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Spain: import value of fertilizers to the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-14
This bar chart shows the value of imports of fertilizers (except group 272) from Spain to the United Kingdom, annually between 2010 and 2014. In 2013, the value of fertilizers imported from Spain reached 35.3 million U.S. dollars.
Value of imports of fertilizers (except group 272)* from Spain to the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2014 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars)
Imports in thousand U.S. dollars
Based on SITC code 56.
Figures have been rounded.
* Refers to materials not included in group 272.
Revenue of the leading chemical companies in the United Kingdom (UK) 2019
Net income of the leading chemical companies in the United Kingdom (UK) 2019
Number of enterprises in the UK chemicals manufacturing industry 2013-19, by turnover
Workforce of the leading chemical companies in the United Kingdom (UK) 2019
Statistics on "Chemical industry in the UK"
Number of chemical product manufacturing enterprises in the UK, by employment 2019
Local enterprise units in the UK chemicals manufacturing sector, by employees 2019
UK insolvencies: compulsory liquidations in the chemical sector 2012-2019
Turnover of the chemicals manufacturing industry in the UK 2008-2016
Production value of the chemical manufacturing industry in the UK 2008-2016
Wholesale of chemical products revenue in the United Kingdom 2010-2022
Number of employees in the chemical manufacturing industry in the UK 2008-2016
Number of chemical scientists in the United Kingdom (UK) 2011-2019
Personnel costs of the chemical manufacturing industry in the UK 2008-2016
English imports: chemicals 2011-2019
English exports: chemicals 2011-2019
Scottish imports: chemicals 2014-2019
Scottish exports: chemicals 2014-2019
Welsh imports: chemicals 2011-2019
Welsh exports: chemicals 2011-2019
Northern Irish imports: chemicals 2011-2019
Northern Irish exports: chemicals 2011-2019
France: import value of fertilizers to the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-14
Russian Federation: import value of fertilizers to the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-14
Germany: import value of fertilizers to the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-14
Norway: import value of fertilizers to the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-14
EU27: import value of fertilizers to the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-14
Poland: import value of fertilizers to the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-14
Ireland: import value of fertilizers to the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-14
Netherlands: import value of fertilizers to the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-14
Belgium: import value of fertilizers to the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-14
Algeria: import value of fertilizers to the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-14
Nitrogenous chemical fertilizers: sales volume in the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-2017
Fertilizers in tablet form: sales volume in the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-2018
Fertilizers in tablet form: sales value in the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-2018
Nitrogen/potassium fertilizers sales value in the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-2018
Top chemical companies Chemical industry in the United States BASF DowDuPont
OECD. (June 12, 2015). Value of imports of fertilizers (except group 272)* from Spain to the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2014 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 22, 2020, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/503061/spain-import-value-of-fertilizers-to-the-united-kingdom-uk/
OECD. "Value of imports of fertilizers (except group 272)* from Spain to the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2014 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars)." Chart. June 12, 2015. Statista. Accessed January 22, 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/503061/spain-import-value-of-fertilizers-to-the-united-kingdom-uk/
OECD. (2015). Value of imports of fertilizers (except group 272)* from Spain to the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2014 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 22, 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/503061/spain-import-value-of-fertilizers-to-the-united-kingdom-uk/
OECD. "Value of Imports of Fertilizers (except Group 272)* from Spain to The United Kingdom (Uk) from 2010 to 2014 (in 1,000 U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 12 Jun 2015, https://www.statista.com/statistics/503061/spain-import-value-of-fertilizers-to-the-united-kingdom-uk/
OECD, Value of imports of fertilizers (except group 272)* from Spain to the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2014 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/503061/spain-import-value-of-fertilizers-to-the-united-kingdom-uk/ (last visited January 22, 2020)


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jQuery has overpowered Flash in a lot of web uses becoming a very powerful tool for web designers. One of these uses that I'm referring to is the image slider. Implementing this feature in your site will definitely count as a big plus so don't waste your time and download the available jQuery plugins in this 30 Powerful jQuery Slideshow (Sliders) Plugins and Tutorials.
You've probably noticed that a lot of websites lately have a featured area with content that slides or changes in some way. This is a great technique to show several pieces of content in a limited amount of space and a good way to engage the user.Content sliders are a great way to show large amount of content or images on a smaller area in a website or blog. They are commonly used in portfolio sites, corporate sites or blogs. You may probably heard that jQuery isn't very hard to learn. If you are interested in implementing a content slider in your website please check our jQuery tutorials and plugins collection.
In this tutorial we will create a simple and beautiful slideshow gallery that can be easily integrated in your web site. The idea is to have a container with our slideshow and the options to view a grid of thumbnails, pause the slideshow, and navigate through the pictures. The thumbnail grid will slide out from the top and allow the user to navigate through a set of thumbnails.
With the use of transparent PNG's, some HTML, pretty nifty CSS and jQuery, we can make this technique work. Read the rest of this article to learn how to create a beautiful advanced jQuery background image slideshow.
Main idea was to build some 'strip curtain' effect and I start from that. But, while I was building this some other effects just pop up and I decided to adjust code and include some of those effects. Now, there are 'wave', 'zipper' and 'curtain' effect, plus options that can be used for custom effect.
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Base on the Jquery Framework and the Easing Plugin, The JSiderNews Plugin is a slideshow plugin that displaying images or type of content and support favious navigation to previous|next items.
There are two ways of setting Floom up. One is the object way, where you specify the image url and the caption using the key-value notation.
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we learn how to fade list of images through each other in continuous loop. We will also add captions and tooltips to make it more usable. This simple effect is ideal for portfolio websites, galleries or magazines where images need to be seen.
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This plugin for jQuery will automatically detect the extension of each media and apply the adapted player.
In this post i'll walk you through the process of making a very simple(minimilistic) slideshow using Mootools / Jquery.
Slider – The easiest known way to showcase your images and photos on the web in style.
Horinaja is a slide-show ready-to-use for scriptaculous/prototype or jQuery.
Gradually offers API, a slide show, and a thumbnail gallery using ImageDrawer.
siteFeature is an unobtrusive jQuery plugin that simplifies the creation of an interactive "Featured Items" widget.
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This is a jQuery banner rotator plugin featuring multiple transitions. The thumbnails and buttons allow for easy navigation of your banners/ads. The banner rotator is also re-sizable and configurable through the plugin's parameters.
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24, 25, 26 March 2022 | Genesis live in LONDON | reports
Photo by Grant Fuller
That's a stunning photo (and it was taken during the song that will, more than any other, be my enduring memory of the show I saw: "Duchess").
If you had told me in advance of the tour that one of my greatest memories from it would be a video of the movements of multi-colored dots, there is no way I could have taken that seriously. However, after seeing exactly that during a spectacular performance of "Duchess" on this tour, it was truly one of the peak moments of the show. I'm glad that Grant captured a moment from it.
JustALawnmower
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However, after seeing exactly that during a spectacular performance of "Duchess" on this tour, it was truly one of the peak moments of the show.
100% agree....the "New Duchess" was a real highlight...really atmospheric build-up, and Nic's drums added a new power to the song that previous versions never had.
Yes agree it was so beautifully played and very different to previous live versions I had seen. When I first heard it on the Duke tour it felt like Phil was singing about the Duchess who was some fictional performer. On this tour it became a song about how he is now especially in this part:
"It wasn't so easy now, all uphill, and not feeling so strong
Yes times were hard"
One of many highlights from these final concerts.
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all uphill
Huh. I never knew those were the words. Whenever I sang it in my head, or sang along, I'd have some sound alike words. "All a peel" (edit: or "I'll appeal", I think I had that in mind too) or something. If I ever consciously thought about it, I would have known that was gibberish and put "all I feel" or something, but I'd know it was a bit off. I just never bothered to check.
It's kind of nice I know now I guess!
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indeed..knew Duchess was coming and was so excited..such a great song and the stage production did it justice !
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I agree. The version on the tour was absolutely superb. I especially loved the way they ended the song. Very powerful.
Totally agreed. This was absolutely a peak moment of the show for me, and I found it very emotional. Visually, the gradual emergence of what were almost fractal-like shapes and patterns in the opening section was perfect for the the ambient sounds, and it developed from there to match the song itself. A really strong moment, and for me up there with the best of the past.
Which leads me on, because you could make a thread about the other examples, e.g.:
Original use of varilites on In the Cage in 1981
The moving jumbotron screens of 1992
The mirrors, 1978
The "landing lights" of the Wind & Wuthering Tour
The groundbreaking projector screens on the Lamb tour
The fox's head, and later the old man costume and persona
The Watcher opening
Always strong creatively in their live presentation, right to the end.
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I especially loved the way they ended the song. Very powerful.
That was my one niggle. OK maybe they can't fully duplicate the wonderful stepped breakdown of the original but I felt the DA-DA-DA-DAAAAAAAAAH-brrrmmm-tsssh type ending was a bit ham-fisted.
The upward chord was a gorgeous rush.
At my first ever Genesis gig in 1980, Duke hadn't yet come out so I was hearing this stuff for the first time. The Duchess intro, with the band lit dimly by pulsating green light, remains a top 10 gig moment - of all my concert-going, not just them.
One of those agree to disagree moments. I thought the ending as played on this tour was rather dramatic.
the DA-DA-DA-DAAAAAAAAAH-brrrmmm-tsssh
I like the ending, but it's true it's quite common to finish a song this way. Besides, I love Guide Vocal, and I think that, for me, it would have been even better to include it with Duchess...
My regret is that they didn't choose to play both Duchess and Misunderstanding. I prefer Duchess, but I like the other one too, and I think it worked when they played it in Chicago.
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Again..way too much emotion from TB..calm down man!
The delusion is strong in this thread. Just waiting for someone to pick up on what Steve Hackett said about a reunion yesterday.
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I guess there's a thin line between optimism and delusion. Do you think Mr Hackett is being delusional as well?
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Yes/talking nonsense
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Steve thinks where there's life there's hope but the chance of a reunion, particularly now, is zero. Personally, I've never been bothered about a reunion, it was so long ago, Steve's band is doing a good job playing the older material, but the others have now left the stage. Some bands have continued touring since the 70s, but Genesis has been a stop-start affair.
Can we just pause for a moment and recognise how there is no one else like Phil Collins and his arrangement.
The bridge into the Lamb was beautifully done and having watched the documentary the other day, they show a clip, where Phil brings up the idea and the raw arrangement he thought off.
It was a lovely version of the song and shows Phil is still able to create some of his best work even now.
My old man this morning was saying, that they should still write another album.
Drumming aside, Phils voice I feel wouldn't be good enough sadly, but I hope he will still somehow take some involvement into doing the things he can do should he choose to.
Such an under appreciated talent still to this day.
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Phil said "He's here... maybe he's the one shouting for Supper's Ready"
Was that the sole reference to Peter? Was there an actual " Peter is here" line?
Yes, Peter got a shout out.
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When meeting new clients and asking them how they are going about their finances, I am surprised at how often people base their decisions on what others are doing. They may something like this: "I read a lot about what might be best for me to do, but it was hard to decide. It seems like most people do _______, so that's what I'm doing."
I've heard that "reasoning" (can you call it that?) for decisions about investment selection, insurance coverage, how much money to save, and countless other financial decisions.
We're social animals, sometimes not unlike the herd-following sheep. That's what the science tells us. We may attempt to make decisions based on our own rationale and analysis of what is best for us, but we are heavily influenced by what we observe in the choices of others.
Instead of being 100% independent thinkers, we form beliefs about how we should do things based on what we perceive to be social norms. Some psychology even suggests we may even feel more comfortable making a wrong decision along with others if it means we all share the negative consequence together, rather than make an individualized decision that's best for ourselves (just google "bandwagon effect" or "conformity" and you'll see what I mean).
So how are we affected by cultural norms toward saving money? More specifically, I'd like to ask: how fast (at what rate) should we be saving our money?
In July 2005, it was as low as 1.9%, and by one measure it's even estimated that the personal savings rate in 2005 for Americans was negative.
Notice anything interesting about the 10-year snapshot above? When times were hardest and we absolutely have to, what happened? Our savings rate was closer to 8%.
To me, that's why arguments about economic or political conditions only go so far. People love to play the blame game, citing all sorts of factors as to why it's "impossible" to save money. I will acknowledge that our economy and system isn't perfect and there are always improvements to be made - but extreme situations aside, this graph tells me that if we can save a higher amount when we're in a recession, then we can save a lot more when there's not.
This isn't the time for a deep analysis on the economic and tax systems of each of these countries, but what I can say is this: those arguments would only go so far to explain the savings rate in each country. In the end, it is individuals making decisions to either save or spend their income as they receive it.
What concerns me about us in the U.S. is how quickly we've all come to adopt the 10% rule of thumb - not that many of us are actually keeping it. Many sources will tell you to give yourself a big pat on the back if you're saving 10% of your money. Looking at the data above, I suppose if you've got a 10% savings rate you're actually doing quite well compared to most people. But is that enough?
I'd like to suggest why I don't think saving 10% is enough in the context of three main financial goals most of us have.
Let's start with what should be the most important immediate financial target for you if it's not in place already: an adequate emergency fund. We'll go with the oft-repeated advice to have an emergency fund equal to at least 3 months' living expenses.
With 63% of Americans saying they can't afford a $500 car repair or a $1,000 emergency room visit, I think it's safe to say that most people don't have sufficient emergency reserves, because a 3-month emergency fund for most people would be anywhere from $6,000 to $12,000.
Have you ever really thought about the math behind trying to save up an emergency fund while only having a 10% savings rate? Here's why saving only 10% may still not feel like it's getting you anywhere.
To make the math easy, let's say you have a $1,000 monthly income. If your savings rate is 10%, it means you save $100 per month. It also means your spending rate is 90%, or that your living expenses are $900 per month.
If you need a 3-month emergency fund, that means your goal should be to save up $900 x 3 months = $2,700.
The problem with that, of course, is that your savings rate is only $100 per month. That means it will take you 27 months to save up a 3-month emergency fund. And that's if you don't experience any emergencies along the way. How often do you go over two years without any sort of emergency?
Really, the single reason you can't get a sufficient emergency fund in place is because your rate of emergencies exceeds your rate of saving money.
If your savings rate is 15%, you will have a 3-month emergency fund in 17 months.
If your savings rate is 20%, it will only take you 12 months.
If your savings rate is 25%, it's a mere 9 months.
If your savings rate is 30% or higher, YOU'RE AWESOME. Take a bow.
Another worthy goal of many is to buy a home. However, many of us are still operating under the "20% down payment" rule-of-thumb, which is, quite honestly, outdated. It was popularized about three decades ago when the proportion of wages to house prices were different, and when mortgage interest rates were over 10%. Brutal.
Since then, we've seen a steady increase in house prices while wages have stagnated. Do you realize what this means? For most people, you can't save 20% of a down payment in any realistic amount of time. Our incomes are much smaller in proportion to the cost of houses than 30 years ago.
So let's cross-examine another rule-of-thumb, the one that says "you can afford or should buy a house about three times your annual income."
How does the math turn out if you're trying to make a 20% down payment on a house three times your annual income?
If your savings rate is 10%, it will take you 6 years.
If your savings rate is 15%, it will take you 4 years.
If your savings rate is 20%, it will take you 3 years.
This decision is a complicated one. During the time you're waiting to buy because you're saving a down payment, will house prices continue to go up, or will there be a crash? Are mortgage interest rates going to go up?
Also, even if your savings rate is 10%, do you have an emergency fund in place yet? Are you going to save that up first?
As you can see, this creates another case for 10% savings taking a long time to get anywhere.
Yes, if you can save a 20% down payment, I say go for it. It will get you a lower interest rate and save you on private mortgage insurance, though there are ways to avoid that with less than 20% down. But it's not the worst thing to buy a house with less (I'd never put down less than 5% though). Trade-offs have to be made somewhere!
Okay, now it's time for the big kahuna. Retirement savings. The old advice goes something like this: "stuff 10% of your income into a 401(k) or any stock mutual fund for 40 years and you will have enough for retirement."
Hmm. That's a lot like saying "if you're in California, head eastward on the nearest interstate and set cruise control at 65 mph for 40 hours and you will end up in Washington DC." You might, and you might not. Instead, you'll end up closer to DC then you started, but most likely not where you have to be.
There are so many factors at play in a long-term wealth building effort that if the extent of your long-term financial plan for retirement is to "just put 10% somewhere", you're going to get a pretty vague result.
This old advice is rooted in the assumptions of a well-known (but perhaps outdated) study done in the 1990's that famously stated that you could withdraw 4% of your investment portfolio each year in retirement (increasing for inflation each year), and your portfolio will have a great chance of lasting at least 30 years. For example, if you started with $1 million you could withdraw $40,000 in the first year of retirement to live on and take out a little more for inflation each year thereafter.
A couple problems with that: life expectancies are now longer, and most economists forecast that the next 40 years are not going to have as high investment returns in the stock market as the last 40 years. This means that we may have to make up for it by saving more money than generations before us.
I'll dig deeper into why 10% can be an insufficient savings amount for retirement in a later article, but let me share just this for now: using this basic retirement calculator, I estimated that you'd have to work over 48 years to be able to live off of the 4% rule. That's a longer career than most people are planning on.
If you want to see how increasing your savings rate can dramatically affect your long-term future, see my earlier post about savings rates and early retirement.
Ultimately, what your savings rate should be depends completely on what your goals are! So you can't know how much you need to be saving unless you know what it is you want in your future. Do you want an early retirement? What kind of lifestyle do you want? Would you rather take a 1-2 year mid-life retirement or sabbatical, and work a little longer before fully retiring? Do you want to travel and have experiences, or are you more apt to buy your dream car or design your perfect house?
Whatever your financial goals are, in most cases you're going to need much more than a 10% savings rate to reach them.
I know that to many of you, hearing reasons why saving 10% of your money may be inadequate might be discouraging. Don't forget the statistics I mentioned at the beginning of this article - most people aren't saving 10% of their money. The majority of people already feel squeezed on their budget.
But my job as a financial planner is not to sugarcoat reality. It would be a disservice to validate socially accepted rules of thumb that are inadequate or misleading. My duty is to raise awareness and find creative solutions to work around it through investment and tax savings strategies.
However, no amount of investment or tax planning can make up for an inadequate savings rate. And remember that to save more money, you either 1) increase your income, 2) decrease your expenses, or 3) a combination of both.
The hardest part for people is not in understanding that, it's in implementing it. Most people expend all their energy cranking out the day-to-day grind that they don't have the time or mental space to proactively plan large efforts in these things.
All that being said, it's easy to feel stuck and like you'll never get to the savings rate you want. Starting small and slowly saving more and more sounds good in theory, but if you can make some large decisions more immediately, you'll feel a much bigger boost toward where you want to go financially.
Automate your savings. Bypass your behavioral tendencies and make it go straight from your paycheck to your account. Don't leave it to yourself to put in whatever is left at the end of the month.
Make your savings inaccessible. If you have the tendency to "raid" the money you put in savings, it's time to make it harder to access. Put it in an account that's not the same bank or financial institution your checking account is with. Make it a non-online account, if you can find a place where that's possible.
Create accountability. Tell someone about your goal to save and ask them to make you stick to it. If you really want to get serious, ask your bank if they can create a joint account where you need all account holders' permission for withdrawal rights. Then, your accountability partner can talk sense in to you if you are trying to steal from your savings.
Beyond these little savings hacks, it may be that you need a "lifestyle gut check" like I wrote about in The 3 Real Ways to Cut Expenses. If you feel like you've reduced expenses as much as you can, then you may need to work on the other side of the equation - increasing your income. You might look for a side hustle or part-time job, start a small business, or learn salary negotiating skills for your next job review to bring home more bacon.
Less important than how you create a higher savings rate is that you just make it happen. So make it happen!


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Narayan Neelakantan has over 16 years of experience in the fields of Cybersecurity, IT Governance, Risk & Compliance, and IT Infrastructure. Prior to starting Block Armour, he was the CISO and Head of IT Risk & Compliance at India's National Stock Exchange (NSE). His role at NSE allowed him to get a firsthand view of cyberthreats and the dire need to protect critical infrastructure from all sorts of cyberattacks and cybercriminals.
1) Tell us about Block Armour, what it offers and how it came about?
Enterprises are feeling the heat as Cybersecurity incidents continue to grow and existing solutions struggle to keep pace. The escalating impact and costs today are often measured in the millions. While business drivers justify an extended enterprise ecosystem, the need to secure the critical systems that support it has grown manifold.
Our answer to these questions was Block Armour – a next gen enterprise solution for cybersecurity; powered by SDP (Software-Defined Perimeter), Blockchain and TLS Technology. Block Armour basically delivers SDP (or Zero Knowledge Proof) architecture, enhanced with Blockchain & TLS Technology that offers us opportunities to address cyber security challenges in bold new ways.
2) What are the challenges in current cybersecurity measures and how is Block Armour helping to overcome them? How can blockchain technology address these challenges?
Most cybersecurity solutions currently available are not geared towards addressing threats from new technologies or are unable to protect the wider perimeter of an enterprise network. On the other hand, cyberattacks are getting more sophisticated and complex, with hackers constantly innovating and discovering new vulnerabilities to exploit in systems. Despite spending billions of dollars on cybersecurity, enterprises have been unable to lock down their infrastructure completely or ensure complete defense against cyberattacks.
All around the world, cybersecurity incidents are on the rise. A data breach is no longer an if, but when, for most organizations across all major industries. Cybersecurity solutions available in the market employ traditional technologies with vulnerable layers, due to frequent patching year after year, attack after attack. Meanwhile, hackers and cybercriminals continue to remain ahead of the curve – finding new ways to launch cyberattacks and cause significant financial and reputational damage to organizations, both large and small.
Existing solutions are only trying to play catch up with hackers, instead of being able to successfully get ahead of them. What enterprises require today is technology which is future-proof, and can not only safeguard against existing cyberthreats, but also continue to offer the same level of protection against tomorrow's more sophisticated and complex threats. A solution which can render an enterprise's critical assets impenetrable can offer a higher level of security than existing cybersecurity solutions which need to be patched on a regular basis to remain invulnerable.
SDP architecture offers a promising way to address cybersecurity challenges in a bold and future-ready way. Blockchain and TLS technology further empower the SDP architecture to make a more resilient solution. Block Armour's Blockchain Defined Perimeter (BDP) creates an additional layer of security, using digital identity, allowing enterprises to isolate their most critical infrastructure, render them invisible, offer them completely secure and authenticated access, and provide a tamper-proof layer of protection against next-gen cyberattacks.
3) Who are your major clients?
We have launched a limited release version of the solution, and will be deploying it at two pilot clients in India – one a leading media house and the other a financial exchange. In addition, we will also deploy a pilot at a leading financial institution in Singapore.
Beyond that, we have received interest from institutions across industry verticals – potential partners and clients who are keen to deploy our blockchain powered solution for cybersecurity.
4) What are the plans Block Armour has for the future?
Block Armour has a lot of potential among enterprises that want to safeguard their critical infrastructure against the rising threat of cyberattacks and hacking attempts. As cyberthreats grow in number and complexity, enterprises are going to be more concerned about ensuring the highest level of protection for their core business systems.
Our go-to-market approach is via partners. We are in talks with major IT vendors, global system integrators as well as a set of boutique service firms that can provide client services on the back of the product.
We have been approached by public and private enterprises as well as several partners from across the globe, who are eager to take a new-age, effective cybersecurity solution to their clients. As blockchain adoption grows, we will have more takers willing to explore the potential of blockchain as an emerging technology to increase cybersecurity within enterprises.
5) What is India's position in Blockchain and Cybersecurity?
The world over and even in India, the financial services industry is one of the leading adopters exploring the use of blockchain technology. In India, even the regulators and central agencies are showing interest in the technology. A couple of pilot projects are already underway in leading banks in the country, including projects being tested by the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) using blockchain technology to create a fabric for inter-bank connectivity.
The recent demonetization drive and the government's move to shift to a digital economy will further increase focus on blockchain technology, not just in the financial services industry, but among other sectors as well. India is well placed to quickly adopt the technology, migrate to 'digital' and leapfrog its western peers when it comes to securing critical IT infrastructure and services.


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Jessy Mendiola admits breakup with JM de Guzman
The actress says that the two of them have different priorities in life
10 Nov - After much speculation, actress Jessy Mendiola finally confirmed rumours that she and boyfriend JM de Guzman have called it quits.
As reported on Push, the actress, who appeared at a press conference held last week, stated that their latest breakup was caused by their differences in priorities.
"I guess it's better that we focus on our own priorities. I just want to focus on myself first. He also wants the same for himself," she said.
However, Mendiola admitted that the breakup did hurt her, although there is nothing she can do about it.
"If the relationship is not good for the both of us, I'd rather not be with him," she said.
She didn't blame Guzman for the breakup, and praised the actor for being an amazing person.
"We're still friends," she said, though added that she doesn't know whether there is likelihood that they would patch thing back.
This is the second time the couple broke up. The couple patched things up back in April this year, after they broke up the first time last year after two years of dating.
(Photo source: entertainment.inquirer.net)


Since the AVADirect Clevo X 8100 is a gaming notebook, I will be using 3DMark Vantage in addition to my normal iTunes encoding, Windows Media Encoder and Battery Eater Pro tests. The first test up is my iTunes encoding test.
For the iTunes encoding test I take the Stone Temple Pilots Core CD in MP3 format and encode it to AAC format using iTunes and time the results with a stopwatch. The AVADirect Clevo X8100 took the top spot in this benchmark.
For the movie encoding test I take the HD Microsoft Magic of Flight video and encode it to DVD quality video with CD quality audio using Windows Media Encoder. The AVADirect Clevo X8100 was a mere 1 second behind the class leading Smooth Creations 18.4 notebook, which is a clone of this machine with slightly different hardware. Another fantastic performance result by the AVADirect Clevo X8100 was turned in on this benchmark.
As always, battery life tests are very subjective and your mileage may vary. The performance mode test was run with all power saving features off and the screen set on 100% brightness. The power saving mode test used the same settings with the screen turned to 50% brightness.
I didn't expect much from the AVADirect Clevo X8100 notebook in this benchmark considering the hardware inside the machine and the fact that it is a gaming notebook. The machine took dead last in this benchmark with the worst battery life I have tested.
For this benchmark I ran 3DMark Vantage at default settings and left the video card settings on the notebook at default values. As expected, the AVADirect Clevo X8100 took the top spot in this benchmark.


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Berlin car bomb killing suspected to be gangland hit
Man (43) murdered in city centre when explosive device detonated as he drove car
Tue, Mar 15, 2016, 11:14 Updated: Tue, Mar 15, 2016, 17:48
Derek Scally in Berlin
German police said they suspect an explosive device caused a car to explode and kill the driver on a road in central Berlin on Tuesday (March 15) morning. spokesman said one man, the driver, had been killed in the explosion. Video: Reuters
Rescuers and police officers work around a damaged car after a blast caused by an explosive device killed its driver in central Berlin on Tuesday. Photograph: Getty
Berlin police believe an organised crime feud was the motive behind a car bomb explosion that killed a 43-year-old man in the western city centre on Tuesday morning.
The massive explosion took place at about 8am during rush hour traffic on the Bismarck Straße near the Deutsche Oper. The explosion left debris scattered over the street.
After bomb experts examined the wreck of the grey Volkswagen Passat estate car, police said they did not believe the incident had a terrorist background.
"The car veered right out of its lane, collided with a parked car and came to a halt in the middle of the lane," said a police officer.
The 43-year-old driver died at the scene. There were no other casualties and only one other car, a Porsche, was damaged.
After the attack, police urged residents to stay indoors, warning on Twitter: "Our investigators assume it was an explosive device that led the vehicle to explode."
Investigators declined to say whether the bomb was triggered remotely or by a timer. Dozens of shops near the scene of the explosion were closed, while police halted traffic on the U2 underground line in one direction.
By 11.30am local time, the bomb team had concluded their work and gave the all-clear to residents.
"I was in the living room and heard a 'boom', thinking it must be a bomb or an accident, but could only see one car," said Heidi Schuler, a local woman.
According to police reports the driver was known to them and a member of the organised crime scene, with previous convictions for drugs, gambling and counterfeit money offences.
The man was not the owner of the car, police say, so were unable to say yet whether he or another person were the target of the attack.
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There has been strong growth in the Tajik mobile sector, but the telecommunications infrastructure in Tajikistan needs significant improvement. There is quite a challenge ahead to bring the country up to a satisfactory level in terms of access to connectivity. Though 4G and LTE have been launched in the country, which is a very positive development, there is still a long way to go in terms of widespread access. With 70 percent of the population living in rural areas, it is difficult to reach the population with terrestrial technology such as fibre which is difficult and expensive to rollout in remote areas and in areas where the mountainous terrain can cause problems. Therefore, broadband and the Internet is largely restricted to urban areas of Tajikistan.
The Tajik government has adopted a strategy to promote an information society and therefore has identified the development of ICT across the country as a priority. With Internet penetration at 33.1 percent, broadband and Internet access is still very much a work in progress and the use of satellite will enable the government to carry out its pledges and to connect areas that are as yet untapped in terms of telecommunications and broadband Internet access.
BusinessCom Networks offers VSAT-based satellite services that will extend IP networks to the large population living in rural regions, enabling the government and ISPs to connect untapped communities with a wealth of applications via both shared and dedicated bandwidth that enables access to applications such as email and web browsing to e-health and education, video conferencing and VoIP. This access, combined with the fast deployment and scalability of a VSAT, make rural broadband access an affordable reality with no requirement for expensive rollout of fibre networks which make little financial sense for ISPs. BusinessCom Networks will help you to design, install and operate your VSAT network and will decipher the best and most efficient service for your requirements, along with a bandwidth management system to help to optimise your network.
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Breast Cancer Test May Identify Low-Risk Tumors That Don't Require Treatment : Shots - Health News Researchers say the test, which measures gene activity, can help avoid "overtreating" tumors that are not life-threatening. It might allow some patients to avoid radiation and chemotherapy.
The UCSF study used breast tissue collected from postmenopausal women in a large Swedish trial, for which there was extensive information about the women's treatment and long-term survival. The study, known as Stockholm-3, was started in 1976 and was among the first to compare the effects of the estrogen-blocker tamoxifen with a placebo. Tamoxifen has since been shown to suppress subsequent tumor formation, and is in common use.
Samples were available from 652 patients. Most (79 percent) had undergone a mastectomy — or lumpectomy plus radiation. About half got no further treatment and half got tamoxifen. Tumors in the study were small — 3 centimeters or less in diameter. And all the women had "clean" lymph nodes, meaning the cancer had not spread.
The tumor test was performed on these samples and 15 percent (98) were classified as ultralow-risk. These women had an "excellent prognosis," the researchers found, whether or not they took tamoxifen or whether they received radiation or not. Their rate of survival, 20 years out, ranged from 97 percent with tamoxifen, Esserman says, to 94 percent without.
"We can tell [these] women that they are highly unlikely to die of their cancers and do not need aggressive treatment," Esserman says. "This is an important step forward" for personalizing care for women with breast cancer, because it allows doctors to "tailor treatment for each individual based on the aggressiveness of the tumor they have."
Some other oncologists agree. "We're allowing our science to help us understand that sometimes less treatment is effective," says Dr. Len Lichtenfeld of the American Cancer Society.
"That's an emerging theme in cancer treatment," he says. "We used to think every cancer we found was a bad cancer and had to be treated aggressively. It's taken a long time for us to be able to understand and adopt principles that we can treat less and still be effective — and not harm women [who have] breast cancer."
Even so, should all patients with breast cancer get the tumor test?
"This is not something we are routinely discussing or offering to patients," says Dr. Harold Burstein, a breast cancer specialist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and a spokesperson for the American Society for Clinical Oncology. Tumors classified as "ultralow," Burstein says, "have never been reported on before."
"This study suggests we may be able to get more information out of MammaPrint, which is exciting," he says, "but it needs to be looked at in more studies."
And until those studies are done, he recommends at least one group of women — those with estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer — "should still have an anti-estrogen medicine like tamoxifen" or a similar drug after their surgery.
MammaPrint is a genomic test that looks at a set of 70 genes in a tumor, showing how the genes are controlling the production of the proteins that drive a tumor's growth. A genomic test of the tumor, which measures how genes are functioning, differs from other genetic tests that determine someone's hereditary risk of cancer.
The tumor test was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2007 to predict whether an existing cancer has the ability to spread. It's priced at $4,200 and is covered by some insurance plans in the U.S.
One of the co-authors on the paper — UCSF molecular biologist Laura van 't Veer — developed the MammaPrint test. She's a co-founder and chief research officer of Agendia NV, the company that holds the license to MammaPrint.


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Q: MySql querying taking too long I have a table
CREATE TABLE temp (
    i1 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    i2 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    i3 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    i4 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    i5 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    i6 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    i7 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    i8 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    i9 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    o1 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    o2 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    o3 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    o4 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    o5 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    o6 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    o7 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    o8 DECIMAL(10, 5),
    o9 DECIMAL(10, 5)
);
CREATE INDEX input_data_index
ON temp (i1, i2, i3, i4, i5, i6, i7, i8, i9);
CREATE INDEX test_index
ON temp (o1);

I am trying to search through this table using this query:
SELECT * FROM temp t
INNER JOIN temp x
ON t.i1 = x.i1
AND t.i2 = x.i2
AND t.i3 = x.i3
AND t.i4 = x.i4
AND t.i5 = x.i5
AND t.i6 = x.i6
AND t.i7 = x.i7
AND t.i8 = x.i8
AND t.i9 = x.i9
WHERE t.o1 != x.o1;

The table contains 180,362 rows. If I take out the where clause it only takes 0.157 seconds to run however with the where clause it takes a really long time to run (in excess of 300 seconds) at which point I just cancel it.
Why does it take so long to run when that where clause is added?
Do you have any suggestions on how I can speed this up?
EDIT:
When I run the explain statement using the original index I had I get: img
When I run the explain statement using the one suggest by @Simulant (adding o1 to the index) I get: img2
but it still takes a really long time for this query to execute as well.

A: If you want the values of o1, where the i values are the same, you might consider:
select i1, i2, i3, i4, i5, i6, i7, i8, i9,
       group_concat(o1)
from temp
group by i1, i2, i3, i4, i5, i6, i7, i8, i9;

This is not exactly the same result set, but it might satisfy your needs.

A: The Columns i1, i2, i3, i4, i5, i6, i7, i8, i9 are indexed in the same index, so your query without the where is fully utilized by the index. your column o1 is indexed in another index. But a query can only use one index at the time for one table. What you should do is add all your columns needed for the query to the same index.
CREATE INDEX input_data_index
ON temp (i1, i2, i3, i4, i5, i6, i7, i8, i9, o1);

Using the explain statement can help you to find out how good your index reduces the scanned rows.

A: Have
INDEX((i1, i2, i3, i4, i5, i6, i7, i8, i9,  o1)

And change the WHERE clause to
WHERE t.o1 > x.o1;

This will cut in half the number of rows output, and might change the way the query is executed.

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Q: ¿ Por qué el mat-icon no desaparece en Angular? cuando el usuario hace el login, mi componente nav.ts tiene una variable llamada username que recibe el nombre de usuario que hizo login con la ayuda del servicio auth.Service.
Despues en el nav.html pregunto con un *ngIf si esa variable username es != null, si es correcto que muestre el icono con el nombre de usuario. pero el problema es que si mi variable username esta vacia/null, el icono esta siempre visible y no deberia funcionar asi.
Aca auth.service

export class AuthService {

  private API = 'http://localhost:4000/admin/login';
  private AUTH_USER = 'http://localhost:4000/api/auth/';

  public username = new BehaviorSubject<string>('');
  public username$ = this.username.asObservable();

  constructor(private http: HttpClient, private tokenService:TokenService) { }

  loginUser(username: string, password){
    return this.http.post(`${this.AUTH_USER}${'signin/user'}`, {username, password})
    .pipe(
      tap((data: any) => {
        const token = data.token;
        console.log('se guardo el token');
        // aca hacer la variable usernname$ como cart$ en cart.service
        const name = data.username;
        this.username.next(name);
         // guardo el username en localStorage para ser invocada en component main-nav
         localStorage.setItem('username', name);
        this.tokenService.saveToken(token);
      })
    )
  }

}

Aca nav.ts

username: string;

  constructor(
    private breakpointObserver: BreakpointObserver,
    private authService: AuthService
    ) {
        // aca recibo el nombre de usuario con el servicio
       this.authService.username$.subscribe(username => {
         this.username = username;
       });

      }

      ngOnInit(): void {
        // si se refresque la pagina, cargo los datos del localStorage para mostrar el username
        // esta localStorage fue creada en auth.service.ts
        if(localStorage.getItem('username') != null){
          this.username = localStorage.getItem('username');
        }

      }

Aca nav.html

<mat-sidenav-content>
    <mat-toolbar color="primary" class="mat-elevation-z6">
      <button type="button" aria-label="Toggle sidenav" mat-icon-button (click)="drawer.toggle()"
        *ngIf="isHandset$ | async">
        <mat-icon aria-label="Side nav toggle icon">menu</mat-icon>
      </button>
      <mat-icon>eco</mat-icon>Bookstore

        <button mat-button [matMenuTriggerFor]="menu">
          <mat-icon>person_pin</mat-icon>
          {{ username }}
        </button>
        <mat-menu #menu="matMenu">

            <mat-icon>shopping_cart</mat-icon>
            Mis compras

            <mat-icon>person_off</mat-icon>
            Cerrar sesión

        </mat-menu>

          <mat-icon class="icon-shopping-cart">shopping_cart</mat-icon>
          Carrito

        Home
        Link 2
        Link 3

          <mat-icon>perm_identity</mat-icon>
          Login

    </mat-toolbar>

  </mat-sidenav-content>

A: Podrías simplemente evaluar que username tenga un valor seteado según su tipo (en este caso, un string):
Primero, al momento de asignar un valor que no se encuentra, el "valor" que se le asigna a username es undefined. Debido a que la validación sólo considera que username sea distinto de null, si este es undefined se mostrará. Esto puedes confirmarlo ejecutando una validación del tipo:
if (typeof undefined !== typeof null) {
  console.log('undefined es diferente de null');
}

Segundo, (esto es opcional) puedes usar un ng-container donde describir el *ngIf o sólo cambiar la manera en que realizas la validación, lo importante es cómo se declara la misma:
<ng-container *ngIf="username">

</ng-container>

Conclusiones:
Cuando evalúas que una variable/constante sea "verdadera", en realidad están evaluando varias posibilidades. En el caso de un string, no sólo evalúa que este sea distinto de undefined o null, sino que también considera el valor "vacío" o ''

A: Solucionado! simplemente cambie el modo de preguntar por la variable username en el div que contiene el icono de la siguiente forma:
 quedando de esta forma:

        <button mat-button [matMenuTriggerFor]="menu">
          <mat-icon>person_pin</mat-icon>
          {{ username }}
        </button>
        <mat-menu #menu="matMenu">

            <mat-icon>shopping_cart</mat-icon>
            Mis compras

            <mat-icon>person_off</mat-icon>
            Cerrar sesión

        </mat-menu>


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US, NATO Militarizing Scandinavia as Anti-Russia Hysteria Grows
Journalist Eirik Vold says the United States and NATO are further militarizing Scandinavian nations, while claiming Russia poses a threat of war. US military presence is growing in NATO members like Norway, as non-members Sweden and Finland are being pressured to join
BEN NORTON: It's the Real News. I'm Ben Norton.
I'm continuing my discussion here at the Real News with Eirik Vold. Eirik is an investigative journalist from Norway. He is also an author, and he is currently a political adviser for the Red Party in the Norwegian parliament. We're discussing the relationship between Scandinavia and NATO, and the remilitarization of some of the Scandinavian countries, particularly Sweden. But we're also going to talk about Norway, Finland, and Denmark. And specifically, in Part 1 of our discussion we spoke about the Swedish government's initiative to send pamphlets to all 4.8 million households, warning of a potential war. And of course, the kind of new cold war that is has emerged between NATO countries and Russia. We're going to continue our discussion here talking about NATO.
EIRIK VOLD: Now, this is not something that's only going on in Sweden. There is, there is in Scandinavia, Norway is also experiencing a similar, a similar development. I mean, Norway was, joined NATO many decades ago. But we are experiencing today a clear break with with past, past policies of not permitting foreign military bases on Norwegian soil. We had the so-called bases, military bases policy that was established, if I'm not mistaken, in 1949 here in Norway, and it clearly stated that there should be no foreign military bases on Norwegian soil.
Now, this has been hollowed out, or practically just scrapped right now by the Norwegian government, as we have already permitted the presence, the permanent presence of 300 U.S. Marines and bases in middle Norway, and have a place called Vaernes, which is also a very strategic location in terms of flights towards the Baltic Sea and towards the Russian border. This has happened without any democratic debates. It has happened without a democratic process. And basically it's been negotiated behind closed doors, between probably a U.S. official or NATO officials and Norwegian officials, and Vaernes is not, could be not the only place where the U.S. is increasing their presence in Norway. We have, we also have an airbase in southern Norway called Rygge. This base was closed down for civilian air traffic a couple of years ago, but it's now about to open up for US presence. It's been, while the Norwegian government gave absolutely no information about this, this appeared on the budget of the U.S. armed forces, the U.S. military, as an investment of of around a million dollars or so, if I'm not mistaken. I might have to look at that exact number again. But it appeared first on the U.S. military budget as an expense to adequate this Rygge airport in Norway for, for it to be able to host American war airplanes. This is another base, which has also got a very strategic location towards the Baltic Sea.
And there's a third area where the U.S. is also expanding their, their military presence, or seems they're expanding their military presence there, which is, which is the far north. This is another area of extreme strategic importance, mostly because it's, it's very much closer to the Russian border than all the other places mentioned. So it's not just for, for closing in on Russia on the, through, by the Baltic Sea. But this is also a place where you, where you can circle Russia in the far north, pretty close to the coal [inaudible] Russia has some of its most strategic, sensible bases and capabilities.
So we are closing up, practically the whole of Norway's territory is being used to close in on, on Russia. And while any sensible Norwegian region certainly is wary about Russia, and wary about such a big military power close to a normally historically peaceful and much weaker nation than Russia, there are always reasons to worry in such a situation, but I'm very unsure, and many Norwegians wondered if this, if this increased U.S. militarization actually increases our security levels, or if it provokes Russia in such a way that it increases the risk that the big great power rivalry between Russia and the US is being taken unnecessarily into Norwegian soil.
BEN NORTON: Yeah that's a great point. And we have to wrap up here in a moment, but really briefly, I wonder if we could just take a step back and also talk about Scandinavia as a whole and its relationship to NATO. You mentioned, of course, that Norway is a longtime member of NATO, and as is Denmark. Sweden and Finland are not members of NATO. And polls in the past several decades, they have traditionally shown widespread opposition to joining NATO. In the past several years, however, we've seen a reversal. And in fact this year, 2018, a recent poll showed for one of the first times in years that a plurality of Swedes support joining NATO. Can you comment? And do you think that we could see in the near future Sweden, and maybe even Finland, joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
EIRIK VOLD: Well, Sweden has been, the Swedish population has been, and it hurts to say it, but they've been victims of a process of scaremongering. There's absolutely no doubt about that. There's been, for a period, you would see almost daily front pages with the, with the supposed war threats from Russia, threatening news from Russia, every single day on television, on major news outlets. And with very little backing, very little evidence that this threat actually existed, or that there was any basis for those scary headlines and front pages. So this has definitely had an impact in Swedish public opinion, and there's very little that can be done for the skeptics, because their access to the mainstream, the mass media, is certainly a lot more limited than the access of those interests who want Sweden to become a member of NATO, and wanted to at least create closer ties between Sweden and its U.S.-dominated military alliance.
As of Finland, there's been a similar process going on. Finland has also granted increased access to NATO, to its territory. As of Denmark, Denmark has for a long time been more of a so-called Atlanticist country in the Scandinavian context. Some might remember that the former secretary general of NATO was was a Danish, an ex-prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen from Denmark, who was, by the way, it seems he was rewarded for his support for the Iraq war, because after that he became the secretary general. And there was a similar, there was a similar move when the Norwegian ex-prime minister Jens Stoltenberg became secretary general of NATO. He still is. This happened some years after Stoltenberg played a very important role in making Norway, to have Norway join the military campaign against the illegal regime change war against Libya, and convincing even the Swedes to join that failed regime change war.
So, so the currency is clear. What we don't know is what does Scandinavia gain from this? If you look at a broader European picture, it's clear that whenever the U.S. sort of makes the relationship to Russia more difficult, we pay, Europeans and especially Scandinavians, pay a much higher price than the U.S. authorities, because we are a lot closer to Russia. And we lose out a lot more money from trading, deteriorating trade relationships. We lose out on deteriorating environmental cooperation that has always been very strong between, for example, Norway and Russia. And we lose out on necessary security cooperation that we've always had, even though we have politically disagreed to a very high extent both with the Soviet Union Communist regime and the current Putin regime. But we still have had, this cooperation has really been, been beneficial to us, which is something that even U.S. officials admit in cables, in WikiLeaks cables that were released in 2011 from from the U.S. Embassy in Norway.
So what do we gain from joining this this escalation of confrontation against Russia? It's very unclear. And I think one of the reasons that ex-Vice President Joe Biden expressed himself in the, along the lines of we had to bully or pressure Europe into implementing sanctions against Russia, was that this is clearly not in the interest of Europe. And I think this is also the case in terms of Scandinavia being sort of selling out or caving in to U.S. pressures to, to leave our traditional policy of neutrality and of cooperation, of reaching out to both the U.S. and the Eastern Bloc, and later Russia.
BEN NORTON: Well, that's going to have to be the end of our, the second part of a discussion here with Eirik Vold. Eirick is a Norwegian investigative journalist and author. He is also a political adviser to the Red Party in the Norwegian parliament. Thanks for joining us for both of these parts, Eirik.
EIRIK VOLD: OK. Thank you so much.
BEN NORTON: Reporting For the Real News, I'm Ben Norton.
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The acting is great in this! There isn't much "dialogue", really. Most of the lines that you hear are the voice in the character John's head telling him to do terrible things. But that voice acting is amazing! It's sinister and intelligent, truly sounding like the silky voice of darkness itself. Really left an impression!
The story is very original, I thought. It actually makes you wonder a little… what if? It kinda makes me want to see more, from earlier in this man's life leading up to this. Has the voice gotten worse? Has it always been this bad? How did this happen? It really makes me think.
There is one scene in this 24 minute film that is very effects-heavy. But it is all prac effects and it is done beautifully! That scene alone probably doubled or tripled the budget of the film for the quality of the prosthetics and animatronics used. Very well done.
Overall, I really couldn't ask for anymore from this film. At 24 minutes, it tells a riveting story that starts out benign enough and then spirals into the insane! Top notch!


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You've heard me talk about the importance of good digestion for optimal beauty many times before, since your digestive system breaks down and assimilates all of the glow-boosting nutrients you take in when you eat beautifying foods. Of course you want to max out the benefits in every bite of beauty food, and healthy digestion allows you to do that. But a few months ago I stumbled on yet another convincing reason why good digestion is at the heart of your beauty—it's called ojas.
In the teachings of Ayurveda—the centuries-old system of medicine that originated in India—ojas is known as a powerfully beautifying essence. Ayurvedic expert John Douillard DC, (check out his fab newsletter at lifespa.com) explains in his post 'Got Ojas? Nourish Your Vitality' that ojas 'governs aging, immunity, radiant skin, vigor, mood, sleep, digestion, spirituality, and physical strength.' Ojas is physical vigor and health, as well as emotional consciousness, he told me in a recent interview. Sounds incredibly powerful. Thing is, you can't buy ojas, and you can't get it in a pill or powder—to get your fill of this incredible beautifier, you simply need to digest optimally.
Ayurveda teaches that ojas is most refined product of healthy digestion. It's something intangible, kind of like beauty. I immediately connect ojas with the glow and the radiant physical beauty that some of us seem to possess effortlessly. We often see that kind of radiance as an elusive quality, but if it's deepened by ojas, and ojas is made through digestion, it follows that every one of us can nourish that glow within ourselves.
The presence of ojas, "is an inner vitality so compelling, and a complexion so lustrous, that our attractiveness transcends all modes of fashion and all popular ideals . . . It is not imaginary and not something we can fake for very long, even with the best makeup or plastic surgeon," writes Ayurvedic physician and Naturopathic doctor Pratima Raichur in her book Absolute Beauty. Sounds kind of like the radiance we try achieve with a combination of foundation and bronzer. But isn't it incredible that it could actually be something that we make within ourselves?
Douillard says that our bodies take a full month to manufacture ojas, because it's the most highly refined product of the digestive process. Ojas may take our beauty to the next level, but it's nonessential, so it's the first thing that gets cut out if the digestive process isn't running smoothly. I believe that it's not just a coincidence that that the shine in your hair, the sparkle in your eyes, and the luminosity in your skin are also the first to go missing when your digestive health needs a tune up! From now on, my clients will work on boosting ojas as just one part of their lifestyle of beauty.
Need a beauty-boosting digestive tune-up? It will transform how you look and feel.
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FEDS JUST TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK
The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
Best of ROH General Pimping Thread~!
By JRGoldman, January 3, 2015 in FEDS JUST TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK
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I think the whole of the Generico/Steen feud from 2010 should be up for inclusion, one of the best long term storylines ROH has done encompassing a range of matches and also including Cabana and Corino.
Minnesota Purple Rage
It's amazing how big a part of my life ROH was, and yet how little I remember of it today. I'm mostly here for someone to tell me what I should revisit. So do that!
Here are some random thoughts, though:
Chris Daniels vs. Doug Williams was my favorite match for a long time, almost solely because it had a lot of body part work. At the time, I thought that was necessary for matches to be good.
Strangely, I didn't much care for the Dragon/Homicide "hand match" at the time. Because they used the ring bell! You can't do that in ROH!
I (still) give Punk a lot of shit, but the third match with Joe is probably my favorite ROH match ever, especially the video portion of Punk and "Bower" going over the previous two matches beforehand. Maybe others think you shouldn't deconstruct the first two acts of a play before the climax, but I think it's a neat idea that someone should try again.
Goldman, we may have to scuffle over Gibson. He might not have been the most spectacular, but I remember him being so professional and polished, and adaptable to anyone he fought. He slipped right in like no other cast-off was able to.
Steen and Generico may be the two biggest ROH success stories. Everyone knew Dragon and Punk were going places, but those two washed out their first go around. They just weren't very good. They toured around, got better, came back, and took over the world, to the point where Zayn/Neville from NXT may be the best indy match ever.
I don't think I've been to an ROH show since the Steen/Generico retirement match, but up until that point I was still harassing referee Todd Sinclair for costing Dragon the title against Homicide. He refused to break the hold! That's a DQ! Homicide wouldn't have won if not for Todd Sinclair's activist officiating!
EVA should respond to my PMs.
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Here is a list of Meltzer's ROH matches that he rated over 4 stars:
2/23/02 Low Ki vs. Christopher Daniels vs. American Dragon (4.5)
4/27/02 Low Ki vs. AJ Styles (4.5)
10/16/04 ROH Champion Samoa Joe vs. CM Punk (5)
6/18/05 ROH Champion Austin Aries vs. CM Punk (4.5)
10/1/05 Samoa Joe vs. Kenta Kobashi (5)
12/17/05 GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion KENTA vs. Low Ki (4.5)
3/31/06 Blood Generation (Cima, Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino) vs. Do Fixer (Genki Horiguchi, Ryo Saito & Dragon Kid) (5)
8/12/06 Unification Match: ROH Champion Bryan Danielson vs. Pure Champion Nigel McGuinness (4.75)
9/16/06 ROH Champion Bryan Danielson vs. KENTA (4.75)
2/16/07 Samoa Joe vs. Takeshi Morishima (4.5)
6/9/07 Nigel McGuinness vs. Bryan Danielson (4.5)
8/25/07 ROH Champion Takeshi Morishima vs. Bryan Danielson (4.75)
12/29/07 ROH Champion Nigel McGuinness vs. Austin Aries (4.75)
3/16/08 ROH Champion Nigel McGuinness vs. Tyler Black (4.5)
7/26/08 Bryan Danielson vs. Tyler Black (4.5)
11/22/08 ROH Champion Nigel McGuinness vs. Bryan Danielson (4.5)
9/11/09 The American Wolves (Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards) vs. The Young Bucks (Nick Jackson & Matt Jackson) (4.5)
4/3/10 Tag Team Champions The Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe) vs. The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli w/ Shane Hagadorn) (not far behind 4.5)
4/3/10 Elimination Match: ROH Champion Tyler Black vs. Austin Aries vs. Roderick Strong (in the 4.5 range)
6/19/10 ROH Champion Tyler Black vs. Davey Richards (probably in the 4.75 range)
6/26/11 Davey Richards vs. ROH Champion Eddie Edwards (4.75)
3/31/12 ROH Champion Davey Richards vs. Michael Elgin (w/ Truth Martini) (5)
10/13/12 Jay Lethal vs. Davey Richards (4.5)
10/13/12 ROH Champion Kevin Steen vs. Michael Elgin (4.5)
4/5/13 Tag Team Champions reDRagon (Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly) vs. The American Wolves (Eddie Edwards & Davey Richards) (4.5)
5/10/14 IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks (Nick Jackson & Matt Jackson) vs. Forever Hooligans (Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov) vs. The Time Splitters (Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA) (4.5)
Looking at this list just makes me wonder what would happen if WWE ran Daniel Bryan vs. Seth Rollins as the main event at WrestleMania this year. With 7 years of maturity, they'd be able to top 08, right?
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For what it's worth, that list is fucking awful.
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For what it's worth, I've been getting a few PMs from people asking about this, so I just wanted to bump it back up and hopefully get some conversations going again. It seems like there is so much good stuff from the 04-06 era, and so many people are familiar with it. Maybe someone who is more well versed with later ROH, like the PPV stuff and the after Gabe era, can throw out some choice cuts for us to discuss? I would still love to get people comfortable enough to get a few ballots in somewhere down the line, and see what has aged well and what hasn't.
I'm in the process of watching thru some shows. I'm trying not to hit the most talked about stuff, I'm looking for any hidden gems.


At the bottom of this post, there are several good examples of tall microwave towers , and RADAR stations HEATING THE SKY above the transmitters…. melting snow high in the atmosphere… inducing storms….. even vaporizing / mitigating storms.
Pictured above: Heating microwave RADAR pulse done into the center of Hurricane Irene as it came ashore, heated for a full hour, then turned off.
These transmission systems are on 24/7/365… not counting the thousands of other HF, VHF, and UHF facilities around the world.
I propose that indeed, as we all know already, microwaves cause heating…obviously, this is a proved fact.
If one puts out high power microwave transmissions (HF, and VHF pulses as well)….. these are proved to cause heating up to 3000C / 5500F temperatures when targeted.
Now imagine a million more NON-targeted systems…. heating still occurring, only instead of being targeted at a single spot, heating occurring in all directions from the transmitter at a lower heating level due to the larger area of the whole transmission radius as opposed to a targeted area a few hundred km wide.
Pictured above: Real time heating above ground based transmitter is revealed as a storm passes over the base station, and is superheated into a severe weather event almost instantly.
Want to talk 'climate change', and man made (anthropogenic) warming?
If we're going to talk about odd weather patterns, and 'heating'… then we must address the thing which very few scientists even know exists…. radio frequency heating of the atmosphere.
2ghz microwave in your kitchen, 2ghz mobile phone in your pocket, 2ghz WiFi in your house, 2ghz RADAR in your city.
To put these systems heating capability in perspective. How long does it take your kitchen microwave to heat up water? Using 2ghz @ just 1000watts? Maybe 1 minute at the most.
No one is shocked to see a cup of water heated in their kitchen microwave, yet people are shocked to learn that when you microwave the sky, that it too will heat up.
RADAR working at 750,000watts, your kitchen microwave working at only 1000!!
One must also consider the combined resonance having a 'scalar' effect, energy at a distance from the transmitter when intersecting other similar signals. Plasma heating where the waves interact, thus a 750,000 watt pulse from RADAR could indeed cause a scalar with an adjacent RADAR station, causing unintentional 5500F temperature heating , acting just like a TARGETED pulse would!
Usually 2-3 high power microwave RADARs per state in the US, hundreds of 2ghz microwave towers also in the 100,000+ watt range, 10′s of thousands of 1-2ghz mobile towers anywhere between 10,000 to 50,000watts. The aforementioned is not counting OTHER systems around the world like satellite, TDWR RADAR, military, AMISR, or places like EISCAT, SPEAR, HAARP, MERIDIAN, SURA, MU, COBRA DANE locations, etc. Let's not forget private industry, or other countries unknown locations.
Its at least a possibility worth considering.
JimStoneFreelance.com/Cells.html > that the massive amounts of "juice" built into the towers is "over the top," & hence must have a (sinister) purpose other than "cellphone service." Jim surmised it was to create storms/disasters/EQs, & your article helps fill in the gap of "How Exactly" that is being accomplished (microwave heating).
That Cells link is a mixture of 2 things, so you have to read/scan down to find the "juice" & storms portions.
The other topic included was re Mind Control via towers, as reader GWEN mentions. Which, btw, thanks for the list of psychopathic Nazi Semantics Examples! > another hobbie is collecting such "evidences" of Global-Control-Gone-Wild.
Speaking of GWEN, funny because this has been on my mind recently re practically non-stop for 5-months GROUND RUMBLING & vibrations & associated "droning hum" >> "The Ground-Wave Emergency Network," aka GWEN, a military network which uses frequencies that "Hug the Ground" & has towers 300-500 ft high every 250-miles across USA.
So if you haven't had to "meet" the Smart Grid/Meters+BPL Monster yet, count your blessings! It basically turns your domain/home/office/complex into a Microwave Oven via your wall-wiring which acts as an all-encompassing "receiving antenna" for the RF/MW frequencies.
Another related tid-bit: I read a comment elsewhere, someone wondered if modern bldgs were designed on purpose to accentuate the 50-56Hz frequency? They said the Ghostbusters movie (year released?) had a line in it by Dan Akroyd saying that co-star S. Weaver's house (in the movie) was built to act as a "Super-Conducting Antenna"! Predictive Programming? Who controls Hollyweird?
Google also for another Jim Stone article from May 2014, re Crappy Wood Homes. He says Mexican houses are solid concrete & could last 100's of years, yet USA gets crappy wood & "brick face" only. When I was still in the "neighbors must have huge machinery in garage vibrating our floors" stage, I read a bunch of construction/engineering sites, all of which said USA Bldg. Standards were LOWERED in the 1970's, hence, concrete is now much THINNER & LIGHTER, & support beams are FARTHER apart now, 40 vs prior 25-feet.
The silly New Agers think the "hum" is "Mother Gaia" talking to them & that "something wonderful" is "on the horizon." Ummm, NO! You're being microwaved to death & hearing the resulting M.A.E. > "Microwave Auditory Effect" as the MW heats up tiny water particles in your inner ears & causes unpleasant ears & head pressure (& other not good symptoms!) Another name for it is "Acoustic Shock" (it can be ramped up LOUD with associated violent vibrations) & bodily symptoms are "Microwave Radiation Sickness" cleverly disguised by TPTB as "EHS" (Electro-Hyper-Sensitivity") so everyone will think you're nutty (ditto CFIDS, GWS, all lame names from TPTB to hide real culprits/origins of disease).
Microwave was previously called by Military exactly what it is > Microwave, but they changed it to "Wireless" some 20+ years ago > How convenient… & how "harmless-sounding" … just in time to dupe civilians into bathing themselves in it via cordless DECT phones, wireless routers, keyboards, gadgets, wifi, baby monitors, cellphones/smartphones, & the most lethal yet, Smart Meters/Smart Grid (+ BPL) beginning approx. 2006 worldwide..
Even if you cannot FEEL it nor HEAR it nor sense floor-wall-body resonance, if you have Smart Grid/Meters +BPL aka B-PLC, you're being exposed just the same (can buy testing meters to document leakages/emissions in your environment). Metal chairs, metal coil mattresses &/or couch cushions, metal stairways, metal roofs, metal shelving, etc. will make vibes+hum worse since RF/MW is attracted to metal like a magnet (ditto > wall-wiring as "antenna").
It's also worse if you are in a complex with Multiple Smart Meters &close wall-to-wall neighbors, as the RF/MW leakage from power cables will grab/piggyback on, & move each unit's leakage forward, cumulatively, on to the other units further down the bldg. complex.
Hope this helps somebody out there who may end up with the same problem!
We are being slaughtered. The planet is screwed. It's all obvious.
I think this tech is the final nail in the coffin for us. I came across an declassified USAF document, and if you read between the lines, this was set up several years ago. In The Emerging Shield document, one of the official names was "Plan Supremacy" of the "RADIO FENCE plan". There are many other nazi plays on words like "Identification Zones", "Lincoln Transition System", "MASTER Air Defense Plan", "Public Law 30″(can you say CONgress enTRAINment anyone?), "permanent NETwork", on and on. IMB, Rand, and the Carlyle Group(whom is behind our Sasktel Network in Canada), are just a few of the BIG WAR GAME players. Nazi-style and eugenic tactics all the way. Many documents can be found on mind control and black magic technics these insane parasite-infected psychopaths used as well. This IS THE reason for our lack of will, blindness, and acceptance of "soft genocide"… with sprinkles on top. They are loading us onto the Death Camp Train as we speak, and everyone thinks we're going on a picnic, with gadgets in hand. We've been warned.


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Shell can proceed with seismic survey after environmental groups lose urgent court bid
Protesters at the V&A Waterfront, 21 November.
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A high court has dismissed an urgent application to block Shell from proceeding with a seismic survey off the Eastern Cape coast.
Acting judge Avinash Govindjee said that he was not convinced that there is cause to fear "irreparable harm" if an urgent interdict was not granted.
Meanwhile communities on the Wild Coast have also filed an urgent application to block the seismic survey.
A South African high court has dismissed an urgent application to block Shell from proceeding with a seismic survey off the Eastern Cape coast.
The ruling was delivered by acting judge Avinash Govindjee at the Eastern Cape Division of the Makhanda High Court on Wednesday.
Earlier this week, four environmental and human rights organisations – Greenpeace Africa, Natural Justice, the Border Deep Sea Angling Association, and the Kei Mouth Ski Boat Club – filed an urgent application to block the seismic survey, given the alleged harm it would case to the environment and marine life.
The applicants wanted the seismic survey – which will take place off the coast between Morgans Bay and Port St Johns – to be halted until a judicial review of Shell's environmental authorisation is complete.
Shell and the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy – the respondents in the matter – both argued that the applicants failed to demonstrate urgency. Shell's legal counsel Adrian Friedman even suggested that the urgency was "self-created" by the applicants by only filing their court papers this week, days before the seismic survey was due to start.
In his ruling, Govindjee said that he was satisfied that there was no "undue delay" in bringing the application – as the applicants were only made aware of it on 29 October.
The applicants had also challenged the public participation process, claiming that not all interested and affected parties were notified about the exploration right granted to Shell, nor of the two subsequent renewals that followed.
Shell, on the other hand, filed supplementary affidavits on Thursday indicating that "hundreds" of interested and affected parties were notified, including two applicants: Border Deep Angling Association and the Kei Mouth Ski Boat Club.
Environmental harm
In his ruling, Govindjee said that Shell has provided details on compliance with its Environmental Management Programme and the mitigation measures that would be in place for the survey.
"Given the paucity of information as to the likelihood of environmental harm, the balance of convenience favours Shell," he said.
The applicants "failed" to convince the judge that there is a "well-rounded apprehension of irreparable harm" if the interim relief or interdict is not granted.
"Upon consideration of the affidavits as a whole according to facts and probabilities, the outcomes are the same and I must exercise discretion to reject the application," Govindjee said.
"The question is whether the seismic survey to be undertaken should be interdicted pending final determination of a separate review application. That question has been answered [in the] negative."
The application was dismissed with costs.
In response to questions from Fin24, Shell said that it welcomed the court decision, which will help move the seismic survey move forward, in accordance with its regulatory approval and permitting.
The oil and gas giant emphasised that it has had a long experience collecting offshore seismic data and took great care in preventing or minimising potential impacts on fish, marine mammals and other wildlife.
"We have conducted an environmental [impact] study in line with regulatory requirements and obtained legal permits to carry out the activity," said spokesperson Pam Ntaka.
Ntaka added that if resources were detected offshore, it could help the country's energy security and government's economic development programmes.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, Wild Coast communities lodged an application for an urgent interdict against Shell's exploration – also pending a judicial review of Shell's environmental authorisation. The communities are represented by the Legal Resources Centre and Richard Spoor Attorneys and are joined by two civil society organisations that work in the area – Sustaining the Wild Coast and All Rise Attorneys for Climate and the Environment.
"Small-scale fishers from the Amadiba, Cwebe, Hobeni, Port Saint Johns and Kei Mouth communities say that Shell is not entitled to commence the surveys without getting an environmental authorisation in terms of the National Environmental Management Act," a statement from the Legal Resources Centre read. According to these applicants, Shell's Environmental Management Programme, which was approved under the Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act, is "plainly insufficient".
The applicants also indicated that they only learnt of Shell's planned seismic survey in the past three weeks, as petitions and information started circulating on social media. According to the Legal Resources Centre, Shell consulted stakeholders in the commercial and recreational fishing sectors, but ignored small-scale fishing communities.
Shell has confirmed that it received this application and is currently reviewing it.
*This article was updated to indicate Govindjee is an acting judge.
Source by www.news24.com
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In this hour-long interactive session with the forward-thinking consultants from Knowit, we will learn how. Noemi Gobel, Strategy & Copy Lead, and Husein Aziz, UX Lead, will come supercharged with relevant case studies, tasks and well-known examples – all so that we can find innovative ways around the stress.
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3 Kalki 01:40, 15 June 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
2 Kalki 23:06, 12 June 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:18, 11 June 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet. ~ Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949) a writer with Carl Sagan for Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980), and a creator, writer, director and executive producer for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014), in an interview with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. — "Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe … and Carl Sagan". Skeptical Inquirer 27 (6). November–December 2003.
Michael Faraday's fellow scientists . . . needed to see his ideas expressed in the language of modern physics - precise equations. [Then] James Clerk Maxwell . . . translated Faraday's experimental observations on electromagnetic fields into equations [and helped transform] human civilization from a patchwork of cities, towns and villages into an intercommunicating organism linking us at light speed to each other and to the cosmos. ~ In commemoration of the 13 June 1831 birth of James Clerk Maxwell, from the tenth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 16:33, 12 October 2016 (UTC) There are three reasons this simple quote should be displayed as the Wikiquote quote of the day: (1) It describes in a very succinct way how these two geniuses helped form the modern world by making telecommunications, computer networks and electrical equipment possible, (2) It highlights how important mathematics is to both science and to the functioning of today's worldwide society, and (3) Its voice is in the form of narrative third person, so it does a better job of expressing the relationship between Faraday and Maxwell than any single quote by either of them is likely to do.
1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 12 June 2017 (UTC) in the present form, but perhaps a 2 or even a 3 in a different [less clearly adapted and paraphrased] form; I am not sure of that, but it is usually a strong preference with me to use the actual original words and not paraphrased adaptations.
Recently there's been a resurgence of rejection of evolution - possibly one of the most concrete and indisputable discoveries of science. To the extent that we deny this, we're wandering in the darkness. ~ Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949) a writer with Carl Sagan for Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980), and a creator, writer, director and executive producer for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
2 Pithy Francoln (talk) 04:01, 23 March 2017 (UTC) Combatting evolution denial is a worthy subject for a quote of the day, but unfortunately this quote is from a video clip which is basically a commercial for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. I'd be happy to see it on the Wikiquote main page, but I felt I needed to disclaim that it is essentially from promotional material.
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Q: Leaflet: Fire "loading map" transistion I notice that when the map first initiates, you see see this:

But how do I fire that say during an event.  For example:
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Any ideas?


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Fields Single Wins it for Biscuits in 10th
[Game recap provided by Biscuits broadcaster Joe Davis.]
Matt Fields bounced a two-out base hit to right field to score Chris De La Cruz in the bottom of the tenth, giving the Biscuits (15-10) a 6-5 win over the Jacksonville Suns (16-9) Tuesday at Riverwalk Stadium.
Jacksonville hopped on Biscuits starter Jeremy Hall in the first inning with three runs, punctuated by a two-RBI double from Matt Dominguez with two-outs.
Chris Nowak launched his first homer of the season to left in the bottom of the first, making it 3-1.
The Biscuits would take their first lead in the fourth inning. Nowak singled with one out, and after Nevin Ashley reached on an error and Cody Cipriano singled, Fields drew a bases loaded walk to make it 3-2. Greg Sexton was hit by the next pitch to tie it at 3, then Cody Strait picked up an RBI with a fielder's choice ground out, and John Matulia capped the inning's scoring with a single to right making it 5-3 Biscuits.
The Suns drew even in the sixth. Reliever Eddie Morlan gave up a walk and a double with one out, then Ryan Reid allowed back-to-back singles to bring things to 5-5.
In the fateful tenth, Chris De La Cruz led off with a walk against Jonathan Fulton and moved to second on an Ashley single. Both advanced 90 feet on a wild pitch, and then after Cipriano grounded to short for the second out, Fields poked his game-winner to right.
Nowak led the way for Montgomery, going 3-4 with a pair of runs scored and an RBI.
Dane De La Rosa (2-0) takes the win with two scoreless innings of relief for the Biscuits, who have now won seven of eight, and four in a row. Fulton (0-1) was charged with the loss.
LHP Jake McGee returns to the rotation tomorrow to face off against Jacksonville RHP Tom Koehler with the first pitch in the air at 10:35 am.
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Dust the steak and kidney pieces with the seasoned flour, then shake off any excess. Heat a dash of vegetable oil in a large, heavy frying pan and fry the meat and kidneys in small batches for 3-4 minutes, or until browned all over, adding more oil if necessary with each batch. Transfer the cooked pieces to a clean pan.
Deglaze the pan the meat and kidneys were cooked in with the red wine, scraping off all the residue from the pan with a wooden spoon, then pour over the beef and kidneys.
Wipe the pan with kitchen paper, then add a dash of oil and fry the chopped onion for 2-3 minutes, or until softened but not coloured. Add the onion to the pan with the meat.
Add the mushrooms to the frying pan and fry for 1-2 minutes, then pile into the saucepan along with the bay leaf, Worcestershire sauce and enough stock to barely cover the meat. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper, then stir and bring to a simmer.
Cut a piece of greaseproof paper into a circle the same size as the pan. Dampen the paper, then cover the stew with the dampened greaseproof paper, put on the lid and simmer for one hour and 30 minutes, or until the meat is just tender. Remove from the heat and leave to cool.
Roll out three quarters of the dough to a circle 5mm/¼in thick and slightly larger than a 1.2 litre/2 pint pudding basin. Butter the basin and press in the dough, making sure there is some overhang from the edges.
Spoon the steak and kidney into the pudding basin, then pour in enough gravy to come just below the top of the meat.
Roll out the remaining dough into a circle 5mm/¼in thick, moisten the edges and place over the top of the basin. Pinch the edges firmly together and trim off any excess.
Cut out a circle of greaseproof paper or foil about 5cm/2in larger than the top of the pudding, grease one side and lay it greased side down over the pastry. Tie the paper to the pudding with string, making a handle over the top to help remove it from the pan later. Do not pull the cover tight over the top - leave a little to balloon up as the pudding expands while cooking.
Steam in a covered steamer or saucepan half full of simmering water for one hour and 30 minutes, or until the pastry is cooked through.
For the onion gravy, heat the oil in a frying pan and add the onion. Lightly fry for 15 minutes, or until the onion is golden-brown but not burnt. Pour in the wine and stock, reduce the heat and allow to simmer for 10-15 minutes, or until the liquid has reduced by half. Stir in the mustard and season, to taste, with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Serve the pudding in wedges with the onion gravy spooned on the side.


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