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After Covid-19, Japan Recalibrates its Foreign Policy
Covid-19 has halted a slow rapprochement in Sino-Japanese relations, writes David Arase, visiting professor at the Asia Global Institute at The University of Hong Kong. The pandemic, he adds, has also revealed new insights into what the Indo-Pacific may expect from China and the US as the two compete for regional leadership. The diminished prestige of both China and the US after Covid-19 will prompt Japan to step up its engagement with like-minded middle and smaller powers to reinforce strategic stability and the existing rules-based order.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hosts Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi at a working dinner, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 16: While the rivals bicker, Tokyo worries about a leadership void in the Indo-Pacific (Credit: Ron Przysucha/US Department of State)
After the US launched its first trade measure against China in March 2018, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang traveled to Tokyo that May to backstop China's trade relations with Japan and South Korea. His goals were to warn Japan against siding with the US against China, revive dormant three-way talks on a Northeast Asian free-trade agreement, and enlist Japan's support for China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Li was received cordially by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who saw an opportunity to calm Japan's territorial conflict with China, maintain access to the growing Chinese economy, and promote regional stability and prosperity in cooperation with China, while remaining within the framework of the US-Japan alliance. Li invited Abe to visit Beijing to discuss improved bilateral relations.
Abe traveled to the Chinese capital in October 2018 and pledged a "new era" of "collaboration not competition" in bilateral ties that would be sealed by agreements to be signed during a return visit by Chinese leader Xi Jinping scheduled for April 2020. But the visit had to be put off because of the Covid-19 epidemic. Since then, however, regional developments catalyzed by Covid-19 have done much more than delay this Sino-Japanese rapprochement. It seems to have derailed it entirely.
Why did Abe pursue rapprochement?
Because it is neighbor to a revisionist China that has little regard for international norms and poses risks to its sovereignty, security, economy and political standing in the world, Japan has relied on the US to defend it. At the same time, Japan has engaged economically with China to enhance Japan's prosperity and future economic prospects. But the resulting Sino-Japanese relationship is narrowly based on China's diminishing need for Japanese capital, goods and technology.
Meanwhile, China's political and strategic animosity directed against Japan has intensified over time, as demonstrated by increasing military maneuvering in and around the Japanese islands. Worst of all, Japan's ties with China are hostage to continuing instability in US-China relations, the outlook for which is decidedly negative. Add to this the longstanding disputes over wartime atrocities and Japan's treatment of their history. All this means that Tokyo's bilateral relationship with Beijing has hardly been stable or smooth.
Abe would have liked to remedy this situation by adding new dimensions to the bilateral relationship. One would have been a strategic economic partnership to cooperatively develop the Indo-Pacific region. Another would have been a military-strategic relationship to preserve stability, starting with bilateral crisis management. The ultimate goal: a normal political relationship unhindered by animosities and grounded in mutual respect, mutual benefit, and a meaningful regional partnership.
Covid-19 intervenes
The Covid-19 crisis revealed much about each country's fundamental strengths, weaknesses and motivations. What Japan is learning about its regional neighbor most likely will not only derail its rapprochement with China and force it into closer strategic alignment with the US, it will also probably invigorate independent Japanese efforts to reinforce its own security and strengthen open rules-based regional order. With the US, Japan has already been championing the concept of a "free and open Indo-Pacific".
While the rest of the world was preoccupied with managing the pandemic, China moved opportunistically in the South China Sea, East China Sea, Taiwan Strait, along the Sino-Indian border, and in Hong Kong – as if to steal a march on ongoing sovereignty disputes while the rest of the world was weakened and distracted by the pandemic.
In the East China Sea, two Chinese coast guard ships entered Japanese-administered territorial waters of the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands on May 10 and ordered a Japanese fishing vessel to leave the area. In mid-May, China began large-scale naval military exercises in the Yellow Sea that are scheduled to move southward and last until August to include a simulated takeover of the Taiwan-administered Pratas Islands. In the South China Sea in April and May, China sank a Vietnamese fishing vessel, operated a survey vessel inside Malaysia's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), declared the establishment of Paracel and Spratly islands administrative districts, and named some 80 contested land features.
Along the Sino-Indian border, Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed in Ladakh on May 5 and 9, and on June 15, violent fighting near the Galwan River led to the deaths of 20 Indian troops, with casualties on the Chinese side undisclosed.
Then on May 22, China announced its intention to circumvent the Hong Kong legislature and impose a national security law in Hong Kong that would criminalize political protest, and dissent. It would also allow Chinese domestic security agencies to operate in Hong Kong. The law went into effect on June 30.
In sum, during Covid-19, China put on a disturbing display of how, when given a free hand, it can behave toward those who resist its demands.
Meanwhile, the US administration's management of the Covid-19 epidemic and its harsh rhetoric directed against China and the World Health Organization (WHO) have reinforced Japan's negative perception of US President Donald Trump as an unpredictable and intemperate president who is difficult to trust. Covid-19 also interfered with US naval readiness in the Indo-Pacific when the US aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt was forced to cut short its Western Pacific patrol and dock in Guam in March because of coronavirus cases on board. A large portion of the crew of the US destroyer Kidd also tested positive for the virus while docked in San Diego. These developments had an unsettling effect on Japan, which relies so heavily on a strong US military presence in the region.
At the same time, Covid-19 exacerbated existing economic, political and security tensions between China and the US, which have been locked in a trade war. Both sides cast blame on the other for originating and spreading the virus. Further irking Washington were China's coercive efforts to change the regional status quo, exploit the crisis through its face mask diplomacy, and impose trade sanctions on Australia because Canberra called for an independent inquiry into the origins of Covid-19. With relations with China emerging as a major issue in the US presidential election in November, many in the US in both political parties have become convinced that differences with Beijing are irreconcilable and that Washington needs to confront China even more. This has forced Japan into a difficult situation – its actions risk displeasing one or the other of the strategic competitors in the region.
Leadership void in the Indo-Pacific
During the pandemic, several countries in the Indo-Pacific have experienced lower infection rates, fewer days in lockdown, and milder economic effects. Because the region is less dependent on commodity exports and is more integrated into global value chains, prospects for economic recovery are good. Countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand struck a more successful balance between lockdown measures and maintenance of normal economic and social life. Japan's interests closely align with all of these capably governed countries.
Abe has had it up to here: Japan is squeezed between a more assertive China and a US that is disengaged (Credit: Official Website of the Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet)
Covid-19 also exposed the lack of effective leadership in the Indo-Pacific. While the US has provided central bank swap arrangements with Australia, South Korea, and Singapore, it has not organized any significant multilateral initiative to deal with the pandemic. China has extended medical assistance to help developing countries deal with Covid-19, but this diplomatic effort has been overshadowed by its opportunistic bullying of Australia, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Japan, as well as its continued tough approaches to Hong Kong and Taiwan.
China may have hoped by its actions to demonstrate US impotence and the inevitability of Chinese regional domination. The problem for China is that the world will recover from the epidemic but will not likely forget what transpired during it. China's intimidating actions have only stiffened US resolve to counter its strategic rival and alienated the regional actors that China most needs to win over.
The Sino-Japanese "new era" ends before it begins
On June 4, the Japanese government reported that it had ceased preparations for Xi's state visit. Less than a week later, Abe announced that he would draft a statement critical of China's imposition of national security legislation for Hong Kong to be endorsed at the upcoming expanded meeting of the G-7 to be hosted in the US. This gathering, Abe said, "groups together countries sharing universal values such as freedom, democracy and rule of law, [and] has a mission to lead global public opinion."
This clear Japanese alignment with the US against China's actions in Hong Kong likely marks the end of Abe's search for a "new era" in Sino-Japanese relations. Abe's initiative never had much hope of prospering. China is not about to abandon its great national rejuvenation agenda to conform with "Western" legal norms, nor is it going to concede so much to Abe without demanding a steep price in return. The most likely demands? An end to US-Japan partnership, full political and economic support for China's continuing rise, and subordination to a China-centered "community of common destiny".
Japan recalibrates
China's failure both to contain Covid-19 at the initial stages of the outbreak and then to cooperate effectively with other countries once the virus had spread beyond its borders revealed previously underappreciated security and economic risks associated with supply chains that make critically needed goods and rely so heavily on China. To counter these risks, Japan included in its Covid-19 emergency budget a special allocation of US$2.2 billion to subsidize the selective reshoring and dispersal to other Indo-Pacific economies of Japanese supply chains in China. This move will not have a dramatic effect on Japan's economic ties with China, but it does reflect a reassessment of China's stability and reliability.
Sharpened geopolitical tensions create a higher risk with respect to renminbi (RMB) devaluation, stricter RMB currency control, dollar liquidity, and China's export and GDP growth prospects. High unemployment and lower growth triggered by Covid-19, as well as a mounting load of debt, raise the threat of asset deflation. These risks are intimately connected to social stability in China. Beijing is known to channel social discontent toward foreign targets. No country may be more convenient for this purpose than Japan. The Japanese would, therefore, be prudent to limit their dependence on the Chinese economy and be more strategic in diversifying their trade and investment relations.
Meanwhile, US failure to show leadership and inspire confidence in this crisis will cause Japan to become more independent and forward thinking. With the greater uncertainty, the US-Japan alliance remains critically important, but Japan needs enhanced defensive capabilities and more robust regional relationships even as it is forced into closer alignment with the US. Japan will continue to step up its international engagements, particularly with Southeast Asia and India, while partnering with the US to implement its Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy. Japan has little choice but to take more initiative to support the rules-based order as it did when it salvaged the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after the US pulled out of the trade agreement.
As it surveys the region today Tokyo will have taken notice of a number of developments driven in large part by China's bullying and disappointing US leadership. Australia and India signed a landmark agreement to permit mutual military logistics support. The Philippines suspended its move to end its Visiting Forces Agreement with the US. (With its own agreement for hosting American troops set to expire in March 2021, Japan is itself moving forward with negotiations with the US on a new deal.) Indonesia notified the UN that China's South China Sea territorial claim endangers Indonesia's EEZ rights. South Korea accepted Trump's invitation to the expanded G-7 meeting. And the EU – an important external stakeholder – has postponed its long-awaited summit meeting with Xi planned for September. Perhaps it is time for Japan, together with these like-minded countries, to take greater responsibility for regional governance.
Arase, David (ed). (2016) China's Rise and Changing Order in East Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK.
Kato, Yoshikazu. (June 2019) "US-Japan-China Trilateral Relations: How their dynamics will shape Asia Pacific", AsiaGlobal Papers, Asia Global Institute, The University of Hong Kong.
Vogel, Ezra. (July 30, 2019) China and Japan: Facing History, Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.
David Arase
David Arase is honorary professor at the Asia Global Institute at The University of Hong Kong and resident professor of international politics at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. His three most recent books are: Routledge Handbook on Africa-Asia Relations (co-edited with Pedro Amakasu-Raposo and Scarlette Cornelissen and published by Routledge in 2017), China's Rise and East Asian Order (Palgrave, 2016), and The US-Japan Alliance: Balancing Soft and Hard Power in East Asia (co-edited with Akaha Tsuneo for the Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies series and published by Routledge in 2011), which was awarded the Ohira Memorial Foundation Special Prize. His next book, which he co-edited and to which he contributed two chapters, is on the Belt and Road Initiative and will be published by Routledge later this year. Dr Arase's current research focus is on China's rise, the growing Sino-US strategic rivalry, and the impact on the Indo-Pacific regional order.


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Tanya Roberts, Bond girl and 'That '70s Show' star, dies
Posted: Jan 4, 2021 / 11:15 AM CST / Updated: Jan 4, 2021 / 02:39 PM CST
FILE – Actress Tanya Roberts poses for photos at the grand opening of the musical comedy "The Producers" at the Paris hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Feb. 9, 2007. Roberts, who captivated James Bond in "A View to a Kill" and had roles on "Charlie's Angels" and "That '70s Show," died Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021. She was 65. Her death was announced by her publicist. No cause of death was given. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Tanya Roberts, who captivated James Bond in "A View to a Kill," appeared in the final season of "Charlie's Angels" and later played Midge Pinciotti in the sitcom "That '70s Show," has died in Los Angeles. She was 65.
Roberts' death Sunday was announced by her publicist, Mike Pingel. She collapsed in her home and was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. No cause of death was given, but Pingel said it was not due to COVID-19.
One of her highest profile roles was playing geologist Stacey Sutton opposite Roger Moore in 1985's "A View to a Kill," where she held a gun on Bond after tricking him into thinking she was in a shower. The character later joined him to stop bad guys on an airship over San Francisco.
"We are saddened to hear of the passing of Tanya. She was a very lovely person," Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli wrote in tribute. Britt Ekland, who starred opposite Moore in 1974′s "The Man with the Golden Gun," tweeted: "Once a Bond Girl always a Bond Girl!"
"One of my favorite memories with Tanya was driving in the car and Duran Duran's 'A View to a Kill' theme song came on the radio — we both sang along. Priceless," Pingel said.
Roberts also appeared in such fantasy adventure films as "The Beastmaster" and "Hearts and Armour." She replaced Shelly Hack in "Charlie's Angels," joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third Angel Julie. She also played comic book heroine Sheena — a female version of the Tarzan story — in a 1984 film.
A new generation of fans saw her on "That '70s Show," playing Midge, mother to Laura Prepon's character Donna. On Twitter, Topher Grace, one of the the show's stars, called Roberts "truly a delightful person to work with." He added: "I had never acted before and, to be honest, a little nervous around her. But she couldn't have been kinder. We'll miss you Midge."
Roberts, a huge animal rights activist, is survived by her husband, Lance O'Brien. "Tanya and I have never been apart. This is too much to handle. Her animals are lost without her and so am I," he said in a statement.
Rapper Post Malone donates 10,000 pairs of Crocs to front-line hospital workers
(WITI) -- Rapper Post Malone is thanking front-line healthcare workers by donating 10,000 pairs of his sold-out signature Crocs.
The group Musicians on Call made the announcement this week. Malone's Duet Max Clog II shoes will go to workers at 70 U.S. hospitals. The new kicks have already sold out online.

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It's spring, but Bear is still fast asleep.
His friends try every trick they can think of to wake him up - he keeps right on snoring.
Until someone discovers the one thing bears love more than sleeping . . .
A delightful story about what matters to a bear, by the author of Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy.


Beginning in 2001, the University of Wisconsin was approached by several custom manure applicators from around the region requesting a show that provides a side-by-side comparison of agitation and application equipment to help determine which best meets individual needs. The first Manure Expo was held near Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin in August 2001.
The first event proved to be a huge success. Due to the proven interest in the show, applicators from Minnesota and Wisconsin asked for a second show. In 2003 the second show was an even bigger success than the first with more than 700 participants. The growing attendance indicated that a need was being met and that expansion was the next step.
In an effort to expand impact around the region the decision was made to turn the Manure Expo into a traveling show. The Manure Expo has been held in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska.


Suriel has been pushing through with substance in his bars. The Lynn, MA native blends lyrical dexterity with a bounce that finds him firmly in the energy of today's MC. And while he sounds current he does it without pandering to the masses. Take a look at his latest clip "Real Life" and deep dive into his album below.


Solution: Put on the prettiest and flashiest heels that could put Lindsay Lohan's body jewelry to shame and glam up a bohemian look. I guess you could say this was inspired by a little bit of the 70's and a little bit of Kastor and Pollux, who make socks and heels fashionably wearable. I never thought I could pair socks with anything other than tennis shoes but I was proved wrong.
What are your favorite sock and heel combinations? Send some inspiration my way.
On another note, I'm leaving for Japan in a few days but I'll be back before you know it.


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As the main preaching pastor at our church, Calvary, I am currently leading a series called The Whole Story. Beginning in January of this year, I will, God willing, preach roughly 63 sermons over the next 18 months or so, making our way through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. In conjunction with this series, I have been focusing my writing on a weekly post that gets published each Tuesday, to go along with the book I just preached. You can watch the sermons here, and check out the posts here.
I thought I'd share here my last post, that was on the book of Obadiah, and some lessons I learned from a friend.
Therefore, my friend, and the rest of us sinners who are trusting in Jesus, are not afraid. Because Jesus paid it all. Sin had left a crimson stain, but he washed it white as snow through his death on a cross, and his rising again, and his ascension to the right hand of the Father.


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The Ph.D. in Systems Modeling and Analysis is offered jointly by the Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research and the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. The program focuses on the development of the mathematical and computational skills used to conceptualize and analyze real-world systems. Faculty and students will engage and collaborate to contribute to the knowledge base used in the fields of science, medicine, business and engineering. The continued development of applied mathematics, discrete mathematics, operations research and statistics is critical to scientific advancement in the 21st century. The curriculum enables students to expand the frontiers of knowledge through original, relevant research involving quantitative and qualitative complex systems derived from real, contemporary problems facing our world.
Gain a solid foundation in the theory and application of optimization, stochastic processes, simulation, decision analysis and biomathematics, and demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of these concepts
Learn to perform appropriate collection, modeling and analysis of data using statistical methods
Demonstrate the ability to identify situations in which mathematics, operations research or statistics can be applied and model the situation
Demonstrate the ability to solve a wide variety of mathematics, operations research or statistics problems using the software commonly used in industry
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A graduate student admitted to a program or concentration requiring a final research project, work of art, thesis or dissertation, must qualify for continuing master's or doctoral status according to the degree candidacy requirements of the student's graduate program. Admission to degree candidacy, if applicable, is a formal statement by the graduate student's faculty regarding the student's academic achievements and the student's readiness to proceed to the final research phase of the degree program.
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Note: Assistantships are only available starting in the fall semester. Spring and summer semester admission deadlines are only for students not seeking an assistantship.
In addition to general admission requirements of the VCU Graduate School, the following requirements represent the minimum acceptable standards for admission: have completed an undergraduate degree with at least 30 credit hours of undergraduate-level mathematics, including calculus I and II, multivariate calculus, linear algebra, probability and statistics. Applicants also must have completed at least one upper-level mathematics class that includes mathematical reasoning, such as abstract algebra, combinatorics, graph theory, real analysis or topology.
In addition to general VCU Graduate School graduation requirements, students are required to complete course work in core and elective courses and to conduct significant research.
Credit hour requirements: Students in the systems modeling and analysis Ph.D. program are required to earn a minimum of 57 graduate-level credit hours beyond the baccalaureate. At least one-half of the credit hours presented for graduation must be at the 600 level or higher.
Qualifying exam: Students must pass a qualifying exam covering material from each of the first three core courses they take after admission to the program. Two attempts are allowed for each exam. This requirement must be fulfilled by the end of the semester following completion of 18 graduate credit hours. Students are exempt from a qualifying exam if they earned an A in the corresponding core course or if they took an equivalent course at another university, as determined by the Ph.D. steering committee.
Doctoral candidacy: Admission to candidacy is made by evaluation of a qualifying portfolio, including exams and project work from courses, research products and statements from faculty advisers and instructors. The portfolio can be submitted after all course work has been completed, as well as any additional preparatory course work required at admission. Students must present their research in a department-sponsored seminar. The candidacy committee will evaluate the student's readiness to begin their dissertation work. Supplementary examination may be required by the committee.
Dissertation proposal: After admission to candidacy and the completion of all course work, the student will prepare a written and oral proposal of the intended dissertation research area, including a complete literature review. A successful proposal must be completed at least three months prior to the dissertation defense.
Dissertation defense: The student must complete 18 credit hours in SYSM 798 or HUMS 701 resulting in a publishable dissertation and a successful oral defense. The student also must have submitted at least one paper to a refereed academic journal.
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MATH 535 Introduction to Dynamical Systems (Program Core) 3
MATH 556 Graph Theory 3
OPER 527 Optimization I 3
STAT 513 Mathematical Statistics I 3
SYSM 681 Research Exploration 1
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SYSM 697 Systems Research 1 2
SYSM 798 Dissertation Research 18
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Select 500-, 600- or 700-level MATH, OPER, STAT or SYSM courses with the exception of those in the list below. 2 24
Total Hours 57
Students are required to take SYSM 697 with a faculty adviser before admission to candidacy.
Students must complete at least nine credit hours at the 700-level. Electives will be determined based on a student's research interests and in consultation with their advisers and the graduate program director.
The minimum number of graduate credit hours required for this degree is 57.
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These courses may not count as electives for this program.
MATH 505 Modern Geometry 3
MATH 592 Teaching and Communicating Mathematics 1
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MATH 661 Number and Operations 3
MATH 662 Geometry and Measurement 3
MATH 663 Functions and Algebra 3
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MATH 665 Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning 3
MATH 667 Functions and Algebra II 3
MATH 668 Modeling With Mathematics 3
MATH 690 Research Seminar 2
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OPER 696 Applied Project 1-3
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STAT 508 Introduction to Social Statistics 3
STAT 543 Statistical Methods I 3
STAT 608 Statistics for Social Research 3
STAT 696 Applied Project 1-3
STAT 697 Directed Research 1-3
STAT 698 Thesis 1-3
SYSM 697 Systems Research 2
SYSM 798 Dissertation Research 1-12
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Deborah S. Griffin is a Partner in the Construction Industry Practice Group at Holland and Knight and concentrates her practice in the area of construction, commercial litigation and bankruptcy. She regularly advises contractors, owners and sureties on construction contract, administration and claim matters and handles construction disputes from start to finish.
Ms. Griffin's experience includes the representation of contractors, construction managers, owners, sureties, banks and bank regulators in loan and contract default situations, both before and during litigation or bankruptcy proceedings. She has helped draft a contract addendum for the use of building information modeling (BIM) on construction projects which has been published as ConsensusDOCS form 301.
Her practice includes: structuring project delivery methods and reviewing, structuring and negotiating construction, design and construction management contracts; advising clients on contract interpretation and contract and project administration for commercial, institutional, and public building projects and public works projects; claim avoidance counseling; public procurement laws and bid protests; construction industry labor and employment issues; OSHA and building code matters; change order management; project close-out management; assessment, preparation and defense of claims; litigation and arbitration of construction related disputes; contract default management and providing general business advice to construction industry clients.


Not every student is making do with secondhand stuff for his apartment.
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Many students now place as much emphasis in their apartments as they do on their grade point average.
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Anthrax vaccine administered in combination with a short course of antibiotics completely protected nonhuman primates from inhalational anthrax, the most lethal form of the disease, according to scientists at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).
In a collaborative study involving USAMRIID and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), investigators demonstrated that postexposure vaccination can shorten the duration of antibiotic treatment required to protect against inhalational anthrax. The findings, which appear in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could have important implications for public health management of anthrax bioterrorism events.
Anthrax is caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis, and causes three types of disease--cutaneous, gastrointestinal, and inhalational--depending upon the route of exposure. Inhalational anthrax--the type likely to occur following a bioterrorist attack--is difficult to diagnose early, and despite antibiotic therapy, has a high fatality rate. In addition, because anthrax spores can remain in the body for extended periods, antibiotic treatment is typically recommended for 60 days or more following exposure.
As noted by the authors, following the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, approximately 10,000 people were offered 60 days of antibiotic therapy to prevent inhalational anthrax. Adverse events associated with this regimen--including diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and dizziness--were commonly reported. More importantly, only about 44 percent of people completed the whole 60-day course. Thus, minimizing the duration of postexposure antibiotic treatment could be crucial to a successful defense against a large-scale anthrax attack.


One's castle is one's home!
Each entry includes a description of the site's appearance, history, and layout, a detailed floorplan, complete data on the NPCs who live (or died) there, and adventure hooks to draw player characters into the setting.
Castle Sites is easily adaptable to any AD&D campaign and is suitable for all levels of play. Also in this series of accessories are City Sites and Country Sites.
Castle Sites (1995) by Kevin Melka and Sam Witt is a follow-up of the extremely well designed City Sites by Skip Williams. There's a real need for this sort of project, especially for DMs who have ideas for adventures but lack the resources or experience to create living, breathing castles. Well, not literally living and breathing castles - that would be one very huge mimic. But you know what I mean.
Watch Tower, a standard, useful watch tower that's easily transported to any campaign for quick and easy use.
Each entry lists major and minor NPCs, plot hooks, site history, ongoing tensions and concerns, and a thorough and comprehensive cartography treatment with rooms numbered, labeled, and described. The maps aren't beautiful aesthetically, but they're very utilitarian, laying out the locations in great detail.
The combination of good description, ready plot hooks, and no pre-written adventure makes this book highly useful to anyone who wants to run a sandbox campaign. They're also extremely useful for home-brewed adventures that are in search of a good location to be set in.
System Agnostic - Mostly. Each of the seven locations contains full 2e AD&D game stats for all NPCs mentioned. That's useful for running 1st or 2nd edition games, but less so for later editions.
Castle Sites comes close to system-agnostic, however, because the most important thing about most of these NPCs is their personalities, not their stat blocks. With a few exceptions (such as the dragon and cultists in Dragon's Coffin), game stats for most NPCs will never be needed in a typical adventure, and if they are it's fairly easy to substitute or derive their stats from later edition rulebooks.
In short, the most impressive component of this product is its descriptions and concepts, not the stats for the inhabitants.
A Ready-Made Base. One of the things that makes this book so useful is that the majority of sites described make an excellent location for a player base at a campaign's start. Like the (in)famous "Keep on the Borderland," a castle that easily would have felt at home in Castle Sites, these locations make a solid home to return to and to help protect. Owning this book is worth it for that advantage alone.
About the Creators. Kevin Melka is the author of The Ruins of Zhentil Keep and Cormanthyr: Empire of the Elves, along with Planescape books such as Planes of Conflict.
Sam Witt has authored over 30 supplements for different editions of D&D, including The Complete Sha'ir Handbook and many titles of the Quintessential line for Mongoose Publishing.


This hotel left me a bit confused. It is outstanding in certain aspects and lacks basic things in many others. We were looking for an all inclusive hotel with a short stroll to the town and that's exactly what we got.
We had 2 seaview rooms. The other one was slightly bigger with 3 beds and big balcony on the first floor. The other one was on the second floor with smaller balcony and less space. The rooms are actually quite nice and fresh looking with wooden details. Bathroom is tiny with a shower only and there were only the basic amenities (shampoos and body lotion). There is a kettle in the room as well as coffee and tea. Minibar includes water, juice and beer. Or at least it was suppose to include. We had a problem when we arrived to the hotel. Our minibar was empty and the previous customer had taken all the coffees and tea bags, leaving only the "blending sticks" behind. It was obvious that the maintenance hadn't checked the room when we arrived. We had to ask three times and only got the water and other supplies to the minibar next morning. Unacceptable. Keep in mind that the minibar is filled with water only if you don't specifically ask for juice etc.
WIFI is lousy, lousy, lousy. If a hotel advertises that a room includes WIFI, it has to work and the explanation cannot be that "there might be too many users". It never worked in our room, not 2pm, 1am or 7am.
All inclusive was organized hassle-free. There was always something to grab and we specifically liked the beach bar where you could help yourself and take the juice/ice tea without the need to queue. Lobby bar is chic and the service there was good. The local red wine in the restaurant was surprisingly tasty.
The food unfortunately was quite disappointing. The quality was not very good and food was sometimes even cold. We weren't sure whether there was drink service to the tables during the dinner. Sometimes we were asked what to drink and sometimes not, depending on the place where we were seated. The worrying part was that the food labels were not properly positioned. This is a bit scary for people who have severe allergies. I was however, able to find a couple of local flavours which I actually enjoyed.
There are 3 a la carte restaurants on site which belong to the all inclusive option. We tried the Italian one but were very disappointed. A restaurant doesn't turn into Italian if you place mozzarella on the table. The buffet food was better (even if it wasn't excellent either). We usually had lunch next to the main pool. They normally had fresh salad, pizza, hamburgers and other basics.
This is where this hotel is top notch. Fantastic facilities for children. The waterpark was our son's favorite (I almost peed my pants when I tried one of the slides). There is also a kids club which we didn't use and a separate splash area. There are multiple pool areas and a private beach and we never had to reserve any sun loungers. However, this might change when the hotel is fully occupied during high season. You also have the possibility to pay for a separate cabana. I never saw anyone using the cabanas..There are a lot of activities organized from beachvolley to zumba. We attended only the aqua fit session a few times.
Some people hype about the spa but for us it was really 2 star service. We had a couple's massage (special price 50€ only for you my friend) and I had to ask the lady to use more pressure twice which never happened despite of my wish. They also kept the door open which meant that there was a lot of noise from the spa area and some dude kept on speaking in loud voice in the corridor. There was no water or drinks served after the massage and my massage lady didn't even bother to walk me out of the room. If you decide to try the massage, ask for the Balinese lady but do not expect 5* star spa service. Perhaps we just got a bit spoiled with 5* spas in Dubai.
Location is fantastic. There is beautiful beach promenade that leads to Icmeler center (only a short walking distance away). The area is quiet despite of the public promenade and the scenery is absolutely stunning with pine trees and beautiful seaview.
Hmmm, where do I start. Let's start from the stars. We got very good service in the restaurant from Ridwan and Ali. These two were the stars of this hotel.
The biggest problem with this hotel are the lingual skills of the personnel. If you speak Russian, no problem but their English skills, even the basic words are very limited (and I'm not a native English speaker myself, I don't even expect anyone to know Finnish or Swedish). I had a problem already with the check in personnel since the lady didn't know what number is "zero". In the restaurant "green tea" was an odd word. I understand that most of the guests are Ukrainian and before that Russians, but if you market this hotel to other countries as well, English must be improved.
All in all, the stunning scenery of the hotel is definitely worth the visit but the service part has to improve to stand out from all the other hotels in the area. For families this hotel is a real treat since the kids are entertained almost 24/7.
Destination LOMA rates this hotel 3,5* (3,5* for the rooms, 5* facilities, 2* service).


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Q: No entiendo como usar un struct desde una clase Como dice el titulo no entiendo como guardar informacion dentro de un struct a partir de una clase, tengo el siguiente problema:
Se dispone del siguiente tipo de dato:
struct alumno{string nombre; float nota;};
En base al mismo se desea crear una clase Curso para modelar el cursado de una
materia. La clase deberá contener el nombre de la materia y la cantidad de
alumnos en el curso junto con una lista de los mismos. Proponga los siguientes
métodos:
a. Constructores y destructores según lo considere conveniente.
b. Un método que permita agregar un Alumno.
c. Un método que determine el promedio del curso.
d. Un método que devuelva la calificación más alta y el nombre del alumno
que la obtuvo.
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
struct alumno{
    string nombre;
    float nota;

};
class curso{

private:
    int cant;
public:
    curso (int);
    void AgregarAlumno();
    void PromCurso();
    void CalifMasalta();

};

curso::curso(int c){
    cant=c;

}
void curso::AgregarAlumno(){
    vector<alumno> v(cant);
    alumno a;
    for(int i=0;i<cant;i++) {
    cout<<i<<"- Ingresar nombre y nota"<<endl;
    cin>>a[i].nombre>>a[i].nota;
    }
}

void curso::PromCurso(){
    int suma=0;
    for(int i=0;i<cant;i++) {
        suma=suma+a[i].nota;
    }

    cout<<"El promedio del curso es : "<<suma/cant<<endl;

}

void curso::CalifMasalta(){

    int mayor=0;
    int pos;
    for(int i=0;i<cant;i++) {
        if(a[i].nota>mayor){
            mayor=a[i].nota;
            pos=i;
        }

    }
    cout<<"La mayor nota fue: "<<mayor<<" por el alumno: "<<a[pos].nombre<<endl;

}
int main() {

    curso c(3);
    void AgregarAlumno();
    void PromCurso();
    void CalifMasalta();

    return 0;
}

A: Tienes algunos errores.
Si una variable local en una función, solo podrás acceder a ella mientras la función esté en ejecución.
Por ejemplo, en la función AgregarAlumno tienes un vector donde supongo que quieres guardar los alumnos. Para que "siga viviendo", la forma más simple es hacerlo miembro de la clase:
class curso {

private:

    vector<alumno> alumnos;
    ...
};

Desde entonces podrás acceder al vector alumnos (o el nombre que prefieras ponerle) desde cualquier método. Por cierto, no necesitas guardar el número de alumnos en una variable. El vector ya se encarga de llevar la cuenta.
También falta agregar el alumno al vector.

Lo mismo pasa con la variable local a de la función AgregarAlumno. Y además, intentas acceder al elemento en la posición i de a pero no es un arreglo.

La consigna te pide un método que permita agregar un alumno, no todos.

En la función para calcular el promedio acumulas las notas en una variable de tipo entero. Estás perdiendo la información de los decimales al hacer la suma. Puedes arreglarlo cambiándole el tipo.

Te quedaría algo así:
class curso {
   private:
    vector<alumno> alumnos;

   public:
    void AgregarAlumno();
    void PromCurso();
    void CalifMasalta();
};

void curso::AgregarAlumno() {
    alumno a;

    cout << "Ingresar nombre y nota" << endl;
    cin >> a.nombre >> a.nota;
    alumnos.push_back(a);
}

void curso::PromCurso() {
    float suma = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < alumnos.size(); i++) {
        suma += a[i].nota;
    }

    cout << "El promedio del curso es : " << suma / alumnos.size() << endl;
}

void curso::CalifMasalta() {
    int mayor = 0;
    int pos;
    for (int i = 0; i < alumnos.size(); i++) {
        if (alumnos[i].nota > mayor) {
            mayor = a[i].nota;
            pos = i;
        }
    }
    cout << "La mayor nota fue: " << mayor << " por el alumno: " << alumnos[pos].nombre << endl;
}

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BATH, Maine — The Navy has accepted delivery of a destroyer named for a naval aviator who crash-landed his plane to try to save a downed pilot in the Korean War.
Medal of Honor recipient Thomas Hudner witnessed the christening of the ship in April 2017 at Maine's Bath Iron Works and died months later at 93 in his native Massachusetts.
During Friday's ceremony in Bath, a flag was hoisted that previously flew over Arlington National Cemetery and on the USS Constitution to honor Hudner's efforts. Hudner failed to save his comrade, Ensign Jesse Brown, but is remembered for his devotion.
A U.S. Navy frigate was named for Brown, the first African-American naval aviator, in 1973. The Hudner will join the fleet when it's commissioned into service Dec. 1 in Boston.


For the Cannon Theater Company, show time is fast approaching. Today concluded the last week of regular rehearsal for our winter play, Alice in Wonderland. Starting at 9 am Saturday morning, it will be Tech Week.
It's been a long, exhausting, and fun rehearsal process so far. Alice in Wonderland contains one of the largest casts CTC has worked with in years – over thirty different characters. Over the last four weeks we have designed the set, designed costumes, painted platforms, sewn costumes, learned lines, and organized blocking. We have rehearsed dutifully from 3 pm until 5:15 for weeks, even organizing a Skype rehearsal to get around snow days. Alice is almost ready to be presented to the Cannon public.
But the most intense – and many say, most fun – part of the rehearsal process is yet to come. "Tech Week," a phrase revered, loved and hated by generations of Cannon Theater members, is when the show finally comes together. We will rehearse the show full-tilt throughout next week, going late into the night if we need to. CTC is eagerly anticipating our showtime, almost as much as we are nervously anticipating the week that will lead up to it.


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Manatee sightings on the Intracoastal Waterway in Gulf Shores
Updated Feb 25, 2012 ; Posted Feb 25, 2012
By Kathy Jumper, Press-Register
Artists are painting a 38-foot high mural on manatees on the Interacoastal Waterway at Tacky Jack's restaurant in Gulf Shores.
GULF SHORES, Alabama -- Manatees will never be endangered at Tacky Jack's restaurant on the Intracoastal Waterway, where artists plan to paint a 38-foot-high and 8-foot-wide bright blue mural of adult and baby manatees.
"I can just see tugboats stopping to check out the manatee art," said Ken Kichler, CFO of Tacky Jack's, which has four waterfront restaurants in Baldwin County and one location in Panama City, Fla.
The mega manatee mural project will mark the fifth anniversary of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab's Manatee Sighting Network and bring awareness to the region's manatee research program, according to Dr. Ruth Carmichael, director of the MSN.
Renowned mural artists Dwight Kirkland of Mifflintown, Pa., and Michael Colley of Atlanta are donating their labor; the Sea Lab is providing the supplies, and Tacky Jack's is feeding and housing the artists.
The mural will take seven to nine days to complete, depending on the weather, Kirkland said.
The mural will be unveiled March 9 at a private reception supporting the Manatee Sighting Network.
But customers are expected to watch the artists while they work, Kichler said.
"The artists and the management at Tacky Jack's have been incredibly supportive about presenting this monumental artwork to educate the public about the importance of these unique creatures in our local waters," Carmichael said.
The Tacky Jack's locations "tend to be 'hotspots' for manatee sightings," she said. "Customers looking out the windows during lunch and dinner have reported manatees traveling, feeding and cavorting nearby."
Kirkland said he has supplied his artwork to raise money for a variety of wildlife foundations over the years. When a volunteer at MSN saw some note cards he had drawn of manatees, the group contacted him about doing a mural.
The mural was originally to be done inside the restaurant, but Kichler pitched the 38-foot-tall elevator shaft as a natural outdoor spot that can be seen by boat traffic on the working waterway. And, Tacky Jack's has hired the artists to paint a manatee mural on the other side of the elevator building, as well.
The mural experts have painted huge murals around the country, including train stations, museums, city and federal buildings.
"The larger the better," Colley said. "It's exciting to approach a wall and paint."
"It's also fun being the center of attention when you paint a mural," Kirkland said. "People like to watch."


A civil engineer who has been involved in almost every significant highways scheme in Kent during the last 50 years has been presented with an award.
John Farmer, a chartered member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and Major Projects Manager at Kent County Council, was presented with a lifetime contribution to engineering award by the ICE Kent and East Sussex branch.
The award was presented by TV star and engineer Rob Bell during a dinner organised by the Rochester Bridge Trust and Royal Engineers Museum, marking the national Year of Engineering and celebrating the bicentenary of the ICE.
Sue Threader, Bridge Clerk (Chief Executive) of the Rochester Bridge Trust and outgoing Chair of the local branch of the ICE, said: "John has spent almost half a century developing, improving and maintaining the highway network that keeps the county moving. We were very pleased to be able to present him with this award to recognise the positive impact his work has had on the lives of so many.
John has the increasingly unusual accolade of having been with the same employer for just over 48 years. Among the schemes he has been involved with are the Medway Tunnel and its approach roads; upgrades to the A2 and M20; Thanet Way; Eurokent and the East Kent Access roads; the South Thameside Development Route; Ashford shared space; Ramsgate Harbour Relief Road; and countless bypasses and relief roads across the county.
As well as his engineering achievements, John is also a great supporter and mentor of young professionals, and much valued by many as a friend and colleague.
He officially retired in 2013 but continues to 'tie up loose ends' on completed schemes, assisting in the majority of live projects and carrying out feasibility work for the forward plan.


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Corinthian or Corinthians may refer to:

Several Pauline epistles, books of the New Testament of the Bible:
First Epistle to the Corinthians
Second Epistle to the Corinthians
Third Epistle to the Corinthians (Orthodox)
A demonym relating to the port of Corinth or the regional unit of Corinthia in Greece
Corinthian order, a classical order of ancient Greek and Roman architecture
Residents or people from the town of Corinth (town), New York
The League of Corinth, a federation of ancient Greek states
Corinthian Colleges, a post secondary education company in North America currently under criminal investigation in the US.
Corinthian (comics), a character in The Sandman comics
The Corinthian (novel), novel by Georgette Heyer
The Corinthian (New York), a skyscraper in New York City
The Corinthian helmet, a style of helmet worn by hoplites in classical Greece
Corinthian leather, a marketing term used by Chrysler
Corinthian (horse), American racehorse, a 2007 Breeders' Cup winner
Corinthian bagatelle, occasionally called Corinthians

Sports
 amateur sport; in particular
 Victorian ideal of the gentleman amateur
 Corinthian, amateur yachter
Corinthian Yacht Club (disambiguation), several yacht clubs with this name
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, Brazilian professional football club
Corinthian F.C., a former English amateur football club
Corinthian-Casuals F.C., English football club formed by Corinthian F.C. and Casuals F.C.
Corinthian F.C. (Kent), another former English football club, which attempted to emulate the ideals of the Corinthians
Cardiff Corinthians F.C., Welsh football club
Corinthians USA, a professional football club based in Fontana, California
Sport Club Corinthians Alagoano, a professional football club in Brazil named after the other Brazilian club
Atlético Clube Coríntians, a professional football club in Brazil
Sport Club Corinthians Paranaense, a former professional football club in Brazil, dissolved in 2017
Esporte Clube Corinthians, a professional football club in Brazil
Esporte Clube Corinthians de Bataguassu, a professional football club in Brazil
Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, a yacht club located in Oyster Bay, New York.
Corinthians A.F.C. (Isle of Man), a Manx football club
Galway Corinthians RFC, an Irish rugby club

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Sorry, there is no Reincarnation!
Hindu thinkers around 1500 BC proposed that life undergoes a perpetual cycle of rebirth, conditioned by past actions, with no finality. Beliefs similar to this are still current.
Reincarnation was never assimilated into the theology of Judaism or Christianity. It was unthinkable because God revealed himself to his people as a caring, personal Lord who enters into a covenant with them.
An example from the Old Testament is seen in Psalm 16:10: "For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol nor allow the one you love to see the Pit." The psalmist here expresses his union with God that will continue after death.
A similar image is found in Psalm 73:24: "Guide me with advice and in the end receive me into glory." No suggestion of a succession of reincarnations.
An example from the New Testament is: "It is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him" (Heb 9:27-28).
A reading of 2 Kings 2:11 shows that Elijah the prophet did not die, so his soul was not at liberty to find its way into another creature. No chance of reincarnation there. Isaiah was taken up alive into heaven in a powerful whirlwind. What did Jesus mean when he said that Elijah had already come? There is a clue in Luke's gospel where the angel tells Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, that his son will go before the Lord 'in the spirit and power of Elijah' (1:17).
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This gorgeous Handmade Leather No.44 Field Notes Cover is the perfect and stylish way to store your EDC essentials for work, study or personal use. Made from well aged leather, it has two card slots and two interior pockets. One can be used for your Field Notes notebook and the others for cash, cards etc. There's also a loop for securing your favorite pen or pencil.


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Categories: addy court case
Radio Clyde's Lying Reporter Kerri-Ann Docherty Makes False Allegations Against Innocent Dating Coach Adnan Ahmed
Falsely Accused Glasgow Man To Stand Trial For "String" (Actually 3) Of Sexual Assaults (That Are Technically Not Actually Sexual Assaults At All!)
We know no one listens to the radio anymore, they stream their music online, maybe that's why Clyde 1 reporter Kerri-Ann Docherty resorted to broadcasting and publishing lies online to get the stations fallen ratings up. Radio Clyde and BBC Radio Scotland are amongst the filthiest propaganda spreading liars on the airwaves, known for online blips, bigotry and false accusations.
Furthermore Clyde 1 have blonde blimp Kerri-Ann Docherty lodged in place at Scottish Courts to stalk all members of the public who appear in court, to report their stories on the second rate radio stations website. Docherty makes a living reporting twisted lies about people, whether they have any back-up or not. Shameless scumbag Kerri-Ann wrote a copycat article (same as her low-life counter parts at The Sun and Evening Times) falsely accusing innocent dating coach Adnan Ahmed, who has committed no crimes. She didn't even do her own research.
The chunky hack Docherty sat in court on the 16th May 2019 desperately waiting for a scoop to help declining career. What a sad existence it is for the fake news vulture journalist! The radio station is widely known for racism, sexism and false reporting in the recent past. The hypocrites at Clyde 1 advocate for "women's rights" to boost ratings for their trash programming. Clyde 1 is a total sham. A bigger sham is dirty liar and desperate journo Kerri-Ann Docherty. She disgustingly, falsely accuses Adnan Ahmed of sexual assault, Ahmed is innocent. (Note – ADNAN AHMED WAS FOUND 'INNOCENT' OF ALL 3 SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES, HE WAS FOUND 'NOT GUILTY' IN SEPTEMBER 2019)
Docherty doesn't explain what the charges are because if she did her crap article wouldn't have any impact. The slimy hack turns up to every court date Ahmed has like a teenage mega fan going to see their favourite boy band. Kerri-Ann needs a career boost by the looks of it, this creepy behaviour is typical of what is wrong with journalists today. Kerri-Ann Docherty is a liar.
Let's explore the reporters lies and inconsistencies. Firstly she falsely wrote that Adnan Ahmed was "pestering women for YouTube channel." However, from what we seen, all the women Ahmed spoke to were willing participants in all conversations. Kerri-Ann the con-woman then said "allegedly filmed himself approaching women in the street," wrong again Docherty – Ahmed had a film and camera crew.
Kerri-Ann Docherty ups the controversy by writing, "a man is to stand trial accused of targeting and pestering young women in the street." OK, so we've already cleared up that willing participants doesn't mean "pestering." However, "targeting" is another saucy word in Kerri-Ann's limited vocabulary that we must define. "Targeting" for what Kerri-Ann? Conversations on the street in the middle of the day with thousands of people around. If someone was "targeting" people, we imagine they would do so with no witnesses around in a hidden manner. As far as "young women" goes, well every female was over the age of consensual sex in the UK. We don't know if Kerri prefers O.A.P's, nor is it any of our concern.
The dim-wit reporter goes onto make false sensationalised claims, "alleged to have sexually assaulted a number of them…in Glasgow city centre between May 2016 and January this year." Wow, no explanation of what this claim of "sexually assaulted" entails or the actual number of incidents, or of the specific dates they supposedly took place. This information is available in a public document in the form of an indictment against Ahmed, from which Kerri-Ann Docherty is referencing her article, but chose not to explain in the actual details of each allegation as it would discredit her flimsy reporting. Anything to sell a story, huh Kerri! (Note – ADNAN AHMED WAS FOUND 'INNOCENT' OF ALL 3 SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES, HE WAS FOUND 'NOT GUILTY' IN SEPTEMBER 2019)
We have the details;
Adnan Ahmed was charged with 14 counts of "section 38, breach of the peace," for simply talking to people during the day, most of whom gave him their number. Two of these charges aren't even people, one is a video of Ahmed chatting to women who are "unknown" to the prosecutor and who did not even report or complain about an incident to the authorities. The other one is also "unknown" to the prosecutor, which is a shadow silhouette of an anonymous woman claiming Ahmed spoke to her – this was reported by the media via an online video, and again this anonymous person did not report this to the authorities. (Note – ADNAN AHMED WAS FOUND 'INNOCENT' OF THESE CHARGES, HE WAS FOUND 'NOT GUILTY' IN SEPTEMBER 2019)
How can these charges even be considered, or worst still put on an indictment? Furthermore how can the accused defend them? There was no complaint! In reality, they were put on the indictment against Ahmed to run a trial, in order to convict him on legal technicalities by convincing a jury he is of bad character, using his bad-boy image in the media to do so.
The fake sexual assault charges consist of one female saying Ahmed squeezed her leg and another saying Ahmed touched her face. Both of these allegations are said to have happened in broad daylight, on busy city centre streets, fully clothed and the allegations are from over 3 years ago. These individuals didn't make these accusations until there was a media scandal regarding Adnan Ahmed's dating business in 2019, before that no accusations were ever made or reported. The accusers even appeared in the news and on social media when the media scandal regarding Ahmed's dating business initially happened. They did not make these claims in the press or online. In fact their initial online/press statements actually contradict their later police statements. The police had to find these individuals to file a report, they made no police report of there own accord, they only talked online and in the media. The police did so to build a case against Ahmed. (Note – ADNAN AHMED WAS FOUND 'INNOCENT' OF BOTH SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES, HE WAS FOUND 'NOT GUILTY' IN SEPTEMBER 2019)
Furthermore, Ahmed was not charged with any of this when he was arrested then remanded in January 2019. The police/procurator fiscal added this to his indictment in April 2019, in order to have a document of charges to justify a trial and prosecution. There is a 3rd charge of sexual assault which is a false accusation by a female Ahmed has never even met before. It is alleged to have took place on 5th November 2018. Ahmed was not there, there is video evidence of this. Ahmed appears in a time stamped video filmed by his girlfriend at the exact date and time of the false accusation. The accuser blatantly lied to the police and contradicted her police statement on Instagram. Ahmed's girlfriend took screenshots of this and sent the evidence to the police along with the alibi video proving Ahmed wasn't there. Despite this, police and prosecutors chose to ignore the evidence. Ahmed's girlfriend is now a defence witness and has to go to court to testify to this, rather than the charge being dropped. (Note – ADNAN AHMED WAS FOUND 'INNOCENT' OF THIS CHARGE ALSO, HE WAS FOUND 'NOT GUILTY' ON THE BASIS THAT THE ACCUSER WAS A LYING PERJURER)
The authorities would have had to release Adnan Ahmed on bail if they had dropped the charge, which they could have done in January 2019. Instead they added it to the indictment despite Ahmed's girlfriend's police statement and alibi evidence. If they didn't include these charges they would not be able to indict Ahmed – as the other charges are too small to do so. Additionally they can still convict Ahmed of this on a technicality through the jury process because of a Scottish Law called Moorov/ Collaboration – even though Ahmed has never ever met the accuser before. Corroboration is when 2 or more independent parties make a similar complaint.
However, in Ahmed's case no one who has made an accusation is an independent source, as everyone spoke to each other on social media through the Twitter feed of the BBC The Social video defaming Ahmed's dating business. Evidence of this has been forwarded to Adnan Ahmed's lawyer, who will attempt to use this in court if permitted to do so. Hence corroboration/Moorov Law does not apply as there was clearly collusion between all the accusing parties. All accusers also start all their police statements with "I saw the BBC Social video on Twitter…."
Furthermore, the three alleged sexual assault charges we have just explained are written as "or alternatively, section 38 breach of the peace" on Ahmed's indictment document. Meaning, the mild nature of the false allegations are not even considered concrete "sexual assaults," they are "breach of the peace" charges trumped up to the bigger charge as an alternative option in order to justify the uncertain element of the bigger charge. This is not justice, it is ridiculous. (Note – ADNAN AHMED WAS FOUND 'INNOCENT' OF ALL 3 SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES, HE WAS FOUND 'NOT GUILTY' IN SEPTEMBER 2019)
Adnan Ahmed denies all charges. The media know they have acted hastily, yet they still splashed "sexual assault" all over the tabloids (again with no details or explanation of what was involved) in order to pressure prosecutors into convicting him. Adnan Ahmed is innocent, he is a victim of ambush journalism and a corrupt set-up. Never before has a court of law in Scotland dealt with a case like this.
Kerri-Ann Docherty continued to pick and chose certain parts of the indictment against Ahmed in order to make their fake news stories juicy. They wrote; "it is claimed he pressured one women into giving him her phone number and then sent a message referring to sex." If a person is pressuring another, why would they ask for a phone number or even "pressure" someone for a phone number just to send text messages. It doesn't make sense, there is no motive.
These women are independent people who welcomed the interactions, willingly gave their numbers and only came foreword because of he media scandal defaming Ahmed's dating business. Before that they did not even see it as an issue or a crime. The media claims are false. Every female who gave Ahmed her number did so of their own free will. He did not "pressure" or "force" any of them. There was no text message with the word "sex" in it, that is a fact.
Kerri continued her despicable lies writing, "another is said to be approached in a secluded lane," the "lane" being referred to here is in the Uddingston area. It is joined onto a housing estate, between 2 main roads, leading to a main train station. This supposed incident is said to have happened at 10am, at this time the "lane" is massively populated with people making their was into the city centre for work and adult education. In no way is it a "secluded lane." Ahmed also has an eye witness in his favour for this alleged incident.
The media continued; "one woman alleged she went to a hotel to get away." We researched these claims and found that the accuser said she very briefly spoke to Ahmed for less than a minute and she left, then went to a hotel to call a taxi. This woman was questioned about her claim by the public who asked, "why didn't you call the police?" and "why did you wait until the BBC Social video came out to talk about it?" and "in what way was it scary, you walked away." This seems to be another case of no actual offence being committed and the accuser having no inclination in her mind that there was a crime until the BBC Social video defaming Ahmed's dating business went viral. (Note – ADNAN AHMED WAS FOUND 'INNOCENT' OF THIS CHARGE ALSO, HE WAS FOUND 'NOT GUILTY' ON THE BASIS THAT THE ACCUSER WAS A LYING PERJURER)
In all the incidents on the indictment; either no one thought a crime was being committed until the media scandal (because of how the BBC Social video was designed to portray Ahmed), or people made false accusations to gain some small-time fame, or worst of all no crime was even reported by an actual person – but a charge was added to the indictment anyway (i.e. the "unknowns" to the prosecutor).
Kerri-Ann fluffed on; "Ahmed is further accused of filming himself approaching a female," this is a total lie. Ahmed faces no charges of "filming" anyone. "Filming" is not included on the indictment. The media's lies are constant and transparent. Journalists did write one true statement about Adnan Ahmed, that is "he denies a total of 18 charges at Glasgow Sheriff Court," that is because he is an innocent man.
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A Node implementation used by the path-based connector (see PathWorkspace and PathTransaction), which stores all node state in a tree of content, where a specific path exists to each node in the tree.
Strictly speaking, this class is not immutable or thread safe. However, the persisted state cannot be changed. Instead, any changes made to the object are stored in a transient area and are made "persistable"via the freeze() method.
Create a root node with the supplied UUID.
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Returns properties of this node.
Returns the property with the supplied name.
Get the version number of this node.
Determine if this node has any unsaved changes.
Create a copy of this node except adding the supplied node into the existing children at the specified index.
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Create a copy of this node except using the supplied name.
Create a copy of this node except without the supplied child node.
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Create a copy of this node except with the changes to the properties.
Create a copy of this node except with the new property.
an immutable map of properties keyed by their name.
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For SDG5, the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) has been identified as the nodal ministry. Various other ministries, such as Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD, Department of Land Resources), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoUD), Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MHUPA), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), among others have also been identified as playing important roles in achieving gender-related Targets.
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has been contextualizing the global indicator framework for India. The Ministry placed a Draft National Indicator Framework for SDGs in the public domain for wider consultation, which is expected to be finalised shortly.
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text: Q: Parachuting onto the Martian surface from Phobos Either a story or novel from the late 50s or early 60s concerning the protagonist launching himself from Phobos using only leg power, and then parachuting onto the Martian surface. I need to know. "It's like having an itch that you can't scratch."


I have a micromouse project and I need help with MAZE SOLVING coding (I chose TREMAUX'S ALGORITHM) and MOTOR coding to make the mouse move seamlessly within the maze, experience in using MPLab X and C language is required. All files regarding components( DSPIC30F4011, L298 H Bridge and FAULHAGER), design notes and schematic for the mouse are attached. We are looking forward for the reply ASAP.


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Christopher G. Moore
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Bio sketch into the making of a writer
In a recent interview I was asked how I became a literary legend in Asia.
I was a 13-years-old newspaper boy on my route one early morning when a freak snowstorm hit. A car stopped and a small Asian man rolled down the window and asked me if I'd like a ride. At least I think that is what he asked me that morning; I remember that he spoke what sounded like a foreign language. He swung open the car door. It was cold and snowing. I got in. He gave me a cup of hot chocolate to drink. Next thing I woke up in San Francisco. Everything I had was on me that morning. I had lost my small nest egg.
I was without any money and living in a small room in the back of a Chinese restaurant. I was forced to wash dishes. I didn't understand a word of what was being said around me. I washed dishes until I turned fifteen, saving my money. One day a customer, driving a new BMW, arrived at the restaurant. She pulled me outside and pointed at her car. She was Chinese and old enough to be my mother. I didn't understand a word she said. Chinese is a hard language to learn and a dishwasher doesn't get a lot of vocabulary thrown at him.
It didn't matter about her lack of English, I was used to not understanding anyone around me. But I was getting good at reading expressions and body language. I got into her new, shiny car. I liked her smile. She gave me a nice drink in a bottle, and when I woke up, I was on a boat in the middle of the sea. I had again lost my small nest egg.
Three weeks later, I arrived by ship in Bangkok. I was handed over by an agent to a mamasan, and worked for the next two years washing sheets and cleaning rooms in an upscale brothel in the old part of the city. I saved every baht I could lay my hands on. The mamasan's sister in San Francisco threatened to kill me unless I paid her an employment placement fee of three thousand dollars. I had until the end of the week. I told a GI who was on RR and a customer at the brothel that I was being held against my will. He helped me escape one night. Someone broke his nose in the fight out of the place. He held off three bouncers with a knife. I lost all of my savings. The GI said he could find me a job in Vietnam.
I got a job stacking shelves in the American PX in Saigon. I lasted almost two years. I had saved enough working at the PX to return home. Two days before I was to leave Saigon, my apartment took a direct hit from a Viet Cong shell. I later found out it was an agent of the mamasan and the woman from San Francisco who had paid the Viet Cong to destroy my place. I was supposed to be inside. But I lost all of my savings.
I walked into the Canadian embassy and told them I wanted to go home but I had no money. The second secretary got me a ticket on the black market and took me aside and told me that unless I paid him back within six months he would fly to Vancouver and kill me with his bare hands. He had big hands with large blue veins like a living killing machine. I thought he might know the mamasan or her sister. I was careful about places and dates.
Twenty-years old, I arrived in Vancouver, promising myself never to take another free ride from a stranger, when a car pulled up and an Asian man asked me if I like a lift. I get in. Why? I thought he'd been sent by either by the embassy guy in Saigon, the mamasan in Bangkok or that woman in San Francisco. One of them had sent a hitman who'd finally caught up with me. I thought my life was over. Accept karma, I told myself. At least I hadn't saved anything. I had absolutely nothing to lose. But I was wrong.
The driver spoke perfect English. He'd been born in Canada and said he didn't know anyone in Vietnam or the Canadian Embassy. So I told him my story. He asked me if I let him make me into a literary legend? I asked him if I got to keep the money I saved? He said, you bet. I said I had no money to bet with. He said it was a figure of speech and a writer had to learn to live with it just like Hugh Heffner had learned to live with a bed full of blondes.
I said I could do that and I also told him that he was the first person since I was 12 that I'd had a real conversation with in English. He said Conrad (Joseph Conrad, not Conrad Black) had a problem with English as a second language. I said I had a problem with English as a first language. He said that he was Chinese Canadian and he fully understood and offered to be my agent. He got me a contract to write a radio play for the CBC and then a book deal in New York.
I stopped saving and spent every dime as it came in. A couple of years later, my agent introduced me to his father, an old Asian man. The father smiled, and I smiled. Even though the father was quite old but I remembered him—the man who had stopped his car in a snowstorm when I was thirteen and offered me a ride and a cup of hot chocolate. He winked and asked me if I'd like something to drink.
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A holiday on Mallorca away from the trappings of mass tourism. This is what is offered by the apartment complex Sa Tanqueta in Fornalutx. Situated in Fornalutx it offers an unhindered view of the impressive Tramuntana mountains with their countless olive and orange groves and the picturesque stone walls so typical of the region. Our 14 spacious holiday apartments with a panorama terrace and swimming pool, the pleasant service and the extensive leisuretime offerings ensure the requisite comfort throughout the whole year.


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Dactylochelifer kussariensis arenicola es una subespecie de arácnido del orden Pseudoscorpionida de la familia Cheliferidae.

Distribución geográfica
Se encuentra en Turquía  y en Azerbaiyán.

Referencias

Kussariensis arenicola
Arácnidos de Turquía
Arácnidos de Azerbaiyán


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As it was, we were blessed with weather allowing us to be outside most of each day and it was often gloriously sunny, enhancing our time there. The lovely gardens pulsated with birdlife and their songs were a constant soundtrack, while the views across the Bay of Nigg to snowy mountains beyond were truly magnificent, changing throughout the days with some spectacular sunsets.
Our days quickly evolved into familiar patterns as we created groups with Nature, Writing, Walking and Enquiry as the respective starting points for participants to develop as wished through the week, during small morning gatherings. These followed a half hour of communal and creative games, enlivening us for the day and yoga was on offer before breakfast each day. The 2 o'clock meeting invited comments and offerings, including walks, talks, music, visits, drawing, painting and crafts. One afternoon was devoted to offering games: croquet, volleyball, table tennis and sardines for the sun dodgers. Relaxing, cuppas and chatting were also popular!