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The kid's a punk - Slik
After the UK hits 'Forever and ever' and 'Requiem', Slik tried to make it a hattrick with the song 'The kid's a punk'. Unfortunately, this attempt was unsuccessful: the single flopped.
I have to say that buying this single was a gamble: I bought 'Forever and ever' not so long ago and liked that song so I hoped this would be just as nice. It isn't, but the B-side does make up for it: it's very out of style for the band, but a very infectious tune.
Tracks: 'The kid's a punk' / 'Slik shuffle'
Labels: Midge Ure, Seventies, Slik
Forever and ever - Slik
Slik were formed as the Glasgow band Salvation in 1970. After several personnel changes they changed their name to Slik in 1974. One of the members of the band was Midge Ure, who would achieve great successes when he joined the band Ultravox in the late Seventies. His first success, however, came when Slik released the single 'Forever and ever'. It was a number one hit in the UK in February 1976. Shortly after that, it made number 2 in the Netherlands.
I bought my copy yesterday at the 30th edition of the international record fair in Utrecht. It's not a single I've been searching for for years, but I wanted to have it nonetheless.
Tracks: 'Forever and ever' / 'Again my love'


The payment method you use when trading internationally has a large bearing on the financing you require and level of risk to which you are exposed. Lee Baty is HSBC Head of Business Banking for Global Trade and Receivables Finance. Here he answers key questions about international payment options and how to manage financial risk when trading internationally.
Q: When trading internationally what are the key payment options?
Q: What is 'open account payment'?
Q: So why the need for other payment options?
Q: How do I decide which payment option is most appropriate?
Q: What is a 'documentary collection'?
LB: "A documentary collection is a process, in which the seller instructs his bank to forward documents related to the export of goods to the buyer's bank with a request to present these documents to the buyer for payment, indicating when and on what conditions these documents can be released to the buyer.
Q: What are 'documentary credits' or 'letters of credit'?
Q When are advance payments or part-payments used?


First, there is its structure. John Keats also wrote lyric poetry. Lawrence was another modernist who wrote lyric poetry in a freer vein: Piano by D. Cicero mentioned that a statue of her stood in the town hall of Syracuse, so she was famous in her own day, or soon thereafter. We are warriors of the night, in the darkness we do fight, like air we are out of sight, high in the sky once we take flight, our cries of victory are so bright, like a soldier we have might, but away we go once there's light, then we will be at a great height. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion. Burch The outlanders pursue him as if he were game.
There are so many different kinds of poems that it is very difficult to define the word. Burch A short transparent frock? Then die-that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair! A classic example: Conductor, when you collect your fare, Punch in the presence of the passenger. This is quite possibly the first extant English poem by a female poet. All types of lyric poetry fall under a meter. So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamor With the great black piano appassionato.
Lyric poetry resembles a musical composition with elements like alliteration, consonance, rhyme, and meter. According to the Parian Marble, Sappho was exiled to Sicily sometime between 604 and 594. He whose hands are clean and pure, Naught our wrath to dread hath he; Calm his cloudless days endure. Lyric poems have a musical rhythm, and their topics often explore romantic feelings or other strong emotions. Death bears a lonely face And seldom ever leaves a trace Of what once used to be; That of you and me.
What Is an Example of a Lyric Poem?
Other notable lyric poets of this era include Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Aphra Behn, Thomas Carew, John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, John Milton, Richard Crashaw, and Henry Vaughan. It pleases on two levels. Lyric poetry is usually a form of poetry with rhyming schemes that express personal feelings. Thus it has immense imagery without a story or characters and is written in first person. From Sicily to Tuscany to Bologna, the music of the troubadours swooned over a people ready to unlock their hearts and minds.
The moon i … s high in the sky, to it I feel like I can fly, just spread my wings nice and wide, behind the sun I no longer hide, i to see the stars go by, i want to go and fly up high, To have the birds at my side, but last night that sweet dream died. Honour the charge they made! An elegy, like Tennyson's In Memoriam is a poem memorializing a specific person or generally about death. In the 18th century lyric poetry declined in England and France. Free verse poems are the rebels of the bunch. Here are my translations of two wonderful haiku by Oriental masters: The butterfly perfuming its wings fans the orchid — Matsuo Basho, translated by Michael R. He describes the scene of war between the British and the Russian Empire in the Crimean War.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. Spanish devotional poetry adapted the lyric for religious purposes. In the early years of the 20th century, rhymed lyric poetry, usually expressing the feelings of the poet, was the dominant poetic form in America, Europe and the British colonies. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns Oh my luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: Oh my luve is like the melodie, That's sweetly play'd in tune. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-by; And further still at an unearthly height, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
Housman and Walter de la Mare employed rhymed lyrics skillfully and movingly. But thou thereon didst only breathe, And sent'st back to me: Since when it grows, and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee. Lyric poetry can come in a lot of forms, but four of the most common types are the sonnet, ode, elegy, and dramatic monologue. Wording your emotions with a lyrical poem can thus transform a simple string of words into a legendary piece of art. Will't please you sit and look at her? For example, if anger is your subject - you can begin by describing how it feels to be upset. Her detachment from all the worldly belongings including the people that were present around her deathbed is evident in the poem. It is usually on the subject of nature and humans' relationship to nature.
Words like: Shortcake, drop-dead, dead man, childhood, black hole, breakdown, love-song. The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past. Peace descending Come, ah, come into my breast! Most sonnets written in English, also known as Shakespearean sonnets, are broken into three stanzas, or groups of lines. Housman Here dead lie we because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. The poem does not speak of a particular character, or tell a story.
Burch, after Anacreon Ares was the Greek god of war, known as Mars to the Romans. After the Persian by Louise Bogan I do not wish to know The depths of your terrible jungle: From what nest your leopard leaps Or what sterile lianas are at once your serpents' disguise and home. Poems usually contain multiple poetic terms and devices such as lyric poetry. The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine and fifty swans. Quatrain Poems : four-line stanzas with specificrhyme formats. Like the elegy, there is no strict structure or format for an ode. Japanese lyric poets include Taneda Santoka, Masaoka Shiki and Ishikawa Takuboku.


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02 Dec 2010 | News
London Genetics agrees deal to commercialise academic research with Quintiles
Science|Business Reporting
London Genetics, the company set up to commercialise genetic research carried out in the city's leading universities and research institutes, has sealed an agreement with the pharmaceutical contract research body Quintiles to collaborate in the development of biomarkers, as the basis of personalised medicines. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Thomas Wollman, Senior Vice President, Quintiles Global Central Laboratories, said, "Through our alliance with London Genetics, we have world-class expertise to help early adopters of personalised medicine use genomic technologies to improve drug discovery and development."
Dominique Kleyn, CEO of London Genetics, said the alliance will support pharma companies in their interactions with academic partners and the development of personalised medicine. "Our expertise in pharmacogenetic strategy development combined with Quintiles' expertise and infrastructure in biomarker development gives biopharma companies a powerful ally in harnessing the value of genomic data for drug development."
London Genetics works with genetics researchers in London to provide pharmacogenetic expertise to the biopharmaceutical industry. It can help companies to partner with relevant academics and clinicians, to apply genetic knowledge to de-risk clinical trials, to design and manage projects and to access patient cohorts.
The not-for-profit company was set up in 2007 with funding from the London Development Agency. Its seven founding partners are leading London academic and medical institutions, and it has access to 3,000 academic groups with a £650 million annual research spend.
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Francis Lassus (* 29. Mai 1961 in Pau) ist ein französischer Jazzmusiker (Schlagzeug, Komposition).

Leben und Wirken
Lassus begann schon in jungen Jahren Schlagzeug zu spielen und trat bald in verschiedenen Orchestern und Bands in Südwestfrankreich auf. 1983 holte ihn Bernard Lubat in seine Company. In den 1990er Jahren gehörte er zu verschiedenen Projekten von Ray Lema und zum Sextett von Louis Sclavis (Ellington on the Air, Les violences de Rameau), für den er auch komponierte. Dann arbeitete er mit Künstlern wie Claude Nougaro, Jean-Michel Pilc, Sylvain Luc, Mina Garay, Antonello Salis, Étienne M'Bappé, Richard Galliano, Maurice Vander, André Minvielle oder Furio Di Castri. Außerdem ist er als Autor und Initiator des Perkussionsorchesters Les Elegantes Machines hervorgetreten. Weiterhin hat er auch mit dem Ballett von Roland Petit und Zizi Jeanmaire zusammengearbeitet. Er ist auch auf Tonträgern von Bernard Lubat, Louis Winsberg, Ray Lema/Joachim Kühn, Guillemette Laurens, Mokhtar Samba oder Huong Thanh/Nguyên Lê zu hören.

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 Kurzbiographie (infoconcert.com)
 Interview (2009) (L'Humanité)

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Bibliography of works on the United States military and LGBT+ topics is a list of non-fiction literary works on the subject of the United States Armed Forces and LGBT+ subjects. LGBT+ includes any types of people which may be considered "Queer"; in other words, homosexual people, bisexual people, transgender people, intersex people, androgynous people, cross-dressers, questioning people and others.

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Sexuality

Transgenderism

Intersex

Cross-dressing

Androgyny

See also
 Bibliography of works on wartime cross-dressing
 Outline of LGBT topics
 Don't ask, don't tell
 Bibliography of United States military history

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 Further Reading: Transgender Soldiers

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LGBT-related lists
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It was reasonable to think it couldn't get much worse in the Brisbane City Council's animal management. With council celebrating its widespread success in slaughtering cats while simultaneously declaring "Getting 2 Zero" success, which recently developed into the cats of rescue groups being stolen post-surgery from clinic by council officers, and sees rescuers being threatened with fines in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for daring to help strays and council declaring that cats aren't creatures, but "restricted matter under the biosecurity act", things seemed pretty much as bad as I've ever seen.
But never to be under-estimated, Brisbane City Council wasn't quite finished. Local animal rescuers had long accused Council of using leg-hold traps. A photo circulated, but was widely discredited as not being current or real.
These signs were rumored to be appearing in Coopers Plains (an outer suburb of Brisbane). Council denied these traps were being used.
And Council would be keen to deny using these traps with good reason. Foothold traps - even the allegedly more "humane" ones with a padded jaw - cause damage to cats trapped by them.
Leg-hold traps cause pain and distress in two ways; pressure of the trap jaws on the captured limb and restraint of the animal. Padded–jaw traps cause less trauma than unpadded traps but injuries will inevitably occur to some cats. These range from swelling of the foot and lacerations to dislocations and fractures.
Most people would agree that this is totally inappropriate for a peri-urban or suburban area, simply because of the risk to pet cats and potentially dogs off-leash. But of course also because of the risk to entirely non-target species, especially given that these traps are generally baited.
Traps are not target specific, so a wide range of nontarget species may be caught. These can include birds (eg ravens, magpies, pied currawongs), kangaroos, wallabies, rabbits, hares, echidnas, goannas, wombats, possums, bandicoots, bilbies, quolls and sheep.
But probably more disturbing in a urban context, is the notion that because of the trauma an animal is being put through while in a leg-hold trap, the most "humane" thing a trapper can do is to kill it as soon as possible, and while still in the trap, according to the government website directing how these traps are used.
Leg-hold traps may be more effective than cage traps for hard-to-catch cats that have had minimal exposure to humans. Leg hold (padded-jaw) traps should only be used at sites where the animal can be destroyed by shooting whilst still held in the trap.
So when The Lord Mayor said his council is not using leg-hold traps, I mean great. Thank dog for the smallest mercies.
From Facebook tonight - "this photo was taken at Coopers Plains last night along with other photos of the banned foot hold traps"
But it's ok, because The Mayor said they don't do that. Must be yet another mistake.
"I am advised the use of padded-jaw type traps is generally at the conclusion of feral cat programs when the remaining cats cannot be captured with a typical cage type trap. Padded jaw traps are only used for about 1% of Council's feral cat trapping effort. Should you require any further information, please visit the PestSmart website…"
So Council do use padded-jaw leg traps to target cats. But it's ok, because ... its only 1% and you can trust us, right?
Council have some 'splaining to do about its use of these traps. Does the community at large believe that pet animal management in an urban and peri-urban area should be done in the fashion usually only seen in rural areas (where even then its pretty controversial stuff). Do ratepayers want to see their investment in animal management spent on animal management officers who set leg-hold traps to catch, potentially, pet cats? But that's not all. Council also has some questions to answer about the method of disposable being used to kill these poor, trapped cats.
Council has maintained that it can defy all known animal behaviour science and do a "thorough assessment", "temperament tests" to check cats for "domestic characteristics" whilst a cat is in a cage trap. Does Council also feel confident that it can assess the temperament of a cat whilst it thrashes around held by its leg in the field? How are cats who are trapped in this fashion killed? And what checks are made before these animals are killed?
Things just seem to be going from worse, to much much worse, for the pets of Brisbane.


Get yourself into the holiday spirit with one of the most festive, challenging and fun puzzle games around, Christs Chain. You need to help Santa stop the chain of balls before they fall into the hole! If you can do this, you very well might just save Christmas!
Christmas Chain is a very clever game and the concept is quite simple. You play as Santa in the middle of the screen who can move 360 degrees. A chain of balls is making its way to the hole somewhere on the screen. Santa can throw balls and when three balls of the same style are next to each other they will disappear, thus shortening the chain. The idea is to get rid of all the balls on the screen.
There is quite a lot of skill here as if you misjudge just one throw it can put you in serious trouble as you try to figure out how to fix your mistake. You can get extra points by doing combos! Combos are when you throw a ball that gets rid of three balls, but in doing so causing the chain to move in a way where three other balls of the same color are then touching. This can not only score you big points but get rid of the chain that much quicker too.
Christmas Chain is a game that requires patience and skill, but you also have to be pretty quick on the shoot button as that chain moves pretty darn quick!


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SES AMERICOM Orders 2 Launches from International Launch Services
McLEAN, Va., June 18, 2002 – SES AMERICOM has signed a contract with International Launch Services (ILS) for the launch of two cable television satellites in 2004. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The contract calls for ILS to launch both satellites, AMC-10 and AMC-11, during the first half of 2004. Atlas IIAS is the primary vehicle, with a Proton M vehicle as the backup. ILS thus has received 15 new orders in the last 18 months, out of 34 open for competition. The ILS backlog now stands at 33 missions.
"ILS has had a long-standing and successful relationship with both AMERICOM and its parent company, SES GLOBAL, with nine launches," said ILS President Mark Albrecht. "In fact, an SES satellite was carried on ILS' first Proton launch. We're pleased they have again demonstrated their confidence by selecting the most reliable vehicles for their critical replacement satellites." He noted that SES GLOBAL and its affiliated companies have placed six of their eight upcoming missions on ILS vehicles (ASTRA 1K; AMC-9, -10, -11, -12; and AsiaSat 4).
AMC-10 and AMC-11 are A2100 model spacecraft being built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, to replace satellites at 131 and 135 degrees West longitude that are nearing the end of their life in orbit. These next-generation satellites will combine to form AMERICOM's premiere cable neighborhood, featuring programming from Viacom, Crown/Hallmark, C-SPAN, Scripps Networks, USA Networks and The Weather Channel, all of which will be distributed across the 50 United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.
ILS, based in McLean, Va., is a joint venture, formed in 1995, of Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) and two Russian companies, Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center and RSC Energia. ILS markets and manages the missions for the Atlas and Proton vehicles. With two independent, highly reliable vehicles and two dedicated launch sites, ILS pioneered the concept of Mutual Backup, thus assuring satellites will be launched on schedule.
The Atlas family of vehicles has a record of 60 consecutive successful launches over nine years with commercial and U.S. government payloads. The Atlas II and Atlas III series boast 100 percent success, including launches in February and March of this year. The next-generation Atlas V is scheduled to begin flying in July.
The Proton has completed 23 consecutive successful missions in 28 months with payloads for ILS and for the Russian government. The most recent ILS launches carried satellites for Intelsat in March and DIRECTV in May. A mission for the Russian government was completed June 10, and an ILS launch for EchoStar is set for this weekend. The ASTRA 1K satellite for SES GLOBAL is set to launch in August.
ILS offers the broadest range of launch services in the world along with products with the highest reliability in the industry. ILS' Atlas rockets and their Centaur upper stages are built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company-Astronautics Operations at facilities in Denver, Colo.; Harlingen, Texas; and San Diego, Calif. The three-stage Proton and the Breeze M upper stage are assembled by Khrunichev at its plant near Moscow. The alternative Block DM upper stage is built by Energia, also near Moscow.
About SES AMERICOM
With over 25 years' experience, SES AMERICOM, Inc., is recognized as a pioneer and leading provider of global satellite communications services, currently providing capacity on 16 spacecraft capable of serving the Americas, Europe, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean regions, and Asia. As an SES GLOBAL company, AMERICOM is able to provide end-to-end telecommunications solutions to any region in the world.


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Q: PHP How to regex preg_match date from html page I want to fetch date from these html tags via regex preg_match
User Signup Date: Aug 24, 2015

I just want to fetch only date Aug 24, 2015, every HTML page contain different dates. but all HTML pages contain same
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HTML tag before date.
Please tell me what regex formula i have to use ?
 Note: HTML page contain many other  HTML tags.
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Your help will be appreciated!

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Is a War With China on the Horizon?
On May 30th, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced a momentous shift in American global strategic policy. From now on, he decreed, the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), which oversees all U.S. military forces in Asia, will be called the Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM). The name change, Mattis explained, reflects "the increasing connectivity between the Indian and Pacific Oceans," as well as Washington's determination to remain the dominant power in both.
What? You didn't hear about this anywhere? And even now, you're not exactly blown away, right? Well, such a name change may not sound like much, but someday you may look back and realize that it couldn't have been more consequential or ominous. Think of it as a signal that the U.S. military is already setting the stage for an eventual confrontation with China.
If, until now, you hadn't read about Mattis's decision anywhere, I'm not surprised since the media gave it virtually no attention — less certainly than would have been accorded the least significant tweet Donald Trump ever dispatched. What coverage it did receive treated the name change as no more than a passing "symbolic" gesture, a Pentagon ploy to encourage India to join Japan, Australia, and other U.S. allies in America's Pacific alliance system. "In Symbolic Nod to India, U.S. Pacific Command Changes Name" was the headline of a Reuters story on the subject and, to the extent that any attention was paid, it was typical.
That the media's military analysts failed to notice anything more than symbolism in the deep-sixing of PACOM shouldn't be surprising, given all the attention being paid to other major international developments — the pyrotechnics of the Korean summit in Singapore, the insults traded at and after the G7 meeting in Canada, or the ominous gathering storm over Iran. Add to this the poor grasp so many journalists have of the nature of the U.S. military's strategic thinking. Still, Mattis himself has not been shy about the geopolitical significance of linking the Indian and Pacific Oceans in such planning. In fact, it represents a fundamental shift in U.S. military thinking with potentially far-reaching consequences.
Consider the backdrop to the name change: in recent months, the U.S. has stepped up its naval patrols in waters adjacent to Chinese-occupied islands in the South China Sea (as has China), raising the prospect of future clashes between the warships of the two countries. Such moves have been accompanied by ever more threatening language from the Department of Defense (DoD), indicating an intent to do nothing less than engage China militarily if that country's build-up in the region continues. "When it comes down to introducing what they have done in the South China Sea, there are consequences," Mattis declared at the Shangri La Strategic Dialogue in Singapore on June 2nd.
As a preliminary indication of what he meant by this, Mattis promptly disinvited the Chinese from the world's largest multinational naval exercise, the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), conducted annually under American auspices. "But that's a relatively small consequence," he added ominously, "and I believe there are much larger consequences in the future." With that in mind, he soon announced that the Pentagon is planning to conduct "a steady drumbeat" of naval operations in waters abutting those Chinese-occupied islands, which should raise the heat between the two countries and could create the conditions for a miscalculation, a mistake, or even an accident at sea that might lead to far worse.
In addition to its plans to heighten naval tensions in seas adjacent to China, the Pentagon has been laboring to strengthen its military ties with U.S.-friendly states on China's perimeter, all clearly part of a long-term drive to — in Cold War fashion — "contain" Chinese power in Asia. On June 8th, for example, the DoD launched Malabar 2018, a joint Pacific Ocean naval exercise involving forces from India, Japan, and the United States. Incorporating once neutral India into America's anti-Chinese "Pacific" alliance system in this and other ways has, in fact, become a major twenty-first-century goal of the Pentagon, posing a significant new threat to China.
For decades, the principal objective of U.S. strategy in Asia had been to bolster key Pacific allies Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines, while containing Chinese power in adjacent waters, including the East and South China Seas. However, in recent times, China has sought to spread its influence into Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean region, in part by extolling its staggeringly ambitious "One Belt, One Road" trade and infrastructure initiative for the Eurasian continent and Africa. That vast project is clearly meant both as a unique vehicle for cooperation and a way to tie much of Eurasia into a future China-centered economic and energy system. Threatened by visions of such a future, American strategists have moved ever more decisively to constrain Chinese outreach in those very areas. That, then, is the context for the sudden concerted drive by U.S. military strategists to link the Indian and Pacific Oceans and so encircle China with pro-American, anti-Chinese alliance systems. The name change on May 30th is a formal acknowledgement of an encirclement strategy that couldn't, in the long run, be more dangerous.
Girding for War with China
To grasp the ramifications of such moves, some background on the former PACOM might be useful. Originally known as the Far East Command, PACOM was established in 1947 and has been headquartered at U.S. bases near Honolulu, Hawaii, ever since. As now constituted, its "area of responsibility" encompasses a mind-boggling expanse: all of East, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as Australia, New Zealand, and the waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans — in other words, an area covering about 50% of the Earth's surface and incorporating more than half of the global population. Though the Pentagon divides the whole planet like a giant pie into a set of "unified commands," none of them is larger than the newly expansive, newly named Indo-Pacific Command, with its 375,000 military and civilian personnel.
Before the Indian Ocean was explicitly incorporated into its fold, PACOM mainly focused on maintaining control of the western Pacific, especially in waters around a number of friendly island and peninsula states like Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. Its force structure has largely been composed of air and naval squadrons, along with a large Marine Corps presence on the Japanese island of Okinawa. Its most powerful combat unit is the U.S. Pacific Fleet — like the area it now covers, the largest in the world. It's made up of the 3rd and 7th Fleets, which together have approximately 200 ships and submarines, nearly 1,200 aircraft, and more than 130,000 sailors, pilots, Marines, and civilians.
On a day-to-day basis, until recently, the biggest worry confronting the command was the possibility of a conflict with nuclear-armed North Korea. During the late fall of 2017 and the winter of 2018, PACOM engaged in a continuing series of exercises designed to test its forces' ability to overcome North Korean defenses and destroy its major military assets, including nuclear and missile facilities. These were undoubtedly intended, above all, as a warning to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un about what he could expect if he continued down the path of endless provocative missile and nuclear tests. It seems that, at least for the time being, President Trump has suspended such drills as a result of his summit meeting with Kim.
North Korea aside, the principal preoccupation of PACOM commanders has long been the rising power of China and how to contain it. This was evident at the May 30th ceremony in Hawaii at which Mattis announced that expansive name change and presided over a change-of-command ceremony, in which outgoing commander, Admiral Harry Harris Jr., was replaced by Admiral Phil Davidson. (Given the naval-centric nature of its mission, the command is almost invariably headed by an admiral.)
While avoiding any direct mention of China in his opening remarks, Mattis left not a smidgeon of uncertainty that the command's new name was a challenge and a call for the future mobilization of regional opposition across a vast stretch of the planet to China's dreams and desires. Other nations welcome U.S. support, he insisted, as they prefer an environment of "free, fair, and reciprocal trade not bound by any nation's predatory economics or threat of coercion, for the Indo-Pacific has many belts and many roads." No one could mistake the meaning of that.
Departing Admiral Harris was blunter still. Although "North Korea remains our most immediate threat," he declared, "China remains our biggest long-term challenge." He then offered a warning: without the stepped-up efforts of the U.S. and its allies to constrain Beijing, "China will realize its dream of hegemony in Asia." Yes, he admitted, it was still possible to cooperate with the Chinese on limited issues, but we should "stand ready to confront them when we must." (On May 18th, Admiral Harris was nominated by President Trump as the future U.S. ambassador to South Korea, which will place a former military man at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul.)
Harris's successor, Admiral Davidson, seems, if anything, even more determined to put confronting China atop the command's agenda. During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 17th, he repeatedly highlighted the threat posed by Chinese military activities in the South China Sea and promised to resist them vigorously. "Once [the South China Sea islands are] occupied, China will be able to extend its influence thousands of miles to the south and project power deep into Oceania," he warned. "The PLA [People's Liberation Army] will be able to use these bases to challenge U.S. presence in the region, and any forces deployed to the islands would easily overwhelm the military forces of any other South China Sea claimants. In short, China is now capable of controlling the South China Sea in all scenarios short of war with the United States."
Is that, then, what Admiral Davidson sees in our future? War with China in those waters? His testimony made it crystal clear that his primary objective as head of the Indo-Pacific Command will be nothing less than training and equipping the forces under him for just such a future war, while enlisting the militaries of as many allies as possible in the Pentagon's campaign to encircle that country. "To prevent a situation where China is more likely to win a conflict," he affirmed in his version of Pentagonese, "we must resource high-end capabilities in a timely fashion, preserve our network of allies and partners, and continue to recruit and train the best soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and coastguardsmen in the world."
Davidson's first priority is to procure advanced weaponry and integrate it into the command's force structure, ensuring that American combatants will always enjoy a technological advantage over their Chinese counterparts in any future confrontation. Almost as important, he, like his predecessors, seeks to bolster America's military ties with other members of the contain-China club. This is where India comes in. Like the United States, its leadership is deeply concerned with China's expanding presence in the Indian Ocean region, including the opening of a future port/naval base in Gwadar, Pakistan, and another potential one on the island of Sri Lanka, both in the Indian Ocean. Not surprisingly, given the periodic clashes between Chinese and Indian forces along their joint Himalayan borderlands and the permanent deployment of Chinese warships in the Indian Ocean, India's prime minister Narendra Modi has shown himself to be increasingly disposed to join Washington in military arrangements aimed at limiting China's geopolitical reach. "An enduring strategic partnership with India comports with U.S. goals and objectives in the Indo-Pacific," Admiral Davidson said in his recent congressional testimony. Once installed as commander, he continued, "I will maintain the positive momentum and trajectory of our burgeoning strategic partnership." His particular goal: to "increase maritime security cooperation."
And so we arrive at the Indo-Pacific Command and a future shadowed by the potential for great power war.
The View from Beijing
The way the name change at PACOM was covered in the U.S., you would think it reflected, at most, a benign wish for greater economic connections between the Indian and Pacific Ocean regions, as well, perhaps, as a nod to America's growing relationship with India. Nowhere was there any hint that what might lie behind it was a hostile and potentially threatening new approach to China — or that it could conceivably be perceived that way in Beijing. But there can be no doubt that the Chinese view such moves, including recent provocative naval operations in the disputed Paracel Islands of the South China Sea, as significant perils.
When, in late May, the Pentagon dispatched two warships — the USS Higgins, a destroyer, and the USS Antietam, a cruiser — into the waters near one of those newly fortified islands, the Chinese responded by sending in some of their own warships while issuing a statement condemning the provocative American naval patrols. The U.S. action, said a Chinese military spokesperson, "seriously violated China's sovereignty [and] undermined strategic mutual trust." Described by the Pentagon as "freedom of navigation operations" (FRONOPs), such patrols are set to be increased at the behest of Mattis.
Of course, the Chinese are hardly blameless in the escalating tensions in the region. They have continued to militarize South China Sea islands whose ownership is in dispute, despite a promise that Chinese President Xi Jinping made to President Obama in 2015 not to do so. Some of those islands in the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos are also claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines, and other countries in the area and have been the subject of intensifying, often bitter disagreements among them about where rightful ownership really lies. Beijing has simply claimed sovereignty over all of them and refuses to compromise on the issue. By fortifying them — which American military commanders see as a latent military threat to U.S. forces in the region — Beijing has provoked a particularly fierce U.S. reaction, though these are obviously waters relatively close to China, but many thousands of miles from the continental United States.
From Beijing, the strategic outlook articulated by Secretary Mattis, as well as Admirals Harris and Davidson, is clearly viewed — and not without reason — as threatening and as evidence of Washington's master plan to surround China, confine it, and prevent it from ever achieving the regional dominance its leaders believe is its due as the rising great power on the planet. To the Chinese leadership, changing PACOM's name to the Indo-Pacific Command will just be another signal of Washington's determination to extend its unprecedented military presence westward from the Pacific around Southeast Asia into the Indian Ocean and so further restrain the attainment of what it sees as China's legitimate destiny.
However Chinese leaders end up responding to such strategic moves, one thing is certain: they will not view them with indifference. On the contrary, as challenged great powers have always done, they will undoubtedly seek ways to counter America's containment strategy by whatever means are at hand. These may not initially be overtly military or even obvious, but in the long run they will certainly be vigorous and persistent. They will include efforts to compete with Washington in pursuit of Asian allies — as seen in Beijing's fervent courtship of President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines — and to secure new basing arrangements abroad, possibly under the pretext, as in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, of establishing commercial shipping terminals. All of this will only add new tensions to an already anxiety-inducing relationship with the United States. As ever more warships from both countries patrol the region, the likelihood that accidents will occur, mistakes will be made, and future military clashes will result can only increase.
With the possibility of war with North Korea fading in the wake of the recent Singapore summit, one thing is guaranteed: the new U.S. Indo-Pacific Command will only devote itself ever more fervently to what is already its one overriding priority: preparing for a conflict with China. Its commanders insist that they do not seek such a war, and believe that their preparations — by demonstrating America's strength and resolve — will deter the Chinese from ever challenging American supremacy. That, however, is a fantasy. In reality, a strategy that calls for a "steady drumbeat" of naval operations aimed at intimidating China in waters near that country will create ever more possibilities, however unintended, of sparking the very conflagration that it is, at least theoretically, designed to prevent.
Right now, a Sino-American war sounds like the plotline of some half-baked dystopian novel. Unfortunately, given the direction in which both countries (and their militaries) are heading, it could, in the relatively near future, become a grim reality.
By Michael T. Klare
Source: Tom Dispatch
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Report: McD to roll out specialty coffee to all U.S. units
OAK BROOK Ill. McDonald's Corp. plans to boost sales by more than $1 billion annually by rolling out espresso-based beverages to all the chain's nearly 14,000 U.S. outlets next year, according to an internal document quoted by the Crain's media organization that said the launch will entail the most extensive remodeling of restaurants in a decade.
It also said that retrofitting costs will vary by size and layout of each restaurant, but they could average $100,000 per location for automatic brewing equipment and drive-thru modifications. Eventually, franchisees also would have to install smoothie makers and wall-mounted refrigerators for bottled sodas and energy drinks.
Some 1,500 McDonald's would be equipped for lattes and cappuccinos by year-end, with the rest of the chain following suit by late 2008.
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Make the Holidays Sweeter with Southern Confections
by Cody Moore, Photography by Melissa Donner
Jonesboro residents Brandon and Audra King opened the doors to their bakery, Southern Confections, in February of this year with the hope of providing the community with authentic handmade pies and Southern baked goods.
Audra, a native of Paragould, and Brandon, a native of Trumann, currently reside in Jonesboro with their daughters, Charleigh and Collins.
Aside from owning Southern Confections, Brandon runs his own art business, Brandon King Studio, while Audra works for St. Bernards Total Life Healthcare as its business development manager.
"Since opening the bakery to the public this year, I have found working two full time jobs to be slightly overwhelming," said Audra. "Luckily, I have had amazing support from Brandon to help operate the bakery two days a week while I'm still at St. Bernards."
Though Audra has been working for St. Bernards for the past 11 years, baking has always been something she has enjoyed.
"I have always enjoyed cooking and baking," said Audra. "For me, my childhood is centered around memories gathered around a table, where the ones I loved most would eat amazing food, share laughs and make memories. Baking, for me, is carrying on the parts of my childhood that mean the most and getting to share those memories with others."
Before Southern Confections became an official business venture for the pair, Audra recalls the moment she mentioned opening a pie shop to Brandon.
"I had been toying with the idea of opening a pie shop centered around my grandmother's pie crust recipe for several years," she said. "A few years ago, I sat down with Brandon on our couch, opened up my notebook of this idea and laid it out for him. He thought it was a great idea, because no one really had a pie shop in Jonesboro.
"Several months later, I made Brandon some hand pies and he went to social media with it. That was our first post, and we have been baking ever since."
After the swarm of requests came in for Audra's homemade pies, she needed a place to bake and keep up with the orders. Audra's mother, Debbie Rose, would help her bake and deliver the pies to customers each week.
"We started out in my mother's home in Paragould for almost a year," said Audra. "We would take orders on Facebook and deliver the hand pies on Fridays. We would drive to Paragould after I got off work on Thursday nights and would work until about two in the morning filling orders for Friday pickups.
"The business continued to grow, so we started looking for a space in Jonesboro where we could begin baking."
After the rapid growth, Audra, Brandon and Debbie decided to move their pie business into an official storefront, rather than just commissioning online requests. Southern Confections opened its doors to the public in February of this year.
"Jonesboro is home," said Brandon. "It is where our life happens, and we want to do our part in making Jonesboro a better place to live. By serving, giving back and lots of hard work, we believe that our little pie company can eventually make a big impact in the lives of many here in Jonesboro."
Audra, Brandon and Debbie all work together at Southern Confections, where they each take part in making each and every baked good from scratch.
"Many of our pie recipes are passed down," said Audra. "My grandmother's pie crust recipe is our pie crust, along with many of her pie filling and cheesecake recipes."
"While I do bake, too, I often tease Audra that I am just her doughboy," added Brandon. "I have gotten quite proficient at taking direction around the kitchen."
Upon walking into the shop, guests will notice an array of hand pies in multiple flavors, along with cinnamon rolls, scones, muffins, no-bake cookies, whole pies and much more.
"The must-haves are the Old Fashion Chocolate Hand Pie, our Southern Cinnamon Roll and our Southern Pecan Cobbler," said Brandon. "Our hand pies are what we have built our business around, but it has been awesome to see new products we introduce … garner their own following."
Crowd favorites for the holiday season have been the pecan cobbler, chocolate chess pie, pecan cheesecake and, of course, the cinnamon rolls.
Southern Confections is currently taking pre-orders for the holiday season, or guests can stop by at their own leisure and purchase what is currently being offered in-store.
"Getting to provide the people we serve with a product that is made from my own hands is one of the best parts of the job," said Audra.
"The biggest compliment we continue to get is that our product 'tastes just like my grandmother's,' or 'that reminded me of my mother.' For me, that is what baking is all about; carrying on the legacy of others and transporting people back to a memory."
Though working with family can sometimes get tricky, the Southern Confections bunch is more than happy that they get to work with each other each week.
"It is awesome getting to work alongside my best friend," said Brandon. "Knowing that what I am contributing goes into helping make Southern Confections a dream come true for Audra is all worth it."
"Brandon and my mother are my favorite people in the world," added Audra. "They are encouraging, problem solvers and extremely hard working. I'm beyond blessed to be on this journey with them by my side."
As for the future of Southern Confections, Brandon, Audra and Debbie have nothing but high hopes.
"Helping my daughter's dream become a reality is the most rewarding part," said Debbie. "I only hope that Southern Confections continues to grow as it has over the last year and a half."
Brandon says that it's above and beyond what they ever expected to happen after his Facebook post of the strawberry hand pie that Audra made him last year.
"Our motto is 'the best pie is a shared pie,' so it has been truly incredible to watch our business grow essentially by word of mouth and our patrons wanting to share our passion with others," said Brandon.
Southern Confections, located at 2704 Phillips Drive, Suite F, is open Wednesday and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. In 2020, the bakery will be open Tuesday through Saturday, as it will become Audra's only occupation. To keep up with all updates and for more information on pre-ordering, find Southern Confections on Facebook or call (870) 212-1382.


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External links
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Open your diary. Turn to 5 October. Look to see if it reads 'Edgar Allan Poe's statue unveiling in Boston', and, if the answer is 'no', amend that immediately.
Yes, that's right, 5 October is when the master of macabre will be returning to the city of his birth - permanently, thanks to a life-size, bronze-cast and fittingly gothic statue designed by professional sculptor Stefanie Rocknak, who beat 265 other competing artists for the honour.
Dubbed 'Poe Returning To Boston', it's a mantra typified by a marching stance with suitcase in-hand as the nomadic author finds himself accompanied by a raven, for obvious reasons. And as we think you'll agree from the images below, the detail is astonishing, uncannily capturing the author's likeness right down to his furrowed brow and sleepless eyes.
It's to be planted just three days before the 165th anniversary of the writer's death, specifically on the corner of an area known as Edgar Allan Poe Square, just two blocks from where the great man was born back in 1809.
That sound you can hear is us preparing our own suitcase for Boston. We'll see you there.


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Roadrunners invited to third C2 Hub info session
They're back! Representatives from Perkins + Will to share initial concepts of new C2 Hub/Student Commons Building.
Online student-engagement tools for success
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Celebrate the Rowdy Scholar
Learn more about MSU Denver's undergraduate research journal Oct. 1.
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Employees hired before May 1 must meet Oct. 1 deadline; those hired after May 1 must complete within 30 days of assignment.
Faculty Citings
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ITS adds flexibility to computer updates
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A new look and new services for the Auraria Library
The tri-institutional building is undergoing sustainability and design improvements and adapting to user needs.
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The search for MSU Denver's next provost
Faculty, staff, administrators and students are invited to share their feedback, ideas and suggestions.
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How do you buy fabric? Is this a known equation? Maybe you don't want to read on?
Buying fabric is an interesting phenomenon. Do you know why you buy fabric? Is it because you just "love it" and have to have it? Is it because it's part of a theme you are working towards? Is it because you like a certain designer, or is it because you are buying specificlly for a project? Is it because you love a particular colour? Is it price point? Or…..is it because it just brings you pleasure? Or maybe it's all of those things?
I think we are all guilty of buying fabric just because. And that's okay! I think if it brings you pleasure, why not???? As long as you have somewhere to store it and it won't cause financial strain.
I think there is no doubting that some of us have moved on from being a mere purchaser of fabric to an avid collector ! And that's okay too, provided you realize it may be well beyond what can be used in one lifetime. This is a difficult prospect to consider….
So this is where we all must evaluate why we buy fabric? I think it helps to know what you already have. If you have that knowledge it will empower you to know what you need and want.
Of course it all comes down to personal choice, but, maybe it's improved by having a handle on what YOU like! This is important I think, when you decide what kind of quilter you are, this is most helpful in buying fabric too. For example, if you love appliqué quilts and you know that's your passion, then buy for that purpose. If you prefer patterns with monochromatic schemes then that's great too! If you love patchwork with an intergrated theme, then you know what you are looking for. Maybe you love batik s or modern prints. Maybe you just love so many things, that you can't decide, and that's a problem! Quiltmaking can be a long process from go to whoa, This is where it's important to evaluate time vs reality. It's not the same, but, in some ways it's like evaluating junk mail, email and images. When I see things I like, I look at them and I might think I love that pattern or design, and I appreciate the beauty, but….,I will then ask myself, "would I ever make it or use it"??? Be honest with yourself now…if the answer is no, then that's okay. It's not achievable for now, or it's not achievable in the time and space you are in at the moment. This is important. That will then help you determine how you will buy your fabric and for what purpose. I know that I love love florals and that is a draw card for me.
I like to pre wash all my fabrics then store them so I can see what's there.
When I first began reading quilting patterns many years ago, it seemed that a very large amount of fabric was required. In practice however, that's was not necessarily the case. Because I love scrap quilts, I soon realized that it's often the leftovers that have the most appeal. And this is where we come back to the fabrics themselves. Before I buy fabric now, I will assess my stash. Rather than being caught up with a particular "style" I will assess for color. For example, some time sgo I realized that's I was low on low volume or neutral fabrics. This is important as these fabrics create the contrast required for design impact, also they let light into the quilt. This matters. You might notice when fabric is on sale, rarely, is it the light or neutral colored fabrics. Now why is that? We are all drawn to beautiful colors and designs often forgetting that we need a contrast.
The other day, I noticed that I have a very limited amount of black in my stash. Nextime I'm tempted, I with think of that.
If you are low on backing fabrics, consider if a sale fabric would suit you for a quilt backing? This will dramatically reduce the price of the quilt.
Beware of directional prints. Now I'm not saying they are bad, on the contrary, they are marvelous in the right setting, for example, sashings and bindings are exceptional places for directional fabrics. But again, ask yourself, honestly, will you use it? If the answer is no, then, walk on by.
In truth, every fabric is beautiful in the right setting and you need a few "plains" or "uglies" to make the beauties stand out. They all have a place.
So, next time you are buying fabric, let it bring you joy, not stress in the long run…take a moment to think about what you need…,maybe you have a treasure trove you had forgotten was there….


The decision to get behind the wheel or stay on the road despite feeling drowsy can be deadly.
A drowsy driver is an unsafe driver. A lack of sleep negatively impacts performance. It slows reaction time, impairs judgement and situational awareness, increases lapses in attention and risk taking as well as the potential to micro sleep – literally dozing off for a few seconds while driving (National Safety Council [NSC], 2016; Czeisler & Baldino, 2015; Rosekind, 2012). To compound the problem, being tired impairs our ability to judge just how tired we really are. While one in four motorists has admitted to driving at least once during the past month when they were so tired they could barely keep their eyes open drowsy driving(Arnold & Tefft, 2015), is that self-reported assessment truly accurate?
The decision to get behind the wheel or stay on the road despite feeling drowsy can be deadly. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), from 2009 to 2013 there were more than 72,000 police-reported crashes involving drowsy drivers, injuring more than an estimated 41,000 people and killing more than 800 (National Center for Statistics and Analysis [NCSA], 2011). However, there is agreement that drowsy driving is significantly underreported. An AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety (AAA Foundation) analysis of data from NHTSA's NASS Crashworthiness Data System estimates that 7% of all crashes and 16.5% of fatal crashes involved drowsy driving (Tefft, 2014). That translates to more than 5,000 people dying in drowsy-driving crashes last year.
Read this excellent report in it's entirety here.


What problems were keeping the leaders and diplomats of the world's great powers busy during the spring and summer of 1939?
Hitler's primary task was to neutralize the threat of the Soviet Union entering the war. Hoping that England and France would once again betray their ally – Poland, the Führer aimed to eliminate the Polish threat without the risk of a clash with the Russians. And afterward it would be possible to once again take a seat at the negotiating table with the British, but at that point able to insist on being treated as an equal.
Stalin's primary task was exactly the same – to neutralize the danger of a German attack on the Soviet Union. Stalin could of course enter into a treaty of alliance with France, Poland, and England. But we know that the leaders of the Western democracies would never have signed such a treaty. And that is exactly how it played out. Even when the inevitability of a German attack could no longer be ignored, Poland obediently followed London's advice and refused to sign a treaty of alliance with the Soviet Union. As a result, Stalin was left with no option other than an agreement with Hitler.
The British and French diplomats continued with their primary task, which was to play Germany off against Russia. A slight adjustment was made to this plan, given the Führer's recent behavior, but its essence remained entirely unchanged. It was decided to goad Hitler into attacking Poland, so that a Soviet-German conflict would automatically follow. However, Hitler was not an idiot. He remembered the First World War very well, and he would never have resolved to attack Poland and face the prospect of a fight on two fronts (against the Soviet Union on one hand, and against Britain and France on the other). For him to take such a step, he had to be convinced that neither London nor Paris would intercede for the Poles. In such a scenario, the British and French would remain on the war's sidelines, and (in accordance with their old plans) enter the fray only after the Russians and Germans had bled each other dry.
Since now we understand the objectives of each player in this political game, we can properly evaluate their actions. On April 16, 1939, Stalin tried to propose to the Europeans that they all take collective action to stop Hitler. The head of the Soviet foreign ministry, Maxim Litvinov, told the British ambassador of his readiness to sign a tripartite pact of mutual assistance between Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. These were very specific proposals, which is precisely why they went almost completely unanswered.
On April 30, 1939, Hitler made a final attempt through unofficial channels to find common ground with his former British "friends," warning them that he would otherwise be forced to negotiate with the Kremlin. However, the British scoffed at the very idea of a treaty between the Nazis and the Bolsheviks. They had a good reason for trying to place the most hard-core opponent of Communism in power in Germany.
During the 75 days in which "views were exchanged" between Soviet and Western diplomats, 16 days were used by the Soviet Union to draft her responses, while the Western powers wasted the remaining 59 with delays and foot-dragging. The British and French kept coming up with artificial difficulties that prevented the resolution of basic issues, although those hurdles could have been easily overcome with good will and sincere intentions on the part of England and France. And so they dawdled, playing for time.
Stalin was perfectly correct to surmise that there was virtually no chance that the British and French would play fair. Thus he reached the critical conclusion that he had no choice but to try to negotiate with Hitler. On May 3, 1939, Stalin gave Hitler his first signal – he replaced the current People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, the anglophile Maxim Litvinov, with Vyacheslav Molotov.
Hitler appreciated this "substitution." Germany's demands were clear and her actions demonstrated her deep desire to eliminate any threat from the East. And Hitler had a reason to hurry: he had set Aug. 26, 1939 as the date for his invasion of Poland. The Germans needed to get a German-Soviet treaty signed before that date. And the sooner the better. Therefore, Germany's policy was very precise and specific in its objectives. The essence of the German proposals and approach to that situation is best illustrated by the text of the telegram sent by Germany's foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to the German ambassador in Moscow, Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, on Aug. 14, 1939.
Amb. Geo Bonnet (France), Amb. Ivan Maisky (USSR), British Lord Halifax.
As a result the negotiations themselves did not begin until Aug. 11. The choice of members for the Western delegation is also telling. The Soviet Union sent officials from the highest military ranks: the Commissar for Defense, Kliment Voroshilov; the Chief of Staff, Boris Shaposhnikov; the Commander of the Navy, Nikolai Kuznetsov; and the Commander of the Air Force, Aleksandr Loktionov. But the British and French sent their "second-tier" generals. Nor was that an accident. And because the heads of their delegations had not been granted the authority to sign documents, that was even "more effective." French General Aimé Doumenc had been given the right to "negotiate … on all questions regarding collaboration needed between the armed forces of the two countries," but the British Admiral Reginald Drax had no written authority at all!
When Western historians and political scientists launch into lengthy discussions about the responsibility of Stalin and the Soviet Union for the outbreak of the Second World War, they do not usually like to provide the facts. They are playing to the emotions of their readers and listeners. After all, everyone today is well aware of the Nazis' atrocities and crimes. Thus the Soviet Union is looked down upon for entering into a non-aggression pact with such fiends. And since Hitler invaded Poland a week after signing this document, Germany is not the only country that can be accused of aggression. It's pretty logical. If one discounts a few "insignificant" examples.
Not only the Soviet Union, but also England, France, and even Poland herself all had their own "non-aggression pacts" with Nazi Germany. That is a normal practice in international relations.
The German-Polish war would still have begun, even if the Soviet Union had not signed a treaty with Germany. And only a few weeks, later, in the fall of 1939, the USSR would inevitably have been caught up in it anyway – fighting with Japan began in the spring of that year after the Japanese attacked Mongolia.
If we discount the idle words of the masses and the moralizers who play fast and loose with the facts, we end up with the unvarnished truth. Stalin had no choice but to sign an agreement with Hitler in order to deflect aggression away from his own country.
After all, Hitler did not launch a war because of some document to which he was completely indifferent, but because of decades of carefully orchestrated financial, political, and diplomatic assistance, which resulted in not only the resurgence of a weakened Germany, but also in an unprecedented increase in her power. And of course it was not the USSR or Stalin that provided this assistance, but the Western powers and banking elite.
Stalin simply had no choice. But that was not true for the British and the French, whose delegation arrived in Moscow for talks long before Joachim von Ribbentrop. If they had truly wished to enter into a treaty with the Soviet Union, they could have done so.
Poland was doomed. Britain and France had sentenced her to death, so that once they forced Hitler to launch a war, it would be steered in the necessary eastward direction. Little more than a year would pass before France herself would also suffer the charms of British policy, with all its deceit and treachery.
Part VI and the last.


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(Formerly Ghost of Lanturna)
In Gritheria—a noble kingdom ruled by griffins—there are legends of two powerful beings: Helios, the griffin of the sun, and Selene, the griffin of the moon.
When a clash between the two results in their disappearance for hundreds of years, the kingdom is left to wonder the truth. Why had the eclipse really formed? And, even more troubling, who had been the one to cause it?
Follow two unlikely heroes - a lone thief named Draven, and a runaway princess named Sora - as they encounter dragons, unicorns, and a menacing basilisk. Will they accept their shared destiny, or are they doomed along with the rest of the world?
Find out as this thrilling adventure takes flight!
More books in the series are coming soon.
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In Gritheria—a noble kingdom ruled by griffins—there are legends of two powerful beings: Helios, the griffin of the sun, and Selene, the griffin of the moon. When a clash between the two results in their disappearance for hundreds of years, the kingdom is left to wonder the truth. Why had the eclipse really formed? And, even more troubling, who had been the one to cause it? In modern times, the unthinkable suddenly happens, and the world is plunged into eternal, everlasting day...
After uncovering a shocking secret that forever changed the course of Gritheria, Draven and Sora continue their quest to save the griffin world. But the weight of their destinies is great, and time is quickly running out to end the perilous eternal day that has been brought upon them. Draven must enter the uncharted ruins of an abandoned kingdom to find Selene, the griffin of the moon… who also happens to be the infamous Ghost of Lanturna herself...


Susan Vaught's Going Middle Grade!
So I've learned one thing for sure in my job: When Susan Vaught says she'll give something a try, be prepared for some results!
I think it was back in the spring when I suggested that Susan, who has published over a dozen YA novels, might be a good fit to write contemporary middle-grade fiction. She has a knack for creating protagonists whom readers love and want to protect, and I thought that might be a good fit for the younger market, too.
BLESS YOUR HEART is the temporary title of the novel I pitched a Fannie Flagg meets WONDER, with a mystery twist. As many of Susan's book do, this one draws on both her Southernness and her professional experience helping patients and families navigate life with mental illness. Footer, the main character in the story, has a mother who is bipolar, and who is sent away to a hospital to get stabilized at the beginning of the novel, a not-unfamiliar event to Footer. There are also loyal best friends, adults on the periphery who keep an eye out for Footer whether she knows it or not (which is where the WONDER comparison comes in), and a mystery involving a fire at a nearby house and two missing kids. The voice, though—the voice is what will get you! Footer is funny and genuine and full of attitude, even as she worries that she might be sick like her mama and fights against that idea with all her being.
The lucky auction-winning editor, Sylvie Frank at Paula Wiseman Books, didn't need a whole lot of luck here, actually; she brought to the table a boundless enthusiasm for Susan's work, the backing of a great team at S&S, and well as her own careful thoughts about how this story and Susan's career might be shaped from here. I couldn't be more thrilled.
Suzanne Nelson Breaks Out with a Hot New YA!
Suzanne Nelson is no stranger to the world of book publishing—a former book editor herself, she has published a number of fun middle-grade/tween books, including Scholastic's THE GHOUL NEXT DOOR and CAKE POP CRUSH.
Recently, however, Suzanne's talent has pulled her in yet another brand new direction. We began working together officially this summer, and the project we connected over is a stunning YA novel entitled SHOES IN THE STREET. This epic tour-de-force begins in WW2 Germany, where a teen girl creates a beautiful pair of hand-made pink heels—which are they lost when she and her family are taken away to a concentration camp. These shoes form the backbone of the story, knitting together the girl who created them and the girl who eventually finds them, dozens of years later—along with many others whose lives are touched along the way. Deep and thought-provoking and incredibly moving, SHOES IN THE STREET is a novel you won't want to miss, and it's one that I know you'll be hearing a lot more about up ahead.
And now I'm delighted to share the best news of all: SHOES IN THE STREET has been acquired for publication, by Michelle Frey at Knopf, with a tentative publication date of Fall 2015!
Hooray, and huge congratulations to Suzanne!
You know those life-changing moments, when everything you expected does not come into being, and the unexpected things that seem scary at first turn out to be wonderful? That describes a new middle-grade series by Phil Bildner. The first two books were just signed by Wesley Adams of Farrar, Straus Giroux BYR, and book one will be on bookshelves in spring 2015!
Phil tells me he's been working on these books for six or seven years, all told. They're written from the point of view of fifth grader Mason, who is a basketball fanatic, and whose best friend, Blake, is even more a basketball fanatic, and who happens to have Asperger's Syndrome. The books were pushed to publication after a lunch meeting with Wes Adams, who encouraged Phil to have more classroom-centered scenes, to develop a strong teacher character, and to put more of Phil himself into the stories. Phil spends the school years travel to dozens of schools each year--over 40 between the start of this school year and winter break alone--and he well knows the issues plaguing schools these days.
This meeting resulted (after a lot of hard work by Phil) in new stories featuring an enigmatic, unorthodox teacher, and Mason and Blake starting fifth grade with everything unexpected unfolding before them: No just a new teacher, but budget cuts, a new basketball coach, free time to read in class, and best of all, no homework! And these new stories resulted in enthusiastic support by Macmillan and FSG.
So, she's already got four picture books, two middle-grade novels, and one YA novel on the shelves--four of which came out this year alone--but there are now three more books on the way for powerhouse agent and author Ammi-Joan Paquette!
As reported in today's PW Children's Bookshelf's rights report, Joan will be launching a new middle-grade series called Princess Juniper with Philomel, edited by Jill Santopolo, starting in fall 2015. The series features a princess who asks for her own kingdom for her 13th birthday, only to find that running a kingdom is about much more than wearing ball gowns and throwing parties. Jill has signed up three books, all because of a wandering conversation, an old project in a drawer, and a polish of a proposal. Way to be in sync, Joan and Jill!
A lovely hullabaloo of a book for you this fine autumn month!
Petey and Pru and the Hullabaloo, by Ammi-Joan Paquette (illustrated by Joy Ang), published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is the story of two opposites who learn the meaning of friendship through some wild and hilarious antics.
And it's a THIRD picture book deal for Nancy Tupper Ling!
It's been a busy year for Nancy Tupper Ling, beginning with the sale of THE DOUBLE HAPPINESS BOX to Chronicle in March, then THE YIN-YANG SISTERS AND THE DRAGON FRIGHTFUL to Putnam just last month. Today, I'm thrilled to announce another brand new picture book deal for Nancy!
THE STORY I'LL TELL is a gentle and moving origin story, where a mother weaves together fantastical stories and tall tales to tell how her baby came to her. Each story contains a little kernel of truth, piecing together the baby's journey across a wide ocean and into her new mother's arms. This gorgeous story of adoption and parental love is heartwarming in the truest sense of the word, and sure to become a classic.
I'm thrilled to share that THE STORY I'LL TELL was acquired by Jessica Echeverria at Lee & Low! Hooray and congratulations to Nancy!
Sneak a Peek, Jean Reidy!
It's deal announcement time again! We're so pleased that Jean Reidy is reuniting with Bloomsbury and illustrator Leo Timmers, because we are in luuuuuurve with All Through My Town. This time little readers will be delighted with all kinds of construction busy-ness, and just might learn the days of the week along the way, in Sneak a Peek Construction Week. The wonderful Caroline Abbey takes over editing from Michelle Nagler, Jean's Bloomsbury editor for several years, after Michelle's recent move to Penguin Random House.
Jean has a lot of irons in the fire right now, let me tell you, and we're thrilled to see more of her books on their way into readers' hands!


We are privileged to be showcasing a triptych by artist Simon Kaan in our Auckland studio!
Untitled 11 16, is part of a body of work that was recently exhibited at Sanderson Contemporary Gallery. The Black Cloud exhibition featured a number of large scale works that investigates Simon's inquiry into the contrasting form.
The Dunedin based artist is of Ngāi Tahu, Chinese and European descent and his work often incorporates elements of his mixed heritage. Simon specialised in printmaking at Otago Polytechnic School of Art and has a dedicated printmaking practice. In addition to this, he is also known for his painting and performance work.
If you are interested in purchasing the artist work, contact Sanderson Contemporary Gallery at 09 520 0501.
The triptych will be on show from 14 October to 31 January 2017 during office hours (8.30 - 17.00). For Health & Safety reasons, visitations must be called ahead, please contact Reception at 09 366 9626.


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When submitting your Affidavit, you can request your vacation time off by supplying the dates, signing and dating the form. If you plan a vacation after you have submitted your form, you may call the Clerk of District Court's Jury office at (307) 235-9247 and request to be excused during vacation times.
2. How do I get excused for a medical condition?
If you have a medical condition which precludes you from serving as a juror, we request you ask your doctor for a short statement indicating your inability to serve. We do not need to know the type of condition or any medical information, only that you are unable to serve.
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You are notified one week in advance in order to notify your employer and adjust your schedule.
4. Who do I notify if I change my address or phone number?
Call the Clerk of District Court Jury office at (307) 235-9247.
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6. What if I attend a college out of town or state?
You are excused until the time you return for summer or Christmas break.
7. How do I get excused for school finals?
Call the Clerk of District Court Jury office (307) 235-9247 and explain your schedule. We will do everything in our power to work around your finals.


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Q: Is OpenCV supported on Python 3 yet? I already have part of a program running in Python 3 but I need OpenCV (or SimpleCV), for a robotic vehicle, but I haven't found any install commands that seem to work, other than for Python 2.7.
If it is compatible could you please include instructions (/links to) for installation of the module?
I am using Ubuntu 14.

A: Maybe a little late to answer, but it's actually supported on OpenCV version 3 (in alpha state nowadays). I have successfully managed to install it, on MacOS, but I guess it would be similar on Ubuntu.
Now you have separated options for python2 and python3 when using Cmake. So you'll have to set those to make it work. That's all I needed to set:

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*BUILD_opencv_python3

*PYTHON3_LIBRARY

*PYTHON3_INCLUDE_DIR

*PYTHON3_INCLUDE_DIR2

*PYTHON3_NUMPY_INCLUDE_DIRS

*...

Here you can find more detailed description: Link

A: Luigolas is correct that OpenCV 3.0 supports Python 3.x bindings.  It was in release candidate status since April and the production version was released on 4 June 2015.  Unfortunately for some reason the downloadable installation program on the OpenCV site does not contain a Python 3.x-compatible cv2.pyd file.
OP asked about Ubuntu but for those requiring a Windows installer, use Christoph Gohlke's site, which maintains Windows binaries for many Python packages, including OpenCV 3.0 with Python 3.x bindings.  Visit:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#opencv
To install, just download the 64-bit or 32-bit .whl file appropriate for your system, then run pip install [filename].  Then the instruction import cv2 should work in your Python 3.x interpreter.


Introducing An Adorable Danish Nisse - Free Printable Tags!
Introducing An Adorable Danish Nisse – Free Printable Tags!
Ages before you had an Elf sitting on your shelf, Danish children had the family Nisse. Milly spent last year in Denmark, and assures me that the Danes know better than anyone how to celebrate Christmas. She was absolutely enchanted when the family and guests danced around the Christmas tree, lit by tiny candles.
This year we're going to share a few Danish Christmas traditions you can easily fit into your celebrations, starting with the Nisser.
Sometimes Danish children take turns bringing the classroom Nisse home with a journal to document the interesting situations he gets himself into. Our family Nisser are still adjusting to a new home, it seems. They quietly observe and generally enjoy the festivities from their favorite shelf.
We wanted to find a way to share these little creatures with all of you, and so we took this adorable little guy from a fabric we'll be releasing soon, and designed these fun little gift tags. Just click to open the full-sized file, then print!
We've included them in both Danish and English, because we love you.
Nisse Gift Tags – Glædelig Jul!
Nisse Gift Tags – Merry Christmas!
Watch in the next few weeks for more Danish Christmas traditions you'll want to adopt. We'll be sharing how to make paper heart baskets for the tree and a traditional rice dessert for Christmas Eve!


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AMC's The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad are getting feature films.
By Haydn Spurrell in Feature News November 8, 2018
This week production began on the long-gestating Deadwood film. It will act as a continuation of the highly acclaimed yet short-lived, three season-long, western drama starring Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Molly Parker and more, which never received the ending it deserved due to cancellation. The film was greenlit some time ago, and twelve years on it remains to be seen whether it has the ability to reach a big enough audience to shepherd the next step forward in the Hollywood method of recycling successful properties. However, Deadwood's production commencement isn't the biggest news when it comes to television shows making the leap into feature-length extravaganzas.
Over the course of twenty-four hours, two major AMC series have hit the headlines. First off, The Walking Dead reached its heavily promoted farewell to Rick Grimes, after it was revealed earlier in the year that the ninth season would be the last for star Andrew Lincoln. Fans have been both anticipating and dreading the coming loss of the zombie drama's leading man, and yet the show has earned some good will among viewers and critics alike with its proficient handling of Rick's exit and the subsequent reveal that Lincoln would lead three feature films set in the Walking Dead universe to be aired on AMC.
No news has been offered on when the films will reach the small screen, though given Lincoln's personal reasons for leaving the series there's a good chance it will be some time before Rick Grimes returns in any capacity. His departure from the parent show itself though offers a chance, after two or three consistently panned seasons, to reset and refresh the show with an eye to an invigorated future. The decision to first promote so heavily the end of Rick's story and then announce a trilogy of films as part of a larger expansion could easily, however, be interpreted as an executive choice rather than a creative one.
The series, as a whole, has lacked in creativity despite continually inviting solid performances and unique direction into its sandpit. Its parts have often been delivered with artistic endeavour, but taken as a whole the show has gradually felt as though story choices are made to maximize financial payoff. A cynic might see the films as a desperate attempt to keep the show relevant as it ages increasingly quickly, but they could also turn out to be the most inspired and fruitful decisions to come out of AMC's doors in years.
Chief content officer and former showrunner Scott Gimple delved further into the expansion plans for The Walking Dead, which despite being the lesser in quality of AMC's "big three" (along with Breaking Bad and Mad Men) has remained one of the biggest shows on television in terms of ratings even with regularly decreasing numbers. "We are telling Rick's story in another medium, and it's going to be these AMC Studios original films… that's what's been happening in the industry. We've seen Netflix make these, basically, studio films for people to watch in their homes, and we're going to be doing the same sort of thing here," said Gimple.
"Right now, we're working on three [films] but there's flexibility in that… Over the next several years, we're going to be doing specials, new series are quite a possibility, high-quality digital content and then some content that defies description at the moment." Some of this could in hindsight, eventually, read as hyperbole, but there's a clear and concentrated attempt to blow The Walking Dead property into something bigger than anything else on television. It seems the opposite attempt is being made to a recent trend in which classic films are being adapted for television, in what may well be television's next major growth spurt as a medium.
Reports have also flooded in that Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is working on a two-hour feature film follow-up to his groundbreaking series for Sony TV, although no indication has been made as to whether it's being made with a theatrical or televised release in mind. Further, there's no news on whether this will act as a prequel akin to the currently still-airing Better Call Saul, itself a show worthy of its predecessor, or a sequel of some sort. The only thing that's clear is that it will take place in the same universe occupied by Saul Goodman and Walter White, with Gilligan on as executive producer, writer, and potentially director. Production is expected to begin this month in New Mexico, and the film reportedly follows the escape of a kidnapped man and his quest for freedom.
It's early days as we look at three hugely popular properties making the plunge into feature-length continuations, and each of them are at significantly different stages with what are likely to be different goals in mind. The Deadwood film follows Entourage from a few years back, another HBO series which itself received a theatrical film some time after the show had ended. That film was a flop, and instantly forgettable, hopefully not setting a precedent for what's to come.
All three of these (although maybe less so Deadwood) feel like executive decisions, but if it means we get further stories set in worlds we're invested in, at a standard that justifies their existence, then those beloved series' will only benefit from them. Too often we find that the jump between mediums can be too exhaustive a process for beloved games, comics, shows, and films, so it's likely that some or all of these projects will be met with lowered expectations. In the case of The Walking Dead though, the skepticism to come will hopefully be combated with some quality results.
Source: Collider, The Hollywood Reporter
Tags: AMC, Breaking Bad, Deadwood, Featured, HBO, Sony TV, The Walking Dead
Ridley Scott begins work on Gladiator sequel.
Free Solo (2018).


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Volume 20, Issue 21, 28/May/2015
Research articles Open Access
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Genomic analyses of Francisella tularensis strains confirm disease transmission from drinking water sources, Turkey, 2008, 2009 and 2012
A Karadenizli1, M Forsman2, H Şimşek3, M Taner3, C Öhrman2, K Myrtennäs2, A Lärkeryd2, A Johansson4, L Özdemir1, A Sjödin2
Affiliations: 1 Department of Medical Microbiology, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey 2 Division of CBRN Security and Defence, FOI - Swedish Defence Research Agency, Umeå, Sweden 3 Public Health Institution of Turkey, National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Ankara, Turkey 4 The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Citation style for this article: Karadenizli A, Forsman M, Şimşek H, Taner M, Öhrman C, Myrtennäs K, Lärkeryd A, Johansson A, Özdemir L, Sjödin A. Genomic analyses of Francisella tularensis strains confirm disease transmission from drinking water sources, Turkey, 2008, 2009 and 2012 . Euro Surveill. 2015;20(21):pii=21136. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.21.21136 Received: 03 Sep 2014
Waterborne epidemics of tularaemia caused by Francisella tularensis are increasingly reported in Turkey. We have used whole genome sequencing to investigate if F. tularensis isolated from patients could be traced back to drinking water sources. Tonsil swabs from 33 patients diagnosed with oropharyngeal tularaemia in three outbreaks and 140 water specimens were analysed. F. tularensis subsp. holarctica was confirmed by microagglutination and PCR in 12 patients and five water specimens. Genomic analysis of three pairs of patient and water isolates from outbreaks in Sivas, Çorum, and Kocaeli showed the isolates to belong to two new clusters of the F. tularensis B.12 genetic clade. The clusters were defined by 19 and 15 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a multiple alignment based on 507 F. tularensis genomes. One synonymous SNP was chosen as a new canonical SNP (canSNP) for each cluster for future use in diagnostic assays. No SNP was identified between the genomes from the patient-water pair of isolates from Kocaeli, one SNP between the pair of isolates from Sivas, whereas the pair from Çorum differed at seven SNPs. These results illustrate the power of whole genome sequencing for tracing F. tularensis patient isolates back to their environmental source. .
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