"Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat."
And you're not alone! Most of your favorite TV and movie characters went through the same mixed, bittersweet emotions on their graduation days. Really, what is a teen-centric dramedy on FOX or a high school retelling of Shakespeare without the rite of passage that is graduation?
To help you get psyched for this gigantic moment in your life, we rounded up some of our favorite GIF'able grad moments from movies and TV to give you a little inspiration for your big day. Think of all the different ways you and your crew could celebrate this momentous education!
You could up the accessories game like S and B. Serena, ever the free spirit, has decided to eschew her cap and is instead wearing her tassel in her hair. You do you, S.
You could revel in the fact that you're free with a musical number. What else would you expect from the *Glee * kids?
If you're part of a foursome like Seth, Summer, Coop and Ryan, why not mimic their festive ensembles? The friends that match together, stay together.
You could pepper your grad speech with some serious truths like *Twilight *'s Jessica (Anna Kendrick.) Bella's BFF isn't wrong; your soon-to-come college years are the best time to make a few mistakes and learn some lessons.
What, like it's hard? You could look to Elle Woods and wear a little pink under your grad gown.
We double dare you to re-enact this Rory/Lorelai moment with your mom as you accept your diploma.
You could make your cap fly into the air with magic like it's Hogwarts. Oh wait – no, you can't. Sorry!
You could remind your crew that you'll always be (INSERT YOUR MASCOT HERE) at heart, just like Troy Bolton.
Or … you could propose to someone. Actually, don't do that. It worked for Cory and Topanga, but they're fictional.
You could celebrate the fact that you're DONE with school and you're about to throw a sweet grad party and cash a bunch of checks to pay for a comforter and a shower caddy in your dorm room.
And before you leave your school for the last time, you could show your crew some love with a big hug, just like you did in kindergarten.


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Bröllopet mellan kronprinsessan Victoria och Daniel Westling hölls i Stockholm den 19 juni 2010. Bröllopet var det första kronprinsessbröllopet i Sverige. Genom vigseln blev också brudgummen prins av Sverige och hertig av Västergötland samt efter akten utnämnd till riddare av Serafimerorden. Efter vigselakten i Storkyrkan fördes brudparet i kortege genom Stockholms innerstad och roddes i kungaslupen Vasaorden till Stockholms slott. Evenemanget bevakades av 1 960 journalister och direktsändes i bland annat svenska och tyska tv-kanaler.

Förlovning och tiden fram till bröllopet
Den 24 februari 2009 eklaterades förlovning mellan kronprinsessan Victoria och Daniel Westling vid en pressträff i prinsessan Sibyllas våning på Stockholms slott, sedan kung Carl XVI Gustaf och regeringen gett sitt samtycke. Paret hade varit tillsammans sedan omkring 2002, och hade lärt känna varandra genom att han varit hennes personliga tränare. Daniel Westling hade bott på Drottningholms slott sedan 2008, dock utan att officiellt vara kronprinsessans sambo.

Dagen för vigseln fastställdes till den 19 juni 2010. Datumet är samma som valdes för bröllopet mellan kronprinsessans föräldrar 1976, bröllopet mellan kronprins Oscar och Josefina av Leuchtenberg 1823 samt mellan sedermera kung Karl XV och Lovisa av Nederländerna 1850. Den första lysningen ägde rum den 30 maj, under en lysningsgudstjänst i Slottskyrkan, och därefter var det lysning den 1 och 3 juni.

Brudgummens ställning
Daniel Westling har medelklassbakgrund och hade innan han träffade kronprinsessan varit gymägare och friskvårdare. I samband med vigseln blev han medlem av den svenska kungafamiljen, prins av Sverige och hertig av Västergötland eftersom hustrun är hertiginna av detta landskap. Han kom därmed att lägga bort sitt efternamn Westling och blev medlem av ätten Bernadotte, vilket också såväl prinsessan Estelle som eventuella framtida barn kommer att bli.

Debatt om brudöverlämning
Brudparets önskemål om att kronprinsessan skulle ledas till altaret av sin far för överlämning till brudgummen skapade debatt. Kritiker menade att brudöverlämning från far till brudgum symboliserar att kvinnans myndighet lämnas över från fadern till mannen, vilket strider mot Svenska kyrkans ordning som säger att brudparet ska gå uppför altargången tillsammans. Hovet förklarade och försvarade brudöverlämningen med uttalandet "Konungen för fram tronföljaren och lämnar över henne till en man som blivit accepterad". Överlämningen skedde dock i enlighet med de kungliga önskemålen, och kronprinsessan överlämnades nedanför kortrappan. I media framkom uppgiften att detta var resultatet av en kompromiss. Detta tillbakavisades dock av ärkebiskopen; om brudöverlämning tillämpas i ett kyrkorum sker det alltid nedanför kortrappan.

Aktiviteter före och efter bröllopsdagen

Bröllopet inleddes med officiella mottagningar i tre dagar före vigseln. Den 16 juni hölls landshövdingarnas middag på ostindiefararen Götheborg, varvid kungafamiljen, brudgummen samt landshövding med respektive och tre länsbor från vardera län närvarade. Vid bjudningen serverades 25 rätter som skulle påminna om landets landskapsrätter. Följande dag, den 17 juni, hölls en privat middag på Drottningholms slott där brudparet hade möjlighet att bjuda in privata vänner och bekanta. Dagen före vigseln hölls en privat lunch på Sturehofs slott som kungaparet var värdar för. Därefter var Sveriges regering under statsminister Fredrik Reinfeldt värd för en mottagning i Stockholms stadshus under vilken Sveriges kommuner och landsting gratulerade kronprinsessparet. Efter mottagningen bjöd regeringen på middag i Eric Ericsonhallen.

Riksdagen gav brudparet en festkonsert under kvällen på Stockholms konserthus. Där uppträdde bland andra popgruppen Roxette, Kungliga Filharmonikerna, Malena Ernman, Roland Pöntinen, Magnus Uggla, Helen Sjöholm, Martin Fröst, Salem Al Fakir, Lars Cleveman, Peter Jöback, Orphei Drängar, Sarah Dawn Finer, Peter Mattei, Cæcilie Norby, Silje Nergaard, Rigmor Gustafsson, Lisa Nilsson, The Real Group, Wu Zhengdan och barnkör från Adolf Fredriks musikklasser. Dagen efter vigseln serverades bröllopsgästerna brunch.

Bröllopsdagen

Vigsel i Storkyrkan

Vigseln i Storkyrkan inleddes 15:30 med ärkebiskop Anders Wejryd som vigselförrättare. Övriga officianter var överhovpredikant Lars-Göran Lönnermark, biskopen i Lunds stift Antje Jackelén och domprosten Åke Bonnier. Framme vid altaret låg tronföljarkronan (Karl (X) Gustavs arvfurstekrona) och en prinskrona (prins Wilhelms krona) samt Serafimerordens insignier och baner. Vid koret låg Savonneriemattan från 1700-talet.

Brudklänningen var designad av Pär Engsheden och uppsydd i pärlvit dubbelsidig sidenduchesse. Klänningen var kortärmad och hade en utåtvikt krage. Klänningens släp, som var fastknäppt i ett midjeskärp, var fem meter långt. Till detta bar bruden samma slöja i brysselspets som hennes mor burit, drottning Sofias spetsslöja, och dessutom samma kamédiadem som modern. I brudbuketten fanns vita blommor, bland annat liljekonvalj, rosor, pelargoner, doftranka, luktärt och pioner. Brudparets brudnäbb bestod av tio barn. Där ingick kronprinsessans gudbarn prinsessan Ingrid Alexandra av Norge, prins Christian av Danmark och prinsessan Catharina-Amalia av Nederländerna. Vidare fanns brudparets släkt på båda sidor representerade. Flickorna hade pärlvita långklänningar i sidenorganza och pojkarna bar sjömanskostym. Förutom brudparets familjer närvarade vid bröllopet representanter för Sverige och dess organisationer, utländska kungahus och regeringar samt personliga vänner och personer som representerade kronprinsessans beskyddarskap.

Den musikaliskt ansvarige för högtiden i Storkyrkan var liksom vid vigseln mellan kronprinsessans föräldrar domkyrkoorganisten i Stockholms domkyrkoförsamling, hovorganisten Gustaf Sjökvist. Vid bröllopet uruppfördes "Bröllopsmarsch till Victoria och Daniel" av Hugo Westling, "Hymn" till texter ur Psaltaren 57:9–12 och Höga Visan 8:6 av Karin Rehnqvist, "Vilar glad. I din famn" av Kristina Lugn och Benny Andersson, samt "When You Tell the World You're Mine" av Jörgen Elofsson och John Lundvik. Vidare sjöngs psalm 201 i Den svenska psalmboken ("En vänlig grönskas rika dräkt"), tonsatt av Waldemar Åhlén, med text av Carl David af Wirsén. Vid ingången till Storkyrkan framträdde Adolf Fredriks flickkör under ledning av dirigenten Bo Johansson samt spelmännen Hugo och Thomas Westling. Musiken i kyrkan framfördes av Mattias Wager, Jeanette Köhn, blåsare från Försvarsmusikcentrum, Kungliga Filharmonikerna, Orsa Spelmän, Gustaf Sjökvists kammarkör, Storkyrkans kör, Agnes Carlsson och Björn Skifs.

Ingångsmarschen var "The Duke of Gloucester march" arrangerad för orgel och trumpeter. Utgångsmarsch var Praise the Lord with drums and cymbals som i likhet med ingångsmarschen spelades på orgel. Efter vigseln, i Storkyrkans vapenhus, tilldelades prins Daniel Serafimerordens band och kraschan.

Kortege genom Stockholm

Efter vigseln i Storkyrkan genomförde brudparet en bröllopskortege som tog omkring en timme över land och vatten i centrala Stockholm. Brudparet färdades först i en paradkalesch förspänd med ett fyrspann à la Daumont. Bak på vagnen satt två lakejer. Vagnen föregicks av ridande polis samt en förtropp av dragoner. Direkt före vagnen red två förridare från hovstallet. Vid sidan av vagnen gick civila Säpovakter. Direkt efter vagnen red hovstallmästaren och stallmästaren. Efter följde polisens skottsäkra BMW E67 och därefter en eftertropp av dragoner.

Färden gick via Slottsbacken ner till Skeppsbron och sedan vidare över Norrbro till Gustav Adolfs torg. Där svängde kortegen mot öst och Strömgatan. Vid Karl XII:s torg gick färden norrut på Kungsträdgårdsgatan och sedan via Hamngatan, Sveavägen och Kungsgatan till Stureplan, därifrån via Birger Jarlsgatan till Dramaten, där kortegen svängde in på Strandvägen. Därefter gick färden via Djurgårdsbron till området vid Vasamuseet, vilket tog ungefär en halvtimme. Brudparet gick ombord på Vasaorden för en halvtimmes rodd över vattnet förbi Skeppsholmen och Kastellholmen, och landsteg vid Logårdstrappan, invid Kungliga slottet. Under tiden kortegen ägde rum flög även arton JAS 39 Gripen över Stockholm samt sköts 21 salutskott. Kortegevägen kantades av uppskattningsvis en halv miljon personer.

Väl uppe på Logårdstrappan möttes brudparet av sina föräldrar och gick genom slottet till balkongen på Lejonbacken, för att ta emot hyllningar från de många tusen människor som samlats nedanför. Både kronprinsessan och kungen höll där tal till svenska folket och kungen avslutade med ett fyrfaldigt leve för brudparet. Nedanför Lejonbacken framförde Sveriges Körförbund sina gratulationer genom att 300 körsångare under ledning av Cecilia Rydinger Alin framförde fem sånger. Sångarna tillhörde körerna Allmänna Sången (Uppsala), Erik Westbergs Vokalensemble (Piteå), KFUM:s kammarkör (Stockholm), La Cappella (Uppsala), Maria Magdalena Motettkör (Stockholm), S:t Johannes kammarkör (Stockholm), Stockholms kammarkör, Stockholms Studentsångare och Svenska kammarkören (Göteborg). Hemvärnets Musikkår Guldsmedshyttan var också på plats och spelade längs kortegevägen. Sångerna som framfördes var Benny Anderssons "Duvemåla hage", "Brudmarsch" från Valbo, Gästrikland, August Södermans "Önskevisa", Evert Taubes "Så skimrande var aldrig havet" och avslutningsvis Pontus Estlings "Sommarbröllop".

Middag och dans
Under kvällen hölls en middag på Stockholms slott. Måltiden intogs i Rikssalen. Menyn bestod av havskräfta, citrusmarinerad torsk och kall grön ärtsoppa. Därefter åts Landöröding med örttäcke, pocherat vaktelägg, grön sparris och rödbeta från Gotland samt nässel- och ramslökssås. Så följde kalvytterfilé från Stenhammars slott med rostad schalottenlökskrisp, potatisgratäng med Allerum prästost, tomatterrin, timjanskokta morötter i vitkål och dragonsky och slutligen till dessert jordgubbsmousse med rabarberinteriör och vaniljglass i vit choklad. Kocken Stefano Catenacci och brudparet hade komponerat menyn. De drycker som serverades under middagen bestod av enbart franska viner: Pommery Millésimé Grand Cru 2000, Sancerre Les Pierris 2008 Domaine Roger Champault, Pommard 1:er Cru Epenots 2002 Louis Jadot samt Château Simon 2007 Sauternes. Tal hölls av bland andra brudens och brudgummens fäder samt av brudgummen själv. Bröllopsmiddagen pågick fram till halv tolv-tiden.

Efter middagen serverades bröllopstårta i Bernadottegalleriet. I korridorerna på vägen till galleriet gavs underhållning av Romeo och Juliakören. Bröllopstårtan var fyrklöverformad och bestod av mandelmarängbotten med champagnemousse och en curd av smultron. Tårtan var 3,3 meter hög, vägde 250 kilogram, hade elva våningar och var en bröllopsgåva från alla Sveriges konditorer genom branschorganisationen Sveriges bagare & konditorer. Kronprinsessparets bröllopstårta skapades av de fyra senaste svenska mästarna i konditori, dvs vinnare av tävlingen Årets Konditor. Efter tårtan spelades brudvalsen "Frühlingsstimmen" komponerad av Johann Strauss d.y., och därefter var det dans för alla gäster i Vita havet. Första dansen efter brudvalsen var Evert Taubes vals "Sommarnatt" ("Kom i min famn"). Sveriges Television fick för första gången, och som enda tv-bolag, filma bröllopsmiddagen, serveringen av bröllopstårtan och bröllopsvalsen. Filmning av middagen fick ske endast mellan rätterna, vid matens servering och vid tal.

Bröllopsgåvan
Svenska folkets lysningsgåva till kronprinsessan Victoria och Daniel Westling var en glasservis som glaskonstnären Erika Lagerbielke formgav på beställning av Sveriges regering och riksdag. Servisen, som bär kronprinsessparets spegelmonogram, består av fem delar: champangneskål, rödvinsglas, vittvinsglas, dessertvinglas och vattenglas.

Bröllopstårtan

Bröllopstårtan bestod av 11 våningar, var över tre meter hög och vägde 250 kilo. Varje tårta bestod av 11 lager. Över 300 arbetstimmar låg bakom hantverket.

Gäster

Ett flertal utländska statschefer gästade bröllopet, bland annat Islands president Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson och Finlands president Tarja Halonen liksom monarkerna från Belgien, Danmark, Jordanien, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Monaco, Nederländerna och Norge. Japan representerades av kronprins Naruhito medan Spanien representerades av bland andra drottning Sofia och Storbritannien representerades av prins Edward och dennes hustru Sophie av Wessex. Även flera statslösa kungahus var representerade, bland andra Greklands, Serbiens, Bulgariens och Rumäniens. Bland de svenska gästerna fanns ledande politiska företrädare, myndighetsrepresentanter samt representanter för bland annat svenskt näringsliv liksom de utländska ambassadörerna i Stockholm. Brudens, och brudgummens, familjer var också rikligt representerade.

Kritik framfördes mot att representanter från flera diktaturer fanns med på gästlistan. Hovet förklarade detta med att man inte själv valde vilka diplomater som skulle bjudas, utan gick efter en lista sammanställd av Utrikesdepartementet. Det är brukligt att hela den diplomatiska kåren bjuds till offentliga statsceremoniella arrangemang.

Smekmånad
Under bröllopsfestens vickning begav sig brudparet till Arlanda, där en Dassault Falcon 7X utlånad av Bertil Hult tog dem vidare till en smekmånad på Hults segelyacht Erica XII vid Bora Bora nordväst om Tahiti i Franska Polynesien. Semestern avslutades med en vistelse i Hults fastighet i Beaver Creek, Colorado. Resan har värderats till "flera miljoner" kronor.

Resan ifrågasattes av bland annat Dagens Nyheters ledarskribent Peter Wolodarski, och anmälningar inkom till Riksenheten mot korruption angående eventuellt mutbrott. Riksenheten beslöt dock att inte inleda någon förundersökning "då det saknas anledning till antagande att brott som hör under allmänt åtal har förövats".

Mediebevakning

Flera massmedier satsade på ökad bevakning av den svenska kungafamiljen. Det var 1 960 ackrediterade journalister, varav 756 från utlandet. Bröllopet är den produktion med flest kameror och störst storlek på området som täckts in i en enskild produktion i Sveriges Televisions historia: 67 tv-kameror bevakade händelsen och ett tjugotal utländska produktionsbolag anslöt sig till sändningen.

SVT:s sändning som var 16 timmar lång pågick fram till klockan 00.50 den 20 juni 2010. Intresset från tyska media var stort. Tyska ZDF sände direkt mellan klockan 13.50 och 19.00 med bilder från egna kameror blandat med bilder från SVT, programmet hette Krönung einer Liebe. Även ARD, Sat.1 och RTL Television hade inslag från bröllopet.

TV4-Gruppen sände också från bröllopet från en studio vid Skeppsbron och hade bl.a. hovets före detta informationschef, Elisabeth Tarras-Wahlberg som kommentator under sändningarna.

TT Spektra erbjöd färdiga webbsidor som tidningar utan egen bevakning av bröllopet kunde köpa in och lägga upp på sina egna webbsidor. Bevakningen kritiserades av bland andra metanyhetstjänsten Second Opinion Nyheter AB för ytlighet och brist på granskande reportage.

Bojkott
SVT (Sveriges Television) begränsade utländska bolags möjligheter att använda rörliga bilder, med följden att Reuters, AP (Associated Press) och AFP (Agence France-Presse) beslöt att bojkotta all rapportering från bröllopet – det vill säga text, fotografier och rörliga bilder. Skälet var att nyhetsbyråerna inte godtog att SVT endast medgav att de visade kortare snuttar inom 48 timmar från bröllopet.

Ekonomi

Den totala kostnaden med anledning av bröllopet är inte känd, men omkostnaderna för evenemangen Love Stockholm och Love Ockelbo, renoveringen av Storkyrkan och Haga slott, Försvarsmaktens insatser, Utrikesdepartementets merkostnader, Stockholms stads trafikkontors merkostnader, Polisens bevakning och Riksdagens evenemang uppgår sammanlagt till cirka 100 miljoner kronor.

Kungliga hovet beräknade i maj själva bröllopets kostnader till cirka 20 miljoner kronor varav hälften betalas av kungafamiljen. Vid regeringens framläggning av statsbudgeten den 21 september meddelades att staten skjuter till fem miljoner kronor extra till hovet för bröllopet, "för att delvis bekosta den del av kronprinsessan Victorias bröllop som är en statsangelägenhet". Samtidigt meddelades att överlåtelsen av Haga slott blir en bröllopspresent från regeringen, och därtill ökas hovets årliga anslag med 3,5 miljoner kronor för att bekosta slottets underhåll.

Enligt en uppskattning av Svensk Handel kunde försäljningen av bröllopsrelaterade produkter under veckorna runt bröllopet komma att uppgå till cirka 2,5 miljarder kronor. Stockholm Business Regions verkställande direktör Olle Zetterberg uttalade att organisationen skulle finansiera plantering av blomsterarrangemang i Stockholm inför bröllopet.

Medieanalysföretaget MediaPilot beräknade att bröllopet gav publicitet över världen som är värt mer än två och en halv miljard kronor där det betydelsefullaste landet var Tyskland.

Under januari till april 2010 rengjordes och renoverades Storkyrkan inför bröllopet. Kostnaden beräknades till 12,4 miljoner kronor och det var ungefär 20 år sedan kyrkobyggnaden senast rengjordes antikvariskt.

Ett av sidoarrangemangen var Love Stockholm 2010 som startade redan två veckor innan bröllopet. Stockholms stads och TV4-Gruppen:s bröllopsfestival marknadsfördes av "The Capital of Scandinavia" och sponsrades av olika företag med 20 miljoner kronor, däribland Apoteket.

Bilder från bröllopsdagen

Den officiella bröllopsserien
Den Officiella Bröllopsserien - The official wedding series var en serie av choklad, smycken med mera som såldes inför bröllopet till förmån för Kronprinsessparets Bröllopsstiftelse. Det såldes också bestick, servetter, servetthållare, ljushållare, assietter, muggar, godis, glas, skålar, koppar, vaser, brickor, väskor, glasunderlägg, smycken etcetera.

Se även
Stockholms slott
Bröllopet mellan Carl XVI Gustaf och Silvia Sommerlath
Bröllopet mellan prinsessan Madeleine och Christopher O'Neill
Bröllopet mellan prins Carl Philip och Sofia Hellqvist
Svenska kungahusets smycken
Kronprinsessan Victorias och Prins Daniels bröllopsminnesmedalj

Referenser

Noter

Externa länkar

 Kungahusets webbsida om bröllopet

2010 i Sverige
Evenemang i Stockholm
Huset Bernadotte
Kungliga bröllop
Stockholm under 2010-talet

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Juventus had spurned several chances in the opening half when Monaco, who stunned Arsenal 3-1 at the Emirates on their way to the last eight, also came close, only for Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco to shoot straight at Gianluigi Buffon.
The Turin giants, however, were given a break by Czech referee Pavel Kralovec, who pointed to the spot just before the hour when Alvaro Morata, under pressure from Ricardo Carvalho, slumped to the ground on the edge of the area.
Monaco's protests that the foul was outside the area went unheard and Vidal, who had blazed over twice in the opening half, calmed nerves by firing past Danijel Subasic and into the top corner.
Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim was furious with the result.
"We wanted to leave with a totally different result and we will have to play a totally different game if we're to go through to the semis," he said.
"But the result was down to a penalty that didn't exist. I'm disappointed. We played a good game, we've got to the quarters and I don't think the score truly reflects what truly happened in the match."
Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri, meanwhile, claimed the one-goal cushion may not be sufficient to secure passage into the semis: "It was a good result for us, we didn't concede a goal so we've got a small advantage. But it won't be easy in Monaco."
Juventus welcomed back Andrea Pirlo after several weeks of absence due to injury, while Buffon and Carlos Tevez returned to the starting line up after missing the shock 1-0 defeat to Parma at the weekend.
Allegri opted for the 4-3-1-2 formation that saw the Italian champions sweep Borussia Dortmund aside 5-1 on aggregate to book their quarter-final place.
However, that caused problems, as well as chances, for the hosts who went in for the half-time break with little reward for their efforts.
Spanish striker Morata fired a volley over from Pirlo's delightful chip in the opening minutes while Tevez forced Subasic to block a low 25-yard drive.
But Monaco quickly demonstrated their potency on the counter, the pace of Ferreira-Carrasco in particular causing problems for Swiss right-back Stephan Lichsteiner.
When Layvin Kurzawa found space out wide, the left-back fired his effort over. Juve survived a bigger scare when Ferreira-Carrasco was set up inside the area only to fire straight at Buffon.
Those chances sparked Juve into life, but Monaco, who had conceded only four times in their past eight Champions League games, packed their defence tightly.
Tevez escaped to the back post but, while unmarked, shot straight at Subasic from Claudio Marchisio's pinpoint delivery, while Tunisian defender Aymen Abdennour produced a timely block on Lichsteiner's cross aimed at Morata, who was lurking at the far post.
Monaco had claims for a penalty waved away after teenage striker Antony Martial tumbled to the ground under pressure from Giorgio Chiellini as he muscled his way into the area.
Juve finished the half on a high, but in frustration, after Tevez shot straight at Subasic while unmarked at back post from Marchisio's chip, before Vidal ballooned over after running onto a ball delivered by the outside of Tevez's boot.
Monaco began brightly after the restart but Buffon reacted quickly to substitute Bernardo Silva's near-post drive, although it looked slightly off target.
Juve finally broke the deadlock just before the hour, Vidal stepping up to smash the ball past Subasic and send a packed-out Juventus Stadium into raptures.
Jardim reshuffled his side, replacing Italian defender Andrea Raggi with striker Dimitar Berbatov.
While the Bulgarian had an almost immediate impact, heading over from a corner, Monaco failed to grab the away-goal equaliser that would have given them a huge boost ahead of the April 22nd return leg.


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Voting has started in Unit 17, Ward 5, Alekuwodo area in Osogbo Local Government Area of Osun State.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ordered a re-run in the unit due to disruptions that occurred there during the governorship election last Saturday.
Voting began at exactly 8am and is going on peacefully at the unit where 947 voters were affected.
There is a large turnout of voters, some of who converged on the unit as early as 7am.
There are three queues, with two polling booths.
A large detachment of security personnel were seen around adjourning streets.
Armed men of the police, army and the Department of State Services (DSS) were strategically positioned to ensure there are no disruptions.
Those coming to the unit were asked to identify themselves by their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).
Only accredited journalists were granted access to the unit.
The voters were asked to stand at some distance from the polling booths, and only those casting their voters are allowed near them.
Today is the concluding part of the Osun State 2018 governorship election which was declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday.
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Government is yet to commence work on three pending hospital projects in the Ashanti Region despite assurance they will be completed by the end of this year.
Checks reveal works on a proposed regional hospital at Sawua in the Bosomtwe District, for instance, as well as other district facilities, have been abandoned.
Weeds have taken over the structures which are at advanced stages of completion.
The 250-bed regional hospital at Sawua in the Bosomtwe District is almost complete.
Security guards will not allow journalists to get too close to the $64 million project site, however, it is clear even from a distance that the contractor, Euroget De-Invest, is not on site.
Some residents of Sawua have raised concerns over the delay to complete the project that was scheduled for completion in 2016.
"When they started this project, we were told it will be completed in 18 months now it is more than 2 years," a resident said.
Ashanti Region Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, led a team of journalists to the site last year where he urged the Resident Engineer to meet the 2018 deadline.
He was confident that the regional health facility will reduce the pressure on Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).
Mr Ahmed Aly, who conducted the media around the hospital facility promised the Contractor will deliver the property in 2018.
"We have made a lot of progress and we are very much on course to deliver the project on schedule, "he explained. But halfway through the year, Nhyira News checks on the site revealed the project has stalled.
Another facility, a 190-bed capacity for the Bekwai Municipal Hospital is rotting away, having been abandoned since 2013.
No effort has been made to complete the facility that was started by the late Prof. Evans Atta Mills in 2010 in fulfilment of an election campaign promise to the people of Bekwai, despite several appeals by the chief and residents of Bekwai.
Afari, near Nkawie in the Atwima Nwabiagya District, is the site for a 500-bed military hospital which is also far behind schedule.
Construction work began in March 2014 and was expected to be completed by September 2017.


Archbishop Emeritus of the Kumasi Catholic Archdiocese Most Reverend Peter Akwasi Sarpong is worried over the level of indiscipline that has caught up with the current crop of youth in the country.
'It's simple that the youth are not disciplined. They give in to all kinds of weaknesses and one of them is the sin of sexual immorality we know that it's not good", he said.
According to him, checks and balances that used to exist to whip erring youth in line have been discarded over time in the name of modernity which is why society has been bedevilled with various ills involving the youth.
He emphasized that the engagement of the youth in armed robbery, prostitution, vandalism, lesbianism, gayism and rioting among others could be directly attributed to these things.
"In the past there were certain checks and balances in the society and which frowned upon certain sins like sins of immorality and prevented people from committing crimes. It helped the youth to keep clean like puberty rights (Biragro). Every girl wanted to have puberty rights and if you didn't have your puberty rights you commit Kyiribra you would be punished", he disclosed.
The Former Member of the Council of State further revealed that it was forbidden to indulge in sexual acts leading to childbearing without undergoing certain prescribed customs especially Biragoro.
He however expressed worry that formal education has affected these good practices which results in girls and boys having no means of checking their sexual activities which are a direct manifestation of an upsurge in teenage pregnancy.
He explained there are no set rules in the current dispensation to give the checks and balances like in the past when puberty rights were used as an initiation to adulthood which girls coming of age never wished to miss.
"When you go to school and you have abortions and all those things being practised in catholic schools or any school you have something called fag a fag is something that has become the order of the day", he stated.


Easter Sunday | April 21st @ 9:30 a.m.
Located in the small town of Lowry, St. Paul's Lutheran is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) which strives to be a faithful, welcoming, and caring congregation by inviting all to grow in Christ and serve him.
WORSHIP | We invite people of all stages of life to join in worship—families with young children, couples, individuals, young, and old. We have a fully accessible facility which provides people of all ages an opportunity to participate. We are a church that belongs to Christ. There is a place for you here.
EDUCATION | Along with our worship services, we strive to educate our children, youth, and adults to help them grow into faithful servants of Christ.
FELLOWSHIP | Fellowship is an important part of who we are. From fellowship after worship service to community events throughout the year, we seek to nurture our communal relationships in order to be a more faithful and loving people.
SERVICE | The people of St. Paul's seek to be active participants in God's work in the world from our immediate community to around the globe, endeavoring to connect each other to Jesus by reflecting God's unconditional love in humble service.
We are an imperfect people, but freed from sin, death, guilt, and shame – not by our own work but by the work of our loving, gracious, and merciful Savior – our community's calling is to worship, to be community, and to love our neighbors as ourselves by sharing the gifts that have been given to us.
God's purpose for our church is to proclaim the gospel of Jesus through word and deed.
St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Lowry has a long and distinguished history, beginning on July 27, 1874 when the church was organized with the help of Reverend Christian Saugstad, who became the first pastor.
Since then, St. Paul's has seen many changes, from the log building constructed in 1875 to the frame structure erected in 1904, and then moved into the village of Lowry in 1920, to our new church home built in 1997. In participating in God's mission we hope to continually serve as a place of peace and hope.
An opportunity for those in grades 7-12 to engage in fellowship as well as service, both within our congregation and throughout our community. This youth group meets monthly throughout the school year planning fellowship activities, seasonal service projects, and our annual summer service trip.
The mixed choir provides special music for worship and special occasions. Men and women are all welcome. If you are interested in joining this choir, they practice at 11 a.m. after services each Sunday morning.
A calling tree is established to spread the word for a prayer need. Please contact the church office if you have a person or circumstance in need of prayer support.
Our Sunday School children practice weekly on Sundays before Sunday School Class and sing during worship on various occasions throughout the schoolyear.
WELCA is an impactful ministry group that provides service, devotional, and community opportunity here at St. Paul's from clothing drives, to Bible study, to Sunday morning coffee.
Confirmation at St. Paul's follows a two-year curriculum where 7th-8th graders meet weekly on Wednesdays during the school year to learn the biblical narrative and Lutheranism. Confirmation also includes worship participation, service, and fellowship.
There are two Bible study groups that meet in homes or at church. Monday evening Bible study is held on the second Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Thursday afternoon Bible study is held on the third Thursday of each month at 2 p.m.
This group meets at St. Paul's and is open to all in the community for fellowship, breakfast, and a light Bible study. The gathering begins at 7 a.m. the first Saturday morning of the month during the school year.
Along with its traditional offering, St. Paul's also includes a "noisy offering." Bring your change and it will be collected during each worship service by some of our youngest members. Noisy Offering supports various local, national, and global service organizations.
Discovery Days Preschool—a non-profit, state licensed, parent cooperative preschool which serves three to five-year-olds and runs from September to May—has been housed in our education wing since 1989. For more information call (320) 283-5123 or Click Here.
"God's Work Our Hands Sunday" is a dedicated nation-wide day of service. It is a day where we as St. Paul's Lutheran Church work to make God's love visible in our community in the form of various projects from visiting homebound members to cleaning up the parks and streets of Lowry.
Each summer our youth volunteers are equipped and sent to various places in need. They have worked with organizations such as Feed My Starving Children and Lutheran Disaster Response to pack meals for the hungry across the globe and join relief efforts in areas affected by natural disaster. The trips are formative for both discipleship and fellowship.
Open to anyone in the community who wants to learn to knit or crochet, or if you're accomplished at either, Stitchin' Chicks is a place to learn or to share those talents. Fellowship and mission work are combined. Meeting on Tuesday evenings.
Several hundred quilts are made each year and donated locally and to Lutheran World Relief. The group meets on the last Monday and Tuesday of the month at St. Paul's.
St. Paul's prayerfully and financially supports the ELCA and its local and global missions. To find out more about these local and global missions, Click Here.
Every October our congregation holds a sock-drive in order to collect new pairs of socks. At the end of the month the socks are donated to local organizations who make them available for those in need.
© 2017 St. Paul's Lutheran Church. All Rights Reserved.


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Q: XeLaTeX ttf font support Watertank is some ttf font that I got from one of those cheap fonts CDs. I know it is installed in my system because I can use it in other programs; but when I use it in XeLaTeX (which works with other Windows fonts) XeLaTeX complains. The command is
\newfontface\hmathscr{Watertank}

And the message is:

(C:\ProgramsToo\MiKTeX\tex\latex\oberdiek\rerunfilecheck.sty)))Running
  miktex-makemf.exe... miktex-makemf:
  The Watertank source file could not be
  found.
Running hbf2gf.exe...
hbf2gf (CJK ver. 4.8.0)
Couldn't find `Waterta.cfg'
miktex-maketfm: No creation rule for
  font Watertank.
! Font \zf@basefont=Watertank at
  10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or inst alled font not found.
                     \scan_stop:  l.23 \newfontface\hmathscr{Watertank}

If I try to use the file name (by giving Watertank.ttf), I get the following error message

xelatex.exe: Broken pipe

I tried refreshing the font cache, with fc-cache -fv, it does not work either. I tried with -output-driver=xdvipdfmx, with -output-driver=xdv2pdf, with --no-pdf

MiKTeX-XeTeX 2.9.3971 (0.9997.4)
  (MiKTeX 2.9)

Do I have to "prepare" the font besides installing it?
EDIT 1:
(Thanks Will Robertson)
Running "xetex -no-pdf s.tex" on
\font\1="Watertank"\1 hello
\bye

gives the same message as before.
Running "xetex -no-pdf s.tex" on
\font\1="[Watertank.ttf]"\1 hello
\bye

produces the xdv file. The subsequent "xdvipdfmx -vv s.xdv" crashes on Windows 7 but leaves the following message

DVI Comment:  XeTeX output
  2011.01.16:1738 s.xdv -> s.pdf [1<C:/Windows/Fonts/Watertank.ttf@9.96pt
  fontmap:
  [C:/Windows/Fonts/Watertank.ttf]/H/65536/0/0
  -> C:/Windows/Fonts/Watert ank.ttf(Identity-H)
pdf_font>> Input encoding "Identity-H"
  requires at least 2 bytes. pdf_font>>
  The -m <00> option will be assumed for
  "C:/Windows/Fonts/Watertank.ttf".

What is the -m option?

A: Sounds like a problem with the font if you have no trouble loading other fonts in the same way. (I've had troubles with such fonts before.) Create a minimal example in plain TeX with
\font\1="Watertank"\1 hello
\bye

or
\font\1="[Watertank.ttf]"\1 hello
\bye

and compile the document with
xetex -no-pdf «filename»
xdvipdfmx -vv «filename»

to verify that it's the font that causes the problem, and if these still fail you might be able to debug the problem further by sending the info to the XeTeX mailing list. Not much we can do here, I'm afraid.

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1) In the event of an erroneous execution of the order from our Hermitage, ie sending wrong products.
2) If the product has an obvious defect from the Construction Company.
The return of the products must be within five (5) calendar days from the date of receipt.
The product must be unused exactly as it was before the sale in its original packaging and with all the contents of the original packaging.
The product must be accompanied by the original purchase receipt (retail receipt, or invoice).
If the conditions for accepting the return of a product are met, the consumer is entitled to receive a credit note of equal value for the purchase of another product (s). All credits are made within 30 days of the return and receipt of the products from us.
If you receive a defective product, please let us know as soon as possible about the product and the problem that has occurred. It is also necessary to send a photo with the defective product. If covered by the manufacturer's warranty, we undertake to obtain it and replace it at our own expense.
In case Diamond Diamond's fault is proven, the cost of the return is borne by Diamond Models and the customer has the option of choosing whether to repay his money, a credit note of equal value to buy another product or resubmit the order.
In this case, the product is picked up by your courier company.
In the event of a fault on the part of the user, the latter shall bear the cost of packing and shipping.
Diamond Models may modify its return policy by communicating the relevant new terms to its site.
Since Diamond Models considers that the user abuses the right to return (eg returns repeatedly) or acts in bad faith, he may refuse to return the product even if the above terms and conditions are met.
If the product does not meet the above conditions, it will be returned to the user at his own expense.
In any case, any damage to the product upon returning the product to the store is solely for the user.
Diamond Models recommends that users carefully check the status of the products sold and the intact packaging in order to identify any obvious defects when delivering their order.


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using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class EventManager : MonoBehaviour
{
	public bool LimitQueueProcesing = false;
	public float QueueProcessTime = 0.0f;
	private static EventManager s_Instance = null;
	private Queue m_eventQueue = new Queue();

	public delegate void EventDelegate<T>(T e) where T : GameEvent;
	private delegate void EventDelegate(GameEvent e);

	private Dictionary<System.Type, EventDelegate> delegates = new Dictionary<System.Type, EventDelegate>();
	private Dictionary<System.Delegate, EventDelegate> delegateLookup = new Dictionary<System.Delegate, EventDelegate>();
	private Dictionary<System.Delegate, System.Delegate> onceLookups = new Dictionary<System.Delegate, System.Delegate>();

	// override so we don't have the typecast the object
	public static EventManager Instance
	{
		get
		{
			if (s_Instance == null)
			{
				s_Instance = GameObject.FindObjectOfType(typeof(EventManager)) as EventManager;
			}
			return s_Instance;
		}
	}

	private EventDelegate AddDelegate<T>(EventDelegate<T> del) where T : GameEvent
	{
		// Early-out if we've already registered this delegate
		if (delegateLookup.ContainsKey(del))
			return null;

		// Create a new non-generic delegate which calls our generic one.
		// This is the delegate we actually invoke.
		EventDelegate internalDelegate = (e) => del((T)e);
		delegateLookup[del] = internalDelegate;

		EventDelegate tempDel;
		if (delegates.TryGetValue(typeof(T), out tempDel))
		{
			delegates[typeof(T)] = tempDel += internalDelegate;
		}
		else
		{
			delegates[typeof(T)] = internalDelegate;
		}

		return internalDelegate;
	}

	public void AddListener<T>(EventDelegate<T> del) where T : GameEvent
	{
		AddDelegate<T>(del);
	}

	public void AddListenerOnce<T>(EventDelegate<T> del) where T : GameEvent
	{
		EventDelegate result = AddDelegate<T>(del);

		if (result != null)
		{
			// remember this is only called once
			onceLookups[result] = del;
		}
	}

	public void RemoveListener<T>(EventDelegate<T> del) where T : GameEvent
	{
		EventDelegate internalDelegate;
		if (delegateLookup.TryGetValue(del, out internalDelegate))
		{
			EventDelegate tempDel;
			if (delegates.TryGetValue(typeof(T), out tempDel))
			{
				tempDel -= internalDelegate;
				if (tempDel == null)
				{
					delegates.Remove(typeof(T));
				}
				else
				{
					delegates[typeof(T)] = tempDel;
				}
			}

			delegateLookup.Remove(del);
		}
	}

	public void RemoveAll()
	{
		delegates.Clear();
		delegateLookup.Clear();
		onceLookups.Clear();
	}

	public bool HasListener<T>(EventDelegate<T> del) where T : GameEvent
	{
		return delegateLookup.ContainsKey(del);
	}

	public void TriggerEvent(GameEvent e)
	{
		EventDelegate del;
		if (delegates.TryGetValue(e.GetType(), out del))
		{
			del.Invoke(e);

			// remove listeners which should only be called once
			foreach (EventDelegate k in delegates[e.GetType()].GetInvocationList())
			{
				if (onceLookups.ContainsKey(k))
				{
					delegates[e.GetType()] -= k;

					if (delegates[e.GetType()] == null)
					{
						delegates.Remove(e.GetType());
					}

					delegateLookup.Remove(onceLookups[k]);
					onceLookups.Remove(k);
				}
			}
		}
		else
		{
			Debug.LogWarning("Event: " + e.GetType() + " has no listeners");
		}
	}

	//Inserts the event into the current queue.
	public bool QueueEvent(GameEvent evt)
	{
		if (!delegates.ContainsKey(evt.GetType()))
		{
			Debug.LogWarning("EventManager: QueueEvent failed due to no listeners for event: " + evt.GetType());
			return false;
		}

		m_eventQueue.Enqueue(evt);
		return true;
	}

	//Every update cycle the queue is processed, if the queue processing is limited,
	//a maximum processing time per update can be set after which the events will have
	//to be processed next update loop.
	void Update()
	{
		float timer = 0.0f;
		while (m_eventQueue.Count > 0)
		{
			if (LimitQueueProcesing)
			{
				if (timer > QueueProcessTime)
					return;
			}

			GameEvent evt = m_eventQueue.Dequeue() as GameEvent;
			TriggerEvent(evt);

			if (LimitQueueProcesing)
				timer += Time.deltaTime;
		}
	}

	public void OnApplicationQuit()
	{
		RemoveAll();
		m_eventQueue.Clear();
		s_Instance = null;
	}
}

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text:
Baron  est une plage située dans le territoire spécial de Yogyakarta, à environ 40 km au sud de la ville.

Plage à Java
Station balnéaire en Indonésie
Tourisme en Indonésie
Yogyakarta


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Q: To add fixed target column to power bi matrix I've created a visual matrix to show latest 8weeks quantity by column vs item by row (I did calculated column to always get latest 8weeks data, the source is updating weekly).
There's a fixed target for all weeks, but if I put quantity & target to matrix value, fixed target will be repeated every week. Is there a way to keep target only on first column (with the data updating to latest 8weeks)?
Visual matrix wo target
Visual matrix with target (but repeating)


One of the joy's of The Sydney Fringe Festival is the lucky-dip theory of never being sure of what you're going to get. However when you have talent like Lisa Chappell and Christopher Stollery you know that you've dipped into that bag with your eyes wide open. Fred is an action packed, thrilling one-woman show in which the extremely lucky audience get to gaze upon the very beautiful Lisa Chappell.
But of course, The Sydney Fringe is not the place to cruise on your looks, and so Lisa Chappell gets to give us the raw guts of her talent. Fred is all her own work, written and performed in a slowly stirring performance that relies on the actor's ability to hold her audience in the palm of her hand and the story's ability to twist and writhe. Weaving in and out of multiple points of view with a narrative that repeatedly semi-climaxes, the hour long monologue transforms its plot through to the very last line, which becomes a climax that will stay with you for hours. By no means is Fred a simple tale, but its slow seductive unfolding means the audience is never left abandoned and struggling by the story, nor frustrated and empty by a prematurely revealed tale. Chappell's a talented writer and knows how to let a story unfold in the most interesting ways.
Deirdre is a teacher who lives alone and is struggling to pay bills and eek out an existence for herself. She is instantly captivating, but we know from the get-go that not all is completely OK in Deidre's world. It is her story about two handsome salesmen who come to her door that reveal the darker side of Dierdre's struggles for self-actualization and her search for survival in a very strange world. Cannibalism has been used to humorous effect before, but Deidre's tale worms its way into your grin, first as an uncomfortable worry and then as an appalling awareness as the dark details of Deidre's ordeal come to light. And yet it is her lightness of touch, her witty self-conscious witness to her own horrors that keep the watcher's uncomfortable grin firmly in place. She tells her tale with such humane warmth and down-to-earth intimacy that the audience are constantly in that strange place where humor and horror intersect. The result is the perfect balance between entertainment and self-examination.
None of the story would matter if Lisa Chappell wasn't such an enveloping performing, managing to be both big and small together in the space of the 505 Theatre . She is charismatic, even when she is shy, and the audience develop a passion for her, even as she relates aspects of her psyche that may not sit awkwardly. Chappell has that talent all great performers possess: she can make you feel as if you are the only person in the room and this performance is tailored to you. Her capacity for intimacy coupled with the broad sweep of the journey of the narrative create an absorbing hour that is impossible to forget.
Lisa Chappell is in good hands with Fred's direction handled by Christopher Stollery. He moves Chappell around, bouncing her from plot device to characterization effortlessly, bringing energy and life to an often torrid tale. While the focus on Chappell is never lost, his presence is always there, in some ways like the character of Fred himself, hovering, involved and perceptive. Lighting is used like a costume, props are flesh and a single chair becomes an apartment filled with furniture under his direction. The marriage of creativity between Chappell and Stollery is a natural one, leaving one with a larger impression that the one-person show usually creates.
Fred is a great way for me to begin my Fringe experience. It's showing at the fantastic 505 Theatre (what a stellar year they're having – I've seen so many great shows there this year) and is a not-to-be-missed experience.
Fred is on from Wednesday 28 August through to Sunday 8 September. You can grab your tickets here.


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While a member of the Barberton High football team, which captured the 1947 Ohio championship, Bob Toneff was an all-state. At Notre Dame, he earned All-American honors at tackle, was a standout in the annual East-West Shrine Game and was named most valuable lineman in the College All-Star Game in Chicago and the Hula Bowl. Drafted by the San Francisco 49ers, Toneff was named Rookie of the Year in 1952. He was a frequent member of the All-Pro squad for both San Francisco and the Washington Redskins during a 13-year career which ended with retirement in 1965.


On Saturday April 9 there will be an all day benefit CONCERT FOR JAPAN at the Japan Society in New York City. The traditional Japanese music portion will be from 2:45-4:00pm (14:45-16:00).
At the very end of the concert, myself and a number of students will play "Banshiki," a honkyoku which is played to ease the passing of the spirit from one life to the next. The entire day's events will be live webcast, and I thought that everyone who can should play this piece, or another honkyoku, at the same time, as a wonderful and appropriate way to ease the suffering in Japan. We will play Banshiki at about ten minutes to the hour so if you can, please tune in and join us. Here's the link for the webcast.


Jack Swagger competed in his first-ever professional MMA fight at Bellator 214 in Los Angeles. The former WWE Champion had quite a bit of fanfare as well including R-Truth showing up to rap the Real American American to the cage.
Mike Johnson commented on PW Insider Elite audio that WWE and Bellator certainly had to reach an agreement for Swagger's fight to go down as it did. The MMA company not only featured an active WWE Superstar, but they also used plenty of WWE-owned clips in the process.
It is currently unknown what WWE could have received in return, but something had to have been arranged before Bellator started airing WWE clips. If anything, the fact that R-Truth appeared on the show and performed wouldn't be allowed unless WWE said it was okay too.


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World Sports / Murder
Ghana journalist who exposed African football graft shot dead
17 January 2019, MVT 22:01
Mansuru Tahiru (2nd R) the cousin of murdered Ghanian undercover reporter Ahmed Hussein Suale sits with friends during a mourning gathering in Accra on January 17, 2019. - Family and friends gather to discuss the murder of Ghanian undercover reporter Ahmed Hussein Suale at a popular spot where he used to sit and drink with family and friends in Accra. Ghanaian police on January 17, 2019 opened an investigation after an undercover journalist who helped expose corruption in African football was shot dead. (Photo by RUTH MCDOWALL / AFP)
Ghanaian police on Thursday opened an investigation after an undercover journalist who helped expose corruption in African football was shot dead.
"Our men are on the ground currently gathering information", said the director of the criminal investigations department, Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Dankwa
"Everyone connected to this murder will be invited for questioning," he told AFP.
Ahmed Husein was part of a team led by award-winning journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, whose probe led to the resignation of the head of the Ghana Football Association.
Dozens of football referees and officials in several countries were also banned, including Nigerian national team coach Salisu Yusuf, for receiving cash from undercover journalists posing as agents.
Husein was shot in the neck and the chest by unknown gunmen on his way home Wednesday night in the capital Accra, police said.
Confirming the incident, Anas tweeted: "Sad news, but we shall not be silenced. Rest in peace, Ahmed."
Husein had previously made a complaint to police after a Ghanaian lawmaker, Kennedy Agyapong, showed his photograph on a private television channel.
He promised payment for supporters who took retribution against Husein.
"That boy that's very dangerous, he lives here in Madina. If he comes here, beat him," he said, pointing to Husein's image.
In the undercover investigation into football corruption, Agyapong's name was mentioned by implicated sporting officials.
Husein's lawyer, Kissi Agyabeng, said the member of parliament had questions to answer.
"He invited the world to beat him up and said he will pay for it and now he has been killed," he said.
"How can you put pictures of someone out there and splash it on national TV and ask people to go after his life for a reward? In law this is abetment of crime."
The Committee for the Protection of Journalists called for an immediate investigation and for Ghanaian authorities to "ensure that threats against the press are taken seriously".
Ghana ranked 23rd out of 180 countries in the Reporters Without Borders 2018 World Press Freedom Index -- an improvement of three places on the previous year.
RSF has previously condemned threats against Anas himself after he revealed "threatening calls, intimidatory messages and suspicious vehicles near his home".
The reporter, whose other exposes have lifted the lid on graft in the judicial system, is distinctive for wearing hats and face-coverings to conceal his identity.
He has also faced threats from Agyapong, who belongs to President Nana Akufo-Addo's ruling New Patriotic Party.
Ghana's national media regulator condemned the killing.
"It will be in the national interest to arrest the perpetrators of this crime," the commission's chairman Yaw Boadu Ayeboafo said in a statement.
Ghanaian journalists condemned the killing of the 34-year-old reporter, who played a key role in last year's investigation.
Football's world governing body FIFA last October banned former Ghana FA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi for life and fined him nearly $500,000 (439,000 euros) after he was seen on camera accepting bribes.
Nyantakyi was accused of requesting $11 million to secure government contracts.
Eight referees and assistant referees were banned for life while 53 officials were subject to 10-year bans. Fourteen officials were exonerated.
The revelations rocked Ghana, a country where football is the national sport and which prides itself as a stable democracy in an often turbulent region.
Accra, Ghana | AFP
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Expanding Swindon firms are being urged to attend a major business show in Bath this Thursday, which are expected to reach more than 500 delegates from across the South West.
The the Bath Business Expo, in the city's Assembly Rooms, aims to inspire small and medium-sized businesses and locally-based corporates, start-ups and pre start-ups to further growth through its comprehensive free seminar programme.
Highlights of the seminar programme include as an interview with Olympian Sharron Davies MBE and a talk by Wessex Water on sustainability in business.
Additions to the programme include a talk by Frome-based marketing firm TBT on content marketing and a presentation about taking on apprentices by Bath College.
Delegates will also get an insight into 'how to keep customers for longer, increase their spend and generate more referrals' by Daniel Plowright and the inside track on 'networking that actually works' by networking expert Philippa Constable.
Bath Business Expo announced today that Angelina Cannizzaro of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will give talk entitled "The EU Exit – what SMEs need to consider in order to prepare for exit from the European Union".
Alongside the seminars there will be networking events including specific-sector and themed gathering for property & construction; creatives & marketeers; start-ups and young businesses; and techies & entrepreneurs.


Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.
I was not very enthusiatic about seeing this movie as I could not believe it could do justice to the magnificent book by Ian McEwan. How wrong I was. I was immediately caught up in this movie's beauty (visually) and its trueness to the original. Extremely well acted, even though I am not usually a Keira Knightly fan. This heartrenching tale has been incredibly well adapted to screen.
Never expected much of this movie, but I can honestly say it is a masterpiece. Great cinematography. Love the way the director made this movie. A real treat.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using HashCode2017.Qualification.Classes;

namespace HashCode2017.Practice
{
    public class DataParser
    {
        public static IEnumerable<string> ReadFile(ProblemSettings problemSetting)
        {
            var assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
            switch (problemSetting)
            {
                    case ProblemSettings.kittens:
                        return EmbeddedResourceReader.ReadStrings("HashCode2017.Qualification.Resources.kittens.in", assembly);
                    case ProblemSettings.me_at_the_zoo:
                        return EmbeddedResourceReader.ReadStrings("HashCode2017.Qualification.Resources.me_at_the_zoo.in", assembly);
                    case ProblemSettings.trending_today:
                        return EmbeddedResourceReader.ReadStrings("HashCode2017.Qualification.Resources.trending_today.in", assembly);
                    case ProblemSettings.video_worth_spreading:
                        return EmbeddedResourceReader.ReadStrings("HashCode2017.Qualification.Resources.videos_worth_spreading.in", assembly);
                default:
                    throw new ArgumentException();
            }

        }

        public static void ParseFileLines(string[] fileLines,
            out Video[] videos,
            out Endpoint[] endpoints,
            out CacheServer[] cacheServers,
            out RequestDescription[] requests,
            IProgress<float> progress
            )
        {
            progress.Report(0);

            int totalLines = fileLines.Length;
            int currentLine = 0;

            int[] specs = fileLines[currentLine].Split(' ').Select(int.Parse).ToArray();

            progress.Report(currentLine/(float)totalLines);

            int videoCount = specs[0];
            int endpointCount = specs[1];
            int requestCount = specs[2];
            int cachServerCount = specs[3];
            int cachecapacity = specs[4];

            // init Arrays
            cacheServers = new CacheServer[cachServerCount];
            videos = new Video[videoCount];
            endpoints = new Endpoint[endpointCount];
            requests = new RequestDescription[requestCount];
            CacheServer.MAXSIZE = cachecapacity;

            for (int i = 0; i < cachServerCount; i++)
            {
                cacheServers[i] = new CacheServer(i);
            }

            // Parse Videos
            int[] videoSizes = fileLines[++currentLine].Split(' ').Select(int.Parse).ToArray();
            if (videoSizes.Length != videoCount)
                {
                    throw new Exception("Video Count mismatch");
                }

            for (int i = 0; i < videoSizes.Length; i++)
            {
                var newVideo = new Video(videoSizes[i], i);
                videos[i] = newVideo;
            }

            // ParseEndpoints and cacheData
            for (int i = 0; i < endpointCount; i++)
            {
                progress.Report(currentLine/(float)totalLines);
                int endpointId = ++currentLine;
                int[] endpointSpecs = fileLines[endpointId].Split(' ').Select(int.Parse).ToArray();
                int endpointLatency = endpointSpecs[0];
                int connectedCaches = endpointSpecs[1];
                var newEndpoint = new Endpoint(endpointId, endpointLatency);

                for (int j = 0; j < connectedCaches; j++)
                {
                    int[] cacheSpecs = fileLines[++currentLine].Split(' ').Select(int.Parse).ToArray();
                    int cacheId = cacheSpecs[0];
                    int cacheLatency = cacheSpecs[1];

                    // Add cache Server Info
                    newEndpoint.AddCacheConnection(cacheServers[cacheId], cacheLatency);
                }

                endpoints[i] = newEndpoint;
            }

            // Parse Requests
            for (int i = 0; i < requestCount; i++)
            {
                progress.Report(currentLine/(float)totalLines);
                int[] requestSpecs = fileLines[++currentLine].Split(' ').Select(int.Parse).ToArray();
                int videoId = requestSpecs[0];
                int endpointId = requestSpecs[1];
                int numberOfRequests = requestSpecs[2];

                var newRequest = new RequestDescription(videos[videoId], endpoints[endpointId], numberOfRequests);
                requests[i] = newRequest;
            }

            progress.Report(1);
        }

        public enum ProblemSettings
        {
            kittens,
            me_at_the_zoo,
            trending_today,
            video_worth_spreading
        }
    }
}


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Photosynthesis breakthrough crams millions of years of plant evolution into months
By Matthew Griffin Earth and Energy 18th November 2016
Scientists have used gene editing to turn off specific plant genes to boost plant growth by 15%, if transplanted into rice, maize and wheat this could help reduce famine and hunger in the world without the need to use extra fertilisers or chemicals.
Scientists have improved "the most important biological process on the planet" – photosynthesis.
The breakthrough, published in the journal Science, used genetic modification to increase the amount of sunlight crops convert into food by 15%. That's a whopping amount – the equivalent to 100 million years worth of evolution crammed into just a few months.
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The researchers, from the University of Illinois, University of California Berkeley and the University of Lancaster, lead by Professor Stephen Long say this is a critical step towards increasing crop production to feed a growing global population and attributed the breakthrough to decades of research into the 140 step photosynthesis process where plants convert sunlight energy into food. And it's this research that helped the team find specific "inefficiencies in crops".
"There are bottlenecks holding up the conversion of sunlight energy into food," said Long, "our research has tackled one of those bottlenecks."
The scientists targeted a plant's natural Sun protection mechanism – while plants have evolved to produce food using sunlight energy, they have also evolved to protect themselves from Sun damage, which slows the process down.
"To protect itself, the leaf induces a process that gets rid of excess energy as heat," said Long, "but the problem is when a cloud moves across the Sun, there's less sunlight energy – the plant could use it all, but it carries on dispensing that energy as heat. So what we've done is speed up the process that turns that heat loss off faster."
The team did it by inserting extra copies of the genes responsible for this "heat-loss switch" into Tobacco lab plants and when they then grew their genetically modified crop, it grew 15% larger than normal.
"This is a big jump," said Long, "well, we're now making this change in rice, in soy bean and wheat; 15% in those would be huge. Globally rice, wheat, maize and soybean are the biggest crops. So if we could get the same increase in those, that would greatly alleviate what we see as the future pressure on food supply."
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That pressure will intensify in the coming few decades, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO).
"The United Nations predicts that by 2050 we're going to need to produce about 70 percent more food on the land we're currently using," Long said, "my attitude is that it is very important to have these new technologies on the shelf now because it can take 20 years before such inventions can reach farmer's fields. If we don't do it now, we won't have this solution when we need it."
"At the current rate we're not going to come close to reaching that target, so we're really in desperate need of new innovations," said Long, "so for us in the West food prices will go up, but for some of the poorest nations, many households are already spending almost 100% of their household income on food, so for those families and those countries, this will be a catastrophe."
"This is great news but it's just one change, and we don't yet know if these plants will require more of other resources like water. It's really important to increase crop yields significantly, but also sustainably," said Dr Hans Dreyer, from the UNFAO's of the plant production and protection division.
Meanwhile Prof Christine Foyer, who directs a food security project for Sub-Saharan Africa at the the University of Leeds, described the breakthrough as "vital".
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"In terms of making Africa green and solving the problems associated with agriculture in those parts of the world improving the processes involved in photosynthesis is an important step in solving food security. Many people in the world today don't get enough to eat. And it's possible to envisage, with these new developments, that we can achieve zero hunger within the next 20 years," she said.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded the research, with the stipulation that any new agricultural products that result from the work be licensed in such a way that the technology is freely available to farmers in poor countries of Africa and South Asia.
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A History Lover's Guide to Albuquerque
On Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 2:00 P.M., Albuquerque Historical Society's immediate Past President Roger Zimmerman will present his new book, A History Lover's Guide to Albuquerque. This book goes beyond the traditional guidebook to offer a historical journal through an area rich with diverse cultures and their fascinating past. Major museums, libraries, ethnic centers, historical displays and special historical treasures will be discussed. It is intended that this guide will help the reader find satisfaction in either visiting or exploring topics of choice. Autographed copies of the book will be for sale after the program or can be purchased online here.
A History Lover's Guide to Albuquerque goes beyond the traditional guidebook to offer a historical journal through an area rich with diverse cultures and their fascinating past. The journey through time starts with the settlement of Native Americans in Pueblos along the Rio Grande and then initiatives by Spain to settle and Christianize the region. Mexico took over the territory in 1821 and the Old Town plaza flourished with Santa Fe Trail trade, gladly accepted the U. S. presence in 1846, and adjusted as the Confederates briefly governed in 1862. New Town Albuquerque emerged when the railroad came in 1880 and visitors will see results of significant expansion efforts. Route 66 came through the center of Albuquerque to drastically change the layout of the city. World War II and the following Cold War brought about major military and governmental development efforts that are summarized at a major national museum. Major museums, libraries, ethnic centers, historical displays and special historical treasures are discussed. It is intended that this guide will help the reader find satisfaction in either visiting or exploring topics of choice.
The program will be held at the Albuquerque Museum at 2000 Mountain Rd. NW in Old Town. Parking is free in the lot south of the Museum. Admission to the Museum and the AHS program is also free. Seating is limited, so come early to guarantee yourself a seat.
Roger Max Zimmerman was born at Rehoboth Mission east of Gallup, New Mexico. His early years were spent at Mariano Lake Trading Post. He graduated from high school at New Mexico Military Institute and enrolled at the University of Colorado where he received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees. He taught Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado from 1959 to 1964 and at New Mexico State University from 1964 to 1979. He was then employed at Sandia National Laboratories where he worked on projects associated with the storage of nuclear waste, weapons components testing programs, and rocket systems target deployments. He retired in 2000 as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. Roger served as President of the Albuquerque Historical Society from 2013-2019. He has written two books: Kitchen's Opera House, Gallup, New Mexico (2012) and A History Lover's Guide to Albuquerque (2019)


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In Celebration of International Museum Day: World Museums In Fiction
by Rana Asfour
Every year since 1977 International Museum Day is organised worldwide around May 18. This day is an occasion to raise awareness on how important museums are in the development of society. This year's theme is Museums and Cultural Landscapes, which is also the theme of the General Conference of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), to be held in Milan, Italy from 3 to 9 July 2016.
The objective of International Museum Day is to raise awareness of the fact that, "Museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples." Organised on and around 18 May each year, the events and activities planned to celebrate International Museum Day can last a day, a weekend or a whole week. Participation in International Museum Day is growing among museums all over the world. In 2015, more than 35,000 museums participated in the event in some 145 countries.
Here's how BookFabulous decided to mark this year's event:
The Smithsonian in Washington, US
It is believed that The Smithsonian first appeared in an 1869 novel by Mark Twain entitled 'The Innocents Abroad'. The novel is based on Twain's real excursion aboard a refurbished Civil War ship, the Quaker City (USS Quaker City) to the Holy Land. Twain's trip includes stops in Paris for the 1867 Paris Exhibition, the Black Sea and numerous Mediterranean ports. The story reveals Twain's reflection on Americans in foreign countries and the reaction of history meeting modernisation.
The Smithsonian has also been referenced in 'The Professor's House' by Willa Cather (1925), 'Wing of Fame: A Novel Based on the Life of James Smithson' by Louise Wallace Hackney (1934), 'Murder in the Smithsonian' by Margaret Truman Daniel (1985) as well as 'A Perfect Spy' by John le Carre (1986) among others.
The Museum of Innocence in Istanbul, Turkey
This museum was founded in Turkey after a book carrying its name authored by Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk. 'The Museum of Innocence' - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. In his romantic pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years, Kemal compulsively amasses a collection of objects that chronicles his lovelorn progress; a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart.
Pamuk built 'The Museum of Innocence' in the house in which his hero's fictional family lived, to display Kemal's strange collection of objects associated with Fusun and their relationship. The house opened to the public in 2012 in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul.
The Louvre in Paris, France
Written in 1927 by Arthur Bernède, the author of Judex, the classic of French criminal literature 'Belphégor' (The Phantom of the Louvre), spawned no less than three motion pictures, one television series and one animated show.
Also, in more recent times, 'The De Vince Code' by Dan Brown, a novel that has spurred and continues to spur various trips to the Louvre in which visitors get to walk in the footsteps of the book's hero Robert Langdon. The novel begins with Harvard professor Langdon receiving a late night call to assist in the murder of the Louvre's curator found inside the museum alongside baffling codes. An investigation ensues that will lead to uncovering some of history's best kept secrets.
The British Museum in London, UK
Probably the first work of fiction in which the British Museum Reading Room plays an important part as a setting is 'New Grub Street' by George Gissing, published in 1891.
'The British Museum is Falling Down' is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis (in the reading room of The British Museum) but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child.
Virginia Woolf made reference to the British Museum Reading Room in a passage from her 1929 essay, 'A Room of One's Own'. She wrote, "The swing doors swung open, and there one stood under the vast dome, as if one were a thought in the huge bald forehead which is so splendidly encircled by a band of famous names'.
New York Museum of Natural History in New York, US
The thriller 'Relic' and its sequels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are set in their entirety in the halls of the New York Museum of Natural History which witness deaths that the police describe as 'un-human' bringing in agent Pendergast to investigate. Author Douglas Preston was manager of publications at the museum before embarking upon his fiction writing career.
The museum is also mentioned in J.D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye', the novel 'A Murder at the Museum of Natural History' by Michael Jahn (1994) as well as being the setting for the 1970 novel 'The Great Dinosaur Robbery' by David Forrest among others.
& museums in children books
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the setting for the children's book by E.L.Konigsburg entitled 'From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler' (1967). The book won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1968. In 2005, it was voted as one of the 100 best books for children. In 2012 it was ranked number seven among all-time children's novels in a survey published in the US.
The story revolves around New York City girl Claudia, a mere month shy of being a twelve-year-old, who has resolved to run away from home with her younger brother, Jamie. Her destination? The grand, elegant, beautiful, all-encompassing Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, no sooner do they settle into their new home, than they are caught up in the mystery of an angel statue bought by the museum for the bargain price of $225. Claudia is determined to find out whether the statue is in fact a Michelangelo worth millions, and her quest leads her to the remarkable, secretive Mrs. Frankweiler, who sold the statue to the museum - and to some equally remarkable discoveries about herself.
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