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War memorial coming up at Jammu
Chandigarh, September 3
A special war memorial for martyrs who died after Independence in battles and counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir is being built at Jammu. The memorial will be dedicated to the three services as well as paramilitary forces.
The Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Lt-Gen S.K. Sinha (retd), pays homage to martyrs at the Sector 3 War Memorial in Chandigarh on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Pradeep Tewari
Heavy snowfall in J&K areas
Srinagar, September 3
Many high-altitude areas, including parts of Srinagar-Leh National Highway, in Jammu and Kashmir today received heavy snowfall, while incessant rains continued to lash low-lying areas of the state for the last four days.
Bus falls into stream; 40 rescued
As many as 40 persons were rescued after a passenger vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a stream in Badgam district today. An official spokesman said Transport Minister Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen, on hearing about the accident, rushed to Badgam where the passengers had fell into the flooded stream.
Hizb denies reports of Geelani-Salahuddin rift
Timber scam: challan filed against seven
Azad allocates portfolios to ministers
Killers of security personnel arrested
Azad leaves out his favourites
Musharraf criticised for Bugti's killing in military operation
Governor not in favour of self-rule in J&K
Hurriyat does not represent entire J&K: PoK website
Three killed, 14 wounded in J&K
Self-rule answer to Kashmir issue: Mehbooba
CDs of LeT chief recovered
Jammu, September 3
The security forces have seized CDs of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) chief Hafeez Sayeed from a group of infiltrators during an encounter in Poonch district recently, police sources said today.
3 jawans killed in mishap
Poonch, September 3
Three soldiers were killed and seven injured when an Army vehicle in which they were travelling skidded off the road and fell into a river in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir today.
"The memorial is special in the sense that it will have the names of civilians who have made the supreme sacrifice for the cause of Jammu and Kashmir inscribed on it," the Governor of J&K, Lt-Gen S K Sinha (retd), said today.
He was speaking to mediapersons after laying a wreath at the newly constructed War Memorial in Sector 3 here. He said remembering the war dead even after hanging up one's uniform had a special significance and sentiment in the life of a soldier.
On the issue of some reports stating that Mr Abdul Aziz Zargar of the PDP legislature party, who has been recommended for the post of the Deputy Chief Minister in the state, having links with terrorist outfits, General Sinha said that so far there was no evidence to substantiate this. He added that he would review the situation on reaching Srinagar.
A ceremonial guard from the Madras Regiment reversed arms while buglers sounded the Last Post as the General paid floral tributes at the memorial.
Earlier, he addressed Army officers at a function organised in Chandimandir. General Sinha had arrived here from Shimla after a visit to the Army Training Command.
About six inches to 1 foot of snow had accumulated on the ground in the upper reaches, including the Aferwath range in the periphery of Gulmarg in North Kashmir, official sources said.
Drass to Captain Morh, a stretch of about 20 km on the Srinagar-Leh National Highway, received about six inches of snowfall, while it was snowing heavily in Zojila.
The Amarnath shrine and its adjoining areas also experienced snow.
Mountain passes along the Line of Control in Kupwara and Baramula districts, including Sadna Pass, Z-Gali, Gurez and Bandipora were also covered by a thick layer of snow.
Snowfall was also reported in the periphery of famous hill resorts of Sonamarg, Yousmarg, Duksum, Kokernag, Verinag, Ahribal and Tousmaidan in the valley, the sources said. — PTI
He mobilised the administration and monitored the rescue operation. The spokesman said as many as 40 persons were saved by the timely action of the district administration. — UNI
They said that Al-Qaida supremo Osama Bin Laden's provocative CDs were recovered from Gursai village in Mendhar tehsil of Poonch district. Hafeez Sayeed, currently in a Pakistani jail, changed the name of his organisation to Jamaat-ud-Dawa after the LeT was banned by the USA and Pakistan.
"The Lashkar chief was clearly heard provoking youths of the state to join "jehad" and get arms training in Pakistan and occupied-Kashmir (PoK),'' the sources added.
They said the CDs had been recorded and shot at Jamaat-ud-Dawa office at Chburgi, Lahore, bearing telephone numbers (042) 7240940, 7230549 and 7231106 and e-mail address www.Jamatdawa.Org.
This is for the first time that the audio and video CDs of Hafeez Sayeed had been seized from the possession of slain militants during the 17 years of militancy in the state, the sources said. — UNI
The driver lost control of the vehicle, which was on its way from Bhilla to Mandi in the border district, on a slippery hill near Mandi, around 11 a.m. today and fell into the Mandi river, defence sources said here.
Three Army personnel were killed on the spot and seven sustained injuries, they said, adding a rescue team rushed to the spot and fished out the bodies. The injured were rushed to hospital. — PTI


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Let's Talk Fracking
The Delaware River in Autumn
As the Gulf catastrophe plays on, there is - if you can believe it - a slower-moving, much farther-reaching calamity emerging.
It is being caused by something called hydrofracturing, a process that uses a slurry of sand and toxic chemicals propelled at high pressure against layers of shale that hold trillions of cubic feet of natural gas under them. Called "fracking" for short, it is in use and growing in rural West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York.
The 2005 Energy Policy Act, a direct outgrowth of the secret Cheney energy cabal, exempts hydraulic fracturing from federal water laws and relies on states to monitor and restrict water pollution. West Virginia and Pennsylvania have largely failed in efforts to stop the process. New York State has largely succeeded - so far.
The material polluting ground water and nearby streams is called "leakoff."
Aside from the actual toxics used in the process, fracking releases huge amounts of methane that finds its way into the water supply as do unwanted large concentrations of normally harmless elements such as iron and aluminum.
Already wells in central Pennsylvania have been closed and the drilling and gas companies have begun trucking in potable water by tanker truck to the affected areas.
Reports of people passing out during their morning showers and developing lesions on their skin have become too pervasive and persistent to ignore.
Most ominously for those in the Northeast, this Pennsylvania drilling is going on in the Delaware River watershed. The Delaware is one of the most pristine rivers in the United States, despite its proximity to the large population centers of metro New York and Philadelphia.
More drilling has been planned or been proposed much closer to New York City's main water supply.
According to a report in Vanity Fair:
"Volatile organic compounds (carbon-based gaseous substances with a variety of detrimental health effects) and other dangerous chemicals are burned off directly into the air during this on-site compression [liquefaction] process. Meanwhile, the returned fracking fluid, now called waste water, is either trucked off or stored in large, open-air, tarp-lined pits on site, where it is allowed to evaporate. The other portion of the fluid remains deep underground—no one really knows what happens to it."
Each well that is opened requires between 5 and 8 million gallons of water to operate. This is the equivalent of 650,000 5-minute showers. (It has to be trucked in, requiring 800 to 1,200 round trips by heavy trucks to each site. New York has forbidden the use of municipal water for this purpose, so if fracking ever goes ahead in the state it will require even longer-distance trucking tactics.) And what goes into the ground must come out, somewhere, sometime. In the case of fracking 1/3rd of the water used is returned as polluted waste water.
"There has never been any evidence of fracking ever causing direct contamination of fresh groundwater in Pennsylvania or anywhere else," said Scott Perry, another Oil and Gas Management official, as recently as April 2010.
This is patently untrue, another instance of the lies that the energy industry has told the American public about oil, coal, and gas extraction, all the while dragging their feet on the way to a clean energy future.
In east-central Pennsylvania, whole towns have been affected by fracking, homes have been shuttered, schools have been tested and their air found to be polluted.
What chemicals are used in the process? Hold onto your gas masks:
They include such substances as benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, boric acid, monoethanolamine, xylene, diesel-range organics, methanol, formaldehyde, hydrochloric acid, ammonium bisulfite, 2-butoxyethanol, and 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one.
The last chemical is known as a "bad actor" in the field of toxin studies. It is an ingredient in pesticides and is deemed a highly acutely toxin, a cholinesterase inhibitor (endocrine system disrupter), a known/probable carcinogen, and known groundwater pollutant or known reproductive or developmental toxicant.
An intensive study conducted by New York City, concerned about the spread of hydro fracturing into the city's 1,585-square-mile watershed in the Catskill Mountains and upper Delaware River basin concluded that "Intensive natural gas well development in the watershed brings an increased level of risk to the water supply: risk of degrading source water quality, risk to long-term watershed health... risk of damaging critical infrastructure, and the risk of exposing watershed residents and potentially New York City residents to chronic low levels of toxic chemicals."
The city's report went on to say that while a single well may be environmentally benign, the risks become unacceptable "when evaluated in the context of hundreds or thousands of other wells."
Wes Gillingham, program director of Catskill Mountainkeeper, said of the report, "One of the reasons industry could get away with these incidents is that there was a lack of science. New York City used reputable geologists and came up with the science."
Finally, the ineluctables.
As surprising as this may be to those unfamiliar with the Northeast woodlands and meadows, the rural areas of Pennsylvania and New York are relatively unspoiled. (New York State, for instance, has two of the country's roughly two dozen big city unfiltered water supplies: New York City's, the nation's biggest, and Syracuse's. Both would be put at extreme risk should fracking for "natural" gas be implemented wholesale.)
Moreover, the regions under the shadow of this threat have largely avoided industrialization and even extensive residential development. The old mixed farmlands and incidentally preserved lands and waters have been little changed over centuries. Second-growth forests in some areas are now close to 200 years old.
One gas industry spokesman, fighting his dark version of the good fight in Pennsylvania, proclaimed that the drilling and fracking had produced more than 300 jobs already in that state. That's about as many people as attend a large elementary school.
That is worth jeopardizing the water of tens of millions of people?
Put up the windmills now, build the solar panels. Use the car less. Drive at 55. Turn off the lights.
Labels: Catskills, Delaware, Delaware River, fracking, hydrofracturing, natural gas, New York, pollution, water supply
I live in Allegany County near the PA border and there are over 500 ordinary gas and oil wells in my heighborhood _ no Marcellus horizontal well but all of the othes too are hydrofracked because the odl 5 point intejection to stimulate a well to produce oil and gas has resulted in polluting the drinking water so everybody is hydrofracking. Four neighbor I know have had their drinking water polluted. The first was a 100 years old farmer and he did not care, two more were intimidated and refused to speak up for various reasons. The fourth is a young Mennonite family and they are very reliable persons and they told their story here. Their drinking water was polluted from hydrofracking in 2009:
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Dr. Quigley specializes in caring for hospitalized children and is director of undergraduate medical education at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. Additionally, she is an assistant professor of pediatrics for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She joined hospital staff in 2015.
Dr. Quigley earned her medical degree from Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. She trained in pediatrics at American Family Children's Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, where she also served as chief resident. Dr. Quigley then earned a master's of medical education from the University of Iowa.
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McKinney City Councilman La'Shadion Shemwell Going To Court To Try To Stop Recall Election"I should not have to take your disrespect," Shemwell said to the mayor and city council during Tuesday night's meeting.
NASA's 1st All-Female Spacewalk Cancelled Because Of Spacesuit Sizing
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MELBOURNE, Fla. (CBSDFW.COM) – There's one small step being made in outer space this week… but is it a step forward?
Two female astronauts had been scheduled to make history, by stepping outside the International Space Station (ISS) together to install new batteries on a pair of solar arrays. But it turns out NASA doesn't have enough spacesuits that fit the women.
Astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain had been scheduled to conduct the spacewalk together on Friday.
Some more shots of the #spacewalk on Friday – was privileged to work with my friend and colleague @NASA_Astronauts @AstroHague pic.twitter.com/KueUo7HXFm
— Anne McClain (@AstroAnnimal) March 25, 2019
NASA said they talked with McClain after her first spacewalk in the series, on March 22 with astronaut Nick Hague, and she found that she wasn't able to maneuver comfortably in her size large spacesuit and that a medium-size fit her best.
NASA said they then decided to adjust the spacewalk assignments, "Because only one medium-size torso can be made ready by Friday, March 29, Koch will wear it."
NASA has two medium-size hard upper torso spacesuits on the ISS but only one of them has been properly configured for a spacewalk.
"When you have the option of just switching the people, the mission becomes more important than a cool milestone," NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz told the New York Times.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch (center) assists fellow astronauts Nick Hague (left) and Anne McClain in their U.S. spacesuits on March 22, 2019. (credit: NASA)
As part of Expedition 59, the astronauts are scheduled to take three spacewalks to complete work on the ISS. Friday's mission will be the second. According to NASA it should last about seven hours.
But McClain and Koch will still be making history this month by becoming the 13th and 14th women to perform a spacewalk. McClain is scheduled to perform her next spacewalk on April 8 with Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques.
Both McClain and Koch were part of the 2013 NASA astronaut class, half of which were women.


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, Japanese footballer
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Landshut is a Landkreis (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Kelheim, Straubing-Bogen, Dingolfing-Landau, Rottal-Inn, Mühldorf, Erding and Freising. The city of Landshut is enclosed by, but does not belong to the district. It is nonetheless its administrative seat.
Many residents work at the Dingolfing BMW (formerly Glas) car plant which expanded massively during the 1970s. Others commute daily to Munich, which is about 46 miles (74 km) to the southwest.
The first research nuclear power plant at Niederaichbach was torn down and returned to greenfield status in 1995. Two other nuclear reactors, known as Isar I and Isar II, in the Essenbach district remain operational: nuclear power generation remains a significant local employer.
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For readers of Diane Chamberlain and Heather Gudenkauf comes a gripping novel of suspense about a mother determined to avenge her daughter's murder—no matter the cost to her husband, to her family, and to herself.
When Jules Bright hears a knock on the door, the last person she expects to find is a detective bringing her the news she's feared for the last three years.
Jules's life now is very different from the one she knew before Amelia shattered it completely. Knowing the girl is coming back, Jules must decide what to do. Friends and family gather around, fearing for Jules's safety. They know that justice was never served; each of them wants to make the Quentin girl pay.


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Now my name is Ting
CANGZHOU (SE): The diocese of Xianxian (Cangzhou) in Hebei province, received a group of relatives of Father Ting Ming-Cheng, as the Jesuit missionary, Father Ghestin Anatole, is known to local people.
The French missionary devoted 53 years of his life to the mission in China, mostly in the Hebei area. Local people regarded the visit from his relatives as a great honour, as the priest's memory is still...
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Second Sunday of Advent
December 9 – SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT.
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Baruch 5:1-9;
Philippians 1:4-6, 8-11;
Luke 3:1-6.
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In the news lately, there has been talk about USC and Alabama scheduling a football game together in 2016. With that, the myth machine is again out in full force trumpeting the Trojans revolutionary role in breaking down the racial barrier in college football.
As the story goes, a segregated University of Alabama team under legendary Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant played USC in 1970 at Alabama. In that game, USC with its African-American players, trounced Alabama 41-21. From that single game, USC showed the Alabama coaches, fans, the south, and the entire nation that all-white teams are a thing of the past and these teams must integrate to compete with the likes of progressive schools like USC. Over the years dubious statements and myths started sprouting like African-American Trojan player Sam Cunningham (or USC depending on the source) did more in one game to integrate southern football than Martin Luther King did in 20 years. A popular myth is that Bryant was so impressed with USC's Cunningham that he took the Trojan running back into the Alabama locker room and told his players that Cunningham is what a real football player looks like.
There is a little bit of truth to some of this. For instance, southern teams did start recruiting African-Americans more heavily after that game. Perhaps the resistance to integration was not as forceful as the need to win. Perhaps it was just time and had nothing to do with the 1970 game. Other SEC teams were already integrating before this game.
However, when the facts are examined, there is also a lot of myth surrounding this game as well.
For instance, the myth that Alabama never played integrated teams before playing USC. That is one of the reasons this game is supposed to be so important.
Actually, the Tide played integrated schools before the Trojans, starting with Penn State in 1959, and later Nebraska and Oklahoma.
Another myth is that Alabama was a segregated program and the USC game changed that. Close but not entirely accurate. Bryant had already started recruiting African-Americans before that game and the Alabama program was in the process of being an integrated team. During the USC-Alabama game, Wilbur Jackson was a scholarship freshman wide receiver sitting on the Alabama team sidelines. He was also African-American. He didn't play in the game because at the time, the NCAA did not allow freshman to play. Bryant had been offering scholarships to African-Americans and Jackson was the first to accept and enroll.
While to their credit, USC did have African-Americans on their team in 1970, it was not always that way. We were unable to find any evidence that USC recruited African-American players as trailblazers in integrating college football. In fact, it seems the opposite and they were late to the party. Just like Alabama.
In our research, we could find very little information regarding USC and African-American football players before the mid-1950's. There was a Trojan African-American offensive lineman in the 1920's named Brice Taylor. Taylor was a starter and USC's VERY FIRST All-American. You would think USC would trumpet a man like Brice Taylor from here to eternity, wouldn't you? But they don't. In fact, they didn't even mention him in their football media guide until the 1950's and he didn't get inducted into the USC football hall of fame until 1995. 70 years after he played!
After Mr. Taylor, there appeared to be quite a drought of African-American players on USC's roster. The next African-American player we could find was a whopping 30 years later in the 1950's with C.R. Roberts. Roberts was an African-American Trojan fullback who had to visit UCLA in order to join certain clubs. He had no choice since USC allowed all-white clubs. Subjected to racial discrimination and bigotry at USC, Roberts to his credit stuck it out. Interestingly enough, The USC website didn't mention this. Instead they honor Roberts for making "social history" by being on the first integrated team to play in Texas. We guess that kind of spin is called making lemonade out of lemons.
Perhaps most ironic, today's USC Trojan African-American football players practice on Howard Jones Field. Our research could not find any evidence of Jones recruiting or offering a scholarship to a single African-American before the early 1950's. Jones inherited Brice Taylor, as mentioned above, from the prior coaching staff.
While a football game that changed history makes a great USC public relations story, we believe the men and women who gave their hearts and lives to effect change in racial equality is the real story. Their work was not a game, but a brave, powerful, profound statement made after decades of struggle.
For a deeper look into USC's history of integration, or lack thereof, read our opinion piece called "How to Out-Recruit USC Part III."
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Q: How to use two servers in one sql statement? So I need to try and use two different servers in one SQL statement. Here is my query so far:
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Where not exists (select p2.SecondField
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I do not use the First Server in the first part of the statement because that Server has already been selected.
I am using Microsoft SQL Server

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I wrote this on my late night flight home last Friday.
There was a time in my life where traveling for work gave me an escape from reality. Escape from unhappy relationships and escape some realities of life that I didn't want to face. Work would ask if I could go to a warmer city for three weeks or even six, and I'd gladly pack my bags, planning adventures for each weekend. I made friends in both cities; a little support network of dinner companions and road-trip passengers. Meanwhile my life back home was stagnant; treading water but far from making any progress - and that's exactly how I wanted it.
There came a point in my life where I was ready for more. I had begun a romantic relationship with my best friend and I no longer wanted to escape. Traveling got on my nerves as I dealt with the TSA and flight delays, and found myself counting down the hours until I was back home. Sometimes date nights were burritos at the 24-hour mexican restaurant after my flight arrived at 11pm. Sometimes watching movies together over video chat from the other side of the globe. Hardly ideal, but we made it work.
After we married, my amazing boss helped me transition to a client who would require shorter, less frequent trips and I settled into life in Des Moines in the house James and I have made into a home. It is amazing how homesick I feel when I travel now. Even four nights away from James, my bonus kid, and our dogs seems too long.
My role is changing again and there is more travel in my future. This week was the first of two weeks in Phoenix, Arizona, and I'm currently somewhere over Kansas as I fly home for thirty-six hours. I'm sure he and our friends are at Friday night trivia, and hopefully will have a big win to report when he picks me up at 11:45 tonight.
Thirty six hours is enough time for two photoshoots, a bridal shower, and a wedding consult, plus a date night Saturday before I fly out again midday Sunday. I know this is my first trip for the year, but I'm already exhausted thinking about how hard the back and forth can be. And I'm super bummed because my bonus kid is on a roadtrip for a school extracurricular and won't be home until a few hours after I fly out again. But traveling home is always worth it to see the wonderful guy whose support makes my busy life possible.


meeting together for a certain purpose.
together for a certain purpose.
to know for whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.
Our founder Mike Florance had the foresight to establish a club with no fixed abode where like-minded golfers could get together once a month to enjoy each other's company and at the same time raise money for those less fortunate and the furtherance of golf.
In 1960 the Transvaal Nomads Club (now Gauteng Nomads) was established followed shortly by Natal in 1963 and Western Province in 1965.
From there the concept spread like wildfire throughout the country and today the club comprises twelve clubs in South Africa, three in Zimbabwe, one each in Botswana, Swaziland and New Zealand and four clubs in Australia.
The Border club are an extremely proud club and like to think that we are what a Nomads club should be all about. We tend to travel very well as a club and have a great sense of camaraderie.
To view more information about Nomads South Africa and our full Nomads history, please visit the link below.


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By VOA
Safe drinking water is fundamental to healthy lives and prosperous communities. To focus attention on the importance of clean water and to advocate for the sustainable management of fresh water resources, on March 22nd of every year we observe International World Water Day.
Every person needs at least twenty liters of water per day for drinking, cooking, sanitation, and hygiene needs alone. Yet some 2 billion people world-wide do not have access to safe drinking water, and more than 2.4 billion people do not have access to improved sanitation for adequate disposal of human waste. People who do not have access to clean water and sanitation are at greatly increased risk of infectious diseases, which can lead to physical and cognitive impairments and premature death.
Contaminated water and poor sanitation are among the main causes of severe diarrheal diseases in the very young, the second leading cause of death in children under five years old. According to the World Health Organization, or W-H-O, some 760,000 young children die of diarrheal diseases across the world every year. It is further estimated that as few as five incidences of diarrhea in children under the age of two can lead to lifelong effects, such as developmental delays and stunting.
Clearly, an adequate supply of safe water and access to basic sanitation are the most basic necessities of life. But the importance of clean water goes so much further than the assurance of hydration and cleanliness.
This year's theme for the United Nations World Water Day is Better Water, Better Jobs. The slogan is meant to bring attention to the fact that nearly all jobs, regardless of the sector, depend directly on water. Cleaner water makes for a safer, more productive environment, results in healthier food, and contributes to a greener economy and sustainable development.
But ensuring that people everywhere have access to all the clean water they need, where they need it, when they need it, reliably and sustainably, requires global cooperation.
On this World Water Day, the United States remains steadfast in our commitment to achieving a water-secure future, and we invite all stakeholders to partner with us to save water and save lives.
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The Access to Seeds Index is produced and published by the Access to Seeds Foundation, part of the World Benchmarking Alliance.
The Access to Seeds Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Its activities are overseen by an international supervisory board. Multi-stakeholder expert committees review and approve the index methodology. Financial support is provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and AgriCord. The European Union identified the index as one of the key contributions by member states to the sustainable development agenda.
The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) was established to develop corporate sustainability benchmarks that rank companies on their contribution to achieving the SDGs and encourage a race to the top. The WBA was founded by Aviva, the United Nations Foundation, Index Initiative and the Business & Sustainable Development Commission. The WBA is supported by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


I create images because I want to freeze time. My images are visual representation of my self at a certain time.
My body of work explores the idea of transience, absence, and longing.
The purpose of art is remembering.
I want the public to relate to my images. I want them to think that my images can speak in behalf of them, that they have felt what I felt. I don't have a particular audience in mind, yet.
My journey to photography started with curiosity. I wasn't trained or enrolled at an art school thus I started reading and looking at images.
My work as a professional photographer isn't as stable as my work as a photo editor and graphic designer. In all honesty, I don't expect anything from my photography; I just want to do it for myself. If anything great happens, that's a bonus.
Sometimes it does but it does not greatly affect my work.
Living in Davao City while growing my sense of art, I wasn't able to really work with the said people. I have had solo exhibits but it was mostly curated by me.
Although I long for my works to be curated and edited for I know that it is what it needs.
I want to be part of a movement that will inspire the young creatives to go outside of Instagram.
Location: Lives and works in Davao City/Metro Manila, Philippines.


Greece launches an international tender to sell a majority stake in Hellenic Petroleum as part of its third international bailout.
ATHENS, April 18 (Reuters) - Greece on Wednesday launched an international tender to sell a majority stake in Hellenic Petroleum as part of its third international bailout.
Greece's privatisation agency said it will sell no less than 50.1 percent in the country's biggest oil refiner and interested investors must submit expressions of interest by May 18.
Major shareholders Greece and Paneuropean Oil and Industrial Holding agreed this month to divest at least 50.1 percent of the company.
Hellenic is Europe's third biggest oil refiner based on its market value of 2.6 billion euros.
Paneuropean Oil owns 45.5 percent of Hellenic and Athens holds a 35.5 percent stake.
In the tender document published on its website, the privatisation agency said the sale will be an all cash transaction.
The stake that each of the main shareholders will divest will be specified at a later stage, when short-listed investors will be invited to submit binding offers, the agency said.
Would-be suitors need to have at least three years of experience in the oil and gas industry, while in the case of a consortium, at least one member must meet this requirement.


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While '211' in progress, Nicolas Cage (mostly) plays it cool
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Nicolas Cage in "211." | MOMENTUM PICTURES
Nicolas Cage plays the obligatory cop-about-to-retire in "211," and you know what that means, right?
He's in for a HAILSTORM OF GUNFIRE.
That's hardly a spoiler alert. Has there ever been a movie about a cop who's about to retire that features scenes of him bidding farewell to everyone at the station, clinking glasses at the sendoff party and then driving away with the spouse in the RV?
Movies starring Nic Cage are like haircuts: Every two months or so, you're due for another one. "211" (as in "two-eleven," as in police scanner terminology for a robbery) is Cage's eighth film of 2017/2018, and with the exception of one brief and fantastically over-the-top meltdown scene, he delivers a disappointingly even-keeled performance in a film that is in dire need of ferocious overacting.
Anything to break through the mediocrity.
The opening scenes of "211" would lead one to believe we're about to watch some sort of international thriller. When a smug arms dealer in a war-torn land stiffs a team of ex-military mercenaries, they gun him down — but before executing him, they get him to reveal the location of an American bank where he has secretly deposited a sizable chunk of cash.
Cut to Small Town, USA, where Office Mike Chandler (Cage), still mourning the loss of his wife to cancer, is going through the motions on his last days before retirement.
Mike's partner is his son-in-law, Steve (Dwayne Cameron), who has just learned on this very morning his wife Lisa (Sophie Skelton), who is also Mike's estranged daughter, is having their first baby.
Oh boy. You know what that means, right?
Mike's in for a HAILSTORM OF GUNFIRE.
Mike and Steve are hosting a ride-along with a teenager named Kenny (Michael Rainey Jr.), who got into trouble for fighting back against school bullies. (This provides a clunky opportunity for some mild social commentary, given Kenny is an African-American teenager who is almost always filming on his phone, riding in the back seat of a police car with two white cops.)
Ori Pfeffer plays Tre, the leader of the small band of mercenaries (one of the henchmen is played by Cage's son Weston) who outfit and arm themselves as if going to war before they storm a local bank holding "their" money. (The five gunmen talk about how the score could be as much as a million dollars, or $200,000 apiece. Geez. If the smug international arms dealer executing multi-zillion-dollar transactions had just paid them in the first place, he'd be alive today!)
While making a coffee stop, Mike and Steve notice a suspicious vehicle illegally parked in front of the bank — and that's all it takes for the getaway driver to exit his vehicle and start firing away.
The rest of "211" is primarily about the extended shootouts between the local police and the heavily armed gunmen, with the body count piling up and the ridiculousness mounting.
Things really go off the rails after Steve sustains a potentially life-threatening gunshot wound. Lisa shows up at the hospital and bursts into the operating room where doctors and nurses are frantically working to save Steve.
Of course a doctor says, "Ma'am, you can't be in here! Let us do our jobs!"
But Lisa retorts, "This is my husband! I'm not going anywhere."
Um, what?
As it happens, Kenny's mom is the chief surgeon, and when Mom's phone rings, Lisa helpfully takes the phone out of her pocket and holds it up to Mom's ear so Mom and Kenny can talk — while Mom is still IN THE OPERATING ROOM.
Meanwhile, poor Steve is in danger of flatlining. Hang up and get back to work, Mom!
We're told "211" is based on the true story of the 1997 Battle of North Hollywood, when gunmen armed with illegal automatic weapons engaged in a bloody shootout with members of the LAPD, who had only pistols and revolvers.
But "211" is not set in Los Angeles nor does it take place in the 1990s. It's just a muddled, overcrowded, trigger-happy heist movie brimming with clichés while constantly trying our patience.
Momentum Pictures presents a film written and directed by York Shackleton. Rated R (for violence and language throughout). Running time: 86 minutes. Opens Friday at AMC Woodridge and on demand.
Sophomore Luca Carbonaro helps Wheaton-Warrenville South snap Geneva's 15-game winning streak
Luca Carbonaro was remarkably efficient on Friday in Wheaton, scoring 18 points on just eight shots to lead Wheaton-Warrenville South to a 56-24 win against Geneva.
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Pritzker announces $13 million expansion of pre-apprenticeship program designed to promote diversity, inclusion
"We're ensuring that Illinoisans across the state have access to the resources and wraparound support that sets them up for success," Pritzker said in marking the second year expansion at St. Augustine College in Uptown. St. Augustine's Aurora and Grayslake locations received $1 million in funding for the program.
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Chicago blood banks look to build trust, end shortages under proposed new donation rules
The FDA announced a draft of new guidelines Friday that would end mandatory three-month abstinence periods for men who have sex with men. For Illinois hospitals and blood banks, the change is long overdue.
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Nittedal es un municipio situado en el área metropolitana de Oslo, en la provincia de Viken. Tiene una población estimada, a inicios de 2023, de .

Está ubicado al sureste del país, al oeste de la frontera con Suecia y junto al lago Mjøsa y el río Glomma.

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Provincia de Viken
Municipios de Noruega


Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 introduces the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant or ExDeploy, a new Web-based tool that can help you with your Exchange deployment. ExDeploy asks you a few questions about your current environment and then generates a custom checklist and procedures that help simplify your deployment. To access ExDeploy, see Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant.
For more information about this scenario, see Deploying Exchange 2010.
For more information about this scenario, see Hybrid Deployments.
For more information about this scenario, see Understanding Cloud-Only Deployments.


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A look back: Nov. 28
Boston Store
This Fort Dodge retail establishment began in 1898 as Davidson Brothers' Store. It was first located at 526 Central Ave.
In 1900, Adolph Tuerke purchased the Davidson Brothers' Store in Fort Dodge and renamed it. The store was doing so well that in 1902, it expanded to have a second entrance on North Sixth Street.
The store moved in September 1914 to the building which still bears its name.
When this store opened in its final location, it occupied four floors and the basement. The upper two floors were offices. The store included a tea room.
In September 1922, the store suffered a devastating fire. The fire also damaged the buildings on either side. Louis Charon was in Europe when the fire happened and received a telegram informing him of the fire when he docked in New York.
With the remodel of the store, it expanded to include the top two floors for merchandise, instead of the offices that had been there.
Today, the building contains offices and a restaurant.
Taking care of Fort Dodge
From rags to rugs
Escaping boredom during the break
Webster County 4-H'ers hold 2020 awards banquet virtually
The annual Webster County 4-H Awards & Volunteer Recognition Banquet program was recorded and shared virtually ...
'It was a super God wink'


Montreal Impact selected Vancouver Whitecaps FC midfielder Jeb Brovsky as their fifth selection in the 2011 MLS Expansion Draft, while Philadelphia Union picked up Whitecaps FC midfielder Nizar Khalfan in the league's Waiver Draft. Vancouver also confirmed that defender Bilal Duckett has been waived.
Brovsky, 22, joined Whitecaps FC last January after being selected in the second round (19th overall) of the 2011 MLS SuperDraft. This past season, the native of Lakewood, Colorado, made 24 regular season appearances for 1,509 minutes of action, while also playing in one Nutrilite Canadian Championship match.
Khalfan, 23, made 22 regular season appearances for 1,066 minutes of action, while also playing in four Nutrilite Canadian Championship matches last season. The native of Mtwara, Tanzania, arrived in Vancouver midway through the 2009 United Soccer Leagues First Division season, and in three seasons with Whitecaps FC, Khalfan made 58 appearances for 3,029 minutes of action.
Duckett, 22, joined Whitecaps FC after being selected in the third round (37th overall) of the 2011 MLS SuperDraft. In his rookie MLS season with the Blue and White, the native of Macon, Georgia, made four regular season appearances for 226 minutes of action.
In 1974, Vancouver Whitecaps FC played their inaugural season in the North American Soccer League, and in 1979, the club won the NASL Soccer Bowl championship. From 1987 to 1992, as a member of the Canadian Soccer League, Vancouver won four straight CSL titles. In 2002, Whitecaps FC created a full club model that encompasses professional teams for men and women, extensive youth development and grassroots participation programs, facility development, and the Whitecaps Foundation to support specific initiatives related to health and wellness through soccer. Since 2004, Whitecaps FC have won two United Soccer Leagues First Division championships and two USL W-League championships. This year, Whitecaps FC began their inaugural season in Major League Soccer on Bell Pitch at Empire Field and hosted the club's home opener in early October on Bell Pitch at BC Place. For additional information on Vancouver Whitecaps FC, visit whitecapsfc.com.


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Q: Regular Expression - Perl I am trying to get the a sub string from a string using regular expression but it getting error as my regular expression is not working. Can any one help me out in writing correct one :
Here is the Pattern on which i am trying to write the regular expression :
MSM8_BD_V4.3_1-1_idle-Kr_Run3.xlsx
MSM8_BD_V4.3_2-6_mp3-Kr_Run2.xlsx
MSM8_BD_V4.3_Camera_snap-7.xlsx
MSM8_BD_V4.3_Camera_snap-8.xlsx
MSM8_BD_V4.3_Radio_202.16-0.xlsx
I am trying to get the bold part of the substring .
below is the Regular expression i tried:
my $line = "MSM8939_BD_V4.3_1-1_idle-Kratos_Run3.xlsx";
my ($captured) = $line =~ /MSM8939_BD_V4\.\3\_[d]*(.+?)\w/gx;
print "$captured\n";

A: [d] matches nothing but the literal letter d.  You want \d, without the brackets, to match a digit.  However, it looks like you also want to include underscores. That would be [\d_].
Try this:
/^MSM8_BD_V4\.3_[\d_]*-?([^-]+)/

If I run this on your input (with e.g. perl -nE 'say $1 if /^MSM8_BD_V4\.3_[\d_]*-?([^-]+)/'), I get this output:
1_idle
6_mp3
Camera_snap
Camera_snap
Radio_202.16

A: my $line = "MSM8939_BD_V4.3_1-1_idle-Kratos_Run3.xlsx";

for (qw(
    MSM8939_BD_V4.3_1-1_idle-Kratos_Run3.xlsx
    MSM8939_BD_V4.3_2-6_mp3-Kratos_Run2.xlsx
    MSM8939_BD_V4.3_Camera_snap-7.xlsx
    MSM8939_BD_V4.3_Camera_snap-8.xlsx
    MSM8939_BD_V4.3_Radio_202.16-0.xlsx
)) {
    my ($captured) = ($_ =~ /.*[-_]([^\W_]+_[\w.]+)-/gx);
    print "$captured\n";
}

Use a greedy pattern to go as far as possible, then grab the last two strings that look like what you want which are still followed by a hyphen.
As does the other answer which was just edited while I was typing, this produces:
1_idle
6_mp3
Camera_snap
Camera_snap
Radio_202.16

This one may be more general in that the beginning of the substring is not hard-coded, i.e., you could use it in other cases which did not necessarily start with MSM8_BD_V4.3.


Starting Tuesday, I will visit two restaurants a day over five days with readers -- aboard the Munchmobile. The overall winner will be announced by live stream on Wednesday, March 23.
Here is the schedule for the finalist visits in our N.J.'s best Italian restaurant showdown.


This short film celebrates the words and language of one Oprah Winfrey – with selected text from various shows across her TV career. However, it gives those words new context and meaning by seeing them performed by people who were affected or influenced by them. It gives her words a sense of poetry.