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Příbram na Moravě  est une commune du district de Brno-Campagne, dans la région de Moravie-du-Sud, en République tchèque. Sa population s'élevait à  habitants en 2020.

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Příbram na Moravě se trouve à  à l'est de Náměšť nad Oslavou, à  à l'ouest du centre de Brno et à  au sud-est de Prague.

La commune est limitée par Zbraslav et Litostrov au nord, par Rosice et Zastávka à l'est, par Babice u Rosic et Zakřany au sud, et par Vysoké Popovice et Újezd u Rosic à l'ouest.

Histoire
La première mention écrite de la localité date de 1237.

Notes et références

Commune dans le district de Brno-Campagne

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What is the future of air trips? Although the price of airplane tickets is getting cheaper, the environmental costs of this means of transport seem to doom it in the long run. But, while valid alternatives are still non-existent, the investments in the development of airplanes and related infrastructures is still soaring. In Japan, four new and innovative airports are, at the moment, under construction.
Maybe calling these new infrastructures "floating" would be over the top. In reality, they are huge artificial islands, located a few kilometres from the coastal line and connected to it by a narrow cord: a highway. This isn't the first time this sollution has been used - it had already been applied in Hong Kong and Macau - but this is the first time it has been put to use in a large scale. Four of Japan's biggest cities, Kobe, Kansai, Kitakyushu and Cyubu will benefit from these new airports.
The advantages of this crafty system are many. In the first place, the space used. The small and over-populated Japanese territory wouldn't be able to withhold any more facilities with this dimension without seriously damaging its cities and its landscape. In the second place, the sound and air pollution is softened by the fact the airports are four or five kilometres away from land. Finally, its functionality. With no restrictions, the runways can be used according to the dominant winds and work 24 hours a day.
Kansai was the first one to be built, in the heart of Osaka bay. The artificial island has a 4 km length and needed over 20 million cubic metres of earth and sand, placed with the help of 80 ships. After this staggering task, building a 3 km bridge to connect it to the mainland was a kid's joke... And one of the trademarks of these airports are their magnificent bridges that connect them to the mainland.
The new airports on Google Maps: Kobe, Kitakyushu, Kansai e Cyubu.


It's much more than a bump in the road.
The much-celebrated, much-derided Albuquerque Rapid Transit bus project down the middle of Central Avenue has hit a roadblock. Make that several.
And to get things back in alignment means finding out who knew what when, and how the city and its partners in this project are going to make things right.
Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller spent Tuesday, his 40th day in office, at a news conference enumerating myriad problems with the project, a centerpiece of the Richard Berry administration, saying it's "a bit of a lemon." And while electric bus company Build Your Dreams, aka BYD, has stepped up and said "our team in California and the team we have on the ground in Albuquerque will address every identified issue and deliver the world-class buses we are known for. Taxpayers will not pay a dime until we do," there are a lot of questions to answer now that should have been addressed weeks, even months, ago. And not just by BYD but by HDR Engineering, Dekker/Perich/Sabatini architects, Bradbury Stamm Construction and the city.
• The city has just nine of the promised 20 60-foot reticulated electric buses from BYD, a Chinese company. All were supposed to be delivered Oct. 4. Lawrence Rael, the city's chief operating officer, says the rest are in various stages of assembly, and "No. 20 is still in the box." Doug Turner, who is representing BYD, says globally the company built 17,000 electric buses last year on assembly lines and they do not come in boxes.
• Each of those nine buses has 23 to 24 problems of varying degrees.
• Rael says those include a lack of uniformity (fare boxes with different electrical connections, wheelchair locks in different spots), shorts that disabled a bus, leaking axle joints and shoddy battery cages. Turner says BYD has a team in Albuquerque addressing issues, including that axles are purposely overfilled before buses are driven to destination cities.
• The buses are supposed to hold a 275-mile charge; Rael says inaugural runs show it's 200 miles, necessitating additional buses and midday charging at peak electrical rates. Turner says the city has yet to run the buses the length of the route.
• A bus from this fleet was sent to Altoona, Pa., to have its durability certified. Rael says it failed; Turner says it was pulled early because it showed premature wear, has been retooled and will be back for testing this month. Certification is required for federal funding, and Albuquerque is banking on $75 million from the feds.
• The charging stations are not being used. Rael says parts are made in China and do not meet U.S. standards, came with instructions in Mandarin and an official has refused to certify their installation. Turner says they meet higher European standards, are being used in several other states and like a cellphone come equipped with digital instructions in multiple languages.
• The city instead rented generators and powered up the buses for the River of Lights event. Rael says the new administration then garaged all nine upon learning it may have voided the warranties; Turner says the generators are used to charge the buses as they are driving from the factory to their destinations and the warranties are not compromised.
• Rael also says the platform at Atrisco is not level and wheelchairs will roll off; the platform at Washington does not allow room for the bus to maneuver and the intersection needs to be moved; other platforms are too high or low to line up with wheelchair lifts; bus mirrors smack into the canopies at passenger platforms. HDR, Dekker/Perich/Sabatini and Bradbury Stamm have yet to address these concerns publicly.
• The required agreement with the Federal Transit Administration has yet to be signed. Rael took a team to Forth Worth to get it nailed down. He also plans to bring in Build Your Dreams' leadership team next week.
• The signage and public education components have yet to bear fruit; in the short time it was operating, drivers made prohibited turns in front of buses and were hit.
• The Keller administration won't even offer a guess on when the system will be up and running but agrees it is likely months.
The $135 million ART project on a roughly nine-mile strip of Central from Unser to Louisiana was touted as one of the most forward-looking mass transit designs in the nation, key to revitalizing the corridor and supposed to be operational by the end of 2017. Understandably, Berry wanted it running before he left office Nov. 30. But unbeknown to festive River of Lights riders – and the taxpaying public – it was far from ready for prime time.
The project has had its vocal critics from the start, but the City Council overwhelmingly gave the project a green light, and more than once. Councilors, along with the Berry administration, bear some responsibility – specifically, where was oversight of a $135 million project many have been highly critical of from Day One?
It's now up to Keller and his team to move beyond raising problems to figuring out how we came to this intersection of good intentions, optimistic promises and a transit project that can't be put into gear yet. And to also get those responsible to step up and deliver so we can get it out of park.


Not long ago I had the chance to sit down and play another indie game, Movie Deal, by Blanket Games.
Avast, me hearties! Have ye been seeing our most recent review on the youtubes?! Grab your favorite tricorne hat and a pint… or barrel of rum and enjoy as Ben, Brian, Eric and Sean play Pirate Masters.
It is time; time to finish why the rubric.
In my previous post: Why The Rubric Part 1 I explained briefly why we use a rubric and I broke down the first half of my rubric; visuals, skill/luck and pacing. Now it is time to get real with the serious issues the world wants to know; Theme/Immersion, mechanics and fun. Now let us face it many have posed the question, "shouldn't how fun the game is be the only factor." and as promised in part 1; that will be addressed today. Without further adieu, however, let us jump into the rubric!
In the youtube comments we have had a fair few people voice the question; why do Sean and I use the rubrics we do and how did we come up with them. As it has also been noted in comments; Sean and I have different scoring rubrics; and I would argue so does pretty much everyone else who plays games, even if on a subconscious level. Even if we had the same categories we would look at them differently as no two gamers are exactly alike. Many of you have been asking why our rubrics are designed as they are and how we interpret them as we run a game through the scores; so here is my reasoning behind my rubric; part 1 Visuals, Skill/Luck and Pacing with part 2 soon to follow.


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Deja Vu | by Felicia Taave | African Fiction
"He watched Matilda buy a rosary and begin counting her Hail Marys every evening for no apparent reason; he knew she wasn't religious and he was suspiciously certain that she wasn't even doing it right."
Though his father was nothing scary and nothing awe-inspiring or admirable, Junior was nothing but dutiful and obliging. Junior did not drink, smoke, womanize, or fail in school. And his father never complained, never praised, never chided. His aloofness was the greatest incentive for his son's uncharacteristic maturity. "Good" was not an approbatory word when his father said it; it was like a full stop—conversation over.
Now Junior leaned down to lift his frail father and help him to the toilet. He looked away as the older man fumbled with his genitals, straining to relieve himself. Returning him to the bedroom, Junior began to clean up the toilet when an impatient knock on the door rattled his nerves. Hurriedly, he wiped his wet hands with a towel and went to the front door.
Two women stared openly at him with subtle aggressiveness and irritated curiosity. Promptly deciding against giving them a cordial greeting, he quirked an eyebrow and silently stared them down. A long moment passed before the second woman, plump and active, dramatically clapped her hands in shock.
"Hmmm," she shook her head from side to side and laughed drily.
Junior felt anger stir in his breast. He was making to shut the door in their faces when the other woman surprised him with the melody of her warm contralto voice, like the low humming of tiny drums, clear and assertive.
"Where is Salisu?" she asked.
Junior quickly examined his visitors a second time. Yes, they were women and their heads were completely covered with a piece of the material from which their dresses were made, thin veils draped around their necks for no practical reason he could divine. Behind them, a heavy bag sat.
"Welcome, Aunty," he addressed the one with the fascinating voice, opening the door wider and went to hoist the bag on his shoulder.
They sat in the sitting room for a while, mumbling to each other. Junior had served two glasses of chilled mineral water after which he quietly paced the kitchen thinking of what he ought to do next. After he realized that they had come a long distance from Jigawa, he decided that a bath would be the most appropriate thing. Without further thought, he saddled the gas stove with a big pot full of water, then made another appearance in the sitting room to announce that the hot water was ready.
"Come," the plump and energetic Aunty Bilkisu motioned with a fluttering of her right hand.
Junior shifted a few steps and stopped directly in front of her.
"Have you had your kaciya done?" she made a movement with her hands which suggested a rapid, impatient peeling of yams to him.
"Kaciya?" he asked uncertainly.
Aunty Bilkisu rummaged through her brain for the English word, tapping her left knee irately.
"Circumcision," the quieter Aunty Farida supplied.
"Yes!" Aunty Bilkisu nodded, turning the word over in her mind, trying the different shades and shapes of it. Circumcision. Circumcisioned. Circumcisioning. She sighed and looked at the boy as he stood waiting before her. "Have you done your circumcision?"
Junior assessed her for a while, mentally weighing the question. "Yes," he curtly answered.
She laughed her short, dry laugh.
"Then why are you acting like a goat nobody has bothered to circumcision?"
She examined him with a rapid up-and-down movement of her eyes, enjoying his discomfiture with bitter relish. She sighed a drawn out, dramatic sigh.
"We have not come to bathe and spray perfume and be beautiful for you," she hissed and resumed looking him over sardonically.
He stared incredulously at this remarkable specimen that was his father's sister and smiled a little visibly in spite of himself.
Junior's aunties, Bilkisu and Farida, had come to see for themselves whether, truly, their brother was dying and it could not be helped.
"So why didn't anyone think of a hospital?" Aunty Bilkisu asked in a patronizing tone.
"We have been to many already. They keep saying there is nothing wrong with him," Junior said, addressing Aunty Farida.
When his sisters supernaturally appeared before him after the memory-lulling passage of nineteen years, Salisu had nothing to say to them. He did not respond to their greeting or their enquiries after his health, and when Aunty Bilkisu began to chatter about the people at home, he indicated with a lifted hand that he did not desire to know. It was like they had always been there; he treated them no differently from his son, speaking to them only when necessary and only about things he absolutely needed, like going to the toilet, opening or closing the window, and getting his son for him. He never told anyone to leave his presence; whatever they did was all the same to him.
Junior longed for those days when the man would say or ask something unnecessary, demand a monosyllabic response and close with his customary "good." It seemed nothing interested him in life anymore; his eyes were vast pools of fathomless indifference and no one knew what he wanted. Junior was grateful to have his aunts around to tend to the cooking and the cleaning, but he was still in charge of his father's ablutions and visits to the toilet. The two women accepted their brother's state without questioning Junior further. But he saw in Aunty Bilkisu's eyes the hungry question, "Where is your mother?"
To be fair to Matilda, when she decided to leave Salisu, she offered to take Junior with her, to save him from that robotic, unfeeling man, but Junior had refused, arguing that he was in school and the man needed someone who "understood" him to look after him. So she left them both, with the understanding that they were not to harbor any unrealistic expectations of seeing her return.
Warned, cautioned, threatened, and lastly, disowned, Matilda had clung to Salisu, had loved him when it was quite unreasonable and plain unnecessary. He was handsome, robust with health, overflowing with dreams and high hopes, and absolutely deified her, paying obeisance by pre-empting and meeting her every need, complimenting her, defending her before anyone who dared disparage her name, showing her off everywhere and leaving her gasping for breath after every night of passionate, sensuous lovemaking.
They were married against the wishes of their families. Matilda's Catholic parents mourned as though she had died a tragic death and Salisu's Muslim siblings shunned him, though his parents presided over the wedding and gave him a befitting ceremony. They each loved their families and hoped that they would be missed and sought out and made welcome again, exulting in their rivalry to out-love each other in the period they needed to wait. Neither wanted to own that their love was waning, that they had lost the convincing rationale to excuse turning their backs on their blood relations and electing, rather, to stay with their riotously sensual ideals.
Matilda was careful never to complain and so was Salisu. Unconsciously, they made a roster for their lovemaking and went on to construct a rigid routine of their married life. They knew they couldn't risk losing the lustre of attraction in their marriage like other couples, or getting on each other's nerves, or bickering, because they lived only on each other. He watched Matilda buy a rosary and begin counting her Hail Marys every evening for no apparent reason; he knew she wasn't religious and he was suspiciously certain that she wasn't even doing it right. They made a game of counting their prayer beads together, Matilda's in English and his in Arabic, competing at who was fastest and who went round the most number of times.
Finally, pregnancy saved their marriage and the baby boy, whom Matilda promptly named after the man she so loved, gave them both an extra outside of themselves and a focus. They took to calling him Junior. The boy had grown up in the best possible environment of love, warmth and care, his parent's obsession with each other overflowing and swallowing him up in rapturous waves. For sixteen years, Junior was delighted with his life, knowing little scruples except for homework. He celebrated all the Eids and Christmases too. For a long time Junior's most vivid memory was of himself atop a decorated horse at a durbar. He enjoyed it so much that his father promised to take him to Kano soon when some traditional titles would be given so he could see the pomp and pageantry of the emirate.
But that was before the day Salisu would quarrel with his wife—an unthinkable thing in all their years together. Everyone in his family had gathered to bury his parents — the mother and the father that loved him and loved Matilda because of him — but no one thought to let him know. The mourning period had been duly observed and concluded and Salisu still didn't know. He heard about it that day in a motor park, from a bus conductor as the untidy lad recalled the mallam's family. Salisu had had occasion to converse with the boy when he stopped to pray at the little mosque in the park. It was something he often did to keep the spine of his social life strong, praying with other Muslims anywhere he happened to be passing by. He also found it very entertaining, hearing stories from across the country from boys and men he met. And just by such random selections, he was at the motor park where he met a bus conductor who knew more about his own family than he was allowed to.
After that quarrel, Matilda had cried — something Junior had never seen before — and the reign of silence began. Salisu did not attempt to re-establish the connection with his family, neither to beg nor to blame. He alone spoke in the house; he stopped indulging aimless banter and limited his relations to them to brief questions requiring concise answers and finalized with an uncompromising "good." This continued for two years in the space of which Salisu grew more withdrawn every day, resigned from his job, lost all desire for his wife until he was practically impotent, and became a mystery to all who used to know him.
Matilda counted her prayer beads with superstitious fervency; Salisu never bothered to pray anymore. All kinds of symptoms plagued his body, yet from hospital to hospital no one could diagnose him; there was nothing wrong with him. She had resolved to keep him at home then and care for him, waiting for the time he would return to normal, allow himself to live again. But he was determined to be lost, it seemed, and indifference was like the taut, brown skin he wore, an inalienable part of him. One day, his eyes had looked at her with a distinct, undeniable glow of warmth, something like what she used to see when he loved her unapologetically. Matilda's heart had thumped wildly and for many days she broke the new silence rules and regaled the impassive Salisu with memories of how they loved and fought and stayed and dared the whole world to stop them.
So it was more than a shock to Junior when she told him that she was leaving and he was welcome to come. He had quietly refused, taking care not to let any errant teardrop fall. When Junior announced Matilda's abominable departure, Salisu had deftly kept silent for more than two minutes, then muttered under his breath something that could only be "good"—the last he ever said that day.
A pressure on his shoulder reawakened Junior to the present. He looked curiously at the tatooed wrist and fingers, expertly done in intricate designs with henna and dye.
"What are you thinking about?" Aunty Farida chided with tentative fondness.
"Why did nobody tell him that his parents died?" he calmly asked, trance-like, looking from one uneasy face to another.
"You live in Jos," Aunty Bilkisu pointed out in a tone that belied an accusation of stupidity.
"But you're here now," Junior challenged.
"Because he is dying," Aunty Farida said thickly and left. Junior shook his head, incredulous.
"You," Aunty Bilkisu jarred him back to the moment. "Do you go to church?" she asked, her eyes steadily trained on him.
He shook his head. No.
"You go to mosque?" Hope quivered slightly in her voice as she raised her brows, curiously staring at him.
"Where do you go, then?" her characteristic harshness was further amplified by her exasperation.
He shrugged. "School?"
Aunty Bilkisu hissed. "If you die in this thing, then you die for nothing, on no one's side," she accused.
"But I'm not in this thing," said Junior, "I'm not fighting anybody."
The days rolled away like that. Junior cared for his father, defended himself when Aunty Bilkisu shot her spiteful arrows at him and called him an uncircumcised kafir, then submitted resignedly to their care-giving.
Then, like the exact answer to an un-thought, unsaid prayer, he saw a familiar figure approach the house. Junior flew open the door and ran into his mother's waiting arms, this time caring very little whether his tears were coursing down his cheeks or burning unshed in his eye sockets.
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Felicia Taave loves to read and write. Some of her work can be seen on africanwriter.com, naijastories.com and butterfliesbecoming.com. When she's not reading or writing, she enjoys listening to music, watching movies and disturbing other people.
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Tola March 14, 2017 at 2:17 pm #
Interesting read. Ended rather abrupt. But interesting. Author has a way with words. Like it.
Bruce Humes March 16, 2017 at 3:47 am #
Agreed, an interesting read.
In a low-key way, it captures life for a boy in a grey zone, one in which many Nigerians reside but is perhaps not so well understood by outsiders: Living in a family where one spouse comes from a Christian background and the other, Muslim.
I see from Wikipedia that since 2000, Jos has been the setting for several violent conflicts between devotees of the two faiths.
Without any mention of this recent history, the author does a good job of getting Junior's skin and suggesting his unease in this grey zone.
I look forward to reading more such short stories. I am on the look-out for tales that capture something special about contemporary life in sub-Saharan Africa, and might be of interest to a readership in China, once rendered in Chinese.
John Edoka April 3, 2017 at 4:36 pm #
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As Iran faces virus, Trump admin fails to use Swiss channel to ease medical exports
Just a few days after Iran announced its first deaths from COVID-19 in February, the Trump administration's Special Envoy for Iran Brian Hook was asked during a briefing for an update on the Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA), a payments channel intended to ease the sale of medicine and medical devices by Swiss companies to Iran. Responding to the question, Hook acknowledged that no further transactions had been processed since a pilot transaction involving a $2.55 million sale of medication a month earlier, but insisted that there were "more transactions coming."Two months later, over 6,000 Iranians have lost their lives to COVID-19, and the Swiss channel has yet to process any further transactions. Since the Trump administration reimposed secondary sanctions on Iran in November 2018, the Swiss government has worked to establish a dedicated banking channel to ease the export of medical supplies to Iran. Switzerland is the second largest supplier of medicine to Iran after the European Union. While technically exempt from sanctions, the sale of medical supplies has been made more difficult as banks refuse to process Iran-related transactions. In a recent client note, former Director of the US Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) John Smith detailed how "the Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign has likely dissuaded many companies from exporting medicine and medical devices to Iran that they otherwise could."
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The Trump administration's sanctions have made it impossible for Iranian medical personnel to keep themselves safe amid the pandemic. [...] In March, Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam, the head of a leading nurses' union in Iran, told a local news organization that the death toll for nurses in Iran during the coronavirus pandemic has been "unnatural" compared with other countries that have been hit hard by the virus, blaming government mismanagement, staff shortages, and lack of protective equipment. While there is little question that the Iranian government's response to the coronavirus has been a failure, U.S. sanctions have made the situation worse by disrupting other avenues for humanitarian aid—and the likely result is many more Iranian nurses and health care workers being made into martyrs.
Opposing an IMF Loan to Iran: Not an Outlier, Not a Barrier to Aid
To be sure, Tehran has had much difficulty accessing its foreign exchange reserves for humanitarian trade because of U.S. restrictions on transactions with the Central Bank of Iran. Yet an IMF loan would have exactly zero impact on that issue. What does help on that front is Treasury's quiet policy change in March to allow foreign transactions with the Central Bank for the purpose of countering coronavirus. Exporters are already leaping at this opportunity in South Korea, where Iran holds many billions of dollars in reserves; the policy change applies to other key reserve locations as well. Thus, anyone concerned about getting medical supplies to Iran should be focusing on these newly accessible reserves rather than IMF loans. In short, the IMF loan controversy will have no impact on the country's ability to purchase humanitarian goods. It is inappropriate for news outlets, EU governments, or anyone else to claim that blocking the loan will impede Iran's access to such goods. The real obstacle lies in Tehran's failure to use the many resources it can already access.
Economic sanctions and Iran's capacity to respond to COVID-19
Even before COVID-19, Iran's health system was feeling the effect of the sanctions.3 Their impact is now severe because they restrict the government's ability to raise funds or to import essential goods. Of the ten countries with the highest number of recorded cases of COVID-19 to date, Iran is the poorest.2 In 2019, Iran had the lowest rate of economic growth (–9·5%) and highest rate of inflation (35·7%) recorded in the country for the past 20 years. This financial situation makes the funding of adequate prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID-19 impossible, and the country cannot take the same measures adopted in other countries to strengthen responses, such as paying the full cost of obtaining treatment.3 Essential medicines and medical equipment are technically exempt from sanctions, but their availability is restricted by the effect of sanctions on the commercial sector, reducing manufacturing and trade capacity, and on foreign exchange. Consequently, although approximately 184 000 hospital and primary health-care staff are working to fight COVID-19, their efforts are thwarted by shortages of test kits, protective equipment, and ventilators.
What U.S. Sanctions Mean for Iran's Coronavirus Fight
Since Iran emerged as the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the Middle East, its leaders have called on the U.S. to suspend economic sanctions so that they can more effectively fight and contain the pathogen. The U.S. has instead forged ahead with its strategy and sees the pandemic as an opportunity to further weaken and destabilize the country. The U.S. State Department says that humanitarian goods, including medicine and medical supplies, are exempt and not subject to any trade restrictions. Yet it has imposed sanctions on 18 Iranian banks, including lenders that were still able to carry out trade in foods and medicines.


Sainte-Agnes is a small village situated a few kilometres inland from the coastal towns of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin and Menton, near the French border with Italy in the south-east Alpes-Maritimes department of Provence.
At an altitude of almost 800 metres above sea level it is claimed to be the highest coastal village in Europe, and Sainte-Agnes is also classified as one of the 'most beautiful villages in France'.
Despite its proximity to the coast (3 miles from Menton as the crow flies but a 20 minute drive along the steep winding road) the village stands high on a rocky hill giving it very far reaching views across the landscape and the Mediterranean, with mountains rising steeply all around the viillage, together creating a significant part of the appeal of Sainte-Agnes.
Sainte-Agnes is also a popular destination for tourists on this part of the Cote d'Azur, although the slight challenge of access means the village gets less visitors than it would otherwise. When you arrive you can park at the southern end of the village from where there are several opportunities to enjoy the views: as you look out across Menton and the Mediterranean from here you will understand why the village is also known as the "balcony of the Côte d'Azur"!
Also at this end of the village you can see a substantial concrete bunker and fort that was built into the cliff as part of the maginot line defences before the Second World War. The extensive underground rooms of the fort are open to visitors (admission charge payable, open weekends only except June to September).
Next stroll along the cobbled streets and through vaulted passages enjoying the medieval feel to Sainte-Agnes, enhanced by numerous small architectural details, while enjoying the small art shops and terraced restaurants along the way. Unlike some of the perched villages in this part of Provence, most of the houses in Sainte-Agnes have been restored.
One particular highlight in Sainte-Agnes is the Church of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, dating in part from 1535 although much of the present church is a reconstruction from 1744, hence the baroque design.
Another highlight of a visit to Sainte-Agnes is the ruins of a castle built in the 12th century as a retreat from the Saracen invaders. Parts of the original castle date back as far as the 10th century, making it one of the oldest castles in France. The castle was also on the frontier between France and Italy in the 14th century and saw many battles, finally being destroyed in 1691 (although not completely and the castle was again used in the 18th century).
The castle is a further steep climb up a path from the top of the village but well worth the effort - principally for the views along the coast.
Note: when you are on the platform at the top of the castle look across at the next rocky pinnacle. There is no visible way that the rock could be reached without climbing equipment - but you will see there is a section of wall very near the top. Where did that come from!
The medieval village at Gorbio is not far from here, and you can also visit Castellar, and another remarkable hill village can be visited at Peillon to the west of Sainte-Agnes (only about 20 kilometres drive but along a slow mountain road so the journey takes about 45 minutes).


"Ed brings to Avnet tremendous passion and energy, as well as extensive experience leading successful sales organizations. From design chain to supply chain, I am confident Ed will play a key role in bringing Avnet Electronics Marketing's total value proposition to each and every one of our customer- and supplier-partners."
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 31, 2004--Avnet Electronics Marketing, the largest operating group of Avnet Inc. (NYSE:AVT) announces the appointment of Ed Smith to the position of senior vice president of sales, Avnet Electronics Marketing, Americas, reporting to the regional president, Phil Gallagher. "I am very pleased Ed has accepted my invitation to rejoin our organization in this capacity," Gallagher commented. "Ed brings to Avnet tremendous passion and energy, as well as extensive experience leading successful sales organizations. From design chain to supply chain, I am confident Ed will play a key role in bringing Avnet Electronics Marketing's total value proposition to each and every one of our customer- and supplier-partners."
Smith comes to the Avnet Electronics Marketing, Americas organization with more than 20 years of industry experience. Most recently, he held the position of president and chief executive officer of SMTEK International, an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider, serving original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) primarily in the industrial products, instrumentation, medical, telecommunications, financial services, automation, and defense/aerospace industries. Prior to joining SMTEK International in 2001, Smith served as district manager in Los Angeles and director of sales for Avnet Industrial for seven years. In this role, Smith had responsibility for sales in the Los Angeles and Phoenix marketplaces, and sales and operations in Avnet's Industrial Marketing Group, respectively. He has also held various sales management positions with W.W. Grainger, Tristar Material Handling Inc. and PFG Manufacturers Warehouse Inc.
Avnet Electronics Marketing is the largest operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet Inc., a Fortune 500 company with fiscal 2004 sales of more than $10 billion, and one of the world's largest technology marketing, distribution and services companies. Avnet Electronics Marketing, Americas serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers in North America and Brazil through product-focused businesses, distributing electronic components from leading manufacturers and providing associated services. The company's Web site is located at www.em.avnet.com.


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Guests will appreciate the lounge area with its comfortable sofa and armchairs, as well as the magnificent marble bathroom, ideal for rest and relaxation.
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Cape York: untangling the history of The Tip
by Briar Jensen | May 13, 2020 | Destinations: QLD, Indigenous Aus
You don't need your own 4WD to reach the northernmost tip of mainland Australia and its rich multicultural communities. Words: Briar Jensen
Like a black licorice strap, Bamaga Airstrip stands out incongruously against the orange dirt. Termite mounds frame the clearing in an expanse of green woodlands. Bamaga, a two-hour flight from Cairns, is part of Queensland's Northern Peninsula Area (NPA). Landing here puts me within striking distance of the top of Cape York.
Outside the small terminal, Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags flap languidly in the heat. Inside, a detailed artwork depicts the diverse cultural mix of the region, of which I have only knotted threads of knowledge. It's something I aim to unravel during my visit.
© Briar Jensen
The NPA encompasses five communities – three Aboriginal and two Saibai Islander. Of the Aboriginal communities, Injinoo is home to the area's traditional landowners; Umagico to those displaced from Lockhart River; New Mapoon to those relocated due to bauxite mining near Weipa.
Bamaga and Seisia are home to Saibai Islanders; people who had to flee their Torres Strait homeland in the 1940s due to flooding. The Torres Strait Islands stretch 150km to Papua New Guinea. The island of Saibai is just 5km from PNG.
Staying at Cape York Peninsula Lodge
Bamaga, about 30km from The Tip, is the service centre of the NPA. It's a laidback little town with mango trees shading the main street, where horses and dogs wander freely. I'm staying at Cape York Peninsula Lodge, beside Mosby Creek, which offers airport transfers. The recently refurbished, air-conditioned rooms have timber decks and a central swimming pool. The restaurant, decorated with traditional Torres Strait headdresses, is run by Craig Drew. Previously reigning from Walter's Lounge in Airlie Beach, Craig serves up artfully presented, city-styled dishes.
The lodge is run by Bamaga Enterprises Ltd (BEL), an Indigenous, community-owned, not-for-profit company. Their aim is to raise the standard of living of the area's Indigenous residents through infrastructure, grants, donations and scholarships. BEL's assets include Bamaga's service station, tavern and bakery. In the past 10 years, they've reinvested more than $2.5 million into the NPA community.
Exploring Cape York and surrounds
You can hire a 4WD from the lodge, but I opt for their escorted tours, first heading south, via the horrendously expensive Jardine River Ferry, to Fruit Bat Falls. Named for their winged shape, the falls curve beckoningly across Eliot Creek like opened arms. Crystal-clear water tumbles over a wide, russet rock shelf into a green sandy-bottomed pool that's happily croc-free. Above the two-metre falls I soak in rock holes and lie in chiselled channels for a pummelling natural spa.
Next day we strike out for The Tip. We take a detour via Somerset Beach, the site of the first European settlement in the region in 1864. Established as a hub for the Torres Strait, the site proved difficult, so administration moved to Thursday Island in 1877. All that remains at the picturesque beach are headstones, cannons and remnants of a well. There are Aboriginal rock paintings in the next bay, but they are only accessible at low tide.
The red dirt road to the top funnels through a dense tunnel of lush rainforest before arriving at Frangipani Beach. It's a 15-minute walk over a rocky headland to The Tip and from the final crest we can see the Arafura Sea to the west, the Coral Sea to the east, and the current ripping through Endeavour Strait.
Reaching The Tip
And there it is, the sign declaring 'You are standing at the northernmost point of the Australian continent'. Only I can't stand right there, as high tide lashes the sign. I straddle the waves for an obligatory photo, gripping the sign lest the ocean washes me away.
Travellers should note that traditional landowners consider the making of rock pyramids at sites like The Top to be highly disrespectful. Removing a stone without permission will bring bad luck.
It's thrilling to reach Pajinka, the Indigenous name for The Tip. With York and Eborac Islands almost within spitting distance it's easy to imagine them once connected by a land bridge. Remembering the hand-drawn map at Bamaga Airport, where the Torres Strait Islands appear like stepping stones between mainland Australia and PNG, it's easy to understand why they are inextricably linked.
Bush-bashing nearby reveals the remains of Pajinka Wilderness Lodge, an up-market resort with a complicated history that closed 20 years ago after the generator caught fire. Back near Bamaga Airport we take in some of the WWII wrecks nearby, including the remains of a DC3 and Beaufort Mark VIII.
Art, craft and culture in Cape York
Locals fish off Seisia Wharf as I depart on a tour to Roko Island Pearl Farm. With its floating jetty over turquoise waters, it looks like it belongs in the Pacific, aside from the resident croc. At a table overlooking the sea, family pearl technician Jason Tchen Pan demonstrates the intricate operation of seeding an oyster and harvesting a pearl before a tour of the island.
I'm keen to see local art, but apart from that on Thursday Island, it's hard to uncover. Aboriginal elder Rusty Williams tells me much of their storytelling is through dance rather than art. This is evident at the annual Laura Dance Festival. The 93-year-old also explains that their culture suffered when they were banned from speaking their language at school and by the dispersal of menfolk working on pastoral properties.
Thupmul Espresso Coffee Bar in Umagico has a selection of Indigenous art for sale, along with great coffee. The NPA Arts Centre at New Mapoon, a humble Colorbond building which has been closed for months due to staffing issues, is reopening thanks to newly appointed Art Development Co-ordinator John Tabuai. An artist himself, he plans on liaising with the communities and sourcing funding to showcase more local works.
I've managed to separate some threads from my tangled knowledge of the region. However, others remain firmly snagged by the complexity of multi-layered bureaucracy, politics, funding and native title. I'm far from weaving my metaphorical basket of understanding but this trip has brought a deeper appreciation of the rich tapestry of Cape York.
Travel is one of the richest way for us to engage with and learn about our country's history. For more inspiring Indigenous experiences around Australia, read this collection of stories.


Presentation of major Automotive trends and innovations shown at the International CES 2015 in Las Vegas.
The International CES in Las Vegas it THE worldwide innovation event of the year.
At the record breaking 2015 show 170.000 visitors from all over the world visited the latest trends and innovations displayed by more than 3.600 exhibitors on 2,2 million net square feet. Over the past years the importance of the automotive industry present at CES has grown making it a small automotive show before NAIAS in Detroit taking place the week after.
StratMa International has summarised on 84 pages the major trends and innovations for the automobile industry in its International CES 2015 Automotive Show Report. All pages are supported with photos and most innovations are illustrated with videos.


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Killem  es una población y comuna francesa, en la región de Norte-Paso de Calais, departamento de Norte, en el distrito de Dunkerque y cantón de Hondschoote.

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The artist is Katarina Vintrafors.
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Learning Must Go On
With COVID-19 sweeping the nation, Clayton State University quickly shifted to virtual learning placing more than 1,000 classes online and ensuring students could complete their studies for spring and fall semesters.
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Fall 2020 | By Kelly Petty
Clayton State University responds to COVID-19
After weeks of news reports about the growing threat of COVID-19 in the U.S., the University System of Georgia made a timely decision on operations at its 26 member institutions on March 12:
Based on guidance from the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) and the Governor's Coronavirus Task Force, the University System of Georgia will temporarily suspend instruction for all institutions for two weeks, effective Monday, March 16, to allow time for USG institutions to test their business continuity plans and online instruction modules and for state officials to continue to assess the current situation regarding coronavirus (COVID-19) in Georgia.
As Clayton State University students continued with their spring break and faculty and staff quickly transitioned to telework, administrators initiated a shift to online learning that allowed the institution to successfully finish the semester and test its ability to provide quality instruction in uncertain times.
Prior to COVID-19, Clayton State offered a significant number of distance learning courses. Of the 1,219 class sections taught at Clayton State, 25% were fully online, 8% were hybrid and 67% on-campus.
At the onset of COVID-19, Associate Provost Jill Lane and her team moved 909 class sections to a distance learning format that utilized Desire2Learn, Microsoft Teams and textbook supplemented materials.
Additionally, Information Technology Services teamed up with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CELT) to begin preparing training sessions for faculty so they could quickly shift to distance learning platforms.
"In late February as the virus began to spread outside of China, [CELT Director] Justin Mays and I started to look at contingency plans and worked to enhance our extended closing resources," said Lane. "The enhancements included the development of more comprehensive distance learning support resources and additional trainings for faculty and students in case the situation arose in the US."
Through targeted messaging and faculty reports, a link to the Keep Learning USG website was shared with students so students could transition to online learning with ease. And for those that did not have a laptop, students had the ability to access course content and Microsoft Teams meetings through their mobile phones, while faculty sent work assignments via snail mail for students to complete and return.
"Overall, I would attribute the success of the rapid shift to distance instruction to a collaboration of faculty, department chairs, administration and academic support units," Lane says.
For the faculty and students, the shift to online learning brought challenges and opportunities.
"From the beginning of the pandemic until now, I found myself having more flexibility in my schedule now enrolled as full-time student online," said senior Amanda Lam.
For Lam, it was initially challenging to find ways to contact professors virtually and by email as opposed to in person during faculty office hours as she had normally done. But the switch has also pushed her to develop soft skills like time management and organization.
"Because I am attending class from home, it has allowed me to organize and create a schedule for myself without feeling too overwhelmed and worrying about being on campus during uncertain times," Lam said.
In the fundamentals of public relations course taught by Associate Professor Dr. Susan McFarlane-Alvarez, the community-engagement aspect of her class hit a roadblock as the nonprofits collaborating with students on PR projects were transitioning their operations to adapt to COVID-19. At the same time, the moment provided an opportunity for her students to engage in crisis communications.
"Personally, this experience has just reinforced what already knew – Clayton State University has an amazing group of dedicated faculty who, in the face of adversity, have done amazing things with their courses in a short amount of time." – Jill Lane, associate provost
"One of our community partners, Hearts to Nourish Hope, runs a food pantry and had messaging that needed to get to all stakeholders about how operation of the food bank had shifted to no-contact, and to reassure the community that Hearts to Nourish Hope would still be open to provide needed food assistance, despite social distancing," McFarlane-Alvarez said. "Students are doing important work, writing releases for our community partners…I've come to appreciate that [teaching online] offers important learning opportunities for students to see how the world of virtual work applies to the field of public relations."
Several nursing students in the College of Health were thrust into the public health crisis as they chose to volunteer as nursing assistants at area hospitals. Six students accepted jobs as part-time nursing assistants and nurse techs at Southern Regional Medical Center while still in school.
The students took up regular nursing duties at the hospital while veteran nurses headed to the frontlines of coronavirus care in COVID-19 units or intensive care units.
"We could not offer a nursing program without our hospital partners and the hospital nurses helping to teach our students during their clinical experiences," said Dr. Lisa Eichelberger, dean of the College of Health. "The students see the dedication the nurses have to their patients and how they help our faculty and students."
As the university's center for print and digital research materials, the Clayton State Library relied on a combination of USG guidelines, conversations with other college and university library deans and directors, as well as information from campus meetings, faculty survey data and some previously collected student input to decide how to shift to virtual library services through the end of the semester and into the fall semester reopening.
"Everything was changing fast and very often," said Dr. Sonya Gaiter, dean of libraries. "Determining if we needed to revise every decision we made prior to re-opening for fall semester had become a challenge."
Gaither said priority was focused on the health and safety of students. Capacity in the library was reduced to a maximum of 20 students at a time based on initial CDC guidelines and the governor's executive orders regarding spacing and occupancy. The room reservation system was expanded to implement a check-in/check-out process to assist with cleaning and social distancing.
Training for library personnel, including student assistants, was implemented to initiate new procedures for allowing library patrons access to research materials, computers, study seating and study rooms.
Fall semester kicked off on Aug. 10, with a much quieter campus. On that Monday, the campus saw students file in to get their student identification cards and receive complimentary masks issued by the school. Some classes were held on campus where students adjusted to spacing themselves apart in their desks.
Senior Kadian Nunes, who preferred traditional, hands-on classes, said a meeting with his advisor helped him select a mix of classes to ease into online learning while staying on track to graduate.
"My advisor and I sat down for about forty-five minutes over a Zoom call, switching my schedule around from what I previous had it," he said. " She even took her time to email my professor and get me off the wait list for some classes, which was a tremendous help because it now allows me to get acclimated to this new way of learning."
Nunes said while the campus environment has changed and his peers have had to adjust in order to earn their degrees, he said the handling of the situation has reminded him that Clayton State is "one big family" that stands together.
"The university has done an amazing job dealing with the outbreak all while still trying to provide a college experience to those who want it," Nunes said. "Campus Life is still holding events that are socially distanced and accessible through Zoom calls, which I look forward to so I can socialize and break out of my regular routine. I also applaud the way the university has trusted us campus presidents to still hold events and allow us to attempt to make a connection with those students who don't know that we are still active during this pandemic."
As students, faculty and staff settle into the new normal, the university continues to adapt to the challenges that extended online learning and social distancing on campus presents. For Lane, the experience has reminded her and her colleagues that when student needs come first, learning prevails.
"Personally, this experience has just reinforced what already knew – Clayton State University has an amazing group of dedicated faculty who, in the face of adversity, have done amazing things with their courses in a short amount of time."
Kadian Nunes contributed to this story.
Music Lives
By Kelly Petty
Thanks to his passion for the arts, former Jonesboro native Lon Carnes left a legacy with Clayton State to provide aspiring music students the support they need to complete their degree.
By Allison Salerno
At a time when politics is being energized by a young, diverse electorate, Frederick Hicks '99, finds himself becoming a transformative leader as one of Georgia's top political strategists.
Tokyo Bound
By Chuck Tidmore
A Clayton State head track and field coach and five-time Olympian holds out for a future run at a postponed Olympics.
Hidden Histories
As a doctoral student at Florida State University 10 years ago, Dr. Aisha Johnson-Jones made a spectacular discovery as she sought to work on her dissertation about African American history.
Senior Year in A Time of Coronavirus
By Alisha Hamilton
Alisha Hamilton '20 reflects on how coronavirus drastically changed her final semester of college and the lessons she learned about perseverance in a crisis.
University Happenings: Campus News
Film Roundup: Rolling. Action! News
Staff Notable: The Book Keeper


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package io.datakernel.dataflow.dataset.impl;

import io.datakernel.dataflow.dataset.Dataset;
import io.datakernel.dataflow.graph.DataflowContext;
import io.datakernel.dataflow.graph.DataflowGraph;
import io.datakernel.dataflow.graph.Partition;
import io.datakernel.dataflow.graph.StreamId;
import io.datakernel.dataflow.node.NodeConsumerToList;

import java.util.List;

public final class DatasetListConsumer<T> {
	private final String listId;

	private final Dataset<T> input;

	public DatasetListConsumer(Dataset<T> input, String listId) {
		this.listId = listId;
		this.input = input;
	}

	public void compileInto(DataflowGraph graph) {
		List<StreamId> streamIds = input.channels(DataflowContext.of(graph));
		for (StreamId streamId : streamIds) {
			Partition partition = graph.getPartition(streamId);
			NodeConsumerToList<T> node = new NodeConsumerToList<>(streamId, listId);
			graph.addNode(partition, node);
		}
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Montana is one of only four states that doesn't allow someone under 18 to serve as an election judge. Unfortunately, it's going to stay that way. House Bill 510, a bill to allow qualified Montanans to serve as election judges starting at age 16, failed in the Montana House of Representatives after six representatives switched their votes between second and third reading.
Enfranchising voters at a young age goes beyond simply allowing them to register to vote at 18. It's so important to show new voters the ways their voices matter, from the voting booth to the Capitol. This bill would have allowed young people access into our elections and democracy sooner and more often — something we know increases not only turnout, but helps us develop a sense of responsibility and power in our government.
This legislation would also have been a boon for county clerks across the state. Poll worker positions are notoriously hard to fill, and HB510 would've provided an entire additional pool of potential election judges. Plus, we're often pretty tech-savvy. Our familiarity with technology could come in handy helping Election Day run smoothly.
And yet this bill, like many other common-sense elections reforms this session, is dead. Why? That's a question we're working to answer, calling legislators to hold them accountable and asking other people to do the same. Six legislators voted yes on second reading and switched to no votes by third reading — Fred Anderson, Julie Dooling, Ross Fitzgerald, Mike Hopkins, Llew Jones and Ray Shaw.
Decision-makers should be advocating for more accessible and equitable ways for young people like us to get involved in our democracy, not putting up barriers.
Montana had the highest youth voter turnout increase in the entire country between 2014 and 2018, from 18 percent to 42 percent, and we played a pivotal role in the 2018 elections. Young Montanans are showing up in record numbers at the polls — so, why aren't our legislators showing up to encourage us to be there?
Clara Bentler is a senior and student body president at Billings Senior High school. She was an organizer for the March for Our Lives Billings and was an intern at Forward Montana. Renn Stearns is a sophomore at Hellgate High School where he runs track and cross country. He's passionate about youth involvement in politics.


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Q: Strange "initial" values in d3.js By executing code that is similar to this (d3.select(..).append("div")), I get divs with such style properties:
<div id="id6"
  style="
    background-image: initial;
    background-attachment: initial;
    background-origin: initial;
    background-clip: initial;
    background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
    background-position: initial initial;
    background-repeat: initial initial; ">
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</div>

Questions:

*

*a) Where does initial comes from? b) Is it possible to redefine "defaults"?

*Is it Ok that d3 litters in the properties with unnecessary values?

*Chrome says that background-position: initial initial; and
        background-repeat: initial initial; are Invalid property values. Is it a bug of d3? How can we deal with this error?

A: This has nothing to do with D3, but with the implicit nature of CSS. When you specify the CSS background property, you are actually specifying multiple properties in shorthand. For example,
background: url(chess.png) gray 50% repeat fixed;

Is actually shorthand for
background-image: url(chess.png);
background-color: gray;
background-position: 50% 50%;
background-repeat: repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;

So, when you set the style "background", your browser automatically expands this shorthand to the full form. That's why you see all of these additional styles; they represent the computed values.

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If you are now on this page, then you are probably searching for "SMS tracker", "SMS spyware" or "free SMS spy". Nowadays you may find thousands of various SMS spying apps in the Internet. Their advertisements say that these SMS tracking apps are 100% free and absolutely legal. But is it really so? Can you be sure that this text message spy is not a sort of a virus or what is even worse – an app which now has an access to all the information on the target device.
SMS mobile spy is a special app with the help of which you can easily monitor all the text messages on the target phone. Such SMS tracker app gives you access not only to SMS messages but also to all instant messaging applications like Skype, WhatsApp, Viber, Line, etc. Such spyware gives you possibility to read all received and sent messages remotely in your online account. Moreover, even if SMS or any other text message was deleted you can easily recover it with your cell phone SMS spy.
Is there any free SMS tracker?
Probably, you will also have a question if there is SMS spy for free. And the answer will be:"Yes, sure, but we doubt that it works". Even a person who does not have a clue in programming will perfectly understand that SMS spying is not a piece of cake. It is a hard process which requires work of people and certain resources. What is more SMS spy for iPhone or Android will require additional actions like rooting or jailbreak. Thus an ordinary person will not be able to do it by his/her own. Hence, free SMS tracker is not always a good alternative. Moreover, modern spying apps are not expensive at all and one can afford it (at least once) to find out the truth.
One more problem which you can face while installing a free SMS spy is compatibility of this tracker with the phone that you want to monitor. If you buy SMS spy from the legal company it does not matter whether you need iPhone SMS tracker or android SMS spy. These text message spywares run on all popular platforms. Of course, it is better to check compatible phones on the website of the spyware before purchasing it.
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I control my granddad's sms in order to protect him from fraud. One day my good old grandpa got an sms "from me" saying that I needed money asking for credit card details. These messages mostly look alarming for the elderly and they do whatever they can to help their grandchildren in trouble. Unfortunately, they are not used to indecent people earning money while playing on someone's emotions. I've already managed to track a couple of these unknown telephone numbers before my grandpa did misleading things. I use mSpy, it seems to me thst it's one of the most stable spy apps.


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SocketServidor::SocketServidor(in_port_t puerto, int protocolo) throw () :
		SocketTCP_IP(protocolo) {
	direccion.setPuerto(puerto);
	direccion.setDireccionIP(INADDR_ANY );
}

SocketServidor::SocketServidor(const SocketServidor &servidor) throw () :
		SocketTCP_IP(servidor.protocolo) {
	direccion = servidor.direccion;
	sockfd = servidor.sockfd;
}

void SocketServidor::enlazarServidor() throw (EnlaceExcepcion) {
//    int yes=1;
//    setsockopt(sockfd,SOL_SOCKET,SO_REUSEADDR,&yes,sizeof(int));

	int resultadoEnlace = bind(sockfd, direccion.getDireccion(),
			sizeof(struct sockaddr));
	if (resultadoEnlace == ERROR_ENLACE) {
		throw EnlaceExcepcion(strerror(errno));
	}
}

void SocketServidor::escucharClientes(int colaMaxima) throw (EscuchaExcepcion) {
	int resultadoEscucha = listen(sockfd, colaMaxima);
	if (resultadoEscucha == ERROR_ESCUCHA) {
		throw EscuchaExcepcion(strerror(errno));
	}
}

SocketCliente* SocketServidor::aceptarClientes() throw (AceptacionExcepcion) {
	struct sockaddr address;
	socklen_t tamanio = sizeof(struct sockaddr);
	t_socket nuevoSocket = accept(sockfd, &address, &tamanio);

	if (nuevoSocket == ERROR_ACEPTACION) {
		throw AceptacionExcepcion(strerror(errno));
	}
	SocketCliente *nuevoCliente = new SocketCliente(nuevoSocket, address,
			protocolo);
	return nuevoCliente;
}

SocketServidor::~SocketServidor() {
}
}


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Holder: U.S. Thwarts Alleged Assassination Plot Two men allegedly linked to the Iranian government have been accused of plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. For more, Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Tom Gjelten.
Holder: U.S. Thwarts Alleged Assassination Plot
October 11, 20113:00 PM ET
Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Tom Gjelten
Two men allegedly linked to the Iranian government have been accused of plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. For more, Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Tom Gjelten.
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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Guy Raz.
And I'm Robert Siegel. The U.S. has thwarted an Iranian government plot to murder Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. That's according to Attorney General Eric Holder, who said today that agents of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps conspired with an Iranian American in a murder-for-hire plot. They allegedly proposed to pay $1.5 million for the assassination of the Saudi ambassador. Attorney General Holder says two men have been charged in connection with the plot.
ERIC HOLDER: In addition to holding these individual conspirators accountable for their alleged role in this plot, the United States is committed to holding Iran accountable for its actions.
SIEGEL: Now, for more details, we're joined by NPR's Tom Gjelten. And, Tom, a very dramatic story here. FBI Director Robert Mueller says it sounds like a Hollywood script and it sort of does.
TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE: It sure does, Robert. Here are the essential elements, according to the U.S. government. Several months ago, apparently, an Iranian-American named Manssor Arbabsiar met with a paid informant who was posing as a drug trafficker for a Mexican drug cartel. And according to the Justice Department's complaint, Arbabsiar told this guy that he had associates back in Iran who wanted the drug cartel to arrange for the murder of the Saudi ambassador here in Washington. The informant reported that conversation to the government and then over the next several months, according to the complaint, he met several times again with Mr. Arbabsiar. This Iranian-American allegedly said he was acting on the instructions of an Iranian cousin whom he later linked to the Quds Force, which, of course, is a major part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
SIEGEL: And that is the connection to the Iranian government that's alleged here?
GJELTEN: Exactly, Robert. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is a key part of the Iranian government and this plot allegedly involved what Eric Holder described as high-up individuals in those circles. In fact, the Treasury Department, this afternoon, named four senior members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as coordinating this operation. The U.S. is not, we should say, alleging that upper reaches of the Iranian government were in on this conspiracy. And there's no mention of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for example. But at one point today, Eric Holder did refer, in his words, quote, "to what the Iranian government attempted to do here."
SIEGEL: Now, the Iranians have called this a fabrication, someone called it a distraction to keep Americans from thinking about our domestic problems. How convincing is the evidence of Iran's involvement here?
GJELTEN: We really don't know. All we have to go on is the complaint, which is really only meant to support the indictment of these two individuals, Mr. Arbabsiar and his associate. And then we have this subsequent statement from the Treasury Department. Now, Mr. Arbabsiar has apparently told investigators the Iranian government was involved. And there were allegedly two money transfers totaling about $100,000 wired from some foreign bank, not an Iranian bank but one apparently with links to Iran. That's all we know but, of course, there could be intelligence behind this allegation that we don't see in the complaint.
SIEGEL: What do we know about how far this plot actually went, or at least how far its alleged to have gone?
GJELTEN: Well, the Iranian-American, who, by the way, was arrested two weeks ago, and has allegedly been cooperating with the government, he apparently said he was interested in financing a bombing plot. So, now, Robert, just to review the characters, we have this Iranian-American, we have his cousin back in Iran, we have the DEA informant who the Iranians think is representing a Mexican drug cartel, and we have the Saudi ambassador. Robert, let me read from the complaint because it's really dramatic.
The drug trafficker says, I don't know what exactly your cousin wants me to do. After some further conversation, Arbabsiar replies, he wants you to kill this guy. The informant then says, there's gonna be, like, American people there. He's talking about bombing a restaurant. He explains that blowing up the restaurant would cause mass casualties, maybe 100 and Mr. Arbabsiar allegedly says, it doesn't matter.
SIEGEL: Doesn't matter. We heard Attorney General Holder, by the way, that the U.S. would hold Iran accountable. Do we know what that means?
GJELTEN: Well, the only thing we know so far – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came out and said she'll be consulting, the U.S. government will be consulting with allies to send a strong message. There will be additional sanctions. That's all we know. No threat of military action, by the way.
SIEGEL: Thank you, Tom.
GJELTEN: You're welcome.
SIEGEL: That's NPR's Tom Gjelten.


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Disney+'s Dug Days Becomes One Of Ed Asner's Final Roles
While perhaps best known for portraying Lou Grant, on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series Lou Grant, Ed Asner will always be known to a generation as the voice for the loveable curmudgeon Carl Fredricksen in Disney•Pixar's Up. Asner reprised his role of Carl for one of his final performances in Disney+'s Dug Days.
"Carl really is a role he was born to play," according to "Dug Days" producer Kim Collins. "We are very
lucky to have cast Ed as he truly is, our Carl Fredricksen." The team was able to capture Asner's performance in a Toluca Lake recording studio in February 2020, one month prior to the studio's shift to working at home.
Upon learning of Asner's passing, Pixar responded with this tribute on Twitter:
Ed was our real life Carl Fredricksen: a veneer of grouch over an incredibly loving and kind human being. Russell, Dug, and all of us at Pixar will miss him terribly. pic.twitter.com/7jZJUbiHD9
— Pixar (@Pixar) August 29, 2021
You can hear Ed Asner's performance in "Dug Days," debuting on DIsney+ September 1, 2021.
Pixar Animation Studios' "Dug Days" is a new collection of shorts that follows the humorous misadventures of Dug, the lovable dog from Disney and Pixar's "Up." Each short features everyday events that occur in and around Dug's backyard, all through the exciting (and delightfully distorted) eyes of our favorite talking dog. Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® Award winner Bob Peterson and produced by Kim Collins, the shorts premiere exclusively on Disney+ on September 1, 2021.
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Matt Gaetz Reveals What GOP Rebels Were Able to Get Out of Battle with McCarthy
It took fifteen times for Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to finally get across the procedural finish line and procure enough votes to become the 118th Speaker of the House of Representatives.
After the fourteenth failed vote due to a faction of GOP rebels thwarting his bid, Kevin McCarthy and nemesis Matt Gaetz had a dramatic showdown on the House floor.
Gaetz had voted "present," leaving McCarthy just one vote away from taking the Speaker's gavel.
McCarthy could be seen making a passionate last-minute appeal to Gaetz as the votes were being counted.
Kevin McCarthy confronts Matt Gaetz during 14th House Speaker vote. #118thCongress pic.twitter.com/nMa9bm0KSN
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 7, 2023
Gaetz then wagged a finger at McCarthy. After the California representative walked away, Mike Rogers of Alabama started to go towards Gaetz, but was held back by other lawmakers.
Things are getting heated on the floor. pic.twitter.com/jG6rUaUKg2
— Haleigh Hoffman (@HaleighHoffman) January 7, 2023
After all this highly tense House theater, McCarthy was finally able to garner enough votes to wrap up a spectacle that hadn't been seen in the People's Chamber for over a hundred years.
On Saturday night, Matt Gaetz revealed what the protracted battle against the McCarthy camp was all about.
This is what we've been fighting for https://t.co/7ZSvILkqCM
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) January 8, 2023
"This is what we've been fighting for," Gaetz said in response to an NBC News report on the McCarthy concessions.
The report notes that these provisions include a vote on "cutting IRS funding, restricting migration and curtailing abortion."
The passage was from a draft of the current House Rules that are under consideration. Among these considerations were the following provisions [in italics]:
Subsection (b) provides for the separate consideration of seven bills under a closed rule with one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader or their respective designees and one motion to recommit.
Subsection (c) provides the list of bills referred to in subsection (b), which include:
• A bill to rescind certain balances made available to the Internal Revenue Service.
• A bill to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to suspend the entry of aliens, and for other purposes.
• A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Energy from sending petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China, and for other purposes.
• A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act to direct district attorney and prosecutors offices to report to the Attorney General, and for other purposes.
• A bill to require the national instant criminal background check system to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the relevant State and local law enforcement agencies whenever the information available to the system indicates that a person illegally or unlawfully in the United States may be attempting to receive a firearm.
• A bill to prohibit taxpayer funded abortions.
• A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion.
Subsection (d) provides for the separate consideration of two resolutions under a closed rule with one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader or their respective designees.
Subsection (e) provides the list of resolutions referred to in subsection (d), which include:
• A resolution establishing the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.
• A resolution establishing a Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government as a select investigative subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary.
Subsection (f) provides for the consideration of a concurrent resolution expressing support for the Nation's law enforcement agencies and condemning anyefforts to defund or dismantle law enforcement agencies under a closed rule with one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader or their respective designees.
Subsection (g) provides for the consideration of a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress condemning the recent attacks on prolife facilities, groups, and churches under a closed rule with one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader or their respective designees.
Subsection (h) allows the Speaker to recognize a member for the reading of the Constitution on any legislative day through February 28, 2023.
This passage sets a clear agenda about the House of Representatives' goals. It is now up to Speaker Kevin McCarthy to see this through.
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Research shows that today's average medical practice overhead is actually between 60% and 70%.
Overhead is calculated as costs as a percentage of revenue. Basically, all revenues that don't go into your pocket.
Related: How can you increase patient volumes in your private practice?
1. What counts toward average medical practice overhead?
Expect support staff, medical supplies, and facility expenses to create the bulk of your overhead.
MGMA research shows that overhead expenses typically take up 60% of practice revenue.
So, if a physician brings in $50,000 in revenue each month (which is roughly $76,000 in charges minus adjustments and write-offs), his or her monthly overhead should be about $30,000, according to the benchmarks.
To find your practice's actual numbers, you may need to get your accountant involved. They can tell you your current overhead and how much you're spending in different areas. If it doesn't match up with industry benchmarks, you can definitely shave off some expenses.
3. How can I reduce medical practice overhead?
This is the overarching goal for your action plan.
Also, keep in mind you will not be able to lower expenses equally across the board. Some expenses increase productivity, to the point where investing more in those areas might actually provide a greater return on investment than cutting costs.
AAFP provides a comprehensive 12-step plan for reducing medical practice overhead. Below are the action items they suggest. Check out the full article here!
Review staffing needs and adjust staff size if necessary.
Assess and systematize staff compensation.
Look for savings in health insurance.
Review your retirement plan for potential savings.
Develop or refine your sick leave, vacation and overtime policy.
Review your office lease and other lease agreements.
Optimize the ordering and handling of supplies.
Scrutinize the cost-effectiveness of outside services.
Look for ways to economize on postage and telephone costs.
Review your practice advertising for waste and ineffectiveness.
Track down and eliminate causes of refunds to patients.
Tighten controls on petty cash and eliminate problems that incur bank charges.
Once you've reviewed the areas you can cut expenses, it's time to look at how best to organize the expenses that contribute to your revenue.
Michael Jutras, MD, says investing in their own practices is one of the toughest concepts to get across to physicians.
At the end of the year, they flush everything out and don't reinvest back in the business. Then they wonder why the HMOs and hospitals are so strong, and why they don't have the systems to be successful.
Working with an MSO keeps you in control of your practice while opening up more time to spend with patients. It's an easy investment that can exponentially increase your productivity.
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