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Anyone interested in a six-string Lanakai in excellent condition? It's a 0-6. It has a solid spruce top and ovangkol back/sides and classical style tuner strips with slotted headstock. Case included. $200.00 plus one half of shipping costs. I'm a newbie, but this Lanikai can be vouched for by my uke friend who sold it to me: Uketanzon. I am selling it because I'm not playing it much - am obsessed with my tenor!
Pictures please. A Lanikai six string has been my go to uke for my entire uke journey.
Will send picture shortly! Tell me about your playing. Do you primarily use it for strumming? It does have such a full-bodied sound. And do you tune the double strings in octaves? My friend who sold me the Lanikai doesn't use the octave in the upper string - just doubles it. I enjoy it, but am more obsessed with getting better on my regular tenor. Anyway, am rambling on - let me get that picture to you in a sec.
Pictures are now posted on ad entry. Will get some better ones up by tomorrow. Let me know if you are interested! Thanks.
I mainly strum on this puppy, but play a few single notes here and there. It is a wonderful sound, which is why I fell for it in the first place. I tune the double strings in octaves, and have found that I greatly prefer the high octave on the A string to be on the outside and the high octave on the C string on the other side. It lets me emphasize the high note on the A with an upstrum.
Here is a strummer with my Koa cutaway Lanikai 6 string. I started with a mahogany one.
Very nice! I love your singing style! The uke playing enhances is beautifully. Thanks for the info on how you string the octaves - very helpful. I am learning that there doesn't seem to be any supreme standard for tuning.


CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2015 started on 6th January 2015 in Las Vegas, in United States of America and ended on 9th January 2015. The Trade Show attracted Tech Giants across the World and famous Tech Companies participated in the event. CES is one of the biggest platforms for technology traders to put their best products before world, however the event is not for General Public, and welcomes industry professionals.
Hundreds of global companies participated in CES 2015 Trade Show with so many different products and technologies, however the Top 5 Technologies of CES 2015 include the following.
CES 2015 came with improved and immersive 3D Virtual Reality Gadgets, a Year ago, Nate Mitchell came with Oculus Rift and made Virtual Reality on Android. Now in CES 2015, Oculus Rift Prototype stunned the attendants with its exceptional improved positional tracking and visible technology. The gadget priced with $350 tag and features 1080p resolution.
This is another category which stunned the CES 2015 attendant as companies showcased the Drones with mix use, good to see the use of Drones in more practical walk of life, the wrist worn Nixie Drone empowers you to record 1080p HD Videos and pictures, this wonderful Drone weighs only 45 grams.
Innovation keeps Business profitable, Football is hot favorite sports for millions of people, People often in Search of Must have Crazy Football Apps, however some people have extreme approach when it comes to their Physical stamina. To facilitate such people, a company who excels in robotics and drones launched the World's First Auto Follow Drone.
This AirDog Drone has become hot favorite for sports lover of various fields, like cyclists, mountaineers, hikers and others which may involve running, jumping and other physical work. AirDog is best for Self Tracking. This stunning Drone is priced with a $1295 price tag.
CES 2015 is not all about costly Tech Products, CES 2015 also launched a Selfie Stick for just as low as $5, with such price, it is the Most Affordable Device at CES 2015. It helps Smartphone users to get Selfies from a wider angle, this stick became limelight during CES 2015 in the presence of other premium devices. With the help of this Selfie Stick and Must Have Photo Editing Apps, Selfie Lovers can capture every movement and make adjustments whatever they think beneficial.


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2021 Australia $100 1 oz Gold Beneath the Southern Sky BU SKU#231790
Photos in this listing may or may not be stock photos. The photos are meant to be an indication of the product you will receive. Each coin comes in a capsule. Second release of the Beneath the Southern Sky series.
Obverse: Effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, along with the face value. Reverse: Features the Australian continent, alongside the iconic Southern Cross constellation.
For 2021, the design also features a platypus on Sydney's location on the map. Protect your investments from fingerprints by adding these cotton gloves. The Royal Australian Mint has released the Beneath the Southern Skies coin in 1 ounce of. The design pays homage to Stuart Devlin, who designed many of Australia's circulating coins.
This particular design was one of Devlin's early drafts that has been adapting for this bullion coin. Add this beautiful 2021 1 oz Gold Beneath the Southern Skies BU coin to your cart today!
Royal Australian Mint Royal Australian Mint, located in Canberra, is well-known for their popular releases of Domed Proof coins, Lunar coins, and limited mintage bullion releases in both Silver. The coins range from themes about history, to astronomy, animals, to the Chinese Zodiac. The Royal Australian Mint also produces the circulating coins for Australia.
The Mint was first opened in 1965, and the first mint of the country to not be a branch of the Royal Mint. Before Royal Australian Mint was formed, coins for the country were struck at various branches of the Royal Mint - the Sydney Mint, Melbourne Mint, and The Perth Mint.
1,359 Item as described. Rec'd item, looking forward to doing business with again. The item "2021 Australia $100 1 oz Gold Beneath the Southern Sky BU SKU#231790" is in sale since Thursday, June 3, 2021.
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Gøtzsche brought up an interesting point which even the FDA has yet to address. He used the word "violence" in connection with taking antidepressant medicines. The subject of violence, murder, and even mass murder correlated to antidepressant use was covered quite extensively in Dr. Ann Blake Tracy's book "Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? the Rest of the Story on the New Class of SSRI Antidepressants Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More." Tracy detailed numerous cases of homicide and mass murders which she contends is related to antidepressant use.
Omar Mateen, the Pulse nightclub shooter may have been taking psychotropic drugs and was suffering from psychosis in the days leading up to the nation's most deadly mass shooting, according to a Reuters report. Witnesses who may have known he was taking the medicines were reportedly asked by the Feds to stay quiet about the matter.
As TFTP reported, "More than half of the suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts had been misrecorded as 'emotional instability' or 'worsening of depression.' In summary trial reports from the drugs giant Eli Lilly, suicidal attempts were missing in 90 percent of cases." In other words, Eli Lily, allegedly, whitewashed their data, to cover up the dangers of SSRIs and bring their deadly products to market, all done with the blessing of the FDA.


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Ian George Brown (born 20 February 1963) is an English singer and multi-instrumentalist. He was the lead singer of the alternative rock band the Stone Roses from their formation in 1984. Following the split in 1996, he began a solo career, releasing seven studio albums, a greatest hits compilation, a remix album, an 11 disc box set titled Collection and 19 singles.
He returned to singing for the Stone Roses in 2011, although this did not spell the end of his solo endeavours, on October 25th 2018 releasing First World Problems through Virgin/EMI records. He had a cameo appearance in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and celebrated in this limited edition of 50 Pop Art Disruptive print. Signed by the Artist Jim Wheat with his picture duplicated across four squares, each one washed with a neon colour in the style of Pop Art portraiture, and subtly emblazoned with the dollar sign. Focusing the trope of money through people, places, and occasions, Dollarsandart's celebrity prints comment on the tense relationship between fame and finance in contemporary culture.


Yes, that's right, this recipe is called Iced Hot Chocolate. If you thought hot chocolate was only for the winter time, this recipe will make you think again. I mean sometimes you just have to #StirThingsUp.
This Iced Hot Chocolate is so simple. It only requires three ingredients and literally take two minutes to make. Prepare to be amazed.
Not only that, don't be surprised if it becomes your family's go-to summer drink.
1. Pour your milk in the blender.
2. Add in the Nestlé Carnation Hot Chocolate powder and ice.
3. Blend until it's nice and frothy. Then pour and enjoy.
This recipe makes two servings. It's a great mini-sized, summer treat for the kids. Serve it with some yummy watermelon or sweet cherries and you have the perfect snack for a hot day. An added bonus is that Carnation Hot Chocolate is made with pure cocoa!
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Omgish! That looks delicious 😋. I will have to try it with the kids this summer. Thanks for sharing!
Yum, this looks like the perfect hot day treat! And the perfect alternative to iced coffee for kids.
mmmmm I could use one right now.
Must try this! I love hot chocolate on a cold day, but in the summer heat, this is like liquid dessert. Great idea!
Yummy yum! Can't wait to try this!
Yum! This looks just about right.


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25 - 28 ноября 2012 Russian Art Auctions
* 16. VOLKOV, ALEKSANDR (1886–1957)
Uzbek Children in a Yurt, signed, with a composition on the reverse.
Oil on canvas, 33.5 by 52.5 cm (image size).
210,000–300,000 GBP
Executed c. 1928–1929.
Provenance: Collection of I.M. Ezrakh, St Petersburg.
Private collection, Europe.
Exhibited: A Time to Gather... Russian Art from Foreign Private Collections, The Russian Museum, St Petersburg, 14 February–12 May 2008.
Literature: Paintings from Private Collections, 18th to 20th Century, St Petersburg, Aurora, 1993, p. 203, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, A Time to Gather... Russian Art from Foreign Private Collections, St Petersburg, Palace Editions, 2007, p. 243, pl. 177, illustrated.
Aleksandr Volkov is one of the most outstanding representatives of the "Eastern avant-garde". His Uzbek images have entered the history of art as bold applications of Cubism, Futurism and Suprematism, with their geometrisation and compartmentalisation of space, to the traditional ethnic types, generic scenes and customs of the East. Uzbek Children in a Yurt, painted circa 1928–1929, belongs to a new phase in the artist's creative life associated with his exploration of figurative art. Volkov's works from this period are celebrated for their saturated colour, deep and luminescent use of paint, but also for his personal interpretation based on the combination of traditional styles and folk primitivism with eastern religious motifs, such as Sufism.
In Uzbek Children in a Yurt the artist tackles his favourite subject of music, which he had developed in his well-known masterpiece Listening to Music. Here, the artist portrays a group of young Uzbek girls gathered in a circle, practicing their dutars. By portraying the characters in close-up, Volkov separates them from everyday life and shows their concentration on enjoying the music.
A complex composition is masterfully arranged by the artist: the protagonists are depicted as a single unified group, positioned around the centre, as if seized by the same melody. The background with the girls' silhouettes forms a distinct decorative compositional structure. The painting, with its rhythm based upon centripetal movement, has a clear conceptual focus: the shining red spherical body of the dutar. Volkov incorporates circles, disks or segments of infinitely varied sizes, colours, positions and angles; they materialize as the base of the yurt, the tambourine, skullcaps, children's heads, eyebrows, the spheres of girls' supple breasts or the reddish glow of their cheeks. Each young participant of the round dance is primarily interesting not for her individuality but rather for her contribution to the overall composition.
The seemingly accidental arrangement of the elements of the composition in fact reveals a true unity, confinement of common space, as well as of smaller individual spaces, masses and volumes. Contrasting planes of green robes and dark tones of faces and hands, soft when pushed to the background, on the foreground acquire applique-like thickness. The movement of these flows of colour is polyphonic yet conceptually uniform: from malachite greens, to umbers and ochres, to bright red in the centre of the composition. The fluidity of form and colour underscores the neutral background, with virtually indistinguishable gradations of colour.
This painting is also a summation of Volkov's artistic quest during the 1920s – a period when his talent truly blossomed. The late 1920s were defined by the birth of the artist's younger son, Valery. Around this time, Volkov created several genre scenes, as well as portraits depicting young protagonists in their everyday life (Children. Brother and Sister, 1925–1930, and Boy by the Window, 1928). However, in the present work Volkov is consciously avoiding the plethora of oriental sounds and colours, which are featured more prominently in his earlier works, such as Kazakh Girl (1926). The protagonists' tunics and tubeteikas (traditional Uzbek headcaps), imbued with shadows and coloured highlights, are austere and devoid of a great deal of colour. The conceptual and colour focuses are provided by the shining faces of the girls, flushed with concentration from playing the dutar, and the dutar itself, its pear-shaped, mulberry-wood body transformed into an immaterial conglomeration of luminous colour.
Moreover, the painting offered here for auction is not merely a genre scene set in a yurt, but rather a metaphorical depiction of the theme of music awakening the human soul. In the 1920s the artist was seized by an interest in folk culture and a sense of affinity with his national heritage. He was captivated by the sounds of the bazaars and provincial streets (Bazaar, 1928; Marijuana Smoker, 1929; Resting, 1926). Ritual and music are at the heart of Central Asian and Islamic culture in all aspects of everyday life, and it is thus music that is the quintessence of his best works of that period.
The fusion of local colour of his native Uzbekistan and experiments in new figurative art that were prevalent in the second half of the 1920s, as well as gentleness and spirituality of the subject matter, render Uzbek Children in a Yurt one of the artist's most significant works of this period.


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U.S., China Strike a Climate Deal to Curb Global Warming
A groundbreaking agreement struck Wednesday by the United States and China puts the world's two worst polluters on a faster track to curbing the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming.
Josh Lederman, THe Associated Press
Beijing, China — A groundbreaking agreement struck Wednesday by the United States and China puts the world's two worst polluters on a faster track to curbing the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming. With the clock ticking on a worldwide climate treaty, the two countries sought to move beyond their troubled history as environmental adversaries and spur other nations.
The U.S., a chief proponent of the prospective treaty, is setting an ambitious new goal to stop pumping as much carbon dioxide into the air. China, whose appetite for cheap energy has grown along with its burgeoning economy, agreed for the first time to a self-imposed deadline of 2030 for when its emissions will top out.
Yet it wasn't clear how either the U.S. or China would meet their goals, nor whether China's growing emissions until 2030 would negate any reductions in the U.S.
Still, the dual announcements from President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, unveiled Wednesday in Beijing, came as a shock to environmentalists who had pined for such action but suspectedChina's reluctance and Obama's weakened political standing might interfere. In Washington, Republicans were equally taken aback, accusing Obama of saddling future presidents with an unrealistic burden.
In fact, the deal had been hashed out behind the scenes for months. U.S. officials said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry floated the idea during a visit to China in February, and Obama followed up by writing Xi in the spring to suggest that the world's two largest economies join forces.
Obama pressed the issue again during a meeting with China's vice premier on the sidelines of a U.N. climate summit in September, and the two countries finally sealed the deal late Tuesday — just in time to announce it in grand fashion at the Great Hall of the People as Obama's trip to China was coming to an end.
"This is a major milestone in the U.S.-China relationship," Obama said, with Xi at his side. "It shows what's possible when we work together on an urgent global challenge."
But Obama's opponents in Congress balked, dismissing the new U.S. target as "job-destroying red tape" that would squeeze the middle class.
"This unrealistic plan that the president would dump on his successor would ensure higher utility rates and far fewer jobs," said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is set to become the majority leader early next year.
Under the agreement, Obama set a goal to cut U.S. emissions between 26 and 28 percent by 2025, compared with 2005 levels. Officials have said the U.S. is already on track to meet Obama's earlier goal to lower emissions 17 percent by 2020, and that the revised goal meant the U.S. would be cutting pollution roughly twice as fast during a five-year period starting in 2020.
China, whose emissions are growing as it builds new coal plants, set a target for its emissions to peak by about 2030 — earlier if possible — with the idea being that its emissions would then start falling. Although that goal still allows China to keep pumping more carbon dioxide for the next 16 years, it marked an unprecedented step for Beijing, which has been reluctant to be boxed in on climate by the global community.
"This is, in my view, the most important bilateral climate announcement ever," said David Sandalow, a former top environmental official at the White House and the Energy Department.
World leaders who have been pressing for a global climate treaty heralded the deal, with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging all other nations to follow Obama's and Xi's lead by announcing their own emissions targets by early next year. Former Vice President Al Gore, a prominent environmentalist, called the Chinese move "a signal of groundbreaking progress from the world's largest polluter."
Scientists have pointed to the budding climate treaty, intended to be finalized next year in Paris, as a final opportunity to get emissions in check before the worst effects of climate change become unavoidable. Each nation is supposed to pledge to cut emissions by a specific amount, although negotiators are still haggling over whether those contributions should be binding.
Last month, the European Union said it would cut its emissions 40 percent by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. Taken together, the U.S, China and the EU account for more than half of global emissions, and there were already indications that the world's next-biggest emitter — India — might be feeling the pressure. "The international community will now expect India to make some firm commitments," said Jairam Ramesh, the former head of India's Environment Ministry.
Developing nations like India and China have long balked at being on the hook for climate change as much as wealthy nations like the U.S. that have been polluting for much longer. But China analysts said Beijing's willingness to cap its future emissions and to put Xi front and center signaled a significant turnaround.
For Obama, the fight against climate change has become a central facet of the legacy he hopes to leave. Facing opposition in Congress, Obama has sought to bypass lawmakers through emissions regulations on power plants and vehicles. His aides say his audacity on those fronts has boosted his credibility on climate change overseas.
In China, the smog-laden skies over its cities have become a source of embarrassment that the government has sought to obscure. Ahead of the economic summit that brought Obama and other leaders to Beijing, authorities shut down factories, banned wood fires and kept half the cars off the road.


In a tweet today, Netflix confirmed its participation in the July 12th Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality. This day of protest seeks to raise the alarm about net neutrality which is in danger thanks to a bill President Trump signed overturning rules put in place by former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. Many high profile tech and media companies including Amazon, Pornhub, Reddit, Patreon, Vimeo, Kickstarter, Mozilla, and Etsy have voiced their support and/or participating in the protest.
What makes this interesting is that Netflix has taken heat for seemingly going back on its commitment to net neutrality. Back in 2014, Netflix was a staunch supporter of net neutrality and participated in the "Internet slowdown" where in which various websites displayed loading symbols to represent that ISPs are slowing down data. Recently, the company has stepped back from its initial vigor with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings taking an almost nonchalant attitude regarding net neutrality.
Ironically, Netflix would actually have more to gain if current FCC Chairman Ajit Pai completely reverses net neutrality. Large companies such as Netflix have the money to pay ISPs for "preferred" access but startups and smaller companies stand to lose the most without net neutrality protections in place. In fact, Netflix acknowledged this in a statement to The Verge saying, "There are other companies for whom this is a bigger issue, and we support strong net neutrality protections to ensure the next Netflix has a fair shot to go the distance."
With the FCC setting the stage to completely remove net neutrality protections, protesters hope to raise awareness on July 12th by prominently displaying messages on their websites about net neutrality. Having large Internet streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon participate will likely be of huge benefit and hopefully make the case for a free and open internet.


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"You can't say that."
"Say what? All I said was…"
"Never mind. Just don't say it." It continually surprised her to see how hopeless these guys were. Such a knack for faux pas. What would Mr. Ferber say?
"Sorry, Mackenzie, but all I said was they're not black this time. They're Eritrean. I mean, they are black but not black-black." His voice trembled slightly. With his skinny frame shifting nervously in his baggy orange coveralls, he was barely distinguishable from the other guys in the newsroom. "I mean, I'm not trying to say that makes them any less black in the moral sense or that we should in any way denigrate them for it or anything, it's just that…"
"Look, just forget it." That sharp tone was one of Mackenzie's specialties.
"Mackenzie, if I may, they're toddlers this time, not infants."
"Okay Jason, toddlers. You finished?"
"Saskatoon's spelled wrong."
Sometimes the struggle was too much. Here she was, trying to get page one wrapped up and this guy keeps piping up with the most annoying details. The Prime Minister's Wife was with Eritrean children today, not exactly the same as the black children she's usually pictured with. They were toddlers this time, not infants as on yesterday's front page, pre-schoolers like the day before and whatever they were on Monday. They were in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan this time, not Kenora, Ontario, or Gimli, Manitoba, and there are two stupid "o"s in "Saskatoon". It was as if all those white guys were harassing her, a white woman, and at a time of national crisis too.
But if anyone could handle it, Mackenzie could. Everyone who was anyone in Toronto knew the Mackenzie Taylor Mitchell story. Her career was meteoric, going back nearly 10 years to the time she was 14 and her dad got her a summer job writing political analysis for the Globe and Mail. While still in high school she cut her teeth serving on a good half-dozen royal commissions into racism, sexism, Islamophobia, homophobia and the Holocaust so by the time she got her degree in social work she clearly had a calling. Mr. Blum offered her some choices, including a judgeship or a cabinet position, but she picked journalism. "I'm going back to my roots," she declared. The entire world, to the very bounds of the Toronto Star's circulation area, would see her name in print every day.
Not to mention her photo. Just to look at it was to recognize her journalistic credentials. She absolutely radiated a sense of self-satisfaction, in fact sheer exuberance about being photographed. Mackenzie was proud that the photographer needed only a few shots to get that special look out of her semi-pixieish face with her brown hair sheared down to what her hairdresser called a power crewcut. And just a bit of curl on her upper lip. True, it wasn't the same as TV exposure. But saving the world called for sacrifices. Mackenzie had to fight the war wherever it took her.
She thought over her home page/front page choices again — a prominent photo of the Prime Minister's Wife at a hinterland daycare centre for Airlift children, a heart-rending piece on great-great-grandchildren of residential school survivors, Canada's formal apology to Sudan, a gripping story about a girl who defied the almost insuperable barriers of sexism to take up skateboarding, the latest Statistics Canada numbers on hate and, of course, the lead story reporting today's proceedings of The Trial.
Fine choices, all. She glanced out the window towards downtown and saw another thick plume of black smoke, this one obscuring the newspaper's office tower on Yonge Street, a few miles east. A fine front page indeed for any edition of the Toronto Star.
There was nothing left for her to do but leave the petty details — writing the stories, editing them, designing the pages, proofreading them, getting the paper online, sending it to the printer, all the myriad petty details of a newsroom — to the white guys. As a woman in journalism, Mackenzie had more important things to do.
She turned back to face her staff. "You guys finish up," she ordered, "and get it right. Don't forget how the song goes."
Her voice sang out scornfully, triumphantly: "The blackflies are biting bigtime in the camps of northern Quebec."
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The final day of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) conference, &THEN opened with yet another challenge presented to the marketing community: how to evolve their strategies to engage with a volatile and on-the-go consumer. Keynote speakers from Google, Collective Digital Studio, and a YouTube personality with 12 million followers discussed how new social media and videos are connecting with customers at the personal relationship level. Only recently has technology broken down the barriers of communication between marketers and consumers, and the underlying message of many of Day 3 sessions was a reminder that it is now more than ever, a two-way relationship.
CMO Harlan Bratcher suggested in his "Tapping the Human Psyche" session that it's important to look at things from an innocent point of view, and to have a natural curiosity as to why somebody does something. Only through understanding motives, as well as end product uses, is it possible to engage with your customers on a personal level.
Data and new channels can provide unparalleled access to the consumer, however this has understandably bred some skepticism and privacy concerns. A session on connecting with a skeptic consumer showed research that while consumers are aware of hacking and demonstrate some concern, nearly 65% of them would welcome more advertising and engagement if they had the ability to control what was being advertised.
A discussion on "Engaging Customers from Acquisition to Advocacy" highlighted how experience is key. Consumers are getting more ads today than ever, but they are also the most informed in their purchase decisions. Up to 90% of consumers do seek information from multiple sources before making a larger purchase, and 64% of customers say that experience is more important that the price while shopping. Experience is the vehicle that takes the customer from engagement to advocacy, and 86% of CMOs believe they will own this end-to-end journey within 5 years.
Finally, closing out the theme of personalization was a session on the staying power and effectiveness of direct mail, which highlighted how the medium is still the best equipped to provide truly personal outreach. As digital channels make more inroads into engaging customers, direct mail still remains one of the best ways to acquire and inform them.
Throughout the final day, it was stressed that mass advertising is outdated; instead, we should have "mass specialization". The wealth of data now available to marketers has to be deployed at a truly segmented level to allow personal customization. Customers are increasingly ranking products first on experience, then on price.
Engage customers on every touchpoint and across devices. Continuing on the omnichannel theme of the first two days, marketers should try to engage their customers at multiple points before and after the purchase. Customers are willing to give up some privacy and deal with more ads, so long as those ads are either customizable or more relevant.


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Q: Given a cumulative distribution function of the form $P(X\leq x) = 1- e^{-\lambda x^3}$, is there a way to represent it using an exponential? Given a cumulative distribution function of the form $P(X\leq x) = 1- e^{-\lambda x^3}$, is there any way to represent it in terms of an exponential or any other distribution? I've thought about exponentials, but don't know how to deal with the cubed term. Thanks!

A: Let $W$ have exponential distribution with parameter $\lambda$.  Let $X=W^{1/3}$. Then if $x\gt 0$, we have $\Pr(X\le x)=\Pr(W^{1/3}\le x)=\Pr(W\le x^3)=1-e^{-\lambda x^3}$.

A: The cumulative distribution function $$F_{X}(x) = 1-e^{-\lambda x^3}\text{, }x \geq 0$$
implies that $X$ follows a (two-parameter) Weibull distribution. Using the parametrization in the link, the density function is $f\left(x, \dfrac{1}{\sqrt[3]{\lambda}},3\right)$.
As Andre has shown, if $Y$ is exponential with mean $\dfrac{1}{\lambda}$, $X = Y^{1/3}$ has this distribution function. See also this link.

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This quick and easy salt and pepper crab recipe is a favourite of many.
Toast off peppercorns in frying pan for 5 minutes or until they become fragrant, tossing to make sure they are evenly toasted.
Grind to semi-fine either in a grinder or mortar and pestle.
Mix flours together and all all other dry ingredients. Mix well.
Heat deep fryer to 180C.
Take half the flour and add approximately 50ml water until it becomes a batter consistency.
Place gently in deep fryer (or very carefully in a wok) and cook for approximately 3 minutes – doing 2 crab halves at a time.
Season with salt and pepper then serve with fresh lime.


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America's longest continuous Pony Express is the Hashknife event that happens every January in Arizona. The route begins in Holbrook and covers over 200 miles, picking up mail at post offices in Heber-Overgaard, Payson, and Fountain Hills. By the time delivery is made to Scottsdale, over 20,000 pieces of mail have traveled via horseback. Since Heber-Overgaard isn't far from my home, hubby and I decided to enjoy some living history. I wrote a letter to myself (photo below) and mailed it at the Heber-Overgaad post office. My letter will receive a special postmark and I'm going to leave it unopened. Perhaps one of my descendant's will open it and say, "That was written by great-great-great grandma." As for myself, I have letters from the late 1800s written by family members to my great-great grandparents that I have framed in special glass so they can be enjoyed for years to come.
This modern day Pony Express has twenty-five riders from every walk of life. I overheard one rider say he is a policeman. Their ages range from young to seasoned. I was interested in how twenty-five men cover 200 miles and was told each man rides approximately one mile before handing off the mail pouch to the next rider. The men have set positions along the route and after finishing a mile, they load their horse onto their trailer, drive to their next location, unload their horse, and wait for the hand off again. It's a lot of work. We followed the riders for about four miles and stopped at their gathering place for lunch. I even got several autographs on the poster I bought (see below).
Since I love Old West history, I had a blast, and hubby, although not a history buff like me, also had fun and took some of the photos below. For anyone interested in this event, click here to go to the Hashknife Pony Express website. I hope this tradition never ends!
That's awesome. We live in Pahrump, Nevada we also celibate the pony express. I would love to see the one there and may do it next year. Thanks for sharing and helping keep history alive. Your husband mat enjoy the train museum in Ely Nevada. It has alot of histoty, train cars and a working train that you can ride.
Thanks for the info Margie! I love train museums and anything to do with the Old West. There's also a train museum in Chandler, AZ. However, the most fantastic one I've ever been to is in Sacramento, CA. It's worthy of being on everyone's "bucket list."
This is really cool. Sometimes research is so much fun. :) I love that you wrote yourself a letter.


The National Apartment Association Education Institute (NAAEI) and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) partnered to create a micro-credential at the intersection of apartment maintenance and clean energy. The micro-credential was created for the National Apartment Association (NAA)'s membership using IREC's new blueprint for micro-credential development, designed to respond to pressing industry demand for additional credentialing options beyond full-scope certification using job task analysis. Micro-credentials can present a more affordable and efficient option for business organizations looking to build additional credentials that validate specific skills within their portfolio.
The pilot deployment of IREC's micro-credential framework enabled testing and validation of a streamlined process for creating a rigorous, psychometrically-defensible credential. The pilot also provided NAA's members, comprised of apartment managers, maintenance technicians, and multifamily building portfolio managers, with a career-enhancing opportunity to prove competency in a defined, specific skill-set required on the job. This pilot is a model for business organizations to provide just-in-time credentialing solutions for industry.
Find out more about the micro-credential development process here.
The apartment and renewable energy industries created a micro-credential at the intersection of apartment maintenance and clean energy.


Today's media sure have changed our perception of them.
What will Activision patent next?
Following the trend, we ponder on what's next on the patent pattern.
You see these in your packs and think, "Ah, 1500 vials".
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If we can drift trains, we can drift anything.
Out of a scale of 10, how easy is it to eat these food while gaming?
We feature some art from a multi-award winning game.
How many melee attacks does it take to kill every enemy in Doom?
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So here's my first outfit post for you! See what I mean about the pictures? I'm almost embarrassed to share them. But I think you get the general idea and I do promise they will improve!
So let me just say - I only just found Charming Charlie and OMG. Love, love, love this store. It's a grown up toy store I swear. They sell bags, jewelry and shoes and everything is color coordinated. I felt like I'd died and gone to heaven. You will quickly learn that I am a purse freak. The bag I picked up from there is a great size and a good everyday bag. It may quickly become my favorite! There will be more on Charming Charlie in future posts, guaranteed.
Otherwise, this is a standard work outfit for me. I adore these pants, you'll also quickly learn that I am obsessed with patterns. Plaid is my favorite color, ha ha. And I enjoy pairing different things with these pants. While it's not terribly summery today here in the northland, it's warm enough for this outfit!
Super cute outfit! I love the shrug!!


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St. Sen. Ruben Kihuen announced this week he plans to run for Congress.
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State Senator Ruben Kihuen announced his bid this week for the 4thCongressional District seat– a post currently held by freshman Republican Cresent Hardy.
Cresent Hardy upset Democratic incumbent Steven Horsford in November, and Horsford recently announced he does not plan on attempting to get his congressional seat back.
Kihuen told KNPR's State of Nevad that he would like to step in and continue the leadership that Horsford started.
"I feel that this moment, especially right that our country is going through many changes, that we need some new blood, some new energy some new ideas injected into Congress," Kihuen said.
The lawmaker said he announced early so he could get back to the important work going on at the Legislature during this session.
Republicans have criticized Kihuen for running for a congressional seat in a district where he does not live. The state senator was quick to dismiss the issue.
"I know that area. I grew up in that area. I go to church in that area. The law as written, you don't have to live in that district, but I have made a promise that when I get elected to representing Congressional District 4 that I will move into the district immediately," Kihuen said.
This is the second time he has run for Congress. In 2011, he ran in the Democratic primary for the 1st Congressional District but was defeated by Dina Titus.
"As the son of a housekeeper and a former farm worker, I understand the needs of the residents in the Fourth Congressional District, and I will fight every day so they, too, can have a fair shot at the American Dream," Kihuen said in his Facebook post announcing his run.
Kihuen worked for Sen. Harry Reid D-Nevada mentioned him as a mentor in his announcement.
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La dinastia dels Wei orientals (Tong Wei) fou una dinastia del nord de la Xina que es va establir el 534 per divisió de l'antiga dinastia Wei, i va dominar el Hopei, Shansi, Shantung i Honan amb capital a Txang-tö. Va existir del 534 al 550.

Antecedents
El general Gao Huan va reunir els seus homes per tornar-se contra el clan Erzhu, entrant i prenent la capital Luoyang en 532. Confiat en el seu èxit, va deposar l'emperador Jiemin de Wei del Nord, recolzat pel clan Erzhu i per Yuan Lang, emperador anteriorment recolzat pel mateix Gao, i va imposar l'emperador Xiaowu de Wei del Nord al tron de Luoyang i va continuar les seves campanyes a l'estranger. L'emperador i el cap militar de Luoyang, Husi Chun, va començar a conspirar contra Gao Huan però aquest va aconseguir mantenir el control i l'emperador i un grapat de seguidors van fugir cap a l'oest, a la regió governada pel poderós senyor de la guerra Yuwen Tai. Gao Huan va anunciar aleshores la seva decisió de traslladar el tribunal de Luoyang a la seva capital, Ye. Amb dos aspirants rivals al tron de Wei del Nord, es va produir la divisió de l'estat el 534–535 en el Wei oriental i el Wei occidental.

Wei orientals
Els Wei orientals eren inicialment significativament més forts i semblava probable que acabaran ràpidament amb el Wei occidental, però a la Batalla de Shayuan, Wei occidental va emboscar amb èxit i va derrotar un exèrcit oriental molt més gran que marxava cap a Chang'an, canviant l'equilibri de poder i reduint les forces orientals prou significativament per no poder amenaçar la plana de Guanzhong el cor de Wei occidental, i Wei occidental va amenaçar el territori oriental, i el general occidental Dugu Xin va ocupar breument l'antiga capital del Wei del nord, Luoyang, el 538.

El final de Wei oriental
L'any 550, el fill de Gao Huan, Gao Yang, va obligar l'emperador Xiaojing de Wei oriental a cedir-li el tron, acabant amb el Wei oriental i establint la Dinastia Qi del Nord.

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This is a description of the development of the NAVTEX service initially in the United Kingdom and its development to being a near-worldwide facility. I have made some slight additions and re-writing of a page produced by my old friend and colleague, Martin Stubbs. It was based, in turn on information in The Marine Observer, � a now defunct journal produced quarterly by the Met Office and published by HM Stationery Office. Martin no longer maintains his website so these few paragraphs will, I hope, help to retain a record of this system.
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The technology for the dissemination of text messages via a simple radio-telex system has a long history. In the early 1930s, commercial, operational Radioteletype systems were operating between San Francisco and Honolulu. It was used by the US military during worls war 2. In the late 1970s the (British) Post Office Coastal Radio Station at Cullercoats in the north-east of England began broadcasting weather forecasts and gale warnings for the shipping forecast areas from Fair Isle, down the North Saa to Plymouth on what was then referred to as a temporary radio teletype broadcast. Apart from a changes of name the �temporary� service continued with reports coming in of its success. In April 1983 the service was declared as an operational alongside those provided via the conventional means of the MF Morse broadcasts and those via the marine radio-telephone service.
Growth in the UK
On 1st October 1983 the service was extended to the BT coastal radio station at Portpatrick. The weather information broadcast from Portpatrick included forecasts and a gale-warning service for the western sea areas of the UK, including Fair Isle in the north and all the western coastal sea areas from Lundy in the south to South-east Iceland in the north.
During 1985, NAVTEX broadcasts were started via Land End Radio. This broadcast included warnings and forecasts for the English Channel, the Irish Sea and all the sea areas in the South-west Approaches included in the main shipping forecast. However, reports suggested that the site at Lands End was not ideal for the intended area of coverage, and so the NAVTEX facility at Lands End was moved about a year later, in 1986, to the BT International coastal radio station at Niton on the Isle of Wight.
By 1987, interest in NAVTEX was growing and NAVTEX services were being successively introduced in other countries. Gradually all the operational MSI information broadcast by W/T and R/T was incorporated into the bulletins. Procedures applicable to stations transmitting NAVTEX information on a common frequency of 518 kHz were specified in Article 14A of the Radio Regulations and in Resolution No.324 (Mob-87) of the World Administrative Radio Conference for the Marine Mobile Services, 1987.
Following the sixty-third session of the Maritime Safety Committee (May 1994) a second edition of the NAVTEX Manual was produced and this continues to be the basis on which the NAVTEX service operates today. UK NAVTEX became a part of the marine communications organisation for shipping run by the Post Office and afterwards by BT International. The services included the broadcast of gale warnings, weather forecasts, navigational warnings and other MSI both via the medium of W/T and R/T as well as via the NAVTEX service.
The network of Post Office stations also dealt with distress traffic, telegrams to and from ships and enabled link telephone calls to be made from ships at sea to land subscribers world-wide. Later, the operation of the coastal network of marine radio stations by BT International the UK NAVTEX service via all three transmitters was co-ordinated at Stonehaven Radio (not at one of the transmitting centres). It was to Stonehaven Radio that all the meteorological texts were sent from the Meteorological Office and other MSI information from the sources of that information such as the Hydrographic Office for broadcast via the UK NAVTEX service.
NAVTEX was incorporated into the new regulations for the system known as the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS). This system underwent a transitional phase from 1 February 1992 until 1st February 1999 from which date the GMDSS requirements became mandatory within Chapter V of the Convention for Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS). From 1st August 1993 all vessels bound by the requirements of the SOLAS Convention have been required to carry NAVTEX equipment as NAVTEX transmissions had become available world-wide except for Australia and New Zealand.
Back in the UK
On the 1st July 1999 BT International began to hand over the responsibility for dissemination of Marine Safety Information (including the provision of weather forecasts and warnings) to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). This responsibility included the provision of MSI information to ships at sea via the medium of the HM Coastguard VHF and MF stations. Early the following year, on the 1st February 2000 the MCA took over the responsibility for the transmission of the UK NAVTEX service. Control of the service was moved from Stonehaven to the MRCC (Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre) at Falmouth. It was shortly after this, on the 30 April 2000 that the BT HF station at Portishead ceased operations with the main source of safety information for ships in NAVAREA 1 on the North Atlantic outside of NAVTEX coverage being the Inmarsat SafetyNET� service.
The two Irish NAVTEX stations, Malin Head and Valentia, became operational later in 2000, the service via those stations being maintained by the Irish Coastguard and extended the availability of the provision of MSI via NAVTEX from 15�W to 20�W.
The set of sea areas for which forecasts and gale warnings were broadcast by the three UK NAVTEX stations was based on the station locations at Cullercoats, Lands End/Niton and Portpatrick. In November 2000, there was a rationalisation of the sea areas to be included in each transmission, For example, the areas Irish Sea, Rockall and Malin were relevant in a broadcast from Lands End but not in a broadcast from Niton. Also, by courtesy the Irish Coastguard the two stations in the Republic of Ireland were able to take on the responsibility of broadcasting warnings and weather forecasts for users of the NAVTEX service out to 20�W. Thus several of the sea areas around the north, south and west of Ireland together with parts of the High Seas forecast for Metarea I are included in the transmissions from Malin Head and Valentia.
The future?
It has been said that, had Inmarsat been developed a little earlier we would not have had NAVTEX With its night-time propagation problems and incredibly low speeds in this computer age. In time, it must be inevitable that satellite communications will become increasingly used and NAVTEX will die a slow death. There are no current plans for a replacement.
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Zelda Breath of the Wild gamers that would like to replace Link with "Twitter's favourite turtle girl" may be interested in a new mod which is currently under development and has been created by Lynard Killer from BOTW modding club.
Check out the three-minute video below to learn more about the mod that allows players to explore Hyrule as Bowsette. But be warned "if you happen to wander into any fire, her dress goes up in smoke".
"At the September 13th, 2018 Nintendo Direct, Nintendo unveiled a trailer for New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe for the Nintendo Switch (trailer shown below). The trailer also introduced an unique power for Toadette, the Super Crown, which allows her to transform into a character called Peachette (based on the series' Princess Peach). On September 19th, 2018, Twitter user @ayyk92, aka Haniwa, posted a comic in which, after Mario and Bowser are romantically rejected by Peach (inspired by the events of Super Mario Odyssey), Bowser undergoes the same transformation as Toadette into "Peachette," turning into a human woman.
The female Bowser and Mario then appear to be dating. The comic gained over 15,000 retweets and 42,000 likes within the next few days. Alongside they also uploaded the comic to their DeviantART a few minutes prior to the Twitter post,although this version only managed to collect over 4,600 favourites in the next 10 days." Learn more in the video explanation below.


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(Far left) WIGI Member/Event Guest Speaker Debbie Waitkus with Golf for Cause is joined by several course raters at the 2015 Golfweek Raters Event in the Dominican Republic.
WIGI Member Deborah Waitkus, CEO of Golf for Cause and Co-founder of the National Women's Golf Alliance (NWGA) provided a highly informative presentation to a group of Golfweek Course Raters at Puntacana Resort, Dominican Republic.
According to long-time golfer and seasoned Golfweek course rater Dr. Glen Rapoport D.M.D., Waitkus provided a dynamic talk. "Listening to Debbie's presentation brought to mind that her focus on assessing tee placements and/or tee additions is an idea that is applicable not only to women but to men as well," said Dr. Glen Rapoport, D.M.D. "She raised the question whether we need to be wedded to an elitist and sexist perception and that Golf needs to continually examine the strength and skill of its participants using a scratch or better player as a reference point. The fact that three sets of tees exist already attests that no one expects all golfers to play from the same teeing ground."
Waitkus suggested that one could encourage more play and retain more players if courses added or redesigned teeing ground areas, one's that fit an individuals skill and strength. Doing so, this would elevate the enjoyment factor with increased opportunities for making shots and improving one's score, especially for the new and/or returning golfer. Rapoport believes those who criticize the idea of adding tee boxes as "dumbing down" the golf course need to ask themselves why playing from the traditional tee boxes associated with a particular gender or level of expertise is the only measure of real golf. Waitkus makes the case that by adding scoring tees the course is more welcoming and the golf experience is more rewarding which leads to players developing the skills that encourages them to move back to longer tees.
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6 Easy Ways to Keep Up With Pace of Play
"Pace of play" is a hot topic for new and professional golfers alike. Professionals playing slowly can be penalized and may even lose money. As a new golfer, you might fear that being a straggler could cost you another invite to play. If you're playing with clients or coworkers, you might even worry that it will indirectly cost you money, too.
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Have no fear. While there aren't any speed limits posted on the golf course, keeping up with the flow of play will ease your mind and create a more enjoyable golf experience for you! Here are six stress-free tips to help you keep up when you feel like you're slowing down:
1. Don't worry about the group behind you; rather, focus on keeping up with the group ahead.
2. On the green, stand by your ball so you're ready to play when it's your turn. Line up your putt while the others are putting, being careful to not distract them.
3. Mark the scorecard when you reach the next hole. Two reasons: you don't want to get hit by incoming balls and you have time at the next hole while your playing partners are selecting clubs and teeing off.
4. If using a cart, don't put your club away after hitting. Hang on to it while you drive or ride to the next shot. When you step out of the cart again, put your club(s) back in the bag.
5. When you have to leave your cart to walk a distance to the ball, bring an extra club or two. If you think you need a 7-iron, take your 6 and 8-iron as well. This is called "bracketing." If you're close to the green, grab your putter. Your playing partner can drive the cart to the green.
6. If you're really worried about falling behind, just "pick up to keep up." As a recreational golfer, it's always ok to pick up your ball and drop it closer to the green or another playing partner's ball. Finish the hole by putting with everyone else.
By using just one or even all the above tips for keeping up when you're slowing down, you'll enjoy your round of golf more and be able to play with anyone!
The Gift of Golf
Written on 06 January 2015 .
Meet the sorority sisters - Lois and Sally. They're enjoying a much welcomed (and needed) Sunday morning at the golf course.
They don't carry visions of spectacular rounds of golf. Don't get me wrong, they DO want to play well. What they do carry is the burden of being caretakers. Lois' husband is in assisted living and Sally's husband should be. Golf is their amazing gift, providing them a break as caretakers and a fabulous way to enjoy their friendship.
Ask Lois why she loves golf and she'd tell you that she loves to be outdoors with friends.
What about you? Why do you love golf? How many of these would you agree with?
Tony enjoys that it's socially acceptable to drink beer
Jill loves golf because it's how she met her husband
Taba, similar to Jill, met her life partner through golf and now summers in Ireland
Silver, who has many friends that play golf, is inspired by Jill and Taba and looks forward to meeting her life partner on the golf course
Joyce loves the friends she's met through golf
Mary loves golf because she's so darn competitive and can beat the boys
Dan declares his love for golf, the second best stress reliever he knows
Susan enjoys league play – she has something to look forward to every Thursday
Gerry loves golf but wishes that golf loved him
Danny loves the views…she lives on a golf course
Caroline loves golf because she can spend time with her mom
Dwight loves golf because you can't play it inside his office
Ann likes the shoes… and the shopping
Tim loves that every time he goes out to play, he can beat the crap out of something 105 times!
Larry loves golf because it's turned him into a travel writer and the perks are fabulous!
Ron loves golf because he gets to be with his friends and meet some new and "interesting" people
Chris enjoys having an activity to do with his lovely wife in addition to hiking
Gary loves that golf is unique – both men and women can play, even when our bodies are falling apart; it's a sport that we can still feel young again
Larry loves that playing golf is like taking a vacation with three other friends, male and female, without interruptions
Helen (Larry's wife) loves golf because she can have a sweet time with her husband and still continue to talk
Tell us - why do you love golf? How is it a gift in your life?
Wishing you a very happy and prosperous 2015! Like Lois and Sally, may you make time to tee it up with friends (old and new), family and colleagues. And encourage someone new to the game to start swinging. Keep loving golf and let it love you! Turn Golf into Gold®!
Ron Artest, Meet Charlie Sifford
Written on 25 November 2014 .
By Debbie Waitkus, Golf for Cause
Charlie Sifford was the first African American to compete as a professional on the PGA Tour. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 24, 2014 by President Obama. In recognition and appreciation of Charlie's contributions to golf and to humanity, please enjoy this story that first appeared after his induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame on November 16, 2004.
There's been a lot of talk over the past several days on the airwaves and around the water coolers about the mêlée at the Indiana Pacers-Detroit Pistons basketball game. We've seen replay after replay on television of the foul on the court and the ensuing altercation on the court and the fight in the stands with the fans.
As many of you know, David Stern, the NBA Commissioner, administered some hefty fines and suspensions to the players. I'm reminded of those times my parents wanted to make an example out of me, dishing out a punishment that put the fear of death into my younger siblings' minds.
Now, I'm not suggesting that the penalties the NBA handed down to the players are unreasonable. What I do find troubling is that the players chose to cross the line – the boundary separating them from the fans. But the fans struck first, you say. A fan tossed beer onto Ron Artest.
The issue is professionalism. As an athlete, you can get caught up in the moment. The adrenaline is flowing; you become invincible. Yet, professional athletes, along with a paycheck, accept a level of responsibility, a code of ethics and a rulebook. These ethics and rules apply to all professionals, athlete or not. Even a comedian being heckled doesn't run out into the crowd and beat up the heckler(s). Unfortunately, Ron Artest, Stephen Jackson, Jermaine O'Neal, Ben Wallace, Anthony Johnson, Reggie Miller, Chauncey Billups, Elden Campbell and Derrick Coleman all violated the rules of professional basketball.
On November 16th, Charlie Sifford was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame along with Isao Aoki, Tom Kite, and Marlene Stewart Streit. Charlie did not attain his Hall of Fame status by winning a designated number of PGA tour events, but rather for his lifetime achievement in the sport.
In 1961 Charlie became the first African American to play full time on the PGA tour. Charlie was 41 at the time. 1961. Not the best of times for African Americans in the United States. The PGA tour wasn't much better in its treatment toward African Americans – its rules delineated that participation was for Caucasians only.
Charlie endured plenty of things that would cause our blood to boil. Heckling, insults, and the "n" word are all obvious. On top of that, Charlie had to deal with things like:
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Георги (Гога) Траянов Витанов е български революционер, войвода на Вътрешната македоно-одринска революционна организация.

Биография
Георги Траянов е роден в 1874 година в кочанското село Илиово, тогава в Османската империя. От 1889 година започва да се занимава с революционна дейност. Присъединява се към ВМОРО и е куриер на Александър Чакъров, Ангел Винишки, Велко Железаров, Кръсто Бугарията, Борис Сарафов, Гоце Делчев, Мише Развигоров, Лука Иванов, Стамен Радовишки, Аргир Манасиев.

В 1914 година, подгонен от сръбските власти, бяга в Свободна България и се присъединява към войводата Мите Блатчанеца. При сражение в местността Равна вода е ранен. В същата 1914 година става помощник-войвода и участва в сражение при църквата на Драгобраща.

В 1922 година, след възстановяването на Вътрешната македонска революционна организация, е назначен от водача ѝ Тодор Александров за околийски войвода, като заема поста до 1927 година.

На 14 април 1943 година, като жител на Илиово, подава молба за българска народна пенсия, която е одобрена и пенсията е отпусната от Министерския съвет на Царство България.

Бележки

Български революционери от Македония
Дейци на ВМОРО
Дейци на ВМРО
Хора от община Царево село


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Le  d'armée (en allemand : XI. Armeekorps) était un corps d'armée de l'armée de terre allemande, la Heer, au sein de la Wehrmacht pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Hiérarchie des unités

Historique
Le  d'armée est formé le  à Hanovre dans le Wehrkreis XI.

Il est mobilisé avec la  pendant l'été 1939.

De mars à , il prend le nom de Gruppe Kortzfleisch et de juin à , le nom de Gruppe Strecker.

En , il participe à l'opération Fall Blau au sein de la .
Après la conquête de la grande boucle du Don en août, il défend la rive ouest du Don, face à la tête de pont soviétique de Kremskaïa.
À la suite de la contre-offensive soviétique à Stalingrad, l'opération Uranus, le corps se trouve isolé à l'ouest du Don. Il n'échappe à l'encerclement que grâce à la résistance du  d'armée, qui protège les passages sur le fleuve, et réussit avec l'aide renforts blindés envoyés par le XIV. Panzerkorps à se replier sur la rive orientale du Don, malgré la forte pression de la  soviétique. Ses divisions perdent dans ce repli une partie de leur matériel lourd mais l'apport de ces troupes fraiches permettra d'établir une ligne de défense solide sur la face ouest du kessel, qui fixera durant  les troupes russes.

Le XI. Korps est détruit le  avec la 6. Armee. Il est officiellement dissout le .

La réorganisation de l'état-major avait déjà été réalisée en janvier 1943 dans le Heeresgruppe Sud (Groupe d'armée Sud) en tant que Generalkommando z.b.V. Cramer. Le Generalleutnant Hans Cramer rejoint le  le Groupe d'armées B (Groupe d'armée B) et les officiers et sous-officiers du corps rejoignent le  la seconde armée hongroise. Le , le Generalleutnant Erhard Raus prend le commandement en tant que Generalkommando z.b.V. Le , l'état-major de l'Heeresgruppe Sud est renommé XI. Armeekorps (ordonnance OKH/GenStdH /Org.Abt.II/n ° 18633/43). En , le Generalkommando, après sa destruction à Tcherkassy, est placé dans le Generalgouvernement et reformé en Pologne.

En 1945, il combat en Silésie avant de se rendre aux troupes soviétiques en Tchécoslovaquie en .

Organisation

Commandants successifs

Chef des Generalstabes

1. Generalstabsoffizier (Ia)

Théâtres d'opérations
 Pologne :  -
 France :  -
 Front de l'Est, secteur Sud :  -
 Stalingrad :  -
 Front de l'Est, secteur Sud :  -
 Cherkassy :  -
 Pologne, Silésie et Tchécoslovaquie :  -

Ordre de batailles

Rattachement d'Armées

Unités subordonnées

Unités organiques
Arko 31, ab 1940 Arko 411
Korps-Nachrichten-Abteilung 51
Korps-Nachschubtruppen 411

Unités rattachées

18. Infanterie-Division
19. Infanterie-Division

19. Infanterie-Division

19. Infanterie-Division
14. Infanterie-Division
31. Infanterie-Division

7. Infanterie-Division
211. Infanterie-Division
253. Infanterie-Division
267. Infanterie-Division
269. Infanterie-Division

7. Infanterie-Division
253. Infanterie-Division
269. Infanterie-Division
257. Infanterie-Division
125. Infanterie-Division
239. Infanterie-Division
101. Leichte-Division

257. Infanterie-Division
125. Infanterie-Division
239. Infanterie-Division

6. rumänische Kavallerie-Brigade
5. rumänische Kavallerie-Brigade
73. Infanterie-Division

VI. rumänisches Korps
1. Gebirgs-Division
1. rumänische Division
454. Sicherungs-Division

384. Infanterie-Division
44. Infanterie-Division
376. Infanterie-Division

320. Infanterie-Division
106. Infanterie-Division

72. Infanterie-Division
167. Infanterie-Division
57. Infanterie-Division
SS-Freiwilligen-Sturmgeschütz-Brigade Wallonien
5. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Wiking"

168. Infanterie-Division
254. Infanterie-Division
96. Infanterie-Division

Kampfgruppe  de chasseurs à ski
97. Jäger-Division
Kampfgruppe 371. Infanterie-Division
5. SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking"
Kampfgruppe 344. Infanterie-Division

Voir aussi
 Liste des corps allemands de la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Sources
 XI. Armeekorps sur Lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de

Corps d'armée de la Wehrmacht
Bataille de Stalingrad


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O Congresso dos poderes locais e regionais do Conselho da Europa, também conhecido abreviadamente por Congresso do Conselho da Europa é uma instituição do Conselho da Europa onde estão representadas as autoridades locais e regionais dos 46 membros do Conselho da Europa. A instituição representa mais de 130 000 organismos de poder local e regional e, a par do Comité das Regiões da União Europeia, é a única organização internacional que representa politicamente os municípios e regiões da Europa.

Está dividido em duas câmaras, a Câmara dos poderes locais e a Câmara das regiões. As reuniões plenárias do congresso têm lugar no Palácio da Europa, em Estrasburgo, França, onde também está sediado o secretariado permanente.

Resumo
A Assembleia do Congresso de Poderes Locais e Regionais está constituída por 612 membros que ocupam cargos eletivos (podem ser conselheiros regionais ou municipais, prefeitos ou presidentes das autoridades regionais), representando a mais de 130,000 autoridades em diferentes estados. A Assembleia fomenta o processo da regionalização e descentralização do poder, além disso da Cooperação transfronteiriça entre Cidades e Regiões. O Congresso realiza Visitas de investigação periódicas a todos os estados membros para supervisionar a implementação da Carta Europeia do Autogoverno local, observa o funcionamento das eleições municipais e autonómicas em seus estados membros e cria tratados internacionais que concordam as bases comuns europeias para proteger os direitos das autoridades locais.

História
A organização atual foi estabelecida em  por decisão do Comité de Ministros do Conselho da Europa, mas é fruto da evolução de uma instituição cujas origens remontam a 1957, data da criação da Conferência dos poderes locais.

A Conferência dos poderes locais resultou dos pedidos que vinham a ser feitos pela "Assembleia consultiva do Conselho da Europa" desde 1953 no sentido da convocação de uma conferência inspirada na "Carta europeia das liberdades comunais", adotada em 1953 pelo "Conselho das comunas da Europa", uma associação francesa de direito privado criada em 1951, que em 1984 se tornaria o "Conselho das comunas e regiões da Europa".

A convocação da primeira "Conferência dos poderes locais" foi aprovada pelo Comité de Ministros em 1956, tendo a primeira sessão decorrido a  em Estrasburgo, presidida pelo proeminente estadista francês Jacques Chaban-Delmas, que ocupou a presidência até janeiro de 1960. Em 1975, a instituição passou a denominar-se "Conferência dos poderes locais e regionais" e a incluir os órgão de poder regionais, além dos já presentes órgãos locais. Em 1979 voltou a mudar de nome para "Conferência permanente dos poderes locais e regionais", cuja principal realização foi a Carta europeia da autonomia local.

Em 1979 começou a Conferência Permanente dos poderes locais e regionais da Europa. Depois de seis anos, em 1985 adoptou a Conferência Permanente  a Carta europeia  do Autogoverno local, reconhecendo o papel do crescente Desenvolvimento da Democracia local que se transformou em um Achado mais importante da Organização. A Carta ficou aberta para assinatura em 1985 e foi então assinada por todos os Membros do Conselho Europeu. Em 1994 a conferência permanente perguntou a Comissão de Ministros que se aumenta a aceitação do Estatuto e a Conferência permanente se converteu em o presente Congresso dos Poderes Locales e Regionais do Conselho da Europa.

Em 2005, durante a Cimeira de Varsóvia, os chefes de estado e de governo dos estados membros do Conselho Europeu afirmaram novamente a importância de Democracia local e regional para Europa e destacaram a Importância do Propósito do Congresso em sua Missão, apoiando novamente seu mandato.

Em outubro de 2010 o Congresso adoptou uma abrangente reforma de suas estruturas e atividades com a intenção de aumentar o impacto das suas ações e fazê-las mais efetivas e relevantes para os cidadãos europeus e seus representantes escolhidos. As novas Propriedades focam-se em 5 áreas:
A supervisão da democracia local e regional, a observação das eleições municipais e autonómicas, auxilio da supervisão, a dimensão local e regional dos direitos humanos e outras atividades temáticas temporais.

Designadamente as Mudanças estruturais incluem a Criação de três novas Comissões, substituindo  os quatro existentes precedentes: a Comissão da Supervisão, a Comissão do Governo e a Comissão de Assuntos atuais. Além disso, quando a reforma estatuária foi criada, a Ordem dos Membros do Congresso foi estendida a quatro anos e também se aplicou o requisito de 30% de representação feminina nas delegações nacionais aos membros substitutos. A função do Departamento, como Corpo executivo do Congresso, foi fortalecido e os textos foram adaptados a Temas mais concretos para o Processo de Seguimento.

À luz desta reforma, o Ministro da Comissão adoptou uma versão revista da resolução estatutária e da Carta do Congresso em janeiro de 2011. O Congresso adotou suas novas Regras de Procedimento em Março de 2012. As Prioridades mais recentes foram estabelecidas em 2013 pelo Congresso.

Função
O Congresso é a voz de 130 000 regiões e municípios europeus, trabalhando para fortalecer a democracia e os serviços a nível local e regional. O Congresso adota recomendações e opiniões em assuntos de seu âmbito e apresenta-os à Comissão de Ministros e/ou à assembleia parlamentar. Também adota resoluções e leva a cabo a supervisão das eleições municipais e regionais dos seus estados membros. O Congresso desenvolve seus objetivos com colaboração de associações nacionais, internacionais, observadores e outros colaboradores. Dentro do quadro regulamentar da sua missão de supervisão da democracia local e regional, o Congresso prepara diferentes tipos de relatórios: inspeção, relatórios temáticos e observação de eleições.

Dialogo com Governos

Como parte de  Supervisão da Democracia regional em Europa, o Congresso mantém um Dialogo regular com os Estados membros do Conselho Europeu. A Comité dos Ministros, que inclui os 46 ministros dos Negócios Estrangeiros de esses Estados, a Conferência dos ministros responsáveis por  autoridades locais e regionais e alem disso seus Comités de direções respectivas. Varias vezes ao ano o Presidente e o Secretario general do Congresso fornecem aos representantes dos estados membros no Comité dos ministros um expediente das suas atividades e desenvolvem um intercâmbio de visualizações. O congresso também tem contacto direto com os governos nacionais, em particular, na ocasião de visitas oficiais em seus estados membros, ou durante de visitas de seguimento ou supervisões de eleições municipais e autonómicas.

Estrutura

Bureau

O Bureau do Congresso, constituído pelos membros da câmara de poderes locais e a câmara das regiões, sob liderança do Presidente do Congresso, e o responsavel das sessões plenárias, a Coordenação do trabalho das câmaras, os comités, bem como o orçamento.

Câmaras

Câmaras de Autoridades locais
O Propósito principal da Câmara de Poderes Locais é a Observação da Situação da Democracia local e as
Eleições à base da Carta Europeia do Autogoverno. Esta Carta permite o Dialogo entre as Comunidades, e dando-lhes uma Voz comum. A Carta de poderes locais também se encarrega de temas sociais e apoia a
Cooperação das Cidades europeias, em forma de diálogos interculturais, e-democracia e multiculturalismo. Também promove o Principio da Democracia fora de Europa, através de diálogo euro-árabe entre cidades e a Cooperação Euro-mediterrânica. Em suas Reuniões que se realizam duas vezes por ano durante as sessões plenárias, a Câmara de Poderes locais adopta recomendações, resoluções e decisões.

Se for necessário, a câmara de poderes locais também pode requerer a um membro a realização de um relatório sobre uma pergunta relevante de sua Área de especialização. A Câmara de Poderes Locais e Regionais deve examinar temas que sejam relevantes de sua  jurisdição, concretamente temas da atualidade relacionadas com a dimensão local de Europa e se for necessário, pode suscitar um debate no Congresso.

Sessão do Congresso

Câmara das Regiões

A Câmara das Regiões está formada por representantes das Autoridades que actuam entre o nível local e central do Governo. A Autoridade deve ter o autogoverno ou Poderes  estaduais e deve poder responsabilisar-se por uma parte substancial de assuntos de Interesse publico, em favor de sua Comunidade e tendo em consideração o Principio da subsidiariedade. A Câmara das Regiões preenche o papel das Regiões dentro dos Estados membros do Congresso, a Democracia regional, a Cooperação inter-regional e a Economia regional.

Fórum estatutário

Com a adoção da Carta revisada do Congresso do 19 de Janeiro 2011, o antigo Comité permanente foi substituído pelo fórum reformatório. Este Fórum está composto por altos cargos de todas as delegações nacionais, em conjunto com os membros do Bureau do Congresso. O Fórum age em nome do Congresso entre Sessões e pode ser convocado em qualquer momento pelo Presidente do Congresso, em função das Necessidades.

Comitês

Em Conjunto com a formulação de prioridades para o período 2011-2012 em outubro de 2010, o Congresso também criou três novos comitês: o comité de Supervisão, o comité de Governação e o Comité de Assuntos Atuais. Os comités preparam a maioria dos relatórios que se submetem às sessões plenárias.

Comitê de Supervisão

O Comitê de Supervisão foi estabelecido para supervisionar a Respeito do compromisso e as Obrigações dos Estados membros relativas à Carta Europeia do Auto-governo local; é responsável pela Supervisão da implementação da Carta. O Comitê de Supervisão também supervisiona os câmbios institucionais nas Regiões de Europa e desenvolve Relatórios sobre a Situação da Democracia regional e local. Fomenta aos estados a avaliar a sua situação, em relação a Carta, e identificar os obstáculos que travam sua implementação.

Comitê de Governança

O Comitê de Governança é responsável por assuntos relacionados com o estatuto mandatário do Congresso. Estes incluem as Finanças publicas, Cooperação transfronteiriça e inter regional, e-democracia e cooperação com os Membros do Governo.

Comitê de Assuntos atuais

O comitê de assuntos atuais examina o Papel dos Governos regionais e locais à luz dos desafios da sociedade atual. Entre outros trabalhos, este Comitê também se encarrega de temas como a coesão social, a Educação e o Desenvolvimento sustentável, desde os Valores principais do Conselho de Europa.

Grupo de Especialistas Independentes na Carta Europeia de Autonomia local

O Grupo de Especialistas Independentes ajuda os três Comitês estatuários a carregar suas Responsabilidades em Democracia local e regional, en Relação com a Carta Europeia. Os Especialistas são contratados de universidades e outros centros de investigação, baseado na sua especialização no direito, economia ou ciências politicas e tem uma nomeação de quatro anos que é renovável. O Grupo de Especialistas Independentes estão encaregados a assistir ao Congresso que inclui:
1.	Preparação de Relatórios sobre a Condição da Democracia local e regional entre os Estados membros (relatórios de supervisão)
2.	Preparação de Relatórios sobre Aspectos específicos dentro  de um estado membro ou um grupo de estados membros (relatórios específicos de supervisão)
3.      Preparação de Relatórios sobre uma resolução especifica dentro de um estado-membro, ou um grupo de estados-membros (relatórios de pesquisa)
4.	Preparação de Relatórios sobre questões de interesse para as Autoridades locais e regionais
5.      Preparação de Relatórios sobre a promoção da Democracia local e regional

Secretária

A Secretária do Congresso é presidida pelo Secretário General, que é elegido durante um período de cinco anos, pela sessão plenária do Congresso. O secretário-general está apoiado pelo Diretor do Congresso. A Secretária das Câmaras do Congresso está ocupada pelos Secretários executivos, que são nomeados pelo secretário-geral  depois do Conselho com o Congresso.

Composição

A conferência é composta por 306 elementos titulares e outros tantos suplentes eleitos pelos poderes locais e regionais dos países membros. Os mandatos teem a duração de duas sessões ordinárias, ou seja, dois anos. Os membros agrupam-se por delegações nacionais e por grupos políticos: EPP/CCE (Grupo do Partido Popular Europeu-Democratas Cristãos), SOC/G/PD (Grupo de Socialistas, Verdes, Democratas Progressistas), GILD (Grupo Independente e Liberal Democrata) e NI (membros que não pertencem a nenhum grupo político do Conselho).

Repartição de mandatos

Notas
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Q: Is there a way to download Atmel examples? I'm getting start with a new Atmel board , for that I found this documentation :
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my question is is there a way to download this project or sourc ?
thanks

A: Yes, via the download link at the side of the page you linked to ( http://asf.atmel.com/docs/latest/download.html ) and clicking on the "Download" link for the ASF source code (not the tools).