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Production of next-generation Acela Express fleet underway
USA: Production of the bodyshells and principal components for the Avelia Liberty high speed trainsets ordered for Amtrak's premium Acela Express service has begun at Alstom's Hornell factory in New York state, the manufacturer has confirmed. The fleet is expected to enter service in 2021-22.
Alstom displayed a model at the APTA Expo in Atlanta on October 8-11, showcasing the final exterior design of the trainsets, which will feature short wheelbase power cars and nine articulated trailer cars. There is an option to add up to three more vehicles if demand grows.
Designed for operation at up to 300 km/h, the 28 trainsets will initially enter service at up to 255 km/h on the 735 km Northeast Corridor which links Boston with New York and Washington DC.
They will incorporate Alstom's Tiltronix anticipatory tilting technology, and a crash energy management system meeting the latest Federal Railroad Administration crashworthiness guidelines.
Alstom's Vice-President for Marketing & Strategy in North America Scott Sherin told Railway Gazette that the Avelia Liberty design blended experience from various high speed trains supplied internationally over recent years.
'The trailers are based on the AGV bodyshell used in Italy and the tilt equipment is derived from our Pendolino family, while we expect the compact power car design to be selected for SNCF's next generation of TGVs', he said. By opting for power cars with unpowered intermediate trailers, Alstom has continued the arrangement used for the existing fleet of 20 Acela Express trains supplied by a consortium of Alstom and Bombardier in 1998-2001.
'Amtrak initially favoured a Pendolino derivative', Sherin explained, but 'we were able to persuade them otherwise, partly because a move to a multiple-unit fleet would require significant alterations to depot facilities'. The Avelia Liberty is also designed to allow extra intermediate cars to be added without any mechanical or electrical alterations to the train.
Sherin suggested that once the Hornell site has experience of producing components for inter-city and high speed trainsets, it could become a supplier to the rest of the Alstom group 'if we are price competitive'.
First Amtrak Avelia emerges
USA: The first of 28 Avelia Liberty trainsets being assembled by Alstom to operate Amtrak's Acela Express services has been outshopped at the manufacturer's Hornell plant, ahead of the start of test running.
Stadler unveils TEX Rail Flirt DMU
USA: Stadler displayed its first US-built Flirt diesel multiple-unit at the APTA exhibition in Atlanta on October 9. Unveiling three of the six cars from the initial trainset, Martin Ritter, CEO of Stadler US, said it was the company's first 'self-propelled commuter rail train to be Federal Railroad Administration-compliant'.
Alstom and SNCF develop next-generation TGV
FRANCE: On September 7 Voyages SNCF CEO Rachel Picard and Alstom France President Jean-Baptiste Eymeoud officially opened the shared workspace in Paris that is home to a 20-strong team from Alstom and SNCF, working to develop the next generation of the TGV.


Do you have a business that's on Facebook? If not, you're missing a golden opportunity. If you do, you should make sure to do everything right to reach those customers and avoid any behaviors that will annoy them. Keep reading if you want advice on how to use Facebook marketing to your advantage.
You can get additional interest to your Facebook campaign when you use a giveaway. Encourage your visitors to join your page in order to be eligible for some free products. Announce winners on your page and repeat as necessary.
Your Facebook page needs to stand out from the rest when you are using it to promote the products of services of your business. This can be accomplished by making a brightly colored page or adding a great deal of pictures to it. Users on Facebook are attracted to these pages over plain ones.
Consider creating a group instead of a page. Launching a group on Facebook may inspire subscribers to start their own community online and interact with one another. You can use both a group and a page to ensure your followers get updates from your page and can discuss it or share their own information in the group.
Don't forget the people that are already subscribed to your page. Lots of folks worry so much about attracting new followers that the previous customer group falls by the wayside. For powerful Facebook marketing, you need an audience that feels respected. That leads to real engagement in your brand, so don't forget about these champions of yours!
Choose updates carefully. If your contents are not valuable, your subscribers may lose interest quickly in all your updates. Educate your customers with enlightening posts. Facebook Insights can show you what successful updates look like.
Make sure to give someone incentive if they "like" your page. If someone likes your page it will get you a ton of exposure. Think about giving folks something unique and free if they give your page a "like." A contest is a good idea as is a coupon or discount. If you give people something that they find useful, then they'll have no problem becoming a follower of your page.
Your business probably doesn't really require a Facebook page if you only deal with customers occasionally, such as selling a car or a house. Your customers often come and go at random and will not be following posts. Instead, invest your time in creating targeted Facebook ads.
Make places on your Facebook page for your audience to sign up. If they are able to get something for clicking Like, they're more likely to do so. Contests or sweepstakes can be useful, or you can just have a spot to register to win something great.


Thomas Rhett (pictured) rises in sales this week but is joined by one (well-known) newcomer on our weekly look at the best-selling country singles!
Outside of the new song at #5 (more on that in a moment), the top 5 is unchanged from last week. The songs in the first through fifth slots remain in the same places though sales for some of them increased week over week, particularly the first place song, Thomas Rhett's "Die A Happy Man." The song gained 10k in downloads over last week. At #2 is Luke Bryan's "Strip It Down." It's roughly one week away from scanning Gold, the same which can be said for Cam's "Burning House," a song already certified Gold by the RIAA (last week). Speaking of Gold, Sam Hunt's "Break Up In A Small Town" is at #4 with 508k scanned (it was certified Gold this summer). Sitting at #5 is the lone newbie this week, Carrie Underwood's "Heartbeat." The single has scanned 23k thus far. It's from her album out friday, Storyteller.
At #6 is Old Dominion with their nearly-Gold single "Break Up With Him" The single is off of their soon to hit stores album Meat And Candy. Holding at #7 is Carrie Underwood's "Smoke Break." The single has now surpassed 202k downloads to date. At #8 is Chris Young's Gold-certified "I'm Comin' Over." The song has scanned 440k to date. #9 finds Chris Janson's breakout hit "Buy Me A Boat." The single has scanned 758k to date. Finally, Keith Urban's Gold "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" is at #10 with 543k to date scanned.
Brett Eldredge's "Lose My Mind" has scanned 391k to date, Jana Kramer's "I Got The Boy" is over 311k scanned while Brothers Osborne are nearly at a quarter of a million downloads for their hit "Stay A Little Longer." The only other newcomer on this chart this week is LOCASH with "I Love This Life" finally hitting the Top 30 download chart (as their single breaks even further in the Top 30 itself at radio).
Charles Kelley "The Driver" moves up to # 31 2ith 13k scanned to date.
Lee Brice is at #32 with "That Don't Sound Like You" having scanned 85k to date.
At #65 is Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now." It has scanned 6.58 million tracks to date.
George Strait "Cold Beer Conversation"
Hi, Matt. Do you know how many tracks Rascal Flatts' "Bless The Broken Road" and "What Hurts The Most" have sold? Thanks in advance!


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Impact and York9 FC draw 2-2
July 10, 201910:32PM EDT
Second leg takes place at Stade Saputo on July 24
TORONTO, Ontario – The Montreal Impact and York9 FC fought to 2-2 draw in the first leg of the Canadian Championship third round, Wednesday night at York Lions Stadium. Montreal's Omar Browne opened the scoring in the second half, before York9 FC scored two goals back-to-back, but Designated Player Saphir Taïder was able to tie things up by converting a late penalty for the visitors.
"We were too soft at times," said Impact head coach Rémi Garde. "I think York's first goal is similar to the ones we've conceded lately, which is a nuisance. This game had a lot of ups and downs, and with a little more technical finesse in our game in the second half, we would've created more chances to take an even bigger lead. We had the opportunity to push this game in our favour. In the second leg, we'll need to be prepared and play a great game at home to make it to the next round."
A few Impact players were seeing action in the national tournament for the very first time: defenders Zakaria Diallo, Zachary Brault-Guillard, and Daniel Kinumbe, midfielder Omar Browne, as well as forward Maxi Urruti all started for the Montreal club, earning their very first minutes in the Canadian Championship.
The hosts created the game's first real opportunity in the 18th minute, when Montreal native Diyaeddine Abzi tried a powerful shot from outside the box, but it went just wide of the left post.
Montreal was lurking dangerously in the 33rd minute, the ball finally finding its way to full-back Daniel Kinumbe, wide-open on the left side, but his ensuing cross into the danger area was promptly cleared by a York defender.
In the 36th minute, the Impact was at it again, when midfielder Samuel Piette recovered a ball in the final third, made his way forward, and tried picking out the top corner, but it clipped the crossbar and went out.
Montreal almost took the lead on the cusp of half-time, through an effort from inside the box by midfielder Mathieu Choinière, but goalkeeper Nathan Ingham dove to his left to make the save.
"It's what we were expecting," said midfielder Samuel Piette. "They fought hard. It was the first time a CPL club took on an MLS team. They were very motivated. It was a battle tonight, but I don't think we underestimated them. I think it's a good result for us, despite the two goals conceded. Scoring two away goals is good for us through two legs."
Goals after the break
York9 FC thought they had a clear look on goal in the 55th minute, when the ball was deflected directly to Simon Adjei, alone in the box, but defender Rudy Camacho was able to slide in and block his ensuing shot.
But it was the Impact who managed to take the lead in the 62nd minute, pouncing on a defensive mistake to score the game's first goal. The Impact combined nicely, with Mathieu Choinière eventually chipping a ball behind the defenders for Urruti. Although the defender was there first, his header towards the goalkeeper lacked accuracy, and Omar Browne was there to tap it into an empty net.
The hosts thought they tied things up in the 78th minute, when a wide-open Kyle Porter received a pass behind the Montreal defense before tucking it in past Diop, but the play was quickly whistled for offside.
Finally, in the 83rd minute, York9 FC made it count, when forward Ryan Telfer received a pass in the box, controlled it, and placed it past Diop into the top corner to tie the game at a goal apiece.
Then, in the 88th minute, the hosts were able to grab the lead, after a ricochet in the box ended with Rodrigo Battas sliding it in to give the hosts the lead.
But in stoppage time, striker Maxi Urruti was awarded a penalty. Substitute Saphir Taïder stepped up to take it, sending Ingham the wrong way to bring the score back level.
"Whether it's in the league or in a cup competition against a lower-division team, it's always disappointing to concede two goals," said centre-back Rudy Camacho. "We need to correct this, because we have an important game against Toronto at home coming up, and we'll need to be a lot more rigorous defensively."
The Montreal Impact will play a first game this year against its biggest rival, Toronto FC, on Saturday, July 13, at 7:30pm at Stade Saputo (TICKETS – TVA Sports, TSN, 98.5, TSN 690). Montreal will then head to Ohio to take on the Columbus Crew SC at MAPFRE Stadium on Saturday, July 20, at 7:30pm (TVA Sports, 98.5, TSN 690), before hosting York 9 FC at Stade Saputo for the second leg of the Canadian Championship quarterfinal on Wednesday, July 24, at 7:30pm (TICKETS – 98.5, TSN 690).
MTL – GK-Clément Diop; D-Zachary Brault-Guillard, Víctor Cabrera, Zakaria Diallo, Rudy Camacho, Daniel Kinumbe; M-Ken Krolicki, Samuel Piette (Micheal Azira 85'); F-Mathieu Choinière (Saphir Taïder 66'), Maximiliano Urruti, Omar Browne (Shamit Shome 66')
Subs not used – James Pantemis, Harry Novillo, Anthony Jackson-Hamel, Orji Okwonkwo
Y9FC – GK-Nathan Ingham; D- Diyaeddine Abzi, Luca Gasparotto, Morey Doner, Roger Thompson; M- Joseph Di Chiara, Kyle Porter (Austin Ricci 84'), Manuel Aparicio, Ryan Telfer, Wataru Murofushi; F-Simon Adjei Karlsson (Rodrigo Gattas 73')
Subs not used – Matthew Silva, Daniel Gogarty, Steven Furlano, Emilio Estevez, Michael Cox
MTL – Browne 62'
Y9FC – Telfer (Gattas) 83'
Y9FC – Gattas (Gasparotto) 88'
MTL – Taïder 90+2'
Y9FC - Adjei Karlsson 22'
MTL – Brault-Guillard 31'
Y9FC – Di Chiara 51'
Y9FC – Gattas 88'
Jason Beaulieu loaned to Ottawa Fury FC
Impact defeated 2-0 by Toronto FC
Pregame - MTL v TOR
Real Madrid to hold public training at Stade Saputo
Kinumbe and Choinière to take part in MLS Homegrown Game
Pregame - MTL v YOR

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Cherry-Picked Quality Films: Angie Chen's 'I've got the blues' and More
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Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre , Wan Chai
Until 7 Aug 2018
The Golden Scene Selection programme screens five contemporary quality movies—i've got the blues, What a Wonderful Family 1, 2, and 3, and Sakura Guardian in the North—over the course of five days.
Co-presented by The Hong Kong Arts Centre and local film distributor Golden Scene, the 'Golden Scene selection' is an ongoing monthly initiative that presents quality films across genres, decades and geographies.
This August, the programme will screen five movies, including Hong Kong director Angie Chen's latest work, a bold documentary on local artist Yank Wong. Shot over the course of 18 months, i've got the blues chronicles the fractious, often confrontational, philosophical and entirely human process of creating a portrait of an artist as a complex, flawed, talented man. Chen, who gets drawn into the story because of Wong's constant challenges and dodges, also raises more fundamental questions about a connection between moral integrity and artistry, family, and working as an artist in business-minded Hong Kong.
Read our interview with Angie Chen here.
When: 3 Aug 2018 - 7 Aug 2018	Where: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre – 2 Harbour Road – Wan Chai
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Filmografia parziale

Cinema
New World Disorder, regia di Richard Spence (1999)
Captain America - Il primo Vendicatore (Captain America: The First Avenger), regia di Joe Johnston (2011)
The Keeping Room, regia di Daniel Barber (2014)
Monsters: Dark Continent, regia di Tom Green (2014)
The Last Tree, regia di Shola Amoo (2019)
Dark Encounter, regia di Carl Strathie (2019)

Televisione
A.D. - La Bibbia continua (A.D. The Bible Continues) – miniserie TV, 2 puntate (2015)
Fortitude – serie TV, 11 episodi (2016)
Barbarians - Roma sotto attacco (Barbarians Rising) – miniserie TV, 1 puntata (2016)
Marcella – serie TV, 12 episodi (2016-2018)
Counterpart – serie TV, 14 episodi (2018-2019)
Criminal: Regno Unito (Criminal: UK) – miniserie TV, 3 puntate (2019)
For Life – serie TV, 23 episodi (2020-2021)
Django – miniserie TV, 10 puntate (2023)

Doppiatori italiani
Nelle versioni in italiano delle opere in cui ha recitato, Nicholas Pinnock è stato doppiato da:
 Francesco De Francesco in Fortitude, Marcella, Django
 Luca Graziani in A.D. - La Bibbia continua
 Simone D'Andrea in For Life

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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The best news about the addiction-and-recovery (and-relapse-and-recovery-and relapse-and-recovery) drama Beautiful Boy is that Timothée Chalamet's breakout performance in Call Me By Your Name wasn't a fluke.
Apparently, he's all that. As the 18-year-old crystal meth addict Nic Sheff, Chalamet has perpetually unkempt locks and a skinniness that alters his center of gravity, leaving him easily jolted by forces within and without. Chalamet was also hyper-reactive in Call Me By Your Name, but with different, more languid rhythms, as if he'd been softened by the Italian sun: You could read his longing in his flesh and muscles. Here, fully clothed, he's jumpy, furtive, now defiant, now twisted with shame. At times, he's as raw as a little boy, at others a hardened liar. Mostly, his Nic is unformed.
The teen has grown up in affluent Marin County, but the director, the Belgian-born Felix Van Groeningen, goes out of his way to show us albums on Nic's shelf by the "sludge metal" band the Melvins and books by Charles Bukowski that present addiction as an existential statement of hipness. The son of a controlling magazine writer, Nic is one of those kids who break free and end up in a different and more dangerous prison.
With Luke Davies, Van Groeningen adapted not one but two memoirs, the first by Nic's father, David (Beautiful Boy), the second by Nic (Tweak), but it's the father's experiences that, alas, occupy the foreground. That means long stretches of Steve Carell bulging his eyes and looking strenuously pained. An amusing caricaturist in Foxcatcher and The Big Short, Carell is tight and superficial in most serious parts, purging himself of all humor. He's not quick-witted. His stiffness might have worked for Beautiful Boy — it could be the key to David's inability to get on his son's wavelength. But in that case, it would have to seem like Carell's choice instead of his limitation.
There's a deadly earnestness to the structure. Beautiful Boy opens with David's visit to an unseen authority on drug addiction who turns out (in later scenes) to be played by Timothy Hutton — a nice reveal given Hutton's triumph as the maladapted teenager in Ordinary People, but amounts to little more than an in-joke. The journalist in David wants to learn all he can about crystal meth, and so we hear about dopamine depletion and other not-so-fun facts that don't end up contributing much to his scenes with Nic.
Countering despair with science could have made for some amusingly awkward moments. I should know, having repeatedly told my very-sad daughter, "Smile — it releases endorphins," which not only made her increasingly angry but turned out not even to be true.
As in his other films, Van Groeningen creates a tapestry of flashbacks, here of father and son at different, more intimate stages of their lives. This makes for a lively, varied palette but not an especially illuminating one. (Whose big idea was it to use "Sunrise, Sunset," I wonder? It's not just on the nose — it breaks the nose.) The movie might be an instance of the subjects being too close to the moviemakers. The director doesn't seem to want to take any shots — even gentle ones — at David or the family's startling upscale lifestyle. The Sheffs, David and his second wife, an artist played by Maura Tierney, have a woodsy dream house, which raises the question: Was there inherited money or does magazine writing pay that well? It's a welcome break when Amy Ryan enters the film as Nic's mother, who lives in Los Angeles. Ryan is alive onscreen, with several different emotions — guilt, grief, irritation, and more guilt — passing over her face in an instant.
And then there's Chalamet… Despite the unevenness and splintered syntax, Beautiful Boy finally takes hold. Nic's first relapse is nightmarish, his second… also nightmarish. To complain of repetition is to miss the point. It's the repetition that wears people down — addicts and parents and friends alike. In one scene, David begs Nic to come home, and Chalamet's Nic quivers with indignation that his dad could think he's using again when he just wants to be independent… and also get some money for… something. In a later scene, it's Nic who begs to come back while his father and stepmother force themselves, on the advice of councilors, to close the door. A test of an actor is playing someone who's split in so many ways that he moves forward while looking backwards and vice versa, and Chalamet is already a master. How's his iambic pentameter? I smell something rotten in Denmark if he has the technical skills.
Beautiful Boy has an ending that is at once open and conclusive. Will Nic's recovery take? The conclusive thing is the twin memoirs and the movie. Nic and David came onstage after the movie's Toronto International Film Festival premiere, which in this day and age is a kind of closure. Now Nic doesn't just owe it to his parents and himself to stay clean. He owes it to us — and Timothée Chalamet.


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oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Three Crazy Things We Now Accept as "Normal"
How can central banks "retrain" participants while maintaining their extreme policies of stimulus?
Human habituate very easily to new circumstances, even extreme ones. What we accept as "normal" now may have been considered bizarre, extreme or unstable a few short years ago.
1. Near-zero interest rates. If someone had announced to a room of economists and financial journalists in 2006 that interest rates would be near-zero for the foreseeable future, few would have considered it possible or healthy. Yet now the Federal Reserve and other central banks have kept interest rates/bond yields near-zero for almost nine years.
The Fed has raised rates a mere .75% in three cautious baby-steps, clearly fearful of collapsing the "recovery."
What would happen if mortgages returned to their previously "normal" level around 7% from the current 4%? What would happen to auto sales if people with average credit had to pay more than 0% or 1% for a auto loan?
Those in charge of setting rates and yields are clearly fearful that "normalized" interest rates would kill the recovery and the stock bubble.
2. Massive money-creation hasn't generated inflation. In classic economics, massive money-printing (injecting trillions of dollars, yuan, yen and euros into the financial system) would be expected to spark inflation.
As many of us have observed, "official" inflation of less than 2% does not align with "real-world" inflation in big-ticket items such as rent, healthcare and college tuition/fees. A more realistic inflation rate is 7%-8% annually, especially in the higher-cost regions of the US.
But setting that aside, there is a puzzling asymmetry between low official inflation and the unprecedented expansion of money supply, debt and monetary stimulus (credit and liquidity). To date, most of this new money appears to be inflating assets rather than the real world. But can this asymmetry continue for another 9 years?
3. Stock markets are soaring but sales and profits are stagnant. Everyone knows central banks are still pumping billions of dollars per month into the financial system, and this (coupled with central bank purchases of stocks and bonds) has been pushing stocks sharply higher for the past 9 years, with only a few hiccups along the way.
This is pushing valuations out of alignment with traditional metrics of valuing assets such as sales and profits--a process known as "price discovery." In essence, traders and investors have habituated to central banks driving private-sector markets higher, not because the assets are generating more value or profits. but simply as a function of centralized money creation and asset purchases.
All of these extremes generate mal-investment, diminishing returns and perverse incentives for ramping up unproductive and risky speculation, leverage and debt. Yet the central banks have trapped themselves in this risky trajectory because they've pushed the accelerator to the floorboard for 9 years. Any extreme held in place for 9 years has long slipped from "temporary" to permanent.
Participants have now habituated fully to central banks extreme stimulus of financial markets, and in a sense they've forgotten how to price assets based on real-world private-sector measures.
How can central banks "retrain" participants while maintaining their extreme policies of stimulus? The only possible answer is: they can't.
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Our chapter was founded in September 2000 by A.J. Collier as a spin off from the PMI Houston Chapter. It was officially chartered in January 2001 with 25 charter members.
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At the 2003 PMI Global Congress, our chapter won awards for best membership growth and best professional development/education among 146 Category 1 (25-299 members) PMI chapters. At the 2006 PMI Global Congress, our chapter won the component of the year award for Catagory 1.
Many of our accomplishments can be attributed to our Past President, A.J. Collier who's vision helped our chapter pioneer the Seminar@Sea Program, Annual Golf Tournament and Vendor Days.
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There is an old saying that goes, "You always hurt the one you love." And in the case of Charles and Paula Pearson, that literally came true.
The Pearsons lived in Kentucky, and one day in September, 2010, Paula purchased a motion-sensing air freshener device. Without telling Charles, Paula put it on a shelf above the toilet in the bathroom.
On September 25, Charles was alone at home and went into the bathroom. The device, as it was designed to do, detected Charles' presence and as he stood in front of the toilet, released a mist of its contents directly into his face. Charles was unable to avoid inhaling some of the chemical spray, which got into both his sinuses and his lungs.
He experienced immediate difficulty breathing and attempted to wash the chemicals off, but only got limited relief from that. He estimated it took him five to seven minutes after leaving the bathroom to catch his breath. Charles later returned to investigate what had happened, and discovered the device.
When Paula returned home, Charles asked her about the air freshener. She admitted that she had bought the device and placed it above the toilet. She later admitted that she did not read the instructions or warnings on the packaging or on the device itself. The instructions included a warning that the device should be placed at least six feet above the ground, and that the air freshener was harmful if swallowed, ingested, or if it came into contact with the eyes.
Things got worse for Charles from that point forward. In the weeks that followed, he continued to experience respiratory problems, ultimately requiring hospitalization for twelve days. His doctor diagnosed him with "asthmatic bronchitis, exacerbated by chemical exposure." Having been a smoker for fifteen years, Charles had had a history of respiratory problems, but since he quit smoking some time before, he and not been hospitalized for any respiratory symptoms since 2001.
About a year after the incident — and there is no other way to say this — Charles sued his wife for causing his injuries. It might seem strange that one marital partner can sue another, and back in the days when our laws originated in Merrie Olde England, it was legally prohibited. But despite the possibility of, for example, collusion between spouses to defraud an insurance company, in the 1950s Kentucky passed a law making it one of the states where this was possible.
In the case of the Pearsons, though, no one seems to have had any doubt that Charles suffered the injuries from the air freshener that he claimed. His condition continued to deteriorate, to the point that he filed his lawsuit, to the point that his doctors had to put him on steroids, oxygen, and ongoing respiratory therapy.
Charles' lawsuit also named the manufacturer of the air freshener along with Paula (and, along with her, their homeowners' insurance). The manufacturer eventually settled and was dismissed from the case.
On Paula's behalf the insurance carrier tried to get the case dismissed, arguing that she did not have a duty to Charles to avoid the harm that he had suffered. The judge initially denied the request, but then a month afterward suddenly reversed himself and dismissed the case.
Charles appealed, and the court of appeal was not as impressed by the argument that won the day in the trial court. The appeals court noted that expert witnesses for both sides had testified that Paula had ignored five separate warnings on the packaging of the air freshener device, including that warning to install it at least six feet above the floor. One of the experts added that she had in fact placed the device "at the worst possible position in the bathroom" — namely, pointing right where it was likely to spray someone of average height right in the face.
Perhaps she should have bolted it to the ceiling?
Well, early in 2018, the court of appeal held that Paula owed a duty to place the device where it would not cause harm (it could, of course, have sprayed a visitor to their home instead of her husband) and sent the case back for trial. At this point, it's likely that the insurance company (if it's smart) will simply settle the case.
But not all is lost. Paula may have inadvertently discovered a new device guaranteed to stop a burglar in his tracks.


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Op-ed: Stop pretending there's a difference between "online" and "real life"
Seriously just cut it out. The stakes are too high.
Annalee Newitz - Dec 3, 2016 4:00 pm UTC
Enlarge / My face is made of internet.
Sometimes I get into one of those conversations about the Internet where the only way I can reply is to quote from The IT Crowd: "Are you from the past?" I say that every time someone asserts that the online world is somehow separate from real life. You'd be surprised how much this comes up, even after all these years of people's digital shenanigans leading to everything from espionage and murder to international video fame and fancy book deals.
It's time to get rid of the Facebook "news feed," because it's not news
But now that the U.S. has a president-elect who communicates with the American people almost exclusively via Twitter and YouTube, it's really time to stop kidding ourselves. Before the election, many of us (including me) would have shrugged off the fake news stories piling up in the margins of our Facebook feeds. Nobody takes that stuff seriously, right? The election of Donald Trump and several recent tweets from the House Science Committee are two strong pieces of evidence that, yes, people do.
Massive US-planned cyberattack against Iran went well beyond Stuxnet
In reality, politics have straddled the digital and meatspace for decades. Though government officials may have just learned about "the cyber," people working in computer security have been dealing with criminal and whimsical incursions into their systems since the late 20th century. It was 1990 when the infamous Operation Sundevil swept up innocents in a massive Secret Service dragnet operation to stop carders. The Stuxnet worm, which affected physical operations of centrifuges at a uranium enrichment plant in Iran, is only the most obvious example of how digital ops can have consequences away from the keyboard.
Security researcher Morgan Marquis-Boire explains "data contraception"
As security researcher Morgan Marquis-Boire said during a recent Ars Live event, it's absurd to talk about "digital authoritarianism" because these days state-sponsored surveillance and censorship always have a digital component. Nothing makes this more obvious than the little chunks of online identities we all carry in our pockets all the time. If a police officer confiscates your mobile, they could gain access to everything you've texted to your friends. If state agents want to track your movements by looking up which cell towers your mobile has pinged, they can. If a criminal snags it, they could drain your bank accounts.
The Internet of things, fondly known as the Internet of extremely broken and insecure things, makes this whole situation even worse. Our homes, our baby monitors, our cars, our offices, and even our city infrastructure are vulnerable to malicious attacks—or just trollish tinkering, like the recent bus system hack in San Francisco that took down the smart card system and made bus rides free on Thanksgiving Day. The more we network every last object in our lives, the more our physical reality depends on the integrity of computer networks.
Our social lives are networked, too. As I mentioned earlier, plenty of evidence suggests that social media news was a major factor in President-Elect Trump's surprise win. But we can also see the real-world power of social media in the explosion of troll culture, whether we're talking about teens bullying each other to suicide, angry mobs driving people off Twitter with death threats, or maniacs swatting Twitch gamers. The point is, people are harmed in a fundamental way by online trolls. Nobody can "go offline" to get away from haters, because those haters can erupt into real life at any moment.
Telling someone to go offline to get away from trolls is like telling them to stop leaving the house. Maybe it's safer in there, but you can't survive if you never leave. Many people need to be online to do work, attend school, and get important information. We literally can't find out what our president-elect is saying if we don't log into Twitter once in a while. "Going offline" isn't a real option anymore.
As we continue forward into the twenty-first century, we need to take seriously the fact that every aspect of our lives has an online component, whether we like it or not. There is no such thing as an exclusively online movement or social experience. Our real lives, what we do in the streets, are wired into computer networks. The way those networks are run and the rules that govern them are explicitly political.
That means our civic responsibilities don't end the instant we log into Snapchat or Reddit. What we do online matters. It can change the course of people's lives and shift the balance of power in a nation. The sooner we take responsibility for what that means, the better.
Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz is a former Senior Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica. She is the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, and her first novel, Autonomous, came out in September 2017.
Email annalee.newitz@arstechnica.com // Twitter @annaleen


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Title: Demands
Author: A.G.C.
Topics: democracy, Diavolo in corpo
Source: Retrieved on June 18, 2012 from feartosleep.espivblogs.net
A.G.C.
"What do you want, my children? Jobs? Regional autonomy? A pay raise? The vote at the age of 15? Retirement at the age of 45? Equality of the sexes? Keep on asking in order and all of your complaints will be properly treated with the due form."
Every favor that the master grants consolidates him, since he is the Master. But the fact is that the subjects get what they want. What they want? Yes, and along the way, they learn to want what they are ordered to want.
Do I ask the Master leave to fall in love with my aunt? My dear man, the ideas you have! One doesn't ask this of the Master.
Why? It is premature; a Ministry of Erotic Relations has not been created. But will one be created? Without a doubt, and then you will be able to demand the right to fall in love with whoever you desire. For now, be patient; and tell me, meanwhile, why not demand the right to freely import Australian cars? It is not shameful to have a desire for an Australian car (since it is your right to desire it). Isn't one the owner of one's desires? Why does one want the money one earns if one cannot spend it on what one desires? Isn't it intolerable that the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs place so many obstacles in your way that you can't act on your own? Come on! Let's unite – all the partisans for the free importation of cars – and make our demand. Petitions! Strikes! Demonstrations in the streets! Presentations of bills by our representatives in the Chambers! Let's demand! Good, but it is necessary to recognize that the matter of jobs, of autonomy, of votes, of wages, of pensions, or that of the equality of rights between the sexes, is more important and serious than Australian cars. You mean that these demands are nearer to the desires of people than Australian cars or amorous relations with my aunt?
It is necessary for us to reflect. What relationship is there between the creation of jobs and the desire not to work? What relationship is there between earlier retirement, the four day week, 33 days a year of vacation, and the desire not to have a schedule whether it's Saturday or Monday so that one can pass night freely as the moon turns around us or go gather blackberries whenever your friends and the blackberries ask it of you? What relationship is there between regional (or, pardon, national or whatever one wants to call it) and the desire of people not to have to obey decisions originating from above or not to tolerate taxes the purpose of which the don't know and organizations the use of which they don't understand? How does such autonomy, granted or to be granted, approach the desire of individuals to reach an agreement between those of the countryside and those of the city and its surroundings in all the circumstances that commonly present themselves? What relationship is there between the vote for adolescents and the desire never to become an adult? What relationship is there between the right of women to occupy the positions of men and the desire that the domination of men ceases? Between the right of a woman to have the children she wants, with who and when she wants and the urgent desire that more future car buyers are not born every year?
Finally, one can devote oneself to having nothing to do with this; but it is necessary to be realistic, my friend, and certainly these demands are a step forward, toward more advanced goals in the direction of these latter aims you speak about so naively. Autonomy, just like the nationalization of enterprises, moves toward the goal of an authentic liberation of Capital and the State. The vote for adolescents is a means by which to impose laws that are less and less dictated by the criteria of adults and are more and more youthful. Pay raises are of use to workers and to employees at least until there's a new raise in prices and a new demand, because they feel that they are more their own master and find themselves in a better position to impose their class interests on the bodies that exploit them. The four-day work week and the seven-hour work day represent a step forward toward the progressive liberation from forced labor and for enjoying one's free time. The equality of women in society and at work is a step… for the things they desire.
Yes,… If today some still continue to believe that things function in this way, if they don't perceive the quality of the positive outcome of demands, if they don't understand one bit how the apparatus functions and that the demands that succeed are always revealed to be a swindle, as well as a renewal and reinforcement of the powers that be, then it means that one must have studied realism at the Polytechnic Institute of Colorful Dreams.
Oh, demands! Words have their destiny. This well-known legal term is already ill-omened. The Latin word for "demand" is a legal term, rei vindicatio[1] [literally "king's protection or vengeance]: a claim of something one considers as one's property. I imagine that this is what the swindle has been based on. It seems that initially the operation worked like this: the one who demanded the right to something – a piece of land, for example – together with another who made a counter-claim presented themselves before a magistrate or judge and set to work on the matter in question – a clump of disputed earth for example – so that, being informed by the arguments of both claimants, each claiming to own the right to the thing, the judge would make a decision and grant it to one or to the other. It is clear that, in time, in this triangle formed by two rivals and a representative of the law with the miserable thing at the center, the relations between terms are changed in a significant way. In fact, whereas in this original scheme, the hands of the claimants were directed toward the thing, and whereas the authority appeared to remain above and outside the conflict – as an impartial witness and a above all judge between the hands for disposing of the thing in the just position (to the one side, or to the other side, or, like Solomon, right down the middle of the thing)—, today, due to demands among other things the plot has advanced to such a point that the hands, both of them, all of them, are directed toward the heights, toward the summit on which the judge stands, while from below, they ask for the concession or the free distribution of the thing demanded; which, consequently – and this is obvious, has become, first of all, the property of the judge who can thus, yielding to requests and pressure, hand it over to those whose claims he considers to be just.
There is no need to dwell on the fact that this process has constituted and still constitutes a way of guaranteeing and strengthening power. But then in the meantime such a process could not be carried to its end without an accompanying change of the thing itself. In the original shema, this might still be a bit of earth, maybe a slave, in short, a thing with obvious utility and use value for those who lay claim to it. But when the things have become concessions from the Master, have further more become abstract rights, amounts of time and money, arrangements for the future improvement of working conditions or the legal position of the claimant and, at the extreme point of the bureaucratic progress of the State and the corporation, a change in the editing of a paragraph of regulation, the creation of a new department for the administration of satisfied demands, the appearance of a few initials such as "Smug 3-m-25" the importance of which the claimants still don't understand, and their official representatives or the experts on the subject are there to pretend that they, yes, they are able to understand.
And another transformation accompanies the one around the claimants. To the extent that they grow accustomed to modifying their cries in accordance with the initials and numbers that the social order imposes on them, they present their claim in the language of order, in a way that this order can understand their demand and act in consequence; at they same time, they cannot avoid becoming convinced little by little on their own that this was really what they desired – cars within everyone's reach, 33 vacation days a year, retirement at 45, color television, a confirmed minimum wage, a clean niche in a protected apartment block, equality of rights, a democratic constitution, horizontal labor unions and two hundred miles of highway – ; so that in the end their desires com to coincide with the development projects of the state and business. And these fine people, by whom it is presumed that the desire for things and the capacity of enjoying them come, only constitute a small domestic motor that, while it continues to produce work, produces the petitions which power and money need in order to change and continue to perpetuate themselves.
But, oh! My heart, stop reasoning and limit yourself to proposing to your comrades in suffering the following cry: "Citizens, don't make demands!" Lets demand no more. Let's leave them to do their best on their own to organize themselves and us (to the extent to which we leave things be), and to advance towards the end that governs all their functions, towards death. Undoubtedly, they will continue to much harm to people, but still less than they would have done if we, the ones below, were to collaborate through our demands. Of course! And in the meantime, every one considers the rights that seem good to them, and so as not to demand and not to make a claim to the Master that this is justice, everyone takes the thing directly in hand. But, old chap, where are you trying to get to? Anarchy? Chaos? Don't choke yourself, comrade. I'll talk to you about chaos another day.
[1] Unfortunately, a literal translation was not possible for this passage. In Italian, the word for a demand is "rivendicazione" which comes directly from this Latin term. The English "demand" comes from a Latin base as well: de + mandare, which apparently means "to entrust to" , and so is, in its own way, equally ill-omened for those of us seeking to determine our lives on our own terms.


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West Virginia Mountaineers vs. Villanova Wildcats Preview and Pick – Point Spread – Betting Odds
West Virginia Mountaineers (23-6 SU, 12-16 ATS) vs. Villanova Wildcats (24-5 SU, 18-10 ATS), 12:00 p.m. EST, Saturday, March 6, 2010, Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, Pa. TV: CBS
by Ryno of Predictem.com
Point Spread: West Virginia +3/Villanova -3
Over/Under: 151.5
When the Villanova Wildcats started the season with a 20-1 overall record and 9-0 in the Big East, everyone knew the Cats hadn't yet faced the toughest part of their schedule. With their schedule truly back-loaded, they had to face the likes of Georgetown, West Virginia, UConn, Pitt and Syracuse in the final month of the regular season. A 4-4 record in their last eight games isn't even that bad for the Wildcats given their brutal stretch of games. But they have one tough game left to end the regular season, and it's against the West Virginia Mountaineers early Saturday afternoon at the Wachovia Center.
During that eight-game stretch, the Wildcats won at West Virginia and Cincinnati, won at home against Providence and South Florida, and lost to Georgetown, UConn, Pitt and Syracuse, three of which were on the road. But the Wildcats are now looking to finish the regular season strong and secure the No. 2 seed in the Big East tournament with a victory over West Virginia.
West Virginia, meanwhile, has won two games in a row and four of its last five. The Mountaineers have won five of their last seven road games, and one of those two losses was in triple overtime at Pitt. After a 74-68 home comeback victory over Cincinnati last Saturday, the Mountaineers won at home over Georgetown on Monday, 81-68. On senior night, senior Da'Sean Butler led the way with 22 points, six rebounds and six assists. Devin Ebanks scored 15 points, Kevin Jones scored 14, and Darryl Bryant chipped in with 11. The Mountaineers only shot 43 percent from the field and 6-for-21 on 3-pointers, and they allowed Georgetown to shoot 49 percent from the field and 6-for-16 on 3-pointers, but the Mountaineers forced 20 turnovers while only committing 10 of them and they got to the free throw line 34 times (made 27 of them).
Villanova is coming off a 77-73 road victory at Cincinnati on Tuesday. The game was tight throughout until the Wildcats pulled away midway through the second half. But the Bearcats went on a run and made it a close game in the final minutes, before Nova made some clutch free throws and held on for the hard-fought victory. Six different Nova players scored in double figures, led by Scottie Reynolds, who scored 17 points but was scoreless at the half and had only attempted one field goal. Corey Stokes scored 14 points, Reggie Redding had 11 points, and Corey Fisher, Antonio Pena and Mouphtaou Yarou each scored 10. The Wildcats shot 48 percent from the field and 10-for-21 from 3-point range. They also got to the free throw line 35 times (made 25 of them). Cincinnati shot 39 percent from the field and 7-for-30 on 3-pointers.
Last time these teams met, Villanova won at West Virginia on February 8, 82-75. Reynolds led the way with 21 points for the Wildcats, while Fished had 17 points and Pena scored 10. Five different WVU players scored in double figures, led by Bryant's 15 points. The 'Cats shot an incredible 57 percent from the field and 5-for-11 from 3-point range while holding the Mountaineers to 41 percent shooting from the field and a miserable 7-for-27 on 3-pointers. Nova turned the ball over 18 times but also held a 10-rebound advantage on the boards. One big difference was in free throw shooting, where Nova shot 19-for-22 and WVU missed 14 of it's 32 attempts.
Both of these teams play hard defensively but also have their advantages offensively. Nova has the super quick guards that can penetrate and dish to create open shots, while WVU has the long, athletic forwards that can use their athleticism and versatility to dominate in the paint. Last time these teams met, the Mountaineers shot horribly from 3-point range and the free throw line, while the Wildcats shot great from the field and the free throw line. Still, the 'Cats only won by seven points. Both teams are going to get their offensive opportunities if they play hard, but it's just a matter of knocking down shots.
Villanova is 9-4 ATS in its last 13 home games, 11-5 ATS in its last 16 games following an ATS win, and 1-4 ATS in its last five Saturday games. The over is 4-1 in the last five meetings between these teams at Villanova and 8-3 in the last 11 meetings overall.
Ryno's Pick: Villanova has already beaten WVU on the road. What would make anybody think they won't replicate the feat on their own home court? Look for Villanova to win by 7 or more and to cover the spread.


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The magnificent Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the ancient town of Lindos in the south & the UNESCO world heritage medieval old town of Rhodes can be right on your doorstep! Kresten Hotels have two delightful properties on this stunning island available for late Summer 2019 bookings on special offers at the moment. Each property offering a different customer experience & opportunity for a wonderful summer holiday in Greece. Click on the links for more info, use our live chat service & call our friendly 'Kresten Experts' to book. Looking for something else? Give our experts a call, we can help create your perfect holiday! All holidays includes flights from various UK airports & are ABTA & ATOL regulated & protected.
There is a famous Greek phrase, "I agapi pernaei apo to stomachi" which means that love is getting bigger and stronger from good Food, and we are ready to offer you a wide variety of choices, top quality and the spirit of the Greek service. Our Food and beverage program was made with our guests satisfaction in mind. Feel free to choose…everything!
Get your day started with our enlarged American buffet breakfast in our main restaurant "Athina". If you are not feeling for an early wake up start or just want something more take a look at our buffet filled with salads, sandwiches, a variety of ice creams and pastry at "Porta di Mare" pool restaurant.
After 12:00 the buffet gets more interesting with the addition of cold and warm appetizers as well as a choice of main courses from Greek & International cuisine. Just half an hour later in our main restaurant "Athina" will open its doors to offer you an enlarged lunch buffet as well as show cooking.
From 16:00 in our pool restaurant "Porta di Mare" a buffet with variety of Salads, snacks & sandwiches, as well as fruits, pastries and various flavors of ice cream will remain for your pleasure until half an hour before our dinner in our main restaurant "Athina" from 18:30. A magical sunset over the sea setting is before your eyes during your dinner time.
Dinner at the Main Restaurant with warm and cold appetizers, salad buffet and a large variety of cold and warm choices of main courses from Greek & International cuisine, as well as Show Cooking. If you don't feel like dining in our main restaurant you can also choose our spectacular theme restaurants…19.00 – 22.00 hrs: The "Porta di Mare" theme restaurant, offers an A La Carte dinner by the sea front, in open air surroundings or 19.00 – 22.00 hrs: The "Teatro" theme restaurant, shall take you to a journey to Italy's traditional grandmothers recipes.
In case you missed your dinner or enjoyed our beautiful island during the afternoon, from 22:30 and for one hour light snacks will be present at our lounge bar "Horizon".
While During the day there are many choices of places where you can choose something to drink, during their operation times, our bar outlets "Horizon" & "Bella Vista" Bar are waiting to serve you drinks and cocktails.


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Young Heirlooms: The Hammer
Dan Van Vechten
The Young Heirlooms are releasing a new album tonight called The Hammer. I agreed to do this review three weeks ago, so the day before it comes out should be the ideal time to get started on it, right? Uh… sorry, Young Heirlooms. I'll get on this right away. In the interest of time, I will play the album for the first time on my lunch break and write out my reactions as I listen.
Okay, here we go. It's noon and I'll start with track one: "Silverglade". Perfect - let's start out with a song about working. "I wake early in the morning, early in the morning, breaking bones for bread. I work while everybody's sleeping, everybody's sleeping at home in their beds." Breaking bones for bread. Oh damn, that's a good line. And the harmonies! The chorus has a Fleetwood Mac feel to it, with a build of instruments layered just so. That was tasty. Let's see what's next.
"Bury Me With My Hammer" is the Young Heirlooms' single from this album. Again, there is a feel that this band comes from someplace else. The harmonies are so tight and balanced, as are the layers of instruments. Rumor has it that Chris Robinson is something of a gear head. He loves guitars and the different personalities each can have. Recording has got to be a dream world for someone who doesn't have to pick just one voice for a song. Ooh, and that bass groove. It's easy to tell why this song was selected as the band's showcase single.
"Helena & Halburton" is a love song that swings with a waltz beat, showcasing Kelly Fine's sweet and soulful voice by itself for the verse. There is maturity not only in this band's themes and sound, but in the lyrical delivery as well. I could sit and listen to Kelly sing by herself for hours. A couple of times I actually have, and I recommend you do, too. I mean, don't miss out on the band of course. I'm just saying. Kelly Fine is no joke. She gives me goosebumps every time I hear her sing.
"Workin' Man" rocks out with electric energy, pushing the pace and adding a little boom to the album, then "Jellico" shifts gears again to more of a country rock sound. No wait… is that jazz? Make that jazzy country rock harmony. Oh, they're so smooth. So, so smooth. And I have guitar envy, but Chris already knows that. We have to set aside 10 minutes every time I see them play just to geek out together over whatever guitars he brought along.
I think I remember Kelly telling the story behind "Hotel Benvenuti", but I don't recall the details. All I remember is being floored that she can have an idea pop into her head and then jot down some ideas that led to a work of art like this song, because I would probably write a few notes and forget what they are for when I find them in my pocket in a week when I go to do laundry. Either that or I'll write nothing but notes for a month and bang my head against a wall that I can't make a song come out. Did I mention I agreed to do this review three weeks ago? But enough about me.
"Never Truly" has a little dobro and a touch of twang to it for a nice change up. Most Young Heirlooms songs seem to have more R&B or singer/songwriter influence to them, but this song is all country. The harmonica is a nice touch. The title caught my attention, and hearing it fit in to the rest of the line, "You were never truly dear to me" is almost like hearing a good punch line. "Darling Dear" also has plenty of country twang to it, but it builds and soars with it more of a ballad feel to it before "Over and Over" rejoins the groove of the first few songs on the album.
I am going to have to check everyone's ID's, because I am pretty sure this record came out in 1972. It didn't? Okay, sorry. Still timeless, though. Everything the Young Heirlooms does is timeless. Their music is gimmick-free, lyrics are devoid of cliché, and performances are A-plus. I had no doubt this album was going to be outstanding, and it absolutely did not disappoint. Speaking of timeless, the last track is Neil Young's "Ohio", and they absolutely did it all the justice the song deserves. In the current age of political unrest and social divide, did they really know how relevant the track would be? It's as if the band just seems to know how to do everything right.
Dan Van Vechten shares his love for local music by putting it in his blog. If there is a band or a venue you've never heard of in town that could use your attention, he's going to try to get your attention. When he's not writing about music, Dan is often writing songs of his own and playing them in the places folky singer/songwriters go.
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Are you in for a romantic journey? Do you want to experience a unique tour that will remain in your memories for several years?
That's why we propose you our Sintra Tour. This journey is tailor made for the romantics, for the couples who want to feel the beauty of Architecture and Nature. It's about merging in a sensible equilibrium the best of both worlds.
Thirty minutes after our departure we get to our main destiny: Pena Palace (Palácio da Pena), a 19th century Romanticist castle on the top of a hill in the Sintra Mountains. Considered as one of the Seven Wonders of Portugal, the palace is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the most visited palace in our country.
This palace inspired by the Neuschwanstein Castle, of Ludwig II from Bavaria, has some influences of Manueline and Mourish architectural styles and is the major work of king Fernando II. A German prince which became king of Portugal by marriage with the queen Maria II.
We also will have time to stay at Sintra for a while, the necessary for the lunch, to take pictures and explore some of the medieval streets. But we can't be too long, because we have another destiny: Cape Roca (Cabo da Roca).
This cape is the westernmost point of continental Portugal and Europe and is, like Luís de Camões said in "Os Lusíadas": «Aqui, onde a terra se acaba e o mar começa… [Here, where the land ends and the sea begins…] ».
In the Cape Roca, known as Promontorium Magnum by the Romans, there is a touristic shop and a magnificent lighthouse that adds a poetic sense to the sea view…
In the end… we have to return to Lisbon. It's time to our driver/guide to take you back to your hotel room and let you rest from this extraordinary romantic voyage.
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In 2015, COMPAS published research findings stating that provisions in UK immigration law to exclude some families from accessing welfare benefits was, in fact, interfering with the requirement placed upon local authorities to safeguard and promote the welfare of any child in need within their jurisdiction. Following this, and in collaboration with the NRPF Network of concerned practitioners, COMPAS was awarded funding by the Legal Education Foundation to create an online tool aimed at those who advise families in need. Soapbox was commissioned to design and develop this tool.
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We were thrilled to learn that the tool has been awarded joint Research Champion at the 2017 Community Integration Awards for its role as a "useful and timely toolkit [that helps] to support agencies, grassroots organisations and local authorities to access accurate information about the most marginalised and vulnerable".


Charity begins at Home with Aer Lingus.
Aer Lingus were the visitors for the Bea Cup match, and this promised to be a closely fought affair. Mark started the ball rolling by falling to the old hide the checking Bishop behind a pawn trick and lose the Queen Act. He is currently walking home looking behind the hedges….sorry…. pawns!!! Don't worry about it young man. Robbie seemed always in control, but his opponent kept finding defensive moves to prolong the game though you need more than tenacious defence to stop Robbie these days, continuing his rich vein of form this year. His son Sean produced a commanding performance on top board to defeat Gearoidin Ui Laighleis, the 2015 Irish Woman's champion in a pulsating game. Stefan followed this with a tough win over a resolute opponent who having worked his way back into the game, then moved his holding Rook from the fifth rank and walked into a mate in one trick on the e5 square. Gavin was also involved in a lengthy match, having been better placed for most of it, he then forced a sequence of winning exchanges but forgot about a backward knight jump which not only holds everything but you watch with horror whilst your last piece leaps off the board for nothing routine, All in all, a 3-2 win is a good result against one of the main promotion chasers.
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Mina Tsuchida, Chief Manager of HR Department serves as a judge at The Hult Prize held at Hokkaido University on 14th Dec.
The Hult Prize: The Hult Prize is a global competition that crowd-sources ideas from MBA and college students after challenging them to solve social issues. The Prize is a partnership between United Nations, and former US President Bill Clinton selects the challenge topic. The Hult prize has been referred to as the "Nobel Prize for students", and the winning team will be awarded US$1,000,000 to launch a social enterprise supported by global business leaders.
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In The Hult Prize Regional Preliminaries held on April 27, 2019, the team from Hokkaido University won the first Prize for the first time as a team from Japanese college and selected one of 40 regional representatives from around the world.
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This article investigates variance risk premia in energy commodities, particularly crude oil and natural gas, using a robust model-independent approach. Over a period of 11 years, we find that the average variance risk premia are significantly negative for both energy commodities. However, it is difficult to explain the level and variation in energy variance risk premia with systematic or commodity-specific factors. The return profile of a natural gas variance swap resembles that of a call option, while the return profile of a crude oil variance swap, if anything, resembles the return profile of a put option. The annualized Sharpe ratios from shorting energy variance are sizable; although not nearly as high as the annualized Sharpe ratio of shorting S&P 500 Index variance, they are comparable to those of shorting interest rate volatility or variance on individual stocks.


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Well that's cheating
I've spent the last 3 days at the Google Lunar X PRIZE team summit. There have been some moves on the scorecard this week as a result of a lot of consideration to the details.
On Tuesday (the first day) I was the lunch speaker. My talk was a little controversial, but that's fine with me. I had one of those weird moments that sometimes happen when you are giving a presentation to a room of amazing people.
It went something like this…
Me: April 12, 1981. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing. I was six years old, and assembling a moon explorer Lego(TM) set and watching the Space Shuttle launch for the first time. My parents recorded the event on a VHS tape and then pulled the tab off of the back of the tape. Anyone over about 30 remember what pulling the tab off of the back of the tape meant?
A shout from the back of the room: It meant you couldn't write on that tape any more.
Me: Exactly! This was a historic moment in history in my parents eyes, and they preserved the moment by making sure that tape couldn't be recorded over again. It was their way of preserving their participation in this historic moment. How many of you remember what you were doing that day?
Rob Kelso raises his hand and says: "Sure I remember. I was a flight director and in mission control that day."
Me: Oh come on now, that's just cheating.
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