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Category: MyMemories
Television in my family
We did not have a television while I was growing up. I remember listening to the radio a lot when I was young. When I was in the second grade (1957), we lived in upstairs of a bakery in downtown Anoka, Minnesota. Next-door was a bar (beer joint) that had a television. Actually, they had one of the earliest color televisions. I remember my grandmother, Donna, taking me there to watch special events. I specifically remember watching the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl in color there. It was amazing.
We did not have our own television until I was in the fifth grade (about 1960) and were living in Spring Lake Park, Minnesota. It was a black and white TV. I remember watching morning cartoons a lot and my favorite TV show at the time was "Have Gun Will Travel." At the time, I thought Richard Boone and my grandfather, Dick, look a lot alike. I think they had the same kind of mustache.
In 1961, my mother married Budgar and in 1962 we moved to North Minneapolis (1502 Fremont Ave No.). While there, Budgar purchased a color television. "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" and "Route 66" were my favorite television programs then (although I still loved "Have Gun Will Travel" but it was only in black and white). It was the first television I recall having a remote. I could change channels by clicking my cap gun (with a Paladin holster) – I guess TV remote was ultrasonic and the clicks of my cap gun made the TV change channels.
RCA Indian Head test pattern
About 1965, we, my mother, younger sister, and I, lived in Detroit for a short time. In Detroit, we had a weird television. Rather than the standard clicking channels, the TV had continuously tuning through the VHS band much like UHF channel selector did in those days. Between channels six and seven there were a multitude of things that could be received. FM radio stations were there along with amateur radio and some, as I recall, police/fire radio communications. It was a cool television and the only one I've ever seen with that type of tuner in the VHF band.
Television notes from other family members via Facebook:
My sister Glennis says: "We got our 1st TV when I was 7… an RCA Victor. For many years we only had one channel, our own local channel 4 (then an NBC affiliate.) a second channel came in a few years later when they built a repeater for the Eugene ABC affiliate. Our second TV was also Black and White. We got a Magnavox color TV when I was a senior in high school. By then, we had three channels."
Aunt Barbara says: "I think we got our first black and white TV in about 1949/1950. It was a gift from my Uncle Bob. We loved it and him too."
My nephew Luke says, "We had a TV already when I came along. My first memory of television was color, a little 12″ or so screen with green backlit pushbuttons down the side of the screen for channel selection and a roller wheel for volume control. It was undoubtedly a Sony. We had it in Roseburg Oregon and I remember only two channels. My mother (Glennis) had a black and white TV after the divorce, a yellow plastic housed unit with a tiny little knob on the bottom right for on/off and volume control. This was in Eugene, I remember at least three channels."
Author Don TaylorPosted on December 13, 2015 August 21, 2020 Categories My History, MyMemoriesTags Book1, Childhood memories, childhood story, Family History, Television1 Comment on Television in my family
Personal Memories – Fifth Grade – Parkview & Spring Lake Park Elementary
Parkview Elementary School, Fridley, Minnesota
Fifth grade was really good for me. We had lived in our tiny house on Second Street in Fridley, Minnesota. I had attended Parkview Elementary School throughout my third and fourth grades. At that point, we, my mother, my grandmother, and I, had lived on Second Street longer than we had ever lived anywhere else. I was glad to have stayed put. I had many friends and I did extremely well in school. My fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. Peterson, was the most influential teacher I ever had. She got me excited about science, mathematics,
An Inspector Badge for the Fridley Junior Fire Dept. <brSource: eBay.
and learning in general. In her class, I studied and passed my Junior Fridley Fire Department examination with the best grade in the school. Because I was the only student to "ace" the test, I received a gold colored badge with the title "Chief" at the top. The other kids all had silver badges. Hmmm – I wonder what ever happened to that gold Chief badge.
I also didn't miss a single day of school during my fourth-grade year, so I received an attendance award for that. So, going into fifth grade was exciting, I was sure it was going to be another great year, but first, summer vacation.
Mark and Rodney Sabo (?) were my closest friends. They lived six or so houses down from me on Second Street. One summer day Mark, Rodney, and I were "messing around" in an old abandoned house on the block. We knocked down a hornet's nest and ran as the hornets chased us. (I don't know, they may have been yellow jackets.) Anyway, Rodney fell as we were running and hornets were all over him. They stung Rodney a couple dozen times and he was swelling up like a balloon. Mark and I got him home and his mom took him to the hospital. He was all right, but we all got into trouble for "messing around" in that old house. I'm pretty sure I heard my grandmother tell me to "wait until my mother gets home. My mother was the disciplinarian in our household and she knew how to use the hairbrush….
Another really good friend in the fifth grade was, Patty Hopkins. She lived on Main Street. Her back door was across a vacant lot from the front door of my house. She and I were kind of nerdy/smart, we just didn't know it was "nerdy" at the time. We'd studied together, played with the telescope I had gotten, played with a chemistry set, practiced magic tricks, and did other nerdy/geeky things together.
I was also in Little League during the summer between fourth and fifth grades. A teammate, Wally Gregorson (I think), was hit in the face by a baseball. It broke his glasses, which cut his face pretty badly. Glasses were actually made of glass in those days and they weren't shatterproof. Anyway, blood was everywhere. The next day, his eye was badly bruised, all black and blue, and he had a couple ugly black stitches below his eyebrow and a couple more on his cheekbone, but, he didn't permanently injure anything. That was my last year in Little League for a number of reasons, but I think Wally's injury and potential to have lost an eye affected me more than I care to admit. I never did play baseball again. I did play softball years later, when I was in the service (and that's another story).
Parkview Elementary – Fridley, MN [c. 1957] Photo: Fridley Historical Society via Facebook
Fall arrived and I entered the fifth grade at Parkview Elementary. Mrs. Anderson was my teacher. As I recall, she was young, tall, blond, pretty, and very nice. I think I had a crush on her. She saw a lot of potential in me and encouraged me to excel in school. I received great grades in both academics and citizenship from her. As an example, most of the school patrols were sixth graders, but Mrs. Anderson nominated me to be one of a handful of fifth graders to be on the school patrol. I'd leave class fifteen minutes early, put on my school patrol belt, pick up a stop flag, and hurry off to my designated intersection with another kid. We'd help the younger kids cross the streets safely on their walk home. After the school rush, we'd return our stop flags back to the school, leave our school patrol belts in a locker, and head home.
Don wearing School Patrol Belt
Source: Personal PhotosIn the mornings, I'd usually get to school early, pick up both mine and my compadre's patrol belts and our stop flags, go back to our designated intersection a good half an hour before school started, and have everything ready when my partner arrived. We'd flag the traffic as the other kids walked to school. It was a great responsibility. I am saddened that today we have adults doing school guard duties and we don't foster that type of responsibility in our youth as we did in the 1950s and 60s. As I think about it, being a school patrol may have been the start to my being an early morning person. I became used to getting ready for school, leaving early, and always being where I needed to be long before I needed to be.
Our house was about ¾ of a mile from school. I had to cross the very busy University Avenue on my way. I had to walk an extra block to cross at 61st Avenue in order to cross at a signal. Other than waiting for the light to cross University, it was always a nice walk. Of course, the dead of winter was an exception. As I recall, 61st Avenue was one of the few places that had sidewalks in those days, but many folks didn't shovel them shoveled before we walked to school. I didn't live in Fridley the entire fifth-grade school year.
Some time in the spring we moved about four miles north to 83rd and Monroe in Spring Lake Park.
Spring Lake Park Elementary (Twin Cities Arsenal)
Highway Expansion Joint
Photo Courtesy US Dept of Transportation
Spring Lake Park didn't have enough schools in 1961, so we were bussed from Spring Lake Park across Mounds View to the Twin Cities Arsenal (TCA) in Arden Hills. It wasn't a long bus ride, maybe about 15 minutes down US Highway 10. Sitting in the very back of the bus was the coolest thing. The "ca-thunk, ca-thunk, ca-thunk" from the highway construction expansion joints almost sounded like we were riding on a train. The bus's shocks were pretty worn so every cement expansion joint on Highway 10 got the bus to bounce. A bunch of us kids would jump up and down in unison with bus's road bumps. By doing so, we could get the whole back of the bus bouncing and have a pretty fun ride.
The school classrooms were in an old building at the TCA. It is my recollection that the ground-floor windows still had bars on them from when the building was an armory. Years later, I worked at the (then) Honeywell facility on the TCA, called the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP). While working there, I had the opportunity to go to the old school building for training. The Army converted most of the schoolrooms to offices, but many of the old classrooms looked much as they had twenty years earlier.
Steps to a building at the TCAAP
Photo by Ruin Raider – (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
If school officials had known then what we know now about ammunition-related heavy metals; copper, lead, and mercury, and depleted uranium contaminating the soil at the TCA, they would probably have sent us somewhere else. Anyway, the TCA site was cleaned up in the 1980s, 90s, and 2000s using a lot of EPA Superfund money. The buildings of the old TCA are mostly gone today.
Interestingly enough, Spring Lake Park built Park Terrace Elementary School only two short blocks away from where I lived on Monroe. Had Spring Lake Park built the school ten years earlier, I may have never learned how to play poker. (See my earlier post: Memories – Kid Shows and Poker with Grandma.)
I continued with Spring Lake Park Elementary at the TCA for about half of the sixth grade. My mother married "Budgar" in December 1961, and we moved from the little one-bedroom house on Monroe in Spring Lake Park to a three-bedroom house on Fremont Avenue in North Minneapolis during the winter of 1961-1962. There, my mom and Budgar could have a room, grandma could have a room, and I could have a room of my own. It was the first bedroom that I remember having to myself. In Fridley, my bedroom was a closet and in Spring Lake Park, it was an unheated breezeway.
Fridley Community Center Today
Source: Google Maps
Today, Parkview Elementary is the Fridley Community Center and the building at the TCA that housed the classrooms for Spring Lake Park is gone.
My thanks to Randy Seaver and his blog, "Genea-Musings," for the suggestion of writing about our fifth grade experiences. I found it fun to remember and reminisce. I haven't thought Mrs. Peterson and Mrs. Anderson in decades, let alone Mark, Rodney, and Wally.
Author Don TaylorPosted on September 18, 2015 November 10, 2021 Categories MyMemoriesTags Book1, Childhood memories, Fridley, Junior Fire Department, Minnesota; Spring Lake Park, TCAAP School, Twin Cities ArsenalLeave a comment on Personal Memories – Fifth Grade – Parkview & Spring Lake Park Elementary
My First "Job" – Trapper
I was recently catching up on some videos I have long wanted
to watch. One of them was the Friday Keynote speech as
the 2014 Roots Tech conference. In the speech, Judy G. Russell, JD, CGSM , CGLSM ,
spoke about many of the day-to-day things that we don't know about our
ancestors. She reminded us that unless our ancestors proactively left stories about their lives, any such information is lost in three
generations. She also reminded us that
our stories will be important for our great-grand children and later
generations and that those stories will be lost unless we pass them on, in an
intentional and accurate way, to future generations. A day or two later I was speaking with my
wife and told her a story of my youth that I hadn't told her before and
probably haven't thought of in decades.
I then realized it was the kind of story that future generations might
like to know about. It is a story that
I'm certain neither of my sons know about, let alone my grandchildren or my
great-grandchildren.
Fridley House abt 1958
From personal photo archives.
When I was nine or ten years old, we lived in Fridley,
Minnesota, in a tiny little house on Northeast 2nd Street. The house
was a 480 square foot, one bedroom house that still stands today. It did have a
large closet in the bedroom. That closet acted as my bedroom. There was just enough space for a single bed and a small dresser. The actual bedroom is where my mom and
grandmother slept. I had to walk through
it to get to my "bedroom."
My mom was a "single mom" and the sole support for
herself, my grandmother, and me. Needless to say, a woman working in 1959-60
America didn't earn much. We certainly
had enough food, were warm in the winter, and the times were good, but there
just wasn't much money. Certainly, not
enough for me to have an allowance or a way to buy Christmas presents or
birthday gifts for either of them.
Gopher Mounds
Photo Courtesy: Minnesota
Wild Animal Management
Across the street from us was an empty lot, beyond that was
Main Street. As a developing suburb,
Fridley had a problem with gophers. Although Minnesota is nicknamed the "Gopher
State," gophers are not particularly loved and are destructive
varmints. It is the mounds that pocket gophers create that are the biggest
problem. They are typically much larger
than molehills and destroy lawns. Also,
in fields where cutting machines try to manage growth, which was done in
Fridley to reduce fire threats, the cutters would hit mounds and be damaged or
at least dulled. As such, the City of
Fridley put a bounty on gophers. Bring
the right hind foot of a gopher to City Hall, about a mile away, and they would
pay 15 cents per foot.
In those days there was nothing build west of Main Street
all the way to the railroad tracks. The area was several blocks wide and many
blocks long of nothing but scrub grasses and sand burrs, which we called "Fridley Strawberries." To earn money I took up trapping gophers. At first, I
trapped across the street and a few neighbor's yards and just a few traps. Then I expanded to the
large field across Main Street and used my earnings to purchase more and more traps. To trap a pocket gopher, first you find a fresh mound. Then use a probe to find
the tunnel near that fresh mound and dig out the area to access those tunnels; there
are two tunnels at each mound. Then, you place
the traps into the tunnels one in each each direction so that when the gopher crosses
over the trap and presses the pressure plate when they come along that tunnel. Stake the
trap so it won't move if you get a poor hit or if a dog or raccoon tries to take away your catch. Cover the mound back so it
is dark again. Come back the next day, or
two at the most, and pull out the dead critter. Sometimes, you'd even get two, one in each
trap in each of the tunnels.
Gopher Trap
Courtesy: Garden
At my peak of trapping I had about 35 traps and during the
summer I spent many hours tending my them, gathering the feet, and about once
a week going to City Hall to collect my bounty.
One summer the man who counted gopher feet and paid the
bounty went on vacation. While he was gone,
a woman was supposed to count the feet and pay the bounty. I don't think she like being tasked with the
job and apparently she didn't know the right hind foot from the left front foot.
One of the other kid trappers figured out that she didn't know the difference
and would pay for each foot brought to her. So instead of getting 15 cents per
gopher, you could get 60 cent's per gopher.
It didn't take long for all the kids trapping to learn of it. Kids were
stealing other kids traps, raiding traps for the bounty and doing all kinds of
things to exploit the poor woman's lack of knowledge. Today, I feel guilty about exploiting her and the
bounty system. I know it was wrong, but
at the time, I felt everyone was doing it so it was okay. I know better now.
In relating this story to my wife, I recognized that
trapping gophers was the first work I did where someone other than a family
member paid me. It dawned on me that is the definition of a job and
I then realized trapping was my first job.
The following year, I got my first (of many) paper route and
gave up trapping.
We lived in the Fridley house longer than anywhere else when
I was growing up – about 2-1/2 years.
All of third grade, all of fourth grade, and about half of fifth grade.
The next house we lived in was in Spring Lake Park. Another one bedroom. My
bedroom was an unheated "breezeway" but that is another story….
Author Don TaylorPosted on December 5, 2014 August 21, 2020 Categories MyMemories, UncategorizedTags Book1, Brown/Montran, Don Taylor, First Job, Fridley, Gopher Trapping, Minnesota, Pocket gophersLeave a comment on My First "Job" – Trapper


As I posted last time, the MediaTek SoC (MT7621AT) in ER-X has a EIP-93 crypto engine. It has impressive performance specification. Authentec quotes 450 Kpps for 64-byte packets and 300-500 Mbit/s throughput. MediaTek quotes around 200 Mbit/s.
I found mixed results from my tests. I use AES-128/SHA1 for ESP and AES-256/SHA256 for keying. In one direction, I consistently got as high as 380 Mbit/s. In the other direction it is around 130 Mbit/s regardless how hard I tried.
My test setup is same as in my previous post. Macbook Pro is the client from "Internet" which connects to ER-X and between them is a IPsec tunnel. Iperf3 streams are sent between MBP and iMac.
Download means iperf3 sending data from iMac to MBP. Upload is the other way round. I found four iperf3 streams saturate the maximum throughput.
Let's focus on the 1460-byte packet size. In download direction, 377 Mbit/s is very good throughput in my opinion. It surpasses the quoted number from MediaTek and close to the 500 Mbit/s upper bound quoted by Authentec. In upload direction, relatively speaking it's a little disappointing. 128 Mbit/s is only about one third of the download throughput.
Put the numbers in perspective. A single iperf3 stream gives 244 Mbit/s in download and 127 Mbit/s in upload. More streams do not increase the throughput in upload direction at all.
Why is the upload seemingly capped at 130 Mbit/s? I have some theories but I don't have the authoritative answer. I saw all four ksoftirqd working in download but only one or two working in upload.
Will see if could get feedback from Ubiquiti or possible improvement.


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Q: When running sequence job in datastage, get the timeout error ,code =-14 [Timed out while waiting for an event] When running sequence job in Datastage, there would be occasions to get error like this:
Seq_CHECK_JV_OMS_DATA..JobControl (@Pjob_CHECK_JV_OMS_DATA): Controller problem: Error calling DSRunJob(Pjob_CHECK_JV_OMS_DATA.Seq_CHECK_JV_OMS_DATA), code=-14
[Timed out while waiting for an event]
Why would this happen? Cause I'm not running these job instances concurrently, but execute one by one (It is serializable)?
And I get other problems too. The job instances under sequence job controller often get stuck like this:

And this status will last for ever unless I clear the status file
I'm getting crazy with that! Could anyone help? Thanks very much!

A: The problem is that your server is overloaded, and after 60 seconds it stops and abort with this error, when you try to execute your job Pjob_CHECK_JV_OMS_DATA.Seq_CHECK_JV_OMS_DATA. Do you have many instances of the job Pjob_CHECK_JV_OMS_DATA running at the same time?
Try to wait a few seconds to start this job.

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Robert F. Sargent, född 26 augusti 1923, död 1969, var en amerikansk krigsfotograf i United States Coast Guard. Han är mest känd för fotografiet Into the Jaws of Death, som han tog av soldaterna ur Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division under landstigning på Omaha Beach från kustbevakningens landsstigningsbåt (från kustbevaknings bemannade USS Samuel Chase) på Dagen D, 6 juni 1944.

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 http://www.famouspictures.org/index.php?title=D-Day

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Of all the free resources for IELTS test takers, videos may have the most to offer as you prepare for the IELTS exam: They are informative and they offer valuable listening practice. The latter is particularly useful for those who have limited exposure to authentic English. IELTS videos in your native language will be helpful, but give yourself the added benefit of learning about the exam in the language of the exam! Below is a list of the best IELTS videos on YouTube for tips on preparation and, importantly, listening practice—in UK, North American, and Australian English!
The best person to advise you about the exam is an IELTS examiner. Here are a couple videos from the English testing professionals about what you can expect.
Meet Shanel Summers, an IELTS examiner from the UK who offers practical advice about what you should and shouldn't do on the test. (UK English) (NOTE: The introduction of the video isn't in English; skip to 0:42 to meet Shanel who only speaks in English).
Successful test takers are a fantastic source of insight on how to prepare. The IELTS folks interviewed previous test takers about how they prepared and what their experience was like. Check it out here!
Spend some time getting familiar with each section of the test. Here are some videos about the IELTS speaking, writing, reading, and listening sections from official sources and other experts.
Remember that any English videos you watch serve as valuable listening practice, so take advantage of the doubled benefits of using videos as a way to learn about and prepare for the IELTS exam. Happy YouTubing and good luck!


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It's The NFT Era – Are These Coins The Perfect Investment? Solana (SOL), Decentraland (MANA), And Parody Coin (PARO)
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The digital world has seen a lot of attention lately, as with the onset of the metaverse and the most popular acronym on the lips of everybody, NFTs. Parody news…
Oh, golly! How these things came out of practically nowhere, had so much hype around them, made headlines on financial news broadcasts, and eventually made rounds all over the globe when these so-called digital assets started selling off for tens of millions of dollars in hard cash.
It was unbelievable, but it was true. NFTs had begun a revolution in the digital world, and it was going to be a big deal.
2021 saw a lot of highlights from NFT projects, we all thought the hype might wane, and eventually, the one-season wonder that is usually associated with things like this would do the same and die off right after. But no, the hype is still on the rise, and in 2022, everybody's turned their investment workout session into building potential financial big muscles.
Many people have learned to trust the NFT market, and it has grown in popularity among social media stars and influencers. So join the excitement before it reaches its estimated market worth of $80 billion.
NFTs are non-fungible cryptographic tokens that exist on a blockchain. They may be spent on everything from images to videos to memes and virtual real estate. Investing in NFTs gives you ownership of digital assets that represent real-world things you're already buying.
It is predicted to earn $20 billion in income by 2021, making many investors wealthy. Therefore, getting into projects that are affiliated with NFTs is a flex, and here are a couple of good cryptocurrency projects that you can jump on: Solana (SOL), Decentraland (MANA), and Parody Coin (PARO) are but a few solid projects.
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The coin of Satire, Parody Coin (PARO)
One of the most cutting-edge crypto platforms, the platform jumped on the NFT bandwagon. Despite the growing number of NFT markets and the increasing level of competition, the largest of these, OpenSea, has been outspoken about its belief in and endorsement of Solana. They have recently included Solana NFTs in their market.
Solana has a market capitalisation of US$1.5 billion and is ranked first runner-up coming behind Ethereum (ETH) in the market for all-time NFT sales. Because of Solana's (SOL) high throughput and low fees, NFTs of all forms and sizes find it an excellent fit.
Users can create, experience, and monetise their content and applications on its decentralised virtual reality (DVR) platform.
On numerous occasions, the platform has demonstrated its supremacy in the market. To begin with, Decentraland managed to sell land parcels for about $20 each during its initial coin offering (ICO), but now, a handful of digital land parcels range from $6,000 to more than $100,000.
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Essays November 17, 2020
Gritty in Paris
Philadelphia's own "fuzzy eldritch horror" has surprising relevance to the French media landscape.
By Meerabelle Jesuthasan
It was day four of waiting for results after the US election, and Le Monde reader Babette had a pressing question for the French newspaper's Live team: "C'est quoi Gritty?" Images of the menacing hockey monster had been popping up in coverage around the world as journalists flocked to Philadelphia to cover protesters in the swing state; the joyous, days-long affair was punctuated by dancing and colorful characters, so of course, Gritty was everywhere. Fortunately, Le Monde had it covered. In 2018, when the Philadelphia Flyers mascot was first revealed, reporter Marc-Olivier Bherer had written an article for the paper's opinion section describing the phenomenal Philadelphia Flyers mascot, an empty-eyed chaos goblin that landed like a prophetic, soda-orange meteor into the nihilistic Philadelphia autumn of 2018.
"In Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), a strange creature appeared this fall," Bherer wrote in French. "The creature is hirsute, its frozen smile mounted above two enormous bulging eyes, its coat is a flaming orange and upon its head rests a black helmet." Gritty, he wrote, was an appropriate mascot for this city and its "image de loser" that also corresponded to "the state of the American far left" in general. He also surmised that the Flyers' decision to pick such an unimpressive mascot was likely an attempt to escape "la controverse" like the one surrounding the Washington football team, whose anti-Indigenous name and mascot were only removed this year. Bherer translated "Gritty" as "le teigneux," a word that can also mean "nasty," "scrappy," or "wicked," styled as a nominalized adjective — as in, "Alexander the Brave." The standard French dictionary defines "teigneux" as someone who is "aggressive, tenacious in their meanness," a description that would undoubtedly delight those for whom Gritty is a welcome ally in the merciless antifascist struggle.
Many Americans, as their cultural artefacts like Emily in Paris tell us, view the French as solemn and uppity, so seeing one of their most absurd popular symbols solemnly explained by the French paper of record was a source of immense amusement. This impression of France was mirrored in the enthusiasm of a man who, accosting a giggling, steadily reddening reporter for the news channel BFMTV, proceeded to perform his love for the tight-nosed nation: "I've been to France, it's beautiful! Escargaux! I love croissants! Hon hon hon!"
True to the stereotypes, language in traditional French media does err on the formal side, and Le Monde explainers on US popular culture are a fascinating trip through the looking glass. Consider this 2012 article on memes, then a mostly anglophone phenomenon, which begins by tracing the word back to its Greek origins. Or this explainer on American football (the sport, not the band), published in 2019: "Created in the XIXth century and instituted by elite universities along the East Coast of the United States, football is, like rugby, a sport played mostly by hand, consisting of carrying an oval ball into the opponent's goal. It owes its name not to [the body part] the foot, as with European football, but to the dimensions of the ball (exactly a foot long)." Such a detailed article explaining a game that is barely played anywhere else demonstrates the hold that US culture has on the rest of the world, a recurring grievance among, well, the rest of the world.
But Gritty's appearance in Le Monde is noteworthy not only due to American cultural imperialism, but because the mascot's power derives largely from popular protest and the sheer force of the left-leaning American internet, two things that are typically misrepresented in both national and international media. "Keep your Marxist hands off Gritty," a writer at the Wall Street Journal implored in 2018, in vain. Lacking in symbols that could adequately explain both the slow-burning doom and rapidly evolving irony of the era, the Philadelphia left had already imprinted on Gritty, meme and manifesto, a monster for our times who contains both the despairing nuttiness of it all and the brutish will to go on. After all, despite Gritty's triumphal and unsparing spirit, the team he represents is just okay. But he marches on, popping up at anti-Trump rallies, antifascist actions, and protests, a powerhouse with an unmistakable emptiness in his eyes.
Last year, a study on the French media ecosystem found that, even more than in the US, the media agenda tends to be set by a handful of established outlets, including Le Monde, that rarely cite reporting from local or online-only sources. The establishment media tend to focus on capital P-politics, sometimes missing populist movements and unrest in the process — movements that have become a defining feature of Emmanuel Macron's presidential term. For example, these established French media outlets didn't cover the nascent gilets jaunes social movement until protesters vandalized the Arc de Triomphe on December 1, 2018, while regional and online-only media had been writing about them since mid-November.
Large outlets in the US, too, have a reputation for ignoring or misunderstanding social movements or local dynamics in their reporting, including their reporting on Philadelphia. In a media landscape dominated by behemoths headquartered in New York and DC, the recognition of a local symbol beyond these cities can be a source of pride and hilarity—especially in an underdog city that, in the words of local cartoonist Alli Katz, loves to talk about how tough it is. It was only a few months before the gilets jaunes began their protests that Gritty emerged as a local symbol and lightning rod for the scrappy leftist politics that Philadelphia has come to harness. On October 25th, City Council passed a resolution officially welcoming Gritty to the city, describing him as "an acid trip of a mascot" and "our hideous monster" who, "like our commitment to justice in the face of adversity, will not be mocked or stopped."
What began as a bit continued to reappear, in protests and media and merchandise, until last week, reporters at Le Monde were describing Gritty as a "coqueluche du mouvement antifasciste" ("the darling of the left") in order to explain Philadelphia's swing-state role to Babette. Gritty's tenacious meanness — an insolent breath of fresh air next to politicians' calls for civility in the face of fascism — is a testament to the popular discontents that, like the still-kicking gilets jaunes, cannot just be swatted away by a media anxious to return to covering what the powerful have to say. May the political force of such "mèmes" never be underestimated.


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The Singhini Anusandhan Kendra (Singhini Research Center) is an independent association, which aims to preserve and promote the cultural heritage of the Himalayas. Founded in March 2001 at the instigation of Franck Bernede, a french cellist and ethnomusicologist, the center is situated in the ancient royal city of Patan (Lalitpur). Bringing together applied musicology and an anthropological vision, its objectives are organised around three central themes: research, preservation and the promotion of musical heritage.
Rather than be limited by a fixed musicological perspective, the center intends primarily to invigorate traditional practice as a referential basis for its explorations and research. With this in mind, the team involved includes musical artists, singers and dancers. The center also works in direct collaboration with foreign and Nepali scholars and specialists in such widely differing fields as linguistics, musicology, ethnology, history, visual anthropology and instrument making. In addition to this, it maintains a close relationship with masters of the tradition thus guaranteeing a source of inspiration for its research.
The center wishes to develop its activities in the two areas it considers most important, collecting and archiving. These are aimed at the creation of a center for the digital documentation of written, oral / aural and visual sources. The center wishes not only to create a place of reflection and experimentation for different artistic disciplines in the Himalayas, but also a meeting place for exchange between artists and scholars. In this spirit, the center plans to organise educational programes, conferences, seminars and public concerts and equally to ensure a continuing relationship with individuals and institutions through the production of discs and electronic publications.
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800 m stylem dowolnym mężczyzn – jedna z konkurencji rozgrywanych podczas Mistrzostw Świata w Pływaniu 2015. Eliminacje odbyły się 4 sierpnia, a finał 5 sierpnia.

W tej konkurencji wzięło udział 41 pływaków z 36 państw.

Chińczyk Sun Yang obronił tytuł mistrza świata z 2013 roku. Srebrny medal zdobył Gregorio Paltrinieri z Włoch, a brąz reprezentant Australii Mack Horton.

Rekordy
Przed zawodami rekordy świata i mistrzostw wyglądały następująco:

Wyniki

Eliminacje
Eliminacje odbyły się o 10:30.

Legenda: NR - rekord kraju

Finał
Finał odbył się o 18:58.

Legenda: ER - rekord Europy, NR - rekord kraju

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Pływanie na Mistrzostwach Świata w Pływaniu 2015


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"You are in for a great dining experience" opined the passenger next to me on the shuttle from the airport to Santa Fe when I mentioned I had a reservation at the Anasazi Restaurant. He was right.
Inn of the Anasazi
Discretely tucked away on a quiet side street a few steps from the bustle of the Plaza, Inn of the Anasazi was a haven of romance and casual luxury in the historic heart of Santa Fe. Its classic pueblo-style facade punctuated by round vigas (rough pine beams protruding through the walls) hinted at the finely crafted cliff dwellings of the ancient cultures that gave the hotel its name ( Anasazi is Navajo for 'Ancient Ones'). The inspired interior design of the hotel integrated Native American, Hispanic and Anglo artistic traditions to capture the unique charm of this most romantic city.
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When Spanish colonists founded Santa Fe four centuries ago in what is now northern New Mexico, they settled in an area where native culture had already been flourishing for over a millennium. Today, this rich and diverse history is evident at every turn. With its population of 70,000 mainly Hispanic, Anglo and Native Americans, Santa Fe has evolved into a vivid city of graceful apricot-colored pueblo-style adobe buildings strung along narrow, easily walkable streets. Its unique blend of cultures, arts and ancient traditions, its old-world charm and its spectacular location under the cerulean blue sky of the southern Rocky Mountains have made it a world-class tourist destination that attracts over one million visitors each year.
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by Editor | Jan 1, 2008 | New Mexico, North America, Simon and Baker Travel Review, United States
Nirvana is often defined as a state of bliss and delight. Absolute Nirvana, an intimate luxury Indonesian spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico, lived up to the promise of its name! I had been especially attracted by Absolute Nirvana's reputation for unwavering environment-friendly practices. The opportunity to experience a traditional Lulur, the sumptuous treatment once reserved for Javanese princesses on the eve of their wedding may have had something to do with my interest as well.
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U.S. Green Building Council Florida Gulf Coast Region Announces LEEDership Award Winners
St. Petersburg, FL (November 11, 2016) — The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Florida Gulf Coast Region has announced the winners of its 2016 LEEDership and Green Awards Program.
The nonprofit organization's seventh annual LEEDership Awards celebration recognized and honored those outstanding projects, inspirational businesses, dedicated volunteers and individuals, and instrumental Chapter members who are LEEDing the way to a more sustainable built environment in the Florida Gulf Coast community. More than 100 guests attended the awards ceremony on November 9 at USF St. Petersburg's LEED Gold Certified University Student Center. Winners were:
Outstanding Green Community LEEDer — Caroline King / Everglades University
Outstanding Green Business — Willis A. Smith Construction
Outstanding Green Elected Official — Darden Rice / City of St. Petersburg
Outstanding Green Government — City of Largo
Outstanding LEED for Homes / Single Family Project –Lotus on Orange
Outstanding LEED for New Construction / Education –University of Tampa / Daly Innovation and Collaboration Building
Outstanding LEED for New Construction / Education — Eckerd College / James Center for Molecular and Life Sciences
Outstanding LEED for New Construction / Nonprofit — Metropolitan Ministries / Miracle Place
Outstanding LEED for New Construction / Nonprofit — Sarasota Audubon Nature Center
Outstanding LEED for New Construction / Public — Pinellas County / Public Safety Building A
Outstanding LEED for New Construction / Public– City of Oldsmar / Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Plant
Branch Volunteer of the Year / Myakka River — Robbie Gronback, Willis A. Smith Construction
Branch Volunteer of the Year / Tampa Bay — John Eveland, George F. Young, Inc.
Branch Volunteer of the Year / Southwest Florida — Cheryl Lewandowski, JMC Distributors
Chapter Volunteer of the Year — Sarah Mason, Strategic Property Partners
President's Award — Michael Carlson, Carlson Studio Architecture
Greenest Apple Award — Travis Barnes, Hillsborough County
The Honorable Rick Kriseman, Mayor of St. Petersburg, highlighted the evening of recognition and appreciation for the Florida Gulf Coast's green-building community as the event's keynote speaker. Mayor Kriseman's inspiring presentation focused on the challenges of building a resilient city in the face of climate change and its impact on infrastructure demands.
Alexis Muellner, editor of the Tampa Bay Business Journal, served as the evening's guest emcee. Sophia Wisniewska, Regional Chancellor of USF, welcomed attendees to campus. Mike Hess, Chair and President of USGBC Florida, provided guests with an update of the US Green Building Council.
In addition to the awards presentations and keynote address, LEEDership included a pre-event sponsored reception, dinner, networking (we call it GREENworking) with industry professionals from throughout the USA, and a raffle. As the Region's sole fundraising event of the year, LEEDership raised funds to support educational activities and initiatives held throughout the year.
LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices. Created and administered by the U.S. Green Building Council, LEED is a voluntary, consensus-based national rating system for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings. To receive LEED Certification, building projects satisfy prerequisites and earn points to achieve different levels of certification. LEED addresses all building types and emphasizes state-of-the-art "green" strategies in five areas: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials and resources selection, and indoor environmental quality. LEED Accredited Professionals (LEED APs) have demonstrated a thorough understanding of green building techniques and the LEED Green Building Rating System.
Sponsors for the evening were:
Creative Contractors JE Dunn Construction
Duke Energy Renew Financial
Everglades University Strategic Property Partners
Carlson Studio Architecture Biltmore Construction
City of Oldsmar REAL Building Consultants
TLC Engineering for Architecture Renewable Choice Energy
The U.S. Green Building Council Florida Chapter, a nonprofit (501[c][3]) organization, is committed to a prosperous and sustainable future through cost-efficient and energy-saving green buildings that conserve land, energy, water, resources and materials. Its Mission is to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life. USGBC Florida has nearly 15,000 members, volunteers and friends providing educational programs and market transformation services to the Sunshine State from seven Regions — Central Florida, Florida Capital, Florida Gulf Coast, Heart of Florida, Northeast Florida, Northern Gulf Coast, and South Florida. Contacts: Lee Cooke (Executive Director, 561-373-7367, lcooke@usgbcflorida.org) and Sarah Boren (Director of Policy and Programs, 904-535-0055, sboren@usgbcflorida.org).
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Oscar Turner III (aka "Bubba"), age 81, met his Jesus face-to-face on January 15, 2019, in Houston, Texas, surrounded by his wife and four daughters. Oscar was born on May 21, 1937, in Dallas, Texas, to Oscar Turner, Jr. and Elizabeth Williamson Turner. After following in his dad's footsteps as president of the senior class and graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, Oscar went on to graduate from Baylor University and attend Baylor Law School before receiving his law degree from South Texas School of Law in Houston.
During his years at Baylor, Oscar studied Bible and business and played baseball and basketball, but it was his service as the youth minister at First Baptist Church, Fairfield, Texas, where his deep faith was put into action. Oscar's early journey in ministry led him to speak at a South Main Baptist Church retreat where he first laid eyes on his beloved bride of almost 57 years, Anna Claire Chavanne.
lawyer. A restaurant owner. A real-estate investor. An artist. An ordained Baptist minister. Oscar was a true "Renaissance" man. However, his most important and rewarding role was a family man with a servant's heart and gentle spirit. He was a larger-than-life husband, father and grandfather who always put everyone else's needs above his own.
Oscar and Claire joined Houston's First Baptist Church in 1978, where they made life-long friends and a profound impact on numerous lives and hearts along the way. Oscar had a deep love of God's Word and bringing the heart of Jesus to others. His Sunday morning Bible study class, "Catacombs," grew from a regular-sized gathering of saints and seekers to a 350-member class, which was the foundational core for what became Evergreen Baptist Church in Katy.
Oscar's love and impact went beyond the church walls to anyone whose path he crossed. He made everyone feel like they were the most important person in the room. His smile, his strength and his constant encouragement touched hearts and lives every day. Oscar was the ultimate cheerleader. As a life-long servant-leader, he loved his Lord, his family, his pastor, his church, and his friends unconditionally. He was happiest when he was serving others.
Oscar is survived by wife Claire, their four daughters and their spouses: Lisa and Darrell Taylor, Paige and Jason Swiggart, Lindy and John Minter, Marlo and Paul Wise, along with fourteen grandchildren: Morgan and Tripp Pruet, Lamar and Brooks Taylor, Graham Taylor, Colton Taylor, Chambers Swiggart, Harrison Swiggart, Preston Swiggart, Anna Claire Minter, Luke Minter, Molly Minter, Vivian and Elizabeth Wise.
A memorial service celebrating the life of Oscar ("Bubba") Turner III will be held at 1:00 p.m., Monday, January 21, 2019, at Houston's First Baptist Church Loop Campus, 7401 Katy Freeway.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial donation to: Houston's First Baptist Cypress Campus Missions (HoustonsFirst.org), Houston Baptist University Prince-Chavanne Lecture (HBU.edu/giving), or Amazing Place (AmazingPlaceHouston.org).
A banker. A lawyer. A restaurant owner. A real-estate investor. An artist. An ordained Baptist minister. Oscar was a true "Renaissance" man. However, his most important and rewarding role was a family man with a servant's heart and gentle spirit. He was a larger-than-life husband, father and grandfather who always put everyone else's needs above his own.
Sad to hear of Oscar's death. We knew Oscar and Claire at South Main Baptist Church. They both looked like movie stars; and, were dedicated members of South Main. Great person-great couple. !
As his cousin, Bubba was a memory I shall never forget. His love for family and church was always foremost. Prayers are with Claire and her beautiful family.
Oscar was a beacon for us when we first joined First Baptist Church Houston. He will be missed. We love the entire Turner family. We are saddened by his departure but know that he is resting with Jesus. Oh, what a day!
I first met Oscar in high school at Woodrow Wilson in Dallas. He was a fun-loving young man with a big heart and great smile.. We were classmates at Baylor and later friends at First Baptist..We love your family and the wonderful legacy you leave behind.
Prayers are with the family.
Oh how we grieve with you that dear Oscar is no longer with us. What a stalwart caring man he was! The Lord was so very evident in his life. We are all better for having had Oscar as a friend....he loved so very well. What a sweet reunion awaits us.
Sheryl and Claire were long time friends years before I met Sheryl... she and Claire were in one another weddings... thus we met and found Oscar to be an extraordinary soul and a good friend...he is with His Savior now, whom he honored & shared with many.
I was so sorry to hear about Oscar. I am thinking of you all.
Oscar was a kind and sweet Soul!! Rest in Peace my friend!! !!
What a precious man!! When I was with Life Action Ministries, Oscar & Claire were supporters of mine. Then I helped with their banking when we met up again in New Ulm. This last year they toured my nursing home to consider moving him there. I would've loved to care for him. God knew what was best. My sweet Oscar has gone to be with his Lord & Savior. It is well with my soul! God is always good! He is finally at peace. He fought a good fight. He ran the race till the end. I count it a privilege and honor to have been like a daughter all these years. And I will never forget my recent dinner with Claire and him at their last home. I snapped a few shots of them dancing. He danced with me, too! Precious moments I will never forget!!
I will be there to honor his life with you on Monday. You are like family to me!! I will not stop praying for you. I cannot even begin to say how grateful I am to have been a small part of Oscar's life all these years. And how utterly PROUD I am of Claire for her love and grace for her husband through a very difficult disease. I hold her in high esteem! May I be like her for the remainder of my days to those God places in my path. I feel like my heart should be heavy, but it's not. I have an overwhelming sense of peace. God is good! Oscar is at rest! Praise the Lord!!!
Oh how we grieve with you that dear Oscar is no longer with us. What a stalwart caring man he was! The Lord was so very evident in his life. We are all better for having had Oscar as a friend....he loved so very well. What a sweet reunion awaits us. May HIS abundant love, comfort and grace fill your hearts till then.
It was my privilege to know Oscar for many years as a friend and co-laborer for Christ. I gladly echo the commendations set forth in his obituary; they are accurate. Indeed, Oscar was great on being others-centered while diminishing his own selfish desires. He owned one unmistakable attribute: His commitment and service to his Savior Jesus Christ. Unlike many zealous in their Christian faith, Oscar was always able to convey his unwavering allegiance to non-believers in a warm and inoffensive manner. While those of us who remain here will miss his counsel and influence for awhile, Oscar is now in heaven and will likely be a one man welcoming committee there to greet his family and friends (including me) who share his faith in God's Son as we eventually are also called to our new and eternal home. Thank you Lord for allowing me to be friends with Oscar Turner.
Oscar and Phillip worked together at the OCC in the 1970"s and Oscar was a very good and always cheerful Christian friend. I (Phillip) am very sorry that I did not keep uo with him in later years, but I was sorry to learn of his death, and Sandra and I send our heartfelt sympathy to Claire and his family. Our sons, William and Stephen went to Second Baptist School with their beautiful daughter, Marlo, and Sandra sees Claire at DAR.
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AFC Playoffs
By O - November 28, 2022
The AFC East looks like the division that has it all together. With every team 2 games above .500 or better, the wise bet would be the AFC SuperBowl representatives would come from this division. Then you have to remember that the KC Chiefs, LA Chargers, Baltimore Ravens, and the Tennessee Titans are all very much in the mix. The AFC Playoff picture, as of today looks like this:
1) Kansas City Chiefs
2) Miami Dolphins
3) Tennessee Titans
4) Baltimore Ravens
5) Buffalo Bills
6) Cincinnati Bengals
7) NY Jets
Once again, I know a lot can happen in 5 games, and this list is far from finanalized. Who are you picks for the AFC playoff representatives? Who is going take it all the way to the Superbowl?
DC AG Files Lawsuit against Snyder, the NFL and Commissioner Goodell
DC AG Karl Racine is filing a civil lawsuit against the Washington Commanders, owner Dan Snyder, the National Football League and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stating they collectively lied about allegations of a hostile work environment and workplace harassment and that Snyder was not only aware of those issues, but "encouraged and participated" in it. Racine gave us a few quotes: "We're standing up for DC residents who were repeatedly lied to and deceived" "The Attorney General's office reviewed thousand of internal documents and emails uncovering clear wrongdoing of D.C. residents and their consumer rights" Its safe to say D.C. is no longer putting up with Dan Snyder and Roger Goodell's sh*t. Good for them.
Dwight Howard signs on with the Leopards
Dwight Howard just signed a deal with the Taoyuan Leopards of the T1 league in Taiwan. Basketball in Taiwan is a very popular and Howard is just one of many US and European Stars playing in the league. The Leopards are one of the 6 teams in the league. Good Luck to Dwight this season.
Antonio Brown's Last Fall From Grace
By DJ Shane - January 03, 2022
Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown pulled off his jersey and left the field before the end of his team's 28-24 win over the New York Jets on Sunday, leading to his exit from the organization. Head coach Bruce Arians said after the game that Brown was "no longer a Buc." "Never seen anything like it in all my years," Arians was quoted as saying. Br o wn's outlash included removing his jersey, his shoulder pads, his undershirt and his glove; giving the crowd a peace sign; and leaving MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Brown did not travel back with the team on their flight. In a post-game news conference, Tampa Bay's quarterback Tom Brady urged compassion and empathy for Brown, suggesting that he may need "help" beyond football. "We all love him," he said. "We care about him deeply. You know, we want to see him be at his best, and, you know, unfortunately it won't be with our team." Sunday'


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Home and Away: In Search of Dreams at the Homeless World Cup of Soccer
by Dave Bidini
Over his long career as a musician and writer, Dave Bidini has frequently been characterized as an engaging storyteller. His odysseys through sports, travel, and rock and roll have entertained readers, while simultaneously giving them a glimpse inside the worlds he describes. In his newest book, he applies those skills to a milieu very few readers will even be aware of.
Home and Away begins with Bidini discovering a soccer program for the homeless operating out of a community centre in a marginalized Toronto neighbourhood. When he digs a little deeper he learns that the ragtag group of players comprise a Canadian national team. As Bidini gets to know the players and coaches, he finds himself along for the ride as the team heads to Australia for the Homeless World Cup.
In Australia, Bidini dutifully follows the tournament, writing match reports as any sportswriter would, but it's the personal side of the story that brings Home and Away to life. The players in the Homeless World Cup, we come to understand, aren't that far removed from the rest of society. As we learn their stories, the true face of homelessness becomes apparent. From the barrios of Latin America to the harsh underbelly of Russia, Bidini shows readers that the path to the streets is shorter and more slippery than most people think. For some, the road begins with broken homes, mental illness, or substance abuse; for others it's a failed business or a string of bad luck. By putting a human face on the players' lives, Bidini confronts society's commonly held misconceptions about the homeless.
Through sport, Bidini observes, the disenfranchised players are given a chance to be visible. Not everyone in Home and Away successfully overcomes their demons, but Bidini's rich and enlightening portraits of the players, coaches, and alumni demonstrate the ways in which community can help make a meaningful and lasting difference in people's lives.
Reviewer: David Leonard
Publisher: Greystone Books
Page Count: 184 pp
Format: Paper
Released: Sept.
Issue Date: 2010-10
Categories: Sports, Health & Self-help
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Tokyo police arrested eight men on November 14, 2018, for a cryptocurrency-related pyramid scheme that scammed 6,000 people of 7.8 billion yen (approximately $68.42 million). According to Japanese News company Asahi Shimbun on November 16, 2018, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department suspected that the arrested men might have violated the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law as they failed to register their business operations with the relevant authorities.
The Asahi Shimbun reported that the men were accused of soliciting investments in 2017 from February to May from nine men and women from various ages, ranging from 40 to 72. They were soliciting investments from a company called 'Sener.' The eight men claimed that Sener was a US investment firm, but had failed to register their activities with the Japanese Financial Services Agencies (FSA).
The Tokyo Metropolitan police found that the nine men and women altogether, handed 29 million Yen to Shibata and other people to exchange the cash for cryptocurrencies on their behalf. The eight suspected men are believed to have collected approximately 500 million yen in cash, on top of their cryptocurrency savings from 6,000 people from 44 districts.
A group of lawyers who are representing the victims mentioned that the suspects organized seminars and gatherings that promised extraordinarily high and consistent returns of 3 to 20 percent per month, based on their investments. These seminars were highly convincing as they also included foreign international speakers.
At the seminars, the suspects also facilitated a pyramid scheme by promising investors that they would receive greater returns if they brought in other investors into the firm. Many victims who were unaware that the cryptocurrency pyramid scheme was a scam, provided their investment in the form of Bitcoin.
The suspects attempted to avoid prosecution by claiming that the transaction was through the use of cryptocurrencies, since cryptocurrencies are in a grey, unclear, and unregulated area under Japan's financial exchange laws.
Although the FSA noted that cryptocurrencies are not included in securities and are not under the jurisdiction of the Financial Instruments and Exchange of Law, an agency official, however, mentioned that certain investments facilitated by cryptocurrencies could be regulated under the law. It depends on the structure and nature of the investment. Unfortunately, Japan still does not have clear definitions on the nature of regulations.


If you have been paying attention to dropping gold prices, you probably believe that this would be a very bad time to sell your gold. It seems like a far better time to buy gold now and hold it until prices bounce back.
But the fact remains that there is no one answer to the question, "Is this the time to sell?" Even when prices are low, your circumstances could dictate that selling now might be a very good idea.
Those circumstances could be . . .
You acquired gold at a lower price than its current trading level, so selling now would represent a net gain for you. If you make a sizeable profit from selling your gold for more than you paid for it, the current trading price might not be a relevant concern.
You can use the cash you realize as a tax-deductible charitable contribution to a college, a hospital or another institution that you support. Depending on your tax bracket and other considerations, it could be a strategy that will minimize your taxes, offset the current low price of gold, and help you support a favorite institution too.
You own gold-bearing items that need to be recycled, not bouillon, and you don't know just how much money you stand to gain by recycling them now. They could be gold dental scrap, gold-plated decorative items, a large quantity of printed circuit boards or other electronic devices that need to be tested by a qualified gold refinery like us. You could get a much bigger payment for those items than you expect.
You are making a new estate plan. Instead of holding on to valuable precious metals and having your heirs pay inheritance tax on them should you die, perhaps you should liquidate them and put the money you get into a trust or other vehicle that will serve to minimize inheritance taxes. The attorney or other expert who is helping you plan your estate can offer you the advice you need.
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The best and brightest of the Renaissance are here to welcome you. The others will be along shortly.
Welcome! This site is designed to help you with your study of Junior Cert and Leaving Cert History. To the left, you'll see links for each year. Click on your year and you will find a list of all the topics you will study. Each topic page has information, tips and links to pictures, games and other useful websites.
As well as the topics you study in school, the In the News and On This Day sections below give you information on other things that happened in history, from the Stone Age as far as yesterday.
pose with a poster of the Ulster Covenant, signed by Edward Carson.
The Ulster Solemn League and Covenant was signed 100 years ago (28th September). The Covenant was a pledge by Ulster unionists to resist "by all means which may be found necessary"attempts by the British government to introduce Home Rule to Ireland. They then set up the Ulster Volunteers, while nationalists joined the Irish Volunteers. The two men who led the unionist resistance, Edward Carson and James Craig, would be leading figures in Northern Ireland when it was created ten years later.
Recordings made by President John F. Kennedy during his presidency have been released along with a new book about them. He recorded his thoughts on the ongoing conflict in Vietnam, as well as conversations he had with other top figures. Recordings like this have been used by historians looking for new insights into events such as the Cuban missile crisis, and they form an important primary source.
You might have heard of the old lady in Spain who took it upon herself to restore a decaying 19th century fresco in her local church. She's back in the news now that the fresco has become a tourist attraction.
The trailer for Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" has been released. The film is set to cover Abraham Lincoln's time as President of the United States, his efforts to abolish slavery, and the civil war that followed.
on this day in 1930.
The Congress of Vienna opens to redraw Europe's borders after the Napoleonic War.
The News of the World begins publication in London. It shut down in 2011.
German inventor Werner von Siemens founded the company which bears his name.
Ford puts the Model T car on sale in America for $825.
The Soviet Union begins its first Five Year Plan.
Nazi Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
Ex-Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg Trials.
Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.


At ACG Nyström you will find both small and large embroidery machines for embroidering various garments and articles, from greater production such as workwear to simpler name embroidery in shops.
The main equipment is of course the embroidery machine. We offer as standard 1-head, 2-head, 4-head, 6-head and 8-head embroidery machines from Tajima who are market leaders in their field. We provide everything from the small embroidery machine for shops, markets, fairs and web solutions to embroidery machines for the big production.
A good embroidery software is also important. We sell Tajima DG by Pulse, the strongest embroidery software on the market. We always provide training when purchasing new softare as well as training after upgrades. We also offer automation solutions with embroidery for your business and your website.
We provide embroidery accessories such as embroidery thread, backing, embroidery frames, special frames for embroidery, application materials, scissors, tweezers and embroidery needles. We offer embroidery aids such as hooping systems (Hoopmaster) for easy framing of the garment so that the user gets an efficient and ergonomic work environment. For cap embroidery, we offer a height-adjustable hooping system for optimum working height.
We offer training for your embroidery machine and methodology at various embroidery techniques (3D embroidery, application embroidery), either in conjunction with new purchases or on your existing embroidery machine. Our embroidery support has been recognized as fast and efficient.
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Tajima DG by Pulse embroidery software uses the technologically superior VBE (Vector Based Embroidery) that produces the best stitch quality in the world. Tajima DG by Pulse has the perfect solution for both large and small companies.
The levels range from lettering and editing for creating customized embroidered text in any shape and style to the ultimate design creation with the most powerful tools for creating breathtaking designs. Our embroidery software is very easy to use and easy to learn, so do not hesitate to get started! There are also many different options you can supplement your software with.
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Start at a level and upgrade gradually as the business grows!
Instruction in how different garments, garment parts, caps etc. are prepared and mounted in the embroidery machine. Effects of reinforcing materials such as backing, various types of thread etc. Instruction and training in the manufacture of application embroidery and 3D embroidery.
Training takes place at the level of software that you choose, for example, how to set and change texts in various combinations. Imports of externally manufactured design patterns or logos. Change size scale up/down of a design or logo. Add or remove, change stitch by stitch or a whole group. Reading/scanning and own production of designs and logos, how the embroidery pattern is built up segment by segment etc.
The training period is spread over a week, Monday – Friday, with about 50% on training a) and 50% on training b) or 40-60% or 60-40%, depending on your prior knowledge. We tailor the training to suit your needs.
Training takes place in our premises in Borås. Course materials, daily refreshments and lunch included. After completing the training you will receive a diploma.
Since March 1, 2011 we are Madeira retailers in Sweden.
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The Madeira threads are available in our Webshop.
We stock spare parts for most clothing and textile machinery. During many years we have built up a large stock of spare parts and accessories to meet our customers' demands for fast service.
Scissors, EC-Cutter battery scissors, shears, needles, threaders, tweezers, rulers, oil, adhesive spray, oil cans, stich erasers, frames, wooden frames, Hoopmaster for easy framing, wide cap frame units, knives, bobbins, bobbin cases, hooks, catchers, reciprocators, needle bars, presser feet, needle plates, feeders, thread, pre-wound thread, Magna Glide magnetic core embroidery bobbins, non-woven material, backing, water soluble plastic, AS film which is dissolved with heat, solvy, application materials, step fabrics, twilly, poly-twill, vliesofix, puffy, soluweb, reflective fabrics.
If any part is not in stock, we have, through our good connections with the leading manufacturers, the ability to quickly get the part. We do everything to eliminate machine downtime and therefore increase your productivity.
Welcome to contact us with questions and concerns regarding parts and accessories for your machines!


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Work Experience PEI is an employment program developed to provide financial support to non-profit community organizations for projects that provide the job seeker with a valuable work experience and potential for long term employment. As the employee works on various aspects of the project activities, they will develop skills required in the workforce.
If you are a hiring a new employee who lacks work experience for a short term project, we can provide financial assistance to subsidize a portion of the wages up to a maximum of 52 weeks.
The contact information for the new employee.
There is no deadline for applications under the Work Experience PEI program as we accept applications on an ongoing basis.
Once you submit your completed application package, SkillsPEI will review your application. Once you receive confirmation that your application has been approved for the Work Experience PEI program, your new employee can start work.


A triathlon is one of one of the most brutal and also challenging sports that you could participate in. Completing a triathlon could be one of one of the most gratifying things that you could do in a lifetime. The worst point that you could do is signing up to compete in a triathlon without training properly. Many people assume that if they are a good athlete as well as they remain in good condition, after that they can compete in and finish a triathlon without way too much problem. This is not real.
Contending in a triathlon is not enjoy contending in any other sporting activity. The initial step in training for a triathlon is selecting which kind of triathlon you would like to compete in. The various sorts of triathlons are the Sprint, Olympic, and also Ironman triathlon. The Sprint is the simplest of the triathlons and also the Ironman is the hardest. If you are a beginner, you need to contend in the Sprint triathlon a few times, before proceeding to among the longer competitions.
Now that you have chosen the triathlon that is finest fit for you, you need to start training. The triathlon is consisted of swimming, cycling, as well as running. When choosing how to train, you need to make a decision which among these three self-controls you are the best at doing, and also which one you are the most awful. After that concentrate on investing even more time training on the discipline you are the most awful at doing.
As soon as you begin educating for the triathlon, you should make certain that you continuously train, because picking up any size of time will cost you a number of the gains you have actually made. You ought to alternate days for training on the different disciplines, and operate in weight training as well as stretching sessions as well. You should also pick eventually for relaxing where you do no training at all. This will certainly enable your body to remainder as well as gain its stamina back for the next training session. Keep functioning towards your objective daily, and you will certainly be finishing a triathlon in no time at all!


After mail bombs were sent to a variety of Democrats, such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and to journalists at CNN, President Donald Trump stated, "A very big part of the anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as fake news." Trump blames the media for this terrifying act, not the sender.
I am ashamed that we as a nation have this man running our country, a man who ignores any mistake done by Republicans and blames them on the Democrats. He divides our country more and more each day. He believes the media holds more blame than Cesar Sayoc, the Republican who was arrested on suspicion of mailing the bombs and has attended Trump's Make America Great Again rallies.
Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi went into the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul but never left the building. He was declared missing for several days before his death was later confirmed. While this was happening, our president made claims that he didn't support it and that he was going to wait until the investigation was completed before reaching a final thought. Khashoggi's death was blatantly ignored.
Trump admits he has no regret for supporting a Republican congressman who body slammed a reporter. "Any guy who can do a body slam…he's my guy," he said at a rally. He believes assault, no matter the degree, is excusable as long as it is done by a Republican.
CNN chief Jeff Zucker stated, "The President, and especially the White House Press Secretary, should understand their words matter," just days after bombs were sent to their office. This came after tweets were put out by Trump who deemed the bombs unacceptable and failed to mention CNN until a later post.
What I want to know is why would he think that. The only reason for Trump to have such hate towards journalists is if they were portraying the actual truth about him that he didn't want the world to see, which is exactly what is happening. Over the door of the CVHS journlism room it says, "We are born to seek the truth." As journalists, we portray the truth. As a student journalist, I see Trump as a disrespectful man who wants his citizens to be uneducated when it comes to political events involving Republicans. It is our duty to find the actual facts and use them to educate ourselves and others. It starts with you and me.


Situated in the Tuileries Garden near the Place de la Concorde, the Orangerie Museum contains impressionist and post-impressionist paintings from Cézanne, Renoir, Modigliani and Soutine. The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery that is particularly famous for its display of Monet's great Waterlilies murals.
The pavilions of the Orangerie and its counterpart, the Jeu de paume, were built on the grounds of the Tuileries garden in Paris during the Second Empire (19th century).
The Orangerie pavillon was built in 1852 to shelter the orange trees of the Tuileries Garden. During the Third Republic, the building was used as a storehouse, an examination room, and a lodging place for mobilised soldiers. It welcomed a number of sporting, musical and patriotic events.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Orangerie has been used as an art gallery. Now part of the Orsay Museum, the Orangerie reopened in 2006 after 7 years of extensive renovations. Each year around 700,000 people visit the art gallery.
The Orangerie is the permanent home for the Waterlilies murals, a series of 8 panels painted by Claude Monet in his garden at Giverny.
Known as Les Nymphéas, the paintings are arranged all along the walls in two oval rooms. The 8 panels evoke the passing of the hours from sunrise in the East to sunset in the West. Monet described his work as: "the illusion of an endless whole, of water without horizon and without shore".
The masterpiece was ordered by the French government to Claude Monet in 1922. The Nymphéas were donated by the painter to be housed in the oval rooms at the Orangerie.
Paul Cézanne, André Derain, Kees Van Dongen, Paul Gauguin, Marie Laurencin, Henri Matisse, Amadeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Douanier Rousseau, Alfred Sisley, Chaïm Soutine, Maurice Utrillo.
For more information about opening hours and paintings on display, visit the official website of the Orangerie Museum.
Find out more about the Monet's gardens in Giverny.


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76:0 In the name of GOD, Gracious, Merciful.

76:1 Is it not a fact that there was a time when the human being was nothing to be mentioned?

76:2 We created the human from a liquid mixture, from two parents, in order to test him. Thus, we made him a hearer and a seer.

76:3 We showed him the two paths, then he is either appreciative, or unappreciative.

76:4 We prepared for the disbelievers chains, shackles, and a blazing Hell.

76:5 As for the virtuous, they will drink from cups spiced with nectar.

76:6 A spring that is reserved for GOD's servants; it will gush out as they will.

76:7 They fulfill their pledges, and reverence a day that is extremely difficult.

76:8 They donate their favorite food to the poor, the orphan, and the captive.

76:9 "We feed you for the sake of GOD; we expect no reward from you, nor thanks.

76:10 "We fear from our Lord a day that is full of misery and trouble."

76:11 Consequently, GOD protects them from the evils of that day, and rewards them with joy and contentment.

76:12 He rewards them for their steadfastness with Paradise, and silk.

76:13 They relax therein on luxurious furnishings. They suffer neither the heat of the sun, nor any cold.

76:14 The shade covers them therein, and the fruits are brought within reach.

76:15 They are served drinks in silver containers and cups that are translucent.

76:16 Translucent cups, though made of silver; they rightly deserved all this.

76:17 They enjoy drinks of delicious flavors.

76:18 From a spring therein known as "Salsabeel."

76:19 Serving them will be immortal servants. When you see them, they will look like scattered pearls.

76:20 Wherever you look, you will see bliss, and a wonderful dominion.

76:21 On them will be clothes of green velvet, satin, and silver ornaments. Their Lord will provide them with pure drinks.

76:22 This is the reward that awaits you, for your efforts have been appreciated.

76:23 We have revealed to you this Quran; a special revelation from us.

76:24 You shall steadfastly carry out your Lord's commandments, and do not obey any sinful disbeliever among them.

76:25 And commemorate the name of your Lord day and night.

76:26 During the night, fall prostrate before Him, and glorify Him many a long night.

76:27 These people are preoccupied with this fleeting life, while disregarding - just ahead of them - a heavy day.

76:28 We created them, and established them, and, whenever we will, we can substitute others in their place.

76:29 This is a reminder: whoever wills shall choose the path to his Lord.

76:30 Whatever you will is in accordance with GOD's will. GOD is Omniscient, Wise.

76:31 He admits whomever He wills into His mercy. As for the transgressors, He has prepared for them a painful retribution.


ALAN PARDEW says sports science and medical staff have become 'too protective' and that this contributed to his sacking at Crystal Palace.
Pardew, who was dismissed at the end of December following a run of eight defeats in 10 games, believes the Eagles struggled to recover from an undemanding pre-season.
"When I started, the hard pre-season was a big thing, maybe too extreme among some," Pardew told The Times.
"But I think we have come too far the other way - doctors under pressure at Premier League level, sports scientists protecting themselves a little bit, sometimes worried what the chairman will think if there is any injury.
Pardew added that in his next job, the players would have "a pre-season to remember".
Michael Davison, MD of the Isokinetic Medical Group in London, one of Fifa's medical centres of excellence, has also said there is a culture of 'overmedicine' at many clubs.
This has led to players having scans and even surgery that they do not need, Davison said.
"There is data now, certainly from the Premier League, that shows the number of interventions - be them MRIs, surgical or injection therapies - have sky-rocketed in the last five years," he told the BJSM podcast.
"Not just the total spend, but the actual number of procedures. What tends to happen is that there is an intense pressure to get not just a diagnosis, [but] people want to see something on a scan.
"It might be the agent, another player in the dressing room, the player himself, [and] there is so much pressure heaped on.
"The problem is that if you do a scan, you find something. What is happening – and this is something Phil Batty, my medical director at Isokinetic and the former head of sports medicine at Manchester City feels – is that clinical judgement is being devalued and lost and there is an over-reliance on treating the scan rather than the player.
"Sometimes it's easy to have an operation in a player's mind. It's not easy to do six weeks of conservative management of dedication to exercise therapy knowing – and this is often the case with ankle ligaments for example – that you might still need an operation at the end of it.
"With some people they think there's certainty if they have an operation, but there are always complications.
"I look at Daniel Sturridge as an example of a player who had hip surgery because there was too much pressure around the situation – American ownership, a desire to push on having lost Luis Suarez, and the player looking for answers - and I fear there may have been overmedicine. Time will tell."


Russian stocks continued their slump, falling a fifth consecutive day as crude oil declined. The rouble strengthened against the dollar, closing at 31.34, and continues to gain momentum on Asian floors, currently up 0.17 percent to 31.40 at 9:41 MSK.
The MICEX soared when floors opened, and hit 1.374.55 at 11:39am, but then retreated and closed at 1,373.65, just 0.29 points above its open 1.373.53. The RTS made a significant gain of 0.43 percent and jumped 5.89 points closing at 1.386,47.
After a morning rally, European stocks came up short at market closed. The Euro Stoxx closed low at 2,806.70, down 0.10 percent. France' CAC 40 closed at 3,979.07, down 0.08 percent, and Germany's DAX closed positive up 0.09 percent, continuing its record gain ascent.
In London, the FTSE 100 slid 0.09 percent, bringing its nine-day rally to a halt.
US markets disappointed on economic woes. The Dow Jones dropped 42.47 points, down 0.3 percent and closed at 15,233.22. The S&P 500 fell 0.5 percent and closed at 1,650.47. Analysts await the publication of a University of Michigan consumer sentiment and inflation expectations, due Friday. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will speak at 16:00 in New York on Saturday, addressing the US job market, which may cause some volatility in Monday's trading sessions.
Asian stocks were mixed. The Nikkei 225 Index was down 0.27 percent the Shanghai Composite is up 0.87 percent. The Hong Kong market is closed on holiday.
Australia's ASX is up 0.02 percent on Asian floors and the NZSE index is down 0.92 percent. New Zealand will release official price inflation data Friday. The Australian dollar has continued its rapid slide below parity with the USD, falling to the lowest level in 12 months, trading at 97.47 US cents off the back of pessimistic Chinese industrial forecasts and the resurgent US currency.
Early week oil peaks have neutralized but both WTI and Brent have slightly gained. WTI is up 0.03 percent at 95.19 and Brent is up 0.12 percent at 103.80.


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Q: Regular expression (For digits and characters) I've been experimenting with a local sign in/log in system and I've hit a error. I was trying to make a regular expression that checks if the user's username and password contain 8 characters and 2 numbers. I really am not sure how to do that but this is all my code I've been able too put togheter.
HTML code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

 <form id='form'>
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Simple Signup system

      Username:
      <input type="text" name="text1" id = "username">

      Password:
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var t = 'everything good, loging in'

var f = 'something is not right, try again.'

var tf = 'not-set'

var statment = /^[a-zA-Z]*$/

window.onload = function() {
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}
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function onSubmit() {

if (document.getElementById('username').value.includes(Number)) {
    tf = 'True'
} else {
    tf = 'False'
}

if (document.getElementById('username').value.includes(statment)) {
    tf.push('True')
} else {
    tf.push('False')
}

if (tf = ['True', 'True']) {

  alert('Good to go, redirecting')

} else {

  alert('Username does not meet the standards for creating a account!')
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 document.forms['forms1'].submit()
}

EDIT: Was able to redo a part of the code, I'm still using regex to check for letters because I'm not sure how to do it without it.
Current error: 'first can't be a Regular Expression'.


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United State Mint reports product sellouts
By Paul Gilkes
Published: Aug 7, 2015, 5 AM
The sold-out 2015 March of Dimes Special Silver Set was in demand for the silver Reverse Proof 2015-P Roosevelt dime and silver Proof 2015-W Roosevelt dime that were offered only in the set.
Images courtesy of U.S. Mint.
The United States Mint reported Aug. 7 that three of its numismatic products have sold out and are no longer available for purchase from the Mint.
The three products are:
??2014 American $1 Coin & Currency Set, sales of 50,000 (maximum authorization).
??2015 U.S. Marshals Service 225th Anniversary Three-Coin Proof Set, sales of 14,964 (limited to 15,000 sets total).
??2015 March of Dimes Special Silver Set, sales of 74,623 (maximum 75,000 sets).
The 2014 American Coin & Currency set went on sale Nov. 20, 2014, for $13.95 per set. Key in the set is the Enhanced Uncirculated 2014-D Native American dollar that was offered by the Mint only in the set.
The 2015 U.S. Marshals Service 225th Anniversary Three-Coin Proof Set contains the program's Proof 2015-W gold $5 half eagle, Proof 2015-P silver dollar and Proof 2015-S copper-nickel clad half dollar. The set went on sale Jan. 29 for $430.
The 2015 March of Dimes Special Silver Set contains not only the Proof 2015-P March of Dimes silver dollar but also a Proof 2015-W Roosevelt silver dime and Reverse Proof 2015-P Roosevelt silver dime. The special dimes were offered by the Mint only in the set. The set went on sale May 4 at $61.95.


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