Joomla! now runs a fair proportion of websites, and it's interface obviously appeals to a great many users (over 30 million downloads as of April 2012). For big busy sites, however, the performance isn't always as good as it could be. It's not bad, by any means, but can certainly be improved upon.
To clarify: by busy, I mean numerous visitors all hitting at more or less exactly the same time.
Aimed at developers and owners of large Joomla sites, the tweaks in this documentation will help you improve the performance of your site. However, it should be considered advice, and not a step-by-step instructional, if your site is that busy, the database tweaks in particular may actually hinder performance slightly.
If visitors are reporting long load times, especially during busy periods, then these tweaks may be of use to you.
Joomla (generally) uses MySQL, and beyond that the MyISAM database engine. MyISAM gives good fast read times, but, on busy sites it can be something of a performance bottleneck due to one limitation: MyISAM uses table level locking.
So if 5 of us hit the site at the exact same time, 4 of us will have to wait whilst the sessions table is updated for the first, and then we'll each take our turn. As a visitor, it isn't obvious that this is the issue, the page just takes a long time to load and might even timeout.
It's actually quite easily remedied though, we just switch the engine for the relevant tables to InnoDB which supports record-level locking (see below for why we don't just switch everything). To do so, run the following SQL queries in MySQL (through PHPMyAdmin if you don't like the CLI) - don't forget to swap pref for your database prefix.
There, it's that simple. The reason we don't run ALTER TABLE directly against the existing table is so we have room for maneuvre if something goes wrong. This way takes a second longer, but we can do it whilst the site is live with minimal disruption.
And we've now switched those two over as well.
Why don't we use InnoDB across the Database?
You may have noticed that we ommitted the table #__banner_clients, but why? Basically, it's a case of assessing which engine best suits which table. Banner_clients has far more reads than it has writes, and there's little chance of there being a huge number of writes being attempted simultaneously. More to the point, even if this were to happen, the people left waiting are the admins in the back-end, not the customers/readers on the website.
Even the above table is subject to caveats - if your site isn't particularly busy, the slower read speed of InnoDB might lead to a performance decrease, and the way in which your users use the site needs to play a part too. There may also be other tables that benefit, but the three in the examples are the core ones that can really slow a busy site down.
This shouldn't need saying, but where possible, have Joomla's caching enabled - if there are modules that you don't want to cache then go in and turn caching off in their settings.
Sometimes, though, using Joomla's cache just isn't an option - I've worked on some sites where the hitcount needs to be as accurate as possible, and delayed updates to items are considered unacceptable.
Depending on your needs, it's reasonably easy to adjust the model of a module so that you can force it to cache despite Joomla's caching being disabled - something I've had to do in the past, but not something you should do lightly - if a security update comes out you need to migrate your changes to the newer version. Sometimes, though, the performance gain is worth the effort.
The best compromise I've found is to add the unchanged module to a GIT repo, then commit your changes. When and update is released, you can simply merge the changes into your repo and then package and install the update with your modifications intact.
You may or may not be aware that webservers tend to limit the number of simultaneous connections an individual client can establish (as well as a much bigger global limit), so sometimes it's not possible to download everything simultaneously.
If the limit is set to 10, and there are 30 files I need to retrieve (could be CSS, JS, Images, fonts etc) then my load time is going to be a slower as a result (especially if some of the files are big and I'm on a slow connection).
Some Joomla! templates aand extension will automatically combine all JS into one file, and then do the same for the CSS, but I don't particularly like this as it introduces a serious single point of failure, and some implementation completely prevent browser-side caching.
My browser would be able to download them all at once, rather than just 10 at a time.
There's also little reason to load MooTools and JQuery from your server, so install the Google Ajax plugin and have visitors load the libraries from GoogleCode. If they've visited any other site that does the same, the library will probably already be in their browser cache. Even if it isn't, it's still one less request for your server to have to handle.
The quality of extensions is always important, but the bigger the site the more drastic an impact an individual extension or customisation can have. As an example, I worked on a (largely) K2 based site with well over 100,000 K2 items. The customer wanted a multi-category extension to K2, so we located one and installed it.
From that point on, performance well and truly sucked.
One of the major issues was, that in order to support multi-category, the extension had changed #__k2_items.catid from INT to a varchar (to store comma seperated category id's) and then updated various queries to use FIND_IN_SET. On a smaller site (indeed, before we imported their existing data) you probably wouldn't have noticed, but on a site of that size it caused serious issues. Despite running on a 12 core server, the site was giving (at peak periods) load times of up to 30 seconds, though it was sharing the server with a few massive sites, most of which had caching disabled. To make things worse, it was using all the available MySQL connections and so slowing the other sites too.
Ultimately the route I took was to adjust the extension so that it used a mapping table, allowing database indexes to be used more effectively (although indexes were there, the cardinality was incredibly high - may have been scanning the entire table in effect).
Between implementing that and changing to InnoDB, the big sites now load in less than 3 seconds, and less than 1% of queries are taking longer than 1 second to complete. Still room for improvement, certainly, but it shows the difference that a few carefully thought out changes can make.
The moral being, when working on a large/busy site (this one wasn't live!), it's well worth looking at how each extension works and considering the performance implications. Some things just don't scale particularly well. Some of the Component Content Management Systems (CCMS) are great from a feature perspective, but don't all scale particularly well, especially if you're using them in a slightly different way to the intended purpose.
This is more of a personal thing than a tip really: when planning the project make sure you allow time for performance tweaking. Joomla is incredibly flexible, and there's no reason you shouldn't be able to do anything you want with it:, so avoid tying yourself into such a tight deadline that you have to compromise because a desired feature destroys performance.
In the multi-category example above, the alternative was that the site owner could either maintain a copy of the item for every category they wanted it in, or only post to 1 category. Both pretty poor alternatives really, but with a little work, the original aim was achieved without adversely affecting performance.
There may be occasions when it's acceptable to hack about with Joomla's core, but I can't think of any. If you make changes to Joomla's core files you'll be less able to deploy updates (at least not without losing your changes), which in practice means there's a good chance the site won't be updated and will be subject to whatever vulnerabilities are discovered.
From a performance perspective, the changes you make today may well degrade performance tomorrow. Requirements change, and you need to maintain the flexibility to react easily. Core hacks often get forgotten about, at least until the next upgrade overwrites them!
Joomla is a very capable Content Management System, but as with any system, careful consideration needs to be given when planning projects of a large scale. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, you need to analyze the requirements of your site, the capabilities of the server and the expected usage pattern.
Using good analytics can help you to make these decisions: if you know how users actually use your site, it's easier to assess what will improve performance. There's very little point focusing on optimising category pages if 99% of your visitors never load them, but unless you know the usage patterns this is probably exactly what you'll end up doing.


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Жорж д'Амбуаз (; ,  — , ) — кардинал и министр французского короля Людовика XII. Строитель замка Гайон. Дядя Жоржа д'Амбуаза Младшего.

Биография
В 14 лет был уже епископом в Монтобане и придворным духовником Людовика XI; позднее, при Карле VIII — архиепископом Нарбонны, а в 1493 году — архиепископом Руана.

Заняв в 1498 году пост министра Людовика XII, Амбуаз стал единственным руководителем короля и судеб Франции. В том же году папа Александр VI возвёл его в сан кардинала и вскоре после того назначил папским легатом во Францию, будучи которым, Амбуаз старался произвести реформу францисканских и доминиканских монашеских орденов.

По смерти Александра VI он тщетно добивался быть избранным папой. Избранные вместо него папы Пий III, царствовавший только 27 дней, и Юлий II приобрели в Амбуазе опасного противника, так как Амбуаз посеял в это время вражду между французской церковью и римской курией. Он собрал собор, первоначально заседавший в Пизе, а позднее в Милане и Лионе. Но неудачи, постигшие французские войска в Италии и лишившие французов их прежнего влияния, разрушили планы Амбуаза. Вскоре после того кардинал скончался в Лионе.

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Премьер-министры Франции
Кардиналы Франции
Кардиналы Александра VI
Архиепископы Нарбонны
Архиепископы Руана
Похороненные в Руанском соборе
Жорж
Епископы Монтобана

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Q: Python - execution order (file writing and reading) Is there any reason why the lines
out = open("tmp.gp",'w')
out.write('plot sin(x)')
out.close
system('gnuplot -persist tmp.gp')

don't work, but these (below) do?
system('gnuplot -persist tmp.gp')
out = open("tmp.gp",'w')
out.write('plot sin(x)')
out.close

Note that I do not delete tmp.gp during the program, so in either case the file exists and contains the command 'plot sin(x)' before any of these lines are executed (because the file exists from the previous run)?
My only guess was that this could be a race condition, but putting a raw_input() to kill time didn't help (see below). Thanks for any help!
out = open("tmp.gp",'w')
out.write('plot sin(x)')
out.close
raw_input()
system('gnuplot -persist tmp.gp')

A: It is because you are not actually calling the close function, change out.close to out.close(). Function calls require () in order to be called.

A: As others mentioned you didnt use close() properly. Also with working on files you should use with statment:
with open("tmp.gp",'w') as out:
    out.write('plot sin(x)')
    out.close()

this way even if you won't close file yourself or writing to file will raise error, file still will be closed.

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We know that illegal immigrants criminally trespassing aliens come into the United States in many ways, hopping the fence, tunneling, passenger cars, shipping containers, etc. But according to Newsbusted Anchor Jodie Miller (see video below),we learn there is a brand method of smuggling these people across our southern border, in SEUI get out the vote buses.
Other news items covered in the latest installment of Newsbusted the twice- weekly faux news feature from Newsbusters.org (embedded below) include; the Kim and Kayne wedding; MSNBC and the VA scandal; charges of homophobia against CNN ; and much, much, more.
Please make sure you watch the video below because something bad always happens to the people who don't. Last week VA Secretary Eric Shinseki forgot to press play and now everybody is calling for him to resign. So if you don't want Congress screaming at you to quit your job, you better press play.


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The Church of St Mary and St Alkelda is a Church of England parish church in Middleham, Richmondshire, North Yorkshire. The church is a grade I listed building, and it dates from the 13th century.

History
The church was made a collegiate church in 1477 by Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III). Richard III's young son and heir, Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, may possibly have been buried in the church after his death nearby in Middleham Castle in 1484. The collegiate body of the church consisted of a dean, six chaplains, four clerks and six choristers. The church was a Royal Peculiar until 1856, at which point the Dean was replaced by a Rector.

On 15 February 1967, the church was designated a Grade I listed building.

Present day
Today, the church is part of the benefice of "Middleham w Coverdale and E Witton and Thornton St" in the Archdeaconry of Richmond and Craven of the Diocese of Leeds.

The parish stands in the Conservative Evangelical tradition of the Church of England. The benefice has not passed resolutions rejecting the ordination of women.

Notable clergy
 Harry Topham, clergyman and cricketer, served as rector from 1903 to 1925

References

External links
 Benefice website
 A Church Near You entry

Grade I listed churches in North Yorkshire
13th-century church buildings in England
Conservative evangelical Anglican churches in England
Former Royal Peculiars
Former collegiate churches in England
Middleham


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Reflection with RACP Aotearoa New Zealand President – Dr George Laking
He whitiwhiti whakaaro ma te Perehetini o Aotearoa – Dr George Laking
Dr George Laking has been the RACP Aotearoa New Zealand President since May 2020. Reflecting on his role, Dr Laking shares "I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my own teachers, Dr Leo Buchanan, Founding Chair of the Māori Health Committee, and Dr Eru Pōmare, Dean of the Wellington School of Medicine. I'm the inhabitant of a long-term leadership role that they amongst others shaped and occupied before me. In the words of Sir James Hēnare, 'Kua tawhiti kē to haerenga mai, kia kore e haere tonu. He nui rawa o mahi, kia kore e mahi tonu'. 'You have come too far not to go further, you have done too much not to do more.'"
Indigenous perspective at the centre of the College Previously Dr Laking was Chair of the Māori Health Committee, one of two Indigenous health committees within the College, the other being the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Committee.
"Our College lives in Indigenous lands. In Aotearoa New Zealand, Te Tiriti o Waitangi guarantees a partnership between Crown and Māori in the governance of the country. This means wherever the Crown exerts power, Māori share as equals in the exercise of that power. In virtue of its authority to accredit training and to qualify medical specialists, the RACP is without doubt an agent of the Crown. The College exercises power not only on behalf of the Crown, but also on behalf of Māori. That is one reason why there must be Māori involvement in College governance at all levels of the organisation, starting at the top. Accordingly, in December 2019 at Redfern, New South Wales, Australia, the College Board resolved to establish the Māori Health Committee and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Committee, as Committees of the Board. Beyond this constitutional reason to elevate the Indigenous health committees, the imperatives of health equity, cultural safety, and anti-racism offer practical reasons for profile and partnership of Indigenous members within the College," says Dr Laking.
Work is underway in incorporating the Indigenous perspective in all aspects of the College, including the College's Constitution. Dr Laking shares "Truly exciting developments are afoot, via the College's retention of Kāhui Legal in Aotearoa, and Professor Megan Davis in Australia, to reshape the Constitution with regard to Indigenous knowledge and values. That way the RACP will legitimately be able to take its place in a community of service in Indigenous lands. We are ahead of the game here – our expert advisers are writing the book for Indigenous partnership in Trans-Tasman organisations.
"From the Māori side, there are two people in particular we must credit with reaching this point. The first is Dr Tane Taylor FRACP (Hon) FRNZCGP, who has served on the Māori Health Committee and College Council. Tane has been instrumental in many changes in the College, in this case he exhorted us to find the best constitutional lawyers for the task at hand. The next is Rev Dr Hirini Kaa, Historian, and serving member of the Māori Health Committee and the College Ethics Committee. Hirini has been the prophet of Wai 262, the Waitangi Tribunal report that envisages the society that will emerge in Aotearoa New Zealand, once our country gets on track with its commitments under Te Tiriti o Waitangi."
Improving health equity in Aotearoa New Zealand In his first Presidential Post in June 2020, Dr Laking reflected on how the Aotearoa New Zealand response to COVID-19 again revealed the health sector's need to centre equity for Māori and to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Dr Laking explains, "In Aotearoa New Zealand there is an unremitting seven-year shortfall of life expectancy for Māori compared with non-Māori. This is preserved across all ten socio-economic deciles, so it's not just a matter of wealth. Life expectancy for the wealthiest Māori is still worse than for the poorest non-Māori. There is something extra about the experience of colonisation, the loss of land and language, that is injurious to health. Equity is breached where differences in outcomes and opportunities are unequal and unjust.
"Via Te Tiriti o Waitangi, as well as its ratified international instruments, such as the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Crown in Aotearoa New Zealand is obliged to guarantee the health of Māori. The Crown has consistently failed to do this. The situation is unjust."
Aotearoa New Zealand has a comprehensive public health system. Its capacity is continually improving, with new technologies such as colon cancer screening and diabetes treatments.
"Yet although the system increases the health of both Māori and non-Māori alike, there is still a shortfall in equity. The health status of Māori is not catching up," says Dr Laking.
"It can be noted that the majority of potential for Māori health gain is socially determined. It lies outside the scope of the healthcare system, in terms of good work, healthy housing and family wellbeing. Even so, there is still a large amount of Māori health, perhaps a third, that is foregone due to failures of the care system that is supposed to be improving health.
"We can be confident that relief of Māori health inequity, so-called 'Closing the gap', will be good for everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand. That's because the changes needed to improve Māori health imply changes that restore power generally to disadvantaged people in society. "Cultural safety is fundamentally about transfer of power. As professionals, we are bearers of the culture and power of healthcare. We are granted power to work the system, so people can access the care they need. Our perceptions, assumptions and knowledge as to the meaning, purpose, and value of what we do, may differ from those of the people we look after. Culturally safe practice requires us as the bearers of medical culture and medical power to meet people on their own terms. It's our duty to transfer power to the people who need it, so they can realise their own health gains on their own terms, as is their right."
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Louis Riddick offers blunt opinion on Dolphins & Tua Tagovailoa
"As far as Tua is concerned, he has not been set up for success to this point."
NFLBy Sean Keeley on October 21, 2021 October 21, 2021
There are multiple reports out right now that the Houston Texans could be very close to completing a trade involving the Miami Dolphins that would send embattled quarterback Deshaun Watson to South Florida. The Dolphins have long been considered a destination for Watson, who hasn't played since last season and is currently facing over 20 civil suits related to allegations of sexual assault.
If the trade happens, it will likely be the end of the Tua Tagovailoa era in Miami, despite the fact that the former Alabama quarterback is in the midst of his second season with the team and is trying to make the best of a tough situation for any young quarterback. Tagovailoa has also been dealing with injuries this season, which have limited his ability to play at a high level.
While you could make the case that Tagovailoa still has a lot of learning and growing to do as an NFL quarterback, it feels a bit early for the franchise to give up on him, especially when they have so many other areas in need to improve to support the position. And while people are quick to compare Tua to Justin Herbert, who was drafted after him by the Chargers and is finding much more success, it's clear that those situations are different.
But that doesn't appear to be a concern for owner Stephen Ross, who simply wants the shiniest toy available (even if he might not be able to have that toy even after he makes the trade).
ESPN's Louis Riddick doesn't see how all of this makes sense for the Dolphins or anyone else who is trying to trade for Watson. He also doesn't see why the Dolphins aren't putting the focus on better supporting Tua and surrounding him with better mentors and talent.
My GM @LRiddickESPN has spoken on the DeShaun Watson rumors and Miami setting Tua Tagovailoa up for failure.
You folks know how I feel about Riddick. pic.twitter.com/ALe80eUmh0
— Omar Kelly (@OmarKelly) October 21, 2021
"I don't see how right now it makes any sense for the acquiring team to go ahead and negotiate a trade for a player who you have no idea when he's going to be available. You have none. That just seems grossly irresponsible for me.
"Since we're talking about Miami, in particular, as far as Tua is concerned, I don't know how you pull the plug on a player right that, when you compare him, let's just say to a guy like Justin Herbert. The situations have been totally different… Number one, Herbert's been healthy. Tua has not been healthy. You look at Herbert's situation, he's had great mentors in the early part of his career…a guy like Herbert has had great weapons, in guys like Mike Williams and Keenan Allen.
"Tua has had none of that. He hasn't had the help. He hasn't had the mentors. He hasn't been in the kind of offensive system that would lead to him having the kind of success that Justin Herbert has had. And so right now, I just don't know how you are able to make a true definitive declaration as to what he is, as far as his prospects in the NFL when you haven't really set the table for him.
"I understand the fascination with Deshaun because of his ability and what he has proven on the field when he has been on the field. But as far as Tua is concerned, he has not been set up for success to this point. And if you are lucky enough to get a hold of a young man like this because Miami does what they want to do at the quarterback position…I would be definitely looking into doing that and then trying to set the table for this young man because the deck has been stacked against him."
We'll see if the Dolphins do decide to move on from Tua for the chance that Watson will be able to play for them, although it's entirely possible the deal blows up in their face and they end up with neither quarterback being available to them. Quite a strange situation, especially when you consider the Dolphins could try to focus on building a better football team around Tua instead.
[Omar Kelly]
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Fourth-year distance-learning student Rudy Rubio had a rough life before encountering the Lord. Born and raised on the toughest streets of L.A., Rudy joined a gang at age 13 and spent the next 20 years in and out of jail. During his last prison sentence, Rudy fell on his knees, asking God to deliver him from the lifestyle he had been living. From that point on, he dedicated his life to serving the Lord Jesus.
Being in prison no longer as a gangster but as a new and developing Christian was one of the hardest times in Rudy's life. He didn't know who he was anymore.
It is hard to guess Rudy's past when looking at him today. A loving family man—husband to Edna, father to four children, and first-time grandfather—he now spends his days sharing Christ's love with people in his neighborhood of Lynwood, CA, reading theology as he studies for seminary classes, and pastoring the Reformed Church of Los Angeles (RCLA). The church is the fulfillment of a 6-year dream.
Local Lynwood pastor and leaders showing support of the launch of RCLA.
In 2010, Rudy joined Emmanuel Reformed in Paramount, CA, where he was mentored by Rev. Eddy Aleman, now the General Secretary of the Reformed Church in America. Eddy saw that God was working in the lives of Rudy and Edna, and he challenged them to consider planting a church in L.A. At first Rudy was shocked at the prospect, but by the end of their conversation, he could already feel the Lord stirring his imagination for what a church in "the hood" could look like.
Rudy ended up joining the staff at Emmanuel and learning the ropes of ministry and church operations. He also became a student at Western Theological Seminary, studying for his Master of Divinity degree.
Not all his learning has come from the classroom. Rudy had been deeply affected by an event where he heard Christian hip-hop artist Lecrae perform alongside spoken-word poets. Not only did it speak to Rudy's love of poetry, it made him realize that people like him, with all he went through in his past, could reach out to others going through similar struggles.
With the blessing of Emmanuel Church, Rudy started an annual spoken-word poetry and hip-hop show to raise funds for church plants.
Finally, in 2017, the church assembled a LAUNCH team of families and individuals (including Chris Marquez, also a 4th year M.Div. student at WTS) to plant Reformed Church of Los Angeles.
Sharing in the Lord's Supper at RCLA's launch service.
In the summer the team visited churches in Lynwood, Compton, and Watts, as well as RCA churches in the greater L.A. area to learn the ways they were engaging their respective communities. That fall the team hosted seven weeks of public worship in Lynwood Park and then transitioned into a building where they continued for several months. On March 25, 2018, RCLA hosted just under 300 people for their official grand opening and Palm Sunday meal.
"Many people from my past life came to our Grand Opening to show support, to encourage, and even ask to join RCLA—people who knew me when I was involved with gangs, used and sold drugs, and even went to prison with!" Rudy exclaims.
God is making all things new. Rudy prays that RCLA will be a catalyst to foster a new culture, to love a community in the name of Christ, and to bring the existing churches together for the common good of Lynwood.
To read more about Rudy's story, learn of prayer requests, and keep up with news from RCLA, go to: www.urbanchurchplanting.blog.


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Rockets show their true colors in road blowout over Jazz in Game 3
The Rockets are who we thought they were.
By Ethan Rothstein@ethanrothstein May 5, 2018, 11:22am CDT
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The Houston Rockets didn't need a dominant performance from any of their superstars to thrash the Utah Jazz in Game 3, all they needed was each other.
The Rockets opened up a nearly 40-point lead at one point in the third quarter before going cold and allowing the Jazz to make the final result a mere 19-point margin. But for 30 minutes of game time, the Jazz could not touch the team with the NBA's best record.
James Harden had 25 points and 12 assists and captained the ship expertly, doing his best job yet in this playoffs of finding shooters all over the arc. Clint Capela wiped the Jazz out of existence on the defensive end with 4 blocks, even more solid contests and 8 rebounds. Eric Gordon finally got hot and stayed hot, tying Harden for the team lead in scoring.
But no one player's efforts changed the complexion of this game. Unlike in Game 1, when Harden's 41 points led the charge, the collective was too much for the Jazz to match up with. For the first time, their rookie leader looked like a rookie — thanks to a stifling Rockets defense — and the Rockets wrestled back home court in one of the toughest buildings in the league.
That the win came immediately after the Golden State Warriors also lost by 19 to the New Orleans Pelicans brought a quick reality check to the narrative around the league that developed rapidly: the Warriors were going to cakewalk to the championship once again, because the Rockets were clearly no match for a healthy Golden State team.
The Warriors are still favorites, but the Rockets have yet to lose consecutive games when they're healthy, road or home. The Rockets have had a maddeningly inconsistent focus and intensity, but for the second time, when they lost a playoff game, they came to the arena for the next game ready to kill, and kill they did.
Sunday night will be another monster game. I don't expect Donovan Mitchell to shoot 25 percent and Joe Ingles to shoot 20 percent again. But hidden in the delirium of the blowout victory was the fact that the Rockets actually didn't shoot all that well. Harden and Chris Paul — who was fine with 15 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists — shot a combined 3-of-15 from deep. As a team, they shot just 30.6 percent from deep. That was helped along by a cavalcade of layups and dunks and 90 percent free throw shooting, but the Rockets won on the road by 19 points by, again, not even playing their best.
Which is kind of the point. Are the Rockets capable of coming out flat and winning against good teams? Mostly no. But if they come out ready to perform on the defensive end — the Jazz scored just 40 points in the first half and had an absolutely brutal offensive efficiency — they can make up for any lack in shooting. This has been proven time and again this season. Hopefully the Rockets don't need another reminder.
Game 4 is 7 p.m. CT on Sunday in Salt Lake City.


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English classes and residential accommodation take place on campus of the University College London (UCL). This campus offers excellent learning and recreational facilities. Combined with an exciting activity program, our International English Summer camp allows your children to improve their English language skills and experience everything London has to offer.
University College London (UCL) is a public research university. Founded in 1826, UCL is the oldest and largest college of the University of London and England's third oldest university. UCL is ranked as one of the top three universities in the UK and one of the top 5 universities in Europe. The university is located in the heart of London in Bloomsbury, the area historically associated with the arts, education, and medicine.
All students are accommodated in single and twin study bedrooms in a University residence that features wireless internet, student lounges, laundry facilities and outdoor seating areas. Bathrooms are shared. We offer healthy food choices, with plenty of variety and special diet options.
Our Junior Summer Camp Program in London offers our students many exciting activities and excursions, local visits, sports, and games. The program of activities and trips is created to be both educational and fun according to the age of your children and is carefully designed to help them make new friends, improve their English language skills and have fun from their very first day at the camp until they leave!
The location of our camp in Central London in Bloomsbury offers a lot of opportunities to explore London. The British Museum is at the heart of Bloomsbury. Tthe British Library is located just outside the northern edge of Bloomsbury, on Euston Road. Also in Bloomsbury is the Foundling Museum close to Brunswick Square.
There is a playground and outdoor sports field for children, called Coram's Fields; adults are only admitted with a child. It is also home to a small number of sheep. The nearby Lamb's Conduit Street is houses independent shops, cafes and restaurants. The Dickens Museum is in Doughty Street. The Petrie Museum and the Grant Museum of Zoology are on campus of the University College London in Gower Street.
Each week there are two full-day and two half-day excursions.
Students can study from 2 to 6 weeks. Most of our students apply for the program directly and are coming to the camp on their own. However, we also accept groups of students coming together. Return airport transfer is included in the package price for groups of 12 students or more. For individuals and groups of less than 12 students the following supplements apply (per student return): 2 students - £120; 3 students - £80. We also offer one free place for the group leader for each 15 students and discounted prices for the group leaders coming with the group of less than 15 students.
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Third Of Coral Dead Or Dying In Parts Of Barrier Reef
May 30, 2016 – At least 35 per cent of corals in parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef are dead or dying from mass bleaching caused by global warming, scientists said today.
The assessment was made following months of aerial and underwater surveys after the worst bleaching in recorded history first became evident in March as sea temperatures rise.
Australian scientists said the coral mortality figure will likely rise as some of the remaining 65 percent of coral in the northern and central reefs fails to recover from bleaching.
The report casts a shadow over the long-term prospects of the Great Barrier Reef against a backdrop of climate change and scientists said UNESCO may reconsider its decision not to put the World Heritage Site on its endangered list.
"Australia argued that the world heritage values were in tact because of the northern region and now of course it has taken a huge hit," said Terry Hughes, director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at the James Cook University.
Global warming was wreaking havoc on the World Heritage-listed site, he added.
"We found on average, that 35 per cent of the corals are now dead or dying on 84 reefs that we surveyed along the northern and central sections of the Great Barrier Reef, between Townsville and Papua New Guinea," he said in a statement.
"This is the third time in 18 years that the Great Barrier Reef has experienced mass bleaching due to global warming, and the current event is much more extreme than we've measured before."
At least a decade is needed for the coral to recover, "but it will take much longer to regain the largest and oldest corals that have died", the joint statement from three leading universities said.
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A traditional pound cake is a staple recipe and I'm excited at the moment to carry you a grain-free pound cake recipe that tastes each bit nearly as good as the unique!
I've been performing some serious about what sorts of sugars to make use of in my baking. I've been utilizing coconut sugar as my go-to for a few years and I like that it comprises additional minerals and doesn't have a really excessive glycemic index.
But coconut sugar isn't as candy as another sweeteners, so you should use a bit extra coconut sugar to create the identical sweetness whenever you examine it to a sugar like natural cane sugar.
I crunched some numbers and realized there's not a lot of a distinction within the quantity of fructose when evaluating natural cane sugar and coconut sugar.
Coconut sugar is 70-79% sucrose. Sucrose is made up of half fructose. Coconut sugar is 38-48.5% fructose which is nearly the identical as cane sugar.
When you have in mind that cane sugar and coconut sugar include about the identical quantity of fructose, and you should use a bit extra coconut sugar to get the identical stage of sweetness as cane sugar, there's not a lot of a bonus to reaching for the coconut sugar.
So, for my part, if I'm going to bake for a special day, and the recipe doesn't require an obscene quantity of sweetener, there's not a lot hurt in reaching for some natural cane sugar.
And, be certain that to at all times get natural cane sugar. Regular typical sugar comes from GMO sugar beets. Reducing our consumption of GMOs and glyphosate is essential for good health.
This pound cake is a enjoyable dessert to make in the course of the fast-approaching vacation season. You can serve it alone, or with a dollop of whipped cream and berries.
Preheat the oven to 350ºF and modify the rack to the center place. Place the butter and sugar within the bowl of a standing mixer, and beat for 5 minutes on medium-high till gentle and fluffy. Scrape the edges of the bowl and add the eggs separately with the mixer on low.
In a separate bowl, whisk collectively the almond flour, arrowroot, coconut flour, baking powder and sea salt. In a separate measuring cup, mix the entire milk and extracts.
With the mixer on low, add 1/3 of the flour combination then 1/3 of the milk combination. Continue to alternate between dry and moist substances till all substances have been added and mixed.
Pour the batter right into a buttered 1 1/2 quart loaf pan. Bake for 60 minutes, or till golden brown. Cool for 10 minutes, after which invert the cake out onto a serving plate. Cool fully. Serve.
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The 2013 Crazy Week festival lineup has been announced, with many big names gracing the warm summer nights of the French Riviera.
Created in 2006 and originally called Les Enfants du Rock, the event promotes up and coming French and international musicians. Over the last few years, it has welcomed such artists as Mika, Pete Doherty, Shaka Ponk and Yodelice.
Alternative rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars will kick off the festivities on the 16th of July. The Jared Leto fronted band famous for hits such as 'Kings and Queens' and 'This Is War' has just released their fourth album LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS.
The next day, one of the most-talked about artists of the moment, the Jerusalem born and bred singer Asaf Avidan, will take the stage in support of his latest solo effort, 'Different Pulses'. He will be preceded on stage by local band Hyphen Hyphen and French artist Tété.
Thursday night will offer a nice mixture of rock, blues, pop and electronic music with Concrete Knives, Rover, Jil is Lucky and Dallas Frasca, while the following evening will be a French affair with Clarcèn, and two of the most popular representatives of the "nouvelle scene française" of the last decade: Olivia Ruiz and Raphael.
Ruiz made a name for herself when she participated in the French reality TV show "Star Academy". Although she did not actually win the talent show, she went on to gain tremendous success with her upbeat mix of rock, accordion, violins, tango, clarinets and Latin rhythms.
Meanwhile, chart-topping French pop artist Raphael will perform songs from his six studio albums. Influenced by Slav ballads as well as South American rythms, the singer has gained a reputation for penning lyrics that are a very critical look at contemporary society.
The five day event should end on a hight note with Afro-soul singer Imany and French newcomers Ben Ellis and A-Jam.
The festival will take place from the 16th to the 20th of July at the Théâtre de Verdure. Tickets cost from 10 euros (one-day ticket for kids) to 125 euros (for a five-day pass) can be bought on the Ivoire Music website or in all the usual outlets.


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Charleston's harbour entrance channel will be dredged to 52 ft
Charleston invests US$282.5m into dredging and cranes
The USA's Port of Charleston has awarded a US$213m contract for the dredging of its harbour entrance channel and has also purchased US$69.5m worth of quay cranes.
The dredging contract was awarded to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company and will ensure that the Charleston harbour entrance channel, which stretches more than 20 miles long, will be dredged to 52 ft throughout.
Port operators South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) president Jim Newsome said: "This multi-year contract, in conjunction with another contract awarded in September, provides for the construction work for the entrance channel to be completed without the potential for delays."
SCPA also announced the purchase of six new Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) ship-to-shore (STS) cranes, which will arrive in late 2019 when the dredging project will be two-thirds complete.
Five cranes offering 169 ft of lift height will be delivered to Charleston's new Hugh K. Leatherman, Sr. Terminal, which is currently under construction.
Phase one of the new terminal is scheduled for completion in mid-2020 and will feature an annual capacity of 628,000 teu.
The final crane, with a lift height of 155 ft, will be delivered to the SCPA's busiest terminal, the Wando Welch Terminal.
Two ZPMC cranes have already been ordered for the Wando Wench Terminal, with delivery due in February 2018, and by 2020 nine of the thirteen STS cranes at the terminal will offer 155 ft of lift height.
Alistair Ross


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In the course of over thirty years of writing about psychology, child development, biography, and fiction, Rosemary Dinnage has encountered a variety of outstanding women, all of whom, in one way or another, felt powerfully alone. Here she brings together her reflections on some of the most memorable of them, including solitairies like the painter Gwen John and the philosop In the course of over thirty years of writing about psychology, child development, biography, and fiction, Rosemary Dinnage has encountered a variety of outstanding women, all of whom, in one way or another, felt powerfully alone. Here she brings together her reflections on some of the most memorable of them, including solitairies like the painter Gwen John and the philosopher Simone Weil; muses to partners of genius like Clementine Churchill and Giuseppina Verdi; unstoppable characters like the birth-control advocate Marie Stopes and the childrens novelist Enid Blyton; literary survivors like Isak Dinesen and Rebecca West; and, along the way, an assortment of aristocrats, lawbreakers, manic-depressives, transvestites, and storytellers. Some of these women knew isolation through their dedication to duty, and others through their immersion in writing, painting, or politics. Some juggled with fantasy worlds in which they could end up stranded. Others learned the fine art of survival, fighting illness, hard childhoods, or a hostile public. All of them, whether trying to construct a life or a work of art—or both—suggest ways in which women can choose, learn, laugh, invent, dare, and of course wholeheartedly love or hate. These women make up a remarkable gallery of the famous, the infamous, the once famous, and the never famous. In telling their stories, Rosemary Dinnage considers what aloneness may really be, how it begins, how it feels, and, above all, how this crucial experience can teach and illuminate as well as hurt.


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Jeffrey A. Nelson: A Wedding Meme?
I'm feeling a little sappy, so why not?
1. How long were you and your wife dating before you got engaged? A year and change.
4. Any special story about the engagement to share? After I proposed, she went to call everyone she knew and I went to watch Wrestlemania with some frat brothers.
7. Did you leave the next morning for your Honeymoon? We have yet to take a honeymoon. We didn't have any money at the time and we just recently started to really make money, but now we're pregnant, so maybe by the time we're married for 10 years we'll get around to that.
8. Was the ceremony in a church? If not, where? Yep. We held it at a humongous Baptist church that in hindsight we didn't really need.
9. What were your wedding colors? Black and gold.
10. Which attributes are true about her wedding dress?
11. Who was your Best Man? My good buddy The Masked Doctoral Student.
12. What time was the ceremony? Haha...I forget. 2:30, maybe?
13. Wrote your own vows? Nope. Pretty much straight out of the UCC Book of Worship.
14. How much was the photographer?
15. Did you go with fresh flowers? Yes.
16. Who gave the Toast? Again, that would be The Masked Doctoral Student.
17. How long was her veil? No clue.
18. Did it rain on your wedding day? No.
19. Did you have a head table? Yep.
21. Live band or a DJ? We had a little of both, but mostly a band.
23. Did you have a Mother/Son Dance? What song? Yep. "Because You Loved Me" by Celine Dion. In hindsight, I would've gone with "I'll Remember" by Madonna.
b. I got caked, but then I got revenge!
c. He got caked, but was kind to me.
26. What color did your Mother wear to your wedding? A gold/champagne type color.
28. What was the best wedding gift you received? Either the George Foreman grill or the milkshake maker. Yeah.
29. Did you stay for the entire reception? Nope.
30. OK, there is always at least one disaster at weddings…what was yours? One of my groomsmen fainted during the ceremony.
31. If you could change one thing about your wedding day, what would it be? I'd have had my cousin as a groomsman. That was really really dumb.


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Bullying doesn't end in the hallway anymore--with a smartphone or tablet, it can happen "anywhere." According to the Ambassadors 4 Kids Club, one out of every four students is bullied--and 85% of these situations never receive intervention. Parents, students, and teachers alike have amped up discussions on how to solve the bullying problem for a networked generation of kids.
Written by bestselling author, Nancy Rue, each book in the Mean Girl Makeover trilogy focuses on a different character's point of view: the bully, the victim, and the bystander. The books, based on Scripture, show solid biblical solutions to the bullying problem set in a story for tween girls.
"You Can't Sit With Us" tells the story of Ginger Hollingberry, a new sixth grader at Gold Country Middle School. Ginger has been the brunt of teasing and taunting from the queen bee of GCMS, Kylie Steppe, and her so-called Wolf Pack. Kylie and the Pack favor a new and especially hurtful medium of taunting: social networking. What follows is a candid look into the growing world of cruel cyberbullying, showing kids that bullying doesn't always end at school--it can now follow you even into your home and torture 24 hours a day.
As horrible that it is to say, I am so glad that I grew up before the age of cyber bullying. Being bullied to your face was more than bad enough. Raising kids in an age where it is so prevalent makes me anxious every day.
Ginger's story is an sad one for me and shows just how cruel kids can be and exactly how much our kids internalize before they seek help from adults even when the adults are making every effort to help. Imagine how much they keep in when they think the adults won't help them?


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Highlighting Japan February 2022
Japan's Cool Train Stations
"The Station on the Lake": Okuoi Kozyo Station on the Oigawa Railway's Ikawa Line
Okuoi Kozyo Station
Okuoi Kozyo Station viewed from the observation deck on the opposite bank of the lake
Okuoi Kozyo Station platform sign
A promenade for pedestrians runs parallel to the tracks on the bridge across the lake
Nagashima Dam, which led to the formation of Sesso Lake
The starry sky over the Okuoi Kozyo Station bridge
The Starry Sky Train
A remote station on the Oigawa Railway's Ikawa Line attracts many people to its scenic location in the middle of a lake.
The Oi River (Oigawa), a Class A river* that flows through central Shizuoka Prefecture on the Pacific coast in the middle of Honshu, has its source in 3,000-meter-high mountains and flows 160 kilometers before emptying into Suruga Bay. Running alongside the Oi River in this remote mountainous area is the Oigawa Railway's Ikawa Line, a 25.5 km line known for its many tunnels and bridges, and for its magnificent views.
The Ikawa Line runs from Senzu Station to Ikawa Station and has fourteen stations in all. Okuoi Kozyo Station, which is a little over an hour's ride from Senzu Station, is an especially popular stop on the line and is known as "the station on the lake." In fact, the station is located at the tip of a peninsula that juts out into Sesso Lake, an artificial lake created after the construction of a dam. This section of the Ikawa Line became submerged, so the 70-meter-high Oku-oi Rainbow Bridge was built over the lake with the peninsula at its halfway point. Viewed from the observation deck on the opposite bank of the lake, the contrast between the deep green lake surface and the red iron bridge is vivid and impressive.
Okuoi Kozyo Station opened on the peninsula in 1990. Niibori Eri of the Oigawa Railway Corporate Planning Office says, "Currently, there are no houses in the vicinity and most of the people using the station come just to see it."
Okuoi Kozyo Station became famous in Japan about ten years ago when the superb views from the station and the beautiful colors of nature surrounding it were featured in a TV program. After that, more and more people posted pictures of it on Instagram and it became popular as an "Instagrammable place." Then, in 2019, Okuoi Kozyo Station became the first location in Shizuoka Prefecture to be awarded the COOL JAPAN AWARD by the COOL JAPAN Council, which has foreign examiners from all over the world certify COOL JAPAN that has global appeal. This attracted international attention, and since it was before the spread of COVID-19, the number of foreign tourists increased for a while.
"The observation deck on the opposite bank to the station can be reached in about 15 minutes after crossing the bridge," says Niibori. "The view from there is truly majestic. The appearance of the mountains changes with the seasons and the color of the water has infinite variety. You never tire of seeing the threefold harmonious view of rugged mountain gorge terrain, skyline uninterrupted by human-built structures, and the deep shades of the lake."
As a remote mountainous location with no houses or other sources of light pollution**, the station area is ideal for stargazing. To take advantage of this, Oigawa Railways is running a special "Starry Sky Train" every Saturday and Sunday, except at the beginning of the year, for a limited time from November in 2021 to February in 2022.
"The train arrives at Okuoi Kozyo Station shortly after 6 pm, from when passengers can observe the starry sky for nearly an hour. It's a cold time of year, but the stars shine that much brighter, so astronomy fans love it," says Niibori.
Day and night, many people are attracted to remote Okuoi Kozyo Station and its wonderful views.
* River systems deemed important for the national economy and people's lives are designated as "Class A river systems" (MLIT)
** Light pollution is artificial skylight (as from city lights) that interferes especially with astronomical observations.
By KATO KYOKO/Photos: Courtesy of Oigawa Railway Co., Ltd.; Courtesy of Muramatsu Taku
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Liberal, and proud of it
By Allison Romano published 15 July 02
Phil Donahue says MSNBC's new, fiercely independent positioning suits him just fine. "I haven't been out kissing babies for the last three years," he said. "I've even been booed by my own audience many times."
Donahue's ardent liberalism may be fodder for critics, but he's not apologizing. He campaigned proudly for liberal presidential hopeful Ralph Nader in 2000. He wants church and state kept separate, especially in schools.
Sept. 11 pushed the country well to the right, he says. "No one wants to be called a liberal. Conservative is good, and liberal is bad. Conservatives criticize government, and liberals criticize business," he said last week at the Television Critics Tour in Pasadena, Calif. "To [conservatives], we have a few words: Enron, WorldCom."
After a six-year absence from television, Donahue returns July 15 on MSNBC. His new cable show, Donahue, airs at 8 p.m., head-to-head with new CNN star Connie Chung and veteran Fox News conservative Bill O'Reilly (whose O'Reilly Factor
reigns as cable's highest-rated news show).
The former syndication king shrugs off competition in his dog-eat-dog time slot. He doesn't plan to compete with Connie Chung for exclusive "get" interviews, and O'Reilly's style and stance are different. Instead, Donahue says, he is looking to serve the "many Americans that would be grateful for showcasing of voices not often heard on cable." Mainly, his own.
Of course, he'll still try to woo Fox News loyalists. "I hope to grab viewers who are conservative who want to see what an irresponsible liberal will do."
Viewers, however, won't hear Donahue's opinions unchallenged; he isn't planning any monologue. His show will work off the day's news and poll guests from both the right and left.
"He's not going to pontificate," said MSNBC President Erik Sorenson. "He'll be the moderator, but of course you'll know his point of view."
And unlike his syndicated days, Donahue won't showboat for a live audience, although there will be occasional road trips.
At 66, Donahue denies that he's too old to be getting back into TV. "It's certainly true, MTV I'm not. But we're going to find out if it matters." His staff includes several youngsters (along with five staffers from his old show), and he's grudgingly learning how to use a Teleprompter.
Retirement didn't quite suit the fiery host. Sure, it was relaxing to cruise his 56-foot boat up the East Coast to Maine and down to Florida. But, after Sept. 11, Donahue's TV instincts kicked in. "I was struck by the monotone of cable talking heads: Bomb, bomb, bomb. There should be free speech for all Americans unless we're scared."
Donahue now finds himself the centerpiece of MSNBC's transition to the talk-radio format, the one that ratings leader Fox News seems to have perfected. Also debuting July 15 is an afternoon show with conservative commentator Pat Buchanan and liberal analyst Bill Press (both CNN Crossfire
alums).
Donahue's lead-in, Simply Nachman, hosted by New York media vet Jerry Nachman, also bows Monday. "These are not people doing relationship shows on talk radio," Nachman said.
Of MSNBC's competition, Nachman sniffed, "[Fox News] designed themselves to be a brash pinball machine … and CNN got a little stuffy and musty, with that Atlanta discount-warehouse look."
Third-place MSNBC needs to claw its way up. Unlike Fox and CNN, it hasn't maintained the spoils of increased viewing post-Sept. 11. MSNBC notched a 0.4 prime time rating in the second quarter, exactly even with its rating a year ago, according to Nielsen Media Research. Fox's rating soared 57% to a 1.1 in the second quarter, and CNN increased 33% to a 0.8.
Perhaps learning from Turner Broadcasting Chairman Jamie Kellner, who wrongly predicted last year that CNN would topple Fox's lead in six months, Sorenson isn't projecting when he'll catch the "two Goliaths." The summer relaunch, he will say, will hopefully lead to gains in the fall and beyond.
He bristles at assertions that MSNBC is abandoning its hard-news roots to get there. Live news updates will sandwich talk shows, and he promises that breaking news will always take precedence over programming. MSNBC is changing, he explains, because, by prime time, viewers need perspective on news, not headlines.
"Twenty-two minutes of nightly news or a five-minute radio blast is all viewers need. The news doesn't change much from morning to night."


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A heavy police presence, while Brooklynites joined Democratic candidate for U.S. House New York District 7, Paperboy Love Prince for a massive march from BedStuy to Bushwick demanding justice for all victims of police brutality, making a loud call to defund the NYPD and invest in communities on June 12, 2020. Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket/Getty ImagesA heavy police presence, while Brooklynites joined Democratic candidate for U.S. House New York District 7, Paperboy Love Prince for a massive march from BedStuy to Bushwick demanding justice for all victims of police brutality, making a loud call to defund the NYPD and invest in communities on June 12, 2020. Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket/Getty Images
Two Brooklyn Lawyers Accused of Throwing Molotov Cocktails Are the Public Face of Trump Administration's Crackdown on Dissent
The charges carry a mandatory minimum of 45 years in prison — and a maximum sentence of life. Experts say the prosecution is wildly disproportionate.
June 19 2020, 11:30 a.m.
The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in late May ignited protests in cities and towns across the United States. These largely peaceful demonstrations have been punctuated by acts of violence, frequently committed by the police themselves. But other incidents of both violence and property destruction have also been reported. Among them was the case of two young Brooklyn lawyers accused of burning the dashboard of a New York Police Department cruiser — a case that has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration's legal and public relations response to the protests.
Urooj Rahman, 31, and Colinford Mattis, 32, are accused by the government of tossing a Molotov cocktail through the broken window of an empty police cruiser in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The alleged incident, said to have been caught on video, took place during the early hours of May 30, amid the wave of protests.
The government has not suggested that Rahman and Mattis harmed anyone or intended to do so. According to reports, the empty police cruiser had already been vandalized and damaged amid rioting in Brooklyn that night. The device, which failed to ignite properly, burned part of the driver's console in the abandoned vehicle.
"If you consider what these individuals are accused of doing — throwing a Molotov cocktail into an already abandoned police vehicle and charring its dashboard — the potential punishments are clearly wildly disproportionate."
Yet the potential punishments they now face for tossing the incendiary are staggering. Following a raft of new charges announced by federal prosecutors last week, the two lawyers — neither of whom have previous criminal records — now face a mandatory minimum of nearly half a century in prison if convicted of the charges. The maximum penalty in the case is life imprisonment.
"If you consider what these individuals are accused of doing – throwing a Molotov cocktail into an already abandoned police vehicle and charring its dashboard — the potential punishments are clearly wildly disproportionate," said Lara Bazelon, a professor and director of the Criminal Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinical Programs at the University of San Francisco School of Law. "They are facing a mandatory minimum of 45 years in prison if convicted. A judge sentencing them would have no choice but to give them that amount of time."
Rahman and Mattis's cases have drawn attention in part due to the story's sensational nature: two well-educated young lawyers who allegedly engaged in an act of symbolic revolution against a marker of police authority. But the case now seems to be transforming into something darker: a tool for the Trump administration to send a message to its political opponents. The government recently took the extraordinary step of appealing the accused's bail conditions and sending them back into pretrial custody, a decision more common for prosecutions of violent organized crime and terrorism. The move prompted 56 former federal prosecutors to file an amicus brief in protest.
With the administration ominously vowing to "dominate the streets," even relatively innocuous acts of rebellion like property damage now stand to be punished with the most draconian legal tools available to the federal government.
Brooklyn attorneys Colinford Mattis, left, and Urooj Rahman, right.
Photos: Courtesy of Salmah Rizvi
Thousands of people across the country have been detained amid the protests. But very few of these cases have come to public prominence the way that Rahman and Mattis's have. In some respects, their backgrounds may seem atypical of many of those detained in recent weeks. Mattis is the son of a Jamaican immigrant who grew up in the impoverished Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York and went on to practice corporate law in Manhattan after graduating from Princeton and New York University. Rahman, the daughter of working-class Pakistani immigrants in Brooklyn, is a public interest lawyer in the Bronx. (A disclosure: I encountered Rahman at past social gatherings in New York City, though we have never spoken.)
A steady stream of provocative leaks to local tabloid news outlets following the arrests has helped make the pair widely known. An edited excerpt from a four-minute video interview Rahman gave to an independent news outlet on the night of the alleged incident was published by the New York Daily News, in which Rahman seemed to make threats of harm against police officers. The unedited version of the interview, which appeared on the YouTube page of the news site LoudLeaks, seemed to adjust the meaning of what she had said: Rather than harming officers, Rahman appeared to be referring to property damage against police department equipment as an inevitable consequence of unpunished police abuses.
The sensationalism of the story seems to have outrun the actual details of the case. Although the alleged crime the pair committed was against an abandoned, already vandalized car — rather than innocent people — breathless reporting has described the case in terms of incomprehensible violent radicalization.
Though the cases appear to have no connection, the Department of Justice announced the charges against Rahman and Mattis along with the arrest of another woman, Samantha Shader, who is facing more serious accusations of throwing a Molotov cocktail at an NYPD cruiser in which several officers were actually sitting. In a statement last week, the government announced the additional, more serious charges in all three cases.
Experts said that these new charges, which brought along the severe mandatory minimum sentences, significantly change the dynamics of the case. Faced with mandatory minimums of decades in jail if convicted at trial, defendants often feel pressured to plead guilty to even the most unfair charges if it ultimately means spending less time behind bars.
"Mandatory minimums are often criticized for being used by prosecutors to create leverage for plea bargaining and also because they happen to be disproportionately wielded against minorities," said Fiona Doherty, a professor and director of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School. "It completely shifts the power dynamics of the case, because it allows the prosecution to effectively determine sentences and takes power out of the hands of a judge who might weigh the charges against other factors."
One might chalk up the draconian legal moves in this case as a bid to reestablish "law and order." But, like most instances in which that phrase is invoked, a healthy dose of politics seems to be undergirding the government effort. In this case, it appears to be a public relations move in keeping with the politics of President Donald Trump's administration.
In a June 4 press release, Attorney General Bill Barr laid down a marker for how the administration planned to respond to the ongoing national unrest. Barr's statement acknowledged the apparent injustice of Floyd's killing, but also darkly warned of "extremist agitators who are hijacking the protests to pursue their own separate and violent agenda." The Attorney General raised the specter of foreign involvement in the protests, mentioning the alleged role of antifa, an amorphous decentralized movement that Trump has threatened to designate as a domestic terrorist group. (Police and federal agents interrogating protesters have invoked antifa in their lines of questioning.)
Lacking clear targets, it seems that the administration latched onto the case of Rahman and Mattis to construct a public narrative about who has been protesting and why. Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio have all promoted news of the case on social media, helping amplify the political importance of prosecution. By all accounts, the Trump administration is going to incredible lengths to involve itself in the case, elevating it from the state to federal level based on the strained argument that the New York Police Department engages in interstate commerce by importing its cruisers from outside of New York.
Legal observers said that the Trump administration is likely playing a role in the prosecution's extremely punitive approach, pushing for the harshest possible charges, sentences, and pretrial treatment.
"The fact that the federal government has bent over backwards to find a federal-jurisdictional hook for such cases is intended to send a chilling message to activists."
"When you look at the offenses alleged against Ms. Rahman and Mr. Mattis, normally you'd expect them to be tried under state law in state court," said Ramzi Kassem, a City University of New York School of Law professor and founder of the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility project. "The fact that the federal government has bent over backwards to find a federal-jurisdictional hook for such cases is intended to send a chilling message to activists."
Kassem also drew a contrast between the administration's treatment of anti-police brutality protesters and the punishments meted out to cops actually accused of killings. "The Trump Justice Department's aggressive approach towards cases involving protesters only further highlights its indifference towards police violence," he said. "You can compare the zeal with which Trump's prosecutors are fighting to keep these two people behind bars for an alleged property crime with the tepid efforts they've mounted to investigate police officers who have killed unarmed black people. That should tell you everything you need to know about the hierarchy of values within the Trump administration."
The next hearing in Rahman and Mattis's case is scheduled for June 23. In the meantime, the allegations against them continue to take on political connotations wildly disproportionate to the stated facts of the case. While the administration has not claimed that Rahman and Mattis were involved in any broader foreign or domestic terrorist movement, Trump-aligned extremist media operatives appear to have taken the hint to make their own linkages, fomenting increasingly wild conspiracy theories about the defendants' connections.
The fervor building around this case — which, beneath the escalating public furor, remains about an incident of alleged property damage — suggests to some experts that politics is railroading basic standards of judicial fairness.
"Prosecutors are not supposed to be beholden to politics, but the way in which this case is being handled suggests an approach that is highly politicized," said Vincent Southerland, executive director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at New York University's law school. "In addition to the extremely harsh potential sentences, it is exceedingly rare for the Department of Justice to go to this extent to appeal the granting of bail. Altogether it suggests that the government is trying to make an example out of these people to send a message to the public — a message of fear with regards to the people taking part in these protests."


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A treatment plan should be concise, accurate, and deliver information in a timely and clear manner. It needs to outline the risk criteria, analysis, and treatments, and also identify who is accountable for ensuring listed controls are applied.
A good risk treatment plan will demonstrate what the risk is, how it is mitigated, who is responsible, the required timeframe for action, and reporting requirements for accountable individuals.
A risk treatment plan is useful for communicating on a broad level the current risk management strategy, the rationale behind decisions made regarding removed, mitigated, or retained risks, and how responsibility is divided. This ties in well with Clause 5.2, Leadership and Commitment, and Clause 6.2, Communication and Consultation.
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How to Find Your Uplay View CD-Key
How to find your Uplay view CD-Key? Then, you are in luck. This article will give you some useful tips for unlocking or activating your game on the Uplay service. You will also learn how to use the Uplay Launcher client to open your game. After you have obtained your key, start playing your game via Uplay. You can find your CD-Key in the Uplay Launcher Client.
Contents on this topic:
1 Unlocking a game
2 Activating a game
3 Finding an activation code
4 Activating a game from the Uplay Launcher Client
5 Finding a game on your Ubisoft account
Unlocking a game
To unlock a game, first open the Uplay application on your PC. Then, navigate to "Account Information" and select "My Games." In Uplay, you cannot see the CD key for games purchased on steam. Instead, you will see the key in your steam library. Once you have it, paste it where prompted. You can also use the Uplay Launcher Client to find your CD key.
The key is not interchangeable with a Steam code, but the process of copying and pasting it into the game is the same. Simply paste the key into the text box and activate it by pressing the "Activate" button. This process works with most games, but you must be sure to use the correct key for your device. Once you've entered the correct key, you're good to go.
Obtaining a legitimate Ubisoft CD key is legal, but it can also lead to problems. Most games are re-activable with a legitimate key, but pirates have the right to deactivate the game after you've used it. Ubisoft and other publishers have been targeting pirates for years and are now cracking down on these illegal practices.
Activating a game
You can activate a game using an Uplay View CD-Key. To activate a game with an Uplay View CD-Key, start it through the Uplay Launcher Client. You cannot start it from a shortcut. Activate a game from the Uplay Launcher Client. Once the game has downloaded, start it from there. You'll be prompted to enter the CD-Key.
First, open the Uplay application. Log in or register and select "My Games." Once you've completed the registration process, click on "Activate Game". You'll see a button for entering the key, which you can then enter to activate the game. To see which games you've activated, navigate to the uPlay library. The game CD-Key will appear there.
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If you haven't received the activation code, you can use the Ubisoft Connect PC to find it. The Ubisoft Connect PC will prompt you to enter the game's key. Select the key from the list. Click the Show key button, and then paste the key into the corresponding box. Alternatively, you can go to Account Information > My Games to find the game's activation code.
Finding an activation code
When you buy a game, you can't play it until you've got an activation code. This is the case with Uplay games. To find out whether a game is active or not, you'll need to visit its official website to check the details. Once you know the key, you can enter it to unlock the game. It's really that easy! Listed below are a few steps to activate the game.
Using the Uplay launcher client is an alternative way to find an activation key for a game. Once you've installed the game, you can visit the Uplay store and type in the code that comes with it. It's possible to get a copy of the game, but this will require you to enter the code again. It's not possible to use a Uplay activation code with an EGS version of the game.
Once you've done this, go to the main game's website and select 'Account Information'. From here, you can find a list of all the games that are associated with your account. Click on 'My Games' to find the game key. The key will appear in a text box labelled 'Activation Code'. Copy this key and paste it into the appropriate text box.
Activating a game from the Uplay Launcher Client
To activate a game from the Uplay Launcher client, follow these steps: First, install the Uplay application. If you don't have one already, you can download it from the official Uplay website. Once installed, open the Uplay app and sign in or register. Click the "key" icon on the top left of the screen. In the Uplay library, look for the game that is activated.
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If you don't have an account yet, you can sign up for a free account on the Uplay website. Then, you can sign up for a free account and start downloading games. If you're a member of Uplay, you can use your account to buy games. You can also use your Uplay account to download games from other websites. Once you've signed up, simply open the Uplay client, and log in using your email address and password.
To activate a game from the Uplay Launcher client, sign in with your Ubisoft account. You'll need a Ubisoft account to use this service. If you're using Safari on an iPhone or iPad, you'll need to turn off third-party cookies. If you're using a web browser other than Safari, you should select another one. Activate a game from the Uplay Launcher Client using a different browser.
Finding a game on your Ubisoft account
Once you purchase a game through your Ubisoft account, it will be permanently linked to your account. This is good news for people who are looking to play the game on multiple platforms. This feature makes it easy to find a game in your Ubisoft library, which includes the critically acclaimed Assassin's Creed series, The Division 2, and more.
First, you need to go to your Ubisoft account. From there, you will find a list of all the games owned by your account. Select a game you'd like to play and click the corresponding button. This will then display the activation key. You can then copy the key and paste it wherever you'd like to play the game.
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Squirrel's Tuesday night Dance - 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM - 606 Moose Lodge, Superior, WI - Dance Class followed by open dance. East Coast, Two-Step and more! Cost: Tip Jar available.
Sock Hop and Rock - 2nd & 4th Tuesday of the month @ The FLAME - 28 North 1st. Ave W - 7:00 - 9:00 PM - Join Shirley and Doug for dancin fun.
Blue Water Big Band at Shrine Auditorium - All 3rd Tuesday's in 2018 and 2019! - $5 cover - Snacks, Door Prizes, and Cash Bar. Great dance floor. Always a fun event - come join us! OPEN to PUBLIC!
BEST place to find more dancing opportunities is on Twin Ports Dance FaceBook page.
The following locations may offer options for weekend dance - please contact the venue of your choice for details. Some of the bands continue to update their websites - check out the links above for more information.
Would you like to learn to swing dance? Squirrel is now teaching intermediate to advanced swing classes on Tuesdays, at the Superior Moose Club in Superior, WI from 7:30 - 9:00 PM. $4.00 per person. On going - come anytime - beginners welcome!
PRIVATE DANCE LESSONS in your home. At your leisure, skill level, and your pace. Start at beginner skill level with foundation building steps and progress from there. Dance patterns and rhythms available are Swing, Cha-Cha, Rumba, Tango, Two Step, Stroll and Electric Slid. Group lessons welcome pay per session. Call Keith Miernicki 729-8390.
TUESDAY: Squirrel will be teaching classes at the Superior Moose Club - 7:00 - 9:00 PM variety of dances will be taught - no charge for these classes.
1st and 3rd Wednesday from 1:00 - 4:00 PM - Cloquet VFW (210 Arch St - Cloquet, MN) Phone: 218-879-2447 $7.00 - includes light lunch.
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2015 Honda Odyssey vs. Nissan Quest
Just because it has seating for five doesn't mean that it's the most comfortable, which is why the minivan is such a popular option for families in Miami, Coral Gables, and Gladeview. But with so many models to choose from, how do you know which one is right for you?
In this 2015 Honda Odyssey vs. Nissan Quest vehicle comparison, our team at Braman Honda explores the different design, technology, and safety features of both family vans so you can decide which is a better fit for you.
Honda Odyssey vs. Nissan Quest: Interior Design
The interior of the Honda Odyssey has been carefully built and designed using soft-touch surfaces and quality materials. In terms of space, the Odyssey has a lot of it. In fact, you'll find 148.5 cubic feet of total cargo volume and 172.6 cubic feet of total passenger volume for up to eight passengers in the EX trim. The 2015 Honda Odyssey Touring Elite features a convenient vacuum built into the rear cargo area that can easily reach the front row seats.
The 2015 Nissan Quest doesn't have an available vacuum built into the design of the van, so you'll have to resort to other means, such as your local car wash, for a quick interior cleaning. In terms of seating, the Nissan Quest has limited seating for up to seven passengers. Even cargo room takes a dip compared to the Honda Odyssey, with the Nissan Quest offering just 108.4 cubic feet of cargo volume.
Technology of the Honda Odyssey and Nissan Quest
There are a lot of things to consider when looking at technology packages for your minivan, but arguably one of the most important aspects is the entertainment package for your back seat passengers. The 2015 Honda Odyssey Touring Elite has a 16.2-inch Honda DVD Ultrawide Rear Entertainment System with HDMI® Technology. That means your passengers can enjoy a movie together or split the screen and connect a compatible gaming system or other media player.
The Nissan Quest comes with its own DVD Entertainment System – an 11-inch DVD monitor – and although the system can accommodate video game play, it only provides RCA jacks, not HDMI®.
Odyssey and Quest Safety Features
The 2015 Honda Odyssey was named a 2015 Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The 2015 Nissan Quest wasn't. In fact, the 2015 Nissan Quest received a poor crashworthiness rating in small overlap front and an acceptable rating for roof strength. The child seat anchors (LATCH) ease of use, meanwhile, got the 2015 Nissan Quest a marginal rating.
If you'd like to explore the safety features of an Odyssey and you live in the Miami, Coral Gables, and Gladeview area, call or visit us at Braman Honda in Miami to schedule a test drive today. We'll help you explore all of the features of this minivan as well as any optional equipment that might help simplify your daily routine.
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Some of the individuals that are making it in Nigeria are into a certain kind of business or another in order to make profit and improve their standard of living. Below are some of the viable businesses that one can dive into in Nigeria to make sizeable amounts of money.
One of the viable sectors of the Nigerian economy is its agricultural sectors. Although this sector of the economy was neglected and abandoned when petroleum products were discovered in the country and because of the oil boom in the 70's, however before then, agricultural products were a good source of income both locally and internationally.
The good news is that Nigerians are now recognizing the large potential that is hidden in the business of agriculture although they are slowly discovering it but it is a fair development. Take poultry farming for example, that produces a sizeable amount of profit to those engaging in the business. Cultivating cassava is another business that will produce a huge amount of profit. Rearing snails and even the cultivation of rice is another source of high income.
Nigeria has been blessed with so many natural resources in its soils which makes it difficult to fathom why the most of the country's population have a substandard living. When oil was first discovered in Nigeria through exploration by foreigners, Nigeria was a recognized nation because it made a lot of foreign exchange profit from this particular sector of its economy.
Even though the Nigerian economy is in a poor state, it doesn't necessarily mean that the sectors of its economy are dwindling. Individuals who are into the oil and gas business are making huge amounts of money from it. Being in the oil and gas business may require ownership of petrol filling stations, supply of diesel, and distribution of kerosene, however, regardless of which one a person is into, huge profit can be made therefrom.
The purchase and sales of locally made furniture in Nigeria is another major earner of profit. One does not have to be a carpenter to be in this kind of business, in fact, if you're looking to be in this kind of business and have no interest in carpentry, you could just make arrangements with a carpenter whose skills and designs you and a lot of other people (say his customers) consider to be commendable and state-of-the-art. Once you find one whose products you like and feel that customers would like, you can just open up a gallery to help him display his products and make sales when clients demand for them. Because of your arrangements with him, you get to give him (carpenter) some form of remuneration.
Pure Water Production
You know how popular this is in Nigeria and how many that are dispensed daily. Though this business is capital intensive but well worth investing into, especially if you can manage it properly with professionalism.
As a result of the huge amounts of profit made from this kind of business, there are a lot of companies that are into the production and distribution of processed water in sachets more commonly known as Pure Water in Nigeria. The pure water business is another business that provides a sizeable amount of profit to individuals or companies that are engaged in the business.
Truth be told, the pure water producing business is one that require a huge investment in capital, however, the returns that are gotten from the business makes it worth the while. A lot of this kind of water is consumed on a daily basis in Nigeria by a vast amount of people because it is cheap and readily available by road sides and in motor parks as well as small retail shops.
Sales of Building Materials
New houses and other shelter structures such as offices and classrooms are being built in Nigeria almost every day, however it is surprising that people complain that there are no houses available. People build estates, business centres, malls and small retail shops a lot these days across Nigeria and to build, certain building materials are needful for these projects to be completed and this requires the services of people who are engaged in the sale of building materials.
Making investments into the sale of building materials such as roofing sheets, utilities (sinks, WCs), tile floors, and more is one of the lucrative businesses available in Nigeria. Individuals who are engaged in this business are making huge sums of money from it, however it also needs some big spending to acquire the products from the actual manufacturers.
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Viva 10 October 2018 at 21:37
This is a great list. I especially love the furniture business idea.
You wouldn't even need bulk capital to start; just get a showroom and make arrangements with a seasoned carpenter like you already mentioned.
AbabioblogAdmin 10 October 2018 at 21:57
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AgroAsia Tractors 15 January 2019 at 09:22
Thank you for not ignoring agriculture and the importance of it in the region.
As a farmer, I have been studying my country's position in Africa continent and found it most suitable to start farming in large scale and started to contact my people in Europe and M.E, where they helped me and we started Tractor business (renting daily/monthly business) and bought Visit Massey Ferguson tractors in Abuja
I would advice my fellows to invest in agriculture.
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