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Запир Гасанбекович Абдуллаев (14 апреля 1930, с. Урахи, Дагестанская АССР, РСФСР — 1997, Махачкала) — советский и российский учёный, дагестанский учёный по лингвистике и языковедению. Доктор филологических наук (1974), профессор (1979). Заслуженный деятель науки Дагестанской АССР. Автор более 100 научных работ.

Биография
Родился 14 апреля 1930 г. в селе Урахи Сергокалинского района Дагестанской АССР. По национальности — даргинец.

В 1948 году окончил 10 классов Урахинской средней политехнической школы.

В 1953 году с отличием окончил филологический факультет Дагестанский государственный педагогический институт им Гамзата Цадасы.

После завершения учёбы в институте, поступил в Аспирантуру Института языкознания Академии наук СССР, которую закончил в 1956 году с досрочной защитой кандидатской диссертации на тему: «Падежи и их функции в даргинском литературном языке».

С 1952 года — младший научный сотрудник, старший научный сотрудник Института языка, литературы и искусства Дагфилиала АН СССР.

В 1974 году защитил докторскую диссертацию на тему: «Субъектно-объектные и предикативные категории в даргинском языке».

В 1979 году на совете Института языкознания АН СССР присвоено ученое звание — профессора.

С 1980 года — ответственный редактор научных тематических сборников по дагестанским языкам.

Научная деятельность связана с исследованием языка одного из коренных народов Дагестана — даргинцев, которому он уделил внимание, издав по этому направлению следующие научные работы:
 «Категория падежа в даргинском языке» (Махачкала, 1961)
 "Субъектно-объектные и предикативные категории в даргинском языке (Махачкала, 1969)
 «Очерки по синтаксису даргинского языка» (М., 1971)
 «Проблемы эргативности даргинского языка» (М., 1986)
 «Даргинский язык. Т. 1. Фонетика» (М., 1993)
 «Даргинский язык. Т. 2. Морфология» (М., 1993)
 «Даргинский язык. Т. З. Словообразование» (М., 1993)

В 1985 году Указом Президиума Верховного Совета ДАССР присвоено почётное звание: «Заслуженный деятель науки Дагестанской АССР»

В 1981—1988 г.г — заведующий отделом грамматических исследований ИЯЛИ ДФ АН СССР.

В 1989 по 1997 г.г — ведущий научный сотрудник Института языка, литературы и искусства ДНЦ РАН.

В 1992 по 1997 г.г — председатель республиканской комиссии по орфографии и терминологии языков народов Дагестана.

Издал 10 книг и 7 монографий. Опубликовал более 100 научных работ.

Указами Президиума Верховного Совета СССР награждён орденом «Знак Почёта» (1985), медалями «За доблестный труд в годы ВОВ» (1944), «За трудовое отличие» (1976), «За трудовую доблесть» (1984), «Ветеран труда» (1977) и др.

Дважды поощрялся Почётной Грамотой Президиума Верховного Совета ДАССР, Почётной Грамотой АН СССР, РАН, ДНЦ РАН, Почётной Грамотой Госсовета РД и др.

Скончался в 1997 году в городе Махачкала в возрасте 67 лет.

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Madrid Open 2019
Madrid Open 2019: Roger Federer wins Monfils thriller for win 1,200; Djokovic downs Chardy again
Roger Federer is the second man in Open era, after Jimmy Connors, to reach 1,200 match-wins
By Marianne Bevis Friday 10 May 2019, 07:35 UK @mariannebevis
Roger Federer in clay-court action (Photo: Marianne Bevis)
• Federer is second man in Open era, after Jimmy Connors, to reach 1,200 match-wins
• Djokovic increases dominance over Chardy with 13-0 match-wins, 30-0 sets
• Unseeded Wawrinka back inside top 30 after Nishikori victory
No wonder the queues for Madrid's charismatic tennis centre, the Magic Box, extended into the distance as fans arrived for Thursday's action. It is a special day when the three greats of men's tennis play in consecutive matches on a single court, but here was such an occasion.
Novak Djokovic would be followed by Roger Federer who would be followed by Rafael Nadal. And the three former champions were sandwiched between two former champions in the women's draw, Simona Halep and Petra Kvitova.
It was, in short, a mouth-watering schedule.
A few days after the world No1 Djokovic reached a special milestone in the Spanish capital, his 250th week as the top-ranked man, and a day after Madrid's most prolific champion, world No2 Nadal, reached his 50th match-win, it was the turn of the third man in the tennis triumvirate to try and tick off another record. Federer could reach 1,200 match-wins, becoming only the second man in the Open era to reach 1,200 after Jimmy Connors.
That he would attempt to do it after three years away from clay and a four-year absence from Madrid added some curiosity. Indeed Federer had not won a match at the Madrid Masters since his single win in 2013—until his opener this year against Richard Gasquet.
That he would face the in-form, charismatic and always dangerous Gael Monfils, who had beaten the Swiss in two of their last three matches—all played on clay—added to the anticipation, though that anticipation looked ill-founded after the first set.
Monfils played a shaky opening game, including a double fault, to concede an immediate break. Now Federer had to serve into the sun, and he too faced break points, but he extracted errors from the Frenchman with his precision to the corners, and held, 2-0.
Federer was into his stride, slicing his backhand, picking off overheads, and defending with great foot-work. A first drop-shot and he had another break, 3-0, then three serve-and-volley plays, 4-0. A quarter of an hour, and it was 5-0, and after 18 minutes, the set was done, 6-0.
A dejected Monfils, with 15 errors in his account compared with three from Federer, ambled to his chair. The Swiss had dropped just nine points, but Monfils was pricked into action—perhaps all the more so by some whistles from the crowd.
An intense opening game by the Frenchman was greeted with an "Allez!" as he served an immediate hold in the second set. He was fired up, going for his shots, powering his forehand, and he drew the errors for a break. Federer was on the back foot, not keeping up with the increase in pace, and went 0-3, with three points to 12.
Federer pressed hard in a long seventh game, worked two break chances and a string of deuces, and the pressure finally told. Monfils made two double faults on the way to a break, and a love hold from Federer consolidated a 4-4 scoreline.
It looked, indeed, as though Federer would close out the win in straight sets, but Monfils saved break point with a big serve-and-volley play, and after seven minutes and several deuces, he held.
Now it was Federer, serving to save the set, who came under pressure, and a forehand error handed it to Monfils, 6-4. The Frenchman then maintained his momentum into the third. He held, and took advantage of a lapse in Federer's tactics—the Swiss was allowing longer rallies to develop—and broke, 2-0.
Federer thumped a ball out of the court in frustration and got his punishment, a code violation, but what he needed was a break, and that was proving elusive. He failed to convert a break point: 3-0.
Gradually, though, Federer reverted to type, upped the aggression, charged the net at every opportunity even when his first serve missed the mark. But it would be a carved backhand slice down the line that broke the Frenchman, as deft a pass as Federer had played all match. He broke, and roared himself on for the first time in the match.
He repeated that same pass to earn another break chance, but Monfils was proving resilient, his serve and baseline tennis up to the task, and again Federer would have to serve to save the set—and match.
Sure enough, the Swiss found himself staring down a break point—this time, a match-point, and on second serve. But he did not waver—he charged the net, as he would three more times, to hold. It was bold and explosive, and it took them to a tie-break.
Monfils gifted the first point with a double fault, and faced attack after attack at the net from Federer, with two serve and volley winners taking the Swiss to 6-1. Federer had won only nine points at the net in the first two sets together, but he stacked up 22 in the decider alone, and one final big serve brought victory on the dot of two hours—win No 1,200.
He admitted afterwards: "It wasn't looking good there for a while—some highly stressful moments for me… I really had to force myself to stay aggressive, take on the bad bounces, try to play aggressive and positive tennis."
It worked, but he will need more of the same in what is an increasingly challenging draw. Federer next faces Dominic Thiem, who beat him in the Indian Wells final and then beat Nadal to win the Barcelona title. The in-form Austrian, one of the favourites for the title, beat Monte-Carlo champion Fabio Fognini 6-4, 7-5.
And the winner will face either Djokovic or Cilic in the semis, for the top seed cruised to his allotted place in the quarters.
Indeed, if there was a match guaranteed to boost the Djokovic confidence, it was against Frenchman Jeremy Chardy. In 12 previous matches, the Serb had not lost a set, and had only twice been taken to a tie-break in 28 sets. And much of that scenario would remain unchanged as Djokovic took less than an hour and a half to reach the quarter-finals.
The first set went by in a flash as the unpredictable tennis of Chardy gave Djokovic plenty of openings on his serve. The former champion went 5-0 before Chardy got on the board, and Djokovic then served it out, 6-1.
The second set was much closer as the Chardy serve found more fire and accuracy, backed ably by his forehand. And few small chances came and went, as Chardy got a break point to win the set, but he thumped a ball long, Djokovic aced, fended off a second deuce, and an ace took it to 5-5.
The Frenchman's first-strike forehand was keeping him in the match: He was up to a dozen of them as he served to hold, 6-5. However, Djokovic kept the Frenchman's ambitions at bay with a love hold to reach a tie-break, and once there, the Serb was all precision and focus. He immediately went 3-0, and pumped his fist at the 7-6(2) conclusion. Once again, the two-time Madrid champion conceded not a set to the Frenchman, and was into the quarters to face Cilic.
For the third consecutive match, the No9 seeded Croat took three sets to advance, coming back from a set and 3-1 down against Laslo Djere. And if that was not enough of a weight for Cilic to carry, he faces a 17-2 deficit against Djokovic, including their last three matches and both previous meetings on clay.
Meanwhile, in the bottom half, Stan Wawrinka won a thriller against No6 seed Kei Nishikori, 6-3, 7-6(3), with either Nadal or Frances Tiafoe next. Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Fernando Verdasco, 6-3, 6-4, and will face either Alexander Zverev or Hubert Hurkacz.
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WSOF 32 headliner Josh Hill wants to 'play spoiler' in final fight of champ Marlon Moraes' contract
Mike Bohn
July 27, 2016 5:15 pm ET
Marlon Moraes and Josh Hill
WSOF 32 could be the final time current bantamweight champion Marlon Moraes competes for the organization. If that's the case, opponent Josh Hill wants to send him on his way title-less and with a loss.
Moraes (16-4-1), who meets Hill (14-1) in the WSOF 32 main event at XFINITY Arena in Everett, Wash., is set to fight the final bout of his current contract on Saturday's NBCSN-televised fight card. The prelims stream on MMAjunkie.
It's possible Moraes could sign a new deal to remain with WSOF regardless of the outcome, but Hill said that's not his concern. What's most important is to take the belt and ensure a fighter with the intent of remaining with WSOF for a long time can hold it.
"What he does with his own career, I don't care – I just worry about what I do with my career," Hill told MMAjunkie. "My biggest thing is to get the win. If he's planning on leaving after this, then I'm going to try to play spoiler and ruin his plans and take that belt and go from there. I just want to be the champ."
Not only does WSOF 32 represent Hill's opportunity to win the 135-pound title, it also represents a chance at revenge. He's done this dance with Moraes once before, losing a unanimous decision to the Brazilian at WSOF 18 in February 2015 in what stands as Hill's lone career defeat.
The first meeting was fairly competitive over the course of five rounds. Hill is just one of two opponents who have pushed Moraes to the 25-minute time limit during his current 11-fight winning streak, and although he didn't get the win, Hill said his flashes of success in the previous meeting have boosted his confidence ahead of the rematch.
"I think before, most people thought he would just run through me," Hill said. "I was a heavy underdog, but then I showed them obviously that's not the case. We had a back-and-forth, five-round fight that was really close. I'm still the underdog on the betting lines going in to it, but my confidence has risen, and even when I lost the decision, it gave me a good confidence boost for the rematch.
"I know I'm capable of beating him, too, and that what kind of drives me more," he continued. "We've been in there, we've felt each other's power and whatnot. I'm anxious to get back in there. Last time, I let him get back in the fight and take the fight, and I don't want to do that this time. I've got to keep the throttle down and go at him."
Hill said he put in the work to assure he doesn't get a repeat result at WSOF 32. What the Canadian also has to take in account, though, is the improvement of Moraes, who is No. 5 in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA bantamweight rankings. At 28, it is still possible Moraes has yet to hit his prime, which is a scary thought because he's already one of the most dangerous strikers in the division, especially when it comes to leg kicks.
Moraes' most recent fight against Joseph Barajas at WSOF 28 in February ended with a leg-kick TKO finish in just 73 seconds. Hill said he has to watch out for the weapons of the champion, but claims nothing Moraes does will stop him from implementing his own strategy.
"I just have to try not to get kicked by them, basically," Hill said. "I worried a lot about them in the first fight and that's probably one of his biggest weapons, is his kicks, especially in the striking. We worked a lot on checking kicks, making him miss and I continued to do that this camp. Movement is key.
"If you watch a lot of guys that move, they're hard to time to throw legs kicks, and it is hard to throw them also when you're backing up. We factor all those things in and work on it, and it's something I definitely got to watch out for and try to take away from him. It's definitely one of the biggest weapons I can see."
Although it's only been 17 months since they first crossed paths, Hill said enough time has gone by for him to make the necessary improvements and changes to hand Moraes his first loss since November 2011 – and take the WSOF belt.
Moraes has had just two fights since their first encounter, but Hill, on the other hand, managed to squeeze in four. He said it was important to regain the momentum and confidence that comes with a winning streak, and now that he has it, there's no doubt in Hill's mind he will pivot away from the mistakes of his first bout with Moraes and capitalize in the second.
"I'm looking for that finish," Hill said. "I don't want to give him the chance to go to the judges again and give them the chance to give him another decision. They say, 'You got the beat the champ to take the belt.' I don't want to go in that scenario, so I'm looking for that finish to knock him out or submit him. The earlier the better."
For the latest on WSOF 32, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.


The blueprint for the euro was sober and far-sighted, not giddily optimistic or driven by fear of Germany.
Europe's politicians nowadays are desperately looking for someone to blame for the euro crisis. Germany blames France, and vice versa.
Even lawyers are getting into the act, trying to identify legal responsibility for the monetary union's design flaws.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The "Report on economic and monetary union in the European Community", which laid out the euro blueprint, was presented in April 1989 – a time when no one was thinking about German reunification. Moreover, the salient issues concerning monetary unions were well understood, and remedies for the most significant obstacles were proposed at the outset.
The committee that drafted the report – chaired by Jacques Delors – was a fundamentally rather conservative group of central bankers, with even the governor of the Bank of England signing on. Its internal debates highlighted two problems of the potential monetary union.
First, the committee explicitly discussed whether the capital market would suffice to impose fiscal discipline on the currency union's members, and agreed that a system of rules was needed. But those rules were steadily weakened, and by the early 2000s were widely derided (including by Romano Prodi, Delors' successor as president of the European Commission), as governments found that they could run large deficits without paying higher market interest rates.
The demand that the ECB should be the central supervisory authority in an integrated capital market met strong resistance, above all from Germany's Bundesbank, which worried that a role in maintaining financial stability might undermine the ECB's ability to focus on price stability as the primary goal of monetary policy. There was also bureaucratic resistance from existing regulators. Most important, supervision suggested some potential responsibility to recapitalise problematic banks, and thus involved a fiscal cost.
A legal vestige of the original plan may offer an easy path to a greater ECB supervisory role today. According to Article 25 of the Maastricht treaty, the ECB may "offer advice to and be consulted by" the European Commission or the Council of Ministers on the scope and implementation of legislation relating to prudential supervision.
When that phrase was inserted in the treaty, it appeared as if the hurdles to effective European banking supervision could hardly be set higher. The ECB was not given overall supervisory and regulatory powers. And, until the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007-08 highlighted the connections between financial and fiscal health, no one considered that a problem. They do now.
Nevertheless, fiscal rules and common banking supervision are still regarded in many quarters as an illegitimate encroachment on member states' sovereignty. After all, the EU has avoided becoming a focus of heated contestation precisely because it never got much of a share of what Europeans produced (its budget, at just over 1% of the EU's gross domestic product, has barely changed in relative terms for the past 40 years). It was the member states that did politics and budgets.
Delors had a different vision. At the time of his report, he concluded that the European budget would amount to some 3% of GDP – identical to the peacetime US federal budget's share of GDP during the country's first stage of monetary union, in the 19th century.
Moreover, as in Europe today, when Alexander Hamilton proposed a central banking system, the Bank of the United States, alongside consolidation of states' Revolutionary War debt into federal debt, the implementation of his sensible plan was imperfect. In the American case, the principles of federal finance were not worked out until the Civil War, and the Federal Reserve System was established even later, coming only in 1913.
Europeans can learn from the United States and implement a fundamentally sound plan. But they must also recognise that political backlashes and setbacks are inevitable – and thus that the road from vision to reality may be longer than expected.


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Gerrie Deijkers (Bréda,  – ) est un joueur néerlandais de football.

Biographie
Il commence sa carrière avec le club du VV Baronie, puis il rejoint le NAC Breda, Willem II, DWS, et De Graafschap Doetinchem.

Mais c'est en 1973 lorsqu'il rejoint le PSV Eindhoven qu'il connait ses premiers grands succès. Il gagne la Coupe UEFA en 1978 (0-0, 3-0) face au SC Bastia.

Il finit sa carrière dans les clubs semi-professionnels de Beringen FC et du Vitesse Arnhem.

Palmarès
 Champion des Pays-Bas en 1975, 1976 et 1978 avec le PSV Eindhoven.
 Vainqueur de la Coupe UEFA en 1978 avec le PSV Eindhoven.
 Vainqueur de la Coupe des Pays-Bas en 1974 et 1976 avec le PSV Eindhoven.
 Co-meilleur buteur de la Coupe UEFA en 1978 avec le PSV Eindhoven.

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Footballeur néerlandais
Joueur du NAC Breda
Joueur du Willem II Tilburg
Joueur du De Graafschap Doetinchem
Joueur du PSV Eindhoven
Joueur du K Beringen FC
Joueur du Vitesse Arnhem
Naissance en novembre 1946
Naissance à Bréda
Décès en octobre 2003
Décès à 56 ans

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Q: Node.js Fail to connect to mongodb 3 from Heroku to Mongolab : SCRAM-SHA-1 MongoLab recently updated the mongoDb version to 3.x. To try to reproduce the environment, i updated my local version of node.js to 4.x, mongodb to 3.x and mongoose to 3.8.
In my local environment i'm able to connect to mongoDb but in heroku i can't.
The following error occurs :

fail to connect to mongodb for address mongodb://user:password@host:port/dbname

I suspect an older version of mongoose, or a bad connection way, but why it works on my local environment?
Here how i connect node to mongoDb :
var uriString = process.env.MONGOLAB_URI || process.env.MONGOHQ_URL
mongoose.connect(uriString, function (err, res) {
    if (err) {
        console.log('fail to connect to mongodb for address ' +       uriString);
    } else {
        console.log('Connection to mongodb ok');
    }
});

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It looks like MongoDB 3.0 is supported in Mongoose 4.0.0: Like mongodb doc illustrate
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San Francisco Fed Chief: Digital Currencies Could Make Crime 'Easier'
Apr 13, 2016 at 20:00 UTC Updated Apr 14, 2016 at 16:33 UTC
The president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco gave a speech on financial technology earlier this week, pointing to digital currencies as an area of potential risk.
In remarks, John Williams of the San Francisco Fed noted the proximity of his institution to Silicon Valley, and indicated a desire to engage with developers of FinTech – but suggested that some areas of development are perceived as risky by central bank officials.
He pointed to advanced computing applications as having the potential to "help overcome" money laundering and terrorist financing issues, before going on to say that financial compliance can prove to be a cost burden for some institutions.
Williams said:
"The other side of that coin, of course, is that, left unbridled, the ease and anonymity of some types of FinTech, such as digital currencies, have the potential to make criminal and terrorist activity even easier."
His speech made no further mention of digital currencies, and Williams closed by suggesting that central bank officials see a need for regulation to prevent "unintended consequences" of the growth of financial technology.
"In that regard, well-designed regulation that protects consumers, fosters inclusionary rather than exclusionary practices, and enhances the fairness and resilience of the financial system should help rather than hinder FinTech's contribution to creating a better financial system and economy," Williams concluded.
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Though there is no instant solution to remove bad data, through initiating the proper process of data cleansing and data management, you can ensure that your customer database is accurate and up to data as well as it contains only information that is needed, not anything else.
Besides people providing wrong information in order to avoid getting marketing material, bad data can quite easily be created, especially if you have a very large database, containing millions of records and/or is gathered from several channels. However, to help you understand bad data, below are three of the major categories that it may fall under.
Organization tends to collect a vast amount of data throughout the years, this, however, does not mean all the data they have collected is useful data for their business. Firstly, the organization is up keeping the high cost of storing this data; furthermore, bear even more cost to process it. This, in plain words, is a waste of valuable resources that could have been utilized someplace else. Not to forget storing data that is the company is unaware of drastically increases the risk of non-compliance. Sadly, many companies are currently wasting a whole lot of money redundant data that is doing no good to them.
Another factor that adds to the unnecessary cost of data storage is storing multiple duplicated data. This also serves as the worst nightmare of marketers as it also adds to the inaccuracy of data. One of the main causes of the duplication of data is the storage of data in multiple repositories. Moreover, duplicate data is also accumulated when new data is gathered or purchased. The origin of duplicate data is mostly due to human error, whether it may be entered incorrectly by a customer or by another point of data entry. Even the smallest variation in the spelling of a name, address or any other contact detail that is recorded can lead the creation of duplicated data.
This is one of the unavoidable forms of bad data, simply because it is due to natural or uncontrollable causes. It is estimated the every year marketing databases decay 25% to 40% simply because of the reason that people change their names, move to a different address or switch jobs.
These reasons for bad data create the need for efficient and regular data cleansing as well as data management.
As stated earlier data cleansing or data management is the solution to the problems that arise due to bad data. Data cleansing generally includes the methodology of detecting and correcting the corrupt, invaluable or inaccurate data within a database, thus increasing the productivity, accuracy, and usefulness of the stored data. Generally, the process of data cleansing encompasses the below-mentioned stages.
This stage of data cleansing involves identifying and removing of errors and inconsistencies with the use of detailed reports. Mostly this will include the screening of data related to address verification, inadequate words, user suppression, mortality or bankruptcy.
Though this requires one of the most difficult compression techniques and are hard to get right, this moves the data to what exactly every business is aiming for, which is, having one record per customer. To create a consolidated record, it is essential to match and merge records derived from existing records from different systems. While at merging stage, it is best to get a hold of records that are most recently accessed and contain fields that are more complete or have external reference numbers, in order to create data of higher quality.
This step is the key to maintaining a good and efficient database. Eliminating the "garbage in, garbage out" policy, this step focuses on creating a standard and consistent format for data entry, in order to prevent duplication of records. Common practices of standardization include widening of acronyms, standardizing dates and removing punctuation. As long as an organization thoroughly follows this step, it can benefit from a significant increase in productivity.
To further enhance your data through the data cleansing process, it is best to add extra information along with your records once they have been cleansed. The best way to enhance your data is to tag along features with your records like property characteristics, demographic characteristics, financial characteristic, and behavioral data. These will, in turn, add more capabilities for your marketers to gain valuable and precise insight while utilizing customer records.
Many organizations today are heavily investing their time and money in gathering data from various sources, but not putting in as much investment in maintaining the database could result in their efforts going in vain. Similarly, having a good marketing team but not having proper tools could mean losing ROI on the marketing campaign, as inaccurate data can lead to inefficiency of the campaign. Though it may seem like a continuous and ongoing process of data management but you can only rely on your data as long as it is trustworthy.


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Q: How to check, from C#, are files for complex script and rtl languages installed? How to check, from C#, are files for complex script and rtl languages (Regional and Language settings) installed?
Edit:
Or is there another way of checking whether right to left text will display correctly in my form?
Edit for better explanation (I hope :))
I'm creating an application that will use Arabic letters (free dictionary). So, I want to check are: "Files for complex script and right-to-left languages(Including Thai)" (CheckBox in "Regional and Language Options" in Language Tab) installed (Is CheckBox checked.).
If they are not installed, Arabic words will not display correctly,and I want to warn user if that is the case.
Thanks

A: I'm not sure if this will get you all the way there but, you can query WMI. If you are using .Net, check out the System.Management namespace.  You will be interested in...
Namespace: root\cimv2
Class: Win32_OperatingSystem
Properties: MUILanguages and/or Locale

A: Thank you for your info. I queried WMI for Win32_OperatingSystem Properties. It returns Win32_OperatingSystem Class with all fields and properties except MUILanguages :(
...
  uint32 MaxNumberOfProcesses;
  uint64 MaxProcessMemorySize;
  string MUILanguages[]; //I don't see this field, and all others I see
  string Name;
  uint32 NumberOfLicensedUsers;
...

Any help?
I use WinXP SP2 and VS2005
Code I used
 refereence: System.Management;
string ConfigNamespace = @"\\.\root\cimv2";
string query = "select * from Win32_OperatingSystem";

ManagementObjectSearcher searcher =
  new ManagementObjectSearcher(ConfigNamespace, query);

ManagementObjectCollection collection = searcher.Get();

foreach (ManagementObject item in collection)
{
  //PropertyData pd = item.Properties["MUILanguages"];

  foreach (PropertyData data in item.Properties)
  {

  }
}


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OHS alumnus returns to revive book club
Ellis Farese
Sami Thomason talks to the members of the book club during their first meeting. Thomason has returned to OHS to revive the book club that she was a part of when she was an OHS student.
Ellis Farese, Staff Writer
Sami Thomason, a 2011 graduate, has returned to OHS to revive a book club in association with Square Books, Jr.
Thomason is a book seller and the social media coordinator at Square Books, Jr. When she was younger, she enjoyed participating in the book club, so she decided to bring it back.
"[In high school] I was in the book club at Square Books, Jr., and when I started working there again, I think two years ago, I decided to start it back up," Thomason said. "So, it's mine for now."
Book club members will be working on a variety of literary skills, and there will be appearances by teen authors.
"I would like to have more author involvement," Thomason said. "We're getting a lot of teen authors to come sign this year, which is really cool, and I would love for book club kids to get one-on-one interaction time with authors. Also, we work a lot on our critical writing skills. It looks great on college applications. I just want to get the teens in the community involved."
All genres and types of novels will be discussed during meetings, working to broaden the students study and understanding of novels.
"We talk about review writing, we talk a lot about genre," Thomason said. "We've started talking about 'book tube' [a collective of people in Youtube where readers film themselves discussing their favorite books], and the difference in that and doing verbal reviews. We've talked a lot about the differences in school reading and the things you want to read for fun, and how you can connect those genres."
Members of the book club will have an exclusive privilege: they will be able to choose from a variety of pre-released books, straight from the publishers themselves.
"They get to choose their own books," Thomason said. "What we do is we get a selection of books from the publishers before they come out. They're called advanced reader copies. What I do is I let every member take four advanced reader copies a month, and if they write a review for it they can keep it. We also talk about what y'all have been reading in school."
The club is set to meet once a month on the second to last Friday at Square Books, Jr.
"I think the book club is a great opportunity because not only do the students get to read the books for free, but they get exposed to a wide variety of young adult literature," OHS librarian Amanda Osborne said.
New members of the book club have the opportunity to expand their literary understanding, read new teen author novels and meet new people.
"I am interested in book club because it is a great opportunity to read books that interest me and also discuss those books with others that share interest in reading," new member and sophomore Mia McKey said.
Ellis Farese, Entertainment Editor
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"Like its predecessor, True Prep sardonically skewers the social customs of the blue blooded and Blue Booked — and, in keeping up with the times, is a far more egalitarian sort of social X-ray.
Spencer Baily at the Book Beast is essentially positive in his look at the new book.
"What has the digital age done to the foundation of preppydom?
"Certainly 30 years has not been enough time to break through the members-only barriers of some preppy pastimes (still sacred are private school, a second home on the beach, even the three-martini happy hour), but the door to prep fashion is now open to the masses. What once were elitist department store-only brands – Lacoste, Coach, and Lilly Pulitzer – now have their own mall stores (not to mention their own Facebook and Twitter pages). And anyone can masquerade as a preppy, thanks to H&M and Wal-Mart, the modern-day go-to stores for polo-style shirts and khakis.
"How has hip-hop influenced preppy, and how has preppy influenced hip-hop?
"There is a classic prep style associated with Dartmouth and other Ivy League colleges. I've noticed, however, that the hipster look has been trickling in lately. Some have joked that hipsters, rather than being true counter-culturalists, are actually ironic preps.
To see the rest of Ms. Birnbach's answer to this question, just click here.
"When I first learned of the new book I instinctively cringed. Not to be pessimistic, but I just couldn't see how anything could be as good as the original.
Though there are a few style related things in the book that I cannot endorse (which will go unnamed here), I have to say that after reading it with the mindset that the book is not meant to be a "part II," (it is designed to complement the original) I really liked it. I also must admit that I was wrong about Lisa and True Prep. It is a worthy read and money well spent.
Clearly it is a mixed bag among the professional writers, just as it is with the preppy blog world.
Many retailers are not having the much-improved 4th quarter sales they hoped for, and that means prices are dropping, promotional efforts are underway and discounts abound. We leave you with a sampling of several Sales & Savings Opportunities.
Neiman Marcus is doing First Call.
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And Talbots is offering an additional 25% off all sale items.
We sign off with a wish and the hope that our military veterans will receive special goodness tomorrow, and every day.
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Can Trace Alliance members apply to the Open Call?
Yes, Trace Alliance members are welcome to apply.
Yes, you can. However, we expect the majority of the applicants to be teams. If you are looking for team members, you are welcome to promote your projects and find team members via OriginTrail's community channels, like Discord, Reddit, and Telegram.
What will the mentorship look like?
Selected teams will be delivering based on a pre-defined weekly deliverables plan. Mentors will provide feedback on deliverables and advise on how to proceed. The aim of the Open Call is to get projects to the mainnet, this is why the mentorship will be very hands-on and oriented to deliver tangible results. Teams which will fail to meet the weekly benchmarks will be removed from the mentorship program. The winning team will also have a chance to do a live training with OriginTrail's product team in Belgrade, Serbia.
Send us an email to opencall@origin-trail.com. You can also submit any questions about the Open Call for the upcoming AMA.


Caltech's newest undergraduate residence, the 211-bed Bechtel Residence—named for Caltech life trustee Stephen D. Bechtel Jr.—officially opened its doors to students on Monday, September 17.
The first new undergraduate housing facility to open on the Caltech campus in more than two decades, Bechtel is a multiuse residence that will house undergraduates from all class levels along with two faculty in residence, a half-dozen graduate resident associates, and a residential life coordinator. The beds in Bechtel will now make it possible for Caltech to offer all of its undergraduates the opportunity to live on campus throughout all four years of their education.
"Completion of the Bechtel Residence is a milestone in our efforts to provide on-campus housing for all our students and, most importantly, creates a new model of residential experience for this millennium," says Joe Shepherd, the vice president for student affairs and Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair.
The 95,000-square-foot residence, composed of six distinct but interconnected structures arranged around an expansive interior courtyard, was intentionally designed to promote interaction among its residents. Although all of the student rooms are singles, nearly all have been set up in apartment or suite configurations with anywhere from four to 12 rooms in each shared space. The residence also has a 400-person dining hall, community lounges, and a kitchen on each floor; in addition, there are four study rooms and multiple laundry facilities throughout the complex.
By providing the additional space needed to house all undergraduates on campus, Bechtel also has freed up Caltech-owned off-campus apartments and houses for graduate student use. Both the ability to house all undergrads on campus and the ability to provide more space for graduate students have been longtime goals for enhancing residential life.
Work on Bechtel, which is situated at the north end of campus alongside Avery on Moore Walk, began in 2016.


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Q: Wordpress post's thumbnail will open this post's gallery in lightbox I'm a bit lost and haven't found any solution to my problem, so I decided to ask Your help. Maybe I don't know how to phrase this problem and that's why I can't find any solution, so any help is appreciated!
My client's website is built on a Wordpress, but the website is handwritten (not a bought theme) and on one page, she wants to have references to her company's portfolio. References act like Wordpress post at the moment, but we would like to add Gallery to every post and if a client clicks onto the post's link, it will open up a gallery in a lightbox.
How posts look like on a website. (Sorry for the Estonian language)
I added "Featured Galleries" plugin (image in the post) so that on Post page, I can add images to the gallery. And now my question is, how can I get those images to lightbox gallery?
I have managed to get those images to my website, but not the way I would like to, here is my code:
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If there is a simpler way to do this, then I'm up for it as well!
Any help is appreciated.

A: I got to a point, where every post has its own gallery and if you open the first post on website, there comes a lightbox gallery, where you can check all the images for this post. HTML/PHP Code:
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Everything is okay for the first post, it will get me a main image from the gallery and the others are below, where you can see them and choose them as well. But it seems that for the other posts, it doesn't work. Lightbox will open and in the below column, images for this specific posts are there, but they wont show up big, as it seems that JavaScript works only for the first Modal.
Question is, how can I get it right for the other ones so I can see correct images for specific posts?
Website for posts: https://vmtehitus.ee/referentsid/ (Sorry, it's only in Estonian).


We only just reported that Apple would be unveiling the 4.7-inch version of its iPhone 6 on September 9, but Samsung is jumping in early with a rumored reveal date for its Galaxy Note 4: September 3, six days earlier than Apple's rumored unveiling on the next-gen iPhone.
Samsung has reportedly sent out invites to the media, asking if they were "ready" and to "note the date". We should expect that it's for the Galaxy Note 4, which is going to be a monster of a smartphone according to the various leaks and rumors. Samsung Unpacked 2014 Episode 2 will take place in three cities across the world simultaneously: Berlin, Beijing and New York.


Israeli forces regularly exercise brutal and irrational behaviour in the H2 area of Khalil (Hebron), which is under military control.
An example of this treatment took place on Saturday 30th November, when 7 Israeli soldiers reacted to a group of Palestinian youth throwing stones at an illegal settlement by launching stun grenades through the souk (market). International activists witnessed the Israeli soldiers running into the market and indiscriminately throwing stun grenades, causing panic and distress amongst people in the street.
When questioned by internationals, Israeli soldiers admitted that it was a "mistake" to use their weapons in this way and said they do not "enjoy" their actions. However this does not alter the reality for Palestinians living in Khalil, who are subjected to these excessive reactions on a regular basis.
This behaviour is consistent with other recent events, for example the treatment Palestinians often experience on arrest. On Friday 29th November two Palestinians were arrested, supposedly accused of throwing stones. They were held at a checkpoint, blindfolded, handcuffed and marched to Tel Rumeida military base. It is understood that the two men have yet to be released.
Conversely, when Israeli Border Police witness settler violence they readily ignore it. This was highlighted by an incident on Saturday 30th November when a police officer looked on as an international activist was kicked by an illegal settler.
The regularity of this unjust behaviour towards Palestinians by Israeli forces serves to intensify the daily impact of the Occupation.


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This article is about the physical fitness system. For its inventor, see Joseph Pilates. For the Roman governor, see Pontius Pilate. For similar words, see Pilate (disambiguation) and Pilatus.
Pilates (/pɪˈlɑːtɪz/;[1] German: [piˈlaːtəs]) is a physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates, after whom it was named. Pilates called his method "Contrology".[2] It is practiced worldwide, especially in Western countries such as Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. As of 2005, there were 11 million people practicing the discipline regularly and 14,000 instructors in the United States.[3]
Pilates developed in the aftermath of the late 19th century physical culture of exercising in order to alleviate ill health. There is however only limited evidence to support the use of Pilates to alleviate things like lower back pain.[4] Evidence from studies show that while Pilates improves balance, it has not been shown to be an effective treatment for any medical condition[5] other than evidence that regular Pilates sessions can help muscle conditioning in healthy adults, when compared to doing no exercise.[6]
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1 Brief description
3 Principles
3.1 Breathing
3.2 Concentration
3.3 Control
3.4 Centering
3.5 Flow
3.6 Postural alignment
3.7 Precision
3.8 Relaxation
3.9 Stamina
4 Effectiveness
5 Legal status
6 Comparison with yoga
10 External links
Pilates teacher using verbal and tactile feedback to ensure proper form
In his book Return to Life through Contrology,[2] Joseph Pilates presents his method as the art of controlled movements, which should look and feel like a workout (not a therapy) when properly manifested. If practiced with consistency, Pilates improves flexibility, builds strength and develops control and endurance in the entire body.[7] It puts emphasis on alignment, breathing, developing a strong core, and improving coordination and balance. The core, consisting of the muscles of the abdomen, low back, and hips, is often called the "powerhouse" and is thought to be the key to a person's stability.[8] Pilates' system allows for different exercises to be modified in range of difficulty from beginner to advanced or to any other level, and also in terms of the instructor and practitioner's specific goals and/or limitations. Intensity can be increased over time as the body adapts itself to the exercises.[7]
Pilates was developed by Joseph Pilates, from Mönchengladbach, Germany. His father was a gymnast and his mother a naturopath.
During the first half of the twentieth century, he developed a system of exercises which were intended to strengthen the human mind and body. Pilates believed that mental and physical health were interrelated.[9]
In his youth he had practiced many of the physical training regimes available in Germany, and it was from these he developed his own method. It has clear connections with the physical culture of the late nineteenth century, such as the use of special apparatuses and claims that the exercises could cure ill health. It is also related to the tradition of "corrective exercise" or "medical gymnastics" as typified by Pehr Henrik Ling.
Pilates said that the inspiration for his method came to him during World War One, while he was being held at the Knockaloe internment camp on the Isle of Man[10]. He developed his method there for four years, working on his fellow internees [10].
Pilates reformer class
Joseph Pilates accompanied his method with a variety of equipment, for which he used the term "apparatus". Each apparatus was designed to help accelerate the process of stretching, strengthening, body alignment and increased core strength started by the mat work. The best-known and most popular apparatus today, the Reformer, was originally called the Universal Reformer, aptly named for "universally reforming the body". Eventually Pilates designed other apparatus, including the Cadillac, Wunda Chair, High "Electric" Chair, Spine Corrector, Ladder Barrel and Pedi-Pole.[9]
Pilates published two books related to his training method: Your Health: A Corrective System of Exercising That Revolutionizes the Entire Field of Physical Education in 1934, and Return to Life Through Contrology in 1945.
His first students went on to teach his methods, including: Romana Kryzanowska, Kathy Grant, Jay Grimes, Ron Fletcher, Mary Bowen, Carola Treir, Bob Seed, Eve Gentry, Bruce King, Lolita San Miguel, and Mary Pilates, Joseph's niece. Contemporary Pilates includes both the "Modern" Pilates and the "Classical/Traditional" Pilates. Modern Pilates is partly derived from the teaching of some first generation students, while Classical Pilates aims to preserve the original work as Joseph Pilates taught it.
A number of versions of Pilates are taught today and the majority are based on up to nine principles.[8] Frank Philip Friedman and Gail Eisen, two students of Romana Kryzanowska, published the first modern book on Pilates, The Pilates Method of Physical and Mental Conditioning, in 1980 and in it they outlined six "principles of Pilates".[11] These have been widely adopted—and adapted—by the wider community. The original six principles were concentration, control, center, flow, precision, and breathing.
One leg stretch, classic Pilates movement
Breathing is important in the Pilates method. In Return to Life, Pilates devotes a section of his introduction specifically to breathing "bodily house-cleaning with blood circulation".[12] He saw considerable value in increasing the intake of oxygen and the circulation of this oxygenated blood to every part of the body. This he saw as cleansing and invigorating. Proper full inhalation and complete exhalation were key to this.[11] He advised people to squeeze out the lungs as they would wring a wet towel dry.[2] In Pilates exercises, the practitioner breathes out with the effort and in on the return.[11] In order to keep the lower abdominals close to the spine, the breathing needs to be directed laterally, into the lower rib cage. Pilates breathing is described as a posterior lateral breathing, meaning that the practitioner is instructed to breathe deep into the back and sides of his or her rib cage. When practitioners exhale, they are instructed to note the engagement of their deep abdominal and pelvic floor muscles and maintain this engagement as they inhale. Pilates attempts to properly coordinate this breathing practice with movement.
Pilates demands intense focus, the way that exercises are done is more important than the exercises themselves.[11]
Pilates-hundred-sata
"Contrology" was Joseph Pilates' preferred name for his method, and it was based on the idea of muscle control.[11] All exercises are done with control, the muscles working to lift against gravity and the resistance of the springs and thereby control the movement of the body and the apparatus.[11]
Centering
For practitioners to control their bodies, they must have a starting place: the center. The center is the focal point of the Pilates method.[11] Many Pilates teachers refer to the group of muscles in the center of the body—encompassing the abdomen, lower and upper back, hips, buttocks, and inner thighs—as the "powerhouse". All movement in Pilates should begin from the center and move outward to the limbs.
Pilates aims for elegant economy of movement, creating flow through the use of appropriate transitions. Once precision has been achieved, the exercises are intended to flow within and into each other in order to build strength and stamina. In other words, the Pilates technique asserts that physical energy exerted from the center should coordinate movements of the extremities.[11]
Postural alignment
Using correct posture while doing Pilates exercises improves safety by correcting muscle imbalances and optimizing coordination.[8]
Precision is essential to correct Pilates.[2] The focus is on doing one precise and perfect movement, rather than many halfhearted ones. Here Pilates reflects common physical culture wisdom, gaining more from a few energetic efforts than from many listless ones.[13] The goal is for this precision to eventually become second nature and carry over into everyday life as grace and economy of movement.[2]
Exercising on Pilates blocks
Correct muscle firing patterns and improved mental concentration are enhanced with relaxation.[8]
With increased precision, motion becomes more efficient so there is less stress to perform the exercises.[8]
In 2015 the Australian Government's Department of Health published a meta study which reviewed the existing literature on 17 alternative therapies including Pilates, in order to determine if any were suitable for being covered by health insurance. The review found that due to the small number and methodologically limited nature of the existing studies, the effectiveness of Pilates is uncertain.[5] Accordingly, in 2017, the Australian government named Pilates a practice that would not qualify for insurance subsidy, saying this step would "ensure taxpayer funds are expended appropriately and not directed to therapies lacking evidence".[14]
For the treatment of lower back pain, low quality evidence suggests that while Pilates is better than doing nothing, it is no more effective than other forms of physical exercise.[15][4] There is some evidence regular sessions can help with the conditioning of the abdominal muscles of healthy people, when compared to doing no exercise.[6] There is no good evidence it helps improve balance in elderly people.[16]
Pilates (the therapy version) is not professionally regulated.[17]
In October 2000 "Pilates" was ruled a generic term by a U.S. federal court, making it free for unrestricted use.[18]
As a result of the court ruling, the Pilates Method Alliance was formed as a professional association for the Pilates community. Its purpose was to provide an international organization to connect teachers, teacher trainers, studios, and facilities dedicated to preserving and enhancing the legacy of Joseph H. Pilates and his exercise method by establishing standards, encouraging unity, and promoting professionalism.[19]
Comparison with yoga
Modern yoga, like Pilates, is a mind-and-body discipline, though yoga classes are more likely to address spiritual aspects explicitly. Some poses are similar in the two disciplines; for example, open leg balance closely resembles Navasana, boat pose; roll over is similar to Halasana, plough pose; and swan and push-up are essentially identical to Bhujangasana, cobra pose and Chaturanga Dandasana, low plank pose, respectively. Both disciplines develop strength, flexibility, and fitness. Pilates, however, emphasises core strength where yoga emphasizes flexibility.[20]
Squatting position
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^ a b c d e Pilates, Joseph (1998) [1945]. Pilates' Return to Life through Contrology. Incline Village: Presentation Dynamics. pp. 12–14. ISBN 978-0-9614937-9-0.
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^ a b Baggoley C (2015). "Review of the Australian Government Rebate on Natural Therapies for Private Health Insurance" (PDF). Australian Government – Department of Health. pp. 110–118. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 June 2016. Lay summary – Gavura, S. Australian review finds no benefit to 17 natural therapies. Science-Based Medicine. (19 November 2015).
^ a b Campos RR, Dias JM, Pereira LM, Obara K, Barreto MS, Siva MF, Mazuquin BF, Christofaro DG, Fernandes RA, Iversen MD, Cardoso JR (2015). "The effect of the Pilates method on the physical conditioning of healthy subjects: a systematic review with meta-analysis". J Sports Med Phys Fitness (Systematic review). 56 (7–8): 864–73. PMID 26004043.
^ a b Mayo Clinic Staff (2012). "Pilates for Beginners: Explore the Core of Pilates". Mayo Clinic. Archived from the original on 2012-09-18. Retrieved 2012-11-04.
^ a b c d e Houglum, Peggy (2016). Therapeutic Exercise for Musculoskeletal Injuries (4th ed.). Human Kinetics. pp. 297–299. ISBN 9781450468831.
^ a b Lange, Claudia; Unittham, Viswanath; Larkham, Elizabeth; Latta, Paula (April 2000). "Maximizing the benefits of Pilates-inspired exercise for learning functional motor skills". Journal of Movement and Bodywork Therapies. 4 (2): 99–108. doi:10.1054/jbmt.1999.0161.
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^ a b c d e f g h Philip Friedman and Gail Eisen (2004). The Pilates Method of Physical and Mental Conditioning. pp. 13–16.
^ Return to Life, p. 12ff
^ Barnarr MacFadden, Muscular Power and Beauty, chap VI, p. 47
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Battleground Wisconsin Moore, Gallagher discuss impeachment on 'UpFront'
Moore, Gallagher discuss impeachment on 'UpFront'
Democratic U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to ensure an "honest, fair" trial in the Senate by withholding the articles of impeachment, while Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher said Pelosi is "undermining" the case against President Trump.
The two lawmakers appeared in separate interviews Sunday on "UpFront," produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com.
Moore, a Milwaukee Democrat, said withholding the two articles of impeachment that passed the House last week isn't a strategy "as much as it is an inquiry about whether this is going to be a fair trial."
"I think that Nancy Pelosi wants to honor an honest, fair process, and wants to know what the parameters will be," Moore said.
Gallagher, a Green Bay Republican, took the opposite view.
"I think by withholding the articles of impeachment, not transmitting them to the Senate, and shutting down Congress and having everyone leave town before they even name managers for the Senate impeachment trial, Pelosi is undermining the entire case for impeachment," Gallagher said.
Gallagher voted with other House Republicans against impeachment.
"This is the first impeachment in American history, in over 200 years, that did not involve the accusation of an actual crime, so we've lowered the standard in that respect. This is also the first impeachment that has been purely partisan," Gallagher said.
He said the "common sense" position would be to let voters "adjudicate our differences through the ballot box" in the November 2020 election.
But Moore said Trump deserves impeachment and removal from office.
"They've accused us of impeaching him simply because we have policy differences with him, or that we're impeaching him because we don't like him. It's true that we have policy differences with the president. It's true, very true, that we don't like him. But this is not about policy differences. This is about a corrupt president who tried to bribe a foreign government into interfering with our 2020 election. And unfortunately, this is a pattern of behavior," she said.
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Israel's military campaign in the Gaza Strip is failing, but there may be a silver lining. The war against Hamas is proving – once again – that the Middle East's extremist movements cannot be eliminated by military means. If the incoming Obama administration absorbs that lesson, it will have a better chance of neutralizing Iranian-backed groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, and of eventually brokering an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement.
Israel's bet was that it could substantially reduce Hamas' military capacity and then force it to accept a cease-fire with improved terms for Israel. Hamas, predictably, has refused to play by those rules. It has defined victory as its own survival; by that standard, it has no incentive to agree to a new truce unless it receives major benefits in return, such as an end to Israel's economic blockade.
That means Israel must choose among attempting to drive the Islamic movement from power (which would be hugely costly and leave its troops stuck in Gaza indefinitely), making significant concessions to Hamas or withdrawing without any assurance that rocket fire against its cities would cease.
At best, outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert might win an agreement for international forces to help stop the smuggling of new weapons from Egypt into Gaza, something that doesn't necessarily require Hamas' consent. But that won't stop Hamas from continuing to build its own rockets or from claiming that – like Hezbollah in Lebanon – it successfully resisted an Israeli invasion.
The trap that Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni have created for themselves lies not just in Hamas' ability to withdraw its fighters and rockets into mosques, schools and densely populated neighborhoods, where they could probably survive weeks of bloody fighting or go underground. The larger fallacy is the persistent conceit among Israeli leaders that Hamas can somehow be wiped out by economic strangulation or force of arms.
Unlike al-Qaeda, Hamas is not merely a terrorist organization but a social and political movement with considerable support. Its ideology, however repugnant to Israel and the West, is shared by a considerable slice of the population in every Arab country from Morocco to Iraq. Because it is extremist, it thrives on war, the suffering it inflicts on Palestinians, and the anger generated by the endless, graphic and one-sided coverage of the Middle East's satellite television channels. Every day this war continues, Hamas grows politically stronger, as do its allies in other countries and its sponsor, Iran.
Although Israel must defend its citizens against rockets and suicide bombings, the only means of defeating Hamas are political. Palestinians, who have no history of attraction to religious fundamentalism, have to be persuaded to choose more moderate leaders, such as the secular Fatah. In the meantime, Hamas' existence must be tolerated, and it should be encouraged to channel its ambitions into politics rather than military activity. That means, yes, elections – like those Hamas won in 2006, when it took control of the Palestinian legislature.
Those elections took place over Israel's objections, and the outcome caused the Bush administration, which had championed democracy in the Middle East, to lose its nerve. But during the relative quiet of the past six months, when Israel and Hamas observed a semi-truce, politics was beginning to work. Polls conducted by Palestinians showed that Hamas' support was falling in Gaza and the West Bank. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president and Fatah leader, was beginning to talk about holding new elections for president and the legislature; he thought he could win both.
Egypt was working on brokering a deal between the two Palestinian parties. A split began to emerge in Hamas between leaders who wanted to make that deal and extend the peace with Israel, and Iranian-backed hard-liners who wanted to draw Israel into a fight. Israel probably could have ensured that the moderates won the argument by offering to lift its economic blockade of Gaza in exchange for a continued cease-fire. It then could have focused on negotiating a two-state settlement with Abbas and on improving life for Palestinians in the West Bank, while Hamas absorbed the blame for the unremediable misery of Gazans.
Instead, Israel took the Iranian bait and chose to fight. Now, bogged down, suffering casualties and inflicting many more, creating terrible pictures for television, it will have to accept an unsatisfying settlement – or prolong its agony indefinitely. It should settle so that the leaders chosen by Israeli voters in an election next month would have the chance to work with a fresh American administration on a smarter and more effective strategy for countering Iran and its clients – one grounded in politics rather than bombs.


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Do you love Kylie Jenner enough to pay $5.5 million so you can be her next door neighbor? If your answer is "yes, obviously," you're in luck, because she just listed a plot of land next to her mansion in Hidden Hills, California, TMZ reports.
Kylie purchased the nearly 1.5-acre of land last October for $5 million, and according to TMZ, it was going to be used for a garden and horse barn. The property is currently listed by Tomer Fridman with Compass real estate, and regardless of being on the market for eight days, they're already accepting backup offers — which means an offer has already been accepted, but the seller is still accepting bids from other buyers.
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Acta Psychologica Sinica
Relationship between moral disengagement in sport and prosocial and antisocial behaviors in Chinese athletes
WANG Dong1; CHEN Zuosong2
(1 School of Physical Education and Sport Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China)
(2 Department of Physical Education, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China)
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Moral disengagement is a psychological process in which people use different cognitive strategies to justify their potentially problematic actions and to reduce feelings of shame and guilt. Athletes with high level of moral disengagement in sport may show more antisocial behavior and less prosocial behavior than other athletes. To date, most research investigating prosocial and antisocial behavior in sport has focused on behaviors directed at opponents. However, recent studies have also investigated prosocial and antisocial behavior within sport teams. Since the majority of past studies have been conducted in western countries, we know little about moral disengagement of Chinese athletes. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to develop a valid and reliable measure of sport moral disengagement and to examine the relationship between sport moral disengagement and prosocial and antisocial behavior among Chinese athletes.
Study 1 sought to develop a sport-specific measure of moral disengagement for Chinese athletes. Forty-eight items were developed based on content analysis of interviews with athletes and mass media reports of transgressions of athletes. Two hundred and fifty-four Chinese athletes were asked to rate their agreement with each item, and their responses were used exploratory factor analyses (EFA). Results showed that 20 items loaded on five factors: (1) conduct reconstrual, (2) advantageous comparison, (3) euphemistic labeling, (4) dehumanization, and (5) non-responsibility. After this, another 283 Chinese athletes filled in the questionnaire. The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) indicated that the 5-factor solution was stable and the internal reliability of each of the factors was acceptable.
Study 2 tested the relationship between moral disengagement in sport and prosocial and antisocial behavior towards teammates and opponents. Three hundred and six Chinese athletes responded to the 20-items moral disengagement questionnaire developed in Study 1 and the Chinese version of prosocial and antisocial behavior in sports scale (PABSS). Results from multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and hierarchical regression analysis (HRA) showed that gender, type of sport, and competition level can predict antisocial behavior towards teammates and opponent (R2=12.88, p < 0.01; R2 =41.31, p < 0.01) better than prosocial behavior towards teammates and opponents (R2 =5.37, p < 0.01; R2 =6.23, p < 0.01). Type of sport was the strongest predictor which negatively predicted antisocial behavior towards teammates and opponents (β = −0.29, t = −5.32, p < 0.01; β = −0.49, t = −9.94, p < 0.01). After controlling for gender, type of sport, and competition level, non-responsibility was the strongest predictor which can significantly and negatively predict prosocial behavior towards teammates and opponents (β = −0.31, t = −5.81, p < 0.01; β = −0.28, t = −5.27, p < 0.01); euphemistic labeling was the strongest predictor to positively predict antisocial behavior towards teammates (β = 0.23, t = 4.16, p < 0.01); conduct reconstrual was the strongest predictor which could significantly and positively predict antisocial behavior towards opponents (β = 0.25, t = 5.33, p < 0.01).= 0.06, F(3, 302)= 0.05, F(3, 302)= 0.29, F(3, 302) = 0.11, F(3, 302)
The present study contributes to research into moral disengagement in sports by developing a valid measurement instrument for moral disengagement in Chinese athletes, and by analyzing the relationship between sport moral disengagement and prosocial and antisocial behavior towards teammates and opponents in Chinese athletes.
Keywords athlete moral disengagement prosocial behavior antisocial behavior
Corresponding Authors: CHEN Zuosong, E-mail: zschen1971@126.com
Issue Date: 25 March 2016
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ChipMeNot - Case Study CHARLIEBROWN
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A couple in California, required by law to have their dog implanted with a microchip in order to take him camping, swallowed their objections only to watch their Chihuahua Charlie Brown bleed to death from the procedure.
"I wasn't in favor of getting Charlie chipped, but it was the law," said Lori Ginsberg, Charlie's owner, citing an ordinance that requires all dogs over the age of four months in unincorporated Los Angeles County be microchipped. Dog owners who refuse to comply face a $250 fine for the first offense and up to six months in jail and $1,000 fine for continued non-compliance.
Dr. Loken, the board-certified vet who performed the implant, confirmed that Charlie began bleeding from the implant site and despite efforts to stop the flow, died from extreme blood loss. "We put the chip in the back in the shoulder blades, the standard place where we put them, and there really aren't any major blood vessels in that area," Loken said. "I don't think it went in too deep; it was a pretty routine chipping."
The Ginsbergs are grieved, but they don't blame Dr. Loken. "The real blame is with the people who forced us to implant our dog against our better judgment."
The Ginsbergs are calling for a repeal of mandatory animal chipping laws and for the creation of a national registry to document adverse reactions from the chipping procedure. "Politicians should not take away my right to do what I thought was best for my pet."


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It's very hard for me to not shut out the world. I sometimes get so overwhelmed by what's happening around me, I sink into my cocoon and hide from it all. Some might say it's unhealthy, but the only way I can cope with being on this earth is once in awhile shutting out every single part of it. I can't explain why. Sometimes I don't even realize how overwhelmed I am until I'm alone and it hits me all at once.
It is not easy to live in this world. We are constantly judged, scrutinized, hated and thrown under the bus. People are sometimes so awful it makes my stomach twist. Whenever I get overwhelmed I'm always questioning what the hell is going on and why? What does it mean? What does anything mean? The only answer that I've received is is that I don't have answers to 99% of it. I'm learning to accept that not knowing is what life is. Because in the not knowing, we know.


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Non-Executive Directors
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Role Managed by:
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Principal Research Associate
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Salary & Benefits: As part of its commitment to developing and sustaining an inclusive board, board members will be offered remuneration of £500 per day
Transparency, inclusivity, and openness are key to the future of Yorkshire County Cricket Club
The Yorkshire County Cricket Club ("YCCC") is a members' club established over 150 years ago and is renowned throughout the world. The Club owns one of the premier international cricket venues in the world and has hosted some of the most iconic matches in the history of cricket. Our remit covers men and women's recreational as well as premier league cricket across the county.
YCCC is undergoing the most challenging period in its 158-year history following its handling of allegations of racism and discrimination. Under new leadership, including its Chair and the appointment of an interim Managing Director of Cricket, we are committed to learning from the past and recognise that significant change is required to make Yorkshire County Cricket Club a place for everyone, from all backgrounds.
We are focused on addressing the many, long-term challenges which have emerged and are looking for passionate, committed and experienced people to support good governance for a successful and inclusive organisation. We are looking to recruit up to 6 Non-Executive Directors who can help support our mission to encourage a more diverse membership pool and more diverse participation at both YCCC and within cricket in Yorkshire generally.
You should be able to demonstrate a real commitment to YCCC's aims of tackling discrimination and racism, and feel you can contribute to our future. We are particularly keen to hear from individuals who represent the populations we serve. We are seeking individuals with qualifications in accountancy to chair the audit and risk committee, and in law. In order to meet the challenges of an evolving organisation, the Club also welcomes applications from energetic ambitious candidates who are experienced in
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You will be a strategic and creative thinker, passionate about contributing to YCCC's development, and able to work in a collegiate and collaborative manner. You will be confident in both supporting, and constructively challenging YCCC's Leadership Team, and willing to step-out of your comfort zone to take an informed view of issues which may not naturally be your area of expertise. We are keen to hear from candidates who will bring new ideas, approaches and perspectives to the board and help develop governance practice. You will ideally have some form of leadership experience, and Board experience is welcomed but not essential.
If you share our passion and vision, we would love to hear from you. Yorkshire County Cricket Club Board is committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone regardless of their background. We value diversity and acknowledge the under-representation of people from certain backgrounds, both within our organisation and across the sector. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups including women, individuals from Black and Asian communities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ people; these are currently under-represented. Addressing equality, diversity and inclusion will help the Board to make better decisions, stay relevant to those it serves and deliver its public benefit.
The YCCC is committed to having diversity of both skills and experience on our Board. Although previous Board experience is not a prerequisite, a willingness to help change happen is.
Commitment: 10-12 days per year. Appointment as a Board Member will be for an initial period of two to four years (which may be renewed for a further period). As part of its commitment to developing and sustaining an inclusive board, board members will be offered remuneration of £500 per day
To apply, please submit a CV and covering letter.
The deadline for applications is 9am GMT on Tuesday 1st February 2022.
Following this, Perrett Laver will meet with the Selection Committee to agree upon a shortlist of candidates. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview with YCCC in early February. Board members will be formally approved and appointed at the AGM on 26th March 2022.
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