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Phong from Vietnam said he likes what is called "hard rock" or "metal." Evgeny from Ukraine agreed. Both posters said they like the Scorpions. The German metal band formed in 1965 and has released more than fifteen studio albums.
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American rocker Ryan Adams is also enjoying a successful new album. His self-named record sold 45,000 copies in its first week on the market. It is number four on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart. It is Adams' highest position ever on that chart.
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The Swedish singer will open for Katy Perry during her tour in Australia in November.
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Dionysus is not your ordinary, run of the mill, world music record, then again the duo of Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerard collectively, known as Dead Can Dance, are not your typical band. Divided in 2 acts based on Dionysus, the Greek deity of Wine, fertility and theatre among others, also known as Bacchus in Roman culture, these compositions represent a sort of celebration without restrains, as per this God's own definition of life. Unlike similar groups like Enigma, Dead Can Dance applies electronic music to punctuate and accent their sound, never being de basis of it. Clocking at around 36 minutes, this record is chock-full of ethnic mantras, ancient instruments, percussive elements and ethereal chanting by the inimitable Lisa Gerard. In sum this might not appeal to listeners outside their sphere of connoisseurs, but for those it's a gift from the Gods.


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Facial nerve preservation after vestibular schwannoma Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Isaac Yang, Michael E. Sughrue, Seunggu J. Han, Shanna Fang, Derick Aranda, Steven W. Cheung, Lawrence H. Pitts, Andrew T. Parsa
Objective: Facial nerve preservation is a critical measure of clinical outcome after vestibular schwannoma treatment. Gamma Knife radiosurgery has evolved into a practical treatment modality for vestibular schwannoma patients, with several reported series from a variety of centers. In this study, we report the results of an objective analysis of reported facial nerve outcomes after the treatment of vestibular schwannomas with Gamma Knife radiosurgery. Materials and methods: A Boolean Pub Med search of the English language literature revealed a total of 23 published studies reporting assessable and quantifiable outcome data regarding facial nerve function in 2,204 patients who were treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma. Inclusion criteria for articles were: (1) Facial nerve preservation rates were reported specifically for vestibular schwannoma, (2) Facial nerve functional outcome was reported using the House-Brackmann classification (HBC) for facial nerve function, (3) Tumor size was documented, and (4) Gamma Knife radiosurgery was the only radiosurgical modality used in the report. The data were then aggregated and analyzed based on radiation doses delivered, tumor volume, and patient age. Results: An overall facial nerve preservation rate of 96.2% was found after Gamma Knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma in our analysis. Patients receiving less than or equal to 13 Gy of radiation at the marginal dose had a better facial nerve preservation rate than those who received higher doses (≤13 Gy = 98.5% vs. >13 Gy = 94.7%, P < 0.0001). Patients with a tumor volume less than or equal to 1.5 cm3 also had a greater facial nerve preservation rate than patients with tumors greater than 1.5 cm3 (≤1.5 cm3 99.5% vs. >1.5 cm3 95.5%, P < 0.0001). Superior facial nerve preservation was also noted in patients younger than or equal to 60 years of age (96.8 vs. 89.4%, P < 0.0001). The average reported follow up duration in this systematic review was 54.1 ± 31.3 months. Conclusion: Our analysis of case series data aggregated from multiple centers suggests that a facial nerve preservation rate of 96.2% can be expected after Gamma knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma. Younger patients with smaller tumors less than 1.5 cm3 and treated with lower doses of radiation less than 13 Gy will likely have better facial nerve preservation rates after Gamma Knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma.
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Yang, I., Sughrue, M. E., Han, S. J., Fang, S., Aranda, D., Cheung, S. W., Pitts, L. H., & Parsa, A. T. (2009). Facial nerve preservation after vestibular schwannoma Gamma Knife radiosurgery. Journal of Neuro-Oncology, 93(1), 41-48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-009-9842-3
Facial nerve preservation after vestibular schwannoma Gamma Knife radiosurgery. / Yang, Isaac; Sughrue, Michael E.; Han, Seunggu J.; Fang, Shanna; Aranda, Derick; Cheung, Steven W.; Pitts, Lawrence H.; Parsa, Andrew T.
In: Journal of Neuro-Oncology, Vol. 93, No. 1, 2009, p. 41-48.
Yang, I, Sughrue, ME, Han, SJ, Fang, S, Aranda, D, Cheung, SW, Pitts, LH & Parsa, AT 2009, 'Facial nerve preservation after vestibular schwannoma Gamma Knife radiosurgery', Journal of Neuro-Oncology, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 41-48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-009-9842-3
Yang I, Sughrue ME, Han SJ, Fang S, Aranda D, Cheung SW et al. Facial nerve preservation after vestibular schwannoma Gamma Knife radiosurgery. Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 2009;93(1):41-48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-009-9842-3
Yang, Isaac ; Sughrue, Michael E. ; Han, Seunggu J. ; Fang, Shanna ; Aranda, Derick ; Cheung, Steven W. ; Pitts, Lawrence H. ; Parsa, Andrew T. / Facial nerve preservation after vestibular schwannoma Gamma Knife radiosurgery. In: Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 2009 ; Vol. 93, No. 1. pp. 41-48.
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Chronological Gazetteer of the works of E.W. Pugin
By GJ Hyland – 11 March 2010 This article is undergoing continual refinement, and is updated periodically.
MONASTERY PARISH CHURCHES
CATHEDRALS • MONASTERY PARISH CHURCHES • PARISH CHURCHES • CEMETERY CHAPELS
CHAPELS CONNECTED WITH COLLEGES AND INSTITUTIONS • DUAL-PURPOSE CHAPEL/SCHOOL-ROOM BUILDINGS
PRIVATE CHAPELS • CONVENT CHAPELS
Six religious orders are represented in the monastery churches designed by EW Pugin, which serve as parish churches, all of which belong to his first and second phases. From the first phase, Belmont Abbey church is one of the most important, although its present chancel dates from his second phase; EW Pugin's projected broach spire on the crossing tower was never realised, and the tower terminates instead in an embattled parapet stage added by Pugin & Pugin in 1882.
Figs. 31a, b, c • Abbey church of St Michael & All Angels, Belmont: a) from the South-west (Courtesy of Luke Davies & Belmont Abbey Trustees); b) from the North-east (Edmund Haywood, Belmont Abbey); c) from the North (Courtesy of Luke Davies & Belmont Abbey Trustees). Photographs a) and c) subsequent to restoration grant-aided by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
In the UK, EW Pugin's largest monastery parish church is that designed for the Franciscan Recollects at Gorton, whilst the largest in the Republic of Ireland is the Augustinian church in Dublin, both of which are distinguished by the dramatic vertical assertiveness of their W. fronts elevations.
Whilst AWN Pugin's chapel of St Felix in Northampton was integrated (as a W. chapel) into EW Pugin's cathedral there, his chapel for the Redemptorists in Childwall, Liverpool was demolished only six years after being built to make way for EW Pugin's much larger church (Fig.14a).
Figs. 32a, b • St Francis, Gorton, comparing a) the projected exterior (The Builder, 7 September, 1878) with b) the realised W. front with its more restrained bell-cote by S Pugin Powell (Private Collection)
Figs. 33a, b • Ss Augustine & John, Dublin, comparing a) the projected design (The Irish Builder, 15 Dec 1866) with b) the church as realised (Courtesy Rev Dr D Kelly, OSA)
REALISED DESIGNS
1854(15 Nov)-60(4 Sept): Belmont/Clehonger, HR2 9RZ, Herefords. - St Michael & All Angels (OSB, Benedictines): built through the munificence of FR Wegg-Prosser, MP, FRAS. First opened for use on 21st Nov 1859. Originally built before it was known that it would become a Benedictine priory (later abbey) church, when it comprised nave, aisles, crossing and short chancel; to accommodate a full monastic choir, the chancel was twice lengthened and its roof raised during the 1860s when also side-chapels were added. The original High Altar of 1860 was replaced in 1865, and a reredos installed (together with a new tabernacle by Hardman & Co) in 1866, both sculpted by RL Boulton to EW Pugin's design; capital carving by T Earp of London. W. & E. windows by JH Powell of Hardman & Co, the E. window being raised to its present position in 1869. Tower completed by Pugin & Pugin in 1882 (to a much simpler design than that proposed in 1878 by Pugin, Ashlin & Pugin) by the addition of a belfry stage & a surmounting embattled parapet (in place of EW Pugin's intended broach spire). N. transept extension completed in 1885 as a chantry chapel for the first Bishop of Newport & Menevia, Rt Rev Thomas Brown OSB, whose tomb is against its N. wall. On the E. wall of the transept was an altar and reredos to St David (by Pugin & Pugin 1882-85), which were removed and destroyed 1969/70 on the grounds that they were too ornate; they were replaced by ones in wood. These were eventually removed to make space for the tomb of Brown's successor, Rt Rev John Cuthbert Hedley OSB, upon its transfer from St Joseph's Chapel in 1978, when the screen separating the transept from the nave was also removed. The church became the Abbey Church of an independent Benedictine Foundation in 1920 (having, for some time, served as Pro-cathedral, and subsequently as Cathedral, of the Diocese of Newport & Menevia). The projected 1888 scheme for the S. transept (not N., as stated in The Building News of 31st Aug 1888) to accommodate the tomb of the Most Rev Bede Vaughan OSB, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia (1873-83) and Cathedral Prior of Belmont (1862-73) was never realised. Archbishop Vaughan, a brother of Herbert Cardinal Vaughan, died in Liverpool and was at buried first at Ince Blundell, the seat of one branch of the Weld family to whom he was related (his great-uncle, Thomas Weld, was the first English cardinal since the Reformation, and his cousin Sir Frederick Weld, was Governor of W. Australia & Tasmania). His remains were removed to Belmont in 1887, and buried in the churchyard where they remained until 1946 when they were returned to St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney (by WW Wardell) which Vaughan had dedicated in 1882.
1857(2 Aug)-58(15 July): Childwall, Liverpool, L16 8NQ, Merseyside - Our Lady of the Annunciation (Bishop Eton Monastery Church, CSsR, Redemptorists): replacement of AWN Pugin's chapel of 1851 but incorporating a number of its features, such as altars, traceried windows, and the decorated wooden panelling on the walls of the chancel. This was EW Pugin's first semi-octagonal apsidal chancel design. Carving by EE & M Geflowski of Liverpool; High Altar by FJ Bentley, 1865. The building now lacks its original distinctive octagonal lantern above the crossing, similar but smaller than that now at Sacred Heart, Blackpool), which, together with the roof, was destroyed by fire in 1973.
1859(6 Jul)-1865(2 Jan)-66(4 Oct): Peckham, London SE15 1RH - Our Lady of Sorrows (OFM Cap, Capuchins): sketches date from 1857-58. Building work was protracted owing to lack of funds. At the time of opening, only a temporary High Altar had been installed, surmounted by life-size Calvary (the gift of Miss Hales of Canterbury); this was later replaced by a permanent altar placed some distance from the E. wall side to allow space for a retro-choir for the friars. In 1930, the Calvary was removed to another location in the church, and the altar moved back against the E. wall. The Lady Altar (to the design of EW Pugin) is in marble, worked in Ireland. The SW. tower was never completed. Served by the Capuchins until 2000.
1862(21 Apr) (with GC Ashlin)-75/ 92-95(15 Dec): Dublin, Ireland - Ss Augustine & John (OSA, Augustinians): completed 1892-95 under the superintendence of W. Hague. Design (which is dominated by a dramatic W. front with its soaring wedge-spire) was exhibited in 1860. Church opened incomplete, on 24th Aug 1875, with some carving by Earley & Powell; stained glass by Mayer & Co, 1873, Earley & Son, Michael Healy & Harry Clarke. High Altar & reredos by Ashlin & Coleman, early 1900s, sculpted by Edmund Sharp; original mensa has now been brought forward of the reredos.
1864(17 Mar)-67(30 Jul): (with GC Ashlin): Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland - The Most Holy Trinity Friary Church (OFM Recollects, Franciscans): This is erroneously attributed to JJ Mc Carthy in The Builder of 7th March, 1868. High Altar (1871) and side altars, altar rails & organ gallery (all of 1872) by Janssen of St Trond, Limbourg, Belgium. The tower, which replaced the original flèche on the roof of the central range of the friary building) is by GC Ashlin of Pugin, Ashlin & Pugin, 1878-79; its bell was blessed 17th Mar 1879. The building of the tower was supervised by Br Patrick Dalton OFM, who was active also at Gorton (see [8] just below).
1864(20 Sept)-65(4 May): Hoxton Square, London N1 6NT - St Monica (Augustinians): founded by friars from Ss Augustine & John, Dublin. E. end (not completed until 1866); bell by Murphy of Dublin, 1865. The main principals of the roof are supported on wooden columns; High Altar and Stations of the Cross designed and executed by Mayer & Co, 1875. The Lady Chapel is not by EW Pugin, but is by J Young, 1880. See also Augustinian Priory, Hoxton Square and School, Hoxton Square.
1865(16 July)-66(16 July): Kensington, London W8 4BB - Our Lady of Mount Carmel & St Simon Stock (Carmelites): replaced a temporary chapel opened on 15 Oct 1863; projected spire never built. Lady Altar by EW Pugin, carved by Farmer & Brindley, installed 1874. Flanking wings to EW Pugin's reredos of the High Altar completed by Pugin & Pugin in 1905. Church destroyed by bombing during WWII; new church (1954-59) by Giles Gilbert Scott, Son & Partner.
1866(9 Jun)-72(26 Sept): W. Gorton, M12 5WF, Greater Manchester - St Francis (Friary Church of OFM Recollects): design differs somewhat from that described in 1863, which was cruciform with a flèche above the crossing. The arrangement of canopied statues in the spandrels of the nave arcade above the arch intersections is very similar to that at Ss Peter and Paul, Cork; some carving by Williams & Millson of Manchester. Stained glass by Edmundson & Son of Manchester & by Casolani of St Helens; pulpit (1883), High Altar/reredos (1885) and side altars (1891, 1892, 1893) all by PP Pugin. The W. end bell-cote (1911) is by Sebastian Pugin Powell of Pugin & Pugin, and is considerably shorter and more restrained than the dramatically soaring one designed by EW Pugin - compare Figs.32a, b. At the time it was opened, it was the largest Catholic parish church to be built in England since the Reformation. The church and adjoining friary buildings were abandoned by the Franciscans in 1989, after which they were severely vandalized but are now undergoing (partial) restoration for community/secular use.
1866(15 Aug) (with GC Ashlin)-71(14 Sept, completed by Ashlin.): Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland - Holy Cross Priory Church (Dominicans): project dates from 1861; built through the munificence of P Jeffers, and replaces a temporary chapel of 1862. EW Pugin's intended spire at the NW. angle was never built on account of the low load-bearing capacity of the site. High Altar & reredos by Ashlin, 1896 - now removed. The projected spire (one of EW Pugin's best) is similar in design to those realised at Stretford, Stourbridge, and Fermoy, Ireland but is here superior in respect of the balance between the heights of the spire and supporting belfry stage of the tower.
UNREALISED DESIGNS
1874: Gorbals, Glasgow, G4 0SE, Scotland - Franciscan church (OFM, Franciscans): The Tablet of 10th Jan, 1874 reported that 'a church of very large dimensions is about to be erected by the Franciscan Fathers at Glasgow. The designs are by Mr Welby Pugin of Victoria-street, Westminster.' A church dedicated to St Francis was built 1880-81 to the design of PP Pugin; this was a much altered and reduced version of an earlier design of 1877, which is usually attributed to Pugin, Ashlin & Pugin. Given the above citation, however, it is possible that the 1877 design was actually EW Pugin's of 1874 (a situation similar to that at Kilburn). A new chancel was added in 1895 by Pugin & Pugin. The church was closed in 1992, and is now a Community Centre, but the altars remain intact.
1874-75: Roxbury (formerly Brookline), Boston, USA - Redemptorist Church (CSsR): the website of this (mainly Romanesque) church (dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour) cites Wm. Schickel & Isaac Dimars as architects (1876-78), and F. Joseph Untersee as architect of the spired gothic towers that were completed in 1910. However, the design and dimensions of the existing lantern over the crossing are identical to those of EW Pugin's as described in The Architect of 13th March 1875, whilst the internal dimensions of the church (as built) are very similar to those given in this reference; the Romanesque style of the interior, however, bears no resemblance to the Gothic design illustrated in the above journal.


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Paul is no stranger to success in the Baby of the Month competition and his image of Bella is his fifth winning entry in 2018! Paul told us "I have been a professional photographer for over 30 years, initially starting in weddings and then moving into Studio portraiture. 2017 was our 25th anniversary of running the studio in Tunbridge Wells and we had a great year celebrating. My wife Beverley and I run the studio together, and aim to make it a friendly, fun place to come and have your portraits taken. We offer lots of different sessions including Newborn, Family– including The Cube and The Beams, Cake Smash, Pets and much, much more.


The most common collection methods are telephone calls and letters. However very organised credit controllers are now using email and sending a general email to confirm the payment date every month. Do not send the email asking if there are any outstanding issues with the payment or you will get issues where there were none before.
Letters are the most useful for a large number of small debts, due to the costs associated with telephone calls. The calls though are more effective than any standard letter. The telephone is most suitable for large problem debts.
Factoring and collection agencies are worth considering. Beware that third party collections are more useful for problem debts and large amounts – they however put any good business relationship at risk.
In your conditions of sale have you retained the title of goods until payment is made?
This is discount for early payment of invoices. For example 5% settlement discount if paid within seven days or 30 days net.
If the discount is large enough it can be a powerful incentive for customers to pay early. This method can be used to give a quick cash boost to a company, as the effect is to bring forward debts. However there are more problems with settlement discount than advantages.
Many companies will take the settlement discount even if they are outside the time allowed. The administrative cost of this is enormous. Are you willing to have credit controllers spend time chasing up very small percentages of outstanding invoices?
You must have very well trained staff that are able to part allocate payments precisely, additionally you must have accounting software that can deal with part payments, (most will now).
Using a settlement discount systems the debtor's ledger often becomes very messy and it needs an unreasonable amount of time at some point to reconcile these accounts.
When a customer takes a discount without entitlement it will cause customer relation problems and many arguments. Companies will cite various problems for applying late and still taking the discount: delivery problems, no invoice received; these have to be investigated which adds valuable time on to the credit control function.
The last issue with settlement discount is once introduced it is almost impossible to withdraw, and therefore if you find that it is not helping cash flow you can end up giving away money for no return.


Told by her mother Maria.
"Gabby was born in December 2010. The day after her birth following regular checks we were advised that they had picked up a murmur and believed that it was likely to be caused by a hole in the heart that would probably close after time. We were told that Gabby would be referred to a cardiologist and we would just have to wait until the appointment came through. On receipt of an appointment letter we were given a date in February which we did not feel was soon enough. I phoned the hospital and managed to get the appointment brought forward.
Gabby was born we were given a diagnosis of Tetralogy of Fallots and were informed that Gabby would need open heart surgery at around five months old. This was a massive shock as you can imagine as it was far more serious a condition than we had previously understood.
In May 2011 Gabby had her full repair at Bristol Children's Hospital. The surgery took longer than expected as it took the surgeon two hours to get Gabby's heart working without the bypass machine. We were all very well looked after whilst Gabby was in PICU but unfortunately when she was transferred to the ward we were offered no support other than from visiting family so we were glad to be able to go home after just seven days.
Gabby sees her cardiologist every two years and will require more surgery in the future to replace her valve.
On Sunday 4th November 2018 seven-year old Gabby from Cheltenham ran with three other children, all with heart conditions, at the Beehive junior parkrun in Welwyn Garden City. Gabby completed the 2km course smiling all the way.
By taking part in parkrun Gabby is not only showing what children with heart conditions can achieve but will be improving her cardiovascular health which will improve her overall fitness and reducing the risk of her developing cardiovascular disease in later life.


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Denim is starting to take cues from the beauty industry.
Lee Jeans announced Friday that it's launching Lee Body Optix in the U.S. this summer. The line of contouring denim successfully launched in Asia and Europe last year.
Lee Body Optix marries vision science with exclusive patent-pending technology to create denim that visually flatters the female shape.
"What contouring makeup does for the face, Lee Body Optix does for a woman's body," said Kim Yates, Lee Jeans vice president of marketing.
Each denim piece is shaded and contoured using patterns created by nano laser technology, while construction is enhanced with strategic seams and pocket placement.
For Fall '18, Lee Jeans is partnering with New York-based ready-to-wear label Cushnie et Ochs for a special collection of Lee Body Optix denim.
The collaboration was celebrated Friday at the Cushnie et Ochs 10th anniversary runway show at New York Fashion Week.


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EXPLAINER: Why WNBA players are going overseas to play in the offseason | Sports News
By Lillian M. Pickens on March 6, 2022 China sports
By DOUG FEINBERG, AP Basketball Writer
Russia has been a popular destination for WNBA players like Brittney Griner over the past two decades because of the money they can make playing there in the winter.
With top players earning more than $1 million — nearly quadruple what they can earn as base salaries in the WNBA — Griner, Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird and Jonquel Jones have been willing to spend their offseason to play away from home. It's hard for WNBA players to turn down that kind of money despite security concerns and politics in some of the countries where they play.
Griner, 31, a seven-time Phoenix Mercury All-Star, has been playing in Russia since 2014. She was returning from a hiatus for the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup qualifying tournaments when she was arrested at an airport near Moscow last month after Russian authorities said a search of his luggage revealed vape cartridges.
On Saturday, the State Department issued a "do not travel" advisory for Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine and urged all U.S. citizens to leave immediately, citing factors such as "the potential for harassment against U.S. citizens by Russian government security officials" and "the Embassy's limited ability to assist" Americans in Russia.
Turkey, Australia, China, and France also have strong national women's basketball leagues where some of the WNBA's best players play during their offseason.
WHY RUSSIAN SALARIES ARE SO HIGH
Russian sports leagues have been able to pay these high salaries to top players because some teams are funded by government municipalities while others are owned by oligarchs who care more about winning championships and trophies than being profitable. There are stories of Russian landlords putting players up in luxury accommodations and taking them shopping and buying them expensive gifts in addition to paying their salaries.
In 2015, Taurasi's team, UMMC Ekaterinburg — the same one Griner plays for — paid her to skip the WNBA season and rest.
"We had to go to a communist country to get paid like capitalists, which is so behind anything in the history books in sixth grade," Taurasi said a few years ago.
The Russian league has a completely different financial structure from the WNBA, where there is a salary cap, a players' union and a collective agreement.
The WNBA has made progress in increasing player salaries and finding other ways to compensate players in the latest CBA, which was ratified in 2020. The contract, which runs through 2027, pays players an average of $130 $000, with top stars able to earn more. more than $500,000 through salary, marketing deals, in-season tournament and bonuses.
The ABC also provides full salaries while players are on maternity leave, enhanced family benefits, travel standards and other health and welfare improvements.
More than a dozen WNBA players were playing in Russia and Ukraine this winter, including league MVP Jones and Courtney Vandersloot and champion Chicago Sky's Allie Quigley. The WNBA confirmed on Saturday that all players except Griner have left both countries.
Nearly half of the WNBA's 144 players were away this offseason, although stars Candace Parker, Bird, Chiney Ogwumike and Chelsea Gray opted to stay in the United States.
From a purely basketball perspective, the ABC will make it harder for WNBA players to compete overseas in the future. Starting in 2023, there will be new WNBA prioritization rules that will be enforced by the league. Any player with more than three years of service who arrives late for training camp will be fined at the rate of 1% of base salary per day late. Additionally, any player who does not arrive by day one of the regular season will be ineligible to play at all that season. In 2024 and beyond, any player who does not arrive by the first day of training camp (or, with respect to unsigned players, finishes playing overseas) will not be eligible to play during all season.
The WNBA typically begins training camp in late April and the regular season begins in early May. Some foreign leagues do not end before these dates.
More AP women's basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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This month I feel like I turned into the "dupe blogger". I've been listening to what you guys want and it led me to so many of these finds. You know I love expensive sneakers. Prob my biggest weakness. When I saw these almost identical Golden Goose sneakers for $30 I knew you guys would want to check them out. Especially if you have teens in your home.


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Hawaii Holiday
Abhishek, Alex, Divya, little Arya and I vacationed in Maui, Hawaii over Christmas break. After all our (Divya and my) planning, anticipation and numerous reruns of "Hawa Hawaii" by Sridevi, our trip was finally here! Going over the packing list: swimsuits - check, sunscreen - check, Arya's three page packing list - check, Abhishek's party hat (we only party when the party hat is on) - check, and it was time to Hawa Hawaii.
Our itinerary was:
Day 1: Grand Wailea Luau Show
Day 2: Haleakala National Park
Day 3: Snorkeling at Lahaina, Kapalua, Kanapali
Day 4: Road to Hana
Day 5: Whale Watching and Snorkeling at Molokini
Day 6: Iao Valley, return home
Luau Show
We arrived in Maui around noon, after a tumultuous start to the day. We had an early morning flight and amidst rain, wind, cold and jumping over the parking barricade to get to the terminal, we finally made it to our flight, and a sleepy 6 hours later we landed in Kahului.
At airports, especially in tourist destinations, you can easily distinguish between the people arriving and those leaving. We, and the rest of our flight, arrived in heavy jackets, looking sleepy and frazzled, and generally giving the impression that hey, we need this, ok. The people leaving were in shorts and colorful clothes, with overstuffed luggage, carrying last minute shopping bags and generally looking relaxed and beaming around. We were ready to take in the chill effect too!
We were renting a condo by the beach in Kihei. On our way from the airport to the condo we wanted to make a quick stop at Costco for some essential supplies. When we entered Costco, we saw rows of beach gear, Hawaiian shirts, skirts etc. Thankfully in all this random shopping we didn't forget to buy milk! Anyhoo, we made it to our condo an hour or so later laden with a lots of new luggage.
Our condo was right on the beach in a cute little community. The whole area was quite nice, and not very crowded. Abhishek, Divya, Alex and Arya headed for a little walk along the beach.
That evening we headed for the Grand Wailea Luau. A Luau is an evening of dinner and entertainment, showcasing traditional Hawaiian song and dance. The location was very picturesque - the show was held on a wide grassy lawn, with the beach and the setting sun behind us, and the immaculately landscaped resort with pools and waterfalls in front of us.
Luau's typically feature Kalua cooking, which is cooking in an underground oven. Food, usually meat, is cooked slowly over a period of 4-6 hours in a shallow pit lined with a layer of rocks enclosed by a lining of banana leaves.
A pig cooked in Kalua style at our Luau, along with colorful jewelry on display:
After we were fed and watered (as Dumbledore tells Hogwarts students after the feast), it was time to settle down for the show. We were treated to a gorgeous sunset, following which the tiki torches and the show began with much ceremony.
The music and dance performance was about an hour and a half and was creatively choreographed to bring to life different events in Hawaiian mythology. Hawaiian dance and music, like the beach life, is relaxed and fluid, quite unlike todays tempo music and dance which borders on aerobics. Each scene in the performance featured colorfully dressed dancers. The MC of the night was particularly talented, doubling up as a singer, drummer and performer. The grand finale of the evening was a group of dances putting out fires by sitting on them (first time I had seen that way of containing fires), and a fire and knife wielding artist who juggled with sticks on fire and then plunged a long sword down his throat!
The first picture on Day 2:
This picture was taken at the summit of the Haleakala crater. Our head was in the clouds, and it was cold and damp, not fluffy and warm - whoever came up with that saying has definitely not had their head in the clouds! We had missed sending our families a picture from the previous evening, and somehow this is the first picture of Hawaii they received. My mom was like - Wait, are you in Hawaii? It looks like Alaska!
The island of Maui is named after the demigod Maui - son of Hawaiʻiloa, who is credited with discovering the Hawaiian islands. Haleakala, which translates to "house of sun", is named so since legend has it that the demigod Maui captured the sun in Haleakala, only releasing it when the sun promised to travel more slowly over the ocean. Thousands of years later Haleakala crater is most renowned for it's spectacular sunrises and sunsets.
We made the drive up to Haleakala National Park on our second day at Maui. The drive was gorgeous, rising up from sea level to more than 10,000 ft in 38 miles.
The Rainbow State!
Clouds rolling over the rolling hills!
This has gotta be, gotta be, the good life!
At the entrance to the National Park:
Haleakala crater is actually a misnomer since it was actually formed by wind eroding the valley between two mountains. The wind maketh and and eventually the wind levelth.
It looked like the surface of Mars (or similar to the surface of Mars as created in a Hollywood basement and shown in Martian). We could imagine Mark Watney getting out to do an EVA!
There is a gorgeous hike called Sliding Sands which hikes down along the crater. Alas, the day we were there it was very cloudy and windy, so the visibility wasn't that great. For the few moments when the clouds opened up, we had a spectacular view of the valley.
What Watney's path probably looks like on the surface of Mars. He avoided craters you see..
If you've been seeing the pictures carefully, you'll notice several wardrobe changes at Haleakala! We kept pace with the vegetation change as we traveled up the mountain, adding a layer as the vegetation got thinner :)
We polished off the day with a lovely Christmas dinner. Arya, like her mum, is so socially active. At the restaurant, she was running around and saying hi to folks at different tables. In the picture below you can just make out the friend she made that evening, Emily - a two year old, on the far left. Emily and Arya became fast friends that evening!
A relaxing end to a lovely day.
Beach Hopping
In Hawaii you can just walk onto any beach and start snorkeling. There's no need to take a boat an hour away to see fish and corals (though we did do that), you will see them right at any ole' beach. Eager to take in the all the diversity in fish and corals that Maui has to offer, we went beach hopping from the South to the North. Don't judge, can you say you've seen all of India - the people and the geography, if you only stuck to the north or south?
We started at Baby Beach (they should really rename it to Adult Beginner Beach, it sounds so much more respectable!), and got comfortable with our gear. When we saw our first fish, all the underwater cameras and gopros were out - that fish, which probably strayed off from it's school, must have felt like such a celebrity! From Baby beach we headed on to Kapalua bay, which is a sheltered cove on the north west side of Maui. The rocks lining the bay and the calmer waters make the cove a sanctuary for fish and turtles.
Divya, Abhishek and I were a little uncertain of swimming in the ocean by ourselves, so we held hands and snorkeled. At one point, Abhishek was on my right and clicking pictures with his right hand, and Divya was on my left. We proceeded as a trio holding hands, swimming farther away from the beach that either one of us would have dared individually. It was a fun experience, though Alex maintained a little bit of distance, generally implying that I don't really know these people!
Little Arya who was initially quite uncomfortable in the morning, with the water and the sand that got into everything, was having a blast by the afternoon. She spent hours transferring sand from one container to the other and vice versa. Too bad no one ever remembers what they were thinking when they're that age!
A few pictures from our beach day:
Our third evening in Hawaii was spent watching the sunset at the expansive Kanapali beach. It's easy to see why it's named among America's best beaches with miles of soft, white sand and crystal clear waters.
The ships coming home.
The skies briefly opened up just after sunset leading us to make a hasty exit. We had dinner at a boisterous restaurant in Whalers Village and headed back to the condo. I dreamt of colorful corals and fish that night.
Road to Hana
The Hana highway is a windy road on the north east side of Maui which starts at Kahului and ends at Hana. The curvy road, which had the coast on one side and a tropical rain forest on the other, treated us to breathtaking views of waterfalls, beaches, dense jungles and steep cliffs! It's just 52 miles one way, yet took us a full day to complete - and what a day it was!
The rain forest our road cut through was dense. There was such a rich and diverse ecosystem within a square foot. There'd be a big tree growing that would be hogging most of the sunlight, vines and creepers twisting around the tree's bark, a variety of shrubs around the tree making the best of the filtered rays of sunlight, grass around the shrubs, and moss between the grass - not a square centimeter of earth gone to waste! The jungle could just swallow you whole, and there'd be no trace that you were ever there. It was just incredible how so many species and life forms were being supported by Mother Earth. The whole backdrop reminded me of the scene from Lost World when they get stuck in the jungle. Speaking of which, apparently some scenes from Jurassic World were shot here, something we found out later.
Hana, and this rain forest are on the other side of Haleakala Crater that we'd visited a few days earlier. Winds laden with moisture come in from the ocean and as they make their way inwards they encounter the crater which obstructs their journey, causing condensation and an abundance of rain. On the other side of this dense rain forest was a deep red, barren crater valley with just a spindly plant popping up once in a while (with lots of fragile, please conserve signs around it)!
Pictures from the scenic Ke'anae peninsula. During the tsunami from 1856, the stone church in the city was the only building left standing.
The picteresque Ke'anea Arboretum. There were gigantic eucalyptus trees with streaks of color on their bark - rainbow eucalyptus!
After a few more stops on the road, with roaring waterfalls alongside us, we stopped at the Half Way to Hana stop. There's a small bakery at this stop which was the first to make banana bread. Don't know if that's fact or fiction, but the bread was warm and delicious.
A little further down we stopped for a tasty lunch in a unique ambience. A food truck was parked inside a hut with the dense jungle all around it. A lunch ambience unlike any other, definitely put my office lunch spot to shame.
Our next stop was the Maui Lava Tube. A lava tube is a conduit formed by flowing lava, which serves as a drain for an active lava flow. The remaining lava eventually cools to form a hardened tube like structure. There are even stalactites and stalagmites on the surface, which probably formed in seconds as opposed to the thousands of years calcium stalactites take. However, unlike calcium structures which are continuously growing, a lava stalactite can never grow, and nor do you want to be around when it does!
Looks like an entrance to the underworld.
Active lava once filled this entire space! Molten hot lava at 1200C! And now there are steps, lights, a railing to balance your step and informational placards. Inside this most violent act of nature I felt as secure as I felt on my couch at home. Sigh!
Driving along Hana, listening to the Gypsy Guide on Abhishek's phone, we arrived at Waianapanapa State Park. The park is along the jagged lava cooled coastline, with the sea carving out tubes, caves, arches and pools through solid lava. The beach along the coast is a "black sand" beach since it is made out of lava. The whole area was gorgeous and unlike any other place we've seen before.
Side note: I learnt while writing this blog that both flowing lava and solid lava are called lava :)
Our last stop on the Road to Hana was near the Oheo'Gulch pools, a series of cascading pools formed by sea water eroding the lava coast. We really wanted to do the Pipiwai hike through the bamboo forest, but by this time it was already 4.30 in the evening and the sun had started setting. We could hear the forest night life coming alive - crickets and frogs coming out to party! So we decided to skip the hike, and going by how quickly the sun set after that boy was it a good call. Listening to the forest sounds I remembered how growing up in India the sounds of the evening insects coming alive in the playground was the sign to return home for the evening, and face homework.
A few pictures on our drive back:
The sun set soon after, and we were enveloped by the forest. The only lights we could see were of the cars in front of and behind us, and they were such a comfort to see. I remember missing highway 101 on the drive back. 101 is a central artery in the bay area, a 5 lane road straight as an arrow with lots of civilization around, though truth be told I've never appreciated it in the bay area since it's always traffic jammed and a pain to drive. Yet, in the middle of a dense, silent jungle on a windy road with visibility only a few feet ahead I couldn't wait to get back on 101. We were averaging 20 miles an hour, so the drive back took us 4 hours or so. It was a tough drive for Abhishek for sure.
Gypsy guide (the app for Road to Hana) was an excellent companion. On the way to Hana the Gypsy guide talked about interesting places to see. On the way back he spoke about the history of Hawaii and it's people.
Traditional Hawaiian society apparently had a caste system resembling India's caste hierarchy. Society was divided into warriors and chiefs, priests, commoners and the lower caste. Marriage between castes, especially to people in lower castes was strictly forbidden. Superstitions in society abounded, one mentioned that if a man and a women ever ate together at the same table the man would be struck down by lighting!
The islands of Hawaii were ruled by different chiefs who frequently fought battles amongst each other. King Kamehameha conquered all the Hawaiian islands in 1795, and the islands were brought under one ruler for the first time. The next century saw a growing battle for control over the archipelago between the United States and Europe. Hawaii was eventually annexed by the United States in 1959, as it's 50th and most recent state. In 1993, the US Congress passed a joint Apology Resolution apologizing for the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom and acknowledging that Hawaii had been annexed unlawfully.
Gypsy guide's chronicle of Hawaiian history kept us deeply engrossed on the drive back. The narrative had rich details about the people and rulers of each era, their way of life and aspirations. Soon we were back to civilization - straight roads, shops, people. I went to bed that night dreaming of Hawaiian warriors jumping out of the jungle screaming Haka - an ancient Hawaiian war cry!
Snorkeling at Molokini
The next day was back to the water! We snorkeled in the morning near a beach close to our condo. Abhishek went off snorkeling leaving me at the beach guarding his expensive camera. He says he was only off for half an hour, I say he abandoned me for 2 hours, so let's say he was off for 1 hour. I was miffed when he came back, but he made up by taking me snorkeling to the prettiest coral reef we saw in Hawaii. I think he got pretty lucky there.
That afternoon we took a cruise out to Molokini - a crescent shaped, partially submerged volcanic crater just a few miles off the coast of Maui. It was a beautiful day to be out on the ocean, the sun was shining brightly in the sky, and the water was a sparkling, deep sapphire blue. We were also delighted to see a few humpback whales, including a mamma and a baby whale, during our cruise.
The crescent shaped Molokini crater.
On the cruise.
When we dropped anchor at the crater to start snorkeling we could see the fish in the water from the boat itself, the water was that crystal clear. Snorkeling inside the crater was a completely different experience from snorkeling near the beach. The water was very calm thanks to the crater walls surrounding us. Rich corals lined the crater walls and the crater was teeming with fish. One minute you have your head above the water and the waters look calm, doesn't look like much is going on underneath, and then when you duck back into the water, fish are swimming all around you! As I was writing this I was reminded of a quote from Fault in our Stars, where Hazel remarks that houses from the outside always look boring, as if nothing is happening inside, when in fact your whole life is lived inside one! The ocean certainly gives that impression, but there is a whole vibrant, world underneath.
Some pictures of us snorkeling are below. Snorkeling in Molokini felt like swimming in a gigantic 40ft deep swimming pool with fish and corals around us, the water was so clear and calm.
We had a nice, hot lunch waiting for us onboard the ship after our hour of snorkeling in Molokini. After lunch we stretched out on the deck with some desert and cold drinks, enjoying the sun, the ocean and the view. We docked in Maui around 5pm that evening. All in all a very enjoyable afternoon!
For our last evening in Maui, we went out for dinner at a Japanese-European restaurant on a small hill near Kihei overlooking a golf course. A wonderful end to a glorious day.
The next morning we packed up and said good-bye to our home for the last 5 days.
We then headed out to Iao Valley, the famous landmark where King Kamehameha overcame the Maui army in his crusade to unify Hawaii. The valley, formed by a stream, was a deep, lush green. We spent about an hour or so in the valley walking on the trails. We would have liked to spend more time there, but there were too many mosquitoes.
Abhishek and I did a short drive along the picturesque coast near Iao Valley, followed by lunch at the Queen Ka'ahumanu Mall at Kahului. There was a farmer's market inside the mall, right besides Urban Outfitters!
And then, it was time to come back to rainy, cold, bay area :( . Arya had an absolute blast on the flight back, she became fast friends with a lady on the flight who was very creative in coming up with new games with the only thing she had with her - a neck pillow! I have come to view neck pillows in new light.
We had such a wonderful vacation in Hawaii. It was particularly enjoyable holidaying with Divya, Alex and Arya. We had our own little routine every day. In the morning, I'd make Chai, Divya cooked scrambled eggs, and we'd get breakfast ready. We'd all sit together, have a nice breakfast and plan out the day. Some days we all went out together, a few days we went to different places. In either case, we'd be back to the condo by 8pm or so, put Arya to bed and chit-chat late into the night over some snacks. Very nice, relaxing vacation. Thank you guys, and thank you Hawaii.
Aloha and Mahalo!
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My Travel Blog
Welcome to my Travel Blog. I write about the bigger vacations we take, so that we can remember and cherish the memories for longer, as well as share it with our family and friends. Feel free to browse the posts below.
Swiss-French Affair
Vacay in the UK
Hawaii Holiday
Diwali in India
Alaskan Adventure
Road Trip From Boston to California
Trip To Australia
Cancun Vacation


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Smith set to confirm future as Storm roster surgery continues
Dan Walsh NRL.com Reporter
Mon 18 Nov 2019, 04:14 PM
Storm champion Cameron Smith is poised to suit up for a 19th NRL season as the club's salary cap surgery continues.
While already contracted for 2020, Smith's future has been the subject of conjecture given his public doubts about playing on after Melbourne's finals exit this year.
After a six-week break following the end of his 2019 playing commitments, Smith has been re-energised and spoke positively about continuing his outstanding career into next season.
He plans to consult with coach Craig Bellamy ahead of what is expected to be a tailored pre-season return.
"I haven't spoken to Craig officially about next year; we've had some discussions about the way I've pulled up from the season just gone and where I'm at, at the moment, with my thoughts on next year," Smith told AAP on Monday.
"I must say I feel a lot better than I did a week or two weeks after we finished up.
Five key match-ups of the Storm's 2020 draw
"It takes a little bit to get over that disappointment, I guess more so now being older and knowing that the chances are running out.
"But I feel a lot better now about playing on next year and this will be a good chance to see what his thoughts are and we will go from there today."
Meanwhile, Melbourne centre Curtis Scott will weigh up a move to Canberra after meeting with Raiders coach Ricky Stuart last week.
Scott has two years remaining on his contract at the Storm but NRL.com understands the club is willing to release the 22-year-old if a rival club is able to cover his salary for 2020 and 2021.
Melbourne have been juggling their salary cap for some time since the end of the season, with Will Chambers released to Japanese rugby and Brodie Croft also granted permission to look elsewhere.
At this stage Croft is slated to remain at the Storm but may yet link with Brisbane if they too can free up salary cap space to fit him in for next season.
The Storm have several rising stars headlined by Ryan Papenhuyzen in line for contract upgrades for 2020 and beyond, with forwards Kenny Bromwich, Tui Kamikamica and Tino Fa'asuamaleaui among those coming off contract this year.
Representative mainstays Felise Kaufusi and Jesse Bromwich also have two-year player options for 2021 and 2022 that are yet to be taken up.
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King focused on NRL return
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Q: Using WebClient to get Remote Images Produces Grainy GIFs and Can't Handle PNG+BMP Greetings!
I'm creating a web form prototype (ImageLaoder.aspx) that will return an image so that it may be used like this simple example other Web Forms/web pages:

So far, it loads JPGs with no problems, however GIFs look "grainy" compared to the orignals and BMPs and PNGs result in the following exception:
System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException: A generic error occurred in GDI+
My code thus far looks like this:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string l_filePath = Request.QueryString["i"];

    System.Drawing.Image l_image = GetImage(l_filePath);
    if (l_image != null)
    {
        System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat l_imageFormat = DetermineImageFormat(l_filePath);
        WriteImageAsReponse(l_image, l_imageFormat);
    }
}

private System.Drawing.Image GetImage(string filePath)
{
    WebClient l_WebClient = new WebClient();
    byte[] l_imageBytes = l_WebClient.DownloadData(filePath);

    System.Drawing.Image l_image = null;
    using (MemoryStream l_MemStream = new MemoryStream(l_imageBytes, 0, l_imageBytes.Length))
    {
        l_MemStream.Write(l_imageBytes, 0, l_imageBytes.Length);
        l_image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(l_MemStream, true);
        l_MemStream.Close();
    }

    return l_image;
}

private System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat DetermineImageFormat(string filePath)
{
    if (filePath.EndsWith(".jpg", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        return System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg;
    else if (filePath.EndsWith(".gif", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        return System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Gif;
    else if (filePath.EndsWith(".png", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        return System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png;
    else
        return System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp;
}

private void WriteImageAsReponse(System.Drawing.Image image, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat imageFormat)
{
    if (image == null)
        return;

    System.Drawing.Bitmap l_outputBitMap = new Bitmap(image);

    if (imageFormat == System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg)
        Response.ContentType = "image/jpg";
    else if (imageFormat == System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Gif)
        Response.ContentType = "image/gif";
    else if (imageFormat == System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png)
        Response.ContentType = "image/png";
    else
        Response.ContentType = "image/bmp";

    l_outputBitMap.Save(Response.OutputStream, imageFormat);
}

Any ideas why GIFs are grainy and PNGs and BMPs cause exceptions?

A: A few points about your GetImage method:

*

*When you use Image.FromStream you shouldn't close (or dispose) the stream

*If you're calling Dispose on a stream (with the using statement) you don't need to call Close

*You're writing to the stream, but then not "rewinding it" so l_image doesn't actually get any data as far as I can see (unless Image.FromStream resets the position itself). (It could be that the gif/jpg decoders rewind the stream but bmp/png don't, hence the error.)

*Why don't you just use the MemoryStream constructor which takes a byte array?

In short, I believe your GetImage method can be replaced with:
private Image GetImage(string filePath)
{
    WebClient l_WebClient = new WebClient();
    byte[] l_imageBytes = l_WebClient.DownloadData(filePath);
    MemoryStream l_stream = new MemoryStream(l_imageBytes);
    return Image.FromStream(l_stream);
}

Now, more importantly - why are you loading the image at all? Why don't you just serve the file itself as a response, setting the content type as you're already doing - or possibly just based on the extension? In other words, all of your code would become:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string filePath = Request.QueryString["i"];
    string extension = l_filePath.Substring(l_filePath.LastIndexOf('.') + 1);
    Response.ContentType = "image/" + extension;
    byte[] data = new WebClient.DownloadData(filePath);
    Response.OutputStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
    Response.End();
}

A bit more error handling (including "is this a reasonable extension?") would be nice, but other than that I think it's okay. The only benefit of actually loading the image yourself is that you get to validate that it really is an image rather than a virus or something like that.
EDIT: Just out of interest, do you have a good reason why you'd want image requests to go through your server? Why would the web page author write:

instead of

There are some reasons why it might be useful, but in many cases it's just a waste.

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Australia's Dow Chemical boss Liveris eyes politics
John Kehoe | AFR correspondentEconomics editor
Updated Jan 27, 2014 – 5.29pm, first published at Jan 26, 2014 – 11.37am
Washington Andrew Liveris , one of Australia's most successful international business leaders, has revealed he is interested in entering politics after his corporate career ends.
The bold declaration will be watched closely by Australia's booming mining and struggling manufacturing sectors because Mr Liveris is advocating government intervention to give local manufacturers better access to Australia's low-cost energy including gas.
Mr Liveris, the chairman and chief executive of the $US54 billion ($62 billion) US-based Dow Chemical , has been awarded an Australia Day honour: officer in the general division of the Order of Australia.
Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris has been awarded an Australia Day honour, Officer (AO), in the general division of the Order of Australia, saying receiving the award showed that Australian expats could "punch above their weight" in world business. Photo: Rob Homer
Born in Darwin to two Greek immigrant parents, Mr Liveris has risen through the Dow ranks in his 37 years at the chemical, materials, agrosciences and plastics company. He has worked abroad since 1985 and is the co-chairman of US President Barack Obama's advanced manufacturing partnership and chairman of the US Business Council.
Mr Liveris told The Australian Financial Review that receiving the award showed that Australian expatriates could "punch above their weight" in world business.
An advocate for the criticality of manufacturing to the health of a nation's economy, Mr Liveris has a strong interest in public policy.
Asked by the Financial Review if he was interested in entering politics, Mr Liveris admitted he was.
"I would be disingenuous if I didn't say the answer to that question is 'Yes'," Mr Liveris said in a phone interview from Switzerland, where he was participating at the World Economic Forum. "I'm very interested in the intersection between business and government.
"I would have to do it at the right moment, at the right time."
An Aussie at heart
A future entry into politics for the 59-year-old could come by appointment to the US administration or via seeking preselection in Australia. "I'm an Aussie at heart and I've always prided myself on being Australian," he said. "My wife and I are very Australian and we are going to come and live in Sydney post my Dow retirement."
Mr Liveris, who is viewed in America as being closer to the Democratic side of politics, said he was undecided whether he would be more likely to join the Labor or Liberal party in Australia.
"I am definitely centrist in my thinking," he said. "There is no such thing as big government or small government. I only think of smart government."
Chief executive of Michigan-headquartered Dow since 2004, Mr Liveris is pushing the Abbott government to create a more innovative manufacturing policy, through utilising Australia's abundant natural resources.
"We will have lots of ways to upgrade the country's well-being based on what we dig out of the ground and what we grow on the ground," he said. He wants the government to follow the lead of the US and Canada by assisting the high-end domestic manufacturing sector, which has shed 82,000 jobs in the past five years, by improving its access to abundant low-cost energy.
"Australia has an abundance of fuels but chooses not to use some of them to its own advantage. The free market is not how that works with things that are difficult to move around like gas."
Currently, local resources companies sell gas on the export market to the highest bidder and domestic businesses have to pay the world price.
The resources sector is suspicious of Dow's ongoing calls to meddle in the free market for gas, and argues that it could deter their investments if they are not able to sell commodities to the highest bidder.
Mr Liveris stopped short of calling for direct reservation for domestic users, but suggested imposing a royalty on energy exports and using the funds to build infrastructure pipelines for domestic gas users. "If Australia needed a domestic energy price for its manufacturing in the south-east, it has to take a royalty from the north-west and allocate it to infrastructure funds in the south-east to make domestic energy less of a monopoly and oligopoly."
He also backed a "use it or lose it" policy for resources companies sitting on reserves that are not being extracted.
Former prime minister Julia Gillard's manufacturing task force recommended that the competition regulator investigate competition in upstream gas supply.
Federal Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane is undertaking consultation on the government's energy white paper, due to be published later this year. The policy paper will seek to deliver stable energy policy and efficient and transparent markets that promote user choice and put downward pressure on energy costs.
Mr Liveris, also a director of IBM, received the Australia Day award for distinguished service to international business through roles with multinational organisations, as a supporter of Australia-US educational and cultural relations, and to the community.
He paid tribute to his late role-model uncle, Lazarus "Les" Liveris, who he said inspired him to be ambitious.
"He was the one who really steered me to overachieve above and beyond what I wanted to do growing up in Darwin."
Les Liveris was a senior public official at the Northern Territory Immigration Department and was appointed a member of the Order of Australia in 1980.
Mr Liveris said receiving the award sent an important message that Australians succeeding overseas outside of sport and entertainment were being duly recognised.
"You can be playing on the global business stage and punch above your weight, so it's really recognising that as an accomplishment for the country."
He joined Dow in Australia in 1976 after graduating with a first-class honours degree in chemical engineering and winning the university medal.
His career at Dow included 14 years in Asia and has spanned roles in manufacturing, engineering, sales, marketing, and business and general management.
John Kehoe is Economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump's election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jkehoe@afr.com
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Business + Tech - Emotion comes first
Avatar's James Cameron on art, AI and outrage
Cameron with stars Kate Winslet, Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana at the 'Avatar: The Way of Water' premiere in London / © AFP
From "Terminator" to "Titanic" to "Avatar", director James Cameron has pushed Hollywood's technical wizardry to new limits, but human emotion must always come first, he told AFP.
In an era when special effects are much more accessible to filmmakers, and studios are willing to regularly spend hundreds of millions of dollars on blockbusters, it is the artistic talent that makes the difference, Cameron said during a visit to Paris.
Whether he can still strike the balance will be tested as the world finally gets to see "Avatar: The Way of Water" next week -- a sequel to his groundbreaking extraterrestrial epic that has been 13 years in the making.
"Anybody could buy a paintbrush. Not everybody can paint a picture," the Canadian director said. "The technology doesn't create art. Artists create art -- that's important."
It was originally hoped that a first sequel would be out in 2014, but Cameron's gargantuan ambitions led to repeated delays.
He does not come across like the sort of megalomaniac director of Hollywood lore -- describing his sets as "a big hippie commune with a bunch of really great artists."
But these hippies are armed with some powerful computers.
"We had over 3,200 shots, which is a lot to maintain high quality, high quality control," Cameron said.
"We brought in machine deep learning and plugged AI into various stages of the process to assist us... not to take the place of the actors at all but actually to be more truthful to what they had done," he said.
- 'Connection to nature' -
The challenge was managing to draw emotion out of performances that were largely shot in front of green screens, and where most of the scenery and props would only appear later in the effects booths.
"The heart, the soul, the emotion, the conflict, creativity... all that happens first, and then all the technical work begins," he said.
Cameron has always justified the vast sums he has asked of studios -- "Titanic" was both the most expensive and most profitable film of all time following its release in 1997, only to be topped by "Avatar" in 2009 -- and he feels that responsibility "every day".
"I can't be whimsical or impulsive, I have to be very focused and dedicated to creating something that's both pleasing to me artistically, and that I think will be pleasing to the public and commercial enough to make some money," he said.
"It can't be too intellectual, but I can make it satisfying to me by putting in secondary and tertiary levels of meaning that I know are there."
Clearly, much of the impulse of the Avatar series is drawing attention to humanity's impact on nature, but the sequel also focuses on Cameron's aquatic interests.
Long fascinated by the sea, from 1989's "The Abyss" to "Titanic", Cameron became a deep ocean explorer for National Geographic in the 2000s and was the first solo human to visit the deepest underwater trench, the Mariana Trough, in a purpose-built submarine.
He sees "Avatar" as "awakening that thing in all of us, that connection to nature.
"The movie asks you to feel something for nature... It's about maybe feeling a sense of outrage," Cameron said.
"These Navi characters... they don't look like us, they're blue, they've got the ears and tails. But they represent the better angels of our nature.
"Maybe for 10 minutes after the movie's over, you see the world a little differently," he added.


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package net.kemuridama.kafcon.route

import akka.http.scaladsl.model.StatusCodes

import net.kemuridama.kafcon.model.APIResponse
import net.kemuridama.kafcon.service.{UsesBrokerService, MixinBrokerService}
import net.kemuridama.kafcon.protocol.BrokerJsonProtocol

trait BrokersAPIRoute
  extends APIRoute
  with UsesBrokerService
  with BrokerJsonProtocol {

  val route = pathPrefix("clusters" / IntNumber / "brokers") { clusterId =>
    pathEnd {
      get {
        onSuccess(brokerService.findAll(clusterId)) { response =>
          complete(APIResponse(Some(response)))
        }
      }
    } ~
    pathPrefix(IntNumber) { id =>
      pathEnd {
        get {
          onSuccess(brokerService.find(clusterId, id)) {
            case Some(response) => complete(APIResponse(Some(response)))
            case _ => complete(StatusCodes.NotFound, errorMessage("Not found"))
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

}

private[route] object BrokersAPIRoute
  extends BrokersAPIRoute
  with MixinBrokerService

trait UsesBrokersAPIRoute {
  val brokersAPIRoute: BrokersAPIRoute
}

trait MixinBrokersAPIRoute {
  val brokersAPIRoute = BrokersAPIRoute
}


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The Supreme Court of Virginia issued an opinion today in which it addressed the concept of defamation by implication. Building on its 1954 decision in Carwile v. Richmond Newspapers, the court reiterated that although defamatory meaning can sometimes be implied with literally true statements, the inferred meaning cannot be extended beyond the ordinary and common acceptation of the words used. Innuendo cannot be used to introduce new matter or extend the meaning of the words used by the speaker. In short, "the alleged implication must be reasonably drawn from the words actually used."
In Webb v. Virginian-Pilot Media Companies, LLC, Phillip D. Webb, an assistant principal at Oscar Smith High School in Chesapeake, sued Virginian-Pilot and reporter Louis Hansen for its handling of a story about the school's disciplinary process. Webb's son, a student of a neighboring school where Webb previously coached pole vaulting, had been charged with a felony for assaulting another student's father but received no punishment from the school. Webb's lawsuit acknowledged that the reporting of the story was truthful, but claimed that the story implied that Webb abused his position of authority to obtain preferential treatment for his son. Webb argued that when the reporter wrote that the student "did not get preferential treatment because of his dad's position," the implied meaning was "exactly the opposite." The court did not agree.
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Trial courts perform an essential threshold, gatekeeping function when it comes to defamation claims. Their job is to determine, as a matter of law, whether a statement alleged to be defamatory is reasonably capable of the defamatory meaning the plaintiff ascribes to the statement. This function, the court held, is to ensure that "defamation suits proceed only upon statements which actually may defame a plaintiff, rather than those which merely may inflame a jury to an award of damages." If the inference urged by the plaintiff cannot be reasonably drawn from the actual words used, the trial court should sustain any demurrer filed and dismiss the case. In this particular case, the trial court failed to do that, which decision the Virginia Supreme Court held to be in error.
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Juan Carlos Heredia (ur. 27 kwietnia 1922 w Córdobie – zm. 21 kwietnia 1987) - argentyński piłkarz, grający podczas kariery na pozycji napastnika.

Kariera klubowa
Juan Carlos Heredia piłkarską karierę rozpoczął w Rosario Central w 1940. Z Rosario spadł z pierwszej ligi w 1941, by rok później do niej powrócić. W latach 1943-1944 był zawodnikiem stołecznego San Lorenzo de Almagro. W lidze argentyńskiej rozegrał 109 spotkań, w których zdobył 10 bramek. Potem występował jeszcze w Universitario Córdoba i Talleres Córdoba.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
W reprezentacji Argentyny Heredia występował w latach 1940-1942. W reprezentacji zadebiutował 18 lipca 1940 w przegranym 0-3 meczu w Copa Héctor Rivadavia Gómez z Urugwajem. W 1942 uczestniczył w Mistrzostwach Ameryki Południowej, na których Argentyna zajęła drugie miejsce. Na turnieju w Urugwaju wystąpił w pięciu meczach z Brazylią, Ekwadorem, Peru (bramka), Chile i Urugwajem, który był jego ostatnim meczem w reprezentacji. Ogółem w reprezentacji wystąpił w 6 meczach, w których zdobył bramkę.

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Piłkarze CA Rosario Central
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Piłkarze CA Talleres (Córdoba)
Uczestnicy Copa América 1942
Urodzeni w 1922
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