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Reconstructing or approximating objects from seemingly incomplete information is a frequent challenge in mathematics, science, and engineering. A multitude of tools designed to recover hidden information are based on Shannon's classical sampling theorem, a central pillar of Sampling Theory. The growing need to efficiently obtain precise and tailored digital representations of complex objects and phenomena requires the maturation of available tools in Sampling Theory as well as the development of complementary, novel mathematical theories. Today, research themes such as Compressed Sensing and Frame Theory re-energize the broad area of Sampling Theory. This volume illustrates the renaissance that the area of Sampling Theory is currently experiencing. It touches upon trendsetting areas such as Compressed Sensing, Finite Frames, Parametric Partial Differential Equations, Quantization, Finite Rate of Innovation, System Theory, as well as sampling in Geometry and Algebraic Topology.


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Meet our heroes: St John Ambulance Community Hero finalists
With nine categories in total, this week, we're taking a closer look at our Community Hero Award finalists. The Community Hero Award is for an individual or organisation who has used first aid or has made an extraordinary first aid achievement in their community.
Rik Nicol
Off-duty policeman turns carpark hero
Rik didn't hesitate to race to the rescue when he heard a woman shouting from her car at a local shopping centre. The off-duty policeman was with his own small children when he heard distressed screaming outside the shops. He ran out to find a mother shouting that her 11-week old baby was struggling to breathe. As the infant started to turn blue, Rik knew just what to do and gave rescue breaths to get the baby breathing again.
Cody Hartley
Teenage fundraiser with a heart of gold
Since learning about the tragic death of a 12- year-old boy three years ago (when she herself was only 11), Cody Hartley has worked tirelessly to supply her local schools and community with defibrillators. Through fundraising activities ranging from sponsored walks to supermarket bag packs and selling homemade campaign badges, the dedicated youngster has raised more than £6,000 to supply lifesaving equipment to three primary schools, a secondary school and a karate club in her local area.
Paul Gittins, MBE
Local legend gets royal seal of approval
Paul Gittins has been a volunteer Community First Responder for more than 14 years, attending over 4,000 incidents in his local area. He is on-call almost every day as he is so passionate about the safety of residents in his home town and is dedicated to helping others in need. For years, Paul has been called to emergencies and can often be the first person to arrive on the scene. Treating everything from cuts and falls to breathing difficulties and chest pains. In an average year he receives around 500 calls, many in the middle of the night.
Helen Turner
Heroine Helen in mid-Air drama
Helen Turner proved to be a quick-thinking heroine when confronted by a mid-air emergency on a flight back from a family holiday. The crew had got the defibrillator out, thinking a passenger was having a heart attack, but he was showing signs of a stroke. Helen kept assessing him and her decision forced the diversion of the plane after she had to personally go into the cockpit and speak to the captain.
Tracey Garde
Football fan dedicated to defibrillators
In 2012 following the public cardiac arrest of footballer Fabrice Muamba, Tracey, as chair of the Bolton ICD (Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator) Support Group, along with the committee, decided to fundraise to provide the local community with AEDs. Initially targeting local schools and sports clubs, their first defibrillator was presented to Bolton Rugby Club in December 2012. Since then, the group has donated 120 AEDs and regularly visits schools and sports clubs to offer resuscitation and AED training free of charge.

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John Perkins is interviewed in the Kevin Trudeau Show on 07-29-2009. There's new information on the recent Hondurus coup d'etat, the domestic economic hit here in the homeland, and John's new book Hoodwinked to be released November 2009.
Please fast forward to 1:30:00 to listen to John Perkins.
Anyone who would believe anything convicted fraudster Trudeau says has to be a total idiot!
What about all people that believe all the unconvicted fraudsters out there?
Be it as it may, the interview was of John Perkins not Kevin Trudeau.


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Place tape around animal at the heart girth just behind the front legs. Take up the slack but do not tighten excessively. Read weight estimation on the scale.
Horse/Pony Tape: Min weight 82 lbs, max weight 1321 lbs. Will also measure height up to 20 hands.
Beef Cattle Tape: Min weight 96 lbs, max weight 1618 lbs. Tape is 108 inches long.
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Is anyone else a slave to concealer like me? I love using concealers I find that they can do so much. Before I go into my tips on how to use concealer I want to concentrate on what a concealer is and what it can do.
A concealer is a type of make up that is used to conceal/mask dark circles, age spots, open/large pores or other blemishes which are present and visible on the skin. In terms of make up it is very similar to foundation as it is used to cover/conceal. It can also be thicker than foundation in the form of a cream used to hide pigmentation. Concealer is used to make skin appear even and more uniform in its pigment. It is designed to give an even skin tone and mask any pigmentation marks. Concealers are more heavily pigmented, and can range in a wide range of opacity. The first commercially available concealer was Max Factor's Erace, launched in 1938. Concealer can be used alone or with foundations. Camouflage makeup is a much heavier pigmented form of concealer. It is used to cover serious skin discolourations such as birthmarks, scars, chloasma, vtiligo. Various brands produce camouflage make up but one of the most used is Vichy Dermablend as it can camouflage Tattoos.
Concealer is available in a variety of shades, from lightest to deepest. When picking a concealer, people tend to choose one or two shades lighter than their skin tone to highlight or conceal dark circles. When using concealer to hide blemishes people tend to pick colours similar to their skin tone. Concealers with yellow undertones are used to hide dark circles. Green and blue can counteract red patches on the skin, such as those caused by pimples, broken veins, or rosacea. A purple-tinted concealer can make sallow complexions look brighter.
When it comes to beauty, you can camouflage any blemish or imperfection that pops up. All you need is the right kind of concealer, and a few tips for how to apply it. And that's where I come in… Today I'm going to be sharing my guide to using concealer the right way, in all the right places. Here is my guide to "camouflaging" like a master.
Some of my favourite concealers range from budget buys to high end. Depending on what I am using the concealer for it will depend on the concealer I use. I use either liquid concealers or cream concealers. I tend to stick to liquid concealer for under the eye as sometimes cream concealer can sit in any fine lines and wrinkles. To blend in the concealer I bounce a damp beauty blender across the skin to blend it into the skin and make it look more uniform and flawless. For carving my brows I will use a cream concealer on a small concealer brush to tidy up and make my brows stand out. I also like to apply cream concealer under my contour line to help distinguish and intensify the power of my contour. On a blemish I will use either liquid or cream, i have no particular preference for this type of imperfection. When working with my local Musical Society I have often used Panstick on male clients as it covers a multitude of sins giving you a even flawless base to work with.
The top concealers I use are listed below and I have listed where on the face I like to use them. I have this list of concealers from Into The Gloss, with other concealer insight that might be helpful also.
Under Eye Area : Artdeco 2 Yellow, Make Up Revolution Focus & Fix, Catrice Liquid Camouflage.
Peach Concealer : Wet N Wild Colour Wheel, Essence Palette.
Within those concealer there are certain colour based on the colour wheel which will work on each other to eliminate that tone.
Green neutralises red which is why make up gurus use green concealer to remove redness from an annoying spot or scars. If you have rosacea, windburn or sunburn then a colour correcting green primer can be used all over or you can apply green concealer to the area affected. There are lots of green concealers available from Essence, Wet N Wild, Artdeco, Nyx, Smashbox.
Purple is used for eliminating any yellow/sallow undertones on your skin. People with a dull, yellow complexion will benefit from a glow to the skin after using a purple concealer. As you can see above purple is directly across from yellow on the colour wheel. To remove yellow tones from your entire face, consider a colour correcting purple primer. If you're looking to conceal yellow spots, a spot concealer is best. Choices again are Wet N Wild, Smashbox, Nyx, Make Up Forever.
These are ideal for brightening around the eye area and masking signs of fatigue. This particular concealer colour is a mixture of red, orange, and yellow hues, which are across from the blue and purple tones on the colour wheel. It is used to improve sallow skin and brighten dark circles. Theres are loads available from Nyx, Wet N Wild, Benefit, Artdeco.
This colour is perfect for people with darker skin tones looking to hide dark circles or other spots with deep discolouration, it can be used on chloasma during pregnancy or on lentigo. It is also widely used by drag makeup artists to conceal any 5 o clock shadow from the beard. Choices are Nyx, Smashbox, Laura Mercier.
This hides purple or blue bruises, veins, and under eye circles, so it's no surprise yellow is right across from purple on the colour wheel. Yellow concealers are typically the most general, and are great for evening out skin tone to give a bright base for your foundation. Yellow powder/Banana powder is a favourite of Kim Kardashian and Joyce Bonelli to set the concealer to add extra brightness to under eye areas. Choices vary again from Benefit, Artdeco, Bobbi Brown, So Su, Flawless, Make Up Revolution, Catrice, Essence, Wet N Wild.
Any regular concealer will work to mask little imperfections or the occasional pimple. Just choose a shade similar to your skin tone, or one shade lighter, and you're all set. This is also the best kind of concealer to use as a primer for making your lipstick last all day and night as it provides a perfect base colour.
So there ya have my two cents on concealing/camouflaging. I hope you enjoyed.


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As in its parent game Cockroach Poker, Cockroach Poker Royal has nothing to do with poker – except that the game is all about bluffing, but with cards showing cockroaches, rats and stink bugs instead of queens, 10s and aces. To set up the game, shuffle the deck and deal the cards out to players. On a turn, a player takes one card from his hand, lays it face down on the table, slides it to a player of his choice, and declares a type of critter, e.g., "Stink bug". The player receiving the card either:
Accepts the card, says either "true" or "false", then reveals the card. If this player is wrong in her claim, she keeps the card on the table in front of her face up; if she is right, the player who gave her the card places it face up before him.
Passes the card to another player, peeking at it first, then keeping it face-down and either saying the original type of critter or saying a new type. This new player again has the choice of accepting the card or passing it, unless the card has already been seen by all other players in which case the player must accept it and make a true/false claim.
The game ends when a player has no cards to pass on his turn or when a player has four cards of the same critter on the table in front of him. In either case, this player loses and everyone else wins.
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Biografia Electric Light Orchestra Wikipedia
There's also a healthy nod to Billy Joel and self-conscious debt to the Beatles that aims for Paul McCartney but usually ends up in the Electric Light Orchestra. Opener 'Requiem', a co-write with.
Its Wikipedia entry. According to the House on the Rock's official guide, all the building materials and furniture (including two pianos) had to be carried or hoisted up to the top of the rock by.
1971 – The Electric Light Orchestra · 1973 – ELO 2 · 1973 – On the Third Day · 1974 – Eldorado · 1975 – Face The Music.
His first recording was with the Glen-Spice Orchestra, arranging and conducting Dion's first. mephistophelean face with a patch board in his forehead, and Day-Glo electric rays zapping from his.
Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) uit Birmingham,een succesvolle rockgroep uit de jaren 70 en 80. De band bestaande uit Jeff Lynne,Roy Wood en Bev Bevan.
But… Once these stores and factories sold the stuff of children's dreams, but now that they lie… Advertisement These pieces of equipment were in the pavilion, according to Wikipedia: Walt Disney.
She released her full-length debut, Infinite Worlds, in February 2017. Wiki is a rapper and co-founder of New York hip-hop group Ratking. He will release his debut solo album for XL in 2017.
Roy Wood (born 8 November 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co-founder of the Move, Electric Light.
This discovery will help researchers understand how neurons are using environmental temperature in addition to light to regulate sleep timing in mammals, including humans. Their study will be.
And with the inclusion of more classic and prog-rock bands in recent years — Chicago, Yes, Electric Light Orchestra, Deep Purple — might it be time for the Moody Blues? "I don't care," Hayward offers.
I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose Vinyl 1st July 1972 – Melody Maker. WAITING FOR THE MAN. By Michael Watts. IT WAS raining the night Jim met Phil. They were total strangers to each other, but Phil had asked Jim for a cigarette, and well. one thing led to another. Single Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album UK BEL (FL) BEL (WA)
Historia. El estudio Gainax fue formado a principios de los años 1980 por los universitarios. era la canción Twilight del grupo británico Electric Light Orchestra.
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ELO Part II were a band formed by Electric Light Orchestra drummer and co-founder Bev Bevan. The band also included former ELO bassist Kelly Groucutt, and violinist Mik Kaminski for most of its career.
Electric Light Orchestra, Patti Smith, The Cars, Kool & The Gang, Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth Wind & Fire, Kansas, ABBA, Donna Summer, Queen, Grand Funk Railroad, Blondie, The Carpenters, Elton John,
Nuestro pequeño homenaje a Rosie Langley que, junto a su hermana Amy, ponen su arte en cada uno de los conciertos de JEFF LYNNE'S ELO. "A YEAR" es.
My favorite moments were always when the disc got airborne. My sister hated that. We used the object on the cover of Electric Light Orchestra's Discovery as an example for the air-hockey disc. The.
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Here, the research shows that daylight saving time is more burden than boon. Benjamin Franklin was one of the first thinkers to endorse the idea of making better use of daylight. Although he lived.
FIFA 16 is a sports game produced by EA Sports that is based on professional soccer leagues both in the United States and across the globe. FIFA is a global soccer authority and the game is based on.
Find Electric Light Orchestra biography and history on AllMusic – The Electric Light Orchestra's ambitious yet…
Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) er eit britisk rockeband frå Birmingham i. The Big Night vart den mest inntektsinnbringande konsertturneen i historia til då (1978).
electric piano, or vocals) that Keith Richards found all sorts of angles and routes to; secret weapon Sugar Blue killing it on harmonica. How it holds up in the hands of others — what they take away,
Thodos Dance Chicago A Light In The Dark Pbs Animated puppet theater! Laura Heit's work at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Dance maker Paul Taylor first presented his choreography. He was hailed as 'the master of light and dark' for good reason: his repertoire covered an unprecedented range. There were dances that took. Dark Moneytraces Adams' steps and sheds light on the grassroots movement
In one of his earliest public appearances, Garrett can be seen on the cover of the Electric Light Orchestra album "Discovery" released in 1979. In this Garrett is seen dressed in middle-eastern.
Electric Light Orchestra (Elektryczne Światło Orkiestry) – niedemokratyczny projekt wodzowski niejakiego Jeffa Lynne'a grający połączenie rocka.
"I feel like somebody put me in the lifeboat and told my family they can't get in," he said. Joan Baez, Electric Light Orchestra, Journey, Pearl Jam, Tupac Shakur, and Yes will be inducted into the.
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A conspiracy is when a person or group of people secretly plots or plan evil against their fellow man.
Many people just cannot fathom mankind being that evil and the idea of a conspiracy sounds completely absurd.
But, yet, the Bible is loaded with examples of conspiracies. In fact the biggest conspiracy in history happened about 2000 years ago when Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus Christ for 30 silver coins.
Now there are at least 25 conspiracies recorded in the Bible and I have list them below.
As you can see the Bible was definitely not written to praise mankind. But, rather, it was written to expose the evil and wicked side of man and to show that man is a sinner in desperate need of a Savior. And the Savior, of course, is Jesus Christ.
But why do men conspire against their own fellow man? The prophet Jeremiah gave the reason when he said the following.
The point of this passage is that man's heart is so desperately wicked that not even Satan himself knows how evil man's heart is.
<11> There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
<12> They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
<18> There is no fear of God before their eyes.
<19> Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
<20> Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Believers in Christ have this same old sin nature (evil heart) that desperately wants to do evil. But when a person becomes a believer in Christ, Jesus imparts His new nature in the new believer. The new nature wants only to seek after righteousness and glorify God while the old sin nature wants to participate in evil and glorify self. Therefore, there is a constant battle in the lives of every believer in Christ (every Christian). That battle will end when Christ returns at the Rapture of the Church. Our old sin natures will be eradicated and we will be given eternal, immortal, glorified bodies that can never sin again.
Therefore Christians, because of their old sin nature and whether they are in government or in the private sector, are not exempt from participating in conspiracies.
As far as government is concerned, in the days of kings and kingdoms, most government leaders simply did as they pleased with minimal consideration of how the common people felt about their policies and actions. However, when a republic is established it forces government leaders to constantly consider the interests of the common people.
Now with the introduction of technology, truth can become suppressed. And, therefore, the more sophisticated methods of technology a country has (especially in the hands of evil people) the easier it becomes to suppress the truth and to deceive the people. So news becomes propaganda and truth becomes a lie. And the common person would never know it.
So what is the answer to this great deception?
The Word of God is the answer to this great deception. God never lies. God loves everyone including the sinner. God loves you and me.


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Motorola to buy England's TTPCom for $192 million
Published: June 1, 2006 3:37 a.m. ET
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Motorola mot said it's agreed to buy TTP Communications uk:ttc, a Cambridge, England-based mobile phone technology company, for 103 million pounds ($192 million), or 45 pence a share. Motorola has received undertaking to accept the offer from holders representing 27.6% of TTC. TTC shares jumped 235% to 43.5 pence in early trade.


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VANCOUVER—Stock in Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. soared more than 30 percent today—a day after U.S. forestry giant Louisiana-Pacific announced a friendly, $1.1-billion (U.S.) takeover deal for the Vancouver-based maker of products used in housing construction.
Ainsworth shares rose 96 cents, or 32.65 percent, to $3.90 in morning trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
That was above the $3.76 (Cdn.) per share Louisiana-Pacific has bid for all the remaining common shares in Ainsworth—itself a 30 percent premium over the company's closing price of $2.89 (Cdn.) on Sept. 3.
Shares in Ainsworth had closed up five cents at $2.94 (Cdn.) yesterday.
Louisiana-Pacific said the deal also means it will assume all of Ainsworth's debt.
"This is an excellent transaction that makes LP more valuable for our customers and our shareholders," Louisiana-Pacific chief executive Curt Stevens said in a statement.
"Ainsworth has very high-quality assets and provides us with an expanded suite of strand-based products and technologies, additional access to key international growth markets, particularly in Asia, and enhanced scale and efficiencies in North America," he noted.
The companies said the deal has "unanimous support" from Ainsworth's board of directions and from its largest shareholder—Brookfield Asset Management, which owns 54 percent of Ainsworth's stocks.
The deal, which requires the approval of shareholders, will be voted on in a special meeting next month.
It also is subject to regulatory approvals.
According to the statement, the combined companies generated roughly $2.5 billion (U.S.) in sales in the last 12 months ended June 30, on a pro forma basis.
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Evy Kuijpers signs with Plantur-Pura for two years, Christina Schweinberger extends
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Current Human Powered Health rider Evy Kuijpers will join Plantur-Pura for 2 years from next season. The 27-year-old leaves Human Powered Health after 1 season on the WWT team. She joined them from the Liv Racing team where she had been for a number of years. Her role this year has been to pull the peloton along from the front and close down any breaks. However, it hasn't been a hugely successful season for the Human Powered Health team who now find their future Women's Worldtour status in jeopardy with only a very strong 2023 season able to make amends. Kuijpers' best result of the 2022 season has been 5th on Stage 2 of the Baloise Ladies Tour.
"During the first conversations with the team management, I had a good feeling about it. Plantur-Pura is a super ambitious team that works in a structured way and with a clear vision. For me as a rider that is very important.
In addition, the team has a few Belgian talents who have taken a step forward this year. I hope that my experience in the WWT can contribute to the further growth of the team."
Evy Kuijpers
Christina Schweinberger
While Plantur-Pura brought in Kuijpers, the team also extended Christina Schweinberger's contract. The 25-year-old Austrian will remain on the Plantur Pura team until the end of 2025. Schweinberger made the switch from Multum Accountants Ladies and was previously on Health Mate as a strong Continental rider. She has three victories in 2022: the Austrian championship on the road, the Austrian time trial championship and a time trial in the Czech stage race Gracia-Orlová. She was also 2nd behind Ilaria Sanguineti at Dwars door het Hageland and 6th at Dwars door de Westhoek too.
Both contracts helps to strengthen the Plantur Pura team, with Kuijpers it gives them a rider type that they don't currently have.
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20 Post • June 2014 www.postmagazine.com Venice, CA's The Mis- sion (Flame suite above) benefits from being a smaller-sized operation with an intimate interaction with clients. According to The Vanity's Sean Cochrane, staff size doesn't seem to work against companies in this very "personality-based business. People rarely book 'Flame time.' They book time with the Flame artist." (The company's Flame suite below) Small Post Houses How boutiques are thriving and scoring work along with the big guys By Christine Bunish The days of post production facilities that resembled The Mother Ship are long gone, but large houses with comprehensive offerings, big employee rosters and offices around the world still garner impressive credentials. But with software- based color tools, an array of finishing platforms and cost-effective CG options, smaller post houses are thriving, too. "In many ways the smaller, agile, lean operation is the future of post production," says The Colour Space's Juan Salvo. THE MISSION Michael Pardee, owner and managing director of Venice, California's The Mission (www.themissionstudio.com) says that "boutique isn't the first word" he'd use to describe the "fine-tuned," 20-person VFX-driven post house. While it may have the feel of a boutique shop, "when you peel away the layers we have a lot of fire power," including a talented 3D team that's been creating all the Hershey Kisses spots since the current CG campaign's inception. Among other credits is a Super Bowl com- mercial for Squarespace, Samsung Mobile spots and Nike's Vapor Trail spot, which won for Best VFX at the AICP Awards. Maintaining a smaller-sized operation means a more intimate interaction between vendor and client, he notes. "Everyone here is on the 'A' team from bidding to post," says Pardee. "Clients know who they're going to work with: There's never a bait-and- switch. When everyone gets the best on their team you develop an intimacy, a part- nership that gets the job done." Smaller teams of artists work more efficiently and cost-effectively, he argues. "Instead of throwing a lot of people at a project, we're smart and selective and put the right people with the right skill sets on it. We don't have the big overhead of a huge facility that has several locations spread across several different time zones," he adds. "So we're definitely competitive on the budget front."
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DiPrete Engineering led the site/civil project team for the new Citizens Bank Corporate Campus located in Johnston, RI. The team included Pare Corporation (offsite utilities and geotechnical) and Beta Group (traffic and highway) in collaboration with Elkus Manfredi Architects, CRJA-IBI Group, supported by GZA GeoEnvironmental, BR + A, and McNamara Salvia. Cushman and Wakefield represented Citizens as the owner's project manager, Premier Development was responsible for site work, Dimeo Construction Company completed the building, and DiGregorio Corporation handled the site work. DiPrete obtained permits from RIDEM, RIDOT, and the Town of Johnston.
The pace at which this project was conceived, designed, and permitted was very fast-track involving almost every aspect of engineering and a significant amount of regulatory permits in a short amount of time. The campus is designed to foster collaboration among colleagues, create an excellent experience for their customers, and become a special place for the community. The 123-acre site includes a number of sporting facilities that are open to the public, including a baseball field where local little league teams will play, a soccer field, a beach volleyball court, two basketball courts, a tennis court, and two bocce courts.
The bank's headquarters remains in downtown Providence. Citizens has about 5,300 total employees in Rhode Island, including workers at branch locations.


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package org.springframework.boot.actuate.metrics.export;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;

import org.springframework.boot.actuate.metrics.Metric;
import org.springframework.boot.actuate.metrics.reader.MetricReader;
import org.springframework.boot.actuate.metrics.writer.MetricWriter;
import org.springframework.boot.actuate.metrics.writer.WriterUtils;
import org.springframework.util.PatternMatchUtils;

/**
 * {@link Exporter} that "exports" by copying metric data from a source
 * {@link MetricReader} to a destination {@link MetricWriter}.
 *
 * @author Dave Syer
 */
public class MetricCopyExporter extends AbstractMetricExporter {

	private final MetricReader reader;

	private final MetricWriter writer;

	private String[] includes = new String[0];

	private String[] excludes = new String[0];

	public MetricCopyExporter(MetricReader reader, MetricWriter writer) {
		this(reader, writer, "");
	}

	public void setIncludes(String... includes) {
		if (includes != null) {
			this.includes = includes;
		}
	}

	public void setExcludes(String... excludes) {
		if (excludes != null) {
			this.excludes = excludes;
		}
	}

	public MetricCopyExporter(MetricReader reader, MetricWriter writer, String prefix) {
		super(prefix);
		this.reader = reader;
		this.writer = writer;
	}

	@Override
	protected Iterable<Metric<?>> next(String group) {
		if ((this.includes == null || this.includes.length == 0)
				&& (this.excludes == null || this.excludes.length == 0)) {
			return this.reader.findAll();
		}
		return new Iterable<Metric<?>>() {
			@Override
			public Iterator<Metric<?>> iterator() {
				return new PatternMatchingIterator(MetricCopyExporter.this.reader
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			}
		};
	}

	@Override
	protected void write(String group, Collection<Metric<?>> values) {
		for (Metric<?> value : values) {
			this.writer.set(value);
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void flush() {
		WriterUtils.flush(this.writer);
	}

	private class PatternMatchingIterator implements Iterator<Metric<?>> {

		private Metric<?> buffer = null;
		private Iterator<Metric<?>> iterator;

		public PatternMatchingIterator(Iterator<Metric<?>> iterator) {
			this.iterator = iterator;
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			if (this.buffer != null) {
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			return this.buffer != null;
		}

		private Metric<?> findNext() {
			Metric<?> metric = null;
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			while (this.iterator.hasNext() && !matched) {
				metric = this.iterator.next();
				if (MetricCopyExporter.this.includes == null
						|| MetricCopyExporter.this.includes.length == 0) {
					matched = true;
				}
				else {
					for (String pattern : MetricCopyExporter.this.includes) {
						if (PatternMatchUtils.simpleMatch(pattern, metric.getName())) {
							matched = true;
							break;
						}
					}
				}
				if (MetricCopyExporter.this.excludes != null) {
					for (String pattern : MetricCopyExporter.this.excludes) {
						if (PatternMatchUtils.simpleMatch(pattern, metric.getName())) {
							matched = false;
							break;
						}
					}
				}
			}
			return matched ? metric : null;

		}

		@Override
		public Metric<?> next() {
			Metric<?> metric = this.buffer;
			this.buffer = null;
			return metric;
		}
	};
}

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Дайр-эз-Заур, также Дейр-эз-Зор (;  Дайра Зеорта) — город на северо-востоке Сирии, административный центр мухафазы Дайр-эз-Заур (Дейр-эз-Зор).

Расположен на правом берегу реки Евфрат. Транспортный узел на речном пути Эр-Ракка — Багдад и автотрассе Пальмира — Фадгами. Расстояние до Дамаска — около 432 км, до Алеппо — около 320 км.

До гражданской войны в Сирии город называли Жемчужиной пустыни. В ходе войны он подвергся серьёзным разрушениям. По данным переписи 2004 года, население города насчитывало около 212 тысяч человек. За время боевых действий значительная доля жителей покинула поселение.

Название
Арабское название города заимствовано из сирийского Дайра Зеорта, что означает «маленькое поселение, монастырь».

История
В 85 км к юго-востоку от города находится археологический памятник Дура-Европос — римская крепость на Евфрате, а в 120 км в том же направлении — остатки древнего города Мари. В эпоху Римской империи это был важный торговый пункт между Римом и Индией.

В III веке был завоёван Зенобией и был присоединён к царству Пальмиры. В дальнейшем входил в состав сменявших друг друга государств этого региона.

В XIII веке был разрушен монголами, вторгшимися на Ближний Восток.

Нынешний город был построен в 1867 году во времена Османской империи.

Во время геноцида армян в 1915 году город и окружавшая его пустыня были выбраны младотурецким правительством в качестве основного места сбора депортируемых, где погибли тысячи армян. Здесь существовал Дейр-эз-Зорский концентрационный лагерь.

Франция оккупировала город в 1921 году и разместила в нём крупный военный гарнизон. В начале 1920-х французы построили подвесной мост через Евфрат.

В 1946 году город стал частью независимой Сирии.

Гражданская война в Сирии

Значительным разрушениям город подвергся в ходе гражданской войны в Сирии.

Массовые проявления недовольства в Дейр-эз-Зоре, как и на остальной территории Сирии, вспыхнули в марте 2011 года. Широкомасштабные столкновения между правительственными силами и их противниками начались после того, как в конце июля 2011 года президент Башар Асад приказал ввести армейские подразделения в ряд городов, включая Дейр-эз-Зор, с целью восстановления контроля над ситуацией. Ввод войск и последовавшие репрессии против участников протестов привели к кровопролитию и началу вооружённого сопротивления противников правящего режима — разрозненных отрядов так называемой Свободной сирийской армии и местных племенных формирований. Летом 2012 года повстанцы взяли под свой контроль бо́льшую часть территории провинции и вели бои с правительственными силами за овладение основными городами. В этот период также заметно усилила свою активность экстремистская джихадистская группировка Джабхат ан-Нусра. Овладев территорией провинции, различные повстанческие группировки, включая «Фронт Ан-Нусра», начали воевать друг с другом за контроль над нефтяными месторождениями этой провинции.

Возникшей междоусобицей воспользовалась террористическая группировка Исламское государство Ирака. С 2013 года её формирования начали проникновение в регион. В апреле 2014 года вооружённые отряды ИГИЛ развернули массированное наступление, вытеснив Джабхат ан-Нусру и Свободную сирийскую армию со всех занятых ими территорий провинции. Дейр-эз-Зор стал экономическим и политическим центром самопровозглашённого халифата джихадистов.

В конце 2013 года оборону города возглавил генерал-майор Иссам Захреддин. Войска ИГИЛ перерезали шоссе Дайр-эз-Заур (Дейр-эз-Зор) — Пальмира — Дамаск через Сирийскую пустыню. В течение трёх с лишним лет сирийский военный гарнизон Дейр-эз-Зора находился в осаде, получая помощь и подкрепления исключительно по «воздушному мосту», в связи с чем город получил прозвище «Сирийский блокадный Ленинград». Согласно оценкам, приводившимся в ноябре 2016 года, за пять лет с начала вооружённых столкновений на территории города правительственные силы потеряли убитыми около 2500 человек, антиправительственные формирования — около трёх тысяч. Правительственные силы на тот период удерживали под своим контролем 40 % территории города с населением около 100 тысяч и военный аэродром — ключевой объект жизнеобеспечения города, формирования ИГИЛ — остальную территорию города с населением около 50 тысяч

С конца 2015 года гуманитарную и военную помощь осаждённым оказывали российские военные.

5 сентября 2017 года сирийскими правительственными войсками при поддержке ВКС РФ был осуществлён прорыв блокады. Решающее значение в ходе битвы за Дейр-эз-Зор имела российская авиационная поддержка. 3 ноября 2017 года город полностью освобождён от формирований ИГ.

Достопримечательности

В городе имеется местный музей, Арабский культурный центр, а также высшие учебные заведения (факультеты): сельского хозяйства, естественных наук, искусства и гуманитарных наук, педагогический, юридический и медицинский, а также профессионально-технические училища.
Издаётся местная ежедневная газета Аль-Фурат (Евфрат).

В окрестностях города расположены нефтяные месторождения, на окраине города — аэродром совместного базирования (код IATA: DEZ).

Промышленность
Центр сельскохозяйственного района, где развито скотоводство, зерновое растениеводство и выращивание хлопка.

После открытия лёгкой нефти в Сирийской пустыне город стал центром нефтедобывающей промышленности в Сирии, вокруг расположены нефтяные поля и скважины. Рядом с городом ведётся разработка соли.

В городе развита туристическая инфраструктура: рестораны на берегу реки, гостиницы до пяти звёзд (Фурат-эш-Шам и Бадият-эш-Шам), транспортный узел для путешествий через пустыню.

Крупнейшая военная база США в Сирии (месторождение «Аль-Омар», четверть всей сирийской нефти).

В культуре
В 10 главе романа Туманность Андромеды (1957) в «Дейр эз Зоре», на окраине Сирийской пустыни расположена «база спиролетов технико-медицинской помощи».

Известные уроженцы

 Хиджаб, Рияд Фарид — бывший премьер-министр Сирии.

Литература
 Густерин П. В. Города Арабского Востока. — М.: Восток—Запад, 2007. — 352 с. — (Энциклопедический справочник). — 2000 экз. — ISBN 978-5-478-00729-4

Ссылки
 Дейр-эз-Зор на топографической карте Генштаба
 Геноцид армян в Дейр-эз-Зоре

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Города мухафазы Дейр-эз-Зор


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You can notice Lord's grace in every inch of His creation. In a hot summer you enjoy the delicious sweet juice of grapes, cucumber, oranges and pomegranates and cool Ganga water of Rishikesh and Haridwar. This is Lord's grace. When you suffer from any serious ailment, you get immediate relief and cure from herbs. This is Lord's grace. When you walk in a dark night, the stars twinkle and throw light on your path. This is Lord's grace. When you are unable to bear extreme pain you become unconscious. This is Lord's grace. When the weather is sultry, a gentle breeze blows and refreshes you. This is Lord's grace.
Lord's grace will descend in proportion to the degree of surrender. The more the surrender, the more the grace.
Kathopanishad says in a thundering voice: Not by study or discourses, not by argument, not by intelligence is the Self attained. He whom the Lord chooses attains Self-realisation. He reveals Himself to such a chosen person.
The subtle forms of lust, anger, egoism, pride, etc., can only be totally destroyed through the grace of the Lord. However hard you may strive and do Sadhana, these subtle forms cannot be eradicated through your Sadhana alone. The Lord's grace completely purifies your heart.
It is the Lord only who stirs the aspirants to do Purushartha or right exertion.
You should not sit idle and say Lord's grace will do everything for me. Why should I do any Sadhana? This is wrong philosophy. God helps those who help themselves. God's grace will descend on those persons only who exert. You cannot expect the Lord to do self-surrender for you. Be up and doing. Strive. Plod. Persevere. The Lord will shower His grace upon you.
Mira abandoned everything. She renounced kingdom, husband, relatives, friends and property. She remembered her Lord Krishna, whole day and night. She shed tears of Prem. She sang His praise with single-minded devotion. She gave up food. Her body got emaciated. Her mind was ever absorbed in Lord Krishna. Only then, did Lord Krishna shower His grace upon her.
The Lord has five duties. He is Karta (actor), Akarta (non-actor), Anyatha Karta. He veils the Jiva (Tirodhana, Tirobhava). He removes the veil through His grace (Anugraha).
People will become idle and say The Lord will do everything for me. Why should I do any Sadhana? I depend upon His grace alone. In order to remove the inertia, Sri Vasishtha and others have preached the Purushartha Vada. In reality it is all Lord's grace only. Even a leaf or an atom will not move without the sanction of the Lord.
May you all obtain Lord's grace through faith and devotion! May Lord shower His grace upon you all.
Glory to the Lord and His grace (Kripa, Anugraha, Prasad).


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Hidden Hunger!!!
Hidden Hunger-This refers not to the overt and obvious hunger of poor people who are unable to afford enough to eat, but to a more insidious type caused by eating food that is cheap and filling but deficient in essential vitamins and micronutrients. A World Health Organisation report pointed out recently that this problem is widespread, in particular in the Third World, where families may fill themselves with cheap rice, say, but be unable to afford the fruit, vegetables and meat needed to provide a balanced diet. A related cause is that some of the "green revolution" crops of the 1960s and 1970s that were created specifically to reduce starvation are often short of nutrients such as zinc, iron and vitamin A.
The term hidden hunger is not often found outside specialist journals and is more common in news agency copy than in newspapers and magazines: at some point along the road to publication the phrase is blue-pencilled by sub-editors who regard it as jargon. It is sometimes also employed as a general term for the extreme poverty that can exist undetected or unacknowledged in developed countries; it has appeared in this sense in the USA and New Zealand in recent years.
According to Gautam, apart from absolute hunger stemming from lack of food, there are at least three more types of hunger, for instance, "hidden hunger" for micronutrients such as minerals and vitamins.
[Xinhua News Agency, Jun. 2002]
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Hidden hunger persists in country, not famine, says Adviser Dr A. M. M. Sawkat Ali.
Disagreeing with the recent observation by an economist that a 'silent famine' has been prevailing in the country, the Food and Disaster Management Adviser Dr AMM Sawkat Ali yesterday categorically said a 'hidden hunger' is now persisting in the country rather than famine.
"When people die on a large scale due to starvation for scarcity of food then it can be termed as 'famine'," he said while speaking at a press briefing at the conference room of the Food and Disaster Management Ministry.
Listing the government initiatives for providing food to the marginalized people at affordable price, the Adviser, who is also in charge of the ministries of Health and Family Welfare said so far 137 metric tons of rice have been distributed under the Open Market Sale (OMS) of rice throughout the country. A total of 47 trucks have been engaged for selling of OMS rice throughout the country from the beginning of this month, he added.
He said that 40 more OMS rice trucks have added to the existing 15 in the capital city form yesterday.
He informed that 3 lakk 91 thousand and 228 people would get food under VGF programme up to the month of June as against 2 lakh 30 thousand and 328 people in the last year.
"Besides the VGF programme 44 thousand 5 hundred and 63 metric tons of rice would be provided to the distressed people under Gracious Relief (GR) programme" the Adviser said while mentioning different initiatives for the providing food to the poor of low income group.
Replying to a query he said rice has started arriving from India.
"The government has signed a contact with a private firm of India for importing 50 thousand metric tons of rice at a price of $ 397 per metric ton" he mentioned
He further said that USAID would provide 90 thousand metic tons of rice and 'Care' would supply it to the poor people.
He hoped that with the arrival of new harvest 'Boro' there would be no food crisis in the country.
Highlighting the importance of employment for the marginalized people Dr Sawkat Ali said Tk 100 crore has already been distributed to the District Commissioners (DC's) for creating employment and income generating projects for the poor people.
He said that per person will get Tk 150 as wage per day labour under Food for Work Programme, repairing roads and embankments, canal digging, tree plantation and nurturing.
"Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) is also working with different programmes at 118 upazilas of the country for employment of the poor people," the Adviser added.
Secretary and high officials of the Food and Disaster Management ministry among others, were present on the occasion.
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Dr. Akbar Ali Khan-The Man of Courage.
Dr. Akbar Ali Khan is one of my favorite character and I respect him a lot. So I am featuring this legend to you.
He is an economist and educationist. He was born in 1944 in Nabinagar in Brahamanbaria district. He studied History in Dhaka University and secured first place in first class in both B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. Examinations. He studied Economics in Queen's University Canada and obtained M.A. and PhD. in Economics.
He joined the Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP) in 1967 and was posted as SDO Habiganj in 1971when the liberation war started. He actively participated in the liberation war and was sentenced to fourteen years rigorous imprisonment in absentia by a military court of the Occupation Forces. He joined the Provisional Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh as Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defense and actively assisted
the war efforts.
After independence of Bangladsh in the December of 1971, Akbar Ali Khan was appointed in the Establishment Ministry of the government of Bangladesh. He worked there for six months and helped in the rehabilitation of the freedom fighters and also people who came back from Pakistan. From there he was transferred to the Education Ministry. In 1973 he decided to retire to take up teaching again as the profession. Although he submitted his resignation, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the then prime minister of the couসটপচ, did not accept it. Instead he was granted leave of absence with lien to teach in a university. He taught at the Jahangirnagar University until receiving the Commonwealth scholarship to pursue higher education. He studied at the Queen's University, Canada for Ph.D in Economics. Upon his return to Bangladesh in 1979, he was shortly promoted as [Associate Professor] of the Jahangirnagar University. However, eventually he left teaching and returned to Bangladesh Civil Service.
He worked in the Environmental Ministry before his promotion as a permanent secretary to the government in 1993. In the capacity of Secretary, Internal Resources Division, he worked as the Chairman of the Natioanl Board of Revenue until 1995. Between 1995 and 2001, he worked as the Finance Secretary of the country. As he retired, government chose to nominate him as Alternative Executive Director of the World Bank, Washington where he served till 2005.
Retiring from World Bank he established Centre for Government Studies at the BRAC University. Currently he is working there as a visiting professor. Recently he has become a public face as he appears in deferent TV Talk Shows to explain the current political and economic situation of the country. Besides, he is researching the historic and economic process of the country. On 30 October 2007, Khan became the chairman of the Regulatory Reform Commission to modernize old and ineffective laws.
I came to know him only when he became the Adviser of the last Caretaker Government in November 2006. From his resume, we are informed that he was secretary of different important ministries including finance and cabinet.
Only few weeks after joining, he resigned from his post of adviser along with three of his colleagues on policy difference as he explained it. It would have been better if he predicted the inevitable before joining. Though he resigned, he attained a public image by that time. He turned himself as an expert to the public eye on present political issues and in short time he became a media personality. He almost always is a guest of honour in discussion of different forums.
Because of his experience and authority, he is taken up by the present Caretaker Government and is made the chairman of the Reform Commission. The Reform Commission is formed to rectify the age old regulations that hinders the business, service and governance as a whole.
In a meeting with Chief Adviser of the CTG recently, he suggested to publish the recommendations in the website so that people and experts can participate in the process.I personally liked the idea very much but the government didn't materialize it so far.Dr. Akbar Ali Khan recently threatened that if the government does not publish it, he will publish it by himself.
I never heard whether a Commission can publish its recommendations without permission of the government by whom it was appointed.
He cares little for his bosses. He is the boss himself.
He recently said that the tenure of CTG is only of three months according to our constitution(which may embarrass the government) which is in contradiction to the opinion of other legal experts including Dr. Kamal Hussain. He also suggested that the CTG is a non elected government; they should not stay in power for longer period and they should hand over the power to the political government as soon as possible.
Is he a left or right or in between? A man of his stature should not be judged by this simple labeling.
He has published seven books and a. number of articles on economics, public
administration and Water resources in various national and international journals.
Categories: Feature . Tags: Bangladesh, Caretaker, Caretaker Government, Dr. Akbar Ali Khan, Economist, Economy, Governance, Government, truth . Author: Onnesha Blogger . Comments: 1 Comment
Five new advisors take oath
Five new advisers to the caretaker government were sworn in yesterday evening at Bangabhaban to replace the advisers who resigned in the last few days.
The new advisers are AMM Shawkat Ali, former agriculture secretary, AF Hassan Ariff, former attorney general, Hossain Zillur Rahman, executive chairman of Power and Participation Research Centre, Major General (retd) Ghulam Quader, former director general of National Security Intelligence, and Rasheda K Choudhury, chief executive officer of Campaign for Popular Education.
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed is likely to distribute today the portfolios of over 16 ministries among the newly appointed advisers, sources in the cabinet division said.
Categories: News . Tags: Advisor, Bangladesh, Breaking News, Government, News, Resign, Resignation, Top . Author: Onnesha Blogger . Comments: Leave a comment
Four advisers to Bangladesh's government resigned
Four advisers to Bangladesh's interim government resigned Tuesday, local television reports said. Mainul Hosein, Geetiyara Safia Chowdhury, Tapan Chowdhury and Matiur Rahman, who have been in charge of various ministries since the interim government took over in January last year, sent their resignation letters to President Iajuddin Ahmed.
Mainul and Tapan told reporters that they tendered their resignation from the Council of Advisors, as the government desired.
Earlier on December 26, Education Adviser Ayub Quadri resigned in the wake of Paris-bound artefact scandal.
The resignations came on the eve of Fakhruddin Ahmed's caretaker government's completion of one year in office on January 12.
Official confirmation of the resignations was not immediately available.
Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Syed Fahim Munaim told reporters that the four had resigned on personal grounds. He said the Chief Adviser's Office sent the resignation letters to the president's office yesterday.
Their replacements are to be sworn in today at the Bangabhaban, the chief adviser's press secretary said.
Meanwhile, policymakers of the caretaker government were searching for persons to fill in for the five in the remaining months of the interim regime supposed to hand over power to an elected government by December this year.
After the caretaker government system was introduced in 1996, this is the second instance of a group of advisers leaving their office before completion of job.
Sources close to the caretaker government's policymakers said Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed might address the nation on January 12. In his speech, he would seek to assure people that his government is committed to mitigate their sufferings and resignations of the advisers would only help him avoid his words being perceived as empty rhetoric, added the sources.
Political analysts and politicians however observed that it would be difficult for the interim regime to improve the overall situation by only brining changes in the council of advisers.
Categories: News . Tags: Advisor, Bangladesh, Breaking News, Government, News, Resign, Resignation, Top . Author: Onnesha Blogger . Comments: 1 Comment
Broken pieces of stolen artefacts recovered.
(Original News From The Daily Star)
Investigators yesterday retrieved some broken pieces of the two stolen Vishnu statuettes from a dump on the city outskirts and the National Museum authorities confirmed that those belong to the 1,500-year-old relics.
So far, the law enforcers have managed to gather 27 pieces of the Gupta era idols–'Vishnu' and 'Bust of Vishnu'–at Baliarpur of Aminbazar.
Of the fragments salvaged, 20 make up about 25% of the black terracotta statuette of Vishnu where the Hindu god stands with goddesses Saraswati and Laxmi on either side. The remainder pieces comprise a little over 10% of the bust, Swapan Kumar Biswas, acting keeper of the National Museum, told The Daily Star last evening.
Sub-inspector Monu Sohel Imtiaz, investigation officer of the case filed for the theft, said the retrieved pieces form 80% of the goddess portion and only a fraction of the hand [one hand was already missing] and legs of Lord Vishnu.
They make up upper part of the biscuit colour bust including most of its crown, he added.
The investigators, meanwhile, have yet to know the motive for the theft and destruction of the age-old objects that were stolen from the Zia International Airport (ZIA) last weekend. The two along with 143 others had been awaiting shipment to Paris for an exhibition at the Guimet Museum.
"We are now concentrating on further interrogation of the arrestees and efforts to hunt down Abbas," Additional Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Colonel Gulzar Uddin Ahmed told The Daily Star yesterday.
Earlier, a number of the arrestees have confessed to having a role in stealing the seventh century images and tearing those to shreds. They have named Abbas to be the mastermind.
The Rab official also said that the chips that have been recovered so far would be handed over to the investigation officer and used as evidence in trial.
Though they were confirmed to be of the stolen relics, if the authorities want, reconfirmation can be done. Besides, there could always be a scientific test in this regard, Swapan Kumar said.
He added that they identified the pieces primarily by matching them with photographs of the statues. In cases of those too tiny to match the photographs, they were depending on their experience.
"It would have felt great had the artefacts been recovered intact. It really hurts to see them smashed into pieces as they can neither be remade nor be restored to their previous condition," said the stand-in keeper.
Captain Mahbubul Haider of Rab, one of those involved in the recovery drive, said "The pieces that are being retrieved are very small and I'm afraid we won't be able to get back every part of the relics."
Talking to The Daily Star, he also described the sequence of events leading to the retrieval.
He said as it took six days for them to obtain the confessions, the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) cleaners by that time had taken remains of the broken statuettes collected as garbage from Uttara to a vast 300-acre dump at Baliarpur.
Unable to trace the broken off parts in Uttara, the investigators contacted the DCC staff who had collected the garbage of December 22. With help of the DCC staffers, the law enforcers marked the area at Baliarpur where garbage from Uttara is usually dumped.
They began search through the trash spread over 200 by 200 yards Thursday but did not find anything that day.
They continued scavenging through the waste piled up over the days since disposal of the artefacts and at around 11:00am yesterday they struck the leg of Vishnu.
Most of the pieces were recovered late in the afternoon. Working throughout the day, some 200 Rab personnel and 25 DCC teams rounded up around 200 pieces. Later, two National Museum officials including Swapan Kumar identified 27 pieces as parts of the stolen idols.
Shafiqul Alam, the other member of the identification team, is a conservator (wood and paper).
Observers said instead of someone specialising in wood and paper, terracotta experts should have been involved in the job to ensure the identification is accurate and flawless.
A Rab official seeking anonymity said Abbas of the 'Abbas-Nasir' group, a ZIA-based gang accused of committing the theft, is known as a smuggler in Uttara. His passport seized by the law enforcers identifies him as a businessman.
The elite crime-buster added that Abbas, who has numerous allegations of smuggling against him, had travelled to many countries. Besides smuggling, his group has long been involved in stealing from the cargo terminal.
The Rab was raiding different places in the city and elsewhere to arrest six to seven members of the ring.
The motive for the heist could become clear once Abbas is captured, said a Rab official.
Categories: News . Tags: Airport, Artefact, Bangladesh, France, Government, Guimet Museum, Museum, News, Paris, Recovered, Statue . Author: Onnesha Blogger . Comments: 2 Comments
Bangladesh adviser quits over artefact theft.
The adviser to Bangladesh's army-backed interim government for education and cultural affairs, Ayub Quadri, resigned on Wednesday amid an inquiry into the theft of two rare archaeological artefacts, his family and friends said.
They said Quadri tendered his resignation citing unexplained personal grounds but government officials said it was linked to the theft of two statues of Hindu Lord Vishnu on Saturday.
The antiques were lost while being boarded in a Paris-bound plane at the Dhaka airport, which was waiting to fly a consignment of antiques from Bangladesh for an exhibition at the Guimet museum in Paris.
Officials at the Dhaka National Museum said the Vishnu antiques were sculptured about 1,500 years ago and were among the rarest archaeological objects in Bnagladesh.
Quadri later told reporters he would share responsibility for the loss of the artefacts and might consider quitting his government post.
The first consignment of artefacts was already flown to Paris by a French aircraft before authorities stopped the second shipment following detection of the theft.
"The government has decided to regret to the Guimet Museum in Paris that it would not be possible to go ahead … as planned," said a statement from the office of the head of the interim government on Tuesday.
The decision was made as opposition from art lovers and conservers against the shipment of the rare artefacts to France had intensified following theft of two Vishnu statues.
Police detained 15 suspects and were interrogating them.The art lovers had earlier protested against the shipment as they were worried artefacts might be stolen during shipment.
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The shout we heard quite a few times.When ever Emil did something bad his father would yell his name and Emil would lock himself in a tool shed and carve wooden figures.The five-year-old Emil and his family live in a farm in the district of Lönneberga over a hundred years ago. Astrig Lindgren came up with Emil and all these other fantastic characters. The movies and the series of 13 episodes were made in the early 1970's. I can't picture anybody else doing the role of Emil Svensson better than Jan Ohlsson. And Allan Edwall as his father Anton. Those two made a fantastic comedy team.Emy Storm is terrific as his mother Alma who adores her son and writes down every bad thing Emil does in a blue book. Lena Wisborg is adorable as his little sister Ida. Björn Gustafson is perfect as Emil's best friend, farm hand Alfred.
Maud Hansson plays brilliantly the role of Lina who likes Alfred but not so much Emil. Carsta Löck makes Krösa-Maja a great character with her horrible stories. Those 13 episodes had a lot of great and funny stuff. Once Emil locked his father in an outhouse. And he got his head stuck in the family's only soup bowl. He also hoisted his sister up the flag pole and arranged a lavish Christmas party for the poor. And let's not forget the pig behaving badly. Or the horse he got at Vimmerby market.And it ended with Emil taking Alfred to a doctor through a terrible snowstorm. Emil i Lönneberga is great fun the whole family can enjoy.


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Sphero Launches Kickstarter for New Programmable Robot 'RVR'
Tuesday February 19, 2019 5:00 AM PST by Mitchel Broussard
Sphero today debuted a Kickstarter for its latest robot, the RVR, a fully programmable and customizable RC car that the company says has "endless coding possibilities." The RVR Kickstarter begins its pledge levels at $199 and will have a final MSRP of $249, and marks Sphero's first ever Kickstarter project. The final goal for the project is $150,000.
Sphero says that initial shipments will start in September/October 2019, but as with all Kickstarters you should remember that sometimes things are delayed for longer than initially promised. Still, Sphero is a well-known company, and a representative told us that RVR will ship in the designated time frame regardless of the Kickstarter.
"RVR is the kind of robot I wish I had growing up," said Adam Wilson, Sphero co-founder and chief creative officer. "For makers, developers and anyone who loves to build things, RVR's advanced capabilities bring to life everything that makes coding exciting. That creative experience is at the core of why we first started Sphero."
The company says that RVR is drivable out of the box and is usable for coders of all levels, but it has a few advanced features geared toward those looking for a more complex coding experience. RVR can be customized through a universal expansion port, full suite of on-board sensors, and an advanced control system.
Sphero says the robot has a fine-tuned, high-resolution motor encoder that allows for extreme agility and accuracy when controlling it. RVR's universal expansion port has the ability to connect to third-party hardware like Raspberry Pi, Micro:Bit, and Arduino.
Onboard sensors include a color sensor, light sensor, IR, magnetometer, accelerometer, and gyroscope, as well as a roll cage and clear protective plate that can be removed. RVR has an ambient light sensor and 9-axis IMU that can send and receive signals to interact with other Sphero robots.
RVR will connect to the Sphero EDU app, like the company's other robots, allowing users to view tips, ask questions, take on challenges, share their creations, and more. Similar to previous Sphero products, RVR is focused on STEAM learning and the company intends the robot to be used in classes to teach coding lessons.
Sphero also partnered with SparkFun Electronics and its "Get a Bot, Give a Bot" initiative, which will match the first 50 RVR's purchased on Kickstarter with a donation of 50 RVRs to schools.
RVR is available to pre-order on Kickstarter starting today.
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RodThePlod
Reminds me of the Big Trak I had whilst growing up in the early eighties!
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Sphero products are really cool. For all of 2 days. Also, isn't kick starter for start up companies. Sphero has been a viable company that's been self sustaining for a while now. All of a sudden they need a kick starter campaign. That's like Apple asking for $500,000 Kickstarter campaign for a new iPhone.
For better or worse, some established companies are now debuting new products on Kickstarter for marketing purposes. Apparently they feel that there's more interaction with their fan base, and greater word of mouth via social media and online activity to help promote new products.
(I laughed at the "2 days" comment because that's pretty much how I've felt with the two Spheros I bought).
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