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Turkish forces say they've captured key Syrian border town
CEYLANPINAR, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's military said it captured a key Syrian border town under heavy
bombardment Saturday in its most significant gain since an offensive against Kurdish fighters began four
days ago, with no sign of relenting despite mounting international criticism.
Turkish troops entered central Ras al-Ayn, according to Turkey's Defense Ministry and a war monitor
group. The ministry tweeted: "Ras al-Ayn's residential center has been taken under control through
the successful operations in the east of Euphrates" River. It marked the biggest gain made by
Turkey since the invasion began Wednesday.
The continued push by Turkey into Syria comes days after President Donald Trump pulled U.S. forces out of
the area, making Turkey's air and ground offensive possible, and said he wanted to stop getting involved
with "endless wars." Trump's decision drew swift bipartisan criticism that he was endangering
regional stability and risking the lives of Syrian Kurdish allies who brought down the Islamic State
group in Syria. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces was the main U.S. ally in the fight and lost
11,000 fighters in the nearly five-year battle against IS.
Turkish troops and allied Syrian opposition fighters have made gains recently capturing several northern
villages in fighting and bombardment that left dozens of people killed or wounded. The invasion also has
forced nearly 100,000 people to flee their homes amid concerns that IS might take advantage of the chaos
and try to rise again after its defeat in Syria earlier this year.
The Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, said the United States should carry out its "moral
responsibilities" and close northern Syrian airspace to Turkish warplanes, but that it didn't want
the U.S. to send its soldiers "to the front lines and put their lives in danger."
During a meeting Saturday in Cairo, the 22-member Arab League condemned what it described as
"Turkey's aggression against Syria" and warned that Ankara will be responsible for the spread
of terrorism following its invasion. The league said Arab states might take some measures against
Ankara. It called on the U.N. Security Council to force Turkey to stop the offensive.
The Turkish offensive was widely criticized by Syria and some Western countries, which called on Turkey
to cease its military operations.
France's defense and foreign ministries said Saturday that the country was halting exports of any arms to
Turkey that could be used in its offensive.
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas also announced that Germany would curtail its arms exports to Turkey. Maas
told the weekly Bild am Sonntag that "against the background of the Turkish military offensive in
northeastern Syria, the government will not issue any new permissions for any weapons that can be used
by Turkey in Syria."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Turkey won't stop until the Syrian Kurdish forces
withdraw at least 32 kilometers (20 miles) from the border.
During the capture of Ras al-Ayn's residential center, an Associated Press journalist across the border
heard sporadic clashes as Turkish howitzers struck the town and Turkish jets screeched overhead. Syrian
Kurdish forces appeared to be holding out in some areas of the town.
The SDF released two videos said to be from inside Ras al-Ayn, showing fighters saying that it was
Saturday and they were still there.
The fighting was ongoing as the Kurdish fighters sought to reverse the Turkish advance into the city,
according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor.
Ras al-Ayn is one of the biggest towns along the border and is in the middle of the area where Turkey
plans to set up its safe zone. The ethnically and religiously mixed town with a population of Arabs,
Kurds, Armenians and Syriac Christians had been under the control of Kurdish fighters since 2013. IS
members tried to enter Ras al-Ayn following their rise in Syria and Iraq in 2014 but failed.
Most of the town's residents have fled in recent days for fear of the invasion.
Earlier Saturday, Turkish troops moved to seize control of key highways in northeastern Syria, the
Turkish military and the Syrian Observatory said. Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said that
Turkey-backed Syrian opposition forces had taken control of the M-4 highway that connects the towns of
Manbij and Qamishli. The SDF said that Turkish troops and their Syrian allies reached the highway
briefly before being pushed back again.
Kurdish news agencies including Hawar and Rudaw said that Hevreen Khalaf, secretary general of the Future
Syria Party, was killed Saturday as she was driving on the M-4 highway. Rudaw's correspondent blamed
Turkish forces for targeting Khalaf's car, and Hawar blamed "Turkey's mercenaries."
The Observatory said six people, including Khalaf, were killed by Turkey-backed opposition fighters on
the road that they briefly cut before withdrawing.
The Turkish military aims to clear Syrian border towns of Kurdish fighters' presence, saying they are a
national security threat. Since Wednesday, Turkish troops and Syrian opposition fighters backed by
Ankara have been advancing under the cover of airstrikes and artillery shelling.
The U.N. estimated the number of displaced at 100,000 since Wednesday, saying that markets, schools and
clinics also were closed. Aid agencies have warned of a humanitarian crisis, with nearly a half-million
people at risk in northeastern Syria.
A civilian wounded in a mortar strike from Syria on Friday in the Turkish border town of Suruc died,
Anadolu news agency reported Saturday, bringing the civilian death toll to 18 in Turkey. Turkey's
interior minister said hundreds of mortars, fired from Syria, have landed in Turkish border towns.
The Observatory said 74 Kurdish-led SDF fighters have been killed since Wednesday as well as 49 Syrian
opposition fighters backed by Turkey. That's in addition to 38 civilians on the Syrian side. It added
that Turkish troops now control 23 villages in northeastern Syria.
Turkey's defense ministry said it "neutralized" 459 Syrian Kurdish fighters. The number could
not be independently verified. Four Turkish soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the
offensive, including two who were killed in Syria's northwest.
France's leader warned Trump in a phone call that Turkey's military action in northern Syria could lead
to a resurgence of IS activity. President Emmanuel Macron "reiterated the need to make the Turkish
offensive stop immediately," his office said in a statement Saturday.
A Kurdish police force in northern Syria said a car bomb exploded early Saturday outside a prison where
IS members are being held in the northeastern city of Hassakeh. It was not immediately clear if there
were any serious injuries or deaths.
Kurdish fighters are holding about 10,000 IS fighters, including some 2,000 foreigners.
Associated Press writers Zeynep Bilginsoy in Istanbul and Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed.
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KABUL — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the Afghan capital Wednesday for an unannounced visit intended to boost faltering reconciliation efforts ahead of the planned withdrawal of NATO forces.
Clinton, who traveled to Kabul after visits to Libya and Oman, was scheduled to meet Thursday with President Hamid Karzai and other government and parliamentary leaders. Her trip comes at a time of increased tensions between U.S. and Afghan officials over how to pursue peace with the radical Islamist Taliban movement after a decade-long insurgency.
The Afghan government's reconciliation efforts were dealt a setback last month when a suicide bomber assassinated Burhanuddin Rabbani, the leader of Afghanistan's High Peace Council and the government's point man in talks with the Taliban. Rabbani, a former president who led the Northern Alliance during Afghanistan's civil war in the 1990s, had been tasked with brokering a peace deal with the Taliban. He was killed at his home by a man who concealed a bomb under his turban while posing as a Taliban peace emissary. His death has spread despair among some Afghan officials over whether an accord with the Taliban is possible.
Aides to Clinton said the visit will "signal U.S. support for a secure, stable Afghanistan" despite Rabbani's killing and a recent high-profile attack on the U.S. Embassy compound in Kabul.
"We want to emphasize that the United States remains committed to Afghan reconciliation and will support President Karzai and his efforts," said a senior State Department official who traveled with Clinton to Afghanistan for the meetings.
U.S. officials are pushing for a negotiated settlement with the Taliban as a crucial step toward ending the conflict and have engaged in secret parallel talks with Taliban leaders, so far without success.
Clinton also will seek to nudge Karzai on a proposed bilateral agreement on security cooperation that would take effect after the withdrawal of most U.S. forces, aides said. The Obama administration plans to withdraw by late next year the 33,000 "surge" troops that were deployed to Afghanistan in 2010 and to turn over security for most of the country to the Kabul government by 2014.
The Associated Press reported from Islamabad that Clinton was expected to arrive in the Pakistani capital later Thursday, and would be joined by CIA chief David Petraeus and some senior U.S. military officials. She is likely to press the Pakistani leadership to do more to stop infiltration of militants across the border into Afghanistan.
Clinton landed in Kabul after visiting the sultan of Oman earlier Wednesday to thank him for helping to secure the release of American hikers from Iran last month and to appeal to Arabs to further increase pressure on Iran.
In Oman, Clinton held talks with Sultan Qaboos bin Said in his palace in the capital of the Arabian Peninsula country. The meeting came a week after revelations of an alleged Iranian plot to kill an ambassador from Saudi Arabia, Oman's neighbor and close ally.
The Obama administration is seeking to use the plot to build support from Arab governments for further isolating Iran diplomatically and economically.
Clinton arrived at the elaborately tiled Omani palace Wednesday morning, a day after meeting with leaders of Libya's transitional government in Tripoli, and spoke privately with the sultan.
Oman, a member of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, traditionally maintains good relations with Iran and has helped mediate conflicts with the Islamic Republic in the past. Omani officials interceded with Iranian leaders last year to secure the release of American hiker Sarah Shourd, and were influential last month in persuading Iran to free Joshua Fattal and Shane Bauer . The three were backpacking in an unmarked area along the Iran-Iraq border in July 2009 when Iranian security officials arrested them on suspicion of spying.
Clinton thanked Qaboos on behalf of the administration and discussed how Gulf countries could use their influence to dissuade Iran from seeking nuclear weapons and supporting terrorist groups.
Staff writer William Branigin in Washington contributed to this report.


This is great, real interesting stuff!
It's not boring at all, Sir Chieftain I love these videos.
I love my documentaries. Very fascinating!
Aside from the laughter in the background, solid and informative video as always Chieftain!
Believed it was "filmed" (more like ad-hoc recording really) during some convention - what you're hearing is the background chatter of thousands of folks blocked by a plywood wall.
No, was just at my desk at the office.
You need better soundproofing then.
Chieftain, do you stream in twitch or anywhere of your games in WoT?
I stream Thursday afternoons, California time.


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Secret report reveals how MEPs make millions
From WikiLeaks
By Jonathan Oliver (Times Online)[1]
A LEAKED internal report has revealed systematic abuses by Euro MPs of parliamentary allowances that enable them to pocket more than £1m in profits from a single five-year term, writes Jonathan Oliver.
The auditor's confidential report, suppressed by the Brussels parliament, discloses the extraordinary frauds used by MEPs to siphon off staff allowances funded by taxpayers.
It shows that some claimed for paying assistants of whom no record exists, awarded them bonuses of up to 1½ times annual salary and diverted public money into front companies.
An investigation into the abuses of staff allowances worth up to £182,000 a year — many of which are paid by MEPs to members of their family — was delivered in January last year but was not published.
A copy of the 92-page report, prepared by Robert Galvin, the parliament's head of internal audit, has been seen by The Sunday Times. It reveals:
Payments were made to assistants who were not accredited with the European parliament and to companies whose accounts showed no activity.
End-of-year bonuses worth up to 19½ times monthly salary were paid to assistants to allow members to use up their full annual allowance.
Payments, supposedly for secretarial work, were made to a crèche whose manager happened to be a local politician from the MEP's political party.
Payments were made straight into the coffers of national political parties.
Some assistants doubled their money by banking pay-offs from outgoing MEPs at the same time as receiving salaries from incoming ones.
One MEP claimed to have paid the full £182,000 staff allowance to one person, suspected of being a relative.
The revelations come as British MEPs look forward to an inflation-busting pay rise this year that could see their take-home pay rising by almost 50%.
In his report, Galvin said that overpayments of allowances were common, adding: "Remuneration paid may not always be justified by the real costs of providing parliamentary assistance." He warned that abuses exposed the parliament to "financial, legal and reputational risk".
The report was based on a representative sample of 167 payments — out of a total of 4,686 — made during October 2004. It suggests that Galvin unearthed only a tiny fraction of the many corrupt practices employed by some of the 785 members of the 27-nation parliament. His analysis of the 2004 figures then took years to surface within the secretive Brussels bureaucracy.
New figures compiled by the TaxPayers' Alliance reveal how MEPs can pocket more than £1m over five years by exploiting different allowances. The calculations were inspired by known abuses of the system, which Brussels insiders claim have been commonplace.
Over a full term, MEPs could easily bank almost £450,000 in staff allowances — even if they employed several genuine full-time assistants.
The campaign group estimates that MEPs claiming the maximum subsistence of £257 a day while staying in cheap accommodation could also pocket about £105,000 from this source over five years.
MEPs could make £217,800 in office expenses by claiming their home was also their constituency office. No receipts are required to receive this money.
The lack of any need to provide receipts to justify travel expenses means that MEPs could receive a £54,000 tax-free profit while still making regular journeys between Brussels and their home country.
MEPs also have a final salary pension scheme which is even more generous than the one provided to members of the Westminster parliament. The TaxPayers' Alliance calculates that the cash value of this benefit would be about £350,000 over a full parliamentary term.
At current exchange rates the grand total profit over five years comes to £1,176,800.
That figure does not include an MEP's salary, which is due to increase after the June European elections thanks to a "harmonisation" of MEPs' pay.
British MEPs receive £63,291 a year, the same as Westminster MPs. After July their pay after tax could rise from about £46,835 to almost £69,000 a year, depending on the exchange rate and whether they can pay the lower European Union tax rate of 15%.
The existence of the Galvin report was first revealed last year when Chris Davies, a Liberal Democrat MEP who read the document, refused to sign a confidentiality agreement and disclosed some of its findings.
Davies's revelations created EU-wide interest in the corruption of the Brussels parliament. Despite the embarrassment, MEPs voted to keep the report confidential.
In November Den Dover, a British Conservative MEP, was forced to pay back £500,000 in expenses after The Sunday Times revealed that he had been wrongly paying his EU allowances to a family firm.
It was the most outrageous of a series of expenses scandals that emerged last year.
The European parliament has announced a number of reforms to the expenses rules which will come into force this summer. These include ensuring that MEPs' staff are paid directly by the parliament rather than via the members' own "service provider".
However, Davies said the reforms did not go far enough, insisting that many of the Galvin report's recommendations had yet to be adopted.
"If five steps are needed, the parliament always seems to take only two," he said.
"We are now better than the Italian system but a long way short of the standards of the House of Commons."
A spokesman for the European parliament said: "The Galvin report is a study of potential weaknesses in the system of parliamentary assistance allowances. It has had important consequences. The result has been a complete overhaul of this system to enter into force after the June elections."
Thanks to Jonathan Oliver and Times Online for covering this document. Reprint rights remain with the aforementioned.
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The Galvin Report: Audit of 160 EU Parliament members, 2008
Euro MP expenses 'can reach £1m'
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HANC Blog
By Calvin Welch, form HANC Board Member
A broad spectrum of community residents and organizations have undertaken a community planning process to devise both interim and permanent uses for the old McDonalds site at 730 Stanyan (at Haight Street). The lot, just under an acre (40,000 square feet), represents the largest developable site in the neighborhood since the City leased the two acre, abandoned Polytechic High School site on Frederick Street some 25 years ago. Like Poly, the site has been acquired by the City for a 100% affordable housing development. The Board of Supervisors has designated the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) as the lead City agency in charge of the development of the site.
HANC has agreed to be a co-sponsor of a Senior and Disability Mayoral Candidate Forum and Reception, which will take place on Thursday, April 12, from 1 pm to 4 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church at 1187 Franklin Street. The main sponsor is CARA (California Association of Retired Americans). We have a list of organizations that were also asked to co-sponsor this event, but we do not yet know which other organizations have agreed to do so.
By Karen Fishkin, HANC Recycling Chair
There was a full house at the Park Police Station on Thursday evening, January 25, all gathered to hear the makeover plans the Rec and Parks has developed for park property along Stanyan, between Waller and Fell streets.
Having attended several previous meetings on this issue, I recognized both universally accepted changes, and those that split residents. For example, replacing the dirt path parallel to Stanyan with a fairly narrow, paved path, was well-received by all. The path will be lined by a knee-high fence running along the new pavement, and there opinions parted ways. The fence is admittedly designed to keep out shopping carts, and to herd visitors to the main entrance across from Haight Street. There will be additional fencing that may create the feeling that it is more difficult to get to the grassy spaces, but the grass is not completely walled off.
By James Sword, HANC Board Member
We recently received notice that the new Panhandle Playground design would not only include a sand element, but also would have a reduced "sand buffer" so as to enlarge the proposed sand play area.
We all did a brief jump for joy while lamenting what it's taken to get here and what still needs to happen. Below (shortened to fit this newsletter) is an example of a letter written to the SFRPD Commission upon the publishing of the latest design.
Here's a brief look at some of the issues HANC has dealt with as reflected in past newsletters:
One year ago: Our December, 2016 meeting reviewed the November, 2016 elections from a Haight-Ashbury perspective. We also discussed the transition of car-share from being a pilot program to implementing permanent regulations. The Voice ran an article expressing concern over proposed bike lanes on Oak and Fell Streets.
Five years ago: In December, 2012, HANC's general meeting again reviewed how the Haight-Ashbury voted in the November elections. We were preparing to be evicted from our recycling center, which happened in early January, 2013. The Voice discussed the November, 2012 meeting, which was about "The Haight Ashbury Public Realm Plan."
In Memory of Konstantinos "Gus" Vardakastanis
Community Police Advisory Board (CPAB)
Why HANC Supports the Appeal of the One Oak Luxury Tower
Vacancies on Haight Street


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Promynoglenes  è un genere di ragni appartenente alla famiglia Linyphiidae.

Distribuzione
Le sei specie oggi note di questo genere sono state rinvenute in Nuova Zelanda.

Tassonomia
Dal 2003 non sono stati esaminati esemplari di questo genere.

A dicembre 2012, si compone di sei specie:
 Promynoglenes grandis  — Nuova Zelanda
 Promynoglenes minuscula  — Nuova Zelanda
 Promynoglenes minuta  — Nuova Zelanda
 Promynoglenes nobilis  — Nuova Zelanda
 Promynoglenes parvula  — Nuova Zelanda
 Promynoglenes silvestris  — Nuova Zelanda

Note

Bibliografia
 Blest, A.D., 1979 - The spiders of New Zealand. Part V. Linyphiidae-Mynoglenidae. Otago Mus. Bull. vol.5, pp. 95–173. (p. 127)
 Blest, A.D. & C.J. Vink, 2002 - New Zealand spiders: Linyphiidae, Mynogleninae. Rec. Canterbury Mus. vol.16(Suppl.), pp. 1–31.
 Blest, A.D. & C.J. Vink, 2003 - New Zealand spiders: Linyphiidae, Mynogleninae, Linyphiinae. Rec. Canterbury Mus. vol.17(Suppl.), pp. 1–30.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Linyphiidae

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Cancel culture: Would you like to cancel your subscription?
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We're currently living in the era of "cancel culture."
What is cancel culture you ask? It's the phenomena of "cancelling" folks for the harm they may have caused. Cancelling someone means that the social media crowds have collectively decided to boycott someone based on something they have done.
When it comes to celebrities, cancelling these big names can look like refusing to engage with their content, not consuming their music or art, and sliding them into the "we don't effs with them" category.
Many of our favourite artists and celebrities have come under scrutiny and been cancelled. Names like Kevin Hart, Terry Crews, Jimmy Fallon, and Priyanka Chopra have all had their fair share of "cancelling" done to them.
Most recently, the cancellation of YouTube powerhouse Jenna Marbles has entered the discourse. Marbles was recently slandered by folks for her adoption of racist tropes in videos and occasional use of blackface in videos. Since being called out, Marbles has issued a formal apology and has even "cancelled herself" by leaving YouTube.
A conversation on cancel culture has particularly re-emerged at this time given the current climate of the world. As we witness perhaps the biggest civil rights movement of our generation, many people are feeling the pressures of being politically correct. Many people are afraid of being cancelled.
As well, among this conversation of cancelling folks and political correctness, also rises a critique of cancel culture itself. Many people are torn and having a difficult time choosing which side of the debate to be on.
To cancel or not to cancel, that is the question.
There are many problems with cancel culture and cancelling people. For starters, cancel culture does not create space for growth.
In many cases, folks are cancelled for mistakes or harm that they caused in the past. In the case of Kevin Hart, for example, the comedian was cancelled for homophobic tweets that were made in 2011. It wasn't until his tweets resurfaced in 2019 that he was cancelled. Hart urged that he had grown and worked on his homophobic biases in the last 8 years since he made the tweets, but cancellers were not interested in hearing his defense.
Similarly, Jimmy Fallon and Jenna Marbles were also cancelled for mistakes made in the past. Both made use of blackface for their creative content years prior to being cancelled, with Fallon having used blackface in a Saturday Night Live skit 20 years ago and Marbles having used it in 2011.
In all these cases, heartfelt apologies were offered and all urged that they had since grown as individuals. Nonetheless, cancellers found no remorse for the defenses that were made.
This brings me to the second problem associated with cancel culture. Cancellers are absolutely ruthless when they are cancelling public figures. Seldom do we ever practice such ruthless cancelling for people in our everyday lives with friends or family members, but when it comes to artists and celebrities, the cancelling comes with much more aggression.
This is partly due to how quick we are to place some of our favourite artists and celebrities on pedestals.
In the words of author Roxane Gay,"People who are placed on pedestals are expected to pose, perfectly. Then they get knocked off when they f*ck up." We almost grant a superhuman pedestal to our favourite artists and celebrities, placing them on extremely high pedestals.
But the problem with high pedestals is that the fall is also that much longer and harder.
We forget that those that we look up to are also just human beings like you and me. We forget that those in the spotlight are often there solely for their craft and talent, not because they took a course on political or social correctness.
In addition to ruthlessness, cancel culture also creates a sort of elite group of knowledge bearers who can be the only ones to call the shots. It gives cancellers the power to decide what is right and what is wrong, leaving no room for grey in their black and white world. But dare I ask, who makes one person or one group of people the moral authority on anything over others?
And while yes, we can't entirely separate an artist from their artistry, there should also be guidelines around that. British actress and activist Jameela Jamil has often been vocal about differentiating between cancel culture and call-out culture. She makes this distinction between cancel culture and call out culture in the following post:
A post shared by Jameela Jamil (@jameelajamilofficial) on Jun 26, 2020 at 8:58am PDT
Jamil offers that instead of participating in cancel culture, she participates in call-out culture, with the latter being more conducive than the former. Cancel culture grants no space for growth and evolvement, whereas call-out culture allows for the calling-out of problematic behaviours, with the promise of space to learn.
She also says that unless someone has caused irrevocable harm, or hurt more people than they help, we should not support cancellation. That is to say, that yes, we should cancel the Chris Browns and the R. Kellys of the world, but perhaps grant space for growth and change to those who were operating in the limited understanding of their privilege.
That is to say that we should continue to interrogate, and we should continue to ask: to cancel or not to cancel? That is the question.
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Online Backup Service With A Sting In Its Tale… Last October BeeCloud.eu launched a new online backup service offering 512GB of storage – for free.
As usual with such 'amazing' offers, this deal quickly spread round the internet – despite its similarity to the ill-fated Backify service (which shut down last November).
Both BeeCloud and Backify resold online backup packages (by LiveDrive) and both offered 512GB online storage for free – whilst the free storage on offer from the major players in this market is typically 2GB – 5GB.
If you were unlucky enough to entrust BeeCloud with your data, make sure you download and store it elsewhere as soon as possible or you will lose it for good!
I have written before about the need to read the small print of online backup products but the BeeCloud and Backify fiasco falls more under the old heading of 'too good to be true'. Established companies only offer a small amount of free backup – to entice people into paying for more storage. The simple reason is that secure online storage costs money, a lot of money.
Backify actually got 50,000 new customers in the first few days of their free 512GB offer.
If all those customers stored 500GB each – that's the equivalent of 25,000 1TB hard drives… That could cost over $1million without even worrying about the additional costs of support staff, developers, web designers and managers etc.
Of course secure backup means multiple backups (in case of failure) so you could double the number of hard drives required (or treble+ if multiple RAID arrays were used). Very soon the total costs could increase to well beyond $2million – and that's from just a few days of customers!
Could anyone realistically expect to give users the benefit of that level of hardware and expenditure for a free account – that offers such huge storage that there is no incentive to trade up to a paying account?
When deciding to use online backup you need to trust the company, the way it markets itself and its core business strategy – it should be no surprise that BeeCloud (like Backify before them) failed to make this work.
Too good to be true, yes. The last example we will see of unworkable business models in an increasingly cut-throat online backup market?


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Q: Any limitations on the number or size of items in a single OSS bucket Is there any limit on the number and size of items in a single Forge OSS bucket?  For example, can I stick a Navisworks or Inventor or Revit model PLUS several DWG/PDF/DOC/XLS files into ONE bucket?  Will each one of those things get it's own URN if I run it through the model derivative API to get a view of each one <I assume yes, but assumptions are not good>?

A: There is no limit of either file size or item number in a Forge OSS bucket, but if you're using Forge trial plan, your buckets have a storage limit of 5GB in total. See https://forge.autodesk.com/pricing
However, Forge Model Derivative API doesn't support translating office files (DOC, XLS and etc.), so you cannot use Model Derivative API to translate those formats to get views. Would advise you to keep your files on your server, and upload the necessary, supported files to Forge for translation if needed.
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Neue Töne war eine Konzertreihe für Neue Musik, die von 1982 bis 1987 in Düsseldorf stattfand. Initiiert wurde diese Konzertreihe von den Komponisten J. U. Lensing, Maria de Alvear und Francisco Estévez. Das hauptsächliche Programm bestand aus den Werken junger regionaler Komponisten sowie bekannter Komponisten der Neuen Musik und einer Mischung aus Video, Performance, Projekten und Aktionen.

Während die Konzertreihe immer gute Zuschauerzahlen vorweisen konnte, verschob sich das Interesse der Organisatoren gegen Ende mehr in Richtung Theater. Als Konsequenz daraus entstand 1987 unter anderem das Theater der Klänge.

Chronologie

1982
Am 8. Mai 1982 fand im Auxilium auf der Kölner Straße das Eröffnungskonzert statt. Dabei wurden Kompositionen der drei Initiatoren gespielt sowie einige von damaligen Kommilitonen. Über das Eröffnungskonzert urteilte Starkes Stück:

Darauf folgten im Jahr 1982 zwischen Mai und November weitere fünf Konzerte. Gespielt wurden überwiegend Kompositionen junger Komponisten aus dem Umfeld der Initiatoren sowie bekannter Komponisten wie John Cage, Leoš Janáček oder Krzysztof Penderecki. Die lokale Presse lobte im Oktober 1982 die Initiative und hob hervor, dass die Konzerte trotz der ehrenamtlichen Arbeit auf ein reges Publikumsinteresse stießen.

1983
Im Jahr 1983 übernahm J.U. Lensing die künstlerische Leitung von Francisco Estévez. Damit war ersterer nun verantwortlich für die Organisation und das Programm, während sich Maria de Alvear weiter um die Koordination kümmerte. Die Situation der Konzertreihe verbesserte sich 1983, da man nun Subventionen über 6.000 DM ( €) von der "Förderung Düsseldorfer Künstler", einem Budget des Düsseldorfer Musikbeirats, bekam. Insgesamt wurden 1983 fünf Konzerte gespielt: beim ersten Konzert am 30. April 1983 stand die 45-minütige Performance "Geh deinen Weg" von Matthias Wittekopf über einen Schlager von Heintje im Zentrum.

Das Konzert im Mai brachte u. a. ein Projekt unter dem Namen "Audiovisuelle Diaprojektionsmalerei" des bildenden Künstlers Andreas Strach und dem Komponisten Klaus Röder.

Beim Konzert am 31. Oktober 1983 trat die spanische Avantgardegruppe "Taller de Música Mundana" (Atelier für weltliche Musik) auf, welche mit Kehllauten und Geräuscherzeugern .

Das Konzert am folgenden Abend des 1. November 1983 bot ein gemischtes Programm aus szenischen Elementen, Tonbandkompositionen, Klangmontagen und Diaarbeiten. Außerdem wurde ein Stück des Komponisten Diethelm Zuckmantel aufgeführt. Im Konzert vom 10. Dezember 1983 wurde "December 1952" von Earle Brown in einer Inszenierung von Hans W. Schneider aufgeführt.

Weiterhin gab es im Jahr 1983 ein Gastspiel in Berlin.

1984
Für das Jahr 1984 waren vier Konzerte geplant. Beim Eröffnungskonzert im Mai wurden überwiegend Tonbandkompositionen von den Komponisten Wolfgang Hufschmidt, Klaus Damm, Matthias Wittekopf, Hans Werner Schneider und J. U. Lensing gespielt. Über dieses Konzert resümierte die Rheinische Post:

Das zweite Konzert am 9. Juni 1984 trug den Titel "Streicher, Streichquartett". Abgesehen von den avantgardistischen Streichquartetten wurden zwei halbtheatralische Stücke gezeigt: "Seminar Konferenz" für Streicher und zwei Darsteller von Maria de Alvear und "Wo ist sie" für Tanz, Kammerensemble, drei Sprecherinnen, Elektronik und Diaprojektion von Francisco Estévez.

Das Konzert am 16. November 1984 (das erstmals im Düsseldorfer zakk stattfand) war dagegen von elektronischer Musik bestimmt: Stücke von Dirk Reith, Ricardo Mandolini und eine Uraufführung des Stücks "Etude für Klangwandlerorchester" von Klaus Röder waren überwiegend Computermusik.

Das Abschlusskonzert am 8. Dezember 1984 bestand ausschließlich aus Kompositionen desselben Jahres von J. U. Lensing, Mathias Haus, Heinz D. Willke, Francisco Estévez, Thomas Blomenkamp, Diethelm Zuckmantel und Nicolaus A. Huber.

1985

Im Jahr 1985 gab es zwei Veränderungen für die Konzertreihe: Das Ensemble zog aus dem "Auxilium" endgültig ins zakk an der Fichtenstraße in Düsseldorf. Außerdem wurde aus der bis dato losen Initiative ein eingetragener Verein. Außerdem verließ Francisco Estévez die Gruppe, da er in diesem Jahr nach Spanien zurückging. Durch die größere Spielstätte konnten jetzt Projekte mit größerem Aufwand realisiert werden. Das Auftaktkonzert am 16. Februar 1985 begann mit einer siebenteiligen Gemeinschaftsproduktion von J.U. Lensing, Erne Kis und Thomas Neuhaus namens "Kunst-Stoff Drum Projekt", bei der Computer, Synthesizer, Mischungen aus Konkretaufnahmen und elektronischer Synthese mit Schlagzeugsounds erzeugt, durch vier live spielende Schlagzeuger (Oliver Eltinger, Thomas Lorenz, Frank Köllges, Martin Schulz) beteiligt waren.

Neben der Reihe "Neue Töne" wurde im Jahr 1985 erstmals auch das "Neue Musiktheater" als Thema in die Konzertreihe eingeführt, bei dem am 13. April 1985 das Stück "I, Geh deinen weg" von Mathias Wittekopf und "ich will zu dir – ach komm doch" von J. U. Lensing uraufgeführt wurden. Schieffer, et al. sieht es dieses Stück als Vorstufe des späteren Theater der Klänge, dessen Gründer und künstlerischer Leiter J.U. Lensing ist.

Vom 19. bis zum 21. Juni 1985 kam es in Kooperation mit dem Filminstitut Düsseldorf zu einer Art Bild-Ton-Festival. Auch, wenn an der akustischen Collage "Die Schlacht" von Stephan Schwarz und an der Lichtbildkomposition "Eine Minute Dunkel" von Wolfgang Pilz und Wolfgang Hufschmidt keine Mitglieder von "Neue Töne" beteiligt waren, wird es zu deren Veranstaltungen dazugezählt. Dies gilt auch für die Vorführung von Experimental- und Avantgardevideos, die am 20./21. Juni 1985 bei der Firma Schaulandt unter dem Titel "Infermental" gezeigt wurden.

Beim Konzert am 22. Juni im zakk spielte der Schlagzeuger Christian Roderburg, Förderpreisträger der Stadt, als Solist fünf Kompositionen mit einer Gesamtspielzeit von 100 Minuten.

Ein weiteres Sonderkonzert war das Gastspiel der Brüsseler Avantgarde-Tanzcompagnie "Le Plan K", die die Performance "Quarantine" spielten. Im Anschluss spielten Absolventen der Hochschulen Köln und Freiburg unter dem Titel "Neue Blasmusik" Musik für Holzbläser von Cristóbal Halffter, Klaus Huber, Karlheinz Stockhausen u. a.

Der Abschluss des Jahres 1985 bildete eine "Neue-Töne Party" unter dem Titel "Für Augen und Ohren" im zakk.

1986
Der Verein "Neue Töne e.V." bezog 1986 sein Büro im Hinterhof der Ackerstraße 22 in Düsseldorf. Eines der ersten Resultate war die Kontaktaufnahme zu Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen und seinem "ensemble neue musik". Aus diesem Kontakt erfolgte am 1. Februar 1986 ein erstes Konzert in der Tonhalle Düsseldorf, bei dem Werke von F.M Beyer, Martin Kregel, J.U. Lensing und dem Kammerkonzert von Alban Berg.

Der von J.U. Lensing dargelegte Budgetplan für das Jahr 1986 wird von Schieffer, et al. als "illusorisch" bezeichnet. Vorgesehen war in der Planung ein Budget von ca. 150.000 DM ( €). Letztendlich konnte der Verein mit dem real akquirierten Budget (welches geringer war) drei Konzerte umsetzen: Am 15. Februar 1986 wurden im zakk die Filmversionen von Mauricio Kagels "Antithese", "Match" und "Ludwig van…" gezeigt.

Zum 80. Geburtstag Samuel Becketts wurden am 13. April 1986 erstmals in der "Jungen Aktionsbühne" (JuTa) Sprachkompositionen mit Texten von Beckett aufgeführt. Dabei wurden die Stücke "Watt!" für einen Schauspieler und zwölf Lautsprecher und "Trio III" für Tonband, Gitarre und Sprecherin von Wolfgang Hufschmidt, "Rosengarten" für Sprecherin, Spieluhr und Tonband von Klaus Damm und "Essen – En première Page" von Nicolaus Jenning gespielt.

Vom 14. bis zum 18. November 1986 initiierte Neue Töne ein Computermusik-Festival mit insgesamt sieben Veranstaltungen, einem Workshop im Weiterbildungszentrum Düsseldorf und einer Ausstellung in der Düsseldorfer Musikbibliothek. Gesponsert durch die Stadt Düsseldorf, den WDR und weitere Partner, war dieses Festival das erste Festival für Computermusik in Düsseldorf. Das Eröffnungskonzert fand in der Tonhalle statt und umfasste in seinem Programm "Essay" von Gottfried Michael Koenig, "Kontakte" von Karlheinz Stockhausen, "nested loops III" von Dirk Reith und "Klaviermusik" von Roland Pfrengle. Die letzteren Stücke waren beide aus dem Jahr 1984. Beim zweiten Konzert in der Tonhalle wurde "Klavierstudien" von Conlon Nancarrow zum ersten Mal in Düsseldorf aufgeführt. Daneben liefen im Weiterbildungszentrum Tonbandkonzerte, bei dem auch Stücke von Preisträgern des 14. Wettbewerbs des Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges aufgeführt wurden. Das Abschlusskonzert bildete erneut J.U. Lensings "Kunst-Stoff Drum-Projekt", dieses Mal in der Werkstatt Düsseldorf.

1987
1987 gab es nur noch zwei Konzerte von Neue Töne: am 26. September 1987 fand im kleinen Saal der Tonhalle (heute Helmut-Hentrich-Saal) in der von Peter Girth initiierten Trägerschaft "Jugend + Neue Musik" ein Konzert unter dem Titel "Musik und Bildende Kunst" statt. Gespielt wurden "Sinfonia" und "Bauhaus T." von J.U. Lensing, "Weiß" von Markus Lepper und "Trio II" von Wolfgang Hufschmidt.

Am 18. November 1987 fand in der Stephanuskirche in Düsseldorf das vorletzte Konzert der Reihe statt. Dabei wurden u. a. "Nahe zu fern" von Dirk Reith und "Kontrafaktur II" von Wolfgang Hufschmidt gespielt.

Außerdem wurde am 10. Mai 1987 von J.U. Lensing, Kommilitonen der Folkwang Hochschule Essen und einigen Düsseldorfer Künstlern das Theater der Klänge gegründet. Es kann als Nachfolgeprojekt der musiktheatralischen Versuche der Konzertreihe angesehen werden.

1988
Das letzte Konzert fand 1988 in der Werkstatt statt. Unter dem Titel "Neue Töne" wurde an zwei Tagen das Werk des französischen Komponisten Jean-Jacques Lemêtre vorgestellt.

Hintergründe
Der aus Düsseldorf stammende Komponist J.U. Lensing studierte an der Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen Komposition bei Wolfgang Hufschmidt und elektronische Komposition bei Dirk Reith. Dort traf er den aus Spanien stammenden Komponisten Francisco Estévez, der in Düsseldorf bei Günther Becker an der Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf Komposition studierte. Während Lensing ein Podium für seine Studien mit elektronischer und Computermusik suchte, wollte Estévez einen Aufführungsort für die kleine spanischsprechende Komponistengemeinde schaffen. Die spanisch-deutsche Komponistin Maria de Alvear, die zu der Zeit bei Mauricio Kagel "Neues Musiktheater" an der Kölner Musikhochschule studierte, kam durch den persönlichen Kontakt zu Francisco Estévez dazu. Lensing belegte ebenfalls ab 1987 bei Kagel Meisterkurse in "neuem Musiktheater". So erklärt sich auch, wie anfangs zum großen Teil Kompositionen spanischsprechender Komponisten aufgeführt wurden und nach dem Wegzug Estévez 1985 nach Spanien die Ausrichtung mehr in Richtung elektronische Musik ging und immer mehr Studenten von Hufschmidt und Reith Stücke präsentierten, wie auch die beiden Professoren selbst.

Folgen
Nach dem ersten Konzert in der Tonhalle Düsseldorf am 1. Februar 1986 verfasste der damalige Intendant der Düsseldorfer Symphoniker Peter Girth für die Sitzung des Musikbeirates der Stadt Düsseldorf am 14. Februar 1986 eine Stellungnahme zum Jahresprogramm "Neue Töne" 1986. Darin empfahl er die weitere Zusammenarbeit von Lensing und Schlingensiepen und stellte Überlegungen an, ob es nicht sinnvoll sei, ein allen Düsseldorfer Gruppen gemeinsames Sekretariat für Neue Musik in der Tonhalle einzurichten, an welchem die Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Neue Töne, das "ensemble neue musik", das "Düsseldorfer Ensemble", u. a. beteiligt wären. Daraus entstand das Sekretariat "Jugend + Neue Musik", welches in den Folgejahren Konzerte rund um die Neue Musik in der Tonhalle veranstaltete.

Eine weitere Gründung die mit der Konzertreihe zusammenhängt ist das Theater der Klänge. Es ist die Fortsetzung der ersten Musiktheaterversuche, die im Rahmen von neue Töne stattfanden.

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Erstveranstaltung 1982
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The Indian champion of the Rendezvous Roland Garros junior competition in Delhi beat Chinese Cao Xue 6-3, 6-2, but lost to Brazil's Ana Paula Melilo 7-6(4), 6-2, in the three-player competition, which was played on a league basis. Melilo won the wild card as she won both her matches.
"I led 5-4 in the first set against [Melilo]. I could not make it to the main draw, but it was a great experience," said Shrivalli.
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Pictured at Stormont are NIFDA Executive Director, Michael Bell; The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA), Christine Tacon and NIFDA Chairperson, Declan Billington.
The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA), Christine Tacon, held a seminar for local food and drink suppliers at Stormont Parliament Buildings this week, where she shared detailed findings and recommendations from the GCA investigation into Tesco plc.
Supported by the Northern Ireland Food and Drink Association (NIFDA), the seminar shed a light on the ways in which the Groceries Supply Code of Practice (GSCOP) had been breached by Tesco and the steps taken by the GCA to ensure the retailer changes its processes and behaviours to remedy the breach. The Groceries Code Adjudicator also pointed out that there had been major improvements in Tesco's dealings with suppliers since its report was published.
Christine Tacon said: "I will be formally monitoring progress and requiring evidence from Tesco that my recommendations are being met. In particular, I have set a seven-day deadline for resolving pricing errors and stopped the retailer from making unilateral deductions from money owed for goods supplied. Suppliers will have 30 days to challenge any proposed deduction and then Tesco will not be able to make the deduction until the disagreement is resolved.
The Adjudicator also urged those in attendance to complete the GCA 2016 survey at www.yougov.com/gca in order to help shape her priorities for the year ahead.
Michael Bell, NIFDA Executive Director, commented: "The GSCOP and the Adjudicator have the potential to transform the historic imbalance between suppliers and retailers, and the report into Tesco has been a very significant milestone in their work. We are pleased to support this seminar on behalf of our members who are keen to find out more about what the implications of the Tesco report are for their businesses and how they can help ensure fairer trading with retailers in future.
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Anxiety and worry can be a normal part of everyday life, or a debilitating condition. Nervousness is common reaction to stressful or threatening situations, but when anxiety extends beyond the situation, becomes constant and overwhelming, and causes significant distress that impacts your daily life or work, therapy is appropriate.
The good news is that anxiety disorders respond well to therapy. The therapy approach depends on the the type of anxiety disorder and its severity, but in most cases, anxiety disorders are treated with behavioral therapy, medication, or a combination of both. Complimentary treatments are also helpful including self-help techniques such as relaxation techniques, healthy eating habits, reduced alcohol and nicotine, regular exercise and getting enough sleep.
The goal of Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is to teach you how to manage anxiety. It does this by helping you understand how you think and act when you're anxious.
Exposure therapy helps you confront your fears in a safe, controlled environment. Repeated exposure to the feared object or situation - whether in your imagination or in reality - can help you gain a greater sense of control. Facing your fears without experiencing harm can diminish your anxiety around them.
If you have already been diagnosed with an Anxiety Disorder — Social Anxiety Disorder for example — the combination of medication and CBT may be the most effective treatment. Some choose to begin with medication alone, in hopes of gaining at least some initial relief of symptoms before starting CBT. Still others want to start with CBT, hoping to be content with the progress they make and add medication only if needed. Some patients begin treatment with medication and CBT therapy simultaneously. For many, this combination approach is the best treatment.
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Q: UI control to display data in the form of Grid Is there any UI control which displays data in the form of grid?! And have the following features:

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header. The pop-up will behave like a filter. It will have all the unique values in that particular column. The user can select the values that are to be displayed.

Is there such control in JQuery/Flex/extJS or any other UI framework?
Thank You
EDIT I want to replicate the Excel in the Web UI

A: Easy answer
Most of the commercially-available grids have this kind of stuff, but it depends what framework you're using.
jQuery Grid is pretty cool and of course doesn't really rely on a back-end framework. If you're using .NET WebForms, check out offerings from Telerik and DevExpress. Telerik also have a ASP.NET MVC suite of stuff (which, I believe, is free).
Devil's advocate
There is a school of thought that suggests grids aren't really a good UI. It's true that people love Excel, but even MS and Google are struggling to replicate Excel in a web UI (though they've done quite a good job). The reason WPF shipped without a datagrid is because the ListBox, when combined with DataTemplates, is soooooo much more powerful than a pre-prepared grid control that one wasn't really necessary.
One way out of this problem is to try and think your way out of needing a grid in the first place. Consider task based UI, and maybe CQRS, where the grid/reporting requirements are solved in a completely different way (e.g. SQL Server Reporting Services).


It is an STL function in c++ which is defined in algorithm library. It copies the elements in the range [first, last) to the range beginning at result, except those elements that compare equal to given elements.
The resulting range is shorter than [first,last) by as many elements as matches in the sequence, which are "removed".
The relative order of the elements not removed is preserved.
The function uses operator == to compare the individual elements to given value.
the element pointed by last.
assigned the value of an element in the range [first, last).
ele : element to be removed.
It is a STL function in c++ which is defined in algorithm library. It copies the elements in the range [first, last) to the range beginning at result, except those elements that meets to a given condition (like odd number, even number, prime number, non-prime number etc ).
Copies the elements in the range [first, last) to the range beginning at result, except those elements for which condition function returns true.
The resulting range is shorter than [first, last) by as many elements as matches, which are "removed".
whether the element is to be removed (if true, it is removed).
cout << "After removing Odd Numbers from v1"


Clearwater storage is a safety valve for many households. Not only can Clearwater storage secure overflow possessions and those that need a third location, but Clearwater storage can anchor goods while a household is in transit. Without self storage clearwater, households would be forced to carry all goods themselves, or routinely sell them to add carrying capacity. Storage, as mentioned, can be used for overflow goods. Many households do not have a dwelling large enough to store all of their goods and possessions. This is especially true of households that have had to downsize dwellings in recent years, and are either unable or unwilling to offload possessions. For similar reasons, Clearwater storage can secure valuables in a secure third location. Many households own items that they deem too valuable or too ostentatious to display, or otherwise not appropriate for public viewing. For many households, these valuables could be art or family heirlooms. Using storage Clearwater FL can relieve families of undue pressure of securing valuables. Most storage facilities are self contained and secure, both in the units themselves and the perimeter. For temperature sensitive goods, units can even be climate controlled. All are air tight, and a few come with insurance. As these units are relatively cheap and easy to maintain, households find them a great way to offload overflow. Clearwater storage is also popular for transients. Whether that transient is a college student who is not sure she will move home, someone who moves for a temporary assignment, or even someone looking to find work, a Clearwater storage unit means possessions stay in one place, with minimum risk of exposure. Whether for overflow, securing valuables or anchoring goods while a person is in transit, Clearwater storage is a great way to store goods. Those that are contemplating any life transition should educate themselves on storage options, and make any transition as safe and as seamless as possible.


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Laurent Baffie (born 18 April 1958 in Montreuil) is a French author, short film director and humorist.

Baffie (often only called by his last name 'ugly frenchman') is famous for his funny hidden cameras, sense of repartee, biting humour as well as musical and animal culture.

Theater
His 2005 play TOC TOC (which alludes to OCD) was translated into Spanish by Julián Quintanilla in 2010 and has been a box office hit in Spain, where it has been on stage for eight seasons and more than 1500 shows, in Argentina where it ran for nine years and was viewed by more than 1.7 million people, and in Mexico where more than 1000 shows were performed.

Biography

Childhood and the beginning of his career
Son of a battered wife, Laurent Baffie gave up school in Year 9 ("classe de 4ème"), to start an accountant training before moving to theatre. He started earning money as an extra in the variety shows of Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier.

Skits writer
From 1985, he wrote skits, notably for Jean-Marie Bigard in the show La Classe on France 3. Since then, he has always participated in the writing the shows of his friend.

Work on the radio
In 1990, he created and presented the show Vas-y, fais-nous rire on Fun Radio. He also took part of Philippe Bouvard's show, Les Grosses Têtes. In 1993, he presented a show called Ze Baffie Show on Skyrock, with the help of one of his friends back then, Jarlot. In 1999, he created C'est quoi ce bordel on Europe 2.

From 9 September 2007 until 3 July 2011, he again worked as a radio presenter, this time on Europe 1. The show, which was broadcast every Sunday between 11 and noon, reused some concepts from C'est quoi ce bordel ?. Its title changed every week during the first years (Coloscopie, Demain, c'est mardi, C'était mieux dimanche dernier, Papy fait de la résistance, Vous êtes bien sur RTL, Julie, droguée, prostituée et fière de l'être, Baffie est un sale con, Taisez-vous Elkabbach, Ma vieille chatte perd ses poils, etc.) before changing to its final name C'est quoi ce bordel. He was always with Julie from Europe 1. In his Sunday show, he used samples, on which Julie recorded sentences, using off the wall humour, as well as the famous sentence from Édouard Balladur "je vous demande de vous arrêter" (I ask you to stop). He also uses jingle samples of Europe 1 and other radios and adverts, which he uses for phone pranks.
In June 2011, he announced he had been laid off, the radio station imputing it to economic reasons. His last show was broadcast on 3 July 2011. He was replaced by Marion Ruggieri with her show called Il n'y en a que pour elle.

Baffie came back on the radio on 25 September 2011 on Rire et Chansons where he restarted his show C'est quoi ce bordel ? which had already been on Europe 2, then Europe 1. On 14 January 2013, he announced he had been laid off from Rire et Chansons. In 2013, he joined Philippe Bouvard's team in the show Grosses Têtes. He stayed in this show even after Laurent Ruquier arrived in 2014.

References

External links

1958 births
Living people
People from Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis
French humorists
French male actors
French film directors
French male screenwriters
French television presenters


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Oral history interviews with Holly Mulcahey (Sound Recording 01)
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Part of Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest Oral Histories
Tape 1 Side 1. History of "It's My Pleasure", a bookstore and lending library for women, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. She discusses how the place evolved from it's original incarnation in the early 1990s to what was at the time of the interview, in 2000.
Mulcahey, Holly
Oral history interviews with Holly Mulcahey (Transcript)
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Transcript. History of "It's My Pleasure", a bookstore and lending library for women, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. She discusses how the place evolved from it's original incarnation in the early 1990s to what was at the time of the interview, in 2000.
Oral history interviews with Ann Mussey (Sound Recording 01)
Tape 1 Side 1. Ann Mussey talks about moving to Portland, Oregon in 1971 and living in a lesbian collective in Southeast Portland, called Red Emma. She also discusses the lesbian community in the Portland area, including other collectives, businesses and women's health clinics.
Mussey, Ann
Oral history interviews with Ann Mussey (Transcript)
Transcript. Ann Mussey talks about moving to Portland, Oregon in 1971 and living in a lesbian collective in Southeast Portland, called Red Emma. She also discusses the lesbian community in the Portland area, including other collectives, businesses and women's health clinics.
Oral history interviews with Frodo Okulam (Sound Recording 01)
Tape 1 Side 1. Frodo talks about her life as a lesbian, in the late 1960s onward. She discusses her gender identity as a child, dealing with her sexuality as a teen, how she got her name and what the Lord of the Rings meant to her, starting the Portland Chapter of the Tolkien Society of America, and her spirituality as a Wiccan and member of the MCC (Metropolitan Community Church).
Okulam, Frodo
Tape 2, Side 1. Frodo talks about her life as a lesbian, in the late 1960s onward. She discusses her gender identity as a child, dealing with her sexuality as a teen, how she got her name and what the Lord of the Rings meant to her, starting the Portland Chapter of the Tolkien Society of America, and her spirituality as a Wiccan and member of the MCC (Metropolitan Community Church).
Oral history interviews with Frodo Okulam (Transcript)
Transcript. Frodo talks about her life as a lesbian, in the late 1960s onward. She discusses her gender identity as a child, dealing with her sexuality as a teen, how she got her name and what the Lord of the Rings meant to her, starting the Portland Chapter of the Tolkien Society of America, and her spirituality as a Wiccan and member of the MCC (Metropolitan Community Church).
Oral history interviews with Susie Shepherd (Sound Recording 01)
Tape 1 Side 1. Susie talks about coming out as a lesbian in the early 1970s, lobbying the Oregon State Legislature on gay rights with the Portland Town Council, gay rights nationally, alcoholism and Alcoholics Anonymous, and the Leather community.
Shepherd, Susie
Tape 2, Side 1. Susie talks about coming out as a lesbian in the early 1970s, lobbying the Oregon State Legislature on gay rights with the Portland Town Council, gay rights nationally, alcoholism and Alcoholics Anonymous, and the Leather community.
Oral history interviews with Susie Shepherd (Transcript)
Transcript. Susie talks about coming out as a lesbian in the early 1970s, lobbying the Oregon State Legislature on gay rights with the Portland Town Council, gay rights nationally, alcoholism and Alcoholics Anonymous, and the Leather community.
Oral history interview with Laurie Lockert, by Lee Ann Phillips
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Lockert discusses her childhood, coming out, tennis, the lesbian community in the 1970s, starting a family with her partner, and her education.
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Oral history interview with Laurie Lockert, by Lee Ann Phillips [Transcript]
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Transcript. Lockert discusses her childhood, coming out, tennis, the lesbian community in the 1970s, starting a family with her partner, and her education.
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Session 1. Lockert discusses her childhood, coming out, tennis, the lesbian community in the 1970s, starting a family with her partner, and her education.
Oral history interview with Ellen Goldberg, by Annica Eagle and Spencer Trueax
Ellen Goldberg is a lesbian activist who was one of the co-founders of the Mountain Moving Café, a collectively run restaurant that was created to engender networking, collaboration, and particularly political organizing. The café, with its large dance floor and performance stage, featured different entertainment every night of the month and was well-known for it's Wednesday Women's Nights (on these evenings, men were turned away). An earlier interview with Goldberg, addressing the café and radical political organizing, was conducted in 1978 (SR6314).
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Oral history interview with Ellen Goldberg, by Annica Eagle and Spencer Trueax [Transcript]
Transcript. Ellen Goldberg is a lesbian activist who was one of the co-founders of the Mountain Moving Café, a collectively run restaurant that was created to engender networking, collaboration, and particularly political organizing. The café, with its large dance floor and performance stage, featured different entertainment every night of the month and was well-known for it's Wednesday Women's Nights (on these evenings, men were turned away). An earlier interview with Goldberg, addressing the café and radical political organizing, was conducted in 1978 (SR 6314).
Oral history interview with Ellen Goldberg, by Annica Eagle and Spencer Trueax [Sound Recording]
Session 1. Ellen Goldberg is a lesbian activist who was one of the co-founders of the Mountain Moving Café, a collectively run restaurant that was created to engender networking, collaboration, and particularly political organizing. The café, with its large dance floor and performance stage, featured different entertainment every night of the month and was well-known for it's Wednesday Women's Nights (on these evenings, men were turned away). An earlier interview with Goldberg, addressing the café and radical political organizing, was conducted in 1978 (SR 6314).
Oral history interview with Sally Cohn, by Jade Davis and Erin Babcock Musick [Transcript]
Transcript. Sally Cohn is a lesbian activist who has been involved with many organizations in Portland, Oregon since the 1970s. She discusses several topics including her involvement with the Lesbian Community Project, Old Lesbians Organizing for Change, lesbian stereotypes, women's softball, and what it was like to fight anti-gay ballot measures. She also talks about her appearance on national television doing her 'hand whistling.'
Cohn, Sally H.
Oral history interview with Sally Cohn, by Jade Davis and Erin Babcock Musick [Sound Recording]
Session 1. Sally Cohn is a lesbian activist who has been involved with many organizations in Portland, Oregon since the 1970s. She discusses several topics including her involvement with the Lesbian Community Project, Old Lesbians Organizing for Change, lesbian stereotypes, women's softball, and what it was like to fight anti-gay ballot measures. She also talks about her appearance on national television doing her 'hand whistling.'
Oral history interview with Cindy Cumfer, by Erik Funkhouser and Tim Aguirre
Cindy Cumfer discusses her involvement with the lesbian and women's communities in Portland, Oregon; her work as a civil rights attorney, particularly in the area of lesbian adoption; the AIDS epidemic and how it bridge the divide between the gay and lesbian communities; and her involvement with the Unitarian Universalist Church.
Cumfer, Cynthia
Oral history interview with Cindy Cumfer, by Erik Funkhouser and Tim Aguirre [Transcript]
Transcript. Cindy Cumfer discusses her involvement with the lesbian and women's communities in Portland, Oregon; her work as a civil rights attorney, particularly in the area of lesbian adoption; the AIDS epidemic and how it bridge the divide between the gay and lesbian communities; and her involvement with the Unitarian Universalist Church.


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The Cinema short sleeve tee shirt from Illegal Civ features an illustration of a grey reel-to-reel camera at the chest of a red, 100% cotton shirt with "Illegal Cinema" below in black.
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from now on lets try and post screengrabs of twitter posts because they often get deleted.
........what are y'all talking about in this thread?
Marie Rose: Wow! you're enormous!
By the way, has there been any word of the Koei Tecmo EU interview with Shimbori? Simon is writing the interview over there but not sure how long that would be.
Not sure if anyones posted this already but yeah, Raidou is looking dope. He's looking a lot more appealing and deadly in DOA6!
A little off topic but, a DOA1 and DOAD skin for him would also be wicked!
Come On n ! Sweat was the worst stage in DOA history along with Street!
Aircraft Carrier and Tatami/Dojo are leagues below everything else.
Actually, Marie Rose is legal so he wouldn't.
If Bayman wanted to go to jail, he should make a trip to Soul Calibur lol.
So Koei Tecmo EU messaged me back and is working on the interview as we speak. It might be up tomorrow or sometime this week so who knows.
Would like to see Shimbori travel with us to events more often.
theres only one Momiji post in that tweet, it seems the Momiji stans are retreating.


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We have now all become armchair data scientists
Board member Maxine Mackintosh from The Health Foundation and The Alan Turing Institute explains which skills budding data scientists should be focusing on.
Honing the ACTUAL AI skills we need post COVID-19
It's 2021 and the BBC is writing articles that include the sentence "Version 3.9 of NHS Covid-19 takes advantage of a filtering process called Unscented Kalman Smoother, to screen out suspect readings". We have now all become armchair data scientists, whether we were meaning to or not.
The World Economic Forum said that "While it was a microscopic invader rather than the rise of the robots that led to the current collapse of the labor market, it has become clear that the fallout of the pandemic will accelerate digitization and automation across a range of industries and sectors. This calls for new investments and mechanisms for upskilling and reskilling, for both deeply human skills as well as digital skills." The WEF also predicted that demand will increase this year by 16% in data and AI, along with 12% for engineering and cloud computing skills.
A new cohort of data scientists
Importantly those most affected and where skills in data literacy are the most important to invest in aren't young people (I'm drawing an arbitrary line at university students and below). COVID-19 has accelerated the skills gaps not only across generations but across some narrow few years. Those over the age of 35 who did not have a digital-by-default education, with the bulk of their career ahead of them, have emerged as the group most likely to diversify their skills, and embrace new learning in data science and AI. Balancing education with a workforce whose jobs will be the most affected by – if not replaced by – digitisation, automation will be key post-COVID.
Colleagues and friends working at universities have said the numbers of applications, despite the turmoil for health data science programmes, was way up this year and we've seen an influx of data scientists, engineers and technical architects join One HealthTech from non-health fields, many of whom cite a desire to contribute something of value to the pandemic through their technical skills (adtech is poorer for it now!)
You're never too old to code
With the democratisation of access to learning and development opportunities, be it Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) like Coursera or Lynda, or online technical curricula like DataCamp and Code Academy, to in-person but free-to-access courses like CodeFirst:Girls (including a course in Cambridge) the main barrier is the privilege of time to invest and the motivation to crack on.
But, with the democratisation of access to learning, as well as the tools to develop "AI" (or really off-the-shelf models with a line or two of code) we've seen a boom in many "drag-and-drop" data scientists.
In my experience of going from a self-taught, drag-and-dropper, to working with real clinical data at scale and being exposed to what it could look like to implement this in practice, I have come to learn that those late nights of teaching myself how to generate a Random Forest was time poorly spent. Anyone who has had any touch point with clinical data, be it seeing a clinician input the data or actually analysing it, will know that clinical data is the poster-child for the widely known issue that real-world data analysis is 90% data cleaning and wrangling.
But if COVID has shown us anything about data, it is that seemingly basic tasks have the potential for disastrous ramifications if you use the wrong tools or your process isn't right. Every team has their own assumptions and methods of choice, resulting in vastly different predictions when it comes to cases, mortality or R. Furthermore, regularly shipping insights from data to those who need it, is a path full of potholes.
So yes, AI skills, be them technical or not, remain really important for the future resilience of professions, and particularly those well into their careers. But some things COVID-19 has taught us about AI is that the first step is not an anthropomorphised robot, pointing deliberately into the middle distance; the second step is not a whizz bang neural network regardless of whether the problem needs one or not, and the third step is not slides with great graphics and no underlying information on the assumptions or caveats required when interpreting the results.
What has the pandemic taught us?
COVID has made many of us data nerds (those who weren't before) and meaningful depth and appreciation of the complexity of real-world data and its analysis will hopefully shape those budding AI enthusiasts to focus more on the fundamentals: coding is important but those getting into data science need to understand why certain models are chosen, how much data quality underpins this all, and just how important clear communication of statistics is.
About Maxine
Maxine is a member of the Eastern AHSN Board and a Research Associate working between The Alan Turing Institute and The Health Foundation. Her work applies machine learning to large NHS datasets. Maxine is also the co-founder of One HealthTech – a global, volunteer-led, grassroots community that supports and promotes under-represented groups in health innovation. She has worked across a range of organisations, including the World Health Organisation on artificial intelligence policy, L'Oreal's scientific team and technology strategy in Roche Diagnostics. She is part of a number of communities and committees including the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers, the Churchill Fellowship, the British Computer Society and previously, she sat on the DeepMind Health Independent Review Board.
What does NHS Reset mean for innovators?
Fiona Claridge from NHS Confederation explores what innovators need to learn from the NHS COVID-19 response.
Five themes from COVID-19 innovation in the East of England
Helen Oliver, Chief Operating Officer at Eastern AHSN, breaks down some of the common themes from our latest innovation showcase.
Tapping into citizen science
Prof Michael Hornberger discusses strengthening academic research through partnerships and public involvement.


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1) This section is valid for all sports related to Motor Racing, such as: Formula One, A1 GP, CART, Indy Car, Nascar, Circuit Racing, Touring Cars, DTM, Endurance, Rally, Rally-cross, Motorcycling, Superbike.
2) Bets are settled according to the publication of live timing and classification as shown on TV at the time of podium presentations, or at the end of the session/race/event (as applicable). Should the information required for the settling of the offer be missing/not shown and/or incomplete, the first
official information on the official site will be deemed binding, regardless of subsequent promotions, demotions, appeals and/or penalties inflicted after the termination of the session/race which the bet refers to.
3) Events being shortened due to weather conditions or other situations but are deemed official by the governing association will be settled accordingly, regardless of any changes which said associations might make due to the incompletion of the race.
4) Should an event/race/session/lap/heat be restarted from the beginning, bets will stand and will be settled according to the result issued after the restart, except for those bets the outcome of which has already been determined.
5) For settlement purposes, a driver/rider who has taken part in an officially-sanctioned practice or qualification session is considered to have taken part in the event, regardless of his eventual participation in the actual race.
6) In "Head to Head" bets all listed participants must take part in the session to which the bet refers to for bets to stand, irrespective of whether a driver manages to get an official time.
7) In "Outright" or "Place" bets, no refunds will apply on those participants who do not take part for any reason, for the session/event/championship to which the offer refers to.
8) Settlement for any offer with reference to "Race completion" will be based on official regulations as issued by the governing association.
9) A "Head to Head" bet where both drivers/riders fail to complete the race is determined on the basis of the most laps completed. In case the participants fail to complete the race and are recorded for the same number of laps, the bet is declared void, except in cases of Rally where at least one of the listed participants must complete the event, otherwise the bets will be declared void.
10) Time penalties inflicted by the governing Association during the qualifying session(s) will count. Other grid demotions/promotions are disregarded.
11) A Race is considered to have started when the warm-up lap starts (where applicable), thus all drivers/riders taking part in the warm-up lap are deemed to have started. In case of a participant whose start is delayed, or starts the race from the pit lane, the participant is also deemed to have taken part.
12) Settlement of seasonal markets will take into account the classification issued exactly after the completion of the last race of the season including any decisions taken by the organizing association during the season, given that said decision is issued before the last race of the season. Any decision (even on appeal) taken after the end of the last stipulated race is deemed as irrelevant.
13) All bets which make reference to teams' performances will stand regardless of any driver/rider changes.
14) Bets will stand regardless of any schedule/location/circuit changes as far as the race/event is held within the same year/season, irrespective of any time delays, calendar order, etc., except for those bets placed after 00:00CET of the Monday of the week for which the race/event is scheduled which will be
refunded should the race/event/session that the offer refers to not be held within 7 days of the scheduled date at the time the bet was placed.
15) Bets referring to specific teams' performance during the race require the initially stipulated number of vehicles from each team to start the race for bets to stand, otherwise they will be declared void (e.g. in Formula 1, two cars from each team should start the race).
16) Settlement of bets referring to the inclusion of the "Safety Car" will not take into account those occurrences in which the actual race starts behind the "Safety Car".
17) Settlement of offers on the first driver/car to retire will be based on the actual lap in which the driver is considered to have withdrawn from the race. Thus if two or more drivers retire during the same lap bets will be settled in accordance with <Section B, Para 5, Clause 14>.


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Corey Clinkscale, 26, who lists the home as his address, was taken into custody on the warrants. Inside police found a bag of marijuana, two pills and a scale, reports said. Arrested on drug charges there was Jaron Stewart, 25, of Francisca Avenue.
Later, at a home at 363 W. Delason Ave., Aaron Hobby, 36, was taken into custody on drug charges after officers served another warrant there. Reports said police found two bags of cocaine, a security system and $420 cash.
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