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Innocence Project's Rafael Ruiz Is Exonerated Of Charges In 1985 Sexual Assault Case In East Harlem
Today, the Hon. Stephen Antignani of the Supreme Court of the State of New York granted a joint motion to vacate the 1985 conviction of Innocence Project client Rafael Ruiz and entered an order dismissing all charges against him. He was previously released after serving 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Today's exoneration was the result of newly discovered evidence found as part of a dual investigation by the Innocence Project and the New York County District Attorney's Office's Conviction Integrity Program that proves Ruiz's innocence.
"This case is an example of how conviction integrity programs can work collaboratively with defense attorneys."
"This case is an example of how conviction integrity programs can work collaboratively with defense attorneys," said Seema Saifee, senior staff attorney with the Innocence Project. "It was through this collaboration that we were able to get to the truth in Mr. Ruiz's case. We now know that police conducted an inadequate investigation marked by unduly suggestive identification procedures. This led to the conviction of a young man with limited resources who bravely insisted he was innocent."
"I am thankful to the Innocence Project for all their work to make today a reality," said Ruiz. "I lost 25 years of my life because I insisted upon my innocence and rejected plea bargains. Today feels like a huge burden off my shoulders and I look forward to living a good life moving forward."
"A prosecutor's job is not just to seek convictions, but to seek justice," said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. "Today, attorneys from my Office's Conviction Integrity Program moved to vacate the 1985 conviction of Rafael Ruiz and to dismiss the indictment against him on the grounds of newly discovered DNA evidence. We were pleased to be joined in today's motion by the Innocence Project and I'm grateful for their continued partnership. I'd also like to thank the prosecutors in our Conviction Integrity Program – the first on the East Coast – who work every day to review claims of innocence, and just as importantly, to improve prosecutorial practices on the front end and prevent wrongful convictions from happening in the first place."
Ruiz was initially offered a plea deal of 1.5 to three years for this brutal crime, suggesting that prosecutors recognized the weaknesses of the evidence in this case. Ruiz rejected the plea offer and was ultimately sentenced to 8 ⅓ to 25 years in prison. He served the full 25-year sentence. This highlights the deeply concerning problem of the "trial penalty," in which defendants receive much longer sentences for the same crime if they choose to go to trial than if they had pled guilty. As a result, innocent people are often coerced to plead guilty to avoid the possibility of a harsher sentence at trial. Ruiz, who always maintained his innocence, chose to fight the charges and reject the plea offer; once convicted, he faced a far lengthier sentence.
"Today feels like a huge load off my shoulders and I look forward to living a good life moving forward."
Ruiz's conviction stemmed from a sexual assault that occurred on the rooftop of a Manhattan housing project in April 1984. The victim testified that she was walking in the Bronx when she encountered a man named "Ronnie," an acquaintance of her boyfriend whom she had briefly been introduced to on one prior occasion and that Ronnie took her to a building in Manhattan. After arriving at the building, they went to the 16th floor. Ronnie went into an apartment on the 16th floor and exited the apartment with two other men. The three men forced her to the rooftop and took turns sexually assaulting her.
Two weeks after the crime, an NYPD detective took the victim to the crime scene and asked her to point out the apartment from which Ronnie had exited with the two other assailants. The detective knocked on the apartment door the victim identified and was greeted by Ruiz's brother and sister-in-law. The detective testified that Ruiz's brother told him that Rafael and another brother had been at the apartment on the night of the incident. This was not supported by the detective's police report, which stated that Ruiz's brother told him that Rafael and another brother had been to the apartment at some point that week.
Later that evening, the detective went to Rafael Ruiz's home and told Ruiz that his name had come up as part of an investigation. The police took Ruiz to the precinct just after midnight, where Ruiz consented to be photographed without understanding how the image would be used. At about 2 a.m., a detective placed Ruiz's photo with photos of five other men and showed the photo array to the victim. Except for Ruiz, all of the other men in the photo array had Afro hairstyles, despite the fact that the victim never told the detective that "Ronnie" had an Afro. Ruiz was the only man pictured in the array who had a hairstyle similar to the victim's description. The victim identified Ruiz as "Ronnie," a name Ruiz never used.
Just after the photo identification, the detective placed Ruiz in a one-on-one show-up procedure. The victim was in an office with a one-way mirror, while Ruiz was the only man placed on the other side of the mirror. He was wearing the exact same clothing he wore in the photograph that the victim had identified moments earlier.
While Ruiz was incarcerated, he obtained the assistance of William M. Tendy, Jr. who was previously an Assistant District Attorney in the Trial Bureau of the New York County District Attorney's Office. Tendy agreed to meet with Ruiz's family to discuss the case. He initially believed he would not donate more than a few hours of his time to discuss the case, but once he came to believe that Ruiz was innocent, Tendy chose to spend the next three years working on the case without compensation and in his spare time. Through his investigation, Tendy discovered an alternate suspect who lived in the same building on the same floor where the crime occurred and who was known to neighbors as having a history of violence against women. This man fit the victim's description of the assailant — and his name was Ronnie. Tendy concluded that the victim identified the wrong apartment on the 16th floor – and that the real Ronnie lived just across the hall. Tendy referred the case to the Innocence Project.
The Innocence Project and the New York County District Attorney's Office's Conviction Integrity Program began a re-investigation and arranged for DNA testing of the victim's sexual assault kit. The same male profile was identified from semen in the victim's vaginal and rectal swabs and underwear and from a hair in her pubic hair combings. Ruiz was excluded as the source of all samples tested.
While New York enacted a law in 2017 that mandates best practices for eyewitness identification procedures, none of the new requirements in the law would have prevented any of these missteps in the procedure had the identifications been conducted today, suggesting that the same issues that plagued this process could still happen today.
The Innocence Project, which is affiliated with Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
Photo credit: Daniele Selby/Innocence Project
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What Patrice Bergeron means to Boston as he approaches his 1,000th game
The four-time Selke winner will play in his 1,000th game tonight.
Patrice Bergeron during a Bruins practice in 2004.
By Matthew Castle
The No. 37.
It means a lot in Boston. On any given night, you won't have to stray too far to see it draped on the backs of men, women and children around the city. You'll see it on television and billboards. You'll hear it on radio and in your local neighborhood barber shops. And one day you'll see it hanging in the TD Garden rafters.
The number belongs to Patrice Bergeron. And he's approaching yet another milestone.
Bergeron will become the sixth player in Bruins history to skate in 1,000 career NHL games — joining Ray Bourque, Johnny "Chief" Bucyk, Wayne Cashman, captain Zdeno Chara and current GM Don Sweeney — when Boston hosts the New York Islanders Tuesday night.
"Playing 1,000 games for the same organization is something that I am very proud of," Bergeron said following Monday's practice at Warrior Ice Arena. "The friendships and memories I've gathered over the years is the biggest thing. It's been a fun ride so far and special along the way for sure."
Bergeron first joined the Bruins back in 2003 as a second-round draft pick. He stepped foot in the city of Boston with a plethora of promise, mixed with a shred of uncertainty.
It's never easy for any 18-year-old to step into one of the biggest sports markets in the country and play a vital role right away. The four-time Selke winner never envisioned he'd be in this position when he first came into the league.
His career turned out just fine. With his poise, leadership and a stout two-way skillset, Bergeron developed into the face of the franchise.
"My best memories are always what we've been able to accomplish as a team," the 33-year-old centerman said. "Also the friends I have made, honestly that's what I'm most proud of. What I'm getting from this game is the winning feeling and friends. It's been special."
The numbers — 778 points (305 goals, 473 assists) and an impressive plus-160 rating — prove he can score with the best in the business. But Bergeron's impact on the defensive end is just as impressive.
Bergeron has made a living off of shutting down down top lines and making the gritty hustle plays. Bruce Cassidy preaches that hockey is just as much about keeping the puck out of your own net as it is putting it into theirs. That is Bergeron to a T.
"You have to have a lot of passion for the game to play that long and play that well," Cassidy said about Bergeron's career. "You watch these guys after practice, they love coming to the rink and enjoy working. That's what makes them great leaders. Young players that come in watch guys that have played that long and have had success, but how hard they work day in and day out."
Although 1,000 games can take its toll on the human body, Bergeron thinks his best years are ahead of him.
Boston's assistant captain missed 16 games with a rib injury this season. But Bergeron's production hasn't taken a hit with 44 points in 36 contests. His cohesive chemistry with David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand are a major reason why the Bruins are still within striking distance of second place in the Atlantic Division.
Make no mistake about it, Tuesday is Bergeron's night, and you will see plenty of fans wearing No. 37 on Causeway Street.
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'Zombie gene' that helps save elephants from cancer
Maybe it's the elephant's genes that never forget.
In addition to having great memories, elephants are known for having a very low incidence of cancer. In what might seem a wild mash-up of the SyFi channel and National Geographic, new research has uncovered a surprising factor that protects elephants against the dread disease: a gene that had gone dormant in their mammalian ancestors, but got turned back on as their evolving bodies grew ever bigger.
An African elephant and her calf in Tanzania.
Scientists call it a "zombie gene" – cue the chilling music here – "a reanimated pseudogene that kills cells when expressed."
The zombie gene is not just a curiosity.
Along with elephants, several kinds of whales as well as bats and the naked mole rat share enviably minuscule rates of cancer. Biologists suspect that each of those species has evolved a different strategy to ward off malignancies, and they want to understand them all. In time, they might find ways to approximate those strategies in humans and drive down our vulnerability to cancer.
"That's not easy," said Vincent Lynch, who led the research published this week in the journal Cell Reports.
Nor, he added, would it always be safe. After all, mechanisms that thwart fast-growing cells or turbocharge cellular-repair machinery have evolved over countless generations in fine balance with other checks and balances, Lynch said. Transfer one of these mechanisms willy-nilly to another species, and it would very likely run amok, he said.
"But if you don't do the research, you'll never know," added Lynch, a geneticist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago.
So Lynch's team went looking for LIF (short for Leukemia Inhibiting Factor) genes in 53 mammals, including the African elephant, the bowhead and minke whales, bats and naked mole rats.
In most species, they found a single active LIF gene. But in the modern African elephant – as well as in the manatee and the rock hyrax, both distant cousins of the elephant – they found between seven and 11 additional copies of the LIF gene, called pseudogenes.
In every species but the elephant, these LIF genes and their extra duplicates were inactive: That is, they didn't turn on or off to produce proteins. If they had been active in the past, their function had been phased out. In the march of evolution, they had fallen by the wayside and been left for dead, like vast stretches of every species' genomes.
But in the elephant, Lynch and his colleagues saw that one of the additional copies of the LIF gene was active. When the researchers induced cell stress – a step that would have led to cancer in most other animals – a widely recognized tumor-suppressor mechanism turned on. That, in turn, activated the LIF6 pseudogene.
Stirred to life, the zombie gene proceeded to carry out its grim program, entering the internal machinery of damaged cells and ordering them to kill themselves. In elephant tissue, the damaged cells turned themselves inside-out, and cancer was thwarted before it could gain any momentum.
And when the researchers suppressed the action of the LIF6 "zombie gene," they found that stressed cells were more likely to form tumors in elephant tissue.
"It's a fascinating study," said molecular and cell biologist Vera Gorbunova of the University of Rochester in New York, who has studied the mechanisms by which naked mole rats thwart cancerous cells.
The collective research of Lynch's group "also raises intriguing questions," said Gorbunova, who was not involved in the new work. The group has offered evidence that in their evolution, all complex creatures have made trade-offs, such as taking on genes (including anti-cancer genes) that increase their life span but reduce their reproductive prowess, or vice versa.
The reanimation of the LIF6 gene may be one way in which elephants have countered what would seem to be a growing threat as they evolved to become bigger, said Lynch.
How? Biological reasoning would suggest that bigger animals would have a greater propensity than very small ones to develop cancer – mainly because they are made up of more cells. Theoretically, the more cells there are, the higher the odds that one or more will go rogue and seed a tumor.
That is true within species: big dogs (and tall humans) are more likely to develop cancer than smaller members of their species. But strangely, very large species are not, in general, more likely to develop cancer than are small species – an observation made by epidemiologist Richard Peto that has come to be known as Peto's Paradox.
In part, "elephants and their extinct relatives (proboscideans) may have resolved Peto's Paradox" by giving LIF6 new life as a killer of would-be cancer cells, wrote Lynch and his colleagues.
Apparently, not all zombies are to be feared.
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For my former students in BGGE: Hong Kong Disneyland, reprised
Prof. Steph Haggard and I taught a course on government/private sector relationships for many years, called BGGE (business and government in the global economy – pronounced "big-e"). One of the cases was a 2-day slog through the negotiations between Walt Disney Corp.(WDC) and the Hong Kong government, about setting up the first Disney theme park in China.
The punch-line of the case was that WDC would win whether the park was profitable or not, because it received royalties as a fraction of the gross revenue. It also extracted lots of favorable financing from the HK government.
According to this article, one of the feared scenarios in the case has happened. WDC built a second Disney park in China (Shanghai), and within six months of its opening, it is siphoning away visitors. And sure enough, it looks like WDC and the HK government are playing the same game again: pumping subsidies into the park to boost attendance, with the side effect of helping WDC.
Source: Hong Kong Disneyland, Seeking Return to Profit, Plans $1.4 Billion Upgrade – The New York Times
But the scope of the enhancements also reflects the difficult spot in which Hong Kong Disneyland finds itself. Despite more than $600 million in added attractions in recent years, including three new themed areas and a nighttime parade, the park lost about $20 million last year, according to financial filings.
The renewed focus on Hong Kong Disneyland, with its lush gardens and collection of classic Disney rides, comes just six months after the opening of the Shanghai resort, which generated global headlines for its opulence. Disney has suggested that the Shanghai park will attract 10 million visitors in its first year; four million people visited in the peak summer months alone.
Hong Kong leaders, already feeling insecure about the ascension of Shanghai as a financial capital, do not want their Disneyland to be viewed as a lesser property.
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Gabe Roseman
Thanks for the share Roger- ike all of the issues explored in your course, real application.
art2science
Gabe, if I recall you are now in Singapore, no longer in HK. But if you have any comments on the HK politics of this, we would love to hear them.


He drove from New York City to Michigan last month, who stayed in different homes within his two-week fundraising trip for a charity. When he first came he felt sick, and asked for a doctor's care. He was diagnosed with bronchitis.
While the Washington Post reports, he has no bronchitis. He had a contagious disease "that if a person who has not been covered is walking in a room for up to two hours after a" sick "person leaves, there is a 90 percent chance that the person who has not been covered will get sick . "
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For example, a "close cooperation between health officials and the religious community controls the spread of the disease, which can cause serious complications including deafness, pneumonia, brain injury and death. "
People often who died of measles is still young, usually under five years old.
"Patient Zero of Michigan" a child, but clearly he is mistaken.
"He put his head and very emo syonal. I can tell from the look on his face that he was devastated, "Steve McGraw, Oakland's head of emergency medical service, told the Post." He makes mathematics on his head. "
At least this fall case does not spread to anti-vaccine ignorance.
Current with 555 measles cases in 20 states , and the number grows, up to almost 20% of the previous one, says the CDC.
And Tuesday afternoon Buzzfeed says the measles outbreak called "new normal." You can thank "overseas epidemics and growing misinformation efforts by activists against vaccination."


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Q: PowerBI - Draw Line Chart with X Axis Grouped by Date (in Days), When Column contains Full timestamp? I've been trying to figure this for several hours now.
In my SQL table I have a full timestamp column, with date and time of the action, e.g. last time a user was logged in.
Say I have two users who logged in today so far, in different hours. I want to see "2" log ins for today's Date, instead of seeing them broken down further into exact timestamps.
See screenshot for example
What's the easiest way to do this?
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Seems like the whole issues stems from my desire to use "Direct Query" method to load the data.
If I'm just importing the whole table (as users_table (2)), Then yes, I can create a new column with this syntax:
Column = 'users_view (2)'[last_active].[Date]
And plot the graph that I Want.
However, I am unable to create this column on direct query mode. Trying to create this column leads to an error:

Column reference to 'last_active' in table 'users_view' cannot be used
with a variation 'Date' because it does not have any.

If such basic functinoally is not possible, then what's the merit of Power BI? my use case is to create a REAL time dashboard.
Seems like if I want to have anything in real time, it means I can't build even the most basic graph, and vice-versa.
So either I'm missing something, or Power BI is worthless for real time reporting.

A: You need to follow these steps:

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*In your fact table, create a new column that corresponds to the date of the timestamp (this will be a grouping dimension column for your timestamps)

*Add a measure that counts rows of your table

*In a new chart, e.g. line chart, bar chart, whatever - use the date column as X-axis information, and the row count measure as your Y-axis information

Edit: Since it is now apparent you insist on using Direct Query for this - it would appear your data is not in the correct format to support what you want to do. The solution would be to provide Power BI with the correct format for the analysis you want to do. Like adding a column in your SQL database table.
A very costly way of calculating "something" useful would be to do a cumulative count based on timestamp that resets daily. This will look messy but for a site with a lot of activity it will be able to plot something. But it will be slow - since obviously we are far, far away from what would constitute a "sensible" use-case for Power BI using Direct Query.
Cumulative Daily Logins =
VAR _max_time = MAX ( users_table[last_active] )
VAR _date = DATEVALUE ( _max_time )
RETURN
COUNTROWS (
    FILTER (
        ALL ( users_table ) ,
        users_table[last_active] <= _max_time
          && DATEVALUE ( users_table[last_active] ) = _date
    )
)

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How Many Times Can One Man Say "Old Sport"? The Great Gatsby Review (2013)
'The Great Gatsby' is considered to be one of the all-time greatest American novels and it is certainly F.Scott Fitzgerald's most influential work, so why has it been so hard to adapt successfully? The fifth - that's right, fifth -movie adaptation has been out in cinemas for a few weeks now and unfortunately, the general response has not been as positive as everyone expected. I had high hopes when it was originally announced that Baz Luhrmann would be taking the reins, but not even the director of 'Romeo & Juliet' and 'Moulin Rouge' could make a good film out of the original source material. So where did it all go wrong? How did bland old Tobey Maguire win such a key role in the film? How did the 'roaring 20s' come across as so bloody boring? And seriously, how many times can one man say "Old Sport"?
Don't get me wrong; I love Leonardo Dicaprio and I think he's brilliant in every film that he's made but I just wish Luhrmann had directed 'The Great Gatsby' a few years earlier. Dicaprio nails the enigmatic charisma required for the lead role of Gatsby but when he first appeared on screen, I couldn't help but fixate on how old he looked. That's not to say that Leo doesn't look great still but I think the character required a younger lead to make the central romance more believable.
Isla Fisher was a better fit for the role of feisty redhead Myrtle, but I felt that she was grossly underused in the film. Myrtle is pivotal to the plot yet after her madcap introduction, Fisher is reduced to just background glances and the ocassional pout. Joel Edgerton fares far better as Leo's malicious love rival, but what I can't understand is why the two men would be so obsessed with someone as bland as Daisy Buchanan. I've never really understood Carey Mulligan's appeal but at least most of her roles are just bland and inoffensive. In 'The Great Gatsby' however, Mulligan's lack of a personality completely undermines what is supposed to be the driving force behind the entire film. Apologies to fans of the actress but her sheer lack of appeal seriously affected my enjoyment of the film and I couldn't stand her portrayal of Buchanan.
But can a few disappointing cast choices really make such an impact on a movie? Perhaps 'The Great Gatsby' is just simply unfilmable? That excuse may have held up a decade ago but these days, 'difficult' books like 'Life of Pi' and 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' have been adapted into extremely popular films that have been received well both critically and commercially. So what is it then that makes 'The Great Gatsby' so hard to adapt?
This may be controversial for some and please correct me if I'm wrong, but I personally don't think the original source material is all that interesting. I know 'The Great Gatsby' is a hallowed classic but hear me out: Most of the excitement concerns the enigma behind Gatsby and the parties he throws, but all of this is told from the perspective of Nick Carraway, a depressed alcoholic who is nothing more than a blank placeholder for the reader's own fascination with Gatsby. The build-up of the romance is fun to begin with but there are only so many flirty glances and surpressed urges you can take before you want something more to happen. Now I'm not saying that Fitzgerald's novel is bad by any means but in order to adapt it successfully, Luhrmann should have played around more with the original structure, condensing the drawn-out sections to maintain the pace right up to the film's explosive finale.
If this review sounds overly negative, it's only because I had such high hopes for what should have been the definitive version of 'The Great Gatsby'. Stylistically however, the movie certainly has a lot going for it. The set design, costumes and cinematography are absolutely stunning and as I mentioned in a previous post, I think the soundtrack is one of the most unique and eclectic collections of songs that I've heard in years. Luhrmann has clearly not lost his touch when it comes to directing and creating a film but I just wish the screenplay had been tighter with better pacing.
I would recommend people give 'The Great Gatsby' a chance as it's clearly a divisive film. For every friend of mine who hates it, I know someone else who's gone back to the cinema to check it out a second time. You also can't go wrong with any performance from the legend that is Dicaprio but the whole thing just felt like a wasted opportunity. Who knows? Maybe the sixth time will be the charm, as long as Gatsby reins in the "Old sports". Fifty nine was enough for one film.
Were you also disappointed or was this the perfect version of 'The Great Gatsby' for you? What did you think of Leo's performance? And how awesome would it be to go to one of Gatsby's parties? Let me know what you think by commenting, liking and sharing below.
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There are 3 crafty party ideas which can be really good fun to do and learn from. Whether you have artistic and creative flair or not, you can always produce something that looks good.
With pottery painting, although what a person might create on a chosen piece of pottery might initially look a bit drab, once it has been glazed and fired it always comes out looking really great. Painting onto bisque (white unfired pottery) is very easy. After washing the bisque down to get rid of any residue and dust you apply the paint to a maximum of three coats. You must start with the light colours and add the dark. The colours applied change quite dramatically in the firing process which takes roughly 24 hours.
The second idea is the process of sticking colourful paper onto any hard object and has become known as decopatch. As its name suggests the origin of decoupage comes from France. This is a fantastic newish art medium and does, to a degree, take you back doing collage and paper mache at school. It has however, evolved. The lovely thin paper with dramatic colours and patterns can be stuck onto almost anything producing a unique and personal piece of work. It is remarkably simple. All you do is tear the paper and stick it onto your object either randomly or not.
We all go to the shops and spend mountains of money on beauty products but making soap and and other bath items such as bubble bath and gels can be so easy and so creative. This is the 3rd idea and it can be fun because you can add the flavours you want and make the items the colour you really want… maybe to match your bathroom.


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Le yoga nu (sanskrit : nagna yoga ou vivastra yoga) est la pratique du yoga sans vêtements. Elle est très ancienne et est décrite par plusieurs ouvrages et auteurs tels le Bhagavata Purana et le géographe Strabon.

La pratique moderne du yoga nu est encouragée par des gymnosophistes tels , ainsi que par l'autrice . Elle gagne en popularité au cours du , notamment en Occident.

Histoire
Le yoga nu se pratique depuis très longtemps.

Lorsqu'ils atteignent le sous-continent indien au , les savants grecs accompagnant Alexandre le Grand recensent la géographie de ce dernier ainsi que les us et coutumes locales. L'un d'eux, Onésicrite, décrit les pratiques de yoga, dont certaines sont effectuées nues.

Nudité spirituelle
La « nudité spirituelle » est pratiquée par les jaïns des sectes Digambara, les sādhus aghoris et d'autres groupes ascètes de religions dharmiques. Ainsi, la nudité fait partie de la pratique spirituelle de renonciation par l'ordre de Naga Sadhu.

À partir de la fin du , la forme moderne du yoga nu est exercée en Allemagne et en Suisse par un mouvement appelé Lebensreform.

Au début du vingtième siècle, plusieurs groupes pratiquant la nudité, l'ascétisme et la médication s'approprient le terme gymnosophie. Blanche de Vries crée une combinaison de danse orientale et yoga. En 1914, elle est responsable d'une école de yoga pour femmes à New York. Cinq ans plus tard, elle ouvre un institut pour femmes, enseignant le yoga gymnosophique, un mélange entre le yoga et le nudisme. de Vries enseigne jusqu'en 1982.

Marguerite Agniel, autrice de The Art of the Body : Rhythmic Exercise for Health and Beauty (1931), écrit, en 1938, le texte The Mental Element in Our Physical Well-Being pour le magazine The Nudist. Celui-ci montre des femmes nues pratiquant le yoga, avec un texte descriptif à propos de la respiration.

Notes et références

Bibliographie
 Yen Chu et George Monty Davis. Naked Yoga.
 Jo Ann Weinrib et David Weinrib. A Book of Yoga: The Body Temple, 1974, .
 Kevin Brett. « Naked Yoga: A Sanctuary and Source of Strength », Nude & Natural, numéro 25.3, printemps 2006.
 Victoria Davis. Shakti: The Feminine Power of Yoga, .

Liens externes

Yoga
Naturisme

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Leave a Comment on What makes red tea better than green tea?
For a long time, green tea has been recognized for its benefits which center on health and wellness, including its ability to achieve weight loss.
These benefits cannot be refuted.
However, should we overlook something better?
It is a fact that green tea contains many potent antioxidants, which help to minimize health risks such as cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Being an expert on Weight Loss, I take it upon myself to share useful tips with people who desire optimal health.
In furtherance of my humanitarian services, I want to reveal to you why people are abandoning green tea for red tea or rooibos.
Red tea is also very rich in antioxidants, which are far better than what the green tea contains.
The antioxidants present in rooibos (red tea) – nothofagin and aspalathin – are very rare, and assist in preventing metabolic disorders, reducing excess fat or preventing excessive fat production, regulating blood sugar, and removing stress.
As a follow up to my studies which centered on consumables that are potent in sustaining weight loss, I deemed it fit to bring red tea to you.
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Travel Q&A: Nantucket, Istanbul, Europe and more
Staff, The Washington Post
Published 7:13 pm EST, Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Nantucket is gorgeous. But June - especially early June - can still be chilly. You might hit a warm spot, but in general, you can't depend on being able to enjoy beaches (as in, in your bathing suits) in early June. less
Nantucket is gorgeous. But June - especially early June - can still be chilly. You might hit a warm spot, but in general, you can't depend on being able to enjoy beaches (as in, in your bathing suits) in early ... more
Q: My family is considering a trip to Nantucket in June. We weren't planning to take a car, so we'd be dependent on public transportation, bikes, walking, etc. Will early June be sufficiently warm to enjoy the beach? How much hindrance would staying more than a mile outside the historic "town" present to easy access to activities and the beach? Are some neighborhoods around the town better than others? How easy is it to get to beaches without a car?
A: Nantucket is gorgeous. But June - especially early June - can still be chilly. You might hit a warm spot, but in general, you can't depend on being able to enjoy beaches (as in, in your bathing suits) in early June. Average temps that month have highs in the mid-60s, but the wind off the ocean can make it feel much cooler than that when you're on the beach. But if you don't mind layering your clothes a little bit, it can be a pleasant time to be there. (Although my favorite time to visit Nantucket, the Vineyard or the Cape is just after Labor Day.)
For better news: Transportation is easy without a car. Bike rentals, moped rentals and shuttle buses abound, and you can easily use those to get to beaches. The town is so compact that I don't really think there's too much difference in character between the "neighborhoods." Of course, the closer you are to downtown and the wharf, the busier things are going to be, but other than that, it's pretty quiet.
- Joe Yonan
Q: In late April we arrive in Istanbul at 5 p.m. and leave again at 1 a.m. for Johannesburg. Is there anything to do in Istanbul during that time or should we just get a hotel room and take a shower and nap? Naturally, the time is really much shorter by the time we actually get out of the airport and then have to get back two to three hours before the flight. Maybe dinner in a special restaurant?
A: I recently had a seven-hour layover in Istanbul and struggled with the decision to hang out in the airport (ugh) or explore the unknowns of Istanbul (yay!). After some serious thinking, which included my mother's warning about the awful traffic there, I ultimately decided to stay. And the time oddly flew by: There were lots of restaurants, shops and benches for naps.
I think at that hour, you would be wise to stick close to the airport. If you are flying Turkish Airlines, the carrier offers free accommodations based on the length of your layover. The airport also has temporary lodging options.
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Q: We never travel during peak season, but with my spouse in grad school this semester we are going to have to wait until mid-May for our big "outside North America" trip. We haven't settled on a destination (Belgium is in the lead, but we're thinking of Berlin or Dublin as well), but I'm wondering if we should start getting serious about planning now in order to secure the best flights and hotels. Any advice on destination or booking time frames appreciated. We're into staying in walkable cities with lots to do, museums, bars, music, food, etc.
A: Start planning now, especially your air travel. First you'll have to choose the destination, but it helps to become familiar with the usual airfares so you know when to buy. Dublin is likely going to be the cheapest of those three because Aer Lingus serves it, but Berlin may also have some good fares via Air Berlin.
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Q: I'm heading to Key West for two nights and Miami for three next week. I've never been to the Keys, but I hear that Key West is very touristy and wonder whether there are any "off-the-beaten-path" things to discover there.
A: If you have a day to spare, head to the Dry Tortugas, which is a world away from Key West and definitely off the beaten path. My favorite activity when I'm in the Keys is diving, and one of my favorite dive spots is Looe Key. It's nice and quiet under 30 feet of water.
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Le stade se situe dans la ville de Kingston upon Hull dans le comté du Yorkshire de l'Est en Angleterre.

Histoire

Football

Rugby à XIII

Speedway

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Stade de speedway en Angleterre
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VU names 2011 sports stars
Victoria University has named national judo champion Ivo Dos Santos and rising basketball star Stephanie Cumming as its 2011 male and female Athletes of the Year.
The VU Sport Awards recognise the University's best performing student athletes in regional, national and international championships.
Dos Santos, 26, of Werribee has been involved in judo for more than 20 years. He was a winner in the National Championships in 2007 and 2010, the Oceania Championships in 2008, 2010 and 2011, and took home bronze medals at the 2008 and 2010 Commonwealth Championships. He's currently working toward selection on the 2012 Australian Olympic judo team. At the Australian University Games held in August, Dos Santos was named judo Champion of Champions (best across all weight divisions nationally).
Now in his third year of a Bachelor of Applied Science (Physical Education) at VU's Footscray Park Campus, Dos Santos plans to become a secondary school PE teacher to show the positive impact that sport can have.
VU's Female Sports Person of the Year, Stephanie Cumming, 21, is completing the first year of a Bachelor of Education. After she followed her brother into the sport as a seven-year-old, the Endeavour Hills resident began playing with the Dandenong Rangers in the WNBL at age 18 before moving to Canberra to play at the Australian Institute of Sport.
She enrolled at VU last year and represented the University in women's basketball at the Australian University Games in August. She was also part of a bronze-medal winning team at the World University Games in Shenzhen China. Cumming played her first game with the Australian women's Opals team on a tour of China earlier this year.
As part of the Sport Awards, the University also inducted Brad Johnson into its Sport Hall of Fame. Johnson was captain of the AFL's Western Bulldogs from 2006-2010 and a VU Bachelor of Arts graduate in 1998.


Last year I went all out for Halloween. Rosalie was only 14 months old but we had a Halloween crafting party for her and her friends. I also fully decorated the front of my house in bats and cob webs. You can take a look at it in my Halloween decoration video.
This year I decided to I would do something a little more low key.
I have decorated the inside of our house and I plan to do a spooky blood and guts soup for dinner on the 31st, but that's about it.
I have put together a little Halloween bag for Rosalie with a few treats in that I will be sharing with you today. Come and take a look at some of the things I have included. It may give you some inspiration if you're making one for your little one.
I love looking in the shops and buying little things that I think Rosalie might like to pop in to her basket. It's all part of the fun! I think it's such a nice idea, especially when they are little and can't really partake in other halloween activities. You don't have to spend a fortune either most of the items in Rosalie's basket came from Wilkinson's or Poundland!
You can see the basket's I did for Rosalie at Easter this year and last Christmas.
Take a look at a video of the Halloween Treat Basket I made for Rosalie over on my Youtube Channel.
What a lovely basket, we don't do much for Halloween we dressed Blake up late year but aren't doing anything this year.
We've never done a Halloween treat basket but they look awesome.
Love how you've decorated this one and the goodies inside look brilliant.
We've got a black jelly cat very similar to that one and my daughter loves it.
What a great basket. I love it! I wish I'd thought about doing something like this for my son.


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Q: Return view doesn't take variable in Laravel 5.4 Maybe is silly question but I have this in my Controller which is showing the form for image upload and after form is submitted should return me to another view.
On this another view I have passing variable with all images but still I've got

Undefined variable: images

So this is what I have in my Controller
// Display all Images
public function images()
{
    $images = Images::paginate(3);
    return view('images', compact('images'));
}

// Display image upload form
public function imageCreate()
{
    return view('create');
}

// Submit and store image
public function imageStore( Request $request )
{
    $image = new Images([
      'caption' => $request['caption'],
      'name' => $request['caption'],
      'path' => 'uploads/noimage.png',
      'hits' => 1,
      'added_on' => '2017-08-08 9:00:00'
    ]);

    $image->save();
    return view('images', compact('images'));
}

And this in my view images.blade.php
@foreach($images as $image)

   slug) }}">path }}">

@endforeach

So, why variable is undefined if I posting it in the return view statement?
Update: dd($image) in the view return
Images {#234 ▼
  #primaryKey: "id"
  #table: "images"
  +timestamps: false
  +fillable: array:6 [▶]
  #connection: null
  #keyType: "int"
  +incrementing: true
  #with: []
  #withCount: []
  #perPage: 15
  +exists: true
  +wasRecentlyCreated: true
  #attributes: array:7 [▼
    "caption" => "dasdsadsad"
    "name" => "dasdsadsad"
    "path" => "uploads/noimage.png"
    "hits" => 1
    "added_on" => "2017-08-08 9:00:00"
    "slug" => "dasdsadsad-7"
    "id" => 144
  ]
  #original: array:7 [▶]
  #casts: []
  #dates: []
  #dateFormat: null
  #appends: []
  #events: []
  #observables: []
  #relations: []
  #touches: []
  #hidden: []
  #visible: []
  #guarded: array:1 [▶]
}

Update 2: routes
Route::get('images', 'HomeController@images');
Route::get('create',['as'=>'create','uses'=>'HomeController@imageCreate']);
Route::post('create',['as'=>'store','uses'=>'HomeController@imageStore']);

A: The issue is here:
compact('images'));

but your variable is $image. So change it to:
compact('image'));

and try again. And also change the foreach() variable name like:
@foreach($image as $img)
...
$img->slug
$img->path

Explanation:
The variable that contains the data is $image and the one you are passing from controller is compact('images')). An extra s is there.
passing-data-from-controller-to-views

A: error int this line
return view('images', compact('images'));

your variable name is $image and you pass $images
replace above line with this
return view('images', compact('image'));

public function imageStore( Request $request )
{
    $image = new Images([
      'caption' => $request['caption'],
      'name' => $request['caption'],
      'path' => 'uploads/noimage.png',
      'hits' => 1,
      'added_on' => '2017-08-08 9:00:00'
    ]);
    $imagePath='uploads/noimage.png';
    $image->save();
    return view('images')->with('image',$imagePath);
}

you get path like this
slug) }}">

A: Laravel assumes when you use the compact function that the variable you are passing is named the same as the variable you are passing in the route. For instance:
route::get('/customer/{customer_id}', 'CustomerController@show');
Therefore in your controller when returning data with your view you need to do something like:
return view('customer', ['customer_name' => $customer->name]);
Then you should be able to reference it in your view like:
{{$customer_name}}


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Sagarra Inversiones, S.L., v. Cementos Portland Valderrivas, S.A., et al.
Sagarra, a Spanish corporation, was a minority shareholder of Uniland, also a Spanish corporation. Sagarra brought a Court of Chancery action to rescind the sale, by CPV, of Giant, to Uniland. CPV was the controlling stockholder of both Giant and Uniland. Sagarra purported to sue derivatively on behalf of a wholly-owned Delaware subsidiary of Uniland, UAC, which was specifically created as the vehicle to acquire Giant. Defendants moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground that Sagarra lacked standing to enforce a claim on behalf of UAC. The Court of Chancery held that Sagarra's standing to sue was governed by Spanish law, because Uniland - the only entity in which Sagarra owned stock - was incorporated in Spain. The court upheld the Court of Chancery's reasoning and judgment because Sagarra failed to satisfy the demand requirements of Spanish law.View "Sagarra Inversiones, S.L., v. Cementos Portland Valderrivas, S.A., et al." on Justia Law
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Ad Hoc Group of Vitro Noteholders v. Vitro S.A.B. de C.V.
Three cases related to the Mexican reorganization of Vitro S.A.B. de C.V., a corporation organized under the laws of Mexico, were consolidated before the court. The Ad Hoc Group of Vitro Noteholders, a group of creditors holding a substantial amount of Vitro's debt, appealed from the district court's decision affirming the bankruptcy court's recognition of the Mexican reorganization proceeding and Vitro's appointed foreign representatives under Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code. Vitro and one of its largest third-party creditors each appealed directly to the court the bankruptcy court's decision denying enforcement of the Mexican reorganization plan because the plan would extinguish the obligations of non-debtor guarantors. The court affirmed in all respects the judgment of the district court affirming the order of the bankruptcy court in No. 12-10542, and the court affirmed the order of the bankruptcy court in Nos. 12-0689 and 12-10750. The temporary restraining order originally entered by the bankruptcy court, the expiration of which was stayed by the court, was vacated, effective with the issuance of the court's mandate in Nos. 12-10689 and 12-10750. View "Ad Hoc Group of Vitro Noteholders v. Vitro S.A.B. de C.V." on Justia Law
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Bigio v. The Coca-Cola Co.
Plaintiffs appealed from a judgment of the district court granting defendants' motion to dismiss and denying as moot plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment on liability. The District Court held that plaintiffs failed to state a claim, under a variety of theories, based on defendants' purchase and possession of an interest in the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt. The court concluded that the facts alleged in plaintiffs' Amended Complaint, if true, told a tragic story of religious discrimination in Egypt in the 1960s and the court understood the desire for compensation. However, that wrong, if it did indeed occur, was inflicted by the Egyptian government, not by defendants. Because the district court correctly determined that the Amended Complaint failed to state a claim against defendants and also therefore correctly denied plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment as moot, the judgment of the district court was affirmed. View "Bigio v. The Coca-Cola Co." on Justia Law
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McKesson Corp., et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran
February 28, 2012 by Justia
McKesson, a United States company, claimed that after the Islamic Revolution, the government of Iran expropriated McKesson's interest in an Iranian dairy (Pak Dairy) and withheld its dividend payments. McKesson filed its complaint in 1982, the case reached the court on five prior occasions, and was remanded by the court for numerous trials by the district court. At issue was whether the court had jurisdiction over McKesson's claim and whether any recognized body of law provided McKesson with a private right of action against Iran. The court affirmed the district court's holding that the act of state doctrine did not apply in this case. While the court reversed the district court's holding that McKesson could base its claim on customary international law, the court affirmed the district court's alternative holding that the Treaty of Amity, construed as Iranian law, provided McKesson with a private right of action, and the court further affirmed the district court's finding that Iran was liable for the expropriation of McKesson's equity interest in Pak Dairy and the withholding of McKesson's dividend payments. Finally, the court reversed the district court's award of compound interest and remanded for calculation of an award consisting of the value of McKesson's expropriated property and withheld dividends plus simple interest. View "McKesson Corp., et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran" on Justia Law
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John Doe VIII, et al. v. Exxon Mobil Corp., et al.
July 9, 2011 by Justia
This case stemmed from a contract between the Indonesian government and the Exxon Mobil Corporation (Exxon), a United States corporation, and several of its wholly owned subsidiaries where Exxon operated a large natural gas extraction and processing facility in the Aceh province. Plaintiffs were fifteen Indonesian villagers. Eleven villagers filed a complaint in 2001 alleging that Exxon's security forces committed murder, torture, sexual assault, battery, and false imprisonment in violation of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA), 28 U.S.C. 1350, and various common law torts. Four villagers alleged that in 2007, Exxon committed various common law torts. All plaintiffs alleged that Exxon took actions both in the United States and at its facility in the Aceh province that resulted in their injuries. Plaintiffs challenged the subsequent dismissal of their claims and Exxon filed a cross-appeal, inter alia, raising corporate immunity for the first time. The court concluded that aiding and abetting liability was well established under the ATS. The court further concluded that neither the text, history, nor purpose of the ATS supported corporate immunity for torts based on heinous conduct allegedly committed by its agents in violation of the law of nations. The court affirmed the dismissal of the TVPA claims in view of recent precedent of the court. The court concluded, however, that Exxon's objections to justiciability were unpersuasive and that the district court erred in ruling that plaintiffs lacked prudential standing to bring their non-federal tort claims and in the choice of law determination. The court finally concluded that Exxon's challenge to the diversity of parties in the complaint at issue was to be resolved initially by the district court. Therefore, the court affirmed the dismissal of plaintiffs' TVPA claims, reversed the dismissal of the ATS claims at issue, along with plaintiffs' non-federal tort claims, and remanded the cases to the district court. View "John Doe VIII, et al. v. Exxon Mobil Corp., et al." on Justia Law
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Jídelní vozy jsou jedním z několika druhů železničních osobních vozů. Jídelní vozy většinou fungují stejně jako bar, bistro nebo přímo jako restaurace. Nasazovány jsou zpravidla na mezinárodní, případně i vnitrostátní dálkové vlaky kategorie rychlík a vyšší (Expres, InterCity, EuroCity). Ceny v jídelních vozech jsou v Česku vyšší než v restauraci pevně stojící na zemi, ale v jiných zemích to může být i naopak.

Druhy jídelních vozů
Jídelní vozy se rozlišují na 2 druhy.
 Restaurační vůz – V tomto voze je plnohodnotná kuchyň a bývá zde větší výběr jídel.
 Bistro vůz – Tyto vagony mají menší zázemí a méně míst k sezení v jídelní části (často také ke stání) než restaurační vůz. Bistro vůz ve vlakových soupravách Pendolino je rozdělen na 2 poloviny. V první polovině je malá kuchyň a místa ke stání u zdi, v druhé polovině běžná místa k sezení jako ve zbytku soupravy. Všechna místa spadají pod 2. třídu.

Příklady jídelních vozů Českých drah

Níže jsou uvedeny některé jídelní vozy využívané Českými drahami:

 Restaurační vozy
 WRmz815
 WRmee816
 WR851

 Bistro vozy
 ARmpee832
 Pendolino

Příprava jídel
Jídla mohou být připravována běžně, ale např. JLV často používá postup, kdy jsou přímo ve voze dovařována, dosmažována nebo ohřívaná předpřipravená jídla, která byla uvařena před výjezdem vozu. Tento postup umožňuje velmi rychlou přípravu, a proto mohou využít jídelní vůz i cestující na krátké vzdálenosti. V bistro vozech jednotek Pendolino jsou jídla vždy ohřívána v mikrovlnné troubě.

Provozovatelé jídelních vozů v Česku
Na území České republiky jezdí jídelní vozy provozované těmito společnostmi:
 JLV – nejčastější ve vlacích Českých drah
 Utasellátó – ve vlacích maďarských drah MÁV-START Vasúti Személyszállító
 Henry am Zug – ve vlacích rakouských drah Österreichische Bundesbahnen

Jedním ze známých bývalých provozovatelů jídelních vozů byla firma Urblík, jejíž jídelní vozy jezdily i na vnitrostátních rychlíkových trasách jako například Praha – Hradec Králové – Týniště nad Orlicí.

Literatura

 Ludvík Losos / Michal Handrejch: Gastronomie na kolejích, Praha: JLV, 2019,

Reference

Externí odkazy

 Vagonweb.cz - Seznam vozů ČD
 Vagonweb.cz - Řazení vlaků
 Zelpage.cz - Příprava jídel
 Zelpage.cz - Konec Urblíka

Osobní vozy
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These few cartridges were eventually turned into ROMS and distributed across the Internet in its original Japanese form. Patches were eventually made and a more or less final version of this beta game was released on the internet. This release had some rumors attached to it. At one time at the E3 expo krystal fox sex games it was a feature in, one avid fan tried to steal the cartridge.
He never left the booth with krystal fox sex games as he was arrested, but Nintendo dropped charges soon thereafter. Further, Nintendo had sent out eight copies of the full game to major magazines so they could make a review by release day. When the game was canceled, Nintendo asked for the cartridges to be returned. A few magazine companies complied, and a few did not.
One of these cartridges showed up at an auction once and sold for over ten thousand dollars due to the rarity of a complete cartridge. It is from one of these cartridges that the ROM circulating the internet was copied from. Due to the technical completion of Star Fox 2the third and final game in the contract, Argonaut Software parted ways with Nintendo and returned to its former productions. Two years later inafter many discussions from Nintendo and sneak previews, Star Fox 64 was released.
This was the first game in the series to use voice actors for real-time dialog, the first ever addition of the Rumble Pack to let players "feel" the game such as when they got hit by enemy fireand greater levels of detail along with a rework of the sprites and new vehicles. The system map split the game into three routes similar to the original game, and unlike the original, it allowed players to change routes depending on their performance in the last mission.
This made the game more diverse and expansive than before, since the player could pick a path through the enemy lines to get to the final level which in itself had two possible layouts depending on the attack approach the player took. Unknown to many players however, were the elements of the game which were carried over from Star Fox 2. Star Wolf, the All Range Mode, and the Wolfen were reused from Star Fox 2 and played a pivotal role in the game, as you could not go through the game without having to go through these things at least once.
Each mission also carried a score cap which the player had to meet or krystal fox sex games to get a medal for that stage, with a requirement that the entire team survive. Collecting all the medals for every stage on the map would unlock an expert mode with more enemies, a smarter AI, and the fragility of the Arwing increased. It also had extras for multiplayer mode which could be unlocked for performing certain tasks; all of this gave the game a decent replay value. Many people use this game as the definition for what is canon in the Star Fox universe.
Star Fox 64 was considered the "test dummy" of what the Nintendo 64 could do and was, in simple terms, a remake of the original SNES game. Started in lateDinosaur Planet was intended to be Rare's a. This game was intended to push the limits of the N64's technology and Rare even had a back story for the game. In fact, they had kept it such a good secret that when they revealed it on the cover of the year E3 coverage issue of Nintendo Power, the game was closer to completion than many people thought despite the tidbits of information floating around.
In fact, they planned to release it in the fourth quarter of The game was a tremendous undertaking, having been put on full display at E3 next to Conker's Bad Fur Day[ citation needed ] so people visiting the booth knew the game existed. It was slated to be the largest cartridge released for the N64 with a total size of Mb.
As the game got closer to being released, people began to feel that something was wrong. There was no advertising for the game, no magazine articles, no previews, not a single thing. The game had more or less evaporated.
And sure enough, much like Star Fox 2the game was at a stage of final bug testing when it was canceled. It seemed that the main character had a resemblance very close to Fox McCloud, the primary character in the Star Fox series. Also, around that same time, Nintendo was working on an adventure game that was to take place on an unspecified planet in the Lylat System. The title wasn't decided and the game wasn't even playable yet so a lot was still in the air. Nintendo wanted to get the game out before the GameCube was launched and unfortunately, it appeared that it wasn't going to happen.
In their attempts to get the game out, they began to look for complete or near-complete projects krystal fox sex games they could convert into what they wanted. Since Rare was a second party, Nintendo had a considerable influence on them and convinced Rare to convert the game into what would later be called Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet. Unfortunately, the executives at Rare were torn on the decision.
Half the company was for this conversion while half were against it. Dinosaur Planet was thus officially canceled then, and the conversion process began. In February ofa video game preservation group called Forest of Illusion announced on their Twitter [ citation needed ] that they successfully acquired a disc containing a development build of Dinosaur Planet from a private game collector in Sweden. Due to increasing stress between Nintendo and Rare at that point, Rare felt insulted that Nintendo hadn't put up any official advertisement effort into their last project: Conker's Bad Fur Day.
This was in part due to the fact that the game ran in total contrast to the image Nintendo wanted. Further, the game got little to no publicity because the game's main character was a protagonist who drank, cussed, and urinated in addition to making numerous sex jokes- what little publicity it did garner was negative. This had soured relations with Nintendo a bit and proved to be a bumpy ride for fans everywhere.
Nintendo wanted the now renamed Star Fox Adventures to be a GameCube launch title, but it was already and the system had been out for at least six months. New games were getting hard to come by, just as with the Nintendo 64, and it was not a good image that was being projected. They chose to put Star Fox Adventures into this lineup, although there was a drawback to this kind of power play in that there was almost nothing of value that had been released so far that year except for Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.
With everything starting to hit at the same time, Nintendo was competing with itself and Wind Waker was delayed till The official reason given for the delay was "translation issues" although unofficially, people believed it was to avoid overshadowing the holiday season. In the graphical position, Star Fox Adventures was a masterpiece. The Rare team managed to pull off "fur shading" which let characters have a colored wire frame fur that would react to the environment around them, such as sway in the wind and move their faces and tailssomething which Microsoft claimed krystal fox sex games only Xbox could do and was eventually done on the Xbox in the remake of Bad Fur DayConker: Live and Reloaded.
It added a tremendous degree of realism and naturalness to the game that no other game of the time could manage. The cinematic scenes allowed the story to be fleshed out and were choreographed with the animators and musicians to create a movie-like level of quality and depth. Most of the music for Star Fox Adventures was ported from the N64 version of Dinosaur Planet and enhanced in places to allow for the GameCube's additional sound chip. The remaining music was newly composed to be streamed from the disc through live recordings during the cinematics.
Gameplay was like a modified version of the N64 Zelda title Ocarina of Time. Some people complained about that, but others enjoyed it. It was quite a departure from Rare's portfolio of games, which were mostly extensive yet well done item quests.
People wondered why Falco wasn't in the game until the very end of the story and some grew angry about it, demanding to know why he was missing in the first place. In the technical view, there wasn't enough time to work him into the main story, but from the creative standpoint a comic was released by Nintendo of Japan to cover Falco's lack of involvement and to bridge the gap between Star Fox 64 and Star Fox Adventureswhich was meant to happen after the SF64 timeline.
Unfortunately, it was released after the US version of Adventures had hit store shelves. After the release of Star Fox AdventuresRare parted ways with Nintendo to work under Microsoft and have produced a of games for both the Xbox and Xbox They have also continued to make a of smaller titles for the Gameboy Advance and DS. They were not planning for the dispute with Rare to end with Nintendo winning the copyrights to Krystal, Tricky, and the other original cast krystal fox sex games Star Fox Adventures : this new game was going to be a single-player arcade version of Star Fox 64yet another remake.
However, through luck and their legal department, this game project was scrapped and started over from the ground up. The result was that only one poster for the arcade game was released and only the multiplayer was available for review at E3 This time around, though, Nintendo contracted Namco to be the new home of Star Fox, and Namco started working on the newest chapter in Star Fox history.
Since Nintendo had won the rights to the Star Fox Adventures characters, Namco was able to continue down the path that Rare had begun in Star Fox Adventures, including being able to use Krystal. This caused a setback in the development time and the game was pushed back by at least a year. The new game was to be a story-driven shooter that had ground-based missions thrown into the game's structure and de.
The game's single-player debut made its appearance during the E3 Media Press Conference, and was fully playable on the show floor the very next day. It was proof that Namco could bring the Star Fox franchise together and fans could continue on what is considered one of the longest running and most celebrated space shooters in gaming history. At the time though, the game didn't have a name and it was being simply called Star Fox Triforce. A year afterward, the name was changed to Star Fox Armada since the game's major focus had been shifted into the story, but it was again renamed simply to Star Fox 2 which was the name of the unreleased SNES predecessor.
When fans krystal fox sex games confused, it was clarified that this game and the unreleased SNES game had nothing in common except for the name. It was a humorous name, but it conveyed to the fans that Nintendo had no clue what they were really going to call the game.
After one last name change, Namco finally released Star Fox: Assault to store shelves in February of It was intended to be released Christmas ofbut they had a delay due to fan requests that the game have a LAN mode. This required a total overhaul of the multiplayer engine and thus the option never saw the light of day.
Fans had been waiting long enough for the next flight adventure, and Namco was not willing to risk negative publicity and another E3 showoff since there were already two such showings under that game's belt; thus it hit krystal fox sex games shelves without the LAN ability. However, some interesting notes about the game point out that the main enemy presence in the story resembles that of the Borg from Star Trek. It was a humorous similarity in demeanor and goals.
Command marks the first time the Star Fox series has ever been on a Nintendo handheld or had online multiplayer. A new threat has invaded the Lylat System: the Anglar, a race of anthropomorphic fish aliens from the acidic seas of Venom who's intention is to rule the Lylat System by attacking all of the planets in it.
When the Anglar attack Fox's homeworld of Corneria, he begins to counterattack the Anglar forces. Throughout the game players meet up with both new characters like Peppy's daughter Lucy Hare and old ones. Bill Grey and Katt Monroe make their first appearance since Star Fox 64 The game features various branching pathways which the player can choose at various points in the game.
This also marks the first time that you can play as characters other than Fox in single player. The game contains over 30 missions and 9 different endings. Players can only go on one path at the beginning of the game but after getting the first ending the player will gain a "Key of Destiny" which can be used only once each new play-through to go on a different path. The game is a revival of Star Fox 2 in terms of gameplay as the development team felt like going back to that game and updating many of the gameplay aspects for Command to better fit the Nintendo DS. All aircraft controls with the exception of shooting lasers take place on the touch screen while the action itself takes place on the upper screen in all-range mode styled fights.
On an interesting note, Star Fox: Command does contain references and cameos for the F-Zero series a futuristic racing series also done by Nintendowhich has, in turn, made references to the Star Fox series by way of the character James McCloud, who looks stunningly like the character, though human. Star Fox From WikiFur, the furry encyclopedia.
Jump to:search. Starfox redirects here. You may be looking for Scarlet Ann Starfox. Case cover art for Star Fox Adventures. Krystal is the game's damsel in distress. She was a playable character for only the introduction chapter. Krystal is also rumored to have used her telepathic abilities to communicate with the inhabitants of Dinosaur Planet without a translator and to feel their pain, as seen here.
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Taking of photographs stops at 9 m, on the day of the matriculation, Saturday, 21st April, 2018 but may continue after the ceremony.
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Few of my middle school memories are as distinct as the ones involving a pull-up bar. To be more specific: the ones of me avoiding the pull-up bar at all costs. To this day, after 200-plus hours of yoga training and far too many hours test-driving workout trends, I still cannot do a single pull-up. While that failing no longer affects my life in any substantial way, in seventh grade, the shame was palpable.
That's because I was one of the millions of American kids subjected to the public humiliation otherwise known as the Presidential Fitness Test, a battery of physical feats designed to assess the health of school-age children. The test has since been retired and replaced by the less arbitrary and more forgiving physical fitness test (known as FITNESSGRAM), but it left a significant mark on scholastic history.
"The physical fitness tests students have to take are in fifth, seventh and ninth grades in public schools in California, and it's similar in other states as well," says Marisol Visalli, a San Francisco Bay Area-based physical education teacher and massage therapist. "We are testing to collect data on the five categories of fitness — cardiovascular fitness, muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, and body composition, which is muscle to fat ratio."
It all started in the early 1950s when fitness activists Dr. Hans Kraus and Bonnie Prudden administered exercise tests to thousands of kids throughout the United States, Switzerland, Italy and Austria. U.S. kids came up shockingly short: 58 percent of them failed the tests, compared to just 8 percent of the European kids.
President Dwight Eisenhower wasn't pleased. He took action by forming the President's Council on Youth Fitness in 1956 to seek out strategies for improving American kids' fitness scores. Concern mounted by the time John F. Kennedy took office. In 1960, he penned a Sports Illustrated op-ed about the perceived problem. An excerpt: "In a very real and immediate sense, our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security."
And so, in 1966, the Presidential Physical Fitness Challenge commenced — a competition of sorts designed to "encourage and prepare young Americans for the physical demands of military service," according to NPR. The challenge included activities like the softball throw, the shuttle-run, and, of course, the dreaded pull-up. To earn the coveted Physical Fitness Awards, kids would have to place in the top 85th percentile based on national standards.
The problem with all this testing (which, by the way, was usually done in the most public of settings, in front of one's peers), was that, according to experts, it didn't resemble the Kraus-Weber tests in any way. Rather than focusing on core and arm strength and improved flexibility, the Presidential Physical Fitness Challenge simply reflected the goals and priorities of the country and people who'd formed their fitness philosophy during training in World War II, author Greg Critser explains in his book "Fatland."
President Johnson wound up changing the group's name to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, but the tests remained consistent, and the pool of award winners was reduced to just the top 15 percent of athletically gifted students.
Years later, in 2012, the test was finally abolished and replaced by a more comprehensive fitness program designed to support individual goals rather than prescribe a standard fitness regimen. According to NPR, the change was the result of decades of negative feedback from both students and teachers. "The test was totally backward," physical education teacher Joanna Faerber told the outlet. "We knew who was going to be last, and we were embarrassing them. We were pointing out their weakness."
The physical fitness tests administered in schools across the U.S. have changed since President Dwight Eisenhower formed the President's Council on Youth Fitness in 1956.
So where does that leave us now? And why are teachers still "testing" kids at all? "The reason for the tests I believe is basically to collect data so the state knows fitness levels of different demographics and counties/schools/cities/etc.," Visalli says. "But we teachers do our best to turn it into goal-setting and teaching students about their bodies. We also turn it into awards for students with the most improvements, best scores, etc. to create some buy-in and get them motivated to be fit people."
While the current program continues to focus on specific areas of fitness, there's a decidedly less militaristic approach to all of it. For instance, Visalli says there are different options for each of the five categories that are tested. For cardiovascular fitness, kids can either run 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) or do the PACER (Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run) test; for muscular endurance there are several options, including the curl up test, flex arm hang or push-ups; for flexibility they can do either sit-and-reach stretch, or the shoulder stretch test.
As for body composition, Visalli says the common approach is to crunch height and weight data, but "some schools still use the antiquated skinfold measurement, which is total crap and makes kids feel horrible," she says. "This test is pretty stupid in my opinion because science has gone far beyond the understanding that height and weight data alone dictates your body composition, because we know that muscle weighs more than fat, but that isn't included in the data."
So how many kids do well on this test? "The number of kids that pass usually depends on the school," Visalli says. "In Burlingame [California] for example, where I teach, most kids pass — I'd say 85 percent — but that has to do with a lot more than just our awesome physical education teachers." She explains that the kids in her community are really active outside of school. Whereas, in more urban or even rural or poorer areas, the number of kids that pass could be much lower for many reasons. "Kids not being active outside of school due to lack of money, opportunity, program options — the list goes on," Visalli says.
If you got winded just reading all that, take heart: Apparently it's not impossible for adults to perform well on the tests, but their results aren't typically compared to those of kids. "Yes, I can pass the tests," Visalli says. "However, the tests are intended with different 'healthy fitness zones' for different ages and genders. The scores differ according to those factors. For example, boys are expected to do more push-ups once puberty hits because of how hormones help them develop broader shoulders and more muscle mass then girls. So 'passing' as an adult is relative because the passing scores are meant to really only go up to around 17 or 18, when a student would still be taking the tests in high school P.E."
Curious where you'd rank? Check out the FITNESSGRAM Healthy Fit Zone Performance Standards here. But take all those numbers with a grain of salt and don't stress if you can't do a single pull-up. Turns out it matters a lot less in life than we were led to believe in junior high.
Punishing and humiliating tests certainly aren't the way to get kids in shape, but encouraging physical activity of some kind is important since it's been shown to help kids build cardio fitness, strong bones and muscles, and even reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only 21.6 percent of 6 to 19-year-old children and adolescents in the U.S. get 60 or more minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on at least five days per week.
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Leadspace is the leading social powered B2B demand generation solution that uses predictive analytics to help companies find more leads that look like their best customer. Empowering customers to drive increased marketing and sales performance is at the core of its business. Tapping into external and internal data to better understand prospects and increase sales through marketing efforts is a concept Leadspace is very familiar with, and something they were looking to improve upon.
'As an agile start-up, marketing was an ad-hoc and improvisational affair," said Damon Waldron, Director of Demand Generation, Leadspace. "There was no system for managing inbound leads or for tracking and measuring outbound campaigns. We had Salesforce in place, but that wasn't for the benefit of the marketing team - it was for managing our sales opportunities and their contacts. We needed a marketing automation solution that was as agile as we were, and quick to ramp up productivity."
The lack of transparency and understanding of marketing processes, terminology, lead management and the buying cycle also meant that the company's sales and marketing teams were not aligned.
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After an in-depth market evaluation, Leadspace implemented Marketo as its marketing automation platform of choice.
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China: U.S. Congressman Seeks To Deny Olympics To Beijing
By Gabriela Pecic
Beijing is the leading candidate among five cities hoping to be designated the host for the Olympic Games in 2008. The International Olympic Committee (IOC), now meeting in Moscow, will make its decision on 13 July. Some members of the U.S. Congress support a non-binding resolution that they hope will persuade the IOC to choose another city because of China's record on human rights. RFE/RL's Gabriela Pecic reports from Washington.
Washington, 11 July 2001 (RFE/RL) -- Some members of the U.S. Congress are hoping to pass a resolution saying that the American people oppose holding the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing because of China's poor human rights record.
Members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are meeting in Moscow where, among other things, they will choose a site for the 2008 Summer Games, and will make their decision on 13 July. The leading candidates are Beijing, Paris and Toronto, Canada. Istanbul, Turkey, and Osaka, Japan, are also in the running.
In Washington, Congressman Tom Lantos (D-California) has sponsored a resolution in the House of Representatives opposing Beijing's effort to host the Games. He told a news conference on 10 July that the measure has no official standing with the IOC. But he said it may influence the decision.
Lantos noted that in 1993 he sponsored a similar resolution, which passed both houses of Congress unanimously. At the time, Beijing and Sydney, Australia, were the leading contenders to host the 2000 Olympics -- and Sydney eventually was chosen as the site for the Games. Lantos says similar political pressure this year can again deny Olympic prestige to an undemocratic government.
He and Senator Nancy Pelosi (D-California), who also appeared at the news conference, expressed particular dismay that China would build stadiums for some of the Olympic contests on sites where recently the government held mass rallies at which prisoners convicted of capital crimes were publicly condemned to death. Lantos said these would not be suitable for the Games.
"Some of the facilities that Beijing hopes will be erected -- they don't yet exist -- are on ground that lately have been used for mass political executions attended by vast numbers of people. This is not the way we want to think of the Olympics in the year 2008."
But Lantos said the leaders of the House of Representatives, who decide which legislation will be put up for a vote, have not scheduled his resolution this week, even though the IOC will make its decision so soon. He said he wonders whether they are intimidated by the powerful American business interests that seek to profit from unfettered trade with China. Or perhaps, he said, they are swayed by U.S. President George W. Bush's argument that it is better to work with China to help it improve its human rights record than to punish it.
Also attending the news conference was Gary Bauer, who ran for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party in 2000 and lost to Bush. Bauer said America is strong enough to be able to choose morality over commerce. He recalled the televised image of the Chinese protester who blocked the path of a tank during the pro-democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in June 1989.
"When you are a great power like the United States, you always have a very clear decision. You can either be on the side of the guy standing in front of the tank that we saw on our television sets 12 years ago in Tiananmen Square, or you could be on the side of the guy that's in the tank. I think we have to be on the side of the guy standing in front of the tank."
Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minnesota), who also spoke at the briefing, said he has no quarrel with the people of China, and that he hopes they can one day be hosts of the Olympics. But because of their government's repressive policies, now is not the time to hold the Games in their country.
"I really look forward to the day when Beijing can host the Olympics. I look forward to that day. And that should be a day when the Chinese government is no longer locking people up, when it's no longer torturing people, where there is the respect for human rights."
Claude Barfield is the coordinator of trade policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, an independent policy analysis foundation. He told RFE/RL that the moral issue is irrelevant to the Olympic Games.
"After all the Olympics we had before, countries that were not democratic, the Olympic games in thirties were in Germany, so the Chinese had come a long way since the repressive measures of Beijing."
Furthermore, Barfield said, he doubts that Lantos' resolution -- even if passed -- would have any effect on the IOC's decision. He said he also doubts that the congressman's 1993 resolution had any effect on the choice of Sydney for the 2000 games.