This is the 04 March 2010 W3C Working Draft produced by the HTML Working Group, part of the HTML Activity. The Working Group intends to publish this document as a Working Group Note to accompany the HTML5 specification. The appropriate forum for comments is public-html-comments@w3.org, a mailing list with a public archive.
HTML has been in continuous evolution since it was introduced to the Internet in the early 1990s. Some features were introduced in specifications; others were introduced in software releases. In some respects, implementations and author practices have converged with each other and with specifications and standards, but in other ways, they continue to diverge.
Defines a single language called HTML5 which can be written in HTML syntax and in XML syntax.
Defines detailed processing models to foster interoperable implementations.
Introduces markup and APIs for emerging idioms, such as Web applications.
De facto semantic definitions for some formerly presentational elements.
Details of accessibility and media-independence features, such as the alt and summary attributes.
HTML5 is defined in a way that it is backwards compatible with the way user agents handle deployed content. To keep the authoring language relatively simple for authors several elements and attributes are not included as outlined in the other sections of this document, such as presentational elements that are better dealt with using CSS.
User agents, however, will always have to support these older elements and attributes and this is why the specification clearly separates requirements for authors and user agents. This means that authors cannot use the isindex or the plaintext element, but user agents are required to support them in a way that is compatible with how these elements need to behave for compatibility with deployed content.
Since HTML5 has separate conformance requirements for authors and user agents there is no longer a need for marking features "deprecated".
The HTML5 specification will not be considered finished before there are at least two complete implementations of the specification. This is a different approach than previous versions of HTML had. The goal is to ensure that the specification is implementable and usable by designers and developers once it is finished.
The use of the DOM as a basis for defining the language.
The concept of browsing contexts.
The distinction between user agent requirements and authoring requirements.
The use of imperative definitions rather than abstract definitions with the requirement of black-box equivalence in implementations.
The new content model concepts (replacing HTML4's block and inline concepts).
The focus on accessibility as a built-in concept for new features (such as the hidden attribute, the progress element, et cetera) instead of an add-on (like the alt attribute).
The focus on defining the semantics in detail (e.g. the outline algorithm, replacing the vague semantics in HTML4).
The menu and command elements.
The definition of the browsing context "navigation" algorithm and the related session history traversal algorithms.
The content-type sniffing and character encoding sniffing.
The very explicit definition of a parser.
The contentEditable feature and the UndoManager feature.
The Drag and Drop and Copy and Paste architecture.
The new sandboxing features for iframe.
HTML5 defines an HTML syntax that is compatible with HTML4 and XHTML1 documents published on the Web, but is not compatible with the more esoteric SGML features of HTML4, such as processing instructions and shorthand markup. Documents using the HTML syntax are almost always served with the text/html media type.
HTML5 also defines a text/html-sandboxed media type for documents using the HTML syntax. This can be used when hosting untrusted content.
Below is an example document that conforms to the XML syntax of HTML5. Note that XML documents must have an XML media type such as application/xhtml+xml or application/xml.
At the transport level. By using the HTTP Content-Type header for instance.
Using a Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM) character at the start of the file. This character provides a signature for the encoding used.
Using a meta element with a charset attribute that specifies the encoding within the first 512 bytes of the document. E.g. <meta charset="UTF-8"> could be used to specify the UTF-8 encoding. This replaces the need for <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> although that syntax is still allowed.
For the XML syntax, authors have to use the rules as set forth in the XML specifications to set the character encoding.
The DOCTYPE declaration is <!DOCTYPE html> and is case-insensitive in the HTML syntax. DOCTYPEs from earlier versions of HTML were longer because the HTML language was SGML-based and therefore required a reference to a DTD. With HTML5 this is no longer the case and the DOCTYPE is only needed to enable standards mode for documents written using the HTML syntax. Browsers already do this for <!DOCTYPE html>.
More complex combinations are also possible. E.g. with the SVG foreignObject element you could nest MathML, HTML, or both inside an SVG fragment that is itself inside HTML.
HTML now has native support for IRIs, though they can only be fully used if the document encoding is UTF-8 or UTF-16.
The lang attribute takes the empty string in addition to a valid language identifier, just like xml:lang does in XML.
This section is split up in several subsections to more clearly illustrate the various differences there are between HTML4 and HTML5.
The links in this section may stop working if elements are renamed and/or removed. They should function in the latest version of this draft.
section represents a generic document or application section. It can be used together with the h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, and h6 elements to indicate the document structure.
article represents an independent piece of content of a document, such as a blog entry or newspaper article.
hgroup represents the header of a section.
header represents a group of introductory or navigational aids.
footer represents a footer for a section and can contain information about the author, copyright information, et cetera.
nav represents a section of the document intended for navigation.
video and audio for multimedia content. Both provide an API so application authors can script their own user interface, but there is also a way to trigger a user interface provided by the user agent. source elements are used together with these elements if there are multiple streams available of different types.
mark represents a run of marked text.
progress represents a completion of a task, such as downloading or when performing a series of expensive operations.
meter represents a measurement, such as disk usage.
time represents a date and/or time.
ruby, rt and rp allow for marking up ruby annotations.
canvas is used for rendering dynamic bitmap graphics on the fly, such as graphs or games.
command represents a command the user can invoke.
details represents additional information or controls which the user can obtain on demand. The summary element provides its summary, legend, or caption.
keygen represents control for key pair generation.
output represents some type of output, such as from a calculation done through scripting.
The a and area elements now have a media attribute for consistency with the link element. It is purely advisory.
The area element, for consistency with the a and link elements, now also has the hreflang and rel attributes.
The base element can now have a target attribute as well, mainly for consistency with the a element. (This is already widely supported.) Also, the target attribute for the a and area elements is no longer deprecated, as it is useful in Web applications, e.g. in conjunction with iframe.
The value attribute for the li element is no longer deprecated as it is not presentational. The same goes for the start attribute of the ol element.
The meta element has a charset attribute now as this was already widely supported and provides a nice way to specify the character encoding for the document.
A new autofocus attribute can be specified on the input (except when the type attribute is hidden), select, textarea and button elements. It provides a declarative way to focus a form control during page load. Using this feature should enhance the user experience as the user can turn it off if he does not like it, for instance.
A new placeholder attribute can be specified on the input and textarea elements.
The new required attribute applies to input (except when the type attribute is hidden, image or some button type such as submit) and textarea. It indicates that the user has to fill in a value in order to submit the form.
The fieldset element now allows the disabled attribute disabling all its contents when specified.
The input element has several new attributes to specify constraints: autocomplete, min, max, multiple, pattern and step. As mentioned before it also has a new list attribute which can be used together with the datalist element.
The form element has a novalidate attribute that can be used to disable form validation submission (i.e. the form can always be submitted).
The input and button elements have formaction, formenctype, formmethod, formnovalidate, and formtarget as new attributes. If present, they override the action, enctype, method, novalidate, and target attributes on the form element.
The menu element has two new attributes: type and label. They allow the element to transform into a menu as found in typical user interfaces as well as providing for context menus in conjunction with the global contextmenu attribute.
The style element has a new scoped attribute which can be used to enable scoped style sheets. Style rules within such a style element only apply to the local tree.
The script element has a new attribute called async that influences script loading and execution.
The html element has a new attribute called manifest that points to an application cache manifest used in conjunction with the API for offline Web applications.
The link element has a new attribute called sizes. It can be used in conjunction with the icon relationship (set through the rel attribute) to indicate the size of the referenced icon.
The ol element has a new attribute called reversed to indicate that the list order is descending when present.
The iframe element has three new attributes called sandbox, seamless, and srcdoc which allow for sandboxing content, e.g. blog comments.
Several attributes from HTML4 now apply to all elements. These are called global attributes: class, dir, id, lang, style, tabindex and title.
The contenteditable attribute indicates that the element is an editable area. The user can change the contents of the element and manipulate the markup.
The contextmenu attribute can be used to point to a context menu provided by the author.
The data-* collection of author-defined attributes. Authors can define any attribute they want as long as they prefix it with data- to avoid clashes with future versions of HTML. The only requirement on these attributes is that they are not used for user agent extensions.
The draggable attribute can be used together with the new drag & drop API.
The hidden attribute indicates that an element is not yet, or is no longer, relevant.
The role and aria-* collection attributes which can be used to instruct assistive technology.
HTML5 also makes all event handler attributes from HTML4 that take the form onevent-name global attributes and adds several new event handler attributes for new events it defines, such as the play event which is used by the API for the media elements, video and audio.
The a element without an href attribute now represents a "placeholder link". It can also contain flow content rather than being restricted to phrase content.
For the label element the browser should no longer move focus from the label to the control unless such behavior is standard for the underlying platform user interface.
The menu element is redefined to be useful for toolbars and context menus.
The border attribute on img. It is required to have the value "0" when present. Authors can use CSS instead.
The name attribute on a. Authors can use the id attribute instead.
The summary attribute on table. The HTML5 draft defines several alternative solutions.
The elements in this section are not to be used by authors. User agents will still have to support them and various sections in HTML5 define how. E.g. the obsolete isindex element is handled by the parser section.
acronym is not included because it has created a lot of confusion. Authors are to use abbr for abbreviations.
applet has been obsoleted in favor of object.
isindex usage can be replaced by usage of form controls.
dir has been obsoleted in favor of ul.
Finally the noscript is only conforming in the HTML syntax. It is not included in the XML syntax as its usage relies on an HTML parser.
Some attributes from HTML4 are no longer allowed in HTML5. If they need to have any impact on user agents for compatibility reasons it is defined how they should work in those scenarios.
rev and charset attributes on link and a.
shape and coords attributes on a.
longdesc attribute on img and iframe.
name attribute on img (use id instead).
archive, classid, codebase, codetype, declare and standby attributes on object.
valuetype and type attributes on param.
axis and abbr attributes on td and th.
align attribute on caption, iframe, img, input, object, legend, table, hr, div, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, col, colgroup, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead and tr.
alink, link, text and vlink attributes on body.
bgcolor attribute on table, tr, td, th and body.
border attribute on table and object.
cellpadding and cellspacing attributes on table.
char and charoff attributes on col, colgroup, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead and tr.
compact attribute on dl, menu, ol and ul.
height attribute on td and th.
hspace and vspace attributes on img and object.
marginheight and marginwidth attributes on iframe.
nowrap attribute on td and th.
type attribute on li, ol and ul.
valign attribute on col, colgroup, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead and tr.
width attribute on hr, table, td, th, col, colgroup and pre.
API for playing of video and audio which can be used with the new video and audio elements.
An API that enables offline Web applications.
An API that allows a Web application to register itself for certain protocols or media types.
Editing API in combination with a new global contenteditable attribute.
getElementsByClassName() to select elements by their class name. The way this method is defined will allow it to work for any content with class attributes and a Document object such as SVG and MathML.
innerHTML as an easy way to parse and serialize an HTML or XML document. This attribute was previously only available on HTMLElement in Web browsers and not part of any standard.
activeElement and hasFocus to determine which element is currently focused and whether the Document has focus respectively.
getSelection() which returns an object that represents the current selection(s).
getElementsByClassName() which is basically a scoped version of the one found on HTMLDocument.
innerHTML as found in Web browsers today. It is also defined to work in XML context (when it is used in an XML document).
classList is a convenient accessor for className. The object it returns exposes methods, has(), add(), remove() and toggle(), for manipulating the element's classes. The a, area and link elements have a similar attribute called relList that provides the same functionality for the rel attribute.
The changelogs in this section indicate what has been changed between publications of the HTML5 drafts. Rationale for changes can be found in the public-html@w3.org and whatwg@whatwg.org mailing list archives and to some extent in the This Week in HTML5 series of blog posts. Many editorial and minor technical changes are not included in these changelogs. I.e. implementors are strongly encouraged to follow the development of the main specification on a frequent basis so they become aware of all changes that affect them early on.
The changes in the changelogs are in rough chronological order to ease editing this document.
The spellcheck IDL attribute now maps to a DOMString.
The input element and DataTransfer object now have a files IDL attribute.
The value IDL attribute for input elements in the File Upload state is now defined.
URL decomposition IDL attributes are now more aligned with Internet Explorer.
WebSocket API is introduced for bidirectional communication with a server.
The dispatchChangeInput() and dispatchFormChange() methods have been removed from the select, input, textarea, and button elements.
The input element now has an indeterminate IDL attribute.
bufferedBytes, totalBytes and bufferingThrottled IDL attributes have been added to the video element.
The editor would like to thank Ben Millard, Cameron McCormack, Charles McCathieNevile, Dan Connolly, David Håsäther, Dennis German, Frank Ellermann, Frank Palinkas, Gordon P. Hemsley, Henri Sivonen, James Graham, Jens Meiert, Jürgen Jeka, Krijn Hoetmer, Maciej Stachowiak, Mark Pilgrim, Martijn Wargers, Martyn Haigh, Masataka Yakura, Michael Smith, Olivier Gendrin, Øistein E. Andersen, Philip Taylor, Simon Pieters, and Yngve Spjeld Landro for their contributions to this document as well as to all the people who have contributed to HTML5 over the years for improving the Web!
CSS3 Basic User Interface Module , T. Çelik, editor. W3C.
Activating Browser Modes with Doctype , H. Sivonen.
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification , J. Stenback, P. Le Hégaret, A. Le Hors, editors. W3C.
HTML 4.01 Specification , D. Raggett, A. Le Hors, I. Jacobs, editors. W3C.
HTML5 , I. Hickson, D. Hyatt, editors. W3C.
HTML5 (editor's draft), I. Hickson, editor. WHATWG.
HTML5 (editors' draft), I. Hickson, D. Hyatt, editors. W3C.
Public Suffix List , Mozilla Foundation.
Selectors , D. Glazman, T. Çelik, I. Hickson, editors. W3C.
XHTML™ 1.1 - Module-based XHTML (Second Edition) , S. McCarron, M. Ishikawa, editors. W3C.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition) , T. Bray, J. Paoli, C. Sperberg-McQueen, E. Maler, F. Yergeau, editors. W3C.
Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition) , T. Bray, D. Hollander, A. Layman, R. Tobin, H. S. Thompson, editors. W3C.


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Taylor Swift Fourth Album 'Red' Released Worldwide On October...
Taylor Swift Fourth Album 'Red' Released Worldwide On October 22nd 2012
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Taylor Swift's highly anticipated fourth studio album will be released on October 22nd. Entitled Red, the album will be released by Big Machine Label Group & Mercury Records and contains 16 tracks. After writing her last album (Speak Now) entirely by herself, for this record Taylor collaborated with several artists, producers, and songwriters she had always wanted to work with.
"For the last two years, I've been working on an album called Red," Taylor says. "I called it Red because of the tumultuous, crazy adventures in love and loss that it chronicles. In my mind, when you experience love that's fast paced and out of control and mixes infatuation, jealousy, frustration, miscommunication, and all of those lovely emotions.in retrospect, it all looks red."
The first single from Red, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," (written by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Shellback) has already reached no. 1 on iTunes in 25 countries.
Described by The Times as 'a rare talent' and Rolling Stone Magazine as 'one of the few genuine rock stars we've got these days', Taylor Swift is one of the top 5 selling digital music artists worldwide. At only 22 years old, she already has career record sales in excess of 22 million albums and 50 million song downloads. Each of Swift's three studio albums has sold in excess of 5 million copies worldwide, and her most recent album, Speak Now, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for being the Fastest Selling Digital Album by a female artist and is one of only 17 albums in the entire history of music to sell more than 1 million copies in a single week.
Named by Time Magazine as one of the most 100 most influential people in the world, Taylor Swift has won over 110 awards including 6 Grammys. In 2010 she became the youngest artist in history to win a Grammy award for 'Album of The Year'. Two years later, Swift became the youngest Billboard Awards 'Woman of the Year' winner in history.
Earlier this year, Taylor wrapped her world tour in support of Speak Now having played 111 shows to more than 1.5 million fans in sold-out stadiums and arenas, (including London's prestigious O2), in 19 countries and 88 cities spanning four continents.
2012 also saw the release of hit films, 'Dr Seuss' The Lorax', (in which Taylor voiced the character of Audrey), and 'Hunger Games' (the soundtrack to which featured two of her songs), in addition to Elizabeth Arden's European launch of Swift's own perfume 'Wonderstruck'.
Taylor Swift is not just a multi instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. She is global superstar, a role model and the voice of a generation. Her forthcoming fourth studio album Red, released by Big Machine Label Group & Mercury Records on 22nd October is set to be her most successful UK release to date.
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The group focusses on methods for the virtual exploration and visual analysis of geospatial data ranging from infrastructure applications to planetary science.
Our goal is to provide interactive 3D environments for the virtual exploration and visual analysis of various types of reconstructed geospatial data sets combined with planning data. Beside geometric representations, it is also very important to consider non-spatial data such as sensor measurements, semantics and statistics. This data fusion enables domain experts to comprehend complex relations and therefore supports them in making better decisions. To this end, we conduct research on adapting methods from information visualization for virtual 3D environments. Another priority is the support of Building Information Modelling (BIM), as it becomes the new standard to plan and manage infrastructure projects.
Our group will closely cooperate with the Visual Analytics group, the Semantic Modelling and Acquisition group and the Multiple Senses group. Visual analytics is relevant for geo-referenced non-spatial data. The Semantic Modelling and Acquisition group provides the visualization platform Aardvark and know-how on semantics and reconstruction. The Multiple Senses Group brings in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) and 3D printing, which opens new ways to comprehend and interact with geospatial data.
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Application of PRo3D to Quantitative Analysis of Stereo-Imagery Collected During the Mars Utah Rover Field Investigation (MURFI) Analogue Rover Trials.
Proceedings of Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2017.
Quantitative analysis of digital outcrop data obtained from stereo-imagery using an emulator for the PanCam camera system for the ExoMars 2020 rover.
Geophysical Research Abstracts, Volume 19.
Vis-A-Ware: Integrating Spatial and Non-Spatial Visualization for Visibility-Aware Urban Planning.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2016.
Visual Analytics and Rendering for Tunnel Crack Analysis.
The PRoViDE framework for the quantitative geologic analysis of reconstructed Martian terrain and outcrops.
In Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 18, EGU2016-7196, EGU General Assembly 2016.
An interactive 3D visualization tool to allow planetary scientists to work with high-resolution 3D reconstructions of the Martian surface.
Visual analysis of Martian surface reconstructions and view planning for rover camera instruments.
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Marissa Capito, an engineering assistant at the Mendenhall Water Treatment Plant, gives a tour of the facility in November. A new dryer will be located at the plant to process biosolids.
Assembly chooses biosolids solution
By SAM DeGRAVE
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 1:07am
At a work session Monday night, the City and Borough of Juneau Assembly worked for about an hour to answer the age-old question: What happens after you flush?
It's a question that has troubled city officials for some time.
Currently, the city ships its biosolids — the solid byproduct of the wastewater-treatment process — via barge to Seattle. The containers of sludgy waste are then loaded onto a train to Oregon, where they are dumped in a landfill. This has been the status quo ever since the incinerator that burned the biosolids locally crapped out, so to speak, five years ago.
"At the end of the day it's a pretty tenuous thing that we do, and I don't think anybody in that chain really wants our business," Rorie Watt, director of public works and engineering, said at a Utility Advisory Board meeting in November.
After wrestling with the issue for months, the members of the UAB forwarded a recommendation to the Assembly, which it heard in January. The recommendation gave the Assembly a choice: It could either buy a $16 million dryer that will turn the biosolids into a product to be used in Juneau, or it could outsource the problem to members of the private sector looking to construct a monofill. A monofill is a single-use landfill used only for biosolids.
With a 6–1 vote, the Assembly decided to go with the dryer, which was what city staff recommended.
The decision was not an easy one, and both solutions had benefits and drawbacks. The monofill — the brainchild of Spike Bicknell and Chris Gerondale working as Juneau Monofill Company — would come with no upfront cost, while the dryer came with a high initial cost. On the other hand, the dryer "is very inexpensive to run," Watt told the Assembly, and it has a smaller carbon footprint.
Most importantly, a dryer would be less expensive than monofilling in the long run, according to staff estimates. Twenty years from now, Watt estimated that the city will have saved a little more than $1 million dollars by choosing the dryer over the monofill. Juneau Monofill Company's estimates differed, showing the monofill coming out ahead in the 20-year-timeline, but the dryer still came on top looking ahead 25 and 30 years.
"The longer the horizon, the worse monofilling and shipping look," Watt said. "The longer the horizon, the better the dryer is. This is because the dryer has a 20-year life, but once that 20 years is up, you will rehab it and run it for another 20 years."
The monofill has a fairly restricted life span. JMC estimated that it could be used for up to 30 years, but it will inevitably reach its limit at which point the city would likely have to invest in a dryer or some other such technology. Bicknell, who spoke briefly toward the end of Monday's meeting acknowledged this.
"Our whole proposal, when we put this together, was to buy the CBJ some time to get in a better position," he said.
The dryer also allows the city to maintain greater control over what happens to our waste, which was a central part of the Assembly's discussion Monday.
Assembly member Debbie White, the lone vote against the dryer, asked Watt several questions about why outsourcing to the private sector at the cost of letting go of local control is a bad thing. Watt responded using the landfill and garbage pickup, neither of which the city control, as examples. Watt said that most complaints he receives from the public are a result of these two processes.
"We have not had control of either of those things, and it has been continuously frustrating," Watt said.
White and Assembly member Jerry Nankervis asked whether the city could write its contract with JMC in a way that could mitigate any future problems that come with relinquishing control. Watt was doubtful.
"We could try to write everything that would be problematic into the contract in the future, but we don't have perfect vision," Watt responded. "It's just my sense that, over time, we would wish that we had more control over what would happen in a monofill operation."
In the end, the decision came down to economics. According to the city's Finance Director Bob Bartholomew, who answered several questions at Monday's meeting, the city has the debt capacity to handle the $16 million capital cost of the dryer.
"We have about $40M of debt capacity, and I think that's too conservative," Bartholomew said, responding to Assembly member Maria Gladziszewski, who asked whether the city could afford the steep initial cost. "We have quite a bit of room for debt capacity."
This, plus the long-term cost effectiveness of the dryer, ended up persuading several Assembly members, including Jerry Nankervis, who said he entered the meeting believing the monofill was the best option.
"My numbers show the 30-year option go to the dryer, which goes against my belief that we should try to involve private businesses and that the government shouldn't try to do everything," Nankervis said. "I came in thinking I was going to be in one place, and now I'm in another. I'm surprised myself, but I'm here."
Gerondale told the Empire Tuesday that he "has no issues" with the city after Monday night's decision, and he complimented the members of the UAB for putting together their recommendation.
"In the long run maybe the dryer is the best idea, but maybe it would've been a good idea to pause for five years and think about it, and I think the monofill would've let that happen," Gerondale said, explaining that the state's current fiscal crisis will eventually impact the city, too.
All told, he said that JMC spent "in excess of $30,000" putting together the monofill proposal. After accounting for wages, consulting work and boat and plane trips to various sites, developing such a proposal isn't cheap, and that's not accounting for the time that Bicknell spent away from other work while fleshing out this plan. Although the Assembly ultimately didn't side in JMC's favor, Watt said that the Bicknell and Gerondale did was "a great economic service to the community."
"I think they showed the best that a monofilling option would look like," Watt told the Empire Tuesday. "They ran that to ground. They did that far better than we ever could've. I think if we hired somebody to try and figure that out, we would've spent tens of thousands of dollars and gotten a lesser product."
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Aug 8 (LG) Mindless sycophancy has been the bane of every administration in this country. It has also undermined governance at every level in Sri Lanka, be it political, administrative and judicial. Let us take some illustrative examples. When the war in the North and East ended in May 2009, Sri Lanka�s official line should have been exactly what is emerging now; namely that in a conflict of such a brutal nature, civilian casualties were unavoidable. more..
Aug 8 (MoD) The film "Gamani" which depicted the self confidence and the strength of the innocent rural citizens, who safeguarded their villages from the threats of the brutal LTTE terrorists, was ceremonially screened with the patronage of Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the Secretary of the Ministry of Defense at the Tharangani Cinema Hall yesterday (4). Brutal assassination of 57 innocent civilians by the barbaric LTTE terrorists in the Gonagala area in Ampara more..
Aug 8 (TC) The air has been full with the �Killing Fields of Sri Lanka�, the Channel 4 documentary. The visuals showed naked Tamil prisoners shot in the head, dead bodies of naked women who had been raped and dumped on a truck and other atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces in the final moments of the brutal civil war. World has never seen such barbarian brutality. Anyone who saw the documentary was numb with disbelief. The authenticity of the footage has more..
Aug 8 (LG) Tamil detainees in Bogambara Prison were severely tortured by the prison officials on 14 June 2011. They were threatened that they would face the same difficulties as Kuttamanni and Thangathurai, two former detainees who were killed. The prison officials later admitted the seven detainees to the Prison Hospital at Bogambara Prison. Neither the police nor prison officials have initiated an independent investigation into the incident yet. more..
Aug 8 (TC) Today�s Lanka is characterised by public cynicism, fear and institutional decay: fear among journalists of crossing invisible lines; cynicism about the country�s rulers and general disbelief in what they say; and the progressive decay of institutions that should protect human rights. People�s distrust of the Police goes back many decades. What is even worse today is the level of public distrust in all other components of the justice system, more..
Aug 8 (Island) The US State Department officials predicted, while the Vanni war was raging, that even if the LTTE was militarily crushed, its terrorism would not go away. That prompted us to point out in these columns that a sine qua non of the LTTE's revival was the availability of a base either in this country or in India; unless India made the mistake of allowing it to regroup and rearm in Tamil Nadu, after its military muscle was wiped out in this country, more..
Aug 8 (DM) Petty politics has always remained the biggest impediment to development and national integration in Sri Lanka. Sadly, such politics once again pose a severe threat to the future of a country finally ridding itself of war and killing and beginning to stand on its own feet. Thirty years of being dragged down by the clutches of cruel war where the people of all communities suffered immense pain should have warned opportunistic politicians against the more..
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Aug 8 (NS) The most important unit of a society is a family. For the society to function aptly the foundation of a family has to be strong. However, with a recent news report, a debate has mounted regarding the ability of these partners who bear the burden of forming a sound foundation for the family they are going to form. The news report stated that a minster has commented about bringing the marriageable age down to 15 years. more..
Aug 8 (TC) The threatened suspension of talks by the TNA benefits no one, the Tamils or the Sinhalese, the TNA or the government, the North or the South. Or if I may amend my statement immediately, it would benefit only the extremists on both sides of the ethnic fault lines, within and outside the island. Political dialogue is in and of itself desirable. It should not be conditional, still less suspended. In a situation of mounting polarisation occasioned by more..
Aug 8 (TC) �If you want to believe me, believe me, no civilian casualties�, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa told The Australian on 23rd March, 2009. And for over two years, the Rajapaksas and their acolytes maintained that the Lankan Forces defeated the LTTE without killing a single Tamil civilian. The zero-civilian casualty claim became a Rajapaksa leitmotiv; anyone who questioned this impossibility was viciously denigrated. more..
Aug 8 (ST) As the evening shadows fall, silhouetted against the setting sun on an unending and beautiful seascape at Vakarai in the east is a lone figure, a figure from the past. Bow and arrows slung over the shoulder, time itself seems to standstill���.as if Sri Lanka's primitive man has jumped out of the pages of the Mahavamsa and is walking along the pristine Vakarai beach. They had come in knots of men, women and children, these descendants of more..
Aug 8 (ST) Breaking the vicious cycle of the deficit increasing the debt and debt increasing the deficit is no easy task. Nevertheless it is a fundamental requirement for economic stabilization and economic growth. The cyclic nature of the problem discussed last week makes it imperative to put in place immediate measures for decreasing the fiscal deficit. The reduction of the fiscal deficit to 7 per cent of GDP last year was an important step in the right direction. more..
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Aug 8 (ST) `�Thaaththa,� Bindu Udagedera asked, �what is all this fuss about the Greens?� �Why, Bindu,� Bindu�s father Percy said, �who is making a fuss now?� �Why, thaaththa,� Bindu said, �aren�t they fighting with each other once again?� �So, what is new?� Percy wanted to know. �That is nothing new among the Greens for the past few years�� Bindu agreed. �Who is fighting with whom now?� Percy inquired. �That, thaaththa,� Bindu said, �is a bit difficult to understand�� �Why is that?� Percy wondered. more..
Aug 8 (Island) The long drawn out negotiations to clinch the joint venture between National Thermal Power Corporation of India (NTPC) and the Ceylon Electricity Board to build Sri Lanka�s second coal power plant at Sampoor, Trincomalee has finally come to fruition with Power and Energy Ministry Secretary M.M.C. Ferdinando Friday initialing the all-important Implementation Agreement in New Delhi last Friday with his counterparts there. more..
Aug 8 (FT) Sequent to a rights petition to the Supreme Court, 63 Tax Officers of the Inland Revenue Department have been promoted to Posts of Assessors. When the fundamental rights petitions filed by the aggrieved Tax Officers came up before the Supreme Court, the Attorney General informed Court that the Public Service Commission (PSC) had approved the promotion of 63 Tax Officers to the Posts of Assessors in the Inland Revenue Department. The Bench comprised Justices N.G.Amaratunga, more..
Aug 8 (SL) Former Colombo Mayor Imthiaz Mohamed has a new job, he is the chauffeur for the Sri Lankan Ambassador in Korea. Imthiaz Mohamed, who had gone back to his old trade of driving a three-wheeler after he lost his job as Mayor, has sought employment overseas. His former coordinating secretary Mohommad Salim told The Sunday Leader that Imthiaz Mohamed had to face a serious financial crisis after losing his job. A disappointed ex-Mayor drove a three-wheeler for more..
Aug 8 (DN) The A/L exam will commence today at 2,400 examination centres throughout the country. This year's exam will see the highest number of candidates ever to sit an A/L exam numbering 294,800. More than 45,000 examination staff will be engaged in exam related activities during the exam period. Exam papers have already been sent to relevant exam coordinating centres. The exam will be monitored and coordinated through 300 examination coordinating centres and more..
Aug 8 (Island) Unidentified gunmen on Saturday night have shot dead a Taekwando and Thai Boxing medalist of international repute while he was cycling to a barber salon to have a hair cut at the Katunayake junction. The deceased was Suminda Nadeeshan Liyanage (21) of Katunayake. His killers had arrived on a motorcycle and fired at his head with a T 56 assault rifle and fled. Liyanage was the winner of the gold medal in the fly weight class at the 20003 Taekwando championship more..
Aug 8 (Island) The National Child Protection Authority will open its second Child Focus Group Centre in Kilinochchi next week. Chairman of the NCPA, Anoma Dissanayake said yesterday that this would be a discussion point for Govt and International NGO�s for children based development programmes. She said the Kilinochchi CFGC building was constructed as a part of the NCPA office in the Kilinochchi district. UNICEF has provided funds for the construction of the remaining centres more..
Aug 8 (DM) Rizana Nafeek, the Sri Lankan maid who was on death row in Saudi Arabia is likely to be pardoned and brought to Sri Lanka very soon, Daily Mirror learns. A ministerial delegation from Sri Lanka is already in that country to attend to the formalities. The death sentence on Rizana was confirmed on June 16, 2007. She was charged with the strangling of a four-month old baby whom she was bottle-feeding. Since then, local parties and human rights groups more..
Aug 8 (NS) The Ministry of Transport has taken steps to launch special bus and train services between August 6 and 15 for the convenience of pilgrims attending the Madhu Church festival. Three additional trains will be deployed between Colombo and Medawachiya during these days and additional compartments would be attached to the daily train service between Matara and Medawachiya, the Government Information Department said in a press release. more..
Aug 8 (LP) Police are on the alert following reports that young school going girls and boys who attend private tuition group classes in the Colombo city escape from classes on arrival through rear exits,visit abandoned houses and return through the same point when parents call at the venue to collect them, police disclosed to Lankapuvath. Police have found out that this trend was fast growing at two private tuition locations at Nugegoda (names withheld for security more..
Aug 8 (DM) The crisis within the UNP is likely to take a crucial stage today with Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya due to handover some proposals with regard to party reforms, to party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe. Analysts see it as a crucial move as the party�s parliamentary group meeting is scheduled for tomorrow. The details of Mr. Jayasuriya�s proposals were not known but he had already stressed that the party should come out strongly to face the govt at more..
Aug 8 (ST) Nearly two years after the conflict with expectations running high that more stocks of fish will be available to consumers at low prices, the public continue to pay high prices for fish, a Sunday Times investigation revealed. A range of reasons has been attributed by those in the trade, fisheries officials and the Minister Rajitha Senaratne. This week, the Peliyagoda fish market wholesale stalls were selling a kilo of seer at Rs. 1,300, with its retail price more..
Aug 8 (DN) A major protest was launched in the Panadura town against the opening of a new liquor bar in very close proximity to a Buddha statue, a Buddhist Girls' School and four Dhamma schools in the Wadduwa town. The Chief Incumbent of Vajrakoth Vihara (Korosduwa Temple), Wadduwa Ven Gonaduwe Gunananda Thera with the co-operation of all the branch heads and chief incumbents of 35 Dhamma schools in the Wadduwa-Moronthuduwa Police area, organized this protest campaign. more..
Aug 8 (FT) The Govt�s plan to formulate a combined publicity programme to build a unified brand for Sri Lanka tourism has been well received by industry stakeholders who claim that the plan is well timed and a necessary one. The project is to be known as Tourism Promotion Programme. Chairman of Tourist Hotels Association Anura Lokuhetty stated that the industry was happy with the Cabinet paper giving approval to formulate a combined programme for promotion of tourism. more..
Aug 8 (DM) The examinations duty allowance of university teachers has been increased fivefold by the government, officials said yesterday. Treasury approval has already been obtained for the change. This increase in the allowance has been granted following a demand made by the Federation of University Teachers Associations, said a senior Treasury official. A university teacher is paid Rs 20 for each answer script marked and Rs.200 for a three hour supervision of any exam. more..
Aug 8 (BL) The Ceylon Motor Traders Association (CMTA) expressed their anger to a plan mooted by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) Chairman, Dr Priyath Bandu Wickrama to move the clearance facilities of all car imports from Colombo to the Hambantota Harbour claiming that logistically it was not practical. Their stance is that since the majority of buyers are from the Western Province, such a move would only make the vehicles more expensive more..
Aug 8 (LBO) Sri Lanka's credit to business from commercial banks rose 34.4 percent to 1,793.4 billion rupees in June with banks disbursing 39 billion rupees of loans during the month, while credit to the state also spiked sharply. Banks have given 23.1 billion rupees of loans denominated in rupees and 6.0 billion rupee equivalent from their foreign currency units. Over the past 12 months banks have loaned 434.5 billion rupees to the private sector and 209.2 billion during the past six months. more..
Aug 8 (Island) The UPFA has called for applications by Wednesday (10) from those in the alliance wanting to contest on its tickets for the remaining Local Government elections for 23 bodies and the candidates will be finalized by August 18. The Secretary of the UPFA, Minister Susil Premajayantha told The Island yesterday that the leaders of all parties which are constituents of the UPFA will be meeting today and tomorrow to discuss the forthcoming LG elections. more..
Aug 8 (CI) There is no substitute for match conditioning. This much was clear after the first Twenty20 between Sri Lanka and Australia in Kandy, as the hosts showed the benefits of a testing tour of England, as opposed to the training camps in Brisbane and net sessions in Colombo that served as the visitors' preparation for the tour opener. The Sri Lankans also showed far better knowledge of the conditions, more..
Aug 8 (DN) Two of the worlds leading Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV) manufactures are planning to establish two SUV assembling plants in the Hambantota district. The two companies from Korea and Europe have already sought the Board of Investments approval to acquire lands near the Ruhunu Magampura Port for this project. National Insurance Trust Fund, (NITF) Chairman Senaka D Abeygoonasekera said these companies are planning to assemble SUV�s in Hambantota and then more..
Aug 8 (Island) The police now have an opportunity to arrest a gang, which allegedly used vehicles bearing state insignia to regularly move large stocks of cannabis from �ganja� producing areas to Colombo and other major towns. A detection made by the STF has paved the way for an investigation, perhaps by the Police Narcotics Bureau to identify the gang. The STF on Aug. 4 apprehended a 26-year-old person driving a vehicle bearing State insignia at a snap road block on the road more..
Aug 8 (DC) The Chennai city police has in a shocking move instructed hotels in the city not to accommodate pilgrims from Sri Lanka after two attacks on visitors from the island nation. The knee-jerk reaction by the police has led to pilgrims cancelling their plans to visit the Maha Bodhi Society in Chennai. �A few hotels and lodges in North Chennai are denying rooms to the pilgrims from the Maha Bodhi Society, citing orders from the police,� said officials more..
Aug 8 (AA) The Eelam war might have ended on the northern beaches of Sri Lanka but across the Palk Strait, the island�s Tamil conflict continues to gather heat across Tamil Nadu amid scores of concerned politicians, human rights activists and youth. Not a day passes without at least one demonstration in some part of the state and the protestors demanding a war crimes trial against the rulers in Colombo and speedy resettlement for war survivors. The BJP is a recent player in the Eelam theatre. more..
Aug 8 (Island) President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who attended a religious ceremony in memory of the late Laksham Kadirgamar on Saturday was visibly moved when he was told by Mrs. Sugandhi Kadirgamar that her husband would still have been alive if Rajapaksa had been the President in August 2005, when the LTTE assassinated him. Chandrika Kumartunga was the President at that time. Mrs. Kadirgamar was speaking with the President after he paid a surprise visit to more..
Aug 8 (Island) The Sri Lanka Coast Guard has earned the gratitude of three foreigners after SLCG personnel deployed on the Mirissa beach saved their lives in two separate incidents on Friday and Saturday. SLCG said that on Friday life guards rescued 54-year-old Paolo Dettori, a Frenchman and his 14-year-old son, Christopher who were dragged by a strong current. The rescued had been among foreigners and locals enjoying a swim in more..
Aug 8 (Island) UPFA MP Sajin Vas Gunawardena said that TNA leader R. Sampanthan had threatened the govt that negotiations weren�t the only way the national issue could be solved. He said that the TNA Chief�s threat should be viewed against the backdrop of the LTTE losing its conventional military capability in May 2009 and a section of the international community threatening the country with more..


Stuart Pearce will be back at Nottingham Forest as manager next season, and has told fans that what he achieved at the club as a player is irrelevant.
The City Ground faithful will no doubt be delighted to welcome back one of the greatest players ever to wear the red shirt, after the 51-year-old agreed to succeed the sacked Billy Davies from 1 July onwards. Gary Brazil will continue in charge for the remainder of the season, which could yet end in a playoff place in the Championship.
Pearce was a hugely popular figure at Forest during his time as a player, making 532 appearances for the club between 1985 and 1997. The tough-tackling left fullback, who won 78 international caps for England, helped the Reds win the League Cup twice under Brian Clough, but he insists his playing career is now irrelevant in regards to his new role.
Pearce initially rejected the job last week for personal reasons, but the club's owner, Fawaz al-Hasawi, was so intent on appointing him that a further round of talks were held this week when a number of compromises were reached. This allows the former Manchester City coach to maintain his current commitments and those he has scheduled for the summer, and is also presents him with more time to prepare for the challenges ahead.
"I wouldn't call it a u-turn," Pearce added. "We had discussions last week. At the time I suggested I had so much on in terms of a personal nature and from commercial aspects with work commitments. Fawaz then asked me to take charge in the summer and everything seems right. This club probably has more of a pull than any club in the country.


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According to an article published in Travel & Leisure Magazine written by Jim Becker, senior travelers visit this historic community of 2,000 -hidden away in the Arkansas Ozarks- for many reasons: "great 'Main Street' town", a designated "Distinctive Destination" in America by the National Trust For Historic Preservation, and the fact that it is truly a "resort village". However, "active" seniors flock to enjoy this Extraordinary Escape as it pairs together interesting and enriching activities perfect for just two.
Eureka Springs, in rebranding itself as the "Extraordinary Escape", also made a real commitment to the outdoors. Blessed with its location between two rivers and three lakes and within an hour to the Buffalo River Region, visitors enjoy boating, canoeing, kayaking and the newest trend of stand-up paddle boarding on its adjacent lakes -Beaver, Table Rock and Leatherwood- and fishing, floating and scenic hikes are often found at the area rivers -White, Kings and Buffalo. Eureka Springs also boasts an urban trail system through many of its parks and past its 63 springs locations. Some trails reveal a hidden staircase or earthen path that leads up to "the crown at the top of the town", the famous Crescent Hotel. These simple strolls can turn a shopping sojourn into a challenging hiking experience just by turning a corner. Mountain bikers are discovering that many of these hiking trails second as a challenging mountain bike route. The authority site for a full listing of outdoor activities is www.EurekaSpringsOnline.com/outdoors.
Of course fall travel brings motorcyclists to the Ozarks. Riders never stop grinning once they have accepted the challenge of some of our local and area rides like the number one biker ride in the country, 'The Pig Trail' which is Arkansas Highway 23." Great rides are profiled on EurekaSpringsMotorcycleRides.com and ArkansasArtTrail.com and include easy day trips to such sites as Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Pea Ridge National Military Park and the Buffalo River Region. Several Eureka hotels offer overnight covered and locked motorcycle parking with lodging.
Though active seniors may enjoy Eureka Springs' thrills and excitement by day, it's the relaxation and entertainment by night that make this destination stand alone as Arkansas' premier resort destination. Offering more than 2,000 affordable guest rooms ready to embrace visitors as the sun begins to sink but not before enjoying live entertainment, diving into a great meal, or giving in to the well-trained hands of a massage therapist at one Eureka's numerous spas.
Live entertainment found on the 21 & Fun entertainment listing or the professional shows including Intrigue Theater, The Great Passion Play, or a Crescent Hotel ghost tour offer outstanding and truly unique evening performances. More than 100 area restaurants, including two dozen of the state's finest, are located in Eureka Springs. Restaurant listings with local favorites may be found at EurekaSpringsRestaurant.com and area attractions are at ReserveEureka.com. Local spa massage professionals work hard to transform tired bodies into a relaxed state. Unique garden settings coupled with well-known national brands like Aveda and Bare Minerals offer patrons an exceptional and pleasant renewal experience.
Whether one refers to Eureka Springs as "The Little Switzerland of America" or "The Stair-Step Town" as Becker did or by the appellation adopted by the city, "The Extraordinary Escape", it seems active seniors call it "the place to be" for a late summer vacation.


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Rather than creating products that teachers need and want to use, Silicon Valley tech giants decide what they want to sell and then send out snake oil salesmen to convince bureaucrats that the sky will fall if they don't buy useless products which provide "personalized learning." This is code for replacing teachers with tech gadgets so the Silicon Valley rich can be richer. Never mind that students do best when they have face-to-face interaction with a real, live teacher.
The truth is out. Technology in the classroom not only leads to worse academic performance for kids, it can also clinically hurt them. Two hundred peer-reviewed studies have connected screen time to increased ADHD, increased aggression, anxiety, screen addiction, depression, and even psychosis.
Dr. Nicholas Karadars, one of the nation's foremost experts on addiction, finds that video games and screen technologies affect the brain's frontal cortex exactly the way as does cocaine.
The 2015 report of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development found that heavy users of classroom technology performed worse on math and reading tests.
John Vallance, headmaster of Australia's most prestigious private school, says that when the history of this period of education is written, the investment in classroom technology is going to be seen as a huge fraud.
Ed-tech fraud is a dangerous scam with devastating consequences for children's lives and a staggering waste of taxpayers money.
Aren't scammers supposed to go to jail?


We're not just talking about waving arms and saying "um", we're talking about the neuroscience of what is going on in the brains of the people you are presenting to. How can you connect with them and be on a basis that they enjoy and retain what you are presenting? I'll teach you some new ways of engaging and teaching your audience.
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Once you have your car insurance policy in place, it's easy to let it renew automatically each year. But if you want to make sure you're paying the best price, it's worth revisiting your policy each year as there could be a cheaper deal available.
Your insurer will send out a renewal letter a few weeks before your policy ends, and in most cases will automatically renew your cover for another year unless you instruct them otherwise.
Since April 2017, insurers have been required to include last year's premium on customers' renewal letters, so it's now easier than ever to compare this year's price with what you've paid previously. And with the cost of comprehensive car insurance rising by an average of £60 in 12 months (AA British Insurance Premium Index, October 2017), many drivers are finding their renewal price is even higher than they paid last year.
Once you receive your renewal notice, it's a great time to shop around for a better deal on cover. Armed with this year's quoted price from your current insurer, you can easily see whether you can save money or even get a better level of cover for a better price from a different insurer.
Price comparison sites like uSwitch make it easy to compare quotes up to 30 days before your renewal date, so you can set up a new policy in advance to start as soon as your current one ends — just remember to tell your insurer you don't want to renew your policy.
If there's still some time until your policy ends, there are a few ways you can prepare to give you the best chance of saving on your renewal price.
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Arm yourself with knowledge before you search for cheaper car insurance for the next 12 months. Read our guides on car insurance and motoring here. Our guide to 10 tips on cutting the cost of cover is a great place to start.


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Research shows broad support for a quality public education for all children
Minnesotans voice strong backing for proposed constitutional amendment
Alyssa Augustine Senior Public Relations Program Manager
80 percent of Minnesotans back proposed constitutional amendment
Two-thirds surveyed see education in top three of state's most important roles
Broad, deep, bipartisan support for closing the achievement gap
Minnesota has a long history of economic vibrancy. While a deep commitment to public education has provided fertile ground for the growth of the state's start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, there's been a troubling counter to that: The state has some of the nation's widest achievement gaps.
New public opinion research finds that nearly 80 percent of Minnesotans are ready for a change to those unconscionable disparities.
The poll of about 800 state residents completed by an independent research firm and released by Our Children MN shows broad backing for closing the state's achievement gaps and for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a quality public education. The impetus for the amendment proposal was a recent Minneapolis Fed research study illuminating the state's large gaps.
Four of five Minnesotans surveyed support a constitutional amendment to ensure a quality public education for all children, and two-thirds of them rank education as one of state government's three most important roles.
Support for the amendment is broad, deep, and bipartisan: 92 percent of Democrats, 83 percent of Independents, and 65 percent of Republicans support the proposal. The amendment effort, led by former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page and Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, has garnered a large coalition of supporters: businesspeople, educators, legislators, and community leaders.
"It's clear from these results that Minnesotans care about each other and truly value education," said Kashkari. "Putting children first will improve Minnesota's economic vibrancy for everyone."
The public opinion research demonstrates that Minnesotans know now is the time to invest in all of our children by amending the constitution to make a quality education a fundamental right.
Alyssa Augustine
Senior Public Relations Program Manager
Alyssa Augustine is the Minneapolis Fed's senior public relations manager. In this role, she coordinates all media relations for President Neel Kashkari and other Bank leaders. An experienced TV journalist, Alyssa also contributes articles to our website.
Fed's "Racism and the Economy" series explores racial inequity in the education system
Racism and the Economy: Focus on Education
Minnesota's education system shows persistent opportunity gaps by race
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Terckvartakord je termín ze všeobecné hudební nauky. Používá se pro druhý obrat septakordu. Nejspodnějším tónem terckvartakordu je kvinta (druhý tón odspodu) původního septakordu, původní základní tón je v něm pak v nejzákladnějším tvaru druhým nejvyšším tónem.

Každý septakord má tři obraty. Další dva obraty septakordu se jmenují kvintsextakord (první obrat) a sekundakord (třetí obrat).

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Uvažujme tzv. tvrdě velký septakord postavený na tónu c. Tvrdě velký septakord je tvořen tvrdým (durovým) kvintakordem a velkou septimou mezi nejnižším a nejvyšším tónem. Na tónu c tedy zní: c e g h. Kvintsextakord, první obrat tohoto septakordu, se vytvoří tak, že se nejnižší tón přenese o oktávu výše. Vznikne tedy akord e g h c. Další, druhý obrat se vytvoří opět přenesením nejnižšího tónu nyní prvního obratu (e) o oktávu výše. Hledaný výsledek (terckvartakord) tedy bude: g h c e.

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Termíny obratů akordů jsou vytvořeny tak, že se v nich pojmenuje interval mezi na jedné straně nově vzniklým základním tónem (v případě septakordu c e g h je to tón g) a na druhé straně jednak původním nejvyšším tónem (v našem případě původní septima h), jednak původním základním tónem (v našem případě c). Tóny g h vytvářejí tercii, tóny g c kvartu, proto: terckvartakord.

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Het Internationaal Olympisch Comité (IOC) is een niet-gouvernementele organisatie die gevestigd is in het Zwitserse Lausanne. Deze organisatie heeft het om de vier jaar organiseren van de Olympische Zomer- en Winterspelen tot doel. Vanaf 2010 vinden onder het toezicht van het IOC tevens de Olympische Jeugdspelen plaats, die zoals de Olympische Spelen voor volwassenen zijn opgesplitst in zomer- en winterspelen.

Historie
De oprichter van het IOC was de Fransman en baron Pierre de Coubertin, samen met de Griek Demetrius Vikelas. Tijdens een sportcongres op de Sorbonne in Parijs, van 16 tot en met 23 juni 1894, besloten zij om de klassieke Olympische Spelen na 1500 jaar nieuw leven in te blazen. Dit congres werd later aangemerkt als eerste Olympische Congres. Coubertin hoopte door middel van sport landen en volken te verbroederen en zo de wereldvrede een handje te helpen. Om de Spelen te organiseren werd besloten tot oprichting van het Comité international olympique (CIO) (Engels: International Olympic Committee): het Internationaal Olympisch Comité (IOC).

Coubertin vond dat de leden van het comité indien mogelijk uit alle delen van de wereld moesten komen, zodat zij de Olympische gedachte konden verspreiden. Onderstaande tabel geeft de IOC-leden weer die bij de oprichting werden benoemd. Het ontbreken van een Duits lid was opvallend. De vijandige houding van het Franse volk ten aanzien van Duitsland kon door Coubertin moeilijk over het hoofd worden gezien. Gedurende de voorbereidingen voor de Spelen van 1896 werd het Duits Olympisch Comité opgericht, waarna het IOC niet meer om Duitsland heen kon. Voorzitter Vikelas benoemde Willibald Gebhardt in januari 1896 als lid. Het recht om nieuwe leden te benoemen lag echter bij Coubertin, die zijn toestemming pas twee maanden later verleende.

Olympische Spelen

De originele Olympische Spelen werden gehouden bij het Griekse Olympia, ter ere van de oppergod Zeus die daar woonde. De Romeinse keizer Theodosius I verbood, als onderdeel van zijn campagne tegen het heidendom, de Spelen in 393. Op 23 juni 1894 werd besloten om in 1896 de eerste moderne Olympische Spelen te organiseren in Athene. Coubertin wilde de Spelen tegelijk met wereldtentoonstelling van 1900 in Parijs houden. Omdat een periode van zes jaar de interesse zou verminderen, werd Athene, vanwege het Griekse olympische verleden, uiteindelijk gekozen als gaststad voor de Spelen van 1896.

De reacties op de Spelen van Athene waren erg positief, in die mate zelfs dat de Grieken voorstelden om de spelen voortaan altijd in Griekenland te organiseren. Maar dit plan ging niet door en Parijs werd aangewezen voor de Olympische Spelen van 1900. In 1921 besloot het IOC-congres tot de organisatie van een International Winter Sports Week, die georganiseerd zou worden door het land waar de Zomerspelen gehouden werden. Het evenement vond plaats in het Franse Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. Pas in 1926 besloot men deze 'week' (die eigenlijk 11 dagen duurde) officieel aan te wijzen als Olympische Winterspelen.

Organisatiestructuur
Het dagelijks bestuur van het IOC wordt uitgeoefend door de onderstaande organen:
 President
 Uitvoerend Comité
 IOC Sessie President

De president vertegenwoordigt het IOC en wordt sinds 1972 voor een termijn van acht jaar gekozen, door middel van een geheime stemming door alle IOC-leden. Na zijn eerste termijn kan deze nog met vier jaar verlengd worden. Jacques Rogge werd op 16 juli 2001 gekozen als opvolger van Juan Antonio Samaranch. Zijn termijn van acht jaar liep tot 2009, waarna hij werd herkozen, zonder tegenkandidaten. Samaranch werd voor zijn buitengewone werk voor het IOC benoemd tot erepresident voor het leven.

Op 10 september 2013 werd de Duitser Thomas Bach verkozen als negende voorzitter van de IOC als opvolger van Jacques Rogge.

Het voorzitterschap van Pierre de Coubertin werd onderbroken door de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Toen hij dienst nam in het Franse leger, werd zijn plaats tijdelijk ingenomen door de Zwitser Godefroy de Blonay.

 Uitvoerend Comité
Het Uitvoerend Comité bestaat uit de voorzitter, vier vicepresidenten en tien gewone leden.
De vice-presidenten zijn:
 Yu Zaiqing (China)
 Ng Ser Miang (Singapore)
 John Coates (Australië)
 Nicole Hoevertsz (Aruba)

De leden worden voor vier jaar gekozen bij geheime stemming. De commissie draagt onder meer zorg voor:
 De inachtneming van het Olympisch Handvest
 De interne organisatie en financiën van het IOC
 Het opstellen van de agenda voor de IOC Session De begeleiding van de selectieprocedure voor de kandidaten als gaststad van de Olympische Spelen

 IOC Sessie

De IOC Sessie'' is de Algemene Vergadering van het IOC en het hoogste bestuursorgaan van het IOC dat alle belangrijke beslissingen neemt. De Vergadering bestaat uit alle IOC-leden, die tijdens stemmingen elk één stem hebben. De beslissingen van het congres zijn bindend. De twee- of driedaagse vergaderingen worden jaarlijks gehouden, óf na een oproep van de president of minimaal een derde van de leden. In een olympisch jaar worden de Spelen voorafgegaan door een vergadering. De vergadering beslist onder meer over de onderstaande onderwerpen:
 De keuze van een volgende gaststad voor de Olympische Spelen, zeven jaar voor aanvang
 Opname of uitsluiting van een sport van het olympisch programma
 Verkiezing van de president, de vicepresidenten en de tien leden van het 'Executive Board'

Belgische leden van het IOC
België wordt vertegenwoordigd door het BOIC (Belgisch Olympisch en Interfederaal Comité). Van 1991 tot 2004 en van 2012 tot 2013 had België twee afgevaardigden. Sinds 2013 heeft België terug een enkele afgevaardigde:
 Pierre-Olivier baron Beckers-Vieujant (2012- )

Voormalige Belgische leden:
 Maxime graaf de Bousies (1894-1901)
 Robert Reyntiens (1901-1903)
 Henri graaf de Baillet-Latour (1921-1926, voorzitter (1925-1942)
 Édouard baron de Laveleye (1919-1939)
 Gaston baron de Trannoy (1939-1957)
 Rodolphe William Seeldrayers (1946-1955)
 Prins Albert (1958-1964)
 Prins Alexandre de Merode (1964-2002)
 François baron Narmon (2002-2004)
 Graaf Jacques Rogge (1991-2013, voorzitter (2001-2013)

Nederlandse leden van het IOC
Voormalige Nederlandse leden:
 Frits baron van Tuyll van Serooskerken (1898-1924)
 Alphert baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (1925-1943)
 Pieter Scharroo (1924-1957)
 Charles Pahud de Mortanges (1946-1964)
 Herman van Karnebeek (1964-1977)
 Kees Kerdel (1977-1986)
 Els van Breda Vriesman-Commandeur (2001-2008), was lid als vertegenwoordiger van de internationale hockeybond
 Hein Verbruggen (1996-2008)
 Anton Geesink (1987-2010)
 Willem-Alexander der Nederlanden (1998-2013)
 Camiel Eurlings (2013-2018)

Arubaanse leden van het IOC
 Nicole Hoevertsz (2006-, vice-voorzitter 2021-)

Commissies
De president van het IOC heeft de mogelijkheid om commissies in te stellen, die advies uitbrengen over bepaalde, gespecialiseerde onderwerpen. De samenstelling kan variëren: IOC-leden, vertegenwoordigers van sportbonden en nationale olympische comités, atleten, experts en specialisten. Onder Jacques Rogge waren er 20 commissies in functie. Er is onder meer, sinds 1981, een atletencommissie, waarvan de leden gekozen worden door hun collega-sporters. Naast het doen van aanbevelingen aan het bestuur worden er ook werkgroepen ingesteld, die overleggen met de organisatiecomités van de Spelen, om zo te zorgen dat er aan de wensen van de atleten wordt voldaan. Ook is er een medische commissie, die toezicht houdt op de gang van zaken rondom dopinggebruik.

Zie ook
 Lijst van IOC-bijeenkomsten
 Lijst van IOC-landcodes
 Lijst van historische IOC-landcodes
 Associatie van Nationale Olympische Comités
 Nationaal Olympisch Comité

Externe links
 Website IOC
 Overzicht van de verkiezingen van gaststeden - gamesbids.com


P-Touch 1230PC is a label printer designed for PCs. No software is required. Simply plug into your USB and label appears on your screen. Fill in information and print up to 10mm per second. Label printer prints on four different label widths of TZ tapes, up to 1/2" wide (laminated) and prints multiple lines of text and graphics with 180 dpi. PT-1230PC offers mirror and vertical printing, 200 copies of repeat printing, 694 symbols, unlimited number of print lines, and True type fonts/scalable Printer is compatible with Windows 2000, Windows, XP, and Windows Vista. Compact design includes built-in manual cutter and a USB cable. Printer uses six AAA batteries (sold separately) or Brother AD-24 adapter (sold separately).


Fitbit is already one of this month's hottest stocks, but let's check out two other companies that may join it in this month's victory lap.
They say it's the little things that count, and that's certainly the case in the world of small-cap stocks. There's a wide universe of investments trading with market caps between $300 million and $2 billion. They may be riskier than mid-cap or large-cap stocks, but the same can probably also be said about the potential rewards.
Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), Upwork (NASDAQ:UPWK), and The Meet Group (NASDAQ:MEET) are promising stocks with potential catalysts to lift them even higher. Let's take a closer look at these three companies that are poised to make some noise this month.
The wearable-fitness pioneer is already one of this month's biggest winners, up a whopping 32% through just the first four trading days of November. The initial pop was the handiwork of a blowout quarterly report. Fitbit surprised analysts last week by posting top-line growth. The 0.3% revenue increase may not seem like much, but it breaks a nasty streak of seven straight quarters of year-over-year declines. Fitbit also managed to surpass bottom-line expectations with a profit on an adjusted basis.
Fitbit's success lately has come more from its new smartwatches than its flagship activity-tracking bracelets, but as we head into the telltale holiday shopping season, it's likely to make a big push for deeper market penetration. Fitbit's been falling out of favor since shortly after its 2015 IPO, but it's finally on track to give investors their first year of an appreciating stock price. Momentum is in its corner now, and it could linger.
We're in the golden age of freelancing, and Upwork is leading the way. The leading online marketplace for freelancers is rolling. It has matched skilled freelancers with companies that need them to account for $1.56 billion of jobs over the past year. Revenue is accelerating, up 28% so far this year after a 23% advance last year.
Companies are making the most of the ability to hire specialized talent without having to take on the costs of outright hiring them, and Upwork's future is bright. Upwork went public at $15 last month, and it will deliver its first quarterly result as a public company shortly after today's market close. The old adage about not getting a second chance to make a first impression fits perfectly with companies when they step up with their first earnings call.
Another small cap that reports fresh financials this afternoon is The Meet Group. The social discovery and dating app developer has been on a roll. It has acquired international apps to help broaden its horizons, and now it has a hot live-streaming platform gaining traction.
There are now 900,000 users a day checking out the platform, and The Meet Group now sees it contributing $48 million on an annualized basis. That's not too shabby for a company that rang up just $123.8 million in revenue last year. The live-streaming app's success finds The Meet Group updating its projections for the better, and if we see more of the same in Wednesday afternoon's report, it should provide a boost to the shares.


I have a question for you. I'm working on the menu and I'm trying to get it structured lay out wise/format/wording etc. I'm kind of at odds with what I should do at the top. I have a graphics designer friend who will help.
I put it on there, but I'm wondering if I should make it different by adding the room # for the after party.
No need to spell out the wine unless it has some sort of special meaning.
I'd add the coffee and tea.
Do you have a monogram? If not, I would put your names in top with the date.
If you can, I'd also make some of it in color.
I made less lines of text.
I played with the language a bit.
After talking with the Bride, she is also going to heat emboss parts of the menu to jazz it up.
I was glad to help! Let me know if you have any other questions or need advice.


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New Zealand's first carbon zero hospital unveiled
Forté Hospital in Christchurch has been named New Zealand's first Toitū carbon zero certified hospital.
Forté Hospital operates out of Forté Health, a health precinct built-in 2013 in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes.
The hospital, which operates out of one of New Zealand's most environmentally-friendly buildings, has been certified carbon zero by Toitū Envirocare.
"Sustainability has been part of our kaupapa since the idea of Forté Health was born. We wanted to do things differently and show that you didn't have to choose between looking after people and looking after your planet – you can do both," says Forté Health Chairman David Barker.
While Forté Hospital is the first hospital in Australasia to achieve a four-star green certification through the New Zealand Green Building Council, to achieve Toitū carbon zero certification, sustainability had to be taken to an operational level.
"We cast a sustainability lens over all aspects of what we do and how we do it – no stone was left unturned. While reviewing all internal processes we also engaged with our staff, contractors and suppliers and asked the question – can we do this in a way that's more sustainable for our people and our planet. And we've found in many instances, the answer was yes," says Forté Health CEO Rachel Hillyer.
Forté Sterile Services Team Leader Julia Edwards with specialist reusable crates for instrument sterilisation.
Major sustainability initiatives implemented at Forté Hospital include:
Better segregation of waste resulting in a 47 per cent reduction in the amount of medical hazardous waste requiring emission-producing heat treatment (2016 – 2021).
Reducing waste to landfill by 1.6 tonnes from 2019 to 2020.
Reducing electricity usage by 12 per cent from 2019 to 2021
Recycling staff uniforms into bags for patient belongings or donating them to Pacific Island hospitals, thanks to a partnership with Rotary Worldwide.
Installation of a new VIE liquid oxygen tank resulting in an approximately 99 per cent reduction in CO2emissions from truck deliveries.
Removed single-use food packaging for patient meals, saving around 1,200 single-use containers going to landfill each year.
Replaced medicine trays with compostable alternatives.
Forté's future sustainability goals include further reducing its carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by 10 per cent over the next five years.
A 2019 report by global organisations Arup and Health Care Without Harm found healthcare is responsible for 4.4 per cent of the world's global net emissions – meaning if healthcare were a country, it would be the fifth-largest emitter on the planet.
In New Zealand, the wider health sector is striving to reduce emissions, with the Carbon Neutral Government Programme including an expectation that the public sector, including District Health Boards, be carbon neutral by 2025.
"There is no doubt Forté is leading the industry in terms of environmental sustainability. Their environmental journey is one that is embedded throughout the entire organisation, with high levels of staff engagement and a whole-of-organisation investment in the environmental targets and objectives they have set themselves," says Andrew Mackenzie, Senior Technical Account Manager at Toitū Envirocare.
As part of becoming Toitū carbon zero certified, Forté Health will be offsetting its carbon footprint by planting trees at Spray Point Station in South Marlborough, at Puhi Peaks Station and Nature Reserve in Kaikōura and at the Hinewai Reserve, Banks Peninsula.
"A core part of our ethos was to ensure our sustainability journey impacted positively on our local environment, and we're delighted to be supporting these South Island organisations to preserve and enhance our indigenous biodiversity," says Hillyer.
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Trust really starts to stretch its legs in the one-two punch of "That's All Folks!" and "Silenzio." Both episodes, written by series creator Simon Beaufoy and directed by Dawn Shadforth, the woman who gave us the videos for Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and "In Your Eyes." Episodes 4 and 5 capitalize on the more tense tone of episode three and open up the show's rapidly expanding scope. Mainly focused on the criminals who look to profit on Getty's kidnapping and the beautiful, but dangerous Italian countryside. Trust finally finds itself growing into the crime saga it promised. Thanks to these robust and well-constructed episodes.
Luca Marinelli's Primo knows he has something big on the line with the kidnapping of John Paul. But, this being Italy, he knows he has to get permission first. Enter Don Salvatore. Our first real look at the puppet master of the vast criminal network hinted at during episode three. Though the Getty patriarch has a "clamshell for a wallet," Primo and the Don still think they can get seventeen million out of the old codger and open up a line of communication to the family via a wormy cousin of Primo's who actually made something of himself and became a lawyer.
The action in London thankfully takes a backseat to the action during these two episodes. Frankly, I feel like that was a best possible decision for the show's growth. Though we get wry check-ins to Sutton Place, focused around Getty Senior's bustling business center and his razor sharp and hilarious house manager Robina (Charlotte Riley delivering some Lois Lane realness), Beaufoy smartly focuses on Harris Dickinson's plight and just how in over his head he is now.
Not only does this add a real air of menace and beauty to the show, thanks largely to Shadforth's intimately shot scene blocking and cinema verite like energy, but lets Beaufoy's scripting get to flex a different set of muscles than it did during the first three installments. Sure, we got some flashes of it during episode three. But episodes 4 and 5 hammer home the stakes of the story. The toll the whole affair is having on the perpetrators and victims of the crime.
If I had ONE complaint, its that we don't get nearly enough time with Hilary Swank's Gail and Brendan Fraser's Fletcher Chase. We're treated to some quick and adorable business with them semi-cohabitating. Fletcher playing the father figure and attempting to fix her AC. We get some heart wrenching "phone acting" from Swank in both episodes. That said though, it feels like Swank and Fraser are resources that aren't fully being used to the show's benefit. I really hope that changes next week.
All in all though, Trust is really riding a wave of positive momentum thanks to these two recent episodes. Though the show has taken a decidedly darker turn, Beaufoy and Shadforth keep the show's streak of dark humor going while also making sure it doesn't stagnate. Powered by 70s rock, pointed direction, and consistently engaging scripts, episodes 4 and 5 find Trust growing into a dark horse Sunday night favorite.
Until next time, my dirty debutantes, be seeing you.


Cloud enables Saudi Arabia's future technology including business and smart cities innovation, according to 83 per cent of IT decision makers, revealed a new YouGov survey launched during Gitex Technology Week.
IT-decision said that cloud is important for integrating artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things, and blockchain, according to the survey.
Public-private partnerships are bringing to life Smart City deployments, especially NEOM. Supporting Saudi Arabia's Smart Cities, SAP, is the first multi-national enterprise applications company to invest in and go live on a Digital Hub and cloud data centre in Saudi Arabia.
As a result, Saudi Arabia's Smart Cities can run in real-time, integrate emerging technologies, and meet data sovereignty regulations.
"Intelligent Enterprises, and Smart Cities such as NEOM, can leverage emerging technology innovations to meet and predict citizens' needs in real-time, enhance urban competitiveness, and transform the economy, society, and environment in line with Saudi Vision 2030," he said.
Saudi Arabia has strong potential for the cloud to enable Saudi Vision 2030 and Smart Cities, which is agreed upon by two-thirds (66 percent) of IT decision-makers in the kingdom, the survey added.


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Q: CURL on PHP 5.2 works in CLI but not in IIS I have a Windows 2003 Server running IIS with php 5.2.8,  I'm trying to use CURL, and it works in CLI mode (if i execute php.exe) but it does not seem to be registered when running under IIS.
The output of PHP info in both CLI and IIS show the same 'Loaded Configuration File', but under IIS it does not give the CURL info box.
c:\program files\php\php.exe -i shows
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Loaded Configuration File => C:\Program Files\PHP\php.ini
...
curl

cURL support => enabled
cURL Information => libcurl/7.16.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8i zlib/1.2.3

phpinfo()
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Loaded Configuration File => C:\Program Files\PHP\php.ini
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NOTE: This server also runs php 5.3 in c:\program files\php-5.3.0 and CURL does properly work with that installation.

A: Please Copy sselay32.dll and libeay32.dll on your windows path(C:\windows) and restart IIS Server .You should be able to see that

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MINT College returns to CCGF 2018
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The Meridian International College (MINT College) hit a homerun, coming back this year from a two-year hiatus to the annual Career Consultation and Guidance Fair (CCGF), at the World Trade Center in Pasay City, last September 4 and 5.
Students from various visiting high schools flocked MINT's booth for two days. The school showcased its musical talents with performances by Syd Hartha, MINT Music Business Management student and one of Spotify Philippines' top OPM artists, who sang her rendition of the OPM classic, "Ang Huling El Bimbo" by Eraserheads, and her own original song, "Tila Tala."
Meanwhile, MINT Multimedia Arts students, calligrapher Louise Anog and Andy Dimagmaliw pulled in awestruck students who watched them paint a colorful mural at the back of the booth, which then turned into an eye-catching backdrop for the students' group photos.
The two-day affair is hosted by the International Education Specialists. Top colleges and universities in the country participate in the said event. Since 1988, the convention offers career orientations on various academic fields and career consultations to incoming senior high school and college students.
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Skyrim Game Files Hint at New DLC, Including Snow Elves.
There's plenty of clues about what the Skyrim DLC may be about buried in some Skyrim patch filenames.
Dragon mounts, Morrowind, and Daedrics, oh my!
These are just a few of the wild rumors floating about on the Internet about what Skyrim's DLC could be about.
Man... I have to stay away from Skyrim... I will lose another 300+ hours of my life!
Thanks for the update Jan!
So I'm not the only one addicted to Skyrim! I spent so many hours playing Skyrim that I lost track of what I'd done and what I hadn't. It really is one of the best games I've played.
Yeah... I spent, nearly, the entirety of December and January locked into Skyrim... It is one of the main reasons I am so far behind right now!!!!! I played through the game 4 times, twice maxing my level, before forcing myself to give it up! The last game that did that to me was Oblivion!
Bethesda has a habit of making addictive games it seems. Hopefully they can improve the next game in the series even further. Now that will be an amazing game.


The Bay Area has long been a hotspot for distilling, and that's particularly the case with gin. Alameda's St. George Spirits boasts three special bottles in its portfolio, of which the Dry Rye and Terroir are standouts. The Dry Rye has a toasted-banana quality that plays beautifully off its caraway, black pepper and rye notes. The Terroir—which is vapor-infused with botanicals from Marin County's Mt. Tamalpais—brims with foresty earth, Douglas fir and bay-laurel essence.
Distillery No. 209's five-times-distilled standard gin is a classic citrusy mixer, with upfront notes of juniper, bergamot and lemon peel, followed by a hint of cinnamon. The distillery also has two French oak–aged Barrel Reserve gins: a fruity Sauvignon Blanc–finished expression and another Cabernet Sauvignon–barreled bottle that smells gently of whiskey but finishes with a touch of spice and red wine.
A bit farther north in Sebastopol, Spirit Works distills its gins from red winter wheat, creating a gently sweet offering that's classic-tasting in its standard bottling (lots of bright juniper and coriander) and round with toasted spice in its barrel-aged expression.


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Q: How can I get the position of the specified keyword in iText7? I want to search every matched keyword in a pdf file and get their position in the page which they located.
I just found some code in iText5 which looks like match what I need
for (i = 1; i <= pageNum; i++)
    {
        pdfReaderContentParser.processContent(i, new RenderListener()
        {

            @Override
            public void renderText(TextRenderInfo textRenderInfo)
            {
                String text = textRenderInfo.getText();
                if (null != text && text.contains(KEY_WORD))
                {
                    Float boundingRectange = textRenderInfo
                            .getBaseline().getBoundingRectange();
                    resu = new float[3];
                    System.out.println("======="+text);
                    System.out.println("h:"+boundingRectange.getHeight());
                    System.out.println("w:"+boundingRectange.width);
                    System.out.println("centerX:"+boundingRectange.getCenterX());
                    System.out.println("centerY:"+boundingRectange.getCenterY());
                    System.out.println("x:"+boundingRectange.getX());
                    System.out.println("y:"+boundingRectange.getY());
                    System.out.println("maxX:"+boundingRectange.getMaxX());
                    System.out.println("maxY:"+boundingRectange.getMaxY());
                    System.out.println("minX:"+boundingRectange.getMinX());
                    System.out.println("minY:"+boundingRectange.getMinY());
                    resu[0] = boundingRectange.x;
                    resu[1] = boundingRectange.y;
                    resu[2] = i;
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void renderImage(ImageRenderInfo arg0)
            {
            }

            @Override
            public void endTextBlock()
            {

            }

            @Override
            public void beginTextBlock()
            {
            }
        });

But I don't know how to deal with it in iText7 .

A: iText7 has pdf2Data add-on which can easily help you achieving your goal (and help with other data extraction cases).
Let's say you want to extract positions of word Header. We go to https://pdf2data.online demo application, upload our template (any file containing the words you want to extract), and go to data field editor which looks like this:

Now, you can add a data field with a selector that would select the data you are interested in. In this case you can use Regular expression selector which is very flexible generally, but in our case the settings are pretty straightforward:

You can see that the editor application highlights all occurrences of the word we are searching for. Now, let's get back to the first step (there is an icon at the top right of the editor to go back to demo), and download our template (link to the bottom of the icon corresponding to the uploaded file).
Now you can look over the information on how to include pdf2Data in your project at this page: https://pdf2data.online/gettingStarted, roughly the code you need is the following:
LicenseKey.loadLicenseFile("license.xml");

Template template = Pdf2DataExtractor.parseTemplateFromPDF("Template.pdf");
Pdf2DataExtractor extractor = new Pdf2DataExtractor(template);
ParsingResult result = extractor.recognize("toParse.pdf");
for (ResultElement element : result.getResults("Headers")) {
    Rectangle bbox = element.getBbox();
    int page = element.getPage();
    System.out.println(MessageFormat.format("Coordinates on page {0}: [{1}, {2}, {3}, {4}]",
            page, bbox.getX(), bbox.getY(), bbox.getX() + bbox.getWidth(), bbox.getY() + bbox.getHeight()));
}

Example output:
Coordinates on page 1: [38.5, 788.346, 77.848, 799.446]
Coordinates on page 1: [123.05, 788.346, 162.398, 799.446]
Coordinates on page 1: [207.6, 788.346, 246.948, 799.446]
Coordinates on page 2: [38.5, 788.346, 77.848, 799.446]
Coordinates on page 2: [123.05, 788.346, 162.398, 799.446]
Coordinates on page 2: [207.6, 788.346, 246.948, 799.446]

pdf2Data add-on is closed source and available only at a commercial license option at the moment. Of course it is possible to port your code directly to iText7 and this would be another solution to the task you have, but I must warn you that your code is not universal for all scenarios, e.g. text in a PDF can be written letter by letter, instead of writing a whole word at once (the visual appearance of the two PDFs can easily stay the same), and in this case the code you attached would not work. pdf2Data handles those cases out of the box, taking the burden out of your shoulders.