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Pictured below are links to a few of my 'can't live withouts' for baking, cooking, and small appliances.
Instant Pot: I use this as my crock pot and pressure cooker. I have the 6 quart version.
Ninja Kitchen System: I mainly use this for the blender and food processor, although I like the option for individual smoothies.
Silicone Baking Mats: I use these for everything from chicken to cookies and granola. Make sure you have ones specific for sweets and for savory.
Air Baking Sheets: There is no other way to bake a cookie.
Le Creuset Stoneware: I have the 3 quart and 1 quart dishes. I love how they bake and how easily they clean.
Lodge Dutch Oven: I have the 6 quart version and my husband uses it frequently. It bakes and cleans beautiful.
Lodge Cast Iron Skillet: I have 3 of these, all different sizes. We use them on the stove top, in the oven, and on the grill.
Calphalon Cook Set: This is the set I have and I adore it. It cooks and cleans well.


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Q: Unity | how to make something happen after 10 seconds without delaying game hello there I have been having trouble figuring out this problem. Basically I want to make something happen after 10 seconds without delaying the start function or slowing down the frame using the update function. I'm ort of new to unity so if there is anything that I would need to provide tell me. Thanks!

A: There are lots of ways!  Here are a few examples:

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*Use a Unity Coroutine (https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Coroutines.html)

    void Start()
    {
        StartCoroutine(DoSomethingAfterTenSeconds());
    }

    IEnumerator DoSomethingAfterTenSeconds()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(10);

        // now do something
    }

*Use FixedUpdate or Update to wait 10 seconds:

    private float _delay = 10;

    public void FixedUpdate()
    {
        if (_delay > 0)
        {
            _delay -= Time.fixedDeltaTime;

            if (_delay <= 0)
            {
                // do something, it has been 10 seconds
            }
        }
    }

*Use async/await instead of coroutines (https://forum.unity.com/threads/c-async-await-can-totally-replace-coroutine.1026571/)

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Professionally he is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK) , a Chartered Engineer(UK), a Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers with over 35 years' experience in University, Research Institutes (national and international), Private Sector, and Public Sector. He has published widely, patented technologies, and developed numerous products and technologies. He has attended several national and international conferences as Speaker and Guest Speaker. Dr. Makayoto has pioneered that establishment of National Productivity Centre where he was a Board Member at Kenya National Productivity Centre (KNPC).


Most science fiction writers are moralists in disguise, which is why they delight in painting fire-and-brimstone portraits of our future damnation.
It's one of science fiction's favorite themes: the post-holocaustal world that bristles with pollution, mind control, robots, radiation -- the usual flotsam and jetsam of civilization's worst nightmares.
Lesser works tend toward exaggeration, but the classics -- Brave New World, Farenheit 451, 1984, A Clockwork Orange -- seem just a razor's edge away from the hazards of the here and now. Paul Theroux's O-Zone belongs with that lofty group.
O-Zone is not, as you might guess, a reference to the current doomsday scenario that has the earth losing its protective ozone shield and turning into a gigantic microwave oven. Theroux's O-Zone is an area of the United States that has become, several decades from now, a tainted wilderness. The rest of the country is no better off, having turned into an armed camp. There has been no holocaust, but there has been a global spillage of nuclear wastes and an across-the-board breakdown of governments.
The government of the United States still functions, but only to protect a small ruling class, who call themselves "Owners." Other human beings without ID cards and property have to fend for themselves, and are even hunted down and killed by quasi-governmental headhunters. Owners refer to the non- propertied as "roaches," "skells," and "aliens," and set up roadblocks to track them down.
Anarchy and paranoia reign supreme. Cities are walled. People wear spacesuits wherever they go for fear of breathing contaminated air. Most foods are made from chemicals. "Here's some oyster pellets and textured lobster," says one character. "Just squeeze this little bottle and pretend you've got your face in a lobster claw."
But while individual rights and the quality of life may have plummeted, one part of Theroux's world is streamlined and sophisticated: weapons. The country has become a futuristic Wild West where everyone is armed. Their instruments of death come in a bewildering array -- nerve gas projectors, chain swords, particle beams that can turn a person into a fine red mist.
Everyone is frightened of everything. "Trees scare me," says one woman. "I never see a tree without thinking there's someone behind it."
In his first major work since The Mosquito Coast, and his first-ever venture into science fiction, Theroux has been able to weave equal amounts of social commentary and adventure. When several Owners venture into O-Zone, which has been declared off limits because of nuclear contamination, they find that radioactivity has died down in the area. But they still can't rest until they surround their camp with a force-field that acts like an extended bug- zapper, frying any organism that comes close.
Then the Owners discover that a small band of humans -- "aliens" -- are living in O-Zone. At first the Owners are petrified, but eventually one of them falls in love with a beautiful O-Zone native.
The problems of such a romance are obvious -- one of the lovers will have to make a fateful choice. The dilemma is resolved in a manner that lends at least a little light to Theroux's dark, futuristic landscape. But O-Zone remains a frighteningly realistic book.


These will make for cute little snacks for your upcoming Ramadan celebrations as well. I actually believe that once you have all the ingredients laid out in front of you, you can make all three of them within an hour, because that's how easy they are. Let's get into the recipes and see what they're all about!
This has to be my favorite of the three. My mom taught me this recipe about two years ago and I have made it countless time since then.
1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees C and set aside a baking tray with parchment paper.
2. Mix sweetened condensed milk, chocolate chips (optional), and shredded coconut in one bowl to make a sticky mixture. 3. In a separate bowl, whip the egg whites until you get a good amount of foam. Gently fold the egg white foam into the coconut mixture. Folding helps maintain air bubbles to some extent which then makes the macaroons fluffy.
4. Now take a tablespoon or a small scoop and drop equal-sized portions of the mixture onto the baking tray.
5. Pop it in the oven and let the macaroons bake for about 20 minutes. I also like to turn on the broiler towards the end just to make the macaroons look golden brown and become somewhat crispy. And that's it! Your delicious macaroons are done!
1.Preheat oven to 350 F and grease mini muffin trays (available at the dollar store).
2. Slice the roll of cookie dough into 2 inch slices – this should give you about 6 disks. Lay the disks on their side and cut them into quarters. This will give you 6 x 4 = 24 little equal pieces of cookie dough.
3. Place each quarter-piece into greased mini muffin trays. These trays normally have 12 muffins tins, so you can do this using two trays or in two shifts using just one tray.
4. Next, bake the cookie dough in the oven for about 10 mins (see instructions on your cookie dough packaging for exact timing).
5. After 10 minutes, remove the trays. The quarter-pieces will have take a cookie shape and be very soft at this point. You want to take this opportunity to grab your mini Reese chocolate cups and press them into the middle of each cookie. Doing this will form sort of a groove in the middle and will turn the cookies into little cups. The heat from the warm cookies should start to melt the Reese and turn it into nice & soft chocolate in the middle. Let the cookies cool down and then remove them from the muffin tray.
I like to place these in little paper muffin cups (as shown in my picture above) to dress them up a little bit. Voila! Delicious chocolatey, peanut-buttery cookies are done!
Not much instruction needed here but I'll tell you anyway. Bring some water to simmer in a saucepan. Set a bowl on top of the saucepan with the chocolate bar inside, making sure the water doesn't touch the bottom of the bowl. The chocolate will start to melt, so keep stirring it slowly. Once the chocolate has melted, dip your chips into them and set aside on a plate to dry. Time to enjoy this crispy sweet & salty goodness!
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The Case of the Never-Ending Case: Bill Moore vs. the U.S. Government
In a saga comparable to Bleek House, Charles Dickens' classic novel about a legal case that would never end, Bill Moore, a Texas businessman, has waged his own never-ending legal war against the United States government.
At the center of the drama, which has now dragged on for 25 years, is an agency that prides itself on being boring in its routine: the U.S. Postal Service. When Moore dared criticize the organization, he learned just how vindictive its management could be. Moreover, when he tried to seek retribution, he discovered that it's all but impossible to hold the government accountable for its actions.
Moore was an all-American success story. He was a baseball player at Georgetown University. For five years he served in the Army Airborne Rangers, becoming company commander of the 27th Infantry Wolfhounds. At 22 he found himself in Vietnam, where he survived combat deployments near Saigon.
After his military service Moore entered business. In 1982 Trammel Crow, a real-estate developer, recruited him to move to Dallas to become CEO of Recognition Equipment, Inc., the Irving-based high-tech company on whose board Crow sat. Moore turned around the fledgling company so quickly that Forbes magazine, to quote one newspaper, "hailed his turnaround wizardry."
By 1988 Moore had made the publicly traded company a huge success, gaining a national reputation for himself. President Ronald Reagan appointed him to his Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations, which featured CEOs from the nation's largest corporations.
But Moore's fate was about to change. Part of Recognition Equipment's success had been based on securing government contracts. When the Postal Service began to consider purchasing new scanning technology, Moore suggested that they buy his optical-reading technology that used a five-digit zip code. Instead, the Postal Service purchased technology that required a nine-digit zip code. That the company that won the bid was German, not American -- at a time when the government was imploring consumers to "Buy American" -- only made matters worse.
So Moore fought back. He hired a consulting group, GAI, and launched an assault in the media against the Postal Service, criticizing management for buying inferior technology and for failing to support American businesses. He lobbied members of Congress to force the Postal Service to rethink their selection of a German firm. The Postal Service management was livid, and when John Gnau Jr., GAI's chairman, was revealed to be caught up in a kickback scandal (he was bribing a postal official for favors), six postal inspectors targeted Moore. Though Moore was uninvolved in Gnau's scheme, the government indicted him.
Moore's 54-page indictment, prosecutors claimed, was the result of a "painstakingly thorough" three-and-a-half-year investigation. In the six-week trial, which took place in federal court in the District of Columbia in 1989, the government called 84 witnesses and produced 50,000 pages of documents. But Judge George Revecomb was incredulous over what was happening. He ruled against the government before the defense presented its case. "The government's evidence is insufficient, even when viewed in the light most favorable to it," Revecomb wrote. "In fact, some of the government's evidence ... points toward innocent conduct of the defendants."
The case might have been thrown out, but the damage was done. Moore had spent $9 million defending himself. After the indictment his company was barred from doing business with the government. As his company faltered, its stock price plunged, making it the object of a hostile takeover. New management forced Moore out. Under stress, Moore had a heart attack -- all of this for a crime he didn't commit.
Furious, Moore fought back. In 1992 he sued the government for malicious prosecution, singling out six postal inspectors who had come after him. Moore claimed that the inspectors knew he was innocent but had had the government prosecute him anyway -- just to shut him up. The inspectors argued that, as government workers, they had limited immunity, protecting them from civil action.
The government launched a stall campaign like few others. The inspectors refused to turn over documents. Government lawyers secured countless delays based on technicalities. The case endured five appeals plus an appearance before the United States Supreme Court. The case dragged on for so long that two of the six defendants died. In 2010 an appeals court wrote that the evidence against the defendants even contained "the proverbial smoking gun," a memorandum written by a postal inspector admitting that the reason Moore was prosecuted was because he'd waged "a media and political campaign to discredit USPS management."
At last, in 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that Moore must be given his day in court. "It has taken 25 years, a criminal trial, eleven appellate judges as well as participating members of the United States Supreme Court -- none of whom has rejected his claim as a matter of law -- to get to the point that a jury will finally hear and decide if government officials engaged in pay back because the plaintiff sought to do business with the government," Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson wrote in the opinion. "To say that this has not been the government's finest hour is a colossal, and lamentable, understatement."
Jury selection is ongoing. What motivated Moore in his now-historic fight against the government? "If they can do this to me," he has said, "they can do it toanyone. I can't let them get away with it. I won't let them get away with it."
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The Julian Assange Case: Revealing War Crimes Is Not a Crime What we are facing is an all-out assault against one of the most significant acts of civil resistance in the history of the United States. Specifically, the civil resistance of Chelsea Manning, her whistleblowing that helped end the US combat role in Iraq in 2011, and the courage of Julian Assange in ensuring that Manning's resistance was effective.
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We Filed Suit to Prevent Mass Confusion at the California Primary The two major parties toy with the Independent voters of this country. They run the boards of elections and they make up the rules as they please as they go along. The result is that every county is a fiefdom, run by each county election official in a different way. This does not inspire confidence in the integrity of the vote.
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The Hidden Castro Assassination Plots What I offer here is new research on two key operations designed to kill Castro - Patty and Liborio - based in military intelligence and in specialized "nets" within Cuba. The officers running these other operations may have met up with Bill Harvey's get-Castro team in 1962. I believe these "hidden plots" were not revealed during the "limited hangout" the Agency was forced to endure during the 1970s.
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THE JFK CASE: THE TWELVE WHO BUILT THE OSWALD LEGEND (Part 12: The Endgame) Between November 8-9, and in the following days leading up to 11/22/63, a series of incidents show that Lee Oswald was being used as a provocation - someone that no one would easily forget. The most reasonable conclusion is that Oswald, Michael Paine, and Ruth Paine were manipulated to do the bidding of certain intelligence operatives.
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THE JFK CASE: THE TWELVE WHO BUILT THE OSWALD LEGEND (Part 11: The Paines Carry the Weight) Michael Paine's parents were drinking buddies with the mistress of CIA chief Allen Dulles. Paine got Lee Oswald to join the ACLU - this undercut Lee's only champion in the days after the assassination. The story of the Paines goes all the way back to the roots of the McCarthy era.
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How the Warren Commission Covered Up JFK's Murder An analysis of the factual problems in the case against Oswald. These would have turned into legal problems. If Oswald had lived and gone to trial, the chain of custody of most of the items of evidence is so weak that the case would have probably been dismissed by the judge, simply because there was no reasonable basis for the case to proceed to a jury for verdict.
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The JFK Case: The Twelve Who Built the Oswald Legend (Part 10: Nightmare in Mexico City) To understand Oswald, the most important person to watch may be CIA case officer Ann Goodpasture. She had a hand in the tap operations, the photo operations, and more. Sometimes described as Win Scott's principal aide, she was a force majeur. I believe she used Oswald's file with CIA HQ to conduct a molehunt, which created a paper trail between them. The need to hide this paper trail is tied to the coverup of JFK's killing.
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THE JFK CASE: THE TWELVE WHO BUILT THE OSWALD LEGEND (Part 9 - Oswald Takes Center Stage As An Intelligence Asset) When Lee Oswald returned to his hometown of New Orleans, he returned to a world where the CIA was wary of the local Cuban exile organizations because of infiltration by Castro's forces. Oswald went to work for Guy Banister, the head of a major Southern anti-communist intelligence network. First he tried to flush out "pro-Castro types" as an activist for Fair Play for Cuba. Then Oswald moved towards the public spotlight
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THE JFK CASE: THE TWELVE WHO BUILT THE OSWALD LEGEND (Part 7: The hand-off from De Mohrenschildt to the Paines) This chapter in the series describes how the White Russian community in Dallas worked their story about Oswald, relations between the Dallas CIA office and Legend Maker #9 George de Mohrenschildt, and the close working relationships among AID, the State Department, de Mohrenschildt, and the family of Ruth Hyde Paine. In 1963, the "babysitting" duties for the Oswald family were passed from de Mohrenschildt to the Paine family.
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THE JFK CASE: The Twelve Who Built The Oswald Legend (Part 6: White Russians Keep An Eye On Oswald In Dallas) Part 6 in the continuing series of Oswald and the twelve legend makers that either befriended him or watched over him prior to the assassination. In this chapter, Oswald has returned to the USA and is monitored by a right-wing organization of Soviet and Eastern European emigres with close ties to Cord Meyer's International Organizations wing of the CIA, as well as to the emigre-friendly Radio Free Europe.
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THE JFK CASE: THE TWELVE WHO BUILT THE OSWALD LEGEND (Part 5: The Double Dangle) Lee Oswald and Robert Webster were "dangles", brought together by the FBI and the CIA to entice the Soviets. Robert Webster defected to the USSR to learn more about the Soviet defense program. Radar operator Oswald defected to learn what the Soviets knew about the U-2. Descriptions of the two men were subtly altered for use in "molehunt" exercises designed to look for leaks and capture spies who repeated these descriptions.
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THE JFK CASE: THE TWELVE WHO BUILT THE OSWALD LEGEND (Part 3: Counterintelligence goes molehunting with Oswald's file) Third in the series. This chapter focuses on how Lee Harvey Oswald threatened to reveal military secrets to the Soviets about the U-2, and how US counterintelligence used his file as a "marked card" to capture supposed Communist spies who were trying to infiltrate the CIA.
THE JFK CASE: THE TWELVE WHO BUILT THE OSWALD LEGEND (Part 4: When the U-2 Goes Down, Oswald is Ready to Return) This chapter reveals the story behind the 1960 U-2 incident. A renegade NSA agent, Jack Dunlap, tipped off the Soviets about flights over the USSR...which led to the Soviets shooting down the U-2. Oswald's boss at the radio/TV factory in Minsk, Don Alejandro Ziger, was ostensibly an alienated White Russian. Oswald used to work on the U-2. The legend is that Ziger tipped Oswald that his work was done and he should go home.
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THE JFK CASE: THE TWELVE THAT BUILT THE OSWALD LEGEND (Part 2: An Instant Visa Gets The Marine Into Moscow) Second in a series that discusses the twelve people that created the Oswald legend. Here: Oswald's experience with the U-2 while in the Marines, how Oswald managed to cadge an instant visa from the Soviets to enter the USSR, how American officials protected Oswald after he told them he would give radar secrets to the Soviet Union. And what was the relationship between Oswald and defector Robert Webster? They could be twins.
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THE JFK CASE: THE TWELVE WHO BUILT THE OSWALD LEGEND (Part One: Mother, Meyer, and the Spotters) This is the first in a series of essays explaining the background of the twelve handlers of Lee Harvey Oswald during the last four years of his life. It is a gripping story of espionage, based on documents in the National Archives. Ask the House Oversight Committee to release both the JFK files and the MLK files. US history should not be wrapped in mystery. Many of the key issues have already been resolved.
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The JFK Case; the Office that Spied on its Own Spies Documents reveal that the CIA used Lee Harvey Oswald's visa requests for espionage purposes in shadowboxing with the Soviets before the JFK assassination. During Sunshine Week March 14-20, take action to free the JFK files and other files as well. Informants can be interviewed or released from their oaths while they are still alive. The House Oversight Committee can do the right thing and open the vaults.
THE JFK CASE: WHAT INFORMANTS ARE STILL OUT THERE? There are many questions about the JFK assassination that can easily be answered - but only by eyewitnesses who aren't going to be alive for much longer.
"In his groundbreaking new book Bottom Up: Tapping the Power of the Connection Revolution, Rob Kall invites and eases us into in a much-needed meta-level shift -- a truly basic paradigmatic shift from top-down to bottom-up. He capably and imaginatively explores the differences between these ways of approaching life, clearly demonstrating that bottom-up allows us to flourish. His vision and his book are enriched by telling references to interviews which he has engaged in over the years with bottom-up researchers, theorists, activists, and dreamers in a variety of areas. Think about Rob's interviews. Read this revolutionary book. And take one step further into the bottom-up universe yourself. You will not regret it."
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Night is dark and mysterious.
its falling, glowing gaze from up above.
The fairies dance under the twinkling lights.
a big yellow ball of fire emerges from the sky.
who sleep and don't make a hoot.
Birds fly everywhere and tweet their melodies.
Butterflies flutter with excitement and dance along.
The sidewalks are warm under my feet.
It is time to shout and play!


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Library > Preparing university students for a collaborative career
Preparing university students for a collaborative career
Hosted by Marius Foley
Lecturer and Practitioner at RMIT School of Media and Communication
Posted 09 Dec 2014 @ 12:19 pm
by Marius Foley
A story about how university professors are balancing a number of challenging factors in order to prepare students for a world in which collaboration is essential to their career success.
Organisation: RMIT
Project Name: Student Collaboration Training
Sector: Tertiary education
Free tags: education, tertiary, students, design, media, communications
The challenge: To give students collaboration skills that will improve their educational experience in addition to transfer to workforce
Collaboration scale: 3-50
"Group work" are two words that strike fear in the hearts of most students. These words conjure an instant expectation of being saddled with people who won't pull their weight, or control freaks who will hand out lowly tasks and do it all themselves. Few students are excited about being forced to work with others - especially knowing their grade will depend on how those they work with perform. This discomfort is routinely reflected in student experience surveys. RMIT is working to reverse this trend, actively taking steps to build collaboration skills of students and transform group work experiences from a negative experience to a positive one.
Working well with others is a critical success factor in many roles in the workforce. This has long been recognised by universities which have reflected a requirement to prepare students for this reality though mandatory group work - with as much as 4-8 weeks of group work per course, often counting for a significant portion of the course grade. For example, a course in the Master of Communication program intentionally brings together students from the five disciplines of design, journalism, media, PR and advertising, as these groups, while distinct, rarely work independently in the industry. Even with such a clear rationale for collaboration, however, there has been a tough challenge getting these students to work well together as the language and principles from their unique disciplines make communicating and agreeing difficult.
In addition to communication challenges, many students are accustomed to, and most comfortable, working alone to achieve their study goals. Relying on others to perform at their level can be intimidating or painful. Students don't have a language for collaboration and there aren't many good examples to demonstrate or emulate how to create a collaborative team from a group of diverse strangers. To add to this, real collaboration is a bit like an unused muscle - you have to overcome an initially unpleasant and potentially painful experience to get better at or appreciate it. But, with increasing evidence from recent reports such as Deloitte's the Collaboration Economy, teamwork is a fact of life that students will have to face, and the better a university can prepare them, the more successful it will be.
In order to bridge this gap and find a way to provide experiences of collaborative work which taught students about its value in a less confronting way, RMIT has been experimenting in select courses, removing the team-work component from the major assessment and instead trying to find a meaningful new way to introduce group work. The intention is to create a structure to the work that prepares students for the sometimes uncomfortable give and take - especially of one's ego - that is required to make space for ideas that differ from or conflict with your own before finding a shared way forward. So far a key aspect of this has been taking the course credit behemoth out of the picture, and encouraging a shared idea generation space.
In one such course, Lean Social Futures, students were broken into three groups and tasked with brainstorming and setting up two or three first stage concept proposals relating to one of three aspects of the lived environment. These proposals were then discussed and assessed by the course participants as a whole through a lot of discussion. This then moved back to being an individual project where students were asked to take one of the ideas from any of the groups and develop it to the next level of detail as their major assignment. This sets up a couple of dynamics:
The person who had the original idea has to 'let it go' and learn to see how others progress their idea differently
The person appropriating an idea has to understand how to imbue that idea with their own interpretation
This new approach gave students a provocative, tangible experience of the value of working with others to generate ideas. It also supplied a critical learning in changing the pattern of the more design-oriented students to leap to an answer, by forcing them to hear and acknowledge a wide range of ideas and potentially find a gem amongst them that was was better than or could augment their own idea.
While the learnings from the program are showing promising signs of improvement and a greater appreciation of the changed structure for group work, the program is still in its early days. There are aspirations to deepen the collaborative aspects of the course by more actively encouraging voluntary group-work as part of the individual project, or by bringing the larger groups back together to progress ideas even further as a third and final step.
"We want to make sure that students know, even at university, they are working in a network of people with valuable ideas and skills that can compliment and contribute to their own, and knowing how to recognise this and work with others will give them an advantage in the workplace"
Patterns expressed by this story:
Be neutral
Embrace agility and action learning
Map participants
Protecting my patch
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Ukrainians Disillusioned with 'Orange Revolution'
Political squabbling and a dire economic situation in Ukraine are a far cry from the heady days of the 2004 "Orange Revolution", when there were high hopes for that country's future.
Ukraine's current president, Viktor Yushchenko, was elected in December 2004 after hundreds of thousands of his supporters took to the streets to protest the results of an earlier election declared fraudulent by the Ukrainian Supreme Court and international monitors.
That massive protest became known as the "Orange Revolution," named after the color worn by Yushchenko's supporters. In a second, court-ordered election, Mr. Yushchenko defeated Viktor Yanukovich, now head of the powerful "Party of Regions" in the Ukrainian parliament, or Rada.
There was great euphoria in Ukraine then and confidence that the "Orange Revolution" would usher in a new era.
But analysts say that confidence quickly dissipated as President Yushchenko and his former ally, now Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, engaged in bitter political fights - squabbling that continues to this day.
"Very early, after the events of 2004, the two sides divided over policy agenda, some of it had to do with the ambitions of the principals within the coalition - Tymoshenko and Yushchenko. And they've never really been able to agree either on a division of power, not just for themselves, but for those who support them within their respective parties in the Rada and the cabinet. At its base, there is a fundamental political and personal tension between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko - and it has made it very difficult for the two major parties and then others who could support them within a coalition, to come together. Whether Ukraine, in a deep enough crisis or an on-going crisis, will force them to look beyond their personal and political differences I think is very difficult to know," said Robert Legvold, who is with Columbia University in New York.
Experts say the political infighting, coupled with allegations of corruption in the Yushchenko administration, have disillusioned Ukrainians even more.
Katinka Barysch, with the London-based Center for European Reform, says Ukraine's dire economic situation is another black mark against Mr. Yushchenko.
"Ukraine's economy is in freefall," she said. "The industrial production is falling at a rate of 30 percent compared with last year. They already had to go to the IMF [International Monetary Fund] and borrow 16 billion Euros or $20 billion. Inflation is in double digits. Their budget is out of control. Very difficult situation."
Experts also say the recent crisis with Russia over the price of natural gas hasn't helped Ukraine's reputation as a reliable energy supplier for Europe.
About a quarter of Europe's natural gas comes from Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly. Eighty percent of the gas it ships west passes through the same pipelines that supply Ukraine. Russian officials have accused Ukraine of siphoning off gas meant for Europe, a charge denied by Ukrainian leaders.
For 13 days in January, during one of the coldest winters in years, gas deliveries were severely disrupted to 18 European countries.
Many analysts say the dispute with Russia has hurt Ukraine's chances of becoming a member of the European Union.
Robert Legvold, with Columbia University in New York, says the Moscow-Kyiv gas crisis is a symptom of other problems.
"The crisis simply is a punctuation to what's been true all along the line, that is the failure of Ukraine and its political leadership to pull together and then develop a coherent strategy for addressing fundamental economic issues in the country. Even when there was substantial growth in Ukraine, a certain amount of dynamism before the current financial crisis, gave Europe, the European Union, pause. They wish Ukraine well. They want to help. They want to support Ukraine. They want to assist it in making the kind of structural change, in carrying out the kind of economic reform that's necessary - but until Ukraine gets its act together, there is a limit to what the European Union can do. And that has been the story now for more than two years," he said.
David Marples, with the University of Alberta in Canada, says given all of Ukraine's problems, President Yushchenko's approval rating is at an all-time low.
"His popularity has sunk like a stone in Ukraine. It's below 10 percent now - I've even heard three or four percent depending on which poll one looks at. These are historic lows and they are lows for any leader in Europe," he said. "No one is in that kind of ballpark area of less than 10 percent popularity. It's quite astonishing. And I can't really see any way that he could return as president in the next election. I very much doubt he would even run unless something dramatic happens in the meantime. So I think we are looking at an alternative now to Yushchenko as president of Ukraine."
Presidential elections in Ukraine are expected to take place this December or in January of next year.
In the meantime, Marples and others say President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko must resolve their differences and begin to seriously address all of Ukraine's problems - as they said they would during the 2004 "Orange Revolution."


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What do you think of the CONCACAF WCQ for 2022?
By Blackdude, July 11 in Men's National Teams
83 members have voted
1. What do you think of the CONCACAF WCQ for 2022?
It's bad
It's good
Somewhere in the middle
Blizzard 10
4 hours ago, Free kick said:
Thanks for the clarification. I was trying to look it up to see if Europe was one of the four but couldn't find anything. If it actually was, then I would have said we have literally no chance what so ever given that the top concacaf side (Mexico) would have been a significant underdog against the potential 15th qualifier from Europe.
Going from what we saw at recent World Cup qualifiers, that last team that just barely finished out of qualifying in UEFA could have been a side like Holland, Ireland or Italy. Not even Mexico would stand chance. Mexico might even be hard pressed against the hypothetical South American side.
Ya but in the last cycle, Mexico got New Zealand!
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56 minutes ago, Blizzard said:
2014 they did.
2018 last cycle it was Honduras vs Australia and Australia advanced (Australia had a rough qualifying campaign in Asia but managed to get the .5 spot).
2010 - South America
2014 - Oceania
2018 - Asia
2022 - look at pattern ^ hopefully it changes....? But it is Fifa, so who knows.
Vancouver Fan 58
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Agreed, this format is BS.
The ranking that will be used is from June 2020? That will give us time to get into the top 6 providing we perform well in the Nations league. That would be our best chance, I think.
After the upcoming Nations League matches what other opportunities will we have to increase our ranking?
Would the likes of Honduras or El Salvador want to have friendlies with us in early 2020 or is there too much to lose for them?
If we had nothing to lose and played a couple of friendlies against top 40 nations and we manage a draw or win, could that not help us?
Nations League Groups that could impact our ranking. Who improves? Who goes backward?
Honduras, T and T, Martinique
El Salvador, St. Lucia, Montserrat, Dominican Republic
Panama, Mexico, Bermuda
Curacao, Haiti, Costa Rica
Jamaica, Guyana, Antigua, Aruba
Lots of questions for me.
I have only a vague idea of how FIFA rankings even work. Another reason this is a bad idea.
Edited July 13 by Vancouver Fan
Lofty 2,555
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Posted Saturday at 11:31 PM (edited)
On 7/12/2019 at 12:31 AM, BearcatSA said:
I'd like to hear Montagliani's thoughts on this. Perhaps a TSN feature as part of the TFC-Impact broadcast this weekend?
I'll take a stab at that, on his behalf. And my thoughts will be unfiltered.
1. The CONCACAF minnows wanted more matches than just a single two legged knock out before being eliminated. This format, with an initial group stage for everybody, accomplishes that. And I particularly want to keep these minnows happy because they control a lot of votes.
2. The heavyweights do not want to be burdened playing a bunch of useless matches against minnows they are going to thrash. This format accomplishes that. And that is good for CONCACAF because we want our best teams playing challenging opponents rather than cannon fodder.
3. I said that the CNL would affect WCQ. CNL gives teams an opportunity to play meaningful matches worth enough ranking points to elevate their ranking into the CONCACAF top 6 and thus gain automatic entry into the hexagonal (editorial comment: I don't agree with this because the FIFA ranking system is seriously flawed; but if the FIFA ranking system were credible, this point would be important).
4. We have always complained that all but 6 teams were eliminated far too early. This keeps more teams playing longer and provides more competitive matches for the teams ranked just outside the top 6 and does so until late in the qualification process.
5. Yes, the path to qualification for teams outside the top 6 seems long, but if you count the matches you will see that it is either the same as or only two matches longer than for the team that finishes 4th in the hexagonal. The key point is that teams outside the top 6 will be getting more competitive matches than before and will still be in the hunt for a place in the finals for longer than before, and after the hexagonal has started, indeed long after for some.
6. To summarize, this format gives everybody more meaningful and competitive matches and keeps qualification hopes alive for more teams for longer. And teams that want to play in the hexagonal have the chance to get there by getting good results in the CNL.
Edited Saturday at 11:49 PM by Lofty
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Addona 399
Posted Sunday at 01:26 AM
1 hour ago, Lofty said:
I don't get this point ... I hear it A LOT. But the format for Brazil 2014 had a group stage that most minnows played. There were a handful of knockout matches in an initial stage among the real minnows of minnows. Then a group stage with Canada level teams playing in a group ... then the SF round where the top ranked teams entered. Finally, the HEX. I never understood what was so wrong with this format ... it seemed fine to me!
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Posted Sunday at 02:22 AM (edited)
56 minutes ago, Addona said:
I think if you are specifically comparing those two formats, you need to look to all the other points for the advantages of this new format.
Although, the 5 summarily jettisoned tiny minnows (in 2014 WCQ) may consider this point important, and it does provide for a more even distribution of matches played in that early phase (4/6 for everybody vs. 2/6/8 depending on seeding and success).
Of course the WCQ format for 2018 was different and the minnows all played only 2 or 4 matches, and this new format clearly improves upon that.
Edited Sunday at 02:23 AM by Lofty
CanadianSoccerFan 570
With respect to the "giving minnows more games" part there is a solution to this. It's called Gold Cup qualifying. Give the minnows an extended campaign in that, a competition they actually have a faint hope of qualifying for. This is how Asia does it and it keeps everyone active throughout the 4 year cycle in spite of them only having one Asian Cup every 4 years. With a Gold Cup every 2 years the possibilities are endless.
The lesson is that this whole Nations League was the wrong solution to the problem of minnow inactivity. Now it's eating up all the match days needed for the one thing that truly matters, World Cup Qualifying. To me, it's like the head of the Premier League saying "Well, we have to shorten the Premier League to only 4 months because we need to make room for 6 months of League Cup, preseason tours, and overseas friendlies ($hit that doesn't matter).
Edited Sunday at 02:55 AM by CanadianSoccerFan
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But in the 2014 WC, all minnows except 5 got a minimum of 6 games, and 5 got at least 8 games: 2 in the 1st play-in round, and 6 in the 2nd round (where Canada entered) ...
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1 hour ago, Addona said:
I think we agree that when compared to the 2014 WCQ, the new format is a wash regarding extra matches for minnows.
But I think it is an improvement when compared to 2018 WCQ.
1 hour ago, CanadianSoccerFan said:
Just throwing this out there, but if I were a minnow I'd be a lot more excited to play in World Cup Q rather than the Q for the substantially less prestigious Gold Cup, regardless of my chances of actually qualifying.
My understanding was than CNL was introduced to provide ALL CONCACAF nations with more competitive matches, but particularly the bigger teams rather than the minnows. The irony being that one of the driving forces was to improve rankings by playing more competitive matches, and now FIFA have changed the system so that more competitive matches is no longer a quick way to boost your ranking.
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On 7/12/2019 at 6:05 PM, Binky said:
Like really! What did you expect from Mt. Vic? Thank God he's not the president of the CSA any longer. He isn't, isn't he? No wonder he kept it a secret so long. Very typical for his kind.
Very typical for his kind? What are you trying to say exactly?
48 minutes ago, masster said:
You know. His kind!
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Stryker911 832
Im not sure if countries get funding for WCQ, but wasn't one of the issues that some of these minnows couldn't afford Nations league qualifying? How are they now going to afford a trip to Canada + 2 other countries if they had a hard time travelling twice before?
Free kick 11
Posted Monday at 12:57 AM (edited)
On 7/12/2019 at 9:31 PM, Kent said:
I'm getting off topic now, but in my opinion the half spot for CONMEBOL is tougher than a hypothetical half spot from UEFA. And I don't think Mexico would be the underdog against a UEFA 15th qualifier. Based on World Cup results, Mexico is very firmly in the 9th to 16th best country in the world range. They have made it to exactly the round of 16, 7 World Cups in a row. In that time they have finished ahead of the following European teams in the group stage. 1994 Ireland, Italy and Norway, 1998 Belgium, 2002 Italy, 2010 France, 2014 Croatia, 2018 Germany. For completeness, in that time span the following European teams finished ahead of Mexico. 1998 Netherlands, 2006 Portugal, 2018 Sweden.
As for why I think CONMEBOL has a stronger half spot than UEFA would. A few years ago I tried taking some pretty simple metrics to determine the strength of the different confederations at the World Cup. CONMEBOL was the clear winner. They had the best points per game, so they were the best on average, but they were also the only confederation to never have a team go 0-3 in the group stage in the 32 team World Cup era (from 1998 through 2018. I know I said I did it a few years ago, but I added 2018 numbers since then) so they are never sending weak teams, wheras UEFA has had 2 teams go 0-3 in that time period.
I don't have numbers on how many make it to the knockout round. Maybe someday I'll look into that, but not right now.
Its depends on how you look at it. If you look only at the performance at the WC, then i completely agree. I have mentioned before here that, yes, Mexico has shown that they are very much competitive or better than many of the 10-15 ranked (hypothetically) qualifiers from Europe. But i was looking at it in different way and from the perspective of who Canada might be facing in that mini tournament. And, based on history, it NOT the kind of side that Mexico might have previously beaten at the WC finals.
In Europe the final qualifier come from the final phase involving a two legged tie involving the second place finishers. In the first phase its something like 9 groups of 6 teams give or take. In those groups of six you have guarantee of 2 minnows or near minnows in each group. There might be 1 clear cut favourite and a clear second who is a solid side and every now and then the teams 2 to to 3 might be realistic contenders. Occasionally there are three good sides but never where three are truly on par in terms of pedigree. So in 95-98 percent of the time all games result in a "Clockwork" predicability.
But in the second phase of the two legged tie everything changes because of this: The pairings are determined via random draw. Hence, unlike the group stage, the strong sides and weaker sides are not even distributed (like the group stage) in order to ensure a seeding-like matchups. You will see two of the weaker second place sides matched up and vice versa. Getting back to the group stage for a moment, recall i said that there is often a generally accepted top seed. If that top seed, for example, slips on a banana peel for what ever reason (ie.; overconfidence , bad ref calls, poor preparation etc) and earns, say, a draw in the home leg on their matchup against the second strongest side (ie.: the 2-5 percent) then, given that all the rest of the group results are always predictable like a clock and that means that you will almost always have a superpower team or two that slips in into that second phase. And it might or often does get paired with a decent or even good side. Or they will get paired with just a good or decent who decides to parks the bus.
All this to say this: what i described above explains why in past world cups, sides like France, Italy, Holland, England, Portugal etc have failed to qualify. Do we really believe that Mexico are this level? Or even the fifth place Conmebol side? And thats the kind of side that you would see in an intercontinental play off. Not sides like Slovenia or Poland or Ireland whereby we believe that Mexico can matchup well against. In other words, the 10-14 ranked Euro sides at the WC are seldom stronger than one or two that just missed out because that random draw has alot to do with it. Also, the emergence of Belgium has complicated things as far as group seedings.
Also dont forget, since nine is not devisable by two, one of those randomly drawn second placers might be the one gets sent to the intercontinental playoff. I recall that Ireland was one of those sides once. Because the draw is random, it could easily be one of the superpowers.
Edited Monday at 01:40 AM by Free kick
^ UEFA WCQ is always messed up. You need to win your group to automatically qualify. But the seriously flawed FIFA rankings are used for seeding so the groups are often quite unbalanced, and it is often pretty clear that the second seed in one group would be the best team in another. However, in the end I kind of like it. It makes qualifying more interesting and tends to introduce more variety into which "second tier" countries make it. But the net result is that the 13 UEFA representatives are NOT usually the 13 best teams in Europe. This would certainly contribute to CONMEBOL having a better record in the finals (since CONMEBOL use a league system for WCQ, they always send their best teams).
By the way, if two "good" teams end up in the 8 team play offs then UEFA seed the draw.
I think it would be a toss up whether it would be harder to play UEFA or CONMEBOL for a half place.
e.g. 2018:
UEFA Play-off losers (presumably the best of these would compete for the half place): Northern Ireland, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy.
CONMEBOL 5th: Peru.
Edited Monday at 01:45 AM by Lofty
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If we are top 6 by 2020 June, we get into the hex. If not, we go into a round robin and playoffs for a chance to play the fourth placed team in the hex before facing another confederation's opponent? Flawed but not too bad IMO.
Edited Monday at 04:30 AM by Macksam
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Posted Monday at 12:51 PM
8 hours ago, Macksam said:
As long as it is not CONMEBOL (South America).
1978 - Hungary(UEFA) over Bolivia
2006 - Australia in PKs over Uruguay (before Australia joined Asia)
^ Those are the only two times South American countries have ever lost an inter-continental playoff.
I read somewhere else the inter continental playoff would "rotate" between federations, but I couldn't find the link, it made sense with the last 3 WC's rotating in fairness.
On paper it's CONCACAF turn to play CONMEBOL. For the sake of all of CONCACAF let's hope it's an actual real draw for the inter-continental playoff.
Does anyone know the date when it's announced?
Alex 345
I remember the last couple World Cup preliminary draws. They had an actual draw for the intercontinental playoff. It was televised.
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14 minutes ago, Alex said:
Thanks, everywhere online just says "at a later date". Let's hope they are not hot and cold balls this time.
https://en.as.com/en/2016/06/13/football/1465851727_136465.html
So that gives our region a 66% to avoid CONMEBOL. Mind you, Asian region is no easy task anymore (Australia fully dominated Honduras in the playoff last qualifying, even got an away result in Honduras).
I'm curious if the draw will happen before June 2020 fifa rankings, but I don't think so (which is fair).
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I would like this format so much more if they left FIFA rankings out of it. Could they not have picked the top 6 teams from nations league A?
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Posted Monday at 04:47 PM (edited)
Last year, it was being reported that the intercontinental playoff draw would happen 2 days from now, on July 17th, when they draw the groups for the early rounds of the AFC qualifiers. Back in February 2018, an outlet in New Zealand published an article saying pencil in July 2019 on your calendars because that's when we'll know who the winner of the Oceania region plays in the intercontinental playoff. It seems like all of that has changed now as everything I've been able to find recently on the intercontinental playoff draw says it will be determined at a later date. I don't know why a placeholder draw would need to be pushed back, but maybe they want the dust to settle a bit first from the changes to our region's qualifying format.
Edited Monday at 05:13 PM by jtpc
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I just came to the sad realization that its too late to change course now for CONCACAF.
Thinking about giving up on the sport altogether.
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The way FIFA seems to make things up as they go along these days, Infantino may change things up for the Intercontinental playoff. FIFA already announced that the 2026 Intercontinental playoff will be at a neutral site involving all competitors.
For 2022, the most fair thing to do would be to delay the World Cup draw (scheduled for April) and get all 4 teams at a neutral site in June. Play 3 games and the top two teams qualify. I also wouldn't mind if it was a 4 team home and away group played over March and June. There are 4 FIFA dates in June of 2022. Would be massive travel but nobody could complain about drawing CONMEBOL.
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5 minutes ago, CanadianSoccerFan said:
Was that just your thinking or did you read that somewhere?
Good for you if you thought about it, could def work and make alot of sense.
I hope Fifa has thought about it.
A mini tourney would be really cool & "the last 2 world Cup qualifying spots" as international/intercontinental spots would pretty much have the entire world's eyes on it and watching it. Would be huge for Fifa, interest and $ wise.
Other option you mentioned good also, but def massive travel for 6 more games.
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Big second half carries Louisville to 77-69 win over Boston College
Four in a row.
By Mike Rutherford@CardChronicle Jan 21, 2018, 2:15pm EST
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A big bench effort from Jordan Nwora and monster second halves from Deng Adel and V.J. King carried Louisville to a 77-69 win over Boston College Sunday afternoon at the KFC Yum Center.
The win moves the Cardinals to 5-1 in the ACC, matching the program's best conference start since joining the league in 2014-15.
After carrying a 31-29 lead into the break at halftime, U of L spent much of the second half looking like it would roll easily to its fifth conference win. The Cardinals led by 18 points with just 2:47 to play before a remarkable flurry by Boston College — and some highly questionable decision making by the home team — resulted in U of L's lead being just two points with 32 seconds to go. Thankfully, some clutch free-throw shooting by King and Ryan McMahon salted the win away in the closing moments.
A win is a win, especially in conference play, but you would have liked to have seen the Cards close things out on a bit of a better note this afternoon. If there's a silver lining, at least none of them should have anything resembling an inflated ego heading into Wednesday's very serious road test at Miami.
Despite the bizarre final two minutes, it's pretty remarkable to step back and see that the same team that was humiliated at Rupp Arena right before the turn of the calendar is one made shot away from being 6-0 in the ACC. Props to everyone involved for sticking together and making this happen. Here's hoping the fun is just getting started.
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Season series: This is the first of two meetings between the Edmonton Oilers and Tampa Bay Lightning. In their most recent matchup, on March 22, 2012, Teddy Purcell scored in the sixth round of a shootout to lead the Lightning past the Oilers 3-2 at the Tampa Bay Times Forum.
Big story: The Lightning sit first in the Atlantic Division (20 points in one fewer game than the Toronto Maple Leafs and two fewer games than the Detroit Red Wings), but on Thursday they'll be tasked with slowing down the Oilers, who will have top-line forward Taylor Hall back in the lineup.
Oilers: There was a sense of relief and quite a bit of satisfaction after Edmonton snapped a five-game skid Tuesday with a 4-3 overtime win against the Florida Panthers. The Oilers let a 3-1 lead slip in the third period but got the win when Mark Arcobello scored on the power play at 1:55 of OT.
It was Arcobello's second goal of the game, the first two of his NHL career, but even before he found the back of the net he had a team-leading 10 assists. The Oilers also got a lift from defenseman Taylor Fedun, who scored in his NHL debut.
"It was big for confidence there," Arcobello said of scoring his initial goal. "I've had my fair share of chances so far this year. I've been squeezing the stick a little bit too tight. To finally get that first one was big."
Lightning: While not quite the overnight sensation the Colorado Avalanche have been over in the Western Conference, there's an undeniable buzz around Tampa Bay regarding the way the Lightning have turned around their fortunes over the season's first five weeks. They have yet to lose consecutive games and enter Thursday seeking their third win in a row.
Tampa Bay has been particularly tough against the West, which continued in Saturday's 4-2 victory against the St. Louis Blues. With the score knotted in the third, Brett Connolly's first of the season put the Lightning in front to stay and Valtteri Filppula tacked on some late insurance.
"That's a good team over there and we kept it going in the third period and kind of took over," said Ben Bishop, who stopped 28 shots. "I thought it was a little bit of a measuring stick for us."
Who's hot: Boyd Gordon set up three goals for the Oilers on Tuesday, including Arcobello's in overtime. … Steven Stamkos has six goals and four assists in the past six games for the Lightning. Alex Killorn has two goals and three assists in the past two games.
Injury report: For Edmonton, goaltender Richard Bachman (lower body), defensemen Anton Belov (lower body) and Justin Schultz (groin) and forwards Steve MacIntyre (knee), David Perron (neck), Tyler Pitlick (knee) and Jesse Joensuu (back) have been sidelined. … Tampa Bay defenseman Brian Lee (knee) and forward Tom Pyatt (collarbone) are out indefinitely.


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RSpec.describe "Hanami::Validations::VERSION" do
  it "returns current version" do
    expect(Hanami::Validations::VERSION).to eq("2.0.0")
  end
end

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describe('Module: \'app.main\'', function () {
    'use strict';

    describe('static checks for state provider calls', function () {
        var stateProvider;

        beforeEach(function () {
            module('ui.router', function ($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
                stateProvider = $stateProvider;
                spyOn(stateProvider, 'state').and.callThrough();
            });
            module('app.main');
            // this is necessary to trigger loading the modules
            inject();
        });

        it('defines a route for login page', inject(function (SIGN_IN_DLG_PATH) {
            expect(stateProvider.state).toHaveBeenCalledWith('signIn', {
                name: 'signIn',
                url: SIGN_IN_DLG_PATH,
                templateUrl: 'main/sign-in/sign-in.html',
                controller: 'SignInCntl',
                controllerAs: 'SIC'
            });
        }));

        it('defines a route for page not found', function () {
            expect(stateProvider.state).toHaveBeenCalledWith('notFound', {
                name: 'notFound',
                templateUrl: 'main/layout/page-not-found.html'
            });
        });
    });

    describe('check redirecting and URL managment', function () {

        var goToFunc, viewHookElem,
            PAGE_NOT_FOUND_CONTENT = 'Page not found content',
            SIGN_IN_CONTENT = 'Login page content',
            contextPath;

        beforeEach(function () {
            module('app.main');
        });

        beforeEach(inject(function ($templateCache, $location, $rootScope, $compile, currentContextPath) {
            $templateCache.put('main/layout/page-not-found.html', PAGE_NOT_FOUND_CONTENT);
            $templateCache.put('main/sign-in/sign-in.html', SIGN_IN_CONTENT);
            viewHookElem = $compile('

Loading ...

')($rootScope);
            contextPath = currentContextPath.get();

            goToFunc = function(toPath){
                $location.path(toPath);
                $rootScope.$digest();
            }
        }));

        it('should redirect user to login page when entered root URL but not logged in', inject(function ($state, SIGN_IN_DLG_PATH, $location) {

            goToFunc('/');

            expect($location.path()).toEqual(SIGN_IN_DLG_PATH);
            expect($state.current.name).toEqual('signIn');
            expect(viewHookElem.html()).toContain(SIGN_IN_CONTENT);

        }));

        it('should redirect user to login page when entered only host name but not logged in', inject(function ($state, SIGN_IN_DLG_PATH, $location) {

            goToFunc('');

            expect($location.path()).toEqual(SIGN_IN_DLG_PATH);
            expect($state.current.name).toEqual('signIn');
            expect(viewHookElem.html()).toContain(SIGN_IN_CONTENT);

        }));

        it('should redirect user to page not found view when entered unknown URL', inject(function ($state, SIGN_IN_DLG_PATH, $location) {

            var unknownURL = '/unknownURL';
            goToFunc(unknownURL);

            expect($location.path()).toEqual(unknownURL);
            expect($state.current.name).toEqual('notFound');
            expect(viewHookElem.html()).toContain(PAGE_NOT_FOUND_CONTENT);

        }));

        it('should redirect user to home page when logged in', inject(function ($state, $httpBackend, $location, oaspSecurityService) {
            var loginData = {"j_username": "cook", "j_password": "cook"};
            $httpBackend.expectPOST(contextPath+'services/rest/login',  loginData).respond({});
            $httpBackend.expectGET(contextPath+'services/rest/security/v1/currentuser/').respond({});
            $httpBackend.expectGET(contextPath+'services/rest/security/v1/csrftoken/').respond({});

            oaspSecurityService.logIn('cook', 'cook');
            goToFunc('/');
            $httpBackend.flush();

            expect($location.path()).toEqual('/table-mgmt/table-search');
            //table mgmt module not loaded in this test, so state should be recognized as not found
            expect($state.current.name).toEqual('notFound');
            expect(viewHookElem.html()).toContain(PAGE_NOT_FOUND_CONTENT);

        }));

    });
});


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The Hour, BBC One, review
James Walton reviews BBC One's new 1950s-set drama series The Hour, plus ITV1's Show Me the Funny.
Ben Whishaw, Romola Garai and Dominic West star in The Hour Photo: BBC
8:32PM BST 22 Jul 2011
BBC Two's The Hour (Tuesday), set in 1956, announced itself as a serious drama in what's become the customary way. It cut swiftly between several scenes that seemed to have no connection with each other – beyond the fact that, at this stage, all were baffling.
At the BBC's Alexandra Palace studios, Freddie Lyon (Ben Whishaw) – a man so rebellious that he leaves the top button of his shirt undone – was protesting about the blandness of the TV news he was expected to report. Meanwhile across London, a debutante danced with her new fiancé, while an academic was stabbed to death in a tube station.
Gradually – but only gradually – these strands came together. The deb, Ruth Elms (Vanessa Kirby), turned out to know both the dead man and Freddie, to whom she gave a series of blood-curdling hints that the murder was part of some huge establishment conspiracy. "They'll kill me if they know I'm talking to you," she concluded darkly – which of course meant that by the end of the episode she was dead too.
On the whole, previewers of The Hour either hailed it as Britain's answer to Mad Men or denounced other previewers for lazily hailing it as Britain's answer to Mad Men. In fact, both sides have a point. The London we see here has its fair share of booze, ciggies and sexism, but markedly lacks the glamour of Sixties Manhattan. On the other hand, both programmes are carefully set at a turning point in social history (in this case, the end of deference) – and one that led, neatly enough, to the way things are now. In a particularly lucky coincidence, on Tuesday Freddie paid a policeman for information.
But there are other obvious influences as well – and not just all those other thrillers where a maverick journalist battles the state single-handed. In a love triangle straight out of the film Broadcast News, producer Bel Rowley (Romola Garai) is torn between her idealistic old pal Freddie and smoothie anchor Hector (Dominic West). As in classic British film noir, the baddies spend a lot of time standing under lamp posts in a trench coat and large hat.
The Hour, BBC Two, episode 1, review
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So far, the programme is doing a fine job of combining these various elements – although sometimes in a rather self-conscious way. The Fifties setting is hard to resist and, unusually in an all-star cast (with the likes of Juliet Stevenson and Tim Pigott-Smith in supporting roles), nobody tries to act everyone else off the screen.
There is, however, one definite flaw. For a drama that otherwise oozes class, the dialogue is surprisingly creaky. Ruth revealed that possible scoop to Freddie with the words, "They weave a web of deceitful lies. You think it's ridiculous. I wish it were." His boss refused to let Freddie investigate further with a curt, "Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a news programme to get out." Stranger still, the characters are also fluent in the clichés of our own day – including "Freddie, you really need to focus" and "an exciting journey" to describe a new TV show.
Now, it was only ever a matter of time before television combined two of its current obsessions: stand-up comedy and the elimination talent show. And just to be safe, Show Me the Funny (ITV1, Monday) also throws a slightly desperate sprinkling of The Apprentice, which might work better if the tasks weren't left largely unexplained – and in many cases largely unseen.
As a predictable result, the show only takes off when the gig itself begins. In a minor twist, the comedians – all on the circuit already – have to perform before a cunningly chosen tough crowd, as well as a panel of judges.
On Monday the crowd in question consisted wholly of Liverpudlian women – where the book-loving Cole Parker somehow got away with his opening line that "the amount of oestrogen in this room is as palpable as it is intimidating". Others weren't so lucky. Ignacio Lopez's certainty that a roomful of women were bound to fall for his twinkly Latin charms proved sadly (indeed, excruciatingly) misplaced. Prince Abdi's act was going badly even before he tried out his comedy Scouse accent.
In the event, the judges got rid of Ignacio – apparently on the grounds that his set was "a low-speed car crash" while Prince's was only "a car crash". By the end, the programme's basic idea seemed so solid that you felt disappointed all over again at the lack of effort that had gone into the format of the first half.
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Comparative analysis of the "withholding tax system" for the collection of the income tax in colombia and spain
This study, made at the breeding ground of the Tributary Research SITUQ, develops the "Comparative Analysis of National Taxes and Tributary Law in Colombia and Spain Research" known as the historical frame of taxes in Colombia where the tributary systems are understood, a state-of-the-art tax charac...
FAJARDO CALDERÓN, CONSTANZA LORETH, SUÁREZ AMAYA, DORA CECILIA
Artículo Revisado por Pares Académicos
Universidad Libre 2018
Retención en la fuente
This study, made at the breeding ground of the Tributary Research SITUQ, develops the "Comparative Analysis of National Taxes and Tributary Law in Colombia and Spain Research" known as the historical frame of taxes in Colombia where the tributary systems are understood, a state-of-the-art tax characterization in established, a comparative analysis of differences and similarities is built and is complemented with a withholding tax system analysis in both countries. The effects on them are also analyzed considering the "Kingdom of Spain and Colombia Agreement to avoid double taxation and to prevent fi scal evasion of the Income and Equity Tax". This article refers to one of the proposed objectives where the basic elements of the system called "Withholding Tax" is achieved., created as an anticipated tax collection mechanism through which obtaining income as the main source for the Public Expenditure of both States is assured. This comparative analysis synthesizes and acknowledges the main characteristics, operation systems and fiscal obligations that the withholding tax system generates for the withholding agents in the development of economic facts not only in Colombia but also in Spain. It also involves the transactions between both countries as an answer to the growing economic opening and the application of an international agreement both for companies, residents, legal and natural persons. This is interesting for the academic and professional community, who may approach the economic and fiscal facts in the competitive environment demanded nowadays.
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE INCOME TAX IN COLOMBIA AND THE ADDED VALUE TAX IN SPAIN
por: AJARDO-CALDERÓN, CONSTANZA LORETH F, et al.
Comparative analysis of income tax for entities (colombia), individuals (spain), and non residents
por: Fajardo Calderón, Constanza Loreth, et al.
Territoriality of withholding taxes in the Industry and Commerce Tax
por: Pérez Madrid, Octavio César
Abuso del derecho en materia societaria: opresión de accionistas y políticas de repartición de utilidades en Colombia
por: Amaya Prieto, Juan Pablo
Dividend Policy and Ownership Structure in Latin America
por: González Ferrero, Maximiliano, et al.


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And no, I had no idea she was going to match the bucket.