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Last Updated: Thursday, 1 June 2006, 20:27 GMT 21:27 UK
World Cup warm-up games
Details of Costa Rica's warm-up matches ahead of their 2006 World Cup campaign in Germany.
Iran 3-2 Costa Rica
The visitors conceded three first-half goals but made a fight of it after the break with Carlos Hernandez and Danny Fonseca getting Costa Rica's goals.
Ukraine 4-0 Costa Rica
Even without Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine had too much class for Costa Rica and were 3-0 up at half-time with goals from Sergi Nazarenko, Andriy Vorobei, Maksim Kalinichenko, with Olexiy Belik scoring the fourth early in the second half.
Czech Republic 1-0 Costa Rica
Jablonec, Czech Republic
The Central Americans lose their third friendly in a row, with substitute Vratislav Lokvenc getting the Czech Republic's winner eight minutes from time.
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CONSPIRACY: Obstruction of Justice, Evidence Tampering, Corruption
Swiss prosecutor & Judges Exclude Inconvenient Evidence
Inspector Fabien Fontannaz : Evidence Tampering
Fontannaz destroys deceased's smartphone
Fontannaz concealed and attempted to destroy the suicide note of my my depressed friend, after I found his body and alerted the police. This evidence was in the form of an SMS message sent to me by the deceased hours before his death.
It's important to note, Fabien Fontannaz is not a uniformed policeman (in Switzerland those are called "Police Cantonal") but an agent of the highly specialized "Judicial Police" who are tasked with investigating serious crime. To draw a parallel, in the US there is the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and also an agency in each state eg California Bureau of Investigation. Switzerland doesn't have states, it has "Cantons" however Special Agent Fabien Fontannaz holds a position roughly equivalent to an agent in the California Bureau of Investigation (ie state level) in the Canton of Valais. He is supposed to be a serious investigator and he ran point on my murder case.
In the email to the right, he tells my lawyer that he intends to destroy the belongings of the deceased, including his mobile phone which contains the original suicide SMS message. This is several hours before he returns my equipment to my lawyer at 15:30 that same day.
Incredibly, my lawyer Maitre Philippe Loretan does not object to the destruction of evidence, specifically the suicide note, in an ongoing murder investigation.
All the more incredible, in a meeting the day before with Philippe Loretan, I alerted him to the fact that Inspector Fabien Fontannaz attempted to delete that message; Loretan stated that message was "critical evidence" and he would retrieve it.
Yet, the next day, he doesn't bat an eyelid when the police say the original copy is being destroyed.
District Attorney Frederic Gisler : Ignored Suicide Note
After Fontannaz attempted to delete the suicide SMS message from my mobile telephone, I locked it and quickly put it in my pocket. This was possible as we were sitting facing one another at my kitchen table. I immediately demanded to see the prosecutor; I knew to do this, because my partner and I socialized with several district attorneys and even attended the 40th birthday party of DA Catherine Seppey.
When DA Frederic Gisler arrived, he showed no interest in my protests that there was a suicide note.
Surely a serious district attorney would ask a suspect a few questions when arriving on the scene, especially since I was the one who demanded he come to speak with me? No, he spoke to me in a rather condescending tone, said I was under arrest, and walked off into my house to talk to the other police there.
Here is a copy of the "suicide note" from the police file. The police and prosecutor repeatedly refused to say they had it, until I fired my lawyer Philippe Loretan and hired an Amnesty International lawyer Pierre Bayenet late September 2015.
Maitre Philippe Loretan : Collusion with Prosecutor
My first three lawyers refused to act despite my instruction to file a complaint for police brutality, and human rights abuse. Bear in mind at this stage I was suffering PTSD and rational thought was impossible. In desperation, I took the most famous lawyer in the Canton of Valais available: Maitre Philippe Loretan, who was also the spokesman for the Chief of Police in Valais, a Mr Christian Varone.
At our first meeting on 21 May 2015 I explained to Philippe Loretan that the police concealed the suicide note of my deceased friend and attempted to delete it from my mobile telephone right in front of me. He called that suicide note "critical evidence" and assured me he would take steps to confirm that it was entered into the murder file. Philippe Loretan was lying and attempting to deceive me: he did NOT enquire about that so-called "critical evidence" until 16 June, a staggering 26 days later, after I reminded him four times. Remember, I was still charged with first degree murder.
On 22 May some of my seized equipment was returned, and it was around this time I discovered that my mobile telephone had been returned non-functional.
This meant that I no longer had a copy of the suicide note - which my friend Oscar had sent me via SMS - so on 26 May 2015 I instructed Philippe Loretan to urgently take whatever steps were necessary to retrieve it.
Not only did Philippe Loretan fail to act, despite repeated reminders, he also falsely told me that he could not recover a copy from the telephone company: he stated that only the police could do that, which was a lie. This had two implications firstly that the ten days I had to report damaged property expired, so the police could not be held liable for the damage to my equipment; and secondly a critical piece of evidence was being allowed to slip through the cracks and disappear.
Why would the prosecutor Frederic Gisler want that? His use of enhanced interrogation techniques on me, threats of violence and waterboarding, highly invasive medical procedures performed under duress: that would be hard to justify in the presence of a suicide note and my alibi.
For several months Philippe Loretan refused to act, then in late August pretended I could still claim for my damaged phone. That shows bad faith; he absolutely knew the ten days I had by law to report the damage expired months earlier. It was an act, to deceive me into thinking he was doing his job while in actual fact he was sabotaging my case.
Valais Cantonal Court: Excluded Admissible Evidence
In late 2016 the Valais Cantonal Court called me a liar, said the phone probably broke "much later than May 2015, because I only reported it broken in my damages claim of November 2015" and threw out my email evidence showing I reported the damaged phone to my lawyer Philippe Loretan on 26 May 2015 (next business day after I received my equipment back) and then repeatedly instructed him to recover the SMS. The Cantonal Court said every piece of evidence I provided was a "forgery" and threw it out.
The court's actions are very interesting because those emails were sent via an online email account hosted by Microsoft Corporation , and those messages could not possibly have been forged by myself; I do not have administrative privileges to Microsoft servers. Unless of course Swiss courts wish to imply that Microsoft are in the business of committing fraud and falsifying documents.
It looks a lot to me like conspiracy, because the actions of the court seem to protect my previous lawyer. By ruling those emails "forgeries" it shields him from allegations of malpractice. It also begs the question of why the court didn't ask my lawyer about those emails? In another Swiss case I was asked to waive legal privilege; I could have done so again. The court wanted to obfuscate; they are not interested in finding the truth.
Quite the contrary, the Valais Cantonal Court is most concerned with concealing the truth.
Now, throwing out concrete evidence proving I reported my phone damaged, then calling me a liar and saying I broke the phone myself much later, sounds like conspiracy to me. It's also obstruction of justice, and when obstruction of justice occurs through conspiracy, that is "Perversion of the course of justice"
This is tantamount to human rights abuse, because the judiciary of a state is colluding against my right to a fair trial.
Why Would Anyone Do This?
I maintain that the Swiss judiciary conspired to conceal that suicide note, because they realized no competent investigator would use enhanced interrogation on a suspect who:
Actually called the police themselves to report a suicide
Showed them a suicide note where the deceased talks of trying to hang themselves and having taken an overdose of prescription medication
Has an alibi placing them at home 10km away at the time of death
Has a second alibi placing them at home 10km away awaiting and signing for an important business related delivery
Wrote to the deceased's social worker weeks prior to his death, saying deceased was entering medication induced psychosis and urgently needed help
The deceased has a history of mental illness for the past ten years
The deceased had made several suicide attempts in the past
My hypothesis is that Fontannaz and Gisler concealed the suicide note as a pretext to arrest me and put me through torture, in order to extract a confession of some sort.
They were utterly convinced they would find something to pin on me, they tore my house apart looking for drugs; they gave me every drug test available: urine, blood, and hair follicle samples were taken, as well as DNA swab and incredibly swab samples from my penis: all under duress (threat of violence and specifically waterboarding) in a room full of people at the police station -- when Martigny Hospital was 100 metres away and indeed after roughing me up and taking naked photos in the police station, they took me to Martigny Hospital for the blood samples.
Having done all of the above, the suicide note had to be concealed and destroyed.
Fontannaz said he was destroying the deceased's mobile phone on 22 May
Gisler returned my mobile phone broken 22 May and never replied to my request asking him to confirm he had entered the SMS into evidence
Loretan refused to push Gisler for the suicide note, and refused to get a copy from the phone company
Phone company only keeps copies of text messages (SMS) for 6 months; I had until 28 October to retrieve a copy.
In September I took an Amnesty lawyer, and the following week on 23 September the police finally released their report, which contained the suicide SMS message. I suggest they did that when they realised my Amnesty lawyer would get a copy of the SMS message.
Why did that report take so long when they returned my equipment on 22 May and on that day DA Frederic Gisler said it was all a big mistake and he would close the file immediately? I suggest Gisler was dragging out the case until the phone company purged that critical evidence.
The Swiss judiciary put me through hell, tore my life apart, rather than admit a simple mistake, apologise for what they did, and pay proper compensation.

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Q: What is the correct/best method for threading in a COM exposed assembly? First let me say: I am still very inexperienced with VB.NET so there is probably something simple I am missing, or at least that's what I'm hoping.
I've been writing a COM exposed wrapper class to provide access to a web service in a legacy VB6 application. I got everything pretty much working as I wanted – all the COM properties, methods and events are showing up in the VB6 app – but for one minor detail: when I used a method which made a call to the service, it was obviously only working  asynchronously, so I couldn't update a progress bar or do anything else while waiting for a corresponding assembly event to fire.
So I concluded that I needed to use a separate thread to access the web service. I decided the cleanest method was to do this via a separate class, which raised events in the main wrapper class, which in turn raised the public COM events. Here is how I implemented it:
At the top of the wrapper class I put:
Private WithEvents oService As Service_Class
Private ServiceThread As Thread

Then, in one of the main wrapper methods (say a simple Status Request), I put the following:
oService = New Service_Class
ServiceThread = New Thread(AddressOf oService.RequestStatus)
ServiceThread.Start()

Once the service call has acquired the 'Status' value it raises the StatusReport event in the main wrapper, which in turn raises the COM exposed StatusReport event, thus:
Private Sub oService_StatusReport(ByVal Status As String) Handles oService.StatusReport
    RaiseEvent StatusReport(Status)

This works, up to a point – it certainly doesn't tie up processing in the calling app any more – but there does still seem to be a problem: the calling app crashes if I try to access any controls within the wrapper object's events. I've tested this with a .NET form and it doesn't crash but it raises  a "Cross-thread operation" error. Of course I could use a timer in the calling app, monitoring a variable or something, to get around this problem, but that seems awfully messy and made me think that I'm probably doing something fundamentally wrong in the way I'm implementing the threading. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong and how to fix it, please?

A: VB6 completely does not support threading.  It sorta worked in VB5 if you programmed very carefully but that got borked in VB6 runtime.  It is okay to use threading in your .NET code, as long as the VB6 code never sees that.  You have to marshal the event raising call to the STA thread on which VB6 created your class object.
That's done with Control.BeginInvoke() or Dispatcher.BeginInvoke().  If you don't have a form or dispatcher to make this call then create a hidden Winforms form so you can use it to marshal.  Getting this right isn't terribly easy.

A: Yes. This is common issue in Windows Forms applications, and for that matter in native Windows applications (e.g. those written in C/C++ against the native Windows API). You have different pieces here, but it's the same problem.
Let me give you some background:
First, you need to know that .NET Events are nothing but a convenient wrap around delegates, intended to make it easy to define methods in your class which "others will implement, and your class will call". Note the difference between that and 'normal' methods, which are those "your class implements and others will call". The key observation is that Events don't know anything about threading.
If you think about it, you will realize that that is also true of VB6 events.
The second thing you need to know is that Windows controls, which is what VB6 uses, as well as controls in .NET's Windows.Forms world (and WPF for that matter) are bound by what's called thread affinity: they can ONLY be accessed from the thread that created them.
Note that Forms (both Windows/VB6 and .NET Forms) are controls themselves (albeit very complicated ones) so this is all true for Forms.
Put the two facts together... and you will immediately see what's going on. When your working thread code raises the event, it's just calling the event listener method directly, and it does so from the wrong thread. The moment the event listener method in VB6 (running from the working thread instead of the VB6 main thread) touches any Windows control in your VB6 form, "puff".
In the .NET Windows.Forms world, Microsoft did all the really hard work for you.
Every Control object (including the Form object) comes with a method called Invoke(). If a working thread has to communicate something to a form/control, it does not manipulate the controls directly. Instead, the form that hosts the control must implement an appropriate delegate, and the working thread calls the form's Invoke() method with that delegate as an argument and possibly some data parameters. Control.Invoke() then takes care of all the threading messiness and makes sure the delegate is called from the thread that created the form and its controls. Finally, the delegate method implemented by the form takes care of manipulating the form's controls on behalf of the working thread.
Calling the delegate method directly from a working thread instead of using the Control.Invoke() method is a sure-fire way of crashing the application.
Now, I confess: my immediate reaction when I read your question was "Yeah, I know exactly what's going on; I'll just explain..." and then I realized that I only had a faint idea of how the .NET framework actually handles this internally. And then I thought some more, and realized that this was not a simple task at all.
No problem! I just loaded System.Windows.Forms.DLL in Reflector to quickly check out the implementation of Control.Invoke()... and felt all the blood drained out of my face. There is some serious ninjitzu going on in there. Go ahead and take a look for yourself.
When you are done, you will understand the why of Hans's suggestion -- and that is my suggestion as well:
Create a hidden .NET Form. Make sure you new the form from the thread used by VB6. Use the methodology I described above and have the working thread call a delegate in the hidden form via Invoke(). Then the delegate can raise your Event. Everyhing will then work correctly.
I know. It sounds crazy overkill to create a hidden window just to change the thread used to call a function; but it's not. You should know that that's exactly how COM handles communications between VB6-style COM objects (called STA objects) and multi-threaded COM objects.
Whether or not the extra benefit is worth the hassle, only you can decide.
Good Luck.
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*The MSDN topic for Control.Invoke() has an example in VB.NET that can be quickly distilled down to what you need. Add a comment to this response if you have difficulties parsing the example and I'll try to help.

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Have you ever been asked to go somewhere with a friend or family member and had that first thought of "Sure!" but then remember how socially uncomfortable and awkward you are and say you'll think about it, when in reality you already know you're going to say no?
I've had so many situations where I've done this, but I've learned my patterns. I need some time of not having any plans whatsoever, so that I can have some down time away from people. I need to gather myself and my thoughts for a bit before I can mentally handle people, once I feel like I am rejuvenated, I will notice I start to get a bit fidgety and nothing at home satisfies that itch. When those feelings arise, I will usually reach out to others to organise things, and this works out really well.
Sometimes it's not about forcing yourself out of your comfort zone, it's knowing your mind and knowing how your patterns are. When you know your patterns, and things that work for you, try and apply that to your life with control. Learn to use it to your best abilities.
You will find things more enjoyable when you are doing them when you are ready rather than forcing yourself to be uncomfortable for other people's sake.
It's not about putting yourself out there 'half cooked', it's taking that time to rejuvenate and be ready for what life brings you.
People can be very energy draining, and I feel like that time to recharge will help you be better company as well as be able to be there stronger and better for those you choose to spend your time with.
Yes, I totally feel this! Do you remember me? We were friends on Instagram a while back! Are you still on there? I made a new one!


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Obituary of Daniel Howard Sycks
Daniel "Dan" Howard Sycks, age 69, beloved son, father, brother, grandfather, and friend passed away August 24, 2021 in Auburn, Washington of natural causes.
Dan was born in 1952 in International Falls, Minnesota, the fourth child of six children to parents Ernest and Elizabeth Sycks.
Dan was raised in Minnesota and remained there until he graduated from Brainerd High School in 1971. Diving into work, he spent 20+ years at Weyerhaeuser in Valiant, Oklahoma and Everett, Washington as a Boiler Operator. Dan later returned to school to pursue a degree in Ecology and Water Technology through California State University, Sacramento, School of Engineering, as well as obtaining his certification in Wastewater Management and Water Purification at Clackamas Community College. Dan concluded his work life with a 25+ year career with King County's water treatment division in Tukwila, Washington, retiring at age 66.
Dan will forever be known for his ingenious "custom" inventions, his famous mottos and puns, infectious good energy, incredible sense of humor, laser quick wit, generosity, inclusive kindness, elaborate story telling, and as an exceptionally caring and loving father to his girls.
Dan is survived by his mother, Elizabeth Sycks, five siblings, brother Lonnie/Linda Sycks, sister Dianne/ Tom Atkins, brother Gary/Christine Sycks, sister Patricia/Jim Young, and sister Pamela/Dennis Gates. Daughters, Alyson/Lincoln Wolford and Danielle Sycks. Granddaughters, Lesley Harmon and Rylie Fletcher, 3 great grandsons, many cousins, nieces and nephews.
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Defend or Defund Our Future?
By: Tyler Sweeney
"Most people recognize the fact that we have a major challenge in America today," says Shai Akabas of the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). "People are living longer and it is getting more and more difficult to save for retirement."
In the latest "Facing the Future" program Akabas, the center's director of economic policy, joined host Chase Hagaman and Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby to discuss the BPC's Funding Our Future campaign. Concord is among the more than 30 partner organizations for the campaign.
The campaign seeks to engage the public and encourage policymakers to address the mounting challenges that face the Social Security system, its beneficiaries and people who are trying to increase their personal savings.
"Nearly 30 percent of Americans between the ages of 30 and 39… have nothing accumulated in retirement savings," he said. "That is really disconcerting. We have three primary pillars for the campaign which are to make saving easier at all ages, to help people transform their nest eggs into a lifetime of income, and to save Social Security."
"What we can all unite around is that we need to find solutions to these challenges and get policymakers to address them sooner rather than later," Akabas said.
Ben Ritz of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) joined the show to discuss that organization's latest report: "Defunding America's Future: The Squeeze on Public Investment in the United States."
Ritz, who is director of the Center for Funding America's Future at PPI, says that more attention needs to be given to the domino effect of rising federal interest costs. "The larger the debt gets," he said, "the more interest we have to pay on that debt and that is crowding out a lot of really important public investments."
Ritz said that public investment includes three categories:
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WHO -- Jerry Alhadeff, a retired seafood and floral distributor, and Judy Alhadeff, a former secretary.
WHAT -- A ranch-style mansion.
WHERE -- San Juan Island, Wash.
Jerry: We've been coming to the San Juan Islands for over 30 years in the summers. My family was in the seafood business. As a youngster, I spent a lot of time on the cannery tenders and fell in love with the islands. As the years went on, we loved it more and more.
Judy: The house we are building is a country ranch-style home. The rooms are big, and the stuff inside is distressed. I can't tell you the money I've spent on magazines. You find something you like, and you tear it out. I had a real book going. The kids sometimes come up on the weekends. In the summer, they are here all of the time. We have a cabin on the property we've given to our three grown girls.
Jerry: We looked for a house for years. Then we realized that the only way you get one is to create it. So, about three years ago, we found and purchased an unbelievable piece of property near downtown Friday Harbor. It is 10 acres with 800 feet along the water. We are five minutes from the grocery and the movie theater. We broke ground about 14 months ago and have one month to go. We've used local everything -- our architect, builder and subcontractors live on the San Juan Islands.
Judy: Our daily routine is dropping in on the site at dawn to see how many people are on the job. Some days are disappointing, when there is only one person. Then, the next day, you may have 15. They've been good about staying with it, and we've had some real craftsmen. I hired a man from Orcas Island who has built some furniture for me from old lumber. It has been a really wonderful experience. Interview by Brennan Kearney
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WHAT -- 5-bedroom house
HOW MUCH -- $22,000,000
Saddle Mountain Ranch's two-story log-style mansion has nearly 18,000 square feet of living space. The house includes a great room with two fireplaces, dining room, kitchen, breakfast room, elevator, office suite with a wet bar, master bedroom with a fireplace, seven full bathrooms and a half bathroom, wine room, workout room, safe room with 10-inch concrete fireproof walls and home theater. There are slate floors throughout, and there is a swimming pool. Broker: Mike S. Hall, Hall & Hall, (303) 861-8282; www.hallhall.com.
WHERE -- Old Saybrook, Conn.
HOW MUCH -- $2,900,000
On Long Island Sound at the highest point of Connecticut's coast, the George W. Beach mansion is a Tudor-style stone castle built in 1905. The 12,000-square-foot house has four bathrooms, a family room, dining room, kitchen, living room, porch and three fireplaces. It was an inn and restaurant, and would have to be converted to a single-family house. It is part of the Cornfield Point Association, which has a beach, tennis courts and a clubhouse. Broker: Peter Bonanno, DeWolfe, (860) 388-5701, ext. 23; www.dewolfe.com.
WHERE -- Coral Gables, Fla.
Situated in a private community on a canal leading to Biscayne Bay, this mansion, built in 1994, has nearly 11,000 square feet of living space. It has eight full and three half bathrooms, a library, living room, dining room, eat-in kitchen with an office area, catering kitchen, guest wing, master suite with a marble bath and a lower level with family, craft and play rooms and a laundry and full staff kitchen and dining room. Brokers: Melissa Bassett and Carlos Justo, Wimbish Riteway Realtors, (305) 341-2328; www.ultimateresidences.com.
WHERE -- Tyringham, Mass.
This circa 1917 colonial-style mansion is on 23 acres four miles from Stockbridge. The house features a living room, formal dining room, library and master bedroom -- all with fireplaces. The kitchen has a breakfast nook and a butler's pantry, and there are two porches, a porch-roof deck, mud room, study and marble bath with a whirlpool tub. It also has a two-bedroom guesthouse with a kitchen, heated pool, tennis court and garden. Broker: Randy Thunfors, Stone House Properties, (413) 232-4253; www.stonehouseproperties.com.
WHERE -- Del Rio, Tex.
HOW MUCH -- $465,000
Built in 1887, this hacienda of approximately 4,600 square feet is among the oldest mansions in Southwest Texas. It features four bathrooms; a living room with archways, columns, frescoes and cypress-beamed ceilings; dining room; a shaded courtyard with a three-tier cantera-stone fountain; sun porch; and day room. The floors are oak and hand-painted tile. A two-bedroom cottage on 0.8 acres is available for $85,000. Broker: Kay Davis, United Country Real Estate, (800) 999-1020, ext. 450; www.unitedcountry.com, listing No. 12347.
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living room, large workshop, dining room, hot tub, five bathrooms and security system. The exterior is stucco and wood, and the grounds are extensively landscaped. Broker: Sam Buck, Coldwell Banker San Juan Islands, (800) 852-8853; www.sambuck.com.


Wilderness on the Roof of the World in the heart of Himalayas: yaks, mastiffs and wild as well as not so wild Tibetan animals.
Yaks – kings of the Tibetan plateau.
Once upon a time wild yaks were widespread in the entire Himalayan area of Tibet, northern India, Nepal and Bhutan.
Today the small and vulnerable population of wild yaks is scattered in most remote areas of Himalayas where they can still find habitat undisturbed by humans.
Like many other wild animals - their existence is severely threatened by lost of natural habitat, by competition with domesticated yaks and diseases transmitted by them. Regrettably soon we may be only able to "meet" wild yaks in old books and movies.
Actually a heard of wild yaks may be very dangerous. When galloping the heard moves very fast with the crushing effect of a steamroller, so may be reading it in a book is a safer option then facing a herd of wild yaks ….
Please think a bit seeing how little they need (lichens, moss.....) and how much they offer to us.... Yak should be recognized as one of the most Generous Animals.
Yaks' natural habitat lies at high altitudes – somewhere between 3000 m (9,800 ft) to 5500 m (18,000 ft). They are very well adapted to low level of oxygen, low temperatures and scarcely available food at high elevations – stunted grass, herbs, lichens which is about all that nature offers at these elevations.
Despite little available food and tough climatic conditions in their habitats, wild yaks are the largest and heaviest animals belonging to the bovid family (with cattle as a very close relative).
Their long and thick outer hairs of brown or black color covering a dense undercoat of soft hairs provide an excellent insulation from the freezing temperatures.
Contrary to the wild yaks, the domestic yaks are thriving since long. No wonder since "early times" they were domesticated by inhabitants of otherwise uninhabitable mountainous areas and high elevation plateaus.
The truth is that even now, for large populations of inhabitants yaks are providers, contributors and sources of almost everything needed to sustain life at high altitudes.
On top of providing milk, meat and fiber they were commonly used for transport of merchandise in areas where no other animals will survive. The way loaded yaks travel narrow mountainous paths closely following their footsteps is almost legendary.
Less know may be fact that even now dried yaks' dung is an important and sometimes the only fuel available on this high treeless Tibetan plateau.
During short summer time you can see on Tibetan plateau characteristic "pizzas"- like flat dung pieces drying attached to walls or piles of already dried ones.
But even that is not all – yaks skins were the main components of Tibetan yurts for centuries making homes for nomadic people. Those settled in lower elevations used yaks for plowing the soil.
The butter made from the yak's milk is a very precious element of Tibetan life till these days. It is used as an ingredient of a "butter tea" – the famous and very popular drink consumed there in large quantities (although I'm a tea lover, I was not really convinced to the butter-tea throughout my journey to Tibet).
Also, the yak's butter is largely used in religious festivities in all kind of burners (lamps) in gompas in front of statues of Buddha. And believe me, the yak's butter is not only highly appreciated but also an expensive offering in Tibet.
Domestic yaks are visibly smaller than their wild "cousins" (about half the size). Unfortunately due to the cross-breeding with cattle they lost many of characteristics shaped over millennia by the nature.
Phenomenon unseen in the wild - domesticated yaks can be also white. Although they look like "dignified" animals (kind of "yak's aristocracy") they are simply "human-made" hybrids tailored to our needs against the wisdom of nature (similarly to the Zoo's population of white tigers and lions).
If you consider the size of the Tibetan plateau, its seemingly endless "emptiness" and rough landscape it may easy to understand that despite the abundance of wildlife, you may not find wild animals at each corner (may be because the Tibetan plateau doe not have that many corners? :-).
I considered myself lucky when meandering along the vast deserted areas I spotted a herd of mountain's goats. You may admit looking at these pictures that by giving them colors and shades of the background landscape the Mother Nature made them literally invisible.
Honestly, it was much easier to spot a Tibetan fox hiding behind the rocks then these shy goats.
Look at the characteristic shape of its hairy tail and larger than usually amount of hair on its neck.
Tibetan dogs are considered as ancient breeds genetically diverged from wolfs much earlier than their western cousins.
Due to the omnipresent wilderness and climatic conditions of the Tibetan Plateau they retained several "primitive" instincts required for survival. They have a lot of "social intelligence" similarly to wolfs (like pack behavior). They are more strong-willed and non-obedient than most of their domesticated western cousins.
The pure breed Tibetan dog is known as Tibetan Mastiff.
Once you are in Tibet, it is almost "a must" to get close and personal with the majestic Mt. Everest.


Tracy began her formal training under the direction of Mary Waugh-Taylor in Washington State at the Tri-State Academy. She went on to perform with Co-Motions Dance Company in Omaha, Nebraska. From 1979-1981 she taught ballet, pointe, and jazz classes in Spirit Lake, Algona, and Emmetsburg. In the Fall of 1981, Tracy opened the Curry School of Dance with her sister-in-law in Spirit Lake. She also choreographed show choir routines and musicals for numerous high schools in NW Iowa...and continues to do so today.
In 1993, Tracy landed a permanent position as Ballet Mistress for Dawn's Dance. In 2014, Tracy and Dawn started the non-profit company Iowa Great Lakes Nutcracker which enables local dancers to audition and perform with Ballet Nebraska in The Nutcracker in Spirit Lake every other Christmas Season. Tracy is married to JJ Johnson and has one son, Jack.
Abbi, a former graduate of Spirit Lake High School and Dawn's Dance Connection alum, graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in Art and a minor in Dance in 1999. During her time in the dance department, Abbi danced in several graduate thesis concerts at Space Place Auditorium as well as attended and performed in the ACDFA in Alabama as a freshman. She focused on modern while there, studying under Alan Sener and Armando Duarte.
Since moving back to Spirit Lake, Abbi has been involved in choreographing several high school musicals, most recently Once Upon a Mattress; spent 7 years as the SL Show Choir Choreographer and 8 years as the SL Marching Band Color Guard Coach. She has also taught at the ArtsLive Summer Camp and choreogrpahed for Dancing with the Okoboji Stars community event, 2 years in a row.
Abbi has been teaching at Dawn's Dance Connection for the last 12 years and now acts as Studio Manager for both the Spirit Lake and Jackson studios, also teaching Tap/Jazz/Hip Hop for ages K-5th Grade. Abbi is married to Larry and has four children....Jack, Sydney, Zoe, and Bo.
1995-1998, Billie was the Cheerleading Coach for Spirit Lake High School. Billie has been the advanced tumbling instructor at Dawn's Dance for the last 22 years.
Sara has been teaching tumbling at Dawn's Dance Connection for 10 years. She started taking gymnastics classes when she was five years old and has enjoyed every aspect of the sport since. Sara started gymnastics competitions when she was 10 years old and continued through high school at Martin County West in Sherburn, MN. Sara taught pre-school through advanced levels for seven years at Martin County West. Sara and her husband Steve have three sons, Will, Alex and Jacob.
Amanda teaches Tap/Jazz/Hip Hop, Tumbling and Pre classes in the Spirit Lake studio. She attended Dance Express in Eastern Iowa for many years and was a member of their competitive dance team. While there she performed many different styles: jazz, tap, hip hop, ballet, and lyrical. Along with dancing, she also enjoyed competitive tumbling. Amanda is a registered nurse in the Lakes area. She and her husband, Andy have 3 children: Alyvia, Addilyn, and Abrym.
Maggie Kennedy, a native of St. Peter, Minnesota, began dancing at the age of 4. She has studied ballet technique, pointe, modern, character, hip hop, jazz, flamenco, and repertoire at the Mankato Ballet, The Minnesota Dance Conservatory, The Kansas City Ballet Company, The Evergreen City Ballet, Perpich Center for Arts Education, and Cornish College of the Arts. Maggie graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2016 with a major in dance performance and choreography. She was a member of the Gustavus Dance Company for three years, while also serving as a teacher's assistant for beginning and intermediate ballet and modern.
Stephanie comes to us with a dance training background from Cedar Rapids, IA. She danced competitively all four years of highs school, and had the opportunity to dance with The Joffrey Ballet, when she was cast as The Gingerbread in the Nutcracker in 1996. Over the past thirteen years, Stephanie has choreographed for show choirs, dance teams, and for her Mom's dance studio in Iowa. She graduated with her Masters in Occupational Therapy from St. Ambrose University in Davenport, IA and specializes in Pediatrics. She has lived in Jackson for the past three years with her husband Drew and their son, Lane. She and Drew are expecting their 2nd child in November.
Maddie Walsh, a 2015 Dawn's Dance Connection Graduate, went on to pursue dance at the University of Iowa. Maddie graduated with highest distinction in May 2018 with a Bachelor of Art in Dance and a Bachelor in Business Administration, majoring in Entrepreneurial Management. Maddie also became a 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher during her time at Iowa.
At the University of Iowa, Maddie was taught under the direction of Armando Duarte, Charlotte Adams, Jessica Anthony, Kristin Marrs, Eloy Barragan, Melinda Myers, George de la Peña, and Jennifer Kayle. Maddie was able to have many performance opportunities including creating a work with guest artist Monica Bill Barnes for Dance Gala 2017. Most notably, Maddie was selected to be one of twelve dancers in the University of Iowa's 2018 Dancers in Company, the premiere pre-professional dance company on campus. During this time, Maddie toured an evening length piece through eastern Iowa and Chicago.
During the past 3 summers, Maddie has come back to teach lessons to the students at Dawn's Dance Connection. She is anxious to rejoin her dance family as an full-time instructor for 2018 at both locations!


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Q: terraform create remote file with content I'm trying to let terraform create an file on the remote system with a specific content, but so far I'm not able to do it.
My code:
    provider "vsphere" {
      alias = "main"
    }

    resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "vm" {
...
 dynamic "disk" {
    for_each = var.data_disks
    content {
      label             = "disk${disk.value["lun"]}"
      size              = disk.value["disk_size_gb"]
      unit_number       = disk.value["lun"]
      storage_policy_id = var.vsphere_storage_policy_id
      eagerly_scrub     = var.eagerly_scrub
      thin_provisioned  = var.thin_provisioned
    }

  provisioner "file" {
    content  = "var.data_disks"
    destination = "/tmp/disk.cfg"
    connection {
      type        = "ssh"
      host        = vsphere_virtual_machine.vm.default_ip_address
      user        = var.admin_user
      private_key = var.admin_private_key
      timeout     = "5m"
    }
  }

data_disk looks like this:
data_disks             = [
    { "lun": 1,  "disk_size_gb": 4, "filesystem": "xfs", "mountpoint": "/test1", "mountopts": "" },
    { "lun": 2,  "disk_size_gb": 6, "filesystem": "xfs", "mountpoint": "/test2", "mountopts": ""}
]

The "content" on the file provisioner is more a placeholder. I want the content to be the whole "data_disk[]" array. Any idea how to manage that?
Thanks

A: As frederik mentioned in the comments, this was the solution:
content = jsonencode(var.data_disks)


There is something primal about hunting with a bow. Taking an animal with a rifle can be done from such a distance that in many cases the animal has no chance of detecting the hunter. But archers know that in most cases for them to take a deer or other large animal they need to be close. In addition, they need to make that first shot count because unlike rifles bow hunters rarely get to fire twice.
Given that, it is critical that you have the best equipment you can afford if you are going to bow hunt. You deserve it, and more importantly so do the animals you hunt. And that is more than just bows, hunting crossbows, and arrows – the same goes for your archery targets, clothing, and all the other archery accessories. Which is why Ammo Atlas reviews the latest compound bows and archery equipment available – to give you an edge for the hunt.


"ami amie" is a kids' knitting wear brand, focuses on producing knitting wear only. Its design approaches to the children with a vivid coloring to stimulate their intellectual curiosity and makes them happy. "ami amie" means "friends" in French. We produce clothes make children and their parents feel happy as if they joyfully play with friends.


Live Chat with Maja Salvador and Director Paul Soriano!
Chat LIVE with Maja Salvador and Director Paul Soriano on Star Cinema Chat Events, tomorrow September 1, 2011 (Thursday) at 4pm WST [Philippines Time].
Maja Salvador is nominated for the "Most Photogenic Young Female Celebrity". There are 27 young female celebrities nominated and Maja is on 5th place having 62 votes, while her best friend Kim Chiu is on 1st with 125 votes. Last year, Kim already won the title and now let's make Maja win!
The first round of voting will officially start today, August 27 and will end on September 24, 2011. The 12 female stars that will get the lowest votes will be eliminated and will not make advance to the next level of selection.
Please vote for Maja, click here.
UPDATES: Yes cuties, we did it. Maja is now 3rd place below Angel Locsin! More vote please!!
UPDATES: Maja is now 2nd place!
Paul Soriano: "I Look at Her Just Like a Little Sister"
Movie director Paul Soriano, the boyfriend of actress and TV host Toni Gonzaga, has finally spoken regarding his rumored romance with "Thelma" star Maja Salvador.
In an interview with Push, Soriano admitted that working with Salvador did make their relationship closer than before. However, he clarified that his intention is purely professional, and not in any way romantic.
"I was just really motivating her. So yeah, the working relationship got close, I got to know a lot about her and her family. I got to meet her mom Thelma and her family, so in that regard yes we got close pero I look at her just like a little sister. Ganun lang talaga" he explained.
Paul said he is not really affected by the rumors. What really gets into him is the fact that this issue is starting to upset Maja.
"Hindi naman nakakapikon. Honestly, what I feel bad about is that Maja feels bad. She's growing up, she's still young and she doesn't need that right now" he explained.
At the Presscon of the movie "Thelma" earlier this afternoon, August 24, Maja Salvador cried when asked about the rumors that she is flirting and stealing Toni Gonzaga's boyfriend, Paul Soriano, the director of the movie "Thelma".
And when the PEP.ph reporter asked her, what she feel about those endless intriguing "Siyempre po sa akin, masakit. Ang dami kasing intriga na ibinabato sa akin na parang hindi nauubusan. Parang halos lahat ng intriga nasa akin na"
Now Cuties, what do you think? Is it true or not?
Even though we didn't make "Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin" to trend on twitter, we did it on Yahoo! Philippines and make it to 1st and it's still 1st since 6:52pm PHT, while last August 18, Maja Salvador became 10th.
Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin management confirmed that there were foreign buyers of the soap opera and was to be translated to different foreign languages.
It is slated to air in different foreign TV Channels, having the international title "I Will Only Love You Once".
Congratulations to all the cast and staff of MLKI! We are so proud of you!
Maja Salvador portrays the role of a runner in a Paul Soriano helmed independent film.
Maja is being trained by national track star and Survivor Philippines castaway Elma Muros and her husband Jojo Posadas for her role as a runner in the independent film "Thelma". Elma will also play the role as coach in the movie.
Other cast-members of "Thelma" includes Tetchie Agbayani, John Arcilla, Eliza Pineda, Sue Prado, and Jason Abalos.
Under the direction of Paul Soriano and distributed by Star Cinema, the film is scheduled to open in theaters nationwide on September 7, 2011.
Maja Salvador became 10th Trending Topic on Yahoo! Philippines earlier this afternoon, 2pm PHT in just 2 hours.
Matteo Guidicelli: "It's a Free World, Kahit Sino Walang Problema"
"Walang problema yun. Kahit sino, it's a free world, you know. Kahit sino walang problema," A very short answer when Matteo asked if Maja Salvador can still entertain suitors.
Matteo is part of noontime show Happy Yippee,Yehey (HYY) and My Binondo Girl na ipapalabas na sa August 24.
Another Behind the Scenes (Part 2) of Maja Salvador's new movie entitled "Thelma"
Watch the Part 1 here!


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Q: How to calculate the total number of different possible fantasy sports lineup combinations from a given player pool? I believe I have this figured out but I'm no math wiz and I need someone to check that my work is correct.
I have a fantasy football lineup consisting of 6 positions with a total of 9 players used in each lineup. Each position uses one player at a time except for Running Back and Wide Receiver.

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*Quarterback (QB) $\times 1$

*Running Back (RB) $\times 2$

*Wide Reciever (WR) $\times 3$

*Tight End (TE) $\times 1$

*Flex (FLEX) $\times 1$

*Defense (DST) $\times 1$

The Flex position will be chosen from one of the players left over in the RB, WR or TE positions.
Lets say I have a player pool consisting of 5 of each of the positions except for the FLEX spot since that player will come from the RB, WR, TE pool.
The first thing we need to do is calculate the total number of combinations of 2 RB and 3 WR from each of their pools.
$n$ choose $r$ = $^{n}C_r$
$^{RB}C_r =$ $ ^{5}C_2 = 10$ RB Combinations (RBC)
$^{WR}C_r =$ $ ^{5}C_3 = 10$ WR Combinations (WRC)
Now we need to get the number of players left over from the possible FLEX positions so we add those positions together but then subtract 6 for the 6 players we will have already chosen to use in that lineup.
$((RB+WR+TE)-6) = ((5+5+5)-6) = 9$ FLEX Choices.
Now we have the numbers we need to do the final calculation. We simply multiply to find the total number of different lineup combinations.
$(QB*RBC*WRC*TE*FLEX*DST) = (5*10*10*5*9*5) = 112,500$
Can someone please tell me if this is correct or if I have missed something?
I'm sorry if I have messed any of the math notation up as I said I'm not a wiz. I have a high school education and my algebra teacher was an alcoholic who actually tried to fail me because he couldn't average my grade correctly.

A: This is fine if the flex player is labeled FLEX and cannot swap with one of the players from his position. To understand the other case suppose you had tight ends named A,B,C,D, and E.  Is a team with tight end A and flex C different from a team with tight end C and flex A?  If you just list the players on your team you get the same list either way.
If the player is not labeled, you have double counted all the teams where the flex player is a tight end, counted four times the teams where the flex player is a wide receiver, and counted three times the teams where the flex player is a running back.  You will have to separate your calculation into cases.


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