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He refuses to compete on Sundays because of his religious beliefs.
You should make your views known to your local MP.
Most who expressed an opinion spoke favourably of her.
England shifted officially from a Catholic to a Protestant faith in the 16th century.
The centre is open to all, no matter what race or creed.
I have said with absolute certainty that there will be no change of policy.
She always thinks the worst of herself and has no confidence whatsoever.
He led the orchestra with assurance.
He spoke with intense earnestness.
I cannot say with any degree of certitude what will happen next.
I will appeal against my conviction.
He tried to have the court ruling overturned.
The judge's decision was greeted with dismay.
The jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict.
The Court is expected to give its judgment within the next ten days.


Dan Meyer posted an interesting and highly commented on blog post this week: http://bit.ly/sK5VhY .
We live in an affluent community. Most of our students are fortunate to come from families where education matters and parents have the means and will to support and guide their children in tandem with us, their teachers. Not all of them. [..] We are concerned about the others who, for reasons that are often objective (poor math background, lack of support at home, low retention rate, lack of maturity, etc) can't pass our Algebra II regular lane course. Many of these are [Voluntary Transfer Program] students or under-represented minorities."
Many of the comments to this blog post talk about the usefulness of Algebra and specifically Algebra II. As it is taught currently, I would tend to agree that's it's abstractness is not necessarily used on a daily basis. I do, though, believe that if algebra were more easily understood, it could be applied in more situations in order to increase successful outcomes.
This is where DR comes in! We are needed now more than ever.
Patterns, patterns, patterns....they are what life is all about. It is so nice to find research that is, yet again, substantiating the direction of Dream Realizations.
*3) Distinguishing painting styles [I like this one the best!] Seeing multiple painting styles instead of just concentrating on one artist alone allows the eye to pick up the pattern naturally. I relate this to base systems: if we teach all base systems, then the eye can pick up the patterns for itself and focus is off the single painter (base 10). The world has opened up with possibilities!!
I believe the touch interface will enable the creation of an intuitive and very real graphical user interface (GUI). This GUI allows us to build seamless transitions in the user input screen based on the level of knowledge and special needs of the user. This is ideal for young students learning numerical values, words, and symbols. I also believe this might provide a solution to a problem dyslexics have with numbers.
Just got intel on this website today: http://www.kickstarter.com/ . This may be a way to get our programming publicly funded. We will need to dive deeper into the ramifications and upfront costs of such an endeavor.
What does "math visualization" conjure up in your mind? Is it only physical manipulatives? Or is it drawing out a word problem into pictures? We regularly step back from math and try to visualize its usage, but have we stepped back far enough to see the patterns? Just a few random thoughts to start off a Saturday morning. Happy weekending, all!
Seeing the patterns of numbers takes looking at the shapes numbers make, not at the symbols such as 1, 2, 3 etc. These symbols don't have the beautiful patterns that subquanning makes. When the numbers are all laid out in subquan sheets, the patterns become very apparent. It makes the other things we do in math seem so easy.
For me, visualization means RE-presenting. That is, the action of constructing, making, building, growing a visual representation of mathematical ideas based on some other representation: words, formulas, tables and so on.
One of my favorite math visualization activities is storytelling - where visualization happens in people's minds. Some math storytelling is assisted by pictures, for example, the Sona (Africa) sand drawings. We did a math club activity about them.
I usually invite kids to talk and draw their visual and sound synesthesias. Some have very particular colors for their numbers, and also piano notes.
Smell and taste are harder to represent. You can use consistently smelling substances such as coffee and chocolate, I guess. We will try some of this when my math club resumes. This will be good "apple math" activity - that's what we call snack time math.
He advocates for made-up systems for learning English reading. My daughter, as his son, is English-Russian bilingual, and I can only agree! And we may need a similar made-up system for learning math reading. I know many people who used such private languages with their kids. Imagine groups of parents using the same language, much like "Baby Sign" movement. Won't that be powerful?
That was a fantastic video, JayCee. I watched the second (47 min) as the first didn't allow me to view for some reason. The human brain is really amazing. I don't think we've even scraped the surface of our own capabilities and with neurological research coming to the fore, I don't think it will be too long before we make some huge discoveries thanks to PET and fMRI technology.
Thanks so much for posting this one!
I taught mathematics using creative visualisation more than 20 years ago. Right brain learning is an excellent way to pre-process information before the left brain processes the symbols.
However I am now wanting to explore the development of multi-sensory learning of mathematics.
So has anybody else created a 10 value musical scale or associated quantities with tastes yet? I'm also keen to know if anybody else uses a 10 point color scale based on our visible spectrum.
Here is a short video of Daniel Tammit with David Letterman.
In his book 'Born on a blue day' Daniel talks about synaesthesia. If there is a way we can help children retain this ability, we will go a long way to helping them enjoy numbers.
The brain can be compared to computer hardware. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become more widely useful in computer and video processing. "Using GPUs … gives the computer a processing capacity that competes with supercomputers over twice its size" (http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1563044/supercomputer-gpu-... , paragraph 2). The vector (3D) graphics implementation in computer hardware has increased capacity and facilitated a greater speed in computing. "GPUs are redefining high performance computing," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA. "With the Tianhe-1A, GPUs now power two of the top three fastest computers in the world today. These GPU supercomputers are essential tools for scientists looking to turbocharge their rate of discovery" (http://pressroom.nvidia.com/easyi/customrel.do?easyirid=A0D622CE9F5... , paragraph 7). Designers are finding in the computer industry that graphics give computers a stronger foundation for processing.
Dehaene (Jossey-Bass, 2008) describes a major upheaval in the mental arithmetic system during the preschool years when "progressing in math means storing a wealth of numerical knowledge in memory" (p. 281). This storage of numbers in the brain is different than the storage of vocabulary. Verbal memory can be powerful with its cohesiveness and connectedness. Humans possess associative brains; we can open a memory from a vague recollection, something computers have yet to master, which makes learning vocabulary easier than learning the multiplication table. Each calculation within the multiplication table hangs independent of the other multiples when memorizing and that's where the brain's associative nature fumbles and numbers jumble inside our head, resulting in mistaken memories, which correlates to wrong answers. So, why are we still relying on this outdated practice of memorization?
Jossey-Bass, I. (2008). The Jossey-Bass reader on the brain and learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
How can we incorporate what has been done in the past with virtual worlds, how the brain learns, and using this 3-D environment to tap into the instincts with which individuals were born and see mathematics as we have never seen it before: patterns unrecognizable without the advancement of technology?


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Hawaii Baptist stays on top
By Paul Honda on November 4, 2009 | Girls volleyball
Two days after Hawaii Baptist won a state championship — the Eagles' third Division II crown in a row — it was back to work.
Another spectacular season, 21-2 including an upset at Kamehameha — the eventual D-I state champ — peaked with a tough four-set victory over Word of Life on Saturday.
But there was no break, no layoff, no rest for the happily weary.
"They're busy with club volleyball," coach Myles Shioji said.
That's right, the grind of a full season, from early August to early November, is followed immediately by offseason work. The odd thing is, the Eagles love it all, and when something is about love, it's just not work, is it?
Wind the tape back to any regular-season match, and it was the same scenario for HBA in pre-game. Long before warmups, the Eagles mingle and get geeked up, talking about anything and everything that may or may not have to do with volleyball. Never mind the Top 10, Top 5 rankings or college prospects for top players like Sarah Palmer, C'era Oliveira and junior setter Kayla Kawamura.
While other teams spent their pre-game time somberly listening to their coaches or simply scattered about inside or outside a gym, the Eagles did their social networking thing, old-school style. The results on the court once warmups began proved successful. Shioji saw it as just another personality trait of the team worth leaving alone.
Of course, winning does help. The Eagles had talent returning, but had some concerns at key positions.
"Coming back after a good season, we had to work harder," Palmer said, citing the graduation of All-State libero Kelly Chang. "Everybody did their part. Taryn (Bohan) converted from outside hitter (to libero)."
That also meant that sophomore C.J. Asuncion would be part of the rotation in the middle after splitting time at opposite and the middle in 2008.
"In some programs, those moves might be drastic," Shioji said, citing extremely high expectations regardless of position changes.
"It's a lot of pressure to put on 15-to-18 year old girls. They took it to a whole new level," he said. "The girls know they're good volleyball players, but it takes more than that to win a championship. They like each other."
With three state title trophies in their midst, Shioji and his staff have been constant. Just about the only thing that was obviously different this time was his wardrobe. Shioji left the suit, which he wore for the finals in '07 and '08, in his closet.
"Everybody asks about it. It's retired," he said.
Palmer, a University of Texas-bound senior, teamed with Oliveira to provide great offense and defense all season. Palmer (19 kills, 25 digs) and Oliveira (20 kills, seven digs, three aces) were lights-out brilliant in the final against WOLA. Both were named to the all-tournament team along with Kawamura; Palmer was named most outstanding player for a second year in a row.
Where do the Eagles go from here without their graduating seniors?
"We're not the favorite next year," Shioji said, almost relieved. "I don't ever think we're the favorite. Word of Life is young and talented. Kaiser is, too, but I'm not sure if they're in D-II (next year). Molokai looked pretty good. University and La Pietra lose a lot of seniors, but St. Francis returns a lot of good girls."
And HBA?
"We'll be in the hunt. You just try to get the girls up for the next challenge," he said. "Winning's not the priority for us. It's how we win or lose. It's a lifestyle."
Shioji's blend of youthful energy and sage wisdom have worked well. The outgoing seniors have been in the program since their seventh-grade year on the intermediate team, setting the tone for the underclassmen. What makes Shioji happier, though, is the big picture viewed through his players' eyes.
"Nothing compares to life. You hear about the 20th anniversary of Molokai's (volleyball team) plane crash. One of our intermediate girls lost her mom. It puts everything in perspective," Shioji said. "Family and life, nothing compares to it. We love volleyball, but it's just a sport. The trophies get tarnished and medals get put away, but your memories with friends and the coaching staff, that's the main thing for the girls."
Not that they won't cherish going out on top.
"For the seniors," Oliveira said, "we really know how special it is to win a state championship."
vballfan December 11, 2009 11:18 pm
All ILH teams should be in the D1 State tournament. It seems like the DII state tourney was established just so the bottom ILH teams have something to win. C'mon now, HBA beat Kamehameha in the regular season, and they still play in the DII tourney? Not fair the way it's set up for the rest of the real DII teams in my opinion.

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Analyzing the Launch of Taylor Swift's Reputation Album
November 15, 2017 November 12, 2017 Alan Cross	1 Comment	Reputation, Taylor Swift
The industry talk this Monday is how any copies of Reputation Taylor Swift will sell this week. At the moment, it's on pace to sell somewhere around 1.4 million units in the US alone, a stunning number in the age of declining CD sales and the rise of streaming.
That will be 1.4 million CDs, vinyl records and digital downloads and will not include any of that weird "track equivalency" weirdness that comes with streaming. That's because Reputation is not streaming at all. It's being held back from Spotify et al until the buying frenzy settles down.
So how did her people do it? How have they managed to get Swifties to get excited about parting with their allowances for a piece of plastic or a digital download?
The "Verified Fan" Gambit
Ticketmaster's new "Verified Fan" program is designed to allow actual human beings first dibs on concert tickets while keeping the ticket-buying bots away. In Tay-Tay's case, fans were incentivized to become verified (and to battle for a spot in the queue for tickets for her upcoming tour) by pre-ordering Reputation. It worked. By November 3, over 400,000 copies had been re-ordered.
The Withholding Gamble
Deciding to keep Reputation off the streaming services was easy once you did the math. First of all, no one has ever sold a million copies of an album in its first week when the album was also available on Spotify. Analysis of previous album releases told Taylor's people that if Reputation was made available to stream, tracks from the album would be streamed around 200,000. That would generate revenues of about $2.1 million.
However, if the album was kept from streaming, it would only have to sell 300,000 copies to make that same $2.1 million. Anything beyond that would be very, very profitable–far more profitable than had streaming been available at the time of the album's release. And now that it's set to sell 1.4 million copies–well, you can see how smart that decision was.
Taylor and her people are quite brilliant when it comes to marketing an old format.
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Do you know how they count copies sold? For instance, if I buy the CD (which I did to get the code and the poster even though I have nowhere to actually play it) obviously that counts. I also "pre-ordered on iTunes (see earlier comment about no CD player). So now I am at 2. However, I also bought both of the magazines she put out (I have a big Swiftie in my house). Each one of those came with a copy of the CD. Do I now count for 4?
TayTay also let you count up to 10 album boosts (and these are better boosts than watching vids or tweeting)…You have to assume any moderate fan has bought a digital copy and at least one of the magazines and at least a few have 10 copies. So 1.4M is great but in a non verified fan/album boost environment, what would the real number be? Going to guess maybe half…
And if it is the case that somehow they are able to count me for only one, the math on the profits goes through the roof!
Maybe they should rename the label "Big Marketing Machine"


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use Sylius\Bundle\CoreBundle\Fixture\OptionsResolver\LazyOption;
use Sylius\Component\Addressing\Model\Scope as AddressingScope;
use Sylius\Component\Addressing\Model\ZoneInterface;
use Sylius\Component\Channel\Factory\ChannelFactoryInterface;
use Sylius\Component\Core\Formatter\StringInflector;
use Sylius\Component\Core\Model\ChannelInterface;
use Sylius\Component\Core\Model\Scope;
use Sylius\Component\Core\Model\ShopBillingData;
use Sylius\Component\Core\Model\TaxonInterface;
use Sylius\Component\Currency\Model\CurrencyInterface;
use Sylius\Component\Locale\Model\LocaleInterface;
use Sylius\Component\Resource\Factory\FactoryInterface;
use Sylius\Component\Resource\Repository\RepositoryInterface;
use Sylius\Component\Taxonomy\Repository\TaxonRepositoryInterface;
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        $channel->setContactPhoneNumber($options['contact_phone_number']);
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Body found in Regina landfill
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Regina Police are investigating a death after a body was found in the Regina landfill on Monday morning.	 Alexa Huffman / Global News
Regina Police are investigating a death after a body was found in the Regina landfill on Monday morning.
Police were called to the landfill on Fleet Street at 8:27 a.m. after the discovery of the body.
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Banks in Ireland recognise the importance of financial education and currently provide a wide range of initiatives and resources to schools, colleges and in the workplace.
BPFI is active in the financial education space through its longstanding relationship with the Business Studies Teachers' Association of Ireland (BSTAI). As well as developing the online resource BusinessEducation.ie jointly with the BSTAI, BPFI continues to support the BSTAI's Business Achievement Awards which have been running for over 20 years.
In the past BPFI (formerly the Irish Banking Federation) developed a range of generic resources and interactive tools online that assisted in teaching students about money and its management. These resources, directed at primary and second-level students, are still available to use and can be downloaded here: Money-Go-Round 2 and Paymaster 2.
BusinessEducation.ie is an online resource for teachers and students of Leaving Certificate Business, Economics and Accounting.
Developed by BPFI in conjunction with the BSTAI the site provides a number of learning resources for use by teachers and students in the classroom or at home. These resources have been identified by the BSTAI as tools which can provide valuable support in teaching and learning the senior cycle business subjects.
The content on the site is written and assessed by experienced teachers with the assistance of BPFI's Economist.
BusinessEducation.ie was developed as part of European Money Week (EMW) , a initiative led by the European Banking Federation which takes place in March each year. The week consists of a series of events both at national and European level, with the aim of raising public awareness on financial literacy and improving financial education for students at primary and secondary level. For further information, visit the EMW site here.
BPFI has a long-standing relationship with the BSTAI across a range of financial education projects and initiatives. One of our longest running initiates is the BSTAI Business Studies Achievement Awards. Running since 1988, these awards are given by the BSTAI to mark the outstanding achievement of the students who achieved first place in the State examinations in Accounting, Business, Economics at Senior Cycle and Business Studies in Junior Cycle.
A geographical breakdown shows that schools in Dublin and Cork have produced the most award winners, with winners otherwise spread relatively evenly across the rest of the country.
We've also developed profiles for a number of the previous winners to provide greater insight into their careers to date.


The U.S. submarine force faces many challenges in the years ahead, including fewer defense dollars for new units to replace aging boats such as the USS Houston (SSN-713), seen here taking part in exercise Keen Sword 2011.
We at Proceedings usually consider the May Naval Review issue to be the toughest to produce. But our annual look at submarine/ASW/mine warfare can also present its share of challenges. I've commented in this space before on our efforts to pry articles from the Silent Service. Too often the community lives up to that sobriquet, but some years are better than others. Fortunately for our readers, this is one of those years.
A powerful submarine force will continue to remain essential to national security, and the time to face the challenge of addressing the undersea warfighting needs of tomorrow is today, notes Rear Admiral Michael J. Connor, director of the U.S. Navy's Submarine Warfare Division, in this month's lead story, "Investing in the Undersea Future." What's required is an "integrated undersea strategy," which Admiral Connor provides in admirable detail.


MIAMI — They will golf. They will rest. Whatever they do, coach Doc Rivers does not want his Celtics to be consumed by the hole they now find themselves in.
His order was to get as far away from the game as possible, for a day at least.
"Stay away from each other, stay away from film, stay away from basketball,'' he said.
After last night's 102-91 loss to the Heat in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, putting them in an 0-2 series hole, they aren't necessarily ready to hit the panic button, but the Celtics know the situation.
They have played 11 playoff series since the new Big Three was assembled in 2007 and they've never been down two games to none.
Game 3 is Saturday night at TD Garden.
The Heat's LeBron James did everything in his power to kick the Celtics down the well, pumping in 35 loud and emphatic points. He caught alley-oops off inbounds passes. He finished fast breaks with spin moves that turned into two-hand flushes. He drained pull-up threes. He made rubble out of Boston defenders, breaking them down off the dribble.
More than anyone, James knew the value of all the experiences the Celtics had been through together — he seemed practically envious of it before the series — but now they're in uncharted territory.
The last time James was in Boston for the postseason, he was ripping off his Cavaliers jersey, preparing to make the biggest decision of his career. He'll return Saturday night with a chance to eliminate the Celtics on their home floor with two wins.
After blowing up for 38 points in Game 1, Wade gladly handed James the scoring baton, going for 28 points as the King's wingman.
Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo's double-double (20 points, 12 assists) was futile. It was clear coming in that Rivers would make a concerted effort to go to Kevin Garnett, but the forward missed 12 of his 20 attempts, finishing with 16 points.
Paul Pierce left the game late in the first quarter with a strained left foot. He returned, but never found a rhythm (13 points on 5-of-11 shooting).
The Celtics' frustrations were to the point that when Ray Allen was whistled for his fourth foul — putting Wade on the line for a pair of free throws that made it 85-80 — he hopped up and down, shedding his typical cool.
Allen had to leave briefly in the third quarter after catching an elbow from James while trying to stop him from getting out on a fast break. Allen went to the locker room after experiencing shortness of breath. Doctors called it a bruised chest cavity.
Rivers was issued a technical foul with 2:48 left in the fourth quarter for arguing with referee Joe Crawford about a foul on Garnett, the coach breaking his own rule about getting fourth-quarter T's).
The Celtics have been down two games to none eight times in franchise history. They came out of the hole to win the series just once.
"We've lost a lot of different ways and won a lot of different ways,'' Allen said. "There is no clear-cut way to win a championship, or win during the regular season. I have learned over the course of my career the adversity you face makes you who you are and that is why we're here.
But for three days, it'll be the only thing on their minds no matter how far away from the game they try to get.
"Regardless, of where you go, it's still going to be on your mind if you love the game,'' Rondo said. "It's frustrating being down 0-2, or losing any game.


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Q: Adding (Mean +/- 2 Sigma) lines in box plot I have a data set on which I would like to make a boxplot in R. I was able to do it simply (here I used just some sample data) by the following commands in R console:
x <- rnorm(100);

y <- rnorm(100);

boxplot(x, y, col=rainbow(2))

Now what I really want is to show the (mean +/- (2 or 3)*sigma) marks for my data set on top of the above boxplot. I do know standard deviation and mean is not robust statistic, but for my data-set that information may be useful. I.e. the intended figure should look like:

Where the dotted lines (of different colors) represent corresponding plots' 95% or 99.7% confidence interval or (mean +/- (2 or 3)*sigma).
N.B. Unfortunately I can't add the figures here since I don't have enough reputation, will appreciate if someone can upload here from the above links.

A: Something that would be very simple and easy to do, would be to use the notch=TRUE argument in the boxplot() function (see ?boxplot).  This isn't quite the same as a 95% confidence interval for the mean, but is instead analogous to a 95% CI for the median (which would address your concern about robustness).  It is explained here:

The notches (if requested) extend to +/-1.58 IQR/sqrt(n). This seems
  to be based on the same calculations as the formula with 1.57 in
  Chambers et al. (1983, p. 62), given in McGill et al. (1978, p. 16).
  They are based on asymptotic normality of the median and roughly equal
  sample sizes for the two medians being compared, and are said to be
  rather insensitive to the underlying distributions of the samples. The
  idea appears to be to give roughly a 95% confidence interval for the
  difference in two medians.

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Courts continue to expand what is protected under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). The Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the Virgin Islands, recently ruled that abortion is an activity protected by the PDA. Then, on Wednesday, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments were also covered under the Act.
The lower court had ruled that in vitro fertility treatments were not covered under the PDA on the ground that infertility affects both men and women. On July 16, the Appeals Court overturned that decision. The Appeals Court ruled that the plaintiff's in vitro fertilization — like many fertility treatments — was gender-specific because it was related to childbearing, which affects only women.
"Employees terminated for taking time off to undergo IVF — just like those terminated for taking time off to give birth or receive other pregnancy-related care — will always be women," the ruling said.
The plaintiff took a leave of absence for IVF, a complicated procedure wherein eggs are extracted, fertilized and then surgically implanted in the womb.
She took one three-week leave of absence for the procedure and then applied for another three-week leave after learning that the first in vitro was unsuccessful. Meanwhile, the company had been reorganizing and decided to eliminate a sales secretary position: hers.
The employer argued that a regional sales manager unaware of the in vitro treatment had made the decision to eliminate the plaintiff's position in favor of keeping the other, more qualified sales secretary.
Fertility treatments may also be covered under the ADA and the FMLA. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that inability to procreate is a "major life activity," therefore treatment to combat infertility is most likely protected and you must "accommodate" the employee as you would any other qualifying disability (such as cancer). Also, fertility treatments probably qualify as a "serious health condition" under the FMLA.
This case continues to expand the definition of "pregnancy and related medical conditions" under the PDA. Given the likely coverage of fertility treatments by a number of federal laws, tread carefully when making employment decisions related to employees undergoing such treatments.
(3) Beware of "benevolent intent" – many managers get into hot water making employment decisions based on their opinion of "what is best" for the employee. Remember the decision about "what is best" should be made only by the employee.
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For insulation and sealing between window- and door frames and gaps and cavities.
Hard foam to be used as insulation and sealing between window- and door frames and gaps and cavities in general. Fixation of wall panels and roof stones in house, car and boat. Has good adhesion to most materials and even to damp surfaces.


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Environment and Wildlife
Costa Rica signs decree to protect its coral reefs
Costa Rica to host PreCOP 25 in October
Video: Puma caught in Tibás released into wild
Slothy Sunday: At home in the water
Robinson Crusoe island sets example for the world in conservation
Volcano in Ecuador spews ash column 5 kilometers high
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Ashes rise above Cotopaxi volcano in the Andes mountains about 50 kilometers south of Quito, Ecuador on August 14, 2015. The Cotopaxi reaches 5,897 meters and is one of the highest volcanos. (Juan Cevallos/AFP)
A volcano in Ecuador spewed a column of ash five kilometers (3 miles) high on Friday, prompting officials to raise the alert level.
The ash was preceded overnight by two small explosions from the crater, the Geophysics Institute said on Twitter.
The Cotopaxi volcano stands 5,897 meters (19,500 feet) high and is located 45 kilometers (30 miles) south of the capital Quito.
The Geophysics Institute said Cotopaxi is one of the most dangerous volcanos in the world because of the large amount of snow at its peak and because nearby areas are densely populated.
The government's emergency management agency raised the alert level in areas near the volcano to yellow, which is in the middle of the scale.
The Environment Ministry declared the volcano off limits to tourists.
Turrialba Volcano eruption in Costa Rica: Photos from the web
Turrialba Volcano erupts again, raining ash over San José
Possible lava rocks indicate Turrialba Volcano may have entered more dangerous phase
Volcanic ash rains on central Ecuador, blanketing farms
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Voca People show, Mother's Day festivities and other events around Costa Rica
Football: FIFA official Rocha agrees to extradition from Switzerland to Nicaragua


Porsche is a German automotive company, which primarily produces sports cars and luxury cars. The headquarters is located in Stuttgart.
Its founder, Ferdinand Porsche Sr. (Ferdinand Porsche) was born in 1875 in the family of a plumber, and, having received education, continues the work of his father. But his interest in technology extends beyond sanitary engineering, so already in 1898 he founded a design bureau in Vienna. The first job of a young engineer - the motor-wheel for an electric car - brings him the fame of a talented designer. As a result, in 1906 he became the chief designer of the company Austro-Daimler, where an artillery tractor with an active trailer is being designed.
1909 is marked by two events - the birth of a son, also Ferdinand Porsche (Ferdinand Porsche), the youngest, who is often called Ferry Porsche; As well as the participation of the designer in the rally of Prince Henry of Prussia on a self-designed car, which brought him the second place. A year later, in the same rally, the ambitious designer took the first place.
In 1923, the company under his technical guidance began to produce cars of the highest class, and Porsche himself moved to Daimler-Benz, also to the post of chief designer. His main occupation there is the design and improvement of new compressor engines, including for racing cars. In particular Ferdinand Porsche took part in the development of the famous Mercedes S and K.
After five years of impeccable work at Daimler-Benz, Porsche returns to Austria, to Steyr (also a division of Daimler). There, it does not last long due to the financial problems of the company, and finally, being already a doctor of engineering, Ferdinand Porsche starts his own business on April 25, 1931, creating an independent design bureau that immediately receives many orders from the founder's authority.
In 1932, Porsche invents the torsion suspension, which is used by all automakers. In the same year he visited car factories in the USSR, but refused to take the post of chief designer of the Union, despite high incomes and privileges. He does not give a refusal simply because immediately after returning he becomes the chief designer of Auto-Union and designs a new racing car. This car for four years puts high-speed records on European routes.
In 1934, Porsche sent a proposal to the German Ministry of Transport to create a "people's car" (literally in German, "Volkswagen"). The idea is welcomed by the Nazi elite, and one of the sketches is made by the unsuccessful artist Adolf Hitler. Autumn 1935 - the time when the first prototypes of the new brand appeared on the German autobahns. A year later a new Volkswagen plant is being organized in Stuttgart, and Porsche moves there in 1938. But with the beginning of the Second World War, the factory is being converted to the production of army cars - jeeps, amphibians, command cars. In addition, during the war, the designer worked on the design and production of the famous tanks "Tiger", "Panther" and self-propelled gun Ferdinand.
Due to participation in these developments after the war, Porsche will have to serve 22 months as a simple designer at the Renault plant. In 1947, he returns home, but at the revived Volkswagen plant he has no place, and he follows his son to his homeland, Austria, to design his dream - racing cars. In 1948 the first of them was created - the Porsche-356, presented in an improved and refined form at the Paris Motor Show in 1953. In 1958, work began on the project 901. The car company Peugeot appealed in court the name of the model, and it is renamed in 911. So in 1964 appears Porsche 911 Carrera, which uses the next development of Ferdinand - the engine of water cooling.
1965 - the year when the Targa cabriolet appeared with its characteristic body, so the name became a household name for it. In the late 60-ies begins the company's triumph on high-speed rally. In 1968, the Porsche S-2.2 took the first two places in the Monte Carlo Rally, and then won the overall European Championship. In 1969, VW Porsche 914, which won the world title among manufacturers, is released. In 1970, the same model triumphantly wins the next rally in Monte Carlo, and in 1971 and 1972 takes prizes in the Safari rally. The end of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's is the time of two new models 924 and 944, the middle of the 80's was marked by repeated victories in the Paris-Dakar rally and models 959 and 968.
The nineties are coming, and Porsche is releasing a millionth car. At the same time, Boxter is launched - a model available to a broad consumer segment, increasing the company's already high sales. In 1997, the most famous model of the company - 911 Carrera - was radically changed. The newly made modification gets number 996. In the new millennium the company becomes a joint-stock company. The next cardinal modification 911 is made, making it one of the most coveted high-speed cars in the world. Now the company is in the stage of growth and prosperity and produces technically impeccable and high-speed cars for true connoisseurs.


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Q: Need Clarification : Azure Function app integration with Azure Key Vault I am new to Azure Functions and Azure Key vault. I am using Azure function version V3 for my project.
To Integrate Azure Key vault with Azure function, I have created both the resources in Azure and added secrets in Azure key vault.
I have inserted the Keys and values as @Microsoft.KeyVault(SecretUri=secret_uri_with_version) in Application settings of function app and calling it using Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("Key").
My Question is

*

*How the values from Key vault is getting into my Function app?

*Will my function app have to make a call every time to access value from Key vault? If so, will there be any performance issues for my project?

*Can We also inject Key vault values in Startup.cs?

Any help is appreciated!!
Thanks in advance

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*When function app instantiates a new instance it calls key vault to get the secret. Make sure Function App has permission to the specified secret or it wont work.

*No only one time per instance so it will not impact performance. The only reason it could impact startup performance would be if the specified key vault has thousands of other services also trying to access it at the same time. In which case you should probably start looking into why that is happening.

*You would access it just like any other key and can be used like any string. (Just don't log it ;) )

Docs on key vault integration https://learn.microsoft.com/sv-se/azure/app-service/app-service-key-vault-references
Please ask any questions for clarification in answer


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Garn Mathers is a level 37 named mob located on an island at Dreadmurk Shore in Dustwallow Marsh. He is a member of the Defias Brotherhood.
He is the current leader of the Defias in Dustwallow Marsh. He and his gang reside on a large island just off the coast to the northeast of Sentry Point near a fairly large shipwreck. Killing him will retrieve any important documents containing information as to why the Defias are in the area.
He may be related to Jason Mathers.
Garn is involved in the quest  Defias in Dustwallow?


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Media release: Edinburgh's Electric Cycle Company sees 80 per cent rise in 'lockdown sales'
SALES of electric bikes (e-bikes) at the Electric Cycle Company (ECC), one of Scotland's largest specialist e-bike retailers – based on Granton Road, Edinburgh – have increased by at least 80 per cent during the ten weeks of COVID-19 lockdown, as compared with the same period last year.
With a sales-to-square-foot-ratio of more than £600 per square foot in this period, ECC may also have been one of the busiest bike retailers in Scotland.
Neill Hope, MD of the Electric Cycle Company, said: "Nobody could have foreseen COVID-19 occurring and the resulting demand for bikes. For obvious reasons, people have not wanted to use public transport during the lockdown. They have also been avoiding non-essential travel by car. The streets have been much quieter and folk are definitely feeling more confident about cycling on the roads with family for their limited daily exercise or to get to work or to the shops.
"Our new customers are not only getting to grips with the many health and financial benefits of cycling for both commuting and exercise.
"They are also quickly realising that e-bikes make the whole physical process even easier and more joyful than traditional cycling, despite the larger initial investment. Edinburgh, with its many steep hills, is the perfect city for an electric bike."
Since 23 March 2020, 80 per cent of bike sales at ECC have been to those buying their first e-bike, with the majority of e-bikes being sold in the £2,000 – £3,000 price bracket.
There has been an even split of male and female customers with an age range of between mid-20's to the over-60's. However, there has been a marked increase in younger women, especially health workers from the NHS, using the UK Government's Cycle To Work Scheme or the Scottish Government-backed Energy Saving Trust eBike Loan scheme to help with their bike purchases.
Despite offering free bike servicing to essential frontline workers from the start of the COVID-19 lockdown (with any required parts being sold at cost), ECC's service sales have increased by as much as 200 per cent on the same period last year; with a current waiting time on bike servicing of two weeks.
This far outweighs the regular spike in servicing sales in January and February, when clients are often referred to in-house as the 'New Year's Resolution Customers'.
Realising that many people have been suffering significantly during the lockdown, the ECC team wanted to do their bit to help out.
Following a recent online poll through Facebook and Twitter, ECC has just donated £1,500 to three local charities, giving back to a local community that has nurtured the business over their last ten years of operation.
Neill Hope added: "To assuage our guilt that the business was doing so well out of the most horrible situation, we wanted to give back to the North Edinburgh community with a charitable donation. Sharing £1,500, Edinburgh Food Project, Cyrenians and Street Soccer Scotland were the three charities our customers voted for in an online poll. This is in addition to our continued annual support to Kids Love Clothes, Granton Youth, and St Columba's Hospice."
This exponential increase in e-bike sales and bike servicing has led to five additional members of staff being given employment contracts at the ECC – two salespeople, an administrator, and two bike mechanics.
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On UK bike sales
Neil Hope said: "We are not alone. Bike retailers throughout the UK have experienced a big increase in sales. The bike year runs from about September to late August and manufacturers commit to building a set number of bikes based on the previous year's sales figures, areas of growth and pre-orders from shops. The initial sales surge was in regular bike sales of under £500. These have long since sold out and now there are no bikes under £1,500 anywhere in the country at the wholesale level. I don't know whether this has skewed our customers' decision to spend the extra and get an e-bIke.
"Bearing in mind that there a finite supply of bikes from manufacturers and suppliers annually and the UK has seen an overall 50 per cent rise in bike sales this year already, the likelihood from the information we have is that bike supply across the country will run dry by June, literally nothing left to sell."
On bike servicing
Neill Hope added: "Over the last couple of months, many of our customers have come in with previously neglected bikes wanting to use them as a means of transport for their one hour a day exercise, especially as a family unit. The lack of cheaper regular bikes on the market has necessitated repairing bikes, mostly routine maintenance and reviving bikes that have sat in sheds and garages for years gathering dust – rusty chains and stuck parts; a lot of them we would normally have deemed as an uneconomical repair."
On ECC's charitable donation
Neil Hope said: "We feel part of our local community, a community that has nurtured us for the past ten years in business. When it quickly became apparent that so many people in the local area were having a really hard time, as a direct result of the Coronavirus pandemic, we felt now was a hugely important time to give something back.
"To assuage our guilt that the business was doing well out of the most horrible situation, we decided on a charitable donation. We handpicked ten local charities near our business in North Edinburgh who we felt did a great service to the community. We really did want to keep it at the ultra-local level. We set up an online poll and invited our followers on Facebook and Twitter to spread the word and vote for who they thought should get our £1,000. It was pretty close with over 1,000 votes cast with Edinburgh Food Project coming first and getting the money. Cyrenians and Street Soccer Scotland were really close, so we decided to give them £250 each as a consolation."
Paddy Cuthbert | Littlehouse Media | E: paddy@littlehousemedia.co.uk| M: 07913 951717
For downloadable images go to: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/h6kcyhd99jpq8k8/AAA8oeDCz_n9fzMnzkRqpG7Ya?dl=0. Please credit Electric Cycle Company
Electric Cycle Company, 133-135 Granton Road, Edinburgh EH5 3NJ. Tel: T: 0131 552 0999.
Webssite: https://www.electriccyclecompany.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/electriccyclecompany
Twitter: https://twitter.com/electriccycleco
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/electriccycleco/
Opening times – 9.30 – 5.30pm – Tuesday – Saturday / closed Sunday and Monday
Established in 2006, as Scotland's then only specialist e-bike dealer, Electric Cycle Company has grown and developed over the years as a family-owned business to become one of Scotland's largest specialist e-bike retailers – believed to the largest.
With their extensive knowledge and no pressure sales and their no hassle ebike demos they'll help you find the right bike for you and your journey. Their range includes e-bikes from Bergamont, Cube, Emu, Giant, Scott, Riese & Muller, Ridgeback, Tern and Winther .
They don't have any £500 'best e-bike ever' deals that you can find online, but what you will find, though, is great customer service, a knowledge of pedelecs that is second to none and a company that will be here for any issues or upgrades.
"Book an appointment or give us a call and let us help your smile."
MEDIA RELEASE issued by Littlehouse Media. You too can share your stories (aka press or media releases), on this site. Email here for more information.
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Contact: Paddy Cuthbert
Email: paddy@littlehousemedia.co.uk
Website: https://www.electriccyclecompany.com/
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Littlehouse Media · Cycling (excl cycle sports) · Edinburgh and East (postcodes EH, KY and TD)


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The Affordable Care Act has transformed the healthcare industry, with its provisions having led to massive changes in the way that millions of Americans get their healthcare needs met. Amid all the controversy surrounding the legislation, it's easy to forget that the stated purpose of Obamacare was to reduce the percentage of people lacking health insurance.
With Obamacare having been law for several years now, uninsured rates have indeed dropped dramatically, with Gallup recently reporting that the national rate has dropped from 17.3% at the end of 2013 to 11.7% earlier this year. Yet when you look more closely at the data, you'll find that beneath the national numbers, there's a wide gulf between the effectiveness of Obamacare in some states versus others. Let's take a look at the six states where uninsured rates are the lowest, with an aim toward figuring out why they've done a better job at covering previously uninsured citizens than other states.
6. IowaIowa has done an amazingly good job in making reductions to its uninsured rate, with the state having gone from 9.7% uninsured in late 2013 to just 5% this year. A big part of that decrease has come from increased enrollment in the states Medicaid and CHIP programs, which have grown by more than 100,000 participants during that 18-month span. After having initially enacted a version of Medicaid expansion that allowed the use of state funds to buy private health plans, Iowa recently said it would move to a more traditional Medicaid managed care plan model instead.
5. ConnecticutConnecticut has seen even more dramatic improvement in its uninsured rate over the past 18 months, going from 12.3% a year and a half ago to 5% currently. Figures that the state's Access Health CT program collected last year showed that roughly 80% of those residents that it enrolled qualified for state Medicaid coverage. Some state lawmakers argue that the figures don't reflect gains in privately provided insurance through employers, with too much reliance on public coverage like Medicaid.
4. VermontVermont was already in particularly good shape as early as 2013 in getting its citizens insured, with an uninsured rate of just 8.9% a year and a half ago. Even so, the state has made even further progress, with the current rate down to 4.6%. A separate study from the Vermont state government found that improvements have come from across demographic lines, and the state now covers all but 1% of its children under age 18. The state highlighted Medicaid expansion as a key component of the improvement.
3. MinnesotaMinnesota has had an almost identical experience to Vermont, with its 9.5% uninsured rate in 2013 improving to 4.6% this year. State officials credited the MNsure exchange as playing a key role in boosting coverage, with more than 325,000 having gained coverage between November 2014 and last month. As in other states, more than three-quarters of those signing up qualified for public health insurance programs, with just 70,000 signing up for private plans.
2. MassachusettsThanks to moves that the Bay State made long before Obamacare became law, Massachusetts had by far the lowest uninsured rate in the nation at just 4.9%. Nevertheless, the state has continued to make headway and now boasts just 3% of its citizens lacking health insurance. Although the model developed in part by former Gov. Mitt Romney has required some modifications under Obamacare, it nevertheless supports the idea of requiring minimum levels of health insurance for all residents.
1. Rhode IslandRhode Island's leadership in uninsured rates is especially impressive when you consider that at 13.3%, the Ocean State had the highest uninsured rate of any of the six states on this list in 2013. Nevertheless, the nation's smallest state now has the smallest percentage of its citizens lacking health insurance, weighing in at just 2.7%. Officials at the HealthSource RI exchange argue that they've done an even more effective job than the federal exchange at finding uninsured residents and getting them enrolled.
What do these states have in common? All of these states expanded Medicaid eligibility as part of their strategy toward covering more of their residents. Yet the Affordable Care Act made this move optional rather than requiring all of the states to participate. Although the majority of states have followed suit, there are still more than a dozen holdouts that have chosen not to expand their Medicaid coverage, which has exacerbated disparities in different parts of the country.
Obamacare supporters point to reductions in uninsured rates as proving the success of the Affordable Care Act, while opponents argue that greater reliance on public programs is unsustainable. Both sides will have to wait to see which view will prove correct in the long run.
The article Obamacare: These 6 States Have the Lowest Uninsured Rates originally appeared on Fool.com.


So which celeb is having tax problems now? This week it's Kelis. Apparently the R&B singer has two tax liens filed against her and they're over $300,000! Go to E! Online for the details.
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I'm in Fiji on a research expedition with Joshua Drew from Columbia University. Before the hard research work started I took off a day and went diving with bull sharks. Read part 1 of my encounter with some of the oceans biggest predators here.
Within a minute or two of being surrounded by forty bull sharks I realised I had nothing to worry about. I watched them and watched me. And it soon became obvious that I was of very little interest to them. I had no fish to offer. I was just weird and noisy.
The divemasters from Beqa Adventure Divers treat the sharks with a huge level of respect. These guys know the sharks individually (even after just two dives I started recognising individual sharks – one with a big round chunk missing from its dorsal fin, another with a bent tail, one with a kinked over dorsal). They've seen the same sharks come back for years. They've got to know their quirks and habits. One shark has visited the feeding site for 8 years and never once ate a thing. Maybe she's shy? Maybe she's way down the shark pecking order? Or maybe she's just nervous of people?
The whole thing felt very calm, controlled and surprisingly slow. There was no frantic feeding frenzy. The bulls have been trained to feed in a certain way. They only get a tuna head if they approach the feeder from the left and swim off to the right. Some of them behaved like giant puppies sniffing around the food bin, but they wouldn't get a bite unless they did the right thing.
Scientists have know this for a while: you can train a shark just like you can train a dog.
At one point a tuna head drifted towards me and I recalled a story I'd heard about a diver in Australia getting bit by a shark when a piece of fish came too close. But I calmly kept an eye on the tuna and the shark that slowly approached and chomped it down in one gulp into its impressively huge maw.
Only once did my bodyguard (a divemaster armed with a metal pole) feel he needed to bop one shark on the nose when it came a teeny tiny bit too close for comfort. I flinched as the shark took the blow to the snout and seemed to indignantly swim off thinking "yeah, ok, I know, I know… sorreeeeee". (Even a hardened scientist/conservationist like me couldn't help anthropomorphising just a little bit down there).
All too soon I heard a clanging tank that told us old that the bull shark feed was over. In ten short minutes I had grown totally accustomed to diving with so many huge sharks. But already it was time to ascend to the shallows for shark feed number 2: the reefies.
Up in the coral garden, Papa stationed himself in a cloud of black and white striped sergeant major fish that were going nuts. Here we got to see a bunch of much smaller, much sleeker, much cuter sharks. Compared to the bull sharks, white tip reef sharks behave like naughty kittens. Only a couple of feet long, with tubular bodies, forward-pointing snouts, and a stunning white flash across their dorsal fin. Papa was giving them little morsels of fish and frequently batting them aside when they got too cheeky trying to nose their way into his feeding bag. A four-foot blacktip reef shark also showed up for its share.
We hung onto a rope strung across the reef and got churned around in the waves, watching the reef sharks patrolling in and out. Below us the bull sharks had already dispersed, back to what they were doing before we showed up with dinner.
I came up from my dive convinced that feeding these sharks is a good thing. This whole experience is without doubt showing people that sharks are not mindless killing machines. There's a lot more going on down there than just eating. The sharks are watching, taking turn, doing what they're told. And while I'm sure there is some affect on the local ecology from injecting so much additional food into the system every day, its not obvious that this is having a major impact on the reef. And certainly nothing compared to the impact rising temperatures and acidity are soon going to have on reefs – right?
It's becoming a bit of a cliché to say that sharks are worth more alive in the water than dead in a bowl of soup. But the thing about clichés is they are usually true. And in this case, it definitely is. Millions of dollars a year are raised by this dive operation, and each diver in the water donates 20 Fijian dollars to the local fishing villages who in return have agreed not to fish inside the protected area that Mike, Papa and BAD helped to set up. Now there's a shark corridor along the southern coast of Viti Levu (enforced mostly by BAD divemasters and boatmen who are trained as fish wardens).
Shark ecotourism may not be a one-size-fits-all conservation solution everywhere, but it is obviously working here with these people and these sharks, and I'm sure it can work elsewhere. More than anything, BAD are helping to chip away at the sharks' image crisis.
And I hope the fact that I came back safely (with my limbs still intact) will help prove to my friends and family and anyone else reading this that shark-infested waters are really not something to be scared of but something we should do all we can to protect.
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Denys Olehovych Aleksandrov (; born 5 May 1992) is a Ukrainian retired footballer who played as a forward.

External links

 Profile at FFU Official Site (Ukr)

1992 births
Living people
Ukrainian footballers
Footballers from Odesa
Association football forwards
FC Chornomorets Odesa players
FC Chornomorets-2 Odesa players
FC Slavia Mozyr players
MFC Mykolaiv players
FC Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni players
Ukrainian First League players
Ukrainian Second League players
Belarusian Premier League players
Ukraine youth international footballers
Ukrainian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Belarus
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus

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Dr. Douglas Cook talks about getting started with Step 2 and his personal experiences with that step and his experiences with his patients.
Fr. Martin presents an overview of Step 2 about finding a power greater than ourselves and the paradoxical strength of admitting a weakness.
Tommy Rosen talks about in Step 2 being open to outside help and from yogic philosophy the possibility of being in touch with the infinite.
Preston talks about his addiction to heroin and cocaine with his brother and the hope that came after his prayer for deliverance.
A Church of God minister presents the message that Jesus gives us the Holy Spirit and the power to be satisfied without our addiction.