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Wharfedale Vista 100 review
A good soundbar, held back by one major problem Tested at £150
By What Hi-Fi? Posted 2014-06-02T13:38:13Z Review
A good soundbar, held back by one major problem
Good build
Muscular, weighty sound
3D EQ modes spread the sound nicely
Very deep bass causes unpleasant vibration noises
We have been extolling the virtues of soundbars as a solution to the declining quality of flatscreen speakers for a long time – and suddenly there are so many of the things, it's almost impossible to keep up with what's what.
Given the new-found interest in them, it's little wonder that even traditional hi-fi companies such as Wharfedale are keen to get a piece of this tasty pie.
Wharfedale Vista 100
But what is surprising, given its reputation for audio quality, is that Wharfedale's first offering in this growing field is such an affordable one.
The only other £150 soundbars we've seen have been pretty poor – and surely even Wharfedale can't produce something that sounds good for such little money?
Or can it? Perhaps in the future it will... because the Vista 100 gets a huge amount right. Unfortunately, it also gets one thing quite badly wrong.
The good news starts with the build. This isn't the slimmest soundbar and could be an issue in terms of placement, but it is a nice-looking, 1m-wide unit.
Also, it's more solid and feels more premium than you'd expect for this sort of money: with smart, matt-black styling and subtle silver bands, topped with touch-sensitive controls.
Behind the grilles are six drivers driven by a 60W amp, which Wharfedale claims is enough to create a muscular, room-filling sound. The claims are spot-on.
For a soundbar – let alone one costing just £150 – this makes a big noise, especially in one of the EQ modes, which apparently use Absolute 3D technology from a company called Sonic Emotion.
Use the 'Movie' mode while watching a film and – while you lose a bit of focus and clarity from voices – the weight is mighty impressive, as is the dispersion of sound.
Surround effects never truly envelop the listening position, but they push well into the room along the left and right sides of your soundfield.
Some will prefer turning the 3D mode off, especially for TV shows and the more dialogue-heavy movies out there. You still don't lose depth or solidity here, but the narrower soundstage is more focused and a little bit clearer.
The problem is that the system tries a little too hard to be bassy, and when you feed it the really deep stuff it struggles.
You can watch a whole movie and hardly notice. Perhaps you will get the odd bit of blowing from the drivers during a particularly massive explosion, but that's easily dismissed or ignored.
If your music collection is relatively tame, it's also entirely possible that you will never encounter an issue. But play something properly bassy and you're in for a shock.
SBTRKT's debut, eponymous album makes us worry: tracks such as Trials of the Past have so much distortion and audible vibration that we were convinced the unit was faulty. A replacement unit proved it was not.
You can turn the bass level down using the bundled remote, but while that reduces the amount of bass it doesn't improve the quality of it, and that means the issue is still clearly audible.
Essentially it rules out a big section of music that you might want to listen to. And while a soundbar might be considered by many to be geared more towards movies and TV shows than music, there's also an expectation that these are do-it-all devices – and that makes the problem impossible to ignore and hard to forgive.
It's a great shame because on first listen we were convinced that the Vista 100 was head-and-shoulders above its similarly priced rivals.
We suspect that with some tweaking Wharfedale could still pull that off, but we can't recommend the Vista 100 as it is, without this one major caveat.
You should look elsewhere for your soundbar.
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Per l'ultimo saluto a Kevin Ayers l'anno scorso a Deià (Spagna) si raccolse attorno alle figlie Rachel e Galen una piccola folla di amici, vicini e conoscenti, per una cerimonia amichevole e lieve allietata da musica, luci, racconti e ricordi. Tra i presenti c'era anche Susan Lomas, che ha fissato con parole e immagini la cronaca di quel giorno: Kevin Ayers, August 16th 2013, Deià.
How can I sum up Kevin Ayers? A career spanning forty-five years, the first Soft Machine album, fifteen solo studio albums, sessions for the BBC, several official live albums and of course many more bootleg recordings. Dozens of singles releases and compilation albums with previously unreleased tracks as extras. If one counts ten songs on each solo album, even allowing for Kevin's habit of re-working tunes, that's way more than one hundred original songs in his repertoire. A charismatic live performer with a distinctive voice, which matured beautifully, like a fine red wine. Recording contracts with Harvest, Island and Virgin, to name a few companies. If you simply took the lyrics of Kevin's songs and published them as a book of poetry it would be an outstanding achievement, full of emotion, wit and wisdom. The fact that these ideas became songs and arrangements which inspired outstanding performances from his musical collaborators needs to be celebrated.


Singapore is fast becoming the business city of choice. Its economy has been defined by its position as a small country with limited natural resources and a relatively small population, located strategically in the heart of Asia Pacific.
Singapore offers one of the most efficient corporate and personal tax regimes in the world. Singapore has stable political institutions, world-class infrastructure, well developed capital markets, highly educated work force, rich cultural traditions and economic ties with other countries. Singapore has indeed become a truly vibrant, cosmopolitan, and international global business centre.
Singapore has established avoidance of Double Taxation Agreements ("DTA") with other international jurisdiction. A DTA also makes clear the taxing rights between Singapore and her treaty partner on different types of income arising from cross-border activities. These agreements also provide for reduction or exemption of tax on certain types of income arising from cross-border activities.
A company limited by shares is a business entity registered under the Companies Act, Chapter 50. It has a legal personality i.e. it has rights to own properties, can sue or be sued. It usually has the words 'Private Limited' as part of its name.
A company may be registered as a private company if it does not have more than 50 shareholders. Otherwise, the company must be registered as a public company.
A Singapore Branch of a foreign company is not a separate legal entity as it is considered to be merely an extension of a company incorporated outside Singapore. Therefore, its entire assets belong to its head office and its liabilities may be enforced against all the assets of the head office. Any potential claims (whether in the country of incorporation, Singapore or elsewhere) against Singapore branch or head office may, therefore, have impact on the financial of Singapore branch or head office.
Foreign companies that are keen on exploring the viability of doing business in Singapore may wish to set up a Representative Office ("RO"). An RO has the benefit of allowing a foreign company to test out the business environment in Singapore before committing to any investment decisions. However, foreign companies wanting to maintain long term operations in Singapore will be required to incorporate as legal entities with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority ("ACRA") in Singapore.
enter into business contract, issue invoice/receipt, open/receive letters of credit and contracts on behalf of its parent company or provide services for a fee.
the RO must appoint a staff from the HQ of the parent company or a Singapore employee of the parent company. The appointed representative's main function is to represent the parent company.
A LLP is a partnership with limited liability. It is a legal entity and can enter into contract and hold property. It combines the benefits and flexibility of a partnership with that of private limited companies.
The main advantages are that the personal assets of the partners are protected. Owners are not personal liable for the wrongful acts of other owners but can be personally accountable for debts and losses resulting from their own acts. Any changes to the LLP do not affect its existence, rights or liabilities.
All Singapore Companies must comply with the statutory filing requirements with Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority ("ACRA") and Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore ("IRAS").
Under Singapore Companies Act ("the Act"), a private limited company is required to maintain a proper set of books that is to be presented to its shareholders at the Annual General Meeting ("AGM"). A private limited company is required to hold its first AGM within 18 months of its incorporation, subsequent AGMs must be held every calendar year and be held within a period of not more than 15 months after the last preceding AGM or within six months from the date of the financial year end, whichever is earlier.
In addition, the Act requires any Company without an overseas branch register to lodge the Annual Return together with the audited/unaudited accounts in XBRL format with ACRA within one month after the AGM.
Further, for an exempt private company (i.e. one whose shareholders are all private individuals and the total number of shareholders is less than 20), where its annual turnover is less than S$5million, it can choose whether it wants to have its accounts audited or not. For companies which are non-exempt private company (e.g. with corporate shareholder) or whose annual turnover exceeds S$5million, auditing of its accounts is mandatory.
Under Singapore Income Tax Act, a private limited company is required to file an estimated chargeable income to IRAS within 3 months from the end of its financial year. The actual income tax return is due by 30th November of each assessment year.
The DEI provides a reduced corporate tax rate on incremental income from qualifying activities.
The IHQ and RHQ provide a reduced corporate tax rate on incremental income from qualifying activities.
The Pioneer Incentive provides a corporate tax exemption on income from qualifying activities.
The LIA provides an initial tax allowance of 25% and annual tax allowance of 5% on qualifying capital expenditure incurred for the construction or renovation/extension of a qualifying building or structure.
The IIA provides an allowance based on a percentage of approved fixed capital expenditure to be incurred on productive equipment that is placed outside Singapore for an approved project. This allowance is granted on top of the normal capital allowance.
The M&A Scheme provides an allowance of 5 percent of the value of acquisition, subject to a maximum of $5 million for each year of assessment. It also provides deductibility of transaction costs and stamp duty relief. EDB's approval is required for the waiver of the condition that the ultimate holding company for the group must be incorporated and tax resident in Singapore.
The FTC Tax Incentive provides a reduced corporate tax rate on fees, interest, dividends and gains from qualifying services and activities. It also provides a withholding tax exemption on interest payments on loans from banks and approved network companies for FTC activities.
The ALS provides a reduced corporate tax rate on income accruing in or derived from Singapore from leasing of aircraft or aircraft engine and prescribed activities. It also provides automatic withholding tax exemption on qualifying payments on qualifying foreign loans for the purchase of aircraft or aircraft engines.
The RISC awards grants to develop research and development capabilities in strategic areas of technology.
The INTECH Scheme awards grants to encourage capability development in applying new technologies, industrial R&D and professional know-how.
The LPG seeks to support companies which are interested to optimize land use through domestic or overseas relocation.
The corporate tax rate is 17% (with effect from Year of Assessment 2010). Hence, the tax payable for the chargeable income of the first S$300,000 is S$17,000 (which the effective tax rate is 5.67%).
This partial exemption continues to be available for all companies (including the newly set-up exempt private company after its 3rd year) until it is being revoked by the government.
Based on the chargeable income of the first S$300,000, the tax payable is S$25,075 (which effective tax rate is 8.36%).
It is compulsory for businesses to come forward to register for GST when their taxable turnover exceeds S$1million per year. Businesses that do not exceed S$1million in taxable turnover may register for GST voluntarily.
This GST that they charge and collect is known as output tax, which has to be paid to IRAS. GST incurred on business purchases and expenses (including import of goods) are known as input tax.
You need to pay income tax on all income you have earned / received in Singapore.
Income tax is assessed based on a preceding year basis. For example, for Year of Assessment (YA) 2012, you will be taxed on the income earned in year 2011.
Different tax rates apply to tax resident and non-resident individuals.
a foreigner who has stayed / worked in Singapore (excludes director of a company) for 183 days or more in the year before the YA.
50% rebate for taxpayers 60 years of age and above as at 31 Dec 2012.
The director's fees, consultation fees and all other income that you received will be taxed at 20% from YA 2005 onwards.
Capital gains in Singapore are not taxable.


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Richmond, Bipartisan Coalition Introduce the Solitary Confinement Study and Reform Act of 2015
Washington DC -- Yesterday, Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA), Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), and Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL) introduced H.R. 3399, the Solitary Confinement Study and Reform Act of 2015, a bipartisan bill to dramatically reform the practice of solitary confinement in the United States federal prison system. This legislation would start a national conversation on the use of solitary confinement and move toward a more rational and fiscally responsible approach to incarceration:
Congressman Richmond:
"We have abused the practice of solitary confinement to the point where it has become modern day torture," said Rep. Richmond. "Too many prisoners, including the seriously mentally ill and juveniles are locked away for twenty-three hours a day often with little to no due process and at a steep cost to the taxpayer. Instead of being reserved for the worst of the worst, solitary confinement is too often being overused for 'administrative' reasons to avoid providing treatment for the mentally ill and rehabilitation for those who will return to society. This practice, in its current form is inconsistent with our morals and values in America. We must be better than that."
Congressman Chaffetz:
"Serious concerns have been raised about the use of solitary confinement as a punishment," said Rep. Chaffetz. "I question whether this tactic is effective at deterring or reforming criminal behavior and, if so, whether it is being used appropriately. The impact of extended isolation on the human psyche requires additional study. As we consider changes to the criminal justice system, reforms must be grounded in reality and based on facts."
Congressman Scott:
"Too many inmates confined to extreme periods of isolation have significant underlying mental health issues and solitary confinement only exacerbates these problems," said Rep. Scott. "The Solitary Confinement Study and Reform Act will ensure that we have all the available data to better understand the impacts of solitary confinement so that we can develop and implement national standards to reduce the use of this practice in our nation's prisons."
Congressman Rooney:
"As we work toward bipartisan reform, we need to look at all aspects of our criminal justice system to determine what works and what doesn't," said Rep. Rooney. "This bill will establish evidence-based standards and best practices to help ensure that punishments are necessary, appropriate and effective."
The Solitary Confinement Study and Reform Act of 2015 would:
Establish the National Solitary Confinement Study and Reform Commission to work with all pertinent stakeholders to study the practice of solitary confinement and recommend best practices for reform to Congress and the Administration
Require the Department of Justice to issue regulations on best practices in this area that would bind facilities in the Federal prison system and incentivize changes in behavior in state and local prison systems
Bring about significant changes to the way mentally ill prisoners and juvenile offenders are designated for solitary confinement
The Solitary Confinement Study and Reform Act of 2015 is supported by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the American Civil Liberties Union, the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3 and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.

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Salvador Guerrero Quesada (Ray, 11 de Janeiro de 1921 - El Paso, 18 de Abril de 1990) foi um dos primeiros lutadores de wrestling profissional hispânicos.

Também foi conhecido na Lucha libre, onde obteve sucesso fora do México. Foi melhor conhecido pelo seu ring name Gory Guerrero.

É pai de Chavo Guerrero Sr. (falecido em 2017), Mando Guerrero, Hector e Eddie Guerrero (falecido em 2005). Era avô de Chavo Guerrero, Jr.. Suas filhas e sua mulher não seguiram o wrestling profissional.

Nos ringues, foi o inventor de dois golpes, Gory special e Camel Clutch. Faz parte do Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame, na classe de 1996.

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Gory faleceu no dia 18 de abril de 1990 em sua casa , vítima de um infarto fulminante. Foi enterrado no Mount Carmel Cemetery. Ele deixou seus filhos : Eddie , Chavo Sr , Mando e Hector Guerrero. Eddie faleceu em 2005 (15 anos após do falecimento do pai).

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 Perfil no Online World of Wrestling

Família Guerrero
Lutadores de luta profissional do México
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Lutadores de luta profissional do Arizona
Lutadores de luta profissional dos Estados Unidos

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Councillor John Maloney was more than pleased to hear Smiths Falls council members agree to go ahead with Clerk Kerry Costello's recommendation regarding live streaming of Committee of the Whole, or Council, or a combination of both, or perhaps a third reading of the budget, at Monday's meeting. Maloney was the first to bring this idea to council in an effort to get more people engaged in the process. It was a unanimous decision.
The recommendation was for a one-year term with YourTV.
Costs varied starting with $500 per meeting with YourTV, about $4000 to purchase equipment plus an annual subscription fee of about $1000 for in-house, and $12,000-$14,000 per year for the holistic approach.
Nothing has been budgeted in 2019 for the streaming.
YourTV explained the meetings would be live-streamed through their web site with a link to the Town's website and a hook back to the Facebook page. The live-stream would be archived on the Town's website.
Costello added that $500 was a flat rate whether it was for a 10 minute meeting or a three hour meeting. Often the Town schedules a Committee of the Whole meeting and then immediately following that a Council meeting. Councillor Gallipeau asked for a price to cover both meetings "as they are already set up." Costello agreed to get a costing for both and to put on next week's agenda.


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What is Regarded as Fashion?
What is fashion? When it comes to this topic, maybe you'll think of the peculiar fashionable clothing on the catwalk that is unable to appreciate and confusing by ordinary people; in fact, fashion is far less unattainable than we can imagine, on the contrary, some elements full of fashion sense do exist in our daily life.
"Fashion" is a synonym of world trend, the equivalent of which is "fashion"in English, and frequently spoken word of some people and regularly used term on newspapers and media. Many people comprehend fashion in different ways, in that some think fashion is simplicity, and it's better to maintain austerity and frugality than living in a luxurious and wasteful way; sometimes, fashion is only for creating something new and original; fashion takes on a new look and reminds of the style of fashion king, and many of those who are out of fashion in real life are labeled to be old-fashioned and outdated guys; the so-called fashion is the combination of time and vogue. The time means current time, namely, in a given period of time; the vogue means advocating, nobility, high taste and leading in style. Actually, fashion in this time is not only for decoration, it even evolves into an ideology of pursing trueness, goodness and beauty.
An artist says that fashion is an art that will never outdatebut go on full of life, an inspiration that is within sight but beyond reach, which makes human passionate and dreamful; a freeman says that fashion is the lover of happiness, whose happiness comes from fashion, and fashion destines his happiness. Fashion is the ambassador of good health, whatever human dressing, architectural feature, avant-garde language or novel pattern etc, as it were, is the symbol of fashion.
In fact, non-mainstream is also a kind of fashion, except we neglect it unnoticed: to tell the greatest difference between non-mainstream and trend, we can say that non-mainstream is self-unidentifiable, unacceptable and exaggerated conspicuousness for the majority of us, which in most cases is used to describe personal image, and most people are unable to distinguish the essential difference between non-mainstream and trend, strictly speaking, however, the insiders will find the term "non-mainstream"is by itself unprofessional, which is generally used by the laymen, and real fashion buyer, professionals related to fashion, such as editor and planner of fashion magazine, fashion designer et al, will not mention this word at all, or vary few of them will talk about it in some case.
There is clear-cut difference between non-mainstream and trend, that although trend is novel and avant-garde, it's absolutely different from non-mainstream, that trend is a fashion, but non-mainstream is neither old-fashioned nor vogue, but a kind of culture. So, what is non-mainstream? Domestically, non-mainstream, in our mindset, should stand for smart or freaky things, like exaggerated hairstyle or excessively heavy makeup, which is very eye-catching but is unable to be defined as fashion in traditional term. Other examples are tattoo on the face, other hairstyle that is exaggerated enough to draw everyone's attention, excessively heavy makeup, varicolored hair, even the image of oversized nose stud, lip stud and the like that are of abnormal taste in the eyes of average person, could be defined as non-mainstream.
Fashion varies over time, fashion is all inclusive, and the inclusiveness of fashion is reflected by its aesthetic appreciation of beauty. First, fashion exists in vintage. A most distinct example of this is Jay Chou's music revivalism. He composes the scores by integrating Chinese classical instruments, and his lyrics are blended with the artistic charm of Chinese poetry. For example, in the music of his numerous songs, we can hear the tones of Chinese classical instruments such as Pipa, Erhu, bass drum etc; and in his lyrics, we can hear many poetic lines of Chinese artistic vision. In this level, French fashion show is able to reflect the inclusiveness of fashion in all aspects, by taking a thorough view of its whole process, we can clearly find that, cultural elements of various countries are contained in the model clothes, some are showy, some are introverted, some are wild, and some are sexy. We can hardly imagine that there is a fashion can reflect such inclusiveness like the model clothes.
In our time, a woman dresses herself up not merely for "making her beautiful for her lover"; rather, it's expressionism of surpassing the time, surpassing traditional constraint, in order to attain independent pursuit of ego. We learn fashion and decorate more for ourselves, for taking good care of our life, and for seriously treating with our youth, which is an awakening of the consciousness of truth, goodness and beauty. Taking a historic perspective, fashion features contemporaneity, to the extent that the meaning of fashion changes with the liberation of thinking and consciousnes
By Red Nymph|2018-09-08T21:46:53+00:00September 8th, 2018|News|3 Comments
Gina September 11, 2018 at 10:28 am	- Reply
I think fashion is an art form – you might call it decorative or applied art as opposed to fine art, but what's the distinction? Because the same amount of artistic expression goes into clothes, a piece of pottery or a painting. I've founded a museum on the basis that I think it's an artistic form that should be remembered. I think fashion galleries – such as the one at the V&A and the one at the Metropolitan in New York – are very relevant.
Hedy September 10, 2018 at 9:31 am	- Reply
Fashion can tell you what people wore at a certain period just as pottery can tell you what their tea parties were like. I don't think the fact that these things were designed to be practical distinguishes them from fine art. You could say a painting is designed to go on the wall, but if it were made as a fresco, where it was part of the wall, would you say it was not art because it was practical?
Janet September 9, 2018 at 11:34 am	- Reply
Paris remains today an official fashion capital, alongside Milan, New York and London as well as an increasing number of cities seeking to cement their presence in the industry – Barcelona, Berlin, and Singapore especially. Despite a considerable degree of competition from these cities, fashion is a deep-rooted aspect of France's culture and its international profile – and most likely always will be.


Vibrant red with garnet edges. This Merlot is full of ripe plum and berries, lead to a soft rounded palate chock full of juicy red fruit, spicy undertones and gentle tannin with just a touch of vanillin oak. Excellent to drink now or cellar for next 2-3 years.


Breakthrough is a COOP mission best played with 8-19 players. This is 3rd mission in my Takistan missions series and surely not the last one!
It's April 2017 in Takistan. We made huge progress past year in destroying ISIS and we hope to crush them by the end of the year. Campaign is a success for us, both in politics and war terms. We are getting more and more feared in other countries, our plan seems to work well.
The one and only problem in our campaign is (as always) the USA. They started their operation in Takistan after our numerous successes. They want to rule global politics once again but we won't let them. We need to strike fast and gain control of majority of Takistan before they do. We still have initial advantage, let's not lose it.
Finally this day came. We are at the Jilavur military base on the frontline. Thanks to our specnaz units we can now assault the town with full force. Enemy dug in at the Feruz Abad town. They prepared two defense lines. We need to break through them. You need to split to two teams. One should head to north of the town and the other one with tank to south.
DO NOT assault the defense lines alone. When you are ready call 0-0-1 for the friendly forces to attack from our base. We prepared armored vehicles to support you. Be aware that this will trigger all enemy units from town to defense their positions so expect heavy resistance.
In the north there's enemy checkpoint north of the town. We also have information about enemy rocket artillery units in Falar city. Don't enter the town until you dealt with them or they'll toast you. Remember that you can always kill enemy artillery crew and use it to support our attack on the defense lines. After you deal with the artillery you can attack enemy HQ from the north together with south team.
Ambush enemy tanks heading to first defense line and then support our attack at the second line and town. You've been supplied with a lot of Anti-tank weapons if your tank gets destroyed but try not to lose it.
Try to eliminate their AA guns so our chopper can support you in every fight, it's guided rockets are deadly for both infantry and vehicles.
I tested this mission extensively with my friends and I can't find any bugs. Please contact me by steam or in comments if you see any bug or have a feature request! I will be happy to help.
Join in progress is NOT supported but im not disabling it to allow in-game unit switching!
Start the mission only when all players are loaded in briefing screen.
There are just two big mods here (CUP,RHS) and small ACE,CBA, TFR so 5 mods in overall. Why there are so many mods in the list? There are minimods from ACE that ensures compatibility between RHS, CUP and ACE but they're very small.
Not all mods may be mandatory. For example CUP CWA may not be needed same as RHS GREF and mission may work without them but for best experience I recommend to have them all anyway.


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Nicholas Williams
Nick Williams is the Co-Head of the Americas Insurance Group. His practice focuses on mergers, acquisitions and capital markets transactions in both the property and casualty and life and health insurance industries.
Nick has nearly thirty years of experience in domestic and cross-border insurance M&A transactions, many of them notable. An insurance regulatory and compliance expert, he has pioneered the development of a "one-stop" global insurance regulatory platform for multinational clients, combining Clifford Chance's worldwide offices and best-in-class local counsel to afford those clients seamless advice on a 24/7 basis.
Nick has assisted clients on all manner of insurance-related needs, including reinsurance, brokering, demutualizations, insolvencies, captive insurer formations, licensings and coverage issues, and has represented clients in the governmental as well as the private sector. Nick also has considerable experience in insurance-related capital markets transactions, including IPOs, private placements, 144A and Regulation S offerings, primary and secondary equity offerings. and contingent capital transactions.
In recent years, Nick has been at the forefront of the development of Basel III-compliant insurance products which provide capital relief for global banks and other financial institutions. He is also an acknowledged leader in the life settlement industry, having participated in many of the largest and most notable transactions worldwide. Nick is frequently called upon by boards of directors and senior executives for assistance with their directors' and officers' (D&O) insurance coverage needs.
Advising Apollo in its purchase from AIG of a portfolio of life settlements with a face value of $8 billion. This was the largest life settlement transaction in history, comprising over 2,800 policies
Advising China Minsheng Investment Corp., Ltd in its $2.6 billion acquisition of Sirius International Insurance Group Ltd.
Advising Independence Holding Company in its $152 million sale of IHC Risk Solutions to Swiss Re
Advising MasterCard International in the restructuring of its worldwide (100+ countries) insurance operations
Advising Royal Bank of Scotland in the sale of its life settlement portfolio
Advising IBM in the restructuring of its international trade credit insurance program
Advising Deutsche Bank in its sale of a life settlement portfolio
Advising Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group in the $250 million acquisition of Towers Watson's reinsurance brokering business
Advising the New York Insurance Department in connection with the demutualization of Prudential Insurance Company
Advising the New York Insurance Department in connection the demutualization of John Hancock Insurance Company
Advising the New Hampshire, California, Illinois, Indiana, New York and Texas Insurance Departments in connection with the rehabilitation of The Home Insurance Company
$255 million sale via auction by Fortress Investment Group of its portfolio of Phoenix life insurance settlements
Comprehensive restructuring of Deutsche Bank London AG's life settlement program
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Clifford Chance, New York
Practice area Insurance, M&A corporate
Sector Insurance
Brown University (AB, Phi Beta Kappa) 1984
Columbia Law School (JD, a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar) 1988
Joined Clifford Chance as a Partner 2005
Director and Past President of the Columbia Law School Association
Member of the Life Insurance Council of New York
Member of the Life Insurance Settlement Association
Chairman and Director of Art Beyond Sight
Secretary and Director of Urban Upbound
Awards and citations
The "extraordinarily commercial and responsive" Nicholas Williams is noted for his cutting-edge work in emerging areas such as cyber insurance, in addition to his multifaceted insurance transactional and regulatory practice. Sources describe him as "extremely strong, collaborative and well known in the industry."
Chambers USA 2020: Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory (New York)
Recognized practitioner
Chambers USA 2019: Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory – New York


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Oxycoleus carinatipennis är en skalbaggsart som först beskrevs av Dmytro Zajciw 1964.  Oxycoleus carinatipennis ingår i släktet Oxycoleus och familjen långhorningar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Trevor Walters is a British-born Canadian bishop of the Anglican Church in North America. From 2009 to 2021, he was suffragan bishop with responsibility for western Canada in the Anglican Network in Canada. As a priest in the Diocese of New Westminster in the early 2000s, Walters played a major role in the Anglican realignment in Canada.

Early life, education and family
Walters was born in London and raised in a Baptist church. He studied at the University of London and taught high school in Bermondsey  before pursuing a call to ordained ministry. Walters joined the Barnabas Fellowship, a charismatic community, and studied for his divinity degree at Salisbury and Wells Theological College. Walters married Julie and they had three children.

He was ordained the priesthood in the Diocese of Salisbury in 1978 and sent to St. Stephen's Anglican Church in Calgary to serve his curacy there. He later served as chaplain at the University of Calgary and as executive director of the Entheos Retreat and Conference Centre in Calgary, before receiving a call as rector of St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Walters also received a D.Min. during his time in Alberta.

Anglican realignment

As a priest in Abbotsford, Walters became involved in theological and ecclesiastical controversies in the Diocese of New Westminster. In 1999, to celebrate St. Matthew's upcoming 2000 centennial, Walters invited South East Asia Archbishop Moses Tay to preach and celebrate at the church. However, New Westminster Bishop Michael Ingham refused to grant him permission to officiate in the diocese. Ingham cited said he did not "want to see any episcopal ministry exercised here which might disturb my efforts to create a climate of dialogue and mutual listening among members of the diocese" and cited concerns about what he called Tay's "aggressively anti-homosexual stance" and comments Tay had made a decade prior during a visit to British Columbia about totem poles in Stanley Park representing "evil spirits" that needed to be exorcised. Walters said at the time that the decision had brought "great sadness and frustration."

In 2002, after the New Westminster synod controversially approved the blessing of same-sex unions, Walters joined the St. Matthew's delegates, along with delegates from seven other churches, in walking out of synod in objection. Walters and the other dissenting leaders formed a group called the Anglican Communion in New Westminster (ACiNW) and declared impaired communion with Ingham.

The synod decision became a major flashpoint in the Anglican realignment. Coming four years after the 1998 Lambeth Conference passed Resolution 1.10 (stating that it "cannot advise the legitimising or blessing of same-sex unions nor ordaining those involved in same gender unions") and Resolution 3.6 (asking the Primates Meeting to "include among its responsibilities . . . intervention in cases of exceptional emergency which are incapable of internal resolution in provinces"), Walters, as chairman of the ACiNW, asked Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey to intervene by providing alternative episcopal oversight. While Carey, who opposed same-sex blessings, responded that the New Westminster synod decision "saddens me deeply" and left him "no doubt that the unity of the Communion is threatened by your Synod's decision," he told Walters that he was "alarmed by the statements of those who appear to be determined to look elsewhere for episcopal oversight in place of the extended episcopal support which Bishop Ingham has offered" and said he doubted that Resolution 3.6 "is directly relevant to the problems you face."

After the synod, Walters in 2003 asked the primate of Canada to appoint William Anderson, the traditionalist bishop of Caledonia, to "provide true episcopal oversight on an interim basis" after an offer of oversight from Terry Buckle, bishop of the Yukon, was withdrawn under threat of discipline from the metropolitan archbishop of British Columbia and the Yukon. Walters also led efforts among the dissenting B.C. churches to develop relationships with primates of Anglican provinces in the Global South. Ultimately, the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone would agree to provide primatial oversight for traditionalist Anglican churches in Canada as an interim step to creating what Walters called "a parallel province in North America."

In May 2008, Walters relinquished his orders in the Anglican Church of Canada, and St. Matthew's sought oversight from the Southern Cone and joined the newly formed Anglican Network in Canada. The church was involved in litigation over the ownership of its property; the Supreme Court of British Columbia (a trial court jurisdiction) in 2009 affirmed that the property belonged to the Diocese of New Westminster. The higher B.C. Court of Appeal affirmed the ruling, and the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear the case, resulting in St. Matthew's leaving its prior building.

Episcopacy
On November 13, 2009, Walters was consecrated a bishop for ANiC in St. Catharines, Ontario, alongside Charlie Masters and Stephen Leung. He served as area bishop for western Canada and as a priest associate at St. Matthew's.

He also served the Anglican Church in North America and the Anglican Province of America as an ecclesiastical mediator, serving as chair of the ACNA's mediating committee and as a circuit civil mediator for the Supreme Court of Florida. In 2015, he mediated dialogue between the ACNA and the Anglican Mission in the Americas following the breakdown of that partnership, and he has mediated conflicts in the Via Apostolica missionary district. Walters worked as a therapist focusing on the mental health of clergy experiencing burnout.

Walters also participated in oversight of the Reformed Episcopal Church's Missionary Diocese of Cuba, supporting partnerships between ANiC churches and Cuban congregations and co-consecrating Willians Mendez Suarez as a bishop in 2014.

Later life
Walters' first wife, Julie, died in 2007. He was remarried to Dede in 2011, and they have three grandchildren. Walters retired in 2022 from active episcopal ministry. He continues to serve as bishop of mediation in ANiC and served as a clergy counselor in the Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others during Todd Hunter's 2022 sabbatical.

Bibliography

References

External links
Biography on the Anglican Network in Canada official website

Living people
Canadian bishops of the Anglican Church in North America
Anglican realignment people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Chronic expanding hematoma is a rare entity resulting from trauma or surgery. This condition usually occurs in soft tissue, such as the trunk or extremities, while chronic expanding hematoma arising from bone has not been reported previously. We describe an unusual case of a huge intraosseous chronic expanding hematoma arising from the ilium, which had grown over a 40-year period following hip surgeries.
A 57-year-old Japanese woman presented with a 1.5-year history of right hip pain. She had a history of bilateral developmental dysplasia of the hip and had undergone bilateral arthroplasties in childhood. A physical examination revealed a large, firm, immobile mass at her right ilium. Based on radiographic findings, a type of slow-growing bone tumor was suspected, and an incisional biopsy was performed. A histopathologic examination revealed large amounts of old clotted blood within the lesion, and the capsule of the lesion was composed of dense, fibrous, connective tissue. There was no evidence of neoplasia, and chronic expanding hematoma was suspected. The lesion was resistant to conservative treatment, and so we performed an internal hemipelvectomy (including the capsule of the mass) and a reconstruction by hip transposition 2.5 years after the incisional biopsy. There was no recurrence of chronic expanding hematoma at the most recent follow-up of 1 year and 8 months postoperatively.
A chronic expanding hematoma is characterized by its persistence and increasing size more than 1 month after the trauma or surgical event suspected of causing hemorrhage. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of chronic expanding hematoma arising from bone. We performed internal hemipelvectomy and hip transposition, and there has so far been no recurrence. This disease may be considered a differential diagnosis for bone tumor when the patient has a history of surgery or trauma, regardless of how many years have passed since the index event.
Chronic expanding hematoma (CEH) is a rare entity resulting from trauma, surgery, and/or bleeding disorders. Previous reports have described the location of CEHs as the thoracic cavity or the soft tissue of the extremities, while intraosseous CEH has not been reported previously. We describe an unusual case of a huge intraosseous CEH arising from the ilium, which had grown over a 40-year period following hip surgeries. The patient was successfully treated by surgical excision and hip transposition.
A 57-year-old Japanese woman presented with a 1.5-year history of right hip pain when she walked long distances. She had a history of bilateral developmental dysplasia of the hip and had undergone bilateral acetabular osteotomies in childhood. There was no history of trauma, anticoagulant use, or a collagen vascular disorder. She is a housewife. She has no medical history and family history.
A physical examination revealed a firm, immobile mass measuring 18 cm × 12 cm located on the right side of her ilium. An operation scar measuring 14 cm was found in the front of her hip joint. There was no redness of the skin or swelling of the inguinal lymph nodes. There were no neurological signs of motor or sensory disturbances in her limbs. She could walk with one axillary crutch on one arm and could stand on her right leg. The joint motions of her right hip joint were − 20° extension, 30° flexion, 20° abduction, and 10° adduction. There were no differences in the circumferences of her lower limbs. All laboratory data were within normal limits including coagulation studies: white blood cells (WBC) 7300/uL, hemoglobin 12.8, platelet 22.6 × 104/μL, C-reactive protein (CRP) 0.12 mg/dL, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) 15 U/L, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) 11 U/L, blood urea nitrogen (BUN) 11 mg/dL, creatinine 0.50 mg/dL, activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) 27.8 seconds, and prothrombin time-international normalized ratio (PT-INR) 0.97 INR).
A plain radiograph revealed expanded deformity of her right ilium with marginal sclerosis and calcification inside the bone (Fig. 1). Computed tomography demonstrated a heterogeneous mass around the ilium and an area of destroyed bone (Fig. 2). On magnetic resonance imaging of the same sites, the lesion showed predominantly isointense or high signals on T1-weighted images, and a mixture of low and high signal intensities on T2-weighted images. There was visible heterogeneous enhancement of the mass on a T1-weighted image following the intravenous injection of gadolinium-diethylenetriaminepenta-acetic acid (Gd-DTPA) (Fig. 3).
Based on these findings, our differential diagnoses were giant cell tumor of the bone, aneurysmal bone cyst, or low-grade malignant tumor such as telangiectatic osteosarcoma. Therefore, an incisional biopsy of the lesion was performed. An intraoperative examination revealed that the lesion had a thick capsule; when the capsule was incised, abundant blood was drained from inside. The intraoperative hemorrhage from the incisional biopsy was 500 ml; then, our patient needed a blood transfusion because her hemoglobin level decreased to 6.7 mg/dl from the preoperative level of 12.8 mg/dl. A histopathologic examination revealed large amounts of old clotted blood within the lesion. The capsule of the lesion was composed of dense, fibrous, connective tissue (Fig. 4a). There was no evidence of neoplasia (Fig. 4b). Therefore, CEH was suspected.
We discussed the treatment options of the current case because there was no previous example of a huge CEH of bone. Surgical treatment was not recommended due to inaccessibility based on our experience of the intraoperative massive hemorrhage at the previous biopsy. We selected non-operative management for the current case. A consecutive selective arterial embolization program was started and performed five times (Fig. 5). In addition, our patient was submitted to an off-label treatment with denosumab, which is a monoclonal antibody and acts as an inhibitor of the RANK/RANKL pathway and diminishes bone turnover. Denosumab was administered using the regimen for giant cell tumors of bone and continued for 3 months. However, the lesion continued to slowly grow, and neuralgia of the femoral nerve occurred (Fig. 6a, b), so we suspected that it might be a malignant bone tumor and decided to perform surgical treatment. We expected that we would be unable to prevent and control the operative bleeding in curettage or volume reduction surgery in this case. Therefore, we performed an internal hemipelvectomy, including the capsule of the mass 2.5 years after the incisional biopsy.
At the operation, the mass was completely covered in a capsule, with no evidence of invasion of the neighboring muscle. On macroscopic examination, the lesion was encased in a thick capsule (Fig. 7a). After the lesion was excised, a hip transposition was done as a limb salvage procedure (Fig. 7b). On microscopic examination, the mass was composed of a mixture of fibrin, blood clots, and hemosiderin deposition with a fibrous layer containing degenerated muscle fibers and new capillaries. A histopathologic examination confirmed the diagnosis of CEH consistent with the diagnosis indicated by the incisional biopsy.
External fixation of her pelvis and her right femur was applied for 6 weeks postoperatively. After removing the external fixation, partial weight-bearing was permitted for 4 weeks, and full weight-bearing with one crutch was allowed 14 weeks postoperatively.
There was no recurrence of CEH at the most recent follow-up of 1 year and 8 months postoperatively. She can ambulate with the assistance of one crutch and a heel lift of 5 cm (Fig. 7c).
We described an unusual case of a huge intraosseous CEH arising from the ilium, which had grown over a 40-year period following acetabular osteotomies. Intraosseous CEH has not been reported previously.
CEH was first described by Reid et al. as a rare clinicopathological entity characterized by its persistence and increasing size more than 1 month after the trauma or surgical event suspected of causing the hemorrhage . CEH can occur anywhere in the trunk or the musculoskeletal system in the extremities after trauma or surgery [2–4]. However, CEH arising from bone rather than soft tissue is extremely rare.
The detailed mechanism underlying CEH has not yet been clarified. It is thought that the expansion is related to the inflammation stimulated by blood breakdown . These cellular breakdown products then cause a fibroblastic reaction. Inflammation leads to increasing vascular wall permeability and bleeding from dilated capillaries in the granulation tissue beneath the capsular wall, resulting in expansion of the hematoma . Trauma or surgery has been implicated as the cause of many of the reported CEHs [4, 6–9]. In the current case, we consider that prior hip surgeries probably resulted in a gradually enlarging hematoma that moved into the bone marrow space.
CEH can occur at any location in the trunk or extremities, and symptoms differ according to location. Postoperative cases have been reported, most of which have involved the thoracic cavity after surgery of the lung, coronary arteries, or aorta [8, 9], and all the lesions described in previous reports were located in a body cavity or soft tissue. In the current case, the lesion arose from the ilium, which was located in the center of the lesion, and it was unlikely that the lesion arose from soft tissue eroding the iliac bone. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of CEH arising from bone.
It is very difficult to differentiate CEH from a malignant tumor, as in both cases the mass slowly expands and occasionally erodes the bone . Magnetic resonance imaging is considered a good diagnostic modality. The findings of central heterogeneity on both T1-weighted and T2-weighted images with a peripheral rim of low signal intensity reflecting fluid collection of fresh and altered blood with a fibrous wall are reportedly more consistent with hematoma than malignancy, and are considered characteristic for differentiation . However, it is sometimes difficult to differentiate hematomas from malignant tumors based on only clinical and radiological findings. In these cases, definitive diagnosis of CEH depends on histopathology. On histopathologic examination, the CEH is well encapsulated and the capsule walls uniformly consist of an outer fibrocollagenous layer and an inner granulation layer .
CEH should be managed by complete surgical excision, as incomplete removal may lead to recurrence . In order to achieve complete excision in the current case, we had to perform internal hemipelvectomy and hip transposition as a limb salvage procedure because the lesion had expanded considerably to the acetabulum. The hip transposition procedure is reportedly safe and simple for biological and functional reconstruction of pelvic defects after wide excision of bone sarcoma . Surgical hip transposition involves moving the femoral head proximally to the lateral side of the sacrum or the underside of the resected ilium after resection of the acetabulum. The joint capsule was reconstructed with the use of mesh material, and a pouch was formed for the femoral head. Shortening the leg also allows the acquisition of adequate soft tissue coverage in critical situations, which may be the most important factor for preventing postoperative complications . This method should result in a good clinical course in the current case.
We have presented an extremely rare case of CEH arising from bone a long period after hip joint surgeries. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of CEH arising from bone. We performed internal hemipelvectomy and hip transposition, and there has so far been no recurrence. This disease may be considered a differential diagnosis for bone tumor when the patient has a history of surgery or trauma, regardless of how many years have passed since the index event.
We thank Kelly Zammit, BVSc, from Edanz Group (www.edanzediting.com/ac) for editing a draft of this manuscript.
The authors respect the patient's right to privacy. We presented all important information in this published article.
MM and HH wrote this manuscript. HH performed the operation. All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
This study was approved by the institutional review board of the Kobe University Hospital.
Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this report and the accompanying images. A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal.


Helaine Blumenfeld's facility at positioning her sculpture in the magical zone between abstraction and figuration has been the key to her success. By not directly imitating the human figure, and instead instilling within her work something of nature's immutable essence, her compositions speak directly and eloquently to our shared humanity.
Following the resounding success of the recent Sky Arts documentary 'Hard Beauty' and her 'Tree of Life' show at Ely Cathedral, Helaine Blumenfeld returns to Hignell Gallery to exhibit her new body of work based around the theme of 'Exodus'.
Opens 2nd November, 2018 at Hignell Gallery, Mayfair.


text:
require 'spec_helper'

RSpec.describe 'Error handling', :cannon_app do
  before do
    cannon_app.get('/basic-error') do |_request, response|
      response.fail_error
    end

    cannon_app.get('/render-error') do |_request, response|
      response.view('render_error.html.mustache')
    end

    cannon_app.get('/defer-render-error') do |_request, response, _next_proc|
      EM.defer(
        lambda do
          response.view('render_error.html.mustache')
        end
      )
    end

    cannon_app.get('/defer-error') do |_request, response, _next_proc|
      EM.defer(
        lambda do
          response.defer_error
        end
      )
    end

    cannon_app.runtime.config[:log_level] = :fatal
  end

  describe 'an error in the action' do
    before { get '/basic-error' }

    it 'returns a 500' do
      expect(response.code).to eq(500)
    end

    it 'outputs the error' do
      expect(response.body).to include("undefined method `fail_error' for #<Cannon::Response")
    end
  end

  describe 'an error in a callback in an action' do
    before { get '/defer-error' }

    it 'returns a 500' do
      expect(response.code).to eq(500)
    end

    it 'outputs the error' do
      expect(response.body).to include("undefined method `defer_error' for #<Cannon::Response")
    end
  end

  describe 'an error in the template' do
    before { get '/render-error' }

    it 'returns a 500' do
      expect(response.code).to eq(500)
    end

    it 'outputs the error' do
      expect(response.body).to include('Internal Server Error: Unclosed tag')
      expect(response.body).to include('Test {{error}')
    end
  end

  describe 'an error in a template called from a callback in an action' do
    before { get '/defer-render-error' }

    it 'returns a 500' do
      expect(response.code).to eq(500)
    end

    it 'outputs the error' do
      expect(response.body).to include('Internal Server Error: Unclosed tag')
      expect(response.body).to include('Test {{error}')
    end
  end
end

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The Central Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Cherkasy, Ukraine. It is currently used mostly for football matches, and was the home of FC Dnipro Cherkasy and now the home of FC Cherkaskyi Dnipro. The stadium holds 10,321 people.

The stadium is located near the city centre next to big city park known as "Sobornyi Park" (United Park). Located on vulytsia Smilianska, the city block where stadium is located at its corner has a monument to the 100th Anniversary of Football.

Historical overview

Older Cherkasy stadiums
Before 1957 in Cherkasy were about 10 stadiums with football fields. Among the biggest were "Kharchovyk" (5,000 spectators), "Trud / Avanhard" (2,500), and "Vodnyk" (1,500). The most popular among Cherkasy residents considered "Vodnyk" and "Kharchovyk" that were built sometime between 1920s – 1930s. At the place where now the Central Bazaar (Tsentralnyi bazaar) the stadium, that before the World War II carried the name of City (Miskyi), in late 1940s was renamed as "Vodnyk". Built by a sugar refinery, "Kharchovyk" stadium location was not changed being located at the 700th Anniversary Square. Today the stadium is called "Spartak" and belongs to infrastructure of the Cherkasy Technological University.

Before the World War II, the most important games were held at "Kharchovyk", but during the turbulent times the Sugar Refinery stadium was ruined. Therefore the main place for football clashes until early 1950s became "Vodnyk". With time, again to the epicenter of sports attention returned the rebuilt "Kharchovyk".

The Central Stadium
In 1952 after the Soviet Union national team debuted at the Helsinki Olympics and with start of the Khrushchev thaw, the Communist Party made emphasis at mass involvement in sports. It is understood that for it necessary bigger sports facilities. Those that were built mainly back in 1920s through 1930s only continued to be renovated and had low capacity. It is worth to note first persons of the newly created (Cherkasy Oblast was established in 1954) regional center on banks of Dnieper who quickly responded to the party's call. According to archival materials on 15 September 1955 due to necessity in construction of a city stadium executive committee (so called ispolkom) of the Cherkasy city council of working people allotted a plot to the regional sports society "Kolhospnyk" (today Kolos) a total area of  in place of park administration area and regional naturalist station and ordered draft work. Almost a year later on 20 August 1957 the regional council gave its agreement to an allotment of 4,386,650 Soviet rubles for construction of a stadium at vulytsia Komsomolska (today vulytsia Smilianska) and approved the work schedule.

On 9 November 1957 at the new stadium took place the first in its history game where in a friendly met Kolhospnyk Cherkasy and Dynamo Kyiv. Couple of days later a local newspaper printed the following article.

In December 1957 according to decision of the Committee of Physical Culture and Sports of the USSR Council the football team "Kolhospnyk" Cherkasy was included in the national championship competitions of the Class B teams of masters. The unprecedented at that time decision was made due to the fact that in Cherkasy in November 1957 entered in operation a new stadium, stands of which had 27 sectors for almost 15,000 spectators, and since 1 January 1958 it was placed on the city's balance. Since the initiator of the stadium construction was a regional sports council of "Kolhospnyk", from November 1957 to May 1958 the sports facility had the same name with that sports society. On 9 May 1958 (the Soviet Victory Day) on decision of regional council the newly-built stadium was awarded in name of the Lenin's Komsomol. It had connections to the fact that an active role in its construction took Komsomol activists and the Soviet youth. In 1992 as Ukraine received its independence there arose a question about renaming of the stadium. It was decided collegially, that it will have the name of Central Stadium.

Reconstruction and recent activities
In 2011 the stadium was renovated as in Cherkasy was established a new football club Slavutych Cherkasy (today FC Cherkashchyna) on initiative of Cherkasy Oblast "governor" Serhiy Tulub. It should be reminded that at that time Ukraine was also preparing to host the UEFA Euro 2012 and many of stadiums throughout the country were renovated. For renovation of the main Cherkasy stadium, the regional council allocated ₴800,000, and the city council allocated almost ₴2.8 million. another ₴2 million came from the state budget, bringing a total of ~₴5.6 million. The vice-president of Slavutych Volodymyr Khodak noted that at stadium were increased areas of administrative building by doubling their size. It included locker rooms, showers and toilets. The locker rooms furniture was replaced with new. Also at the stadium were replaced water and heat supplies as well as electric wiring. There also was replaced irrigation system that was not in service for the last couple of years. In immediate future place was reconstruction of running track and lighting. Among other plans there were expansion of parking lot by some 500 spaces, toilets for fans, and availability of video broadcasting at the stadium's scoreboard.

Due to the Russian invasion and so called "War in Donbass", the stadium was temporarily used by FC Shakhtar Donetsk that in 2014 played three games, two of which as part of the Ukrainian Premier League.

Gallery

References

1957 establishments in Ukraine
Football venues in Ukraine
Multi-purpose stadiums in Ukraine
Sports venues in Cherkasy
Kolos (sports society)


London, England – April 25, 2018 WCP is proud to share our report on The Future of 5G: The 5G Hype vs. Reality by our very own Per Selbekk, a Managing Director at Woodside Capital Partners. The report covers observations from Mobile World Congress 2018 and an analysis of the current state of 5G within the context that 5G will happen, but many uncertainties still exist. The report also profiles select up and coming 5G companies.


This one is for you single Moms that went back to school and got your degree, to the Dad that finally lost his gut, the young girl who nailed that cart wheel, and the grandma that braved a community college class in a subject She was really interested in. These people have their goals on lock down, and understand that as long as your alive on this earth you can achieve goals and create new ones. When I first discovered The Sketchbook Project, I immediately jumped on it. However, due to a fast paced lifestyle I never managed to complete it. The project is a globally concerted effort, with art sent in from all over the world. You can learn more about it —> here. While my blank sketchbooks in 2011 and 2012( I attempted it twice) languished untouched in my apartment while I attended to other matters… Sooner than later(time flies) the year 2016 rolled around and I found myself in the process of a recovery from a near death experience. I also was unemployed with considerable stretches of time to fill and in need of some positive distraction. Yet again I found myself participating in the sketchbook project, but this time I was going to finish it. The third time really is a charm apparently. You can't always wait for the "right time," to accomplish something, often the right time is right now. Many times you'll find that somehow things happen at the right time when your patient, positive, and active in working towards your goal. We can't control or make everything happen when we want, but we can certainly put the wheels in motion. What that single Mom, little girl, and Dad all understand is that with perseverance and determination you can reach your goals. It doesn't matter when you start, it's that you begin and there's no time like the present. Don't be afraid of failure because failure is a good teacher, and most certainly don't predict that you'll fail before you even start!
Yes, the present is the best time to begin reaching toward a goal!
Agreed Melanie!(obviously) and I'm glad you agree, thanks for commenting🙂 Too many people either procrastinate or underestimate themselves.
Great words – it can be so hard to take that leap and embrace your fears, but every little step helps. Do it, don't say it!!


text:
Q: java.lang.NullPointerException; Trying to create an object and call some methods I'm trying to create a object that holds 3 variables, and be able to run it through two different methods. This is my object. Based on the three variables, a, b and c, it holds the values for a line ax+by+c = 0.
public class APLine {

  private double a;
  private double b;
  private double c;

  //this method returns the slope of the line
  public double getSlope() {
    double slope = (-a/b);
    return slope;
  }

  //this method checks to see if the line crosses the given point
  public boolean isOnLine(double x, double y) {
    if (a*x + b*y + c == 0) {
      return true;
    } else {
      return false;
    }
  }

  //constructor
  public APLine(double a, double b, double c) {
  }
}

And this is the test class I created to try my methods. I had no issues with compiling either class.
public class linetest {
  public void main (String[] args) {
    APLine l = new APLine(3, 5, 4.5);
    System.out.println(l.getSlope());
    System.out.println(l.isOnLine(0, 0));
    System.out.println(l.isOnLine(0, (-4.5/3)));
  }
}

The error I get is:
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at edu.rice.cs.drjava.model.compiler.JavacCompiler.runCommand(JavacCompiler.java:272)

Could someone explain what I am doing wrong?

A: Your main method signature is incorrect, it should always be this:
public static void main(String[] args) { ... }
Also, your APLine constructor doesn't do anything with the parameters you pass. You should assign your instance variables to those parameters:
public APLine(double a, double b, double c) {
    this.a = a;
    this.b = b;
    this.c = c;
}

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text:
package models

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"os/exec"
	"strings"
	"time"

	"github.com/Unknwon/com"
	"github.com/go-xorm/xorm"

	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/log"
	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/setting"
)

//NoticeType describes the notice type
type NoticeType int

const (
	//NoticeRepository type
	NoticeRepository NoticeType = iota + 1
)

// Notice represents a system notice for admin.
type Notice struct {
	ID          int64 `xorm:"pk autoincr"`
	Type        NoticeType
	Description string    `xorm:"TEXT"`
	Created     time.Time `xorm:"-"`
	CreatedUnix int64     `xorm:"INDEX"`
}

// BeforeInsert is invoked from XORM before inserting an object of this type.
func (n *Notice) BeforeInsert() {
	n.CreatedUnix = time.Now().Unix()
}

// AfterSet is invoked from XORM after setting the value of a field of this object.
func (n *Notice) AfterSet(colName string, _ xorm.Cell) {
	switch colName {
	case "created_unix":
		n.Created = time.Unix(n.CreatedUnix, 0).Local()
	}
}

// TrStr returns a translation format string.
func (n *Notice) TrStr() string {
	return "admin.notices.type_" + com.ToStr(n.Type)
}

// CreateNotice creates new system notice.
func CreateNotice(tp NoticeType, desc string) error {
	// prevent panic if database connection is not available at this point
	if x == nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Could not save notice due database connection not being available: %d %s", tp, desc)
	}

	n := &Notice{
		Type:        tp,
		Description: desc,
	}
	_, err := x.Insert(n)
	return err
}

// CreateRepositoryNotice creates new system notice with type NoticeRepository.
func CreateRepositoryNotice(desc string) error {
	return CreateNotice(NoticeRepository, desc)
}

// RemoveAllWithNotice removes all directories in given path and
// creates a system notice when error occurs.
func RemoveAllWithNotice(title, path string) {
	var err error
	// workaround for Go not being able to remove read-only files/folders: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9606
	// this bug should be fixed on Go 1.7, so the workaround should be removed when Gogs don't support Go 1.6 anymore:
	// https://github.com/golang/go/commit/2ffb3e5d905b5622204d199128dec06cefd57790
	if setting.IsWindows {
		// converting "/" to "\" in path on Windows
		path = strings.Replace(path, "/", "\\", -1)
		err = exec.Command("cmd", "/C", "rmdir", "/S", "/Q", path).Run()
	} else {
		err = os.RemoveAll(path)
	}

	if err != nil {
		desc := fmt.Sprintf("%s [%s]: %v", title, path, err)
		log.Warn(desc)
		if err = CreateRepositoryNotice(desc); err != nil {
			log.Error(4, "CreateRepositoryNotice: %v", err)
		}
	}
}

// CountNotices returns number of notices.
func CountNotices() int64 {
	count, _ := x.Count(new(Notice))
	return count
}

// Notices returns notices in given page.
func Notices(page, pageSize int) ([]*Notice, error) {
	notices := make([]*Notice, 0, pageSize)
	return notices, x.
		Limit(pageSize, (page-1)*pageSize).
		Desc("id").
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'Win vs DD lifted our spirits'
They might be inside the top-four in the points table right now after two consecutive wins but Chennai Super Kings batsman Mike Hussey says getting to the IPL playoffs remains a tough task and his side would have to be consistent in the remaining matches to make the cut.
Chennai beat table-toppers Delhi Daredevils by nine wickets here last night. Hussey said the victory lifted the spirits in the dressing room.
"The mood was very good in the dressing room tonight. We won a good match particularly on the efforts of our fast bowlers, who made a huge difference. The feeling is good and we need to take the momentum in winning every game. It is tough but we will be putting in our best in the next two matches," Hussey said.
"We cannot be thinking about the final as yet. We have two more matches to go in the league phase and need to win them. But, having experience in playing these types of matches and winning under pressure, we have good experience in the big matches as well," he added.
Ben Hilfenhaus, who played in place of in-form South African Faf Du Plessis, did a commendable job as his 3/27 in four overs was crucial in restricting Delhi to 114.
Hussey said Hilfenhaus' man-of-the-match winning performance has created a problem of plenty for Chennai.
"I do not know what the selectors are going to decide. Du Plessis has been doing well this season but he has been down, so sat out in the last two games. He might come back as well but certainly Ben Hilfenhaus addition is a big plus."
"He has been able to get those early wickets and he has given fantastic starts putting the opposition under pressure.
Certainly, he is a plus for the team," Hussey said.
"Actually, Ben's action is different to that of Doug (Bollinger). But, Ben is very good at swinging the brand new ball. It is an asset, though his action is a little different to both Albie (Morkel) and Doug."
Hussey said CSK would also draw confidence from the fact that it has done well in tight games.
"We have done well in crunch situations in the previous years too. Changing team characteristics during crunch situations and performing well has been there. We have two more crunch matches and we need to continue the momentum.
"We got to continue our form and obviously the next game in Kolkata is a very tough match. Kolkata have been playing well and they know the home conditions well. It is going to be another huge pressure match," he said.
Hussey said his team fires in unison instead of depending on individual performances.
"I think we do not rely only on one or two or three individuals in our team but everyone can contribute to the team victory. I think the match that we won against Rajasthan was a similar match where we won with six balls to spare," he said.


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Chinese soldiers protest over benefits in central Beijing
More than 1,000 mostly retired Chinese soldiers protested outside the Defence Ministry headquarters in central Beijing throughout Tuesday over the government's failure to assure key veteran benefits, including pensions, healthcare and jobs.
Clad in camouflage uniforms, the protesters sang "In Unity is Our Strength" and other People's Liberation Army (PLA) songs. One banner read: "Our rights and benefits to be transferred from military posts to suitable civilian work have been violated."
The protest was surrounded by hundreds of police, who blocked nearby streets and attempted to prevent the media from taking photos or interviewing the participants. Demonstrations, particularly those in central Beijing, are usually quickly shut down by authorities. The apparently lenient attitude toward Tuesday's protest indicates great nervousness in the Chinese regime over the potential for unrest within the PLA.
As part of a far-reaching restructuring of the Chinese military announced last year, the PLA plans to slash 300,000 troops from its total of 2.3 million. The latest cutback will add to the pool of at least six million retired PLA veterans, whose ranks have staged a series of protests in recent years over similar demands.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers are being retrenched as the Chinese economy is sharply slowing and the government has announced plans to slash over-capacity in state-owned enterprises.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attempted to assuage anger among PLA veterans at the National People's Congress in March by pledging to spend 39.8 billion yuan ($US6.1 billion) on allowances for retrenched troops. "We will see that demobilised military personnel are settled into new jobs or have good access to employment and business startup services," he said.
The government claimed to have ordered state-owned enterprises (SOE) to reserve 5 percent of new jobs for veterans. At the same gathering, however, plans were unveiled for massive lay-offs in SOEs in key sectors, including 1.3 million coal miners and 500,000 steelworkers.
Veterans gathered at Tuesday's protest clearly did not believe the promises. An unnamed 55-year-old protester from Shanxi province told the Wall Street Journal that veterans had received nothing since retiring—no pensions, no social security. "We've been neglected," he said. "We're here to seek what we deserve."
Shanxi is one of China's northern rustbelt provinces where growth rates have slumped and unemployment is high. The ex-soldier said he had been forced to work odd jobs to make ends meet since leaving the PLA two decades ago.
According to a report by the US government's Radio Free Asia (RFA), the protesters came to Beijing from around a dozen Chinese cities and provinces.
A PLA veteran, who only gave his surname, Gao, told RFA: "I signed up to the army in 1976 in Beijing and was demobilised in 1988. It wasn't too bad to start with, but then they started laying off people in the factories and we were just given 400 yuan and told to leave. That was never going to be enough. We've been unfairly treated."
Another protester surnamed Hu pointed to the broad spectrum of soldiers involved. "Today we have here demobilised soldiers, including lower-ranking officers, non-commissioned officers, and regular soldiers [as well as] soldiers who participated in nuclear tests and the Vietnam War," he said.
A human rights activist, Huang Qi, told the Guardian that veterans had held more than 50 protests this year. However, the latest one—outside the Defence Ministry headquarters—was obviously aimed at embarrassing the government, which was hosting a high-level international security gathering, the Xiangshan Forum. Defence Minister Chang Wanquan was to host a banquet for participants in the building.
According to the Wall Street Journal, one of the largest previous protests of demobilised PLA soldiers took place in June 2015, when several thousand, mainly veterans of the 1979 war between China and Vietnam, gathered outside the Central Military Commission (CMC) in Beijing. The CMC commands the Chinese armed forces and is headed by President Xi Jinping.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime is clearly concerned that such protests could trigger wider unrest within the military, and more broadly across society. Under Xi's leadership, the military apparatus is being overhauled to focus greater emphasis on the navy, air force and missile units, and away from the army.
The PLA restructuring will end the existing command structures that divide the country into seven "military regions," which have functioned as quasi-fiefdoms for the army, supplemented by four "general departments." The role of the CMC will be greatly expanded, giving the CCP and Xi in particular greater control of the military.
The veterans' protests are just an overt symptom of broader dissatisfaction, not only within the lower PLA ranks but also among generals who are being sidelined. Last November, the military's main newspaper, the PLA Daily, posted an article, subsequently deleted, bluntly warning that if the restructuring is "not done properly, this could affect the stability of the military or even all of society."
The PLA has been the central instrument of the CCP's police state-apparatus, which has been used to suppress opposition, particularly by the working class. In June 1989, the regime used the army, backed by tanks, to crush the mass protests in Tiananmen Square and other cities at the point where large sections of workers were joining the students, raising their own class demands. The CCP recalls only too well that army units had to be drawn from the countryside after those present in Beijing baulked at killing civilians.
The Xi leadership is conscious that it will have to rely on PLA to suppress the growing social unrest being fuelled by the slowing economy, the lack of jobs and services and the widening gulf between the super-rich that the CCP represents and the working class. One measure of popular discontent is the strike figures collated by the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin. Last year, strikes doubled from the previous year to nearly 2,800, and as of July were up by another 20 percent this year.
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NAPSNet Daily Report 19 December, 2008
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I. NAPSNet
1. US on DPRK Missile Program
2. Inter Korean Relations
3. DPRK-Austraila Relations
4. Russo-DPRK Relations
5. DPRK Leadership
6. ROK Irap Deployments
7. Sino-ROK Military Relations
8. US-ROK Trade Relations
9. PRC-U.S. Military Relations
10. Japan-Australia Relations
11. Japan Renewable Energy
12. US Export Controls and PRC Companies
13. Sino-Russian Trade Relations
14. PRC Government Reform
15. PRC Unrest
16. PRC on Bird Flu
17. PRC Human Rights
18. PRC National Security
II. PRC Report
19. PRC Nuclear Energy
20. PRC Environment
III. ROK Report
21. DPRK Nuclear Program
22. Inter-Korea Relations
Preceding NAPSNet Report
Yonhap News (Hwang Doo-hyong, "N. KOREA HAS BALLISTIC MISSILES REACHING U.S. MAINLAND: U.S. ADMIRAL", Washington, 2008/12/18) reported that the DPRK possesses long-range ballistic missiles than can reach the mainland US as well as Hawaii, Admiral Timothy Keating of the U.S. Pacific Command said. "North Korea does have intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the United States, including Hawaii and territories of the Untied States in our responsibility in the Pacific," Keating said in a news conference at the National Press Building.
Bloomberg (Jonathan Tirone, "NORTH KOREA SAYS IT FOILED SOUTH'S SPY PLOT TO KILL KIM JONG-IL ", 2008/12/18) reported that DPRK said it foiled an ROK plot to assassinate leader Kim Jong-Il and broke up a spy ring conducting surveillance of the communist nation's nuclear facilities. The DPRK police recently arrested a man they identified only as Ri, who started his mission early this year after being recruited by ROK intelligence officials, the official Korean Central News Agency cited the State Security Ministry in Pyongyang as saying. The agent was caught with "acoustic sensing and pursuit devices for tracking the movement of the top leader and even violent poison in the end," the ministry said.
Associated Press (Hyung-jin Kim, "SOUTH KOREA DENIES INVOLVEMENT IN ALLEGED KIM PLOT", Seoul, 2008/12/19) reported that the ROK National Intelligence Service on Friday denied the DPRK's claim that it hired an agent to track DPRK leader Kim Jong-il in an assassination plot. "This has nothing to do with us," said an agency official on condition of anonymity. He said the comment represents the ROK's official position on the issue.
AFP ("AUSTRALIA WON'T GIVE OIL TO N KOREA AMID DEADLOCK ", Tokyo , 2008/12/18) reported that Australia will not take part in the fuel aid program for energy- strapped DPRK until Pyongyang agrees to a written plan to verify its nuclear disarmament, its foreign minister said Thursday. Stephen Smith, on a visit to Tokyo, acknowledged that Washington had asked Australia to take Japan's place in the fuel aid shipments promised to DPRK under six-nation nuclear talks. "I don't see given that outcome that there is any realistic prospect that Australia will make a contribution in a short term," he said.
Vladivostok Times ("DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA RAILROADERS ARRIVE IN VLADIVOSTOK FOR TRAINING", Vladivostok, 2008/12/18) reported that a railroader delegation from Democratic People's Republic of Korea continues its training at Vladivostok department of Far Eastern railroad, the press secretary of Vladivostok Far Eastern railroad department Alexander Artomonov reports. Guests from the DPRK came to Vladivostok from Khabarovsk to have training. In Khabarovsk the delegation got acquainted with personnel training system on the Far Eastern railroad. They also visited locomotive depot Khabarovsk-2.
AFP ("KIM JONG-IL ALIVE AND IN CONTROL: US PACIFIC COMMONDER ", Washington , 2008/12/18) reported that DPRK leader Kim Jong-Il is alive and in control of his country despite reports that he is ailing, the commander of the US Pacific command, Admiral Timothy Keating, said Thursday. "He's alive and he remains in control of the North Korean government," Keating told a press conference, adding he had no particular details about Kim's medical condition. "I think he's relatively in control of his faculties," Keating said.
CNN Asia ("NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG-IL PICTURED IN PUBLIC ", Seoul , 2008/12/18) reported that DPRK leader Kim Jong-Il has been making the rounds of major industrial facilities in the country's north, state-run media reported Thursday. Kim was shown bundled up in a parka with matching thick gloves. He was also wearing a fur hat and his signature dark sunglasses. The photos showed Kim engaged in conversation and active. ROK media noted it was the first time since Kim reappeared in public October 4 that his activities have been reported two days in a row.
Yonhap (Byun Duk-kun, "SEOUL TERMINATES 4-YEAR DEPLOYMENT IN IRAQ", Seoul, 2008/12/19) reported that the ROK on Friday completed its troop pullout from Iraq. The last group from the Zaytun contingent in Iraq and an air support unit in neighboring Kuwait arrived home earlier in the day. The unit disbanded in a ceremony hosted by Prime Minister Han Seung-soo. "The troops of Zaytun and Daiman units improved our overseas operation capabilities, and they also significantly raised the reputation of the Republic of Korea," the prime minister said. "They have proved that our decision to dispatch troops to Iraq was just and right for the interest of the Republic of Korea and world peace."
Xinhua News ("CHINA, ROK AGREE TO BOOST MILITARY TIES", 2008/12/18) reported that the PRC Defense Minister Liang Guanglie pledged to raise military ties with the Republic of Korea (ROK) to a new height. The PRC paid great attention to the development of the bilateral military ties, said Liang, adding that the two armed forces have conducted multi-level and multi-disciplinary friendly exchanges. Stable bilateral ties and military ties are of great importance to the development of both countries and of regional peace and stability, he said. He hoped the two sides could continue to enhance mutual trust and understanding, so as to lift military ties.
Yonhap News (Shin Hae-in, "KOREA-U.S. FTA TABLED IN PARLIAMENT AMID PARTISAN COLLISION", 2008/12/18) reported that determined to ratify the ROK-U.S. free trade agreement (KORUS FTA) before the end of this year, the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) physically barred opposition lawmakers from a committee room and put the motion before parliament. Only 10 out of 29 committee members were present and voted in favor of paving the way for early ratification of the FTA in the absence of opposition party members.
Reuters (David Morgan , "U.S. ADMIRAL WANTS CHINA MILITARY TIES RESUMED ", Washington , 2008/12/18) reported that the United States hopes the PRC, which suspended military contacts with Washington in October, will soon resume them to work together against piracy in the Gulf of Aden, U.S. defense officials said on Thursday. PRC said on Thursday that it preparing to send warships to the Gulf of Aden after a multilateral force rescued a Chinese ship from Somali pirates the previous day.
AFP (Harumi Ozawa , "JAPAN, AUSTRALIA SIGN SECURITY-SHARING PACT", Tokyo, 2008/12/18) reported that Japan and Australia on Thursday agreed to share confidential information. Foreign affairs and defense ministers of the two nations also pledged to expand joint military exercises and to set up regular consultations between officers on disaster prevention, fighting terrorism and peacekeeping. In a joint statement, Japan and Australia also pledged to work together with the United States and to cooperate with incoming president Barack Obama.
Agence France-Presse ("JAPAN LAUNCHES FIRST SOLAR CARGO SHIP", Tokyo, 2008/12/19) reported that the world's first cargo ship partly propelled by solar power was launched on Friday in Japan. The freighter, capable of carrying 6,400 automobiles, is equipped with 328 solar panels at a cost of 150 million yen (US$1.68 million). The ship will initially transport vehicles being sent for sale overseas by Toyota.
Washington Times ("U.S. TO TIGHTEN EXPORT RULES ON 5 FIRMS IN CHINA", 2008/12/18) reported that the U.S. government is taking steps to suspend a program that allows five companies in the PRC to obtain sensitive U.S. technology without an export license, according to documents and interviews. The move is driven by concerns that existing safeguards are inadequate to keep Beijing from gaining access to strategic military equipment. The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security recently drafted a new regulation, obtained by The Washington Times, that would suspend the so-called Validated End-User program.
Xinhua News ("LONGEST CHINA-RUSSIA LAND CARGO TRANSPORT ROUTE OPENS", 2008/12/18) reported that a land cargo transport route between northeast PRC and Russia's Far East opened. More than 10 cargo trucks started the four-hour trip along the 309-km road from Jixi City in Heilongjiang province to Ussuriysk city in Primorsky of Russia, the longest between the two countries. Opening of the route would lay a foundation for Heilongjiang to broaden its trade with Russia and other nearby regions, said Li Lun, deputy director of the provincial transportation department.
Shanghai Daily ("HU CALLS ON CHINA TO MAINTAIN REFORM DRIVE", 2008/12/18) reported that President Hu Jintao said Thursday that the PRC must continue to press ahead with its "reform and opening drive". Hu said the PRC's significant progress had proved that the path of reform was "completely correct." "Standing still or regressing will lead only to a dead end," Hu told an audience of more than 6,000, which included former President Jiang Zemin and such present PRC leaders as National People's Congress Chairman Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao.
The Washington Post (Ariana Eunjung Cha, "WITH STRIKES, CHINA'S NEW MIDDLE CLASS VENTS ANGER", Chongqing, 2008/12/17) reported that from the far western industrial county of Yongdeng to the southern resort city of Sanya and the commercial center of Guangzhou, members of the PRC's upwardly mobile working class — taxi drivers, teachers, factory workers and even auxiliary police officers — have mounted protests since the Chongqing strike, refusing to work until their demands were met. The strikes, driven in part by the PRC's economic downturn, have caught officials off guard.
BBC News ("CHINA CULL AMID BIRD FLU OUTBREAK ", 2008/12/17) reported that more than 370,000 chickens have been culled in PRC's eastern province of Jiangsu after an outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, say officials. The outbreak is thought to be the first in mainland PRC since June. Meanwhile, a man has reportedly contracted the virus in Cambodia, while Taiwan is investigating suspected infection among birds. The death of a teenage girl from H5N1 was announced in Egypt on Tuesday, and a bird cull is also under way in India.
Reuters (Emma Graham-Harrison, "CHINA TO TEACH CHILDREN 'ETHNIC UNITY' ", Beijing , 2008/12/16) reported that Chinese children will study "ethnic unity" from primary school, the Education Ministry said. An outline of the new policy suggested Beijing is worried about discontent among minority groups. The new classes will run all the way through school, with high school students getting up to 14 hours a year to help them "recognize the superiority of our government and Communist Party's ethnic policies," and ensure they reflect them in their work.
New York Times (Edward Wong , "2 UIGHURS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WEST CHINA POLICE ASSAULT ", Beijing , 2008/12/17) reported that a court in Xinjiang has sentenced two men to death for an attack in August that killed 17 paramilitary officers, according to a report on Wednesday by Xinhua. The men, Abdurahman Azat, 33, and Kurbanjan Hemit, 28, are ethnic Uighurs. The report did not give any details on what kind of evidence was reviewed by the court in Kashgar during the trial of the two men. It also did not mention the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. The day after the assault, the party secretary of Kashgar, Shi Dagang, told reporters that it appeared that the two men were members of that group.
Xinhua Net ("CONSTRUCTION STARTS ON NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN GUANGDONG", 2008/12/17) reported that construction began on a nuclear power plant expected to generate 45 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. The Yangjiang nuclear power plant in Dongping Town, Yangjiang City, is being built by China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group with an investment of 70 billion yuan. The plant will have six 1,000-megawatt units with the first unit to begin operations in 2013. All the units will be built by 2017. The plant will save 16 million tons of coal and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 36 million tons, according to Zhang Guobao, vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission.
Beijing Evening News (Zhang Nan, "BEIJING ADOPTS NEW POLLUTION CONTROL MEASURES", 2008/12/17) reported that Beijing has created a series of new pollution control measures including an odd-and-even license plate rule in extreme weather conditions. High-emission, or "yellow-labelled" vehicles, will be banned from all Beijing roads inside the fifth Ring from January 1 next year. This does not include vehicles involved in city maintenance and production, but their emissions must also be lowered by October 1, 2009. Construction sites should meet the standards of dust prevention and control before March 1, 2009. Earth and stones excavated during road maintenance and forestation projects within the 5th ring road should be gathered in bags.
Hankyoreh (Taeho Kang, "'PROFESSIONAL NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS REPORTER, WRONG BETTING?'", 2008/12/19) stated that at a daily briefing, Yu Myung-hwan, ROK Minister of Foreign Relations, said that delaying the matter to the next US administration rather than agreeing to a verification protocol would be "a wrong bet". From the DPRK's standpoint, the results of the 2007 summit meeting between DPRK and ROK changed only 2 months after Lee Myung-bak's election. Considering the results, the DPRK learned a lesson not to bet with an administration with only a few more months to serve. They had similar experience with the Clinton administration as well. In fact, DPRK has not much to lose from denying to agree to sampling; from their point of view, there is no reason to give a present to Bush Administration which is to leave soon.
Kookmin Ilbo (Sangon Kim, "WHERE IS THE END OF DPRK'S NUCLEAR ISSUE?", 2008/12/19) wrote that Haksong Kim, chairperson of the ROK National Defense Committee, said on December 16 that as long as their system exists, the DPRK will remain as a nuclear power state. In order to make DPRK give up nuclear powers, we need to make them realize either that nuclear powers will not sustain the current system, or that their system will be under so much threat that not even nuclear weapons will be able to save it. Connecting inter-Korean cooperation with denuclearization under the excuse that it is for improving the political situation between the DPRK and ROK will only instigate DPRK to remain as a nuclear power state.
Yonhap News ("'DPRK, MORE RESTRICTIONS? DPRK'S MESSAGES COMPLEX, IMMEDIATE ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS SEEM UNLIKELY'", 2008/12/18) wrote that since the DPRK's investigation of conditions in Kaesong Industrial District, whether the DPRK will make any further restrictions to pressure ROK or not has been stimulating interest. Specialists and other people in authority say that it is difficult to foretell their future moves due to the complex message that DPRK seems to be trying to deliver through the investigation, but the DPRK has made it clear that as long as Lee administration adheres to the position of "stick to the principles and wait for DPRK to change," the restriction on border crossings cannot be mitigated. However, most people think that the DPRK will decide whether or not to have additional restrictions after carefully considering many conditions including DPRK-US relations and the reactions of the ROK government.
PRESSian (Keunshik Kim, "MB'S LIMITED SCOPE IN DPRK ISSUE", 2008/12/19) wrote that Lee Myung-bak's policy toward DPRK – to wait – on the one hand means he won't do anything before DPRK changes, but on the other, it also implies Lee's helplessness and sense of shame that there is actually nothing to do. The reason Lee administration is sticking to such a hard line despite its failure is because Lee is surrounded with an unrealistic, limited belief that such waiting will eventually bring change to the DPRK. It is time that Lee creeps out of his little cave and looks around at the outside world.
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namespace google {
namespace cloud {
namespace dataproc_internal {
GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_INLINE_NAMESPACE_BEGIN

class AutoscalingPolicyServiceLogging : public AutoscalingPolicyServiceStub {
 public:
  ~AutoscalingPolicyServiceLogging() override = default;
  AutoscalingPolicyServiceLogging(
      std::shared_ptr<AutoscalingPolicyServiceStub> child,
      TracingOptions tracing_options, std::set<std::string> components);

  StatusOr<google::cloud::dataproc::v1::AutoscalingPolicy>
  CreateAutoscalingPolicy(
      grpc::ClientContext& context,
      google::cloud::dataproc::v1::CreateAutoscalingPolicyRequest const&
          request) override;

  StatusOr<google::cloud::dataproc::v1::AutoscalingPolicy>
  UpdateAutoscalingPolicy(
      grpc::ClientContext& context,
      google::cloud::dataproc::v1::UpdateAutoscalingPolicyRequest const&
          request) override;

  StatusOr<google::cloud::dataproc::v1::AutoscalingPolicy> GetAutoscalingPolicy(
      grpc::ClientContext& context,
      google::cloud::dataproc::v1::GetAutoscalingPolicyRequest const& request)
      override;

  StatusOr<google::cloud::dataproc::v1::ListAutoscalingPoliciesResponse>
  ListAutoscalingPolicies(
      grpc::ClientContext& context,
      google::cloud::dataproc::v1::ListAutoscalingPoliciesRequest const&
          request) override;

  Status DeleteAutoscalingPolicy(
      grpc::ClientContext& context,
      google::cloud::dataproc::v1::DeleteAutoscalingPolicyRequest const&
          request) override;

 private:
  std::shared_ptr<AutoscalingPolicyServiceStub> child_;
  TracingOptions tracing_options_;
  std::set<std::string> components_;
};  // AutoscalingPolicyServiceLogging

GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_INLINE_NAMESPACE_END
}  // namespace dataproc_internal
}  // namespace cloud
}  // namespace google

#endif  // GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_GOOGLE_CLOUD_DATAPROC_INTERNAL_AUTOSCALING_POLICY_LOGGING_DECORATOR_H