Costa joins Juventus FC on one-year loan

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Costa joins Juventus FC on one-year loan

Saturday, July 15, 2017

On Wednesday, Italian football club Juventus announced an agreement with German club Bayern Munich for a one-year loan of Brazilian winger Douglas Costa for a fee of €6 million, to run until June 30, 2018.

26-year-old Douglas Costa joined Bayern in 2015 under Pep Guardiola’s management from Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk. In two seasons at the Allianz Arena, Costa has scored fourteen goals and provided 27 assists, making 77 appearances in total. He won two consecutive Bundesliga titles, a DFB Pokal, and a DFL-Supercup. Before joining the Bavarian club, the left-footed winger won five consecutive Ukrainian Premier League trophies.

In the agreement with Bayern, Juventus can exercise an option to buy the player for €40 million before July 1, 2018. Bayern may receive an additional €1 million subject to conditions in the contract. Bayern Munich’s chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said, “We had serious and constructive talks with Juventus’ representatives. All of FC Bayern’s financial demands have been met”.

Upon asking why he joined Juventus, Costa told the Juventus’ interviewer that he “had always dreamed of playing” with the Old Lady and said he was “delighted to be part of” Juventus’ team.

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DirecTV tunes out Trio, network in limbo

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DirecTV tunes out Trio, network in limbo

Saturday, January 1, 2005

The future of the artsy Trio channel became increasingly grim Saturday as satellite TV giant DirecTV dropped the fledgling network from its national channel lineup.

When DirectTV programmers threw the off switch at 6 a.m. eastern standard time Jan. 1, Trio, an NBC Universal-owned cable television channel, lost two-thirds of its 20 million household subscribers. The channel’s remaining 8 million subscribers may not give it enough audience to ensure its survival, according to some experts.

The network received critical acclaim for a quirky lineup that includes the series, Brilliant But Cancelled, which took American broadcast networks, including parent NBC, to task for cancelling quality programs.

Trio originally got its start in the 1980s as a Canadian cable channel owned by the CBC. Its original slate was described as “a general entertainment channel that features the most successful contemporary dramas, documentaries and films from Canada, the UK and Australia. For the last six years, TRIO has been the largest exporter of Canadian TV programs to the US with over 3,000 hours of content,” according to CBC press releases.

The channel’s Canadian roots were cut in 2000 when media mogul Barry Diller snapped up Trio and sister channel News World International from the CBC and partner Power Corp. for $155 million in cash. Diller saw the channel as a cheap consolation prize after he was outbid by NBC for the Bravo cable network earlier that year. Within months, Diller rebranded Trio, dumped the Canadian dramas and geared it more toward edgier pop culture programming.

Over the next couple of years, Trio changed hands twice. First to Vivendi Universal, then to NBC in a package deal that landed the American TV network a movie studio and the USA and SCI FI cable networks. Trio was seen as more of an afterthought at the time.

In a hint of what may be the fate of the channel, NBC Universal moved most of Trio’s executive and programming staff over to Bravo, a now-sibling network, which is seen in 80 million U.S. homes. Some experts predict that Trio will eventually be folded with its more successful programming ported over to Bravo.

“Trio was a refreshing oasis on the dial, with a quirky pop-culture attitude that showed in its programming. Trio leaving is kind of like having a witty friend move out of town,” Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, MSNBC television critic said in her weekly column. “It’ll be missed.”

NBC Universal has not commented publicly on the long-term future or specific plans for Trio channel besides to say it was committed to programming the network for current subscribers as the conglomerate re-evaluates its digital cable strategy.

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Blinds In The Wirral

If you are looking for some new blinds in your house, then you have a few options in the Wirral area. You can buy online, but that is risky as you don’t know who you are dealing with, from a shop selling pre-made blinds (which are generally of lower quality and are difficult to cut down to the right size) or from a specialist made to measure company.

Choosing the right window covering can be baffling with the vast choices available. Try not to choose a style simply based on its decorative effect alone. As part of a guide to window blinds, here are some questions to mull over before you place your order:

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o What are your needs for privacy?

o Which direction does your window face? o What are your needs for light control? o How do your windows open and how often do you open them? o What’s your budget? Here’s a quick guide on some popular available styles: o Vertical Blinds -the most popular over all that used to be mainly used in offices. That has changed as vertical blinds have become fashionable o Roller – roller blinds which disappear into a flat roll when drawn up, have the most minimalist profile. They’re popular for their low-maintenance and efficient sun shading. o Roman – Popular in bedrooms and in rooms where you don’t want bulky folds, the roman blind’s neat, flat structure works well with a window seat. o Wooden venetians – Wood Venetian blinds add warmth with their pleasing wood grain and natural wood colour. Wood blinds also complement tropical, classical, rustic and even contemporary settings. They’re easy to clean, requiring just a simple wipe-down.

Before purchasing the blinds, you’d need to measure the size of the window. So if you want the blind to hang inside the window recess, measure its frame on all sides, as most windows are not perfect squares. If you want the blind to hang over the window, leave about 2 inches for overhang. Allow for shrinkage after washing or dry cleaning.

It isn’t as easy as it sounds, so its best to call in the professionals – most of which are very reasonably priced. Try to pick a company that will measure and quote for free, so you can’t go wrong. They are unlikely to make any mistakes and if they do its up to them to fix it of course.

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NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft lands safely on Mars

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NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft lands safely on Mars

Monday, May 26, 2008

NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft has landed safely on Mars, following a ten-month flight. Landing occurred yesterday evening at around 23:38 GMT (20:38 EDT), with confirmation being received by flight controllers around fifteen minutes later at 23:53, the communications delay due to the time taken for light and radio signals to travel from Mars back to Earth.

Phoenix was launched atop a Delta II rocket last August. It is the first Mars Scout spacecraft to be sent to explore Mars. It will search for water and complex molecules at the North Pole of Mars. It is the third spacecraft currently operating on Mars, joining the Mars Expedition Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which are currently operating on the planet’s surface. Phoenix is expected to operate on the surface of Mars for 90 Martian days, about 92 Earth days.

Scientists monitoring the landing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California cheered as the news was transmitted by the spacecraft, saying it had landed safely.

According to the live broadcast on NASA TV, a systems check began in final preparation for landing at 22:20 GMT (7:20 p.m. eastern time) which was given the “all green”. At 22:22, Phoenix was confirmed to be properly aligned for entry into the Martian atmosphere. At 22:30 Phoenix began to accelerate into the atmosphere, where it will hurtle towards the planet at nearly 11,000 miles an hour. At 22:41 the data stream was successfully sent to Earth, Phoenix successfully separated from its boosters and sent a UHF signal to NASA. At 22:44 its main radio was confirmed to be on.

Scientists monitoring the MRO then confirmed the signal from Phoenix at 22:45. Approximately 3 minutes later Phoenix was confirmed to have entered the Martian atmosphere.

According to predictions before the landing – based on the sequence of events programmed into onboard computers – the cruise stage, which had controlled the spacecraft during its journey from Earth to Mars, separated from the probe which was to enter the atmosphere at 23:24:15 GMT. Entry interface occurred at 23:31:15, and the parachute deployed at 23:34:58. The heat shield was jettisoned at 23:35:13, followed by the rest of the “aeroshell”, which had protected the spacecraft during decent, and the parachute, at 23:37:13. Landing itself occurred at 23:38:36 GMT.

During descent, the spacecraft’s progress was monitored by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft, already in Areocentric orbit. Mars Odyssey was in contact with Phoenix throughout the descent, including during the phase of the descent where maximum temperatures were reached, when controllers had predicted that data would be lost. The HiRISE camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to photograph Phoenix under its parachute during descent.

Phoenix’s goal is to gather environmental information about Mars to search for possible locations for the best signs of microbial life in the soil. It will also research the history of water on Mars. The mission is scheduled to last for at least 92 Earth days, or 90 Martian days.

The spacecraft landed in an area near the North Pole of Mars, unofficially named the Green Valley. It is an area about 250 kilometres wide, located in the Vastitas Borealis plains.

Phoenix is carrying a number of instruments to investigate Mars. Some of these were taken from the cancelled 2001 Mars Surveyor lander, and some others were derived from instruments flown on the Mars Polar Lander (MPL) spacecraft. MPL was launched in January 1999, but failed during its descent to the Martian surface. Landing on Mars is considered to be one of the most difficult challenges in space exploration, and one scientist working on today’s landing said that “this is not a trip to Grandma’s for the weekend”. More than half of previous missions to Mars have failed, leading to jokes that exploration of the planet is cursed.

This is the 38th spacecraft to be launched to Mars, and the 19th to arrive successfully, bringing the success rate to exactly 50 percent. It is also the 12th spacecraft to attempt a landing on Mars, and the 7th to successfully accomplish this.

Upon confirmation of landing, a flight controller was heard to exclaim “The Phoenix has landed, welcome to Vastitas Borealis!”, whilst others cheered, and congratulated each other on the successful landing.

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Northern lights may appear across Canada and northern U.S. late Tuesday night

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Northern lights may appear across Canada and northern U.S. late Tuesday night

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Forecasters predict that northern lights could be visible to the naked eye late tonight and early tomorrow morning across Canada, northern parts of the U.S., and possibly the United Kingdom.

Solar storms caused a large ejection of plasma from the Sun’s surface on Sunday, and the plasma is heading directly towards Earth. The plasma, a cloud of rapidly moving hydrogen gas atoms and subatomic particles, is expected to reach us late Tuesday. The plasma will interact with the Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere, which will cause northern lights, or aurora borealis, to be visible much further south than is usual. Northern lights usually appear as green or red rivers of lights across the sky.

“It’s the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time” said astronomer Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The eruption was detected by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which was launched in February 2010, and is currently orbiting the Earth.

The Sun goes through approximately eleven-year long activity cycles, with the last maximum occurring in 2001. Sunday’s eruption is a sign that the many years of inactivity is over, and the Sun is heading towards another maximum.

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Google shuts down Google News Spain

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Google shuts down Google News Spain

Thursday, December 11, 2014

On its blog, Google, a U.S. headquartered multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products, announced it would be shutting down the Spanish version of Google News, effective from December 16 of this year. The shutdown came in direct response to amendments to the Spanish intellectual property law —Ley De Propiedad Intelectual— imposing a compulsory fee for the use of snippets of text to link to news articles, by online news aggregators that provide a search service.

The Spanish intellectual property law passed the Senate on October 15, passed Congress on October 30, and would take effect starting in January 2015. Spain made the right to payment inalienable, so that even the news organization quoted is not permitted to waive it. Google News did not run ads on its news service, so did not profit directly, and said continuing to run the service would not be sustainable.

A similar fee had been first introduced in German law in 2013, where it was described as an “ancillary copyright” — Leistungsschutzrecht. International copyright law preserves the right to make quotations without remuneration, the only such mandatory limitation to copyright. In Germany publishers willingly forfeited their right to payment from Google, given how much traffic they would lose from not being indexed on Google News.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) had expressed concerns that “these ancillary copyright laws form part of a broader trend of derogation from the right to link.” They continued, “This can be seen when you examine the other parts of the Spanish copyright amendments that take effect in January […] — notably placing criminal liability on website operators who refuse to remove mere links to copyright-infringing material.” EFF quoted the recent introduction of the so-called “right to be forgotten” legislation allowing removal of entries from Google web search results.

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South Korea’s Brand Of Economic

By Christina Xia

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Mention of South Korea, many people will think of Samsung, Hyundai, LG … …

Since 2001, the brand consulting firm Interbrand U.S. United States, “Business Week” began to publish together, “the world’s 100 most valuable brands” list since South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor and LG ranked list on several occasions. In addition, South Korea in the cosmetics, petrochemicals, shipbuilding, steel and other fields, also has a number of famous brands. In recent years, the South Korean government to promote local brands into the “national brand” promotion areas, more national brands in the world to enhance the visibility of added power.

Initial stage: support for the “heavy industry” resist foreign direct investment

Sixties and seventies of last century, is the initial stage of economic take-off Korea, South Korean local enterprises and brands are the founding stage. Led by the Government, issued a series of incentives to support a number of key industries and key enterprises, so that the formation of a certain international competitiveness.

South Korean government recognized that due to small domestic markets, limited room for development, to develop the economy, enterprises must face the world, participate in international competition. Which established the development of export-oriented economy, “Trade Nation” strategy.

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Korea from the late 70s of last century began, “heavy industry” strategy. Korean companies to rapidly improve the technical level and competitiveness of the steel, shipbuilding, metals, automotive, electronics, petrochemical and other industries as key targets for assistance. South Korean Government to formulate relevant laws and regulations, establishment of a national investment fund and a preferential interest rate for the large-scale projects. In addition, a number of “infant industry” protection measures, allowing them a monopoly of production in the country, until they grow to a certain size and degree of international competitiveness.

Of these measures taken by the South Korean government, although Dao was regional inter-Chan Sheng Liao and Xing Ye unbalanced development, there has Touziguoduo wealth Guoyujizhong Deng Fang Mian’s shortcomings, but Zai Minzuqiye initial stage of development a positive role in promoting.

South Korea’s early economic development facing lack of funds, technical strength is weak. But the South Korean Government believes that, to attract foreign direct investment is a strategy and means, although able to address immediate financial and technical shortage, it Zui Zhong Huan Shi aim for the revitalization of Minzu Industrial Fu Wu. Therefore, to protect and enhance the competitiveness of national enterprises, the point of view, as far as possible the use of foreign loans imported production equipment and technology, while the scale of foreign direct investment and related industries to the limit.

Qi results yes, the South Korean enterprises to maintain their independence and difficult to Pi Kuaguogongsi Kongzhi or become Waiguo brand products of “factory” also fostering Korean companies Bude Bu otherwise acquire foreign advanced technology, that improve the business innovative active learning and initiative, and gradually fostered a number of national brands.

Growth stage: from the “heavy industry” “trade nation” into “technology nation”

South Korean government 60 years from the last century, has promulgated the “Science and Technology Promotion Act,” “Scientists Education Law”, “Technology Development Promotion Law”, “Technology Assessment Law,” “Technology Framework Law” series of laws, for Independent Innovation legal protection.

80s of last century, the South Korean government proposed economic development strategy of “heavy industry”, “trade nation” into “technology statehood.” To do this, set up either by the president and chairman of National Science and Technology Committee, on a regular basis of major national science and technology policy. South Korea’s Ministry of Science and executive of the act by the Deputy Prime Minister, responsible for the national scientific and technological innovation. Lee Myung-bak administration took office after the introduction of the “Science and Technology Basic Plan” proposed in 2012, Korea’s cost of investing in research to reach 5% of the total GDP.

Currently, Korean companies have become the main activities,expenditures in 2007 accounted for Korean companies nationwide research funding 76.2% of total expenditures, as of 2009, the Institute founded by the company reached more than 10,000, with nearly 16 researchers million people, forming a strong team of independent innovation.

In technology promotion, the Korean government stipulated that all government-funded research project results, the transfer must be free; enterprise independent R & D Research and Development Project, the transferee and the government commitment to expenses were 50%.

In addition, Korea has also established a “new technology products preferential purchasing system”, which when in government procurement, give priority to buy high technology production of Chan Pin, Yi help enterprises Chi Xu Fa Zhan health.

At this stage: pushing the government level “national brand”

In recent years, the South Korean government attaches great importance to organizing various national brand promotional activities, and their integration into a “national brand” areas of foreign propaganda.

South Korean government believes that a country’s “national brand”, that is, its overall image, it will affect people outside the country, enterprises, goods and other evaluations, so the “national brand” is the basis of brand or personal brand. Under this concept allows, South Korea’s government in 2006 issued in the “Use of Guo Jia brand export competitiveness measures,” and in 2009 set up a You presidential Zhijie jurisdiction “national brand.”

In addition, the South Korean government has also launched the “Mobile South Korea” and other national brand foreign propaganda site, and also established cooperation with government and civil and cultural projects of the network, autonomous communities, public organizations, enterprises and other promotional activities into the operation of the cooperative system of national brand, to enhance the publicity.

Relevant government departments on a regular basis to carry out specialized training and seminars to help new brand registered overseas, and for them to develop a global brand to provide advisory services and promotion activities.

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Woman arrested for heckling Chinese President Hu at White House

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Woman arrested for heckling Chinese President Hu at White House

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Wang Wenyi, who was seen on television heckling Chinese President Hu Jintao during his White House appearance this week, was formally charged in a United States federal court for the misdemeanor of willfully intimidating, coercing, threatening, and harassing a foreign official.

According to the Secret Service, Wang Wenyi gained press credentials for working with the Falun Gong-run newspaper The Epoch. She then stood on a camera stand and shouted in Chinese: “Stop oppressing the Falun Gong,” as well as “Your time is running out,” and “Anything you have done will come back to you in this lifetime.” She also shouted in English, “President Bush, stop him from persecuting the Falun Gong.” The Falun Gong is a religious group who is currently being persecuted in China for unconventional beliefs.

Wang Wenyi was then “escorted” by the Secret Service away from the South Lawn where the appearance was taking place. Over 35 supporters attended Wang’s arraignment on Friday. If she is convicted, she could receive up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine.

This is the 47-year-old Wenyi’s second incident in five years involving protest of a Chinese leader. July 2001, she confronted then-President Jiang Zemin during a tour of Malta. According to Wang, she introduced herself to Jiang and then urged him “to stop the killing of Falun Gong practitioners in China.” Security officials dragged her away, but Jiang called her back and spoke to her in Chinese saying that the “Falun Gong practitioners were killing themselves.”

Wenyi’s court-appointed lawyer, David Bos, challenged the criminal charge on the basis of free-speech.

“It’s making the First Amendment rights of all Americans just evaporate,” he said, while he said Wang’s remarks were “relatively innocuous.”

The first amendment to the U.S. constitution states; “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech … (or the freedom) to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Hu is in the U.S. for a weeklong conference with President Bush.

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Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans students/OH-WY

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Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans students/OH-WY
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Due to the damage by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding, a number of colleges and universities in the New Orleans metropolitan area will not be able to hold classes for the fall 2005 semester. It is estimated that 75,000 to 100,000 students have been displaced. [1]. In response, institutions across the United States and Canada are offering late registration for displaced students so that their academic progress is not unduly delayed. Some are offering free or reduced admission to displaced students. At some universities, especially state universities, this offer is limited to residents of the area.

Contents

  • 1 Overview
  • 2 Ohio
  • 3 Oklahoma
  • 4 Oregon
  • 5 Pennsylvania
  • 6 Rhode Island
  • 7 South Carolina
  • 8 South Dakota
  • 9 Tennessee
  • 10 Texas
  • 11 Utah
  • 12 Vermont
  • 13 Virginia
  • 14 Washington
  • 15 West Virginia
  • 16 Wisconsin
  • 17 Wyoming

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