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Voter initiatives in California and Arizona approving the use of marijuana for medical purposes are spreading alarm among many families and confronting law enforcement officials with a tough dilemma. Although the voters in those two states have clearly spoken, it is impossible for either measure to be carried out without someone violating Federal law. The Clinton Administration thus has little choice but to insist that Federal drug statutes be enforced. That response is not enough, however. Federal authorities need to address concerns that a legitimate treatment for seriously ill patients is being blocked because of broader fears of marijuana abuse.
The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration maintains there is no medical evidence that smoking marijuana has ever helped anyone. But it is difficult to dismiss the testimony from many seriously ill patients and their doctors that marijuana can ease pain, reduce the nausea associated with cancer chemotherapy, stimulate the appetites of AIDS patients who are wasting away, and glower the pressure within the eyes of glaucoma victims. The Food and Drug Administration has approved a synthetic version of THC, a main ingredient of marijuana, that can help in such cases, but many patients complain that it is a poor substitute and is much more expensive.
What is needed now is a more thorough effort to test the claims from reputable sources that marijuana may be a compassionate means of relieving suffering. Many critics charge that drug enforcement authorities have instead cut back on research out of fear that it would become impossible to limit marijuana use to those who need it medically. The fears are understandable, especially given the rising use of marijuana, especially among teenagers today. But it ought to be possible to regulate marijuana as a prescription drug if it is found to be of legitimate benefit for sick people.
State initiatives are a clumsy way to set policy. The California proposition, for example, is so vaguely written that it could lead to wholesale distribution of marijuana well beyond the medical scope intended by those who voted for it. It says nothing about withholding marijuana from young people or from those operating dangerous equipment. It also suggests that a simple oral recommendation from any doctor would suffice. That loose provision, designed to get around federal laws that bar doctors from prescribing an illegal substance, makes abuse of the new law inevitable. The Arizona law, by contrast, requires that marijuana be prescribed in writing by two doctors. But that measure is also written too broadly. It says that many other drugs, not simply marijuana, may be prescribed if permission from two doctors is obtained.
Supporters of the California measure did their cause no good by immediately lighting up marijuana cigarettes after it passed last month and proclaiming that a legitimate medicinal use would include smoking a joint to relieve stress. Dennis Peron, originator of the California initiative, said afterward, "I believe all marijuana use is medical - except for kids." These actions made it obvious that the goal of at least some supporters is to get marijuana legalized outright, a proposition that opinion polls indicate most Americans reject.
Parents have legitimate concerns about the increase in marijuana use amongst teen-agers. Many who used marijuana a generation ago are struggling over what to tell their children, but they need to realize that today's marijuana is more potent than the version they smoked and that research has shown the drug to be far more dangerous to young people than was known in the 1960's and 1970's. It can be particularly harmful to the growth and development of teen-agers.
California's Attorney General, Daniel Lungren, has ordered state law enforcement officials to interpret the law's language narrowly and require proof from those arrested that marijuana is being used medically. The Clinton Administration is expected to announce today an aggressive campaign to combat the state initiatives, including criminal prosecution of doctors who prescribe marijuana. That hard line makes sense for now. But if the Government refuses to investigate carefully claims about medical use of marijuana, it will only spur voters in other states to take the issue into their own hands.

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses will get an expansion pass with new characters. The game launches this Friday and fans are stoked.
An interview with the series director Genki Yokota, to which he revealed more details about what to expect from the expansion pass. Yokota states:
“The Expansion Pass is only made of side-stories. It won’t contain story content happening after the main story. We’re also planning to add new characters with it. It’ll have a lot of content, so please look forward to it.”
“Besides the Expansion Pass, we are also planning to add Lunatic difficulty via a free update after launch. You will have to wait a bit for this update, but we hope experienced players will try it out.”
This means that the third main story won’t be only available on DLC. Players will be able to play through the entire story mode by only purchasing the base game.
He also said there will be a free Lunatic Mode for all players shortly after launch. So players should be relieved that they’ll play through the main story and a free game mode afterwards- without spending a dime.
The game already has a ton of replayability anyway, and a new difficulty should be awesome.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses comes out this Friday just for the Switch. You can pick up a copy on Amazon.
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I specialize in indie games as I think they don’t get the attention they deserve. I’m just your typical consumer who has some opinions to share. I’ve been reviewing games since I was 12. I started out reviewing them with friends on old forums that now no longer exist. Then I went to online VoDs, which I’ve lost interest in.
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Pandemonium continues in Assembly over Mamita murder case
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Assembly on Thursday witnessed ruckus for eighth day in a row as the Opposition BJP and Congress members disrupted the proceeding demanding sacking of Minister of State for Home Dibya Shankar Mishra for his alleged links with the prime accused in the Mamita Meher murder case.
As soon as the House assembled for the post-lunch session after a half-day adjournment following obituary references to Chief of the Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 IAF personnel who died in a chopper crash, the Opposition members trooped into the well of the House with placards.
They also resorted to beating gongs and sloganeering demanding removal of D S Mishra, who has been charged by the Opposition with having links with the prime accused in the murder case of Mamita Meher. The 24-year-old teacher of a private school in Kalahandi district went missing on October 8 and her half-burnt decomposed body was exhumed from the playground of the school, where she worked, on October 19. The president of the school’s managing committee is the prime accused in the murder case and he has been arrested.
When Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro allowed Panchayati Raj Minister Pratap Jena to present the demands for grants of the department, Congress whip Taraprasad Bahinipati rushed towards the Minister’s seat and continued to beat gongs. Three BJD members, Rohit Pujari, Bikram Panda and Pranab Balabantaray, stood on both sides of Jena creating a security ring around the Minister while he presented the demands for grant of the Panchayati Raj department.
The Opposition parties are also demanding Jena’s resignation as his name has cropped up in the Mahanga double murder case where two BJP leaders of Salepur area were killed in January this year.
The House was plunged into a chaotic situation after some Opposition members allegedly threw placards towards the Speaker’s podium. Unable to run the proceedings, Patro adjourned the House till Friday. During the melee, the House passed the demand for grants of several departments through the provision of guillotine (without discussion).
The Opposition members have been demanding the arrest and ouster of Dibya Shankar Mishra for his alleged links with the prime accused in Mamita Meher murder case. While the BJP has been demanding CBI probe, the Congress is demanding a court-monitored CBI probe into the incident. The functioning of the Assembly has been paralysed since its commencement on December 1 over Mamita Meher murder case.

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If you were to guess at the total number of furbearing animals harvested by trappers and hunters in South Dakota, it would seem reasonable to assume that there would be more of the smaller creatures in the take.
Muskrat, for example, live in ponds and we have those aplenty back east. The term rat in their name also implies that there is a reproductive capacity akin to other vermin that multiply like um ... well rats. There are thousands of them.
Or perhaps rabbits?
Since so many other predators make a living eating the flesh of Brookings’ mascot, it would seem that many more of them would be gathered up by fur traders. Yet last season’s tally of jackrabbits came to only 3,000.
The grand champion furbearer in South Dakota’s latest report is the coyote, with last season’s harvest being greater than any other animal gathered at 11,819 animals. With this season’s spike in fur prices next year’s statistics could climb even higher.South Dakota Coyote pelts brought in more than $ 485,000 according to the latest harvest report, nearly three times the totals for all other species combined. Just five years ago, that title was held by the racoon with 58,000 animals taken. Sixteen thousand coyotes were harvested that year also, far exceeding this year’s total.
Why the difference?
A 17 percent decline in the sale of trapping licenses could be part of the answer.
Only 11,534 racoons were trapped or shot and submitted to fur buyers in 2017. That total could be attributed to crafty trappers saving furs and waiting for a stronger price, a dramatic decline in the number of racoons, or a reluctance on the part of trappers to harvest animals while prices are not high enough to cover their expenses.
If that later reason is true, pheasants and prairie pothole waterfowl are in for a terrible nesting season.
State biologists and the governor follow the harvested demographics of small predators using that total as s type of barometer for the future success of nesting birds. In 2013, more than 20,000 small predators other than raccoons were submitted by trappers to fur buyers. In 2017, that figure had fallen by 90 percent to less than 2,000.
Between the 46,000 raccoons and the 18,000 additional skunks, possums, weasels, and mink that were never trapped, the nesting birds could take a beating come spring.
To prevent that from happening, the governor’s office has implemented a bounty program. It was designed to remove surplus predators after two punishing winters have taken a toll on bird populations.
Flocks that support a $100-plus million-dollar tourism industry,
Called the Nest Predator Bounty Program, trappers will be paid $10 per tail as evidence that an unwanted animal has been removed.
Bounties will be paid on raccoon, striped skunk, badger, possum, and red fox. Program participants will be required to sign an affidavit affirming that the tails were obtained after April 1, 2019.
The affidavits are designed to encourage new trappers and deter previous animals that were captured but not submitted to fur buyers due to low prices.
Knowing that here was a need to recruit new trappers also, the Game, Fish, and Parks initiated a live trap give away program.
It was so successful that it had sold out in hours.
Traps will not be dispersed until after the first of April, with three units going to each of the initial 5500 successful applicants.
All others were turned away until next season after the success of the initial dispersal is measured.
The governor’s initiative will be a success if it can increase the number of new trappers, reduce nest predators, and promote future outdoorsmen and women.
More pheasants and ducks will simply be a bonus.
The Speirs family has owned and operated Crow Creek Wildlife Management Service since 1996.


The timing for today's prospect might seem a bit odd given what went down during the Carolina Panthers blowout win over the New York Giants nine days ago. We can all remember it so well. A collective groan could be heard echoing throughout Bank of America stadium and in the homes of Panthers' fans worldwide when Steve Smith fell awkwardly to the ground in the second quarter. Although Smith would go on to miss just a couple of series, a significant revelation occurred. Everyone, including Cam Newton, realized that the offense could indeed be successful without Smith on the field. This was a pleasant surprise for those of us who have been begging the Panthers to give their franchise quarterback more weapons.
But in the euphoria of celebrating a rare blowout victory, we may have overlooked the reality that the Giants are bottom feeders. This fact naturally begs the following question:
Could Newton have excelled under the same circumstances had the Panthers been playing a middle of the road or better team?
I'm not so sure.
As Smith inevitably declines with age, It would be foolish to expect Newton to consistently excel against the upper echelon of the league if Lafell and Ginn Jr. continue to be his top two wide receivers. Besides, neither of these pass catchers are shoe-ins to be re-signed beyond this season anyway.
With that being said, I would like to submit to you that the Panthers have reached a critical juncture in the midst of Newton's rookie contract. If the Panthers truly see him as the face of this franchise for the next decade or so, then giving him all the tools he needs to reach his potential should be at the top of their priority list. Assuming this is the case, Dave Gettleman should have little trouble finding at least one game changing target for Newton in a 2014 NFL Draft which is replete with elite receivers.
Perhaps there is none better than Mike Evans.
It is no coincidence that Evans burst onto the scene at the same time as Johnny Manziel. The pair quickly developed a symbiotic relationship that largely became the catalyst for a Texas A&M program looking to immediately show they belonged in the vaunted SEC. As you already know, Manziel went on to win the Heisman Trophy, but he wouldn't have done so without Evans, who finished with 82 receptions, 1,105 receiving yards, and 5 touchdowns.
A season later, Evans has wasted little time letting everyone know that his red-shirt freshman year wasn't a fluke. So much so that he broke a school record by gaining 279 receiving yards against an Alabama defense which not only possesses one of the best defenses in the country, but also had a full year and an extra bye week to prepare for what was to come. But not even the great defensive mind of Nick Saban could stop the onslaught of physical superiority that Evans brings to the table.
At 6-Foot-5, 225-Pounds, Evans is a load. Although the experts will tell you that he doesn't have breakaway type speed, the film tells me different. Don't get me wrong. Evans may not have an Olympian sprinter's acceleration and explosiveness, but he has plenty of the long stride variety(see 95 yard touchdown in video below), which is plenty good enough for professional football. From my perspective, his most valuable asset is his ability to catch the football at its highest point with authority. This skill, along with his considerable stature and body control, makes it nearly impossible for a defender to break up passes. As you would expect from most young receivers, he is underdeveloped as a route runner, and this is where he could stand to see the most improvement.
Through the first five games, Evans already has 691 receiving yards and 5 touchdown, a pace that will obliterate last seasons totals. I can only imagine at this point that he will be thinking long and hard about bringing his talents to the next level by the time the 2013 season ends, especially if Manziel declares early for the draft. If Texas native does indeed leave college, I expect him to be taken somewhere in the middle of the first round. Regardless of who is still on the board, the 20 year old Evans will be an extremely tempting option for a team whose franchise quarterback just so happens to need a deep ball threat who can move the chains and dominate the red zone. I think that signal caller resides somewhere in the Carolina's. How about you?
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Luke Walton hired as assistant coach for the University of Memphis
Luke Walton hasn’t played much for the Lakers over the past two seasons, due to a combination of injuries and a diminished skill set relative to the rest of the talent on the roster. In his eight seasons in Los Angeles, however, he’s long been regarded as one of the more cerebral players on the team.
Now, with the NBA two months into a lockout that doesn’t have an end in sight, Walton will have a chance to share his knowledge of the game with young players in an official capacity.
The University of Memphis has hired Walton as an assistant coach, according to a report from Jason Smith of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. As is the case more often than not in college coaching circles, there’s a connection here. Walton played under current Memphis head coach Josh Pastner back in college at the University of Arizona, when Pastner worked under Lute Olson as a graduate assistant.
Walton’s knowledge of the game is extensive, but the coaching game is also about motivating and relating to the younger players you’re trying to teach. This is a great opportunity for Walton to get some experience in those areas, while waiting to see if his services will be needed by his current employer in the coming months.
And for Lakers fans wondering if this development will preclude Walton from contributing the 1.7 points per game he averaged for the team last season, fear not: Walton’s deal allows him to leave just as soon as the NBA is back in business.


The Washington bowling teams were back in action on Thursday at Iris Bowling Center in Mount Pleasant.
The Demon girls had an exciting finish edging out the Panthers 1,986 pins to 1,947. Taylor Janecek led the way with a two-game score of 279 and Taylor Northup had 262. Other top scores included Dawsen Schluetter 250, Rylie Swart 248, and Leigha Heisdorffer 222. Baker scores included 154, 120, 135, 168, and 148.
The boys lost to Mount Pleasant 2,452 to 1,841. Ethan Zieglowsky led the way once again with a 439 score, Drake Schluetter had 341, Liam Eldridge 244, Aidan Miller 179, and Zakkary Hesseltine 16. Baker scores were 144, 149, 101, 116, and 112.
The Demons hit the lanes again Tuesday in Keokuk.


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American actor, producer, angel investor and bitcoin enthusiast Ashton Kutcher stated on social media that bitcoin may be the best hedge against a Sanders or a Trump nomination.
Why do I get the feeling that the best hedge against a Sanders or Trump nomination may be buying bitcoin?
— ashton kutcher (@aplusk) January 29, 2016
Bitcoin as an independent currency has become an increasingly popular asset to conventional investors over the past few months. As legendary Swiss investor Marc Faber explained, bitcoin has been the only currency out of all asset classes, reserve currencies, and commodities worldwide, which recorded a positive annual growth in 2015.
Interestingly, the demand of bitcoin has always risen in times of economic turmoil; as the national currency inflates and the government begins to collaborate with its central bank to implement strict capital controls to regain financial stability.
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United States presidential candidate Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have already begun to consider various financial reforms and strict remittance policies to restrict expat workers from sending the US dollars back to their native soil.
In 2015, Trump announced that as a president, he will enforce important financial policies to impound all remittance payments derived from “illegal wages,” referring to the Mexican expat workers in the country.
“Mexico must pay for the [border] wall and, until they do, the United States will, among other things: impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages,” said Donald Trump.
The implementation of an aggressive proposal like Trump’s remittance policy could heavily affect the economy of Mexico and the value of its national currency. According to the Mexican central bank’s publication, expat Mexican workers residing in the U.S. sent home US$23.6 billion in 2014. Although remittance payments account for 2% of the economy, poor areas of Mexico derives 10.5% of their income from remittances.
“In 2010, Mexicans working in the United States sent back more than US$22 billion in remittances to family members, accounting for 2.1 percent of the Mexican GDP. Although remittances are a small part of the Mexican economy, they are the third source of foreign exchange after oil and manufacturing exports, and represent an amount greater than the international tourism receipts and foreign direct investment inflows. Moreover, for the poorest rural areas of Mexico, remittance transfers constitute 19.5 percent of their income, a percentage that is higher that transfers from government poverty reduction programs, such as the conditional cash transfer program Oportunidades (10.2 percent) and agricultural support programs, such as Procampo (3.8 percent),” the study read.
— Tony Gallippi (@TonyGallippi) January 29, 2016
With Bernie Sanders planning for a major financial reform, BitPay President Tony Gallippi mentioned on social media that buying bitcoin could also be a hedge against negative interest rates and quantitative easing. Over the past few months, central banks of Denmark, Switzerland and Japan have begun to implement negative interests for savings.
“Ultimately, negative interest rates from a veteran of monetary expansion such as the BOJ mark a capitulation about the effectiveness of QE alone as an inflation-targeting tool in world of lingering growth-debt imbalances and commodity price wars,” said Lena Komileva, economist at G-plus Economics, in emailed comments.

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Following “ATLAS I”, the first General Support ship donated by the Panos Laskaridis family, President of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, to the Hellenic Navy in December 2019, a new donation of an even newer, larger and more powerful ship is now uderway. The new ship, named “VICTOR”, is 85 meters long and has a displacement of 4,500 tons, built in 2002. She is larger than “ATLAS I” and is expected to join the fleet on 6 July 2020, renamed as “HERCULES”.
The new ship features 2 propulsion engines of 9,600 horsepower, 2 axial generators, 4 transverse propellers (2 fore and 2 aft), in addition to the 2 main propellers.
In addition she boasts DP2 capability, which means stabilization in any weather conditions (also available by “ATLAS I”), thereby providing the Navy with opportunities for engagement in operations which previously could not be undertaken. With a top speed of 15 knots she has a large carrying capacity of over 2,600 tonnes on her open deck.
Both ships have been designed with operational flexibility in mind, meaning they can carry heavy tanks and combat and support vehicles, cranes, heavy construction and containers in configurations and capabilities as the needs of each shipment.
A spokesman for the family said: “In these hard times that our homeland is facing today, any enhancement of our Armed Forces’ defensive capability is simply an obligation of all us, Greeks.”
The Chiefs of the Hellenic Navy and the Defense General Staff welcomed the reinforcement of the Navy with one more well-deserved unit that will soon join the fleet.


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Starglider 2 a 3D space combat simulator developed by Argonaut Software initially for the Amiga and published in 1988 by Rainbird also for the Atari ST. The game was also ported to DOS and Macintosh and it was converted to 8-bit for the ZX Spectrum. A Commodore 64/128 version was canceled, unfortunately.
Unlike its prequel, Starglider II uses filled polygons instead of wireframe graphics, but it has similar gameplay, it's just bigger and better. Starglider II is a true masterpiece. You can go and explore the universe, you can visit planets and fly through their underground tunnels. You will have to fight and trade to collect items that will be required to accomplish your mission (I'm not going to spoil). Starglider II can be considered a precursor of Freelancer, but it has the same freedom of Frontier: Elite II.
The Amiga version contains sampled music from the amazing soundtrack composed by Dave Lowe, known for the music of Elite, Frontier, Street Fighter II, Railroad Tycoon, and many more. The game included a short story by novelist James Follett that introduces players to the main story of the game. If you really want to play Starglider you will have to read it.
Starglider provided a very good reason to buy an Amiga in 1988, and almost 30 years later, it's a game you need to try.


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Biopharmaceuticals include vaccines and drugs created with genetically altered creatures. These products happen to be produced by small , and medium and enormous pharmaceutical firms and also deutsche subsidiaries of international drug firms. Biopharmazeutika will be gaining importance in Canada and are expected to account for about 45 percent of new medicine approvals in 2030, with respect for the Sustainable Health Care Policy of Germany. Biopharmaceuticals are expected to get widely used in clinical trials, and in 2013, 657 compounds were approved in clinical trials. A newer version worth mentioning drugs, known as biosimilars, happens to be developed and it is in the process to be manufactured.
Biopharmaceuticals are currently used to deal with various conditions, including cancers and autoimmune disorders. Among the most common biopharmaceutical products, biotechnological prescription drugs are staying tested because of their efficacy and safety. Fortunately, this technology is already popular in Germany, and many individuals are benefitting from biotechnological https://genotec-frankfurt.de/top-5-simple-virtual-deal-software-for-beginners/ products. However , biopharmaceutical development is more high-priced and onwandier than normal chemistry.

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There’s something about gardens that just makes you feel good. Maybe it’s the fresh air, the sunshine, or the greenery. No matter what it is, gardens are a great way to improve your home and your lifestyle. But how can you make your garden even better? By adding some interesting details! This blog post will discuss some details that will make your garden absolutely awe-inspiring. Read on to learn more!
Greenery is an essential part of any garden, but putting it in places that reflect your taste and style will truly create a feeling of ownership. Many homeowners like to get eye-catching large outdoor planters in which they can customarily plant various flowers, shrubs, or even small trees. These custom planters can be found in a variety of materials like wood, stone, ceramic, metal, or even concrete. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes to fit any garden need you may have.
Custom planters are a great way to add your own personal touch to your garden décor. You can choose the material, shape, size, and color that best fits your taste and style. By adding custom planters to your garden, you will create a space that is truly unique and reflects your personality.
For example, if you have a large garden, you may want to get custom planters that are made of stone or concrete. These materials are very durable and will last for many years. If you have a smaller garden, you may want to choose custom planters that are made of ceramic or metal. These materials are lighter weight and easier to move around, making them ideal for small gardens.
Do ya our best to create a fragrance in your garden. It can be one of the most pleasing details, and it doesn’t have to be difficult. It can be done by carefully picking the flowers and herbs you grow. Consider fragrance when you are planning your garden beds. Place fragrance where you will most enjoy it, whether that means near a seating area or by a window in your home.
For example, if you love the fragrance of roses, make sure to include at least one rose bush in your garden. If you prefer the fragrance of herbs, try planting a small herb garden. You can even add fragrance to your vegetable garden by planting scented geraniums or nasturtiums among your other vegetables.
There are many ways to add fragrance to your garden. By carefully selecting the plants you grow, you can create a space that smells wonderful and is enjoyable to be in. Consider where you would like the fragrance to be most concentrated and plant accordingly. With a little planning, creating a fragrant garden is easy and rewarding.
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If you are unsure, there are many resources available that can help you decide which water feature is right for you. Just remember to have fun and enjoy the process!
Having a nice fire pit in your backyard is a great way to enjoy the outdoors. It’s a perfect place to gather with friends and family, roast marshmallows, and make memories. Here are a few things to consider when adding a fire pit to your garden.
The first thing you’ll need to do is decide on the location. You’ll want to choose a spot that’s far enough away from your house and any other structures. You’ll also want to make sure there’s plenty of clearance around the fire pit so that sparks don’t cause any damage. Once you’ve found the perfect spot, it’s time to start planning the design.
There are a few different options when it comes to fire pits. You can go with a traditional wood-burning pit, a gas-powered one, or a portable pit that uses propane. Each option has its own set of pros and cons, so it’s important to do your research before making a decision.
Plant Some Trees
Trees are always beautiful and provide natural shade and decoration for any home. If you have the space, trees are a great addition to any garden. Consider the climate and the amount of sunlight the area gets when choosing trees for your garden.
Once you know which types of trees you want to be planted, be sure to dig a hole that is twice as wide as the tree’s root ball. Be careful not to damage the roots when you are removing the tree from its container. Gently loosen the roots before placing the tree in the hole.
Pack soil around the base of the tree, making sure that there are no air pockets around the roots. Water your trees regularly, especially during dry spells. Once they are established, trees require very little maintenance and will provide years of enjoyment.
Proper paving can add that extra special touch to your garden that pulls the whole look together. It can also make maintenance much easier, as paving can prevent weeds and other plants from growing in unwanted areas. Paving is a great way to create walkways, patios, or even just delineate different areas of your yard.
When paving your garden, be sure to choose a material that compliments the style of your home and landscaping. There are many different paving materials available on the market, so do some research to find the best one for you. Once you have decided on a paving material, it is time to get started!
Your garden should feel like a sanctuary for relaxation so make sure you have some custom planters that reflect your style and add fragrance to them. Install a water feature and a fire pit to create a welcoming and calming aesthetic and plant some trees for shade and beauty. Finally, work on your paving, not just on the patio, but on the pathways as well!
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This home is nestled in beautiful Liberty, Utah nestled between Eden and Paradise Utah in the Ogden Valley. The view is of our beautiful valley looking southeast. There are 3 ski resorts just minutes away. This 6 bedroom 2 bath sleeps 16+. A great place for any family gathering and/or business retreats. The kitchen is stocked with the basics, Pineview Reservoir is just minutes away and is perfect for boating, kayaking, beach, hiking, biking trails are close by - perfect place to relax and enjoy!
6 Bedroom 2 bath 6 acre paradise with incredible mountain and valley views
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I grew up a mile down the road from our home in Liberty. I grew up on our families Dairy Farm and although we sold the cows many years ago we still continue to grow crops and farm on much of the surrounding ground around Liberty. My wife and I have 6 children and love the valley we both were raised in. Our kids play a variety of sports and we love to travel, work hard and enjoy the outdoors.
David purchased this House in 2012
Why David chose Eden
Our home sits on 6 acres I purchased from my parents in 2011 - We built our dream home on our dream property. This land has been in our family since 1896 and we want to share it with others. We laid over 1/2 acre of sod and continue to add features to our dream paradise.
What makes this House unique
Our home is unique among other homes in our valley. For starters it sits on a very secluded road that is known for its quiet evening walks. The neighbors are far enough away that you can't throw a rock and hit them. We have expansive views and space for kids to roam and play. We have parking for more than 10 cars boats Rv's etc. and plenty of room left over. We are surrounded by alfalfa fields and the property on all sides is family owned.
Check-in: 4:00 PM
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Beautiful home with gorgeous views!
We stayed here 2 nights for a camp for a high school dance team. There was plenty of space and lots of beds. The views were incredible, such a beautiful place! The owner was very helpful and kind. The kitchen had everything we needed to make meals. And there’s a big grass area that was fun to play outside on. We also appreciated how clean it was! Definitely recommend this for families, family reunions, church groups or teams like us. So close to Pineview as well!
Excellent place and friendly owners, highly recommend it!
We stayed at this property for two nights between Christmas and New Years and we LOVED it! The owners are local and they are very friendly and helpful. They personally showed me around the property, answered numerous questions promptly, and gave me a number of useful recommendations for activities and restaurants in the area. He even let our kids see his dog's new baby puppies in his barn. The house is beautiful with a fireplace, wood floors in the common area, carpet in the bedrooms, and a vaulted ceiling with large windows facing east so the sun fills the common area in the morning. Sounds like they are finishing the basement common area soon too, which would make it even more spectacular. Highly recommend this property and it will be on our list of places to return to for future family trips.

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Pickup Diani Beach | Mombasa | Watamu | Malindi
Early morning departure from your coastal hotel to Shimba Hills where you cross splendid tracks and villages with breathtaking views.
Make game drive in search for the rare Sable antelopes only found in this coastal tropical rainforest. These animals are well worth seeing, as are the herds of large elephants, monkeys, giraffes, warthogs and buffaloes. A walk down to the beautiful sheldrick falls where you can swim in the plunge pool or stand under the falls and enjoy a cool high pressure shower.
Have lunch at Shimba Hills Lodge, located in the middle of the tropical rainforest. Shimba Hills Lodge is a spectacular award winning wooden tree lodge overlooking a waterhole. After lunch, make game drive whilst checking out of the park and drive back to your hotel.


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Chris AdelsbachManaging Director at Techstars
Chris is a UK-based entrepreneur, FinTech investor,and mentor. He is Managing Director at Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, where he runs Europe's leading FinTech accelerator in partnership with Barclays in London.
After a 10 year career with GE Capital, Chris co-founded a specialty finance business that became one of the UK's fastest-growing privately held companies which they sold in 2014 to a NASDAQ listed entity and large U.S. Private Equity group.
Subsequent to the sale, Chris has been an active private investor, focusing primarily on disruptive FinTech companies. He is a seed investor in Atom Bank, Monese, Post Quantum, Everledger, Shieldpay, Simudyne, Crowdz, Commuterclub and Cuvva to name a few. He is also an investor and on the board of advisors of Railsbank (accessing to global banking with 5 lines of code) and Quant Network (providing the interoperability layer between blockchains). In 2018, Chris was named the Angel Investor of the Year by the UK Business Angel Association and in 2017 was named the most active FinTech angel in the world by Fintech.Global - having made 40 private investment and a further 40 investments through Techstars in four years.
At Techstars, he spends time meeting founders, mentors, partners, and funders to help accelerate the growth and success of early stage FinTech companies. He has spoken at numerous UKTI Trade missions and is frequently asked to advise international banks who want to launch open-innovation platforms and governments who want to support startup ecosystems. He mentors FinTech founders in London, New York, Tel Aviv, Dubai, and beyond.


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Shah Mehmood Qureshi is on official visit to ______________ for bilateral dialogue.
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Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mehmood Qureshi is on official visit to Pakistan on 15th September 2018, where he will meet President Ashraf Ghani and other Afghan Officials . Main reason of the visit of Foreign Minister of Pakistan is to discuss security related issues . Current Affairs of Pakistan MCQs on Present Government .


AAA --authentication, authorization, and accounting. Suite of network security services that provide the primary framework through which access control can be set up on your Cisco router or access server.
attribute --RADIUS Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) attributes are the original set of 255 standard attributes that are used to communicate AAA information between a client and a server. Because IETF attributes are standard, the attribute data is predefined and well known; thus all clients and servers that exchange AAA information via IETF attributes must agree on attribute data such as the exact meaning of the attributes and the general bounds of the values for each attribute.
L2F --Layer 2 Forwarding. Protocol that supports the creation of secure virtual private dial-up networks over the Internet.
L2TP --Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol. A Layer 2 tunneling protocol that enables an ISP or other access service to create a virtual tunnel to link customer remote sites or remote users with corporate home networks. In particular, a network access server (NAS) at the ISP point of presence (POP) exchanges PPP messages with the remote users and communicates by L2F or L2TP requests and responses with the customer tunnel server to set up tunnels.
LAC --L2TP access concentrator. A network access server (NAS) to which the client directly connects and through which PPP frames are tunneled to the L2TP network server (LNS). The LAC need only implement the media over which L2TP is to operate to pass traffic to one or more LNSs. The LAC may tunnel any protocol carried within PPP. The LAC initiates incoming calls and receives outgoing calls. A LAC is analogous to an L2F network access server.
LNS --L2TP network server. A termination point for L2TP tunnels, and an access point where PPP frames are processed and passed to higher-layer protocols. An LNS can operate on any platform that terminates PPP. The LNS handles the server side of the L2TP protocol. L2TP relies only on the single medium over which L2TP tunnels arrive. The LNS initiates outgoing calls and receives incoming calls. An LNS is analogous to a home gateway in L2F technology.
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MLP is designed to work over synchronous and asynchronous serial and BRI and PRI types of single or multiple interfaces that have been configured to support both dial-on-demand rotary groups and PPP encapsulation.
RADIUS --Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service. RADIUS is a distributed client/server system that secures networks against unauthorized access. In the Cisco implementation, RADIUS clients run on Cisco routers and send authentication requests to a central RADIUS server that contains all user authentication and network service access information.
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Jacqueline Franco weaves through her East San Jose neighborhood each week, rolling a PPE-packed cart, knocking on doors and delivering free face coverings, hand sanitizer and flyers. On some Mondays, she gives out food at the Mexican Heritage Plaza, and on Thursdays she hands out diapers at a local elementary school.
She’s one of many local leaders who partnered with San Jose and Santa Clara County officials and aligned their community work to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately impacted the largely Latino and Vietnamese neighborhood in East San Jose.
City and county officials told The Chronicle that local leaders are crucial to the government’s emergency response. They help distribute food, administer tests and provide the community with facts about COVID-19.
“A lot of us felt like there was such a big need in our community, and if we don’t do it, who is?” Franco said of local community leaders.
Franco is a member of the Sí Se Puede Collective, a group of five community nonprofits in East San Jose that city and county officials said have been central in community outreach efforts. She is a promotora — a community health worker — through the county’s Community Health & Business Engagement Team.
Promotoras have hosted popup sites at various areas in the east side. Central locations such as the bustling La Placita Tropicana — a shopping center on Story and King roads where families push carts of groceries from Cardenas Market and juggle products from other local shops — have been successful spaces to share personal protective equipment, county resources and information on free testing locations, including the county fairgrounds, Franco said.
“The majority of us promotoras, we all live in this neighborhood, so in one way or another we have all been impacted by COVID,” Franco said. “I see our neighbors, and I see me. We rent a small duplex. A lot of us live with a whole bunch of family, right? If I were to get COVID right now, I wouldn’t have my own room to self isolate.”
Local community leaders converted the 6-acre Mexican Heritage Plaza into a food distribution and testing site in partnership with city and county officials, and Gardner Health Services, a community clinic that has historically served immigrant, uninsured residents in the Bay Area.
“When the pandemic hit, we knew that in order for us to survive this, in order for us to meet the needs of the community, we needed to pivot,” said Jessica Paz-Cedillos, the executive director of the School of Arts and Culture at the plaza. “In moments of crisis, it’s imperative that systems and heads of departments involve local leaders and community — those impacted by the crisis — to formulate solutions that are effective.”
Paz-Cedillos and other local leaders said they knew early on that the pandemic would amplify existing inequities that have plagued the working-class community for generations. Access to health care, multigenerational households sharing living spaces because of lack of affordable housing, and working in essential-service-industry jobs are all factors that officials said have exacerbated already stark economic and health divides.
Community leaders said they needed to be a part of the response efforts in the east side, where five ZIP codes in East San Jose — representing only 28% of San Jose’s population — account for roughly 31% of Santa Clara County’s coronavirus cases and roughly 46% of cases in San Jose, according to data from the week of Nov. 15, said Andrea Flores-Shelton, director of the city’s Community and Economic Recovery branch of the Emergency Operations Center.
“It’s hard to look around and see our communities and our neighbors that are struggling, but it also helps us be closer to hearing the solutions and understanding the solutions,” Flores-Shelton said. “It’s the partnerships that are gonna get us through this.”
In August, Gardner Health Services partnered with Santa Clara County and plaza officials to provide free testing services at the cultural hub from 1 to 7 p.m. every Wednesday. Hundreds of people are tested weekly at the site.
The county funds the COVID-19 tests and lab costs to process the tests, and Gardner staff register residents, administer tests, and contact anyone who tests positive. Plaza officials manage the site and distribute face coverings, hand sanitizer, and information on local resources. City officials are also supporting the plaza’s food distribution efforts in partnership with Second Harvest of Silicon Valley on every first and third Monday of the month.
“I think that there is something to be said when community feels comfortable because the people who are attending to them welcome them, (and) look like them,” Paz-Cedillos said. “There is no judgment.”
Within a week of the first stay-at-home order, Franco, 26, said local leaders converged to address some of the issues they knew would disproportionately impact their neighborhood, such as food insecurity, access to testing, and looming financial losses.
During the summer, county public health officials contacted Franco and her “compañeras to make sure that the messaging was easy, (and) understandable” for local residents, especially those who may be more trusting of local leaders than government officials, Franco said.
Lauren Hernandez is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: firstname.lastname@example.org Twitter: @ByLHernandez


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Genetic engineering has become increasingly prominent in recent years. GMOs have become a common occurrence in the food we eat, while studies conducted on human genetics and chromosomes have shown to identify underlying causes of various disease. There are both positive and negative associations with this rapidly advancing technology. While there are advantages to manipulating human genetics, such as eradication of various diseases, there is a clear moral dilemma in regards to ethics and approaching the matter with appropriate caution.
In order to assist the viewer in better understanding such a contentious topic through these symbols, the form of a chromosome was chosen as a container. Chromosomes contain all of the genetic information stored in living organisms. They are a fundamental in understanding how living organisms work and change. Additionally, the symbol’s meanings relate to the visual form of chromosomes as seen from under a microscope.

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More than 12,000 units battle on the battlefield!
Unique battlefield feeling made possible by our unique engine!
Monster training and organization strategy game!
– Game Overview –
Collect summonable demons, train, organize, and battle them.
The enemy is an army of humans who have destroyed your family and empire.
Become "Princess Alvia," a mixed blood with the demon tribe, and lead their souls.
– Game system –
This is a game with large army VS large army formation tactics + monster training elements.
More than 12000 units will fight on the battlefield.
Players can only move and use summoning magic, and cannot attack directly.
One battalion has a maximum of 1000 units, and players can freely organize this one battalion.
Others contract with mercenary groups or fight together with groups of stray monsters.
In Multiverse War, you can also pit units formed by other players against each other.
Hunting grounds (areas) are generated infinitely, so you can play until you get bored.
The story part (tutorial) is fully voiced in Japanese.
– About AVARIS –
The first "AVARIS" was released 22 years ago in 2001.
It recorded hundreds of thousands of downloads on each site in total.
This is the latest version of the game.
– Original game engine that has evolved –
Three years have passed since the last game, Vaster Claws 3, and the dedicated game engine has been improved to achieve a higher quality than Vaster Claws 3 (grass that can be stepped on, underwater expressions, terrain rise and fall, shadows based on sunlight, etc.), and a large army vs. large army.
It works fine on a phone about 6 years old.
We hope you will enjoy this oh-parts-class program!
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PHOENIX – When you imagine what class at Phoenix Coding Academy might look like, maybe you think of students staring at endless rows of characters and symbols on computer screens.
And sure, sometimes that happens.
But you’re just as likely to find students hunched over their desks with colored pencils and markers in their hands.
On a recent school day, students pushed their laptops to the center of their desk, clearing the space to work on a different kind of assignment: Design their own album cover.
At the academy, the newest school in the Phoenix Union High School District, administrators put just as much emphasis on art as they do on engineering.
“Art is essential,” Principal Seth Beute said. “Creativity is really important in computer science and problem solving. When you think about building new apps, new programs, new industries altogether – we know the students are going to be working on something we’ve not even heard of yet.”
Phoenix Coding Academy opened its doors in August to prepare students to enter college or the workforce with the skills they need to succeed, no matter what career path they choose, administrators said. The first class has 90 students who will graduate knowing how to build apps, collaborate in teams, develop video games and program robotic arms.
Computer science related jobs, like programming, coding, network security and software engineering, are on the rise in Arizona, according the the Bureau of Labor Statistics, yet industry recruiters say there aren’t enough qualified workers to fill all the open positions. This school is one of a few ways Arizona groups are addressing this shortage by getting students interested in the field early.
“Computer science is extremely important,” Beute said. “When we look around and see all the technology and the advancements related with technology, there will continue to be openings in the industry and a lot of opportunities. Some will require college and some won’t, that’s just the reality of this field, so we want all of our students to be college ready and career ready so they’ll have options.”
Those career options don’t seem to be going anywhere any time soon. Computer and information technology jobs are the fastest growing job field in the U.S., projected to add nearly half a million jobs to the market by 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Arizona in particular has seen a lot of this growth.
Many technology companies are moving to Arizona because of the available real estate and incentives from the state of Arizona, said Donna Dietrich, the divisional managing partner at Arizona Tech Finders, a technology staffing firm.
Finding the talent to fill all those new jobs can be challenging.
“The best of the best are typically gainfully employed,” Dietrich said. “We do have people who are obviously applying for roles, but the demand is higher, the supply is less. It hasn’t kept up with the rate of … people they need in technology.”
Some jobs, like software development, can take longer to fill than others because these developers tend to already have a good job, she said. It is also difficult for candidates to stay competitive, since technology changes so rapidly potential employees need to keep up with software, apps or tools that may have only existed for a month.
“Demand and supply take time to equalize,” said Ashish Amresh, assistant professor of computer science at Arizona State University. “There’s definitely the sentiment that we’re not producing enough computer scientists, software engineers or information technologists on our own in this country.”
In 2015, there were 6,300 more people employed in computer and technology jobs in Arizona than the previous year, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now, there are nearly 10,000 open computing jobs in Arizona, which is 2.8 times the state’s average demand rate for job, according to data from Code.org. On top of that, Arizona produced fewer than 500 computer science graduates in 2014, but that trend may not hold.
There are several organizations that plan to help close the gap.
Grand Canyon University is working with the Science Foundation Arizona and Code.org to train elementary school teachers how to teach the basics of computer science to their students using Code.org curriculum. The university will host the first of these six-hour training classes on Oct. 22.
A new advanced placement course in computer science principles has launched this school year for high school students, according to the College Board. The groups will offer additional training for AP high school and middle school teachers as well.
Other computer science educational opportunities include Game Camp, a summer program at ASU for middle and high school students to design video games. Amresh, who thinks everyone needs to learn basic programming and computing skills, founded the camp.
“That’s really important in the society we live in,” he said. “You don’t have to pursue a career in computer science to know a little bit about computing because no matter what field you’re in, understanding how technology works, how programming and software interplay, that is an essential 21st century skill. It’s almost as important as knowing a second language.”
Back in the art class at Phoenix Coding Academy, students at one table draw and joke with one another. No matter what career students pursue, understanding computers and working in teams are essential skills principal Beute wants them to learn. One student wants to use what he learns to solve some of the mysteries of the universe.
“I want to go into physics … specifically astrophysics,” said Michael Colonica, a freshman student. “I enjoy looking at the stars, and I think space is just an interesting place with many question marks everywhere.”
Fifteen minutes later, class lets out and the halls reverberate with loud chatter. The students have a few minutes to decompress before heading to their next class.
In an empty classroom upstairs, 3-D printers and a robotic arm wait for students to learn how to program them and bring them to life.


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Fresh off the Summer Jam stage, Drizzy has released a brand new track called “0 to 100/The Catch Up”.
Despite some earlier reports of the single being titled “Way Up” it’s “0 To 100.”
The record, just over six minutes, makes an interesting transition from a vicious banger to a slowed down, more thoughtful cut. All the while Drizzy does his usual venting. We can thank Boi-1da, 40, and Nineteen85 for the production, and the Toronto rapper has let this go for download as well, so enjoy. Will you be banging this all summer?


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Description: Copies of quarterly (1881-1910) and annual (1893-1943, 1945) reports filed with the War Department (1881-1919) and the President of the University by the Professor of Military Science and Tactics, relating to status of clothing, equipment, ordnance and instructional materials; strength and proficiency of student military units; schedule of instruction and number and rank of instructional staff; 28 page "History of the Military Department, University of Illinois, 1868-1921," by Captain Edward S. Johnston (1921).

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Lagos: Africa's Fastest Growing Megacity. Kabul – the fifth fastest growing city in the world – is bursting at the seams | Cities. Seen from above, Kabul looks like a city bursting at the seams. Cars clog the streets, negotiating for space with street vendors and donkey carts. At the fringes, crude houses pepper the hillsides and the valley along the river, spreading far beyond what a short time ago were the edges of the Afghan capital. Over the past decade, Kabul has become one of the world’s fastest-growing cities. The toppling of the Taliban in 2001 and the hope of increased security and economic possibilities enticed many Afghans to move here: people displaced by fighting in the countryside, refugees returning from Pakistan and Iran, and hordes of labourers simply looking for a better life. The city, however, has been unable to keep up with such fast-paced urbanisation, and seems incapable of providing jobs and services to sustain all its newcomers.
Yet despite being strained beyond capacity, Kabul seems to have lost none of its attraction to the people flocking here. “Kabul used to be an egalitarian city. 'Latino Urbanism' influences a Los Angeles in flux. Work crews in recent weeks have made major design changes to Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, widening the sidewalks and adding planters, chairs and round cafe tables with bright-red umbrellas where rows of parked cars used to be. The upgrades aim to make the street as welcoming to pedestrians as drivers. They're also superfluous: the urban-planning equivalent of carrying coals to Newcastle. Broadway has for several decades been among the most popular and vital walking streets in Southern California, one typically crowded with Latino shoppers, including many recent immigrants from Mexico.
What's more, Broadway's makeover — which arrives just as some of its discount stores are being replaced in a wave of gentrification by upscale boutiques — happens to take many of its design cues from street life in Latin American cities. Rojas sees the influence across the region, from Santa Monica along the coast to Pasadena in the foothills, and especially in Los Angeles itself.
Hospitable, sociable. TECH COMPANIES DISCOVER RIO’S FAVELAS Technology... The 'Ruralization' of Urban Areas - Sarah Goodyear. The statistic gets trotted out at just about every urbanism conference: for the first time in history, the majority of the world’s people live in cities. By 2050, 70 percent of the population will live in urban areas.
Those numbers have been repeated so often they've become cliché, a lazy way of saying that "cities" are "important. " But those statistics mask a deeper and more complicated reality, which is this: the distinction between urban and rural, between cities and suburbs and countryside, is disappearing as populations boom and traditional societal structures dissolve. The borders between different ways of living are blurring. And that means “urbanization” represents something different from what it has in the past. A provocative essay published the other day on Future Capetown, written by Beloved Chiweshe, flips the urbanization meme on its head. Those problems, Chiweshe writes, take a disproportionate toll on women.
Radical Cities – Latin America's revolutionary housing solutions | Books | The Observer. The Venice Architecture Biennale is usually a grand gathering of the biggest names in architecture, where they can display their brilliance to their peers. In the 2012 edition, however, the Golden Lion awarded to the best exhibit went to something whose fascination was not primarily to do with the input of professional architects.
This was the Torre David, in Caracas, a 1990s office tower left unfinished when funds ran out. What makes it remarkable is the fact that it has now been colonised by squatters, making it into a vertical barrio, a self-regulating community of the poor, within a frame designed for corporate profit. In territories once intended for photocopiers, computer terminals, desks and meeting rooms, there are homes, streets, shops and churches. Patches of mirror-glass cladding contrast with the ubiquitous orange bricks and concrete blocks of self-built Latin American houses, with a petrified ooze of sloppy mortar from the joints. All of which makes Radical Cities timely.
Learning from Lagos: Floating school, Makoko, Nigeria, Kunlé Adeyemi, NLÉ | Buildings. Using local materials and skills, this school in a floating slum is a brave exemplar for a community in dire need, yet the Lagos state government is threatening to demolish it Makoko, a Nigerian shantytown on the marshy waterfront of Lagos, is not exactly Venice, but there are marked similarities between the two. Both are built on wooden piles driven into saline mud and tidal ooze. The streets of both are famously full of water.
Both were settled by fishing communities, Venice − officially − in AD 421, Makoko at some time in the 18th century. Their populations are of a similar size − 60,000 in Venice, around 80,000 in Makoko − although no one knows for certain. At this point, the difference between these two water-borne settlements becomes horribly clear. Makoko, meanwhile, has sprawled into the marshy waters fringing Lagos over the past century. Here is the fish market with its daily catch of gleaming barracuda, red snapper, crab and prawns. But, Makoko is very poor. Refugee Camp for Syrians in Jordan Evolves as a Do-It-Yourself City. In June, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that the number of refugees worldwide in 2013 topped 50 million, the most since World War II, a figure substantially increased by the Syrian conflict.
Add to that one million Iraqis displaced during the first months of this year. These vast forced migrations have accelerated discussions about the need to treat camps as more than transitional population centers, more than human holding pens with tents for transients. A number of forward-thinking aid workers and others are looking at refugee camps as potential urban incubators, places that can grow and develop and even benefit the host countries — places devised from the get-go to address those countries’ long-term needs — rather than become drags on those nations.
Photo “You can call a place like Zaatari impermanent and not build adequate infrastructure,” as Don Weinreich, a partner at Ennead Architects in New York, recently put it. Slide Show Mr. This is all black market. Lessons of DIY Urbanism in a Syrian Refugee Camp. Governments are so accustomed to dictating their will, through coercion if necessary, that they find it unimaginable that people might willingly – and with creativity and enthusiasm – self-organize themselves to take care of urgent needs. So pause a moment to behold the remarkable Zaatari Refugee camp in Jordan. This settlement of 85,000 displaced Syrians is showing how even desperate, resource-poor people can show enormous creativity and self-organization, and turn their “camp” into a “city.” In many respects, Zaatari bears an uncanny resemblance to the DIY dynamics of the Burning Man encampment in the Nevada desert – an annual gathering that attracts more than 65,000 people for a week.
Both eschew “government” in favor of self-organized governance. Both confer opportunities and responsibilities and individuals, and facilitate bottom-up initiatives through lightweight infrastructures. To be sure, Zaatari is a squalid place with lots of problems. WATCH: How African cities have grown over 200 years. Medellin’s new, successful story. Reimagining Planning in the Urban Global South. I asked myself the question: so what struck me about the process of thinking across boundaries and reimagining planning in the issues that we have been discussing in our celebration of DPU’s 60th anniversary in this conference. At the risk of simplifying a complex and dynamic set of discussions, I want to make six points. 1.
Reimagining planning is clearly a normative process The question of whose values, and whose vision we’re dealing with is absolutely crucial. Sue Parnell, of University of Cape Town, highlighted the normative character of our challenge in the first session. Also Aromar Revi, from the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), raised the question in the first session of the importance of history: ‘Do not erase our history!’ Sheela Patel, of SPARC and SDI, reminded us in no uncertain terms, and I quote her: ‘All professionals need to take informality and creation of inclusion as urgent business – or lose credibility with the majority of city-dwellers.’ 2. 3. 4. 5.


Jake Paul has always been part of huge boxing matches, and the hype he builds for each of his fights is astounding. Paul also loves trash-talking his opponents prior to his matches, and it has only serves to make the experience better. He is also looking for a new opponent after Tommy Fury pulled out once again.
Jake Paul vs. Tommy Fury has been talked about since last year. It was assumed the fight was finally going to happen next month. Unfortunately, Fury ran into some trouble.
Tyson Fury’s half-brother and Jake Paul were scheduled to fight each other at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on August 6th. However, he claimed that the Fury family was denied entry into the U.S. due to alleged connections with organized crime. The match ended up being cancelled in the end.
According to a report by Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix, Jake Paul is already finalizing a deal to fight Hasim Rahman Jr. We’re hoping this fight goes through.
Jake Paul is finalizing a deal to face Hasim Rahman Jr. on August 6th, sources familiar with the negotiations told @SInow. Rahman (12-1) is the son of ex-heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman. Paul pivoting away from Tommy Fury, who was denied entry into the U.S. last week.
We will have to wait and see how Jake Paul will fare against Hasim Rahman Jr next month if they can nail down the fight. Tommy Fury truly has bad luck when it comes to facing Jake Paul, or that might just have been what he needed. Perhaps fans will see that fight sooner or later, but the Problem Child might have to venture to the U.K. for it to happen.
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In 1750 Charles Bourbon fascinated by the Palace of Versailles and the Escorial Palace bought the land at the foot of Tifatini, asking Luigi Vanvitelli to design the residence of the Bourbons for the Kingdom of Naples. The work lasted 93 years and saw the numerous succession King who lived in the Palace since 1780, while the direction of the work is attended Luigi Vanvitelli's son Carlo.
The Palace of Caserta presents, to date, as a true monument that occupies 45.000 sqm, with its five floors, It reaches a height of 36 m. On the main facade open 143 and windows in the palace are well 1200 rooms and 34 stairways. The staircase is an invention scenic art eighteenth century and connects the lower and the upper vestibule, which leads to the royal apartments. Visiting its interior it was amazed by the continuous succession of stucco, reliefs, frescoes, sculptures and inlaid floors. Notable are those of Astrea Hall, the Hall of Mars, the Palatine Chapel and the Throne Room, the latter the biggest of the royal apartments once used the personalities reception.
Caserta is located in the north eastern edge of the Campanian plain and is closed, partly, by the chain of Tifatini. Here in 1750 King Charles of Bourbon decided to build a new palace that constitute the focal point of the modern capital, Caserta, able to compete with major European cities. The complex was entrusted to the great architect Luigi Vanvitelli who designed a stately mansion, austere externally but valuable in the interior, surrounded by a park with spectacular fountains.
This extremely ambitious project has been included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage property for its original conception and management.
Criteria for admission to Unesco
The World Heritage Committee decided to include this good on the basis of criteria (i), (ii), (iii) e (iv) considering that the monumental complex of Caserta, which it has similar characteristics to those of other royal residences of the eighteenth century, It is extraordinary for the circular amplitude of its design, which includes not only an impressive building and a park, but also the surrounding natural landscape and an ambitious project of a new city according to the precepts of time planning. The industrial complex of the Belvedere of San Leucio, designed for the production of silk, It is also of particular interest to the idealistic principles that were the basis of its original conception and management.
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In 1750 Charles of Bourbon, King of the Two Sicilies, buy the family Acquaviva the area at the foot of Tifatini, where he pointed out the birth of the Royal Palace. It was Pope Benedict XIV to give the future King Charles III of Spain consent to take, for the realization of the Palace, Luigi Vanvitelli, Napo letano an architect of Dutch origin, who he was working on the preparation of the Jubilee 1750.
The construction work began in 1752; seven years later, with jobs at the peak, King Charles left Naples and moved to Madrid as the King of Spain. In 1773, the death of Luigi Vanvitelli, the work was not completed yet.
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, not so much due to the passage of the project in the hands of the son Vanvitelli, Carlo, As with decreasing interest due to the departure of Charles of Bourbon.
The Royal Palace of Caserta belonged to the Bourbon family for over a century, from the 1752 al 1860, when he passed to the Savoy. In 1919 Finally a ministerial decree attributed it to the land of the Italian State.
The Palace is rectangular and the inner area is divided into four sections with three courtyards divided by a solemn atrium three aisles with two transverse arms. Each of the four courtyards has rounded corners from a cut of forty-five degrees; this device, together with the insights of Vanvitelli, It contributes to avoiding the squaring that would have been unavoidable for the mole of the building.
Vanvitelli also designed a monumental and majestic access to the Royal Palace, with a large boulevard that is grafted on a double semicircle and forms the Piazza Vanvitelli. The Royal Palace includes 1.200 rooms, the square in front, the park and the English garden.
The first symbol of the royal palace is the Stairway of Honor, which it comes with a large central ramp that splits into two parallel elements, with 116 steps each consist of a single Trapani of "lumachella" block.
In the middle of the porch, the vision proposes the marble floor between the pillars, the arches and statues above it. There are three, stucco, depicting the Royal Majesty, riding a lion, the merit, armed with a sword and a book, the truth, a female figure which rests with one foot on the world while with the index finger tip of the sun. The cornice running along the time was intended to record music teachers during receptions; This arrangement anticipates the concept of stereo music from a source not visible because the orchestra was completely covered than guests.

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The countdown to December 31 has begun. As 2006 comes to a close, it’s important to review the significant trends and issues observed by Symantec Security Response over the past year. Some of these may relate to what we can expect to see in the New Year.
First and foremost, throughout 2006 we identified that online fraud has steadily increased and become even more sophisticated. Much of the online fraud activity we’ve seen has been in the form of phishing – approximately seven million total phishing attempts each day. That’s a lot of cybercriminals on the hunt for your personal information! We have also witnessed phishers innovating beyond the traditional online scam where they may distribute tens of thousands of emails hoping to trick one of you lucky individuals. Today, we are seeing fraudsters embrace new techniques such as vishing and SMishing to solicit and obtain your confidential information. See Zulfikar Ramzan’s blog Phishing 2006: The Year in Review.
It should be no surprise to anyone that during 2006, we saw an increase in the number of zero-day exploits, a trend that indicates attackers are becoming more methodical in their discovery and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. Zero-day exploits have also expanded beyond Microsoft Office – you may remember two zero-day exploits affecting Ichitaro, a Japanese word processing program earlier this year. It’s fair to say vendors are steadily improving the development and release of software fixes to patch these vulnerabilities; however, the reality is that attackers, on average, develop exploits faster than vendors develop patches. This leaves a lot of uncertainty for the average user because according to the most recent Internet Security Threat Report, the average time to develop a patch was 31 days and the average time to develop exploit code was three days. This leaves a 28 day window of exposure and, more importantly, affected systems at great risk for attack.
The most important lesson for 2006 is that aggressive threats are the future. Symantec Security Response observed more mainstream adoption of threats such as polymorphics and rootkit technologies, one of the toughest threats out there. Rootkits may be the minority now, but they are becoming increasingly more common, especially when compared to how sparse they were only 12 months ago. We believe with their deep roots, undetectable presence on a machine, and ability to take action without end users’ consent or knowledge, they are bound to be the threat of the future! See Mimi Hoang’s blog Rustock: Deep Dive.
As in years past, the threat landscape will continue to morph and evolve into an environment that’s unknown; therefore requiring the most effective security solutions. Evasive, stealthy, and aggressive Internet behavior is on the rise and the speed of a security vendor alone is not enough. It’s a vendor’s ability to catch the tough, tricky threats in a timely manner that really counts.


Nice to see some good news coming out of Wisconsin. By way of background, the Wisconsin legislature, currently being run by a bunch of nightmare retro-fuck Republicans (but I repeat myself…) passed a horrendous “voter ID” bill designed to suppress the vote.
Judge Flanagan issued an order temporarily barring the implementation of the act. Included in his findings are that the Act (surprise!) has a disproportionate effect on minorities, the indigent, and the elderly, and that “the scope of the impairment has been shown to be serious, extremely broad and largely needless.” Again, what a surprise.
Full article at the link below.


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Background. Most ER+ tumors will eventually escape endocrine treatments. PI3K/mTOR pathway targeting has improved clinical results in endocrine treatments resistant (ETR) patients, however with unsustained responses. Our laboratory has developed several models of ETR luminal breast cancer (LBC) patient derived xenografts (PDX) suitable for biological studies (Cottu et al, AACR 2012 & IMPAKT 2012). The aims of the present study were 1) to analyze the biological factors associated with acquired ETR in relevant models of LBC; 2) to determine the therapeutic interest of combining everolimus with different ET models resistant to different endocrine treatments (ET).
Methods. Implementation of LBC models has been reported (Cottu et al, BCRT 2012). ETR models were derived by selecting tumors growing under continuous ET, subsequently re-engrafted and rechallenged with endocrine therapies (tamoxifen, letrozole, fulvestrant), and with everolimus alone and combined with ETs. When possible, initial sensitive tumors were simultaneously treated with the same protocols. At progression, or after at least 120 days of continuous therapies, tumor tissue was retrieved. Tissue microarrays (TMA) were performed to analyze the biological modifications associated to ET and mTOR targeting. Triplicate immunohistochemistry of P-AKT/AKT, P-mTOR/mTOR and P-S6 were performed in addition to standard markers. Transcriptomic and RTPCR analyses are also being conducted.
Results. Three models resistant to tamoxifen and 2 models resistant to surgical ovariectomy used a surrogate to estrogen deprivation, were developed from 3 initial PDX, and were maintained as independent hormone-resistant variants. All these models retained a luminal phenotype, based on IHC and transcriptomic analyses and had a wt PI3KCA. ETR models had an expression profile very similar to the initial PDX, suggesting that minor changes may be associated with the acquisition of an ETR phenotype. Three of these models have been tested. One tamoxifen resistant model confirmed a resistance specific to tamoxifen only and a high level of sensitivity to a fulvestrant everolimus combination. A second PDX yielded 2 other models resistant to tamoxifen and ovariectomy. These 2 models developed a resistance to all ET modalities. Therapeutic testing with combinations of everolimus and ETs were highly efficient, but everolimus alone was as efficient in these 2 models with complete and durable responses. Activation of the PI3K pathway was demonstrated in all cases by IHC analyses (expression of pAKT and pS6), and complementary ongoing RTPCR analyses. Everolimus based effects were associated with tumor fibrosis, a strong inhibition of Ki67 and pS6, but not always pAKT. The expression of ER was not modified by treatments, except in the fulvestrant-treated mice where it was strongly inhibited.
Conclusion. We have developed and validated a platform of ETR models derived from our LBC original PDX. These models retained a luminal phenotype although highly resistant to ET. Activation of the PI3K pathway has been confirmed in ETR models, and everolimus alone, or combined with ET confirms high and durable efficacy. Updated mechanistic analyses performed at different time points will be presented at the meeting.
Citation Information: Cancer Res 2012;72(24 Suppl):Abstract nr P6-04-14.


text: In this publication of Let’s Talk Trends we’re taking a close look at A&D influences and trending innovations in the changing landscape of healthcare. With the recent onset of COVID-19, there are many unknowns, particularly in the healthcare environment. However, we acknowledge that there are also other important issues that have been the focus of improvement through ongoing research and innovation for quite some time. We will address demographic, technological, and social topics impacting the future of healthcare environments. As you read further, we’d like to get your input on how the current transformations taking place may be further affected by COVID-19.


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HOUSTON -- The All-Star Game is not taking on a carnival-like atmosphere, the presidents of the National and American leagues say.
``Our All-Star Game is way out in front of everybody else`s,`` NL President Chub Feeney said. ``And the main thing is the game. The game stands on its own.``
Baseball`s midseason break, though, is beginning to look like the NBA`s All-Star extravaganza, which starts with an old-timers game, slam dunk contest and long-range shooting contest Saturday before getting to the All-Star Game Sunday. The NBA even markets the package as its ``All-Star Weekend.``
At the workout session Monday, fans paid a $4 charitable donation for the privilege of watching a home-run hitting contest and a ``skills`` contest in which players from the two leagues competed to see who could work a relay play the quickest.
Before workouts Monday, managers and some players took part in a news conference that featured TV sportscaster Tim McCarver as the host. He juggled introductions and award presentations with questions from the media.
All for a game that means nothing.
There are some who think the All-Star break needs to be expanded to give the players more time off. Detroit pitcher Jack Morris said Sunday the players need five days off to recover from the first half of the season.
St. Louis Cardinals manager Whitey Herzog, who is managing the NL team, said he would like to see the game moved to Monday night.
``It used to be that it was always played Tuesday afternoon, and that gave the players a chance to get home,`` he said. ``Now, there`s TV so the game has to be at night.
``These guys (players in the game) may not get home until Wednesday night. They have to play Thursday. The participants don`t have any time off.``
``As far as the All-Star players, I`m sure they see this as enough of an honor to give up the extra rest,`` said Dr. Bobby Brown, president of the AL. ``And as it is now, three days is the maximum we could go. We end up in October now. We couldn`t add anything to that.``
Feeney agreed the three-day period worked well.
``The players have a day to get here and a day to get home,`` he said. ``Three days is about all you can take off. Three days is a nice rest for the players, but if you took four or five days, you`d defeat the purpose of a pennant race.``
The baseball people are also very provincial when asked if their show is taking on the proportion of the NBA`s All-Star Game.
Herzog said he wouldn`t come in from hunting to see the NBA All-Star Game.
``The NBA`s? Nobody watches it,`` Feeney said. ``This thing today (the home-run hitting contest) is a good thing because it brought the fans out here and the money goes to charity.``
The 57th All-Star Game will be played in Houston`s Astrodome tonight. The game will be broadcast by ABC (Channels 10 and 12) and WIOD-AM beginning at 8. The National League leads the series 36-19-1.
The starting pitchers are Dwight Gooden (10-4, 2.77 ERA) of the New York Mets for the NL and Roger Clemens (15-2, 2.48 ERA) of the Boston Red Sox for the AL.
Batting order for the NL: LF Tony Gwynn, 2B Ryne Sandberg, 1B Keith Hernandez, C Gary Carter, RF Darryl Strawberry, 3B Mike Schmidt, CF Dale Murphy, SS Ozzie Smith, P Dwight Gooden. AL: CF Kirby Puckett, LF Rickey Henderson, 3B Wade Boggs, C Lance Parrish, 1B Wally Joyner, SS Cal Ripken, RF Dave Winfield, 2B Lou Whitaker, P Roger Clemens.

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