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'We Have Awakened A Sleeping Giant, ...'
by pessimist
These words, questionably attributed to Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, summarize the dilemma Bu$hCo now finds itself: the media is slipping out of their control like an octopus in a jar [scroll down to 'A Great Escape']
How It Used To Be
The media used to be an agreeable lap dog, ready, willing, and able to sway public opinion in the direction favored by Bu$hCo. Remember those silly stories about Al Gore in 1999-2000? They were slanted in such a way as to make Gore look silly (admittedly, he didn't help himself with this much). But whenever Bu$h was acting silly, his behavior was spun as 'being one of the guys'. Gore was the boring policy wonk while George was 'funner'.
David Shuster covered the Whitewater investigation of President Clinton for Fox News. He currently works on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews He recently spoke on the topic, "TV News Rediscovers Its Critical Voice: A Look at the Way That Coverage of the Bush Administration Has Changed Since 9/11" at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington.
The University of Michigan graduate said the gist of his address will focus on how the changing mood of the country has driven news coverage to be more critical of the administration.
When asked whether he would have had that opportunity while working at Fox, Shuster laughed, remained silent for a pregnant pause and said, "No. The answer is no."
He reveals more about the practice of news slanting by Fox News on the next page.
The Rooster In The FOX House
He went on to recount his six-year tenure at Fox. "At the time I started at Fox, I thought, this is a great news organization to let me be very aggressive with a sitting president of the United States (Bill Clinton)," Shuster said. "I started having issues when others in the organization would take my carefully scripted and nuanced reporting and pull out bits and pieces to support their agenda on their shows.
"With the change of administration in Washington, I wanted to do the same kind of reporting, holding the (Bush) administration accountable, and that was not something that Fox was interested in doing," he said.
"Editorially, I had issues with story selection," Shuster went on. "But the bigger issue was that there wasn't a tradition or track record of honoring journalistic integrity. I found some reporters at Fox would cut corners or steal information from other sources or in some cases, just make things up.
The Bloomington native encountered a markedly different culture when he jumped to NBC/MSNBC in June 2002. "One of the first things that happens is you're given a 50-page manual of standards and practices ... and you immediately sense this is an organization that cares very deeply about journalistic integrity."
We reserve judgement on that concerning MSNBC. As for Shuster, making that change has made a difference. He reports neither of his parents liked the fact that their son worked for Fox: "My parents always wondered why it took me so long to get out of there," he said. "I wonder, too."
Back in May, I discovered the National Conference for Media Reform going on in St. Louis. Bill Moyers gave a speech - which will live on long after he himself has gone to that op-ed column in the sky - in which he called upon the media people to rise to the defense of their profession and return it to being the watchdog of our liberties and freedoms. He gave a similar speech at the first National Conference for Media Reform, but I don't think the country was yet fed up enough with Bu$hCo Bull$hit and incompetence to hear his message.
I have seen many subtle signs that many in the media heard the call this time, and since that conference, we have heard them take Scott McClellan apart, and they have also begun covering sensitive stories in a much different manner. I looked at one such story - God "instructed me to strike at Saddam." - just yesterday. This story has been around since June 2003, and yet only now has the media taken it up and presented it as a real news story.
Do you need any more proof that Bu$hCo has hit the iceberg and is going down, taking all of those desperate wrong-wingers with it?
Here it is:
The Giant IS Awake - And Filled With A Terrible Resolve
Vermont to Leahy: Mess with Texas
In the days after Sen. Jim Jeffords left the Republican party, Leahy, who became chairman of the Judiciary Committee as Democrats took control of the Senate and helped to thwart some of Bush's most conservative nominees from reaching the federal bench, said proudly: "All those bumper stickers that say Don't Mess with Texas should be replaced with ones that say Don't Mess with Vermont."
Which brings us to Texas, the so-called "tough on crime" state that still lacks the legal basics — enough crime labs, public defenders, and police training, not to mention an effective white-collar crimes division — but never skimps on money for prisons.
Texas is also the place where a poor defendant can get a lawyer who sleeps through much of his death penalty trial.
When Leahy announced his support for Roberts, he said: "I have drawn the line only at those of President Bush's nominees who were among the most ideologically extreme and who came to us in the mold of activists. Unfortunately, the president has opted not to seek moderate candidates. Instead, he has insisted on nominating several extreme choices and has politicized the process to a greater extent than I have seen in my 31 years in the Senate."
Given that statement, we still wonder how Leahy voted for Roberts.
Miers is not the qualified candidate that Leahy and others sought in return for their votes for John Roberts. [I]t was Miers who helped to shepherd Roberts through the nomination process and ensure that he would tread lightly when it came to revealing his judicial thinking.
As Sen. James Jeffords pointed out, given her lack of a judicial record, committee hearings will be critical to learn more about how Miers would approach the law. But by failing to strip the cloak of secrecy from Roberts' judicial temperament during his testimony before their panel, Leahy and the other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have set a dangerous precedent. They will be hard-pressed to demand answers from Meirs after they were satisifed with none from Roberts.
Vermont's senior senator must remember that he is representing the conscience of our entire state, not just his own. Sen. Leahy, it's time to mess with Texas.
When conservative Vermont newspapers call upon their elected officials to challenge a conservative (sic) president, it is clear that said president has lost the support of the common American. AP-IPSOS polling confirms this, stating that "Evangelicals, Republican women, Southerners and other critical groups in President Bush's political coalition are worried about the direction the nation is headed and disappointed with his performance."
Some of our Wrong-Wing Wregulars have been desperately spouting nonsensical accusations about everyone from Aaron A. Aardvark to Zephyr Z. Zygote trying to take the spotlight off the biggest loser America has ever had to suffer governing us.
We would have been much better off with Michael Dukakis than George W. Bu$h.
My advice to our Wrong-Wing Wregulars is to change your meme.
He's finished - and so are you.
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We wanted to give you an update regarding the use of Denuvo anti-tamper software in RiME. Today, we got word that there was a crack which would bypass Denuvo. Upon receiving this news, we worked to test this and verify that it was, in fact, the case. We have now confirmed that it is. As such, we at Team Grey Box are following through on our promise from earlier this week that we will be replacing the current build of RiME with one that does not contain Denuvo. Please make sure your PC version of RiME has been updated, if it has not done so automatically.
Team Grey Box is also committed both to supporting the games we publish and to our player base, so this is definitely not the final update you will see with RiME. We are currently working on our first traditional patch, which we are aiming to release next week. This patch will provide a fix for the VR initialization bug, and will also provide a fix to some specific instances of hardware-related crashes, among other updates which will be detailed at the time. We sincerely thank players who have reported issues, and a special thanks to those who have worked with us to provide additional details, DxDiag files, and the like. We want to continue giving you the best product we possibly can.
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WW2 Folk Art "Winged Angel" Trench Art drawn on a Pillowcase Love during Wartime
World War Two Folk Art "Winged Angel" Trench Art drawn on a Pillowcase. Northeastern United States c. 1945. Framed behind plexiglass with screws. Collection Jim Linderman. Courtesy Natalie Curley Antiques. "Love during Wartime" is a continuing series on Dull Tool Dim Bulb.
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Writings/ Photographs/ Poetry/ Archives
A Holly Lee and Lee Ka-sing online magazine. Published on Fridays.
Holly Lee
Song of Replanting: a mimic sonnet in three parts
Prelude to the poem:
I've been thinking of trees, flowers and gardens lately, in their natural environment. I am not surprised at all to find a tin can flower popped up in my head at the same time. It came from a poem I wrote many years ago, when I was still working in Hong Kong as a bank clerk in some high floors commercial building. Like a re-visit, I typed down my fragmented thoughts. The next instance I hallucinated myself to become that flower in the can, my slender body waving as I poked through the hole and looked outside. Through the windows, I recognized the ferries, the pier, the harbour and the buildings on the other bank. Snapped out of my reverie, I wrote two more parts, and without an intention it became something like "a mimic sonnet in three parts". I wasted no time to locate the poems I wrote more than forty years ago, and rediscovered the inspiration was actually from two different poems: Connaught Centre 康樂大厦 (1974) and Tin Can Flower 罐頭花 (1976). How fragile and tricky memory can be! Over the years, I have subconsciously merged the two poems into one, and replanted a third, now a new poem.
Four decades ago
I planted
rain Lily
and Jacob's ladder
in tin cans
inside a holely building
bearing hundreds
round windows
outside, the sky
curious birds flew by (mind the windows!)
over the ferries
the clouds
the harbour
I am Con naughter
I am Jar diner
I am retro
I am bold
52 stories and 179 metres
I have 1700 arseholes
in case you wonder
I was the tallest (in 1973)
the oldest (avant-garde that time!)
proudly standing
five decades, while you
gentlemen, my peers
loose teeth pulled
with advancing years
This Del Monte can
that Nestle container
life without respect
our faces pale, no seasons felt
how anemic
how desperate
feed us fresh air, loam soil
sweet rain and sun glow
stop Miracle-Gro!
stop wishing for rainbow
like you break
the chain of an hour
freely lunching, by water
(September 2020)
Lee Ka-sing
Tse Chi Tak visited on June 2nd and gave us "KING HEAVEN AND EARTH QUEEN", his recent book on the demolition of Queen's Pier. Somehow, the waterfront also reminds me the development of Hong Kong Photography
Mixed media: Pine wood, archival inkjet print on paper, acrylic medium
Size: 620mm x 86mm x 35mm
Year of work: 2013
On June 6th, a poem in Chinese texts was translated from the picture version, a few days after the work was created.
"Heaven King and Earth Queen", a book of photography by Tse Chi Tak
Published by Hulu Concept (2009)
Book designed by anothermountainman
Issue 0911-2020
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World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) yesterday released the final card for its biggest event in the organization's history at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, Calif., on June 1.
The blockbuster event will feature two title fights along with the return of former champions "Razor" Rob McCullough and Chase Beebe.
Here's the final line up:
Main event
WEC Featherweight Champion Urijah Faber vs. Jens Pulver
Main card (televised)
WEC Bantamweight Champion Miguel Torres vs. Yoshiro Maeda
Mark Munoz vs. Chuck Grisby
"Razor" Rob McCullough vs. Kenneth Alexander
Under card (may not be broadcast)
Donald Cerrone vs. Richard Crunkilton
Jeff Curran vs. Mike Brown
Chase Beebe vs. Will Ribiero
Tim McKenzie vs. Eric Schambari
Alex Serdyukov vs. Luis Sapo
Alexandre Noguiera vs. Jose Aldo
Charlie Valencia vs. Dominick Cruz
WEC 34 is arguably the promotion's deepest card ever.
In addition to the title fights, as well as the main card action, former NCAA Division I champion Mark Munoz will make his debut. Munoz is considered by many to be one of the best pure wrestlers to ever enter the sport and will look to make big splash against Grisby.
Also making his WEC debut is former 143-pound SHOOTO champion, 'Pequeno' Noguiera, who is one of the best submission fighters in the world in regardless of weight class.
In short, this is one hell of a card that will be shown on VERSUS on June 1 at 9 p.m. ET.


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When it comes to new year's resolutions or lifestyle change in general, many people get tripped up by too many good intentions – to be healthier, fitter, to lose weight, to be a greener, ethical consumer. Having several new things to think about, which may take time and conflict with each other, can sap your willpower and lead to you dropping your new regime. "Later" you say…
But there's one master tool that can help you to tick off multiple goal boxes at the same time, literally, and that's your weekly shopping list.
For minimum change and pain and maximum gain in multiple areas, it's your choice of protein sources from food we're going to look at specifically. A couple of tweaks can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from your choice of food by 50% or more – even without changing to a vegetarian or vegan diet.
Most people are well aware of the mounting evidence showing that reducing meat and animal products in their diet can bring multiple health benefits, such as reduced risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes. There is also growing evidence that a diet low in red meat can reduce the risk of dementia.
From the sustainability perspective, it's now common knowledge that reduced meat consumption helps to reduce the environmental impact of our diet, as raising animals for the meat industry requires huge amounts of land and results in a large proportion of global greenhouse gases.
For one or both of these reasons (or for other ethical reasons) increasing numbers of people are shifting to a vegetarian or vegan diet and increasing their consumption of plant-based foods.
However, many people feel that they are not ready to give up animal products from their diet for fear of nutritional deficiencies or because one or several members of the household don't want to give up meat, fish or dairy.
Understandably, shopping and cooking different foods for different members of a household may feel too disruptive or time consuming, so keeping things as they are would be simpler, cheaper and quicker. The solution?
Simply – swapping 2 or 3 common protein sources that have the highest environmental impact in the way of CO2 emissions from their production. These foods also happen to be some of the highest in calories and saturated fat, so you're hitting your healthy eating agenda as well!
The Low CO2 Diet
There have been numerous studies into the environmental impact of different food types and notable recent 'meta analyses' of those studies include work by Poore & Nemecek (2018) published in Science Magazine. The researchers looked into the results of 570 studies and the data has given us some useful charts and tables that are easy to follow…
As well as being high in saturated fat, which can lead to excess levels of cholesterol being produced in the body, beef from cows bred for meat production leads to more than double the CO2 emissions per 100g of protein compared to any other common food type.
If you were going to cut one thing from your weekly shop, then eliminating beef would undoubtedly be good for the environment, and is likely to help you in efforts to lose weight and safeguard your health.
To move towards a low CO2 diet, opt instead for lower impact poultry if you do want to keep meat on the shopping list and if you use beef mince for heavily flavoured meals like spaghetti bolognese, you could easily swap it for soya or Quorn mince and not notice much difference – perhaps even prefer the alternative.
Lamb is next highest on the CO2 impact list and reducing or eliminating it from your shopping list would bring similar health benefits.
You might be surprised to see cheese so high on the list – causing 7X more greenhouse gas emissions than milk and indeed higher even than pork in terms of CO2 impact.
In addition to the impact of dairy farming, cheese production processes further add to the environmental impact as shown on the second chart above, and as many cheeses are high in saturated fat, reducing or eliminating that from your weekly shop can be great for the environment, your waistline and your long term health.
In Summary
The protein sources at the top of both greenhouse gas impact charts above tend to also be higher in both calories and saturated fat, bringing a host of potential health risks.
Reduce or eliminate beef, lamb and cheese from your shopping list and replace them with foods from lower down the list on either chart.
That one weekly shopping list tweak means that your retail choices could have big benefits for your health and the environment.


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An article from University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway
Should we blame the Sun?
Is climate change man-made or is global warming due to solar insolation? Norwegian researchers have looked into a hypothesis that claims the Sun is to blame.
Denne artikkelen er over ti år gammel og kan inneholde utdatert informasjon.
University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway
Climate change can be confusing, especially because a number of researchers have criticised the UN Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
"The effect of solar activity on climate change is one of the issues on which there remains some uncertainty in the IPCC's work," says Kristoffer Rypdal, a physics professor at the University of Tromsø. He is currently debating the issue with physicists Nicola Scafetta and Bruce West.
Is the Sun's effect underestimated?
In 2008, physicists Nicola Scafetta and Bruce West published an article entitled "Is climate sensitive to solar variability?"
The article argues in support of their hypothesis that there is a subtle complex link between the Sun's activity and variations in the Earth's climate. In essence, this hypothesis means that solar activity plays a crucial role in climate change on Earth.
• A TIME SERIES is a series of observations or measurements, often performed at regular intervals. Example: temperature measurements over many years.
• A STATISTICAL TREND is a long-term trend in a time series. Example: increase in global temperature over the past 40 years.
• STATISTICAL NOISE is random variation in a time series. Noise can have different types of "memory" and if the degree of memory is strong, it can be misinterpreted as a trend.
• STATISTICAL SIGNATURES are different properties found in random variations. An example of a signature is "memory."
• A HYPOTHESIS is a statement about reality that can be tested. A correctly formulated hypothesis can never be verified (confirmed) completely because alternative explanations for an observation can always be found. But it must in principle be falsified (disproved) by the new observations, otherwise the hypothesis is self-fulfilling.
The two researchers used a statistical review of variations in soil temperature and solar radiation to support their view.
The Sun can account for as much as 69 percent of the increase in the Earth's average temperature.
Some forecasts predict that the Sun will cool over the next few decades. Scaffetta and West believe this is good news because this cooling will stabilize the Earth's climate and we will avoid the disastrous consequences predicted in the IPCC's report.
They believe that the IPCC has grossly underestimated the Sun's influence on global warming.
"Scafetta and West are very active advocates for the Sun as the crucial factor in determing climate, and they are very skeptical about global warming," says Rypdal. "The methods they use are also quite unfamiliar to climatologists who argue that it is greenhouse gases that cause global warming."
Rypdal means that climatologists often don't have the right scientific tools to contradict Scaffetta and West, and have largely ignored their research.
In any case, this research focuses on complexity linking. Rypdal and his colleagues have much of the same academic background as Scafetta and West, and they wondered about their interpretation of the statistical data.
Complex relationships
With his son, mathematician Martin Rypdal, Rypdal decided to investigate the statistical arguments that Scafetta and West use to support their hypothesis.
In their article "Testing Hypotheses about the Sun-Climate Complexity Linking " in the highly rated scientific journal Physical Review Letters, the Rypdals show that the observations that Scafetta and West used as the basis for their hypothesis can be explained in another and far more plausible way.
"In short, Scafetta and West argue that although the correlation between solar activity and the Earth's global temperature is very weak, there is a common statistical signature in the two time series that cannot be arbitrary."
Scaffeta and West believe that this means that there is a complex relationship between solar insolation and the Earth's climate.
"But what we have discovered is that these common traits are in fact random and that the relationship disappears when you correct for the trends in the time series," the Rypdals point out.
Conceptual Confusion
"The fundamental weakness of Scafetta and West's method is that they do not conduct a critical test of their own hypothesis," says Rypdal.
It is not sufficient to prove that a hypothesis provides predictions that match observations. A good hypothesis must provide many accurate predictions.
Rypdal believes some of the problems result from the difficulty in defining the term statistical trend. He says it is important to stick to the precise definition of what a trend is.
According to the physics professor there is a need to establish new mathematical concepts in the climate debate.
"Ambiguity in the terminology results in confusion in the discussion amongst researchers. If we are going to overcome this, we will have to have many interdisciplinary meetings," he says.
Conceptual confusion in the scientific community also leads to greater confusion in the public debate, and helps to blur the distinction between science and politics.
"We must be able to discuss each others' scientific arguments, because as soon as political motives come to the fore, conspiracy theories prevail. And then we confuse the public even more," he adds.
Scientific links
- M. Rypdal and K. Rypdal, "Testing Hypotheses about Sun-Climate Complexity Linking." Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 128501 (2010) [4 pages].
- "Is climate sensitive to solar variability?", article by Nicola Scafetta and Bruce J. West


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"Imagination gives birth to things unknown but the writer's pen turns them into shapes and gives to them living breaths."
The 2018 OSCA WOVEN WORDS COMPETITION was organized by My Woven Words and it was only for undergraduates of tertiary institutions in Osun State as approved by the ministry of education, Osun state. There were Terms and Conditions for contestants.
OSCA Woven Words Competition remains the "first-of-its-kind" and "one-of-its-kind" in Osun state, Nigeria. To avoid Conflicts of Interest, we reached out to a number of unbiased scholars in a university outside Osun State to assess the submitted manuscripts and select the best contestants. All the contestant got a certificate of participation and some of the submitted manuscripts were selected for online publication.
TOPIC: The Tenacity of Nigerian Youths in National Development and Leadership Roles.
Tenacity -persistently and doggedly pursuing an option or solution until it succeeds and/or others see the brilliance of it. Innovations is a key factor in leadership and development and let's face it, innovation needs a significant level of tenacity on the path of he that does the innovation and in this sense, he who seeks innovation must do tenacity, at least Equity will agree.
Living in a Nigeria ruled by the considered aged of men, amongst a whole lot of corruption and poverty, we think of a rather plausible solution to all our problems, or rather the lot we can solve, and in doing this, the close opposite of what we consider the cause of our problems comes to mind, "the youth".
Youth. Benjamin Disraeli said, "The youth of a nation are the trustees of prosperity" and we would jocundly embrace this saying in seeking our solution. We consider the youth as the hope we have for betterness, so much so that we implore God, through our anthem, to direct them. We believe, with so much passion, in our youth as leaders that right from time,we sang, "parents listen to your children, we are the leaders of tomorrow, try and pay our fees and give us sound education" yet, till today we await our yesterday's leaders of tomorrow. In seeking solution however, we fail to ask whether or not these "leaders of tomorrow" are in fact ready for leadership today, and in this, the resolution of youth in relation to leadership we neglect.
When we talk of tenacity in leadership, we talk of capacity; the ability to persevere, the determination to lead, with resilience, the country to the better place we believe we need or at most, deserve. But do the youths have, in sensu Vera ex eo, the tenacity for national development?
We are at the age were we find our youths attending more leadership conferences than churches, but yet do we get the effects of these? No. Rather, a large number of our youths are stuck, much occupied with social trends in place of leadership submits. Ask a whole lot of them what tenacity means and you will put them in the state of tabula rasa.
There are youths who believe in the strength of a leader in place of character, in "fighting" for rights, mistaking it for "grit". It is not just being stubborn for the sake of being stubborn. Tenacious leaders are those who know which hill to fight for and which to let go of, but our youths bother rather on whether to let go of the Samsung for the iPhone or not. Tenacity begins by knowing what the right thing is to do, having the right vision, and then having the ability to stay the course even though there will inevitably be opposition. But with the present day youth and their ideology of persistence being for the seemingly jobless of elders, can these same youths be regarded the "leaders of today"? God forbid.
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Danny Loader looked all set for a deadline-day move to Premier League side Wolves, but it wasn't to be.
According to Sky Sports, Reading were reportedly ready to sell the youngster for a multi-million pound fee, and he'd even passed a medical and agreed personal terms ahead of the switch. However, the Royals changed their minds late in the day, meaning Loader will stay put and Wolves will go without him.
#WWFC's move for Reading forward Danny Loader is OFF. Player had a medical and agreed terms with Wolves but I'm told Reading have pulled the plug at the last minute. The Meritan Shabani deal from Bayern to be confirmed after the Pyunik game. #DeadlineDay— Anton Toloui (@SkyAnton) August 8, 2019
At the moment there's been no explanation for the u-turn, although it could be related to the reported collapsed move for Chelsea wide man Kenedy. Courtney Friday claimed that the decision was made by owner Dai Yongge himself.
Regardless of the reason, Reading now have a player on their hands who'll be disappointed to have seen a Premier League move fall through - and who is out of contract next summer.
Therefore, unless he agrees a new deal, he'll leave Reading in the summer of 2020 for a level of compensation that will likely be less than what we would have got out of Wolverhampton Wanderers on deadline day. According to Joe Edwards of the Express and Star, who was writing when the move looked to be on, Loader isn't likely to agree a contract extension.
Danny Loader is not willing to sign a new deal at Reading, and Wolves are keen to land the England U20 forward. Wolves also working on a deal for Meritan Shabani, an attacking midfielder from Bayern Munich - again, initially for Rob Edwards' U23s. #wwfc— Joe Edwards (@JoeEdwards_Star) August 8, 2019
This season will likely see plenty of speculation over Loader's future, as he'd already drawn interest from some of Europe's top clubs this summer. Besides Wolves, that list of suitors is also thought to have included Arsenal, Chelsea, Juventus and Borussia Monchengladbach.
On the flipside to all this, you can deduce that Reading are in a fairly strong position financially. Although the club's recent spending splurge - which included permanent deals for George Puscas and Lucas Joao - will have set us back a fair bit, we evidently don't need to compensate by rejecting a cash offer for Loader.
Instead, he'll remain part of a squad that's had 10 new players added to it this summer - most recently Ovie Ejaria. Last season's loanee returned to Reading on a temporary deal on deadline day with a view to a permanent switch next year.


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LIBERAL, Kan. – Seward County Community College is accepting applications to fill a vacant position on the Board of Trustees. The position became open when Sharon Hobble resigned in July.
Those interested in applying for the position should submit the following items for consideration by the Board of Trustees:
* A letter of interest, which should indicate the reason for which the applicant desires to be appointed to the SCCC Board of Trustees.
* A resume indicating educational background, professional experience, and community involvement.
* A statement indicating knowledge, involvement and understanding of Seward County Community College.
All required items must be submitted to the Office of the President of SCCC no later than Monday, November 22, 2021.
This Board of Trustees opening was legally published in the High Plains Leader & Times newspaper on Nov. 4, 2021 and in subsequent editions, in compliance with the legal requirement that board openings be announced and opened for at least 15 days.
For more information regarding the open Board position please contact the SCCC President's Office at (620) 417-1011. Letters of inquiry may be submitted to the Office of the President, Clerk of the Board, SCCC Board of Trustees, P.O. Box 1137, Liberal, KS 67905-1137, or hand delivered to the President's Office in the Hobble Academic Building at 1801 N. Kansas Ave., Liberal, KS.
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NewsHarvey Davies signs Liverpool FC contract extension
Harvey Davies has signed a new, extended contract with Liverpool FC.
The 18-year-old goalkeeper enjoyed a successful summer with the England U19 squad that won the European Championship earlier this month.
A regular part of first-team training, he travelled with Jürgen Klopp's squad on the club's pre-season tour and enjoyed game time in the Singapore clash with Crystal Palace.
Davies was then involved again on Thursday evening as the Reds claimed a 5-0 win at RB Leipzig ahead of a week-long training camp in Austria.
After joining the Academy at U9 level, he progressed through the age groups and was a key part of the U18 squad that reached the FA Youth Cup final in 2021.
That year also saw him named among the first-team substitutes for a Champions League meeting with Leipzig and the quarter-final ties versus Real Madrid.
Last season Davies continued his progress, keeping a clean sheet at Anfield for the U23s against Arsenal and excelling in a last 16 penalty shootout win over KRC Genk in the UEFA Youth League in March.


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UPDATE False Alert Pokemon Go Legendary Regigigas the Next Raid Boss?
Update: Niantic has officially announced the Legendary Lake Trio as the new regional Raid Bosses. With that being said, the tweet from Pokemon Go Espana (Spain) account was a false alert.
For more info about the regional Raid Bosses please visit this link.
Previous Story: Trainers, it seems like the Normal Type Legendary Pokemon from Gen 4 Regigigas could be the next Legendary Raid Boss in the game.
Pokemon Go Spain Twitter account shared the following:
Attention Trainers, the leader of the Regis is on the way and wants to test your strenght. The collosal Regigas is coming to Raids and will be available to battle and catch until May 28 at 1:00 PM PST.
Their tweet was deleted immediately, but some players made a screenshot and you can take a look below.
At this moment nothing is officially confirmed, so please take this with a grain of salt. We will follow up once we have an official announcement, so stay tuned and be the first to know!


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King of All Gallons and the King Pin
In the Fall of 2015, one WOR employee broke a record and another found growth within the company. Collections driver, Dale Brittel, surpassed Neill Heaton to become the 'King of all Gallons'. This has always been a position of bragging rights at WOR. In 2013, Biff McNeil surpassed our beloved Brian Shultz (RIP). Biff went on to become the Dispatch Manager and now Director of Operations, taking him off of the road. Neill proudly blew by Biff in 2014. In early 2015, Neill began a special project that kept him on site. He has meticulously gone through almost every client location and pinned the coordinates within feet of where the containment is located on our map, making him the 'King Pin'. The impact this has on efficiency and helpfulness to the driver cannot be overstated.
Congratulations and thank you to Dale for your hard work and dedication to WOR. Another congrats to Neill for moving up into the Service Manager position. Both men are valued members of the WOR team.
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Kevin Coley, from Vudu Lounge (West Chester), visits Mogreena again!
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1. 24 is 10: The Best of The 24 Hour Plays
The company that writes, rehearses, and performs six plays in 24 hours toasts its own 10th anniversary with 25 of their most popular plays, including David Lindsay-Abaire's The Other Person, featuring Elizabeth Berkley, Rachel Dratch, Cheyenne Jackson, and Andrew McCarthy.
2. Band Geeks
A tuneful satire set in the 1980s about about an Ohio marching band's dream of playing at a Cleveland Brown's game.
3. Danny Boy
A seriocomic romantic tale by Marc Goldsmith, about a thirtysomething dwarf looking for love while dealing with his body-image insecurities.
4. The Fartiste
LAByrinth Theater Company's John Gould Rubin directs this musical comedy inspired by the life of 19th-century professional farter Joseph Pujol, who had his own top-selling show at the Moulin Rouge in the 1890s.
5. Girl Scouts of America
A coming-of-age comedy by Mona Mansour and Andrea Berloff (World Trade Center) about a foursome of feisty Girl Scouts stumbling through adolescence and adulthood.
6. I Was Tom Cruise
Redux Productions presents Alexander Poe's satire about a young couple whose lives change when Mr. Katie Holmes offers them a Faustian deal they can't refuse.
7. It's A Hit
From the creators of the 2002 Fringe-to-Off Broadway hit The Joys of Sex, a tuneful murder mystery about the dark side of show business with music by David Weinstein.
9. Neon Mirage
A series of short pieces exploring the grit behind the glamour and what it's really like to live and work in Las Vegas.
8. Open House
Ross Maxwell's comic play about Alistair and Beverly, a liberal suburban couple offended by their neighbor's patriotic yard display.
10. The Penguin Tango
Stephen Svoboda's comedy inspired by actual Central Park events, about a community of penguins whose lives are disrupted by sex and soggy sardines.
11. Puppet Government
A political send-up in which the world's leaders (Dubya and company) are played by various singing and dancing household appliances.
12. Reservoir Bitches
Laura McGhee's all-female, gender-bending parody of Tarantino's machismo cult classic.
13. A Small Hole
Julia Jarcho's take on Mansfield Park balances the sexually-charged language of the Marquis de Sade with Jane Austen's propriety.
14. The Unlucky Man in the Yellow Cap
A drama with music, set in a World War II-era Czechoslovakian ghetto, about a cabaret singer who falls in love with a young policeman.
15. Walmartopia
A musical comedy set in 2036, about a single mom who faces (and fights) a world entirely taken over by Wal-Mart, written by Catherine Capellaro and Andrew Rohn.
Noteworthy Alumni Shows
This year's festival revives hits from the past. Here are which ones we recommend.
Americana Absurdum (1997)
Brian Parks's two satirical one-acts about funeral parlors and airplane accidents.
The Bicycle Men (2004)
A wacky one-act musical about an American tourist held hostage by eccentric French townspeople.
Never Swim Alone (1999)
Daniel McIvor's surreal comedy about the consequences of male rivalry between two childhood friends.


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Lindo to lead Pistons as Director of Player and Family Engagement
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WASHINGTON – Howard University alum Michael Lindo has been hired as the Director of Player and Family Engagement by the NBA's Detroit Pistons. Lindo will be responsible for all aspects of the Pistons' players and families off the court.
His duties will include assisting the rookies in their transition into the league emotionally, mentally, physically and financially as they adjust to their lives as professional athletes.
Lindo will also serve as a resource and support system for all players as they set up for success, both on and off the court. Additionally, Lindo will create programming to support family adjustments when transitioning to a new team and city.
Before the Pistons position, Lindo spent the past five years with Under Armour (UA), specifically in the Sports Marketing Department, managing grassroots basketball. He oversaw team sponsorships, event creation and execution, while also developing and evaluating league operations for the Under Armour Association.
Lindo was also in charge of managing the day-to-day partnership between the Jr. NBA and Under Armour. This partnership produced Jr. NBA Day, the Youth Basketball Leadership Conference, and a revamp of the UA Next Combine Series for rising 8th graders as they prepared for high school.
In the HU Department of Athletics, Lindo briefly served as the video coordinator for its basketball program. Other experiences at Howard included working as a high school sports aide for the Washington Post and interning within the media relations department for The Washington Football Team.
Lindo started his collegiate career at Howard University, earning a bachelor's degree in Sports Management with a minor in Business Administration. He then went on to secure a Master of Professional Studies from Georgetown University.
About Howard Athletics
The Howard University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics sponsors 21 NCAA Division I men and women varsity sports. The programs represent five conferences: The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA), Sun Belt Conference, Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) and Atlantic Sun (ASUN) Conference.
About the Detroit Pistons
The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division and plays its home games at Little Caesars Arena, located in Midtown. The Pistons have won three NBA championships: 1989, 1990 and 2004.


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WASHINGTON — In a step that could help bring more toll lanes to Maryland, and pave over land controlled by the National Park Service along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, the Trump and Hogan administrations have agreed to look more seriously at transferring the roadway from federal to state control.
An agreement between the U.S. Department of the Interior and the State of Maryland acknowledges that any official transfer would require federal legislation, but formalizes "the parties' interest in evaluating future operation and ownership alternatives."
Secretary Ryan Zinke signed the agreement earlier this month, and Gov. Larry Hogan signed it Friday.
The federal government agreed to evaluate whether selling entirely or just allowing state toll operations along the parkway would be "an appropriate use of this Federal resource."
The Hogan administration promised to work with Maryland's Congressional delegation on a bill that would transfer control of the parkway to Maryland either as part of a sale or trade of property to the Maryland Transportation Authority.
Initial work to iron out some of the details is expected to include surveying and photography, research on ownership of the land, and appraisal of any land that might be sold or traded.
The Baltimore-Washington Parkway is part of Hogan's proposed massive approximately $9 billion expansion of toll lanes around the Washington region. It would also include the entire length of the Capital Beltway in Maryland and some or all of Interstate 270.
On the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, the plan would widen the road with additional lanes in each direction. Since federal legislation is required, the approximately $1.5 billion project has been separated from the $7.5 billion idea to add toll lanes around the Capital Beltway and on parts of Interstate 270.
The state has developed preliminary plans to add privately-operated toll lanes on those two highways. The details of the potential alternatives are scheduled to be presented at public meetings July 17-25, but the State Highway Administration declined to release the details ahead of those meetings.
For Interstate 270, the initial study has limited any toll lane plans to the area south of I-370/ the Intercounty Connector in Gaithersburg. The Maryland State Highway Administration now promises a separate study of a possible extension of those I-270 lanes to Frederick will start in 2019.
The accelerated timeline for the initial Beltway and I-270 study aims to have the next rounds of technical analysis of the I-495 and I-270 toll lane alternatives done this fall. A planned $68.5 million contract tied to the plan was pulled this spring due to conflict of interest concerns.
Virginia plans to extend its I-495 Express Lanes up to the Legion Bridge to meet Maryland's Beltway toll lanes if and when those are constructed. Since Maryland is responsible for the bridge, any improvements to the bridge would also be part of the toll lane project.
The next public workshops on the Beltway and Interstate 270 toll lanes are from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.:
- Tuesday, July 17
Eleanor Roosevelt High School
7601 Hanover Parkway
Greenbelt MD 20770
- Wednesday, July 18
Clarksburg High School
22500 Wims Road
Clarksburg MD 20871
- Tuesday, July 24
Central High School
200 Cabin Branch Road
Capitol Heights MD 20743
- Wednesday, July 25
Thomas W. Pyle Middle School
6311 Wilson Lane
Bethesda MD 20817
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Reviewing the new Denis Herlin edition of the Second Livre of Pièces de Clavecin by François Couperin 'le grand' (1668-1733) when it was published by Bärenreiter back in 2019, I concluded:
Occasionally I receive for review a volume that is, quite simply, above any reproach. This is one such edition. For any harpsichord player, this must surely be an essential and immediate purchase; for pianists keen to explore this too-little-known keyboard repertoire, this new edition must also be the one to seek out and highly prize.
Three years later, and the next volume of this incomparable benchmark edition has appeared, and once again I have no hesitation in lavishing it with praise…
The Troisième Livre (1722)
From his appointment as organiste du roi in 1693, François Couperin's career and standing at the court of the "Sun King" Louis XIV rapidly ascended, the young composer dazzling with music that introduced a distinct Italian influence to the music of the mature French baroque.
Couperin 'le grand' left us more than 220 keyboard pieces, published in four Livres (books) in 1713, 1717, 1722 and 1730. Each includes several suites of pieces, which Couperin called Ordres. The Troisième Livre includes seven Ordres, numbers 13-19.
Like Bach's well-known Suites and Partitas, these Ordres comprised numerous short movements; unlike Bach's works however, and unlike Couperin's French predecessors, the pieces mostly have descriptive titles rather than generic dance assignations. Some are named after individuals, while others are tableaux portraying a range of other subjects.
The titles are as evocative as they are discursive; here's a very few examples from the 43 colourful titles included:
- The soul in torment
- Ardour under the crimson domino mask
- The Jolly Limping Fellow
- Vestal Virgins
- Flowering Orchards
- The Odd Body
- Distant jealousy under the dark grey domino mask
In his academically significant Preface to this new edition, Herlin notes that Couperin's break with the formularised dance-suite approach of earlier clavecinists has its counterpart in the fourth book of Pièces de violes (1717) by Marin Marais. He goes on to underline Couperin's significance, however, with this quote from David Fuller:
"With his revolutionary new style, Couperin invented a musical language of immense variety, flexibility and refinement, whose purpose was to illustrate not only actions and emotions but also personalities, ideas, and social attitudes."
This is revolutionary indeed, positioning Couperin as an antecedent for musical developments that would not fully flower until more than a century later.
4 Concerts Royaux
Also included in this new edition, as originally intended by the composer, Couperin's Concerts Royaux are more frequently performed as chamber works.
According to the composer:
"The following pieces are different in kind from those I have published up until now. They may be played not only on the harpsichord, but also on the violin, the flute, the oboe, the viol and the bassoon. I have composed them for small chamber music concerts of the sort that Louis XIV had me prepare on almost every Sunday of the year."
In contrast to the seven Ordres that precede the Concerts Royaux, these works follow the more traditional dance-suite pattern, comprising Prélude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and more lively concluding dances.
Some of the movements are presented in classic keyboard format across two staves, but with figured bass indicated throughout, allowing scope for larger groups of players. Others appear in trio sonata format, meaning across three staves including figured bass.
Currently in preparation, Bärenreiter edition BA11844 will provide a separate edition drawn from this one, offering a performance score and set of (two) individual parts.
The New Edition
According to publishers Bärenreiter,
"For this new Urtext edition, for the first time, Herlin has evaluated the many reprints of the original edition, most of which he unearthed himself in international libraries. All variants are meticulously recorded in the Critical Commentary.
The comprehensive edition contains an extensive Introduction, notes on historical performance practice and a glossary as well as numerous facsimile illustrations. The engraving preserves essential characteristics of the original print while largely dispensing with page-turns."
In terms of this last point, the avoidance of page turns is not merely of practical benefit, but of historical interest: Herlin's Preface includes a detailed account and analysis of the original engraving of the Troisième Livre, noting Couperin's determined avoidance of page turns.
Preceding the 115 pages of music and subsequent, extensive appendices, Herlin's Preface appears in both French and English. He once again thoroughly covers the immediate historical and biographical background, the genesis of the original 1722 publication, its reception, the structure and genre of the music, as well as including an authoritative introduction to the historical performance practices associated with the music.
These include tempo markings, ornamentation, and a consideration of the instruments of the time. To supplement this there is an extensive glossary of Couperin's performance directions, a detailed explanation of embellishments and their signs, a hugely useful glossary of all French terms and their translations, as well as translations of all the piece titles.
At the rear of the book, there is an Appendix further illustrating ornaments with Couperin's published table. Naturally, there is also a very extensive Critical Commentary covering the extant sources upon which Herlin based his edition, and dealing with all aspects of its preparation.
Images of the original manuscripts and editions pepper the presentation throughout, adding further insight and depth to the publication.
Appearing in Bärenreiter's house style, the soft-covered book is beautifully presented on cream paper, with notation spaciously engraved. Fingering is not included, but here left to the performer.
Closing Embellishments
This edition undoubtedly once again sets a new benchmark in terms of Couperin scholarship, joining the first two Livres as an essential library edition for all enthusiasts of the French baroque.
The publication is equally the ideal performing edition for those approaching this music today, whether on the harpsichord or piano.
In short, this very special publication is a truly stunning and exemplary edition in every sense.
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The consumer durable market a major driver of the economy has started showing some obvious signs of demand coming back after the lockdown restrictions were lifted.
At a time when government stimulus has not been large enough to pull the economy out of the pandemic-induced slump, there is a hope that the consumer demand would ultimately come to the rescue of the economy.
Sector players have reported growth in sales numbers in the months after the lockdown was lifted.
Gurmeet Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning India said: "Post the announcement of �Unlock' we have seen some revival in our business. Since the beginning of the lockdown consumer sentiments were positive for air conditioners, refrigerators, and other utility-based consumer appliances considering the need for comfort and automation at homes."
He noted that spending has gone up in these areas boosting demand for air conditioners as well. Consumer's intent to spend across selective categories has started the sales recovery during the �unlock' process, Singh told IANS.
Whirlpool's Vice President for Marketing, K.G. Singh noted that initially after unlock started there was an unleashing of the pent-up demand and as �work from home' became an established norm later, consumers started buying appliances that could add to their comfort level and ease their pain from household chores.
Avneet Singh Marwah, Director and CEO, Super Plastronics Pvt Ltd, Kodak's brand licensee said: "For Kodak TV India, we have seen a huge spike post unlock, and were able to recover 65 per cent of the lost sales in the first phase itself. The demand since then has been on a rise, especially with the new product launches which cater to changing demands of the customer."
According to data collated by CMS Info Systems, a cash management and payment solutions company, retail spending in India increased by 12 per cent in September compared to August.
Consumer durables formed a significant part of the retail sales last month, the data showed.
The upcoming festival season brings about more hope for the segment both from the online and offline modes.
Marwah told IANS that the company is hopeful that the demand will sustain through the year, especially with the upcoming festive season.
"With the festive season and new consumer patterns set within new norm rules, we are very hopeful that this demand will sustain for a longer period," said Gurmeet Singh.
Whirlpool's K.G. Singh was of the view that there will likely be a penetration increase for categories like washers and microwaves which are now seen as essentials in several households.
Industry, however, expects complete recovery to come in 2021. The MD of Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning India said that complete recovery might take some time and he hopes that next year, the company may cross the 2019 levels.
"We are confident that the market will certainly do better in the 2021 calendar year," he said.


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Bray Wyatt generated a lot of buzz at Summerslam with his epic creepy entrance. It turns out that we should probably expect to see Wyatt when we least expect it now.
Ryan Satin reports that he was told that WWE has decided that Bray Wyatt's character shouldn't be overdone at this point. They want to keep him special and give off the impression that fans never know when we'll see him next.
From what I've heard, Bray Wyatt wasn't shown on WWE TV this week to follow up on "The Fiend" debuting at SummerSlam because they want his character to be special and for it to feel like you'll never know when he's going to strike next.
We previously reported via Brad Shepard that Bray Wyatt was held off to build mystique for his character. This new addition to WWE's logic only confirms that previous report.
It's good that WWE is taking Bray Wyatt seriously because they have something very special in him now. Hopefully, they won't see the need to keep bringing him back so often that it over-saturates his character.


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- New : EventListener Function that listens to global Graphileon events (
error, etc).
- New :
to-clipboardfunctionality for HtmlView.
- New : CustomStyle Function to add custom styles to the page.
- New : AgGridView Function as an advanced grid view.
- New : Dashboard and Function bookmarks for quick access to functionality by URL.
- New : 'Export to Cypher' feature in standard installation for exporting visible graph to Cypher statement and importing into another graph.
- New : When
(:IA_User {caching:false}), then direct access to the
(:IA_Function)from which a view originates.
- Improved : View containers that are re-used gain focus.
- Fixed : Parameter prompt panel could not be normalized/maximzed after minimization.
- Fixed : Node right-click issue in FireFox.
- Fixed : Nodes with id(n)=0 were not saved to diagrams.
- Deprecated:
Neo4jQuerychanged to
Ajaxchanged to
Request. Old names are deprecated and will be removed in future releases.
- Removed:
:IA_Welcomenodes will no longer be executed before login.
- New : ChartJsView for chart visualizations.
- New : Iterate for iterative mechanisms.
- New : Added
originproperty to
functionClosedevent to indicate what closed the function.
- New : Rich-Text Editor visual component.
- Improved : Exploration and auto-complete consider the store of individual nodes in the NetworkView.
- Improved : SearchView can set store options for selection.
- Improved : Styling of Function nodes.
- Improved : Several minor user experience tweaks.
- Fixed : Right-click in YFilesView will no longer trigger right-click events on nodes/relations if there is a context menu.
- New : Desktop versions for Mac OS, Windows and Debian Linux.
- New : Licenses limited by quantities of users, dashboards, functions instead of functionality.
- New : License check framework.
- New : Node.js backend.
- New : openCypher support (for data store).
- Improved : Installation procedure.
- Improved : Personal Edition (free version) has more functionality than Community Edition / Sandbox.
- Improved : Default dashboard configuration : styling, batch functions.
- Improved : Multi store support in NodeForm.
- Improved : Change password functionality.
- Improved : Support for < , <= , => , > in styling selectors.
- Improved : Diagram management.
- Improved : Limit selection of available stores.
- Improved : KeysView includes store info for relations.
- Improved : Backend - frontend architecture.
- Improved : Performance and stability.
Note on Editions
From version 2.0.0 onwards we have renamed InterActor to Graphileon and publish one Personal Edition and several versions of our Server Edition instead of a Community Edition and an Enterprise Edition.
- New : MarkdownView to display markdown as styled html.
- New : DiffView shows the difference between two input objects.
- New : WYSIWYG markdown editor for
markdownproperties in Node/Relation forms.
- New : Html and Markdown components for dynamic view content, in combination with API Function (new).
- New : templating can be turned off with
:templatingmeta property (value
- New : batch triggers on all views.
- New : Functions fire
errortrigger upon error.
- New : Functions do not show visual errors with
showErrorsset to
- New : TableView
autoColumnsparameter determines whether columns are generated automatically based on data.
- New :
addColumnmethod available in property evaluation.
- New : GridView
- New : (Enterprise Edition) TreeView events
- New : (Enterprise Edition) TreeView
- New : (YFiles Edition) YFilesView using yFiles as an advanced graph layout.
- Improved : auto-sizing of containers if
container.heightis not set (except for
- Improved : _path parameter transports its values unchanged, without templating/evaluation.
- Fixed : GridView row selection can be updated by setting
state.selectedto the selected rows.
- Fixed : JSONForms uiSchema parameter
- Fixed : HtmlView updating
- Fixed: setting 'styles' property on NetworkView caused log off.
- Fixed: JSONForms uischema property did not work.
- Fixed: Table/GridView did not use #column.identifier.data.
- Fixed: fixed 'Get Node' shortcut in default installation.
- New : Functions with label :IA_Welcome and property public:true are now executed before login and can be used as welcome screens.
- New : :IA_Ajax function for Http requests (wrapper over jQuery $.ajax)
- New : ':evaluate' (none|path|full) meta-parameter sets the evaluation method for function/trigger parameters
- New : function caching is now a per-user node setting (caching: true|false)
- New : new diagrams saving method: diagrams are not linked to the user node, can be saved to any store, add data is saved in diagram node, can save nodes from any store
- New : TableView and GridView now supports column templates as Mustache templates
- New : IA_GridView as a wrapper for jqWidgets jqxGridView
- Hotfix: backward compatibility of config from 1.2.x and before.
- Deprecated:
(%).selectionin batch triggers.
- New : Panels in content area can be maximized/minimized/normalized from Triggers.
- New : Triggers accept
||Javascript operators.
- New : Trigger contains its own ID as data.
- New : (Enterprise) TreeView
- Improved : InterActor can be reinstalled by simply removing all nodes from the application database.
- Improved : Changed NetworkView filter cycle to inactive - hide - show.
- Improved : NetworkView gracefully handles user errors in filter descriptions.
- Improved : Settings management with user admin rights.
- Improved : TableView row-clicking behaviour.
- Improved : Documentation.
- Improved : (Enterprise) MapView spiderfier can be disabled and shows number of items if enabled.
- Improved : (Enterprise) TableView accepts array for column data, e.g.:
#data.col1: [1,2,3].
- Improved : (Enterprise) Elasticsearch 5.2.x support.
- Fixed :
(@)could not be used in Trigger matching.
- Fixed : A few default configuration issues.
- Fixed : Marker width and marker line width could not be removed from styling.
- Fixed : (Enterprise) CalendarView (non-blocking) error message.
- Hotfix: rare exception when saving nodes.
- Bugfixes and improvements.
- New (breaking change): Support for Elasticsearch 1.x to 5.x (ElasticsearchQuery parameters changed!)
- New : Functions can be closed using the
- New : Selection of multiple relations
- New : Dashboards and shortcuts sharing through IA_Team node
- New : Allow forcing column datatypes in TableView
- New : Table row and cell styling
- New : Node and relation form displays and accepts JSON
- New : Access to global variables through
- New : Data from specific instances can be targeted in triggers using
- New : Expressions in trigger matching
- New : Expressions in parameter values
- New : Batch trigger styling and caption
- New : NetworkView filters can be updated by triggers
- New : Javascript evaluation in functions and triggers.
- Improved: Selecting and copying data from TableView
- Improved: More control over parameter prompt through metaparameters (e.g.
- Improved: Improved spiderfier in MapView
- Improved: Offline availability: no internet connection required
- Improved: Selection of TableView available in triggers
- Improved: Performance by caching of Function loading
- Improved: Memory management by explicit dereferencing of data
- Bugfixes and improvements
Front end
- Improved : in NetworkView, selecting an node after unselecting all nodes.
- Improved : in NetworkStylesView, styles are updated when switching between nodes and relations tabs.
- Improved : in NetworkStylesView, tabs have been renamed and navigation is easier.
- Improved : resizing of nodes and relations in NetworkStylesView.
- Improved : Saving styles does no longer require a confirm.
- Improved : positioning of new containers. They do no longer overlap completely.
- New : multiple dashboards (Enterprise edition).
- New : in NetworkView, you can now go directly to NetworkStylesView. Both from button bar, and from a specific node or relation.
- New : new buttons in NetworkView: autoComplete, Styles.
- New : in NetworkView, downloaded SVG's are now zoomable.
- New : in MapView, you can spiderfy markers to avoid overlapping (Enterprise edition).
- New : in UserView, shortcuts can be styled.
- New : sidebar-right of dashboard is now a flex container.
- New : sidebar-left and sidebar-right of dasboard can now be collapsed sideways.
- New : in configuration settings, there is now a "Test connection" button.
- New : in SearchView, the "Execute" button can be hidden.
Back end
- Fixed : in IA_NetworkView,
_function.selectionis updated after unselecting a node.
- Improved : all function parameters can now be set as a property.
- New : IA_Dashboard nodes to create multiple dashboards (Enterprise edition).
- New : IA_TableView now accepts simple arrays of simple values.
- New :
(%)._globalnow contains
idof current dashboard.
- New : IA_NetworkView now has
- New : IA_NetworkView now has
_update.set.state.visibleproperties to change selected and visible states through triggers.
- New : New IA_NetworkView parameters :
- New : New IA_SearchView parameter :


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Ban him. It's just too terrible to play against Darius.
As long as you rush Ninja Tabis and a Bramble Vest and dodge her Parry, you can 1v1 her pretty well.
Completly annoying to play against. Don't leave your tower as it reveals hidden units. Only engage if your jungler is there to help you.
Just buy an early Bramble vest and everything will be easier. Dodge his Qs, don't get caught on his W, and run to your tower if he ults.
If he runs to you, try to stun him with Q and run. His spin reduces your armor, so play around not getting hit 6 times by it.
If you hit your Es, it's actually quite easy to 1v1 her, since she has little to no escape and is kind of squisy.
The devil itself. Get oracle lens , adaptive helm and tabis or mercury's. Legend: Tenacity helps a little. Be sure to flame him in /all for playing Teemo. It's going to be VERY annoying to play this lane. Ask your jungler for help very often.
The mother of the devil. Beg your jungler for help. Stay at your tower and only engage with your jungler. Tabis are a MUST. Shame her in /all for playing Vayne Top.
Dr. Mundo
Avoid his axes, don't fight when he ults. Probably neither of you will win the lane.
As long as you don't get knocked up by his Q you're good to go. Be careful if fighting post-6, his ult deals a LOT of true damage.
Don't get hit by his E, and avoid his W. Don't fight if he has maiden. Tabis and bramble vest are great.
Rush tabis and thornmail. He'll probably deal more damage to himself than you if you use your W. Aftershock is GREAT for this matchup.
With your W you can fight her even if she ults. If you manage to dodge lots of tentacles it's actually very easy to fight her. Just go for some early armor, like tabis and chain vests.
He will probably outdamage you. Don't autoattack or use your Q if he uses E, an when he does, use your W to tank and deal damage. Remember, if your W deals damage to a champion, the bonus resistances go from 3s to 6s.
Fight pre-6. Ask your jungler for help so she doesn't snowball too hard. If you play well you can actually outdamage her, pre-11.
Stun and run. That's it. Sometimes you can outdamage him. If we ults, just stun and run as much as you can. if your W deals damage to him you'll have bonus MR for the entirety of his ult.
If he pokes you, go all in (except if he's under tower). He succeeds at tanking physical damage, so he probably won't be a big problem.
Rush Tabis and bramble vest. Play safe. He's very powerful early game, so just fight with your jungler.
NEVER 1v1 him, especially post-6. This is most times a lost lane.


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Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi said he's not looking forward to searching for parking spots, but he said he's excited to dive into this hot-new TV hit, Game of Thrones.
He's going to miss riding a horse in at the front of the Calgary Stampede parade, though.
Nenshi, Calgary's three-term mayor, will not be seeking a fourth in this October's municipal election. The mayor had held off on the decision but made the announcement Tuesday afternoon.
"After 11 years of this, I really do feel like this is the right time for me. And I also think it's the right time for the city," Nenshi told LiveWire Calgary in an interview before the announcement.
"If we've learned one thing in the last year, what we've learned is that there are so many voices – new voices, diverse voices, different voices – that don't always feel heard. It's probably time to make some room, to make some room for us to be able to hear those new voices and those new perspectives."
The decision will bring an end to what is Calgary's third-longest mayoral term in office, behind Andrew Davison (15+ years) and Al Duerr (12 years). When complete, Nenshi's term will be one week shy of 11 years.
In the end, it was a personal decision. It was one he'd been reflecting on for months.
"It's hard. But I think ultimately, I asked myself a few questions," Mayor Nenshi said.
- Am I leaving it better than I found it?
- Can I still find a way to be part of the story of Calgary's future?
"It's not about the mayor; it's about a community that is imagining and building its future," he said.
Nenshi's decision leaves the door open for new leadership on city council and a packed mayoral race shaping up already.
Couns. Jyoti Gondek and Jeromy Farkas are the perceived front runners in the campaign to replace Nenshi, joining Brad Field, Zane Novak, Grace Yan, Teddy Ogbonna and others in the race.
First elected in 2010
Naheed Nenshi wasn't a household name when he began his run for mayor in 2010. Then-alderman Ric McIver challenged for the mayor's seat, along with popular CTV Calgary evening news anchor Barb Higgins.
Nenshi was a professor at Mount Royal University's Bissett School of Business, was a founding member of the grassroots Civic Camp group and helped build the Better Calgary Campaign prior to his run.
Early on in that race, Nenshi was polling at a paltry eight per cent. He reminded us that earlier on he was closer to one per cent. He went on to win that election with 39 per cent of the vote.
"Who the heck did I think I was," Nenshi said.
"That concept of politics in full sentences, of trusting people, trusting citizens that they can make the right decision, is the philosophy that I've tried to hold on to for the 11 years since then, through the highs and through the lows, and tried to bring a little bit of that fun in that whimsy and that excitement about the future, back into a world where our political discourse is so angry and bitter in divided."
Nenshi was the first Muslim mayor elected in a major Canadian city. It was how many in the media defined his first term as Calgary's mayor.
In the beginning, he said it was irritating.
"Nobody wanted to talk about my ideas for how cities can work better for everyone," he said.
"In fact, I remember I'm also the first non-white mayor of a major city in Canada. No one wanted to talk about the colour of my skin. All they wanted to talk about was my faith."
He decided at that point to tell a story about a Calgary that embraced pluralism and multiculturalism.
Flood, fires, oil and COVID
Mayor Nenshi presided over one of the most difficult post-war decades in Calgary's history. The 2008 financial collapse, the 2013 Southern Alberta floods, the 2014 oil disaster and subsequent economic doom, and today, COVID-19.
He often refers to the fact Calgary has only declared a state of local emergency three times in its 136-year history. Nenshi brought it up again in the interview: All three were during his tenure as mayor.
The mayor said you don't get to pick how history unfolds.
"My colleagues on council and most important, the citizens of Calgary, just have been unrelenting. We never let anything slow us down," he said.
"That's because people just put their put their shoulder to the grindstone and go to work."
Despite the turmoil, the mayor insists there haven't been missed opportunities. He believes the city continues to move forward.
When asked about significant annual tax increases, spending at city hall and other challenges at city hall, Mayor Nenshi reiterated that Calgary continues to have the lowest taxes in the country.
He pointed to a billion in savings by city administration in recent years and ongoing high citizen satisfaction ratings in Calgary's annual survey.
"The vast majority of Calgarians, despite roasting on social media, seem to actually be very happy with the value for what they receive," Mayor Nenshi said.
'It's not about how I will be remembered.'
While many would have considered the years-long struggle to build Calgary's $5 billion Green Line a legacy builder, Nenshi doesn't see it that way.
He rattled off a list of accomplishments – from new rec centres, to refurbishing city libraries and the construction of a new one, the BRT system and work on affordable housing – but the mayor said that's not what he'll be most proud of.
"I've really been thinking about how I would answer that because I don't think of it that way," the mayor said.
"It's not about me, it's not about how I'll be remembered."
He said he's checked off a lot of the things on the list he made when he first ran in 2010.
One that he takes the most pride in is the heightened civic engagement. He said Alberta politics a decade ago was rigid; people didn't take active role in municipal issues because the future would just happen, and politicians would manage it.
"What I'm really excited about, probably the most, is the incredible increase in civic engagement. Even when it's nasty. Even when it's mean," he said.
"It is people really feeling like they've got a stake in the future of their city. And for me if that can continue, then that's probably the biggest legacy."
195 days left
The mayor said you can ask Siri how many days are left until the Oct. 18 municipal election.
It's 195 days.
There's still work to do, the mayor said. But, a city is always unfinished.
"I think tons of work needs to still be done because in a city that's growing like this, there will always be more dragons to slay," Mayor Nenshi said.
"There will always be more ideas and more investments to move forward."
Looking back, however, there are regrets. One in particular: Calgary's second Olympic bid.
"I think we could have done, I could have done, and the provincial and federal governments could have done, a much better job on helping people understand the benefit of that," he said.
A city plebiscite was held and Calgarians voted against hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics.
He said the city had so much to gain from hosting the international event. It was the will of Calgarians, he said, and he respected it.
Of course, he'll miss the people
On days where he had 30 community events to hit, Mayor Nenshi saw it as 30 opportunities to meet more Calgarians. It was a chance to see the cool things happening across Calgary. He said he believes he's been to every community in the city at one point or another over 11 years.
"I was just so happy to have that and I'm going to miss that a lot," he said.
And yes, he is going to miss riding a horse at the front of the Calgary Stampede parade.
As for the future? Undecided, to a degree.
He said he's got 10 good years of television to catch up on. After that, he's open to conversations.
"I know that I'm not going anywhere," Mayor Nenshi said.
"I know that I would like to continue helping Calgary grow, and I would really look forward to finding out what kind of service opportunities there are out there outside of politics."


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"I can't believe we haven't seen anyone," Krista said midway into our 15-mile hike.
"I wonder what Umstead's like right now?" Amy wondered. "Probably bumper-to-bumper people."
Probably, considering: 1) It was the second weekend in October and the first true weekend of fall color in the Piedmont, 2) It was a Saturday afternoon, 3) There wasn't a cloud in the sky, 4) The temperature was struggling to get out of the 60s.
In short, it was a perfect fall day. The kind of day where it occurs to everyone to go for a hike, and it occurs to everyone to go to the same places. To Umstead State Park in Raleigh, to Hanging Rock and Pilot Mountain state parks in the Triad, to Crowders Mountain near Charlotte.
Need proof?
The Crowders Mountain Web site offers this warning front and center on its home page: "Expect parking delays on nice fall weekends."
Which isn't to say you should hide at home and experience fall through silde shows such as the one above. If you know where to go — like Amy and Krista did — you can experience the magnificence of fall in magnificent solitude.
Piedmont: Fall escapes that escape the crowds
"I can't believe we haven't seen anyone," Krista said midway into our 15-mile hike.


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Ahold sacks 39 managers over scandal
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AMSTERDAM — Dutch retailer giant Ahold has sacked 39 managers since accountancy fraud was discovered last year. Most job losses took place in the US and 60 others escaped with disciplinary measures or warnings.
CEO Anders Moberg said during a shareholders meeting in The Hague on Wednesday that fraud was "the consequence of inadequate internal checks and offences by a handful of individuals and not large-scale corruption through the entire company".
Moberg's speech was designed to convince shareholders that a call for new investigations into accountancy fraud is not in the company's best interests, news agency ANP reported.
The association of shareholders VEB has demanded an official court investigation of Ahold, which owns the Albert Heijn supermarket group and Etos store chains. Legal action has also been started to nullify its annual accounts from 1998 onwards in order to thoroughly re-examine the company's balance sheets.
Moberg said he could imagine that shareholders would have questions due to recent media reports — especially by newspaper NRC Handelsblad — about the scandal, but urged understanding for the fact that the company did not wish to be caught up in speculation and should await the outcome of inquiries.
Ahold is under investigation by the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the Dutch government. Civil action suits are also being prepared in the US.
Board member Peter Wakkie said that Ahold is demanding that former US Foodservice chief James Miller repay his bonuses. Ahold's EUR 1 billion in accounting irregularities mainly occurred at its subsidiary US Foodservice.
Miller has started legal action to retain the bonuses, while Wakkie said Ahold board members in 2000 and 2001 — when company profits were highly inflated — have repaid 25 percent of their bonuses, public news service NOS reported.
But Moberg also said that rumours about the involvement of Ahold company chiefs in the accounting irregularities were not evidence of wrongdoing.
"These people have rights and we respect them. We endorse the age-old principle that someone is innocent until proven guilty," he said.
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