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cars? If you're a computer whiz-kid, you could grab your first million (122)_______ with nothing more dangerous than a personal computer, a telephone and a modern to (123)_______them.
All you have to do is to dial into the networks which like the computers in large organizations together, type in a couple of passwords and you can rummage (124)_______in the information that's stored there (125)_______your heart's content. Fortunately it isn't always quite as easy as it appears. But, as more and more information is (126)_______and stored on computer, whether it is details of your bank account or the number of tins of baked beans in the stockroom at the supermarket, a computer crime seems set to grow.
A couple of months ago a newspaper reported that five British banks were being (127)_______to ransom by a gang of hackers who had managed to (128)_______their computer. The hackers were demanding money (129) _____revealing exactly how they did it. In case like this, banks may consider paying just so that they can protect themselves better in the future.
As with (130)________else, hackers start young in the States. A 12-year-old boy in Detroit was (131)_______of entering a company's credit rating computer and (132)_____the numbers he found there. His mother told reporters that he spent up to 14 hours on his computer during the weekend.
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vor ______________ you, Mark? Could you please move this sofa backwards? A. for B. of C. with D. to 42. I read the contract again and again ______________ avoiding making spelling mistakes. A. with a view to B. In view of C. by means of D. in terms of 43. This kind of product has to be used ______________ 3 days ______________ purchase. A. by / of B. within / of C. on / on D. on /after 44. Too many tests and exams have put high school students ______________ pressure. A. in B. on C. under D. into 45. The president refused to make any judgement ______________ the situation. A. on B. with C. for D. of 46. ______________ your effort and talent, we wonder if you can work full time for us. A. Regarding B. In regard of C. With respect to D. On behalf of 47. Let's move ______________ to the next item on the agenda. A. in B. by C. up D. on 48. I am fed ______________ hanging around here with nothing to do. A. up on B. out of C. up with D. by 49. I do not know my uncle is ______________ doubt ______________ everything he sees. A. with / about B. in / of C. of / for D. in / with 50. ______________ Xmas, more shopping is done. A. On B. For C. At D. In 51. On farms, when the cattle are too ill, farmers often have to put them ______________. A. in B. down C. up D. away 52. ______________ my shyness, they refused to give me the job as a receptionist. A. Despite B. As for C. Due to D. Instead of 53. The professor broke ______________ her lecture when she heard a cell phone ringing. A. away B. in C. off D. out 54. I could not ______________ the peak of the mountain in the foggy weather. A. get over B. make out C. see through D. go into 55. We all need friends whom we can ______________ when we are in trouble. A. call on B. break off C. live on D. go by 56. Constantly staying in cold weather may bring ______________ pneumonia. A. in B. about C. up D. on 57. Don't let poachers get ______________ hunting animals. They deserve to be punished. A. off B. out of C. on D. away 58. I was named ______________ a wealthy relative of my Mom's. A. after B. to C. as D. in on 59. I cannot stay up late at night; I prefer ______________ in early. A. going B. breaking C. turning D. doing 60. My little son is learning how to ______________ his shoes. A. put off B. get on C. take to D. do up B. IDENTIFY THE MISTAKE IN EACH SENTENCE 61. Graham Bell was once a teacher who ran a school for the deaf in Massachusetts. A.B. C.D. 62. Telephoto, a process for sending pictures by wire, has been invented during the 1920s, and the first transcontinental telephoto was sent in 1925. A.B. C.D. 63. The immune system is the bodies way of protecting itself against viruses. A. B.C.D. 64. What I told her a few days ago were not the solutions to most of her problems. A.B.C.D. 65. However cheap it is, the poor quality products cannot always appeal to customers. A.B.C.D. 66. If you do not keep my secret, I will reveal surely yours. A.B.C.D. 67. Jim's grandfather left him 50,000 dollars, this was too big a sum to him. A.B.C.D. 68. So far Linda has been writing 5 novels on the problems teenagers have to cope with in the new world. A.B.C.D. 69. The choice of which restaurant to go to for tonight's meal is entirely your. A.B.C.D. 70. You mustn't have seen my sister, for I have no sister living on the other end of this city A.B.C.D. C. PHONETICS Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others: 71. A. chapter B. yatch C. manage D. panel 72. A. example B. feed C. ink D. inhumane 73. A. junior B. humour C. stew D. purify 74. A. hall B. doll C. chalk D. forecast 75. A. recite B. reconcile C. refund D. reproduce Choose the word whose stress pattern is pronounced different from that of the others: 76. A. relax B. recognize C. realize D. relatively 77. A. permanent B. power C. permission D. carpet 78. A. photography B. minority C. heroic D. amateur 79. A. practicality B. politician C. uncontrollable D. comfortable 80. A. managerial B. determination C. unbelievable D. inability D. VOCABULARY Supply the appropriate form of the words in the brackets: 81. At the end of the concert, the audience gave the young pianist a ___________ ovation. (STAND) 82. The university has ________ the use of dictionaries during language examinations. (AUTHOR) 83. A dilemma is a situation where a difficult choice has to be made between two, sometimes unpleasant, _________. (ALTERNATE) 84. It is very difficult to find Mrs. Burton's shop, for it was __________ from all others in the street. (DISTINGUISH) 85. When we arrived at the hotel, we were amazed at the ___________ hospitality of the fans. (COMPARE) 86. The teacher's criticism has ___________ Tom's interest in learning. (DIE) 87. The staff's bad behavior has brought ________ to the whole company. (GRACEFUL) 88. Panda is _____________ to China only. (NATION) 89. Traditional _________ are a good source of fun and entertainment. (CELEBRATE) 90. The public were angry with the Minister's ______________ to tell the truth about the bribery. (REFUSE) Fill each blank with an appropriate word formed from one of the words in the list below: similarity – suit – advise – value – fit – dispense – predict – water – foolish – warn It is astonishing how many people set off to climb Mount Olympus in completely (91) ________ clothing. The weather conditions on the mountain are notoriously (92) _______but people are (93) ________ into thinking that just because the bottom is sunny, the summit will be (94) ______ warm and bright. Nothing could be further from the truth. Bearing in mind that " (95) _______ is forearmed", consult the local climbing club about likely conditions before setting off. Such local knowledge can be absolutely (96) ________ and you would, to put it mildly, be extremely (97) _________ to ignore it. Whatever the likely weather, a good pair of boots is (98) _______ and is some form of (99) _______. And it is a steep climb so it goes without saying that a reasonable level of (100) ________ is essential. E. REWRITE WITHOUT CHANGING MEANING 101. It was wrong of you to allow a 4-year-old child to walk home alone. - You should ................................................................................ 102. I could realize how important the family is only after I left home. - Not until .................................................................................... 103. Mrs. Green is proud of her son's contribution to the play. - Mrs. Green is proud of what ........................................................ 104. The recruited very few young engineers. - Hardly ....................................................................................... 105. Only two out of the five rooms we have booked have air conditioning. - We have booked five rooms, only .................................................. 106. Jane seems to come to the performance lat. - It looks .................................................................................... 107. I could hold a big party due to my Mom's help. - Had it ........................................................................................ 108. Success depends on hard work. - The harder ................................................................................. 109. Fiona was so disappointed that she could not keep on working. - Such ........................................................................................ 110. Although Richard is competent in his work, he does not know how to deal with this client. - Competent ............................................................................... F. CLOZE TESTS Supply each blank with one word: The director has overall responsibility for the artistic side of a production and must (111) ____ all the rehearsal and keep an (112) _____ on all the backstage and technical departments (113) _____. Directors tend to have (114) ______ personalities and can be temperamental. But the success or (115) _____ of a play is in their (116) ______. It is their job to (117) _____ out the imaginative qualities in the actors in order to get the best response from them. Some directors let actors decide on their own interpretation while (118) _____ give detailed instruction as to (119) ______ they want the parts to be played. Some directors also (120) ______ on duties, such as planning a season's program and supervising the budget. Choose the suitable word to fill in each blank: You can rob a bank without leaving your house these days. Who needs stocking (121)______, guns and getaway cars? If you're a computer whiz-kid, you could grab your first million (122)_______ with nothing more dangerous than a personal computer, a telephone and a modern to (123)_______them. All you have to do is to dial into the networks which like the computers in large organizations together, type in a couple of passwords and you can rummage (124)_______in the information that's stored there (125)_______your heart's content. Fortunately it isn't always quite as easy as it appears. But, as more and more information is (126)_______and stored on computer, whether it is details of your bank account or the number of tins of baked beans in the stockroom at the supermarket, a computer crime seems set to grow. A couple of months ago a newspaper reported that five British banks were being (127)_______to ransom by a gang of hackers who had managed to (128)_______their computer. The hackers were demanding money (129) _____revealing exactly how they did it. In case like this, banks may consider paying just so that they can protect themselves better in the future. As with (130)________else, hackers start young in the States. A 12-year-old boy in Detroit was (131)_______of entering a company's credit rating computer and (132)_____the numbers he found there. His mother told reporters that he spent up to 14 hours on his computer during the weekend. Prevention is probably easier than detection, and many companies now spend lots of time and money (133)______programs using passwords and codes. Of course all this is no use (134)_____if computer users tell each other their password, stick it on their screen so they don't (135)______it or use passwords like "password". It all happens. There are plenty of software companies which specialize in writing software that makes computers hacker-proof. One company in the States set (136)______to prove that its system can defeat hacker by asking over 2000 of them to try to hack it. The hackers were given 2 weeks to discover the secret message stored on 2 PCs in offices in New York and San Francisco. The message (137)______: "The persistent hunter who (138)____his prize (139)______becomes the hunted." You will be relieved – or perhaps disappointed – to learn that (140)______hacker managed it. 121. A. covers B. veils C. masks D. helmets 122. A. supported B. armed C. provided D. tampered 123. A. connect B. link C. combine D. join 124. A. further B. out C. about D. off 125. A. off B. to C. with D. within 126. A. dealt B. progressed C. tackled D. processed 127. A. held B. asked C. kept D. captured 128. A. turn off B. break into C. get into D. come up with 129. A. on the verge of B. with exception of C. in answer to D. in return for 130. A. anything B. everybody C. nothing D. somebody 131. A. able B. capable C. possible D. enabled 132. A. scattering B. dumping C. distributing D. loading 133. A. thinking B. discovering C. devising D. manufacturing 134. A. of all B. in all C. even D. whatsoever 135. A. forget B. notice C. bother D. mention 136. A. about B. out C. off D. away 137. A. read B. is read C. was reading D. had been read 138. A. offers B. reaches C. obtains D. wins 139. A. now and then B. now and again C. sooner or later D. safe and sound 140. A. none B. not any C. neither D. hardly G. Read the following passages and choose the best answer to the questions: KETCHUP The sauce that is today called ketchup ( or catsup) in Western cultures is a tomato_based sauce that is quite distinct from Eastern ancestors of this product. A sauce called ke-tjap was in used in China at least as early as the 17th century, but the Chinese version of the sauce was made of picked fish, shellfish, and spices. The popularity of this Chinese sauce spread to Singapore and Malaysia, where it was called kechap. The Indonesian ketjab derives its name from the same source of the Malysian sauce but is made from very different ingredients. The Indonesian ketjab is made by cooking black soy beans, fermenting them, placing them in a salt brine for at least a week , cooking the resulting solution further, and sweetening it heavily; this process results in a dark, thick and sweet variation of soy sauce. Early in the 18th century, sailors from the Bristish navy came across this exotic sauce on voyages to Malaysia and Singapore and brought samples of it back to England on return voyages. English chefs tried to recreate the sauce but were unable to do exactly because key ingredients were unknown or unavailable in England; chefs ended up substituting ingredients such as mushrooms and walnuts in an attempt to recreate the special taste of the original Asian sauce. Variations of this sauce became quite the rage in the 18th century England, appearing in a number of recipe books and features as an exotic addition to menus from the period. The English version did not contain tomatoes, and it was not until the end of the 18th century that tomatoes became a main ingredients in the ketchup of the United States. It is quite notable that tomatoes were added to the sauce and that tomatoes had previously been considered quite dangerous to health. That tomato had been cultivated by the Aztecs, who had called it tomalt; however, early botanists had recognized that tomato was a member of the Solanecaea family, wich does include a number of poisonous plant. The leaves of the tomato plant are poisonous, though of course the fruit is not. Thomas Jefferson, who cultivated the tomato in his gardens at Monticello and served dishes containing tomatoes at lavish feasts, often receive credit for changing the reputation of the tomato. Soon after Jefferso had introduced the tomato to American society, recipes combining the new fashinonabe tomato with the equally fashionable and exotic sauce known as ketchap began to appear. By the middle of the 19th century, both of the tomato and tomato ketchup were stables of the American kitchen. Tomato ketchup,popular though it was,was quite time-consuming to prepare. In 1876,the first mass-produced tomato ketchup, a product of German-American Henry Heizn,went on sale and achieved immediate success. From tomato ketchup, Heizn branched out into a number of other products, including various sauces, pickles, and relishes. 141. It is not stated in paragraph 1 that A. the Chinese sauce was in existence in the 17th century B. the Malaysian sauce was similar to the Chinese sauce C. the Chinese sauce was made from seafood and speciesD. the Indonesian sauce was similar to the Chinese sauce 142. "it" in paragraph 1 refers to A. a salt brineB. a weekC. the resulting solutionD. this process 143. What ingredient is not used to make Indonesian sauce? A. soy beans B. sugarC. saltD. mushrooms 144. It can be inferred from the second paragraph that mushrooms and walnuts were A. difficult to find in England B. not part of the original Asian recipeC. not native to England D. transported to England to Asia 145. The phrase "became quite the rage" in paragraph 2 means A. became an angerB. became strange C. became popularD. became a protest 146. The author mentions the English version at the beginning of the third paragraph in order to A. indicate what will be discussed in the coming paragraphB. explain why tomatoes were considered dangerous C. make a reference to the topic of the previous pharagraphD. provide an example of a sauce using tomatoes 147. According to the paragraph 3, the tomato plant A. was considered poisonous plants B. is related to some poisonous plantsC. has edible leavesD. has fruit tat is sometimes quite poisonous 148. the word "staples" in paragraph 4 could be best replaced by A. standard elements B. strong attachmentC. necessary utensilsD. rare alternatives 149. Where in paragraph 4 can the following sentence go in? "It turned from very bad to exceedingly good" A. at the beginning of the paragraph 4B. before the sentence " Soon after Jefferson …"C. before the sentence "By the middle of the 19th century …"D. at the end of the paragraph 4 150. Tomato ketchup is closest to the word A. ketchapB. ke-tjapC. ketjabD. kechap THE BEATLES In the 1960s, The Beatles were probably the most famous pop group in the whole world. Since then, there have been a great many groups that have achieved enormous fame, so it is perhaps difficult now to imagine how sensational The Beatles were at that time. They were four boys from the north of England and none of them had any training in music. They started by performing and recording songs by black Americans and they had some success with these songs. Then they started writing their own songs and that was when they became really popular. The Beatles changed pop music. They were the first pop group to achieve great success from songs they had written themselves. After that it became common for groups and singers to write their own songs. The Beatles did not have a long career. Their first hit record was in 1963 and they split up in 1970. They stopped doing live performances in 1966 because it had become too dangerous for them – their fans were so excited that they surrounded them and tried to take their clothes as souvenirs! However, today some of their songs remain as famous as they were when they first came out. Throughout the world many people can sing part of a Beatles song if you ask them. 151. The passage is mainly about A. How the Beatles became more successful than other groupsB. Why the Beatles split up after 7 yearsC. The Beatles' fame and successD. Many people's ability to sing a Beatles song 152. The four boys of the Beatles A. Came from the same familyB. Were at the same ageC. Came from a town in the north of EnglandD. Received good training in music 153. The word "sensational" is closest in meaning to A. NotoriousB. BadC. ShockingD. Popular 154. The first songs of the Beatles were A. Written by themselvesB. Broadcast on the radioC. Paid a lot of moneyD. Written by black Americans 155. What is not true about the Beatles? A. The members had no training in musicB. They had a long stable careerC. They became famous when they wrote their own songsD. They were afraid of being hurt by fans 156. The Beatles stopped their live performances because A. They had earned enough moneyB. They did not want to work with each otherC. They spent more time writing their own songsD. They were afraid of being hurt by fans. 157. The year 1970 was the time when A. They split upB. They changed pop musicC. They started their careerD. They stopped singing live 158. What the fans of the Beatles often did was A. Sing together with themB. Take their clothes as souvenirsC. Ask them to write more songsD. Ask them why they should separate 159. Some songs of the Beatles now A. Are still famous as they used to beB. Became too old to singC. Are sung by crazy fansD. Are the most famous 160. The tone of the passage is that of A. AdmirationB. CriticismC. NeutralD. Sarcasm T …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (1-3) Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others (0.6 pt) 1. A. set B. head C. heat D. dead 2. A. machine B. inspiration C. exchange D. champagne 3. A. pleased B. erased C. increased D. amused (4-20) Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in each sentence (3.8 pts) 4. The examination will be held ________ June, 2007. A. in B. on C. at D. to 5. ___________ the first and second nights of Passover, Jewish families often enjoy the Seder. A. In B. On C. Over D. At 6. Wearing uniforms help poor students feel equal _________ others. A. up B. on C. off D. to 7. The boy was greatly proud _______ his success at school. A. on B. of C. at D. in 8. Cong Vinh seems to be well-qualified _________ the latest position. A. in B. by C. for D. of 9. He read his article on the website last night, ________? A. doesn't he B. didn't he C. did he D. hasn't he 10. Are all the students used ___________ their summer vacation in the countryside? A. to spend B. spend C. to spending D. spending 11. Passover ________ in Israel and by all Jewish people. A. is hold B. is celebrating C. celebrates D. is celebrated 12. "When will Mr. Ba retire? He began ________ for the company thirty years ago." A. to be worked B. to working C. will work D. to work 13. If Ba were rich, he ________ around the world. A. should travel B. travelled C. could travel D. must travel 14. They are still playing on the field ___________ it is raining heavily. A. though B. because C. but D. despite 15. Study harder _________________. A. if you will pass the exam B. and you will pass the examC. unless you pass the exam D. or you will pass the exam 16. The girl wishes she ____________ in Nha Trang for the festival next week. A. will stay B. could stay C. is staying D. can stay 17. On the way to school, Long often stops _________ a newspaper. A. to buy B. buy C. buying D. bought 18. The cooker ________ is displayed at Nguyen Kim Supermarket looks modern. A. why B. who C. which D. whose 19. _ "Let's go to Vung Tau on the weekend." _ "_____________" A. That's a fine day B. That's a good trip C. Yes, please D. Yes, let's 20. _ "Thank you very much" _ "______________" A. Are you worried? B. You're welcome C. Not all D. Nothing 21. For most households, lighting ____________ for 10 percent to 15 percent of the electricity bill. A. accounts B. applies C. asks D. prepares 22. Ho Chi Minh City will ___________ temperatures between 25oC and 30¬¬oC tomorrow. A. experience B. arrive C. achieve D. occur (23-30) Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in the following passage (1.6 pts) Mr. Brown and some (23) __________________ conservationists are on a very dirty beach now. Today they are ready to make the beach a clean and beautiful place again. After listening to Mr. Brown's instructions, they are divided (24) ____________ three groups. Group I needs to walk along the shore. Group 2 should check the sand, (25) _________ group 3 has to check among the rocks. Garbage must be put into plastic bags, and the bags will be (26) __________ by Mr. Jones. He will take the bags to the garbage (27) _________. Each member will be given a map to find the right place. They won't eat the picnic lunch (28) __________ by Mrs. Smith until the whole area is clean. (29) _________ are eager to work hard so as to refresh this (30) ________ area. 23. A. voluntary B. volunteers C. volunteering D. volunteer 24. A. in B. to C. into D. onto 25. A. or B. and C. because D. though 26. A. selected B. chosen C. collected D. elected 27. A. dump B. yard C. area D. place 28. A. happened B. provided C. achieved D. shown 29. A. Them all B. They all C. All them D. All they 30. A. spoiling B. spoil C. spoiled D. spoils (31-34) Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting (0.8 pt) 31. You're tired as you got up too late to watch TV last night.A B C D 32. The Internet is a very fast and convenient way for us to get a lot of informations.A
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Medical Supplies Delivered to Haiti Hospital Not Enough to End Staff Strike, Workers Say
Workers count supplies that they received from health ministry, at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince
The health ministry delivered a truckload of medical supplies to Haiti's biggest public hospital Thursday, but resident doctors said it wouldn't come close to ending a strike that has spread through the economically straitened health system.
A few dozen boxes of gauze, gloves and other basic materials were unloaded by government workers at the chronically under-resourced General Hospital in downtown Port-au-Prince. Officials vowed to bring at least five more truckloads of supplies in coming days.
But Dr. Jhon Evenst Douyon, a spokesman for striking resident doctors at the Hospital of the State University of Haiti, described the delivery as an empty gesture amid stalled negotiations with the government.
"These supplies that came today would get used up after three days here if things were running normally," said Douyon, a second-year anesthesiology resident at the teaching hospital.
The hospital's executive director, Maurice Fils Mainville, said he was not at liberty to discuss details of negotiations. But he acknowledged the new materials and equipment would not be enough to end the staff strike.
"We have always worked with what we have and it's never been enough," Mainville told reporters.
Resident doctors have refused to take new patients since late March, saying the government doesn't provide adequate resources or pay them fairly.
The walkout started after a physical fight between an administrator and a resident. Nurses and cleaning staff joined in, leaving the emergency room and wards empty except for a few stragglers or sick prisoners shackled to beds.
Across Haiti, staff at other long-struggling public hospitals have joined the strike in solidarity, protesting the persistent dearth of resources, unsafe working conditions and dismal salaries for medical professionals.

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How well-deserved is the great success of Crazy Rich Asians?
Nick Barrickman
Directed by Jon M. Chu; written by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim, based on the novel by Kevin Kwan
Jon M. Chu's Crazy Rich Asians is a romantic comedy, adapted from Kevin Kwan's 2013 bestselling novel of the same title.
The film is set in the Asian city-state of Singapore. It follows a middle-class Chinese-American professor as she accompanies her boyfriend and attends a wedding, only to discover he is heir to one of Singapore's largest fortunes. Tensions and problems ensue.
A great deal of fanfare has surrounded the opening of the film, due principally to the fact that Crazy Rich Asians is the first major Hollywood picture since The Joy Luck Club (1993) to feature an all-Asian cast. The media is going to considerable lengths, in its usual manipulative manner intended to dull the critical faculties, to convince potential audience members, Asian and non-Asian alike, that their social and even moral credentials are in question if they fail to watch this supposedly "groundbreaking" film.
This aggressive public relations campaign has had some success. A sequel has already been announced. According to box office statistics, the film raked in over $34 million at movie theaters during its opening weekend, a high point for the romantic-comedy genre and easily recouping the film's $30 million in production costs. A recent New York Times article noted that 38 percent of the first weekend's filmgoers identified as Asian, a significant rise in viewership from the regular 10 percent of movie attendees from that demographic.
In what is by now standard operating procedure, the Times set the tone for the media in general with its identity politics/ethnicity obsession. In a comment on Crazy Rich Asians, Robert Ito gushed August 8 ("'Crazy Rich Asians': Why Did It Take So Long to See a Cast Like This?"): "How often [does] a Hollywood filmmaker go looking for a whole bunch of Asians for anything?"
As for the content of Crazy Rich Asians itself, the plot focuses on the relationship between New York University professors Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) and Nick Young (Henry Golding). Young, the scion of one of Asia's wealthiest families, has kept a low profile about his family wealth around Rachel, hoping to maintain something of a normal life with his American girlfriend.
His anonymity is shattered when he invites Rachel to accompany him on a trip to Singapore, where he will be attending his best friend's wedding with various relatives. From the moment the pair step on the plane and are given first class tickets, she is suspicious. Asked about his family's wealth, Nick reservedly explains, "We're comfortable"—to which Rachel replies, "That sounds like something a really rich person would say."
The difficulties begin when Rachel is introduced to Nick's extended family at a party held at their luxurious gated mansion-home in Singapore. In particular, Nick's mother, Eleanor Young (Malaysian film star Michelle Yeoh), is contemptuous of Rachel's commoner status, perceived lack of social graces and disregard for tradition.
Other interactions with cousins, aunts, nannies and the rest also go badly. The rising generation of the Youngs may be less well-mannered, but is equally ruthless and, for the most part, repugnant. While accompanying the bride-to-be, Araminta (Sonoya Mizuno), to a private resort for her bachelorette soiree, Rachel suffers humiliations and social ostracism of a sociopathic character from a group of Nick's jealous female pursuers.
Certain of the episodes involving Rachel, a middle-class "outsider," and Nick's wealthy and exclusive family, ring true.
In particular, the veteran Yeoh (The Heroic Trio; Tomorrow Never Dies; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) is convincing as the severe and imperious matriarch Eleanor, who has devoted her life to guarding her family's wealth and reputation (at one point, she confronts Rachel in the hallway and coldly, quietly proclaims: "You will never be enough"). Eleanor's haughtiness makes it entirely believable when she orders a private investigator to look into Rachel's past, digging up personally damaging information on her son's unsuspecting girlfriend.
Whether the filmmakers were aware of the ultimate irony or not, one certainly understands Nick's decision to keep Rachel in the dark about his fabulously wealthy and celebrated family: for the most part, they are—or should be—shameful "skeletons in the closet"!
Unfortunately, the writer and director are not conscious of such facts, otherwise they would not have assembled a film that is so impressed and overwhelmed by vast wealth, one of the very worst premises for a film or any artistic work. We are apparently supposed to share Rachel's awe at her first vision of the Young estate, so lovingly treated by Chu's camera. It is also possible, however, to find the billionaire family and their grandiose palace vulgar, cultureless and crude. More about this below.
What saves Crazy Rich Asians from instant and total dismissal is the presence of certain pleasures, guilty or otherwise. It is a delight, for instance, to encounter a number of talented Asian performers, faces and personalities that are generally absent from Hollywood films. Malaysian-born Henry Golding as sensitive, golden boy Nick, a fairy tale figure, has a nearly hopeless task, but he is obviously a gifted actor. A number of the minor family members are eccentric or amusing. The film even contains, almost in spite of itself, at tangential and relatively low-key moments, hints of real life.
In addition, the inclusion of Rachel's college friend Goh (played by hip hop and Internet personality Awkwafina) provides some entertaining moments. Goh, representing a crass, "new money" type, declares that the gauche interior of her family's home was inspired "by Donald Trump's bathroom." Her parvenu character, wealthy enough to belong to the top 1 percent, but only on its margins, and lacking in all refinement, becomes something of a support for Rachel as she navigates the world of the ultra-wealthy. The performances of Ken Jeong as her father and Calvin Wong as her ungainly, vaguely lustful brother, also stand out.
However, Crazy Rich Asians is at its very worst when it chooses in one breath, so to speak, to slavishly worship money and then, in the next, offers its viewers a social-moral tale to the effect that riches have no importance whatsoever for one's personal satisfaction and happiness. It is simply too absurd and unconvincing to be taken seriously.
As Chu's film advances toward its predictable conclusion, the formulaic and conventional elements of the story take greater and greater precedence.
The film's plot is generic, a "Cinderella story" set in Asia, and the dialogue (Nick: "You are so different from all the other girls I grew up with") is often banal. Its focus is far too narrow, and psychologically unbelievable, to be deeply moving. The central conflict is whether or not Rachel will ultimately be accepted by the snobbish Eleanor & Co. The filmmakers, with their wretched denouement, appear simply to have given up on depicting a realistic human relationship.
(For whatever significance it possesses, the conclusion of Kevin Kwan's 2013 novel ended in just the opposite manner.)
Although at times (and especially in regard to characters such as Yeoh's Eleanor), the film seems to criticize or satirize the lifestyle of the super-wealthy, all in all, it pulls its punches and embraces the decadent, empty-headed goings-on.
It is telling that one of the important plot strands in Crazy Rich Asians involves the troubled marriage of Nick's cousin Astrid (Gemma Chan) to a man from a humble background who is terribly conscious and resentful of Astrid's wealth. She is obliged to hide her expensive purchases from him. Astrid's great moment of personal "liberation" arrives, dear reader, when she breaks from her husband (after discovering he is having an affair) and now feels sufficiently "empowered" to wear her $1.2-million earrings in public! The presence of a "real-life" Malay princess at the $40 million wedding, who condescends to converse with Rachel, just about completes the picture.
Of course, Crazy Rich Asians also takes place in a fantasy Singapore, or a portion of the highly stratified city-state only available to a tiny portion of the population. The working class lives under a repressive, authoritarian regime, which, until recently, enthusiastically carried out executions by hanging (in the mid-1990s, Singapore had the second highest per-capita execution rate in the world) and widely carries out or encourages caning in prisons, schools and the military.
Portraying Rachel Chu, a professor at an expensive, private university, as an "ordinary" Asian American is also misleading. According to the results of a Pew Research Center poll released last month, "From 1970 to 2016, the gap in the standard of living between Asians near the top and the bottom of the income ladder nearly doubled, and the distribution of income among Asians transformed from being one of the most equal to being the most unequal among America's major racial and ethnic groups." Such is the reality that racialist and identity politics excludes.
In an interview with the Times, novelist Kwan stated that he'd like to write books about "Crazy poor Asians. Or just crazy average Asians. I've written three books about the 1 percent. Now, it's all about exploring this wide spectrum and showing other facets of Asians around the world." We shall see.
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About Jefferson Pope
Jefferson Pope was born about 1864 somewhere in Florida and died about 1950 somewhere in Florida. Dates for birth and death are estimated. He lived to be about 86 years old.
Marriage 5/12/1887 FL (Calhoun County) 23 yrs old
Jefferson Pope married Nancy Thomas, on May 12,1887 , book 2 page 140
Click on any of the News, Events, or Discoveries buttons above to see historical things that happened during Jefferson Pope's life. These are only some of the major events that affected the life and times of Jefferson, his family, and friends. For example, Jefferson is 1 years old when American Civil war ends with General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA. Reconstruction begins in the "old South"
1 1865 Battle at Natural Bridge (Wakulla County) is a Confederate victory.
1 1865 May 10th -- Union troops occupy Tallahassee. While Tallahassee was the only Confederate state capital east of the Mississippi River that had not been captured, Union troops occupy the capitol following the surrender of the major Confederate armies in the east.
6 1870 During the 1870s, the remaining Seminole Indians begin establishing trading posts and other economy with local settlers.
18 1882 The Florida Central and Western Railroad Company was created. It combines the Florida Central, Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Mobile railroads.
19 1883 Three railroad companies are merged to form the Florida Transit and Penisular Railroad Company. Thee are: Florida Transit Railroad Co., Peninsular Railroad Co, and the Tropical Florida Railroad Co.
20 1884 Most railroads in Florida are passed into the hands of a single company owned and operated by a single management, under the name of The Florida Railway and Navigation Company. It has more that 500 miles of main track in operation and about 300 miles of track under construction. The longest route was the "Western Division" which ran from Tallahassee to Jacksonville - 209 miles.
42 1906 An attempt to drain the Everglades and convert it to farmland begins.
53 1917 Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction.
64 1928 The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy.
1 1865 Mendel publishes his papers on genetics and introduces the concept to the public.
5 1869 Cro-magnon Man fossils are found in France
13 1877 Edison invents the phonograph permitting music and voices to be recorded and replayed.
15 1879 Edison invents the electric light bulb.
25 1889 The first calculating machine is invented and uses punch cards
31 1895 Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance.
33 1897 First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph
36 1900 The cause of yellow fever is discovered. It is proven that the fever is spread by mosquitoes. This rallies an effort to provide better mosquito control.
36 1900 Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams"
37 1901 First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent.
38 1902 The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered.
39 1903 Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk
40 1904 The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming
42 1906 The triode vacuum tube is invented
42 1906 Electrons are discovered by Thomson
42 1906 Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes
48 1912 The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people.
49 1913 Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant
50 1914 The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed
59 1923 Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
59 1923 Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
60 1924 Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
62 1926 Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
63 1927 The first television transmission was announced in England
64 1928 Big bang theory was introduced
72 1936 The first regular television broadcast happens in England
74 1938 Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
82 1946 The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
18 1882 NEWS HEADLINES: Edison creates the first large power station in New York City, making it the first place in America to have electricity.
21 1885 NEWS HEADLINES: Eastman invents the box camera. For the first time photography becomes affordable for the average citizen.
44 1908 NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile
48 1912 White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out.
49 1913 NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures
53 1917 NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism.
55 1919 NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.
74 1938 NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
75 1939 NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
77 1941 NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers.
1 1865 American Civil war ends with General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA. Reconstruction begins in the "old South"
4 1868 An eight-hour work day is established for federal employees.
11 1875 Tennessee enacts Jim Crow law.
12 1876 The National League of Baseball is founded
45 1909 The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
46 1910 Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area.
63 1927 Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
65 1929 Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
66 1930 Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
68 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
69 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone!
70 1934 Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains.
70 1934 Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
71 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
75 1939 Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
79 1943 Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit.
80 1944 On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
81 1945 President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
45 1909 The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe
50 1914 World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days.
53 1917 Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.
55 1919 The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
56 1920 Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.
74 1938 Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
75 1939 Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun.
81 1945 World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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Do carbon offsets work?
Carl Prins
Carbon offsets are designed to reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere to help wind back the dial on warming temperatures.
Carbon offsets are now widely used by companies, governments, and individuals around the world to fight climate change. Otherwise known as 'carbon credits', carbon offsets are designed to reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere to help wind back the dial on warming temperatures. But do carbon offsets actually work?
This article explains how you can identify quality carbon offsets that have the best environmental impact.
What is carbon offsetting?
Although renewable energy continues to gain traction, we don't yet have economy-wide clean energy and infrastructure. Therefore, even with significant efforts to reduce company emissions, for most organisations, it is nearly impossible to cut all company carbon.
But many companies want to be accountable for their own pollution and not harm the environment.
This has led to the introduction of carbon offsets, which allow businesses to take environmental action beyond their area of influence.
Each carbon offset you purchase equals one tonne of emissions avoided, removed or captured from the atmosphere. Carbon offset projects include reforestation, renewable energy, methane removal, energy efficiency, biodiversity conservation, biomass projects, and more.
You can use carbon offsets to 'cancel out' your company's carbon emissions and go carbon neutral today. That's how SMEs are leading the charge to carbon neutrality.
Why is carbon offsetting important?
Alarming evidence now indicates that tipping points, leading to irreversible changes to the climate and ecosystems, are less than 10 years away. Drastic action to halve global carbon emissions before 2030 required to prevent 'runaway' climate change.
Why is carbon the problem?
Greenhouse gases occur naturally in the atmosphere, helping to regulate the earth's temperature. But over the past century, humans have disturbed the natural balances by hyper-loading the atmosphere with carbon, through the burning of fossil fuels. At the same time, we have been destroying nature's way of regulating this (i.e trees) through deforestation and land clearing. As a consequence, the naturally occurring layer of gas around the earth, which acts as a blanket to keep in the heat, is getting too thick. This is causing excess heat to be trapped, leading to increasing temperatures.
The greenhouse effect - Global Climate Change Explorer
A new report by 11,258 scientists in 153 countries warns that the planet "clearly and unequivocally faces a climate emergency" and that we must urgently reduce our carbon emissions.
As such, carbon offsets have quickly mainstreamed to help capture and prevent carbon from entering the atmosphere.
Is carbon offsetting the answer to climate change? Some argue that carbon offsets are a 'band-aid solution' that allows companies to continue to pollute without actually reducing their emissions.
Some companies may indeed offset emissions without making meaningful reductions. However, in practice, this is rarely the case. The process of going carbon neutral usually leads to improved environmental performance and helps companies to expose and address their key environmental impacts.
More importantly, we know that even with clean energy gaining momentum, there is a huge gap that needs to be met to keep global temperatures to well below 2 degrees. Without greater investment in projects which reduce carbon in the atmosphere, it will not be possible to achieve (or come close to achieve) net zero emissions by 2050.
The right kinds of carbon offsets guarantee a quantifiable and actual reduction in greenhouse gases and therefore are crucial in the fight against climate change.
Which carbon offsets work?
Like any product in the market, there are high and low-quality offsets for sale. Thankfully, the number of dodgy offsets has diminished as most offsets follow strict international standards and are independently audited.
The Australian Standard sets out a number of integrity principles that ensure any offset used to make a carbon-neutral claim results in an actual and genuine emission reduction.
The following carbon offset units are eligible under the Australian Standard:
Verified Emissions Reductions (VERs) - issued by the Gold Standard
Verified Carbon Units (VCUs) - issued by the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS).
Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) - issued by the Clean Energy Regulator in accordance with the framework established by the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011.
Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) - issued per the rules of the Kyoto Protocol from Clean Development Mechanism projects
Removal Units (RMUs) - issued by a Kyoto Protocol country
Among those recommended under the Australian Standard, the most stringent and high-quality offsets, as endorsed by international markets, are believed to be 'VERs' issued by the Gold Standard and 'VCUs' issued by the Verified Carbon Standard.
Why do verified carbon offsets work?
High-quality offsets share the following characteristics as set out by the Australian Standard:
Additional - it must be shown that the project (and carbon removal) wouldn't otherwise occur, were it not for the carbon credit funding the project
Permanent - the project must remove carbon permanently
Measurable - the impact of the project must be quantifiable
Transparent - monitoring must be clear and thorough
Address leakage - the project can't create a material increase in emissions elsewhere
Independently audited - a third party needs to verify and confirm the project's impact
Registered - the carbon offset needs to be officially registered
How much do carbon offsets cost?
The cost of an offset ranges from $5 to $45 per tonne. The difference depends on the project location and type, verification body, and amount of offsets purchased.
Do Australian or international carbon offsets work better?
The best carbon offsets go further than just reducing carbon levels by also delivering other environmental, social, and economic benefits. For this reason, the location of an offset project is important.
Australia - There are many benefits of funding offset projects in Australia. For example, some Australian carbon offsets provide support or employment opportunities for Indigenous people to rejuvenate and conserve their land.
International - International projects have significant benefits too. Climate change is a global problem requiring global solutions. As such, there is a real need to support developing nations transition to clean, renewable energy. Additionally, certain international offsets provide vital employment opportunities and improve energy infrastructure in underdeveloped regions, helping to lift disadvantaged communities out of poverty.
¿Por qué no los dos? (why can't we have both?) - Pathzero offers verified Australian and international offsets. If you can't decide which, Pathzero allows clients to bundle projects together for a more diverse impact.
What carbon offsets does Pathzero offer?
Pathzero has partnered with South Pole to bring you a selection of verified carbon offset projects.
The following international leading certified carbon offsets are used by Pathzero:
Verified Carbon Standard and Gold Standard verifications for Carbon Offsets
Carbon offsets that work
Pathzero has hand-picked the following offset projects based on their high-level impact and proven effectiveness:
Mount Sandy conservation - a biodiversity conservation project. Nestled between the Coorong National Park and Lake Albert in South Australia, Mount Sandy protects one of the last pockets of bush and wetlands in the region. The project brings together non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians by promoting land conservation using methods that have been employed by Traditional Custodians, the Ngarrindjeri people, for millennia.
Koru Wind - Located in the town of Lapseki in Turkey's Çanakkale province, the Koru Wind Power Plant comprises 16 turbines spread across several hilltops. The project reduces Turkey's greenhouse gas emissions, whilst also contributing to the extension of the country's national power generation into wind power.
Siam Cement (Biomass to Energy) - by shifting to renewable biomass instead of fossil fuels, five Thai cement manufacturing plants can substantially reduce their carbon emissions – leading to environmental and socio-economic benefits for surrounding communities.
Each of Pathzero's projects was chosen as they align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 SDGs intend to create a better world for people and our planet by 2030. Adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, the SDGs are a call for action by all countries to promote prosperity while protecting the environment.
Purchase carbon offsets and go carbon neutral today
Frustrated by a lack of climate action by politicians and large businesses, small companies in Australia are stepping up and leading the charge to carbon neutrality. This inspires action within local communities and creates a ripple effect of pressure and positive change. For more information, read How can I get a carbon neutral certificate?
Companies of all sizes now realise that by failing to be accountable for their own pollution (i.e organisational carbon emissions) the company is actively choosing to harm the environment.
Pathzero allows small and medium-sized businesses to measure their emissions in minutes and go carbon neutral today. Click here to read our article on measuring your company's carbon emissions.
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GW Plastics was founded in Bethel, Vermont in 1955 by two early Plastics Pioneers, John Galvin and Odin Westgaard. After building GW into a successful business, they sold the company to Carborundum Corporation in 1973. Following a series of large-company M&A transactions in the 1980s, GW ultimately found itself owned by Standard Oil of Ohio which was later purchased by British Petroleum. In 1983, after years of large company neglect, a group of company managers and investors led by Vermont resident and plastics industry veteran Frederic (Fred) Riehl, purchased GW Plastics from BP and returned the company back to its Vermont roots. Had Fred Riehl and others not taken the personal financial risk to purchase GW it is unlikely the company would have remained a viable enterprise in Vermont. In 1998, Brenan (Ben) Riehl, who joined GW after a career with General Electric Plastics, became the President and CEO of GW assuring a smooth leadership transition, and ongoing commitment to Vermont.
During the last two decades, the company has expanded four times in Vermont, investing tens of millions of dollars in equipment, facilities and training while doubling its Vermont employment to more than 300 associates with over 900 associates worldwide. At the same time, GW expanded its market reach both nationally and globally with locations in the United States, Latin America and Asia while earning the trust of market leaders including Abbott Labs; Boston Scientific; Covidien, Idexx; Johnson & Johnson; Philips Healthcare; Robert Bosch and Takata.
GW is proud of the fact that it has been in the forefront of new technology development and manufacturing for transformational healthcare and automotive products such as minimally invasive medical devices and safety restraint systems.
In 2012, GW Plastics reaffirmed its commitment to Vermont, with a $3,500,000 state-of-the art addition to its Royalton, VT Silicones operation in response to increased customer demand. GW expects this expansion to result in high tech job opportunities for Vermonters. At the same time, GW partnered with a number of leading global medical device companies successfully launching several innovative, multi-million dollar programs in its Bethel and Royalton, Vermont locations positioning the company for continued growth in 2013.
Through standardization of facilities, equipment and quality systems at all locations worldwide, GW Plastics offers customers unsurpassed process consistency and cost-efficiency. GW Plastics' professional leadership team, continuity of ownership and long-tenured work force has built a world class company based on consistent performance, long term customer relationships, financial stewardship and workplace satisfaction.
GW Plastics takes its commitment to environmental sustainability seriously. Intrinsic benefits, as well as real financial savings, have led GW to embrace sound environmental stewardship in all of its locations. GW Plastics has completed a number of successful sustainability initiatives in the areas of Energy Reduction, Water Use Reduction and Waste Reduction and is a member of the Green Suppliers Network, a federally funded program to facilitate the establishment and implementation of "Lean and Clean" manufacturing techniques for manufacturers.
Commitment to quality, environmental responsibility, and employee growth, makes GW Plastics a leader in its industry. These ideals not only match the criteria for the Deane C. Davis Outstanding Vermont Business award but outline the principals of the company's mission statement. Their dedication makes GW Plastics a fierce competitor in the race for this award.


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Sens Coaching Changes
Pierre Dorion made his first moves as GM firing most of the coaching staff (Dave Cameron, Andre Tourigny, and Rick Wamsley); Jason Smith was also removed, but offered another position which he may or may not take. Only Chris Schwarz and Tim Pattyson remain (for now) at the NHL level. I hope we see a similar cleansing at the AHL level, but one thing at a time–and frankly, keep in mind this is the most obvious and easy move Dorion can make.
The only potential surprise in all this is Wamsley, who has received a lot of credit for goaltending development since he joined the organisation in the summer of 2010, so let's look at his results and see if that praise is earned:
Brian Elliott – the worst season of his career and is traded to Colorado; has had fantastic numbers in his five seasons in St. Louis (3rd in save% this season)
Pascal Leclaire – utter disaster; retired after the season
Craig Anderson – regained his form after being acquired from Colorado (full breakdown of him below)
Alex Auld – worst season of his career sending him to Europe before he retired
Ben Bishop – had decent numbers, but is traded to Tampa; now the Lightning's #1 goaltender (4th in save% this season)
Robin Lehner – worst numbers of his career; doesn't improve much the following season; now Buffalo's #1 goaltender (9th in save% this season)
Andrew Hammond – career numbers, which came back to earth this season
Wamsley has been unable to get the most out of three #1 goaltenders (we can argue about Lehner, but he's a projected #1 goaltender and that's how Buffalo is treating him), while ushering out the careers of two others. What he can hang his hat on is basically Craig Anderson, and as much as fans love him he's been all over the place with Ottawa (I've excluded the 2010-11 mid-season numbers as I don't see what impact Wamsley could have had):
2011-12 .914
If you remove 12-13 this is not particularly impressive. I don't see anything here that suggests the Sens are truly losing something of value in Wamsley.
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Well, when you put it like that…
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When I began the Leaders & Innovators interview series I didn't expect it to so rapidly explode in popularity. But it did. And today I'm delighted to announce that it continues to attract some of the sharpest minds in financial services. Given the prestige of the participants and their enormous knowledge and insight, it's really no surprise that the interviews have become so popular with people from all corners of financial services.
MFS Investment Management Chairman, Bob Pozen, Boston University Professor of Finance, Zvi Bodie, DWS Scudder Chairman and CEO, Philipp Hensler, Ibbotson Associates President & Chief Investment Officer, Peng Chen, and Allianz Life Chief Distribution Officer, Tom Burns, add to the stellar roster of individuals who have honored me with one-of-a-kind conversations.
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The Voice of Government
Presidential Council
Interview with Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Western Armenia Suren Shahumyan
In a conversation with Western Armenia TV, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Western Armenia Suren Shahumyan presented important episodes of the Artsakh war․ He touched upon the issue of Armenia's readiness for this war, the opportunities to take active steps. He spoke about the general condition of the positions, including the issue of the ability to provide them with all the necessary equipment.
During the conversation, Mr. Shahumyan presented details from the two meetings with the Artsakh President, talking about the proposals made by the RWA, as he referred to the future plans and goals.
Lydia Margosyan's inauguration speech Minister of Foreign Affairs of Western Armenia
Western Armenia supporting Armenians of Artsakh
Lydia Margosyan as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Western Armenia
The first Armenian periodical "The Pigeon of Masis" was published on January 15, 1856 in Paris, France
The hidden treasures of Western Armenia: Tigranakert Waterfall
Only Turkish lobbyists are enthusiastic about the normalization of relations between Ankara and Baku in Armenia
Sergey Lavrov and Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss situation of Artsakh in Moscow


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9 Fast-Growing Startups Job Seekers Should Keep an Eye On
Paysa May 21, 2018 3.0K views
We're living in a truly remarkable age where small companies established in bedrooms and garages by college grads are changing the world. Every year, new tech startups are popping up around the world solving real world problems, tackling global issues and impacting the lives of millions of people globally.
Working for such companies can not only prove to be life-changing in terms of professional and monetary growth but also gives you the opportunity to make a difference in people's lives.
Here's a look at some of the most promising tech startups that have shown exponential growth in recent years and are all set for a groundbreaking 2018. As a job seeker, you should keep a close eye on them.
Auth0 is a hugely successful web security startup from Seattle. It offers secure login, password and identity management services to large corporations through its user-friendly and easy to integrate platform.
Just 5 years into business, Auth0 already manages nearly 50 million logins per day for more than 2000 enterprise customers from more than 70 countries. With such impressive numbers, it's no surprise that Auth0 has secured $54.3 million in 4 separate rounds of funding.
Auth0 has a growing workforce that's comprised of both in-house and remote employees from more than 30 countries. According to Paysa Salaries, Auth0 employees earn $135,666 on average every year.
Search for job openings and career opportunities at Auth0 using Paysa Job Sense.
Shippo is a fast growing API and dashboard that helps eCommerce businesses offer multiple product shipping options to their customers. Using Shippo, marketplace websites, platforms and eCommerce companies gain instant access to real-time shipping rates from some of the top carriers along with the ability to create labels, automate paperwork and track packages – all in a single dashboard.
Not even 4 years since its inception, Shippo has a client base of over 15,000 companies including eCommerce giants eBay and has raised $20 million in funding.
Shippo currently has a team of 60+ employees but is growing at a brisk rate. The average annual salary of a Shippo employee is $97,239.
Search for job openings and career opportunities at Shippo using Paysa Job Sense.
Skydio
Skydio is one of the most exciting startups on this list. It started as a drone specific software company but quickly expanded into other areas as well.
It's flagship product is Skydio R1, an AI powered self-flying drone camera, that follows its owner around capturing stunning visuals from different angles on its way.
Skydio has brought together AI, robotics and consumer hardware specialists from companies like Google, Apple, Tesla and Oculus into one team. And they're quickly expanding.
The average annual salary of Skydio employee is $123,654/year.
Search for job openings and career opportunities at Skydio using Paysa Job Sense.
Outreach is a marketing and sales automation software company with offices in 3 different states and teams of in-house and remote employees in 10 states. Outreach made headlines for its $60 million funding backed by DFJ, Mayfield, Trinity and other venture capital firms.
The average annual salary of an Outreach employee is $88,216.
Search for job openings and career opportunities at Outreach using Paysa Job Sense.
Modsy
Modsy is an innovative tech startup that takes guesswork out of buying furniture for your home or workplace. Once a user submits snapshots of his room, Modsy turns them into a 3D model where the user can place different furniture items to design the room of his choice. Additionally, users can also buy furniture items from leading brands using through Modsy to get special discounts.
Modsy has managed to raise more than $10 million in funding since 2015 and is looking to accelerate its growth by improving its technology and expanding its workforce.
The average annual salary for Modsy employee is $102,277.
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Lever is a modern recruitment software and applicant tracking system that simplifies the hiring process and allows recruitment managers to focus on the best candidates.
Using intelligent algorithms, Lever recommends the best ways and times to get in touch with the right candidates using a smart combination of automation and manual work.
Lever has more than 1500 customers in 40 countries and has already secured $72.8 million in 5 rounds of funding. Founded by former Google employees, it currently has a workforce of 155 employees which is growing fast.
The average annual salary of a Lever employee is $124,482.
Search for job openings and career opportunities at Lever using Paysa Job Sense.
Brandless
Brandless is a unique online grocery and consumer shopping platform that takes branding out of your everyday shopping experience. From shampoos and soaps to spoons and forks, everything on Brandless is priced at $3 and has no branding at all. Instead the products simply come with their original names on the labels.
Launched in 2017, Brandless has managed to secure $50 million from angel investors and is looking to expand its operations drastically over the next few years. Its offices are currently located in San Francisco and Minneapolis and most of their workforce comprises of in-house full-time employees.
The average annual salary of Brandless employee is $90,152.
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Founded by a former Amazon employee, Convoy is a truck matchmaking service that connects shippers with trucking companies. It offers dashboards with shipment tracking, freight details, and other important information that helps shippers choose and manage their shipments.
The idea has clearly taken off and has attracted some heavyweight investors who have collectively invested $80.3 million in the company. Convoy currently operates from Washington with a growing team of full-time employees.
The average annual employee salary at Convoy is $127,788.
Search for job openings and career opportunities at Convoy using Paysa Job Sense.
Smartsheet is an easy to use collaboration and project management software that has generated a lot of interest among investors and generated over $120 million in funding.
It allows project managers and remote teams to collaborate on cross-functional projects using a variety of features and third party integrations.
The average annual employee salary at Smartsheet is $137,009
Search for job openings and career opportunities at Smartsheet using Paysa Job Sense.
Working for an early stage startup is often considered a risky option. Which is why our list only includes growing startups that have already passed the initial period of uncertainty and are now on their way to long-term success. Every one of these companies not only offers attractive career growth and monetary benefits, but also gives you the opportunity to experience the innovative and flexible culture startups are known for.
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It is stated in unpublished annals concerning the Heirs of Elendil that Meneldil was the fourth child of Anárion, that he was born in the year 3318 of the Second Age, and that he was the last man to be born in Númenor.
It is said that when Isildur returned from the War of the Last Alliance he remained for a time in Gondor, ordering the realm and instructing Meneldil his nephew, before he himself departed to take up the kingship of Arnor. With Meneldil and a company of trusted friends he made a journey about the borders of all the lands to which Gondor laid claim; and as they were returning from the northern bound to Anórien they came to the high hill that was then called Eilenaer but was afterwards called Amon Anwar, "Hill of Awe." That was near to the centre of the lands of Gondor. They made a path through the dense woods of its northward slopes, and so came to its summit, which was green and treeless. There they made a level space, and at its eastward end they raised a mound; within the mound Isildur laid a casket that he bore with him. Then he said: "This is a tomb and memorial of Elendil the Faithful. Here it shall stand at the mid-point of the Kingdom of the South in the keeping of the Valar, while the Kingdom endures; and this place shall be a hallow that none shall profane. Let no man disturb its silence and peace, unless he be an heir of Elendil."


The Collie Campbell Memorial Award is presented to the curler at the World Championships who 'by deed and action in the course of their performance, best exemplified the Traditional Curling values of skill, honesty, fair play, friendship and sportsmanship.' It is the athletes taking part in the championship who nominate a candidate to receive the award.
At the age of 35, Torger Nergård has curled since 1979. He has two winter Olympic medals to his name. Silver from this year's event in Vancouver where he played third on the Norwegian team and gold from Salt Lake when he was alternate on Pål Trulsen's team.
At this year's world championship in Cortina he stepped in to replace Thomas Ulsrud as skip of the Norwegian team, as Ulsrud had to return home for family reasons. The silver medal he has won at this event marks his best performance at World Championship level.


This book is the first comprehensive, scientifically based study of the nature and impact of intangibles. Weaving case studies and real-world examples with contemporary business theory, Baruch Lev – establishes an economic framework to analyze managerial and investment issues concerning intangibles; – surveys the impact of intangibles on corporate performance and market values, including management difficulties, risk, questions of property rights, marketability, and cost structure; – analyzes information deficiencies associated with intangibles, including the major economic principles governing intangible investments, limits of management information systems, and recommendations for improved accounting disclosure; – sets forth a comprehensive information system—aimed at satisfying the needs of both internal and external decision makers—to reflect the impact and value of intangibles within the context of enterprise performance.
Baruch Lev is professor of accounting and finance at New York University and the director of the Vincent C. Ross Project for Research on Intangibles. He is the award-winning author of several books and numerous research studies published in the leading accounting, finance, and economic journals.


DON'T MISS COVENTRY COMPUTER FAIR THIS SUNDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER @ CENTRE AT7!
Centre AT7, Coventry will be hosting this event jam-packed with computer, technology and gadget traders selling bargain-priced tech and computer hardware such as Laptops, Apple MacBook Pros, iPads, Gaming and home PCs along with a massive range of components and gadgets at internet-beating prices, with friendly face to face expertise and service!
There'll be a massive choice of sellers, selling hundreds of both Brand new & refurbished computers including MEGA deals like Dell Precision T5610's running Intel Xeon E5 2637's with 16GB RAM,128GB SSD and 500GB hdd at just £399! Plus hundreds more exclusive computer and tech deals all under one roof at Centre AT7, this Sunday 30th September!
You'll find huge range of reputable traders from across the UK selling Laptops, iMacs, Macbooks, Apple PowerMacs, CAD Workstations, iPhones, the latest Water-cooled Gaming PC Systems and components, Tablets, Custom Gaming and standard PC systems built while-you-wait, loads of tech gadgets, both the very latest new & refurbished components and parts including a huge range of the latest stunning gaming cases, the very latest release Nvidia Geforce 2080 RTX, AORUS GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Graphics cards, i7 8086K processors, Memory, HDD's, PSU's, smartphones, tablets, latest Android gadgets and devices, Computer/ smartphone/ tablet/ Xbox/ games console repairs, cables & accessories, printers, scanners, inks, media and much more, not to be missed!
Latest range of graphic cards, including the very latest Nvidia Geforce 2080 RTX, 1060, 1070, AORUS GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme, AMD Graphics from RX 550 to RX580 Latest AMD Ryzen CPU's, INTEL CPU i7 Coffee lakes, and Kabylakes!! and Many more at internet beating prices - a geek's paradise!
Doors open this Sunday 30th September, 10am-3pm and the venue has plenty of FREE car parking!
Early arrival is advised to grab the best deals!
New sellers should contact us directly via Facebook to book a stand.


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Hi I am Deborah and I have a love of landscape and still life photography. I hope that you enjoy looking at the work and get in touch with me.
Deborah Taylor is a professional photographer who lives and works in the Thatcham area. Studied at the Berkshire College of Art and Design in Reading and left there in 1995 with an OND & HND in Photography with portfolio distinction. After working for Reading University, the print industry and for a marketing and creative company, she went freelance. She is married to Jason who runs a successful landscape gardening business, Taylor Made Gardens.
She is a creative photographer in the fine art field, with specialisation in landscapes and still life. She has a love of black and white photography, feeling that it allows the subject to be laid open for the viewer to see it more clearly. Black and white images hold a strong place in her heart, with influences from photographer André Kertez and Bob Carlos Clarke.
Inspiration is found in everyday objects and beautiful vistas. She is not adverse to colour work however and her subjects can be strong in colour and form. People have often described her work as having a graphic, and almost a painting-like quality.


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If you make an observation about mechanics or find a tech discovery then post it here. Even if you think it's probably been discovered before or might be well known it's still worth posting here, especially if it's not present on the wiki.
Any theories and speculations should also be posted here.
HnP Wolf's AAOA and AAOB combos both do his special attack with the animation of AAAB. Any ideas why it can't be done with the animation of AAAA?
As Fiona Ogre, when I buffer shield for grab release anti-airs, all that I get is a battle cry for when I input anti-air within ~the first 5-10 frames of shield. This has only happened to me consistently with Fiona Ogre.
So apparently, Fiona Ogre, Huff n' Puff Wolf, and Cyclops can use the reverse hit of their aerial attack in order to true combo into ground grab, so their 0-Slam potential is better. Each one has slightly different spacing on the aerial in order to get the true combo though. Still reliable due to it working on knockdown. No shield canceling is required.
Does anyone get why landing a grab can push you into full slam, even though grabs would otherwise give you no Slamergy?
Also if anyone can explain what allows Gingy/Fiona/Red Riding Hood/Dumpty to swooce lower to the ground that would be swell. Bonus points if your explanation proves that Donkey cannot swooce.
-It might be that the grab is registering as an air grab instead of a ground grab sometimes, since that happens if you grab on certain parts of stages due to the grund not being perfectly flat.
-Maybe it's just because they can jump out of shield quicker than most other characters? No idea on that one.
Here's a new one: Black Knight can ogrement his jab combos with themselves. By which I mean, for instance, if you delay the third input of his ABAA just enough, the third hit of the combo with take on the animation from the first hit, and so on. This probably has no practical use whatsoever since Black Knight's jabs don't true combo anyway but I figure maybe someone with more free time than me would be interested in testing with other characters.
Just realised that you can attack at any point during a roll, as long as you are rolling into a wall. Pretty schwifty.
While playing with Lunoz we discovered a minor tech for Humpty and Gingy.
The only thing you have to do is to move on a specific direction, jab then quickly turn the stick on the opposite direction. This will give a small movement from the jab to push the character at the direction you first faced while the jab will face the new direction of the grey stick.
This may be usable to avoid things like Lunas ground dashes while setting up a jab combo.
So uh Slam potions are on a cycle, the cycle is Invisibility -> Slam potion -> Metal Potion -> Speed potion. This is fairly useful if you are playing on Potion factory, or other illegal stages that have potions spawning.


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Marcela Zamora Chamorro (El Salvador, 1980) es una cineasta documentalista y periodista salvadoreña-nicaragüense. Conocida por María en tierra de nadie (2011), El cuarto de los huesos (2015) y Los ofendidos (2016).

Biografía
Hija de Rubén Zamora y María Ester Chamorro.

Actualmente es dueña de la casa productora de cine Kinoglaz, desde donde ejecuta campañas de corte social, realiza documentales y genera proyectos para empoderar a las mujeres que viven en sectores marginados de El Salvador.

Trayectoria
Licenciada en periodismo, graduada de la Universidad Latina de Costa Rica en 2004. Graduada de la Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV), Cuba, en 2007, de la cátedra de Dirección de Documental. Directora de varios documentales en El Salvador, Nicaragua, México, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Cuba, Estados Unidos y España.

Su filmografía comprende el mediometraje documental Xochiquetzal: La casa de las flores bellas (Cuba – México 2008) y seis largometrajes documental: María en Tierra de Nadie/María in nobody´s land (España-México-El Salvador 2011), El Espejo roto/The broken mirror (El Salvador 2013),  Las Aradas: Masacre en seis actos/ Las Aradas: Massacre in six acts (El Salvador 2014) El cuarto de los Huesos/ The room of bones (México-El Salvador 2015) y Los Ofendidos/The Offended  (México-El Salvador 2016).

En El cuarto de los huesos (2015) producido por La Sandía Digital hace el seguimiento del trabajo de un equipo de antropólogos forenses pobremente equipado y mal pagado que investiga las innumerables fosas comunes en El Salvador, tratando de identificar a las víctimas usando fragmentos de cuerpos. Madres desesperadas acuden a hacerse pruebas de ADN con la esperanza de poder enterrar los huesos de sus hijos e hijas. Por este documental recibió el premio Amnistía Internacional por en el festival de cine documental DocsBarcelona.

Los Ofendidos (2016) es una producción de Periódico El Faro y Kino Glaz que se estrenó en México (2016) en el Festival de documental iberoamericano de la memoria en Morelos. El equipo técnico del documental está conformado por: Marcela Zamora Chamorro (guion y dirección), Julio López Fernández (producción), Álvaro Rodríguez Sánchez (fotografía), Paolo Hasbún (sonido directo) y Andrea Bilbao (edición).

Estos filmes han participado o sido premiados en festivales internacionales del continente americano, europeo y asiático. Los Ofendidos, su último largometraje documental, hizo su premier mundial en el prestigioso y más importante festival de cine documental IDFA 2016 (International documentary film festival Amsterdam).

Sus documentales retratan la violencia que sufren las mujeres migrantes centroamericanas. Con especial foco las mujeres de El Salvador: las madres, la vida de los niños en barrios de pandillas, empleadas domésticas maltratadas, los rostros de sobrevivientes de la guerra civil salvadoreña, las que buscan a sus desaparecidos por la guerra de pandilla.

Sus últimos proyectos van en línea con la reconciliación histórica, para generar el diálogo pendiente entre la generación que protagonizó la guerra civil y la generación que solo vivió la posguerra. Pretenden generar empatía en los jóvenes de esta época con el pasado; para la no repetición de la violencia como método para resolver conflictos.

Durante 14 años se ha dedicado a hacer documentales y campañas sociales en temas de Derechos Humanos, Género y Memoria Histórica, lo que la ha llevado a dar ponencias en varias universidades más prestigiosas de Estados Unidos, Europa, México, Colombia y Centro América; ha sido en varias ocasiones ponente de la FNPI (Fundación del Nuevo Periodismo Latinoamericano, Gabriel García Márquez). Ha impartido talleres de Dirección de documental y realidad social en Venezuela, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá, Guatemala, México y Estados Unidos.

Ha sido Jurado en festivales Internacionales de cine como ZINEBI (Bilbao), MARFICI (Argentina), Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos de Ginebra (Suiza) y del Premio Gabriel García Márquez de Periodismo (Colombia), entre otros.

Ha dirigido campañas de corte social para UNESCO, UNFPA, Unión Europea, Fundación Friedrich Ebert, Open Society, PADF, Fundación FORD, entre otras.

En 2015 cofundó la productora de cine Kino Glaz con sede en México y El Salvador desde donde trabaja en campañas de conciencia social, realiza documentales y genera proyectos para empoderar a las mujeres y jóvenes que viven en sectores marginados de El Salvador.

Reconocimientos
Su mirada comprometida con la realidad del Triángulo Norte de Centroamérica la ha hecho ganar múltiples premios.

En agosto de 2015 le hicieron una retrospectiva, en honor a su trabajo como documentalista, en el festival de cine independiente MARFICI  en Mar del Plata, Argentina. Seleccionada por la revista FORBES como una de las mujeres más influyentes de Centro América en 2014 , 2015, 2016 y 2017.

Seleccionada en 2017 para The Central America Leadership Initiative (CALI).

Seleccionada en 2019 por la revista Estrategia y Negocios, como una de las 50 Mujeres Desafiantes de Centro América.

El Gobierno de Francia la seleccionó como una de las 5 personalidades de Latinoamérica que luchan por la igualdad de Derechos entre Hombres y Mujeres. El 8 de marzo de 2019 se le otorgó dicho reconocimiento (PIPA 2019), por su trayectoria cinematográfica.

En El Salvador ha recibido numerosos reconocimientos por su labor social visibilizando las víctimas de los numerosos conflictos por los que su país ha pasado y pasa actualmente.

Sus documentales han sido realizados con destacados fondos internacionales como lo es Just Film de NY, Fundación FORD, Open Society, ICCO Italia, CAP España, IDFA Holanda, Ministerio de Economía de El Salvador, FOPROCINE México, Women Make Movies New York, ONUMUJERES, OIT, UNFPA, PNUD, HBO, entre otros.

Filmografía
 2007: Xochiquetzal, cortometraje documental
2010: El estudiante, cortometraje documental
 2010: Culpables de nacimiento, cortometraje documental
 2011: María en tierra de nadie, largometraje documental
 2011: Las masacres del Mozote, cortometraje documental
 2012: Ellos sabían que yo era una niña, cortometraje documental
 2013: El espejo roto largometraje, documental
 2013: Las ruinas de Lourdes, cortometraje documental
 2013: Las muchachas, cortometraje documental
 2014: Las Aradas: masacre en seis actos largometraje, documental
 2015: El cuarto de los huesos, largometraje, documental
 2016: Los ofendidos, largometraje documental
 2016: Comandos, largometraje documental

Premios

 Mejor largometraje documental iberoamericano Festival de BIARRITZ 2010 "María en tierra de nadie"

 ICAROS: mejor Documental Centroamericano, por '"El cuarto de los huesos", " Los Ofendidos" y "María en tierra de nadie"
 Premio Amnistía Internacional y mención especial del Jurado DOCSBARCELONA (2015) por "El Cuarto de los huesos"
 Mención especial del jurado DOCSBARCELONA 2016 "Los Ofendidos"
 Premio del Público en el Festival de Cine de Costa Rica (2016), "Los ofendidos"

Referencias

Salvadoreñas
Mujeres periodistas de El Salvador
Directoras de cine de El Salvador

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