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Chinese Restaurant Review
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 9:40AM
A regular reader dropped me a line, "How about reviews of the Chinese restaurants in the area. Are they interchangeable? Is there a reason to drive past one to go to another? Someone has to figure that out."
Ahh. A challenge, always a good thing. "Do you have any faves?"
"No. Not at all. What happens to me — I leave work… a bit late, so Chinese is the default choice. I don't really love any of them. If I'm on my own, I probably go home and get a bowl of cereal. "
How to go about a review of all the Chinese restaurants in Westborough….
Being from Cleveland, I grew up with the notion of Chinese food being out of a La Choy box. After all, "La Choy makes Chinese food swing American."
Having spent time in Beijing and Hong Kong, I realized Americanized Chinese food often isn't as good as the real deal. You can get some respectable Chinese food at Chinatown in Boston, although that's not going to be of much help to our late night worker.
Thinking reinforcements would be helpful, Paggy was pressed into duty. Paggy is a local whose family has owned Japanese and Chinese restaurants. With reinforcements, we struck out to go to ALL the Chinese restaurants in Westborough in one night. Not since the immortal breakfast drive-thru review has so much been accomplished in one night. We used Yahoo to tell us where the Chinese restaurants are in Westborough, although one new restaurant wasn't on Yahoo yet.
We rated each restaurant on five attributes, food quality, ambiance, cost, hours and service. Suffice to say none of the local restaurants had any service we'd characterize as special. While the wait staff tended to us acceptably, and we would encourage local Chinese restaurateurs to take basic service up a notch.
When the dust settled, we ranked the restaurants in order of preference. Here are our choices:
Three Gorges III
Three Gorges Restaurant
http://threegorges3.com/
Tuesday-Thursday: 11am-10pm
Friday & Saturday: 11am-10pm
Sunday: 11:30am-10pm
Hidden behind a tree on West Main Street is Three Gorges III. Nothing special to look at from the outside, this 24 seat restaurant was even less appealing on the inside.
It doesn't matter. You can pick up at the restaurant, and they deliver.
And deliver they do, achieving the only perfect score of 10 on the food attribute. We had a combination shrimp and veggie plate, with pork fried rice and chicken fingers. My notes say, "fresh, fresh, fresh." The veggies were cooked to perfection, with a crisp snap indicating freshness as we ate them.
To our reader requesting a late night spot to pick up Chinese, the clear winner is Three Gorges III, with a GREEN LIGHT on the RAG scale.
157 Turnpike Road
Westborough MA 01581
508.366.7489 voice
Chengduresaurant.com
Sunday-Thursday: 11:30am-10pm
Friday: 11:30am-10pm
Saturday: 11:30am-11AM
The venerable ChengDu looked closed as we arrived at 9:23PM. For a place open until 10, it wasn't very inviting.
Entering the restaurant past the koi pond, one can see they are doing some internal renovations and the place had a construction site feel to it. Obviously renovating Chinese restaurants, a trend started by the Mandarin, is catching on.
We were quickly ushered into the bar area, which was "normal." The menu highlights a number of new offerings we were surprised to see on the menu, like Mini Cumin Lamb Kabobs, and Foie Gras. Kudos for branching out, ChengDu!
We ordered the tender orange chicken. I was concerned as a late entry into the restaurant our food might suffer, but my worries were quickly dismissed. The food was excellent (an 8 on our scale.)
ChengDu gets a GREEN on the RAG scale.
Mandarin Westboro
Westborough MA
http://www.mandarincuisines.com/
Sunday – Thursday 11:30AM to 9:45PM
Friday- Saturday 11:30AM to 10:45PM
The Mandarin was always my go to Chinese takeout place at their former East Main St location. While the food was good, the open air restaurant failed to excite.
By far, the new location (in the former Rotisserie Grill/Boston Market) location is the nicest Chinese restaurant in Westborough in terms of ambiance. The Asian feel is throughout.
They clearly pulled out all the stops on the remodel and it shows in the place. Tastefully decorated, with comfortably sized "rooms" completely erases any memories of the old place.
The food was disappointing on our visit. We had beef with peppers and onions. The beef was tough, and a disappointment for a place with such high expectations. The peppers and onions were good, yet lacked the freshness factor of Three Gorges III.
We'd still give the Mandarin a GREEN LIGHT on the RAG scale.
Chef Sun
30 Lyman Street
Westboro, MA, 01581
www.chefsun.com
Mon-Thur: 11:30AM-9:30PM
Fri-Sat: 11:30AM-10:30PM
Sun: 4:00PM-9:30PM
Across the parking lot from the Mandarin was the Chef Sun.
From the moment we pulled up, we felt this place was barely hanging on. The front light wasn't completely working, and the restaurant was empty.
We ordered General Gau's chicken on the premise every Chinese food restaurant has to do this well for their American clientele. We were presented with an overly breaded piece of tasteless chicken, the rice had an odd (and not tasty) taste to it, and the vegetable roll, while made with crisp vegetables, was over-prepared.
We know people who swear by Chef Sun, and this wasn't one of their shining times. They may do well in the shadow of the Mandarin if the Mandarin is oversold; standalone they may remain empty.
We've generously given Chef Sun an AMBER light on the RAG scale.
Tenka Asian Bistro
153 Turnpike Road(Rt 9W)
http://www.tenkama.com/
Monday- Thursday 11AM to 10PM
Friday & Saturday 11AM – 11PM
Sunday Noon – 10PM
Tenka is a new restaurant located in behind Harry's Restaurant and beneath Boston Interiors (think Canyon Café or Harrys Two.)
Tenka was the location not on Yahoo's list. While new, we openly began pondering whether the Yahoo people were trying to send us a message.
Unlike Canyon Café, who generally kept the Harry's Two layout intact, Tenka has moved the bar (with extensive drink menu) and made the space generally more workable.
The restaurant failed miserably for us in our visit.
We had "Appetizer B", Crab Rangoons, Chicken Fingers, Beef Skewers, and an egg roll.
At this point a note on how we ordered through the night. Paggy did the ordering at each of the locations. For me, it prevented me from eating a wide range of fried foods or meats which I tend to lean towards.
So I wasn't paying attention until the food was delivered. While I recognized the Crab Rangoons, I honestly didn't know what I was eating when sampling the chicken fingers. Paggy commented the beef skewers were "kinda awful" like beef jerky, and I think beef jerky would be offended by the comparison.
Tenka has potential, and a nice feel to it. They have the right pieces for success. Alas, a very weak kitchen garners Tenka a RED on the RAG scale.
My thanks to Paggy for participating in the craziness of 5 restaurants in one evening.
For those keeping score, the ranking was:
ChengDu and Madarin Westborough statistically tied
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Q: Update Chat Every second I am making an chat application while implementing it i need to update the messages automatically for this i am using asyntacks. For this i am having doubt that every time we cant able to refresh through asyntaks option. So, is there any way or any other method to refresh the chat activity for every second.
Chat.java
public class chatclass extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {

        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
            String receiverid = getIntent().getStringExtra("Rid");
            try {
                URL url = new URL("" + Constant.cht);
                Map<String, Object> paramm = new LinkedHashMap<>();
                paramm.put("sid", "" + Session.getUserID(getApplicationContext()));
                paramm.put("rid", "" + receiverid);
                StringBuilder postData = new StringBuilder();
                for (Map.Entry<String, Object> param : paramm.entrySet()) {
                    if (postData.length() != 0) postData.append('&');
                    postData.append(URLEncoder.encode(param.getKey(), "UTF-8"));
                    postData.append('=');
                    postData.append(URLEncoder.encode(String.valueOf(param.getValue()), "UTF-8"));
                }
                String urlParameters = postData.toString();
                URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
                conn.setDoOutput(true);
                OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
                writer.write(urlParameters);
                writer.flush();
                String result = "";
                String line;
                BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
                while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                    result += line;
                }
                writer.close();
                reader.close();
                JSONObject response = new JSONObject(result);
                JSONArray array = response.getJSONArray("data");
                chatslistdata.clear();
                for (int i = 0; i < array.length(); i++) {
                    JSONObject chatobj = array.getJSONObject(i);
                    ChatBeanData chatBeanData = new ChatBeanData();
                    chatBeanData.setChat_id(chatobj.getString("chat_id"));
                    chatBeanData.setRid(chatobj.getString("rid"));
                    chatBeanData.setReciever_name(chatobj.getString("reciever_name"));
                    chatBeanData.setReciever_image(chatobj.getString("reciever_image"));
                    chatBeanData.setSid(chatobj.getString("sid"));
                    chatBeanData.setSender_name(chatobj.getString("sender_name"));
                    chatBeanData.setSender_image(chatobj.getString("sender_image"));
                    chatBeanData.setMessage(chatobj.getString("message"));
                    chatBeanData.setSeen_status(chatobj.getInt("seen_status"));
                    chatBeanData.setTime(chatobj.getString("time"));
                    chatslistdata.add(chatBeanData);
                }

            } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (JSONException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

            return null;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String s) {
            super.onPostExecute(s);
            chatadapter = new ChatAdapter(ChatsPage.this, chatslistdata);
            LinearLayoutManager mychatmanager = new LinearLayoutManager(ChatsPage.this, LinearLayoutManager.VERTICAL, false);
            mychatmanager.setStackFromEnd(true);
            chatlist.setLayoutManager(mychatmanager);
            chatlist.setAdapter(chatadapter);
            chatclass chatclass = new chatclass();
            chatclass.execute();

        }
    }

A: It's really bad idea to refresh your chat every seconds because you lose a lot of server efficiency. You should do It like this:

*

*Download all messages from server,

*Download all messages with greater ID than last one message has (for example with long-polling or polling),

*If there is any message, update list.

Or use Soket.io for example, or weboskect.
Then:

*

*Create connection with server,

*Download all messages,

*Then server should send information if you will have new message,

*If you receive this information, download messages with greater ID than last one message has.

I thing, it is good idea for chat. Here you have demo of chat on socket.io
Have fun

A: It is not really good approach to refresh your chat every second to retrieve messages.
This might overload your server with excessive requests which can be avoided.
To achieve real-time chat your server should send information if you have received any new messages.
On client-side you need to set a listener for that purpose. Once the listener is triggered, you can download the new messages.
Check ConnectyCube Android implementation as an example:
IncomingMessagesManager incomingMessagesManager = chatService.getIncomingMessagesManager();

incomingMessagesManager.addDialogMessageListener(new ChatDialogMessageListener() {
    @Override
    public void processMessage(String dialogId, ConnectycubeChatMessage message, Integer senderId) {

    }

    @Override
    public void processError(String dialogId, ChatException exception, ConnectycubeChatMessage message, Integer senderId) {

    }
});

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Dan McCready, who currently trails Republican Mark Harris by hundreds of votes, would have the inside track if the North Carolina race is rerun, political operatives from both parties say. | Chuck Burton/AP Photo
'Damaged goods': Alleged fraud has GOP bracing for loss of N.C. seat
Democrat Dan McCready would be favored to win a special election if one is called, strategists in both parties say.
By ELENA SCHNEIDER
Dan McCready had just returned home from a trip to Disney World with his wife and four kids when he received the news: The North Carolina Board of Elections declined to certify his narrow election loss, and his campaign for the House — which he had conceded weeks earlier — wasn't over.
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Privately, national and state Republicans acknowledged that Harris, who denied in a statement Friday that he had any knowledge of illegal activity, would be a toxic candidate. Some Republicans in the state are holding out hope that Harris could be replaced on the ballot, which would require intervention from a Democrat-controlled House of Representatives. But if the state board votes to rerun the election, the only way for Harris to be removed from the ballot would be if he moved out of state, according to Gerry Cohen, who formerly served as special counsel to the North Carolina General Assembly.
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"Harris is damaged goods," said a North Carolina Republican operative, granted anonymity to candidly discuss internal party discussions. "How is he going to be able to raise many money after all of this?"
Harris, for his part, said in a video statement on Friday he would "wholeheartedly support" a new election if the state board finds illegal activity that "could've changed the outcome of the election."
Democrats are quickly ramping up for a sequel. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has deployed a dozen aides and lawyers to the district and the campaign has resumed daily campaign conference calls. They're also sorting out with lawyers how to raise money under these circumstances, and at the same time calling staffers and volunteers back into action.
"They've got to bring the band back together," said Morgan Jackson, a Democratic strategist in the state who's informally advising the McCready team.
It won't be easy. Many of McCready's campaign staffers had dispersed before the election fraud news broke. Some departed for New York and Washington, while another aide is traveling around South America. One staffer who had just moved home for the holidays hopped back into his U-Haul to return to Charlotte for a possible rematch.
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North Carolina GOP 'fully' supports new election if inquiry shows fraud
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A McCready win would add one more House seat to Democrats' 40-seat gain in November. This Charlotte-based seat mirrors other districts — a mix of urban and rural counties — that Democrats were able to flip throughout the country, driven by a distaste for President Donald Trump among unaffiliated and moderate voters in suburban communities. Trump won the district by 12 points in 2016.
The potential fraud centers on an independent contractor hired by the Harris campaign who's been accused of collecting and illegally returning hundreds of voters' absentee ballots.
Initially, the North Carolina Democratic Party took the lead in fighting for an investigation into allegations of election fraud into two rural counties, Bladen and Robeson. The party filed a half-dozen affidavits from voters in the area, who described handing over their ballots, some of them incomplete, to people who said they were assigned to pick up ballots in the area.
Those affidavits also cast Leslie McCrae Dowless, a local political operative in Bladen County, as a central figure in a mail-in ballot harvesting operation, sending people door-to-door to illegally collect ballots from voters.
A Harris campaign consultant, Andy Yates, told The Charlotte Observer earlier this week that they hired Dowless, who was convicted of felony fraud in 1992, to work on "grassroots for the campaign." Dowless denied any wrongdoing to the Observer.
But an analysis by Catawba College's J. Michael Bitzer also raised questions about the absentee ballot results in both the 2018 primary and the general election. Bitzer pointed to McCready's lopsided victory among absentee ballots in seven of the eight counties that compose the 9th District, except in Bladen County. Harris won 61 percent of the mail-in ballots there, even though registered Republicans accounted for 19 percent of the county's accepted absent ballots.
Republicans tight-lipped after day-long Comey interview
By KYLE CHENEY
Democrats in the state said they expect the "the fraud investigation and the conduct of the Harris campaign" to be a "big part" of any special election messaging, Jackson said. "Democrats, Republicans, unaffiliated voters have, every day, read in their newspapers and seen on their TVs that there are problems with cheating with Harris, so that inevitably gives McCready a leg up."
"If, in fact, the board finds [Dowless] committed election fraud, then it's quite natural that the next question is, 'What did Harris know and when did he know it?'" Wrenn said. "How Harris answers that will determine a lot about any special election."
Some Republicans in the state are holding out hope that Harris could be replaced on the ballot. But if the state board votes to rerun the election, the only way for Harris to be removed from the ballot would be if he moved out of state.
Former Rep. Robert Pittenger, whom Harris defeated in a May primary by 828 votes, has also suggested that illegal vote tampering occurred during the 2018 primary. But the only body that could call for an entirely new primary and general election is the House of Representatives.
On Thursday, Dallas Woodhouse, the North Carolina Republican Party executive director, echoed Harris' support for a new election if the alleged fraud in the district "changed the race." But Woodhouse had initially called for the board to immediately certify the election.
"I think they're clearly preparing for a [special election] now," Crone said, citing Woodhouse's statement.
North Carolina 2018 elections
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former American NFL player, who holds the record for the most touchdown receptions in a season, 23, in 2007 playing alongside New England Patriots and being drafted by Minnesota Vikings in the first round of the 1998 NFL Draft.
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Sajid Javid has been urged to dump the controversial Immigration Exemption Clause from the Data Protection Bill when it returns to the Commons next week.
Vince Cable and Ed Davey have written to the new Home Secretary to urge him to protect people's fundamental rights when their data is being processed for immigration purposes.
Many immigration decisions are overturned at appeal because the Home Office has made mistakes. But the bill puts at risk the right for individuals to see what information the Home Office holds on them and the Lib Dems are pressuring the government to make a concession on this point.
Congratulations on taking up your new post. As you have acknowledged, the task facing you is immense.
Further to exchanges in the House yesterday, can we urge you to clear the air by publishing any report made by Philip Hammond as Foreign Secretary in 2016 to the Home Office about deportations of the Windrush generation, following his meetings with Caribbean ministers and their representations to him? In the chamber you only said you would 'consider' publication in the House of Commons library. We hope you will agree that the House should know whether the Prime Minister knew these deportations were happening and what actions she took as Home Secretary to stop them.
The investigative work of Amelia Gentleman in the Guardian has uncovered the implications of Theresa May's 'hostile environment', and let us not kid ourselves with talk of Amber Rudd's resignation, responsibility for this falls squarely upon the head of our Prime Minister.
Today in Parliament the Minister for Immigration was forced to explain why G4S were housing asylum seekers behind red doors, leaving them open to targeted attacks. The Minister, who said he was "deeply concerned", in response sprang into action announcing an audit of asylum seeker accommodation in the North East. Good to see the Minister reacting so quickly to something that was only in the papers that morning you might think. Not so.
Suzanne Fletcher, former Liberal Democrat Councillor and now Chair for Liberal Democrats for Seekers of Sanctuary, has been campaigning on this issue doggedly for years. In fact, it is predominantly down to her campaign work that this became a news story today.
The Liberal Democrats' manifesto last year called for an end to indefinite detention for immigration purposes, building on the end to child detention that Nick Clegg insisted upon as part of the coalition agreement. Today, a review of welfare in detention of vulnerable people conducted for the Home Office by Stephen Shaw has been published. In it he makes 64 recommendations, including that alternatives to detention be sought. Some of the changes he wants to see are so basic that you are shocked that they are not done already – the provision of even basic mental health treatment, for a start.
Recommendation 33: I recommend that the Home Office review detainees' access to natural light and to the open air, and invite contractors to bring forward proposals to increase the time that detainees can spend outside.
And as for this one, you mean we don't already?
Recommendation 35: I recommend that the service provider at Yarl's Wood should only conduct searches of women and of women's rooms in the presence of men in the most extreme and pressing circumstances, and that there should be monitoring and reporting of these cases.
Get into an argument with any cybernat and, sooner or later, when you've won the argument, you'll have it thrown at you, a bit like a modern Godwin's Law, that the Liberal Democrats should pay their £800,000 bill to Police Scotland.
This is all to do with the security arrangements for our conference in Glasgow in 2013. South of the Border, the Home Office picks up these costs. As policing is devolved, the Scottish Government had responsibility and refused to do so. That meant that, apart from a small contribution to cover the costs of accreditation from the UK Government, Police Scotland had to pick up the tab themselves. Nothing to do with us.
By way of explanation, it has been reported in the media that there is an outstanding invoice of £800,000 for this conference; however, this is factually incorrect. No invoice for the policing costs of the conference was ever generated and the Liberal Democrats did not enter into any arrangement with Police Scotland to provide policing.
But the Home Office argues that Ms Apata could not be considered a lesbian because she has children and has previously been in heterosexual relationships. Ms Apata's barrister, Abid Mahmood, said these were "highly offensive… stereotypical views of the past".
Holding hands with her wife-to-be Happiness Agboro in court yesterday, Ms Apata, 47, was surrounded by dozens of gay-rights activists.
Homosexuality is punishable by up to 14 years in prison in Nigeria under laws passed in January 2014 and there has been a spike in violence against gay people.
There have long been concerns about the frankly cruel, inhumane and brutal way the Home Office treats LGBT people that pre-dates this government. While Labour were in office, they used to tell people that they'd be fine in their home countries if they were discreet. It is a matter of massive regret to me that the Liberal Democrats in government have not been able to stop the sort of nonsense that took place in that central London courtroom this week or that routinely takes place when LGBT asylum seekers are interviewed. The Home Office playbook reads like a bad 1970s sitcom, but its effects are far from funny.
All too often Government departments get decisions wrong. Most notorious are the Home Office and the Department of Work and Pensions. Many people will be well aware of the anguish faced by those awaiting Employment and Support Allowance appeals, and the same is true for those waiting to see if they can stay in the country, or bring in a spouse.
Yesterday I met Mr Isa Muaza who, until last night, was due to be forced on to a plane to Nigeria this evening. Though his removal directions have been moved – and set – for 29 November he remains at death's door.
Isa is a failed asylum seeker who has been held in detention at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre. The case is one of enforced removal, although very little real force will be necessary in his case. He has been on hunger strike and has lost 40% of his body mass. He is close to death.


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Government Shutdown — Should Congress Go Without Pay?
by Thompson October 1, 2013, 12:21 pm 1.1k Views
Do not feel sorry for Speaker of the House John Boehner.
After years of stoking the fires of this faux populist movement, the Tea Party, he has essentially handed the gavel to Ted Cruz and his band of loyal, misguided followers. And we will all pay the price for it with this ridiculous shutdown.
More on what brought us to this point in tomorrow's post. For now, let's focus on this week's shining star, Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee). Blackburn is usually trotted out by the GOP leadership anytime they need a woman to talk about birth control and those complicated "lady parts", but yesterday she really outdid even herself.
Appearing on CNN with fellow Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-California), host Ashleigh Banfield pointed out that as a member of Congress Blackburn takes home a salary of roughly $175,000. With a countdown to shutdown clock ticking away at the bottom of the screen, Banfield asked if either Blackburn or Rohrabacher would be prepared to give up their salaries, going on to say that a shutdown of the federal government would force thousands of federal workers to go without pay, while Congress, deemed "essential", is exempt from this.
In response to Banfield's question, Blackburn responded by stating that "we are waiting to see what they send back, and I hope that as you were running the countdown clock you are running the debt clock. I have two grandsons, and their share of the national debt is now over $53,000."
Watch the whole laughable exchange here:
Let's be frank, Blackburn has this perpetual look on her face, like if you asked her to go out to eat, she would suggest the Olive Garden. But not the one by the interstate, because it's not as good as the one by the airport. The awkward dance she did in response to Banfield's simple yes or no question is both bizarre and indicative of GOP efforts to reshape the debate. Instead of talking about congressional salaries and the effects of a shutdown on the nation, Blackburn chose to talk about something else. We can't talk about the shutdown because apparently Blackburn's grandsons are about to get a bill for their share of the national debt.
But the point remains that last night at midnight thousands of hardworking federal employees, people that have chosen to devote their lives to public service, were told to go home, unsure when they might be able to return. Roughly 800,000 employees of the government, ranging from librarians to zookeepers, cafeteria workers to senior staff, were told they would no longer get paid. The senior staff I'm not too concerned about. But the short-order cooks in the employee cafeteria — what will they do? In a shutdown expected now to last some time, how will they get by and how long will it take to recover from the damage a shutdown will cause them?
Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn will still continue to get her paycheck. Inexplicably.
note on the picture: We're tired of seeing the same cloudy sky behind the capitol building in every single government shutdown post. So here's to something different.
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Home >> May 2010 Edition >> Beam... European Workhorse: CET GmbH
Beam... European Workhorse: CET GmbH
CET Teleport is one of Europe`s major teleports and was built by Deutsche Telekom in 1987 for satellite broadcast and VSAT services. The Teleport is located in northwest Germany giving it a commanding view of the skies, with visibility from the Eastern Pacific, the West Coast of the USA, South America, and covering Europe and Africa all the way across Russia and China, and all of Asia and down to Australia.
The Teleport is host to more than 50 antennas from 15m downwards, operating in C-, Ku-, Ka-, K- and X-bands, fully integrated into Deutsche Telekom's German fiber network, providing CET with access to the terrestrial network for Internet connectivity as well as data and voice backhaul.
Access to BT's Global Media Network (GMN) via BT Tower allows for the transmission of video enabled MPLS data & voice services. The STM fiber between the CET hub and the Tower is bi-directional and fully redundant. The teleport has a potential of accessing more than 200 geostationary satellites, located from 58 degrees West to 76.5 degrees East, providing coverage and connectivity across most of the visible globe.
CET Teleport GmbH (CET) is a teleporting services provider whose Hameln teleport has enjoyed an excellent reputation for the quality of the network operations that it has offered to its users over the years. The teleport is run by a management and operations team of highly experienced and respected satellite industry professionals who can devise and implement solutions to most of the satellite based communication problems encountered by organizations.
The Teleport provides a wide range of media broadcasting and corporate VSAT services. However, in contrast to most teleports, CET sees its major VSAT market not as the ultimate end-user, but as a solution for organizations, including other teleports, who are unable to provide the service their customers require. Such challenges include...
Satellite that is to be accessed that is not visible from designated remote locations or hub
There is a lack of space for additional antenna(s) at the hub
Shorter and/or more reliable backhaul
Accessible space segment unable to be obtained elsewhere
CET already has a fully redundant dish pointed at the required satellite
CET also provides, monitors, and manages remote-to-remote, roof-top to roof-top SCPC links, and can connect ISPs to the Internet as well as offer GSM backhaul and connection to the PSTN or to VoIP switches for voice and voice and data services. Once contracted to provide a service, CET is able to manage as much, or as little, of the project as the customer may require. This can range from site survey through installation and commissioning to the provision of licencing and on-going maintenance.
The Teleport has extensive disaster recovery facilities plus a 24/7 Help Desk that is backed by a large and highly experienced engineering team who manage and maintain the satellite and hub equipment on site and at numerous remote locations. CET has both iDirect and HNS Directway hubs installed at its Hameln facility in order to offer a full range of shared hub facilities to its customers, as well as providing SCPC star or full mesh networks when required.
CET Teleport is expanding its range of broadcast services to provide tailored solutions to broadcasting organizations across the industry, offering Direct-to-Home (DTH) Multiplexed Services as well as facilities for Playout and Distribution, Turnaround, and Occasional Use/SNG services. CET can also provide access to some of Europe's premier DTH bouquets and multi-point content access and storage facilities. By using the latest hardware technology and software solutions in its studio and editing suite, CET can provide global content distribution.
VSAT and Carrier Services
CET provides the following services and more...
Hubbed and SCPC VSAT Corporate and Enterprise Services
GSM Backhaul Services
Voice Services — Carrier and VoIP
Disaster Recovery Networks
The Company can arrange local licensing, installation and maintenance with Service Level Agreements guaranteeing the highest level of availability.
Government, Military, and NGO Services
For many years, the Hameln teleport has provided voice and data satellite services for government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and various branches of the military
These organizations prefer to use satellite links, even when terrestrial ones are available, as they can have virtual private networks (VPNs) and highly cost-effective 'actual private networks'. In this way, they can enjoy much more secure communications over their own exclusive links than is possible using public voice and data networks.
CET Teleport also provides all the services required to ensure customers obtain a system that is tailored to satisfy specific needs, including project management, installation, licensing, field service and maintenance, network monitoring and management, third party hosting and data storage and, for satellite operators, telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C) services.
Co-Location + Hosting
CET is able to provide co-location and hosting facilities to service providers whether they want to locate a major antenna system at the hub or rent rack space for their own electronic equipment to handle traffic being brought down or sent up using a CET antenna
CET`s warm stand-by 1 MW generator is more than capable of providing all the power the teleport requires to continue operating in the highly unlikely event both of its independent mains power supplies fail. To cover the time between a power failure and the generator coming on stream, the battery pack installed is capable of supporting all the systems at Hameln for at least 30 minutes.
Having been built by Deutsche Telekom, the CET teleport is naturally directly connected to the DT fiber network by multiple links to ensure complete continuity of service at all times. In addition, the teleport can offer fiber connectivity directly to the BT Tower in London and Telehouse — no matter where in the world traffic has to be ultimately taken or backhauled, CET has the connectivity in place to handle such needs. Through its Internet portal, CET can provide high speed and high capacity access to various Internet portals using diverse routing to ensure that Internet connectivity is always available.
Ken Armstrong, CEO
In 2008 Ken spearheaded negotiations with Stratos to conclude the acquisition of the teleport facility. Ken started his career at British Telecom in 1965 and was involved in the development of its backbone System X switching system. He later moved to Audio Conferencing and then Broadcast Services.
Matthew Ivey, V.P. Sales
Matthew joined CET Teleport in March of 2010 to manage all of CET's sales activities.
Neil Ashworth, Dir. Business Development/Strategy
After a career with ICL and Rank Xerox, Neil became a founding director of BankNet in Hungary, which installed the first shared hub in Central and Eastern Europe in 1992. His last position prior to the CET appointment was as Regional Director responsible for CEE, Russia & CIS and the Middle East at Paradigm Communications.


Rylan Clark-Neal's face spoke for the nation on tonight's Celebrity Apprentice when their cabaret act of men covering balloons with their bits went disastrously wrong.
Pro-tip: If you're going to cover your naked bod with some balloons, make sure that the balloons don't deflate or that you've got a firm grasp on them.
Team Captain Rylan looked mortified when, in a panic to find acts for their show, agreed with team-mate Omid Djalili's suggestion to bring in a comedy act that covered performed a dance tease with the help of balloons.
Desperately keeping all their fingers crossed for Cher and running out of options in the meantime, Rylan agreed- and soon things went up in the air literally.
The two middle-aged men were first off, a man down from their trio, meaning a naked Omid had to step in, then they couldn't quite perform under pressure and deflated.
Happens to the best, you two.
As a mortified room of people watched on unsure of what they were thinking, their high-class night devolved into chaos and Rylan, dressed as a space man, could do nothing but duck behind Sam Allardyce as it all happened.
Afterwards, the group – completed by Russell Kane who acted as compere for the evening – were in agreement that they were in serious trouble.
While Rylan couldn't quite bear to watch what was going on, viewers couldn't help but find the horrific moment absolutely hilarious.
'The balloon act is without doubt the greatest piece of TV gold in the history of #CelebrityApprentice something none of us will ever be able to unsee,' one person declared.
'I'm screaming that they allowed that weird naked balloon popping act but they've given Louisa Johnson 1 minute 30 seconds to perform a song,' added another.
Viewers will have to tune into the second episode to see if the guys get one up on the girls, who held a jungle-themed night at Café de Paris in London with Robbie Williams headlining and Alan Carr as compere.
Meanwhile, the guys embraced a space theme at the Bloomsbury Ballroom, and managed to wrangle a number of acts including Kodaline, Louisa Johnson and Simon Webbe.
They also had to create and host an auction all to raise money for Comic Relief.
So while the embarrassment may be around for a while, the good it will do will last a lifetime!
Celebrity Apprentice for Comic Relief continues on BBC1 and is available on BBC iPlayer.
MORE: Which stars are in the line-up for Celebrity Apprentice's Comic Relief special?


The perfect option for those in search of thrill-filled adventures. You will surely have adrenaline running all over your body. The White Water Rafting Tour is located approximately 65 minutes from Downtown Limón. Upon arriving to the toursite, you will be assigned to a captain and his crew, and they will prepare you for an unforgetable thrill-packed adventure.
On our way back we will be making several stops, including a stop at a white-sand beach, Banana Plantation and Coco Beans Farm. Included in this package is a City Tour of Limón. For safety purposes, the required group size is of at least 4 people.


Belgium has recently implemented new rules requiring SIM card registration, after the European Commission (EC) invited all Member States in 2012 to provide evidence of the actual or potential impact of banning anonymous pre-paid SIM cards or 'burner' means of communication, in an attempt to renew its counterterrorism measures.
The recent wave of terrorist attacks in France, Belgium and Turkey have accelerated the implementation of laws and rules that enforce the registration of pre-paid SIM cards across the Old Continent. Other countries such as Germany are toughening up their current regulation on this matter, requesting carriers and retailers to integrate identity verification within their regular acquisition practices.
Belgium will be joining other Member States such as Spain, Italy, France or Greece, that now require all SIM-card owners to be identified, and register them in a special list. Belgian authorities have ruled that from now on, all SIM cards must be linked to the owner's national registration number – contained within the electronic code of their passport. "This is necessary to limit opportunities of terrorist organizations to carry out covert communication," explained a Belgian Government official back in March, when the new law was made public.
Many European countries are joining forces to combat terrorism in the Eurozone, with Greece, France, and Spain on the front foot. Back to 2009, the Greek government adopted legislation on the identification of users of mobile telephony equipment and services. To avoid the proliferation of forged identities, subscribers not providing correct details are subject to criminal liability. After July 2010 any anonymous SIM cards were blocked in the Greek market. A similar registration requirement for mobile prepaid users was implemented in Spain: all those pre-paid customers that had not been registered as of November 2009, were temporarily disconnected, although they can still be re-connected in case they register by May 2010.
On one hand, there is a portion of voices in the industry stressing the unintended negative impact of the newly enforced rules on the access to communications services when mobile users' SIM cards are deactivated (sometimes without warning) due to failure to register by a required deadline. As highlighted in GSMA White Paper The Mandatory Registration of SIM Card Users, such failure may be caused by factors that escape from users' control, for example the fact that they live far from a registration centre, lack any formal identity documents, or were not made aware of the need to register and the relevant deadline. Is in these particular cases where mobile identity verification solutions such as Mobile Verify can play a pivotal role as it eliminates the barriers to attesting the identity of the SIM card's owner straight away, authenticating the ID document provided for identity verification in real time.
On the other hand, industry visionaries lean towards a more positive approach and highlight the potential benefits that the new registration policy might bring, particularly emphasising the greater consumer access to e-Government services (as registered users can verify their identity and log in to such services using their mobile device); increased ease for users to keep their mobile number when switching to another network operator; and enhanced support for ongoing governments' financial inclusion agendas.
Joe Bloemendaal is the VP of Sales, EMEA at Mitek. Joe joined Mitek, the leading provider of mobile capture and identity solutions, after the acquisition of IDchecker in 2015. As a big advocate of services that bridge the gap between offline and online ID verification, Joe argues that the true potential of the Internet will only be unlocked if we can trust someone online like we can trust someone offline. With a solid background in Risk Management, ID Fraud, KYC, and Identity Verification, Joe manages Mitek's office in London, UK.


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Opposition in talks to form alternative government
Ljubljana, 7 October - The leaders of the four centre-left opposition parties have confirmed they have launched talks to form an alternative to the Janez Janša government based on an initiative led by economist Jože P. Damijan, who is willing to become prime minister.
The leaders of the four centre-left opposition parties present a bid to form a new government. Pictured, left to right: Tanja Fajon (SD), Marjan Šarec (LMŠ), Alenka Bratušek (SAB) and Luka Mesec (Left).
SAB leader Alenka Bratušek speaks to reporters about a push for a new government, along with the other three leaders of the centre-left opposition parties.
Luka Mesec of the Left speaks to reporters about a push for a new government, along with the other three leaders of the centre-left opposition parties.
SocDem leader Tanja Fajon speaks to reporters about a push for a new government, along with the other three leaders of the centre-left opposition parties.
Marjan Šarec, the leader of his namesake party LMŠ, speaks to reporters about a push for a new government, along with the other three leaders of the centre-left opposition parties.
The leaders of the four centre-left opposition parties present a bid to form a new government. Pictured, left to right: Luka Mesec (Left), Tanja Fajon (SD), Marjan Šarec (LMŠ) and Alenka Bratušek (SAB).
Oct 7, 2020, 18:07 mab/ep/gz/mab
Publish time: Oct 7, 2020, 18:07
Keywords: OPPOSITION, GOVERNMENT, TALKS
Author: mab/ep/gz/mab
Oct 7, 2020, 12:54 // Politics
Initiative launched for centre-left coalition to stop "abuse" of state by SDS


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Q: How to get controller action in magento? make one module
using that module i add tab in order view now when i m click on button that time in url 404 accours
module name: orderattachments
controller name: orderattachments
Action name: save
my url:
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what is wrong in my url
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A: there lot of issue in you extension  tag is  not closed at config.xml.
Also,There lot issue in you module.
config.xml code:
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means
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Black Axe In South Africa
By Kofi Tai Chi December 14, 2021 No Comments2 Mins Read
The Black Axe in South Africa is gradually growing to become popular although they are well known in Nigeria.
The Neo-Black Movement of Africa emerged in the 20th century to address injustices and racial inequality. It has attempted to transform relations between races and help those who have traditionally been marginalized.
At the moment, they have become a criminal syndicate movement and a bloody group that is fast spreading into some African countries.
Their stronghold we are told is Nigeria. However, they have some more members in South Africa who are believed to be key figures in internet scams of fraud.
The Black Axe is organized into regional chapters known as "zones," and the defendants were all leaders within the Cape Town, South Africa, Zone.
Perry Osagiede founded the Cape Town Zone of Black Axe and worked as its zonal head, along with Izevbigie. The Black Axe defendants and other members of Black Axe took part in, and openly discussed, fraud schemes amongst their membership.
From at least 2011 through 2021, the Black Axe defendants and other conspirators worked together from Cape Town to engage in widespread internet fraud involving romance scams and advance-fee schemes; Sahara Reporters revealed.
Many of these fraudulent narratives involved claims that an individual was travelling to South Africa for work and needed money or other items of value following a series of unfortunate and unforeseen events, often involving a construction site or problems with a crane.
The conspirators used social media websites, online dating websites, and voice-over-internet protocol phone numbers to find and talk with victims in the United States while using many aliases.
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At the time, their influence is gradually making more South Africans show interest in joining their gang of monetary operations.
They have the notion that once they join them or form part of them, they would be given some financial liberty by being shown how to make money and spend it lavishly.
The South African authorities in collaboration with the US law enforcers are poised to fish them out and deal with them legally.
In order to join the Black Axe in South Africa, you need to do so through an already existing member in order for him or her to lead you through the initiation process.
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On Sunday morning, April 17 Mudiad Meithrin will hold a sponsored walk along the prom in Aberystwyth. There are many benefits to such a walk, but we intend to raise money for the local 'cylchoedd meithrin' (Welsh-Medium playgroups), 'cylchoedd Ti a Fi' and the Mudiad itself; and we want to encourage everyone to join 'Prams on the Prom' with us on this lovely journey along one of Wales's most beautiful proms.
The route is 1.2 miles and we welcome children and their families to complete the walk either by walking or being pushed in a pram / pushchair / wheelchair, or even on a bicycle. This is an opportunity for families from different areas to come together and walk as "Un Teulu Mawr" ('One Big Mudiad Meithrin Family') and a good opportunity for young children to get some fresh air and exercise by raising money for their local 'cylchoedd meithrin' and the Mudiad.
This will be the first in a series of walks that will be organized by Mudiad Meithrin. We hope to visit other parts of Wales and also provide an opportunity for groups to raise funds in different areas.
If you wish to participate in this event, you can get a registration form on our website www.meithrin.cymru/pramsaryprom or contact Nerys Fychan by email nerys.fychan@meithrin.cymru or by phone 01970 639 639.


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CINCINNATI'S 1913 BUTTER BOYCOTT BROUGHT DOWN EXORBITANT FOOD COSTS
Greg Hand
Has your grocery bill inched up into the gourmet range? Did you take out a second mortgage to pay for your Thanksgiving feast? Have you ever wondered what you can do to save a few dollars? Your grandmother would tell you: Don't complain. Organize!
Cincinnati housewives organized in 1913 to fight the rising cost of butter and the dairy industry trembled. With butter selling for 44 cents a pound, more than 500 local women organized the Cincinnati Housewives Cooperative Buying League and purchased six tons of butter substitute. They then offered their oleo alternative for sale at 24 cents a pound and set up a distribution center at Kate Sager's house, 2752 Oakley Ave.
The Cooperative Buying League apparently got a "family and friends" discount on their butter substitute because Mr. Harry L. Sager, Kate's husband, worked for the Ohio Butterine Company, manufacturers of "nut margarine" churned from coconut milk. The brand name was never mentioned in news stories about the butter boycott, but 12,000 pounds of Butterine distributed the brand name throughout the city.
Margarine was a tough sell in 1913. As butter substitutes gained popularity, the dairy industry lobbied Congress to levy a tax on "artificial" butter. Problem was, oleomargarine was just as natural as "real" butter so a tax on margarine was likely to involve a tax on butter as well. The dairy interests found a solution—oleomargarine was dyed to look like butter, so Congress passed a 10-cent tax on every pound of dyed spread. Margarine producers fought back by selling their product without dye (an unappetizing greyish-white color) and offering dye packets for free through retailers. A 1913 Butterine advertisement came close to apologizing for the arrangement:
"You should learn to color it at home to a rich June shade. The great savings makes it well worth your while. Free harmless color at your dealer's."
It is not mentioned whether the Cincinnati Housewives Cooperative Buying League distributed "free harmless" dye with their butter substitute, but their organized action proved so popular that women from all over the city made their way to the Sager house to purchase discount spread. As the boycott leaders expected, when women organized, the men in charge of business and government got all flustered. S.E. Strode of the Ohio Agriculture Commission was not amused. He told the Akron Beacon-Journal:
"Emmeline Pankhursting may keep women out of jail in England, but it will take something besides spasmodic boycotts and fasting to solve the world-wide problem of reducing the 'high cost of living.'"
It is interesting that Mr. Strode should invoke the name of the legendary suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst in his rant against boycotting housewives. The women themselves saw their butter boycott as an integral part of organizing to achieve the vote. At a May 1913 meeting, Jessie Firth (of course identified as Mrs. Charles Firth) reported on the indignities endured by marchers in a Washington, D.C., suffragist parade. Also on the same program was Geneva Ellms, who updated attendees on the fourth month of the butter boycott.
In seeking a butter substitute, Cincinnati women did not have to look far. The Ohio Butterine Company had been churning out coconut-based margarine for years.
FROM CINCINNATI POST 14 FEBRUARY 1913 IMAGE EXTRACTED FROM MICROFILM BY GREG HAND
The 1913 butter boycott not only demonstrated that women had real power when they organized, it also established new lines of communication across class lines. Soon after launching the butter boycott, the Housewives Cooperative Buying League announced plans for a meat boycott, as well, inspired by women from the other side of the tracks. Geneva Ellms told the Cincinnati Post [24 January 1913]:
"We are planning the meat boycott because of the many requests made by the women living in the tenements in the West End, who have come all the way to Hyde Park to buy our butter substitute at a fair price. These women cannot buy ham at 30 cents a pound and beef at double the amount that it ought to be, and as a result they are fairly starving for a taste of meat. It is for the people of Cincinnati who cannot afford to pay the food barons what they ask that we will arrange this boycott."
The boycotters also reached out to Ohio farmers, who were being squeezed by distributors and wholesalers at the other end. A compact between the housewives cooperative and a farmers' congress based in Bellefontaine, Ohio, announced plans to distribute fresh produce, meat, eggs and butter directly to cooperative members, using the new United States parcel post system to bypass the middlemen.
By December 1913, the movement had gone national. Cincinnati's housewives procured a 500-pound shipment of dried California fruit. The nectarines, raisins, figs and peaches arrived during the season when fresh fruit was almost unavailable.
In addition to opening up new lines of communication, the butter boycott proved to be educational. Women of the Housewives Cooperative Buying League arranged classes to show how to cook with butter substitutes.
By 1915, the League was making plans to open its own municipal market somewhere in town so it would no longer have to sell its discount products out of members' houses. They organized letter-writing campaigns to pressure government agencies to investigate price-fixing in commodities.
Scattered newspaper reports suggest that the women were frequently successful at forcing prices lower. The butter boycott saw butter drop nearly a nickel in cost and a boycott of eggs saw the price of a dozen drop by 10 cents. The price of meat proved more resistant to boycott pressure, but the women successfully set up their own procurement system and a network of butchering stations and distribution depots to supply discount cuts throughout the city.
Just as the women's cooperative was hitting its stride, World War I demolished the whole operation. Food shortages and war-time rationing eliminated any advantage offered by food-buying cooperatives.
https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/cincinnatis-1913-butter-boycott-brought-down-exorbitant-food-costs-for-a-while/
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Q: Rails - before_action login for create action Leaving this question open for now, but with a better understanding of the problem, I have reposted it - Devies - route to action with 'POST' request after login
My Rails app uses Devise for user authentication, and I am trying to set it up so that the create action for my controller requires a successful login.  I've almost got this working, but I am running into a small problem - a form is filled out on the new page, then the user is asked to log in, but then rather than proceeding to the create action (and subsequent redirect to a summary page), the user is logged in and then redirected back to the new page.  Here's the code...
posts_controller.rb
class PostsController < ApplicationController
    before_action :authenticate_user!, :only => [:create]

    def new
        @post = Post.new
    end

    def create
        @post = current_user.posts.new(post_params)
        @post.save
        redirect_to posts_summary_path
    end
end

sessions_controller.rb
def after_sign_in_path_for(resource)
  request.env['omniauth.origin'] || stored_location_for(resource) || posts_path
end

So ideally, the chain of events would be new -> login -> create -> summary, but instead what I'm getting is new -> login -> new -> create -> summary.  Why is the session_controller.rb redirecting to the new action instead of create?  Raking my routes suggests that I've got the redirect destination correct...
posts POST   /posts(.:format)              posts#create

I had tried removing the sessions_controller.rb from the routes and just rely on the default Devise behavior but this automatically redirects to a login success page and doesn't trigger the create action.


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Yankees roll out red carpet for Masahiro Tanaka
Take the elevator all the way down, make a hard right and walk along a concrete corridor deep in the bowels of Yankee...
Yankees roll out red carpet for Masahiro Tanaka Take the elevator all the way down, make a hard right and walk along a concrete corridor deep in the bowels of Yankee... Check out this story on poughkeepsiejournal.com: http://pojonews.co/1aTfKgQ
POU Published 12:00 a.m. ET Feb. 12, 2014 | Updated 12:15 a.m. ET Feb. 12, 2014
Masahiro Tanaka was introduced at Yankee Stadium's Legends Club on Tuesday.(Photo: Noah K. Murray, Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports)
Take the elevator all the way down, make a hard right and walk along a concrete corridor deep in the bowels of Yankee Stadium. Down that hallway, just before the home clubhouse, there's a plain room with a small stage and lone podium. That's where the Yankees' press conferences are held.
That's not where the Yankees introduced Masahiro Tanaka on Tuesday.
No, this introduction was no press conference. At least, that's not all it was. In the stadium's brightly decorated Legends Club — where some televisions showed Tanaka's name and others showed footage of him pitching in Japan — the Yankees put on a global event. The press was invited, of course, but this was about something much larger.
In front of an international audience, the Yankees put pinstripes on an international icon who's a superstar before throwing a single major-league pitch. When it came time for general manager Brian Cashman to speak, he immediately thought of the late owner George Steinbrenner.
"The Yankees obviously are about always trying to acquire the best talent, and a collection of talent that can compete for a championship," Cashman said. "But (Steinbrenner) also liked a lot of attention. And this certainly represents a lot of attention. This is Yankee big. This is Steinbrenner big."
With more than 200 credentialed reporters and photographers, it was the Yankees' largest press conference since Hideki Matsui was introduced in Times Square in 2003. Tanaka received a cap and a No. 19 jersey and introduced himself in halting, methodical English.
"My name is Masahiro Tanaka," he said. "I am very happy to be Yankee."
Truth is, no introduction was necessary. Not for a 25-year-old who went undefeated in Japan last season and signed a seven-year, $155 million contract this winter. His contract is the largest ever for an international player with no major-league experience.
He is married to a Japanese pop star. He chartered a private jet for Tuesday night's trip from Japan to America. Beyond baseball questions, he was asked Wednesday to describe the first meal he had upon arrival in New York (it was grocery store sushi, by the way).
Tanaka is an icon already — part all-star, part rock star — and now he's playing for baseball's most well-known franchise in the world's largest media market.
"He doesn't want to transition in," Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner said. "He wants to be put right on the big stage in the big games and test himself. He's been there before in Japan, and he's going to do great here."
Already, the attention is such that Cashman has worked to keep expectations in check. He went on ESPN radio last week to say that Tanaka is expected to be no better than a No. 3 starter, a comment that Cashman admitted was all about adjusting popular perception.
"There's growing pains," Cashman explained. "I just want to make sure to remind everybody, even though they might not want to hear it. … We could be getting more than a three. Maybe it's a two. Maybe it's even a one at some point."
This is a superstar town, and it has its latest global icon.
"I've heard that this place is, it can be very harsh to you at times," Tanaka said. "Just wanted to put myself through this environment and see where I can get to with my ability."
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Genetic assessments for antelope reintroduction planning in four European breeding programmes
Rob Ogden University of Edinburgh
Muhammad Ghazali Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
Luděk Čulík
Tony King
https://doi.org/10.19227/jzar.v6i3.359
Genetic management; zoo; reinforcement; roan; eland; waterbuck; kudu
The potential reintroduction value of zoo animals is often cited as a reason for maintaining captive populations. To validate this argument, it is important for conservation breeding programmes to have knowledge of the evolutionary history and population genetic diversity of their founders, so that managers can understand the possible consequences of breeding decisions in captivity and to evaluate the options for releasing individuals back to the wild. For the European captive populations of roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus), greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros or Strepsiceros spp.), common eland (Tragelaphus oryx) and waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus or Kobus spp.), there is a need to understand more about their genetic status and to evaluate their likely geographic origin within their natural distribution. We employed DNA nucleotide sequencing of the mitochondrial (mtDNA) control region to identify the maternal lineage of captive animals and inform decision making concerning future possible translocations in each species. Sequence data from sixty individual antelope were compared against existing reference data from wild populations. Sequence analysis of roan, greater kudu and common eland allowed the broad geographic origin and subspecies of each animal's maternal lineage to be inferred. For waterbuck, clear discrimination of ellipsen and defassa subspecies was not possible due to a zone of hybridization preventing unambiguous assignment of captive waterbuck to subspecies. Our findings highlight the application of molecular genetic research to a persistent challenge in zoo population management; namely the need to understand captive genetic variation relative to that found in the wild.
Ogden, R., Ghazali, M., Hopper, J., Čulík, L., & King, T. (2018). Genetic assessments for antelope reintroduction planning in four European breeding programmes. Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research, 6(3), 79–84. https://doi.org/10.19227/jzar.v6i3.359
The Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research Online ISSN 2214-7594 European Association of Zoos and Aquaria


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Kottampatti is a village in Madurai, which is district border in North direction on Nation Highway. Kottampatti is also one of revenue block in the Madurai district of Tamil Nadu, India. It has a total of 27 panchayat villages (including 247 villages).

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Last year, when tens of thousands of children traveled hundreds of miles -- risking death and starvation -- to flee violence and drug gangs in Central America, and showed up on our nation's doorstep, we faced a moral test as a country. We could either send these children back to certain death -- as many Republicans and some Democrats advocated -- or we could listen to our better angels and respond like the generous, compassionate people that we are. I didn't think it was a hard choice. I broke with leaders in the Democratic Party and said we had a moral obligation to take the refugee children in.
We face a similar moral dilemma today. You might not be hearing as much about it because it's not manifesting itself on our border. But it's no less important.
Starting as soon as today, the Dominican Republic is expected to enact a mass deportation program of potentially hundreds of thousands of Dominican residents and citizens who are Haitian, of Haitian descent, and have Haitian last names. This stems, in part, from a 2013 court ruling declaring that individuals born in the Dominican Republic would not longer automatically be considered citizens -- and that this standard would be retroactively applied all the way back to 1929. While the ruling was subsequently softened, it laid the groundwork for the Dominican Republic's efforts today to force hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrant workers and Dominicans of Haitian descent -- some of whom have spent their entire lives in the Dominican Republic -- to be forcibly deported to Haiti unless they can provide proof of their citizenship.
The nation of Haiti is still reeling from the second deadliest earthquake this century, which killed more than 100,000 people. Five years later, 85,000 Haitians remain homeless, and Haiti's economy and infrastructure remain in shambles. The influx of potentially hundreds of thousands of new residents from the Dominican Republic would only create more chaos in a country that in desperately in need of humanitarian assistance and long-term sustainable development.
These mass deportations -- if enacted -- would also be an abhorrent affront to human rights by one of our closest neighbors. Rather than being silent, the United States should work with our allies in the region and the United Nations, while also using the full force of our diplomatic might to stop this injustice. Countries that disrespect international norms will be judged in the eyes of the world, and should be held accountable.
This is just one critical step we need to take to heal relationships in our own hemisphere--not only by renewing our focus on the region, but also by examining the policies we've embraced at home and abroad, some of which have diminished our standing with our closest neighbors. Our failure to enact meaningful immigration reform diminishes our moral high ground on this issue. No party can claim to be pro-family when its policies are ripping families apart.
Speaking out against the impending injustice against Haitians in the Dominican Republic is the first thing we can do to begin to reclaim our credibility and moral standing. I intend to express my concerns directly to Dominican and Haitian leaders in the coming days. We should exercise all our leverage as a key ally and leader in the region to address this crisis and the underlying causes of forced migration.


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'The Favourite' Trailer: A Nutty Royal Love Triangle Between Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone
In many ways, it seems like Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite is refreshing salve for the devastating wounds left behind by his last film. If The Killing of a Sacred Deer left you horrified and disturbed (with that ending, how could it not?), the loopy royal shenanigans of the Greek filmmaker's latest might be exactly what you need.
The Favourite, directed by Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth) and notably the first project he didn't write, follows a zany political love triangle between Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman (The Crown, Broachchurch, Fleabag), and Emma Stone. The first teaser looked delightfully nutty, but it has nothing on the new full trailer, which is overflowing with royal madness. There's about a dozen films I genuinely can't wait to see this fall, but this one is easily in my top five. Here's the official synopsis:
Early 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne's ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under her wing and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become quite time consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps into the breach to fill in as the Queen's companion. Their burgeoning friendship gives her a chance to fulfill her ambitions and she will not let woman, man, politics or rabbit stand in her way.
As much as I love the twisted bleakness of Lanthimos' films, I must admit I'm looking forward to laughing a bit more after Sacred Deer. Though humor is nothing new for him; The Lobster is hilarious once you get past the shock of it all on a second viewing. Plus, who could deny a power struggle/queer love triangle between three actresses as great as Colman, Weisz, and Stone? Seriously, this movie can't be in my eyeballs soon enough. Stay tuned for our review once it premieres at the New York Film Festival. The Favourite hits theaters November 23.
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Gong Li in Believe it or not?
According to an unidentified source, Chinese actress Gong Li is in an unknown stage of joining Believe It or Not, a biopic of Robert Ripley, by director Tim Burton.
Jim Carrey is currently in talks to star as Robert Ripley. The film is under pre-production and is expected to be finished in 2007.
Chinese rising actress Zhang Ziyi was originally invited to lead the film, but was finally replaced by Gong Li, as the director said Gong is more suitable for the role in the film.
Gong Li has just finished the filming of Michael Mann's crime drama "Miami Vice", co-starring Oscar winning actor Jamie Foxx.
Believe It or Not picks up with Ripley at the time when he gained celebrity status through a "Believe it or Not" column that chronicled his search for the greatest oddities in the world.
Along the way, he starts to respect his unusual human discoveries as more than mere conquests to be documented.
sounds good. thanxs for sharing.
I hope so. The woman is Gorgeous!!!!!
Her again? She's in everything these days. But not bad news indeed.
Shes a pretty good actress. Definitely hot!
I'm working on Ripley's Believe it or Not with Tim Burton," Carrey told press."
Ripley was know for his many bizarre discoveries, so we asked what other crazy things we might see. "Crazy things?" Carrey questioned with a laugh and his trademark toothy grin. "Yeah, it's such an incredible world to open up. He was such a champion of the underdog [and] people who were a little bit different and freakish... He was about celebrating life. He was about proving its special-ness."
Number 23 director Joel Schumacher chimed in with his thoughts on Robert Ripley: "He was very glamorous and a great womanizer... Jim showed me a lot of photos of him. He had the most beautiful Chinese girlfriends I've ever seen in my life. They all looked like Gong Li. (Laughs) A beautful dresser, a snappy dresser."
had a boat(or boats) but never learned to swim.
think Oedekirk did a pretty good jobf!