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«Ромео+Джульєтта» () — американська романтична мелодрама 1996 року за участю Леонардо ДіКапріо і Дейнс Клер. Фільм є однією з інтерпретацій великої п'єси легендарного письменника Епохи Відродження. За мотивами п'єси Вільяма Шекспіра, але в абсолютно іншій постановці. 10-та екранізація знаменитої п'єси В. Шекспіра була номінована на премію «Оскар» в 1996 році.

Сюжет

Красива історія кохання двох підлітків, проти любові яких стала на заваді ворожнеча між їхніми родинами. Сюжет фільму дуже змінений порівняно з п'єсою. Але все так же яскраво та чуттєво висвітлена любов Ромео і Джульєтти, які після довгих, болісних душевний страждань, все-таки знаходять вічну любов та спокій, а також і вічну пам'ять у століттях.

Цікаві факти про фільм

Деякі рядки з самої п'єси викинуті, наприклад, монолог Джульєтти у склепі — вона просто здійснює самогубство біля Ромео, застрелившись. Деякі події і їх порядок змінені:
 Наприклад, в сцені коли Ромео п'є отруту, а Джульєта прокидається і доторкається до його обличчя.
 Ще одним нововведенням є купівля отрути в аптекаря у Вероні, а не в Мантуї.
 Абра (спочатку відомий, як «Абрам» у п'єсі) з роду Капулетті замість Монтеккі.
 Коли на початку фільму хлопці Монтеккі і Капулетті зустрічаються на автозаправній станції, Монтеккі перші кусають пальці замість Капулетті.
 Грегорі і Самсон — прислуги Капулетті, але на початку фільму вони вводяться, як хлопці Монтеккі.
 Коли Ромео відбуває покарання в Мантуї, це місто показується глядачеві, як пустеля.
 Верона-Біч, є центром корпоративної війни між двома лідерами індустрії, «Монтеккі» та «Капулетті».
 Принц Верони перейменований у «Капітана Принца» та у фільмі він начальник департаменту поліції. А його відносини з Парісом, у фільмі Дейвом Перісом зовсім видалені з фільму.
 Батьки Ромео і Джульєтти отримують американські імена, відповідно Тед і Кароліна Монтеккі та Фульхенсіо і Глорія Капулетті.

 Змінений реквізит картини. Замість мечів — пістолети з вигаданою торговою маркою «Меч 9 мм» або «Кинджал».
 Замість гонитви Ромео за Тібальтом пішки, вони беруть участь в автомобільй гонитві. Автомобіль Ромео розбивається біля центрального фонтану міста, після чого Ромео притуляє дуло пістолета Тібальта до своєї голови і просить його покласти край життю. Тібальт відмовляється і Ромео в гніві вистрілює в переляканого Тібальта з його власної зброї.
 Хоча більшість бійок відбувається кулаками та з пістолетами, смерть Меркуціо від руки Тібальта приходить від великого шматка скла на пляжі, на яке його немов випадково штовхає Тібальт.
 Чернець Лоуренс відсилає лист Ромео до Мантуї поштовою службою під назвою «Post Haste».

Зйомки фільму

Леонардо Дікапріо став першим вибором Лурманна на роль Ромео, тоді як вибір актриси на роль Джульєтти значно ускладнювалися. Наталі Портман ідеально підходила на цю роль і вона вже подорожувала Сіднеєм, репетируючи цю роль. Але після перших її кінопроб для цього фільму режисер ухвалив рішення, що вона дуже молода для такої ролі. І ще, за словами самої Портман, він сказав, що вони з Дікапріо схожі один на одного і їх різниця у віці теж достатньо не мала. З цієї миті знімання фільму відклали до кращих часів.
На роль Джульєтти пробували Сара Мішель Геллар, Вінслет Кейт, Дженніфер Лав Г'юїтт, але вони тільки зовнішністю могли замінити Портман. Сару Мішель Геллар не могли узяти ще тому, що вона знімалася в черговій серії «Всі мої діти». Г'юїтт, в принципі, підходила для цієї ролі, але не могла грати так сучасно, як просив Лурманн. Різ Візерспун теж пробувала себе в цій ролі, але і тут Лурманн відхилив її кандидатуру, оскільки вона вже знімалася в іншому фільмі. Але одного разу Джоді Фостер, яка грала разом з Клер Дейнс в картині «Будинок для свят» запропонувала Лурманну спробувати її для ролі Джульєтти. І вже наступного дня, всього після однієї проби, Дейнс була затверджена на цю роль.

Реакція на фільм

Фінансово фільм був дуже успішним, приніс касові збори в $147 мільйони, а бюджет фільму становив $14,5 мільйона. Прем'єра фільму відбулася 1 листопада 1996 року в Сполучених Штатах і Канаді в 1276 театрах і зібрала $11,1 мільйона лише за одні вихідні, попит на квитки в касах був колосальний. Так було зібрано $46,3 мільйонів в Сполучених Штатах і Канаді.
74 % критиків давали позитивні відгуки про фільм. І тільки Роджер Еберт з журналу «Сан-Таймс Чикаго» висловлював неприязнь
до фільму і дав при цьому всього дві зірки та сказав: «Сам фільм був таким же поганим, як і сама ідея… Я ніколи не бачив що-небудь подібне, в такому безладі. Як можна було так перекрутити класичну трагедію В. Шекспіра.» Еберт писав, що Піт Постлетуейт і Міріам Марголіс були «єдині актори у фільмі, які почувалися як вдома» і додав: «В одному великому, але приреченому жесті автор-режисер Баз Лурманн зробив фільм, що нагадує дірку від бублика, і сама картина буде розчаруванням для будь-якої людини, яка любить Шекспіра, що врешті-решт віддасть перевагу театру, а не вогнепальним війнам в стилі MTV».
Фільм завойовував декілька нагород. На Міжнародному кінофестивалі в Берліні в 1997 Леонардо Дікапріо отримав нагороду «Срібний Ведмідь» як «найкращий актор», а режисер Баз Лурманн — нагороду Альфреда Бауера. Лурманн також був номінований на нагороду «Золотий Ведмідь» за «найкращу картину».
Леонардо Дікапріо завойовує номінацію «улюбленого актора» і Клер
Дейнс — «улюбленої актриси» в Римі в 1997 на Blockbuster Entertainment Awards. У 1997 MTV нагороджує, Дейнс за «найкраще жіноче виконання». Дікапріо був номінований за «найкраще чоловіче виконання», і одночасно Дікапріо і Дейнс були нагороджені за «найкращий поцілунок» і «найкращий кінодует».

На 51-му BAFTA Film Awards Баз Лурманн удостоєний нагороди

за «найкращу режисерську роботу» . Лурманн і Крейг Пірс отримують нагороду за «найкращу адаптацію сценарію». Ніл Хупер отримує нагороду за «найкращу музику до фільму». А Кетрін Мартін отримує нагороду за «найкращий дизайн постановки». Фільм також був нагороджений за «найкращу кінематографію», «найкращий монтаж» і «найкращий звук».

Фільм було номіновано на нагороду MTV Movie Awards (номінація — Найкращий фільм).

У 69-й церемонії вручення «Оскар» Кетрін Мартін і Бріджит Броч були номіновані як «найкращі художники фільму/художники по декораціях».

Музичне оформлення

У фільмі використано сучасну альтернативну рок і поп музику, але в драматичній обробці Ніла Хупера, Армстронга Крейга і Маріуса Де Вріса. Звуковий супровід фільму також був оформлений хоровими версіями пісень «Коли голуби плачуть» («When Doves Cry») і «Кожен вільний (Почувайся добре)»(«Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)» в обробці Куіндона Тарвера.
Альбом саундтреків до фільму мав дві частини: до першої були включені пісні з фільму, а до другої — оригінальні версії цих пісень.

Багато пісень з фільму вже були відомими хітами: «Lovefool» («Закоханий дурень») Cardigans, «Kissing You» («Цілую тебе») Des'ree, «Young Hearts Run Free» («Молоді серця б'ються вхолосту» у виконанні Кіма Мазелля, і № 1 реміксом є версія Тарверса Куїндона «When Doves Cry»(«Коли голуби плачуть»).
Хорове виконання було здійснене групою «Metro Voices».
Остання сцена у фільмі містить заключні такти з опери Вагнера «Тристан та Ізольда».

У ролях

 Леонардо ДіКапріо — Ромео
 Клер Дейнс — Джульєтта
Джон Легуїзамо — Тібальт
 Гарольд Перріно — Меркуціо
 Піт Постлетуейт — Священик Лоренцо
 Пол Сорвіно — Фульхенціо Монтеккі
 Браян Деннегі — Тед Капулетті
 Вонді Кертіс-Голл — Капітан Принц
 Міріам Марголіс — Годувальниця
 Джесі Бредфорд — Бальтазар
 М. Еммет Уолш — Апрекар
 Зак Орт — Грегорі
 Джеймі Кеннеді — Самсон
 Вінсент Лареска — Абрам
 Карлос Мартін Манзо Оталора — Петруччо
 Крістіна Піклз — Керолайн Монтеккі
 Даян Венора — Глорія Капулетті
 Педро Альтамірано — Пітер
 Джон Стерліні — Різник
 Херрієт Сенсом Харріс — Сьюзен Сантандіанго
 Майкл Корбетт — Річ Ранчидіс
 Едвіна Мур — Телеведуча
 Куїндон Тарвер — Хлопчик з хору

Шпалери, кадри з фільму

Посилання
  Офіційний сайт фільму
  Роджер Іберт про фільм (1996-11-01)
  Номінації фільму
  Австралійська Асоціація Індустрії звукозапису

  Кінофільм на сайті «Rotten Tomatoes»
  «Ромео + Джульєта» на Allmovie

Примітки

Фільми англійською мовою
Фільми-мелодрами США
Екранізації творів Вільяма Шекспіра
Фільми База Лурмана
Фільми 20th Century Studios
Фільми про самогубство
Фільми США 1996


We recently hit some milestones on YouTube and would like to thank our viewers for making it possible.
The various MMA training videos on our YouTube channel have received over 1,000,000 views. We also have posted over 100 video episodes.
To celebrate our 100th episode on YouTube, we posted a technique video translated to Japanese with English subtitles.
Coach Kiser shows how to flip a defensive position into a finish by sweeping and submitting your opponent with an Arm Triangle (the choke UFC Heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar recently used to defeat Shane Carwin).
The next video is a Kimura counter to the Arm Triangle.
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Outstanding vids guys. Keep up the good work!
Great move and info. Hard to wch while reading subtitles, english works for me (lol). Looking frwd to more great vidios and new moves. Be back to class soon. Been studying for test at possible new job.
Excellent work. I've been hunting technique videos for a while and I find yours to be the best. You share details and put the moves in context well. Excellent teaching skills.
congrats! my cousin is famous. maybe i can guest star. im good at having my guard passed and i excell at the failed triangle to failed armbar flow. let me know if you need a vid on either of those.
Yes we do… yes we do. I'm in over my head, trying to get the new gym into an operational status, but as soon as we get things back under control, I'm going to try and roll up your direction with Kiser. Get those failed lock flows dialed in.
Congrats what a awesome mile stone!!!!


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Q: How do I sort Lucene results by field value using a HitCollector? I'm using the following code to execute a query in Lucene.Net
var collector = new GroupingHitCollector(searcher.GetIndexReader());
searcher.Search(myQuery, collector);
resultsCount = collector.Hits.Count;

How do I sort these search results based on a field?

Update
Thanks for your answer. I had tried using TopFieldDocCollector but I got an error saying, "value is too small or too large" when i passed 5000 as numHits argument value. Please suggest a valid value to pass.

A: The search.Searcher.search method will accept a search.Sort parameter, which can be constructed as simply as:
new Sort("my_sort_field")

However, there are some limitations on which fields can be sorted on - they need to be indexed but not tokenized, and the values convertible to Strings, Floats or Integers.
Lucene in Action covers all of the details, as well as sorting by multiple fields and so on.

A: What you're looking for is probably TopFieldDocCollector. Use it instead of the GroupingHitCollector (what is that?), or inside it.
Comment on this if you need more info. I'll be happy to help.

A: In the original (Java) version of Lucene, there is no hard restriction on the size of the the TopFieldDocCollector results. Any number greater than zero is accepted. Although memory constraints and performance degradation create a practical limit that depends on your environment, 5000 hits is trivial and shouldn't pose a problem outside of a mobile device.
Perhaps in porting Lucene, TopFieldDocCollector was modified to use something other than Lucene's "heap" implementation (called PriorityQueue, extended by FieldSortedHitQueue)—something that imposes an unreasonably small limit on the results size. If so, you might want to look at the source code for TopFieldDocCollector, and implement your own similar hit collector using a better heap implementation.
I have to ask, however, why are you trying to collect 5000 results? No user in an interactive application is going to want to see that many. I figure that users willing to look at 200 results are rare, but double it to 400 just as factor of safety. Depending on the application, limiting the result size can hamper malicious screen scrapers and mitigate denial-of-service attacks too.

A: The constructor for Sort accepting only the string field name has been depreciated. Now you have to create a sort object and pass it in as the last paramater of searcher.Search()
/* sorting by a field of type long called "size" from greatest -> smallest
(signified by passing in true for the last isReversed paramater)*/

Sort sorter = new Sorter(new SortField("size", SortField.Type.LONG, true))
searcher.Search(myQuery, collector, sorter);

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I saw this and I had to make one! All of my Halloween decorations are cheap, but some require a little planning. If you want to make this you will need to find the pieces and order them so that this is done before Halloween!
Grass skirts (2) full ones (or multiple thin ones. We started out with three thin ones from Party City. They barely covered the cage. We needed more so we ordered full ones here: we only needed 2 of those, so shop around.
This is the cheap thin skirts we bought from party city. They were junk. Find a full grass skirt. Don't get duped into purchasing something thin. Grass table skirts have this same problem. We kept them because I'd torn off the flowers.
While you are waiting for your supplies to arrive you will need to go to a hardware store or plant nursery and get a tomato cage. I am a gardener, so I always have a few of those on hand.
If your hula skirts came with flowers: remove them. Both types of skirts we bought had flowers. I just tore mine off both sets because they were hot glued on.
Next turn your tomato cage upside down and turn the wire legs in on themselves. You need to be able to set your hat on this so keep it nearby and try it on the cage as you're working. Put a white kitchen trash bag over the tomato cage.
You can choose to hot glue the skirts as you go. I found it necessary because even a little wind will blow this over.
If you don't line the cage with a kitchen trash bag: the wind will blow the skirt pieces into a horrible tangled mess inside the support cage. This keeps the skirt on the outside of the wired support. You should hot glue the hat on. Make sure that the skirts and the tomato cage are exactly how you want them and then carefully hot glue the hat on.
Next open the glasses up and test where you want them. If you aren't expecting to use these glasses for anything else in the future: unscrew the temples and remove them. Otherwise, you will need to use the horizontal wires of the cage to assist you with holding the glasses in place. You won't have a lot of choices on where to place the glasses if you keep the temples. If you keep them: part the grass skirt, cut a hole in the trash bag. Slide the temples in and glue the glasses onto the wire on the cage. You can also glue the lenses to the the grass on the skirt behind them.
Last: (if you want to) put a sound activated audio/strobe light on the inside of the cage. It makes your creation come alive!


It was derided by critics as "dreamt up on the back of a fag packet", a frivolous luxury that even recently featured on the leaked putative bonfire-of-the-quangos list.
It is just one year since the UK's Supreme Court opened its doors for business in purpose-designed premises in Parliament Square. New building, new name and new constitutional status making it separate, unlike the law lords, from the legislature. In reality, what has changed?
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, the President of the court, admits that there was "not 100 per cent enthusiasm" initially from the justices. "The House of Lords [where the law lords used to sit] was quite an exciting workplace and we met with lots of people in the course of our daily lives." But, he says, "within 48 hours, their mood had changed". Everyone is now won round.
That is not surprising: the £60 million refurbishment of Middlesex Guildhall gave them facilities they had never had in the Palace of Westminster — a library, decent rooms including a conference room, and a dining room.
"We talk to each other," he said. "In the House of Lords we were all strung out down a long corridor and it was not that easy to talk." The only communal area was the library and that was often occupied. Now they meet once a month to discuss business as well as cases and "operate as a collegiate body", he says.
If they have lost the traditions and trappings of the House of Lords, they have modern facilities and natural light. "It doesn't feel as though we are part of history in the way it did when we went through the lobby of the House of Lords to the committee room and where Members of Parliament are going about their business.
Inevitably, there have been teething problems. It took a while, he says, to get the acoustics right. Judges on the wings of the Bench were quite a distance from the advocates and had difficulty hearing them. But the practical benefits of the building outweigh the loss of mingling with parliamentarians.
To that end, the court has encouraged visitors, including schools and from abroad — with success. In August there were 900 people a day. The court also has an exhibition centre and website, receiving 19,000 visits monthly.
The court's decisions have been televised only six times. But Phillips accepts why. "If we were like the US Supreme Court where hearings last half an hour, with judges firing off on all cylinders with questions to the advocates, it's high drama and good television." But with hearings of three to four days, and plenty of analysis, people "might not hit the most exciting moment".
With its name and location, people predicted that the court would become more activist, pushing the boundaries of the law. Phillips says that has not happened. The aim, he insists, was to continue as before. "Nothing has changed radically." Second, the law lords were quite bold as it was; the new court has not been "more or less bold".
Yet there have been changes — if not dramatic. Crucially, from the public and press viewpoint, summaries in clear, simple language are issued with each ruling, so that people can understand what decision has been made.
The lead judge does, however, now give the lead judgment. In the House of Lords, opinions were given in order of seniority, whether the lead opinion or not. But it remains important, he says, that judges give their own judgments where there are genuine differences of view, such as is likely over human rights and the state or security issues.
The court regularly sits seven or nine justices (seven in ten cases and nine in five). And, in another reform, sitting as the Privy Council, the justices are about to hear their first appeal with only electronic evidence, because of the volume of material in the case.
There have been some hiccups: first over appointments. Phillips will not be drawn on the non-appointment of Jonathan Sumption, QC, after lobbying by senior judges against him, save to say that he and his appointments committee "played it by the book" and there was "no ministerial involvement", as laid down by statute.
There is one vacancy, likely to be advertised soon, with the retirement of Lord Saville of Newdigate. There will be a second, next May, unless the rules are changed to allow the justices to stay beyond 70 to 75, because Lord Collins of Mapesbury will have to retire after only 18 months. Phillips is pressing for change but knows there are competing legislative priorities.
As when Sumption applied, the post will be open to non-judges. Yet judicial opposition remains. "There is quite a body of opinion that candidates for the Supreme Court should be judges," Phillips says. He believes that judicial experience is "a valuable commodity, so that if you have a candidate without that experience, one would look for other qualities".
Lord Saville's replacement need not be a commercial judge because there are other judges with that experience. "We are looking for a judge of outstanding ability, to be appointed on merit." All things being equal, another woman in principle would be desirable.
There have been wider tensions, too: both Phillips and Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice, are concerned about a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights over the use of hearsay evidence, and have said that Strasbourg may not have fully appreciated the workings of the common law.
Casework, of course, is the court's raison d'être. In the past year he cites the ruling on the Jewish Free School as one of the most interesting appeals, raising "the fundamental question of what it is to be Jewish". Of wider impact and "great importance to the man in the street" was the ruling that unfair bank charges could not be scrutinised by the Office of Fair Trading.
As for the future, the chief concern is the impact of government cuts. Severe cuts, Phillips warns, would damage the administration of justice; the court was set up to run with the budget it now has and there is a limit, with two thirds of costs fixed, to what cuts can be made.
It must fight its corner as part of the wider spending battle. But as the flagship court, and regarded throughout the world, its case for sparing cuts is strong if it is to do the job for which it was set up so recently. That, Phillips says, is to be "a final court of appeal for the UK that is open to the public, not only by letting thousands through the front door but, I hope, is the epitome of the public administration of justice".
This interview, conducted by Times Legal Editor, Frances Gibb was originally published on the Times Law pages 7 October 2010 and is reproduced with permission and thanks.
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Growing up in my home town of Kanchipuram, nestled in the southeast of India near the Bay of Bengal, I was fascinated at an early age by the many migratory birds that pass through the region. My early interests in nature were piqued in school after learning about evolution and the phenomenal works of Charles Darwin; in fact, they led me to embrace a career in the life sciences. I received a master's degree in microbiology from Bharathidasan University, India and later attained a Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, India. During my doctoral research with Dr. Ikramul Haque in DNA forensics, I expanded on my interests in evolutionary biology by studying the genetic relationships among crocodile species. After completing my Ph.D, I joined Dr. David Ray's lab at Mississippi State University where I used genomic analyses and computational programming to study crocodilian genomes. When looking for opportunities to apply my computational biology/bioinformatics skills to health sciences research, I became interested in a cancer genomics project in Dr. Camille Ragin's lab at Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC). Her work focused on understanding why African-American patients diagnosed with head and neck cancer had poorer therapeutic outcomes as compared to other ethnic groups. Since joining her lab in 2013, my goal is to identify genomic factors to serve as diagnostic biomarkers of those cancers adversely affecting African-Americans. To this end, I am using an integrative approach with population genetics, genomics, and computational biology to understand the genomics factors associated with racial disparity in cancer.
Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC) is sixth most common cancer worldwide. However, African-Americans have a higher risk of HNSCC as compared to other races. We hypothesize that the racial disparity may be attributed to genetic factors in addition to other non-biological entities. Although the mutational landscape of HNSCC has been studied, the effect of race on the mutational landscapes of HNSCC is unknown. Recently, we analyzed the mutational landscapes of laryngeal cancer, a type of HNSCC that is significantly more prevalent in African Americans, as well as the effect of ethnicity on the mutational load. We found that the mutational landscapes of laryngeal cancer vary significantly between African-American and European-American patients. In particular, PIK3CA, a gene implicated in HNSCC, was mutated in significantly higher proportion in Americans with European ancestry as compared to African-Americans. Thus, our analyses have shown that at a molecular level, laryngeal cancer differs between African-American and European-American patients. As an extension of our study, I am currently analyzing the relationship between genetics and survival disparity in HNSCC. The analyses have shown promising results indicating the effect of ancestry-related genetics factors on survival disparity.
Meganathan P. Ramakodi, Rob J. Kulathinal, Yujin Chung, Ilya Serebriiskii, Jeffrey C. Liu, Camille C. Ragin. Ancestral-derived effects on the mutational landscape of laryngeal cancer. Genomics, 2016, Volume 107, Issues 2–3, Pages 76–82
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Judas Iscariot became a traitor when he made a covenant to hand over Jesus to the the chief priests. Nevertheless, Jesus responded to that first step toward an act of betrayal (he has lifted up his heel against me) by washing the foot whose heel was lifted up against him. The effect of that washing by Jesus was to gain for him his brother.
When eventually Judas handed over Jesus to authorities, he did so as a friend/brother/servant of Jesus. In the end, his act of handing over Jesus was not an act of betrayal. In the end, his kiss was a kiss of love.
They all misunderstand the Gospels, who think the word "betray" is a correct translation of the original texts. Where in the originals the text is translated "betray," the texts themselves betray no hint of an act of treachery.
After Jesus announced, "One of you shall betray me," none of his disciples conceded the possibility that he could be disloyal to Jesus, when each asked, "Is it I?" The words of Jesus in the original texts did not denote betrayal, and they did not connote the sense of an act of treachery to his hearers - nor have they until this day, nor will they ever, even until the end of time, to anyone who has ears that hear.
The world doesn't give a damn about any of this, but it is a critical matter for those who have been called out of the world. It is a sign that the world is about to be turned upside down . . . or, rather, downside up.
Nevertheless, I say this only in my own name.


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"With strategically placed subwoofers stashed in a field surrounded by mountains, the heavy bass frequencies sounded like a herd of elephants descending upon us in every direction with bubble-wrapped feet."
On Friday night, the Sonic Bloom Festival kicked off its first night at its new location in Georgetown at Shadows Ranch. Formerly dubbed the Zilla Campout, the festival has grown into a full-fledged electronic music gathering with the natural beauty of the Rockies providing the ideal listening and visual experience for electronic music fans and those attending simply for the community that Sonic Bloom has fostered over the past five years.
In addition to providing a picturesque new location, festival organizers spared no expense on sound and art with well lit art installations throughout the campground. Zilla, one of the musical projects of Jamie Janover, who helped put on the fest, played right after Human Agency on the main stage. Zilla, which consists of Janover, Michael Travis (String Cheese Incident, Eoto) and Aaron Holstein (VibeSquad) offered the most compelling set of the evening. Although there were some labored transitions at times in which Travis's drums didn't quite mesh over Janover's beats, when it all came together during the drops it was well worth enduring the unavoidable musical speed bumps that come naturally with this sort of improvisation.
The opening ceremonies kicked off at 4:20 p.m. with simple gratitude prayer, thanking the unified powers that be for the new location, the people attending and the artists. Dayquill opened the afternoon, following the prayer with a sonic sweep, checking all frequencies from 20hz to 20khz on the main stage's Funktion-One sound system -- the same superior audio technology used at Beta. With strategically placed subwoofers stashed in a field surrounded by mountains, the heavy bass frequencies sounded like a herd of elephants descending upon us in every direction with bubble-wrapped feet. MartyParty took full advantage of the soundsystem during his set with his heavy drops, including a well placed "Hard in da Paint" sample from Waka Flocka Flame.
The CODome located across the bridge, over the river and through the woods, showcased plenty of local talent provided by the Sub.Mission crew. Project Aspect and Unlimited Gravity both dropped sets, winning the crowd over as Unlimited Aspect. These guys are growing musically in the best way possible, both as unique artists exploring their talents, and together as a team of trailblazing producers in the scene.
DJ Ishe, situated on the main stage, had an absolute blast with the system. Corey Blecha, a Sub.Mission crew member, put it best: "This is one of the hardest working DJs in Denver." And it's true, he's pushing the dubstep and whomp scene in more places, at more times and purer than anyone else right now. Of course, Whomp Truck, also at the forefront of Denver dubstep, got a shout out during Ishe's set.
Jason Hahn of Prophet Massive closed the night out -- or opened the morning, rather -- with a long and heavy sunrise set in the CODome. It was nearly full of people burning their dancing wicks to the very end.
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Personal Bias:It's blasphemous to utter these words where I am currently sitting, but I hate camping. It's not my thing. The draw for me here is the music, the people, and the experience of a festival. Random Detail:The first emergency crews arrived on site this morning at 10:30 a.m. on the call that someone was having a seizure. Everything in moderation. By the Way: Lunar Fire displayed amazing skills on the boxes flanking the main stage.
Britt Chester is a writer and video producer living in Denver, Colorado. He's covered breaking news, music, arts and cannabis for Westword since 2010. His work has appeared in GQ Magazine, Village Voice, YES! Weekly, Inman News and the Winston-Salem Journal. He likes running, cycling, and interviewing people.
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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Commerce Engr Khurram Dastgir Khan on Tuesday said online shopping service provider Alibaba Group can become an important part of the Pakistan's digital economy and can play a significant role in its growth in decades to come.
Alibaba is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals.
It also provides electronic payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services. The group began in 1999 when Jack Ma founded the website Alibaba.com.
Khurram Dastgir said the Ministry of Commerce is working on a policy framework for development of e-commerce/ digital trade in the country.
Welcoming the president of Alibaba Group, the minister said that Pakistan is pleased to have this opportunity to exchange views on e-commerce with Alibaba Group.
He maintained that digital platforms have not only changed the economics of doing business across borders by reducing costs of international transactions enabling micro, small and medium enterprises to connect with customers and suppliers around the world but has also promoted inclusive economic growth and have provided livelihood for the marginalized segments of the society including women.
Khurram Dastgir Khan said that e-commerce is still in its infancy in Pakistan compared to the global trends but it is rising very fast as this sector is doubling in size with every passing year.
He further said that this sector may surpass $1 billion in 2020 due to exponential growth in mobile broadband access.
"Pakistan is leading in mobile banking transactions in South Asia with 11% of citizens using mobile phones for financial transactions and Pakistan's e-commerce industry is estimated at $100 million with about 30 million internet users," he said.
The minister said that government of Pakistan is encouraging the private sector to take the lead and partner with the government in fulfilling Pakistan's potential in e-commerce.
He proposed collaboration with a world leader in the field such as Alibaba Group, both at a strategic and technical level to enable Pakistan to harness its true potential.
Michael Evans appreciated the government of Pakistan for its hospitality and warm welcome and said that Alibaba is interested in starting its operations in Pakistan and to tap in to this high potential market.
He further said that Alibaba can offer its services in bringing in contact the consumer and businesses of Pakistan in contact with the world and this will not only result in endless opportunities for the small and medium enterprises but also in creation of millions of jobs.
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Youth Apprenticeship Programs Provide Hands-on Experience Before Students Choose a Career Pathway
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Youth apprenticeship programs provide hands-on experience before students choose a career pathway. Miron Construction is a youth apprenticeship location, in Neenah, WI.
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Apprenticeships can be a key connection to the world of work, and employers take pride in supporting students, Tania Kilpatrick, CESA 6 Director of College and Career Readiness Center, said.
Apprenticeships offer an opportunity for students that are questioning their career and college options to make sure they have a plan for their future. Especially with the increase in the price of college as noted in Forbes, March 28, more and more high school students are choosing hands-on learning through youth apprenticeships.
Youth apprenticeship programs are available through the Cooperative Education Service Agency (CESA 6) in coordination with NHS. Students are able to graduate career-ready by gaining skills and experiences with employers and industry partners, according to Inspire WI.
Inspire WI strives to provide all students in Wisconsin with meaningful career-based learning experiences through Inspire WI and employers with the opportunity to support the cultivation of the next generation of talent.
Students that apply and get accepted into the apprenticeship program will have opportunities to explore careers in finance, manufacturing, marketing, hospitality, health science, construction, natural resources, information technology and much more.
"I decided to do a youth apprenticeship because it offers you real-world experience early on for a career you want to do when you get older," Kaiden Lambert, a senior at NHS and current Youth Apprentice. Starting in September 2022, Lambert has been an Information Technologies apprentice at Miron Construction in Neenah.
Lambert is using this experience to set his path for college when he attends the University of Wisconsin-Stout in 2023 for Computer Science. Miron Construction is one of the employers that support the apprenticeship program. According to the CESA 6 Youth Apprenticeship website, there are approximately 11 career sectors and 55 career pathways that students can explore, learn about a specific career, and receive on-the-job training.
"Employers take great pride in supporting students in the Youth Apprenticeship program. It is an opportunity for them to excite and educate the next generation of leadership and talent for their organizations," Kilpatrick of CESA 6 said.
Kilpatrick explained many advantages of the youth apprenticeship program, emphasizing the hands-on experiences the program provides.
"In a youth apprenticeship, students are introduced to multiple aspects of an industry or job to help broaden their knowledge, this is best delivered on work-based learning. This hands-on experience helps students find their career interests and can help them make decisions about their future goals," Kilpatrick said.
Students can use a youth apprenticeship to help process the big decisions that happen during their high school career, the questions about what a student plans to do after high school. Youth apprenticeships are one of the many opportunities that students can utilize as part of their decision-making process. For example, it provides students with connections to potential employers which can lead to a career path of interest.
"This experience can set students apart when applying for jobs after high school and boost their work resume," Kilpatrick said.
To learn more about work-based learning opportunities to explore a future career path or area of study for college, students can connect with the school counselor to set up a meeting with a CESA 6 College and Career Readiness Center Consultant. The process can start by researching the CESA 6 Youth Apprenticeship website or exploring the WI Department of Workforce Development website.
Kilpatrick shared that CESA 6 will have a virtual information session through their website on Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 5 p.m.
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CBN Warns Nigerians against "MMM", Calls it Wonder Bank
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned Nigerians to be careful of any deposit money institution that is not insured by the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) especially the trending MMM Nigeria community. The bank through its the acting Director of Corporate Communications, Mr. Isaac Okoroafor, made this known yesterday against the proliferation of wonder banks in the country in recent times. Okoroafor said such deposit money institutions were dubious present Ponzi schemes At times like this when the economy has suffered some decline, Nigerians should be very careful with those they deal with. Any institution that is not licensed by the CBN to accept deposits should not be given money to keep under any guise," he advised. He warned Nigerians to beware of the so-called wonder banks, explaining that they were makeshift institutions to dupe people. "We can vouch for the banking system. The deposit money banks are the only licensed institutions to take deposits. If you need to deposit money in any form, go to any of the deposit money banks and put your money, you can buy fixed income instruments or invest in stocks," he said. Okoroafor said the CBN could not guarantee the unregistered institutions, insisting that when depositors lose money to them, the bank would not be able to help them. "These people always come with very interesting propositions. These are fraudsters who are just out there to collect people's money and run away as soon as they hit their target. There is no insurance because the NDIC does not even protect them against such risks when they occur," the CBN said. He said the CBN was intensifying efforts and liaising with the various security agencies to identify the promoters of these schemes and have such persons arrested and prosecuted, adding that anyone caught with them would also be made to face the law. Promoters of wonder banks and other pyramid schemes in the country are currently taking advantage of the rising level of unemployment as well as the shrinking disposable income to attract unsuspecting prey. From Lagos to Port Harcourt and some other big cities in the country, owners of these illegal businesses have been offering Nigerians mouth-watering interest rates, which cannot be found in the banking system, in a bid to attract large number of customers before they run away with huge cash. For instance, at the Ojuelegba area of Lagos, THISDAY was recently given a small handbill advertising investment schemes that offers 30 per cent returns in 30 days. Also, there is a new Ponzi scheme called 'MMM' that is spreading like wildfire. A lot of young school leavers have already signed on to this scheme, which the promoters are marketing as a "mutual fund." "MMM offers its participants 30 per cent growth rate per month for each and every donation they make into the system… MMM belongs to the community, its sustainability depends on the activities of the people that make up the MMM Nigeria community, that is me and you and other MMM Nigeria participants," the promoters wrote in an online advertisement. Typically, what promoters of such pyramid scheme do is that they offer rates far beyond what is obtainable in commercial banks. This would always attract a lot of people who would always rush in to stake their funds. But, those who join the scheme late would always be the ones to lose their shirts as they would have been convinced by those that joined earlier to invest huge amounts of money. But experts have warned against falling for the bait of illegal deposit-taking institutions which are not licensed by the CBN, saying that their only intention is to defraud members of the public. Recall that with the Nigerian economy is in recession, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently revealed that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 2.06 per cent in the second quarter of 2016, compared to the negative growth of 0.36 per cent recorded in the first quarter of 2016. Also, national unemployment rate also rose to 13.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2016, from 12.1 in the first quarter of 2016. Source:financialwatchngr ]]>
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The Battle of White Horse ( or Baengma-goji, ), was a battle  during the Korean War hill in the Iron Triangle, formed by Pyonggang at its peak and Gimhwa-eup and Cheorwon-eup at its base, a strategic transportation route in the central region of the Korean peninsula.

Baekma-goji or White Horse was the crest of a  forested hill mass that extended in a northwest-to-southeast direction for about , part of the area controlled by the U.S. IX Corps, and considered an important outpost hill with a good command over the Yokkok-chon Valley, dominating the western approaches to Cheorwon. Loss of the hill would force IX Corps to withdraw to the high ground south of the Yokkok-chon in the Cheorwon area, denying the IX Corps use of the Cheorwon road net and would open up the entire Cheorwon area to enemy attack and penetration.

During ten days of battle, the hill would change hands 24 times after repeated attacks and counterattacks for its possession. Afterwards, Baengma-goji looked like a threadbare white horse, thence its name of Baengma, meaning a white horse.

Background
On October 3, 1952, a defecting lieutenant from the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA) 340th Regiment, 114th Division under interrogation revealed that an attack on White Horse was imminent.

Being corroborated by other intelligence, IX Corps reinforced the ROK 9th Infantry Division with 22 tanks from the 53rd Tank Squadron and the U.S. 73rd Tank Battalion's C Company, artillery, rocket launchers, and antiaircraft weapons to be used in a ground role. 9th Division commander Major General Kim Jong Oh stationed the 30th Regiment under Regimental Commander Im Ik-sun in charge of the left flank and the 29th Regiment under Commander Kim Bongcheol in charge of the right flank on the threatened hill and held the 28th Regiment under Commander Lee Ju-il in reserve. On the flanks of White Horse he positioned the tanks and antiaircraft guns to cover the valley approaches. Searchlights and flares were distributed to provide illumination at night, and a flare plane was made available to supply additional light on call during the hours of darkness. From the Fifth Air Force came extra air strikes against enemy artillery positions adjacent to White Horse.

Battle
On 9 October an intensive air raid was carried out on several places around Baengma-goji where the PVA were anticipated to assemble. The PVA responded by opening the floodgates of the Pongnae-Ho Reservoir, which was located about  north of the hill, evidently in the hope that the Yokkokchon which ran between the ROK 9th and the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division would rise sufficiently to block reinforcements during the critical period. Simultaneously, they threw a battalion-sized force at Hill 281 (Arrowhead),  southeast of White Horse across the valley, to pin down the French Battalion astride the hill and to keep the 2nd Division occupied. Before the night was over six additional companies joined in the action. The French held firm and inflicted heavy casualties upon the attackers. As a diversion to the main attack, it proved effective but expensive.

At 19:15, the PVA 340th Regiment sent four companies up to the northwest end of the White Horse Hill complex to engage the 10th Company and its supporting forces in an attempt to secure a break-through. At 02:00 the following morning, four B-29 strategic bombers dropped 1,000 pound bombs on Hajinmyeong-dong, and an assortment of 81 artillery guns (32 155-millimeter guns 213th Field Artillery Battalion, 32 105-millimeter guns, 7 4.2-inch heavy mortars and 10 tank guns) dealt intensive heavy fire; nevertheless, the PVA breakthrough widened further, though suffering an estimated 500 casualties the first night. Disregarding the heavy losses, the Chinese committed the remnants of the original two battalions and reinforced them with two fresh battalions from the same division the following day. Cutting off a ROK company outpost, the PVA pressed on and forced the elements of the ROK 10th Company to withdraw from the crest. Less than two hours after the loss of the peak, the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the ROK 28th Regiment mounted a night attack that swept the PVA out of the old ROK positions by 23:05. Again the Chinese losses were heavy and a prisoner later related that many of the companies committed to the attack were reduced from 190-200 to less than 20 men after the second day of fighting.

With such serious losses, the PVA switched its attack forces from the 340th Regiment to the 334th Regiment, reserving the 342nd Regiment for the assault on October 9. Elements of the 342nd fought their way to the crest during the afternoon of 9 October, only to lose it to a ROK 28th Regiment counterattack that night. On 10 October the still fresh 29th Regiment made a counterattack and seized White Horse and the 28th Regiment was immediately assigned to defend the right flank of the hill. The same day at 04:30, the PVA 342nd Regiment recaptured the hill in an attack on the ROK 29th Regiment that had been defending the main peak; in two hours, though, the hill was seized back in an instant counterattack, only to be lost again at 08:15. In the tiresome war of attrition, the UN forces relied on their overwhelming advantage in artillery support and close-range air support. The UN forces apparently were fortunate, for a Chinese prisoner later related that Fifth Air Force planes had caught elements of the 335th Regiment, 112th Division, in an assembly area north of Hill 395, inflicting heavy casualties upon the regiment, and had delayed its commitment to the attack.

Regardless of casualties, the PVA continued to send masses of infantry to take the objective. On White Horse, the PVA kept funneling their combat troops into the northern attack approaches where Eighth Army artillery, tanks, and air power would wreak havoc. The Chinese determination to win White Horse made sitting ducks out of their infantry as the IX Corps defenders saturated the all-out assaults with massed firepower of every caliber.

By 12 October there was a break in the bitter struggle. The 1st Battalion of the 30th Regiment struck out from the attack line. The 29th Regiment, which had mounted a counterattack four hours before the attack by the battalion, was stalled just 40 meters from the PVA position. When no progress was made in the two-hour attack, the 2nd Battalion was sent in on the right flank for a pincer movement. The 3rd company which was in the vanguard of the 1st Battalion was not making sufficient advances because of PVA resistance, so the commander of the 1st company, close behind the 3rd company, was ordered to launch an overriding attack and succeeded in approaching the attack line. White Horse was recaptured at 13:20, after five-hours of intense battle.

On 13 October under close-range air cover by 141 warplanes, the 28th Regiment was committed to Nakta-neungaseon, but the strong PVA resistance forced it to withdraw to White Horse six hours after the attack on the ridge had begun. On October 14, the 29th Regiment executed another attack, and at 10:40, the 22nd Battalion of the Regiment routed the PVA troops from Nakta-neungseon, thus seizing full control of White Horse. Chinese sources claim that the 38th Army was ordered during the night of the 14th to abandon the action due to the start of the Battle of Triangle Hill which the PVA was determined to win.

Aftermath
The 38th Army committed four regiments - the 334th, 339th, 340th, and 342nd. The Chinese claimed they had suffered a total of 6,700 casualties. South Korean sources claim that the 38th Army committed seven regiments out of its total of nine regiments and sustained a total of 14,332 casualties (8,234 identified deaths, 5,097 presumed deaths, 1,001 wounded, and 57 prisoners). The ROK 9th Infantry Division committed three regiments - the 28th, 29th, and 30th and suffered a total of 3,422 casualties (505 dead, 2,562 injured and 391 missing), plus over 400 more casualties in the 1st Battalion of the 30th Regiment. Chinese sources claim that the 9th Infantry Division committed four regiments and suffered a total of 9,400 casualties with almost 7,000 identified deaths. Both the 38th Army and the 9th Infantry Division, after suffering heavy casualties, had to withdraw to the rear. Following the battle, the ROK 9th Division gained the nickname White Horse Division.

The U.S. Fifth Air Force made a total of 745 sorties and poured more than 2,700 bombs of various kinds, together with over 358 napalm bombs, onto the hill. Chinese forces rained no less than 55,000 shells during the nine-day battle period and the South Korean forces fired over 185,000 shells.

Nine sets of remains of Korean War MIA servicemen were discovered at Arrowhead Hill, aka Hill 281 during minesweeping operations between October and November 2018.  Arrowhead Hill had previously been selected for both Koreas to jointly conduct a pilot remains recovery project.

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References

External links
U.S. Army, Army History Fall 2013
https://history.army.mil/armyhistory/AH89(W).pdf

Battles and operations of the Korean War in 1952
Battles of the Korean War
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Not 'killer' enough to be UFC contender? Brendan Loughnane sets sights on being PFL champ
It's been 26 months since Brendan Loughnane fought in the UFC's Contender Series in Las Vegas. But even two years later, that night continues to define his career.
Loughnane (21-3) faces Movlid Khaybulaev (17-0-1) in a PFL featherweight semifinal on Friday in Hollywood, Florida. The 31-year-old is riding a seven-fight win streak and enters the 2021 playoffs as the No. 1 seed in his division. He is in his 12th year as a pro.
But for so many on the outside looking in, those 12 years boil down to that one moment in 2019.
"I'm always gonna be that guy," said Loughnane, who defeated Bill Algeo on the Contender Series but was denied a contract by Dana White for not being enough of a "killer" — the UFC president believed Loughnane wasn't actively looking for a finish. "If I walk into a new gym, it's, 'Oh, wow. You're the guy from Contender.' It's not, 'Wow, you're the guy who is 21-3 as a pro.'"
Loughnane, who hails from Manchester, England, is used to this reality now, and he says it doesn't really bother him. He can't allow it to bother him. It's part of who he is. It's never going away. Regardless of anything Loughnane does between now and the end of his career, that moment will always be part of his story.
That story, however, is still being written. To be clear, it's not as if this has become Loughane's motivation. He's not fighting to simply be remembered as more than "the guy from Contender." But at the same time, he was forced to reassess his career after what happened in Las Vegas, and it put him on a path that led him to these PFL semifinals.
"To solidify myself as a world champion, after all those years of hard work and being told I couldn't do it, would just solidify my career."
Brendan Loughnane
"I actually found an Instagram post from 2013 where I wrote down all of my goals," Loughnane said. "And after the Contender fight, I'd accomplished all of them. So, at that time, there was a massive reassessment of my career, and ultimately it came down to becoming a world champion.
"That's the one thing that's eluded me in my career: a piece of gold. The PFL's $1 million prize is $1 million, and I'm not brushing it off. But money comes and goes, and it will always come and go. To solidify myself as a world champion, after all those years of hard work and being told I couldn't do it, would just solidify my career."
A PFL championship in 2021 would not only solidify Loughnane's career, it would solidify everything he's been through since the start of last year.
Perhaps no one was more eager for the start of the PFL's 2020 season than Loughnane. His career was in limbo in 2019. After he was denied a contract with the UFC, Loughnane signed with the PFL — but not early enough to compete in the promotion's 2019 season.
Brendan Loughnane was elated that his June 10 victory put him in the PFL featherweight semifinals. Cooper Neill/PFL
In January 2020, Loughnane moved to Thailand with a plan to make that his home base for the entire year. Of course, all of that was disrupted by COVID-19 and the cancelation of the PFL's 2020 season.
At that point, Loughnane committed to leveling up his training no matter where in the world it required him to be.
"I just kept my foot on the gas," Loughnane said. "I was sparring [with UFC bantamweight] Petr Yan for his title fight against Jose Aldo. I was sparring [with UFC lightweight] Rafael Fiziev. I headed to the U.K. in July because borders were closing, and then when England started to close, I went to Dubai and trained there for six months."
The United Kingdom continued to maintain strict lockdown rules that varied as different waves of the pandemic struck through 2020 and early 2021. Loughnane made a few stops back in England, but for the most part his journey and preparation for the 2021 PFL season has kept him far from home.
"It's been a bit of a roller coaster, to be honest," he said. "I've trained for this fight in Las Vegas, so this is my third country in a space of less than a year. I've got no roots, really. I haven't been home since last September. I'm in someone's spare bedroom, training three times a day. I've just been flying around the world as this nomad martial artist."
Thus far, the results have been good. Loughnane kicked off 2021 with a first-round knockout of UFC veteran Sheymon Moraes, less than three minutes into the fight. Then, in a bloody, physical battle with Ultimate Fighter alum Tyler Diamond, Loughnane emerged with a majority-decision win.
Brendan Loughnane, right, wasn't able to catch on with the UFC, despite his dominant 2019 win over Bill Algeo in Dana White's Contender Series. Chris Unger/DWCS LLC
As he prepares for Khaybulaev, the truth is that Loughnane's career has already become much more than one moment on the Contender Series. But these next two fights are an opportunity to showcase just how far he's come.
The undefeated Khaybulaev is not a household name, but he's a suffocating wrestler from Dagestan with no glaring weaknesses. If Loughnane beats him, he will face either UFC veteran Chris Wade (19-6) or former NCAA champion wrestler Bubba Jenkins (16-4) in the final.
If everything goes according to his plans, Loughnane will return home for the first time in more than 15 months as a millionaire and PFL champion. Yes, he will still be the guy who controversially wasn't given a UFC contract in 2019. But perhaps that will be a footnote in his career, instead of the leading line.
"I've said to myself I can't go home until I've done it," Loughnane said. "I just want to walk through my mum's door with the belt and the check. I want to see my friends, see my god kids, my girlfriend — I want to see everything, and I want to do it with the belt. That's what will make it for me. That's the only way I'll be content going home."
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Home knowledge How To Claim Our Website on Pinterest with WordPress?
Pinterest is a social network that allows you to share and view contents according to your interest. Contents on Pinterest are shared with a series of bookmarks, called pins. Those pins are not the actual content itself but it's visual representation. Pinterest users bookmark those pins individually or in groups called boards. These pins can contain a link to blogs, videos and so on.
With visual attractions and a curated interface, Pinterest attracts lots and lots of visitors. It is becoming widely popular year after year. If you are a blogger and avoiding using Pinterest then you are missing out. Many Bloggers obtain a huge amount of traffic just from Pinterest alone.
But today we aren't here to talk about that. Rather we will talk about how we can view analytics of your website by claiming it with your respective Pinterest account.
How to verify your website on Pinterest?
As you know, Pinterest allows you to keep track of your average daily impressions and daily visitors. This makes it easier to get the idea if you are doing well or things should change.
Claiming your website can be hectic. There are many ways to do it but I will share the easiest one.
After you enable your Yoast plugin, it will show up on your WordPress menus.
Now, let us begin the claiming process.
First login your Pinterest account. After that, click the top right icon where you can find options for settings, Help, and Logout.
Goto settings. Scroll to the middle of the page and you will find the option that says Claim Website.
Enter your site name and click 'Claim Website'.
Then you will find two methods to do the thing. One says to 'Add HTML tag' and the other 'Upload HTML file'. Click on Add HTML tag, but don't click Next yet. This step is important.
You will see a meta tag which they say to copy into your head.html file. Without clicking next, just copy the whole tag and leave this page as it is(Do not close the page). Create a new tab on your browser and open your WordPress admin panel.
Now, this is where Yoast SEO will come into play. Goto SEO > Social then click the Pinterest tab.
You will see a tab to put your copied meta tag. Paste the tag from before to Pinterest Confirmation section and hit Save changes.
You can see that Yoast cuts your full tag into just the Pinterest id. Hit, Save changes again to be fully sure.
This is the final phase. Goto your Pinterest account where you left off. Hit Next Now and only now.
Click on Submit and you are almost done. It will take some time to claim your site. Don't worry, usually, it takes less than 10 minutes. Hit 'Save settings' and you are done for now.
After your website is claimed you can freely see that analytics you were searching for. This is how to claim our website on Pinterest. Hope this helped you.
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[updated June 2012] I was once asked "Why do Africans go vegetarian?" - it was an unexpected question but the reply was simple enough: "For the same reason as everyone else, health, animals, environment or religion, according to their personal priorities".
Though many Africans are also more aware than most of us that vegetarianism, and especially veganism, can make a real difference to world hunger problems.
Many Africans of course do not have much choice, just finding anything at all to eat is their priority. But most of us know that far more people could be fed directly on plant food, than if it is processed through animals to provide meat. Add to that the fact that an alarming proportion of the food that is grown in Africa is exported to the richer countries, and we can begin to see the underlying problems.
The IVU Regional Co-ordinator for Africa is Emmanuel Eyoh, president of the Nigeria Vegetarian Society (NVS), founded in 1993 and a member of IVU since it began.
In December 2007 Emmanuel organized the first ever vegetarian congress in Africa - a West African Congress in Lagos, Nigeria, attended by many people from neighbouring countries in the sub-region.
Emmanuel is actively involved in programs to feed local homeless people, with veg food of course, and the 'world hunger' chart behind him shows his priorities clearly enough.
At the end of October 2011 IVU was able to give further financial support to the Vegetarian Week in Accra, Ghana, along with some help to veg friends from neighbouring Togo and Nigeria to enable them attend.
The next plan is for a Congress/Vegfest in Lomé, the capital of French speaking Togo, between Ghana and Nigeria. We hope friends from vegan societies in Ethiopia, South Africa and veg friends from other countries will be able to join us in what could become the first ever pan-Africa Veg event.
Then, if all goes well then the next major objective will be the first ever IVU World Congress/Vegfest in Africa in 2014 – we have two possible countries interested in hosting it, more details soon on that one.
For more about veg*ism in Africa go to: www.ivu.org/africa - where you can join the ivu-africa email group.


It may be the final mile (final deadline for Parse is January 28th 2017) but we've realized a large percentage of developers have, in fact, been patiently evaluating their options since the shutdown announcement.
So after what was only a short February rush, it's now obvious that most developers waited for the smoke to clear and the best options to arise. And that most of them (most of you) will be migrating over Q4 and early Q1 2017.
So having migrated over 1000+ developers from Parse to Batch (we'll call them early adopters!) over the course of the past 6 months, we thought we'd share a couple important learnings for your perusal, because who'd want to perform such sensitive a migration in a rush, or even worse, uninformed?
(By the way is it difficult to migrate to Batch? Nope, are saying developers).
Parse Core was an mBaaS (Mobile backend-as-a-service) platform that facilitated data and user data user by providing a cloud-based suite of tools to host storage for photos, gifs, user information, user location etc. It was the perfect alternative to having to maintain those yourself, plus it was tailored for mobile. Parse Core also enabled apps to let their users sign up through their Facebook, Twitter and other Social network accounts. Batch doesn't do this for you but there are plenty of options out there.
Apps used Parse Push to send push notifications to their users. This is what Batch does, and much more. Our platform comes with the same basic push capabilities Parse had and goes way beyond with marketing automation features, advanced In-App Messaging features, APIs and of course we've added everything new since iOS10 and Android 7.
Just like Batch, Parse also used Google Cloud Messaging service to send push notifications to Android users.
BUT when we started importing Android push tokens from developers migrating to Batch, we realized that Parse default integration pushed developers to use the same generic Publisher's SenderID: theirs! Thus, irremediably tying those tokens to the main Parse account and making it impossible for developers to reuse their tokens elsewhere.
You may be in that situation too. Maybe without knowing it. And if you are, you'll need to start recollecting tokens from the start ASAP if you want to be able to keep messaging your users in the future.
Parse offered their users a targeting feature called channels: a simple way to create segments of users to bulk send push notifications to specific user groups. While not very advanced the feature was easy to implement and a crowd-pleaser.
That's why at Batch we worked to make it really simple to replace Channels with our Custom segments, while providing what we call Native segments—something Parse also offered.
For more information, have a look at User Targeting.
Countless developers have asked us for that specific feature.
Parse users were using Parse to send direct App to App Messages which is considered a bit insecure as an easy decompilation of your app would render your API Key accessible. In simple words, malicious people could start sending messages to your user base with little efforts and even Parse, while providing a way to so, warned against such implementation.
At, Batch we value your security and therefore for developers wanting to implement such protocol we strongly recommend you use our asynchronous Transactional API for that, where API keys & certificates going to be stored on your servers, and not in your app.
We also found a weird security vulnerability with the Users object, on Parse, which is public by default. Parse offered a webservice route where you can request a complete list of all users and user-infos. Any malicious person using a web proxy or who whould decompile your app could get access to very sensitive informations, if you had stored physical address, phone number, email, etc.
On the service side, developers have been positively surprised with the level of customer support Batch is able to offer, where Parse was relying on user-generated tech support through forums, we thrive on real-time, 1-to-1 chat support using our ubiquitous chat bubble at the bottom-right of all pages of the Batch.com website & dashboard.
So no more searching an answer on forums for ages, no more endless waiting after "a ticket has been opened".
We get you technical and marketing answers, fast.
Ultimately Parse was mostly free. So how does Batch compare?
Well heard developers, and we've kept our BASIC service entirely free through a couple of pricing upgrades, since our 2014 launch. In fact today, more than 80% of the 4,000+ developers using Batch are using our free service and of course for bigger, more demanding corporations, we're able to offer Enterprise-level service with according rates.


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A Natural Man
National Wildlife Magazine (June-July 1984)
Richard Wolkomir
One April morning, 20-year-old Tom Brown walked into New Jersey's Pine Barrens, a wilderness the size of Yosemite National Park. Removing his clothes, he stepped naked into the forest. He was determined to spend the next four seasons – spring, summer, fall and winter – entirely alone, with his food, clothes and shelter supplied only by the land.
"I wanted to test myself completely," says Brown, a muscular six-footer with intense blue eyes. "I'd been thinking of it ever since I'd learned, as a child, that Indian scouts frequently spent a year alone in the wilderness."
For most residents of New Jersey, the nation's most urban state, the Pine Barrens is a forbidding place – 1,000 square miles of dense pine and oak forest, sandy soil, streams and cranberry bogs. But Tom Brown grew up in Beechwood, at the Barrens eastern edge, learning from childhood on to be at home in the forest in any season.
Brown's year in the wilderness proved the value of that childhood training. He emerged from the woods clothed, healthy and strong, having honed his survival skills to an edge almost unknown in modern times. Now, fourteen years later, he operates a wilderness school, teaching some 2,000 people annually to survive in the outdoors. An expert tracker, he has also found hundreds of lost hikers and fugitives in recent years – feats that have been detailed in several books and many television shows. Brown also teaches tracking to police officers and rescue crews as a public service. Observed renowned ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson: "Most people have drifted so far from their natural origins that the wild world is foreign ground. Not so in the case of Tom Brown, a completely natural man who has developed his extraordinary skills as a tracker of lost people and fugitives by learning to read the outdoors. I have never heard of anyone quite like Tom Brown Jr."
Brown began his woodcraft education at the age of seven. His teacher was his best friend's grandfather, Stalking Wolf, a lean and taciturn 83-year-old Apache from New Mexico. The Indian had come east to be with his son, an Air Force officer. And in Tom Brown and his own grandson he saw a chance to hand down his tribe's lore. He tutored them in the Pine Barrens for nine years before returning home.
"A week before he left, when I was 17, Stalking pointed to a track and asked me to read it," says Brown. "I said it was made by a two-year-old female coyote, weighing 25 pounds, carrying a rabbit in the left side of her mouth, and that an old injury to her right rear leg – probably she had been hit by a car – was causing her to put her weight more on her inner three toes."
Stalking Wolf regarded his student. Then, slowly, his wrinkled face broke into a rare smile. "I felt I'd passed my final examination," adds Brown. Nevertheless, the youth still wanted to test himself. And so, four years later, unsure what to do with his life, Brown walked into the Barrens naked, determined to live off the land for a year.
For his first night's shelter, he built a hut of leaves mounded on a pole frame, with the thick walls and floor all the blankets he needed. He wove cedar bark fibers into a loincloth. He lunched on edible plants -- the leaves and tendrils of greenbriers, wintergreen leaves, last year's berries still attached to their stalks, the corms growing from cattail roots. With an ancient Indian weapon, a short, heavy stick hurled with great accuracy, he bagged a cottontail for dinner. He skinned it with a tool known to the earliest humans: an eolith – a simple stone, it's edges broken to sharpness with another stone. To create a cooking fire. he used a bow drill.
In the weeks that followed, Brown chipped stones and bones into knives, arrowheads and fishhooks and carved a powerful hunting bow. Soon he was wearing clothes made from woven plant fibers and hides tanned with enzymes from the animals' brains. A snug mud hut replaced the leafy shelter. As he hunted, gathered plants, fished and studied the forest, spring faded into summer, summer into fall. Then it was winter, white and frigid.
One sunny day, Brown tracked a fox across the glittering snow. When he awoke the next morning, he was snow-blind; his eyes had become inflamed from too much light. Feeling his way on hands and knees, he gathered sticks to keep his fire burning for 24 hours. Then he lay in his shelter, listening to the windblown snow. "It wasn't so much terrifying being sightless in the woods as it was an adventure," he recalls, "because it was part of Stalking Wolf's teaching to have us spend at least two weekends each year living in the woods blindfolded."
In the morning, his vision began to return. Years later, he would exploit that brush with disaster in his woodcraft courses, teaching students to experience the outdoors blindfolded, thus sensitizing their hearing.
Eventually, Brown's year in the wilderness came to an end. "I went into the Barrens naked and I came out 20 pounds heavier, totally relaxed, twice as strong, in tremendous shape," he says. Walking out of the forest, he came to a highway just as a garbage truck roared by. Bearded, weathered, dressed in skins, carrying a bow, he watched the truck with horror. "It shocked me -- the rumble, the smell of the diesel fuel, the stench of society after I'd been living so long in pure pine air," he recalls. "I felt as if my body wanted to run, and I knew I wasn't ready to come out." Brown went back into the woods. He stayed there for three more months.
In time, Brown returned to society, married and settled down in New Jersey, not far from the Pine Barrens. Local law enforcement officials soon began to take advantage of his talents, enlisting his aid in a number of outdoor search efforts. In 1977, Brown found himself in the headlines. After he helped police successfully track down a lost child, a dangerous rabid dog and a wanted rapist, the New York Times ran a front-page account of his activities. Shortly thereafter, a publisher contacted Brown and the result was a book about his exploits. The book, entitled The Tracker, attracted broad media attention. In the months that followed, Brown received more than 10,000 letters, many of which were from readers who wanted him to start a school that taught wilderness survival skills.
At first, he balked at the idea. From childhood on he had craved a quiet life in the woods, and running a large school would be anything but quiet. One day, however, he took his infant son into the Pine barrens to look at Stalking Wolf's old camp. He was appalled to find that it had become a garbage dump. "I realized my son couldn't do what I had done because we're eating away the natural world around us," he says. He decided to start the survival school after all.
Brown held his first classes in 1978. Since then, some 10,000 people have passed through his school, headquartered at the Asbury, New Jersey, farm where he lives with his family. The courses, taught by Brown and his assistants, are intense. They include such activities as creating fire by using a bow drill, improvising animal traps, making bows and arrows, chipping arrowheads, and creating debris huts and other wilderness shelters.
Bill Donohue, chief of police in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, believes that Brown's lessons on Tracking can be especially helpful to police departments. "We're often called on to find lost children, for instance," he notes. "Usually, you call out volunteers, but it's much easier if you have a trained tracker on the police force."
While demonstrating his tracking talents, Brown becomes electric. "Tracking is the process of answering a series of questions about a beast and its interactions with the environment," he observes. Reading a print in detail takes years of study, adds Brown. He relies on "pressure releases," specific spots in any print that reveal how the foot interacted with the soil. He points out, for instance, that as a person ages, his or her bones change. Brown can "read" that status of a person's muscles and skeleton, and hence the person's age, by studying two specific spots in the footprint: the outside-edge of the foot and a hook-shaped motion of the ball of the foot, in conjunction with the person's stride.
Recently, Brown took a visitor tracking in a field seemingly bare of animal signs. "Tracks are everywhere," he pointed out while kneeling. "See how voles chewed this grass blade?" He rubbed a hand across the ground. "Feel this," he said. Pressing his palm against a leaf, the visitor felt an indentation. Brown peeled away the leaf to reveal a perfect deer print. "Put your eye next to the track and study it from all angles."
"Now this is a buck, and he was walking along confidently," observed Brown, scrutinizing the track a few inches from his nose. "But this print, with a little eddy of dirt in front, shows he stopped abruptly, and the way the print is slightly indented at the left rear, shows he was looking toward the right – there's a little tremor in the print's walls, which shows he was suddenly nervous."
Brown darted to the next print in the sequence, to the visitor just a faint indentation. "Here he's still looking, and the imprint is lighter, which shows the buck was behaving cautiously," he said. "Now the toe is deeper, showing the weight has shifted to the front – with a little eddy of dirt at the rear. He's sniffing."
At the next track, Brown pointed out that the print has less wobble, indicating that the deer is becoming more confident again. "He's caught no scent," he said. "The front of his hoof hit, went in deeper, then rocked back, which means he bent his head to feed – look, see how this sweet clover has been cropped down?"
But the fourth print, he pointed out, was a repeat of the first. Again something has alerted the buck, for a series of short steps indicate hesitation. "Something on the right has him worried," added the tracker. "And look! Suddenly the prints are blown out in the back, because he exploded off in that direction, peeling out." Brown walked to the right staring intently at the ground, and then pointed: the print of a large dog.
Another of Tom brown's fortes is stalking. He moves like a heron, each step precise. The stalker brings down his forefoot lightly, letting just the outer edge touch the ground, followed by the heel. Only now does he allow the body's weight to bear down. Thus, stalker can feel any twigs under his sole before they snap.
"He's really spooky in the woods," says Brown's wife, Judy. "Once we were walking side by side along a stream in the Pine Barrens when suddenly he wasn't there – he was 50 feet farther along the trail, up in a tree." But Tom Brown, who grew up wanting only to be alone in the forest, rarely disappears into the trees these days. New book deadlines loom and students arrive in an endless stream, making him a prisoner of his school – a predicament he has finally come to accept.
How to Tune in to the Wild
According to Tom Brown, many of us enter the woods as if we were driving Sherman tanks. Our noise sends wildlife fleeing, and we are blind and deaf to our surroundings. He believes that anyone can get more out of the wilds by using some simple techniques. Here are some suggestions:
"Our society is highly goal-oriented, but when we're in the woods to enjoy nature we should remember the old saying, 'Happiness is not found at the end of the trail but along the way,'" says Brown. When I go for a walk, I'm going nowhere in particular. I never say, 'I'm going to the top of the hill,' and I may travel only 30 feet in five hours." If we are not hurrying toward a goal and worried about the time, our perceptions can open up.
"If I set out to see deer, I probably won't see any," observes the tracker. Concentrating on what you expect to see closes your perceptions to other possibilities. You may see deer, but miss the ruffed grouse pecking at apples in the tree over the deer's heads. Concentrate simply on being in the natural world, alert to everything, he advises.
To prove that we are prisoners of habit, Brown watches where people look when they enter a room and then stands where they do not look, becoming invisible. "I might stand on a table next to the wall, unhook a painting, and hold it in front of me. I look ludicrous, but people walking past don't even see me," he says. In the woods, he suggests, try taking a different trail, or no trail at all. Lie down, for a chipmunk's view. Sniff the earth. Instead of focusing on the ground a few yards ahead, look up in the foliage. Look into dark places.
"Everywhere the landscape is full of tracks, whether it's a tuft of bear hair in a tree or the Grand Canyon, which is a track made by water," notes Brown. "Not a square inch of ground is blank." he advises studying a tracking guide, such as his own Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking or the Peterson series' Field Guide to Animal Tracks by Olaus Murrie. Then put in a lot of "dirt time," studying tracks where you find them and observing animals as they make tracks, learning not only what species make which tracks but also how configurations reveal a creature's behavior.
Almost always we walk too fast in the woods, says Brown. The solution is simply to walk at a third or a quarter of our normal pace. That automatically makes us less noisy, and opens our perceptions. Perhaps an even better idea is simply to sit and let yourself vanish into the landscape. After a while, the animals ignore you. "People ask me how I can sit for three hours on a stump in the middle of the woods. I ask them how they can sit for three hours in front of a television screen," he muses.
One key to seeing more animals is to know where to look. Wildlife concentrates in transition areas, like the edges of forests, fields and streams, which offer a variety of food and cover as well a water. The best time to encounter many animals is at night. Just before and after a storm animals are especially active. Brown also points out that most of us look too high -- instead of looking over a bush, look into the bush. Animals tend to be smaller than we think. We should also be alert for parts of animals, an ear or a tail, because usually much of the creatures we see is obscured by foliage. Look also for movement.
As we look around at the world, most of us focus on a small area, something like a flashlight beam. To see more wildlife, Brown advises adopting the native American way of looking, which he calls "splatter vision." Instead of focusing sharply, look toward the horizon and take in everything directly ahead and to the sides at once, as if you were looking through a wide-angle camera lens. Your focus will be abit fuzzy, but you will pick up any movement. Then you can focus sharply on the movement to see what it is.
Unlike those of rabbits, deer and many other animals, human ears are too small to pick up faint sounds. You can partially correct that deficiency by cupping your hands behind your ears and aiming toward a faint sound that you are trying to tune in on. You also can use the system to get a fix on the location and distance of a sound, such as an elusive bird call: using your cupped hands, aim in the general direction from which the sound is coming, then slowly turn one ear down, until the sound seems to be coming from the middle of your head. Then cup both hands in a circle around one ear and focus in on the sound, which should give you its maximum volume and a good sense of its location.
To hide your scent from animals, try bathing before you go out, using a natural soap such as pine tar. You also can rub your clothes and exposed parts of your body with pine needles, catnip or any other aromatic herb; thoroughly smoking yourself in front of a campfire also does the job.