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David Beckham, India vs New Zealand Semi-Final: The World Cup semi-final match (WC 2023 Semi-Final) between India and New Zealand (IND vs NZ) has started coloring the footballers too. On Monday, German footballer Thomas Muller shared a video wearing Team India’s jersey, while now it has been confirmed that former England footballer David Beckham will watch the India-New Zealand semi-final match. He is coming to India to watch this match. He will enjoy the India-New Zealand match sitting with other big personalities at Wankhede.
This former Manchester United and Real Madrid star has a huge fan following in India. In such a situation, his coming to Wankhede can fill this big cricket match with more excitement. He will be present at Wankhede as the Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF.
Semi-final match is on 15th November
The World Cup semi-final match will be played between India and New Zealand on 15 November. This match will start at 2 pm at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Team India has been invincible so far in this World Cup, so its upper hand seems to be heavy in the semi-finals. However, in ICC tournaments, New Zealand team has defeated India on most of the occasions. In such a situation, this semi-final match can be a close contest.
Team India had won in the last match
The teams of India and New Zealand have also clashed in this World Cup. These two teams clashed in the group stage. Both the teams faced each other winning 4-4 matches consecutively. Here Team India won and defeated New Zealand easily. India won that match by 4 wickets.
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A Paterson NJ man has been identified as a possible suspect in the recent heroin overdose death of a man in Jefferson Township, New Jersey.
The suspect, a 28-year-old Paterson resident, may have sold heroin to a Jefferson NJ man who later died due to a drug overdose. According to Morris County prosecutors, telephone records show that the suspect was in contact with the victim prior to his death.
At this time, the suspect has not yet been charged with a crime in connection with the overdose death. However, depending on the findings of investigators, it is possible that Morris County prosecutors could decide to charge the suspect with strict liability homicide for a drug-induced death and heroin distribution. The strict liability homicide charge is a first degree felony, which means that the suspect could potentially be sentenced to decades in prison if convicted.
The suspect already faces criminal charges for possession of cocaine and possession of marijuana. That’s because he reportedly got caught with the illegal narcotics while being pursued by police in Jefferson, New Jersey.
The suspect reportedly has a criminal record that includes a prior conviction for drug possession. In fact, he was reportedly on probation at the time of the fatal overdose.
While law enforcement conducts an investigation into the Jefferson NJ heroin overdose death, the suspect is being detained in the Morris County Jail in Morristown, NJ.
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Let us all let out a collective sigh of relief and a “YAY!” One of my favorite entertainers is going to be a Mrs., and she will be the wife of a billionaire at that. Guess we don’t have to worry about Wissam Al Mana dating her for her money, he’s got hellas of his own. After nearly three years of dating, the couple, who can often be seen vacaying it up on boats and beaches, are looking to tie the knot in the spring, according to US Weekly. A source told the magazine that Al Mana proposed earlier in the year to the legendary singer, but that Jackson doesn’t wear her ring out, for obvious privacy reasons, and for fear that she’ll lose it. Jackson, who is 46, is said to be jumping the broom with her 37-year-old beau in a multi-million dollar event in Qatar, and Al Mana wants to fly out her extra large family. “He is flying in all of Janet’s friends and family on private jets…He wants to get a top chef to create a custom menu,” says the source.
This will be the third marriage for Jackson, who was briefly married to James DeBarge and René Elizondo, Jr. While there was random speculation and rumors that Jackson and DeBarge had a child together, both parties have refuted the claim, and Jackson has no children from her second marriage. But according to the US Weekly source, Jackson definitely wants to have children, and if she struggles to conceive, she’ll adopt.
For those who are wondering, Wissam is a wealthy luxury-brand mogul, and he’s the managing director of Al Mana Retail. Plus, Wissam is one of the most successful investors in the Middle East, having shares in everything from Saks Fifth Avenue in Dubai and many other places, to his company representing A/X Armani Exchange, as well as a slew of other luxury brands in the Middle East. Damn, Janet sure caught her a winner! After all that she’s gone through in these past few years, we wish her and her soon-to-be husband nothing but the best. But please don’t end up like these other Hollywood couples who spend more money and energy on the big day as opposed to the marriage as a whole. We love you too much for that girl!

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|Been busy with getting the black manta through it's MOT, but I've found time to get on with the coupe.
I've rerouted the exhaust over the top of torque tube crossmember, and I can fit it in even easier now. The exhaust routing is now nearly finished, I just need to mount it on rubbers. I've started plating it in, once that's finished, there isn't that much left to do to the shell, just the roof, jacking points, and the pedal box. I can't wait to get the shell finished, as it's driving me up the wall.
I've also taken out the windscreen, in anticipation of a heated one.
The manifold bits should be arriving any day now, once they're here, I'll finalise the exact engine position, and start building the primaries. The engine could go down by 1 – 1.5", and the gearbox needs to sit lower. The lowest part is the sump, so I'll need to rebuild it to have wings. In the GM literature on the web, the sump pan is apparantly structural (I wondered why it was so heavily over-engineered), so I'll need to plan the rebuild carefully. I'll add some baffles at the same time, as as much as I'd like to dry sump it, I'll do that after everythings up and running.
The cage is now 90% in, and looks and feels great. I need to finish bolting in the drivers front mount for it, and to reinforce the other mounts.
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NEW YORK: One of the year's most popular events for fund managers, the Sohn Investment Conference, will be held in New York on Monday, but if history is any guide, some of the industry's lower-profile managers will probably provide the most profitable ideas. The best ideas of some press-shy hedge fund managers who spoke at the 2017 New York Sohn Investment Conference outperformed those of celebrity managers such as Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn, according to a Reuters analysis.Josh Resnick, founder of New York-based Jericho Capital Asset Management, had the best overall investment idea of the 11 featured investors who spoke last year. His, short, or bet against, Frontier Communications Corp gained 61 percent since it was announced on May 8 of last year.Larry Robbins, the billionaire manager of Glenview Capital Management, had the next-best performance, with approximately 33 percent gains in his bullish position in DXC Technology Co .The 2018 Sohn conference, which will take … [Read more...] about Low profile hedge funds post high returns in year after New York Sohn conference
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By Donovan Vincent Feature Writer Fri., March 23, 2018 He contracted malaria, dodged bullets with government soldiers in a war zone and was jailed for several days near a small village because police didn’t believe him when he explained who he was. Adventure traveller Mario Rigby also tested the limits of his physical and emotional stamina when he trekked 12,000 kilometres northward across eight African countries for two years, by foot and kayak. He started in late 2015 and finished in February, taking an eastern route from South Africa to Egypt. Africa, he says is a place that has been depicted by the West only as dangerous, violent and beset by poverty. Rigby saw some of that downside while he was there; he isn’t sugar-coating his experience. But the incredible warmth and compassion from so many people he met left the biggest impression on him, he said in an interview after his return. Article Continued Below “Everywhere I went they … [Read more...] about He wanted young Black people to be brave. So he walked and kayaked across Africa for two years
By Alex Ballingall Ottawa Bureau Tues., Feb. 27, 2018 OTTAWA—The federal government is pumping more money into its marquee push for Indigenous reconciliation, pledging another $4.8 billion in this year’s budget on job training, health, children’s services, housing and clean drinking water for Canada’s Indigenous people. The new money will roll out over the next five years and comes after Ottawa’s Liberal government already earmarked an unprecedented $11.8 billion in long-term spending for First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities in its 2016 and 2017 budgets. “The most important way in which our future needs to be better than our past has to do with the relationship between Canada and Indigenous peoples,” Finance Minister Bill Morneau told the House of Commons as he tabled the government’s 2018 spending plan Tuesday. “We have a responsibility to do better and to do more.” The biggest … [Read more...] about Ottawa pledging $4.8 billion in federal budget for Indigenous people
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is at our doorstep, with artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and automation threatening unskilled workers and new graduates who are at risk of being left unemployed by job-killing androids. As these technological breakthroughs take place, automation and AI are compelling blue-collar workers to improve their skills and do more sophisticated work. Those who fail to adapt will be left behind.Plans to cut jobs have already begun in the banking and telecom sectors, signalling a trend that retail may soon follow as customers enjoy self-service through digital channels."Laid-off workers may have skill sets unfit for future organisations, but the education system seems to be incapable of harmonising the country's economic development, as 16% of recent graduates are still unemployed," said Siriyupa Roongrengsuke, deputy director of academic affairs at the Sasin School of Management.AI, big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) are increasingly being used in … [Read more...] about Thailand 4.0: Rise of the machines?

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|Title:||Monitoring and control of power system oscillations using HVDC/FACTS and wide-area phasor measurements|
|Authors :||Larsson, Mats|
|Proceedings:||Proceedings of the CIGRE session 2012|
|Conference details:||CIGRE session 2012, Paris, France, August 26-31, 2012|
|License (according to publishing contract) :||Licence according to publishing contract|
|Type of review:||Not specified|
|Subjects :||Power oscillation; Wide-area monitoring and control; Phasor measurement; FACTS/HVDC; PMU; Small disturbance stability; Power system dynamics; Power system control|
|Subject (DDC) :||621.04: Energy engineering|
|Abstract:||Power oscillations are a growing concern among power system operators worldwide. Traditionally, the main countermeasure against dangerous power oscillations has been the installation of power system stabilizers (PSS). Essentially, the potential for inter-area power oscillations depends on the strength of the tie lines between different areas and the load on the ties. From a European perspective, with the anticipated integration of remote renewable energy sources such as offshore wind power from the North-sea region and solar power from southern Europe or Africa, we can expect the average transmission distances to grow and consequently also tie line flows. Unless tie lines are also reinforced we expect more oscillation events in the European grid in the future. From an operational point of view, it is of high priority to be able to estimate the damping of oscillatory modes reliably in real-time in order to take appropriate and timely measures in case damping becomes poor. Recent developments in wide-area phasor monitoring have resulted in a new power oscillation monitoring algorithm that uses multiple measurements from different locations in the grid. An equivalent system model of the power grid is estimated in real-time and based on this model, the damping and frequency as well the activity of oscillatory modes can be determined from ambient process variations. As basis for this, a wide-area measurement system (WAMS) can provide time synchronized signals from phasor measurement units (PMUs) that can measure voltage, current and frequency with adequate accuracy and resolution in time. This paper shows results from pilot operation of the new application at swissgrid, including recordings from an actual and representative event in the continental ENTSO-E interconnected power system. This example demonstrates the performance of the new application as well as provides information about the oscillatory modes present in the continental ENTSO-E system today. Furthermore, FACTS and HVDC systems can serve as powerful actuators to control inter-area oscillations, provided they are equipped with appropriate controller extensions. Particularly for the control and management of inter-area oscillations, remote measurements have proven useful. The paper outlines the technical aspects and suggests a design procedure for controller extensions based on local or remote measurement for the purpose of inter-area oscillation damping.|
|Departement:||School of Engineering|
|Organisational Unit:||Institute of Energy Systems and Fluid Engineering (IEFE)|
|Publication type:||Conference Paper|
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Disability issues were not mentioned in the 1991 Constitution’NCPD Commissioner
Issues of Persons with Disability have today occupied the backbone of the state as they are now highly considered to participate on issues on the development of the country. In the past persons with disability were always at the back yard and contributing very little, but today the disabled are part of the governance system. The appointment of a visually impaired person, Mr. Mustapha Bai Attilah as Deputy Minister of Social Welfare Gender and Children Affairs, and the establishment of a National Commission for Persons with Disability (NCPD) are great achievements for the disabled group.
These were the words of the Commissioner of NCPD, Mr. Frederick Kamara, on March 6th 2014 in Freetown when addressing members of the media at the usual Government press briefing in the Conference Room of the Ministry of Information and Communications in Freetown.
Mr. Kamara further expressed delight for the inclusion of Persons with Disability in constitutional matters although he did not have the opportunity to disseminate information the way he wanted to. He lauded CRC to have the material in Braille, which he described as a great opportunity because it helps the visually impaired people to be able to read the Constitution by format and understand about the review process.
Kamara intimated that, when the 1991 Constitution was drawn up, disability issues were not mentioned; now that CRC is in session it is a prospect for the issue of disability to be incorporated. The Commissioner raised that the 2011 Disability Act that was passed in March led to the establishment of the National Commission for Persons with Disability in June 2012. He confirmed that, the act has many good provisions that form part of the Constitution. He also raised that disability issues are now looked at and are receiving due attention, a situation he described as very appropriate and ethical. The Minister concluded by appealing to all to continue putting the issue of disability at the fore front.
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Amidst all the talk about credit reporting and what should and should not be on a consumer’s credit report, a bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives that would amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act in order to prohibit including evictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic from consumers’ credit reports.
A copy of H.R. 408, which was introduced by Rep. Steve Cohen [D-Tenn.], can be accessed by clicking here.
The actual text of the bill has not yet been released, but Rep. Cohen indicated that the idea behind the bill is to prevent renters — who may have been evicted — from getting access to future housing.
More than 40 million individuals faced the threat of eviction during the pandemic. The government instituted a moratorium on evicting individuals, which was ended last year after legal challenges were mounted.
This is the third time that Rep. Cohen has introduced this measure, never having gained much traction with his proposal either at the start of the pandemic, or when he introduced the bill last year.
At the very least, Rep. Cohen could have come up with a different soundbite. The statement he made in the release announcing the bill is exactly the same as the statement he made when he introduced the bill last year.
If the new bill is anything like the old bill, the measure applies to any eviction that took place while a national emergency was declared. The bill introduced last year said, “Any information related to a covered eviction (including information related to a debt collection for a covered eviction) for which notice was given during the period beginning March 13, 2020, and ending on the date that is 30 days after the termination date of the national emergency concerning the novel coronavirus disease (COVID–19) outbreak declared by the President on March 13, 2020, under the National Emergencies Act” is to be excluded from consumers’ credit reports.

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Name: Hybrid Lithochromis xanthopteryx
Synonym: Black pseudonigricans
Location: Lake Victoria
Adult size: males: 4 inches (10 cm), Females: 3 inches (7 cm)
Personal notes: I obtained a colony of Lithochromis xanthopteryx as fry in 2011. I was initially concerned about the fact that the two males lookes so different. I had never kept this species before but the fairly distinct vertical barring and the yellow and red between the vertical barring of both males made me suspicious that something might not be quite right. As they matured, the dominant male lost the coloring between the vertical bars but maintained an orange color on the snout much like a P. sp. "crimson tide" and the subdominant male (shown below) looked even more like a crimson tide. I asked several experienced hobbyists and they confirmed that I had a hybrid. Unfortunately, this particular hybrid is very common in the US hobby and is sold as both Lithochromis xanthopteryx and as Pundamilia sp. "crimson tide".
And as adults (above) they've lost the red on the snout.
The dominant male pictured above is an incredibly beautiful cichlid none the less.
You can see how dramatically different the subdominant male above looks as compared to the dominant male.
Above is what the females look like.
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As of July 1, quarantine due to COVID-19 ends in Ukraine: it lasted over three years
On Saturday, July 1, quarantine and emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic will end in Ukraine, reported the press service of the Ministry of Health.
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Quarantine due to COVID-19 was introduced in Ukraine in March 2020 and lasted three years and three months.
The Ministry of Health thanked the Ukrainian doctors: "Doctors did an incredible job. In the darkest times, when the world did not yet know how dangerous COVID-19 was, when there was no vaccine and no way to protect yourself from the serious consequences of the disease, doctors did not hesitate to accept this challenge and continued to work."
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal emphasized that COVID-19 became a difficult test for Ukrainians, and during the pandemic response mechanisms were developed, which also came in handy during the full-scale war.
Shmyhal also thanked the Ukrainian medics, who are now "no less heroically helping defenders and civilians in conditions of all-out war."
At the beginning of May, the WHO canceled the global emergency due to COVID-19, although this does not mean the end of the pandemic itself.

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The women of Orphan black : faces of the feminist spectrum /
"Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany plays a host of the show's main characters, all clones of an illegal experiment. The heroines save one another and destroy the patriarchy while subverting gender expectations and celebrating feminism. This book explores these portrayals and how they rel...
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Many towns in the Philippines celebrate feasts in honor of San Isidro Labrador, the patron saint of farmers. Every 15th of May, the processions and celebrations are held for plentiful harvest such as the Pahiyas in Lucban, Quezon.
This book is based on a legend of the Tagalogs that teaches us how to praise a saint in a way that is creative, colorful, and pleasing to our ears. With the combined talents of Eugene Y. Evasco and Tokwa S. Peñaflorida, a contemporary book was created to give thanks for the blessings of the earth and our faith.
AUTHOR: Eugene Y. Evasco
ILLUSTRATOR: Tokwa S. Peñaflorida
LANGUAGE: Filipino & English
DATE PUBLISHED: 2019

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Latest Susquehanna River Stories
The Susquehanna Flats, a large bed of underwater grasses near the mouth of the Susquehanna River, virtually disappeared from the upper Chesapeake Bay after Tropical Storm Agnes more than 40 years ago. However, the grasses mysteriously began to come back in the early 2000s.
HARRISBURG, Pa., July 29, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) is calling on the U.S.
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HARRISBURG, April 16, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) today released a work plan outlining efforts to continue studying and sampling the Susquehanna
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This pinpoint stitch machine is used for topstitching on the front facing of men's wear, as well as front flies, pocket mouths and trouser sides, as a cost-effective topstitching machine that offers increased productivity. In addition, its applicable working range has been widened to include various materials and other processes, such as the topstitching of collars for shirts, blouses and knits. The MP-200N has the newly added capability of sewing wider stitches and using thicker thread. It can be used for a wider range of applications requiring narrower to wider stitch widths.
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30th SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
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The United Nations Human Rights Council held its 30th regular session from 14 September to 2nd October 2015. H.E Ambassador Joachim Rucker, President of the Human Rights Council, in his opening remarks stressed on the importance of Civil Society in the United Nations Human Rights Council.
H.E Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner in his statement expressed his concerns about the International Community’s failure to address the situation in Syria and other areas in the conflict. He thanked countries for their commendable work in hosting refugees and likewise called upon all States to fully commit to the Human Rights recommendation by the United Nations Mechanism. H.E Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein stated that, the abuses by ISIL remain a serious concern, and we urge in the strongest possible term an immediate end to the devastating obstruction of humanitarian aid to the people of Syria and Yemen.
Mangala Samaraweera-Foreign Miniser of Sri-Lanka, Roberto Campa-Undersecretary for human rights, Ministry of the Interior of Mexico and Hugo Swire-Minister of State in the Foreign Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom also delivered their statements in the opening of the 30th Session of the Human Rights Council. In the General Debate, Delegations expressed their concerns about migration and refugee crisis that has confronted the world with failure in ensuring the realization of the human rights.
AFGHAN YOUTH ART EXHIBITION
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On 7th October 2015, Norwegian Refugee Council organized a photo exhibition, showcasing the artwork of displaced Afghan children and youth. The Norwegian Refugee Council through the partnership with CREART initiated an Art therapy project for Afghan displaced youth in Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan.
Mr. Azizullah Omar, Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy and Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations in his remarks at the inauguration of the exhibition acknowledged the magnificent initiation of the NRC. He added that, portraits help the children to explore their personal identity and express their prospective. He likewise thanked the organizer not only for showcasing the artwork and their amazing stories, but valued the techniques that encouraged children to visualize their dreams and desire for their future.


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The system of migrant detention centres in Libya is a damaging one. It leaves migrants to suffer inhumane conditions without dignity, according to a report by Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The organization warns that funding alone will not alleviate the suffering.
A new report by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) denounces the system of migrant detention centres in Libya, revealing that migrants live "in conditions that are neither humane nor dignified". The report, titled "Human Suffering: Inside Libya’s migrant detention centres", called the system "harmful and exploitative" and reiterates a "disturbing lack of regulation and oversight".
"Once people are inside a detention centre, there is no way to track what happens to them," the report said. The organisation is calling for "an end to the arbitrary detention of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in Libya".
Centres without rules or controls
The report said that migrants in Tripoli "are all routinely detained for prolonged periods of time in detention centres nominally under the control of the Ministry of Interior". People are detained "arbitrarily with no option to challenge the lawfulness of their detention or treatment" in a system that is "completely unregulated". Migrants are sometimes intercepted at sea and brought back to shore, where they are then taken to the centres. In other cases, they are "detained on suspicion of having HIV, hepatitis B, or hepatitis C. Others are rounded up in night raids, arrested at checkpoints or picked up off the streets".
MSF said there is no way to track what happens to them once they are detained because there's no registration system. Armed groups in Tripoli are "de facto in charge" of the centres. "As a result, access to patients detained inside a facility can be denied to MSF," the report said. The organisation said it has treated "more than a thousand detainees a month for diseases that are the direct result of conditions inside the detention centres, including respiratory tract infections, acute watery diarrhoea, skin diseases and urinary tract infections".
Malnourishment, panick attacks
Centers are dangerously overcrowded, MSF warns. "Basic legal and procedural safeguards to prevent torture and ill-treatment are not respected".
The MSF doctors team has treated people with broken legs and firearms injuries, among other ailments. In the past year, Médecins Sans Frontières has treated at least fifty adults suffering from acute malnutrition with some patients needing urgent hospitalisation. Migrants detained in the centres include children, newborns, and pregnant women. "Women give birth in detention without medical assistance. The youngest patient seen by MSF medics was only five hours old," the report said.
"Detention has a direct impact on mental health," MSF underlines. Detainees experiencing suicidal thoughts, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, and panic attacks were common. "Increased funding alone is not the solution to alleviating the suffering experienced by people held inside detention centres," MSF said.
"A narrow focus on improving conditions of detention without taking into account the current realities in Libya risks legitimising and perpetuating a system where people are detained arbitrarily without recourse to the law and are exposed to harm and exploitation".


Based on more than 75 years of paving experience, the new P7320 ABG paver from Volvo Construction Equipment is designed to deliver high productivity and low operating costs on high-volume and multi-lane highway projects in India.
The P7320 ABG paver from Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is a brand new machine optimized for Indian contractors working in the 9m segment. Once it arrives on the jobsite, this high-performance paver is extremely quick and easy to set up. The weight of all screed components and functional braces has been optimized to enable a single person to complete the job and operators can set the screed to the desired working width in no time at all thanks to the quick coupling extension box. This unique feature enables paving crew members to assemble and disassemble extensions quickly and safely, saving time and money.
Using the Settings Manager within the EPM3 (Electronic Paver Management system), operators can store and retrieve customized settings for individual projects, while the fast-heating screed further supports fast and hassle-free machine set-up. A hydraulic screed crown adjustment enables operators to quickly and easily adjust the screed to match the desired road profile finish.
Whether during set-up or operation, Volvo customers benefit from the well-designed and intuitive controls, which allow operators to achieve optimum results quickly and easily. The Volvo EPM3 is renowned for user-friendliness. The intuitive layout guides operators through individual working functions, with the jog-wheel used to quickly select and adjust settings. Background illumination ensures good visibility of the screen both day and night. Operators can also continue working whatever the time of day thanks to the six standard LED lights.
The operator platform on the Volvo P7320 ABG paver offers unhampered visibility around the machine, auger channel and screed. The engine hood design offers superb visibility to the hopper, allowing the operator to check material supply and flow at a glance.
The P7320 ABG paver is powered by a CEV Stage IV-compliant Volvo engine and perfectly matched hydraulics that build on more than 75 years of paving experience and engineering innovation. Built by Volvo for Volvo, the premium engine delivers high torque at low RPM and, by matching engine output to the actual requirement, the adaptive ECO Mode and optimized RPM reduce fuel consumption and emissions, extend component life and reduce noise levels. The built-in sound insulation on the canopy further reduces noise for the benefit of the paving crew and local community alike.
Even in extreme temperatures and altitudes, the cleverly designed engine compartment and hood provide ample space for continuous air circulation from the hydraulically powered adaptive cooling fan, which allows the engine and hydraulics to cool effectively. This feature also reduces noise, lowers fuel consumption, boosts component lifetime and optimizes the efficiency of the hydraulic system.
Volvo customers can rely on the P7320 ABG for a consistently high quality paving surface. The automatic track tensioning system and narrow auger drive box deliver outstanding results, complemented further by the optional screed load/tensioning devices and long auger shafts. Thanks to the wide Volvo screed, operators can pave up to 9m with one paver in one pass. This boosts productivity and enables jobs to be completed quicker.
Volvo Variomatic screeds have eight guide tubes – four for each extension – which contribute to a consistent, uniformly compacted smooth surface and have been designed with a dual heating bar arrangement to ensure even heat distribution across the entire screed. The three heating zones can be adjusted individually and the heating elements for the tamper bar are easy to replace. The low-profile screed design also makes it easy for operators to climb on the screed for a more comfortable experience and less fatigue.
When it comes to servicing the Volvo P7320 ABG paver, all features have been designed to support quick and easy routine maintenance. The result is a paver that stays out on the jobsite, performing at its best, for longer – maximizing uptime and reducing operating costs.
A wide opening on top of the platform provides easy access to the engine compartment with direct access to filters, while fluid drain hoses and an automatic greasing system are all accessible from ground level.
To help customers stay on top of service requirements, the dedicated Service Interval Manager display on the EPM3 alerts the operator to required or scheduled maintenance, which is recorded on the system. Additionally, with the fuel theft prevention system, operators are alerted if fuel has been stolen, helping to avoid unwanted and costly downtime.
CareTrack telematics further support customers in making the most of their machines. The system provides valuable insight into machine location, usage, productivity, fuel consumption and more, which can be used to identify areas for improvement in reaching maximum uptime and optimum results. Volvo dealers are on hand every step of the way with a range of tested and approved Genuine Volvo Parts – all backed by Volvo warranty, as well as flexible maintenance and repair options and planned servicing to extend the life of the machine.
Overall, the combination of easy set-up, operation and maintenance, efficient powertrain and hydraulics, and high quality results first time makes the Volvo P7320 ABG paver an ideal choice for Indian customers looking to increase productivity and reduce operating costs on high-volume and multi-lane highway projects.


CORVALLIS, Ore. -- The city of Corvallis faces a penalty of $243,000 for late payroll tax payments to the IRS.
For more than three years, some payroll tax payments were transmitted late to the IRS – a few days late, in most cases, but long enough to warrant penalties.
The city didn’t become aware of the penalties until early August.
An initial internal review suggests that an employee did not notify a supervisor of repeated warnings from the IRS about the compounding penalties and did not respond to those warnings. This employee left the city in January, months before the error was uncovered.
“This singular incident, while serious and disappointing, does not reflect on the good work performed by the city of Corvallis each day in our community,” said City Manager Mark Shepard. “We will move forward and find an acceptable outcome for this issue, and we will redouble our efforts to improve transparency and accountability in all aspects of city services.”
Officials say all taxes have been paid, and the penalty doesn’t represent criminal activity.


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Bright Young Booksellers: Alexander Akin
My mom has a yellowed newspaper clipping that shows me in a baby carrier on her back as she and my dad peruse books at the UC Riverside library book sale. I guess my parents got me hooked early. My dad was a steelworker, and my mom a union organizer, and as a kid I thought every working-class family had a huge library at home. I remember my first purchase of a rare (though not expensive) book when I was ten, when I found a hardcover tract published by missionaries in China about a hundred years ago, using a phonetic transcription to represent the local dialect of a coastal town. I paid something like four weeks' allowance for it, and still have it. The first item I ever got signed was a campaign brochure from when Angela Davis was running for vice president. (It wasn't exactly a huge coup to get her autograph, since my mom worked with her). Through high school and college I worked summers for a coin dealer who specialized in medieval Islamic and Indian coins, and I collected books relevant to these fields for a working library. While collecting books, though, I never thought of selling them until I was in graduate school, when I started scouting for the (late, lamented) firm of McIntyre and Moore in Cambridge, MA. I kept finding books I didn't need for myself, but that I recognized as worthwhile, and it occurred to me that I could try selling them or trading them for store credit. I was working on a dissertation in late imperial Chinese cartography, and I traded stacks of unrelated tomes from nearby thrift shops, estate sales, and even piles of academic books left on the sidewalk before recycling pickup, in exchange for many a title in Chinese history from M&M. I then started selling on Amazon to keep a larger proportion of the proceeds. We moved to San Francisco to follow a job opportunity for my wife, while I was in the writing-up stage of my dissertation and taking care of my daughter during the day. I carried her around in a Baby Bjorn while visiting various bookstores to keep from going stir-crazy. One day I walked into Bolerium and I realized I had found paradise on earth.
What is your role at Bolerium?
It started from the fact that I was spending more money there than my dissertation completion grant could really allow. I started bugging John Durham about doing some sort of work at the shop for store credit. Eventually, he set me loose on the towering piles of boxes in storage, sorting stuff out by category, completing runs of serials, etc, while I set aside things that I wanted for myself in payment. One day I found a box of Chinese-language gay travel guides to Taiwan, going back to the first one that was published. He had no idea how they had found their way into Bolerium's storage. (There were - and still are - boxes on our second floor that haven't been touched in 20 years). Mike Pincus, his business partner at the time, picked up the phone and sold the lot to an east coast library in a flash. That might have been the incident that led John to take me more seriously as a potential asset to the shop. My dissertation completion grant had concluded and I was eligible to work for pay, so he hired me as a packer (which was great training for what sells and to whom), working on cataloging after the shipping was done for the day. I had finished my dissertation, however, and with a PhD from Harvard I went on the job market, fully expecting to become a professor of Chinese history. I found a short-term position in Boston as the Smith Fellow at Roxbury Latin School (a wonderful experience), while also filling in at Brandeis in the afternoons for a faculty member who was on leave for the year. The fiscal crisis at that time (2010) had really decimated the market for my field of late imperial Chinese history. Budgets were slashed and many university jobs that had been advertised were quietly canceled. Worst of all, in many cases teaching at colleges on an adjunct basis actually paid less than Bolerium. Since my wife had found a lucrative niche in San Francisco, I realized that it didn't make sense for me to drag the family around the country scrambling from post to post until I found something with tenure. I came back to Bolerium, this time for good, and after a couple of years we incorporated. I became the junior partner, with John the majority owner. I've expanded the shop's specialties to include more Asian and Asian-American material, and I also buy and catalog stock related to radical politics, Judaica and African American history. When we do book fairs I usually travel with John, though in some cases I represent the shop alone, such as at last year's Boston ABAA show.
What do you love about the book trade?
As an historian I love discovering new things. You can have all the Hemingway first editions you want; I'll take the trove of mimeographed newsletters published in the 1940s by underground activists in Chinatown. Our trade is quite diverse, with room for all sorts of specialties and variant approaches. At an ABAA fair I can see things that I fantasize about collecting if I won the lottery, like illuminated French manuscripts from the 15th century. The stuff I really like to handle, though, is what I envision as the raw material for researchers working on relatively understudied fields. Our shop has been cited in the acknowledgements of many books on political history and LGBT studies, and I tremendously enjoy finding librarians who "click" with us and helping them to build their research collections. Some time back we sold a book about a gay religious utopian commune near San Diego, a work of truly awe-inspiring strangeness, to a famous theological seminary - and last year out of the blue we received a letter from a grad student thanking us for having sourced that work, which became a centerpiece of his research. This job combines my academic background with the romance of the treasure hunt, offering endless opportunities for sleuthing.
Describe a typical day for you:
Get up at 6:30 to get the kids ready for school. By the time I head for the shop, sometimes stopping at one of our storage units to pick up or drop off material, most of the orders that came in overnight have been processed by our hardworking early birds, but I may pitch in to find items in foreign languages or to search for recalcitrant titles that nobody else has been able to put their finger on yet (a frequent problem in a large shop where some stock was cataloged years ago). I have stacks of papers, pamphlets and books arrayed around my workspace that crave cataloging, but the amount of this work that gets done depends on all sorts of other factors. Calls come in all the time from people trying to unburden themselves of books or ephemera, and sometimes it's worth throwing out the day's plans to make an emergency trip to someone's garage in the East Bay in pursuit of some trove or other. One respect in which we differ from most shops is that our specialties in radical politics and LGBT history bring us lots of leads from retired activists or their heirs. I like doing these book calls with my partner John, because we have different priorities and different ideas of what things are worth to us, and it can be valuable to bounce these ideas back and forth. The leads often come to us because of John's own activism in various groups going back to the 1970s. In any case, whatever interruptions the day has brought to my cataloging, by the afternoon I head out to pick up the kids, and it's family time until they go to bed, after which I often work on cataloging stuff I've brought home with me, or I put together thematic pricelists. Sometimes I can get more cataloging done in a couple of uninterrupted hours at night than I can all day in the shop.
The most amazing thing in the past year was a handwritten prompt book for a "paper son," someone immigrating from China to the US in the 1930s under a false identity. A racist law from 1882 had banned general Chinese immigration, but there was a loophole if you were the child of a previously naturalized citizen who had gone back to China and married there. (Since Chinese women could not usually immigrate, and it was illegal in many places to marry someone of another ethnicity, going back to China was the easiest way to have a family - often the kids would live there for years before being brought over). In the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, the local records burned up, which opened a window of opportunity because there was no easy way to verify claims about who had been born in the city. Thus a small industry of "paper sons" sprang up, in which people in China would pay for a false identity as the grown child of a Chinese-American citizen. Immigration officials (correctly) assumed that a significant proportion of such claims were false, so they interrogated would-be immigrants about the most minute details of their family connections, the arrangement of rooms in the house they lived in, what businesses were in their neighborhood in the ancestral village in China, and so on. People who claimed to be related would be interrogated in separate rooms to see if their answers corresponded. In order to prepare for these interviews, handwritten booklets would be produced that listed every conceivable question, paired with an answer for the "paper son" to memorize. The booklet we had included a sketch map of the neighborhood around the alleged clan compound. It is very unusual for these prompt books to survive, because of course discovery would mean serious trouble, including expulsion from the US. The example we handled is now in the collections of the Chinese Historical Society here in San Francisco.
What do you personally collect?
Books on Asian and Islamic numismatics, Chinese propaganda publications intended for foreign audiences, ephemera related to the World Festival of Youth and Students, lots of other series that have personal or academic significance for me. The one arena where I spend serious money is my collection of pro-Khmer Rouge propaganda. When I was in grad school I encountered a book in the library stacks that had been published by a sectarian communist group based in Chicago that had a friendship visit to Cambodia, during which they met Pol Pot and other senior leaders, toured communal farms, and so on. The book was lavishly illustrated with photographs of cheerful peasants in labor camps, children smiling with guns, and so on. Given what was known even then about the Killing Fields and mass starvation, the naiveté of these American visitors seems astonishing. For some radical political groups that are committed to excavating hidden injustices in their own countries, there is a desire to perceive a more just society in some foreign utopia. To see this in Cambodia under Pol Pot struck me as just about the furthest one could push this "grass is greener" complex. I have known a number of Cambodian immigrants who grew up in this period, all of whom have physical scars as well as emotional ones, and somehow it became a passion of mine to seek out everything I could that was published by foreign enablers, endorsers, or supporters of the Khmer Rouge. China was of course their main diplomatic sponsor, and as I can read Chinese I search for relevant material on the Chinese market, including children's comic books from the 1970s that feature Khmer Rouge guerrillas as heroes, doing things like throwing grenades into boatloads of Lon Nol government soldiers. I have material from all over the world, and my plan is to write a book about this phenomenon - but I still find material that surprises me and adds new dimensions to the picture, so I'm not yet ready.
What do you like to do outside of work?
I have two kids, 3 and 10, and I spend a lot of time with them. That's an advantage to this business, the freedom of scheduling, especially for a shop like ours that has several employees. I used to be a big hiker, going on multi-day treks, but it's harder with kids of this age. I still have some tenuous connections to the coin business and I sometimes travel to do translation at auctions of Chinese coins; last year I went to a show in Hong Kong to represent the firm I used to work for. I still do research in the field of Chinese historical cartography, presenting papers at conferences of the Association for Asian Studies and the American Association of Geographers, and publishing articles. I also spend more time than I should on Facebook, to be honest!
Thoughts on the present and future state of the rare book trade?
Every urban bookstore faces the problem of rising rent, unless the proprietor is also the landlord, and I see many cities becoming culturally desertified. A few years back I went to an academic conference in San Diego and I printed out a list someone had posted online a year or two previously, naming his ten favorite best bookstores downtown. After finishing my other business, I started tracking them down, and found that every single shop on this particular list had closed - one of them just a week earlier. Of course the books are still out there, but the market is atomized, with countless individuals dealing online from their basements or garages, and many collectors, even serious collectors, have little to do with ABAA-level shops. One thing I've been happy to see in my area is that even as some shops have been driven out of San Francisco by rising rent and the sterilization of the city's cultural legacy, relatively young people are opening shops across the bay in places like Oakland. When I read the laments of long-time booksellers about what the internet has done to business, I feel glad that I only came onto the scene long after the process was already underway. This allows me to focus on the opportunities this brings (like selling to buyers all over the world, or being able to scout online for under-described or unappreciated items), rather than the way of life it has undermined. The greatest fear I have, for a business like ours with its orientation to libraries, is the seemingly ever-increasing turn to digital repositories. Many younger librarians seem to be under the impression that everything they need is already digitized somewhere, and their focus is on purchasing access rights rather than seeking out physical material that is unknown (but would cost money to process and store).
Any upcoming fairs or catalogues?
Having recently finished the ABAA fair in Oakland, our next out-of-shop experience will be at RBMS in Iowa City this summer. I'm also putting together a catalog of political handbills, from the Knights of Labor to Black Lives Matter.
[Images provided by Alexander Akin]


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Just in case you are looking for the resources from the show mentioned by Dr. Testa here they are!
The Basics to Speak Intelligently about Transgender People and the Issues they Face
Dr. Testa’s Publications on Trans Suicide Risk and Resilience
Testa, R. J., & Hendricks, M. (2014). Suicide risk among transgender and gender nonconforming youth. In P. B. Goldblum, D. L. Espelage, J. Chu, & B. Bongar (Eds.), The Challenge of Youth Bullying and Suicide. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Hendricks, M. & Testa, R. J. (2012). Model for understanding risk and resiliency in transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 43(5), 460-467.
Testa, R. J., Sciacca, L. M., Wang, F., Hendricks, M., Goldblum, P., Bradford, J., & Bongar, B. (2012). The effects of violence on transgender people. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 43(5), 452-459.
Goldblum, P., Testa, R. J., Pflum, S., Hendricks, M., Bradford, J., & Bongar, B. (2012). In-school gender-based victimization and suicide attempts among transgender people. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 43(5), 468-475.
Testa, R. J., Jimenez, C. L., & Rankin, S. (2014). Risk and resilience during transgender identity development: The effects of awareness of and engagement with other transgender people on affect. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 18(1), 34-56.
Dr. Testa’s Measure of Gender Minority Stress and Resilience
Testa, R. J., Habarth, J., Peta, J., & Balsam, K., & Bockting, W. (2014, December 29) Development of the Gender Minority Stress and Resilience Measure. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. Advance online publication.http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000081 (For a copy of this measure for clinical or research purposes, email Dr. Testa firstname.lastname@example.org)
Dr. Testa’s Recommendations for All
HRC’s Gender Expansive Youth Report, particularly page 21’s List of Additional Resources: http://hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com//files/assets/resources/Gender-expansive-youth-report-final.pdf
Beemyn, G., & Rankin, S. (2011). The Lives of Transgender People. New York: Columbia University Press.
Feinberg, L. (1996). Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman; [with a New Afterword]. Beacon Press.
Resources for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People in Crisis or in Need of Help
Resources for family members to promote acceptance
Resources for Media and Reporters
Resources for Schools
Resources for Policy Makers
Resources for Medical and Mental Health Providers


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The B.C. Centre for Agritech Innovation is bringing together academia, government and industry partners to create more productive, diverse and resilient food-supply chains. While the centre will be located at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus, it will use the skills of experts from several post-secondary institutions, including Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU)
The provincial government is committing $6.5 million over three years to the B.C. Centre for Agritech Innovation, and the federal government is providing as much as $10 million over five years through Pacific Economic Development Canada. Although the centre is scheduled to open in September 2022, it is already accepting applications from small and medium-sized agriculture technology businesses throughout the province. The centre will focus on developing, testing and piloting solutions in simulated and real-world environments to be farm-ready for commercialization.
“Agricultural technology in B.C. is a fast-growing field,” says Deepak Gupta, associate vice-president for research, innovation and graduate studies at KPU. “There is huge potential for small and medium-sized businesses.”
Dr. Deborah Henderson, director of the Institute for Sustainable Horticulture at KPU, says a number of industry partners are keen to work with KPU.
One project is with Aeroroot Systems, a Surrey-based startup company that commercializes growing systems and passive greenhouses. The KPU team will be optimizing growing methods of basil through aeroponics – the process of growing plants in an air-based system – while developing solutions to combat potential pests and diseases.
“Starting this fall KPU will be developing standard operating procedures for vertical aeroponic farming equipment developed by Aeroroot systems,” says Aeroroot president Peter Atwal. “Aeroroot believes that food can be grown locally and sustainably while being price competitive with large-scale, low-wage imports.”
Source: Kwantlen Polytechnic University September 2, 2022 news release

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Royal Canadian Legion
Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 153)
Carberry and District Legion
Légion royale canadienne (filiale 153)
Légion de Carberry et son district
Links and documents
1890/01/01 to 1890/12/31
Listed on the Canadian Register:
Statement of Significance
Description of Historic Place
The Royal Canadian Legion encompasses two long, narrow, one-storey brick buildings developed in the 1890s as business outlets on Carberry's Main Street and later altered. The municipal designation applies to the buildings and their two deep lots.
The Royal Canadian Legion, an adaptable two-building complex behind a unitary facade, is part of an important collection of functional turn-of-the-twentieth-century commercial facilities in Historic Downtown Carberry, a designated district. In scale, construction and history of occupancy, the complex is representative of the type of sturdy yet modest brick structures expected to perform multiple roles over many decades in towns and villages across southern Manitoba. The complex also physically supports the continuity of a heritage streetscape filled with business buildings of similar age and character and situated in proximity to the Canadian Pacific Railway line that spurred Carberry's development as an agricultural, transportation and, later, military training hub. Since the mid-1950s when its conversion to a legion branch began, the complex has served a key social role in the community, providing comfortable, conveniently located space for public and private events, informal gatherings and recreation.
Source: Town of Carberry By-law No. 5/2006, June 12, 2007
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Royal Canadian Legion site within Historic Downtown Carberry include:
- the mid-block location on the west side of Main Street between Third and Fourth avenues;
- the structures' placement, set flush to the front sidewalk, abutting adjacent buildings and extending nearly the full depth of their two lots;
- the structures' visual, physical and historical relationships with other nearby designated sites, including an historic hotel to the south and shops and the Old Bank of Montreal to the north.
Key exterior elements that define the complex's straightforward aesthetic and functional character include:
- the wider-than-average rectangular massing, one storey high, including the flat roofline, brick walls and stone and brick foundation;
- the unified east-facing front, unpretentious in design and finishes, including a shallow pilaster at the division between the two buildings that make up the complex, the structures' separate entrances and large rectangular windows, etc.
- the occupant-specific symbols, including the front flagpole, the name 'ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION' in raised red letters over the main entrance and other signage.
Key internal elements that define the complex's heritage character include:
- the deep, open main-floor spaces separated by a partially opened brick wall;
- the south-side basement with exposed brick and stone walls, wooden post-and-beam support system, etc.
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Manitoba Historic Resources Act
Municipal Heritage Site
Theme - Category and Type
- Developing Economies
- Trade and Commerce
- Building Social and Community Life
- Community Organizations
Function - Category and Type
- Social, Benevolent or Fraternal Club
- Commerce / Commercial Services
- Shop or Wholesale Establishment
Architect / Designer
Location of Supporting Documentation
Town of Carberry 316-4th Avenue Box 130 Carberry MB R0K 0H0
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Author(s): Lorenzo CAMPISI ; André BERCHTOLD ; Yara BARRENSE-DIAS ; Christina AKRE ; Mario GEHRI ; Joan-Carles SURIS
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Switzerland has been receiving migrants of various origins for more than 50 years. The adoption of risk-taking behaviours among migrant youths is unclear. Moreover, when studied, migrant youths are rarely analysed according to whether they are first or second generation, or just young people with mixed origins. The aim of this study was to assess whether there are any differences between first-and second-generation immigrants, youths of mixed origins and their native peers in Switzerland concerning their engagement in risk behaviours.
A total of 5834 youths from eleven post-mandatory schools in the canton of Fribourg (Switzerland) participated in the baseline survey of the GenerationFRee study, a longitudinal study to assess their lifestyle. Participants were divided by gender and by origin into: (a) natives: Swiss-born youths with Swiss-born parents, (b) first-generation migrants: foreign-born youths with foreign-born parents, (c) second-generation migrants: Swiss-born youths with foreign-born parents, (d) mixed-origin youths: Swiss-born youths with one Swiss-born parent and one foreign-born parent. Participants reported personal, family and school information, and attitudes towards eight risk behaviours. All significant variables at the bivariate level were included in a binary logistic regression.
The logistic regression showed that, compared with natives, first-and second-generation migrant boys were less likely to misuse alcohol. Boys of mixed origins were similar to migrants, although at the bivariate level they were more exposed to risk behaviours than were migrants. First-and second-generation migrant girls were less likely to misuse alcohol but three times more likely to be excessive Internet users. Girls of mixed origin were more likely to have their parents not living together and reported antisocial behaviours almost twice more often.
Our findings expose a lower engagement in risk behaviours among migrants. The migrant status in these two groups is clearly buffered if other control variables are considered. Thus, we can affirm that in the present study, migrants are not a high-risk population or not more at risk than the native group. Mixed origin youths showed higher risk behaviours than natives and migrants. Special attention should be given to this specific group, as they may be more vulnerable during adolescence.
Keywords: adolescents, youths, migrant generation, migrant status, risk behaviour, Switzerland
Tags: Switzerland, Adolescents, Youth, Second generation, Substance abuse, Alcohol, Addiction, Risk behaviour


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Original title: Cerný Petr
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This brought to mind CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS, another early Czech New Wave film about a teenage apprentice who's none too excited about his work. Both are coming-of-age comedies with some moments of awkward teen romance. This film (Forman's first feature) actually predates Menzel's, and has more of a freeform, anecdotal structure. Although not explicitly a commentary on Communism, Petr's distaste for spying on customers clearly has some political implications. The film has a gentle, naturalistic pace with scenes that have a nice attention to detail. Ladislav Jakim struck me as a fine young actor, and I liked how the rival boy gradually developed into a more sympathetic character (particularly during the dance scene, which was my favorite part of the movie). Jan Vostrcil, the wonderful lead in Firemen's Ball, perhaps lays it on a little thick as the overbearing father, but it's a somewhat humorous performance. Although the comedy is quite mellow and subdued, there are a few laugh out loud moments. Unfortunately, the Facets DVD sports an ugly transfer, and woefully incomplete subtitles. Entire swaths of dialogue went by without translation.
- Jan 10, 2012
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Leading up to and after former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s impeachment, signs of fractures were becoming very obvious. To the trained eye, Thaksin Shinawatra either can not or will not keep his supporters on the same page and singing the same song. If the fractures are this obvious to the media, what is really going on behind close doors must be Thai drama at it’s finest.
Between the Red Shirts, former Pheu Thai members of Parliament, former Pheu Thai Ministers, and whoever else feels like opening their mouth in the pro-Thaksin camp, they all seem to be saying something different. For the record, that has never been heard before without some sort of adjustment a few hours later putting everyone on the same page. But now this has been going on in earnest since the start of 2015, and the disharmony still can be heard.
It is no secret Bad Boy politicians are starting to pay the price for their bad behavior. The Pheu Thai Party (PTP) is using this for spin saying they are unfairly being targeted. The phrase ‘Un-fair’ or ‘Not fair’ have been associated with them before. That tends to be heard when it is time to pay the bill for being bad.
The fact is the PTP is not being targeted, just bad politicians. But the fact that the bulk of the bad politicians are in the PTP, it can look like the party is being targeted. Politicians from other parties have also been targeted as well including Thailand’s squeaky clean Democratic Party.
Clearly the pro-Thaksin camp has been doing their best to put political spin on things the best they can without tripping the no politics alarm. There has been a long running theme that if Yingluck is impeached, it could disturb or end the fragile calm that the Coup brought. The occasional saber rattling from the Red Shirts kept that bit of anxiety alive.
From the more outspoken PTP ex-Ministers and people of a generally higher authority in the party, there was a sense they would not tolerate a sham impeachment because Yingluck was already out of office and impeachment only applies to people in office. There is some logic behind what they say about a sham impeachment, but there seems to be a fairly good argument as to why it was done.
As before the coup, there was a Caretaker Government in place with no members of Parliament seated, and they are the ones who would do the impeachment. So by dissolving Parliament, Yingluck insulated herself from being impeached. The rice pledging scheme that she was impeached for was still running while the Caretaker Government was running the show and only ended when the coup started.
As for what was being said by ex-Members of Parliament from the pro-Thaksin camp, it was mostly about themselves and how they felt about what was going on with new laws.
So here we have a selection of voices all from the same camp. But when you look at what Thaksin wants to do, you see that too is different. Thaksin knows he does not stand a chance at the moment, so he simply must pretend to be submissive. The word pretend does apply as he has never listened to anyone but himself. He has left instructions to sit and wait until the next elections.
However the bad boy politicians see how the new laws are coming together, and it does not look good for them. Punishment looks to be quick, harsh, and very permanent if anyone steps out of line, and that upsets them. So there is a burning desire to sway public support from the way the new laws are going. Thaksin seems powerless to stop them as they are mostly being driven by the new understanding that the days of being bad are most likely over, and they don’t know any other way to behave.
For Thaksin it does not matter. It will be the people that follow him that will take the hit and not him. He always manages to be far away escaping the fallout. We often reference this outcome as dancing with the devil. The difference is the deterrent being built into the new laws allow no second chance. Once they mess up it’s game over, and game over can spell life in jail and potentially even the death penalty. So there is no real wonder why cracks are showing in the pro-Thaksin camp.


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Soccer fans around the world are pulling out the national team jerseys as we get set for a ton of international games this weekend, whether it be 2016 Euro qualifiers, Copa America or the Under-20 World Cup, you could basically just get off work on Friday and watch soccer for three days straight. So here are a couple of games to keep an extra eye on.
Ireland – Scotland (Euro 2016 Qualifiers Group D):
Saturday kicks off with an intriguing matchup between these two U.K. nations as they try to stay in the race for a spot in next summer’s European Championship in France. Scotland has three wins, one draw and one loss for 10 points and a third place in the standings behind Germany (10pts) and leading Poland (11pts). Ireland sits in fourth with eight points after two wins, two draws and one loss.
Last time these two teams met was back in November, the Scots won 1-0 after a goal by Shaun Maloney (Chicago Fire) in the 75th minute. The Irish will have a massive support in Dublin and are looking for revenge over their British brothers. Robbie Keane will captain the Irish side as usual, and the 34-year-old LA Galaxy striker will play his 139th game for the Irish national team.
Argentina – Paraguay (Copa America Group B):
Argentina and Paraguay square off in the second game in Group B (Jamaica and Uruguay play earlier in the day), and the Argentinians with Lionel Messi (Barcelona) and Sergio Aguero (Manchester City) are heavy favorites to take home the tournament. Argentina has won the last three meetings between the nations, outscoring Paraguay 12-5.
Paraguay has an outside shot at the second spot in the group, but they are underdogs together with the Reggae Boyz in Group B. Argentina crushed Bolivia 5-0 in a friendly last week, so confidence will be high heading into the tournament. Paraguay drew 2-2 with Honduras, and has only won one out of their last five games.
USA – Serbia (Under-20 World Cup Quarterfinals):
Team USA will be up against Serbia in the quarterfinals of the U-20 World Cup in New Zealand. The Americans came second in Group A after wins over Myanmar (2-1) and hosts New Zealand (4-0). They lost the final group game against the Ukraine 3-0, but it was still good enough to go to the Round of 16 where they had a thriller of a game against Colombia that ended in a 1-0 U.S. win.
Rubio Rubin scored with thunderous strike in the 58th minute. Goalkeeper Zack Steffen became the other hero for Team USA as he saved a penalty kick late in the second half.
Serbia started off the tournament with a 1-0 loss to Uruguay in Group D. But then they got on the winning track with good performances against Mali and Mexico, and won both games 2-0. They managed to win the group on six points and went up against Hungary in the Round of 16. Extra-time was needed in order to settle that game, and the Serbians came out with the 2-1 victory.
Sweden – Montenegro (Euro 2016 Qualifiers Group G):
Sweden are desperate for a win as they try to close the gap to group leader Austria. The Swedes sit in second place with nine points, four behind the Austrians. Both the Swedes and the Austrians are still undefeated after five games, but Sweden has only two wins and three draws, whereas Austria has four wins and one draw.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is always the talking point when Sweden is playing, and the Paris Saint-Germain striker has been injured towards the tail end of the season, so there are some concerns about his fitness level.
Montenegro will be without their captain Mirko Vucinic as the former Juventus player is out with an injury. Montenegro sits in fourth place in Group G with 5 points, and will now look to Stevan Jovetic (Manchester City) to provide the offense.
Brazil – Peru (Copa America Group C):
The Brazilian’s road to redemption starts on Sunday against Peru in Group C of the Copa America. After the way that Brazil was humiliated in the World Cup on home soil they will be out to show the world that they are still one of the best soccer nations in the world. Barcelona striker Neymar will lead the charge, and he’s been in fine form all season for his club.
Peru has an interesting team with a good mix of young and old and players playing in Europe and South America. Juan Manuel Vargas (Fiorentina) will be the creative force in midfield and up top they have several good options on Claudio Pizarro (Bayern Munich), Paolo Guerrero (Flamengo) and Jefferson Farfan (Schalke 04).

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