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Jackman in 2011, photo by Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Hugh Michael Jackman
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Birth: 12 October, 1968
*62.5% English
*25% Scottish
*12.5% Greek
Hugh Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. He is known for his roles as Wolverine in the X-Men films, and for starring in Swordfish, The Prestige, and Australia, among many other films. Hugh was selected People Magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 2008. He is the first Australian-born man to have been given this title by the magazine (Chris Hemsworth, in 2014, is the second).
His parents, Grace McNeil (Greenwood) and Christopher John Jackman, were born in England. One of Hugh's paternal great-grandfathers was Greek, and Hugh's maternal grandmother was of Scottish descent. Most of or all of the rest of Hugh's ancestry is English.
Hugh grew up in Sydney, Australia, and spent one year in England, in 1986. He is married to actress and producer Deborra-Lee Furness, with whom he has two children.
Hugh's paternal grandfather was Percival Henry Jackman (the son of Percival John Jackman and Elsie Violet Nutley). Hugh's grandfather Percival was born in Brentford, London. Hugh's great-grandfather Percival was the son of James Robert Jackman and Matilda Mary Robertson.
Hugh's paternal grandmother was Glory Margaret Bellas (the daughter of Nicholas Isidor Bellas and Dora Furniss). Glory was born in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, Lancashire. Nicholas was Greek, and was born, c. 1861, in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire. Dora was English, the daughter of Charles Furniss, who was born in Derby, and of Margaret Ann Leslie, who was born in Bolton, Lancashire.
Hugh's maternal grandfather was Bennett John Greenwood (the son of Matthew Bennett Greenwood and Rhoda Ann Whiterod). Bennett was born in Forehoe, Norfolk, England. Matthew was the son of Matthew Bennett Greenwood and Mary Ann Rebecca Tice. Rhoda was the daughter of Joseph Fairfax Whiterod and Elizabeth Smith.
Hugh's maternal grandmother was Agnes Milroy (the daughter of John Milroy and Margaret Cowan McNeil). Agnes was born in West Derby, Lancashire, England. John was of Scottish descent, the son of William Milroy and Mary Anderson. Margaret was Scottish, born in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire, the daughter of Patrick McNeil and Mary Harriet Mitchell.
Sources: Genealogy of Hugh Jackman (focusing on his father's side) – https://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Hugh's paternal grandmother, Glory Margaret Bellas – http://blog.1911census.co.uk
Genealogy of Hugh's maternal grandfather, Bennett John Greenwood (through John's sister, Lucy Greenwood) (focusing on his own mother's side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Hugh's maternal grandfather, Bennett John Greenwood, on the 1911 England and Wales Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Hugh's maternal grandmother, Agnes Milroy, on the 1911 England and Wales Census – https://www.familysearch.org
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Tags: EnglishGreekPeople magazine's Sexiest Man AliveScottish
Would've never guessed the Greek part.
Freerk says:
Has anybody already said that this is the sexiest man alive? And I state this as a totally heterosexual man.
Capricious says:
Far from it. Never found him remotely attractive.
And this is coming from someone who likes darker guys.
caligurl2 says:
Ever been to a site called Italianjocks on tumblr? You can find thousands hotter than him that aren't even famous. Anyway he can definately pass as pan central european. Hugh has a look that can pass anywhere from Britain, France, Italy, Spain etc.
Hill says:
ignore the comments.
Caution says:
He looks exactly what he is.
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This data set contains bathymetry of Arctic fjords and Antarctic ice shelves based on measurements from the Sander Geophysics Airborne Inertially Referenced Gravimeter (AIRGrav) system. The data were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded aircraft survey campaigns.
Tinto, K., R. E. Bell, and J. R. Cochran. 2014, updated 2018. IceBridge Sander AIRGrav L4 Bathymetry, Version 1. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.5067/DQVUVQCRYAM4. [Date Accessed].
The IceBridge Sander AIRGrav L4 Bathymetry data files are in CSV format with associated XML files which contain additional metadata.
Within this directory, the folders are named for each year, month, and day of the data collection, for example: /2010.01.01/.
The data files have the naming convention shown below. File name variables are described in Table 1.
The .csv files range from approximately 800 KB to 5 MB. The entire data set is approximately 11 MB.
Spatial coverage for the IceBridge Sander AIRGrav L4 Bathymetry profiles data includes Arctic and Antarctic areas.
For Greenland data, fjords are commonly represented by a single profile with points at 500 m intervals. The along-track resolution of inverted gravity is ∼4.4 km, corresponding to the 70 s filter and average survey speed of 125 m/s. Shorter wavelength features are from the radar-derived bed used to constrain the model. Profile lines approximate the fjord axis, but in parts were flown to the side of the midline and show shallower bathymetry corresponding to the fjord edges. Users are cautioned to check the flight track of profile data in order not to misinterpret this shallow bathymetry as an axial sill.
The northwest Greenland grid was flown at 5 km line spacing, with an average speed of 125 m/s giving an along-track resolution of 4.4 km. Data were gridded at 500 m cell size for inversion and then resampled along the flight lines.
The survey over Abbot Ice Shelf was flown as a series of nearly north-south parallel lines, 30 to 54 km apart (mean of 39.2 km), across the ice shelf and a single, nearly east-west line along the ice shelf axis. Free-air anomalies were filtered with a 70 s full wavelength filter, resulting in approximately 4.9 km half-wavelength resolution for a typical flying speed of 140 m/s (Cochran et al. 2014).
Greenland profiles: 500 m point spacing.
Projection: Polar Stereographic true at 70° N, origin 90° N, 45° W (EPSG 3413) bathymetry positive downward from WGS-84 ellipsoid.
Northwest Greenland grid: 500 m point spacing.
Projection: Polar Stereographic true at 70° N, origin 90° N, 45° W (EPSG 3413) bathymetry positive downward from WGS84 ellipsoid.
Abbot profiles: 200 m point spacing.
Projection: Polar Stereographic true at 71° S, 0 up, 180 down, bathymetry positive downward from GLO4C geoid (Forste et al, 2008).
IceBridge campaigns are conducted on an annually repeating basis. Arctic and Greenland campaigns are conducted during March, April, and May; and Antarctic campaigns are conducted during October and November.
The IceBridge Sander AIRGrav L4 Bathymetry profiles data set contains profile lines, location in Polar Stereographic easting and northing, and bathymetry measured positively downwards.
The bathymetry profile data file contains fields as described in Table 2. Profile data are preceded by a ten line header.
Below is a sample from the IGBTH4_20140207.csv data file.
Figure 1 illustrates the location of Greenland profiles.
Table 3 lists the profiled Glacier IDs and names.
The gravity signal is extracted from an inertially based system in which a small mass is suspended within a magnetic field. Tiny variations in the acceleration of the gravimeter produce small electrical signals in the sensor as the mass moves within the magnetic field. The processed data from the AIRGrav instrument data consists of two data types: gravity and aircraft attitude.
The gravimeter is located as near the airplane center of mass as possible. Simultaneously acquired gravimeter output GPS data are recorded on hard disks on the plane. Following the flight this data is downloaded onto a PC for processing.
Inversion of the Greenland and Abbot gravity data for bathymetry was undertaken in two dimensions along individual flight lines using Geosoft GMSysTM software. The software performs iterative forward modeling using the technique of Talwani et al. (1959). The bed was kept fixed where it is observed in the radar data and the bathymetry in water-covered areas where the seafloor cannot be imaged with radar varied to obtain the best match to the observed gravity. The model is pinned to the observed gravity value at a location within the region where the bed can be observed.
The gravimeter data were filtered and decimated to 10 Hz to match the GPS data.
GPS-derived accelerations were subtracted from the data.
The gravity was corrected for the Eötvös effect.
The expected gravity at the measurement latitude was subtracted.
The resulting anomalies were decimated to 2 Hz and low-pass filtered to suppress noise.
The free-air correction was applied.
After evaluating the noise level with different filter lengths, a 70 s filter was used. The filter half-wavelength is approximately 5 km at the average flight speed of 275 knots (142 m/s). Features narrower than the half wavelength can be resolved, but have an attenuated amplitude.
Horizontal accelerations associated with turns and other vigorous maneuvers disturb gravity measurements. A routine that examines horizontal accelerations was used to divide each flight into lines that are free of these perturbations.
A forward model of gravity was generated according to Talwani (Talwani, 1959) with ice density 0.915 g/cc, water density 1.028 g/cc and rock density 2.67 g/cc. Ice surface and base are taken from the NASA Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) (Krabill, 2010) and the CReSIS Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder (MCoRDS) (Allen, 2009).
The model was pinned at a point where ice is grounded and nearby gravity variations are due only to variations in topography of the ice/rock interface. This establishes a DC shift to relate the anomalies calculated for the model space to the anomalies measured on Earth. Where multiple lines were flown along approximately the same track, the same DC shift was applied.
A gravity inversion was performed on the water/rock interface under floating ice. This produced a model of the sub-ice shelf bathymetry responsible for the gravity anomaly.
Data from survey lines were gridded by minimum curvature gridding with cell size of 500 m.
Gravity data were upward continued from survey elevation to a constant elevation of 2000 m above the ellipsoid.
A forward gravity model was built based on gridded data sets of surface, bed topography and seafloor bathymetry (Bamber et al., 2013). A DC shift was established to match gravity values calculated within the model space to observed values. The value of the DC shift was established from the mean misfit between calculated and observed gravity over large islands and peninsulas along the coast.
The observed gravity was inverted for bathymetry in the software GMSys-3D, with algorithms based on Parker (1972).
On 11 February 2015, Version 1 was replaced by Version 1.1. The precision for lat and lon values in data file IGBTH4_20140207.csv was increased to 6 decimal places.
Errors range from ±50 meters up to ±200 meters in the Greenland data sets. The variability in uncertainty is largely due to profile length, with uncertainty increasing with distance from the pinning point usually near the grounding line. The main sources of error are from short-wavelength features, which are not modelled at full amplitude, and from the presence of either local variations in geology or long-wavelength regional geological variations. These have been accounted for in some cases, notably Petermann Glacier, where a regional correction to the observed gravity was applied in order to fit known bathymetric constraints at the end of the fjord (Johnston et al., 2011). Elsewhere, bathymetry inversion is not performed on gravity recovered from parts of fjords where magnetic anomalies indicate a significant change in rock type compared to the material at the point to which the model is pinned.
Errors are approximated as ±70 m for the Abbot data set, incorporating errors in gravity measurement, radar ice thickness, ATM surface elevation, 2-D model pinning point and some allowance for geological structures. Variations in bed density were incorporated utilizing rock outcrops as a guide. The model assumes the absence of sea floor sediments. If sea floor sediments are present the true bathymetry will be less deep than the model (Cochran et al., 2014).
The gravity instrument is a Sander AIRGrav designed for airborne applications. The AIRGrav system consists of a three-axis gyro-stabilized, Schuler-tuned inertial platform on which three orthogonal accelerometers are mounted. The primary gravity sensor is the vertical accelerometer that is held within 10 arc-seconds (0.0028 degree) of the local vertical by the inertial platform, monitored through the complex interaction of gyroscopes and two horizontal accelerometers (Sander et al., 2004). An advantage of the AIRGrav system over other airborne gravimeters is that it has been shown to be capable of collecting high-quality data during draped flights (Studinger et al., 2008). The gravimeter records accelerations arising from variations in the Earth's gravity field and accelerations experienced by the airplane. These accelerations are recorded at 128 Hz. Aircraft accelerations are obtained utilizing differential GPS measurements.
Bamber et al. 2013. A New Bed Elevation Data set for Greenland. The Cryosphere, 7:499-510.
Leuschen, Carl, and Chris Allen. 2010, updated 2014. IceBridge MCoRDS L2 Ice Thickness. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. http://nsidc.org/data/irmcr2.html.
Cochran, J. R., S. S. Jacobs, K. J. Tinto, and R. E. Bell. 2014. Bathymetric and Oceanic Controls on Abbot Ice Shelf Thickness and Stability, The Cryosphere, 8:877-889, doi:10.5194/tc-8-877-2014.
Cochran, J. R., S. S. Jacobs, K. J. Tinto, and R. E. Bell. 2014. Supplement of Bathymetric and oceanic controls on Abbot Ice Shelf thickness and stability, The Cryosphere, 8, 877-889, doi:10.5194/tc-8-877-2014-Supplement.
Forste, C., R. Schmidt, R. Stubenvoll, F. Flechtner, U. Meyer, R. Konig, H. Neumayer, R. Biancale, J. M. Lemoine, S. Bruinsma, S. Loyer, F. Barthelmes, and S. Esselborn. 2008. The GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam/Groupe de Recherche de Geodesie Spatiale Satellite-only and Combined Gravity Field Models: Eigen-GL04S1 and Eigen-GL04C, Journal of Geodesy, 82:331-346, doi:10.1007/s00190-007-0183-8.
Fretwell, P., H. D. Pritchard, D. G. Vaughan, J. L. Bamber, N. E. Barrand, R. E. Bell, C. Bianchi, R. G. Bingham, D. D. Blankenship, G. Casassa, G. A. Catania, D. Callens, H. Conway, A. J. Cook, H. F. J. Corr, D. Damaske, V. Damm, F. Ferraccioli, R. Forsberg, K. Fujita, Y. Gim, P. Gogineni, D. J. Griggs, R. C. A. Hindmarsh, P. Holmlund, J. W. Holt, R. W. Jacobel, A. Jenkins, W. Jokat, T. A. Jordan, E. C. King, J. Kohler, W. Krabill, M. Riger-Kusk, K. Langley, G. Leitchenkov, C. Leuschen, B. P. Luyendyk, K. Matsuoka, J. Mouginot, F. O. Nitsche, Y. Nogi, O. A. Nost, S. V. Popov, E. Rignot, D. M. Rippin, A. Rivera, J. L. Roberts, N. Ross, M. J. Siegert, A. M. Smith, D. Steinhage, M. Studinger, B. Sun, K. J. Tinto, B. C. Welch, D. S. Wilson, D. A. Young, C. Xiangbin, and A. Zirizzotti. 2013. Bedmap2: Improved Ice Bed, Surface and Thickness Datasets for Antarctica, The Cryosphere, 7:375-393, doi:10.5194/tc-7-375-2013.
Johnson, H.L., A. Münchow, K. K. Falkner, and H. Melling. 2011. Ocean Circulation and Properties in Petermann Fjord, Greenland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 116:C01003, doi:10.1029/2010JC006519.
Krabill, William B. 2010, updated 2014. IceBridge ATM L2 Icessn Elevation, Slope, and Roughness. Version 2. Boulder, Colorado USA: NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. http://nsidc.org/data/ilatm2.html.
Parker, R. L. 1972. The Rapid Calculation of Potential Anomalies. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Scoiety, 42:315-334.
Sander, S., M. Argyle, S. Elieff, S. Ferguson, V. Lavoie, and L. Sander. 2004. The AIRGrav Airborne Gravity System, in Airborne Gravity 2004 - Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists Workshop, edited by R. Lane, pp. 49-53, Geoscience Australia, http://www.ga.gov.au/image_cache/GA16642.pdf.
Studinger, M., R. E. Bell, and N. Frearson. 2008. Comparison of AIRGrav and GT-1A Airborne Gravimeters for Research Applications, Geophysics, 73: 151-161.
Talwani, M., J. L.Worzel, and M. Landisman. 1959. Rapid Gravity Computations for Two-dimensional Bodies with Application to the Mendocino Submarine Fracture Zone, Journal of Geophysical Research, 64(1):49-59.
IceBridge data website at NSIDC (http://nsidc.org/data/icebridge/index.html).
IceBridge website at NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/index.html).
ICESat/GLAS website at NASA Wallops Flight Facility (http://glas.wff.nasa.gov/).
ICESat/GLAS website at NSIDC (http://nsidc.org/daac/projects/lidar/glas.html).
Data collection was supported by NASA grants NNX13AD25A, NNX09AR49G, NNG10HP20C, and NNX10AT69G. Alexandra Boghosian assisted with the gravity inversions. We thank Stefen Elieff, Kevin Charles, Marianne McLeish, Joel Dube, Eric Seme, Sean O'Rourke, Eric Renaud, John Drolet and Craig McMahon from Sander Geophysics.


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SAN FRANCISCO – Today, District Attorney George Gascón announced that a jury found Deshaun Kittles, age 33, guilty of attempted murder, assault with a semiautomatic firearm, discharge of a firearm with gross negligence, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and resisting arrest with allegations for great bodily injury, personal and intentional discharge of a firearm, and prior convictions.
According to court records, officers responded to a ShotSpotter notification on November 17, 2015 at approximately 2:51 p.m. in the area of Watchman Way in Potrero Hill. As officers drove towards the location, they observed a white Ford Fusion without license plates traveling in their direction at a high speed from Watchman Way on Dakota St. toward 25th St. The driver of the vehicle, later identified as Defendant Deshaun Kittles, made a wide right turn from Dakota St. onto 25th St., nearly colliding with the officers' patrol vehicle.
The officers made a U-turn and activated their lights and sirens in an attempt to stop the vehicle. Kittles ignored the sirens and continued on 25thSt. toward Connecticut St. The front passenger, later identified as Lenell Kittles, opened the door repeatedly while the officers pursued. Kittles continued driving, crossing a stop sign without stopping, before pulling over near Connecticut St. and 25th St.
The officers approached the car and ordered Kittles to exit. Kittles refused and kept his right hand concealed in his jacket. An officer removed him from the car and instructed him to get on the ground, but Kittles refused. When the officer attempted for a second time, Kittles reached his right arm out with a gun. As the two struggled, Kittles dropped the gun but continued to reach for it despite numerous orders to stop. The officer pushed the gun away from Kittles' reach. Kittles was subsequently handcuffed and arrested. His gun, loaded with three live rounds, was retrieved and documented as evidence. Lenell Kittles was also arrested, questioned, and later released.
During the same time, other officers responded to the area of Watchman Way where the SpotShotter notification originated. They discovered Ricky Tauaanu'u, age 26, bleeding profusely and suffering from four gunshot wounds to the torso. He was transported to San Francisco General Hospital where he was treated for gunshot wounds to his back, stomach, left arm, and right hip.
During the time of the shooting, a witness observed a man wearing a beanie and holding an object walk past her home in the direction of the shooting immediately before shots were fired. She saw the same man walk past her window again, from the direction of the shooting, immediately after shots were fired. She later identified Kittles, who was wearing the same beanie, as fitting the description of the man she observed in the area of the shooting immediately before and after shots were fired.
Surveillance video also revealed footage of Kittle's Ford Fusion approaching the Potrero Hill Housing Projects at approximately 2:42 p.m. on November 17, 2015. At approximately 2:47 p.m., the video revealed Kittles walking on a footpath between buildings on Missouri Street and Watchman Way. It showed Kittles quickly entering and closing the front door of 35 Watchman Way before exiting the unit and walking towards 43 Watchman Way. For approximately a minute, during which the shooting occurred, Kittles disappeared from the camera's view before reemerging with a gun in his hand pointed in the direction of Missouri St. The footage also captured Kittles entering his vehicle and culminated with his arrest on the 1800 block of Missouri Street.
The Honorable Bruce Chan presided. This successful prosecution is the result of excellent work conducted by San Francisco Police Department Sergeants Louis Dejesus, Alejandro Cortes, and Robert Trujillo. Special thanks go to Paralegals Monica Martinez and Nina Stellini, and IT Support Staff Morris Moore and Leland Chan. Assistant District Attorney Justine Cephus prosecuted the case.


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Mexico's Juan Virgen, pictured, and Lombardo Ontiveros 2015 Pan Am champs, will be the provisional top-seeded team in this week's FIVB Puerto Vallarta Open in Mexico, the first event on the 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour schedule.
Lausanne, Switzerland, October 4, 2015 —On the heels of the highly successful 2015 Swatch FIVB World Tour Finals last week, the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) quickly resumes the qualifying process for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games by launching the 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour this week in Mexico with the double-gender $150,000 FIVB Puerto Vallarta Open.
The first of three open events on the 2015 portion of the 2016 FIVB World Tour calendar, the FIVB Puerto Vallarta Open starts Monday and continues through Sunday at the purpose-built event site on Playa Camarones.
Returning to Puerto Vallarta for the second straight year, the FIVB World Tour visiting Mexico for the sixth time for men and the sixth time for women, starting the FIVB Puerto Vallarta Open will be 49 men's teams from 20 countries along with 45 women's teams from 21 countries.
The $150,000 FIVB Puerto Vallarta Open starts Monday and concludes on Sunday. The event is the season opener for the 2015 portion of the 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. This week's tournament in Mexico is the first of two double-gender events and one men's only event that comprise the 2015 portion of the 2016 FIVB World Tour.
The FIVB Puerto Vallarta Open will be a 32-team, double-gender event. It will start with a qualification tournament for men on Tuesday and for women on Wednesday to determine the final eight spots in the 32-team main draw followed by two days of round robin pool play for each gender. The top three teams in the eight pools (24 total teams) will advance from pool play to the single-elimination knockout rounds. Men's pool play will be held Wednesday, Thursday along with the round of 16 and the men's quarterfinals. On Saturday will be the men's semifinals and men's medal matches on Sunday.
As needed, country quota playoff matches will be played Monday for men and Tuesday for women.
Puerto Vallarta is a Mexican balneario resort city located on the Pacific Ocean's Bahia de Banderas. The 2010 census reported Puerto Vallarta's population as 255,725 making it the second largest city in the state of Jalisco. The City of Puerto Vallarta is the government seat of the Municipality of Puerto Vallarta which comprises the city as well as population centers outside of the city extending from Boca de Tomatlán to the Nayarit state t border (the Amerca River).
Puerto Vallarta's proximity to the Bay of Banderas, the agricultural valley of the Ameca River, and the important mining centers in the Sierra have given the town a more interesting past than most Mexican tourist destinations. Puerto Vallarta was a thriving Mexican village long before it became an international tourist destination.
As the host nation for the FIVB Puerto Vallarta Open, Mexico has three men's teams pre-seeded into the main draw and three more teams in the qualification tournament. Mexico's main draw teams are provisional top-seeded Juan Virgen/Lombardo Ontiveros, 22nd-seeded Joe Rubio/Josue Gaxiola and 24th-seeded Ricardo Galindo/Juan Revuelta. Men's teams in the qualifier from Mexico are Luis Bojorquez/Ulises Ontiveros, Raymond Stephens/Miguel Sarabia and Elvis Perez/Edwin Valencia.
As the host nation, Mexico has three women's teams pre-seeded into the main draw and three teams in the women's qualification tournament. Mexico's main draw teams are provisional 22nd-seeded Bibiana Candelas/Ana Rios, 23rd-seeded Stephanie Burnside/Zaira Orellana and 24th-seeded Claudia Rios/Gloria Santoyo. Women's teams in the qualifier from Mexico are Elsa Almaguer/Karen Valencia, Freda Lopez/Paulette Cruz and Rubi Sandoval/Haydee Lopez.
For the FIVB Puerto Vallarta Open, preliminary top men's seeds are Mexico's top-seeded Virgen/Ontiveros, Netherlands' second-seeded Reinder Nummerdor/Christiaan Varenhorst, USA's third-seeded Jake Gibb/Casey Patterson, Netherland's fourth-seeded Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen and USA's No. 5 Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena.
For the FIVB Puerto Vallarta Open, preliminary top women's seeds are Germany's top-seeded Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany's No. 2 Katrin Holtwick/Ilka Semmler, Switzerland's No. 3 Isabelle Forrer/Aouk Verge-Depre, Italy's No. 4 Marta Menegatti/Viktoria Orsi Toth and Russia's No. 5 Ekaterina Birlova/Evgeniya Ukolova.
The FIVB Puerto Vallarta Open will be the 330th men's event since the FIVB began men's competition in 1987 and the 294th FIVB women's tournament since they started in 1992.
The FIVB Grand Slam and Swatch FIVB Major Series competitions, all double-gender each have $800,000 in total purses. The total purse FIVB World Championships the Netherlands 2015 was $1,000,000 and $500,000 total for the Swatch FIVB Beach VolleyballWorld Tour Finals which will feature the top eight teams and two wild card teams in each gender.
The 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour schedule included five FIVB Grand Slams, the new Swatch FIVB Major Series of three events, seven FIVB Opens and the inaugural Swatch FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals in the United States. The showcase event was the $1 million 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in the Netherlands (June 26-July 5).
A total of 15 countries hosted events this year as the 2015 FIVB World Tour began the Olympic qualification process with all FIVB World Tour events (except the Swatch FIVB World Tour Finals) in 2015 up until June 13, 2016 counting towards the Olympic Ranking in order to determine 15 spots for each gender that will take part in each 24-team field in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.


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Celeste Tate (1944 - 1995) charity organizer.
In 1982 Celeste Tate and her husband David Cory McKinley (1963 – ) of Las Vegas noticed how much dated food is thrown away by supermarkets. She persuaded a store manager to donate his expired items and she and her husband set up a charity supermarket, which she called The Gleaners. Food was given away, sold for a nominal amount or exchanged for work. Shortly afterwards they were credited with running 194 stores in the US and other countries including China. Apparently this resulted from confusing the Las Vegas Gleaners with other food banks with 'Gleaners' in their name.
The US Department of Health and Human Services called The Gleaners the most outstanding food program in the United States. The Gleaners was touted at the 1984 Republican National Convention as a model of feeding the homeless while taking no government money. A letter from Ronald Regan praising them was read. Esquire and Newsweek magazines ran articles honoring the McKinleys.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal investigated and ran a series of articles 12-14 August 1990. They found that The Gleaners had failed to submit charity tax forms, reliable records were not kept, and the McKinley's mortgage expenses were intertwined with other charity expenses. They also 'tithed' from the organization's income to a store-front church whose pastor was on their Board of Directors. In addition, the articles outed Celeste as a woman with transsexual history.
David appeared on Sally Jessy Raphael's television talk show complaining that he had been duped into a 13-year marriage in that Celeste had never told him that she had had a transsexual change. Shortly afterwards, Celeste agreed to an annulment but without admitting any change of sex.
In July 1991 David was arrested at a traffic stop when a records check showed that he was also Daryl Ashford was was wanted in Wichita, Kansas for aggravated arson in that he set fire to his mother's house while she was inside. He was also wanted for jumping bail.
Ignoring The Las Vegas Review-Journal articles, the 1992 book, Megatrends for Women, lauded the work of the McKinleys.
In 1993 The Gleaners contracted with the for-profit fundraiser, The Charity Center, which passed onto The Gleaners 10% of the monies raised.
In 1994 lawsuits were filed against The Gleaners and against The Charity Center.
Celeste died at age 51 after a series of strokes and liver problems.
A D Hopkins. "Gleaners president accused of arson". Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11 July 1991: 1b.
Carl Scarbrough, . "IRS: Gleaners hasn't filed tax returns". Las Vegas Review-Journal, 28 Sep 1991: 1b.
Patricia Aburdene & John Naisbitt. Megatrends for Women. New York: Villard Books, 1992: 276.
"Charitable solicitation fraud : hearing before the Subcommittee on Consumer of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, March 24, 1994". Online at: http://archive.org/stream/charitablesolici1994unit/charitablesolici1994unit_djvu.txt.
Randolph Smith. "Here Comes Charity Scams Bogus Appeals Aim At Holiday Spirit". Daily News, Nov 30, 1994. http://articles.philly.com/1994-11-30/news/25867492_1_fund-raising-charity-scams-pacific-west-cancer-fund
Marian Green. "Food bank operator, target of praise and notoriety, dies". Las Vegas Review- Journal, 12 Oct 1995: 2.B.
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TSimpleDrawer - non-visual drawer component. Has no own functionality and just fires event from each method. Use it for creating simple drawing functionality. It is used as ancestor for any drawer components also.
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TPluginDrawer - drawer component that allows to use drawing functionality realized in the external DLL. Plugin DLL can be connected at design time and at runtime with easy. DLL template included into Image Editor Suite.
Image Editor Suite contains full-functional image editor application as a free demo.
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18  package org.apache.log4j.jmx;
19
20  import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
21  import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
22  import org.apache.log4j.Level;
23  import org.apache.log4j.Layout;
24  import org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter;
25  import org.apache.log4j.spi.OptionHandler;
26
27  import java.util.Vector;
28  import java.util.Hashtable;
29  import java.lang.reflect.Method;
30  import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
31  import javax.management.MBeanAttributeInfo;
32  import javax.management.MBeanConstructorInfo;
33  import javax.management.MBeanNotificationInfo;
34  import javax.management.MBeanInfo;
35  import javax.management.Attribute;
36
37  import javax.management.MBeanException;
38  import javax.management.AttributeNotFoundException;
39  import javax.management.RuntimeOperationsException;
40  import javax.management.ReflectionException;
41  import javax.management.InvalidAttributeValueException;
42  import javax.management.MBeanOperationInfo;
43  import javax.management.MBeanParameterInfo;
44
45  import java.beans.Introspector;
46  import java.beans.BeanInfo;
47  import java.beans.PropertyDescriptor;
48  import java.beans.IntrospectionException;
49  import java.io.InterruptedIOException;
50
51  public class LayoutDynamicMBean extends AbstractDynamicMBean {
52
53    private MBeanConstructorInfo[] dConstructors = new MBeanConstructorInfo[1];
54    private Vector dAttributes = new Vector();
55    private String dClassName = this.getClass().getName();
56
57    private Hashtable dynamicProps = new Hashtable(5);
58    private MBeanOperationInfo[] dOperations = new MBeanOperationInfo[1];
59    private String dDescription =
60       "This MBean acts as a management facade for log4j layouts.";
61
62    // This category instance is for logging.
63    private static Logger cat = Logger.getLogger(LayoutDynamicMBean.class);
64
65    // We wrap this layout instance.
66    private Layout layout;
67
68    public  LayoutDynamicMBean(Layout layout) throws IntrospectionException {
69      this.layout = layout;
70      buildDynamicMBeanInfo();
71    }
72
73    private
74    void buildDynamicMBeanInfo() throws IntrospectionException {
75      Constructor[] constructors = this.getClass().getConstructors();
76      dConstructors[0] = new MBeanConstructorInfo(
77               "LayoutDynamicMBean(): Constructs a LayoutDynamicMBean instance",
78  	     constructors[0]);
79
80
81      BeanInfo bi = Introspector.getBeanInfo(layout.getClass());
82      PropertyDescriptor[] pd = bi.getPropertyDescriptors();
83
84      int size = pd.length;
85
86      for(int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
87        String name = pd[i].getName();
88        Method readMethod =  pd[i].getReadMethod();
89        Method writeMethod =  pd[i].getWriteMethod();
90        if(readMethod != null) {
91  	Class returnClass = readMethod.getReturnType();
92  	if(isSupportedType(returnClass)) {
93  	  String returnClassName;
94  	  if(returnClass.isAssignableFrom(Level.class)) {
95  	    returnClassName = "java.lang.String";
96  	  } else {
97  	    returnClassName = returnClass.getName();
98  	  }
99
100 	  dAttributes.add(new MBeanAttributeInfo(name,
101 						 returnClassName,
102 						 "Dynamic",
103 						 true,
104 						 writeMethod != null,
105 						 false));
106 	  dynamicProps.put(name, new MethodUnion(readMethod, writeMethod));
107 	}
108       }
109     }
110
111     MBeanParameterInfo[] params = new MBeanParameterInfo[0];
112
113     dOperations[0] = new MBeanOperationInfo("activateOptions",
114 					    "activateOptions(): add an layout",
115 					    params,
116 					    "void",
117 					    MBeanOperationInfo.ACTION);
118   }
119
120   private
121   boolean isSupportedType(Class clazz) {
122     if(clazz.isPrimitive()) {
123       return true;
124     }
125
126     if(clazz == String.class) {
127       return true;
128     }
129     if(clazz.isAssignableFrom(Level.class)) {
130       return true;
131     }
132
133     return false;
134   }
135
136
137
138   public
139   MBeanInfo getMBeanInfo() {
140     cat.debug("getMBeanInfo called.");
141
142     MBeanAttributeInfo[] attribs = new MBeanAttributeInfo[dAttributes.size()];
143     dAttributes.toArray(attribs);
144
145     return new MBeanInfo(dClassName,
146 			 dDescription,
147 			 attribs,
148 			 dConstructors,
149 			 dOperations,
150 			 new MBeanNotificationInfo[0]);
151   }
152
153   public
154   Object invoke(String operationName, Object params[], String signature[])
155     throws MBeanException,
156     ReflectionException {
157
158     if(operationName.equals("activateOptions") &&
159                      layout instanceof OptionHandler) {
160       OptionHandler oh = (OptionHandler) layout;
161       oh.activateOptions();
162       return "Options activated.";
163     }
164     return null;
165   }
166
167   protected
168   Logger  getLogger() {
169     return cat;
170   }
171
172
173   public
174   Object getAttribute(String attributeName) throws AttributeNotFoundException,
175                                                    MBeanException,
176                                                    ReflectionException {
177
178        // Check attributeName is not null to avoid NullPointerException later on
179     if (attributeName == null) {
180       throw new RuntimeOperationsException(new IllegalArgumentException(
181 			"Attribute name cannot be null"),
182        "Cannot invoke a getter of " + dClassName + " with null attribute name");
183     }
184
185
186     MethodUnion mu = (MethodUnion) dynamicProps.get(attributeName);
187
188     cat.debug("----name="+attributeName+", mu="+mu);
189
190     if(mu != null && mu.readMethod != null) {
191       try {
192 	return mu.readMethod.invoke(layout, null);
193       } catch(InvocationTargetException e) {
194           if (e.getTargetException() instanceof InterruptedException
195                   || e.getTargetException() instanceof InterruptedIOException) {
196               Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
197           }
198 	    return null;
199       } catch(IllegalAccessException e) {
200 	    return null;
201       } catch(RuntimeException e) {
202 	    return null;
203       }
204     }
205
206
207
208     // If attributeName has not been recognized throw an AttributeNotFoundException
209     throw(new AttributeNotFoundException("Cannot find " + attributeName +
210 					 " attribute in " + dClassName));
211
212   }
213
214
215   public
216   void setAttribute(Attribute attribute) throws AttributeNotFoundException,
217                                                 InvalidAttributeValueException,
218                                                 MBeanException,
219                                                 ReflectionException {
220
221     // Check attribute is not null to avoid NullPointerException later on
222     if (attribute == null) {
223       throw new RuntimeOperationsException(
224                   new IllegalArgumentException("Attribute cannot be null"),
225 		  "Cannot invoke a setter of " + dClassName +
226 		  " with null attribute");
227     }
228     String name = attribute.getName();
229     Object value = attribute.getValue();
230
231     if (name == null) {
232       throw new RuntimeOperationsException(
233                     new IllegalArgumentException("Attribute name cannot be null"),
234 		    "Cannot invoke the setter of "+dClassName+
235 		    " with null attribute name");
236     }
237
238
239
240     MethodUnion mu = (MethodUnion) dynamicProps.get(name);
241
242     if(mu != null && mu.writeMethod != null) {
243       Object[] o = new Object[1];
244
245       Class[] params = mu.writeMethod.getParameterTypes();
246       if(params[0] == org.apache.log4j.Priority.class) {
247 	value = OptionConverter.toLevel((String) value,
248 					(Level) getAttribute(name));
249       }
250       o[0] = value;
251
252       try {
253 	mu.writeMethod.invoke(layout,  o);
254
255       } catch(InvocationTargetException e) {
256           if (e.getTargetException() instanceof InterruptedException
257                   || e.getTargetException() instanceof InterruptedIOException) {
258               Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
259           }
260 	    cat.error("FIXME", e);
261       } catch(IllegalAccessException e) {
262 	    cat.error("FIXME", e);
263       } catch(RuntimeException e) {
264 	    cat.error("FIXME", e);
265       }
266     } else {
267       throw(new AttributeNotFoundException("Attribute " + name +
268 					   " not found in " +
269 					   this.getClass().getName()));
270     }
271   }
272 }
273
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Q: Циклический сдвиг массива в PHP Как можно сделать циклический сдвиг массива на 1 вправо, без циклов?
A: Попробуйте так:
$array = array(1, 2, 3);
array_unshift($array, array_pop($array));
var_dump($array); // 3, 1, 2

Не проверял, но должно работать. array_pop удаляет последний элемент из массива и возвращает его значение. array_unshift добавляет значение в начало массива.

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Agencies in Minneapolis, New York and Hong Kong join Public Relations Global Network
Is it possible for an intern to make a successful company even better?
Public Relations Global Network elects Evelyn Holtzhausen as President
Posted by Industrie Contact on May 17, 2016 in Blog
New member agencies enhance capabilities and expand reach of global communications group
Three top-notch communications firms, two in the U.S. and one in China, were welcomed as full members of the Public Relations Global Network (PRGN) at the spring conference of one of the world's largest networks of public relations agencies on Thursday, April 28, 2016 in Washington, D.C.
PRGN welcomes three new members to its global network: Susan Evans, president of Evans Larson Communications, Minneapolis (second from left), Loren Mortman, president of The Equity Group, New York City, and Joanne Chan, managing director of LBS Communications Consulting Ltd., Hong Kong. They are joined by Ed Stevens (far left), chairman / CEO of Stevens Strategic Communications, Cleveland, Ohio, and Evelyn John Holtzhausen (far right), founder of HWB Communications, Cape Town South Africa, and president of PRGN.
The agencies are: The Equity Group, headquartered in New York City with a longstanding reputation for excellence in investor communications and outreach; Evans Larson Communications from Minnesota, specializing in omnichannel communications strategies for a broad range of national and international clients; and LBS Communications Consulting Ltd from Hong Kong, excelling in financial communications and investor relations with one-stop expertise in the Greater China region.
These new members extend the range of the PR network, expanding the PRGN presence into most major cities around the globe. The induction into the global consortium was made during PRGN's twice-yearly meeting in Washington, D.C.
"With a new total of 47 member agencies, PRGN is ideally positioned to help its clients succeed in global markets," said Evelyn John Holtzhausen, founder of HWB Communications, Cape Town South Africa, and president of PRGN.
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Susan Evans, president of Evans Larson Communications said, "We are delighted to be a part of PRGN. Membership within this talented organization gives our firm access to expertise in many countries, further strengthening our ability to deliver solutions to clients that have interests in many parts of the world."
"We are so excited to be part of this well-respected global network with so many passionate PR experts and we believe the exchange and cooperation within the organization will make LBS an even better PR consultant with global insights and resources in different parts of the world for our clients," said Joanne Chan, managing director of LBS Communications Consulting Ltd.
PRGN partners meet twice a year in cities around the world. The next meeting will be held in November 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal. At each meeting, the firm's leadership discusses best practices, and ways the network and its client base can collaborate in local markets around the world.
Agency members are independent, local, owner-operated public relations and communications firms that share expertise and resources, while providing broad-based comprehensive communications strategies to clients worldwide. If a company or organization is interested in the services of PRGN's local agency network, go to prgn.com for more information.
Independent agencies interested in joining the network, can visit the member recruitment section of the PRGN website for more information or email its membership chair, C.L. Conroy, CEO and Founder of The Conroy Martinez Group at CL@conroymartinez.com.
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Teaching design in non-design universities and schools is certainly a very different experience from teaching in design education. For the last six years, in addition to my design courses, I have been teaching design thinking to non-designers. All this time something has been making noise in the back of my mind, but I couldn't articulate what it was. Until last week when it hit me: Designers don't practice design thinking (The process). What? Let me unpack this thought.
Design and DT are not the same: Design is a discipline, and DT is a process. So far, hopefully this distinction isn't that revealing. In some cases, DT is described as the conceptualization of ideas, and design as the execution of those ideas. But there is yet another important difference between these two terms: DT is not as intrinsic to the design discipline as people think. Rather, the DT process combines techniques, approaches and methods from other disciplines.
DT combines techniques and methods from various disciplines. These are just some of them. Interestingly, core techniques and methods do not come from the design discipline.
Empathise: The type of observations and contextual interviews used in DT come from the social sciences. Anthropologists have stressed the need to better understand culture, social groups, their interactions and needs from many years. DT borrows some of their methods and redefines them as "human-centered" techniques.
Define: The goal of this step is to reframe the initial problem based on learnings from the previous step. Many of these techniques come from sensemaking and qualitative analysis to help synthesize field research data. Other techniques come from creative problem solving influenced by Osborn's work (1939), such as rephrasing problem statements as "How Might We" questions. Parnes's work (1967) on applied creativity was one of the first ones introducing this concept.
Ideate: The premise of this step is rooted in creative problem solving and the concepts of divergent and convergent thinking to generate quantity of ideas. Nor IDEO, nor Tom Kelley invented brainstorming rules. These also have been introduced much earlier by Osborn in 1942, and later studied by Robert McKim.
Prototype: This step aims to make an idea tangible in any form. The concept of prototyping has been around for a long time and all fields practice this step in some way or another, including engineering, architecture, science. A chef creates a prototype of a recipe when they bake a cake.
Test: This step goes back to the use of social sciences methods to test prototypes. Depending on the type of prototype that needs to be tested, methods from other disciplines such as human computer interaction introduced by Nielsen and Don Norman in the 1970s, are also used here.
What does this analysis indicate?
Many disciplines, but not design: DT does a great job of extracting key techniques from a wide set of disciplines and using them to tackle a variety of problems. But most of these techniques are not coming from the design discipline. While some elements of the DT are practiced by designers such as the concepts of cycles or thinking visually, these are also common to other disciplines such as Art.
The "mystical glow" about DT seems to indicate that just by using the above techniques (but not necessarily using them right or with the required rigour) is enough to achieve a successful outcome. Perhaps, this is why almost everyone who gets familiar with the DT process steps feels that they can teach the process or practice it successfully. To me this is dangerous. It is actually hard to become good at applying the DT process but the abundance of design sprints and workshops on the topic feed the belief that everyone can do it. And can learn it fast. Would you defend someone on trial after attending a 2-day workshop on law? I hope not.
Some techniques are unknown to designers: Many designers actually do not practice DT as part of their daily work. How many of you (designers) really go out, talk to people and take the time to empathise with your audience? If you have attended design school (3 or 4 years of design training), you probably haven't learned the above steps. Of course, you follow a process which may include some of the steps, but the techniques you use to tackle problems aren't the same as the ones described above. Creative problem-solving methods are foreign to most designers. Granted, more and more research is becoming a key part of the design curricula, but students don't graduate with the necessary confidence to go to the field on their own. This needs practice.
Benefits beyond design: The DT process should be recognised for what it is–i.e. a different way of tackling problems–, rather than as a short-cut into the design profession. For example, DT is a great alternative pedagogical framework for traditional deductive reasoning and (right-wrong) dualistic approaches common in education. DT provides students with a different way to think about problems. In this context, learning DT is not related to learning design skills.
Looking at IDEO or other big companies as DT references can provide a misleading picture. The reason why, for example, IDEO has had very successful projects is not only because they work with DT as the main problem solving process, but also because they have a large team with people from diverse backgrounds. Often one of them is a design professional.
Becoming a designer takes work. I'm not questioning the value or effectiveness of the DT process, or whether this process should be taught to non-designers. What I'm strongly arguing for is that being a skilled design thinker does not make you a design professional. You would probably feel more comfortable coming up with ideas and going through iterations, but learning the steps in the DT process does not replace learning the skills and capabilities you will learn in design school. The skill sets are just different.
More and more students, entrepreneurs, CEOs and other professionals seem to want to become designers (or learn the skills). I get it, as a designer, I see the benefits, although I am fully aware of its cons too. For example, as Kolko stresses in his article, designers can spend countless amounts of hours working on a single project. People are unaware of this, as well as how much work is needed to become a professional designer. Just a few weeks of education, 2-day workshops or design sprints are not enough to make a designer. Becoming a designer takes great work; as it takes to become proficient at using the DT process, or to be a successful lawyer or a good mathematician.
It is essential to understand what design is and is not, as well as what is needed to become a design professional. Educators have the responsibility to make this picture clear to students and people interested in choosing a design path. And designers have the responsibility to value their expertise and skills, and speak up. Selling short-cuts or false expectations will perpetuate misconceptions about the design discipline and, eventually, damage the profession and the quality of the work.


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Wonder Woman sequel hits Chinese screens
A scene in Wonder Woman 1984 [Photo provided to China Daily] 2020 has been a quite unusual year. With the world still battling the pandemic during its winter wave, Wonder Woman 1984 has become the latest Hollywood tentpole to hold an online premiere with Chinese fans. In the past, domestic audiences were usually able to see the stars in-person on red carpets during China's premieres. As the clock struck midnight on Friday, the film's lead Gal Gadot appeared alongside director Patty Jenkins, actor Pedro Pascal and producer Charles Roven remotely on giant screens, communicating with fans in cinemas across five cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Shenzhen. Set more than 60 years after the first story, which took place in World War I, the sequel moves to 1984 for a new adventure with Diana Prince, aka Wonder Woman. With the "help" of a mysterious stone, Wonder Woman "resurrects" her beloved Steve Trevor, while facing off against two all-new foes, Maxwell Lord and the Cheetah. A still image of Wonder Woman 1984 [Photo provided to China Daily] The film opened across domestic theaters on Dec 18, also being screened at more than 600 IMAX auditoriums across the mainland. On reprising the title role, Gadot said: "It always feels great coming back and wearing the boots of Wonder Woman. We make sure the bar is very high. We really wanted to make sure we are delivering audiences a bigger, better and more exciting movie." She added Wonder Woman will become more mature and understand more of the complexities of mankind in the new story. Jenkins explained the film is set in 1984 because the year was a flashpoint of Western civilization, where many modern values have been shaped. "We wanted to see that Wonder Woman take on the villains born from that time. The message is really about our modern life and how we're living our lives and what would Wonder Woman do." As of 2 pm on Friday, Wonder Woman 1984 has grossed 20 million yuan ($3.1 million) on opening day, generated by more than 30 percent of China's total screens. Wonder Woman 1984 stars and major creators talk to Chinese fans during an online premiere remotely, which was physically held in cinemas in five cities including Beijing (above) on Thursday night. [Photo provided to China Daily]


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Vietnam to monitor imported food
In Uncategorized on January 12, 2011 at 7:04 am
Governments and animal health departments will closely inspect any food imports from overseas countries into Vietnam, said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
In a recent dispatch to provinces and cities around the country, the Ministry has ordered all provincial and municipal governments and relevant agencies, to supervise any animal products imported from foreign countries into Vietnam. As the Tet holiday is quickly approaching, consumption of foreign imports could be very high.
The Ministry has also asked government officials, to closely monitor border crossings, especially the ones like Tan Thanh, in the Northern Province of Lang Son; Cau Treo and Lao Bao in the central province of Ha Tinh; and finally, Quang Tri and Moc Bai, in the southern province of Tay Ninh.
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Over 100 workers hospitalized after food poisoning
In Uncategorized on January 8, 2011 at 4:25 am
More than 100 workers in a Can Tho- based company were hospitalized due to food poisoning on December 23.
The workers suffered stomachache, nausea and vomiting after eating the food. Most of them have already recovered, but 61 people are still being treated in hospital.
The company ordered food from a restaurant in Chau Thanh District, Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang in the neighborhood of Can Tho City.
Each portion of food included meat, braised pork, fried fish and soup, for price of VND9,000.
Agencies in the province are taking food samples for testing, so that they can investigate the cause of the food poisoning outbreak.
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Zoellick: G20 must act to stabilize food prices
Free markets rather than protectionist polices are the solution to volatile food prices and the G20 should take steps to prioritize the provision of food for the poor, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said.
"The answer to food price volatility is not to prosecute or block markets, but to use them better," Zoellick wrote in an opinion piece in Thursday's Financial Times urging G20 leaders to put access to food at the top of its agenda.
"By empowering the poor the G20 can take practical steps toward ensuring the availability of nutritious food," he wrote.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy will take the presidency of the G20 in 2011. In his column Zoellick set out nine action points to make sure the poorest have access to food. Such steps were needed to ensure global growth and stability, he said.
Food prices hit a record high last month, outstripping levels that prompted riots in 2008 and key grains could climb even further as weather patterns give cause for concern, the UN's food agency said on Wednesday.
Zoellick said more work was needed to understand the relationship between international prices and local prices in poor countries. In Cambodia the local price of rice has risen by a quarter since mid-2009, while international prices have shed 15 percent.
"Factors such as transport costs, crop types and exchange rates can mean that local prices are delinked from international prices," he wrote.
"Work could target first those commodities and countries that are most at risk from volatility."
He also called for an international code of conduct to exempt humanitarian food aid from export bans.
"Export restrictions make food price volatility worse. Ideally, countries would not impose any export bans; in 2011 they should at least agree that food for humanitarian purposes be allowed to move more freely," he wrote.
Other steps include improving supply transparency and long-weather forecasting, creating small humanitarian reserves in disaster-prone regions and providing alternatives to export bans and price fixing.
Risk management products, such as weather insurance or a hedge on energy prices to keep transport and input costs low, should also be considered, he said.
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Dangerous chemicals have been used in food for years
After Chinese media stated that their satay might contain a toxic cancer-causing substance, a number of individuals are now feeling sick after eating the satay.
Chemicals found in Kim Bien Market. Chefs have used these chemicals for years in making food (Photo: SGGP)
Chefs at sidewalk restaurants have used additives and chemicals in food for many years, as buying these chemicals are easy and inexpensive.
A Sai Gon Giai Phong journalist toured one of the biggest wholesale markets in Ho Chi Minh City – Kim Bien Market in District 5.
Chemicals including liquids to bleach, chemicals to create coffee foam and colorings, and chemicals to make chicken and goat meat crispier were found in nylon bags and bottles.
One retailer said that chefs should use one spoonful of these chemicals in order to make the food crispier.
At another shop, the owner said chefs have used additives and spices to make pho (Rice noodle soup with beef) and bun bo (Beef rice noodles).
She stated she sells more than 50 liters of beef to eateries in a week. She said that a one-liter bottle of additives priced at VND250, 000 could be used to cook 100 big pots of rice noodle soup or beef rice noodles.
The situation is much the same at Binh Tay Market in District 6. A shop assistant told a journalist that he uses a red powder in varnishing cooked crab rice noodles. She compared the cost of these chemical to only VND50, 000, while food colorings would cost six times more to buy.
After the news became public, the Food Hygiene Department in Ho Chi Minh City, told the market management boards not authorize any shop to sell Chinese satay and spices for cooking 'pot-au-feu'.
However, much Vietnamese food is package in nylon, without any clear indication of its origin and no labeling on the food product were available at several of market stores.
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Fear of toxic additives in food
Medical experts believe one of the causes of cancer in the world is the rampant use of harmful chemicals and additives in food.
As Tet (lunar New Year) holiday approaches, wholesale markets such as Binh Tay, Ben Thanh, An Dong and Kim Bien begin selling jams and dry fruits without labels, giving no indication of their origin and manufacturing base.
Chinese dry fruits packed in nylon bags selling in Binh Tay market (Photo: SGGP)
Shop assistants claim these dry fruits and jams are imported from China but it is not clear whether these foods have been certified by health authorities. These dry fruits could contain toxic substances and are being sold to innocent customers who favor their taste.
Last year the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health (DOH) did a random test of six dry fruit samples from three vendors at the Binh Tay wholesale market in District 6.
The authorities found five samples to contain lead and a banned artificial sweetener, Cyclamate. Tests also showed that melon seeds and chilli powder contained Rhodamine B, a harmful dye suspected of being carcinogenic.
Medics believe that eating food contaminated with lead over a long period of time can cause damage to the nervous system, impair brain function, cause kidney failure and in extreme cases even lead to death.
However, these products continue to sell in markets heedless of their harmful affects on health. Customers are lured by their eye catching and colorful appearance and packaging.
The city DOH has ordered the district 5 People's Committee to monitor Kim Bien market and identify shops that sell toxic foods, but there has been little success in that area. Besides, chefs preparing food items are not aware of the harmful affects of such chemicals and therefore use them in excess.
Medical experts stress that it is now very important to control the inflow of smuggled chemicals and also prevent banned additives from being imported into the country.
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Ministry issues new alert on food safety
QĐND – Friday, December 17, 2010, 20:53 (GMT+7)
The Health Ministry has requested all provinces and cities to strengthen food safety and hygiene activities nationwide by promoting awareness and inspection programmes during the new year festival.
"Consumer demand increases ten-fold during the new year, especially over the traditional holiday period," said deputy head of the ministry's Vietnam Food Administration Nguyen Thanh Phong at a press conference in Hanoi Dec. 16.
"To ensure food safety and hygiene during the festive season, we will boost awareness activities targeting food producers, traders and consumers," he said.
He also added that six inter-sectoral inspection groups would be set up to supervise food safety at markets in Hanoi, HCM City and provinces with border gates.
According to the administration, the country has reported 173 food poisoning cases this year, less than the average annual number of 200 over the last decade. Eighteen cases were reported with 323 people infected during the last quarter of 2010, of which four died due to eating puffer fish.
"Food poisoning is showing signs of reduction as compared with the same period in 2009, however 60 percent of the cases were in domestic outbreaks," said Phong.
"Most poisoning outbreaks related to poor food preservation or natural toxins found in mushrooms, puffer fish and toads," added Phong.
More than 200 workers of the Sametex International Company Limited were hospitalized due to food poisoning in Long An Province on December 16.
Doctor Vo Cong Luan, director of the Long An General Hospital, said that the workers suffered stomach ache, nausea and vomiting after having lunch and dinner at the company. Most of them have already regained health, but 65 are still being treated at the hospital.
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City to host international food festival
An international food festival featuring special dishes of more than 20 countries throughout the country will take place at the 23/9 (September 23) Park in Ho chi Minh City at the end of December, said the organizer, Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism of the city.
Visitors will have a chance to taste hundreds of dishes of over 20 countries worldwide in the international food festival. (Photo: KK)
Highlights of the event will include a cooking contest, giving visitors a chance to taste special dishes; a display of Vietnamese and world dishes; a new record of a giant banh xeo (Vietnamese rice pancake); music shows; folk games and more.
The opening ceremony will open with a parade and be broadcast live on Ho Chi Minh City Television's HTV9 channel on December 26.
The food festival will run until January 2.
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HCMC's international food festival attracts 24 countries worldwide
Over 24 countries around the world will take part in an international food festival to be held in the end of the year, announced the City's Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism on Tuesday.
The international food festival featuring hundreds of dishes of more than 20 countries will be held in Ho Chi Minh City from December 26 to January 2, 2011. (Photo: KK)The fifth "Taste of the world" festival 2010 will include 60 display booths, which will feature special dishes from around the world. In addition, it will offer a 10-50 percent discount at a certain time of the day (deemed the golden time) which is from 7pm to 9pm on December 31.
On this special night, celebrating the New Year's Eve, a music performance will be held.
The event also consists of a cooking contest, giving visitors a chance to taste special dishes from around the world; a display of Vietnamese; a new world record for a giant banh xeo (Vietnamese rice pancake); music shows; folk games and much more.
The opening ceremony will start with a parade and be broadcast live on Ho Chi Minh City Television's HTV9 channel.
Furthermore, a ceremony welcoming the third million visitors to come the city on December 12 will be held. The tourism sector expects to receive around 3.1 million international tourists this year.
In addition, the Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism will cooperate with the Department of Trade and Industry to organize the "Special promotion month" program offering 5-10 percent discount for visitors from December 15 to January 15, 2011.
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Banh Xeo – homeland flavored food
Out of several well-known Vietnamese traditional foods like Pho (noodles), Cha Gio (mince roll) and Saigon bread; Banh Xeo (sizzling cake) has been chosen to be representative for Vietnamese food in the vote "Ho Chi Minh City – 100 interesting things," hosted by the city Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Banh Xeo path
No one can remember how long Banh Xeo been presented in Vietnam's southern region. Maybe, it was from the 1940s, or the previous century. Banh Xeo is the rice pancake folded in half and filled with shrimp, meat and soya bean sprouts. Originally, Banh Xeo was sold as a popular food in markets from rural to urban areas.
Southern Banh Xeo
In the early 1980s, the number of restaurants in Saigon sharply diminished, including those selling Banh Xeo. This was due to many difficulties Vietnam suffered from years of war with both France and the United States.
Not until the middle of the decade, restaurants began selling a kind of cake that looked like Banh Xeo. It was made in much smaller pans, just about one fourth of the southern versions. The ingredients included rice flour, tiny shrimps, half fat and half-lean pork, bean sprouts and onions. The cakes were served with vegetables and prepared nuoc mam (fish sauce) mixed with lemon, garlic and chili.
Most of the sellers were from the central region, the cakes thus were called Banh Xeo Mien Trung (central rice pancakes), and it was a favorite food for many Saigon citizens at that time.
Since the 1990s, southern Banh Xeo returned with famous brand names such as Banh Xeo Dinh Cong Trang and Banh Xeo A Phu in Saigon. By 2007, An La Ghien was born with a large scope and professional service style to introduce southern Banh Xeo and other popular Vietnamese foods.
One year later, Muoi Xiem pancakes from the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho were introduced in HCMC.
Attracting sizzling sounds
The best time to eat Banh Xeo is when they are hot, straight from the pan, while the heat is still evaporating the yellow of the pancakes. Xeo Xeo (sizzling) is the sound of fried rice batter on hot pans.
Banh Xeo sizzles on the hot pans
While central Banh Xeo is placed in the center of the hot pan and looks a bit thick, the southern pancake covers a big pan with its edge very thin and crispy, containing hardly any oil.
Besides fresh tiny shrimps, half-fat and half lean meat, bean sprouts and onion, the southern Banh Xeo's stuffing includes steamed green beans.
Up to each season, southern pancake's stuffing would be diversified with mushrooms, dien dien (Sesbania bispinosa) flowers, and co hu dua (the youngest pith of a coconut tree top).
The specific characteristic of Banh Xeo is that it is eaten with your hand. Customers tear a piece of the pancake off and wrap it in fresh mustard green leaves together with five to six kinds of herbs, which help to reduce the oiliness. People who eat this food say the mellow aromas of the salt, the sweetness, the sourness and the fat sway them to eat more. Banh Xeo is a great dish to enjoy, especially in rainy days.
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Needle biopsy. After an anesthetic is given, the healthcare provider inserts the biopsy needle into the kidney to get a sample. Ultrasound or computed tomography (CT scan) may be used to guide the needle. Most kidney biopsies are done using this technique.
If your healthcare provider wants to sample a specific area of the kidney, the biopsy may be guided by ultrasound, fluoroscopy, or CT.
If you are pregnant or think you may be, tell your healthcare provider. Talk with your healthcare provider about the risks to the fetus from being exposed to an X-ray. Pregnancy does not always mean you can't have a kidney biopsy. It may be important for the health of the mother. Special precautions may be taken to protect both the mother and the fetus during a kidney biopsy.
You may not be able to have a kidney biopsy if you have an active kidney infection, certain bleeding conditions, uncontrolled high blood pressure, or have only one working kidney.
Your healthcare provider will tell you about the procedure, and you can ask questions.
Based on your medical condition, your healthcare team may request other specific preparations.
The biopsy site may be tender or sore for several days after the biopsy. Take a pain reliever for soreness as advised by your healthcare team. You may be told to not take aspirin or certain other pain medicines that may raise the chance of bleeding. Be sure to take only recommended medicines.
You may get back to your usual diet unless told otherwise. Your healthcare team may ask you to rest for a day or two. Do not do strenuous physical activity for several days. Do not do any type of "bouncing" activities, such as jogging, aerobics, playing tennis, or horseback riding for a couple of weeks to prevent bleeding of the biopsy site.


This issue was published more than ten years ago (2002). Yet, what has it lost? Not a damn thing. Not the exceptional artwork or the insanely good writing. It's as fresh and exciting today as it was when it was initially released.
I find, rereading the series after all this time, that a central question remains, one that carries all of the characters, reader included, to a frustrating non-answer: Namely, is this a book of forgetting, or a book of remembering? I tend to lean toward the latter, as the former seems too simple, too overt, too typical. No, this is a story of humanity–or should I qualify that by saying, roughly half of humanity, and its ability to carry on, to fight through overwhelming odds and painful, bitter disappointment.
And I believe Yorick, the story's main character, is just the court jester, exactly the mad clown, to take what's left of the deeply scarred world by the hand and gently remind it both of the natural wonderment of eyes-wide-open optimism and of the bold fierceness of human conviction. Yorick seeks not to remind those closest to him and those he meets after the masculine cataclysm of things past–far from it; rather, he seeks to remind them that, although life has ended for 50% of the population, life has nevertheless continued for the other half.
Yorick is a clown, to be sure, and he plays his role well. But he is not guilty of allowing the world to hold him in its hand and remember the way things used to be. Yorick, for all his shortcomings, is a man of the fates, not unlike Odysseus, favored by some god to be alive, ill-favored of another to be lost at sea, desperately seeking the shoreline. He is a physical reminder that, though the twists and turns may be many and far-reaching, the plaything of the gods yet lives, and that he has not yielded to the fates.
The ultimate lesson of issue #1, then, is not one of loss of memory, or even of the loss of something tangible. The real rhetorical culprit is that of harsh reality viewed through the lens of hormonal success. Where one chromosome ceases to be, another ceases to be self-aware, and begins to seize hold of the future.
NB: This review touches a bit on events that take place in subsequent issues. Each issue reviewed going forward will be self contained.


Novelist Augustus Trevor has written a manuscript that reveals the darkest secrets of his guests. Whoever can solve Trevor's clues can have his story removed from the book. But when Trevor is bludgeoned to death, the survivors (along with the reader) are challenged to find both the manuscript and the murderer.


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