The world nations as well the United Nations claimed that they believe in self-determination, the right of peoples in the world to choose their own path. So why Somaliland is indifferent from the rest of the wirld…Somaliland self-determination needs to be respected as any other nation.
This is madness, and it is stupidity, but most of all, it is arrogance for not respecting Somaliland choice of self-determination as it should be..
I believe that it's up to the people concerned to decide their own destiny whether its separatism or joining or uniting together. I don't understand why on earth the international community accepting some nations and opposing some.
So the question is asked as to how and when should a nation have the right to secede? "When you are deprived of the right to participate in government, and there are serious violations of human rights, such as genocide…. So Somaliland fits all the above factors and should be recognised.
Despite the atrocities committed by the people of somalia and their dictator Siyad Bare in late 80s violent campaign against our people of Somaliland, killing more than 60,000 civilians and displacing all to refugee camps in ethiopia .We stood and rose from the ashes to rebuild and emerge stronger than ever before. We will not allow such a massacre of men, women and children happen again. The people of Somaliland would no longer be victims in our own land.
Over the past 23 years we as a homogenous population, has our own currency, flag, army, government and airline, improving relationships with international aid agencies, and neighbouring countries, investing in education for building thousands of new schools, hiring thousands of new teachers and making all primary schooling free for all students. And that shows the whole world what we have achieved for ourselves and are an example of how we can secede or withdraw without causing wars and violence.
without any international assistance and without any foreign troops to make it happen. Once this was achieved then our people rose to the daunting challenge of rebuilding Somaliland on a self-help basis. Reconstruction took place without political recognition or international support, and with only the meagre resources of our country to rely on.
*Mohamed Ibrahim Egal died on 3 May 2002. Vice-president Dahir Riyale Kahin completed his term until new elections were held in April 2003.
The 2001 Somaliland constitutional referendum took place on 31 May 2001 . The referendum was held on a draft constitution that affirmed Somalialand's independence from Somalia as a separate state. Two-thirds of eligible voters took part in the referendum and 97.1% of them voted in favour of the constitution.
29 September 2005 House of Representatives . The current House of Representatives was formed following parliamentary elections held on 29 September 2005. It has a total of 82 members.
A presidential election was held on 26 June 2010 in Somaliland, . On 1 July 2010, the Somaliland National Election Commission announced that opposition candidate Ahmed M. Mahamoud Silanyo had won the presidential election, defeating incumbent President Dahir Riyale Kahin.
On 28 November 2012, district and council elections were held in Somaliland. The elections saw 2,368 candidates contest 379 positions across the country, and were observed by an international observation mission made up of 50 observers from 17 countries.
We took every measure to safeguard the well-being of civilians, For peace sake, We managed to have a fruitful dialogue with the militia groups, the government released more than 250 prisoners and welcomed a number of the militia's key leaders into Somaliland's cabinet.
Somaliland regions are anticipated to contain commercial quantities of oil, and energy companies are undertaking significant explorations. Coca Cola has opened a factory plant and other companies are beginning to recognize Somaliland's potential as a regional hub. Somaliland is very much open for business as well as a tourism spot with history.
We are happy to have accomplished all that without outside help.
Somaliland will continue advancing security and economic prosperity for all its citizens.
Somaliland people believe that the time has now come for the international community to fully recognise the security and stability they have preserved in the midst of chaos, and to acknowledge the legitimate, sovereign and independent status of their nation.
The United Nations and the whole world communities supported and spoke up for the self-determination and sovereignty of many many countries.Like the the people of South Sudan, East Timor, Kosovo and many others.we somalilanders ask for no more, and no less.we have the right to live like everyone else.
What I don't understand is that you the world are pumping billions of dollars to wars zones like Mogadishu and others but are not ready to help the peace and the prosperity that we have accomplished over the past 23 years.
Failure to recognise Somaliland would be a great discredit to human rights and to democracy itself, and would destroy the hard-won stability that Somaliland enjoys today.
Here is a polite notice to the world leaders and nations alike.


What if everything you knew about yourself was a lie? Mildred "Mills" Millhatten had a good life: close-knit family, fantastic friends, decent grades and even a not-totally-annoying kid brother. You might say it was the best kind of ordinary. So nothing could have prepared her for being taken and cast into a strange, vicious world that she didn't know existed and has little hope of understanding. As a Bleeder - one whose lifeblood feeds the Nosferatu - her continued survival hangs ever in the balance. The creatures are keeping her alive because they believe her blood has mystical properties. Mills fears what will happen when they realize they are wrong. If she hopes to survive and discover who she truly is, she needs an ally. She needs to befriend the mysterious boy who's been secretly visiting her cell, even though he's destined to become a bloodthirsty monster. Because she lives in their world now, and if she doesn't do something fast, she's going to die in it too.


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Anders Fridén (ur. 25 marca 1973) – wokalista szwedzkiej grupy In Flames oraz zespołu Passenger.

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Początki
Fridén był początkowo wokalistą w grupie Dark Tranquillity, opuścił ją jednak aby dołączyć do zespołu In Flames. Mikael Stanne opuścił In Flames (był tylko muzykiem sesyjnym), w grupie Dark Tranquillity przeszedł z pozycji grającego na gitarze rytmicznej na pozycję głównego wokalisty, co ułatwiło Andersowi odejście. Fridén był także głównym wokalistą w grupie znanej pod nazwą Ceremonial Oath w której w przeszłości grał także jeden z założycieli In Flames, Jesper Strömblad.

Od 1995: In Flames
Pierwsze materiały współpracy In Flames z Fridénem zawarte są na albumie z 1996 roku pod tytułem The Jester Race. Do płyty Whoracle teksty według pomysłu Andersa napisał Niklas Sundin z grupy Dark Tranquillity. W 1999 roku Fridén sam skomponował teksty do albumu Colony, jednakże Sundin wciąż pomagał mu tłumaczyć je z języka szwedzkiego na angielski. Tematyka jego utworów ewoluowała na przestrzeni czasów, początkowo dotyczyły one tematów ogólnych takich jak astrologia czy fantasy, później bardziej osobistych spraw i zmagań wewnętrznych (na przykład depresja).

Anders Fridén jest także wokalistą w grupie Passenger w ramach side projectu, jednak jak sam twierdzi, ma teraz bardzo mało czasu na pracę przy nim, więc projekt ów stoi w miejscu.

Dodatkowo Fridén znany jest również jako producent muzyczny, np. albumów grupy Caliban (The Opposite from Within, The Undying Darkness).

Anders Fridén wystąpił również gościnnie na albumie The Phantom Novels metalowej grupy Grievance. Jest głównym wokalistą w utworach  Atrocity Upon Deceptions, A Devil's Rhyme i  The Mask of Sin. Album ten był nagrywany mniej więcej w tym samym czasie co płyta Reroute to Remain zespołu In Flames.

Image Fridéna zmienił się mocno po wydaniu albumu Reroute to Remain. Zapuścił brodę, a ze swoich długich włosów zrobił dredy. Zmienił się także styl jego wokalu. Swój niski, chrapliwy deathmetalowy growl zamienił na wysokotonowy growl uzupełniany czystym śpiewem.

Przypisy

Muzycy deathmetalowi
Członkowie In Flames
Członkowie Dark Tranquillity
Ludzie urodzeni w Göteborgu
Urodzeni w 1973

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We just put this together, so I apologize for the last minute announcement. I'll be doing a live stream on Sunday, 10/23 at Untermyer Park in Yonkers, NY. You can watch the stream on my Facebook page.
Untermyer Park was home to a very active satanic cult in the 70s and 80s, and known to have been frequented by infamous serial killer, The Son of Sam. The beautiful grounds and old mansion have also seen their share of ghostly apparitions over the years. If you've ever wanted to see the legendary spot but can't get there, this is your chance. We hope to get down the terrifying 'Fiend's Path' while we're there.
You can bone up on the paranormal happenings here, thanks to the Yonkers Ghost Investigators.


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ER Squibb & Sons v. Chemical Foundation , 93 F.2d 475 ( 1937 )
93 F.2d 475 (1937)
E. R. SQUIBB & SONS
CHEMICAL FOUNDATION, Inc.
No. 76.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
*476 Seward Davis, of New York City (Joseph H. Choate, Jr., and Paul Kolisch, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.
Cravath, De Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, of New York City (Wm. D. Whitney, Bruce Bromley, and Albert R. Connelly, all of New York City, of counsel), for appellee.
Before MANTON, L. HAND, and SWAN, Circuit Judges.
SWAN, Circuit Judge.
This is an action to recover royalties paid by the plaintiff under patent licenses after the patents had expired. It was brought in a state court and removed to the District Court on the ground of diverse citizenship. A jury being waived, trial was had to the court upon stipulated facts. From a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant has appealed. The appeal raises primarily questions of construction of the agreements by which the defendant licensed the plaintiff to manufacture, use and sell three patented chemical products of medicinal value, known as arsphenamine, neoarsphenamine, and sulfarsphenamine.
The arsphenamine license, dated June 16, 1919, was one of four licenses issued contemporaneously; the other three being ancillary to the first and concerning respectively the "ingredient" or arsphenamine-base patent, the "ampul" patent, covering a sealed ampul for packaging arsphenamine, and the "administering" patent, covering a solution for hypodermic injections of arsphenamine. *477 Each of these four licensing agreements provided that the aggregate royalty to be paid by the licensee under all four should be 5 per cent. of the gross sums received by the licensee from the sale of the product arsphenamine. The patent for this product had the latest expiration of any of the patents, namely, November 10, 1931. Each of the four licenses ran "for the term of the patent." For convenience the four licenses will be referred to as the group licenses.
The neoarsphenamine license was a separate agreement, also dated June 16, 1919, and will be referred to as the second license. It ran for the term of the patent and provided for a royalty to be paid "during the continuance of this license" of 5 per cent. of the licensee's gross sales of neoarsphenamine. The patent for neoarsphenamine was a reissued patent. The only date disclosed by the license agreement was the date of reissue, namely, December 15, 1914. It expired February 18, 1930. Royalties paid by the plaintiff on sales of neoarsphenamine between the expiration of the patent and June 30, 1931, were $15,452.19. The first count of the complaint sought recovery of these payments, with interest, as made under mistake of fact.
The third license, dated April 27, 1923, covered the sulfarsphenamine patent. It provided a royalty of 5 per cent. on gross sales of the licensed product. The patent expired April 30, 1929. The plaintiff paid royalties for a period ending June 30, 1931, on sales of sulfarsphenamine made subsequent to expiration of the patent. The second count of the complaint sought recovery of such royalties in the amount of $8,344.04, with interest.
Although separate in execution and delivery, the defendant contends that the group licenses, the second license and the third license should be read as constituting a single contract and obligating the plaintiff to pay royalties on sales of neoarsphenamine and sulfarsphenamine until the expiration of the arsphenamine patent, that is, until November 10, 1931. There is no language in the third license on which to base this contention except the words "licensed patents." A printed form was used in the execution of this license. The employment of the words "licensed patents" is without significance since the printed form defines these words as referring to the patents enumerated in Schedule A, and the schedule lists only the one patent for sulfarsphenamine. The argument with respect to the second license is on somewhat firmer ground, since the neoarsphenamine license does contain references to the group licenses. But the references are not such as to lead to the conclusion asserted. The second paragraph recites merely that "this license is one of five, four of which * * have heretofore been issued," and that the purpose of "this license" is to permit the licensee to make, use and sell neoarsphenamine, and to use in connection therewith, "under the licenses already issued" the packing ampul and the administering solution. The third paragraph provides that the royalty of 5 per cent. on the licensee's gross sales of neoarsphenamine shall be paid "during the continuance of this license" at the time and in the manner as provided in the arsphenamine license. The latter provided for payment within 30 days after January 1st and July 1st in each year. The fourth paragraph states that all the provisions and conditions of the group licenses are binding upon "the licensee herein" and "shall have the same force and effect as if bodily incorporated herein." The purpose of this clause was plainly to incorporate by reference the provisions relating to the keeping of books, the furnishing of information, the cancellation of the license, and similar matters which were embodied in the arsphenamine license but not in the neoarsphenamine license. These were relatively minor matters which might appropriately be incorporated in a later license by reference to a prior one; but with respect to the essential matters of duration and royalty the neoarsphenamine license contained its own provisions complete in themselves. We can see no justifiable reason for reading the incorporation clause as overriding the express provision that the royalty shall be paid "during the continuance of this license," which was granted "for the term of the patent unless sooner terminated."
There is a presumption that royalties are not to be paid after the expiration of a patent; if the intention is to have them continue longer, the parties should phrase their contract in language from which such intention may fairly be inferred. Sproull v. Pratt & Whitney Co., 2 Cir., 108 F. 963; Pressed Steel Car Co. v. Union Pac. R. Co., 2 Cir., 270 F. 518.
The defendant argues that we should adopt its contention that the plaintiff was bound to pay the royalties in suit because the plaintiff used one or more of the patents of the group licenses in making, using *478 and selling neoarsphenamine and sulfarsphenamine. The stipulation of facts denies this unequivocally with respect to "the products or processes covered by patent No. 1,116,398." This disposes of the argument in so far as it relates to use of the arsphenamine patent. Since the "ingredient" or arsphenamine-base patent expired first of all, March 7, 1928, it cannot extend the plaintiff's duty to pay royalties under patents which expired later. The ampul patent and the "administering" or solution patent expired December 16, 1930, and it is urged that since one or both of these patents were used in marketing neoarsphenamine and sulfarsphenamine, it must be inferred that the plaintiff was intended to pay royalties at least until that date, for otherwise it would be an infringer.
The licenses covering, respectively, the ampul patent and the "administering" patent were not expressly limited to using these patents with arsphenamine. From the second paragraph of the neoarsphenamine license it is clear that the plaintiff could also use them in marketing that product, and no royalty was required for such use. It would make over the license to extend the royalty on sales of neoarsphenamine after expiration of the neoarsphenamine patent because the processes or products of one or the other of these ancillary patents was used in marketing it. The sulfarsphenamine license is silent on the subject of using the processes or product of the ancillary patents. Hence, the plaintiff was either a licensee for nothing, or an infringer, if it used the ampul or the administering patent in marketing neoarsphenamine or sulfarsphenamine after expiration of those patents. But whichever it was, we can see no warrant whatever for saying that it must pay 5 per cent. of the gross sales of neoarsphenamine and sulfarsphenamine until the ampul or administering patent expired. There is no ambiguity in the provisions that the royalty was to be paid to the end of the term of the licensed patent, unless the license be sooner terminated. Accordingly, we agree with the District Court's conclusion that the defendant was not entitled to receive any of the royalties in dispute.
The next question is whether the plaintiff may recover them as paid under a mistake of fact. It is argued that the mistake was one of law rather than fact. The date of expiration of the sulfarsphenamine patent was plainly a question of fact only. With respect to these royalties the stipulation states: "Said sums were voluntarily paid by plaintiff without actual notice that patent No. 1,024,993 had expired, and in the belief that said patent had not yet expired on the date that each respective payment was made." The neoarsphenamine patent was a reissue, and, had it appeared that the plaintiff knew the date of the original patent as well as the date of the reissue and supposed that the reissue ran for 17 years from its date rather than from the date of the original, that might be considered a mistake of law. But it does not appear that the plaintiff knew the dates and mistook the statute which determines the duration of a reissue. The language of the stipulation respecting the neoarsphenamine royalties is the same as that already quoted regarding sulfarsphenamine royalties. Even if the date of expiration of a patent be deemed a conclusion drawn from both law and facts, it is not the kind of mistake of law which permits a person to retain money to which he was not entitled. Stanley Rule & Level Co. v. Bailey, 45 Conn. 464; Lawrence v. American Nat. Bank, 54 N.Y. 432; Adrico Realty Corp. v. New York, 250 N.Y. 29, 37, 38, 164 N.E. 732, 64 A.L.R. 1.
The final contention is that the defendant has changed its position by expending the royalties in dispute, so that it is inequitable to require it to return them. In expending the royalties the defendant acted under no mistake of fact. The stipulation states that the defendant knew that the neoarsphenamine and sulfarsphenamine patents had expired, and that it received and retained the royalties in good faith in reliance upon its interpretation of the license agreements. The defendant's argument rests on the fact that it is a charitable corporation and spent the royalties for the advancement of chemical and medical science. We cannot see that this presents a defense to the plaintiff's just claim. Charitable corporations no less than individuals should be just before they are generous. The payment of this judgment may cause the postponement of some contemplated benefaction for scientific research; but the defendant has already advanced with the royalties in dispute some project which should have been postponed until it had paid its debt to the plaintiff. There has been no such change of position on the part of the defendant as should defeat the plaintiff's claim, assuming (without decision) that such a defense might prevail under other circumstances. See Warren, Problems in *479 Probate and Administration, 32 Harv.L.Rev. 315, 346.
DocketNumber: 76
Citation Numbers: 93 F.2d 475
Judges: Manton, L. Hand, and Swan, Circuit Judges
Filed Date: 12/20/1937
Precedential Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 4/15/2017
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Slow Art Day has asked its 2013 college interns to write short summaries of their own experiences looking slowly at artworks of their choosing.
One afternoon, I spend 20 minutes looking at Rufino Tamayo's El Hombre En La Ventana (1980). At first glance, it appears that the man is only momentarily looking outside the window. But after further observation, I come to believe that this man is not just casually looking but staring as if looking out into the distance, out into the future.
As I look more, I reflect on how the style of the piece is important. The style is Mexican – I know because of the style and materials of the blinds. These are traditional Mexican wooden blinds, not conventional American plastic ones. I also begin to think about this Mexican man. Perhaps he is looking to the future because he is a father and has a family that he needs to support. This piece is very simple but seems to suggest a deep topic in a very simple yet impactful way.
I stand back and also think about where I am seeing this painting. The Vincent Price Art Museum, in partnership with the East Los Angeles Community College, seeks to serve the culture and history of the Mexican community both in Los Angeles and in Mexico. Through a motif of modernism, this museum and its varying collections offers a new view of modernism that reflects the local community. So maybe this Mexican man is at a window at his home in Mexico or maybe he is here in East LA.
As the minutes tick by, I begin to reflect on the moment the painting was created: 1980. The U.S. and many other parts of the world are in recession. Many people, including perhaps this man in the painting, were thinking of moving for jobs. Even within the U.S. a big migration was beginning from the rust belt to the sun belt. I think more about the body language of the man. He has his hands on his hips. I think he is ambitious. He wants control of his future for himself and his family. He is very similar to many other men at this time because they all wanted something better for themselves.
I'm amazed at what I've seen in 20 minutes. In really looking slowly at this piece of artwork, I have thought about much that would have gone unnoticed. Looking slowly is a great way to truly evaluate and appreciate any artwork and was certainly true for this Tamayo. Next time you are in Los Angeles, I recommend you visit not just the big museums but come to the Vincent Prince and take some time to really see.
I love how you incorporate your own knowledge of Mexican culture into your reading of the piece, and that the art of slow looking allowed you to make those connections!


Men's studies or masculinity studies or whatever is heating up. It has been for awhile, but now some of the best of it is trickling down into middle-class highbrow magazines. The Chronicle of Higher Education, for instance, has just published "The Puzzle of Boys," a compact survey of recent books (most of them academic, but aimed at general smart readers), arguments, and controversies in the field. In other words, it is a good way to brush up on this stuff–which is absolutely fascinating viz-a-viz American culture. Thomas Bartlett underscores that while malehood is just as complicated as any other segment of the gender spectrum, few people have thought seriously about it. And that's a major lacuna, given that men still dominate most of the nation's institutions. The end of the essay describes what happens to boys when they get to high school; it is particularly sad.
Closely connected to boyhood is, of course, manhood. Michael Kimmel, a sociologist who teaches at SUNY-Stony Brook, has written two cool books about American masculinity. Manhood in America: A Cultural History (Oxford UP, 1996, 2005), now in its second edition, is the gold standard. Or at least one of them, as TGR understands things. Kimmel is, essentially, a pro-feminist man who hasn't given up on the importance of distinctly male identities. Guyland is more contemporary and will appeal to you if you are depressed by things like Judd Apatow and Maxim. It's kinda dark out there, lads.


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Плеј-оф Евролиге у кошарци 2020/21. се игра од 20. априла до 5. маја 2021. године. Осам тимова из регуларне фазе се квалификовало у Плеј-оф рунду. Победници мечева ће се квалификовати на Фајнал фор.

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У Плеј-оф рунди, играју се највише 5 утакмица у серији, уколико тим буде имао три победе пролази директно на Фајнал фор. Играће се у формату 2-2-1, тим који има предност, играће утакмице на домаћем терену у 1, 2 и 5 мечу, док ће тим који нема предност домаћег терена, на домаћем терену играти 3 и 4. утакмицу, 4 и 5 меч ће се играти само уколико то буде потребно (у случају резултата 2:1 или 1:2 или 2:2).

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Четвртфиналне утакмице
Осам најбољих екипа из регуларног дела сезоне улазе у четвртфинале. У четвртфиналу клубови се укрштају по систему 1—8, 2—7, 3—6, 4—5. Игра се на три победе. Прве две утакмице и евентуално пета играју се на терену боље пласиране екипе, а трећа и евентуално четврта на терену лошије пласиране екипе из првог дела такмичења.

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 Уколико буде неопходно играће се и четврта и пета утакмица.

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My issue is, if a car were to no longer exist and be deleted, this wouldn't necessarily mean that the key no longer exists. However once the car has been deleted, there is no way to associate the key to the user - as the car being referenced by the key's foreign key is now gone.
I realise I could store the user ID alongside each key, but I assumed this beat the point of having foreign keys and wasn't the best way of doing it.
So, what's the most acceptable way around this issue?
Thanks!

A: As the key is still there and has some meaning (as you don't want to delete the key),
I would "soft delete" the car, eg. add a bit column "deleted" to the table car.

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Check back here soon for updates on how recruitment is going.
We'll also post other news about the Garrison Lab at Seattle Children's Research Institute.
The SHIP study is being conducted at Seattle Children's Research Institute—Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development, and the principal investigator is Michelle Garrison, PhD.


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Common Adultrants/ Contaminants in Food and Simple Screening Tests for their detection.
Guidelines for approval of laboratories for matters relating to Organic certification and grading and marking of agricultural commodities for exports.
Grading & Marking Rues for Pulses,Cereals,Fruits & Vegetables and Vegetable Oils Etc.


"They're not known by us, we don't know too much about them," said Allooloo, adding that the whales are not traditionally seen near his community.
"It's only the second recorded observation of sperm whales in the region. Back in 2014 local hunters spotted them," explained Brandon Laforest, a World Wildlife Fund scientist.
He says they've heard the call of sperm whales on their recordings before, but because the whales are known to have an extremely loud vocalisation, Laforest says it was assumed they were located further away in Baffin Bay.
He says it was "really shocking" to see these southern whales, so close to Pond Inlet and so close to freeze up.
However, Laforest says he doesn't think the ecosystem is on the "verge of catastrophe," partly because sperm whales are not predatory.
"Killer whales are coming in the North and they are actually hunting narwhal," Laforest says.
He says Arctic waters pose some risks for both sperm and killer whales, which could get trapped under the ice, if they continue coming North, although he says they haven't seen that happen yet.
Allooloo says people in the community also noticed two huge whales last summer that they couldn't identify.
He's hoping Laforest and his crew will be able to use their acoustic recordings to find out more about the whales that have been in the waters near his community.


these would still help a lot.
> advertising of liquidity providers.
not take this into account.
> 2. Withdrawing funds from a service.
to a desktop site form.
> Payments will have tlv soon.
on proposed scheme as it removes the need for HTTP request ahead of payment.
rather than as a separate HTTP request.
1.  Incoming payment channel request.
nodes in exchange for a fee.
> an incoming channel and service supports such functionality.
2.  Withdrawing funds from a service.
internal node and an external node.
The external node charges exorbitant fee.
node (which is controlled by the same user) the exorbitant fee.
to know that node and its location on the network.
withdrawals (ping cdecker and CJP about this).
The service publicly provides its LN node.
Payments will have tlv soon.
it would have to be defined by the BOLT spec.
The same tlv above can also add a user-challenge.
> skilled than me checks if those has any obvious flaws.
> seed and `service` is a domain name.


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Habitat El Salvador and California's Town Hall will change 25 roofs of the families that were affected by Tropical Storm Amanda
October 2nd, 2020. The organization Habitat El Salvador will work alongside California's Town Hall in order to help 25 families from the municipality of California, that were most impacted by Tropical Storm Amanda, on the construction of new roofs for their homes.
"As part of our humanitarian response, today we have signed a covenant to help 25 families that were affected by Amanda. These roof changes will be carried out in the hope of improving the safety against the inclement weather, and that cleaning and hygiene conditions due to Covid-19 are much more feasible ", confirmed Beatriz Bejarano, Operation Manager of Habitat El Salvador.
"We thank Habitat El Salvador for working together on this opportunity, so that 25 families of Monseñor Romero y Claros communities, in the municipality of California, can have the best conditions for their homes. As local government, we search for entities that allow us to do negotiations to help more Usulutecan families" commented Mr. Gustavo Aguirre, Town Hall Mayor. The investment for this intervention is $15,000; Habitat El Salvador and California's Town Hall will contribute with 50% of the total investment. As part of the project, the 25 families will receive Financial and Risk Management education. The project will end in December of the current year.
Tags: alcaldía california, emergency, habitat el salvador, habitat for humanity, roofs, Tropical Storm Amanda, usulután


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Q: Learning Go, listing 10-2 I am reading Learning Go book and in chapter 10 the author suggests a way to avoid the deadlock with the use of select statement.
package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

func main() {
    ch1 := make(chan int)
    ch2 := make(chan int)
    go func() {
        v := 1
        ch1 <- v
        v2 := <-ch2
        fmt.Println(v, v2)
    }()
    v := 2
    var v2 int
    select {
    case ch2 <- v:
    case v2 = <-ch1:
    }
    fmt.Println(v, v2)
}

The output that I get always in Go playground is 2 1.
This output is coming from main goroutine. Why don't I see anything from the anonymous function?
Is every case in select getting executed?
Also could someone please explain in greater detail the execution flow? Thanks in advance.


Buffalo, NY (October 11, 2018) – A crash that involved a pickup truck and two buses is responsible for the hospitalization of four people on Thursday morning, October 11. According to NFTA officials, the crash occurred at around 9:30 a.m.
Officials stated that a school bus was struck by a pickup truck that ran a red light while the bus was stopped at Fillmore Avenue, in the vicinity of William Street. Following the initial collision, the truck continued on to strike a nearby Metro bus.
Three people on the Metro bus suffered injuries due to the crash, and thankfully, no students were on the school bus at the time. However, a child and their mother, along with the driver of the Metro bus were hurt in the crash. The driver of the pickup truck was also reported to have been hospitalized.
The conditions of the injured parties are unknown at this time, and authorities are currently investigating this accident.
We would like to offer our warmest sympathies to all four of the injured victims of this accident. A bus accident in New York can occur for a host of various reasons, often related to the negligent operation of one of the vehicles involved.
It is significant to realize that if someone causes a crash that was not your fault, you may have rights. A capable and experienced New York accident attorney can ease your afflictions and guide you through the challenging path toward compensation.
At Hach and Rose, we understand the physical, emotional, and financial distress that often follows an abrupt crash. We pride ourselves on our aspiration for assisting the members of our community, and holding inattentive parties liable for their actions. If you have been hurt in a New York bus accident, please don't wait to call 212-779-0057 today.


Filling solutions must meet accuracy, efficiency and maintenance goals to deliver an investment return. Auger filling machine is one of the most widely used filling machines. Augers are versatile filling machines; so many product manufacturers use them for fine powder and granular filling needs. JDM Pharmatech is the best manufacturer and supplier of auger filling machine in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.


So happy that racing season is upon us. We have a pretty big race weekend here in the GTA with the Toronto Goodlife Marathon and the Mississauga Marathon both happening Sunday May 4th. With that another large group of Benders will be participating in races this weekend.
We have Elaine doing the BMO Vancouver Marathon.
We have Michelle B, Beth, Dwayne and Sabrina doing the Toronto Goodlife Marathon.
We have Samantha, Ivar, Mike T, Marie-Claire, Brian, Steve, Todd, Hank, Firmo, Mike B, Karyn, Marie S, and Manuel (although due to injury Manuel is no longer able to run the race) doing the full marathon and Teresa, Alan, Don and Michelle B. doing the half marathon in Mississauga.
We want to wish all our runners a great race and we will be cheering for you by the sidelines!
Tagged BMO Vancouver marathon, half marathon, marathon, Mississauga marathon, races, running, Toronto Goodlife marathon.


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Q: How to access functions from another python file in a sub folder? my folder structure is,
├── handler
│   ├── s3_handler.py
│
└── service
    ├── service.py

s3_handler file contains many functions which i need to use in service.py
I was trying
from handlers.s3_handler import *

but there is an error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "field_mapping_util.py", line 3, in <module>
  from handlers.s3_handler import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'handlers'

how to resolve this

A: i figured it out.
inside service.py insert,
import sys
sys.path.append("..")
from handler.s3_handler import *


How to Capture a Customer Signature : Solatech, Inc.
This article provides information on capturing a customer signature from within SalesPRO.
From within Order Entry, select Preview. Using the drop down menu, select the document to have the customer sign (Quote, Order Confirmation or Invoice).
Note: As a quote, the only document you can preview is a Quote. As a Sale or Order, you may preview an Order Confirmation or Invoice.
Check the document you wish to create and click 'OK'.
Note: If there is only one document of that type available this step will be skipped.
In the example below, the first document has been selected.
The selected output will be opened as a separate tab in the software.
When a PDF preview opens, the 'View' and 'Edit' tabs will be accessible. Click the Edit tab.
Scroll down to the signature line in the PDF preview of your document.
Click the Pen icon. If you want the signature in a different color, click the down arrow to select the color and activate the pen.
Sign with a stylus or with fingertip if you have a touch screen, otherwise the customer may sign using the mouse or touch pad.
To save or print your signed document, click the View tab under PDF Tools.
From the View tab you can Attach to a customer record, Print, Send via email (if enabled) or save your document using the Save As icon.


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import componentTpl from './footer.component.html';

let footerComponent = {
  templateUrl: componentTpl,
  controller: FooterController,
  bindings: {}
};

function FooterController($scope, $log, $mdDialog, store) {
  'ngInject';
  //$log.debug('Footer' + ' checking in');
  $scope.phone = store.phone;
  $scope.cities = store.cities;
  $scope.company = store.company;

  $scope.showAlert = function(ev) {
    // Appending dialog to document.body to cover sidenav in docs app
    // Modal dialogs should fully cover application
    // to prevent interaction outside of dialog
    $mdDialog.show(
      $mdDialog.alert()
        .parent(angular.element(document.querySelector('#universe')))
        .clickOutsideToClose(true)
        .title('This is an alert title')
        .textContent('You can specify some description text in here.')
        .ariaLabel('Alert Dialog Demo')
        .ok('Got it!')
        .targetEvent(ev)
    );
  };

}

export default footerComponent;

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A six-minute video features moving testimonials from the families of service members and shows the work AFF has done over the last year.
At the Armed Forces Foundation's sixth annual Congressional Gala, held March 3 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, more than 200 wounded service members and their families were honored for their sacrifice.
And a highlight of the evening was a six-minute video, featuring moving testimonials from the families of service members and showing the work AFF has done over the last year.
It was produced buy 522 Productions, based in Alexandria, Va. The video ay be viewed here.
"The AFF provides amazing support for our troops serving overseas, their?families and the veterans who have sacrificed so much for all of us," said?Tristan Pelligrino, president of Interactive Services for 522 Productions.?"It's a huge honor of ours year after year to shine a light on the great?work this organization does and the people who benefit from their services."
??The AFF is a nonprofit organization that provides morale and support to members of the military community through financial support, career counseling, housing assistance and recreational therapy programs.
?"It is so important for America to stand behind our families and understand?that without their support it makes the jobs of our troops that much harder?while their overseas," says Patricia Driscoll, AFF president and executive. "This video is a touching reminder that our families serve too, and they need our help."
? For more information and to support the Armed Forces Foundation, visit ?www.armedforcesfoundation.org.
Follow Government Video on Twitter: twitter.com/governmentvideo.?
The program was started in 1962 as a way to honor Marines by empowering their children through education.
The American Forces Press Service recently described that process in one brigade.


Is Generic Ciprofloxacin Ophthalmic as Good as Ciloxan?
An "AT" rating means that the FDA has determined that a generic topical medication is equivalent to a brand-name medication. All of the currently available generic Ciloxan products have an "AT" rating, meaning they should be equivalent to brand-name Ciloxan.
Is Ciloxan the Same as Cetraxal (Ciprofloxacin Ear Drops)?
No -- although Ciloxan and Cetraxal contain the same active ingredient (ciprofloxacin), they are not the same product. These medications contain different dosages of ciprofloxacin, as well as different inactive ingredients. Ciloxan is formulated specifically for use in the eye, while Cetraxal is formulated for use in the ear.
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Electronic orange book: approved drug products with therapeutic equivalence evaluations. FDA Web site. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/. Accessed November 1, 2010.


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SS Petersburg (T-AOT-9101)
Ordered: 1962
Builder: Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point Yard, Baltimore, MD.
Sponsored by: Sinclair Oil Co.
Christened: 1963 ST Sinclair Texas
In service: 28 June 1963, Dover Tanker Corp.
Renamed: ST Petersburg, 27 July 1981
Homeport: Alameda, CA
IMO number: 6329044
MMSI number: 368102000
Callsign: WJDC
Fate: Ready Reserve Forces
Class and type: Chesapeake Class Tanker
Tonnage: 14,977 long tons
Displacement: 50,063 long tons
Length: 736 ft (224 m)
Beam: 102 ft (31 m)
Draught: 40 ft 1 in (12.22 m)
Complement: Civilian: 38 • Military: 0
SS Petersburg (T-AOT-9101) is one of Military Sealift Command's two US Government-owned tankers and is part of the 35 ships in the Prepositioning Program. It is part of Maritime Prepositioning Ship Squadron Three. Its normal crew complement is 38 civilians and no military personnel.[1]
SS Petersburg is part of the RRF, but is currently activated for duty with the Prepositioning Program. She is currently berthed in the Suisun Bay Reserve fleet, Benicia, California and has been there for the last several years as of late 2018. Previously she had been serving ten years at the island of Guam. In June 2006, the ship participated in exercise Valiant Shield. The Petersburg is not accessible to the public, though can be photographed from the water while maintaining a safe distance. The ship occasionally leaves berth in the ready reserve fleet to participate in active and operational training and exercises.
Originally built in 1963, the Petersburg is one in a fleet of five tankers fitted with an offshore petroleum discharge system. She can carry up to 225,000 barrels of JP8 fuel.
Offshore Petroleum Distribution System (OPDS) provides a semipermanent, all-weather facility for bulk transfer of refined bulk petroleum (e.g., JP5 and JP8) directly from an offshore tanker to a beach termination unit (BTU) located immediately inland from the high-water mark. POL then is either transported inland or stored in the beach support area. Major OPDS components are: the OPDS tanker with booster pumps and spread mooring winches, a recoverable single-anchor leg mooring (SALM) to accommodate four tankers up to 70,000 DWT, ship to SALM hose lines, up to four miles of six-inch (internal diameter) conduit for pumping to the beach, and two BTUs to interface with the shoreside systems.
Three of the tankers (SS Petersburg, SS Chesapeake, and SS Mount Washington) contain a crane and stowage cradles for five OPDS utility boats (OUBs) (modified LCM-6s). OUB-equipped tankers carry adequate SLWT outfitting to equip one SLWT as a towtug and one SLWT as a lay repair boat carry one complete tanker terminal, and are equipped with five OUBs to deploy it. These tankers also have a maximum 59 LT capacity crane to load/offload the five OUBs carried on board.
SS Petersburg, (T-AOT-9101), Petersburg Stern View
SS Petersburg, (T-AOT-9101), Petersburg launching the SALM
SS Petersburg, (T-AOT-9101), Petersburg
FM 10-67-1 Concepts and Equipment of Petroleum Operations
^ "SS Petersburg (T-AOT 9101)". Military Sealift Command – Ship Inventory. Retrieved 24 June 2006.
Chesapeake-class transport oilers
Preceded by: SS Mount Washington
Followed by: None
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In addition, the above thermal-based techniques all involve steam injection, which, however, is a complex process. Moreover, poor performance of steam injection has direct and negative effects on that of heavy oil recovery. Usually, bad steam injection performance reflects in at least two aspects. On one hand, it reflects in wellbores.
Steam injection is the most widely used EOR method today. In 2008 global EOR oil production climbed to 2 million barrels per day of which 1.2 million was attributable to steam injection. This process is therefore the most advanced EOR method as far as field experience is concerned.
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Steam injection is an increasingly common method of extracting heavy crude oil.It is considered an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method and is the main type of thermal stimulation of oil reservoirs. There are several different forms of the technology, with the two main ones being Cyclic Steam Stimulation and Steam Flooding.
A heavy oil field in Southeast Turkey was evaluated to find whether solar EOR is technically and economically feasible. • Results indicated that direct normal insolation (DNI) of the oil field location was enough to 41.9% of required steam injection.
The most common method used to enhance oil production over primary rates is water injection, commonly referred to as secondary oil recovery. Common practice in the industry is to refer to all other methods as tertiary enhanced oil recovery.


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Social media's role in the crisis and repression in Cameroon
In 2008, anti-government riots sparked by anger over exorbitant fuel costs, the president's bid to extent his 25-year rule and a rise in food prices took hold of Cameroon. Termed 'the food riots', protests began in the port city of Douala, eventually spreading to the capital Yaounde and several other cities across the North West and South West regions.
The response to this week of unrest was a violent government crackdown. Reports say that police shut down the protests by making dozens of arrests, beating some participants with rifle butts and even murdering scores of protestors. Government officials instructed state media and hospital staff not to publicize these deaths, however, and the evidence that might prove the government's high-handed response remains stifled today.
10 years later, there is another simmering crisis in the North West and South West regions of the country, sparked – again – by discontent and protest against Biya's government. But unlike in 2008, this time, there is no hiding place for those who perpetrate atrocities. In the age of social media, ordinary Cameroonian civilians are able to take to platforms like Twitter and Facebook, in order to voice their disquiet and demand that the world engages with their county's plight.
Throughout 2018, a steady stream of shocking and distressing clips from Cameroon have appeared on social media, showing villages being burned to the ground, property destroyed, and civilians being tortured or even killed. A simple Twitter search of the word 'Cameroon' reveals multiple posts, by numerous individuals, all claiming to show the results of indiscriminate government brutality in the country.
These graphic and sickening images are accompanied by comments from civilians, calling upon the international community to take heed of the ongoing genocide in Anglophone Cameroon. Those posting videos and images are not afraid to share their eye-witness testimonials with the world – even though this means speaking out against their leaders.
While the Cameroonian government has refuted accusations made on social media, arguing that the army uniform worn by perpetrators could have been stolen by separatists in order to pose as troops, the BBC and other reporting bodies have used a variety of open source tools to debunk online speculation and verify facts. Combined with freely shared eye-witness accounts of brutality, Cameroon's government is under increasing pressure as the inescapable facts emerge to an international audience of billions.
Social media platforms are allowing the current crisis in Cameroon to be published in real time, by eyewitnesses, rather than being reported after the fact, by third parties. This use of social media is beyond the government's control – finally, a voice has been given to the voiceless and the government can do little to silence them.
In the 1990s, when Cameroon's government abused journalists, activists and civilians, very little information about this escaped the country, as there were so few outlets for free speech. The government was able to control and manipulate the media, shaping the narrative that was brought to the world stage. Today, the nature and volume of social media posts, the sharing of similar information, and active citizen reporting is impossible to dismiss or ignore. Now, there is little opportunity for Biya and his ministers to brush away the facts.
Several recent Twitter campaigns have harnessed the power of social media in Cameroon, bringing civilians together as one voice, along with mobilizing support from international communities, in order to agitate for change.
#freemimimefo saw Twitter users spreading the word about the plight of Mimi Mefo, a Cameroonian lawyer arrested for 'spreading fake news', after tweeting information about the killing of an American missionary in the country's Anglophone region. This action was a clear threat to free speech, and saw both Mefo's fellow journalists and ordinary citizens taking to social media to campaign for her release.
The Bishop of Mamfe, Andrew Nkea, accused government troops of killing Kenyan missionary, Father Cosmos Omboro Ondari, after firing shots at random into a church where he had been saying evening mass. Though the government issued a denial, the eye-witness report, shared widely on social media served, as proof of what truly happened.
#FreemicheleNdoki, a campaign that began after the arrest of Michele Ndoki, a Cameroonian lawyer who helped to expose vote rigging on a massive scale during the country's recent election, saw Twitter users protesting the suppression of evidence that implicated the government and the repression of an individual who challenged their corruption.
#FreeAllArrested, #AnglophoneCrisis, #Etoudi2018 and many other campaigns have served as online avenues for Cameroonians to reveal to the world, firsthand, their frustrations and discontent with a regime that has undermined democracy for 36 years.
It's little surprise, then, that the Cameroonian government have made no secret of their distrust of, and distaste for social media. On November 10th 2016, a statement was issued that labelled social media 'a new form of terrorism,' also suggesting that sites like Twitter and Facebook had created 'a social pandemic, perpetuated by amateurs, whose ranks continue to swell and who do not have a sense of etiquette and decorum.'
This response is believed to have been prompted by an outcry, after the president, Paul Biya, was criticised for not returning to the country quickly enough after a large-scale rail tragedy. Social media users in Cameroon have, for some time, been keeping track of Biya's movements, angry that their leader rules their country from afar, missing numerous far reaching national events due to foreign travel.
Social media does, of course, have some credibility issues and is notorious worldwide as a purveyor of fake news stories, hoaxes and misinformation. There are also those who take to social media to promote hate speech and propaganda, with sites having little control over provenance and authenticity of information.
Throughout Cameroon, local groups, advocates and technology hubs have taken responsibility for addressing these issues – providing training, education and empowerment for social media users so that platforms are used more responsibly (and the government are not able to justify their campaign of social media antagonism.) Nina Forgwe's work with Peacetech Labs, along with Julie Owono's contributions as MD of Internet Sans Frontiers are notable examples. As too is, Rebecca Enonchong's AppsTech training and support.
Cameroon's government responses suggests that they're running scared from a rising tide of angry criticism, made by civilians who have found an outlet to voice their displeasure at a pseudo sense of peace and democracy that Biya and his cabinet have established through deceit and repression.
This administration has a history of suppressing use of social media in order to segregate and control its population, having previously cut off internet provision to Anglophone areas of the country. This has happened on several occasions, often for prolonged periods. In the run up to 2018's presidential elections, for example, multiple internet blackouts occurred in Anglophone Cameroon, placing severe restrictions on freedom of expression (according to the advocacy group, Freedom House.) Along with restricting free speech, shutting down the internet has also had devastating and widespread economic and social effects on citizens in affected areas.
In June 2018, the gendarmerie in Cameroon also banned officers from using mobile phones or social networks such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter without permission.
Access to the internet in Cameroon is growing, however, and its 24 million residents are among Africa's most vocal when it comes to using online and mobile platforms to hold the government to account and call for reform. This appears to be making some important changes in the country, with 2018 being the first year that constitutional court hearings were aired live on national TV – and online – in Cameroon. If anything, because of social media, social hypnosis seems to be breaking for many younger people who will be using it more not less.


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Tim Cook has hinted at Apple's metaverse plans and said it's investing in the potential it sees there
"We see a lot of potential in this space, and are investing accordingly," Apple CEO Tim Cook said on an earnings call late Thursday.
Sports 2021-06-04T16:54:28Z
We asked a physicist to break down Serena Williams' iconic serve
Serena Williams is one of the greatest athletes of all time. She's dominated tennis for over 10 years thanks to her iconic serve.
Roger Federer says he should be 'skiing in Switzerland' after a 'lucky' Australian Open win
Federer was warned for offensive language and had a timeout for a groin problem, while his opponent appeared injured when a ball girl bumped into him.
Nick Kyrgios walked into his match against Rafael Nadal wearing a Kobe Bryant jersey, covering his face and holding back tears
Kyrgios, who was visibly distressed, warmed up in the Los Angeles Lakers shirt, which had Bryant's name and former number on.
Nick Kyrgios won the longest match of his career, then said he was thinking about 'getting some food or something'
Of his upcoming match against Rafa Nadal, Kyrgios said: "I'm just thinking about my legs, getting in an ice bath and getting some food or something."
Coco Gauff is surging through the Australian Open and says her teachers are cutting the 15-year-old slack on schoolwork 'considering the circumstances'
15-year-old tennis sensation Coco Gauff is celebrating her historic Australian Open run by... doing homework.
15-year-old Coco Gauff summed up her whirlwind journey to stardom after stunning defending champion Naomi Osaka at the Australian Open: 'What is my life?!'
Coco Gauff took down world No. 3 Naomi Osaka in straight sets to advance to the fourth round of the Australian Open.
Serena Williams said she wanted to punch a wall after her 'unprofessional' defeat in the third round of the Australian Open
"If we were just honest with ourselves, it's all on my shoulders. I lost that match," Serena Williams told reporters after the defeat.
Rafael Nadal accidentally launched a forehand into the face of a ballgirl, then apologized by giving her kiss on the cheek
Rafael Nadal also met with the girl and her family after, before sharing a photo on Twitter of them both saying: "Annita is a brave girl!"
Nick Kyrgios and his opponent mocked Rafael Nadal's service routine after getting time violations at the Australian Open, and the umpire laughed
Kyrgios has previously criticized Nadal's slow service game, calling it "bull----" during their second round match at last year's Wimbledon.
Naomi Osaka apologized for her 'childish' outburst after she threw her racket to the floor after having her serve broken during an Australian Open match
"I couldn't control it," the two-time Grand Slam champion told reporters after the incident. "Sorry Yonex."
Tennis player Ajla Tomljanović was asked about her boyfriend at an Australian Open press conference instead of the match she'd just won
Australian tennis player Ajla Tomljanović was asked about her boyfriend and tennis player Matteo Berrettini during a post-match press conference.
Nick Kyrgios hit an outrageous lob between the legs during Australian Open, then mocked Alexander Zverev on Twitter to continue their off-court spat
Zverev told reporters earlier in the tournament that Kyrgios won't win The Open because there are too many young players "just better than him."
An American tennis player swore at an umpire and called him 'pathetic' in a foul-mouthed rant at the Australian Open
"How many f---ing times did [Fognini] throw his racket? You haven't given him s---," Reilly Opelka said to umpire Carlos Bernardes. "You're pathetic."
Grigor Dimitrov's tracksuit has been called the 'highlight' of the Australian Open so far, but fans are undecided on whether they like it
"I don't want to be vanilla," Dimitrov said of the outlandish outfit. "I love being different when it comes to things like that."
A 21-year-old tennis player was told off by an umpire at the Australian Open after he asked a ball girl to peel his banana for him
Benchetrit then engaged in an argument on social media, accusing the person who shared the footage of taking "stupidity to another level."
Coco Gauff, 15, just beat Venus Williams for the second time in a year, taking her to the second round of the Australian Open
Gauff, the youngest player at The Open, also beat Williams in the first round of Wimbledon last year.
Naomi Osaka jokingly called Serena Williams her 'mom' in a shared photo, and people have mixed feelings
"I love this. 2 beautiful, strong women supportive of each other", said one reply, but another read: "I think this is disrespectful to Serena."
Several players have complained about hazardous playing conditions at the Australian Open. Here's what authorities are doing to tackle it.
Tennis Australia plans on having meteorological and air-quality experts onsite, who will be monitoring the weather conditions at all times.
A Canadian tennis player called Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer 'a little bit selfish' for not speaking out about the poor air quality at the Australian Open
"They're near the end, and all they're thinking about is their legacy," Brayden Schnur said of Nadal and Federer.


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UK does not accept result of Belarus election – Raab
The UK has refused to accept the result of the Belarus presidential election as protests continued against the rule of Alexander Lukashenko.
Demonstrators have repeatedly taken to the streets since the August 9 election which saw Mr Lukashenko claim victory but has been condemned as rigged by critics at home and abroad.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the vote was "fraudulent" and condemned the violence from the Belarusian authorities as they attempted to crack down on the protests.
Mr Raab's comments come three days after the European Union said it did not recognise the results.
The violence against peaceful protesters in Belarus is appalling. The UK does not accept the results of this fraudulent Presidential election & calls for an urgent investigation through @OSCE into its serious flaws & the grisly repression that followed. https://t.co/VPJ4yrTCXZ
— Dominic Raab (@DominicRaab) August 17, 2020
The Foreign Secretary called for an independent investigation by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
He said: "The world has watched with horror at the violence used by the Belarusian authorities to suppress the peaceful protests that followed this fraudulent presidential election.
"The UK does not accept the results.
"We urgently need an independent investigation through the OSCE into the flaws that rendered the election unfair, as well as the grisly repression that followed.
"The UK will work with our international partners to sanction those responsible, and hold the Belarusian authorities to account."
Belarus Election
Mr Lukashenko has ruled the ex-Soviet nation with an iron fist since 1994, repressing opposition figures and independent news organisations.
He has rejected any possibility of repeating the vote that gave him a sixth term, lashing out at the West and declaring his country will "perish as a state" if the election is rerun.


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Britney Spears testifies that her dad won't let her remove her IUD to have more children
"I deserve to have the same rights as anybody does, by having a child, a family, any of those things, and more so."
By Cassandra Stone June 24, 2021
During a rare, very intense public testimony on Wednesday, Britney Spears shared disturbing details of her 13-year conservatorship under her father, Jamie. While it's public knowledge that Jamie has control over his daughter's career and finances, Britney revealed he also has control over her reproductive rights.
In a heartbreaking admission, the star told the judge she has longed for more children but that her father and his team of conservators won't allow her the option of removing her birth control.
"I was told, right now in the conservatorship, I'm not able to get married or have a baby," Britney said. "I have an [IUD] inside of myself right now so I don't get pregnant. I wanted to take the IUD out so I could start trying to have another baby. But this so-called team won't let me go to the doctor to take it out because they don't want me to have any more children. So basically, this conservatorship is doing me way more harm than good."
In her nearly 30-minute virtual address before a Los Angeles court, Britney Spears alleged that she has been unable… https://t.co/gcunmCXj1D
— People (@people) 1624490560.0
She's lived under the court-mandated conservatorship since 2008. In the documentary Framing Britney Spears, which aired earlier this year and put Britney's life and her dad's actions on full display, legal experts explained that these types of legal arrangements are typically used in cases of severe disability or dementia. Britney is a mama to two sons: 15-year-old Sean and 14-year-old Jayden from her marriage to Kevin Federline from 2004-2007. She's been dating fitness instructor Sam Asghari for the past four years, though she told the judge her conservatorship is so strict, she's not allowed to ride in the car with him while he drives. She also said she hasn't been able to even make an appointment with her doctor to remove her IUD. "I deserve to have a life. I've worked my whole life. I deserve to have a two to three-year break and just, you know, do what I want to do," she told the judge. "I deserve to have the same rights as anybody does, by having a child, a family, any of those things, and more so."
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She describes the past 13 years of her life under her father's management as "demoralizing" and "embarrassing," specifically pertaining to people who question her mental capabilities. She asked the judge to end the conservatorship without any further evaluation—she told the court she's been "evaluated" and "abused" by therapists and other professionals her father has hired without her consent. "I just want my life back," the 39-year-old pop star said during a virtual appearance in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Fans rallied around the courthouse during the hearing, wearing #FreeBritney shirts and holding signs showing their support to the pop legend.
'I truly believe this conservatorship is abusive,' Britney Spears said in a statement. Fans of the star rallied out… https://t.co/6CgXYq2vP7
— Reuters Pictures (@reuterspictures) 1624488634.0
She added that what she's been through has been "demoralizing" and "embarrassing," and that it was offensive for people to question her mental capacity. "I don't owe anybody anything," she said. "This conservatorship is abusive."
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All fixings are highly polished stainless steel and hinges are chromed brass.
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It is fastidiously made from a combination of Californian Redwood and sheetmetal.
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Washington: In a strong message to Islamabad, the US and India have told Pakistan to ensure its territory is not used for terror attacks on other countries and asked it to bring to justice terrorists blamed for attacks in Mumbai and other places in India.
The statement said India and the US will fight together "this grave challenge to humanity".
India appreciated the US decision to designate the Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen leader Syed Salahuddin as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist – just ahead of the Trump-Modi meet of Monday — "as evidence of the commitment of the US to end terror in all its forms".


Robert Edeson was born in Perth, Western Australia, and educated at Christ Church Grammar School, the University of Western Australia and the University of Cambridge. He has been a consultant anaesthetist and researcher, publishing in the neuroscience, biophysical and mathematical literatures. He lives in Perth. The Weaver Fish is his first work of fiction.


You think I'm childish! I really appreciate. You have the right to think this is your absolute right. However you are not obliged to write it.
This is not a lack of respect but of humor.
I know my first name in Dutch. My humor does not amuse you, it does not matter but I know a Dutch specialist Chrysididae who loves to tease me about it and thought that this form of humor was universal and popular among the Dutch. I made a mistake in this case.
>Yes, and your name is in Dutch "Piet"!
>I admit it is childish!
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Office Productivity Microsoft Microsoft Word
MS Word Power Shortcuts To Finish Projects in Less Time
Become a MS Word power user today for higher productivity. Finish your work early with more time for friends & family!
Created by Ugur Akinci, Ph.D.
By the end of this course you will learn quite a few MS Word 2010 shortcuts (for Windows machines) to handle your documents faster.
Windows PC OS. An installed copy of MS Word 2010.
*** Wash your hands. Keep social distance. And keep learning. We'll get through this together ***
*************** RECENT UPDATES
Updated all the videos including:
Some Commonly Used Shortcuts
Selecting and Moving Shortcuts
Subscript and Superscript Shortcuts
Paragraph Shortcuts
Paragraph Formatting Shortcuts
Hyperlink Shortcuts
F-Key Power Shortcuts
Ribbon Shortcuts
Field Shortcuts
Table Shortcuts
Technology works only if we have the right training and preparation. Learn the MS Word shortcuts and hot-keys quickly to increase your productivity. Do your work faster by selecting, moving, and manipulating text and images faster, thanks to the combination of hot-key moves explained in these videos.
Learn easy shortcut techniques like
How to format paragraphs with power keystrokes
How to change capitalization easily on-the-fly
How to apply super- and sub-script in a split second
How to use F-key shortcuts for super effects
How to insert most-frequently-used Word Fields with simple keystrokes
How to move rows up and down in a Word table
Watch your MICROSOFT OFFICE SPECIALIST WORD EXPERT instructor use these shortcuts in real-time and then repeat the moves until they become second nature.
These are obviously not all the shortcuts available in Microsoft Word 2010 but the ones your instructor, a Fortune 100 technical writer, uses on a daily basis. More videos will be added in the future to cover more techniques.
What did they say about this course...
"Wow, I've used Word for 15+ years and I learned so much from this course. I think everyone should take this course, even if it is just as a refresher."
-- Darlene Almquist
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"To be honest, I didn't know the shortcuts at all before taking this course. Now I know. :)"
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-- Karl Bamforth
"More than expected and learned a lot of shortcut keys."
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SUPPLEMENTARY PDFs: Most lectures have downloadable PDFs listing the shortcuts described in the videos. Click the second-from-left button (with down arrow on it) on the upper-right corner of the lecture screen to access these PDF document.
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General audience. Anyone who uses MS Word 2010.
Some Commonly Used Shortcuts1 lecture • 8min
Moving & Selecting Shortcuts1 lecture • 5min
Selecting & Moving Shortcuts
Subscript & Superscript Shortcuts1 lecture • 2min
Subscript & Superscript Shortcuts
Superscript shortcut
Paragraph Shortcuts2 lectures • 7min
Selecting One Paragraph at a time
Hyperlink Shortcut1 lecture • 3min
F-Key Power Shortcuts1 lecture • 6min
F Key Shortcuts
First Line Indentation
Ribbon Shortcuts1 lecture • 6min
Field Shortcuts1 lecture • 8min
Table Shortcuts1 lecture • 6min
Ugur Akinci, Ph.D.
Sr. Technical Writer & Writing Instructor
Fortune 100 technical communicator and educator since 1998.
>>> Adobe Captivate Certified Specialist 2019
>>> Associate Fellow STC
>>> Microsoft Office Specialist Word, Excel and PowerPoint Expert 2016
>>> Mindtouch Top 200 Content Experience Strategist 2017
>>> Quora Top Writer 2018 with over 1.1 Million article views
>>> Montgomery College (MD) Technical Writing Advisory Committee Member
Ugur started his professional career as a senior translator for NATO Hqs. LSE. He has worked as a writer, translator, editor and publisher since the mid-80s.
For his copy writing clients, Ugur created all kinds of marketing materials and press releases while honing his skills as a Desk Top Publisher and even publishing a biweekly magazine for a number of years by using DTP techniques.
In mid-90s we see Ugur as a full-time accredited journalist, covering the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Congress for a daily publication.
In 1998, Ugur has discovered the joy of technical writing, marrying his love of science and technology to his artistic sensibilities and design skills.
Working for Fortune 100 hi-tech corporations like Fannie Mae, ADP, and Honeywell, Ugur created many user guides, system admin guides, reference sheets, release notes, quick start guides, and all kinds of similar software, hardware and networking documents, sometimes as a part of an international documentation team.
Ugur enjoys teaching a wide variety of writing, software tools, content development, and document design skills both online and also in person.
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Solution for climate change
Europe is seeing the worst flooding of its history and several rivers have burst their banks and are now flooding big cities. Several European countries including Germany, Hungary and Austria are badly affected and people are trying hard in the face of the worst flooding in history.
The Danube and Elbe rivers are causing havoc in most European countries and people are trying hard to avoid further damage. Because of rising sea levels thousands of Bangladeshi and Indian farmers have lost their agricultural land and now find it hard to provide the daily necessities of life for their families.
Sri Lanka is also facing the worst floods in its history and thousands of people are faced with migration after recent floods. China has also been affected by recent floods in its eastern province. Australia is also facing the warmest summer of its history, and everyone agrees that everything is happening due to climate change and global warming.
The true reality is that global warming effects are miserable for millions of people around the world. Due to constantly rising earth temperatures some places are seeing the worst rains and floods and others are seeing the worst droughts and dry seasons.
Despite this reality, the world community has failed to provide any concrete solution to the rising temperature of the earth and climate change. Several environmental conferences held in the past also could not produce any real solution.
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Candidate Weekend
Interpreting Applications
Candidate Weekend has been a vital part of the NYU Abu Dhabi admissions process for more than a decade. It is a unique and important chance to get a glimpse into what to live and learn in our global community in the cosmopolitan city of Abu Dhabi.
All About Candidate Weekend
Participation in a Candidate Weekend is by invitation only, and all students who are invited are required to attend to remain eligible for admission. As a virtual event, Candidate Weekend consists of a series of live and pre-recorded content, offering you the chance to get to know various components of the NYU Abu Dhabi experience — student life, academics, campus leadership — and have the opportunity to engage with faculty, staff, and current students.
The Candidate Weekend dates for the 2022-2023 application cycle are:
● Early Decision I – December 10, 2022
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Applicants who are invited to participate in Candidate Weekend will receive a detailed schedule of events with their invitations. Candidates should expect to attend all the live sessions over the duration of the event, and will be able to view a number of recorded content on an on-demand basis. To participate in Candidate Weekend, you will need internet access through a computer or smartphone.


Farrell, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet; Judith Jamison, ex-artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Broadway diva Patti LuPone; jazz composer and instrumentalist Arturo Sandoval; and Oscar- and Tony-winning actor Washington have signed on as artistic advisors to the Center, where they'll teach master classes open to the public and take part in other activities on the campus.
Four of the advisors will run master classes open to the public: Sandoval on October 27; Farrell on January 24, 2016; LuPone on March 31, 2016; and Jamison on April 5, 2016. LuPone will also perform her "Far Away Places" concert on April 1 and 2, 2016.
Washington will participate in an Arts & Ideas Conversation entitled "An Evening With Denzel Washington" on September 17. All the events will take place in the Bram Goldsmith Theater. See thewallis.org for information.


Out here on the Oregon High Desert local businesses and environmental conservation groups are partnering to conserve water, improve the fish and wildlife habitat and make the heart of the region's Deschutes River more attractive to recreation and tourism.
The Deschutes River Conservancy's (DRC) popular ten year old effort to provide incentives to landowners to conserve Deschutes River irrigation water by "leasing" their paid for but otherwise wasted water in order to leave that water in the river received a major boost this past month when Central Oregon's largest brewery, The Deschutes Brewery, announced its partnership with the DRC and local irrigation districts to return an estimated one billion gallons of water to the Middle Deschutes River each year. Water that otherwise would be diverted to the irrigation system to be used to irrigate will instead remain in the river, with noticible improvement on fish and wildlife habitat as well as recreational opportunities along the river between Bend and Lake Billy Chinook.
The Deschutes Brewery had originally set its sights somewhat lower when considering the contribution, originally considering a donation equal to the amount of water used in the brewing and supply process – it takes about four gallons of water to produce one gallon of beer – but found that to be not all that much relative to how much has been removed from the Deschutes over the years. Deschutes produces around 250,000 thirty-one gallon barrels a year, leading their community involvement team to settle on a "nice round number that would make a noticible difference in the Middle Deschutes," says brewery Chief Operating Officer Michael LaLonde: "one billion gallons," or roughly fourteen times the amount of water used by the brewer's facilities, suppliers and supply chain.
One billion gallons of water is equal to sixteen hundred olympic swimming pools, twenty-seven hundred football fields under a foot of water, eighteen million 55 gallon rain barrels, twenty-four million barrels of crude oil, seventy-five million kegs and almost two billion six packs of beer.


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package org.apache.hive.hcatalog.templeton.tool;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.security.PrivilegedExceptionAction;
import java.util.Arrays;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configured;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.FsPermission;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.ShimLoader;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobID;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.NullOutputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.security.token.delegation.DelegationTokenIdentifier;
import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation;
import org.apache.hadoop.security.token.Token;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.Tool;
import org.apache.hive.hcatalog.templeton.AppConfig;
import org.apache.hive.hcatalog.templeton.Main;
import org.apache.hive.hcatalog.templeton.SecureProxySupport;
import org.apache.hive.hcatalog.templeton.UgiFactory;
import org.apache.thrift.TException;

/**
 * A Map Reduce job that will start another job.
 *
 * We have a single Mapper job that starts a child MR job.  The parent
 * monitors the child child job and ends when the child job exits.  In
 * addition, we
 *
 * - write out the parent job id so the caller can record it.
 * - run a keep alive thread so the job doesn't end.
 * - Optionally, store the stdout, stderr, and exit value of the child
 *   in hdfs files.
 *
 * A note on security.  When jobs are submitted through WebHCat that use HCatalog, it means that
 * metastore access is required.  Hive queries, of course, need metastore access.  This in turn
 * requires delegation token to be obtained for metastore in a secure cluster.  Since we
 * can't usually parse the job to find out if it is using metastore, we require 'usehcatalog'
 * parameter supplied in the REST call.  WebHcat takes care of cancelling the token when the job
 * is complete.
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Private
public class TempletonControllerJob extends Configured implements Tool, JobSubmissionConstants {
  private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(TempletonControllerJob.class);
  private final boolean secureMetastoreAccess;
  private final AppConfig appConf;

  /**
   * @param secureMetastoreAccess - if true, a delegation token will be created
   *                              and added to the job
   */
  public TempletonControllerJob(boolean secureMetastoreAccess, AppConfig conf) {
    super();
    this.secureMetastoreAccess = secureMetastoreAccess;
    this.appConf = conf;
  }

  private JobID submittedJobId;

  public String getSubmittedId() {
    if (submittedJobId == null) {
      return null;
    } else {
      return submittedJobId.toString();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Enqueue the job and print out the job id for later collection.
   * @see org.apache.hive.hcatalog.templeton.CompleteDelegator
   */
  @Override
  public int run(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException, ClassNotFoundException,
          TException {
    if(LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
      LOG.debug("Preparing to submit job: " + Arrays.toString(args));
    }
    Configuration conf = getConf();

    conf.set(JAR_ARGS_NAME, TempletonUtils.encodeArray(args));
    String memoryMb = appConf.mapperMemoryMb();
    if(memoryMb != null && memoryMb.length() != 0) {
      conf.set(AppConfig.HADOOP_MAP_MEMORY_MB, memoryMb);
    }
    String user = UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser().getShortUserName();
    conf.set("user.name", user);
    Job job = new Job(conf);
    job.setJarByClass(LaunchMapper.class);
    job.setJobName(TempletonControllerJob.class.getSimpleName());
    job.setMapperClass(LaunchMapper.class);
    job.setMapOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
    job.setMapOutputValueClass(Text.class);
    job.setInputFormatClass(SingleInputFormat.class);

    NullOutputFormat<NullWritable, NullWritable> of = new NullOutputFormat<NullWritable, NullWritable>();
    job.setOutputFormatClass(of.getClass());
    job.setNumReduceTasks(0);

    JobClient jc = new JobClient(new JobConf(job.getConfiguration()));

    Token<DelegationTokenIdentifier> mrdt = jc.getDelegationToken(new Text("mr token"));
    job.getCredentials().addToken(new Text("mr token"), mrdt);

    String metastoreTokenStrForm = addHMSToken(job, user);

    job.submit();

    submittedJobId = job.getJobID();
    if(metastoreTokenStrForm != null) {
      //so that it can be cancelled later from CompleteDelegator
      DelegationTokenCache.getStringFormTokenCache().storeDelegationToken(
              submittedJobId.toString(), metastoreTokenStrForm);
      LOG.debug("Added metastore delegation token for jobId=" + submittedJobId.toString() +
              " user=" + user);
    }
    return 0;
  }
  private String addHMSToken(Job job, String user) throws IOException, InterruptedException,
          TException {
    if(!secureMetastoreAccess) {
      return null;
    }
    Token<org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.DelegationTokenIdentifier> hiveToken =
            new Token<org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.DelegationTokenIdentifier>();
    String metastoreTokenStrForm = buildHcatDelegationToken(user);
    hiveToken.decodeFromUrlString(metastoreTokenStrForm);
    job.getCredentials().addToken(new
            Text(SecureProxySupport.HCAT_SERVICE), hiveToken);
    return metastoreTokenStrForm;
  }
  private String buildHcatDelegationToken(String user) throws IOException, InterruptedException,
          TException {
    final HiveConf c = new HiveConf();
    LOG.debug("Creating hive metastore delegation token for user " + user);
    final UserGroupInformation ugi = UgiFactory.getUgi(user);
    UserGroupInformation real = ugi.getRealUser();
    return real.doAs(new PrivilegedExceptionAction<String>() {
      public String run() throws IOException, TException, InterruptedException  {
        final HiveMetaStoreClient client = new HiveMetaStoreClient(c);
        return ugi.doAs(new PrivilegedExceptionAction<String>() {
          public String run() throws IOException, TException, InterruptedException {
            String u = ugi.getUserName();
            return client.getDelegationToken(u);
          }
        });
      }
    });
  }
}


Few players are better then Holloway and this year he'll have talent to help him.
Over the years few teams have been as consistent as the Xavier Musketeers. Once again it looks like this will be a dangerous squad thanks to the return of one of the top players in the nation in Tu Holloway and the A-10's top recruiting class. Holloway has speed and can handle the ball well. In the backcourt with him is junior Mark Lyons who can shoot and plays smart. Dee Davis is a freshman who will come in and get minutes right away. He reminds off Holloway but any freshman will need some adjusting period. Brad Redford may also get some time in the backcourt. Dezmine Wells may play guard but small forward may be the slot where he will get more minutes. He may well be the top incoming player for Xavier. The frontcourt isn't too bad either thanks to the return of center Kenny Frease and forward Jeff Robinson. Frease is big and has the tools to be dominant while Robinson is hard-working and can produce. Junior Travis Taylor will likely start at small forward and can be effective but won't change the game. Senior Andrew Walker hasn't had tons of playing time in his first three seasons but may play a little bit more of a role this season.
Bottom Line: It's Xavier, which means that they will always contend but this season they may take even a bigger step forward.