (and 15 of 17). Despite the 2-3 homestand, the Royals have won 16 of the last 21 and 20 of the last 24. Their 27-11 home record is the best in all of baseball, one game better than the Cubs (25-11).
But, for as good as they are at home, they're that bad on the road. At 13-25, there's only two teams with worse record in MLB – AL Central foe Minnesota Twins (10-26) and the Reds (11-25). They've lost 11 of their last 13 on the road, averaging fewer than two runs per game. On a positive note, the Royals are 6-3 against the Twins and White Sox on the road, winning all three series against them, but their just 1-6 at Cleveland, making 7-9 on the road within the division (21-11 overall, thanks to the 14-2 home mark).
It's a night and day difference for the Royals the K and away from it. Their .737 win percentage at home would pace for a 119-win season, or one game better that the best season in MLB history (Seattle Mariners, ). The .342 winning percentage on the road is a 55-win pace is one-game worse than the Royals worst record of all-time (56-106).
The Royals (40-36) have played 38 games both home and away, so let's take a look at the night and day difference home-road splits.
As you can see, the offensive numbers at home and away are much different. The Royals have the third best batting average in baseball at the home, and their home OBP and SLUG are both ranked as eighth best in MLB. The only things that appear to not be affected by location are the running game and strikeout and walk rates – both which are low, no matter what. The Royals road average is 30 points below their home marks, their OBP 37 points less and slugging 60 points less. Their road average still ranks as the 10th best in baseball, but their OBP (21st) and SLUG (27th) are not good. Another issue – much like their offensive woes back in April – are linked to hitting with runners in scoring position. Overall, they rank seventh in baseball, but they're still atrocious away from home. Everything else ranks in the top third at home, but the lower third on the road.
Individually, almost every Royal is worse offensively on the road than at the home, which is not much of a revelation, based on the obvious home-road splits. Only Lorenzo Cain, Alex Gordon and Cheslor Cuthbert are better away from the K than they are there.
Unlike the offense, there isn't a bunch of evidence that pitching is much worse on the road than it is at home, however, one thing that stands out are the long balls. And, a lot of 'em. The park factor does matter, as the spacious Kauffman Stadium is not known as a park great for allowing the homer. That said, the Royals staff has given up 100 gopher balls and only five teams have allowed more. On the road, the Royals have allowed 14 more HR, and the 57 ranks as second worst in MLB. The long balls also has a direct result on opposing slashlines, where's its .249/.297/.389 at the K compared to .261/.333/.455 on the road.
Overall, the pitching is a bit better at home than away, which is not shocking based on the record differential and the size of the parks, but the discrepancies are not nearly as noticeable as it is with the offense. For instance, the WHIP is a slight 9-point better at home (1.28) compared to the road (1.37), but it still ranks 14th overall, on the road and at home. The walk rate is worse on the road than at home, but the strikeout rate is also higher.
The noticeable splits difference here is with the starting rotation and the bullpen. The bullpen is not to B-BOAT (best bullpen of all time), but it still ranks near the top across the board – fifth in wins (14), WHIP (1.17) and HR allowed (23), third in opposing SLUG and No. 1 in losses (5) and ERA (2.73). Meanwhile, the rotation has been dreadful, whether it home or away. Their ERA (5.08), WHIP (1.42) and quality starts all rank third worst in MLB, and their 77 HR allowed is dead last. Not good.
As for some of the pitchers themselves, there's some alarming home/road splits. The bullpen has been good, no matter where the game is played, but the story is not the same for some of the starters. Ian Kennedy (6-6, 3.96 ERA) is 3-1 with a 2.11 ERA in six starts at home, but a woeful 3-5 with a woeful 5.36 ERA, mostly due to homers allowed – only 4 at the K and 15 on the road. Edinson Volquez (7-7, 5.15 ERA) saw his ERA increase 103 points thanks to his historic 12 runs (11 earned), pitching into the second inning, but not recording an out. Including that start, Volquez has still been MUCH BETTER at home (5-3, 4.22 ERA in 10 starts) than on the road (2-4, 6.82 ERA in 6 starts). Volquez's pitch counts have been concerns on the road, thanks to a terrible walk rate, where he's putting an extra three batters on over nine innings than he is at home. Before getting bombed by the Astros, Steady Eddie's ERA at home was more than four runs better. Chris Young, like the two before him, also owns a drastic home-road splits, and much like Kennedy, owns a terrible HR rate, allowing 13 HR in just 21 innings, as opposed to 8 in 32 at home. Homers have plagued him all year, where his 21 allowed ranks last in MLB, despite pitching just 53.2 innings. His ERA away from the K is 9.70, and he is winless in five starts with an eye-popping .340 average against. Wow. At 2-7 overall with a 6.54 ERA, like Volquez, he had still been really good at home before a terrible outing (2.1 IP, 7 ER). Now owning a 4.45 ERA at home, with a .500 record (2-2), he did have a 2.70 ERA and a 10.20 K/9.
It's no surprise that one of the best road pitchers, Kris Medlen has been better on the road (1-1, 3.86 ERA in 4 starts) as opposed to home (0-2, 20.65 ERA in just 5.2 IP in two starts). Danny Duffy (3-1. 3.24 ERA) has been better than league average, whether home or away, but he has been really, really good on the road, in four starts (1-1, 2.03 ERA, .214 batting average against). Ventura (6-5, 5.00 ERA), however, has not really been very good anywhere, although he is 4-1 at home, despite his 4.79 ERA, thanks to a reduced walk rate and friendly run support.
With the stark difference home and away, the Royals (40-36) are on a current 85-77 pace, which likely wont be good enough for the playoffs. In 2013, the Royals won 86 games and missed the playoffs. The following year they won 87, and then went all the way to the World Series. They're currently on a 27-54 pace on the road. No team has ever been that bad on the road and made the postseason. Three teams have had the worst road record and still made the playoffs: 1987 Minnesota Twins went (29-52), the ASStros last year (33-48) and the 2006 Cardinals (34-47). If the Royals can get improve, even a little bit – maybe 7-8 games – and maintain as the best, or one of the best teams at the friendly confines, they'll inch closer to a 90-win pace and improve their playoff chances greatly. It starts with scoring on the road, where the 3.18 runs per game is an enormous split compared to 5.0 at home. In fact, at home, the Royals are above league average in nearly every offensive category, minus walks, whereas on the road, they're below league average in nearly everything, sans batting average (.262) and strikeout rates. Pitching wise, the problems are not as noticeable, but it's there. Despite getting destroyed in two games by the Astros (19 ER in 3.1 IP from Young and Volquez) and 7 ER in 5.1 IP from Ventura last night – adding nearly a run onto the team ERA, the Royals (3.92) are still better than league average (3.98), but on the road, other than the terrible HR rate and walk rates (second worst), the Royals runs allowed is still better than league average.
It could simply be an anomaly, but, with the equal amount of games played both home and away and almost to the halfway point of the season, there's certainly enough there for it to be a trend. If the Royals can improve their scoring on the road, and cut down on the long ball and walk rates, they'll slowly improve their record on the road.
But, will it be too late?
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This week I will be presenting two live lectures, and I would love for you to attend!
Not every language student needs to learn how to write a formal essay in English, depending on their personal learning goals and future needs. However, the written component of any language is an important aspect to include in a complete language course that includes the four key skill components: listening, speaking, reading, and, of course, writing. In this lecture, I will share about how writing can be more than a formal academic task, but also, a tool to elicit language production, and medium for engaging students in a multi-faceted approach. If you would like to hear about the importance of writing in the classroom and strategies for using writing, but perhaps not in the traditional way that you initially would think, then this lecture is for you.
Please join me using the links below posted above with each lecture description. Also, you are welcome to listen to a recording of the presentation after it is completed if you're unable to attend. Feel free to contact me if you have further questions.


Assessment of health-related quality of life and how it predicts the outcome of pegylated interferon and ribavirin therapy for chronic hepatitis C.
Matsushita H, Ikeda F, Iwasaki Y, Seki H, Nanba S, Takeuchi Y, Moritou Y, Yasunaka T, Onishi H, Miyake Y, Takaki A, Nouso K, Yamamoto K.
J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2014 Feb;29(2):337-43. doi: 10.1111/jgh.12337.
Serum glycan as a prognostic marker in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma treated with sorafenib.
Miyahara K, Nouso K, Miyake Y, Nakamura S, Obi S, Amano M, Hirose K, Nishimura S, Yamamoto K.
Hepatology. 2014 Jan;59(1):355-6. doi: 10.1002/hep.26531. Epub 2013 Nov 19. No abstract available.


It does, however, have a tall 18:9 aspect ratio, which is becoming more popular on flagship devices.
The SIM card tray is placed on the bottom, which is pretty unique placement seen previously on the Oppo Find X. Unlike the Pixel 2 of previous year, the Pixel 3 is coming with an 18:9 display without any notch.
The dimensions for the Pixel 3 are 145.6 x 68.2 x 7.9 mm. Rest of the design remains the same as the Pixel 3. There's still room for speculation, but these are the best renders accurately showing us what the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL could have based on the rumours we've heard. It will be slightly larger too, with a display of 5.4 inches. This corroborates a recent report from Bloomberg (below), which claimed that while the Pixel 3 XL will sport a notch, its smaller Pixel 3 won't receive the same treatment. It will come with 6.2-inch display with notch and will house the same camera and sensor as the Pixel 3.
Difficile toutefois de ne pas revenir sur le quintuple Ballon d'Or: "J'ai l'impression qu'il ne vit pas le football comme nous. Il marque, il marque, il marque et il ne s'en lasse jamais, il a ça en lui.
Elsewhere, things are pretty run-of-the-mill. Hence, the inclusion of an extra camera on the front on both the Pixel 3 and 3 XL leads us to believe that these smartphones will probably come with some advanced level face recognition tech. With the last two generations of the Pixel-series devices being announced on October 4, Google may opt to unveil its upcoming handsets on that same date this year.
Phone Designer In this post, which will be updated regularly, we'll be looking at the latest rumors surrounding the Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL. The larger variant is said to sport a display notch, while both the phones have a single camera setup at the back. Both the phones will also feature front-facing stereo speakers.
Otherwise, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL will host a USB Type-C port on the bottom of the phone for charging and will lack 3.5mm headphone jack again this year.
L'Uruguay poursuit donc sa route dans cette compétition et rencontrera en quarts de finale la France. Cavani a offert la victoire à à la 'Celeste' d'une frappe enroulée (62e).
We'll find just how accurate these renders are later this fall, when the Pixel 3 and 3 XL are expected to debut. While it's immediately unclear the reason behind the major design change, it's expected that Google wants to make the device thinner than its predecessors.
Our first tidbit of speculation comes courtesy of a pair of alleged tempered glass screen protectors.
Par ailleurs, Henri Joyeux pointait la présence d'aluminium comme adjuvant dans le vaccin en estimant que cela représentait un danger, ce qu'aucune étude n'a démontré .
With the new Maps , Apple will collect its own data - and that's literally Apple's main approach towards fixing Maps. Northern California will then get support later this fall, with a wider rollout planned over the next year.
For a country of 3.5m, it would be an incredible feat, but it's a realistic aim as they prepare for France in the last 16. KEYS TO THE GAME Stopping Ronaldo. "We have our weapons and we're going to try to win".
Ainsi, chacune de ses primes de match a été reversée à une association différente depuis le début de la compétition. D'autant qu'elles sont très nettement inférieures à ce que les joueurs perçoivent en club.
Trump has signed three versions of executive orders on immigration restrictions targeting several Muslim-majority countries. The dissent also states that "a reasonably observer would conclude that [the ban] was motivated by anti-Muslim animus".
I can't answer that question honestly. "I need to be mindful of how I'm feeling on a day-to-day basis. There is no danger of me injuring my hip more than any other stage', Murray assured.
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A satellite image shows what 38 North says is ongoing uranium enrichment at a North Korean nuclear facility on June 21, 2018. South Korean officials say better transport would greatly improve North Korea's economy by facilitating trade and tourism.
Sampaoli: "L'Argentine va jouer avec un couteau entre les dents"
Il a ça en lui. "Si nous avons le contrôle du jeu sommes capables de créer des espaces, ça va être compliqué pour la France", promet le coatch.
Cependant, Marca a assuré plus tard dans la journée que le club leur avait communiqué que cette information était erronée. Ce qui aurait conduit à la fameuse une du quotidien portugais Record , le 7 juin: " Ronaldo va quitter le Real Madrid ".
It has been reported on the eve of this weekend's Austrian GP that Ricciardo was on the "verge" of re-signing for Red Bull . He probably imagined it differently", added the Austrian, making clear Red Bull wanted him to stay but "not at any price".
The extra time allowed the team to improve the new specification to a greater extent than had been intended. The Finnish driver also started in front a year ago and went on to win the race. "The auto felt so good".
And before the potential Ronaldo-Messi clash, there are some intriguing individual battles as sub-plots in Saturday's matches. Coincidentally, both Ronaldo and Messi played in their first World Cup in 2006. "I still think he saved them some times".
Trump s'en prend régulièrement au fonctionnement des organismes multilatéraux, et critique régulièrement l'OTAN. La Maison Blanche, elle, n'a pas souhaité faire de commentaires, selon le Washington Post qui l'a interrogée.
He posted a picture of the side celebrating the win over Manchester United , but blocked Conte with trophy emojis. Chelsea FC have turned down FC Barcelona's initial £50m offer to sign Willian , according to a report in England.


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UK release date: Mar 26 2008
by Shawn Fitzgerald
published: 26 Mar 2008 in Films
cast list
David Caruso
Pamela Reed
The new hostage thriller Proof Of Life proves that Hollywood is still capable of producing quality entertainment when there is some competency both in front of and behind the camera. A solid, engrossing adventure from start to finish, Life is the first big-budget movie in a while to deliver a high level of entertainment value for its viewer.
Russell Crowe plays a professional hostage negotiator named Terry Thorne, who is sent down to a fictional South American country named Tecala in the attempts to free an American engineer named Peter Bowman (David Morse) who has been kidnapped by a Marxist revolutionary organization named ELT. Not surprisingly, Peter's wife Alice (Meg Ryan) is quite shaken up by the ordeal, and Terry does his best to help Mrs. Bowman and her sister-in-law Janis (Pamela Reed) focus and keep calm. But when the company Peter was working for does some business reshuffling and leaves her without the insurance needed to keep Terry in their service, she is stuck with the inept local authority instead.
Terry has a personal change of heart however and decides to return on his own to help Alice get Peter back. This begins a lengthy ordeal that is filled with bartering for a reasonable ransom, false hopes and more than a few twists and turns along the way. It is also a period in which Alice and Terry begin to form a relationship that may or may not lead to something else (insert your own tabloid headline/smart ass comment here).
While Tony Gilroy's screenplay may be filled with some silly dialogue and occasional lulls in logic, it does a credible job with keeping the viewer involved in the action throughout its 135-minute running time. I'm not entirely sure if this is how hostage negotiation is handled, but what is represented in the film makes for riveting drama. Gilroy also fleshes out Peter's kidnapping ordeal and makes it more than just a plot device (a lot of that success should also be given to actor David Morse).
Director Taylor Hackford, whose last film was the extraordinarily whacked thriller Devil's Advocate, does a nice job bringing Gilroy's screenplay to life. He keeps the pace going at a nice clip, stumbling only when it comes to his handling of the romantic subplot between Alice and Terry. While one scene does remain in which the two kiss (and some dialogue to go along with said smooch), there is nothing else in the final print to suggest the two did anything beyond talk to each other. Aside from that, his documentary-style approach to the material and expert handling of the intense action scenes help make this film a welcome relief to a genre suffering from music video filmmaking overkill.
As for the cast, they are uniformly solid. Crowe is completely believable as Thorne, giving his character a nice balance of control and intensity. As in Gladiator, L.A. Confidential or The Insider, Russell Crowe proves once again that he is one of the best actors working today. Ryan, still trying to find her dramatic footing, doesn't fare as well but still delivers a solid performance, one that is on a level with her work in 1998's City Of Angels. Despite the choppy presentation of the romance angle, their onscreen chemistry works well (I really could care less about their affair offscreen, and so should you). David Morse excels as Peter, wonderfully conveying fear, dignity, anger and desperation, while David Caruso has a nice turn as Peter's friend who also happens to be a hostage negotiator. Only Pamela Reed seems occasionally one-note as the sister-in-law, who takes a hike from the flick about one hour into it.
Proof Of Life isn't Oscar material and it's not going to change your life, but it will entertain you while you are watching it. It's involving, it's engrossing and it is, for the most part, expertly made fun. When was the last time you heard me (or for that matter, yourself) say that about a mainstream Hollywood film?


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Le Second Mythographe du Vatican  est l'auteur anonyme d'un manuel médiéval sur les mythologies grecque et romaine. Il fait partie de la série des trois « Mythographes du Vatican » (en latin, Mythographi Vaticani), qui tirent leur nom du fait que leurs textes ont été découverts dans un manuscrit conservé à la Bibliothèque vaticane, Vatican Reg. lat. 1401 et publiés pour la première fois par le cardinal Angelo Mai, bibliothécaire du Vatican, en 1831.

Le texte du Second Mythographe est connu aussi par quelques autres manuscrits. Il pourrait dater de la fin du .

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Péter Kulcsár, Mythographi Vaticani I et II (Corpus Christianorum Series Latina, 91c), Turnhout, Brepols, 1987.
 Philippe Dain (avec la collaboration de François Kerlouégan), Mythographe du Vatican II, Besançon, Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2000, 339 p. (traduction et commentaire).

Articles connexes
 Premier Mythographe du Vatican.
 Troisième Mythographe du Vatican.

Mythographe
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For each plate and each survey, this table gives the mean offsets between the positions of the stars common to PPMX and USNO-B 1.0 with USNO-B magnitudes between 12.5 and 13.5. To find these, the PPMX positions were brought to the epoch of the USNO-B plate using the PPMX proper motions. Note that the infrared surveys have not been processed since we could not figure out how to map the plate data to the survey numbers given in USNO-B 1.0.


Russian PM Vladimir Putin traveled to Beijing, China to sign a major trade agreement with his Chinese counterpart that will supply China with nearly 2.5 trillion cubic feet of gas per year via two pipelines originating in Siberia.
China has one of the fastest growing economies in the world and has been searching far and wide for new sources of energy with a focus on Russia as a potential supplier of large amounts of natural gas.
There are few details to the gas trade agreement or other economic deals reached between the two nations, but Vladimir Putin said the bi-lateral economic cooperation has withstood the test of global financial crisis.
A major gas trade deal between Russia and China focuses the world on two superpowers today and two major players in the future according to Bible prophecy.
When it comes to superpowers in our world today, both Russia and China would be included on the list. With the passing of time, these two world powers have grown closer together in economic, political and military issues of the day. Now, with the signing of a gas trade agreement, Russia will supply China with the much needed energy source that is essential for China to keep its ever expanding growth on track.
What is so interesting in this report for the student of Bible prophecy is that both Russia and China have a major role in the last days scenario that is found in Bible prophecy. Russia at the beginning of the seven year Tribulation and China at the end of this time of testing. Ezekiel 38:2 mentions Magog as the leader of a coalition of nations that will align themselves against Israel at the beginning of the Tribulation. Magog is modern-day Russia. Revelation 16:12 mentions the "Kings of the East" making their way into Israel at the end of the Tribulation Period and China is the leader today of the nations of the far East.
As a student of Bible prophecy, I keep a close watch on China and Russia and this latest gas trade deal between these two nations is indeed evidence that Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.


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Q: Laravel Check Empty Array I still have trouble with checking if an array is empty or not in laravel.
This is my view:
@foreach($restaurantmenue as $daily)

                    @if(empty($daily->articles))
                      no article
                      @else
                        @foreach($daily->articles as $menue)

{{$menue->title}}

                       @endforeach
                    @endif

                @endforeach

{{dd($daily->articles)}}
When I check my views (One with an Article and the other without an article)       I get this output:
The View with an existing article shows:
    Collection {#228 ▼
      #items: array:1 [▶]
    }
And the view without an article shows:
    Collection {#227 ▼
  #items: []
}
I have no idea why the code in the IF STATEMENT is not executed. The "No Article" Message is not displayed.

A: Because it's Laravel collection, you can use isEmpty() helper:
@if($daily->articles->isEmpty())

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1. All Presiding Officers and 1st Polling Officers should be thoroughly trained on the usage of Mobile App Developed for the said purpose.
2. They must be instructed to carry smart phone to the polling duties.
3. Mobile Android App is placed at http://36.255.252.196/emsqdash/assets/app/ems.apk for the purpose of training for 3 days time. Logins and passwords for created constituency wise from AC_1 to AC_175. These logins and passwords are psno_1 to psno_175 for each constituency.
4. Each event should be reported as YES once it is done in a periodical time.
5. Web based dashboards will be placed at http://36.255.252.196/emsqdash/ with logins and passwords (username ac_1 and password ac_1) for monitoring the events reported by Presiding Officers of each Polling Station.
6. Similarly district level and CEO level will monitor the reporting activity.
In view of the above, District Elecction Officers are requested to ensure all Returning Officers are briefed in this regard.
Strict compliance is requested in imparting training on the above subject during the second round trainings planned by ROs to their allotted Presiding Officers and 1st Polling Officers.


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Mexican President Felipe Calderon, accused of allowing his Army to commit atrocities
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Could it be? Is it true? Mexican human rights activists are pointing the finger of blame on Mexico's President, Felipe Calderon. They claim that Calderon is responsible for atrocities committed by the Mexican Army – atrocities consisting of rape, torture, kidnappings, and murders perpetrated against innocent civilians, people who are not involved in the so-called War on drug traffickers.
Netzai Sandoval, a Mexican human rights lawyer, filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands, requesting an investigation of the thousands of deaths of civilians at the hands of traffickers and Army personnel. More than 45,000 have died as a result of the drug war in Mexico – a war that has been raging from the time that Calderon assumed the presidency and he vowed to eliminate the drug traffickers who were creating such havoc in Mexico. "The violence in Mexico is bigger than the violence in Afghanistan, the violence in Mexico is bigger than in Colombia," Sandoval said in his report to the ICC.
Sandoval claims that the atrocities committed by the Mexican Army, which operates with impunity, are the direct result of Calderon's actions in trying to stem the tide of violence. But, don't hold your breath because an investigation by the ICC could take months, or even years; this, despite the fact that 23,000 Mexican citizens signed the complaint that was sent to the ICC. According to Sandoval, Calderon, if he is tried before the international court may be out of office since his tenure in office will be up next year.
Calderon, speaking in his own defense, has said that his government is not at war with the murderous cartels and that the use of the Army is at the behest of state governments. The accusers say, however, that Calderon has systematically allowed Mexican troops to commit abuses against civilians since 2006, with more tan 50,000 soldiers fighting cartels across Mexico, while the numbers of federal police, who are also accused of committing atrocities have increased from six thousand to 35 thousand since Calderon grabbed the presidency.
A human rights report says that evidence points to 170 cases of torture, 24 murders, and 39 forced disappearances in five Mexican states. "We have known for five years that the Mexican Army is committing sexual abuse, executing people, torturing people and kidnapping, and there have been no sanctions," Sandoval said.
In one such case, Susana Seijas, a CBS News producer based in Mexico City, said that Gustavo Acosta Jr., 29, was shot in the head by armed Navy officers. After hearing a banging on his door, Acosta Jr. went to see who was doing the banging. The Navy officers accused Acosta Jr. of shooting at them. He denied the accusation, but, it did him no good. He was immediately killed.
Nik Steinberg, the author of the Human Rights Watch report regarding Acosta, said: "The scale of violence that we're seeing in Mexico is unprecedented, innocent people are being caught in the middle, they're being tortured, they're being killed, they're being disappeared and they're being branded as criminals." While Mexican authorities contend that 90 percent of the people killed in drug-related violence are members of criminal groups, this not borne out, because most deaths in Mexico are not investigated.


If you had a normal pre-pregnancy weight, pregnancy should not receive more than 12 pounds. They will, after delivery, easy to lose and so restore the old line. If you are entering pregnancy as a skinny, then you can ugojite up to 16 kg, but if you were overweight, try to not get pregnant during more than 10 kg.
At the beginning of pregnancy does not get much weight on average in the first three months of the word is only about a kilogram or two. Some pregnant women, because of frequent morning sickness, during this period may even lose weight. In the second trimester, the mother gets five or six pounds, of which one goes to the baby in the third quarter, four or five pounds, but keep in mind that the baby was already a difficult two and a half to three and a half pounds. Before birth weight usually stops growing, and some pregnant women and even then they lose some pounds.
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Q: How to get first element of a collection inside another collection also from the first element? I would like to find the most efficent way how to find 1st element of collection which is inside another collection where I take also the 1st entry. I think this is "ugly" solution.
public class UnitLine {}

public class Unit {

private Collection<UnitLine> unitLines;

public Collection<UnitLine> getUnitLines() {
    return unitLines;
}

}
public class Wrapper {

Collection<Unit> units;

public Collection<Unit> getUnits() {
    return units;
}

}
public static void main(String[] args) {

    Wrapper wrapper = new Wrapper();

    Unit unit = wrapper.getUnits().stream().findFirst().orElseGet(null);
    if (unit != null) {
        UnitLine unitLine = unit.getUnitLines().stream().findFirst().orElseGet(null);
        if (unitLine != null) {
            // do something
        }
    }
}

A: Turning Optionals into nulls means you can't take advantage of the nice features of Optional. Here's an equivalent of your code that uses Optional map and orElse usefully:
UnitLine unitLine = wrapper.getUnits().stream()
  .findFirst()
  .map(Unit::getLines)
  .orElse(Collections.emptySet()).stream()
  .findFirst()
  .orElse(null);

That code gets the first element of the first collection, or null if the first collection is empty. To get the first element of the first non-empty collection, you can use flatMap:
wrapper.getUnits().stream()
  .map(Unit::getUnitLines)
  .flatMap(Collection::stream)
  .findFirst()