Luigi Di Maio's Five Star Movement was the biggest winner of the election, with nearly 11 million votes and 32.7 percent of the total, truly stunning numbers given Italy's complex multi-party system. Five Star more than doubled its representation in Parliament, but still fell short of the 40 percent necessary for it to rule alone. Hence for the next 90 days—a record for the formation of an Italian government—the two populist leaders alternately threatened and cajoled each other, ever on the brink of a final rupture that would have necessitated new elections. On June 3, they finally unveiled their coalition government, which would operate under the nominal leadership of Giuseppe Conte, a law professor with no government experience. In a role deemed to be unprecedented in Italian politics, Conte is the mediator and spokesman for the two coalition leaders whose implacable rivalry had made it impossible for either one of them to be premier. Each is now a vice-premier, with Salvini serving as Minister of Interior and Di Maio as Minister of Labor.
If the Lega party possesses the virtue of clarity about its Marine Le Pen-like political vision, the Five Star Movement fades in and out of focus about its real intentions. Under the leadership of comedian Beppe Grillo, one of its founders and longtime public face, the Five Star Movement originated in 2009 as a left-wing populist movement essentially in the tradition of Germany's Green Party, presenting a pro-environment and anti-globalization political and economic agenda. It also vehemently condemned America's military interventions in the Middle East and North Africa, demanding that Italy cease to participate in them. Grillo sided wholeheartedly with Latin American radical leaders Hugo Chavez and Rafael Correa in their clashes with the United States. He traveled to Greece in support of the Syriza government in its early radical phase.
Since its storied success in the 2013 national election, the Five Star Movement has become an ideologically eclectic party. It took up anti-immigrant and anti-European Union positions generally associated with the right, while retaining its earlier allegiance to left-wing environmental and economic causes. During the campaign, Di Maio pushed the Five Star Movement sharply toward the center, constantly reassuring the financial community that he would act responsibly and the United States that its far-flung military interests in Italy would be honored. It is a party of immiscible so-called left-wing "orthodox" and right-wing "pragmatic" elements in search of a unifying balance point. More than ideology, the Five Star Movement had centered on the charismatic personality of Grillo, but he played a minor role in the campaign and has not returned to his former prominence.
Since the formation of the Conte government in early June, the soft-spoken 31-year-old Di Maio has been eclipsed in the public eye by Salvini. The problem of Muslim immigration completely dominates public discussion in Italy today, and this is Salvini's issue. Muslim immigration is seen as a threat to the country's national identity and workers. This issue, more than any other, propelled the Lega to its stunning advance in the 2018 election and its multiplying successes since. In the most recent political polls, the Lega has emerged as the leading party in the country, slightly ahead of the Five Star Movement. Although candidate Di Maio joined the anti-immigrant cause as well, compared to Salvini he did so in a much lower key of vocal opposition. Moreover, the Five Star Movement suffers from internal divisions on the immigration question, with leaders of the orthodox wing speaking out against an iron policy of exclusion. As interior minister, Salvini has been completely uninhibited about denouncing Muslim culture as an alien element in Italian society. He has a large and growing following, as the Lega's soaring poll numbers and success in June's local administrative elections show.
The signature issue of the Five Star Movement has been its call for a reddito di cittadinanza, a guaranteed income policy. For millions of out-of-work Italians living in poverty or fearing the loss of their jobs and livelihoods, this is the mainstay of Five Star's appeal. Enormously controversial, it would require time and money before it could be enshrined into law. Protesting Muslim immigration, on the other hand, yields instant political gratification for the Lega and costs nothing. Thus far, there has been no sign of a legislative proposal from the Conte government for the guaranteed income policy.
Confindustria, the main association representing manufacturing and service companies in Italy, grimly forecast in late June that economic growth would shrink from 1.5 percent in 2017 to 1.3 percent in 2018, and to 1.1 per cent in 2019. This news sent a tremor throughout Italy. The earthquake that Di Vico warned about could involve even more far-reaching effects than a temporary reconfiguration of Italy's political landscape.


Donnelly called his article in 2000 "Newt Gingrich's Last Boondoggle" and he gave a fascinating look at the beliefs of the group that ultimately pressured the President into invading Iraq. Note that this article was published before Bush took the reigns of the country by an order of a conservative federal Supreme Court, so the reasoning expressed in the article illustrates why/how Bush could have began his term buoyed by the lofty dream of absolute US hegemony.
often at odds. How, for example, is the United States to "compose a balance"? between liberty and stability in China? If stability reigns, so will the Chinese Communists. If America works to advance freedom in China, there will almost certainly be turmoil.
It is almost as though if you have been right once, you will be right again no matter what the situation. However, while the US might have "won" a superpower conflict when the primary adversary stood down, that does not translate directly into unquestionable control of the remaining geopolitical affairs. This is the crux of the mistake made by think-tanks like Project for the New American Century. The situation was not like one of the Rocky movies where a heroic fighter beats the odds is left standing in a ring over the dispirited opposition. Quite the contrary, while one particular risk became lessened other high-risk security issues became more critical; threats and vulnerabilities changed so the overall risk equation shifted but still needed to be heeded. Even Tom Clancy's writing was tapping into this philosophy by the late 1990s (Rainbow Six, Rogue Spear), which reflected that the military establishment itself could see engagements ahead would require a more indigenous, sophisticated and delicately balanced response than that of giant missle defense systems and Big Red One rolling over and occupying vast expanses of foreign territory. Goodbye John Wayne, hello Mr. Bond (or Alpha team), you might say.
The risk algorithms of national security and international relations were clearly evolving in a way that many, including Hart-Rudman, could see. So, by the summer of 2001, intelligence and anti-terrorism experts were literally yelling into the ears of the Bush Administration that Hart-Rudman's recommendation of "a finer calculus of benefits and burdens" really would be necessary. Richard Clarke's "roll back" presentation suggested a strategy for the US to strike right at the heart of al Qaeda training camps and put the terrorist group on warning in February 2001. Yet the Bush Administration walked away from the table announcing they were going to handle things the old-fashioned way, on their own timeline and without interference.
Cheney was unhappy with the suggestion that American power was bound to decline: "Emerging powers will increasingly constrain U.S. options regionally and limit its strategic influence. As a result, we will remain limited in our ability to impose our will. . . ."?
The irony is almost too thick to avoid. The ex-Regan administration member Cheney resigned because she could not deal with reality. The only alternative, impose her view on those who recognized the new security risks ahead, must have been unsuccessful and so she quit the team. It is only logical that she and her husband from that point onward were planning to deep-six the recommendations of the final report and knew what to do when it was handed to the Bush Administration in 2001. Incidentally, during the 9/11 events she was reported to have turned down the offical debreifing from the anti-terror task force so she could hear the reports from CNN.
At the end of the day it was an uncompromisingly myopic stance of the Bush Administration coupled with the inability to process information about the real and present dangers to the country that arguably precipitated the ease with which al Qaeda staged their attack on 9/11 — Osama's minions did not fit the image of what the Bush Administration, and the Cheney couple in particular, were willing or able to accept as a credible threat. They therefore not only fumbled the job of understanding risk, but they ignored and actively distanced themselves from the voices that tried to raise alarm before disaster struck. Like a heavy-weight fighter brushing off idea that bar-room punches of a welter-weight were of any concern, the Bush Administration didn't understand that the inauspicious new adversaries not only had motive, but the means to do serious and lasting damage.
In conclusion, and unfortunately for the US, a series of ill-conceived security decisions by the Bush Administration were made based on a tired and romantic view of a world that probably never really existed. Six years later the world is left to hope that the Bush Administration has started to realize, as Gorbachev once did, that the value concept of a giant conventional superpower could be long past its shelf date. The idea of imposing unilateral will by generating endless turmoil abroad today does in fact exhaust a powerful nation, even America, and can actually end up eroding the base of power and undermining relationships. It was easy to see how this policy would lead to a quagmire of undesireable and taxing battles on multiple fronts where success would come only by lowering expectations. Do the American leaders today have the strength to admit the mistake and swallow their pride? Unlikley. And so the real danger now is that leaders, facing the exhaustion of their nation, may forgoe the high road of true democracy by becoming accountable and instead choose the path of desperation — quick fixes intended to create the illusion of success at any cost, without regard for the true damage they may cause to their country and its freedoms.


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Q: Assigning NumPy arrays into a DataFrame column inside for loops There are unreasonably high values and also negative values inside the 'Net Entries' and 'Net Exits'
columns. I am trying to fix it with the code above. But I am keep encountering the below error.
Below is my code:
indexes = [*D.index.unique()]
list_ = []

for index in indexes :

    df = D[D.index == index]

    array_ent = np.array(df['Net Entries'])
    array_ext = np.array(df['Net Exits'])

    avg_ent = np.mean(array_ent[(array_ent > 0) & (array_ent < 5040)])
    avg_ext = np.mean(array_ext[(array_ext > 0) & (array_ext < 5040)])

    array_ent[(array_ent < 0) | (array_ent > 5040)] = avg_ent
    array_ext[(array_ext < 0) | (array_ext > 5040)] = avg_ext

    df['x'] = array_ent
    df['y'] = array_ext

    list_.append(df)

MTA = pd.concat(list_, axis = 0)

D.head()
RuntimeWarning: Mean of empty slice.
  return _methods._mean(a, axis=axis, dtype=dtype,

RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in double_scalars
  ret = ret.dtype.type(ret / rcount)

Can anyone solve this problem ?

A: You are looking for the
.clip()
function.
df['Net Entries'] = df['Net Entries'].clip(0, 5040)
df['Net Exits']   = df['Net Exits'].clip(0, 5040)

Once clipped, process those features as you wish:
median, mean, whatever.

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Employees seek insights into their organization's heading. And they should, because what their organization does has a direct impact on their well-being. If your organization is planning to retrench 50% of its staff, halimbawa, you'd better start looking for new job right away.
Who do you turn to when you pine for information? Your management would have you listen to them. Mula sa pananaw ng empleyado, this may not be the smartest move. But fret not, there is an alternative.
This credibility gap that a typical management team suffers from can be addressed only though open and candid communication. Therein lies the rub. The management cannot always be as candid as they would like to be. At, they certainly cannot afford to be as candid as the employees would like them to be.
Once a rumour attains a high level of credibility, the top brass will be forced to talk. But the talk has to be candid and serious. And it has to be timely. If they wait for too long, their attempts at a tête-à -tête would resemble feeble attempts at damage control. And if the talk is a mere torrent of clichés and rhetoric, it will be taken as an effort to gloss over potentially catastrophic changes. Sa katunayan, such weak communication fuels more rumour than it quells.
If you are a part of the top brass, here is what you can do. Circulate as much accurate and timely information as you possibly can. If you cannot do it officially through formal channels, try informal ones, such as lunches and pantries. Sa ganitong paraan, you can turn the rumour mills to serve your purpose rather than let them run amok.


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Apple Inc. is one of the famous companies in the world in the Smartphone industry. The products of Apple are of high quality and each of these items is up to date. The latest technology is used in every product version which makes Apple a trademark by itself. It does not need any sort of marketing techniques and skills to record the boost in the sales. Apple iPhone is the most renowned device in the history of the Apple's Smartphone making. The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are the top ones. On the other hand, in case you will drop your iPhone 7 Plus then you will have to pay hundreds of pounds for Apple iPhone 7 Plus Screen Repair.
The good news is that the Smartphones of Apple are so common that you can easily get the broken iPhone screens from the company. The company does not charge much cash for iPhone screen repair or replacement if it covers the guarantee offered by the company. There are a lot of individuals that had to face this problem. So, Apple is also getting profit in this way as well. Thus, there are various options for doing the iPhone 7 Plus Screen Replacement or repairing.
If you are having a broken screen of iPhone 7 Plus, you are not alone in this world. If you drop your iPhone and the cracks are small, you will not go for repairing or replacement. However, if the cracks will be huge and you will not be able to use the phone then it will be problematic for you.
It is a good option to always put a glass screen protector on your Apple iPhone 7 Plus. There are a few online markets where you can purchase the glass screen protector for your Apple iPhone 7 Plus. You can get it from Amazon or any other big online store and protect the screen of your precious iPhone.
The best alternative to getting your iPhone 7 Plus screen fixed is to handover it to Apple. If you want to check that your device is covered by the AppleCare+ or not, you have to go to the official site and then enter the iPhone serial number. Devoid of the AppleCare+, the cost for the fixing screen will not be reasonable for you anymore if your iPhone is not covered a warranty.
Always remember, you might be capable enough to convince the Apple techs to fix your iPhone 7 Plus without any cost in case you have more than one crack on your screen. In the event that there are no other signs of damage then screen might be broken from inside.
Apple will fix up your screen breaks as it manufactures the defects without any cost. On the other hand, the Apple techs are the ones who find out that the break occurred due to an accident or defect. The manufacturing defects could be covered up easily if the device is under the warranty of Apple.
You should have your Apple ID password all the time. You might need to unlock your phone or turn it off to Find My iPhone before the techs will take your gadget. It is better to remember your password for Apple ID. Ensure that you have it handy. It becomes important when you are taking someone else's phone into the store.
Though iPhone 7 Plus Screen Replacement through the Apple store is a good option, it's recommended to go for an online iPhone Screen repair service provider like Mobile Repairs 4 U. Their services are usually cheap and trustworthy as they are registered in BenFeed. Many iPhone repair shops guarantee to have your iPhone fixed within an hour or less, and some even provide in-home or mail-in services for those who are stuck at work during business hours.


Arrivals and departures are permitted on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
There are 14 apartments, including one specifically designed with disabled access.
One bedroomed apartments have a twin bedroom plus cot (2 adults + Infant).
Three bedroomed apartments have 3 double/twin bedrooms, the main bedroomed with ensuite shower room. These can accommodate 6 adults, 4 adults & 2 children or 2 adults & 4 children plus an infant.
The disabled unit sleeps 5 people with a double room, twin room and single room. The disabled unit has a 'wet' shower room and separate cloakroom (no en-suite).
Two of the 3 bedroomed apartments on the 1st floor can interconnect with a 1 bedroomed apartment to create an apartments sleeping up to 8 plus an infant.
All apartments have fully fitted kitchens with oven, hob, microwave, refrigerator, wahing machine//tumble dryer, dishwasher, etc.
All have a lounge/dining area with digital TV, bathroom with bath & shower.
Each apartment has its own iron and ironing board, vacuum cleaner, hairdryer, radio alarm etc.
Electricity/hotel water is included in the tariff.
A communal courtyard is available for all guests.
The indoor swimming pool is heated from May to September.
There is an outdoor children's play area and an indoor games room.
There is a bus stop outside the property.
200 years from the apartments there is a butchers selling essential groceries, plus a delicatessen, off-licence and local pub/hotel.
10 minutes walk along the cost road is Cobo Village which includes a supermarket, post office, chemist, bank and garage.
For those not wanting to cook during their holiday Guernsey offers a vast choice of places to eat, from excellent pub grub to luxury restuarants.
There is one apartment on the ground floor specifically designed with disables access.
Mas des Sables Cottages are situated on the west coast of Guernsey. There is a selection of granite cottages, designed with comfortable and relaxing holidays in mind.


Address: 1355 Bank St, Ottawa. Suite 205, ONT, K1H 8K7. Telephone: (613) 721-2907. Fax: (613) 518-6555.
Specialized care in women's health under one roof..
We are also very happy to announce that "Women's Ultrasound Clinic" has relocated their Carling clinic to the suite adjacent to ORIGYNS. Our patients will hence benefit from integrated and efficient services, by combining their ultrasound appointment and medical visit in the same day.


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Co-Workers Honoring Miami Firefighter Killed in Drive-by Shooting
Published at 2:02 pm on September 26, 2016
Fellow Miami firefighters will say goodbye to one of their own who was tragically killed this past weekend.
Chadrick Davis, a 23-year-old who spent the last two years as a member of the Miami Fire Department, was shot after attending a wake near NW 44th Court in Northwest Miami-Dade Saturday.
Davis is the son of a retired Fire Lieutenant, Malcolm Davis, and the godson of current MFD Chief Maurice Kemp.
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Davis was one of two people killed in the shooting, along with 22-year-old Sir-Earnest Terrell Williams.
The body of Davis was transported to a Northwest Miami-Dade funeral home Tuesday, passing by three seperate stations and allowing fellow firefighters a chance to say goodbye.
A GoFundMe account has been set up to help with funeral cost and other expenses. You can donate by clicking on this link.

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The official launch of the Loras Women's Leadership Alliance was held on March 21 for faculty, staff, alumni, and students gathered for this historic occasion. The mission of the recently formed Leadership Alliance is to engage women on the Loras College campus and in alumni communities, connecting or reconnecting them with the College. Supporting young women who attend or will attend Loras is their overall goal.
Loras College President Jim Collins ('84) opened the event by addressing those in attendance. President Collins then introduced Sarah Ross ('81), who also welcomed the attendees and gave an overview of the new organization and its goals.
The Women's Leadership Alliance is guided by a volunteer board formed of alumni, faculty and staff. Current members include Nancy Zachar Fett ('90), associate professor of social work at Loras, Deb (O'Connor) Gustafson ('76), Jane (Noonan) Demmer ('76), Beth (Nischik) Mund ('96), Jamie Covell ('12), Ashley Miller ('13), Jennifer Skipper ('97), Sarah (Schroeder) Ross ('81), Theresa (Obermann) Hoffman ('81), Melissa (Fritz) Wagner ('09) and Karen (Smith) Runde ('07). Cayla Schneider, director of annual giving, and Valorie Woerdehoff ('82), director of corporate and foundation support, are assisting.
Loras College became co-ed in 1971. There are currently over 8,350 women who claim Loras as their alma mater. Currently, 47% of the student body is female. The Leadership Alliance hopes to connect female faculty, staff and alumni with current students in a variety of ways. Their first project is to build an award and endow a scholarship for current or potential students. The scholarships can provide a strong impact on the opportunities available for female students. The Alliance also hopes to offer other networking and social opportunities, along with mentoring and professional development.
To find out more, support or join the Loras Women's Leadership Alliance, contact Cayla Schneider at cayla.schneider@loras.edu or 563.588.7328.


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The process I use for some of my pictures is a bit unusual, with digital technology replacing not only the darkroom, but the camera as well. I sometimes (but not always) use a flatbed scanner as a camera, which offers interesting opportunities and limitations. Unlike a traditional camera, it captures an image by slowly moving both the light and the lens across the subject, essentially lighting and photographing it from multiple angles in one long exposure. This produces a single image stitched together from thousands of tiny slivers, to which I then make endless, minute adjustments. This offers a view that can't be seen through a camera lens or the naked eye, and illumination that can't be duplicated with fixed lights. It also offers a uniquely detailed view, as I magnify each image and work on it down to a level of detail that will never be seen in the finished print. Full-resolution prints of some of the images can be as wide as sixty inches, and enlargements as big as 300 inches (25 feet) wide have been made without loss of detail.
People sometimes refer to this kind of work as scanner photography, scanography, scanograms, flower scans, scanning, and so on. I still call it photography, because a photograph is a picture made with light, and today there are many alternative processes for making photographs, including various camera-less methods.


Human urine is a valuable plant nutrient resource however; there is very little information on using urine. This research examined the use of human urine as nutrient source as well as biochar and compost as growing media for tomato (cv M2) and pepper (Capsicum annum cv bird eye) production.
2013 IESS - Groundwater Contamination with Toxic Metals through Small Scale Mining Within the Lower Pra Basin.
This study assessed the effects of small-scale gold mining on quality of groundwater in the Lower Pra Basin in terms of heavy metal and other physico-chemical pollution.
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This study was carried out to determine the potentials of producing biodiesel from micro algae obtained from freshwater bodies in Ghana to serve as an environmentally sustainable fuel and an alternative to the use of fossil diesel.
Religious noise pollution is gradually becoming rampant and a nuisance in most residential areas in Ghana. This study set out to assess the levels of religious noise produced in some selected communities in the Ashaiman Municipality.
This study, conducted in Wa the Upper West region of Ghana, aimed at assessing the influence of on-site sanitation systems on hand dug well water quality. Samples were randomly collected from thirty wells and tested using standard methods for physico-chemical and microbiological indicators of water quality. Questionnaires were administered to assess the general knowledge and perception of respondents on the quality of the water they used for domestic purposes.
The study involved reconnaissance surveys, trapping of insects, physico-hemical and bacteriological assessment of water and social surveys to determine how human activities influence insect diversity and abundance in and around the wetland environment.
This study assessed the impact of charcoal production on soil properties, vegetation and the perception of charcoal producers on the environmental impacts of their activities in the Central Gonja District of the Northern Region, Ghana.
This study was conducted to characterize and quantify FS produced in Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis (STMA), co-compost FS with EFB and CPH, evaluate the suitability of the co-composts and compost tea as a growing medium and nutrient source, respectively and then ascertain the perception of farmers and consumers on FS compo sting and use in crop production.
Groundwater issues in coastal communities are usually associated with seasonal salinization, due to sea water intrusion and seasonal flooding, however the main objective of this study was to assess the physical and chemical water quality of hand dug wells in Atorkor, Srogbe and Whuti, which are located close to possible contamination sources and further from these contamination sources.


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Commentary: Will the electric future be resilient?
Webster's Dictionary defines resilience as "an ability to recover from or adjust to misfortune or change." Resilience has defined human history. From wars to pandemics, to droughts to floods, to economic crashes to hurricanes, tsunamis and tornadoes we've been through a lot. Yet despite all the things that have been thrown at us, we humans carry on.
Rick Mihelic is the director of Future Technology Studies for the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE)
Resilience is also necessary in the trucking industry. The inspiring response of freight haulers to COVID-19 demonstrates just how resilient they are and, as most people have finally come to realize, just how essential they are.
It is the near universal use of trucks with diesel engines that has enabled this latest demonstration of the trucking industry's resilience.
North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) — along with many others including Daimler's Martin Daum — believes that the future is electric. But I can't help but wonder how manufacturers are going to go about making the electric future resilient. Electric motors, batteries and even the electric grid itself have all been around for as long as diesel engines. Electricity powers our everyday life, so surely it must be as resilient as diesel, right?
Interestingly, transportation uses less than 1% of today's electric energy, according to the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Energy Information Administration. Electric vehicles have not yet scratched the surface of tapping into electric energy use. How resilient will electric vehicles be when 5%, 10% or 20% of electric energy is going to transportation?
Events like the recent wildfires in California, Hurricane Harvey in Houston or the earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima demonstrate that even normally stable energy supply systems have weaknesses. In all three of these cases, whether electric power or liquid fuels, the energy delivery systems were disrupted by significant natural catastrophe.
So, I ask the question: will electric vehicles, including hydrogen based fuel cells, prove to be as resilient as today's diesel trucks that are getting us through COVID-19?
That resiliency is the challenge for truck manufacturers, utility companies, charging system manufacturers and policy makers. They need to make sure when we are all-in with electric that it is as good as or better than the resiliency of diesel.
The industry is already thinking about ways to be resilient. For example, including on-site battery storage and micro-grid solar and wind generation to offload risks from the grid. There's a story — maybe an urban myth — where a Tesla owner in California during power blackout resulting from wildfires used his Tesla to power his house refrigerator and TV. There are school buses acting as vehicle-to-grid battery storage systems to help. Amazon is putting millions of solar panels on their warehouse roofs.
These are a great start at being resilient, but we will need more. And I believe we will see it.
Rick Mihelic is NACFE's Director of Emerging Technology Studies. He has authored Guidance Reports on electric medium- and heavy-duty trucks, thought leadership papers on regional haul and defining production and Confidence Reports on determining efficiency, tractor aerodynamics, trailer aerodynamics, two truck platooning. President of Mihelic Vehicle Consulting LLC, he has 38 years' experience in aerospace engineering and the trucking industry including 20 years in commercial vehicle development for Peterbilt. He was involved in the development of aerodynamic vehicles and groundbreaking systems including the Peterbilt/Cummins DOE SuperTruck. He was awarded the prestigious SAE L. Ray Buckendale Award in 2016.
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Methinee Chalothorn appointed first female Supreme Court president
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Chatwan Mongkol
A freelance journalist based in Bangkok, Thailand covering Thai politics
THAILAND. Bangkok. Methinee Chalothorn, current Supreme Court vice-president, will serve as the country's 46th and first female Supreme Court president after the Judicial Commission endorsed her nomination on 24 July.
Supreme Court president is the highest position of the Thai judicial branch. The position is legally equivalent to the prime minister of the executive branch and the president of the National Assembly of the legislative branch. Chalothorn's presidency will start on 1 Oct.
Methinee Chalothorn. Photo Credit: The Supreme Court of Thailand
Besides Chalothorn, two other women were also appointed to the second and third most powerful positions in the Thai judiciary, as ThaiRath reported.
Piyakul Boonpam, current president of the Bankruptcy Case Division of the Supreme Court, will serve as the next president of the Court of Appeal.
Wasana Hongcharoen, current president of the Juvenile and Family Case Division of the Supreme Court, will serve as the next vice-president of the Supreme Court.
Lack of female representation in the judiciary
However, the judiciary system in Thailand is still male-dominated according to research by Usamard Siampukdee of Chaing Mai University.
While other bureaucratic sections comprised of over 50% of women population, the judiciary organizations including police, judges, and public prosecutors comprised of less than 25% of women. Siampukdee saw a significant gender gap.
"Women are considered new faces in courtship," Siampukdee said in the research. "The recognition of women judiciary and public prosecutor gradually developed whereas the opportunity for women to these professions appears to be low comparing to male counterparts. Even though the tendency of women getting employed has been increasing, women comprise less than a quarter of total workforce serving as public prosecutors and judges."
Siampukdee also stated that even fewer women have achieved high-level positions in this field.
Other branches of government are also male-dominated
In January of 2020, the United Nations Women ranked Thailand 137th out of 193 countries in women representations in parliament. There are 81 female representatives out of 500 members of the House of Representatives, only 16.2%. There are 26 female senators out of 250 members of the Senate, only 10.4%.
For the executive branch, none of the cabinet members is female. Leaders of all 24 ministries are male, which ranked Thailand the lowest in terms of representation of women in ministerial positions.
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Compared to the England average of 246 per 100,000 population, the rate of Referrals in Knowsley in 2013/14 was over twice that of England, and far higher than the North West average of 306 Referrals per 100,000 population.
In 2014/15, there were 1345 Alerts compared to 977 in 2013/14 – an increase of 27%. Whilst an increase in Referrals year on year is expected, this level of increase would seem disproportionate. Thresholds Guidance has been developed but needs to embedded across all organisations to address this issue.
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Transportation sec. Buttigieg: Supply chain disruptions will continue into next year, but he'll be flying off to UN Climate Conference in Europe
Pete Buttigieg took time away from his previously unannounced two-month-long (so far) parental leave to appear on Sunday morning talk shows. There's bad news for Johnny and Susy that their Christmas presents from China may not make it under the Christmas tree this December. The Epoch Times reports:
"Certainly, a lot of the challenges that we've been experiencing this year will continue into next year. But there are both short-term and long-term steps that we can take to do something about it," Buttigieg told CNN, adding that "part of what's happening isn't just the supply side, it's the demand side. Demand is off the charts."
Suggesting Congress needs to act quickly and with no immediate solution in sight, Buttigieg said the bottlenecks are "why we need to pass the infrastructure bill" worth $1.2 trillion.
"There are $17 billion in the President's infrastructure plan for ports alone, and we need to deal with these long-term issues that have made us vulnerable to these kinds of bottlenecks when there are demand fluctuations, shocks, and disruptions like the ones that have been caused by the pandemic," he said.
You can watch the entire CNN interview here. But it was on NBC's Meet the Press that Buttigieg really outdid himself with meaningless bureaucrat-speak. Sundance at The Last Refuge spotted it and transcribed some of it:
What I can tell you is that we are doing everything for the short term and the long term and we will work through the factors that present themselves as challenges in the terms that we encounter on everything. ... The significant problems are not problem of insignificance because they are not important problems, they are significant challenges because of the importance of their significance and we are addressing them in both long and short term solutions. ... This is important, not just morally but also economically, because the challenges are what we need to recognize as important maintenance issue challenges.
You can watch it here:
The empty store shelves and factories closing due to a lack of parts aren't enough to pull him away from the two babies he just adopted, but the so-called "climate crisis" that so far has failed to deliver on the apocalypses promised by Al Gore and countless other doomsayers is enough to pull him away. Via Breitbart:
Thirteen members of President Joe Biden's cabinet are heading to Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nation's climate summit later this month, while the nation remains in the midst of a migrant crisis at the southern border and a supply chain crisis at U.S. ports. The climate summit attendees will include Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg who has been on parental leave for weeks after adopting two infants.
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34th Hunger Games Fanon Wiki
Districts:
Victors
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Fir Yule
Annie Cresta
Peeta Mellark
Johanna Mason
Jackson Spidell
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Glimmer Belcourt
57 ADD
17 (at death)
Satino Belcourt (grandfather)
Kythryn Belcourt (mother-in-law)
Glitter Belcourt (sister)
Shimmer Belcourt (sister)
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"The girl tribute from District 1, looking provocative in a see through gold gown... You could tell that her mentor didnt have to come up with an angle for her. With that flowing blonde hair, emerald green eyes, her body tall and lush... she's sexy all the way."
-Katniss talking in,"Hunger Games"
Glimmer Belcourt was the female tribute for District 1 in The 74th Hunger Games. Its unknown if she was a volunteer or not, but it was like she was since she was from a career district.
1 Tribute Parade
3 Interview
4 74th Games
5 Catching Fire
Tribute Parade
During this time, she is seen waving with her district partner, Marvel at the audience of around 100,000 people. She was seen wearing a fuchsia outfit covered in shiny sequins and feathers, representing their district's main export, luxury goods. Its also known that she was mentored by Gloss, along with her district partner.
Glimmer's tribute token was the only one known in the history of the Hunger Games to be confiscated. The gemstone of the ring she brought, when twisted, revealed a poisoned spike. After that, it was confiscated so she couldn't have it with her in the Games. During training, it was seen in the film that she was very bad with a bow, since she attempted to shoot a dummy, but she didn't even hit the outline of the body. It is also said in the book that she was very bad at archery. When the District 3 Male's district partner falls, she laughs, nudging the kid to laugh, probably because he wanted to have the careers as an ally, in which they would later have.
Glimmer's interview with Caesar went very well, as she did a great job and looked the part wearing a provocative see-through gold dress in the book. However, in the film, it was a short, light-pink dress. It is said that "the crowd went wild" at the sight of her. Katniss described her as "sexy and lush", and that her mentor (whoever that was) didn't have any trouble coming up with an interview angle for her. Because of this, Katniss assumed that she would get many sponsors.
74th Games
During the Games, she killed the D6 Female by stabbing her repellently with some sort of knife, and took her supplies with her. She ran into the D10 Male, who took a yellow bag from her. She later runs into the Cornucopia and attacks the District 10 Male with a short sword and the District 5 Male hides, but Cato runs in and knocks both of them down. She then tries to attack the D10 Male once again but fails, as he is too quick for her. When she tries to kill the D6 Male, she fails, and is about to get killed by him, until Cato comes to her rescue, and kills him.
Later, Glimmer along with the Career alliance found Katniss and chased her up a tree. When Cato decided to go up the tree Katniss was trapped in, Glimmer offered him her bow and arrows, but he refused as he could do better with his sword. When Cato fell out of the tree due to his weight, Glimmer decided to try, but she quickly realized that the branches wouldn't support her either. When she fires at Katniss and misses, Katniss teases her by grabbing the arrow and swinging it around to embarrass her for her lack of knowledge. In the movie, Glimmer and Cato both shoot arrows at Katniss and miss, prompting Katniss to sneer, "Why don't you try throwing the sword?". Furious at her comment, Glimmer agrees with Peeta that the pack should wait for Katniss to come down on her own, as she won't be able to get away without them knowing, so they sleep under the tree, which as we all know, would head to her death.
She died after Katniss dropped a nest of tracker jackers on the Careers's camp. She died shortly after Marina, the District 4 female tribute. The other Careers (Marvel, Cato and Clove) escaped. She was 17 and placed eleventh of of twenty-four. Her mutt is clearly seen, since it had green eyes and blond hair. Katniss killed Glimmer's mutt with an arrow through it's throat when it tried to climb the Cornucopia. However, in the film, the her mutt survived, since Cato saw her mutt eating him.
During this time, Katniss and Peeta go to District 1 for their Victory Tour and see Glimmer's family. Peeta takes up painting as a hobby, and one of the paintings is of Glimmer's mutt attacking. Throughout Katniss's nightmares, it would sometimes have Glimmer's bloated body after the tracker jacker attack and her mutt form.
Her odds of winning were 7-1.
She weighed 130 lbs in the Games.
Her name means "glint". It is because children from District 1 have funny names.
She survived for 3 days, 6 hrs, and 26 mins in the film and 5 days in the book.
Her eyes in the film were blue, even though they were green in the books.
She has 2 victims - District 6 Female and the District 8 Female (with Peeta)
Some fans have speculated that she killed the District 10 Female but this rumor wa.s ended when Dakota Hood, the District 10 Female actress, said that Clove killed her instead.
Her name can be heard when her mutt is killing Cato.
Her grandfather, Satino, was an Other Victor, meaning that he was once a Capitol model that posed to be a fake Victor for the 24th Games.
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Days with My Father
Andreas Öjerfors · August 24, 2009 · Leave a Reply
I have to recommend Days with My Father. It is one of the most brilliant sites out there. It is a collection of incredible photos of a photographer's old father, accompanied with texts about the man and their relationship. Touching and beautiful, it's a site I've happened to revisit a few times now.
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PvP Tetris
Andreas Öjerfors · August 16, 2009 · 3 Replies
While bored one day, I came to think of Tetris. Tetris is a singleplayer game – I'm sure there are multiplayer versions of it, but I've never played one. I was considering how one could make a PvP (competitive) version of the game for Xbox Live. The first thing was to identify what makes Tetris singleplayer, and eventual problems in changing that.
There is only one player in a Tetris game.
You compete not against an enemy, but yourself.
You do so by handling a complex task during increasing time pressure.
Performance is measured through points, based on how long the player "survived" (measured in the amount of rows removed).
It would be simple to have some form of splitscreen gameplay where each player would play his own Tetris board and just compete about the score, but that wouldn't be very different from playing on your own and then comparing points. What we want is to engage the other player somehow. These are the ideas I came up with.
Keep the splitscreen idea so that both player's could see each others boards, but turn the view of the enemy's board upside down to increase the difficulty of analyzing his progress and state.
Keep it as a game of survival, but instead of trying to reach the next difficulty level the goal would be to outlive the enemy.
Let the players engage with each other through sabotage. Each player could replace the enemy's Tetris piece with his own (while recieving a random new one himself), triggering a cooldown hindering him from repeating this for another 30 seconds. Different strategies could emerge from this.
Whenever the enemy gets a piece he needs, replace it.
Wait until the enemy is just about to place his piece before you replace it, giving him no choice to place your piece there instead.
Get a new piece when you are not happy with your own.
Count not points from the number of rows removed (which would make this into a game of speed, even allowing for the possibility to win the game through points even though you reached the top and failed). Instead, count points in the number of free unblocked rows, at the end of the game.
I think this could be a fairly fun game of Tetris. I'd try it out.
Miguel Sicart on the ethical player
I've spent the last 3 days on the conference Philosophy of Computer Games. It was really quite intersting, although the different talks were of varying interest to me as a game designer. But this post is not about the conference, but rather one of the speakers.
Miguel Sicart, Assistant Professor of the IT University of Copenhagen, had a great keynote on the last day of the conference. It was called No More Homo Ludens: Designing for an Ethical Player. It was basically about the ethic dimension in (not of) games, a criticism of the current state and thoughts on how to improve designs that deals with ethics. It was not only very intersting, but thought provoking.
I might write more about it later, but for now I just want to mention Miguel's book The Ethics of Computer Games, which I'm about to order. Quoting the product description on Amazon.com:
In this first scholarly exploration of the subject, Miguel Sicart addresses broader issues about the ethics of games, the ethics of playing the games, and the ethical responsibilities of game designers. He argues that computer games are ethical objects, that computer game players are ethical agents, and that the ethics of computer games should be seen as a complex network of responsibilities and moral duties. Players should not be considered passive amoral creatures; they reflect, relate, and create with ethical minds. The games they play are ethical systems, with rules that create gameworlds with values at play.
If you're at all interested in the topic, you should look into this man's writings. I'll write more on the topic when I've read the book.
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GCO 2009 impressions
Andreas Öjerfors · August 4, 2009 · Leave a Reply
The Leipzig Games Convention of old died a cold hard death last year, by the hands of some of the biggest publishers in the world (who instead created GamesCom, in Cologne). But Leipzig didn't want to give up that easily, and resurrected it as Games Convention Online. It was supposed to be a convention aimed towards the growing online market, searching for a niché trying to survive the loss of support from so many in the industry.
The world's first GCO ended last saturday, and I was there. So what can be said about this new beast?
1. It's far smaller than GC last year, as expected. GC 2008 had 203 000 visitors, while GCO 2009 had 43 000. Now, that's by no means a small convention, even though it had less than a quarter of the visitors of last year. But it also has to be said that while there were quite a lot of visitors, few of them were professionals who attended the trade part of the convention. Some of the lectures had no more than 10 attendees.
2. The conference was confused about its own focus. The "online" part wasn't sure if it refered to (massively) multiplayer games, digital distribution or simply games played on websites. Those are 3 very different topics, and (despite all requiring a internet connection) aren't connected in the way the conference pretended them to be.
3. None of the big (western) publishers were there. We had a lot of Korean publishers showing off their games, but the differences between eastern and western gaming meant that it was unimpressive and not very interesting.
4. It was still worth the visit. While there were quite a few tired lectures, some of them were really interesting. I learned a few new things and got to know some cool people. All in all, I'm glad I went.


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Q: Sorting by second element of split array in liquid I am new to Liquid, so forgive me if this is obvious.
I have some data whose titles are prefixed with A1, B10, C64, etc. before the real text I want to sort on, for example, "A1 Something" "B10 Nothing" "A23 Another".
If I use
{% assign itemssorted = product.ds_related_products | sort: 'title' %}
{% for item in itemssorted %}

then I get the items sorted according to the prefixes, whereas what I want is the items sorted by the text after the prefixes.
Is there something like
{% assign itemssorted = product.ds_related_products | sort: 'title' | split: ' ' .... %}

I can use to implement this?

A: Try to change the sort:price for the variable you want to sort:
{% assign products = collection.products | sort: 'price' %}
{% for product in products %}
    <h4>{{ product.title }}</h4>
{% endfor %}

<!-- products = "a", "b", "A", "B" -->
{% assign products = collection.products | sort: 'title' %}
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On Febraury 9th 2014 we turned ten and this year we are celebrating. Firstly, a big thanks to all of you who have worked with us over the years. It has been an exhilarating time and great fun working to solve business challenges together.
We have been lucky to work with a fantastic, high calibre team - both past and present. It has been your can-do attitude, resilience and entrepreneurial spirit that has made the last ten years so enjoyable – thank you!!
Improving the strategic sourcing processes – There has been a lot of effort put into strategic sourcing over the last ten years, but too often it's a generic process not aligned to the business and other processes. It can be cumbersome and uninspiring, and because of this it is ignored or not followed rigorously. I'd love to see the strategic sourcing process more easily accessible online with templates, training, top tips, guides, videos and internal 'social' interaction to support it. I don't think the formal RFP is the right tool for the job anymore - but you can read more about this in my article 'Is RFP the wrong tool for the job?'.
Being clear on the difference between supplier relationship management (SRM) and supplier performance management (SPM) – Our annual SRM survey has given us a lot of insight into what leading practice is for SRM. Unfortunately still too many organisations confuse SRM with simple SPM, or worse, they have a series of meetings with a supplier and label it SRM. The benefits of good SRM are clear. It would be great to see more organisations looking to do it properly.
Aligning category management, strategic sourcing and SRM – There are studies showing that 50% of all 'deals' done don't translate to the bottom line, which is a pretty scary thought. Strategic sourcing can't work without embedding SRM into the process. It should not just be 'step seven' in your process. It needs to be embedded across the strategic sourcing process, so we have a clear line of sight between contract, performance and relationship.
Using technology (to support SRM and SPM) – Over the years, the procurement technology market has undergone huge change. We used to focus on 'one stop shops' where a technology vendor would attempt to sell an overall vision of a better procurement life. Now with the advent of mobile devices, templates and apps, we are seeing a far more 'audience' driven focus with three areas emerging: 1) P2P software where the audience is accounts payable; 2) sourcing software (eRFx, eAuctions and spend analytics) where the audience is procurement; and 3) SRM software (SRM, SPM, risk, innovation and contract management) where the audience is the business and suppliers. It's this last area of SRM software where I think more focus and investment needs to occur. You can read more about this in my article on 'achieving a clear line of sight between the supplier contract, performance and relationship'.
Selling procurement's value to stakeholders / internal customers / suppliers – There are pockets of people who have made some great progress in this area, especially in the last few years. However, we need to continue to improve the positioning of procurement's value, being sure to align with business needs and managing expectations.
Getting contract lifecycle management right – The simple litmus test of 'can you put your hands on your top 100 contracts?' is a key indicator of an organisation's contract management focus. Still too many organisations fail. Even if the contracts are loaded on a contract management system, often accuracy is poor, and the process to keep the system populated and up-to-date is often not aligned with the strategic sourcing, SPM or SRM processes. Getting this right is a key building block for procurement so it would be great to see this area get the focus it deserves.
Centralised, decentralised and hybrid… there is no one correct model – Organisations tend to move through the different structures. I spoke to Professor Michael Lenders who for over 30 years has been studying procurement models and how they change. His view is there is no one correct model; it should move to align with the business strategy. More centralised for control (usually in tough times), decentralised for being closer and aligned to the customer need (usually in times of growth). It would be good if we could get better at recognising this and create a structure designed to change with the needs rather than be rigid.
Getting eAuctions and eRFx's working – It's fair to say that eAuctions and eRFx's were fashionable five or six years ago and we have seen a steady decline in use for most clients (with a few notable exceptions). eAuctions have especially declined as businesses have struggled to sell the value to internal stakeholders. Unfortunately, the eRFX has often become a glorified email - the RFP / RFI / tender appearing as an attached document. These tools do deliver value and I would love to see organisations investing in the training and change management to make them work properly.
Up-skilling your team – Our research into procurement people and skills shows we, as a profession, have put a lot of effort into training the technical skills of our teams, but very little on the behavioural elements (especially compared to the training sales or key account managers get). We often complain about not getting involved early enough with the business, but don't invest in the behaviour training to allow us to have the business or executive level conversations. Request our white paper on 'SRM: The People and Skills Agenda' for insights from our latest global SRM research report, a definition of the SRM agenda and a talent development roadmap covering four important success factors to drive sustainable organisational success.
Stop messing with payment terms – I understand cost of capital and the accountant's view of the world in relation to payment terms, however, I believe extending payment terms does a lot more harm than good for the business. Think about it for a minute. You pay the supplier constantly every month, you change the payment terms by 30 days, all you do is get 30 days respite, and then go back to paying them each month again. It's a one off gain.
... Hopefully food for thought. I would love to hear your thoughts and comments on the list above - please contact me on +44 (0)2078 420 600 or email us at enquiries@stateofflux.co.uk. And I look forward to working with you all for the next ten years and beyond.


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If you want to spruce up your existing iPhone or iPad with the latest wallpaper collection from Apple, you should enjoy these 3 wallpaper images of the color bubbles from the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max. While the official versions on the iPhone XS line are Live Photos, you can download the regular stationary versions below for enjoying on any device.
Interestingly enough, these wallpapers are not included in the iOS 12 GM release, though it remains to be seen if they'll be included in the final version that is due on 9/17. In the meantime, you can prepare for the iOS 12 update and download the wallpapers below to enjoy now.
Click on any of the thumbnail images to open the full size wallpaper in a new window, then you can save it to your device and set it as the wallpaper in iOS, on a Mac , or whatever other device or computer you want to try them on.
If you want to get them all at once rather than one-by-one, you can download the iPhone XS wallpapers from iCloud here, both of those collections were posted to iCloud.com by 9to5mac.
These images are hosted by 9to5mac on their servers, so cheers to them for digging up the images and then hosting the wallpaper images in full resolution on their site.
You can also download the 12 iPhone XR wallpapers of color bubbles too, they look a bit different but are also nice to look at.
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This appendix provides brief summaries of key points.
Time is the most healing thing you can give yourself today.
Give yourself one extra minute, or drop one last-minute chore, before starting your day. Take a 10-minute walk before collapsing in front of the TV or computer.
When starting your car, take three deep breaths (about 15 seconds total) to think about where you're going and to ensure that no one is behind you before put your car in gear.
Honor transitions between projects, calls, and customers with 6 to 12 deep breaths (30 to 60 seconds) as you let go of the last task and before you start on a new activity.
Honor the Sabbath or Shabbat by having nothing scheduled and no to do list for at least 4 to 24 hours every weekend.
Plan a 2-hour lunch with friends or colleagues every week or two.
Give yourself an extra 30 minutes at the gym to stretch.
Shut the television off early, and give yourself an hour to think about what went well today.
Cut one "I have to" from today's to do list. In fact, why not cut "have to" from your vocabulary?
Focus on just one thing for at least 15 minutes without interruption.
Eliminate one stop in your mad dash to accomplish all your chores all at once.
Look up. Notice the sky the clouds, and the trees. Let your attention include something in this world that is larger and more real than your worries, fears, and pains.


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While here park personnel were incognito! No one ever appeared in the office! The power went off throughout the whole campground because of a blown transformer. Took all night and came on at around two am. Workers were near our campsite until two a.m. talking loudly. Luckily we just stayed here overnight on our way to Gatlinburg TN. We camped at The Landing Point RV Park in a Travel Trailer.


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2rd day: Kotor-Njegusi-Cetinje-PN Lovcen
After breakfast full day Montenegro tour. We visit Kotor – city under the protection of UNESCO, magnet for artists, architects and lovers of one of the best-preserved medieval urban centers of this part of the Mediterranean. City of Cetinje – situated on the Lovćen plateau, surrounded by karst hills which represent the natural wall difficult to reach. The streets, palaces and monuments bear witness to a glorious past of the ancient Montenegrin capital. Lunch along the way. Return to the hotel. Dinner and overnight stay.
3th day: Lake Skadar
After breakfast boat excursion on Lake Skadar. Lake Skadar is the largest lake on the Balkan Peninsula. The lake area changes according to the seasons, from about 600 square kilometers during the rainy season, to the approximately 370 square kilometers in the summer.
In the lake, which is a national park, live around 842 species of algae, 50 species of fish and 270 species of birds, some of which are very rare, such as the curly pelican, the pygmy cormorant and the leaded tern. Lunch in a restaurant. In the afternoon, return to Budva. Dinner and overnight stay.
4th day: Podgorica
After breakfast departure to Podgorica – capital of Montenegro. Podgorica is today a modern European city, the center of the main administrative activities of the country, but also an important node of national and international trade. The city is located at six rivers, and north of Lake Skadar. Lunch in a restaurant. In the late afternoon, return to the hotel. Dinner and overnight stay.
5th day: Niksic-Ostrog Monastery
After breakfast excursion to Niksic city, the second largest city of Montenegro and Ostrog Monastery. On the almost vertical slopes above the quiet valley of the Zeta River, with its light and foggy, almost unreal appearance, the Ostrog monastery is presented. The Monastery impresses the traveler for the position perched in the steep rock. It was built in the second half of the seventeenth century. It is the most important place of pilgrimage in Montenegro and a meeting point for the three religious, Orthodox, Catholic and Islamic confessions. Lunch in a restaurant. In the late afternoon, return to the hotel. Dinner and overnight stay.
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After breakfast departure to Split. Lunch in a restaurant on arrival. Guided tour of the main city of Dalmatia. Split stands on a peninsula between the Gulf of Castles and the Split Channel. Today, the palace is a historical and cultural monument under the protection of UNESCO. Boarding and departure to home.
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Lenovo Y70 Touch Review
By Brian Westover
Large 17-inch touch display.
JBL speakers and subwoofer provide good sound.
Comfortable keyboard.
Solid performance in gaming and productivity alike.
Keyboard could be spread out a bit more.
Battery life falls a bit short.
The Lenovo Y70 Touch is an entry-level gaming laptop with a solid mix of performance and battery life and a rare, but welcome, 17-inch touch screen.
Lenovo is still a relative newcomer in the world of gaming systems, but the company has proven it knows how to deliver a solid entry-level gaming laptop. The Lenovo Y70 Touch ($1,499.99 as tested) has the same attractive styling seen on the smaller Lenovo Y50 Touch, and offers a large-screened alternative to the Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro (VN7-591G-75S2)($585.00 at Amazon), our Editors' Choice for entry-level gaming laptops.
The 17-inch Lenovo Y70 Touch is an elegant-looking gaming laptop priced for those looking to get into mobile PC gaming without the sort of price tag that requires selling a kidney. It's relatively slim for a gaming system, measuring 1.02 by 16.64 by 11.44 inches (HWD), and weighing 7.5 pounds, but I'd stop short of calling it an ultraportable. It's not a slim as the 0.85-inch thick, 5.8-pound Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro. That said, it's a runway model compared with beefier systems like the Digital Storm Krypton, which is nearly a full inch thicker and weighs more than 9 pounds. The laptop is black with red accents. It has brushed aluminum on the lid and underside of the chassis and matte, soft-touch paint on the palm rest.
The 17.3-inch display has 1,920-by-
1,080 resolution and 10-point touch support. Touch is still a relatively rare offering in gaming systems, but it's a welcome addition—Windows 8.1 is much more navigable and intuitive with a touch screen. The picture quality is quite good, with sharp details, accurate colors, and wide viewing angles. The sound is also good with JBL speakers, a built-in subwoofer, and Dolby software enhancement. When tested with the new Terminator Genisys movie trailer in 1080p, the picture looked great even in darker shots, and the sound was clear, whether rumbling with explosions, the new version of "I'd Love To Change the World," or Arnold's "I'll be back."
The keyboard uses the same AccuType design seen on the Lenovo Y50 Touch, complete with red backlighting and sculpted keycaps for a comfortable typing feel. Despite the larger dimensions of the 17-inch system, there's still no space between the standard keys and the numeric pad, but there is now a lot of empty space on either side of the keyboard. It's still very usable, but I would have preferred wider spacing. Centered beneath the space bar is a large clickpad, which offers Windows 8 gesture support, but isn't ideal for actual gaming.
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Along the sides of the laptop are several connections and ports. On the left are two USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI-out port, and a Gigabit Ethernet port. On the right are a single USB 2.0 port, an SD card slot, a headset jack, and S/PDIF output for surround sound. The laptop is also equipped with 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 for wireless connectivity.
For storage, Lenovo has outfitted the system with a solid-state hybrid drive (SSHD) combining a 1TB, 5,400rpm hard drive with 8GB of solid-state storage to boost performance. In addition to Windows 8.1, the Y70 Touch comes with a free 30-day trial of McAfee LiveSafe Internet Security and a similar trial for new buyers of Microsoft Office 365. You'll also find it preinstalled with several apps, like Amazon Kindle Reader, Evernote Touch, cloud storage through Hightail (for Lenovo), and Zinio Reader, along with a shopping link for Ebay.
Lenovo includes several proprietary apps and tools, for everything from security (VeriFace Pro facial recognition login) to entertainment (Red Karaoke). The system also comes with Nvidia's GeForce Experience, which includes settings and driver controls, along with ShadowPlay, for recording and streaming video during gameplay, GameStream, for use with the Nvidia Shield, and Battery Boost, which optimizes gameplay and battery life for gaming away from a power outlet. Lenovo covers the Y70 Touch with a one-year warranty that includes free depot and carry-in repair.
The Y70 Touch boast a 2.5GHz Intel Core i7-4710HQ processor, the same quad-core CPU used in the Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro, but with twice the memory allotment at 16GB of RAM. In PCMark 8 Work Conventional, the system scored 3,090 points, beating the 15-inch Lenovo Y50 Touch (3,047 points), but falling slightly behind the Acer V 15 Nitro (3,160 points). In Photoshop CS6, the Y70 Touch managed to complete the test in a reasonable 3 minutes 33 seconds, making it faster than both the Acer V15 Nitro (4:11) and Lenovo Y50 Touch (4:20), but slower than the more expensive Digital Storm Krypton (3:14) and the MSI GS70 Stealth (3:18).
With a discrete Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M graphics processor and 4GB of dedicated video memory, you'll get some pretty good performance in popular games despite the entry-level price. In 3DMark, the laptop scored 13,564 points in CloudGate (our 3DMark medium-settings test) and 1,781 points in FireStrike Extreme (our 3DMark high-performance test). It also did well in gaming tests, pumping out 27 frames per second (fps) in Heaven and 25fps in Valley, both at full HD and high-detail settings.
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The laptop lasted 3 hours 58 minutes on our battery rundown test. That puts it ahead of the portability-focused MSI GS70 Stealth (3:47) and only a few minutes behind the Digital Storm Krypton (4:07) and Acer V 15 Nitro (4:10). It's shown up, however, by the Lenovo Y50 Touch, which lasted 4:33.
The entry-level gaming category is a bit crowded, but Lenovo has delivered a solid system at a reasonable price. The overall performance isn't mind-blowing, but it will support current-generation games with decent resolution and frame rates. It also offers a good-looking 17-inch display with touch capability, a unique offering for the category. For better overall performance and a slightly better value for your shopping dollars the Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro (VN7-591G-75S2) is still our Editors' Choice entry-level gaming laptop, but if you want that large touch display, the Lenovo Y70 Touch is a safe bet.
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Through charitable partnerships, Walgreens Boots Alliance works to achieve its CSR goals of enabling young people to reach their potential. In the U.S., Walgreens focuses on four partnerships grouped under the Every One Counts brand cause strategy: Red Nose Day, Get a Shot. Give a Shot., Vitamin Angels and ME to WE. In the UK, one of Boots UK's and Boots Opticians' main charitable causes is BBC Children in Need.
We are committed to long-term collaboration with our brand cause partners to maximize the impact of these initiatives. Through ongoing support, we have helped to improve the health and wellbeing of millions of children.
These initiatives are designed to generate enthusiasm and create shared value. Through these campaigns, our businesses differentiate their commercial offer, generate customer loyalty, energize employees and support vital healthcare and educational programs.
During fiscal 2018 Walgreens raised more than $25 million for Red Nose Day in the USA, an annual event aimed at ending child poverty by raising money for and awareness of children in need. Walgreens raised funds through sales of red noses and related merchandise, supplier contributions, cash register donations and employee fundraising.
Since 2015 Walgreens has sold close to 40 million red noses and raised more than $71 million.
Get a Shot. Give a Shot.
The Walgreens Get a Shot. Give a Shot. program, a partnership with the UN Foundation's Shot@Life, continued to grow in its fifth year in fiscal 2018. For every immunization administered at a Walgreens, Healthcare Clinic or Duane Reade pharmacy, Walgreens donates the value of a vaccine for a child in a developing country through the UN Foundation.
As of August 2018, Get a Shot. Give a Shot. has helped to provide more than 34 million lifesaving polio and measles vaccines to children around the world.
Vitamin Angels
Through its partnership with Vitamin Angels, as of August 31, 2018, Walgreens has helped to provide 160 million children and women in at-risk populations in more than 74 countries, including the U.S., with life-changing vitamins and minerals to combat malnutrition.
Walgreens donates 1 percent of sales of participating vitamin products to Vitamin Angels, and the organization generates engagement around the program by encouraging Walgreens employees to send messages to children.
WE Charity and ME to WE
Walgreens supports international organization WE Charity, which works with communities to help them lift themselves out of poverty. Walgreens stores sold more than 1.6 million ME to WE products, such as rafiki bracelets and back-to-school items in fiscal 2018, generating some $741,103 in donations to support WE programs.
Boots UK has proudly supported BBC Children in Need for 14 years. BBC Children in Need is the BBC's corporate charity that exists to change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in the UK. BBC Children in Need provides grants to projects in the UK that focus on children and young people who face a range of disadvantages such as poverty, neglect, trauma, abuse or disabilities and supports over 2,700 projects across the UK.
From the efforts and generosity of employees and customers, Boots UK and Boots Opticians raised approximately £1.6 million ($2.1 million) during the November 2017 campaign, bringing the cumulative total of support to £11.5 million ($18.6 million). It was the first time Boots UK and Boots Opticians supported an integrated campaign across the two businesses for BBC Children in Need. The Boots UK call center, with 200 telephone lines, was the largest call center supporting the appeal.
Fundraising and volunteering by Boots UK employees has helped numerous young people with disabilities, including Louis (pictured at left), a boy whose life has been changed by an assistance dog. Funding from a BBC Children in Need grant covers the salary of a Support Dogs instructor and associated costs.
Louis' mother, Kelly, said their support dog has made an enormous difference in his life.


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Leading American brewer Anheuser-Busch, maker of Budweiser and currently itself the target on the acquisition list of global beer leader InBev, has announced to purchase the remaining 50 percent ownership of the Crown Beers India Ltd. joint venture from its partner, Crown International. The acquisition would include the joint venture's 500,000-hectoliter brewery in the southern city of Hyderabad, Anheuser-Busch said in a releaee, but did not disclose the terms of the deal.
"The Indian beer industry continues to grow at a rapid pace, and acquiring the remaining 50 percent of the Crown Beers joint venture reaffirms Anheuser-Busch's commitment to being a key player in this emerging beer market," said Tom Santel, president and chief executive officer, Anheuser-Busch International, Inc. "As Crown International looks to focus on its other successful businesses, this move will continue to best position the Budweiser brand for long-term growth in India", Santel explained the retreat of Crown.
Crown International and Anheuser-Busch formed Crown Beers India Ltd. in early 2007. The joint venture successfully introduced the world-famous Budweiser brand and Armstrong throughout southern and western India. Armstrong is a premium strong beer which was developed specifically for the Indian beer market.
For Anheuser-Busch, India has "tremendous long-term potential", despite the fact that the country ranks currently low among the world beer markets. In the last time, the country has witnessed a compounded annual growth rate of 12 percent and overall consumer consumption continues to grow at more than 20 percent annually, Anheuser-Busch describes the positive Indian trend.