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ETtech Top 5: SoftBank scouts for mobility bets, Likely e-commerce regulator and more
A closer look at today's biggest tech and startup news and why they matter. ETtech | Updated: August 07, 2019, 12:32 IST
Likely e-comm regulator to put marketplaces on a sticky wicket
What's the news?
The Consumer Protection Bill 2019, which was passed by Parliament on Tuesday, paves the way for a regulator that could haul up ecommerce companies such as Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart if they influence pricing, unfairly promote products or misrepresent the quality of goods and services sold on their platforms. The regulator will also have the power to initiate class action against companies including enforcing recalls, refunds and returns.
What does this mean for e-comm marketplaces?
Experts said the Bill's passage could put ecommerce marketplaces on a sticky wicket as they would be restricted from influencing pricing and forced to disclose seller details on their websites and apps, which they have not done so far despite it being a requirement under FDI rules for the sector.
The other major issue that could hurt ecommerce businesses is a clampdown on sale of counterfeits online. Industry insiders admit that fake products continue to drive a sizeable chunk of sales at online marketplaces despite their best efforts to weed it out from their platforms. Read more
SoftBank scouts for next phase of innovation in India
SoftBank is closely evaluating the mobility sector in India, including the two-wheeler mobility space, multiple people familiar with the matter told ET, as the Japanese investment powerhouse scouts for the next phase of innovation after ride hailing.
In India, which is the largest two-wheeler market in the world, SoftBank's move beyond ride-hailing could be a bet on the emerging two-wheeler rentals business. Its interest in the new mobility space can be gauged through its two investments in peer-to-peer car rental service Getaround and vehicle leasing platform Fair, both in the US. SoftBank invested $300 million in Getaround in August last year, followed by leading a $385 million investment in Fair in December. ET has learnt that the Japanese firm has had engagements with companies such as Bounce, Vogo and Drivezy, though no investment plans are in the pipeline yet. Read more
Only TCS, Infosys among top 10 US green card application list
Only two Indian companies - Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys - figure in a list of the top ten applicants for employer green cards in the six months to March 2019, a review of US government data shows.
Currently, it takes an Indian applicant more than eight years to receive permanent resident status. It is estimated that up to 300,000 Indians could benefit if the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act or HR 1044 is passed by the US Senate. The bill, which has been passed by the House of Representatives, has faced resistance from some quarters as it does away with country caps on green cards.
"While companies have used this as a way of retaining talent, they are starting to shy away from it as it is a more expensive process and also takes very long. Not many people expect that the Senate will pass the HR 1044 Bill as it has a Republican majority, so things are unlikely to change anytime soon," said Vivek Tandon, CEO, EB5 BRICS, a visa consultancy firm. Read more
Tech firms concerned over proposed data protection bill
Technology companies have expressed concern over a delay in introducing the Personal Data Protection Bill in Parliament, and a lack of clarity about its contents.
Although a committee led by Justice B N Srikrishna, a former judge of the Supreme Court, submitted its report and the draft Bill to the government in July last year, it has yet to be sent to the Cabinet for approval. Talks of a rift between policymakers over its contents and whether there needs to be fresh consultations has added to the uncertainty. The government had said it would take up the bill on priority in its second term. Read more
How India is benefiting from the US-China trade war
India appears to have already started to benefit from the US-China trade war. US telco major AT&T along with rivals T-Mobile and Sprint have placed smartphone orders worth around Rs 2,500 crore for under-$200 devices with Indian brands Lava and Micromax, in a bid to de-risk their business as Sino-US trade tensions show no signs of abating, people familiar with the matter said.
Why it matters?
Over 250 companies-American, Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean-are looking at relocating to India from China, in the middle of the growing trade tensions between the two partners. Also, a committee set up by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) under the Niti Aayog chairman is considering ways to promote electronic manufacturing by looking at ways to offer India as a manufacturing destination vis-a-vis countries like Vietnam.
The development coincides with the trade talks between the world's two largest trading partners deteriorating with the US slapping additional trade tariffs on $300 billion worth Chinese imports last week, calling the Chinese slow to move on trade talks. Read more
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A Quebec man who slapped his teenage daughter so hard she died has been sentenced to 60 days in jail.
May. 21, 2014 7:13 p.m.
LONGUEUIL, Que. — A Quebec man who slapped his teenage daughter so hard she died has been sentenced to 60 days in jail.
Moussa Sidime is expected to serve his time two days a week over 30 weeks.
He was sentenced today in court in Longueuil, south of Montreal.
The 74-year-old man had pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of his 13-year-old daughter Noutene in October 2010.
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Quaker Abolitionists
by Mark Andrew Huddle
Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian. Fall 1996.
Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, NC Museum of History
The antebellum years were dangerous times for anyone with the temerity to preach an abolitionist gospel in the South. But in the last months of 1847, a young Wesleyan Methodist missionary, the Reverend Adam Crooks, came to North Carolina to minister to a small circuit of antislavery churches. Needless to say, Crooks felt anxious as he entered the Old North State to take up his mission assignment.
After settling in Jamestown in Guilford County, Crooks was shocked to find a surprising number of people who held similar feelings about the "peculiar institution." In one of his first reports to the True Wesleyan, his denomination's newspaper, Crooks offered this interesting insight:
There is much more antislavery sentiment in this part of North Carolina than I had supposed. This is owing in great measure, to the Society of Friends [more commonly known as Quakers]. It is said the treatment of slaves is much modified by their presence; and as they are numerous in this community, slavery is seen in its modest form. It is some what amusing too, that I am taken for a Quaker, go wherever I will. I attended their meeting . . . and even the Friends themselves, thought I was one. . . . This I suppose is owing some to the doctrine I inculcate, and partly to my plain coat.
At the time of Crooks's mission, North Carolina Quakerism was in decline. Quakers, also called Friends since they were members of the Society of Friends, had spent decades leading an antislavery witness in North Carolina. By the late 1840s, this long struggle had taken a severe toll on the denomination. Many Quakers migrated from their North Carolina farms to free-soil territories in the far North and the new West. Others converted to other denominations. Still, the Friends of North Carolina had an important impact on the slavery debate during the antebellum period, and their exploits are an important chapter in the history of this period.
Quakers and the Issue of Slavery
Interestingly, in the early days, slavery was not an issue of conflict among North Carolina's Quakers. In fact, Quaker antislavery sentiment evolved slowly over many years. Although questions of conscience did occasionally arise, slaveholding was not prohibited in Quaker doctrine. In the 1750s, though, a New Jersey Quaker named John Woolman took up the antislavery cause and traveled widely to denounce the evils of slavery.
Woolman reached North Carolina in 1757 and addressed meetings in the Albemarle counties of Perquimans and Pasquotank. Woolman feared that slavery bred callousness toward humanity that was degrading to the slaveholder as well as the enslaved, and he counseled slaveholders to end their association with slavery immediately.
In the meantime, the center of Quakerism in North Carolina was shifting westward to the Piedmont, where Friends were traveling down the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road from northern colonies. Many of these Quakers brought with them a profound dislike of slavery. As a result, the Western Quarterly Meeting of the Society of Friends, the group that encompassed local meetings in the Piedmont, became a hotbed of abolitionist sentiment.
Conflict over the buying and selling of humans grew in local meetings. Again and again, throughout the 1760s and 1770s, the Western Quarterly Meeting questioned the North Carolina Yearly Meeting about how to deal with the slavery issue. Surprisingly, the most pressing problem facing North Carolina Friends concerned the manumission, or freeing, of their own slaves.
Quaker Dilemma: Manumission in North Carolina
In 1741 a colonial law [chapter XXIV, section LVI] had been enacted that forbade the manumission of slaves except as a reward for outstanding, or meritorious, service to the state. County courts had the authority to decide the merits of service for each individual case and then, if freedom was granted, gave freed slaves six months to leave the state. Many enslaved persons were freed for serving in the American Revolution.
As the slavery issue grew more troublesome, many Quaker slaveholders were caught in a dilemma. To continue owning slaves was becoming increasingly frowned upon in their society. However, to free their slaves just because they wanted to or because they felt they should was illegal. In April 1774 Thomas Newby of the Perquimans Monthly Meeting expressed his desire to free his slaves and requested guidance on the delicate question.
Newby's petition sparked a heated debate that resurfaced in meetings for nearly two years. Finally, in 1776, the Yearly Meeting created a committee for the express purpose of working with Friends who wished to free their slaves. Newby and ten other Quaker slaveholders then freed forty slaves—a direct violation of the 1741 law.
Even though North Carolina was helping its new nation fight the American Revolution in 1776, the legislature took notice of the Quaker action. Officials were enraged and accused the Quakers of attempting to start a slave rebellion. In response, the legislature moved to strengthen the 1741 law by empowering county courts to seize illegally freed slaves for immediate resale.
This step marked the beginning of a long series of legal battles between the state and North Carolina Quakers. These struggles continued well into the 1800s and caused great hardships among the Friends.
Quaker Efforts at Freeing Slaves
The North Carolina Yearly Meeting in 1808 acted to relieve the burdens of its slaveholding members. Taking advantage of a 1796 statute that allowed societies to buy and sell property, the Yearly Meeting authorized its members to transfer title of their slaves to the Yearly Meeting itself. By 1814, the group was the legal owner of nearly eight hundred slaves—the Society of Friends was one of the largest slaveholders in the state!
The Yearly Meeting created a special committee to oversee these slaves. For the most part, these slaves were allowed to have more freedom than they had experienced as plantation slaves. They usually worked with less direct supervision and were often "hired out" as individual laborers. The committee saw that proceeds from their labors went toward a fund for their care and eventual resettlement to free territories in the North and West. This short-term solution was accompanied by strenuous lobbying efforts to convince the state to reform its manumission laws.
One lobbying group was the North Carolina Manumission Society, which was formed in 1816. The Manumission Society was made up of Quakers and other antislavery supporters. Called Manumissionists, members advocated the gradual emancipation of slaves. They appealed to Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Moravian organizations for support in petitioning state and national governments for action, sent delegates to national antislavery conventions, and promoted black education. By 1824, many of the North Carolina Manumission Society's members were involved in a number of colonization schemes aimed at relocating former slaves to Africa.
Probably the most legendary of the Quaker antislavery efforts was the Underground Railroad. The "conductor" of the so-called railroad was Greensboro's Levi Coffin. One "terminus," or end, of a route in North Carolina was rumored to be the New Garden Meetinghouse in Guilford County, where escaped slaves allegedly hid in the woods until they could resume travel at night to avoid detection.
Although its membership diminished during the antebellum years, the Society of Friends continued to exert a powerful influence in the state. No doubt because of that Quaker influence, other antislavery groups found the central Piedmont to be fertile ground for planting their beliefs.
Educator Resources:
Grade 8: American Abolitionists. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. http://civics.sites.unc.edu/files/2012/04/AmericanAbolitionists.pdf
References and Additional Resources:
Books by and about John Woolman, from the Internet Archive.
Coffin, Levi. 1880. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the Underground Railroad... Cincinnati: Robert Clark & Co. https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/coffin/menu.html
Crooks, E. W. 1875. Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A.M. Syracuse: D.S. Kinney. https://archive.org/details/lifeofreverendac00croouoft
Dannheisser, Ralph. 2008. "Quakers played major role in ending slavery in United States" U.S. Dept. of State
Resources on slavery and Quakers in libraries [via WorldCat]
Adam Crooks, from Crooks, E. W. 1875. Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A.M. Syracuse: D.S. Kinney. https://archive.org/details/lifeofreverendac00croouoft
Levi Coffin, from Coffin, Levi. 1880. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the Underground Railroad... Cincinnati: Robert Clark & Co. https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/coffin/frontis1.html
Enslaved People and Slavery
Huddle, Mark Andrew
Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.
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New patch released for PS4 and PC.
Since Skyrim Special Edition launched, the developers of the game have been pretty good about making sure the game is as good as it can possibly be. The devs released patch 1.3 back in December for the Xbox One but now the patch brings plenty of fixes to the PS4 and PC.
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SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc je bilo francosko štirimotorno propelersko potniško letalo. Zasnovan je bil na podlagi  Blocha MB.160. Načrtovanje se je začelo leta 1937, prvič je poletel decembra leta 1939 in je bil v uporabi do zgodnjih 1960ih. Uporabljal se je kot civilno in vojaško letalo.

Verziji Bloch 161-01 in SE.161/1 so poganjali štirje zvezdasti motorji Gnome-Rhône 14N vsak s 1020KM, verzijo SE.161/P7 pa štirje močnejpi zvezdasti Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp, vsak 1220 KM.

Operaterji

 Misrair

 Air France
 Compagnie Air Transport
 Francoske letalske sile
EARS 99
GT I/61 "Maine"
 Francoska mornarica
Escadron 31S
Escadron 10S
Escadron 54S
Escadron 56S

 Air Liban

 Air Atlas

 LOT Polish Airlines

 Aviaco

 Tunis Air

Specifikacije(SE.161/1)

Posadka: 5
Kapaciteta: 33 potnikov
Dolžina: 24,26 m (79 ft 7 in)
Razpon kril: 29,39 m (96 ft 5 in)
Višina: 5,14 m (16 ft 10 in)
Površina kril: 111,32 m2 (1198 ft2)
Prazna teža: 12651 kg (27891 lb)
Gros teža: 20577 kg (45320 lb)
Motor: 4 × Gnome-Rhône 14N 44/45 zvezdasti motor, 858 kW (1150 KM) vsak

Največja hitrost: 440 km/h (274 mph)
Dolet: 3200 km (1989 milj)
Višina leta (servisna): 7200 m (23616 ft)

Glej tudi
 Bloch MB.160
 Bloch MB.162
 Avro Lancastrian
 Douglas DC-4
 Focke-Wulf Fw 200

Reference

Bibliografija
 Chillon J., J-P Dubois and J.Wegg. French Postwar Transport Aircraft. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Limited. 1980. ISBN 978-0-85130-078-8.
 Munson, Kenneth. Civil Airliners since 1946. London: Blandford Press, 1967.
 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985). London: Orbis Publishing, 1985.
 Taylor, Michael J. H. Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions, 1989. ISBN 978-0-517-69186-1.

Zunanje povezave

Letala SNCASE
Potniška letala

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Top 5 VR/360 Content Websites
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In March 2015, YouTube first launched the support for 360-degree videos. A year later, in April 2016, it added the support for 360-degree live streaming and spatial audio. YouTube opens a channel for 360° videos, enabling visitors to easily get access to most popular 4K/HD 360-degree videos, immersive 360° and VR videos with spatial audio, horror 360 degrees videos, VR videos and more.
The second site to watch 360-degree videos is Facebook which served up 360 videos in September of 2015. According to the latest news, Facebook has acquired Two Big Ears – a startup that builds audio software for VR and 360-degree videos, for the purpose of making the sound in a 360-degree video, feel more lifelike.
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VeeR VR as one of the fastest growing VR video site is worthy of a try. There are thousands of creators uploading fresh & amazing 360 videos every day. As an industry-class VR player, it brings smooth and immersive viewing experience and also supports one-click uploading from mobile, multichannel embedding and sharing with your friends.
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Watch: Ewan McGregor talks coming back to 'Star Wars' and piling on the pounds for 'Fargo' season 3
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If the idea of a fat Ewan McGregor gets your juices flowing, then 2017 is going to be a good year for you.
McGregor visited Jimmy Kimmel last night and gave the tiniest of hints about his upcoming role on the third season of 'Fargo'.
"I've started preparing for it", he told Kimmel when asked if he'd started filming the show yet. "I have to load on a bit of weight so I've started doing a bit of that."
Now if you're a 'Fargo' fan, you'll remember that Jesse Plemons also gained a lot of weight for his role on the show, so whether or not McGregor will have any relation to his character remains to be seen.
Although if you're a fan of his Obi-Wan Kenobi, don't get your hopes up as McGregor has said that the Star Wars people are yet to get in touch with him about appearing in the new films. That said, we do know that Disney are big fans of keeping secrets so who knows.
He'll just have lose those extra 'Fargo' pounds first.
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My annual wine-tasting dinner is a bit of an institution now. Each summer I invite a bunch of my wine-loving fiends from around Scotland for a serious tasting, followed by a less than serious dinner. It is a great opportunity for me to raid my cellar for a selection of fine wines I want to try. The tasting this year featured 15 Burgundies and Pinots Noir, which were served blind at the tasting. The wines were paired, mostly on vintage, over eight flights (one flight contained Williams Selyem's 1999 Pinot Noir, a last-minute addition).
At the end of the tasting guests were asked to give a single vote for most enjoyable wine. Thier verdict was a split decision, with Louis Latour's Corton Grand Cru 1993 and Pousse d'Or's Volnay 1er Cru Clos de la Bousse d'Or 1983 sharing the honours. A close second came two wines: the Costa de Oro Californian Pinot Noir 1998 and the Williams Selyem 1999 – a clean sweep for California in the runners-up spot.Another Californian, Beaulieu Vineyards Pinot Noir Reserve 1996, picked up two votes, with a single vote going to Seifried Estate Pinot Noir Winemaker's Collection 2001 from New Zealand and Domaine de L'Arlot's Nuits St Georges 1er Cru Clos des Forets 1990.
The crowd gathers in the garden before the tasting commences (right). Here we enjoyed two white Spätburgunders (Pinot Noir) from Schloss Vollrads in the Rheingau. Also, as a freshener before dinner there were a couple of bottles of Nyetimber's deliciously mature and toasty 1993 cuvée. Dinner featured a classic Gaspacho, followed by roast duck with potatoes dauphinoise, braised red cabbage and a red wine jus. After cheese, we finished with a dark and white chocolate terrine. To finish off the evening, Villa Maria Noble Riesling, Château Suiduraut Sauternes 1990 and Warre's 1977 Port were consumed, but I was enjoying myself too much to take notes.
Clean, rather vinous nose with crisp cherry fruit and some minerality. Dense, silky palate with firm cherry fruit and tight-grained quality to the tannins. Powerful and quite dense, but not a lot of charm. Very good.
A selection of the best barrels. Much more vanillin oak that is sweet and custardy. More plush on the nose, with rich berry fruit. Some really nice quality fruit on the palate; lots of chewy, dense cherry and chocolate backed up by zippy acidity. Fine focus into a long finish. Very good indeed/excellent.
This wine was a gift from winemaker Gary Burke, when he showed me around Au Bon Climat winery in Santa Barbara a few years ago. It was Gary's own project within the winery, and I think this was his first release. It has a lovely Burgundian, slightly damp undergrowthy element on the nose, vegetal, with notes of leaves and mushroom. There's plenty of toasty oak in the background, and lots of fine, incense-like aromatics. Lovely fruit on the palate, with some gorgeous silky berry quality and a long, nicely balanced finish. One of my favourites on the night. Excellent.
Slightly dank, dirty quality on the nose, though not giving much at present. Quite a step up on the palate, with pleasant fruit but a touch weedy and not totally clean. Good.
Lovely ripe nose here, of nicely integrated spicy oak, incense and sweet, if rather jammy raspberry fruit. Fine, silky mouthfeel, with plenty of confiture plum and strawberry fruit. Notes of clove and woodsmoke suppport the fruit into the finish, with ripe tannins and lowish, but adequate acidity. A seductive style, and very good indeed.
Nicely rounded, glossy fruit on the nose. Hints of vegetal, autumn leaves, but pretty one-dimensional. Some sweet fruit evident on the palate, but this is a little dull, with angular acidity in the finish. Moderate/good.
Lovely nose here, gorgeous sweetness of fruit and a fine, cedary, exotic character with anise and clove. On the palate a breadth of sweet cherry fruit washes over the tongue, with some earthy notes and balancing acidity freshening the picture. Ripe tannins and a touch of vanilla bolster the long finish. Excellent, and aromatically the star of the night perhaps.
A little bit dank on the nose, with silage and barnyard aromas. A little lean on the palate, with some good Burgundy character, but just not quite held together by sufficient fruit. Moderate.
Again, another slightly dank nose – really quite similar, though with some fudgy oak. Quite soft and earthy on the palate, with a fine sweet fruit note at its core, and hints of demerara sugar. Good acidity, and ends up being very good indeed.
Gorgeous nose of fine, sweet, soft and earthy aromatics and gentle, autumnal berry fruit. On the palate it is soft and yeilding, with a good fleshy mouthfeel and silky texture. It has great poise and elegance, yet depths of fruit leading into a long finish, where a burst of acidity pushes through and feshens the finish beautifully. Excellent.
Slightly higher, lifted nose and more aromatic with ripe berries, incense and mint; almost a little acetone in character, but very attractive. Very pure, medium-weight silky fruit on the palate and very good length. Not quite the complexity of the Latour, but lovely. Very good indeed.
Really dank, vegetal, quite barnyardy nose, with a suggestion of vomit (sorry!). Sweetness of ripe cherry fruit emerges. The palate has a lot of sweet, dark fruit with more cherry and crisp raspberry flavours, and a tugging earthiness beneath. Good length, and in the end this works Burgundy magic and finishes sweet and pure. Very good indeed/excellent.
Cleaner, sweeter and silkier on the nose, with hints of old roses. Full-textured palate of ripe berry fruit, demerara sugar and cherry acidity. A nice wine, drinking well, but perhaps not much further to go. Very good indeed.
Seems quite youthful, and there is a lovely brackeny quality with soft autumn berry fruits and a little tobacco. Lovely rounded palate, with a soft lushness of red fruit and little hints of tea and smoke. Very, very fine and very good indeed/excellent.
Gorgeous nose here, which is soft and yeilding with brown sugar, violet, and sweet, silky black fruit. There's a little fudge-like quality too. On the palate it really has delicious fruit, with a long, pure core of berries and quite deep, blackcurranty notes. Lovely balance here, with sweet tannins and good acidity. Excellent.
I failed to write up the 2002 event, a 1982-themed dinner where highlights included Pichon-Lalande, Léoville-Poyferré and Yquem 1982, but read the reports from the 1999-2001 dinners in the archives.


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            this.proxy = new object();
            this.fakeManager = new FakeManager(typeof(int), this.proxy, null);
            A.CallTo(() => this.fakeManagerFactory(A<Type>._, this.proxy, A<string>.Ignored)).Returns(this.fakeManager);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void Fetch_should_return_a_fake_manager_from_the_factory()
        {
            // Arrange

            // Act
            var fakeCallProcessor = this.fakeManagerProvider.Fetch(this.proxy);

            // Assert
            fakeCallProcessor.Should().BeSameAs(this.fakeManager);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void Fetch_should_tag_the_proxy_with_the_manager()
        {
            // Arrange

            // Act
            this.fakeManagerProvider.Fetch(this.proxy);

            // Assert
            A.CallTo(() => this.fakeManagerAccessor.SetFakeManager(this.proxy, this.fakeManager)).MustHaveHappened();
        }

        [Fact]
        public void Fetch_should_configure_the_proxy_with_all_fake_configuration_actions()
        {
            // Arrange
            var fakeConfigurationAction1 = A.Fake<Action<object>>();
            var fakeConfigurationAction2 = A.Fake<Action<object>>();

            A.CallTo(() => this.proxyOptions.ProxyConfigurationActions)
                .Returns(new[] { fakeConfigurationAction1, fakeConfigurationAction2 });

            // Act
            this.fakeManagerProvider.Fetch(this.proxy);

            // Assert
            A.CallTo(() => fakeConfigurationAction1(this.proxy)).MustHaveHappened();
            A.CallTo(() => fakeConfigurationAction2(this.proxy)).MustHaveHappened();
        }

        [Fact]
        public void Fetch_should_create_exactly_one_fake_manager_when_called_repeatedly()
        {
            // Arrange

            // Act
            var fakeCallProcessor1 = this.fakeManagerProvider.Fetch(this.proxy);
            var fakeCallProcessor2 = this.fakeManagerProvider.Fetch(this.proxy);
            var fakeCallProcessor3 = this.fakeManagerProvider.Fetch(this.proxy);

            // Assert
            fakeCallProcessor1.Should().BeSameAs(fakeCallProcessor2);
            fakeCallProcessor2.Should().BeSameAs(fakeCallProcessor3);

            A.CallTo(() => this.fakeManagerFactory(this.typeOfFake, this.proxy, A<string>.Ignored)).MustHaveHappenedOnceExactly();
        }

        [Fact]
        public void EnsureInitialized_should_create_exactly_one_fake_manager_when_called_repeatedly()
        {
            // Arrange

            // Act
            this.fakeManagerProvider.EnsureInitialized(this.proxy);
            this.fakeManagerProvider.EnsureInitialized(this.proxy);
            this.fakeManagerProvider.EnsureInitialized(this.proxy);

            // Assert
            A.CallTo(() => this.fakeManagerFactory(this.typeOfFake, this.proxy, A<string>.Ignored)).MustHaveHappenedOnceExactly();
        }
    }
}

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Indicting Goliath : The Continuing Real Life Saga of an Immigrant's Pursuit of Justice in a World Infested with Betrayal, Corruption, Subterfuge and Fraud
By (author) Bhatia Lal
Available. Expected delivery to the United States in 10-15 business days.
How do you single-handedly battle for justice when you are betrayed by a government infested with subterfuge, corruption and fraud? When you are forced to present evidence in your defence without an attorney, shackled to hard metal leg irons and handcuffed to a belly chain? When seasoned federal judges; veteran prosecutors; experienced investigating agents; hardened prison wardens; vile snitches; inglorious powerful individuals; and despicable others, cannot, on nearly fifty occasions, refute facts, evidence and testimony unequivocally establishing that the charges are trumped-up, and yet, they look the other way? And, no, this does not occur in an authoritarian, totalitarian, or fascist regime like Nazi Germany, rather, in the United States of America...
... You create your own battlefield!
Note to Readers: The information provided herein is stated based on unrefuted facts, testimony and evidence established as a result of extensive litigation that ensued in over 21 courts of the United States and elsewhere, some include:
1.U.S. v. Lal Bhatia, U.S. District Court, No. California: Case No.: CR-04-40071-CW.
2.U.S. v. Lal Bhatia, U.S. Dist. Ct., No. California, Case No.: CR-05-00334-SBA.
3.Lal Bhatia v. Asst. U.S. Attorney, et al. U.S. Dist. Ct. No. California, Case No.: CV-07 02054-CW.
4.Lal Bhatia v. U.S.; Corrigan and FBI Agent Berry, U.S. Dist. Ct. No. California, Case No.: CV-08-04208-SBA.
5.Lal Bhatia v. U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern California, U.S. Dist. Ct., No. California, Case No.: CV-09-05581-SBA.
6.Lal Bhatia v. Mon Wig., U.S. Dist. Ct., No. California, Case No.: CV-10-00072-SBA.
7.Lal Bhatia v. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, et al., U.S. Dist Ct., So. Dist. of Mississippi, Case No.: CV-13-74-DCB-MTP
8.Matter of Lal Bhatia, Case No.: A075012956, Immigration Court, United States Department of Justice, 1900 E. Whatley Road, Oakdale, Louisiana 71463
9.Matter of Lal Bhatia, Case No.: A075012956, United States Department of Justice, Executive Office of Immigration Review, Board of Immigration Appeals, 5107 Leesburg Pike, Suite 2000, Falls Church, VA 20530.
Format Hardback | 288 pages
Publication date 31 Jul 2018
Publisher Notion Press
Illustrations note Illustrations, black and white


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Where Did Spanish Originate?
Where did Spanish originally come from?
Origins. Castilian Spanish originated (after the decline of the Roman Empire) as a continuation of spoken Latin in several areas of northern and central Spain. Eventually, the variety spoken in the city of Toledo around the 13th century became the basis for the written standard.
Did Spanish come from Spain or Mexico?
Spanish was brought to Mexico in the 16th century by Spanish Conquistadors. As in all other Spanish-speaking countries (including Spain), different accents and varieties of the language exist in different parts of the country, for both historical and sociological reasons.
When was the Spanish language created?
Most scholars agree that modern Spanish was established in a standard written form in the 13th century in the Kingdom of Castile in the Spanish city of Toledo.
Did the Spaniards come from Spain?
Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a predominantly Romance-speaking ethnic group native to Spain.
Which came first Spanish or English?
I'd dare say that Spanish, as a spoken language probably were intelligible to a Modern Spanish speaker a few hundred years prior to the first Spanish words being put on paper, meaning that spoken Spanish is actually older than spoken English.
Are Spanish and Mexican the same?
Mexican Spanish
It's the same situation in Mexico. There are differences in pronunciation, vocabulary, and other nuances, but essentially the official Spanish in Mexico is the same as the Spanish in Spain and throughout most of the world.
Should I learn Mexican Spanish or Spain Spanish?
The main advice is that if you are going to use Spanish in Europe, you should learn Spanish from Spain, and the opposite for Latin America. Some writers say that Latin American Spanish is easier for beginners, even some regions/countries within America (e.g. Central America, Colombia, Ecuador) are easier than others.
What language did Spain speak before Spanish?
The history of the Spanish language in Spain and the origin of the dialects of Spain begin with the linguistic evolution of Vulgar Latin. The Spanish Language can be traced back to the Indo-European language family. Around 2000 years before the birth of Christ, Celtiberians spoke an early Celtic language.
Why is Spain called Spain?
The name was supposedly based on the Iberian word for river, Iber. … Later, this became the present day Spanish name for the country, España. Thus, because of the Romans and their language, the rabbits won over the sunset and over the river. Spain, The Root and the Flower.
Which language is mother of all languages?
SANSKRIT is one of the official languages of India, and is popularly known as a classical language of the country. Considered to be the Mother of all Languages, it belongs to the Indic group of language family of Indo-European and its descendents, which are Indo-Iranian and Indo-Aryan.May 5, 2014
What was the first country to speak Spanish?
A Brief History Of Spanish
It originated on the Iberian Peninsula — the southwest corner of Europe which includes present-day Spain and Portugal. The Castilian continuation of Vulgar Latin (from Spain's Castile region) mixed with the Arabic dialect spoken by the Moors, who conquered parts of the region.
Which country colonized Spain?
conquest and colonization by the Spaniards and Portuguese from the late 15th through the 18th century as well as movements of independence from Spain and Portugal in the early 19th century.
What is the difference between Spanish and Spaniards?
"Spanish" is an adjective or as a noun the name of the language; "Spaniard" is a noun meaning a male or female from Spain.
Why did the Spanish marry natives?
Since the conquerors began to arrive in the new world. The natives made a pact with the Spanish, giving them a wife as a gift. As a symbol of union between the Spanish and an indigenous nation.
Has Spain ever been invaded?
Spain has been invaded and inhabited by many different peoples. The peninsula was originally settled by groups from North Africa and western Europe, including the Iberians, Celts, and Basques. Throughout antiquity it was a constant point of attraction for the civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean.
What is the oldest language in the world?
The Tamil language is recognized as the oldest language in the world and it is the oldest language of the Dravidian family. This language had a presence even around 5,000 years ago. According to a survey, 1863 newspapers are published in the Tamil language only every day.
Why is Spanish called Latin?
The region consists of people who speak Spanish, Portuguese and French. These languages (together with Italian and Romanian) developed from Latin during the days of the Roman Empire and the Europeans who speak them are sometimes called 'Latin' people. Hence the term Latin America.
What was Mexico called by the Spanish?
This land was called the Viceroyalty of New Spain or Nueva Espana. The natives of the country have long called it Mexico, however. The country of Mexico was named after its capital city, Mexico City.
Who lived in Mexico before the Aztecs?
Many matured into advanced pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations such as the: Olmec, Izapa, Teotihuacan, Maya, Zapotec, Mixtec, Huastec, Purépecha, Totonac, Toltec, and Aztec, which flourished for nearly 4,000 years before the first contact with Europeans.
Did Spain colonize Mexico?
Colonial Mexico was part of the Spanish Empire and administered by the Viceroyalty of New Spain. … Hernán Cortés had conquered the great empire of the Aztecs and established New Spain as the largest and most important Spanish colony.
Do Latin Americans understand Spanish from Spain?
Originally Answered: Do Latin Americans understand Spanish from Spain? Yes, the same way English speaking Americans understand British English. Latin American Spanish and Castilian Spanish are the same language, with different regional accents and some differences in grammar and vocabulary.
Which language is easiest to learn?
10 Easiest Languages for English speakers to learn
Afrikaans. Like English, Afrikaans is in the West Germanic language family. …
French. …
Spanish. …
Dutch. …
Norwegian. …
Portuguese. …
Swedish. …
Italian.
Is Latin Spanish or Italian?
Latin is the origin of some European languages e.g. French, Italian, Spanish etc (the Romance languages). However, Latin is closely related to other Indo European Languages and shares many words with the majority of present-day languages.
Who initially brought Spanish to the New World?
Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean and gaining control over more territory for over three centuries, the Spanish Empire would expand across the Caribbean Islands, half of South America, most of Central America and much of North America.
Who were the first peoples of Spain?
The First Settlers Arrive. Human settlers arrived in Spain's territory 35 thousand years ago. Hispania, as Spain was initially named, was inhabited mostly by Iberian, Basques and Celts. Archeologists have been successful in finding cave paintings in Altamira that prove early human settlements.
What did Iberians say before Latin?
use by Iberians
The Iberian language, a non-Indo-European tongue, continued to be spoken into early Roman times. Along the east coast it was written in Iberian script, a system of 28 syllabic and alphabetic characters, some derived from Greek and Phoenician systems but most of unknown origin.
What did the Romans call Spain?
Hispania, in Roman times, region comprising the Iberian Peninsula, now occupied by Portugal and Spain.
Who ruled Spain before the Romans?
Spanish prehistory extends to the pre-Roman Iron Age cultures that controlled most of Iberia: those of the Iberians, Celtiberians, Tartessians, Lusitanians, and Vascones and trading settlements of Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Greeks on the Mediterranean coast.
What is Spain's real name?
listen)), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a country in Southwestern Europe with some pockets of territory in the Mediterranean Sea, offshore in the Atlantic Ocean and across the Strait of Gibraltar.
Which is the queen of all languages?
Which Is The Queen Of All Languages In The World? Kannada Language spoken in the Southern State in India is the Queen Of All Languages In The World. The people spoke the most prominent Dravidian language of Karnataka In India. Almost 44 million people spoke the language across the globe.
Who is the father of all languages?
Language family Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Sanskrit
Early form Vedic Sanskrit
Writing system Originally orally transmitted. Not attested in writing until the 1st century BCE, when it was written in the Brahmi script, and later in various Brahmic scripts.
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Contributor Profile: Staff Choice Literature Award Winner Spencer Ritchi
Spencer Ritchi is the author of "A Bad Day For Jess," Scribendi's Staff Choice Award winner for the literature category. With a fresh take on the often-romanticized depression, his raw, realistic portrayal of Jess's insecurities and fears provide a depth of feeling that captures the complexity of loving someone affected with mental illness.
Spencer took some time out of his busy college schedule to answer some questions about "A Bad Day for Jess" and his creative process.
Q: "A Bad Day for Jess" focuses on Jess's mental health issues and how they affect not just her, but her boyfriend as well. What inspired you to write about a subject as stigma-filled as mental illness?
A: Here's a lot of truth: Jess was half an ex-girlfriend of mine (who, when I wrote and submitted this, was just a girlfriend), and half a conglomerate of stories my roommates told me about their various relationships. Anxiety, depression, they're all prevalent things for young people, and they're not obvious or in your face. Subconsciously, young people romanticize depression because they want to be intellectual and probe into the cosmos and whatnot, but coming face-to-face with anxiety/depression of any acute kind can be the most frustrating thing in the world. I won't say the protagonist is me, per se, but like all things I touch, there's certainly a bit of myself in there. He struggles to comprehend what Jess is going through in the same ways that I struggled with my girlfriend. He wants to understand and be sympathetic, but he's too big of a jerk to lay down all precognitions, all frustrations, and just embody that love that he's always wanted with Jess. He understands that the illness is not Jess, and that Jess is not the illness, but there's the age old question (explicitly stated within the piece, I'm fairly certain) of: "What happens when I get off my medication?" Meds for depression/anxiety dull you like nothing else. They're infinitely soul-sucking. But is Jess "herself" when she's on meds? Or is she "herself" when she's experiencing depression/anxiety? The answer is: probably neither, or both, or nothing, and as soon as you start over-ruminating on these things it puts you into a trapped in hopeless place. Will anxiety/depression ever allow someone to experience the world on his/her own terms? This piece does not so much grapple that question directly on a grand scale, but instead focuses on this couple who is very much grappling with the question. If they come up with a solid answer, let me know.
Q: Did you have knowledge of the various mental illnesses you portray Jess as having before you began the piece, or did you do extensive research before beginning to write?
A: All personal experience. I have friends, an ex-girlfriend (see above question), and I myself ruminate on and endure these sorts of things. This wasn't so much about my own depression, but the inability to connect with others. I didn't want WebMD symptoms of mental illness–I just wanted two people to debate and fight over things until something happened.
Q: The cat is a pretty big part of the story. Did it start out that way, or was there originally another event in its place?
A: The cat was the starting image, and unlike in most things I write, it stayed that way through numerous revisions. I wanted blood, I wanted the travesty of something cute and beautiful, I wanted some sense of immediacy, and I wanted it from the start. I don't normally work with outlines until after the first draft–that way, the piece expands naturally, and I can worry about the plot as I do major revisions. So, originally, the cat was the center of it and I wrote blindly from there. I wanted a hurricane and I wanted a nearly-dead cat, so I wrote those things. The cat is a painfully obvious metaphor, but it was such a great image in my head that I couldn't help but exploit it for all its worth.
Q: What was the hardest part of writing this piece?
A: I didn't want this to be a diary entry. I didn't want any one person I knew to read this and say, "What the hell, is that me?" When you're a boisterous genius like Joyce, you can afford to do that, but I didn't want this to be about me. Also, oversentimentality. For serious undergraduate writers, it's a problem, and it's always been a problem for me.
Q: Do you have a specific writing process, or is it just 'whenever inspiration hits'?
A: If ever I want to write, I begin by reading–something good and something I trust. Usually something Kerouac. Good writing always inspires me to write well. I probably steal lines WAY too much from great writers, but I'm still learning the craft. In fact, I can pinpoint a line or two in "Bad Day" where I must have been reading Willa Cather's "Paul's Case," because I subconsciously made references to "Cordelia Street" and "the immensity of things" and decided to keep them there in later drafts. The only way to learn how to write is by reading great writers, I believe, because no self-help craft book will ever accurately lay out the nuances and art of writing like a good Hemingway or Chekhov story will. The world surrounding my generation tries too hard to define and delineate the intangibles of creative writing, and I think it will be our downfall. Just read, then write. One well-written novel (maybe two or three?) is all the inspiration I need.
Q: When you're not writing, what do you like to do in your spare time?
A: Read comic books, work much too hard to please others, and trick people into liking me. All three have been working out… fairly well?
Q: Why did you submit to Scribendi, as opposed to another publication?
A: Scribendi is an outstanding opportunity for undergraduates. That's probably the hardest part of writing–submitting and knowing that failure is imminent 99% of the time. Some say the hardest part of writing is the blinking cursor on the blank page, but at least you can screw that up and no one will know. We'll just say that I was absolutely honored and terrified when I received the e-mail from Scribendi saying that I would be published.
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The film has been placed at number 11 on the Guardian's top 50 films of 2021. It features Anthony Hopkin's Oscar and BAFTA-winning Best Actor performance, in a film written by and directed by Florian Zeller, who also wrote the play on which it is based. The hero of The Father, also called Anthony, is an octogenarian,who is floundering desperately, unable to trust his own mind. And by adopting the perspective of a man with advanced dementia, Zeller has created a highly effective piece of Point Of View filmmaking, a kind of horror film with a huge heart.
Anthony is lost in a labyrinth. It's a mental one: the various threads of his life keep slipping through his fingers. Where's his watch? Is his daughter married? Is she moving to France? What's happened to his other daughter? Is it morning or evening? Where's that bloody watch? But as depicted here, it's also a physical maze: as he negotiates the London flat in which he's ensconced, the furniture keeps shifting, paintings vanishing from the walls, a piano morphing into a drinks cabinet. Zeller, adapting his own stage play, proves a natural at subverting filmic language to head-spinning effect. It's unclear at all times exactly where Anthony is, or when he is.
And as portrayed by Hopkins in a powerhouse performance, one of the actor's very best, he cycles through a vast range of emotion in 97 minutes, none of it feeling false. At one point the character is impishly charming, offering a whisky to his new carer and launching into a frenzied tap-dance. At another, his mood blackens, becoming horribly cruel. But mostly, he is lost, unmoored, searching desperately for a measure of control. But it's also gripping and audacious, twisting the conventions of narrative storytelling to match the awful effects of the disease it's portraying. It offers no easy answers — there aren't any. But it does offer plenty of compassion, both for the titular character and for his daughter, occasionally lingering with her, as played with low-key power by Olivia Colman.
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Legacy of Colonialism booklet
| 26 March 2019
This booklet (attached) provides information about PFC's 'Legacy of Colonialism' exhibition, including further details of the military and civilian costs in each conflict area.
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David Olugsa, The Guardian, 5th of May 2019 | 10 June 2019
"Cambridge University has been accused of opening old wounds, but in curing itself of amnesia it might help Britain understand its past...…"
Oxford college to investigate its own role in colonialism
Richard Adams, The Guardian, 21st March 2019 | 10 June 2019
"An Oxford college is to examine its contribution to creating and maintaining Britain's colonial empire, in a pioneering effort to crowdsource and "decolonialise" its own imperialist past. St John's College is advertising for a new academic post whose appointee will work on a research project named...
Row over bid to extend centenary events to cover Ireland and India
Ben Quinn, The Guardian, 1st April 2019 | 10 June 2019
"Government board chair blocks effort to mark events in which Britain committed atrocities Members of the government's advisory board on the first world war centenary are at loggerheads over extending the commemorations to mark politically challenging events such as the Irish war of independence and...
India's Amritsar massacre bore the 'made in Ireland' mark
Ronan McGreevy, The Irish Times, 13th April 2019 | 10 June 2019
"After a long and tempestuous life in the service of British imperialism, Sir Michael O'Dwyer had got used to a quiet life. He endured years of recriminations over the Amritsar massacre which took place on April 13th, 1919. The episode in which British Indian troops opened fire on peaceful demonstra...
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Adam Ramsay, Open Democracy 15th March 2019 | 10 June 2019
"The events of 30 January 1972 in Northern Ireland weren't an aberration. Britain has been in the business of killing dissenters across its former empire for decades....."
Churchill's policies contributed to 1943 Bengal famine – study
Michael Safi,The Guardian, 29th March 2019 | 10 June 2019
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My father was killed on Bloody Sunday. Britain must confront its colonial legacy
Tony Doherty, The Guardian, 16 March 2019 | 10 June 2019
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HOLA - ANOTHER BRITISH SCANDAL?
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"I first saw the photograph some years ago, online. Later, I tracked it down to its original source: "In Afric's Forest and Jungle: Or Six Years Among the Yorubans," a memoir published in 1899 by the Rev. R.H. Stone. It shows a crowd in what is now Nigeria, but what was then Yorubaland under British...
The Museum of British Colonialism
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Making great port requires exceptional grapes and a deep knowledge of the production process. But most of all, it requires time, lots of time. Time for the nectars to lose the brashness of youth and mellow with age. That is why we cannot produce port wine by ourselves. We need our children and grandchildren to help. And if our great grandchildren can also lend a hand, even better.
The British port-wine families guarantee their longevity by leaving the business to a single son or daughter and compensating their siblings with cash. In contrast, Portuguese families generally sell their estates to divide the proceeds among the heirs. There is why there are almost no major Portuguese port houses left. The one remarkable exception is Poças, a company that celebrated 100 years in August 2018.
In 1918, Manoel Poças Júnior started buying brandy to supply port-wine producers. He was at times paid with barrels of port, so gradually he also became a port-wine merchant. In 1932, one of Manoel's brandy clients paid a large debt with a wine estate called Quinta das Quartas. Manuel loved the estate which has granite tanks dating back to 1873. Every week, he made the arduous trip from Oporto to Quinta das Quartas to visit the vineyards.
This passion is shared by his great granddaughter, Maria Manuela Maia, the viticulturist in charge of Quinta das Quartas and of the other two estates acquired by the family, Quinta de Santa Bárbara and Quinta de Vale de Cavalos. Even though today it is much easier to drive from Oporto to the Douro, Maria moved to the Douro valley to be closer to the vineyards.
We met with Maria in Vila Nova de Gaia, at the cellars where barrels full of precious nectars produced by past generations are stored. She shared with us some superb ports: a Vintage from 1997, a Reserva from 2014, and a Vale dos Cavalos from 2015. Our tasting ended with fireworks provided by a remarkable 1967 Tawny, full of freshness and acidity. We filled our glasses with this liquid treasure and made two toasts: to Manoel Poças for the successes of the past and to Maria for the successes of the future.
Click here for the Poças web site. To visit the Poças cellars email visitors@pocas.pt or call 223 203 257.
This Summer we had the privilege of visiting one of these vineyards, the Quinta do Vallado, which dates back to 1716. We toured the cellars and tasted some of the quinta's great table wines.
At the end of our visit, we drank some wonderful old tawny port. With our glasses full of this golden nectar, we toasted the people of the Douro and their magnificent wines.
Quinta do Vallado is located in Vilarinho dos Freires, Peso da Régua, tel. 254 323 147. Click here for their web site.
People in the Douro valley say that babies and port wines are often born at night. Port producers let the grape juice ferment for about three days. They choose the perfect moment to add a neutral grape spirit (aguardente) that stops the fermentation before the yeast eats all the grape sugar. This moment often comes in the middle of the third night.
Most of the Douro grapes are used to produce ruby ports. These inexpensive ports are first stored in cement or stainless steel vats to prevent oxidation and then bottled. The result is a wine that retains a dark ruby color and fresh fruit flavors.
When the quality of the grapes is exceptional, port-wine producers declare a vintage year. These ports are stored in wood casks for one or two years and then bottled. With little exposure to air, the wine is dark red. Aging brings out complex flavors, such as notes of vanilla, chocolate, and blackberry.
The best grapes are also used to produce tawnies. These ports are aged for many years in casks made of Portuguese chestnut and oak. This aging process creates complex flavors and gives the wine a silky mouthfeel. The small amount of air that circulates through the tiny pores of the wood oxidizes the wine slightly, changing its color from red to amber.
It is wonderful to share a glass of ruby port with new friends. But there's nothing like drinking old vintages and tawnies with old friends.
Barca Velha is a mythical wine, the first Portuguese table wine to acquire an international reputation. Fernando Nicolau de Almeida, Casa Ferreirinha's enologist, adapted the techniques used to produce vintage ports to make superlative table wine. After years of experimentation, he produced the first Barca Velha in 1952 with grapes from a vineyard planted by Dona Antónia Ferreira.
Since then, Barca Velha has been produced only 12 times, when the sun and the clouds joined forces to create exceptional grapes.
How did Nicolau de Almeida decide whether a vintage merited the Barca Velha name? He relied on his wife. He took an unlabeled bottle home to share with her at dinner. If they finished the bottle by the end of the meal, the vintage was a Barca Velha.


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Journal of Dentistry, Oral Disorders & Therapy
Research Article Open Access
Knowledge and Attitudes of Coaches Regarding Sports Related Oro-Facial Injuries in Chennai, India
M. Priya, Ditto Sharmin*, Deepti Amarlal, Eapen Thomas and Y. Pooja
Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Meenakshi Ammal Dental College, Alapakkam main road, Maduravoyal, Chennai
*Corresponding author: DittoSharmin, Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Meenakshi Ammal Dental College, Alapakkam main road, Maduravoyal, 600 095, Chennai, India; Tel no: +91 9486190456; Fax- +91 44 23781631; E-mail: dr.dittosharmin@gmail.com
Received: May 17, 2016; Accepted: July 04, 2016; Published: July 18, 2016
Citation: Priya M, Sharmin D, Amarlal D, Thomas E, Pooja Y (2016) Knowledge and Attitudes of Coaches Regarding Sports Related Oro-Facial Injuries in Chennai, India. J Dent Oral Disord Ther 4(3): 1-5. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15226/jdodt.2016.00157
Background/Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes of sports coaches regarding sports related injuries and its prevention using a questionnaire survey design. Material and Methods: A modified questionnaire was distributed to 50 coaches of various sports teams in different parts of Chennai city in India between October 2009 and February 2010. The statistical analyses were carried out by SPSS version 18.0 and the data were analyzed.
Results: Out of 50 coaches, 94% were males and 6% were females with mean age of 38.74 years. 70% of the coaches found the frequency of injury in the range of 1-5, which included soft tissue injury (46%) followed by bruise and dental trauma. 66% of the coaches believed that boxing was the sports event most likely to cause injury, but boxing, football and rugby (38.5%) were the sports which actually caused injury. The mechanism of injury was mainly due to collision (42%). The protective devices most commonly used were helmet (61.4%) and mouth guards (47.7%). 70% of the coaches felt that nonuse of protective devices can cause injuries sometimes. 68% of the coaches found that protective devices enhance the efficiency of the players and 76% considered the use of protective devices based on the type of games.
Conclusions: The results show that there is an increasing acceptance to the use of protective devices among the coaches of Chennai, but its usage was mostly based on the type of game. Keywords: Coaches; Sports injuries; Protective devices
A physically active lifestyle is important for all age groups. Reason to participate in sports and physical activity are many such as pleasure, relaxation, competition, socialization, maintenance and improvement of fitness and health [1]. Participation in sports offers potential benefits for individuals of all ages, such as combating obesity and enhancing cardiovascular fitness. A well-designed exercise program enhances the immediate physical, psychomotor, and intellectual attainments of a child [2]. Thousands of school children play at least one organized sport [3]. It is of growing concern about the injuries that occur during participation in organized sports [4]. Injuries during sport appear to be unavoidable, and up to 30% to 40% of all accidents in children and adolescents occur during sports [5]. The prevalence of sports injuries vary widely. Comparing injury statistics can be difficult as there is no uniform system for reporting the number of injuries [6,7].
Contact sports are defined as those sports in which players physically interact with each other, trying to prevent the opposing team or person from winning [8]. There is seldom very high incidence of dental trauma compared with all accidents in contact sports varying from 2% to 33% [9,10,11]. Dental and soft tissue injuries are commonly associated with collision and contact sports such as football, ice hockey, soccer, baseball, bicycling, inline skating, gymnastics, basket ball, alpine skiing, softball, volleyball, karate, mountain biking and skateboarding [6,12,13,14,15,16].
Incidence of sports related oral injury vary widely based on the sport played, level of competition, the participant's age and sex [6,17]. Dental injuries are the most common type of orofacial injuries sustained during sports activities [18]. Dental trauma in sports differ from other dental trauma, as it is possible to easily prevent it and there is also a possibility to dramatically reduce the occurrence levels by the use of mouthguards that protect all dental and periodontal structures [19,20]. Dental professionals have long encouraged mouthguard use and dental consultation in organized sports [21]. The only professional sports that require a mouthguard is boxing [22]. In New Zealand, despite a high incidence of avulsive injuries, sports coaches generally had an inadequate knowledge for managing such conditions [23]. Injuries can counter the beneficial effects of sports participation at a young age if a child or adolescent is unable to participate because of the residual effects of injury [24,25].
Some sports medicine professionals pointed directly to poor coaching as a factor in injury [26]. Many young athletes are never taught the proper conditioning methods or technique for their sports [27], as the coaches simply do not have the proper knowledge base for instructing in correct sports techniques [28]. However Smith and Smoll and Smith et al proved the effectiveness of certain communication techniques used by coaches to interact with young athletes during their coaching [29,30,31]. The risks are always inherent risks in physical activity hence our goal should be to create a safe environment as possible in which our children can participate.
This present study was undertaken because a thorough search of the literature revealed sparse data of the perception of Indian coaches regarding oro-facial injuries and their prevention. This study evaluated the perception and attitudes of sports coaches in Chennai, India regarding various aspects of sports related oro-facial injuries as they have a direct influence on the trainees. The data collected from the coaches could be utilized to plan a sports injury preventive strategy by providing feedback to coaches, trainees and henceforth promote the use of oro-facial protective devices.
This study is a descriptive survey research design which was carried out between October 2009 and February 2010. The questionnaire which was used in the previous studies on coaches by Lehl G [32] was modified and finally 15 open and closed ended questions were structured. [Table 1] This questionnaire was distributed to fifty coaches who assisted with the study after informed consent. The survey was conducted on the various sports teams in different places of Chennai like YMCA, Radha Krishna stadium, Nehru Park and sports authority of India. The investigators went through this questionnaire with each of the participants separately in order to avoid blanket answers by the entire team of coaches. The questionnaire sought information
Table 1: Coaches' Questionnaire.
Enumerate the games you coach and please mention the experience you have in the same?
GamesExperience in years
Are sports injuries and their prevention a part of your syllabus?
Have you interacted with medical or dental experts regarding safety measures in sports?
List (in order of priority) the three sports events most likely to cause oro-facial or dental injury?
How often have players under your coaching have sustained an oro-facial or dental injury (in last year)?
(a)None
(b)1-5
(c)6 or more
What sports event the injury were related to?
What were the mechanisms of injuries?
(a) Falls
(b) Collision
(c) Hit by a ball/hockey stick/hard object
(d) Fights between players
What were the types of injuries please tick?
(a) Bruise
(b) Cut-lip, cheek, tongue
(c) Broken tooth, Tooth lost
(d) Fracture of facial bones
(e) Others
What were the first-aid measures taken for the players?
(a) First aid done by me
(b) First aid done by any associated medical officer
(c) Referral to the hospital/dental office
List the oral or facial devices used in sports that you know to avoid the injuries?
Games Protective devices
How often were the injuries related to the non use of protective devices?
(a) Always
(b) Sometimes
(c) Never
Do you feel the use of protective devices will have any impact on the efficiency of the players?
(a) Reduce efficiency?
(b) Enhance efficiency?
(c) Any other comment?
In your opinion the usage of protective devices in sports is
(a) Always required irrespective of the type of game
(b) Required based on the type of game
(c) Not required at all
Would you like to recommend any other new form of protective devices that is needed in your sport/game other than mentioned below?
(a)Mouthguard, helmet, facemask, knee cap
(b)------------------
about what sport(s) they coached, the experience they had as a coach, the rate of oral trauma they had seen during sport activities, the mechanism of injuries, type of injury, various protective devices they knew for each games and its usage in sports to avoid injuries.
Descriptive statistics such as mean age and SD were carried out. Graphic presentation of data using the pie chart was also employed. The statistical analyses were carried out using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS for windows) version 18.0 and the data were analyzed as percentages and proportions.
A total of 50 coaches completed the questionnaire of which 94% were males and 6% were females. The mean age of the coaches was 38.74 years. 50% of the coaches had a Physical Education Training (PET) and 34% of the coaches had 11 or more years of coaching experience. The games for which coaching was provided is listed in (Table 2), which showed that football was most common (20%). 96% of the coaches had sports injury prevention as part of their syllabus and 80% of the coaches had interacted with the medical or dental experts regarding the safety measures in sports.
70% of the coaches found the frequency of injury in the range of 1-5 [Table 3]. 66% of the coaches believed that boxing was the sports event most likely to cause oro-facial injury (Table 1). Boxing again stood first among the sports events (38.5%) along with football and rugby which actually caused injury (Table 2). In majority of the injuries, the mechanism by which they were caused was due to collision (42%) (Table 3). The most common injury was a soft tissue injury (46%) like cut lip, cheek or tongue, followed by bruise and dental trauma (Table 4). 46.20% of the coaches gave first aid by themselves.
On comparing the games and protective devices used, 31.4% of the coaches opted mouthguard as the most preferred protective device for boxing. Helmet was the most preferred protective device for cricket (49%) and hockey (40%). In games like football, rugby and others, the most preferred protective
Table 2: Games for which coaching is provided.
Games for which now
coaching is provided
Kho-kho
Table 3: Frequency of sustaining an oro-facial or dental injury under respondent's coaching.
Frequency of sustaining an injury
Table 4: Frequency of oro-facial injury when not using protective devices.
Frequency of injury
devices opted was from the other's category which includes shinguard, abdomen guard etc. (Table 5)
The frequency of injuries when not using protective devices is shown in (Table 4). Of which 70% of the coaches felt that non-use of protective devices can cause injuries sometimes and 28% of the coaches felt that non-use of protective devices can
Table 5: Other Protective devices other than Mouth guards (Multiple answers).
Abdomen guards
Elbow cap
Kneecap
Crap bandage
Boot / spikes
*(Out of 50 persons only 24 have answered for this question)
cause injuries always. 68% of the coaches found that protective devices enhance the efficiency of the players and 76% of the coaches considered the use of protective devices based on the type of games. Out of 50 coaches only 24 coaches responded for protective devices other than mouthguard, helmet, facemask and knee cap (Table 5).
Coaches have witnessed 1-5 numbers of oro-facial or dental injuries during their coaching.
Sports that caused orofacial injuries were boxing, football and rugby.
Mechanism of injury was collision by players.
Type of injury witnessed was soft tissue injuries.
Games - Protective devices used
Boxing - Mouthguards
Cricket and hockey - Helmet
Most of the coaches felt non use of protective devices to cause injury was sometimes not always.
Even though most of the coaches agreed that protective devices enhance the efficiency of the players, it was used or they advocated its usage based on the game they played.
Injury has always been recognized as a natural risk of participation in organized sport. However, many injuries may be preventable, particularly those resulting from a lack of proper, well-supervised training and participation. The present study focused on the knowledge and attitudes of coaches regarding oro-facial injuries and their prevention since they are the main influence on athletes. 70% of the coaches in the present study found the frequency of oro-facial injuries between 1-5 and 70% of these injuries were mostly due to non-use of protective devices. In a similar study by Lehl G, 40% of the coaches found the frequency of injury between1-5 [32]. Authors who found the frequency of injury due to non-use of protective devices were 82% by Lehl G, 63% by Garon MW, et al. 75% by Mc Nutt, et al. and 48% by Rob Berg, et al. [32,33,34,35].
Though 66% of the coaches in the present study believed that boxing most likely caused injury, the sports events that actually caused injury along with boxing (39%) were also football (39%) and rugby (39%). This may be because probably higher percentage of coaches were having football as their main sport (20%).Similar results were also found by Mc Nutt, et al. and Garon MW, et al. who found the highest oro-facial injuries with football [33,34]. According to Fos, et al. the high velocity and intensity of football, hockey and rugby place them in a high risk category for oro-facial injuries whereas Kujala, et al. observed that injury rates were higher in those sports involving more frequent and powerful body contact like ice hockey and karate [36,37].
In the present study, majority of the injuries occurred due to collision (42%) followed by hit by an object (32%). The most common type of injury were soft tissue injuries (46%) followed by bruising (24%) and dental trauma (16%). In a similar study, Blinkhorn FA found that falls and collision were the main cause of injury (38). Rob Berg, et al. found in his study that the most common injury was a cut lip, tongue or cheek (82.4%). He also suggested that this type of injury should be a cause for great concern, as they may represent a tooth-object impact in which significant tooth damage was avoided only fortuitously [35].
The protective devices most often preferred by the coaches in the present study were helmet and mouthguards similar to the results by Lehl G [32]. Ranalli DN observed that appropriate and properly fitted protective mouthguards, headgear and helmets prevent oro-facial trauma [39]. Helmets and facemasks when used properly enhance player safety and reduce morbidity [22,40]. It is a promising finding that 80% of the coaches had interacted with medical or dental experts regarding injury prevention and 68% of the coaches found that protective devices enhance the efficiency of the players.
This study identified several important perceptions and knowledge of the coaches in Chennai, India, regarding sports related injury and the usage of various protective devices. Majority of the coaches indicated that they were aware that their trainees were at risk of experiencing oro-facial injuries, including soft tissue injury and dental trauma. It appears that there is an increasing acceptance to the use of protective devices among coaches but its usage was mostly based on the type of game. We feel that preventable injuries do continue to occur since not all players comply with rules, and not all coaches insist that players wear protective devices during practice and in competition. We recommend that the dentist not only involve themselves in giving adequate information to coaches about protective devices, but also counsel patients, especially children, adolescents and young adults, regarding participation in sports so that adequate oral protection can be recommended.
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Lobstermen to rally in Stonington Sunday
July 17, 2019 by Stephen Rappaport on News, News-Featured, Waterfront
STONINGTON — It was almost 45 years ago when a fictional news anchor named Howard Beale, played by Peter Finch in the Academy Award-winning film "Network," shouted out to listeners "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!"
Last week, Stonington lobsterman Julie Eaton, speaking for most members of her industry said just about the same thing in a posting on Facebook announcing plans for a rally on the Stonington Fish Pier at noon this Sunday.
The rally is being called to protest a proposed NOAA Fisheries rule that would force Maine lobstermen to remove half their buoy lines from the Gulf of Maine to reduce the risk that endangered right whales might become entangled in the fishing gear.
"It is official," Eaton posted. "We are holding a Lobstermen's Rally … on the Stonington Commercial Fish Pier."
Last March, NOAA Fisheries announced that the risk of harming right whales in the Gulf of Maine had to be reduced by 60 percent. Not long afterward, the regulators adopted a "consensus" recommendation by a stakeholder group including representatives from the Department of Marine Resources, other state and federal fisheries regulators and several conservation organizations — the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team. The recommendation was that to reach the risk reduction target, Maine lobstermen would have to reduce the number of vertical buoy lines in the Gulf of Maine by 50 percent.
That recommendation was made even though evidence showed that Maine fishing gear was not responsible for half the right whale deaths over the past several years and that the vast majority of recent whale mortalities had occurred in Canadian waters.
According to Eaton, Sunday's gathering is emphatically not a protest of the whale rule proposal but is intended "to inform the public that we are NOT killing whales in Maine, voice our concerns about the proposed whale regulations and how they will not only affect our own futures and safety but the future of our children and our coastal communities."
The rally is likely to draw a big crowd and has already attracted at least one national political figure. U.S. Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) has announced plans to attend.
Golden's interest comes as no surprise. Last month, the congressman filed an amendment to a bill with the aim of blocking NOAA Fisheries from using a questionable method of data analysis as a basis for its proposed whale protection rules until the tool was subjected to peer review. The bill failed in the House of Representatives, but his actions seemed to stir the rest of the state's congressional delegation.
On July 10, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Angus King (I-Maine), Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Golden wrote to President Donald Trump, urging him to intervene in the conflict over the proposed rules, characterizing them as precisely the kind of "ill-conceived or overly burdensome" regulations he and his administration have targeted.
According to the delegation's letter, and the data fisheries regulators relied on in crafting their regulatory proposals, while there can be no doubt that the shrinking population of right whales — currently about 425 animals — faces serious threats, entanglement with Maine lobster fishing gear does not seem to be among them.
As of last week, according to the delegation's letter, there have been six right whale deaths in 2019, all of them in Canadian waters. Three were attributed to ship strikes rather than entanglements with fishing gear. Of the three non-lethal entanglements this year, all occurred in Canadian waters and none took place in the Gulf of Maine.
Last Thursday, Governor Janet Mills stepped up the state's response to what she described as NOAA's "foolish, unsupported and ill-advised regulations."
In an open letter to the Maine lobster industry, Mills announced that she had directed DMR Commissioner Patrick Keliher to establish a risk reduction target for the Maine lobster industry "commensurate with any actual risk" the industry poses rather than the 60 percent target set by NOAA Fisheries.
Keliher will meet with lobstermen across the state next month as planned to announce the department's findings and a plan that reflects the actual risk from the Maine lobster fishery.
"My administration will not allow any bureaucrat to undermine our lobster industry or our economy with foolish, unsupported and ill-advised regulations," the Governor wrote, adding, "I will do everything I can as your Governor to protect your rights and your livelihoods and defend Maine's lobster industry in the face of absurd federal overreach."
Mills' letter drew an enthusiastic response from the Maine Lobstermen's Association.
In a statement, Patrice McCarron, executive director of Maine Lobstermen's Association, said, "The Maine lobster industry understands that right whales are at risk and we want to be part of the solution. Maine's solution must be right-sized to reflect the risk our fishery poses to right whales."
Stephen Rappaport
Waterfront Editor at The Ellsworth American
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