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Schmidt steps down at Argo
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Argo confirms Thomas Bradley as CEO
Argo Group International Holdings has announced the appointment of Thomas Bradley to its board of directors.
"It is an honour to welcome Tom to our board," said Argo group chairman Gary Woods. "As we continue to build shareholder value, it is critical to have the right board in place. Tom's strong leadership and admirable history as an executive and leader of companies listed on the NYSE makes him a great addition to the board. The knowledge he brings to our board of directors and leadership team will be pivotal in assessing and improving Argo Group's financial structure and performance as we make the most of our position as a NYSE-listed company."
Bradley retired from Allied World Assurance Company Holdings in July 2017. While there, he served as chief financial officer and executive vice president since 2012. Before joining Allied, he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for two other public companies: Fair Isaac Corporation and The St. Paul Companies. Bradley also held senior financial and operational positions at Zurich Insurance Group, including chief financial officer for North America and chief executive officer of the Universal Underwriters Group (now Zurich Direct Markets). He also served on the board of directors of Nuveen Investments.
"Risks are now emerging with increasing speed and variety, and companies in our industry must look into the future with even greater focus," said Argo Group chief executive officer Mark Watson. "Tom is a financial expert whose strategic insights – gained over the course of a diverse and successful career – will be invaluable to Argo Group as we identify and adapt to these new risks and continue to evolve as a leading specialty underwriter."
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Amidst the breathtaking scenery of the Finger Lakes sits Ithaca, N.Y. A college town engrained with a grassroots approach, this city is also home to record label Blank Slate. Kamal Naeem, the label's founder, is an Ithaca native and a graduate of Ithaca College.
"I spent nearly 20 years in Ithaca. It's where I grew up and where my family is. And though it doesn't have a tradition of electronic music (besides Robert Moog developing his synth up the road), it's safe to say it was responsible for providing a variety of very strong musical experiences," he says.
Often joked to be "centrally isolated" Ithaca is actually 4-6 hours by car to a major city which Naeem says influences the area with an array of world-class music. "There was always a steady stream of jazz," he says, seeing the likes of Pharoah Sanders, Joshua Redman and the Mingus Big Band, all at local venues. Additionally, Cornell University's South Asian community hosts classical Indian concerts, from acts like Zakir Hussain and Hariprasad Chaurasia. Local music festival Grassroots has been taking place in Ithaca since 1991 bringing a gamut of global artists.
With Ithaca College's music school there is no lack of talent in the rural city. He continues, "Though Ithacans might not be familiar with electronic music as a concept, we never had to fight for the music to be considered important or a worthy use of our time. And folks were more or less supportive when we started going in the electronic direction. Now Ithaca is slowly developing a tradition of electronic music." To his knowledge he says there are four labels with ties to Ithaca. Soren went to school at Cornell and while living in the same city he and John Barera wrote the first couple EPs on Supply. Also a native to Ithaca is Mirko Azis who was involved in the Detour Crew while attending Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, Penn. Phil Chung and Tahj (Turtle Bugg) Morris, owners of Basement Floor Records, would throw parties along with Naeem during his years at college.
Naeem began development for Blank Slate "out of the desire to contribute to a music scene beyond isolated Ithaca. I had recently returned from my first trip to Berlin, and even in a city where so many people love electronic music, I was surprised to discover I was a fully fledged music nerd there as well." Solely run by Naeem the label originally was developed with the efforts of Soren Jahan (René Audiard). On the visual side Mathea Millman is the art director for nearly all the label's B-side art. Azis and Mike Lavigne contributed with design, as well as Max Hull who lent his graceful handwriting for the logo.
While the label was in the early stages Naeem spent a majority of 2013 studying in Berlin. He used this time to network and really explore deeper into club culture. "I'd never really been clubbing (I was too young to go out in the U.S.), and it was amazing to be in this seemingly huge city with so much music happening all the time. I came back to Ithaca to complete school and save some money." Blank Slate began to pick up and he officially relocated to Berlin in January 2015 with hopes of continuing forward as an artist and label head.
It was a tougher transition than expected, he says. "Though Berlin has so many musical opportunities, working here can be quite the challenge. My initial plan was to try and work in the music industry. I found this quite challenging, as the music industry here has a very loose relationship with anything resembling professionalism and there are so many eager young people that businesses often take advantage of this. You'd be surprised at the number of big name businesses here which operate on a steady flow of recyclable interns." Currently he is working in online marketing for a Berlin startup.
On a music level Naeem has noticed that Berlin is overwhelmingly populated with electronic music and there can be little wiggle room for other genres. Within the U.S. he says "there are so few things going on that keeping an open mind and going to a concert or show you might not like is often how people expand their horizons. Berlin has such a huge electronic music scene that people's interests often remain very narrow. Folks seem very comfortable going to the same parties and shows over and over again, and not really broadening their horizons." With an incredibly diverse background in music, he recognizes that on a technical and cultural level music should be open to variation.
With reflections on the Berlin music scene aside he recognizes that Blank Slate being based in Germany is ideal for his releases. It is ripe with networking and access to artists who live and perform locally. "Meeting artists who are much more experienced and knowledgeable has certainly helped me in the running of the label," he says.
He studied politics at Ithaca College but has yet to pursue anything in that direction but says time will tell if he decides to enter the world of academia. "A close family friend told me that one's early 20s were 'a perfect time to make mistakes.' I'm currently putting music first in my life, so we'll see how that goes," he says.
Catch Kamal Naeem and Israel Vines this Saturday, Jan. 7 for his Buffalo debut for the Sequencer/Redux party.


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What Invention Helped To Improve The Education And Scholarly Culture Of Song China?
What happened to the students who prepared for Song civil service exams quizlet?
How did the Song improve the compass?
How did the Song Dynasty improve the examination system?
What did scholars do in the Song Dynasty?
Do concubines still exist?
Why is The Tale of Genji important in Japanese culture?
What is a major theme of The Tale of Genji Brainly?
What redeeming qualities did Prince Genji show?
What happened to Chinggis Khan's empire at his death?
How did the Japanese government diverge from Chinese models in the late ninth century?
How does this illustration reflect the major artistic trend of the Song period quizlet?
How was foot binding viewed during the Song Dynasty?
What was the biggest disadvantage of the Song military quizlet?
How did the invention of the compass affect the Song Dynasty?
How did the Chinese improve their shipbuilding and navigational tools?
What did the Song Dynasty invent?
What was education like in the Song dynasty?
What change within China during the Song dynasty best helps to explain that trend?
Why did the Song dynasty establish civil service examinations?
How did the Song dynasty improve the economy of China?
What were the 3 greatest achievements of the Song dynasty?
What kind of culture did ancient Chinese promote in their bureaucracy?
Is polygamy allowed in China?
Can you have more than one wife in China?
Similarly, How did the development of the Japanese phonetic script change Japanese culture?
What impact did the invention of the Japanese phonetic script have on the culture of Japan? Because writing was so difficult, fewer individuals learned to do it. It aided in the growth of literacy. Because it was exclusively used for precious religious writings, the culture didn't alter much.
Also, it is asked, What happened to the students who prepared for the Song Civil Service exams?
What became to the pupils that studied for the Song civil service exams? The vast majority of them never went on to work for the government.
Secondly, What place did concubines have in Chinese families in Song China?
Concubines, or qie, played a middle-ground role. They were similar to spouses in that they were expected to have offspring for their male companions, but they were also treated as domestic servants or maids.
Also, What is the focus of the Japanese masterpiece The Tale of Genji?
What is the central theme of The Tale of Genji, a Japanese literary masterpiece? It illustrates the life of a court in amazing detail.
People also ask, Which of the following helped the Japanese to repeatedly repulse?
Which of the following factors aided the Japanese in repelling Mongol invasions on several occasions? Two severe storms and two powerful samurai armies.
What became to the pupils that studied for the Song civil service exams? The vast majority of them never went on to work for the government. What did Fujiwara's control of Japan's government signify? To conquer the Southern Song, Khubilai Khan needed to construct what?
The magnetic compass was enhanced during the Song Dynasty by lowering the needle's size and connecting it to a permanent stem in the. See the whole response below.
The Song government decided to substitute applicants' names with numbers and had clerks recopy each test so that the handwriting could not be recognized, in order to boost their faith in the examiners' neutrality.
Scholars in subjects like archaeology and epigraphy proliferated, while private collections of ancient texts grew. Scholar-officials were also affiliated with the Four Accomplishments: painting, poetry, a chess-like strategic game known as weiqi (go in Japanese), and zither playing (qin).
Concubinage appears in numerous forms today. Women are no longer coerced into it, and it is still mostly practiced by Asians of means. In Asia, having a concubine or mistress is considered part of the culture. Women's roles are still subordinate to men's.
The Tale of Genji had a significant impact on the development of Japanese culture, including literature, art, crafts, and the performing arts, and provided thematic material for a wide range of works and pursuits, including folding screens, picture scrolls, incense ceremonies, Noh, joruri (narrative chanting in bunraku puppets
The 'Tale of Genji' examines the many topics of affection, friendship, filial devotion, and familial relationships, as well as love, passion, and the interaction of individuals of opposite sexes.
Genji seems to be chilly and unconcerned. His beautiful looks and athleticism are his greatest redeeming qualities.
The Khagan was the ruler of the Mongol Empire. It was divided into four pieces after Genghis Khan's death (Yuan Dynasty, Il-Khanate, Chagatai Khanate, and Golden Horde), each controlled by its own Khan.
In the late ninth century, how did the Japanese administration differ from Chinese models? Despite the fact that the Heian administration started by adopting Chinese patterns, after the Fujiwara family acquired power, it went a different path. Fujiwara supremacy signaled a return to clan politics and the commercialization of political power.
How does this image represent the Song period's dominant artistic trend? It displays a lone scholar in the middle of a countryside. With the addition of a lute, it alludes to the importance of the arts.
Foot binding was first used in China during the Song Dynasty. It was used to make the feet of young women look smaller in order to facilitate marriage. In the end, women's position in China was diminished because they were considered as sexual objects rather than productive, contributing members of society.
What was the Song military's most serious flaw? It ate up a sizable chunk of the government's income.
The magnetic compass was initially used for divination purposes in China throughout the Han and Tang dynasties (since about 206 BC). By 1040–44, the military in Song Dynasty China was using the compass for navigational orienteering, and by 1111–1117, it was being utilized for marine navigation.
The Chinese were able to expand long-distance commerce by building enormous ships with ruddrs and sails for steering. 2. Sailors used the compass to navigate their ships' whereabouts and cruise farther away from shore.
The Song dynasty reigned at an era of immense innovation and growth. Moveable type, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass were among the most significant innovations in Ancient China's history during this period.
From the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127), official school education declined, and throughout the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), it existed only in name, as a tool of the national examination system. Taixue (Imperial Colleges) or Guozijian (Higher Learning Institutions) were the highest levels of education (Imperial Academies)
During the Song dynasty, there were some favorable developments in women's life. Women's property rights were enlarged, and in certain circles, women's education was promoted as a means of better preparing their boys for civil service tests.
Emperors extended both exams and the government school system throughout the Song dynasty, partly to offset the power of military aristocracy, and the number of degree holders increased to more than four to five times that of the Tang dynasty.
The creation of a statewide market was aided by a unified tax system and effective commerce channels by road and canal. Economic efficiency and productivity were boosted as a result of regional specialization.
The Song Dynasty of China made ten major achievements. #1 The Song dynasty saw China's Pre-Modern Economic Revolution. #2 It was the world's first government to produce banknotes. #3 The civil service examination system was elevated to a new level of significance. #4 The Chinese navy became the first permanent standing force in the country.
Throughout much of Imperial China's history, Confucianism, sometimes known as Ruism, was the official ideology, and knowledge of Confucian classics was the key qualification for admittance into the imperial bureaucracy.
Bigamy, concubinage, and child marriage were popular in China until the communists assumed control in 1949. Beijing passed a new ordinance outlawing these activities in 1950. Monogamy was also imposed by the government in an attempt to make women in Chinese culture more equal to males. In China, polygamy is no longer permitted.
Polygamy is outlawed in mainland China, according to the Civil Code, which was approved in 2020. This took the place of a ban that existed from 1950 and 1980. Polygyny, or having two spouses of equal rank, has long been banned in China, and in certain dynasties, it was considered a crime.
The "what was the biggest disadvantage of the song military?" is a question that is asked often. The answer to this question would be the invention of paper. Paper helped to improve the education and scholarly culture of Song China because it allowed for easier and more efficient storage, organization, and distribution of information.
The "by 800, how might the tang dynasty be characterized?" is an invention that helped to improve the education and scholarly culture of Song China. The Tang Dynasty was a highly influential period in Chinese history.
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So, to continue my archeology process to revive old software, again i´m preparing my next step to revive KDE 2, on the so indirect baptized KDE restoration project.
Despite KDE 1 last year, KDE 2 is a complete different beast and will take me some time to made it ready.
The very base foundation, though is Qt2, the this time i decided do a better treatment to Qt to easier my further work. I based my work on clang compiler.
Result is far from perfect, i decided publish on the very first stage of usage, but some strategies on the port still not here yet. but is perfectly usable, all examples compiles and runs.
Because i was motivated and i really believe we need to restore our memory code wise.
Don't you have better things to do ?
Can i compile on Windows ?
Can i use with Wayland ?
Nope, an i doubt about future.
Do you accept patches ?
Are you joking with us ?
Previous Article KDE Project releases KDE 1 !
Would it not be more interesting to compile old Qt2 applications with modern Qt?
A few years ago, I played with purging the AUR from old Qt2 packages by making patches to build with Qt4 (using the qt2to3 script) and later (with some help) with Qt5.
One thing I also wanted to try (but never got the time for it) was to also investigate whether the old motif-to-qt compilation extension (a module in Qt3) could be updated so that old motif applications could be built with modern Qt.
Great to see you are continuing your work on KDE2, keep it up!
It is going to be an LTS release so that we can use it in a serious industrial product?
This is great, it'll allow us to examine the performance differentials between the versions and also work in realtime to see what evolutionary design decisions were made and how they turned out when considering futer itterations.


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Q: Problems displaying blob images This is my actual code, i'm starting to using php and i want to know how to display a blob image on my website.
But until now i can't find how to do it. This is my php code...

$query=mysqli_query($link, "SELECT image, titulo, tecnica, medidas FROM upload ");

$numrows = mysqli_num_rows($query);

$posts = array();

if ($numrows != 0)
{
 while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($query))
  {
      $post = new stdClass();
      $post->image = '<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,'.base64_encode($row['image']).'"/>';
      $post->titulo  = $row['titulo'];
      $post->tecnica  = $row['tecnica'];
      $post->medidas  = $row['medidas'];

      array_push($posts, $post);
   }
   }

  $jsonData = json_encode($posts);

  header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");

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A: Try this:
<?php

    //Connect to the database
  $databasehost = "YOUR DATABASE HOST";
  $databasename = "YOUR DATABASE NAME";
  $databaseusername ="YOUR DATABASE USERNAME";
  $databasepassword = "YOUR DATABASE PASSWORD";

  $con = mysqli_connect($databasehost, $databaseusername, $databasepassword, $databasename) or die(mysqli_error($con));
  mysqli_set_charset ($con, "utf8");

$sql = "SELECT image, titulo, tecnica, medidas FROM upload;";
$res = mysqli_query($con, $sql);
$result = array();

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($res)) {
array_push($result,
array(
'image'=>base64_encode($row[0]),
'titulo'=>$row[1],
'tecnica'=>$row[2],
'medidas'=>$row[3]
));
}
echo json_encode(array($result));

mysqli_close($con);

This will print your data like this:

{[{"image":"IMAGE ENCODED IN BASE 64","titulo":"SOME
  DATA","tecnica":"SOME DATA", "medidas":"SOME DATA"},
{"image":"IMAGE ENCODED IN BASE 64","titulo":"SOME
  DATA","tecnica":"SOME DATA", "medidas":"SOME DATA"},
{"image":"IMAGE ENCODED IN BASE 64","titulo":"SOME
  DATA","tecnica":"SOME DATA", "medidas":"SOME DATA"}]}

Hope it helps! Good Luck! Happy Coding!

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ACLU launches legal campaign against NSA phone records gathering
Wednesday 24 May 2006 at 1:30 PM ET
by Joshua Pantesco
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed nationally-coordinated complaints on Wednesday against telecommunications companies and the attorneys general of twenty states requesting investigations into the legality of information sharing between phone companies and the National Security Agency (NSA) [JURIST report; USA Today report]. Unlike the complaint filed by Illinois residents [JURIST report] Monday asking AT&T to stop handing over information to the NSA, the ACLU complaints demand public investigations into the NSA surveillance program [JURIST news archive] that reportedly involves accumulating the calling patterns of millions of Americans into NSA databases for further study. The ACLU also sponsored a advertisement [image] in papers across the US Wednesday asking the public to participate in the litigation by filing a complaint [form] with the Federal Communications Commission.
The ACLU has also sent a letter [text] to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) calling on the FCC to reverse its decision not to investigate [JURIST report] telecom information-sharing activities. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said that the FCC cannot adequately investigate the claims because they do not have access to classified documents, but FCC Commissioner Michael Copps last week said that a probe was necessary [JURIST report] to determine whether a violation of Section 222 [text] or any other provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 [text] occurred. During Senate confirmation hearings last week on his nomination to head the CIA, former NSA director Gen. Michael Hayden refused to comment [JURIST report] on the alleged data pooling program revealed by USA Today two weeks ago. AP has more.


"Calling Home"- displayed the screen of my cellphone screen as soon as I clicked Rahul's name in the contacts list. Even my phone knew that he was not just the man I loved but he was much more than that. He was my HOME. They say, "Home is where the heart is." Yes, he had my heart, since the very first day I saw him. Not because he was overtly gorgeous or anything (but he is) but because of the sincerity and honesty that his eyes held. He was a living proof of goodness in this world.
Rahul always picked up my calls as soon as I called him. It would not take more than a couple of rings before he picked up the phone and wait for me to say something. But today he wasn't picking up my calls. I had already called him for over ten times and he still hadn't picked up my call. Typically, I would have freaked out if he didn't pick his calls but today I was expecting this. Today was different, as I said. Today, we had fought. Like we had been fighting since the past few days now.
Rahul and I shared the kind of love where we would pick up fights at the drop of a hat but we would make up sooner. We just couldn't stay mad at each other for long. And even today in the morning when I stormed out of the house and went to work after our fight, I felt terrible for behaving that way even before I reached office.
So immediately after settling in my seat at work, I went to the pantry to brew my coffee. I needed coffee to restore my sanity before I could call Rahul to apologise. After having done that, I dialled his number but he didn't pick up. I didn't call him again because I knew he would be driving. I returned to my seat with my coffee and thought I would call him sometime later.
I let an hour pass. I picked up my phone and texted him to check if he had reached. It was customary. He would drop me a text saying that he had reached office everyday. Today, he still hadn't. I knew he wouldn't because he was mad at me. So I did. He didn't respond, still. I assumed he would be in a meeting or something.
Another hour and a half passed. I called him again. He didn't answer.
He didn't reply to my messages or return my calls. Half of my day had passed and I had placed him fourteen calls in total. Before placing anymore calls I decided to go to his workplace and apologise in person. So I did. I booked a cab from my workplace to his and revised and re-revised my apology speech on the way.
I was just fifteen minutes away from his office so I decided to call him again. To check up on him, whether he even had time to meet me when I arrived. He still didn't answer. Finally, I reached his office, and asked the cab driver to stop the car on the opposite side of the road as I wanted to buy Rahul some flowers.
I bought a bouquet of tulips for him. Rahul loved tulips. I called him again hoping he would pick up so that I don't have to call one of his colleagues to bring him downstairs. I was so so excited to meet Rahul again. I would hug him tightly, apologise and kiss him. After which we would have had coffee at a cafe nearby.
So, I began to cross the road. To meet my love and to apologise to him. Tell him how much I love him. Luckily, he picked up my call. He said "Hello, yeah tell me"? Each cell in my body danced to the sound of his voice. As soon as I opened my mouth to talk, a shriek cry uttered from my mouth. I had been hit by a car.
Before I knew I was five feet in the air and then I landed on the ground with a thud. I still remember being in the air for 3 seconds because Rahul's face floated in my mind for exactly that amount of time and I murmured "I love you, I am sorry." As soon as I landed on the ground, I didn't remember a thing. I do remember a few flashes where I saw Rahul talk to me and say that he had forgiven me and that I would be fine. That he would never fight with me, ever again.
And yes, we never fought. Ever again.
Non amo molto il caffè, ma i tulipani sono favolosi !
Great job Neha. .. It just took my heart away .. Loved it .
Love this. Blew my mind away. Your stories are always so expressive.
Great story and so sad. Those regrets are haunting.
Very nice story with an interesting but sad twist,loved reading it.


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Bio Farma, Indonesia's national vaccine company, is completing a phase 1 trial of a new rotavirus vaccine invented in Melbourne and has started pilot manufacture of the vaccine. Licencing trials are next, followed hopefully by release of the new vaccine in 2021.
The project is the culmination of a 42-year partnership between Melbourne and Gadjah Mada University which started after Ruth Bishop and colleagues found a virus, now known as rotavirus, in babies at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. They showed it was the cause of an acute gastroenteritis that was hospitalising 10,000 Australian children every year and killing more than half a million children worldwide.
The discovery eventually led to vaccines against rotavirus which are saving lives in the West but not yet in many developing countries, in part due to the limitations of the existing vaccines.
The new vaccine is the first rotavirus vaccine that can be given at birth, and the first made without using porcine products (bovine trypsin is used in its manufacture instead of porcine trypsin).
The vaccine was invented by the Melbourne Children's Global Health team working with Gadjah Mada University.
PT Bio Farma is commercialising the vaccine. Bio Farma was established in 1890 and is a state-owned enterprise that provides all the vaccines on Indonesia's immunisation schedule. That's 1.7 billion doses a year. Bio Farma is also a major supplier to UN agencies and global health initiatives, producing, for example, 1.4 billion doses of polio vaccines of which about 20 million are for Indonesian use. The company is based in Bandung, about 100 km east of Jakarta.
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The first baby in Indonesia to be vaccinated with the new vaccine. (Credit: Melbourne Children's Campus)
The midwives and doctor at the Jatinom Primary Health Centre in Klaten District, Central Java, which is connected to the new rotavirus trial. (Credit: Melbourne Children's Campus)
Professor Yati Soenarto from Universitas Gadjah Mada, who has been involved in testing the new vaccine. She is with the first child in Indonesia to be given the vaccine and the child's mother. (Credit: Melbourne Children's Campus)
Jarir At Thobari and colleagues from the Universitas Gadjah Mada at the Royal Children's Hospital. (Credit: Melbourne Children's Campus)
Monica Brook, Senior Registrar at The Royal Children's Hospital, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. (Credit: Melbourne Children's Campus)
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Scene depicting the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary by the Archangel Gabriel that she will give birth to Christ. Situated outdoors on the flat roof of a middle-eastern house, surrounded by a low stone wall, Mary kneels, her head bowed, right hand clasped to her chest and her left hand open and extended outwards – as the winged angel hovers over her. Gabriel, to the left, with blue-pink drapery and a mane of golden hair, gazes down at Mary, extends his right hand towards her head and indicates upwards at the sky with his left hand.
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This month sees the start of the most extensive coordinated census of waterbirds in the Baltic Sea. This is a huge undertaking requiring coordinated aerial and ship surveys during the limited weather windows available during the Baltic winter. It is also of huge significance because the Baltic Sea is of immense global importance for wintering waterbirds. Among many other important waterbird populations it supports most of the worlds Long-tailed Ducks and Velvet Scoters, both of which are globally threatened.
This census will provide us with much needed up-to-date statistics on the status of these waterbirds for the first time since the census carried out in 2007-09 for the SOWBAS project. It is being funded by HELCOM and undertaken by University of Life Sciences (Estonia), Aarhus University (Denmark), SYKE (Finland), Kiel University (Germany), Latvian Ornithological Society, various institutes in Poland and Lund University (Sweden).
Also for the first time, coordinated surveys will be undertaken in other marine areas of northern Europe –
the coasts of Belgium, Netherlands and the German North Sea, providing the most comprehensive assessment of European seaduck population sizes to date. Unfortunately coverage of all parts of northern Europe has not been possible for this census, so this remains a key need for the next time this census is carried out.
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My blog is a personal style blog, where I share my outfits and give advice on how to wear certain items.
I've always loved putting together new outfits and expressing my mood and my personality through my wardrobe. Since I was a teenager, my surrounding appreciated my style and was inspired by it. The blog is a great way to share it with a larger reader base.
Out of a million outfits, it's really hard to pick the one outfit you want to post first. In the end, I randomly chose a black and white look and I am still happy with the choice.
In terms of promoting, I find facebook most useful.
Yes, but as working at a bank has little to do with fashion, blogging has had no impact on my career.
Apart from planning a youtube channel, I will talk about more topics besides fashion on the blog.
All the influential people I know now. It would have saved me a lot of time promoting the blog.
Every morning, when I put together a great outfit I feel the urge to share it on the blog.


The Complainant is Morgan Freeman, Santa Monica, California, United States of America, represented by Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, PC, United States of America.
The Respondent is Mighty LLC, Charlestown, Saint Kitts and Nevis.
The disputed domain name <morganfreeman.com> is registered with GKG.Net, Inc. (formerly GK Group LLC).
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on March 14, 2005. On March 14, 2005, the Center transmitted by email to GKG.Net, Inc. a request for registrar verification in connection with the domain name at issue. On March 15, 2005, GKG.Net, Inc. transmitted by email to the Center its verification response confirming that the Respondent is listed as the registrant and providing the contact details for the administrative, billing, and technical contact. The Center verified that the Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy"), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules"), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Supplemental Rules").
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on March 17, 2005. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was April�6,�2005. The Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified the Respondent's default on April 7, 2005.
The Center appointed Peter G. Nitter as the sole panelist in this matter on April�14,�2005. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
Complainant is the world famous actor Morgan Freeman doing business c/o Revelations Entertainment LLC. In the last 40 years he has appeared in more than 50 movies, numerous television shows, and plays. Since 1971, Mr. Freeman has appeared in 37 movies. Mr. Freeman's name is used in ads to promote these films. Mr.�Freeman's movies are available internationally in theaters, on home video and DVD, pay TV, on airlines and on hotel/motel pay-per-view systems. Mr. Freeman has been nominated to, and has won, many awards for his work with the movies. Mr.�Freeman is ranked number 31 on Empire Magazine's "top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
Mr. Freeman has also had a long presence on television. He has participated in children's programs, drama, different shows and voiceovers. Mr. Freeman has also had many stage appearances.
Mr. Freeman has, since 1993, also worked behind the camera. Currently he has several projects in development including projects for Disney, Paramount and Dreamworks.
Mr. Freeman is frequently profiled in the press.
In 1964, Mr. Freeman registered his name with the Screen Actors Guild and has maintained his membership since then. In addition, on December 13, 2004, Mr.�Freeman filed an application to register "MORGAN FREEMAN" as a trademark in connection with entertainment services, in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The application (serial number 75/531,828) is currently pending.
As a result of Mr. Freeman's performances, promotion, critical acclaim and industry and public recognition, the name and common law mark MORGAN FREEMAN has become well known to the public. The name has enormous value and goodwill and identifies Mr. Freeman uniquely and exclusively as the source of services and products to which his name is applied. Complainant has established strong common law trademark rights in MORGAN FREEMAN based on his extensive use of the name in connection with entertainment services for more than 40 years.
The Policy does not require that marks at issue be registered. Common law rights in general are recognized and names of celebrities are protected under the Policy.
The domain name at issue is identical to Complainant's MORGAN FREEMAN mark save for the ".com" suffix. This addition does not serve to distinguish the domain name from the mark.
The domain name was registered after Complainant had established strong rights in his name and mark.
There exists no relationship between Complainant and Respondent that would give rise to any license, permission or authorization by which Respondent could own or use the name.
Respondent has never received any consent from Complainant to use the mark. Respondent has no connection to the Complainant, and Respondent is not known by the name "Morgan Freeman".
The domain name leads to a website that contains a search engine portal with sponsored links of third parties that provide Respondent with a commercial benefit. There is no bona fide authorized offering of goods and services. Respondent is using Complainant's mark to induce Internet users to come to his website by creating a likelihood of confusion.
Respondent lacks the right to use Complainant's MORGAN FREEMAN mark in the domain name since it suggests that Complainant is or may be authorizing or sponsoring a website associated with the domain name or that the domain name is a means of contacting the Complaint.
The mark is so well known that it is not reasonably possible for Respondent to demonstrate any bona fide legitimate interest in a domain name that includes Complainant's mark.
Respondent is using the domain name for its commercial benefit to lure Internet users to its website. Internet users entering the domain name of a celebrity expect to find a site offering goods or services associated with the celebrity's trademark. Here they find a site that has no association with Complainant or his mark. The domain name is thus being used in bad faith.
Respondent owns in excess of 400 domain names including <jamesstewart.com>, <lizaminelli.com>, <denvernuggets.com>, <nyyankees.com> and <disneychannelgames.com>. This shows that Respondent has engaged in a pattern of registering domain names to prevent the trademark owner from registering a domain name corresponding to his mark.
The fact that Respondent has taken Complainant's very mark as its domain name also is evidence of bad faith. The name is obviously connected with Complainant. The use by Respondent, who has no connection with the Complainant, in connection with a website that has no connection with the Complainant suggests "opportunistic bad faith".
The very fact that Respondent registered the domain name establishes bad faith use and registration.
Previous correspondence between Respondent and Complainant is referred to section 4 above.
The Complainant's mark MORGAN FREEMAN is unregistered. The Complainant predicates its case on common law rights it has acquired through use of its mark MORGAN FREEMAN in commerce and specifically in connection with movies and entertainment.
To establish rights in a personal name for the purposes of Paragraph�4(a) of the Policy it is necessary to show that the name has been used as an indication of the source of goods or services supplied in trade or commerce and as a result of such use the name has become distinctive of that source.
In this case the Panel finds it evidenced that the public associates the name "Morgan Freeman" with the Complainant's movies and entertainment services. Moreover, albeit more relevant under the bad faith discussion below, Complainant's common law rights in the mark MORGAN FREEMAN existed long before the domain name at issue was registered.
Numerous panels have, when faced with unregistered marks, upheld their protectable status under the Policy. See e.g. True Blue Productions, Inc. v. Chris Hoffmann, WIPO Case No. D2004-0930, and the cases cited therein.
The suffix ".com" does not distinguish the domain name at issue from Complainant's mark.
Therefore the Panel finds that the domain name <morganfreeman.com> is identical to Complainant's mark MORGAN FREEMAN.
The Panel has considered Complainant's allegation that the Respondent does not have any rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name at issue. Since Respondent is in default, these allegations have not been contested, and the Panel finds it very unlikely that Respondent could be in a position to claim any rights in the domain name at issue.
Because it is generally difficult for Complainant to prove the fact that Respondent does not have any rights or legitimate interests in the domain name at issue, while Respondent at the same time is given ample opportunity to demonstrate any such rights or legitimate interests pursuant to paragraph 4(c) of the Policy, previous decisions under the UDRP have found it sufficient for Complainant to make a prima facie showing of its assertion.
The Panel finds that the circumstances mentioned and evidenced by Complainant clearly establish a prima facie showing that Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the domain name at issue.
As Respondent has not at all demonstrated any of the three circumstances that constitute rights to or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name pursuant to paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the Policy, the Panel concludes that the Respondent does not have any rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name at issue.
The Panel has considered Complainant's assertions and evidence with regard to the Respondent's registration and use of the domain name in bad faith. By not submitting a response, Respondent has failed to invoke any circumstances that could demonstrate that it did not register and use the domain name at issue in bad faith.
The Respondent must have known of the Complainant's well-known mark MORGAN FREEMAN when the disputed domain name was registered. The Panel finds it likely that Respondent registered the domain name in order to misleadingly divert traffic to its site.
On this background the Panel accepts the Complainant's assertion that the Respondent's registration of a domain name similar to the trademark of the Complainant is an attempt to unfairly benefit from the Complainant's trademark. The fact that the Internet website corresponding to the domain name at issue until recently consisted of a search engine that listed an array of available searches, some of which related to entertainment, shows that Respondent is aware of Complainant and his mark. So does the email sent from Respondent to Complainant on February 10, 2005.
The Panel furthermore finds it evidenced that the Respondent previously has been found to be involved in certain registrations of various domain names that include famous trademarks in an annex to the Complaint. The Panel sees this as further indication of bad faith.
The Panel concludes that the Respondent registered and used the domain name in bad faith.
For all the foregoing reasons, in accordance with Paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the domain name <morganfreeman.com> be transferred to the Complainant.


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This is the fourth lesson in the Instruments of the Orchestra Unit Plan for 5th grade Music students.
Rationale: The purpose of this lesson is to provide students with information about the brass family, its members, and their characteristics through the use of a Music software program called Musical Instruments Multimedia Encyclopedia.
CD player and CD of the Canadian Brass Quintet Music.
Class Organization: Students will start on the carpet area for the instrument demonstration. They then will go to their desks/tables and will be on their individual laptops. The teacher will be at the front of the class for demonstration but will come around to the students as well. The teacher will be using the overhead and InFocus machine in the front of the classroom for the guided activity.
The teacher will then review with the students some of the characteristics of the brass family and show them pictures of each of the instruments in the family. The students will be asked to guess what the instruments are by name.
The teacher will then take out the trumpet for the students to see and hear. The teacher will explain how to hold the trumpet, the material it is made out of, and how the sound is produced. The teacher will then play it for demonstration.
The teacher then will set up the program on the large pull-down screen using the InFocus machine.
The students will follow the teacher in opening up the program from their desktops and will be guided through the program. The students will read the entries for the brass instruments aloud as well as the entry on mutes and the various kinds.
The teacher will then hand out a worksheet for the students to complete (using the encyclopedia) with the guidance of the teacher via transparency and overhead.
When the worksheets have been completed together, he teacher will have the students listen to a few selections of music from the Canadian Brass Quintet CD.
The teacher will collect the worksheets for participation evaluation.
Assessment: Students will be assessed on their ability to complete the brass worksheet and will also be assessed informally on their participation by means of a participation rubric.


Hello blog readers, I'd like to take a moment to share something that I believe will bless your life.
The Holy Spirit spoke very specifically to my heart today about giving. There's a particular kind of giving that we as believers should keep close to our heart. God wants our giving to have purpose.
When giving (specifically when tithing), be intentional. It shouldn't be a ritualistic thing we do. If we aren't careful, it's easy to put something in the offering plate because that's just what people do on Sunday. That is unintentional giving. The condition of the heart is what matters to God.
Proverbs 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
Our heartfelt intention to advance the gospel is what's important. That's why we sew into ministry work! We give out of obedience to God — to advance the gospel to people and communities nearby and around the world.
We shouldn't limit our giving to the local church we attend. God touched my heart today after I watched an online sermon (for the 3rd time because it blessed my spirit so much). Even though I've given my tithes, it would be selfish of me to indulge on this spiritual meal for days, and not sew into the ministry if I'm able to give. The goal is to advance the gospel. The goal is for the good news to reach the entire world. I'm so thankful He opened my heart to sew, so that others can continue to be blessed through the works of that ministry.
If the Holy Spirit convicts your heart about giving, be joyful. He's preparing you to receive something much greater than you could ever give yourself! Pray for God to prepare your heart so that your giving is intentional according to God's will. The enemy will attack you with feelings of financial doubt & worry (can I afford to give?), and immediate return (selfish motive) because the last things the devil wants to see are heavenly blessings poured into your life.
2 Corinthians 9:6-7 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Coloring! I have an adult coloring book called "Coloring the Psalms". Coloring the detailed templates over a period of days is a good way to meditate on the scripture.
And, praying is an act of giving. We advance God's Kingdom when we pray for others!
1Timothy 2:1-4 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people–for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
I pray that this blog has blessed you, and that we all be intentional givers who sew into God's Kingdom!


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The Celtic Rising – The significance of Jock Stein's second trophy as Celtic manager
By Mike Maher 23 October, 2022 2 Comments
A Hymn for the Dawn of the Free!
Mike Maher takes us on a journey down memory lane to the early sixties and recalls that his father was wrong in thinking that the new Jock Stein era at Celtic would be another false dawn. Mike also recalls how the mainstream media of the day managed to blame "The Old Firm" after Rangers fans rioted at Hampden…
Apparently Jock Stein had only one photograph in his office.
Not the Lisbon Lions but the 1965 Scottish Cup winning team. It was said that things might have turned out as well for Celtic if they had not won that game. However I feel that Big Jock's second trophy was also important in setting Celtic on their new path. It was the League Cup and the opponents were – Rangers.
I had been following Celtic for five years before Jock Stein arrived. In the ten Old Firm League encounters during that period Celtic had managed one victory. Five League Cup games with the Ibrox men had yielded one win and four defeats. A draw was the best Scottish Cup result with 2 defeats in that competition. Celtic had managed a couple of wins in the Glasgow Cup but even allowing for the fact that the latter trophy still had some importance in those days the conclusion was all too easy to come to – Celtic could just not beat Rangers.
Big Jock's first Old Firm league game ended in a 2-1 defeat. "Still can't beat the Rangers" were my father's sad words as I returned from Ibrox that September day. Another false dawn? Surely not.
Celtic lost 2-1 to Rangers in September 1965, making it 9 long years since a win at Ibrox.
With Jock Stein in charge things just had to change. We would soon get another chance as the two teams were to meet in the League Cup final in just over a month. The previous season Celtic had won the first Old Firm League encounter only to go down 2-1 in the League Cup Final. Maybe that would be an omen in reverse as it were.
So it was some confidence I met up with a school friend, John Fagan, to join him, his dad, uncle and cousin on the Kirkwood CSC for the journey to Hampden. It was a bright autumn afternoon as we walked down Aitkenhead Road and into the stadium. We climbed up the steep steps to the top of the Celtic End and then went down the dilapidated terracing to a vantage point near the front where we had a great view of the action.
And action there was. In those days Rangers were to me epitomised by players like Bobby Shearer, Harold Davis and Sammy Baird. Hard, crude men who used physical intimidation as part of their game. However on this occasion the Celtic players showed that for a change they were not going to be intimidated. Tackles were fierce with no prisoners taken. However there was skill too. Mostly from the Bhoys in green and white.
In particular John Hughes. "Big Yogi" had one of "those days". He seemed to be unstoppable. In one incident out on the left touchline in front of the North Enclosure he stood, hands on hips, with the ball at his feet inviting Rangers full back Kaj Johansen to tackle him. The Dane went for the ball and Yogi almost contemptuously knocked it past him and left him sprawling.
And it was Yogi who scored Celtic's goals, both from the penalty spot. The first in 18 minutes after Ronnie McKinnon inexplicably handled in the box and 10 minutes later after Ranger's left back Davie Provan brought down Jimmy Johnstone inside the penalty area.
The Celtic End was a happy though not over confident place during the half time interval. John's dad remarked that a referee who gave Celtic TWO penalties in one game might find himself in bother. (as it was the referee, Hugh Phillips, retired at the end of that season). Someone else reminded us that it was the same half time score as the 7-1 game.
However this was never going to be a high scoring game. The second half was also an uncompromising affair. Celtic showing a new steely determination and although Rangers scrambled a late goal we held on for a deserved victory.
A Rangers fan with hands on Billy McNeill
Big Billy was presented with the League Cup and the Celtic team then came out onto the park and brought the trophy to the Kings Park end to show to the Celtic fans. As we were cheering I noticed that at the other end of the ground some Rangers fans had come onto the track. That was not always unusual in those days. If a fight started on a packed terracing people would come over the boundary wall to get away. However this was more sinister.
Big Tam Gemmell is having none of it!
The Rangers fans were now on the field and were making their way towards the Celtic players. Thankfully the players realised in time and raced for the pavilion. Some fans did get close to them though and I recall Neilly Mochan and Tommy Gemmell having to manhandle some of them to get to safety.
More Rangers fans now came onto the park and were involved in fighting with the police. At the Celtic end we stood and watched. The pitch invasion actually subdued the Celtic support to an extent but the celebratory feeling soon returned as we made our way back to the double decker bus parked in the Toryglen football pitches.
Laps of Honour were banned as a result of the Rangers fans invading the pitch
As we pulled out of the bus park the bus convenor- John Daisley's dad – started the singing with "Kelly the Boy from Killane".
"What's the news, what's the news oh my bold Shelmalier with your long barrelled gun of the sea. Say what wind from the south blows his messenger here with a Hymn for the Dawn of the Free. Goodly news, goodly news do I bring youth of Forth, goodly news shall you hear Bargy man"
I don't know if he thought the words were relevant or he just liked the song but I could not help but feel that it was somehow appropriate.
When we got back to Coatbridge I waited outside the Big Tree Bar in Whifflet to get the evening papers the "Green Citizen" and the "Pink Times" to get the first reports on the game. Then home to share the joy with my father and brothers.
Later that evening we watched the highlights on "Scotsport" and I at last saw the goals my nerves had prevented me seeing at the actual game. I had turned my back as each penalty was taken. For once I went to bed on the night of an Old Firm game contented. Not only had Celtic won but the Rangers fans had rioted. The Sunday papers would surely make great reading.
A couple of years earlier I had been at Ibrox for Celtic's Scottish Cup semi-final with St Mirren. With their team down 3-0 many of the Celtic fans invaded the pitch with the intention of getting the game abandoned. Quite rightly they were heavily criticised by the media and I recall the sense of shame not just for the Celtic support but also for the wider Irish Catholic community with whom Celtic were more closely identified in those days.
However when I read the papers that October Sunday morning I discovered the Press had a different attitude to the previous day's riot. It was apparently an Old Firm problem. We were told that both clubs did not do enough to rid themselves of their bad element.
Some of the blame was even aimed at the Celtic players for coming out on the pitch with the trophy. Virtually none of the media ventured to suggest that Ranger's non –Catholic signing policy might attract some of that "bad element" to them. If that subject was mentioned at that time it was always countered by the fact that Celtic flew the Irish flag.
Amazingly even some Celtic supporters felt there was logic in that. That particular war would take a bit longer to win but at least on the pitch Celtic had won a major battle. They had stood up to Rangers and had at last beaten them in a major game.
With that monkey off our back and Jock Stein in charge who knows what we could go on to achieve? Goodly news, goodly news indeed!
Mike Maher
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David Potter on 23 October, 2022 10:51 pm
Brilliant stuff, Mike! Love the references to Kelly, the Boy from Killan! And what about the joy that it gave to the "long down trodden man"!
The Rangers supporters knew that the game was up – "you that have harried and held; you that have bullied and bribed. Tyrants! Hypocrites! Liars!"
Tim Buffy on 24 October, 2022 3:24 pm
Like you, Mike, I always felt that this was a hugely significant win. We not only beat Rangers in a game which actually meant something for the first time in many years,
We also showed them that we were no longer soft touches and were prepared to fight fire with fire. A brutal contest at times and not a great game, but a truly great day.


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Recently a hilltop slum in Mumbai gained fame as a new tourist destination thanks to an art project 'Chal Rang De' initiative spearheaded by Dedeepyya Reddy. The project goes to show how a splash of color can have such a powerful impact on communities who live there and draw admiring visitors from all over the world. Here are five more of the most colorful neighborhoods around the world who have discovered the power of a paintbrush and taken pride in making their hometowns a brighter place to be.
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Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, South Africa
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Bo-Kaap is without a doubt the most colorful neighborhood in Cape Town known for its collection of vividly pigmented and tightly spaced cottages adorning the narrow and steep cobbled streets of Signal Hill. These candy-colored houses have a historical significance that is close to the descendants who live in them, as well as thousands of people across the world. One such person is Shereen Habib, who was served as a guide in this area for over twenty years and whose family has lived in Bo-Kaap for nearly a century. You can take her 20-minute audio tour from the Bo-Kaap Museum and gain a deeply personal insight into the history of the area. The houses were originally inhabited by slaves and were required to be painted white at the time. Once the slaves were liberated, they painted the buildings vivid colours as a joyful expression of freedom. Bo-Kaap is overlooked by the stunning Table Mountain, one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature and is great for hiking, taking in the views by cable car or even abseiling.
Chefchaouen, Morocco
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Nicknamed the blue pearl of Morocco, Chefchaouen (known locally as Chaouen) is nestled in a hilly area of the Rif Mountain Range perfect for hiking and 4×4 adventures. Nobody really seems to know why the town is painted its distinctive indigo hue, with some saying it repels mosquitoes and others saying it represents the sea. In an earlier article we wrote about how it is one of 12 southern Mediterranean locations to benefit from a European program that has granted it around 10 million dirhams ($1 million) and declared the town "a model and initiator of change in sustainable energy management". In several major cities such as this, sustainable modes of transport such as bike-sharing are already commonplace.
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Havana combines breathtaking photo opportunities against a background of irresistible color with natural beauty, plenty of culture and lots of to explore. The surrounding areas of the city are attractive for a 4×4 self drive among the stunning steep limestone hills called mogotes where much of the country's famous and lucrative tobacco is cultivated.
The Rainbow Village (Kampung Pelangi), Indonesia
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The little Indonesian village of Kampung Pelangi was formerly known as a run-down slum. Now it has achieved fame as known as the Rainbow Village. Bridges, benches, roofs, walls were adorned with technicolour stripes, polka dots and psychedelic heart murals in a bold makeover with the aim of making the town more attractive to tourists. The idea of a local school teacher, it worked, with tourists flocking to the town for the highly Instagrammable backdrops and the local residents selling food and crafts to those visitors. A significant social project, it encouraged citizens' involvement in improving and maintaining the surroundings and has led to plans for the river to be cleared and cleaned.
La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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One of Latin America's most colorful neighborhoods, if not the most colorful, La Boca is well known for its vibrant houses, tango and soccer team. Most visitors to La Boca will be drawn by two main attractions, the proudly bright blue and yellow La Bombonera football stadium and the richly coloured Caminito, an iconic pedestrian street. The town was originally home to poor dock workers who could only afford to build their houses with leftover corrugated sheetmetal from the docks, and paint them with leftover castaway paint, which they often ran out of in the same color. In the 1950's, an artist called Quinquela Martínwas revived the run-down area by painting the dwellings in bright colours as the poor immigrants once did, making it a major tourist attraction.
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Fulgence Rabemahafaly (* 23. Mai 1951 in Miarinavaratra, Madagaskar) ist Erzbischof von Fianarantsoa.

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Am 3. Juni 1999 ernannte ihn Papst Johannes Paul II. zum Bischof von Ambositra. Der Erzbischof von Fianarantsoa, Philibert Randriambololona SJ, spendete ihm am 31. Oktober desselben Jahres die Bischofsweihe; Mitkonsekratoren waren der Bischof von Moulins, Philippe Barbarin, und der Bischof von Ambanja, Odon Marie Arsène Razanakolona. Am 1. Oktober 2002 ernannte ihn Papst Johannes Paul II. zum Erzbischof von Fianarantsoa.

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Server, PC-chip sales propel AMD
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said late Wednesday it swung to a first-quarter profit after it shed its money-losing memory-chip unit and saw surging sales of its chips used in personal computers and corporate servers.
The world's No. 2 maker of PC chips said it earned $184.5 million, or 38 cents a share, reversing a loss of $17 million, or 4 cents, a year earlier. This year's results included $35 million in charges for expensing stock options and retiring debt.
Sales rose 8% to $1.33 billion, even though AMD no longer counts memory-chip sales in its results. Sales of its microprocessors surged 73% from a year ago on strong demand for laptop and server chips.
Analysts polled by Thomson First Call expected sales of $1.33 billion and earnings of 30 cents a share.
Extending the momentum it built in the second half of 2005, AMD said it took more market share during the quarter from its much-bigger rival, Intel Corp.
The firm also widened its gross profit margin, a key indicator of profitability for chip firms, more than AMD had forecast, according to Romeo Dator, who manages the Holmes Growth Fund ACBGX
Gross margin improved to 58.5% of sales, up from 57.3% for the quarter that ended in December.
This signals that "Intel hasn't taken any pricing actions yet and that AMD is still taking market share," said Dator, whose fund owns 12,500 AMD shares.
AMD said average selling prices for its chips during the first quarter rose 7% from the prior quarter.
The stock fell 2% in evening trading after the results were released, after gaining 3% during the regular session Wednesday.
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AMD AMD, +2.33% started the year on an upbeat note after it took market share from Intel INTC, -0.10%, the world's largest chipmaker.
Still, AMD shares have fallen 15% since early March, when Intel cut its first-quarter forecast. Some analysts and investors are concerned that Intel, which still commands the lion's share of the computer-chip market, has instituted price cuts in a bid to reclaim market share it lost to AMD last year.
Aggressive price cuts by Intel, which intends to roll out new sets of PC and server chips by this fall, could put pressure on AMD to match the cuts, pressuring its profit margin.
Dator said he thinks it will tough for AMD to sustain its profit margin in the face of a renewed push from Intel. "I don't see it happening," he said.
In a conference call, the chipmaker's top executives declined to comment on what kinds of pricing actions it expects from Intel. Nor would they offer the company's gross margin target for the June quarter. Chief financial officer Robert Rivet reiterated the company's long-term goal of 55% to 60%.
AMD said it expects sales for the June quarter to be "flat to slightly down" from the most recent quarter. That would represent growth of 65% from the year-earlier period.
Despite the expected push from Intel, AMD Chief Executive Hector Ruiz is standing by his goal to capture 30% of the market for chips used in desktop PCs, servers and laptops by as early as 2008. At the end of 2005, AMD had 18.2% of that market, up from 15.8% in 2004, according to preliminary data from Mercury Research.
"We're still bullish," Ruiz told investors in a conference call.
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North Korea attacks Deepwater Horizon Oil Platform in the Gulf of Mexico - Deepwater Part One
Water Pumping Ships seeking to Douse Flames on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Platform
The World stood in fascination, dismay and then in horror during the last half of April 2010 when they watched the Deepwater Horizon Oil Platform in the Gulf of Mexico as it first went up in flames on April 20, 2010 and then exploded and collapsed into the depths of that once asteroid impacted gulf called the Gulf of Mexico. With its demise were also the lives of 11 workers and touched off an underwater gusher of oil first reported to be 3 million gallons of crude per day flowing into this deepwater gulf.
This platform was contracted by one of the largest oil giants in the world, British Petroleum, drilled by the World's largest offshore drilling contractor, TransOcean, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland and Principle Office in Houston, Texas and built and financed by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd, in Ulsan, South Korea, the largest offshore drilling manufacturing company in the world.
Quickly the Official investigation sped around the world that methane gas had seeped into the drilling pipe and exploded in spite of all the safety safeguards built into this rig. Amazing also, it was reported that seven BP executives were on board the Deepwater Horizon rig celebrating the rig's safety record while in the depths of the gulf, the rig was being converted from an exploration well to a production well. As reported by CBS report titled, "BP Probe – Blowout Triggered by Methane Gas":
CBS – "The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding…As the workers removed pressure from the drilling column and introduced heat to set the cement seal around the wellhead, the chemical reaction created a gas bubble and the cement around the pipe destabilized…
Deep beneath the seafloor, methane gas is in a slushy, crystalline form. But as the bubble rose up the drill column from the high-pressure environs of the deep to the less pressurized shallows, it intensified and grew, breaking through the rig's various safety barriers…A small bubble becomes a really big bubble…so the expanding bubble becomes like a cannon shooting the gas into your face."
Up on the rig, the first thing workers noticed was the seawater in the drill column suddenly shooting back out at them, rocketing 240 feet in the air. Then, the gas surfaced. Then the oil. What we had learned when I worked as a drill rig laborer was swoosh, boom, run…The swoosh is the gas, boom is the explosion and run is what you better be doing.
The gas flooded into an adjoining room with exposed ignition sources…That's where the first explosion happened," said Bea, who worked for Shell Oil in the 1960s during the last big northern Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout. "The mud room was next to the quarters where the party was. Then there was a series of explosions that subsequently ignited the oil that was coming from below.
The executives were injured but survived. Nine rig crew on the rig floor and two engineers died, according to one account. The furniture and walls trapped some and broke some bones but they managed to get in the life boats with assistance from others."
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Exploding and Collapsing in the Gulf of Mexico on April 22, 2010 – CNS News
The first official report reported by industry experts was challenged from a Russian intelligence report emanating from the Russian Northern Fleet giving the ominous report that this Deepwater Rig was torpedoed by the North Koreans in one of the most blatant acts of war against South Korea and the United States. This story then ricocheted around the globe.
Every since the year of 1953, the Armistice Agreement that supposedly closed the Korean War, was never finished or resolved under the existing "Laws of War" because South Korea refusal to sign the 1953 Armistice Agreement and thereby kept this region in a perpetual state of war to this day.
If this intelligence leak proves to be true, then the North Koreans fired the first nuclear salvo just at the same time that American President Barak Obama was about to engage in a Nuclear Disarmament Conference to disarm the Middle East considering that such action will save the entire world.
As DEBKAfiles reported titled, "Obama U-Turned in UN Penalties for Iran, Defensible Borders for Israel" with these words on April 19, 2010, one day before the massive explosion on Deepwater Horizon oil rig:
DEBKAfile – "President Barack Obama has done away with two key elements of US-Israeli strategic relations: His administration has given up on stiff UN Security Council sanctions on Iran over its nuclear drive, and gone back on the longstanding American commitment assuring Israel of recognized and defensible borders in any future accommodation with its Arab neighbors.
In the administration's message of congratulations to Israel on its 62nd Day of Independence, US Secretary of state Hillary Clinton mentions "recognized borders" while omitting the traditional "defensible."
Five days earlier, on April 15, 2010, President Obama was cited by DEBKAfile in its article titled, "Obama: Mid East conflict costs US 'Blood and Treasure'" with the following:
DEBKAfile – "The radical shift in US Middle East policies, marked by tough demands of Israel, was confirmed and highlighted by President Obama Barak Tuesday, April 14, in his comment that conflicts like the one in the Middle East ended up "costing significantly in terms of both blood and treasure."
Reporting this, the New York Times noted that he echoed the recent suggestion by Gen. David Petraeus, OC Central Command, that American lives in Iraq and Afghanistan were imperiled by lack of progress in the Middle East implying Israel's policies on the Palestinians were responsible."
At this same time, the American State Department and the Obama White House were pushing with unprecedented force for the Netanyahu government to stop all construction in the Israeli Capital of Jerusalem and prepare to divide the city of Jerusalem to become the new Capital of a new Palestinian State. This would potentially place missile sites across the Kidron Valley on the Mount of Olives from Jerusalem and possibly even in the Old City of Jerusalem. Jerusalem would become a war-zone of unimaginable proportions.
One of the purposes of this Nuclear disarmament conference was to publically reveal that the State of Israel did have an "unstated nuclear arsenal" and force the State of Israel to give up her "Sampson Option" to defend this tiny nation of 5.5 million Jews living in 1 country of 8,000 square miles against 22 Islamic countries with 325 million Muslims covering 5 million square miles; all seeking to destroy Israel and drive the Jewish people into the sea.
The White House strategic decision it appeared for the Nuclear Disarmament Conference was for the State of Israel to give up her nuclear warheads and her nuclear secrets for the rest of the nations of the world to pick apart and destroy. If this were to happen, it would render the covenanted Orthodox Jews in Israel defenseless against a world pogrom of genocide bent upon their destruction. The reality was about to explode in a way not imagined by anyone as the finger of the G-d of Israel appeared to have a different option in mind.
Zechariah 12:3 – "And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it."
The Dai Hong Dan North Korean Cargo Ship
As reported by a reputed Russian Intelligence site, a North Korean "cargo vessel" Dai Hong Dan left the Port of Havana, Cuba (Empresa Terminales Mambisas de La Habana) on April 18, 2010. As it was traveling in the Caribbean Sea, this cargo ship "deviated severely" from its path of destination heading initially towards Venezuela's Puerto Cabello. Instead it entered the Gulf of Mexico. About 130 miles (209 kilometers) from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Platform located 50 miles (80 kilometers) of the coastline of the American State of Louisiana, this freighter purportedly launched a SSC Sang-o Class Mini Submarine (Yugo class) that is believed to have an traveling range of operation about 200 miles (321 kilometers). Within this mini sub, it was also believed that it was manned by one of North Korea's elite 17th Sniper Corps "suicide" troops.
In the darkness of the evening of April 20, 2010, this North Korean miniature submarine attacked the Deepwater Horizon
Oil Rig with what is now believed to be 2 incendiary torpedoes. A massive explosion occurred on the giant rig. Eleven rig workers were killed and today missing while the rest of the rig went up into flames.
Less than forty eight hours later, on April 22, 2010, as reported, it was believed that the entire suicide operation was completed as planned when the Yugo class submarine and its North Korean Sniper Corp crew traveled under water beneath the massive Deepwater Horizon Rig now fully engulfed in flames, exploded the mini sub and crew and effectively sinking the mighty platform rig into the Gulf of Mexico.
On the day after the attack, US Deputy Defense Secretary Michele Flournoy, speaking for the Obama White House declared that "The US has ruled out a military strike against Iran's nuclear program any time soon."
According to DEBKAfiles, this exchange by a serious Pentagon official "at a news conference in Singapore, was contradicted a few hours later when President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen were still insisting that all options were on the table if Iran fails to curb its current nuclear activities.
SSC Sang-o Class North Korean Mini Submarine (Yugo class)
Right during the same hours as the Obama White House was embroiled in its most serious international and ecological crisis, this diplomatic "reversal was first seen in Tehran as a beckoning finger at America's open door for Iran to return to the negotiating table - Monday and Tuesday, April 19-20, as Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced his government is willing to go back to talks with the United States and other powers on a deal for its enriched uranium."
They perceived clearly that there was a storm of controversy in the American White House but thought that it was a "trick to put them to sleep". But as the Russian intelligence reports came filtering through, Iran suddenly went defensive as reported on DEBKAfiles:
DEBKAfile Special Report – "They claim, mainly on the strength of Russian intelligence sources, that a gradual US military buildup is taking place in Persian Gulf waters that will reach its peak in June and early July. This suspicion dictated the mission set the Revolutionary Guards for its large-scale naval exercise which began Thursday, April 22, of defending Iran from seaborne attack."
While the Deepwater Horizon rib was now collapsing by a reputed underwater North Korean suicide submarine blowing the entire mini submarine under the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, Iran was suddenly rushed into defensive mode. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the financiers of the North Korean Nuclear Armament Program over that past few decades were now suspecting that an imminent attack from America or Israel.
The confusion in the White House may have been seen as a frantic preparation and response retaliation by the American Persian Armada in retaliation for the North Korean attack against the Deepwater Horizon oil rig built by their mutual declared enemies, as President Bush's Axis of Evil, were both expecting a imminent attack and invasion.
North Korea, true to its form, had a serious way of fulfilling a threat to America as a way of celebrating 2010 Earth Day and by the fact of causing an "act of war", the world may be experiencing the largest environmental and ecological disaster in our earth's history. As some experts are beginning to believe, this oil gusher disaster may eventually pollute all the oceans of the world leading to an apocalyptic catastrophe of biblical proportions.
Go to Part One of Deepwater Horizon Series – "North Korea attacks Deepwater Horizon Oil Platform in the Gulf of Mexico"
Go to Part Two of Deepwater Horizon Series – "Torpedoed Deepwater Horizon Oil Platform: Sabotaging the International and Political Scene"
Go to Part Three of Deepwater Horizon Series – "Attack on Deepwater Horizon brings the Earth to the Brink of an Eastern Nuclear Conflagration"
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Lea presents Flick, -4 reconstructions of works by 20th century choreographer Flick Colby as part of the Laban BA3 end of year performance programme.
These reconstructions are part of an extended research project, –Pan's People Paper– by Lea Anderson and film maker Marisa Zanotti.
Music composed by Steve Blake.