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Prague, July 9 (CTK) - Czech scientists have connected cybernetics and Egyptology in a project that enables to get to know detailed relations between dignitaries, the ruling dynasty members and priests in Ancient Egypt, the Czech Technical University (CVUT) said in a press release on Monday.
The CVUT experts, who participate in the project, have managed to sort out and arrange fragmented data about almost 5,000 people gathered from various sources to create remarkable networks of relations between significant persons in Ancient Egypt.
Egyptologists, from the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of Arts of Prague's Charles University, headed by Miroslav Barta, are studying the period of the Old Kingdom of Egypt (2700-2180 BC). Veronika Dulikova with her team is creating a database of the ancient top officials who were buried in Abousir and the surrounding burial grounds in Sakhara and Giza.
The information on these people is incomplete and it would need a superhuman effort to connect these data and identify their relations. However, this task can be solved with the aid of artificial intelligence and cybernetics.
This is why Egyptologists cooperate with experts from these fields.
Radek Marik, from the CVUT's Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Prague, has invented a programme that is able to sort out, complete and interconnect all data. The CVUT calls this new branch cyber-Egyptology.
The ancient Egyptian civilisation developed by fits and turns and not continuously, which makes the sorting out and connecting various data even more complicated.
When creating the networks, researchers had to keep in mind family relations as well as the influences of interest groups that played an important role in filling high posts. They managed to reconstruct a very complex structure, including members of the ruling families, viziers, priests, judges and top officials.
The scientists present the results of their work with an example of one dignitary named Ty. The used method proves that he stood close to viziers and supreme officials.
Egyptologists also use the gathered data for a comparison with trends in other civilisations. It turns out that many regularities and relations from the ancient times are valid at present as well.
"Our institute sets down this direction of research and it has become a subject of interest not only of social sciences, but also of security services, which is proven by the recent seminar for armed and security forces held at the Potomac Institute in Washington, D.C.," Barta said.
The research was supported by the Czech Science Foundation.
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What became of Modernism?C.K. Stead
Vol. 2 No. 8 · 1 May 1980
What became of Modernism?
C.K. Stead
Five American Poets
by John Matthias, introduced by Michael Schmidt.
Carcanet, 160 pp., £3.25, November 1979, 0 85635 259 4Show More
The New Australian Poetry
edited by John Tranter.
Makar Press, 330 pp., £6.50, November 1979Show More
Carpenters of Light
by Neil Powell.
Mirabell: Books of Number
by James Merrill.
Oxford, 182 pp., £3.25, June 1979, 0 19 211892 7Show More
The Book of the Body
by Frank Bidart.
Skull of Adam
by Stanley Moss.
Anvil, 67 pp., £2.50, May 1979, 0 85646 041 9Show More
Poems 1928-1978
by Stanley Kunitz.
Secker, 249 pp., £6.50, September 1979, 0 436 23932 9Show More
What became of the Modernist movement? It was initiated by Pound and Eliot about the time of the First World War, and in America it set off a further wave of innovation (often referred to as 'post-Modernism') after the Second. Beats, Black Mountain Poets, the New York school of the Fifties – all these and others, though clearly different, are unimaginable without Pound, early Eliot, William Carlos Williams and perhaps Wallace Stevens as forerunners. This is the main stream of modern American poetry. In England the picture is very different. Pound is grudgingly acknowledged, distrusted, kept at a distance. Eliot holds his place, but not the revolutionary Eliot. Eliot didn't convert England – England converted him; and Four Quartets is Modernism neutralised by good form. Who then won the poetic war in England?
It was, I think, the Georgians, because there were two strands in Georgianism: one sentimental and rural, the other urban and honest. Wilfred Owen passes the baton to the political poets of the Thirties. 'Georgian' becomes a term of abuse, but the baton passes nevertheless and it says 'the true poets must be truthful', and 'the poetry is in the pity' – Owen's dicta. Truth, realism, 'values', common sense, worthy purpose – these are the glories and the limits of modern English writing (fiction too). They pass into the universities and are the predominant criteria of judgment in schools of English and in journals. The English poem is as useful and unstylish as the English car. It is a vehicle, and judged as such; and this is because there is in the British literary climate something of that 'philistinism' Donald Davie says was characteristic of the Movement: 'We would not entertain for a moment the idea that poetry could be, in some degree, or from some points of view, a self-justifying activity.'
Why should it be that, insofar as it's possible to abstract 'the modern English poem' and 'the modern American poem', the former seems to someone with no axe to grind (I mean myself) less spacious, less athletic, less inventive, less stylish, less magical than the latter? One reason might be that a tighter, more unified society determines more readily what the important subjects outside poetry are, which in turn (to put it very simply) puts too much emphasis on what is being said and not enough on the way of saying. A second might be that a European (and particularly French) sense of the mystique of language itself entered poetry in English through Modernism, and just as Modernism has thrived in America and been rejected in England, so does the language of the modern American poem tend to come to life of itself rather than live as a poor relation off its 'subject'. A third might be that all modern poetry lives by extracting and refining the energies and the music of spoken language, and modern educated spoken English in England tends to be a stilted class-ridden affair by means of which speakers strive to assert or to conceal their origins. (Perhaps the hope for British poetry ought to lie in regional speech, and of course in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.) One might even hazard as a fourth reason that the university scene into which the practice and promotion of British poetry has been largely absorbed is a haven of reason and moderation, and that these are inimical to the best in poetry.
In all the arts, there are broad movements which are inexorable. You may choose to swim against the tide, and perhaps do it very well, but you can't turn it back; and English poets for half a century have mostly chosen to swim against what my hunch as a literary historian tells me will prove to have been the major tide of poetry in this century. That broad tide is represented by the Modernist movement.
Open form, the aggregation of numinous fragments without logical or narrative structure, the movement of spoken rather than written language, incompleteness of statement so that the reader is invited into the poem and required to participate in the imaginative act – these are some of the features of the Modernist poem. They are common to the work of widely divergent inheritors of Modernism, and they are seldom found in the modern British poem, which is most often the short, well-made article, completing the statement, closing the account, shutting the gate on the reader who must stand outside the linguistic action, looking in.
The five American poets of the Carcanet anthology are not introduced as representing an avant-garde school. They are if anything somewhat conservative: but they are characteristically American in inheriting Modernism's sense of openness, of possibility, and of an obligation to push forward the development of poetry in English. It is, if you want to see it negatively, an overtechnical, almost technological view, which carries with it the danger that the poet will strive beyond his means. (I feel this in some poems by all five, and particularly in those of Robert Hass.) But it produces also a sense of spaciousness and energy in and beyond the language of the poem. James McMichael has a fine delicate touch in brief evocative lyrics and can open out into longer forms. John Matthias at his best achieves a steady tone, a dense texture, a clear focus on complex material. And in some of Robert Pinsky's poems ('Sadness and Happiness', for example) there is a momentum, a sense of invention and of language rushing forward, which I find exhilarating.
John Tranter's The New Australian Poetry is committed to Modernism. Its editor's theoretical position is familiar to me and on the whole congenial. I find much to admire in the book, plenty of talent and good reading and only one poet whose inclusion seems incomprehensible. But I felt more and more troubled as I read on, and even slightly bored, by something that bothers me equally in the work of the younger New Zealand poets. It is not that one necessarily demands 'Australianness', explicit regionalism, of Australian poets. It is, rather, that one demands of poetry – any poetry – the real, the concrete, the particular, not on any theoretical grounds but simply because without it the language will seem underemployed, lacking in texture. The aspect of Modernism that seems to predominate in Australia and New Zealand at the moment (probably in America too) is the one drawing ultimately from French Symbolism, specifically from Mallarmé. 'Poetry is not made with ideas, my dear Degas, it's made with words.' Mallarmé's put-down is perfect and right when directed against the notion of the poem as vehicle for an 'idea'. It is something English poets need to take to heart. It is the source of that magical quality Modernist poetry at its best possesses. But like all critical ideas it needs to stand against the background of its counterstatement to make safe sense. Removed, it becomes a doctrine of verbal abstraction.
What are some examples of the best Modernist texts? Let's propose Pound's Cantos II, XVII, XLVII and XLIX and Eliot's The Waste Land. And if we add to those some of the best poems by W.C. Williams (an altogether slighter but historically important poet), we have something to go on. In each case, the poem is open, the language mostly informal, unliterary, there is a lack of finality about the writing, energy is more important than finish, logic and narrative need not apply, the reader feels himself to be in the atelier (and perhaps handed a brush), whereas reading Yeats, for example, one has entered the stillness and finality of the musée. But what the poems of Pound, early Eliot and Williams at their Modernist best force upon us remorselessly is things, scenes, sounds, voices, particulars – a real, teeming world. Mallarmé's 'Poetry is made with words' is complemented by Williams's 'No ideas but in things.' When modern poetry loses the sense of what John Crowe Ransom calls 'things in their thinginess', it slides away into verbal gesture, a mime of meaningful speech, and the result is always something narrowly personal and ultimately boring. This is quite different from the 'personal' as one finds it in late Lowell or late Berryman or in the Pisan Cantos, where the personality of the poet registers an intransigent world and confronts it, neither giving way. In The New Australian Poetry I was impressed, sometimes dazzled, by the way so many of these poets could sustain fantasy, invention, surrealism, a sort of meta-discourse without meaning or reference, like the game children play of going around the room without touching the floor. But how long can you watch even the cleverest juggler before you begin to say: 'So what?'
In that confrontation of Mallarmé and Degas there are, in fact, two abstractions proposed. There is the abstraction of Degas's 'ideas' ('I have some wonderful ideas for poems'). But there is also the abstraction of Mallarmé's 'words'. A mystique of language for its own sake is the power source and the danger of Modernism. Michael Schmidt's five American poets avoid (the best of their work avoids) both abstractions. The language has a life of its own and a life in relation to a recognisable real world, as in James McMichael's 'Compline':
Gudique is the chastening.
She is not a fish.
She is not the rocks where she browses
nor the pools.
The river when it opens
is not Gudique.
When its forgetfulness
falls from it,
when a cold wind leaks
upward through the drifts and folds and
pours over the banks
and over the ferns
this is not Gudique.
Gudique is the chastening,
the river forgetting
Gudique is the river.
The best of the Australians achieve something like this conjunction, but there is too much in Tranter's anthology that is no more than verbal gesture.
Neil Powell's Carpenters of Light is probably a better book than I am prepared to admit. Its limits (academic prissiness apart) are the limits of his understanding of Modernism. He uses the term frequently but never in such a way as to make me feel he has fully entered into the experience of any Modernist poem. Consequently his attempts at tightrope walking between American and British elements in recent English poetry seem to me of limited value. He is so judicious in attempting to answer the question 'What is traditional poetry?' that I'm left unsure what his answer is, if one is given. I find his chapter on Donald Davie useful, but a better understanding of the American side of the debate is needed before that crucial case (Davie both as poet and as critic) gets the discusssion it calls for. He treats Larkin, if not with more respect than he deserves, at least with more than is good for the future of British poetry. He discusses Roy Fuller's poetry but then doesn't give it anything like the space it requires, and consequently seems to slight it. And where does Ted Hughes fit into his picture? Telling us that in a larger book he would give his judgment on this poet is another way of saying the book is incomplete. Finally, his argument that we must all be nice to one another, and tolerant, and not resort to 'rhetoric', is Jack Hornerish and a good death-recipe for the future discussion of English poetry.
Of the books by individual poets, James Merrill's Mirabell: Books of Number is a maddening expenditure of manifest talent on a silly fiction. Two characters, David Jackson and the poet, conduct interminable séances at which spirits of the dead gradualluy unfold the Truth about the universe. It is at once a whimsical and grandiose scheme, combining myth, religion and science (God is Biology). There is some camp fun now and then when the spirit of Auden intrudes, speaking from the other side, and we learn that Chester Kallman is being prepared for reincarnation as a future black leader in South Africa.
Frank Bidart's The Book of the Body elicits the voyeur in us. Such fascination as it has is that of the case-study in abnormality, and no one confident of his poetic style would find room for Jerome Kern words like 'suddenly' and 'somehow', nor sprinkle his text with words italicised for emphasis. Yet Bidart's book makes a point and compels an acknowledgment when put alongside Stanley Moss's Skull of Adam. Bidart's, one has to concede, is interesting for the human material it contains. Moss's book by comparison is bland, vacuous, sleek and slack – and the attempt to give it some gravel (poems called 'Snot', 'Shit' and 'Vomit') embarrassingly trumped up.
Stanley Kunitz is now in his middle seventies and his Poems 1928-1978 contains 150 short poems, an average of three per year over a period of half a century. Reading his work in reverse order, as one does here (the latest poems come first, then his collections of 1971, 1958, 1944 and 1930), one can see that although he has remained indifferent to the main thrust of Modernism, and in particular to the Modernist ambition to resurrect (by that aggregation of numinous fragments) the long poem, nonetheless his poetry has loosened up, becoming freer, more open, in recent years. Reading back through the book takes one just perceptibly through styles of past decades, while at every point Kunitz is pre-eminently himself and a master of his art. Often his style has a slight stiffness about it, an awkwardness that is as individual as a way of walking, and not at all a disability. It is there even when he rises to his most packed and forcefully eloquent:
In the zero of the night, in the lipping hour,
Skin-time, knocking-time, when the heart is pearled
And the moon squanders its uranian gold,
She taunted me ...
There is a strange rich charm about this poet, whose work I am glad to have read thoroughly for the first time. The book is beautifully designed, a rare pleasure to hold and to look at, matching the poems and suitably honouring Kunitz's half-century of patient practice.
C.K. Stead is New Zealand's poet laureate.
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After Michelle received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama Studies from the State University of New York at Purchase, she founded Onyx Theatre Company in New York City, the first deaf theater company in the United States for people of color. Her work with Onyx for eleven years earned several recognitions, including the Cultural Enrichment Award from Gallaudet University, the Distinguished Service Award from New York Deaf Theatre, the Outstanding Achievement Recognition Resolution of 1996 from the Council of the District of Columbia, and an Individual Achievement Award from the National Council on Communicative Disorders, and a featured article in the February 1998 issue of ESSENCE magazine. In 2017, she also received the Laurent Clerc Award from Gallaudet University for her social contributions to the Deaf community.
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So, it's been a while since I've typed more than just a few words at a time. You may have noticed that this little blog of mine has been pretty absent for the last year. You see, I was going through a literal life 360 as I separated from my husband, moved out of the only house my girls have ever known and started searching for a more "normal" job as a single mother. It doesn't sound fun, but to be perfectly honest, the last year of my life has been the most fun I've ever had- and me and my girls are just fine.


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Phase Change is a common principle in science. A simple example is water at various temperatures. Water is water at 50°F. Water is water at 100°F. Water is water at 200°F. But at exactly 212°F water stops being water and it becomes steam. In the same way water stops being water at precisely 32°F when it transforms into ice. The properties of water are very different from that of steam or ice. The same principle can be used to describe the transformation of neighborhoods. Here's a little history of the Alberta Arts District in Portland, Oregon which demonstrates urban phase change.
Check out this great blog for more old photos of Portland here.
In the early years of the Twentieth Century the little farm town of Albina on the outskirts of Portland was transformed into a vibrant suburb. The introduction of a streetcar line provided easy access to downtown while also fueling a commercial corridor within Albina itself along Alberta Street. Immigrants from Germany and Russia eagerly filled the new homes that were built on pasture and orchard land. Albina experienced phase change from rural to suburban in terms of its economic base, its population, and its physical form in just a few short years.
But by the 1960's everything had changed. The removal of the streetcar in 1948 eliminated the foot traffic that once supported shops on Alberta Street. New highways redirected traffic out of the city. The entire white middle class decamped to more distant suburbs where they received heavily subsidized new tract homes. Emanuel Hospital, Interstate 5, and Memorial Coliseum were all intensionally built in what had been the poor black part of town. The destruction of hundreds of homes occupied by black families was seen as "slum clearance" to make way for big improvements for the city. Those displaced families migrated to the older more affordable homes around Alberta Street just in time for banks and insurance companies to redline the neighborhood. Mortgages and business loans became unavailable to most of the new residents. The city also intentionally starved the neighborhood of public services and infrastructure. By the 1990's the neighborhood had hit bottom with 30% of the homes completely abandoned. So again, there was phase change from prosperous suburb to peri-urban ghetto. You could reasonably point to a single day in 1967 that marked the boiling point for this neighborhood.
Today the same exact homes that had sat empty for decades or were once home to drug dealers and gang members are now selling at a premium. Eager buyers routinely pay $500,000 or more for the privilege of living in Albina, which has now been renamed the Alberta Arts District. That transformation occurred in a very short period of time. 2003 is the most likely date for phase change based on the enormous jump in property values that year. Prices remained relatively stable even during the financial crash of 2008 and have continued to climb since.
Small independent businesses are thriving on Alberta Street with healthy crowds lining up for good food and shopping night and day. The city is spending money on infrastructure upgrades and private developers are transforming abandoned buildings and vacant lots into upscale homes and storefronts. Families with young children have repopulated the area. Phase change is now complete as some people complain about gentrification.
The Rexall Drug building on Alberta Street is an especially poignant example of the swings that have occurred in the neighborhood over the decades. In 1981 it was the scene of a particularly brutal robbery. The owners who had enduring the long decline for years finally gave up and closed their doors for good. Today the old Rexall building is a thriving cafe that reflects the new nature of the area.
I'm researching reviving inner city industrial areas like the Central Eastside and the Dogpatch and would like to get your suggestions of where to look in other cities. Please respond to rodstevens@seanet.com and I'll follow up.


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BE IT REMEMBERED that the Operating Committee of the America First Party met on Monday, October 29, 2007 at 9:00 p.m. East Coast Time, pursuant to the previous resolution of the Operating Committee.
The Chairman led the members in the Pledge of Allegiance. Mr. White delivered the invocation.
J. C. Schweingrouber of Ohio, Public Relations Committee Chairman
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Mr. Schweingrouber moved the adoption of the standard Agenda. Mr. White seconded the motion. The Agenda was adopted by unanimous vote.
The Chairman delivered his report. He has been handling issues relating to Party Building business.
The Secretary reminded the members that he had previously circulated draft minutes for the October 8, 2007 meeting of the Operating Committee. Mr. Hey moved the adoption of the minutes as published. His motion was seconded by Mr. Schweingrouber. The minutes were adopted by unanimous vote.
The newspapers have all been mailed. The address corrections are coming back in and being entered into the database. There are still about 400 copies available for bulk order. The fundraising letter is well into production and should be mailed next week.
The Treasurer reported that the party's bank balance is $ 5,239.30. There are no unpaid invoices at this time. A discussion took place regarding the responses received so far to the most recent newspaper.
Mr. Hill reported that the Finance Committee approved the fundraising letter, which is now being sent out by the Secretary. In addition, a matching contribution form was approved and printed.
The Finance Committee discussed getting more coffee mugs produced, but the sense was that they do not yield significant revenue to support building the party.
Mr. Hill led a short discussion of Partybuilding Committee business. The committee has met repeatedly to discuss organizing committee business and management matters. A discussion of party building data access issues was held. The Rules Committee chairman will be meeting with the Partybuilding Committee to discuss proposing possible modifications to the database access rules for the National Committee's consideration.
Mr. Schweingrouber delivered the Public Relations Committee report. The Committee met last Saturday to discuss article topics for the next issue of the newspaper.
Mr. Hey reported that the Rules Committee is presently on hiatus.
A time of general discussion took place.
There being no further business, on motion made by Mr. Hey, seconded by Mr. Schweingrouber, and adopted by unanimous vote, the meeting was adjourned at 10:17 p.m.


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Roger Federer: 'Sometimes you wish Rafael Nadal, Djokovic were not there'
Roger Federer often said that he would have not won so many titles if he were not pushed by the desire to improve in order to overcome his biggest rivals. And in a recent interview, the Swiss player reiterated the concept. '(Novak) Djokovic is a good sportsman, and we enjoy the tough rivalries through guys like him or (Andy) Murray or Rafa (Nadal), whoever it is at the top.
Makes you a better player. I think we're, to some degree, thankful that the other guy is around, too. Sometimes, of course, we wish that they weren't there so the road maybe to victory would be a bit easier, but at the same time, it's great playing against such good-quality players', Federer said.
How difficult it is to stay tough mentally even if you have had a lot of success in tennis? Roger Federer knows something about it, as he always had a very consistent and solid career. 'You concentrate on yourself, your game', Federer said.
'I don't think he's getting upset by like the opponents' play and stuff. I think it's more about his own game or the course or whatever it is. It's completely different in golf than it is in tennis. I've had my emotions under control for the last nine years now, so for me, that question, I don't need to ask myself if it's on my racquet or not.
I scream once in a while. That's because I like doing it, you know. It's not something I feel like I have to control. If it happens, it's not a big deal because it happens so rare now. I'm at absolute peace with myself.
Other players or other athletes do it differently to perform well, to remind themselves they need to get better or adjust or stuff like that. But, look, he's had a tough situation the last few months and stuff, but I'm sure he's gonna get back.'
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News: Rotherham Interchange nearly beyond repair
A decision on the future of Rotherham's bus station will need to be made quickly after new tests discovered that the multi storey car park is "nearing the point of being beyond economic repair."
The interchange in Rotherham town centre also includes a retail development covering 55,000 sq ft, consisting of 18 units and 750 parking spaces. It is owned by commercial property developers, Norseman Holdings, with the interchange and car park leased to South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE), the organisation that takes the lead to develop the region's transport network.
Opened in 1971, the car park has since developed widespread defects and the existing tight spaces and drab appearance mean that occupancy levels only average approximately one third of its 678 capacity.
Typical defects include extensive corrosion to imbedded steel reinforcement. As a consequence there has been spalling (breaking into fragments) in the columns, beams, up-stands, curbs and structural topping to the decks. Additionally a remedial waterproof deck had failed and steel tie-bars were corroding.
The car park requires £4m worth of repairs and plans have been approved for the detailed design of the renovation and re-cladding of the four-storey car park. However, the start date of the refurbishment was delayed following a decision to further investigate alternative development options on the site. The SYPTE, Rotherham Council and Norseman Holdings met in 2013 to discuss potential alternative development options for the site and Norseman committed to review the options of a leisure facility at the site and report back on options.
A cinema and new interchange scheme proposal was developed however the funding to deliver the scheme could not be sourced.
A proposal was also considered to totally reconfigure the layout of the bus station, from a drive through operation to a Drive in Reverse Out (DIRO) interchange.
A decision on whether to carry out the repairs or pursue a larger scale redevelopment has been delayed as the refreshed town centre masterplan takes shape.
At the end of last year, consultants at Arup undertook an inspection of the car park and identified a significant increase in the rate of deterioration of the structure.
A report to the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority Transport Committee states: "This is evidenced by the number of defective columns 1st floor increasing from 12 to 24 out of a total of 70.
"Furthermore, the waterproofing system on the roof deck has now failed and water is passing through the structure more readily which is further exacerbating the situation. Despite the increased rate of deterioration there were no immediate health and safety concerns raised, although it has been advised that the car park is nearing the point of being beyond economic repair."
Further discussions are taking place and a decision was expected this month.
The recently published draft capital strategy from Rotherham Council included an ambition to invest in "Improvements to the Transport Interchange, to address current condition and public safety issues. The aim is to create a new, brighter, safer environment and address some of the issues around CSE in and around the existing Interchange."
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Ever wondered, like me, what's the story behind Kahlúa liquor, I often use in my recipes?
"coffee-flavored rum-based liqueur from Mexico. The drink also has sugar, corn syrup and vanilla bean" source.
"It takes 7 years to create each bottle of Kalúa, from harvest of the coffee beans, vanilla, and sugar cane to bottle".
"Coffee liquor with a cool twist" (now that's my definition).
Now that we know what Kahlua is, let's move on shall we.
In case you wonder, the name of this recipe – Midnight Roasted Red Grapes – is because I roasted the grapes around midnight, after I realized that taking pain-killer for my headache isn't worth it, especially if contains chemicals. A bottle of water helped just a bit so I got up, went into my newly renovated kitchen (I love going into my new kitchen in the middle of the night. Hard to explain), I opened the fridge and found a bunch of fresh red grapes. Initially I wanted to bake cookies but didn't want to make a mess when having a headache. I stared at the grapes, then at the oven, looked at the grapes again, then the oven – bam! bake them.
Preheat oven to 425°F. In a large bowl mix ingredients except for the salt, until well combined. Line baking sheet with aluminum foil and arrange marinated grapes. Sprinkle with kosher salt. Roast grapes between 15-20 minutes, when skin is lightly crisp and soft and grapes are dark and juicy. Carefully remove pan from oven. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Or do what I did: couldn't keep my hands off of them and ate them right off the pan. Careful, it's hot.


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Congratz my friend! Can't wait to test it out.
I changed the colour of the loading spots, to make reading and finding spots by scrolling a bit easier.
2nd - 3 times I had to play the last part.
Game sent to Velsu and I m asking him to check something which might improve this guide.
trophies for bad ending - not this one for watching the red girl trophy. As in this bad ending route she also appears in bikini so maybe it will count towards.
1) ここは前向きに励まそう。「琴里らしくないぞ!」- I FINISHED AT THIS CHOICE SCREEN.
Thanks for the guide G.
i'm missing 2 trophies and don't know how to get its unless playing the whole game again.
i know the second one it's the last CG that i've missed and will give me also the all CG trophies but clearly i don't know which save i have to reload again to get it.
One of those trophies is the playthrough near the end that you have to play about 3 times in a row without saving.
The other trophy I got near the end so you must have missed something along the way.
Viddy, I recommend you to start from the beginning, the trophies you are missing should pop after 30-40 minutes.
Also make sure that you opened Memory #205.
I skipped over it accidentally because it didnt stand out.
Viddy & Missauru, thank you for the comments. I changed the guide a bit so it will be easier to follow.
Guide excellent, more a quiet platinum.
The text of option 3 is another, the text used is the answer 2.
The number is right, i got the trophy.
Thanks for the guide! Thanks very much!
Perfect guide. Got the plat less than 4 hours. Tks a ton!


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Baku-Yerevan Have Much To Discuss, Putin Prevented Full Karabakh Fall: Expert
Three Cases Of Turkish Crimes In Afrin
Death Toll from Attack in Western Ethiopia Tops 207
US Seeking to Bribe Indonesia into Normalizing with Israeli Regime
Moroccan MPs Call For cancelation of Normalization Deal with Israel
US Sanctions Chairman of Iraqi Anti-Terror Popular Forces
EU Complicit in Saudi-UAE Genocide in Yemen: MEP
Turkey Violated UN-Backed Syria Ceasefire
Alwaght- Turkish forces have violated a UN-backed ceasefire that has recently come into effect in the war-torn Arab state.
"The first violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2268 has been made by Turkey. Its troops shelled the cities of Tal Abyad and Uslub," head of the Syrian Kurdish mission to Moscow, Rodi Osman, told Russia's Interfax news agency.
Osman added that Turkey must be urged to stop "violating Syria's sovereignty."
The comments come as a ceasefire agreed by the United States and Russia took effect in Syria on February 27 midnight Damascus time. The Syrian government also accepted the terms of the truce on condition that military efforts against ISIS and al-Nusra Front Takfiri terrorsits, who are not included in the ceasefire agreement, continue.
Meanwhile Russian monitors of the ceasefire in Syria have recorded nine violations of the truce over the last 24 hours. They said overall the ceasefire is holding up, but some of the violations were attributed to the rebels.
Pledges to observe the ceasefire have been submitted by 17 "moderate" rebel groups and elders of 35 towns and villages, who said that they would expel anyone not willing to uphold the deal and enlist those willing to do it into local militias, the Russian center for reconciliation said. The US has filed a list of 69 rebel groups who have subscribed to the ceasefire, they said.
The ceasefire was brokered by leading world powers, including the US and Russia, and is meant to pave the way to reconciliation between the Syrian government and moderate rebel forces, which would together agree on a peaceful transition in the country. Some of the stronger forces in Syria, including the terrorist groups ISIS and al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front, rejected the negotiation and are not subject to the ceasefire.
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Leading Norwegian firms join Green Exhibition in Vietnam
Minh Vu 14:35, 2022/11/29
Most of the Norwegian companies presenting in the international exhibition have been active in Vietnam, while others are exploring investment opportunities in the Southeast Asian country.
A group of 11 Norwegian companies presents a wealth of expertise, technologies, and solutions at the Green Economy Forum & Exhibition 2022 (GEFE2022) hosted by the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam.
Norwegian Deputy Head of Mission Mette Møglestue; Regional Director Asia & Middle East at Innovation Norway Ole Henæs, and Director of Innovation Norway in Hanoi, Commercial Counsellor Arne-Kjetil Lian, and representatives of Norwegian companies at the exhibition taking place on Nov 28-30 in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Embassy of Norway in Hanoi
The companies, namely Equinor, Norsk Solar, Scatec, Empower, TerraMarine, Tomra, Jotun, Vard, Yara, Emarasia, and Visco get together in one Norwegian Pavilion at the event that takes place in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on November 28-30.
The leading Norwegian firms help promote a sustainable green economy in Vietnam across a spectrum of areas from renewable energy to circular economy, including effective plastic waste management, green manufacturing, green shipping, smart aquaculture, and consultancy and supporting services.
On the first day of the event, Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited the Norwegian pavilion, which highlights the presence of Norwegian Deputy Head of Mission Mette Møglestue; Regional Director Asia & Middle East at Innovation Norway Ole Henæs, and Director of Innovation Norway in Hanoi, Commercial Counsellor Arne-Kjetil Lian.
Norwegian Deputy Head of Mission Mette Møglestue said he commends the creative initiative of Euro Cham to organize GEFE2022. "As a part of Europe, we are happy to be part of this. Green growth has become dispensable in today's world. To reach that target, it is impossible not to involve businesses, industries, and social partners, for they play a crucial role in the transition towards a renewable, circular, and sustainable future," he noted.
Together with 11 Norwegian companies in the Pavilion, the Norwegian Embassy and Innovation Norway in Hanoi wants to show their readiness and interest to support the Government of Vietnam in its green growth efforts as well as the implementation of the net-zero target by 2050 that PM Pham Minh Chinh announced at COP26 Glasgow in 2021 and confirmed in the updated National Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted at COP27 in Cairo.
Bring top-notch technologies to Vietnam
Most Norwegian companies in the Norwegian Pavilion have been active in Vietnam, while others are exploring opportunities for investment and doing business here.
Commercial Counsellor, Director of Innovation Norway Vietnam, Arne-Kjetil Lian said: "Our Norwegian companies have brought to GEFE 2022 their top-notch technologies, smart solutions, new initiatives, and extensive experience to help develop renewable energy, reduce CO2 emissions, and promote a circular economy and a sustainable value chain."
He added that through their advanced technologies, smart solutions, and circular and sustainable business models, the private sector would contribute and help reduce CO2 emissions and promote green production and consumption practices.
"They all share a strong interest and goodwill to work with local authorities and business partners in various industries to push this agenda forward. Innovation Norway in Hanoi is ready to do our part as a bridge to connect Norwegian and Vietnamese companies," stressed Arne-Kjetil Lian.
On this occasion, Mette Møglestue stressed the importance of the public-private partnership (PPP), saying it's an effective solution for governments all over the globe to mobile resources and participation from all stakeholders for policy development and implementation, including those on the green economy.
Meanwhile, Ole Henæs, Regional Director for Asia, Innovation Norway, stated: "Vietnam has seen the fastest growth in Southeast Asia for the last two years and thus has a good momentum to progress."
For that reason, the green economy offers abundant opportunities for countries in the region, including Vietnam, to attract greener capital influx and intensify business cooperation.
To make the goals possible, Vietnam needs to take comprehensive actions to implement its green agenda, particularly in the context of the country's ambitious environmental commitments under the Paris Agreement and at COP 26, and recently strengthened at COP27 in Cairo, Ole Henæs emphasized.
In addition, he highlighted the role of the private sector in this process, noting that they are an important force in the industry.
Speaking with investors and participants at the GEFE2022, PM Chinh expected that European firms would promote connection to pour money into Vietnam and expand their investment portfolio on a win-win basis.
Chinh shared the ideas on November 28 with executives of big companies, namely Equinor, CIP, Mainstream, Vestas, Airbus, HSBC, Suez, Siemens Gamesa, Schneider, among others.
The PM reaffirmed Vietnam's commitments to net-zero goals by 2050 and reiterated the role of foreign investors, especially European ones who master technologies and have capital potential, in investing in a green economy in the country which is among the five hardest hit nations by climate change.
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Q: Creating Excel using Django-REST-Pandas Background: I am using Django REST Framework (DRF) with Django REST Pandas (DRP) as the requirement is to have export to excel feature in the application.
Question: How to generate the excel workbook being downloaded by adding

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*Data with customized headers

*Adding chart in the workbook

*Adding worksheets.

*Specifying name of file being downloaded

I am looking for small example (tutorial) links illustrating hooks in DRP to do the aforementioned tasks.
Why have I put this open question here?
Asking here as Google searches haven't given any worthy results so far. You can also recommend any better module than DRP which will be elegant to achieve the goals.

A: You can do this with Django REST Pandas by extending PandasExcelRenderer and overriding the get_pandas_kwargs() function.  This function can return any of the arguments for DataFrame.to_excel()
class CustomExcelRenderer(PandasExcelRenderer):
    def get_pandas_kwargs(self, data, renderer_context=None):
        return {
            'sheet_name': 'Custom Name',
        }

Edit: the one special case is the first to_excel() argument (excel_writer), which is handled separately in get_pandas_args():
class CustomExcelRenderer(PandasExcelRenderer):
    def get_pandas_args(self, data):
        writer = ExcelWriter(self.filename)  # Initialize with temp file
        # (Custom chart commands...)
        return [writer]

For changing the output filename you'd need to set a header in the view, probably by overriding the list() method:
class ExcelExportViewSet(PandasViewSet):
    renderer_classes = [CustomExcelRenderer]

    def list(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        response = super().list(request, *args, **kwargs)
        # (compute filename)
        response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment;filename=' + filename

A: Try to use openpyxl for generating workbooks. Here is example code for Django to download file:
from openpyxl.writer.excel import save_virtual_workbook
from openpyxl import Workbook

def download_excel(request):
    if request.method == "GET":
        filename = "XLS import.xlsx"
        wb = Workbook()
        response = HttpResponse(save_virtual_workbook(wb), content_type="application/ms-excel")
        response["Content-Disposition"] = 'attachment; filename="' + filename + '"'
        return response
    else:
        return HttpResponse("Error")


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Q: AFHTTPRequestOperation progress is uneven I use a AFHTTPRequestOperation to upload between 1-6 images to a web server.  The weird thing is that when it reports progress in my "setUploadProgressBlock" it reports totalBytesWritten as:
32,768
32,768
32,768
32,768
3,238
2,420
2,420... and keeps repeating 2420 until final chunk which is the remainder.
I'm using a UIProgressView to report upload progress, which jumps to 30% or so immediately because of the unequal chunks in the beginning (32,768 byte chunks).  I have cheated this to basically ignore the first four large chunks, but I'm wondering if anyone has an explanation for why it does this, or a more elegant way to handle it.  Also, once it reports that all bytes have been written, it sits there "doing nothing" for several seconds which seems like an unreasonably long delay.  I've handled this with a UIActivityIndicator (spinner), but it's annoying that the delay is so long.  I should mention that this is tested on 3g as that will be the target environment.

A: Can you double check that you're not reading the value for bytesWritten, which reports how many bytes were uploaded in the last batch, as opposed to totalBytesWritten? Alternatively, it may be that several uploads are being performed simultaneously, which could be confusing if you're logging these all in the same callback.
The "doing nothing" for several seconds could be waiting for the response from the server. Do you have any more details about that?


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Sales of counterfeit goods linked to other crimes
Statton Hammock
Vice President, Global Policy & Industry Development
Last month, CNBC reported that, for the first time since becoming a public company, Amazon added a risk factor to its Annual Report addressing the growing problem of counterfeit goods on its marketplace. The 10-K filing read, in part:
"We also may be unable to prevent sellers in our stores or through other stores from selling unlawful, counterfeit, pirated, or stolen goods, selling goods in an unlawful or unethical manner, violating the proprietary rights of others, or otherwise violating our policies."
Amazon's admission of the counterfeit problem is significant because for the last several years, the sale and distribution of counterfeit goods has risen steadily, but yet most online retailers do not actively police their supply chain for counterfeits. MarkMonitor has been tracking the proliferation of counterfeit goods in online marketplaces for years.
But the sale of counterfeit goods has a far greater impact, and is more sinister, than simply creating unsatisfied consumers and tarnishing the reputations of the world's biggest brands. The proceeds from the sale of counterfeit goods is the financial backbone which is used to fund terrorism, human trafficking, organized crime, transportation of illegal weapons, health care fraud, drug offenses, sex related crimes, and money laundering enterprises.
Recently MarkMonitor partnered with Michigan State University's Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection (A-CAPP) to commence a research study into the overlap of counterfeiting with other, more serious, crimes. The research study used the center's Product Counterfeiting Database to search thousands of court records and empirical databases to correlate counterfeit operations with many other illegal activities.
The research study yielded three important conclusions. First, counterfeiters do not operate in an ad hoc fashion. Counterfeiting is not a stand-alone crime, rather, it intersects often with legitimate and illicit business enterprises. Second, the cash flow activity that counterfeit goods generate is staggering which is why it continues to be the preferred source of funding.
The A-CAPP study found that the median illicit revenue generated by a single counterfeiting scheme was a staggering $1.4M. Finally, A-CAPP's research showed that neither brands nor marketplaces can afford to be complacent when it comes to policing the Internet for counterfeit goods. No longer can brands write off product fakes as "the cost of doing business" and no longer can online marketplaces s turn a blind eye and claim, "We are not to blame, we are just a platform." With each new counterfeit scheme, criminals are funding activities that go far beyond merely inconveniencing a consumer – they threaten the safety and security of our society.
Making an investment in stopping counterfeit is mission critical for a company. Doing so protects its reputation, protects its customers from harm and fraud, and protects society at large. The sale and distribution of counterfeit goods is not a problem we can eradicate, but it's a problem that must be addressed with the proper attention and resources given its scope.
View the full A-CAPP study here
Tags: whitepaper, anticounterfeiting, brand protection


You have a good idea of which metrics should be on your dashboard, and now you need to decide where to put them. Upper left of the screen? Lower right? Somewhere in between?
How each metric type is laid out and visually organized has a significant impact on how easily users can get the information they need. Poor layout forces users to expend a lot of mental effort, and can ultimately lead them to abandon the dashboard in frustration.
Yet I regularly see dashboards in which the metrics appear to be laid out in the order in which the dashboard creator happened to think of them, or arranged based on how they happened to fit together geometrically, like a jigsaw puzzle.
Applying those principles will make any dashboard more user-friendly.
1. Metrics that contain information that's most often checked by users should be in the upper-left corner of your dashboard.
In cultures with written languages that are read from left to right and top to bottom, people intuitively look at the upper-left part of a page first.
So putting the information that users most often check in the upper left-hand corner of the screen cuts the time users spend searching for what they want.
Note that the information checked most often isn't the same as the "most important" information.
For example, if you have a metric with the current day's sales and another with quarterly sales results, the quarterly sales are certainly more important than any single day's sales. The daily information will, however, be checked much more frequently (because it changes every day), and so should be positioned higher than, and to the left of, the quarterly data.
Unfortunately, I often see the prime, upper-left real estate being used for information that users will rarely or never need to check, such as a company logo….
2. Metrics that contain related data should be grouped together.
Daily and quarterly sales data figures are closely related, and in fact are just different slices of the same data set. So the second principle of dashboard design is that related information should be grouped together, with information most often checked to the left of, or above, the related data.
This way, users don't have to "change gears" while scanning the dashboard by, for example, looking at sales data, and then at marketing data, and then at sales data again.
3. Metrics that contain data that users would find useful to compare should be placed next to one another.
It can sometimes be useful to compare unrelated bits of information. If that is the case, those Metrics should be grouped together.
For example, if you work for an online retailer, you may have created different metrics that contain sales, marketing and server/application performance metrics.
While these are not closely related types of data, it can be very useful to compare them so that users can see, for example, whether a dip in sales was caused by a decrease in online advertising referrals, or a performance problem with the server or application.
Again, it's all about reducing the mental effort users have to make to find information that is useful for them.
I realize it is not always possible to respect these three considerations, which is why I'm offering them as "considerations," not hard-and-fast rules for dashboard design. You'll have to use your judgment to decide which consideration is more important in cases where you can't respect all three.
But thinking about layout in these terms will enable you to create dashboards that users can "read" like a well-organized story, and not like a random arrangement of facts.
Next in this series: Common dashboard design mistake #4: Using chart types that don't work well on data dashboards.
Mychelle Mollot is the CMO of Klipfolio, responsible for Marketing and Product Management. She's also a mom, and a lover of any outdoor sport, particularly kayaking, skiing and cycling.


Historically… and still today…core to finance's organizations key responsibility is to execute the required operational tasks in time and make sure the business keeps on running. While these daily tasks are still mission critical the way in which this work is done – continues to evolve exponentially – as new innovations in technology have unlocked past limitations empowering finance to produce higher levels of efficiency, excellence and value across the enterprise.
Additionally, the role of 'finance' got augmented – supplementary the business leaders and partners expect finance to deliver the necessary insights for a fact-based decision making to optimize or renew their business models.
With the increasing pace the digital economy is changing, these expectations will continue to grow.
Once again SAP is ahead of the curve – pioneers in excellence and delivers state of the art finance systems by leveraging the latest innovations to bring unapparelled value to the finance organization. Leading customers into a new era of intelligent enterprise – where finance professionals can concentrate on higher value tasks.
To free up time to concentrate on these higher value tasks, operational tasks clearly cannot just be abandoned. They need to be executed, but in a dramatically more efficient way: The introducing of an unprecedented level of automation.
The goods and invoice receipt reconciliation process, not only all relevant information is brought together in just one screen, but by integrating our digital assistant into the process, users experience a much more fluent collaboration. All aimed at quicker and more efficient reconciled items. On top of that, we planned for October complementing machine learning capabilities to add pro-active recommendations to resolve specific issues.
An interesting fact is, that modern organizations on their journey of automation and a higher focus on delivering insights, still only looking back at the past. In other terms: there is a high focus on reporting on actuals. Comparing with plans at best.
That's interesting of course but tells us little about the future. Most organizations are convinced about the fact that more effort should be spent on forward-looking insights.
To make this happen, classic reporting activities need to be performed more efficiently.
Group reporting – The need to deliver accurate, up-to-date financial information continuously in a company's consolidation process is not limited to the level of an individual entity. Therefore, SAP has introduced the SAP S/4HANA Finance for Group Reporting solution which provides direct access to the underlying transactions and detail across the entire enterprise so that a company can confidently and efficiently consolidate their financial and managerial results required in their closing cycles. It enables organizations to extend this evolution towards a continuous financial close on group level. It provides unprecedented transparency by delivering a complete flow of collection, processing, analysis and publication of the information.
Embedded analytics – Most finance professionals will agree that it is often cumbersome to get interesting information out of their ERP system. Additional capabilities have been added to support business users in getting insights more flexibly and efficiently, so they can concentrate on acting on the information, rather than investing time in number crunching.
Tax service – Global tax regulations get more diverse, complicated and change more often than ever before. Keeping up with the pace of change, typically in multiple systems, is a challenge. SAP's response is a central tax determination engine with rules and rates maintained by SAP or its partners. With the SAP S/4HANA 1809 release, emphasis has been placed on enabling self-service tax management, facilitating an organizations chosen approach to reduce the risks and costs of inaccurate calculations and liability from non-compliance.
As you can see, many important new and enhanced capabilities are made available with the S/4HANA 1809 release supporting the finance function better than ever before.


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Alt-Frequencies from Accidental Queens and Plug In Digital is a narrative-driven audio mystery in which you must use the airwaves to open the world's eyes to the truth. Learn more in our Alt-Frequencies review!
I previously got a chance to review A Normal Lost Phone from Accidental Queens and Plug In Digital, and I later got to review Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story. Both are visual novel type adventures in which you go through a stranger's phone to try and uncover what has happened to them. This time around, the developer and its publisher have given us Alt-Frequencies, a narrative driven audio mystery in which you must use the airwaves to open the world's eyes to the truth.
After purchasing a brand-new radio that allows you to surf through a variety of frequencies, you'll take on a short calibration sequence – the game's tutorial – so that you can learn how to control things in Alt-Frequencies. You'll have to complete a short segment during which you'll be asked to pause the action with the + button, as well as find the answer to a simple question: who's the #1 DJ? To do this, you'll have to switch between the different available frequencies so that you can find the answer.
You'll be recording audio by pressing the B button or holding down on the D-Pad. To send a clip, you can press the X button or hold up on the D-Pad. You can scan frequencies in different ways, going to the previous frequency by pressing the L or ZL buttons or by holding left on the left analog stick. If you want to move on to the next frequency, just press the R or ZR buttons, or hold right on the left analog stick. To fast forward, use the A button or hold right on the D-Pad. To listen to a recorded clip, you can press the Y button or hold left on the D-Pad. You can also control the game by using the Nintendo Switch's touchscreen when playing in Portable or Tabletop Mode.
The gameplay loop will be as follows: you'll check out each of the available radio stations by switching between the frequencies. As you do this, you'll get to hear a handful of minutes of audio from each station before the audio starts to loop back to the start of the whole thing. To move the story forward, you'll have to find the specific segments in each of these segments so that you can then upload that recorded segment at specific moments in the other radio stations. This is how you'll progress through each of the game's chapters.
Since skipping through important audio segments would make it harder for gamers to follow the story, there will be sequences during which your new radio will make a beeping sound. When this happens, you won't be able to interact with your radio, which will mean you can't press the A button to skip through dialogue so that you can experience the sequence in full.
Alt-Frequencies leans heavily into the sounds and dialogue it presents as the story unravels, which could potentially leave behind some gamers who won't be able to fully enjoy the game. Because of this, Accidental Queens has added a pair of accessibility options to the game so that more gamers can enjoy it. First up is the closed captions option, which will add tone and context information to the default subtitles so that the game can be played with no sound. The other is the screen reader software, which will read and navigate menus.
The premise and execution of Alt-Frequencies definitely help it stand out on the Nintendo Switch. The way radio stations are presented in the game make them feel like real radio stations you could certainly listen to in real-life, and the performance of all actors is exactly what was needed for this particular story. Depending on how long it takes you to find the right clips to record so that you can use them at the right time, you're looking at around 2-3 hours to complete this one. Alt-Frequencies is out on Nintendo Switch with a $7.99 asking price, and you can get it on its own from the Nintendo eShop, or as part of the Accidental Queens Collection, which also includes A Normal Lost Phone and Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story, for only $14.99.
This Alt-Frequencies review is based on a Nintendo Switch copy provided by Plug In Digital.
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By MU Team 30 August, 2022 Updated: 30 August, 2022 No Comments2 Mins Read
Reliance Jio has announced its Jio 5G services in India (AGM Event). Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani confirmed that Jio 5G services will be launched in India during Diwali, which basically means by the end of October.
Airtel will introduce its 5G services in the month of October
First of all, Airtel is going to do 5G's Shri Ganesh
After which Sunil Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel has revealed the details related to the launch of 5G services of Airtel. Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnav recently said that 5G services will start in India from October 12.
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According to Business Today, Mittal believes that "India is all set to implement 5G." Mittal also highlighted that Airtel will introduce its 5G services in the month of October. No specific date has been revealed yet, but we expect the telecom operator to announce some more details related to the launch of Airtel 5G very soon.
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The Airtel chairman also said that consumers will have to pay "a bit" more for 5G. "We need to go to $40-50 (tariff) like the western world. Maybe we need $3-4 for 5G services," Mittal said. He also indicated 5G plans at all price points. In a recent report, Airtel said that they may not launch new 5G plans, but instead offer 5G services with their premium plans.
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Now, in terms of the roll out plan, 5G is expected to be launched in 13 cities in the first phase. These cities include – Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Jamnagar, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai and Pune.
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Apart from Jio, Airtel and Vodafone, state-owned telecom operator BSNL is also planning to launch 5G services. Actually, Adani Group is also planning to launch 5G services in India soon. The company is said to be in talks with Nokia to deploy a 5G private network in the country in the coming months.
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Medallion Transport Inc.
Medallion Transport Inc. is a domestic corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the Philippine Laws represented by its president Mr. Maximiano N. Fulache. Its principal office is located in Salvador Extension, Labangon, Cebu City with telephone/facsimile No. (032)-2618331. The company has been operating since July 1, 2012 with the goals to acquire vessels for its operation and to manage other shipping entities.
(032) 416-6300 / (032) 412-1121 (main office)
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These 36 Popular Retailers Are Closing Stores In 2017
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Things haven't been going so well for many retailers recently, thanks to the popularity and ease of online shopping.
It can be hard to keep track of all the brands that say they're closing many of their retail locations in 2017, including JCPenney, Macy's and other favorites. In fact, 2017 was a record year for store closing announcements, according to one analysis.
Unfortunately, this also means a lot of people will be looking for new jobs in 2017 and 2018, which is a huge bummer.
To help you keep track, and make sure that you use up those valuable gift cards in time, we round up some of the retailers that are closing stores this year.
1. JCPenney
JCPenney announced earlier this year that it plans to close between 130 and 140 locations in 2017. Now, JCPenney has released a list of exactly which stores will be closing this year—a total of 138 stores across the United States will close, leaving many employees out of work.
"During the year, it became evident the stores that could fully execute the company's growth initiatives of beauty, home refresh and special sizes generated significantly higher sales, and a more vibrant in-store shopping environment," said Marvin Ellison, chairman and chief executive officer of JCPenney.
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2. RadioShack
Once you get over your "Wait, RadioShack is still a thing?" reaction (yes, yes it is), you should know that the consumer technology company is preparing to file for bankruptcy. As a result of its financial struggles, RadioShack plans to close roughly 200 stores around the country, which will leave some 1,300 stores remaining.
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3. The Limited
You'll have to buy your clothes and accessories elsewhere because The Limited is shutting down. The store is closing all 250 of its stores across the United States and has also shut down online sales. A message on The Limited's website says that all online orders that haven't shipped yet will be canceled.
"Please know it has been such an honor to provide fashion for you and other strong, confident women for more than 50 years," according to the website message. "Unfortunately, we've recently had to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy and can no longer accept any purchases."
What does this mean for your gift cards? They may be totally worthless, but you can always trying emailing their customer service email address (customerservice@thelimited.com) for a refund—it's worth a shot.
4. Outback Steakhouse, Bonefish Grill and Carraba's Restaurants
This one isn't as alarming, but the parent company for Outback Steakhouse, Bonefish Grill and Carraba's says it will close 43 underperforming locations in 2017. That leaves more than 1,400 remaining stores in 48 states and 20 countries, so there's still plenty of opportunities to use your gift cards if you're obsessed with Bloomin' Onions and Bang Bang Shrimp.
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Lockheed Martin Corporation Stock Profile, Price, History
(NYSE:LMT)
LMT Stock Price Today
Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT) stock declined over -0.05% intraday to trade at $459.6 a share on NYSE. The stock opened with a gain of 0.23% at $460.86 and touched an intraday high of $466.68, falling -0.05% against the last close of $459.81. The Lockheed Martin Corporation in stock market went to a low of $457.45 during the session.
256.8 Million
6801 Rockledge Drive
Website:https://www.lockheedmartin.com
Employees116,000
Sales or Revenue$64.72 Billion
SectorIndustrials
IndustryAerospace and Defense
Lockheed Martin Corporation, a security and aerospace company, engages in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of technology systems, products, and services worldwide. It operates through four segments: Aeronautics, Missiles and Fire Control, Rotary and Mission Systems, and Space. The Aeronautics segment offers combat and air mobility aircraft, unmanned air vehicles, and related technologies. The Missiles and Fire Control segment provides air and missile defense systems; tactical missiles and air-to-ground precision strike weapon systems; logistics; fire control systems; mission operations support, readiness, engineering support, and integration services; manned and unmanned ground vehicles; and energy management solutions. The Rotary and Mission Systems segment offers military and commercial helicopters, surface ships, sea and land-based missile defense systems, radar systems, sea and air-based mission and combat systems, command and control mission solutions, cyber solutions, and simulation and training solutions. The Space segment offers satellites; space transportation systems; strategic, advanced strike, and defensive missile systems; and classified systems and services in support of national security systems. This segment also provides network-enabled situational awareness and integrates space and ground-based systems to help its customers gather, analyze, and securely distribute critical intelligence data. It serves primarily serves the U.S. government, as well as foreign military sales contracted through the U.S. government. Lockheed Martin Corporation was founded in 1912 and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.
What is the current Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT) stock price?
Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) stock price is $459.60 in the last trading session. During the trading session, LMT stock reached the peak price of $466.68 while $457.45 was the lowest point it dropped to. The percentage change in LMT stock occurred in the recent session was -0.05% while the dollar amount for the price change in LMT stock was -$0.21.
LMT's industry and sector of operation?
The NYSE listed LMT is part of Aerospace and Defense industry that operates in the broader Industrials sector. Lockheed Martin Corporation, a security and aerospace company, engages in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of technology systems, products, and services worldwide. It operates through four segments: Aeronautics, Missiles and Fire Control, Rotary and Mission Systems, and Space.
Who are the executives of LMT?
Mr. James D. Taiclet Jr.
Chairman, Pres & CEO
Mr. Frank A. St. John
Mr. John W. Mollard
Ms. Stephanie C. Hill
Exec. VP of Rotary & Mission Systems
How LMT did perform over past 52-week?
LMT's closing price is 0.23% higher than its 52-week low of $373.67 where as its distance from 52-week high of $498.95 is -0.08%.
How many employees does LMT have?
Number of LMT employees currently stands at 116,000. LMT operates from 6801 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817, United States.
Link for LMT official website?
Official Website of LMT is: https://www.lockheedmartin.com
How do I contact LMT?
LMT could be contacted at phone #301 897 6000 and can also be accessed through its website. LMT operates from 6801 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817, United States.
How many shares of LMT are traded daily?
LMT stock volume for the day was 1,555,214 shares. The average number of LMT shares traded daily for last 3 months was 1.43 Million.
What is the market cap of LMT currently?
The market value of LMT currently stands at $120.5 Billion with its latest stock price at $459.60 and 256.8 Million of its shares outstanding.


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Case Name Miller & United States of America v. Board of Education of Gadsden SD-AL-0008
Docket / Court 4:63-cv-00574-LSC ( N.D. Ala. )
Case Type(s) School Desegregation
Attorney Organization U.S. Dept. of Justice Civil Rights Division
This school desegregation case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on 11/18/1963 and ended in 2005. Brought by private plaintiffs and the United States, it dealt with the public schools in the city of Gadsden, Alabama.
Note: Most of the following ... read more >
Note: Most of the following summary comes from the decision by Judge L. Scott Coogler declaring the case over and the schools "unitary" (a legal declaration that the school district is in compliance with the Equal Protection Clause's mandate of integrated schools) on August 26, 2005, after more than 40 years of court ordered desegregation efforts. There was only one published opinion on Westlaw for the case (detailed below).
In 1963, the plaintiff, Catherine Miller, through her mother, filed this action to enjoin the school segregation in Gadsden, Alabama.
On December 27, 1963, the court found that the Board was violating the Constitution by operating a dual school district; it ordered the Board to desegregate under a "freedom of choice" plan. However, in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, 391 U.S. 430 (1968) disapproving of freedom-of-choice as a desegregation remedy, the district court ordered the Board to revise its plan. On July 25, 1969, the Board did so.
Between 1969 and 1975, the district court approved various amendments and additions to the Board's plan. One of these amendments concerned an issue that ultimately reached the Fifth Circuit. In March of 1972, the plaintiffs filed a motion for further relief, requesting that the Board amend its plan to comply with the Supreme Court's decision in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1 (1971). The district court approved the Board's amendments, but on appeal, the Fifth Circuit found the Board's changes inadequate in light of Swann. 482 F.2d 1234 (5th Cir. Aug. 7, 1973).
In April 1975, the Board adopted a plan based on a University of Tennessee Study, which attempted to maximize desegregation without resorting to busing. Instead, it shifted the boundaries within the district and more strictly enforced zone attendance.
On October 23, 1987, the district court entered a show cause order why the case should not be dismissed. However, on October 11, 1988, the court stayed all action on its desegregation cases pending the resolution of several related cases on appeal to the Eleventh Circuit. Finally, in 1995, the parties jointly agreed to a consent decree. The order required the Board to implement a voluntary "majority-to-minority" student transfer policy. It also listed actions pursuant to all areas outlined in Green and Freeman v. Pitts, 503 U.S. 467 (1992). The consent decree lasted four years.
In May 1999, the Board petitioned for -- and was granted -- unitary status by the district court (Judge William Acker). However, the Eleventh Circuit reversed and remanded for further factual finding. Miller v. Board of Education of Gadsden, Alabama, No. 00-1224 (11th Cir. Aug. 8, 2001).
On July 14, 2003, the district court approved another consent decree. (Later modified again in 2004.) The decree provided for the consolidation of the system's high schools and the closing of one elementary school. It concluded that the Board had achieved unitary status in many of the Green areas and discharged its jurisdiction over those areas. It also outlined the Board's remaining obligations. It finally provided that within 30 days of the end of the 2004-05 school year, the Board could file a motion for full unitary status.
On June 10, 2005, the Board again filed a motion for unitary status. The United States, which had earlier intervened in the case, stated that it had no objections -- as did the private plaintiffs, who also reserved the right to reverse their view after a public hearing.
On August 26, 2005, the court (at this point, Judge L. Scott Coogler) declared the school system unitary. In his order, Judge Coogler assessed favorably the Board's progress in the remaining areas of the 2003 decree, including, among other things, the Majority-to-Minority Transfer Policy, Facilities, Student Assignment, and Future Action.
On February 11, 2016, the district court denied the private plaintiff's motion for reconsideration.
Available Opinionss
Miller v. Board of Education of Gadsden, 482 F.2d 1234 (5th Cir. Aug. 7, 1973)
Miller and United States of America v. Board of Education of Gadsden, Alabama, Civ. A. No. CV.63-CO-474 (N.D. Ala. Aug. 26, 2005) (declaring unitary status).
Greg Margolis - 02/23/2017
Monitor/Master
Preliminary relief granted
Elementary/Secondary School
U.S. Dept of Justice plaintiff
Type of Facility
Government-run
Defendant(s) City of Gadsden
Plaintiff Description African-American school children and the United States of America
Indexed Lawyer Organizations U.S. Dept. of Justice Civil Rights Division
Nature of Relief Preliminary injunction / Temp. restraining order
Declaratory Judgment
Injunction / Injunctive-like Settlement
Form of Settlement Court Approved Settlement or Consent Decree
Order Duration 1963 - 2005
Resisting Retreat: the Struggle for Equity in Educational Opportunity in the Post-Brown Era
Date: Fall 2004
By: Lia B. Epperson (NAACP Legal Defense Fund)
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05/03/2006 4:63-cv-00574-LSC
SD-AL-0008-9000.pdf | Detail
Brief for the United States as Appellant
Source: Pro Publica
Order [Reversing and Remanding Case] [Ct. of App. ECF# 383]
Consent Order [ECF# 440]
Source: U.S. DOJ, Civil Rights Division, Education Section
Motion for Declaration of Unitary Status and Order of Dismissal [ECF# 462]
Memorandum of Opinion [Concerning Unitary Status] [ECF# 479]
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This past weekend, I celebrated my 24th birthday. Before October 1st hit, I was literally counting down the days until I hit the "big" 2 4. I say this because 23 was my least favorite birthday year--too much awkwardness for me. Warning: Per usual, this is a heavy birthday photo-set.
Since my birthday was this past Saturday, I made sure to celebrate for the entire weekend. I first celebrated by doing a photo-shoot on Friday. Then on Saturday I went out with my sisters and friends to dinner. It was supposed to be a lunch but I spent too much time getting ready and taking blog photos that it ended up turning into a dinner...oops!
On Sunday, my friends treated me to brunch and a mani and pedi.
To conclude the weekend festivities, we proceeded to attend an awesome bar in Koreatown called "Lock and Key" which I highly recommend. The decor was beautiful and very fitting for a 24th birthday.
All in all, I had an awesome birthday weekend thanks to great friends and sisters. I can already feel the blessings pouring in. Cheers to 24!