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Референдумът за независимост на Иракски Кюрдистан през 2017 г. се провежда на 25 септември.

Резултатите показват, че 92,73 процента от участвалите се обявяват за независимост.

Бюлетин
Бюлетинът при гласуването е на кюрдски, арабски, турски и сирийски език. В него е поставен въпросът: "Искате ли районът на Кюрдистан и районите с кюрди извън администрацията на региона да станат независима държава?"

Иракски Кюрдистан
През юни 2017 г. основните политически партии в Иракски Кюрдистан взимат решение да проведат референдум за независимост. Планирано е да се проведе във всичките 3 области на Кюрдския автономен район (наричан Иракски Кюрдистан), както и в съседни области с кюрдско население, за които регионалното правителство на Кюрдския автономен район и централното правителство на Ирак.

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Страни, чиито правителства се обявяват за провеждане на референдума:
 : През септември 2017 г. министър-председателят Бенямин Нетаняху заявява, че подкрепя опита на кюрдите да създадат собствена държава по законен начин.

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  На 18 септември 2017 г. генералният секретар Антониу Гутериш на Организацията на обединените нации се обявява срещу провеждането на референдума.

Страни, чиито правителства се обявяват против провеждане на референдума:
 : В изявление от април 2017 г. премиерът на Ирак Хайдер ал Абади коментира, че уважава правото на референдум за независимост на кюрдите, но не счита момента за подходящ за провеждането му. На 12 септември 2017 г. парламентът на Ирак гласува, че провеждането на референдума е незаконно. На 18 септември 2017 г. Върховният съд на Ирак издава заповед за спиране на организирането на референдума.
 : На 10 юни 2017 г. говорителят на външното министерство на Иран Бахрам Гасеми заявява, че "принципната позиция на Иран е да подкрепя териториалната цялост на Ирак".
 : На 22 септември 2017 г. президентът Доналд Тръмп при среща с президента на Турция заявява, че не подкрепя референдума за независимост.
 : На 22 септември 2017 г. Съветът за национална сигурност на Турция се събира на 3-часово заседание, председателствано от президента Реджеп Ердоган, във връзка с планирания референдум. На следващия ден парламентът на Турция се събира на извънредно заседание, за да удължи мандата на въоръжените сили за военна намеса в Ирак при необходимост.

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Референдуми в Иракски Кюрдистан
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2017 година в Азия

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Q: How to append a df to another df, without NaN values I want to append df1 to data. I used the code combined = data.join(df1). But it returns a NaN values in the column i'm trying to add. The data column was extracted from yahoo finance which has a date column that i am unable to get rid of.
It returns this, which isnt what i want.
Could anyone assist me in appending the two df's together and getting the Date column into a reasonable column that I can edit on

A: We can use DataFrame.fillna:
data = data.fillna(df1)

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TOTTENHAM reportedly want to bring Chelsea flop Andre Schurrle back to the Premier League.
Schurrle scored 14 goals in 64 appearances for Chelsea during an 18 month spell at Stamford Bridge.
The German left the Blues to join Wolfsburg in February 2015 after becoming frustrated at being used as an impact substitute.
And the report adds Spurs have emerged as a potential suitors for the German World Cup winner.
Mauricio Pochettino's side currently sit second in the Premier League table, five points behind leaders Leicester with four games to go.


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Creating The Sunrise
The Sunrise Club is a new play about young students who experience their last sunrises on Earth before moving to a new planet. Writer/Producer/Director/Actor Tara Turnbull has created a theatrical experience that combines philosophical questions with the wide-eyed innocence of youth and the result is a mix of style and ideas that seeks to find an answer in a world where there may not be one.
The political world is divided between The Stayers (on Earth) and The Leavers (of Earth). There is a dramatic question of whether or not memories and experiences can either be replicated or replaced. Ms. Turnbull, along with her enthusiastic cast, do their best to infuse the world with a mixture of apathetic youthfulness and idealism that gives the play a simultaneously hopeful and depressing tone.
The play also features original music, 13 songs. The songs are sung A cappella, and sometimes feel like a showcase for singers, and Ms. Turnbull has quite a lovely, resonant voice, more than moving the story along. But in the end, this is a theatrical experiment that seems to be the genesis of something quite profound and moving.
I recently discussed the play with Tara, to help get to the heart of what she wants to say about this very ambitious project. As a writer, director, producer, and star of a production the development process is perhaps the most creatively important to grow a piece of theater.
What was your inspiration for this play?
TT: My inspiration for The Sunrise Club grew out of self-awareness and awareness of others, empathy. My inspiration is and has been a series of questions including:
"If the sun did not rise, would it still be considered morning?"
What if climate change remained an untreated problem. What might be solutions, options, alternatives?
I am inspired by inhaling and exhaling, by a notion of new-ness, of novelty that I observed in myself and in our society. I was induced by my frustration at not being part of the conversation at the beginning of the world in which I live, by the givenness of the circumstances.
In that spirit, my plays tend to begin before the audience enters, and to end after the audience exits.
I wrote a play about my young life, its characters, experiences, environment, perceptions, to counter the songlyrics that taunted me 'You're young. You don't know anything. You don't know love. La dee da. Ha ha ha." But on the other hand, isn't being a student an exemplary status? We must be part of the conversation, we must be able to pose and be posed "the big questions" in order to really reflect upon the value and opportunity of our youth.
As a theatre artist and student, I wanted to make time and space onstage to re-introduce myself and others to the beautiful, invisible wall which we all assume, the wall that has been introduced to us, the wall that was built even before we got into the building, the wall through which we pass every day, The 4th Wall.
At a long black laboratory table I sat on a hard stool in one of my high school science classes. An image teased my brain: Two students, silhouetted, sat on a hilltop, conversed about the meaning and scope of their young knowledge. Their word maintained all weight, and they communicated on a level that was candid, sincere, unique.
Interestingly enough, I, envisioner of the voyeuristic vision, was neither of those students. They were completely separate characters from myself. But I was not necessarily interested in inserting myself into the conversation as much as I became interested in analyzing the nature of the imagined exclusion, or exclusion within my imagination, and then, the potential inclusion in that important conversation. Madeline Rose is a character who travels through a journey of awareness, empathy with other human beings, groundedness.
I was inspired to tell a story in which a young African-American girl with long natural hair could let her hair down, let her hair out, work with and through the cliches to which she has been exposed and taught. I was inspired to put her into the position to ponder questions that resound.
As actors, we study the urgency of speaking, of acting. More than fulfilling or pursuing a desire, or achieving an objective, I had never had such a strong feeling of urgency to tell a story, to say these words, to sing these songs, to share, as I had and have with The Sunrise Club
Is the main character Madeline Rose based on anyone you know?
TT: I don't say "main character". There are simply personages in The Sunrise Club that the audience gets to know better than others.
Madeline Rose is based upon those who live in the experiences of being sun-kissed, who are 'so much in the sun' that it shows up in their skin. She is based upon those who have been made to feel as though the sheer volume and texture of the follicles that grow out of their scalps could weigh down deeply upon the vertebraes of their spinal cords.
Madeline is representative of someone who no one had bothered to ask certain questions or to be aware of certain things about the world, about herself
The sun has a great deal to do with our aesthetic differences as human beings. I wanted to put the sun at center, because it is, in fact, the center of one of the systems upon which we operate. I wanted to look at the sunrise as the spectacular, theatrical event that it is.
What philosophical or existential issues are you trying to work through in this play?
TT: I earned my Bachelor Of Arts At Bard College At Simon's Rock in Theatre and Philosophical Studies. I wrote my thesis, a play plus philosophical analysis, Being-On-Stage: 9 Phenomenological Movements For Solo Actress based in Being And Time. I visited Messkirch, and Heidegger's hut. I met with one of his former students, but I have since taken a break from Heidegger. One of the things that has followed through is my love of desks. I find beautiful and prolific the geometrical confrontation, the desk as designated thoughtful space on stage, specified creative place.
I am interested in theatrum mundi, the world as stage. I am interested in choices, acting choices, casting choices, ruminating upon choices that I have the responsibility of making as well as analyzing those which have been made for me. I am interested in phenomenology and existentialism, in World-hood, in the world as a phenomenon. "The furniture of the world." What constitutes a classroom? Desks? Students? Teachers? What constitutes a world?
My philosophical questions find themselves entrenched in theatrical or dramatic ones. "What are the "given circumstances". I was interested in event ontology before I knew the phrase. When does an event begin, end? How does a conversation, a war, a party, a protest, a play, a world start?
I am interested in an actor-centric aesthetic. Just like I am telling this story of mine, I dream about what others might do with creative voices that resonate in more places along the creative process.
I am interested in how we take the world for granted, how we take language, planet Earth, the sunrise, the future, The 4th Wall, the audience, the actors, our senses, our bodies, one another, for granted.
What were the biggest challenges of being a multi-hyphenate? (Writer, producer, director, actor) And what did you learn from the experience?
TT: I am learning my love for more and more elements of the act of storytelling. Directing makes me a better actor. Acting makes me a better director. Producing makes me a better artist. I designed the skirt that Madeline wears. Getting to know, more intimately each aspect of the process, whether it be design, stage managing, budgeting, outreach gives me a clearer sense of the thing, that is the play. To see the bigger picture, to see oneself clearly from inside and out becomes the skill to work. To meet the challenge of self-directing, we actors must do some self-reflecting. I learned that no one will tell your story for you, and that sometimes, no one will help you tell your story.
As I said, I could not afford not to tell this story. I designed the skirt that Madeline Rose wears. I printed organic, unisex, EarthWorld t-shirts, created a soundtrack to support the project.
"It's an EarthWorld, we're just living on it.
You don't have a director's note in the program. If you could make one about this play in one paragraph, what would that be?
TT: Let us use this play to reinforce the ceiling in order to reemphasize the sky.
Let us make sure we are part of the tradition of humanity looking up to the heavens.
Let us attempt to bring the sky into a room/black box theatre.
Let us use the theatre to orient ourselves in an ever-expanding universe.
Let us re-infuse everything we do with purpose.
Let us speak into song.
Let us explore song as existence.
As Hannah Arendt advises, let us welcome ourselves anew into this old world.
Let us question everything.
What do you see as the biggest challenges in the further development of this piece? / What are plans for the future as a writer, director, actor, producer.
TT: I invite the UCLA Community and the people of Los Angeles and California to come see the sunrise in the evening.
I am grateful to those who inspired the personages of The Sunrise Club. I am grateful to those who helped enliven The Sunrise Club. I celebrate this new summer season and dedicate this play to the planet, to the star, and to the Madeline Roses of the world.
As a writer, I plan to reconnect with my philosophical roots. And now that I am addressing this most persistent and pressing story, I can tend to its evolution as I attend to some of my other darlings.
As an actor, director, I plan to continue conflating titles toward cohesive artistic action. As a producer, I look forward to continuing to produce out of passion, continuing giving life to The Sunrise Club. I never want to be afraid of "big" casts. It is important to tell individuals' stories, and it is important to tell stories of individuals relating with one another.
I intend to continue learning more about as many aspects of storytelling as I can.
I created The Sunrise Club as a play for the medium of theatre. It is a script, a soundtrack. Only by placing it in its originally intended context, was I able to see how it might translate and grow, expressively. I wish for a long life for The Sunrise Club, the characters to be inhabited by actors all over time, all over Earth… and elsewhere.
The Sunrise Club is playing Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM
At the Los Angeles Theater Center
Visit latc.org/thesunriseclub for tickets.
LATC, Patrick Hurley, Tara Turnbull, That Awesome theatre Blog, The Sunrise Club
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Deal Book. Primaris Retail REIT is on the block for an unsolicited offer of $2.6 billion in cash which amounts to $4.4 billion on the assumption of the Primaris debt ($1.8 billion) which is then reduced by an estimated $1.1 billion on the sale of certain Primaris properties to a third party so that it looks like a $3.3 billion net deal to us although the Primaris unit holders are being offered a flat $26 per share which would value all of the stock if tendered at $2.6 billion, as stated. And, after all, one doesn't want to confuse the shareholders, do we? (Reuters. December 5, 2012, Canada's KingSett leads C$2.6 billion bid for Primaris REIT).
It's clever to sharpen our pencils but now we need to sharpen our wits and we need to ask, Why should we buy into this deal? What's in it for us except cash (net of taxes withheld) that we then need to re-invest or lose out to inflation and the other problems of cash that we thought that we had already solved with our investment in Primaris (please see Exhibit 1 below).
The current dividend yield on Primaris is more than 5% and the dividend rate is $0.102 (10¢) per share per month (or $120 million per year in total) and a lot of us bought those shares for between $15 and $20 two years ago. Where can we now invest $20,000 (or 1,000 shares at the time) and expect to get $102 per month or $1,224 per year, for it?
The deal makers have volunteered the information that "This all-cash offer is an attractive opportunity to obtain immediate liquidity in the face of economic uncertainty and volatile markets." Indeed. But, as investors, "liquidity" is not our problem. What we want – and what we seem to have – and what we "like" is that our capital should be provably safe and obtain a hopeful return above the rate of inflation.
As to capital safety, we note that the stock at $23 (yesterday) is already up 10% for the year and our estimate of the downside based on volatility alone is minus ($1). Moreover, the market for put options (please see our Post, The Wall Street Put, August 2012) at $26 for January has vaporised and is now asked at $0.40 per share, down from $3.20 just last week. They might be worth something if the deal doesn't go through at $26 or better, one would think.
Primaris Retail Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is a real estate investment company that directly or indirectly owns, manages, leases and develops retail properties in Canada.
Primaris Retail REIT owns more than thirty properties in cities across Canada, including the Dufferin Mall in Toronto, the Cornwall Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan, the Tecumseh Mall in Windsor, Ontario, and the Woodgrove Centre in Nanaimo, British Columbia and more than a half dozen Zellers outlets that are now being converted into Target stores. Their tenant list includes household names such as the Hudson's Bay Company, Canadian Tire Corporation, Reitmans, Sears Canada, Target, Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation and many others. Please see our Posts on some of these companies and their current "deals".


McWay Falls at Jullia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in CA is probably my favorite waterfall in the world, but Kaaterskill Falls in the Catskill region of NY is a close second.
I finally got around to posting the pictures that Missy and I took when we hiked the falls again a few weeks ago to the Waterfalls section of my SmugMug site. Seeing those falls was one of the things I was looking forward to most after we moved back to NY.
You can also check out the panorama above as a QTVR on my Movies page.


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Sound Equalisers
DSPeaker Anti-mode 8033 Subwoofer EQ Review
AVForums takes a look at Subwoofer EQ from DSPeaker
by AVForums May 16, 2009
Review Specs Discussion (123)
DSpeaker
DSpeaker Anti-mode 8033 Sound Equaliser (2009)
I'm not a bass head contrary to popular belief, but I do like bass. When a system, be it stereo or multichannel, delivers bass really well, the entire presentation from top to bottom benefits. Scale is increased, dynamics gain greater impact and imaging can suddenly jump out of the plane of the speakers and really fill a room.
This beneficial quality is accomplished by having a deep, flat bass response that, as per usual, the laws of physics do their best to get in the way of achieving. The dimensions of the rooms which we inhabit unhappily coincide with the wavelengths of deep bass which, as a result of the way bass energy reflects around a room, can create large peaks and dips in the response. Swings of +/-15dB(SPL) within the same octave are quite possible and the result is that one bass note can sound very weak, whilst a slightly different note can lift you clean out of your seat. Such an effect is possible with loudspeakers, but is more of a problem with subwoofers and the bigger and deeper the subwoofer, the greater the number of problem frequencies likely to be reached. It is, as with speakers, possible to ameliorate issues through careful positioning of the sub(s) and the listening position, but unless you have a dedicated listening room (and even then), it's not always possible to achieve the optimum solution.
To complete the job, electronic equalisation can be the finishing touch or an absolute necessity depending on the room, but either way, all but the luckiest people will benefit from it. Up to now, EQ devices have resided very much at the enthusiasts end of the market with their power and flexibility (and often the price) putting off many people from investigating further. The simple plug and play solutions at the other end of the spectrum have been lacking in both number and effectiveness, but the exponential rise of the subwoofer has created a sufficiently large market that solutions are starting to abound. The DSpeaker Anti-mode 8033 under review here is both at the bottom end of the price scale (£240) and of the plug and play variety, which means that it could answer the hopes and prayers of the vast majority of sub users out there, but even manages to include some interesting technology all of it's own.
I suppose it's a measure of my age that I'm still surprised how small some thing are. Sometimes small is good; In my youth portable audio came from a Sony Walkman WM-DC6 Pro (ask your dad) that was a real brick in the pocket, which is why I'm still perfectly happy with my Wolfson DAC equipped 4th generation iPod even though it has long since been surpassed in the skinny stakes. Sometimes small is bad; I like an item I've bought to be the largest thing in the box, or at least outweigh the instruction manual. Further more, anything that it is too small for my sausage fingers to operate is simply being small for the sake of it and as such is definitely bad. My personal piques aside, there is no technical reason why a small box of electronics which consigns it's power supply to a wall-wart plug should, or needs to be big and because the 8033 is entirely made of metal, it is very solid if a touch uninspiring to look at. The only issue of any note is that good subwoofer cables are dual screened and therefore heavy and stiff. As a result, unless you Blu-tac the Anti-mode down or wedge it under something larger, it is prone to not remaining where you left it.
Just to complete the picture, other items in the box include the aforementioned plug mounted power supply, the instruction manual and the measurement microphone. Internally, analogue to digital conversion and back is 16 bit resolution at a 10Khz sampling frequency, which is ample for the sub-bass frequencies the device operates over. The DSP brains of the 8033 is provided by VLSi's (the manufacturer of the 8033) own chip designed specifically for such purposes. The equalization is performed by up to 24 infinite impulse response (IIR) parametric filters, each able to target a frequency to an accuracy of less than 0.5Hz. The principle aim of these filters is not just to flatten the frequency response, but (and this is the clever bit) it also listens to how long a frequency will resonate within the room and compensate for it too. If it works, this is impressive stuff.
Set up could not be simpler, because as long as you remembered to order an additional subwoofer cable (you now need two), you plug it in between the amp and the sub, plug the microphone into the socket on the front and plug the 8033 into the power supply and that's it. Top tip: Switch the 8033 on before the sub to avoid a truly mighty switch on thump.
Users inputting a stereo signal, such as from a stereo amplifiers preamp output will have to source a specific two-into-one RCA phono adaptor as the 8033 is a mono device. There is a specific cable, or instructions on how to make one on the DSpeaker website, so take note*. The only other connection option is a second subwoofer output that is phase inverted. This allows you to send a signal to and equalize two subwoofers at the same time. Just remember to set the phase/polarity on the second sub to 180deg or negative to compensate for the 180deg out of phase second output on the 8033. The reason for the provision of an inverted output is to enable a stereo amplifier as a bridged mono amp which is good for the DIY boys. There are no auto On/Offs, 12v triggers, remote controls or any other features that would aid a custom install or the like. This is EQ designed to do exactly that and no more.
The microphone is a tiny capsule heat-shrinked onto the end of it's own 5m signal cable and like all measurement microphones, it needs to be positioned at the point in space where the middle of your head would normally be. I use a cheap mic stand, but sticking it to a camera tripod would suffice. To start the automatic calibration process, you press and hold the two front panel buttons on the 8033 for 3 seconds and wait for the test tones to start. At this point I was greeted by the loudest bass test tones I've ever heard from a set-up device. The tones start very loud and very low, until the 8033 very quickly steps the volume down to a sensible level and then continues the sweeps upward in frequency. There are four sweeps each lasting about 30 seconds. I advise that, regardless of your subs normal gain settings, reduce them and let the 8033 turn itself up instead. This does not jeopardise the accuracy of the readings and because having the 8033 in circuit adds extra gain anyway, you gain settings are going to need adjusting once the equalisation is complete anyway.
Having run the sweep, the difference made to the response of the sub is not small. In part this is due to my room having a couple of very pronounced and aurally dominant peaks that need taming and also because the 8033 hit's them square on and tames them very effectively. As can be seen from the waterfall graphs above, the amplitude of two worst peaks have been tamed very effectively, but the impressive bit is how much the 'ringing' of individual frequencies has been curtailed. Take the example of the 35Hz peak; It's 10dB amplitude peak has been suppressed to about 3dB, which would be more than noticeable by itself and a difference worth paying for. However, looking at the top graph, at 0.3 of a second that same 35Hz is still registering 72dB. On the bottom graph, the same frequency has dropped way below that and into the noise floor by 0.2 of a second. Impressive. By the way, the dip in the response is a cancellation null and thus cannot be boosted and indeed the 8033 doesn't appear to have tried which is exactly as it should be.
The human ear is notoriously bad at differentiating ringing from a boost in SPL. In order for bass to sound tight and quick, you therefore have to reduce both, even though this may result in a response that looks less than flat. It isn't flat, but it will sound flat and that's more important. As can be seen above, the frequency response is far from flat, even though it's vastly improved, but in listening it sounds disproportionately improved. Kick drums now have a tight thud rather than a dull thump and all bass notes stop and start far more cleanly and the tonal difference between notes is far more explicit . Explosions on movies feel crisp and concussive, rather than simply booming away monotonously with flatulent rumblings and bass texture is much improved.
Better still, with the overly dominant frequencies reigned in, the sub can be played a bit louder to compensate giving greater presence and strength to the previously lacking lower frequencies. So, the sub sounds tighter, more tuneful and deeper in one fell swoop and that's exactly what EQ is supposed to deliver. The presentation of the rest of the frequency range benefits too. Voices sound less chesty and plummy, so gaining in intelligibility. Gandalf muttering his way round the mines of Moria is a fine example of this benefit. The scale of the music or movie soundtrack takes on a new spaciousness that is less anchored to the speakers and more about filling the gaps between them. These benefits are maximised by carefully level matching the sub to the speakers, as turning the sub up to taste, is effectively just creating one large modal boost across the entire sub-bass frequency range, which contradicts the reason for buying an EQ device in the first place.
And you could leave it there, but the 8033 offers the possibility of tuning a little further. Hold the right hand button down and another, single equalisation sweep runs, but this time it's results are averaged with those of the original sweeps. For the second sweep, the mic can either be placed in another listening position or moved toward the nearest corner of the room in order to emphasise the rooms modes, or anywhere else you see fit; The instruction manual has suggestions aplenty. You can run the second sweep as many times as you want until it achieves the blend you're looking for as the first sweeps remain locked in the memory, unless you press and hold both buttons in order to start from scratch. I tried the suggestions and made a few up myself, but maybe because the same modes are present across the commonly used listening positions (why EQ for somewhere you never sit?) the second sweep didn't make much of a difference in my room. The graph above shows minor improvements, but nothing that you could swear to hearing. A different room with a broader distribution of smaller peaks that differ from position to position significantly would undoubtedly benefit more, so don't rule this feature out on my findings.
Nothing is perfect for £240 and the 8033 does have it's limitations. Chief amongst them is that the 8033 only EQs the subwoofer; It does not take into account the speaker's output and EQ the subwoofer to integrate with them. This also means that the correct crossovers, phase and gain adjustments have to carried out in the traditional fashion with test tones and an SPL meter, unless you're convinced of your ears abilities as objective measuring tools. More expensive solutions take into account the speakers contribution, but aside from being more expensive, most of those solutions also require a good deal more input and understanding on the part of the end user in order for them to be effective. As mentioned, it is a bit small and whilst I stated that I realise that it doesn't need to be any bigger or heavier, I would just like it to be so. Remember, this thing costs more than some very well regarded CD players or stereo amplifiers so it looks a bit lean in the material stakes. Still, I prefer this ratio of performance to material than the less effective alternative.
So, to sum up; It's small enough to tuck out of the way, sturdy, simple enough for technophobes, effective enough for technophiles, as cheap as it currently gets and it works. That makes it an easy recommended buy.
DSpeaker Anti-Mode 2.0 Dual Core Review
By AVForums
Published Oct 1, 2012
SVS AS-EQ1 SubEQ Review
Audyssey MultEQ XT Pro Sound Equalizer Review


Thomas Alber has been Director Engineering Software, Internet of Things and Smart City at Bosch Software Innovations since 2014. In this role, he heads a professional services department that designs, builds, implements, and operates IoT solutions. Previously, he served as Director of Professional Services and Projects, Front Applications Finance at Bosch Software Innovations, where he started his career in 1998. Thomas Alber holds a degree in computer engineering from the University of Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany.


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First things first. We´ve all heard of the Panama Canal, the famous 81 km- long channel that connects the Atlantic to the Pacific, enabling container ships and freighters to shave thousands of kilometres off the otherwise long and dangerous journey between the two oceans. Tourists flock there to watch the huge ships go by and negotiate the giant Miraflores Locks. You can also enjoy a great view of ships entering the canal from the Puente de las Americas (Bridge of the Americas).
Let´s take a deeper look at the fascinating history of this incredible achievement, a concept that originated all the way back in the 16th century when Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, ordered a study to be done to determine whether it was possible to link the great oceans after the Spanish navigator, Vasco Nunez de Bilbao, discovered the Isthmus of Panama in 1513. It was decided that it was impossible and no serious attempt was made until the 1880´s when French company headed by Ferdinand de Lesseps, who developed Egypt´s Suez Canal, made the first attempt. Poor planning, engineering problems and tropical diseases sabotaged their plans and took the lives of thousands of workers. Excavating at sea level, with no locks, proved difficult. Gustav Eiffel (he of Eiffel Tower fame!) was hired to create a system of locks. After $260 million had been spent and 70 million cubic yards of earth had been excavated, De Lesseps went bankrupt amid a scandal of mismanagement and bankruptcy. The USA were keen to see the canal completed for economic as well as military reasons and in 1903, when Panama became independent, a treaty was signed allowing America to have 500 sq. miles and permanent "sovereignty" over the canal, and once more the project got underway. It cost USD $ 375 million to build and USD $40 million to buy out the French assets. They got their canal but more than 25,000 sacrificed their lives to malaria, yellow fever and other tropical diseases, as well as poor working conditions and accidents.
Today, the canal is 105 years old and between 13,000 – 14,000 ships use it each year; the majority are American followed by China, Chile, Japan, Colombia and South Korea plus many other nationalities. Each ship pays a transit toll based on its size and volume of cargo. For the longest, that can amount to as much as USD $450,000! The smallest fee ever paid was just 36 cents in 1928 when American adventurer, Richard Halliburton, swam the length of the canal! Today, USD $1.86 million in tolls is collected annually. It takes a ship 8 – 10 hours to pass through the system of locks that raises each ship 85 ft. above sea-level. A trained ship´s pilot takes over the controls of each vessel to guide it safely through the canal. In 2010, the 1 millionth vessel crossed the Panama Canal since its opening 1914. In 2015, a renovation project costing USD $5.25 million was completed enabling the canal to handle mega ships up to 110 ft. wide and 1,000 feet long, carrying up to 14,000 containers. This involved building new, larger locks and widening and deepening the channel. It is already too small for the mega-tankers of today!
Panama offers tropical beaches, deep jungle, charming islands and more
But that is, of course, not all Panama has to offer. There are also tropical beaches, jungle, beautiful islands, a buzzing capital, great restaurants, a fantastic seafood market, good local beer at the Rana Dorada Brewery, vibrant street art, and even a Jazz Festival in January. Many feel that Panama City is the most cosmopolitan city in Central America. The nightlife is lively with plenty of bars, clubs and restaurants, not to mention a casino, and shopping opportunities that will satisfy the most avid shopaholic! All the designer brands are here such as Gucci, Prada, Cartier, Hermes, Nike, Ralph Lauren, Micheal Kors, Carolina Hererra, and Chanel. Visitors may be surprised to see an ever-expanding skyline filled with towering skyscrapers that are worthy of any large US city. This is a total contrast to the old city, Casco Viejo, which is packed with lovely, tiny cobbled alleyways and architectural gems that are gradually being lovingly restored. This is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is well-worth an afternoon strolling around on a guided tour through the beautiful Plaza Indipendencia, the Plaza de Francia or the Inglesia de San Jose Church. Panama City has a good public transport system of buses and underground, as well as the "chicken buses" for short routes which are worth the ride just for the experience. There are also plenty of neighbourhood "fondas" where you can eat local food cheaply. Naturally, visitors should take the usual precautions as they would do in any big city as the contrast between the rich and poor is very evident here.
Beach lovers can head to one of the beaches with colourful, quirky names such as Wizard Beach or Red Frog Beach at Bocas del Toro – one of the ultimate Caribbean hot spots, where you can enjoy a variety of water sports or explore this tropical archipelago on one of the popular boat excursions. You can even kill two birds with one stone and combine a trip to Panama with a visit to Colombia, island -hopping on a boat trip through the San Blas Islands, departing from the village of Portobelo.
There is certainly plenty to see and do, whether you love the new or the old. Welcome to Panama!
Useful to know about Panama
The country is located in Central America with Costa Rica to the west and Colombia to the south-east. The Caribbean is to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The largest city is Panama City which has 500,000 inhabitants.
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Father's Day is this Sunday, but it's not too late to pick up a fabulous gift worthy of your pops. Here in Union Square, there are plenty of options to fit any dad's personality. To keep things simple, we've put together a list of our top picks below.
J. Hilburn specializes in custom-fit suiting and luxury men's wear, and they just opened up a new showroom in Union Square. Introduce your dad with this beautiful tie (#1, pictured above), woven exclusively from rich Italian fabrics and crafted by hand to complement their dress shirt and suiting offerings. For a real treat, set up an in-office consultation for dad and get him a $100 gift certificate for only $75 through Jun. 15.
Can't get dad a Ferrari? Get him this exclusive Ferrari short-sleeved t-shirt in jersey cotton (2). It highlights the evolution of the Ferrari Shield logo. The Ferrari store is also offering Buy One Get One Free through the end of June on Logic3 Audio products, so if you buy dad a pair of headphones (3) you can get earphones for yourself for free.
Get 35% off the colorful and stylish ties (4) and high-end Selection shirts at Café Coton. Dad will be the most dapper dude in the office!
This stunning ring (7) is a fashionable, yet masculine pick for a father that isn't afraid to express his style daily. It shines in 14 karat yellow gold including .08 carats of diamonds set within a white gold accent.
Perfect for the father who wows the family when he dresses up, these architecturally inspired cufflinks (7), fashioned from two tones of 14 karat gold, scintillate with 1 carat of champagne diamonds.
Dad doesn't have to be a sailor to enjoy these bright and fun boat shoes all summer long. Paired with khakis, shorts or jeans, they make a subtle but trendy statement. Allen Edmonds is also offering select summer shirts 2 for $149 and ties 2 for $99. Try this Cobalt Blue Dobby button down or this Orange Striped button down to complete the look for dad.
Does dad love golf? Get him these super snazzy performance golf pants (6) from Bonobos. We're smitten with the stylish emerald green color, but they also come in a variety of different fashion-forward hues. Top it off with the perfect cotton & polyester polo.
Tout Sweet is offering pre-made gift boxes (5) for dear old dad filled to the brim with Yigit Pura's Top Chef-famous desserts and treats, or put together your own treasure trove of sweet delights. Either way, you'll put a smile on dad's face.
You can't go wrong with this beautifully designed shaving set from Art of Shaving. What dad wouldn't be proud to display this on his bathroom counter?


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PARIS (AP) — International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde is facing questions at a special Paris court Thursday over a controversial financial deal that she oversaw as French finance minister.
The 2008 arbitrage deal handed about 400 million euros ($520 million) to magnate Bernard Tapie to settle a dispute with state-owned bank Credit Lyonnais over the botched sale of Adidas in the 1990s.
Tapie was close to then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was Lagarde's boss. Critics have said the deal was too generous to Tapie at the expense of the French state, and that the Adidas case shouldn't have gone to a private arbitration authority because it involved a state-owned bank.
More broadly, the deal was seen by many as an example of the cozy relationship between big money and big power in France. And the case threatens to sully the reputation of Lagarde, who has earned praise for her negotiating skills through Europe's debt crisis and is seen as a trailblazer for women leaders.
Lagarde, smiling at reporters, left her Paris apartment Thursday morning and appeared at a special court that handles cases involving government ministers. She has denied wrongdoing.
Investigators opened an inquiry in 2011 into possible charges of "complicity to embezzlement of public funds" and "complicity to forgery." The probe may not result in a trial. If it does, and if Lagarde were to be convicted, she could face up to 10 years in prison, according to prosecutors.
She and the Washington-based IMF were aware of the probe when she took over as managing director of the fund from Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2011. The IMF has expressed its confidence in Lagarde throughout the investigation.
In March, French investigators searched Lagarde's Paris home. Her lawyer said at the time that Lagarde welcomed the search as a step toward proving her innocence.
French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici told Le Monde newspaper this week that the government may seek to annul the arbitration deal if enough evidence emerges of wrongdoing.
Tapie — a flashy tycoon and former football club owner who has served as an actor, singer and government minister — insists that he deserved the settlement. He says the investigation into the deal is "bogus," a politically motivated hunt by the governing Socialists against Sarkozy's conservatives.
"Lagarde's fate doesn't concern me," Tapie said on Europe-1 radio Thursday. "When evidence is discovered, then we'll talk."
Tapie himself may be targeted in a separate probe.
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The EBRD lives up to its reputation as the best international development bank in trade, regularly winning industry recognition.
In order to improve on the availability of trade limits from the commercial market, more than 700 foreign trade transactions have been supported by our TFP programme in 2010 alone, thus providing additional benefits to the trade finance market.
The Bank is still playing an important role in promoting cooperation between the regional trade programmes and co-financing with other development agencies, commercial banks, insurance underwriters and investment funds.
At the same time, we continue to develop and test innovative additions to our programme and to share our experience with other development agencies.
"During the recent liquidity crisis many foreign commercial banks found it difficult to provide banks in emerging markets with sufficient liquidity.
Dr Putz adds that while other major trade liquidity and co-financing programmes support mostly large international banking groups, our trade facilitation programme supports large international banking groups whilst also funding smaller banks in early transition countries.
"Based on the EBRD's positive experience, other development banks like the Asian Development Bank and Inter-America Development Bank are now offering similar facilities to banks in their countries of operation," Dr Putz notes.
He highlights the Bank's ongoing support of eastern Europe and the CIS as one of our biggest achievements in the past year.
"As a result of on-going negotiations concerning the restructuring of trade finance debt in Kazakhstan and Ukraine, most foreign commercial banks, insurance underwriters and export credit agencies suspended their trade finance facilities for borrowers in eastern Europe and the CIS.


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I was shopping at Costco yesterday (yeah, I like Costco), and noticed again, and again how people look at me with curiosity. There is something in the I look I can't quite grasp, but it's a mix of pleasure and gentle surprise. What can be so interesting in a woman pushing a cart with two kids?
Then I remembered the days when I had Heal ' N Glow skin care and had to get up at 4 am to go to the market every Saturday, setting up heavy tent in the darkness of the dawn, the booth, the fragile cosmetics, fighting with cold and wind, sipping hot tea from the thermos. By the end of the day, I'd have mystical people, fellow vendors (bare in mind, this was an antique market, not a funky, modern health care with people eager to buy $40 fresh, refrigerated creams) come up to me and say: "You are beautiful! You always smile!".
When was I smiling? Submerged in Dr. Wayne Dyer Wishes Fulfilled when traffic slowed down? While holding onto rails of the tent when the wind would get too strong? While talking to people? While bundled up against morning cold?
I was and I am living my dream, and that's what people admire. Yes I smile, and I always have shine and glitter on. Yes they say I am attractive, but it is my passion that shines through, my desire, my drive which I still cannot fully define, other than to make women feel beautiful and settled in their emotions.
Do you hear me? Look deep inside you, and bring forth the light that's inside you. Sprinkle it with glitter and shimmer, or reverse the order, sprinkle first and then through self love bring in the inner light. Whatever you need, bring it on now, don't waste any time!
Need some safe glitter and shimmer? Join us at Heal 'N Glow Beauty, private Beauty Forum.


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Why aren't they talking about what is CLEARLY a giant robot on the right? Are they just common up in Canada?
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SE 3.5.7 is out now.
New: Shortcuts "Batch convert" + "waveform split"
Improved: Add some style support to "Modify selection"
Improved: Add ">" and "<" duration in "Modify selection"
Improved: Improve EBU STL properties regarding "language code"
Improved: Add "Search" in "Open subtitle w manual chosen encoding"
Fixed: Hashtag issue in "Fix common errors"
Nothing to comment, just wanted to be the first one.
I import text and then set timings. F12 to end and F11 to start, but I have to press F12, move to next subtitle, then press F11 to start the new subtitle. Is it possible that I press a key and it ends the last and sets that for next and move to next? I know about "Set end, add new, and go to new" but that doesn't work with imported text.
First of all, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I´ll make a donation for you excellent work! And I'd like to ask you something. I need to save LOTS of DVD STUDIO PRO (.stl) every day and I need to change the header in all of them. Is it possible to change the header?
I've just upgraded and lost the OCR for 4K movies, it was slow to load with the previous version, now it just stall.
Thanks for a very GOOD tool.
ATM I think SE check only the english Names file.
The words with capital "i" I add to the names wordlist go to the Romanian file, not to the EN file.
Can SE check names (and words beginning with capital "i") in all available NamesFiles in SE folder?
if undock the video control, and video player was not at the primary monitor, the "remember main window position and size" does not work.
First of all, thank you so much for your really hard work.
I have a problem with "Mouse wheel scrolls waveform forward/back" function when I use shortcuts "Go to next/previous line and set vìdeo position" when my mouse pointer is at the waveform, I can't use mouse scroll to move forward/backward on the waveform (both in undock/re-dock setting) next, I didn't notice this until I updated new version, also, my workplace computer doesn't have this kind of problem and it runs on Win 10. I've got this problem on my laptop which runs on Win 7. There is no problem with the waveform mouse scroll when I use shortcut normal "Go to next/previous line".
It doesn't work out on "Set focus mouse enter" either. I temporarily use "Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse", but it's still inconvenient due to real-time delay and also causes trouble on other program/folder.
Please check. If I got this problem, I had to click on the waveform to activate mouse scroll, it's kinda inconvenient 'cause in the past I didn't have this kind of situation.
Thirdly, my work requires time-out extension about 5-10 frames. I've used One frame forwd/backwd ever since. I've tapped on the key shortcut 5 times. If it doesn't cause any trouble/difficulty for you to add this kind of shortcuts, it's really nice/terrific of you to do so and I'll think of a way to pay you back.
Thank you and my best regards.
@DANIEL MELO: Should be possible to define default style via File -> DVD Studio properties in latest beta.
@TeDDy: Could you test fix capital "i" inside words in latest beta.
In some cases I need to raise subtitles from bottom on top of the video, but I cannot find how to do it. Could you help, please?
@Rosanna: You can right-click on one or more lines in the list view, and choose "Alignment...".
(If you want alignment shown in the view preview, you need to use "mpv" as video player - see Options -> Settings -> Video player).
Where is do-not-break-after list is saved? I just updated to latest beta and lost the saved words. Please help.
I've been using this great app for lots of years and could not replace with anything else.
I just wanted you to know that the main function I'm using is to convert srt to sup format. Most times using the batch convert option.
I noticed that in the last 2 versions the program ignores the setting of "line height" and converts all subs using the default line height of the selected font.
Of course if I convert just one file (not through batch convert) the program respects my option of line height, although the next time I open the program it still won't remember my last option.
Although I wouldn't call it a serious / critical defect , I would be very obliged if you could "fix" this on your next version.
Is the auto translate by google translator broken for anyone else? Mine only displays blanks when translating now.
First let me say thanks for this great application!
Sadly, at the moment i have the same problem as Dac described, the autotranslating only gives blank results. My guess is, that google changed its commandlines. Hope you can fix this soon, thanks!
I also have the same problem with traducicon automatica. It goes blank. I hope you solve it as soon as possible since this program is the best there is to translate. Greetings, thank you for your excellent work.
hello my google translating option stopped working today.
It translates it in blank lines.
I have the same problem after translation only blanks as result.
I hope that you can fix the problem.
Hope you can fix this soon, thanks!
About the Google Translate read more here: https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/issues/3209.
My Norwegian dictionary disappeared with latest update - no Norwegian dictionary available for download?
My fix was to copy nor.traineddata from folder "C:\Users\MyMeMine\AppData\Roaming\Subtitle Edit\Tesseract\tessdata" to "C:\Users\MyMeMine\AppData\Roaming\Subtitle Edit\Tesseract4\tessdata".
Not so pretty. Still thanks for yor great app!
- Click tab "Subtitle" then "Open" and browse it and open your subtitle file that you want to translated.
- Leave the tab "Frame rate & Code page" as default itself the click "Load subtitle" - wait it for a moment.
- Now the subtitle you choose is displayed, click on toolbar tab "Auto Translate" and click "Google translate".
- Next you choose what language to be translated. Don't click tab "OK" yet !!
- Before you click "OK", you have to scrolling down slowly the result translated to make sure each time scrolling is displaying the correct translated from top line untill the end line (If you directly click OK, the results will only show a little translation (the top) where the remainder of the next translation must remain in the original).
- After you checking each line/paragraph is already correct translate, just scroll back / sliding untill to the first line then you may click "OK"
- Now you can see yourself the resut.. Or you can scroll it & re-check to make sure it ..
- Next all you have to do is save it (on toolbar, choose "Subtitle - Save/download..." and select what extention you wish to save (default is SRT extention).
- Then click "Save/download" tab. and name it the file as you wish for.
.. And sorry for my bad english because I'm from Indonesia & I use G-Translate :p ..
Sorry for my dummy question. I can see lots of Unknown format in "Save As" menu. What would I need to do to add another Unknown format specific? Cheers.
Excellent program, and great work from yourself.
Just a quick query, is there any way of changing the auto break rule. I find that sometimes it does not break evenly and I have to do it manually.
I am myself hard of hearing therefore I try not to actually read the subtitles while I'm editing existing subtitles to my satisfaction in order not to spoil the film or tv show when I actually watch it. So any automation is very welcome.
@brhurrell: Could you give some examples?
@brhurrell: could you give some examples where the line breaking is not optimal?
@Xy: This site can't be reached... could you email or upload somewhere else?
Strange, it works perfectly for me.
Hello. I reported a mistake at the beginning of December (not fixed to today): during the translation, Subtitle Edit automatically and unnecessarily deletes the line breaks (dialogues, broken lines, etc.). Please to be fixed.


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The Engaging People Company has joined up with Social Routes to launch Route to Engagement, an approach which will help companies to improve employee engagement and increase satisfaction.
Step 1: Define brief Understand purpose and strategic aims.
Step 2: Survey An inclusive and engaging employee survey.
Step 3: Workshops Employee workshops based upon the themes emerging in Step 2.
Step 4: Engagement Plan A targeted, meaningful and deliverable plan to improve engagement.
Step 5: Feedback Employee feedback and communications based on the findings.
More details are available in the leaflet below or contact Michelle Gant michelle@engaging-people.co.uk or 07834 578872.


Recent cyberattacks have ensured that the security spotlight on healthcare organizations shines ever brighter. The seeds of threat seem to have proliferated after a number of successful ransomware attacks.
An aging infrastructure, and the anonymity of digital currencies have just been a couple of the drivers that have fueled the threats. Accenture's latest research shows that cyberattacks on the U.S. health systems over the next five years will put nearly $305 billion of cumulative lifetime patient revenue at risk.
Until recently, organizations were hesitant to make security a boardroom priority, either because the business case just wasn't there, or market and regulatory headwinds deprioritized a revamped security program. The winds are changing, however, and now health executives and IT leadership are prioritizing security in a way we haven't seen before.
It's getting to the "left of bang," a term that originated in the theater of war, and it refers to handling the situation before an IED detonates using pre-incident intelligence, versus merely investigating and recovering from the incident after the fact. When you think about it, "left of bang" is an apt descriptor for a proactive cybersecurity strategy.
For organizations that rely on information systems (nearly all in today's digital economy), the common leadership component that is often missing is the appointment of a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Sometimes CIOs or CFOs are charged with carrying out this function as an ancillary duty, usually when already overloaded with their core job functions. The best question to ask pre-cyber incident is who was responsible for handling our cyber security safeguards? In other words, who is responsible for managing the strategy to raise our organization's cyber shields by deploying best-practice hardware and software, delivering user awareness training and establishing a culture of security? If the answer is more than one person, or no one, hire a CISO.
Vendors in the cybersecurity space can either be your best friend or your worst adversary. If you consider several recent breaches in the commercial sector, you will notice that, in many cases, vendors were the conduit for adversaries to access critical cyber systems and ultimately carry out a successful cyber intrusion. To avoid this scenario, the first stage of selecting a vendor should be a survey and self-attestation request, for vendors to adequately show you they are implementing their own cybersecurity best practices. In other words, do they have skin in the game, and are they "putting their money where their mouth is" regarding their own cyber security infrastructure.
Health IT professionals face the tricky task of managing execution on multiple clinical application deployments, including population health tools, and all the while trying to balance infrastructure requirements to protect their organizations against the latest threats. Now is clearly the time for healthcare executives to consider moving their overstretched IT resources closer to the business and their consumers. Moving key components of their IT architecture to the cloud can provide for a better security and governance apparatus.
Of course, moving Protected Health Information (PHI) into the cloud can be daunting, but the challenges are by no means insurmountable, and most cloud vendors have thoroughly understood and support PHI security requirements. Health IT leaders should closely question the premise that on-site infrastructure is automatically more secure. While a cloud infrastructure alone isn't a complete response, it is one that will free up key IT resources to work on other parts of a modern security framework.
With the recent proliferation of high-profile ransomware infections in the news, healthcare facilities have begun to take some necessary—and sometimes draconian—steps to control risks in the cyberspace domain. From disabling external access to web-based email, blocking external entities from sending to internal email servers, to turning off information technology assets on the threat of possible intrusion, often reverting to paper processing and charting – these are common tactics.
It is still the Wild, Wild West once you leave the safety of your corporate firewall, and high time for the health industry to self-subscribe some much needed cyber prophylaxis.
The steps outlined above are by no means a panacea, but they are important first steps in developing a proactive cybersecurity strategy that goes beyond basic block-and-tackle maneuvers to ensure that judicious measures are taken to prevent costly attacks before they occur.
John D. Halamka, MD, MS is Chief Information Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chief Information Officer and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing Emergency Physician.
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The Lady Spartans, unknowingly at the time, produced enough points to secure victory when they led Christian High School of O'Fallon 18-2 after the first quarter of play Thursday as Moberly cruised to a 51-16 triumph in the girls third place game of the Warrenton Winter Shootout.
Moberly (7-5) limited their opponent to fewer than six points scored during any quarter of play, and had matters well in hand leading 33-5 by halftime.
With senior all-stater and team leader Sydney Flood remaining on the sidelines nursing a knee injury since the second week of December, coach Vestal reported that starters Ma'Kayla Payne and Aleesia Oliver have been hobbling with ankle injuries and seen limited playing time recently.
Junior guard Mary Billington capped a good week of tournament basketball as she led the team once again in scoring with 19 points while playing just the first three quarters. Billington averaged about 17 points per contest at this venue, and as a result coach Vestal said Billington was named to the all-tournament team.
Sydney Baughman muscled in 10 points for Moberly, Oliver was able to contribute six and Payne had five. Audrey Gaines and Payne each scored five points, and Lauren Koenig had four.
The Lady Spartans made 10 of 14 free throws.
Christian (2-12) was led in scoring by Dooley with five points.
Moberly varsity girls will join the boys team next week in participating at the Macon Tournament. The Lady Spartans are the No. 2 seed behind Macon and plays at 6 p.m. Monday against seventh seed Kirksville. Winner advances to the 6 p.m. semifinal contest Wednesday facing the winner between (3) Brookfield and (6) Mexico game taking place at 4:30 p.m. Monday. Losers of these two games meet in consolation play Wednesday at 9 p.m.
The other two girls games scheduled for Monday has (1) Macon against (8) Harrisburg at 7:30 p.m., and (4) Centralia against (5) Father Tolton Regional Catholic of Columbia at 9 p.m.
Fifth place game is 5 p.m. Friday, while third place tips off at 6:30 p.m. and the championship game is set for 8 p.m.


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Our lives are often focused on making a living and taking care of our family. Eventually, most recognize the need to give back to the community. How can woodworkers give back to the community and focus that effort on the kids, our future? In 2006, Barbara Raymond-LaPrease, president of the Sawdust & Woodchips Woodworking Association (SWWA), started an initiative that would produce funding for local charities that help the children by selling Christmas ornaments donated by members of SWWA, especially the Scrolling Interest Group. Since not all the woodworkers in Central New York are members of SWWA, Barbara also approached the leadership of both the Central New York Woodturners and the Onondaga Woodcarvers to recruit their members to join in the effort. Through the combined efforts of the clubs, since 2006 over $35,000 has been donated to the Hospital, the children's infusion wing of the Upstate Cancer Center, and the newly built Ronald McDonald House.
Over the years, several thousand scrolled, turned, and carved ornaments were donated and sold at a limited number of sites. The artists from each of the clubs donate as few as one ornament and as many as a couple of hundred at a time. Donations are not just traditional holiday ornaments but also include religious items such as nativity sets and specialized crosses. Our scrolled ornaments may depict religious icons like angels, crosses, and nativity scenes, but more often focus on diverse holiday-related images, sleds, sports, animals, birds, professions, etc. We also have special items like HUGs and IUs. Turned ornaments may be trees, snowmen, bird houses, icicles, hollowed balls, even specialized animals. We also accept non-ornament items like bottle openers, bottle stoppers, candlesticks, clocks, cutting boards, keychains, letter openers, light pulls, magnets, pictures, seam rippers, and word art. Occasionally, we even have small wooden toys.
We sell at 4-5 events per year, some indoor and some outdoors, and our product and mission are always well received by community members. The events have changed over the years. We've sold at the Upstate hospital cafeteria, the Niagara Mohawk cafeteria, the Junior League Holiday Shoppes, and the Camillus Canal Days. We've sold at the Baldwinsville Rotary's Seneca River Day event since 2007. In 2009 we began selling after masses at St. Rose of Lima Church after SWWA's traditional donation of toys at their holiday event. (See details of our holiday event here.) In 2011 we began selling at the Baldwinsville Baker High School craft show and sold there for each year since 2015 when the show was canceled due to renovations at the school. We added two new locations in 2015, one in Skaneateles and one in Manlius. To avoid costly fees, we only accepted cash or check until we felt we lost $200-$300 in sales in Skaneateles due to not taking credit. With the Manlius show we added credit sales capacity. In 2016, we hope to continue to sell at all of our 2015 sites and return to Baker High. Our total for 2015 produced over $3000 that was donated to Ronald McDonald House!
We are often asked if we sell from a website. It would be impossible to do so without making significant changes to our effort which is all voluntary. If you need certain things or want to attend an event at which we are selling, we encourage you to watch this website for our 2016 sales locations and/or send an inquiry regarding our whereabouts.
Thank you to everyone who has donated over the years, to those who have helped at the sales, and to those who have purchased the items. Most of all, the kids thank you!
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Thank you SWWA members for your support!
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"It's all about us," is the philosophy which is working well for Latics under the stewardship of Tony Philliskirk.
Caretaker Manager Philliskirk was been explaining his approach since taking temporary charge at Boundary Park.
He said: "We have no scouts, match reports and DVD's of the opposition and I am majoring on what we do.
"It is my opinion, and also Paul Gerrard, that it is all about us and not them.
"We will put in a plan into practice to try and win the game and to enforce ourselves on them.
"If we do that, we believe we will get positive results."
Philliskirk and Gerrard believe that if the players maintain the mentality of recent weeks they should have no trouble amassing 50 points which ought to ensure another season in League One.
Gerrard said: "We must not get carried away with recent results and think we simply have to turn up to win a game.
"We have to make sure the players keep level headed and approach every game as we have done the ones in recent weeks then I am sure we will be alright."
Gerrard added Latics still have to play most of the teams in and around them so their destiny is in their own hands.
"It is a great opportunity to put a little run together and get out of trouble," he said.


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Sourav Ganguly, the key left-hand batsman and all-rounder of Team India, was playing for the Kolkata Knight Riders team in the first two seasons of Indian Premier League after he got retired from international cricket years back. Many of his fans started watching IPL, as he was playing back on the ground and that too for his hometown, Kolkata. Sourav was not able to play during the fourth season of the Indian Premier league due to various allegations that were raised upon him.
BCCI said before the fourth season of IPL. They shall be refreshed and cleaning the up the whole process of auctioning players to play for a team. All they did was raise the shareholding issues with two different franchises, named Rajasthan and Punjab.
The auction happened after this particular allegation and Sauvar was left behind without even considering him at the first place, as his performance in the past few matches were not good enough when compared to other international players who played for Kolkata Knight Riders.
Sourav Ganguly has scored about five hundred and thirty-eight runs in twenty-six matches. He played for the team KKR in the first three seasons of IPL. His overall run rate and score are very low when compared to both Yusuf Pathan and Gautam Gambhir. As they were leading the charts with runs as well as the performance.
Gautam has scored about eight hundred and twenty runs and Yusuf Pathan has scored about six hundred and seventy-eight runs. Comparing these figures the auction team left out Ganguly and his fans started with an outburst.
A stadium was surrounded over by Sourav Ganguly fans after the news came out that he was not auctioned. He was not able to play for the fourth as well as other seasons of the IPL.


William H. Staubi 88, of Rhinebeck, passed away peacefully on Saturday, August 11, 2018 at Renaissance Nursing Home in Hyde Park. Born April 7, 1930 in Newark, NJ he was the son of the late George W. and Magdalena A. (Eicnhorn) Staubi. After high school Bill served in the USAF from 1948 to 1951 during the Korean War. In 1962 he graduated from NYU School of engineering. He earned his MBA in management from Manhattan College and in 1983 his MBA in financial management from Pace University. From 1952 to 2010 he worked various engineering positions throughout NY. Survivors include his wife Joann (Nero) Staubi at home, one son Paul and wife Karyn, two daughters: Cindy and husband Jim, and Carol, grandchildren: Kayla, Matthew, and Lexi Staubi. He was pre-deceased by his first wife, Dolores H. (Galish) Staubi, he was also predeceased by his brothers Walter and Herman Staubi. Calling hours will be on Friday August 17th at the Sacco-McDonald-Valenti Funeral Home, 700 Town Hall Drive Hudson, NY from 6-8pm with prayers offered at 7:00pm with Pastor Danny Petfield officiating. Calling hours will also be on Saturday August 18th from 12-1:30pm at the Hawthorne Funeral Home, 21 West Stevens Ave, Hawthorne NY 10532. Services will follow at the Hawthorne Funeral Home at 1:30pm with Pastors Steven and Caren Petfield officiating. In lieu of flowers please send donations to Pilgrim Camp 1542 Palisades Rd. Brant lake, NY 12815 To leave online condolences please visit: www.saccomcdonaldvalenti.com or www.hawthornefuneral home.com.


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There was a time when winter in the Lake District was something to look forward to – a much anticipated opportunity to enjoy thrilling new activities on the lakes and fells.
In Bowness on the shore of Windermere the renting of rowing boats be replaced by a lucrative trade in the hire of ice skates. Special railway excursions ran from London and surrounding cities bringing thousands of people eager to line up for a chance to skate on Englands longest lake.
There were skating races, ice yachting and moonlight skating parties on ice up to 35cm thick. Can you imagine the fun of being on an ice yacht running on glass balls powered by huge sails with a rudder cutting into the ice for steering!
Windermere Lake Cruises could not operate all year round, like they do today, and the Windermere ferry that crosses the lake was replaced by coaches driven across the ice. In the middle of the night you could hear the ice roaring and cracking like a scene from the wild lands of Canada's Yukon Territories – what a magical place the Lake District must have been!
No one alive today can remember times such as these, but a winter in the Lake District occasionally provides a glimpse into how it must have been more than one hundred years ago.
In 2010 we had what for us was a big freeze where the smaller, shallower lakes of Grasmere, Rydal Water and Derwentwater froze to a depth where some brave souls ventured onto the ice with skates. I remember one winter skiing the two miles down the main road from Windermere station to the lake – a one time ride where an hour later it would not have been possible.
Today keep an eye on the weather forecast. Look for northerly winds, high pressure with clear skies and plunging temperatures. When the snow sits on the fells and the ice clings to the edge of the lakes the air is so clear and crisp it seems to freeze in the lungs.
This is the time to board the train on a modern day excursion to the Lake District. Come and experience the magic, the beauty and who knows maybe you too can take a moonlight skate on Tarn Hows to see the moon shining like a pearl on a frozen lake.


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Roger Cook – Bio
Born in Bristol, England, Roger Cook is recognised as one of the world's greatest modern songwriters.
During his lengthy international songwriting career, Roger has had more than 80 top 30 hits, including classics such as Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart – Gene Pitney, Something Tells Me – Cilla Black, Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress – The Hollies, and You've Got Your Troubles – The Fortunes. However, Roger is perhaps best known for his song I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing, which was recorded by the New Seekers and became the theme song for a long-running series of Coca-Cola commercials.
Starting out with co-songwriter Roger Greenaway in the early sixties, the two Rogers were persuaded in 1965 by the wife of Beatles producer George Martin to record under the names of David & Jonathan George Martin subsequently produced David & Jonathan's first major hit "Michelle " (written by the Beatles) which stormed into the charts in the States in 1966.This, with one of their own songs, Lovers Of The World Unite, (once again produced by George Martin) put David & Jonathan in the charts on both sides of the Atlantic in the space of a few short months.
David and Jonathan split up in 1968 and in late '69 Roger Cook was invited to join a new band called Blue Mink along with American singer Madeline Bell. Blue Mink's first number Melting Pot, written by Cook and Greenaway, reached number 3 in the UK charts in March 1969 and throughout the early '70s Blue Mink had 4 more top 20 hits with songs penned by Roger In the mid 70's, Roger moved to Nashville and turned his talent to writing country songs. His remarkable success in Nashville includes songs such as Talking In Your Sleep – Crystal Gayle , I Believe In You – Don Williams, One Night At A Time – George Strait, which remained at the number 1 spot on the Billboard charts for five weeks in a row.
Incredibly, this was followed in short order by another George Strait smash, I Just Want To Dance With You. It remained at the number 1 spot for three weeks, and was nominated for the prestigious CMA Single of the Year and Song of the Yearnumerous awards including:
1971: Ivor Novello British Songwriters of the Year Award (with co-writer Roger Greenaway)
1979: BMI "Song of the Year" Talking In Your Sleep – Crystal Gayle.
1993: "King Sod" – awarded by the Society of Distinguished Song writers.
1994: "Roger Cook Day" awarded by the Mayor of Nashville.
1995: BASCA/Jimmy Kennedy lifetime achievement award (with co-writer Roger Greenaway).
1997: ASCAP "Song of the Year" One Night At A Time – George Strait.
1998: Induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.


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DA: Accused shooter lived at controversial eviction house
by John Ruch • August 8, 2012 • 0 Comments
Steve Gayle, the Jamaica Plain resident charged in a double shooting at a strip club today, was a resident of a house at the center of a prominent eviction controversy that included the arrest of local state Rep. Liz Malia earlier this year, according to Suffolk County District Attorney's Office spokesperson Jake Wark.
Gayle's last known address was 3 Mendell Way, according to Wark. Homeowner Heather Gordon battled a bank's mortgage foreclosure eviction there with the help of the local organization City Life/Vida Urbana, a fight that ended in June with her eviction, and with a protest at which Malia was arrested. Just hours before the downtown shooting, City Life held an Aug. 7 protest event at the shuttered house that featured Gordon's handwriting projected on its walls.
Asked about Gayle by the Gazette on Aug. 13, Gordon said, "The house was built in 1920. Are you going to associate everyone who ever lived there with that address?" When asked to confirm that Gayle had resided there and under what situation, Gordon hung up.
It is unclear where Gayle has resided following the eviction.
Malia learned of the shooting from the Gazette and said she had met only Gordon during the eviction battle, not any other residents of the house.
"What a heartbreaker," Malia said. "I feel bad for Heather."
Gayle ran a business called The Game Room that arranged tournaments for players of the video games "NBA 2K12," "Madden NFL 12," and "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3," according to the company website at thegameroom.org.
On the website, Gayle identifies himself as the single father of two children, and also as having a disability from having been shot in a violent crime.
Gayle's attorney, Pamela Harris-Daley, could not immediately be reached for comment.
City Life's Aug. 7 protest at 3 Mendell Way included a projection of Gordon's handwritten letter to her mortgage lender complaining about unfair treatment. The projection was created by artist John Hulsey, who gained national media attention earlier this year for projecting similar letters onto a Bank of America building in the Back Bay.
Hulsey told the Gazette that it is "not fair that this [shooting incident] should eclipse Heather's story" and that it "shouldn't mask Heather's struggle."
Steve Meacham, City Life's organizing director, told the Gazette that City Life worked only with Gordon and that he does not know Gayle's connection to the property. Meacham said he does not think Gayle attended the Aug. 7 protest.
"The timing [between the protest and the shootings] is unfortunate, but the two stories are pretty unconnected," Meacham said.
City Life Executive Director Curdina Hill could not immediately be reached for comment.
Rebeca Oliveira contributed to this article.
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Guinea fowl do like to dust bath so providing them with a specific area that has soft sandy soil is good for the guinea fowl as dust bathing is a birds way of controlling mites and lice.


These are the new Bordeaux rugby jerseys 2014/15, Union Bordeaux Begles' new home, alternate and third kits for the Top 14 season. The new UBB rugby shirts have been made by Kappa.
Bordeaux had a great 2013/14 Top 14 season, finishing 8th in the league with 64 points, two behind Castres who took the final playoff spot, and one behind Stade.
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Is there a new 2015/2016 kit coming out and do you know where I could get one please – also is there a squad number for Adam Ashely Cooper?


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National Family Survey issued by the Health Ministry - Read the key highlights
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) issued the results of the fifth National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) for 2019-21 and it showcases the data on the population, health, and nutrition of each state and union territory in India.
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Updated May 6, 2022 | 01:55 PM IST
National Family Health Survey issued by the Health Ministry - Read the key highlights
New Delhi: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare ( MoHFW ) issued the results of the fifth National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) for 2019-21 and it showcases the data on the population, health, and nutrition of each state and union territory in India. As compared to NFHS-4, 96 per cent improvement in the source of drinking water and 69 per cent improvement in sanitation were witnessed in households. Also, an increase from 79 to 89 per cent in institutional births was witnessed.
Here are the key highlights of NFHS-5 2019-21:
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For ages 15 and above, tobacco use was found to be 38 per cent in men and 9 per cent in women; alcohol intake was found to be 19 per cent in men and 1 per cent in women.
A decline in Total Fertility Rate (TFR), the average number of children per woman, from 2.2 to 2.0 was witnessed. The replacement level fertility rate (>2.1) was found in only five Indian states namely Uttar Pradesh (2.35), Bihar (2.98), Manipur (2.17), Meghalaya (2.91), and Jharkhand (2.26).
The Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) hiked to 67 per cent and an increase from 48 to 56 per cent in modern contraceptives among women was also witnessed.
For ages between 15 to 49, 33 per cent of women do not use any contraceptive method. The remaining 67 per cent opt for female sterilization (38 per cent), condom/nirodh (9.5 per cent), rhythm (6.2 per cent), pill (5.1 per cent), and withdrawal (4 per cent).
On pregnancy termination, 3 per cent constituted abortion and 7 per cent involved miscarriage. 48 per cent of abortions were a consequence of unplanned pregnancy.
Prevalence of anaemia was found to be 67 per cent in children (6 to 59 months), 57 per cent in women, and 25 per cent in men.
According to the nutritional status results of children below the age of 5, 3 per cent are overweight, 32 per cent are underweight, 19 per cent are wasted (thin), and 36 per cent are stunned (short).
Seventy-seven per cent of children between the age of 12 to 23 months are up to date on their basic vaccinations.
283 per 100,000 men and 162 per 100,000 women suffer from tuberculosis. The prevalence of TB among men is higher.
For age 15 and above, 21 per cent women and 24 per cent men suffer from hypertension. 12 per cent of women and 9 per cent of men suffer from sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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