On Saturday, May 21, 2016, from 8 o’clock a.m. until afternoon, we carried out our social project of this year in the kindergarten “Don Bosco” in Allmendingen.
There were six apprentices in the first and second year and the training supervisors Mr. Kraiss and Mr. Mall.
Additionally, Mrs. Schick, who keeps contact to the group of supporters to the refugees living in Allmendingen, organized that three refugees could participate in this mission. We gladly accepted this support, since our apprentices thus got the opportunity to talk with the refugees and to learn about their reasons and hardships, which made them leave their home country Gambia. For the three refugees, this was an opportunity to cooperate for the benefit of the public and also some variety in the monotony of their everyday life.
Beforehand, we had a discussion with the principal of “Don Bosco”, Mrs. Starzmann, and Mr. Braun of the town administration which tasks we could carry out.
So we could remove the rust from the large swing and then grind and paint the swing. The small soccer goal was disassembled and our apprentices will repair in the next days in our workshop at Burgmaier.
Rather unusual tasks for our team were the cleaning and maintenance of the barefoot path as well as the removal of weeds in the outside facilities.
After previous cleaning, the big sand box was filled again with sand provided by the town administration.
The apprentices and the refugees enjoyed the joint work very much, also since the weather was quite good on this day.
As a sign of gratitude, each of the three refugees was given a coupon at an amount of € 50.-.


MUMBAI: Unapologetic about her forthcoming production "Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum", Ekta Kapoor says that people with "pristine sensibilities" should stay away from it.
"I am not going to give any justification to anyone. Those who don’t like it, sorry, but if you like it, we love you. It took us seven years to gather the guts to make ‘Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum’," the 37-year-old said here Monday while promoting the film at a radio station.
"We are not bothered about anyone. Yes, I do worry about going to jail or being killed, otherwise nothing," she added.
"Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum" is a sequel to Ekta’s 2005 film "Kyaa Kool Hai Hum".
Ekta has a set target audience in mind for her film that hits theatres July 27 and cautions others against watching it.
"If you are a fuddy-duddy and have very pristine sensibilities, please don’t watch it because it’s not for you. It’s for the masses, for youngsters. It’s actually for those who loved part one and enjoyed that mad humour. It’s not for the high-brows, the tight-asses. If you are one of those, please don’t come," said Ekta who turned to film production with "Kyo Kii… Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta" in 2001.
On whether the Indian audience was going to lap up a film like "Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum", Ekta said: "It’s an adult-comedy. We had a ‘Delhi Belly’ last year. It clearly shows India has got a sense of humour now. We are OK with adult jokes because we crack them in our everyday lives. It would not go down the cheap road."
The film stars Riteish Deshmukh and Tusshar Kapoor in the lead while Neha Sharma and Sarah Jane Dias play the female leads.


Unlikely Allies : A Comparative Analysis of the Political Careers of Willy Brandt and Richard Nixon
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Both Brandt and Nixon took difficult routes to get to the top of their nation's government. Their familial circumstances left much to be desired and though their early political careers were successful, they both entered a period of political depression and insecurity after important national losses. While their political careers could have ended in the early 1960s, they continued to work to increase the political standing of themselves and eventually came to be seen as indispensable to the political parties that they belonged to. Revamping not only themselves but also their parties throughout the 1960s, each man won a major victory when elected to lead their government in 1969. Then, possessing the ability to influence foreign policy, they moved quickly to enact their comparative policies of detente and Ostpolitik, soon changing the face of Cold War diplomacy. The way in which their careers compare and eventually intersected can show us that the new Cold War diplomacy that came about during the early 1970s was less of a personal crusade and more of an intra-national generational move towards a more stable world order. That Nixon and Brandt, two men on ideologically opposite sides of' the political spectrum, could separately develop such similar policies relating to East-West relations shows that this move towards diplomacy and international cooperation was not necessarily a product of Brandt's experience in Berlin or Nixon's experience on the Herter Committee, but instead a more worldwide movement away from the increasingly antagonistic world order. While Nixon and Brandt had very different reasons for pursing detente and Ostpolitik, the fact that each man was ultimately successful in using this policy as a framework for international discussions was the first sign of the increasingly stable world order that has evolved since the end of the Second World War.


|'Celebrating Spirituality' Exhibit|
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The Bahá’í faith community of Fond du Lac presents “Celebrating Spirituality,” an exhibit in the Fond du Lac Public Library’s Langdon Divers Gallery September 4 to October 2. The exhibit will showcase works from area artists portraying their spirituality or personal spiritual experience. Each piece will be accompanied by an artist’s statement.
The library’s gallery is a showcase for local and regional artists. The space is curated by volunteer artist Mel Kolstad, who can be contacted at [email protected]
Location: Langdon Divers Gallery


Growing Your Business Through Google
Learn what it takes to rise to the top of the Google search results. Online marketing guru Rod Holmes, will explain how Google ranks sites in the top 10, and chooses the top pin in map search results for local businesses. He'll also talk about paid advertising on the Internet so you can decide if it makes sense for your business. The event free thanks to our friends at CIBC , the Greater Southwest Development Corporation and the Illinois Small Business Development Center Network.


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Harold Shank, who grew up in an “unchurched” home in the town of Indiana, Penn., has served as an urban church planter in Milwaukee, a longtime preacher in Memphis, Tenn., and a professor of Old Testament in Oklahoma City.
Now he has a new role — university president in a region close to his heart.
For 20 years, Shank ministered for the Highland Street Church of Christ in Memphis — the first congregation profiled in The Christian Chronicle’s “Churches That Work” series in 2005. He later moved west to serve as professor at Oklahoma Christian University. He also was the Chronicle’s reviews editor. This year, he became president of Ohio Valley University, a 527-student Christian university in Vienna, W.Va., four hours southwest of his hometown.
Shank also serves as national spokesman for the Christian Child and Family Services Association and has long had a heart for the poor and disenfranchised.
He is respected for his preaching and scholarship and has authored more than 25 scholarly articles and seven books, including his most recent, “Listening to His Heartbeat,” in 2009.
He and his wife, Sally, have been married 37 years and have two sons, Daniel and Nathan. Both sons are engaged to be married and are doctoral students.
Is Christian education relevant today?
Christian education in its purest form integrates faith and learning. Nothing could be more contemporary.
In many of our nation’s universities, the professors and students look through secular glasses to investigate their surroundings. In Christian universities, the faculty and students look through Christian glasses in order to examine the world.
God created everything. It’s all his.
Hydrogen and oxygen combine at Christian universities to make water just as they do at state schools. The difference is that professors start with the reality that hydrogen and oxygen are made by God. We operate with the Christian worldview while using rigid academic standards to integrate all learning. That’s the core of Christian education.
What interested you in becoming president at OVU?
A significant leader and insightful observer of our fellowship recently told me, “OVU is on the geographic frontier of Churches of Christ. We have to have it. It is the lifeblood of the region.”
That reality draws me to this university. A recent OVU graduate, Scott Johnson, who works with the Clifton Church of Christ in uptown Cincinnati, recently baptized 15 students from two different universities.
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cleveland and a dozen other cities are within a few hours’ drive of OVU. The opportunities for mission among the 129 million people in this part of the nation are enormous. We have to have this school.
What do you see as the next great challenge for OVU?
Staying true to mission is always a challenge. Financial pressure, market demands and cultural influence all can cloud a Christian university’s focus.
My greatest challenge is staying the course, leading OVU in such a way that it will remain true to its mission of “transforming lives in a Christ-centered academic community.”
When you talk to prospective students, what do you tell them about OVU?
I tell them why we are unique. The distinctive education we offer combines four critical factors: A Christian worldview, a nationally ranked Tier One academic education, a community where people know your name and a plan for each student to experience their career while they are still in school. When those four critical factors are wrapped together it is a bit like having a personal trainer at the local gym.
Take the case of Anne-Claire Tans, a 2010 OVU graduate from the Netherlands. Her primary motivation in coming to OVU was to play golf, but she was soon immersed in academically credible classes framed by the Christian worldview. People got to know her so well that she began to see aspects of life and vocation she had never seen before. She changed.
She won all sorts of championships, but to hear her talk about it, she learned to “walk the course,” her description of what she discovered about herself. In a nurturing Christian environment, well-trained professionals give personal attention to students like Anne-Claire to enable them to fulfill their dreams and successfully experience that life — all in four years.
How does a Christian university deal with moral issues?
Our curriculum is value-driven and filled with moral teaching. We teach values as a means of moral transformation. Our goal is for students to make decisions like one of our basketball players did this past year. He spoke at a youth banquet this summer in Ohio. He told the teenagers that he wanted to be real. He recalled that, during the school year, a woman he had met in the community asked him to move in with her.
He thought about her invitation and then said, “No, I’m going in a different direction.”
What relationship to Churches of Christ will OVU have under your leadership?
My vision for a Christian university is a school that exists to serve its church constituency. We join with the Churches of Christ in equipping young people for life and service. No matter what their chosen career, we send out graduates who serve their communities, become respected figures in their field, lead churches, teach the Bible and become people of good influence.
I grew up in a totally unchurched family. People like Mildred Stutzman and Ray Beggs from the East Pike Church of Christ in western Pennsylvania reached out to me. We must continually train others to go out and do that again and again.
I was talking to people at one congregation that hired an OVU student as a summer intern. A quiet young man, he was seldom around, and they grew apprehensive that they had made a mistake. Then they learned he had knocked on every door in his apartment complex and that he was engaged in several Bible studies with fellow residents. Stories like that remind us that OVU belongs to Churches of Christ.
What is your dream for OVU?
I want to spread the news about a hidden treasure I’ve found on this hilltop in the Ohio Valley. I see us linking hands with congregations and people in our region to be the city set on a hill.
I look forward to being intimately involved in thinking informally in the cafeteria and more formally in chapel about how the Christian faith can soar in our postmodern world. For me, there’s no better time to be alive and no better place to be than OVU.


Just because an electronic device is simple, you shouldn’t relegate it to an afterthought in your embedded system design. Such is the case with fuses. Robert explores the fundamentals of this seemingly simple device. In this article, he dives into the history, key specifications and technology of fuses. He also steps you through an experiment to analyze the performance of fuses and shares his results.
By Robert Lacoste
Welcome back to the “Darker Side.” As electronic system designers, we’ve become used to dealing with some fantastic and ultra-complex pieces of silicon in our projects—microcontrollers running at hundreds of megahertz, multi-core processors with billions of transistors, wireless transceivers with Gbps of throughput, miniature power converters with close to 100% efficiency and so on. Ok, of course some small discrete parts are still required around those key building blocks, but we’re inclined to disdain such components in the design phase. That’s because they represent a very small portion of the overall bill of materials and have low perceived value.
All that said, if you are a regular reader of this column, you already know that’s a bad choice. Some electronic components seem very simple—passives in particular. But such devices may be the source of incredible trouble if you don’t understand the intimate details of their behavior. If you have any doubt, go and re-read my articles on capacitors—for example, Circuit Cellar 283 “Dielectric Absorption;” Circuit Cellar 317 “Decoupling Capacitors and RLC Networks;” Circuit Cellar 321 “All Ceramic Capacitors Aren’t Equal.”
This month, I will talk about another very simple part that isn’t as simple as it seems: The fuse.
WHAT’S A FUSE?
Of course, you’ve all seen a fuse before. Fuses are as old as electricity. According to Wikipedia, their first documented use was in 1864 for telegraph installations . The first patent on a fuse was registered by Thomas Edison (him again?) in 1890. Today, fuses are everywhere, and range from ultra-miniature, surface-mounted devices to massive units used in nuclear-powered generators. Let’s restrict the discussion to small fuses common in electronic devices, such as the ubiquitous 20 mm x 5 mm fuse cartridge, illustrated in Figure 1. The picture speaks for itself—a fuse is nothing more than a wire. It is designed to be a protection device, and open the circuit in case of overcurrent. The wire is designed to melt above a given current threshold and to open the circuit.
Let’s spend a few minutes on these words: “protection device.” What does this mean? What is protected by the fuse? The answer to this question is not as obvious as it seems, because a fuse serves two purposes. First, it helps to protect the components of the device itself—meaning the device after the fuse— from extensive damage in case of a fault. For example, a fuse at the input of a power supply could save sensitive parts from destruction if the power supply malfunctions. Second, a fuse isolates the device from the outer world when the device is faulty, and this helps to prevent greater damage to other equipment.
“Protection device” also means that a fuse should not be, by itself, a potential source of hazard. When the wire in a fuse is melting, it will be hot and liquid, and could start a fire without adequate precautions. That’s why a fuse wire is always hermetically sealed, like the glass tube in Figure 1. That’s a requirement. Fuses are regulated by standards, mainly IEC 60269  (for residential or large fuses) and IEC 60127 (for miniature fuses like my 20 mm × 5 mm example). Ok, Americans prefer UL248, which is a different standard—but the spirit is the same. In any case, these standards state that a fuse should not allow any external sign when a fault occurs. In other words, that means that everything should be contained within the fuse body. No smoke or other material is expelled. This is true as long as the fuse is used within its specifications. More on that in a minute.
The term “overcurrent” also needs some explanation. What is an overcurrent? Is it a current just above the nominal current? For how long? Or a short circuit with thousands of amperes? Let’s dig into more details …
At this point, I encourage you to look for the datasheet of any standard fuse, and to read it carefully. Of course, you will find that a fuse is first specified by its package type and rated current. The rated current, written on the fuse, is simply the maximum current that it can continuously conduct without any problem.
The second key characteristic of a fuse is its speed. How fast will it blow in case of trouble? As you might expect, this depends on several parameters, and the first is the current. The greater the current passing through the fuse, the faster the wire will melt and cut the link. What are the tolerated limits? For miniature fuses, two speed grades are available and specified by EIC60127-2: Quick acting (“F” type, for “fast”) and time-lag (“T” type). Typical values, their respective minimum and maximum breaking times, depending on the effective current are given in Table 1. A caution here: Standards are evolving, so always consult the latest official version of the standards for any precise information. Now, look again at Table 1. You will see, for example, that a quick-acting miniature fuse, when a current 275% higher than its rating is applied, must cut the wire in less than 2 seconds, but not less than 10 ms. These durations become respectively 10 seconds and 600 ms for a time-lag version. …
Read the full article in the August 349 issue of Circuit Cellar
(Full article word count: 2723 words; Figure count: 8 Figures.)
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1. Ease of prototyping - other people have already discussed the technologies. Open hardware has made it easy to build a First Thing.
2. Access to First Thing funding - Indiegogo/KS are not going to fund a company, but they give entrepreneurs access to working capital to build a first run.
2a. Social crowdfunding is an easy place to build an early adopter base to facilitate rapid iteration.
3. China. After making that First Thing, you need access manufacturing. The increasing proliferation of multinational companies devoted to all aspects of manufacturing - sourcing, supply chain management, logistics, fulfillment - mean that while manufacturing is still incredibly complex, it's increasingly manageable.
4. The HW incubator ecosystem. Access to mentorship and a knowledge base. Invaluable. YC may give a founder a network and some buzz, but PCH/Bolt+Dragon/Lemnos give founders access to engineers, tools, and incredible expertise.


<![CDATA[Passengers of Bristow Helicopters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, were left stranded as the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers of Nigeria (NAAPEN) an affiliate of Trade Union Congress, TUC, as early as 6:30 am stormed Bristow Helicopters and shut down all its offices in Port Harcourt thereby grounding all flight schedules today.
Isaac Balami of NAAPEN led the protesters along side national officials and the state chairman of TUC to shut down the operations of Bristow Airlines in Port Harcourt.
According to Balami “For the past ten years our pilots and engineers working with Bristow Helicopters have suffered untold hardship due to discriminatory and slavish policies of the management of Bristow Helicopters. They treat them like they are in a slave camp.
“You will see a co-pilot who just has 200hrs experience from UK, South Africa and Canada earning far more than their Nigerian counterparts who have been working for years.
“Nigerian pilots and engineers are treated like slaves in their own country. A job that a Nigerian can do they sack him and give it to a foreigner and pay him more. They have been sacking our co-pilots and the employing white men. We are even more competent than them. Today no helicopter of Bristow will fly until the Managing Director comes to answer us. We have also discovered that the management do not care about the welfare of workers. So before it becomes a safety issue they must come and hear us.”
Asked if shutting down the operations of the airline will assuage the feelings of his members, Balami said “This is just a few days warning strike to draw that attention of management to dialogue with us. Bristow operations cover about 60 per cent of the oil and gas sector of our economy, they know the implication of shutting down if they refuse to dialogue with us. If they don’t we’ll continue for the next one year.”
On the issue of challenges facing the company and recent air crashes by the airline, Balami said: “That is part of the problems we are going through. When it happened both passengers and our members are affected. This is why they must talk to us so that we address all the issues. What we have now can put Bristow in a worse situation. What we have are disgruntled engineers and pilots. It is a serious problem we can’t continue to accept the situation. For the safety of our members and passengers who fly every day we cannot accept it.
“We are not saying we want pay rise. We are not saying we want salary increments but what we are saying is we need valid conditions of service in tandem with the labour laws. We also want pay parity. We have other airlines that operate in this country and they obey the labour laws. Those airlines operate within the rules and regulations of this country where captains you are treated as a captains. Captains should be treated fairly whether white or black, they should be treated equally. They should not treat us as slaves in this country”.
Chika Onuegbu, Rivers State Chairman of TUC added that: “We have shut down all the offices of Bristow Helicopters and we have told the management, staff as well as passengers that they cannot go into the company premises.”
Meanwhile, passengers who were stunned by the industrial action were left stranded and confused.]]>


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The American Stake Foals of 1930
Black and white photo of Volga Hanover, identified as Volgo Hanover by Guy Kendall, driver T. Berry up, in the American Stake Foals of 1930 Race at the Grand Circuit Meet, Rockingham Park, Salem, N.H., Wednesday, August 2, 1933.
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Welcome to JCC Chicago Early Childhood at Bernard Horwich JCC, located in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood.
Here, your child is at the center of all we do. We strive to provide the foundation for children to develop and grow while bringing Jewish values to life.
We believe children flourish and grow in an environment where they can explore, discover and create. Our Director and teachers are dedicated professionals who focus on the individual needs of each child. We provide a warm, nurturing environment, enriched with exciting curriculum and a love of Judaism.


I found this video and couldn’t believe how easy this trick really was. I had a small amount of Coke left in the liter bottle in the fridge that had lost its fizzle but hadn’t gotten around to pouring it down the drain.
When I saw this video, it gave me a great way to use the leftover Coke and also try the simple recipe. It doesn’t take much, isn’t complicated and if you have a brand new blossoming chef in the house, could easily be made by that person.
I think you’ll appreciate not only how easy this one is, but how absolutely delicious and tender the chicken is when you’re finished. I served it with a crunchy salad and some green beans with sesame seeds, and it made the perfect dinner. The recipe came from Cooking With May Lynn, who shared her mother’s recipe. Thank you. It was delicious.
What you need:
- 2 pounds chicken wings
- 1/2 cup Coca-Cola
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- Pinch of salt
Credit: Cooking with MayLynn


Groupage cargoes will save you
Groupage cargoes are small loads that are combined into one and transported in large containers. The operator at the same time offers a fixed rate. The cost depends directly on weight and volume. The operator may carry risks associated with partial filling of the container.
Groupage cargoes, what is the essence
We select loads of small dimensions of different customers, which need to be transported in one direction. This scheme is not beneficial if you have medium and large shipments.
The loads of various customers are combined at the terminal, mounted in a container or car. At the place of delivery, the container is unloaded and transported by truck.
The key point is the consolidation of small batches of different customers. This is held in a dedicated warehouse.
A consolidated warehouse is the starting point from which regular shipments are made. There are several factors affecting a specific time during which a shipment will be delivered:
- complete set of the whole lot;
- route the load follows;
- weather conditions;
- road condition, if it is carriage by road, etc.
The method of transportation of general cargo has several advantages:
- Reduced chance of damage. The main advantage of such a system isa special terminal for loading and unloading of cargo . All manipulations with him are performed by qualified specialists. This minimizes the possibility that the load will be damaged.
- Reduced shipping costs. This is due to the saving of cargo space. Savings apply only to those cases when you need to transport small-sized goods. For medium and large loads, it is better to choose a way of transit.
- This is convenient. In fact, the company organizes all stages of transportation.
Cargo transportation goes through the following stages:
- Transportation of cargo from the customer to the consolidation warehouse.
- Cargo processing. Placing in a container, packaging.
- Customs clearance, preparation of all shipping documentation.
- Sending of general cargo to its destination by a certain type of transport.
- Customs clearance in the country of destination. Registration of all documents necessary for the legal sale of goods, the use of imported equipment.
- Delivery of piece load to a specific address or to the customer’s warehouse.
All the listed steps require precise implementation and well-thought-out organization of the transportation process. More and more companies offering such transportation appear on the market. Competition provides quality services. Transportation has become as fast as possible. Companies seek to build logistics efficiently, to ensure a full transport load. Formed a network of agents, debugged delivery service.
An important condition for success is the availability of warehouses. They allow you to consolidate and process consolidated cargo throughout the planet.
Customs Clearance Features
We should also mention the design of such goods at customs. Since they consist of several items of different customers, each of them may have a different customs clearance code. It will not be possible to arrange the entire shipment. It is important that the representatives of the carrier company fill out the entire package of documents as quickly as possible. This will help you get through the procedure as quickly as possible.
The benefits are undeniable
Groupage cargoes is beneficial both for the customer and the carrier. Recall that we are talking about small batches. For example, you need to deliver a cargo weighing 100 kg to another country. To drive a lorry for this is unprofitable. Now you can pick up similar shipments of several customers at once and optimally fill the vehicle space.
It is profitable for a customer to pay just for weight or volume, and for a carrier company it is advantageous to transport several cargoes at once and receive payment from several customers for this.
Now you can ship small batches of orders at a reasonable price.
Difficulties arise from the transport company. She needs to coordinate her actions as precisely as possible. After all, the goods need to be delivered quickly and profitably. To do this, you need to pick up customers who also need to deliver the goods in the same direction.
The company takes into account a complex of factors, coordinates all the links in a complex transportation chain. It is difficult and very responsible. Therefore, this delivery method interests mainly large companies. They have developed a transport structure over the years, accumulating valuable experience in freight transportation.
So, groupage cargoes will work if you want to transport a small cargo at a sufficiently large distance. It is reliable, fast, profitable.


In this blog article I would like to share with you how to embed a dashboard in a Crystal Report using flash variables. First of all let’s give a scenario that leads us to do that. In this case we wanted to create a dashboard for a SAP GRC module. The problem was that we could not connect to the system directly with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius for the most nostalgic ones). Apart from that, there is a good thing about having a dashboard embedded in Crystal, you will have a dashboard that can be refreshed from Crystal Reports without needing a previous authentication. You will also be able to save the “report” (you can show the dashboard) in PDF with saved data and the dashboard will be completely clickable and navigable.
After having a clear reason why we need to embed the dashboard into a Crystal Report let's jump to how to do it.
Once you have your dashboard ready go to “Manage Connections” and add a new one by choosing “Flash Variables”.
Once you have it ready give a name to this connection and choose the variable format as CSV. Now you might wondering why that is.
The variable format indicates how you have to prepare the data in Crystal Reports in order to let Excel read the variables, by putting them into the specific columns.
Virtually, what more or less happens between the dashboard embedded and the data from the Crystal report is the following:
For the moment we will step forward and later we will get back to this topic again.
Continuing with the Flash variable connection we were working at. Create as many variables as you need in you Dashboard. In the example below we have one flash variable for each column of the raw data table (see the image below).
Finally, save the dashboard and export it to flash file.
After those steps in SAP Dashboards, open Crystal Reports and open the report in which you want to add the Dashboard (it needs to have data inside).
Right click on the place you want to locate the dashboard and choose “Insert Flash Object”. A window will be opened and you will be able to select your flash file and select if you want it linked or embedded. If you want to have it connected to the Crystal data choose “Embedded”.
Once the dashboard is embedded you need to create the variables which will be linked with the flash variables in the Excel file. This is the time to go back to our figure 2! As we said the format you need to send the data to the flash variables is CSV; that means you should cook your data stored in columns (objects in your crystal reports) in order to have it in a singles string with values separated by comas.
Now here is the trick to creating these variables so that you can avoid fighting with Crystal reports for a while.
Take each column or data you need and type for each one of them the following formula:
global stringvar [Varriable];
if ([Variable]="") then [Variable]:=Cstr()
Note: Be careful if the data to convert into CSV is number formatted as #,##.##. The thousand separator will create errors in your dashboard if you are showing them. To avoid that kind of issues replace Cstr() by Cstr(,’#’).
Now that you have the dashboard placed and the variables created in Crystal reports, right click on the dashboard (in design mode) and choose “Flash Data Export”.
Once the pane is open you will insert the name of the Excel flash variables in the left column and the Crystal Reports variables in the right column. Is VERY important that the names of the variables in the left columns match perfectly (exactly the same name) with the names of the variables defined in the data manager in SAP Dashboards (see figure 1).
By following these steps you will be able to add a Dashboard into a Crystal reports and what is better is that you will be able to refresh a dashboard that is reading data from you system without any logging needed!
I hope this is useful to you in your upcoming projects. If you have any tips our doubts, leave a comment below.


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The great pyramids, the Ziggurats of the ancient Near East and Stonehenge are among the some of the most recognized megalithic structures in the world. Located in Wiltshire England, Stonehenge is a major prehistoric monument that comprises of a ring of standing stones with each of the standing stones being around 13ft high and 6ft 11 inches wide with a weight of approximately 25 tons (Willis et al., 2016). The stones were set within earthwork in the middle of the complex Bronze and Neolithic Age monuments in England.
Located in the El Giza, Egypt, the great pyramids are some of the oldest and largest pyramids in the world (Tort 2015). The great pyramids were designed as resting place for the pharaohs of Egypt and have provided archeologist with great insight into ancient Egyptian practices (Tort 2015). The Ziggurat is a massive megalithic structure that was built in ancient Mesopotamia and the western Iranian Plato (Sparavigna 2016).
One of the most notable ziggurats is the Great Ziggurat of Ur (Sparavigna 2016). The objective of this paper is to draw parallelism between the three megalithic structures discussed above. The paper will also look at the culture of the individuals who built these structures and factors that influenced the golden age.
A major similarity between the three structures is the fact that they were all places of spiritual ascension. Stonehenge was created as a place of burial and the people who created it intended it to be a place where a person’s soul would ascend to the next world (Willis et al., 2016). The place was regarded as a domain of the dead where the spiritual world interacted with the human world (Willis et al., 2016). The great pyramid was also a place of spiritual ascension where the spirit of the pharaoh and other important figures in traditional Egyptian society would migrate into the next world.
Egyptians believed that when a person died his spirit would be escorted by god Anubis to the next world and that the god Anubis would meet the spirit of the pharaoh at the pyramid. The locals believed that the slants of the pyramids would serve to bring the great kings of Egypt and the gods together (Tort 2015). Unlike the great Pyramid and Stonehenge which were built as places of burial, the ziggurat was a building like structure built on top of a raised platform that leads up to a holy place (Sparavigna 2016).
The ziggurats were regarded by the locals as a place where one would be able to transcend humanity and get closer to the gods. The locals referred to them as the “bond between heaven and earth” (Sparavigna 2016). They believed that as one moved up the steps towards the temple his/,her spirit also ascended into the spiritual realm.
Another parallel between the three structures is that they were build built on manual labor and utilized large boulders of stone. The creators of Stonehenge utilized exceptional engineering skills to bring the stones to upright positions and place other stones on top of them. The three megaliths were developed in periods where there were no mechanical systems to aid with their construction, and this manual labor was used. To be able to master manual labor in such a massive scale indicates that the individuals who commission the development of the structures were financially empowered and that the communities where they resided had large populations of individuals who could offer their services.
Another similarity between the three structures can be found in their design. All the three structures utilized complex engineering principles, and their design was based on mathematical shapes. Stonehenge is based on a circular design and the builders of the structure utilized mathematical principles in the placement of the stones on top of the pillar. The great pyramids are regarded as the greatest testament to Egyptian mathematical knowledge and engineering prowess (Tort 2015).
The base of the pyramid takes a square shape, and as one progresses up the pyramid, it starts to assume a triangular shape. Mathematical concepts are also reflected in the design of the Ziggurats. The structure consists of rectangular platforms that reduce in size as one goes up the structure (Sparavigna 2016). From t...
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Grover Norquist has suspended his involvement with the Board of the National Rifle Association pending the completion of its investigation of charges that he has for seventeen years been involved with and enabled Muslim Brotherhood influence operations against the conservative movement and Republican Party. This is a welcome, and long-overdue, step towards disassociating the NRA from a man whose past and ongoing conduct is odds with the core, patriotic beliefs of the organization’s rank-and-file.
As Fox News reported (www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/15/gop-power-player-norquist-steps-down-from-nra-amid-probe-islamist-ties/), radio and TV talk show host Glenn Beck, who has conducted his own, extensive on-air investigation of the charges against Norquist, announced on 14 April that: “[The NRA has] assured me and their membership that this will not be a whitewash, this will be a legitimate investigation. I believe they will do the right thing in turning over every stone and following the evidence wherever it takes them.”
Highlights of Mr. Beck’s inquiry – which represents the gold standard against which the rigor and integrity of the NRA investigation will be judged – are here:


im terribly sad at this moment. and perhaps overly tired. stuck in this pattern of questioning
god made me an artist. but he also made it virtually impossible to do my art. i have little confidence in my work. i find it difficult to make time for it. im the worst procrastinator in the universe. i tire easily, im distracted by the slightest thing. i have trouble concentrating. i have trouble working through the painful difficult moments that being an artist means having to struggle through for any success. i must admit im terribly lazy. i dont appreciate my work or my talents. i find it difficult to share. and i cant believe im writing this blog and will soon hit the publish button.
i doubt that anyone will read this.
if theres a place that dreams go to live then there must be a place that dreams go to die. im very afraid that ive found that place where you bury your passions, forget your desires, trample your creativity, chastize your instincts to fly free, supress your spirit, and give in to reality.
im afraid that my real world responsiblity detour will be a permanent slide into the darkest depths of hell. the place that dreams go to die. many peoples dreams end up there. maybe most.
ill still post a happy picture. about where dreams go to live.
i still have hope. perhaps mine will go there too.
i dont want to depress him.


"I want to see a Russian building."
I checked on your question. Some materials say が is used for physiological desires. That may be a little oversimplified, but in case you have not reached an advanced level yet, it is also a good way to remember first and you can revisit this issue later.
I have found an article for Japanese language teachers that explains about which particle to use in which case that will answer your question better. It is in Japanese though:
Both が and を are acceptable for the ～たい-forms of verbs. So you could say たてものを見たいです. There might be slight differences in what is emphasized depending on which one you use in some cases, but they should for the most part be interchangeable. I do believe が is more common though. It's definitely the one I use 99% of the time.
が is the correct particle to use with たい (same usage as with ほしい/すき/できる). を is actually a misuse. However it is a common misuse so Japanese decided to accept it as a correct particle too.
This 'の' is part of 'たてもの'. It is not particle here.
たてもの 建物 building ロシアの建物が見たいです。
Typical Duo style breakdown can be
[ロシア] [の] [たて] [も] [の] [が] [見たい] [です]


Breinholtgård is considered one of the best courses in Denmark, with 27 holes made up of 3 individual 9-hole courses, and a challenging 9-hole par 3 course. It was Jonathan’s first golf course design in Denmark, which he worked on with local building architect, Michael Møller.
This beautiful site, sandy and free-draining with heather in the rough, and set in pine and oak forest, is, on certain holes, reminiscent of some of the classic UK heathland courses, such as Swinley Forest or Sunningdale. The presence of Viking Graves on part of the site suggests an historic importance to the place itself, adding to the atmosphere.
There are dramatic changes in level on this course, and this varied topography has allowed for an interesting and exciting routing of the holes. With the old Danish farm house restored and used for the clubhouse, it makes a striking first impression, and Breinholtgård celebrated its 25th anniversary in August 2017. The course was built by Danish contractor, Superfos, and this collaboration resulted in a golf course that all involved could be rightly proud of.
Photo credit: JG/Breinholtgard Golfklubb


Cingular releases its first HSDPA phone with the LG CU500 flip. The CU500 has a swiveling 1.3 megapixel camera, music keys, microSD, stereo Bluetooth and weighs 105 grams.
The phone has a pretty average talk time of 3.5 hours, but it's the first phone to use the new HSDPA network, so quit complaining. But, the HSDPA is only available in select markets for now, so check your area before plopping down for the LG.
The phone isn't on the Cingular website yet, but we'll update when it is.
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I would like to say that we have been so busy that I just have not had time to sit down and write anything. But that is not the case. Happy Haltiwangers has just been on the back burner, but I am hoping this is a new start.
So to start we have gone on 5 camping trips since I last wrote up a blog in our new camper. Which we still LOVE our camper. We have so much more room in it compared to the RV. With a wild crawling 8 month old and busy 9 year old, we need all the space we can get.
We have been to Santee State Park, Hickory Knob State Park, Hamilton Branch State Park, Riversend Campground down in Tybee Island, and I know I am forgetting another one. The camper is currently down where my husband hunts for a few weeks so we will be making weekend trips down there pretty much every weekend.
I have also jumped into the world of Young Living and trying to make healthier decisions for our family. But I will make another post about that.
You can follow us on Instagram where I post pictures through out the week . Also you can get the items we have purchased for our RV through Amazon.


New to expressions and formulas? Try Expressions: The Essentials.
New to column constraints? Try Column Constraints.
You can also learn more about other types of expressions.
Expressions in this article align with the Yes/No Expressions in Expression Builder in the app editor.
Every input in a form is checked for validity based on its type. For example, a column of type Number won't accept "Hello" as an input. A Valid_If column constraint is a type of expression used in situations where the validity of the input requires richer data-dependent logic.
A Valid_If constraint is a condition expression that determines if the user input for the associated column is valid. For example, the Quote Calculator sample uses a Valid_If condition to ensure that the Cost Per Hour must be less than $20.
Here are examples of commonly-used Valid_If constraints:
- Does the value of the column satisfy a simple condition? For example, comparing the value with a constant (e.g. [_THIS] > 5), or comparing the value with another column (e.g. [_THIS] > [ColumnA]).
- Is the value of the column in a list? This produces a dropdown menu as described in the article Dropdown from Valid_If.
Invalid inputs can prevent saving data or progressing to the next page in a form. For data changes made through forms or Quick Edit columns in detail views, Valid_If constraints are only enforced for visible inputs. This is because:
- There are many ways columns can be hidden or omitted from the view (e.g. excluded from a slice, excluded from column order, or on a different page in a branching form), so it's often unclear whether blocking the user was intended or expected.
- If a user is blocked by a hidden column failing validation, the user generally has no way to fix it and doesn't understand why they're stuck. If the app creator didn't intend them to be blocked there, the user may not understand why either, leading to lost productivity.
Valid_If conditions can still reference values of hidden columns, so if you do want to block the form due to hidden values, just attach the expression to a visible column.
For updates made through actions, Valid_If conditions are enforced in two cases:
- If the column being updated becomes invalid, the update is blocked.
- If the update causes a different column to become invalid, the update is blocked.
This means an action won't be blocked due to preexisting invalid values that are unrelated to the action itself.
Valid_If and Dependent Dropdowns
Dependent dropdown menus are a common design pattern in apps that capture input. For example, consider an app like the Lead Tracker sample, that asks for a Lead Region (America, Asia, Europe), then for a Country within that region. This actually requires relatively complex logic, but AppSheet tries to make it simple. Dependent dropdown menus are driven by a separate lookup table.
In the sample, there is a separate Regions lookup table with two columns, Region and Country, which serves to describe the allowed combinations of regions and countries. Here is the table data used in the sample.
The Lead Region column has a regular Valid_If constraint: Regions[Region]. Therefore, when a new entry is being added, the input for this column shows three choices: America, Asia, and Europe.
Likewise, the Country column specifies a similar Valid_If constraint: Regions[Country]. However, because it follows the Lead Region column, and because both specify columns from the same lookup table, Regions, AppSheet recognizes the intent and implements a dependent dropdown menu.
Internally, AppSheet creates an expression to capture the allowed set of values for the Country column. The expression must say (in English!):
- Look at the Regions table.
- Filter the rows to make sure the Region column of the table matches the value in the Lead Region column of the row being edited in the form.
- Extract the Country column from those filtered rows.
- Eliminate any duplicates--these are the allowed countries!
- Recompute this list each time Lead Region is changed.
Strictly for the expression aficionado, the full underlying AppSheet expression would be: IN( [_THIS], SELECT(Regions[Country], [_THISROW].[Lead Region] = [Region]))
While most app creators will never need to express something this complicated, you could in fact provide this expression as a Valid_If constraint. It's useful to know for advanced use cases. For example, instead of using an equality condition, an app creator could use inequality or richer expressions to build very expressive dynamic dropdown menus.


New Health Status dashboard facilitates Netwrix Auditor maintenance and troubleshooting tasks, providing IT specialists with at-a-glance view on the most critical factors: data collection performance, product health and storage capacity. The dashboard comprises a set of widgets that display the status of these aspects using aggregated statistics and charts. Nearly each widget allows you to drill down to the detailed information on the aspect you are interested in.
To view the dashboard, on the main Netwrix Auditor page, click the Health status tile located in the Configuration section.
The dashboard includes the following widgets:
- The Activity records by date chart—Shows the number of activity records produced by your data sources, collected and saved by Netwrix Auditor during the last 7 days. See Activity Records Statistics for details.
- The Monitoring overview widget—Shows aggregated statistics on the statuses of all monitoring plans configured in Netwrix Auditor at the moment. See Monitoring Overview for details.
- The Health log chart—Shows the statistics on the events written in the Netwrix Auditor health log in the last 24 hours. Click the link in this widget to view the log. See Health Log for details.
- The Database statistics widget—Helps you to estimate database capacity on the default SQL Server instance that hosts the product databases. See Database Statistics for details.
- The Long-Term Archive widget—Helps you to estimate the capacity of the Long-Term Archive file-based storage. To modify its settings, including location and retention, click the link in this widget. See Long-Term Archive Capacity for details.
- The Working Folder widget—Helps you to estimate the capacity of the Netwrix Auditor working folder used to keep operational information (configuration files of the product components, log files, and other data) on the Netwrix Auditor Server. See Netwrix Auditor Working Folder for details.
You can also instruct Netwrix Auditor to forward similar statistics as a health summary email to personnel in charge. For that, click Notification settings, then follow the steps described in the Notifications section. See also Netwrix Auditor Health Summary Email.


A Cooldown (or CD) is the minimum length of time that the player needs to wait after using an ability before they can use it again. They naturally recharge at the rate of 1 per second and you cannot cast an ability while it's on cooldown, but the game will give you an indicator on the ability itself or at the position of your mouses' cursor of how much longer you need to wait. Players can press ALT and left-click any of their Ability or Talent icons to quickly indicate their remaining Ability cooldown durations to teammates via chat messages.
Cooldowns are a major limiter in how often a hero can utilize their powerful abilities. Stronger abilities such as Heroics have longer cooldowns to give the enemy a chance to take advantage of the temporary loss of an ability. Some abilities will have much shorter cooldowns and a weaker effect, which lets the hero constantly have the benefits of the ability, but then the ability might be constrained by mana costs due to how often it is cast.
Many abilities will be set on a 10 second cooldown if they are interrupted during the cast time. The effect Time Stop completely halts the countdown of cooldowns. Many channeled abilities have an extremely short cooldown after activating to prevent them from being deactivated by pressing the button too fast.
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Some abilities can hold multiple charges of itself allowing it to be cast multiple times in succession, such as Kharazim's Radiant Dash. For most of these abilities once the cooldown completes it fills a charge and must be completed again for each charge to refill. Some abilities like Genji's Shuriken refill all charges of the ability when the cooldown completes. These abilities generally allow for a burst in damage or utility that then slows down once the charges need to be refilled.
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Abilities with a lasting or delayed effect (like Stitches both ultimate, blaze or alextrasza traits, ...) will start there cooldown once they are activated. There is few exeception to this rules like Abathur Evole Monstrosity which have his CD starting once the Monstrosity is dead.
Cooldown modifiers[edit | edit source]
Cooldown reduction[edit | edit source]
Cooldown reduction reduces the cooldowns of some or all abilities a hero has, allowing them to be cast more frequently. Some abilities don't start their cooldown until the ability has finished its effect, so cooldown reductions will trigger after the ability ends.
- Some talents reduce the cooldown by a certain amount of seconds. This can be a permanent effect (such as a talent or quest reward) or a conditional effect (such as reducing the cooldown per enemy hit), but either way the cooldown will be reduced by the value given.
- Calculation: BaseCD + Flat.modifier = current CD.
- Example with Li-Ming's Arcane Orb (8 sec cooldown) with Zei's Vengeance (a talent which reduces the cooldown of Arcane Orb by 2 seconds): 8 sec - 2 sec = 6 sec
- Another way is by increasing the cooldown speed, since Cooldowns reduce at the speed of 1 per second and some abilities or talents increase the rate of reduction by a certain percentage, making it take fewer seconds to be recharged.
- Example: Malfurion's Innervate, which recharges basic ability cooldowns 50% faster resulting in 33% reduced cooldowns.
- The last way is by setting the cooldown at a value. Some abilities have a condition that if met will set the cooldown to a number, regardless of the current status of the cooldown. This means that theoretically if the cooldown was below the value and the condition was met it would increase the cooldown, however all the conditions are generally in place on abilities where the effect happens too quick for this to happen.
- Example: Medivh's Arcane Rift which sets the cooldown at 2 seconds if it hits a hero.
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|Attack_||Basic Attack ( Attack Range • Attack Speed) • Ability (Resource ( Mana) Spell Power • Cooldown)|
|Defense_||Health • Health Regeneration • Healing (Healing modifier • Lifesteal) • Shield • Armor|
|Buffs_||Absorbing • Evade • Healing • Invulnerable • Parry • Protected • Stasis • Stealth • Shields • Unkillable • Unstoppable • Untargetable|
|Debuffs_||Attack Slow • Blind • Crowd control • Damage over Time • Knockback • Revealed • Root • Silence ( Fear • Mind Control • Polymorph • Taunt) • Slow • Stun ( Sleep) • Time Stopped|


The Church of the Holy Faith uses a traditional Anglo-Catholic style of worship following the Book of Common Prayer, Rite I for all services except the Taizé service on Tuesday evenings.
What is Taizé?
The Taizé form of worship uses calming music, candlelight and silence to promote an atmosphere of peaceful, meditative worship.
Taizé originated during World War II, in the town of the same name in the Burgundy region of France. What began as an effort by a Christian brother and sister team to hide and protect those fleeing the war later developed into a brotherhood of men devoted to a common life of service and great simplicity.
Song is one of the most essential elements of worship. In the Taizé prayer service, words are sung over many times, gradually penetrating the whole being, uniting prayer and daily life. It becomes a way of listening to God.
The ecumenical Taizé form of worship is one that many Christian churches worldwide are adding to their service offerings.
Holy Faith’s Taizé-style healing liturgy with Holy Eucharist is offered every Tuesday at 6:00 pm in the church. We hope you will join us in this gracious and beautiful worship of our Lord.


The most common symptoms are:
- food impaction
- thoracic pain
- heartburn (pyrosis)
If the inflammation of the oesophagus and related symptoms are left untreated, they will continue from childhood to adulthood. This inflammation causes structural changes to the oesophagus by remodelling the tissue. This can lead to fibrosis and oesophageal stricture. This means functional deterioration that significantly affects the patient’s quality of life.
Who is affected by eosinophilic oesophagitis?
From the first recorded case in 1993, eosinophilic oesophagitis has been found to affect 45 out of every 100,000 people, and has an incidence rate of 3.7 cases for every 100,000 people a year. This makes it the most common cause of dysphagia, spontaneous oesophageal perforation and food impaction in young patients.
For appropriate diagnosis, a gastroscopy must be carried out to take multiple biopsies from the oesophagus, since inflammatory alterations can be distributed unevenly. This technique also allows the response to treatment to be assessed.
Endoscopic analysis of the oesophageal mucous membranes is not sufficient to reach a firm diagnosis, as 10-15% of patients will have normal results of a endoscopy.
Treatment for EoE is based on three alternative therapies:
- Pharmacological therapy (proton pump inhibitors and topical corticosteroids)
- Dietary treatment with evidence-based diets that eliminate the foods most frequently involved in EoE.
- Endoscopy therapy to urgently treat any bouts of food impaction or to treat oesophageal stricture (oesophageal dilatation).
Early diagnosis is important to prevent complications arising from EoE. Early treatment and clinical and endoscopic monitoring is also essential.
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We talked to Gonzalo Ferreyra, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Viz Media, in our annual interview to review the state of the market, Viz’s year, and plans for the future. In Part 1, we talk about the manga market, the competition for consumers’ attention, digital comics, and original material. In Part 2, we talk about the anime market, Viz’s plans for Blu-ray, the impact of digital distribution, and the TV market for anime. In Part 3, we talk about finding new consumers with a smaller mall footprint for manga and anime and look forward to 2010 in both manga and anime.
Let’s start with the big picture on the manga side: how do you evaluate the market for manga and for Viz manga in the year we just finished?
We certainly saw a much, much tougher market than we’ve ever seen before for a wide variety of reasons that I know you’re very familiar with. In terms of actual sell-through of manga we saw very steady numbers. What’s difficult is because of the state of the market, because of the returns and the sell-in fluctuations, because of what I tend to think of as the irrational exuberance a year or so ago of sections being built up dramatically (perhaps a little too dramatically), the sell-in is a tough thing to gauge. I’d rather look at the sell-through and the sell-through has continued to be very strong and very encouraging. The market as a whole is more conservative, more cautious. I think the number of distractions for these consumers is increasing at a geometric rate. It is becoming a tougher market. There’s no question in my mind. That said we remain very positive. We’re seeing some absolutely fantastic numbers on selected titles and are very encouraged by a lot of what is forthcoming, not just from Viz quite frankly. A lot of what Yen Press is doing right now is very exciting and I think we’re going to see a lot of what can happen in 2010.
You said there were some great numbers, some bright spots--what are some examples?
Vampire Knight is unquestionably the standout in terms of continuing to exceed expectations. Obviously it’s a title that is more clearly than most of our properties driven by a local phenomenon that we’re more than happy to participate in, and then also other vampire-related titles. Blackbird, which is perhaps a little more distantly vampire-related shojo title (Vampire Knight is shojo as well), performed very well. We have Rosario & Vampire which is a Shonen Jump title that is doing very well.
Quite frankly the continued strength of Naruto, now that it’s up in the forties, is pretty astonishing to me--the fact that the attrition on that series is relatively low and the numbers continue to be phenomenal after the several dozen volumes that are out there. Bleach as well continues to impress us with its performance placing very high. We saw some very encouraging early numbers from Tegami Bachi, which is a brand new series that launched this year that we were highly anticipating.
Can you differentiate at all in terms of market between the three channels--bookstores, mass, and the comic and other otaku stores? How did those channels differ over the last year?
The answer I just gave was really thinking about the trade book channel. The mass continues to be very, very encouraging and continues to be the bright spot in terms of growth. Obviously, there is a limited title selection (which is fine) with very strong numbers for a handful of titles. It’s not depth. It limits to some degree the impact on the market.
In the case of the comic store business it’s been a little rocky there as well, largely because of the market forces we’ve seen out there and some of the same challenges that we’re seeing in the trade. What is encouraging is how actively they have embraced particular initiatives of ours--the Signature line, the seinen titles. We’ve seen very strong performance. To my mind that’s where you’re broadening the market and finding new opportunities. It’s been very good.
You mentioned there are more and more distractions for your core manga market and then you started talking about hot titles which are vampire-related. Is one of the things that’s unsaid there that the Twilight novels are taking away some audience?
I don’t know. In terms of taking it away I’d like to think that it’s creating some fans as well. Anything that gets kids into the stores and reading actively... They can only read Twilight so many times. That’s when they come over and they start poking around and they find the Vampire Knights and Rosario & Vampires and other titles.
Let’s not kid ourselves, the Twilight fans number in the many, many millions--they’re manga-like numbers in
I don’t think I blame any single property. When I say that it’s video games, it’s film, it’s DVDs, it’s television, it’s the Internet, it’s Facebook. All of that. There is simply--and I see it in my children--a volume of entertainment options and quite frankly time-consuming options that were unheard of in my childhood certainly. It becomes difficult. We’re not competing just against graphic novels or just against books. We’re competing against all of that.
When I think about the fact that Modern Warfare 2--I believe it sold over four million copies the first day. To my mind that’s four million potential customers who are immersed in this game now for weeks at a time. They’re probably not doing too much reading during that period. That’s what I’m getting at.
That’s a nice segue into the next question--we wanted to ask about reaching consumers where they are on their cell phones. Shueisha announced a month or two ago it’s initiating a global program to sell phone manga globally, including in English. Is that something that Viz won’t be involved with? Is all that going to be controlled out of
There’s a lot to be determined there. That initiative specifically was directly between Shueisha and Microsoft. Right now we are in discussions with our licensors as to the ongoing strategy, just how it’s going to be handled, and what Viz’s role will be has not been determined.
Cell phone manga are such a big deal in
I don’t want to speculate too much and quite frankly I do regret that we’re not able to move more quickly into the
Turning to the Web side, the desktop for a minute, you recently launched a new Takahashi manga in the
I think we will continue to evaluate it and we will continue to experiment. It is very difficult as I think you know better than anyone to really assess the impact, positive or negative, of sharing free previews and free bits of manga online on physical copy sales. We now have an online team that is focused on actually establishing some metrics and establishing some tracking that will hopefully help us understand this a little better. Quite frankly we’re not really at this point ready to make a decision as to where we’ll be going with that. That being said, I see us continuing to assess this.
On the publishing side over the last couple of years at various times there’s been talk about Viz publishing original material here in the States. Anything going on that in realm?
We have several conversations happening. At this point it’s not a full-blown program or imprint, but we are at the early stages of a few discussions and we hope to venture into that area more aggressively at some point in 2010, maybe 2011.
Click here for Part 2.


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Pinwheel Surprise Block Pattern
The Pinwheel Surprise block pattern is finished, well, almost! I just need one more photo to add in and it will be ready to go. I love this pattern. It seems really complicated when you first see the end result, but it is actually really simple. I am excited to try some different color combinations and see what fun stuff I can come up with. I think there may have to be a version with black instead of white! What colors would you like to see together?
If you want to try this Pinwheel Surprise Block Pattern the link is at the bottom! I would love to see the colors and combinations that you come up with so please share and leave comments or questions below. I will do my best to answer them all.
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To the Gentle Reader,
Sometimes, life is meant to give you lemons that can grant you the ability to remember the way it used to be.
My lemonade came to me today, as a request for a partial manuscript. And that rush comes back. That rush that drives me to create a new site and blog, to voice my thoughts. The rush that makes me want to write again.
Although I kept my https://kaydenmcleod.blogspot.com/, we had deleted my website. So I chose a simple start. I am slowly getting back into the groove.
So my work in progress new arena of the written word. http://www.kaydennkinsey.com/
Who knows where this will lead me. But I am thrilled to be back on the rollarcoaster, wherever it leads.
Melissa King(Kayden McLeod)


Dr Liis Seinberg and her colleagues prof Shinpei Yamamoto and prof Hiroshi Kageyama received the JSPM (Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy) Award for Advanced Research.
The research was performed during Liis Seinberg’s PhD studies in Kyoto University. The work was supervised by prof Shinpei Yamamoto (Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University) ja prof Hiroshi Kageyama (Kyoto University). The thesis “Low temperature Synthesis and Properties of Ferromagnetic-Metal Nanomaterials and Square-Planar Coordinated Iron Oxides” featured five high impact publications.
The award ceremony was in Japan on May 24th 2016.


Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody.
Return an array of the benchmark values for MATLAB.
The test suite already spoils the solution.
True. In general that should be avoided, although admittedly it's difficult here because if the correct answer were hard-coded, then changes to: (i) the hardware on which Cody runs; or (ii) the version of MATLAB that Cody employs may eventually invalidate it. Having said that, the Test Suite could still be tightened up (see e.g. Solution 1461085).
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The REU Program in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics started at WPI in 1998 with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). It was the first mathematics REU program in the US that exclusively involves students in real-world projects sponsored by corporate partners.
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The REU program at WPI provides a unique experience that answers these questions, an experience that complements standard academic training.


A swollen abdomen is a potential symptom of a wide variety of ailments in cats. Swollen abdomens may occur quickly or over time. Regardless of the timeline, though, you should treat a swollen abdomen as a potentially serious condition and try to come to a diagnosis as quickly as possible. By observing your cat, consulting with your vet, and considering possible ailments, you’ll better be able to arrive at a diagnosis.
Part One of Two:
Considering Possible Causes
1Look for signs of malnutrition. Cats who have malnutrition often have a distended belly. A distended belly may appear as if it bloated or sticking out. It may look to have very little fat or muscle covering it. Malnutrition is common in cats who:
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- Eat food prepared at home.
- Are kept on a vegan or vegetarian diet.
- Lack enough Vitamin E, copper, zinc, and potassium.
- Eat food that contains a lot of vegetable oil.
2Observe to see if the cat is simply overweight. Typically, a cat will need about 30 calories a day per pound of weight. If your cat consumes more than this, they may become obese.
- Consult your vet and/or the nutritional information on the back of your cat food packaging.
- You can use a cat body condition score chart to determine if your cat is overweight, such as the one found here: https://www.wsava.org/sites/default/files/Body%20condition%20score%20chart%20cats.pdf.
3Notice signs of Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP). FIP is a potentially fatal condition that starts as a viral infection and is common in areas or households with a high cat population. In addition to a distended abdomen, diarrhea is one of the most common signs of FIP.
- FIP can be confirmed through blood tests that test liver enzyme levels, bilirubin levels, and globulin levels.
- Wet FIP can also be diagnosed by obtaining a sample of the abdominal fluid.
4Look for signs of infection, virus, or parasites. There are a wide variety of communicable diseases that may cause a swollen abdomen in cats. While most cases are minor, some might lead to serious problems for the affected cat. Look for symptoms of:
- Pyometra, which is an infection in a female cat’s reproductive system. Pyometra may manifest in lethargy, lack of appetite, or frequent urination.
- Intestinal worms. The most common symptom of intestinal worms may be rice-like objects in your cat's fecal matter or around their anus.
5Identify signs of cancer or a tumorous growth. These are perhaps one of the most serious causes of a swollen abdomen in cats, and you should seek veterinary care immediately if you suspect it. Some of the most common symptoms of cancer or tumors are abnormal skin growths and/or loss of appetite.
6Look for signs of metabolic or digestive issues. Metabolic and digestive issues (like diabetes and colitis) may be one of the most common causes of swollen abdomen in cats. Common signs include change in appetite, weight change, and/or a decline in energy level.
- If you suspect your cat has a metabolic or digestive issue, you may need to have your vet run blood tests to confirm or rule out these conditions.
Part Two of Two:
Consulting Your Veterinarian
1Explain the timetable of your cat's swollen abdomen. Give your vet a sense of when and/or how quickly your cat developed a swollen abdomen. This is important information your vet will need when they diagnose your cat. Inform them if:
- Your cat developed a swollen abdomen overnight or over the course of several days.
- Your cat developed a swollen abdomen over the course of several weeks or months.
2Discuss your cat's eating patterns. Your cat’s appetite is likely connected to their swollen abdomen. This is because an infection in the abdomen or other problems in the digestive system will impact whether your cat wants to or even has the appetite to eat. Let your vet know if your cat:
- Is eating less.
- Is eating more.
- Has a complete lack of appetite.
- Throws up after eating.
- Has been started on a new food recently.
3Allow your vet to run bloodwork. Bloodwork is essential in helping to arrive at a diagnosis about what is causing your cat’s swollen abdomen. Without bloodwork, your vet won’t have basic information about your cat’s immune system and more. Bloodwork may:
- Give your vet information about your cat’s immune system. If your cat has an infection, like pyometra, they will have elevated white cell counts.
4Ask your vet to run diagnostics. Take your cat to a board certified internal medicine specialist for an endoscopic exam and biopsy. The vet may have to run a variety of diagnostic tests to arrive at a proper diagnosis. Some diagnostics that might shed light on a swollen abdomen include:
- X-rays. An X-ray might help your vet locate any cancerous growths or infected organs.
- An ultrasound. An ultrasound will give your doctor a lot of information and may help rule out or confirm the diagnosis of cancer. In addition, it will let the vet know if there is an accumulation of fluid in or around the abdominal cavity.
- A biopsy. If your vet locates a growth or infected area within your cat’s abdomen, they might need to take a biopsy.
QuestionMy cat looks like she has a swollen belly, but I've been feeding her a lot of food. I don't know if she is fat or she has a swollen belly. She also has tapeworms. How can I tell the difference?Community Answer
- Cats need anti-parasite treatment regularly. My suggestion would be to take your cat to your veterinarian and ask for anti-parasite shots or pills. This will make some of the worm-related swelling go away. Worms are a major threat to your cat's health and life expectancy so please act quickly.
QuestionMy cat's abdomen is hard. The vet has advised me to get an x-ray. She eats and drinks normally and also urinates and defecates normally. What could the problem be?Community Answer
- Constipation. Constipation will make your cat's stomach feel more firm and cause abdominal discomfort. The most common causes of constipation in younger cats are hairballs, and diets low in fiber or lacking moisture. If her constipation goes unresolved, she can become impacted.
QuestionWhat should I do if my male cat has a swollen belly, but doesn't seem uncomfortable?
QuestionMy cat developed a severe hard belly with pain. He cries in pain and cannot go to the bathroom. I heard him scream in pain and then the hardness appeared.
What do I do if my cat is showing a swollen abdomen but has been acting and eating normally?
My 7 year old cat has a liver condition that is causing water retention in her belly. The vet says there is no cure. He can only try to control the condition. Does that should accurate? Should I get a second opinion?
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To diagnose the cause of a swollen abdomen in your cat, keep an eye out for symptoms like frequent urination, lethargy, or lack of appetite, which could be signs that your cat has an infection or parasite. Also, check your cat’s litter box to see if it’s suffering from diarrhea, which could indicate a serious viral infection, such as FIP. If you spot these symptoms, take your cat to the vet right away, since conditions like FIP can be fatal. At your appointment, your vet will run tests, such as bloodwork and X-rays, to diagnose the cause of your cat’s swollen abdomen.
- ↑ http://www.catster.com/cat-food/how-much-should-i-feed-my-cat
- ↑ https://icatcare.org/advice/cat-health/feline-infectious-peritonitis-fip
- ↑ http://www.pethealthnetwork.com/cat-health/cat-diseases-conditions-a-z/feline-infectious-peritonitis-fip
- ↑ https://www.petfinder.com/cats/cat-health/5-common-colon-problems-in-cats/
- ↑ https://www.petfinder.com/cats/cat-health/5-common-colon-problems-in-cats/
- ↑ http://pets.webmd.com/cats/cat-flatulence-gas
- ↑ https://www.vetary.com/cat/condition/fluid-abdomen
- ↑ http://www.petplace.com/article/cats/diseases-conditions-of-cats/symptoms/abdominal-distension-in-cats


Nonetheless, the incident was used to highlight a lack of coordination between the White House and the intelligence community with Coats often being the bearer of bad news. President Trump was vocal about his disagreements with Coats, reportedly telling him behind the scenes to stay quiet about threats of Russian meddling and even calling him out publicly in certain settings.
“Can you give me an example, other than Donald Trump, where the Justice Department determined that an investigated person was not exonerated because their innocence was not conclusively determined? …You can’t find it because, I’ll tell you why, it doesn’t exist.”
On Sunday, President Trump announced Republican Representative John Ratcliffe will take over as Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Ratcliffe has long been considered to be a Trump ally, but apparently made an impression during his interrogation of Robert Mueller. He had this to say during the hearing:
The latest change at the DNI could be a sign that the president is looking to downsize the department altogether in order to concentrate on information sharing efforts. Coats is expected to leave the department on Thursday, August 15th with the president saying an active director will be named in the near future.
There’s another shake-up in the Trump administration, with the latest move likely having a trickle-effect throughout the rest of the government.
The Texas congressman was already a rising star in the Republican Party after winning his election with more than 70-percent of the vote in the 2018 midterms. Ratcliffe was facing off against other high profile officials for the job, including chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford. He also challenged Fred Fleitz, the former Chief of Staff for National Security Adviser John Bolton.
Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas., asks questions to former special counsel Robert Mueller, as he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Ratcliffe will now be elevated to a post where the current official, Dan Coats, has often been at odds with the president and his administration. Perhaps the most memorable event during his tenure was his response after learning President Trump invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House. When asked about the invitation he laughed and acted as if it were a joke. Coats later said he meant no disrespect to the White House and admitted the exchange was somewhat awkward.
“I agree with my fellow members of the Washington delegation that, as we have learned about the gravity of the potential threats to our democracy identified in special counsel Mueller’s report, it has become clear that the House should begin proceedings to determine whether the president’s action necessitate impeachment,” Murray said in a statement shared on her website. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., on Sunday supported an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, a decision fueled by testimony provided by special counsel Robert Mueller last week. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday said the House would decide whether to begin proceedings, “when we have a best strongest possible case” and that such a decision “will be made in a timely fashion.” Murray, the No. 3 Senate Democrat, joins a growing list of Democrats pushing for impeachment, including all seven of Washington’s Democratic House members. Mueller in his testimony before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees noted the 2000 Justice Department determination that “a sitting president is constitutionally immune from indictment and criminal prosecution.” He also said his team did not reach a determination whether Trump committed a crime.
With Peace In North Korea And China Trade Deals, Don’t You Think It’s Time Trump Got A Nobel Peace Prize?
Fox News Exclusive: Trump tells Tucker Carlson he’s optimistic about trade deal with China, slams Big Tech bias
President Trump expressed optimism about a possible trade deal between his administration and Chinese President Xi Jinping,during an interview with Tucker Carlson set to air Monday night on Fox News. Trump had met with Xi during the G20 summit in Osaka and … See More described the meeting as “excellent” before saying the two countries were “back on track.” “We had a very good meeting,” thepresident said. “He wants to make a deal. I want to make a deal. Very big deal, probably, I guess you’d say the largest deal ever made of any kind, not only trade.”
Trump sat down with Carlson during the president’s trip, which included stops in Osaka, Japan, for the G20 summit, and a first-of-its kind visit by a U.S. president to North Korea, meeting with dictator Kim Jong Un at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which Carlson witnessed. During the interview, the president also ripped alleged biases from Big Tech, which includes Facebook, Google and Twitter, saying, ” They were totally against me. I won … They fought me very hard. I mean, I heard that and they’re fighting me hard right now.”
TUNE IN: Don’t miss Tucker Carlson’s exclusive interview with President Trump tonight on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” at 8 p.m. ET
Trump and Kim agree to revive talks on nuke problem in historic visit, but what’s next?
President Trump made history this weekend by becoming first sitting U.S. president to set foot in North Korea when he took 20 steps into the Hermit Kingdom. The event in the Demilitarized Zone also included a roughly 50-minute meeting behind closed doors, the first face-to-face sit-down between the two since their failed summit in Hanoi in February. The two leaders have agreed to revive talks on North Korea’s nuclear program, with Trump saying “speed is not the object” and “we’re looking to get it right.”
The president’s critics, especially Democrats looking to run against him in 2020, are skeptical and have called the latest meeting between Trump and Kim another elaborate photo-op and accused the president of “coddling” dictators. Other critics have wondered whether Trump will ever reach an actual deal with Kim, noting that nothing of substance was achieved in their previous two meetings. Still, Harry J. Kazianis, director of Korean Studies at the Center for the National Interest,wonders whether Trump’s unconventional diplomatic approach to North Korea is worthy of a Nobel Prize. Stay tuned.
Kudlow: No ‘amnesty’ for Huawei
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Sunday tamped down expectations of a quick resolution of the U.S.-China trade dispute, adding that President Trump’s decision to let Chinese telecom giant Huawei buy some additional U.S. products is “not a general amnesty.” Trump announced Saturday that U.S. suppliers will be allowed to sell components to Chinese telecom giant Huawei following talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Kudlow said Trump’s move does not mean the administration no longer regards Huawei as a surveillance agency of the Chinese Communist Party. Still, U.S. stock futures jumped ahead of Monday’s open as investors reacted to the progress between the U.S. and China at the G20 Summit.
Fox News Exclusive: Friends of Utah student say suspected killer was ‘hunting for women’
In a Fox News exclusive interview, friends of the University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck said Sunday they believe the suspect arrested in her disappearance and murder was “hunting for women.” Lueck, 23, disappeared after police said she met with the suspectidentified as 31-year-old Ayoola Ajayi, who was arrested and charged with aggravated murder Friday. The student met with Ajayi around 3 a.m. on June 17 near a park in Salt Lake City after she had been dropped off by a Lyft driver, according to police. “There’s a lot of people that say she deserved this because she put herself in this situation and we don’t officially know that,” Kennedy Stoner, a sorority sister and friend of Lueck’s, told Fox News in an exclusive interview on Sunday. Follow the latest developments on this story on FoxNews.com.
Many 2020 Dems on the chopping block
The Democratic Party’s crowded field of 2020 presidential candidates could quickly shrink as more than half of the contenders are in real danger of failing to meet tougher requirements to participate in the fall round of debates. Short on support and money and bound by tough party rules, once soaring politicians may soon be seen as also-rans. They include: Julian Castro, the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Obama who is trying to capitalize on his strong debate performance last week; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, one of her party’s most outspoken feminists; and Sen. Cory Booker, who first rose to stardom as the energetic mayor of Newark, N.J. Of the 20 candidates who qualified for the first round of debates in June and July, just six right now are sure to appear in the September-October round, when the Democratic National Committee requires participants to hit 2 percent in multiple polls and 130,000 individual donors. – Associated Press
Sanders hits back at AOC after Ivanka Trump dig.
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At G20 summit in Japan, these were the five biggest moments you missed.
Billionaire Bernie Marcus to donate majority of fortune, support Trump for re-election.
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Is Joe Biden a Racist?
Harris puts Biden’s race record on trial in Round 2 of Dem primary debate
Democratic presidential primary front-runner Joe Biden ran into a formidable challenge at Thursday night’s debate from U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, who tapped into her prosecutor toolbox to put his race record on trial following the controversy over his comments on segregationist senators. In perhaps the most heated momentof the night, Harris told Biden she doesn’t believe he is a “racist” but … See More considers his recent comments about being able to work with segregationist senators early in his career “hurtful.”
Biden has said he disagreed with the senators on segregation, but was still able to work with them in the Senate. But that explanation did not deter Harris during Thursday’s debate. “You worked with them to oppose busing,” Harris said, referring to efforts to limit orders for school desegregation by busing. In an emotional moment, she told her own story of being bussed as a little girl in California. Biden fired back that Harris’ comments were a “mischaracterization of my position across the board.”
Biden, though, mostly kept his focus on the candidate he really wants to face — President Trump. He repeatedly invoked the name and record of his popular running-mate Barack Obama and brushed back swipes at his age from long-shot candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell,who repeatedly called on him to “pass the torch.” It’s unclear whether the clash with Harris might damage Biden — considering most prior controversies have not dinged his poll numbers — or simply give Harris some needed momentum.
Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders avoided any direct clash with Biden. He spent much of the night defending his big-government agenda against questions from moderators and criticism from more centrist leaning – and lower-polling – candidates. Several rivalstook issue with some of Sanders’ socialistic policies, like “Medicare-for-all” and free college tuition. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg broke with Sanders in saying while he supports free college for children of low and middle income, “I just don’t believe it makes sense to ask working-class families to subsidize even the children of billionaires.”
Still, the debate also made clear how Democrats have moved to the left on issues relating to immigration. All 10 Democrats raised their hands when asked if their government health care plan would cover illegal immigrants. Pollster Frank Luntz summed it upthis way on “The Ingraham Angle” on Thursday: “This is not your parents’ Democratic Party.” Click here for former Clinton strategist Mark Penn’s list of winners and losers from Thursday night’s Democratic debate.
Trump likes what he saw in the Democratic debate from afar
At one time, some pundits were predicting that Democrats could defeat President Trump and the Republican Party on health care. However, thanks to the Democratic Party’s stance on health care for illegal immigrants, Trump and Republicans are feeling very confident. While attending the G-20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, the president said Democratic White House contenders’ willingness to extend government health care to illegal immigrants in America will get him reelected. Trump tweeted: “All Democrats just raised their hands for giving millions of illegal aliens unlimited healthcare. How about taking care of American Citizens first!?” He then added: “That’s the end of that race!”
Friends of missing Utah student spot activity on Instagram account
The search for missing Utah student Mackenzie Lueck has taken a peculiar twist. Friends of Lueck told Fox News that they noticed activity on her Instagram account on Wednesday and turned the information over to authorities. Lueck’s personal Instagram account liked a page called “fatherless,” around noon, and her friends quickly took screengrabs to document the activity and turn over to police. The @fatherless handle had more than 47,000 followers as of early Friday but was following only 15 accounts — not including that of Lueck.
The 23-year-old woman was last seen meeting an unknown individual around 3 a.m. June 17 at a park in Salt Lake City after being dropped off by a Lyft driver. She hailed the ride after flying in from Los Angeles – where she had attended her grandmother’sfuneral. While the Lyft driver has been cleared, police searched the Salt Lake City home of the man they said is a “person of interest”for about 19 hours the past two days. Police said they are also looking for a mattress and box spring removed from the home last week.
Iraqi general: Accused Navy SEAL did not stab ISIS prisoner
The Iraqi general at the scene of an alleged murder of an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 testified in a deposition video played in court Thursday that Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher never stabbed the teenage detainee. In a recording made earlier this month, Maj. Gen. Abbas al-Jubouri testified he never saw Gallagher stab the detainee in the neck. Gallagher served alongside Abbas’ unit in an advise-and-assistcapacity in Mosul. Abbas told the defense lawyer if had he witnessed improper conduct from SEALs, he would have taken action. Last week, a Navy SEAL, Special Operator 1st Class Corey Scott, testified that Abbas’ unit tortured, raped and murdered prisoners. Scott said he killed the ISIS prisoner by putting his thumb over the detainee’s breathing tube in order to save him from falling into the hands of Abbas’ unit.
France highly motivated in Women’s World Cup showdown with Team USA
The United States has its ranking and its trophies, and that’s all the motivation France needs. The Americans face the French on Friday night at the Women’s World Cup, a match that’s been described as a final in the quarterfinals. It really has it all: The defending champions against the upstart hosts. The City of Lights. A sellout crowd. “They’ve got a great trophy cabinet and we still have everything to prove,” French captain Amandine Henry said. The only downside? The country is in the midst of a heat wave and temperatures are expected to soar into the 90s, although a 9 p.m. local time start should bring some cooling. France is seeking to become the first nation to simultaneously hold the men’s and women’s World Cup trophies. (The men won last year in Russia.) The United States already has three FIFA Women’s World Cup trophies, most of any nation.
Acting Homeland Security chief denies leaking info on ICE raids: ‘It’s just not true.’
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Supreme Court blocks citizenship question on 2020 census for now.
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These US cities have the most seniors age 65 and over working.