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Les Passeports de Polityka (en polonais : Paszport Polityki) sont des prix décernés chaque année par l'hebdomadaire Polityka.

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Depuis 1993, six catégories étaient présentes : littérature, cinéma, théâtre, musique classique, arts visuels et scène.
En 2002, la catégorie création culturelle fut ajoutée, et depuis 2006, la catégorie musique populaire remplace la scène.

Les prix sont décernés en janvier de l'année n+1 (en  pour les prix 2019 par exemple)

Édition 2022
 Cinéma : Jan Holoubek
 Théâtre :
 Littérature :
 Arts visuels :
 Musique populaire : 1988, czyli Przemysław Jankowiak
 Musique classique :
 Culture numérique : Anna i Jakub Górniccy (Outriders)
 Création culturelle :  et Dorota Masłowska

Édition 2021
 Cinéma : Aleksandra Terpińska
 Théâtre :
 Littérature :
 Arts visuels : Jana Shostak et
 Musique populaire : Ralph Kaminski
 Musique classique :
 Culture numérique : Tomasz Konrad Ostafin
 Création culturelle : Katarzyna Nosowska

Édition 2020
 Cinéma : Piotr Domalewski
 Théâtre :
 Littérature :
 Arts visuels :
 Musique populaire : Siksa
 Musique classique :
 Culture numérique : Marta Malinowska
 Création culturelle :  et Lech Janerka
 Culture lointaine : Artur Liebhart

Édition 2019
 Cinéma : Bartosz Bielenia pour son rôle dans La Communion de Jan Komasa
 Théâtre :  pour ses spectacles qui abordent des sujets sociaux importants et suscitent des émotions
 Arts visuels :   pour ses œuvres dans lesquelles le monde apparemment ordonné montre soudainement des fissures, des rayures, un double fond
 Littérature :  pour son regard original sur les années 1980 et 1990 dans le roman "Zimowla"
 Musique classique : Jakub Józef Orliński pour son dernier album "Facce d'amore" et pour la poursuite d'une carrière mondiale bien entamée
 Musique populaire :  pour ses chansons alliant poésie laconique, imagination surréaliste et un sens extraordinaire de la mélodie
 Culture numérique : Dawid Ciślak (Polyslash) pour "We. The Revolution", l'un des commentaires les plus importants à ce jour dans le monde des jeux vidéo
 Création culturelle : Olga Tokarczuk pour la force de la littérature, pour la façon d'écrire, qui fait des livres d'histoire des histoires sur notre monde, pour regarder vers l'avenir, non seulement la littérature mais notre planète, pour un « narrateur sensible », et pour la joie du Prix Nobel, qui était un grand cadeau pour nous en Pologne dans une période difficile

Édition 2018
 Cinéma : Joanna Kulig
 Théâtre : Marta Górnicka
 Arts visuels : Diana Lelonek
 Littérature : Małgorzata Rejmer
 Musique classique : Aleksander Nowak
 Musique populaire : Dawid Podsiadło
 Création numérique : Piotr Barszczewski, Krzysztof Cybulski, Krzysztof Goliński et Jakub Koźniewski

Édition 2017
 Cinéma : Jagoda Szelc
 Théâtre : Michał Borczuch
 Arts visuels : Norman Leto
 Littérature : Marcin Wicha
 Musique classique : Joanna Freszel
 Musique populaire : Hańba!
 Création numérique : Mateusz Lenart, Andrzej Mądrzak, et Wojciech Piejko

Édition 2016
 Cinéma : Jan P. Matuszyński
 Théâtre : Anna Smolar
 Arts visuels : Daniel Rycharski
 Littérature : Natalia Fiedorczuk-Cieślak
 Musique classique : Marzena Diakun
 Musique populaire : Wacław Zimpel
 Création numérique : Michał Staniszewski

Édition 2015
 Cinéma : Magnus von Horn
 Théâtre : Ewelina Marciniak
 Arts visuels : Tymek Borowski
 Littérature : Łukasz Orbitowski
 Musique classique : Marcin Świątkiewicz
 Musique populaire : Kuba Ziołek
 Création culturelle : zespół studia CD Projekt RED

Édition 2014
 Cinéma : Tomasz Kot
 Théâtre :
 Arts visuels : Jakub Woynarowski
 Littérature : Zygmunt Miłoszewski
 Musique classique :
 Musique populaire :
 Création culturelle : Agnieszka Holland
 Prix spécial :

Édition 2013
 Cinéma : Dawid Ogrodnik
 Littérature :
 Musique populaire :
 Musique classique :
 Théâtre :  et
 Arts visuels :
 Création culturelle : Tomasz Stańko

Édition 2012
 Littérature : Szczepan Twardoch
 Film : Marcin Dorociński
 Musique classique : TWOgether Duo
 Musique populaire : Très.b
 Théâtre : Ivan Vyrypaïev
 Arts visuels : Julita Wójcik
 Création culturelle : Elżbieta Penderecka et Krzysztof Penderecki

Édition 2011
 Littérature : Mikołaj Łoziński
 Film : Rafael Lewandowski
 Musique classique : Aleksandra Kuls
 Musique populaire : Maciej Szajkowski et Julia Marcell
 Théâtre : Krzysztof Garbaczewski
 Arts visuels : Nicolas Grospierre
 Création culturelle : Jerzy Jarocki

Édition 2010
 Littérature : Ignacy Karpowicz
 Film : Paweł Sala
 Musique classique : Wioletta Chodowicz
 Musique populaire : Macio Moretti
 Théâtre : Paweł Demirski et Monika Strzępka
 Arts visuels : Wojciech Bąkowski

Édition 2009
 Littérature – Piotr Paziński
 Film – Borys Lankosz et Xawery Żuławski
 Musique classique – Barbara Wysocka
 Musique populaire – L.U.C (Łukasz Rostkowski)
 Théâtre – Sandra Korzeniak
 Arts visuels – Karol Radziszewski
 Création culturelle – Paweł Althamer

Édition 2008
 Littérature – Sylwia Chutnik
 Film – Małgorzata Szumowska
 Musique classique – Artur Ruciński
 Musique populaire – Maria Peszek
 Théâtre – Paweł Łysak
 Arts visuels – Maciej Kurak
 Création culturelle – Krystian Lupa

Édition 2007
 Littérature – Michał Witkowski
 Film – Łukasz Palkowski
 Musique classique – Łukasz Borowicz
 Musique populaire – Krzysztof Grabowsk
 Théâtre – Michał Zadara
 Arts visuels – Joanna Rajkowska
 Création culturelle – Mention spéciale pour Andrzej Wajda

Édition 2006
 Littérature – Jacek Dehnel
 Film – Sławomir Fabicki
 Musique classique – Agata Szymczewska
 Musique populaire – Fisz et Emade
 Théâtre – Maja Kleczewska
 Arts visuels – Grupa Twożywo
 Création culturelle – Maria Janion

Édition 2005
 Littérature – Marek Krajewski
 Film – Przemysław Wojcieszek
 Musique classique – Rafał Blechacz
 Théâtre – Jan Klata
 Arts visuels – Robert Kuśmirowski
 Scène – Skalpel
 Création culturelle – Paweł Dunin-Wąsowicz

Édition 2004
 Littérature – Sławomir Shuty
 Film – Wojciech Smarzowski
 Musique classique – Agata Zubel
 Théâtre – Paweł Szkotak
 Arts visuels – Cezary Bodzianowski
 Scène – Leszek Możdżer
 Création culturelle – Wojciech Trzciński

Édition 2003
 Littérature – Wojciech Kuczok
 Cinéma – Andrzej Jakimowski
 Théâtre – Danuta Stenka
 Musique classique – Kuba Jakowicz
 Arts visuels – Monika Sosnowska
 Scène – Andrzej Smolik
 Création culturelle – Marek Żydowicz

Édition 2002
 Littérature – Dorota Masłowska
 Cinéma – Piotr Trzaskalski
 Théâtre – Krzysztof Warlikowski
 Musique classique – Dominik Połoński
 Arts visuels – Marcin Maciejowski
 Scène – Anna Maria Jopek
 Création culturelle – Roman Gutek

Édition 2001
 Littérature – Paweł Huelle
 Film – Robert Gliński
 Musique classique – Mariusz Treliński
 Théâtre – Piotr Cieplak
 Arts visuels – Katarzyna Józefowicz
 Scène – Agnieszka Chylińska

Édition 2000
 Littérature – Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar
 Cinéma – Maja Ostaszewska
 Théâtre – Paweł Miśkiewicz
 Musique classique – Stanisław Drzewiecki
 Arts visuels – Dominik Lejman
 Scène – Ryszard Tymon Tymański

Édition 1999
 Littérature – Marek Bieńczyk
 Cinéma – Krzysztof Krauze
 Théâtre – Agnieszka Glińska
 Musique classique – Paweł Mykietyn
 Arts visuels – Leon Tarasewicz
 Scène – Myslovitz

Édition 1998
 Littérature – Jerzy Pilch
 Cinéma – Dorota Kędzierzawska
 Théâtre – Grzegorz Jarzyna
 Musique classique – Rafał Kwiatkowski
 Arts visuels – Jarosław Modzelewski
 Scène – Kazik Staszewski

Édition 1997
 Littérature – Andrzej Sapkowski
 Cinéma – Jerzy Stuhr
 Théâtre – Anna Augustynowicz
 Musique classique – Dariusz Paradowski
 Arts visuels – Katarzyna Kozyra
 Scène – Kayah

Édition 1996
 Littérature – Olga Tokarczuk
 Cinéma – Łukasz Kośmicki
 Théâtre – Krzysztof Rau
 Musique classique – Olga Pasiecznik
 Arts visuels – Zofia Kulik
 Scène – Grzegorz Ciechowski

Édition 1995
 Littérature – Stefan Chwin
 Cinéma – Marcel Łoziński
 Théâtre – Jolanta Ptaszyńska
 Musique classique – Stefan Sutkowski
 Arts visuels – Mirosław Bałka
 Scène – Wojciech Waglewski

Édition 1994
 Littérature – Marcin Świetlicki
 Cinéma – Jan Jakub Kolski
 Théâtre – Krystyna Meissner
 Musique classique – Piotr Anderszewski
 Arts visuels – Ryszard Górecki
 Scène – Edyta Bartosiewicz

Édition 1993
 Littérature –
 Cinéma –
 Théâtre –
 Musique classique –
 Arts visuels – Stasys Eidrigevičius
 Scène – Kasia Nosowska

Notes, sources et références

Lien externe
 Page des Passeports du magazine Polityka

Distinction en Pologne
Récompense de théâtre en Pologne
Prix littéraire en Pologne
Récompense de cinéma en Pologne
Récompense musicale en Pologne

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UNH participates in the the New England Board of Higher Education's (NEBHE's) Tuition Break program, which gives New England residents the opportunity to enroll at out-of-state New England public colleges and universities at a discount. Students are eligible for the New England Regional Student Program (RSP) Tuition Break program when they enroll in an approved major that's not offered by the public colleges and universities in their home state. Under this program, admitted graduate students from New England may qualify for regional tuition rates (New Hampshire resident tuition, plus 50 percent).
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European Union (EU) Requested CBI To Join Cyber Security Project Worth $52.5 Billion
European Union (EU) has invited India to participate in a mega cyber security and cyber crime project worth 52.5 billion dollar (Rs 3.62 lakh crore) to secure economic and security interests of various countries globally.
India has been asked to join a select group of nations to be involved in this research and information technology driven innovation project. Apart from US, Brazil and South Africa are other partners of EU in this project that will be kicked off shortly. The project that has counter-terrorism as a key component is likely to be part of a separate pact that EU and India will sign early next month at the twelfth summit between two sides.
As per the proposed pact, India and EU apart from other members would jointly fund as well as research on cyber crime and cyber security issues across the world.
The project is intended to develop protocols and systems for preventing terror attacks physically and on information highway, an external affairs ministry official told Financial Chronicle on condition of anonymity. This massive project to be implemented over next eight years include securing electrical power systems by identifying the vulnerability, put in place defence systems and restoration in case of disruption. The project will also lead to protection of critical defence and civilian economic infrastructure from cyber attacks.
Risk prediction, analysis and reaction to critical infrastructure, is also expected to be put in place through this project. Private, public sector companies and government agencies would be involved in this project. Two rounds of consultation have already been completed between both India and EU on concluding the cyber crime and cyber security pact in February 2012. India and European Union will explore cooperation between CBI and EU's home department for training on tackling cyber crime, establish single point of contact and also do joint research in the mega innovation project.
Categories: cyber-crime , security-news

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HTC Desire Eye Phone, Re Camera Hit AT&T Nov. 7
Pick up the 6-inch Desire Eye smartphone on Friday and get a $50 discount on the 16-megapixel handheld Re camera.
By Stephanie Mlot
HTC's new Desire Eye smartphone and Re camera will arrive on AT&T this Friday.
The 6-inch handset comes in Coral Reef white for $149.99 with a two-year agreement. AT&T is also offering it contract-free for $549.99, or for $0 down on an AT&T Next plan—either $22.92 per month or $27.50 per month.
While you're at it, get a $50 discount on the HTC Re, a $199 16-megapixel camera, with the purchase of the Desire Eye phone (pictured) or HTC One (M8) on a two-year or Next plan through Jan. 8.
HTC unveiled its latest smartphone in October—a plastic-encased device with a 13-megapixel front camera for super-sharp selfies, a MicroSD card slot to supplement the 16GB of storage, and a 5.2-inch, 1080p IPS LCD screen.
But what's a comically large camera without some new photo modes, including Split Capture, which takes photos or videos with the front and rear cameras, then displays them side by side.
Powering features like Photo Booth and "Crop-me-in" is the 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor and a 2400mAh battery.
The Desire Eye is expected to arrive on T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless by the end of the year.
The Re point-and-shoot camera, meanwhile, includes a 16-megapixel camera sensor and 146-degree wide-angle lens. It integrates with your smartphone to automatically back up photos and videos to the cloud. In your choice of white, orange, or blue plastic, the periscope-looking accessory makes it easy to take quick snapshots of your kids or shoot amateur videos of streetscapes.
As PCMag analyst Sascha Segan pointed out last month, the viewfinder-less Re (right) comes with a learning curve.
"I found I had to stay conscious, at least for a little while, of where that big lens was pointing," Segan said. "Take some time to adapt, though, and it's considerably quicker to use than a smartphone or point-and-shoot."
The always-on grip sensor means the gadget automatically wakes up in time to capture the moment. Tap the shutter button once for photos, or press and hold to take videos. The Re syncs with Android and iOS devices, so you're not tethered to HTC's newest handsets for cloud storage.
"Both HTC Desire Eye and Re have many great features that allow you to capture your moments—all on the nation's most reliable 4G LTE network, covering more than 300 million Americans," Jeff Bradley, senior vice president of AT&T's device marketing and developer services, said in a statement.
If you're pining over the Desire Eye's new features, but don't want to shell out the cash for the latest device, HTC promised a bunch of older branded phones will get the "HTC Eye Experience," complete with new camera modes and software to make them more like the new smartphone.
Android and iOS users will also get access to HTC Zoe, the auto-movie-making app that's been in beta for a while.
For more, see PCMag's Hands On With the HTC Desire Eye Phone and Re Camera, as well as the slideshow above.
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Oubre Jr.'s character forged by path he traveled with his dad
/ by Monte Poole
Monte Poole
Though it takes only a few sequences, as Warriors fans have discovered, to see and feel the intensity of Kelly Oubre Jr., understanding what pushes him to emotion's edge and occasionally sends him over requires an illustration of history.
Oubre has, in the parlance, been through it.
See the strife and stigma of early childhood, of living in the Magnolia Housing projects of New Orleans, where respect for life and property can be fleeting. See his father, a single parent, save enough to move to a more comfortable place – only to have Hurricane Katrina bring broad devastation and mass displacement.
Kelly and his father, Kelly Sr., were among thousands of evacuees to land in greater Houston, getting there in dad's silver 2002 Toyota Sequoia, which at times doubled as a home.
"There were nights when we had to hang in the truck," Kelly Sr. says. "But, hey, we had walls around us."
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The truck was perhaps the coziest place for a 9-year-old to sleep with his dad. It was what they had, all they could get, and a clearly better option than the rodent-infested budget hotel that they knew all too well.
"I remember feeling hopeless because I couldn't help my dad financially and I couldn't help him emotionally," Kelly Jr. recalls. "All I could do is just stay strong.
"And that was the time that I really realized that I have to make sure that we'll never feel this pain, and this hurt, again. Our backs were against the wall, and he got us out that time. But I've made sure that we will never have to face that type of adversity ever again."
Kelly Jr. went from New Orleans to Richmond, a southeast suburb of Houston, to Las Vegas. Then to Kansas University in Lawrence. After one season with the Jayhawks, he was first-round pick (No. 15 overall) in the 2015 NBA Draft and signed a four-year rookie contract with the Wizards worth $9.2 million. He was traded to the Suns in December 2018 and six months later signed a two-year contract worth $30 million.
Junior and Senior had a new lifestyle. It was built on lessons from the old lifestyle.
The character tests kept coming and the Oubres kept acing them, displaying the resilience required to remain intact. After settling in Richmond, father and son found some encouraging signs both before and after Kelly Sr. and his wife split up.
"It didn't faze us one bit when she left," Kelly Sr. says. "I still had Kelly. All I wanted was my son. I knew as long as I had him, I didn't have to worry about him. He would be fine, and we would be together. That's all that mattered."
That's the theme of their lives. Kelly Sr. had gained custody when he and Tonya Coleman Oubre divorced in 1999. Junior was 3 years old, and father and son have been each other's support systems and sidekicks for more than two decades.
Kelly Sr. was there when Junior, at age 7, having watched his dad play pickup basketball whenever he could around New Orleans, decided he wanted out of martial arts training and into hoops. The reply dad: Finish what you started, son. Get your black belt. Do that, and you can turn to any sport you want. Junior did it.
Dad was there, having taught his son a few things about basketball, when young 11-year-old Kelly started playing basketball with and against young men in the Houston area. Junior later caught a growth spurt in his mid-teens, growing from 5-foot-6 to 6-foot-4.
Despite working three jobs – selling ads, attaching placards to shopping carts, the late shift at Sam's Club or Home Depot – Senior was there when Junior joined the AAU circuit and began to attract attention from community "scouts" in the Houston area and beyond.
No agents, no runners, no new friends claiming to have the "hookup." No $1,000-dollar handshakes, says Kelly Sr., even though that could have eased the financial strain. Just a father completely devoted to a son, and the two of them developing gifts now evident.
"It was almost like I was robotic," Kelly Sr. says. "Sleep didn't matter to me. It was something I got when I could. I catnapped it for four or five years. I was catching games every chance I got, scouting the competition, taking notes, educating him on tendencies, go-to moves and counters of opponents.
"But we were never victims of anything. That was for somebody else. No. No. Hell no. I don't raise victims because I'm not a victim. I told him that. We're not victims of anything. In New Orleans, we were surviving. In Houston, after a while, we were living."
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After attending private Presbyterian middle school in Houston – 17 students per class, 1-1 student to iPad ratio – thanks to Kelly Sr. writing a hardship letter every year, Junior entered public George Bush High in Richmond and became a basketball star. So much so that after his junior season, father and son made the difficult decision to split for a while.
Senior already had missed most of Junior's summer-league games because he, as the sole provider, couldn't afford to miss work. They settled for daily and nightly conversations. And now he was going to stay in Richmond, while Junior headed to Las Vegas, where he would spend his senior season at national powerhouse Findlay Prep.
"When I talk about it and I start thinking about it, I get emotional because that was tough," Kelly Sr. says. "The Vegas thing was very hard. But I think I was prepped for it because of the summer ball situation for the five years previous."
Dad's mind was eased because a family friend, former NBA player Jerome Williams, was preparing for his first season as head coach at Findlay. Father and son weighed the pros and cons. They saw the growth potential.
Though Kelly Sr. had earned his college degree and teaching credential and had a job, his income was not enough to fund trips to Findlay. He made only one visit, in 2014, to see his son graduate.
"I would talk to him every day," Kelly Sr. says. "And, you know, sometimes it was so detailed. I could hear his voice cracking, and sometimes he could hear mind cracking. But we forged ahead. I was able to lock into his temperament and mannerisms, so it was almost like we were just there with each other the whole time as he was growing."
When national recruiters began circling, Junior would direct them to Senior, who acknowledges his heavy influence. He saw pathways his son did not, including the decision to remain in Texas rather than return to New Orleans, despite a heavy family presence there.
Junior eventually chose Kansas. After attending Late Night at venerable Phog Allen Fieldhouse, he canceled his trip to Kentucky. He was sold on one of the nation's powerhouse programs.
"I never felt nothing like it in my life," Oubre Jr. told the Kansas City Star in 2013. "I pretty much knew. That sealed the deal right there."
After one year at KU, Oubre was drafted by the Hawks and traded to the Wizards in a prearranged draft-night deal. He spent three years in Washington, long enough for Kelly Sr. to move there from Houston, gain employment and start laying the groundwork for his own business. The goal of Beast Developmental is to create a model that prepares parents and children for success in sports. It's designed largely on experience of father and son.
After being traded to the Suns and signing his new contract two years ago, Junior examined his life and realized someone was missing. His father. So, he summoned him to Phoenix. And dad moved from Washington to the desert.
Kelly Sr. will move again soon. Ten days before Christmas, he was cleaning out his son's home in Phoenix after movers had picked up everything for the move to the Bay Area.
"I told the realtor to let's go head and put it on the market," he said. "I guess I'm the 'Ray Donovan' of the operation.
"I'm doing it for him. You know, I love my son with all my heart. I'd cut off both arms for him."
Kelly Jr., who turned 25 on Dec. 9, yearns for a place to lay roots. He got engaged to his girlfriend, Shylyn, a week after Thanksgiving. Even though he'll be a free agent next summer, his life appears to be coming into sharper focus.
Not long after he was acquired by the Warriors on Nov. 22, Junior was asked if he could identify any coaches and teachers who have influenced him. His answer opened a door.
"One person I would say is Kelly Oubre Sr.," he said. "He's the 'Beast Developer.' He's somebody that I just give all the credit to, because he's made the sacrifices. He's put me in positions to be who I am today, to learn the things that I have learned. Although, as an individual I had to learn on my own, growing up, but he's always stuck with me and to this day he's just somebody that's a role model to me.
"He had to sacrifice his basketball career to raise me, so that that's pretty much everything. He could have gone on and played basketball, chased his dream, but he decided to be a full-time father and work and provide. So, I can only just provide for him for as long as i possibly can now."
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Many Americans, particularly those of color, have had to overcome childhood disadvantages and lack of privilege to become successful in sports and other careers. Almost always, it's a testament to character and perseverance.
So, there will be times when you can see young Kelly's fire and feel how much it means. He knows struggle. Has slept with it, seen his father fight it – and defeat it – and never wants to meet it again.


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by: DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press
FILE – In this Oct. 2, 2019 file photo, Gayle King attends "Freestyle Love Supreme" Broadway opening night in New York. Anchors at "CBS This Morning" and "Fox & Friends" return to Manhattan studios as New York City restrictions ease. At most news organizations, the bulk of the behind-the-scenes staff continues to work remotely, and likely will for some time. But CBS' Gayle King, not a fan of working from home, is thrilled to be back. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — The couch is still in storage, but the morning team on "Fox & Friends" returned for the first time Monday to the midtown Manhattan studio vacated in March because of the coronavirus pandemic.
A few blocks west, there was a similar welcome for two-thirds of the "CBS This Morning" hosts, who had taken brief trips to Washington and a New York theater before settling in at home after being chased out on March 18.
"I can't even tell you how good I feel today," said CBS' Gayle King, who made little secret of her distaste for working at home.
Monday represented a key phase in New York City's reopening, with many offices bringing employees back for the first time. Despite the CBS and Fox moves, most news employees continue to work remotely, and the television programs that originate here have a patchwork of approaches that have quickly become familiar.
For instance, ABC's "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir has remained in his upper West Side studio, since he has no guests to interact with on-set. NBC "Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt works from home, while "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O'Donnell works out of the network's Washington bureau.
Although journalists are exempt from stay-at-home orders, most networks have a skeleton crew of behind-the-scenes workers in the office.
CNN's evening lineup, including Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon, do their shows from "flash studios" in New York's Hudson Yards office complex, where they are the only people in the room as they work. Chris Cuomo is similarly back after several weeks confined to his basement with COVID-19.
A majority of the show hosts on MSNBC — including Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist of "Morning Joe" — work remotely.
Fox News' prime-time anchors — Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham — work out of home studios. Martha MacCallum returned to Fox's offices last week, while daytime hosts Bill Hemmer and Ed Henry never left.
While Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade of "Fox & Friends" were in the same studio Monday, they may as well have been in different zip codes: they were stationed behind different desks.
"To be in the building, you need to have a mask on," Doocy said. "We're free not to wear it on the air because we're socially distant."
Doocy last month said that he and his colleagues were not in the same room "because the government won't let us." He later corrected himself to say Fox was simply following government protocols and guidelines.
Other morning shows have varied approaches. ABC's "Good Morning America" has been back in its Times Square studio, but without a live audience and without the immune-compromised Robin Roberts, who works out of her home. Hoda Kotb of NBC's "Today" show has worked out of that show's Rockefeller Center studio, but most of her colleagues are at home.
"CBS This Morning" isn't fully back. Although King and Anthony Mason sat at the same desk on Monday, colleague Tony Dokoupil remained in Brooklyn, where he shares a home studio with his wife, MSNBC's Katy Tur.
"We're all being extra, extra, extra safe," King said. "But we are really thrilled to be here."


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British Adventure Traveler Claire believed that she might enhance her adventure vacation by planning it with the help of someone who lived at her target destination. On previous trips, Claire either cooperated with a local tour company or she hired a local guide upon arrival. For her trip to South Carolina in the United States, she tried something different. Through BritishExpats.com, she made contact with countrymen who live in Charleston, South Carolina.
With their help, she determined to fly over for the final week of Charleston's Spoleto Festival and one of the expats that she contacted offered to guide her while she vacationed in Charleston. She also suggested that Claire break up her trip, to experience "Chuck town," (Charleston) on the front and back ends of her holiday by renting a car for a trip upstate to get at a Carolina peach, freshly harvested from the orchard.
The Carolinians consider the Spoleto festival as a kickoff to tourist season, and while many of the events directly connect with the Italian celebration of the same name, the festival means party long and well. For the well-heeled, Spoleto Charleston provides opera, Shakespearian plays, and opulent balls. For Claire, an open-air jazz festival, dirty dancing in the street, and fireworks juiced her interest in American pub-style fun. She booked her flights with Aer Lingus after she learned that she could get a seat on one of their flights mostly occupied by Spoleto-bound revelers. As she hoped, that group adopted her during the flight, welcoming her to join them to experience as many of the Charleston events that she wanted.
Claire got little sleep in the first few days of Spoleto. She enjoyed a sumptuous dinner before a street party every evening, followed by a main event and fireworks. Up early the following day for a grand southern American breakfast with lots of coffee, Claire toured old town Charleston by carriage and she traveled by boat to Fort Sumter in the harbor. Claire power-napped whenever she could "recharge her batteries," not wanting to miss anything. During her nap on the boat ride back from Fort Sumter, her sleepy head rocked over onto the shoulder of a British Navy Officer who had also traveled to Charleston on the Aer Lingus flight.
Gallantly, he did not wake her until the boat docked. After treating Claire to coffee, he invited her to join him for a tour of a visiting British warship at the Charleston Navy Base. At lunch aboard the ship with the officers and their wives, Claire mentioned her plan to go get a peach, and they all got into that too! Two days later, they whisked her away in a convoy of four cars as the British Navy Couples bulldoze on a "staff ride" to the King's Mountain Battlefield in upstate to pay their respects to Major Patrick Ferguson and his men, British casualties in the American Revolutionary War.
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It all stemmed from a photograph in an old dusty book. The scene was of towering mountains enveloping a verdant river valley, through which Alexander the Great apparently passed 2,300 years ago. Like the photographer, the explorer Sir Aurel Stein, I too wished to wander in the depths of Asia in search of clues to the ancient past.
For more than two thousand years Alexander the Great has excited the imagination of people around the globe. I became fascinated by Alexander some 18 years ago when a history teacher at school unravelled a map of the classical world and traced the outline of his journey with his finger. Who could not be intrigued by a man who inspired his soldiers to march for 12 years, beyond the known ends of the earth. They tramped some 22,000 miles; from Greece all the way to India and back to Babylon. By the time the Macedonian king died at the age of thirty two in 323 BC much of the known world lay beneath his feet.
Having studied his campaign in libraries I wanted to get out on the ground and see how the landscape with its mountains, rivers, and deserts shaped his strategies and determined his route. Geography so often governs history, and I wanted to see it up close for myself. I decided to organise an expedition focusing on Turkey, ancient Asia Minor, retracing his footsteps from the enigmatic city of Troy to the site of the Battle of Issus. What better way than to walk the 2,000 miles, travelling at the marching speed of his army and experience something of the physical rigours he faced. I wanted to behold the monumental ruins of cities he visited or attacked, and to search for ancient roads, upon which his soldiers trekked. It took Alexander and his 40,000 soldiers eighteen months to reach Issus. I would refrain from fighting battles, besieging towns, and the occasional spot of pillaging, and so hoped to complete the route in some twenty weeks, covering about fifteen miles a day.
Turkey is a veritable treasure trove for those enthralled by Alexander. First stop should be Istanbul's magnificent archaeological museum. There, pride of place, stands the Alexander sarcophagus. This was not Alexander's personal coffin, the whereabouts of which has been hotly debated. Instead this tomb was excavated at Sidon and probably belonged to Abdalonymus, a mere gardener who was appointed as the local ruler by Alexander. In death as in life he wanted to show his continuing respect for his overlord, and so had Alexander depicted on his tomb.
To marvel properly at one of the finest pieces of craftsmanship from the ancient world you really do have to drop to your knees. Carved in lustrous white marble, the sides are adorned with reliefs of battles and hunts charged with energy and grace. If one looks carefully, it's possible to see the remnants of painted colours that highlighted the figures all the more, and the tiny holes where once tiny spears and swords were carefully positioned. One side shows Alexander at the hunt, a popular pastime amongst the Macedonian nobility and one of Alexander's favourite pleasures. On another is Alexander at war, astride his trusty steed Bucephalas, rearing up on muscular legs above a fallen Persian horseman. The king himself, his head encased in a lion helmet, symbol of Hercules, stretches his right arm back over his shoulder with spear at the ready.
It was in the spring of 334BC that Alexander embarked on his epic expedition to overthrow the Persian empire. As he sailed from the Gallipoli peninsula across the Hellespont, the modern Dardanelles, he stopped mid way to sacrifice a bull and pour libations from a golden cup to placate Poseidon and the ocean. Then, dressed in full armour at the prow of the royal trireme, always a king with a showman's instincts, he hurled his spear into the soil claiming the continent as his, won by right of conquest. Needless to say he was the first to jump from his ship and set foot on the sands of Asia.
When I visited Troy the start-point of my walk, I felt rather like many travellers first exploring the site, confused and a little disappointed. There are no great colonnaded streets decked with marbles and mosaics to inspire awe, instead you have to let your imagination fly and let ancient myths consume your thoughts. This is what Alexander did almost immediately after arriving in Asia Minor. He stripped naked, anointed himself with oil, and ran to place a garland on the tomb of Achilles. It was a symbolic gesture, the new great warrior paying homage to his own personal hero, who had fought a thousand years before Alexander (if there is any truth in Homer's story of the Trojan war). Next, having climbed up to the temple of Athena, he donated his own suit of armour and was given in return the finest relics from heroic times, including Achilles' celebrated five layer shield, which was to save Alexander's life during a siege in India.
My walk began in March and as I walked inland I shivered my way through hills decked in snow. Thankfully welcoming villagers were on hand calling me into their tea houses, plying me with hot cocoa, and presenting me with a cornucopia of tasty treats. Heading south having already worn out one pair of boots, I reached Ephesus. While Troy requires a leap of faith, this city needs no effort at all to bring its ruins to life. Although almost all of what can be seen today is Roman, dating to the time when the city was the capital of the province of Asia, it was an important city hundreds of years before when Alexander marched through.
In Alexander's wake I visited the Temple of Artemis, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. Coincidentally it was burned down by a madman the night that Alexander was born. Nowadays the temple stands forlorn and melancholy. Just one column rises full above the swampy ground. It's hard at first to see in the sparse ruins one of the greatest buildings ever built, but the sheer length of it offers the first easy clue. Since so many buildings in antiquity were frequently damaged then rebuilt, or in a state of construction for centuries, I find it quite refreshing to see a celebrated temple left plain and unreconstructed. Alexander offered to defray all the costs that had been incurred in the rebuilding of the temple on the proviso that they would dedicate it in his name, but the citizens of Ephesus politely declined his attempt at PR and propaganda 'because it did not befit one god to do honour to another'. Not far south, however, he found a far more willing recipient for his largesse. The town of Priene, always a poor cousin to Ephesus, was only too glad to take his cash and allow him to dedicate their new temple to Athena.
Today Priene stands like a veritable time capsule to the Hellenistic period following Alexander. Designed on a rigid Hippodamian grid square pattern, named after the architect from nearby Miletus, the stepped streets march up the steep hillside almost oblivious of the geography, to Athena's temple. Standing here, looking out on a breathtaking panorama high above the vast alluvial plain of the Maeander River, the passage of time is instantly obvious. 2,300 years ago, all the land below was sea. Islands which were once witness to great naval battles are now mere bumps in a seemingly endless flat. Yet strolling around Priene, almost always empty of tourists, it's almost possible to hear the marching feet of Macedonian soldiers amongst the sound of cicadas.
Heading further south, Alexander reached Halicarnassus, the glistening capital of the Hecatomnid dynasty, built on a lavish scale by Mausolus, whose tomb, the 'Mausoleum', was ranked as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It was also a key naval base occupied by the Persians, who manned the city's 6.5kms of fortifications. These giant walls, bristling with towers, were a technological masterpiece and only a few decades old. They still snake their way over the hillsides above Bodrum. One can get a real sense of their majesty at the Myndos gate on the west, which stands well preserved and resolute not far from a newly built supermarket.
As big and strong as they were, Halicarnassus' walls were built to defend in a bygone age. For Alexander was equipped with a new type of weapon, the torsion catapult. Designed by engineers at the court of Philip, his father, it was powered by animal sinews that could unleash far more power than anything previously seen. Until then siege warfare had generally been a case of surrounding a town and starving it out. Now a new arms race had begun. With these catapults Alexander could actually knock down walls, and literally smash any cities that stood in his way. One can almost imagine the look on the faces of the Persian generals, encamped in Mausolus' old palace probably beneath the city's Crusadar castle, as Alexander's troops wheeled up siege towers several stories high, and let rip the first volley of stone boulders.
Three months into my expedition, I walked through the depths of central Anatolia, a never-ending patchwork of wheat fields, to the city of Gordium. Situated on the Persian Royal Road just west of Ankara, this was the capital of Phrygia, a kingdom founded by Gordius in the 8th century BC. It was expanded by his celebrated son, Midas, whose touch according to legend turned everything to gold. It was here that one of the most celebrated moments in Alexander's career occurred. Alexander was attracted by the story surrounding a ceremonial chariot that marked Gordius' grave. The wagon's yoke was attached by a knot no man had ever been able to undo. Not unlike the story of Arthur and the sword in the stone, people believed that whoever undid the knot would become Lord of all Asia. Surrounded by a crowd of onlookers Alexander struggled to loose the knot. Growing frustrated he drew his sword and slashed through it. Apparently Zeus himself approved of Alexander's actions, for "there were thunderclaps and flashes of lightning that very night".
In the baking heat of August, I headed southeast via Cappadocia, across the Taurus mountains, and on past Tarsus. Where the coast of Turkey turns south to the east of Adana, a great mound lies, excavated in recent times. This earthen 'huyuk', like many scattered around this part of the world, marks an ancient settlement, in this case, the town of Issus. It was here that Alexander left his sick and injured soldiers before moving south hot on the trail of the Persian Great King, Darius. Unbeknownst to Alexander, however, Darius's army was actually wheeling around behind him. When Darius reached Issus, he cut off the hands of the Macedonian sick he found there.
Today the area is far removed from its ancient past, an industrial zone crammed with smoking factories. But it was here that one of the most significant battles in history was fought. On the banks of a small river, Alexander assembled his force. He had chosen the site carefully, a narrow plain hemmed between mountains and sea, to prevent the Persians from using their vastly greater numbers. I remember walking around the area, armed with the ancient writers who described the battle, trying to make sense of the landscape.
As was usual, Alexander himself led the charge at the head of his finest cavalry, a true leader who showed his men the way. He aimed right at the heart of the opposing army to Darius himself. The scene is immortalised in a mosaic found at Pompeii. Alexander gallops steely eyed straight for the Persian Great King, who turns tail and flees as fast as he can. One of the ancient authors, Diodorus Siculus, wrote: "More than achieving victory over the Persians, Alexander wished to be the personal instrument of victory" It is a telling insight into the nature and personality of this legendary figure.
My walk finished just a few miles south of the site of the battle at the city of Iskenderun, named after a city Alexander founded here in commemoration of the battle. Four and a half months and 2,000 miles after setting off on foot from Troy, I could not believe my journey had finished. The myriad ancient cities I had seen were embedded in my memory, but what remains foremost in my mind is the sincere friendship of the Turkish people, extended constantly to a weary traveller far from home. Every single day I was welcomed into their homes and showered with kindness and hospitality. Though just a brief affair, it was passionate in the extreme, and left me madly in love with the land that is Turkey.
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This VLOG covers the kit I use on my cycle touring adventures. This choice of kit has been inspired by over c.6000 km of cycle touring, including a 3700km cycle across South America. This kit is for those who want to be lightweight, compact and comfortable!
I will follow this VLOG with an overview of the clothing I took with me..
Bike: Genesis – Croix de Fer – https://www.cyclesurgery.com/p/genesis-tour-de-fer-10-2018-Q2514057.html?colour=4525
Handlebar bag: Ortlieb Handlebar Roll – https://www.cyclesurgery.com/p/ortlieb-handlebar-pack-ps21r-P4214083.html?colour=123
Seat bag: Ortlieb Seat Bag 11L – https://www.cyclesurgery.com/p/ortlieb-seat-pack-11l-P4224120.html?colour=123
Pannier rack: Tortec Tour Rear Rack – https://www.cyclesurgery.com/p/tortec-tour-rear-rack-with-spring-clip-P4314058.html?colour=124
Panniers (if want more space): Ortleib Back Roller pair – https://www.cyclesurgery.com/p/ortlieb-back-roller-classic-bag-40-litre-pair-P4114098.html?colour=3524
Lock: ABUS Bordo U Grip – https://www.cyclesurgery.com/p/abus-bordo-u-grip-5700-P5240002.html?colour=124
Mudguards: SKS Mudguards – https://www.cyclesurgery.com/p/sks-chromoplastic-mudguards-P5544018.html?colour=124
Lights: Lezyne Zecto Drive: https://www.cyclesurgery.com/p/lezyne-zecto-drive-250-80-light-set-P5134077.html?colour=124
Bottle cage: Lezyne CNC cage – https://www.cyclesurgery.com/p/lezyne-cnc-cage-P5524050.html?colour=124
Adjustable bottle cage: Topeak Cage – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Topeak-Modula-Java-Bottle-Cage/dp/B004NQ94EK/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1539106858&sr=8-13&keywords=Bottle+cage+adjustable
Battery: Powertraveller Powergorilla – https://www.powertraveller.com/en/shop/portable-chargers/professional/powergorilla-now-24000mah/
Solar Charger: Powertraveller Falcon 21 – https://www.powertraveller.com/en/shop/portable-chargers/outdoor-adventure/falcon-21/
Video recorder: Go Pro Hero 7 – https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/gopro-hero7-black-free-32gb-microsd-card-EA414093.html?colour=180
Phone: Land Rover Explore – https://landroverexplore.com/explore-outdoor-phone/
Phone Bike mount: https://landroverexplore.com/explore-outdoor-phone/packs-accessories/
Tent: Vango Helium 100 – https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/vango-helium-ul-1-tent-D1214008.html
Alternative Tent – Terra Nova Laser Pulse 1 – https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/terra-nova-laser-pulse-1-tent-D1214015.html?colour=98
Sleeping bag: Vango Ultralite Pro 100 – https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/vango-ultralite-pro-100-sleeping-bag-D2224018.html?colour=136
Sleeping mat: Thermarest NeoAir – https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/therm-a-rest-neoair-xlite-sleeping-mat-regular-D2424185.html?colour=151
Sleeping bag liner – Blue Mountain Polycotton Sleeping bag liner – https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/blue-mountain-mummy-shaped-liner-pc-D2524182.html?colour=108
Towel: Lifeventure Travel Towel – https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/lifeventure-micro-fibre-comfort-travel-towel-large-E7414091.html?colour=108
Cooking pot: GSI Haulite Minimalist Cook Set – https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/gsi-outdoors-halulite-minimalist-cook-set-D3312031.html?colour=180
Stove: Robens Midge stove – https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/robens-fire-midge-stove-titanium-D3212187.html?colour=180
Stove gas – Jetboil 100g – https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/jetboil-jetpower-fuel-100g-D3512033.html?colour=180
Spork: https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/light-my-fire-spork-tritan-transparent-D3422045.html?colour=108
Cup: X-Cup – https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/sea-to-summit-x-mug-D3432040.html?colour=157
Bowl: Sea to Summit XL Bowl – https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/sea-to-summit-xl-bowl-D3414025.html?colour=108
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Home/Middle Orient/Al Qaeda kills 10 in Baghdad, mortars hit Green Zone
Al Qaeda kills 10 in Baghdad, mortars hit Green Zone
Al Qaeda fighters killed at least eight police in southern Baghdad on Thursday, raking them with machinegun fire from a stolen Iraqi army vehicle, police said.Separately, police said insurgents fired 10 mortar bombs at Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone just before dusk, in attacks coinciding with the US Thanksgiving holiday.
A Reuters witness said he saw what appeared to be a body hanging from a damaged minibus in the zone, which houses the US embassy and many government ministries. Police said there were casualties, but had no details.
The eruption of violence ran against the trend of a sharp drop in attacks in recent months.
Al Qaeda in Iraq fighters opened fire on a neighbourhood police patrol in the Hawr Rajab area of Baghdad, a mainly Sunni Arab area, approaching in at least one of two vehicles they had stolen after shooting at least two Iraqi soldiers.
An interior ministry official confirmed that eight "Awakening Council" police patrol members had been killed. He said three Iraqi soldiers were killed and another three were wounded, and that two Al Qaeda gunmen had also been killed.
The US military said in a statement that two Al Qaeda fighters were killed and two wounded when helicopters attacked the vehicle. It said a US F-16 warplane then dropped a 500-pound bomb on the vehicle.
Mortar and rocket attacks on the Green Zone were almost a daily occurrence earlier this year but have fallen off dramatically, along with overall declines in levels of violence in Baghdad and elsewhere.
The falls in attacks have been attributed to a "surge" of 30,000 extra US troops, which became fully operational in mid-June, and the growing use of neighbourhood police units. Mainly Sunni Arab tribal sheikhs have been organising young men into the local police units, known as concerned local citizens, to drive out Sunni Islamist Al Qaeda.
Vehicles seized
Police at Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital said two Iraqi army "humvee" vehicles had been seized at the start of the attack at Hawr Rajab. The police patrol did not challenge the occupants because they took them for soldiers.
The bodies of eight of the patrol and two soldiers were taken to the Yarmouk Hospital in western Baghdad, Iraqi police said. Another four were wounded. Reuters Television footage showed several coffins being loaded onto the back of a police truck to be taken to hospital. Another was tied to the top of a dilapidated car.
A young woman and two toddlers, one of them crying, sat on the ground next to one simple wooden coffin.
Separately, Iraqi soldiers supported by US forces killed 19 Al Qaeda fighters north of the city of Baqouba, Major-General Abdul-Karim Rubaie, the head of Iraqi military operations in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, told Reuters.
Al Qaeda fighters were killed in an area controlled by the Al Qaeda-linked group Islamic State in Iraq, he said. Two members of a neighbourhood police unit there were killed in the operation and another three were wounded.
The neighbourhood patrols, backed by the US military as part of a counterinsurgency strategy, were pioneered last year in western Anbar, once the most dangerous province, and are spreading through other areas.
Attacks on such units are common but Thursday's bold assault was one of the biggest yet in Baghdad.
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Q: Asp.Net core how can I replace the Configuration Manager I am new to ASP.NET Core RC2 and I was wondering how can I get some configuration settings and apply it to my method. For Instance in my appsettings.jsonI have this specific setting
"ConnectionStrings": {
    "DefaultConnection":
        "Server=localhost;User Id=postgres;port=5432;Password=castro666;Database=dbname;"
  }

In my Controller every time I want to query the database I have to use this setup
 using (var conn =
     new NpgsqlConnection(
         "Server=localhost;User Id=postgres;port=5432;Password=castro666;Database=dbname;"))
 {
     conn.Open();
 }

The obvious pitfull here is that if I want to add more to the configuration I have to change every single instance of that method. My question is how can I get the DefaultConnection in the appsettings.json so that I can do something like this
 using (var conn =
     new NpgsqlConnection(
         ConfigurationManager["DefaultConnection"))
 {
     conn.Open();
 }

A: ConfigurationManager.AppSettings is available in .NET Core 2.0 after referencing NuGet package System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager

A: In ASP.NET Core there are a lot of options you can use to access the configuration. It seems like if you're interesting it accessing the DefaultConnection you'd be better off using the DI approach. In order to ensure that you can use constructor dependency injection we have to correctly configure a few things in our Startup.cs.
public IConfigurationRoot Configuration { get; }

public Startup(IHostingEnvironment env)
{
    var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
        .SetBasePath(env.ContentRootPath)
        .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", optional: false, reloadOnChange: true)
        .AddJsonFile($"appsettings.{env.EnvironmentName}.json", optional: true)
        .AddEnvironmentVariables();

    Configuration = builder.Build();
}

We have now read our configuration JSON from the builder and assigned it to our Configuration instance. Now, we'll need to configure it for dependency injection - so let's start by creating a simple POCO to hold the connection string.
public class ConnectionStrings
{
    public string DefaultConnection { get; set; }
}

We are implementing the "Options Pattern" where we bind strongly-typed classes to configuration segments. Now, in ConfigureServices do this:
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    // Setup options with DI
    services.AddOptions();

    // Configure ConnectionStrings using config
    services.Configure<ConnectionStrings>(Configuration);
}

Now that this is all in place, we can simply require the constructor of the class to take on the IOptions<ConnectionStrings> and we'll be given a materialized instance of the class containing the configuration values.
public class MyController : Controller
{
    private readonly ConnectionStrings _connectionStrings;

    public MyController(IOptions<ConnectionString> options)
    {
        _connectionStrings = options.Value;
    }

    public IActionResult Get()
    {
        // Use the _connectionStrings instance now...
        using (var conn = new NpgsqlConnection(_connectionStrings.DefaultConnection))
        {
            conn.Open();
            // Omitted for brevity...
        }
    }
}

Here is the official documentation which I always suggest as a must read.

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Місцеві вибори у Херсонській області 2020 — вибори депутатів Херсонської обласної ради, районних рад, Херсонської міської ради та вибори Херсонського міського голови, що відбулися 25 жовтня 2020 року в рамках проведення місцевих виборів у всій країні.

Вибори мера

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I тур

II тур
Мером міста було обрано Ігоря Колихаєва, народного депутата ВРУ IX скл. від партії «За майбутнє».

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Вибори до обласної ради

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Події 25 жовтня
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Part of getting the best care for a loved one is making sure that you coordinate with the home care services organization or agency. Unless your loved one requires around the clock, live-in care, then the in home care service provider who will be working with your loved one is going to arrive at some point during the day and then leave a few hours later. They might only be required to visit with your elderly loved one a few days a week, too.
That's why it's a good idea to sit down with the in home care service provider and coordinate the care that will be administered to your loved one. You may think that you're just going to be checking in on your mother every couple of days, or once every morning, but what if she requires some level of assistance that the in home health care services professional provides to her? What if the in home care provider is expecting that you will be doing some of the same things for your mother that she is providing?
If the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing, as the old proverb goes, then you could end up working against the in home care service provider without even knowing it.
In order to get the best care for your loved one, and in order to know just what their caregiver is doing for them and what they may be expecting from you, it's important to have a constant dialogue going with this caregiver. This doesn't mean that you have to talk to them every day, but you should sit down with them at least once during a time when they are there with your loved one providing care and find out what they do and what your mother requires.
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After Charter of Wilmington and Salesianum both finished Saturday's Division I championship meet at White Clay Creek State Park with 39 points, the Sals' sixth runner, Asa Bloom, became the most important man on the course, his 15th place finish breaking the deadlock.
On a day when three runners broke the 16-year-old course record, three teams sought statewide supremacy. Charter, coming off its first New Castle County championship, was leading yesterday's Division I meet by five points as the runners headed into the last mile. At that point, Salesianum accelerated.
The Sals, who edged Tatnall on a similar tie-breaker to win the season's other major meet, the Joe O'Neill Invitational, pushed five runners into the top 12. Andrew Hally (3rd), Kyle Jones (9th) and Tim Bouchard (10th) passed rivals down the stretch. With Thomas Higley holding fifth and George Steinhoff in 12th, they tied Charter.
Bloom, who would have been the best runner on 13 of the 17 other teams, is Salesianum's sixth runner. His superior sixth-place finish gave Salesianum the Joe O'Neill title over Tatnall and yesterday yielded the Sentinels' 40th Division I title over 46 years.
Charter's Kieran Tuntivate (15:50) concluded his undefeated season in state, bolting ahead of teammate Kevin Murray (15:57) in the last 1,200 yards.
"I'm proud of the season," said Tuntivate after word of the tiebreaker spread. "It's an unfortunate end, but it's a really successful season – for coach [Rick] Schuder, for me personally and for every member of the team. Kevin and I do our part. Everyone else does their part. Our 3-4-5 guys are good 3-4-5 guys. Sallies just stepped it up."
"It came down to the last straightaway," said Hally, who blossomed from junior varsity to all-state in one year. "We had run a couple of 400s here, so we knew what we had to do.
"It's nice having a team with a solid seven, where any day anything can happen. I don't think we've had the same order of kids this year."
"We didn't have that one top guy guaranteed to finish first like Pat [Hally] last year," said Higley. "It's been getting that one through five time as close as possible."
Jarod Wilson (4th) and Daniel Mwaniki (7th) led third-place Newark. Chris Avila (6th) of Charter and Sam Hete of Sussex Tech (9th) also made the top 10.
Behind Stephen Garrett, who won his second Division II championship in 15:37, breaking Eric Eckstrand's 1998 course record by 20 seconds, young Tatnall won its sixth straight Division II title, taking five of the top seven places to finish with 20 points, the best Division II score ever.
Garrett's principal competition was his brother Joey, who finished second. "I was looking 1,000 meters in and saw my brother running with me," said Garrett, who plans to run at Duke next year. It gave me such a boost. Going up to the hill, I said come on, lets go. It's a great feeling to have teammates working with you."
"I wanted to stay with Stephen," said Joey Garrett. "The rest of the team wanted to follow suit."
Brad Keen (4th), Michael Flanagan (6th), Ryan Pala (7th), Noah McFoy (12th) and Adam McFoy (15th) gave Tatnall overwhelming depth.
Brandywine's Eamon McCoy (3rd) led Blue Hen Conference runners. Kyle Swain (9th) led fifth-place Delaware Military. Eddie Leonard (10th) paced Archmere to fourth.
Brendan Harris (5th) and Hudson Pepper (8th) led runner-up Tower Hill to its best finish in 30 years.
"The word's getting around. We've actually have kids coming out to support us," said the Hillers' Andrew Capodanno.
DIAA Boys Cross Country State Championships
BOYS DIVISION I
Team results: 1, Salesianum, 39; 2, Charter, 39; 3, Newark, 82; 4, Caesar Rodney, 138; 5, Sussex Tech, 153; 6, Middletown, 182; 7, Appoquinimink, 211; 8, A.I. duPont, 247; 9, Glasgow, 290; 10, Dover, 302; 11, William Penn, 313; 12, St. Mark's, 317; 13, Concord, 337; 14, Smyrna, 355; 15, Polytech, 371; 16, Cape Henlopen, 405; 17, Sussex Centra, l, 503; 18, Delcastle, 553
Top 20 individual finishers: 1, Kieran Tuntivate, Charter, 15:50.6; 2, Murray, Charter, 15:57.6; 3, Hally, Salesianum, 16:15.4; 4, Wilson, Newark, 16:16.9; 5, Higley, Salesianum, 16:25.9; 6, Avila, Charter, 16:34.3; 7, Mwaniki, Newark, 16:43.0; 8, Hete, Sussex Tech, 16:46.9; 9, Jones, Salesianum, 16:47.2; 10, Bouchard, Salesianum, 16:47.5; 11, Williamson, Charter, 17:00.6; 12, Steinhoff, Salesianum, 17:01.2; 13, Krewson, Caesar Rodney, 17:07.3; 14, Bamforth, Sussex Tech, 17:08.7; 15, Bloom, Salesianum, 17:10.0; 16, Holveck, Newark, 17:14.7; 17, Smith, Newark, 17:22.8; 18, Twining, Caesar Rodney, 17:23.7; 19, Carlozzi, Charter, 17:31.2; 20, Parker, Salesianum, 17:37.5
BOYS DIVISION II
Team results: 1, Tatnall, 20; 2, Tower Hill, 106; 3, Archmere, 123; 4, Delaware Military Academy, 133; 5, St. Andrew's, 139; 6, Caravel, 155; 7, Sanford, 249; 8, Conrad, 269; 9, Lake Forest, 271; 10, Wilmington Friends, 300; 11, Brandywine, 336; 12, Hodgson, 337; 13, Mt. Pleasant, 358; 14, Indian River, 419; 15, Milford, 420; 16, St. Elizabeth, 431; 17, St. Georges, 432; 18, Wilmington Christian, 440; 19, Christiana, 533; 20, Red Lion Christian, 538; 21, St. Thomas More, 634; 22, McKean, 677; 23, Seaford, 681; 24, Howard, 685; 25, Delmarva Christian, 700
Top 20 individual finishers: 1, Stephen Garrett, Tatnall, 15:37.3; 2, J. Garrett, Tatnall, 16:09.4; 3, McCoy, Brandywine, 16:22.6; 4, Keen, Tatnall, 16:50.6; 5, Harris, Tower Hill, 16:51.4; 6, Flanagan, Tatnall, 17:00.1; 7, Pala, Tatnall, 17:00.8; 8, Pepper, Tower Hill, 17:06.9; 9, Swain, DMA, 17:09.7; 10, Leonard, Archmere, 17:19.3; 11, Puharic, Caravel, 17:24.0; 12, N. McFoy, Tatnall, 17:29.4; 13, Collins, Red Lion Christian, 17:33.2; 14, Jordan, Archmere, 17:34.0; 15, A. McFoy, Tatnall, 17:40.7; 16, Harris, Lake Forest, 17:48.4; 17, Marsh, Conrad Schoo, 17:55.0; 18, Cobb, St. Andrew's, 17:56.4; 19, Angelini, DMA, 17:57.4; 20, Pincus, Wilmington Friends, 17:57.8


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Maldives to join global partners in taking action against new COVID variant 'Omicron'
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih/ Photo: President's Office
The Maldives is set to join its global partners in taking action against the new COVID variant 'Omicron' as fears mount about another potential wave of the COVID pandemic.
In a tweet, President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih said that the news of a new Covid variant, Omicron is of great concern to the Maldives.
He said that the Technical Advisory Group is meeting today to decide on possible precautionary measures.
https://twitter.com/ibusolih/status/1464474443015606274
The President also said that the Maldives is administering booster vaccine shots to ages 50 and above
He said that booster shots for healthcare, tourism, and airport frontline staff will start this week.
The President noted that the booster program for the general population will commence in mid-December.
He urged those to get their booster shots as soon as possible.
The words from the President came as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a new coronavirus variant to be "of concern" and named it Omicron.
WHO said that it had a large number of mutations, and early evidence suggested an increased reinfection risk,
It was first reported to the WHO from South Africa on 24 November and has also been identified in Botswana, Belgium, Hong Kong, and Israel.
A number of countries around the world have now decided to ban or restrict travel to and from southern Africa.
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My girls and I stayed at the All Star Sports resort for our Spring Break - the week before Easter. Since our trip was a few weeks before my youngest's birthday, I let her pick which All Star resort we'd stay at - and she picked Sports. Actually, I am not really sure why she picked it. She does play tennis - but sports are really not her thing.
We arrived on Monday afternoon knowing that the parks and the resorts would be really full because of the upcoming holiday. But I was not prepared for the number of sports teams that were at the resort. I know that this is the resort that lots of teams use when they come to compete at Disney. But I really thought that this week would be more about families. Ah - live and learn!
We had booked a preferred room which is in the "Surf's Up" section. What does a preferred room mean? It just means a location that is convenient to the food court, main pool, and the bus stops. Preferred rooms are wonderful after a long day at the park and your feet don't think they can go another step. Your preferred room is close by - while your standard room may require a hike. However, preferred rooms are often far away from the parking lot - which we discovered as we schlepped all our luggage from the van to our preferred room!
So, let's check out the resort. If you are looking for a resort that is high energy, larger than life, and full of wonder, then the value resorts are the place for you. All Star Sports carries that theme throughout all the sport icons and sections.
3. When you share buses with the other All Star resorts, Sports if the first to pick up and the first to drop off.
1. With all the sport groups that stay here, you end up with lots of teens and very little adult supervision. And that lack supervision/adults leads to things like my own children being bullied on the bus by a group of teen girls.
2. Again, with lots of sports teams, they travel in packs - and that could make for long waits in the food court, at check-in, at the buses.
4. Another issue is that All Star Sports is unlike all the other resorts (all the other values - including the other all star values, and all the other moderates) - there is NO privacy curtain separating the sink area from the rest of the room. So, if you want to get ready in the morning without waking everyone up with the lights, you are out of luck.
Overall, it's not a resort that I would stay at again. It's not a resort that I'd recommend to my clients unless the sporting theme was just a must-have. For our experience, the lack of supervision of the sports teams really clouded our experience and made the resort not as friendly to families. Instead, I'd suggest the other All Stars and Pop Century as great alternatives!
So...what about you? Have you had a good experience at All Star Sports? Do you have a favorite value resort?
That looks fun! I'm pretty sure we're staying at Pop Century when we go.
So sorry that your girls were bullied! I had no interest in ever staying at this resort, so now I'm really not interested. I enjoyed Pop Century and All Star Movies. However, I'm really itching to stay at Art of Animation now!
The themes and designs are awesome, but I don't know, just doesn't sound like a pleasant experience.


Retail: It goes to prove that the best rock documentaries are not fist-pumping celebrations of triumph but dark sagas of bitter rivalries and missed opportunities. Like Dig, like End of the Century, loudQUIETloud is a sad and beautiful ruin.
When the Pixies reformed, they invited a film crew to join them for the ride. Frank Black talks to Xan Brooks about the train-wreck of a tour that followed.
The Pixies were a bunch of mavericks who in the late 1980s changed the face of modern rock before imploding - the band not big enough for its two star players. So what finally brought them back together 11 years later? They talk candidly to Laura Barton.
Pop CD of the week: Honeycomb proves that Frank Black isn't living on past glories alone.


75 Australian and international photographers were awarded for their photgrpahs in the categories of Monochrome Prints, Colour Prints, Nature Prints, Open Projected Images and Nature Projected Images. More than 500 photographers entered.
An exhibition of the accepted works will be displayed during the Show in the Arts and Crafts Pavillion.


This Hyper Coupler has an 8mm round bore on one end and a 6mm D-bore on the other. While it has many uses, one common one is to join the 6mm D-shaft of a motor to an 8mm lead screw. Given the length of the coupler, there's a considerable amount of surface contact between the outer profile of the 8mm lead screw and the internal bore of the coupler to create a solid connection.


Last year, I had achieved my Google Analytics Individual Qualification Certification with 84% marks. I know, I just crossed the passing score of 80% with a little margin but I am glad that I followed the basic principles required to clear any examination. For last few days, I was being asked to share my tips about this so here is my first post in this direction.
It was really a fun and exciting at the same time when I felt that now I should take this exam. I was using Google Analytics for my own blog and some other relevant sites to my work as I manage them but I was not utilizing the full features of Google Analytics and it was always a wonderful application beyond its dashboard so I decided to take time to study this and to learn more about it.
Approx. 2 weeks before to the exam, I started planning to take this exam. If I would have given more time to myself, I am sure I could have achieved more than 90% easily because I skipped some of the most common but advanced sections which took out some of my marks 🙁 – anyway, here is my view about Google Analytics and certification exam.
Why do I want to take this exam? or What is my goal by getting certified?
– If this is nothing more than a certification to add in the resume for you then please avoid taking this exam as it won't help you much then. It is a dedicated course/program for Google Analytics only and if you are really interested or working in the similar areas, it is useful for you else not.
Where can I find study material to prepare for Google Analytics certification program?
– You can find more details about the certification study material at Google Analytics Learning Center. Google has compiled a list of video presentations to make understanding of concepts really easier.
Share the link for Google Test Center.
– You can find Google Test Center at http://google.starttest.com/. Please note that you would need to create a new ID for this, your default google or gmail account login won't work here. You can use this link to find existing certified professionals too.
– Although there are no mandatory requirements to fulfill (except a focused mind and some time to prepare) yet it is advisable that you have a Google Analytics account and a test site to play with the data capturing methods and reports. You would be able to find a checklist to setup and learn the uses of Google Analytics here.
Click here to Visit Google Analytics Learning Center page which has a series of video presentations which are really helpful to understand Google Analytics, its uses and lot more about it. It is not only useful to clear the exam but very useful to learn effective use of Google Analytics for your use.
I found out easily that there are approximately 240 minutes of videos so I divided my week time for relevant sections and I started watching videos and taking quick notes from the videos. Kindly make sure to follow this as there will be many simple questions which will be hidden in these videos 🙂 and you can simply crack them if you take notes properly. I have my notes ready so I will try to share them in some other post as possible.
I distributed my time to do one hour study daily (to make approx. 14 hours of study in two weeks keeping in my mind that there are only 4 hours of video to actually refer), it allowed me to take notes in enough time as well as to revise notes and videos.
I distributed my time in 3 major parts i.e.
Make sure to revise all the videos with your notes at least one day in advance to your test date.
Once you complete the exam successfully, don't forget to refer to those videos and notes as it will really save your time and will help over and over again.
This is my story. I am eager to know yours too. Please share your story and experience with me, use comment box below and let me know how did you make this possible 🙂 Cheers!
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