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New Quotas for Immigration Judges as Trump Administration Seeks Faster Deportations
Rules were laid out in a message sent Friday to immigration judges
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WASHINGTON—The Justice Department has notified immigration judges that it will begin evaluating their job performance based on how quickly they close cases, aiming to speed deportation decisions and reduce a lengthy backlog.
The new quotas for judges to meet—laid out in a memo sent Friday to immigration judges—follow other directives by the department to expedite handling of cases. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has said that the backlog at the immigration courts allows people who should be deported to linger inside the U.S.
The union representing immigration judges counters that the metrics are a threat to their judicial independence, while lawyers warn they will unduly influence judge's decisions.
The new standards, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, are to take effect for the next fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. They have not been released publicly.
In an email to judges sent Friday, James McHenry, director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, said the new system of metrics wasn't unique to the immigration courts.
Trump Says DACA Is Dead Because Democrats 'Didn't Care'
"The purpose of implementing these metrics is to encourage efficient and effective case management while preserving immigration judge discretion and due process," he wrote.
Under the new quotas, judges will be required to complete 700 cases a year and to see fewer than 15% of their decisions sent back by a higher court. Over the past five years, the average judge completed 678 cases in a year, said Justice Department spokesman Devin O'Malley. But there was a range, he said, with some judges completing as many as 1,500 cases in a year.
In addition, they will be required to meet other metrics, depending on their particular workload. One standard demands that 85% of removal cases for people who are detained be completed within three days of a hearing on the merits of the case. Another metric demands that 95% of all merits hearings be completed on the initial scheduled hearing date.
Immigration attorneys and the union that represents judges warned the rules would pressure judges to resolve cases quickly at the expense of hearing out evidence that could help defendants trying to stay in the U.S.
"This is a recipe for disaster," said A. Ashley Tabaddor, an immigration judge in Los Angeles who is president of the National Association of Immigration Judges. "You are going to, at minimum, impact the perception of the integrity of the court."
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Union officials also complained that they had not been given details needed to determine how performance will be calculated. And they said that some judges, for instance those working on the U.S.-Mexico border, have dockets with lots of quick cases and others have more cases that are complex and drawn-out.
Mr. O'Malley said the Friday letter to the judges made clear they will have the opportunity to "provide input" before they are rated unsatisfactory on any measurement.
The quotas are the most significant but not the first effort by the Justice Department to push immigration judges to move cases more quickly. Last July, the chief immigration judge wrote a memo to judges and others discouraging them from postponing cases. In December, Mr. Sessions wrote a memo arguing that the "timely and efficient adjudication of immigration cases" serves "the national interest."
Unlike judges in regular courts, immigration judges work for the executive branch of government, in this case the Justice Department.
The backlog in the immigration courts is approaching 700,000 cases, up from fewer than 225,000 in 2009, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
The judges union warns imposing quotas ultimately could exacerbate the backlog by encouraging people to appeal decisions and argue that the judge didn't give them adequate time to make their case because he or she was trying to meet a quota.
Greg Chen, director of government affairs for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said his group worries that judges will make decisions based on how it affects their status rather than according to the law.
"These are not mere target goals," he said. "This is your job depends upon your ability to make sure you come in at these levels."
Write to Laura Meckler at laura.meckler@wsj.com
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Q: How to iterate through an array to populate buttons for AppleScript dialog? I am having issues trying to figure out how I can iterate through an array that I am using to populate labels for buttons of an AppleScript dialog box.
I currently have an array of 13 objects, which are departments for our jamf instance. An AppleScript dialog box has a max of 3 buttons you can assign. So I am trying to iterate through my array to show 2 options at a time, and the third button being "Next" to get to the next 2 options and so forth.
I also want to cover the situation for if the user has to go all the way to the last option, that it adjusts the buttons accordingly such as leaving the last dialog to have either 1 or 2 buttons if that is how many options are left.
I have set the array with the 13 items, then tried a while loop, with a nested if statement to check to see if there are 1 or 2 remaining options and to remove the extra buttons.
departments=("Accounting" "Compliance" "Data Science" "DevOps" "Engineering" "Executive Team" "Human Resources" "Marketing" "Member Experience" "Member Experience Managers" "Product" "QA" "Risk" "Not Listed")
departmentsCount=${#departments[@]}

i=0
dpt=""
while [ "$dpt" != "Not Listed" ]
do
  if [[ $((departmentsCount - $i)) -eq 0 ]]; then
    a=$i
    dpt=$(osascript -e 'Tell application "System Events" to display dialog "Please select your Department:" buttons {"'"${departments[$a]}"'"} default button 1' 2>/dev/null | sed 's/button returned://')
    i=$i+2
  elif [[ $((departmentsCount - $i)) -eq 1 ]]; then
    a=$i
    b=$(i+1)
    dpt=$(osascript -e 'Tell application "System Events" to display dialog "Please select your Department:" buttons {"'"${departments[$a]}"'", "'"${departments[$b]}"'"} default button 2' 2>/dev/null | sed 's/button returned://')
    echo "$dpt"
    i=$i+2
  else
    a=$i
    b=$i+1
    dpt=$(osascript -e 'Tell application "System Events" to display dialog "Please select your Department:" buttons {"'"${departments[$a]}"'", "'"${departments[$b]}"'", "Next"} default button 3' 2>/dev/null | sed 's/button returned://')
    i=$i+2
  fi
done

Right now I am getting an endless loop as $dpt never gets set to Other. I haven't figured out how I can get the loop to quit if something other than Next is selected. Maybe I need to change the type of loop I am using or how I am using my variables.

A: I think you're using the wrong approach to this.  Try a choose from list dialog instead:
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to (choose from list {"Accounting", "Compliance", "Data Science", "DevOps", "Engineering", "Executive Team", "Human Resources", "Marketing", "Member Experience", "Member Experience Managers", "Product", "QA", "Risk", "Not Listed"} with prompt "Please select your Department:")'

That will give your users one dialog where they can choose from all 13 departments at once. Much more user-friendly, and avoids the loop headache.

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Seneca Falls Resolutions: Women's Rights Demands in 1848
Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, July 19-20 1848
From the North Star, July 1848. Courtesy Library of Congress
At the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, the body considered both a Declaration of Sentiments, modeled on the 1776 Declaration of Independence, and a series of resolutions. On the first day of the convention, July 19, only women were invited; the men who attended were asked to observe and not participate. The women decided to accept the votes of men for both the Declaration and Resolutions, so final adoption was part of the business of the second day of the convention.
All of the resolutions were adopted, with few changes from the originals written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott before the convention. In the History of Woman's Suffrage, vol. 1, Elizabeth Cady Stanton reports that the resolutions were all adopted unanimously, except the resolution on women voting, which was more contentious. On the first day, Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke strongly for including the right to vote among the rights called for. Frederick Douglass spoke on the second day of the convention in support of women's suffrage, and that is often credited with swinging the final vote to endorse that resolution.
One final resolution was introduced by Lucretia Mott on the evening of the second day, and it was adopted:
Resolved, That the speedy success of our cause depends upon the zealous and untiring efforts of both men and women, for the overthrow of the monopoly of the pulpit, and for the securing to woman an equal participation with men in the various trades, professions and commerce.
Note: the numbers are not in the original, but are included here to make discussion of the document easier.
Whereas, the great precept of nature is conceded to be, "that man shall pursue his own true and substantial happiness," Blackstone, in his Commentaries, remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original; Therefore,
Resolved, That such laws as conflict, in any way, with the true and substantial happiness of woman, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and of no validity; for this is "superior in obligation to any other."
Resolved, That all laws which prevent woman from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.
Resolved, That woman is man's equal -- was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she should be recognized as such.
Resolved, That the women of this country ought to be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation, by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.
Resolved, That inasmuch as man, while claiming for himself intellectual superiority, does accord to woman moral superiority, it is pre-eminently his duty to encourage her to speak, and teach, as she has an opportunity, in all religious assemblies.
Resolved, That the same amount of virtue, delicacy, and refinement of behavior, that is required of woman in the social state, should also be required of man, and the same transgressions should be visited with equal severity on both man and woman.
Resolved, That the objection of indelicacy and impropriety, which is so often brought against woman when she addresses a public audience, comes with a very ill grace from those who encourage, by their attendance, her appearance on the stage, in the concert, or in the feats of the circus.
Resolved, That woman has too long rested satisfied in the circumscribed limits which corrupt customs and a perverted application of the Scriptures have marked out for her, and that it is time she should move in the enlarged sphere which her great Creator has assigned her.
Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
Resolved, That the equality of human rights results necessarily from the fact of the identity of the race in capabilities and responsibilities.
Resolved, therefore, That, being invested by the Creator with the same capabilities, and the same consciousness of responsibility for their exercise, it is demonstrably the right and duty of woman, equally with man, to promote every righteous cause, by every righteous means; and especially in regard to the great subjects of morals and religion, it is self-evidently her right to participate with her brother in teaching them, both in private and in public, by writing and by speaking, by any instrumentalities proper to be used, and in any assemblies proper to be held; and this being a self-evident truth, growing out of the divinely implanted principles of human nature, any custom or authority adverse to it, whether modern or wearing the hoary sanction of antiquity, is to be regarded as self-evident falsehood, and at war with the interests of mankind.
Some notes on the words chosen:
Resolutions 1 and 2 are adapted from Blackstone's Commentaries, with some text taken verbatum. Specifically: "Of the Nature of Laws in General," William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books (New York, 1841), 1:27-28.2) (See also: Blackstone Commentaries)
The text of resolution 8 also appears in a resolution written by Angelina Grime, and introduced at the female antislavery convention of 1837.
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(December 5, 2018 – Hamilton, ON) Amy Jo Johnson's second feature behind the camera has wrapped production in this city. Titled Tammy's Alway's Dying, the film costars Academy Award nominee Felicity Huffman (Transamerica, American Crime, Desperate Housewives) and Anastasia Phillips (Bomb Girls, Reign, Skins) in a script by Joanne Sarazen.
No stranger in front of the camera, Amy Jo Johnson is best known for her work in series television including multiple seasons on shows like Felicity and Flashpoint (pictured above) and of course playing Kimberly Hart, the Pink Ranger in the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers series and movies. She began directing short films in 2014. Tammy's Alway's Dying is produced by Jessica Adams of JA Productions and is co-produced with Harry Cherniak of Plainspeak Pictures. It is executive produced by Martin Katz and Karen Wookey of Prospero Pictures, as well as Joannie Burstein along with Felicity Huffman and Amy Jo Johnson.
Described as a "dark comedy" the synopsis supports that description: Tammy's Always Dying follows 35-year-old Catherine (Phillips), as she has to talk her charismatic yet self-destructive mother Tammy (Felicity Huffman) off the ledge of the same bridge every month when the welfare money runs out. But when Tammy is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Catherine's role as caregiver intensifies. Growing more and more isolated, Catherine turns to a glamorous agent, who suggests that Catherine sell the only interesting thing about herself – her miserable life story. Caught between an enabling mother-daughter relationship and talk show attention, Catherine begins to view her mother's death as her only way out. The only problem is, Tammy just won't die.
Supporting cast includes Clark Johnson (S.W.A.T., Bosch, The Wire), Aaron Ashmore (Killjoys, Veronica Mars, Smallville), Kristian Bruun (Orphan Black) and Lauren Holly (Dumb and Dumber, NCIS).
Tammy's Alway's Dying was produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Tajj Film Distribution, NABET 700-M UNIFOR and Eggplant Picture & Sound. Commissioned by Bell Media's Crave and CBC Films, it was developed with the assistance of The Harold Greenberg Fund and the Canadian Film centre (CFC), and with support from IFP.
As the shoot has just wrapped, there are no details such as length or release dates available. Click here for more about Tammy's Alway's Dying.
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As a champion of civil liberties in the World War II era, Francis ("Frank") William Murphy had an extraordinary political and legal career. An associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1940 to 1949, he previously had served in local, state, and federal government. He was appointed U.S. governor general of the Philippine Islands in 1935, elected governor of Michigan in 1936, and appointed U.S. attorney general in 1939. Murphy's support for workers, women, and members of religious and racial minority groups, as well as his broad reading of the First and Fourth Amendments, distinguished him at a time when both the federal government and the Court moved slowly in upholding Civil Rights.
Born in Sand Beach (later Harbor Beach), Michigan, April 13, 1890, Murphy was the son of an Irish Catholic country lawyer and a devoutly religious mother. He studied at the University of Michigan before being admitted to the state bar in 1914. He then went off to fight in France and Germany in World War I. On returning to Michigan, he acquired legal experience by working in the state attorney general's office and in private practice. He next became judge for the principal criminal court in Detroit, which in turn led to a political career. A pro-labor Democrat, Murphy was mayor of Detroit from 1930 to 1933.
In the midst of the Great Depression, Murphy supported franklin d. roosevelt for president in 1932. President Roosevelt rewarded him with appointment as the governor general of the Philippine Islands. Murphy enacted Minimum Wage laws and supported women's suffrage while helping to effect the country's transition to independence. Returning to Michigan, he campaigned and won election as governor in 1936. That year the historic sit-down strike by 135,000 automobile workers proved to be the turning point in Murphy's career. He refused to deploy state police against the unpopular strikers and as a consequence lost his reelection bid in 1938.
President Roosevelt named him to his administration. Although Murphy wanted to be secretary of war—and, indeed, would spend several years trying to find ways to join the war effort—Roosevelt had other plans. The president made him U.S. attorney general. Murphy established the first civil liberties unit in the Justice Department and brought suit against trust companies and a powerful Democratic Party boss, Thomas J. Pendergast of Kansas City. In 1939 the death of Associate Justice Pierce Butler opened the so-called Catholic seat on the Supreme Court, and Roosevelt gave it to a reluctant Murphy, who thought himself less qualified than others.
"Official compulsion to affirm what is contrary to one's religious beliefs is the antithesis of freedom of worship."
Murphy served for nine years as an associate justice. He wrote 199 opinions. Inherently suspicious of government power and passionately devoted to the rights of the weak, Murphy supported civil rights in nearly every case. He scorned the federal government's treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II, for example, and at other times sided with the claims of workers and religious minority groups.
This philosophy found its best expression in 1944. "The law knows no finer hour," Murphy wrote in one of his many dissents, "than when it cuts through formal concepts and transitory emotions to protect unpopular citizens against discrimination and persecution"(Falbo v. United States, 320 U.S. 549, 64 S. Ct. 346, 88 L. Ed. 305). That case was one of several in the 1940s involving church-state issues that concerned the rights of the Jehovah's Witnesses, in this case a Conscientious Objector. Murphy often voted in favor of upholding First Amendment claims; for example, he joined the majority in ending compulsory flag-saluting for children in public schools (West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 63 S. Ct. 1178, 87 L. Ed. 1628 ). In another important speech case, Murphy wrote the majority opinion protecting Labor Union picketing (Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U.S. 88, 60 S. Ct. 736, 84 L. Ed. 1093 ). Yet more often than not, his broader reading of individual rights led him into dissent against the majority.
On and off the Court, Murphy faced criticism for his idealism. He was seen as too emotional at the expense of strict legal thinking. He was the target of the popular barb, "justice tempered with Murphy." His personal life only fed his somewhat prim reputation, because he was a hypochondriac who never drank, smoked, or married. Chief Justice harlan f. stone disliked him for another reason: he thought Murphy was too reliant on his law clerks.
Although Murphy occasionally seemed out of step with both the Court and his times, his broad vision of civil liberties was later vindicated. In particular, he believed in vigorous application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures by the police. Murphy dissented in Wolf v. Colorado, 338 U.S. 25, 69 S. Ct. 1359, 93 L. Ed. 1782 (1949), where the Court refused to apply to the states what already existed for federal courts: the ban on admitting improperly seized evidence in a trial. He wrote that the majority, by leaving state courts out of the equation, was allowing "lawlessness by officers of the law." Twelve years later, in 1961, a different Supreme Court agreed with him and overruled Wolf in the landmark case mapp v. ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 81 S. Ct. 1684, 6 L. Ed. 2d 1081 (1961). Murphy died on July 19, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan.
Witt, Elder, ed. 1990. Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court. 2d ed. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly.
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Q: How to use different hosting account for one magento engine with several webstores? I have a task to create upto ten different webstores with general admin panel. Each webstore has own account and own prices. But catalog and product are almost the same.
If I would use one server, it should be very expensive one. I would like to create one server for magento DB and each webstore must has own server and domain name.

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*100 store views

*Each store has 1000 visitors per day

*Each store has 1000 categories

*Each store has 2000 products

But I'm not clear enough how to do it? We should sync files somehow then...or not?

A: Using the multistore setup for Magento will allow you to run more frontends using the same codebase. First step would be defining the storeviews. Then you can define env variables via htaccess/httpd.conf so Magento can serve the right content based on the accessed domain:
SetEnvIf Host .*site.* MAGE_RUN_CODE=storex

This would be your starting point. For a while, you may be able to handle all the load using a single frontend. If you find that you need more, there are a few steps you need to take:

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*Have a distributed cache backend, so all servers share the same cache. Memcache works great, there are a lot of tutorials on how to install Memcache and make it work with Magento

*Share the media files. You will have to share the media/ and var/ directories between all servers. I'd recommend using NFS, but there are many more ways to do this.

*Have a way to deploy the code. Since you want to make sure the code is the same on all servers, you'd have to do better than manually upload the code to all servers. A simple script to grab the code from the repository will do, but you can use third party services too. I personally am very happy with Beanstalk as a code deployment solution. Of course, you could just share all the root directory with NFS too.

*Have a load balancer. If you have multiple servers, you'd need to split the traffic between them. Again, a lot of options here. You can use third party services or do it yourself with something like pound.

The main point here is that you should start low. No point in having a server per frontend. You can start with 2 servers (so you have the multi-server setup in place) then scale based on traffic.
A more painful thing todo would be database scaling. You can easily spread frontend load as described, but they would still hit the same database. You can create a mysql master-slave setup and configure Magento to spread the reads. I'd recommend buying/renting the best hardware you can afford first though, it is way cheaper to scale the database vertically than horizontally.

A: I would do it like this:
1) Set up a server running Varnish (Varnish will forward the request to the corresponding node based on the URL):
 if (req.http.host ~ "www.store1.com") {
       set req.backend = server1; }
  elseif (req.http.host ~ "www.store2.com") {
       set req.backend = server2; }
   else  {set req.backend = defaultserver;}

2) Set up a single file server that holds all your Magento code:
Basically what you do is create a directory /var/whatever/you/want and put all the Magento code inside. After that you "simply" create an NFS share of this folder. (See here for a detailed guide)
3) Set up several webservers[/apache?] (one per store): This is where you mount the NFS share you just created above.
4) Mount the Magento folder from the file server onto each node (using NFS?)

A: Magento has a great Multi store architecture.
With Magento Multi Store architecture optimum way is to just have one Db and One code set.
This means all sites to be hosted on same server.This is not a compulsion but recommendation.
You will need to have copies of index.php files and .htacces for each website/store.
Some sym link for images etc.
Also you will need some open base dir restrictions taken care of.
If you use this setup then just adding one extension or customizing Magento one code set will make it available for all stores.
Which means lesser maintenance and Magento has built Multistore with that thought.
Following link : http://www.magento-exchange.com/installation-and-configuration/magento-multiple-stores-setup-with-different-look-and-feel/
will be of some help.


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Italy erupts as European champions come home to Rome
Thousands of fans packed Rome's sidewalks to wildly cheer Europe's new soccer champions as Italy toured the city in an open-topped bus on Monday evening, crowning a day that saw them honored at the presidential palace and premier's office and cited by the Pope.
The first Italy team to win the European Championship in 53 years knew it was in for an exhilarating day when it arrived at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport at dawn from London to be welcomed by a banner on the tarmac reading, "Grazie Azzurri."The first Italy team to win the European Championship in 53 years knew it was in for an exhilarating day when it arrived at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport at dawn from London to be welcomed by a banner on the tarmac reading, "Grazie Azzurri."
To rousing cheers from airport workers, captain Giorgio Chiellini pumped his fist in the air, and coach Roberto Mancini hoisted the trophy high over their heads. There was even a cheer for defender Leonardo Spinazzola, as he hopped down the steps on one foot, his other in a cast from an Achilles tendon injury.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella was at Wembley Stadium on Sunday night cheering with Azzurri fans as Italy won the Euro 2020 final following a 3-2 penalty shootout win over England. Then Mattarella raced back to Rome to be at the Quirinal presidential palace to greet the team.
"I'm not a (soccer) commentator," the president said, "but I thought you deserved the victory well beyond whatever happened during the penalty shootout."
Coach Mancini replied, "Let me thank you for being our No. 1 fan. We saw you exult, that gave us much pleasure."
In another compliment, Mattarella said, "You displayed a harmony of team among yourselves and in play, and now this is an extraordinary value, the sense of sport."
"This," captain Chiellini said, "is the success of a group, who even in difficult moments never lost heart."
Mattarella also generously praised another of his palace guests, tennis player Matteo Berrettini, who reached the Wimbledon final before succumbing on Sunday to Novak Djokovic.
The tennis star, in thanks, gave Mattarella a racket, and later squeezed aboard the open-topped bus among the soccer players, who whooped and cheered themselves in response to the public's adulation.
As the bus inched its way toward central Piazza Venezia, and eventually to the team's hotel, the players, each wearing the victory medal they received less than 24 hours before at Wembley, snapped photos of the celebrating fans and encouraged them with cheers through a bullhorn.
There was enough joy to go around to even reach the 10th-floor hospital suite of Pope Francis, who, even before the Italian victory, could savor the triumph of the team from his native Argentina, which won the Copa America on Saturday.
"In sharing the joy for the victory of the Argentine national and of the Italian national squads with the persons near to him, His Holiness dwelled on the meaning of sport and its values," Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in an update on the pope's convalescence in Rome following July 4 colon surgery.
Bruni said Francis spoke of "that sporting ability to know how to accept any result, even defeat."
When Premier Mario Draghi greeted each player in the courtyard of Chigi Palace, the government headquarters, he also cited the value of sports beyond playing fields and scoreboards.
"Sport teaches, unites," Draghi told his guests. "It's a social elevator, a dam against racism and an element of cohesion, especially in difficult moments."
In between the formal celebrations, some Italy players made a quick stop at a military hospital to receive a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, state TV said.
For Italians, the championship was a new beginning for their youthful national team and a country that's been yearning to return to normality after being the first nation outside of Asia to be slammed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A cacophony of honking cars, fireworks, and singing fans filled Rome on Sunday night as thousands of people took to the streets following the final. As the sun rose on Monday, the noise had died down but not the sentiment.
"It seems to me that this victory is so good for the national spirit after all that suffering for COVID," said Daniela Righino, an Italian living in Uruguay who was back in Rome for the final. "Yesterday was an explosion of joy. I'm happy."
Many Italians saw Euro 2020 uniting the country to relaunch after spending most of the past 16 months in pandemic lockdown. Italy has recorded more than 127,000 known COVID-19 deaths, the highest in the 27-nation European Union.
"It's been a complicated year for everyone but especially for us who were one of the first countries hit. This is a signal of a new beginning," said Michela Solfanelli, a 30-year-old event producer based in Milan.
Most virus restrictions have been lifted since the spring and those that remain were largely ignored by the mass of fans who danced overnight in the streets of the capital chanting, "We are champions of Europe."
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Venture capitalist Ram Shriram, whose stake in Google was once valued at $1.3 billion, has sold a part of his remaining small stake in search engine giant Google for $31 million. Shriram, who also sits on the board of Google, sold the shares over the last two months, according to a report in Business Insider.
Shriram and his wife sold around 42,000 shares for approximately $730 a unit as the stock reached an all time high on reports of Google settling the three-year antitrust case with European Union officials.
According to the report, Shriram still has over 150,000 shares left, which would be worth approximately $114 million according to Google's closing market price on Monday.
Shriram is one of the first investors and founding board member of Google and had held about 2.2% of the company at the time of its IPO in 2004 with over 5 million shares.
He is also the founding board member if 247customer.com.
Shriram was part of Netscape's executive team and later founded Junglee, an online comparison shopping firm which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. After the deal, he worked at Amazon.com for while before becoming a full time investor.
Shriram currently runs venture capital firm Sherpalo Ventures, which has been an active investor in Indian startups. Sherpalo's investments in India include mobile ad network InMobi, online travel portal Cleartrip, mobile payments firm Paymate, digital maps provider MapMyIndia and classifieds player Info Edge India.
According to the recent Forbes listing, Shriram had a net worth of $1.6 billion.


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Indian celebrities voice concerns over minority lynching
Published 30 July 2019 | April Moore
Indian celebrities voice their concerns over lynching of minorities and wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"The lynching of Muslims, Dalits (Indian lowest-caste) and other minorities must be stopped immediately. We were shocked to learn from the National Crime Records Bureau reports that there have been no less than 840 instances of atrocities against Dalits [lower Hindy caste] in the year 2016, and a definite decline in the percentage of convictions," the letter said.
The letter was signed by up to 49 celebrities, including filmmakers Anurag Kashyap, Shyam Benegal and Mani Ratnam, actor Konkona Sen Sharma and singer Shubha Mudgal.
The celebrities highlighted the fact on how the famous chant "Jai Shri Ram" has now turned into a provocative war cry that is leading to many law and order problems. "It is shocking that so much violence should be perpetrated in the name of religion! These are not the Middle Ages! The name of Ram (Hindu God) is sacred to many in the majority community of India. As the highest Executive of this country, you must put a stop to the name of Ram being defiled in this manner," they said in the letter.
"You have criticized such lynching in Parliament Mr. Prime Minister, but that is not enough. What action has actually been taken against the perpetrators?
"We strongly feel that such offenses should be declared non bailable and exemplary punishment should be meted out swiftly and surely," the letter continued.
At the same time, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has defended the government. In a talk with Press Trust of India news agency, the only Muslim in Modi's Cabinet said that minorities and Dalits are safe in the country.
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Six O'Clock Rock
(Johnny O'Keefe)
Single on Leedon by Johnny O'Keefe (1935-1978), Australia's biggest star of the rock'n'roll era, known to Australians as The Wild One, The King of Rock'n'Roll or just J.O'K.
Johnny O'Keefe himself wrote the theme song for Six O'Clock Rock, the Saturday evening teenage music show he took over on the government network ABC-TV in 1959. C'mon everybody it's six o'clock, ah-huh, ah-ha-huh/ Come on everybody it's time to rock, ah-ha-huh, ah-ha-huh...
This might have sounded out of character for the staid old "Auntie" ABC in 1959, especially since J.O'K. didn't fit the cleancut image of a Dick Clark or a Brian Henderson. Still, another respectable "auntie", the BBC, had set a precedent with its 6.5 Special from 1957.
Compositions by Johnny O'Keefe were not a feature of his repertoire, but they were not unheard of. Apart from the best-known example, his co-writer credit for The Wild One, O'Keefe's recording of his own Why Do They Doubt Our Love charted in three cities and was covered by others.
References, further reading: 1. Tony Harrison, The Australian Film and Television Companion (1994), p.314. (It wrongly has JO'K starting Six O'Clock Rock in 1961, the year he quit.) 2. Overview at johnnyokeefe.com of Johnny O'Keefe's TV shows Six O'Clock Rock, The Johnny O'Keefe Show, Sing Sing Sing, and Where the Action Is. 3. Wikipedia entries on Six O'Clock Rock and 6.5 Special.
Video of Six O'Clock Rock opening credits at YouTube (official ABC-TV).
Suggestion from Terry Stacey who heard this on Vintage FM 87.6 Penrith in November 2011.


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Calling her own shots: Akron teacher only woman umpire for 2019 Little League World Series
Laura Freeman @LauraFreeman_RP
Aug 4, 2019 at 11:34 PM Aug 5, 2019 at 8:10 AM
When young athletes from across the globe take the international spotlight during the 2019 Little League World Series later this month, a North High School teacher will be among the 16 umpires calling balls and strikes.
Kelly Elliott Dine of Hudson is the only woman in the officiating crew at this year's tournament Aug. 15-25 in South Williamsport, Pa.
The tournament is televised on ESPN.
The annual 10-day tournament features the winning teams from eight U.S. Regions and eight International Regions, competing to be crowned Little League World Series Champion Aug. 25.
Dine has been a Little League volunteer umpire for 10 years. She is the first female umpire to work the world series tournament since 2013 and the sixth female to officiate the tournament in its 80-year history.
Her 10 years of volunteer work plus post-season work in districts, state and regional tournaments helped in her selection. Umpires are evaluated at the regional level and the top two or three are nominated. Thousands are on a waiting list for a single chance to umpire at the world series, she said.
"I earned my world series nomination in 2013 but there is a long waiting list," Dine said. "I got my letter right after Christmas."
Little League doesn't send rejection letters, but Dine still didn't believe she had been accepted.
She took the mail into the kitchen where her family was gathered and opened the letter.
"It's called the golden ticket. I hollered and started crying," she said. "It was pretty incredible. It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience."
She also is believed to be the first female umpire to work an official NCAA D1 baseball game in the United States.
"The College Umpire Association has 2,000 umpires and I'm the only woman they have ever had," she said. "I had to do a lot of work and camps. I wish we had a lot more ladies umpiring, and I think it will happen, but how do you get girls interested in officiating baseball?"
Dine will average umpiring two games per day during the world series, but assignments aren't announced until the night before. Umpires are evaluated during the series and a crew is chosen for the final championship game on Aug. 25.
Her husband of 15 years, Jeff, and their three sons (Steven, 22; Alex, 20; and Aiden, 14) will cheer her on and offer their support as they have in the past when she has broken the barrier to be the first woman umpire.
"I'm really proud of her," her husband said. "She's blazed new trails and she's the only one doing college right now."
The road to umping
The first step in her becoming an umpire came after coaching one of her son's baseball games. She was walking across Colony Park and saw that an umpire didn't show up for a different game.
"I stepped in," Dine said. "I went to an umpire and said, 'I'd like to do this.'"
When her sons aged out of Little League, she transitioned to umpiring, her husband said. She understands the rules at all levels, as they are different for Little League, high school and college.
"She has a great personality working with the boys and the coaches," he said. "She takes a very open approach to things. She explains things as needed before the start of the game and sets things in motion there. She expects the game to go smoothly. She generally allows a coach to have some level of interaction. If not appropriate, she takes care of that right way."
Dine said she isn't treated differently from other umpires, but a few heads will turn and ask, "Is that a woman?" when she walks on the field.
Dine has talked to other female umpires and they agree that they have more pressure to look better than others and get the calls right. Otherwise, fans can criticize and say, "That's why we don't have women umpires."
"I feel like I need to be outstanding because I am a woman," she said. "I think it will change when more women officiate."
Dine is the biomedical science instructor at North High School in Akron, where she has taught for four years.
Her experience as a teacher translates to the baseball field, where she educates players about the rules of the game.
"She works with them and gives them hints along the way if they need them," her husband said. "It's difficult if people stumble over the rules."
Her biomedical class is diverse, with students from 20 nations and six native languages.
"It's an awesome feeling," she said. "The championship will be the same way with all these teams from all over the world."
Reporter Laura Freeman can be reached at 330-541-9434.


From Montana beef to Boeing jets, China and the US struck a flurry of deals yesterday during President Trump's inaugural state visit.
As tensions continue to simmer over North Korea and trade, natural gas has emerged as an area of mutual interest for the two countries. Energy agreements, mostly for US liquefied natural gas (LNG) reached US$140 billion, half of the total signed by the US trade delegation.
But as China negotiates at the UN climate talks in Bonn, the deals are raising questions about whether China can expand consumption of gas whilst meeting its climate commitments.
Natural gas demand in China has more than quadrupled in the past decade. Lacking easily accessible sources domestically, China has been eyeing the abundant supply of US shale gas in recent years. Approximately 35% of China's 2016 natural gas demand was met by imports – mainly from Qatar and Australia, but the US has also been gaining a foothold.
At least five deals were signed during Trump's Beijing visit. The agreements include the first long-term agreement for the export of LNG from the US to China by Cheniere Energy, an initiative to develop Alaska's gas production, LNG exports to China from Delfin Midstream, Chinese investments in a West Virginia shale gas development, and the construction of a coal-to-syngas production facility in China.
According to the International Energy Agency's 2016 World Energy Outlook, LNG trade is expected to double by 2040, mainly on the back of exports from the US to China.
China's 13th Five-Year Plan for Energy calls for natural gas and renewable energy to replace coal consumption. The plan sets a 2020 target for natural gas to provide 10% of primary energy, up from 5.9% in 2015. Looking farther ahead, China's Energy Production and Consumption 2016-2030 Strategy calls for natural gas to provide 15% of the country's energy by 2030.
Coal's share of total energy consumption fell by 2% to 62% in 2016, displaced by renewable energy and natural gas. "LNG exports from the US to China could contribute to China's efforts to improve air quality and transition to a low-carbon future by quickly switching from scattered coal to gas," commented Vance Wagner and Zou Ji of Energy Foundation China.
Modelling conducted in 2016 by China's Energy Research Institute and others, shows natural gas contributing to China's energy transition through to 2050. Under their model, which is based on current policies and cost-effective technology, China's emissions would peak in 2025 and continue to drop thereafter. Natural gas demand would plateau in 2035 but still play a strong role in the energy system until 2050.
Some experts argue that natural gas is a "cul de sac" that China should avoid. Although burning it is less harmful than coal, natural gas still emits greenhouse gases, and promoting it would require significant investment in long-lived infrastructure. Countries have committed to becoming carbon neutral by the end of the century so the continued use of natural gas would require emissions to be captured and stored.
The recent set of deals, while reducing CO2 and local air pollution in China, would also require the US to expand export capacity to increase its LNG exports to the country, locking the US into more fossil-fuel infrastructure.
The US investment in a coal-to-syngas plant is also concerning. China is pushing to utilise its deep coal reserves to produce gas but this process is highly energy intensive.
The nature and timing of the energy deals sends the wrong signal, according to Alvin Lin, climate and energy policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council in China. "This is disappointing given the UN climate conference happening now in Bonn, which is focused on implementing the Paris Agreement and pushing forward the transition to low carbon energy sources as rapidly as possible.
"Trump and his administration would do well to recognise, as the Chinese have, the enormous business opportunities in leading the race on renewables and low carbon energy technology."


From the Main Menu of the PSIM program, select the I/O simulation display.
Toggle Function Key [F2] until the minimum I/O Data Table is displayed in the upper box of the display, and the Counter Table is displayed in the lower box of the Data table display.
Select the Rung Editor [F5] and enter the following ladder Logic program.
Once you have entered your program, select the Program Utility menu and save your program to disk. Now exit the Rung Editor and return to the I/O simulation Display.
Open and Close switch I:1/00 a number of times and carefully observe the incrementing of C1's accumalator and the operation of the 3 lights which are controlled by your program.
Continue incrementing the counter until the "RES" instruction in rung #2 is activated.
What was the highest count achieved before the "RES" instruction zeroed the accumalator?
Increment the counter again through its range and note the accumalator values which allow the lights O:1/00, O:1/01 and O:1/02 to be energized. Note the values on the appropriate rungs listed below.


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Semilinear elliptic systems involving multiple critical exponents and singularities in $\mathbb{R}^N$
Global conservative solutions to the Camassa--Holm equation for initial data with nonvanishing asymptotics
December 2012, 32(12): 4229-4246. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.4229
Stability and convergence at infinite time of several fully discrete schemes for a Ginzburg-Landau model for nematic liquid crystal flows
Francisco Guillén-González 1, and Mouhamadou Samsidy Goudiaby 2,
Dpto. Ecuaciones Diferenciales y Análisis Numérico, Universidad de Sevilla, Aptdo. 1160, 41080 Sevilla
LANI, UFR SAT, Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, BP 234, Senegal
Received July 2010 Revised May 2012 Published August 2012
In this paper, we study a conditional long-time stable fully discrete finite element scheme for a Ginzburg-Landau model for nematic liquid crystal flow. We also obtain its time asymptotic convergence (when number of time steps go to infinity, fixed time step and mesh size) towards a unique critical point of the elastic energy subject to the finite element subspace. Finally, we estimate some convergence rates towards this limit critical point. To prove convergence of the whole sequence, a Lojasiewicz type inequality is used.
Moreover, we extend these results to other schemes given in [3] and [10].
Keywords: finite element method, Lojasiewicz inequality, Navier-Stokes Equations, convergence to equilibrium., Nematic liquid crystal flow.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q35, 35K55, 35B40; Secondary: 65M6.
Citation: Francisco Guillén-González, Mouhamadou Samsidy Goudiaby. Stability and convergence at infinite time of several fully discrete schemes for a Ginzburg-Landau model for nematic liquid crystal flows. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2012, 32 (12) : 4229-4246. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.4229
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The couple came in to see the great Tzadik – holy spiritual person, to ask for a blessing to have children, and he told them, he was not able to grant them their request. They promised to donate any sum of money he would demand from them to grant this blessing. But he unwaveringly stuck by his word.
When the Rabbi heard these words, he called them back in and granted their wish.
In the book of the Midrash tells us, G-d desires our prayers, as it is written, "the work of your hands I yearn for." G-d enjoys when it comes from deep down inside of us.
The Israelites approached Moses and complained, that he was placing a limit of one thousand fold to a limitless blessing G-d had already promised, "Like the stars of the heaven."!
Moses had a plan. By clearly offering something that appeared less than what was already promised, he wanted to arouse within the children of Israel the desire to demand and request that the greater blessing from G-d which was already promised not be eclipsed by this blessing coming from Moses.
Moses wanted the children of Israel to pray and demand what they felt they wanted and needed, directly from G-d.
This answers a very common question. If G-d knows it all, in advance to our needs, and it is something positive and good that we deserve, why must we pray for it to begin with? Why doesn't G-d just grant it to us on His own?
G-d created this pattern specifically in such a way that we should receive mainly, only after we have prayed and asked G-d for it, this is "His desire." Like everything else G-d created this too is for our own good.
Before Moses was about to pass away and as the ultimate leader who cared for every sheep, his plan by blessing them with "one thousand times" was to open their minds and hearts and to whet their appetite. In doing so the Children of Israel remembered the earlier promise G-d gave their forefathers and this pushed them to pray for G-ds promise.
"And you shall serve him with all your heart." The Talmud says, this verse refers to prayer.
Prayer is a moment in our day that we spend with G-d, creator of the universe. The words of the prayer where designed in such a way that when understood and felt in our hearts, the person will soar up to the clouds and his bodily existence on this physical world becomes temporarily elevated.
This experience will refine and spiritually strengthen, transform and elevate the person to a higher consciousness throughout the entire day.
The purpose of prayer in not just to come before G-d and ask. The purpose of prayer is to develop our vessel to be more sensitive and receptive to G-dliness all day long. When we realize it's all G-d, and He is the only source to everything, we have become G-d conscious and our lives take on a new and expanded dimension.
The Unity principle. Less worry, more optimism.
"And you shall know today and place it in your heart that G-d is G-d in the heavens above and on the ground below, there is none other." Deut. 4, 39.
There is none other, nothing else necessary to recognize and know this day. This awareness is the foundation and root to everything.
"Hear o Israel the Lord our G-d the Lord is One." This verse teaches the principle of faith in the oneness and unity of G-d. The simplest understanding of this verse is that there aren't tens, hundreds, or thousands of power sources and G-ds out there. Ultimately, the buck stops at the ONE and only.
This verse, in the most sold book on the faith of the earth, the Bible, a book presented by G-d, the creator of all who knows us best, teaches that G-d doesn't share his power with any other forces or beings. He is One and Only. He instructs us to recognize this fact like everything else in the Bible for our own good.
On a deeper level, mysticism teaches, "there is none other", there is nothing else in the universe but the energy of G-d.
The heavens and the earth, all the masses and multitudes in the upper galaxies where all created from nothing. G-d was, G-d is and G-d will forever be. The only real existence is G-d and, it is out of G-d that the world was created. A miraculous feat only G-d can accomplish. The essence and matter of the universe is essentially G-dliness in the form of what appears as the world we see all around us.
That is why within the DNA of the universe and within each person there are so many similarities with the properties of G-dliness.
We are not bodies inhabited by souls. We are souls experiencing our lives through bodies. The substance and matter of the world is a communication and manifestation from G-d and therefore every moment of its existence it is dependent on G-ds kindness that it remain the world that it is.
This knowledge and understanding is extremely powerful in many areas of our lives and therefore the Bible instructs us to, "place it in our hearts." Our desires, our will, and our emotions must line up with this reality. When the feelings of our heart reach this awareness, deep down inside ourselves, we are less anxious, we worry less, we are more optimistic and more confident in ourselves and in our place in this world.
The distance between knowing, and feeling, this awareness in our heart is at least as great as the distance between knowing, and not knowing, this concept. Not knowing or not being aware of this concept represents a total black hole in our minds, there is nothing there of this awareness when we don't know. In a similar fashion, having the awareness that the only real existence in this world is all and only G-dliness but not working on drawing this awareness in our hearts will have absolutely no presence or influence in our character and behavior.
Were someone to think that there is anyone or anything outside of G-d that has any control or even influence over our own lives or anything for that matter, this thought would be a denial in the above principle of faith that there is only G-d and He shares his power with nothing outside Himself.
It really doesn't take much for someone to look around and see the hand of G-d, the unexpected and out of our own control events that take place on a day to day basis to realize there is much more than anyone can take credit for. The day itself, the world itself, cries out this fact is we only train our eyes to see.
Getting out of the dark tunnel.
Sip of Kosher Caffeine -- Depression, a profound diagnosis.
From the time of creation, G-d intended that we should be persecuted and sent into exile. Right from the beginning of the bible, the four major exiles are already indicated, and it is in the last book of the bible that is most connected to this period of exile and descent, towards the last portions of the bible, that the ultimate redemption for the entire universe is spoken about.
This confirms the rule that it is the lowest of situations that connect us most profoundly with the highest and deepest of intentions and ultimate goals. The higher a stone on a building, the further it falls from its base, the deeper it entrenches itself in the ground. When we see a stone so far from its source on the ground, we know, it must have fallen from a very high source.
The further back the stone is pulled in a sling, the more power is being transferred into it.
It is clear that not being in our own land and being scattered all about is a result of not heeding the admonishment and rebuke of the prophets. However, after the fact since everything comes from an All Merciful and kind G-d, the process is not only a punishment but as well an opportunity to discover holy sparks, otherwise unnoticed diamonds, to accumulate in our repertoire, that would never have been discovered had we not been sent into exile.
In mysticism there is a principle that teaches, the physical world that appears to deny G-dliness and deceives us constantly of its source has sparks of G-dliness hidden in it from places that are much higher and more powerful than the outwardly spiritual phenomenon. A person is able to connect with G-dliness through the opportunities in a physical world being used for spiritual purposes in ways that are higher and deeper than can be reached merely through spirituality alone.
When we use food to energize our bodies to serve G-d, we take hard earned money and give it to support a G-dly cause, a transformation of our lives and a connection with G-d is reached beyond any spirituality in itself could ever take us to.
When a person lost his way because he wasn't careful before he set out on his trip to do due diligence, or a person made foolish choices and ends up in a dark tunnel, he should take the blame and feel guilty. However, he should not for even a moment think that this is where it ends and all is lost.
It is in the descent and in the exile, it is when a person is in a dark tunnel and has fallen down, what seems so far and distant that the deepest and greatest discoveries and opportunities can be encountered.
Great spiritualists would instruct their students to be happiest in times of difficulty because it was necessarily then, that they would be able to gather the greatest of good, by anticipating this truth in a joyous frame of mind.
When the guards saw how happy they were and discovered the reason, he took away their "new opportunity" to serve G-d and they were free once again from their current hardship.
YOU, have more power and influence than you can imagine.
Kosher Caffeine -- Powerful depression advice from Joseph.
Our sages exhort us to, "Know what is above us. An eye that sees, an ear that listens, and all your deeds are recorded." Can you imagine if everyone always remembered this statement? The world would be so different. These days with cameras almost everywhere it isn't all that difficult to visualize.
Rabbi Yochonan Ben Zakai one of the great sages in Jerusalem who lived towards the end of the second Temple said, "if only we feared Heaven as we fear people of blood and flesh." We are very embarrassed before people who may be watching our every movement. Our sages tell us when a person passes into the next world one of the greatest difficulties, is the shame of seeing our entire life played before the heavenly court.
A great percentage of Israelites never left Egypt when everyone was miraculously freed because they didn't believe it was possible. The same was with many of the Israelites in the wilderness who never merited entering the Land of Israel and actually stood in the way of ever getting there, because they claimed not to believe in that possibility. By their own declaration they excluded themselves from that reality when it did become an actuality for everyone else.
In the book of Psalms King David says, "G-d is your shadow, at your right side." Just like a shadow follows your movements, the same is with G-d the source of everything. He follows our lead, our desires and our choices.
The reward for doing good for another person can be a payment or prize. Sometimes even better yet, by fulfilling the desires of someone, we get the person themselves. A relationship and bond is developed with the person who feels personally obligated and attached in return for our good deed to them.
Ultimately when we serve G-d we are told, the reward for doing G-ds will is not so much the prize for doing good, but the satisfaction having done the deed itself. The fact that we were able to serve Almighty G-d in all His glory, and that our effort and action should matter to Him, and He should take note of what we do, is itself an incredible opportunity and the greatest gift.
The deepest level of our soul energy inside us, the core essence and foundation to our soul, is that part of G-d that always remains pure and untouched by anything we can ever do. It is beyond the reach of any human being and forever remains completely connected and one with its own source in heaven, G-d.
This explains the tremendous power, gravity and significance in anything and everything we do.
Even the smallest of action, be it even just a mere thought is an expression and manifestation of our entire soul, everything that we are. There is the potential in everything that we do, because of this deep connection inside of us with G-d, to connect through our conduct, with the deepest levels of G-d himself.
Maimonides writes, that one deed of just one person can tip the scales of the entire equation to bring redemption to the world. Everyone, has this profound connection with the deepest levels of G-d Himself and is able through his/her deeds to reveal the most powerful dimensions of G-d for him/herself and for the entire universe to be impacted by his actions.


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Zoids: New Century, or , is an anime television series created in 2001 by Shogakukan, Inc. It is the second Zoids series created, based on the range of mecha models produced by TOMY. The series has been dubbed and originally released in Western nations under the title Zoids, before being later rebranded as Zoids: New Century by Viz Media, and was the first Zoids series to be dubbed in English. The series has 26 episodes that run for 25 minutes each. In August 2014, a Blu-ray box set of the series was released in Japan. It optionally came with a limited-edition Liger Zero.

Series background
New Century Zero takes place a long time after the events of Zoids: Chaotic Century. Zoids are no longer used for warfare; instead, the combative natures of both Zoids and humans are focused and contained by a series of battle-competitions and tournaments, run by the Zoid Battle Commission.

The Zoid Battle Commission is a significant power on Planet Zi, fielding a considerable arsenal of armed Zoids, orbital platforms serviced by their own launch facilities as well as orbital based weapons systems. It is not made clear in the series if the Helic Republic and Guylos Empire still exist, although the final battle upon the rusted Ultrasaurus, hinted to be same one in Zoids: Chaotic Century, could suggest neither were left, and people had free rein to battle in old battlefields.

The series focuses on the Blitz Team, in particular the actions of the Liger Zero and Bit Cloud. The series charts the rise of the Blitz Team through various competitions of the Zoid Battle Commission, and the team's efforts to avoid conflict with the criminal organization known as the Backdraft Group.

Characters

The Blitz Team
 Bit Cloud
Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese), Richard Ian Cox (English), Peter von Gomm (English)
 Formerly a junk dealer, Bit joins the Blitz Team after he is responsible for damaging one of the team's Zoids during a match. Bit discovers that he is the only person capable of piloting the rare Liger Zero owned by the team's manager. Bit makes both friends and rivals with a number of pilots, including Harry Champ, Jack Cisco, Leon Toros, and Vega Obscura. Bit has a close bond with the Liger Zero, treating the Zoid as a friend instead of just a machine. He is often seen in friendly conflict with Leena Toros, arguing over trivial matters like cookies, doughnuts, and the shower schedule.

It was initially thought to be useless, not allowing anyone to pilot it. After befriending Bit, it proved to be adept at close combat, using its superheated "Strike Laser Claw" attack to great effect in many battles. It was equipped with the CAS (usually Changing Armor System, also "Conversion" in parts of the dub) to allow switching to one of three incredible, mighty, and most powerful armors: Liger Zero Jager (German: hunter) unit and its ion boosters for speed and agility; Liger Zero Schneider (German: cutter) and its blades for close combat; and Liger Zero Panzer (German: armor/shield), with heavy armor, cannons, and missiles for beating multiple enemies at once. Over the course of the series, it is learned that the Liger Zero is one of a series of unique Ultimate X Zoids, equipped with an integrated Organoid system and possessing the ability to learn and adapt.  This allows it to predict and react to enemy attacks far faster than regular Zoids.
 Leena Toros

 Leena Toros is the daughter of the Blitz Team's manager, and is portrayed as a stereotypically loud and bubbly sixteen-year-old girl. She pilots two different Zoids over the course of the series, the De-bison and then the Gunsniper, and is regarded as notoriously trigger-happy in combat, bordering on psychotic. She's also known for her sensitivity and short temper, where she physically assaults others in comical fashion (usually Bit). Leena is the target of Harry Champ's continual advances. She doesn't reciprocate his feelings, and isn't above using them against him. For example, in episode 3, she used him just to get back at Bit for finishing off one of her targets in a previous match, or "stealing her prey", as she put it. In the original Japanese version, the character is named .
 Brad Hunter

 Brad Hunter is a pilot who began his career as a mercenary, and was hired by the Blitz Team before the start of the series to boost their pilot number. He pilots a modified Command Wolf, but is later forced to steal a prototype Shadow Fox from Dr. Laon and the Backdraft Group. After receiving the Shadow Fox, Brad engages in combat with Bit and the Liger Zero.  After a brisk battle, it is stopped due to both pilots belonging to the Blitz Team, and the Shadow Fox officially becomes a member of the Blitz team thanks to Brad's deception—his plan all along. Brad possesses a notably high physical endurance, shown in one instance when Laon stuck him in a G-Force-esque simulator and he retained consciousness despite the deadly force exerted upon him. Because of his mercenary nature, Brad will rarely enter a fight without a promise of financial compensation, even if the other team members are in trouble. In the original Japanese version, the character is named Ballad. Brad's surname is never given in either the Japanese or English versions, but supporting materials give it as "Hunter".
 Jamie Hemeros

 Jamie Hemeros serves as Steve Toros' assistant, the Blitz Team's strategist, combat controller, and occasional backup pilot of the team's sole aerial Zoid. He is believed by the characters to be an orphan because of misinformation given by Dr. Toros, but in fact his father still lives, and at fourteen years of age he is the youngest member of the team. He initially owns a Pteras, but this was traded in by Dr. Toros for a Raynos, the same kind of Zoid piloted by his father. Jamie is caring towards his fellow teammates, who often annoy him by ignoring his advice and battle plans. It is believed that his surname is derived from Hermes, the winged messenger god. His skills as a pilot are marginal; he crashes his Zoid in almost every engagement he participates in. In Atari's English-language ports of the Zoids video games, his name is given as Jimmy.
 The Wild Eagle
 The supersonic capabilities of the Raynos allow for the exposure of Jamie's alter-ego, the Wild Eagle. Wild Eagle is portrayed as the polar opposite of Jamie's personality, and can generally be considered a skilled pilot. However, his skill is often counterbalanced by his cocky hubris, which usually results in serious damage to the Raynos, and a period of unconsciousness for Jamie. The Wild Eagle alter-ego appears to be shared by members of the Hemeros family, as Jamie's father, Oscar, exhibited the same abilities and personality changes when flying certain Zoids. Unfortunately, this eventually led to a high-speed, uncontrolled landing of Oscar's Raynos. Oscar was both injured and seriously unnerved by the accident, as Dr. Toros said he "never flew a Raynos again". He was not, despite what the rest of the characters were led to believe, killed. In fact, he often drops by to check up on his son, though he unintentionally seems to make Jamie somewhat miserable (such as good-humouredly patting Jamie on the back when the latter was injured).
 Steve Toros

 Steve Toros is the Blitz Team's manager (but also serves as an inventor and occasionally a combat controller in Jamie's place), whose children are Leena and Leon Toros. He, Dr. Laon, and Oscar are old friends, but when Dr. Toros married the woman (Leena and Leon's mother) loved by Laon, Laon developed a grudge against Dr. Toros and refused to forgive him (his feelings do not extend to Leena, whom he says resembles her mother). Laon incinerated the place where the trio used to gather, completely ending the camaraderie between both of them (Oscar seems to be neutral in the situation). Dr. Toros is 38 years old, he seems to be impulsive (notoriously purchasing weaponry on the basis of being "big" and "shiny"), overdramatic and immature at times, but in all is a knowledgeable man. He built the CAS interchangeable armour system solely for the Liger Zero. He purchased the Liger Zero because white Ligers were rare, but the Zoid was deemed defective because of the scarcity of spare parts for maintenance, as well as its fickled, stubborn personality; it would eject pilots that were forced upon it or deemed unworthy. In many episodes, he is seen playing with model Zoids, of which he's very protective, and frantically panics in comedic fashion whenever he accidentally breaks off a part. He is so fond of them that he's been shown to keep a collection on his bed whenever he sleeps or relaxes.

Other characters
 Oscar Hemeros
 Voiced by Yukimasa Kishino (Japanese), Brian Drummond (English)
 A good friend of Dr. Toros having grown up together with the joint ambition of entering the Zoid leagues, he had the misfortune of being the cause of the bitter feud between Dr. Toros and Dr. Laon. Oscar was supposed to write a love letter to a woman whom Dr. Toros and Dr. Laon were courting, but he didn't know that the note was supposed to be from Dr. Laon, not Steve Toros. Oscar was one of the greatest aerial Zoid pilots in his day, earning his moniker "Wild Eagle" for his sheer mastery of aerial stunts and maneuvers. However, one day, he lost control of his Raynos and crashed. The accident forced him into early retirement from the leagues, though he still pilots aerial Zoids in more casual settings.  He sent his son, Jamie, to join Dr. Toros' Blitz Team, believing that between him and Toros, they could bring out some of that Wild Eagle blood in Jamie.
 Dr. Laon
 Voiced by Michael Dobson (English)
 He was formerly friends with the Blitz Team's Steve Toros until an argument between the two involving being the future husband of a woman (Leena and Leon's mother) caused the irreparable rift. He is associated with the Backdraft Group, although he often tries to recruit pilots to challenge the Blitz Team and avenge him (Harry Champ, the Tigers Team, Brad Hunter). It is believed that his reason for joining the Backdraft Group was influenced by alcoholism. Although he hates Toros, he deeply cares for Leena (he claims she resembles her mother), shown in the instance where he shoved all the other Zoids away with his Whale King to shield her from the massive explosion created by three charged particle cannons. The explosion bore a giant hole on his Whale King and severely injured him, thereafter he told Toros he will never stop seeking his vengeance. At the series finale, Oscar is seen visiting Laon in the hospital.
 Harry Champ
 Voiced by Wataru Takagi (Japanese), Brad Swaile (English)
 He is "a man destined to be king," as he regularly states numerous times with each appearance. He is heir to half of the Champ's family fortunes, along with his elder sister, Mary Champ; but he couldn't care less about his fortune when it comes to his unrequited love for Leena Toros. He assumes that Leena returns his feelings, which is why in one instance Dr. Laon kidnapped him and used him as a hostage, assuming that Leena wouldn't fire on him but was proven wrong. At the end of the series, Harry planned on proposing to Leena but never got the chance. Harry also has two robots named Benjamin and Sebastian. Because of his wealth, he owns a menagerie of Zoids, claiming to have everything "from a Gojulas to Cannon Tortoises." His main Zoid is a customized Dark Horn, but he has also piloted an Iron Kong, and a Cannon Tortoise. Many more Zoids are seen in his hangar, among them a Red Horn, a Shield Liger, and a Gordos.
 Jack Sisco
 Voiced by Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese), Brian Drummond (English)
A talented mercenary (having been stated to have never lost prior to his first battle with the Blitz Team) who pilots a cheetah-type Zoid, the Lightning Saix. His personality is depicted as arrogant and aloof. He was initially a free-lance mercenary, but was shown to be very picky with whom he worked for, and only worked for someone with enough money and "luck." Despite being a mercenary, he generally acts as an honorable if not gruff opponent. He later gained two teammates, Kelly and Chris Tasker who also pilot Lightning Saixes, and together, they were able to use a slipstream strategy to defeat the Blitz Team. Bit later defeated him during the Royal Cup.
 Naomi Fluegel
 Voiced by Rio Natsuki (Japanese), Saffron Henderson (English)
 A female pilot under the alias of the "Red Comet" for being skilled in sniping and long-range combat. She pilots a red Gunsniper with a specialized sniping system that includes a gun within the Zoid's tail. At the beginning of the series, Naomi is a solo pilot, until Leon Toros joins her to form the Flugel Team. Prior to her defeat by the Blitz Team, it was claimed that nobody ever reached within  of her Gun Sniper. It's implied she and Brad have a romantic interest in each other.
 Leon Toros
Voiced by Susumu Chiba (Japanese), Ted Cole (English)
 As Dr. Toro's elder son, he was formerly on the Blitz Team until Bit joined the group. Having been invigorated by Bit's latent potential as a Zoid pilot and confident that in his absence the team was in able hands with Bit, Leon left the group in hopes of becoming a better pilot. He later becomes Naomi Fluegel's partner. Leon pilots a Shield Liger at the beginning of the series and is later seen piloting a Red Blade Liger. The Zoids he pilots can serve as a parallel to Van Flyheight, Zoids: Chaotic Century's protagonist.  He even mentions that he met his Blade Liger while traveling through a legendary valley where the greatest zoid pilots in history had traveled.
 Chris and Kelly Tasker
Voiced by Kelly Sheridan (English)
 Twin sisters who join Jack Sisco to form the Lightning Team. Both women pilot Lightning Saixes. The two can be distinguished by their outfits; Kelly wears green while Chris wears blue.
 Kirkland, Omari, and Lineback
 Known as the Tigers Team, and mockingly the Fuzzy Pandas Team, these three pilots have a reputation for being losers. Though they start out as capable opponents, they become "comic relief" characters as the series progresses, further supported by Bit's running gag of nicknaming them "The Fuzzy Pandas". In hopes of breaking their unlucky streak (a rather successful move), they rename themselves the Zabre Fangs. They lose in the final battle with the Blitz Team in comedic fashion, where the Judge also referred to them as the Fuzzy Pandas Team, causing their combat systems to freeze and thus allowing the Blitz Team to win by default. They are a reference to the Hanshin Tigers baseball team.
 Mary Champ
 Voiced by Lisa Ann Beley (English)
 She is Harry's older sister who wants her brother to abandon his obsession with Zoid battles and return home to help their father with their company. After Harry once lost all his Zoids to the Backdraft Group, Mary personally arrived at his estate to demand that he return home, threatening to cut him out of the family fortune if he refused. But when Harry explained about his problems with the Blitz Team, particularly Bit, she agreed to meet with them. Upon meeting the Blitz Team, she quickly disapproved of Leena as Harry's love interest but falls in love with Bit's Liger Zero (it was cute). She then challenged the Blitz Team to a battle with the Liger Zero at stake, offering ten times the normal prize money as an incentive. To assist the Champ Team, Mary purchased Iron Kongs. When the Champ Team lost the battle, Mary changed her opinion regarding Zoid battles and decided to leave Harry be.
 Judge Robots
Voiced by Colin Murdock (English)
 These robots serve as the umpires in every sanctioned Zoid battle in the series' world. Aside from having artificial intelligence, Judge robots were developed to be more anthropomorphic as the series progressed. Each Judge is dropped onto the battlefield from an orbital Judge Satellite, which also acts as a means of self-defense through orbital strikes. In episode 18, Benjamin falls in love with a Judge (censored in the English dub as a female Judge); in episode 20, the Judge wrestles a Dark Judge while declaring that Brad registered the Shadow Fox as a Blitz Team member; and the final three episodes where the Judge mistakenly calls the Zaber Fangs Team by their Fuzzy Pandas nickname, causing them to lose their balance and crashing their Zoids. The Judge sheepishly declares the Blitz Team victorious by default when he was shouted at by Kirkland.

Backdraft Organization
Also known as The Backdraft Group, The Backdraft Organization is a group that acts to undermine the Zoid Battle Commission by running unsanctioned battles. Their main goal is capturing Ultimate X Zoids. There are ranks distributed throughout the group; the backdraft is controlled by a "Committee of Seven" and is notorious for their ruthless, underhanded, and often dangerous battle tactics. Known members of the Backdraft include:
 Vega Obscura
 Voiced by Motoko Kumai (Japanese), Alex Doduk (English)
 An eleven-year-old pilot under the command of the Backdraft Organization (Sarah in particular) who pilots the Berserk Fury (the original uncensored name being Berserk Führer). Because he is basically a child prodigy, his perspective of Zoid battling is merely of a competitive nature: where the next challenge is and the exhilarating high from battling. He and Bit eventually meet in the final rounds of the Royal Cup.  He eventually reveals he is as cheerful as Bit and loves the rush of battle.
 Sarah (overseer)
 Voiced by Ellen Kennedy (English)
 A high-ranking member, and also Vega's handler. Though usually cold and severe, she exhibits a maternal side towards Vega; he is the only thing she really cares about. Even after being shot down by the Zoid Battle Commission, she was only worried about whether Vega was all right.
 Fuma Team
 A four member team, usually employed by Altail. Their team leader is a woman named Fuma and the remaining three pilots are Ehga, Koga, and Negola. They initially pilot War Sharks, but are given Genosaurers by Altail to sabotage the Berserk Fury and demote Sarah, which ultimately failed. Fuma is also seen piloting a Hammerhead.
 Pierce
 Voiced by Alaina Burnett (English)
  She is skilled in aerial combat, defeated only by Jamie (piloting the Raynos in his Wild Eagle persona) and Bit on two separate occasions, and under the direct command of Altail. She leaves the group after her defeat at the hands of Bit, deciding that Backdraft battles are getting old. She has shown to be quite honorable, debating Altail's orders to attack the innocent. She is last seen with Stoller and Sanders. She piloted a Zabat and later a customized Stormsworder.
 Major Polta
 Voiced by Scott McNeil (English)
 Leader of the Gold Team and a subordinate of Altail, often seen wearing an odd-looking mask.
 Captain Sanders (adjutant of Elephander Pilot)
 Voiced by Matt Smith (English)
 Stoeller's subordinate, a skilled pilot who looks up to Stoeller and defects from Backdraft along with Stoeller. Last seen celebrating the end of the Zoids tournament with Stoeller and Pierce.
 Captain Stigma Stoeller
 Voiced by Scott McNeil (English)
 A senior member of the Backdraft, pilot of the Elephander, and highly respected, until he is defeated by Bit Cloud. A man bound by honour, he defects from the Backdraft Group in order to fight a fair battle against Bit. He is last seen with Sanders and Pierce.
 Altail (Chief Executive Officer)
 Voiced by Don Brown
 The Chief Executive Officer of the Backdraft Group. He believes that Zoids known as Ultimate Xs exist and places his reputation on the line to find them. After recovering the Berserk Fury, he is brushed aside. Henceforth, he attempts to sabotage Sarah to jockey for favor again.
 Count
 Voiced by Colin Murdock
 Boss of Chief Executive Officer
 Brad Hunter
 After stealing the Shadow Fox, he "joined" the Backdraft Group briefly in episode 20 upon Dr. Laon's proposal. He later reneged his deal, saying that he only pretended to betray his team for the Shadow Fox (and a chance to battle Bit one-on-one).
 Dark Judge
 Voiced by Samuel Vincent
 The Backdraft Group employs their own Judges with their own satellites, colored black as opposed to the Zoid Battle Commission's white. They are greatly biased in favor of the Backdraft Group and will only announce an enemy team's victory begrudgingly.

Episodes

Theme songs
Opening
 "No Future" by Nanase Aikawa

Ending
 "Sasuraibito" by DASEIN
 "No Future (Instrumental)" by Nanase Aikawa (U.S. Ending)

References

External links

 Japanese website (archived)

New Century Zero
2001 anime television series debuts
Japanese children's animated action television series
Japanese children's animated adventure television series
Japanese children's animated comic science fiction television series
Japanese children's animated science fiction television series
Adventure anime and manga
Mecha anime and manga
Viz Media anime
Mainichi Broadcasting System original programming
TBS Television (Japan) original programming
Television shows based on Takara Tomy toys
Xebec (studio)

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