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The primary antagonist in Catching Fire is the totalitarian government of Panem, headed by President Snow; under this cruel regime, Katniss and the lives of countless other citizens are controlled, dominated, and oppressed by the harsh, demanding law and its merciless Peacekeepers. Katniss bears witness to much of their cruelty throughout the novel, from her horrified reaction at the execution of the old man in District 11 to trying to save Gale from the deadly whipping in the townsquare. Before Katniss heads to the Quarter Quell, Haymitch warns her "You just remember who the enemy is" and Katniss realizes profoundly that her true enemy is not the other tributes who are trying to kill her, but the all-powerful and corrupt Capitol of Panem (268).
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Accreditation commenced in many parts of Akwa Ibom without availability of result sheets.
Nigerian Pilot reports that INEC adhoc staff in many units in Etinan, ONNA , Uyo, Eket, Esit Eket and Nsit Ubium local councils said that their supervisors did not release the result sheets to them when other materials were been given them.
There were widespread reports of hijack of materials especially in Nsit Ubium with many voters were left stranded after thugs belonging to the PDP and APC clashed.
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What you need to know about Adele
From her fear of fame to wanting Rihanna in her squad, here are 10 Adele facts
After introducing a new video to her song Hello, two weeks ago, Adele has since then made headlines everywhere from beating Taylor Swift's record of most views in a single day to garnering over 1.1 million downloads in the first week of its availability.
But she's not done taking over the world as she has just recently opened up about herself in an interview with Rolling Stone. Here's what we learned and what we think you should know about the elusive singer.
1. Hello isn't about an ex boyfriend.
"If I were still writing about him, that'd be terrible. Hello is as much about regrouping with myself, reconnecting with myself. It sounds a bit morbid, like I'm dead. But it's actually just from the other side of becoming an adult, making it out alive from your late teens, early twenties."
2. She is extremely ironic.
"I'm just f**king waiting for Frank f**king Ocean to come out with his album. It's taking so f**king long. That sounds so stupid, coming from me, doesn't it?"
3. She is afraid of fame.
"People think I hate being famous and I don't. I'm really frightened of it. I think it's really toxic, and I think it's really easy to be dragged into it."
4. Amy Winehouse was part of the reason why she was afraid.
"Watching Amy deteriorate is one of the reasons I'm a bit frightened. We were all very entertained by her being a mess. I was f**king sad about it, but if someone showed me a picture of her looking bad, I'd look at it. If we hadn't looked, then they'd have stopped taking her picture. That level of attention is really frightening, especially if you don't live around all that showbiz stuff."
5. She's still very much with Simon Konecki, her baby father.
"I have said a million times I'm not married and everyone still says we are. But yeah, we're still together. We haven't broken up. We've never broken up. We've been together. We just haven't felt the need to get married. We've got a kid together. I feel like that's a big enough commitment."
6. Adele has also stopped smoking and only has one drink a week.
"I used to be able to drink anyone under the table and still be able to put on an all-right show. But with kids, hangovers are torture. They just know. They pick up on it and just go for you."
7. She doesn't like gym. (Join the club!)
"I'm not, like, skipping to the f**king gym. I don't enjoy it. I do like doing weights. I don't like looking in the mirror. Blood vessels burst on my face really easily, so I'm conscious when I'm lifting weights not to let them burst in my face."
8. Adele loves Rihanna.
"I guess I have my own squad. It's not as interesting as some of the other squads that are around right now. But maybe Rihanna can be in my squad! That would be really cool. Oh, God. She's life itself, isn't she? I love her."
9. She owes her current success to her kid, Angelo.
"I don't know if I would've come back had I not had my kid."
10. She doesn't want to be pitted against people like Miley Cyrus.
"I'd rather not be the person that everyone gets pitted against. If they do decide to get their body out, I would rather not be that person because that's just pitting a woman against another woman, and I don't hold any more moral high ground that anyone else."
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Dading demanded 5 million rubles for the illegal sentence
Lawyer Ildar Dading Ksenia Kostromina said Thassa that her client filed a claim for compensation in the amount of 5 million rubles for illegal criminal prosecution.
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According to Kostromina, a lawsuit filed in the city court Train aimed at "compensation of damages caused by unlawful criminal prosecution and house arrest and in detention for more than two years."
Recall that the Dading was only convicted under the article for repeated violation of the rules of holding rallies, while the arguments of his defense that at the time of sentence, the number of administrative protocols have not yet entered into force, was heard by the Supreme court only after the decision of the constitutional court.
Attention to the fate of the Dading in November last year drew a letter from his Karelian prison, where he talked about applied to prisoners to torture people. In the end, the Dading was transferred to the Altai, with its location at the time of the stage remained unknown for months.
At the moment, the activist continues to go on pickets, cannot obtain a passport: April 18, he said that in a firm engaged in speeding up the issuance of documents, he was informed that the FSB does not give permission to do so, as it continues to engage in "unauthorized policy".


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Aristophanes Comedies: Now for the first time literally and completely translated from the Greek Tongue into English
1931 · New York
New York: Rarity, 1931. Good. First thus. Good hardcover. Privately printed. Light water stain on spine. Spine faded. Edges of spine bumped. Volume 2 only. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. (Inventory #: 150434)


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|Timex Ironman One GPS+
Smartwatches have been getting real famous and no wonder many companies jumped into the smartwatch competition. Companies like Samsung, Sony, LG etc developing their own line of smartwatches as a accessory to their smartphones. Leading watch manufacturer Timex stepped into this market by unveiling a standalone smartwatch, Timex Ironman One GPS + that is it doesn't need to connect with smartphones for data or other purposes.
Timex joined hands with AT & T and Qualcomm to create a connected smartwatch that is target mainly for the fitness. Unlike other smartwatches in the market, Ironman One GPS+ comes with 3G connectivity and GPS, So there is no need to connect smartphones with it.
It features a Qualcomm Chipset, Mirasol screen technology, 1.5 inch touch screen and four physical buttons. The company offers one year of free Internet data in partnership with AT&T. Apart from GPS and Built in 3G radio, the Ironman One GPS+ brings 4GB of built in storage to store music that can be played via bluetooth headset.
With GPS support, the device is capable of tracking speed and distance. In addition Ironman One GPS+ with heart rate variant can also monitor the heart rate. It added with Find me mode where users can alert their friends in case of Emergencies and can be tracked through the GPS. The built-in messaging app can be used to communicate with contacts through special email address.
The device comes with a very few built-in applications and timex looking to open up the ecosystem for developers to make apps for the smartwatch. It will be available in two colors- Black and Green. Sources revealed each unit priced at $399.95 whereas the one with Heart rate variant will be of $439.95.
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Madison, Wisconsin and Abita Springs, Louisiana showcase bipartisan support for 100 percent clean energy
OAKLAND, Calif. – 25 U.S. cities have now committed to transition entirely to clean and renewable energy, following city council votes on Tuesday establishing 100 percent renewable energy goals in Madison, Wisconsin and Abita Springs, Louisiana. Madison and Abita Springs represent the first Wisconsin and Louisiana cities to commit to transition to 100 percent renewable energy.
Madison and Abita Springs join a growing coalition of cities committed to 100 percent renewable energy. Few places, however, illustrate the diversity of support for clean energy than Madison and Abita Springs.
In November, more than 70 percent of Madison voters cast ballots supporting Hillary Clinton, while nearly 75 percent of voters in St. Tammany Parish, where Abita Springs is located, supported Donald Trump. Tuesday's 100 percent clean energy commitments illustrate the common benefits that renewable energy presents to both big cities and rural towns alike, from lower energy costs and local job creation to pollution reduction and climate mitigation.
In response to Tuesday's commitments, Jodie Van Horn, Director of the Sierra Club's Ready for 100 campaign, issued the following statement:
"Whether you're Republican or a Democrat, from a liberal college city or a rural Louisiana town, clean energy is putting America back to work and benefitting communities across the country. That's why Madison, Wisconsin and Abita Springs, Louisiana, today join the ranks of 23 other cities and towns across the United States that are going all-in on clean, renewable energy.
"As the Trump Administration turns its back on clean air and clean water, cities and local leaders will continue to step up to drive the transition towards healthy communities and a more vibrant economy powered by the renewable energy."
Mayor Greg Lemons of Abita Springs, Louisiana issued the following statement:
"As the mayor of a small town, I take seriously my responsibility to set the direction for our community.
"Transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy is a practical decision we're making for our environment, our economy, and for what our constituents want in Abita Springs. Politics has nothing to do with it for me. Clean energy just makes good economic sense.
"By establishing a 100 percent renewable energy goal, we have an opportunity to use solar power that we can control in our community, for our community. Clean energy is a way that we can save money for Abita Springs both today and in the future."
Madison Common Council Alder Zach Wood issued the following statement:
"Madison's historic commitment to 100 percent clean energy shows that we are determined to lead the way in moving beyond fossil fuels that threaten our health and environment.The benefits of a transition to 100 percent clean energy are many. These goals will drive a clean energy economy that creates local jobs, provides affordable and sustainable electricity, and results in cleaner air and water. I am proud to be a part of this council that has made the historic commitment that will lead our community to a more sustainable future."


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I thought the hay/straw mulch I used in the raised beds last year was just brilliant. It dramatically slowed water loss from the soil – summer watering was cut from a daily ritual to a weekly one – and it suppressed an enormous amount of weed growth. So this year, as the area under cultivation has spread, so (thanks to 12 bales I managed to secure at the back end of last year) has the straw.


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|Professional Automotive Repair Technical Discussions for December 27, 2008
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|1997 Cadillac DeVille Concours 4.6L rack VIN: 1G6KF5499V
thanks in advance and thanks for help in the past, im waiting on my tool supplier to get me a P/S gauge set but i will not see it untill after the new year, costomer wants leave town dec.30 so i thought you guys might help here. the P/S on this car works exell...
|2001 Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2L No Start VIN: IG1JC52401
Hello all. Happy Holidays. CALLING ALL CHEVY GM TECHS!!! I am up against the wall on this cavalier. Car was towed in for no-start; cranks ok. Checked codes none. NO CODES STORED OR PRESENT IN ANY MODULE!!! Ck spark good. Check fuel pressure- none. Power & grou...
|1995 Chrysler LeBaron GTC 3.0L Cuts out VIN: 1C3EU4532S
Hey guys first time posting.Hopefully you can give me some insight on a 1995 Chrysler Lebaron.The problems im having are customer brought car in suspecting fuel pump is bad.Fuel pressure is good.The scan tool will not communicate with the car.When you drive th...
|1999 Dodge Caravan 2.4L power steering VIN: 2P4FP25B3X
in july customer brought van in for no power steering. replaced ps pump and rack and pinion unit problem seemed to be solved. returned with ps again seeming to have little power assist. belt was loose adjusted and ps steering seemed to return. after sitting an...
|2003 Dodge Ram 1500 Van 5.9L HVAC blend door VIN: 1D7HA18Z03
This truck has no heat on the drivers side only but it does not have duel climate control. I have replaced both blend doors because i just knew the drivers side would be broken, much to my dissmay they were both intacte and working. So I replaced them any way ...
|1993 Ford Crown Victoria 4.6L alternator VIN: 2MELM75WOP
We replaced the alternator twice. We thought that we were getting bad alternators. Then we had the second alternator checked. And it tested good. We then check wires and connections. We had good power at blk/org wire and the yel/wht wires. Then we checked the ...
|1993 Ford Taurus GL 3.8L MLP sensor VIN: 1FACP5242P
This is my dad's car; vechicle will intermittely not shift properly and or stall. We scanned the car and retrieved code 634. My question: Is the alignment tool (Ford part number: T89T-70010-J) required to replace / adjust the Manual Lever Position Sensor? Can ...
|2005 Ford F-250 Super Duty King Ranch 6.0L shifting VIN: 1FTSW21P45
vehicle hesitates 4 or more seconds to go into a selected gear (D) (R) ect. also while driving vehicle, after it's warmed up, going down the road it's like it goes into neutral, you have to pull over, turn off the vehicle and restart to get back on the road ag...
|1992 Honda Prelude S 2.2L MIL Lamp on, no vtec VIN: JHBB2155NC
got car recently it is a ricer that someone put a 98 2.2 vtec in an i am tring to get it to work. i know that a spool valve controls it but i dont know how to test it or to make sure everything is proper. there are other codes such as vss,egr. the egr is not ... Trouble codes: 211
|1999 Honda Accord LX 2.3L Hesitation VIN: 1HGCG5646X
Hi everyone I have a accord here that after sitting cold when you take off to drive vehicle after it shifts into second it boggs down like not getting gas rpm with drop also if you push on gas harder it will catch and take off. It will not do it the rest of th...
|2002 Hyundai Accent GL 1.6L No Start VIN: KMHCG45CXU
ok felles tried cranksenser camsenser replaced pcm got no spark timing belt is good all fuses are good main relay is good all power from pcm good all ground from pcm good still no spark got 2 new coils got power on coil harness while crankin on one side got 8....
|1994 Lincoln Town Car 4.6L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Stall, MIL Lamp on VIN: ILNLM82W6R
Hello everyone This car came in for miss after shifting,Ichanged plugs wires and fuel filter.If you take this car for a ride it stalls when you stop.I put vacuum to the egr and you can hear it working but it dont affect the idle;so Im sure the passages are plu... Trouble codes: 336
|2003 Lincoln LS 3.0L Hesitation, Cuts out
this is my first ask for help post.This 3.0L LS A/T falls flat on its face on accelation with no codes, sounds like its poping back thought the intake with spark knock, much worse cold. Starts and idles perfect. With exhaust disconnected at manifolds no differ...
|1994 Mercedes-Benz E500 5.0L Poor Idle Quality VIN: WDB1240361
Hi this 500E has got a poor idle, car goes very well when driven, it has hesitation when cold which lasts for a couple of KM and then clears. New plugs and leads and rotors fitted along with 8 ASNU recon injectors, crankcase breather hoses, none of this was fi...
|2000 Nissan Xterra SE 3.3L Hesitation, Poor Fuel Economy VIN: 5NED28Y0YC
Customer brought truck in with check engine light on code po335 was found so we removed crank snser and found that the wires had come out of the connector the problem we now have is there are 3 wires in side the hornnes and only 2 plugs on senser 1 black wire ... Trouble codes: P0335
|2005 Nissan Pathfinder LE 4.0L Mechanical VIN: 5N1AR18W85
hi everybody this pathfinder was towed in with an engine noise. im curious if these 4.0s will jump the timing chain. it has no power and it pops through the intake. no codes for variable valve timing, just random missfire. any in put helpful, thanks, chris
|1999 Oldsmobile Bravada 4.3L rear axle? VIN: IGHDT13W9W
Hello everyone and Merry Chistmas! I have tis vehicle here for a vibration in the driveline, It is most pronounced at 52 to 55 MPH. I have narrowed it down to the rear of the vehicle by having one of my techs ride on the floor in the back while i drove it down...
|2000 Plymouth Voyager 2.4L timimg belt VIN: 2P4FP25B3Y
help !!! Thanks in advance for any answers. This vehicle came to me in pieces, the timing belt had broken and the customer thought he could do it himself. I have a manuel for the timing marks etc but they seem a bit contradictory. crank pulley is ok but the ca...
|1996 Pontiac Firebird 3.8L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Misfire, Poor Fuel Economy VIN: 2G2SF22KIT
hey guys,got a good one here 96 firebird came in with a complaint of running rough,found no spark on cylinders 3and6 replaced module and spark plugs,found 4 delco and 2 bosch plugs,car ran great shipped it.2 days later car comesback with same complaint,i check...
|2006 Saturn Vue 2.2L Poor Idle Quality, Misfire VIN: 5GZCZ30268
this car shows misfire on all cyl, esp cyl 1., seems to be worse right off idle and when you let off the gas it skip when it gets back to idle, all the ignition parts check out great, fuel pressure ok, it also bucks when you drive at certain rpm,no codes found...
|2003 Toyota Highlander 3.0L cam/crank timing VIN: JTEHF21A03
Hi everybody. I wish all of you a happy hollydays and a prosperous and more busy 2009. My poblem is with this Toyota highlander. The costumer broght it for an oil change. 2 days later he came back claiming that there was not oil in the engine and that he had t...
|1997 Volkswagen Jetta GLS 2.0L No Start VIN: 3VWSB81H7V
First off, thank you in advace for any help. I have a 1997 Jetta towed in no start. The car hesitated and cut off on customer and now will not start. Has spark, injector pulse, fuel pressure 40psi, crank/no start. It will start with starting fluid and run fine... Trouble codes: P0171 (Lean Bank 1), P0440 (Evap System Malfunction), P0411, P0730 (Incorrect Gear Ratio)
|2004 Volvo S60 R 2.5L Angle Gear input Splines VIN: YV1RH52Y04
Car came in with a wheel bearing hum from right rear, suspected wheel bearing. We put up in the air to run and listen to the wheels and realized the angle gear was not turning the rear drive shaft. We pulled it out to find the splines on the angle gear input s...
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|1996 Chevrolet Lumina APV 3.4L interior lights and door locks VIN: 1GNDU06EXT
Hey all, Thanks for all the great advice! We rechecked all our splices and found none bad. The problem is in the remote door lock receiver, for some reason it keeps flipping the light back on whenever it wishes. We unplugged the reciver our problem went aw...
|1999 Chevrolet Monte Carlo LS 3.1L Long cracking time VIN: 2G1WW12M7X
Thanks to all who replied. It turn out to be a bad new fuel pump (AIRTEX) warranty it with the parts store now all is good. After two regulators and no rich fuel trim a pump was the only thing left. Bad new parts are always a pain. I learn a new trick from Tim...
|2001 Chevrolet Express 2500 4.3L Poor Idle Quality, Stall VIN: 1GTGG29W81
we replaced the pcm and reprogrammed and flashed to latest software, we treated the wiring harness to the pcm with stabilant 22 and the ais motor wiring and cleaned the maf and treated the terminals for it. We removed and cleaned the throttle body. We gave the...
|2003 Chevrolet Suburban 1500 LS 5.3L Poor Idle Quality, Stall, Poor Fuel Economy, MIL Lamp on VIN: 3GNSK16Z73
Thanks to all that responded, replaced the intake seals and one downstream O2 and that took care of everything ... again Thanks to all Trouble codes: P0101 (MAF Circuit open), P0171 (Lean Bank1).
|2000 Dodge Grand Caravan 3.3L Dash panel lights VIN: 2B4GP24R3Y
Thanks to everyone who replied. Not being familiar with Dodge interior light operation, I referred to Mitchell for door ajar switch location. Mitchell does not list the door switches. (Mitchell wiring diagrams left me scratching my head trying to figure out ho...
|2001 Ford F-250 Super Duty Lariat 6.8L No Start VIN: 3FTNX21SX1
having not experienced the no start problem again i decided to put a fuel pump relay as this was the least expensive part kept truck for a week road testing at least twice a day and all is good so far thanks for the replies
|2002 Ford Escape XLS 3.0L Poor Idle Quality, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FMYU02111
Hello all, what a nightmare this car turned out to be. It turns out that the customer had an extended warranty and that the work had to be performed by a dealer. The car had other issues that needed to be fixed as well. So we shipped the car to the dealer and ... Trouble codes: P0305 (Cylinder 5 Misfire Detected), P0304 (Cylinder 4 Misfire Detected).
|1998 GMC C3500 HD 6.5L Misfire VIN: 1HTSCAAM6W
Hello everyone and thanks for the info and help. I cuold only find 1 fuel filter on the vehicle, the 1 on the engine, so i removed the old 1 and i filled the new filter up with seafoam and enstalled and started up. It has ran fine sinse i did that but i still ...
|2002 Honda Civic LX 1.7L red brake indicator VIN: 1HGEM22582
due to typing error i need to correct that my solus pro would _not_ communicate with the multiplex unit,so after checking both switches multipul times and seeing the inputs to the multiplex were correct and the output was incorrect i suggested replacement of t...
|2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 4.0L radiator fan VIN: 1J4GW48S13
I thank you all for the info. I had a lot of response on this one. The fan relay is located under rf headlight assembly. Most of you said to pull headlight assembly and cut a hole with a hole saw and to get accses to replase relay. After cutting hole i was abl...
|2001 Lexus RX300 3.0L cliamte control VIN: JTJGF10U91
thank you for the replies. customer pick up vehicle due [...] do any repair at this time since heat work fine. will post update again if he bring it back. Happy new year.
|1992 Lincoln Town Car 4.6L Excessive Emissions, VIN: 1LNLM91V6V
Thanks for replies we are going to either relocate EGR or have custome program for pcm.
|1990 Mazda B2200 LE-5 2.2L all bulb lights VIN: JM2UF113XL
It's been a couple of weeks since the truck was here and it doesn't look as if he is coming back. Who knows with this being the holidays. I received three replies and one in particular was very informative concerning voltage drops. I encourage anyone who is ...
|2002 Mercury Mountaineer 4.6L Hesitation, Cuts out, Misfire VIN: 4M2ZU86W32
Thanks To All For Your Help, But After A Week The Customer Needed The Car Back. Problem Still There, So She Took To A Ford Dealer & They Also Had For Over A Week. Customer Called To Let Me Know That After First Replacing A Section Of Wiring Harness(Dealer Did ...
|2004 Mitsubishi Endeavor XLS 3.8L delayed engasgement VIN: 4A4MM31S44
thanx so much for all the replies, we replaced the valve body with a good used one and all problems solved. we were surprised that all the valves were stuck and the fluid wasnt really bad. thanx again for the help~!!!
|2000 Subaru Legacy GT Limited 2.5L Poor Idle Quality, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 4S3BE6564Y
I made the mistake of using my vac pump guage to measure manifold vac because it was out from testing fuel pressure regulator. The 18 it showed was actually only 15 on my quality guage. A measurement of valve lash revealed SUPER TIGHT exaust valves. I adjus... Trouble codes: P0302, P0303.
|2000 Volkswagen Jetta GL 2.0L Cuts out, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 3VWRC29MXY
First off let me start by thanking the people who actually took the time to read the entire post before responding with ideas, the rest of the people need to learn how to read and comprehend what they have read before responding with suggestions to do the exa... Trouble codes: P0301, P0302, P0303, P0304.


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Secret Agent Maria is an Action Game, Download Secret Agent Maria Apk Mod from the direct download link on Twic.li.
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Enjoy Secret Agent Maria, an ultimate secret agent games! As a secret agent of the American government, steal confidential documents and save lives of other American agents from terrorist base camps in the city. Become a secret spy on a secret mission to play sniper games with a blend of agent games to assassinate the traitors & terrorists. A secret government agency has hired you for a high-level secret mission that involves sniper shooting and assassination of a terrorist group to steal important information documents and rescue your fellow agents captured by them. Stay in a stealth mode to hide from the enemies. Shoot them to eliminate crime from the society. You are going to be a top-level highly trained secret agent assassin. Operate secret agent games under cover. Shoot with accurate precision, before the enemy fire a bullet at you. Your government agency has provided you with the best sniper rifle gun, weapons, and a stealth helicopter to move around the enemy territory secretly. One of the most challenging stealth games to test your skills! There is no time for a training session. Just get started using your sneaky elite skills to win the war against crime. Save your country. Rescue fellow spy agents and war survivor soldiers. Use the US Army training you received to fight in Russia. Be the spy legend on a killer secret agent chase mission from an elite underworld training school. There is no time to train more men. You'll have to fight the spy mission alone in a war against terrorism and crime. Enjoy one of the best secret agent stealth spy games!
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INFINITI has today revealed the first look of its QX80 Monograph, a new design study exploring 'upscale luxury' and signalling the brand's intention to further develop its standing in the large SUV segment.
The new concept combines luxury with a commanding presence, and demonstrates the high levels of space and utility for which the QX80 production car is renowned. Originating at INFINITI's design studio in Atsugi, Japan, the QX80 Monograph is the ultimate expression of futuristic luxury SUV design and illustrates how the design of INFINITI's QX80 could evolve.
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Patrick Dempsey models wife Jillian's makeup line
Oh the lengths a man will go to satisfy his wife!
Patrick Dempsey proved how good of a husband he is when he opted to model eye makeup for this wife Jillian's new makeup line -- and we have to say the stuff made Dr. McDreamy's baby blues even dreamier.
The 50-year-old posted the video on his Instagram and wrote, "I'm not a makeup guy, but I'm proud of my wife's innovative product, Lid Tints for eyes#jilliandempsey #lidtints @jilliandempsey."
In the video, we see Jillian applying some of her eyeshadow line "Lid Tints" to her hubby's eyelids. Lid Tints is a creamy nude shadow that the Hollywood makeup artist, who lists Jennifer Lawrence and Kristen Stewart as clients, launched last month.
The look may be more effective seen on a woman, but we have to admit we love looking at the former TV doc hock his wifey's product!
Meanwhile, it certainly looks like the tides have turned for Patrick and his once estranged wife. In January 2015, Jillian and Patrick simultaneously filed divorce papers. At the time, the estranged couple released a statement saying, "It is with careful consideration and mutual respect that we have decided to end our marriage. Our primary concern remains the wellbeing of our children."
But now, all signs point to the duo being back together and doing better than ever!
Life & Style is reporting that the pair is "100 percent back together," and are even thinking about having a fourth child together.
A source told RadarOnline.com, "They're very excited about the possibility of baby number four and have agreed to start trying for another child before summer arrives."
The longtime loves have a 14-year-old daughter and twin nine-year-old sons -- but maybe there's still time for a sixth member of the Dempsey clan!
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Katie Couric Chooses Yahoo! As Next Destination On Her Career Path
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Fears of new dotcom bubble
THE news that the Facebook stake owned by Bono's investment fund Elevation Partners has more than quadrupled in value in less than two years is good news for investors but will only add to fears of another 'technology bubble'.
This summer has seen a host of internet and technology companies valued at astronomical sums, despite the fact that they are only a few years old and have little or no profits at the moment.
That has led to comparisons with the period from 1999 to 2001, when technology companies were the "sexy" investment and were deemed the future of finance.
Amazon, the online retailer, was one of the poster boys of that period, with its shareprice topping $106 in December 1999, even though the company had never made a profit. By April 2001, the share was worth $8.63.
Facebook is hugely profitable for investors like Elevation, which bought shares in the company relatively early. In Elevation's case, it started buying into Facebook when the company was valued at some $9m in November 2009.
Since then, the company has been caught up in a near feeding frenzy, with rumours that the company is planning to float itself on the stock market regularly spreading across trading floors worldwide.
In June last year it was worth $23bn. Now it is worth $65bn.
LinkedIn, a professional social networking site that makes a small annual profit, more than doubled in value on the first day it was on the stock market this summer.
In May, Microsoft paid $8.5bn for the online telecoms company Skype, even though the company is loss-making and had never been sold for more than $2bn before.
So should the man on the street be looking seriously at putting money into technology companies? Matt Morris of the London financial house Baigrie Davies, thinks not.
"Although the sale of social media giants makes huge sums of money for the folk on Wall Street, we would be very sceptical of investing in a company whose value is based on excessive multiples of its revenue. It's not a sound place for most investors' money."
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Investment Corporation of Dubai was considering investing in Lehman as the bank made desperate attempts to raise capital to keep it afloat.
Dubai fund considered last-minute bid for Lehman
Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD), the sovereign fund that owns Emirates Airline, approached Lehman Brothers about an investment of up to US$4 billion (Dh14.48bn) just days before the US bank collapsed in 2008, according to documents released over the weekend. The investment offer was part of Lehman's last-gasp efforts to raise capital in an ultimately failed attempt to stay afloat.
The planned ICD investment, along with other approaches from sovereign funds in Kuwait and Korea, were ultimately scrapped, and Lehman failed in September 2008 after it was denied a government rescue. Lehman's bankruptcy, which is being adjudicated by a US court, is the largest ever in the US. ICD, which had prior business dealings with Lehman, first approached the bank on March 15 2008 about an equity investment. At that point, however, "Lehman told ICD that Lehman's capital and liquidity positions were very strong and that Lehman was not interested in raising 'equity capital' at that time", according to a 2,200-page report written by Anton Valukas, an attorney investigating the Lehman Brothers collapse.
"ICD responded that if and when Lehman considered raising capital, ICD should be Lehman's 'first call in the Middle East'," it says. The next proposals came on the brink of Lehman's failure, as the bank was hammering out a plan to spin off its embattled commercial property portfolio into an entity to be called "SpinCo". Under the plan, which was later mimicked by other US investment banks, Lehman wanted to separate its good assets - referred to as "clean Lehman" inside the company - from its risky ones, which would be farmed out to SpinCo.
Lehman looked to ICD in early August "as a potential investor for up to $250 million in SpinCo junior, or mezzanine, debt" documents say. There was an exchange of term sheets, or offers to enter into an investment, but no deal materialised. That, however, was not the last of Lehman's attempts to involve ICD in its rescue. In early September, Lehman's former head of global investment banking, Hugh "Skip" McGee, proposed something called "Project Indigo", which involved ICD making a $2bn investment in Lehman after SpinCo was formed. Rothschild, the British bank advising ICD, "informed Lehman that ICD had concerns about the real estate market and future write-downs". Through the final stages of Lehman's pre-bankruptcy existence, the acquisition of a stake in Lehman's Investment Management Division (IMD), which was considered a "crown jewel" asset, featured prominently in discussions with ICD. On September 4, just 11 days before Lehman filed for bankruptcy protection in the US, ICD made two offers to Lehman, according to Mr Valukas's report. Under the first, it would pay up to $4bn for 50.1 per cent of Neuberger Berman, the private wealth management arm of IMD.
After Lehman did not respond to the first proposal, a second proposal was made for a $3.25bn investment in the company after the spin-off, but it was contingent on Lehman raising $3.25bn in capital, and required "protection for ICD against up to $2bn in write-downs by Lehman over the next year". Additionally, ICD wanted to have the option to convert its Lehman shares into shares of IMD "in the event of substantial write-downs or a ratings downgrade".
The negotiations ended, however, on September 9, less than a week before Lehman's bankruptcy. "According to McGee," the Valukas report says, "ICD said that it needed a 'time out' after Lehman's stock declined by nearly 50 per cent in a single day on September 9, 2008." firstname.lastname@example.com


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As the Year of Mercy comes to a close this month in the Catholic Church, a Mass and rite for the Closing
of the Holy Door of Mercy will be celebrated Sunday, Nov. 6 by Archbishop Charles Chaput at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia.
A holy hour will begin at 5:30 p.m. and confessions will be heard, followed by the Mass at 6:30 p.m.
The Mass will feature prayers of mercy for prisoners.
During the Mass, among other prayers the archbishop will specifically pray the following:
"Dearly beloved brothers and sisters, we have reached the end of the Jubilee Year. It has been an extraordinary time of grace and mercy.
"In this Eucharistic celebration, we raise our voices to the Father in a hymn of praise and thanksgiving for all the gifts he has bestowed upon us. Once more, before approaching these sacred mysteries, let us invoke the soothing balm of his mercy acknowledging that we are sinners and forgiving one another from the bottom of our hearts."
(See the ritual prayers for the Mass here.)
The cathedral is just one of the designated sites around the Archdiocese of Philadelphia that have had Holy Doors during the jubilee year. Those doors will also be closed on the following dates:
National Shrine of St. John Neumann, Saturday, Nov. 12 at the 12:15 p.m. Mass;
St. Katharine Drexel Shrine, Bensalem, Sunday, Nov. 13 at the 9:30 a.m. Mass;
St. Rita of Cascia Shrine, Philadelphia, Wednesday, Nov. 16 at the noon Mass;
Miraculous Medal Shrine, Philadelphia, Friday, Nov. 18 at the 12:05 p.m. Mass;
National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Doylestown, Friday, Nov. 18 at the 7 p.m. Mass.
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1.1 Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to transaction processing technology. More particularly the current invention relates to means and a method for executing a nested transaction in an execution environment supporting execution of flat transactions only.
1.2 Description and Disadvantages of Prior Art
Transaction processing technology is exploited to administrate, manage and coordinate the flow of the multitude of concurrently processing transactions through the computer system. It orchestrates the commit and undo, i.e. rollback, of transactions as well as the recovery of objects, resource managers, or sites after they fail.
The above mentioned consistency requirement for a certain transaction and for all other concurrently processing transactions in the local or distributed transaction system is more accurately expressed as the ACID requirement. Actually ACIDicity is a combination of four different sub-requirements:
Various types of transaction models do exist.
The simplest form of a transaction model is the flat transaction which comprises all operations within a StartTransaction and EndTransaction statement; the EndTransaction statement may be represented by a CommitTransaction or RollbackTransaction statement.
A more sophisticated transaction model is the nested transaction wherein within an outermost transaction a multitude of further transactions nested to any arbitrary depth are encapsulated.
These concepts are described in further details for instance by J. Gray "Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques", 1992. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN: 1558601902.
One problem created by this coexistence of different transaction models is that programs written for and performing a nested transaction cannot be executed within an execution environment supporting a flat transaction model only. A further problem area relates to the area of program development. In terms of intelligibility and maintainability programs are to be designed as modular as possible without context dependencies between different modules to be paid attention to by a programmer. The smaller the context to which a programmer has to pay attention, the less programming errors will occur. The most well-known programming paradigm realizing this principle is the object oriented programming concept. Real world functions, which have to be executed as a single transaction, do require that many objects would have to be manipulated within a single transaction. Exploiting the nested transaction model, complex context situations can be avoided for instance by enclosing individual modifications of an object as encapsulated transactions. But in case the execution environment, for instance the underlying database storing the object data, does not support a nested transaction model this even would have an undesired influence on the programming style; larger programming contexts will have to be established to guarantee the transactional execution of more complex operations. A well-known example of execution environments which support flat transaction models only are access interfaces to relational database systems.
1.3 Objective of the Invention
The invention is based on the objective to provide an approach for executing a nested transaction in an execution environment supporting a flat transaction only.
The objectives of the invention are solved by the independent claims. Further advantageous arrangements and embodiments of the invention are set forth in the respective subclaims.
The present invention relates to means and a method for executing a nested transaction in an execution environment supporting flat transactions only.
To process a StartTransaction operation within a nested transaction it is suggested to check whether the StartTransaction operation is on the first nesting level of the nested transactions. An actual transaction within the execution environment by issuing a corresponding StartTransaction is started only in the affirmative case but not otherwise.
To process a CommitTransaction operation within a nested transaction to successfully terminate a transaction it is suggested to check whether the CommitTransaction operation is on the first nesting level of the nested transaction. An actual transaction within the execution environment will be terminated only by issuing a corresponding CommitTransaction operation in the affirmative case but not otherwise.
To process a RollbackTransaction operation within a nested transaction aborting a transaction as unsuccessful it is suggested to issue a corresponding RollbackTransaction operation within the execution environment independent from the nesting level of said RollbackTransaction operation.
The suggested approach has the significant advantage that it supports to execute a nested transaction in an execution environment supporting a flat transaction only. The current invention provides all transactional benefits to the application as if it would really execute a nested transaction.
In the drawings and specification there has been set forth a preferred embodiment of the invention and, although specific terms are used, the description thus given uses terminology in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation. It will, however, be evident that various modifications and changes may be made thereto without departing from the broader spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
The present invention can be realized in hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software. Any kind of computer system—or other apparatus adapted for carrying out the methods described herein—is suited. A typical combination of hardware and software could be a general purpose computer system with a computer program that, when being loaded and executed, controls the computer system such that it carries out the methods described herein. The present invention can also be embedded in a computer program product, which comprises all the features enabling the implementation of the methods described herein, and which—when being loaded in a computer system—is able to carry out these methods.
Computer program means or computer program in the present context mean any expression, in any language, code or notation, of a set of instructions intended to cause a system having an information processing capability to perform a particular function either directly or after either or both of the following a) conversion to another language, code or notation; b) reproduction in a different material form.
The principles of the current invention are being described within the context of an object oriented environment, as provided for instance by C++ or JAVA, in combination with relational database interfaces, as provided for instance by ODBC (open database connectivity) or JDBC (JAVA database connectivity). This description should not be understood as a limitation of the proposed invention as the proposed concepts may be applied to any execution environment supporting flat transaction models only.
4.1 Introduction
Relational database management systems are a well established means of storing data that continue to offer considerable advantages over alternatives. The application programming interface commonly available to object oriented programming languages such as C++ and Java often only supports flat transactions although proper application program structure dictates that nested transactions are necessary in order to maintain data consistency. The current invention proposes a novel mechanism whereby nested transactions can be emulated on top of the flat transaction model and, using this model, applications can be written to guarantee the consistency of data in a transactional way.
Shedding further light on the background of the current invention the following four most important aspects making the invention beneficial are pointed out:
These aspects will be discussed in turn.
Writing Reliable Object Oriented Application Programs:
Currently, among the most popular programming languages for writing applications are the object oriented languages C++ and Java. It is often required that the data manipulated by application programs is persistent and consistent. By persistence is meant that the data may 'outlive' the application program that created it and thus be usable by future instantiations of the application program or, indeed, by other applications. An example of this is a bank account record in a bank's database: the record must remain in the database as long as the customer has an account at that bank independently of the execution of programs that interact with the data stored in the record. By data consistency is implied that important relations between data items are maintained for all applications using the data. An example of this is that an account record cannot exist without a customer record; that is an account is meaningless without a customer. If a customer account record is deleted then, in order that the data remains in a consistent state, any account records relating to that customer must also be deleted.
Guaranteeing these persistent and consistent properties is difficult. To this end, the concepts and principles of transactions are use to solve these problems. Transactions, briefly, refer to a group of operations on potentially shared data with ACID properties as discussed above.
For the purpose of the current invention the following transaction models are of importance: the flat transaction and the nested transaction model.
A flat transaction is the simplest form of a transaction and is characterized by a:
Nested transactions allow one transaction to be embedded completely within another. The begin and end of the nested transaction must appear after the begin, and before the end of the encapsulating transaction:
begin 'encapsulating transaction' begin 'nested transaction' end 'nested transaction' end 'encapsulating transaction'
In a nested transaction model, transactions may be nested to an arbitrary depth.
The current invention will enable that object oriented concepts including the nested transaction model may be exploited for programming even in case the underlying transaction execution environment supports flat transactions only.
Advantages of Using Relational Database Systems for Object Storage:
Relational database management systems, RDBMSs, have become the standard data stores for on-line transaction processing. The monumental effort that has been invested into the performance optimization and data integrity together with their ubiquitousness and commercial acceptance make for a compelling argument to use them to store data used in object oriented application programs.
More recently object database management systems such as Object Design's ObjectStore provide a viable alternative but do not support many of the data integrity features that traditional RDBMSs do and have a much lower market penetration and acceptance.
The current invention prevents that any limitation of the transactional capabilities of the database management system will reflect on the programming level like for instance within an object oriented programming environment.
Shortcomings of Common Relational Database Interfaces:
Application programs access RDBMSs using APIs: application program interfaces. The de facto API standard for relational database access is ODBC, open database connectivity. ODBC is a set of application programming interfaces, created by Microsoft, defining how to move information in and out of any database that supports the standard. ODBC is based on X/Open SQL CLI (call level interface) and uses human readable statements to access and manipulate the data stored in a database.
ODBC has limited support for transactions. A flat transaction model only is supported in one of two modes:
Attention is now shifted to the application programs using the JDBC and ODBC interfaces. As preferred embodiment of the current invention
The facade library offers several APIs 104 that allow the application program to manipulate the data stored in the RDBMS. A minimal set of operations to be performed on objects would be create, delete, read and write.
An application typically needs to write many different types of objects to the database. Although it is possible to write objects as binary images, it is not desirable as the application cannot benefit from many of the features of the RDBMS such as data constraints and the data is rendered unusable by other applications or even other versions of the same application. A much better method is to write individual data members of an object into different columns of, perhaps, several database tables. The data is still recognizable and readable; we call this property legibility. To achieve this a library can inspect the object's structure and use this information to write the data to appropriate columns and tables in the database. Such a library does not then need modification to be used with different versions of the same application or, for that matter, completely different applications with different object models.
An example of a problem scenario to which the current invention may be applied is the following: Often a suitable database schema for a given object model requires that more than one table be used to store a single object. To maintain legibility and consistency when writing a single object to the database, the facade library must use a transactional write. That is, all columns of all tables relating to the object must be updated completely or not at all. When the database access method only supports a flat transaction model (e.g. JDBC or ODBC) then this single level of transactional capability is effectively 'used up'. The application can only safely update a single object in this way.
For applications even of moderate complexity, situations arise when flat transactions are inadequate. Considering a situation where a transfer needs to be made from a current account to a savings account, the two account objects, currentAccount and savingsAccount, are loaded into memory. The amount to be transferred is deducted from the currentAccount object and added to the savingsAccount object. Now the application must write both objects; there are two alternatives:
To support complex operations such as the example above it is highly desirable to have access to nested transactions. Without the support of a nested transaction model deficiencies of a flat transaction model within the database execution environment will "shine through" and will influence the programming style in an unacceptable manner on the application programming level.
Such an outcome would be achieved for instance if one would try to solve the problem by letting the application control the start and the end of a transaction. By exposing the control of start and end of transaction the application could 'hold off' the commit operation until the two writes complete. Whilst this does indeed solve the replacement problem one must consider what this implies for the application program. Typically an operation such as the account transfer could occur in a series of semantically higher and higher level operations: a transfer operation might be a part of a close account operation. When writing the transfer operation the programmer would be likely to begin and end the transaction—again using up the only available transaction. Otherwise large programming contexts will have to be accepted on the programming level which have to be controlled by a programmer explicitly with respect to their transactional behavior and which, due to their increased complexity, are quite error prone. Moreover, reusability of the modules participating within this transactional programming context is reduced as reusing such a module would force an exploiter to establish transactional control himself explicitly.
Another approach for trying to solve the problem could consist in the introduction of additional interfaces, which undesirably would increase the interface complexity. Referring to the above bank transfer account example one could imagine that a new operation is provided by the facade library that would effectively perform the transfer (i.e. write both objects) on behalf of the objects themselves; such an additional operation could be for instance a writeObjects operation. This does, indeed, solve the transfer problem but one can imagine ever increasingly complex operations which an application may require, making it necessary, but implausible, to add an infinite number of operations.
4.2 The General Solution Mechanism
The solution proposed in this section describes an implementation of a mechanism to emulate nested transactions on database interfaces supporting only flat transactions. The implementation is in a facade library called ObjectSQL written in the Java programming language.
ObjectSQL has a class called 'Store' which provides access to a database via JDBC. The class provides the following key methods:
Create an object in the database
Write an object to the database
Locates and reads an object from the database
Delete object from the database
Create and return a transaction object
The operations of the first four methods are self evident. The startTransaction( ) method creates a new object of the class Transaction that in turn has the following methods:
Commit this transaction and, as a convenience to the
programmer, all previous transactions in the transaction
hierarchy. The commit is only propagated to the database if
this is the root transaction of the transaction hierarchy
Abort (rollback) this and all other transaction objects in this
transaction hierarchy
When several transactions are nested a transaction hierarchy is created.
As the underlying database API only supports flat transactions the suggestion of the current invention is that only the root transaction's commit can be allowed to reach the database. Expressed in more general terms the fundamental teaching of the current invention is to check for each individual StartTransaction operation if it is on the first nesting level of a nested transaction or not; of course in a preferred embodiment of the current invention the detailed nesting level of each StartTransaction is monitored. Finally, a corresponding StartTransaction operation within the underlying execution environment is issued on the first nesting level only but not otherwise. This approach prevents the single available transaction scope within the execution environment from being "used up". It is further suggested to check each individual EndTransaction operation, in case it is a CommitTransaction operation successfully terminating a transaction, for whether said EndTransaction operation is on said first nesting level of a nested transaction. A corresponding CommitTransaction operation within the execution environment will be issued only in case the CommitTransaction terminates the outermost nesting level but not otherwise. Again this approach prevents the single available transaction scope within the execution environment from being "used up" by terminating the nested transaction scope too early.
For example, in
This 'hold-off' is achieved by means of a depth counter. As each transaction starts, the depth counter, initially zero, is incremented. In a similar manner, as each transaction commits, the depth counter is decremented. If the commit process results in a depth counter value of zero then one knows that it is the outermost encapsulating transaction and one passes the commit operation to the database API causing all modifications to take effect.
In a preferred embodiment of the current invention it is suggested to administrate the depth counter within the above mentioned startTransaction( ), commit( ) and abort( ) calls. The first call of startTransaction( ) and the last call of commit( ) within the nested transaction will trigger the corresponding transaction operation within the flat transaction models of the execution environment to be issued.
4.3 The Mechanism for Aborting a Nested Transaction
In general a transaction is aborted as unsuccessful by issuing a RollbackTransaction operation (called abort( ) in the current implementation). To appropriately deal with the single transaction scope within the execution environment, the current invention suggests in the case where an EndTransaction operation being a RollbackTransaction operation aborting a transaction as unsuccessful is detected, that a corresponding RollbackTransaction operation within the execution environment is issued independent from the nesting level of the RollbackTransaction operation. Moreover, according to the current invention once a RollbackTransaction operation has been executed within a nested transaction, any further StartTransaction operation or any further EndTransaction operation within said nested transaction independent from its nesting level will be rejected as being in error without issuing a corresponding StartTransaction operation or a corresponding EndTransaction operation to the execution environment.
Thus, in essence and due to the underlying flat transaction models of the execution environment, a RollbackTransaction operation aborts all transactions within the current hierarchy of the nested transaction.
A consequence of the fact that a RollbackTransaction operation will abort the entire transaction hierarchy of the nested transaction, is visualized within
4.4 Further Advantages
As shown above the proposed mechanism to emulate nested transactions on top of database interfaces offering only a flat transaction model is necessary in order to write reliable applications which share or require persistent or consistent data.
The proposed teaching is both important and valuable as system architects reject object oriented databases and move back to the traditional and ubiquitous relational databases solution for application development.
The invention removes the limitation in ODBC and JDBC, which support flat transactions only.
Moreover, the current invention offers a migration path for the execution environments (like for instance ODBC and JDBC) allowing them to incorporate nested transaction models in future extensions of the execution environments. Based on the current invention already today application programs could be written according to the nested transaction paradigm. The facade library, implementing the support for nested transactions as discussed above, simply has to be removed once the corresponding support is provided within the execution environment without affecting the applications.
Another area of applicability of the current invention is smart card systems. Due to their limited computing resources their transactional capabilities may be limited to execute flat transactions only. The current invention proposes a technique allowing to execute nested transactions even on these limited systems.
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Japan's population shrank to 127,053,471 as of March 31, dropping by 1,554 for its second consecutive year-on-year decline, a government report released Thursday showed.
The government began tracking population growth in 1968.
The number of elderly, defined as those aged 65 or older, rose to 26,675,163, constituting a record-high 21.0 percent of the population, reflecting a sputtering birthrate and rapidly graying population. The elderly were 20.3 percent of the population last year.
Deaths deepened the population decline by hitting an all-time high of 1,081,174, up 8,893 from the previous year.
This blunted the surge in births, which actually rose for the first time in eight years to 1,091,917, adding 26,384 people between April 1, 2006, and last March 31. Births fell to a record low of 1,065,533 births last year.
The natural increase in population — births minus deaths — came to 10,743, achieving a turnaround from the natural decrease of 6,748 a year earlier.
The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry compiled the data based on resident registries of only Japanese citizens at municipal government offices across Japan.
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Tottori had the smallest population, at 606,695, followed by Shimane at 739,080, Kochi at 792,419, Tokushima at 811,678 and Fukui at 818,443.
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I've decided to make a little guide detailing some things that new players should know that aren't covered in most other newbie guides I've seen. You might think of this as a kind of "intermediate" guide, for players who already know the new player stuff, but want to improve a little more. I'm not a hardcore veteran or anything, I played on EU servers to about lvl 15 and now I'm level 23 on US. These are things I learned with time that if I'd known all along would have helped me a lot.
I've mentioned sustain in games with people around the same level as me, and it's surprising how many people have no idea what this is. Sustain is simple, it's how long you can stay in your lane or in the jungle without having to go back to base. Some champions have higher sustain by default, like Garen for instance, because of his regen.
You might be thinking "Okay so that's sustain, but why should I care about it? Don't I need to get back to the shop quick?" Here's the deal:
The longer you spend in lane the more gold you will have and the more experience you will gain. If you are in lane more than your opposition, you will have more gold and experience than them. If you have more gold, you get better items. If you are higher level, you have higher stats and better abilities.
If you have trouble with sustain or have to go back to base a lot, get Teleport. I have completely stopped using Ignite most of the time and now usually use Flash and Teleport. Teleport is also great for assisting other lanes or getting ganks.
Wanted to throw in a couple Teleport tips while we're talking about it. Teleport is among one of the most useful Summoner Spells because it gives you great mobility and can help you get back in lane fast. So most everyone knows you can use Teleport to transport yourself to a friendly turret or minion, right? Well if not you do now. What a lot of new players don't know is you can also use Teleport to travel to...
-Sight or Vision Wards
-Jarvan's Demacian Standard
-Thresh's Dark Passage
-Traps like Shaco's Jack in the Box, and Teemo's Noxious Trap(mushrooms)
-Champion pets like Annie's Tibbers, Heimer's turrets, Malzahars voidlings, or Yorick's omens
-Zyra's plants(and seeds!)
-Zac's bloblets that appear when he dies(the blobs will also be invulnerable while you are teleporting so you can save him)
So if you decide you like Teleport, you now know those fun facts about it!
Thought about making this two separate parts, but really these two go together. There is a lot of frustration between new players who don't understand how to be a Support and other players who do know. So I'm going to break it down in simple terms.
As a Support, any Support, it is your job to... SUPPORT THE ADC.
Now to explain why this is needed I have to go a little bit into what a Carry is. A lot of people will argue about the exact definition of a Carry, but there is something that I think most people agree on. For the most part a Carry is a Champion that is weak in the early game and requires a lot of farm(minions/Creep Score/CS) to get gold, and then completely owns in the mid-late game.
So as a Support you must let your ADC farm. You should never be taking minion last hits from your ADC. This means that you need a gold item. There are a few different options for these, I won't get into that since you can just go to the search tab of the shop and check the "gold income" box to see them. You may attack minions to help push the lane, but do not last hit them!
Some Supports are beasts(Morgana, Kayle) that can put a lot of pressure on enemy Champions doing a lot of damage and racking up impressive kill streaks. Some are more suited to staying back and landing stuns or using shields and/or heals(Lux, Janna) on friendly Champions. That's just most of the time though, a lot of this depends on how you play them as many Supports are vary versatile and have varying item builds that work well for them.
I'll try to keep this part real short. You need to try to push your lane when you can, however it's not always the best time. If you push at a bad time your opponents will end up fed, and people will yell at you. It happens to everyone sometimes, but obviously you want to try and avoid this.
So it's simple, try to push the lane to the enemy turret when you are on equal ground or surpassing your opponent. If you are getting owned in your lane start hugging your turret(staying under it) and farm minions from there. If you aren't very good at farming minions under a turret, I also suggest you practice that. Try to figure out how many hits it takes a turret to take out a minion, and try to last hit them.
Do not try to push the lane if you are feeding already, or you can see a Jungler or other Champion nearby waiting to jump the bones of your lane. Please don't. If you get some help from your team that's okay, but don't try to go all Rambo if you're not doing well.
I learned a lot more about jungling from reading jungling guides, and I suggest you look some of those up too. However there are a few things I can tell you to help you jungling, and also to help you understand what your team's Jungler is doing out there.
First off don't expect your Jungler to jump to your rescue pre-lvl 6. Junglers can be weak sometimes without their ultimate and they are just wasting time and ruining their early game gold and experience. If they see a good opportunity they may jump on it but don't expect it. If you have trouble jungling pay attention to this lvl 6 thing, I found waiting has made me much more effective in jungle mid-late game.
Also realize your Jungler is trying to assist everyone, but he can only help where it's possible and/or convenient. Also he may decide that your lane is lost and he needs to help others more, especially mid.
Last, do not ever take camps from your Jungler without permission. Before Patch 4.20 this may have been okay sometimes, but now camps take much longer between respawns and Smiting certain camps give buffs. If I'm jungling and I see someone kill the Gromp I am not happy.
So for now that's everything! Like I said I'm no veteran, if you see me in a game you may see me make stupid mistakes that break some of these rules. I try my best but everyone makes mistakes. I may update this guide as time goes on to add more information if I forgot something or if I just think of something else that can help people. I decided to make this guide because a lot of the time I think about how much better I could be now if I had known this stuff day one, so I hope you find it useful.
If you disagree with anything I've put in here, and are more experienced than me or just think I'm an idiot please let me know. However please discuss it with me in a civilized manner because as with in game, I will just ignore jerks. This goes for adding to the guide as well.


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By Rahul Nair, Official Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2017 Blogger
Pulitzer Prize winning art critic Sebastian Smee held the audience spellbound, and they broke into thunderous applause at the session's conclusion. Smee discussed his recent book, The Art of Rivalry, which examines the relationships between four historically famous pairs of artists, 'who led lives which were anything but dull and boring.' He focused on the deeply eventful and intense relationship between British painter Lucian Freud (1922-2011) and Irish artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992), one of the four pairs of artists discussed in his book.
Almost every era has been marked by artists working in conjunction or competition with each other; inspiring and pushing each other to break through to the other side. Freud and Bacon were no different. They bonded instantly, Freud was 'fascinated by Bacon's fresh, theatrical, appeal,' according to Smee. He quoted Freud's homage to Bacon as 'the wisest and wildest person he had ever known,' whose work was 'original, unlocking the valves of sensations.' Smee noted how much evidence shows that Freud had a platonic, 'god worshiping kind of crush' on Bacon.
Smee described the complexly entwined relationship of the artists and their works, examining a portrait of Bacon by Freud, which one art critic had described as 'the silent intensity of a grenade in the millisecond before it goes off.' The portrait, which was stolen from a gallery in Berlin, includes an intimate detail: it was drawn while the pair sat facing each other with their knees touching. Thirteen years later, Freud was working on his exhibition in Germany, which many – including Freud himself – considered to be his last. A national campaign was launched to persuade the thief to return the portrait. 'Will the person holding it allow me to exhibit it at my exhibition next June,' pleaded Freud publically. A copy of the flyer circulated for the campaign remained outside Freud's studio until his death.
Also significant were the romantic relationships that Freud and Bacon were each involved in. Freud's relationship with Caroline was wonderful for the first few years, and the two lunched with Bacon every day: 'life was rich and unpredictable.' Sadly, Caroline walked out of the marriage a few years later, unable to bear Freud's gambling habit any longer.
Around the same time, Bacon was involved with Peter Lacy, a relationship which he later summarized as 'a disaster and I wouldn't wish it on my enemy.'' Lacy was an abusive alcoholic, who in one instance actually threw Bacon out of a window. Bacon survived the 15 foot fall, but his right eye had to be sewn back into place. Freud's intervention in the matter enraged Bacon, and the two ultimately fell out.
Smee had the opportunity to interview Freud on more than one occasion, and though it was difficult, he broached the subject of their relationship and encouraged Freud to talk. Freud and Bacon were both geniuses in their own right, helping each other and their art evolve. Smee's rendition of their tumultuous relationship was insightful, concentrating on the 'intimate history that textbooks ignore.'
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The PRIF partners announced on 27 March the establishment of the Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) Coordination Office which will assist in improving infrastructure and services in Pacific island countries.
PRIF partners consist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Australia, New Zealand, the World Bank Group, the European Commission, and European Investment Bank.
The office will be funded by grants from the Governments of Australia and New Zealand and the ADB, with Australia providing US$8.9 million, New Zealand funding US$2.4 million, and ADB providing US$0.5 million through its Technical Assistance Special Fund. ADB will administer the grants and will host the PRIF Coordination Office in Sydney, Australia.
Since 2008, the PRIF partners have worked closely with Pacific governments to coordinate development partner assistance to improve the quality, reliability and availability of critical infrastructure in both rural and urban areas to boost economic growth, create jobs and provide access to public services.
"For the past 5 years, development partners have utilized the PRIF to better coordinate their support for infrastructure in the Pacific region," said Xianbin Yao, Director General, Pacific Department at the ADB. "The new PRIF Coordination Office will take this coordination one step further and will ensure that assistance provided through loans, grants, and private sector participation, is effective and better meets the needs of Pacific people."
"The Australian Government is pleased to be a major supporter of the PRIF Coordination Office", said Rob Tranter, First Assistant Director General at AusAID. "The Coordination Office is a practical and tangible demonstration of the commitments made by development partners to improve development effectiveness and donor coordination in the Pacific".
The PRIF Coordination Office will provide Pacific governments with comprehensive and coordinated support and technical advice on infrastructure development and investment. The PRIF supports the national development goals of Pacific nations by helping to ensure infrastructure investments are well-designed and managed.
The PRIF covers 12 Pacific island countries and supports five economic subsectors: energy; telecommunications; road, aviation, and maritime transport; waste management; and water and sanitation.
The multi-partner investment coordination and technical assistance mechanism has so far assisted Pacific Island countries to improve roads, ports and transport systems; support reliable energy and communications infrastructure; and improve their water, sanitation and waste management systems.
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Take a look at my hub for information about how to do it.
Not being critical for two weeks is extremely difficult. I have failed twice already.
Do you think you could do it?
Would not the world be a wonderful place without criticism?
Criticism is something that's needed from time to time, the problem lies more so in how it's given.
For example if I were teaching a writing class and pointed out the common mistakes of the class and how to improve them, that would be better than pointing out one student and saying he or she always misspells words.
Without criticism, everyone would aim for mediocrity instead of doing their best, it's just a matter of criticism needing to be given the right way and at the right time.
I was drawn to this question because as I grew up my mother and father did lots of criticizing. Not just of me and my brothers, but of everyone we knew. That being said, I do understand what fit2day is saying. Constructive criticism can be helpful. However, criticizing others because you feel inferior to others or because you feel you are better than others or for whatever reason than to be helpful, than the world would be a better place for the one doing the criticizing especially. I don't think I can do it but I would like to try it someday when I am not feeling low.
It would be extremely hard, I even would think it is unachievable for the vast majority, except for a chosen few. Yet even an attempt to go there must bring some very enjoyable changes to your life
This is subtle hub spam and that is not appriopriate behaviour on these forums. If you do this more often you'll run the risk of getting flagged.
"Take a look at my hub for information about how to do it." and starting a forum thread about being critical, which is exactly the topic of the hubs of this user. The titles of the hubs don't suggest that however.
But it's like saying: Look at my hub where I buy my favorite cookies. Where do you buy your favorite cookies? In other words, I want to draw attention to my hubs.
Simeonvisser, that was a very negative and damaging reply.
I am studying a book called "Depression, the Way Out", because I have depression myself.
There is a chapter called "Beware the Critical Spirit", that teaches and helps one to be able to be positive and not focus on the negative.
I am new to the hub, so I said take a look at my site instead of writing the whole thing in this forum.
I don't understand, led alone care, about the amount of hits I get, I care about how many people I affect by spreading the word.
I will be promoting this two week plan because it helped me and others around me.
So if you see it promoted again, don't get yourself too upset.
It is a violation of HubPages forum rules to open threads with regards to hubs you have published.
He isn't talking about anything else but that. Got it?
yes I can though I don't like the way you asked the question.
That's a good question. Everyone thinks I'm good at keeping my opinions to myself. It's hard to keep your inner voice in. I do not like criticism since most of the time is done behind the subject's back and it does not offer any solutions. If someone asks me what I think about something, I voice my opinion. If they don't ask, I keep it to myself.
I must be missing the same thing. Hello Misha, long time no see... how are you?
I think the clue is in the sentence "Take a look at my hub for information about how to do it."
In answer to the question: no, I can't go two DAYS without being critical of anything or anyone, never mind two weeks. And frankly, I don't see why I should. To me, telling someone "Don't be critical" is effectively saying "Suspend your rational faculties and don't ever judge, because there are no such things as standards and every idea has equal validity, no matter how stupid and ill thought-out it is."
It would be really difficult for me... so far as constructive criticism is concerned. For all other types of criticism I can take the challenge. But then one could criticise that as destructive criticism.
When a critique criticises a criticism what happens?
Why would one want to set oneself up for that kind of restraint, "for two weeks I won't be critical..." We are educated in our schools to employ critical analysis, thus we criticize and analyze.
Here is an even more challenging question, can you go two weeks without getting offended, you know, taking things personal, even if it is criticism?
Uh, I'd hafta say No! lol Try as I might, I can't even go two hours without criticizing - Even when I'm by myself!!
I hope you didn't have to sweat great drops of blood for those two hours. Sheesh what a miserable thing to ask anyone to be uncritical. How is the world to be understood and survived if not analyzed and digested in quick gulps then lived at leisure that never comes?
it is the nature of a true writer not to wilt under criticism but to understand the jewels offered in noxious ways and enhance oneself thereby.
No, there's too much that needs criticizing and I would be remiss in my duty as a public minded citizen and a humanist not to point out errors that are going to have very negative consequences... that includes fuzzy logic.
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