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Ousted Ecuadorean Leader Flees to Asylum in Brazil

By Patrick Markey

QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) - Ousted Ecuadorean PresidentLucio Gutierrez and his family fled Quito for asylum in Brazilon Sunday four days after street protests against hisincreasingly unpopular government forced him from office.




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Ex-Ecuador Leader Begins New Life in Brazil

Ecuador's former president began his life in exile in Brazil on Sunday, ending a four-day drama that began when protesters accusing him of abuse of power drove him from office and forced him to take refuge in the Brazilian ambassador's residence.




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IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office 11.0 Microsoft Windows 64bit Multilingual

IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office 11.0 Microsoft Windows 64bit Multilingual




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IBM Installation Manager V1.8.5 for Windows x86_64

IBM Installation Manager V1.8.5 for Windows x86_64




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IBM Cognos Analytics Server 11.1.5 Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Cognos Analytics Server 11.1.5 Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 2.0.48 32-bit Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 2.0.48 32-bit Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM DB2 Advanced Workgroup Server Edition Restricted Use Activation V11.1 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Multilingual

IBM DB2 Advanced Workgroup Server Edition Restricted Use Activation V11.1 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Multilingual




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IBM Cognos Analytics for Jupyter Notebook 11.1.6 Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Cognos Analytics for Jupyter Notebook 11.1.6 Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM Cognos Transformer 11.0.0.68 Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Cognos Transformer 11.0.0.68 Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM SDK, Java (TM) Technology Edition, Version 8 for Windows

IBM SDK, Java (TM) Technology Edition, Version 8 for Windows




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IBM Planning Analytics 2.0.9 Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Planning Analytics 2.0.9 Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 2.0.48 64-bit Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 2.0.48 64-bit Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM Cognos Analytics Installer 2.0.191205 Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Cognos Analytics Installer 2.0.191205 Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM Cognos Analytics Server 11.1.6 Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Cognos Analytics Server 11.1.6 Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM Cognos Analytics Installer 2.0.2003191 Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Cognos Analytics Installer 2.0.2003191 Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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How do I approach learning to sew by way of this very specific project?

I want to teach myself to sew by replicating this apron, probably many, many times. I bought the apron; what next?

After spending a lot of the past couple of months in a Bon Appétit rabbit hole (thanks MeFi!), I'm obsessed with this apron that seems to be favored by many of the presenters. Despite its ridiculous price, I went ahead and bought one as a bit of retail therapy.

Well, it arrived today and I loooooove it. I want to give them to all my friends and family, and I want ten of them hanging in my own pantry, but spending $5K on linen aprons from France isn't on the agenda.

So, no time like the present to merge this motivation with another long-standing goal, which is to get competent with my sewing machine, a Singer from... maybe the early '90s? It was given to me by a friend about ten years ago, and since then I have used it three times, always with a more experienced helper to thread the machine, help cut the pieces, etc. The last time it came out of the closet was at least four years ago, so please assume that I am starting from zero.

I have watched a fair amount of Project Runway, but despite that I do not really know where to begin :) This tutorial seems reasonable easy to follow to make a pattern, but... then what? Is there anything more to it than just trying and trying again, presuming I can't ask or hire anyone for help in the foreseeable future? What is the absolute cheapest fabric I can practice on that will help me not ruin the first few yards of linen that I (with luck) will ultimately graduate to? Can I just use reasonably-sized rags/old clothes from the basement?

Any general tips on learning to sew on your own as an adult are also welcome!




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How do I get rid of stuff during COVID?

I'm going to be moving from a 1 bedroom on Long Island to a studio in Manhattan sometime in June. This will necessarily involve a certain amount of downsizing of stuff and furniture. Normally I'd donate items. What are my options to get rid of stuff now?

Why am I moving in the middle of a pandemic? To start residency now that I've graduated medical school, of course.




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How do I add a criteria to the aggregate function in this excel formula?

I've been working with this Excel formula for a month or so. It comes from Leila Gharani's Youtube tutorial.

=IF(ROWS($A$1000:$A1000)<$J$291,INDEX($B$2:$B$300,AGGREGATE(15,3,($N$2:$N$300="Japanese")/($N$2:$N$300="Japanese")*ROW($N$2:$N$300)-ROW($N$1),ROWS($A$1000:$A1000)))," ")

In this iteration, it's indexing column B, which is a list of movie names, and returning a list of every Japanese language film. Film languages are listed in column N. The formula takes advantage of Aggregate's "Ignore error" option; since Excel treats yeses as 1's and nos as 0's, dividing the aggregate results by itself returns an error for all the nos, since you can't divide by zero. Pretty clever. Then the formula multiplies the 1 by the row where it's located, and finally returns the smallest number in the list to the index function (then the second smallest, then third smallest as you drag down the formula).

My question is, how do I add criteria so the film not only has to be in Japanese, but also has to have a RottenTomatoes score of >75%, if Column T is RottenTomatoes scores? I'm feel I should just multiply the Japanese criteria by the RT criteria in brackets and then divide that product by itself, but I keep getting errors when I try this. Maybe my syntax is screwy?

And yes, I know it would be a lot easier to do this using VBA, but I'm running the workbook on Sharepoint, which doesn't support VBA.

Thanks!




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How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice from White People [Download]

How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice from White People by D. L. HUGHLEY [Download Audiobook] ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️.

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How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship [Download]

How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship by MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO [Download Audiobook] ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️.

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Kang Tae Hwan and Midori Takada: An Eternal Moment


Thanks to Lithuanian label NoBusiness Records, Korean alto saxophonist Kang Tae-Hwan is reaching a new generation of improvised music lovers. Eternal Moment captures the one-of-a-kind saxophonist with Japanese percussionist Midori Takada in a live performance at Café Amores in Hofu, Japan, in 1995. It's the third previously unreleased recording from the Chap Chap Records concert series of the 1990s to feature Kang... [ read more ]




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Christy Doran's Sound Fountain: Lift The Bar


With four records in as many years Christy Doran's Sound Fountain seems in 2020 to have eclipsed New Bag as the guitarist's going concern. However, just because New Bag hasn't recorded since Elsewhere (Double Moon, 2015) doesn't mean that the band, founded in 1997, won't still make a comeback... [ read more ]




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Proponen reforma laboral, pagar trabajos por horas, apoyar empresas y trabajadores con decenas de billones de pesos

Hay medidas buenas y no tan buenas, pero el punto de fondo es que todos pongan para superar el Covid19




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Aerolíneas estarían vendiendo tiquetes de junio en adelante: Supertransporte

El superintendente de transporte afirmó que será el presidente Iván Duque quien finalmente, avale el reinicio de operación de vuelos




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“Llevamos casi 50 días cerrados, la situación es complicada”

Rey Guerrero, dueño del restaurante “Rey Guerrero sabor pacífico”




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“Estábamos aquí de vacaciones y nos cogió el cierre de todos los aeropuerto”

Constanza Henao, colombiana atrapada en la isla de San Martín




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"Estamos muy complacidos porque el diario AS es el líder entre los medios deportivos" Sarah Castro

"Estamos muy complacidos porque el diario AS es el líder entre los medios deportivos" Sarah Castro




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12.000 empresas de construcción y manufactura ya están generando empleo




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Conozca el banco de voces de Los Simpson y otros personajes animados




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Nuevos detalles del contrato entregado por presidencia a Du Brands




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Iglesia Católica suspende 19 sacerdotes por presuntos actos de abuso sexual




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"Venezolanos en todo el mundo quieren recuperar la libertad de su país": J.J. Rendón




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“Quería ayudar a familia con esa plata para el dinero del mercado”




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“El coronavirus cambió todos los conceptos de vida”: Alcalde Medellín




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En -41% cayó la confianza al consumidor en abril: Fedesarrollo




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Gobierno prepara alivio en el Soat y seguro todo riesgo




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Doctors Are Warned on Fetus Care

The Bush administration issues guidelines advising physicians and hospitals that they are obligated to care for fetuses "born alive" naturally or in the process of an abortion.




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Former Washington State tackle Andre Dillard donates strength equipment, nutrition items to alma mater


The Woodinville grad, who plays for the Philadelphia Eagles, sent packages the school will distribute to its athletes.




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Grooming Anthony Gordon: Meet the two men who prepared WSU Cougars’ record-setting QB for the draft


The quarterback is expected to be a third-day pick in this week's NFL draft.





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‘It’s a big moment.’ Washington State leaves no doubt against Colorado, breaking drought at Pac-12 tournament


Not weighed down by their 10-year drought at the Pac-12 tournament, the Cougars trailed for just 87 seconds against Colorado on Wednesday night before driving the Buffaloes into the ground, 82-68, at T-Mobile Arena.




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Take a trip down memory lane with the best — and worst — memories of the Kingdome


On the anniversary of the Kingdome's implosion, we take a trip down memory lane to relive its best and worst moments.




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Canadian provinces allow locked-down households to pair up — threatening hurt feelings all around


While jurisdictions around the world begin to relax coronavirus restrictions, a handful are pioneering a novel — and potentially fraught — approach: The double bubble. In Canada they're doing it in Newfoundland, Labrador and New Brunswick.




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Dofollow, Nofollow, Sponsored, UGC

A Change to Nofollow

Last month Google announced they were going to change how they treated nofollow, moving it from a directive toward a hint. As part of that they also announced the release of parallel attributes rel="sponsored" for sponsored links & rel="ugc" for user generated content in areas like forums & blog comments.

Why not completely ignore such links, as had been the case with nofollow? Links contain valuable information that can help us improve search, such as how the words within links describe content they point at. Looking at all the links we encounter can also help us better understand unnatural linking patterns. By shifting to a hint model, we no longer lose this important information, while still allowing site owners to indicate that some links shouldn’t be given the weight of a first-party endorsement.

In many emerging markets the mobile web is effectively the entire web. Few people create HTML links on the mobile web outside of on social networks where links are typically nofollow by default. This reduces the potential signal available to either tracking what people do directly and/or shifting how the nofollow attribute is treated.

Google shifting how nofollow is treated is a blanket admission that Penguin & other elements of "the war on links" were perhaps a bit too effective and have started to take valuable signals away from Google.

Google has suggested the shift in how nofollow is treated will not lead to any additional blog comment spam. When they announced nofollow they suggested it would lower blog comment spam. Blog comment spam remains a growth market long after the gravity of the web has shifted away from blogs onto social networks.

Changing how nofollow is treated only makes any sort of external link analysis that much harder. Those who specialize in link audits (yuck!) have historically ignored nofollow links, but now that is one more set of things to look through. And the good news for professional link auditors is that increases the effective cost they can charge clients for the service.

Some nefarious types will notice when competitors get penalized & then fire up Xrummer to help promote the penalized site, ensuring that the link auditor bankrupts the competing business even faster than Google.

Links, Engagement, or Something Else...

When Google was launched they didn't own Chrome or Android. They were not yet pervasively spying on billions of people:

If, like most people, you thought Google stopped tracking your location once you turned off Location History in your account settings, you were wrong. According to an AP investigation published Monday, even if you disable Location History, the search giant still tracks you every time you open Google Maps, get certain automatic weather updates, or search for things in your browser.

Thus Google had to rely on external signals as their primary ranking factor:

The reason that PageRank is interesting is that there are many cases where simple citation counting does not correspond to our common sense notion of importance. For example, if a web page has a link on the Yahoo home page, it may be just one link but it is a very important one. This page should be ranked higher than many pages with more links but from obscure places. PageRank is an attempt to see how good an approximation to "importance" can be obtained just from the link structure. ... The denition of PageRank above has another intuitive basis in random walks on graphs. The simplied version corresponds to the standing probability distribution of a random walk on the graph of the Web. Intuitively, this can be thought of as modeling the behavior of a "random surfer".

Google's reliance on links turned links into a commodity, which led to all sorts of fearmongering, manual penalties, nofollow and the Penguin update.

As Google collected more usage data those who overly focused on links often ended up scoring an own goal, creating sites which would not rank.

Google no longer invests heavily in fearmongering because it is no longer needed. Search is so complex most people can't figure it out.

Many SEOs have reduced their link building efforts as Google dialed up weighting on user engagement metrics, though it appears the tide may now be heading in the other direction. Some sites which had decent engagement metrics but little in the way of link building slid on the update late last month.

As much as Google desires relevancy in the short term, they also prefer a system complex enough to external onlookers that reverse engineering feels impossible. If they discourage investment in SEO they increase AdWords growth while gaining greater control over algorithmic relevancy.

Google will soon collect even more usage data by routing Chrome users through their DNS service: "Google isn't actually forcing Chrome users to only use Google's DNS service, and so it is not centralizing the data. Google is instead configuring Chrome to use DoH connections by default if a user's DNS service supports it."

If traffic is routed through Google that is akin to them hosting the page in terms of being able to track many aspects of user behavior. It is akin to AMP or YouTube in terms of being able to track users and normalize relative engagement metrics.

Once Google is hosting the end-to-end user experience they can create a near infinite number of ranking signals given their advancement in computing power: "We developed a new 54-qubit processor, named “Sycamore”, that is comprised of fast, high-fidelity quantum logic gates, in order to perform the benchmark testing. Our machine performed the target computation in 200 seconds, and from measurements in our experiment we determined that it would take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to produce a similar output."

Relying on "one simple trick to..." sorts of approaches are frequently going to come up empty.

EMDs Kicked Once Again

I was one of the early promoters of exact match domains when the broader industry did not believe in them. I was also quick to mention when I felt the algorithms had moved in the other direction.

Google's mobile layout, which they are now testing on desktop computers as well, replaces green domain names with gray words which are easy to miss. And the favicon icons sort of make the organic results look like ads. Any boost a domain name like CreditCards.ext might have garnered in the past due to matching the keyword has certainly gone away with this new layout that further depreciates the impact of exact-match domain names.

At one point in time CreditCards.com was viewed as a consumer destination. It is now viewed ... below the fold.

If you have a memorable brand-oriented domain name the favicon can help offset the above impact somewhat, but matching keywords is becoming a much more precarious approach to sustaining rankings as the weight on brand awareness, user engagement & authority increase relative to the weight on anchor text.




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Here are some activities to do this weekend even while staying at home


As we continue to quarantine under Gov. Jay Inslee's "stay at home" order, there are still lots of fun activities you can do this weekend. So, stay in, read a book, start a movie marathon and order some takeout.




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Trump raises question of ultraviolet light and COVID-19. We ask doctors, scientists.


President Donald Trump speculated about ultraviolet rays. But artificial UV techniques are ineffective and likely deadly for treating an infected person, scientists say — and some can be extremely dangerous used at home for disinfecting.




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Doctors’ practices are hurt by coronavirus pandemic, just when they’re most needed


Many physician practices, like other businesses, are questioning how they'll survive the coronavirus outbreak, according to the Washington State Medical Association.




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Tornado warnings issued in Hawaii for the first time in more than a decade


John Alderete was trying to catch a few hours of sleep while the rains beat down Tuesday morning on his home in Kapa’a, Hawaii, on the island of Kauai. But shortly after a quarter to 6 in the morning, he was abruptly awoken by the shrill blare of his cellphone. A tornado warning had been […]




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Nintendo reveals new details about Pokémon Home’s features, pricing and platforms


You can store and trade Pokémon for free with this cloud-service app when it launches next month, but premium users get expanded capabilities.




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Nintendo of America sends home workers after employee tests positive for coronavirus


Nintendo of America has confirmed that an employee from its Redmond-based studio in Washington has tested positive for coronavirus. All other employees who had contact with them are now in self-quarantine even if asymptomatic, Nintendo wrote in a statement sent to The Washington Post. Upon learning the diagnosis, Nintendo of America alerted the public health […]