Into the jungle. Into the wild. Into harm's way.

When he was a boy, Luc's mother would warn him about the "mock men" living in the trees by their home, chimpanzees whose cries would fill the night.

Luc is older now, his mother gone. He lives in a house of mistreated orphans, barely getting by. Then a man calling himself Prof comes to town with a mysterious mission. When Luc tries to rob him, the man isn't mad. Instead, he offers Luc a job.

Together, Luc and Prof head into the rough, dangerous jungle in order to study the elusive chimpanzees. There, Luc finally finds a new family, and must act when that family comes under attack.

As he did in his acclaimed novel Endangered, a finalist for the National Book Award, Eliot Schrefer takes us somewhere fiction rarely goes, introducing us to characters we rarely get to meet. The unforgettable result is the story of a boy fleeing his present, a man fleeing his past, and a trio of chimpanzees who are struggling not to flee at all.


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Is a Golden Privet an Acid Loving Plant?
Golden privet, unlike most in its family, does not benefit from clipping.
3 Do Privet Hedges Like Acid?
While most privets serve fittingly as sheared hedges, the golden privet (Ligustrum "Vicaryi") loses some of its prized gold coloring when pruned. Better uses for the tall shrub or small tree are as a specimen plant or as part of an informal, unclipped hedge. This privet hybrid grows rapidly to a height of 6 to 12 feet and a comparable width. In full sun it develops the richest golden foliage hue. Grow it in well-drained, slightly acidic soil in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 through 8.
The plant's impressive golden foliage takes on an even more fiery tint when autumn comes. It provides pleasing contrast if mixed with green-leaved plants. When given enough space, the golden privet grows in an attractive vase-shaped form. Bees and butterflies visit the clusters of white flowers that appear in spring, and birds feed on the berries that follow flowering. Balancing the advantages, it does have a downside. The leaves and fruit can cause gastric distress if ingested by humans, and like its relative the olive tree, the golden privet can create a mess when its fallen fruit piles up. If the fruit hits a driveway or patio, it can stain the surface.
The desired soil pH for common privet (Ligustrum vulgare), which shares a number of characteristics with golden privet including USDA zones, prefers a pH range of 6.0 to 7.0, reports the University of Tennessee. Common privet is one of the parent plants of the golden privet hybrid. Since 7.0 marks the neutral point of the pH scale, anything above would be considered alkaline and anything below falls into the acidic category. The majority of plants favor a 6.0 to 7.0 range. Privets can be classified as preferring a slightly acidic soil, but true acid-loving plants need a pH below 6.0.
Depending on the pH level, nutrients become available or unavailable to plants. For example, a golden privet may lose color because of an iron deficiency, although sufficient iron is present in the soil. Too much alkalinity may prevent the iron from being converted into a form the plant can absorb. Some nutrients become toxic when the pH is too low (manganese) or too high (molybdenum). A pH too far on the acidic side also allows the release of aluminum, which is not a plant nutrient, but which may stunt root growth. Finding and maintaining the right pH balance makes a great difference in the health of the golden privet -- or any plant.
Before you begin, test your soil's pH with a home test kit or through a soil-testing laboratory. Since privets like soil on the acidic side, you may need to lower the pH to suit your plant. Add pelletized sulfur to accomplish this. Do not use powdered sulfur, sold as a fungicide, because it is a fine dust that could be a health hazard, and it is more expensive. If you need quick results, mix the sulfur into the top 6 inches of the soil. For more leisurely absorption, simply lay it on top of the ground, and it will gradually work its way into the soil. Keep testing the soil pH on a regular basis, as it can shift back over time.
Missouri Botanical Garden: Ligustrum "Vicaryi"
Simpson, Mary. "Is a Golden Privet an Acid Loving Plant?" Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/golden-privet-acid-loving-plant-82657.html. Accessed 25 April 2019.


Thoughts and advice on the diamonds below? No GIA certificate from London Jeweller - Vashi.
Circle 1.50 ct, F colour, SI1 - super ideal cut. £14,630,00.
The circular one had two visible black dots and a linear knot inclusion when inspected using a lupe.
I couldn’t see much on the oval.
Prices are at the high end for an internet retailer if the descriptions are right (i.e. matching GIA standards for colour and clarity, and top quality cut - which is a bit of a can of worms in and of itself on ovals) - I am assuming the prices quoted above include 20% VAT. Vashi has expensive retail premises in the centre of London, which makes me think their descriptions aren't exactly spot on, since I would expect significantly higher prices to cover their overheads. And if that oval is a G either your camera's white balance is off by miles or I'm Spongebob Squarepants.
Unless you have reason to trust the retailer, don't.
I asked for GIA report, they said certifications they have in place is in-house. This was viewed in their London Selfridges Store. Price quoted includes VAT. What would you judge the oval colour to be based on the above? Clearly I don’t seem to have a good judgement in person as I’ve not seen enough to judge correctly?
I did look online at 77diamonds.com which has GIA certificate links (GIA.edu) - would this be a better choice? This is without setting, but concerned without viewing.
The whole point of a lab report is to get an independent third party to express their unbiased view on several parameters; in-house reports cannot do that. I haven't seen enough "Vashi" in house stones (I haven't seen any, as far as I know) and their associated reports to say whether they are reliable or not; Tiffany's in-house grades are quite good, but other jewellers aren't, and by default the answer is "don't trust unless you have a reason to do so".
Grading colour from photos is an impossible task, more so when the photos are taken with an unknown camera in an unknown environment, but a correctly graded G should not show colour face up; that one looks from the photo more like a K.
The other stone might be a better choice, but with ovals it's very difficult to say anything about cut without seeing them (or at the very least getting several good photos and preferably video). At the very least here you are guaranteed colour and clarity are graded to a high and consistent standard. What are their return conditions? Most internet-based vendors will allow generous return windows with no penalty.
I second everything Davide has said above. In this day and age, it is probably harder to find an uncertified stone than a certified one which begs the question, why would any high street jeweler offer an expensive stone without a grading report. The second oval you have attached would only be better because there is GIA backup but it still does not mean much in terms of what the stone looks like. As Davide says, with oval you really need to see the stone itself, either in person or in video. From my own 30+ years of experience, an oval with a 59.7% depth is likely too shallow to help minimize the bow tie effect present in every oval. This is a darker area around the center of the stone where the depth is shallow and the faceting not as dense.
Another question I would ask is about the need for an IF stone. The vast majority of VS2 graded stones are perfectly clean to the naked eye, so the sweet spot in terms of value is in the VS2, VS1 and eventually VVS2 clarity range. Some would argue that most SI1 stones are clean to the naked eye as well, and mostly I would agree with that, but there are some SI1 stones that are not. So why spend the money of Internally Flawless unless this is something particularly important to you. It will not give you a better looking stone.
They have a 30 day return policy and also has the option of buying and checking in store.
I could make out SI1 issues in store but could not with the VS1.
What oval depth range would you recommend in your experience?
There is no real sweet spot and the image above is what I like to refer to as an X-ray image. It shows you what is inside the stone but not what the stone actually looks like.
This is an image I took show 3 very well cut oval stones in a more life like setting, not inside a totally white box. The bow tie is most evident in A and least in B. C has a very large table and gets a little washed out. When scanning through lists of stones, there is no "ideal" or sweet spot, but there are more favorable combination which I tend to gravitate to. Depths in the 62 to 66% range and tables in the 54 to 60 range. But not all combinations within those ranges are necessarily desirable. Length to width proportions are important as well. 1.46 is rather on the longer side. My customers tend to select +/- 1.35:1 ratios for the shape appeal.
I would likely end up with b - there seem to be bits in A and C?
What you're looking for is not on the GIA document. Cut is not even part of the GIA analysis. Mostly that comes from looking at the stone. ASET images are helpful if taken in a consistent sort of way. Mind you, there are no red flags on that report, just that what you want isn't there.
Is the thick-very thick girdle an issue?
It's a bit thicker than optimal but not really an issue. Try to get a video of the stone.


"We've definitely had an issue where we had to get the designer into the car quickly before they were murdered — before they had a hit put on 'em."
"Trading Spaces" designer and carpenter Ty Pennington is mostly kidding.
The TLC series, which is back for its 10th season airing on Saturdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT, has inspired a lot of joy in homeowners participating — but when it spawns ire, it can get quite ugly.
Host Paige Davis quipped that she embraces how "innocent" the show is and that they'd never knowingly give participants a room that they would hate, but admitted that they do like to push its participants outside of their comfort zone somewhat.
"We do try to push the envelope and a lot of our designers do that more than others," she said. "But we're not trying to force a negative reaction by any stretch of the imagination. This idea of not airing a negative reaction is not something I can compute."
Davis and Pennington then recalled the infamous March 2003 episode of "Trading Spaces" that placed notoriously brown-averse Jessie Stephens in a newly-painted brown room. Stephens was so furious that she ended up tackling her own neighbor while shrieking, "I hate brown!"
"I thought that maybe she was kidding, because there was this sort of like, grin on her face," Davis recalled. "But what I quickly realized was that was nervous laughter on her part. She was mad. She never spoke to her neighbor again."
"Everybody thinks there's some Machiavellian plan against these homeowners, [but] that fabric and paint color and everything was chosen long before [designer Laurie Smith] arrived in Las Vegas to do the room. It was after we got there that the homeowner started saying, 'I hate brown, I told you I hate brown.' So of course it's going to go into the edit of the show because … we're painting your room brown."
In another room gone wrong, designer Hildi Santo-Tomas designed a kitchen with wine labels — for a couple that, unbeknownst to the show producers and designers — didn't drink. Pennington says he spent almost half a day peeling the labels off of the homeowners' walls.
"We didn't know that! They were teetotalers," Davis said. Pennington recalled, "It was 3 a.m. and [I'm just] peeling them off … but here's the good news: We convinced them to start drinking after that."


SUMMARY: Bad breath can be caused by consuming smelly foods or beverages like onion, garlic or coffee. Fortunately, these odors may be rinsed away with a specialty breath freshener. However, the majority of adults not only don't clean their teeth after snacking but also snack many times each day.
bad breath can be caused by consuming smelly foods or beverages like onion, garlic or coffee. Fortunately, these odors may be rinsed away with a specialty breath freshener. However, the majority of adults not only don't clean their teeth after snacking but also snack many times each day.
A survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that nearly 42 percent of respondents eat between-meal snacks three or more times a day.
Eaters also reported consuming sugary foods when snacking. The department estimated that 39 percent of the average respondent's sugar intake came from snacks.
Snacking can affect digestive, cardiovascular and oral health alike. By supplementing meals with three or more snacks every day, individuals constantly coat their tongues and teeth with food particles. Oral bacteria use these bits of food to generate the odors of halitosis.
Furthermore, snacking without afterward cleansing one's mouth with a specialty rinse can leave teeth open to decay. Tartar and cavities can give off a pungent smell, in addition to causing discomfort and even health complications.
To prevent bad breath caused by snacking, individuals may use a specialty breath freshening product to cleanse the teeth and tongue.


Author(s): Witteman, M.J. ; Weber, A.C. ; McQueen, J.M.
Are listeners able to adapt to a foreign-accented speaker who has, as is often the case, an inconsistent accent? Two groups of native Dutch listeners participated in a cross-modal priming experiment, either in a consistent-accent condition (German-accented items only) or in an inconsistent-accent condition (German-accented and nativelike pronunciations intermixed). The experimental words were identical for both groups (words with vowel substitutions characteristic of German-accented speech); additional contextual words differed in accentedness (German-accented or nativelike words). All items were spoken by the same speaker: a German native who could produce the accented forms but could also pass for a Dutch native speaker. Listeners in the consistent-accent group were able to adapt quickly to the speaker (i.e., showed facilitatory priming for words with vocalic substitutions). Listeners in the inconsistent-accent condition showed adaptation to words with vocalic substitutions only in the second half of the experiment. These results indicate that adaptation to foreign-accented speech is rapid. Accent inconsistency slows listeners down initially, but a short period of additional exposure is enough for them to adapt to the speaker. Listeners can therefore tolerate inconsistency in foreign-accented speech.


One important question was engrossing social media on Thursday: did Bill Shorten get called a "grub" or a "c---?"
Viewers will have to make up their own minds after watching, and perhaps pausing and rewinding, footage of Question Time from Wednesday afternoon, when Education Minister Christopher Pyne was captured on camera hurling a four-letter insult at the Opposition Leader.
But what exactly was his slur of choice?
In the footage, Mr Pyne is shown at the dispatch box delivering a tirade at Mr Shorten.
"If the 'number one whinger in Australia' was a reality TV show, Madame Speaker, there'd be no point in any other contestant entering it, because if Bill Shorten entered it, he would win it," Mr Pyne says.
His speech is interrupted by yells from Tony Burke, the Manager of Opposition Business.
Mr Pyne pauses, before he can be heard saying: "You're such a ..." The last word in his sentence is difficult to hear.
Some observers were quick to deliver their verdict on Twitter, saying Mr Pyne had definitely dropped the C-bomb in Parliament.
But when approached for comment, Mr Pyne's office was adamant that My Pyne had said "grub".
Mr Shorten's office also said that he did not recall being called the c-word.
At the time, Speaker Bronwyn Bishop responded to Mr Pyne: "The minister will refer to people by their correct name."
Even if Mr Pyne did say only "grub", he should consider himself lucky not to be kicked out for his language, as happened to former prime minister Julia Gillard in 2006.
Ms Gillard, the then opposition health spokeswoman, was thrown out of Parliament for 24 hours for calling Tony Abbott a "snivelling grub".
"I move that that snivelling grub over there be not further heard,'' she said at the time, interrupting the future Prime Minister's speech on laws changing private health insurance.
Ms Gillard then withdrew her comment - "If I have offended grubs, I withdraw unconditionally'' - but that did not satisfy the speaker of the house, David Hawker, who named her for defying his request for an unconditional backdown.


Degrees of comparison (adjectives) – степени сравнения прилагательных. Прилагательные в английском языке образовывают две степени сравнения: сравнительную (comparative) и превосходную (superlative).
Слова, состоящие из одного слога.
e.g. She is the best singer in the world.
It was the worst dinner in my life.
This city is further from our village than that one.
Перед прилагательным в превосходной форме всегда используется артикль the.
Перед сравнительной степенью можно использовать слово much (намного).
e.g. She is much taller than me.
Going to the theatre is much more interesting than going to the cinema.
Write the adjectives in comparative and superlative degrees.
Answers: 1.funnier-the funniest, 2.slower-the slowest, 3.more dangerous-the most dangerous, 4. worse-the worst, 5. more intelligent-the most intelligent, 6. more boring-the most boring, 7. further-the furthest, 8. friendlier-the friendliest, 9.more stupid-the most stupid, 10.faster-the fastest.
1) Orange juice is tastier/the tastiest than apple juice.
2) What is hotter/the hottest place you’ve ever been to?
3) They say that my English is worse/the worst in our class but I don’t agree with that.
4) I decided to order the chicken because it was cheaper/the cheapest.
5) My flat is much bigger/the biggest and nicer/the nicest than yours.
6) This book is more interesting/the most interesting than the film.
7) The dog is angrier/than its owner.
8) Better/the best singer in our world is Madonna.
Answers: 1.tastier, 2.the hottest, 3.the worst, 4.cheaper, 5.bigger, nicer, 6.more interesting, 7.angrier, 8.the best.
Complete with correct form of the adjective.
1) Solomon was (wise) than any other king.
2) Bible is (popular) book in the world.
3) Who is (old) among your sisters?
4) Ross is (serious) about his homework than Bob.
5) Surfing is (dangerous) than skiing.
6) Chinese is (difficult) language in the world.
7) Carrots are (good) for you than cakes.


Chamonix # 025 est un condominium de 1 chambre / 1 salle de bain situé à Mammoth Lakes. Cette location de vacances dispose d'un excellent emplacement pour un accès facile aux activités toute l'année. Les clients apprécieront la proximité de la montagne et du centre-ville. Chamonix est à distance de marche du Canyon Lodge et de la télécabine du village. Restaurants, boutiques, sentiers de randonnée et pistes cyclables et terrains de golf sont tous rapidement accessibles en voiture.
Le salon présente une magnifique cheminée, idéale pour se réchauffer après une journée de ski et de snowboard. Les sièges sont disposés autour d'une télévision. Le canapé sert également de canapé-lit queen-size pour 2 personnes. Un lecteur DVD, un magnétoscope, un lecteur CD et un téléphone (appels locaux uniquement) sont fournis pour votre commodité. Sortez sur le balcon privé et profitez des vues environnantes.
La cuisine a tous les appareils dont un chef a besoin pour créer des repas alléchants. Deux invités peuvent entretenir la conversation avec le chef en prenant place au bar à petit-déjeuner intégré. Rassemblez-vous autour de la table à manger formelle, pouvant accueillir 6 personnes, pour savourer un dîner fait maison.
La chambre est meublée avec un lit king-size confortable et une salle de bains attenante. La salle de bain a un combo douche / baignoire et une coiffeuse séparée.
Chamonix a plusieurs commodités à vérifier pendant vos vacances. Il y a 1 espace de stationnement non attribué, un club house avec table de billard, foyer, sauna et bain à remous. La piscine & amp; Station de barbecue sont ouverts pendant l'été.
Stay away from this place. It is not as described and the owner clearly doesn’t care. I sent the message below in an email to the owner and haven’t received a response after 11 days. If you do dare go, make sure you bring a mattress for the pull-out unless you enjoy laying directly on springs, as well as some extra sheets and blankets (no sheets were provided for the pull-out and the blankets are at least 40 years old). The management company did a relatively good job, but there was something sticky on the kitchen floor and getting extra towels was like pulling teeth.
I just wanted to send you a direct message regarding our stay in your unit in Mammoth. Unfortunately, this has not been a good experience for me and my family.
Aside from the location, there is very little in your description of the property that is accurate. The carpet is not new (it is worn with a tear in the entry), the furnishings are not new (the sofa bed, mattress, TV, entertainment center and more are all at least 20 years old), and while there are spas, a sauna, laundry facilities and a recreation room, we had no access to these areas because Grand Mammoth Resorts could not provide a key.
You list Internet as an amenity, however, there were no directions anywhere on how this Internet was accessible from your unit. I had to contact the management company myself and learned that the only Internet available was from a unit two doors down the hall. I wouldn’t mind sharing WiFi with someone else if I had a strong signal, but the fact that it was so far away made it pretty much useless. You also list Wood Stove as an amenity. You provided directions on how to use it and offered firewood in the closet down the hall, which was great. However, the firewood closet was locked and no key was provided. When I discussed this with management, I was told that the owner did not provide them with a key for the firewood closet.
There are other issues with your unit, but I can live with those things because they weren’t specifically mentioned in your listing. Therefore, I wasn’t expecting something different. The fact is, your listing is severely misleading. Due to this misrepresentation, I believe that I overpaid and should receive a partial refund for my stay.
I will be checking out in the morning, but I look forward to hearing back from you.
Location is great. This place reminds me of my great grandma's place. It's in dire need of a coat of paint, carpets are crunchy & HORRIBLY stained. I think the extra blankets are about 40 years old. Trim on them is coming off. Pillow are stained... Ewwwwwwwwwwwww! We were only there for 2 nights, so didn't do any cooking . I can't attest to how well stocked the kitchen gear was but for crying out loud, could you please provide more than ONE wine glass? I noticed one picture on the wall where the glass in the frame must have been broken & was replaced with some type of saran wrap or something. The toilet is horribly inefficient & Please....get rid of the decrepit silk flower arrangements!!! We stuck them in the closet. In a nutshell, an OK place to put a roof over your head, but it really needs to be cleaned up & updated.
We are extremely sorry for all of the inconvenience in the unit. We will contact the correct people to resolve these problems. We hope for your future stay we can provide everything you need to make your stay more comfortable. Thank you for letting us know.
We were pleased. Unit was basic but great proximity to the slopes.
Cozy & functional. Internet speed was fine, which was essential for this trip. Jacuzzi was great.
I am happy to hear you enjoyed your vacation! Thank you for sharing your experience and we look forward to hosting you again!
While the location was fabulous, the complex and condo itself were poorly maintained. Firstly, the condo had not been cleaned before we arrived...the bed had obviously been slept in and half the towels wee already used. Since it was after hours, I went to the store, bought my own cleaning products and cleaned it myself. Also, small things like the out of date silk flower arrangements and the Christmas tree (in July!) made the room seem down and out. Most concerning, was that the propert management on site is not caring for the pool adequately. My husband choose this condo for its proximity to the mountain where his biking event was held, but also for the pool for our children. The pool was cloudy (could not see the bottom), and on the 2nd day, there was some type of brownish foam that spoke of feces or vomit. I called the property management company and while the next day, the foam was gone, the pool was still cloudy and unkempt. A health hazard for sure. Will not be returning.
I was very disappointed with this condo! It was dirty and old and it seemed as if the owners put all their old junk that they no longer wanted in their rental. When we arrived, we pulled the sleeper couch out and there were no linens. That was annoying and inconvenient and we had to pick up the sheets the following day from the office. There was no delivery, but management was very apologetic. There were old dingy musty blankets without any sheets. They looked like they were at least 50 years old! Because the pillows had no pillowcases on them, we could see how stained they were and they were disgusting. The bathroom had a cracked wooden toilet seat and we had to make our own toilet seat covers every time we used the bathroom. There were ugly stains on the walls. The sponge in the kitchen wasn't even a fresh sponge. On top of the fridge was a bunch of old silk dusty flowers which only made the condo look dirtier. Currently, the only good thing about this condo is its proximity to Canyon Lodge. Despite all my complaints, I feel that if the owners amended these things, the condo could be great and I would recommend it, but definitely not the way it is now.


Gold/Silver vs. Bitcoin Comparisons: A No-Brainer... or Brainless?
2017 percent price change comparisons: Relating this year's gold and silver's price range to that of bitcoin misses an important point. Yes, bitcoin (BTC) has risen by a much greater percent, but it's also fallen more. I don't recall gold dropping 40% this year, which bitcoin has... on a couple of occasions.
Trash-talking gold and silver as "antiquated": Bitcoin is now considered legal tender in Japan, but at this time, its primary function is for use in the purchase and sale of the 900+ "alt coins" currently available.
Most of these exchange entries in the crypto-space are not really "currencies" at all and will never trade as such.
Rather they are "coins" or "tokens" digitally created and circulated to raise seed money, via initial coin offerings (ICOs) in order to solve some business application in a blockchain-connected manner. Many have no trading volume – possibly because the market is skeptical of their business plan – and have become more or less "dead" coins.
At present, a relative few have an actively trading market. Investors have dropped literally millions of dollars into scores, if not hundreds of entrants which have appeared on the scene like dragon's teeth, in many cases only to see volume dry up soon thereafter.
You are literally giving your money to someone on the Internet and getting completely useless tokens in return. There are no 'whitepapers,' no 'products', and no 'experts'. It's just you, me, your hard-earned Ether, and my shopping list.
You would think this blatantly-stated scam would elicit exactly zero response, yet reportedly, the UET 'Project" was able to raise more than $60,000!
By the same token, it's a safe bet that many Venezuelans wish they had traded some of their bolivares fuertes ("strong Bolivar") notes, rendered worthless over the last few years, for a few ounces of silver – or a single ounce of gold (gold coin prices) – which could now purchase respectively, six months of food, or a house.
Becoming a victim of "default bias": We all have a tendency to operate through a lens which uses the past as a default setting.
Default bias can cause lost opportunities – whether it involves learning about the blockchain or being hesitant to buy precious metals when they're in boring "wear you out or scare you out" sideways action (another David Morgan homily)... as they've been lately.
Dismissing Bitcoin as "just digital": Kim Iskyan (Stansberry Churchouse Research) addresses the criticisms leveled at bitcoin and the blockchain. Responding to the charge that it's “purely digital,” he notes that fully 90% of all the money – or as David Morgan refers to it, "paper promises" – that exist around the world today are not physical either!
What I am doing: In addition to staying very active in metals and miners, I have placed "small money" into several coins and tokens having viable business models in hopes of making an asymmetric profit.
Disover why buying American Eagle gold coins or American Silver Eagles coins, could be your best investment yet.


Latin America: after the neoliberal years, is the developmental state back in?
Latin America was probably the region that suffered most in the neoliberal years, because it was also the region where the respective reforms and policies were taken further. For that reason, it was also the region where the neoliberal years first came to an end. Since the late 1990s, left wing and economic nationalist political leaders started winning elections. On the other hand, a new economic school of thought based on a new "structuralist development macroeconomics" has been under discussion, and the Ten Theses on New Developmentalism are today an alternative to the Washington Consensus. Does this mean that the developmental state is back in? It is too soon to say that, not only because ideas and politics seldom match, but also because the rise in commodity prices is threatening industrialization in the region.


The reality TV star - who left the competition last night - says she "never felt the same" after her dramatic slip on the ice a few weeks ago.
She's now facing a lengthy recovery time after being left bruised and battered by the experience.
On ITV's This Morning, Gemma said: "When I fell on the ice, I never felt the same ever again, I'll be honest with you, I was very lucky, but my knees, I've got a six month recovery on my knees.
"That's because I kept falling, and let's be fair I ain't the lightest of persons, so, you know... But I had a really good time."
She added: "That was weird, because no way I would want to fake that. The pain I was in, I was crying for days.
"I'm still in pain now, but as they say it's the knocks in life that make you stronger and I certainly took a lot on the show."
Gemma - who was supported by her boyfriend James 'Arg' Argent throughout her time on Dancing On Ice - insists she is going to continue her fitness regime as she has lost two-and-a-half stone since she began training for the programme in October and may occasionally skate for fun.
The 38-year-old vowed: "I will 100 per cent keep up with the fitness and I'm saying this on national TV because I feel so much better, like I could just move a lot more, I can do my shoes up.
"I'll be honest I had about three tyres round my middle and they've gone.
"I'm still a bigger girl but when I got on the scales, I was shocked because I've actually lost two and a half stone.
"It never goes off my face, I think I need some sort of lifting surgery. I was shocked I couldn't believe and just feeling fit.
"I don't know what form of exercise I'm going to do yet.
"I might take to the rink but for an enjoyment purpose, skate round for an hour, you know, because it is good exercise, but I really do want to continue with my fitness."


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1).It seems there's as much anticipation this week to see how the USGA has set up Shinnecock Hills for the US Open as there is to see how Tiger Woods does.
Not sure that does justice to Shinnecock, which is traditionally one of the stars of the USGA's US Open circuit of courses.
It'll be the first visit here since the fiasco of 2004 when the USGA was presumably thrilled with a final round scoring average of about 78 . . . . . . until they were overwhelmed by an avalanche of richly deserved negative publicity about dried out/dead greens and incompatible winds.
2).So they brought in Coore & Crenshaw to prepare the lay-out for 2018's golfers - 500 yards added to the course, wider (up to 40 yards) fairways and some redoing of a few of the greens. All this overshadowed by ill-fated experiments at Chambers Bay, in 2015, and Erin Hills last year. So the USGA is on the spot this week. Not so much Shinnecock though as they're already assured of a return visit in 2026.
3).Shinnecock, way out on New York State's Long Island, is by most accounts one of the first five golf clubs in the USA (tho' Royal Montreal and Royal Quebec predated it during the early 1870's, in that territory north of the border now referred to, presumably, as that "special place in hell" by White House staff); some "golf" clubs in South Carolina & Georgia existed earlier without much evidence they actually played golf.
In 1895 Shinnecock was one of the five "Founding Clubs" (clubs in Boston, Chicago, Newport, RI, and New York) of the USGA which held its first US Open at Newport GC, then at Shinnecock the following year. Then not again until Ray Floyd won a thriller in 1986.
4).A pair of Willies laid out the course, Davis produced 12 holes followed by Dunn who added 9 more and integrated the two efforts into an 18-holer. Charles B.McDonald (National Golf Links and others) and the prolific Seth Raynor (Fishers Island, Chicago GC, Waialae CC and dozens in between) upgraded the course and Willie Flynn (Merion etc) reconfigured the 18 holes roughly resembling what we see today.
5).Given that foreward, how does that help us pick a winner this week?
I'd start with the world's Top ten, add a couple, eliminate one or two others and roll the dice.
6).Dustin? If he's playing at his best, he can't be beaten! Hasn't been out of the Top 20 in a strokeplay event since last September, but not keen on him playing in Woods's group, the only reservation.
Thomas: Don't fancy him here, no particular reason, just don't find him as convincing as his wins might suggest.
Rose: Great chance, though his links form hasn't been that great this century. But hits it far enough and plots his way around as well as anyone. Seemingly a great caddie relationship.
Spieth: Course management great, but driving accuracy still questionable and lost his magic touch on the greens.
Rahm: Seems to have gone off the boil - may win a Major one day, but not this week.
Rory: Under the radar, but perhaps justifiably so. Too inconsistent for me, still not keen on his caddie situation.
Fowler: Wins on the PGA Tour less that 2% of the time; too good not to improve that, but doubt it'll be this week.
Day: Like Rory, don't fancy his caddie deal, but has all the proverbial tools to win. Fitness, mental & physical always a ?
Koepka: Playing well; can he be the first to successfully "defend" since Curtis Strange a generation or two ago? Wouldn't be surprised.
Matsuyama: Unconvincing since his injury, no Tour Top 3's since August, but wouldn't be surprised to see him somewhere on the leaderboard.
Best Aussie: Leishman - so difficult to predict, but must have a great chance if the wind blows a bit.
Best Saffer: tie between Grace & King Louis, two guys who seem to elevate their game in Majors.
Best Cont European: Stenson: Why not, if he's in the mood?
Best GB&I: Poults: Just got a feeling! Also like Lowry to have a decent week.
Best of the rest of the US: Kooch & Duf.
Lots of good e.w. options there.
8).Phil & Tiger: Would love to see Mickelson win a US Open, but rather feel his time has passed. Woods is ten years removed from his Torrey Pines heroics, but the course looks as if it could be set up in his favour. SkyBet says 16/1 against him so could be worth an e.w. punt, but don't see him winning.
9).Fox will be broadcasting this week and the best bet of the week is that Joe Buck will make us miss Jim Nantz before the first hour is up.
Shane O'Donoghue will no doubt try to match him in the verbal diarrhea stakes, but hopefully Zinger and Faxon can rein them in. Ken Brown will be on the course but, on US TV, always sounds as if he's got socks in his mouth - but a great asset if they can fix his audio.
Fox also has the World Cup, almost enough to make one fly east for the next six weeks.
10).I hope they get the course set up right so that golf can be the winner. The weather should be ideal, dry, mild, with some breeze but nothing too severe, enough to allow the course to play as nature intended, firm and fast without going ott.
Don't much care who wins but trust it will be because of great golf, not because the USGA tried to be too clever with the course.
And reveal that Shinnecock is the true star of the week.
I don't have much recollection though other than that 4-wood which to be honest, I have seen a fair few times since.
I know Buck from the NFL so was surprised when I heard Fox were using him for their golf coverage. Does he have any golf pedigree or past experience commentating on it? Or is he just Fox's lead sports commentator so you know, he gets the gig?
Instead of getting experienced expert commentators for different sports, they tend to go to their "flagship" anchors regardless of whether they actually know the sport.
Joe Buck's Dad was actually a fantastic radio commentator who could paint a picture AND manage the play-by-play - so little Joe got gigs from an early age. Now he gets golf as well as Baseball & NFL. Similarly Jim Nantz is ubiquitous, Dan Hicks pretty much the same, then you get the gradually fading away Bob Costas and the ever-unctious Mike Tirico (who will never know what he doesn't know - blathers on regardless).
Trouble for us is that baby Buck doesn't get the pro golf game at all. But, you know, he gets the gig anyway!
Reminds me of early footie commentaries of Div 1 football when some t0ssp0t in LA looked at the screen with a Rothmans Football Yearbook on his lap - incredible really.
If Els got an invite, why not Goosen?
I have four runners at Mr William Hill. Poulter, Fowler, Noren and Berger. In the unlikely event it all comes to plan = £1000.
And re coverage. It wouldn't surprise me that Tiger is in a "featured group" on Thursday and Friday. I understand why they do it, but I don't agree with it. Spread the coverage around. And I hope I don't hear all that sycophantic chatter re Woods. Yes he's back. We know. If he's playing well, say so. If he's not, say so - or better still don't show him.
50% chance of rain today at Shinnecock, but it's 100% right now - and forecast to be a bit breezier on Thursday, so some set-up changes are in the works.
Wish the USGA would just prep the course to be reasonable for predictable conditions and leave it alone - if it blows, it blows, the scores may be higher but so what?
I'm never wrong wrote: If Els got an invite, why not Goosen?
FWIW....Goosen got a special invite two years ago at Oakmont. This is the first time Els has got a special invite for the US Open.
Every Masters I read complaints on this board about past champions playing at the Masters.
Now there are complaints about Goosen not getting a special exemption.
GPB wrote: FWIW....Goosen got a special invite two years ago at Oakmont.
It wasn't along the lines you suggest GPB, it was a genuine question. You have answered it and that explains it. I didn't know Goosen got that invitation or I wouldn't have asked.
My question in relation to Goosen was more to do with the fact that he won at Shinnecock - I couldn’t see the connection that Els had with the location. But maybe that’s not the criteria they used. It would be in my mind.
First time Els has needed one; wouldn't it have been more apropos to give the Goose an invite this year - instead of 2016 if necessary?
I like the Past Champ benefit, so long as they rein it in at a certain age, or competency.
No biggie, just a mini-gripe! Much more important things going on this week.
If Goosen got an special invite, he would be taking a spot away from another player.
Fred Couples playing in the Masters does not take a spot away from another player.
RE Goosen... Here is what Davis and Hall of the USGA had to say about it (from a Golf Digest article).
The seven men who have received more than one are all in the World Golf Hall of Fame: Jack Nicklaus, Hale Irwin, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson, and Seve Ballesteros. The first four were multiple Open champions. Palmer and Watson won the Open once each. Ballesteros never won an Open but was, well, Ballesteros.
Goosen is a two-time Open champion. He requested an exemption into the Open at Oakmont, and it was granted. Mike Davis, the USGA’s CEO said Wednesday that Goosen was not told then that if he was given an exemption into Oakmont he wouldn’t be given one into Shinnecock.
That's fair enough robo, hadn't realised Special Exemptions had to be requested.
GPB wrote: If Goosen got an special invite, he would be taking a spot away from another player.
About time the Masters added an extra place for every ancient has-been cripple that turns up for a processionary jolly.
It's a great tournament, but realistically, only about a third of the field stands a chance.
No reason whatsoever you couldn't have 120 in the field there. I know it's "their ball", but it's a bit out of date and a bit "old fartish" and "our tournament, our rules" ridiculousness which takes away some of the credibility.
Hopefully The US Open's where par is a winning score returns!!!
Plenty of nervousness on the first tee right now, no doubt.
Looks like a lovely summer's morning and perhaps conditions early will be as benign as they'll get. A little rain yesterday, not much wind, attack the course early.
Oosthuizen, Rose with Jimmy Walker in the first "big" group of the day - wonder if there'll be any back-stop ball-marking?
Southgate starts off with triple bogey!
Balls! Although he may not have any.
Spieth +4 for his first two holes.
Spieth and Rors chances have gone down the ballwasher pretty quickly.
I managed to catch a couple of holes when on lunch there. Spieth tried to be cute with his chip on 11 and paid the price with a triple. It looks a bogey will be a good score there today.
Bring on the tough course presentation! Love watching the players having to battle for par.
Last year Erin Hills was just like any other Tour event. We see players going low every week, it's a great change to see how they cope, as long as the course remains playable. This is the USP of the US Open.
Not a fan of a complete birdie fest either but this is brutal and is not enjoyable to watch in the slightest.
Often hear and read about falling numbers in terms of viewing figures and participation....but if this is what one of the sports majors is putting out their it's little wonder.
In the modern era if anything the weekly regular tournaments should be the grinds. Majors should show how remarkable these guys are. I appreciate the skill and mental fortitude to play a course like this....but the average Joe doesn't and when you see some of these guys hitting 2 decent shots into the green and being rewarded with a bogey it's a head scratcher.
Rory..Day...Grace...Speight....put a fork in these guys they look done already. This a hell of a grind to sit through...crowd are muted across the course...even the usually over the top giddy presenters are struggling to show an ounce of excitement.
owen10ozzy wrote: Rory..Day...Grace...Speight....put a fork in these guys they look done already. This a hell of a grind to sit through...crowd are muted across the course...even the usually over the top giddy presenters are struggling to show an ounce of excitement.
Who is this Speight of which you speak?
This carnage kinda makes you appreciate The Masters, R&A and PGA just a little bit more.
Is he just a flat track bully?
This is not enjoyable golf. Grass should be maintained on a golf course, as in "mowed"
GPB's Rule of Thumb: A Golfer should be entitled to find his golf ball without need of forecaddies, marshalls or spectators.
USGA = Useless and Stupid Golf Association.
This is really quite shocking for the morning "wave". Three more "waves" like this and the cut-line will be about +9 or +10.
Hope Poults and Rose can hang on thru their final holes.
It's been an absolute horror show for the image of golf....when you think and read about the issues between USGA and Fox only 5 years into a 12 year deal...this major will do nothing to appease the tv execs who are internally discussing bringing to an end the lucrative deal offered in 2013.
Most enjoyable tournament in ages for me. Much, much rather watch this than a shootout of 350 yard drives and stop dead wedges. It’s the same for all of them and Poulter and Piercy have got in under par.
When 7 of the world's top 10 are +40 for their rounds in one of your showpiece events it's absolutely no good for the sport.
I was just about to edit a couple of caveats to that in fairness Owen.
First caveat being that I don’t like the 7th hole at all, the course overall I like but that hole has an artificial gimmicky feel to me.
Second caveat was that it’s not helping that we’re watching “featured groups” so much. Rory, Jordan and Phil are +24 combined and we’re seeing every gruesome shot, of course that’s ugly viewing. If we gave up on them and saw more of Hoffman, Howell, Steele and other steady players who have scored OK we’d get a better impression.
Agreed regards featured groups...yet once again that's the risk you take when grouping big names...tend to pull each other along or drag each other down. I'd love to see stats on Rory & Spieth when paired together...because from my memory they are bloody awful when paired with one another.
Also I've been watching full coverage for two hours now where others are being shown and its still not great viewing.
Yeah agree with that. I’d gripe much more with the USGA for daft groupings than for -1 leading. Admittedly all majors put bigger names together and smaller names together, but this is the worst for it. Those three names I mentioned before, Hoffman, Howell, Steele are all decent players well inside the top 100, they’d get more status from tee times at any of the other three majors in my opinion.
Also, although this is easy to say with hindsight, Rory, Jordan and Phil on this setup was asking for trouble. Rory is a target golfer who hates this sort of struggle and is in average form by his standards. Jordan has short game demons right now. And Phil is a grade A scrambler but crooked off the tee. This was always a possibility from that group.
If you think you've seen too much coverage dominated by "featured groups", you ain't seen nuffink yet.
Tiger screwing up his championship on the first hole? If it's not the easiest hole today it's close.
I reckon I could play to my handicap out there .Just saying.
McLaren wrote: I reckon I could play to my handicap out there .Just saying.
I know you are tongue in cheek Mac, but didn't someone do some analysis or a commentary on a Major location and how a mid range handicapper wouldn't break 100?
Was that just the most ridiculous thing I've ever witnessed on a golf course with Dustbin and the "lost ball" ?
So he's in deep cabbage, must already be approaching the 5 minute limit and one of the 10-12 people searching for his ball finds it - only by standing on it!
Dustbin asks for, and gets, a free drop for the ball being stood on when in reality another minute and he'd be getting a cart ride back to play 3 off the tee - and after his drop the ball is totally visible to the cameras??
He's lucky it was found - at the very most if the guy who stood on it had embedded the ball then he should have been able to roll the ball out of its imprint. Instead he gets a get of jail card. Not impressed!
kwinigolfer wrote: If you think you've seen too much coverage dominated by "featured groups", you ain't seen nuffink yet.
It turned out to be “featured glutes”.
Well just finished the days viewing; suffice to say I will be catching up with the rest via updates. I have no interest in watching that monstrosity of an excuse for a course/major.
Before people bleet about how birdie fest golf is boring, agree its tedious and I don't want that but it seems only The Masters and The Open (more due to weather) ever seem to be able to get the right blend of difficulty.
The Worlds top 10 combined for a total of +50 odd over par...that is a terrible advert for the game whichever way you want to spin it. Would be like seeing Top 5 teams being knocked out at group stages of world cup or champions league...would completely reduce the meaning/importance of the tournament.
I mean just in the last 3 hours today I saw, and this is a rough guess, 2 dozen approach shots which were everything you would want in terms of soft hands, distance even ball landing, yet they ended 30 odd ft off the green. No one wants to see that.
Seems the PGA seem to find it more and more difficult to penalise bad shots and reward good shots in their equal measure. Either rock up and get bombers smashing it 50 yards off fairway only to have no bad lie at all and come out with a birdie anyway...or you get what we had today where it didn't seem to matter how good a shot you played at times you were being penalised for it anyway.
Agree with most of that, but the PGA had nothing to do with today's performance, neither the PGA Tour or the PGA Of America (who run the PGA Championship & Ryder Cup).
Having said which, there was plenty of frustration out there today; for instance, on consecutive holes, Woods 4-putted when 3-putting was the worst he should have done, then hacked it around like a 36-handicapper when "taking your medicine" would have guaranteed a bogey.
I actually think the USGA wins when they get inside of players' heads.
At the end of the day, apart from possibly Russell Henley, most of the top guys are disciplined players who play the game one shot at a time. Not exciting guys to watch perhaps, but this competition demands some mental fortitude.


The Introduction to the Geography of the Tourism is, as his name indicates, an asignatura generalista that pretends to approximate to the alumnado to the half geographic like basic conditioning of the tourist activity and of leisure. It is the territory and all the complex factors that integrate it those who improve or reduce the possibilities or the tourist development in a concrete society. In this matter analyse concepts and sources for the understanding and the analysis of the tourism, analyse the interrelationships between the tourist activity and the different geographic means, values all type of territorial impacts that the tourism generates, differentiate the distinct modalities of the tourism in relation with the territories in that they develop and treats of concienciar on the necessary sustainability that has to accompany to the exert of these activities and to the territorial planning that involves.
Define the concepts, instruments and sources of study that has the Geography of the Tourism, leisure and recreation.
Identify the characteristics and consequences that the tourist activity has had in the territory from the consolidation of the tourism of masses, until the actuality, with the factors that facilitate the space mobility of the population (focus and flows) .
«Tourist», to other more punctual and specific related with economic appearances, environmental, social, cultural and demographic.
Classify models and tourist typologies (rural tourism, urban-cultural, sun and beach, etc.).
Explain the impacts, positive and negative, that the tourist activity exerts on the territory.
Formulate proposals of intervention and identify experiences so that the tourist activity was sustainable and respectful with the environmental values, cultural and demographic of the territory.
Differentiate profiles of demand, in relation to the characteristic sociodemográficas of the tourists.
Apply the critical capacity and of analysis on the tourist phenomenon, through the activities proposed in class.
The methodology of the asignatura Introduction to the Geography of the Tourism will base in theoretical classes, practical and exits of field in which they put in practice the knowledges purchased in the practical and theoretical classes.
In the theoretical classes will expose and will develop the contents by part of the professor: formulation of questions or previous motivation, explanation of basic diagrams, explanation of the essential questions or especially dificultosas, final synthesis of processes and/or concepts, comment of resources and complementary bibliographic material.
With regard to the work of field, from a detailed and intense geographic itinerary guided and commented of some place or places of tourist interest, will check in the practice any of the situations studied in the classroom. The student will have to take all type of notes, look for complementary material and realise some work from this.
1.- Presentation of the asignatura. Introduction to virtual Campus.
4.- Analysis and comment of a documentary of tourist character.
7.- Summary: practices on cinema and announcements.
8.- Analysis of an article of scientific magazine of tourism.
9.- Analysis of articles of press.
10.- The image of the tourist spaces (analysis and comment of photographies).
1.- The page of the INE: analysis and possibilities.
2.- Analysis of pages web of the IVE, IET and OMT.
3.- Presentation of the work coperativo to realise on tourism and territory.
5.- Pages web of the Guide Repsol and of Via Michelin.
7.- The web 2.0: some examples.
8.- The tourist supplements of the big newspapers.
9.- Exhibition in class of cooperative works.
Realisation of an itinerary by some place of tourist interest of the province: Elche or Benidorm where will realise a study of case.
SUBJECT 1.- Elements of the Geography of the Tourism and of the Leisure. Conceptual frame and sources.
SUBJECT 2.- Origins, evolution and geographic characteristics of the elements and tourist activities.
SUBJECT 3.- Geographic models in the tourist development: main focus and tourist flows.
SUBJECT 4.- Repercussions in the territory. The Impacts of the tourism of masses: economy, society and culture.
SUBJECT 6.- Sustainability and ordenación of the territory in tourist spaces. Basic considerations.
SUMMARY: After the reading of the article %u201Ctourist Models venues. Analysis compared of two destinations of the Costa Blanca%u201D answers these questions, reasoning your answers and supporting you in specific bibliography of the subject.
SUMMARY: Practice of research of tourist statistical information. Page web of the IVE.
SUMMARY: In this practice, the main aim consists in detecting ten films that have had a strong repercussion in the tourist promotion of a tourist destination, so much positive like refusal.
SUMMARY: The practice consists in the realisation of a thematic tourist route by Spain, in which it will realise an itinerary that contemplate the accommodation, the cultural visits, the gastronomy, the route in road and other appearances of interest in the planning of a tourist trip. In the last years are assisting to a change in the tendencies of the tourist demand with which the offer has to adapt to this new situation and position in zones up to now move# away of the tourist flows. Between these new contributions are the creation of tourist routes, that can define like the creation of a cluster of activities and attractions that incentivan the cooperation between different areas and that serve of vehicle to stimulate the economic development through the tourism (Briedenhann and Wickens,2003). This involves that the tourist routes owe to have a series of elements that back them like tourist destination.
SUMMARY: Like complementary practice to the exposed theory in class and to the practices in the classroom, have organised an exit of field to the city of Benidorm, one of the most important emblems of the tourism of the Costa Blanca and in general, of all the Spanish seaboard. It answers these questions that pose you taking into account the maximum extension allowed and consulting all the materials of class and of the exit of field.
SUMMARY: The aim of this practice of computing is to analyse the importance that have purchased the pages web 2.0. In the last years in the tourist sector. The greater knowledge of the internauts on tools of research and preparation of trips has facilitated a greater independence in the preparation of his trips, so much with tourist ends as of another índole.
SUMMARY: In this practice go to analyse the documentary "Coast hormigonera" of Manuel Tolosana, that realises a complaint on the construction real estate in the Costa Blanca with tourist ends.
OF THE STREET, M. (2002): The historical city like tourist destination, Ariel Tourism, 302 pp.
ELIZAGÁRATE, V. (2003): Marketing of cities, editions Pyramid, Madrid.
JANSEN-VERBEKE, M. (1991): %u201CLeisure shopping: to magic concept for the tourism industry?%u201D. Tourism Management, nº 12, págs 9-14.
MAITLAND, R. (2006): %u201CHow we can manage the tourist-historic city? Tourism strategy in Cambridge, UK, 1978-2003%u201D. Tourism Management, nº 27, págs. 1262-1273.
SNEPENGER, D.; REIMAN, S.; JOHNSON, J.; SNEPENGER, M. (1998): %u201CIs downtown mainly for tourists?%u201D. Journal of travel research, nº winter, págs. 5-12.
SNEPENGER, D.; MURPHY, L.; O'Connell, R.; GREGG, And. (2003): %u201CTourists and residents use of to shopping space%u201D. Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 30, nº 3, págs. 567-580.
RUSSO, To.P. (2002): %u201CThe viciuos circle of tourism development in heritage cities%u201D. Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 29, nº 1, págs. 165-182.
They GO DER BORG, J., COAST, P. And GOTTI, G. (1996): %u201CTourism in European heritage cities%u201D. Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 23, nº 2, págs. 306-321.
They GO DER BORG, J. And RUSSO, To. (1997): %u201CThe sviluppo turistico gave Venecia: analisi territoriale and scenari gave sostenibilità%u201D, Working paper FEEM 07/1997.
YÜKSEL, To. (2004): %u201CShopping experience evaluation: to it marry of domestic and international visitors%u201D. Tourism Management, nº 25, págs. 751-759.
YÜKSEL, To. And YÜKSEL, F. (2007to): %u201DShopping risk perceptions: effects on tourists' emotions, satisfaction and expressed royalty intentions%u201D. Tourism Management, nº 28, págs. 703-713.
YÜKSEL, To. (2007b): %u201CTourist shopping habitat: effects on emotions, shopping value and behaviours%u201D. Tourism Management, nº 28, págs. 58-69.


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A partir de cette image traduisez ces phrases en français afin de les retenir.
Bande sonore en version française.
2. Good afternoon, the name is Lindon.
3. My secretary called you a couple of days ago to make a reservation.
4. Oh yes, Mr. P.J. Lindon, a single room with bath.
5. And you have booked five nights.
7. Here's your key Mr. Lindon, Room 409.
8. It is on the fourth floor.
9. There's a lift just behind you.
10. Have a nice evening.


This is a pretty long article but there are some odd things that have come up.
The killer shot Gorenberg, who was alone, and left her to die on the side of the road not far from the mall.
Gorenberg had just bought a John Legend CD, which authorities found inside her Mercedes SUV stereo -- the car that the killer later dumped behind a nearby Home Depot.
The CD's case, Gorenberg's sneakers and her purse were missing when authorities discovered the SUV less than an hour later.
She was wearing a piece of costume jewelry that has friends and family scratching their heads. An interlocking ring was found on her finger that people close to her had not seen before -- raising the eerie possibility that the killer may have slipped it on her before shooting her, Miller said.
Police are also intrigued by a white Chrysler 300 spotted on surveillance video following what appears to be Gorenberg's SUV behind the Home Depot. It is possible the driver of that vehicle helped the killer escape.
Police believe the Bochicchios were abducted sometime after 3 p.m. shortly after they exited the mall near Sears and Neiman Marcus.
The assailant, who bound them with duct tape, plastic ties, handcuffs and goggles, forced them to drive him to an ATM and take $500 from their account.
A 911 call was placed by Bochicchio's cellphone, but was disconnected before she could talk to dispatchers.
It is unknown where the two were killed, but a mall security guard noticed their SUV idling shortly before midnight. He called police, who found the Bochicchios bound and shot.
Friday, police released footage of the Bochicchios walking through the mall the day they were killed and video of their SUV pulling up to and leaving a bank where it is believed they were ordered to take out money by the killer.
Authorities believe the Bochicchios' killer also abducted and bound a woman and her 2-year-old son outside the same mall on Aug. 7.
The family was able to escape, and provided police with a description that led to the composite sketch.
Detectives also are looking at a robbery that occurred at Mizner Park on Aug. 10, ''but there are more dissimilarities than similarities,'' said Officer Sandra Boonenberg, a spokeswoman for Boca Raton police.


Why not use world random world events instead of proof of work algorithm?
Taking a combination of world events like thunders, astronomical imagery, vote outcomes, stock index values and deriving the id of source of truth from hashed combination of them could be used instead of proof of work algorithm. Why isn't it used?
A true source of randomness or a Common Reference String (CRS) as it's referred to in cryptography, could potentially be used in some cases in the place of Proof-of-Work, although as forest pointed out it isn't immediately clear how to achieve this or whether it is possible, especially in settings such as blockchains where something closer to a Random Oracle (RO) is needed. However, it may be possible to substitute the two in settings such as Proof-of-Stake, like Ouroboros is doing. In the latter case, because of the design of the system, a CRS is not really needed – the participants can generate their randomness locally.
However, for the sake of argument, I will now describe some reasons for which using the types of events you mentioned as a CRS is inappropriate for designing cryptographically secure decentralized systems.
Public verifiability. It is easy for any machine to locally verify proof of work in polynomial time. If you give a piece of proof of work to a mobile phone or a laptop, they can check to make sure it has been computed correctly. However, they cannot do so for thunders, unless they constantly monitor the earth. Public verifiability means that anyone can verify, even after the fact.
Consensus. Participants can easily agree on whether a piece of proof-of-work is correct. The condition is clear and well-defined. However, for real world events, this may not be so. For instance, there are weird physical phenomena which may be considered thunder by some scientists and not by others, or a thunder may be captured by one observer, but not by others, even if they are actively monitoring for such events. This disagreement can break consensus protocols which require that all participants agree.
Sustainability. Proof-of-work is a system which will continue to work ad infinitum, because it is based on a mathematical formula. Systems such as stock indices may not. Stock exchanges close down and indices are redefined or sunset. While these events may be rare, if we are building the economy of the future which we want to last for more than a hundred years, we want a system that can continue to function regardless of such changes. If these changes do happen and we rely on them instead of proof-of-work, we would have to redefine our systems every time a change happened, and such a redefinition would require making difficult consensus decisions (which can lead to forks in the case of blockchains).
Centralization. It is difficult to define an objective source of truth for the values of these events. If the source of truth is defined as, say, the stock exchange website, then the central party that runs the website can manipulate the values that are displayed there. This makes the system prone to centralized manipulation. For instance, a court can order the exchange website to display false data in order to subvert the system.
Distribution. It is difficult to say what kind of distribution is followed by various sources of randomness such as the stock market. The fact that the stock market is just a random walk is controversial, and using this hypothesis to ensure our economy's future is an incorrect approach, especially because we cannot quantify it and prove our claims. While there exist ways to extract good randomness from skewed randomness, some quantification of the entropy in the source is needed, for which we also have a limited understanding.
Manipulation. This is related to the last two points above. Some of the systems you are proposing may be possible to manipulate by participants, given enough incentives. For example, if I am a rich investor, I could buy or sell a particular stock to change the value of the index, skewing the randomness in a particular predictable manner. If this artificial biasing is something I can use in my favour to make more money than I need to invest to cause the skewing, then it may be rational to act in that manner. It is difficult to give a game theoretic argument that such acts are impossible. With proof-of-work, the outcome cannot be artificially manipulated.
You are misunderstanding what a proof-of-work algorithm is designed to accomplish. It's designed to provide an economic disincentive to repeating the process many times (e.g. sending an email or visiting a website). Real-world values on the other hand have the distinct property of being difficult to predict in advance, making it useful for proving that a given document was not created before a certain date (for example). There is no way to use that property in a proof-of-work system.
Is it safe to use RSA as a proof-of-work system?
Simple proof of work example?
Is it safe to use MD5 in a proof of work system?
Can “Approximate Hashing” work in a Proof-of-Work context?
What Proof of Work does IOTA use?


Weegy: A cliche is a worn-out expression.
User: What is the most important point in the following sentence? My sister, Emily, the tallest girl in her class, has many friends. A. Emily is my sister. B. My sister's name is Emily. C. Emily has many friends. D. Emily is the tallest girl in her class.
Weegy: Emily has many friends. -is the most important point in the following sentence: "My sister, Emily, the tallest girl in her class, has many friends."


In the table below, we see the health outcomes for Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2016 as well as the values for the country's continent and the world.
In the second table we see the health spending in Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as the average values for the continent and the world. The health spending per capita in Democratic Republic of the Congo is 19.75 USD. The country spends 4.27 percent of its GDP on health. For comparison, the average spending across countries is 6.76 percent.


Are Turkmenistan’s energy reserve figures fudged or not? Just over a week after allegations first surfaced that the Turkmen government’s claims are grossly hyped, the controversy over Ashgabat’s export capacity is still flaring. Representatives of the firm that conducted the original audit are vigorously defending their reputation for thoroughness. Meanwhile, a whistleblower says he remains confident in the accuracy of his sources’ information.
The results of an audit performed by the British energy consultancy firm Gaffney Cline & Associates, released just over a year ago, concluded that the South Yolotan-Osman natural gas field contains between 4 trillion and 14 trillion cubic meters (TCM) of gas. The most likely total is around 6/tcm. Such volumes would make the field one of the world’s largest and enable Turkmenistan to increase its annual production capacity by 70 billion cubic meters per year, roughly double the current level.
On October 12, two separate sources -- Russian journalist Arkady Dubnov, writing for the Russian newspaper Vremya Novostei, and a Germany-based non-governmental organization called the Eurasian Transition Group (ETG) -- alleged that the Turkmen government misled the independent auditors by providing them with inaccurate, hyped data. The end result was that Turkmenistan’s actual reserves are probably far lower than the estimate contained in the 2008 Gaffney Cline report.
In an email exchange conducted with a EurasiaNet correspondent, Jim Gillet, a top Gaffney Cline representative, explained that the thoroughness of an audit depends on the quality of the data provided. He steadfastly defended Gaffney Cline’s reputation for auditing expertise, insisting that the comprehensive nature of its auditing methods would make fraud very difficult to perpetrate.
"There is a very considerable volume of data to be assessed on a project of this nature. This data [comes] in a wide range of types and from a range of sources," Gillet explained. "Therefore, in practical terms, it would be impossible to falsify it all [in a way] such that it could still appear to be coherent and could mislead an expert team. This is why companies like [Gaffney Cline] are used by organizations, such as stock exchanges and banks, to provide independent and expert opinion on such issues."
Meanwhile, Dubnov, when reached by a EurasiaNet correspondent, vigorously defended the integrity of his sources. He stressed that it was the impression of his sources that Gaffney Cline was not involved in hyping the reserve figure. The British firm, Dubnov emphasized, "submitted results that are based on [misleading] data submitted by the Turkmen side."
The origin of the energy-reserves controversy can be traced back to a point when several Western energy companies purchased official Turkmen government technical data in order to complete tenders to develop gas deposits. "Some experts from Western companies could not believe the data they were provided by Turkmen officials," according to ETG. The controversy burgeoned until it came to the attention of President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. Dubnov suggested that a wide-scale purge of Turkmenistan’s energy-sector leadership, the news of which emerged in mid-October, was Berdymukhamedov’s way of handling the problem. But the purge apparently wasn’t enough to keep the energy-reserves question out of the public spotlight.
Not all experts are quick to buy into the allegations of hyped reserves. Igor Ivakhnenko, a specialist on Caspian Basin affairs for the RusEnergy newsletter, believes Moscow may be rumor-mongering for geopolitical purposes. The Turkmen government and the Kremlin-controlled conglomerate Gazprom remain locked in a pricing dispute, he noted. The Russian government, therefore, has an incentive to undermine Ashgabat’s credibility by spreading disinformation that would discourage prospective international competitors from doing business with Turkmenistan, thereby enhancing Gazprom’s ability to obtain the volume of exports from Turkmenistan that it wants, at a price that the firm could dictate.
Ivakhnenko characterized the Vremya Novostei and ETG reports as "speculation." The allegations are designed to "discredit the idea that Turkmenistan can export its gas" to multiple partners, Ivakhnenko said, adding that Moscow is especially eager to foster the impression that Ashgabat, after fulfilling existing export commitments to Russia and China, would not have enough left over to make a substantial contribution to a proposed trans-Caspian export route.
He also expressed doubt that Gaffney Cline would ever go along with a scheme to inflate reserve totals. The firm has a vested interest in protecting an image for accuracy. "The audit firm would totally ruin its reputation by playing this kind of game, or by being incautious with [suspect] data provided by Turkmen [leadership]," Ivakhnenko added.
Michael Laubsch, the executive director of ETG, acknowledged that he could not verify beyond all reasonable doubt the information provided by the source for the NGO’s report on Turkmen energy reserves. "Circles in Turkmenistan are so closed, that you never know," Laubsch said. "But this source in the past was mostly right with the information he gave us."
Editor's Note: Regis Gente is a freelance journalist, covering Caucasus and Central Asia.


A defending attorney was cross-examining a coroner. The attorney asked, "Before you signed the death certificate had you taken the man's pulse?"
"Did you check for breathing?"
"So when you signed the death certificate you had not taken steps to make sure the man was dead, had you?"
Tired of the browbeating, the coroner replied, "Well, let me put it this way. The man's brain was sitting in a jar on my desk. But for all I know he could be out there practicing law someplace."
Waiter: Hi, my name is Bill and I'll be your Support Waiter. What seems to be the problem? Patron: There's a fly in my soup!
Waiter: Maybe it's the way you're using the soup; try eating it with a fork instead. Patron: Even when I use the fork, the fly is still there.
You never have to use the space-bar when typing.
All monitors display 2-inch high letters.
High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA and the CIA, have easy-to-understand graphical interfaces.
You can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing "UPLOAD VIRUS." Viruses cause temperatures increases in computers, just like they do in humans. Eventually, smoke billows out of disk drives and monitors.
All computers are connected, so you can access the information on the villain's desktop computer, even if it's turned off.
Powerful computers beep whenever keys are pressed or the screen changes. They also slow down the output on the screen so that it doesn't go any faster than the audience can read it. The really advanced ones emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer as the characters come across the screen.
People typing away on a computer always turn it off without saving the data.
If you display a file on the screen and someone deletes the file, it also disappears from the screen. There are no ways to copy a backup file-and there are no undelete utilities.
If a disk has got encrypted files, you are automatically asked for a password when you try to access it.
No matter what kind of computer disk it is, it'll be readable by any system put into it.
The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has. However, everyone must be brilliant, since the buttons are never labeled.
Laptops always seem to have amazing real-time video phone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY-MP.
Whenever the person looks at a monitor, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face.
Computers never crash during key, high-intensity activities.
Humans operating computers never make mistakes under stress.
The most powerful computer in the world is always a Macintosh.
Beer: If you can't taste it, why bother?
There are many transmission lines that crisscross Connecticut. These are held up by Transmission Towers of various constructions. Those most commonly installed near urban areas are called "metal Ornamental Towers" (supposedly prettier than wood towers). Sometimes adventurous folks climb the towers in order to enjoy the view and the night air. Most stay away from the wires and when they get bored, come back down. Apparently, a man who was forlorn after a recent spat with his girlfriend needed some fresh air to clear his head and decided to climb a tower. He stopped for a 6 pack to help clear his thoughts, went to a tower south of Hartford, next to I-91, and climbed it. Public Service employees later pieced the story together. The man sat there 60 feet above the highway, drank his beer and consoled his bruised ego. After 5 beers, he needed to do what people often need to do after 5 beers. It being such a long hike down, he unzipped and did his business right there off the tower. Electricity is a funny thing. One doesn't need to touch a wire in order to get shocked. Depending on conditions, 115,000 volt lines, like those supported by the tower, could shock a person as far away as 6 feet. When the man "whizzed" near the conductor (wire), the power arced to his "stream" (urine is an excellent conductor of electricity), traveled up to his private parts, and blew him off the tower. The guys at the power company noted a momentary outage on this line and sent repairmen to see if there was any damage. When they got to the scene of the accident, they found a very dead person, his fly down, what was left of his private parts smoking, and a single beer left on top of the tower.
10. Referred to the first month of your relationship as a "diagnostic period."
8. Takes a half-day at the office because, "Sunday is YOUR day."
7. Congratulates your parents for successful value creation.
6. Tries to call room-service from the bedroom.
5. Ends any argument by saying, "let's talk about this off-line".
4. Celebrates anniversary by conducting a performance review.
3. Can't be trusted with the car--too accustomed to beating up rentals.
2. Valentine's Day card has bullet points.
1. Refers to those "intimate moments" as "win-win" situations.
* Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, only to be troubled and insecure?
* When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?
* When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away?
* Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all"?
* Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
* Why do they report power outages on TV?
* What do you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?
* Is it possible to be totally partial?
* What's another word for thesaurus?
* Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
* Why do people who know the least know it the loudest?
* If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their headlights off?
* If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?
* When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?
* Should vegetarians eat animal crackers?
* If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
* Why is the word abbreviation so long?
* When companies ship Styrofoam, what do they pack it in?
8) Subj.: "and much, much more"
Apparently one of the less astute members of the Heaven's Gate cult was found under the kitchen sink, behind the Comet.
An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer -- you're in the wrong place. "So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After a while, they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy. One day God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?" Satan replies, "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next." God replies, "What??? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake -- he should never have gotten down there; send him up here." Satan says, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him." God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue." Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"
The heaviest element known to science, was recently discovered by physicists at the Yale's Research Center. The element, tentatively named administratium, has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0. However, it does have one neutron, 125 assistant neutrons 75 vice-neutrons and 11 assistant vice-neutrons. This gives it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together in a nucleus by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called morons.
Since it has no electrons, administratium is inert. However, it can be detected chemically as it impedes every reaction it comes in contact with. According to the discoverers, a minute amount of administratium caused a reaction to take over four days to complete, when it would normally occur in less than one second.
Administratium has a normal life of approximately three years, at which time it does not actually decay but, instead, undergoes a reorganization in which assistant neutrons, vice-neutrons and assistant vice-neutrons exchange places.
Some studies have shown that the atomic weight usually increases after each reorganization.
Research at other laboratories indicate that administratium occurs naturally in the atmosphere. It tends to concentrate at certain points such as government agencies, large corporations, universities and hospitals and can actually be found in the newest, best maintained buildings.
A recent Scottish immigrant attends his first baseball game in his new country and after a base hit he hears the fans roaring run....run! The next batter connects heavily with the ball and the Scotsman stands up and roars with the crowd in his thick accent: "R-r-run ya bahstard, r-run will ya!" A third batter slams a hit and again the Scotsman, obviously pleased with his knowledge of the game, screams "R-r-run ya bahstard, r-r-run will ya!" The next batter held his swing at three and two and as the ump calls a walk the Scotsman stands up yelling "R-r-run ya bahstard, r-r-run!" All the surrounding fans giggle quietly and he sits down confused. A friendly fan, sensing his embarrassment whisper, "He doesn't have to run, he has four balls." After this explanation the Scotsman stands up in disbelief and screams, "Walk with pr-r-ride man!"


Some commentators use this passage to introduce believers to the idea of “fictive” elements in the biblical narratives. “Fictive” is then said to be somehow different from “fictional,” but “fictive” actually refers to the literally untrue. These people may concede that the other Gospels plainly indicate John as the baptizer (Matthew 3:13, Mark 1:9, John 1:33-34), but they insist Luke says otherwise for reasons of his own. Perhaps he knew it was John, they say, but he wanted to edit John out of the account — so authorial intent in this passage rules out John as the baptizer in Luke’s Gospel.
I consider this to be a subtle but real challenge to the plenary inerrancy of Scripture. Once the notion of fictive elements in the narratives is accepted in principle, we find ourselves on a slippery slope. If we claim there are fictive elements in the gospels, we have no objective means of distinguishing fictive from factual, and consequently no element is unquestionably true — including the resurrection.
This fictive approach to biblical narratives also presents a serious challenge to Evangelical hermeneutics, in which authorial intent is considered determinative in understanding biblical truth. If we accept authorial intent as potential untruth, we lose all solid ground in interpreting the Bible.
Is the ordering of events in this passage less than true? Some scholars say that Luke plays with the order in which he relates events in chapter 3 to dispense with the account of John’s ministry before addressing the ministry of Jesus (an interpretation which still sees John as the baptizer). Others, however, say Luke placed Jesus’ baptism after John’s imprisonment to deemphasize John’s role and to focus more intently on Jesus and the Spirit’s role by deliberately removing John from the baptismal account. The difference between these two approaches is that the first sees John as the baptizer in Luke’s intent while in the second approach, Luke’s intent is to deny John a role in this baptism — an important distinction.
To say that Luke intentionally removes John from the account is by no means a necessary inference, however, and I consider it an unwarranted one. I believe a correct understanding of the passage sees the baptism of Jesus as a parenthesis — not the punctuation mark, but a common means of referring to events in inverted order, such that one speaks of an action after one that comes after it in time 2. Luke’s “orderly account” (Luke 1:3) does not demand strict, chronological order when a parenthesis is to be understood. Luke does speak of the baptism of Jesus after referring to the imprisonment of John, but he does not place Jesus’ baptism after John’s imprisonment in time.
Louis, the author of this narrative, speaks of Mr. Egomaniac’s cutting John the Passer from the team as a parenthesis in the narrative because it is relevant to the immediate context. He resumes the flow of the narrative with a description of how The Game Winner steps onto the scene to receive the winning pass. Would it be accurate to say that Louis, the author of this narrative, deliberately removes John the Passer from the touchdown account simply because he does not mention his name at that point? Would it not be even more ludicrous to suggest that Louis is saying John the Passer was cut prior to the game winning pass just because the mention of this historical data precedes the description of the pass [parallel to absent John thesis]? Would it not be more reasonable to suggest that Louis interrupts the chronology of his narrative to mention a topically relevant incident in a parenthesis, and that he does not mention John the Passer by name in his description of the game winning pass because it is already clear from the context that John does the passing?
Luke does mention the imprisonment of John as a topically relevant parenthesis in the course of telling the events leading up to Jesus’ baptism. He is not saying his imprisonment and death preceded Jesus’ baptism any more than Louis was saying Mr. Egomaniac’s cutting of John the Passer occurred before the game winning pass in the illustration above.
Luke agrees with this, and those who say otherwise should give us an idea as to whom, other than John, Luke might have been implying did the baptizing.


This is similar to the conversation activity in which students look at pictures, describe the pictures, and discover the picture differences. However, this is done with a reading text and students read and listen. In the example below, which is done in pairs, one student reads a text aloud about one animal. The other student listens and reads a text silently until he or she realizes there is a difference . This student informs the partner of the difference in the text. Students write the differences on their texts, and after each student has read aloud, they discuss the differences and decide which information is correct. The teacher can provide the students with a new text which has all the correct information. Students scan it to discover the correct answers.
Lions are large carnivores of the cat family. They mostly live in the grassy plains of Africa. The Roman lion used to live in many parts of Asia, but it is now endangered because of hunting and overfishing. The male lion usually has a long, thick mane and may reach 2.7 meters in length and weigh 180 kilograms. Lions sometimes live in large groups of up to 30 lions. Adult lions are called cubs. The average lion lives fifteen years.
Tigers are large carnivores of the cat family. They live in the forests of Europe. Their yellow-orange fur has many black stripes. Males may reach 4 meters in length and weigh 290 kilograms. Tigers usually live alone. They can swim well, but cannot climb well. Tigers usually hunt at night. Many species of tigers are endangered because people kill them to make medicines from their body parts and jackets from their bones. Habitat destruction has also endangered them. Baby tigers are called cubs. The average tiger lives sixteen years.
Lions are large herbivores of the cat family. They mostly live in the grassy plains of South America. The Asiatic lion used to live in many parts of Asia, but it is now endangered because of hunting and habitat destruction. The male lion usually has a long, thick mane and may reach 2.7 meters in length and weigh 1,800 kilograms. Lions sometimes live in large groups of up to 30 lions. Baby lions are called cubs. The average lion lives fifty years.