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Glenbrook girls' hockey continues to develop new team
Anita Mandell
Chasing after the puck, junior Ella Hackett skates past players from Lake Forest Academy. The Glenbrook girls' hockey team beat the Caxys 7-0.
Erin Sullivan, staff reporter
As senior Katerina Poulos skates down the ice, she races to pass to her teammates. The puck glides into the net, and the fans roar with excitement, according to Poulos.
Poulos says the dynamic of the girls' hockey team is different this year since many key players graduated last season. A lot of the girls have not played together before, so the team started off unsteady, but have been working to gain some wins.
Sophomore Addie Carr says this year is all about development of the players, whether it be stick skills or connections on the ice. She hopes to help the team out as much as possible with her skills this season.
"We hope to do as well as we can throughout the season and work with everyone," Carr said. "This year, the team gets along better than the last two years I've been playing [for the Glenbrook team]."
On Jan. 20, the Glenbrook girls' hockey team played Evanston and won 4-0, says senior captain Lily Cataldo. She says the team has been improving with practice.
"We have some new freshmen who are good, so hopefully we can work hard to try to get close to [state]," Cataldo said.
Cataldo has been injured for the whole season, which has had an impact on the team on the ice. She hopes to start contributing to the team once she is cleared, she says.
"I have a stress fracture in my back [due to hockey]," Cataldo said. "I should be back in a few weeks, and I hope to get back to where I was, so I can help the team."
Cataldo says the team plays in the Metro League, made up of 14 teams and divided into two brackets of seven.
This season is different than past seasons in terms of objectives, according to Cataldo. Making it to state might not happen, but they have other achievements they hope to accomplish.
"Since we seeded in the lower division, we could win The Founder's Cup, which will be a good goal for us," Cataldo said. "[The Founder's Cup, the championship for our bracket], will push us but is also realistic."
As Poulos wraps up her last season of school hockey, she says she wants to be an inspiration for the younger girls on the team. She hopes to encourage more girls to play Glenbrook hockey since it is such a strong team.
"I want to get girls to play, even if they have never played hockey before," Poulos said. "In my four years, [the team] got two state titles, one 2nd place [championship title] and one 1st place [championship title], so hopefully people are looking to take [the team] more seriously. This year we are not looking at state, [but rather] a developmental team who is getting prepared for future years."
The girls played on Jan. 27 in support of St. Jude's Cancer Research Center, according to Carr. The game took place at the Northbrook Sports Center and donations were taken for admission.
"We lost [to Warren Township High School], but we worked hard," Carr said. "We raised over $1,000, and a lot of people came to watch."
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With over 20 franchise owned stores in the Chicagoland market, Brown's Chicken boasts a style of chicken all our own. The recipe cooked up by John and Belva, uses buttermilk batter with cottonseed oil, delivering a delicious golden crunch on the outside with a moist and flavorful inside. We've added and subtracted many products over the years, but our chicken recipe remains the same and our customers wouldn't have it any other way. Of course, we'd never mess with the mushrooms either.


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Subject: Courting' Kelly's Waitress Date: 3/18/2011 8:42 PM
Author: charliebonds Number: 32497 of 36887
In another thread, Kelly proposes the following thought-problem. Can a 75-year old single, with no debts, a $40k lifestyle, and $5 million to invest get by with investing in just Treasuries and win the hand of his corner-café waitress? The answer is "Yes" provided he never spends a penny more (adjusted for inflation) and he doesn't exceed his average, maximum life expectancy. Otherwise, he's begging for bread in his final year of life, having totally depleted his grubstake.
Can't happen? Won't happen? You can answer this question for yourself and your own situation by doing the following. Build a spreadsheet that allows you to input the following variables: Age now. Age at death. Assets now. After-tax gains on those assets. Average, after-tax living-expenses now. Estimated, average forward inflation-rate. The way to make the numbers work for you is the following:
(1)	Under-estimate how long you will live
(2)	Under-estimate what your living expenses really are
(3)	Under-estimate what the rate of inflation will be
(4)	Under-estimate what your tax-rate will be.
(5)	Over-estimate what your after-tax gains rate will be.
Then, presto, magic-o. Kelly can marry his waitress, and both can live happily thereafter. But if he uses the published actuarial number of 104 for males, the published inflation-rate of 9.07% (pre-'82 method), published gains numbers (look it up), and published tax numbers (ditto), he comes a cropper, broke on his death bed, needing $636,746 to live another year, but having only $244,295 in the kitty.
The point of this exercise isn't who is right or who is wrong about the details, which can be endlessly argued. Rather, the point of such exercise is to test assumptions and to discover the conditions under which the model blows up. Putatively-safe investment vehicles, such as Treasuries will never, on average and over the long haul, provide a real rate of return after taxes and inflation. At best, they enable users to control their rates of loss. Therefore, they cannot be used as a sole investment strategy unless savings are large enough to overcome those losses, plus drawdowns.
What is the median, household net-worth in this country even if real estate equity is included? Less than $260,000. That's a far cry from the 75-year's $5 million, but median, house living-expenses aren't much below $40k. The median, household income is $46,326, and the median household savings rate is 5.3%. Do the math. Most people barely have their nose above water, and they are failing to take on sufficient investment-risk to provide for their retirement. For sure, most people will have multiple income-streams in retirement, only one of which will come from investments. Most people will have a public or private pension, plus Social Security Insurance. So include those in your spreadsheet and run your numbers again. Lower the inflation-rate from the reported 9.07% to what your actually-experienced inflation-rate is. http://dshort.com/inflation/inflation-since-1872.html?altern... Change your asset allocation from 100% Treasuries to a more sensible 80%-20% bonds to stocks, or to whatever boosts your rate of return without taking on intolerable risks. Cut back your spending a bit. Etc. Etc.
What I've found, from building retirement spreadsheets for a lot of years, is three things:
(1)	What seems like a lot of money now really isn't in 20 or 30 or 40 years.
(2)	It is very, very tough to match the reported historical investment returns.
(3)	For long periods of time (as you stock indexers found out in the past decade), investment returns can be very low.
Run this exercise. Sell the business for $2 million. Keep the after-tax draw at $40k. Drop the inflation-rate to a more realistic 6%. Bump up the after-tax gains rate to 3%. The 75-year now gets to age 103 with a few bucks to spare. But if the least little thing about the plan goes wrong, he and wife are in the breadlines.
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Maharani Beach Hotel is located in strategic location, right across the road from Kuta Beach, close to bars and restaurants such as Hard Rock and The Stones, within easy walking distance to Kuta Square, 10-minute drive to Bali Discovery Shopping Mall and 15-minute drive to Ngurah Rai International Airport.
Maharani Beach Hotel have just refurbished with classy interior design and modern amenities to ensure a comfortable stay. Maharani Beach Hotel also provides a Western restaurant with bar, an outdoor pool, spa and free Wi-Fi internet access for your enjoyment. Maharani Beach Hotel's friendly and dedicated staffs are always ready and happy to assist you during your stay here.
Superior room measures 20 square meters and features the choice of double or twin beds, seating area with table and chairs and bathroom with washbasin, toilet and shower with hot and cold water. This room is also equipped with safe deposit box, air conditioning, telephone, wardrobe, flat-screen TV with satellite channels, tea/coffee maker, free mineral water and refrigerator.
Deluxe Pool View room overlooks the swimming pool, measures 25 square meters and features the choice of double or twin beds, seating area with table and chairs, balcony and bathroom with bathtub, washbasin, toilet and shower with hot and cold water. This room is also equipped with safe deposit box, air conditioning, telephone, wardrobe, flat-screen TV with satellite channels, tea/coffee maker, free mineral water and refrigerator.
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The egg symbolises the spiritual human. Inside the egg is the golden yolk – this represents the uncorrupted, pure and godly person, as brought into being by the Creator.
The hard shell represents the worldly person, the fallen man. The shell represents not so much all the illicit and evil lusts and desires but the man and his relationship to them. The outer 'shell' man is attracted to these. This outer man is connected to the 'world' and its evil, just the shell of an egg is connected to the outer world with all its dirt and filth. The inner yolk, is of course protected and remains pure and clean. The yolk is protected from the shell and all that is outside of it by the white of the egg; in our metaphor, by the power of God and His Angels. The inner yolk of a man – unlike an egg – can never be corrupted.
Thus even when we see a most evil man, we can still have compassion. Perhaps even empathy. We can, if we wish, see through the outer shell of the man and recognise that under that shell, no matter how filthy and corrupted, lies another being (hidden) that is worth not just something, but much.
Thus the purpose of life is to release the golden yolk from the bonds of its outer shell. Once released, the true man is realised. This is why the Christian must remain humble – the man that emerges from the egg is no better than any other man (one yolk is no more golden than all the others) and not only that, but the man that emerges has no merit that he can claim for himself – he is, in his purity – a creation of God, and not of one part of him can he claim credit for. Nor can any fault be seen in this created being.
Thus the humility of the reborn Christian (rather than pride). So let us all work with, rather than against God, in the great act of releasing ourselves and others from the hardness and evilness of matter.


Our annual "Week of Languages" celebrations took place during the last week of September in Prep and our theme this year was based on "Communication".
Every pupil had the opportunity to communicate through the medium of Art by creating both a T-shirt picture and a badge featuring a greeting in a different language. All T-shirt entries were judged and prizes awarded at our special Friday assembly. The very creative and colourful winning entries are on display in the Prep Reception area.
In addition to our very own Mr. Tumble and our German language assistants visiting our Junior assembly, we were also delighted to welcome Mrs Laura Bloomer to our final assembly on Friday. She introduced the girls to "Makaton" as a different means of communication.
Very ably supported by Maggie Irvine in Prep 5, Mrs Bloomer taught the girls a song using Makaton signing and a lot of fun was had by all!
Many thanks to all parents for helping with the usual dressing up and provision of international breaks!
Don't forget to check out Seesaw for photographs of each class's individual activities to celebrate our special week!
Posted on October 2, 2018 by Miss Thompson.


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Baghdad, Occupied Jerusalem, SANA- Iraqi Foreign Ministry on Saturday affirmed that US President Donald Trump's statements on the occupied Syrian Golan contradict with the international law.
In the same context, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry affirmed that the Golan is a Syrian territory occupied by "Israel" since 1967, indicating that Trump's resolutions on the Golan are a blatant violation of the international law and legitimacy.
In a statement quoted by Wafa News Agency, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry added that those statements represent the approach of occupation and arrogance adopted by the US and "Israel" and an attempt by Trump's administration to change the world order and to control it.
The Ministry called upon the international community, particularly the states which claim that they are keen on the security and stability of the region to unify their efforts to stand in the face of the US full bias to the Israeli occupation and its policies.


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SPECIES Myomyscus brockmani
Author: Thomas, 1908.
Citation: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 18: 298.
Common Name: Brockman's Myomyscus
Type Locality: Somalia (British Somaliland), Upper Sheikh.
Distribution: Primarily tree savannas from EC Tanzania north through Kenya (Hollister, 1919) and N Uganda (Delany, 1975) into Somalia, SE Ethiopia (Yalden et al., 1976, 1996; specimens in CM), and S Sudan (Setzer, 1956); W and S limits unknown.
Comments: Chromosomal and immunological data indicate close relationship with species of Mastomys (Qumsiyeh et al., 1990), an alliance also suggested by analyses of mtDNA cytochrome b sequences (Lecompte et al., 2002b). Analyses of nuclear IRBP gene sequences, however, indicates brockmani, along with M. yemeni, to be closely allied to species of Stenocephalemys and should be included in that genus (Lecompte, 2003). Spermatozoal morphology described by Baskovich and Lavrenchenko (1995, as fumatus). This species has traditionally been known as M. fumatus (Musser and Carleton, 1993), but Van der Straeten and Robbins (1997) demonstrated the holotype of fumatus to be an example of Mastomys and not Myomys (Musser independently examined the holotype and identified it as a Mastomys). We include fumatus in the synonymy of Mastomys natalensis (see that account). The next oldest name available for this species of Myomyscus is Thomas's (1908) brockmani. Yalden et al. (1976) included tana in the synonymy but the holotype is a Mastomys (Van der Straeten and Robbins, 1997).
allisoni (Hayman, 1960)
niveiventris (Osgood, 1910)
oweni Setzer, 1956
subfuscus (Osgood, 1910)
ulae (Heller, 1910)


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Deputies studied the implementation of the state program "Prosperous Neighborhood"
To develop the mahalla and improve the standard of living of the population in the Year of Ensuring Human Interests and Mahalla Development, the deputy from UzLiDeP in the regional and Bukhara city councils of people's deputies Khalimjon Safarov, together with the responsible persons of the Bukhara city council, got acquainted with the work carried out on the territory of the CAM "Fayzulla Khujayev" of the city of Bukhara, included in the state program "Obod Mahalla" (Prosperous Neighborhood).
Deputy H. Safarov talked with the hokim's assistant, women activists, youth leader, mahalla district police officer, expressed his attitude to their activities, gave appropriate consultations.
At a meeting with mahalla activists discussed the problems of the mahalla and residents. On the territory of the mahalla, it is planned to repair the building of preschool education institution No. 85, reconstruct the building of the family polyclinic No. 8, the mahalla building, lay a communication system, provide the population with drinking water, eliminate interruptions in the supply of electricity, which requires a responsible approach of official organizations to carry out these works. Despite the fact that the territory of the mahalla is large, there is only one school. It is difficult for children from remote places to go to school. In this regard, another school will be built in the mahalla. Deputy H. Safarov said that a deputy's request on this issue would be submitted to the relevant authorities.
In accordance with the state program "Obod Mahalla", a gas pipeline with a length of 3.2 km, 11 gas distributors were laid in the mahalla. A fiber-optic communication line with a length of 4.5 km has been extended. 1.5 km are expensively concreted, 1.3 – asphalted.
During a conversation with residents of the mahalla, the deputy spoke about the tasks outlined in the resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On the preparation and holding at a high level of the 31st anniversary of the state independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan", festive events and outreach activity that will be held in the city of Bukhara and in this mahalla.
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Florais de Saint Germain has 20 years of tradition in flower essence therapy. Our manufacturing is handmade and no electrical machines are used during the process of production. Avoiding totally, electrical interference.
Neide Margonari prepares the flower essences collecting wild flowers from the Atlantic Brazilian rain forest. In this way, our flower essences are effective and fast acting.
Best-selling Flower Essence range in Brazil, with a large network of therapists and users, with more than 53 workshops and courses given around the world (2017).
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You've probably heard a hundred times this month alone: spring training statistics don't mean anything. Too many times a player has had a monster spring only to completely flop during the season (do Aaron Hicks or Jackie Bradley circa 2013 ring a bell?). Still, in disbelief we all watched Julio Teheran's monster spring last year, and he humiliated batters and baserunners throughout his rookie campaign.
Ultimately, spring stats do tell a story, albeit a short or biased one. But if you know where to look — that is, if you know the stats on which to focus your attention — you can maybe decipher which spring performances are legit and which are not.
Why they're important: Well, holy smokes. Look at those steals. We've always known he's fast, but wow. Also, he has struck out in only 19 percent of at-bats, which certainly isn't the worst thing in the world. What I'm looking for here is if he can hold his own at the plate, even if it's just for a month or two, and right now he's hitting .286 — nothing spectacular, but not miserable, either. Oh, and did I mention he has four triples already? Gordon isn't a top-10 second baseman, but handcuff him to Alexander Guerrero (or simply jump ship when Guerrero finally gets the call) and this could be a great draft strategy.
Why they're important: Not only is Hamilton stealing bases at an unfathomable rate, he is also barely striking out (only 12 percent of at-bats have ended in a K) and has actually walked more times than he has struck out. Everyone and their mothers were worried Hamilton would be overpowered at the plate. Don't get caught in the hype, I hear them saying. Yet I can't help myself. If he keeps putting the bat on the ball the way he's doing, he will get on base, he will steal, and he will score runs.
Why they're important: OK, maybe I was little too obvious when I sorted MLB.com's spring training stats by stolen bases. Burns is getting way more hype than anyone in spring training right now, or at least it seems that way. He's effectively blocked in the A's outfield, but his speed, plate discipline and glove-work will fast-track him to the majors. Unfortunately, 25 percent of at-bats are ending in strikeouts, so he may be overmatched. No skin off our backs, though, especially if he doesn't start this year in the majors.
Other stolen base leaders who are legitimate fantasy options: Jarrod Dyson (6 SB) and Rajai Davis (5 SB). I've raved about Davis' fantasy value before.
Why they're important: Moustakas has been mostly a letdown during his major league career. He's crushing home runs right now and has walked more than he's struck out, and people are starting to be optimistic about the guy. I'm hesitant, and I would still leave him undrafted in standard mixed leagues, but he could be worth an extra couple of dollars in AL-only leagues. I'll watch his name as the season progresses, though. He's worth following if you're picking a risky or injury-prone third base asset such as Ryan Zimmerman or Aramis Ramirez.
Why they're important: Guys… are you serious. I cannot love this guy any more. And he's still hitting triples!!! It's not a fluke, people. I think Miller is the second coming of Ian Desmond.
Why they're important: …Jason Heyward? Is that really you?
Why they're important: Is Baez even a real person? The split between his slugging and on-base percentages is impossibly large. Meanwhile, zero walks and 11 K's in 37 at-bats. This kid is going to be amazing, if not occasionally frustrating at first.
Other business-as-usual home run hitters: Russell Martin (kind of — he had a huge spring last year, too, if I remember correctly), Hunter Pence (4 HR), Giancarlo Stanton (4 HR), Jose Bautista (3 HR), Miguel Cabrera (3 HR), Chris Davis (3 HR), Andrew McCutchen (3 HR).
Why they're important: Castellanos is a highly touted prospect with very little major-league exposure with which we can form solid opinions about him. But nine multi-base hits in 45 at-bats, plus a pair of bombs and swipes, makes it look like this kid is the real deal, regardless of his sort of lackluster minor-league stats. Don't get too enamored with the RBI total, but clearly he's not afraid of so-called clutch situations, either.
Why they're important: Maybe the former No. 2 pick can recoup some of his losses. He had a somewhat strong showing in the latter half of 2013. It will be interesting to see if it carries over. As the Magic 8-Ball might say, "All signs point to yes." Or something like that.
As for players who scare me right now, Corey Hart is batting .129/.250/.161 with 16 strikeouts in 31 at-bats; B.J. Upton is batting .297/.366/.351 but with 14 strikeouts in 37 at-bats, an unsustainable rate for that batting average; and Domonic Brown is batting a miserable .171/.326/.229 with 12 strikeouts in 35 at-bats, albeit with eight walks.
Do your own research, form your own opinions. This is just a sampling of the many names that are shining bright or falling flat. And, of course, it's simply too risky to make a decision on such a small sample size. But it never hurts to remember a name or two.


Dungate Farm is approximately 2 miles to the north west of Balsham and approximately 1 mile from the junction of the A11 Norwich to London Road which provides access in both directions offering good links to Stansted Airport (approximately 26 miles) and London via the M11. The property lies in close proximity to Newmarket and its surrounding stud land and is approximately 11 miles from the University town of Cambridge.
Various amenities are available in Balsham including two public houses, a café and a shop/post office. There is a primary school in the village and secondary schooling at Linton Village College together with Hills Road and Long Road Sixth Form Colleges in Cambridge. There is a good selection of Independent Schools in Cambridge and Saffron Walden.
Train services are available from Whittlesford (London Liverpool Street 75 minutes) and Cambridge (London King's Cross 50 minutes).
The Traditional Buildings: A range of brick, timber framed and clad former farm buildings situated in front of the farmhouse.
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All about NEET 2022 and frequently asked NEET Exam Questions
Tag: MBBS without NEET in Abroad
NEET Exam Questions
All about NEET-UG 2022 and frequently asked NEET Exam Questions
The National Eligibility Cumulative Entrance Test (NEET-UG) is a common entrance test for all candidates wishing to study MBBS, BDS, BAMS, BUMS, BHMS, and other medical fields in government and private institutions in India, as well as MBBS abroad.
The National Testing Agency administers NEET-UG (NTA). It is in charge of all entrance exams for medical institutes in India, including AIIMS and JIPMER.
NEET is divided into two phases:
Phase 1 and Phase 2. Candidates who took the first phase can also take the second phase, however, they must give up their NEET Phase 1 score.
Eligibility for NEET 2022
To be eligible for admission to NEET-UG 2022, a student must be at least 17 years old or have been born on or before December 31, 2004.
Must have completed 12th grade and received at least 50 per cent for General Category, 45 per cent for PwD, and 40 per cent for OBC-NCL/SC/ST in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology as primary courses in addition to English.
The maximum age to apply for NEET-UG is 25 years old.
Exam Pattern for NEET-UG 2022
The NEET 2022 test paper will have 180 questions covering Physics, Chemistry, and Biology (Botany and Zoology). Section A will consist of 35 questions, with pupils required to answer each one. Section B will include a total of 15 questions, with students only having to answer 10 of them. The overall time to complete all of the questions will be 3 hours or 180 minutes, giving students 1 minute to complete each question.
Four points will be granted for each accurate response, and one point will be deducted for each erroneous answer. However, there will be no mark allocation or decrease for questions that are not tried.
Q: When is the NEET-UG 2022 registration deadline?
A: NEET-UG 2022 registration commenced on April 6, 2022. You may begin applying today, before the deadline. The application deadline for NEET-UG is May 7, 2022.
Q: When will the NEET 2022 be held?
A: The NEET-UG 2022 exam will be held on July 17, 2022.
Q: Who qualifies for NEET-UG 2022?
A: Candidates born on or before December 31, 2004, who have passed their 12th grade with courses like Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, are eligible to apply for NEET-UG 2022. For further information, see NEET-UG 2022 Eligibility Criteria.
Q: Is the NEET exam given online?
No, it does not. NEET-UG is an offline, pen-and-paper exam.
Q: Do I need to take the NEET to study medicine in another country?
A: If you are an Indian citizen or an Overseas Citizen of India, you must pass the NEET-UG exam to study MBBS abroad.
Q: What is the NEET grading system?
A: Four points for each correct answer. Unattempted questions, on the other hand, will receive no credit or deduction.
MBBS Admissions Abroad Following NEET-UG
Top Medical Universities in Abroad provide a 6-year MBBS program Abroad. The National Medical Commission has authorized the MBBS in Abroad program (NMC). Candidates who pass the NEET can easily gain admission to the top medical universities in the world.
Thousands of Indian students are currently pursuing MBBS in other countries after passing NEET-UG. Many of the world's most prestigious medical institutes have accepted the MBBS in Abroad program. Students with an MBBS degree from one of the Top Medical Universities Abroad are practising medicine in diverse regions of the world.
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Can I Study MBBS Abroad Without NEET?
Is it feasible to study MBBS in another country without taking the NEET? Yes, that is doable, according to the answer. However, there are various other arrangements that we will discuss in this post. Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, pupils are granted a one-time exemption. In this blog, we will provide you with all of the information you need to know about MBBS without NEET in other countries.
So, if you want to study MBBS without NEET abroad, we recommend that you read this blog all the way to the end because we've covered topics like what is NEET, MBBS without NEET, colleges accepting students without NEET, and so on.
MBBS without passing the NEET
As a result, students must pass the NEET exam, and students cannot study MBBS without passing the NEET. If you intend to study MBBS in a foreign nation, you must first pass the NEET. It assists students in gaining admission to MCI-approved medical colleges.
Candidates wishing to study MBBS abroad have been delayed because the exam has been rescheduled, making it harder for them to study outside of India. The delay in the MBBS course is not beneficial for the applicants because it is a long course that takes up to 5-6 years, therefore students must plan accordingly because if they squander a year, they will lack and may not become a successful doctor in the future. While applying for MBBS Abroad, Indian students must first qualify for the NEET test, as they would not admit students who do not qualify for the NEET.
What exactly is NEET?
The National Eligibility Cumulative Entrance Test (NEET) is the qualifying or entrance test for students interested in pursuing MBBS or BDS programs at Indian Medical or Dental colleges. NEET, formerly known as the All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT), is administered by the National Testing Agency (NTA), an autonomous entity. Prior to NTA, the test was administered by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). English, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Urdu, Telugu, and Kannada are the ten languages used in the NEET exam. The examination lasts three hours and consists of 180 questions. The exam is broken into three sections: physics, chemistry, and biology (Botany and Zoology).
Countries that Offer MBBS without NEET
Eligibility and Other Requirements for MBBS Without NEET in Abroad
Although you are excused from the NEET, you must meet the following criteria to order to study abroad: –
The student's minimum age limit shall be 17 as of December 31 of the year in which the student is applying. There is, however, no upper limit for MBBS.
Candidates must have passed a Senior Secondary examination from a recognized board.
Students must have a minimum of a 50 percent average in Biology, Physics, and Chemistry, as well as English as a compulsory subject during their 10+2 years.
At the time of admission to an overseas university, the candidate would also be needed to produce an "Eligibility Certificate" issued by the Medical Council of India (MCI).
At the time of admission, students must also present a medical certificate declaring that they are not infected with or suffering from any contagious disease.
Admission Procedure for Studying MBBS abroad
Candidates can continue with their application procedure once they have met all of the eligibility conditions. Candidates must select the university or college where they want to continue their education and fill out an application form online with the necessary information and payments. The applicant is required to upload a set of documents. This includes the following:
Mark sheets for classes 10 and 12
Certificate of Eligibility for School Leaving and School Migration issued by MCI
Financial Statements for Individuals
Purpose Statement (SOP)
a resume (CV)
Identifying Documents (if already exists)
Recommendation Letter (LOR)
Certificate of Language Proficiency
Photographs in Passport Size
Certificate of Medical Fitness
After successfully submitting papers and paying the required fees, the admission committee of the individual university will thoroughly review the candidate's application form, and if all of the criteria are met, the students will receive an admission letter from the University.
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Highlight Moment from my life #5: Highbury
Filed under: and other animals., games & Stuff, life, silly things — 3 Comments
Dan, Heidi, mini Truter, Heather, Reegs, Ang
In the days before tbV and Settlers of Catan, we had to find other ways to amuse ourselves, and most of those happened at a place called Highbury.
Located in Rustenberg Ave, just off Main Road in Rondebosch, Highbury was a Young Adults house run by Claremont Baptist church that housed a number of residents who rented rooms, as well as Dan and Heidi Truter who helped run the place. It is the place of much legend and many great memories and hopefully some of the residents and frequent visitors will come and add some stories in the comments section below.
i never officially lived there, but for a long time i was an honorary member and resident, simply by proxy.
Coffee, deep philosophical or theological conversations, pranks, laughs, shared meals, relationships, parties and repeat viewings of the Tom Hanks classic 'Joe vs the Volcano' were all a part of the rhythm of Highbury, but probably the highlight for me and countless others were the card games we played there.
In the days before Catan, Kucky Sahn, Dominion and Tzolk'in there were two types of games…
Card games and Yahtzee.
i think we probably started with Hearts and occasional games of Bridge and Yahtzee was always a great alternative… but it was when i introduced a game called Rage [from the makers of UNO] that everything changed.
Rage is a simple trick-bidding-and-chasing game [similar to Bridge] with a bit of a twist in that it has five action cards that can shake everything up. i was introduced to it when i was very young and then it kinda lived in the back of a cupboard somewhere until i rediscovered it and took it to Highbury and we started to play. With room for up to ten players, it was an excellent game to bring together the young adults that would frequent Highbury and it was where Dan and myself came up with our cunning ploy.
Picture this: 11.15pm and the 6 people who remain [all Highbury residents now except for me] have just finished up a game of Rage [which takes about 40 minutes to play a full game of] and are making the signs of getting up and going to bed. Dan looks at me with his devious Dan grin. I look around the table and say, "What's the difference between 11.15 and 12?" and so we play "one more game". At twelve o 'clock Dan notes that the difference between then and 12.45 doesn't seem to be such a huge chasm. And so it continues until we hear the birds tweeting and realise it's now 5.15am, we've played all through the night, and some people have lectures or work in a couple of hours.
We would do that often and 2am Rage games at Highbury are definitely a life highlight of mine. Packed with banter and much laughter and repeat cups of coffee and occasionally ending up a Rhodes memorial or UCT Jammie steps with a flask of coffee to welcome in the new day. Those were good times.
TWO RED CARDS AND A NERVOUS MOM
Two stories that stand out in my memory:
# Rule number 1 of Rage is you ALWAYS have to play the colour that is led if you can. It's the first and most important rule which i always stress a lot when i teach the game and which people always mess up on, because they panic with picture cards and trumps and other such things. But probably the best moment of it was when a guy called Andrew was meant to play a red card and he didn't and then the next round he played a red card and we called him on it and his response was, "But I had two red cards." So always play the colour if you can unless you have more than one of them and then you're fine?
# A more hectic story and possibly just one of two times that our 'What's the difference between?' strategy failed dramatically [the other when a bunch of guys had slept over at Highbury to attend the early morning Sunrise Easter service the following day and we played cards all night and then everyone overslept and missed it, which caused some mild trauma for some] was with a guy called Dave. Dave stayed with just his mom and he was not a regular at Highbury, but the one time he came and played and fell into the 'What's the difference?' vacuum and suddenly it was 5am. On the other side of town it was 5am and Dave had not come home and his mom hadn't know he was at Highbury and so had phoned all around and was about to start on police stations and hospitals. Fortunately for everyone, the hospital she picked to phone first happened to be the one that Andrew [of 'But I've got two red cards' fame] was working at as a nurse and somehow took the call and was able to direct her towards Highbury to be reunited with Dave. We didn't see Dave at card nights for a while. [or maybe ever again?]
THE MAN WITH NO FACE AND THE MAN WITH ALMOST NO FINGER
The residents will have many more fun stories [many involving nudity cos apparently there was a lot of walking in on people accidentally while they were changing that went on during those years] but the last two that come to mind involve missing and almost missing body parts.
# i remember the first time we heard the R.E.M. song "Calling Jamaica" was at Highbury and how we'd sing it loudly and proudly around the games table until someone pointed out to us that the line was actually, "Call me when you try to wake her up" but to this day i typically fondly sing 'Calling Jamaica' in reminiscence. But a more classic blunder that happened was when Arrested Development was playing one of my favourite songs at the time, Mr Wendal and the line of the song goes, "I saw a man with no clothes, no money, no plate, Mr Wendal, that's his name." And i feel like it happened spontaneously, but the one time the song came on and Justin, Carolyn and myself were in the kitchen and as the line happened, Justin and i both decided to change the word 'plate' for 'face' so the man with "no clothes, no money, no face, Mr Wendal." Then a short while later there is a line about Mr Wendal eating off the food we waste, and Carolyn bursts out, "But how can he eat when he has no face?" [cue much laughing and a never to be let forgotten story]
# the second story was less humorous, but was the time i almost sliced off a finger in a water fight. You know, like you do. So a water fight was happening and i believe that i was chasing Heather Rae with a glass of water and she ran up the stairs and at the bottom of the stairs i moved the glass forward in an i'm-going-to-spray-you-with-water fashion and the only problem was that the edge of the glass caught the edge of the stairs and so with much force in a forwards direction i drove shattering glass with a backwards momentum into my left hand middle finger. One hospital visit and a LOT of blood later, but fortunately not even a stitch needed [and so almost severed finger might have been a bit of a click bait] i was good to go, but i do believe we postponed the water fight to another day.
i am still really good friends with a bunch of people that were part of that time in my life which bears testimony to some strong relationships that were forged there. The last memory that comes to mind is the time i had a lecturer coming to the school where i was doing my prac teaching the following day to crit a lesson [one of the most important marks of the year] and i hadn't prepared the maths lesson i was going to do and we had a 3 or 4am Highbury session and then i went home, planned the lesson, went to school and got the best mark for any crit lesson i ever taught. There really was no difference between 1.15 and 2am that night…
Good memories, good times, good friends. If you were someone who was ever a part of Highbury or have a story to share from your time there, please leave your mark in the comments section…
Dan, Heidi, mini Truter, Heather, Reegs, Brett
[For a look at the book Free and how that transformed us, click here]
[For other Highlight moments of my life, click here]
Tags: Bridge, Claremont Baptist, Hearts, highbury, Joe vs the Volcano, rage
I have SUCH great memories from when my sister lived there. I was still in school and it was this cool place (with no real "grownups") where I could hang out and pretend I was all cool like the varsity students:)
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Argentina's President Takes It on the Chin for Placing Her People's Needs Over the Markets
Argentina's nationalization of a renegade energy company evokes outrage in the international press.
By Carl Bloice, April 23, 2012 .
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
To say that the response of the editors of the Financial Times to Argentina's renationalization of a major energy company bordered on the hysterical would be an understatement. They called it "A shabby act of economic piracy," adding that the country's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's action suggests she is, indeed, a "hoodlum," and an" increasingly shrill president" who has committed "a shabby act of economic piracy," and warned that she "is placing herself in the same camp as Venezuela's capricious leader, Hugo Chavez" and "should not be allowed to forget that actions have consequences."
Meanwhile, on the front page of the same edition in which these accusations appear there appeared an intriguing report.
"Repsol tried to sell a controlling stake in its Argentinean oil company to a Chinese energy group before it was nationalized by Buenos Aires, according to two people familiar with the talks," reported Miles Johnson from Madrid, Jude Webber from Buenos Aires and Anousha Sakoui from London. "The secret attempt to sell its 57 per cent interest in YPF to the Chinese buyer, which one person involved identified as Sinopec, broke down after the Argentinean government announced on Monday that it would expropriate 51 per cent of the company. Repsol wanted more than $10bn for its stake and did not advise Buenos Aires of the discussions with Sinopec, which the Spanish group hoped to finalize before seeking formal endorsement from Cristina Fernandez, Argentine president.
"The Argentinean government holds a golden share in YPF and any deal would have required state approval. Sinopec holds 40 per cent of Repsol's Brazilian operations. Repsol declined to comment. Sinopec could not be reached for comment."
That's right. The Spanish oil company moguls were negotiating behind the back of the Argentine government to sell Repsol's stake in the in the country's energy industry to a third party. They planned to let Fernandez know only after the deal was cinched.
Actually, it wasn't much of a secret. On April 17, Caixin, the Chinese Financial news service, reported that its source said Sinopec was engaged in talks to buy the Argentine oil and gas company for $15 billion. Caixin said "Sinopec intended to acquire all the shares owned by Repsol, whose board of directors supported the deal, the source said. The deal would need to be approved by authorities in Spain and Argentina."
"In recent weeks, the relationship between YPF and the Argentine government has been strained. The government headed by Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has blamed YPF for a lack of investment in the sector, leading to shortages of refined oil," said Caixin.
The report said Sinopec, China's second-largest oil company and Asia's largest petroleum refiner, "sees huge potential in the oil blocks owned by YPF in Argentina and is confident it can meet the requirements of Kirchner's government to speed up exploration, a second source familiar with the situation said."
On April 18 the Buenos Aires Herald said Sinopec spokesperson, Huang Wensheng, "came on stage to play down rumors indicating that Argentina's move to nationalize local oil company YPF, controlled by Spain's Repsol, has spoiled years of planning by Sinopec to buy the energy giant."
"We don't comment on market rumors," Wensheng said.
The YPF nationalization appears to have killed Repsol's not-so-secret plan to leave Argentina altogether.
Strange as it may appear, the Chinese connection to the Repsol story has been virtually absent from the major U.S. media. It's hard to say whether the Times', Posts and Tribunes didn't know about it, chose not to reveal it, or didn't somehow think it important.
The Financial Times returned to the subject April 19 in the concluding paragraphs of a snarky commentary by John Gapper, the paper's associate editor and chief business commentator. It read: "In the long run, Argentina may get another outsider to fill the gap it has just created – perhaps a Chinese company such as Sinopec, with which Repsol was negotiating a deal before Ms. Fernandez struck. But the price that any multinational will demand to compensate for the political risk will be high.
"If a country is going to indulge in resource nationalism, it should at least act rationally. Ms Fernandez has not."
Outgoing World Bank President Robert Zoellick, in an interview with Bloomberg Television, branded Argentina an "outlier" in Latin America, but noted the same "populist" pressures that led the government to take control of YPF and close off the economy "are prevalent around the world."
"The U.S. has been stepping up pressure on Argentina," reported Bloomberg.
"Last month, President Barack Obama suspended trade preferences for the country in retaliation for the government's failure to pay damages owed U.S. investors, including Houston-based water utility Azurix Corp." (The Azurix case is being championed by Rep. John Culberson [R- Texas], a far right winger and a co-sponsor of a bill linked to Obama citizenship conspiracy theories. On March 26, in an unprecedented action, Obama suspended trade agreements with Argentina in support of the Azurix claim and a similar one by Blue Ridge Investment, a subsidiary of Bank of America.)
"While it's unclear how Spain will respond to Argentina's action, it's possible that they could try to censure the country at the G-20, IMF or the World Bank," Bloomberg news service reported April 19. "Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said today that his government would coordinate any action with the U.S., Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported, citing comments by the diplomat following a meeting in Brussels with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"The Argentine government's decision to re-nationalize its formerly state-owned oil and gas company, YPF, has been greeted with howls of outrage, threats, forecasts of rage and ruin, and a rude bit of name-calling in the international press," wrote Economist Mark Weisbrot in the Guardian (UK) April 18.
"We have heard all this before," continued Weisbrot. "When the Argentine government defaulted on its debt at the end of 2001, then devalued its currency a few weeks later, it was all gloom and doom in the media. The devaluation would cause inflation to spin out of control, the country would face balance of payments crises from not being able to borrow, and the economy would spiral downward into deeper recession."
"Nine years later, Argentina's real GDP has grown by about 90 percent, the fastest in the hemisphere," wrote Weisbrot. "Employment is at record levels, and both poverty and extreme poverty have been reduced by two-thirds. Social spending, adjusted for inflation, has nearly tripled.
"All this is probably why Cristina Kirchner was re-elected last October in a landslide victory."
"Of course this success story is rarely told, mostly because it involved reversing many of the failed neoliberal policies – backed by Washington and its International Monetary Fund – that brought the country to ruin in its worst recession of 1998-2002," wrote Weisbrot. "Now the government is reversing another failed neoliberal policy of the 1990's: the privatization of its oil and gas industry, which should never have happened in the first place."
"Most of the world's oil and gas producers – from Saudi Arabia to Norway – have state-owned companies," wrote Weisbrot. "The privatizations of oil and gas in the 1990s were an aberration – neoliberalism gone wild. Even when Brazil privatized $100 billion of state enterprises in the 1990s, the government kept majority control over Petrobras.
"As Latin America has achieved its 'second independence' over the past decade and a half, sovereign control over energy resources has been an important part of the region's economic comeback. Bolivia re-nationalized its hydrocarbons industry in 2006, and increased hydrocarbon revenue from less than 10 percent to more than 20 percent of GDP (the difference would be about two-thirds of current government revenue in the United States). Ecuador under Rafael Correa greatly increased its control over oil and its share of private companies' production.
"So Argentina is catching up with its neighbors and the world, and reversing past mistakes in this area. As for their detractors, they are in a weak position to be throwing stones. The ratings agencies are threatening to downgrade Argentina. Should anyone take them seriously after they gave AAA ratings to worthless mortgage-backed junk during the housing bubble, and then pretended that the U.S. government could actually default? And as for the threats from the European Union and the right wing government of Spain – what have they done right lately, with Europe caught in its second recession in three years, nearly halfway through a lost decade, and with 24 percent unemployment in Spain?"
"It is interesting that Argentina has had such remarkable economic success over the past nine years while receiving very little foreign direct investment, and being mostly shunned by international financial markets," continued Weisbrot. "According to most of the business press, these are the two most important constituencies that any government should make sure to please. But the Argentine government has had other priorities. Maybe that's another reason why Argentina gets so much flak."
Time magazine reported" "This president is not going to answer any threat, is not going to respond to any sharp remark, is not going to echo the disrespectful or insolent things said," Fernandez said to applause from business, union and political leaders at an official event announcing the proposed law. "I am a head of state and not a hoodlum."
"We are the only county in Latin America, and I would say in practically the entire world, that doesn't manage its own natural resources," Fernandez said. She said her proposal "is not a model of statism" but "the recovery of sovereignty."
In recent days, every effort has been made by the Western mass media to portray Argentina as week, irresponsible and now isolated internationally. The picture won't wash. Fernandez's decision to renationalize the country's energy company has met with sympathetic response Latin America.
"I don't like the arrogance of rich Europe's response," said Uruguayan President José Mujica, adding that the company should never have been privatized in the first place.
Carl Bloice, a member of the National Coordinating Committee of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, is a columnist for the Black Commentator. He also serves on its editorial board.
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Time flies by
It's strange how my TODO list just keeps getting longer even when I get stuff done. It had about 120 entries around september, and now after completing a couple dozen of them, it has almost 150 entries. Fortunately most of them are somehow related to some other entry and when I get one of them done, I might get a dozen of them done, but then again, there are some entries that say something like draw 70 spell effect icons, or draw 40 spell icons...
Anyway, here's some of the weaker creatures and pets...
Options screen
Five weeks of doing nothing at all, other than reintegrating back to working environment after holidays, and now I've finally managed to get some programming done on my free time. Anyway, what can be seen here is the options screen where it is possible to bind keys to actions.
In the example below, the control key is focused and its description is shown on the bottom left. The hotkeys are also bound on the keys used by some actions and vice versa, and the red color is there to highlight the fact that the key is not bound to the default key anymore.
Hotkeys are keys that can be bound on spells and talents when the respective windows are visible, and the spell or talent that is bound on hotkey 6, in this example, can be used by pressing either 6 or Y keys.
1.5MB, 167 source files, and almost 50000 lines of code...
Most of the basic rules, combat rules, magic rules, spells, poisons, diseases, curses, and the ~90 different effects they create, as well as weapons, shields, armours, helmets, potions, tomes, and edibles, are implemented. The turn sequence is also in place with the exception that creatures don't do anything as the AI is missing, but they do take their turns and are affected by all the effects just like the player creature is. Most of the passive talents are implemented as well.
The 0.1 version, which will be the first one to be available for download, will have the following implemented:
- All rules, features, and items, listed under the game guide and equipment.
- All map objects (traps, containers, lights, etc.) contained in the default tileset.
- All interface elements and screens except the town screen and the credits screen.
- One creature with a simple AI using human tileset (human bandit that just wants blood).
- All spell and effect animations (using placeholder graphics).
Stuff still missing at the time of writing this: active talents, amulet effects, ring effects, scroll effects, wand effects, a couple dozen map objects, options screen, simple AI, and placeholder effect graphics instead of the "placeholder of a placeholder" white box that is in right now.
All this will hopefully happen in 2011.
Specs and stuff
Added a few missing potion descriptions and retouched some of the curses.
It's been a bit quiet on the rogue front lately as I've spent a few weekends doing this general-midi-synthesizer-drum-box-thingy that allows me to draw notes on tracks and make some noise, and most importantly, store the data in a nice human readable xml-format.
The 'Midician' was kind of a spinoff but not entirely unrelated to the rogue project as the same midi library that resulted from it will be used in the rogue.
Here's a sample exported mid from the Midician that most people should recognize, unless ofcourse, they've lived in a bottle or something: Godfather.mid
And here's a sample of a possible clip for a low health combat situation where the player is about to kick the bucket or something: CombatLowHealth.mid
Videos and stuff
Hmm, I can't figure out anything to say. I've been programming like a mad for a few weeks and now my mind is blank. New stuff includes at least item handling, inventory, scrolling combat texts, item tooltips, keyboard and mouse interface, as well as about a thousand other things I can't remember. Hopefully the video can show where the game is going at the moment.
Home_20110517.wmv
Edible stuff
After few days of being sick and too tired to do much, I got up and running and managed to whip out some content in the edibles section.
Human tileset
Two weeks and close to a hundred hours of spent time and I finally managed to finish the weapons, armours, helmets, and loads of other images in full size, and in the resized size as seen below, as well as update this website a few times.
Anyway, what this little tileset can help me do is to dynamically create the kind of toons as seen on the top of the image. Did someone say a roguelike where you can see the equipment other creatures are wearing, wooooot?
Inventory stuff
Two days of inventory design and programming and it's now possible to loot items using a keyboard. Few more days and it should be possible to do all the inventory actions, loot, equip, drop, throw etc. using either a keyboard, mouse click, mouse drag, or any combination thereof.
Toons and stuff
The tileset is finally finished and here's a screen of it in action. Quite a big difference compared to the straight walls and corners of the previous tileset.
It seems that I'm gonna have to do a 'few' more pics after meddling around with Inkscape and the following toons popped out. It's fairly easy to programmatically draw the toons with the various items visible so why not just do it =)
Tiles and tsunamis
I'm seriously questioning my sanity at the moment after spending a week and a half drawing a tileset and it seems like it's going to take at least another week for the rest of the tiles.
It certainly doesn't help with the insane feeling that there's ships sailing over rice fields, hundreds of meters over japanese inland, and little puffs of radioactive steam is considered of being released to keep the Fukushima Daiichi 1st reactor from overheating. Crazy shit I say, crazy shit, and, my condolences to the japanese people.
Anyway, crazy shit aside, what you see in the picture is four versions of each of the wall and floor tiles, doors, stairs, traps, containers, and various other tiles. The brown color separates the dungeon tiles from items and creatures. I noticed that it was getting hard to distinguish items, creatures, and dungeon tiles when they all had bright colors and similar shapes on them.
Fortunately everything is vector graphics and it's easy to resize the tiles if 32x32 pixels feels too small. I'm not yet sure if the game uses 32x32 or 48x48 pixel tiles, or if I'll just slap in 32, 48, and 64 pixel versions and let the player decide which to use.
Crossbows and bolts
And here's a pic of the crossbows and bolts. There's a crossbow and a dwarven repeating crossbow, and there's also pics for the last ten remaining bolts. The main difference between the two is that the crossbow is a slow firing weapon and it requires that the wielder spends one turn resting in order to shoot again (counts as reloading).
The repeating crossbow is the pinnacle of technology in the game and there will be no guns or gunpowder weapons of any kind. I dunno if it's just me but I just don't think that it is possible to achieve a good fantasy setting where you have orcs, elves, magic, and machine guns.
Here's a pic of the bows and arrows. There's an orcish bow, a bow, and an elven bow. There's also pics for the last ten remaining orcish arrows, arrows, and elven arrows. As it turns out, elves are evil and they like black =)
More weapon pics
Few more hours of inkscaping and six new weapons see the daylight. There's a throwing dagger, a push dagger, which will probably be called an elven dagger, an elven sword, a mace, a bow, and a recurve bow, which will probably be called an elven bow after a few more touches in inkscape.
EDIT: Seems like I'm on fire today. Four new weapons just appeared out of nowhere. There's a rock, an orcish dagger, an orcish club, and an orcish axe. Orcish weapons are of inferior quality whereas dwarven and elven weapons are of superior quality.
Weapon pics
Few hours of fiddling around with inkscape and three new weapons are born. There's an elven throwing star, a dagger, an axe, and the sword shown the other day with slightly more battle damage than before.
Wands and toons
I finally managed to finish the "theme" and descriptions of wands. Unlike most of the other items that contain both harmful and beneficial effects, wands are always beneficial to the user, that is, as long as they're not cursed or used incorrectly. Due to the low yield fantasy-WMD effect certain wands have, wands and scrolls of recharging will be quite rare.
I also managed to implement spiked pit and spider web traps in the game. Spiked pit is similar to a bear trap and causes damage and snares the creature in place. Spider web snares the creature and sometimes summons a spider to eat the trapped creature (the spider part is not yet implemented but all the other snippets of code leading to adding the spider to the map are done).
And then there's the cartoons. I haven't quite decided whether I should go for the cartoon style as shown below, or go for some other style for the graphics. Another thing that needs to be decided at some point is whether there should be different item qualities (uncommon, rare, epic etc.) like in most computer games, or just items that the player can rename to match the item's current properties.
Oh right, the image below has a sword that looks like a long fat knife, a damaged sword, and a sad wolf.
Combat log thingy
The game has printed stuff on the console window from the first day but now it prints them on the screen, or combat log, as well. The combat log consists of three lines that fade out when a new line is printed.
The combat log is not limited to a single color though, as one might expect from the image above. Every line can have multiple colors and can be animated in a number of ways, including moving, scaling, rotating, etc.
The next two steps
I've had some nice resistance icons lying around on my hard drive for months but I never seemed to have time to implement them in the game until now. The game now has player abilities and resistances displayed on the bottom of the screen. The numbers on the ability displays show the current value and the base value. The numbers on the resistance displays show the resistance against a regular hit and a critical hit.
The reason why I chose to go the traditional roguelike way of showing abilities on the game screen was that I kept drawing the character screen over and over again with pen and paper and I just couldn't come up with a layout that would look good.
Traps, maps, and programming
Two days of intense programming really pays off. I managed to improve the map generator code in a way that it always connects all rooms to the closest room instead of sometimes connecting them through another room and creating potentially ugly corridors.
I also added bear traps and dart traps in the map generation code along with the player actions related to them (search and disarm). Those two traps also added five new ways for the player to die, and those are two counts of stepping on the trap, failing to break free from the bear trap, and two counts of failing to disarm the traps.
Another year and another backpack
Years fly by and UI elements just spawn out of nowhere. It's not yet final though, as I still have to figure out the way I want to handle money. If I choose to go for a simple solution where the coins are stored in a single variable and shown on the backpack, then there'd have to be some sort of display on the backpack.
If, however, I choose to go for the more "realistic" approach and handle coins as items that take up inventory space, I'd have to either create some way for the player to see the number of coins, which leads to another choice, and that is whether to show the number of coins directly or come up with an item, like abacus, or an action, the player may use to count the number of coins.
Anyhow, here's a glimpse of the player's backpack with some items in it.


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The Foster Project Launches New National Music Festival to Fix the Foster Care System
Oakland, CA -- The Foster Project, a national organization that is based in the San Francisco Bay Area that is working to fix the national foster care in the United States is launching the Change A Life Music Festival at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds in Antioch, CA October of 2019.
The Change A Life Music Festival is a part of Change A Life, a project by The Foster Project. The Change A Life Music Festival will bring together top musical acts to raise awareness and funds for projects that would go towards critical projects that will fix the foster care system. This year's funds that are raised through the festival would be put towards buying property in Alameda County, CA to start a housing agency that meet the needs of the young people aging out of foster care.
Since the mid 80s there have been a lot great amazing work across the United States to reform the national foster care system such as getting foster care extended until 21 instead of 18 and making it easier for young people aging out to go to college.
While these changes are significant there is a lot more work to do. Many social issues such as homelessness, human sex trafficking, poverty, and other social issues have a direct link to those that were in foster care.
The Foster Project was launched in 2015 to raise awareness about the young people in care and the issues they face and to change the foster care system. The Foster Project host the National Foster Care Awareness Day that takes place the first Tuesday in May, during Foster Care Awareness Day. The Foster Project was started and is ran by Frank Anderson and Ethan Escobedo. Frank grew up in the foster care system in Sonoma County, CA and Ethan was in foster care in Amador County, CA.
The Foster Project will be hosting a press conference November 28, 2018 at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds in Antioch, CA at 10am. Please RVSP by emailing Frank at frank@thefosterproject.org with the subject line "Change A Life Music Festival Press Conference RVSP". This project is made possible with a grant from the San Francisco Foundation.
For more information on The Foster Project please visit our website at www.thefosterproject.org .
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Home Andalucia Gaucin: Balcony of the Serrania
Gaucin: Balcony of the Serrania
4 Oct, 2013 @ 06:00
IT'S called the balcony of the Serrania de Ronda and it's not hard to see why.
Perched high on a rocky outcrop, surrounded by breathtaking mountain scenery, the views from Gaucin stretch across not one, but two continents.
In fact, on a clear morning, Gibraltar lies brooding off the coast in the distance while across the short straits you can practically see the Moroccans getting ready for the day. It's hard to believe that Africa is so close.
Gaucin has also long been one of the hippest places to live in Andalucia.
A select holiday spot for the likes of the Sainsbury family, Fatboy Slim – and allegedly once Princess Diana – it has also become a popular town for many cultured expatriates – up to 300 – who have chosen to settle here.
It is this interesting and varied group of northern Europeans – many of them artists, photographers and writers – that gives the town a distinctly creative and prosperous air.
So organised are the dozens of artists, that they organise annual open days of their studios every year to show off their work.
Gaucin is only 30 minutes from the Costa del Sol, but it feels a million miles away.
It may not have the attractions of the coast below, or the key tourist sites you find in nearby Ronda, but what it does have is a raw beauty and unspoilt countryside that sucks you in.
Small enough to remain untroubled by supermarket chains (one of its best food shops Pura Vida is strictly organic, local produce) you can't even get an English newspaper. Oh! apart from the Sundays at the petrol station when a friend of the owner personally goes down to the coast to buy them.
There are however, plenty of fantastic bars and restaurants and the narrow streets and shady squares are a great place to hang out in summer.
Wander around and enjoy the jumble of whitewashed houses – many of them quite grand – lorded over by the historic Arabic castle the Castillo del Aguila.
Then take a ride out into the nearby countryside, where there are a host of excellent hotels or restaurants for a meal or somewhere to lay down your head.
Even better, get up early and take one of the superb walks that go in circular routes around the town. The countryside here is some of the best in the region and views are not in short supply.
The history of Gaucin is fascinating and pretty turbulent by anyone's standards.
Archeological remains indicates a settlement here that dates right back to pre-historic times.
Subsequent 'visits' by, among others, Iberians, Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths, Moors and the French have all contributed to a troubled history for the village.
The town's position at the head of the stunning Genal valley always made it subject to frequent attack.
Yet these invaders, together with the 'invasion' of northern Europeans in the last few decades, have all helped to weave the rich tapestry that is modern-day Gaucin.
But these newcomers are no trailblazers. Gaucin has been watching foreign tourists – and particularly the British – come and go for centuries.
Gibraltar was the key to Gaucin's early popularity with the British. From the late 18th century, many of those whom the Empire had dispatched to the Rock chose to spend their summer breaks in the cool of the mountains and away from the claustrophobia of Gibraltar.
Ronda was a favourite destination, which led to British engineers to be commissioned to build a railway from Algeciras all the way to Ronda in the late 19th century, stopping conveniently in Gaucin.
But, even before then a famous hotel, the Hotel Nacional, was putting up tourists inside its historical four walls.
Run by a popular local figure Dona Clemen, it became an institution and only finally shut half a decade ago.
Previously known as the Hotel Ingles it is appropriate that the visitors book was dominated by British comments, such as one by a Royal Artillery captain, who wrote that he was "satisfied" with his stay in 1882.
These days the tourists tend to be a little bit more gushing and, while discreet, many of them come back time and time again. It is not hard to see why.
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From the Capitol Beltway (495) - Take Route 66 West to Route 123 and head south into the City of Fairfax. Pass Main Street (Pre-Civil War Courthouse with cannon on the right, Mobil Gas Station on the left) and continue to Armstrong Street, second left after Main Street. Pretzelman Printing Group is located on the left/north side of Armstrong Street opposite Fairfax City Hall. Parking is available on the street or in the Inns of Court gated parking lot.
Alternate from Capitol Beltway (495)  Take Braddock Road West approximately 5.5 miles to route 123 north. Make right onto Armstrong Street. Pretzelman Printing Group is located on the left/north side of Armstrong Street opposite Fairfax City Hall. Parking is available on the street or in the Inns of Court gated parking lot.


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Q: Find the closest number of the form $a+b\sqrt2$ Is there a method that, for a given $x\in \mathbb R$ finds the closest number in the ring $\mathbb Z[\sqrt2]$? It is trivial for $\mathbb Z$ and also for comlex rings of integers like $\mathbb Z[i]$ (if we $\mathbb R$ by $\mathbb C$).
The problem is I don't even see a reason why there should be a closest number of the required form. I actually think that you can get as close as you want to $x$ by the numbers $a+b\sqrt2$. But I am unable to prove that. Do you have any ideas?

A: Yes, you can get as close as you want. This follows immediately from the Equidistribution Theorem, but you don't need full force of that theorem -- it can be derived from some more elementary results.

A: Fix $x\in \mathbb{R}$. Then unless $x=a+b\sqrt 2$ for some $a,b\in \mathbb Z$, there is no number of the form $a+b\sqrt 2$ which is closer to $x$ than any other number of the same form. This is due to the fact that $\sqrt 2$ is irrational. The proof goes like this:
Assume $x$ is not of the form $a+b\sqrt 2$. $x$ has an integer part and a fractional part, respectively denoted $[x]$ and $\{x\}$, so $x=[x]+\{x\}$. Since $\sqrt 2$ is irrational, the sequence $(\{n\sqrt 2\})_{n\in \mathbb N}$ of fractional parts of the numbers $n\sqrt 2$ is dense in the unit interval. Using this, fix $\epsilon>0$ and pick $N>0$ so that $|\{N\sqrt 2\}-\{x\}|<\epsilon$. Then let $M=[x]-[N\sqrt 2]$. It follows that $|(M+N\sqrt 2)-x|=|\{N\sqrt 2\}-\{x\}|<\epsilon$. This completes the proof.


Congratulations to Dakota Ridge High School teacher Jeff Legault, who will be receiving the 2018 Willie White Ethics in Coaching Award. The award is given each year to a coach who "teaches life's lessons and models the character traits of honesty, integrity, respect, and personal responsibility." The award is always given at the Colorado Dugout Awards dinner January 13 at the DTC Marriott at 5:00 p.m. Congratulations, Jeff!


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New Riders of the Purple Sage Cancels Tour As David Nelson Fights Cancer
July 27, 2017 -News-, New Riders of the Purple Sage
On Thursday (July 27) afternoon, the New Riders of the Purple Sage announced that they would be cancelling the rest of their shows for 2017 as founding member David Nelson fights cancer.
In February, it was announced that Nelson, who founded the band in 1969 with Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, John Dawson and Bob Mathews, had been diagnosed with colon cancer. At the time, it was said that he would be focusing on his treatment and healing over "the next few months" but it appears that it is going to take a bit longer.
The New Riders posted an update today with the cancellation announcement:
NRPS will not be able to play our upcoming shows this summer, we hope to be back on the road by this this fall. David is still healing up and he really looks forward to playing music for you soon !
Throughout their almost fifty year career, the New Riders of the Purple Sage have released over two dozen studio and live albums with their latest being 2013's Glendale Train. Nelson was a member of the band from its inception in 1969 until 1982, rejoining in 2005. He's also played with his own David Nelson Band, the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band and Phil Lesh & Friends.


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Q: Replace string at the starting position of fields I would like to update my table and replace string CarHer into MobileAuto in varchar field but only the if it's at the starting position in entire value stirng. For instance i got this input:
CarHer machine sixt CarHer emerte67 34
CarHer
CarHer right 22CarHer
CarHer 222 ass

So at the end i would like to achieve this:
MobileAuto machine sixt CarHer emerte67 34
MobileAuto
MobileAuto right 22CarHer
MobileAuto 222 ass

How can i do this in very safety way?

A: One option is STUFF()
Example
Declare @YourTable Table ([SomeCol] varchar(50))  Insert Into @YourTable Values
 ('CarHer machine sixt CarHer emerte67 34')
,('CarHer')
,('CarHer right 22CarHer')
,('CarHer 222 ass')

Update @YourTable
 Set SomeCol = stuff(SomeCol,1,6,'MobileAuto')
Where SomeCol like 'CarHer%'

Select * From @YourTable

Updated Table
SomeCol
MobileAuto machine sixt CarHer emerte67 34
MobileAuto
MobileAuto right 22CarHer
MobileAuto 222 ass

EDIT: As a Select
SELECT SomeCol
     , NewVal = stuff(SomeCol,1,6,'MobileAuto')
 From YourTable
Where SomeCol like 'CarHer%'


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Q: Обновление данных при смене языка в Angular2 Здравствуйте, возникла проблема с выводом мультиязычного контента из базы. Данные прилетают в таком виде (один из айтемов новости):
{
  date: "2017-05-19",
  link: "news-1",
  content: [
    {
      language: "ru",
      title: "Новость 1",
      desc: "Краткое описание новости 1",
    },
    {
      language: "en",
      title: "News 1",
      desc: "Small description for news 1",
    }
  ]
}

news.service.ts
export class NewsService {
  constructor (private _http: Http) {}
  getNews() {
    return this._http.get('/api/news/search')
        .map(res => res.json());
  };
}

news.ts
export class News {
    date: string;
    title: string;
    desc: string;
}

news.component.ts
export class NewsComponent implements OnInit {
    news: News[];
    lang: number;

    constructor (
        private _newsService: NewsService
    ) {};

    getNews(): void {
        this._newsService
            .getNews()
            .subscribe(
                news => this.news = news,
                error => console.log(error),
                () => console.dir('Success')
            )
    }

    ngOnInit(): void {
        this.lang = ['ru', 'en'].indexOf(localStorage.getItem('localeId'));
        this.getNews();
    }
}

news.componentn.html

Newslist

{{ item.date }}

{{ item.content[lang].title }}

{{ item.content[lang].desc }}

Код для смены языка находится в app.component.ts:
export class AppComponent {
    private langs = ['ru', 'en'];

    constructor(private translate: TranslateService) {
        translate.addLangs(this.langs);
        if(!localStorage.getItem('localeId')) {
            let browserLang = translate.getBrowserLang();
            translate.use(browserLang.match(/en|ru/) ? browserLang : 'ru');

            localStorage.setItem('localeId', browserLang.match(/en|ru/) ? browserLang : 'ru');
        } else {
            translate.setDefaultLang(localStorage.getItem('localeId'));
        }
    }

    changeLang() {
        let other = localStorage.getItem('localeId') == 'en' ? 'ru' : 'en';
        this.translate.use(other);
        localStorage.setItem('localeId', other);
    }
}

В принципе, всё работает нормально, новости выводятся, если бы не одно "НО", при изменении языка контент не обновляется. При этом если изменить язык и обновить страницу, язык подгружается из localStorage и данные уже на другом языке.
Подскажите, пожалуйста, как лучше реализовать обновление таких переменных, как item.content[lang].title, без перезагрузки страницы?

A: В коде changeLang никак не меняется свойство lang из компонента NewsComponent. Именно поэтому не меняется и view, в котором значения зависят именно от этого свойства.

Не совсем понятно зачем делать свой велосипед, если уже используется TranslateService. Проще всего использовать его везде

В любом случае, у TranslateService если свойство

onLangChange: EventEmitter слушающий событие изменения языка.

Можно использовать его в NewsComponent и в обработчике события, менять нужно свойство
Например:
translate.onLangChange.subscribe((event: LangChangeEvent) => {
    this.lang = ['ru', 'en'].indexOf(event.lang);
});


In your 8years of selling and buying Nigeria's heritage, what did you do for Kano?
You didn't do anything for Kano in your 8 years under Obasanjo. You were rather selling and buying Nigeria's heritage. All the companies meant for all of us were sold to yourselves, your 14 wives, your children and your friends. You won't do anything. Just go spend your money to bribe from house to house and see God's miracles on Saturday.
Shey Kano state get glory before?


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Home » Indications » Muscle, Back & Joint Pain » Sigesbeckia
Sigesbeckia
Sigesbeckia is an annual plant from the Asteraceae family. Sometimes spelt Siegesbeckia, the correct spelling is Sigesbeckia according to a paper published by The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in Proceedings of the Botanical Society of the British Isles in 1967.
In traditional medicine, there are several species of Sigesbeckia. Sigesbeckia pubescens is a sub-species of Sigesbeckia orientalis that is commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine. The branches of the Sigesbeckia plant are covered in purple-brownish hairs, as are the triangular leaves, which gives it its subspecies name pubescens. It has yellow tongue-shaped flowers that appear in late summer and early autumn. Its full scientific name is Sigesbeckia orientalis L. subsp. pubescens (Makino) H.Koyama, but it is more commonly known as Sigesbeckia, St Paul's wort and in some circles as 'pig pungent weed'.
Sigesbeckia has been used in the traditional medicines of many countries across the world and was first referenced in China in 659 AD. Its Chinese Pinyin name is Xi Xian Cao. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), Sigesbeckia is used to "dispel wind-dampness and strengthening the sinews: for wind-heat-damp painful obstructions". In Europe, the plant is commonly known as St Paul's Wort.
The aerial parts of Sigesbeckia have been used traditionally to treat rheumatic conditions such as arthritis, pain in the joints and muscles, sciatica, as well as to treat hypertension and some forms of paralysis.
Sigesbeckia has a long history of safe use; it has been used to treat rheumatic disease in China for more than a thousand years.
In its natural habitat, Sigesbeckia has a pungent smell. It was named after the botanist and doctor, Johann Georg Siegesbeck who had disagreed with fellow botanist and the 'father of modern taxonomy', Carl Linneaus, over the way in which he classified plants.
Registered herbal medicines containing Sigesbeckia are used today for the relief of backache, minor sports injuries, rheumatic or muscular pain, and general aches and pains in the muscles and joints. Based upon long-standing use as a traditional remedy.
The following products contain Sigesbeckia
Phynova Joint and Muscle Relief Tablets
Phynova Joint and Muscle Relief tablets is a traditional herbal medicinal product used for the relief of backache, minor sports injuries, rheumatic or muscular pain, and general aches and pains in the muscles and joints, based on traditional use only.


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Битва при Бекуле — сражение между римскими и карфагенскими войсками в ходе второй Пунической войны в Испании.

Предыстория
В результате штурма Нового Карфагена Сципион сумел захватить главную базу Карфагена и перерубить основной путь её связей с метрополией. Но три карфагенские армии по-прежнему продолжали удерживать Испанию.

Сципион отправился на зимние квартиры в Тарракон. На сторону римлян начали переходить некоторые иберийские племена. Первым к нему примкнул Эдекон, вождь эдетан, а затем вожди илергетов Андобала и Мандоний. Позже к Сципиону присоединились ещё несколько иберийских царьков. Тогда Гасдрубал Барка, главнокомандующий карфагенскими войсками в Испании, решил дать бой римлянам. В случае поражения он рассчитывал прорываться в Италию, к брату Ганнибалу.

Весной 208 года до н. э. Сципион вышел из Тарракона с союзническими отрядами. Две армии встретились у Бекулы (ныне Байлен), в 40 км к северу от Хаэна, на правом берегу Гвадалквивира. Гасдрубал расположился лагерем на труднодоступной скале.

Битва
Сципион внезапно напал на Гасдрубала. Слева на него наступал Гай Лелий, справа — сам Сципион. Гасдрубал предпочёл свернуть сражение и двинулся к долине Тага с большей частью армии. Сципион, опасавшийся подхода двух других карфагенских армий, решил не преследовать его.

Итоги
Гасдрубал смог прорваться из Испании в Италию. Попытка римлян задержать его не удалась. Хотя римляне победили в битве, Гасдрубал сумел с большей частью армию уйти к Пиренеям. В то же время, победа при Бекуле открыла Сципиону путь к нижней долине Гвадалквивира. Кельтиберы продолжали присоединяться к римлянам, предавая карфагенян. Вожди иберов даже провозгласили Сципиона царём, но он предпочёл титул императора.

Литература

Бекула
Бекула
Бекула
Бекула
Бекула
208 год до н. э.

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text: Q: PHP + MySQL - Display empty entries in a Google bar chart I'm trying to implement an import/export per month graph for my website using Google Charts API with a MySQL database. Everything is ok, but I'm looking for a way to show in my chart also the months without imports or exports. Could someone please help me? Here is a screenshot of my graph, as you can see some months missing


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CAST BIOS
METH - THE ISSUE
Impact on Communities
Impact on User
FIND THE MOVIE
1. EUPHORIA: dopamine flooding the brain, leading to feelings of euphoria.
2. ALERTNESS: after about 30 minutes, the euphoric sensations start to subside and the user begins to experience feelings of extreme alertness and a false sense of "hyper-intelligence".
3. BINGING. Effects begin to wane and the user takes more of the drug to get those feelings back. Ot takes a larger quantity of the drug ingested more often to sustain the "high". Alcohol and other substances are often used during this stage as well, until nothing will produce the desired feelings.
4. TWEAKING: User becomes irritable and paranoid, often suffering from hallucinations and uncontrollable anger, which leads to violence.
5. THE CRASH: The body begins to shut down after being awake and "tweaking" for several days in a row, and sleep can last for one to three days, or even longer in extreme cases.
6. THE HANGOVER: After sleeping, with no food or water for days, exhaustion, malnutrition and dehydration cause physical damage and feelings of illness, which in turn affect the user's mental state.
7. WITHDRAWAL: Often too much for the user to bear, they begin the cycle all over again.
7 STAGES OF USING
Meth is extremely addictive; 95% of first time users get addicted.
Meth's chemical structure is similar to that of amphetamine, but it has more pronounced effects on the central nervous system.
Meth affects the brain—it causes mind changes such as depression, delusions, confusion, irritability, insomnia and permanent psychological damage.
Meth damages brain cells, which can result in symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's disease.
As a result of dopamine loss, chronic meth users may have problems learning new tasks, particularly new motor skills. The National Institute on Drug Abuse explains that meth users may also have problems with verbal memory.
Meth users may experience mental delusions and sensory hallucinations that fuel paranoia and irritability.
Meth causes increased heart rate and blood pressure and can cause irreversible damage to blood vessels in the brain, producing strokes.
Other effects of meth include respiratory problems, irregular heartbeat, hypothermia, fatigue and extreme anorexia.
Smoking meth rots teeth. Tremors, sores/skin abscesses ("meth bugs"), acne, vomiting, twitches and weight loss are symptoms of meth use.
Meth is not for dieting, partying or studying.
Meth can KILL—an overdose can cause heart failure.
Meth users who inject the drug and share needles are at risk for acquiring HIV/AIDS.
""Haas repeatedly demonstrates an ability to convey, mostly non-verbally, internal strife, disappointment, and bewilderment all too common in typical addicts…"
- Josh Kruger, Philadelphia City Paper
IMPACT ON THE ADDICT
Signs of meth use may include:
inability to sleep
extreme anorexia
tremors or even convulsions
increased heart rate, blood pressure, and risk of stroke
nervous physical activity like scratching or grinding teeth
presence of paraphernalia.
Types of paraphernalia include: razor blades, mirrors, straws, syringes, heated spoons, or surgical tubing.
Street names: amp, ice, crystal, crank, speed, go-fast, glass, uppers.
Street reference for users: basehead, cranker, geeker, tweaker, wigger.
Street reference for meth intoxication: amped, buzzed, cranked, geeked, lit,
scattered, sparked, tweeked, wired.
"Even in the light of these numerous extreme dangers, meth maintans a level of popularity that is truly alarming. In a national survey of teens and young adults, around 35% of people aged 18-23 said that they had used methamphetamine. This same age group reported only around 7% had used cocaine and 12.5% had used heroin. That is a staggering disparity." - A Forever Recovery Center
Impact on the User
KNOW THE SIGNS
STREET TERMINOLOGY
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Cisco is acquiring business intelligence startup Accompany for $270M
Anthony Ha	@anthonyha / 2 years
Cisco just announced an agreement to acquire Accompany, which uses artificial intelligence to build databases of people and relationships at companies.
Founder and CEO Amy Chang has compared the product to a digital chief of staff or personal assistant, giving executives the context they need before conversations and meetings. Cisco plans to incorporate Accompany technology into its collaboration products, for example by introducing company and individual profiles into Webex meetings.
Cisco says it will pay $270 million in cash and stock in the deal.
The company probably didn't have to search too hard to find Accompany, since Chang (who previously served as the head of product for Google's ad measurement and reporting) has been on Cisco's board of directors since October 2016. As part of the transaction, she's resigning from the board, effective immediately.
In addition, Chang will be taking over the company's Collaboration Technology Group. Rowan Trollope, who currently leads the collaboration group, is departing to become CEO at cloud software company Five9.
"Amy has proven to be an effective and innovative leader through her years as an entrepreneur, an engineer, and CEO, and I couldn't be more pleased to have her and the Accompany team join Cisco," said Cisco chairman and CEO Chuck Robbins in the announcement. "Together, we have a tremendous opportunity to further enhance AI and machine learning capabilities in our collaboration portfolio and continue to create amazing collaboration experiences for customers."
According to Crunchbase, Accompany has raised around $40 million in funding from investors including CRV, Cowboy Ventures, Iconiq Capital and Ignition Partners.
Cisco also announced today that it's selling off some of its NDS video assets.