The visual parallel is illustrated in a meaningful way. Everything is said into the picture itself, nothing has to be added to understand it. The author is showing us the both two cities with a truly sense of humor, with correctness and relevance.
I first discover the graphic works of the visual match between Paris and New York, on the author blog "Paris versus New York". The author is putting online some of its artworks. The tone is set, I wholly concur with the concept and the making!
His blog is seen by travelers, dreamers and lovers, and the proposal of making a book is very soon realized. The book is published with the editing "10/18", for a national released last week in library. The book is taking back the graphic visuals to compare Paris and New York, in very pleasant smaller format.
It's during a holiday abroad extended in the United-States in the 2010 ending, that he launched his first blog and shows his first "Paris versus New York" artworks.
Loving Paris, he likes the french capitale for "its spirits, tone changing, its whirl, its false calm and its little complications, reflected by its residents".
Succumbed to the charm of New York since his childhood, Vahram Muratyan decided to go to the Big Apple for a few months.
Sitting down in the new-yorker subway, he's looking at people, taking notes and beginning to sketch in his notebook : the idea is processing. The simple match series begins on simple sheet of papers, comparaisons that the artist wants to daily share with his close relation, via his blog.
Vahram Muratyan is a talented freelancer art director via his graphic design studio. He's a paper editing and visual marketing counselor specialist.
He works for many cultural, institutional, fashion and media editing projects (Arte, Chanel, France Télévisions, La Galerie de l'Opéra de Paris). He's also teaching editing and graphic design at the school ESAG-Penninghen.
Varham Muratyan is also the co-author of the collection "Colle, décolle et recolle", and the book series "J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un artiste".
I wholly concur with the concept of making a parallel two cultures via two cities, Paris et New York. This comparaison illustrated by graphic artworks adds an obviousness and an accuracy to the concept.
Besides, every point approached in the book is clever and right, nothing has to be added to understand the match. It's both funny and so realistic.
Usually we are tending to compare foreign cultures and other cities with what we already know. This book allows to show both the specifics of Paris and New York, on points in common to the two cultures.
I deeply recommend this book for all the graphic design and travel lovers, curious ones … and lovers of New York or/and Paris.


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May 20, 1913: Henry Morrison Flagler dies in Palm Beach
No single person was as important to the development of modern Florida as Henry Morrison Flagler. By building hotels in St. Augustine, Palm Beach and Miami, he made it fashionable for rich northerners to bask in the warmth of Florida during the winter.
By financing construction of the Florida East Coast Railway, he made it possible for cities to grow along the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Because of the railroad, crops could be raised and shipped, building materials could be hauled, and people -- tourists, workers, and residents -- could be shuttled to what was mostly mosquito-ridden scrubland little more than a century ago.
Flagler, a moderately successful grain and salt merchant early in his career, amassed his fortune as the oil industry was beginning to fuel the industrialization of America. Flagler and his partners, including John D. Rockefeller, founded Standard Oil in 1870, when Flagler was 40. Within five years, the company moved its headquarters to New York City and Flagler moved to a new home on Fifth Avenue.
He first came to Jacksonville, Florida, after his wife Mary became ill in 1878. After she died, Flagler remarried and in 1885 began building the 540-room Hotel Ponce de Leon in St. Augustine. He built a second hotel and purchased yet another in the city.
He purchased a regional railroad serving northern Florida to support his hotel business, built a railroad bridge over the St. Johns River and bought the Ormond Hotel just north of Daytona.
In 1894, he built the Hotel Royal Poinciana in Palm Beach on the shore of Lake Worth and extended his railroad south to West Palm Beach.
Henry Flagler. Photos: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory
Flagler on train in Key West
Flagler and his dog in pedicar
Landowners further south coveted the growth brought by that railroad, and after a severe freeze in the winter of 1894-95 killed crops as far south as West Palm Beach, Flagler accepted offers of land in exchange for extending the railroad south to Biscayne Bay in Miami.
More hotels followed: the Palm Beach Inn (which became The Breakers) in Palm Beach, and the Hotel Royal Palm in Miami.
Flagler financed Miami's first newspaper, The Metropolis, which chronicalled growth so rapid it had to have happened by magic. So Miami became known as "The Magic City."
In 1902, Flagler built a 100,000-square foot mansion in Palm Beach as a gift for his third wife, Mary Lily Kenan. He called it the Whitehall.
As the U.S. embarked upon the Panama Canal project in 1905, Flagler decided to extend the railway to the nation's southernmost city, Key West, to take advantage of increased trade between the U.S. and Latin America made possible by the canal.
Completed seven years later in 1912, the Over Sea Railroad to Key West was the most largest engineering project ever completed by a private citizen.
Little more than a year later, Flagler fell down a flight of stairs at the Whitehall and never recovered from his injuries, dying on May 20, 1913 at age 83. He was buried in St. Augustine next to his two daughters, Jennie Louise and Carrie, and his first wife, Mary Harkness.
The Whitehall became The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in 1960 after the mansion was purchased by a non-profit corporation founded by one of Henry Flagler's granddaughters, Jean Flagler Matthews. It is on the National Registry of Historic Landmarks and is the setting for numerous galas and balls every year. Open to the public, the museum also features guided tours, exhibits and special programs.
The museum offers an opportunity for visitors to further explore Henry Flagler's legacy as the architect of modern Florida.
• Read the story in the Miami Daily Metropolis:
Henry M. Flagler, Railroad Magnate, Died This Morning
• Explore the website of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum
• PBS' Henry Flagler biography page: Mr. Miami Beach
• Henry Flagler timeline from Palm Beach History Online
Flagler's winter mansion, The Whitehall
The Whitehall following a hotel addition
Click here for more from this day in Florida history

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package crm
package sdk

import scala.language._
import java.io._
import java.net._
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util._

import javax.crypto.Mac;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
import javax.xml.parsers._
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException;
import scala.concurrent.duration._
import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext

import org.log4s._
import cats._
import cats.data._
import cats.implicits._
import cats.syntax._
import sdk.driver.CrmException
import fs2._
import dispatch.retry._
import metadata._

/**
 * CRM online provides discovery services. Given a region, you can
 * obtain the discovery URL. Given a discovery URL, user credentials
 * and a web app URL, you can obtain an org services data URL. While
 * the form of the org services data URL has not changed much, the
 * approach to obtain an org data servces unl that will always work is
 * to go through the discovery services.
 */
package object discovery {

  val ns = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts/Discovery"

  /** The discovery service has discovery requests. */
  sealed trait DiscoveryRequest

  /** Retrieve organization detail information for each org. */
  case object RetrieveOrganizationsRequest extends DiscoveryRequest

  import net.ceedubs.ficus.Ficus._
  import net.ceedubs.ficus.readers._
  import net.ceedubs.ficus.Ficus.toFicusConfig
  import com.typesafe.config.{ Config, ConfigFactory }
  import scala.collection._
  val _config: Config = ConfigFactory.load()

  private[this] val urnMap = mapValueReader[String].read(_config, "auth.urlToUrn")
  private[this] val defaultUrn = _config.as[String]("auth.defaultUrn")

  /** Region abbrevs mapped to their discovery URLs. */
  val regionToDiscoveryUrl = mapValueReader[String].read(_config, "auth.discoveryUrls")

  /**
   * Gets the correct URN Address based on the Online region.
   *
   * @return String URN Address.
   * @param url
   *            The Url of the CRM Online organization
   *            (e.g. https://org.crm.dynamics.com).
   */
  def urlToUrn(url: String): String = {
    val urlx = new java.net.URL(url.toUpperCase)
    urnMap.get(urlx.getHost) getOrElse defaultUrn
  }

}

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ALBANY, N.Y. – Jonathan Tasini, a labor advocate and former president of the National Writers' Union, announced a campaign Tuesday to challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination for Senate, saying her vote to authorize the war in Iraq proves she is out of step with New Yorkers.
"People who supported the decision to go to war must be held accountable -- and that includes my opponent," Tasini said. "The war in Iraq was a war of choice, not a war of necessity."
Clinton, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, voted in 2002 for the congressional resolution authorizing President Bush to use military force in Iraq. Clinton has supported troop-level expansions even while criticizing Bush's handling of the war.
Tasini is Clinton's second anti-war challenger. A former Green Party member, Steve Greenfield, announced earlier that he would run against her for the Democratic nomination because of her refusal to call for an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
Asked about her challengers at an event in Schenectady, Clinton said, "I have no argument with anyone who wants to run for any office. That's what makes this such a great country and why I'm so hopeful that the Iraqi people will have the same experience."
Tasini said that the more than $250 billion that has been spent on the war could have been spent on health care, schools and "job opportunities for many Americans trying to pay their bills."
Clinton is up for re-election next year and leads national polls of the party's potential 2008 presidential candidates.
Polls show her beating Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro or any other GOP challenger by a wide margin, and Tasini and Greenfield will face an uphill fight even getting on the primary ballot.
Tasini led the National Writers' Union, a freelancers' union affiliated with the United Auto Workers, from 1990 to 2003. He was the lead plaintiff in Tasini vs. The New York Times, an electronic rights case in which freelancers sued the Times and other media corporations over publishing rights. The case reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 2001 and was decided in favor of the plaintiffs.
Tasini is currently president of the Economic Future Group, a national consulting group. He is the author of two books: "The Edifice Complex: Rebuilding the American Labor Movement to Face the Global Economy" and "They Get Cake, We Eat Crumbs: The Real Story Behind Today's Unfair Economy."
A handful of supporters attended his campaign announcement at the W Hotel in Manhattan.


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Q: IDB file Maximum kb limit I'm new in handling MySQL database, I made a tracking system I using the MySQL database incorporated on the xampp package as a database. Everything is running smoothly, however upon reaching 90,112 kb on the idb file of one of the tables from the database, it crashed and it cannot be used anymore. I cannot start the server due to the table.
It shows the following error.

[Apache] Error: Apache shutdown unexpectedly.
   [Apache] This may be due to a blocked port, missing dependencies,
   [Apache] improper privileges, a crash, or a shutdown by another method.

As a temporary action I deleted the table a made a new one with the same structure and imported all the data that I have extracted before. Now it seems that it will happen again as the idb file of the table is reaching 90,112 kb and the system is slowing down again. Is there a limit on the table memory? Is there a way I can prevent this from happening?  Please help me out.
Thanks in advance

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import { Injectable } from "@angular/core";
import { Http,Response,RequestOptionsArgs } from "@angular/http";
import { Router } from "@angular/router";
import "rxjs/add/operator/map";
import { Observable } from "rxjs/Observable"; //
import 'rxjs/add/operator/catch';  //catch:用于捕获异常
//Operator:是rxjs操作符,提供filter、map等操作

//数据不要处理的就可以使用一下
//用于处理交互请求;使用RESTful风格
@Injectable()
export class HttpClient{
  public apiUrl = process.env.apiUrl || "https://localhost:3000";

  constructor(private _http:Http,private  router:Router){
    console.log(this._http); //查看http的特性对象
    console.log(this.apiUrl);
  }

  //响应获取数据
  private extractData = (res:Response | any) => {
    let body = res.josn();
    return body || {};
  };

  //响应出错
  private handleError = (err: Response | any) => {
    //如果错误就重定向到登录
    if(err.status ==  401) this.router.navigate(["/login"]);
    return Observable.throw(err)
  }

  /**
   * get请求:用于get请求
   * @param url  请求地址
   * @param options  参数可选
   */
  get(url:string,options?:RequestOptionsArgs){
    return this._http.get(this.apiUrl + url,options).map(this.extractData).catch(this.handleError);
  }

  /**
   * post请求:用于表单提交
   * @param url  请求地址
   * @param data 参数可选
   * @param options
   */
  post(url:string,data?:any,options?:RequestOptionsArgs){
    return this._http.post(this.apiUrl + url, data, options).map(this.extractData).catch(this.handleError);
  }

  /**
   * put请求  用于向指定的URI传送更新资源;对一直的资源全部更新;比较耗资源
   * @param url
   * @param data
   * @param options
   */
  put(url:string,data?:any,options?:RequestOptionsArgs){
    return this._http.put(this.apiUrl + url,data,options)
      .map(this.extractData)
      .catch(this.handleError)
  }

  /**
   * delete请求;用于删除
   * @param url
   * @param options
   * @returns {Observable<R>}  返回一个观察者对象;
   */
  delete(url:string,options?:RequestOptionsArgs){
    return this._http.delete(this.apiUrl,options)
      .map(this.extractData)
      .catch(this.handleError)
  }

  /**
   * pacth请求  用于PATCH的局部更新,效率比PUT更好
   * @param url
   * @param data
   * @param options
   */
  patch(url:string,data?:any,options?:RequestOptionsArgs){
     return this._http.patch(this.apiUrl,data,options)
       .map(this.extractData)
       .catch(this.handleError)
  }
}


Backstroke breathing should be relaxed and easy, due to the supine body position and face being out of the water throughout the stroke. Correct breathing makes the whole stroke easier and more relaxing.
For an in-depth look at all aspects of backstroke together with some simple practical exercises to help perfect the technique, download How To Swim Backstroke.
"Backstroke made easy and now I don't sink when I swim! Highly recommended."
Most swimmers are neither aware of the way in which they breathe, nor the pattern of breathing or point at which a breath is taken. A regular breathing pattern should be encouraged to prevent breath holding, particularly in beginners.
Breathing should be in time with recovery of each arm, breathing in with one arm recovery and out with the other. This encourages a breath to be taken at regular intervals.
Inhalation happens as one arm pulls though the water to the side and then exhalation takes place as the opposite arm pulls through the water to the side.
Learning the breathing pattern for backstroke can seem like an odd task, given that we swim face upwards and can allow our breathing to take care of itself.
However, if we train our breathing to be rhythmical and regular, the pattern will become second nature which will then result in a more energy efficient swimming stroke.
Breath holding is a common mistake made when swimming this stroke and the result is a very tired and breathless swimmer. Do you ever feel like you become out of breath very quickly when swimming this stroke? It goes without saying that swimming contains a very large element of fitness and stamina but this is only one factor.
Breathing technique is essential and it is very common for swimmers, especially beginners to hold their breath without knowing they are doing so.
Breath holding causes a rapid increase in carbon dioxide in our respiratory system, which in turn increases the urgency to breath. This then causes us to breathe more rapidly.
Performing the stroke slowly at first or with floats to provide support, swimmers must breathe out and then in again in time with each arm pull. Try to establish a rhythm of breathing through each stroke cycle and this will help to prevent breath holding and unnecessary tiredness and exhaustion.
An established breathing rhythm will help to maintain the timing and coordination of the arms and legs as they pull and kick. It will also assist the swimmer to relax and therefore swim with a calm, controlled and smooth swimming stroke.
Download these documents to your computer, tablet or mobile device and discover the most essential technique tips and key focus points to help improve your basic breathing during backstroke.
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San Francisco is a foodie's paradise – and Hotel Triton just happens to be home to two of the city's most appealing eateries. On one side is Café de la Presse – a wonderfully authentic French bistro that is the go-to for the local in crowd. On the other side is Herlen Place, a lively café that transforms into a wine bar in the evening.
We also offer room service from Café de la Presse from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on weekdays, and from 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on weekends.
Francophiles will be thrilled with this 1930s-style café; located onsite, it serves up a slice of Paris here in the heart of San Francisco. Feast on Gallic favorites including steak frites and Confit de Canard, complemented by a glass of wine or a steaming cup of café au lait while checking out the fashionable crowd.
Monday to Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Start your day in the city with breakfast or brunch at this New American elegant café – and then return in the evening for seasonal cuisine and a glass of excellent French wine.
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WASHINGTON: Families may have to watch for dings in the car and plead with an older driver to give up the keys � but there�s new evidence that doctors could have more of an influence on one of the most wrenching decisions facing a rapidly aging population.
A large study from Canada found that when doctors warn patients, and tell driving authorities, that the older folks may be medically unfit to be on the road, there�s a drop in serious crash injuries among those drivers.
The study, in today�s New England Journal of Medicine, couldn�t tell whether the improvement came because those patients drove less, or drove more carefully once the doctors pointed out the risk.
But as the number of older drivers surges, it raises the question of how families and doctors could be working together to determine whether and when age-related health problems � from arthritis to frailty to Alzheimer�s disease � are bad enough to impair driving.
�It�s very scary,� said Pat Sneller of Flower Mound, Texas, who talked her husband, Lee, into quitting about a year after he was diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer�s disease.
The couple had recently moved from California, one of the few U.S. states that require doctors to report drivers with worrisome health conditions to licensing authorities.
Pat Sneller was stunned to learn Texas doesn�t require that doctor involvement, and health workers advised her to ride with her husband and judge his abilities for herself.
Eventually her husband called home in a panic, lost while driving in unfamiliar Dallas for volunteer work. A long scrape on the car that he couldn�t explain was the final straw.
In 2010, she persuaded him to quit driving, although the now-72-year-old�s license remains good until 2014.
�He still says occasionally, �I can still drive, you know,�?� Pat Sneller said.
By one U.S. estimate, about 600,000 older drivers a year quit because of health conditions. The problem: There are no clear-cut guidelines to tell who really needs to � and given the lack of transportation options in much of the country, quitting too soon can be detrimental for someone who might have functioned well for several more years.
It�s never an easy discussion.
Unlike in most of the United States, doctors in much of Canada are supposed to report to licensing authorities patients with certain health conditions that may impair driving. Ontario in 2006 began paying doctors a small fee to further encourage that step.


We all know network security is important, but why? What are you protecting? And, perhaps more pertinent, who do you think is infiltrating your network?
You're not crazy to be a little paranoid about security. Even in 2018, cybercrime is on the rise. Each year, statistics reporting the likelihood of a security breach rise. Without adequate protection, you could be risking your sensitive business information and the information of your customers. For many, the cost of a data breach is too high, and a compromised network could spell the end of a once thriving business. What does the prudent business owner do to prevent such a network infiltration?
While many of us picture hackers as hooded miscreants, hiding in the shadowy recesses of a dark room, the truth is, hackers can be anyone, anywhere, at anytime. There is no stereotype for a hacker, and as such, your network might be more vulnerable than you know. If you're utilizing public Wi-Fi, you're at risk. Maybe your employees aren't updating their security features… that means you're at risk. If anyone at your company isn't educated on modern phishing, social engineering, and malware tactics used by cybercriminals, you're at risk.
Without the proper tools, your business can't stop a cyberattack. Small Business Trends finds that 43% of cyberattacks target small businesses (Note: the U.S. government considers having less than 500 employees a small business). These attacks are always changing and evolving to bypass security measures and programs.
The best offense is a good defense. We've all heard the adage. Perhaps one of the most efficient ways to ensure your success is to prevent your demise. While this may seem easier said than done, there are a few ways for you to spot your own weaknesses before a criminal does.
Perform routine security audits — Establish a security baseline by which to audit your network. Outsourcing your security audit to an expert who can use your company's security policies to determine the safety of your network can be tremendously useful.
At the end of the day, you want to evaluate what is at risk if you aren't proactive about your network security. It isn't enough to respond to an attack; with 60% of attacked companies closing their doors, your business could be collateral damage.
The rate of cyberattacks is rising, along with the cost to address them. According to CSO, cybersecurity spending will increase by $1 trillion in the next five years. It's no longer realistic for businesses to leave their cyber protection up to chance. Working with Axxys to create and enact a plan will guarantee your data and company are safe from threats.


Father Aeneas Francis (Hugh) Delaney died on the morning of September 2nd 2014 after a short illness.
Father Delaney was born in Bathurst 7th March 1926. He was the youngest son of Michael and Catherine (nee Hennessy) Delaney. He was predeceased by three brothers, Joseph, Leo and James and four sisters Mary Fish, Monica Schiller, Joan Williams and Ellen Agland.
Father Delaney was educated in Bathurst at St Mary's School, then St Patrick's School and completed his secondary schooling at St Stanislaus' College. He trained as a teacher at Sydney Teachers College, working for several years for the NSW State Education Department.
Father Delaney then entered St Columba's College Springwood to study for the priesthood, he completed his studies at St Patrick's College, Manly. Bishop John Norton ordained him a priest for the Bathurst Diocese on 30th July 1955 in the Cathedral of St Michael and St John.
Father Delaney served as a priest in Bathurst, Orange, Cowra, Mudgee and Canowindra. He was Inspector of Schools for seven years and worked with the Movement for Better World for several years. During his time as Inspector of Schools Father Delaney led the Diocese in responding to the demands of the new Wyndem Scheme. In response to this he led the formation of the Diocesan Catholic Girls High School (now Mackillop College, Bathurst) bringing together St Mary's College and St Joseph's College Perthville to be staffed jointly by the Sisters of Mercy and the Sisters of St Joseph. The outstanding success of the milestone in Catholic Education in the Diocese was a model for future planning of education in the Diocese.
Read the Homily given by Bishop Michael McKenna here.


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Greg has led his own companies, directed digital advertising sales at major media chains, co-founded one of the nation's largest travel guide companies, helped launch an alternative newsweekly and designed interactive kiosks for museums, universities, and IBM. Greg is one of the founding members of ITEGA (Information Trust Exchange Governing Association), and is ITEGA's development director.
Greg is also currently an investor/ partner in two companies: 1) Itzontarget, a digital marketing company and 2) One Boat Guides, the publisher of: OBXGuides.com, and (in partnership with Swift Newspapers) Tahoe.com, EverythingVailValley.com, EverythingSummit.com, EverythingReno.com, and EverythingCarson.com, and (in partnership with EO Media Group) OurCoastthisWeek.com (In Oregon), and OregonCoastthisWeek (Oregon).
Prior to Itzontarget, as CEO of ITZ Publishing Group Inc. Greg worked with media companies across the U.S. to cultivate cultural change, manage complex project introductions, execute marketing campaigns, create effective sales packages, coach managers and train their teams.
Greg deployed innovative products and sales approaches designed to impact the success of local, community-based media and has consistently raised industry standards for selling digital advertising.
From 2009 to 2011, Greg worked with Journalism Online (Press Plus) as their Chief Revenue Enhancement Officer, to design marketing and packaging strategies for online subscriptions, micro-payments and combined online/print subscription packages. Before founding Itz Publishing, Greg served for seven years as Director of Interactive Media
Sales for Lee Enterprises.
Prior to his newspaper career, Greg co-founded The Insiders' Guides, which grew to be one of America's largest domestic travel guidebook series. He founded If Multi-media and created kiosks for the University of North Carolina, IBM, and the Children's Museum. He was a founding staff member of the Independent Weekly in Durham, N.C. Greg was a John Motley Morehead Merit Tuition Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He lives in Portland, Oregon, is married to Gillian Floren, and has two daughters, Kaola and Emma.
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(Aditya Shaw, Intern Journalist): China has refused permission to start a chartered airline from India with the excuse of the Covid-19 epidemic. It is said that students of India who study in Chinese universities can take online classes from India itself. This information was given by the Indian Embassy in Beijing. The embassy had raised the issue of Indian students with the Chinese government. Despite the case of Covid being controlled in China and the situation being largely normal, authorities have implemented arbitrary rules in the name of epidemic prevention.
The Indian embassy in China issued a statement saying that the Indian embassy has raised the issue with China several times. India has raised the issue of resuming the study of Indian students enrolled in Chinese universities but there has been no positive response from China. Chinese authorities have denied permission to operate any chartered flights between India and China.
The issuance of Chinese visas to Indian nationals has been stalled since November 2, 2020. Now the situation has been fixed in China but the work of issuing visas has not started. Chinese authorities have refused to allow any airline or chartered service to start between the two countries. It is noteworthy that 23 thousand students from India study in Chinese universities. Most of these students have come to India during the Corona transition period.
Demand for change of crew of two stranded ships in China – Indian Embassy in Beijing has sought approval for change in the crew of two ships stranded in Chinese waters. The Foreign Ministry gave its information on Friday. Speaking at a virtual briefing, MEA spokesperson Anurag Shrivastava said that our Ambassador has again raised the issue personally with the Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister, and the two pilots were accompanied by Indian pilots Anand and MV Anastasia. Request for early approval for change of party.
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How it happened: Aaron Rodgers, Matt Flynn throw for 480 yards
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Green Bay Packers quarterback Matt Flynn (10) throws during the first half of an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, in Green Bay, Wis.
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Top 10 Popular Dog Breeds That Don't Exist Anymore
Dogs have been around for as long as humans have been able to tame and work together with wolves, making them one of the oldest species to be domesticated.
Of course, they weren't exactly domesticated, as they are the result of selectively breeding the wolf, and there have been tons of breeds over the past 14,000-29,000 years.
Unfortunately, some dog breeds have come and gone, and their like has never been successfully re-bred into existence. The ten dog breeds on this list were once popular for various reasons but have since disappeared.
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10 Talbot
The Talbot was a once-popular hunting hound found throughout England during the Middle Ages. It's believed that William the Conqueror brought the breed to England in 1066, though this has never been confirmed. The Earls of Shrewsbury, whose family name is Talbot, feature the dog on their crest. Interestingly, the Talbot and Greyhound are the only hounds used in English heraldry.
Talbots were small to medium-sized white dogs with short legs, long drooping ears, and a long curled tail. Records indicate it was prized for its sense of smell, though it's unknown what it was primarily used to hunt (deer, boar, fox, rabbit, etc.).
There is evidence of the Talbot existing as early as the 15th century before becoming more popular throughout England in the 17th century. It was favored by hunters for its accurate tracking abilities.
Ultimately, the Talbot began to disappear around the end of the 18th century. At that time, the Northern Hound and Southern Hound supplanted it. The Talbot was likely bred out of existence with breeders favoring some aspects of the breed over others. It eventually gave rise to the Beagle, Bloodhound, and Coonhound.
9 St. John's Water Dog
St. John's water dog was a breed found in Newfoundland, which likely came into existence sometime in the late-16th century. They were hard-working dogs with a good temperament and were prized by fishermen for their qualities. They were excellent swimmers and retrievers, making them especially helpful in fishing communities.
Their precise genetic makeup is unknown, but it's believed that they were a natural mixture of different working dogs found and brought to the province of Labrador. St. John's water dogs were highly prized throughout the 16th and early 17th centuries. They were exported to England, but they went extinct due to two primary factors.
Canada began restricting dog breeding to encourage sheep farming, reducing their numbers. Around the same time, a measure meant to prevent a rabies epidemic in England forced their quarantine and ended their importation to the country. This resulted in far less breeding throughout the 19th century.
By the mid-20th century, the St. John's water dog was rarely bred, and their numbers declined significantly. By the 1980s, the breed was extinct. Still, it left its mark, as it was one of the primary ancestors to all modern Retrievers, including the Labrador and Golden Retriever.
8 Grand Fauve De Bretagne
The Grand Fauve de Bretagne was a breed of scenthound used to hunt wolves and wild boars throughout Brittany. They were fairly large dogs with short, dense coats, and they were a pale golden-brown in color. They had a considerably difficult temperament, which made them ideally suited for hunting dangerous game.
Their temperament could be erratic, and they were hard to control. Grand Fauves de Bretagne were known to kill goats and sheep while tracking other game, which was problematic. Grand Fauves de Bretagne existed as early as the 1520s when they were prized for their excellent hunting abilities.
They continued to hunt alongside their human companions well into the 19th century, but they ultimately went extinct for an interesting reason. When wolves were extirpated from the vast majority of France, the breed was no longer desirable.
Since there were no wolves to hunt, breeders stopped breeding the Grand Fauve de Bretagne. By the early 20th century, the breed was considered extinct. Before that happened, it was crossbred with Briquet Griffon Vendéens to create the Griffon Fauve de Bretagne, a breed that remains popular in France.
7 Russian Tracker
For centuries, the Russian Tracker was used to herd flocks of sheep throughout the Caucasus Mountains. These large dogs were fast and well-suited to chasing off wolves to protect their charges. They were also considered highly intelligent and capable of keeping a flock alive without any human involvement for long periods of time.
The Russian Tracker weighed around 100 lbs. (45 kg) and sported a thick coat that protected it from the harsh cold weather of its homeland. The coat was also helpful in protecting the dogs from predators, which came in handy whenever wolves strayed too close to their flocks.
Despite their usefulness and popularity in the region, the Russian Tracker disappeared around the late-19th century. They were phased out as other dogs were brought into the area, and conserving the breed wasn't a high priority for the people who used them.
Instead of conservation, the Russian Tracker was bred with bloodhounds and other breeds to create something new and capable of replacing them. Eventually, they all disappeared, but it is believed that they may have been the ancestors of the Golden Retriever, along with several other breeds.
6 Blue Paul Terrier
The Blue Paul Terrier was a Scottish breed with a violent history. The dogs were bred primarily for fighting, though their exact origin remains something of a mystery. What is known is that they were introduced sometime in the late 18th century and are likely the result of crossing an Irish Blue Terrier with a White Bull and Terrier, which is also extinct.
The Blue Paul Terrier had a dark blue color and a smooth coat, making their appearance similar to some Greyhounds. They had a large head with a flat forehead with small ears that were usually cropped.
The breed was incredibly popular in Scotland throughout much of the 19th century. They were prized for their strength and courage, which made them perfect candidates for dogfighting. They were considered cunning and highly capable of taking down their opponents.
The Blue Paul Terrier was aggressive when fighting. This ultimately led to its downfall, as it didn't make for a healthy home companion. The breed became extinct by the early 20th century, mainly due to the criminalization of dogfighting in Scotland. The remaining dogs were likely crossbred out of existence.
5 Rastreador Brasileiro
The Rastreador Brasileiro was a large Brazillian breed first recognized in 1967, making it one of the newest breeds to go extinct. They varied in color from bluish to black, with many variations of spots or speckles on their short, smooth coat. In appearance, they looked like the American Coonhound.
They were first developed in the 1950s to aid in hunting peccaries, which are medium-sized wild pigs found in Central and South America. They were bred from American and European breeds to create the desired outcome. Still, the Rastreador Brasileiro was not long for this world.
Soon after it was introduced, the Rastreador Brasileiro went extinct following a double whammy. An outbreak of disease coupled with an overdose of insecticide completely destroyed the entire breeding stock. By 1973, the breed was delisted, as it was considered extinct.
Fortunately, efforts have been underway to recreate the breed. This is being done by identifying mixed-breed dogs and crossbreeding them to try and return the first Brazillian breed to be recognized back into the world. While it hasn't been fully reintroduced, the Brazillian Kennel Club officially re-recognized it in 2019.
4 Turnspit Dog
While many dogs were bred in the Middle Ages for specific purposes, they were most often used for hunting. The Turnspit Dog is something else entirely, as it was bred for one purpose and one purpose only: to help out in the kitchen! These dogs were first described in the 16th century and have been called Kitchen Dogs and Cooking Dogs.
Their specific purpose in the kitchen was to run on a wheel. This would turn a spit (hence the name) and cook meat. It wasn't uncommon for a kitchen to employ two Turnspit Dogs, which would work in shifts. The breed was well-adapted to its role, and they remained in the employ of English cottages for centuries.
Unfortunately, the Turnspit Dog became the victim of automation or the 19th-century kitchen equivalent. The invention of the spinning jenny, a multi-spindle spinning frame, made the dogs obsolete. Of course, it took some time, but eventually, they were no longer needed in English kitchens.
Their presence eventually "became a stigma of poverty," and they weren't desirable. Without their specifically bred need, Turnspit Dogs went extinct around the turn of the 20th century. Interestingly, there exists only one known taxidermied turnspit dog named Whiskey at the Abergavenny Museum in Wales.
3 Argentine Polar Dog
The Argentine Polar Dog is not a breed many were familiar with while it was around. However, it was nonetheless popular and essential for a select group of people. The dogs were bred by the Argentine Army in the 1950s as sled dogs for its bases in Antarctica.
These working dogs were powerful and skillful dogs derived from crossbreeding the Siberian Husky, Greenland dog, Alaskan Malamute, and a Manchurian Spitz. They were fairly large, reaching around 132 lbs. (60 kg) for males. Their triple coat made them considerably well-adapted to the polar temperatures.
It took 11 Argentine Polar Dogs to drag a sled weighing 1.1 tons, and they could move it quickly. On flat terrain, they could move at 22 mph (35 km/h), making them perfect for the needs of the Argentine Army. Unfortunately, they were extinct by 1994.
In accordance with the Protocol on Environment Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, every Argentine Polar Dog was removed from the continent. This was done due to the threat they were believed to pose to the native wildlife. After they were removed, they died out, as they lost the ability to fight off common canine diseases due to their isolation in Antarctica.
2 English White Terrier
In the 1860s, an eager group of breeders dubbed the name "English White Terrier" for a new breed of dog they hoped to popularize. The English White Terrier is a pricked-ear version of the white terriers common during that time. Ultimately, the goal was to create a new show ring breed, but the plan didn't come to fruition.
For about three decades, the English White Terrier was bred and sold throughout Britain with the goal of having them outperform the other terriers of the day. They were likely crossbred from a fox terrier and a White Italian Greyhound, and they were first recognized in 1874.
The English White Terrier was far from a working dog, as it had no characteristics that made it helpful in hunting or any other task common to dog breeds. They were meant entirely for show, but they did make for loving companion dogs that require "a considerable amount of cuddling and care."
After about 30 years, the English White Terrier was extinct, but its genealogy lives on in modern breeds. It was crossbred with the Old English Bulldog. This pairing eventually led to the Bull and Boston Terriers.
1 Molossus
The Molossus was an ancient breed of dog favored by the Greek tribe and Kingdom of the Molossians, which is where it gets its name. These dogs were bred for their great size and ferocity, which made them ideal working dogs in the realm of hunting, fighting, and herding.
Molossus were exceptionally large dogs, and they were written about by some of antiquity's greatest poets and scholars, including Aristotle, Horace, Virgil, and many others. The precise origin of the Molossus breed has been lost to history, though there are some surviving stories.
Some say that Alexander the Great brought the dogs back from Asia, while others believe they were initially bred by the Romans, who used them as guard dogs for the Roman Army. None of these stories have ever been confirmed, but they speak to the awe and majesty of the Molossus.
The Molossus went extinct, though it's not known how this happened. Crossbreeding may have bred them out of existence, which isn't an uncommon end for a dog breed. The Molossus is the ancestor of numerous modern breeds, including the American Bulldog, Rottweiler, Great Dane, Mastiff-type dogs, and many more.
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When 'agile in government' was new
Agile Government Leadership (AGL) was established in 2014 as an emergent network of civic professionals who wanted to help bring agile practices to the public sector. They saw a lack of resources and community around the idea of agile in government, but in their own work they had seen the benefits it could bring to IT programs and service delivery.
These practitioners pooled their knowledge, time, and experiences to create resources like the Agile Government Handbook and an online curriculum to help agencies learn how to bring agile culture into the public sector context. They hosted virtual panel discussions where folks could talk about new trends and lessons learned.
These efforts provided much-needed community and conversation for government innovators at a time when agile (fast, collaborative, iterative) and government (slow, siloed, risk-averse) seemed almost incompatible.
The first AGL Live event in 2015 brought civic leaders together to discuss the basics of agile in government.
Fast forward a few years, and public sector innovation has come a long way. Organizations like 18F, USDS, and Code For America have provided guidance and demonstrated what's possible with user-centered, delivery-focused government. Programs like DITAP and DHS' Procurement Innovation Lab are building the capacity of public servants to purchase and manage modern technology.
More agencies are prioritizing digital services, adopting forward-thinking policies, and daring to experiment. The conversation has shifted beyond "Agile" as a methodology and now encompasses "agile" as a mindset — the idea that government can be more responsive, collaborative, and effective through a variety of practices that focus on the needs of people over organizational silos and bureaucratic processes.
But change is hard — especially in government — and that's why the need for community and connection remains vital.
Support and connection for government innovators
As the AGL community grew to represent a wealth of information and experience across all levels of government and industry, the organization launched a non-profit association with a membership program to provide more support and connection for individuals working to build better government services.
What began as a grassroots movement to empower agile government leaders matured into a thriving community of change makers. AGL hosted a bi-annual conference and facilitated member collaboration and learning opportunities.
"This organization gives us a collective voice. It helps us advocate for what we see will bring success in the public sector."
– Aaron Pava, Executive Director of AGL, at AGL Summit 2019 in Sacramento
AGL has now evolved into a professional association with a broader goal: Technologists for the Public Good.
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FAYEMI: My Agenda For Nigeria's 'Unfinished Business' – Full Speech
Statement by His Excellency Dr. John Kayode Fayemi , CON, Governor of Ekiti State and Chair of the Nigeria Governors' Forum on the Occasion of the Declaration of His Candidature for the Presidential Ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
Date: 04 May, 2022
Venue: Congress Hall, Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.
I am highly honoured by your presence here today in such large numbers to participate in this town hall event. Your presence reinforces my personal conviction that we are at a crucial moment in our country's history – and of the world at large – where we must, as a people, make the choices that will guarantee peace, prosperity and a secure future for our children.
Trying times such as we are witnessing on a global scale can, if properly managed, be converted into transformational moments that allow both for the achievement of a fundamental national reset and a major leap forward in our affairs.
Dr. Kayode Fayemi during the presidential declaration today at Abuja
The words that I hear from many Nigerians from various walks of life assure me that as a people, guided by the right leadership coalition, we are determined not to allow tough times to lead us into debilitating pessimism. Neither are we ready to forget the gains of six decades of our independent statehood. Instead, we share a strong desire to seize the moment and strive for a wholesome recalibration that enables us to build upward and higher in unity and unison. That is the Nigerian spirit that the world has seen displayed intermittently – and which combines with an uncommon fortitude that allow us to triumph over adversity, anomie, and discontent. It is one reason for hope; it is also partly why, like my fellow travellers, some of whom are here with us in this hall, I am proudly Nigerian and will always remain one.
My own journey into public life has taught me that while we must never as a people be complacent about our circumstances, there is also no noble project of national advancement that is beyond our grasp when we act as one with a clear vision, courage of conviction and the requisite commitment. I began my journey into the public sphere as a student leader at the University of Lagos at a time in our national history when we were all fired by genuine and well-founded hopes of the heights to which we could soar as a leading actor in global African and world affairs. It was the time in my personal journey when the roots of my unshakable faith were birthed that our future as a nation, and our place in the global comity of nations, resides in the consolidation of our unity and cohesion. For it is out of unity and cohesion that we have always found the strength to transcend all barriers, defend our freedom and dignity, scale new heights, and provide leadership for others – especially Africa.
Beyond my early forays into the public sphere as a student leader, my abiding faith in the oneness of our country has been further reinforced by all my subsequent engagements in national affairs as a scholar, civil society voice and institution-builder, community and political organiser with an unapologetic pan-Nigerian and pan-African outlook, tireless advocate for human rights and democratic governance, two-term governor, federal minister, a founding Coordinator of the Progressive Governors' Forum, and two-term Chairman of Nigeria Governors' Forum. I have been privileged to witness first hand, the underlying commitment and sense of solidarity which Nigerians from all parts of the country share about the promise of the fatherland. And it has been my singular honour to have been an active part at various times with other committed compatriots from various walks of life labouring with determination towards rapid and sustained national progress.
Compatriots, it is in the spirit of this abiding faith in our country and the promise of its unfinished greatness that I stand before you today, in total humility and with all sense of responsibility, to solemnly declare to all within our party and Nigerians at large, my decision to accept my name to be put forward for consideration by the APC leadership and membership as the party's standard bearer in the upcoming contest for a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari. This is not a decision which I have taken lightly. Indeed, to arrive at this point, I carried out a long and deep self-introspection with the help of my wife, Bisi and other family members, my friends, and my political associates and professional colleagues. I have also traversed the length and breadth of our country to consult and explore with our esteemed elder statesmen and women, traditional rulers, a cross section of party leaders and rank and file members, and various non-partisan leaders of thought and opinion.
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I embarked on these outreach visits neither with prior assumptions about what they would yield nor with any sense of personal entitlement. However, after a careful consideration of where we are as a nation and the many perspectives which are emerging about the challenges, old and new, which we must tackle and transcend, I am convinced that my entry into the race will offer our members and Nigerians the opportunity to examine competing visions for national rebirth in the best interest of our country. It is on the foundation of a clear vision of our national future accompanied by a carefully thought out programme of action that I present my candidature, fully convinced on the basis of what I have experienced, heard, and seen about the demands of the times and the aspirations of our people. It is my conviction that the agenda that I am proposing for our country is one which will find favour with APC members and win resounding traction with the generality of Nigerians.
Here then is my motivating testament and confession: I am a patriot born in these climes in the course of the first decade of our country's independence, and I stake a bold claim to say that I am a full-blooded child of Nigeria. I grew up as did many of my generation socialised into the ideals of a united and virile nation. In my lifetime, I have witnessed some heart-warming moments of nation- and state-building that would make any citizen anywhere immeasurably proud. But I have also seen some truly challenging days in our journey of nationhood which have tested our collective resolve and demanded the exercise of considerable political savvy by our leaders over the years. I have taken as a key lesson from the admixture of high and low points we have experienced as a country that when and where we are charitable to one another and allow our shared humanity, innate spirit of solidarity, hard work, perseverance and underlying patriotism to prevail, we always succeed in overcoming and thriving through adversity.
Fellow Nigerians, that is why on this 4th day in the month of May 2022, before this august assemblage of Nigerians from all walks of life and those watching from all corners of this beautiful land and beyond, I can boldly and confidently say to our party members and the generality of Nigerians: Let us together, as one people, dig deep into our history and our hearts to revive hope and do the work of faith that will positively re-energise our homes and our lives for the common and greater good. Despair is easy to spread. Hope can be daunting to sustain. And faith can be severely shaken. But while the night may be long, the dawn must come – and it always does. That's why Nigeria is worth fighting and living for. I offer myself as the leadership figure who is willing and primed to work with you, beloved compatriots, to launch and drive the hard work of surmounting difficult times, fostering trust, and building bridges with a view to carrying us in unity, equity, and justice into our new dawn of progress and prosperity.
Hope such as I offer with my candidature is premised on a shared vision on which we can all agree, and for which we collectively strive, of a nation that is more confidently and uncompromisingly at one with itself, serving as home for all of us regardless of ethnicity, class, gender, age, disability, region or religion. It is a vision of a nation of multiple diversities in which each and every one of us can recognise ourselves in its fabric and workings as equal stakeholders and co-constructors, complete with all the rights, freedoms, and duties provided under the constitution for citizens. The idea and ideal of Nigeria as home to all of us who are its children is one which we can all rally around as a starting point for the unfinished work of national greatness that must be taken to its next phase.
To give full effect to this, concrete programmes of action will be launched in priority areas that will allow for a revamping of the credibility of the Nigerian state, the promotion and fulfillment of an enhanced social contract, and the rebirth of the national identity.
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Economic Empowerment Plans for the Citizenry to Tackle Insecurity
Programmatically, as the standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), I will be leading the implementation of a holistic and integrated response to the multifaceted security crises confronting us. To this end, the retooling of our armed forces, intelligence agencies, and border guards will be pursued in tandem with an overhaul of our policing system and the phasing in of bold universal social policies that will enable us decisively tackle poverty and upgrade human capital and security. In this perspective, the deliberate expansion of employment opportunities, youth entrepreneurship, skills development, and innovation, support to the weak and vulnerable such as we have done in Ekiti State for the elderly with Owo arugbo and Ounje arugbo and women's socio-economic empowerment will be treated as just one dimension of our comprehensive response to the costly security crises that have destabilised us, as will the pursuit of broad welfare policies that are embedded into a new state-society bargain and the empowerment of citizens.
The adoption of broad socio-economic measures that enhance our capacity to fight insecurity must be done at the same time as investments in reinforcing the deterrent capacity of the state through its armed forces, security agencies, and policing authorities. Authority and legitimacy coupled with deterrence and rapid response go hand in hand, just as we must better design and interface economic policies with broad social objectives and goals of political inclusivity towards a well-defined outcome, namely, the sustained peace, stability, and progress of our country. Let there be no doubt: For the economy to serve broader social and political purposes that enhance human and state security, stem poverty, and promote national prosperity, my agenda for Nigeria encompasses attention to questions of productivity, diversification, domestic value addition, investments in and incentives for research, development, and innovation, and the expansion of domestic revenue mobilisation, among others.
Considerable work is already ongoing on the upgrading and expansion of our infrastructure and one of my prime objectives would be to accelerate this both through public investments and partnerships with the private sector whilst simultaneously ensuring that we enforce accountability and get much greater value for money. By the same token, a major rescue and investment programme for the education sector, the health system, the civil service, and the local government system will be launched to re-orient each of them for the task of overall national development, progress and prosperity. Each of these domains can benefit much more from a deliberate and systematic deployment of digital technologies as appropriate to their context; the opportunities will be followed through as an integral part of our programme of rebirth.
Harps on Strengthening Agricultural Sector
I fully understand that we cannot secure our prosperity without ensuring that our agricultural sector is able to deliver self-sufficiency in critical food markets, feed our efforts at agro-allied industrialisation and thus meaningfully enable the transformation of the unemployed into gainful employment, reinvigorate the rural areas, foster the coordinated expansion of commodity exchanges, and boost the flow of foreign exchange into the economy. We will prioritise the sector for the multiple benefits it can bring to the agenda of national prosperity and transformation that we will be pursing with unrelenting vigour. As part of this commitment, issues of streamlined and transparent access to agricultural finance, and the expanded adoption of agricultural technology by farming populations will rank high in the priority areas for focus.
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Calls For National Cohesion
No vision of national prosperity however impeccable or programme of national transformation however comprehensive can deliver the outcomes desired without attention to the planning system of government writ large. We must build on recent successes in restoring our national planning system and statistical capacity in order to open new, forward-looking approaches to development management that is research and data driven. This will form an integral part of the new plan that we will be bringing to governance as a whole, driven by a philosophy of efficient service delivery, the enthronement of a civic culture, and the encouragement of an empowered citizenry to engage with public affairs understanding that it is the repository of power. As part of this commitment, a holistic approach to decentralisation will be embraced and institutionalised so that government and its services are brought closer to the people. Our programme of decentralisation will also feed into the goals of a stronger, more united, and stable Nigeria, outcomes which are not only good for our domestic prospects but which will also benefit West Africa, the rest of the African continent, and a troubled international multilateral system.
Guests at the event
Friends and compatriots! I have, for this occasion, shared just a few snippets of what I hope will be the core of the Nigeria agenda under my watch. The die is now cast. I embark on this journey with a determination to play my part to the end. I do so buoyed by your many good wishes freely expressed and your prayers fervently offered. Let me commend, in this context, other compatriots who have already thrown their hats in the Presidential ring for their courage and commitment. I want to commit before you that I will in the course of this campaign adhere to the highest standards of decorum, decency, and respect which Nigerians expect of their leaders. As we go along, I will have occasion to share even greater details about my vision for our national prosperity and progress, and the programme underpinning it without malice or ill will to any one.
Thanks President Buhari and Party Stakeholders
Finally, I wish to pay tribute to His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari for his fatherly counsel all through the period that I have been privileged to work with him. I wish also to thank all our other living leaders who, in and out of office, continue quietly to labour for the unity and peace of the country. Above all, I want to thank the all Nigerian, male and female, young and old, worker and retiree who have refused to give up on the Nigerian dream. This is my pledge to you today, delivered before you and God: Together, we shall bring that dream to full fruition in our life time and it will blossom to the pride of all Nigerians and the admiration of the world. Let us join hands to commence the work required towards completing Nigeria's unfinished Greatness. I'm ready. Are you? .
God bless you. And God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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I love pretty knitted tops, especially when they are as pretty as this one. Fenn is colorful and fits loosely for lots of comfort and ease. This project keeps you happily involved with a pretty lace border that is knitted sideways and then from the bottom up. Color changes, a boatneck neckline and flirty sleeves make this piece a pleasure to wear.
For bust sizes: 36"-38", 39"-41", 42"-44", 46"-48" and 50"-52". To be worn with 4"-6" of positive ease, shown here in size 36"-38" with 6" of ease.
Knit kits with all 6 portions of yarns needed, not full skeins, which actually save you quite a bit and the free in knit kit pattern are available at Yarnz2go.com.
Remember to knit to the proper gauge, otherwise your top will not fit you as noted here.
Techniques: Knitted in the round, placing section on hold, knitting flat in stockinette stitch, lace, garter stitch, minimal seaming and color changes.
Pattern is tech edited, test knitted. It features schematics, lace charts as well as written instructions.


A liniment is an herbal extraction in a liquid, such as alcohol, oil, or vinegar, which is rubbed into the skin to treat arthritis, inflammations, sore muscles, and strains. Herbal liniments are easy to make and so easy to use. Herbal Liniments are not as popular as they used to be, but if you are an athlete or active, you will love this herbal application.
Herbal Liniments made with oils.
Essentially a liniment oil, is an infused oil. But because I am using them like I would a traditional liniment, I am calling them liniment oils. These recipes would also be at home in the infused oil section. You can make these with oil, vinegar or alcohol.
To make one of my favorite liniments, place four ounces each fresh or dried Peppermint (Mentha piperita) and eucalyptus leaves in a 16-ounce jar.
Personally I really like vodka for my liniments, it has very little scent once applied, extracts plant constituents well and has a very long shelf life. Vinegar is good also, but I thought I would share my preference.
Sweet Clover (Melilotus officinalis) – is a great herb for nerve pain, nervous tension in muscles, varicose vein pain.
Goldenrod (Solidago altissima) – Wonderful for muscle trauma, pain and injuries. This is a great herb for athletes in a liniment, we have used it for skateboarding, football and dancing injuries.
Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) -Divine for any kind of swelling, bruising, blunt trauma kind of thing as well as broken bones. Don't apply on puncture wounds.
Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis)- This herb in a liniment is excellent for herpes issues like chickenpox and shingles. Also excellent for promoting relaxation and sleep.
Peppermint (Mentha piperita) or Spearmint (Mentha spicata) – cooling pain relief.
St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) flowers- excellent for muscle and nerve pain. These as a liniment are invaluable in shingles treatment especially when also infused with Lemon Balm.
Ginger (Zingiber officinale) – warming liniment, good for muscular pain, nice option for fibromyalgia.
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)– A strong pain relieving herb.
Black Pepper (Piper nigrum) – Strong pain relieving herb.
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Sitting in our rented Land Rover Defender, I gaze around in awe as we drive through Iceland's dramatic landscapes. As we continue to follow the road, the feeling of remoteness is present and all that is living are the scattered white dots painted across the green mountains, also known as sheep. Without an itinerary, we parked our home (car) at campsites or off the road and disappeared into nature. In this fast-paced world, Iceland's bare nature and vast stretch allow for a slow living experience. Waking up to the sunrise and a cup of strong black coffee, we continued around the ring road, drifting off then and there, to find new sceneries and mysterious lands all around.


This stunning bright red and pink bikini was designed to celebrate your body and your victory over breast cancer. The Grecian goddess-inspired, beautifully draped La Victoire bikini is designed by Clover Lewis.
Inspired by the art in The Louvre in Paris. Clover was exploring the iconic gallery and was captivated by La Victoire de Samothrace and determined to create a fresh mastectomy swimwear collection which channelled the sculpture's raw feminine strength, sensuality and beauty.


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Q: What does it means if TNS_Names Directory is Empty? What does it means if the TNS_Names directory is empty in Preferences GUI of SQL Developer?

A: It just means that there is no tnsnames.ora file for SQL Developer to use, so you can't use TNS entries when defining connections.
It won't stop you defining other connection types - 'Basic', 'Custom JDBC' etc. - you just won't be able to use 'TNS' as there won't be any options to pick from in the 'Network alias' drop-down; and if you're previously picked one and then removed the tnsnames.ora then it won't be recognised any more.


We're pretty sure you already know this but we just want to take a second to say that Broadside Bookshop are good people.
We hate to admit it, but we became poor readers over the past few years. We wound up using our personal time in grad school mostly to play videogames until our eyes bled, and as fun as that is it just doesn't usually give the same sort of intellectual thrill a decent book provides. Nor does it do much to improve your vocabulary. Though we do have Crusader Kings II to thank for teaching us way more about lines of succession than we'll ever need to know, and also Zunism.
So we're making a concerted effort to devour books as we used to, starting with two sort of horror-ish we're pretty sure books by Peter Clines: "14" and "The Fold". They're both centered on "lots of odd little things build up to something something the world's in danger" and we're into that, though it remains to be seen if either manage to stick the landing. Being compared to Lost is both a compliment and a warning.
Our initial assumption was that we'd grab them off Amazon because it's the default. But we figured it wasn't a bad idea to check our local shops. Turns out, Broadside works as a more convenient Amazon that also gives us an excuse to step out of work for a coffee! Check out their site to search the catalog, order stuff, and either ship things to you at a decent rate (free for anything over $25) or just have them hold them in the store. Heck you can even delay payment until you pick them up, and you get a danged phone call when they're all set.
It's kind of silly to be bowled over by this, but it was a nice reminder that part of what we like about the Valley are all the independent operators doing what they can to provide useful services.
Also a brief review of The Witcher 3 which we've been playing for what feels like a decade: this game is good and pretty but holy heck could it use maybe 1/5 of the stuff. Too much of the things that the game makes a point of showing your are just fluff. We gave up diving the depths for the Witcher equivalent of $5 and some buttons a while back, and the map is still chock-full of little ?s. A focus on the main story broken up by contracts would make a lot more sense.
Andrea Lawlor got an MFA at UMass Amherst and teaches writing at Mount Holyoke. She edits fiction for Fence and her work has appeared in literary journals. Join her for a night of poetry!
People who enjoy poetry boy do we have an event for you. A free reading from works about Emily Dickinson by two local authors! Jany Yolen is the author of "My Uncle Emily" and "The Emily Sonnets, The Life of Emily Dickinson" and Burleigh Muten is the author of "Miss Emily". Both of them are going to get some awards which is nice for them and you should clap and then they're going to let you in on some secrets about one of the most influential and interesting artists to ever make a home in the Valley.
Games! Games can be anything, really. From hoop-and-stick to stick-and-hoop to hoops-on-the-ground you can use almost any comindation of rounded and straightened sticks to have a good time! It's possible there exist other games that somehow use non-hooped items to generate fun, but we've not heard of them. Bring your hoop and your stick to the Game Night at Palmer and impress your new friends!
An evening of poetry with a local author! Her newest collection has been praised by a lot of folks, and she's been a performance poet, playwright, and keynote speaker since the 70's. That means this will be a good show of some great work.
Do you write books for children? Do you WANT to write books for children, like you're working on it but maybe not professionally employed? Talk to other people about it! Talk about what makes a good children's book, talk about what it takes to get published, trade ideas, trade critiques, basically make yourself better by helping others! The best of times.
Learn from author Shel Horowitz about how you can potentially leverage capitalism to cause actually good things to happen but hey worst-case you make a faustian bargain to make money while abandoning your every principle. But for real! This is something we think about a lot, worth finding out if there's useful advice.
A local author! Mount Holyoke history professor Daniel Czitrom talks about the first major crusade to clean up Gotham, before Batman started his poorly planned bat-based scheme. He goes into great detail to provide the full story of how the effort to root out crooked cops and politicians became a more throrough reckoning of everything that New York had come to mean.
Professor Sujani Reddy will discuss her recent interdisciplinary study about the lives of Indian nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations, race, and gender. Reddy shows how the nursing profession developed against a complex backdrop of imperialism in India. After WW2, facing limited work at home, a growing number of nurses migrated from India to the US during the Cold War.
The Odyssey is SUPER excited to welcome SUPER author Lisa "SUPER" Yee to the SUPER store! Oh gosh we can't keep that up. Check out a fresh take on Wonder Woman's origin, where she's a teenager and therfore more directly relatable as she solves problems familiar to you, the youth! The event is for kids 8+, but young and old, superfans and convert, are welcome to join in on the SUPER fun!
A discussion group for those of you who are interested in comics and games, and therefore probably the store that sells both comics and games. The focus is on queer/LGBTQIA+ representation in comics and gaming, and the conversation is lovely! Make new friends, find out about cool things to read and play, have a good time! Admission is $5, but you get it back immediately as store credit.
Join up at the meetup to discuss configuration management with the Digital Repositories Team Lead/DevOps Team Member Gavin Morris of Common Media Inc. He'll talk about his decision to use Ansible and show off some demos! He'll also talk about about and give demos of the most popular alternatives to Ansible: Chef, Puppet, and SaltStack!
Topics: D8 Theming. They're looking for people to present, particularly on 'recipes', how you created functionality on a particular proect. If you want to present, just let them know at the group!
Preservation of family papers with Archivist Julie Bartlett Nelson! Examples and options will be presented about how to preserve papers and photos from your family. Probably these techniques work on paper items not related to family, but we can't guarantee it. Also there are cookies! Delightful.
The Forbes Film Club brings a free screening of the 84th best American film, Easy Rider! Why not just play the #1 best American film every night? It's the best, we're wasting time with the 84th best. Hmph. Well, anyway, Easy Rider is about two counterculture bikers having a road trip that is very difficult and sad. If you like this film, absolutely do not look for the sequel!
Akira! It's kind of terrifying and violent but it's also so well-constructed that it broke into the larger culture of the US like almost no other anime before or since. See it for the first time on the big screen! It's going to be pretty amazing, folks. We're going!
Featuring speakers and topics as varied as: Dykee Gorrell, From Shackles to More Shackles: The 500 Year Holocaust and the Fight for Black Lives, Jane Pierre: Blackness in Red, White, and Blue: Listening to Black Seventh-day Adventists Immigrants, Grace Ramsay: The New Generation: Voices of the Lesbian Herstory Archives Young Volunteers, Lily Sarosi: Rumbling Noise and Looking Out the Window: An Oral History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and Anastatia Spicer: Tracing Feeling: Silent Betrayal and Sexual Violence in Queer Communities. Interesting speakers discussing important topics.
The 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris ended with an agreement that some are calling a great diplomatic success and others a beacon of false hope. Professor Dale Jamieson of NYU will outline some of the challenges ahead.
From 1889 to 1907, Adelene Moffat was the moving spirit of the Home Culture Clubs, a social project founded in Northampton by George Cable. She was a lesbian woman, a social service pioneer, a painter, a civil rights activist, and a world traveller. Basically she makes us feel significantly less cool, she's cool. In 1903 she moved to Crete to work as an archaeological artist in Crete, basically acting as a pre-camera photographer of artifacts. Yeesh that sounds like a great gig. Check out some of her paintings and learn more about her from Senior Lecturer at Northwester Frances Freeman Paden, who's writing a biography of her!
Right, get it? Haha wow that's a heck of a spot-on summation of how the Line of Forts worked. It was basically like the DEW line but in the 18th century! What's that? You doubt we know what either of those mean? Hm. You're a real perceptive sort. Alright give us a minute with wikipedia. Ahhhh okay we get it now. The DEW Line was the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar installations along the Arctic during the Cold War and the Line of Forts was that, but during the French-Indian War only without any technology beyond like… wood. Learn more at the Deerfield Academy!
The Dickinsons grew a lot of the produce they ate, which because this is New England meant some danged excellent apples. Pomologist and former executive director of the New England Apple Association Russell Powell will lecture at the museum about the tradition of apple growing and provide a tour of the newly restored Dickinson family orchard! Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for members, and $5 for k-12 students.


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Ian Thomsen
The Soul of Basketball
Friends & Rivals
Ian Thomsen is the author of The Soul of Basketball, an upcoming look into the 2010-2011 NBA season that revealed the true identity of the game of basketball.
Learn About His Book
The Epic Showdown Between LeBron, Kobe, Doc and Dirk That Saved the NBA
The Soul of Basketball tells the story of an NBA prodigy, his league and their sport in the throes of crisis during the pivotal 2010-11 season. It began with The Decision, that infamous televised moment when uber-star LeBron James revealed that he was leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers – thereby distancing himself from his role model Michael Jordan – to pursue his first championship with his former opponents on the Miami Heat.
To the great fortune of LeBron, the NBA and basketball itself, the mission didn't work out as planned. In the cultural tradition of Moneyball and Friday Night Lights, veteran NBA writer Ian Thomsen portrays the NBA as a self-correcting society in which young LeBron is forced to absorb hard truths inflicted by his rivals Kobe Bryant, Doc Rivers and Dirk Nowitzki, in addition to lessons set forth by Pat Riley, Gregg Popovich, Larry Bird, David Stern, Joey Crawford and many more.
This is about the making of a champion. Brimming with inside access, The Soul of Basketball tells the inspiring story of LeBron's loneliest year, insecure and uncertain, when his ultimate foe was an unlikely immigrant who renewed the American game's ideals. From Miami to Boston, Los Angeles to Dallas, Germany to the NBA's Manhattan headquarters, the biggest names in basketball are driven by something more valuable than money and fame – a quest that will pave the way for Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant and future generations to thrive.
NBA Writer, The Boston Globe
Author, Scribe: My Life in Sports
"What David Halberstam did for the NBA fan of the late 70s and 80s in The Breaks Of The Game, Thomsen does for contemporary NBA buffs."
Jackie MacMullan
NBA Columnist, ESPN
"Ian Thomsen has crafted fascinating and revealing insights into a pivotal time in the NBA involving the game's biggest stars. A must read for all basketball junkies.
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Author, Game of Shadows and League of Denial
"This is a perfectly-timed narrative that reveals the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that not only saved the NBA but elevated it around the world."
Columnist, The Boston Globe
"Riding sidecar with LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Gregg Popovich, Ian was there for all of it and tells us how the NBA became our national pastime."
Leigh Montville
Sting Like A Bee, The Big Bam
"Thomsen tells the tale with deft prose and snappy anecdotes and brings us all up to speed on what might come next. "
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Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist
Author, League of Denial and Big Boy Rules
"Intimate, lyrical and consistently revelatory, The Soul of Basketball is the story of a glossy multi-billion dollar league stripped to its essence."
A Distinguished Career
From Evanston to Europe, Ian's career has taken him around the world. Learn more about Ian's life and read through his greatest works.
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The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. 9 They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.