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Betting and media firms offer to fund addiction awareness ad campaign
Offer to government is revealed as ministers prepare to publish review covering regulation of gambling adverts
Betting firms and broadcasters have made an offer to the government to fund an £8m addiction awareness campaign, in a move Labour warned must not be a "stitch-up" to stave off tighter regulation of adverts.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will publish a long-awaited review of the gambling industry within weeks, including the government's view on the rising number of betting adverts on television.
Documents seen by the Guardian show that gambling companies, broadcasters and the advertising industry responded to the review with a joint offer of a "national campaign" to show off their commitment to tackling addiction. In one exchange circulated among gambling companies and trade bodies, the idea for the campaign is described as a "consequence of the government's gambling review".
Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, warned that the timing of the initiative was worrying, coming as the government considers whether to impose tighter restrictions on betting adverts to tackle concerns about problem gambling.
"There must be no stitch-up to help the gambling industry avoid tighter restrictions on advertising," said Watson, who has called for a ban on football clubs accepting shirt sponsorship deals from gambling firms. "Industry-funded campaigns highlighting the risks of problem gambling are all very well, but they can't be an alternative to regulation."
He added: "More and more research is showing that gambling addiction is a hidden epidemic in the UK. We can't just rely on voluntary action from the betting companies to deal with the problem.
"The government's review needs to look in particular at advertising that children are more likely to see, including pre-watershed gambling advertising around live sporting events, and football shirt sponsorship by betting firms."
Some of the estimated £8m cost of the publicity blitz will be met by the Remote Gambling Association, the trade body for online casinos, while the Senet Group, set up by the industry to promote responsible betting, is also putting in cash. The trade body did not respond to a request for comment.
The Advertising Association is also planning to contribute, while commercial TV channels, which count gambling firms among their biggest advert buyers, will chip in with "contributions in kind", understood to mean free airtime.
But betting industry sources told the Guardian that the proposed campaign, due to launch in early 2018, has driven a wedge between factions of the industry already in disagreement about regulation.
It is being coordinated by the Industry Group for Responsible Gambling (IGRG), which counts casinos, amusement arcade owners, bookmakers and online gaming firms among its members.
But the National Casino Forum, Bingo Association, and Bacta, the trade body for amusement arcades, have refused to put any money in, believing the plan to be a thinly-veiled effort to ward off a crackdown on advertising.
Prof Linda Hancock, a problem gambling expert at Deakin University, Australia, said such campaigns "perpetuate the misnomer that safe gambling is up to individuals who need to alter their risky behaviour to avoid gambling problems".
She said they not only blame the customer but raise the public prominence of gambling as a leisure pursuit where risk mitigation is the users' responsibility.
"Campaigns become a form of covert promotion of gambling whilst presenting as harm prevention, which they are not," she said.
In a House of Lords debate this week, the businessman Alan Sugar called for a total ban on pre-watershed gambling ads.
Lord Sugar said: "The government need to do something about stopping gambling television adverts that can be viewed by young people, the first being, although maybe not a solution, putting them after 9pm, after the watershed."
The UK's gambling industry was deregulated under Tony Blair's Labour government, leading to a surge in advertisements for online casinos, bookmakers and gaming companies, who have spent £1.4bn on advertising on TV and other media since 2012.
In exchange for deregulation, the industry agreed to a voluntary code, under the auspices of the IGRG, whereby it can only show gambling ads before the 9pm watershed if they are attached to sports events. But this is not limited to live games, meaning gambling ads can effectively be shown all day on dedicated sports TV channels, as well as during sport broadcasts on commercial terrestrial channels.
Analysis by the Guardian suggests that more than 600 hours of programming per week qualify for the exception to the ban on gambling adverts.
Philip Bowcock, chief executive of William Hill, told the Guardian this year that the bookmaker would be open to some form of restriction.
Australia recently imposed a ban on gambling adverts shown alongside live sporting events, something the IGRG's code says would be "unreasonable".
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Europe Starts Its Concussion Debate
Encouraged by their colleagues in the US, European medical experts are calling for a revision of the rules in various sports to protect players and athletes from the dangers of concussions. Recently, in England's soccer league, Tottenham's goalkeeper Hugo Lloris was allowed to continue to play after a heavy blow in the head that left him unconscious for a few minutes. After the game, it was confirmed that he had suffered an obvious concussion, which may have resulted in a more serious injury. Neither the referee, nor his coach or the medical staff intervened and stopped him from playing.
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Photovoltaic systems design: technical requirements
Photovoltaic systems design: design guidelines with all the necessary information and technical requirements (part 1)
A photovoltaic system is composed of a set of photovoltaic modules (panels), from an electrical component (cables) and an electronic device (inverter). So the modules are capable of converting the incident solar energy to produce electricity by the photovoltaic effect.
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In this article, we'll be seeing the requirements and characteristics necessary for the correct sizing and in conclusion, the final design of a photovoltaic system.
The sun's apparent position
If we consider the fact that the Earth rotates around itself from west to east, and since we don't perceive this movement, we have the impression that the celestial sphere rotates in the opposite direction, from East to West, dragging both the stars and the sun with it.
Due to the inclination of the Earth's axis, in relation to its orbit plane, the Sun appears from season to season, at different heights on the horizon.
This perceptive error, negatively affecting man's vision of the world and the sky for thousands of years, is however, so comfortable that even today it is used as a simple and intuitive descriptive reference.
The effect of the sun's inclination
The sun's apparent motion
Solar radiation means the flow of energy emitted from the sun and absorbed by the earth's crust.
Solar radiation on the ground
Solar radiation on ground
When solar radiation passes through the various atmosphere layers, different phenomena take place. A part is reflected towards space, a part is diffused in all directions, a part is absorbed and a part, called direct solar radiation, reaches the earth's surface directly.
Installation site
Energy sizing of the photovoltaic system connected to the distributor's grid is performed, in addition financial feasability aspects, taking into account the following requirements too:
• availability of spaces on which to install the photovoltaic system
• availability of solar energy
• morphological and environmental factors (shading and albedo)
Identification of spaces for photovoltaic system installation
First of all we need to identify appropriate areas for installing the photovoltaic modules.
Generally speaking, in the case of civilian installations, PV panels are normally placed on roof tops. When possible integrated installation systems are also preferred for their low visual impact. In addition optimum exposure is coincident with the south direction as this orientation offers the highest productivity for an azimuth of 0 degrees.
Then we need to identify the best inclination angle for the panels with respect to the horizontal plane. So this value is defined tilt.
Generally the maximum productivity values are obtained with a tilt value = latitude -10°.
Generically exposed surfaces
To properly assess the energy gains provided by solar radiation on a surface, it becomes necessary to calculate the direct and diffuse solar radiation incident on each of the building's surfaces, or in any case inclined.
Azimuth and tilt angle
Availability of solar energy
The availability of solar energy for the installation site should be verified using the monthly average daily values of solar radiation on the horizontal plane.
Average monthly photovoltaic energy production
Morphological and environmental factors (shading and albedo)
The shielding effect by the horizon volume, due to natural (hills, trees) or artificial elements (buildings), determine the reduction of solar gains and conseguently the system's "investment payback time".
The effects of shading on solar panels
Photovoltaic systems classification
Here are some of the basic elements involved in photovoltaic systems design:
• photovoltaic modules:
devices capable of transforming solar energy into electricity
• charge controller:
circuit protection device for accumulators (regulates their charging and discharging)
• batteries:
devices for storing the energy produced by the photovoltaic system in order to provide it to the user when the modules are not producing due to the lack of solar radiation (night time functioning)
• inverter:
a machine capable of transforming a direct current from the modules output and/or from the batteries into an alternating current at a conventional voltage of 220v.
Note: In the case of loads that require direct current power supplies, inverters can be excluded from the system.
• electrical switchpanel:
used for energy distribution. In case of high consumption or in the absence of an adequate supply of electrical energy produced by the PV system, the extra need of electricity is acquired from the public electricity grid. On the contrary, an excess of electricity produced by the system is again fed into the grid. The electrical panel also measures the amount of energy provided by the PV through a metering system.
• photovoltaic cell:
A single photovoltaic cell, of size around 10x10cm, constitutes the elementary device at the base of every photovoltaic system.
We can have different types of photovoltaic systems: grid connected systems and isolated systems also known as "stand-alone".
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That being said, we also believe in a God who accepts our limitations. Neither our preaching or hearing, nor our singing or praying can ever truly mirror God's holiness. Therefore we aim for a humble reverence more than a polished production. We aim for the clear proclamation of God's Word and the straightforward administration of God's Sacraments. We give simple yet earnest voice to our prayers, and sing hymns that are rich in God's teachings. It is God alone who is holy. Therefore, our worship is more listening and observing than speaking and sharing.
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The goal of clustering is to organize a set of objects or individuals (eg. cities, companies, patients, genes, proteins etc..) characterized by a set of "attributes" or "variables", into classes and sub-classes of similarity. For instance, a city can be described by the attributes such as population, total area, presence or absence of an airport or railway station, number of hospitals, quality of living and son on.
Thus, the attributes may be of different types such as numeric (quantitative), nominal (categorical) or ordinal. The notion of similarity or dissimilarity between individuals is crucial in clustering since it aims at putting together, in a same cluster, the individuals that 'resemble' to each other. Clustering algorithms divide a set of objects into groups so that the objects within a same group are more similar than those across groups. In the particular case of gene expression microarray experiments, clustering algorithms can be used to discover the groups of genes having similar profiles i.e. similar pattern of expression across samples. There are two approaches to clustering techniques: hierarchical and non-hierarchical. The former provide a series of nested clusters whereas the latter find a single partition into a predetermined number of classes.
In the Clinico Genomic Trials, gene expression data as well as clinical trials data are available for a set of patients. Clustering the set of genes based on the expression data can produce groups of genes with similar patterns on the one hand, and clusters of patients can be obtained from clinical data, on the other. The link between the clusters of genes and those of patients can be studied with the help of statistical measures of association.
The crucial role played by cluster analysis in genomics was first demonstrated by Eisen et al (1998) and Brown P.O., Botstein D. (1999).
The clustering methods most commonly used are the hierarchical methods (Single Linkage, Complete Linkage, Average Linkage and Centroid) and they make use of Euclidean distance between genes or samples most often for numerical data.
The clustering tools that will be developed for use of clinicians and researchers in ACGT are based on the Likelihood Link Analysis (LLA) methodology. Here a measure of similarity is defined as the "likelihood" of the resemblance between the objects to be clustered (eg genes or patients) under some non-link hypothesis, giving rise to a probabilistic measure of similarity devoid of bias. The cluster joining strategy is itself defined as the likelihood of the similarity between clusters, a kind of probabilistic aggregation criterion. This methodology provides two statistics of utmost practical importance: the "global index" that measures the quality of the partition obtained at different levels of hierarchy, and enables the user to choose the most "coherent" partition, and the "local index" which allows to detect the "significant nodes" associated with the "strong clusters". This tool is integrated in the R package LLAhclust which can perform hierarchical clustering of a set of "individuals" or a set of attributes of different types (numerical, nominal, ordinal, Boolean and many others).


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Carla Martinis (* 19. Januar 1922 in Danculovice bei Jastrebarsko, Kroatien, damals Jugoslawien; † 9. August 2010 in Wien) war eine österreichische Opernsängerin mit der Stimmlage Sopran.

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Carla Martinis, eigentlich Dragica Martinis, stammte ursprünglich aus einer kroatischen Familie. Sie studierte Gesang an der Musikhochschule in Zagreb bei Marija Kostrenčić und war dort auch Schülerin von Prof. Vicko Martinis, den sie 1942 heiratete.

Sie debütierte, noch unter dem Namen Dragica Martinis, 1942 am Opernhaus von Zagreb als Mimi in der Oper La Bohème von Giacomo Puccini. Gastspiele führten sie an das Nationaltheater Prag. 1949 gewann sie den Internationalen Gesangswettbewerb von Genf. Martinis ging dann nach Wien und erhielt dort die Möglichkeit zu einem Vorsingen bei László Halász, dem damaligen Direktor der City Centre Opera in New York, der sie daraufhin als Sopranistin verpflichtete. Von 1950 bis 1953 sang sie dann mit großem Erfolg an der New York City Centre Opera. Ihre Antrittsrolle dort war im Dezember 1950 die Titelrolle in Turandot von Giacomo Puccini.

Im Dezember 1950 gastierte sie erstmals an der Wiener Staatsoper, zunächst immer noch unter dem Namen Dragica Martinis, ebenfalls als Turandot mit Helge Rosvaenge und Irmgard Seefried als ihren Partnern. Wenige Tage später folgte die Titelrolle in Puccinis Tosca. Diesmal waren wiederum Helge Rosvaenge und außerdem Alfred Jerger ihre Kollegen. Im Februar 1951 folgten wiederum Tosca (25. Februar 1951), Turandot (14. Februar 1951) diesmal mit Heinrich Bensing als Kalaf, Aida (23. Februar 1951) mit Elisabeth Höngen und Torsten Ralf als Partnern. Im März 1951 sang Martinis die Titelrolle in Madame Butterfly mit Rudolf Schock als Partner. Später trat sie in Wien unter dem Namen Carla Martinis auf. Von 1951 bis 1962 war Martinis festes Ensemblemitglied an der Wiener Staatsoper. Carla Martinis trat dort in über 250 Vorstellungen in 14 verschiedenen Partien auf. Sie sang schwerpunktmäßig die großen dramatischen Sopranrollen in den Opern von Giuseppe Verdi (Aida, Amelia, Desdemona, Forza-Leonora) und von Giacomo Puccini (Mimi, Cho-Cho-San, Manon Lescaut, Tosca, Turandot). Weitere Hauptpartien waren die Donna Anna in Don Giovanni von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, sowie die Madeleine in Andrea Chénier von Umberto Giordano und die Antonia/Stella in Hoffmanns Erzählungen von Jacques Offenbach. Großen Erfolg hatte Martinis 1956 als Manon Lescaut in einer Neuinszenierung der gleichnamigen Oper von Giacomo Puccini durch den Regisseur Günther Rennert, in der Rudolf Schock und Walter Berry ihre Partner waren.

Am 3. Februar 1951 hatte Martinis in Wien ihr Rollendebüt als Aida in einer konzertanten Aufführung im Großen Saal des Wiener Musikvereins, die von Herbert von Karajan geleitet wurde, gegeben. Ihre Partner waren Lorenz Fehenberger als Radames, Nell Rankin als Amneris und Mario Petri als Ramphis. Im Sommer 1951 sang sie bei den Salzburger Festspielen als Partnerin von Ramón Vinay und Paul Schöffler unter der musikalischen Leitung von Wilhelm Furtwängler die Desdemona in Giuseppe Verdis Oper Otello. 1952 gastierte sie an der Grand Opéra in Paris als Amelia in Giuseppe Verdis Musikdrama Un ballo in maschera. 1952 sang sie beim Musikfestival in Aix-en-Provence die Donna Anna. 1952 gastierte sie außerdem als Tosca an der Deutschen Oper in Berlin. 1952 sang sie am Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro die Turandot und die Titelrolle in der Oper La Gioconda von Amilcare Ponchielli.

Ebenfalls 1952 erfolgte ihr Debüt an der Mailänder Scala als Elena in Arrigo Boitos Mefistofele an der Seite von Renata Tebaldi, Ferruccio Tagliavini und Nicola Rossi-Lemeni unter der musikalischen Leitung von Victor de Sabata. 1952 übernahm sie an der Scala auch die Elisabetta di Valois in Verdis Don Carlo mit dem Dirigenten Antonino Votto und mit Gino Penno, Ebe Stignani und Nicola Rossi-Lemeni als Partnern. 1953 folgte wiederum die Donna Anna in einer Produktion mit Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Léopold Simoneau und Mario Petri, die Herbert von Karajan leitete.

1953 sang sie am Teatro San Carlo in Neapel die Tosca als Partnerin von Ferruccio Tagliavini. Ebenfalls 1953 gab sie in Wien, wiederum im Großen Saal des Musikvereins, ein erfolgreiches Konzert mit dem Tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano. 1954 sang sie an der San Francisco Opera die Leonora in Verdis La forza del destino. 1956 gastierte sie am Teatro Verdi in Triest wiederum in der Titelrolle von La Gioconda.

Ein tragisches familiäres Ereignis führte Anfang der 1960er Jahre auf dem Höhepunkt ihres musikalischen Schaffens zur frühzeitigen Aufgabe ihrer Karriere. Martinis zog sich daraufhin zeitweise ganz aus der Öffentlichkeit zurück.

In Anerkennung ihrer künstlerischen Verdienste wurde Carla Martinis 1955 von der Wiener Staatsoper zur österreichischen Kammersängerin ernannt. 2002 erhielt sie außerdem das Goldene Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien. Die Laudatio hielt Kammersänger Heinz Holecek.

Carla Martinis lebte zuletzt in Wien.

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Das durch Rundfunkaufnahmen, Live-Mitschnitte und Schallplatten überlieferte musikalische Schaffen von Carla Martinis wurde in den letzten Jahren weitgehend auch auf CD, teilweise in speziellen historischen Dokumentationen, wiederveröffentlicht.

Sammlern historischer Rundfunkaufnahmen ist Carla Martinis insbesondere durch drei Opernaufnahmen bekannt, die Anfang der 1950er Jahre beim Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunk in Hamburg entstanden. In einer kompletten Aida-Aufnahme von 1951 in deutscher Sprache sang sie unter der musikalischen Leitung von Herbert von Karajan die Titelrolle, in der sie "eine lyrische Aida mit wirklich atemberaubendenden pianissimi, welche denen einer Caballé nahezu ebenbürtig sind", verkörperte. Als Dragica Martinis ist sie außerdem die Desdemona in Wilhelm Furtwänglers Otello (1951 Salzburg) von EMI veröffentlicht, mit Ramón Vinay und Paul Schöffler. 1951 war sie auch die Donna Anna in einer Don Giovanni-Einspielung in italienischer Sprache unter Leopold Ludwig. 1952 sang Martinis die Rolle der Leonora in Giuseppe Verdis Oper Die Macht des Schicksals. Es dirigierte Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt. Ihre Partner waren Martha Mödl als Preziosilla, Rudolf Schock als Alvaro, Josef Metternich als Don Carlo di Vargas und Gottlob Frick als Pater Guardian. 1953 folgte eine Aufnahme der Oper Tosca mit Rudolf Schock als Cavaradossi und Josef Metternich als Scarpia. Es dirigierte Wilhelm Schüchter. Die beiden Verdi-Opern wurden, der damals gängigen Aufführungspraxis entsprechend, in deutscher Sprache eingespielt.

Die Stimme von Carla Martinis war "schön und warm timbriert für Verdi, verfügte aber auch über fulminante Höhen bei Puccini."

Literatur
 Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon. Dritte, erweiterte Auflage. München 1999. Band 3: Hirata–Möwes, S. 2346. ISBN 3-598-11419-2.

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Opernsänger
Sopran
Ensemblemitglied der Wiener Staatsoper
Österreichischer Kammersänger
Träger des Goldenen Ehrenzeichens für Verdienste um das Land Wien
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"Star Trek Into Darkness" clips shows Spock fall into a volcano
Posted by Terri Schwartz on May 9th
We already have seen a clip showing that Spock gets trapped in a volcano in "Star Trek Into Darkness," and now we get to watch one showing how he got there.
In the below clip, courtesy of MTV News, Spock accidentally gets stuck in a volcano after Sulu and Uhura try to extract him. It remains to be seen if he manages to stabilize the volcano — that is what he's trying to do, right? — and save that planet's population.
In addition to the clip, "Star Trek Into Darkness'" viral website has released two new stills from the upcoming film. Featuring Alice Eve, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Karl Urban, they can be seen below.
"Star Trek Into Darkness" is directed by J.J. Abrams and stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, Karl Urban, John Cho, Alice Eve, Benedict Cumberbatch and Bruce Greenwood. The film is slated to hit theaters in IMAX on May 15 and in regular cinemas on May 16. It's been revealed that over 40 minutes of "Star Trek Into Darkness" will be shown in IMAX. Here's the official plot synopsis:
In Summer 2013, pioneering director J.J. Abrams will deliver an explosive action thriller that takes "Star Trek Into Darkness." When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.
With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
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The 2017/18 Emirates FA Cup prize fund per round
The competition prize fund round by round
Home » Features » In Depth » The 2017/18 Emirates FA Cup prize fund per round
One of the big questions every year for the FA Cup is 'how much do the winners of each round receive in prize money?'
Well the FA have very kindly listed the totals that will be received by the winning clubs per round with clubs successful in the Extra Preliminary Round receiving £1,500 while the eventual winners receive £1,800,000.
Clubs covered in the FootballinBracknell patch generally enter at the Extra Preliminary Round stage with only Binfield remaining in the hat for the First Qualifying Round prize of £3,000.
Extra preliminary round winners £1,500
Preliminary round winners £1,925
First round qualifying winners £3,000
Second Round Qualifying winners £4,500
Third Round Qualifying winners £7,500
Fourth Round Qualifying winners £12,500
First Round Proper winners £18,000
Second Round Proper winners £27,000
Third Round Proper winners £67,500
Fourth Round Proper winners £90,000
Fifth Round Proper winners £180,000
Quarter-Final winners £360,000
Semi-Final winners £900,000
Semi-Final losers £450,000
Final runners-up £900,000
Final winners £1,800,000
For all the latest FA Cup news and draws – visit our main competition article here.
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UNIFIL Force Commander meets Lebanese leaders in Beirut
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano today called on Lebanese Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Tammam Salam and Minister of Interior Nuhad Mashnouk in Beirut.
Discussions focused on the situation in UNIFIL's area of operations and issues related to the implementation of UNIFIL's mandate under UN Security Council Resolution 1701.
Following the meetings, Major-General Portolano said: "I was very encouraged by my meetings with the leaders today. They had strong words of support for UNIFIL and the work we are doing on the ground, and they reaffirmed Lebanon's commitment to the implementation of resolution 1701."
"We discussed the situation in southern Lebanon and I briefed the leaders on the discussions at the last tripartite meeting on Wednesday, where the commitment of the parties to maintain calm along the Blue Line was amply evident. Our combined efforts with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) have been key to ensuring this continued calm in the south."
"I expressed my most sincere appreciation for the support UNIFIL, and I personally, have been receiving from the government and state institutions as well as religious leaders and local authorities in southern Lebanon. The leaders were particularly appreciative of the excellent relations UNIFIL peacekeepers have with the local population, and I emphasized this as a priority we diligently pursue and cherish."
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UNIFIL's Italian and Finnish peacekeepers conducted a joint training last week with the aim of enhancing interoperability, reactivity and flexibility during joint operations while serving for peace in south Lebanon.
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Despite heavy rain and freezing temperature, UNIFIL Finnish peacekeepers operating under the Mission's Force Commander's Reserve participated in a coordinated exercise with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in the southern Lebanese town of Kawkaba, located at the altitude of 750 metres from the sea
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This book reasonable for owner that will build his house or any one working in real estate project from engineer or contractor side.The taraget is to do the actvities with lowest cost and highest value for your building and maintain durability along its life time. This Q&A book will cover all stages from choose the land until occuping the house.
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JRD Tata, Tata Steel's legendary former Chairman, was a visionary much ahead of his time. His unique leadership style, values, business ethics and enduring legacy have made him one of India's most enterprising business leaders. These aspects of his personality are reflected in the letters that JRD Tata wrote to shareholders as Chairman.
This is the story of an untold romance that bears our characters from Romania's wild and picturesque country places to the fabulous and colorful New York.
After 33-years of marriage, John Mancini finds himself divorced and unemployed from her families steel business. He's always been fond of Lyndee Ryan, a secretary there. After manipulating her into having dinner with him they end up at her place, and after convincing her of his divorce they start a whirlwind romance. When it seems everything's going great, John's ex decides she wants him back.
This short story is one of an ongoing series detailing the followers of the knife. They do not know each other except what they read in newspapers and see in grisly details on the news, but they all follow their own brand of justice. A justice that can only be found on the keen edge of a shining blade.


NEWCASTLE, Wash.– Being a former world long-drive champion, Brian Pavlet is a popular guy on the pro-am golf circuit.
During the long-drive/trick shot exhibitions he performs around the world, he often tells the story of a tournament he played a few years ago. A group of amateurs had aggressively bid to get him on their team during the pre-tournament dinner/auction, figuring if they landed Pavlet they had the first 350 yards of every hole covered.
That's when Pavlet (above, on the right next to me) decided to have some fun. The next morning as they were warming up on the range, he introduced himself to the group and then made an announcement.
"I just want you to know that I'm going through some swing changes," Pavlet told them.
Then he teed up a ball and topped it, maybe about 10 yards.
He teed up another, took a mighty swing and dribbled it no farther. Again and again he barely made contact. His playing partners, those guys who'd bid so much money to benefit from his long drives, were stunned at what they were witnessing.
Then Pavlet flashed the look of a guy who suddenly figured out what he was doing wrong.
"It's not this," he said, drawing the club over his head in a backswing.
"It's this," he added, making the exact same motion.
Then he bombed one out of sight, turned and smiled.
His playing partners finally realized they'd been messed with by one of golf's premier showmen. It's all part of the fun Pavlet brings to the course, whether it's a pro-am or one of his highly entertaining long-drive/trick shot/comedy shows.
Pavlet can top a ball, pop it up and hit it off the toe – all on purpose as opposed to the mis-hits the rest of us pull off with no clue how that happened.
It's part of his show, along with monster drives and a whole lot more, by a 44-year-old who won the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship in 1993. Pavlet has performed and played around the globe, including TV appearances on the Golf Channel and the Today Show, and features in Sports Illustrated, Golf Digest and Golf Illustrated. He has performed his show more than 1,200 times, including a trip to Iraq to entertain U.S. troops.
I've seen Pavlet's exhibition a few times over the years near my home in Arizona, and he's just as entertaining to a single-digit handicapper as he is to someone who has never picked up a club. He'll dazzle you with a 400-yard tee shot, pullout a putter that he can hit 290 and keep you laughing all the while.
This week in Seattle, Pavlet was a regular golfer – well, one who blasted the ball 350-plus yards – when he played a few rounds while he and his family visited the city.
I was fortunate to join him and a couple of great guys I've gotten to know over the years while covering the Mariners for the Everett Herald – Mariners assistant clubhouse manager Billy Sepich and clubhouse worker Chris DeWitt.
We played the China Creek course at Newcastle, and Pavlet's humor, graciousness and, of course, power were evident from the first tee. I nervously pull-hooked my drive on No. 1, and the only reason it didn't clear the driving-range fence was because it never got more than 20 feet off the ground.
By the time I reached my second shot on the par-5 first, Pavlet was still approaching the spot where his drive landed. I settled down and drove the ball mostly straight the rest of the day, while Pavlet kept booming his 100 yards farther down range. Probably farther– I was too busy trying to reach him with my second shots.
For a guy whose Ping sounds more like a cannon off the tee, how good is Pavlet's short game?
Really good. He displayed a pro's touch with his wedges at Newcastle and rolled in some birdie putts on greens he'd never seen before.
Meanwhile, he was a personable guy who's clearly worth every dollar those pro-am guys bid to get him on their team,whether he's in the midst of a swing change or not. He's funny, cordial, supportive and, yes, extremely helpful.
Pavlet had a quick response to that.
I was half expecting Pavlet to suggest that DeWitt take up tennis, but he's too nice a guy to say something like that.
On the 18th tee, with nobody pressing us from behind, Pavlet had DeWitt set up to the ball and pointed out the culprit to his slice – his left (back) arm was higher than his right. DeWitt dropped the left arm and popped a nice drive – with a bit of a draw – about 250 yards uphill on the par-4 18th.
While the rest of us were hitting 5- and 6-irons to the green, Pavlet sized up another of those half-wedge shots he'd had all day thanks to one last monster drive.
We shook hands after finishing the18th, thanked Pavlet for a memorable round and went about the rest of our day.
For Pavlet, that meant staying at the course to work on his chipping and putting. He's leaving next week for the Austria Open near Vienna and wanted to make sure that phase of his game was tight.
Off the tee, he's dialed in.


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Migrant Workers' Centre (MWC) was set up in 2009 and is a bipartite initiative of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF).
NMP Anthea Ong: "Our quality of life is defined not only by markers of economic growth but also our subjective well-being".
WHEN Ava* arrived in Singapore about 14 years ago, she cried every night for four months as she missed her parents and children.
"I was homesick and I kept most personal problems to myself," she said. "Until now, I still miss home and cry sometimes."
Siva* and Muthu*, who have been here for five years, are currently unemployed.
Muthu said: "We have no money for food, transport and medical. I am the sole breadwinner of my family as my dad and elder brother have died and my mum is sick."
These are some of the many issues that migrant and domestic workers face when working on our island. And the emotional/financial burdens can have an impact on their mental well-being.
Nominated Member of Parliament Anthea Ong has been an advocate of mental health issues and has brought up the topic numerous times in Parliament, the most recent being the Budget 2019 Debate.
Ms Ong mentioned that mental well-being must be an ongoing national government priority with the recognition that "our quality of life is defined not only by markers of economic growth but also our subjective well-being".
She said: "Our employment laws must also be updated to explicitly include psychosocial health and safety when we talk about workplace safety and health."
As stated on the Ministry of Manpower website, the total foreign work force in Singapore as at end 2018 was more than 1.3 million.
Ms Ong said: "In a country with more than five million people, our foreign workers make up a quarter of our population, their well-being must be of concern to us including in policymaking."
Siva and Muthu started their journey here working as labourers in a shipyard after the cousins paid S$11,000 in agent fees (each) for their jobs. Their salary payments ranged between S$500 and S$1,000 per month. For their entire employment, the employer withheld S$100-150 each per month as "security" which was never returned.
In addition, the employer company gave them no work and no pay for nine months, from December 2017 to August 2018, when their work permits expired, despite assuring them that work and pay would materialise. After waiting for months, the cousins finally sought advice and made a salary claim in March 2018. In January 2019, they were given the opportunity to look for a new job for two weeks but they could not find employment. Their claim is now at the Employment Claims Tribunal and they are awaiting resolution.
Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) helps workers facing salary and work injury issues on multiple fronts - from basic social work assistance to meals and even excursions. Its general manager Ethan Guo said: "The majority of migrant workers will however tell you that a large part of the daily stress they face is financial in nature. They are constantly thinking about providing for their family back home, ensuring loans are paid and sick family members have money for medical treatment. Essentially, they are like us in every way. The best thing employers can do is therefore ensure their workers are paid promptly and in full. This, over and above everything else, is what migrant workers will appreciate to help reduce the stress levels in their daily lives."
Mr Guo said that the number of workers the organisation sees has remained constant over the years. What they do notice however are certain trends.
"For example, we observe a larger number of workers who have difficulty getting their employers to pay owed salaries despite court orders to do so. These are seen as civil debts, and workers lack the knowledge, time and resources to explore possible debt collection methods against their errant employers, who end up getting away with not paying. At TWC2, we see over a thousand cases of industrial accidents annually and almost as many cases of short-payment and non-payment of salaries, that also add on to the workers' stress."
Hence, TWC2 has social workers and trained volunteers to provide advice and case follow-up to workers who have the misfortune of suffering the likes of a workplace injury or problems with salary payments.
Mr Guo said: "We also have a clinic to help those requiring more specialised assistance such as making an online application for a hearing at the Employment Claims Tribunal, preparing documents needed at the courts, and even the enforcement of court orders against employers who refuse to pay up."
Hence, NMP Ms Ong said that policies, such as paying the foreign and domestic workers' salaries electronically, should be mandated to encourage employers to pay them on time and to include foreign workers in our Smart Nation aspiration.
She added: "Since the community clubs already have the facilities, it would also be nice to have activities organised for the migrant workers to come together and integrate them in our heartlands."
Migrant Workers' Centre (MWC) was set up in 2009 and is a bipartite initiative of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF). The Centre for Domestic Employees (CDE) was set up in 2016 by NTUC to assist domestic employees, both local and foreign, in addressing work-related challenges that they may face.
Yeo Guat Kwang, chairman of MWC and CDE, said that it will naturally take time for any new migrant worker or domestic worker in Singapore to adapt to being away from home, as well as to Singapore's way of life, culture and social behaviour. It is thus crucial that they are aware of who they can reach out to in Singapore should they require assistance.
"When handling cases, we ensure that they are being helped by case workers who speak their native languages. This is critical because it creates affinity and provides a sense of comfort that we understand them and the problems they face. Our case workers will also constantly check-in with the workers on their well-being and update them on the progress of their cases so that they have a sense of certainty that someone is assisting them."
MWC processes about 4,000 cases per year and CDE processes about 1,000 cases per year and to help ease some of the anxieties of coming to a new environment, all newly-arrived migrant (work permit holders) and domestic workers must attend a Settling-In Programme (SIP) upon arrival in Singapore.
SIP is a one-day orientation programme to educate the workers on employment-related issues, Singapore's social and cultural norms, and rules and regulations. It is also an important platform where they can find out who they can reach out to if they face problems in Singapore.
Mr Yeo said: "The respective SIPs are a very important platform that allows us to reach out to newly-arrived migrant and domestic workers. A card sleeve with MWC's contact details are issued to all migrant workers when they do the thumbprint scan at MOM. We also adopt a proactive upstream approach to try to mitigate issues before they manifest."
Ms Ong said: "Mental health awareness is in its nascent stage in Singapore, and has yet to include the migrant worker community but studies have shown that 6 in 10 migrant workers with outstanding salary claims are at high risk of serious mental illnesses. We must not exclude them as we continue to make mental health a national priority."


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Canadian businesses with less than 100 employees are the most likely to not have a security strategy (26%).
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1 in 5 (22%) of all Canadian businesses report they have experienced a threat, attack or breach in the last 12 months.
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Norway has successfully developed a resource-based economy (hydroelectricity, petroleum, fisheries, agriculture) and is also competitive in specific sectors of the world market (light metals, automotive parts, maritime equipment and services).
While growth has primarily benefited the South, where most urban areas are located, demographic and economic patterns are more complex. Many rural areas all over the country experience population loss and offer limited job opportunities in spite of efforts to retain inhabitants.
Few other countries feature the combination of very low population densities and difficult topography that hinders communication, in addition to a variety of contrasting climates. But the "Nordic welfare model" strives, with a good degree of success, to offer equal living conditions to all citizens by providing proper access to quality public services across the country. This comes, however, at great cost.
Can such a model be sustainable in the long run, when population ageing and the reduction of petroleum reserves will reduce the leeway that the rapidly growing economy offers?
Can competitiveness and innovation be further developed, given the high share of resource-based and traditional activities?
Can urban policy be well integrated into regional policy so as to better harness the energy of regional growth engines in different areas of the country, including the northernmost parts?
Lastly, can impending regional reform facilitate the necessary adaptations by transfering more power to regional councils?
The Territorial Review of Norway is integrated into a wider programme of national territorial reviews undertaken by the OECD Territorial Development Committee. The overall aim of the territorial review series is to provide practical policy advice to national governments. Recent national territorial reviews have covered Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico and Switzerland.


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Gr 4s Meet Their Leaders
4th Nov 2021 L. Crankshaw
Union High School's newly elected Head Prefects for 2022, Matthew Basson, Kendall Krige, Sisipho Arnols and Asa Matross are a team of talented and enthusiastic learners, eager to uphold the morale and camaraderie of the school while serving as positive role models for the younger learners of the school.
This was evident during these four learners' visit to Union Preparatory School's Grade 4 classes earlier today, Tuesday, 2 November.
Making the move the Union High School's Middle School is a daunting one, and Union's Head Prefects wanted to make sure that the little Grade 4s – who will be making the move in 2022 – feel welcomed and reassured about this big step in their schooling career.
"The prefects set the tone, which then carries on to the rest of the school. It's important that we create a welcoming and positive environment," said Head Girl, Kendall Krige.
"Being recognised by younger learners as Head Girl, Head Boy, or a prefect means it's easier for them to approach us. And a friendly, familiar face encourages new learners to chat to us if they're nervous, need advice or even just some company."
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NASA Chief Excited About Prospects for Exploiting Water on the Moon
FILE - NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (L) makes remarks as U.S. Strategic Command Commander Gen. John Hyten listens during the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee's joint hearing with the House Science, Space and Technology Committ
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has a vision for renewed and "sustainable" human exploration of the moon, and he cites the existence of water on the lunar surface as a key to chances for success.
"We know that there's hundreds of billions of tons of water ice on the surface of the moon," Bridenstine said in a Reuters TV interview in Washington on Tuesday, a day after NASA unveiled its analysis of data collected from lunar orbit by a spacecraft from India.
The findings, published on Monday, mark the first time scientists have confirmed by direct observation the presence of water on the moon's surface - in hundreds of patches of ice deposited in the darkest and coldest reaches of its polar regions.
The discovery holds tantalizing implications for efforts to return humans to the moon for the first time in half a century.
The presence of water offers a potentially valuable resource not only for drinking but for producing more rocket fuel and oxygen to breathe.
Bridenstine, a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot and Oklahoma congressman tapped by President Donald Trump in April as NASA chief, spoke about "hundreds of billions of tons" of water ice that he said were now known to be available on the lunar surface.
But much remains to be learned.
NASA lunar scientist Sarah Noble told Reuters separately by phone that it is still unknown much ice is actually present on the moon and how easy it would be to extract in sufficient quantities to be of practical use.
"We have lots of models that give us different answers. We can't know how much water there is," she said, adding that it will ultimately take surface exploration by robotic landers or rovers, in more than one place, to find out.
Most of the newly confirmed frozen water is concentrated in the shadows of craters at both poles, where the temperature never rises higher than minus-250 degrees Fahrenheit.
Making Moon Exploration Sustainable
Although the moon was long believed to be entirely dry or nearly devoid of moisture, scientists have found increasing evidence in recent years that water exists there.
A NASA rocket sent crashing into a permanently shadowed lunar crater near the moon's south pole in 2009 kicked up a plume of material from beneath the surface that included water.
A study published the following year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded that water is likely widespread within the moon's rocky interior, in concentrations ranging from 64 parts per billion to five parts per million.
Bridenstine spoke to Reuters about making the next generation of lunar exploration a "sustainable enterprise," using rockets and other space vehicles that could be used again and again.
"So we want tugs that go from Earth orbit to lunar orbit to be reusable. We want a space station around the moon to be there for a very long period of time, and we want landers that go back and forth between the space station around the moon and the surface of the moon," Bridenstine said.
The International Space Station, center, passes in
FILE - The International Space Station, center, passes in front of the Moon in its Earth orbit as photographed from Salgotarjan, Hungary, July 5, 2018.
NASA's previous program of human moon exploration ended with the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
Trump last December announced a goal of sending American astronauts back to the moon, with the ultimate goal of establishing "a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars."
The Trump administration's $19.9 billion budget proposal for NASA for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 includes $10.5 billion for human space exploration.
The budget supports development of NASA's new Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft designed to carry a crew into space. The administration envisioned a SLS/Orion test flight around the moon without a crew in 2020, followed by a fly-around mission with a crew in 2023.
As part of the budget proposal, NASA also is planning to build the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - a space station in moon orbit - in the 2020s. NASA said the power and propulsion unit, its initial component, is targeted to launch in 2022.
In May, NASA canceled a lunar rover that was under development, a project envisioned as the first mission to conduct mining somewhere other than Earth.
NASA Chief: US Will Always Have Astronauts in Orbit
Major changes could be ahead for the International Space Station but there will always be an American astronaut in orbit, NASA's new boss said Wednesday. The space agency is talking with private companies about potentially taking over the space lab after 2025, but no decision will made without the other 21 countries that are partners in the project, NASA Administrator James Bridenstine said in his first briefing with reporters. President Donald Trump&rsquo…
NASA Mission to Peer Into Mars' Past
A powerful Atlas 5 rocket was poised for liftoff early Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, carrying to Mars the first robotic NASA lander designed entirely for exploring the deep interior of the red planet. The Mars InSight probe was scheduled to blast off from the central California coast at 4:05 a.m. PDT (1105 GMT), creating a luminous predawn spectacle of the first U.S. interplanetary spacecraft to be launched over the Pacific. The lander…
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The search for worlds circling star far beyond our solar system will intensify in the coming weeks with NASA's launch of a spacecraft scientists hope will enlarge the known catalog of so-called exoplanets believed capable of supporting life.NASA plans to send the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, into orbit from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for blast-off on April 16 on a two-year, $337-million mission.The…


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Formello és un comune (municipi) de la ciutat metropolitana de Roma, a la regió italiana del Laci, situat al sud-est dels Monts Sabatins, dins del Parc Regional de Veïs. L'1 de gener de 2018 tenia una població de 13.070 habitants.

Formello limita amb els següents municipis: Campagnano di Roma, Roma i Sacrofano.

Història
La zona ha estat habitada des de temps prehistòrics. S'hi troben alguns dels jaciments arqueològics associats a la poderosa antiga ciutat etrusca de Veïs, que rivalitzava amb Roma per un temps, al nord de la vila d'Isola Farnese, al sud de Formello. La població a la regió va disminuir després de la destrucció de Veïs el 396 aC.

En aquesta zona, cap a l'any 780, el Papa Adrià I va establir una gran finca de la qual formava part aquest territori, el seu Domusculta Capracorum, en contrast amb el poder de l'Abadia de Farfa, però va ser destruïda pels atacs sarraïns al segle IX. Els territoris de la domus incloïen un fundus formellum, on es va desenvolupar un assentament que es va esmentar per primera vegada el 1027.

Al  era una possessió de la basílica romana de Sant Pau Extramurs, i probablement es va fortificar en el mateix període. En 1279 es va convertir en un feu de la família Orsini, que la va vendre a la família Chigi el 1661.

Llocs d'interès
 Església de San Lorenzo, també coneguda com a Chiesa di San Lorenzo Martire (segles X-XI). Va rebre un campanar al  i es va renovar el 1574 amb la incorporació de les dues naus. L'esquerra posseeix frescos de Donato Palmieri. Es troba al costat del Palazzo Chigi.
 Palazzo Chigi (). Va ser construït per la família Orsini, probablement per sobre de l'existent 'castrum esmentat al . Allotja el Museu Arqueològic del Camp de Veïs.
 Església de San Michele Arcangelo, també coneguda com a Chiesa San Michele Arcangelo (). Església romànica amb un campanar alt i una sola nau. Aquesta església només està oberta per a ocasions especials.
 Les ruïnes de Villa Chigi-Versaglia'', construïdes pel cardenal Flavio Chigi (1631-1693) al .

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