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Inverness is the northernmost city in the United Kingdom and lies within the Great Glen in the Scottish Highlands. It is known as one of the happiest places in the United Kingdom, a fact that belies its bloody history: Two important battles took place in and around Inverness, including the Battle of Culloden, a confrontation with far-reaching historical significance. Inverness also held the castle of "MacBeth", the Gaelic king Mac Bethad Mac Findláich, whose killing of King Duncan was immortalised in Shakespeare's play.
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Looking for the Loch Ness monster
The stunning Glen Affric
A craicing good time
You can be sure of a friendly welcome in this city where people enjoy a good chat or craic. Stroll around the Old Town to enjoy the many historical buildings. The host of places to visit includes the castle in distinctive red sandstone, the setting for Shakespeare's Macbeth and now a courthouse.
St Andrew's Cathedral is beautifully situated overlooking the river. Take the time to stop and admire its impressive stained glass windows and spectacular West Door. The riverside provides many opportunities for excellent walks and watching fishermen casting for salmon. Tickets are available if you want to try your own hand at fishing. The pretty and wooded Ness Islands in the river are linked by footbridges.
The Floral Hall has flora and fauna of a different kind in its glass house, with a stunning variety of subtropical plants, a koi carp pond and a cactus house. For magnificent views and a slightly more energetic walk, Craig Phadrig is a hill overlooking the city and the former site of a Pictish fort. It's only a 10-minute drive from the city centre. You can also enjoy views of the Moray Firth from here, home to bottlenose dolphins.
Take a journey back in time in the Victorian Market, where you'll find a unique choice of shops selling gifts and souvenirs (including kilts, of course). The market building itself is interesting too – look out for the old clock, cast-iron roof and the original entrance on Academy Street with its three round arches. If your taste is a bit more high-street, the award-winning Eastgate shopping centre on Milburn Road, with around 1,400 parking spaces, caters to most modern needs.
Events in Inverness include two music festivals: Rockness, held on the banks of Loch Ness, and Belladrum, with a mix of genres and local and international artists. The Inverness Highland Games, a traditional annual gathering, will give you a real taste of Scotland, with country dancing, caber tossing, bagpipes and much more.
Eating out is always a pleasure in Scotland and Inverness is no exception. Enjoy top-quality local produce including salmon, seafood and game in the many restaurants serving local fare. Round this off with a uisge beatha, the Gaelic name for whisky meaning "the water of life".
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To the southwest, just a 15-minute drive from the city centre along the A82, lies Loch Ness. A scenic attraction in its own right, whether or not you spot its most famous resident!
You can then continue along the same road to Fort Augustus and Fort William, at the foot of Ben Nevis. Both scenic sites, steeped in history, and well worth a visit. The A82 later links up to the route towards the Isle of Skye. To the southeast lie the Cairngorms, the largest national park in the UK. Aside from the breathtaking scenery, you'll also find a vast range of attractions for all ages and all weathers. These include a castle, brewery, museums and gardens.
To the east, the A96 will take you to the seaside resort of Nairn, famous for its golf. En route to Nairn you can take in Culloden Battlefield, where Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army lost the battle against the royal troops. Historic and romantic Cawdor Castle, also featured in Macbeth, can be visited along the way. Beauly, to the west, is an easy 20-minute drive via the A9. Its attractions include ruins of the 13th century priory and a wide range of independent shops. Past visitors have included Mary Queen of Scots, who allegedly described it as a beau lieu, hence the name.
From Beauly you can drive to Strathglass to admire the wooded riverscapes, and the glens of Strathfarrar, Cannic and Affric, a national nature reserve. Should you wish to drive further afield, the A9 south will take you to Edinburgh and Glasgow.


With the onset and increase in debates about environmental degradation and the rise in consciousness regarding environmental protection, we humans have constantly tried to refrain or reduce the use of hazardous materials. Of course, since the modern era is the era of technology hence it is not completely possible to stay away from it. Therefore, continuous efforts have been made to switch to environment friendly products as a part of the initiative to conserve the environment.
The latest development in this field is the emergence of nature friendly electric scooters. Fossil fuels are a non-renewable source of energy and going by the extensive use that they are put to, we have really high chances of running out of them. Therefore, the need for such scooters is urgent as these are electric powered scooters and these do not make use of fossil fuels. Electric scooters have provided an efficient, economical and energy saving option for people looking for an on-the-go vehicle.
Joinfuse blog provides a platform for users who share the love for electric scooters. It informs them about the utility of the scooter and how the technology is safe and environment friendly. The major benefit derived from the scooter is the low maintenance that these scooters require as they mainly consist of a battery, motor, a charger and a main unit. Hence, these scooters are light on your pocket as the lesser parts that a vehicle has, the lesser is the amount of money spent on its maintenance.
Another feature of electric scooters as specified by the joinfuse blog is the portable size of the scooters. Driving on the roads these days is a herculean task these days. The reason is pretty evident. The traffic on the roads makes it very difficult for all the big vehicles to drive smoothly on the road. Also, it is not always easy to find a parking slot everywhere and then all people do is keep worrying about their vehicle not getting stolen or towed by the authority. Electric scooters come to the rescue in such a time. Not only these scooters are easy to drive on the road due to their small size but also they are absolutely fuss free when it comes to parking as these vehicles are even foldable and hence can be carried easily in any other means of transport.
The petite size of the scooter is what stands out in them when a comparison is drawn between electric scooters and motor scooters. Electric scooters are easy to balance because of the fact that balancing is done manually unlike in regular scooters. Another factor that contributes to their utility is the fact that they are environment friendly. Since these scooters do not make use of fossil fuels or any other depletable or hazardous source of energy, they are completely in sync with the environmental conservation initiatives of various countries.
Noise pollution is a major issue with many people when it comes to vehicles. Walking on the road ensures that you are surrounded with noises constantly which affects the health and psychological conditions of many people, particularly older people. Motor scooters contribute to this pollution as they make use of electric motor and not gasoline engines which emits unnecessary noise in most cases. Electric scooters are the most suitable option for a person who wants to stay away from the crowd and annoying noises.
Joinfuse blog also highlights one of the unique qualities of an e-scooter. E-scooters enjoy a longer life span than regular scooters because they are fitted with a removable lithium battery. Thus, one simply does not have to go through the trouble of changing various parts once the scooter malfunctions, unlike in case of a regular scooter. All you have to do is remove the malfunctioned battery with a new one and everything is sorted. This makes owning a vehicle a lot easier.
The most attractive feature of an e-scooter is the affordable price range that these scooters offer which definitely makes them a smart buy. So, these scooters are environment friendly as well as pocket friendly. The only factor that hampers the popularity of the product is the scarce availability of these scooters in the market.


When is Doctor Foster on BBC One tonight, who is in the cast with Suranne Jones and what happens in series two?
FANS of Doctor Foster are over the moon the gripping drama has made a triumphant comeback for a second series.
When is Doctor Foster on BBC One tonight?
The new series of Doctor Foster continues TONIGHT (Tuesday, October 3) at 9pm on BBC One.
Episode five goes head-to-head with Reformation: Europe's Holy War on BBC Two, Cilla on ITV, Barbie: The Most Famous Doll In The World on Channel 4 and Alaska: A Year in the Wild on Channel 5.
Filming for the new series was put on hold as lead actress Suranne Jones welcomed her first child with husband Laurence Akers in March 2016.
In 2016, the first episode aired on September 9 on BBC One and it was a five-part series which drew a massive audience of 10 million people for the finale.
The 38-year-old won Best Actress at the British Academy Television Awards 2015, Royal Television Society Awards 2015, Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2015 and Drama Performance at the National Television Awards 2015.
Thirteen actress Jodie Comer is also returning to the cast, playing Bertie's onscreen lover Kate Parks.
After a violent confrontation over a dinner with Kate's parents, Simon and his pregnant lover escape away while Gemma successfully won custody of her son Tom.
What's in store this series?
The new series centres around Gemma and Simon's divorce.
The story is picked up two years from the end of series one and relationships don't seem to have healed, while actress Suranne has described the characters as "damaged people".
The scenes on the first day of filming showed Gemma leaving a nightclub a little worse for wear.
She was spotted and photographed by her estranged husband who may use the pictures as evidence in their messy divorce.
Meanwhile a teaser clip has shown Gemma and Simon's teenage son Tom carrying a knife.
Suranne has revealed that after the first episode of the new series, the show will "shift" and take a "dark" turn, saying: "Gemma doesn't behave well, and before she did that through hurt and now she's channelling her anger [differently].


Today, we're highlighting the CHArlanooga Spanish conversation group. It's a facebook group for people in Chattanooga who want to mingle and practice their Spanish.
The CHArlanooga group meets on the third Tuesday of each month to have coffee or eat dinner. And we speak Spanish, por supuesto! This is a great way to get to know other Spanish speakers and learners in the community. Some members have also started coordinating other meet-ups outside of our regular monthly meeting, like lunches or coffee meet-ups.
Jaime Kerns initiated this group after meeting with local teachers in our district in January of 2018. Teachers expressed a desire to connect and have adult Spanish time. Since then the group has had consistent attendees each month, like Teo and Emi, and from there the group has grown!
As a new member of CHArlanooga myself (Marisol), I have been enjoying the connections I am making with others in the group, and the opportunity to practice Spanish. It is a great place to meet up with other locals in Chattanooga who are also working on improving their Spanish. We love newcomers, and encourage you to come, even if you are early in your Spanish-speaking journey.
Resource Type: Social gatherings for Spanish speakers and learners.
How to access it: Request to be added to the group on facebook, and be sure to answer the questions! We meet regularly once a month, and sometimes more than that.
When: Keep an eye out for our April event in the facebook group. It will be at Pupuseria Marelyn on April 16th.
Levels: This is a great resource for all Spanish levels. If you are a novice learner, we encourage you to come, listen, and chat.
Price: Free to join! Sometimes we go out for dinner and go on other outings that cost money.
Come charlar in Spanish with us! I hope to see ya there.
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What are the Implications of High Oil Prices?
It's been nearly four years since I wrote the article "Could High Oil Prices be Good?" (Hanoch, October 2004) and oil prices went up significantly since then. This article presents the main factors affecting oil prices and the potential implications on your investments.
Increase in demand: Given the rapid development of various emerging markets, notably China and India, combined with worldwide population growth, oil demand is growing rapidly, mostly by cars for personal use. This is not likely to be a cyclical factor and the trend may continue for many years.
Declining oil reserves: Oil is a limited resource on earth, and as we come closer to depleting it, prices are likely to go up irreversibly.
Tension in oil producing countries: Tension in the Middle-East, strikes and political instability in Venezuela , and growing instability in West Africa increased oil prices. This factor may have a limited time horizon.
Weaker dollar: Since the price of oil is denominated in dollars, the weak dollar made oil artificially more expensive. Given the cyclicality of currencies, next time the dollar strengthens, oil should become cheaper.
Speculators: Oil price is determined in the futures market. The futures market is a wonderful tool that helps big oil consumers (like airline companies) hedge the risk of rising prices and set their upcoming oil cost in advance. It is also a place for speculators to bet on higher oil prices. They bid up the price beyond the demand dictated by actual oil consumers and have created a large premium to the price – like a pyramid scheme. Once the price deviates too far, or government regulation addresses this, the bubble may burst and erase the premium, causing a big decline in the price.
China's managed energy prices: Oil price in China is controlled by the government and held artificially low, resulting in higher demand. Refineries lose their incentives to produce, given their rising cost of input compared to the fixed product price. As a result there are already supply shortages in China . This artificial situation is not likely to be sustainable, and controls are likely to be lifted at some point.
Because oil demand is expected to increase in the long run and oil reserves are a finite resource, you cannot expect oil prices to decline to low levels in a natural way in the long run. A bursting speculation bubble or a stronger dollar can have a dampening effect on prices for a limited period, but the lasting effects of accelerated demand around the world and depleting reserves should bring prices back up.
Given these factors, the only way to lower the long-term cost of energy is to use renewable energy alternatives to oil. Unfortunately, implementing these renewable alternatives costs money upfront, and as long as oil price is tolerable, only people that are highly concerned with their long-term well being at the price of a current burden are going to accept this high initial cost.
Low oil price provides current comfort, making travel, food and many other products cheaper.
High oil price provides future comfort by accelerating the development of renewable alternatives that can ultimately completely free us from dependence on the limited oil supply.
Hybrid cars are being sold in big numbers (over 1,000,000 cars so far) and offer real savings in gas consumption and total costs to their owners.
People are reducing their energy consumption by improving the insulation of their homes, buying solar panels and energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs.
The once expensive Canadian and Venezuelan tar sands are now highly competitive with conventional crude oil. These massive reserves are estimated to be approximately equal to the world's total reserves of conventional crude oil. Note that this is not a renewable source of energy, but is an example of how time can be bought for developing renewable alternatives.
It increases the value of the energy sector in your portfolio.
It increases the cost of doing business for other sectors, making them less profitable.
The net effect on your portfolio is slower growth or declines during spurts of oil price appreciation.
Long-Term: As the price of oil goes up, renewable sources of energy are developed and become more competitive with oil and more widely used. It increases the profitability of all companies other than oil related companies, having a positive net effect on your portfolio, with higher growth.
Bottom Line: Stock portfolios are held for long-term growth and income, and as such, they are likely to benefit from the long-term financial benefits of higher oil prices.
If you have the means to withstand the strain of high oil price on your current lifestyle, you can benefit from the potentially nice long-term portfolio growth and improved future lifestyle that high oil prices may bring. The higher the oil prices, the bigger the current pain, but also the sooner the long-term solution will be in place.
Oil prices are at a historic peak of over $60 a barrel. Both the individual at the gas pump and the stock market as a whole are affected. During times like these, you realize how dependent we are on other countries.
In contrast to oil supplies, which are limited, finding renewable sources of energy would allow for a permanent solution to the energy needs of the world.
Energy would be cheaper by avoiding the inflated prices of oil driven by the oil cartel, OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries).
The US would not have to be beholden to the countries that produce most of the world's oil.
The US would not have to do business with countries whose governments, policies and/or practices Americans do not agree with.
These are huge incentives for us to find alternative energy sources, even if the initial cost is large.
The real world. In real life, many tend to focus on the short-term. It is hard for the government and corporations to spend so much money on research, with no real results for 10 years or more. Corporations are limited by their cash reserves and governments are elected for periods of 4 years, limiting their horizon.
The real world solution. There is a simple thing that can help us reach a solution, given real-world limitations. Paradoxically, it is high oil prices! The higher the oil prices, the more we will save by using alternative sources of energy, and the bigger the incentive to invest in developing them.
Seeing the magnitude of the current problem, it might be worth suffering from high oil prices in order to reach a sustainable solution. In the 70's, when oil prices were very high, people came together to create more energy efficient appliances and cars to solve the problem.
The sustainable solution. The improvements of the 70's weren't enough. We are still dependent on oil, and the world's energy consumption keeps rising. A sustainable solution requires using energy that is from renewable resources. A few examples are: wind, solar and hydropower energy. With these technologies, we may never lack energy.
Companies have been working on renewable energy sources for decades. As oil prices are rising, more companies and governments, including shorter-term thinkers, are spending many more resources on developing these alternative energy sources.
The need for a common solution. If we use a variety of energy sources, we would have to build different cars and appliances that can use the different types of energy. In addition, we would have to store energy and transport it in different forms before using it.
Another problem is that many of these sources are not available continuously. The sun does not shine at night and the wind does not always blow.
Generate energy from one of many renewable sources.
Using this energy, isolate hydrogen from water.
Store the hydrogen in some form.
Transport the hydrogen to the location where the energy is needed.
Use it to power vehicles and appliances requiring energy.
Now, instead of creating different versions of products for different sources of energy (e.g., solar, wind), we can design the products to accept only one source of energy: hydrogen.
If we use one product to solve the various problems, companies and governments can focus their money and efforts on a single solution to the energy problem. When compared to focusing on many different technologies, this creates a big incentive to join forces and pursue this goal.
It is nice to learn that NASA has used liquid hydrogen since 1970 for its space shuttles, and the crew could drink the byproduct – pure water.
Smile. Now you can smile whether oil prices go up or down! If they go down, you can be happy about the immediate financial relief; if they go up, governments and corporations get greater incentives to invest in developing renewable energy sources, which brings the long-term solution closer. It's a win-win situation.
What does this mean in terms of the future of the stock market?
If oil prices go down, the stock market may go up rapidly.
If oil prices go up, the stock market may decline temporarily. In the meantime, the development of alternative energy sources will be accelerated, bringing a recovery that will permanently reduce the impact of oil prices on the stock market and the rest of our lives.
Could High Oil Prices be Good?
Oil prices are rising every day and it is hard to see the end of this trend. The problems in Iraq, Russia and Venezuela combined with the growth in China and India lead to decreased supply and increased demand. It seems like the world is running out of oil, which might bring world economies to a halt. Will it?
The current demand for oil surpasses the supply, but the world is not running out of oil. Oil is a commodity with cyclical behavior. History is full of examples where supply did not keep up with demand, and people believed that the inflated prices would never go down – but they did.
During 1973-1974, oil prices quadrupled in less than 6 months, and reached higher prices than today, when adjusted for inflation. What was the result of the peak in prices?
In the 80's and 90's, prices went back to the long-term historical average of around $20 a barrel, measured from 1869 until 2003. What happened to these energy efficiency improvements after the drop in oil prices? They stayed with us and will continue affecting the world throughout the future.
Can you think of possible scenarios resulting from today's situation? We have gas-guzzling SUVs that will gradually be replaced by hybrid electric cars. In the longer term, hydrogen operated cars will turn one of the most abundant resources in the world into energy. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will establish stricter rules for energy efficiency.
Like any problem that caused stock markets to go down in the past, there is no question of whether there will be a solution to the energy problems in the world – only when it will be. And the bigger the short-term problem, the stronger the long-term solution.
I would like to give special thanks to Jim Williams at WTRG Economics. I could not have compiled this article without his generous help and his detailed article Oil Price History and Analysis. Note that an updated version of his article is expected soon.


There are some actors, aren't there, whom you seem to know intimately.
They are beyond the clever catchphrase of being well known for their well knowness. Since you see them so often.
Seemly, they pop up in virtually every movie or TV show. Though they may be nameless to most viewers, they're most assuredly not face-less.
Was there a movie made in the 1960s in which he did not appear?
IMDb reports Balsam's career as beginning in the 1950s, with steady work through 1997. Oh, and he picked up an Oscar along the way: Best Supporting Actor for A Thousand Clowns (1965).
The character actors I'm most familiar with, though, were all prominent (albeit inside limited spaces) players in 70s pictures. Though the examples below are clustered at the end of the 60s.
Dub Taylor played C.W.'s Moss's father in Bonnie and Clyde (1967). (C.W. was pronounced "See-Dubya" and played by fringe actor Michael J. Pollard.) The scene where Taylor whips his boy with his hat over the chest tattoo "Miss Bonnie Parker" convinced him to get is first rate.
Bo Hopkins appeared in The Wild Bunch (1969) and got killed off early in the picture; Strother Martin appeared in the same film. More significant and enduring is Hopkins' performance in American Graffiti (1973) where he plays Joe, leader of the greaser gang, The Pharaohs (pronounced with a twang, "Fay-rows").
Even if we might not recognize them should we bump into them in public, off the screen, these character actors were all second-tier performers with top-shelf talent.
They are also all males.
The list I cannot come up with, is an analogous list of actresses. Who are the female character actresses we've seen over and over?


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Home >Companies >News >US SEC steps up probe into ICICI Bank's accounting practices
Since ICICI Bank is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, US SEC has noted the matter as one under 'national priority'. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint
US SEC steps up probe into ICICI Bank's accounting practices
4 min read . Updated: 26 Jul 2018, 10:47 AM IST Anirudh Laskar
US SEC officials have spoked with ICICI Bank executives at least twice in the past few months, the most recent one being about two weeks ago
Mumbai: The US markets regulator Securities and Exchange Commission ( US SEC) has intensified its investigation into alleged wrongdoings at India's second-largest private lender ICICI Bank Ltd, according to two people familiar with the development. US SEC officials spoke to top ICICI Bank executives, including chief financial officer Rakesh Jha and general manager Rajendra Khandelwal, twice in the past few months, the most recent one being about two weeks ago.
SEC, which started the probe in June 2016, sought details about the bank's accounting practices, especially those related to loans disbursed between 2010 and 2016, many of which turned bad later and were alleged to be the ones on which the bank delayed provisioning, the people said, requesting anonymity.
The US regulator's probe gathered pace after a third whistleblower complained to SEC, the Reserve Bank of India and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), alleging that ICICI Bank unfairly delayed provisioning in at least 31 loan accounts to inflate profit by at least $1.3 billion over eight years.
An email sent to ICICI Bank on Wednesday remained unanswered till the time of going to press. Judith Burns from US SEC Office of Public Affairs declined to comment.
In the latest meeting, SEC asked the bank officials about the way loans were serviced; their classification at the end of various quarters; provisioning details; taxes paid on the interest income from such loans; details of appraisals, enhancement, recovery dates; and the details regarding the review of the asset quality of the loans by the bank, said the one of the two people.
"SEC wants to ensure that the bank has complied with the written code of conduct and the corporate governance norms specified by SEC and Indian regulators," the person said.
On 20 March, the whistleblower alleged that ICICI Bank issued hundreds of letters of credit (LCs) to entities related to its troubled corporate borrowers to help them avoid defaults, pre-empting the need to set aside money for NPAs, Mint reported on 28 June.
The whistleblower alleged that ICICI Bank issued LCs against fictitious bills to service a number of loans. The charges, if proved, will violate anti-money laundering norms.
While loan evergreening has been fairly rampant in India, the practice has been frowned upon by regulators and has contributed to the ballooning of bad loans in the Indian banking system. It also short-changes investors by giving an inaccurate picture of the state of a bank's finances.
According to the whistleblower's complaint, loans were granted to 31 borrowers, including Essar Global, Bhushan Steel, NCML Industries, Bhatia Global, Bhushan Energy, Essar Steel and Tecpro Systems, ignoring concerns raised by internal auditors.
Since ICICI Bank is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, US SEC has noted the matter as one under "national priority" and recently communicated to Sebi regarding its ongoing probe into the bank and its latest meetings in this regard with the bank's officials.
"SEC also wants to ensure that the bank or any of its officials has not shown any partiality while disbursing loans made to any business group. Any misrepresentation in accounting or non-disclosure of facts related to credit can lead to serious penal actions, including imprisonment of bank officials, if proved to be true," said the second person cited before.
To be sure, in the recent meeting with ICICI Bank's risk management department, US SEC sought every minute detail of loans disbursed by the bank by its corporate banking division, project finance division and small and medium enterprises division between 2010 and 2016.
On 12 July, Mint reported that ICICI Bank is preparing to submit details of at least 1,000 loan accounts that turned sour since April 2010 to an independent probe panel headed by former Supreme Court judge B.N. Srikrishna.
This report, according to the second person, will be submitted to US SEC as well because the latest US SEC probe on the bank's accounting practices is directly related to the loans disbursed between 2010 and 2016.
ICICI Bank on 29 May decided to institute a probe by an independent panel to verify the charges made by the whistleblower.
The Srikrishna panel's investigation runs parallel to probes by government authorities into an alleged nexus between Videocon Group and ICICI Bank managing director Chanda Kochhar's husband Deepak Kochhar.
Also read: Chanda Kochhar and ICICI Bank: A bitter parting?
Following the whistle-blower's complaint, RBI began a second probe into the dealings of the bank during Kochhar's tenure, according to a 26 June Mint report.
The RBI probe began on 25 March with a list of at least 26 of the 31 loan accounts named in the whistle-blower's complaints. However, following ICICI Bank's response to its first set of queries on 11 April, the banking regulator decided to expand its probe to 55 of ICICI Bank's borrowers.
According to ICICI Bank, "RBI in the normal course of its supervisory activities seeks information from the bank from time to time".

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Abromavicius Announces His Resignation: One of the Reasons – Kononenko
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Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
3rd February, 2016
Pravda.ua
The Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Aivaras Abromavicius has decided to resign.
He stated this on Wednesday at a briefing.
"I and my team have no desire to be a cover for outright corruption or controlled by puppets for those who want to use the styles of the old regime to establish control over public money. I don't want to go to Davos to tell them about our successes, while behind us questions are answered in the interests of certain people," he said.
"These people have names. And one of these names I'm about to announce. This is Igor Kononenko," added the Minister.
"As a representative political force that nominated me as Minister, recently he has done a lot to block my work and the work of the Ministry. Firstly, Kononenko's controlled deputies from BPP have aided the development of the decision on my resignation, using the opposition faction of "Vidrodzhennia", and they eventually gave it to the Verkhovna Rada, where it only gathered 18 votes over several months," he said.
According to him, Kononenko throughout the year, lobbied for his people for the position of Director of the company "Ukrhimtransammiak", which had its own interests.
"Instead of helping me to overthrow Bondyk, affiliated with the Party of Regions, he brought his own men, who jointly governed the enterprise," he said.
In addition, according to the Minister, Kononenko controlled parliament and lobbied for his people to control "Derzhzovnishinform", a metal powder company, the National accreditation Agency of Ukraine and several other companies.
"This entire rampage culminated in Mr Kononenko's desire to have his personal deputy minister of economy, responsible for Naftogaz and other state-owned enterprises", – he added.
According to him, the candidate, after just two days, showed up with a full package of documents and declared himself the new Deputy appointed by the top.
"After that, I received a call from the presidential Administration with a strong recommendation to take this man and another to the post of Deputy Minister for defense. To which I replied: "I will not be part of this corrupt arrangement", And offered for my dismissal", – said the Minister.
According to Abromavicius, then Kononenko wanted to hear the Minister's report on the BPP faction.
"I decided to relieve Mr Kononenko and his team of the burden of having to listen to my report, and therefore I tendered my resignation", – he said.
Abromavicius said he was ready to leave the post immediately and not prolong the process by weeks or months.
"So I ask the Verkhovna Rada to vote for my resignation tomorrow," he said.
According to him, last year, much was accomplished, however, the point of no return is yet ahead of us.
"The forces of evil want to rewind it all back. Let's get rid of "looters" that milked the Ukrainian economy. Such people should not be in politics and in state administration", – he concluded.
"This decision is not emotional. I think with this system I can't be effective. I don't have the proper support, I have to work with huge interference in the Ministry", – he said, answering a reporter's question about why he decided to stop fighting.
According to him, he established the best reform team in the Ministry of economy in the history of Ukraine.
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I don't think I could get there much before 7.30. There is no reason why I can't skip the drive & catch you up at the destination.
4+ hours stuck in a damp bucket seat with a mad Irishman at the wheel - Deep joy!!!!
Jackonicko wrote: You're in and not joining us, Specky?
Ah well, if Pinky does drop in, he can perhaps pick up an aerial........ or two!
You should lead the convoy, Specky, the speed you bloody drive no-one will bump into you!
oh my goodness, i've 2 reddy pink ones with dodgy brakes. which shall i take?
Did anyone take any pictures ???
yours would be the Blue Elan that drove past everyone in Abingdon!!!
Good to put names to faces.
Songbird wrote: Did anyone take any pictures ???
I had my camera with me!
Specky wrote: Aerial drop Jacko!!!
Good to meet you all. I hope we can do it again in the not too distant future.
Gah! So sorry, Bryan. I was very disappointed not to see you. Didn't you have my mobile number? (I didn't have yours with me, as events conspired to make me absent minded today - my wife had a BIG hospital appointment this morning).
You'd have made it four blues!
Antelope made it too, but 24 hours early, and you were there enough for some of us to see the car whiz past the Unit 6 entrance (where we were parked and where we waited 'til eight) and we waved.
A lot of folk would have shaken you by the hand and greeted you very warmly. I can only hope that you enjoyed the drive.
I'm up closer to you tomorrow afternoon, I'll give you a shout.
I didn't get there straight away.
I first drove around an industrial park, then to the end of the road, around the roundabout by McD's then into another unit before spotting some Elans & finding where I was meant to be.
So you didn't start at the Cemetery like the map shows?
No, as everyone expected to attend was told (including Bryang) by PM or e-mail, (and as stated in the first post on this thread) we started at the old MG factory.
Firstly, thanks to john for organising this get-together - worth the long drive, just because i like driving the car anyway!
Only down side was that i didn't get home 'til gone half midnight, and still had to get up for work today.
The trip up was nicely broken up with a nice cuppa at Swindon, after the boring motorway bit (thanks Dave - and Angie has noticed how empty the conservatory looks, and will more-so when the large crate gets collected ). Then the better roads started with the run up the A420/A415 to Abingdon.
We (nearly first time) found the RV point, as i was looking for the old sheds i remember from my last visit, which are now new houses - the line-up of elans in the carpark was the clue to the casual driver going past (which the driver of the white elan failed to notice, so i had to chase him down the road, frantically pointing - which he also didn't see ). Even though we were 10 minutes later than planned, there were others still to come, so a bit of a natter in the carpark filled the time.
Jon even managed to get a couple of pictures which don't make my car look like a real shed (must have taken some doing).
The convoy / drive was great - 7 elans on nearly empty roads is a good combination, ending in the car park at the pub.
Al reckons i have the worlds loudest dump-valve, but i don't think it's that bad - just a standard Bailey - no trumpet - and the noise was more likely to be the combination of high revs, piper exhaust and insane laughter.
Pub wasn't too busy - food was great - staff friendly (I think Iain made an impression on the server ).
And a bit of offroading!!!


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Southmoore's Darrin Ryan reacts after the the Sabercats' loss against Booker T. Washington, Friday, March 8, 2019, at Oral Roberts University.
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Southmoore's Jordan Thompson drives the basket during the Sabercats' game against Booker T. Washington, Friday, March 8, 2019, at Oral Roberts University.
STATE TOURNAMENT: Southmoore boys state tourney run halted by Booker T. Washington
By Joe Buettner | Transcript Sports Writer
TULSA — A devastating finish weighed heavy on Southmoore as they walked off the Mabee Center court Friday.
The Sabercats' season ended with a 61-59 loss to Booker T. Washington in the 6A state semifinals.
Southmoore coach Tim Stogsdill cautioned his players only one team was going to be happy this weekend. Emotions were still high across the board after realizing defeat.
"They're crushed," Stogsdill said. "You get that close. You're right there. These guys have never been here before. They don't know that feeling."
Southmore didn't play like a team that hadn't been in that situation to its credit.
The Sabercats had the lead for 27 minutes, while the Hornets were on top for all of 22 seconds in their semifinal win.
A foul was called that sent Jalen Breath to the free-throw line with 1.7 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, and the Booker T. Washington junior sunk both free throws.
Southmoore was forced to inbound the ball with no timeouts to spare. Sophomore Damian Kline heaved the go-ahead shot from well behind the mid-court line, but he wasn't able to connect.
"Our team all year has been one wave, and I didn't want this wave to end," Stogsdill said. "They said we weren't supposed to be here, but we belonged here. You guys saw that tonight. We belonged here."
Southmoore juniors Sam Godwin and Darrin Ryan each scored a team-high 15 points. Godwin also brought down 18 rebounds, including 10 offensive boards, to record a double-double.
Fellow juniors Jordan Thompson and Steven Jackson scored in double figures as well with 14 and 10 points, respectively.
Southmoore's steady efforts on offense couldn't overcome a 23-point fourth quarter, however, from Booker T. Washington.
The Sabercats typically had an answer each time the Hornets threatened to take control. Stogsdill still seemed pleased with his team's composure down the stretch.
"They came over on the bench and they talked to each other, settled down and took care of the basketball," Stogsdill said. "That's a good basketball team [in Booker T. Washington]. That team's been there, and they know what it takes.
"We were right there until the end. We had an opportunity."
Southmoore knew it belonged, and a spectator went out of his way to affirm their beliefs.
As Southmoore circled around a hallway to its Mabee Center dressing room, Oklahoma State men's basketball coach Mike Boynton caught up with the Sabercats coaching staff.
Boynton, who was on Oral Roberts' campus to take in a few early high school basketball games, congratulated the group on their season and told them their players played hard.
The effort certainly was there Friday. But it might not be the last time this cast makes an impression at the 6A state tournament.
"The exciting part is, the cool thing is that we've got a lot of guys coming back," Stogsdill said, "and hopefully we can make that run again."
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What is so dashing about a dashboard?
"The ages live in history," Oscar Wilde once wrote, "through their anachronism."
Seeing something that at first seems out of place in its epoch, like "ROCKET" emblazoned on the heavily-riveted iron boiler of this early 19th century British locomotive, can cause you to pause and wonder.
The Rocket was built by a father and son team, George and Robert Stephenson, in 1829—built for speed, briefly achieving a jaw-dropping 36 miles per hour at the Rainhill Trials that year, causing it to be picked as the design for the Liverpool & Manchester Railroad, beating three other contenders, including John Ericsson, who would go on to design the first ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, for the Union navy in the Civil War.
When I saw the vehicle, on display at the Science Museum in London,* for a moment I pondered if we got our word "rocket" from this train engine.
But I immediately realized that the word was already in use, 15 years earlier, when Francis Scott Key wrote "The Defence of Fort McHenry," the poem that would become the Star Spangled Banner: "And the Rockets' red glare, the Bombs bursting in air..."
Rockets were used in battle far earlier than we might think. The Congreve rocket was used effectively in the Napoleonic wars, though they were not particularly accurate when it came to hitting targets.
Before that, they were used mostly as fireworks. The definition of "rocket" from Samuel Johnson's magnificent 1755 dictionary doesn't mention military use, but describes a rocket only as: "An artificial firework, being a cylindrical case of paper filled with nitre, charcoal and sulfur, and which mounts in the air to a considerable height, and then bursts."
Distaff spindles
(The British Museum)
Johnson gives its etymology merely as "[Rocchetto, Italian]"** and leaves it at that, which is shame, because if you dig deeper you find quite a tale: rocchetto is a diminutive for rocca, which is Italian for "distaff."
A distaff is spindle that wool is wound on during spinning—though if the word rings a bell, it's probably not from making yarn, but because in more recent decades the word lingered as a code to describe the realm of women, a tad condescendingly. "With all her distaff classmates mooning nightly by their phones for a call from one jock or another..." Frederick Exley writes in the late 1970s in Last Notes from Home.
From a 1634 British book
"composing all manner of fire-works
or Triumph and Recreation."
Italians named their fireworks "rocchettos," or "little spindles" because that's what they looked like. They were small cylinders on sticks that resembled the distaff from a spinning wheel (before fins were invented, the stick was needed to point the rocket in the direction it would more-or-less go).
As far as how the Italians named that part of the spinning wheel, well, the evidence is murky, but all you have to do is take a look at the leaves of the rocket plant for a hint (although maybe the plants were named for the fireworks. Cause and effect can get switched over the centuries, and you can't make assumptions. For instance, the Canary Islands, off the west coast of Africa, are not named for the little yellow songbirds found there, as one might suppose. The name canary is derived from Latin for dog, canis. The islands were named in Roman times their large dogs; the bird was noticed later and named for the islands).
Rocket leaves
But it's pleasing to imagine the plant came first. There's a joy in finding low-tech origins hidden in modern words. One of the more unexpected words in Johnson's dictionary is "computer" which, in the mid-1700s was a person, a "reckoner, accountant, calculator." Before picking apart "rocket"—to idle away the time before dinner on a Saturday—my favorite example of this was "dashboard," which Mr. Garman, my cagey 7th grade English teacher, once used to bore the rest of our class at Roehm Junior High School and fascinate me, lodging in my mind for 40 years.
Think about it. The control panel of an automobile is called a dashboard. Why would that be? What is dashing? The reason it's called that is when cars were still buggies pulled by horses, there was a low, angled board at foot level to keep horses from flinging mud up on the driver as they dashed. When newfangled automobiles were rolled out, the name carried over because it was in roughly the same location, even though the original use was gone.
Cars are filled with anachronisms—the "trunk" of course harkens back to the era when a large suitcase was strapped to the back, the "glove compartment" on the passenger time to when that passenger was often a lady a lady invariably wore gloves.
I think that's what Wilde meant when he commented on anachronism making history live. It is a thread that connects us today with the people of the past. The next time you read of the latest rocket boosting a satellite into space***, or hurling robot explorers toward some distant planet, think back on those Italian wives and sisters and mothers, working flax methodically around their roccos, perhaps gazing out a window at the stars.
* To visit the Science Museum in London, and see how well the Brits do this kind of thing, is to forever cringe in shame at the corporate puffery and Hollywood junk foisted on the public by the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
** Anyone familiar with how Samuel Johnson constructed his dictionary knows that there was a lot of guesswork involved, so the connection between "rocket" and "rocchetto" could be more whimsical than real. If you consult Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary, he offers a completely different etymology for "rocket"as "probably from the root of crack and racket." Although Webster's sounds more like the hunch of a man who didn't know Italian, and I would place my bets on Johnson.
*** A "rocket" has been an engine thrusting a missile into space for nearly a century, since inventor and physicist Robert Goddard began using the term. "It is possible to convert the rocket from a very inefficient heat engine into the most efficient heat engine that ever has been devised," he wrote, in 1919.
Pete B June 8, 2014 at 11:12 AM
Thomas Evans June 8, 2014 at 4:20 PM
"Little spindles' brings to mind another Italian metaphorical contribution, albeit one that has not yet migrated to other languages. Americans visiting central Italy are surprised to find that Tuscan bread is unsalted, evidently not a new phenomenon, since Dante cited the need to dwell among people who put salt in their bread as one of the penalties of exile. The seeming absence of savour is untroubling to Tuscans because of the uses their loaf is put to. When stale it is added to one of their excellent soups as a thickener. With the fresh slices that accompany lunch or dinner they "fare la scarpetta," or make the little shoe. Your crust of bread is the "little shoe" that walks around the plate capturing whatever sauces remain. If not the term itself then at least the concept deserves wider application, at least to those cuisines producing sauces worthy of capture.
And, as everyone knows,rocket is also a vegetable - akin to colewort.
Neil Steinberg June 8, 2014 at 4:42 PM
I knew the Dante line -- "you will know how salty the taste of another man's bread and how weary it is going up and down another man's stairs," but I thought it a comment on the bitterness of exile (I've also seen it translated "bitter the taste.") I didn't realize there was a factual basis behind the quote. Really? Unsalted, to this day? Incredible. And I had better work rocket, the plant, into the piece. I was worried it was getting too long and figured I would ignore that aspect.
The Dante quote is ambiguous, and I'm not sure it's proof of the historical lineage of the practice. No one I asked really knew. I asked an old man why they didn't put salt in the bread and he said "Because is isn't needed."
JakeH June 9, 2014 at 5:23 PM
Concerning the first footnote, although I dig the submarine, I share the same shame over the MSI, and, to a slightly lesser extent, the Field too (despite many awesome things to see there). The feel of both places is decidedly kiddie-oriented, and exhibits are frequently maladroit, dreary, sometimes comically long-in-the-tooth, sometimes clunkily populist. Whenever I've been to either place, I come away wishing that they took their numerous fascinating and notable offerings (especially those of the Field) and put together a more dignified, slicker museum experience for all ages.
On the rockets used at Baltimore, look up the Congreve rocket. They were an assault weapon designed to attack forts, not as illumination. The British had a special ship, HMS Erebus, fitted with rocket launchers.
Neil Steinberg August 11, 2017 at 1:03 PM
You are correct, and I've altered the text to bring it in line with reality. (I had imagined rockets being used more for illumination).
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Q: Integrality of normalised L-values Let $p$ be an odd prime, $f$ a $p$-ordinary elliptic Hecke eigenform and $L_{p}(f,s)$ the corresponding cyclotomic $p$-adic $L$-function. For a dense subset $S$ of the domain for $s$, the specialisation $L_{p}(f,s)$/period is algebraic and $p$-integral, by construction. Is there an algebraic number $c$ such that $cL_{p}(f,s)$/period is actually an algebraic integer, for all $s \in S$?
We can also ask a weaker version where $S$ is replaced by an infinite subset. It seems tempting to be believe the answer to be affirmative.

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Oh man, I love the theatrics of negotiations.
After two weeks of pitched battle, we're down to the wire on this deal — the documents are getting hammered out, there's only a handful of outstanding, big-ticket items left to be resolved, the negotiations are ferocious. I had just finished turning another draft of the main contract and was about to send it out for review when suddenly our lead negotiator burst into the room and told everyone to go home. The other side had refused to budge on one of her key issues; it was time to send a message. Specifically: Give me what I want or find someone else to play with.
Twenty minutes later, we were gone.
It's all a game, of course, albeit one with billions of dollars at stake. Who's going to cave first? Who knows. Walk-outs are a gutsy negotiating move that can cut both ways. Could be that the other side will be sufficiently thrown off by our walk-out that they'll concede the points we care about. Could also be that our negotiators have misjudged the other side and have just exploded the deal. Either way, it'll be fun to see how it plays out overnight and tomorrow morning.


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By George! Four on the spin for Crewe FC
Fancied visitors well beaten as young winger makes an impact
(Image: Neil Southern)
George Ward scored one and made the other as Crewe FC eased to an impressive 2-0 victory over fancied Knutsford on Saturday.
The young winger outstripped his marker for pace and blasted an earlier opener, before laying on the second for Michael Evans, as the third-placed visitors were outclassed.
That makes it four consecutive Premier Division wins for player-manager Luke Goddard's men, who entertain fourth-placed Gamesley at the Cumberland Arena this weekend (Saturday, 2pm).
Goddard said: "Good signs have been there in recent weeks and, although I wasn't over-confident, I did feel we could get the job done against a very good side.
"Even though we had to make three changes, we started well and stunned them with our play early on.
"We were 2-0 up well before the break and, to be honest, we'd done the damage.
"They looked deflated and were looking around at each other. They are a side which has become used to winning almost every week for the last few years.
"Even though they had more of the ball in the second half, which we were comfortable with, we never looked in any real danger.
"I think our keeper had to make one good save with about five minutes to go.
"That has taken us up to 13th so the table looks a bit better, and with several home homes coming up between now and Christmas we have a real chance of putting a run together.
"Momentum is not easy to gain in any sport, so when you have it it's vital that you make the most of it."
Crewe broke the deadlock when the ball was switched to the feet of Ward after a swift counter attack, and the wide man skinned a rival before firing home past the onrushing keeper.
It was 2-0 on 35 minutes when a move down the right resulted in Ward delivering an accurate cross and Evans turning his man before drilling in the second.
Keeper Andrew Shallcross had to be alert to protect his clean sheet towards the end, but Crewe were good value for their success.
Goddard will have Carl Everall, Kieron Ellis and Ian Carr back in his squad this weekend, but Ward and Ethan Tizard are unavailable.


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I waffled back an forth, knowing I'd need to leave super early in the morning to make the dawn light. I almost talked myself out of going when I get this phone call and Red wanted to come with. Most of my friends do not want to leave at 5 or 6 am, but she's a farmer and the early hour was no problem. We decided on 6 and headed out that Saturday morning.
Those were not real geese, but decoys and here were the hunters. Hunting season had come to the refuge. Hunters pay for most of the costs of the refuge so I find it hard to deny them. And by the end of the day felt very sorry for them. They were so numerous there were very few birds. And most of them were not to be hunted or eaten and those that could have been were sticking to the safe areas. It was ridiculous. At every clump of reeds there were hunters complete with a variety of decoys. Who knew that flat decoys were a thing?
I didn't take any more photos of hunters, though it was tempting when we saw two hauling their boats across the shallows.
Hundreds of northern shovelers with a sprinkling of teals.
The colors of the day were lovely. The yellows lighter than they were a month ago, and the blues were very bright.
Most of the birds would either not hold still for photographs or were too far away. But the scenery, that was much easier.
So not a bad day for finding birds, though not the best for taking their pictures. I'm definitely bring Red with me again. She's great at spotting birds.
It really did feel like a bait and switch kind of day. I think if we had gone there during the week when there were fewer hunters we might have gotten to see the thousands of swans. Though we did see hundreds of white lumps off in the distance and knew they were the swans we wanted to see, we didn't get a good look at them, excepting the ones that flew over our heads.


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Gnocchi are served as first course of the meal or as an alternative to soup or pasta in Italian households. I served it as a side to steak and grilled corn but I can eat it by itself. The gnocchi are indeed light and the cheese and egg made the dumplings creamy. Toss them in nutty brown butter with soft and chewy apricot with crispy sage and it works really deliciously.
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Kids of all ages will love this naturally gluten-free dish. The coating stays crisp, and it's every bit as good as fried chicken. Serve this once, and your family will beg you to make it again!
The breading will stick regardless of whether you keep the skin on the pieces. For convenience, you can bread the chicken ahead, cover it, and refrigerate it until baking time. This recipe uses chicken legs, but you can use the pieces your family likes best.
Pour half of the corn chips into a blender and purée; pour the fine crumbs into a self-seal plastic bag. Repeat with the second half of corn chips.
Add the pepper, Cajun seasoning, garlic powder, and paprika to the corn chips and mix well to distribute the spices evenly.
Dip one chicken piece into the melted butter, and then place it in the bag. Seal the bag and shake it to coat the chicken with crumbs. Repeat with the remaining chicken pieces.
Place the chicken pieces in an 8-x-11-inch baking dish.
Per serving (breaded without skin): Calories: 630; Total fat: 35g; Saturated fat: 37g; Cholesterol: 170mg; Sodium: 540mg; Carbohydrates: 32g; Fiber: 4g; Sugar: 0g; Protein: 41g.


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Madden NFL 18 Predicts Patriots Defend Super Bowl Title
Tide 100.9 Published: January 29, 2018
Go ahead and take the New England Patriots to win their sixth Super Bowl title with Tom Brady, who's on the cover of Madden NFL 18, to earn his fifth MVP award.
Those are the predictions of EA Sports using their Madden NFL 18 simulation for Sunday's Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles.
For those who doubt the accuracy, EA Sports has predicted 10 of the 14 Super Bowl winners since the company started simulating the game in 2004.
Madden NFL predicted the Patriots would rally late in the fourth quarter of last year's Super Bowl , including overcoming a 10-point deficit in the third quarter. The game also predicted Matt Ryan would throw two touchdowns and the final score.
The simulation wasn't perfect, missing Falcons receiver Julio Jones with his 87 yards receiving with a prediction of 89 yards. The simulation also missed Jones scoring a touchdown.
Madden NFL also predicted the final score in February 2015 of the Patriots' 28-24 win over the Seahawks . That included New England trailing 24-14 in the third quarter before rallying along with Julian Edelman scoring the game-winning TD.
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Paris Climate Summit
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a press conference at the 21st session of the conference COP21 on climate change on November 30, 2015 in Paris, France.
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Why Canada is not yet 'back' when it comes to climate change policies
Written by Andrew Freedman
"Canada is back, my good friends," he said. If only he could validate those words with any action.
A climate activist posts "Wanted" posters of seven fossil fuel lobbyists attending the U.N. Climate Summit in Paris on Dec. 6, 2015.
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These 7 'climate criminals' are wanted in Paris, activists say
Written by Matt Petronzio
"We know what they're saying isn't true."
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Beijing's red alert is a sign that China must act on climate change
"That's why we are stressing the importance of low-carbon… the transition to a green climate economy," said Xie Zhenhua, the lead Chinese climate negotiator at the U.N. Climate Summit in Paris.
Jenny Badkins takes part in a rally outside of City Hall in Portland, Oregon, on Nov. 4, 2015, ahead of a City Council vote to oppose coal, liquefied natural gas and propane export facilities.
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Fossil fuel auction delayed after climate activists shame Obama administration
"Keeping fossil fuels in the ground has quickly become the new standard for climate leadership."
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People are 'catwalking' to raise awareness about climate change
Written by David Yi
With the hashtag #ClimateCatwalk, celebrities, photographers, editors and stylists are creating a conversation about the climate change talks.
US Secretary of State John Kerry gestures upon his arrival at Le Bourget airport in the outskirts of Paris, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015.
Image: Mandel Ngan/Associated Press
Kerry signals U.S. support for ambitious 1.5-degree goal in climate deal
Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. would seek to incorporate the 1.5-degree temperature target that many countries are seeking at the COP21 summit.
Banners on the side of the Peniche Antipode barge restaurant in Paris, where Indigenous leaders held a press conference on climate action on Dec. 6, 2015.
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Indigenous leaders hold powerful press conference on climate action in Paris
"No false solutions. We don't have the luxury of time."
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Go behind the scenes of the U.N. Climate Summit with 'Earth to Paris'
Written by Megan Ranney
World leaders aren't the only ones with a role to play in the U.N. Climate Summit in Paris.
U.S. youth delegates to the U.N. Climate Summit Garrett Blad and Morgan Curtis at rally in Paris.
Image: Flickr, Christian O'Rourke/SustainUS
What it's like to be a youth delegate at the U.N. Climate Summit in Paris
Written by Morgan Curtis
Youth are talked about a lot in the process of reaching a global agreement on climate change, but rarely are they allowed to talk.
Aquarium artwork brings home the threat of climate change
Written by Ariel Bogle
Art with a message.
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Swift can see both Fish and Dog inherit from the Animal class, so it uses type inference to make pets an array of Animal.
If we want to loop over the pets array and ask all the dogs to bark, we need to perform a typecast: Swift will check to see whether each pet is a Dog object, and if it is we can then call makeNoise().
This uses a new keyword called as?, which returns an optional: it will be nil if the typecast failed, or a converted type otherwise.


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Analysis: Storylines to watch in Notre Dame's fall camp
SOUTH BEND — Kent Smith isn't just a member of the Lucas County Sheriff's Office in Toledo, Ohio, long removed from his own football career.
He's the answer to a trivia question, and a pertinent one at that.
In 2005, Smith attempted 420 of the 426 passes thrown by the Central Michigan University football team, making it through the season without being demoted or missing a critical stretch in a game — or the season — because of injury.
His head coach at the time was Brian Kelly, now in his seventh year at Notre Dame and a man Friday emphasizing to the media how important it was for the eventual runner-up in the currently percolating Irish QB competition to be engaged mentally and physically ready to play.
History shows he'll need to be. Kelly's history.
Smith is the last Kelly-coached quarterback whose backup never saw a meaningful snap in a season.
The only No. 1 QB in the 10-season stretch to come close to doing the same since was Tommy Rees, in 2013 at ND. And even then, Rees entered that season as somewhat of a default choice No. 1.
Incumbent starter Everett Golson fell through an academic trap door in May of 2013 and was exiled for the season. Two months earlier, redshirt freshman Gunner Kiel marched into Kelly's office requesting a release to transfer shortly after Kelly committed to sacrificing some of Rees' spring snaps to get a closer look at the former five-star prospect.
Once Rees was anointed at the top spot, he almost was able to go wire to wire. But he was knocked out of a 14-10 game with USC in October with an injury early in the second half. And Andrew Hendrix had to finish in what turned out to be a scoreless second half for both teams in the narrow Irish victory.
Both contenders in this year's contest to start the season No. 1 have been replacement parts themselves — senior Malik Zaire for a slumping Golson at the end of the 2014 season, junior DeShone Kizer for an injured Zaire for most of last season.
Whomever emerges has — on paper, at least — theoretically a less formidable lineup of defenses to face than what was thrown at Kizer last season. The first-year starter ended up taking on nine of the nation's top 43 defenses in his 11 starts, including four of the top 20.
This season, Notre Dame faces four teams that finished in the top 43 in total defense in 2015, only two that finished in top 50 in pass-efficiency defense and one that ended up as a top 25 run defense.
On the eve of the start of Notre Dame's fall training camp, with the first five sessions unfolding off campus at Culver (Ind.) Military Academy, Kelly muddied the waters instead of clarifying them when it came to his quarterbacks.
By design.
"I have not taken anything off the table," he said.
And there's some sincerity in that statement as well as an ulterior purpose.
Kelly is not going to paint himself into a corner with his words. So there will be no announced timetable for a conclusion to the competition, no commitment that the winner will start every game, no allegiance to some of his pointed comments last spring, and no revealing specifics as to what eventually will tip the scales.
The more immediate, and in some ways more delectable, intrigue in training camp will be provided by the players around the quarterbacks. Here's a sampling of the meaningful story lines as camp kicks off Saturday.
Position battles: All-American Jaylon Smith's old spot at weakside linebacker is up for grabs, with sophomores Asmar Bilal and Te'von Coney, and junior Greer Martini all in the picture.
Right guard on offense is shaping up as a three-man battle as well, among senior Hunter Bivin, sophomore Tristen Hoge and true freshman Tommy Kraemer. Hoge is in the mix to be the starting center as well, battling junior Sam Mustipher.
Some position battles could end in a time share — likely at rush end (Jay Hayes, Andrew Trumbetti, Daelin Hayes), perhaps at free safety (Max Redfield, Devin Studstill), and definitely at running back (Josh Adams, Tarean Folston, Dexter Williams).
The most unsettled position group is the entire wide receiver corps, where there's both talent and inexperience in abundance. Senior Torii Hunter Jr., is the only given.
Kelly said Friday he is counting on sophomores Equanimeous St. Brown and C.J. Sanders, and junior Corey Holmes to step into the larger roles, with more intermittent contributions from the freshmen, true and redshirt, including spring sensation Kevin Stepherson.
Senior linebacker James Onwualu, once a freshman contributor as a wide receiver himself before making the flip to defense, thinks walk-on Chris Finke could push his way into the mix as well, based on summer workouts.
As for his advice for the young wideouts, whom Onwualu faced throughout the summer?
"I think a lot of the receivers — they wouldn't like me to say this — but sometimes they're a little bit more pretty boys than some of the (defensive players)," Onwualu said.
"They need to go out there and be willing to play special teams, be willing to block a linebacker, do some of the gritty stuff in order to help the team. Not everybody's going to be catching touchdowns their first year. So we're going to need some of those guys to step up and compete through camp, and we'll see who that is."
Freshmen to watch: Talent alone isn't enough to push most freshmen into contention on the two-deeps. It must be met with opportunity. And Kelly said his freshman safeties and cornerbacks have the best chance en masse of getting early playing time.
That includes Studstill and Jalen Elliott at safety, Donte Vaughn and Troy Pride Jr. at cornerback.
"There's not a cornerback on our roster that we don't like," Kelly said.
Who's missing?: The only permanent deletion from the roster is junior defensive end Grant Blankenship, who Kelly said Friday is no longer on the team and will seek a transfer.
The lightly used backup was suspended in the spring "for a violation of team rules." Kelly left the door open, though, and said in June that Blankenship could be reinstated if he met certain criteria over the summer.
That door is now closed.
Junior running back Justin Brent and Devin Butler will be held out of action while recovering from foot injuries.
Speaking of injuries, Kelly and Notre Dame did not strike up last year's unusually extensive run of injuries to bad luck. In fact, they're throwing science at the problem.
"I think there's no way to have an injury prevention, not in this game of football.," Kelly said "But I think being clearly invested in finding ways to keep your players on the field, other than hoping and praying, is where you have to be.
"We've made a huge investment into sports science. There are ways to cut back and to continue to develop your players, to keep them away from those potential injuries.
"That has been a big focus on mine, whether it be through functional movement screening, whether it be through GPS, whether it be through scan testing the retinas for concussion testing. There are a number of different protocols that we've entered into this year that I think are going to help us keep our players on the field."
About Alizé Jones: The sophomore tight end will be practicing, but won't play in games this season because of academic shortcomings.
That development, revealed Thursday, caused some "the sky is falling" type reaction from fans who are worried about how it might play both on the field and recruiting.
As far as the connecting Jones' situation to the bigger picture, Kelly framed it this way on Friday:
"I'm proud of Alizé and him taking full accountability," he said. "That's what we ask our players to do. They're accountable in the classroom, on the football field and in the community. And we would want all of our players to be accountable in everything we do.
"So I'm pleased with him in the sense, he understands what he needs to do, that he understands his shortcomings and what he's got to work on.
"Look, Notre Dame is and will always be a high academic environment, and you've got to come to play every day. And if you don't you're going to find yourself on the sidelines. It's a reminder to all of our players that that classroom is filled with academic All-Americans, and you better meet that level when you go in that classroom, or you're going to get left behind."
Kelly's message on the recruiting trail, he said, will be consistent with those thoughts.
"Are you telling me, among our peers, nobody loses anybody to academics across the board? Nobody?" he said. "That would be my argument, that 'Look, Notre Dame's hard, and if you're not prepared and you're not going to come here with the focus and attention to work in a classroom, you could get dinged.'
"And I'm not afraid to say that to anybody and to any mom or any dad when I go in a home. You better be prepared to work hard in the classroom, but I also know that you can overcome it, and we'll stick with you and support you and we'll be there for you.
"We're not going to throw you aside. We're going to back you up and make sure you grow and develop as a man, and that you take accountability for your actions, and that you're better for it."
ehansen@ndinsider.com
Twitter: @EHansenNDI


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The first large scale international gathering of dermatologists took place in Paris in 1889. Since that historic inaugural event, the World Congress of Dermatology has been held on 23 occasions, and currently takes place only once every four years under the auspices of International League of Dermatological Societies. For its 130th anniversary in 2019, the World Congress of Dermatology will return to its European roots where we will be hosted in Milan by the Italian Society of Dermatology. The 24th World Congress of Dermatology will bring together international experts to share professional experiences, knowledge, and skills for improving patient care. WCD 2019 will also attract thousands of participants from the 180 global societies that now make up the ILDS.
This Congress has been many years in the making and represents the culmination of the vision of the late Professor Sergio Chimenti to invite the world's dermatologists to Italy. WCD 2019 President Giovanni Pellacani and Secretary General Ketty Peris have been working tirelessly with their colleagues and Scientific Chair Christopher Griffiths to bring you an incomparable and unique program in June 2019.
To continue the traditions and legacies of the WCD and ILDS while we are in Milan, you will learn about the ILDS' global projects and initiatives as well as the humanitarian work of our International Foundation for Dermatology. ILDS member societies will also be selecting the host city for the 2023 World Congress of Dermatology.
In an era where the Internet allows us to communicate instantaneously via text, images, and video, we are still drawn to seeing each other face-to-face. There will always be a need for the World Congress of Dermatology, and in 2019 we will have the unique privilege of coming together in one of the cultural, historic, and culinary centres of Europe. On behalf of the ILDS Board, I look forward to welcoming you to Milan next June to celebrate "Skin Health for the World" with your colleagues.
President, ILDS Harvey Lui, MD, FRCPC


The Founder's Packs for EverQuest Next Landmark are now available for purchase should you have money sitting around and a desire to send it Sony Online Entertainment's way. There are three tiers -- $19.99, $59.99, and $99.99 -- that most notably come with keys to the game's closed beta and alpha next year. For the latter two packs, alpha access arrives on February 28, 2014 whereas the cheapest pack guarantees only beta access on March 31, 2014.
There's also cosmetic items and gear -- the usual stuff we see in these founder's programs. As much as I like what EverQuest Next is doing, this is far too early for me to put down that kind of money. I tend to be wary of these initiatives in general and that's especially true of MMOs.


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Description TI-Chess is a full featured chess game for the TI89/TI-92p/V200 (read the included readme.txt file for its features and history.txt for what's new). This is the full distribution. v4.11 adds TI-89 Titanium compatibility.
Graphics: 9/10 - Good graphics. Features a few different piece settings.
Features: 10/10 - Play chess with a friend, a computer, watch 2 computers play, computer nodal display & book options (kudos to this), puzzles, save game option, 5 difficulty settings. This game is packed.
Difficulty: 1/10 - The computer was pretty easy even at level 5. Searched a respectable calc speed of 200 positions per second (but at level 5 when it needs around 40000 positions to search it takes a good few minutes to do so). Approximately searches around 5 moves ahead. Well at least it's the best that a calculator chess playing program can do.
Replay Value: 9/10 - This game was meant to be played over and over again!
Overall: 7/10 - If the computer was harder and faster, this program would receive a higher score. But this is a classic game for the TI-89, so I recommend this to everyone. It is feature packed and the best chess program of TI-89 to date.


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