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Gorsuch's grilling draws laughs in Supreme Court deportation case
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Justice and a lawyer representing an immigrant from the Philippines faced off in front of the Supreme Court Monday as the newest justice on the bench, Neil Gorsuch, grilled them with such pointed questions that the audience started laughing.
In the second case of the term, the justices will have to decide whether to keep or do away with a criminal law that is responsible for the deportation of thousands of immigrants every year. Immigrants rights groups and defense attorneys argue it's too vague. The Department of Justice, on the other hand, says it's just fine.
The case is Sessions v. Dimaya, originally brought by James Garcia Dimaya, a lawful permanent resident from the Philippines who was issued a removal order because of two burglary convictions in California that the immigration judge considered "aggravated felonies," requiring automatic deportation under federal immigration law.
Neither of Dimaya's burglaries were violent, so he sued the federal government in 2011 arguing that the definition of "aggravated felony" as a "crime of violence" was unconstitutionally vague. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with him, canceled his removal order, and stopped using the standard entirely.
Last year alone, more than 3,500 people were deported because they committed an "aggravated felony," but exactly which crimes fall into that category, and which don't, is hotly debated in immigration courts across the country every day. Does a burglary of a vacant building count as a crime of violence? What about extortion or an attempted kidnapping that never actually happened?
Justice Gorsuch had lengthy questions for both sides about why immigration judges should make the call about which crimes count and which don't. His vigor came as a surprise because he remained completely silent, with his head resting on his hand, for the entire first case argued Monday morning.
"It's a tough line here to draw," he said. "When the law runs out, judges don't make it up … Why isn't this a legislative function?"
Gorsuch, who repeatedly interrupted both lawyers in his questions about separation of powers, drew laughs from the audience.
Dimaya's lawyer, Joshua Rosenkranz, asked the court consider the permanence of deportation in making its decision — a notion Gorsuch appeared to share, calling the consequences "grave."
"Lifetime banishment should not hang on the question of 'Is this in or is this out?'" Rosenkranz said.
Jesse Lloyd, an immigration attorney in Oakland, California, said the confusion surrounding the "aggravated felony" standard made his job extremely difficult until the 9th Circuit ruling.
"Say I have a client who is a green card holder who is offered a plea for unarmed robbery and their number one thing is that they don't want to get deported," he explained. "I have to guess what the immigration judge down the road is going to say. The person can't know the immigration consequences of the plea deal at the time they take it."
Lloyd says he worries that if the Supreme Court upholds the law, hundreds of his clients who have pleaded guilty to crimes could now be vulnerable to deportation.
"People when they're pleading to criminal convictions, immigration is usually the paramount concern," he said "Aggravated felonies have such severe immigration penalties, not having a clear idea of if something is an aggravated felony is a huge problem."
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It is a privilege to come to our country.
You revoke that privilege when you commit crimes on our soil...automatic deportation.
Go commit crimes in your cesspool of a country.
We do NOT want these people here!
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Milan-Cagliari Preview: Bentornato
Elaine cagliari, el shaarawy, i want to see pippo play already, maxi lopez, mesbah, Serie A
Open top busses parading through tens of thousands of fans in Milano. Players with their children on the pitch before the match. Kevin Prince Boateng's infamous Moonwalk. Fireworks and lasers. But these memories must pale in comparison to the 4-1 drubbing they took that night, or the most painful, watching their former manager's club lift the Scudetto. And they were all memories of Cagliari's last trip to the San Siro last May. I wonder if they will be intimidated by these memories or angered? Or will they be haunted/inspired by the 2-0 beating Milan gave them just 5 weeks ago in their house? It is hard to say. But when Milan open their arms and the San Siro to say "Bentornato" (welcome back,) I doubt it will feel warm and fuzzy.
Coach Davide Ballardini, looking more Secret Service Agent than Serie A Coach, has now lasted longer than both of his predecessors combined, and that's just the managers Cagliari has had this season. Of course, it is his 3rd time managing the club, and you know what they say about the 3rd time… Anyway, since we last met just before Christmas, Cagliari have impressed. They beat Genoa at home, 3-0, drew with Juve away, 1-1, and last week drew with Fiorentina 0-0 at home, although they were the better team that day, it was Boruc, Fiorentina's superstar keeper that kept them off the scoresheet. Needless to say, they may not enjoy Ibra's welcome and are undoubtedly planning to avenge the drenching wet 2-0 beating we gave them at home in December.
Ballardini, like his fellow former Cagliari coach Massimiliano Allegri, prefers the 4-3-1-2. Against Fiorentina he fielded Agazzi in the net; Astori, Canini, Agostini, and Pisano in the back; Ekdal, Nanggolan, Dessena; Cossu; and Ibarbo and Larrivey up front. I am not aware of any suspensions or injuries, but that's not saying anything. I have heard, though, that Juventus are in talks for Nainggolan, whether it be now or June. So if something is happening there, we may be spared his wrath… for now.
Will the boy Pharoah get his chance to rule the pitch?
Allegri probably mutters lineups in his sleep right now, with our injury crisis in full force, and our schedule he's got to choose players very carefully. Not only do we have FIVE midfielders out injured (Merkel will be out for one month,) but we also have some potential suspensions based on card accumulation, too. Those one card away from suspension include: Antonini, Aquilani, Bonera, and Mesbah. Certainly, this month will show us if we truly have the depth we need to battle on 3 fronts.
Sooo… Will Allegri play any of his shiny new toys? Will he give a start to the young Pharoah? Or will he give some gratuitous minutes to Pippo? Who exactly will he start, all things considered? In the words of Dr. Seuss, "I don't know. Go ask your Mom." I will try to conjure a few ideas, though: Abbiati is said to be fit. If so, I say he starts in goal. In the back, Abate, Nesta, Silva, Mesbah. In the middle, Ambrosini, van Bommel, Nocerino, Robinho, with Ibra and El Shaarawy to start up front. Or Robinho. Or Maxi Lopez, although I'm guessing if he plays, it'll be as a sub.
Left Back Roulette was fun, but it's over. Mesbah for LB!!
However, I rarely get these lineups right, I am way more emotional and much less predictable than Allegri, so I never know. I like exotic things like shiny new players, young players, and legends who are tried and true. Allegri likes soldiers, they don't have to be stars, just fit in with his plans, be very fit, and not be too old or too young or any of those other horrible things. Given his relentless dependence on a few players who have fairly consistently underperformed, I cannot pretend for a moment to know who he'll play or how his mind works. But since that mastermind is a big part of why we have our 18th Scudetto, I will try to trust in him (with the caveat that I can still complain, just like any good Italian fan does.)
He came, he saw, he signed. Will he play, though? Welcome Maxi!!
By virtue of their record, Cagliari have climbed a spot in the table to 11th since December, with 23 points, whereas we are in 2nd with 40 points, one point shy of unbeaten Juventus. It promises to be a good matchup, and one we need to win, but it may not be a walk in the park. However, given the challenges we face this next month, it is imperative that we take the points that are a little more attainable, lest we slip up when the going gets tough. Also to keep pace with Juve, who are playing Udinese tonight, weather permitting. Any loss of points for them and a win for us puts us back in the driver's seat, leading the tour, just where I like to be.
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Writing helped me through the first months and years after my husband died.
Early on, it was a sort of informal journal of dumping onto a page whatever was swirling in my head. Along the way, the writing took on various eclectic forms. I captured the essence of dreams. I wrote Seussical nonsense rhymes. I jotted ideas, shopping lists, and must-accomplish tasks. I expressed deep gratitude in letters to family and friends for the ways they helped me. I poured my heart into letters to my departed husband. I wrote comfort notes to the parts inside me that felt broken. I even followed an assignment from a bereavement class: I wrote as if the date was five years later and I was telling a friend about my current life.
Several months into the new territory called widowhood, something unexpected and wonderful happened. Sheila, the leader of a women's spiritual community in which I had participated for many years, offered a new focus on creativity for the next year's work together. A dozen women or so signed on with gusto.
We painted, collaged, and danced. We wrote poetry, sang, drew, and made music. We did a lot of writing. We paired modalities, such as dancing a painting, collaging a poem. We witnessed one another's courage in sharing our creations. All of these activities felt freeing and life affirming to me. My absolute favorite new endeavor was being introduced to ten-minute writings. Natalie Goldberg tells of the usefulness of these brief exercises in her book, Writing Down the Bones. She describes it in terms of a writer's tool. I discovered it has much broader applications.
The following are my translations. These are ways I have engaged the exercises over the past decade. Below, you will find the how-to as well as possible benefits, and approaches to using this exercise on your own and with others.
* Set a timer for 10 minutes.
* Begin with a word or phrase about your topic (i.e., "I like 10-minute writings because . . . ").
* Write or type without stopping – and without caring about grammar, punctuation, capital letters, anything. If you get stuck for something to write, either write the opening phrase over and over again or write blah-blah-blah-blah (my favorite) until something shakes loose. When we write without stopping, the inner editor/inner critic is by-passed.
* melting away of procrastination.
I want to say a bit more regarding procrastination. When there is a large or small project I notice I have been putting off, sitting down to do 10 straight minutes of writing has worked wonders. It takes the pressure off. All I do is remind myself I am simply jumpstarting by writing anything at all about it – even spitting out my frustration or other feelings about it – during a 10-minute period of time. When the timer goes off, if I am in a groove and feel like continuing, I do.
The directions are the same as for doing the exercise on your own; see the 4 steps in the list above.
* One difference is to decide together on the topic. At times, you might choose for all participants to follow their own topic selections.
* One person sets a timer or volunteers to be the timekeeper.
* Once the writing has stopped – even mid-sentence – all are invited to read aloud what they drafted. Very important ~ The duty of listeners is to witness in silence and to refrain from offering feedback in any way (no praise nor criticism); safety for folks to share their raw ramblings aloud is created by the neutral acceptance of silence. Sometimes I find I am pressing my lips together to keep from exclaiming, "That was fantastic!" Some of what gets written is very funny, and we are allowed to laugh – and laugh and laugh and . . .
homes and do a few 10-minute writings together. Some of us used to get together in this way once or twice a month at a local Panera's Bakery. Looking back, we realized those evenings were seeds for what became the Hilltop Writers circle, a monthly writing group hosted by my dear friend, Susan. Several of the Hilltoppers have essays in one or more of the three Love Revealed books.
* in retreats on meditation, inner process exploration, and sock-puppets-of-the-mind.
How about you – have you ever used 10-minute writings or similar approaches?
In terms of procrastination, how do you get yourself back on track?
What ideas are stimulated by something you read in today's topic?


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Jennifer Hudson on Her 80-Pound Weight Loss
What Jennifer Hudson Eats to Maintain Her 80-Pound Weight Loss
The Oscar winner's diet still includes chocolate, which means we love her even more.
By Miranda Siwak Updated: Feb 25, 2019
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We've watched Jennifer Hudson soar to stardom as her powerhouse pipes have taken her from American Idol back in 2004 to coveted roles in film, theater and TV, including as a judge on The Voice. Throughout that journey, the singer has also had another major life change: She went from a size 16 to a size 6.
During an interview on the British daytime talk show Lorraine in 2017, Hudson opened up about how she has maintained her 80-pound weight loss.
Hudson at The Oscars in 2007.
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"I don't really have time to do much [working out], so I really just watch what I eat," she said. "I'm very careful and cautious of what I'm eating, so I just try to pace those meals throughout the day. Like, okay, eat here, don't eat here. When it's early in the morning, I say, okay, I would've been asleep ... so I'm not going to eat. I'm very conscious of what I put in my body."
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To avoid over-snacking and bingeing, Hudson has an unconventional-but-effective technique for overcoming any food temptation: "I throw the pancakes across the room! I don't let the food intimidate me," she told Yahoo Style. "If it's too much, I just get rid of it ... And I make sure I know what it is. It's all about portions for the most part. I don't work out a lot, but I do like to be active."
Jennifer Hudson with her son in 2017.
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After giving birth to her son David in 2009, Hudson joined Weight Watchers to set a good example. That's when she learned the effective weight-loss and maintenance tools she uses today. But her shift to truly healthy habits wasn't an easy one at first.
"I had to break my diet mentality. I used to deprive myself, thinking that was healthy. I didn't eat pasta, fried food, red meat. I hadn't had pizza in 10 years," she told Self in 2011. "If you're on a strict diet that says you shouldn't have any carbs or this or that, your body won't function the way it should. I know now that I can eat anything I want and still lose or maintain my weight. It's about portions and balance."
Here's exactly what the vocal powerhouse eats in a day to maintain her dramatic weight loss:
To jump-start her busy days, Hudson eats a fruit-and-yogurt combo, an egg white scramble, or a breakfast burrito, according a 2011 interview from Self.
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Despite her busy work days on set and in the recording studio, Hudson still finds time to eat a healthy lunch every day. Typically, she goes for a turkey sandwich, grilled chicken salad, or shrimp and broccoli stir-fry, she told Self.
Hudson makes sure to keep it healthy when satisfying her midday cravings. She enjoys celery sticks, some light microwavable popcorn, one square of chocolate, an apple, a spoonful of peanut butter, Greek yogurt, granola, low-fat tortilla chips with a little light ranch dressing, or a chai tea latte. However, she doesn't deprive herself of delicious treats (a.k.a. dessert), so long as she sticks to reasonable portions.
For dinner, Hudson sticks to sushi, shrimp stir-fry, turkey and sautéed collard greens, or tacos.
Her ultimate indulgence? Chocolate. The star says she has at least one piece of chocolate every day. (Same.)
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Kröller-Müller Museum | Otterlo
Houtkampweg 6, Otterlo
Gelderland, The Netherlands
Email: form on the museum website
Website: http://www.kmm.nl/
closed on: Monday
Museum Type: Art
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The Kröller-Müller Museum is an art museum located in Otterlo, the Netherlands, famous for its notable modern art collections and its outstanding sculpture garden.
The museum has been established in 1938 by the art collector Helene Kröller-Müller, to display her personal collection.
Since its foundation, the Kröller-Müller Museum is housed in a small building designed by Henry van de Velde, located in a beautiful site inside the Hoge Veluwe National Park. The museum has been substantially enlarged in 1977 on a design by the Dutch architect Wim Quis.
The Kröller-Müller is famous for its collection of paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, one of the largest in the world, but includes also works by other modern and contemporary artists, like Seurat, Gauguin, Braque, Mondrian, Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso, just to name a few.
As anticipated, the museum is also word-renowned for its famous sculpture garden, a 25 hectares park where, alongside with lawns, ponds and majestic trees, works by artists such as Rodin, Henry Moore, Giuseppe Penone, Christo, Richard Serra and Jean Dubuffet, as well as pavilions by Gerrit Rietveld, Aldo van Eyck and Van der Velde, can be appreciated by the visitors in a fascinating combination of art and nature.
The Kröller-Müller Museum also hosts temporary exhibitions and special events. At the museum a small auditorium and a self-service restaurant are available to visitors, bicycles can be borrowed for free at the museum. The Kröller-Müller museum is fully accessible to people with disabilities
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Many parking garages are considered as damp locations. This box shows signs of corrosion and should never have been used here. See 300.6 Protection Against Corrosion.
What about the set screw connector?
(a) Exposed and Concealed. The use of listed electrical metallic tubing shall be permitted for both exposed and concealed work.
(b) Corrosion Protection. Ferrous or nonferrous electrical metallic tubing, elbows, couplings, and fittings shall be permitted to be installed in concrete, in direct contact with the earth, or in areas subject to severe corrosive influences where protected by corrosion protection and judged suitable for the condition.
FPN: See Section 300-6 for information on protection against corrosion.
PS: This installation was about 300 yards from the ocean.
i see it all the time , the salt in the air ,fog and land tend to do this if this was a pvc installation this wouldnt happen.
Yep, this sort of corrosion is a problem where I live as well. My back yard goes straight on to sand dunes and the beach, about 40 yd. max. The winter weather by England's North Sea coast brings spray and the salty atmosphere into everything.


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Music shuffle, at the beginning or on next
Say you have songs A, B, C, D, E.
The music player being used has song shuffle turned on.
The first song that comes on is Song A. After that song ends Song D comes on. The user hits back and Song A starts playing again. When that song is over what song does the user expect to come on next?
If the app shuffles songs once at the beginning then the next song would still be Song D.
If the app shuffles every time it goes to the next song then it would be shuffled to any song other than Song A.
In practice I've seen big players like Apple Music seem to only shuffle once, so hitting back and then forward will be the same song every time. But to me that doesn't seem truly randomly shuffled. How does the average user expect this scenario to be implemented?
user-expectation music
Basically, use the Spotify shuffle for a bit, then do the exact opposite. (Spotify has one of the worst shuffle implementations I've ever seen).
– SnakeDoc
I would basically never use any sort of shuffle, because the music I tend to listen to (16 Bit Lolitas, Kaskade) often has the entire album flow as one long track. Shuffle would be like putting steak in a blender. Unfortunately, my phone does not respect the correct order of tracks even with shuffle turned off, and I can't usually find the option to disable it. This makes the phone basically useless for stored music. But yes, it goes back and forth in the same sequence, as you asked about. Not sure where it got the sequence from, or if it would be the same tomorrow. Hate. Hate. Seething hate.
Hmm, it appears that Windows removed the "no sort" alternative from File Explorer at some point. So, when I copy music folders to my phone, the files (tracks) can't stay "in the order they were", they must be sorted somehow, and the default is Alphabetical. Well, that is just peachy. Great idea, Microsoft! You broke Android with your 'improvements'.
The most common implementation I know of uses both of the shuffle models you describe.
The first, "Shuffle-as-action." If I am looking at a set of songs (library, playlist, album, etc...), and hit shuffle before I choose what to play, the app will arrange the songs of that set in a random order, start playing the first track, and then present them to me in a queue. At this point, all shuffling action stops - I can edit and move back and forth through the queue with no 'random' behavior.
The second is "shuffle-as-mode." If I am already listening to one of the tracks in an album for example, and click the shuffle icon by the play button, the player will 'randomly' not re-order the album, but will 'randomly' select an unplayed track each time the current track ends or is skipped. Here, the random behavior is persistent, as is the original order of the album. Turning off random mode will just end this random behavior.
Technically, there is little difference between these two kinds of shuffling, but the cater to different mental models. The first is "build me a random playlist" and the second is "play something random after this song." There is an appropriate place to use both.
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+1 I hadn't considered "shuffle as mode." How would the app differentiate between the two modes though?
– Oztaco
+1 - I guess I had never looked close enough to see that there were really two different modes behind that shuffle button. Doesn't really seem intuitive though, seems like a case of giving two different functionalities the same icon.
I think placement helps here. I edited my answer with an example - the shuffle-as-action button is located with the album, and the shuffle-as-mode button is located with the play controls. You are right, though, it is not ideal to have the same icon act in different ways.
– Phillip Quintero
You should keep it consistent and only shuffle it once. If the playlist ends and starts from the beginning, or if the user hits shuffle again it should reshuffle the songs. This is what most major music players do in my experience.
There are 3 possible reasons that come to mind for doing this:
If the user skips back a few times, then skips forward to find a song they liked, the song will be gone and that'll be frustrating.
What if the user has listened to all of the songs but 1 or 2? When you hit next, does it play one of those two songs, or does it pick the next song out of all the songs? Logic says it should be one of those two, but if you hit back and hit next again the same song could play since there are only 1 or 2 songs left. So it's better to always play the same song and keep things consistent.
If you want to display the shuffled songs in a list, then you must only shuffle them once, otherwise the reshuffling of the songs on the display would be jarring.
You can read more about this at this question
OztacoOztaco
Good points, I hadn't considered #3 and I figured #2 was simply taken care of by implementing a list of already played songs. That other question is interesting though as he seems to be referring to the playlist being the same shuffle every time he starts the application which I have never noticed. Mine seems to only persist over the same session.
For #2, what could be confusing for the user is if they move back a few songs, would the songs later in the queue be reshuffled? You could do something like if you get to the bottom of the list it adds a few random songs to the list, but going back and forth still plays the same songs. Yes I haven't had that problem either, but the answer to that question has a great explanation that's relevant to this one.
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The number of mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, wearable devices) is rapidly growing. In line with this trend, a massive amount of mobile videos with metadata (e.g., geospatial properties), which are captured using the sensors available on these devices, are being collected. Clearly, a computing infrastructure is needed to store and manage this ever-growing large-scale video dataset with its structured data. Meanwhile, cloud computing service providers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft allow users to lease computing resources with varying combinations of computing resources such as disk, network and CPU capacities. To effectively use these emerging cloud platforms in support of mobile video applications, the application workflow and resources required at each stage must be clearly defined. In this paper, we deploy a mobile video application (dubbed MediaQ), which manages a large amount of user-generated mobile videos, to Amazon EC2. We define a typical video upload workflow consisting of three phases: (1) video transmission and archival, (2) metadata insertion to database, and (3) video transcoding. While this workflow has a heterogeneous load profile, we introduce a single metric, frames-per-second, for video upload benchmarking and evaluation purposes on various cloud server types. This single metric enables us to quantitatively compare main system resources (disk, CPU, and network) with each other towards selecting the right server types on cloud infrastructure for this workflow.
This research has been funded in part by NSF grants IIS-1115153 and IIS-1320149, the USC Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), and unrestricted cash gifts from Google, Northrop Grumman, Microsoft, and Oracle. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any of the sponsors such as the National Science Foundation.


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import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;

import org.apache.arrow.memory.ArrowBuf;

import com.dremio.exec.proto.UserBitShared.QueryData;

public class QueryDataBatch implements AutoCloseable {

  private final QueryData header;
  private final ArrowBuf data;
  private final AtomicBoolean released = new AtomicBoolean(false);

  public QueryDataBatch(QueryData header, ArrowBuf data) {
    // logger.debug("New Result Batch with header {} and data {}", header, data);
    this.header = header;
    this.data = data;
    if (this.data != null) {
      data.getReferenceManager().retain(1);
    }
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  public QueryData getHeader() {
    return header;
  }

  public ArrowBuf getData() {
    return data;
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  public boolean hasData() {
    return data != null;
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  public void release() {
    if (!released.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
      throw new IllegalStateException("QueryDataBatch was released twice.");
    }

    if (data != null) {
      data.getReferenceManager().release(1);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return "QueryResultBatch [header=" + header + ", data=" + data + "]";
  }

  @Override
  public void close() {
    release();
  }

}

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We're excited to co-lead the US$4M seed funding round into cyber security startup, Cyble.
We're excited to co-lead the US$4M seed funding round into cyber security startup, Cyble. We are co-leading the round with Spider Capital in the United States, with participation from Picus Capital, Cathexis Ventures, Xgoogler Ventures, and others. The funding comes as Cyble graduates from Y Combinator's Winter 2021 (W21) cohort.
Cyble is an AI-powered cyber intelligence company that empowers organisations with dark web cybercrime monitoring and migration services. The dark web is currently estimated to have 500X the surface area of the visible/public web and this is where the vast majority of early cyber attack communication and collaboration takes place.
Eyes For The Dark Web
The vision for Cyble is to become the "Eyes for the dark web" for enterprise customers. The platform monitors the dark web and collects information on what people are talking about and their activity, applies machine learning to normalise and aggregate the information captured, then surfaces risk-adjusted "alerts" to enterprise organisations through a dashboard that leads them through an issue management workflow (with social collaboration elements for cyber response teams such as commenting, chat, etc.)
The mission is ultimately to pick up threats far earlier in the cyber attack cycle. History shows evidence of threats showing up on the dark web well before they are otherwise sighted. With this knowledge, Cyble's customers can stay one step ahead of the hackers.
There are strong tradewinds behind Cyble's business, including;
Increasing sophistication of cyber attackers
Growing complexity of organisation surface layers with cloud/devices (more ways to attack)
Growing regulatory pressure (GDPR, etc)
Rising costs of attacks
Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, says "the only place in the business that doesn't have a budget constraint is cyber security". And this sense of urgent value is clearly seen in the short sales cycle and strong inbound demand that Cyble is seeing.
A Team On A Life's Mission
Cyble is founded by a strong team whose life mission was to build this product. Cofounders Beenu Arora and Manish Chachada met while studying for the joint MBA program at Columbia University and London Business School.
Building this product is the culmination of Beenu's career journey to date which has tracked him from the Indian secret service and through the cyber security teams of PWC, BHP and Google. He is also a member of the Forbes Technology Council. Beenu has been looking for this product throughout his career and, in not finding it, decided to build it for himself.
Manish is a seasoned finance and operations leader with 15+ years of experience in International Corporate Finance and Business Management experience, combined with a keen interest in business and technology. Manish co-chairs the special interest technology group for Financial Executive Network Group (FENG) and is also a member of the Forbes Business Council.
As a founding team, Beenu and Manish bring software and security engineering, and operations experience from large corporates.
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Cyble is truly global from Day 1, both by customers and team. They have a strong team of 27 people across Australia, the USA, India, and Singapore and have built an impressive client base to date including a number of FORTUNE® 500 companies.
We are excited to be partnering with Cyble on the next chapter of their journey. The team has ambitious plans for 2021 and we look forward to taking that ride with them.
Learn more about Cyble in this BusinessWire feature.
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Aiming to further stem controversy over how it handles aging iPhone batteries, Apple said Saturday that its lower replacement price will go into effect immediately, rather than in late January.
"We expected to need more time to be ready, but we are happy to offer our customers the lower pricing right away," Apple said in a statement to Axios. "Initial supplies of some replacement batteries may be limited."
Why it matters: Apple faces multiple lawsuits over the issue, and has been under intense criticism for slowing down some older phones. The company said earlier this week that it would cut the price of replacement batteries from $79 to $29, at least until the end of 2018 and update the iPhone software to be clearer on battery status.


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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was South Africa's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism, poverty and inequality, and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1991 to 1997. Internationally, Mandela was Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999.
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On Friday a storm came through and knocked out the power for about 3 million people including me. The temperature in my house last night was 92 degrees when I tried to go to bed. I slept with a towel so I could wipe up the sweat. It was miserable.
Now it is Sunday and McDonalds has three things that I do not have, air conditioning, Wi-Fi, and hot coffee. The Duke power outage map for my area looks like somebody shot it with a shotgun so it looks like it might be awhile. I guess it is time to work on those outdoor projects. Oh well!


When the Francis family had me over to their home to sample some of the dishes coming out of their Lawney's BBQ endeavor, I wasn't expecting much. First of all, I've never been a big fan of BBQ. It's not that I don't like it – I would just rather fill my belly with something else. After my knee-buckling first bite into their sliced brisket, though, I knew this was going to be a feast to remember.
When I go out to eat, I beg to be blown away and the prime piece of brisket I swiped off the pan after Lawney Sr. delicately sliced it did just that. The aforementioned "knee-buckling" adjective attributed to the experience isn't hyperbole. If you see the maroon Lawney's BBQ food truck out and about, get the brisket but grab a hold of something sturdy nearby. You'll thank me later. While you're at it, get some of their sauces to dip it in for a whole other experience. I mean, come on. It's aged in whiskey barrels. It's a combo angels would sing about if they were into brisket and whiskey barrel-aged sauces. That sounds like heaven to me.
It doesn't get much better than the sliced brisket from Lawney's BBQ.
After becoming distracted by the feast we partook in and forgetting to take any meaningful notes, I reached out to the family with a set of questions and they were more than happy to oblige me with insightful responses.
How long has Lawney's BBQ been in business and what was the thought process behind opening it?
Look for the maroon Lawney's BBQ truck wherever good food is served.
Plenty of room on the grill at Lawney's BBQ!
What were the expectations when it started and how have those compared to reality?
You used to chop your brisket but have started to slice it. What was the decision making process behind that and how has the reaction been?
Lawney's BBQ recently started using barrels from Journeyman Distillery to age their sauces. Describe your experience with that and the feedback you've received.
"Barrel aged anything is huge right now and the natural combination of BBQ and whiskey just makes sense. If you are not drinking a beer with BBQ, you almost have some kind of whiskey. However, very few places have been brave enough to actually age their sauce in it. We emailed a lot of different distilleries and breweries asking if they had any barrels we could use and almost immediately Journeyman Distillery was more than eager to work with us. These guys really know their stuff when it comes to the art of distillation and I was excited to be able to feature them and they offered us a barrel that had just been emptied. The pieces came together too well not to feature anyone else. We truly had no idea what would happen. Would our sauce taste like firewater and be too strong to use? Would our sauce become too runny because of the influx of liquid? Would our sauce even interact with the barrel at all? So we handled it just like a science project, tasting week after week, writing down notes, sampling out to different friends and once we hit the point we liked, we just knew.
Lawney's BBQ sauces and Journeyman Distellery whiskey barrels make for the perfect secret recipe.
The food business is a tough one. What separates you from the others?
The goodness never stops at Lawney's BBQ.
Don't forget about the ribs when stopping by Lawney's BBQ!
You have the mobile kitchen and do catering as well. How can people find out what events you'll be at or where you'll be set up for the weekend?


If you are getting into fashion, especially if you are interested in retail (retail, e-commerce, buying, merchandising...) one of your industry must reads has to be Drapers. It is a smart choice to be in the know of all market trends even if you are a designer. If you want to make decisions for your shop or design consciously towards a market that is affected by trends, and here I don't mean fashion trends, but social, economic or even legal/political then Drapers is really a must.
Because I have been going to different fashion schools in London for the past 5 years, I can tell you that all fashion business classes start with "read Drapers".
Drapers is a fashion retail business weekly in print (£4.75) and online (to what you can subscribe to access for £199/year).
Of course there are many other things you can read for industry updates such as Women's Wear Daily (WWD) which is based in the US, and discusses everything from fashion trends to news to business. You can also visit WGSN, which is online trend forecasting agency. They are the best for trends online, but its membership only, where you have to apply and pay (forgot how much, but these trend forecasts are usually super expensive starting around thousands for a season). I was lucky to have access because fashion universities here get a student access to it so they can experience and learn how to use this sort of information to their advantage. If you live in a city where there are big fashion magazine shops then you can also visit these to flick through the pages of other forecasting print magazines (these are more like very expensive books).
Do you know of any other fashion business print or online magazines that you'd suggest others to read?


Canadian front-line border agents now have access to more information on travellers contained in Canada's law enforcement database, a significant change in the way visitors are checked for potential security risks, CBC News has learned.
Until now, front-line border agents did not have access to information contained in the Canadian Police Information Centre database when checking the backgrounds of the millions of travellers who arrive at Canada's border crossings every month.
But as of Nov. 23, the Canada Border Services Agency gave border agents at primary checkpoints access to some of the information normally contained in the database.
"This means that border service officers can now identify wanted individuals earlier in the border process," the border agency told CBC News Thursday night in a written statement, although it's not clear whether all border agents have been trained to access the data.
Canada's national law-enforcement database contains information about outstanding arrest warrants, criminal convictions and other security information.
As CBC News reported earlier this year, U.S. border agents use Canada's database to help screen all passengers travelling to that country, but Canadian agents weren't using it to screen everyone trying to enter Canada.
In fact, Canadian border agents at primary, or front-line inspection points didn't have access to the database. Only travellers deemed suspicious and sent for secondary screening were being checked against the CPIC database. The idea is not to slow goods and people crossing the border by fully screening everyone.
Sources say the information should assist in flagging unwanted visitors or those deemed a security threat. The new information will be updated on a daily basis and be provided to all front-line agents, sources have told CBC News.
Until the changes, border agents at primary inspection lines scanned travellers' passports through an internal "lookout" system. That system only contained information about some people being sought by immigration authorities. Agents also had access to a database of lost, stolen or fraudulent documents.
Earlier this year, Jean Pierre Fortin, president of the Customs and Immigration Union, told CBC News the system was putting Canadians at risk. "If you aren't in the CBSA's lookout system," said Fortin, "you're coming in and we don't even know if you're a criminal or not."
The changes come six months after a CBC News investigation that exposed the security loophole. The investigation revealed that a Nigerian priest charged with sexual assault in Canada was allowed through the border, despite an outstanding warrant for his arrest.
Father Anthony Onyenagada is accused of assaulting a female parishioner at a southern Ontario Catholic church he visited in 2004.
By the time charges were laid against him and a warrant issued for his arrest, Onyenagada had left Canada. Police assured the woman the priest would be arrested if he ever tried to re-enter the country. Then, nearly 10 years later, the woman found evidence that he had returned.
Local police who investigated the alleged sexual assault told CBC News they were shocked to learn Onyenagada had made it through border control. By the time police realized the priest had returned, he had left Canada again, eluding arrest.
It appears he was never screened using the CPIC database, which would have alerted agents that Onyenagada was wanted.
CBC News has agreed not to identify the alleged victim in the case.
"I'm happy the loophole is being closed, but it doesn't bring the person who raped me back to Canada. The system failed me, but hopefully it won't fail anyone else going forward," she told CBC News Thursday.
If you have information about this story, or any other story you want investigated, please contact john.lancaster@cbc.ca or call 416-205-7538.


We were part of an amazing gathering of Christian sisters and brothers in Indonesia at the end of September that was organized by the Asia-Pacific Baptist Federation (APBF)! If one phrase could capture the message of the events we attended, it would be this: global mission is no longer just for the West.
Ann participated in a pre-Congress Consultation on Theological Education with seminary leaders from across the Asia-Pacific region. They shared moving reports about the challenges and victories of training local church pastors and leaders in difficult, sometimes dangerous, economic, cultural and political situations. Several members were interested to learn about Ann's initiatives to help the Cambodian Baptist Union and the Baptist Convention of Vietnam develop contextualized theological education programs.
At the same time, Bruce participated in a Consultation on Development organized by Asia-Pacific Baptist Aid. Since this region is regularly pummeled by devastating natural and human-caused disasters, a majority of the 80+ participants were involved in humanitarian aid and relief programs through their Baptist conventions. It was encouraging to learn that these programs are increasingly incorporating a development approach that not only meets immediate needs after a disaster but helps affected communities become less vulnerable and more resilient. Bruce was invited to give a formal response to a paper presented by Roshan Mendis of the Christian development organization LEADS in Sri Lanka on "Good practice in deeds and advocacy" during one of the plenaries.
The APBF Congress itself was evidence of the size, strength and diversity of the Body of Christ in this region. The Congress drew over 1,100 people representing Baptist churches and institutions spanning the Asia-Pacific region from Japan and Korea to Australia and New Zealand, from the Philippines and many Pacific island nations to India and Sri Lanka – and almost all countries in between. It was a snapshot of the Baptist movement in the most populous, diverse and least evangelized region in the world.
A workshop on the last day summarized the event for us: "Global mission is not just for the West." Even though Christians make up only about 7% of the population in this region (see this report and this report by the Pew Research Center), speakers and delegates at the Congress demonstrated that their countries and the region as a whole are no longer just the objects of cross-cultural mission by the West. They are co-participants in God's mission with the worldwide body of Christ.
We are so grateful for your prayers, financial support and gifts to the World Mission Offering that make it possible for us to represent you in this dynamic, growing region. Remember that you are also part of God's mission right where you are. What barriers is God calling you to cross in order to be an ambassador of God's love, hope and reconciliation right in your own neighborhood?


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by Grant Harper ReidGrant Harper Reid
"Rhythm For Sale" the 5-Star Grand Prize Award book voted one of the Best Self-Published books 2015 and Bookawards.com Gold Award Winner.
Get this NAACP Mid-Manhattan Black History Month Founders Day Award-winning Edition filled with 20 Extra Vintage Harlem Renaissance images.
About Harlem Renaissance producer Leonard Harper's life. Reid has documented Harper's tale with decades of research and the careful chronological arrangement of the facts.
Reid begins with Leonard Harper as a young pickaninny boy dancing in Medicine shows in the racist South. After leaving Alabama, Harper tours the country with his song and dance partner Osceola Blanks, and they wind up performing at the Empire Theater in London. As a married couple Harper and Blanks, arrive back in the States smack dab in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance. Pianist Duke Ellington moves in with them. Harper is hired to be the main in-house producer at Harlem's fabled Connie's Inn nightclub.
"Rhythm For Sale" just gets started as Harper opens up his downtown Times Square Dance Studio. He teaches the Marx Brothers, Ruby Keller, Adele Astaire and Busby Berkeley's chorus line in the fine art of (Colored), dancing with "that little extra something in the butt department." He forms his famous chorus-line the Harperettes, who jiggle and joggle in skimpy outfits while setting dance floors on fire. Leonard Harper produces in at least eight nightclubs and theaters just in New York City alone. The Cotton Club, the Hollywood Inn, Al Capone's Grand Terrace Cafe, the Lafayette Theater, and the Apollo Theater all owe their status and particular place in nightclub and theater entertainment history to Harper and his fast variety revues. He rules the nightclub and Black Musical Comedy world on "The Great White Way" and uptown in Harlem. "Black And Blue" and "Ain't Misbehavin" all came from Harper's "Hot Chocolates."
The book is chock full of celebrities and gangsters who come and go. Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Chick Webb, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Lena Horne, Dutch Schultz and Lucky Luciano are all integral players in Harper's show business world. Grandson Grant does not disappoint. These real-life characters come to life. No cardboard cutout characters are in this book.
It's not all the razzle and dazzle of the bright stage lights in this tome. "Rhythm For Sale" finely peals away beyond the surface to reveal what lurks underneath the facade. Like a master chef, the author delves deep into the ingredients of Harper's complicated personal life. We examine his relationships with his possessive mother, jealous brother, crippled and bitter wife, sexy girlfriends and his loving daughter.
The book ends with Harper's 1943 downfall. When Harper's variety revue form of Colored Musical Comedy is, deemed out of date with his audience, his time on earth expires. His sad downfall is inevitable as the master Stager is trapped and held captive of his past success. The racial pigeonhole that forced him into working for only small-time Harlem nightspots caused his death.
A Harlem street was named "Leonard Harper Way" because of the deep historical contents in this book.
"Clearly Leonard Harper was just about the most important contributor to the entertainment mystique that enveloped Harlem in the 1920's and 1930's. He invented the nightclub floorshow, Harlem style that everyone, uptown and down, then emulated. Without him, I doubt we would have Broadway musicals as we know them today." Barry Singer author of Black And Blue.
"Harper's extraordinary accomplishments as an artist and innovator spanned the worlds of vaudeville, cabaret, burlesque, and Broadway musical comedy. Harper is also remembered as a pioneer who integrated the all-white Shubert touring circuit and directed Hot Chocolates' the first-ever Broadway production with an all-black creative team." President of Lincoln Center.
Enjoy the read!
Dr. Grant Harper Reid
Dr. Grant Harper Reid attended and graduated from Bard College with a Degree in the Arts where he studied editing at Beatle John Lennon's apartment. Grant then went on to study at the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and Ossie Davis' New Cinema Artists Institute.
Three significant events primed Grant for his biography about his entertainment grandfather. A year after he was born an Apollo Theater manager requested baby Grant's services to be the News Years Baby with entertainer Jackie Wilson dancing him out on stage in his arms. In 1969 at 16 years old Grant met, photographed and hung out with Jimi Hendrix as he played a benefit in Harlem. In 1978 at age 25 Grant cast Michael Jackson in a Motown/Commodores documentary filmed in Madison Sq. Garden.
Grant Reid worked in various thankless capacities in the entertainment industry throughout the decades. Grant labored primarily on major motion pictures, music videos, television production's and commercials securing and supporting locations. In the record industry, Reid worked in the promotional departments supporting a variety of major musical artists.
One fateful day Grant accidentally stumbled upon a Harlem Renaissance book in a local Harlem library. The book mentioned his grandfather theatrical producer Leonard Harper. This event changed Reid's life forever as he dropped everything to learn as much about one of the most prolific producer/director's who ever lived during Harlem's famous Jazz Age.
Reid now shares all that he has learned in this Grand Prize 5-Star Award Winning biography.
Reid's biographical debut ventures into the beating heart of the Harlem Renaissance through the life of his grandfather Leonard Harper. Reid scoured historical archives to write this full account of Harper as a theater performer, choreographer, director and producer. Born the son of a poor singer in Birmingham, Ala., Harper performed on the street for pennies as a child. He became a talented performer, and after his father died, he studied soft-shoe in an effort to provide for his family. Reid writes of his grandfather at age 10: He "was now a first-class dancer who could tap rings around most of the adults and veteran masters. In other words, young Harper be boggity-boggity." Reid continues with similarly charming turns of phrase as he shares the details of Harper's exploits. Young Harper traveled with vaudeville shows until he found his way to New York, where he went solo at 16. By his early 20s, he found himself at the center of the Harlem Renaissance, and he worked with such legends as Duke Ellington, Florence Mills, Thomas "Fats" Waller and Louis Armstrong. Reid provides a straightforward account of the era's racial tensions, with white producers often swindling Harper and his fellow African-American theater professionals out of the rights to their works. However, Harper was resourceful enough to successfully stage dozens of shows. Reid chronicles his barrier-breaking achievements, including his 1929 debut of Hot Chocolates, an African-American production that received great acclaim on Broadway. Though the book is full of praise for Harper, Reid also recounts his grandfather's extramarital affairs and some of the more colorful stories of gangsters and burlesque dancers in the Harlem nightclub scene. While an unfortunate number of grammatical errors and clumsy run-on sentences distract from Reid's careful research, dedicated theater and history buffs will happily brave the copy editing morass to access the wealth of information Reid has unearthed. An entertaining biography that circles the theater and taps into an important cultural movement.
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Reviewed by Maria Beltran for Readers' Favorite The main protagonist of Rhythm for Sale, Leonard Harper, is a talented African-American born in an era of discrimination and of a blossoming entertainment industry to which he was drawn. He was the son of a poor singer from Burmingham, Alabama. He learned the art of soft shoe dancing, a type of tap dancing popular during those years. In almost no time, he had become a master of his craft, going on his own at the age of 16 in New York, even working with greats such as Louis Armstrong. Despite white people ripping him and other African-American counterparts of their work and earnings, he was able to do many performances and shows and, through his hard work, was also able to stage the much-lauded African-American Broadway show Hot Chocolates in 1929. Rhythm For Sale, written by his grandson, Grant Harper Reid is his story. Grant Harper Reid's debut book is a fascinating look at the dazzling Harlem Renaissance that was the backdrop to the life of his grandfather, Leonard Harper, a known figure among history buffs and dance and theater enthusiasts. Leonard Harper was not only a gifted performer, he also contributed much to the Harlem Renaissance as a choreographer and stage director so that even to this day others look up to him and his works. Those wanting to learn more of this wonderful era of dance and theater history will realize they have a marvelous find in Rhythm for Sale. The author's writing style is highly descriptive and entertaining and his book not only tells of his grandfather's exploits as a performer – we also get to see his personal life, rife with affairs as well as exciting characters from gangsters to burlesque dancers in the nightclubs. This is a book every performer should read.
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Q: Making a text bold using DOM Events i'm learning JavaScript now, and for practicing, i'm trying to make a text editor. Where you can type something, click a button and make it to upper or lower case, bold and talic. It worked with lower and upper case, but for some reason it doesn't work with bold.
Here's my HTML:

Escreva seu texto abaixo

    <input type="text" id="type">

            <button id="button1">A</button>

            <button id="button2">a</button>

            <button id="button3">B</button>

            <button id="button4">I</button>

And here's the script:

>  let text = document.getElementById("text")
>         let input = document.getElementById("type")
>         let button1 = document.getElementById("button1")
>         let button2 = document.getElementById("button2")
>         let button3 = document.getElementById("button3")
>         let button4 = document.getElementById("button4")
>         let value1 = document.getElementById("type").value
>
>
>         button1.onclick = uppercase
>         button2.onclick = lowercase
>         button3.onclick = bold
>         button4.onclick = italic
>
>         function uppercase(){
>             text.innerHTML = value1.toUpperCase()
>         }
>
>         function lowercase (){
>             text.innerText = input.value.toLowerCase()
>         }
>
>         function bold(){
>             text.innerText = input.value.style.fontWeight="bold";
>         }

The text that will be changed will be the h1, at the top of the HTML. Also, i wrote

let value = document.getElementById("type").value

to spare me some time, but when i click the button1 (uppercase) the text just disappear. The button2, with input.value worked fine. So why the var value1 makes and the text disappear and why can't i make the text bold?
Thank you!`

A: The problem is you are changing the input.value to bold. You can't style the input.value you should directly change the input style.
Also, you can't use the input.value = it is not built-in function  like toUpperCase, it is style.
Use input.value.style.fontWeight may work, but you need to apply it back which click on other element which is messy. The easiest way is to  so you don't have to worry to change it back.
Also, I problem I have to mentioned, you should declare the input value inside the function, you declare it at the beginning which will always be empty since you assign the value at page loading.

let text = document.getElementById("text")
let input = document.getElementById("type")
let button1 = document.getElementById("button1")
let button2 = document.getElementById("button2")
let button3 = document.getElementById("button3")
let button4 = document.getElementById("button4")

button1.onclick = uppercase
button2.onclick = lowercase
button3.onclick = bold
//button4.onclick = italic

function uppercase() {
let value1 = document.getElementById("type").value
  text.innerHTML = value1.toUpperCase()
}

function lowercase() {
  text.innerText = input.value.toLowerCase()
}

function bold() {
  text.innerHTML = ''+input.value+''
}

Escreva seu texto abaixo

  <input type="text" id="type">

      <button id="button1">A</button>

      <button id="button2">a</button>

      <button id="button3">B</button>

      <button id="button4">I</button>

A: you need to give CSS to the object, not the text
something like this :
input.style.fontWeight="bold";

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Pro Silva is een Europese organisatie die zich inzet om bosbouwers en -beheerders in Europa een meer natuurvolgend en extensief bosbeheer na te laten streven. Pro Silva pleit voor het optimaal gebruik en behoud van de ecosystemen van bossen, waarbij ecologische en sociaaleconomische bosfuncties op een duurzame en winstgevende manier vervuld worden.

Geschiedenis
Op het congres van de International Union of Forest Research Organizations in 1986 presenteerde de Sloveense emeritus hoogleraar Dušan Mlinšek voor de eerste keer zijn idee om een organisatie op te zetten die pleit voor natuurvolgende bosbouw in Europa. Hij nodigde Hilmar Schoepffer en Brice de Turckheim (twee invloedrijke bosbouwkundigen in Europa) uit om te praten over de oprichting van een Europese organisatie. Op 22 september 1989, in de Sloveense plaats Robanov Kot, stichtten zij uiteindelijk Pro Silva.

Zie ook
 Probos
 Geïntegreerd bosbeheer
 Stichting Kritisch Bosbeheer
 International Tropical Timber Organization

Externe links
 Pro Silva (officiële website)

Europese organisatie
Bosbouw


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As expected, the Toronto press weren't kind to the Maple Leaves after they were knocked out by the Montreal Canadiens on Monday night.
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The cover of the "Toronto Sun" Daily was clear the next day. With the English title "Running Choke," he recalls the team's playoff failures in recent years, explaining some of them that followed previous Leafs qualifiers, all accompanied by a picture of Austin Matthews and Mitch Marner somewhat upset. Both men have already come under widespread criticism for their performances against the Habs, with the latter unable to score in seven post-season matches this year.
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