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New York Red Bulls celebrating their team goal | Photo by New York Red Bulls | August 17, 2019
Eric Recio
Queens, NY – There has been a lot of talk amongst New York Red Bulls supporters regarding the team's current forward situation. Fans have become increasingly frustrated with Bradley Wright-Phillips and his lack of production up front in recent weeks. The club's reluctance to splash cash in the transfer market has also left a bad taste in people's mouth.
The club's social media accounts teased a "big signing" before the summer transfer window closed, prompting fans to refresh their Twitter feeds every five seconds in hopes of some good news. And then it happened, New York signed a Premier League player on loan for the rest of the season.
Welcome, @simsjosh12! pic.twitter.com/zlHxWu2S1c
— New York Red Bulls (@NewYorkRedBulls) August 22, 2019
Unfortunately, the extremely underwhelming announcement of Josh Sims from Southampton was not exactly what supporters had in mind. The decision not to sign a starting caliber forward could prove costly come playoff time, especially since Sims has yet to feature for RBNY since his arrival due to not receiving his P-1 yet. The club's other major signing, $2.5 million dollar Danish forward Mathias Jorgensen has made all of five appearances for RBNY this season and has been relegated to RBNY II duties.
The emergence of Brian White – a first round pick in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft – has been a bittersweet pill to swallow for a majority of the fan base. On one hand, his nine goals in 17 appearances this season has kept New York afloat while Wright-Phillips recovered from injury. On the other hand, the club insistence on riding out with White, BWP & Tom Barlow for the rest of the season has people nervous.
9 – The @NewYorkRedBulls have gotten nine goals from substitutes this season, the joint second-most in @MLS and the most in a single season for the club since at least 2007. Deep. #RBNY
— OptaJack⚽ (@OptaJack) August 21, 2019
I, for one, think that Wright-Phillips is clearly passed his prime – anyone with eyes can see that – and do not believe that White or Barlow will develop into an elite talisman. However, I also do not think that goal scoring is New York's main problem. In my opinion, RBNY's lackluster defending and inconsistencies on that side of the ball is actually a bit more troubling.
The Red Bulls made history last season after limiting opponents to an MLS low 33 goals in 2018, with 15 clean sheets to boot. Midway through 2019, New York has already conceded 39 goals with 8 games still remaining on the schedule. RBNY isn't shutting teams out anymore either, managing only six clean sheets this campaign and half of those have come vs. lowly FC Cincinnati (2) and Orlando City (1).
New York failed to keep their opponents off the scoreboard again this weekend, drawing 1-1 with the New England Revolution after dominating the first 45 minutes. Only to come out flat in the 2nd half and allow Bruce Arena's Revolution to come into Red Bull Arena and steal a crucial point in the Eastern Conference standings.
New York Red Bulls duo Kaku Romero and Mark Rzatkowski celebrating a goal | Photo by New York Red Bulls | August 17, 2019
Saturday night marked the fifth time that RBNY have failed to win after scoring first in the match. To make matters worse, RBNY have only won once (1-10-3) when conceding two or more goals across all competitions – MLS, CONCACAF & U.S. Open Cup – this season. Their lone victory was a 3-2 victory at home over LA Galaxy in May.
So what has been the main problem for New York this season? I guess it depends on who you ask. It's like the age-old question, "what came first, the chicken or the egg?"
Except in this scenario, the causality dilemma would be: lack of a consistent goal scorer or too many defensive lapses? I tend to lean toward the latter. However, there may be a simple answer to such a complex question.
There's a Tyler Adams-sized hole in Chris Armas' starting XI and a solution is nowhere in sight.
I mean, most clubs aren't too keen on selling their young, box-to-box midfielders for pennies on the dollar without an adequate replacement on board. Unless of course, you're the red-headed step child of a global energy drink conglomerate like Red Bull GmBH. But that's another story, for another day.
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Eric is a soccer podcaster that came to The Stoppage Time via Twitter. Eric is an avid MLS fan, all things RBNY and anything USMNT related.
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It is important for Maharat to recall the discussion path of the media law that has started around 10 years ago and to put the principles and observations developed at the disposal of the relevant authorities; now that the discussions of the new media law has been resumed and a new initiative has been launched by the minister of information Manal Abdel Samad calling media representatives to present their feedback, and based on the content of the ministerial statement of Hassan Diab government on developing a new media law.
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Then the law proposal was transferred to the administration and justice committee headed by MP Georges Adwan. Maharat presented on September 3rd 2018 its comments on the latest draft adopted by the media and communication committee. The comments tackled the basic provisions on which the proposal was based in regards to the principles regulating the media and guaranteeing the freedom of workers in the sector, as well as the most prominent feedback on the latest draft.
The MP Georges Adwan asked Maharat to comment on each article of the proposal. Maharat sent the requested comments to Adwan on October 15th 2018. No further communications were made after that.
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In this framework, Maharat developed its comments on each article of the leaked version, without the possibility of obtaining the final version, despite requesting it from the head of the committee MP Adwan during the meeting with civil society organizations in October 2019.
Maharat recalled the general provisions that should be adopted in any new media legislation in Lebanon, in terms of definitions, launching media organizations, crimes, penalties, trial procedures and the role of the National Media Council.
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The subjects of this review, the FI-50 NCF Series power connectors ($385 USD each, male or female) and FP-TCS31 Alpha PC-Triple C bulk power cord ($157/meter), demonstrate that, over the last ten years, things at Furutech have not changed. These products contain new technologies, and the attention to detail that Furutech has lavished on their design, materials, and construction is second to none.
So that I could run comparisons, Furutech sent over its mid-level power connector, the FI-28 ($139 each, male or female), and an extra length of Alpha PC-Triple C bulk power cord. I was curious to hear how the Furutech cords compared not only with each other and to my Welborne Labs DIY cord, but also with several finished cords that I have. At the $1000 price point (the approximate cost of building a cord with the FI-50 connectors and Alpha PC-Triple C cord), there's no shortage of excellent finished cords out there, including some from Furutech themselves.
The FI-50 NCF is Furutech's top-dog power connector. Highly polished and jewel-like, its heavily damped body is multi-layered. The exterior layers are made of nonmagnetic stainless steel and silver-plated carbon fiber. The interior layers are of nylon, fiberglass, and acetal copolymer, the last a strong, stiff, semicrystalline thermoplastic that acts as a damper.
The connector's body is further damped through the use of two "active" materials: nano-sized polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramic particles that Furutech calls Nano Crystal2 Formula (NCF), and powdered carbon. According to Furutech, through a piezoelectric process, NCF generates negative, static-eliminating ions and converts thermal energy into far infrared radiation (FIR). Powdered carbon, the company states, possesses thermal-conductive damping properties.
Also, within the connectors is a patented Earth/Ground Jumper System that Furutech says eliminates electromagnetic interference (EMI) around the connector's housing and screws. According to Furutech, current flowing through a power cord creates a large electromagnetic field that, in 120V AC systems, expands and collapses 60 times per second. This large field is interrupted by multiple, smaller screw-based fields, resulting in noise and distortion. The jumper system star-grounds the connectors' housings and screws via a Floating Field Damper Bridge that spans the connector's interiors.
In some Furutech connecters, the Damper Bridge and/or small copper tabs leading to the bridge are visible on the exterior. On the FI-50 NCF, only the copper tabs are visible. Furutech states that one way to ensure that the connectors are genuine Furutech products, not counterfeits, is to look for this grounding system.
At the inside rear of the connector is a large, stainless-steel clamp that suppresses resonances by securely gripping the uncrimped portion of the cord. Unlike most power-connector clamps, this has rounded pressure plates designed to improve grip and more effectively damp resonances. The cord's three conductors, one each for hot, neutral, and ground, are secured to the connector's poles with smaller clamps deeper within the connector's body.
Finally, the connector's housing screws, and the male connector's pins of oxygen-free copper (OFC), are rhodium-plated using a propriety process. High-purity copper is very conductive but relatively soft and malleable, making it unfit for use as pins. Many pins are therefore made from harder but relatively poor-conducting metals, such as brass or phosphor bronze.
Rhodium is a hard, silvery-white, noncorrosive metallic element that's primarily used in the manufacture of automotive catalytic converters and as an alloying agent with other metals, such as platinum and palladium. Although expensive, rhodium is more conductive than brass or phosphor bronze. These qualities make it an excellent material for connector pins.
All of the FI-50's metal parts, including its pins, are treated with Furutech's two-stage Alpha cryogenic and ring-demagnetization processes. The cryogenic process uses nitrogen or helium to cool the parts to between -321°F and -418°F (-196°C and -250°C). This, Furutech states, tightly binds and stabilizes the metals' molecules, thus improving conductivity.
Furutech licenses the ring demagnetization process from Sekiguchi Machine Sales Co. Ltd., parent company of Acoustic Revive. This demagnetizes the parts to a time-controlled peak, then does it again in a reverse-attenuation cycle. Furutech states that, unlike competing procedures, this one completely demagnetizes the parts.
Furutech claims that no other manufacturer goes to the expense and effort that they do to develop and produce its power connectors. The company is apparently not alone in this assessment -- its connectors are used by many other makers of audiophile power cords, such as Audience, Enklein, Purist Audio Design, and Siltech.
Three 2.5mm-thick conductors run through the center of Furutech's FP-TCS31 Alpha PC-Triple C power cord. Each conductor consists of 45 twisted strands of solid, 0.32mm-thick, 99.996% OFC. Understanding the PC-Triple C designation requires a bit of historical exposition.
Japanese makers of high-end audio cables such as Acoustic Revive, Harmonix, Oyaide, and Furutech previously used copper wire manufactured by Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Japan's largest producer of cables for the country's power-transmission and telecommunications industries. Furukawa used a forging process called Pure Crystal (or sometimes Purity Copper) Ohno Continuous Casting (PCOCC), based on a technology invented in 1986 by Atsumi Ohno, a professor at Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology. The PCOCC process of making wire used casting rather than the traditional drawing method. The copper's purity exceeded 99.9997% and had elongated internal crystals, both said to facilitate electrical conductivity. Furukawa used this process to make its own copper audio cables until 2000; after that, it sold PCOCC wire only to audio manufacturers, on an OEM basis.
In 2013, Furukawa announced that it was ceasing production of PCOCC wire due to weak demand. Although, at the time, several other types of audiophile-grade copper wire were being manufactured in Japan, including by Acrolink (AcroJapan) and Mogami, this decision affected many domestic manufacturers.
More recently, a Furukawa subsidiary, Fine Chemicals & Materials (FMC), developed a new forging process called PC-Triple C that is claimed to be superior even to PCOCC. PC-Triple C forging uses a repeated metal-folding technique said to be similar to that used in the manufacture of the katana -- ancient Japanese samurai swords. Extreme pressure is applied to high-purity OFC at precise angles, to "fold" the copper tens of thousands of times, removing air from it and reducing its volume by as much as 70%. This is said to cause the copper's crystals to elongate, horizontally align, and become better connected, which in turn is said to minimize the diode effect -- the uncontrolled hopping of electrons between successive crystals. The copper then undergoes a time- and temperature-controlled annealing process that's said to further fuse the crystals.
The result of the PC-Triple C process is copper that's "only" 99.996% pure, compared to PCOCC's purity of 99.9997%. However, the structure of the former's crystals, which in some instances may be even more important to sound quality than purity, is said by many to be vastly superior to that created through any other process, including PCOCC. PC-Triple C copper wire is now used by many Japanese cable makers -- including, unsurprisingly, Furutech, in the Alpha PC-Triple C power cord.
Each of the Alpha PC-Triple C power cord's three finished conductors is surrounded by a flexible insulator of audio-grade PVC: green with a yellow stripe, brown, or blue. The conductors and insulators are in turn wrapped in a flexible black inner sheath of audio-grade PVC that incorporates carbon damping particles. This sheath is surrounded by a wire-braided shield of OFC, 9 x 24-strand, 0.12mm thick, this in turn covered with a dark green outer jacket of flexible audio-grade PVC.
I cannot overemphasize the seriousness of the FI-50 NCF's and Alpha PC-Triple C's materials and build quality. I got the strong feeling that anyone paying the retail prices would be getting something well-made and luxurious for the money.
Stripping the Alpha PC-Triple C's many thick layers down to the bare conductors is a bit of work, but it lets you appreciate the cord's robustness. Once the conductors were exposed, I opened the FI-50 NCF connectors by removing their screws.
At that point, my DIY instincts counseled me to line the connectors' insides with fo.Q, a very effective Japanese anti-resonance tape used not only by audiophiles, but also by audiophile manufacturers in numerous products. In fact, Furutech applies the stuff to its 102-D and 102-S AC outlet covers. I was also tempted to apply some contact enhancer to the connectors' contact points. Furutech's own Nano liquid, which uses gold and silver microparticles suspended in squalene oil, would be perfect. However, I was assembling these cords in order to review them as manufactured, so I resisted the temptation to tweak and went back to work.
The rest of the setup consisted merely of placing the Alpha PC-Triple C cord into the FI-50 NCFs' rear ends, where the former is secured by the large clamps, and then connecting the three conductors to the connectors' poles via the small clamps -- no soldering required. Not wanting to blow anything up (or worse), I took care to match up the poles of both the male and female connectors with the properly colored conductors. I then repeated the process for the Alpha PC-Triple C and FI-28 cord.
All in all, assembling the two 5'-long power cords wasn't difficult, and could be done by anyone who can wield a wire stripper and a screwdriver.
Power cords are devilishly difficult to break in, and the Furutechs were no exception. I ran them for hundreds of hours before I was comfortable that their performance had stabilized. I used them in various places in my system, but primarily with my Exoteric K-01X SACD/CD player and Esoteric Grandioso C1 preamp.
Furutech's FI-50 NCF/Alpha PC-Triple C power cord proved an exceptional performer with a unique personality. First, it sounded particularly smooth, liquid, and clean. Take, for example, "Roundabout," from Yes's Fragile (24-bit/196kHz FLAC, Atlantic/Rhino). The famous sounds that precede and are interspersed among Steve Howe's guitar notes are, to say the least, difficult to identify. In fact, they're one of Rick Wakeman's piano notes, recorded and then reversed on a tape deck. What you hear on that track is the note swelling from faint to loud, swelling from decay to attack, as if it's rushing toward you. I have rarely, if ever, heard that note reproduced with such flow and liquidity as with the Furutech cord.
The Furutech's effortless sound remained consistent with everything I played, whether it was Ella Fitzgerald's impossibly silken voice in "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)," from her Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (16/44.1 FLAC, Verve), or John Coltrane's sometimes turbulent but always beautiful saxophone on A Love Supreme (CD, Impulse! AS-77), or the deeply sensual and smooth tones of the Fender Rhodes electric piano in "Destiny," from Zero 7's Simple Things (16/44.1 FLAC, Palm Pictures).
Second, the Furutech cord had a somewhat cool sound that subtly attenuated frequencies below about 250Hz. This cord will not, for example, reveal the last degree of upper-bass woodiness in the sounds of clarinets and mandolins. But its unusually detailed, extended, and refined treble will beautifully reproduce the fleetingly high harmonic "edge" emanating from the clarinet's tone chamber, and accurately convey the brittle nature of upper-midband mandolin-string plucks. These are things that not every power cord can do.
One extreme example of the Furutech's subtle high-frequency bias was audible with Keith Jarrett's June 1, 1981, solo performance at Munich's Herkulessaal (Hercules Hall), from his Concerts Bregenz München (16/44.1 FLAC, ECM). In Part II of this concert, Jarrett embarks on an epic improvisation, but at one point apparently finds himself artistically cornered. He repeatedly strikes three notes and their neighboring tones in the piano's highest registers. He panics, frantically searching for a way out of the thin, metallic, sonically unpleasant place in which he's found himself. Groaning in frustration in a way that can be compared only to the equally unorthodox cries of pianist Glenn Gould, Jarrett furiously stomps his foot on the floor and strikes the piano's body with one hand, until his other hand secures a path down to the instrument's more musical ranges. The Furutech cord rendered the shrill high-frequency notes with jaw-dropping detail and extension, and accurately preserved their discordant tinniness. Rather than ameliorating these notes by blunting their sharp, trebly edges, the Furutech cord fully and cleanly delineated those edges.
Another example of the Furutech cord's upper-end predilections can be heard in organist Virgil Fox's recording of J.S. Bach's Fantasy in G Minor, BWV 542, from Fox's The Bach Gamut (16/44 FLAC, Reference), recorded in 1976 in St. Mary's Cathedral, in San Francisco, during one of Fox's "Heavy Organ" concerts. With the Furutech cord, the organ was leaner and less thickly layered than I'd heard it before. There seemed to be less output from my JL Audio Fathom f113 v2 subwoofers. However, what was there was uncommonly detailed and controlled, and less distorted. In fact, the notes were so free of bloat that, at 1:07 into the track, a previously unnoticed cough (Fox's?) was revealed at the right of the soundstage. And the organ's occasional high-frequency notes had never sounded so clean and elegant.
Aside from observations concerning the Furutech cord's sui generis take on musical rarities such as cacophonous high-end piano notes and subterranean pipe-organ displays, it checked off the boxes of the things I look for in a high-end power cord: transient impact, detail, image focus, and noise rejection. All were present in spades.
In "Love in Mind," from Neil Young's Live at Massey Hall 1971 (16/44.1 FLAC, Reprise), it's just Young and his piano. Showing off just how well recorded this album is, the Furutech cord solidly planted him at center stage rear. Save for a slight amount of analog tape hiss, Young was surrounded by an extraordinarily quiet background.
In Ondekoza's explosive percussion track "Fujiyama," on YG Acoustics' Test CD II (CD, YG Acoustics), the sounds of hard-hit drums seemed to emanate from a completely dark background, with subtle and beautifully reproduced skin reverberations. Also, in "Roundabout," the opening notes of Howe's 1953 Martin 00-18 acoustic guitar were large-bodied and extremely detailed.
Finally, the Furutech cord placed Ella Fitzgerald and John Coltrane solidly in my room, with detail, elegance, liquidity, and an abundance of toe-tapping flow and pace. And when the Jarrett track reached the point where he found his way back to the musical portion of the piano's keyboard in the Herkulessaal, the Furutech cord produced strikingly gorgeous and crystalline notes. This is not a cord that could ever be called clinical or analytical, nor did it favor quantitative detail retrieval over musicality.
The Furutech cord offers things -- clarity, detail, liquidity, refinement, upper-end extension -- that would greatly benefit many systems, tubed or solid-state, and particularly those with a neutral to warm sound. It might not be a good match for cool, strident-sounding systems. But in the latter case, I'd likely be looking to alter my mix of components before I tried to reveal more warmth and body through the addition of a power cord.
Curious about what I'd heard with the Furutech cord, I swapped it out for a Welborne Labs DYI cord that I long ago made for under $100. The Welborne uses inexpensive Marinco connectors that, on the male end, have gold-plated pins. No matter what track I played, the Welborne cord sounded fatter, warmer, and more romantic in the middle and low frequencies than did the Furutech. It was also extremely forgiving.
However, on the Jarrett track, the Welborne cord lacked detail and rolled off the very highest frequencies. Not surprisingly for the money, it was also much less accurate and realistic than the Furutech.
I also swapped out the Furutech for several other cords with gold-plated pins. One was the utterly capable and much more expensive Synergistic Research Atmosphere Level 3 Digital ($2995). The other, a Pangea Audio AC14, cost less than $50, but listening to both cords confirmed the Furutech's cooler sonic signature.
Finally, I swapped out the Furutech cord with FI-50 connectors for the one I made with the FI-28 connectors. The FI-28s are solidly built, but they're not audio jewelry of the Harry Winston level, as the FI-50s are. Since both the FI-50s and FI-28s used the Alpha PC-Triple C cable, the difference in these power cords' constructions consisted solely in their connectors. Further, since the two models use the same rhodium-plated OFC pins, the differences between them come down to body construction. Unlike the FI-50s, whose male and female bodies comprise layers of stainless steel, silver-plated carbon-fiber, nylon, fiberglass, and acetal copolymer, the FI-28s' bodies are of nylon and fiberglass, with only a single active damping material: powdered carbon.
The FI-28s deserve their own review. Suffice it to say here that they retained the FI-50s' basic sonic signature, though the performance levels offered by the two conductors are far from identical. With the FI-28s, detail, soundstaging, focus, and even noise reduction were less impressive.
It's difficult to believe that the construction of a power connector's body could make such a difference in my system's sound, but it did. In high-end sound reproduction, everything counts.
Why would someone go to the troubling of making a DIY power cord from the FI-50 NCF power connectors and FP-TCS31 Alpha PC-Triple C bulk power cable? The short answer is because such a cord would be exceptionally good. While perhaps not right for every system, that cord would work very well in most or many of them. Yes, you can buy finished Furutech cords that contain PC-Triple C copper conductors and and/or FI-50 connectors. However, I suspect that, if you do, you'll pay a lot more than if you'd made the cord yourself. Highly recommended.
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The line is working, He does say that there is a few bridged tap on the line but he does not do line grooming, that is Chorus that need to do that.
So he is going to close the fault, but said I need to talk to Snap about this and get them to tell Chorus to groom the line. He did mention that is way the broadband is not great.
So I phoned Snap told them that. The Snap Tech said he will run a bridged test on the line but will take 24 hours and see if there is any issues.
So I told him that if they can/don't want to fix this I want my contract canceled as I am not getting the same service as my old service.
So he said you will have the same issue on another providers, so I said I would not have moved to VDSL if I could not get it, I would have gone to Cable as I have it on my street.
So he just said wait for the test to be done. Call us back tomorrow at 10am and we can see what we can do.
This is really starting to piss me off. I have spend so much time on the phone with Snap over the last 5 days, and I keep needing to call them.
At this point I am think I just need to it cancel.
Would the LSP have any records of your lines stats before all this mess? I would give them a call and see and compare, that would be a good indication that Chorus messed something up.
stick with it , you have come this far and if you really wanted cable you would have gone with it in the first place. You never know they may get it sorted and what's 1 more day after the hassle you have been through.
Is there like a cooling down period that I have to get out of my contract?
Explain the situation and you would clearly be able to break your contract.
The faultman has not done the right thing. He shouldn't have closed the fault, he should have referred it to the cable team to gte your line swept for multiples. This isn't really Snap's fault at all. Chorus did the pre-qual tests, Chorus installed the circuit and now Chorus must fix the fault.
That is how I feel, I just don;t know how I can push Snap to push Chorus to fix their mess.
In the short term, I'd escalate it back through Snap! - perhaps drop a PM to RalphFromSnap on here as well. Given there's been a bit of backwards and forwards with Chorus, it may pay to try and identify a single point of contact at Snap! who can help you get it sorted.
IMO, you've weighed up your options, and chosen Snap! VDSL as being the best fit for you. Problems can happen when getting new services provisioned - give them a bit more time to get it resolved, and if it's still problematic in a couple of days, then reconsider what to do then.
It is hard telling the story over and over and then put on hold for them to read the notes.
Will give them maybe until Friday before considering next step.
That's usually the most frustrating part of any fault finding - that's why I suggested finding one point of contact who you can keep dealing with through to resolution, rather than simply speaking to one of several different people working the helpdesk, who have to come up to speed with the issue each time you contact them. Ideally one of the more senior staff who can also liaise directly with Chorus to get to the bottom of the issue for you.
yes, I will see what Ralph comes back with..
The funny thing is that the helpdesk get all jittery when you ask them to talk to a supervisor.
My wife is not happy with me as I had to explain why we don't have internet over the last weekend and now it is not performing as it was..
keep at it, chorus techs have a habbit of trying to shove lines off as being "too far" - mines 80M as the road goes, or 212M electrically.. and i was told i was too far.
considering you had a 20/1, thats a pretty decent adsl sync.. once your lines cleared up, your vdsl should be looking pretty nice too.
Jipp that is why I started the process.
RalphFromSnap is on the case.
Errors found on the line after the line test, so he is now pushing it back to Chorus.
Thanks for you help RalphFromSnap.


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Former minister of the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria and the national secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Nasir El-Rufai, was prevented by agents of the State Security Service (SSS) from leaving Finotel Hotel in Awka, Anambra state, Nigeria, where he lodged in order to help monitor the Anambra Governorship Election.
El-Rufai stated to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), "I arrived in Awka by 7 p.m. on Friday and had a brief session with the APC candidate, Senator Chris Ngige. When I came out to have my dinner, I saw three heavily armed SSS officers at the hotel.
I asked them why they were following me; they told me that they were protecting me because Awka is not safe.
I told them that I came with my own security. This morning, as I was about to have breakfast, they blocked the corridor and tried to restrain me from going out but I pushed by and went to the restaurant to eat.


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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Police in the Denver suburb of Englewood say 10 unexploded homemade bombs were found in a cell phone store after they were thrown through the windows.
Police say the bombs were found in the CTG Wireless store in a strip mall on Friday. No injuries were reported.
The Denver Post reports that nearby stores were evacuated while the Arapahoe County bomb squad gathered the devices.
Authorities declined to release details about the explosives, citing the ongoing investigation.
Englewood police say the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is assisting the investigation.


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A person who commits any of the following offenses shall be punished with imprisonment for not less than one year and not more than seven years and in addition thereto a fine of not more than NT$20 million may be imposed:
the making of false statements on the application materials required under Article 30, Article 44, paragraphs 1 to 3, or Article 93, or Article 30 as applied mutatis mutandis under Article 165-1 or 165-2, of this Act.
the making and dissemination to the public of false information with regard to the market value of securities, or with regard to the material aspects of the approved public offering.
the violation of paragraph 1 of Article 32 by an issuer, its responsible persons or employees, and the provision of paragraph 2 of the same Article does not apply.
the making of false statements on the account books, forms/statements, documents, or other reference or report materials produced by any issuer or public tender offeror or related party thereof, securities firm or its principals, securities dealers association, stock exchange, or any other enterprises referred to in Article 18 pursuant to an order of the Competent Authority to produce such materials.
the making of false statements on the account books, forms/statements, vouchers, financial reports or any other business documents by any issuer, public tender offeror, securities firm, securities dealers association, stock exchange, or any other enterprises referred to in Article 18, as required to be produced in compliance with acts or regulations, or orders prescribed by the Competent Authority pursuant thereto.
the making of false statements in the content of a financial report under the preceding subparagraph by a managerial officer or accounting officer who signs or seals the financial report; provided, the punishment may be reduced or remitted if the person has submitted a corrective opinion and provided evidence in a report to the Competent Authority before the Competent Authority or a judicial agency has commenced an investigation [ex officio or] upon a complaint filed by another person.
the making of any investment advice relating to an issuer or specific securities transactions which was based on false information and disseminating the said advice on any newspapers and magazines, written materials, broadcasts, films or by other means.
the loaning of company funds to another person, using company assets to provide security or a guarantee for another person, or endorsing of a negotiable instrument by a director, managerial officer, or employee of an issuer in violation of an act or regulation, or the articles of incorporation, or beyond the scope authorized by the board of directors, causing substantial damage to the company.
counterfeiting, altering, destroying, concealing, or obscuring working papers or relevant records or documents with intent to impede inspection by the Competent Authority or investigation by a judicial agency.
A person who commits any of the following offenses shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than five years, or a fine of not more than NT$15 million may be imposed [in lieu thereof] or in addition thereto:
issuance of a false or untrue opinion by a lawyer regarding any contract, report, or document of the company or foreign company related to securities offering, issuance, or trading.
failure by a certified public account to faithfully fulfill his or her audit duties and issue a report or opinion with respect to any material falsehood or error in a financial report, document, or information reported or published by a company or foreign company; or failure by a certified public accountant to expressly state a material falsehood or error in a company or foreign company financial report due to failure to audit in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and generally accepted audit principles.
violation of Article 22, paragraphs 1 to 3.
Where the commission of an offense under the preceding paragraph materially affects the rights or interests of shareholders or harms the stability of the securities market, the punishment may be increased by one-half.
Where a personnel member or employee of an issuer commits an offense in subparagraph 6 of paragraph 1, and the offense is minor, the punishment may be reduced.
The Competent Authority shall render a disposition suspending attestation work by a certified public accountant who violates subparagraph 2 of paragraph 2.
If a foreign company is the issuer, any violation of paragraph 1, subparagraphs 1 to 9 by the foreign company or a director, managerial officer, employee, or accounting officer of the foreign company shall be punished under paragraphs 1 and 4.
A person who violates Article 22 as applied mutatis mutandis under Article 165-1 or 165-2 shall be punished under paragraphs 2 and 3.
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La gare routière de Tampere () est un bâtiment de style fonctionnaliste construit dans le quartier de Ratina à Tampere en Finlande.  Elle est l'œuvre de l'architecte finlandais Bertel Strömmer.

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Bibliographie
 Säpyskä, Ossi: Pirkanmaan autoliikenteen vaiheet. Tampere: Pirkanmaan autoalan veteraanit ry., 1988. .

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 Visite virtuelle – Virtuaalinen Tampereen kaupunkiopas: VirtualTampere.com
 Anciennes photographies de la gare Arjenhistoria.fi palvelimella

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 Attractions touristiques de Tampere

Ratina (Tampere)
Bâtiment à Tampere
Transport à Tampere
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On behalf of Robert Wareham of The Law Center P.C. posted in Property Division on Saturday, December 16, 2017.
No one who makes the decision to enter into a marriage plans for the relationship to become unsustainable. While the divorce rate has trended downward slightly among some demographics, there is still a good possibility that a marriage will end in divorce, unfortunately. Even though this is an emotional and financial ordeal for many Colorado residents, the right support team can make the process manageable.
A marriage dissolution can be one of the most challenging periods of a person's life. It is during this time that one may draw the most benefit from a strong, professional support team. If a divorce proceeding entails managing custody and significant assets, then a spouse may have a reasonably strong support system in the form of family and friends. However, there are other support personnel who can be instrumental in helping one throughout the ordeal.
Many people choose to assemble a team that includes not only a skilled legal professional but also an experienced financial advisor as well as a therapist. These professionals can help provide the guidance and knowledge that can enable an individual to emerge from the process intact and ready to face the future in the best financial and emotional position possible. One may also enlist other professionals -- such as a certified public accountant -- as each unique circumstance requires.
While every situation is unique, having the right support in place can provide peace of mind that one will not only endure his or her divorce but will have the strength necessary to make the important but difficult decisions that will influence one's life well into the future. One of the most important decisions is selecting a family law attorney who can ensure that one's best interest is protected at all times. Colorado residents who are contemplating seeking a divorce may enlist the input of an experienced attorney who can best represent him or her throughout the process.


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President Trump Addresses Nation on Coronavirus (VIDEO)
March 11th, 2020 Matt Howerton
President Trump addressed the Nation from the Oval Office last night, announcing the suspension of all travel from Europe into the United States to help slow the global coronavirus outbreak.
The President called the US government's response "unprecedented" saying,
"Today the World Health Organization officially announced that the coronavirus is a global pandemic. We are in contact with our allies and we are marshalling the full power of the federal government and the private sector to protect the American people."
President Trump explained,
"By taking early, intense action we have seen dramatically fewer cases of the virus in the United States than are now present in Europe. The European failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from China and other hot spots. As a result, a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe."
The President continued announcing,
"After consulting with our top government health professionals, I have decided to take several strong but necessary actions to protect the health and well-being of all Americans. To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days."
Soon after his remarks, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that it would suspend the season after learning that a player from the Utah Jazz had contracted COVID-19.
There are over 1,300 cases of coronavirus in the United States with 36 proving to be fatal so far. Fortunately, there are reports of major break-throughs being made in the creation of a vaccine in Texas and Israel.
There have also been more than 20,000 deaths from millions of cases of the flu this season. To avoid both pathogens, U.S. health officials continue to stress the importance of washing your hands and not touching your face.
See part of the President's Oval Office Address below:
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"At its core, the filibuster is not about stopping a nominee or a bill, it's about compromise and moderation. The nuclear option extinguishes the power of independents and moderates.… Moderates are important if you need to get to 60 votes to satisfy cloture; they are much less so if you only need 50 votes. Let's set the historical record straight. Never has the Senate provided for a certainty that 51 votes could put someone on the bench or pass legislation." - Joe Biden, March 2005
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The fire that burst from the top stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket did more than melt aluminum and crack carbon fiber.
The fire that burst from the top stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, quickly consuming it and the satellite it was to carry to orbit, did more than melt aluminum and crack carbon fiber on a $62 million rocket and throw another wrench into Elon Musk's already busy day. It will have repercussions across the globe.
Spacecom, the Israeli company that built AMOS-6, is in trouble. It was in the middle of selling itself to a Chinese conglomerate for $285 million. Beijing Xinwei Technology Group aimed to integrate the company, which already operates three communications satellites, into its global telecom system.
But the merger's finances no doubt count upon AMOS-6 being operational on time and delivering a steady stream of cash from clients such as Facebook, who leased some of the satellite's capacity for its internet.org initiative.
But worse than the postponement, there are reports that the satellite's insurance may not cover a loss that occurred during an engine test. SpaceCom has not yet responded to a request for comment.
SpaceX operates one of the few rockets that can carry supplies to six humans currently living in orbit on the ISS. It has made two trips already this year and is scheduled for another in November. The likely delay of that trip will mean more pressure on the other vehicles to deliver.
Kirk Shireman, NASA's program director for ISS, told SpaceFlightNow yesterday the ISS had almost fully restored its reserves after running them down during last year's delay. But the next rocket slated to carry supplies to the ISS is also higher risk than usual: It is a new OrbitalATK Antares rocket making its first flight, after the previous iteration blew up in 2014.
Besides its trip to ISS, SpaceX is scheduled to fly seven other Falcon 9 flights for clients before the end of the year, including SES, Iridium, Echostar, and Taiwan's national space program. After SpaceX's last failure, it took the company about six months to get back to business. Those kinds of delays can mean trouble for operators whose financing often depends on the timing of their launches.
With other launch companies like ULA and Arianespace already facing crowded manifests, it could be hard for them to find alternate options. And SpaceX could lose millions of dollars because of these delays.
While the company continuously underscores its commitments to safety and sustainable operations, there's no question a lengthy return-to-flight will draw resources away from SpaceX's efforts to launch a new heavy rocket, reuse a Falcon 9 rocket, and, perhaps most importantly, fly humans in space for NASA for the first time since the Space Shuttle's retirement in 2011.
Now, SpaceX and Boeing are competing to be the first private company to fly humans in space. SpaceX was seen as having a slight lead, hoping to launch before the end of 2017, while the veteran aerospace giant said February 2018 at the earliest. Both of those dates were seen as ambitious, and SpaceX's accident seems to confirm that U.S. astronauts will depend on Russia until 2018.
More than a year out from its only failed commercial mission, SpaceX had regained its luster as cutting-edge rocket company. Now, it will need to shore up that reputation again.


Just over 2,000 people responded to the online survey from the city of Denver.
DENVER — Electric scooters hit the streets of Denver late last year and this month the city released data it has gathered about their usage.
Since the city's pilot program launched in August, there has been an average of 4,693 scooter rides per weekday, according to data from Denver Public Works over the last few months. That number is slightly higher for weekends.
There were 819,927 rides with 952,898 miles traveled.


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Team Preparation – Safety and Health
Mission Trips - First Do No Harm
Course Author(s): Curt Hamann, MD; Charles John Palenik, MS, PhD, MBA
Preparing for the Mission
Determining Local Needs
Traveling to the Mission Site
Local Resources Available
Performing the Mission
Infection Prevention Basics
Infection Prevention Planning
Standard Precautions
Exposure Prevention Plan
Post-exposure and Other Emergency Procedures
Storage of Instruments and Materials
Environmental Asepsis
Infectious Waste Management
Appendix A – Main Checklist for Oral Healthcare Missions
Appendix B – Instrument/Workload Calculation
Appendix C – Site Evaluation Summary
Appendix D – Patient Medical Review Form
Appendix E – Worker Health Information Form
Appendix F – Emergency Medical Release Form
Appendix G – Treatment for Exposures
Appendix H – Exposure Follow-Up: Returning Home
Appendix I – Sterilization and High-Level Disinfection
Appendix J – Oral Care Humanitarian Mission Briefing
Appendix K – After-Action Mission Report Template
Before leaving, all mission team members should visit their primary physician and dentist to ensure all are in good health and require no special medical management. See Appendix J - "Oral Care Humanitarian Mission Briefing."
Medical Issues – Prescription and Non-prescription Items
Team members should inform their physician or travel medicine professional approximately four to six weeks before the trip that they will be traveling to an area that may have limited resources and ask about health advisories for the area. Additional medication, such as antibiotics (e.g., ciprofloxacin) and antidiarrheal medications may be recommended. If traveling to an area of the world with malaria, prophylaxis should be considered. The recommendation for prophylaxis varies depending on the location, it is important to seek advice and recommendations from a medical healthcare professional.
The CDC publishes the Yellow Book every two years, as a reference for those who advise international travelers about health risks. The Yellow Book is written primarily for health professionals, although others will find it useful. Online access is available at: CDC - Yellow Book Homepage.
Most vaccines take time to become effective following inoculation and some vaccines must be given in a series over a period of days or sometimes weeks. If it is less than four weeks before departure, the team member(s) should still visit their physician(s), as they would still benefit from shots or medications and other information about illness and injury prevention while traveling.
CDC divides vaccines for travel into three categories: routine, recommended, and required.
Routine Vaccinations
Ensure that team members and their families are up-to-date on routine vaccinations. These vaccines are necessary for protection from diseases that are still common in many parts of the world even though they rarely occur in the United States. The CDC has a site: "Adult Immunization Schedule - Details for Health Care Professionals," which has a printable schedule feature.
Recommended Vaccinations
These vaccines are recommended to protect travelers from illnesses present in other parts of the world and to prevent the importation of infectious diseases across international borders. Which vaccinations are required depends on a number of factors including destination, the season of the year, and a team member's age, health status and previous immunizations. Another excellent resource is the CDC's "Destinations" page.
Required Vaccinations
The only vaccine required by International Health Regulations is the yellow fever vaccination prior to travel to certain countries in sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America.
Volunteer Health and Safety Coordinator
Copy and complete a Worker Health Information Form (see Appendix E - "Worker Health Information Form") before leaving on a mission. One person on the team should be assigned the primary responsibility for overseeing the medical needs of the team members, including maintaining the confidential medical history forms for each member. Keep health records in a safe location and restrict them on a need-to-know basis.
Update individual health records at least annually to ensure that they reflect the current health status of each team member.
Preparing for Emergencies, Including Exposure and First Aid
In addition to the medical history, each oral health mission volunteer should complete an Emergency Medical Release form (Appendix F - "Emergency Medical Release Form"), authorizing by signature medical treatment by emergency personnel, a physician, or a medical treatment facility in the event that permission for treatment cannot be provided or obtained in a timely manner.
Before leaving on the trip, prepare for the possibility that someone may become seriously ill and require a level of care beyond the capacity of the local facilities. Make provision for a rapid evacuation. Often, such services are not covered by individuals' medical insurance plans. Encourage all team members to consult with their insurance provider and purchase additional travel insurance that includes emergency medical evacuation, if needed. Be sure several team members know the emergency plan and list appropriate telephone numbers in several places and with different people.
A standard first aid kit should be purchased or assembled for use by volunteers who have headaches, allergies, cold symptoms, diarrhea or who sustain simple injuries. A first aid kit should include the following:
band aids, gauze, ace bandage, adhesive cloth tape
instant cold and hot compresses
antibiotic ointment, topical steroid, eye drops
antihistamine, diphenhydramine (e.g., Benedryl), non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAIDS), dimenhydrinate (e.g., Dramamine)
loperamide (e.g., Imodium)
Ciprofloxacin with physician prescription and/or an alternative antibiotic
Prepare emergency kits and keep them on hand in treatment areas. The ADA Council on Scientific Affairs recommends seven core emergency kit items including:1
diphenhydramine
nitroglycerine
An expanded emergency kit when providing dental care in remote areas should include additional supplies to treat medical complications, including:
pocket masks with one-way valves for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
portable external defibrillator (AED)
diazepam (e.g., Valium)
versed
hydrocortisone
naloxone
flumazenil
various syringes to administer these medications in appropriate doses
In addition to emergency and first aid kits, be prepared to manage occupational exposures to blood and body fluids. Post-exposure antiretroviral prophylaxis (PEP) must be administered within 72 hours of exposure to bloodborne pathogens and continued for an additional four weeks to be effective. Necessary post-exposure supplies include:
Hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG), which is administered to directly neutralize the hepatitis B virus (HBV) following exposure.
Vaccine against HBV.
Rapid OTC oral tests for HIV antibodies.
Antiretroviral regimens of two or three agents from different classes need to be administered depending on the type of exposure. The types of exposures, classes of antiretroviral drugs, and dosing regimens, as well as drug interactions and potential side effects are well described by the CDC at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5409a1.htm#tab1
Make sure that all team members have discussed the risks and side effects of post-exposure treatment with a qualified healthcare professional before leaving for the mission.
Advanced Volunteer Training
Before departing, ensure that team members are prepared to handle injuries and emergencies.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) – trained and certified volunteers
Assign responsibility for the first aid kit to a volunteer trained in first aid, ideally someone who is Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) certified.
If an Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certified volunteer is participating, he/she should be given responsibility for the emergency kit and its use.
Local Safety Issues
When traveling in unfamiliar locations, personal safety is very important. Understanding local culture norms, political situations, crime statistics and recent history of riots or terrorism is essential. Specific information regarding issues of personal safety when traveling internationally is available from the US Department of State (Current Travel Warnings). All team members should be aware of such information.


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City to spend millions on homeless outreach, cleanup
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LOS ANGELES — The City Council June 28 approved millions of dollars to be spent on an enhanced homeless-outreach and street-cleanup operation recently touted by the mayor as an overhaul of efforts to combat illegal dumping and providing hygiene services for the homeless.
The council allocated more than $6.5 million to the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation to cover costs of hygiene and health services, cleanup teams that will target high-need areas, bathroom and shower stations and more.
Mayor Eric Garcetti said last week the revamping of trash-cleanup efforts and outreach to homeless communities using "cleaning and rapid engagement (CARE) teams would shift the city from simply reacting to complaints about dumping to pro-actively responding to high-need areas.
Each CARE team will be assigned to a specific location — at least one in each council district — to provide cleanup services and help sanitation workers "build stronger relationships with homeless Angelenos in desperate need," the mayor said.
The teams will receive specialized mental health training and deliver public health resources, including daily trash collection and mobile restrooms to homeless communities.
The plan will increase the number of city sanitation teams from 20 to 30, creating 47 sanitation jobs. The program will also include training of some homeless people who will be paid for taking part in cleanup efforts.
Illegal dumping in Los Angeles has been linked to more than just homelessness. Earlier this month, 85 businesses in the downtown area were cited by county health inspectors for not having proper waste receptacles in violation of the county's health code.
While hailed by many for its proactive approach to combating street trash, the program is not without doubters. Some activists said this week they're concerned about the city's inclusion of police officers in the CARE teams.
"There is still an intensity and an intentionality around police enforcement connected to the plan," Pete White, the executive director of Los Angeles Community Action Network, said June 27 at a City Hall news conference.
White was joined by representatives of various groups that make up the Services Not Sweeps coalition, which called for a decrease in the amount of police presence during the scheduled sidewalk and street cleanups, saying it could intimidate some of the homeless.
Enrique Zaldivar, the director of Los Angeles Sanitation and Environment, told a City Council committee June 26 that police presence is necessary at times during outreach and cleanup efforts.
"We have had incidents where our workers have been threatened, and in some cases there have been assaults, and we have to be mindful of that," Zaldivar said.
Jane Nguyen, with the organization KTown For All, said her organization has worked with homeless activists for about a year, observing cleanups and speaking with local leaders. She said she saw one person's tent removed in the middle of winter during a past cleanup effort.
"I was told that we will not arrest our way out of the homeless crisis, but I can tell you what I've witnessed, and people are constantly traumatized by sweeps," Nguyen said.
Officials with L.A. Sanitation said the goal will be to build trust with the homeless community while providing public health protection services, and the LAPD will be "in the background to provide safety for the team members."
City Councilman Gilbert Cedillo, who sits on the Energy, Climate Change and Environmental Justice Committee, made his own suggestions for striking a balance between protection and enforcement.
"There are community groups that have street credit with the homeless … and that's probably a lot cheaper than LAPD's cost to have them make the distinction of what is trash and what's not," Cedillo said. "We should engage and have a constructive conversation with those groups and redeploy LAPD where their presence plays a constructive role and we have not developed, per say, inflammatory relationships."
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Four Lynwood students to travel abroad in summer
Posted on February 11, 2019 February 11, 2019 Author Wave Staff Report
LYNWOOD — Four Lynwood High School students will experience Japanese tea ceremonies in Tokyo, taste paella in Alicante, Spain, and learn German while traveling through Berlin this summer after earning Global Navigator Scholarships that will allow them to study abroad this summer. Junior Melanie Pacheco will venture to Spain, juniors Crystal Cervantes and Daniel Perez Read More…
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Trauma, violence impact residents, panelist says
Posted on September 1, 2016 Author Anne Artley, Contributing Writer
SOUTH LOS ANGELES — The impact of trauma and violence in the community impacts the way people are able to perform at work and school, a member of a panel on community violence said Aug. 30 Karim Webb, the co-owner and operations manager of PCF Restaurant Management, made that comment during a meeting at the Read More…
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Garcetti on second term: 'The future is already here'
Posted on July 6, 2017 Author Dennis J. Freeman, Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti had his own City Hall party July 1 that promoted his second term in office as the leader of the city. The mayor and newly elected members of the City Council took their oaths of office in ceremonies outside City Hall with about 2,500 people on hand. "We know Read More…
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Les Misérables is heading to Brisbane!
18 May, 2015 Cassie Tongue 0 Comments Brisbane, Les Miserables
Do you hear the people (of Queensland) sing? Queensland Premier and Arts Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk announced today that Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed new production of Les Misérables will open at QPAC's Lyric Theatre in November, with tickets going on sale this Thursday 21st May.
Les Miserables Australia. Image by Matt Murphy.
"I welcome Les Misérables to Queensland and am certain that audiences will not miss their chance to see this much-loved musical in a new production at QPAC," the Premier said.
Having celebrated triumphant seasons in Melbourne, Perth and currently playing in Sydney, Cameron Mackintosh is thrilled to be able to bring this new production to Brisbane.
"I'm delighted that the wonderful original cast of my acclaimed new production of Les Misérables will all be coming to open the Brisbane season in November," Mackintosh said.
"Brisbane has always been a tremendously responsive home to my musical productions so I am particularly proud and delighted that this extraordinary Australian cast has agreed to stay together for this season which coincides with the 30th anniversary of the original London production still playing to packed houses at the Queens Theatre in Shaftsbury Avenue.
[T]his Company is one of the finest I have ever had."
This new production of the blockbuster musical features modernised staging and orchestrations, with re-imagined scenery that has been inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo.
Playing Jean Valjean is Simon Gleeson. Hayden Tee plays Javert while starring as Fantine is Patrice Tipoki. Playing Madame Thénardier is Lara Mulcahy and joining her in the role of Monsieur Thénardier is Trevor Ashley. Recent WAAPA graduates Kerrie Anne Greenland and Emily Langridge play Eponine and Cosette respectively. Chris Durling takes on the role of Enjolras and Euan Doidge plays Marius.
Catch Les Mis at Brisbane's Lyric Theatre QPAC from November 10th 2015. Tickets on sale Thursday 21st May via qpac.com.au or 136246.
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Have you ever wanted to check out the awesome fights in a giant robot anime, but didn't want to wade through 50 billion episodes and endless filler to reach the few fight scenes that might be somehow significant? Well, the Robot Anime Scene Compilation tag is there for you and me.
Want to watch the greatest fights from Getter Robo or God Mars? Well here's your chance, and rather than killing 100 hours worth of time, all you need is 30 minutes per video.
Are shows like Grendizer and Baldios too high-brow and high-quality for you? Well then you can take a look at some of the not-so-fondly remembered robots, like Gloizer X and Srungle!
It's thanks to this tag that I found out Michiru takes over for a captured Hayato towards the end of Getter Robo G, and on top of that she's actually not useless!
So go forth, watch some robots, and come back a more learned anime citizen.
First, no Kaze no Stigma jokes.
Mecha is one of the main stereotypes of japanese animation, along with martial arts, sci-fi, and not being for kids. But despite being one of the first things many people think of when they see the word "anime" it somehow has gotten a negative reputation among many fans in the United States. People will turn away from a title if giant robots are involved, and the only Gundam series to ever truly be successful is Wing.
I have no issue with people not preferring giant robot anime, but what is bothering me is the idea that robots, be they real or super, are an automatic red flag for a lot of anime viewers.
What happened? I know that the large female otaku population tends not to be fond of titanium titans, but why do so many guys also brush these titles aside? Could it be that giant robots are no longer considered a staple of anime, that in the eyes of this newer generation of anime fandom it is something to be ignored? Are there certain tropes of robot animation, different from say, shounen fighting, which detracts from the viewing experience?
Armored Trooper Votoms is the story of Chirico Cuvie, a soldier and Armored Tooper (giant robot) pilot who was betrayed by his own military and forced on the run. Previously, Chirico found himself in Uoodo, a city where might makes right and people are very likely not to wake up the next morning. In episodes 14-27 of Armored Trooper Votoms, the AWOL soldier Chirico Cuvie trades the disorder and chaos of Uoodo for the focused destruction in the jungles of Kummen, a country at odds with Melkia. Chirico, a man who lives to fight, finds himself in his natural habitat amidst a civil war.
The aptly titled second part of Votoms, the "Kummen Jungle Wars," sees Chirico acting as a mercenary for the Kummen government, fighting against a rebellious prince who seeks to prevent his nation from abandoning its traditions and modernizing. As the war progresses, it becomes clear that neither side is "good" or "evil" as is often the case with clashes of ideology as well as real robot anime. New characters are introduced on both sides, some familiar and welcome faces appear, Chirico still uses a Scope Dog, and the Perfect Soldier project which forced Chirico on the run is further along than it's ever been before. …Or is it?
The fighting in Kummen is different from Uoodo, where it was usually cops vs thugs vs Chirico. Instead, Chirico in his mercenary role frequently acts as part of a mechanized platoon, following orders and occasionally giving them. The enemy, being much weaker than them, relies on guerilla tactics and hiding in plain sight in order to confuse the government's soldiers and weaken resolve. The battles are intense and gritty without much posturing, lives are easily lost, and Chirico continues to wage war in what is basically the Votoms equivalent of a Zaku, a Leo, or a KLF: a rust bucket without many special features other than the strength and skill of the pilot within it.
The only real fault of Votoms is the way it handles romance, as it does so in a very Tomino-esque hammer-over-the-head manner. The origins of romance in the story of Votoms can make it hard to swallow, but don't let it distract you.
Though the Kummen Jungle Wars arc ties into the greater plotline of Votoms, it can be considered its own self-contained story of a country at war with itself, where tradition and progress are forced against one another to determine the future of the nation. Watching just these 13 episodes alone can be satisfying enough, and if you're unable to watch the Uoodo arc, the show was courteous enough to throw in a recap episode. At the end of Kummen, while a lot of questions are answered, far more are brought up, and there's another 26 episodes to go.


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$21 million hospital built for coronavirus victims in New York closes without ever seeing a patient
By Jared Leone, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
May 26, 2020 at 9:52 am PDT
$21 million New York hospital built for coronavirus victims closes without seeing a patient $21 million New York hospital built for coronavirus victims closes without seeing a patient
NEW YORK — A temporary field hospital built for $21 million as the coronavirus outbreak threatened to overrun medical facilities in New York has closed without ever seeing a patient.
Plans to transform the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal into a temporary 670-bed hospital were announced March 31, a day after the USNS Comfort hospital ship arrived to help coronavirus patients. Officials also announced a tennis center in Queens would be converted into a 350-bed facility.
At that time, there were about 8,400 patients in hospitals citywide being treated for the coronavirus, The City reported.
The tennis center opened as a medical facility April 11 when there were 12,184 patients in hospital beds being treated across the city. It cost $19.8 million to renovate and revert the tennis center. It closed earlier this month after taking in 79 patients.
The Brooklyn hospital, built by SLSCO, a Texas-based construction company, was supposed to open in April but was not ready for patients until May 4, The City reported. By then, hospital use had been sliced in half, to about 6,000 patients. It closed last week without ever having a patient.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is expected to pay the costs for both hospitals.
The two field hospitals were not the only emergency medical facilities in New York that saw limited use.
The Comfort left New York after about a month and treating 182 patients, of which about 70% had the coronavirus.
Several other field hospitals were built across New York for nearly $350 million. They closed in April without seeing any patients, The Associated Press reported.
Built for worst-case scenarios, some of the unused facilities will be kept on stand by for a possible second wave.
"As part of our hospital surge, we expanded capacity at a breakneck speed, ensuring our hospital infrastructure would be prepared to handle the very worst. We did so only with a single-minded focus: saving lives," city spokesperson Avery Cohen told The New York Post. "Over the past few months, social distancing, face coverings, and other precautionary measures have flattened the curve drastically, and we remain squarely focused on taking that progress even further."
Emergency Hospital FILE PHOTO: Many field hospitals went largely unused and will be shut down. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)


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THINGS RARELY END WELL FOR ANY OF THE GREATS. ENJOY THE QUARTERS, LEO! ENJOY THE QUARTERS, RON!
It doesn't matter how big a star you are: the World Cup doesn't really do fairytale endings. Take Zinedine Zidane, the embodiment of France 98, sticking the nut on Marco Materazzi in 2006 and traipsing off down the tunnel in disgrace, his chances of a second title following in lockstep. Garrincha's reward for sprinkling stardust at the 1958 and 1962 tournaments was to be kicked all over the shop in 1966, his last international a 3-1 defeat to Hungary, the only game for the Seleção he ever lost. Or how about Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguay's matchwinner of 1950's legendary Maracanazo, ending his World Cup career in 1957 by getting sent off while representing Italy in a 2-1 qualifying defeat to Northern Ireland. Italy didn't make it through to the finals; that sort of news used to be a big shock back then.
There's the pharma-infused downfall of Maradona in 1994, too, but like Zizou, the Little Bird and Ghiggia, at least he'd already etched the biggest prize in the world on to his resumé. Compare and contrast with poor Diego de nos jours Lionel Messi, so close yet so far away to the fairytale required to secure his legacy, moving him out of the Really Quite Good But Let's Wait And See Again A Dozen Years Down The Line, Attitudes Change, After All Remember How People Used To Be Quite Aggressively Insistent About That Tiki-Taka Spain Side category and instantly into Not Up For Debate. Hey, we don't make these rules, and in any case you've only had to watch Argentina's games this last couple of weeks to see how much it means to him. Uncharacteristically emotional, Messi knows the score. These romantic denouements are a big ask and no mistake.
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The Netherlands stand between Messi and a semi-final showdown with Croatia. (We're pretty sure Brazil will at some point implode under the pressure of being Brazil, so why not on Friday afternoon.) History isn't much of a guide before their showdown. In 1974, the Netherlands (trading as Holland, pedantry being less of a thing back then) did a four-goal number on Argentina; at France 98, Dennis Bergkamp smothered them with silk. However the Albiceleste have semi-final (2014) and final (1978) victories over the Dutch to boast about, so it's kind of swings and roundabouts. Swings and roundabouts if you factor out Argentina's winners' medals, that is, plus the fact neither Bergkamp nor Johan Cruyff can be called upon for the slightly more orchard-variety Oranje of 2022. But you get the general gist.
Football Daily is surely not going too far out on a limb by saying the majority of the watching world will be pulling for Messi. But plenty would like to see a happy ending for the enigmatic Louis van Gaal too, especially in the wake of his health issues. So one beloved name is guaranteed to feel that awful hollow pang of late-career disappointment. But for the loser, all is not lost! Unburdened with either semi-final or final action to prepare for, they'll have the opportunity to relax, charge their glass, sit back, kick off their shoes, put up their feet, grab the popcorn, and enjoy the inevitable Where's My Fairytale Ending You *£&$ing *^£%^£s!!! meltdown that's almost certain to play out entertainingly elsewhere. We're pretty sure that's on the cards one way or another, even if Portugal end up winning the whole thing.
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"Against Australia, it was like the essence of his 1,000 games, the aroma of everything he's been. Even as a madridista, I've always thought that whoever doesn't love Messi doesn't love football. I won't allow anyone to say he is less than anyone ever" – it's always interesting to hear from Jorge Valdano. Which is what Sid Lowe did.
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Many companies involved in the UK's motor industry will be waiting with bated breath for the results to be released for the Motor Trader 2012 awards, including Foray Motor Group. The Awards are due to take place in four weeks time at the Motor Trader Awards on the 11th of July, as per usual the awards ceremony and gala dinner will take place in London's Grosvenor House Hotel.
The huge list of nominated organisations and companies has been whittled down to only 80 companies and individuals, all of which have been shortlisted into a range of categories that include everything from 'Garage of the year' to 'Carmaker of the year'.
Currently the judges are visiting finalists across the UK, to assess and come up with their final findings. The judges will then present their reports to an even larger team of professionals, within the motoring community, who will compile and finalise the eagerly awaited results.
As mentioned, Foray Motor Group is currently shortlisted for two awards, Digital Initiative of the Year and the Dealer Website of the Year Award. Both awards stem from the Ford car dealers innovative and highly user friendly website www.foraymotorgroup.co.uk.
The Digital Initiative of the Year award will certainly be a scoop for the Ford dealership to win, not only because it's the sites debut year but also as a fanfare for the use of digital media within the industry. Judges will be taking into account a variety of online aspects including SEO, SEM, social media and mobile/smartphone interactivity.
This year's awards will feature 21 categories and is sure to give an unbiased and informative look into the motor industry and will reward organisations and individuals for their hard and relentless work, especially in what has been another challenging year for the Industry.


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Frederick Paul "Dutch" Schliebner (May 19, 1891 – April 15, 1975) was a German-born American professional baseball first baseman. He played for one season in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Brooklyn Robins and St. Louis Browns.

Career
Schliebner was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1891. He started his professional baseball career in 1912 with the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League's Springfield Senators. Schlieber bounced around the minor leagues for the rest of the decade, also playing in the Central Association, Western League, Texas League, and American Association. During that time, he had a batting average under .300 in every season except 1916, when he batted .310 with 16 home runs.

In 1922, Schliebner went to the Southern Association's Little Rock Travelers and batted a career-high .354. He led the league in hits (194) and was second in batting average. The following season, Schliebner made it to the major leagues with the Brooklyn Robins. He played 19 games for them in April and May before being traded to the St. Louis Browns, in exchange for Dutch Henry and cash. The Browns' Hall of Fame first baseman, George Sisler, was out the entire season with sinusitis which affected his vision, and Schliebner was his replacement. He batted .275 in his next 127 games.

Sisler returned to the team in 1924, and Schliebner returned to the minors. He played five more seasons in the American Association and Texas League before his professional baseball career ended in 1928. In 15 minor league seasons, he batted .286 and accumulated 2,053 hits.

Schliebner died in Toledo, Ohio, in 1975 and was buried in Toledo Memorial Park Cemetery.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meets with Fijian Prime Minister Voreque "Frank" Bainimarama.Source: Fiji Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Last week Fiji took delivery of a shipment of Russian weapons that were "donated" by Russia pursuant to a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in February 2015. The Fijians say that the weapons are needed by Fijian peacekeepers in places like the Middle East because what they currently have in their inventory are obsolete. The shipment includes small arms (squad) weapons, two trucks, tear gas, other non-lethal munitions and possibly a helicopter. The shipment will formally be unveiled in February in front of a Russian delegation that will include military trainers who will remain in Fiji to instruct Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) personnel in their proper usage.
Fijian opposition figures believe that the shipment is illegal because it was not approved by Parliament and that it could be used against domestic opponents of the current, military-backed government. Let me briefly outline the issues.
The shipment is perfectly legal as it is not part of a Treaty that needs parliamentary ratification. Plus, it is a "donation" of military aid so it does not need parliamentary approval.
It is not clear that the formal unveiling will reveal all of the weapons delivered. It is quite possible that some or most of the shipment will be concealed.
The opposition is correct to be concerned about the"dual use" potential of the weapons. Squad weapons, tear gas and non-lethal munitions can be used in peacekeeping but can also be used as instruments of crowd control at home. Given the Fijian Defence Forces history, that is a very real possibility.
The arms shipment could trigger an arms race with Tonga, which also has a military and is a rival of Fiji. The Tongans are not likely to view the shipment kindly even if it does not specifically include naval equipment. Squad weapons can and are used by navies as a matter of routine.
Although Fijian military inventories may well be obsolete, most UN peacekeeping missions are armed by the UN using NATO-standard equipment. That includes small arms and troop carriers used in "blue helmet" operations. Thus the claim that the Russian arms are needed for peacekeeping is debatable at best.
The MOU with Russia also outlines military educational exchanges. These follow on a similar program with the Chinese military (PLA). The Chinese also have funded and undertaken numerous infrastructure projects such as port dredging and road building that have a parallel "dual use" potential: they can be used for civilian and military purposes alike.
Given the above, it is reasonable to speculate that the Chinese and/or Russians may receive forward basing rights in Fiji in the not to distant future. Under the "Looking North" policy Fiji has clearly pivoted away from its traditional Western patrons (Australia, NZ and the US) and towards others that are less concerned about the status of Fijian democracy. Given these weapons transfers plus the bilateral military education and training exercises established with China and Russia, the path is cleared for the two countries to use Fiji as a means of projecting (especially maritime) power in the South Pacific. The Chinese are already doing so, with Chinese naval ships doing regular ports of call in Suva. After years of neglect, the Russian Pacific fleet has resumed long-range patrols. So the stage is set for a deepening of military ties with a basing agreement for one or both.
PLAN hospital vessel "Peace Ark" during 2014 port of call in Suva.
Chinese and Russian bilateral relations are the best they have been in decades. it is therefore possible that they may be working in coordinated, cooperative or complementary fashion when it comes to their overtures to the Fijians. Both seek tourism opportunities as well as preferential access to fisheries in and around Fijian territorial waters, so their non-military interests converge in that regard, which may limit the regional competition between them.
It is clear that post-election Fiji has moved from a "guarded" democracy in which the military acts as a check on civilian government to a soft authoritarian regime in which the executive branch supersedes and subordinates the legislature and judiciary. Some of this is by constitutional design (since the military bureaucratic regime dictated the current constitution prior to the 2014 elections), while other aspects of the slide back towards dictatorship are de facto rather than de jure (such as the speakers' order to reduce the amount of days parliament can sit. The speaker is a member of the ruling party yet holds a position that is supposed to be apolitical). Then there are the strict restrictions of press freedom and freedom on political participation to consider. Attacks on the Methodist Church, arrests of civil society activists and claims of coup plotting by expats and local associates contribute to concerns about the state of governmental affairs. Add to that the fact that the first Police Commissioner after the election resigned after military interference in his investigation of police officers implicated in torture during the dictatorship, and then was replaced by a military officer (against constitutional guarantees of police and military independence) while the policemen were given military commissions (which insulated them from prosecution thanks to provisions in the 2014 constitution), and one gets the sense that Fiji is now a democracy in name only.
All in all, the outlook is twofold, with one trend a continuation and the other one new. Fiji is once again becoming authoritarian in governance, this time under electoral guise and a facade of constitutionalism. In parallel it has decisively turned away from the West when it comes to its diplomatic and military alignments. This turn is a direct result of the failed sanctions regime imposed on Fiji after the 2006 coup, which was too porous and too shallow to have the impact on Fiji that was hoped for at the time of imposition. The result is a greatly diminished diplomatic influence and leverage on the part of Australia, New Zealand and (to a lesser extent) the US and the rise of China, India and Russia as Fiji's major diplomatic interlocutors. Factor in Fiji's disdain for the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) and its continued attempt to fashion the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) as a counter to it, and the makings of a regional transitional moment are clear.
The sum result of this is that the strategic balance in the South Pacific is clearly in flux. Given the US "pivot" to Asia and the reassertion of its security ties with Australia and New Zealand, that is bound to result in increased diplomatic tensions and gamesmanship in the Western Pacific in the years to come.
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I first heard the phrase "pigheaded discipline and determination" when I listened to Chet Holmes being interviewed in 2010. I could tell he was someone worth paying attention to as his story unfolded.
Early in his career, he doubled sales three years in a row for a publication owned by Charlie Munger (Warren Buffett's business partner). But that was after four months of having NO response from the marketing initiatives he'd implemented. Here was a man who never gave up. He spoke with such conviction, confidence and knowledge that I was sorry when the interview concluded.
I immediately grabbed a copy of his best-selling book, The Ultimate Sales Machine , and invested in the audio version as well so I could absorb the information during my commute. It continues to be one of my favorite business books, and I keep it on my desk as a daily reference.
Chet's key principles are closely aligned with our own approach to learning and mastery of skills. No matter what field you work in, you can apply his words to achieve greater results in your life.
Are you busy trying to implement every new idea you hear? The key to success is to recognize that you have to become really good at only a small number of things, not everything. In fact, when you constantly flit from one activity to another, you're not investing enough time in practicing and repeating the few that will make the biggest difference and get you the best results.
What are the "basics" for you, and are you working on them?
Achieving mastery of any skill requires you to create strong neural connections in your brain, and that only happens with lots of repetition and practice. And that requires a real commitment to follow through – to do what needs to be done, every time, no excuses.
What have you committed to master? Are you putting in the necessary practice every day to make sure you become excellent?
It's not enough to know WHAT to do. You have to take action. That's what separates the wanna-be's from the real achievers. Nothing happens until you translate a good idea into observable behavior.
What idea is still in your head that you want to turn into a reality?
If you're ready to learn business strategies from a master, make time to listen to this audio interview that JW Najarian conducted with Chet Holmes for On Purpose Magazine. Then get Chet's book, study it and implement the ideas.