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Anthela är ett släkte av fjärilar. Anthela ingår i familjen Anthelidae.

Dottertaxa till Anthela, i alfabetisk ordning

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 Anthela acuta
 Anthela addita
 Anthela adriana
 Anthela adusta
 Anthela allocota
 Anthela angiana
 Anthela ariprepes
 Anthela asciscens
 Anthela aspilota
 Anthela astata
 Anthela asterias
 Anthela australasiae
 Anthela barnardi
 Anthela basigera
 Anthela binotata
 Anthela brunneilinea
 Anthela callicesta
 Anthela callileuca
 Anthela callispila
 Anthela callixantha
 Anthela canescens
 Anthela caniceps
 Anthela carneotincta
 Anthela censors
 Anthela centralistrigata
 Anthela cervinella
 Anthela charon
 Anthela chrysocrossa
 Anthela cinerascens
 Anthela clementi
 Anthela cnecias
 Anthela complens
 Anthela connexa
 Anthela consors
 Anthela conspersa
 Anthela consuta
 Anthela crenulata
 Anthela cupreotincta
 Anthela curanda
 Anthela dama
 Anthela decolor
 Anthela deficiens
 Anthela delineata
 Anthela denticulata
 Anthela diophthalma
 Anthela ekeikei
 Anthela elizabetha
 Anthela elizabethae
 Anthela epicrypha
 Anthela euryphrica
 Anthela excellens
 Anthela excisa
 Anthela exoleta
 Anthela expansa
 Anthela ferruginea
 Anthela ferruginosa
 Anthela fervens
 Anthela figlina
 Anthela flavala
 Anthela glauerti
 Anthela guenei
 Anthela guttifascia
 Anthela habroptila
 Anthela haemoptera
 Anthela hamata
 Anthela heliopa
 Anthela humata
 Anthela hyperythra
 Anthela inconstans
 Anthela inornata
 Anthela integra
 Anthela intermedia
 Anthela julia
 Anthela kebea
 Anthela latifera
 Anthela leucocera
 Anthela limonea
 Anthela linearis
 Anthela lineosa
 Anthela linopepla
 Anthela maculosa
 Anthela magnifica
 Anthela mediana
 Anthela minuta
 Anthela minutata
 Anthela moretonensis
 Anthela neurospasta
 Anthela nicothoe
 Anthela niphomacula
 Anthela obsoletipicta
 Anthela ocellata
 Anthela ochroneura
 Anthela ochroptera
 Anthela odenestaria
 Anthela odontogrammata
 Anthela oressarcha
 Anthela ostra
 Anthela parva
 Anthela phaeodesma
 Anthela phaeozona
 Anthela phoenicias
 Anthela pinguis
 Anthela plana
 Anthela postica
 Anthela potentaria
 Anthela prionodes
 Anthela protocentra
 Anthela psammochroa
 Anthela pudica
 Anthela pupillifera
 Anthela pyromacula
 Anthela pyrrhica
 Anthela pyrrhobaphes
 Anthela quadriplaga
 Anthela reducta
 Anthela reltoni
 Anthela repleta
 Anthela repletana
 Anthela roberi
 Anthela rosea
 Anthela rubeola
 Anthela rubescens
 Anthela rubicunda
 Anthela rubriscripta
 Anthela rufifascia
 Anthela scortea
 Anthela serranotata
 Anthela simplex
 Anthela stygiana
 Anthela subfalcata
 Anthela succinea
 Anthela sydneyensis
 Anthela symphona
 Anthela tasmaniensis
 Anthela tetraphrica
 Anthela tetrophthalma
 Anthela trisecta
 Anthela tritonea
 Anthela undulata
 Anthela uniformis
 Anthela unisigna
 Anthela uvaria
 Anthela walkeri
 Anthela varia
 Anthela vinosa
 Anthela virescens
 Anthela xantharcha
 Anthela xanthobapta
 Anthela xanthocera
 Anthela zonata

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Measles Cases Reach 20-Year Height in Europe, as Anti-Vaccination Movement Grows
An analysis of World Health Organization data shows measles breaking 60,000 cases in 2018 — with twice as many deaths.
2018 saw more cases of the entirely preventable disease than any other point this century. More than twice as many people contracted measles in 2018 as in 2017, and 72 people have died as a result. Experts worry that "anti-vaxxers" are threatening the "herd immunity" that keeps measles, HPV, the flu, and other diseases at bay, as the blatantly unscientific opposition to modern medicine spreads through social media.
"It is unimaginable that we have deaths because of measles — children dying because of measles," European Union health commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis. "We promised that by 2020 Europe would be measles free." The Guardian reported that Andriukaitis blames some "right-wing populist politicians" for stoking the fires fueling this dangerous trend.
"They are very irresponsible," said Andriukaitis. " What can we see in this populist movement? Irresponsibility. Now it is very important to see [what they will do in power]. Let's see what happens with these measles outbreaks when you have those [in charge] who from the beginning used fake news."
"It is very hard to inoculate against, given there is no stable authority in the world right now, where institutions and facts are being questioned routinely and lying is OK," said Seth Berkley, the head of the global vaccine alliance "Gavi."
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's Heidi Larson, who serves as their "Vaccine Confidence Project" director, said that society is "in a very vulnerable place right now." Larson said while "there's more hyperbole in the US," she does not "know a country in the world that doesn't have some questioning going on."
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Home / Air quality / New roads create new traffic
New roads create new traffic
When a new road is built, new traffic will divert onto it. Many people may make new trips they would otherwise not make, and will travel longer distances just because of the presence of the new road. This well-known and long-established effect is known as 'induced traffic'.
Induced traffic means that the predicted congestion benefits of a new road are often quickly eroded. Traffic levels on bypassed roads can also rise faster than expected due to induced traffic, all of which means the hoped-for benefits of a new road can evaporate very quickly.
The phenomenon of induced traffic has been observed by transport professionals repeatedly since 1925! And recent authoritative reviews have confirmed that induced traffic is still beating forecasts on new roads across the country.
Induced traffic distorts spending priorities
By not forecasting traffic levels properly and not fully taking into account induced traffic, the benefits and costs of a new road will not be accurately calculated, which can lead to big mistakes being made with public money.
During the planning stages of a road scheme, if induced traffic is not included properly, the full environmental impact of the scheme - for instance, carbon and noise levels - will be underestimated.
By predicting a longer period of relief from congestion, underestimating induced traffic will further distort the benefit-cost ratio so that decision makers will have false expectations of the economic returns of a road.
Local people will also have too high expectations for a road scheme if induced traffic is not included properly in forecasts.
And even if induced traffic is forecast correctly, it will still cause damaging environmental impacts and extra congestion that make building big new roads more pointless than ever.
Read a summary of the long history of new roads generating new traffic by Professor Phil Goodwin:
Induced traffic again. And again. And Again
Expert studies
The latest and most authoritative studies into induced traffic are the 2017 reports "The Impact of Road Projects in England Report" by independent consultants TfQL for CPRE, and "The End of the Road?" CPRE's report on TfQL's findings.
These follow the 1994 SACTRA report 'Trunk Roads and the Generation of Traffic', and the 2006 report 'Beyond Transport Infrastructure' by independent consultants for the Countryside Agency and CPRE.
CPRE report 2017: The End of the Road?
The report confirmed that major new roads increase traffic above the general traffic increases for their areas, with traffic increases of up to 47% over 20 years.
The bad environmental effects of new roads, with loss of ancient woodland, wildlife habitats and damage to the landscape are well known. But this report confirms that the promised safety and economic benefits from new roads have not been delivered either.
This is based on the in depth report from TfQL which analysed over 80 road schemes from the past 20 years, using official data from the Post Opening Evaluation (POPE) reports. You can read the full report here.
SACTRA report 1994 - Trunk Roads and the Generation of Traffic
SACTRA was an independent panel of experts set up to advise the Department for Transport on the impacts of road building.
The conclusion of the report was:
"An average road improvement, for which traffic growth due to all other factors is forecast correctly, will see an additional [i.e. induced] 10% of base traffic in the short term and 20% in the long term."
The DfT accepted the report's conclusions. However, are the lessons being learned, and are traffic forecasts still inaccurate?
Professor Phil Goodwin, one of the lead authors of the SACTRA report, said:
"The average traffic flow on 151 improved roads was 10.4% higher than forecasts that omitted induced traffic and 16.4% higher than forecast on 85 alternative routes that improvements had been intended to relieve. In a dozen more detailed case studies the measured increase in traffic ranged from 9% to 44% in the short run and 20% to 178% in the longer run. This fitted in with other evidence on elasticities and aggregate data."
Beyond Transport Infrastructure: Lessons for the future from recent road projects
In 2006, consultants Lilli Matson, Ian Taylor, Lynn Sloman and John Elliott examined three major road schemes in detail for an important report for the Countryside Agency and CPRE.
The schemes included the infamous A34 Newbury Bypass which attracted mass protests in 1996. They also examined ten other schemes built since the publication of the 1994 SACTRA report and used data supplied by the Highways Agency's own Post Opening Project Evaluation (POPE) studies.
In the case of Newbury, the report showed that traffic levels predicted for 2010 in Newbury were already reached by 2003 – and that traffic had increased by almost 50% in that period.
New development around the road was partially to blame for the increases.
In the other case studies the report concluded that:
"Traffic growth on the routes considered was higher than forecast, sometimes quite dramatically so."
London studies
John Elliot worked as a transport expert for the GLC in the 1980s and was asked to look at the long-term effects of increasing road capacity on key corridors in London.
Comparing roads that had been widened, such as the A40 Westway, with corridors where main roads had not seen significant capacity-building, it was clear that adding new road space had increased traffic far more than would be expected, and that this effect continued into surrounding streets and junctions.
His results are very well summarised in a presentation given at a public meeting in Greenwich in 2013 (see box).
Slides, video and transcription of John Elliot's presentation on induced traffic.
Figure 2.4 in the presentation by John Elliot also shows the results of widening the Blackwall Tunnel in East London in the late 1960s.
The data for traffic flows at Blackwall, and at other Thames crossings nearby, show that when the capacity at Blackwall was doubled, traffic more than doubled in the first year of opening due to the immediate release of suppressed demand, and that this was accompanied by barely detectable levels of traffic relief at other bridges and tunnels.
Read the full research on the effects of London road-widening here


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The Misadventures of Hair Girl
In the first grade Jillian discovered that she could make her hair grow at will. Each day before school her mother would plait two long braids down her back, and one morning in a fit of defiance Jillian snipped both of them off with the kitchen scissors. Her mother cried and her father paced the floor, and together they decided to keep Jillian home, locked in her bedroom for the weekend. Jillian whispered curses into her pillow, and the next morning her mother found her standing in her night gown, long dark waves spilling over her shoulders as if nothing ever happened. They both screamed. Her mother forced her to promise that she would never let anyone see what she could do, because it would scare people away and she'd never make friends.
Unsure if she'd really done it with the power of her own mind, Jillian began to experiment. She locked herself in the bathroom and chopped big chunks that gathered into piles on the floor. Then she'd stare at herself in the mirror and furrow her brow, and the blunt edges would lengthen into shiny, undulating tresses. Once she went so far as to shave her head, and found she was able to make her hair grow back at a rapid rate until it touched the linoleum.
Jillian did research and learned that the only beings with this type of ability were vampires, and maybe witches. Leave it to me, she thought, to have a power that's weird enough to make me a freak, but not important enough to make me a super-hero.
In spite of her promise to her mother, Jillian used her skill on more than one occasion. She scared off a bully on the playground in middle school. In high school, she warded off a chemistry teacher with prying eyes and busy hands. By college she could walk through alleys alone at night without a care in the world. If some asshole came near her, she'd just fix him with the evil eye, clench her fists, and when the hair came flowing down around her, he would take off in confusion.
After years of cutting it into pageboys and bobs, Jillian realized she could earn a living off her hair. She left home and became an aimless grifter, wandering from one beauty school to the next in all the big cities. Salon students would pay big bucks for the experience, and Jillian let them do all manner of wild hairdos, mohawks, fauxhawks, you name it. But she couldn't risk sticking around at one place in case they found out the truth, so she'd take the cash and move on.
Each night before she fell asleep Jillian grew her hair out, braided it into one long section, cut the braid and tied it off. She filled boxes and bags with hair and eventually she donated all of it to charities for wigs, anxious to put her power to good use.
One day after a particularly lucrative hair cut at one of the top hair schools in New York, Jillian went to the bank to deposit her check. As she stood in line a shot rang out, and she turned around to face a man in a Ronald Reagan mask with a gun. "Everybody get down," he yelled, pointing the weapon at an old lady.
"Oh no," Jillian said. "No wannabe Patrick Swayze motherfucker's gonna rob this place on my watch."
The gunman looked at her and she squinted her eyes, balled up her fists, and her freshly styled pixie cut began extending down to the floor. All the customers gasped, but the villain was not impressed. "Get on the fucking floor," he demanded, "freak."
Jillian did as he said, dismayed that her trick had failed. She watched the thief as he barked instructions at the teller. She reached into her purse and felt a long, thick coil of braid from the night before. Hoping her intuition was correct, she drew out the braid. Ronald Reagan was wearing a backpack, presumably to fill with loot. As Jillian expected, he knelt down and put the gun on the floor so he could take off the pack to hand to the teller. Jillian sprang up, wrapped the braid around his throat and strangled him until he lost consciousness.
Everyone cheered, and a woman called Jillian's name. Jillian hadn't noticed, but one of the frightened customers was the hairdresser from the fancy hair school. "I saw what you did with your hair," she said, "I can make you an extremely rich woman."
Six months later Jillian called her mother from Paris to apologize for breaking her promise. "But on the bright side," she said, "I'm the most sought-after hair model in the world."
Sara Dobbie is a writer from Southern Ontario, Canada. Her work has appeared in various journals around the net. She loves playing guitar and hanging out at the beach. Follow her on Twitter @sbdobbie.
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On arrival at Siem Reap International airport, you will be greeted by your tour guide and transferred to your hotel for check-in with our assistance.
After breakfast at the hotel, a comfortable car and your tour guide will pick you up for temples visit. Visit South Gate of Angkor Thom with two rows of its huge statues of demons and gods depicting the churning of the ocean of milk arranged on both sides of stone bridge and Bayon temple the place where your couple would be able to experience the elephant ride around a forest of heads . This temple built in late of12th century by king Jayavarman VI as a Buddhist state temple. Then, visit Terrace of Elephants, which used to be a base for the king's grand audience hall ; Terrace of Leper King supposed that it was a terrace which housed the royal crematory .
In the afternoon, start from Angkor Wat, the most balanced, the most harmonious, and the most perfect Khmer temple. It shows Khmer art, which reached the height of it glory in the 12th century. We enjoy a sunset drink with a leisurely boat ride on the moat of Angkor Thom and view hidden elements of the ancient Khmer water systems, relaxing and accompanied by the sound of bird song.
After breakfast depart Siem Reap for the Tonlé Sap, driving down the eastern side of the lake. Arrive at Kampong Klaing, a remarkable village built entirely on stilts, where there is time to explore the various houses, school and shops before boarding your private boat. Cruise along a short tributary, passing fishermen and children playing in the shallow waters before arriving at a typical floating village where you may either disembark or cruise among the waterways .
At the head of the tributary you will continue out on to the 'Great Lake' and continue traveling north to Kampong Phluk, a flooded forest . Accessible only during high water, you'll pass through the tree tops whilst seated in your boat. Nearby is a fishing village where you can also learn more about the traditional methods used for generations. Returning to the mainland, meet your driver and return to Siem Reap.
Breakfast at the hotel and free leisure until transfer to Airport for departure flight.
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@XmlRootElement
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	private String echoResponse;

	public EchoResponseMessage(){}
	public EchoResponseMessage(String messageToEcho) {
		super();
		this.echoResponse = messageToEcho;
	}
	public String getEchoResponse() {
		return echoResponse;
	}
	public void setEchoResponse(String echoResponse) {
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}

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The end of World War II did not produce an enduring peace, but rather a new and continuing conflict between the former Allies. Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe was countered by a policy of containment, a policy that allowed the Soviets a free hand in the East, but firmly opposed expansion toward the West. In support of its western allies, the United States provided military and financial assistance under the terms of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.
The tension between the Soviets and the West tended to focus on the status of Germany and particularly that of Berlin. The restoration of civilian government in Western Germany and its eventual admission into NATO led the Soviets to establish East Germany, create the Warsaw Pact and the formal division of Europe. Berlin, lying deep in East Germany, was particularly vulnerable to changing political tension between the superpowers. The divided city was truly the symbol of the division of Germany and of Europe.
The Cold War policy of containment was based on the belief that, should the West be politically firm and economically prosperous, it could outlast and overcome the aggressive tendencies in the Soviet system. In the end, the "cost" of waging the Cold War was more than the Eastern economies could bear.


Who Is at the Hepatitis Helm?
Living with hepatitis C or other illness is more than a disease; it is an invitation to tell your story.
An interview with a survivor of hepatitis B and C, cirrhosis, and liver cancer, which lead to his liver transplant in 2015.
The viral hepatitis world has made great strides over the years. However, lately there have been some setbacks. A look at recent news.
What do hurricanes have to do with hepatitis?
If pain drives you to sharing needles and drug-related equipment, be aware of the risks such as hepatitis B, C, and HIV transmission.
September 9th is designated National African Immigrant and Refugee HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis Awareness (NAIRHHA) Day.
Feed your liver a healthy soup using summer vegetables.
Chris Taylor reflects on his years of service to public health and the viral hepatitis community.
Chris Taylor bids farewell to 12 years of hepatitis advocacy with the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD).
World Hepatitis Day 2018 has come and gone, but the need for it has not. Viral hepatitis is still here, taking livers and lives.


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WILDSLOVENIA
Slovenia is a world-renowned country for karstic phenomena and especially caves. Even the scientific term "karst" is used worldwide to describe geological phenomena formed during the dissolution of limestone and dolomite rocks, "The Karst" being the name of the extensive limestone plateau stretching from western Slovenia, to northeast Italy and northwest Croatia. Although the Karst is full of surface phenomena like dolines, poljes, limestone pavements and so on, the greatest natural treasures are found underground. In Slovenia there are around 10,000 known karstic caves, with an average 100 new caves discovered every year. Most of them are found in western and central Slovenia. Some of the most famous and beautiful caves in Slovenia include Škocjanske jame (UNESCO site), Postojnska jama, Križna jama and Planinska jama.
The Slovenian Karst is also known as one of the most species-rich in terms of its underground fauna, hosting about 400-450 species of cave animals. The first cave animals in the world were described using specimens from Slovenian karstic caves. The caves at Postojna are also known as the cradle of speleobiology, a branch of biology concentrating on the study of life lived underground.
Slovenia's and Europe's most famous cave animal is the Olm Proteus anguinus, an aquatic salamander living in underground watercourses of the Dinaric mountains. Its distribution range includes southern Slovenia, northeast Italy, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Being a troglobite, it is totally adapted to life in the dark, having no eyes and no skin pigmentation. It also retains external gills and other larval characteristics into adulthood (neoteny). In 1986 a dark-coloured subspecies of the Olm was discovered in southern Slovenia. It is known as the Black Olm Proteus anguinus parkelj, living in a very restricted area in Bela Krajina. The main features that separate it from the nominate Olm are its normally developed eyes and dark (almost black) skin pigmentation.
Slovenian caves are also famous for the presence of another interesting cave animal, the first described cave beetle in the world: Leptodirus hochenwartii. This tiny beetle was discovered in 1831 in the Postojna cave. It has a northwestern Dinaric distribution and found in Slovenia, the Trieste Karst and Croatia.
Among the many other Slovenian troglobites, capable of living only in caves, we will mention just a few of the more famous: Velkovrhia enigmatica (an endemic cave Hydrozoan of Slovenia), Titanethes albus (an isopod crustacean or "woodlouse"), Niphargus sp. (an amphipod crustacean), Alona sketi (a cladoceran crustacean), Neobisium spelaeum (a cave pseudoscorpion), Stalita taenaria (a cave spider) and Anophthalmus hitleri (an endemic cave beetle of Slovenia, named after Adolf Hitler!).
Some animals known as trogloxenes or "cave guests", live only at cave entrances and cannot live exclusively in caves. The most typical examples are the Common Cave Cricket Troglophilus cavicola, Neglected Cave Cricket Troglophilus neglectus and various harvestmen arachnids (Opiliones).
Among animals that use caves only during part of their life, for resting or hibernating are various species of bats. The most common include Greater Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, Lesser Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus hipposideros, Mediterranean Horseshoe Bat Rhinolopus euryale and Common Bentwing Bat Miniopterus schreibersii.
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<?php
App::uses('AppController', 'Controller');
/**
 * SafeguardTypes Controller
 *
 * @property SafeguardType $SafeguardType
 * @property PaginatorComponent $Paginator
 * @property SessionComponent $Session
 */
class SafeguardTypesController extends AppController {

/**
 * Components
 *
 * @var array
 */
	public $components = array('Paginator', 'Session');

/**
 * admin_index method
 *
 * @return void
 */
	public function admin_index() {
		$this->SafeguardType->recursive = 0;
		$this->set('safeguardTypes', $this->Paginator->paginate());
	}

/**
 * admin_view method
 *
 * @throws NotFoundException
 * @param string $id
 * @return void
 */
	public function admin_view($id = null) {
		if (!$this->SafeguardType->exists($id)) {
			throw new NotFoundException(__('Invalid safeguard type'));
		}
		$options = array('conditions' => array('SafeguardType.' . $this->SafeguardType->primaryKey => $id));
		$this->set('safeguardType', $this->SafeguardType->find('first', $options));
	}

/**
 * admin_add method
 *
 * @return void
 */
	public function admin_add() {
		if ($this->request->is('post')) {
			$this->SafeguardType->create();
			if ($this->SafeguardType->save($this->request->data)) {
				$this->Session->setFlash(__('The safeguard type has been saved.'), 'alert', array(
					'plugin' => 'BoostCake',
					'class' => 'alert-success'
				));
				return $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
			} else {
				$this->Session->setFlash(__('The safeguard type could not be saved. Please, try again.'), 'alert', array(
					'plugin' => 'BoostCake',
					'class' => 'alert-danger'
				));
			}
		}
	}

/**
 * admin_edit method
 *
 * @throws NotFoundException
 * @param string $id
 * @return void
 */
	public function admin_edit($id = null) {
		if (!$this->SafeguardType->exists($id)) {
			throw new NotFoundException(__('Invalid safeguard type'));
		}
		if ($this->request->is(array('post', 'put'))) {
			if ($this->SafeguardType->save($this->request->data)) {
				$this->Session->setFlash(__('The safeguard type has been saved.'), 'alert', array(
					'plugin' => 'BoostCake',
					'class' => 'alert-success'
				));
				return $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
			} else {
				$this->Session->setFlash(__('The safeguard type could not be saved. Please, try again.'), 'alert', array(
					'plugin' => 'BoostCake',
					'class' => 'alert-danger'
				));
			}
		} else {
			$options = array('conditions' => array('SafeguardType.' . $this->SafeguardType->primaryKey => $id));
			$this->request->data = $this->SafeguardType->find('first', $options);
		}
	}

/**
 * admin_delete method
 *
 * @throws NotFoundException
 * @param string $id
 * @return void
 */
	public function admin_delete($id = null) {
		$this->SafeguardType->id = $id;
		if (!$this->SafeguardType->exists()) {
			throw new NotFoundException(__('Invalid safeguard type'));
		}
		$this->request->allowMethod('post', 'delete');
		if ($this->SafeguardType->delete()) {
			$this->Session->setFlash(__('The safeguard type has been deleted.'), 'alert', array(
					'plugin' => 'BoostCake',
					'class' => 'alert-info'
				));
		} else {
			$this->Session->setFlash(__('The safeguard type could not be deleted. Please, try again.'), 'alert', array(
					'plugin' => 'BoostCake',
					'class' => 'alert-danger'
				));
		}
		return $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
	}
}


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Input;
using GalaSoft.MvvmLight.Command;
using Plugin.Connectivity;
using TorneoPredicciones.Models;
using TorneoPredicciones.Services;

namespace TorneoPredicciones.ViewModels
{
    public class SelectTournamentViewModel : INotifyPropertyChanged
    {
        #region Attributes
        private readonly ApiService _apiService;
        private readonly DataService _dataService;
        private readonly DialogService _dialogService;
        private NavigationService _navigationService;
        private bool _isRefreshing;
        #endregion

        #region Properties
        public ObservableCollection<TournamentItemViewModel> Tournaments { get; set; }

        public bool IsRefreshing
        {
            set {
                if (_isRefreshing != value)
                {
                    _isRefreshing = value;

                    if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    {
                        PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("IsRefreshing"));
                    }
                }
            }
            get {
                return _isRefreshing;
            }
        }
        #endregion

        #region Constructor
        public SelectTournamentViewModel()
        {
           // instance = this;

            _apiService = new ApiService();
            _dialogService = new DialogService();
            _navigationService = new NavigationService();
            _dataService = new DataService();

            Tournaments = new ObservableCollection<TournamentItemViewModel>();
            LoadTournaments();
        }
        #endregion

        #region Singleton
        private static SelectTournamentViewModel _instance;

        public static SelectTournamentViewModel GetInstance()
        {
            if (_instance == null)
            {
                _instance = new SelectTournamentViewModel();
            }

            return _instance;
        }
        #endregion

        #region Events
        public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
        #endregion

        #region Methods
        private async void LoadTournaments()
        {
            if (!CrossConnectivity.Current.IsConnected)
            {
                await _dialogService.ShowMessage("Error", "Check you internet connection.");
               // await navigationService.Clear();
                return;
            }
            var isReachable = await CrossConnectivity.Current.IsRemoteReachable("notasti.com");
            if (!isReachable)
            {
                await _dialogService.ShowMessage("Error", "Check you internet connection.");
                // await navigationService.Clear();
                return;
            }
            _isRefreshing = true;
            var parameters = _dataService.First<Parameter>(false);
            var user = _dataService.First<User>(false);
            var response = await _apiService.Get<Tournament>(parameters.UrlBase, "/api", "/Tournaments", user.TokenType, user.AccessToken);
            if (!response.IsSuccess)
            {
                await _dialogService.ShowMessage("Error", response.Message);
               // await navigationService.Clear();
                return;
            }

            ReloadTournaments((List<Tournament>)response.Result);
        }

        private void ReloadTournaments(List<Tournament> tournaments)
        {
            Tournaments.Clear();
            foreach (var tournament in tournaments)
            {
                Tournaments.Add(new TournamentItemViewModel
                {
                    Dates = tournament.Dates,
                    Groups = tournament.Groups,
                    Logo = tournament.Logo,
                    Name = tournament.Name,
                    TournamentId = tournament.TournamentId,
                });
            }
        }
        #endregion

        #region Commands
        public ICommand RefreshCommand { get { return new RelayCommand(Refresh); } }

        public void Refresh()
        {
          //  IsRefreshing = true;
            LoadTournaments();
          //  IsRefreshing = false;
        }
        #endregion
    }

    //public  class SelectTournamentViewModel: INotifyPropertyChanged
    //  {

    //      #region Propidades

    //      //origen de datos del listview
    //      public ObservableCollection<TournamentItemViewModel> Tournaments { get; set; }

    //      public bool IsRefreshing
    //      {
    //          set {
    //              if (isRefreshing != value)
    //              {
    //                  isRefreshing = value;
    //                  PropertyChanged?.Invoke(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("IsRefreshing"));
    //              }
    //          }
    //          get {
    //              return isRefreshing;
    //          }
    //      }

    //      #endregion

    //      #region Contructores

    //      public SelectTournamentViewModel()
    //      {
    //          apiService=new ApiService();
    //          dialogService=new DialogService();
    //          navigationService=new NavigationService();
    //          dataService=new DataService();

    //          Tournaments= new ObservableCollection<TournamentItemViewModel>();
    //          LoadTournaments();

    //      }

    //      #endregion

    //      #region Metodos
    //      private async void LoadTournaments()
    //      {
    //          if (!CrossConnectivity.Current.IsConnected)
    //          {
    //             // IsRunning = false;
    //             // IsEnabled = true;
    //              await dialogService.ShowMessage("Error", "Check you internet connection.");
    //              return;
    //          }

    //          var isReachable = await CrossConnectivity.Current.IsRemoteReachable("praysoft.net");
    //          if (!isReachable)
    //          {
    //             // IsRunning = false;
    //             // IsEnabled = true;
    //              await dialogService.ShowMessage("Error", "Check you internet connection.");
    //              return;
    //          }
    //          IsRefreshing = true;
    //          var parameters = dataService.First<Parameter>(false);
    //          var user =   dataService.First<User>(false);
    //          var response = await apiService.Get<Tournament>(parameters.URLBase, "/api", "/Tournaments",
    //              user.TokenType,
    //              user.AccessToken);
    //          IsRefreshing = false;
    //          if (!response.IsSuccess)
    //          {
    //              // IsRunning = false;
    //              // IsEnabled = true;
    //              await dialogService.ShowMessage("Error", response.Message);
    //              return;
    //          }

    //          ReloadTournaments((List<Tournament>)response.Result);

    //      }

    //      private void ReloadTournaments(List<Tournament> tournaments)
    //      {
    //          Tournaments.Clear();
    //          foreach (var tournament in tournaments )
    //          {
    //              Tournaments.Add(new TournamentItemViewModel
    //              {
    //                  Dates = tournament.Dates,
    //                  Groups=tournament.Groups,
    //                  Logo=tournament.Logo,
    //                  Name=tournament.Name,
    //                  TournamentId=tournament.TournamentId
    //              });

    //          }
    //      }

    //      #endregion

    //      #region Atributos
    //      private ApiService apiService;
    //      private DialogService dialogService;
    //      private NavigationService navigationService;
    //      private DataService dataService;
    //      //private string email;
    //      //private string password;
    //      private bool isRefreshing;
    //      //private bool isEnabled;
    //      //private bool isRemembered;

    //      #endregion

    //      #region Eventos
    //      public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged; //implementamso porque cambiare objetos en tiempo de ejecucion
    //      #endregion

    //      #region Comandos
    //      public ICommand RefreshCommand { get {return new RelayCommand(Refresh);} }

    //      private void Refresh()
    //      {
    //          LoadTournaments();
    //      }

    //      #endregion

    //  }
}


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Hungarian Train Delays: 1.8 Million Minutes
EU Report Gives Hungarian Health-Care A Poor Bill Of Health
Marko Nikolic Is The New Manager Of Videoton FC
EC's Environmental Implementation Report About Hungary
DK Calls On Govt To Abandon 2024 Budapest Summer Olympics Bid
"Europe & Hungary Are Experiencing A Refugee Crisis"
Architectural Film Days, Toldi Cinema Budapest, 5 - 9 March
Xpat Opinion: The Risk Of Political Christianity: An Interview With Tamás Fabiny, Lutheran Bishop
Why Are So Many Hungarians Working In London?
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán On Football
13 result(s) for poor infrastructure
https://bbj.hu/
Hungarian train delays amounted to 1.8 million minutes last year, representing 3.5 years, online portal index.hu reports.
Hungary has the highest cancer fatality rate in the European Union according to the first Hungarian health-care system review that was compiled by Ministry of Human Resources workgroups under the coordination of the National Healthcare Services Center (ÁEEK), reports napi.hu.
The 37-year-old Serbian coach won the league and cup double with Partizan Belgrade in 2016/17. Marko Nikolic signed the contract on Tuesday to become the new manager of Videoton. He has committed himself until June 2019. Marko Nikolic was born in Belgrade on the 20th July 1979 and went on to play for his home town club of FK Rad and on loan with Dorcol.
Opinion: The Hungarian Opposition Shows Signs Of Life
20 Feb 2017 7:00 AM
Momentum's victory
The major news of the day is the overwhelming success of Momentum's signature drive for a referendum on holding the 2024 Olympic Games in Budapest. They needed 138,000 signatures; they collected 266,151. Although the young leaders of the movement don't seem to be overly grateful, about 60,000 of these signatures were collected by political parties on the left. LMP and ...
Although Hungary has been making efforts to improve its environmental performance, the implementation of the European Union's environmental policy remains challenging, the European Commission said in its Environmental Implementation Report released on Monday.
The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) demands that the government should stop preparations for Budapest's bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and wasteful spending on related "pointless" infrastructure projects, the party spokesman said, making reference to a recent impact study. The study concludes that Budapest is unsuitable for hosting the Games for which the city would need to spend ...
There is a very real refugee crisis unfolding in Hungary, and nobody knows how long it will last. The government provides funding for everything except essentials: billions of forints squandered on billboard campaigns and a 175-kilometre border fence, while the migrant servicing system is overwhelmed. The answer has yet to be found on a European level, as well.
Hosted by KÉK - Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Center, screenings will take place at Toldi Cinema, with over 30 documentaries, short and experimental films, open to all who want to learn about current questions of urbanism, architecture and design.
Hungary Beset By Growing Regional Differences
24 Oct 2014 9:00 AM
The gap between the fast-growing and sluggish regions of Hungary is widening, we learn from a new study on the status of the country's various districts. Budapest and the northwest regions are head and shoulders above the rest, in particular the northeast and the disadvantaged areas along the Dráva River in the southwest corner of the country.


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Crash on A38 near Wellington knocks out power for 15 homes for several hours after pole is 'snapped in two'
Cables brought down after car crashes into pole and stationary vehicle
THE BIGGEST STORIES ACROSS TAUNTON IN YOUR INBOX
A car crashed into another vehicle and a telegraph pole bringing down power cables near Wellington on Thursday, (November 16).
Western Power says engineers will be at the scene of the crash on the A38 between Wellington and Taunton for several hours.
Police and firefighters were also at the scene just before 7am.
Emergency services are at the scene of a crash on the A38 between Wellington and Taunton.
South Western Ambulance Service has confirmed a man was taken to Musgrove Park Hospital with minor injuries following the crash between Blackbird Inn and Worlds End Pub.
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A spokeswoman for Western Power Distribution said the pole had been "snapped in two".
"We were called by police at 7am. Unfortunately the pole was snapped and the conductor cables were brought down.
"Engineers will need to remove the damaged pole and replace it with a new one, as well as re-stringing the conductor cables.
"We'll try to do this as quickly as possible but unfortunately this will take several hours, which means that 15 properties are without power in the vicinity of the incident until at least early this afternoon."
Taunton Park and Ride: What we know about proposed changes to the service
There were significant delays on the road throughout the morning.
A Devon and Somerset Fire Service spokeswoman said crews had attended to make the vehicle safe.
*We'll update you as soon as we have more information so keep refreshing this story.
*Are you there? If you have more information please contact andrew.doyle@localworld.co.uk
SomersetYeovil factory demolished to make way for massive new projectThe large warehouse is being torn down
Bath Half Marathon postponed due to roadworks
Woman, 27, who died in A361 crash described as 'loving, generous and caring' in tribute
SomersetHer family has asked for privacy in this difficult time
Hinkley Point C dredging plan faces legal challenge
EDFEnvironmental group secures judicial review


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The script uses three different anchoring strategies. One section uses a physical metaphor to anchor feelings of determination to squeezing their fist shut. One section uses the idea of a Magic Word. This is associated to a visual metaphor. It reminds them that they have the ability to succeed if they feel temptation to start again. The third section uses an anchor between a color and the desired situation. A post hypnotic suggestion uses the color as a constant reminder that you can succeed in not doing the habit any more.


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Q: Whats the difference between current_page_item and current-menu-item Whats the difference between current_page_item and current-menu-item when using Custom Menus
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A: current_menu_item is the active element in the menu, independent from the type (page, archives, post, etc.) of the current menu element, while current_page_item only available, if the current item is a page and is current.
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Dux Querida follows parents' footsteps
St. Mary's College Dux 2021 Querida Maria Chan Tung, her sister and top Year 10 student of St. Mary's College Egnezeema Chan Tung, her mother and Dux of St. Mary's College 1994 Petra Suhren Chan Tung, and her father Dennis Chan Tung who was the Dux of St. Joseph's College 1994 (Photo: Junior S Ami)
Querida Maria Chan Tung has followed in her parents' footsteps after being awarded the Dux of St. Mary's College 2021, nearly three decades after her mother and father topped their respective schools.
Querida who is from the village of Siusega was announced the Dux of the College during the prize-giving ceremony held at Vaimoso on Tuesday afternoon.
She is the daughter of Petra Suhren Chan Tung who was the Dux of St. Mary's College in 1994 and Dennis Chan Tung who was the Dux of St. Joseph's College in 1994.
Aside from taking the school's top award, Querida is also the top Commerce student and took first place in the English, Accounting, Economics, Maths, Computing, Development Studies, and Religion subjects.
Her sister, Egnezeema Chan Tung had also taken the top award of the College's Year 10 class on Tuesday.
Querida told the Samoa Observer after the ceremony on Tuesday that she is surprised by her achievements.
"I just feel so privileged and humbled to get this award and I'm so happy. And I dedicate all of my achievements to first, the Lord my God and also my parents," Querida told the Samoa Observer.
Her biggest supporter is her sister Egnezeema, who said she feels proud and happy for her sister.
"And I hope she has a brighter future than me," she said.
Her bond with her sister, she said, contributed to the achievements that she had received on Tuesday.
"At home, she mostly looks after my baby sister while I focus on my studies and then we take turns after," she said.
Querida said that she was surprised and nervous when becoming the College's Dux but is now happy about it all. She dedicated her award to her late grandmother Tina Suhren and her late grandfather Ronald Suhren
Taking first place in more than six subjects on Tuesday, asked about what lay behind her success, she said: "Well it's just studying hard and also I have to have prayer and faith in God every day because without God then I wouldn't get all these."
Her sister Egnezeema told the Samoa Observer on Tuesday that she sees her sister as a role model.
"I feel very proud of my sister like during our study time we would always make sure that one doesn't fall back. If one falls back then the other one should also go back there to help that one come back on the top," Egnezeema said.
"So I feel very proud of my sister because she deserves it and it's amazing to see that through God's will I am also gifted with this sort of achievement.
"And I look up to my sister and I pray to God that one day I'm going to be just like her. She's like a role model to me so that's what every sister dreams about, to be just like her sister in every way."
She hopes to become the College Dux in the future as it is her dream to follow in both her sister and mother's footsteps.
Their mother, Petra Suhren Chan Tung is proud of both of her daughter's achievements, saying it is a privilege for her daughter to follow in their footsteps.
"Well like everything for us, we always return the praise and the glory back to God. That was my foundation growing up as well with my parents, everything starts and ends with God and everything will just flow through well," Mrs. Chan Tung said.
"I'm extremely proud of them. I think [...] coming to St. Mary's is always the holistic education, so to see them go that far, [...] I'm extremely proud of them."
Mrs. Suhren said that seeing her daughter walk in their steps was an honour.
"Honestly, as a [mother], you know every step of your child, so you'll never be surprised because you know how they are, they are such studious girls," she said.
Asked to sum up what she had learnt on her academic journey, Querida said that students must remember that they reap what they sow and to always put God first.


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Home » Attorneys actions » Chief Judge Reacts to Expose by AAAPG and Palm Beach Post
Chief Judge Reacts to Expose by AAAPG and Palm Beach Post
Posted on January 21, 2016 by Sam Sugar, MD in Attorneys actions, Documentary, Florida, Judicial actions, When Crime Pays // 0 Comments
Palm Beach County Chief Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath
By John Pacenti – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
The chief judge for Palm Beach County said Wednesday that he is investigating what needs to be done to address concerns brought forth by The Palm Beach Post's stories on Circuit Judge Martin Colin's role in adult guardianship.
Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath said in an email to The Post that he is in fact-finding mode and "is preparing to make appropriate changes to address concerns."
Professional guardian Elizabeth Savitt, married to Judge Martin Colin, says complaints from families of double billing and sending disputes to court to run up fees are 'frivolous' and 'baseless.' (Madeline Gray / The Palm Beach Post)
Colin oversees family and probate matters in Delray Beach, including guardianships of adults no longer able to care for themselves. Colin's wife, Elizabeth "Betsy" Savitt, is a former tennis pro turned professional guardian who operates in the same division and appears in front of Colin's colleagues.
But Colbath and the chief judge before him, Peter Blanc, took no action to eliminate potential conflicts caused by the close relationships in the south county courthouse.
Colbath has the power to transfer Colin out of the Probate & Guardianship Division, where he has been since about 2009. He also has the power to transfer Circuit Judge David French, who has been a close friend of both Colin and Savitt and oversees many of her guardianships.
The Post found Colin's colleagues must approve Savitt's fees and fees for attorneys who represent her in guardianships of incapacitated senior citizens, many with sizable life savings. Families have accused Savitt, a guardian since 2011, of double-billing, taking fees without prior court approval and pursuing unnecessary litigation to drum up fees.
Several families separately told The Post that Savitt openly cites her husband's powerful position when confronted over her actions.
Savitt does not appear directly in front of her husband, but the attorneys who represent her litigated cases in front of him and relied on him at times to approve lucrative fees.
Two former Florida Supreme Court justices and a legal ethics expert told The Post the relationships pose a conflict of interest and appear improper.
Judge Martin Colin hears guardianship cases, but not those of his wife. However, he hears other cases involving her lawyers. A former Florida high court justice says it looks improper and could violate the Judicial Code of Conduct. Judge Martin Colin, a fixture at the south county courthouse, was admonished by an appeals court in 2007 for conflicts involving Savitt after he represented her in her divorce. (Madeline Gray / The Palm Beach Post)
After The Post started investigating last year, Colin recused himself from 115 cases in six months involving those attorneys who represent Savitt in guardianships, such as Ellen Morris, Sheri Hazeltine and John Pankauski, The Post reported Sunday. Previously, Colin said he required the attorneys to disclose their professional relationship with his wife, but The Post found that didn't happen in at least one case.
"We have adopted long-standing approved methods to properly deal with such potential conflicts," Colin told The Post.
Colbath has the power to transfer Colin or French out of the probate division. It's common for judges to be rotated every few years.
Savitt pointed out that she has never been sanctioned by any of her husband's colleagues and that complaints were from "disgruntled" family members. She also accused the paper of holding a grudge against her and her husband.
Families with seniors in Savitt's guardianships told The Post that their complaints about her financial management of seniors' life savings were ignored by Colin's colleagues, especially French.
Of particular issue is the tens of thousands of dollars Savitt has taken in fees prior to judicial approval in either guardianships or probate cases after the senior has died. Overwhelmingly, attorneys in the elder law field told The Post that state guardianship law does not allow guardians to take fees before a judge gives the OK.
This week it has been business as usual in Colin's courtroom in Delray Beach. Several attorneys told The Post they are not comfortable with the relationships in the probate division but fear repercussions if they speak out.
The families of some of Savitt's current and former wards did not hold back.
"They should be moved out of probate, and if possible, moved off the bench," said Jodi Rich, niece of Robert Paul Wein, who was in a Savitt guardianship before he died at 89 on Dec. 1.
"They are not abiding by ethical standards," she said.
Thomas Mayes, whose mother, Helen O'Grady, was in a Savitt guardianship, said there needs not only to be further guardianship reform by state lawmakers but a criminal investigation into Savitt. He doubted, though, anything would done.
"They will just sweep the dirt under the rug or in a corner," he said.
Skender Hoti, a Lake Worth restaurant owner, watched Savitt in February 2012 try to assist a family guardian in seizing nearly every possession in a house he owned before she was stopped by sheriff's deputies.
"All their cases should be reviewed," he said of Colin and French. "No judge should be able not to rotate and stay in the probate arena."
What the Post found
Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Martin Colin is compromised by his wife's work as a professional guardian in the same probate and guardianship division where he has presided for years. His wife, Elizabeth "Betsy" Savitt, took fees without court approval and in some instances double-billed. Read all the stories and see the documents at myPalmBeachPost.com/guardianships-colin-savitt.
To read the story on the Palm Beach Post website, click here.
Guardian Elizabeth "Betsy" Savitt
Helen O'Grady
Judge David French
Judge Jeffrey Colbath
Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Martin Colin
Robert Paul Wein
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Von Miller Giving Kids Gift of Sight for Every Sack
Denver Broncos' all-pro linebacker Von Miller struggled with his vision as a child. Von remembers times when he went to elementary school without glasses or was made fun of because of how his glasses looked. He can vividly recall having to make the agonizing choice whether or not to wear his glasses to school each day.
Without glasses, it was impossible for him to see, impossible to get any work done. But with glasses, it was nearly impossible to maintain a positive self-image. The challenges Miller faced as a child left a lasting impact and now, as an NFL superstar, he's working to ensure no child suffers the same challenges. That's why he created Von's Vision— to give kids the gift of sight. "My primary focus is to get glasses on more kid's faces. It's something that's near to my heart as I've been wearing glasses all my life."
Studies have shown that poor eyesight negatively affects academic performance, as well as social behavior. It can often be overlooked just how harmful poor vision can be to a child's development if left uncorrected.
In fact, one study reports that 30 percent of children who experience vision problems are negatively impacted in terms of long-term health, school performance and emotional or social development. Visual difficulties can affect children's ability to learn, resulting in academic underachievement and the risk of reduced adult literacy.
The scale of the problem cannot be overstated, as recent data collected suggests that 38% of children in the United States need some form of vision correction. Miller knows first-hand the specific difficulties that can be caused by having poor vision as a youth. As he was once one of those kids, Miller believes he has a responsibility to use his platform as a star NFL player to help.
One of Von's favorite quotes is "With great power comes great responsibility," and when asked why it's important to be involved in this cause, Miller shared, "It's just something that I feel I have to do." But even before he was an All-Pro— even before he was a star linebacker at Texas A&M— he felt an innate sense of responsibility and did his best to act upon it.
When he was just six years old, as a kid in south Dallas, his family was approached by a homeless man, asking for money for food. Not quite sure how to articulate his passion to give at that age, young Von began crying. "I'm looking at what me, my mom, my brother were driving in. I'm looking at the type of home that we live in. And I'm like, 'Man, we can give something back to him.'"
Now, some 24 years later, Miller has the opportunity to give back in a big way. That's why, for the 2019 NFL season, Miller is taking the mission of Von's Vision to the field, inviting fans to pledge for every quarterback sack he records this season, to the benefit of underprivileged children.
"Some of the problems that these kids have, I struggled with when I was young. A lot of the problems they have, I can relate to," Miller explained. "That's why I started my Sacks for Sight Pledge It campaign. It's a great way to turn on-field achievements into off-the-field impact." All the money earned in Miller's "Sacks for Sight" campaign helps provide vision screenings and a pair of glasses for kids whose families can't afford them.
Miller has gone out of his way to connect with his fans, in order to support his mission. As part of the reward for donors and pledgers to his Sack for Sight campaign, the Super Bowl 50 MVP has offered video chats with fans, custom "I see You T-shirts," and a chance to tour the Broncos' practice facility. The three-time pro bowler has pulled out all the stops to grow his campaign, as he works to support these disadvantaged youths.
Von's Vision centers have popped up at Boys and Girls Clubs around the Denver, Co. area and their impact has already been felt. Since its inception, Von's Vision has provided more than 5.1 million dollars in vision care and eyewear to over 8,500 kids. If Miller has his way, that will only be the start.
"I eventually want to have a Von's Vision center in every Boys and Girls Club in Denver, then around [my alma mater] at Texas A&M, and then at every Boys and Girls Club across the nation," he said. "I encourage all Bronco fans to join me in making a pledge to give kids the gift of sight today!"
Miller hopes his work and the mission of Von's Vision will have a lasting impact. "As a football player, you have a short moment to be great, and you want that short moment to live as long as possible. Whether that's on the football field or off the football field, I want to create a legacy that's going to last a while." Von said. "When I wake up in the morning and I roll out of bed and I see the things that I have, I feel there's so much that I can give to people. And if I can do it, I'm going to do it."
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The Google Compute Engine, Google's answer to top public cloud Amazon Web Services, has been generally available for just six months, but it's already become a service that IT buyers need to watch.
In the latest edition of technology analyst firm Gartner's influential magic quadrant report on cloud infrastructure as a service, Lydia Leong, Douglas Toombs, Bob Gill, Gregor Petri, and Tiny Haynes stuck Google in the visionary quadrant. That puts the tech giant ahead of HP, Joyent, Rackspace, VMware, and others that have done business in the public cloud market for far longer than Google.
Amazon's cloud remains "the overwhelming market share leader," "a thought leader," and "extraordinarily innovative, exceptionally agile, and very responsive to the market," the Gartner analysts wrote. But that hasn't stopped Google from popping up in many cloud-business conversations, along with Microsoft, which managed to secure a better position in today's report relative to the one that hit last August.
Google's noted strengths include the time it takes to start using its cloud infrastructure.
"Provisioning is exceptionally fast (typically [less than] one minute)," the analysts wrote.
Google is coming out with new features fast, and it also gets points for blurring the lines between raw and highly adjustable infrastructure-as-a-service and more easy-to-use platform as a service.
That vision will "enable customers to choose their trade-offs between control and automated management," as Leong et. al. put it.
But she and the others tacked on some serious caveats. Having been around for less than a year (compare it with Amazon's core cloud services, which have been around since 2006), it still lacks a strong track record, they said.
That mirrors the lack of announcements of customer wins for the Google Compute Engine. Amazon has far more customers.
And although Google's cloud can be a good fit for applications built on a cloud from the ground up, it might be less well suited for applications that started out in a company's on-premises data center.
Altogether, the analysts conclude, people view Google cloud as a future market leader. So for now it's worth watching how Google tackles its weak points.


LIONEL MESSI used to play with Chelsea on Fifa, according to Argentina team-mate Pablo Zabaleta.
The pair used to play against each other on the pitch and online when Zabaleta was at Espanyol, Barcelona's city rivals.
The West Ham defender spent three years at the Spanish club before joining Manchester City in 2008 but revealed the Barcelona star would often choose the west London club.
Speaking to the BBC, Zabaleta said: "I was better at PlayStation than Messi. He used to play with Chelsea a lot.
"I used to live in Barcelona city and he was living 30 minutes outside. We were playing on the internet."
But Messi and Chelsea never seemed to be a perfect match.
Messi has played more Champions League minutes against Chelsea than any other side, a total of 835 minutes spanning across 10 matches.
But he did not find the net in the first 730 minutes against the Stamford Bridge club until last season, where he netted three times across the Champions League Round of 16 tie.
Messi also spoke out about Chelsea when he was just 19, claiming the hatred of Chelsea was stronger than that of Real Madrid for some Barca stars.
He told the News of the World: "There are players here who hate Chelsea more than Real Madrid. I never thought I would hear myself say that.
"I also never thought I would see something worse than the Boca and River Plate rivalry or Brazil v Argentina – but this is.
"We would rather play Arsenal, Manchester United or anyone else than be on the pitch with Chelsea."
Messi was accused by then-Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho of deliberately trying to get Chelsea defender Asier Del Horno sent off in 2006.
However, it seems Messi did have a secret admiration for the club who were bossing the Premier League at the time with Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and co in their squad when he played Fifa with Zabaleta.


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His white teacher tells her all-black class, You'll all wind up porters and waiters. What did she know? Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he was a poor African American looking for work. When he bought a camera, his life changed forever. He taught himself how to take pictures and before long, people noticed. His success as a fashion photographer landed him a job working for the government. In Washington DC, Gordon went looking for a subject, but what he found was segregation. He and others were treated differently because of the color of their skin. Gordon wanted to take a stand against the racism he observed. With his camera in hand, he found a way. Told through lyrical verse and atmospheric art, this is the story of how, with a single photograph, a self-taught artist got America to take notice.
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The British Physics Olympiad is a prestigious annual competition run by Oxford University. It consists of very demanding questions that require students to think beyond the constraints of Alevel Physics specifications, thus it is aimed at the most able students. It is an excellent preparation for those applying to the top universities for Physics or Engineering.
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The news stories have spent much ink and headlines pointing out the fiasco around Syria, chemical weapons, and President Obama's pronouncement of the necessity for a strike against Bashir al-Assad's military infrastructure in order to send a message that his use of such weapons will not and cannot be tolerated by the United States, the world, and in particular, President Obama and his advisers. We have read and heard about the shrinking credibility President Obama may suffer if he does not strike even if he should have the excuse that Congress would not authorize his request to use force. Many have pointed out that President Obama does not require anything from Congress in order to exercise his option as President to use force for up to ninety days before any Congressional action is required. I have always thought this was somewhat of a joke as a way to curtail the power of a President to engage in military actions as should a President instigate a military intervention and have even a mere thirty days freedom to act as he believes is necessary, a President could easily get American forces so engaged and deeply into a mission that no sane Congress would vote to pull the rug out from under them at that point. The reality that President Obama could have ordered his strikes on Syria and they would have been planned and executed all before the Congress returned from their Labor Day break assuming President Obama was being forthright when he said all he planned to do was strike selected military targets from the air using Tomahawk Missiles and other stand-off air assets fired from over the Mediterranean Sea from B-2 and B-52 heavy bombers. So, what has President Obama gained and lost by invoking Congressional approval and once again choosing dithering over acting?
The gains are easy for one to see but they are not envious gains and are likely going to cause the President serious harm and probably Congressional approval. The grandest gain is the American people have been allowed to give voice to their feelings on the whole matter of Syria and it appears they are almost unanimously against any form of United States military actions for any purpose in the Syrian conflict. Not sure if this is exactly a gain, but we now have a few more gems of complete inane and completely ridiculous comments from Senator McCain who among his brilliant opinions comes his defining the meaning of "Allahu Akbar" for the rest of us members of the ignorant masses which he defined as the same as a Christian exclaiming, "Thank G0d" and not what we had all likely assumed which was, "Allah is the greatest." Many Americans are finding out whether or not their Congressional representative, be they either Senator or their Representative in the House, are able to understand that when hundreds if not thousands of their constituents call in demanding they vote against a military intervention, that such actions actually means the people do not want them to give the President blessings to go ahead and strike Syria. There may be a future lesson when at the next election for these same representatives who decide not to heed their public comes around and we will see if their constituents have any memory and actually meant what they said. There have already been a number of Senators and Representatives who have been interviewed specifically on why they changed their position from originally supporting the President for a strike on Syria and within a day or two changed their minds. Of the few I have been fortunate enough to hear or watch, and I always love watching politicians backing away from a previous position, it is just so amusing watching them stumble and try to sound contrite and convincing all at the same time, none of them have simply stated the plain truth. I sometimes wonder how difficult it is for a grown person to simply state, "After the barrage of calls my offices have received on this issue demanding my vote on this issue I have listened to the people and will do as they elected me to do and vote their desired position." There you have it, all you politicians looking for what to say to the cameras in explaining your change, plain, simple, and oddly enough, it is the truth which would be nice to hear for a change. The final and possibly only advantage President Obama has gained by invoking Congress is he will have a way out of backing his poorly chosen red line threat without completely losing face as he can claim it is the will of the American people and after all, he will be able to claim he is nothing if not a man of the people.
The real ramification will have little effect on actions the United States was ever actually going to commit but at least that is now a certainty. If the Israeli leadership ever entertained the idea that President Obama actually intended to prevent the Iranians from gaining nuclear weapons, they have now been completely disabused of that notion. The evidence is now overwhelming and the truth is plain to see, President Obama is completely ineffectual on foreign policy. He is exactly as was warned coming in to the last elections by us here that the main problems on the doorstep of the world and especially the United States were not the seemingly immense problems with the economy or other items concerning the home-front but the affairs of state and the international crisis which were all coming to a boil almost in a tsunami. The world can only be left on autopilot so long before it begins to lose altitude and a crash becomes inevitable if nobody takes hold of the controls and steers it back on course. This has been the case numerous times throughout history, recent history even. Anyone observing the world stage during President Obama's first term watched as Iraq slowly devolved back into sectarian violence with Sunni-Shia fighting growing almost daily by the end of the first term. Terrorism has been steadily rising and the Iraqi government has become a puppet of the Mullahs of Iran who have completely replaced the United States as the guiding influence. Egypt also has become unstable as President Morsi with the backing of the Muslim Brotherhood attempted to install an Islamic governance structured around Sharia and get the equivalent of what has taken Turkey's Prime minister Erdogan almost a decade to do there and the Egyptian people revolted. The Egyptian military has subsequently intervened and replaced the Morsi government and now comes the slow decent into civil strife with terrorist bombings, shootings, burning buildings, and worst of all, the complete dissolution of Egypt's oldest establishment, the Coptic Christians who are helplessly watching their churches and monasteries burned to the ground or converted into Mosques; their homes and businesses looted and destroyed; their women and children kidnapped, forced into marriages, forced to convert, or even murdered; watched as their numbers dwindle away as those who can get out of Egypt flee, and they realize that one of the oldest Christian communities is on the verge of following Egyptian's once flourishing Jewish community into oblivion and wiped from the pages of history. Turkey is also experiencing violence between Shia and Sunni segments of the population and there have even been some demonstrations against the creep towards Islamist Sharia Law which the people are resisting at long last. Syria has completely melted down and the Christian community is being slowly decimated. There is also growing violence between the Kurdish elements and militias and the Sunni rebel forces. Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood have supplanted the pro-democracy forces of the rebel cause and the fight is now between Sunni and Shia forces with Iran and Hezballah supporting Shia al-Assad and his predominantly Alawite military forces while the al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, and mujahedeen fighters are flocking into Syria to fight for Sunni preeminence in the Muslim world. Then there has been the financial collapse of much of Europe with Germany and France trying to prevent the complete meltdown of the Euro as an effective and useable currency. These are just the highlights of a world in complete upheaval almost anywhere one looks. We have not mentioned the still completely out of control Horn of Africa, the struggles between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria and Mali, the continuing friction between China and both Japan and the Philippines over claims on solitary islands and free travel within the South China Sea, the drug wars in Mexico, the collapsing scene in Afghanistan and Pakistan where terrorist forces are once again growing in power, civil strife in a number of Asian nations, financial difficulties among many South American countries and a plethora of lesser problems almost anywhere one looks. Add in the growing adversarial relations between the United States and Russia as well as China and it almost seems the Cold War has returned.
And lastly there is the Iranian drive to produce nuclear weapons which recently was uncovered is not only enriching uranium but is also producing plutonium making their drive a dual route pursuit for nuclear weapons doubling at the least their likelihood of attaining nuclear status that much sooner. With the now obvious punting of any possibility of an intervention by the United States concerning Iran, the entire responsibility will likely fall on Israel, just as it did in the early eighties when nobody was willing to prevent Saddam Hussein and the French had even built him a reactor aiding his drive for nuclear weapons. Israel addressed that problem and the world was fortunate that Saddam Hussein's nuclear program was so easily derailed. Despite what eventually was a grateful United States who years later quietly thanked Israel for preventing a nuclear Iraq, at the time of Israeli action against the Osirak reactor President Reagan joined the rest of the Security Council in condemning the Israeli strike. Preventing an Iranian nuclear weapon will not be as easy as a single sortie on one location but will require days or maybe weeks of sorties covering almost the entirety of Iran in order to cripple the majority of the nuclear sites strewn strategically throughout the vast country. Making matters worse is that Israel has to fly routes which would take her aircraft over such hostile nations as Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and of course Iran. It is also not guaranteed that such as Saudi Arabia or Kuwait or any other nations which control alternate and much longer routes would be willing to stand down. The only probable nation which would be agreeable would be Jordan and I guess one should be thankful for any favors. Add to Iran the seeming determination of President Obama to divide Israel up in order to form a Palestinian state even to the point of dividing Jerusalem once again and Israel really has a difficult immediate future. The claims made by a number of Palestinian official spokespeople that President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry provided the Palestinians with assurances that the borders would be crafted along the 1949 Armistice lines with only the land swaps the Palestinians allowed to alter the borders and one might decide that the best hope would be no success to the talks. Such possible outcomes make one hopeful that the Palestinians continue in their past tendencies to never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Unfortunately, they only have to not miss one opportunity to make up for all those missed in the past, may it not be this one.
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I thought you might like to read this. This is not the first article that I read on the subject. I would like to say "happy new year to you and your family and staff" but more importantly I hope for a safe one, especially for Israel.
Is this what Syria war really about?
Major oil, gas interests run through Middle East nation
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PHILADELPHIA – Is the reported willingness of Arab Gulf states to fund a U.S. military campaign in Syria really about major oil and gas interests that run through the country?
The potential for trillions of dollars of energy revenue in deals that snake through Syrian territory may be a motivating factor for the U.S., Russia, Turkey and Arab states in the current Syria crisis.
Syria is a key energy transit route to Europe. A number of countries appear to be seeking dominance of the energy market that runs through Syria.
In a hearing earlier this week, Secretary of State John Kerry said Arab counties have offered to pay for any U.S. military intervention in Syria.
"With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assess, the answer is profoundly yes," Kerry said. "They have. That offer is on the table."
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Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., asked for an estimated amount the Arabs might contribute. Kerry replied that they offered to pay for a full invasion.
"In fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing the way we've done it previously in other places, they'll carry that cost," Kerry said. "That's how dedicated they are at this. That's not in the cards, and nobody's talking about it, but they're talking in serious ways about getting this done."
Unmentioned are major gas and oil deals that could impact the economies of Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia enormously.
In 2011, Syria announced it had discovered a promising gas field in the city of Homs, which would later see some of the fiercest battles between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces and the rebels.
Oil Minister Sufian Allawi told the state-run SANA news agency that the first wells "were in the Homs governorate and the flow rate is 400,000 cubic meters per day."
"The discovery opens new perspectives in the region of Qalamun, and the Syrian company will continue its drilling," said Allawi.
Beside the prospect of its own gas field, Syria is also one of the most strategic locations for natural gas pipelines to flow to Europe.
Qatar, home to the world's largest gas field along with Iran, has proposed a gas pipeline from the Gulf to Turkey that would traverse Syria to the Mediterranean, with the gas then being shipped to Europe.
However, Assad in 2009 refused to go along with the plan, instead inking deals with Russia and Iran.
Syria is site of the proposed construction of a massive underground gas pipeline that, if completed, could drastically undercut the strategic energy power of U.S. ally Qatar and also would cut Turkey out of the pipeline flow.
Dubbed the "Islamic pipeline," the project may ultimately favor Russia and Iran against Western energy interests.
Set to open in 2016, Iran, Iraq and Syria signed a deal in 2010 to construct the 3,480-mile natural gas pipeline connecting Iran's South Pars field to European customers.
Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Javad Oji announced the pipeline would ultimately have the capacity to pump 3.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. He told Iran's official Mehr News Agency the route would "pass through Iran, Iraq, Syria, the southern Lebanon territories and also through the Mediterranean basin," with a refinery and infrastructure to be built in Damascus.
A key portion of the Islamic pipeline is concentrated on the Syrian ports, which would export directly to Europe out of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Russia has reportedly built up its naval presence along the major Syrian ports of Latakia and Tartus.
The Islamic pipeline is viewed as a major threat to Turkey, which has long desired to become the main bridge for natural gas and oil between the East and the West.
Turkey, however, is a key player in the Nabucco natural gas pipeline, which is being constructed to transit natural gas to Europe from the Central Asia and Caspian regions. The pipeline is set to traverse Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, and end in Austria. Turkey has been a key supporter of the rebels fighting Assad's regime, while Qatar has reportedly been supplied arms and training to the rebels.
If Assad can be deposed, Turkey and Qatar would like the Nabucco pipeline to run through Syria.
Perhaps in a bid to wean Russia off of the Islamic pipeline, Saudi Arabia last month presented a plan to Moscow in which Russia would reject Syria's president in return for a huge arms deal and a pledge to boost Russian influence in the Arab world.
Agence France-Presse reported President Vladimir Putin refused the plan in a meeting with Saudi Arabia's intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.
Bandar reportedly proposed that Saudi Arabia buy $15 billion of weapons from Russia and invest "considerably in the country," according to AFP.
Demonstrating that oil interests are clearly at play, AFP reported: "The Saudi prince also reassured Putin that 'whatever regime comes after' Assad, it will be 'completely' in the Saudis' hands and will not sign any agreement allowing any Gulf country to transport its gas across Syria to Europe and compete with Russian gas exports."
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