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Flickr is killing off your photos, starting today
By Jake Tucker
Contact via linkedin February 7, 2019 12:38 am GMT
Got a Flickr account? The photo-sharing website has started dumping user's photos, deleting them after a change in its terms and conditions made back in November.
Previously, Flickr users got a meaty 1TB of free storage, which could store several hundred thousands photos without too much drama. Now, free users will have just 1,000 photographs on the platform, meaning some users are having thousands of old photos canned as part of the change.
Users who subscribe for a Flickr Pro account for £38 a year can escape this, but it's a substantial change that's come as an unwelcome surprise for a great many Flickr users.
Related: Best PC Games
The change seems to have come about soon after the company's acquisition by fellow photo outfit SmugMug in April 2018. SmugMug doesn't offer a free service, focusing heavily on commerce as part of its selling points.
SmugMug bought Flickr from Verizon, although the original chunk of free storage was given out with Flickr was owned by Yahoo all the way back in 2013. Back in November, Flickr said that storing all of these photos was expensive, and that Yahoo had normalised the idea of storage being free, and this was a bigger draw to people than the photography that was supposedly Flickr's key ingredient.
Users looking to pull down their photos are going to have to be quick, You can download your images in batches of 500 via the websites camera roll or submit a request for data to Flickr for all of their data. It's not ideal, but it's better than losing thousands of photos, right?
Related: Samsung Galaxy S10
Lost much in Flickr's purge? Were you already too late to save your photos? Let us know on Twitter at @TrustedReviews
Award-winning (and losing) journalist, Jake Tucker created VideoBrains, a series of talks about video games. Jake has held senior positions at Pocket Gamer, Esports Pro and MCV, with bylines at PCGN, …


OK, now it is halftime, what is your strategy? Or do you even have a strategy?
As a High School Varsity Coach we usually have but ten minutes for halftime. Well it is ten minutes unless you subtract two or three minutes to get to the end of the field or where you might meet as a team. And don't forget we lose another two to three minutes to get warmed up for the second half. So ten minutes quickly erodes into but four or five minutes maximum in real time to prepare to get ahead, or stay ahead. What are you going to do? Do you have a plan?
I am not necessarily recommending that you adopt our plan, that would be presumptuous. But I believe I can argue strongly that in order to maximize your effectiveness you need to have a plan, be organized, in order to be successful. Why is it that most coaches will schedule out practices to the minute yet do not have a defined plan of attack for halftime. I must be missing something.
My next point is that with all the distractions, and the short time combined with a short attention span you probably can make two possibly three points to your team. Attempting to discuss every thought that comes into your head, combined with the five or six thoughts that assistant coaches want to tell the team, soon evolves into a myriad of nine or ten topics, from two or three points of view, which erode into none that are effective.
This process has served us well, but that is not to say it is the best for each team or each coach. But, having a lot of coaches raising a lot of issues is simply not effective. Some coaches will break into position dialogs with each unit. That is also fine, but remember your time period. The more you throw at the kids, the more the messages get diluted, and you may run out of time for the key points you want to raise.
I might also suggest that screaming about the effort of the players in a game is only effective two or three times a season, so pick your points wisely. The important thing is to demonstrate from your Body language and Tone of Voice that the Coaches have the solutions. After all players play and coaches coach. Are you really coaching at halftime? Or venting. And which puts your kids in the best position to be successful?


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The Most Played Tracks of May 2022
Below are the tracks that DJs played the most in May 2022 with Beatsource, the music streaming service for open-format DJs.
ACRAZE's "Do It To It – Extended Mix" remains at No. 1. for the fourth month in a row.
Saweetie and Doja Cat's "Best Friend" debuts at No. 9.
James Hype and Miggy Dela Rosa's "Ferrari" debuts at No. 10.
8 years after its release, DJ Snake and Lil Jon's "Turn Down for What" enters at No. 17.
View the chart below.
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The Most Played Tracks of April 2022

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Kevin Dill shares unique strategies for reaching troubled youth. You will explore the roots of discouragement in students, including destructive relationships, learned irresponsibility, and loss of purpose and learn strategies for building a sense of belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity. Grades K-12.
Kevin Dill - During his tenure in education, he has served as a special education teacher, public school Principal, and Director of Special Education. An internationally renowned educator and popular speaker, he offers practical instructional strategies to help all students learn. Kevin is known across the country for his innovative and researched based strategies designed to eliminate chronic disruptive behavior and improve student performance in the classroom. He is a specialist in the area of student behavior with over 20 years of teaching experience. Kevin has authored several education resources including the Most Powerful Solutions to Eliminating Chronic Disruptive Behavior in Your Classroom.
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The FlexPai Is Technically the First Foldable Phone You Can Buy, but You Shouldn't
By Ryan Whitwam on November 1, 2018 at 3:47 pm
We've been promised a foldable phone for years, and Samsung is finally promising one in the not-too-distant future. However, a company you've probably never heard of has beaten Samsung to the punch. Royole just announced a FlexPai, a 7.8-inch foldable tablet-phone hybrid. The company has shown off working units, but the FlexPai doesn't seem to work particularly well.
Every trade show for the past decade has featured at least one flexible OLED demo. Unlike LCDs, you can manufacture OLED panels on plastic substrates that bend and even fold. That's how Samsung has managed to make all those curved OLED panels over the past few years. However, creating a display that can fold repeatedly and still work is another matter entirely.
Royole says its phone can fold more than 200,000 times without damage. When fully flattened out, the FlexPai has a 7.8-inch 1920×1440 display. You can fold it in half to get a smaller phone-like device that looks like a billfold. That gives you three screen areas: the front, back, and edge. Naturally, there are zero apps that understand how to make use of such a configuration.
The FlexPai allegedly runs on the still-unannounced Snapdragon 8150 SoC (a successor to the 845), 8GB of RAM, and 128 or 256GB of storage. It has Android 9 Pie with a full re-skinned UI called Water OS. It doesn't appear to have Google services installed, either.
This is the "world's first foldable screen phone" released by Rouyu Technology, which will use the Snapdragon 8150 processor, but its design is very rough, just to seize the "first", this is a futures product. pic.twitter.com/M0v9o2z0Bw
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) October 31, 2018
In the video, you can see the interface repeatedly glitching as the device is folded and unfolded. The touch response is so bad it looks like the digitizer may be deteriorating with each fold. And then there's the screen texture, which looks like lumpy mashed potatoes. Meanwhile, Royole's renders of the phone make it look sleek and perfectly flat. There's a lot of work to do before Royole could ever sell the FlexPai to consumers, and I doubt that will happen.
Calling this the first foldable phone is still rather debatable. There is video evidence that the FlexPai is a real thing — I'm not disputing that. However, it doesn't look like something people will want to use, and it's only available as a "developer model" right now. If you're not selling it as a finished product, should it really count as the first? The screens might fail after a month, and Royole could just shrug and remind us it's developer hardware.
Royole is taking pre-orders for the developer model now starting at $1,318 for the 128GB version. The 256GB is $1,469. The FlexPai will allegedly ship in December, but anyone who orders should not expect a good product.
Now read: Huawei Looks to Beat Samsung to Market With a Foldable Phone, New iPhones May Use LG's OLED Displays Instead of Samsung, and Google Pixel 3 XL OLED Scores Record High Marks in DisplayMate Testing
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#include "MathCommon.h"

#include "Assist/Common.h"

// TODO Can this be avoided? As far as my research got, there is no way not
// to use stdlib math intrinsics. Further investigation needed.
#include <cmath>

/*static*/const Coordtype Math::B_PI        = Coordtype(3.141592653589793238462643383279);
/*static*/const Coordtype Math::B_PI_INV    = Coordtype(0.31830988618379067153776752674503);
/*static*/const Coordtype Math::B_2PI       = Coordtype(6.283185307179586476925286766559);
/*static*/const Coordtype Math::B_2PI_INV   = Coordtype(0.15915494309189533576888376337251);
/*static*/const Coordtype Math::B_E         = Coordtype(2.71828182845904523536028747135266249775724709369995);
/*static*/const Coordtype Math::B_SQRT2     = Coordtype(1.4142135623730950488016887242097);
/*static*/const Coordtype Math::B_SQRT2_INV = Coordtype(0.70710678118654752440084436210485);
/*static*/const Coordtype Math::B_SQRT3     = Coordtype(1.7320508075688772935274463415059);
/*static*/const Coordtype Math::B_SQRT3_INV = Coordtype(0.57735026918962576450914878050196);

// Infinite and NaN values require some nice (i.e. hacky) C++ union fiddling.
namespace {
	union F32_helperU { float f; uint32 u; F32_helperU(uint32 _u) : u(_u) {} };
	union F64_helperU { double f; uint64 u; F64_helperU(uint64 _u) : u(_u) {} };
}

// Infinite values are represented in IEEE754 with exponent bits set to 1
// and mantissa bits set to zero.
namespace {
	F32_helperU F32_pos_inf_helper = 0x7F800000;         // SEEE EEEE EMMM MMMM
	F32_helperU F32_neg_inf_helper = 0xFF800000;         // SEEE EEEE EMMM MMMM
	F64_helperU F64_pos_inf_helper = 0x7FF0000000000000; // SEEE EEEE EEEE MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM
	F64_helperU F64_neg_inf_helper = 0xFFF0000000000000; // SEEE EEEE EEEE MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM
}
/*static*/const float  Math::B_INF_F32 = F32_pos_inf_helper.f;
/*static*/const double Math::B_INF_F64 = F64_pos_inf_helper.f;
/*static*/const float  Math::B_NEG_INF_F32 = F32_neg_inf_helper.f;
/*static*/const double Math::B_NEG_INF_F64 = F64_neg_inf_helper.f;

// NaN values are represented in IEEE754 with exponent bits set to 1
// and mantissa bits set to nonzero. If the most significant bit is clear,
// then the value is a signaling NaN (in this case, it is)
namespace {
	F32_helperU F32_nan_helper = 0x7F800666;         // SEEE EEEE EMMM MMMM
	F64_helperU F64_nan_helper = 0x7FF0000000000666; // SEEE EEEE EEEE MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM
}
/*static*/const float  Math::B_NAN_F32 = F32_nan_helper.f;
/*static*/const double Math::B_NAN_F64 = F64_nan_helper.f;

/*static*/const Coordtype Math::B_INFINITY     = B_INF_F32;
/*static*/const Coordtype Math::B_NEG_INFINITY = B_NEG_INF_F32;
/*static*/const Coordtype Math::B_NAN          = B_NAN_F32;

/*static*/Coordtype Math::Interpolate(Coordtype x, Coordtype y, Coordtype t)   { return (Coordtype(1.0) - t) * x + t * y; }
/*static*/Coordtype Math::Fract(Coordtype x)                                   { return x - Coordtype(int64(x)); }
/*static*/Coordtype Math::Mod(Coordtype x, Coordtype y)                        { return y * Fract(x / y); }
/*static*/Coordtype Math::Deg2Rad(Coordtype deg)                               { return deg * (Math::B_PI / Coordtype(180.0)); }
/*static*/Coordtype Math::Rad2Deg(Coordtype rad)                               { return rad * (Coordtype(180.0) / Math::B_PI); }

/*static*/Coordtype Math::Pow  (Coordtype x, Coordtype power) { return std::pow(x, power); }
/*static*/Coordtype Math::Exp  (Coordtype x)                  { return std::exp(x);        }
/*static*/Coordtype Math::Sqrt (Coordtype x)                  { return std::sqrt(x);       }
/*static*/Coordtype Math::Log  (Coordtype x)                  { return std::log(x);        }
/*static*/Coordtype Math::Sin  (Coordtype angRad)             { return std::sin(angRad);   }
/*static*/Coordtype Math::Cos  (Coordtype angRad)             { return std::cos(angRad);   }
/*static*/Coordtype Math::Tan  (Coordtype angRad)             { return std::tan(angRad);   }
/*static*/Coordtype Math::Acos (Coordtype x)                  { return std::acos(x);       }
/*static*/Coordtype Math::Atan2(Coordtype y, Coordtype x)     { return std::atan2(y, x);   }

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Great stuff as always, my friend. I like the cut of your jib and I love you like a hot stepsister.
High praise indeed, coming from you. Jibs ahoy, and hot stepsisters on my next time we meet.
My pleasure. Sharing pleasure should be inclusive and welcoming. Snooty-arsed goofballs who think they're the gatekeepers of taste make my slapping hand itchy.
I clicked on the link at the end because I thought I might have read the cork article, but when I saw it was Food and Wine it explained a lot (I'm still not sure if I read it).
The fact that every wine server seems to be called a sommelier these days reminds me of a Frenchman I know who owned, ran, and did all the cooking at a French restaurant in Canada for 30 years. He was self-taught, in Canada, after he moved from France, and when someone called him a chef, he said no, he was a cook; being a chef meant formal training.
I'm not sure, but I think something like this involving a NY restaurant broke out on Twitter recently. But since I don't know how to use Twitter, I'm not sure.


These are questions for MIDDLE SEMESTER EXAM in "ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSE (LAW)" subject. You only have to answer questions according to Your group/written name. Please pay attention to instructions of questions. Please write Your name and Your identity student number on Your answer. And please write Your suggestions/criticism due to my lecture methods on your answer reply. Your answer should be submitted before 09th April 2016. Your score will be given by lecture directly below on Your answer. Any further informations, students may contact on my personal mobile: +6281396534624. Good luck and thank you.
Instructions: Decide whether the words in bold are verbs or nouns.
We hope that our children will be successful.
My hope is that prices will fall and I get a job this year.
Turning his back on me was a deliberate insult.
He insulted her by telling her she was not only ugly but stupid too.
We must number the names of the great mathematicians.
I'll post the news on the bulletin board.
If you go down to town, could you bring me the post? I'm waiting for an important letter.
I love to watch the rain from my room window.
I don't usually go out when it rains in my town.
My dad used to go to my local primary school. (Change Into Negative).
Example : People buy food at the market →Food is bought at the market.
He has fed the animals. → The animals have been fed.
Active : They take the child to school by car.
Active : I saw two armed men in front of the jewellery shop.
Active : The reporter is announcing the results on the radio right now.
Active : Emma had done the housework before the guests arrived.
Active : The doctor was treating the patient when the ambulance arrived.
Active : The ambulance will take the patient to the nearest hospital.
Active : The teacher had announced the results to the students.
Active : Tom will have calculated the cost before the end of the day.
Active : The teacher is not going to open the window.
Active : They play handball.
Active : Alex learned the poem.
Instructions: Make indirect sentences in the present. Now the receiver (Y) is given in the direct sentence.
Instructions: Choose The Appropriate Word To Fill In Blank.
The dog is barking (fierce/fiercely).
Jane ran (quick/quickly) to the bus stop.
She sounded very (angry/ angrily) on the phone.
The village looked (peaceful/ peacefully).
The test was (easy/ easily).
I (simple/ simply) can't do this.
Susan works in a factory.I didn't get his reply straight away.
I have been to Africa three times.
Yes, he did. Tom bought 10 pair of shoes.
Melissa is chopping some vegetables.
Can you speak (slow/ slowly)? I can't understand.
Don't be (late/ lately) for dinner tonight.
You can make (free/ freely) phone calls with this card.
This exercise is very (simpel/simply).
It's not difficult, you (simpel/simply) put everything together like this.
That seat doesn't look (comfortable/ comfortably).
Are you sitting (comfortable/ comfortably).
The moon is very (bright/ brightly).
Tom is a very (careful/ carefully) He never makes mistakes.
You have to talk (quiet/ quietly) when you are in the library.
I usually work on Fridays.
Teresa is eating your lunch because she is hungry.
The studentswill have an exam next week.
Instructions: Make indirect sentences in the present.
1) "I've forgotten to pack my passport." Sam to the officer.
2) "Your new novel is my favourite one." Linda to the writer.
3) "I don't like talking about unnecessary things." The boss to Mr Grey.
4) "He explained me the mechanism of my car." Tina to her mother.
5) "I would like to forget this terrible memory." Sylvie to the psychologist.
1) The boy usually (addresses/address) her mum in low tones.
2) I went to her (addresses/address) but nobody was home.
3) We accidentally (broke/ breaks) the radio last night.
4) I like television channels without commercial (broke/ breaks).
5) He (drew/ draw) a map of the area yesterday for me not to get lost.
6) Yesterday's match ended in a (drew/ draw). Nobody won.
7) We saw many new (faces/face) on the first day of classes.
8) You should (faces/face) the problems and don't be so pessimistic.
9) A kite (flies/ fly) above the playground every day.
10) I complained to the waiter because there was a (flies/ fly) in my soup.
Instructions: Put the verbs between brackets in the past perfect or the simple past.
Example: The teacher (not start) the lesson until all students (be) quiet.
The teacher hadn't started the lesson until all students were quiet.
When I (come) back home, my family (have) dinner.
I (do) my homework before I (go) to bed.
The children (eat) dinner by the time their father (come) home.
Helen (help) her mother last night after she (finish) her homework.
1) "Your unbelievable stories are the best in this class." The teacher to Jack.
2) "My hobbies don't need much energy." Mike to Sam.
3) "You broke my beautiful vase when you ran out of the room." Mum to Paul.
4) "These apples are for your grandchildren." The greengrocer to Mrs Hill.
5) "Tomorrow we'll visit our new friends in New Castle." Dad to the children.
Instructions: Put the words into the correct order so that the sentence makes sense.
1) nurse / is / John's / wife / a.
2) home / Carla / the / plays / piano / at.
3) we / three / have / English / each / lectures / week.
4) these / mine / are / yours / not.
5) married / to / Mary / a / is / dentist.
6) piano / Carla / the / playing / the / likes / in / evening.
7) times / have / I / English / three / lessons / a / week.
8) these / his / are / yours / or?
9) doctor / is / Mary's / husband / a.
10) evening / Carla / the / plays / piano / every.
11) three / we / study / a / English / hours / week.
Frank (fall) down after he (throw) the football.
Mary (feed) her cat before she (have) breakfast.
Tom (be) late for work last Monday because he (have) an accident.
The film (begin) as soon as I (switch on) TV.
Instructions: Rewrite these sentences using reported speech.
Example: "I live in an old house in the country," she told me.
She told me that she lived in an old house in the country.
1) "I'm living with my parents," she said.
2) "I've just finished school," he said.
3) "I played football last week," he told us.
4) "I was having a bath when the lights went out," he told me.
5) "It will be cold and wet tomorrow," the weather man said.
Film maker David Breashears (1)_______ already climbed Mount Everest three times when he (2)________ to make a film, so that audiences could share his (3)_______.
He set off on this nine week adventure the following spring, with his photographic equipment and with six climbers from (4)______ the world. (5)_______ the conditions were hard and dangerous, with temperatures of -40°C, the climbers made good (6)_______.
Then, when they were just one thousand metres from their goal, there was a terrible (7)_______. The team didn´t give (8)_____, however. They hid in a tent on the mountainside until it passed. Thirteen days later they (9)________ the top.
"I was so tired that it was (10)_______ to enjoy our success at first" said David. "Climbing Everest is difficult enough but filming made it (11)______ harder. I am really proud we did it in the end"!
Instructions: Put the verbs in brackets into the Simple Past or Past Continuous.
1) They (buy) ice-creams while they (wait) to play.
2) They (play) when it (start) to rain.
3) They (stop) when the rain (start).
4) When the rain (stop) they (go on) with their game.
1) "I must go and have my hair done now," she said.
2) "This is the last warning I'm going to give you," she said.
3) "I still haven't read these books," she admitted.
4) "I'll meet you here next week at the same time," he said.
5) She said, "she saw the robber leave the bank".
Instructions: What parts of speech is each word in the following sentences?
1) Dear, Janet, happy to meet you.
2) Good pupils come to school early.
3) He succeeds because he does his homework seriously.
4) Who is that boy who wears black trousers?
6) They have been working for hours.
7) Actually, he is a man.
8) This is my friend who lives in Algiers.
10) Good pupils revise their lessons regularly.
11) Today, we pass our English exam.
12) This is my new friend who comes from Algeria.
Instructions: Put the verbs in brackets into the simple past or past progressive tense.
Example: She said that the car (travel) at 40 k.p.h. when it (begin) to skid.
She said that the car was traveling at 40 k.p.h. when it began to skid.
– Why (you / interrupt) me just now? I (have) a very interesting conversation with Mr. Pitt. The murderer (carry) the corpse down the stairs when he (hear) a knock on the door.
4) "Can you phone me this evening"? she asked him.
5) "We have to get up early next morning," they said.
Steve can play the trumpet.
They listen to music every day.
The group went climbing in the mountains.
This is a fast car.
He did well in the test.
Has your father ever been to Australia?
Example: Find the correct tenses on the right. Mind the verbs in bold. Match all the items on the right with the items on the left.
They are riding a bike. She looked at a picture.
I have just had a cup of tea.
Alice will learn French next year.
Instructions: Finish the given sentences in Reported Speech. Mind the introductory sentences and backshift of tenses.
Henry told me that Greg was feeding the dog.
Sherlock Holmes is a (FICTION) detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting (DETECT)", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his (ABLE) to adopt almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases.
Holmes, who first appeared in (PUBLISH) in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories. The first novel, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's (MONTH) Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in (POPULAR) with the first series of short stories in Strand Magazine, (BEGIN) with A Scandal in Bohemia in 1891; further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914.
All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and (BIOGRAPHY), Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself ("The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane") and two others are written in the third person ("The Mazarin Stone" and "His Last Bow"). In two stories ("The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Gloria Scott"), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, each include a long interval of omniscient (NARRATE) recounting events unknown to either Holmes or Watson.
Doyle said that the character of Sherlock Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large (CONCLUDE) from the smallest observations. Sir Henry Littlejohn, Lecturer on Forensic Medicine and Public Health at the Royal College of Surgeons, is also cited as a source for Holmes. Littlejohn served as Police Surgeon and (MEDICINE) Officer of Health of Edinburgh, providing for Doyle a link between medical (INVESTIGATE) and the detection of crime.
Instructions: Rewrite the sentences using past simple and past perfect simple. Use the words in brackets.
3) He noticed the smoke in the house. Then, he called the fire brigade. (before).
1) "Where are you from?" the man asked me.
2) "Why don't you take up the piano?" my mother asked us.
3) "Have you ever been to Disneyland?" she asked me.
4) "When did you last go to the dentist?" the teacher asked me.
5) "Can you speak any other languages?" the woman asked us.
1.	Can you speak (slowly)? I can't understand.
2.	Don't be (late) for dinner tonight.
3.	You can make (free) phone calls with this card.
4.	This exercise is very (simple).
5.	It's not difficult, you (simply) put everything together like this.
6.	That seat doesn't look (comfortable).
7.	Are you sitting (comfortably).
8.	The moon is very (bright).
9.	Tom is a very (careful) He never makes mistakes.
10.	You have to talk (quietly) when you are in the library.
How long did they run ?
2.	I usually work on Fridays.
What day do you usually work ?
3.	Teresa is eating your lunch because she is hungry.
Why is Teresa eating my launch ?
4.	The students will have an exam next week.
When will the students have examination ?
1.	Active : They take the child to school by car.
2.	Active : I saw two armed men in front of the jewellery shop.
Passive : In front of the jewellery shop, me have seen two armed men.
3.	Active : The reporter is announcing the results on the radio right now.
Passive : On the radio, The reporter is announced the result right now.
4.	Active : Emma had done the housework before the guests arrived.
Passive : Before the guests arrive emma has done housework.
5.	Active : The doctor was treating the patient when the ambulance arrived.
Passive : When the ambulance arrived, the doctor directly treat patients.
6.	Active : The ambulance will take the patient to the nearest hospital.
Passive : The ambulances bring patients to the nearest hospital.
7.	Active : The teacher had announced the results to the students.
Passive : The results have been announced by the teacher to the students.
8.	Active : Tom will have calculated the cost before the end of the day.
Passive : Tom has calculated the cost of the end of the day.
9.	Active : The teacher is not going to open the window.
Passive : The window is not opened by the teacher.
10.	Active : They play handball.
Passive : Handball is played by them.
11.	Active : Alex learned the poem.
Passive : Poetry is studied by alex.
Sam said to the officers that he has forgotten to pack his passport.
Linda told the authors that the novel is one of his favorites.
Boss say to Mr gray that he does not like talking about things that do not need.
Sylvie said to the psychologist that she wanted to forget the bad memory.
2. When do you work?
4. Who will have an exam next week?
1. The child is taken to school by car.
2. Two armed men were seen in front of the jewellery shop.
3. The results are being announced on the radio right now.
4. The housework had been done before the guests arrived.
5. The patient was being treated when the ambulance arrived.
6. The patient will be taken (by ambulance) to the nearest hospital.
7. The results had been announced to the students.
8. The cost will have been calculated before the end of the day.
9. The window is not going to be opened.
11. The poem was learned.
2.	Linda says to the writer that his new novel is her favourite one.
3.	The boss says to Mr Grey that he doesn't like talking about unnecessary things.
4.	Tina says to her mother that he explained her the mechanism of her car.
5.	Sylvie says to the psychologist that she would like to forget that terrible memory.
I didn't meet a film star in the street last year.
How many time has your sister been to England this year?
I got his reply straight away.
4.	My dad used to go to my local primary school. (Change Into Negative).
My dad didn't use to go to my local primary school.
The child is taken by them to school by car.
Two armed men were seen by me in front the jewellry shop.
The results are being announced by the reporter on the radio.
The housework has been done by Emma before the guests arrived.
The patient was being treated by the doctor when the ambulance arrived.
The patient will be taken by the ambulance to the nearest hospital.
The result had been announced by the teacher to the students.
The window is not being gone open by the teacher.
Handball were played by them.
Mom said to her children that they were so nice.
Greg said to his mother that the soup was really delicious.
Mrs. Drill said to Philip that his composition wasn't on her desk.
Ms. Stone said to Margaret that her mother was waiting for her out side the house.
Grandma said to Sam and Peter that their sandwiches were ready.
2. Has my sister been to England twice this year?
1. Mom says to the children that they are so nice.
2. Greg says to mother that soup is really delicious.
3. Mrs Drill says to Philip that his composition isn't on her desk.
4. Ms Stone says to Margaret that her mother is waiting for her outside the house.
5. Grandma says to Sam and Peter that their sandwiches are ready.
1.	Dear, Janer, Happy, to, meet, you.
2.	Good, pupils, come, to, school, early.
3.	He, Succeeds, because, he, does, his, homework, seriously.
4.	Who, is, that, boy, who, wears, black, trousers.
Answer: Pronoun, Conjunction, Preposition, Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adjective, Noun.
6.	They, have been, working, for hours.
Answer: Pronoun, Conjunction, Verb, Adverb.
7.	Actually, he, is, a man.
Answer: Adverb, Pronoun, Conjunction, Noun.
Answer: Preposition, Conjunction, Pronoun, Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Preposition,adverb.
10.	Good, pupils, revise, their, lessons, regularly.
Answer: Adjective, Noun, Verb, Pronous, Noun, Adverb.
11.	Today, we, pass, our, English, exam.
Answer: Adverb, Pronoun, Verb, Pronoun, Adjective, Noun.
12.	This, is, my, new, friend, who, comes, from, Algeria.
Answer: Prepositions, Conjunction, Pronoun, adjective, Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Preposition, Adverb.
Answer: Why were you interrupting me just now?
Answer: The child is taken by them to school by car.
Answer: Two armed men were seen by me in front of the jewellery shop.
Answer: The results are being announced by the reporter on the radio right now.
Answer: The housework had been done by emma before the guest arrived.
Answer: The patient was being treated by the doctor when the ambulance arrived.
Answer: The patient will be taken to the nearest hospital by the ambulance.
Answer: The results had been announced to the students by the teacher.
Answer: The cost will have been calculated by Tom before the end of the day.
Answer: The window is not going to be opened by the teacher.
Answer: Handball is played by them.
Answer: The poem was learned by alex.
1.	She told them, "Go to bed".
Answer: She told them to go to bed.
2.	He said. " I can't get to sleep tonight".
Answer: She said that he can't go to sleep tonight.
3.	He told her, "I will phone you tomorrow".
Answer: He told her that he will phone you tomorrow.
4.	" Can you phone me the evening" ? She asked him.
Answer: She asked him whether he can phone her the evening.
5.	" We have to get up early next morning". They said.
Answer: They said that they had to get up early next morning.
1.	adjective + Noun + adjective + preposition + verb + pronoun.
3. pronoun + verb + conjunction + pronoun + verb + adjective + noun + adverb.
4. pronoun + verb + pronoun + noun + pronoun + verb + adjective + noun.
6. pronoun + verb + verb + verb + prepostion + noun.
7. adverb + pronoun + verb + noun.
8.	pronoun + verb + adjective + noun + pronoun + verb + preposition + noun.
10. adjective + noun + verb + adjective + noun + adverb.
11. adverb + pronoun + verb + adjective + adjective + noun.
12. pronoun + verb + adjective + adjective + noun + pronoun + verb + preposition + noun.
2.	He said that he couldn't get to sleep that night.
3.	He told her that he would phone her the next day.
4.	She asked him if he could phone her that evening.
5.	They said they had to get up early the following morning.
1) The boy usually (/address) her mum in low tones.
2) I went to her (addresses/) but nobody was home.
3) We accidentally (broke/ ) the radio last night.
4) I like television channels without commercial (/ breaks).
5) He (/ draw) a map of the area yesterday for me not to get lost.
6) Yesterday's match ended in a (drew/ ). Nobody won.
7) We saw many new (faces/) on the first day of classes.
8) You should (/face) the problems and don't be so pessimistic.
9) A kite (/ fly) above the playground every day.
10) I complained to the waiter because there was a (flies/ ) in my soup.
1) When I (come) back home, my family (have) dinner.
2) I (do) my homework before I (go) to bed.
3) The children (eat) dinner by the time their father (come) home.
4) Helen (help) her mother last night after she (finish) her homework.
1. Active : They take the child to school by car.
2. Active : I saw two armed men in front of the jewellery shop.
3. Active : The reporter is announcing the results on the radio right now.
4. Active : Emma had done the housework before the guests arrived.
5. Active : The doctor was treating the patient when the ambulance arrived.
6. Active : The ambulance will take the patient to the nearest hospital.
7. Active : The teacher had announced the results to the students.
8. Active : Tom will have calculated the cost before the end of the day.
9. Active : The teacher is not going to open the window.
10. Active : They play handball.
11. Active : Alex learned the poem.
1.	The child is taken to school by car.
2.	Two armed men were seen in front of the jewellery shop.
3.	The results are being announced on the radio right now.
12. The poem was learned.
2. Mike says to Sam that his hobbies don't need much energy.
3. Mum says to Paul that he broke her beautiful vase when he ran out of the room.
4. The greengrocer says to Mrs Hill that those apples are for her grandchildren.
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases.
Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories. The first novel, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott' monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the first series of short stories in Strand Magazine, beginning with A Scandal in Bohemia in 1891; further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914.
All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself ("The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane") and two others are written in the third person ("The Mazarin Stone" and "His Last Bow"). In two stories ("The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Gloria Scott"), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, each include a long interval of omniscient narration recounting events unknown to either Holmes or Watson.
Doyle said that the character of Sherlock Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations. Sir Henry Littlejohn, Lecturer on Forensic Medicine and Public Health at the Royal College of Surgeons, is also cited as a source for Holmes. Littlejohn served as Police Surgeon and medical Officer of Health of Edinburgh, providing for Doyle a link between medical investigation and the detection of crime.
I had just finished sitting the table when the guests knocked the door.
1.	Active	: They take the child to school by car.
2.	Active	: I saw two armed men in front of the jewellery shop.
3.	Active	: The reporter is announcing the results on the radio right now.
4.	Active	: Emma had done the housework before the guests arrived.
5.	Active	: The doctor was treating the patient when the ambulance arrived.
6.	Active	: The ambulance will take the patient to the nearest hospital.
7.	Active	: The teacher had announced the results to the students.
8.	Active	: Tom will have calculated the cost before the end of the day.
9.	Active	: The teacher is not going to open the window.
10.	Active	: They play handball.
11.	Active	: Alex learned the poem.
1)	"Where are you from?" the man asked me.
2)	"Why don't you take up the piano?" my mother asked us.
3)	"Have you ever been to Disneyland?" she asked me.
4)	"When did you last go to the dentist?" the teacher asked me.
5)	"Can you speak any other languages?" the woman asked us.
3. He had noticed the smoke in the house before he called the fire brigade.
4.	The teacher asked me when I had last gone to the dentist.
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8. the are you or his?
5.the patient been treating when the ambulance arrived.
8.the cost would had been calculated befor the end of the day.
1.	John's wife is a nurse.
3. We have three English lectures each week.
4. These are mine not yours.
5. Mary is married to a dentist.
8. Are these yours or his?
9. Mary's husband is a doctor.
10. Clara plays the piano every evening.
11. We study English three hours a week.
1.	Frank fell down after he had thrown the football.
2.	Mary fed her cat before she had had breakfast.
3.	Tom was late for work last Monday because he had had an accident.
4.	The film began as soon as I had switched TV.
2.	Two armed men were seen in front of the jewellery shop. Two armed men were seen in front of the jewellery shop.
4.	The housework had been done before the guests arrived.
5.	The patient was being treated when the ambulance arrived.
6.	The patient will be taken (by ambulance) to the nearest hospital.
7.	The results had been announced to the students.
8.	The cost will have been calculated before the end of the day.
9.	The window is not going to be opened.
1.	She told me that she was living with her parents.
3. He told us that he had played football the week before.
4. "I was having a bath when the lights went out," he told me.
5. The weather man said that it would be cold and wet the following day.
3.	Stopped – went on.
1.	She said that she had to go and have her hair done then.
2.	She said that that was the last warning she was going to give me.
4. He said that he would meet me there the following week at the same time.
5. She said that she had seen the robber leave the bank.


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Malaysia elects first ever hung parliament
November 20, 2022 by Editorial Staff
An inconclusive general election in Malaysia has produced the country's first ever hung parliament.
Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim secured the most seats, but his Pakatan Harapan alliance fell well short of a majority.
The ruling coalition, led by Ismail Sabri Yaakob, suffered its worst electoral defeat ever, winning just 30 of the 178 seats it ran for.
Veteran politician Mahathir Mohamad lost his seat, suffering his first defeat in 53 years.
At 97, Mr Mahathir has dominated Malaysian politics for decades, first serving as the country's prime minister from 1981 to 2003, and he was credited for the country's rapid economic transformation from the 1980s.
The country is now however politically unstable, having seen three prime ministers since voters went to the polls in 2018.
The former ruling party UMNO suffered its worst ever election performance. Voters instead turned to Perikatan Nasional and the conservative Islamic party PAS.
Rival parties must now present the name of a…
This article was written by and originally published on www.bbc.co.uk
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Water Polo World Championship
Draw for the World Championships in Gwangju (groups, schedule)
The draw for the water polo tournament at the 18th FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea (July, 14 – 17) was held in Zagreb today.
Croatia, the world champion for men, will play in a Group B, with three non-European teams: USA, Kazakhstan, and Australia.
Group B seems pretty tough, but Group A will be "the group of death" at the men's tournament. Home team South Korea is the only underdog in this group, as the hosts' rivals will be Olympic and European champion Serbia, 2018 World League winner Montenegro, and Greece. The tournament will be opened by a South Slavic classic Serbia – Montenegro.
Italy should have an easy task. The "Settebello" will play against Brazil, Germany, and Kazakhstan, but Brazil and Germany were able to surprise big favorites at the big competitions in recent years. Germany took the 4th place at the 2018 World Cup. Brazil was the only team which managed to defeat Serbia at the 2016 Olympic Games, when the Serbs took gold, while the Brazilians won the 1st place at the FINA World Championship Qualification Tournament for the Americas, by defeating the USA in the final. Hungary and Spain are strong favorites in Group C. The other two teams in this group are New Zealand and South Africa.
All groups of the women's tournament are more or less balanced. Title-holder in women's competition the USA will face South Africa, New Zealand and the Netherlands, the freshly-crowned LEN Europa Cup winner.
MEN'S TOURNAMENT
Schedule (click to enlarge) The dates on the photography are wrong. The 1st round will be played on July 15th. The games of the 2nd round are scheduled for July 17th, while the 3rd round is on July 19th.
WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT
Schedule (click to enlarge)
Elimination phase
After the group phase, the teams which finished in the first place go automatically to the quarterfinals.
The squads that finished in the second and the third place, will play crossover matches.
Playoff round (women July 20th, men July 21st)
A2 vs B3 (1)
C2 vs D3 (3)
Quarterfinals (women July 22nd, men July 23rd)
A1 vs winner of pair 3 (QF 1)
B1 vs winner 4 (QF 2)
C1 vs winner 1 (QF 3)
D1 vs winner 2 (QF 4)
Semifinals (women July 24th, men July 25th)
Places 5 – 8
Loser QF 1 vs Loser QF 2
Winner QF 1 vs Winner QF 2
Matches for the final rankings will be played on July 26th (women) and July 27th (men).
The full schedule of the elimination phase
The water polo tournament will be played in a temporary pool which will be placed in the Nambu University Football Field!
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Support Technology and Research for Our Nation's Growth (STRONG) Patents Act
Return to Patent Reform
114-S632 STRONG Patents Act of 2015
S.632: Support Technology and Research for Our Nation's Growth (STRONG) Patents Act of 2015 (Congress)
The STRONG Patents Act was introduced in the Senate in 2015 by Democratic Senator Christopher Coons of Delaware and assigned to the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, as well as the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The full title of the bill is "A bill to strengthen the position of the United States as the world's leading innovator by amending title 35, United States Code, to protect the property rights of the inventors that grow the country's economy."
Currently the bills has 4 cosponsors (2 Democrats, 2 Republicans). GovTrack predicts that the STRONG Patents Act has a 4% chance of being enacted. Below are the main institutions that will be affected by the enactment of the STRONG Patents Act, as well as the other actions produced by the bill.
This bill mentions the terminology inter partes frequently; an inter partes review (IPR) is a procedure for challenging the validity of a United States patent before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The procedure is conducted by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The Bill also deals with Post Grant Review (more can be read on Post Grant Review below).
1 "Post Grant Review"
2 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
3 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
4 Supreme Court
5 Small Business Administration
6 Administrative Office of U.S. Courts
7 Federal Trade Commission
8 Other Action Points
"Post Grant Review"
"Post grant review" is a trial proceeding conducted at the Board to review the patentability of one or more claims in a patent on any ground that could be raised under § 282(b)(2) or (3). Post grant review process begins with a third party filing a petition on or prior to the date that is 9 months after the grant of the patent or issuance of a reissue patent. The patent owner may file a preliminary response to the petition. A post grant review may be instituted upon a showing that, it is more likely than not that at least one claim challenged is unpatentable. If the proceeding is instituted and not dismissed, a final determination by the Board will be issued within 1 year (extendable for good cause by 6 months). The procedure for conducting post grant review took effect on September 16, 2012, and generally applies to patents issuing from applications subject to first-inventor-to-file provisions of the AIA." (USPTO)
The STRONG Patent Acts directs the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to prescribe regulations requiring the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to construe patent claims in post-issuance proceedings for inter partes or post-grant review in the same manner as a court in a civil action is required to construe claims regarding the validity of a patent in accordance with the ordinary and customary meaning. The bill also requires that the USPTO consider a court's claim construction if the court has previously construed the claim in a civil action to which the patent owner was a party.
The bill prohibits post-issuance review petitions from being filed with the USPTO unless the person, or a real party in interest or privy of the person, is eligible to file: (1) a petition for an inter partes review because the person has been sued for or charged with infringement such that the petitioner would have standing to bring a declaratory judgment action in federal court, or (2) a petition for post-grant review because the person demonstrates a reasonable possibility of being sued for or charged with infringement or demonstrates a competitive harm related to the validity of the patent.
Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
The act requires a patent owner's motion to amend a patent during a post-issuance review to be granted if the owner has not already amended the patent during the review and the proposed number of substitute claims is reasonable. STRONG also provides the PTAB with discretion to grant or deny any additional motions to amend the patent if the owner has already amended the patent during the review.
Under the bill, the PTAB would be required apply a presumption of validity standard during post-issuance challenges, thus placing the burden on the petitioner to prove "un-patentability" of: (1) a previously issued claim by clear and convincing evidence, and (2) an amended claim by a preponderance of the evidence. Currently, the preponderance of evidence standard applies to all such claims.
The bill prohibits post-issuance reviews from being heard by PTAB members who participated in a decision to institute the review.
The bill requires the Supreme Court to eliminate the model complaint for patent infringement.
The STRONG Patents Act directs the Small Business Administration to report on the impact of: (1) patent ownership by small businesses, and (2) civil actions against small businesses relating to patent infringement.
Administrative Office of U.S. Courts
The bill requires that the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts expand an existing pilot program to expedite and provide additional resources to cases in which an individual or small business is accused of patent infringement.
The bill directs the Federal Trade Commission, and authorizes state attorneys general, to enforce against the pattern or practice of sending written communications (commonly referred to as demand letters) that represent in bad faith that the recipient bears liability or owes compensation for infringing a patent. The bill also requires the practice of sending such bad faith demand letters to be treated as an unfair or deceptive act or practice in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act.
Under the FTC Act, the Federal Trade Commission is empowered, among other things, to (a) prevent unfair methods of competition, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce; (b) seek monetary redress and other relief for conduct injurious to consumers; (c) prescribe trade regulation rules defining with specificity acts or practices that are unfair or deceptive, and establishing requirements designed to prevent such acts or practices; (d) conduct investigations relating to the organization, business, practices, and management of entities engaged in commerce; and (e) make reports and legislative recommendations to Congress.
Other Action Points
Allows discovery for review proceedings to include evidence identifying the petitioner's real party in interest.
Allows patent owners to present supporting evidence in a preliminary response to a petition for review.
Prohibits inter partes or post-grant reviews while the patent is the subject of a reissue or reexamination proceeding.
Requires reexamination requests to identify real parties in interest.
Prohibits ex parte reexaminations if the request is filed more than one year after the requester, or a real party in interest or privy of the requester, is served with a complaint alleging infringement of the patent. (An ex parte decision is one decided by a judge without requiring all of the parties to the controversy to be present.)
Requires all patent and trademark fees to be credited to a revolving fund in the Treasury to be known as the United States Patent and Trademark Office Innovation Promotion Fund, which will be available to cover USPTO expenses without fiscal year limitation.
Provides courts with discretion to increase damages awarded to a claimant up to three times the amount found by a jury or assessed by the court upon determining, by a preponderance of the evidence, that infringement was willful or in bad faith.
Allows a finding of liability for actively inducing infringement of a process patent, or for contributory infringement of a process patent, even if the steps of the patented process are not practiced by a single entity.
Provides micro entity status (such status makes certain small entities eligible for reduced patent fees) to certifying: (1) institutions of higher education; or (2) tax exempt, nonprofit organizations that hold title to patents and patent applications on behalf of such an institution of higher education for the purpose of facilitating commercialization of the technologies.
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Chess Move: UK Parties Suggest Dec. 9 Vote in Brexit Gambit
The two sides have effectively been debating Britain's departure from the 28-nation bloc since British voters in June 2016 chose to leave the EU
Two British opposition parties on Sunday proposed an even earlier election date than Prime Minister Boris Johnson has offered, trying to force his government to delay a final decision on its European Union divorce deal.
The chess move by the Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Party reflects the volatile political landscape now in Britain.
The ruling Conservatives desperately want a new election to bolster their numbers in Parliament, but they face resistance from the main opposition Labour Party, which fears the country will be unwittingly tricked into crashing out of the European Union without a deal.
The latest election proposal is an effort to force Johnson to delay debate in Parliament on his Brexit withdrawal bill until after any election, depriving him of a possible victory on his trademark issue going into the campaign. It makes Johnson's government choose between holding an election to improve its position in Parliament and its goal of securing Brexit before that election takes place.
"The challenge is absolutely on (the prime minister), because if he is serious about wanting an election and if he's genuine about having an election before Christmas, then he can back this bill," Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson told the BBC on Sunday.
Looming over the political maneuvering is what Johnson and Parliament are going to do about his Brexit deal and how long an extension EU leaders will give Britain to the current Brexit deadline, which is Thursday. The EU in principle has backed extending the Brexit deadline but officials were meeting again this week to figure out how long it should be.
The Liberal Democrats and the SNP plan to introduce legislation on Tuesday that calls for an early national election on Dec. 9, three days earlier than Johnson proposed and years earlier than Britain's next scheduled vote in 2022.
Because U.K. law requires Parliament to be dissolved 25 working days before an election, the date of any poll will dictate how much time is available to debate Johnson's Brexit withdrawal deal.
The Liberal Democrats expect a vote on their proposal Thursday, just days before Parliament would be suspended. That would effectively leave no time for lawmakers to consider Johnson's Brexit deal.
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In contrast, Johnson announced last week he will ask lawmakers on Monday to authorize a Dec. 12 election, then use the rest of the legislative term to push through his Brexit deal. Under this plan, Parliament would be dissolved on Nov. 7, giving lawmakers about seven days to debate the withdrawal agreement that Johnson and EU leaders agreed upon.
The two sides have effectively been debating Britain's departure from the 28-nation bloc — which has never seen a member leave — since British voters in June 2016 chose to leave the EU. But Johnson's deal was cemented only 10 days ago — and British lawmakers fear rushing through a document that has enormous economic and political consequences for the country.
The problem for Johnson is that his proposal requires a two-thirds vote of the House of Commons and it is opposed by opposition parties who fear it could lead to an economically damaging no-deal Brexit.
In contrast, the Liberal Democrat plan only needs a simple majority in the 650-seat House of Commons due to laws governing elections.
The Liberal Democrat plan would be conditional upon the EU agreeing to extend the Brexit deadline until to the end of January. Johnson has sought a shorter Brexit extension to keep alive the possibility of a no-deal departure, which in turn keeps the pressure on British lawmakers to approve his deal.
Economists say a no-deal departure would be very damaging to both the British and EU economies.
Conservative Party chair James Cleverly dismissed the new election proposal as "clearly a gimmick" designed to delay Brexit because it only moves the election date ahead three days. If the Liberal Democrats and SNP really want an election, they should vote for the Dec. 12 date proposed by Johnson, Cleverly said.
"We're not going to listen to two parties who explicitly said they want to stop Brexit from happening," he told the BBC. "We're not going to be complicit in them stopping Brexit."
The move by the Liberal Democrats and the SNP is also a challenge to the Labour Party, which has repeatedly vacillated on whether to call an early election in which they could lose seats.
Diane Abbott, a senior Labour spokeswoman, said Sunday that Labour will wait to see what kind of Brexit extension the EU offers before deciding whether to support the latest domestic election proposal. She also repeated the party's position that it will back an early election only after Johnson explicitly says there won't be a no-deal Brexit.
"He could come to Parliament and categorically give Parliament an undertaking that he's not going to come out without a deal, but he won't do that, because coming out without a deal is something that people around him ... would want," she said.
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^ Funk, T. Markus. Getting What They Pay For: The Far-Reaching Impact Of the Dodd-Frank Act's 'Whistleblower Bounty' Incentives on FCPA Enforcement (PDF). White Collar Crime Report (Bureau of National Affairs). September 10, 2010, 5 (19): 1–3.
The American Bar Association's Global Anti-Corruption Initiatives Task Force Webpage.
"Payload: Taking Aim at Corporate Bribery," by Nelson Schwartz and Lowell Bergman. Additional reporting by Marlena Telvick, New York Times, November 25, 2007.
"At Siemens, Bribery Was Just a Line Item," by Siri Schubert, New York Times 12/21/2008. Corruption helped to build Siemens, but also cost it $1.6 billion, the largest fine for bribery in modern corporate history. This article is a joint report by ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization, PBS's "Frontline," the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley and The New York Times. A related documentary will be broadcast on "Frontline" on April 7, 2009.
"Halliburton, U.S. Reach Settlement In Bribery Probe," All Things Considered, NPR, January 26, 2009. Halliburton Corp. has announced it will pay out more than $560 million to the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle a probe into bribery and bid-rigging in contracts around the world. Investigative journalist Lowell Bergman talks about the settlement.
David C. Weiss, The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, SEC Disgorgement of Profits, and the Evolving International Bribery Regime: Weighing Proportionality, Retribution, and Deterrence, 30 Michigan Journal of International Law 471 (2009).
For more information about the UK Bribery Act and the FCPA see New York Law Journal, November 4, 2010, "White Collar Experts Are Recruited to Handle Expected Increase in Government Enforcements," and a quote in that article from M. Scott Peeler, a partner at Chadbourne & Parke, who when asked to compare the two acts, said, "It's the FCPA on steroids."


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Column: Extreme weather brings out best in people, even on social media
Darren Hassett writing in this week's Kilkenny People...
Darren Hassett
darren.hassett@kilkennypeople.ie
A dog enjoying the snowfall
There is a burgeoning reliance on social media when extreme weather events hit.
Adversity again brought out the best in most people, even online, when the recent cold snap arrived.
User generated content and citizen journalism have become an integral part of online media's daily production of news stories that are both in and of the public's interest.
It is important for media professionals to cut through hyperbole or inaccurate posts on social media and source as best we can,stories which accurately reflect the situation on the ground.
We must also substantiate these online missives as best we can, to the point where we publish knowing their contents to be true.
The recent extreme weather brought by Storm Emma is a perfect example of the how social media can bring out the best in people and serve as an important information tool.
People in Kilkenny were emailing, tweeting and messaging on Facebook; pictures of their areas.
Many of these were substantiated by pictures from the same locality from several people, which provided vital information to locals on the amount of snow that had fallen and the state of the roads across the county.
There are risks if a photo or a post is not appropriately vetted and a perfect example of this is the Irish Times publishing an image of a Lidl on fire while a store in the capital was allegedly being looted.
The Lidl in Dublin was allegedly damaged with a digger but the picture of the blaze was actually a store in Germany. There was no fire at the Dublin store - which was later confirmed by Dublin Fire Brigade from their own Twitter account.
The photo that had been circulated on social media which people purported to be the Lidl in West Dublin was proven to be misinformation, or maybe even disinformation.
Here at home, Storm Emma and ex-Hurricane Ophelia revealed a fortitude in communities and a willingness to share accurate information online. Countless volunteers took part in the clean-up and live information was shared online so as to keep others safe.
There were too many selfless and life-saving posts to count. Many of which were posted to show the efforts of the volunteers, local authority staff and the Defence Forces.
Kilkenny County Council were exemplary too in their efforts online. They led the way among local authorities. They had 83 Facebook posts published between February 26 and March 5 which in total earned 388,539 impressions.
There were 110 tweets published and these earned 189,400 impressions. The local authority had 5,353 Facebook engagements and 806 on Twitter.
These are astonishing figures and potentially life-saving in a situation where getting the word out to people as soon as possible is crucial.
Twitter, Facebook and all social media can be full of vitriolic and acrimonious comments - one would not want to have a thin skin.
Despite this, the engagement by people in Kilkenny during the recent extreme weather was apparent for all to see and was well intentioned.
The information shared was genuine and more importantly for the media, it was accurate. Monitoring the chatter in Kilkenny about Storm Emma revealed that adversity really does bring people together, even online.
As extreme weather events become more frequent in this country, we'll need to hold on to that community spirit that pushes through the rabble on social media when the climate tests our limits.


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Ex-president, other officials join rally for union of Bessarabia with Romania
Several Romanian politicians, such as ex-president Traian Basescu and the leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL) Ludovic Orban will participate on Sunday, March 25, in a demonstration aimed at marking 100 years since the union of Bessarabia with Romania, Moldovan publication Unimedia.info reported.
The event will be organized in Chisinau, the Republic of Moldova's capital.
Other politicians from Romania expected to participate in the demonstration, which is called the Great Centennial Assembly, include Daniel Tudorache – the mayor of Bucharest's District 1, Constantin Codreanu – MP representing the Popular Movement Party (PMP), as well as other mayors and councilors.
Bessarabia united with Romania on March 27, 1918. Romania lost the province in June 1940, however, when it was occupied by the Soviet Union's Red Army. Bessarabia is now part of the Republic of Moldova.
The former president Traian Basescu is one of the most vocals supporters of the idea of a union between Romania and Moldova. For example, in mid-January this year, he said the Romanian government should establish a "country reunification ministry, adding that he would initiate in the coming parliamentary session a document through which the Parliament expressed its wish to reunite the country with the Republic of Moldova.
Also, PNL leader Liviu Orban said last week that Romania is ready for the union with the Republic of Moldova, adding that his party supports this idea.
Meanwhile, more than 100 localities in the Republic of Moldova signed symbolic declarations of union with Romania, with some Romanian cities also adopting similar declarations. This has triggered a negative reaction from Moldovan president Igor Dodon, who said earlier this week that the Romanians who support the growing unionist movement in Chisinau risk becoming the Republic of Moldova's "number one enemy." He also said Bucharest officials are tacitly supporting unionism, and this may affect the relations between the Republic of Moldova and Romania.


ENGL 054 READING II • 3	Cr.
ENGL 057 READING III • 3	Cr.
ENGL 089 GRAMMAR LAB • V1-2 Cr.
ENGL 089L GRAMMAR LAB • V1-2 Cr.
Review of sentence structure, grammar, usage, and punctuation. Introduction to essay writing. Placement based on ASSET or COMPASS scores.
ENGL 101 ENGLISH COMPOSITION I • 5	Cr.
ENGL 102 COMPOSITION II • 5	Cr.
ENGL 111 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE • 5	Cr.
Study of the major genres of multicultural literature, including fiction,poetry,and drama. Focus on understanding key concepts to increase appreciation and knowledge. (H) Prerequisite: ENGL& 101 or concurrent enrollment in ENGL& 101.
ENGL 112 INTRODUCTION TO FICTION • 5	Cr.
ENGL 113 INTRODUCTION TO POETRY • 5	Cr.
ENGL 114 INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA • 5	Cr.
ENGL 180 LITERARY MAGAZINE PRODUCTION I • V1-3 Cr.
ENGL 182 LITERARY MAGAZINE PRODUCTION III • V1-3 Cr.
ENGL 220 INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE • 5	Cr.
ENGL 224 SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE • 3	Cr.
ENGL 226 BRITISH LITERATURE I • 5	Cr.
ENGL 227 BRITISH LITERATURE II • 5	Cr.
ENGL 235 TECHNICAL WRITING • 5	Cr.
Develop professional skills in research,design,and communication of technical information. Emphasis on audience analysis,clear and effectivewriting style,and use of visual elements. Composition of documents in a variety of professional formats such as memos,proposals,progress reports,completion reports,lab reports,and instruction manuals. (FormerlyENGL 150). (E) Prerequisite: ENGL& 101 or permission of instructor.
ENGL 236 CREATIVE WRITING I • 5	Cr.
ENGL 237 ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING • 5	Cr.
ENGL 237A ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING • 5	Cr.
Survey of basic methods in formats used to create and polish poetry, non-fiction, fiction, and memoir. Explore these genres then complete a collection of work in the genre of choice. Prerequisite: ENGL& 101. OVERVIEW: Throughout our time in Florence, we will use the field trips and class readings to inspire our writing. In addition we will correspond with an individual outside the context of our classroom, taking James Wright and Leslie Marmon Silko's letters, written mainly while Wright was living in Italy, as a model. In addition to the book each student completes (in poetry or prose) through writing and class workshops, every person will create a travelogue and dialogue as a result of these letters.
ENGL 240 CHILDREN'S LITERATURE • 5	Cr.
ENGL 241 BIBLE AS LITERATURE I • 5	Cr.
ENGL 244 AMERICAN LITERATURE I • 5	Cr.
ENGL 245 AMERICAN LITERATURE II • 5	Cr.
ENGL 254 WORLD LITERATURE I • 5	Cr.
ENGL 255 WORLD LITERATURE II • 5	Cr.
ENGL 260 SPECIAL TOPICS OR SEMINARS • V1-5 Cr.
ENGL 260B SPECIAL TOPICS OR SEMINARS • V1-5 Cr.
Let's dispel the notion that poems have to rhyme-and learn about ALL the strategies poets use to connect with the reader. Learn how contemporary poets are experimenting with imagery, voice and form and will learn a few traditional forms, as well as try Spoken Word. Expect lively weekly writing assignments and a friendly, collaborative online atmosphere, plus an in person orientation and a final class reading.
ENGL 260C INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CREATIVE WRITING • 2	Cr.
This course will focus on writing memoir, with selective reading and exercises for writing sensory detail, dialogue, narrative, scene, and character description.
ENGL 265 SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENGLISH • V1-3 Cr.
ENGL 280 LITERARY MAGAZINE PRODUCTION IV • V1-3 Cr.
Planning and production of college literary magazine, Tidepools. Fall quarter (ENGL 180, 280): soliciting student contributions, conducting a community-wide contest, designing the magazine. Winter quarter (ENGL 181, 281): judging material and producing camera-ready copy for printing. Spring quarter (ENGL 182, 282): marketing finished product and organizing a reading by contest winners and contributors. Colisted with MEDIA 181-183.
ENGL 282 LITERARY MAGAZINE PRODUCTION VI • V1-3 Cr.
ENGL 290 SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE • V1-5 Cr.
ENGL 290A WRITING FOR PUBLICATION • V1-5 Cr.
Writing fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction for publication. Special project in undergraduate research.
ENGL 290D SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE • V1-5 Cr.
Students pursue an Honors Project in literary analysis, composition analysis, pedagogy, creative writing, or film studies by working with an English faculty mentor. One option is to do scholarly research on literature, which includes published works (poetry, fiction, drama, film) or local oral narratives. Another option is to do scholarly research on the rhetorical choices and composition issues of student writers. A third option is to study methods and practices of teaching English. A final option is to combine a creative and scholarly approach in creative writing or filmmaking, such as writing a poem, story, play, or screenplay and an essay analyzing the content and style, or completing a documentary or short fictional film and writing an essay.
ENGL 290E SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE • V1-5 Cr.
ENGL 290F SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE • V1-5 Cr.
ENGL 295 SPECIAL PROJECT • V1-3 Cr.
ENGL 325 PROFESSIONAL AND ORGANIZATION COMMUNICATIONS • 5	Cr.
Business writing course required for students seeking the four-year Bachelor of Applied Science, Applied Management(BAS) Degree. Production of business documents, including reports, proposals, letters, memos, essays, emails, and performance evaluations. Group projects and oral presentations. Review of business writing style, paragraphing, grammar, and document formatting. Prerequisite: ENGL& 101 and concurrent enrollment in BAS 301 and BAS 310 or permission of instructor.


Nat Turner (October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831) was an African-American slave who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831, that resulted in the deaths of at least fifty white people and at least 200 black people.
Turner led a group of slaves carrying farm implements in a rebellion against slavery. As they went from plantation to plantation they gathered horses, guns, freed other slaves along the way, and recruited other blacks that wanted to join their revolt. During the rebellion, Virginia legislators targeted free blacks with a colonization bill, which allocated new funding to remove them, and a police bill that denied free blacks trials by jury and made any free blacks convicted of a crime subject to sale and relocation.