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SNA: Fishermen on Seychellois island voluntarily close down fishing zones in a bid to protect stock
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(Seychelles News Agency) - An area around the main harbour of Seychelles' Praslin island, the nation's second-most populated island, has been demarcated as a voluntary fisheries closure zone in a bid to help maintain the fish stock.
The project, an initiative of the Praslin Fishing Association, aims to conserve part of the Baie St Anne by limiting fishing activities from taking place in that area for a period of time. The government has welcomed the voluntary project.
Three yellow buoys labelled 'Fisheries Closure' are indicators of the closure zones, which went into operation on November 1. All vessels are requested to keep a safe distance and to navigate with extreme precaution when approaching the demarcated areas.
The initiative aims to help maintain the fish stock in that area and give ample time for the stock to grow. The closure will remain in force until April 30, 2020.
"We as fishermen have noticed that the size of fish is decreasing and so is the amount. We have taken examples of similar projects that have been carried out in other places and have had interesting results," said Darrel Green, the chairperson of the Praslin Fishers Association.
He said that they were inspired by a similar project carried out in Rodrigues, an autonomous island of Mauritius, where a fisheries closure has been placed on octopus.
Fishermen on Rodrigues noticed that over time, there was a significant reduction in their catch because of unsustainable fishing practices and the effect of climate change on the reefs. The community started a voluntary closure of the octopus' fishery for two months of the year. As a result, there has been an increase in the catch during the past four years.
Green said that the voluntary closure being carried out on Praslin "is not a project through which you will see the result in six months."
He added that the association wants the closure to be something annual.
The project is mainly targeting artisanal fishermen who make a living off species living on the reef. During the months the bay will be closed, these fishermen will have to fish elsewhere.
"This is the initiative of a group of people and I think that fishermen in the Baie St Anne area need to realise that this is an idea coming from the community and everyone needs to accept and respect the initiative," said Green.
Another aspect of the project is to serve as an educational model for the fishermen community on Praslin.
"We don't need the government to always come and tell us to protect our own resources. As fisherman we need to put our heads together to realise this project and conserve what we have for the future generation," said Green.
Fisheries is the second top contributor to the Seychelles economy.
The Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture has welcomed the project. The principal secretary of the fisheries department, Jude Talma, said in a previous interview that this is a good initiative.
"For many years now, we have been talking about sustainable fishing and it is finally getting through to the fishermen. This sector really depends on them and the action they take. I would like to congratulate them for taking this step," said Talma.
Over the years, Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, has put a lot of emphasis on sustainable fishing. One of the initiatives is a marine spatial planning exercise to expand protected areas and a fisheries management plan for the Mahe Plateau to progressively move from an open-access fishery to a more controlled fishery.
Today's the big interview with Dr. Nirmal SHah
This week, Seychelles' daily newspaper "Today in Seychelles" spoke to Dr. Nirmal Shah, Nature Seychelles' Chief Executive for its Big Interview. Dr. Shah is a well-known Civil Society leader and change-maker who has 35 years experience working nationally and internationally in various fields including sustainable development, biodiversity conservation, coastal zone management, fisheries, ecotourism, climate change, environmental education, and insect, bird and marine research.
Press Release, Indian Ocean Commission: The Seychelles Regional Centre for Operational Coordination (RCOC) operating 24/7
(Indian Ocean Commission) The Seychelles Regional Centre for Operational Coordination (RCOC) is now operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from 23 September.


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Meet the bio-industrial start-up: Chromologics
In 2016, Ph.D. Gerit Tolborg made a breakthrough. During her studies, she had come across a fungus that naturally produced a variety of red colors on a plate in her lab. She studied the colors and found many different pigments. By designing a fermentation process in lab-scale bioreactors, she managed to single out one molecule per pigment. A novel process that opened up for the application of the red color in consumer products.
In February 2020, she and her team, co-founder and Ph.D. Anders Ødum and Fermentation Scientist, Louise Bakke Jørgensen joined the Business Acceleration Academy to build a solid, initial business plan for the company.
We met with Gerit Tolborg to talk about the potential of her discovery.
Why did you see a business opportunity in colors?
I have always liked to cook and bake and was fascinated by how color can influence our opinion on food. Lately, the food industry has seen a paradigm shift from synthetic colorants towards natural solutions in the past decade, but there is a lack of natural food colorants that satisfy both the industrial needs and the consumers' demands. Traditionally, natural colorants are extracted directly from their natural sources, e.g. betanin from beetroot, but the extraction processes are dependent on the supply of raw materials. That results in volatile prices, inconsistent quality, and sustainability challenges. On one hand, the industry is looking for extraordinary performance, price competitiveness and quality consistency and on the other hand, the consumers demand sustainable, natural solutions that are ethically defendable and suitable for most dietary requirements.
How do you meet the needs and demands?
We have developed a fungal biotech platform to produce natural colorants in a more sustainable way. It is based on the wild type organism filamentous fungi, which means that no genetic engineering has been involved. The first colorant we are going to commercialize is ChromoRed, and our process design is easily scalable and compliant with the standards within food manufacturing. Today, carmine is a very popular red food colorant, but more and more customers refuse to buy products containing carmine because it is extracted from insects.
We also have proof of concept for orange on lab scale, and we are working on expanding the portfolio even further with yellow and purple colors.
How have you worked on developing the business idea?
The first thing we did was to patent the process and then we started to think about how to build a business. We applied for an Exploratory Pre-seed from the Novo Nordisk Foundation and was granted DKK 500.000M in December 2016 to establish proof of concept. Our work was further supported by a follow-up pre-seed and grant and an Innobooster from Innovation Fund Denmark. However, we were still missing an in-depth commercial perspective of our business case and thought the BAA was an excellent crash course in business. Most accelerators work within many different fields, but we were looking for one with a strong network within our field and with a team that understands what we do.
What are your next steps after BAA?
A big advantage of the BAA program is that we work with very well-connected people and that will hopefully lead to the investment we need to continue our work.
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The glossy cobra which is rarely observed belongs to the Elapidae family. It is named after Mr. George Taubman Goldie, a Manx Administrator.
Published on February 1st 2019 by staff under Snakes. Article was last reviewed on 30th January 2019.


Amino Acids: Isoleucineis an essential branched chain amino acid. Like the other branched chain amino acids, Isoleucine is important for muscle growth, but on it's own there is almost nothing of substance in the literature showing it to have any activity on its own positive or negative. Certainly it is well studied in combination with the other two branched chain amino's, Leucine and Valine, and although there are a few studies on it alone, but nothing for the bodybuilder. Isoleucine is very similar in structure to Leucine, but until there are some studies on it alone we won't know if it has any anabolic properties outside of being necessary for Leucine to do its job. Still, it is certainly important to have this supplement in combination with your Leucine, but the ratio is certainly in question and it's not necessary 2:1:1 like everyone thinks, since Leucine is the proven anabolic.


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Crenshaw apologizes to colleagues offended by 'terrorists' jab during speaker battle
"I don't want them to think I actually believe they're terrorists."
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Rep. Dan Crenshaw speaks to media on Capitol Hill on the opening day of the 118th Congress. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, on Sunday said he was sorry if any of his House colleagues were offended by his heated rhetoric during the protracted speakership conflict over the past week.
"To the extent that I have colleagues that were offended by it, I sincerely apologize to them. I don't want them to think I actually believe they're terrorists. It's clearly a turn of phrase that you use when it is an intransigent negotiation," Crenshaw said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Crenshaw, an outspoken supporter of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, had a number of fiery criticisms of the far-right GOP holdouts who forced significant concessions from the Republican leader by refusing to back him in vote after embarrassing vote. McCarthy eventually flipped enough votes to secure the speakership in the early hours of Saturday morning.
At various points in the weeklong series of votes, Crenshaw called these holdouts "enemies," suggested they were narcissists, and compared their negotiating style to terrorists. "We cannot let the terrorists win," he said.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted Crenshaw for the comments, which he called "the snarling face of the donor class" of the Republican Party.
Crenshaw fired back on Twitter. "Unclutch your pearls," he wrote. "Grow thicker skin."
Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., left, pulls Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., back as they talk with Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
The back-and-forth was only a small part of the GOP maelstrom over the past week. On the House floor, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., had to be physically restrained when confronting Rep. Matt Gaetz, a leader of McCarthy's hard-right opposition group.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said Sunday on CNN that the raw emotions helped open up the negotiations.
"A little temporary conflict is necessary in this town in order to stop this town from rolling over the American people," said Roy, one of the GOP holdouts who repeatedly voted against McCarthy before supporting him. "Some of the tensions you saw on display, when we saw some of the interactions there between Mike Rogers and Matt Gaetz ... we need a little of that."
"Sometimes democracy's messy," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said on Fox News, "but I would argue that's exactly how the founders intended it."
But that conflict may be an omen of battles to come as a divided Congress navigates high-stakes negotiations over the debt limit, spending bills and more. And it's likely more bridges will need to be mended on the Republican side, as McCarthy's emboldened right flank wields new influence.
"Things get heated. And things get said," Crenshaw said Sunday on CNN of his "terrorist" insult. "Obviously, to the people who took offense by that, it's pretty obvious that it's meant as a turn of phrase. It's in the context of intransigent negotiations."
He added: "Look, I've got pretty thick skin. I get called awful, vile things [by] the very same wing that I'm fighting, that I was fighting at that moment, so I was kind of taken aback by the sensitivity of it."
Labour say Tories consumed by 'chaos' amid election call
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting says the Conservative party is consumed by 'chaos' and 'sleaze' and that a general election can't come soon enough. .
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Five police officers have been charged with second-degree murder
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I don't begrudge the comfortably off 'silver quitters' their good luck. But those of us who still have to work need their help on the barricades, writes Emma Beddington
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Government like 'band on the Titanic' over illegal migration, says Tory MP
Lee Anderson suggested any civil servants blocking Government efforts to stop small boat crossings may have committed 'treason'.
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MPs speak out after school transport scheme scrapped
Oxfordshire's conservative MPs speak out on the county council's decision to withdraw the spare seats scheme on several school transport routes.
Memories of the BBC's innovative Open Door series
Letters: While producers gave participants control, there were some lines that couldn't be crossed, says David Griffiths, while Tony Laryea emphasises the role of Rowan Ayers
Pictured: 'Doomsday prepper' found with six British children in Austrian cellar
The man who was discovered living in an Austrian cellar with his six British-born children is a "Doomsday prepper" who previously worked in IT in London, according to local officials.
Five jobs on offer at Colchester Zoo right now - and how to apply
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Scot Squad star thanks fans after show comes to an end
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Cheryl suggests late bandmate sent her a sign
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Julian Sands: 'Something has gone wrong,' says friend of missing British actor
A man who goes hiking with the missing British actor Julian Sands has said it is obvious "something has gone wrong". Sands, 65, went missing in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel mountains in southern California on 13 January. Fellow actor Kevin Ryan said Sands had embarked on a "tricky, dangerous hike" but is the "most advanced hiker I know".


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Tysons Corner, Virginia, November 12, 2001 - "Celebrate the Magic" was the theme of the 15th Annual Best of NAIOP Awards held Thursday evening, November 8, 2001 at the Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner. Over five hundred people were in attendance as nineteen awards were presented in fifteen categories. The dinner was an opportunity to celebrate significant new contributions to Northern Virginia by the commercial and industrial real estate community.
The following awards were presented for project development:
Best Building, Speculative High Rise (10 stories and above): Award of Excellence for The Corporate Office Centre at Tysons II entered by Weihe Design Group, PLLC. Team members included Lerner Enterprises; Diamond Property Co. and The Clark Construction Group, Inc.
Lerner Enterprises, founded by Theodore N. Lerner, is one of Washington, DC's largest real estate developers and is involved in all phases of commercial and residential real estate including planning, development, construction, leasing, asset and property management.
Lerner's extensive office portfolio includes: The Corporate Office Centre at Tysons II, Flint Hill Office Park, 7799 Leesburg Pike and 400 Army Navy drive in Northern Virginia, White Flint North in Maryland, in addition to Washington Square and 1133 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. in Washington, D. C.
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Easy Slow Cooker Chipotle Pork - a versatile Mexican dinner!
Easy Slow Cooker Chipotle Pork – a versatile Mexican dinner!
This slow cooker chipotle pork recipe is an easy dinner that can be eaten in a variety of ways. A versatile, easy and delicious meal! Low carb and Paleo too.
You might also like this spicy barbacoa beef in the Instant Pot.
My family loves Mexican for dinner. While my husband is a little more adventurous with his food, my son is happy with just a tortilla, meat and cheese. So about once a week we seem to have some type of Tex-Mex meal that I usually make in a slow cooker.
This week I scoured my pantry and freezer and came up with this slow cooker chipotle pork recipe. It was so yummy! My hubby and I ate it over cauliflower rice and my son ate it with tortillas and cheese (of course). Low carb for us and tacos for Max … win-win.
The roast that I had in the freezer was rather mammoth in size. It was a 6 lb pork shoulder that was too much meat for us but I made the whole thing anyway. I froze half of the finished dish for another day and even had some leftovers. I love when I can do that!
If you want to use a smaller roast, just scale the dry spices down. The spices are used to rub over the roast so if you have too much spice mix left after rubbing it on the meat, no big deal. The rest of the recipe you can keep the same measurements.
So this is how my hubby and I ate it. I made some cauliflower rice and realized I didn't have any cilantro so I used a bit of arugula. I love arugula so it was good to me and I ended up using a huge handful. You can eat this dish over rice or in tacos. You can eat just the meat if you wanted and add some cheese and sour cream. Or you can use it in a burrito or in a salad even. So you see it's a very versatile and tasty dish.
This slow cooker chipotle pork recipe is an easy dinner that can be eaten in a variety of ways. A versatile, easy and delicious meal! Low carb, Paleo and a great freezer meal.
Cut slits in the pork roasts and stuff the slices of garlic in. Do this with all the garlic slices around the roast.
Mix all the dry spices and rub liberally into the pork roast.
Add the olive oil to a large pan and heat on medium high.
Brown the roast on all sides. About 4 minutes on each side. Then set aside.
Turn down the heat to medium and add the vinegar, tomatoes, chipotles and chiles to the pan and scrape up the brown bits from the roast. Cook for a few minutes while mixing everything together.
To the slow cooker add your onion, peppers and chipotle mixture and stir well.
Place the roast on top of the vegetables and cook for 6-8 hours.
When down, shred your pork and mix well into the vegetables and sauce.
Eat over rice or in tacos. Garnish with avocados, cilantro, sour cream, cheese or whatever you like.
Holy YUM!? This seriously looks amazing. And there's so much you can do with it, too! You've nailed it with this one, girl.


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Melbourne Law School brings together leading local and international scholars, alumni, researchers and members of the legal profession – people who believe in excellence and who strive to make a difference – to provide students with a range of transformative experiences, both inside and outside the classroom. We are dedicated to preparing students to be ethical, responsible and global in their outlook, equipping them to build dynamic careers in the public interest, business, government and private practice.
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The OpenCM9.04 C Type is no slouch - it uses an ARM 32 bit M3 core - none of your A____o 8 bit stuff here. I have built up a free-RTOS-based library based on ARM 32 cores and setting this unit us as an autonomous node in a complex system is well withing my reach. Robotis has aimed this controller at their XL-320 family of low-end serially-addressable servos and it includes four sockets for daisy-chained XL-320 units. It can also be piggy-backed onto an OpenCM 485 EXP board that supports the beefier Dynamixel pro line of servos operating at 24 VDC.
The controller includes sockets for a Bluetooth interface as well as a number of accessories included with the Darwin-mini family - distance, color, ultrasonic, touch, object detection, DMS, magnetic and gyro sensors. Note that there are only a limited number of interface points on the controller so not all these sensors can be loaded onto a single controller (at least w/o developing a MUX daughter card).
The software still leaves something to be desired, owing much to the A___ino systems - there is no real time trace capability or easy way to organize the program load into the processor. However, this can be overcome by using the Open ST-Link debugger port provided you have invested in the appropriate debugging hardware and associated software.


Man cannot attain true peace on his own because peace at its root is about restoring his relationship to God.
The power of the incarnation is to be manifest in our lives, that we may lead transforming lives in our world.
Jesus says it is a higher priority to honour your father and mother with your money than it is to will your estate to the church.
Jesus was the living bread who came down from heaven to restore our humanity to its original purpose.
The righteous represent God's justice to a culture in rebellion; thus they are feared and must be eradicated.
Though we encounter death, we do not need to fear when Jesus is with us. Resurrection is part of the mystery of the kingdom of God which Jesus is revealing.


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Penium is a genus of green algae, and the sole member of the family Peniaceae. The genus contains about 39 species.

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Das Diagnostikzentrum für den Justizvollzug in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern wurde im Juli 2005 in der JVA Bützow eröffnet. Damit war Mecklenburg-Vorpommern das erste Bundesland mit einer derartigen Einrichtung. Vom 1. Januar 2008 bis zum 30. April 2018 befand sich das Diagnostikzentrum in der JVA Waldeck in Dummerstorf im Landkreis Rostock. Nach der letzten Änderung der Vollstreckungszuständigkeit befindet sich das Diagnostikzentrum seit dem 1. Mai 2018 wieder in der JVA Bützow.

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Ziel und Aufgabe des Diagnostikzentrums ist die Gewährleistung der Qualitätsstandards bei der Behandlungsplanung und bei der Lockerungsprognose (das ist die Vorhersage, ob es während Lockerungen im Strafvollzug zu (k)einem Zwischenfall kommen wird).
Der Fachbereich ist zuständig für Gefangene mit besonders schweren und öffentlichkeitswirksamen Delikten (§§ 174 – 184b, 211 – 216 StGB).

Gefangene, die aufgrund von Sexual- und Tötungsdelikten inhaftiert wurden, werden zunächst im Rahmen der Behandlungsuntersuchung zur Vollzugsplanung psychologisch untersucht. In Abhängigkeit vom Ergebnis der Eingangsuntersuchung werden die Gefangenen mit dem erstellten Vollzugsplan aus dem Diagnostikzentrum in die zuständige Abteilung einer JVA des Landes verlegt. Zur Entscheidung über die Lockerungseignung werden die Gefangenen erneut im Diagnostikzentrum vorgestellt. Aufgrund der jetzt zu erstellenden Entwicklungsdiagnose wird eine Prognose für die weitere Bewährung (Rückfallgefahr) getroffen. Zum Zeitpunkt der bei der Abschlussuntersuchung noch bestehende Behandlungsnotwendigkeiten führen immer dann zu einer negativen Risikoabschätzung, wenn hierbei ein Zusammenhang zu einer möglicherweise eingeschränkten Bewährungsprognose erkennbar ist.

Neben der frühen Prognose der Rückfallgefahr wird durch die rechtzeitige Planung eine deutliche Verbesserung bei der Umsetzung notwendiger Behandlungsmaßnahmen erreicht. Zusätzlich ermöglicht die bestehende Struktur eine strikte Trennung von Diagnostik und Behandlung.

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Iran's Exclusionary Republic
Ladan Boroumand
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed. By Misagh Parsa. Harvard University Press, 2016. 406 pp.
In the final days of 2017, an astonished world witnessed an explosion of popular anger all over Iran that lasted for more than a week. It was not the first time that the Islamic Republic had faced irate demonstrators. In 2009, millions had marched peacefully in the streets of Tehran and other major cities to protest dictatorship and the rigged June 12 presidential election. Still recalled with horror is the death of one peaceful protester, a young woman named Neda Agha-Soltan, whose shooting by one of the regime's basiji militiamen was captured on video as it unfolded in a Tehran street on June 20.
Social media made Neda Agha-Soltan and the demonstrations in which she gave her life famous throughout the world. What the world did not know, however, was that since the early 1990s Iranian cities had been the scene of popular protests that occurred frequently but were hardly ever reported thanks to the Islamic Republic's censors.
With this in mind, one could assume that the late-2017 outbreak was just one more example of popular anger surging only to be met with violent repression (48 protesters killed, 4,792 arrested). A closer look, however, reveals the unprecedented nature of these most recent demonstrations. First, there was their geographic scope. Previous protests had been confined to a few cities. In 2017, the protest movement spread rapidly across 72 cities after starting with demonstrations against the high cost of living in the eastern province of Khorasan—protests that [End Page 173] at first had been discreetly egged on by conservative rivals of President Hassan Rouhani.
The most important thing about the protests was the slogans that the demonstrators chanted. These showed that a turning point had been reached. For the first time, protesters were openly demanding regime change. They dismissed Rouhani and his fellow regime reformists as purveyors of empty promises; denounced clerical rule; and complained about embezzlement, unemployment, and the high cost of living. Some demanded a secular republic or even the return of the monarchy.
How can we explain the recurrent explosions of popular anger in the Islamic Republic over the last three decades? How are we to make sense of the latest outburst, given that barely six months earlier the international media had been reporting the "moderate" Rouhani's reelection with a resounding 57 percent of the vote based on an impressive 73 percent turnout? Had not Iranians said by this vote that they wanted to mend, not end the regime?
For those struggling to understand these confusing signals, this book by Dartmouth College sociologist Misagh Parsa is remarkably helpful. Most analysts of Iranian politics ignore larger social forces in favor of a narrower focus on infighting between reformists and hard-liners within the regime. Parsa, by contrast, explores the relationship between the Islamic Republic and civil society—a far more important dynamic.
He notes early on the huge irony that lurks at the heart of the Islamic Republic. Its founder, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–89), rode to power in 1979 at the head of a large and inclusive coalition. His supporters came from many backgrounds and represented a range of ideological inclinations. Yet Khomeini's rule unleashed an implacable dynamic of exclusion that was inherent in his theocratic project. Once he took over, exclusionary wave followed exclusionary wave. The non-Islamist elements of his coalition were the first to go. Then the revolution began to eat its own, as Khomeini purged hard-core Islamists who had been among the very architects of the theocratic regime, but who had for various reasons become political liabilities in his eyes.
Nothing about these purges was gentle. They made free use of harsh repression and violence. Between June 1981 and September 1985, the Islamist regime summarily killed about 12,000 dissidents. By 2009, only three out of the original twenty-six members of the 1979 revolutionary council still belonged to the ruling elite. Parsa shows how the shrinking of the polity and the ideological nature of the Islamist...


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Anisomorpha buprestoides, auch unter den Trivialnamen Streifen-Stabheuschrecke und Zweigestreifter Wandelnder Stab bekannt, ist eine Art aus der Ordnung der Gespenstschrecken (Phasmatodea).

Merkmale und Farbformen
Anisomorpha buprestoides weist einen stark ausgeprägten Geschlechtsdimorphismus hinsichtlich der Größe auf. Während adulte Weibchen eine Körperlänge von 7 bis 8 cm erreichen, bleiben Männchen mit 4 bis 5 cm deutlich kleiner. Beide Geschlechter sind flügellos, haben eine gestreckte, stabförmige Gestalt und sind glänzend braunschwarz oder schwarz gefärbt. Vom Caput (Kopf) bis zum Ende des Abdomens (Hinterleib) ziehen sich zwei leuchtende, je nach lokaler Farbform,  braune, orange oder weiße Streifen.

Vorkommen und Lebensweise
Die Art ist ein tagaktiver Bewohner subtropischer Trockengebiete der südlichen USA, insbesondere der Bundesstaaten Florida und Georgia. Wie bei vielen anderen tagaktiven Gespenstschrecken besteht ihre Verteidigung weniger in der sonst für die Gespenstschrecken typischen Phytomimese, also dem Nachahmen von Pflanzenteilen, sondern viel mehr in einer aktiven Verteidigung mittels eines stinkenden Wehrsekrets. So ist ihre Färbung auch eher als Warntracht zu verstehen. Das Wehrsekret wird in paarigen Drüsen am Prothorax gebildet. Aus diesen kann es 30 bis 50 cm weit und meist nach hinten einem potentiellen Angreifer entgegen gesprüht werden. Das Sekret enthält Anisomorphal ein Sterioisomer des Dolichodials. Es wirkt ätzend und greift insbesondere die Schleimhäute an. So kann es beispielsweise zu ernsten Schäden kommen, wenn das Sekret ins Auge gelangt. Natürliche Nahrungspflanzen von Anisomorpha buprestoides sind Eichen.

Die Art vermehrt sich durch geschlechtliche Fortpflanzung. Erwachsene Männchen begatten nur ein einziges Weibchen, von dem sie sich meist den Rest ihres Lebens herumtragen lassen. Dieses als Mate Guarding (engl.: mate = Partner, guarding = bewachen) bezeichnete Verhalten dient dazu, nach der Kopulation anderen Männchen eine weitere Paarung mit diesem Weibchen zu erschweren oder unmöglich zu machen. Aus diesem Grund sind selten adulte Einzeltiere zu finden, sondern meist kopulierende Paare. Die Weibchen graben mit den Vorder- und Mittelbeinen Gruben, in welche sie Gelege von bis zu 10 Eiern ablegen. Dazu biegen sie das Abdomen zusammen mit den aufsitzenden Männchen über den Kopf in die Grube. Nach der Eiablage wird diese Grube mit den Mittelbeinen wieder zugegraben. Die tönnchenförmigen Eier sind etwa 3 mm lang, 1,7 bis 1,9 mm breit und ca. 6,3 mg schwer. Sie ähneln dem Kot der Tiere. Die Nymphen schlüpfen nach rund drei Monaten. Sie messen dann etwa 15 mm und haben bereits funktionsfähige Wehrdrüsen. Die Entwicklungsdauer zu adulten Tieren dauert etwa drei Monate. Auch die Imagines leben noch gut drei Monate.

Lokale Farbformen
Neben der weit verbreiteten Normalform, die zwei braune Längsstreifen auf schwarzem Grund zeigt, sind noch zwei in Florida lokal sehr begrenzt auftretende Farbformen bekannt. Eine aus dem Ocala National Forest stammende Form hat zwei weiße Streifen auf dunkelbraunem bis schwarzem Grund. Sie wird als weiße Form oder auch als Anisomorpha buprestoides "Ocala" angesprochen. eine weitere Farbform stammt aus dem Gebiet der Archbold Biological Station nahe Lake Placid (Florida). Bei dieser Form sind statt der braunen Streifen zwei orange Streifen auf dem Rücken vorhanden. Alle drei Formen zeigen ein an die Fundfortbedingungen angepasstes unterschiedliches Verhalten, was ihren Tageszyklus und auch die Eiablage angeht. Insbesondere bei adulten Tieren gibt es auch Unterschiede in der Zusammensetzung des Abwehrsekrets. Während Tiere der weißen und der orangen Form vor allem Anisomorphal produzieren, findet man bei der braunen Normalform je nach Population entweder primär Anisomorphal oder ein anderes Sterioisomer des Dolichodials, nämlich Peruphasmal.

Systematik
Wissenschaftlich beschrieben wurde die Art im Jahre 1813 von dem deutsch-niederländischen Entomologen Caspar Stoll zunächst als Phasma buprestoides. George Robert Gray überstellte diese und einige andere Arten 1835 in die von ihm neu errichtete Gattung Anisomorpha. Einige der im 19. Jahrhundert beschriebenen Arten, darunter auch eine von Stoll beschriebene erwiesen sich später als synonym zu Anisomorpha buprestoides. Synonyme dieser Art sind:

Spectrum bivittatum , 1824, zeitweilig auch als Anisomorpha bivittata bezeichnet
Bacteria calamus , 1838
Spectrum palmeus , 1862
Phasma vermicularis , 1813
Spectrum vittata , 1854

Terraristik
Anisomorpha buprestoides sollte in einem trockenen Terrarium gehalten werden, dessen Bodensubstrat gelegentlich mit Wasser besprüht wird. Gefüttert werden kann mit Laub von Brombeeren, Rhododendren, Liguster und Eichen. Eine Vergesellschaftung mit anderen Arten sollte vermieden werden, da diese durch das Abwehrsekret Schaden nehmen können. Außerdem sollten adulte, unverpaarte Männchen von den subadulten Weibchen getrennt werden, da sie bei Kopulationsversuchen die letzte Häutung behindern könnten. Die Art gehört zu den schon sehr lange in Zucht befindlichen Gespenstschrecken. Die Phasmid Study Group führt sie unter der PSG-Nummer 12.

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Sean from TopGearbox here with an exclusive preview of The Grand Tour Series 3's fourteenth and final episode – titled "Funeral for a Ford".
Photo: Amazon Prime Video
In the final episode of the series, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May present a short and informative history class on one of the bedrocks of British life; the medium-sized Ford saloon.
Starting with the Cortina of the 1960s and '70s, the three chart the history of the car that changed British society and provided transport for millions of dads including Clarkson senior and father May though not, to his annoyance, Richard's dad.
To cover the '80s part of this documentary, Richard takes to the track in the legendary Sierra RS Cosworth before all three hosts re-group to celebrate the Ford Mondeo and this model's unique claim to fame. Since the Mondeo seems certain to cease production without replacement in the coming years, the history lesson ends with a touching memorial service to this totem of British life.
Unfortunately, this episode also marks the end of The Grand Tour Series 3! But what a ride it has been! Do you think this episode will be a fitting end to the series? Let me know in the comments below.
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James C Rathbun April 26, 2019 at 2:09 am
I thought one of the best segments was their conversations that more or less happened organically instead of a separate feature. Conversation street seemed too rehearsed and didn't have the joy and nonsense of the BBC version. One of the more popular segments in old Youtube videos are those BBC chats. Too bad it didn't translate well when Amazon took it on. When BBC had it the guys faced each other and it looked more like a conversation than a reading of an instructional manual for some overpriced hyper car. Oh well, as far as the last season 3 episode went it surprised me that at the end they started gushing about what we see in the states as a rather bland Mercury Sable station wagon. Maybe they built them better in the UK but around here in Michigan they quickly became rust buckets, expensive to repair, boring to look at and a great car to blow by a speed trap because even the radar gun didn't notice it because it was so bland.
MR STEVE April 6, 2019 at 5:02 pm
Great closing episode to current season featured at Lincoln and very fitting the best British car show around shows respect to the British Ford the corner stone of motoring post WW2 in the UK with more iconic and Collectable cars than any other brand on the roads the UK roads from humble Cortinas & Sierra Cosworths to Focus RS and GT40s, already waiting for series 4 of TGT, as for top gear RIP
Stephen Brandreth April 4, 2019 at 9:52 pm
Having seen the episode I can confirm it is unmissable, and also the fact Jeremy drives my Cortina 1600E it is especially so, had a good talk with Jeremy and his love for the 1600E
Iain Blair April 8, 2019 at 10:43 pm
Hi Stephen – that's my Lotus Cortina being used as well, it is indeed a very special episode & a great series finale, I'm honoured to be a part of it – assume you were you at the Tent filming? (lovely 1600e) Jeremy was extremely complimentary about my car & genuine grateful for allowing TGT to use it… very genuine & sincere love for the blue oval – looking forward to our TGT party on Friday night!
Scooby April 4, 2019 at 12:52 am
Will need to see the episode 1st but atm I would of much preferred the see the big Mongolia special and the very end of this series and not classic fords in Lincoln .
Aaron C April 5, 2019 at 2:57 am
They need to do an episode like this as the final episode. Not only are they paying tribute to Fords but waving goodbye to the tent, Eboladrome track tests, Conversation Street and standalone segments.
Sean McKellar April 5, 2019 at 6:54 am
Somebody gets it!
Aaron C April 4, 2019 at 12:24 am
One query, in both a video and article there was rumours James May would be driving an electric Porsche: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqGjWlHuIyM).
David April 3, 2019 at 3:02 pm
Final episode? 🙁
So where is the episode featuring Sebastian Vettel and Oliver in Silverstone….?!
https://drivetribe.com/p/the-grand-tour-filming-near-silverstone-JhGpcs3vTvyW68JvX4YjQg
Andy Chen April 2, 2019 at 7:34 pm
https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2010-06-02/car/1966-lotus-cortina/
And this is the info on MBP 818D Lotus Cortina
Iain Blair April 10, 2019 at 11:00 pm
my car : )
D112 VEV is the very first Sierra RS Cossie ever built,nice choice
Aaron C April 2, 2019 at 4:06 pm
And what a series It has been. The end of an era. The end of Car Presenting as we know it. No more Eboladrome Track Reviews, No more Conversation Street, No more Single segments and No More Car Tribute Videos. No doubt it will be missed but things move on. And of all cars to end the series with, what better than the Humble Ford Saloon. I personally can't wait to see what they do here.
Andy Chen April 2, 2019 at 11:22 am
As a season filled with al kinds of history lesson,this really makes me think of TG S15E06.In that episode the trio tribute to iconic classic British Roadsters and their demise.I like history lesson.And this is a fitting ending for the end of an era(Studio shows and track tests also end after S03 I remember,future will be extended specials with less episodes)
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Swallows pounce on Dragons for third consecutive victory
Norichika Aoki's big night at the plate led the Tokyo Yakult Swallows to their third straight win, a 7-2 Central League victory over the Chunichi Dragons on Wednesday.
Aoki, in his first season back in Japan after six years in the majors, opened the scoring in the first, with his sixth home run, a two-run shot off Dragons rookie Kento Fujishima (1-1). Aoki doubled twice, scored twice and drove in four runs at Jingu Stadium.
Matt Carasiti (5-0) won for the first time since being added to the starting rotation. The right-hander allowed a run on six hits and three walks over six innings. He also had two hits and scored twice.
The pitcher led off the Swallows' third with a single. Naomichi Nishiura followed with his second double of the game, and Aoki doubled both of them home.
Carasiti's fifth-inning leadoff single and a one-out Aoki double set up a three-run inning that proved to be the knockout blow.
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Tigers 16, BayStars 6
At Yokohama Stadium, Yokohama starter Satoshi Iizuka (1-5) allowed six runs on six walks and six hits over 3-1/3 innings, allowing Hanshin starter Shintaro Fujinami (2-2) to win despite an abysmal performance in which he gave up five runs in five innings.
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Buffaloes 3, Lions 3 (12)
At Tokorozawa's MetLife Dome, struggling slugger Takeya Nakamura's two home runs enabled Seibu to come from behind and tie Orix.
Nakamura, a six-time PL home run champion, has not hit more than one home run in a game since July 3, 2017, when he did it at home run-friendly Tokyo Dome.
The Buffaloes took the lead in the fourth off Brian Wolfe. Yuma Mune got things started with a leadoff single that struck the pitcher in the back. Wolfe missed his next two pitches, a wild pitch that advanced the runner and a high hanging curve that Stefen Romero blasted over the outfield fence. It was his 13th home run of the year.
Two singles and a one-out walk loaded the bases, but Wolfe pitched out of trouble. He got a ground ball to his drawn-in infield and a force at the plate followed by a flyout.
Nakamura, who had reached on an infield single in the Lions' second, had not hit a homer off Buffaloes ace Chihiro Kaneko in over two years. Leading off the fifth, however, Nakamura hit a long opposite-field blast to right to trim to the Buffaloes' lead to a run.
Takahiro Okada, however, restored the Buffaloes' two-run cushion with his ninth home run of the season, a one-out solo shot off Wolfe in the sixth.
Wolfe, who was pitching for the first time since June 10, allowed 10 hits and walked two but gave up just three runs over 5-2/3 innings.
Kaneko lasted seven innings, but let the Lions tie it in the seventh, when Nakamura hit his third homer of the year, a blast to left with one out and a man on. The Orix right-hander allowed six hits and a walk, while striking out six.
Five relievers for Orix and six for Seibu ensured that neither team would make another breakthrough as the game was called a tie after 12 innings.
Marines 4, Eagles 3
At Chiba's Zozo Marine Stadium, Chiba Lotte's Yuki Ariyoshi (3-1) allowed three runs in six innings, while Seiya Inoue doubled twice, drove in two first-inning runs and scored the eventual winning run against Tohoku Rakuten on Tsuyoshi Sugano's sixth-inning sacrifice fly.
Fighters 3, Hawks 2
At Okinawa Cellular Stadium, Hokkaido Nippon Ham rallied for three ninth-inning runs against Yuito Mori (0-3) in a come-from-behind win over Fukuoka SoftBank.
Oswaldo Arcia homered with one out, Kensuke Tanaka tied it with a two-out, pinch-hit single and Taishi Ota decided it with a bases-loaded walk.
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Breaking News: Ghana's public says farewell to Kofi Annan
A steady stream of mourners on Tuesday paid their respects to the former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, as his body lay in state in the capital of his native Ghana.
The diplomat's body was flown back from his home in Switzerland on Monday ahead of a state funeral and private burial in Accra on Thursday.
Nobel peace laureate Annan, who was the world body's first leader from sub-Saharan Africa, died aged 80 on August 18 after a short illness.
His coffin, draped in Ghana's red, green and gold flag, was guarded by senior military officers in ceremonial uniform at the Accra International Conference Centre.
A choir sang hymns and traditional dances were performed as the public got their chance to say farewell to one of the country's most famous sons.
Fritz Kitcher, who spent his career working for the United Nations in Geneva in human rights, said he saw Annan rise through the ranks.
Now retired and back living in Ghana, he said Annan taught him "the benefit of humility, the benefit of honesty, the benefit of decisiveness, and diplomacy from the grassroots".
His role at the UN's first black African leader was "an honour for Ghana", he said.
"It was marvellous in our eyes, it was one of these things that we can only dream… he lifted Africa and showed that we are also able to do great things," Kitcher told AFP.
Most of those who queued to pay their respects wore black and red mourning clothes and passed under large posters of Annan to the sound of pulsating drums.
Cleaner Akwo Kwame Johnson, from neighbouring Ivory Coast said he wanted to pay his last respects to "our great father".
Whenever he saw Annan in the news, Johnson said he felt like he was watching a family member.
"He was a president to all the world," he added
Pensioner Joyce Atiase said she was mourning the loss of a "great man". "We all loved him. He played a major role for our country, he did his best," she said.
Scores of world leaders past and present, as well as royalty, are expected in Accra for Annan's funeral on Thursday.
A private burial service will then be held in the city's military cemetery.
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Q: Pymongo iteratively safe saving and counting I'm trying to pick out unique elements from a collection of objects and then save them to a sub collection.
The code I have is:
for item in db.col1.find({'Summary': {'$ne':{}}}):
    current_specs = item['Summary']['Specs']
    if not db.col1.specs.find({'Specs':current_specs}).count():
        db.col1.specs.save({'Specs':current_specs, 'Updated': datetime.datetime.now()},safe=True)

This produces duplicate entries within db.col1.specs. I thought by using safe=True, it would make sure the write was completed and hence duplicates would not be added but this does not seem to be the case.
Can anyone explain why this is failing and the correct way of doing it?
Cheers

A: Figured it out:
the item['Summary']['Specs'] entry is itself a dictionary and to search for dictionaries you have to search for each individual dictionary entry
e.g. if the object looks like:
current_specs = {'field1': something, 'field2': something_else}

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Subject: Battlefield, Star Wars Dev DICE Has a Third Mystery Game in Development Fri Jun 19, 2015 12:49 am
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/battlefield-star-wars-dev-dice-has-a-third-mystery/1100-6428335/
Swedish developer DICE has two announced projects: Star Wars: Battlefront and Mirror's Edge Catalyst. But, according to DICE general manager Patrick Bach, the studio has one more game in the pipeline.
"We have three projects in the works right now," Bach said in an interview with Polygon. Pressed on that number, Bach chuckled and said, "Did I say that?"
What could the third project be?
Another Battlefield game is one likely possibility. After all, DICE owner Electronic Arts has already confirmed that Battlefield 5 (or whatever the next Battlefield game will be called) is due to launch at the end of 2016. For what it's worth, DICE has 48 open positions posted to its website.
The most recent Battlefield game, Hardline, was developed by Visceral Games and launched in March.


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Greek Theatre
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Located within Griffith Park, the historic Greek Theatre stands as one of the nation's most beloved and recognized outdoor entertainment venues.
Throughout its history, the Greek has played host to some of the biggest legends in music – from Sir Elton John, Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Santana and many more in between. This iconic venue has also served as a site for numerous high school graduations, community events and backdrops for television shows and motion pictures.
The Greek Theatre is owned by the City of Los Angeles and managed, operated and booked by SMG. The 5,900 capacity outdoor venue is among the City's most cherished public sites.
Greek Theatre History
The history of the Greek Theatre dates to 1882, when Colonel Griffith J. Griffith, came to America from South Wales to seek fortune in gold mining. Colonel Griffith settled in Los Angeles and purchased the Los Feliz Rancho, which he later donated to the City of Los Angeles in 1896. This three thousand acre gift to the residents of Los Angeles was given with the intent that Griffith Park would be made an eternal place of public recreation.
In his own words,
it must be made a place of recreation and rest for the masses, a resort for the rank and file, for the plain people.
For 16 years, the dedicated land remained in its natural state - a grand public park and symbol of open recreational space. In 1919, Colonel Griffith's will left instructions setting up a trust fund of $1,000,000 for the construction of a world-class observatory and a Greek Theatre, where residents of the city he so tirelessly served and loved, could forever come to enjoy the best entertainment in the world.
After an extensive survey of Greek theatres throughout the world, the City's Park Commissioners approved a design for the building, incorporating a number of modernizations to the standard Greek Theatre model. In 1928, the Greek's cornerstone was laid, with the official building dedication on Sept. 25, 1930. The first seasons at the Greek provided operatic music and according to the Los Angeles Times, the first show on June 26, 1931, was attended by nearly 4,000 patrons. Seats in the first two sections sold for $1 and the remaining seats were free.
The 1930s brought additional musical and theatrical arts and during most of the 1940s, the Greek was used as a barracks during World War II.
Later, a San Francisco-based theatrical producer brought stage shows like Showboat and Anything Goes, for multiple week, summer engagements.
Since the 1950s, promoters and entertainment companies alike have partnered with the City to help sustain, support and bring improvements to the theatre's house and backstage areas to stay current and compete with other similar renowned amphitheatres.
In the 1980s, the Greek expanded its seating and continued to expand up through the 1995 earthquake retrofit. In 2006, the Greek underwent a multi-million renovation restoring the theatre's original façade in celebration of the venue's 75th Anniversary, bringing the capacity to its present 5,900.
Starting November 1, 2015, the Greek Theatre will once again undergo much needed refurbishment and structural enhancements, while ushering in a new era of public entertainment management– where the City of Los Angeles, through its Department of Recreation and Parks, will self-operate the Greek as an open venue, allowing artists, promoters and the public to book acts directly with the City to provide Angelinos with continued world-class musical entertainment, public and professional performances.
- Los Angeles, CA
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The General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has maintained that the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), can count President John Mahama out of its 2016 presidential debate.
Rather the NDC is preparing their 2016 flagbearer to participate in another debate being organised by the state broadcaster, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC).
The latest emphasis confirms the IEA's inability to repair its relationship with the governing party which has accused the governance think-tank of bias.
The NDC has branded the IEA as an appendage of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). Johnson Asiedu Nketia alleged last May that the IEA allowed pro-NPP speakers to contribute a public program it organised on the subject of corruption. But the institute denied him an opportunity to also comment.
The relationship has further deteriorated since the compliant.
The IEA had revealed it was in discussions with the NDC over its boycott of this year's debates. The think-tank's Executive Director Jean-Mensah was optimistic about the return of the NDC for the Presidential Debate Series which starts 8th November 2016 in Tamale in the Norther region.
"We are hoping that all four parties with representation in parliament will participate," she said last week.
The NDC General Secretary confirmed talks were underway but said no agreement had been reached. He said the IEA last week, sent a delegation to the NDC to discuss the possibility of "letting by-gones be by-gones".
The hailed NDC political tactician explained that the party is open to renewing its relationship with the IEA but only after the December general elections.
But before the general elections, the NDC is not keen on any reconciliation or any participation in any of the three debates.
"Since we have already committed ourselves to another debate that is being organised by GBC, we are unable to participate in that debate," he told Joy News' Francis Abban.
According to him after pleadings from the IEA, he could only assure the think-tank that their concerns will be carried to the National Executive Committee of the NDC for deliberations.
In the absence of any decision, the NDC is paying no attention to activities of the IEA.


Edenderry based Offaly County Councillor Noel Cribbin is calling on council management to use Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPO) to acquire vacant properties in the county.
He is calling on the action to address the homelessness issue and place families on the housing list into these renovated houses.
"In Edenderry alone, there are between 25 to 30 vacant houses, some are years vacant and are so bad from neglect that you can't see the houses with the overgrowth," Cllr Cribbin said.
"This is not only a crying shame to see once lovely homes vacant but they are now a blight on the area and the town in general."
Cllr Cribbin raised this matter at September's meeting of Offaly County Council and called for action.
"The fact that there are so many vacant houses in Edenderry alone and with over 200 families on the housing list in Edenderry, CPOs would kill two birds with buying up vacant houses and upgrading them and putting young families into them."
Cllr Cribbin continued to say, "to be fair to the council they introduced a Repair and Lease Scheme in which the council and the homeowners agreed to a loan of up to €40,000 to renovate the house with the council then renting the house from the owner and placing a family from the housing list in it."
"This scheme is still available but for some reason, there was a very poor take up on this scheme and I feel very strongly now that the owners don't seem to have any plans for their properties," Cllr Cribbin said.
"I feel that the council should CPO them, pay the market value of the properties, renovate them and put families off the housing list into them."
"I urge the council to take this attitude with this blight on our towns and villages and help bring life and vitality back to areas that are in decline and also give young families the homes they deserve," Cllr Cribbin concluded.


Golf Galaxy, a full-line, interactive golf retailer, announces its plans to open its second retail location in Nevada. The grand opening celebration is slated for November 1-3, in Henderson, NV at the Stephanie Street Power Center (561 North Stephanie Street). Regular store hours are Monday through Friday 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Weekend grand opening hours are Friday 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., and Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
At the store, customers will be able to meet the store's PGA professionals and certified in-store club technicians; experience five hitting bays and an indoor demo range; and interact with the store's on-site, full-service 42-foot tour van. The one-of-a-kind tour van is modeled after club manufacturers' on-site PGA Tour vans. The store also features a dedicated women's shop, a driving range, and a three-speed putting green. Measuring over 29,000 square feet in size, the Henderson store is set to serve up the ultimate display in golf equipment, accessories, apparel, and clubs from a wide set of brands, including: TaylorMade, adidas, Titleist, Callaway, PING, Adams Golf, Cleveland Golf, NikeGolf, Cobra, PUMA, Under Armour, and Travis Mathew.
See the complete article on fitnessworld.com.


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Q: Is there an easier way to handle unit testing a method with too many conditions? I have a method which has a lot of conditions in it:
public bool IsLegalSomething(Order order)
{
    var item0 = order.Items.SingleOrDefault(x => x.ItemCode == "ItemCode0");
    var item1 = order.Items.SingleOrDefault(x => x.ItemCode == "ItemCode1");
    ...
    var itemN = order.Items.SingleOrDefault(x => x.ItemCode == "ItemCodeN");

    return ((item0.Status == Status.Open) && (item1.Status == Status.Closed)
         && ...
         && (itemN.Status == Status.Canceled));
}

I want to unit test this function, but there are so many conditions that the number of unit tests is crazy if you consider every combination. There are 16 conditions in that return statement, and since each condition is true/false that is 2^16 different combinations I would need to check on. Do I really need to create 2^16 different unit tests here to ensure that every condition is utilized? Mind you, this is a simple example. Some of my functions have complex conditions due to legal requirements:
return (condition0 && condition1 && (condition2 || condition3)
     && (condition4 || (condition5 && condition6)) ...)

By the math of some of my functions, the number of different combinations that the conditions can produce is millions! I looked into Data-Driven Unit Tests (DDUT), as well as Parameterized Unit Tests (PUT), but that just makes it so that the unit test is a "fill in the blanks" style. I still have to supply all of the various combinations and the expected result! For example:
// Parameterized Unit Test
[TestCase(..., Result = true)]  // Combination 0
[TestCase(..., Result = true)]  // Combination 1
[TestCase(..., Result = false)] // Combination 2
public bool GivenInput_IsLegalSomething_ReturnsValidResult(...) { }

If I use MSTest to pull in a datasource (csv for example), I still have the same problem. I have way too many combinations that give different results. Is there an alternative I just am unaware of?

A: While I agree with the comments made about refactoring your code, I think a more concise answer is warranted to explain what exactly is meant by "The design may need to be reviewed and refactored."
Let's look at the following statement: A && B && (C || D);. Normally, you would say that you have 4 inputs @ 2 options/each, or 16 combinations. However, if you refactor things you can reduce down the complexity. This will vary depending on your business domain, so I'm going to utilize a shopping site domain as an example (we don't actually know your business domain).

*

*A: Is New Order

*B: Are All Items In Stock

*C: Is Customer Elite Member

*D: Is Discount Code FREESHIP Used

The reason I chose this scenario is to demonstrate that it is possible that C/D actually references whether or not shipping should be included free of charge.

*

*E: Is Shipping Free

Now, instead of A && B && (C || D) we have A && B && E, which is 3 conditions @ 2 options/each, or 8 combinations. Of course, the composition of E should be tested as well, but C || D only has 2 options @ 2 options/each, or 4 combinations. We have reduced down the number of total combinations from 16 to 12. While that may not seem like much, the scale of this scenario was far less. If you are able to group logical conditions together and reduce things further, you could go from millions of combinations to just a few hundred, which is far more easy to maintain.
Additionally, as a bonus, sometimes your domain logic changes in some aspects, but not in others. Imagine that you decide that Commercial clients also receive free shipping one day, instead of adding another condition to an extremely complex conditional statement, essentially doubling the number of unit tests, you would add that condition to the Is Free Shipping, which would increase the number of combinations for that smaller unit from 4 to 8, but it's better than having a function that has 16 conditions (i.e. 65536 combinations) to 17 conditions (i.e. 131072 combinations).

At this point, unless we know and understand your exact domain, we can only make broad suggestions of redesigning your classes and methods into smaller parts. Also, while mart makes a good point using string length > 5 not needing to test for every string greater than 5 length, I do think that once you have an actual condition reduced down into true/false that combined conditions need to be tested. For example: (String Length > 5) && B && C && D && E has 5 conditions or 32 combinations. You should test all 32. What you shouldn't do is come up with 100 different ways to show that String Length > 5 is true. The reason I say to test all 32 combinations is because while the conditions can be refactored and tested, you still want to test that you are using A && B && (C || D) so you can be sure no one made a typo of A && B || (C && D). Or, in other words, proving the individual conditions does not guarantee that the combination of those conditions was correctly coded.

A: You should refactor the code to test it correctly, each block of conditions should be a function by itself, and that function should be tested individually, then your main function only will need test to check the integration.
Unit testing is not meant to cover all the options, in fact if you are testing true && true, false && false, and so on, you are practically testing && operator and not your logic, you should cover what your function as "unit" does and not all the possible combinations of inputs, just think in a function that check if the length of a string is grater than 5, are you gonna create all the possible strings in the world? or are you just gonna test one that is equal to 5, one with more than 5 characters and one that is lower, maybe you should test null too, but not more than that.
Anyway just to give you a real alternative to what you are asking if you are able to add NUnit to your project you could use https://github.com/nunit/docs/wiki/Combinatorial-Attribute in order to generate all those test that you want.


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Манастир Горње Жапско је је смештен у близини села Горње Жапско, код Врања, на пропланку, окружен густом шумом. Манастир je Српске православне цркве и припада епархији врањској.

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Велики број очуваних цркава и манастира, као и мноштво црквишта и манастиришта, сведочи о богатој духовној традицији Врања и његове околине. Верује се да је у овим крајевима, у народу познатом као Врањска Света Гора или Врањогорје, током средњег века живело и до хиљаду и две стотине монаха, молитвом освештавши читаво тло, ова непрегледна војска Христова свој монашки подвиг оставила је будућим временима као трајно завештање и надахнуће, док су непроходне врањске горе и врлети тако постале прави духовни расадник.

Манастирски храм саграђен је на темељима старе, средњовековне цркве а обновљен је 1843. године за време митрополита Петра (Јовановића) и епископа нишког Григорија.

У манастиру је основана Верско-учитељска школа почетком XX века. У школи се припремало око четрдесет свештеника годишње. Школа је дала многе познате теологе, од којих је најпознатиј свети архимандрит Јустин Поповић.

За време Другог светског рата, манастирски конак је запаљен од стране Бугарских окупационих снага. Након рата нова комунистичка власт одузела је већи део њива и вожњака и друге обрадиве површине од које се манастир издржавао.

1953. године у манастир долазе монахиње на челу са игуманијом Иларијом. Након шест година, 1959. године, и монахиње напуштају манастир који је након тога потпуно опустео.

Сестринство у манастиру је обновљено тек 1994. године, на челу са игуманијом Јефремијом. У новије време манастир је познат по иконопису древне византијске традиције, по превођењу и издавању дела старца Пајсија Светогорца, чувању традиције византијског појања и столарској и дуборезачкој радионици.

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CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., March 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- As we look forward to the start of spring around the country, IKEA invites families and friends to celebrate the new season with its annual Easter Påskbord on Friday, April 5th, 2019.
In honor of the Easter Holiday, join participating IKEA stores nationwide** for an all-you-can eat buffet of classic Swedish food offerings, including Swedish meatballs, marinated salmon, assorted Swedish cheeses and many other savory favorites. Tickets are available for only $16.99 per person / $4.99 for kids 12 and under, or at a discounted rate for IKEA FAMILY members ($12.99 per person / $2.99 for kids 12 and under).
"We are excited to celebrate the Påskbord tradition with our customers this Easter," says Krista Boyer, Sales Leader, IKEA Food. "Påskbord is all about spending time with family and friends and sharing the Swedish traditions."
Seating is limited, so those who are interested are encouraged to purchase tickets early at their local IKEA store. To locate and contact the nearest IKEA store for more details – including local seating times – visit the "Store Locator" page on www.IKEA-USA.com.
Those who are not able to make it to the in-store event can still bring Swedish Easter traditions home! Visit the Swedish Food Market in IKEA U.S. stores to purchase select items from the Påskbord menu, including KÖTTBULLAR Swedish meatballs, or try this fun family Easter tradition with a twist: dye your own eggs using natural colorants!
Directions:Bring water, a couple of tablespoons of vinegar (will not give taste to the eggs), and a colorant to boil in a saucepan. Add the eggs. Play around with the boiling time and the amount colorant to get different shades of color. After dyeing, allow the eggs to cool down and dry. Rub with oil to make them shiny. Fun Tip: You can make beautiful patterns on the eggs. Before dying, wrap the egg in a piece of a nylon stocking with flowers or leaves tucked in. Or simply wrap rubber bands around the egg. You can also draw patterns and letters with a candle or a crayon.
** IKEA Carson, Norfolk and Live Oak will not host an EasterPåskbord in 2019.
Since its 1943 founding in Sweden, IKEA has offered home furnishings of good design and function at low prices. The IKEA Group operates 367 IKEA stores in 30 countries, including 48 in the U.S. IKEA incorporates sustainability into day-to-day business and supports initiatives that benefit children and the environment. For more information see IKEA-USA.com, @IKEAUSANews, @IKEAUSA or IKEAUSA on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Pinterest.


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Disney on Stage Live in Covent Garden - Pop Up Summer Experience
From 22 July to 30 August, in the heart of London's West End and bigger than ever before, there will be a Disney on Stage Summer Pop-Up Experience celebrating the wealth of Disney titles produced for the stage. The free-to-access Pop-Up, open to fans of all ages, features Disney shows such as Frozen, The Lion King, Mary Poppins, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin.
Located in the historic Carriage Hall on Floral Street, this is the third time that Disney Theatrical Productions, working with Covent Garden, will create a unique space that is a celebration of the very best of Disney in the West End, across the UK and on Broadway.
Visitors will go on an enchanting journey through some of Disney's most iconic worlds, with new things to see and explore with every step. First, visitors will travel to early-1900s London with Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins and witness the delights of Mrs Corry's Sweet Shop, where they can enjoy some craft activities and discover how to spell the longest word they've ever heard. Guests will experience the magic carpet ride of Aladdin's Cave of Wonders, with the chance to pose with the Genie's Lamp and travel back to a retro era with classic Aladdin arcade games – although there is no magic lamp to be won here! The tale as old as time continues with Beauty and the Beast, featuring the legendary enchanted rose.
Visitors will have the opportunity to view iconic masks, puppets and costumes from the Tony® Award-winning The Lion King, getting a unique behind-the-scenes glimpse into the stunning stagecraft of this much loved production, now in its 22nd year in London. It's time to open up the gates on the long-awaited West End premiere of Frozen, where visitors will have the chance to experience the chilly heights of Elsa's ice palace, and the majestic delights of Arendelle Castle. For a limited time only, there will be the opportunity to see Elsa's stunning Ice Dress up-close and marvel at this iconic gown, soon to be worn on stage.
Fiona Pearce, Marketing Director at Disney Theatrical Productions said today, "This year, more than ever, it felt important to bring the joy of Disney's stage shows back where they belong in the West End, spotlighting each in our first ever walk-through experience. Free for everyone, this Pop-Up for all ages, is a much-needed dose of fun where guests can enjoy the craft and beauty of our productions. Come, Be Our Guest."
Catherine Riccomini, Director of Marketing and Communications, Capco Covent Garden, added, "Covent Garden is world famous as the heart of theatre land in London and we are delighted to once again be the home of the Disney on Stage Summer Pop-Up experience. We look forward to welcoming visitors, and invite them to stay and discover everything our open air pedestrianised district and indoor entertainment has to offer this Summer – from shopping, to dining, theatres, culture and more"
Those visiting the Disney on Stage Pop-Up are encouraged to stay and explore everything that Covent Garden has to offer – from a Summer Festival Terrace serving Spritzes, street food and daily live music, to ROH Unlocked, a partnership with the Royal Opera House delighting guests with surprise performances and workshops for all ages to enjoy. Visitors wanting to dine can enjoy global and independent restaurants, with indoor and outdoor dining available, as well as the very best fashion, beauty and lifestyle stores including Tiffany & Co., Ganni, A.P.C, American Vintage, Vashi, toys from Pollock's, Apple and more.
Location: Carriage Hall, 29 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
Dates: 22 July – 30 August
Times: Wed, Fri, Sat 12pm – 7pm, Thu 12pm – 8pm, Sun 12pm – 5pm, and Bank Holiday 30 August from 12pm – 7pm
Reserve a free timeslot in advance online via https://www.disneytickets.co.uk/popup; FREE
A limited number of walk-ups will be available each day
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