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China has become a world leader and major driving force in the renewable energy sector1 with billions of dollars invested in clean energy projects and sustainable energy innovation2. We are proud to acknowledge the financial endorsement of our technologies by Beijing municipal authorities in their further funding of Amber™ pilots in the next phase of its Green Villages development program and during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games – one of the most sustainable Winter Olympics in history3.
Following up on the successful implementation of phase one of the Daxing Sustainable Village project (August 2018), Beijing municipal officials have committed a further 1.35 million RMB to complete phase two in 2019. With the planned trial of Amber™ modules at the newly constructed Olympic speed-skating venue, Solar Earth is grateful for the support and technical endorsement provided by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and is very excited to be a part of the city's unfolding vision for a "new energy economy".
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The Oliver Iron and Steel Corporation was a manufacturer of iron and steel hardware including nuts, bolts, screws, and horseshoes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

History
The company was originally Oliver Brothers and Phillips after the Oliver Brothers concern merged with the Phillips Iron Works, later Oliver Iron and Steel Company before becoming Oliver Iron and Steel Corporation in 1922. In its early times Henry W. Oliver was president of the company. The company controlled the Allegheny and South Side Railway by stock ownership.

Until 1897, the Lower Works at Woods Run in the city of Allegheny (now Pittsburgh's North Side) included rolling mills. In that year, the Schoen Pressed Steel Company bought the Lower Works. The Upper Works, in the South Side, made hardware from iron and steel.

In 1923, the Pittsburgh city council approved city ordinance no. 205, granting the company, "its successors and assigns, the right to construct, maintain and use an overhead skip hoist across south Twelfth street with an approximate clearance of 14' for the purpose of conveying iron and steel products from the building of said corporation situated on the east side of South Twelfth street to another building situated on the west side of South Twelfth street, Seventeenth ward, Pittsburgh, Pa."

 Around 1951, the Berry Motors Company of Corinth, Mississippi was acquired and made the Berry Division of Oliver Iron and Steel.

In late September 1954 the company suffered a work stoppage. Contemporary newspaper accounts mentioned threats of plant closure at the time unless the strike ended.

During 1955 longtime president Theodore F. Smith moved on to the Kaiser Engineers division of the Henry J. Kaiser Company, and Paul H. Starzman was elected the new president.

The Berry Division was subject to an antitrust lawsuit filed on June 11, 1956 At about the same time, the fastener business was sold to Pittsburgh Screw and Bolt Company, and the pole line hardware business was merged into the Oliver Electric Company of Battle Creek, Michigan.
The company had lost money each of the previous 4 years.

Oliver Iron and Steel merged into the Oliver Tyrone Corporation effective December 31, 1956.

As a new plant for Pittsburgh Screw and Bolt Company was started outside Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County in 1957 the former Oliver Iron and Steel facilities in the Pittsburgh South Side were soon empty. The facilities and land, as well as the Allegheny and South Side Railway, were sold to Carson Industrial Development Corporation, who planned an industrial and warehousing park on the land. Pittsburgh City Planning Department aerial photos from 1962 show the land cleared to dirt.

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Manufacturing companies based in Pennsylvania

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Os choques etno-religiosos e movimentos separatistas na Indonésia; país situado no sudeste da Ásia, composto por mais de 17,5 mil ilhas, onde coexistem quase 300 etnias, centenas de dialetos e cinco religiões de doutrinas diferentes e divergentes; ganham intensidade após a queda da ditadura de Suharto em 1998.

Convertida ao Islamismo desde o século XV, este país convive com conflitos envolvendo a maioria muçulmana e as minorias cristã e hinduísta, além de movimentos separatistas e confrontos entre migrantes e nativos de algumas ilhas que também têm sido comuns ao longo da história. Grande parte dos conflitos é resultado da política de transmigração, lançada em 1905, adotada pelos colonizadores holandeses e levada a cabo no decorrer do século XX pelos governos pós-independência. O objetivo era reduzir o superpovoamento de algumas ilhas, como Java e Madura, que concentravam cerca de 80% da população, índice que foi reduzido para cerca de 60% no final da década de 1990. Ao mesmo tempo, o programa de povoar  e desenvolver regiões periféricas gerou confrontos entre os imigrantes e os povos nativos das ilhas. Nas ilhas Molucas, predominam conflitos etno-religiosos; em Kalimantan (Bornéu), há conflitos étnicos; em Nova Guiné Ocidental, existem conflitos étnicos e movimentos separatistas; em Aceh, separatistas tentam instaurar uma república islâmica independente. Como agravante, passa ainda por sérios problemas políticos e econômicos e o governo não tem credibilidade frente a população.

Principais conflitos

Nova Guiné Ocidental

Anexada pela Indonésia em 1963, a Nova Guiné Ocidental ainda reivindica sua independência. Em 1994, o Movimento Papua Livre propõe o início de negociações de paz mas, em 1995, os conflitos com o Exército indonésio voltam a intensificar-se.

Os indígenas locais da tribo papua passam a disputar com os imigrantes javaneses o acesso à terra e às riquezas da ilha, dotada de uma das maiores minas de ouro e cobre do mundo. A exploração desses recursos, entregues a empresas estrangeiras, amplia a insatisfação dos papuas em relação ao governo central; reivindicam a independência desde a década de 1960. O conflito já fez cerca de 100 mil mortos.

Kalimantan Ocidental
Os madurenses, detentores do poder econômico, têm sido vítimas de perseguições e massacres promovidos pelos indigenas nativos da tribo dayak em Kalimantan Ocidental e Kalimantan Central. Pelo menos 1,5 mil morerram assassinados desde 1997, muitos decapitados, de acordo com os costumes tribais.

Molucas do Sul

A mais recente espiral de violência ocorre na parte sul da província de Molucas, habitada por maioria cristã até a chegada de milhares de muçulmanos, que assumem o controle político e econômico, alimentando ressentimentos que degeneram em embates a partir de 1999. O conflito se agrava com a adesão de milicianos islâmicos à "jihad" contra os cristãos. Cerca de 4 mil pessoas morrem e 300 mil ficam refugiadas.

Aceh

A região de Aceh, de forte tradição religiosa é palco de um movimento pela criação de um Estado islâmico independente, que remonta a década de 1950. A repressão militar aos separatistas do Movimento Aceh Livre fez 5 mil mortos na última década. O governo indonésio rejeita a independência, mas admite conceder a região maior participação sobre a extração de petróleo e gás, dos quais a província é grande produtora.

Em dezembro de 2002, foi assinado um cessar-fogo entre os rebeldes do Movimento Aceh Livre e o governo indonésio, prevendo a realização de eleições na província de Aceh. No entanto, os conflitos se acirraram e, em maio de 2003, o governo indonésio impôs a Lei Marcial, aumentando a repressão sobre os separatistas armados e até civis. Até o final de janeiro de 2004, a ofensiva militar contra os guerrilheiros prosseguia, porém, a destruição causada pelo terremoto de 2004 no Oceano Índico trouxe um acordo de paz e um fim à insurgência.

Timor-Leste

Os portugueses foram os primeiros europeus a chegar ao Timor no século XVI, estabelecendo uma presença isolada na ilha de Timor, enquanto que as ilhas vizinhas foram caindo sob o controle holandês. Após a Revolução dos Cravos em Portugal, iniciou-se o processo de descolonização e, finalmente, a colônia portuguesa declarou sua independência em 28 de novembro de 1975, mas foi invadido e ocupado pela Indonésia nove dias depois, antes da independência ter sido reconhecida internacionalmente.

Para piorar a situação, o fato do partido maioritário em Timor-Leste, a Fretilin (Frente Revolucionária de Timor-Leste Independente), ter orientação de esquerda e receber apoio vocal da República Popular da China, levaram os Estados Unidos (que se retirou do Vietnã do Sul) e a Austrália a não se colocar nenhum impedimento para a anexação, realizada por um governo pró-ocidental (o regime de Suharto, que tinha violentamente reprimido o Partido Comunista da Indonésia em 1965). No dia anterior da invasão, o presidente dos Estados Unidos Gerald Ford e o Secretário de Estado Henry Kissinger, que se reuniram em Jacarta com o general Suharto, terão dado sinal verde à invasão. Desde então, através de diversas administrações (incluindo a de Bill Clinton), os Estados Unidos continuaram a vender armas à Indonésia.

Após a invasão (julho de 1976), o território foi declarado vigésima sétima província da Indonésia (conhecida como Timor Timur). No entanto, a invasão não foi reconhecida pelas Nações Unidas, de modo que o seu estatuto jurídico permaneceu de um território não autônomo sob administração portuguesa.

A anexação indonésia foi marcada pela extrema violência e brutalidade. Durante a invasão e ocupação (24 anos) se estima que foram assassinados entre  a  pessoas de uma população de aproximadamente  no momento da invasão.  Um documento com estatísticas apresentadas pela Comissão de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliação do Timor-Leste citou um menor intervalo de 102.800 mortes relacionadas ao conflito, dos quais  mortes e  devido à fome e doença.

No entanto, vários grupos, liderados pela Fretilin, iniciaram a resistência contra as forças indonésias e em favor da independência nas montanhas da ilha, sob o comando de seu líder, Xanana Gusmão, capturado e encarcelado em Jacarta, Indonésia. Seu posto foi posteriormente ocupado por Konis Santana. Em 1996, Dom Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo e José Ramos-Horta, dois ativistas pela paz e independência receberam o Prêmio Nobel da Paz.

Apesar de contribuir minimamente com a economia Indonésia, a manutenção da posse sobre o Timor era uma questão de político-estratégica. Existia um receio de que a sua perda levasse outras regiões mais vastas, ricas e insurgentes a optarem pela independência. Grande parte das rotas marítimas do mundo utilizam como passagem os extreitos canais entre suas ilhas. Perturbações políticas e separatistas na região poderiam afetar os fluxos de petróleo, de gás natural e de outros bens que mantêm em funcionamento a economia mundial em geral e da Indonésia em particular.

Em 1999, o governo indonésio, sob forte pressão internacional para convocar um referendo sobre o futuro de Timor-Leste. Finalmente, em 30 de agosto de 1999, os timorenses votaram pela independência da Indonésia num referendo supervisionado pela ONU, dando uma clara maioria (78,5%) a favor da independência, rejeitando a alternativa de continuar a ser uma província autônoma dentro da Indonésia.

No entanto, violentos distúrbios ocorreram imediatamente após a votação, instigada pelas milícias anti-independência (auxiliadas por elementos do exército indonésio). Em apenas um mês, 2.000 pessoas morreram, centenas de mulheres foram estupradas, três quartos da população foram deslocadas e 75% da infraestrutura do país foi destruída, reduzindo a escombros as cidades, especialmente Díli, a capital.

Finalmente, tropas de pacificação das Nações Unidas lideradas pela Austrália foram enviadas para restaurar a ordem, abrindo o caminho para a UNTAET, a administração das Nações Unidas. A independência foi reconhecida internacionalmente em 20 de maio de 2002. Timor-Leste aderiu às Nações Unidas em 27 de maio do mesmo ano.

O ex-guerrilheiro Xanana Gusmão foi eleito o primeiro presidente da República Democrática de Timor-Leste e esperava que os benefícios da exploração de petróleo no Mar de Timor (entre Timor-Leste e Austrália), pudesse ajudar no que é uma dos países mais subdesenvolvidos do mundo.

Ver também
 Política de transmigração

Guerras envolvendo a Indonésia
História da Indonésia


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While it's been 44 years since the release of Freda Payne's classic soul track "Band of Gold," the 71-year-old singer is still recording, still touring and still beautiful as the days when she was a regular guest on both Soul Train and The Tonight Show. The stunning songstress collaborated with Grammy-winning arranger Bill Cunlife on her recently released Come Back to Me Love (Payne's return to jazz). Although best known for "Band of Gold"—as well as "Deeper and Deeper" and "Bring the Boys Home"—the Detroit native has been a jazz fan she was a little girl.
"My uncle Johnny, who died when I was 10, had an immense record collection back in the 1940s. I was about 4 or 5 years old, and I used to listen to Duke Ellington's 'Black and Tan Fantasy,' 'Creole Love Call' and 'Take the A Train,' which was really written by Billy Strayhorn. He also played Count Basie and Lionel Hampton, and I used to listen to all of it."
Payne recorded her first jazz album, After the Lights Go Low and Much More!!!, in 1964 with the famed producer Bob Thiele, but the record flopped. However, after a chance encounter with her old friend Brian Holland—famed Motown songwriter/producer of Holland-Dozier-Holland fame, and the trio most responsible for the pop gems of the Supremes—she found herself back in Detroit.
Having walked out of Berry Gordy's hothouse of musical creativity over money disagreements, HDH launched Invictus Records and signed Freda Payne to be their flagship artist. "They were suing Motown, and Motown had sued them back," Payne says, "so, there was all that drama."
Still, no matter what was going on in the background, HDH was still able to conjure studio magic for the new singing lady in their life. At the end of one session in particular, Payne left with the song that would become her signature. A few months later, "Band of Gold" was a pop hit, reaching number three on the Billboard pop chart.
But with her raging beauty, in 1970 Freda Payne became an in-demand cover subject for EBONY and JET magazines. From her barbershop-popular 1974 JET calendar to her numerous glossy covers, for men of a certain age, she was a sepia-toned fantasy woman whose combined classiness and sexiness was visually lethal.
Laughing at the memory of her cover-girl days, Payne recalls, "Can I tell you, I think there were some people who were a little jealous. They would say, 'Who do you know?' God bless those people at JET, they're all gone now. Robert Johnson the editor, John Johnson who owned the magazines.
"When I was 16, I was on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour and I came in second," Payne remembers. "A couple of weeks later, they gave me a write-up in JET and I was shocked, because I wondered how they even knew about me. But there it was, the whole story. To them it was a big deal.
"God bless JET and EBONY, because they always wrote about what Black people were doing in the United States of America. If it wasn't for them, a lot of us wouldn't have gotten any exposure."
Payne also tried her fine hand at acting. She made her debut in the numbers racket film Book of Numbers, produced and directed in '73 by her co-star, Raymond St. Jacques. A non-Blaxploitation film released in the middle of that era, it was based on a Robert Deane Pharr novel; Payne played the love interest, Kelly Simms.
"Now, that was an experience," Payne says. "Raymond called me personally and asked if I would star in the movie with Phillip Michael Thomas and D'Urville Martin. It was a fun movie. We shot on location in Texas, and it was hot. I remember having to wear a wool skirt and a cardigan sweater and it was really humid. But it was a project I really enjoyed."
While Payne later appeared in Sprung and Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps, her '70s film career was short-lived because everyone wanted her to shed her clothes at the door. "I was tested to do a film at MGM, but they wanted me to do a nude scene," she says. "They asked me if I had any problems with that, and I did. I had already gone through that on Book of Numbers. It was only partial nudity. They wound up not really showing anything, but I was in bed with Phillip Michael Thomas, which wasn't so bad. He was a real cutie pie.
"Anyway, the MGM movie—I don't remember the name, but Vonetta McGee wound up doing it. There was another movie that producer Dino De Laurentiis asked me the same thing, and I told him that I wouldn't be comfortable. I think Paula Kelly wound up doing it. Had I continued in the movies, I think my career would've excelled a little more."
Still, as Freda Payne prepares to take her latest tour on the road, the diva has no time for regrets. Right now, it's all about the jazz.
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Faction within Baidya's Maoist wing
ITHARI, Jan 10 : A dissatisfied group from CPN-Maoist have formed a new Maoist outfit bearing the name CPN-Maoist (Revolutionary). A press conference was held on Saturday to inform about the formation of the party. The party has been formed under the leadership of Bhojendra Prasad Chaulagain, who previously was involved in the decade-long insurgency and has lately been active with the CPN-Maoist faction led by Mohan Baidya. Akash Sharma has been appointed as the General Seceretary of the party.
The chairman of the newly formed party told the media that they were forced to open the new party as the Maoist leadership deceived them by submitting arms and ammunition to the government in the name of peace and prosperity. "Submitting the arms to the government, the then Maoist party cheated us dragging themselves to an unimpressive path, and hence we were compelled to announce this new party", said Chaulagain.
In Jan 22 run up, govt plugs security holes
KATHMANDU, JAN 10 – The government is bracing for a potential security threat that could come from extreme left and right forces in and around January 22, a self-imposed deadline set by the political parties to promulgate the new constitution . Though no big security threats have been identified so far, the Home Ministry's assessment has suggested that the Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN Maoist and fundamental religious groups could spur tension if there is no agreement on constitution drafting.
"For instance, some pro-Hindu outfits could try to derail the constitution drafting process by demanding restoration of Hindu identity," a senior Home Ministry official said on Friday. The ministry has already instructed the chiefs of all 75 districts to come up with an integrated security plan, focusing on the situation that could arise before and after January 22, and update the ministry on a daily basis. Besides, the ministry has also been holding regular meetings with the officials of security agencies as the deadline for the constitution promulgation draws near. These meetings, according to the ministry officials, are focused on the activities of the 30-party alliance led by UCPN (Maoist), the CPN (Maoist) led by Mohan Baidya, the Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN Maoist, and various religious and ethnic outfits.
The security agencies are of the view that the public support to the UCPN (Maoist)-led alliance at the grassroots level is low, though they are capable of provoking the law enforcement officers during protests. The focus is primarily on the Chand-led Maoist faction and religious groups, a source said. Security agencies have increased their vigilance on the activities of Chand's party following its national gathering in Dang. As for the armed outfits in the Tarai and eastern hill districts, a senior ministry official said, the threat level is quite low since they have remained relatively inert in recent times. It is not clear, though, if the government plans on mobilising military to keep law and order.
According to Nepal Army, the governmnent has not made any request for military mobilisation post January 22. "We have not received any request from the government, but we are keeping stock of the security situation of the country," said Nepal Army Spokesperson Brigadier General Jagadish Chandra Pokhrel. Meanwhile, officials at the Home Miinistry have said that the government will consider assigning the Army for the supply of essentials to the Capital and other parts of the country, if a protest or a strike paralyses the normal life and traffic. Otherwise, Nepal Police and Armed Police Force are capable of controlling the situation. Laxmi Prasad Dhakal, spokesperson at the Home Ministry, said the security agencies have been told to exercise maximum restraint while dealing with protestors.
http://www.ekantipur.com/2015/01/10/top-story/in-jan-22-run-up-govt-plugs-security-holes/400141.html
Banda affects eastern districts
UDAYAPUR, JAN 10 – Normal life was affected in 16 districts in eastern Nepal on Friday due to a banda enforced by the Mohan Baidya-led CPN-Maoist. Transportation was obstructed on the East-West, Mechi and Koshi highways, leaving hundreds of people stranded. Educational institutions, market places and industries remained closed due to the strike. Vehicles could not ply on roads while Gaighat, Katari, Murkuchi, Beltar and Rampur, among other places, in Udayapur remained closed.
Only pharmacies, vegetables shops and eateries were opened in the area while a few motorcycles and bicycles were seen on the road. The banda also affected life in Siraha. People were seen walking on foot. According to our local correspondents, the banda also affected life in Morang, Sunsari and Dhanusha. The Maoist enforced the banda demanding a "people's constitution" after forming a high-level political assembly.
http://www.ekantipur.com/2015/01/10/national/banda-affects-eastern-districts/400158.html
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Well, today I did just about all the decorating I'm going to do. I hung the garland and ornaments from the branches of my dining room chandelier, as I always do. I set up my grandmother's ceramic Christmas tree, Christmas carolers, and part of her Nativity set. This year I didn't set up the stable, just some of the figures. Next to the figures I have a King James Version Bible open to Luke 2. I replaced my fall flowers with poinsettias and hung my wreath on the door. I also hung up the Christmas stocking that was made for me when I was a baby, and I have a small teddy bear peeking out of the stocking. I also hung a ring of small bells on my apartment door handle.
Sounds just perfect, friend. I am focusing on getting all the stockings mended and hung up on the mantle. There are 11, ELEVEN, stockings! Quite a production!
She doesn't mend the stockings, but she has a large number of them. 10 all together.
I've done all mine as well. Windows are lit, the tree is up, and my collection of stuffed toys from Rudolph are out on the recliner.
I impulsively bought a third string of solar Christmas lights when I was shopping yesterday afternoon. I blame the discussion here but only $15.
However I would not think of putting them up until about a week before Christmas. Last year I did not put any up but I went to Sydney for Christmas. This year I am staying home.
However with sunset now at 9.15pm I will have to stay up to see if they are working. I went to the Advent carol service in the Cathedral last night but it finished at 8pm so no lights on the way home. I will be going to the Christmas concert by the Dunedin Royal Male choir tonight and Tuesday of next week I will be going to "the Messiah" by the City Choir so will have a chance to check out any lights then.
I got the Bumble in my collection.
Front Row: Rudolph, King Moonracer (guardian of the Island of Misfit Toys), Abominable Snow Monster, and Clarice.
Middle: Sam the Snowman, Santa, Hermy the elf, Yukon Cornelius and a misfit toy, the cowboy who rides an ostrich.
Back: This misfit toys. Water pistol that shoots jelly, train with square wheels, Dolly, the planes that can't fly, Charlie in the Box, and the spotted elephant.
However I would not think of putting them up until about a week before Christmas. Last year I did not put any up but I went to Sydney for Christmas. This year I am staying home. However with sunset now at 9.15pm I will have to stay up to see if they are working. I went to the Advent carol service in the Cathedral last night but it finished at 8pm so no lights on the way home. I will be going to the Christmas concert by the Dunedin Royal Male choir tonight and Tuesday of next week I will be going to "the Messiah" by the City Choir so will have a chance to check out any lights then.
I've seen a few houses with the solar power lights, they are getting popular.
Today, December 6, is St. Nicholas Day.


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Tampa Bay Rays - TeamReport
MLB Team Report - Tampa Bay Rays - INSIDE PITCH
Alex Cobb didn't feel like a hero after allowing 13 hits -- one off the team record -- in an 8-0 loss to the Royals on Monday.
However, that was exactly what manager Joe Maddon called him after Cobb, despite a five-run third inning, gutted it out to pitch an eight-inning complete game and save the Rays' already short-handed bullpen further damage.
"The average fan may not understand exactly what he did tonight -- it's heroic in a baseball sense," Maddon said. "Because he gave up those five runs, they had a big lead, he did not cave in, he kept making pitches, he stayed on the mound. He preserved everybody else, which preserves the integrity of the whole group for days. So in a baseball-sense, that was an outstanding performance by Cobber tonight."
Cobb, coming off his best outing, said he felt good in the bullpen but "uncomfortable" on the mound. His arm slot was off and his command poor, but he made no excuses, including the shuffling of the rotation that left him pitching on seven days' rest.
"It's my job to stay sharp and stay on top of things, and I just wasn't today," Cobb said. "Whether I didn't prepare good enough this week or stay as sharp as I need to, there's really no excuse to feel uncomfortable out there."
MLB Team Report - Tampa Bay Rays - NOTES, QUOTES
--RHP Jeremy Hellickson, on the disabled list due to shoulder fatigue, said the 60-pitch bullpen session he threw at about 80-90 percent effort Monday went well. He feels ready to rejoin the rotation, with a Saturday return targeted. "I felt really good," he said.
--DH Luke Scott, out since early June due to back stiffness, started his brief rehab assignment at Class AAA Durham, and celebrated his 34th birthday, by homering twice Monday. Scott will play for Durham again Tuesday, and he could rejoin the Rays as soon as Thursday. "I heard he hit the ball really well," manager Joe Maddon said. "He's very eager to get back."
--RHP Kyle Farnsworth (right elbow strain) is close enough to returning that being rained out of his rehab appearance with Class A Charlotte for a second consecutive day shouldn't cause a major setback. Farnsworth will instead join Class AAA Durham and pitch there Tuesday and Wednesday. He could make his major league season debut by the weekend.
--RHP Alex Cobb became the first pitcher to give up 13 or more hits and at least eight runs in a complete game since knuckleballer Tim Wakefield for Boston in 1996.
--INF Will Rhymes was "secretly" warming up in the batting cage to take over on the mound in the eighth if RHP Alex Cobb couldn't finish the game. It would have been Rhymes' pro pitching debut. "They asked me if I was comfortable with that; I was like, yeah, but I don't know if I can throw a strike, I haven't pitched since I was 12," Rhymes said. "I was pounding the zone in the cage. ... Looking back on it, I'm glad it didn't have to happen, but it would have been a cool experience."
BY THE NUMBERS: 9 -- Most hits allowed by RHP Alex Cobb in any pro game before he gave up 13 on Monday at Kansas City.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "I really do like the National League rules as a manager. ... It's an interesting game, the National League game ... really interesting. It's an entirely different game than our game." -- Rays manager Joe Maddon.
MLB Team Report - Tampa Bay Rays - ROSTER REPORT
--DH Luke Scott (mid-back spasms) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to June 9. He began a rehab assignment with Class AAA Durham on June 25, and he could be back with the Rays before the end of June.
--RHP Kyle Farnsworth (right elbow strain) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to April 1, and he was transferred to the 60-day DL on May 1. He threw off a mound for the first time May 23, then threw to hitters June 6. He began a rehab assignment with Class A Charlotte on June 11, and he is due to make rehab appearances for Class AAA Durham on June 26 and June 27. He could be activated during the weekend of June 29-July 1.
--OF Matt Joyce (oblique strain) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to June 20.
--RHP Jeremy Hellickson (right shoulder fatigue) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to June 15. He threw a bullpen session June 26, and he hopes to return to the major league rotation June 30.
--3B Evan Longoria (partial tear of left hamstring) went on the 15-day disabled list May 1. He began a rehab assignment with Class AAA Durham on June 16, but he left the June 18 game with renewed discomfort and was pulled from the minor league assignment. He was due to resume rehabbing with the major league team, and there is no timetable for his return.
--RHP Jeff Niemann (fractured right fibula) went on the 15-day disabled list May 15, and he was transferred to the 60-day DL on May 16.
--C Robinson Chirinos (concussion) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to March 26, and he was transferred to the 60-day DL on April 19.
--OF Sam Fuld (right wrist surgery in April 2012) went on the 15-day disabled list April 4, and he was transferred to the 60-day DL on April 15. He is expected to be out until August or September.
--OF Brandon Guyer (torn labrum in left shoulder) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to May 13, and he was transferred to the 60-day DL on May 29. He underwent season-ending surgery May 30.
RHP James Shields
LHP David Price
LHP Matt Moore
RHP Alex Cobb
RHP Chris Archer
RHP Fernando Rodney (closer)
RHP Joel Peralta (suspended)
LHP J.P. Howell
LHP Jake McGee
RHP Burke Badenhop
RHP Wade Davis
LHP Cesar Ramos
RHP Brandon Gomes
Jose Molina
Jose Lobaton
1B Carlos Pena
2B Jeff Keppinger
SS Sean Rodriguez
3B Elliot Johnson
INF Will Rhymes
INF Brooks Conrad
LF Desmond Jennings
CF B.J. Upton
RF Ben Zobrist
OF Hideki Matsui


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LIL' LOST LOU - DEBUT ALBUM!
"She's like the girlfren' of Jonathan Richman, the sister of the Stanley Brothers and the daughter of Jack White"
London-based country/rockabilly songwriter Lou Psyche alias Lil' Lost Lou here presents her debut solo album. Not one to do things by halves, she travelled alone to Nashville to work with revered producer, songwriter and musician Billy Livsey, a man with the likes of Ronnie Lane, Kenny Rogers, Tanya Tucker and George Strait on his CV.
Setting up in the analogue Welcome To 1979 Studios (housed in a former Motown, Chess and RCA pressing plant), Livsey corralled the cream of Music City sessioneers, including bassist Dave Roe (Johnny Cash, Chet Atkins, Sturgill Simpson); pedal-steel player Russ Pahl (Glen Campbell, Patty Loveless, Kacey Musgraves); guitarist Stuart Mathis (Chris Isaak, Lucinda Williams), and drummer Justin Amaral (Junior Brown, Tommy Womack).
Let's let Lou tell the story.... "This Nashville LP was about finishing a journey. It's a bit more slick than my London skiffle punk/country band, but It's still pretty raw and I think it has a great cross-cultural sound going on . I'm still so excited that these amazing guys wanted to collaborate on it.
"The last song on the album, 'Song for Bob Dylan', I wrote 20 years ago in New York just before my dad died. I'd heard a poem by Dylan called 'Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie', which said, 'If it's hope that you're seeking …you'll find it at the Grand Canyon at sundown". Last year I finally flew back out to the USA to see the Grand Canyon. I watched the sun go down, then caught a train across America. 32 hours later I arrived in Nashville, Tennessee where I recorded that same song about the Grand Canyon that I wrote 20 years beforehand. In 12 hours we had recorded a whole album."
Once Lou was back in the UK, finishing touches were applied to the album with the help of producer Sean Kenny at his Ten21 Studio in Maidstone.
Born and raised in Camden Town, Lou has shared stages with the likes of Wanda Jackson, Billy Childish, Pete Doherty, Wilko Johnson, The Urban Voodoo Machine and Fat White Family and sang 'Don't Bogart That Joint' over the closing credits of the 2010 film Mr Nice. She plays an Epiphone Casino guitar.
"Lou attacks each song here like a train coming down the track, full-pelt!" Country Music
"One of those rare finds, like finding a £20 note behind the back of your old sofa. You don't expect anything but by the end there's a big old smile on yer face!" FATEA
"Of all the women haunting the secret smog filled outsider art scene in London, Lou is by far the sassiest and dirtiest of them all. A princess of a weird dark country/punk night life." AAAmusic.com
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Hot on the tails of Microsoft's release of Internet Explorer 9 last week, this week Mozilla has released the final version of Firefox 4 for download.
Much like Internet Explorer 9, the latest version of Firefox features a stream-lined interface and dramatic speed improvements, as well as improvements in HTML5 support.
For more information, visit the Firefox website (opens in new window).


Mass customization using e-commerce and digital production technology has brought uniquely different products to suit individual tastes and a new component (niche competition) to the conventional textbook market structure.
People living in small towns used to travel to big cities to shop for things that were not carried in their local stores. But increasingly, they find that the malls in big cities have the same chain stores that they could find locally. And in these big chain stores, most of the items carried are best sellers with very little variety. For example, Wal-Mart, the nation's biggest grocer carries 20,000 fewer items than most supermarkets. The same emphasis on fast-moving mid-market items means that even Best Buy, the nation's top consumer electronics retail chain, does not carry most upscale digital cameras and video camcorders.
In such a mass-market world, it is easy to see why producers are risk-averse and concentrate their efforts in coming up with blockbusters. Book publishers, movie and music producers all try to use intensive marketing to generate a handful of hits.
Other things being equal, such limited selection of goods would tend to produce a bland culture with homogeneous preferences. Fortunately, e-commerce and digital production technology have saved the day. The Internet has been very effective in aggregating scattered demand into a viable critical mass to sustain niche products. Niche products no longer have to fight for limited shelf space in the physical stores. Instead, they could be cheaply stored in far-away warehouses. In fact, they don't even have to be produced in advance of consumer orders. Digital technology can customize production to meet individual demands. For example, on-demand publishing makes it possible to print and bind one copy of an obscure book from the digital file for one customer. There is no need to store any physical inventory of printed books. Clothing can be custom made to digitally-scanned body measurements to form fit individual bodies.
Niche marketing not only expands the market but also promises higher profit margin by charging close to the buyers' reservation price1. As mass production tends to commoditize goods and reduce profit margin, so mass customization tends to differentiate goods and raise profit margin. In the extreme, when each item is individually customized, an entirely different market structure emerges where products are neither homogeneous nor "differentiated", but uniquely different. Before the Internet age, prices for unique items except those from widely known producers were highly subject to local demand. With the power of the Internet to cheaply aggregate buyers and sellers, prices can be stabilized to the benefit of both buyers and sellers.
Niche products will be more expensive but not as expensive as hand-made products using expensive labor. A brave new world emerges where big and small businesses can co-exist offering customized products. The market structure is neither oligopolistic competition because business does not have to big to offer unique products nor monopolistic competition because variety is compatible with efficient scale of operation. Perhaps it may be called niche competition.
The highest price a buyer is willing to pay rather than doing without.
Business Week. 7/19/2004. "There goes the rainbow nut crunch."
Business Week. 12/02/2002. "A mass market of one."
Economist. 12/2/2002. "Profiting from obscurity."


In the spirit of learning more about sustaining open source, why not try out a game jam/hackathon?
I was somewhat joking, but I think doing something in the vein of Papers, Please would be a useful homage: playing through the game itself could be an engaging experience in the day to day of a maintainer. Maybe a game could help us all better emphasize with the many volunteers that build the infrastructure of our digital age and new thoughts on what we can do next. My hope is for maintainers to better understand themselves on balancing helping others and themselves, dealing with positive and negative feedback, and humility when met with entitlement.
And I was just realizing that it could be a nice complement to both Hacktoberfest and GitHub Game Off? And if making a game isn't your thing, maybe spend some time making a tool that helps maintainers, a guide on being a maintainer, or writing a story on our experience maintaining a project?
Many traditional hackathons/game jams are only like 48-72 hours long. But having done a bunch of them myself in college I'm not sure how much I want to promote that kind of event (although it was fun at the time): working through the night and staying up late, doing it through the weekend instead of during work/school, eating unhealthy food, having the pressure of doing something quickly and hacking it together.
I'd feel wrong to promote the issues in maintenance and healthy methods of working by doing the opposite in the event itself! And given that both the ones I mentioned above are for a whole month doing something longer seems better!
As for the date: not sure, maybe in a few months (like May or something) whenever we figure out all the details?
This one seems easier, especially if it's not going to be a weekend event (it might be cool to help organize in-person get togethers if anyone wanted, but people can figure that out themselves too). We can setup a chat for people to bounce of ideas and help each other out. I think the meta-game of helping one another in the process of making your own game would be a great side effect.
Looks like https://itch.io lets you start your own game jam so we'll setup a link there and ask everyone to link to their projects on GitHub. If it's not a game, we can setup a GitHub repo to link out to whatever you end up creating!
I don't think we need any prizes (or I haven't been thinking creatively enough yet), but it might be nice to showcase a few. Although I don't know what to expect with participation.
Tell a story about the life of a maintainer, an overlooked aspect of maintainership, or open source in a new light! Or maybe we should pick a specific theme within the above?
As much as it might be fun for a lot of people to just come together to work on a single game (and maybe that would become its own a lesson on open source and collaboration 😁), seeing everyone create whatever is exciting to them is even better!
Everyone is welcome to interprete how they see open source maintainance however they'd like, but just to jump start some genres/ideas..
A simulation "game": something like Game Dev Story or "Papers, Please" where you actually experience the work.
What would a idle/clicker game about open source look like, as the point of those games is that eventually the game plays itself.
A board game: could be just a "skin" over an existing game but could get pretty creative with this?
Ever since @left_pad talked about a game where you learn to become an oss maintainer, I've wanted to make it. It'd kinda be like Catan, but you'd collect installs and trade /w test coverage, sleep, & dependencies. We could add a fantasy element — paid oss hours & co-maintainers.
Text adventure: I think it would be fun to come up with scenarios, based on personal experience or events that actually happened (now it's also a history lesson).
You are staring at a web page. It is two o'clock in the morning. To your left are 214 open issues. To your right are 37 open pull requests.
Using Github itself: a more realistic "game" to explain aspects of open source through events.
I'm reminded of Github Learning Lab, except intead of learning how to use GitHub itself it would be more about presenting scenarios in open source and how you might deal with them.
Meta-game that I suggested: the game itself is a repo of a fake project on GitHub and uses real people to report issues, submit PRs, etc.
Either way, sounds like I'd be a fun time.
So.. anyone want to help me organize or set all this stuff in stone (I've never done this before)?


Ahh …. It's that time of year when we are supposed to be enjoying the season. But sometimes, the preparing, shopping, and stressing just somehow gets in the way of a good time.
To brighten your spirits and to give you a laugh when you need it the most, I've put together a few of my favorite humorous and funny Christmas quotes.
3| "Dear Santa: I've been good all year. OK, maybe most of the time…. Well, perhaps once in awhile… Oh, never mind, I'll buy my own presents this year.
I hope you enjoyed these funny quotes, please drop me a comment and let me know which one was your favorite and remember to spread the Holiday Cheer by "Pinning", "Tweeting", "Liking", and "Sharing" these quotes with your friends.
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Love these quotes! Think my favorite is #2 instead of gifts I'll be giving my opinions. That fits me perfectly.
Thanks. Hopefully, your opinions will be priceless!
Thank you. I'm glad to help spread the Christmas spirit.


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Letters by Robert Sonin — Published April 13, 2010 | Comments
Your story "Student union addresses concerns with student centre" (Vol. 30, Iss. 29, Apr. 6) contained statements by Alex Oster regarding the Student Centre Agreement which are misleading or false.
The Student Centre Agreement, signed by former Concordia Student Union President Keyana Kashfi, states plainly and repeatedly that Concordia University will be the sole owner of the building. It says so in the preamble, and it says so in the body of the agreement (e.g., 4.14, 13.03 ©, 13.04, 26.14 (b)). The specific purpose of the University's ownership, as opposed to co-ownership or CSU ownership, is not explicitly stated. The foundation is never mentioned, except where it is defined as a "university-related person" to which the university may lease space.
Management of the building will fall to a committee made up of CSU and university appointees called the Board of Co-Management. No fewer than twenty-three (23) specified University policies, including regulations controlling postering, distribution of publications, filming and photography, emergency response and requiring minimum security for events, will apply to the whole building including student space, and will supersede any decisions taken by the Board of Co-Management. Moreover, this list can only be changed by a unanimous vote of the Board of Co-Management, so the university can veto any change.
As to the figure of 32 per cent, it is simply wrong. The calculation in Appendix A provides the university with 38 per cent (38 per cent is also the number in the Agreement's section 1.69) Another six per cent for "Student Life Administration" is inexplicably counted as CSU space.
Oster's statement that "all this preamble stuff, if you're in a court of law, is not meant to influence the interpretation of specific articles regarding who controls what and who contributes to what," is incorrect. The preamble sets out the purpose of the agreement, and contains explicit instructions as to how the agreement is to be interpreted.
The Link's statement (and the Fusion slate's campaign promise) that if students vote for the increase they "can expect a $43 million student centre on the downtown campus in January 2011" directly contradicts what the university has had to say about the project.
According to the 4 June 2009 Concordia Journal, "The specific site is yet to be chosen and is hoped to be determined by 2012. The eventual target date for its opening is 2015."
I call on The Link to publish an independent, objective analysis of this agreement and its context.
_Robert Sonin,
MA Philosophy_
This article originally appeared in The Link Volume 30, Issue 30, published April 13, 2010.
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Kooth Online Counselling Times 2022 – Get Happier Today
Confronted with signing up with a frantically long NHS waiting list, Kooth Online Counselling Times…Joe Rackham went with online counselling rather. "I just felt that I could not wait any longer– I was encouraged and all set to handle my concerns and rather liked the idea of doing so in the convenience of my own house," said the 29-year-old, who lives in London. After an online search, he found a therapist whose profile suited his requirements and reserved a chat session for the next day.
The medical professional app Babylon provides treatment to 150,000 active users, while PlusGuidance, an online counselling service, has 10,000 users. Talkspace, another online therapy platform, reports it has actually 500,000 signed up users worldwide, with a lot of in the United States.
Online training advises therapists on everything from using emojis to avoiding misinterpretations. They likewise require to protect clients' individual information– a concern that has actually triggered controversy in the United States, where big online treatment platforms have actually come under the spotlight.
Buckley stated clients should check services' privacy policies before registering. "Not all online counselling websites utilize expertly trained therapists or adhere to a principles policy, so ask your GP for a suggestion in the first instance. As with all type of services and assistance, what works for one person might not work for someone else," he said.
Marc Bush, chief policy advisor at Young Minds, said that while online counselling services are valuable, "they shouldn't replace in person treatment with a skilled professional. If a young person is struggling, we would encourage them to talk to their GP in the very first circumstances, or to call an established service like The Mix, Childline or the Samaritans.".
For Rackham, who has generalised anxiety disorder, online counselling wasn't the ideal fit. "I felt it was near difficult for the therapist to really get a sense of the problems I was dealing with, as all they had to go from was my typed-out words. I think I understood after that online session how essential interpersonal interaction was.
" I'm a huge fan of using innovation in all locations of my life as a service to everyday problems. I have apps for everything, but when it concerns mental health, you need to choose how technology plays a role in your recovery really carefully.". Kooth Online Counselling Times
The company describes BetterHelp as the "largest online counseling platform worldwide," geared towards assisting individuals handling concerns "such as stress, stress and anxiety, relationships, parenting, anxiety, addictions, eating, sleeping, trauma, anger, family conflicts, LGBT matters, sorrow, religious beliefs [or] self esteem." The business's frequently asked question area on its site clearly specifies BetterHelp's app and therapists shouldn't be used for individuals dealing with a severe mental disorder (schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder) or for people thinking about self-harm. Rather, the app prides itself on having actually accredited therapists and psychological health professionals offered to assist individuals through text, phone call or video chat. That's what many YouTubers who have accepted sponsorships from the company typically state in their own videos, where they speak on the stresses in their individual lives and sensations verging on stress and anxiety or depression. Bobby Burns, Elle Mills, Philip DeFranco, Heath Hussar, Boogie2988, Shane Dawson and ChandlerNWilson are all creators who have actually Kooth Online Counselling Times sponsors now.
Many of these creators have discussed psychological health problems in the past, however as burnout ends up being a bigger subject within the community– and mainstream world– sponsorships involving BetterHelp have actually increased, despite the app not being exactly what the creators are touting.
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Correlation of JAK2 V617F mutant allele quantitation with clinical presentation and type of chronic myeloproliferative neoplasm
Jozef Malysz, Domnita Crisan
Division of Anatomic Pathology
Activating JAK2 V617F mutation is present in many patients with chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms. We evaluated, retrospectively, clinical and laboratory data from 70 patients with BCR-ABL1 negative, JAK2 positive, chronic myeloproliferative disease. Quantity of the JAK2 mutant allele was tested for correlation with the clinical presentation, type of chronic myeloproliferative disease, hemoglobin level, white blood cell and platelet counts, spleen size, and/or cardiovascular complications. RealTime-PCR was used for amplification of DNA from marrow or peripheral blood. Polycythemia vera was more frequently diagnosed among patients with ≥50% mutational load than among those with <50% mutational load (71% vs 25%; p = 0.003). Patients with ≥50% mutational load had higher mean white blood cell count (18.6 billion/L vs 11.3 billion/L; p = 0.043). Essential thrombocythemia patients were more likely to have <50% mutational load (48% vs 7%; p = 0.005). Splenomegaly was more frequent in patients with ≥50% mutational load independent of the diagnosis (89% vs 48%; p = 0.03). Cardiovascular complications were reported in 50% of patients with ≥50% mutational load vs 21% of patients with <50% mutational load. JAK2 quantitation was highest in polycythemia vera followed by chronic myeloproliferative disease, unclassifiable, and essential thrombocythemia patients. JAK2 quantitation appears important in clinical evaluation. Mutational load appears to be helpful in stratification of patients into subgroups with different frequency of complications. Quantitation of JAK2 mutational load may be useful in evaluating response to therapy.
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Malysz, J., & Crisan, D. (2009). Correlation of JAK2 V617F mutant allele quantitation with clinical presentation and type of chronic myeloproliferative neoplasm. Annals of clinical and laboratory science, 39(4), 345-350.
Malysz, Jozef ; Crisan, Domnita. / Correlation of JAK2 V617F mutant allele quantitation with clinical presentation and type of chronic myeloproliferative neoplasm. In: Annals of clinical and laboratory science. 2009 ; Vol. 39, No. 4. pp. 345-350.
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N2 - Activating JAK2 V617F mutation is present in many patients with chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms. We evaluated, retrospectively, clinical and laboratory data from 70 patients with BCR-ABL1 negative, JAK2 positive, chronic myeloproliferative disease. Quantity of the JAK2 mutant allele was tested for correlation with the clinical presentation, type of chronic myeloproliferative disease, hemoglobin level, white blood cell and platelet counts, spleen size, and/or cardiovascular complications. RealTime-PCR was used for amplification of DNA from marrow or peripheral blood. Polycythemia vera was more frequently diagnosed among patients with ≥50% mutational load than among those with <50% mutational load (71% vs 25%; p = 0.003). Patients with ≥50% mutational load had higher mean white blood cell count (18.6 billion/L vs 11.3 billion/L; p = 0.043). Essential thrombocythemia patients were more likely to have <50% mutational load (48% vs 7%; p = 0.005). Splenomegaly was more frequent in patients with ≥50% mutational load independent of the diagnosis (89% vs 48%; p = 0.03). Cardiovascular complications were reported in 50% of patients with ≥50% mutational load vs 21% of patients with <50% mutational load. JAK2 quantitation was highest in polycythemia vera followed by chronic myeloproliferative disease, unclassifiable, and essential thrombocythemia patients. JAK2 quantitation appears important in clinical evaluation. Mutational load appears to be helpful in stratification of patients into subgroups with different frequency of complications. Quantitation of JAK2 mutational load may be useful in evaluating response to therapy.
AB - Activating JAK2 V617F mutation is present in many patients with chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms. We evaluated, retrospectively, clinical and laboratory data from 70 patients with BCR-ABL1 negative, JAK2 positive, chronic myeloproliferative disease. Quantity of the JAK2 mutant allele was tested for correlation with the clinical presentation, type of chronic myeloproliferative disease, hemoglobin level, white blood cell and platelet counts, spleen size, and/or cardiovascular complications. RealTime-PCR was used for amplification of DNA from marrow or peripheral blood. Polycythemia vera was more frequently diagnosed among patients with ≥50% mutational load than among those with <50% mutational load (71% vs 25%; p = 0.003). Patients with ≥50% mutational load had higher mean white blood cell count (18.6 billion/L vs 11.3 billion/L; p = 0.043). Essential thrombocythemia patients were more likely to have <50% mutational load (48% vs 7%; p = 0.005). Splenomegaly was more frequent in patients with ≥50% mutational load independent of the diagnosis (89% vs 48%; p = 0.03). Cardiovascular complications were reported in 50% of patients with ≥50% mutational load vs 21% of patients with <50% mutational load. JAK2 quantitation was highest in polycythemia vera followed by chronic myeloproliferative disease, unclassifiable, and essential thrombocythemia patients. JAK2 quantitation appears important in clinical evaluation. Mutational load appears to be helpful in stratification of patients into subgroups with different frequency of complications. Quantitation of JAK2 mutational load may be useful in evaluating response to therapy.
JO - Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science
JF - Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science
Malysz J, Crisan D. Correlation of JAK2 V617F mutant allele quantitation with clinical presentation and type of chronic myeloproliferative neoplasm. Annals of clinical and laboratory science. 2009 Sep 1;39(4):345-350.


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A Guess at Peter Dinklage's 'Infinity War' Part
John Pearson April 20th, 2018 - 5:49 PM
Though there are currently dozens of confirmed players in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War, ranging from Black Panther's Okoye to Spider-man: Homecoming's Tom Holland to the Guardians of the Galaxy themselves, fans have been preoccupied with the things they don't know about the cast of the film. Peter Dinklage especially has been the subject of many theories and mystery for Marvel fans and his role has been mired in mystery.
ComicBook reports that the Russo brothers, who directed the second and third Captain America films and now helm Avengers: Infinity Wars, gave a tease to the fans when they stated people would know who Dinklage played in the film, as they would be able to identify him on sight. The brothers also said, "It may take you a beat or two, but you'll certainly recognize [Dinklage]." The speculation has run wild ever since.
However, thanks to a trailer for the highly-anticipated movie, fans think they have finally discovered what the Games Of Thrones star will be doing. Good Morning America provided potential evidence via a brand new trailer of Avengers: Infinity Wars, and fans noticed the voice of Thanos' general Corvus Glaive has a "recognizable" voice.
Up until now, a huge bulk of the speculation revolved around Dinklage potentially performing as the Infinity Stones' guardian, Pip the Troll. Nothing on either side has been confirmed and fans will likely have to wait until next week when the movie premieres on April 27th.
Avengers: Infinity Wars
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Yes you can telepathically communicate with plants, though don't expect words. Plants have their own way of talking and are very interesting beings.
You need to stop yourself because florakinesis is not related at all here. Flora = flower and fauna; Kinesis = moving/movement. If florakinesis is a thing, it is related to the movement of plants or moving plants. What you are looking for is probably more along the line of floramancy. Mancy = acquiring information/divination. So florakinesis would be along the lines of receiving information from plants. Though I would just call it telepathy because telepathy is used as a form of nonphysical communication between entities. Plants are entitites so we could just use telepathy.
Darkness doesn't mean bad. Light doesn't mean good.
You talk to them just like you might talk to spirits. I can't honestly tell you how to do it because I don't really know how. I just do. I kinda just know what I want to say and say it to them.
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Twitter removes Trump campaign ad after Linkin Park files copyright complaint over the use of song
Twitter removed a Trump campaign ad on Saturday because the political advertisement used a Linkin Park song, and the alternative rock band objected to having their music used by President Donald Trump. Linkin Park filed a copyright complaint because Trump's ad had their 2002 song "In the End" as the soundtrack of the video.
"Per our copyright policy, we respond to valid copyright complaints sent to us by copyright owner or their authorized representative," a Twitter spokesperson told The Verge on Sunday.
"Linkin Park did not and does not endorse Trump, nor authorize his organization to use any of our music," the official Twitter account for Linkin Park wrote on Saturday night. "A cease and desist has been issued."
The political ad features images of President Trump and excerpts from his inauguration speech set to a cover song version of Linkin Park's "In the End" performed by Tommee Profitt and featuring Fleurie and Jung Youth that was released this year.
On Friday night, White House deputy chief of staff for communications Dan Scavino shared the video on Twitter. President Trump retweeted the video on Saturday. The video has been replaced with a message that says: "This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner."
Twitter received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice from Machine Shop Entertainment, the management company owned by Linkin Park. The July 18 filing was posted on the Lumen Database, a nonprofit transparency initiative that collects requests for the removal of online materials.
Linkin Park's late lead singer, Chester Bennington, was staunchly against President Trump before his death on July 20, 2017. Months before Bennington's death, he tweeted: "I repeat….. Trump is a greater threat to the USA than terrorism!! We have to take back our voices and stand for what we believe in."
Several music artists have instructed the Trump campaign to stop using their songs during campaign events and rallies, including the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Panic! at the Disco, Pharrell Williams, R.E.M., Aerosmith, Adele, the Village People, and Tom Petty's family.
Last October, Twitter removed a video posted by Trump attacking Joe Biden's son Hunter's relationship with a Ukrainian gas executive. That video was deleted because it used the music and video for Nickelback's song "Photograph."
On June 30, Twitter deleted a meme that Trump posted because the New York Times filed a copyright complaint. The photo in the meme was taken by Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer Damon Winter for a 2015 feature on Trump.
On June 23, Twitter suppressed a Trump tweet that stated: "There will never be an 'Autonomous Zone' in Washington, D.C., as long as I'm your President. If they try they will be met with serious force!"
Twitter put a warning label on the tweet that read: "We've placed a public policy interest notice on this Tweet for violating our policy against abusive behavior, specifically, the presence of a threat of harm against an identifiable group."
A Trump tweet from May 29 was flagged by Twitter for "glorifying violence," a violation of the social media platform's terms of service.
Trump's tweet said: "...These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let this happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you."
Last week, several big-name Twitter accounts were hacked. The official Twitter accounts for Apple, Uber, Elon Musk, Kanye West, and Joe Biden were compromised.


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Trump campaign rallies led to more than 30,000 coronavirus cases, Stanford researchers say
Published Sat, Oct 31 202011:41 AM EDT Updated Mon, Nov 2 202012:25 PM EST
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Researchers looked at 18 Trump rallies held between June 20 and Sept. 22 and analyzed Covid-19 data the weeks following each event.
The researchers found that the rallies ultimately resulted in more than 30,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19.
They also concluded that the rallies likely led to more than 700 deaths, though not necessarily among attendees.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses supporters at a campaign rally outside Raymond James Stadium on October 29, 2020 in Tampa, Florida.
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President Donald Trump's campaign rallies led to more than 30,000 coronavirus cases, according to a new paper posted by researchers at Stanford.
Researchers looked at 18 Trump rallies held between June 20 and Sept. 22 and analyzed Covid-19 data the weeks following each event. They compared the counties where the events were held to other counties that had a similar trajectory of confirmed Covid-19 cases prior to the rally date. Out of the 18 rallies analyzed, only three were indoors, according to the research.
The researchers found that the rallies ultimately resulted in more than 30,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19. They also concluded that the rallies likely led to more than 700 deaths, though not necessarily among attendees.
Trump, Biden make last-ditch effort to mobilize support in battleground states
The researchers said the findings support the warnings and recommendations of public health officials concerning the risk of Covid-19 transmission at large group gatherings, "particularly when the degree of compliance with guidelines concerning the use of masks and social distancing is low."
"The communities in which Trump rallies took place paid a high price in terms of disease and death," said B. Douglas Bernheim, chairman of Stanford's economics department and a lead author of the paper, wrote.
The paper, which has not undergone a peer review yet, was published on open access preprint platform SSRN. Because of the pandemic, researchers have been sharing preliminary results on preprint servers and institutional websites to get potentially vital information out as quickly as possible.
Bernheim told the New York Times that the paper was not politically motivated, and posting it before peer-review is common practice for economists so that other experts can comment on it.
In response to the paper, Trump campaign spokesperson Courtney Parella said, "Americans have the right to gather under the First Amendment to hear from the President of the United States."
"We take strong precautions for our campaign events, requiring every attendee to have their temperature checked, providing masks they're instructed to wear, and ensuring access to plenty of hand sanitizer. We also have signs at our events instructing attendees to wear their masks," she added.
A spokesperson for Joe Biden's campaign issued a statement after the paper posted, saying, Trump is "costing hundreds of lives and sparking thousands of cases with super spreader rallies that only serve his own ego."
"The worst part is that this doesn't even capture Trump's many superspreader events on White House grounds or the last five weeks of events across the country. How many more lives have been upended in that time? How many more empty seats are there at kitchen tables across America because of Donald Trump's ego?" spokesperson Andrew Bates said.
The researchers said they had to overcome "significant challenges," acknowledging that the dynamics of Covid-19 are "complex," and "even the most superficial examination of the data reveals that the process governing the spread of Covid-19 differs across counties."
The new research comes as the coronavirus continues to rapidly spread across the United States. The U.S. continued to set new highs for infections this week, with Friday marking a record 99,321 daily new cases, bringing the seven-day average of daily new cases to a new high at 78,738, a CNBC analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University showed.
Trump has often been criticized for holding in-person rallies, sometimes with tens of thousands of people, during a pandemic. He has sought to downplay the virus, often tying the increase in Covid-19 cases to more testing. But public health officials and infectious disease experts dispute that claim, saying the rate of tests that come back positive and hospitalizations are also on the rise.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, said Friday that the U.S. is reporting an "extremely high and quite unacceptable" daily number of cases ahead of the winter season when people will be spending more time indoors.
"We're in a precarious position over the next several weeks to months," Fauci told SiriusXM's "Doctor Radio Reports," calling on people to continue wearing face masks, social distance and spend time outdoors over indoors as much as possible.


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Founded in 2001, with the support of the Greater Cleveland Partnership, ArtSpace-Cleveland is dedicated to helping artists find studio space to live and work in the city of Cleveland. The organization has a clear vision of how a viable artist community can is an economic generator. ArtSpace-Cleveland receives inquiries from recent college graduates, artists wanting to relocate to an artist community, and artists that want affordable live/work space.
Live/Work Overlay Zoning District Ordinance
In 2001, Councilman Joe Cimperman and ArtSpace-Cleveland assisted the city of Cleveland to establish the city's Live/Work Overlay Zoning Ordinance to promote shared artist live/work activities in buildings formerly zoned industrial. The St. Clair Superior area (East 18 to East 55) became the city's first designated Live/Work Overlay District. This designation created a significant change in a once blighted area into a thriving artist community.
ArtSpace-Cleveland receives support from The Greater Cleveland Partnership, Cleveland Community Development, St. Clair Superior CDC, Campus District, Dominion East Ohio, Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, Forest City Enterprises, Prizm – The Artist Supply Store, Artists and Building Owners (Loft Works, 5340 Hamilton and Tower Press LLC).


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Jon Haddock : »Screenshots«, 2000
by Anke Hoffmann
What we see in the 20 pictures from Jon Haddock's series Screenshots are some of the most important historical events after 1945 as seen from an US-American point of view. They include the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby in 1963, the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, Quan Duc's suicide in protest at the Vietnam War in 1963, and the police attacks on Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1991. Other pictures show scenes from famous films like Twelve Angry Men or The Godfather. All of the pictures are iconographies of tragedy, and almost all of them reflect an act of great violence carried out on people. Yet, in their artificiality, these pictures convey little of the cruelty of which their subjects tell.
With his artificial manner of representation, Jon Haddock alienates selected historical events and fictional scenes. The pictures were processed on a computer using Photoshop in the typical image resolution of 72 dpi. Haddock uses the aesthetics of a simulation of reality like that made famous by the computer game The Sims. The artificiality inherent in computer games is caused by the isometric perspective, a false 3D world that only apparently shows lines in proportion. The selection of the scenes is subjective, not representative. Haddock has chosen those events and scenes that have provoked a strong emotional reaction in him, a US-American born in 1960. The reduced encipherment of the scenes is particularly striking. The interplay between the figures and the scene, simplified using universal elements, allows conclusions to be drawn about the event. Here is an experiment: What do you think of when you see young person standing alone in front of a tank with a Chinese star on it? How do you interpret a black Mercedes in a tunnel shortly after an obviously serious accident? What do you associate with a woman dressed in a dirndl and playing music surrounded by a circle of listening children? The 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square in China, Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed's fatal accident, and a scene from The Sound of Music are not difficult to guess. However, Haddock's visual simplification only works because the scenes are so familiar to us. They are engraved on our historic-cultural memory by the authority that brings about their dissemination: universal media reporting. With his series, Haddock is especially focusing on the omnipresence of television: »Intellectually, there is a huge difference between a real and a fictional event, but --at least for me, not so much emotionally [...] I want to point out the power and influence of fiction. And in most instances, my experiences of these events was through the same medium -- television.« [1]
When Haddock equates reality with fiction in his interpretation of history, questions regarding the power of the image are raised. A striking example of this is the picture Cafeteria from the Screenshot Series, which refers to the terrible massacre carried out by two youths, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, in the US town of Littleton in 1999, a crime that triggered an agitated discussion about the influence of violent video games. While looking for the offenders, the attempt was made to make such games partly responsible for the bloody deed. By interchanging reality and the artificiality of video games, Haddock questions not only the influence of pictorial truths, but also our attitude to the events. In the game The Sims and SimCity, the players invent a world, give figures human attributes, and create situations through which they then navigate. The players control the events in which the Sims figures are involved, and manipulate their imaginary reality. In doing so, they look down at their work from above, a perspective that calls to mind the film The Truman Show.
Screenshots adapts this perspective, and Haddock underlines the indistinguishability of news and fiction by presenting real events with artificial aesthetics. The picture R. King shows a violent attack by Los Angeles Police on Rodney King in 1991. The angle from which we see the scene imitates a possible camera angle, and the car's headlamps light up the night-time attack as if it were a scene from a film. In Haddock's artificially constructed depiction, there is an undertone of sarcastic criticism regarding the way news items about acts of violence are presented as entertainment highlights. When they are made part of the TV news package, any differences between staged media reports and their virtual counterparts - movies and computer games - disappear. Violence in the media has become a constant companion. Thousands upon thousands of journalists operate according to the unwritten law »Bad News is Good News« on the battlefields of this world. The result sometimes resembles a cabinet of horrors in which media concerns fight for the most lurid pictures. A voyeurism of violence in news broadcasts? News reporting as entertainment? Voyeuristic presentation and voyeuristic viewing of the daily violence in our media have caused Haddock to equate real events with film scenes and to present them on a double level: using aesthetics specific to computer games, but in a manner that at the same time suggests control. »There is something about all these events that I don't really understand or accept. Looking at them from the perspective of control is an attempt to understand or, at least, try to contain them.« [2]
[Translated from German by Tim Jones]
1 Interview quotes taken from Howard Wren: »The game of art«, in: salon.com, October 17, 2001, http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/10/17/screenshots/index.html. ^
2 Jon Haddock, Ibid. ^


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As members of the Isagenix 100-Pound Club, Tara McGinty and Dawn Bartolini have quite a few things in common. Not only have they each lost 100 pounds* with Isagenix, they're also both incredibly inspiring women and have been featured in the September/October issue of Oxygen Magazine!
Learn how Tara refused to let rheumatoid arthritis take control of her life and why Dawn stepped away from her family business to step into her new life.
Tara's Story
Tara had struggled with being overweight for most of her life, but when intense pain and a rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis combined with her weight threatened dependence on a wheelchair, she knew it was time to put her weight loss efforts into high gear. The extra weight she carried was putting a lot of pressure on her joints, so she needed to make her nutrition a priority.
A friend had told her about Isagenix, and when she learned about the products and the company, she knew it was exactly what she needed to help her change her habits. She signed up for the IsaBody Challenge® and shifted her mindset so she could truly embrace her journey toward becoming who she wanted to be.
"Originally, when I signed up, I was excited and ready to go, but I didn't think I could reach 100 pounds because I'd tried so many times before and failed," said Tara.
That was before Isagenix and the IsaBody™ community, though, and this time, Tara did not fail.
"The community is amazing," she said. "They lift you up, and they support you."
Today, Tara is the 2018 North American IsaBody Challenge Runner-Up and has lost more than 100 pounds with Isagenix.* She continues to manage her rheumatoid arthritis by exercising and avoiding foods that can cause inflammation and flare-ups.
Now, she's focusing on growing her Isagenix business so she can help others who felt like her before she started Isagenix. She now has confidence she never knew she'd been missing, and she's determined to help share that with everyone she can.
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100-Pound Club member and 2017 IsaBody Honorable Mention Dawn Bartolini wants everyone to know that she was not an overnight success. In fact, she reminds everyone that it's a day-by-day process, and for her, an hour-by-hour process in the beginning.
As a young mom and busy Italian restaurant owner, Dawn's health was not her priority, and despite trying to manage her weight by starting a new weight loss program almost weekly, she never saw the desired results.
It wasn't until Dawn saw a photo of herself that she realized how much weight she had put on, and at that point, she was determined to make a change. She found Isagenix through a friend and committed herself to reaching her goals.
"I finally decided to make the decision to feel good again," said Dawn. "Isagenix has empowered me to achieve my dreams."
Today, Dawn has lost more than 100 pounds* and has kept the weight off for four years. To help her stay on track, Dawn's husband, a chef at their family restaurant, has created a 600-calorie meal that fits within the Isagenix System. Dawn has also made the decision to step away from the family's restaurant to pursue her career as a transitional life coach, alongside building her Isagenix business.
"This is an inside-out project," she said. "We have to work on ourselves internally, and then externally, it comes out."
Every day, Dawn is helping so many do just that!
To hear more incredible stories like Tara and Dawn's, visit IsaFYI.com/IsaBody, and visit IsaBodyChallenge.com to start your own Challenge today!
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The past few months have been quite draining and with everything that is going on right now it's really important to remember how incredibly luck and fortunate we are. There are several reasons why I'm keeping a clear and content frame of mind this month, 7 reasons to remember that it isn't half as bad as we all think!
2. What a great time to be alive?!
- I get all giddy and excited when I actually think about how independent and free I am. I'm in my early 20's and LITERALLY the world is my generations Oyster. We can travel, work and live wherever we chose and generally have the power of free will. Especially as woman, don't get me wrong there's still a lot to do in terms of gender equality but for the most part WE ARE FREE!
- You might not know it BUT there is somebody out there who truly loves you! Whether it's your parents, grandparents, boyfriend/ girlfriend or friends - somebody thinks the world of you!
4. YOU can be whatever you want to be!
- I truly believe that if you work hard and take actions towards your goal, you can be whatever it is you desire. Words are powerful and positive thoughts ( ohh I went there with the law of attraction) can literally move mountains.
6.Your passion can become your full time employment.
Whether its blogging, acting or singing. If you're passionate and with a bit of luck you can turn that hobby/ passion into a full time career. All it takes is passion and a bit of good fortune. If you think luck, YOU ARE LUCKY.
7. Everything will work out in the end.
I've noticed the more I worried about something, the more I wasted my energy on the negative. Whether it was an exam, job interview or something similar - afterwards I always thought...well that wasn't THAT bad! The more I stopped worrying, the better these situations got. Don't get me wrong, there's a difference between stopping to worry and preparing for it. Especially when it came to my education, the more I prepared the less I panicked as I was confident in my own ability.
Plus, I'm sure your parents or anyone older than you always assures you that everything will work out in the end, and it truly will!


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The main features of the Summer Palace are Kunming Lake and Longevity Hill. Like most imperial palaces in China, the Summere Palace is divided into three parts: Halls for political affairs, living quarters and religious buildings. The most important structures of the Summer Palace is: Painting Walkway, the longest walkway in the Chinese gardens with altogether over 14,000 traditional Chinese paintings on the beams and crossbeams. Marble Boat, which was built for the 50th birthday celebration of Empress Dowager Ci'x, and where can enjoy the hazy scene over the lake in rainy days.
Much of it is covered by Kunming Lake. With masterly design and artistic architecture and integrationg the essence of Chinese garden arts, the Summer Palace has a title of "Imperial Garden Museum". It is an imperial garden most completely reseved with richest landscapes and concentrated buildings.


First off is a perfume necklace. What is a perfume necklace? you may ask. Well, this handy invention allows you to spray these little foam pads with your favourite perfume and then place one inside the necklace so when you wear it you can smell fab without worrying about your perfume wearing off. Pretty good idea if you ask me!
Another perfume related product is the travel size atomiser. It is perfect to fill with your favourite perfume to pop into your bag or take away if you are travelling. No one wants to carry around a massive perfume bottle!
I think Flo have some really great products so check out their website!


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