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Pakistan hopeful of Manmohan visit soon
Islamabad, February 24
An agreement on Siachen is possible and the Sir Creek issue is nearing a resolution, a senior Pakistani official was quoted by a daily, triggering speculation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh undertaking an official visit here in the next two months.
Samjhauta Blasts
Trauma for divided Pak families
Karachi, February 24
Mohammad Sami says he may never go to India again to see his relatives after his parents and three siblings were burned to death in the firebombing of the "Friendship Express".
Cooperation with India to continue at all levels: US
Washington, February 24
The USA has said its cooperation with New Delhi will continue at "all levels", as India is one of the fastest-growing economies in South-east Asia.
N-tests not to hinder deal: US
Bodies of 7 victims reach Karachi
India, Pak reaction wins US praise
Pakistan's National Assembly demands joint investigation
India, Bangladesh join hands against terror
Support for Indian doctors gathers steam
US House faults Bush on Iraq
Pak arrests three suicide bombers
Major urban centres in India face quake risk: Study
North, South Korea to resume talks
Military option in Iran open: Cheney
Melbourne, February 24
Increasing pressure on Iran to forgo its nuclear ambition, US Vice-President Dick Cheney today left open the option of use of force to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
1 dead in UK train crash; probe begins
London, February 24
Investigators probed the cause of a high-speed train accident in northwest England which killed an elderly woman and seriously injured five other persons. The state-of-the-art Virgin Pendolino tilting train, heading from London to Glasgow, derailed at 95 mph shortly after 8 pm yesterday in a remote area of Cumbria and a number of carriages slid down an embankment.
Police officers stand near the Virgin Pendalino train that derailed on the west coast main line near the village of Grayrigg near Kendal in the Lake District, north-west England, on Saturday. — Reuters photo
Japan launches fourth spy satellite
Tokyo, February 24
Japan launched its fourth spy satellite today, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats, including North Korea, whose missile and nuclear tests have spooked the region.
Top Shia leader's son detained, released
Kut (Iraq), February 24
US troops detained on Friday the eldest son of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, one of Iraq's most powerful Shia leaders, outraging politicians from Iraq's Shia majority who warned of protests if he was not freed.
IAEA head to visit North Korea.
Gates speaks out against China's military capabilities.
'The News' also quoted an unnamed Pakistan Foreign Ministry official as saying that President Pervez Musharraf has kept his option open to attend the SAARC summit in New Delhi in April this year.
No specific dates were indicated by Manmohan Singh when Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri met him in the Indian capital this week to renew the invitation extended to the Prime Minister to visit Pakistan, the official said.
"Yes and no would be my reply for both the visits. There are plans but no dates set as yet," he said when asked about the visits.
Asked whether Musharraf would attend the SAARC summit, the official said, "I would say it is in the realm of an open call."
"What he did not say was that Islamabad needed some indication that Manmohan Singh had decided on dates before Musharraf would pack his designer sherwanis for Delhi," the newspaper said.
Last month External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, during his visit to Islamabad, extended the invitation to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz at the instance of Pakistan, although India had earlier said it would extend the invite to Musharraf himself. "However, chances cannot be ruled out," of Manmohan Singh visiting Pakistan, the official said.
"With Sir Creek nearing a resolution, one can sense an agreement on the Siachen glacier, which cannot be ruled out. Political will is needed," he said.
Pakistan also maintains that there is a sense after the Kasuri visit that the peace process between the two countries has become more or less irreversible, and the future of the composite dialogue will be slow, steady and at a deliberate pace, he said.
Pakistan expects India to share details of the Samjhauta Express blast probe at the anti-terror mechanism meeting here on March 6.
"While the Indian government has ruled out joint investigations, Kasuri has been assured by the Indian leadership that all facts and findings of the investigations will definitely be shared with us," he said, adding that "March 6 provides us with a good opportunity." — PTI
And he says when militants targeted people like his family-one of thousands divided by the bloody partition of India and Pakistan after independence in 1947 -- his hopes for peace on the subcontinent were shattered.
"It is a trauma for divided families like ours. We have lost everything in one incident-parents, a sister and two brothers," said Sami, a resident of Hyderabad, 160 kilometers from the southern port city of Karachi.
Sami came home to Pakistan just a month ago back after meeting with his relatives in India.
"I would have never thought that within weeks things would have changed so drastically," he said. "I may not go to India again as I have lost hope for peace and with it hope to see my relatives again."
Most of the millions of Muslims who fled India for the newly-created Pakistan 60 years ago migrated to the southern province of Sindh, especially its capital Karachi.
Transport links like the Friendship Express and the Thar Express, which runs across the border further south, have reunited many families after decades apart caused by hostility between Pakistan and India, which have fought three wars.
That meant that many of the 68 people killed in Sunday night's inferno were also visiting relatives in India.
Emotions ran high Thursday when the bodies of seven victims arrived here, with public outpourings of grief.
"What would be left if we lose hope for peace? There is no other option for our future generation," said Abdul Sattar (65) who has been visiting India by train for several years.
"Forces of darkness are trying to overcome the forces of progress and we have to fight it out," he said.
B.M. Kutty, a member of the Pakistan-India Peace Coalition, said the train was targeted "because it would have a very big impact on the masses in both countries."
He called the attack a bloody attempt to derail not only the Friendship Express but also the three-year-old peace process between the nuclear-armed South Asian rivals.
The leaders of both countries have shown maturity but more must be done to reassure the common people of the subcontinent, who mostly travel by train and bus, Kutty said.
"It will certainly take time to restore people's confidence. There should be more security but the trains should not be locked," he said, referring to reports that doors on the doomed express were shut tight.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have said the peace process must continue and there has been none of the fingerpointing at Islamabad that followed last year's Mumbai train blasts.
"We must go for a fast track to peace so that the peace train should not be derailed," said Anis Haroon, a prominent rights campaigner who is president of the Karachi-based Aurat (Woman) Foundation. — AP
Sridhar Krishnaswami
"Our contact with India is extensive and was fairly extensive prior to the civil nuclear agreement, and I think it's growing. Our ties are extensive," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said at a briefing here.
He said exchanges in education, trade and investment between the two countries were "extensive", which was a good sign.
"As you know, Indians living in the USA are a fairly large and growing part of our population. Our education exchanges are extensive. Our trade and investment exchanges are extensive. And I see these kinds of exchanges between all levels of our government continuing and growing, and I think that's a good sign," he said.
Asked what message President George W Bush will have for US investors as they look at China and India, the Spokesman argued that it is not a question of comparing India or China or any other large emerging markets.
"I think when you look at the world that way, you are operating under sort of a fixed-pie scenario. And actually what we see are growing economies — certainly in India, on the subcontinent, in China, and elsewhere in South-east Asia, growing economies in Brazil and South Africa," he said.
"As each of these economies grow and become more developed and become more integrated in the global economy, it's good for US investors and traders, it creates more opportunities and more value and improves the standard of living. So we see no threat to that," the spokesman said. — PTI
"It would be a serious mistake if a nation like Iran were to become a nuclear power," Cheney warned during a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
"All options are still on the table." Cheney said that the US was working with it allies to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear weapons programmes, and that it was Washington's preference for that to happen peacefully.
"The next step toward getting Iran to abandon its nuclear programmes was still being debated," he said.
Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with The Australian daily, Cheney said Iran has sponsored terrorism in the Middle East, and he accused Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of espousing an "apocalyptic philosophy" and making "threatening noises about Israel and the US and others".
He said Iran was a sponsor of terrorism, especially through Hezbollah. However, the US did not believe Iran possessed any nuclear weapons as yet. "You get various estimates of where the point of no return is," Cheney said, identifying nuclear terrorism as the greatest threat to the world. "Is it when they possess weapons or does it come sooner, when they have mastered the technology but perhaps not yet produced fissile material for weapons?" Cheney also encouraged further Australian involvement in Iraq: "The more allies we have and the more committed they are to the effort, the quicker we can anticipate success." — PTI
Investigators probed the cause of a high-speed train accident in northwest England which killed an elderly woman and seriously injured five other persons.
The state-of-the-art Virgin Pendolino tilting train, heading from London to Glasgow, derailed at 95 mph shortly after 8 pm yesterday in a remote area of Cumbria and a number of carriages slid down an embankment.
Emergency workers had to battle difficult conditions including torrential rain to try and reach around 120 passengers, some of whom were trapped in the overturned carriages. Police later said one elderly woman had died and 22 persons were injured, including five who had been seriously hurt.
Asked about the cause of the crash, police superintendent John Rush told a news conference: "We are unsure how that exactly has happened."
The leader of the Rail Maritime and Transport Union, Bob Crow, said it was thought a points failure was to blame.
"It's not vandalism and it's certainly not a cow," he told Sky News. "There's been some kind of points failure, what the reason is for that points failure we don't know."
Rush said the line would be closed for up to six days while investigations were carried out.
"You were suddenly aware of a jolt and the train started swaying really quite dramatically," BBC executive Caroline Thomson, a passenger, told BBC News 24 Television. She said the train then flipped over and came to rest on its side.
"The emergency vehicles are coming up and there are a lot of flashing lights. One carriage is lying quite dramatically ... off the line," she said from the scene, in farmland near the town of Kendal on the edge of the Lake District.
Royal Air Force Sea king helicopters ferried the injured to hospital. Twelve ambulances and 80 firefighters were rushed to the scene of the crash. — Reuters
Japan launched its fourth spy satellite today, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats, including North Korea, whose missile and nuclear tests have spooked the region. After three delays due to bad weather, the H-2A rocket finally lifted off into cloudy skies from the southern island of Tanegashima, carrying a radar satellite that joined three others, one radar and two optical, already in operation.
''The satellite has just gone into orbit and is operating normally,'' said a spokesman at the Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center, which operates the information-gathering system.
With the full complement of four satellites, Japan will be able to monitor any point on Earth once a day.
Japan's spy satellite programme was initiated after North Korea launched a ballistic missile in 1998 that flew over Japan. The programme was delayed in 2003 when a rocket carrying two satellites veered off course and had to be destroyed in a spectacular fireball. — Reuters
Ammar Hakim's convoy was stopped at a border checkpoint in eastern Wasit province as he returned from Iran, Iraqi security officials and a senior aide to Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim said.
He was released on Friday evening after being held for several hours. US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad sought to contain any political fallout from the incident, telling reporters in Baghdad that while he did not know the circumstances of the arrest. — Reuters
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The Herb Alpert Foundation and the California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) are pleased to announce the 2016 recipients of the annual Herb Alpert Scholarships for Emerging Young Artists. The Herb Alpert Foundation annually provides 21 scholarships for CSSSA students in seven disciplines…
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Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times – Trumpeter Herb Alpert, known for his unique brand of Latin-tinged jazz pop, and for being a co-founder of A&M Records, a label that released key albums by artists from Cat Stevens to Janet Jackson, is now making his mark on education.
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Bathurst Island (Northern Territory)
Bathurst Island (2,600 km2 or 1,000 sq mi,[1] 11°35′S 130°18′E) is one of the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory off the northern coast of Australia along with Melville Island.
This article is about the island in Australia. For the island in Canada, see Bathurst Island (Canada).
Bathurst Island (Northern Territory of Australia)
Timor Sea
11°35′S 130°18′E
Major islands
Bathurst, Buchanan
2,600 km2 (1,000 sq mi)
Largest settlement
Wurrumiyanga (pop. 1582)
Pop. density
0.63 /km2 (1.63 /sq mi)
The largest settlement on Bathurst is Wurrumiyanga (known as Nguiu until 2010), in the south-east, with a population of around 1,450.[2] Located on the south east corner of Bathurst Island, Wurrumiyanga is approximately 70 km (43 mi) north of Darwin. The second largest settlement is Wurakuwu, with a population of 50, located 60 km (37 mi) northwest of Wurrumiyanga. The third settlement on the island is a small family outstation called 4 Mile Camp, about 6 km (3.7 mi) west of Wurrumiyanga.
Indigenous Australians have occupied the area that became the Tiwi Islands for at least 40,000 years.[3]
The island was named after Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, who, like Viscount Melville, is also commemorated by a Canadian island.[4]
From 1910 to 1938 the island was the site of the Roman Catholic mission of Francis Xavier Gsell, known as the "Bishop with 150 wives" for his practice of "buying" girls betrothed to older men, thus making it possible for them to marry men of their own age.[4]
During the Bombing of Darwin the first wave of 188 Japanese planes was spotted by Father John McGrath, a Catholic priest conducting missionary work at the mission station on Bathurst Island. Father McGrath sent a message on the radio saying "An unusually large air formation bearing down on us from the northwest". Nearly everyone ignored this, though it was on the most popular radio station. About an hour later there were roughly 100 people dead, but the people who followed his instruction all survived. Darwin received both this and another warning at least twice by radio, no later than 9:37 a.m. However, 10 US P-40E Kittyhawk fighters were returning to Darwin after aborting a mission to Timor due to bad weather,[5] and the Australian duty officer assumed this was the same formation. The warnings were not acted upon so, as at Pearl Harbor two months earlier, Darwin's final chance to make last-minute preparations for the impending raid slipped away.
In film
Bathurst Island was depicted as Mission Island in the 2008 Baz Luhrmann film Australia. In the film, the mixed-race boy Nullah is kept at the mission on the island for the two months preceding the Bombing of Darwin. The mission is bombed in the raid, and the children hide from Japanese troops until their rescue. The presence of Japanese troops on the island is entirely fictional, as no such landing by the Japanese was made during World War II. There was only a Japanese plane that crashed on the island where the pilot was caught and handed over to the correct authorities.
"Size change". Encyclopædia Britannica entry on Bathurst island supporting size.
"Nguiu". Tiwi Islands Local Government website. Archived from the original on 9 December 2004.
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J. Franklin, The missionary with 150 wives Archived 2 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Quadrant 56 (7/8) (July 2012), 30-32.
Battle for Australia Association: The Bombing of Darwin
"Bathurst Island Mission 1911-1938-1978)". German missionaries in Australia. Griffith University.
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Q: Solve this Integral for $a$ where $a$ is a real number $$\large{\int_0^1 ((1-x^a)^\frac{1}{a}-x)^2 dx}$$
can anybody solve this step by step please?

A: It is useful to recall that, for any $a,b>0$
$$ \int_{0}^{1} u^{a-1}(1-u)^{b-1}\,du = B(a,b) = \frac{\Gamma(a)\Gamma(b)}{\Gamma(a+b)}.\tag{1}$$
Assuming $a\in\mathbb{R}^+$, that gives $ I = I_1 + I_2 + I_3 $, where:
$$ I_1 = \int_{0}^{1}(1-x^a)^{\frac{2}{a}}\,dx = \frac{1}{a}\int_{0}^{1}u^{\frac{1}{a}-1}(1-u)^{\frac{2}{a}}\,du =\frac{\Gamma\left(\frac{1}{a}\right)\Gamma\left(\frac{a+2}{a}\right)}{a\,\Gamma\left(\frac{a+3}{a}\right)},$$
$$ I_2 = -2\int_{0}^{1} x(1-x^a)^{\frac{1}{a}}\,dx = -\frac{2}{a}\int_{0}^{1}u^{\frac{2}{a}-1}(1-u)^{\frac{1}{a}}\,du = -2\,\frac{\Gamma\left(\frac{2}{a}\right)\Gamma\left(\frac{a+1}{a}\right)}{a\,\Gamma\left(\frac{a+3}{a}\right)}$$
$$ I_3 = \int_{0}^{1}x^2\,dx = \frac{1}{3} \tag{2}$$
and by using $\Gamma(z+1)=z\,\Gamma(z)$ we get:
$$ I = \frac{2}{3a}\left(\frac{\Gamma\left(\frac{1}{a}\right)\Gamma\left(\frac{2}{a}\right)}{\Gamma\left(\frac{3}{a}\right)}-\frac{\Gamma\left(\frac{2}{a}\right)\Gamma\left(\frac{1}{a}\right)}{\Gamma\left(\frac{3}{a}\right)}\right)+\frac{1}{3}=\bbox[5px,border:2px solid #C0A000]{\color{red}{\frac{1}{3}}}\tag{3}$$
Probably we missed some straightforward symmetry, but in any case the answer does not depend on $a$.

We can check that also without using the Beta machinery. Let $f_a(x)=(1-x^a)^{\frac{1}{a}}$.
Through the substitution $x=(1-y^a)^{1/a}$ we have:
$$ I = \int_{0}^{1} (f_a(x)-x)^2\,dx = -\int_{0}^{1}f_a'(y) (f_a(y)-y)^2\,dy \tag{4}$$
hence:
$$ -2I = \int_{0}^{1}(f_a'(y)-1)(f_a(y)-y)^2\,dy = \frac{1}{3}\left.\left(f_a(y)-y)\right)^3\right|_{0}^{1}=-\frac{2}{3}\tag{5}$$
from which $I=\frac{1}{3}$ readily follows.
This proves that it is enough to exploit the fact that $f_a(x)$ is an involutive map, and also proves that:

$$ \forall a\in\mathbb{R}^+,n\in\mathbb{N},\qquad \int_{0}^{1}\left(\left(1-x^a\right)^{\frac{1}{a}}-x\right)^{2n}\,dx = \frac{1}{2n+1}. \tag{6}$$

A: We have
$$\int_0^1\left((1-x^a)^{1/a}-x\right)^2dx=\int_0^1(1-x^a)^{2/a}dx-2\int_0^1(1-x^a)^{2/a}dx+\int_0^1x^2\,dx \tag 1$$
For the first and second integrals on the right-hand side of $(1)$, let $x=t^{1/a}$ so that $dx=\frac1a t^{1/a-1}$.  Then, we have
$$\begin{align}
\int_0^1(1-x^a)^{2/a}dx&=\frac1a\int_0^1t^{1/a-1}(1-t)^{2/a}dt\\\\
&=\frac1a B\left(\frac1a,1+\frac2a\right) \tag 2
\end{align}$$
$$\begin{align}
\int_0^1x(1-x^a)^{1/a}dx&=\frac1a\int_0^1t^{2/a-1}(1-t)^{1/a}dt\\\\
&=\frac1a B\left(\frac2a,1+\frac1a\right) \tag3
\end{align}$$
where in $(2)$ and $(3)$, $B(x,y)$ is the Beta Function defined by
$$B(x,y)=\int_0^1t^{x-1}(1-t)^{y-1}dt$$
Finally, using $(2)$ and $(3)$ in $(1)$ gives
$$\int_0^1\left((1-x^a)^{1/a}-x\right)^2dx=\frac13+\frac1a\left( B\left(\frac1a,1+\frac2a\right)-2B\left(\frac2a,1+\frac1a\right)\right)$$
Using $B(x,1+y)=B(x,y)\frac{y}{x+y}$, it is easy to see that the terms involving the Beta Function cancel and we are left with
$$\bbox[5px,border:2px solid #C0A000]{\int_0^1\left((1-x^a)^{1/a}-x\right)^2dx=\frac13}$$
which agrees with the answer provided by @JackD'Aurizio!

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This week, we visited Holition who describe themselves as an augmented retail company. They create augmented reality apps for companies that want to use technology to give customers a better experience.
The augmented reality scene has exploded in recent years with all sorts of companies getting involved, from fashion and beauty to travel and education. By using a smartphone with its inbuilt cameras, accelerometers and gyroscopes, you can point your camera over something and a digital augmentation can be placed on top of what you're seeing. Snapchat have brought automated reality to everyone with their filters that track your face in real-time and apply a digitally created mask. This software creates a mesh of your face and can pinpoint features to detect which parts are moving, it can then overlay a premade design and as you move your face in real life, the design will move too on screen.
Snapchat manipulates users faces with Augmented Reality.
Holition have worked with many companies in the beauty space such as Charlotte Tilbury, Covergirl and L'Oreal, using augmented reality to let customers experiment with different make-up looks using their phone. They worked with Rimmel on an app called Get the Look, that lets anyone 'get the London look'. Using your phone's camera you can take a photo of anyone you see, a celebrity or beauty ad and it will work out what make-up they're wearing. Then using the app and augmented reality, you can see how that make up looks on you - in real-time. The app then shows you which Rimmel products to buy to create the look in real life.
This app is extremely clever as they have used this is new technology in a way that really engages people and makes it easy to buy products. We had the opportunity to try prototypes of the app and see how it really works. I was surprised at how accurate it was and how simple it is for the end user. The accuracy of the augmentation means you feel like you're really wearing the make up so you get a real feel for whether it suits you are not. This accuracy is key as it turns what could've been a gimmick or novelty app into a really powerful tool for potential customers of Rimmel.
From a commercial perspective it will get many more consumers buying Rimmel products as they can digitally test them out on their own face before spending any money. This is one way in which technology has solved a problem and made it easier, cheaper and more engaging for customers to try on make up. And because it is all digital, users can change colours and make up styles with just a few taps letting them try dozens of looks in no time.
I think as time goes on, we will see more and more of these augmented reality solutions being used by companies to sell products in an engaging way. UNIQLO created a 'Magic mirror' which also used augmented reality to let you quickly try on clothes without having to get changed. Augmented reality in the retail sector is still fairly new so as it becomes more and more widely available, it will become a normal occurrence to try on products digitally before you buy.
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Comrie, and a large part of Scotland for that matter, abounded with illicit distilling and smuggling. At the end of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries most folk in our area were busy earning a living mainly by working as weavers or in the flax industry labouring on local farms by day, other activities occurred by night. Some, to supplement their meagre wages, took up distilling their own spirits and smuggling. This activity was called the "ewie wi' the crookit horn." For many it became a favourite evening pastime and developed into a rare art form involving creativity and imagination. It provided hard-needed cash, and, as a by- product, was a constant source of delight and pleasure to all when the stories were told about those who had been able to hoodwink the local Excise officers.
Stills were established throughout the area and distribution was organised with the principal traders coming from Stirling and known as "the Stirling Band." They were a fearless lot, well-mounted, and not to be trifled with easily, and the Excise men learned to their cost, that they should not be taken lightly.
On one occasion a company of dragoons who were stationed in Auchterarder, "the Lang Toun," rode into Comrie accompanied by some Excise officers. The villagers immediately suspected that something was in the wind. Those in the village, "in the know," knew that a party of smugglers with a quantity of contraband whisky were coming down Glen Lednock just at that time. At once a number of the younger weavers left their looms and took the road past Comrie House and headed towards the glen. There they met a well known smuggler, Donald Garrow, who was carrying two small casks of whisky over his shoulders. The weavers told him what was afoot in the village and at first Donald was somewhat disbelieving. However, when he realised they were in earnest he said that the main party of smugglers were behind further up the glen.
The young weavers hurried on and, at Kingarth farmhouse, they met the smugglers. This merry band were pushing and pulling two carts loaded with full casks of whisky. At that time there were several clumps of trees growing nearby with several hollows in the ground, and the smugglers decided to hide the whisky in these hollows concealing them as best as possible. The weavers then returned towards Comrie and on the way met the dragoons who were proceeding up the steep slope from the Deil's Cauldron. The dragoons, for fun and some amusement, started to beat the weavers with the flat blades of their swords, and the lads fled into the woods. However, they still kept a watch on the movements of the dragoons who continued up the glen past the place where the smugglers and the whisky were concealed. Once the coast was clear, and the dragoons out of sight, the weavers helped the smugglers bring their contraband down to the village where it was taken into Elder Ferguson's public house (subsequently it became Mr. Burnett's bakery).
When the dragoons returned to Comrie after their fruitless ride up the glen they were chagrined to see the smugglers and the weavers hobnobbing together and evidently laughing up their sleeves at them. They initiated a vigorous search and when they came a little bit too close to finding the whisky, it was removed from the Elder's house and carried to the garret of the Reverend Samuel Gilfillan's manse which was close by. The manse was attached to the Church and there was a small opening between the garret and the Church where young Mrs. Gilfillan used to sit and hear her husband preach while nursing her bairns. The smuggled whisky was removed from the garret through this opening into the Church and put into a cupboard recess that was under the pulpit where it remained until the search was abandoned. Rather than retrieve it immediately, the "treasure" was left there for some time with the good Reverend preaching over the top of it, Sabbath after Sabbath! What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over!
One of the noted smugglers from our area, Peter M'Arthur, was a married crofter who lived at Montillie on the Aberuchill estate with his wife and family. Known to be involved in the "business," the Excise men were always out to catch him in the act and led several raids on his home. On one occasion a party of Excise men surrounded his house one night and was spotted just before the raid occurred. At the time there was a fair amount of whisky in the house and Peter and his family were in a pretty fix. They had been caught out...redhanded, no less!
It so happened that Peter's brother, Arthur, was visiting the house at that time. Realising the situation, he grabbed an empty cask which he hoisted on his shoulder and bolted outside. Seeing him dash out the house with the barrel on his shoulder, and watching him run towards the Aberuchill Mountains at the back of the house, the Excise men gave chase. Arthur was young and strong and as fit as a fiddle and led the Excise men a merry dance over the hills, taking them well away from the house. In the meantime Peter and his family gathered up their illicit stock and hid it. Arthur was eventually captured, complete with the empty barrel, and, of course, could not be charged. The Excise men feeling and knowing they had been done could only grin and bear it!
On another occasion Peter was caught red-handed and taken prisoner. He was tied with a rope and pulled behind a horse. In this fashion he was conveyed from Aberuchill along the Ross. When the party passed the Ross wood he complained that they were travelling too fast, and that he could not keep up with them. The leader of the party ordered one of his men to pull his horse up at the side of a dyke and ordered Peter to mount behind him. Once on top of the dyke, and although his hands were still tied Peter leapt to the other side. Although the Excise unslung their carbines, and called to him to surrender, he made good his escape.
Later on in his "career" he was caught again and this time the Excise managed to get him as far as Crieff. There, his escort halted for refreshments in a house at the west end of the town and while they were being served, Peter bolted into the street. He ran down Tannery Street and into the tannery which was open. Through the tannery he ran and out the back door and made his way to where the Turret Burn meets the Earn, and once there he plunged in. Although the river was in spate he swam to the other side with his pursuers standing watching him impotently, and made his way home safely. Eventually he was caught and brought to the bar, was sentenced and spent some time in prison. Thereafter, he lived to a ripe old age, and was liked by his neighbours who knew him to have a kind and obliging disposition.


Several students attending Northern Illinois University began to explore the idea of joining Greek Life. Although there were Greeks at NIU, no Greek organizations on-campus catered to a Pan-American Multi-Cultural community that embraced culture, individualism, leadership and teamwork for their professional development. They were compelled by the importance of Greek Life in enhancing the university life experience. In the fall of 1998, these individuals commenced their journey in founding a Brotherhood and Sisterhood that catered to Pan-American Multi-Cultural Professionals focusing on teamwork, leadership, individualism, culture, higher education and community enhancement through community service.
On November 24, 1998, Delta Psi Alpha was founded at Northern Illinois University.
In the fall of 1999, one of the founding members of Alpha Chapter transferred and attended Southern Illinois University - Carbondale where students interested in expanding onto the university approached him. On the November 18, 1999, the Beta Chapter was founded and the journey continued.
Why a Pan-American culture and fraternal association?
The Pan-American Continent (North, Central, and South America(s) also known as the new world has gone through a historical change, evolution, cross culturing, and diversity since its colonization. The global community influenced education, government, politics, religion, values, music, art, food, and science onto the indigenous communities of the Americas. Today, the people of the Pan-American Continent are descendants of Indigenous or Native American(s), Iberian, Hispanic, Spanish, Chinese, Caucasian, African, French, Britannic, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindu, and many other global communities. As new generations are born on the Pan-American Continent, our diverse community becomes acclimated to a vision, dream, and a prosperous future and become one heterogeneous community. Understanding this diversity, new culture trends, and cultural sensitivity will help in developing successful team players, leaders, and individuals. Delta Psi Alpha believes globalization started on this continent through the embracing of the diverse communities. A Fraternal Association of Pan-American Professionals will assist in fostering and advocating Pan-American cultural awareness, diverse workforce comprised of different genders, and ethnic groups, Corporate America, and technological trends.


Making the perfect cup of coffee can be hard, replicating that result each and every time is even harder. If you seek to achieve quality and consistency at home or at your workplace, you may find yourself disappointed. Different people using the same blend of coffee and the same espresso machine can produce startlingly different results.
This variation in coffee quality and strength was the subject of a recent article in the Sunday Mail 'Why Coffee Isn't All Black and White' based on a paper soon to be published in the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. This article discusses the fact that testing reveals the strength of the caffeine in your typical cup of coffee can vary from shop to shop even within the same chain of coffee retailers. As most chains will use the same equipment and blend of coffee throughout their businesses, how can this variation possibly occur? The wild card is the barista who makes your coffee! Different baristas will make coffee differently with variations in the amount of coffee used, the amount of tamping, the temperature and pressure of the water flow and his adherence and efficiency in the cleaning of the espresso machine. Each of these decisions and actions of your barista affects the taste and the strength of the coffee from cup to cup within the same blend.
How does this affect you at home or in the office?
Well if different baristas can make coffee from the same source using the same models of machine and produce different tasting coffee, how can we mere mortals be expected to make that perfect cup of coffee every time?
You may have experienced that poor cup of coffee yourself! A colleague or friend may make terrible coffee, even if they normally make good coffee - it could be that they are having a bad day and offer up a lousy cup.
At home a bad cup of coffee may not help you to start you up for the day, while in the office you may offer coffee to drink for waiting clients or in meetings - a bad cup of coffee here can easily give the wrong impression.
Capsule coffee machines like the Nespresso® system take the guess work out of making coffee, allowing anyone to produce a consistently good cup of coffee. It doesn't matter who makes the coffee or what they are feeling like at the time, you know that by using a capsule system, the taste of the coffee will be consistent. The major disadvantage of capsule coffee machines in comparison to regular espresso coffee machines is their limited range of coffee blends. Capsul'in empty coffee capsules allow you to use the coffee of your choice from your roaster and produce a consistent cup of coffee you can be proud of every single time. Capsul'in also allows you to support local business.
A bad cup of coffee can ruin anyone's day.


I added frozen peas in this and made it as peas poha, you can use fresh peas or any veggies in this as well.
Take poha in a bowl, add water over it. let it sit for 30 sec, then drain it and remove excess water.
Now take that in a bowl, sprinkle salt, sugar, lemon juice, chilli powder and turmeric over it and mix well.
Heat oil in a pan, add in mustard seeds and cumin seeds and let them sizzle.
Add in ginger and green chillies and saute for few sec.
Add in peas and mix well.
Now add in the poha and stir fry for few mins.


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'They're not an NFL team': Wolverines refuse to be cowed by Crimson Tide
Angelique S. Chengelis
Winter Park, Fla. — Everyone is aware of Alabama's phenomenal success under coach Nick Saban.
The Tide have played in six national title games since 2011 and won four. Saban also won a national championship at LSU in 2003 and at Alabama in 2009.
Michigan (9-3) and Alabama (10-2) will meet in the Citrus Bowl on New Year's Day, the fifth time the programs have met. Michigan first-year offensive coordinator Josh Gattis was co-offensive coordinator at Alabama last year and has shared as much insight into the Tide as possible with Michigan coaches and players.
Tight end Sean McKeon said what stood out from what Gattis has told them about Alabama is that the team is not infallible. After all, Alabama lost two games this season, although it shouldn't be forgotten that the Tide lost quarterback Tua Tagovailoa late in the season to a hip injury.
"They're not an NFL team," McKeon said Saturday after practice. "They can be beat like any other team. Just because they're Alabama doesn't mean we can't compete and beat them. Obviously, they've lost twice this year already so just kinda playing our best football, and I think we can get the job done."
McKeon said the Wolverines are particularly motivated coming off a disappointing loss to Ohio State in the regular-season finale, the eighth-straight win by the Buckeyes in the rivalry. Alabama also lost in its final game, a shootout with rival Auburn.
"We're pretty hungry, especially coming off a loss like that, just to get back out there and play better," he said. "Definitely, this victory would mean a lot for the program, a lot for the guys next year coming back, so definitely we're very motivated."
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Michigan opened the Big Ten season with a 35-14 loss at Wisconsin and finished with a 56-27 loss to OSU, snapping a four-game win streak during which the Wolverines, particularly on offense, seemed to have found their rhythm.
What would a win over Alabama prove?
"I mean, win over Alabama, of course, would be great," center Cesar Ruiz said Saturday. "It would just prove that we are a great football team. We can play with the best. We can win big games, you know?"
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and his players have emphasized the importance of getting a 10th victory. Bowl games are not only about wrapping a bow on the season but also giving the program a springboard into next season.
McKeon won't be back, but leading receiver Ronnie Bell returns for his junior season. Bell said that even though the Wolverines were coming off a loss in the Peach Bowl, they were motivated heading into winter conditioning and spring practice.
"I'm just excited for the offseason because I understand now because I got a taste of what the offseason can do for you in the season," Bell said. "I'm really excited for this offseason, to get even more prepared for next season."
achengelis@detroitnews.com
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Q: How do I access a static variable in my HTML and iterate over it I have to iterate through a static variable.
<div *ngFor=" let j= index">
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I have two loops, the first loop iterates over an i index and the second one iterates over j, so i want j to have unique values, not depending on i. In the current situation j loops from 0 to a specific length and when i gets incremented , j starts with 0 again, but I do not want that, I want j to have unique values.
Is it posssible to achieve it?

A: with this code let j= index you are storing index each time in the loop
you can simply declare a variable and assign static value to it then use it wherever you want
and this is not the right way to write for in angular it should be like
*ngFor="let eachOne  of  theNameOfYourArray; let eachIndex= index"


In March 2013, a group of World Land Trust (WLT) representatives organised a birdwatching trip to Ecuador. The party consisted of Nigel Simpson, WLT Trustee, Kevin Cox and Alan Martin, both Council Members and Renton Righelato, former Chairman of Trustees. The group stayed at a number of reserves supported by WLT donations, now owned and managed by Fundación Jocotoco (FJ).
Nigel, Kevin, Alan and Renton were joined by Dr Niels Krabbe (a Board member of FJ, and co-author of The Birds of the High Andes) and Francisco Sornoza (Conservation Director and first Chief Executive of Fundación Jocotoco). They travelled at their own expense. This is an extract of Nigel's account of the visit.
We were met by two rangers, Luis and Silvio, from the local community of Yanacocha. Although a rather cloudy, misty day, it was fine for birdwatching and seeing the reforestation work in progress.
Swordbills, Scarlet-bellied Mountain Tanagers, other colourful mountain tanagers, splendid views of Ocellated Tapaculo, and Tawny Antpitta (at a worm-feeder) were some of the highlights. We were disappointed not to see the critically threatened Black-breasted Puffleg, a flagship species of this reserve and emblem of Quito.
After lunch we drove up to the high-paramo sector of the reserve at about 4,000m where the condor feeder is located, and where Niels 'rediscovered' the Imperial Snipe in 1988. Polylepis trees have been planted up here also.
Bleak and cold but very impressive scenery with the huge ice-cap on the volcano clearly visible. Stopped to see Chimborazo Hillstars – a species of hummingbird that is found in grassland, scrub and stunted woodland at altitudes of 3,500 to 5,200 metres (11,500 to 17,100 ft).
The Chimborazo Hillstar, also called the Ecuadorian Hillstar, is the highest living of all hummingbirds, and no other species of hummingbird occurs at higher altitudes in the Andes of Ecuador.
On the high plateau were many Carunculated Caracaras, Paramo Pipit and a dozen or so Andean Condors including a party of five birds feeding on carrion in the distance.
We visited the famous Hacienda Antisana in the foothills of the volcano. The reserve, now owned by the Government and the City of Quito, is adjacent to the heritage site of Humboldt's Cabin where naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt worked. Here we saw a Barn Owl!
A large number of the Black-faced Ibis were present (more than 30), Bairds Sandpipers on migration, Andean Lapwings and Gulls. Giant Hummingbird on the feeder at the visitors lodge at Guyatara.
We then began our journey to Jorupe Reserve, in the south-west of Ecuador, stopping off en route at the Buenaventura Reserve which is a hybrid habitat comprising both Chocó and Tumbesian biomes.
The climate here is controlled by the cold Humboldt Current whose track north from the Antarctic fades out just north of the Ecuador border. This is the area where the El Nino climate event first makes itself apparent.
The hummingbird feeders around the Buenaventura Umbrellabird Lodge were very busy – with up to 200 birds buzzing around – mainly Green Thorntails and White-necked Jacobins, but about 15 species in all. We stayed three nights and walked and drove to different parts of the reserve.
We saw Long-wattled Umbrellabirds busy at their lek (mating display). Club-winged Manakins at leks also. Toucans, Parrots, motmots, aracaris, numerous tanagers in abundance. Elegant Swallow-tailed Kites on migration circling low over the forest and the lodge for much of the time.
Both the specialities of the reserve – the El-Oro Parakeet and the El-Oro Tapaculo – were spotted after some effort. Grey-cheeked Parakeets and Grey-backed Hawk were two other globally threatened species seen, as well as Rufous-headed Chachalaca.
We were able to see some of the first trees planted in the reforestation program. Planted as seedlings in November 2004, they are now 15 metres tall with a good coating of epiphytic plants on them.
The insect life – especially large moths – was impressive each night. Hawk moths, and one moth apparently with the world's largest wingspan, and splendid cicadas and Praying Mantis, and Morpho Butterflies.
Howler Monkeys were calling at dawn and dusk.
Due to a lack of time we were unable to visit the Yunguilla Reserve where there is a small but thriving population of Pale-headed Brush-Finches, once thought to be extinct but 'rediscovered' in 1998.
We arrived at Jorupe Reserve and the Urraca Lodge after about six hours travel, including minor waits along the way for landslides to be cleared, and army (border) checkpoints.. At the end of the day we went to see a day-roost of the large Spectacled Owl.
Jorupe is in the Tumbesian which stretches from the SW corner of Ecuador south into much of north west coastal Peru. Breakfast at Jorupe is quite an event as rangers put out corn for feed in front of the dining room.
As predicted, a flock of about 20 Red-masked Parakeets and several large handsome Guayaquil Squirrels arrived, then a Pale-browed Tinamou. This bird is often heard and seldom seen, so it is quite an attraction.
Last bird on the feeding list was the attractive White-tailed Jay, known locally as the Urraca which the visitor lodge is named after. About three or four arrived for the corn.
A King Vulture obliged by flying over, as did three large Hawks – Savannah, Harris's and Zone-tailed.
Threatened species seen included Rufous-necked and Henna-hooded Foliage Gleaners, Rufous-headed Chachalaca, Blackish-headed Spinetail, plus local specialities, Watkins Antpitta, Tumbes Hummingbird, and Bairds Flycatcher.
We went out at night to try and hear the very rare Buff-fronted Owl, which had recently visited the lodge dining room, but with no success.
The deciduous forest was in full leaf as it was the wet season. The huge pale-green trunked Ceiba (kapok) trees are the signature species here. The lodge facilities are carefully positioned around these in the forest and offer wonderful views.
After a drive of more than six hour drive north east across the Andes Continental Divide (twice), we came to Tapichalaca Reserve, the first reserve established by FJ to this protect cool, wet cloud-forest habitat for the newly discovered Jocotoco Antpitta.
After Loja (which is in the Amazon drainage) we climbed a pass once more into the Pacific side. After a break in Vilcabamba we continued south. At Yangana village we stopped to socialise with several local families many of whom have had involvement with FJ for several years. Most of the Tapichalaca land purchases were made from Yangana based farmers, and most of the reserve rangers have their homes there.
Wet temperate forest in Tapichalaca Reserve on the east slope of the Andes. © Nigel Simpson.
We were welcomed at the Casa Simpson Lodge (built in 2000) by Byron the Administrator, Franco and Vicente (rangers), and the catering staff. We spent three nights there.
On the first morning the main event was to see the Jocotoco Antpittas at the feeder. They performed perfectly with Franco Mendoza the Head Ranger providing the encouragement. The two adults and two young birds (out of nine young raised so far) appeared.
The first day we had a slow wander through the cloud forest followed by a longer stop at a ridge top with views in all directions. An Andean Potoo had its day perch there. A Dusky Piha was another rare visitor to the spot, together with endangered Golden-plumed Parakeets and two threatened Bearded Guans.
We spent the next day on the lower slopes of the reserve at about 2,000m altitude where a different set of species resides. This is also the main area for FJ tree planting and large areas have been restored over the past six years.
Globally endangered White-breasted Parakeets arrived in the evening to roost in nest boxes provided for them – about a dozen birds in all. This was also a chance to have a look at the road-expansion work now taking place along this section, near and below the lodge.
At the bridge over the river at Valladolid village, we had a good sighting of Andean Dipper and Torrent Duck.
On the final day, we also travelled further south of Valladolid to altitudes of about 1,500m, where we saw another set of species, including yet more varieties of multi-coloured tanagers. Very little forest remains in these warmer sunnier climes – just a few fragments, the rest having been cleared for pasture.
The final highlight of the trip, on the final day, a rare Andean Paca came for some food from outside the kitchen.
We had a very successful and enjoyable visit. We saw nearly 400 species of birds and a wide sample of conservation work supported by World Land Trust in partnership with Fundación Jocotoco. The travel arrangements were complex, but worked out perfectly and we were received with great hospitality from both colleagues at Fundación Jocotoco and the people we came across on our travels.


The Green Fiji Acropora is a more difficult Acropora to find, yet a treasure to own!
The Green Fiji Acropora is also known as the Bushy Acropora. A. bushyensis gets its name from the "bushy" looking polyps that project from the corallites. They grow in an interesting "ball" like formation with digitate projections emanating from the center.
The aqua cultured specimens have the more intense greens and yellows, as opposed to the wild specimens which are creams to light browns. For instance, the coral above, called the Green Fiji, is a green bushy coral (as evidenced by its color and the name A. bushyensis). Definitely a unique looking Acropora to add to your collection if you can find them.
The A. bushyensis have been propagated in captivity thus helping to spare wild populations in the world's reefs. Buying captive propagated A. bushyensis helps the aquarist, since they are a little more hardy than their wild siblings, but they can still succumb to diseases typical to Acros.
Distribution / Background Acropora Coral Information: The Green Fiji Acropora Acropora bushyensis was described by Veron and Wallace in 1984. They are in what is called the lovelli group of Acroporas that also include A. verweyi, A lovelli, and A. glauca. They all have similar responses to growth patterns from the water movement around them. They are in a finger growth pattern called digitate, which refers to the fingerlike projections from their central base. Some of their growth forms have been included in common names such as Bushy Acropora, Finger Acropora, or Green Bushy Acropora.
Where Acropora Corals Are Found: A. bushyensis inhabit only the southern areas of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the east, as well as Papua New Guinea.
Acropora Coral Habitat: The A. bushyensis are almost always found in reef lagoons In the wild.
Status The Acropora bushyensis is on the IUCN Red List for Endangered Species as Least Concern (LC).
Description What do Acropora Corals look like: All Acropora Spp. corals have very porous and lightweight skeletons. The A. bushyensis have a finger growth pattern called digitate, which refers to the fingerlike projections from their central base. The cylindrical and slightly tapering branches radiate from the middle of the colony. They have corallites that face outward as opposed to upward, giving it a unique appearance. Acropora bushyensis colors can be cream or pale brown with blue tips, and some aqua cultured colors of yellow to green are also available.
Acropora Coral Life Cycles: The Green Fiji Acropora or Bushy Acropora A. bushyensis reaches sexual maturity within 3 to 5 years. Like many other Acroporas, they may grow up to 20 inches (51 cm). They can live 4 to 7 years.
Acropora need to be carefully acclimated to their new homes. They need to be placed in their permanent position within a tank after acclimation. It takes about 5 to 6 months for the A. bushyensis to regain their normal growth rates after being added to an aquarium. Moving Acropora from place to place will stress them, and possibly cause death.
A typical live rock/reef environment is what is needed for your Green Fiji Acropora, along with some fish for organic matter production. A mature tank (well over a year old) is advised to increase the chance of successfully keeping Acropora.
Availability Acropora Corals for Sale: The Green Fiji Acropora A. bushyensis are difficult to find online and at pet stores. Online they can run about $30.00 USD or more depending on size and color.


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Switch from fossil fuels to electricity could cost $1.4 trillion, Canadian Gas Association warns | CBC News Loaded
Switch from fossil fuels to electricity could cost $1.4 trillion, Canadian Gas Association warns
The Canadian Gas Association says building renewable electricity capacity to replace just half of Canada's current fossil fuel-generated energy could increase national costs by as much as $1.4 trillion over the next 30 years.
Association is calling for integration of natural gas with electric
The Canadian Press · Posted: Oct 16, 2019 5:22 PM MT | Last Updated: October 16, 2019
A gas association is calling for the integration of natural gas with electric instead of an electric-only option, as a cost-efficient way for Canada to reach environmental policy goals. (Colin Perkel/The Canadian Press)
In a report, it contends that growing electricity's contribution to Canada's energy mix from its current 19 per cent to about 60 per cent will require an expansion from 141 gigawatts today to between 278 and 422 GW of renewable wind, solar and storage capacity by 2050.
It says that will increase national energy costs by between $580 billion and $1.4 trillion between 2020 and 2050, translating into an average increase in Canadian household spending of $1,300 to $3,200 per year.
Oil and gas giant sets big target of net zero oilsands emissions
Worried about climate change? You've got a tough decision to make
The study, prepared by consulting firm ICF for the association, assumes electrification begins in 2020 and is applied in all feasible applications by 2050, with investments in the electricity system proceeding as existing natural gas and electric end use equipment reaches normal end of life.
Association CEO Tim Egan says the numbers are "pretty daunting" and support the integration of natural gas with electric instead of using an electric-only option as the most cost-efficient way for Canada to reach environmental policy goals.
But Keith Stewart, senior energy strategist with Greenpeace Canada, says scientists are calling for the world to get to net-zero emissions by 2050 to avoid "catastrophic" levels of warming, so investing in natural gas infrastructure to then shut it down seems a "very expensive option."


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Q: VNC session on Ubuntu 16 with Gnome looks like gray "theme" This is not the gray screen from many other questions in this forum. It looks like something in the window manager fails. An image is attached here

What can be done in order to run gnome window manager properly?


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Hublot Spirit of Big Bang 42mm
Hublot is known around the world for their larger, bold designs. Some collections literally have the word bold in their nomenclature. While this reference does not, the Hublot Spirit of Big Bang Green Saxem is definitely one of their boldest designs yet – both technically and aesthetically.
Hublot has made a huge investment in the industrialisation of sapphire – a notoriously difficult material to produce. This sapphire, or SAXEM, case is a deep green that can compete with the finest emeralds, with a brilliance that comes close to that of a diamond. SAXEM, an acronym for Sapphire Aluminium oXide and rare Earth Mineral, is a unique and proprietary blend of materials Hublot has developed that results in stunning and colourful luxury watch cases. Hublot explains, "In order to obtain this unparalleled shade of green, transparency and radiance, the Hublot manufacture – an expert in the concept of fusion – mixed aluminium oxide, the basic component of sapphire, with rare-earth elements like thulium and holmium as well as chromium." Hublot claims the resulting material is both harder than emerald (which is too soft to be machined) and has a brilliance greater than a standard sapphire. SAXEM also ensures that the colour is uniform from all angles as the light plays magnificently with the case. Every detail is considered here, with even the bezel and case screws endowed with the signature H of the brand's name. With a tonneau Hublot Spirit of Big Bang 42mm case, this is definitely among the more wearable Hublot models within the catalogue.
Like its case, the dial and its crystal (as well as its exhibition caseback) are made of sapphire treated with an anti-reflective coating. The skeletonised aesthetic is every gear-head's dream, and gives a modern and technical aesthetic to its display. While some skeletonised watches have the downfall of being less legible, the case-matching green hands, markers and registers provide a nice contrasting pop of colour that makes the watch easier to read. At 4:30, there is a green framed window that signals the current date. While green date numerals may have been easier to read, the grey numerals framed in its green window are by no means illegible. At 9 is the running seconds, with the central seconds hand reserved for the chronograph complication. The elapsed time registers can be found at 3 and 6, signalling the elapsed minutes and hours respectively. The hands and markers are treated with luminous materials to ensure visibility at night as well.
The strap, according to Hublot, is a "Transparent Green Structured Lined Strap". In layman's terms, it's a gorgeous transparent green rubber strap. It is a supple rubber that is highly comfortable and highly resistant to the elements. The conforming rubber material also makes for a much more wearable watch. It's versatile in form and function, capable of both the beach and the boardroom. While a mere mortal such as myself may not be inclined to take a dip in the water with this watch, both its 50m water resistant case and rubber strap are water resistant. The clasp is black ceramic and black-plated titanium, and features an adjustable deployant buckle clasp for increased comfort.
The Hublot Spirit of Big Bang manufacture HUB4700 caliber is a column wheel chronograph movement based on the famous El Primero caliber created by Zenith. The first integrated automatic chronograph movement in the world, born in 1969, this hi-beat movement (5Hz or 36,000 vph) is a beautiful workhorse of a movement. This is by no means a 1:1 clone of the El Primero, due to Hublot making game-changing upgrades, both aesthetically and technically. As Hublot explains, "In a perfect fusion between tradition and innovation, this entirely skeletonised movement is now equipped with silicon regulating element ensuring avant-garde performances, precision and reliability." The silicon hairspring is huge in today's modern world, bringing a greater level of anti-magnetism to the movement. The HUB4700 caliber also has a power reserve of 50 hours.
If this watch was released during Willem Dafoe's stint as the Green Goblin in Spider-Man, this definitely should have been on his wrist. It's very technical and very green, which is a perfect parallel to his character, Norman Osborn. While this watch is not for everyone, as it is a Limited Edition of 100 pieces and priced at $116,000 USD, those who can manage to buy one will definitely make onlookers green with envy.
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Kingstreet Remedy – A special relief for Taxpayers!
Posted by	Rob Kreklewetz & Shahrukh Khowaja on	 Wednesday, 08 December 2021 in Tax Law
Public law (or restitutionary) remedies are usually relied on as a last resort by taxpayers facing CRA assessments. They are last resorts because they are only available in exceptional circumstances, and the CRA almost never applies them, while the Courts rarely apply them.
One interesting historic restitutionary remedy, first established by the Supreme Court in Kingstreet Investments Ltd. v. New Brunswick (Finance)– and now called the "Kingstreet" remedy – allows a taxpayer the right to recover the taxes levied under unconstitutional legislation which before Kingstreet was doomed to fail under a claim for unjust enrichment against Crown.
The Federal Court in Canadian Pacific Railway Company v. Canada ("CPRC") had the opportunity to consider this special remedy, and underlines its limited application: only being triggered when a tax charged by a government is constitutionally ultra virus (i.e., by virtue of unlawful legislation), and not triggered because of some unlawful government administrative actions!
Constitutionality & Government Action
Government bodies are required to act within the parameters of the authority granted to them by the Constitution, and statutes or regulations validly enacted or promulgated by Parliament or the Legislature.
There are generally two ways in which governments typically exceed that authority: (1) when enacting unconstitutional legislation; or (2) when misapplying an otherwise a valid statute or regulation.
In the first instance – namely, enacting unconstitutional legislation – this is action that is unlawful in a constitutional sense. For example: in Kingstreet, the provincial authority levied "user charge" on purchase of liquor in new Brunswick through a regulation and not under the provincial legislation. This was unconstitutional because under section 92 of the Constitution Act, 1867, provincial authorities are only permitted to levy direct tax. The SCC found that the "user charge" was an indirect tax and unconstitutional, thus provided taxpayer the right to be refunded the amount paid in lieu of the unconstitutional tax (hence the "Kingstreet remedy").
In the second instance – namely misapplying an otherwise valid statute or regulation – the government actions are viewed as unlawful in an administrative law sense. This was the situation in CPRC, where a procedural fairness issue arose in respect of an 1880 Contract that CPRC had with the Canadian government, and on which CPRC relied on to resist a Large Corporations Tax ("LCT") levied under the Income Tax Act. The Kingstreet remedy was denied, and CPRC failed to recover the LCT paid over time, because the Kingstreet remedy was found not to apply in instances where the underlying laws and regulations were constitutionally valid.
While an incredibly fine point, the result in CPRC is unpalatable from a taxpayer's perspective, and seems to offer the federal and provincial governments the abilities to go back on their words, ignore contractual or settlement obligations, with impunity. And that makes for bad tax policy.
The foundational principles underlying Kingstreet remedy (constitutional supremacy and the rule of law)hold that a taxpayer ought to be able to rely on the presumption of the statute's validity, ensuring the same is taxation authority's responsibility.
It seems unjust and against public policy to allow any level of government to collect any type of taxes contrary to prior agreements in respect of same.
Think, for example, about tax settlement agreements, where a taxpayer may agree to pay an amount on account of an assessed tax liability, in exchange for a resolution of the matter overall. Can the government come back later and ask for more?
For now, it appears that the answer is "maybe yes", with the current public policy considerations appearing to bar taxpayers from claiming restitutionary equitable remedies against the Crown (e.g., like unjust enrichment) in all but the most exceptional cases.
While the Kingstreet Remedy is a bit of a ray of hope in this area, establishing that underlying taxing provision are unconstitutional generally an incredibly difficult and expense task. Usually involving multiple levels of court hearings. The arduous task of establishing unconstitutionality of law requires careful analysis of the legislation and the Constitution, which is best performed by an experienced tax counsel, versed in the constitutionality of federal and provincial taxation.
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Leeds United Rumour Mill Round-Up
Ross McCormack to Blackburn Rovers/Wolves
We start with the somewhat believable rumour that Leeds United's top goalscorer is being chased by Blackburn Rovers and Wolves.
The rumour, published on numerous sites including Footy Mad, is attributed to the Press Association which is the only reason I have to doubt it's authenticity – the PA are a serious news organisation that don't tend to concern themselves with football gossip.
Luciano Becchio to Middlesbrough
Absolute nonsense. Becchio has been an integral part of the first team for a while now, has shown absolutely no desire to leave and would not be sold to a rival Championship club.
Stuart Parnaby to Leeds (Free Agent)
Believable, mainly because he's a free agent and we've been linked with him in the past.
Has had trials with Millwall, Charlton Athletic and ourselves, but no one wanted to take the risk due to a back injury that has left him without a club since Birmingham released him at the end of last season.
It's claimed Simon Grayson will take another look at the 29-year-old right back in January, which makes perfect sense as it's a no-lose situation for us.
Keith Andrews from Blackburn Rovers
It wouldn't be a Leeds United transfer window if Keith Andrews wasn't linked – second only to Alan Smith for the most consistent rumour.
Simon Grayson has made no secrets of his desire to sign Andrews, so some attempt may be made again. Would be surprised if he actually came to Elland Road, but his six month loan with Ipswich expires shortly and with Becchio linked to Blackburn, rumours of a part-ex deal are inevitable.
Other odds and ends…
Robert Snodgrass and Aidy White will be linked with every club in England, but neither will be sold – there's no way for Bates to justify his promotion demands if he sells key assets.
We may lose a bit of "deadwood" but the first team will be largely unaffected. I suspect Andy Keogh and Danny Pugh will be signed permanently at some point in the near future, and that we may see one or two new arrivals – nothing too exciting, just a little added depth.
Fans shouldn't expect too much from this transfer window. Very few moves are ever made in January – it's just an illusion created by endless speculation in the press. No one is going to sell you their key players midway through a campaign, so you're left with the odd out-of-favour gem and a dozen or so clubs fighting over them.
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PREMIERE: Desert Ships share new single 'Fire on the Moon'
London-based Desert Ships return with 'Fire on the Moon', the latest cut from their forthcoming third LP 'Heavy Soup'.
Echoing the immediacy of previous BBC Radio 6 favoured single 'Neon', 'Fire on the Moon' also evokes the tight hooks of The War On Drugs with Black Angels-esque keys. It's a 2 and a half minute slice of tasteful fuzz, dreamy synths and swirling vocal harmonies.
There's a confident restraint to Fire on the Moon, appearing with a bang and conjuring its cinematic imagery ("…a man in a spacesuit fixing the stars"), before allowing itself to gently drift away, like a message lost in the expanse of space.
It's a release that offers another exciting glimpse of what's to come, and of a band that feels like it's upping the ante sonically.
The song is accompanied by a playful and avant-garde promo directed by filmmaker and musician Gil De Ray, starring the band and London-based performance artist Jimmy Morgan.
'Fire On The Moon' is released on 17th December
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Wonder Woman: The Hero We Need in a Film That Falls Short – Feminist Frequency
Carolyn Petit and Anita Sarkeesian — June 5, 2017
After seeing Wonder Woman last Friday and having a chat on Facebook Live to share our immediate impressions, Anita and I exchanged emails this weekend to discuss the film in more detail once we'd had a little time to process their thoughts. Be aware that we talk about the ending in some detail, so…
Anita: There's a moment about midway through Wonder Woman where Diana of Themyscira witnesses firsthand the suffering and strife happening in an area where German forces have held Allied soldiers in a stalemate for months on end. Unable to walk on and do nothing, she fearlessly rises up from the trenches onto a bleak French battlefield and strides toward the German encampment, a blaze of life in a place utterly drained of it. Witnessing the conviction and ferocity in Diana's eyes, I felt something stir in me that has always been there but rarely comes to life; the yearning, so rarely fulfilled, for images of women being the larger-than-life heroes men so often get to be, rather than just the ones who need the aid of a hero.
Carolyn: I loved that moment, too. (I may be dating myself by saying this, but it's the same thing that drew me to She-Ra in the era of He-Man.) And because I so rarely see such images, and so strongly feel the need for them, perhaps I'm inclined to go a little easy on Wonder Woman. Certainly the discourse in general has been much too hard on the film, even before its release, with articles on film sites inadvertently replicating the very sexism in Hollywood one hopes a film like Wonder Woman, if successful, might help to dissipate in some small way, by citing what a risk the studio was taking by trusting director Patty Jenkins, whose previous film, 2003's Monster, was very successful for an indie and earned its star, Charlize Theron, an Oscar.
Anita: The weight that's been placed on this film is definitely unfair on multiple levels; not only is it directed by a woman, but we're talking about one of the most iconic characters in comic book history, created over 75 years ago, who only now got her own movie. Ant-Man got a movie before she did!
Carolyn: It's true! This movie is fighting an uphill battle on multiple fronts, and because it's so rare for a big-budget film to either be about a woman or to be directed by a woman, and this film is doing both, it feels like there's so much riding on its success. And there shouldn't be. For the record, I do think it's a genuinely well-directed film, at times audacious and almost operatic, simmering just under the line of going over-the-top, all the while maintaining its sincerity and heart. But it's also true that it shouldn't matter so much.
Male directors including Colin Trevorrow and Gareth Edwards are constantly given massive franchise films to direct on the strength of an indie hit and rarely, if ever, are they subject to the kind of scrutiny or talk of "risk-taking" that loomed over Wonder Woman's release with Patty Jenkins at the helm. As some have pointed out, we'll know things are a little more equal in Hollywood when a bad movie about a female superhero, or a bad big-budget franchise film with a female director, comes out and nobody associates the failure of those involved with the gender of the character or director any more than they do when a male-centered, male-directed movie crashes and burns at the box office. But we're not there yet, not by a longshot, and so, as someone who liked Wonder Woman, I'm not only glad that the word of mouth about it in my circles has been so positive; I'm also relieved.
Anita: I am, too, but I admit that my feelings about the film overall are less enthusiastic than yours and just about everyone's, it seems. And while I understand the power and value of images like these, for me, on close interrogation, the film falls short. I was bothered by the way the film presented Diana as an icon of virtue and kindness who abhors suffering and cherishes human life above all while simultaneously depicting her mowing down tons of German soldiers. They're just fodder, just "bad guys," not really human and, as a result, not deserving of her compassion, or the film's. It made the moment at the end in which she didn't kill Dr. Poison feel really manipulative and hollow for me. The film wants to have its cake and eat it too, letting Diana revel in "badass" physical violence while still being this beacon of compassion.
Carolyn: I definitely share some of your feelings about the film's handling of violence. That stirring scene you mentioned earlier, in which she strides across the battlefield without fear — she ends up drawing enemy fire, deflecting a thousand bullets, while Steve and his friends move in and do what they must: kill the enemy combatants. I would rather Diana had managed to get in close herself and use her strength, her prowess and that incredible lasso of hers to disarm them.
I did quite like much of the film's politics, though. The bad guys are Germans (well, mostly Germans, and one Greek god), but I often felt that the true enemy in Diana's eyes was war itself, and the suffering caused by it on all sides. I appreciated that the film didn't let the United States off the hook; at one point dashing American hero Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) admits his own culpability in humankind's history of war, and when Diana asks Steve's Native American friend (played by Eugene Brave Rock) who took his people's land, he looks over at Steve sleeping nearby and says, "His people."
Anita: Yeah, I appreciated that moment, and hey, at least the film got people at Fox News to complain that it "isn't patriotic enough!" But I also couldn't forget about the politics of the film's star, Gal Gadot. Of course, we shouldn't hold the character of Wonder Woman accountable for the actor's actions, but we also shouldn't entirely separate our feelings about an actor as a person from our feelings about their work. Casey Affleck's history of sexual harassment should impact how we think about him, and the legacy of a filmmaker like Woody Allen must ultimately be viewed through a lens which takes his horrifying transgressions into consideration. In Gal Gadot's case, it was the awareness of racist comments she's made about Palestinians that made me bristle when, as Diana, she declared that she was acting "in the name of all that is good in this world." When she chastised a British military leader for acting as if some lives matter less than his own, I was pulled right out of the film's fiction as my mind boggled, hearing this woman try to embody the principled ethos of Wonder Woman herself.
Carolyn: Absolutely, that troubled me, too. And it's frustrating because I do think Gadot is well-cast in many ways; in her face resides all the righteous intensity the character calls for, and Jenkins makes the most of this asset, even as the film itself makes rather too much of Gadot's body, turning her into a hero and an object simultaneously and giving us a world in which men everywhere are thunderstruck by Diana's beauty. And sure, okay, I get that she's literally a god, or something akin to one, anyway — she refers to Ares, the god of war, as "brother" at one point — but even Thor, which had no illusions about Chris Hemsworth's attractiveness, doesn't make it an intrinsic part of his character in the way that Wonder Woman makes Gadot's attractiveness part of hers.
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Anita: The combination of the film's fawning over her sexiness combined with the character's complete and utter naivete about the workings of the world also didn't sit right with me. I was grateful for Christina Cauterucci's piece for Slate, "I Wish Wonder Woman Were as Feminist as It Thinks It Is," for criticizing this, and other issues with the film. She mentions specifically how one character says "I'm both frightened and aroused" after Diana beats up some dudes, and I hated that. It's as if the film is reminding us that, no matter how much respect we might have for Diana or how much we might be in awe of our powers, so many things about how she's presented in this film, including that ridiculous outfit of hers, are designed to serve her up for the male gaze.
We live in a world in which women are constantly scrutinized and judged based on their appearance and being measured against unrealistic beauty standards, and I get that Wonder Woman is supposed to be beautiful but the film handled this in a way that reinforced ideas linking women's beauty directly to their worth rather than challenging those ideas. And while some of the fish-out-of-water comedy was genuinely funny, I also felt that at times it was too much; sure, it "makes sense" in the context of the origin story this film is telling, but the film focused on it to a degree that undermined the character: she needs to learn about everything from a man: politics, war, the complexity of human nature, and, of course, sex.
Which brings me to the film's ending. The climax was so generically Hollywood that I couldn't help but roll my eyes. I don't take issue with the film's central love story; it felt sincere, and both Diana and Steve were well-developed characters. The film earned that. But the way everything hinges on the moment that Steve dies, the way that Diana is spent, on the brink of defeat, and then suddenly gets all of her power back as her heart overflows with love and grief, was so formulaic and predictable.
Carolyn: I totally agree that it was formulaic and predictable but what can I say? I'm a sucker for moments like that. Moments where love triumphs over all, because it's not the way the world really is, but it's the way I wish the world really was.
Anita: I know you are. And I do like that, in an era when so many of our superheroes are actually antiheroes, when so many of them are so "complicated" or "gritty," Wonder Woman gives us a hero with a more sincere moral heroism, harkening back to the Christopher Reeve Superman films. I think we need that. And I love that the film begins with Diana as a young girl. That image is so powerful, so important; it gives young girls who see this film a way to see themselves in this character, too.
Carolyn: I agree. I take issue with almost any assertion that Wonder Woman is a "feminist" film, not because of what I think it says about our feelings about the film but because of what it says about our ideas about feminism. But for all its flaws, I think it's still important; I think girls and women need and deserve images and stories like this. I think that in this day and age, we need more mythmaking about heroes who are brave, who have a strong moral compass, and who use their powers far more often for protection than violence. Maybe the way that people haven't really responded positively to the gritty, grimdark DC Universe films up to this point, but are responding positively to Wonder Woman, says that there's an appetite now for real heroes. Given the state of the world right now, it wouldn't surprise me.
Wonder Woman's Diana may be every bit as earnest and virtuous as Christopher Reeve's Superman, and I appreciated a quote by Patty Jenkins that's made the rounds on Twitter quite a bit these past few days: "Cheesy is one of the words banned in my world. I'm tired of sincerity being something we have to be afraid of doing." By the end of the film, I think Diana's learned that she can let go of the moral idealism she brought with her from Themyscira without sacrificing her conviction or losing her sincerity. And whatever the future DC Universe films do with this character, god, I really hope they let her keep that.
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Harrisburg man who got high and naked during his first day at work can't beat indecent assault conviction
Updated Jan 13, 9:27 AM; Posted Jan 13, 9:20 AM
Carl Gamby had a bizarre first day at work.
It was self-inflicted.
According to investigators, Gamby, 32, of Harrisburg, went into a restroom and injected himself with bath salts and fentanyl on March 28, 2019 during his first shift as a clerk at the Econo Lodge on Eisenhower Boulevard in Swatara Township.
As he stumbled out of the bathroom, he grabbed a female co-worker from behind and kissed her neck. Then he took off his shirt and repeatedly tried to get the woman to kiss him as she yelled for him to get away from her.
The woman fled to her car, called 911, and later told police that as she drove away Gamby yelled '"Before you leave, I just want to show you something. And that's when he started to take his pants off."
Gamby was naked when the cops arrived a few moments later. His clothes were strewn across the motel lobby and a used syringe was found lying on the bathroom sink. Security cameras at the Econo Lodge recorded the whole thing. The recording showed Gamby was naked by the time the woman's car left the parking lot, investigators said.
Nearly two years after that incident, a state Superior Court panel has refused Gamby's plea to overturn the indecent assault conviction handed to him by a Dauphin County jury.
As Judge Jacqueline O. Shogan noted in the state court's opinion, Gamby freely admitted he deserved his other convictions for indecent exposure and possession of drug paraphernalia.
She found that his indecent assault conviction also is well-deserved, despite Gamby's argument that kissing his co-worker on the neck didn't rise to the level of that crime.
In reaching her conclusion, Shogan cited her court's findings in other cases that "areas of the body other than the genitalia, buttocks, or breasts can be intimate parts of the body as contemplated by the indecent assault statute when touched for sexual gratification."
She cited the opinion of county Judge Royce Morris, who presided at Gamby's trial, that Gamby "did not plant a friendly but unwelcome kiss on (the woman's) cheek. Instead, he wrapped his arm around her neck and kissed the intimate part of her neck." Gamby pursued "increasingly intrusive gestures" as he grabbed the woman, disrobed and ran after her naked, Morris concluded.
The Superior Court decision means Gamby is stuck with the 11 ½- to 23-month county prison sentence, plus 2 years of probation the Morris imposed for the crimes. Gamby has a lengthy criminal record and is in state prison for probation violations from another cases, records show.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/01/harrisburg-man-who-got-high-and-naked-during-his-first-day-at-work-cant-beat-indecent-assault-conviction.html
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