The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is one of the most famous festivals in the world and it brings together the best of the arts, comedy and literary worlds to provide a whole month's worth of entertainment. This year there are over 3,100 separate shows taking place, which is a huge leap up from 2013 and there are nearly 50,000 individual performances. 2014 is the biggest in the history of the Fringe and in the year of the Commonwealth Games in Scotland there are plenty of things to celebrate.
The Edinburgh Fringe 2014 seems to have some overrunning themes which have brought artists to the city as well as many standout solo act, here's a closer look at some of the most exciting options.
One of the overriding themes of shows landing in Edinburgh this August is Scottish Independence. The vote itself is in September and this isn't lost on the acts at the show. Many shows sound like they have a point to prove such as the McBraveheart: The Other Scottish Play brought to Edinburgh by the company Fair Pley and which features William Wallace, Robert the Bruce and Robert Burns as its leading characters. The Independence debate is bound to be prevalent throughout the festival.
As 2014 also marks 100 years since the beginning of World War One there are many acts and shows working with this theme. SmallWare by Valentjin Dhaenens is one such so on at Traverse whilst Forgotten Voices at the Pleasance Courtyard brings together a range of vivid voices giving their accounts of battle and life after the fact, collated by The Imperial War Museum.
The final overriding theme is social media and the internet, both ever present in society. There are plenty of Fringe acts looking at this huge sector of society from both a dark and light-hearted angle. Error 404 is worth catching from The Point Youth Theatre and David Leddy's shows at Traverse definitely need to be checked out for the height of technology, with the internet used as a venue itself.
There are many exciting acts and shows at the Fringe and it would be impossible to round up even 50% but here are some we truly think are worth catching, if you get the chance.
The BBC are putting on a fantastic show as they always do with a range of fantastic offerings from spoken word to puppetry and cabaret. It is a free event but you have to apply for tickets and winners will be drawn at random.
This fantastic play stars Oscar nominated and Golden Globe award winning actress Anne Archer and is directed by seven time Emmy award winning Terry Jastrow. The hard hitting play is based on true events which saw Jane Fonda confronting a room of Vietnam veterans who boycotted the filming of one of her films. The play tell the story of what actually happened.
Josie Long is a comedian who has been popping up on TV for some time and this has boosted her popularity. Her show, Cara Josephine, is one in a long list she has performed at Edinburgh and as a Fringe veteran she always gathers a good crowd.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. The Fringe is so expansive there are many shows running every day and night providing endless entertainment which cannot be beaten.


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People are obsessed with a game where you destroy humanity by spreading a disease. It's a way to work through coronavirus anxiety, according to an expert.
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Chinese tourists wearing masks use smartphones in the Ginza shopping district on January 24, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.
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As concerns about the Wuhan coronavirus spreads, downloads of the mobile strategy game Plague Inc are soaring.
Users have reached out to Ndemic Creations, the company that created the game, to ask public health questions about the coronavirus and its spread.
Michelle Colder Carras, a researcher who studies video games and mental health, told Insider distressing video games can be cathartic, acting as a form of "exposure therapy."
Carras also told Insider that video games have tremendous potential to raise awareness on public health issues, including viral outbreaks like coronavirus.
As the Wuhan coronavirus spreads and the death toll rises, so does demand for a video game.
Plague Inc., a game in which players act as a virus fungus, or bacteria, tasked with destroying humanity, has been one of the world's most popular strategy game apps since 2012, and in recent weeks it has climbed the Apple charts to become one of the world's most downloaded games right now.
The Wuhan coronavirus started in Wuhan, China in December, possibly from animals at a wet market. As of Tuesday, the virus had spread to 16 countries, infecting 4,600 people, and killing 107.
Plague Inc., created by UK-based Ndemic Creations, sees a spike in users every time there's a real viral outbreak, from the Ebola virus to the flu. It garnered so much traffic last week that it temporarily crashed.
The creators issued a statement on January 23, urging users not to remember that "Plague Inc. is a game, not a scientific model and that the current coronavirus outbreak is a very real situation."
And yet its popularity isn't waning.
Mental health expert Michelle Colder Carras, who specializes in video game use, told Insider it's hardly surprising. Years of research shows distressing games that mimic real-world events can act as a form of "exposure therapy," giving users a sense of control.
In Plague Inc., the players are the virus
The game begins with video-game voiceover veteran Elias Toufexis, rasping: "Once there were more than 7 billion people in the world. The human race ruled supreme." Then there's a cough. "I find it hard to picture that world now."
Players pick a pathogen and strategize on how to advance symptoms and transmit the disease to as many people as possible while thwarting counter-actions taken by scientists and the government.
When humanity is wiped out, you win. If humanity survives, you lose.
—CandyFlower168 (@CFlower168) January 22, 2020
Distressing video games that mimic real-life events can be therapeutic
In 2009, the American Psychological Association warned that video games were violent, harmful, and were mostly played by susceptible young men. President Donald Trump routinely blames the popularity of first-person shooter games after mass shootings, though the nations with the highest rates of gaming also have some of the lowest rates of gun deaths.
But, increasingly, studies are showing that even the most distressing kinds of video games can act as a form of therapy for people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or with clinical depression.
"It's certainly possible that people are playing [Plague Inc.] as a way to work through anxiety or put things into perspective," Michelle Carras Colder, a mental health researcher who has published research on video games with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Insider.
Her latest study of 20 military veterans using video games found that many liked violent war games as a way to make meaning of their difficult experiences. In another study, veterans told researchers that playing first-person shooter games activated their PTSD, but over time they felt better.
Indeed, on the Chinese social media site Weibo, one Plague Inc. player said the appeal of the game lay in "pretending to occupy the position of the perpetrator."
A Plague Inc game in action.
"This isn't the case for everyone," Carras told Insider. "For some people it could just make anxiety worse. But it seems like there are others for whom games could be a good way to play through the anxiety."
The surges of new players during periods of potential epidemics like Ebola, and now coronavirus, does seem to suggest that people are seeking something from the game, said Carras.
But, she says, it is worth it for developers to consider doing more than just issuing a statement.
"It's very responsible to issue a statement like this on the website, but I wonder whether there's anything in the terms of service for the game that makes it clear this is not medical information," Carras said.
"It might be worth it for the developers to consider a pop-up that has to be clicked on at times like this that reminds players that this is not medical information and that they should contact the appropriate health authorities for more information about specific diseases."
There are benefits to learning about viral infections through video games
Plague Inc. reached 135 million players in 2019. Public health officials are aware that it has the capacity to reach a diverse group of people; 40% of US video game players are women and 25% being over 65, according to Pew research.
That's why, in 2013, James Vaughan, founder of Ndemic Creations, was invited to give a talk at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where the game was lauded for using "a non-traditional route to raise public awareness on epidemiology, disease transmission, and diseases/pandemic information."
James Vaughan giving a 2013 talk at the CDC.
Just a year later, the Ebola outbreak hit, and the game soared in the charts.
There have been attempts to create more educational games — harnessing the "fun" aspect of the game to educate the general public.
The University of Cambridge made Killer Flu, Medical Mysteries, and Pandemic 2 (which accused Plague Inc of stealing its idea), and the CDC made Solve The Outbreak, in which players play "CDC detectives" attempting to stop a plague. Leading Dutch virologist Albert Osterhaus, who designed The Great Flu, an online game designed to raise awareness of the 2009 swine flu outbreak, told The Oklahoman at the time: "It is actually what is happening now, what is happening in the real world."
But few have come near the success of Plague Inc., which is about destruction, not protection — except in 2005, with the world famous "Corrupted Blood Incident" on World of Warcraft. The game was hit by a virtual pandemic caused by a system glitch, killing many lower level characters. It forced players to drastically change how they approached the game, with avoiding infection becoming a top priority.
In articles in medical journals Science, Epidemiology, and Lancet Infectious Disease, epidemiologists suggested it could be used as a model for how human populations responded to pandemics and a good way to teach people how viral infections work.
Ndemic Creations did not respond to a request for comment.
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The Weyrleader knew the location, just not where to land… but after sweeps flew over the small island just near the Western continent, the encampment was easily spotted and the riders dispatched. Ships came to short just after, having been sent ahead with coordinates but no further knowledge. It was clear the Renegade pirates had not been expecting the attack. They had begun to load their ship, but were doing so with an almost lazed slowness.
The main encampment and ship were secured, Green Daeannth and her rider N'bis ferrying all able hostages back to Western. Foreign riders had joined the ranks including one hostage, Fyra's, mother Rupa who managed to take in the Pirate second in command, Gryna and the bosun, Aruin. No rider or Western civilian was killed in the attack, but the pirate Captain Jaeson was dispatched after a long chase through the woods. T'eo and C'rro, Istan rider of bronze Lupiciuth, with the other bronze and brown riders, ran head first into the imposing captain who had Fyra with him. Sending the other riders ahead the two chased him down on foot in the dense jungle. After a series of words exchanged and Fyra held to knife point once more, she was relieved of her captor by bronze Raenth who had followed his rider's wishes and dropped in over head. Jaeson was last seen disappearing between in the dragon's talons.
Cheers of victory were had by many. In fact the only one who doesn't seem to think good of the rescue was Fyra who had been seen kicking the Weyrleader in the mouth after he freed her from her leg bonds. Those pirates captured have been sent to the mines on Blue Flame island to work to their dying day. Fyra and a couple others have been resigned to the infirmary for their wounds. Perhaps things may finally return to normal.


Hell we have our good days and our bad but I will never give up. If we gave up every time we lost then we would never learn. So push yourself to the point of no return. (Spartan 312) Ready for a fight at any point.


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Ruby Star Founder and Creative Director Melody Miller is a goal-setter, and unlike most of us, the big, scary, long-term ones are her favorites. "The hardest part is knowing what I want, but once I'm clear, I go for it." We're lucky that those goals, once upon a time, pushed her down an entrepreneurial path – one that eventually wound its way toward founding a fabric business.
"I had to advocate for myself starting when I was a kid," she explains. "My childhood wasn't easy. If I wanted something, I had to make that happen, and it's become part of my nature now. I'm just very driven to keep moving forward." From growing up in the South Carolina Lowcountry and attending Furman University, followed by a time studying industrial design at Pratt Institute in in New York, to a crash course in branding while working at an Atlanta real estate office and endeavors selling curtains and pillows on Etsy, she eventually entered the fabric industry designing for Japanese manufacturer, Kokka.
Then in 2013, she dreamt up the idea of Cotton+Steel, a modern fabric brand that began with collections and collaborations from five diverse female designers – something fresh and new for the industry that no one else had done at the time. For Melody, it was the perfect amalgamation of her past experiences and skills, combining art, illustration, sewing, marketing and branding into one magical, creative venture.
Led by that same intuition, Melody – and the four other founding designers – left Cotton+Steel in Spring 2018, and she began working to form Ruby Star Society. "I had built my dream job. I knew what I could do, and I wasn't ready for it to be over," Melody says on deciding to create the new brand. And it's to continue a career path she's built for herself, sure, but when Melody talks about what she wants for Ruby Star Society, it's clear that it's not really about her, but rather, the collection of artists she's brought together, and the women out in the world they're creating fabrics for. "Our designers have each grown in really beautiful ways, and I so strongly want this brand to accurately reflect the growth, wisdom, and courage of our artists," she adds. "In a lot of ways, it's the same job, the same people. But it feels so different… I've learned so much, and we're all stronger. It's been exciting to watch this new vision be realized."
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On her artistic roots...
Melody gravitated toward academics and the arts early on ("I was always the kid the who drew," she remembers), but really came to identify as an artist after attending the Governor's School for the Arts summer program during high school. "It was life changing to go from feeling like this awkward kid in school to being in this community of artists and realizing, 'Oh, this is what I am!'"
Her advice for creatives...
Like a lot of creatives, Melody tends to be really hard on herself, and gets discouraged when she doesn't meet her own expectations. "One workaround I have for that is I'll tell myself I have to do a hundred shitty pieces of art. It immediately removes the expectation that the first thing I do is going to be impressive to myself!"
Her mantra...
Though admittedly not one for self-helpy mantras, there is one that fits her persistent nature: "Leap and the net will appear," by John Burroughs, which she discovered in "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron. "I think of that all the time when I'm intimidated by my own ideas," Melody says. "The 'leap' is allowing yourself to say 'I'm going to do this.' As long as you know what you want, there's a way of constant problem-solving that enables you to get from one step to the next and you get through it. If you hit a dead end, you find a different way to go. There's always a way."
What she loves most about Ruby Star...
"Collaborating! There's something so magical about pooling people's strengths and talents together. It forms a wider range of intelligence than any one person could ever bring to the table. I love the power of drawing from different knowledge and perspectives."
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Inspired by 1960s and 70s-era art and illustration (think Andy Warhol's fashion illustration and screen prints), Melody's style evokes retro vibes reminiscent of the bold and colorful time. "I work in Photoshop and use a variety of different techniques, layering colors like a screen print. The end result has a slightly photo realistic style, but with vibrant color and prints a little off register."
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Q: image resize using multiparty stream How can I use GraphicsMagick or transloadit in my scenario?
I am using expressjs multiparty to upload files to Azure storage:
app.post('/upload', function (req, res) {
    var blobService = azure.createBlobService();
    var form = new multiparty.Form();

    form.on('part', function(part) {
        if (part.filename) {
            var filename = part.filename;
            var size = part.byteCount;

            var onError = function(error) {
                if (error) {
                    res.send({ grrr: error });
                }
            };
            blobService.createBlockBlobFromStream('container', filename, part, size, onError);
        } else {
            form.handlePart(part);
        }
    });

    form.parse(req);
    res.send("SWEET");
});

Is there any service that I can use to resize the image and thumbnail before upload to the storage. I don't want to save the file to temp folder, because I am using azure websites.

A: Disclosure: I work Transloadit, so I'll be diving into that direction.
Option 1, keep handling the upload yourself:
Since you are handling the upload yourself and using Node.js, you could send the files to Transloadit using the Node.js SDK:
// npm install transloadit --save
const TransloaditClient = require('transloadit')

const transloadit = new TransloaditClient({
  authKey: 'YOUR_TRANSLOADIT_KEY',
  authSecret: 'YOUR_TRANSLOADIT_SECRET'
})

// Likely you'll want to use .addStream(part) here instead!
transloadit.addFile('myfile_1', './chameleon.jpg')

const options = {
  params: {
    steps: {
      thumbed: {
        use: ':original',
        robot: '/image/resize',
        width: 75,
        height: 75,
        resize_strategy: 'fit',
      },
    }
  }
}

transloadit.createAssembly(options, (err, result) => {
  if (err) {
    throw err
  }

  console.log({result})
})

The file is now resized by Transloadit, you could use our /azure/export Robot to send the file to Azure Storage:
"exported": {
  "use": ["thumbed"],
  "robot": "/azure/store",
  "credentials": "YOUR_CREDENTIALS"
}

Option 2, let Tranloadit also handle the upload
Alternatively you could drop our new open source file uploader Uppy as a plugin into your website, and use its Transloadit plugin to send files directly to Transloadit. The encoding and Azure export instructions would be saved inside your Tranloadit account in a Template. You'd refer to that template_id in your Uppy integration, and then you don't have to write any serverside code yourself or deal with multipart uploads. Your uploads will also become resumable. There's a live example on the Uppy website. Here's how I'd adapt it for your usecase (untested):

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/uppy/uppy.min.css">

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Home Breaking "The Masked Singer": Who's the Astronaut?
"The Masked Singer": Who's the Astronaut?
Cologne – A new Rate-Show delighted TV viewers in Germany: In "The Masked Singer" to occur ten celebrities in oversized, elaborate and concealing costumes on each other. There are a total of five duels in the two-hour Live broadcast, which is always on Thursdays, Prime-time on ProSieben and Matthias Opdenhövel will be moderated.
The first episode was on may 27. June broadcast. Five more are yet to follow up on 1. August, the winner of the first season of "The Masked Singer" is determined. Each week will now be retiring a VIP and at the end of the broadcast off my mask.
the object of the Stars is to keep your identity as long as possible a secret. The participants come from all sorts of areas of life – are not necessarily as a singer, famous. But they sing, dance and give with a disguised voice a couple of notes about your Person. Studio guests and viewers puzzles then: Who is hiding under the fairing? And even the Rate Team, consisting of Ruth Moschner, Collien Ulmen-Fernandes, Max Giesinger, and a weekly changing guest experts, gives his guess.
so Far, a Monster, a butterfly, an angel, a grasshopper, a cockatoo, an octopus (Ex-"No Angels"singer Lucy Diakovska flew in a row, one out), a Panther, a Kudu, a squirrel, an Astronaut sang in "The Masked Singer". The latter in particular seems to have the audience impressed. But who is the Astronaut?
"The Masked Singer": Who's the Astronaut? The evidence from the first shipment
Prior to each appearance in "The Masked Singer" is a short one-player some clues as to the identity of the candidate. What is important is not to only listen to the words of the masked celebrities, but also pay attention to the scene image and items.
The Astronaut began his presentation with the words: "can you Hear me? Germany. Germany. Can you hear me? Here, the Astronaut speaks. Initialise Mission 'The Masked Singer'." Then you saw him suddenly in a glittering vintage car, on the red carpet and how he gave another Person a key with a heart key pendant.
It's a change of scene followed: The Astronaut stood on a junkyard, danced and then made a photo of a cuckoo clock with a Polaroid camera. "My appearance to the outside bright, my core archaic. Light and weightless, always in search of new galaxies," he added.
But what's with the red Buzzer on? An indication to participate in the ProSieben Show "The Voice of Germany"? Also, the Baby doll, the Astronaut held on to the Arm, and the shield with the inscription "Prof. Dr. Astronaut" is causing many of the viewers are probably questioning faces. The following words made the confusion perfect: "White is the light of my home planet, but I love it colourful."
The Astronaut sang in the shower, where glitter trickled down to him. It also has a "glitter-Shampoo-to-date" at the bottom, on the "1000% rays" and to read maybe another important note – "quality since 2004" was. The Astronaut sums it up: "Start the Countdown! Today I'm going to soar to new heights and fill you with my colorful Explosion conquer. Resistance is futile."
"The Masked Singer": Who's the Astronaut? Rate Team has a number of tips
Who is behind the astronaut costume in "The Masked Singer"? The Rate of Team was a few seconds before the singing on the tube. "I'm really confused degree total," said Collien Ulmen-Fernandes. Singer Rea Garvey, a guest of the Rate Team in the first episode, suspected behind the mask of a Star from the 80s.
With his Interpretation of the song "Hello" by Adele, the Astronaut created enthusiasm in the audience. There was a Standing ovation. For Ulmen-Fernandes, it was "definitely by far the best appearance". Ruth Moschner was immediately clear: "He is definitely a professional singer."
The 43-Year-old left viewers to their thoughts: "We have seen the Rolls Royce, we have seen the glitter heart. Glittering world… Shampoo… I think it is actually a pop Star, shows us his other side. And it is a mega big hit-Star."
The Irishman Rea Garvey threw in: "Or 'The Hoff' (David Hasselhoff). Could be. Hey, you can sing it." "Yesterday posted on Instagram that he is in Cologne," said Moschner. "Ne, really? So if this is really David Hasselhoff, then I'm not only on his next concert, then I'm a Background singer. That was madness," says Garvey.
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Max Giesinger stressed the importance of the one-player shown in the cuckoo clock. "Which are manufactured in Baden-Württemberg", said the 30-Year-old. "Are there any baden-württemberg singers that sound? Laith Al-Deen, Xavier Naidoo? Or, I mean Astronaut, Andreas Bourani has made a Song about an astronaut, or maybe it sounds so in English, we have heard it so far only in German."
"The Masked Singer": Who's the Astronaut? The viewers
on The net speculate the TV to carry viewers over the astronauts, which is accustomed according to his own statement, a helmet. "Smudo is an Astronaut. Helmet due to racers, cuckoo clock, because of Baden-Württemberg," he says, a User on Twitter. Also the red Buzzer could be due to the member of the "Fantastic Four" indicate. Finally, the 51-Year-old long-time judge for "The Voice of Germany".
another user is certain: "The Astronaut is guaranteed Haddaway. Has played a doctor title (= "Dr. Astronaut"-sign in the one-player) and American Football (helmet)." In the social networks is also the Name of Max Mutzke is common to find. "The Astronaut must be Max Mutzke. Comes from Baden-Württemberg and started his career in 2004 at TV Total Casting (from clues Video)," writes a spectator.
Xavier Naidoo, Max Giesinger into the game had brought, speaks according to Twitter User "Jaxine": "Comes from Baden-Württemberg and since he's never without a hat, it could be the helmet nod."
More celebs rumored to be among the astronauts facing could put, are the TV hosts Klaas Heufer-Umlauf and Eckart von Hirschhausen, Ex-formula 1 champion Nico Rosberg and singer Sascha.
On prosieben.de The Masked Singer "in"Fans of the game also in a rate of your tips. Currently, Andreas Bourani is there in front of Max Mutzke and Xavier Naidoo. On the places four to 12 Sam Smith, Adel Tawil, Nelson Müller, Smudo, Sido, David Hasselhoff follow, Wolke Hegenbarth, Klaas Heufer-Umlauf and Felix Neureuther.
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Who is the Astronaut in "The Masked Singer"? We have compiled all of the guesses for you:
Leith Al-Deen Andreas Bourani Haddaway David Hasselhoff Wolke Hegenbarth Klaas Heufer-Umlauf Max Mutzke, Nelson Müller, Xavier Naidoo, Felix Neureuther Nico Rosberg Sasha Sam Smith Sido Smudo Adel Tawil Eckart von Hirschhausen
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Rahim (, miséricordieux) peut désigner :

Patronyme

 AbdelKader Rahim (1990-), handballeur franco-algérien
Abdur Rahim (1953-2021), directeur général de la National Security Intelligence du Bangladesh
 Azzedine Rahim (1972-), footballeur algérien
 Mammad Rahim (1907-1977), poète, dramaturge et traducteur azerbaïdjanais
 Tahar Rahim (1981-), acteur français

Noms composés
 Abdel Rahim Mrad (1942-), homme politique libanais ;
 Abdour Rahim Khan (-1932), prince afghan ;
 Abdul Rahim Wardak (1940-), homme politique afghan ;
 Abdul Rahim Ayew (1988-), footballeur ghanéen ;
 Mohammad Rahim Khushnawaz (1943-), musicien afghan ;
 Shareef Abdur-Rahim (1976-), basketteur américain ;
 Syed Abdul Rahim (1909-1963), entraîneur indien de football.

Autres
 Rahim (1963-2010), chanteur algérien.

Bâtiment
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Vassos can't see what's written on the blackboard.
Bruno knows what we're doing.
It was Cathrin's idea to try it this way.
Ravi and Harris had nothing to talk about.
Leif became very famous very quickly.
Huashi can't stop Jock from saying what she thinks.
I don't know when Hirotoshi will come.
When Reiner visited Noemi unannounced, she opened the door with no makeup on and her hair in rollers.
Phiroze is looking for me.
Alex gazed at Hwa with love in his eyes.
Leith looks happy to see Nicolo.
Lorraine has a great sense of humor.
Kristian pressed her cheek against Mott's cheek.
I'm sure Jack will appreciate the gift.
Teriann is one of my closest friends.
Bobby offered Kathy a stick of gum.
Elwood left Bjorne a message.
Butler doesn't like it here.
You have to go whether you like it or not.
I'm the one who caught Vidhyanath.
Donald got out of the taxi.
Amy doesn't know whether Billie is busy or not.
Rees drifted in and out of a coma.
Charlie forgot to do what he was supposed to do.
I don't care if you don't like your Aunt Hsuan. You'll just have to grin and bear it while she's here.
Lowell confessed that he had broken the window.
Doesn't Jimmy have any fun?
There were footprints outside Larry's bedroom window.
Who's Ramsey going to listen to?
Lenny still doesn't really like Ozan much.
Tyler went to the beach.
Martyn tried to camouflage himself.
Nicolo's dog knocked over our trash can.
Everything Ruth did bothered me.
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Species – False Killer Whale
False Killer Whale – Pseudorca crassidens
Taxon: Cetacea
False killer whale © Christopher Swann
Habitat: Deep offshore waters.
Description: Long slender body, small tapered head; underslung lower jaw holds 7 – 12 pairs of large teeth, circular in cross-section; 6 – 10 pairs in upper jaw. Colouration all black except for variable throat patch which ranges from indistinct grey to nearly white on belly between flippers. Sometimes also a light grey blaze on side of face. Flippers are black, narrow, tapered, about 1/10th of body length, with distinct 'elbow' appearance. Dorsal fin is tall (to 40 cm), sickle-shaped, just behind midpoint of back.
Size: 4.5 – 5.4 m, males larger (up to 6.1 m).
Weight: 1200 – 2000 kg.
Lifespan: 30 – 40 years, oldest known individuals 63 years (female) and 58 years (male).
Distribution: Worldwide, mainly in tropical and warm temperate waters. A few mass strandings in British Isles prior to 1935. 5 sightings snce 1976, 5 – 54 km from land, mainly in July and August.
Diet & Feeding: Primarily squid and large fish, known to prey on dolphins and has been reported attacking sperm whales.
Breeding: Females are spontaneous ovulators. No obvious calving peak. Gestation period lasts 15.5 months (possibly down to 11). Lactation period 18 – 24 months. Calving interval reported in one population almost 7 years. Sexual maturity at 8 – 14 years in both sexes. Known to hybridise with bottlenose dolphin.
Conservation Status & Population: No population estimates in the Atlantic. Has been actively hunted off Japan and St Vincent, West Indies, in the 1970s. Caught off Florida for dolphinaria. Accidental bycatch reported off Australia. High levels of PCB, DDT, DDE, mercury pollutants reported.
Almost all black, slender form. No beak. Head is small and slender with rounded snout. Dorsal fin is tall, sickle-shaped, central.
Vocalisations: Comprise whistles ranging 5.3 – 8.2 Hz (significantly higher than for pilot whales, killer whales) and echolocation clicks with peak frequencies around 100 kHz. Can discriminate between complex harmonic whistles and simpler ones, suggesting it is able to understand complex vocalisations.


The New Haven Nighthawks defeated the Baltimore Skipjacks, 3-2, at the Baltimore Arena last night, and two disallowed goals were the center of controversy after the game.
Referee Dave Jackson disallowed a goal by Tyler Larter in the first period and another by Tim Taylor with 11 seconds remaining in the American Hockey League contest before 2,463. Jackson disallowed three goals in two nights by Baltimore. He ruled a goal by Alfie Turcotte in Hershey, Pa., on Saturday night did not count.
"Our goal judge, in Jackson's judgment, isn't good enough for him," said an angry Skipjacks coach Rob Laird. "He wants to do everything himself. He said Tyler Larter kicked in the first goal and said the second one didn't cross the goal line when it was obvious to everyone that the puck was two or three inches over the goal line."
The second disallowed goal, by Taylor, would have tied the game and probably forced overtime. When Jackson made his ruling, the fans behind the New Haven goal littered the ice with garbage directed at the referee.
"I kicked at the goalie's glove, but I didn't hit the puck," said Larter of the first-period effort. "The puck went to the back of the net, and it should have been a goal."
Turcotte said: "I put the puck right between [Robb] Stauber's pads. At first, he [Jackson] said he blew the whistle and then he changed his tune and said the puck was kicked in. That was a terrible way to lose."
Jackson said: "I stand by both my rulings. Neither play, in my judgment, was a goal."
Of the final effort in the waning seconds, Taylor said: "[Steve] Seftel got the puck and threw it out to the point. A shot came from the point, and the goalie stopped it, but he didn't control the rebound. The puck was lying there, and I kept hacking and poking at it, and finally it went over the line. But the referee ruled no goal, even though the goal judge turned the light on."
Despite the loss, the Skipjacks held onto a second-place tie in the Southern Division with the Binghamton Rangers, who lost to first-place Rochester Americans, 8-3.
"We gave it good effort," said Laird. "We got behind early, but we had plenty of chances to get back into it, but New Haven did a good job of protecting the lead. Stauber played well in the goal [32 saves]. We gave it a gallant effort, but everything was too much to overcome."
The injury-riddled Skipjacks suffered another blow last night when right wing Jeff Greenlaw took a puck in the ankle in the third period and had to be helped to the locker room.
Moments after Larter's goal in the first period was disallowed, Ross Wilson, in the slot, converted a pass from Jim Pavese during a power play to give New Haven a 1-0 lead.
Seftel tied the score for Baltimore, scoring from close range on a pass from Rob Murray at 12:56. Sixteen seconds later, New Haven went back into the lead on Darryl Williams' goal from the right circle that went through goalie Jim Hrivnak's pads.
New Haven raised its lead to 3-1 on Micah Aivazoff's goal from the left circle 53 seconds into the second period.
Baltimore cut the lead to 3-2 on Larter's power-play goal at 17:18 of the second period. Larter knocked in the rebound of a shot by Turcotte.
NOTES: Last night was LW Bob Joyce's last game of his two-week rehabilitation assignment with the Skipjacks, and he will be recalled to the Washington Capitals today. . . . Baltimore played without D Kent Paynter (ankle), LW Thomas Sjogren (knee), D Chris Felix (broken ankle), LW Steve Maltais (thigh bruise), D Bobby Babcock (ankle) and RW John Purves (leg). . . . General manager David Poile and head coach Terry Murray were among the Washington hierarchy on hand last night. . . . Among the scouts in attendance were Gord Lane of the New York Islanders and Kevin McCarthy of the Philadelphia Flyers.


Browns rookie quarterback Baker Mayfield has a lot of fans these days.
One of them is Kirtland High School coach Tiger LaVerde.
"Baker is competitive, aggressive, confident," LaVerde said. "Combine those qualities with keen intelligence and you've got the total package."
Those thoughts about Mayfield carry weight because LaVerde knows a thing or two about playing quarterback and winning football games.
Before he was the transformative coach leading Kirtland to four state football titles in eight years, LaVerde was third in the line of four brothers who played at Oil City High School in football-crazy northwest Pennsylvania.
LaVerde was the starting quarterback for the Oilers as a senior in 1991. But he is quick to play down his quarterbacking talents and play up those of his younger brother, Matt.
"He got a (football) scholarship to Penn State," LaVerde said.
With the practiced eyes of a player-turned-coach, LaVerde has monitored Mayfield's development since the Browns used the first overall pick in the 2018 draft on the former Oklahoma standout and 2017 Heisman Trophy winner.
"You see the belief he has in himself and how the rest of the team believes in him," LaVerde said.
LaVerde sensed those qualities from the moment Mayfield, then the back-up, ran onto the field to replace injured starter Tyrod Taylor in the second quarter of the Week 3 Thursday night home game against the New York Jets.
The Browns trailed at the time, 14-0. They went on to win, 21-17, snapping a 19-game winless streak.
"As soon as he ran into the huddle that day, that was a better team," LaVerde said.
With their precocious rookie signal-caller having thrown for 3,065 yards and 21 touchdowns in 12 games, the Browns are 6-7-1 and on the fringes of playoff contention going into the 2018 home finale against Cincinnati on Dec. 23.
"He reminds me of an old Western gunslinger." LaVerde said of Mayfield. "His confidence is like John Wayne in a movie. Watch the body language. He's the coolest guy on the field and he knows it."
In recent weeks, LaVerde has taken advantage of opportunities for up-close looks at Mayfield and the resurgent Browns.
On Dec. 9, he was at FirstEnergy Stadium to see the Browns beat the Carolina Panthers, 26-20. At halftime, he was honored as the 2018 Cleveland Browns High School Coach of the Year.
Three days earlier, he took in the entirety of a Browns practice in Berea along with head coaches and players from the other Northeast Ohio teams that claimed state football titles this year: St. Edward (Division I), Akron Hoban (Division II), Kenston (Division III) and Orrville (Division V). Kirtland won in Division VI.
Mayfield was a clear standout in the practice setting, according to LaVerde.
"I was incredibly impressed by his quick release," LaVerde said. "Look at the way he makes his reads and how fast he makes them. He sees the windows. He knows when to throw to throw the ball. And he throws the ball with such velocity. He really spins it."
There's another aspect of the rise of Mayfield and the Browns this season that has caught LaVerde's attention.
It's the way his players, and many other Kirtland students he interacts with at school, are riding the emotional wave with the Browns.
"In their lives, my seniors have never seen (the Browns) be a winner," LaVerde said. "They've been waiting a long time for a good (NFL) team. Now they have one. They are pretty excited."
Near as he can reckon, LaVerde added, all of his players and many of their fellow students were at watch parties when the Browns beat Denver, 17-16, in a nationally televised Saturday night game on Dec. 15.
"I don't think I'd heard of our guys going to a Browns watch party in all the years I've been at Kirtland," LaVerde said.
He's pretty sure Kirtland's football team and student body will be well-represented in the stands at FirstEnergy Stadium for the AFC North clash with Cincinnati.
"Hey, it's Christmas," LaVerde said, chuckling. "It's been a long time since people were this excited and Browns games mattered in December."
Because he was the team's High School Coach of the Year honoree, LaVerde will represent the Browns at the 2019 Pro Bowl. The game is scheduled for Jan. 27 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Fla.
The game between the Browns and Bengals on Dec. 23 at FirstEnergy Stadium is growing into a stare-down between Baker Mayfield and Hue Jackson.


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How Gerard Houllier scouted Sadio Mane years before he became Liverpool hero
The Senegal star starred at the 2012 Olympics before impressing at Metz, RB Salzburg and Southampton before arriving at Anfield
Jon Richardson
Liverpool can thank former manager Gerard Houllier for placing a shy Sadio Mane on the road to Anfield fame.
The Senegal star, 26, has developed into Liverpool 's main man.
While last season's player of the year Mo Salah hasn't scored in seven games and Roberto Firmino hasn't made his usual impact, it's been left to Mane to grasp the baton.
Mane's 11 goals in his last 11 appearances have ensured progress into the quarter-finals of the Champions League and kept up the pressure on Manchester City in the scramble for the title.
It's a far cry from the days Mane was attempting to make his mark with a Metz side battling against relegation from the French Ligue 2.
Sadio Mane has five goals in his last three appearances (Image: EMPICS Sport)
Virgil van Dijk reveals journey from unwanted at Willem II to Liverpool superstar
But, as a 19-year-old, he managed to catch the eye of Houllier, who had moved on to Austrian side Red Bull Salzburg, charged with discovering exciting new talent.
Houllier said: "I first saw him playing for Senegal in the 2012 London Olympics.
"What I liked straight away was his speed and ability on the ball. It was fantastic for a boy of his age. I had also seen him on French television.
"I quickly discovered that Metz would be willing to sell for financial reasons. Salzburg agreed to buy him and we paid £4million. The potential was there and we just had to make sure he was well looked after.
Mane stood out at the London 2012 Olympics (Image: Getty Images)
Mane was introduced to the Premier League by Southampton (Image: Action Images)
Liverpool Legends 3-2 AC Milan: 5 talking points after late Steven Gerrard heroics
"When I was at Liverpool, I introduced a player liaison scheme where foreign players would be helped to settle into a new and strange environment. We did the same at Salzburg where shy Sadio joined a French-speaking family.
"We played a friendly against Bayern Munich and Salzburg won 3-0. He scored one and made one. Bayern wanted sign him after that."
Instead, it was Southampton who made the decisive move with Saints boss Ronald Koeman overseeing a £11.5m transfer.
Ironically, the transfer to the south coast also came after Mane had spoken with Jurgen Klopp, who was then manager of Borussia Dortmund. Klopp is still annoyed that he passed up on signing the striker the first time around.
Houllier spotted Mane as a youngster (Image: Icon Sport)
Mane has soured to high successes at Anfield (Image: Getty Images)
Liverpool midfielder set for summer move to Lazio
Klopp confessed: "I have made a few mistakes in my life and one of the biggest mistakes ever was not taking Sadio when I was at Dortmund. We were together in my office but I wasn't sure about signing him. It was completely my fault."
Mane finally arrived at Anfield in June 2016, but Liverpool had to fend off strong interest from Manchester United .
Houllier said: "He's an ideal player for Liverpool.
"You can compare his speed on the ball with PSG's Kylian Mbappe. I know other big clubs in Europe would love him."
Gerard Houllier
Senegal football team
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Feds Blamed For Exposing Kids To "Cancer-Causing" Car Seat Chemicals
By Julie Watts May 22, 2016 at 5:14 pm
Filed Under:Baby, Car Seat Flame Retardants, Car Seats, Chemicals, ConsumerWatch, Exposure, Flame Retardant, Julie Watts, NHTSA
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Car seats are the only consumer product that parents are legally required to purchase in every state, though they are also commonly used outside of the car as strollers seats, swing inserts and as a place for babies to sleep inside the home.
A recent KPIX investigation repeatedly uncovered concerning, even cancer-causing, chemicals in car seats. Then, utilizing biomonitoring, we investigated an apparent link between high levels of a cancer-causing flame retardant in a child's body to the flame retardant in her car seat.
The alleged culprit: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) 44-year old Federal Motor Vehicle Flammability Standard, FMVSS No. 302.
Anything manufactured for the interior of a vehicle must meet the federal flammability standard. This includes things like fixed vehicle seating, floor mats, dash boards, and aftermarket products like child car seats—which incidentally weren't required in most states until a decade after the standard was introduced.
Fire scientists like Dr. Vyto Babrauskus, the former head of furniture fire research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), argue that the outdated standard is unnecessarily exposing millions of children to concerning chemical flame retardants in their car seats.
"The flame spread standard was never designed with any recognition of how real world car fires behave," Babrauskas said.
Babrauskus explained, instead of focusing on protection from typical-sized car fire flames, the 1972 flammability standard relies on a 1.5 inch test flame. The test requires each component material, the fabric, foam, plastic, etc., individually pass a small-flame spread test.
While some fabrics are naturally flame resistant and can pass without added chemicals, manufacturers say they must add chemical flame retardants to the foam padding inside the car seat in order to pass the test. However, fire scientists like Babrauskas contend the test is irrelevant in a real-world car fire, because once the fabric ignites, the flame is too large for flame retardants in the foam to be effective.
"Instead of protecting our kids the standard is introducing poison into their environment," Babrauskas insists.
He, and many others, contends the current test is only relevant if fires are first ignited inside the car seats themselves by something smaller than a 1.5 inch flame.
Fire scientists argue that a fire ignited anywhere else in the vehicle would be too big for flame retardants by the time flames reached the car seat, and it would be too late to save a child by the time flames reached the foam inside the car seat, and under the child.
A 2008 study titled "Human Survivability in Motor Vehicle Fires" found the 1972 standard is "no longer relevant," because "the primary threat has changed" from "a lit cigarette, in 1960" to ignition of combustible materials "by an impact-induced fire."
However, the Department of Transportation, which oversees NHTSA, defended the standard to one car set manufacturer, citing the possibility of "children in the back seat… playing with matches, a cigarette lighter."
The American Chemistry Council says "retardants provide an important layer of fire protection" and points to more than 150,000 vehicle fires a year.
Similarly, NHTSA cites U.S. Fire Administration and National Fire Protection Association data in defense of its standard, stating that about 194,000 car fires occur annually, resulting in more than 200 deaths.
However, a review of the data indicates that regulators are citing it out of context as the statistics include all vehicle fires, including freight, construction vehicles and car fires that were intentionally set.
Fire scientists point out that none of those fires are relevant to preventing unintentional flame spread in a child's car seat. They reiterate that the federal flammability standard is only intended to slow the spread of a small flame that is first ignited in upholstered material.
According to additional data that KPIX 5 obtained from the National Fire Protection Association, only 3 percent of unintentional car fires began in upholstered material, resulting in fewer than three deaths per year. There is no indication that any of those fires were first ignited inside a child's car seat. Statistically speaking, fire scientists like Dr. Vyto Babrauskas say that is improbable, if not impossible, as the vast majority of upholstery is fixed vehicle seating.
Additional data indicates that 98% of those injured or killed in all car fires were too old to have been in a car seat, and there is no evidence that any of those fires began in a child's car seat.
The Chemical Concern
The concerns about fire retardants date back to the 70's, when certain chemicals were banned, and others voluntarily removed from children's pajamas after researchers discovered they were mutagens, linked to cancer.
However, our recent investigation repeatedly found those same chemicals inside even allegedly "green" car seats, and inside a child who used one.
Decades of research similarly link flame retardants in furniture and baby products to high levels in babies and breast milk.
Groups, like the American Academy of Pediatrics, are now calling on the Consumer Product Safety Commission to outlaw certain flame retardants in children's products, but the agency has no jurisdiction over car seats which are regulated exclusively by NHTSA, under the DOT.
This is a rare case where the manufactures and the green scientists agree on changes to a regulation. Both groups believe that car seats should be exempted from the current flammability standard.
However, while green scientists contend that chemical flame retardants are harmful to children, the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) simply questions whether they are necessary in car seats. Individual manufacturers have long petitioned for exemptions to the standard.
Lack of Evidence
"I was pleased somebody was digging into the issue," said Rep. Jarred Huffman, (D) California, after seeing our reports. "It seemed so obvious that we should be asking hard questions."
Like us, Huffman questioned NHTSA about its standard. In response, the agency told the congressman it is "initiating a two-year research program" into the the 44 year old standard overall and added that it will try to quantify "child fatalities and injuries prevented by FMVSS No. 302."
However, Huffman wasn't satisfied with that answer. "I don't want to wait years and years while millions of babies continue to be exposed to a carcinogen for apparently no safety benefit," he said.
In an email, the agency told us it "believes the standard has saved many children" but admits it has no evidence.
We then reached out to more than a dozen government agencies and industry groups, and no one could provide any evidence or data that indicates the standard, or flame retardants added to car seats in order to meet it, offers any safety benefit in a car fire.
In fact, regulators admit they have never even tested the standard's effectiveness in car seats.
KPIX Combustion Test
With the help of Combustion Scientist Don Lucas and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, KPIX 5 did what the regulators never have—we lit car seats on fire to test the standard.
In addition to igniting large portions of fully assembled car seats, we conducted a side-by-side comparison burn of a two car seat covers, one with flame retardants and one without.
One sample was taken from a car seat that does meet NHTSA's FMVSS No. 302. The foam inside was tested to ensure it contained an average amount of flame retardants (specifically TDCPP).
The other sample was an aftermarket organic car seat cover, originally purchased on ETSY. Instead of foam, the interior padding was made of organic wool.
Despite the common belief that organic wool is naturally flame resistant, a side by side test of the naked wool and the naked flame retardant-treated foam demonstrated that the wool would not have passed NHTSA's current test on its own. While the foam burned comparatively slowly and melted, the naked wool immediately ignited and incinerated within seconds.
However, in a car fire, the interior padding is covered by the car seat fabric which can be naturally flame resistant without chemicals. Again, fire scientists argue that once the fabric ignites, the flame retardants in the interior padding are irrelevant because the flame would be too large.
That is essentially what we found. When we lit the car seat samples for a second time, this time leaving the organic wool and the FR-treated foam covered in their respective car seat fabrics, we got entirely different results.
Side by side, with the fabric and foam combined, as they would be in a real-world fire, the flame retardant-free sample performed better.
"Looking at the amount of smoke production and fire propagation, I think the one without flame retardants (preformed) a little better," Lucas said, also noting that the sample with flame retardants was dripping flames and producing a thick black smoke.
By comparison, the flame-retardant-free sample took longer to ignite, burned slowly and produced less smoke.
"Even though the materials in car seats can meet the federal standards, they don't always perform better than materials that wouldn't meet the fire standards. I think we need to revisit (the standard) and determine how car seats perform in real-world fire situations," Lucas said after seeing the results.
Changes To The Standard
Fire scientists say, instead of addressing the rare instances of upholstery fires, the flammability standard focus on preventing fires from crashes and gas tank explosions.
To address flame spread, they recommend a testing standard "similar to California's new furniture flammability standard TB117-2013. The new standard can be met with smolder resistant fabrics or a barrier fabric between the foam and the fabric. Flame retardants are not needed.
Members of both the senate and the house have reviewed our findings and reached out to NHTSA. The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation is now planning hearing where members will have the opportunity to questions the DOT about our findings.
UPDATE: "Chemicals In Children's Car Seats Addressed At Washington Hearing"
Quick Release Technology
In an email to KPIX, NHTSA defended the standard stating it "believes there is a safety need to control how quickly flame can spread to afford time for caregivers to help their children escape the vehicle in the event of a fire."
However, NHTSA does not require that car seats allow for quick release in an emergency and KPIX has learned that NHTSA reviewed quick-release car seat technology called the Child Safety Seat Emergency Harness Release System (EHRS) nearly a decade ago.
The inventor of the technology, Michael Blackmon, said he reached out to several car seat manufacturers after his discussion with NHTSA, but they told him they weren't interested in testing the technology because NHTSA doesn't require it.
"The irony is that NHTSA justifies flame retardant foam because it might save one child playing with a cigarette while exposing millions to chemicals, yet can't justify my invention because not enough kids die after the accident in a fire or drowning scenario," Blackmon says. "Tell that to the parents and lawyers that reached out to me over the last eight years about their dead kids and clients."
He says, in addition to parents involved in car fires, he's heard from several parents who's children drowned when a car rolled into a lake and the parents were unable to get the child out of a car seat.
Amy Basset-Brevik says she also reached out to NHTSA and several manufacturers about the quick release technology after she and her husband struggled to get their twin daughters out of their car seats in a car fire.
"Something hit the undercarriage of our vehicle and when I looked back I just saw flames," said Brevik. "I jumped out of the car to get to the girls in the back and everything was engulfed in flames."
The Minnesota mom said flame retardants in her children's car seats were irrelevant in the face of the giant flames. The bigger issue was the inability to quickly remove her kids from the seat as her clothing began to catch fire.
She's been petitioning NHTSA, and car seat manufactures, for three years to get the quick-release technology on the market. "There needs to be a change," she insists.
NOTE: Car seats in cars save lives. None of this information should be interpreted to imply otherwise. The safest place for a child in a moving vehicle is in a rear-facing car seat in the middle of the back seat.
CLARIFICATION: NIST asked that we clarify that Dr. Babrauskus's views don't necessarily represent those of the agency as NIST has not actually preformed research specific to car seats.
This story was also updated to include additional links to our continuing coverage.
Car Seat Flame Retardant Continuing Coverage


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Michigan Amends its Credit for Reinsurance Regulations
February 20, 2019 by Jeanne Kohler
As we previously advised on our blog, Michigan amended its Insurance Code regarding Credit for Reinsurance to bring Michigan into compliance with the NAIC Credit for Reinsurance Model Law and Model Regulation. The changes became effective on January 2, 2019.
Filed Under: Reinsurance Regulation
Fourth Circuit Compels Arbitration Over "Gateway" Issues Of Arbitrability
This case involved a consumer, Charleene Novic, who obtained a credit card from Credit One. The card holder agreement contained an arbitration clause that stated "[c]laims subject to arbitration include … disputes related to … enforceability or interpretation of this Agreement." After Novic accrued a past-due balance, Credit One sold the account to a debt collector. Novic claimed that the past-due balance was the result of fraudulent charges. The debt collector sued Novic in Maryland state court regarding the outstanding balance, and the Maryland court ruled in favor of Novic. Novic then initiated an action against Credit One in Maryland state court, alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act by failing to conduct a reasonable investigation of her claim that she did not owe the past-due balance. The action was removed to federal court. Credit One moved to compel arbitration under the terms of the card holder agreement. The Maryland district court denied the motion to compel, finding that Credit One lost its right to compel arbitration after it assigned Novic's account for collection. Credit One appealed to the Fourth Circuit, arguing that an arbitrator should decide the "gateway" issue of whether Novic's claims are subject to arbitration.
The Fourth Circuit agreed with Credit One. The Court noted that parties may consent to arbitrate the gateway issue of arbitrability, which allows the arbitrator, rather than the courts, to determine the arbitrator's jurisdiction. The Court, however, noted that any delegation of the issue of arbitrability must be set out in "clear and unmistakable" language in the parties' agreement. With respect to the arbitration clause at issue, the Fourth Circuit then concluded that it "unambiguously require[d] arbitration of any issues concerning the 'enforceability' of the arbitration provisions entered into by the respective parties." Thus, the Fourth Circuit vacated the Maryland district court's judgment and remanded to the district court for entry of a stay of court proceedings and for an order compelling arbitration.
Novic v. Credit One Bank, No. 17-2168 (4th Cir. Jan. 4, 2019).
Filed Under: Arbitration Process Issues, Week's Best Posts
Post-Judgment Collection Efforts of Reinsurer Continue in California Federal Court
January 30, 2019 by Jeanne Kohler
We have previously reported on Odyssey Reinsurance's Continuing efforts to collect a $3.2 million default judgment against Richard And Diane Nagby in our blog on numerous occasions. See
https://www.reinsurancefocus.com/archives/13102
Odyssey's efforts continue in the California federal court. On November 7, 2018, the court issued a temporary restraining order and order to show cause regarding certain California property. See November 7, 2018 Temporary Restraining Order. More recently, on January 4, 2019, the court issued an order compelling transfer of funds from a bank account. See January 4, 2019 Order.
Odyssey Reinsurance Co. v. Nagby, No. 16-CV-3038-BTM (S.D. Cal. Nov. 7, 2018 and Jan. 4, 2019).
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In Dispute Over Consolidation, California Federal Court Grants Petition to Compel Appointment of an Arbitrator in One of the Actions, and Denies Other Party's Motion to Compel the Appointment of a Single Panel to Decide Consolidation Issue
The background of this case in California federal court is that The Hartford ("Hartford") issued reinsurance billings to Employers Insurance Company of Wausau ("Wausau") for settlement payments made to one insured under nineteen different reinsurance treaties between Wausau and three of Hartford's affiliates, which billings were denied by Wausau. In response, Hartford demanded arbitration and requested that the parties consolidate all the related disputes in a single arbitration. Wausau, in response, proposed that the parties agree to three arbitrations and identified three arbitrators for three separate panels for each of the three Hartford affiliates involved. Hartford refused and identified one arbitrator for a single arbitration and if other arbitrations were necessary, the same arbitrator was identified as arbitrator for such other arbitrations. Wausau's arbitrators then requested that Hartford's arbitrator select umpires for three separate arbitrations. In response, Hartford again requested that the parties agree to a methodology to select a single panel to decide how the matter should be consolidated. Wausau then filed four separate petitions in three jurisdictions to compel arbitration: one in California federal court, two in Massachusetts state court and one in Connecticut state court. In the California action, which involved one treaty, Hartford cross-moved to compel a single arbitration in order to adjudicate the parties' dispute regarding consolidation and, in the alternative, a motion to stay pending arbitration of related proceedings.
As an initial matter, the California federal court noted that the issue of whether arbitrations may be consolidated is a question for the arbitrators and not the court to decide. However, the court noted that the parties remained at an impasse due to Hartford's insistence of one consolidated arbitration. The court then rejected Hartford's argument that its three affiliates who had entered into the nineteen treaties could act as a single party for the purpose of seeking reimbursement from Wausau. Noting that it was limited to the terms of the agreements, the court stated that Hartford was only named in two of the nineteen treaties, that the treaties entered into by two of the affiliates required arbitration in Massachusetts and the others required arbitration in Los Angeles. The court also noted that each of the treaties was a separate agreement, with different arbitration clauses. The California federal court then found that the treaty before it contained an arbitration clause which provided a procedure for selecting an umpire, and that once that panel is in place, it can decide the issue of consolidation. Accordingly, the court granted Wausau's petition to compel appointment of an arbitrator, and denied Hartford's motions to compel and stay pending arbitration of related proceedings.
Employers Ins. Co. of Wausau v. The Hartford, No. 2:18-cv-07240 (USDC C.D. Cal. Dec. 3, 2018)
English High Court Refuses to Set Aside an Order for Enforcement of an International Arbitration Award
January 9, 2019 by Jeanne Kohler
This case relates to a dispute between Eastern European Engineering Ltd. ("EEEL") and Vijay Construction (Proprietary) Ltd. ("VCL"), both of which are incorporated in the Seychelles, arising out of the construction of a hotel resort and spa. In 2011, the parties had entered into six materially identical contracts. Disputes arose and EEEL eventually terminated the contracts. EEEL referred the disputes to an International Chamber of Commerce ("ICC") arbitration seated in Paris. A sole arbitrator was appointed, who issued an award in November 2014 in EEEL's favor (the "Award").
VCL challenged the Award in the French courts on three grounds. The French court dismissed VCL's challenge. Although VCL initially appealed that decision, it did not purse the appeal and it was subsequently dismissed in May 2017. Concurrently, in January 2015, VCL also initiated proceedings in the Seychelles, seeking to set aside the Award on essentially the same grounds as those on which the challenges were based in the French proceedings. In April 2017, the Seychellois court dismissed all of VCL's challenges and held that the Award was enforceable. VCL, however, successfully appealed that decision because, under Seychellois law, there is no power to order enforcement on the basis that the New York Convention had been previously repudiated by the Seychelles. The merits of the substantive grounds of the lower court's decision were not considered in the appeal.
In August 2015, EEEL successfully obtained an order from the English High Court to enforce the Award in England and Wales and to enter judgment against VCL (the "August 2015 Order"). In October 2015, VCL applied under section 103 of the Arbitration Act 1996 to set aside the August 2015 Order. That application was stayed while the French and the Seychellois proceedings were pending. EEEL argued that VCL's application should be denied because of issue estoppel and public policy on finality. As to issue estoppel, EEEL argued that the conditions were satisfied because the decision of the French court was a final merits decision in a court of competent jurisdiction between the same parties.
The English High Court denied VCL's application to set aside the August 15 Order. First, the English court agreed that, in relation to VCL's challenge based on jurisdiction, VCL was estopped as VCL's argument in the English proceeding appeared to be exactly the same as that which was made in the French proceeding. As to VCL's challenge on the ground of procedural unfairness, the court found that VCL's argument was "slightly different" in the English proceeding, and thus the court considered the merits of the challenges. In considering each of VCL's challenges, the court found that they failed. Thus, the English court did not have to reach the question of public policy on finality. It, however, noted that it would "have concluded that the balance came down in favor of upholding the public policy on finality," explaining that the facts here, where VCL had sought to raise substantially the same challenges to the Award in two other courts, one of which had a full evidentiary hearing, "are circumstances which would weigh very heavily against allowing VCL a third challenge."
Eastern European Engineering Ltd. v. Vijay Construction (Proprietary) Ltd., [2018] EWHC 2713 (Comm) (Oct. 11, 2018).
Filed Under: Confirmation / Vacation of Arbitration Awards, Contract Interpretation, UK Court Opinions


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Saudi Arabia is home to the finest dates on earth. With an estimated 25 million palm trees, approximately 400 date varieties and over 1 million tons being produced annually, the country is the world's second largest date producer of dates and its largest consumer market per capita.
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Dates are an excellent source of iron (containing 0.9mg / 100g – 11% of the RDA), required for blood health
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Lee Creek, a partly perennial river of the Hunter River catchment, is located in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia.

Course and features
Officially designated as a river, the Lee Creek rises on the northern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, below Thompsons Hole, northeast of . The river flows generally north northwest then north reaching its confluence with the Bylong River near . The river descends  over its  course.

See also

 List of rivers of Australia
 List of rivers of New South Wales (A-K)
 Rivers of New South Wales

References

External links

Rivers of New South Wales
Central Tablelands


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The Hall sensor array resides in the center of a printed circuit board
(PCB). There is a hole in the PCB and the Hall sensor is glued directly on a
copper plate cold finger, which extends from the DR mixing chamber. Gold
wire bonding connects the sensors and the leads on the PCB. All wires are
thermally connected to the MC. Typical sample dimensions are 3 $\times $ 2 $%
\times $ 1 mm$^{3}$. The samples have clear facets and are oriented with the
easy axis parallel to the applied field.
They are covered by a thin layer of super glue and placed directly on the
surface of the Hall sensor with Apizon-N grease, which is used to protect
the sample from disintegration and hold it in place. The array backbone has
a resistance of $3-4$ k$\Omega $ at our working temperatures, and is excited
with a 10$~\mu $A DC current. No effect of the sensors' excitation on the
DR-mixing chamber temperature was detected. The Hall voltage from each
sensor is filtered with a 30~Hz low-pass filter for hysteresis measurements
and a 200~Hz high-pass filter for the avalanche measurements. The voltage is
amplified $500$ times by a differential amplifier. It is digitized with an
NI USB 6251 A/D card at a rate of $50$ Hz and $20$ KHz for the hysteresis
and avalanche measurements respectively.

\begin{figure}[tbph]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[clip,width=0.7\columnwidth]{{Fig7.pdf}}
\end{center}
\caption{Thermal diffusivity experimental setup. Heat pulse is provided by
heater $2$. Thermistor $4$ measures $T_{hs}$ and Thermistor $6$ measures $%
T_{cs}$. Thermistor $8$ is used to determine heat leaks via the measurement
wires.}
\label{Fig7}
\end{figure}

The thermal diffusivity measurements are performed using two thermometers
mounted on opposite sides of the sample and a heater on the hot side of the
sample,whose configuration is shown in Fig.\ref{Fig7}. The hot side is attached
to the cold finger and is hot only after the heat pulse. The thermometers
are RuO$_{2}$ films. The heater is a 2.2K$\Omega $ resistor. The hot side
thermometer is between the heater and the sample. The cold side thermometer
is between the sample and a teflon plate. It has a weak thermal link to the
cold plate via the measurement wires only. A heat pulse is generated by
applying $8$ V to the 2.2K$\Omega $ resistor using a function generator,
which also gives the trigger for the RuO$_{2}$ voltage measurement. The
system has been tested by repeating the measurement without the sample to
ensure that the recorded heat on the cold side flows through the sample and not
through the wires.

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Пётр Васильевич Бурмак (6 мая 1901 года — 7 июня 1969 года) — советский государственный и военный деятель, генерал-лейтенант (1944) НКВД СССР (затем МВД СССР), 6-й командующий внутренними войсками НКВД СССР (1946—1953).

Биография
Родился 6 мая 1901 года в селе Благодатное (ныне , Донецкая  область) в семье крестьянина. Украинец. Окончил начальную школу, работал подрядчиком, затем в родительском крестьянском хозяйстве в Благодатном. С осени 1920 года входил в состав правления сельскохозяйственной коммуны, с лета 1921 года работал в собственном хозяйстве.

В Красной армии с октября 1922 года, служил красноармейцем в Краснодарской конвойной команде, с апреля 1923 — помощником командира взвода в Майкопском конвойном отряде войсках. В августе 1925 года направлен на учёбу. В 1926 году вступил в ВКП(б).

Окончил Ульяновскую военную пехотную школу в 1927 году, после чего в сентябре 1927 года направлен на службу в пограничные войска ОГПУ СССР: помощник начальника пограничной заставы, с октября 1928 года — заместитель начальника заставы, с марта 1930 года — помощник коменданта пограничного участка, а в декабре этого же года стал инструктором подготовки 18-го Житковичского пограничного отряда Белорусского пограничного округа. В 1932 году направлен на учёбу в академию.

В 1936 году окончил Военную академию РККА имени М. В. Фрунзе. В октябре 1936 года был назначен на должность старшего руководителя тактики 4-й Саратовской школы пограничных и внутренних войск НКВД СССР. С 1 февраля 1938 года — начальник 20-го Славутского погранотряда (Каменец-Подольская область). С 15 июля 1939 года — начальником Управления пограничных войск НКВД СССР Читинского округа. С 11 марта 1940 года — начальник пограничных войск НКВД Забайкальского округа (штаб в Чите). В эти годы состоял также в депутатах Читинского областного совета депутатов трудящихся (1939—1944) и в членах Читинского обкома ВКП(б) (1940—1944).

Когда Красная Армия освободила от немецких оккупантов большую часть Украинский ССР и на её освобождённой территории был воссоздан Украинский пограничный округ, генерал Бурмак назначен 27 июля 1944 года первым начальником Управления пограничных войск Украинского округа с штабом в Львове. Наряду с принятием государственной границы под охрану и восстановлением пограничной инфраструктуры, пограничники на Украине вели ожесточённые боевые действия против формирований Украинской повстанческой армии.

30 марта 1946 года П. В. Бурмак назначен на должность начальника Главного управления внутренних войск МВД СССР, стал 6-м командующим этими войсками. В январе 1947 года внутренние войска были переданы из МВД в МГБ СССР. Во время его руководства внутренними войсками они, кроме выполнения своих обычных функций по охране объектов промышленности, вели боевые действия и специальные операции против националистического вооружённого подполья и бандформирований на Украине (УПА), в Белоруссии («Чёрный кот» и ей подобные) и в Прибалтике («Лесные братья»). Когда Главное управление внутренних войск было 3 апреля 1952 года преобразовано в Главное управление внутренней охраны МГБ СССР, генерал Бурмак остался его начальником.

19 марта 1953 года в ходе масштабной реорганизации системы государственных и силовых органов после смерти И. В. Сталина генерал П. В. Бурмак был освобождён от командования внутренними войсками, возвращён в пограничные войска и назначен заместителем начальника Главного управления пограничных войск МВД СССР. 19 декабря 1953 года был уволен в запас по состоянию здоровья.

Умер П. В. Бурмак 7 июня 1969 года. Похоронен в Киеве на Лукьяновском военном кладбище.

Воинские звания
 Капитан (14.03.1936),
 Майор (3.08.1938),
 Комбриг (19.07.1939, минуя звание полковника),
 Генерал-майор (4.06.1940),
 Генерал-лейтенант (17.11.1944).

Награды
 2 Ордена Ленина (25.07.1949, 29.10.1949)
 2 Ордена Красного Знамени (3.11.1944, 29.10.1948)
 Орден Суворова II степени (21.09.1945)
 Орден Богдана Хмельницкого II степени (20.10.1944)
 3 Ордена Красной Звезды (20.09.1943, 24.08.1949)
 Нагрудный знак «Заслуженный работник НКВД» (15.02.1941)
 медали

Труды
 Бурмак. П. В.. Тревожные рубежи. : Радянський письменник. 1964 г. — 340 стр.

Примечания

Литература
  — С.87, 109, 209-212.
 Бочков В. М. //
 Соловьев Д. Ю. Все генералы Сталина. Том 3. — М., 2019. — ISBN: 9785532106444. — С.14—15.

 Украинские националистические организации в годы Второй мировой войны. Документы. В двух томах. — Том 2. 1944—1945. Биографические справки. — М.: РОССПЭН, 2012. — С. 1016—1017.

Ссылки
 П. В. Бурмак на сайте «Архив Александра Н. Яковлева».
 Награды и воинские звания П. В. Бурмака.

Пограничники СССР
Выпускники Военной академии имени М. В. Фрунзе
Руководители внутренних войск
Члены КПСС
Похороненные на Лукьяновском военном кладбище


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Temperature conversion
======================

Unlike meters and seconds, the temperature units fahrenheits and
celsius are non-multiplicative units. These temperature units are
expressed in a system with a reference point, and relations between
temperature units include not only a scaling factor but also an offset.
Pint supports these type of units and conversions between them.
The default definition file includes fahrenheits, celsius,
kelvin and rankine abbreviated as degF, degC, degK, and degR.

For example, to convert from celsius to fahrenheit:

.. testsetup::

   from pint import UnitRegistry
   ureg = UnitRegistry()
   Q_ = ureg.Quantity

.. doctest::

   >>> from pint import UnitRegistry
   >>> ureg = UnitRegistry()
   >>> Q_ = ureg.Quantity
   >>> home = Q_(25.4, ureg.degC)
   >>> print(home.to('degF'))
   77.7200004 degF

or to other kelvin or rankine:

.. doctest::

    >>> print(home.to('kelvin'))
    298.55 kelvin
    >>> print(home.to('degR'))
    537.39 degR

Additionally, for every non-multiplicative temperature unit
in the registry, there is also a *delta* counterpart to specify
differences. Absolute units have no *delta* counterpart.
For example, the change in celsius is equal to the change
in kelvin, but not in fahrenheit (as the scaling factor
is different).

.. doctest::

   >>> increase = 12.3 * ureg.delta_degC
   >>> print(increase.to(ureg.kelvin))
   12.3 kelvin
   >>> print(increase.to(ureg.delta_degF))
   22.14 delta_degF

..
Subtraction of two temperatures given in offset units yields a *delta* unit:

.. doctest::

    >>> Q_(25.4, ureg.degC) - Q_(10., ureg.degC)
    <Quantity(15.4, 'delta_degC')>

You can add or subtract a quantity with *delta* unit and a quantity with
offset unit:

.. doctest::

    >>> Q_(25.4, ureg.degC) + Q_(10., ureg.delta_degC)
    <Quantity(35.4, 'degC')>
    >>> Q_(25.4, ureg.degC) - Q_(10., ureg.delta_degC)
    <Quantity(15.4, 'degC')>

If you want to add a quantity with absolute unit to one with offset unit, like here

.. doctest::

    >>> heating_rate = 0.5 * ureg.kelvin/ureg.min
    >>> Q_(10., ureg.degC) + heating_rate * Q_(30, ureg.min)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
            ...
    pint.unit.OffsetUnitCalculusError: Ambiguous operation with offset unit (degC, kelvin).

you have to avoid the ambiguity by either converting the offset unit to the
absolute unit before addition

.. doctest::

    >>> Q_(10., ureg.degC).to(ureg.kelvin) + heating_rate * Q_(30, ureg.min)
    <Quantity(298.15, 'kelvin')>

or convert the absolute unit to a *delta* unit:

.. doctest::

    >>> Q_(10., ureg.degC) + heating_rate.to('delta_degC/min') * Q_(30, ureg.min)
    <Quantity(25.0, 'degC')>

In contrast to subtraction, the addition of quantities with offset units
is ambiguous, e.g. for *10 degC + 100 degC* two different result are reasonable
depending on the context, *110 degC* or *383.15 °C (= 283.15 K + 373.15 K)*.
Because of this ambiguity pint raises an error for the addition of two
quantities with offset units (since pint-0.6).

Quantities with *delta* units are multiplicative:

.. doctest::

    >>> speed = 60. * ureg.delta_degC / ureg.min
    >>> print(speed.to('delta_degC/second'))
    1.0 delta_degC / second

However, multiplication, division and exponentiation of quantities with
offset units is problematic just like addition. Pint (since version 0.6)
will by default raise an error when a quantity with offset unit is used in
these operations. Due to this quantities with offset units cannot be created
like other quantities by multiplication of magnitude and unit but have
to be explicitly created:

.. doctest::

    >>> home = 25.4 * ureg.degC
    Traceback (most recent call last):
        ...
    pint.unit.OffsetUnitCalculusError: Ambiguous operation with offset unit (degC).
    >>> Q_(25.4, ureg.degC)
    <Quantity(25.4, 'degC')>

As an alternative to raising an error, pint can be configured to work more
relaxed via setting the UnitRegistry parameter *autoconvert_offset_to_baseunit*
to true. In this mode, pint behaves differently:

* Multiplication of a quantity with a single offset unit with order +1 by
  a number or ndarray yields the quantity in the given unit.

.. doctest::

    >>> ureg = UnitRegistry(autoconvert_offset_to_baseunit = True)
    >>> T = 25.4 * ureg.degC
    >>> T
    <Quantity(25.4, 'degC')>

* Before all other multiplications, all divisions and in case of
  exponentiation [#f1]_ involving quantities with offset-units, pint
  will convert the quantities with offset units automatically to the
  corresponding base unit before performing the operation.

    >>> 1/T
    <Quantity(0.00334952269302, '1 / kelvin')>
    >>> T * 10 * ureg.meter
    <Quantity(527.15, 'kelvin * meter')>

You can change the behaviour at any time:

    >>> ureg.autoconvert_offset_to_baseunit = False
    >>> 1/T
    Traceback (most recent call last):
        ...
    pint.unit.OffsetUnitCalculusError: Ambiguous operation with offset unit (degC).

The parser knows about *delta* units and uses them when a temperature unit
is found in a multiplicative context. For example, here:

.. doctest::

    >>> print(ureg.parse_units('degC/meter'))
    delta_degC / meter

but not here:

.. doctest::

    >>> print(ureg.parse_units('degC'))
    degC

You can override this behaviour:

.. doctest::

    >>> print(ureg.parse_units('degC/meter', as_delta=False))
    degC / meter

Note that the magnitude is left unchanged:

.. doctest::

    >>> Q_(10, 'degC/meter')
    <Quantity(10, 'delta_degC / meter')>

To define a new temperature, you need to specify the offset. For example,
this is the definition of the celsius and fahrenheit::

    degC = degK; offset: 273.15 = celsius
    degF = 5 / 9 * degK; offset: 255.372222 = fahrenheit

You do not need to define *delta* units, as they are defined automatically.

.. [#f1] If the exponent is +1, the quantity will not be converted to base
         unit but remains unchanged.

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