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The two other migrants were found in nearby villages -- Akcadam and Adasarhanli -- days after they had died but their nationalities were not given. Turkish officials believe the three migrants froze to death, Anadolu said, but their bodies have been sent to Istanbul for further examination.
The area is a major crossing point for refugees and migrants trying to enter the European Union. Malangi, who claimed he knew one of the migrants found dead, said that they sought help after crossing into Greece by knocking on doors.
"We wanted help and during this someone must have called the police and the Greek police officers came and caught us. First they took us to the police station then they took us near to the river where there were two boats," Malangi said, quoted by Anadolu.
"We were sent back after being put on them (the boats)" to Turkey, he added. It was not clear whether the migrants found dead were all part of the same group who entered Greece with Malangi or had separately tried to enter the EU member state.
According to Greek authorities, over 14,000 irregular entries have been recorded across the Turkish border so far this year, compared to some 5,500 in 2017. But the number of migrants coming to Europe has fallen since the 2015 peak when over a million people landed in Greece from Turkey, the majority via boats.
The decline followed a deal agreed between the EU and Turkey in 2016 to stop the flow of migrants with Ankara agreeing to take migrants landing on Greek islands in exchange for incentives, including billions of euros to support refugees in Turkey.


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Word Storm - the visual brainstorming tool.
Wordstorm visualizes the associations between words.
Starting from a word that you choose, Wordstorm creates a map that places related words close together; words with a weaker association are mapped further apart. These word associations can help you find new ideas, inspiration in a brainstorm or getting over writers block. The visual presentation of the words makes the conceptual relationships clear in a glance.
Wordstorm is not a thesaurus.
Wordstorm is an inspiration tool. A thesaurus links words with similar meanings, this program links words whose underlying concepts are related. The words "leaf" and "tree", for example, are strongly related but do not have similar meaning. Wordstorm links these related words making it a great help in writing an essay and finding inspiration for a brainstorm.

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It's a frame that slows down time, really.
This Kickstarter video and campaign help was a project for my friend and studio-mate Jeff Lieberman. Over the last year or so, I've seen him and Dan Paluska work on a frame that makes things appear to move in slow motion, and then it came time to share it with the world and the video was born.
To give you some background – Jeff started doing slow motion photography at MIT and invented some crazy things like floating light bulbs. He hosted a TV show called Time Warp on Discovery Channel, and has been making consciousness-bending art the whole time. You can see his body of work here.
I was also fortunate enough to host some of his art in two of the Curious Sound Objects series.
Slow Dance works by rapidly shaking whatever you put in the clips at 80Hz (feathers and flowers work best), and the LEDs inside the frame strobe at slight varying offsets (76-84Hz). Imagine someone jumping rope inside a night club with a strobe light. If the strobes hit at the same exact point every time, the person would appear to be frozen in mid air. Now vary the offset a little and they're moving in slow motion.
The challenge of this video was twofold: communicate the dreamy experience of seeing it in person and make sure it didn't look fake (i.e. slow motion / CGI / etc).
Over some deliberations we settled on priming the viewer with text. We started with "No computer graphics were used in this video" as a general container, but it felt too vague (i.e. does that exclude high frame rate video?) so we settled on "Everything you see here is in real time." Then we were concerned that not everyone may know the definition of real time. So we prefaced it with "A frame that makes things move in slow motion" (rather than "a frame that slows down time" which we used elsewhere but is maybe unbelievable). The intended effect is "hey this frame makes things move in slow motion... for real."
Jeff invited Hannah to be in the video, and she plays the Rhodes piano and sings beautifully (Instagram here). So we borrowed a Rhodes from a friend, and set it up in our studio along with a plant and table lamp to suggest an airy living room. Since there is often a good amount of dead time for actors on a video shoot, I decided to run the Rhodes through an amplifier so she could play it between takes. And hey, while we're at it, why not record the room, maybe something beautiful will happen. And it did. The music in the video is an edit of two layers of her playing, with shimmery sounds placed to accentuate some key emotional moments (like the plant with water drops).
Since the sound is a recording of the room, rather than direct, there are also touches of chairs creaking, an occasional breath, and is really quite magical. It's the sound of the actual space of the video.
If you're interested specifically in the effects gear used for recording the Rhodes, there's an entry about the Strymon BigSky on my blog.
Since we were dealing with a fairly low light situation, and had created a dim moody scene, we started to hit the limits of what the camera could capture. So some post processing was in order! I bumped the overall saturation a hair and raised the exposure on the highs, which got the image a little closer. I then lightly applied a look up table that references Fuji Superia 200 film, and this combination is what gives the image that gentle wash of atmosphere.
Drag the slider below to see before and after color grading.
This is one of my favorite touches in the video – we knew we'd need a master shot with the frame in the middle of the shot (this is a product video after all). And as you can see below it needed a something to accentuate the object. Lighting the piece from the front didn't do it, it just emphasized the frame, not the interior. So we put a spot light on the wall behind, slightly above the keyboard, which created a beautiful layer of light that appeared to be inside the frame.
It's almost expected that a Kickstarter video has a bit of speaking from the creator of the project ("Hi I'm so and so, and I need your help" etc), and we quickly decided that it would pull the viewer out of the experience. So we shot a separate interview-style video of Jeff surrounded by plants and equipment and put that elsewhere on the Kickstarter page. Along the same lines, we also left out any sort of technical explanations of the strobing, or the panel controls/modes, out of the main video. We had held a preview event and captured video of people seeing it for the first time, which was full of wondrous faces (see gallery below), but it took away from the intimacy. Whatever didn't serve the magic had to go.
If you've read this far, you might be interested in an article I'm writing (with Jeff's permission of course) about the anatomy of this Kickstarter from a funding perspective, traffic sources, marketing outreach, and other useful information. Sign up below to get the article before it's published on the internet. I won't spam you otherwise. This will be the first of probably quarterly emails I send.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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Don’t throw your description away completely – it’s still a valuable asset!
Way back in 2010 published the post below about the importance of the meta description tag in encouraging searchers to click-through to your site rather than another listing be it above or below.
Today, 2 June 2017 Google has confirmed that it is important. They don’t say it that it impacts on rankings but that it is important as valuable information for searchers ‘encouraging them to click-through’ to your site.
“Search result snippets are much the same; they help people decide whether or not it makes sense to invest the time reading the page the snippet belongs to.
The content of the page is an obvious choice for result snippets, and the content that can be extracted is often the most relevant to people’s queries. However, there are times when the content itself isn’t the best source for a snippet. For instance, when someone searches for a publishing company for their book, the relevant homepages in the result set may contain only a few images describing the businesses and a logo, and maybe some links, none of which are particularly useful for a snippet.
Although Google no longer uses the description tag, or ever did, the description tag still performs a valuable contribution in your SEO (search engine optimization) or more accurately, your SEM (search engine marketing) tactics.
In October 2009, Matt Cutts, at that time the head of Google’s Webspam team, confirmed, in a Q&A session that Google does not use the keywords tag as a factor in their search algorithm.
That was not really news as it has been known for a long time but he also confirmed that the description tag is also not a factor when ranking pages in search page results (serps).
But, he also confirmed that when appropriate or relevant they will and do include content from the description tag below the page title in results pages.
It’s important because if you have worked hard enough, through your SEO activities, to get a page 1 spot in Google there are 9 of your competitors also there trying to take YOUR potential and hard earned customer for themselves!
So, having a good, relevant snippet displayed below your listed page title can make the difference between a clickthrough and a successful sale or losing that opportunity to a competitor who worked that little bit harder!
It’s not by magic, the black arts, nor is it rocket science – it’s by writing a good and relevant description of the page content and using your pages targeted keywords constructively and appropriately in the copy.
There is no need to stuff all the keywords you can think of as it will appear unreadable to the searcher and likely have the opposite affect to your desired one! As Google disregards it for ranking purposes it primary and only function is to entice the viewer to click on your listed result.
So it needs to be relevant and readable.
As you would expect with such a long-tail search, the top result is their product page, but the important point is that the full 155 characters shown as a snippet below the title is taken from the entered description tag copy. It contains a good number of the entered search terms. Google has deemed that it is the best relevant content to use as the full snippet.
which would have been their preferred one!
So, even in the above search with only a two-word search phrase, with only one of the search terms in the meta description, Google still considers the full entered meta description as the best text to show. It shows that its inclusion in the first search was not solely a result based on such a long-tail search term with more of the entered terms in the description!
As confirmed by Matt Cutts above, Google will and does choose what it considers to be the best and relevant addition to its search results and indeed does use the meta description tag when it conforms to that criteria.
Taken together, a clear and concise page title and your preferred page description, might just be the combination to get that all important first clickthrough!
So, as the bottom line – Don’t throw out the description tag with the bathwater just yet!

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text: Fifty of the most popular romantic hits ever written are now at your fingertips! This wide-ranging collection spans the worlds of movies, pop, Broadway and jazz. Each intermediate-level arrangement includes lyrics and chord symbols. Titles: A Certain Smile * Amazed * Angel Eyes * As Time Goes By * At Last * Beautiful (As You) * Beauty and the Beast * Because You Loved Me * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Can You Read My Mind? * Come Rain or Come Shine * Endless Love * The Gift * Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me * How Could I Ever Know? * How Deep Is Your Love * How Do I Live * I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face * I Believe In You and Me * I Don't Want To Miss A Thing * I Get a Kick Out of You * I Only Have Eyes for You * Killing Me Softly With His Song * La vie en rose * Laura * Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) * Love Is a Many Splendored Thing * Misty * Moonlight Serenade * My Funny Valentine * The Prayer * The Rose * Somewhere, My Love * Take My Breath Away * Taking a Chance on Love * This I Promise You * This Kiss * This Magic Moment * Up Where We Belong * Valentine * Weekend in New England * When a Man Loves a Woman * Where or When * The Wind Beneath My Wings * You'll Never Know * You Light Up My Life * You Make Me Feel So Young * You Raise Me Up * (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher * A Whole New World.


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As our manufacturer is very flexible, we can get your order made in 2-3 days. Prcies for the TUV-appoaved kits are form € 100,00 for the 4-piece set.
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1. Stainless steel overbraided brake hoses don´t wear as normal rubber hoses.
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3. Stainless steel overbraided brake hoses are safer and more reliable.
4. Stainless steel overbraided brake hoses are safe against "Marders", as Marders don´t like steel.
2. The bottom one is approaved, recognizeable on the yellow label and the additional white plastic hose pressed into the fitting.
3. This white plastic hose is responsible for the extra strength and safety and makes sure, that there is no leakage even on high stresses of the line. Additionally it make sure that every brake hose can pass the very special test with 1 million revolutions, that is necessary for the German and some other European regulations.
4. The brake hose above, about 25% cheaper will never pass that test and should not be used on the road.

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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When implementing Cross Origin Resource Sharing, you will find ample advice to set your response header as Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and be done with it. This works fine for unauthenticated resources, but what if you want to add CORS support to an authenticated resource? The use cases are much more limited in comparison, but perhaps you have a support ticket system on the Internet you want to query from a platform internal to your team/company, or something along those lines.
This Apache config is echoing out the Origin request header as the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header value, while supporting CORS authentication. This is the same as Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * because the requesting origin will always satisfy the whitelist, but with authentication, so we've worked around some annoying restriction in the CORS standard - yay us!
In doing so, however, we may have opened up our service and our users to easy attack. As authenticated resources are now readable by any origin, not only is potentially sensitive user data up for grabs, but other secrets, like Cross Site Request Forgery tokens, may be as well.
CORS is not a CSRF mitigation - it will not stop crafted POST requests getting to their destination, it will only control whether the origin that sent the POST can read the response. So CSRF mitigations like tokens, where by form submissions are only accepted if the submitted data contains a randomised token value generated for the form and user in question, are still needed. However, a CSRF token is no good if it can just be read via an authenticated CORS request first.
// and hence the CSRF token in the form.
Success! we now have an "evil post" on drupal.localhost. By abusing the fact that CORS has been configured to blindly accept all origins and authentication, we have bypassed CSRF protection via tokens by simply first requesting a page with the token, and using the token in the POST request. To exploit this, a user with a valid cookie for drupal.localhost would just need to visit our evil page. This isn't the fault of Drupal (although it could have still prevented this by also applying some sort of origin whitelist on form submissions, even those with valid tokens), rather, it is a case of insecure configuration.
I haven't actually seen any notable instances anywhere suggesting this "workaround" for getting authenticated CORS working on any origin is advisable, let alone in a context of a global web server configuration, so this post is not in response to anything in particular. With that said, I feel the common advice for CORS is to allow-by-default, and it may not be immediately obvious to developers and server admins why this shouldn't extend to authenticated CORS. The concept of echoing out the Origin request header for authenticated CORS is fine, provided it is applied intentionally only to authenticated resources that need to be accessed across origins, and that the Origin value coming in is validated by some sort of whitelist first - in the case of the Apache example above, that may be via the regex in the SetEnvIf directive (but you're probably beter off applying the whitelist in the web app).


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Mumbai, June 10: Cranky U.S. talk-show hosts, John Kerry and powerful British union leaders have all had their say. Now it's the turn of a Catholic priest in India's money capital, Mumbai.
Outsourcing has a new critic.
From a church pulpit in a middle-class suburb one sultry Sunday morning, Father K.T. Emmanuel spelled out the biggest danger facing the city's young men and women: call centers.
In the congregation were scores of 20-somethings who spend their nights fielding calls from the customers of U.S. multinational giants such as General Electric and Time Warner.
"The lure of money is making youngsters drop out of college to take up call-center jobs," Emmanuel said in his sermon.
"They blow money on the latest cars and cell phones, while their middle-class parents struggle to save money," he added, as several parents nodded vigorously in agreement.
At a Bombay call center at about 1 a.m., 21-year-old Reema darts out of work during a break to share a smoke with her male colleagues, looking forward to a late night out at a disco -- all shocking behavior for some conservative Indians.
"My family life, social life, health ... Everything is screwed up because I work nights," she said. "But the money is so good that I'm willing to compromise."
These Indian "customer relations executives" (CREs) are part of an outsourcing industry expected to employ more than one million people and account for $25 billion in exports by 2008.
They may well force a tradition-bound country to rethink its age-old social mores.
"In this age of globalization, where young women step out of homes to work at night, the attitude of Indian society will have to change," said sociologist Myrtle Barse. "Otherwise, it will lead to plenty of conflict between the generations."
The change has already fueled a conflict half-way across the globe. After a U.S. political backlash, it has become a prominent issue in the presidential campaign. In Britain, bank and telecoms unions have led fierce protests against jobs going to India.
But four-fifths of the world's 500 largest companies already outsource some work to India. With so many English speakers and 1.5 million university graduates each year, it makes sense for Western companies seeking new ways to cut costs.
Graduates entering the industry earn between 8,000 and 10,000 rupees ($175 to $220) a month, only a tenth of their U.S. counterparts, but a decent sum in a country where the average annual income is about $500.
So each night, while the rest of India is fast asleep, thousands of young men and women wearing headsets talk to customers around the world in call centers in New Delhi, Bangalore and Pune. Most are hip dressers and drink in pubs until dawn after their shifts.
"Youngsters in call centers have big spending power and this gives them the sort of independence young people in India usually do not have," said psychiatrist Anjali Chhabria.
Reuben Fernandes, 20, earns 13,000 rupees a month, and says he will settle for nothing but the best. His shopping list includes the latest mobile telephone, a car and the best liquor.
"And now, I want to live on my own," he said firmly.
This is rebellious talk in India, where the family is considered the bedrock of society and young people are often expected to live with their parents until they get married.
"Indian parents tend to be doting and demanding," said 23-year-old Lakshmi, who works in a call center in the country's technology hub, Bangalore. "Parents threaten to commit suicide or jump off buildings, but in the end they come around."
Call-center bosses insist their offices are hardly hotbeds of revolution. "Software and back-office centers have brought in a world-class approach to work in India," said Raju Bhatnagar, chief operating officer of ICICI OneSource, part of financial services giant ICICI Group.
But for students barely out of their teens, the money is great, so many wonder why they should "waste time" getting a university degree.
"No other job in India offers this kind of money to graduates and undergraduates fresh out of college," said Harmeet Singh, a 23-year-old car-owner whose father has never owned a vehicle.
Middle-class Indians have traditionally scrimped and saved for decades to send their children to the best universities, but 19-year-old Karen Fernandes managed to convince her parents it was a good idea to drop out of university after a year.
"She (Karen) is earning a good amount and taking care of all her expenses, so I won't insist on her going back to college," said Wanda Fernandes, her mother.
Father Emmanuel, in the suburban church, takes a longer-term view, however.
"A good college education is vital in the long run for career growth," he told his congregation.
"What if the call center bubble bursts one day?"

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Are you considering a home improvement project? Whether it's to prepare your home for re-sale, or simply an upgrade for your own enjoyment, one thing is true -- home improvement projects can be pricey! So it's smart to consider whether the project you have in mind will increase your home value before you make any final decisions.
Some improvements are purely for personal pleasure -- like an outdoor Jacuzzi, or a workshop space with central A/C in your garage -- the kind of upgrades suited to your particular tastes. Other improvements are more practical -- like a new energy-efficient furnace, or replacing old, rotted siding. Some home-owners are surprised to learn, however, that not all "practical" improvements are equal when it comes time to sell. Unfortunately, just because you put $25,000 worth of improvements into your home, it doesn't mean your home is worth $25,000 more to potential buyers.
Exactly how much of your home-improvement dollars you can recoup when you go to sell can vary. Below we've rounded up a list of best-bet home improvement projects, as well as some that rarely make a difference (no matter how much you paid for them) when it comes time to sell your home.
*Important note: The figures contained here are national averages. If you're interested in local estimates, just ask us and we'll be happy to help!
If you're planning to sell your home in a year or two, a fresh coat of a neutral-toned paint could make a big difference for buyers -- who may get turned off by that bright mango kitchen or bubblegum pink bedroom. Interior painting is a fairly easy DIY project and often takes more time than money. But a professional exterior paint job is a different story. Does the outside of your home need a fresh look? A professional exterior paint job can recoup close to 75% of its cost -- plus it increases curb appeal, which can mean greater interest from more buyers as soon as your home hits the market.
With just a few basic improvements, a kitchen upgrade can make a lot of sense. New paint and flooring are big winners with buyers, as is removing outdated wallpaper. Do your cabinets look dated, shabby, or in need of upgrading? Instead of replacing them with new cabinetry, which can be expensive, consider lower-cost alternatives -- like sanding, staining, or painting your existing cabinetry, then upgrading the hardware to make a big difference in appearance (here are a few other ideas, too). According to Remodeling Magazine, the average cost of a major kitchen remodel is about $39,000; however, simply refinishing an outdated kitchen cost an average of $15,000. The full kitchen remodel recouped 80% of its cost, the more moderate remodel recouped 87%.
The more time that goes by after an upgrade, the less value it usually retains for possible buyers. But that rule doesn't always apply to "area conversions" -- or, converting unfinished space to liveable square footage. Generally speaking, increasing the functional space of your home holds its value for a longer period of time than simply remodeling just to make a house look better. In addition, converting existing unfinished space is usually much less expensive than adding an addition to your home.
For example, converting attic space into a bedroom usually costs about $30,000 and returns about 73% of its cost, according to Remodeling Magazine. Turning your basement into extra living space costs an average of $40,000, with a recoup average of about 69%.
It's hard to go wrong with adding an extra bathroom. At an average cost of $14,200, a new full bath can recoup 81% of its total cost!
Compared to other outdoor improvements (with the exception of exterior painting) adding a deck brings an excellent return. New decks cost about $6,000 and generally recoup 75% of their value.
A good set of standard windows may get you about 68% back. If you want to install custom shapes and sizes, though, don't expect to get as much in return. Your utility bill savings may make up for the iffy resale value -- but energy efficiency experts often say it's best to ditch the idea of replacing those original windows and use window quilts or insulated cellular shades, instead. They're much less expensive, retain heat well, and you can usually install them yourself.
In a word -- don't! Unless you're putting it in for you and your family to enjoy, it's commonly agreed that a swimming pool has no resale value at all. They may sound nice, but pools are expensive to install, expensive to maintain, and can turn off a lot of buyers who otherwise may love the rest of your home.
It may not sound very exciting, but the basic improvements you make to your home will probably have the greatest impact on its value -- for example, a beautiful new bathroom won't make up for a leaky roof. If you're thinking of selling your house in the next year or so, be sure to address any basic needs your home may have before moving on to the fun, more cosmetic fixes!
Want to learn more? If you're thinking about selling your home within the next year, we can tell you what specific improvements will make the biggest different to your home's potential listing price, and which upgrades to avoid. This is a free, no-strings-attached service, designed to give you a jumpstart on next spring's real estate season. Interested? Just let us know.

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USDA programs affect us in countless ways, but it can be difficult to know the ins and outs of the programs available. Below are quick synopses of a few of the more common programs and what impact they have on young farmers. Thinking of one that’s not here? Let us know and we’ll add it!
What are the GIPSA Rules?
The new GIPSA rules are named for the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyard Administrators arm of the USDA. These rules, passed in the 2008 Farm Bill, require enforcement of the 1921 Packers and Stockyard Act. Since this law was never enforced, large companies have been able to push farmers into unfair contracts. Discrimination against farmers has gone unprosecuted, which these rules seek to remedy.
Before these rules, the system only supported large meatpackers and poultry processors and without competition, these companies were free to charge their farmers less than the actual cost to raise their products and could force them into unfair contracts. The savings from food being produced at such a large scale were not passed on to consumers and food prices have inflated considerably in the last few years. Furthermore, the environmental and public health impact of farming at such a large scale was propagated and supported under this system.
One buyer can no longer represent multiple meatpackers at auctions, which reduces competition in bidding on livestock.
Large cattle and hog factory farms will no longer receive price premiums and secret preferential contracts.
Prevents companies from requiring prohibitively expensive upgrades to equipment in working order.
Poultry growers who publicize abusive contracts and punitive measures will no longer face retaliation.
What Will These Rules Change?
Enforcing the Packers and Stockyard Act will mean that meatpackers cannot unduly favor large companies. Greater competition from smaller farms will result in fairer prices for farmers and consumers. Smaller farms will have an easier time producing and selling their products and will receive fair prices, meaning their businesses will be profitable and sustainable.
What Is the Status of the GIPSA Rules?

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Whatsapp Video Call Finally the day has come when you can do video calls from the WhatsApp itself officially no fake news no tricks the real way to get Whatsapp video calls is here.
Whatsapp is most widely used messaging app today in the world, and now they are providing top notch features that can make your life easier recently they launched WhatsApp voice calling and after that everyone expecting video calling from WhatsApp.
Now finally they are coming with the most awaited feature in the WhatsApp History, video calling. You can now be able to make Whatsapp video call around the world for free if you think how so go through the full post.
There is not tricks, no unofficial hacks and rooted method this is now finally official app from where you can make a video call but right now this feature is only available in the beta updates so how can you get beta WhatsApp APK here you go.
Go to Download Whatsapp Beta.
Follow the link and get the latest WhatsApp beta available for you.
Download and install it on your phone manually.
That’s all open any contact and make a video call.
Make sure other use got the same WhatsApp beta for the video calling.
If you don’t know, don’t worry I am here to teach you how you can beta updates for WhatsApp or any app that are providing beta updates.
Make sure you’re on the latest play store version or updates using the following How To Update Google Play Store.
Search for WhatsApp in the play store.
Swipe all the way down to the WhatsApp and find the same shown in the pic below.
Wait for some minutes, and you’ll get an update from WhatsApp beta.
NOTE: You may get updates frequently if you want to leave you can also move by clicking the same button in WhatsApp play store.
Whatsapp Dev’s are still working on WhatsApp calling for IOS and may come up soon with video calling feature for IOS or Apple in the future, so iPhone users have to wait for some time.
Now if you have followed all the steps and on latest WhatsApp, you can use the WhatsApp video calling feature and enjoy the new WhatsApp for video calling.
You might notice some video lags and other bugs while using WhatsApp for the beta.
And this is the beauty for joining beta updates.
I was wondering how my friend was able doing video calling through his whatsapp. I wanted same for my phone to do that I searched almost 15 articles but did not a solid solution.
Thanks to you, you demonstrate everything in simple words.
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Title: John Hasek fonds. 1949-1996; predominant 1965-1992 -- 3.16 m. of textual material; 12 b&w photographs, 8 col. photographs, 2 negatives, 1 slide; 6 audio reels.
Biographical Sketch: John Henry George Hasek, né Jan Jaroslav Jindrich Siri Hasek, was born in Czechoslovakia on January 28th, 1938. In 1948, Hasek escaped with his family to England, where he finished his early education. He then emigrated to Canada, where he began his military career in 1957. On August 10, 1963, Hasek married Glenna Hubble in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
During his time spent in the Canadian Forces, Hasek worked as an instructor at a military academy in Ghana (1965-1967), as a peacekeeper in Cyprus (1967-1968), a Ceasefire supervisor in South Vietnam, and an analyst for the Directorate of Strategic Policy Planning at the National Defence Headquarters (1978-1980). Throughout this time he served with the Black Watch, the RCR, and was the first commander of the Skyhawks, an airborne regiment. Upon retirement from the regular forces in1981, Hasek continued to be active in the reserves with the Queen’s Own Rifles, worked as a consulting psychologist to the Halton Regional Police Force, ran in an election for School Trustee, and worked as a free-lance journalist.
Scholastically, Hasek attended a variety of different schools, including the University of Ottawa (1958-1961), where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, and the University of New Brunswick (1965-1968), where he obtained a Masters Degree in Psychology. Hasek also attended military-related schools, including the US Army Special Warfare School (1965), where he studied Insurgency War; The Canadian Forces Staff College (1971-1972), where he obtained a PFSC in a Command and Staff Course; and the Royal Military College of Canada, where he studied War Studies.
Hasek not only retained an interest in Czechoslovakia, but also became an ardent opponent of Communist totalitarianism. Consequently, Hasek became a founder of the Black Ribbon Campaign (an alliance against totalitarianism), became secretary-treasurer of the Czechoslovakian Association of Canada, and when the Czech government collapsed in 1990, he organised more than one thousand volunteers to teach English in Czechoslovakia ( an organisation, which, after his death, was renamed the “John Hasek Society”). This avid interest in communist and peace-related issues, combined with an interest and knowledge of the military, led Hasek to write a number of different articles on these subjects, as well as present lectures and talks for a variety of groups and classes. He also published a book in 1987 entitled The Disarming of Canada, and created a film in 1989, called The Seductive Illusion.
In 1993, while working out of Czechoslovakia as a free-lance journalist covering the war between Croatia and the former Yugoslavia, Hasek was involved in an accident which resulted in massive injuries. Six months later, on January 1st, 1994, Hasek passed away. He was survived by his wife, Glenna, and his two children, Anthony and Elizabeth.
Scope and Content: This fonds documents John Hasek’s varied and overlapping interests, beliefs, and activities, particularly concerning peace movements, politics, the military, and his native Czechoslovakia. This fonds contains many of Hasek’s articles in both rough and published form, as well as items relating to the articles, such as public feedback. The material within this fonds which involves Hasek’s book The Disarming of Canada, his film The Seductive Illusion, and speeches, however, is mostly in the form of working papers, preliminary manuscripts, and feedback, rather than the finished versions. Also included in this fonds are documents and correspondence which Hasek collected concerning the above mentioned areas of interest.
There is also material relating to Hasek’s personal life, his work in the area of stress management and employee protection, his life as a student, his efforts in running in an election for school trustee, his work with Youth Service, and his work as journalist in Croatia. These items are mainly in the form of articles and correspondence, although there is also material such as school records, reports, and personal records included.
Title: Title is based on the name of the creator.
Accompanying Material: There were a number of military-related books which were deposited with this fonds. Although these books are not included in this fonds, they were retained at the University of New Brunswick Archives, and the titles can be found in Appendix B of this finding aid.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: On October 6, 1997, the majority of the material in this fonds was deposited by John Hasek’s widow, Glenna Hasek. The exceptions to this are the 6 audio reels found in series 13. John Hasek loaned the originals to the University of New Brunswick Archives in 1977, and they were then dubbed by the University. The originals were returned to Hasek, and the dubbed copies remain in this fonds.
Arrangement: The original state of the material necessitated an arrangement being imposed by the archivist. Where possible, the files and sub-files within each series have been arranged chronologically, with the undated items appearing at the end of the file, or series of sub-files.
Language: While this fonds is predominantly in English, it contains substantial amounts of material in Czech and in Croatian.
Related Material: The “John Hasek Society fonds” (MG H 183) contains documentation from “Education for Democracy”, an organization primarily founded by John Hasek, as well as from the “John Hasek Society”. (“Education for Democracy” was renamed “The John Hasek Society” shortly after Hasek’s death).
Other: It should be noted that a great deal of material within this fonds is very closely related with regards to subject matter – consequently, it is often the case that material relevant to a particular subject can be found in various different series. This is particularly true of Hasek’s writings, which can be found in series 1, as he wrote about subjects that interested him in many different fields.

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Paula Moriconi, of Towson, poses at the Towson early voting center at Towson University on Oct. 25 for the first day of early voting in the Nov. 6 midterms.
Donner Powell, of Towson, waits in line at the Towson early voting center at Towson University on Oct. 25 for the first day of early voting in the Nov. 6 midterms.
The first day of early voting in the Towson area on Oct. 25, 2018.

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Saturday marks the final installment of the 2018 Rocky Mountain Cup, a 13-year-old rivalry between the Colorado Rapids and Real Salt Lake.
Fans will remember the emotional comeback on July 21, where the Rapids managed a 2-2 draw in the 88th minute at Rio Tinto Stadium to keep their Rocky Mountain Cup hopes alive.
The previous two results mean that Colorado will need victory by a four-goal margin to reclaim the Cup. A win by a three-goal differential would leave the teams tied on points and total goals, so Salt Lake would keep the Cup as the current holders.
Just a month ago, Joao Plata was struggling to get any minutes for Real Salt Lake. That held true until he came off the bench in the 66th minute against Minnesota United FC on July 14 and scored two goals. In the six games since, Plata has received the nod for the Starting XI five times and has scored two goals and two assists, including one against the Rapids on July 21. His recent success has been impactful in keeping RSL afloat in the Western Conference playoff race.
Plata has scored in three of Real Salt Lake’s last four MLS meetings with the Rapids. He has seven goals in 15 games against Colorado, his most against any team.
The Ecuadorian has already matched his scoring output from last season with seven goals to his name. Since joining RSL in 2013, Plata has scored a total of 44 goals and played in five playoff games.
The Rapids have met Real Salt Lake 42 times in the MLS regular season, resulting in a 13-18-11 record. RSL is currently in fourth place in the Western Conference with a 11-10-5 overall record. The Rapids, meanwhile, are coming off a 2-0 loss against LAFC at Banc of California Stadium that sees their season record sit at 6-13-6 overall.

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The Yreka boys fell 1-0 in double overtime on the road to Gridley YHS was the No. 11 seed, while Gridley was the No. 6 seed.
The Yreka girls fell 1-0 to Orland on the road Tuesday. YHS was the No. 11 seed, while Orland was the No. 6 seed.


text: RICHMOND, Va (WTVR) - He began his career writing about sports, then segued into working as a reporter for The Washington Post and five years ago, he became a full-time author and stay-at-home dad. Award Winning Author Brad Parks’ new book, ‘The Good Cop’ features the Fictional Investigative Reporter, Carter Ross and he stopped by to talk about his new book. You can meet Brad Parks when he signs copies of his new novel, Tuesday, April 9th at 6:30pm at Fountain Book Store in Shockoe Slip.


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Walking is good for the body; art is good for the soul; and while a long trek might be a daunting prospect in an Oklahoma July, wandering through multiple creative domains comprises a surprisingly short trip if you start in the right place: the Paseo Arts District.
Home to more than a dozen galleries that display a consistently renewed panoply of fresh wonders, the Paseo is an aesthete’s paradise year-round. However, if you do happen by this month (and we think you should), pay special attention to a pair of two-person shows: Don Narcomey and Liz Roth at JRB Art at the Elms, and Theresa Hurt and Basil Martin at In Your Eye Gallery.
Both joint exhibits open during the First Friday Art Walk, which this month happens to coincide with Independence Day. The show at In Your Eye runs through July 26, JRB’s closes July 27 … and all four featured artists’ realms of creativity are within easy sauntering distance. Bon voyage!
Though their preferred media differ in ways as fundamental as the number of dimensions in which they exist, contemplation of nature characterizes the oeuvres of both artists exhibiting in JRB Art at the Elms.
Liz Roth spends a good deal of time observing how humans understand the natural world, but her attention for this show is focused on one particular facet of that world, immense though it is. “Chasm,” a series of oil paintings of the Grand Canyon, seeks to probe differences between the direct visual experience and seeing the same view through a lens. Roth calls Stillwater home (she teaches at OSU) but is well-traveled creatively, with a following even broader than her extensive itinerary.
There’s an element of uncertainty in the processes of July’s In Your Eye Gallery artists; they consider it a necessary step toward better results.


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The Top Cashback promotion for $10 per gift card listing on Raise in August has ended. The transactions initially post at $1.50 are supposed to be uplifted to $10 at the end of the month. It's now only the second day of September and my gift card listings have been uplifted. You can check your accounts to make sure yours have been uplifted as well.
As I discussed yesterday, you can still get $1.50 per listing and Chuck on Doctor of Credit confirms that it works for $50 purchases as well.


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27 November 2018 - Hyundai Motor UK wins Used Small Car of the Year for the multi-award winning i10 at 2018 Car Dealer Used Car Awards.
The i10 is everything a small car needs to be. It impressed our judges with excellent reliability and good specification choices available. This, combined with a strong balance of residual value and quick stock turnaround, means it flies off dealers forecourts making it a car that dealers love.
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Pirapaharan entered the freedom struggle in the role of a leader of an armed group when he was 17 years old. He led a bomb attack on 17 September 1972 at the carnival held at Duraiappah Stadium, Jaffna. He was then the head of a hand picked, active and dedicated group of young men: Chetti, Sivarajah, Ramesh, Inbam, Kannady, Saravanan (alias Patkunarajah), Kalapathy and Kirupaharan--all elder to him.
He named that group Tamil New Tigers (TNT). He wanted TNT to be the deadly exploder of Sinhala extremism and Tamil conservatism.
Pirapaharan, who joined the Thangathurai-Kuttimani group in 1969, when he was 15, had gradually built himself into a leader through his energy, bravery, organizational skill and dedication. Chelliah Thanabalasingham (alias Chetti), Periya Sothi, his cousin, and Chelliah Pathmanathan (alias Kannadi) went with him to fling the homemade hand-bombs at the Duraiappah Stadium.
The exact date of the formation of the TNT is difficult to fix because it was the outcome of a gradual evolution and former militants whom I met say Duraiappah Stadium attack was TNT’s first act of violence. Others consider the murder of Alfred Duraiappah on 27 July 1975 as the first act of violence by the TNT. They base their decision on LTTE Central Committee’s claim of responsibility issued on 25 April 1978. Uma Maheswaran who drafted that letter might have decided to start with Duraiappah murder because that was a major event. The interesting story connected to that letter would be told later.
Duraiappah Stadium attack led to an intensification of the police hunt of the members of the Tamil Students Union (TSU) but it took months before police learnt about Pirapaharan. That was because Pirapaharan, during that time, was very busy organizing the TNT. Most of the TSU leaders too were not aware of the TNT. Pirapaharan organized his group in strict secrecy. Police suspected Thangathurai- Kuttimani group for the Duraiappah Stadium attack as their focus then was on that group.
Pirapaharan and his associates spent many hours shaping the TNT. Influenced by the teachings of Subash Chandra Bose, Swami Vivekananda and the practice of his father Velupillai he drew a strict code of discipline for his group. They should abstain from alcohol and tobacco and dedicate their life to the cause of the Tamil race. They decided to call themselves Tigers because Tiger was the emblem of the Cholas who established a mighty empire in south India, Sri Lanka and the far east at the beginning of the second millennium. Pirapaharan adopted the Tiger flag and the crest for the TNT.
Pirapaharan was, at that time, living with his parents in Valvettithurai. He slipped from home for short periods to establish his secret outfit. His parents were completely unaware of his clandestine activities. The opportunity for the parents to know of his revolutionary activities came knocking at the door on its own in March 1973 when the police launched a crackdown on the newly formed Tamil Elaignar Peravai (Tamil Youth Forum).
The TUF decision to attend the National State Assembly brought the political leaders and the youth into direct confrontation. “Explain to us the logic of your actions,” asked a leaflet issued by the TSU. "You told us that the new constitution is a Charter of Slavery and now your parliamentarians have taken oath as members of the National State Assembly swearing allegiance to the same constitution. Are you not lending legitimacy to the constitution that had made us slaves? Are you not a party to making Tamils slaves of the Sinhalese?"
The only answer Tamil parliamentarians could give was that they were attending the meetings of the National State Assembly to agitate against the constitution and to watch the interests of the Tamil people. Youth leaders said they were unable to comprehend that argument and the leaders shot back: You are unable to comprehend because you are not mature. Youths accused the leaders of trying to enjoy the comforts and benefits of membership in the National State Assembly.
To take off the youth pressure and to combat government propaganda TUF leader Thanthai Chelva launched on September 2, Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, satyagraha and announced that that was the commencement of the non-violent struggle to win back Tamil rights. To pacify the youth they commenced the satyagraha with the hoisting the Nadhi flag, the flag of the Jaffna kings and the Rising Sun flag to denote the rise of a new nation and Amithalingam’s wife Mangayarkarasi sang the Thamil Thai Valthu.
Thanthai Chelva also announced that he would resign his seat in parliament the next day after explaining to the National State Assembly the reason. He said his resignation would be sufficient to convey to the world the message that the Tamil people had rejected the new constitution. Next day, October 3, he announced his resignation in the National State Assembly and challenged the government to hold a by-election to test Tamil opinion. The government did not take that challenge. It postponed the by-election repeatedly.
Amirthalingam, realizing that the TSU had gone out of his control and police arrest of its leaders had almost crippled it, used the pretext of the formation of the Tamil United Front to found a new youth organization in January 1973, the Tamil Elaingyar Peravai (Tamil Youth Forum- TYF). It had a membership of about 40 youths; many of whom subsequently became leaders of the militant movement. It brought together active youths of different political persuasions. Although not a TUF affiliate, Amirthalingam saw to it that it was controlled by a group of TUF loyalists headed by Mavai Senathirajah and others close to him.
TYF did whatever Amirthalingam wished it to do, which left-leaning members resented. Pakiyanathan Rajaratnam, who played a central role in the activities of the TYF said: "we did whatever Amirthalingam asked us to do."
TYF came under police surveillance soon after its formation on January 14, the Thai Pongal day. Two of its activists, G. Gnanasekaram and Aseervatham Thasan, were arrested the next day, on January 15. Another, Ponnuthurai Satiyaseelan, who founded the TSU, was arrested on February 20. Then followed the police crack down on the TYF. It was rumoured at that time that Satyaseelan had spilled the beans when given the “proper police treatment”. The belief prevails among the militant groups even now. They say Satyaseelan had given the police the list of members of the TYF and their activities.
The police swooped on all the important members of the TYF in March. Somasundaram Senathirajah, known as Mavai, Anandapoopathy Balavadivetkaran, and Sivaramalingam Chandrakumar were arrested on March 9. K. Sundarampellai Sabaratnam was arrested on March 10 and P. V. Tissaverasingam March 16. Police continued its arrests as evidence pointed to others. S. Appathurai Nithianandan was taken into custody in May and Sivaramalingam Suriakumar in July. There were others whose names I am sorry to have forgotten.
Thangathurai, Kuttimani. Periya Sothi and some others went into hiding. Pirapaharan was at his home in mid March when a police squad knocked at the front door at 3 a.m. Pirapaharan knew the Police had come for him. He slipped through the back door.
Pirapaharan’s mother Parvathi opened the door and was startled to see the posse of policemen. They told her and her two daughters who stood behind their mother, they had come to take Pirapaharan into custody. Without waiting for an answer, police constables searched the house and returned empty handed. The inspector bragged to the two teenage girls that their criminal brother had escaped but they would get him soon.
Sri Lankan police never arrested Pirapaharan. He was always two steps ahead of them.
… and you know leading an underground life is a very difficult proposition. I have led an underground life for a long time… it was a very difficult period for us, with the army on the rampage… to escape their net was very difficult.
I will never be of any use to you or to other members of the family. If I return there will be trouble for you and our family. Let there be no trouble for you because of me. Please allow me to go my own way. In future never expect anything from me.
He was very young and extremely shy. He had a pair of piercing eyes. He was itching for action and yearning for knowledge. I was quite surprised at his searching questions. He had a deep understanding of Tamil Nadu politics. I took him often for dinners. I enjoyed the discussion and he relished the meal.
You are content spending your life, cooking, eating and sleeping. I do not want to waste my life like that. I want action. I must do whatever I can while I am young and able. Chetti, like me, is a man of action.
I am aware of the criminal side of Chetti’s life. As for me, I will never, never lose my identity.
Thangathurai and Kuttimani were annoyed that Pirapaharan, much younger to them, had turned down their advice and had teamed up with Chetti, an outsider from Kalviyankadu, a suburb of Jaffna city. Janardhanan said he understood the young man’s feelings and his desire for action.
When Pirapaharan landed in Jaffna in mid- 1974 Jaffna people were angry with Sirimavo Bandaranaike's government and were convinced that the only way available for them to preserve their dignity was through the establishment of a separate state. This was partly due to the antics of Posts Minister Kumarasuriyar and the Mutpokku Eluthlar sangam controlled by the Soviet embassy staff and partly Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s Sinhala chauvinism.
In 1973 and 1974, Sirimavo Bandaranaike made two attempts to soothe the feelings of the Tamils. She made those attempts due to political necessity. The UNP headed by J. R. Jayewardene was leading a satyagraha movement against the government’s effort to take over the Lake House group of newspapers, the largest publishing house in Sri Lanka. Thondaman, a president of the TUF, supported the satyagraha. The government was concerned and its strategists decided to prevent the TUF leaning towards the UNP.
On 23 March 1973, the government enacted the Language of the Courts Act which provided for the use of the Tamil language in courts in the northern and eastern provinces. Tamils wanted it made part of the constitution which the government declined to do.
The Action Committee of the TUF met on 17 May 1973 at the Federal Party headquartes in Jaffna when members of the TYF staged a demonstration opposite the headquarters and demanded they take action to set up a separate state. At the meeting Eelath Thamilar Oottumai Munnani leader Suntharalingam proposed that the TUF initiate the preliminary steps for the establishment of the state of Tamil Eelam. He suggested that all Tamil MPs constitute themselves into a Constituent Assembly and elect a committee to draw up the draft constitution. The Federal Party and the Tamil Congress were not prepared to go that far and were agreeable to the election of a committee to report on the future course of action.
The youths were dissatisfied by the refusal of the Action Committee to set up a committee to draw up the constitution and were incensed by its decision to work for the “establishment of self-rule of the Eelam Tamil nation in their traditional homeland.” They read into the phrase “self –rule” an attempt to return to the concept of federalism. They accused the Tamil leadership of trying to stick to their parliamentary seats, that their main concern was their powers and privileges and were immune to the aspirations and sentiments of the people.
TYF revolted. Its Colombo branch headed by Eelaventhan, the president and Uma Maheswaran, the secretary, issued a stern statement calling for the rejection of the Tamil leadership. “If you cannot do what the people want you to do please go,” was its message.
Federal Party’s younger leaders Amirthalingam, V. N. Navaratnam and Rajadurai intervened to pacify the youth leaders and promised them that they had no intention of returning to the federal demand. “The decision is final. We have abandoned federalism. The phrase self-rule used in the TUF resolution should not be interpreted to mean return to federalism. What is meant by the resolution is the establishment of a separate state and nothing less,” Amirthalingam assured Eelaventhan and Uma Maheswaran.
Once it had become clear that we cannot establish our rights with the consent of the Sinhala people, the only way open to the Tamil nation is to establish self-rule in their traditional homelands in the exercise of the inalienable right of every nation to self-determination.
The National Convention resolves that the Tamils are in every way fully equipped to be regarded as a separate nation and to live as a separate nation and that the only path for them to follow is the establishment of their right to self-rule in their traditional homeland based on the internationally accepted principle of the right of self-determination of every nation.
Thamil Eelam is our Motherland.
Thamil Eelam is our Desire.
Militant groups adopted this spontaneous outburst as their slogan. Youths carried Amirthalingam on their shoulders shouting that they had dedicated their lives to their Motherland.
To our youth, at the moment, we can only offer blood, sweat and tears. The immediate possibility is that you may face baton charge by the police, attacks by the army and incarceration without trial. You have to tread the perilous path of freedom.
We are ready to sacrifice our lives for our freedom, for our motherland.
In two months, the Tamil leaders and their henchmen in the TYF let down the youths. Faced with the need to start a resistance movement, TUF decided to break the postal ordinance which declares the use of used stamps an offence. TUF decided to perform satyagraha in temples on October 2, the Gandhi Jayanthi day, and to post 10,000 letters affixing used stamps. Militant youths ridiculed both. They said postal men would throw away the letters with used stamps into dust bins and the resistance movement will die. It happened.
TYF organized a 50-day rotational fast at the Jaffna Miniappar Temple, one batch fasting for a day, demanding the release of arrested youths. Sivakumaran ridiculed it as a farce. He said the noble practice of satyagraha had been prostituted for political purposes. He said many militants were fasting daily because they do not get anything to eat in their hideouts. He accused the TYF and the TUF of hoodwinking the issue of the release of arrested youths.
The need for the government to keep the TUF away from the UNP increased in October. The UNP organized a joint opposition rally for 11 October and invited the TUF to send a representative to address it. Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike wanted to prevent the TUF from attending the joint rally. She wrote a conciliatory letter to Thanthai Chelva saying that she had delayed the holding of the Kankesanthurai by-election due to police advice and followed it by announcing talks with the TUF on October 8.
Talks failed because the government was prepared to accept only one of the four demands Thanthai Chelva placed before it. Sirimavo Bandaranaike told him that she would be able to accommodate the request that the Language of Courts Act be made a provision of the constitution. She refused to accept the other three demands: the Tamil Language Act be included in the Schedule in the Constitution, regional autonomy for the north and east as contemplated in the B-C Pact and state aided colonization in the north and east be stopped.
The collapse of the talks led to the 2 December 1973 decision to launch the second phase of the civil disobedience and the TUF decided to take up the question of the release of the Tamil youths. It requested the government to release or charge them in courts before 31 December and to launch civil disobedience by violating selected emergency regulations if the government failed to act. “It will be so structured that the police would have to arrest thousands of Tamils,” Amirthalingam said.
Amirthalingam charged that the police was not following normal procedures. Though the Attorney General had informed the Jaffna police that charges could not be framed against some youths the police are keeping them in custody telling the court that they had not completed inquiries. This had gone on, in the case of Kasi Anandan, for over one and a half years, he said.
The government responded by releasing Kasi Anandan and some others and by 29 December all but 25 of the arrested 42 youths were released. Justice Minister Felix R. Dias Bandaranaike wrote to Thanthai Chelva that they too would be released or charged soon. TUF postponed the civil disobedience.
On January 10, another major incident that angered Tamil people, especially the youth, occurred.
Chapter 1: Why didn’t he hit back?


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Facebook employees were given access to the app for testing purpose.
Facebook is all set to enter into the online dating industry with a new app that the company is testing right now. The social media giant is currently testing its new dating app among its employees according to the screenshots surfaces to Twitter. One of the Twitter users shared the screenshots of the app showing its interface.
Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier this year that Facebook would be introducing a dating app for the users. The app is almost ready, and it is being tested by the Facebook employees themselves. The shared screenshots shows that the user gets the opportunity to choose from five gender options including, woman, trans woman, man, trans man and non-binary people.
Facebook dating app also hides the user’s profile from their Facebook friends and finds the matches only from the people sharing mutual friends with. This will avoid any chance of getting a match from any of our friends or family members, so there will be no awkward situation. The app will also hide your profile from your Facebook friends, and only the public information will be visible on the dating profile. However, apps like Bumble that uses the Facebook account as a sign-up option also avoids finding matches from the Facebook connections.
According to the reports, Facebook employees were given the access to the app last week and asked to use it. The employees were required to open the app and provide their dummy information in order to use the app. The company is testing the app with the prior to the launch, which is also called ‘dogfooding.’ However, the Facebook employees were strictly instructed not date their co-workers. The activity is performed to analyze the app as a user and spot any glitch or uncomfortable user interface in the dating app.
With the upcoming dating app, Facebook will be targeting the £11 billion online dating market. In order to make an influence in the industry, the company needs to compete with the giants like Tinder and Bumble. On the better side, the social media platform could leverage its existing users to make the dating app a hit. There is no information regarding the release date of the app for the end users. However, we believe that Facebook will introduce its dating app by the end of the year.


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Identifier 85340559 This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value 6,916 This is the data value itself.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Vision of Britain | Context for data value | The meaning of 6,916, A Vision of Britain through Time.


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Kao Chia-liang had been active in the open source movement for years when a government ad got him interested in public affairs and prompted him to found g0v (pronounced “gov zero”).
The Join website, an open government portal, encourages the public to participate in government by offering planning and policy-making ideas.
g0v used the Internet to provide timely information from the scene of the Sunflower Student Movement.
Founded in 2012 in the spirit of freedom and transparency of information, the online group g0v (pronounced “gov zero”) aims to harness the strength of the masses to bring about social change.
Civic technology is on the rise around the world, and Taiwan’s civic hackers have been working hard to situate Taiwan at the forefront of this new trend. So far, they have been succeeding, using their numbers and their apps to turn Taiwan into one of the top three societies for civic technology in the world.
Civic technology has figured in several recent civic events. The Arab Spring of 2010, an Internet-enabled civic awakening, is a case in point. And Taiwan’s memories of its 2014 Sunflower Student Movement are still fresh. g0v played a key role in the latter movement, distributing news and information about what was happening in a timely, transparent and open fashion.
Kao Chia-liang looks every inch a coder: he has long, naturally curly hair and a laid-back attitude. But he’s also deeply committed to civic engagement, and is one of the founders of g0v, which uses technology to promote that very thing.
Fascinated by computers and programming since his childhood, he wrote code even when confined to his bed by illness. “Programs create new technology, change people’s lives, and can even change the world,” he enthuses.
Kao didn’t become interested in civic issues until much later. In fact, it wasn’t until he saw a 40-second advertisement in support of the government’s Economic Power-up Plan in October 2012 that he began questioning how government operates.
He then decided to analyze the government’s budget. He came across a British Internet group that had developed an application to track where tax dollars were going, and referenced that project’s source code to create his own “central government budget” project. That, in turn, sparked the formation of g0v.
His “central government budget” website attracted a great deal of interest when it launched. In contrast to the government’s official budget, which consists of hundreds of pages of impenetrable text, g0v’s “central government budget” encourages understanding through the use of visual design and relatable equivalencies.
For example, Taiwan spends NT$305.9 billion on defense, which g0v points out is an amount equal to 10.1 billion cups of boba tea, a 396,000-square-meter palace, or 11.81 million iPhone 5’s.
Neither government, nor political party, nor yet political opposition, g0v is instead a community that stresses openness and the equality of everyone’s views, one possessed of values drawn from the open, independent and sharing spirit of the online world.
g0v earned a name for itself during the Sunflower Student Movement, when some members of the group went to the scene of the protests to provide timely reports on what was happening, while others built a platform that aggregated protest-related information. In the process, g0v itself became transparent, releasing on social media the source code for all of the processes it had developed. Participants in Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella Movement went on to use g0v’s source code in their own web platform.
The shared goal of every civic hacker is a transparent government. Such hackers gather at regular times to address what they see as problem areas, and then work on related projects in marathon sessions. Once these hackathons hash out a prototype, still more people pitch in.
Kao believes that even pretty good policies have flaws, and g0v’s projects are devoted to finding solutions to such flaws. He notes that, on average, Taiwan experiences a major social issue every two months, and argues that these need to be discussed. Fortunately, we no longer have to passively wait for the traditional media to air our views. Instead, new technologies are providing new opportunities for civic engagement and dialogue, which are, in turn, spurring the government to revise its policies.
Kao and others from Taiwan last year attended a summit in France of the Open Government Partnership, a multilateral initiative that promotes open government. Kao shared some of g0v’s accomplishments as part of a roundtable there. One of these was that the Taipei City Government adopted g0v’s source code as a basis for its own “participatory budget,” a project that encourages citizens to participate in budget planning via a web portal, just three years after g0v’s launch of its central government budget project.
Seeing this as a very positive development, Kao has shared internationally the role of the civic-tech community in Taiwan’s model for interacting and cooperating with the government. He has also explained the follow-on applications that have grown out of that cooperation. He says that they have built their success on the foundation of mutual trust they have established between the government and the citizenry, and that their achievements offer practical examples of the usefulness of civic technology.
The vTaiwan digital platform offers another example of the citizenry and government borrowing from one another. Originally created by g0v as a means to encourage civic participation in public policy by gathering a variety of opinions and forging a consensus, it was later adopted by the government as a portal through which citizens can offer feedback that the government then takes into consideration when making policy.
The government is making use of more than just g0v projects. It’s also made g0v member Audrey Tang the Executive Yuan’s digital tsar. Tang has brought her g0v membership and experience with her into government, where she is pushing the twin goals of digitalization and open government.
Tang’s new model includes an open-government contact person called a “participation officer” (PO). Every department of the Executive Yuan is to have a PO, who will hold public discussions on a regular basis on current issues, including proposals such as allowing the formation of civil service unions, banning the sale of sharks’ fins, ending after-school study halls, and crash-testing domestically produced vehicles. POs will invite NGOs and industry representatives to participate in the discussions, and make the entire process open and transparent.
Originally a g0v project, the “sprouts dictionary” is an online multilingual dictionary, the entries of which were sourced from the Ministry of Education’s online Mandarin, Southern Min, and Hakka dictionaries. Internationally praised since its launch, the “sprouts dictionary” has already become a valuable tool for foreign students learning traditional Chinese characters.
Even better, the dictionary is still growing and spawning additional projects. For example, a French student familiar with open source resources but still learning Chinese has added English, German, and French content to the dictionary. Meanwhile, the UK’s Oxford University has used the dictionary’s source code to create databases for other languages, including Zulu.
The “sprouts dictionary” project has attracted the attention of linguists and educators around the world. By making the source code available to others, the project has extended its reach to other tongues, aiding in efforts to preserve and learn endangered languages.
g0v has been starting up projects on its own initiative since its founding in 2012. Its model relies on other people joining in and helping as they see fit, working to improve the functionality and ease-of-use of the tools g0v has created. The ongoing use of these projects and the other applications they have spawned have kept Taiwan’s open-source community active on the international scene.
g0v also holds a biennial summit that attracts nearly 1,000 participants. These include members of the open-source and civic-tech communities of more than ten nations, who come to share their experience and the results of their projects.
At the end of 2016, g0v established the g0v.news portal to report in depth on conferences abroad, the results of projects, and Taiwan’s participation in both. The platform provides a framework for international ties by offering these reports in both Chinese and English for readers in Taiwan and abroad.
The current state of development in civic tech is largely the result of the community’s commitment to “freedom,” which is exemplified by its response to Asia’s ongoing human rights violations and the related lack of information security that is exposing human rights workers to danger. The community realized that people in Europe and the United States were unfamiliar with the human rights situation in Asia, and too far away to provide timely assistance when human rights were violated.
Kao’s team therefore began working on an information security for human rights project, one which is drawing on Taiwan’s free and open environment and its information security professionals. The team hopes to cultivate information security awareness among human rights workers, while also working to establish an information hub on human rights in Asia.
Taiwan’s open source community has become world renowned for the scope of its activities. Originally a social movement, it has evolved into a civic movement that has made it easier than ever for citizens in our digital age to participate in public policy debates. With the rise of g0v, civic hackers are actively participating in a grassroots effort to make information transparent, bringing the goal of truly open government a step closer.


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The load command loads data from the files given.
Several file formats are supported, as is discussed below.
The file data will be converted into internal plot structures containing vectors available for printing, plotting, and other manipulation just as if the analysis had been run. The last plot read becomes the current plot. Data files can also be loaded from the Load button in the Files menu of the Tool Control window. A file name given without a path prefix is searched for in the source path.
The load command is internet aware, i.e., if a given filename has an http:// or ftp:// prefix, the file will be downloaded from the internet and loaded. The file is transferred as a temporary file, so if a permanent local copy is desired, the write command should be used to save a file to disk.
ASCII and binary rawfiles, and Common Simulation Data Format (CSDF) files can be listed without options. These formats are auto-detected and the file data will be processed appropriately. The rawfile format is the native format used in WRspice and Berkeley SPICE3. CSDF is one of the formats used by HSPICE, and post-processing tools such as Synopsys WaveView.
In HSPICE, ``.options csdf=1'' and ``.options post=csdf'' will produce CSDF files. These files can be loaded into WRspice for display and other purposes with the load command.
In WRspice rawfiles or CSDF files can be produced by the Save Plot button in plot windows, the write and run commands, and may be generated in batch mode.
If no argument is given, WRspice will attempt to load a file with a default name. The default name is the value of the rawfile variable if set, or the argument to the -r command line option if one was given, or ``rawspice.raw''.
If the option flag -p appears before a file name, the file that follows is assumed to be a file produced with the WRspice print command. This works for the default columnar print format only. The format is common to other SPICE programs. This can be useful on occasion, but the print format lacks to expressiveness of the plot data file formats.
The -c option will allow parsing of general columnar numerical data, and is useful for extracting data from output from other programs, or report text files. The option has several forms.
N is an integer greater than 0, representing the number of numerical columns. A plot with N vectors will be created, with names ``column_0'', ``column_1'', etc. The column_0 vector will be taken as the scale vector. The file is read, amd all lines that start with N space or comma-separated numbers will contribute to the vectors. Any additional text on the line following the numbers is ignored. Lines that don't provide N numbers are also ignored.
As above, but lines must provide exactly N numbers or will be ignored. Parsing of a line stops if a token is read that is not a number, so that any numbers following a non-number in the line will always be ignored.
This assumes that there are N columns of numbers in a logical block, followed by a logical block containing M columns of numbers. We assume that there are N + M vectors, and the lines have been broken to avoid being too long, as is done in the SPICE printing if the number of columns to be printed would exceed the page width. However, it is required that M be less than N, and only one ``wrap'' can be accommodated. If for some reason the M vectors end up being a different length than the N vectors, they will be truncated or zero-padded so that all vectors will have the same length.
When reading columnar or print data, the scale vector is checked for cyclicity, and the plot dimensions will be set if found. Only two-dimensional vectors are produced, higher dimensions can not be determined.


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The villa lies in the residential area called San Montano, 4 km from Sorrento, in what was once a fishermen's village and is now an agricultural center renowned for the production of a particular kind of lemon. It was a holiday resort long before the advent of modern tourism, with its houses and miniature gardens leading down towards the sea and with the island of Capri providing a spectacular backdrop. Villathis property has preserved a beautiful old lemon-orchard, which is surrounded by a portico. The terraced garden allows one to enjoy some of the most beautiful views in the world and additionally at one end of it there is a swimming pool (4,5x10 m) for guests' exclusive use.
The villa is divided into two buildings that are independent, but joined together and as a whole faces toward the large garden and the sea, creating charming little nooks which enable you to enjoy the tranquil atmosphere typical of this area to the fullest. The dependance has its own independent entrance and has the same high-quality characteristics as the villa. Furnished with antique pieces and embellished with shells and copper antiques, everything in the house recalls traditional customs of the area while at the same time its closeness to the sea.
Villathis property is equipped with telephone, satellite TV, VHS, stereo with CD player, air-conditioning in the bedrooms and living-room, a washing-machine, dishwasher, grill, microwave oven, direct access to the sea with 1 sun-shade, 4 deck-chairs and a changing-room with shower. From the beach there is a footpath of about 1 km that leads straight to a little village on the sea called Marina della Lobra where you will find a bar and a food shop. The villa owners are also able to organize cooking classes in their villa in Sorrento upon request.
DISTANCES: Sorrento 4 km, Positano 20 km, Naples 60 km.
GROUND FLOOR with access from a staircase: Living-room with sea view with access to terrace and to garden, dining-room, kitchen, 1 double bedroom with bathroom with bathtub, 1 single bedroom with bathroom with bathtub.
FIRST FLOOR: 1 double bedroom with bathroom with shower and access to terrace, 1 double bedroom with bathroom with bathtub and access to terrace and to garden, 1 additional bed available in the little tower.
DEPENDANCE: 70 sq.m., large living-room with view of the sea with access to the patio furnished for dining outside, a small kitchen, 1 double bedroom (beds can be separated) with bathroom with tub, 1 double bedroom with access to the patio with view of the sea, 1 bathroom with shower.
Private parking for 4 cars (two are covered and two in the open air). Air conditioning in the bedrooms. Masonry barbecue.
This is a beautiful 6 bedroom property located in Campania, Italy.
This villa, in San Montano, is a comfortable property sleeping 12 people.
The villa offers superb accommodation, including modern luxuries such as a swimming pool (10m x 4m), internet access, television, DVD player and air conditioning.
A security deposit of £700 is required for this rental.


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The villa is located in a new, large, green and quiet Baan Bua development, 2 km. (3 minutes' drive) from Nai Harn beach.
Two guest bedrooms are located at the opposite parts of the house and have en-suite bathrooms allowing maximum privacy to guests. The main bedroom has the direct access to the pool. The living area comprises seating zone and dining zone with table for 6 and modern kitchen. There is a pool table in living room with all necessary equipment. Big private refreshing chlorine free swimming pool is surrounded by a landscaped tropical garden.
Within 1.5-2 km Nai Harn area offers a choice of restaurants that serve Western and Asian cuisine, massage salons and bars. Local stores, 7/11s, motorbike and car rental points, currency exchange points are also located here.
- Master bedroom: King size bed, TV, en-suite (shower and sunken bathtub), safe.
- Guest bedroom 1: Queen size bed, TV, en-suite (walk-in shower).
- Guest bedroom 2: Twins beds, TV, en-suite (walk-in shower).
- $1000. Refunded on check-out.
Standard check-in time is 3.00 p.m., and check-out time is 11.00 a.m.
To reserve early check-in or late check-out Guests shall inform the Provider in advance and pay 50% of 1 night’s rate.
Guests should take into consideration that there is no 24/7 reception in private villas. So they should inform about their arrival time and flight details in advance for the Provider to meet them at the property and organize check-in.

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My parents never taught me how to cope with death. It was clearly a taboo topic in our household. Someone died and the adults may or may not have told us kids, and our parents never brought us to a funeral. That wasn’t the place for children, I once overheard dad say. I even remember at age 15 sitting in the car of a church parking lot while my father went inside to attend the funeral of his aunt — a woman who had babysat my brother and I when we were little and who sneakily waited until my parents were out of the kitchen to gobble down the black-eyed peas my mother insisted we eat before she departed for the evening.
As an adult I have had to learn over the years how to handle death. It’s been a rather haphazard learning process. First I had to confront the passing of my grandmothers, each of whom I saw hours before they passed. At 19, I opened the hospital door to see my grandmother hooked up to a maze of tubes. Her eyes flew open and stared at me. I fled the room, past the nurses’ station and down a back stairwell that forced me to depart through a fire escape door and set off an alarm. When I was about 28, my other grandmother was propped up in my father’s guestroom when my husband and I arrived in town for a final visit. She was ghostly frail in the final stages of lung cancer. I sat across the room for a few minutes and quietly stared as my sisters talked to her. Then I dashed out.
I’ve lost both parents and this year lost my oldest sister, and each time the process became a little less mysterious and frightening. Yet each death came as a surprise and I wasn’t knowingly in the position of having that final conversation.
They forgot to tell me it’s often unavoidable in this business of personal history.
My first client is a woman with an inspiring story of survival, persistence, musical talent and devotion to community service. The roots of her character, of course, in part lie in the foundation created by her parents and grandparents. So when I asked if family members would agree to be interviewed, suddenly all were onboard. Including her 93-year-old mother in Independence, Missouri.
Her mother grew up in the early part of the 20th century on a farm in a small town in Texas. She walked a mile or two to school each day, picked cotton with the hired hands in the afternoons, taught herself piano, observed her father help those less fortunate, and idolized her older sisters. But she desired more.
After high school, she boarded a train to Washington, D.C. to go work for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s staff as a clerk in the War Department during World War II. She later married a fellow she met there — only after attending college — and raised six children (one adopted) as a missionary’s wife. I was eager to meet her and hear her stories.
As winter quickly approached, my client and I decided I should make the trip. I booked the tickets and made plans to spend five days in the area the week before Thanksgiving. I envisioned relaxed one-hour conversations once or twice daily, more if she could handle it.
A couple days before my arrival the mother had a bad fall that badly bruised her head, sapped much of her remaining strength, and diminished her voice to nearly a whisper. I knew none of this when, after my flight landed, her oldest daughter pressed me to get to the house soon because she didn’t know how much time her mother had left. Hospice would be coming by and nurses were in and out, she said. My stomach tightened and my heart raced. How would I deal with this? I’ve interviewed hundreds of people in my career, from small town businessmen to high-powered politicians and national leaders and I have never been nervous. Not like this.
Once I got there I never considered running. This 93-year-old woman was, yes, weak. She quietly (sometimes not so quietly) acquiesced as family members and nurses moved her from couch to bed to bath and periodically pressed her to eat. As the family and caregivers handled phone calls, talked with doctors and managed schedules, pain medications and food, I sat with this woman and traveled through time. Sometimes we were in Lexington, Kentucky, in the 1960s. Sometimes we were on her father’s farm in the early 1930s and her grandfather was rocking her in his lap. Occasionally we were in the woods by her childhood home where she liked to pray. On our last day she told me about her previous night and the funeral of her husband. He had passed more than 50 years ago, but in her mind it was yesterday.
She had told many of the stories to her children. Some were new stories she hadn’t shared before. A few stories she never told — either the memories were gone or she chose not to relive them. I enjoyed hours of conversation interrupted with long moments of quiet contemplation. I feared I was robbing the time from her fam ily, but her daughter said she thought it gave her mother some peace as the end approached. I hope it did.
This lady, her body tiny and frail after her decades of adventures and hardships, loves and losses, passed away last weekend — just a couple of days after I started to weave her memories into the family story. I think of our discussions, of her chuckling at a memory and tossing her head back slightly as if she was that young woman talking flirtatiously with her young coworkers as they dined or explored D.C. I feel lucky to have spent those final days with her, and I look forward to spending the next several months with her memories and those of her family.
Christy, this is absolutely lovely. Thank you so much for directing me to it. You have had a very full and I’m guessing fulfilling (even if with sadness and stress) year.
Oh that is so true of my upbringing too! And the last 10 years saw 2 uncles, an aunt and my grandmother pass away and I completely understand the running part. I still do. What you wrote is lovely and calming and sweet, even though sad. You have a wonderful gift.
I am so grateful to have spent the time with her. And I hope you all enjoy time together next week remembering her.
What I like about your experience is that you were a gift to her and she was a gift to you (which happens a lot in this personal history business). And you were ready for it. I can hardly wait to read what you write and I’m sure the family feels the same way, in addition to being grateful that she had a good audience for her final stories. A lovely blog post, Christy.


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A heuristic method of project scheduling under multiple resource constraints.
Strickland, David L., "A heuristic method of project scheduling under multiple resource constraints." (1977). Theses and Dissertations. 2271.

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Energy services company Proserv has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract for the supply of subsea equipment to the UK-based oil company Premier Oil for a project in the Natuna Sea.
Proserv said on Wednesday that it would supply a subsea control system and associated equipment for the Bison, Iguana, and Gajah Puteri development project offshore Indonesia.
The scope of the deal entails the supply of a three-well subsea control system tied back to two platforms, Naga and Pelikan, in approximately 90 meters of water.
Bison and Iguana will tie back to the Pelikan platform, and Gajah Puteri will tie back from a controls perspective to the Naga platform 21 kilometers away.
Each well will have a wet gas meter, which is part of the company’s scope of supply and the system will be capable of future expansion to accommodate potential future infill drilling.
Delivery of the first phase of the equipment is scheduled for May 2018.
Before this latest award Proserv completed a project for Premier Oil on the Dua development in Vietnam in 2013.
The Bison, Iguana, and Gajah Puteri, or the BIGP fields for short, are discovered gas fields on Premier’s operated Natuna Sea Block A and, according to Premier Oil, mark the next generation of developments to backfill the company’s existing Singapore and Indonesian contracts.
The FEED has been completed, and an investment decision on these projects is targeted for the first quarter of 2017. Together, these fields could increase gross deliverable reserves to Singapore and the local market by over 100 bcf.
Recently, Premier awarded GE Oil & Gas a contract for subsea trees and wellheads for the fields. For the initial phase, three sets of subsea trees and wellheads will be delivered by the first quarter of 2018.
Posted on March 8, 2017 with tags Indonesia, natuna sea, Premier Oil, Proserv, Subsea.

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‘MangroveWatch’ is a program that has been established to address the urgent need to preserve and protect threatened tidal wetland ecosystems as well as addressing both scientific and environmental management needs.
This new monitoring program targets estuarine and coastal systems where there are mangroves, saltmarsh and saltpans. Like Seagrass-Watch the program uses a partnership between community volunteers and scientists.